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PARIS, Aug. 22,
The Suprente. Council discussed. affairs in central Europe, Silesia, and Hungary,
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LONDON, Aug. 22. Reuter's correspondent in south Russia gives the acount 6f an eye- witness of scenés a Kharkoff follow- ing its recapture from the Bolsheviks. Tens of thousands of people crowded
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HUNGARY.
BUDAPEST, Aug. 22.
The cabinet has discussed an electoral bill based on universal suf- frage, including women, and decided to hold elections on Sept. 20. The premier will consult the Entente mis- sions about it.
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GERMAN PARLIAMENT.
WEIMAR, Aug. 22.
SILVER:
M. Herbert Hoover, who returned from his tour of investigation in
The new Assembly opened with, Budapest, Vienna and Warsaw, urged the vicinity of the five-storey "torture much ceremony, President Ebert tak as regards Hungary that the Confer house where bodies were being ing the oath at the national assembly ence should compel the departure of exhumed. The eye-witness describ was received with military honours the Archduke Joseph. He insisted ing the scene inside the house in the crowded square. An orgaz that the coup d'etat whereby the says 11. one window lay the played as he entered the hall, which Hapsburger had become the head of dried up skin torn from a man's band. was decorated with flowers, and the Hungarian government had done Nearby the room was literally choked packed with people. Herr Ebert's the utmost harm. It stimulated. Bol with corpses. Numerous pieces of speech emphasised the need of labour shevism afresh throughout central underclothing, soaked with blood in the empire's service in order to Europe. Immediate action must bewere found. The walls of the next rebuild the fatherland, whose new taken. Mr. Hoover represented that room were bloodstained. It also was vital principle was freedom and right. the economic situation in Hungary was packed with corpses. There were Subsequently he spoke from the [bal- very unsatisfactory, as the Rumanians other rooms full of corpses. All had cony and was ovated, the people were still requisitioning foodstuffs been tortured. A pit six feet deep singing "Deutschland, über alles." and sending them to their own close to the house contained forty Bits of bodies soaked country. He asked the allies to send bodies. agents to the Rumanian border to with blood and giving off a hor prevent the export of food from rible odour
there. Strips
LONDON, Aug. 23. Hungary to Rumania. Consequently of skin had been. tom off some Silver is quoted 601 594. The the Allied military mission at Buda of the bodies. Others. had the hand, market is firm. pest was authorised if feasible im arms, or legs twisted; others had mediately to send agents as suggest nails.. driven into their heads. ed. With reference to upper Silesia Another pit contained fourteen men Mr. Hoover declared that the and one woman, all of whom had situation in the country was been terribly tortured. One had the 50 bad that the only solution occipital region smashed in and was was Allied occupation.
wounded in twelve places. Another had a bayonet thrust through the mouth and out of the skull.. Another had its wrists hanging by mere threads. One old man had been buried alive. He had no wounds but his tongue was jammed be tween his teeth and his mouth full of earth. A woman had been
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SHANGITAL, Aug. 24. OLD PARLIAMENT COMING TO CANTON,
In the duchy of Teschen, the Polish workers bad refused to work the mines unless the duchy ware given to Poland. It was decided to send 'an Allied commission to Silesia, com- prising Polish, Czech and German delegates. The commission will remain in Silesia and control the country in the interests of the Allies similarly treated but apparently to proceed to Canton for the purpose during the holding of the plebiscite finally strangled. The people groaned in uppe: Silesia, which takes place as now and then by some small thing.. as soon as possible after, the ratifica-such as a decayed tooth, they re- tion of the German treaty by all the cognised a father; brother, or sister. Powers.
AFGHANISTAN FREE AS TO FOREIGN POLICY:
- LONDON, Aug, 22.
A LESSON IS EXCHANGE.
UNREALITIES OF MONEY.
LONDON, Aug. 21..
A decline in sterling and especially
A White Paper dealing with recent events in Afghanistan mentiens that the peace treaty leaves the country in American exchange is featured in, officially free and independent inter- the papers. The sovereign yester nally and externally. It contains no stipulation that the Amir shall follow the advice of Britain in external relations.
AUSTRALIAN BEAME NOʻS
STRIKE.
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LONDON, Aug. 22. Owing to a hitch in the final negotiations, the Australian seamen's strike continues. The union is now endeavouring to extend the strike to
overseas.
POOR CARNEGIE,-
NEW YORK, Aug. 22. Carnegie left less than fifty million dollars.
The old Parliament, whose mem- bers are at Shanghai, have decided
of drafting the constitution.
AUSTRIAN PEACE TREATY.
The Chinese delegates in Paris teleg raphed to Peking reporting that they have lodged a protest against the alterations in the Austrian Peace Treaty,
LUNG CHAI KWONG AGAIN..
There is a rumour tha: Lung Cha
day was the lowest on record, name. Kwong is likely to be given an ly $4.10. Thus the pound is werth important post on the Frontier. only 17s. 1d. in America. Experts
exhort the 'public study foreign PRESIDENT'S INSTRUCTION TO exchange in order to appreciate the necessity of economy, of increased
THE PEACE DELEGATES.
production and exports. They point Summoning the subdelegates to out that the money now so plenti the internal peace conference Pre- ful is largely fictitious, owing to sident Chu Sai Cheung informed the inflated paper currency. Li Kwok Chun and Lau Yan Kut Similar concern is expressed that they must not favour any in Paris. The Temps compares political party. They can, however, France's position unfavourably with give way on points of small import- Great Britain's, pointing out that ance. the pound sterling is worth 35 francs. It urges increased and cheaper production as the only remedy to sell goods abroad." It concludes that it is unlikely the Allies will resume the system of artificial stabilisation of exchange.
A telegram from the Berlin food department says that owing to the decreasing value of the mark which is now worth 24d they have prohi bited buying certain goods abroad, for instance, food from Denmark and Holland.
N. W. RUSSIA.
CONSTITUTION PROCLAIMED.
LONDON, Aug. 22. Reuter learns that the newly est ablished north west Russian govern- ment will shortly issue a declaration of policy containing the following principles. The government is formed. in agreement with representatives of the Allies and united with the gov ernment of Koltchak. It declares that the upper Silesian electric works
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LONDON, Aug, 22.
It is learned from a Polish source
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
Wong Yap Tong the Chief delegate has put forth 4 suggestions for the concurrence of the South delegates.
(1) Matters concerning laws are to be dealt with in 2 parts.
(2) Public is to be admitted to the Conference.
(3) Any decision arrived at the Conference is to be made public.
(4) Matters already settled during the previous Conference are to hold good.
THE FLOOD IN HUNAN.
The Government has sanctioned
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decisive war against Bolshevism. It are at a standstill. The whole the appropriation of $10,000 for the stands for complete equality of all territory is lightless and powerless. relief of the flood sufferers at citizens, Civil liberties are guaranteed. All the factories are paralyzed owing Hunan. The new constituent assembly isto be to the absence of coal. It is reported convoked immediately. Different from Warsaw that a skirmish in nationalities are to form part of a which many were killed and wounded united Russia on a federative or took place owing to Germans attack autonomous basis. The administra-ing the Polish Silesian outpost. tions of the Zemstvos and muni. cipalities are to be organised on
· démocratic principles. The agrarian. question is to be solved by the constituent assembly: Until then the land is to remain in the bands of the rural population. An eight hours working day, government control over production, and regula tions for safeguarding labour are to be introduced. -
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LONDON, Aug 22.
Mr. Lloyd George defines as
Shuanghai, Aug. 24. The judgment in the collision case between the str. "Kiangawan "*"of the China Merchant S.N. Co. and the cruiser" Chorchay" was deliver ed yesterday. Judgment was enter ed for the Chorchay! The Chine unstable key industries" those ful Merchant S.N. Co. Bent & telegrar filing the following tests: product to Peking giving notice of appeal. essential for war or for maintenance of the country during war, Industry se neglected before war that there was an inadequate supply of the product, industry about which the government found it necessar
TYPHOON REPORTS.
The latest additional reports of damage to junks and compass a5 n' to take special steps during the result of the typhoon show that
r, ndustry which if special about six jumbe were prked in vari government support were withdrawn
could not maintain itself at the level ous parts of the city and five more of production essential to national Des missing, presumed drowned. life." It is proposed that fees .LONDON, Aug. 22. Ukrainian troops have occupied charged for licences to import goods. Odessa
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