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LONDON, June 4. In the House of Commons at ques-
-13ANKING CONSORTIUM.
GOVERNMENT MAKES IT OPENtion. time Mr. Long stated it was.
TO FIRMS IN GOOD STANDING.
intended that the peace celebrations. ahould include a march of naval men through London and a visit to the squadron in the Thames, where the
the ships. public would be allowed to inspect
A semi-official message says. Herr
LONDON, Jane 8. Scheidemann has received a despatch from a certain Docter Dorten" to Sir Stuart Coats, Mr. Halmsworth In the House of Commons, replying nctifying him of the proclamation of stated that on the initiative of the the Rhenish republic and requesting American government negotiations
-KUIZ ČANAL STRIKE: assent and co-operation at the peace had been proceeding for some months conference, to which it has applied for the formation of a new inter- for admission. The German Goversational consortium for francing
LONDON, June 4. The British directors of the Suez. ment replied that it had instructed loans to China. The British govern- Canal Company reported on May 19 the institution of a prosecution for ment would naturally support fully that questions raised by the strikers high treason of Dorten and the other any British group formed to parti had been discussed telegraphically members of the so-called government cipate in such a consortium. With with Paris with every prospect of a of the Rhenish republic. It declares regard to the alleged monopoly, the settlement.
The strike that the official acts of the new go-government from the outset of the based on labour conditions but was was not ernment are null and void and urgesgotiations had made it clear that of a political character. The inter- the local population to disobey its there could be no question of exclusive vention of the British authorities was decrees.
limited to maintaining order and assuring the vital services of the canal. This statement was made by Mr. Harmsworth to the House of Commons, in reply to a question.
GENERAL MANGIN.
PARIS, June 3. Word from Mayence is that General Robertson has arrived and been care. moniously received. He presented. General Mangin his insignia of the
Bath.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, June 4. Sir Boverton Redwood, the eminent Civil Engineer, is dead, aged 73 years. He was knighted in 1905, and made Baronet in 1911.
[Sir Boverton Redwood, D. Sc (hon.) F.R.SE, Assoc. Inst. C.E., M. Inst. M.E., V.P. Inst. Chem., Pres. Soc. Chem. Ind., Pres. Inst. Petroleum Technologists, etc., was the leading adviser on oil fuel, petroleum, and was member of the Admiralty Board of Invention and Research.)
ADMIRAL CALTEÒRFE.
MALTA, June 4. Admiral de Robeck is to succeed Admiral Calthorpe as commander in-chief of the Mediterranean, Reet, It is understood that Adm. Calthorpe remains as high commissioner at Constantinople, and that eventually. he will become the first British ambassador under the new regime there.
A THAMES PAGIANTE..
GREAT PREPARATIONS.
LONDON, June 4, One of the greatest days of the peace celebrations in London will be the tribute of the Thames to the mercantile, marine, when 300 boats, manned by merchant seaman, and decorated with flags, will forn a pageant from Tower Bridge to Chelsea. It is hoped on this occasion all London will be singing, led by choirs of 50,000 trained voices located along the river embankments. Thirty bands have been arranged for, and the decorations of shores, bridges, and strings of barges will be of a kind never before attempted in the history of the Thames.
INDI).
official support to the British group unless that group were enlarged so as to reader It sufficiently representa tive of the financial bouses of good standing interested in loans to China. This was to give no cause for
critkism.
FRENCH STRIKES 6PRTADING.
PARIS, June 4.
NEWS AND VIEWS BY
EAVAS."
PARIS, June 3. The chief Austrian delegate, reply- The strike situation is steadilying to the presentation of the peace growing worse. The strikers now terms, made a generally favourable number 350,000. Most of the under-impression. He pleaded eloquently ground railways are closed, also the that the new Austrian republic could trams and buses. The strikers not be considered as the successor of demand the immediate application the Hapsburg monarchy but was of the Eight Hour Day without willing to acknowledge the principle reduction of wages. All the workers that a change of government did not of the metal and engineering trades relieve the State of responsibility. are now out. The electrical workers Austria w29 ready to #a9aume Austria appear ready to strike. The military the dreadful inheritance. have taken over the electrical works renounces in favour of China all at Evry and Vitry.
privileges, and indemnities, resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, all' buildings, barracks, ships, or wireless plant in the Austrian Concession at Tientsin. Austria declares all her treaties with Siam abolished since July 22, 1917.
SPARTACIST CONDEMNED,
COPENHAGEN, June 3. A message from Munich says a court-martial has condemned the Spartacist leader Levine to death for high treason.
DR. MORRISON..
LONDON, June 7." Doctor Morrison of Peking has undergone a successful operation in London and is doing well.
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AUSTRIA REFUSES TERMS T
COPENHAGEN, June 4,
A message from Vienna says the Austrian Press states the Cabinet has discussed peace terms and unanim- ously decided they are unacceptable and impossible.
SILVER."
Mistrust prevails in Paris over the proclamation of the Rhine- land Republic. If it were sincere it would be the most important news come from Germany since November last.
The Labour trouble is threatening and millinery trades are already out. the metallurgical industry, Clothing
Generally speaking the employers accept the eight hour day but are resisting the workmen's demand for increased rates.
RACING.
KING'S HORSE WINS.
LONDON, June 4. At Epsom despite the rain there. was an enormous attendance. Their Majesties were present. The King's horse Viceroy won LONDON, June 4,
the Stewards Handicap, evoking the Silver is quoted. 53/1/4d. The enthusiasm.
greatest market is quiet..
A FALSE ALARM,
COAL BOSSES TRY TO MAKE COUNTRY'S FLESH CREEP.
LONDON, June 4.
THE DERBY.
LONDON, June 4. In the Derby Roamer was ridden by J. Childs. Otherwise the runners were as given in the list of probable starters. Panther delayed the start and got badly away; Papermoney led from Roamer, Whitehew and Grand- Sir Auckland Geddes stated in the parade following with Panther fourth House of Commons that the position and Coriolanus last. Rounding Tat SIMLA, June 9.is serious. The estimated output for tenham Corner Papermoney led with On,the Viceroy's recommendation, twelve months from July next, when Grandparade, Buchan, and Sir Douglas and with the Lt. Governor's approval, the reduced hours will be enforced, close behind. In the home stretch the General Officer Commanding has was under 217,000,000 tons annually Grandparade challenged and won an abolished martial law in the Punjab compared with 287,000,000 in 1913 exciting race. Sir Douglas finished and all areas today. The Labore The consumption of coal for inland fourth, Tangiers fifth, and Bay
·civil cantonment will be freed on the purposes and bunkers in 1918 Naples last. The time was 21. 35
MARTIAL LAW ABOLISHED.
11th, except the railway lands for military reasons.
BOLSHIVISM IN USA.
A MAN'S HEAD: PROBABLY
NOTHING IN IT.
was 196 millions compared with 4-59. 210 millions in 1913 and exports 34 millions compared with 77 millions. In order to preserve approximately the same quantity of coal for inland consumption and bunkers from July 1919, all the pre
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
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WASHINGTON, June 3.
sept restrictions on" consumption (BT COURTZAY "KONGKONG DAILY PIZAS."] A man's head was discovered on
must be fully maintained, and the roof 300 feet from the Attorney exports mast be reduced to 23,000,000 General's house. This and other tons annually. The estimated deficit clues is expected to lead to the on the coal industry for the twelve- apprehension of the
months from July is $46,500,000, anarchist
meaning an increase in the price of plotters, whose headquarters are be 43. 6d. per ton gr the deficiency fall. lieved to be in Philadelphia. In the Senate, after some speeches denouncing on the taxpayer."
ing the bomb outrages, Mr. Walsh
(Democrat) reintroduced a Bill which❘ BERLIN PROTESTS AGAINST
failed to pass last winter, providing for severer penalties for acts of violence designed to overthrow the government,
The police at Pittsburg have arrested Johnson, president of the
FRENCH INTRIGUE IN
RHINELAND,
BERLIN, June 3. The German armistice commission local branch of the Independent at Spa hauded Marshal Foch, a Note Workers of the World. Johnson declaring that the French Occupa barricaded his house and heartlessly tion authorities were promoting fired revolver shots at the detectives treasonable movements ir Rhineland. before he was overpowered,
FETROGRAD CAPTURED?
STOCKHOLM, June. 4..
PEKING, June 10.. The Government's acceptance
the resignation of Tsao Ju-lin, Minister of Communications; Lu Chung yu, Director of the Currency Bureau Chang Tsung-hsiang, late Minister at Tokyo, pro-Japanese politicians against whom the National Student agitation is mainly directed, is expected to calm the present disturbancea.
FORCE TO OPPORT BOLSDEVIST ACTIVITIES.
troops to Outer Mongolia, where The Cabinet has agreed to dispatch They arrested Germans who removed Bolshevik activities are reported to postera proclaiming the Rhenish rebe acute.. public and threatened to stop the
food supplies of towns opposed to AID FOR CHINËSE SUFFERERS the foundation of the new republic.
IN JAVA.
A telegram from Murmansk states They had also expelled the local
that an army chiefly composed of government's president. The Ger- The Government has voted ter Esthonians and Finns has taken man government protests most thousand Mexican dollars to the Petrograd. There is no confirmation | sharply against this "gross violation | relief of the Chinese victims of the yeti
of the armistice conditions,”
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