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- BOLAHEVIST WAR.
LONDON, June 18th.
An official telegram trem Omic states that Admiral Koltshak's offensive in the direction of Vistha continues.
The troops north of the Parm Railway wiped out several Red battalions
The general situation is greatly modi
By June 8th victory was achieved over twelve Red regiments in the direction of Barapul and 600 were taken prisoner,
LONDON, June 23, A British official message says the Germans intend 10:siĝi NA
LATER.. Another British official message.ed saya the Germans have agreed to sign. The date of the signature will probably be June 25.
PARIS, Later. An authoritative announcement here says the treaty cannot probably be signed by June 25 owing to the necessity to examine the credentials of the hundreds of signing plenipoing a white flame tertiaries.
THE AFGHAN BOTHER.
THE AMIR REPLIES,
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The Ural Cossacks also defeated the Beds, taking 1,000 prisoners..
LONDON, June 17th.. The Daily Mail's Helsingfors corres- pondant states that the fortress of Kronstadt is on fire, several forts show-
Boven Belshetist warships hoisted with whine Bags surrendered to the British | squadron.
"FINLAND.
LONDON, June 16th,
Thy question will be held over til after the elections. The old constitution at pre-
at remains in force..
HERINGTORS, June 16th.
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A LONG LIST.
PARIS, June 18th The Allies have promised the Germans to deliver, within one month, a list of persons they intend to try for crimes com- initted during the war.
WHILE YOU WAIT.
ODDS AND ENDS ABOUT ENEMLES.
PAR15, June 16th The German delegates, including Count Brockdorff von Rantzau have left Noisy le-Roi. Nothing extraordinary took place.
June 16th. PARIS, Too Germans have been granted twa Yes: OF additional days to reply
No to the amended terms, namely, by 7pm on June gard
Immediately Count ceives the Allie reply the Delegation. will proceed to. Weimar. The journey will occupy hours, and a translation
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to last two days. Therefore, no answer will be laid before a plenary sitting of the National Assembly before June 20th.
FARIS, June 16th..
The debate in the Diet on the Reform It is anticipated the Germans will ask hill is asuming a heated character. The for an extension of the five-day time Republicans threaten to remove Herr limit, on the ground that only one revised Hannerheim, the Regent, if the Bill is copy of the Treaty in English and not again taken up.
French has been furnished,
POLES WIN BATTLE, ""-
LONDON, June 16th. Reater lauras that the Polish troops in Eastore Galicia have captured several thousand prisoners and much booty near with four Polish Divisions from Odessa, Zlotalipa, and have established contact
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VERSAILLES, June 16th. The ceremony of presenting the Allies" reply to the Germans took place at the Houl Reservoirs at 650 this evening. It was a very simple one. The Secretary of tas Conference, M. Dutasra, handing over Four documents requested acknowledg the time-limit would be reckoned from the ment of the day and time of receipt, as
moment of delivery,
The new Republican form of Govern-will be made en route. ment provisionally adopted in Finland It will be telegraphed to Berlin from SIMLA, June 22,
did not materialise because it did not Weimar, and published in the news- The Amir's reply to the Viceroy's receive the necessary ave sixths majority papers immediately. letter of June 3 which reached Simin the Diet, on the 18th is couched in terma of studied friendliness. It states that the Amir is impressed by the peaceful and loving inclinations of the British nation, whose high functionaries have made peace a principle of diplomacy in other parts of the world. He al ludes to Afghanistan's passion for independence; also to the newly awakened world spirit of freedagi. While characterising the British terms for an armistice as lenient, he points out certain practical difficulties in the way of a literal fulfilment, He maintains that the withdrawal of the Afghan forces a distance of twenty miles from the British forces involves the uprooting of thousands of vil lagers and tribesmen, as the Afghan forces consist of a levy en masse. He pleads that it is impossible to guarantee immunity for reconnoitring
whose aeroplanes Afghanistan is regarded with bitter ness. The Amir accepts the Viceroy's suggestion of Rawalpindi as the meeting place of the peace delegated. In order to secure the pleasure and safeguard the dignity and honour of the British government hé announces the nomination of nine delegates i headed by Sardar Ai Khan, the Home affairs Minister. In conclusion the Amir expresses an earnest hope for a bright future for both parties. and for the establishment of friendly relations between the two govera- ments.
presence.
FRENCH ITENS.
PARIS, June 15th.
Herr Simons signed the receipt "bout seven o'clock." Then, on behalf of Count von Rantant, he protested against the shortness of the period.
A Havas message says:— The strike of the Paris sub-way and
As regards extension of the time-limit, rface car employes has finally ended. it is pointed on thas five days had been The strikers will resume work on Monday, originally fixed because the Ger.pars The announcement was made after themselves considered that time sufficient. Clemenceau & interview with the strikers' representatives.
PARIS, June 16th. The Paris transport workers have resumed. The public services are working regularly.
PARIS, June 15th.
The German delegates and their staffs. were subsequently, conveyed in 99 auto- mobiles so the station, leaving for Ger- many at 9 in the evening.
PARIS, June 16th. The German delegates leaving to-night will be handed 200 revised copies of the Allies reply. The delegates appear to be eating's divided as regards whether Ger- many ught to sign. French circles are of opinion that they will sign if the Allies The Americans are unanimously insist. confident the Germans will sign the Treaty. PARIS, June 15th.
The National Miners' Federation has decinred minets strike, operating throughout Franco,
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The coal miners of France have decided to strike on Monday, and have declined To confer with the Minister for Labour.
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A 'Havas message :--
BERLIN, June 16th. The Lille section of the Post, Telegraph
Germania states that there are signs of and Telephone Association has issued a the Spartacists shortly attempting a vigorous protest against the attempt to fresh coup d'etat. They are particularly It is trade corporations for international active in the industrial regions. political manœuvres.
reported that the Government is taking counter-measures.
· BELGIAN ARMY,
BRUSSELS,: June 17th. The maximum strength of the Belgian army for 1919 has been fixed at 350,000 on war footing, and 100,000 on a peace looting. j
U.S. NAYY.
WASHINGTON, June 17th The Navy Department has ordered the division of the United States naval forces into two flects of equal strength, called, respectively, the Atlantic and Pacifica fleets.
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Replying to the Amir's letter to- day, the Viceroy, while recognisinge some difficulties before the literi fulfilment of the armistice terms, emphasises that modification is impossible, The precise meaning of the first term had been misunder- stood. All that was demanded was the removal of the Afghan regulare a distance of twenty miles from our forces. This had been already dore except in the vicinity of Chaman. whence the Afghan forces' must be withdrawn, the prescribed distance. Also in the vicinity of Peiwar Kotal where the presence of the enemy, was still reported. The Viceroy says so long as a single Afghan regular remains on our side of the frontier peace negotiations are impossible. As the only alternative to a resump- tion of hostilities the Amir mest prohibit tribal gatherings in the vicinity of our forces. British gene-
EL PALO (Texas), Jung 10th. rals are ordered forcibly to disperse After several persona had been killed or! them. The Viceroy is con injured by stray bullets at Juarez, in fident the Amir's stringent Mexico, waere Geral Carranza's troops orders could ensure immunity are fighting General Villa's rebels, 3,000 American troops crossed the frontier with for reconnaitring aeroplanes, which a view to rounding up the rebels. would retaliate if molested. His Ex cellency emphasises the absoluta necessity for the Amir to warn the frontier tribes to cease all hostilities if he has not already done so, 29 peace negotiations will be impossible if the tribes are left in a state of
As a corsequent of the fight of Villa'a doubt or excitement. Understanding troops, the American forces re-entered the United States, after a short cavalry pur that the Ami is prepared to accept suit.
the armistice terms fully in a spirit
of friendliness, the Viceroy would be
glad to issue orders for the reception
of the Afghan delegates at Rawalpin-
MEXICAN MIX UP.
AMERICAN CAVALRY BUTT IN.
EL PASO, June 16th. The Americas victoriously engaged Geveral Villa's ribel forces at Juarez, taking many prispers, -
Americda cavalry surrounded them.
EL PASOS, June 17th,
BRITISH BONDS.
LONDON, June 10th..
BERLIN, June 18th.
The Socialist Congress at Weimar e jected the proposal of a Soviet Constitu tiem and favoured the system of Councils and an Imperial Constitution.
It passed a resolution against the pay. ment of pensions to the royal families.
COPENHAGEN, June 18th.
The Esthonian Press Bureau states: A message from Weimar says that Ger many has ordered the cessation of hostili. ties against the Esthenians.
PARIs, June 16th. The Austrian counter-proposals were presented this afternoon. They ran into
pamphlet of thirty pages.
COPENHAGEN, June 16th. A telegram from Vienna states that the Communists yesterday attempted a coup d'état.
A huge crowd tried to storm the prison and release the political prisoners, "but fed in panic when the Government troops and Police attacked them,
There were many casualties,
COPENHAGEN, June 17th. A message from Vienna states that 11 were killed and 70 injured in the distur bances mentioned yesterday,
THE TURKISH FLEXA,
GERMANS MADE THEM FIGHT.
PARIS, June 17th. The Allied Ministers received the Tur- kish delegation, which submitted a Note:
Loynox, June 17th.„
in amplibention of the Turkish case, the Note stated that the Turkish sovereign and people were not responsible for Turkey entering the war, which was begun by a German warstrip, commanded by a German admiral. The Committee of
di and announces the appointment The City gave a splendid send-off to the Union and Progress, with the Germans, of Hamilton Grant the Foreign Bew Victory Lean" to-day, when Mr. Secretary as chief of the British dele- Bonar Lay and Mr. Austen Chamberlain was responsible for the continuation of
the wor gation. He endorses the Arair's hopeing at the Guildhall, the Lord Mayor through fear that the Russians might get addressed a large and enthusiastic meet- The Turks did not break off the war for a bright future and the re-estab
presiding. lishment of the friendly relations of 'the two governments.
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The Premier, in a message from Paris Constantinople. Moreover, Turkey was urged that victory must not be left to rust now ruined, Asin Minor being reduced to en the battlefield. It must be enthroned a desert: She protests against the ceding in a new settlement of the world."No of Smyrna to Greece, ANCIENT HISTORY OF country played a prouder part in the war
PARIS, June 17th. CHINA..
than Britain, Lei ua ace that we do not The Council of Ten received the Tur- fail, through lack of steadfast purpose, to kish delegation, at the Quai d'Orsay. The complete the noblest structure in our delegation motored from Vaucresson, country's history.
Accompanied by French officers. The pur- Mr. Chamberlain said only a small part pose of the meeting was to hear the state- The Turks purely in the
PEKING, June 12, - The parliament has resolved that It is not entitled
President's resignation. Uneasiness the cost of the war, as it was hoped to educa pud Pasha said the Turks to accept the of the now loan was required for paying ment of the Turkish experts,
prevails owing to the knowledge that with the critician that: the terms of the were not to be blamed for the war, as
balance this year's expenditure. He dealt the militarists are planning an anti-new loun were too generous, and said it government coup, but the dismissal was well worth while to give rather better. Committees secretly agreed upon war in support of the Kaiser against the wish of the three pro-Japanese officials is terme, in order to secure areal good of the Turkish people. Tarkey was NOW allaying the force of the arti Japanese rosult to relieve us of the great incubus of movement in North China. Reuter a floating debt. The United Kingdom anxious to remain intact, and to continue
now
stood in a position of unrivalled the Ottoman Empire in Europe and Asia, learns, however, that the acceptance redit and financial stability amongst all as before the war. There was an informal of the resignation of the Chinese the Allies. (Cheats) Conference room refreshments being pro- affair when the Turks withdrew from the Ministers, including the Minister to Mr. Bonar Taw emphasised the need for vided them in the ante-chamber. Japan, has allayed popular excite money, now not so evident, but equally
great,
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