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"TOTAL FUNDS AT SIST DECKMEER, 1914,
293,970,387,
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Subscribed Capital £1,500,000
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3,837,047
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Sinking Fund Account
Rerenne Fire Branch
128.230
£29,970,367
2,381,455
Life and Annuity 2,141,593
Branche Rerence Marine Department... Other Receipts.....................
237,239 478,940
£5,339,228
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THE FUTURE OF THE TERRITORIES
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Article 2-After the Russian Gover ment in arceriance with its principles. inas proclaimed for the peoples Russia the right of self-determination, OCCUPIEDeugnisance of decisions, as expressing the including complete separation, it takes
of will of people, demanding fill state/in- dependence and separation from Pusata for Posad, Lithuania, Coorland and par tions of Lithuanis and Livonis. The Russian Government recognises AME these manifestations must in the present citromstazees be regarded as expressio the will of the people, and is ready to draw conclusion, therefrom.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 157 The German version of the pro- ceedings of the Committee appointed at Brestlitovak on January 1 to liseuss the territorial question, shows that the Delegates wrangled for two"
A in these districts to which the fore- days, without result. on the ques- going stipulations apply the question of tion of the status of the populations evacuation is not such as is provided of the occupied territories and offer in Article 1. a Special Commission their evacuation."
shall, in accordance with the Brasian cite on broad lines without any military idea, arrange for a ratification by plebis." pret whatever of the already existía. separation proclamations,
They Crennens contanded that the Peuples of the occupied territories through plenipotentiary bodies, had already expressed the desire for a Beverance from Russia The Rus sians denied that there-holes were representative and proposed as substitution for the two articles of the preliminary treaty, four articles) of which the following
T
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dotermination belongs to the antib and not to the occupied parts thereof }-11.—Austria à Germany; sho
renounce their clafins of annexation of the occupied ussian, territorie and undertake not to restrict their inilependence by military conventions before the constitution of these rei gions on a basis of self-determina- tion, and the voting to determine the Fate of these regions should be car rilout after the foreign armies have withdrawn and the fugitives and deportees have returned the date of the withdrawal of the arinies to be determined by special commis
sion,
III
peace has been sigued the territories shall be administered by a temporary body, comprised of. the various political parties which shall organise a plebiscite.
IV. The final position of these territories shall be decided by a referendum.
RUSSIA'S VICTORIOUS
and lasted for five minutes
The fire opened at 10.30 p.m.
Twenty she is felt in the town and the latest reports are three
The damage is not serious killed a ten njured.
BRITISH MAN-POWER
QUESTION.
COMMENTS ON THE SPEECH OF SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES.
LONDON, Jan. 15. The Press favourably comments on St Auckland Geddes speech. views and his warning to labour and The Daily News epitomises biv
We cannot be accused of lick of sympathy for labour tor of excessive sympathy with this Govern ment, but this does not blind us to the fact that we are engaged in the greatest struggle for human liberty we were evar involved in. To talk of downing tools is to talk of betray- General Hoffmann protested at the ing freedom and stabbing our sene victorious tens of the Russian and brothers, who are fighting for posals when a victorious German Freedom, in the back." army stood on their territory, and The Daily Mail Lobby Correspon ridiculed the Russian claims to self-
TONE.""
'pro-
dent understands that the Govern
determination seeing that the Bolmeni, is prepared to take immediate shevik Government was based on and severe measures against anyone ulless force. He again asserted interfering with the output of muni- thut the pecupied peoples bud un- tions, seroplanes and ships. mistakably expressed the wish for. separation from Russia, and aid that the Courland Diet, on September 8, requested German protection, and the Lithuanian et, on December
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AMSTERDAM, Jan. 15-
from Russia. The Municipality of Eiga and the guilds and rural repre-
A message from Berlin states that sentatives, on December 27, claimed Count Hertling has postponed hig German protection and, finally, in Reichstag speech (in which, it December festthe representatives of said, he intende to reply to the recent Cesel, Dagoe and Moon islands te speeches of M. Lloyd George and pudiated then previous connection; President Wilson)
for technical and adming-
The Tageblatt says the Chancellor trative reasons the German High is ill, and that political surprise Command refused to evacuata Cour during the land, Lithuania, Riga and the islands probable.
mareover
in the Gulf of Rigu
Dr von Kuehlmann proposed an adjournment of the deliberations in order that Gerinany might consult her Allies and the sitting was secord- ingly adjourned sine de
[The two articles of the preliminary streats are sa follow
nations, Kizure fa
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