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POLICE STRIKY.
PRACTICAL SYMPATHY.
ANOTHER FAILURE OF
·COMMUNIST.
BERLIN, Aug 3. SP CONDON, Aug. 1 Vienna reports that the first meet Six hundred members of the Nine decided to jesse a manifesto to all ing of the new Hungarian cabinet Elms branch of associated locomotive nations announcing the restoration of engineers and firemen came out on the private property, system in. strike at midnight in sympathy with Hungary Apparently the soviet had the Police Union. Consequently the not succeeded in selling any consider service or the London and Southable amount of securities, and it is Western railway is restricted.
hoped that property is mostly safe.
LONDON, Aug. 3. Now four hundred police have struck at Birmingham.
ALLIES' COUNCIL.
Julius Poidl, informed Reuter that the government is determined to convoke the national assembly at the earliest date. Communism had failed In Hangary, mainly because the world revolution upon which they bad relied with absolute confidence did not occur. Also because Russian military help was received.
FRENCH NEWS AND VIEWS.
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- PARIS, Aug. 2. has stated that France buys largely The French shipping controller from the Allies expecting them to help her to live.
LONDON, Aug. 4 The supreme economic council sit ting in London discussed among other things the difficulty of securing for Europe adequate supplies of coal, food, and raw materials. The coal situation is recognised as one of the tmost gravity, as the coal produc- tion of Europe has fallen to a dan gerously low figure. The council refered these questions to special sub-committees, of which that on coal meets in Paris today. The council furthes decided to urge the various governments of the vital necessity of increasing the production
Notwithstanding an objection rais and reducing the consumption of coal in Europe during the present it, exhumation before January 1922, ed by the French government against period of short supplies. The council of the bodies of American soldiers took special notice of the grave buried in French sail has been decid- situation in Italy as regards colded on. The House of Represent- (coal:?}
atives foreign affairs committee decided that the state department should see to the transportation of the bodies during the forthcoming
LIVERPOOL RIOT?.
IS THIS THE BEGINNING?
The League of Nations, if it develop an economical organ will remains political and does not certainly lack life and reality.
months.
Frank Polk, American assistant secretary of state and new chief of LONDON, Aug. 4.
the American Gangs of hooligans, including received some Parisien journalists. peace delegation women, beginning at midnight on He said it was unlikely that the Saturday, systematically locted the senate woukratify the peace treaty shops, chiefy grocers, jewellers; before September bootmakers, and hosiers in the
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
FRENCH ELECTIONS.
Paris, August, ani.
A Havas mesango says:-- The date of the elections for the Cham ber of Deputies has been fixed, for October 26th, when, the whole Army, including the 1917 class, will have been demobilised.
The Chamber elections will be followed by there for the Municipal Council, on Navetaber 18th, and the Senate, on Decem November 2nd, the Conseils Generaus, on ber 14th..
Senate will meet in December.
The new Chamber of Deputies and
** ETERNAL VIGILANCEL
PARIS. August 3rd.
A Havas message says:--- the anniversary of the declaration of war France begao, to-day, the celebration of as a national thanksgiving to the soldiers of France...
The principal ceremony in Paris was a meeting of 1.100 school children in the great amphitheatre in the Sorbonne.. where 300 French combatants were pre- sent.
President Poincare delivered an address. in the course of which he said: Victor is not an end, it is a beginning, and means that the nation that goes to sleep terer wakes again."
HUNGARY'S NEW GOVERNMENT.
COMP AS PREMIER.
PARIS, August 3rd, A Havas message says:- has revived from the Allied military re The Allied Supreme Council in Paris
M. Bela Cohen's resignation and the presentatives confirmation of the news of appointment of a Hungarian Socialist Ministry
BrazIN, August 2nd.
resignation of the Soviet Government at A telegram from, Vienna states that the Budapest was decided under Trade Union pressure at a sitting of the Governing Council, where M. Bela Kun made a very gloomy report on the military and politi Ical situation.
The new Premier, who is, named M. Peidel and not M. Beidel, is a compositor.
COPENHAGEN, August 2nd.
A telegrama from Vienna states that the Italian Mission at Budapest has tele Government has accepted the proposal graphed to Clemanera that the new previously made by the Allies that hostili The Lockout at Havre has ended. ties between the Allies and the Hungar Scotland Road district of Liverpool. Work is being resumed on August 1. ians should be suspended pending the They had pretty much their own Agreement was reached at a con The Hungarians requested an armistice decisions of the Supreme Allied Council. way. Women and children were ference with the ministry of public with Theiss as the demarcation sitting on the pavement trying on works. boots and clothing, and discarding The transatlantic liner "Savoie" M. Weltzer, the President of the Buda
against the Rumanians. misfits. Pianos were dragged out of a left Havre for New York on August 1.pest Workers and Soldiers' Council, has music shop and the looters held a concert in the street. A gang pillag- ing a provision store was trapped by:
a force of police consisting of re cruits, detectives, and special cor- stables, who charged with batons and
SILVER
LONDON, Aug. 2. Silver is quoted 564-554. The arrested 23. They defeated several tone of the market is firm. attempts at rescue. Troops at one point fired a rifle volley but nobody was hurt. The looters when charged
escaped up side streets and returned
to main thorough fares to complete
their pillaging. The rioting ceased
OUR EVACUATION.
LONDON, August 4. A Bolshevik wireless message says
line
arrived at Vienna. He has been com- missioned by the new Ministry to open negotiations with the Entente.,
માં
A telegram from Budapest states that M. Haubrich, the new War Minister, has decreed the strictest martial-law. Perfect order prevails.
VILMA, August 2nd. M. Bela Kun and two other Peoples' Commissaries have arrived here. They have been taken to an internment camp.
VIENNA, August 3rd. The Hungarian Commissary, Dr. Szamuely, tried to cross the Austrian prevented by gendarmes. frontier hear Wienernenstad but was He then com-
at four o'clock in the morning but British forces, following a bombardmitted suicide. resumed on Sunday forenoon, when ment of Onega, landed and recaptur
bottling stores in Vauxhalled the town.
Road were raided. Two motor-
"and arrested all the looters.
lorries filled with troops came up
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INSURANCE OFFICE.
troops who fired overbead.. One man climbed up into the motor-lorry and tried to wrench a bayonet from a soldier. Two or three warning sho were fired ineffectually, then.
It really was 2.
cuse in watch two more shots were fired and the everything seemed perfecs. The in
surance company's dator had re- man collapsed. He was carried to hospital, unconscious. Altogether two Ported quite enthusiastically, and the hundred arrests were made between man was not engaged in any danger. midnight and noon, 1,600 more ous trade. troops have arrived. The city authorities are confident of maintain them. I work in a newspaper I lead a sedentary fifs," he told
excitement."
U.S. COMMISSARIAT BALE.
WASHINGTON, August 3rd. For the purpose of reducing the cost of living the War Department has ordered the immediate sale to the general public of all surplus Army foodstuffs.
BAYARIAN PRINCE ARGUES.
BERLIN, August 2nd. The Muenchener Zeitung publishes a letter from "Prince Rupprecht,
the Bavarian Crown Prince, to the President of the Bavarian Diet, in which he expressed hia anwillingness to recognise a Court) in which the prosecutor was also the judge.
He said he was ready to appear before
ing order. The troops have hitherto offices and we have no danger ora Bavarian Court and surrender himself protected the main portion of the city. A meeting convoked by the Labour party of Liverpool resolved
"Not the China Mait office,
No."
on a general strike in sympathy with then" the Police Union and in protest against the government's attack on trade unionism."
There was extensive looting yester day at Birkenhead, where a hundred police are on strike.
BUDAPEST.
BUDAPEST, Aug. 3. The Red flag was removed from most of the buildings at Budapest yesterday morning. A crowd of citizens hoisted the national flag bal
·
"How about eports; asked the examiner, Do you play football—|| hookey? Do you box? Belong to the V.R.C.?"
No; none of those things. think you will find I'm a safe ristt.”
"Do you scorch?"'., "What do you 'read?'”
to the Bavarian Diet. Should the Diet agres to his surrender to an Inter-Allied Court, he will then comply.
NORTH RUESIA.
ARCHANOL, August 2nd. Five hundred Russian officers trained in England have arrived here en route to the front.
There are indications that the front will apon be completely occupied by the Bus Bians.
Many military experts are of the opin- ion that the Bolshevista will not attack "Do you drive your car faster until the British withdrawal is completed. than the speed limit?'
"I have no car."!
No-no car!" gasped the off the public buildings amidst loud cial. But how do you get about cheering
"I walk," explained the addices
Herr Agoston, the new foreign one, beginning to get nervous minister, interviewed, said they would
Sorry" kuapped the inexmunce
establish peace and a system of
A
democracy and give a pledge to the man. "We can't take yout Entente to convoke a constituent na scorcher is pretty risky; but a man tional assembly. The new govern who walks Great Scott! Ee ment will maintain the principle hasn't the ghost of a chance!'
of socialisation, the extent. thereof
to be defermined by constituents.
He opined that the intentions of the
On the other hand, many believe that the Bolsheviks will be unable to overrun North Russia, as it is reported that thou sands of Biberian prisoners from Germany are arriving within the next few weeks from England.
LIVERPOOL RIOTS.
ARMY AND NAVY BOTH USED.
LONDON, August 3rd, There have been no further strike developments in London or the Provinces, except in Liverpool, where gangs, of Entente were manifested in the tact SUPPLIED BY ALL CHEMISTS, and wrecking of shops before they were hooligans indulged in widespread looting that the Entente are immediately DHYSICIANS prescribe Chamberlain's A number of tanks are held in readiness, dispersed by troops with fixed bayonets concluding an aromatice and begin Colic and Diarrhoe Remedy: be ning peace negotiations. Measures cause it relieves cramps in the stomachers have arrived in the Mersey to protect The battleship Valiant and two destroy- were already taken to suspend sad intestinal pains quicker than xoy the docks, where there were some attempta hostilities. He says it was at the preparation they can compound. It can at looting and incendiariam. wish of the Entente that certain will keep for yesus, and no home is com
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