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PEACE.
GERMANY'S LAST BID.
PARIS, June 22,
IN FAVOUR OF NATIONALIZA- TION.
NO MORE BARGAINING.. PARIS, June 22 Messrs. Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George met at 6.30 this
LONDON, June 22. A German Note request that the evening at Mr. Lloyd George's resid-
Further reports from the coall treaty may within two years of its ence The German reply was Commission are published. The signature be submitted to the high. received at seven o'clock. The meet.main report was signed by the chair council of the "League of Nations for ing lasted until then adjourned man. c. Justice Sankey alone. It examination, at which the German for an hourgand.resembled at nine.recommends immediate legislation delegation shall enjoy absolute The Allied answer was issued at for the acquisition of mining royalties equality with the
It said, Allied 9.30.
The Allied and for the State, the owners receiving. delegates at a council to decide Associated Powers have considered the just compensation. Also the inme regarding the conditions of the treaty Note from the German delegation of diate application of 2 scheme which impair self-determination by even date and in view of the shortness for ..the local administration the German people, also as regards of the time remaining feel it mines.
through local, district the economic clauses which Germany their duty to reply at once. Of the and national mining councils. Legis claim at present impede her free timerithin which the German gov.lation for acquiring the mines them- development.
erment must make its final decision selves for the State after the scheme SIGNED UNDER PROTEST.
as regards the signature of the treaty has been worked for three years, BERLIN, Juze 22.
ess than twentyfour hours remain. with just compensation to the owners, Germania states that Herr Mueller ments have given their fullest con recommends the
The Allied and Associated goverb.is proposed. The report also to-day is acquainting the National sideration to all the representations coal
continuance of Assembly with the text of the Gerhitherto made by the German gov
control for three years. man reply, which will be despatched ernment as regards the treaty. They councils, whereon workers are to sit, The object of the local immediately if the majority approve. have replied with complete frankness is to utilize the knowledge of the It declares that the Government does and made such concessions as they workers in advising the manager and not accept article 231 making Ger- thought right to make and the present giving them an effective voice as re- many responsible for the war, nor Note from the German delegation gards their own safety and health. the sections regarding penalties. The presents no arguments or copsidera. Note ages that President Wilson's tions not already examined. The tires, Messrs Hodges, Smilie, and Three of the miners representa- principles have not been applied, and Allied and Associated Powers there Smith, object to any compensation says Germany cannot assent to the fore fell constrained to say that the apart from compassionate allowances treaty owing to the presence of time for discussion has passed. They where small royalty owners unfulfilable and unbearable condi can accept or acknowledge no quali-deprived of their livelihood. tions, "Germany therefore does not Scation or reservation and must sign voluntarily but only yields to require of the German representatives any form of nationalization would force." Moreover, as the economic an unequivocal decision as regards be detrimental to the development The owners' report argues that and financial terms capacity of Germany, therefore we will whole or not to sign or accept the life of the country. No action so exceed the their purpose to sign and accept as a of the industry and to the economic sign only under reserve and will not treaty as finally formulated. After vitally affecting the whole nation undertake full responsibility for the the signature the Allied and Associatshould be taken without referring ed powers must hold Germany re- sponsible for the execution of every stipulation of the treaty.
execution of the terms.
BLOODSHED IN GERMANY.
BERLIN, June 22. There were serious disturbances. at Mannheim yesterday. Shops and private houses were paindered. Troops resisted an attempt by the rioters to enter the barracks. They used grenades, and treaty persons were seriously hurt. Two hundred were arrested. Places of amusement and cafes were closed. Firing con- tinued to-day in various parts of the town.
There were Spartacist riots at
FINLAND A REPUBLIC.
HELSINGFORS, June 23. The Dist kasadopted a Bill making Finland an independent republic.
-PARIS, June 23. German feet the Petit Journal recalls Commenting on the sinking of the that France claimed a portion thereof and demands that France receive as compensation the enemy submarines German merchantmen.
are
recommends the establishment of a the question to the community. It
mines department assisted by a system of councils' similar to those recommended by Mr. Sankey. With a view to removing the difficulties that the State should acquire the Farising from royalties, it proposes ownership of the coal subject to a continuance of existing leases for at least sixty years.
The object of the district the consumers, and the technicat councils on which the miners, and commercial sides of the indus-
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The Spartacists unsuccessfully storm ed the prison and police station but! seized a food warehouse. Firing occurred until midnight. There were many casualties.
SOME GERMANS TO RESIST. BERLIN, June 22.. Herr Erzberger is vice-premier of the new cabinet. Freiheit says Lettow- Vorback is organising an army in East Prussia to fight the Noske gor ernment and the Entente.
COPENHAGEN, June 22. Berlin semi-oficially denies the Freiheit report with regard to Lettow Vorbeck, and says Lettow Vorbeck is still in Berlig.
CLEMENCEAU RETORTS,
PARIS, June 22.
M. Clemenceau replying to the German Note of June 20 states that the copies of the treaty handed to the Germans on June 19 are the authentic corrected text. Moreover he refuted the allegations of in- consistencies and says the obligations imposed on Germany are in the nature of reparation and designed to give effect to the principle of equitable treatment.
COTTON STRIKE SETTLED..
LONDON, June 24.
The cotton strike is settled on a basis of a 48 hour week and a thirty Per cert, advance in wages.
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to prevent the bureaucratic running of the industry, while the national council will superintend the opera tions of the district councils, and assist the Minister for Mines. appoint a standing committee to
The miners' representatives' report generally agrees with Mr. Sankey's but objects to the provisions requir ing the men to sign a contract not to combine to cease work until the question of dispute has been before the appropriate councils, according to whether the matter is local, dis-: Mr. Roberts, presiding at the Labour Conference in London, said trict, or national. They consider this it was decidedly in the interest of attain its object. In cases of di innovation not best calculated to the consumer to retain control of minished output both sides demand food for the coming winter. While the average cost of food was four
an immediate enquiry.
in November, there was no reason to shillings and ninepence a week less believe there would be a further de crease in the near future.
BOLSHEVIST WAR.
EXCITING TANK STORY..
ITALIAN POLITICS.
ROME, June 22: The new Cabinet formed includes Signer Nitti as premier and Minister of the Interior, Signor Tittoni as Foreign Minister, Signor Rossi ay Minister for the Colonies, Signor Tedesco as Finance Minister, and S. Dante Ferraris as Minister of Labour armoured trains, and 40,000 rifles. and of Food. General Mamontoff's cavalry smartly
EKATERINODAR, June 15. Between May 5 and 28 Denikin's forces captured 22,000 Bolshevists, THE TIGER HAD THE LAST 150 guns, 50 machine guns, several
WORD.
Divi-
LONDON, June
PARIS, June 23. crossed the Don east of the con- GERMAN BANK AT SHANGHAL M. Clemenceau sald the final word fluence at Donetz and got behind to Germany on Sunday night. He the Bolshevist Fourteenth
FINISHED. said the time for discussion has Bion, which was holding the line passed. The Allied and Associated 10 Donerz. The Bolsheviste were Powers can accept no qualification decisively defeated and fled in panic
In the House of Commons, replying or reservation. They must require led by the commander of the division to Mr. Bellairs, Mr. Harmsworth of" the German representatives an They were badly cut up. Several unequivocal decision as
hundred prisoners and six guns were Peking reported on June 17 that the stated that the British Minister at their to purpose to sign, and to
crptured. The Bolshevists, believing accept as a whole the Greaty as finally that the advancing British tank was present liquidator of the Deutsche, merely a camouflaged tractor, charg manager of the Hongkong and Asiatische Bank at Shanghai (the ed with the bayonet:" The tank machine-gunned them at
Shanghai Bank at Shanghai) had quarters.
made considerable progres with BATTLE-estate in satisfaction of the Bank's selling enemy property and real
claim and little remained to be done HELSINGFORS, June 19, in this matter. The Hquidation of duty was to conclude a peace of:
The Finnish General Staff reports the Bank's foreign and Chinese staff local accounts was practically finished, injustice; but in view of the father. that British battleships yesterday dismissed, its premises sold, and its land's distress it was impossible to torpedoed the Bolshevik battleship organisation in Shanghai completely refuse, unless they wished to leave Slawa which sank immediately.
formulated."
A BITTER GERMAN SPEECH.
"BERLIN, June 22. Herr Bauer, addressing a crowded ANOTHER BOLSHEVIST Assembly, emphasised with bitterness that in deciding to join the govern.
meat, he recognized its most urgent.
Germany a prey to chaos. It was
their accursed duty to save what could be saved. He pleaded with the Assembly not to think the advocates of rejection were chau-
SHIF GONE.
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RACING.
LONDON, June 13,
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The sliver market is steady. It vinistic or those who were reluctantly will be closed on July 1. accepting the necessity cowards or weaklings. Decision must be taken, otherwise the war would begin afresh Larger offerings are responsible for By Jingo at 7 to 2. Aynsley was Silver is quoted 53 to 53 13/16. The Manchester Cup was won by
LONDON, June 23,
on Monday, Every instrument of the weakness, China exchange is second, starting at 33 to 1. Happy murder was prepared against a quiet.. defenceless and unarmed nation,
Man, 8 to 1, was third. Nine rai] LONDON. Juue 24..... which knows only two command
Won by four lengths, three quarters ments, externally reparation, intern-In the absence of offers the market
Silver is quoted 54-5/16 to 543. of a length dividing second and third. ally development.
is steady.
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