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CRIMINAL ANAROHY.
NEW YORK, March 27.
The Secretary of the local branch of the communist party has been convicted of criminal anarchy under the state law.
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LINER DAMAGED
LONDON, March 27. The Pacific Haer Qrtega, bound for South-America with 300 passengers, has wirelessed from Saint George's channel for urgent assistance. She struck a submerged wreck and was badly damaged. She eventually arrived at Fishguard with the deck awash forward.
FLYING STUNIS.
CALCUTTA, March 24. The airmen, Mathews for Australia and Ferrarin and Masiero for Tokyo, left for Akyab. McIntosh Parre's machine subsequenty returned owing to engine trouble..
ARGENTINE STRIKE.
"
RIO DE JANEIRÓ, March 27. A general strike has been declared and the railway services are paralysed. Strikers are interfering with fon-strikers, attacking the security guards, and looting. There have been several disturbances and a consider. able number of arrests. The government is threatening drastic measures,
SITUATION INGGERMANY.
Berlin, March 27.
(Rautar's Service to the China Wall.)
THE HOME RULE BILL.
· Wilsters
LONDON, March, 20th During the debate in the House of Commons on the Home Rule Bill Mr. CLYKS moving the rejection, dr. was or might be materially, it did not clared that however preaperous Iceland
dispose of the national and patriotic claims. He condemned the Government's stringent administration Mr. Clynes de clared that no influential in Ireland'
people had a good word to say for the Bill. He condemned the tenderness shows towards opposed the Bill because is provided a and said that the Labour Party
division founded on a religious basia, but recognised neither the historic unity of the province of Ulster nor of Ireland as a whole. The Labour Party proposed that the maximum national self-govern- mens should be conceded to Ireland, com patible with the unity of the Empire and the safety of the United Kingdom in war- time, the fullest financial and economic liberty, subject to the annual contribution towards the cost of expenditure which was common to
adequate protec tion, to
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and recognition Ireland's rights to decide in an elected assembly their constitution and Anancial arrangementa These conditions would mean self-determination, limited only by the requirements of Imperial unity and defense. The remedy of the Irish trouble was to cease governing by force im mediately, to release political prisoners and reverse the whole gatem of... Irish administration. Mr. Clynes
the alternative that an Irish Constituend Assembly, representing the whole of the Irish people and elected on proportional representation may be charged with the task of draftian the new constitution within the principles of self-determination with full protection for the minorities and questions of defence and finance.
Lord ROBERT CECIL agreed that the Bill. was very bad and no final settlement in Ireland was possible without agreement but, respecting the suggested removal of the present measures in Ireland, might reasonably say “Let the murderers begin.
Enforcement of the law was the first duty of the authorities, but he, de
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The Vorwaerts forecasts the membership of the new coalition govern-clared that the Bil; would not restore ment. Mueller will be chancellor and Landsberg (probably) foreign minister, Cuno will take finance and Bauer economics.
BERLIN, March 27.
The new cabinet includes Mueller as chancellor and minister for foreign affairs, exchancellor Bauer as minister for transport, Koch as Vice chancellor and minister for the interior, and Gessler minister for defence,
EZRLIN, March 27,
Seeckt, the commanding officer in Berlin, has been interviewed. He said the situation in Ruhr is most serious. Negotiations at Bielefeld be- tween ministers and workers failed. The Red artay at Ruhr resembled Bolsheviks. It was composed of well-equipped and well-armed men using their war experiences..
PARIS, March 27.
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A semi-official message says the German governmete has reapproached the Allies with a view to obtaining permission to despatch troops to Ruhr, At present there is no indication that the Allies will consent.
SITUATION IN 18YLAND.
LONDON, March 27. The murder of Magistrate Bell was the ninth in Dublin since July 30, six being murders of policemen. Bell was a septuagenarian. The murder was perpetrated at a lonely spot. The murderers_outside pulled off the trolley wire and those inside rushed at the Magistrate shouting "come an." Bell seemed dazed and stood still in the roadway. He was killed instantly. The panicstricken passengers were afraid to help. A one-armed ex-soldier guarded the body until the ambulance was summoned by a motorcyclist.
HEROES ILL-3DVISED BEHAVIOUR.
AMSTERDAM, March 27.
It appears that a minesweeper on March 26 deserted the flotilla sweeping the north sea. The crew tried to sell the vessel, but decamped on the approach of police. Two have been arrested.
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order in Ireland and must seriously weaken the authority of the executive. It had no chance of success, as it was not. founded on any definite principle but was. a series of expediencies. Until they had' liberty to all law-abiding subjects. the produced order in Ireland and given
attempt at constitutional experiment, was gambling with the Fates on the subject of the Empire..
M. T. P. O'CONNOR condemned the Bill, and said that the Act of 1914 was a solema bond between Ireland and Eng- land on which Mr. Reducnd appealed to his fellow-countrymen, and tens of thou- sands of Irishmen had fought and died. If the Act were repealed. Ireland would regard it as the most perfidious betrayal
be had ever endured.
Mr. ACSTEX CHAMBERLAIN said that-if the Bill were passed. Ireland would be able for the Erst time to create unhinder ed and uncriticised by them a common Parliament for the whole of Ireland. The solution of Ireland's task was in its own power. What was inceded was confidence ef one Irishman in another.
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THE HAGUE, March 25th. Herr Helm, the Bergodaster of Essen, has arrived in order urgently to request the Dutch Government's help in provision
the Ruhr region. ing
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as the weather improved, having pre- viously had her in tow. for 48 hours. Herr Helm in an interview, declared To make their position sure in the that the food situation in the Ruhr region matter, the skipper of the "Aber-fis at prosent desperate. geldie went to leeward of the
He stated that an agreement has been schooner and threw a drag on board, reached between the leaders of the Rahr
мий to which a rope was attached, to
population the Berlin Government certain conditions fulli- establish communication. This, how-onstitutional situation under Herr A sensational sequel to the rescue ever, did not influence the conduct Ebert would be restored as soon
possible. of the crew of the three-masted Nor- of the Germans in the slightest de- He added that there was no question of wegian motor schooner "Vestham-gree. They immediately launched a the Republic as was only desired to nip mers," who were landed at North rate with three men upon it, and the is the bud Dr. Kapp's reactionary move Shields, as already reported in The latter ferried themselves alongside the tirely been resumed, but the situation wil ment. Work at the mines has almost en Journal of Commerce, has been forth-schooner and clambered on board. become chaotic if large supplies of food- coming. As before stated, the It was a feat of supreme daring in the stufs are not immediately despatched, . schooner was abandoned on Friday, heavy sea which prevailed, and one Jancary 30, being then in a helpless which was worthy of a better cause.
DENIKIN'S LAST STAND. condition and flying signals of dis- The Germans were all out for "the tress. It now appears that after the plunder," The first thing they did on The War Office, in a statement issued schooner's crew had been taken off, getting on board the schooner was to today, saya that Novorossisk was cap. by the North Shields trawler "Aberthrow the " Abergeldie's" drag over-tured by the Bolaberists on March 27th. geldie," the trawler still "lay by," bootd. They next made a towing fine Before the catry of the Boviet troops, the imending to resume the towage is fast from their own vessel, which ber of the families of officers, the wounded British authorities evacuated a large num soon as the weather moderated. The thereupon set off with the prize in and athers who, otherwise, would have been, schooner, which had on board a valu- tow. As soon as the British reaksed exposed to reprisals by the Beds In addi able cargo of wood pulp for London, what was happening, they run down tion, the British Navy by the most was too rich a salvage to be easily close to the German trawler and pro- strenuous exertions at the last moment, given up About an hour after the tested against such an outrageous at the port large numbers of the Volunteer embarked on the various vessels waiting schooner's, crew had been taken off, action. The German skipper treated Forces who put up so beroic a struggle a German trawler, the Schanhorst," the protest with cool contempt. He during the past months, of Geestemunde, appeared upon the merely waved his hand in an airy sort
Denikin rst
the British authorities scene. The crew of the "Aber- of way; and steamed away for the tice, and refused to consider an armis |
And, although in pursuance with geldie)" lying waiting for the weather Fatherland, with the Norwegian
instructions used every endeavour to secure his personal safety to moderate before attempting further schooner dragging in his wake.he would not.
Sole himself of British, aid Avail towing operation, at once saw that It was a marifying experience for but embarked on a
destroyer the Germans were making prepara a British trawler to have a valuable when the evacuation was,
complete tions/to take the abandoned ship in calvage, snatched from under his very Denikia's troops and the Bolshevists otarr Some rearguard fighting batween tow, thereupon they steamed close to nose, especially after she had towed red
dduring the final stages of the the stranger and told the German cap the vessel for two days and nights in evacuation. The British Mission, how tain that the schooner was not en stormy coat considerable risk every embarked safely and intort-Great- abandoned vessel that she was fr' Having regard to all the circumi-cs, praise is due to-Admiral Seymour and charge of the Bruish trawler, which stances, it is probable that the incident firent work is due the success of the
all ranks of the Navy-to whose magal was going to take her in tow as soon is not yet closed.
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