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No. 18.828 一拜望
號九十月三年三十二百九十一英
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RUHR INCIDENT.
FRENCH SOLDIER SHOT DEAD.
ESSEN, March 18.
A French soldier was shot dead at the Essen station. Four Germans have been arrested.
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Today's closing rate 2/3 9/16. To-day's opening rate 2/3 11/16.
FATE OF VILNA.
L.ON ACTION QUESTIONED.
FRENCH PREDOMINANCE SÜGESTED.
LONDON, March 18.
The Russian and Lithuanian Governments and' the East Galician delegation protested against the decision of the Ambassadors' Conference assigning Vilna and East Galicia to Poland as a fresh danger
The soldier, who was working in the station central-heating plant situated in the basement, was shot with a revolver from the street above through a ventilator. A French patrol rushed out and arresto European peace. The action of the League of ted three Germans found nearby and a fourth at- tempted to escape. The patrol fired wounding him in the head,
COAL TAX PAYMENT,
PARIS, March 18, A message from Duesseldorf states that the occupation authorities have granted the coalowners ⚫fill March 31 'to pay the coal tax due on January 10, 1922, but as a first penalty against the German in dustrialists who have not yet made any payment the tax has been fixed at the maximum.
Nations on this question furnishes an argument to those British editorial writers who oppose the latest French idea of achieving security against Germany, namely, the demilitarisation of the left bank of the Rhine under the auspices of the League which Lord Robert Cecil and a section of the British press support.
The opponents of this idea point out that the League protested most strongly when Zeligowski's. troops seized Vilna in October 1920, yet it has now acquiesced in the violation of its principles, REPORTED SABOTAGE ORGANISATION.
apparently as the result of French predominance DUESSELDORF, March 18.
in the councils of the League. They further recall. The French claim the discovery of documentary the Franco-Polish oil agreement recently ratified evidence of the existence of an organisation for the by the French Chamber which gives French com sabotage of telegraphs and telephones in the Dues-Panics.control of fifty per cent of the oil wells and seldorf region. A mai said to be the head thereof 75 per cent of the refining factories in Galicia, has been arrested.
The announcement of the Ambassadors' decisión RAILWAY COLLISION REPORT.
in the Polish Dict occasioned tumultuous scenes PARIS, March 18,
ending in all the Ruthenian deputies marching out A semi-official statement from Duesseldorf
after the forcible ejection of their spokesman. denies the Berlin report of a fatal railway collision at Friemersheim on March 17.
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE.
CONGRESS IN ROME.
ROME,, March 18. Signor Mussolini, welcoming the second con- gress of the international Chamber of Commerce at which 32 nations were represented favoured state renunciation of economic functions, especially those of a monopolistic character. Governments should give free play to private enterprise and remove "war harness" i.c. state control. The Premier declared faith in capitalism and indicated that out- standing-failure of the contrary policy afforded by Russia. The President of Chamber announced that his successor was Mr. Willis H. Booth, vice President of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
AMERICA'S RHINE BILL..
ALLIED PROPOSAL REJECTED.
COLOGNE SHOOTING SENSATION. SEPARATIST LEADER, ATTACKED.
COLOGNE, March 18,
A sensational attempt was made last night to murder Joseph Smeets, Editor of the Rheinische the Rhineland, separatist movements. A young Republik who is associated with Doctor Dorten in man obtained entrance to Smeets' house on the pretext of desiring an interview and immediately fired with an automatic pistol wounding Smeets dangerously in the head and killing his brotheria- law. The murderer escape and a reward of a million marks is offered for his apprehension. Smeets was last year sentenced to 3 years imprison- ment for high treason but the senterice was quashed at the instance of the French authorities.
UNITED STATES-PRESIDENCY.
HARDING'S RE-NOMINATION PREDICTED,
NEW YORK, March 18,
A statement from Miami (Florida) wherein ing would be a candidate for re-election to the Attorney-General Daugherty said President Hard-
WASHINGTON, March 18. The State Department has forwarded to Paris the American Government's reply to the Allied Presidency in 1924 is generally accepted as the suggestions for the repayment of $250,000,000 the cost of maintaining the American troops on the Rhine. It is understood that it declines to deduct the value of seized German ships but does not constitute a llafrejection of Allied plans.
WORLD TENNIS.
CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS,
first authoritative announcement of the President's plans, Attorney-General Daugherty, who is a close. personal and political associate of the President, krediéted that the enforcement of the taxation law and foreign policy would be the leading issues of, the Republican campaign.
OIL IN VENEZUELA,
SAID TO BE RECORD YIELD.
NICE, March 18. The results of the finals of the Lawn Tennis Championships are:-Ladios' singles, Mile. Lenglen beat Miss Ryan 6-1, 6-0; doubles, Mile. Lenglen and Miss Ryan beat Miss McKane and Mrs. Lambert
NEW ORLEANS, March 18. Chambers 6-4, 6-2; mixed doubles, Miss Ryan and
The Venezuelan consul has received a telegram Lycett beat Beamish and Mrs. Dudley 6-0, 6-4. Men's that an oilfield yielding 120,000 barrels daily-has singles, Lowe beat Lycett 9-7, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; men's been discovered at Latoa near Maracaily, Venezuela. doubles, Leighton Crawford and Wallis Myers beat It is stated to be the biggest yield of any well in the Lowe and Lycett 6-4, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.
TROPICAL MEDICINE.
CONGRESS AT SINGAPORE.
world.
LES MISERABLES."
VICTOR HUGO'S CLASSIC FILMED,
The membership of the Associa tion is open to the members of all inly constituted, regularly organised medical societies within. Dr. J. W. Scharff, hon secretary all medical officials in the civil, the field of the organisation, and and treasurer of the Far Eastern military; naval, or other organised Association of Tropical Medicine services of Governments withinLes Miserables" in 1861, he said; When Victor Hugo finished sends us a copy of a pamphlet is their territories. Sued for the fifth Congress of the
"Dante made a hell with poetry, I Association, which opens in Sing Singapore on Monday, September
The fifth congress opens in have tried to make one with apore on September3next.
Malaya.
The object of the Association id 3. The period from September reality," How well.he succeeded; to promote the science and art of 3 to September 8 will be devot- is abundantly evident in the screen tropical medicine in the Far East.ed to the scientific part of the Con-dramatization of the great master's For this purpose it endeavours to gress, and the period from Septem work, in which William Fox unite into one compact organisevents and excursions throughout presents his eminent star William berg to September 17 to social ation the medical profession of the Far East; for the growth the diffu-
Farnum as Jean Valjean. The first sion of medical knowledge; to pro-
It is the wish of the scientific showing here will take place on Wednesday at the World Theatre. more friendly international inter committee that the term Tropical In staging the monumental story course among physicians; to elevate Medicine" shall not be interpreted everything was done to preserve the standard of medical education; in its narrow sense to the exclusion the scope and tremendous effect to enlighten and direct public of many of the more interesting of the original. It is said that opinion in regard to the problem of problems in Far Eastern medicine Victor Hugo himself, were the hygiene; to form habits which may and surgery.
conduce to the prevention of The pamphlet which gives full discasc among the native populs, information regarding the Con- tion; and to present to the rld greas is distributed free of charge the results of such scientific to any medical practitioner in observations,
terested in the association,
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It was staged in America w what He declared to be perfect French and Parisian atmosphere.
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