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GERMAN INTRIGUES `AGAINST POLAND.
Wiss, August grth.
The Inter-Allied Commission in Upper Silesia has corac, into possession of docu. ments proving that the German Govern mans actively participated in the recent Upper Silesian disorders. It appears cer tain that the German organization which prepared acts of violence against Allied oops was merely and materially assisted. by the Berlin Government,
GENEVA, August 29. In conformity with the resolution adopted by the International Labour Conference at Washington in 1919, an International Commission of Emigration has been constituted composed of one-third Government delegates, one third workers' delegates, and one third employers" delegater:|="Captured Bolshevik officers are openly Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, and India have nominated Govern ment representatives. Australia, Germany, the United States, Poland, Italy, and Sweden have nominated workers' delegates. South Africa, the Argentine, Spain, Greece, Crecho-Slovakia, and Switzerland have nominated "employers' delegates. The presidency of the commission has been assigned
to Viscount Cave of Britain.
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONAIRE.
The International Labour Büreau has addressed a compréhensive ques tionaire on the subject of emigration to 42 governments which are mem bars of the League of Nations. The' first task of the commission will be to collate all reliable information for the benefit of all. The questionaire aims principally at obtaining intelligence regarding the present situation in each State on emigration and immigration of workers, and laws in force relating to these matters. The opinion of each government is sought on a large number of questions concerning all aspects of the emigration problem, and the possibility of harmonising. The governments are requested to reply before October 10. It has been arranged for the commission to meet in the spring of 1921 at Geneva. -
PITCHED BATTLE AT BELFAST.
TROOPS FORCED TO FIRE ON COMBATANTS.
BAYONET CHARGE NO AVAIL.
LONDON, August 29.
A mob in Belfast yesterday evening attacked and partially wrecked a small police station and some Unionist houses. A veritable pitched battle between the rival factions ensued in which paving stones were used indis- criminately. The police and troops charged the combatants with bayonets, but the fighting was resumed with increased fierceness. The troops ultimately fired, woundeding six persons. A feature of the fighting was the number of women and children participating, ang heavy weapons and supplying the men folk with missiles.
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SIX KILLED AND FIFTY INJURED.
LONDON August 29
Six persons were killed and 50 injured in yesterday's Belfast rioting. The troops used armamed cars and machine guns.
THE NEW YORK STRIKE FAILS.
NEW YORK, August 29.
All the big British liners scheduled to sail to-day got away except the "Pannonia,
whose Bremen wilked out in sympathy with the pro-Irish strikers. Hundreds of longshoremen have returned to work and the only piers still deserted are those of the White Star Line.
HOW THE TŞAR DIED.
BRITISH CAPTAIN TALKS WITH "EXECUTED " MURDERER.
DELIBERATE SOVIET LIES.
LONDON, August 30.
A crop of new accounts of how the Tsar met his death has recently been appearing in the prominent papers. They mostly agree in the main features, but Captain Francis McCullagh, a British officer who recently returned from Siberia, where he lived in disguise in the last spring, has given Reuter's Agency fresh particulars, He states that in July of 1918 the Soviet Government approved the Tsar's trial and sentence. In September of 1919 the same Government announced in the official newpaper Franda that the Tear's murderer had been tried at Ferm and executed for this crime.
***SQUARE OF NATIONAL VENGEANCE.”
declaring that they regard the recent military disasters Poland as a great German defeat, and that Series Rumia bad no interest in the invasion of Poland or the Dantzig Corridor, but that response to the desires of Germans that they advanced along the East Prossian frontier for which the Bolsheviks are" now paring the penalty of their blind - con- fidence in German counsels.
WARSAW, August Bith. The Government communicates the text
of the declaration which was made by the Poles
at Minsk on August 19th, but the transmission of which was delayed.
The roles maintained that the war was imposed upon Poland by the action of the Soviets, which, after imposing a Soviet regime on White Lithuania and Ruthenis, territory with the clear object of marching advanced against ethnographic Polish towards Warsaw and imposing Societism on Feland. The Polish Republic was, therefore, compelled to resiac the Bolshevik invasion, and occupied the former Polish ferriwrits, not, with an imperialist object, kut ja view of tion End, the people's declaration.
the
right self-determina
It points out that the Poler never touch- ed really Russian soil, while the Sovieta, taking advantage of Poland's - weakness invaded purely. Polish territories, menaced Warsaw and issued proclamations-announc ing the introduction of a Soviet regime inia Poland, despite the protests of the Folos.
The declaration concludes by emphasis ing that Poland sincerely desires peace, un condition that there is no interference with ber internal affairs. She, herself, does not intend interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
PARIS, August 25th. A Havas message says:--- shevist forces between the Narew and East So desperate are the straits of the Bol.
russis that they can only choose between annihilation and capitulation. A rumour is current in Warsaw that the head of the Hissian aray in the North has entered pearparlers with General Sikorki for the capitulation of his entire force,
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The French Government has appointed M. de Martel High Commissioner with General Wrangel's (Government,......
Exchange of communications between the French Government and Lucerne took place yesterday. The text of the communi
issued at Lucerne on Monday having been officially transmitted to the French Foreign Office through the British “But
The bassy M. Müllerand replied French Government thanks the British and the Italian Governments for the countruni- cation made, and, is glad to note that there is nothing in the text which is bot in complete barmony with the ideas and principles for which it has always stood,”
In reply to personal telegram sent him from Lucerne by Mr. Lloyd George both in his wż name and on behalf of Signor Giolitti, K. Millerand yesterday telegraphed his thanks to the British Pre- wier, adding, "I am pleased that I shall soon have the opportunity of meeting Signor Giolitti as arranged and also ci seeing you again woon.””
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SOVIET ON TRIAL.
Losbos, August, 29th.... In an exhaustive report, with reference to the recent visit to Husain, the British Labour Delegation emphatically con tradicts the statement regarding the pre valence of crime, disorder and desthy from starvation. It declares that, althongh social equalisation is far from complete, giaring inequalities of fortune ca longer exist, and praises the systematic efforts made to improve the economic and social conditions of the people, but questions whether too heavy & price has not been
Captain McCullagh, however, states that he talked with the murderer in March last, who was then occupying a responsible position under the Soviet at Ekaterinburg. The man's name is different from that published i paid for the advantages.
in the Prando, but the Bolsheviks pointed him out as the Tsar's murderer. In pointing out that persons! freedom of This is confirmed by an important Soviet Government official, Efraim Efraimouy, head of the Russian Socialist Telegraph Agency. There is also other corroborative evidence of identification. The square opposite the house, where the murder was committed is now named "The Square of National Vengeance."
DESTRUCTIVE GERMINS..
BERLIN, August 30.
The employees of the Pintsch firm at Fuerstenwalde destroyed four seaplanes and 28 tmpedo-throwers which were to be delivered to the Allies,
'FRANCO-BELA AN ALLIANCE-
Faris, August 30,
The Journal publishes a message from Brussels stating that the Belgian Cabinet unanimously agreed to the Franco-Belgian treaty of alliance.
JAPANESE DIPLOMÁTISTS IN EUROPE
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peef and the freedom of the Press have been totally abolished, the Delegation believe attacks against Russia in the West will result in the spread of Bol sheyism in Persia and the East, SERIOUS OUTLOOK IN MESOPOTAMIA.
London, August 28tb.' A War Office communiqué regarding Mesopotamia reports the spread of the trouble to the Mian Tafik area. The situa tion in Bhatt el-Hai is reported to be critical, the Political Officer having left by aeroplane for Nasirio British troops encountered a strong band of bostile tribee men-south-east
of Billah - and drove it across the Euphrates Forty tribal han ners were counted
The opposition to the north east Bagdad is still strong. The Aistant Political Officer at Kifri has been captured by the Arch
The garzion at Qaraghan, thirsty miles south
of Kuri, which held out successfully against repeated attacks, has now › boun relieved,
The communiqué confirms the announce ment that the Bolsheviks in North-West Fergia havo assumed an offensive Forced the Cossacks to abandon Riebt; the latter losing hoay:
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