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POPE'S CONTRIBUTKÖY,
Ru, September 20. The first traius bringing children from Samana am Saratov have arrived at Gomel in White Bussis.
According to a Moscow wireless message, three steamers are ready to leave Petrograd for Europe with cargoes of asbestos and Limber.
The Soviet press states that Mr. Gilman, representative of the United States tailors union has arrived in Moscow with half a million dollars collected in America for starving Russia,
GENETA, September 21.
The Pope has subscribed a million fire to the International Red Cross for famine relief in Russia.
IMMENSE CLOUDS OF LOCUSTS.
Brda, September 21.
The Russian famine has aggravated immense doads of locusts in the Orenburg district which are rapidly moving and devouting vegetables..
JOURNALISTS DIARY.
SIR HENRY LUCY TELLS PALES.
Sit Henry Leeyis pablishing in the traordinary "Diary of a Journalist." Cornhill some chapters from his ex-
Here are two of his tales:
"I hear of a care, that cariously illustrates one of the bypaths of the Statute Book. known in London Society, reaching A gentleman, well home after attending a first night at one of the theatres, discovered that pocket. his watch had been picked from his He communicated with Scotland Yard, and, nothing coming of its intervention, resolved to take the matter into his own hands. He circulated London newspaper, record- inserted an advertisement in a widely
ing the loss of his watch, offering a
The Children's homes in Orenburg are overcrowded with waifs aban-reward for its recovery, adding no doned by despairing parents.
questions will be asked.!!
The 17,000 inhabitants of Samars have evacuated the town for a more
TRE COMMON INFORMER.. fertile district.
"Pleased at his own astuteness, he Disaster overtook a steamer bound for Archangetak An entire cago in due time received one, but not from confidently" awaited response, and of grain was lost in the Kara ses. The only bright spot is the arrival in the quarter expected. 3552
The com- Petrograd of the first German relief steamer with a cargo of medical supplies.munication, dated from a well-known Cub, drew the advertiser's attention
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BRITAIN'S STRONG NOTE TO MOSCOW.
LONDON, September 20.
to the fact that by the terms of its proposal he had been guilty of com- pounding a felony; the Statute pro- vided that its pensi clauses might be put in operation at the instance of the comman informer, who was to be re- warded with payment of The writer admitted that he was
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Whilst see the conclusion of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement the British Government has loyally kept its pledge to abstain from offensive action against the Russian Soviet Government, the latter immediately after signature intensified its campaign of falsehood and hostility against Britain trouble and expense in the Law throughout Central Asia and Afghanistan. The British Govemment possesses Courts. convincing proofs of such campaign, and is resolved not to tolerate it further. Consequently it has despatched to Moscow & strong sote drawing attention to serious breaches of faith and demanding an explanato
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There was no-use kicking against the pricks. The advertiser, taking fegal Elvis, "thand the common in former's position was impregnable. The enterprising student of the ad- and paid the fine. Nor was this all.
vertising columns made a similar com- munication to the proprietor of the been published, pointing out that he newspaper in which the notice had was equally liable, and demanding a Accord £50. This is not yet forthcom- g, but the conclusion of the matter
Britain's note to Kassia is packed with specific instances of the Soviet's violation of the trade agreement in India, Persia, Turkestan, Angora, and Afghanistan with the avowed object of creating dissension in the British colonies and India. The note draws attention to the continued activity of the Tashkent propaganda school which is still training and supplying money to Indians. The note dwells especially on the Russo-Afghan treaty which a Soviet oficial declared was an instrument to guarantee friendly re- lations with a state whose territory was an important channel whereby the communist international maintains direct contact with India. The note at traced by the address given, and taches significance to the fact that the treaty involves Russia in the payment was discovered in the person of a of a large subsidy to Afghanistan and the establishment of so-called consuls in waiter at the Club,
He districts where there are no economic reasons to justify the opening of con-promptly dismissed, but will have the
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VILNA. PROBLEM
LEAGUE COUNCIL ACCEPTS REVISED SETTLEMENT.
GENEVA, September 20:
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A FAMILY HEIRLOOK.
was
"An interesting relic of the Corona- tion of Queen Victoria is still in existence. After the seringa in Westminster Abbey preached by the Bishop of Lanion, the Coronation Oath was administered by the Arth- 3. Hymans' painstaking efforts to solve the very thorny problem of bishop of Canterbury.
The girl Vilca were rewarded when the League Council, presided over by Mr. Welling. Queen, walking to the alter, knelt on ton Koo, unanimously accepted his revised settlement of the Polish and laying her right hand on a great the cushion placed on the steps. Lithuanian dispute which will now be submitted to the Assembly. The Bible opened at the Gospels. The Bettlement provides for the creation of an autonomous canton at Vila things which I have before promis where the Polish element is strongest within the Lithuanian state, also a ed I will perform and keep; Polish and Lithuanian defensive military agreement. When the Polish and 50
help me, God," 60 she Lithuanian Governments have ratified the settlement it will be submitted for spoil after the ceremony, this Bible gwore. The Bishops dividing the the approval of representatives of the population of Vilna.
KILLED BY MEXICANS.
AMERICAN SUBJECT'S DEATH.
WASHINGTON, September 21.
The American Consul at Tampico reports that Carl Tabb, an American employee of the Mexican Petroleum Company has been shot dead by
Mexicans.
HIG DUTCH DEFICIT.
GOVERNMENT INTRODUCING ECONOMY MEASURES.
THE HAGUE, September 21. The Budget 1922 estimates show a deficit of 48 millions which the government proposes to meet by temporarily abolishing amortization services of certain loans and by modifications of property and stamp taxes. The Government has decided to curb legislation involving additional expenditure and introduce cconomy in the pub administration St
fell to the lot of the Bishop of Win- chester. It became a family heirloom, and is now in the possession of the Rev. J. H. Sumner, Rector of Buri- ton, Hants.
CORONATION, PERQUILITES. Evidence has been given before the Court of flairs of some of the personages taking part in the Corona- perquisites demanded by the principal
tion ceremony: There is, in effect, a regular scramble. The Archbishop of Canterbury, for fee, carnes of the purple velvet chair, cushion, and foot stool set for his occupation during the Coronation. The Dean and Chapter of Westminster, amongst other things, claim the cloth on which the door of the church. The Lord Great Sovereign walks on entering the west
Chamberlam not only takes up the King's bed and walks, but claims the bedding and the fumiture of the chamber where His Majesty lay the night before the Coronation with his (or her), wearing apparel and might gown. As recently as the reign of James II. the Master of the Horse was PREMIER UNDERTAKES 8ETTLEMENT HIMSELF.
permitted to loot the King's table at the Coronation Banquet of all the PARIS, September 20.
silver dishes and plates served therest. Most of these time-honoured pickings The manufacturers and the workmen's delegates each had private and stealings have been abolished o interview with the French Premier who has taken in bad person the compromised. "Bat the muscitation settlement of the textile industry dispute, Bolution of the
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