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The China Mail.
August 3, 1920, Temperature $2.
No. 18.09.
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Piece-goods, Fancy Voiles, Shoes, Boots, Sun-shades, Foreign and Chinese Silk, Ready-made Blouses and Skirts, etc., etc.
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$2.25 to $250 each.
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Ladies' Rain Coats
Gents'. Rain Umbrellas
Rubber Over Shoes
Boys Washable Suits
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1846 Humidity 76.
August 3, 1919, Temperature 54.
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TO-DAY'S CABLES.
(Raster's Service to the China "Mail.)
HAVAS NEW3.
FRENCH COAL PROBLEMS DISCUSSED.
M. MILLERAND'S TRIUMML
PARIS, July 31-
By 356 votes against 169 the French Chawber Deputies passed a Bill for advances for the German coal agreed to at the Spa Conference. This constitutes a triumph for M. Müllerand. The debate was expected to be lively one.
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M. Bokanowsky, reporter to the Finance Committee, showed the gravity of the financial problem. He maintained that any addition to the budget programme would endanger the social peace and economic Ireorganisation of the country. France, he said, bad reached the extreme limit of possible sacrifices.
M. Collin, reporter to the Foreign Affairs Committee, supported the BUL He remarked that the Boulogne conference much improved the Spa arrangements and that M. Mi llerand had accepted through necessity.
After him, M. Millerand showed that the coal question was an essential one. To assure that coal-should not be lacking for the family hearth or the factories was to realise the first condition of internal order-and economic prosperity. M. Millerard insisted that the need for a close entente between the Allies was never greater than at present. He called on the Chamber to furnish new proof of its political spirit and serve the
national interests.
UPROAR IN REICHSTAG.
NOTORIOUS GENERAL DENOUNCED,
BERLIN, July 31.
THE DOLLAR.
To-day's closing.rate 401 To-day's opening rate 4:04
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Peuter's Service to the China Mfcil}
IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.
ST. Joux's, July 31st. The British delegates to the Imperial: Press Conference were welcomed at na official luncheon to-day.
Sir Robert Bruce, editor of the Glasgow) Heald, in the course of speech, em- hissed the importance of the Conference will dises, inter alia, better and cheaper cable Press facilities, also the question of circulating news throughout the Mr. Naylor, President of the Printing Empite Trades Federation, said the time WES approaching when Labour would govern England. This would make no difference in the attitude of the Motherland to the Dominions. He hoped that the conference between the industrial elements and the would result in promoting the best feelings newspaper profession throughout the Empire.
NEW AIR MAIL ROUTE.
NEW YORK. July 30th. Three all-metal monoplanes carrying the frst tran-Continental aerial mail have left New York for San Francisco to lay out the permanen; air-mail' route which will probably begin in September.
NEW PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
DETROIT, July 31st. Senator La Follette is the Presidential candidate of the new Liberal Party which is being formed out of the faction which The notorious General Gallwitz created an uproar in the Reichstag Farmer Labour Party at Chicago on re- broke away at the recent Convention of the glorifying the old army during the debate abolishing compulsory military fusing to endorse the platform babmitted service. The Socialists stormily intervened shouting: "You murderers for amalgamation with the Labour Party. have the lives of millions on your corsciences." When the uproar was quelled 'General Gallwitz resumed his eulogies. The whole of the Right then quitted.
PRESS CONFERENCE.
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PERMANENT IMPERIAL COUNCIL FORESHADOWED.
CEMENT THE BOND OF UNION.
FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK, August 1.
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AMERICAN WAREHOUSES
DESTROYED.
NEW ORLEANS, Jaiy 31st. The Appalachiat Corporation warehouses containing 30,000 bales of sisal bespare hea destrayed by fire. The loss
esti- mated at over a million dollars,
is
NO CONSCRIPTION.
BERLIS, July 31st.
The Reichstag has passed a bill abolish-
POLAND IN PERIL.
At a civic luncheon to the Imperial Press Conference delegates, Siring compulsory military service. The Ger- Campbell Stuart, in a speech, foreshadowed the formation of some kind of man National Party, a section of the Peo permanent imperial council dealing wtih all the major affairs of the empire.
ple's Party, voted gainst the measure. Mr. George Isaacs, of the National Society of Printers, declared that all elements represented at the conference would work in harmony to maintain the highest ideals of the British Empire and further cement bond unic, between the Motherland and the Colonies.
MANNIX EMBARKS FOR BRITAIN.
WILD SCENES WITNESSED ON THE "BALTIC.""".
NEW YORK, Aug., 1. Wild scenes accompanied the embarcation of Archbishop Mannix aboard the "Baltic" for Britain. The Archbishop was visited on board by De Valera It is announced that the Cunarder will not land passengers at Queenstown.
PRINCE'S VISIT TO INDIA.
MAY BE POSTPONED A YEAR IF NECESSARY.
LONDON, August 1.
The Sunday Times states that it is definitely settled that the visit of the Prince of Wales to India will be postponed unless on return to England he
LONDON, July Blet. Polish telegrams from Warsaw admit that a most intense Bolshevik offensive was restarted after the acceptance of the pro posals an armistice, the enemy's; immediate object apparently being to establish himself between Brest Litorak and Udovies. If his objective is gained the Poles will be forced to evacuate their prin cipal defences, namely, the Pinsk marshes. The Bolsheviks lunched a simultaneous attack of the Podolian sector, but the main pending battle south-west of Grodno, where issue of the situation depends on the in- the Bolshevisks hara already penetrated the ancient territory of the kingdom.
A Bolshevisk wireless quotes the mani festo to the Red armies, saying "Our delegation, headed by Conrado Kameneff, has gone to London. Comrades, on your success at the frons depends the success of the delegation."
CANADIAN MAIL CONTRACT.
Losbox, July 31st. that the disagreement between the Domin- The Times Vancouver correspondent says ion postal authorities and the Canadian Pacific Railway Сетрапу in regard to the
is found thoroughly.fit to undertake the journey. The King is unwilling to trans-Pacife inail contract, is becoming "disappoint India by the suggested substitution of the Duke of York. There-serious. As fore, if necessary, the tour will be postponed for a year.
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IRELAND AND RUSSIA.
PREMIER'S ATTITUDE TO BE DISCUSSED.
GRAVE SPLIT THREATENED.
LONDON, Ang. 29.
a result of the dispute 21 British and Canadian mails are now sent to the Far East
by Ja are much slower tha Pacific Railway's Japanese ships which Canadian vessels. Hitherto, the Canadian
mail subsidy has been 8325,000, but this year the company asked for $450,000. The Government refused, and offered alter- natives which the almi
company rejected. The culmination was reached when 6,000 mail bags, mostly from the United Kingdom, were removed from the Empress of Asia. prior to her
The mail is now sailing subject to a delay of from five to ten days across the Pacific. Meanwhile, the Cana-
While it is affirmed that Mr. Lloyd George is showing an inflexible front to the Sinn Féin demand for 2 republic, many Unionists fear that the Premier dien Pacific Railway Company has entered is secretly negotiating instead of openly annihilating the movement. The into a contract to carry the American mail, recalcitrants are moving the adjournment of the Commons on Monday to rid Vaccourer at the rates asked. discuss the Premier's attitude to Russia and Ireland. There is every posel-OBJECTION TO JAPANESE IN- bility of a fight between the Coalition Liberals and the Unionists, threaten- ing grave split.
POLISH SITUATION OESOURE.
ARMISTICE DELEGATES HOLD A MEETING.
REORGANISING THE ARMY,
LONDON, August 1.
The Polish situation is still not clear. According to a Warsaw Mess- age the Polish armis ice delegates met the Bolshevist delegates on the Brest-Litovsk to Babanovitchi road on the evening of July 3., The French military mission at Warsaw reports that Bolshevista and Germans are negotiating at Suwalki. General Haller has taken over the command of the northern group of Polish armies. This is the first step to the reorganis ation of the Polish army. French officers have taken over all the import ant technical services.
GERMANY ANXIOUS.
BERLIN, August 1.
AUSTRALIAN COASTAL SERVICE.
SYDNEY, July 31st. Three Japanese steamers are expected here shortly to trade on the Australian. coast. The Seamen's Union, however, is strenuously objecting to the intrusion of Eastern crews in Australian service, on the ground that many Austra
Cosetal
lisa seamen are unemployed and thas it is against the interests of the Common wealth to keep the Japanese on the court.
CHINESE-LABOUR FOR SAMOA.
WELLINGTON, July 31st. debate
In the House of Representatives in a 013 Bamon, tha Government zounood that it had been definitely controlled China indentured labour into decided to continue to import properly- Bamoa which was considered necessary in order to prevent the destruction of the plantations.
It is semi-officially stated that the Government has asked the. Peace Conference specully to reply to the German request for permission to take the Government's policy, the
The Flodes by to robes to 11, endorsed necessary measures to maintain neutrality on the eastern frontier and has Minister, the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime requested the Entente to provide shipping to transfer the interped Folish having dertaken to substitute fro troops to the interior of Germany.
labour 19
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