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THE SITUATION IN GREECE.
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Tospos, May 20 seems unxions" to epuerntrate his
The situation in threece
is stil attacks in Champagne where the
complicated, but it seeths that the artillery battle also maintains a
republic movement is spreading. [significant intensity.
Fr is significant that M. Vengzelos. The French are prepared for any who has hitherto empluusised his eventuality there.
movement as not bising anti-dynastic, now openly asserts that King Con- A French communiqué reports:stantic mast go if Greek political Following a violent bombardment, liberties are to be tanintained. in the mygion of Hutchise, ten enemy
FONDON, May M.
Triantuphyllides, the President
Inttacks were completely repulsĶI. of the Congress of the Hellenic"
We carried a small enemy post to Colonies, also declares tim the the north of Vacher-ans-Ville, making
Dynesty has become impossible, and the establishment of a Republic is inevitable.
· somų prisoners,
"We also offretively bonbarded the enemy's communications to the south of Nauroy and Morouvilliers.
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CHINESE AFFAIRS.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION AT
FEKING.
(With The Aut Pa's Service.)
PERING, May 29,
Lostos, May 29 Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Hig reporta:-
Replying to the President's tele- We drove off railers to the "south-gram, Claire Fun, Tukwan of Anhui, west of Lans and to the west of states that he hus wired to aft other Messiner
Tukwuns about the difficulties en We successfully carried out countered, by the Central Govern- mid to the north of Plettersteert ment and adviced them to put the wool. The enemy's artillery was country before everything else; there active at Bullecourt and stride the fore there was no need to worry.
Seerpe
RUSSIA'S TREATIES.
THEIR PUBLICATION -DISAPPROVED.
PETROGRAD, May.....
I King Hi, whose notitination as Premier has been approved by the Parliament, in replying to questions as to his foreign policy, stated that he is unable to make a statement until the Cabinet is formed..
It is reported that Li King Hi, The Congress of the Peasants despite the Parliament's approval Delegates has rejected almost un-and the "President's mandate, still
declined the appointment. animously a resolution deminding
the immediate publication of the Nej Sze Chung, Civil Governor of international treaties untered into by Anhui, has wired, to Peking still advocating the Wissolution of Parlin-
Russia.
But,
The Congress also disapproved of ment and reinstatement of Tuan Ki the fraternisation of the Russian and
[L King Hi is enemy sokliers at the front.
a nephew famous Li Hung Chang.]
DEATH OF MR. DE ROTHSCHILD.
Losos, May 29, The death is announced of Mr. Leopold de Rothschild.
REVOKING BRAZIL'S NEUTRALITY.
"K DE JANEIRO, May 29. The Chamber hus passed the first reading of the Bill revoking Brazil's neutrality, by 186 votes to 3. " WORLD'S LIGHT-WEIGHT BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP.
SUBMARINES CAUGHT IN ICE.
The Copenhagen correspondent of the Bystander quotes Kund Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. He says: Rasmussen is the man who first saw the thirty German submarines. imprisoned in ice Copenhagen has had a polar wintet, à fortnight ago the Sound was frozen over. Even now thick ice stretched far out into the Cattegat and a Ewede walled from the mainland the island of Mar strand. Different untruths have been told about the ico trapped submarines but Hasmussen knows the real tenth. They were trapped at the narrare part of the Sound just above Helambory He mys: That happened two days after the submarine campaign began. The thirty were all making north, of conse from the same Baltic base when east wind blow the loose ice together and as it was: frazzing
hard
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dig Celsius at least, soon all the anbmarines were in a solid pock. The submarines were moving with only their periscopes THE GOVERNMENT OF SARAWAK.And managed to rise. The got wedgest up. Some of them smelt langer in timp
New York, May 29. Benny Leonard knocked out Fred die Welsh in nine rounds, thus securing the World's. Light-weight Championship...
THE NEW RAJAH'S' POLICY.
Losos, May 29,
in with their decka showing. Others were caught under the ice and only their periscopes showed. I walked across the ice to them and my: mstel even tried to look down a perisenpe. Then the slip ice, that is the loose ice which.
always drifte under the pack stipped. the periscope tubes, and the submariner perished miserably. Some after the days imprisonment tried to get aw under the ice. I know that seven mul marines smashed, in and all on board drowned. How do you know that 1
I know it, I told Prince Harald. Printe
A Time's Correspondent states that the new Rajah of Sarawak perceives the folly of forcing western ideus and institutions on a people whose traditions ure wholly alien. His people will be prepared, step by step. to take an increasing share the Harald is brother of the King of Den Government, but in their own way mark. and on their own lines. The Rajah to grant co-
is determined never mercial concessions ammalianeoly benef
Tuan Moda, with
do not
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