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FRENCH STRIKES.
THEATRICAL LOCKOUT ENDED.
PARIS, Sept. 9. Managers have declarid that the theatrical lockout is ended. The theatres. will re-open to-morrow, pending conferences between the artistes' syndicate and the managers.
SILINE
ALLIED MISSION RETURNS TO BERLIN,
COPENHAGEN Sept. 9.
The Allied Mission to Upper Silesia returned. to Berlin after Dupont had conferred with German General Staff officer in regard to the number of Allied troops required to occupy Upper Silesia.
MORE BOLSHEVISM.
WIDESPREAD SACKING AND
DESTRUCTION.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 9. According to a message from Hel- singfors refugees report that the Bolsheviks on first day of their re occupation murdered 2,000 inhabi- tants of Ekaterinburg. The Red Guards committed widespread sack- ing and destruction. Magyar and Chinesa detachments were particular ly brutal
HOLLAND AND BELGIUM,
DUTCH PROTEST AGAINST *BELGIUM PROPAGANDA.
HAGUE, Sept. 9. Correspondence has been published showing that the Minister for Foreign Affairs has made a protest to the Belgian government regarding a secret note to the Belgian military head quarters, concerning propaganda amongst the Dutch in Limburg with the object of influencing the latter in favour of annexation of Belgium.
THE LABOUR QUESTION,
CONGRESS AT GLASGOW.
LONDON, Sept. 9.. Rt. Hon. J. R. Cignes, M.P., who had a good reception, speaking before the vote emphasised that
direct action" would paralyse industry and the poorer classes would suffer first. He marvelled that men so sane in counsel, and so courageous otherwise, should repose such childlike faith in the absolute success of direct action." He appealed to the delegates to go to law so long as there was law and support labour members of parliament who were attempting to work constitutionally and not intro- duce violence into the country.
Rt. Hon. J. Hodges, M. P., at the Miners' Federation said that the object of the vote was to find out how far the rank and file were with the Executive of the Triple Alliance in the matter of "direct action.”.
The result of the vote was received with cheers.
The Dockers' delegates, represent- ing 99,000 votes, were absent when the vote was taken.
THE TROUBLE AT FERMOT.
SHOPS RANSACKED.
LONDON, Sept. 9.
The wrecking of the shops in Fermoy was carried out by soldiers led by the Shropshires and supported by women and rowdies: attracted by prospect of loot. The crowd, who were led by a soldier who gave whistle signals, used hammers and pieces of iron, Hundreds of pairs of boots were stolen from a boot. shop while a jeweller's shop, belong- ing to a foreman of the jury which declined to return a verdict of mur der in connection with the tragedy cabled on the 8th Inst. was paid special attention. The disorders: which apparantly were a sequel to that tragedy, lasted two hours. The police were powerless. A picket finally restored order.
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AMERICA AND THE PEACE TREATY,
Crema OMARA, Eeptember 9th. President Wilson, referring to the ro mrvation esblee on Beptember 5th, said that the United States must take or leave the Treaty as it stood
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THE AGITATOR.
He is he was and ever will be,
When this earth is changed into a bright and shiny',heaven he will still be dodging round amongst the angels telling the tale of the wouders that will happen in some far-off } sweet bye and bye.
Loxion, September 9th. The Allied Mission to Upper Bilesia, consisting of high military representa of Britain, the United States,
He is a humourless person with Franco and Italy, have arrived at imagination. To him a bird in the Sosnowice.
tives
search in the darkness for a penny.
After hearing considerable evidence.bush is worth twenty in the hand. holding long conferences, and waiting The thing he has not got is to him a various towns and camps of the fugitives | thing of mind and sterling value. and insurgents, General Duponat, the He would light a five pound note to French representative, ordered the insur gents and fugitives to be informed that ho is telegraphing to Paris urging the necessity of despatching Allied tropps to occupy Upper Silesia.........
Such ccupation, for technical reasons. cannot be curried cut until September
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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
LONDON, September 9th. The preliminary organisation of the League of Nations is proceeding.
The agitator is even as the poet. He is boru, not made. And there is another thing about him. He be lungs to no particular class or walk in life. He is as apt to wear strax berry leaves as he is to wear cordu roys. He may have thousands a year even as he may not have a penny, The true agitator is a disinterested person, whose one and only idea is to agitare. He would sconer agitate
A Committer representing all the than eat. Agitating is to him as adherents of the League will hold their meat and drink, as the very life. Srst
meeting in London after the Gergiving air itself.
Peace Treaty has been duly ratified. The first business will include the ap
And here I would like to remark pointment of a Governing Commission hat the working class pusher who for the Saar Valley, within a fortnight agitates himself into Parliament, and, of the League's official birth, also a High perhaps, even into the Cabinet, is Commission for Dantzig. is speedily arnot really an agitator properly speak possible.
The Committee will also confrm Siring. He is merely a seeker after, and Eric Drummond's appointment as See a grabber of the plum-a sharp retary General, and prepare the agenda Eusiness person who gets what be for the public inaugural meeting of the wants through the working of the Assembly of the League at Washington, which will probably not be before March bighideal, trust-in-me stunt a wolfin A number of appointaxats have been agitator's clothes. Iam not writing th's provisionally made to the Secretariats reed about him. I am writing about These include ten different nationalities the genuine steel-bound, copper plated azitator, whose mission in life it is to make people sit up and take notice of things that-though they do not exist-ought very much to PALIS, September.th. Managers and representatives of the for he is too swift for an easy-going, exist. He wins not my admiration, artists conferred to-day, with a view to
settlement of the theatrical lock out. lazy person like myself. But if be The Municipal employé decided to wins not my admiration, neither does strike to-day.
FRENCH THEATRICAL STRIKE.
GENERAL PERSHING.
he win my disesteem. For he is a workman, a craftsman, an artist who is in love with his job.
When he is haled up before the beak for being a nuisance to the
Na Yox, September 9th. General Pershing arrived to-dar. and community the one fear that the Was ceremoniously welcomed. Here ceived a very popular ovation.
EARL GREY.
LONDON, September 9th. Earl Grey nils on the Jauretania es route for Washington on September 20th
HAVAS REVIEW.
agitator has is the danger of being let off with a caution. What he wants is to be sent to jail Jail to the f agitator is as nectar to the bustling busy bee. It is as water to the thirsty teetotaler. The innocent beak knows not of the feeling that is agitating the bosom of the agitator. He thisks that he is afraid of being sent to prison. Ab, if he krew! If the innocent beak only knew! Why, he would A Havas message says.--
give him the glad eye and dismiss The French Delegation has strongly him with thanks. He would never urged the Supreme. Council that unless make the abysmal mistake of send Germany agres to suppress the tlauses ing him to jail. But the poor beak in her Constitution presaging a union does not know. And quite often, 1 with Austria without farther delay the am grieved to say, he sends him to Occupation on the Rhine should revel in the delights of skilly and the by extended at the expiration of the soft side of a plank. ultimatum..
Area of
PARIS, September 9th.
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No further reply is necessary, since the That the agitator has his uses a Note was sent last week and was a real obvious. There are many things that ultimatum, the failure to comply with 1 fail to see the use of. But I do which carries immediate sanction for any see the use of the agitator. He stops action which the Allies see it to employ.
General Sir Edmund Allerby, who man from falling into too profound a arrived in Paris yesterday, denied the
existence of a conflict between the French sleep. He labs him, and bites bim, and English Governments.
and sets about him, and keeps him France is to receive the mandate for going generally. He is a useful Syria. Complete union of views is shar
ed by the French and English Govern- nuisance. We do not like him. But ments in regard to Syria,
who on earth likes medicine?
General Allenby will stay two days in Paris,
And now I beg to withdraw what A Bill will dortly be introduced into I said a moment ago about not send the French Parliament to encourage the
construction of trawlers and improve the ing the agitator to jail. He ought arrangements for landing ish in French to be sent there oftener than he is. ports.
An assembly of Presidents of the Cham. It isn't quite playing the game to bers of Commerce in France and her get a man to work for no reward, Colonies will take place in Paris of a man does useful work for the October 27th.
The meeting is of first importance, the community he ought to be paid for matters for discussion being French com
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THE FERMOY-TROUBLE.
LONDON, September Dth. A crowd wittked fifty stops at Fermoy yesterday evening
ONLY A TOY- FISTÓL.
STUTTGART, September 9th The youth who Bred on General- Lettor von Vorbeck aly used a toy pistol.
ALO BOLAKEVISE.
Laxpow, September 9th:" A Moscow telegram states that
to injury by the bestowing upon him of a caution.
Even the Irish agitá
tors are being treated in a grossly unfair manner. They are being tinually deprived of that prison
THE
bospitality that they so richly deserve HANDLEY PAGE
This shameful treatment of ejecting Irish agitaters from quod is another deep injustice to Dark Rosaleen, and the time will come when base and perfidious England will, etc, etc.
- The agitator is the sting, the goad, the whipper-in, and the whipper-up of humanity. He is an unpopular, disharmonious person. "But he keeps "And still-well, I don't
The Washington message of September ith syn:—The Senate Fortis Relations Committee having considered the Pence Treaty has reported to the Senate after adopting four rewares tichi Providing Soviet Government and his accepted that the United States be interpreter of Estheala's proposal to hold peace nego the Mouros Doctrine, that taria immigrs. fiations at Iskola The Soviet hai want to grumble at him too much. tion and, other domestic questions be deter arranged for the safe cendret of the dele. Will a time ever amive when be mined by individual nations, that the gates on Beptember 10th.
us going,
The answer to this is that agitation
United States declines se nume ay ter reported from Warsaw that the will come into his own? ritorial Lóbligaflót# neizzandate without Bolshevic, and lathuanian peros negotia 'direct resolution, from Cauerway, and-thel tions will start immediatari on the form the U.8.A6 Frares the right to witbarww cz'a' initiative - The Inbolone has be Ifrom the Lenzus of Nations.
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