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· [Three of the“ Mossamede s” hosts have arrived"
at Port Alexander The number of the occupants" has not yet been sacermined?^
[The Portuguese mail steamer "Mossamedes” was found stranded on Cape Frio, Portuguese West Africa, her boats missing, with the 237 souls aboard, including 29 women and 35 children. A heavy sea was running at the time. The Union Government Whitsuntide recess requested the police in South West Africa, to send when his medical an expedition to the uninhabited coast as the boats advisers assure him might possibly put in to Great Fish Bay or Port he has every pro Alexander.). spect of having his voice completely restored. '
[Mr. Bonar Law's health became so poor that it was freely rumoured he intended resigning. That report was,
denied last week.]
Andrew Bonar Law however, officially-
PEACE AT LAST?
IRISH REBELS' LATEST MOVE.
OFFENSIVE SUSPENDED.
LONDON, April 28. The Irish Republican General Headquarters tonight ordered general suspension of hostilities.
LATER.
The Headquarters ordered the suspension: of offensive operations from April 30 but instructed the troops to remain on the defensive, taking adequate measures to defend themselves and their munitions:
LATERA
GLOOMY RUHR OUTLOOK.
NATIONAL HONOUR ISSUE · RAISED.
BOTH SIDES STILL OBSTINATE. --
LONDON, April 27.
A message from Duesseldorf states that the re- cent recrudescence of sabotage coincides with rumours of forthcoming German 'reparation offers, but according to a Paris report, which is confirmed by high authority, the French Government is main- taining its determination not to consider any Ger- man offer until the German Government has official- ly completely renounced passive resistance.
MEDIATION COMING?
ROME, April 17.
Signor Mussolini, at a meeting of the Cabinet, referred to the Ruhr. He discussed the possibility of the receipt of a new German note which might lead to extensive allied diplomatic action.
NEW YORK, April 27.
Lord Robert Cecil, in the concluding address of his American tour, hoped some great power would ask the League of Nations to intervene in the Ruhr, GERMAN SECURITY. POLIGE
BERLIN, April 27-1
De Valera has issued a separate proclamation
An allied note to Germany rejects the proposals, announcing his readiness to negotiate peace on the regarding the feorganisation of the German security s basis that the Irish people should decide the disput-police and demands that the organisation of the ed questions of expediency of policy and that both police on military lines shall cease and the force be parties should submit to the nationat verdict.
made really of civilian character.
PRINCE'S BELGIAN MISSION.
RECORDING OUR GRATITUDE.
LONDON, April 27.
The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Earl Haig and Vice-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey left Victoria Station this morning for Dover where he embarked on the light cruiser "Caledon" for Zeebrugge en route to Brussels, where he will be the guest of the King.
PARIS, April 27.
A French message from Duesseldorf declares. that the German Gove ament persists in its efforts to replace the police expelled from the Ruhr. Two- hundred police were recently sent from Berlin to v Quenster, thence to the Recklinchausen district. Several, when arrested, admitted they were agents provocateurs.
LADY DOCTOR'S HEROISM.
KING'S PROMPT TRIBUTE.
SIMLA, April 37. The King has approved the award of the The Prince will hand over to Belgium a monn-Kaiser-in-Hind Gold Medal to Mrs. Starr for helping ment commemorating. British gratitude for the to rescue Miss Ellis. kenerous hospitality of -Belgium to British soldiers and prisoners wounded during the war.
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PACIFIC COAST NEEDS..
LONDON, April 27, Mr. Buckley, of the Overseas Trade" Depart-" ment, speaking at Birmingham, said we must con- centrate attention on the Pacific Coast as an im- portant fink in the chain of Empire. Consequently he was sending a trade commissioner to Vancouver in addition to the new commissioners in India. He hoped also to increase the South American services
MEXICO'S OIL LANDS.
FOREIGN INTERESTS...
MEXICO CITY, April 27 The Chamber has approved the oil law designed to meet foreign protests against the alleged confiscatory interpretation of the constitution.
The most important provision of the law confirms the petroleum concessions lawfully secured before June 1917.
LEADING GERMAN BANK.
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The Viceroy has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for India expressing the King's horror at the brutal crime at Kohat and paying a tribute to Mrs. Starr's heroisin..
[Mrs. Starr is the lady doctor who went into, the wild border country to rescue Miss Ellis, 15 years old, who was kidnapped by Afridi raiders when they murdered her mother, wife of the district staff officer.]
ESSENTIAL FOR PEACE.
WORLD COURT
WASHINGTON, April 27. Mr. Hughes, the Secretary of State, addressing the American International Law Society, vigorously supported President Harding's plea for the partici- pation of the United States in the permanens Court of Justice, declaring that no plan for peace could dispense with such a court.
Furthermore the United States actually needed such a trital for disposing of its own controversies with other nations. *****
sident's efforts to secure America's participation in The Senate has hitherto rejected the Pre- the Court: His opponents assert that it means entry into the League]
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M. Vorowsky, the Russian Soyic ative at Rome and one of the former Russian delegation to I
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