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Kapp's press agent informed Reuter that there was great Bolshevist danger. This announcement was generally I fegarded as a preliminary to the new regime's retreat. The same agent warned the correspondents against appearing in the streets, as a communist revolt was expected. The general strike threatens to deal the revolution" aries a mortal blow, coupled with the decisive fact that the revolters have no political prestige and that their power depends on machine guns. It is estimated that eighteen were killed in the streets of Berlin yesterday.
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Feisul bas been invited to ccrue ED. Europe to state his case.
Cano, March 18th. A message from Damascus states that members of the Syrian Congress visited the Palace on March 8th and offered the Afterwards, attired in a Field Marshal's crown to Emir Faisal, who accepted it uniform, Emir Feisal drove amid the acclamations of crowds to the municipal crims of " Long live the King." painese
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MEXICO CITY, March 19th, Wurttemberg railwaymen have joined in. It is reported that the Bavarians the State of Hidalgo. It is said that-130- A Sre occurred in the Elbordo mine in followed. The latest reports of the general strike in Germany say there men are missing. is the most complete stoppage of work ever experienced there. Fighting between troops, and workers continues to be frequent. The death roll at Dresden is now 59,
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The "Marriage of Kitty," at the Theatre Royal, provides an un" precedented feast for the epigram- matic gcutmét. During the per- formance the audience forgot Hongkong and its attendant lack of intellectual pabulum, and lived for a brief hour to twa in London and on the shores of Lake Quins. ~ Mès Marie Tempest, whose fame, filled all but the side seats, justified to the foll the expenditure on the tickets. J
The plot of the play has lost noth-
U.S.A. AND POLAND..
New York. March 11th. The Associated Press correspondent at Warsaw says that the United States Liquidation Board has agreed to sell to Poland the surplus army atores, deliver- able at Danzig, on six years credit. at five per cent. interest,
Poland will thereby obtain clothing for! 900.000 men, locomotives and 43,000 trucks, 5.000.000 pounds of oleo-margarine, and 100.000 tons of four and cats.
United States supports Poland.
The transaction does not imply that the
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CAPE TOWN, March 18th. ing of its freshness; Kitty has lost created an extraordinary situation. It The sweeping gains of Labour have nothing of her ingenuous charm,sems certain that a second election will The vessels operating to South Miss Tempest (may I call her Marie?) be necessary shortly as ne possible com. America carry rice as their principal, invested the part with just the necesbination of parties will be able to form a cargo from the Orient and returnsary spice-her unconventionality was
Government. It is anticipated that the with nitrates, from Chile, of which enough to give more than plausibility Ministerialists, say, 45.
Unionista returned will be 23, and the vast quantities are being utilized into her behaviour and net enough to Japan.
descend to the level of the modern comedy with its atmosphere of intrigue more fitting to the Servants' Hall, I have said that the play is a feast of epigrams. That a woman cannot be a successful journalist because of the necessity for praising the frocks of other women, that to appear ugly presents ng difficulty to the average woman if the need arises, that when you have lived amongst the English Haristocracy, as I have, you will learn to be surprised at nothing" (in the words of "Norbury") are but a few from the store available. The story of the marriage of convenience and the triumph of the country girl in allegating (apparently without much intention or obvious effort) the affection of Sir. Reginald from his
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TWO MISSIONS TO RUSSIA.
mousseline de sole") seemed to appeal vastly to the audience; one felt A SEARCH STORY.
that the men themselves has not been
LONDON, March 19th. immune from this type of argument International Labour Office, interviewed, M. Albert Thomas, Director of the and that the women had not hesitated, pointed out that the agenda of the meet- Beiere Mr. N. L. Smith at the to use it for their destruction.
ing of the governing body in London next Magistracy this morning, a Chinese -One of the tests of great art is its weak included the proposal to send & mis- woman was charged with the unlawful universal applicability, and judked by sion of enquiry into Russia and the possession of. 28 taels of prepared this, the "Marriage of Kitty" passes appointment of an international emigra non-Government opium, and 16 forged triumphantly. Who has not extion mission with reference to the former. opfum labels. With regard to the perienced or watched the battle been received to the effect that Russia is M. Thomas stated that a wireless has opium, she said she usually sent her, of women's wits of which Kitty and prepared to allow the mission to enquire amah to a Chinese druggist's shop to Mme. de Semiano provide a glitter into questions of fact, but reserved to buy oplum for her own consumption. ing example? Who has not seen itself the right to send similar missions She was under the impression that the well-meaning friend at work, and into other countrations would make a The mission sent by the cpium supplied to her was his mal-treatment at the hands of the League Government opium; if it was not, the interested parties? All these she could not be blamed. Answering things, and many more repaid the the charge of possession of forged inhabitants of our "uncultured city labels, she said she knew nothing who went to the Theatre Royal on about them, and suggested that some Saturday evening.
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one who wanted to get her into The audience, as ever, was order to ensure co-ordination between the trouble, must have planted them, on comedy in itself. The coy spinster and her. She said Sergt. Willis who was her bored escort; the sailor who com- In charge of the search party, was plained that he had been brought on not present when the labels were false pretences, but was glad it was. found. Sergt. Willis said that was not Shakespeare, as he had im so, and explained that there were agined, because he didn't want to three rooms in the house, while he hear about Ariel and the Calabashes; -searched one of them, his men sear the ladies whose approximate youth
LONDON, March 16th. ched the others. The labels were not led to a display of silken ankles
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