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COAL CRISIS.
NEW TERMS FROM THE OWNERS.
LOCAL CONFERENCE.
Rugby, July 31.
CAULK FOR LEAK.
TO PREVENT FRENCH SHIP SINKING.
POINCARE SIMILE.
Paris, July 31.
GERMAN ORIGIN."
POISONOUS BOOTLEG
LIQUOR.
TEN ARRESTS MADE.
Toronto, July 31.
Ten men have been arrested in The Chamber of Deputies by 880 charges of manslaughter in connec- The next phase in the soal dis püte will be the holding of toral votes to 150 passed a vote of con- tion with the deaths ir Ontario is delegate ronferences of nipers dur-fidence in the Government on the result of poisonous bootleg ing the coming week, te dreide motion to proceed with the discus liquor.
Police investigationa indicate or against ratifle_on of the pro-ion of the Finance Bill posals for settlement drawn up by The Socialists opposed the motion that the liquor is of Gorman origin the executive in conjunction with on the ground that the present Bill and was introduced into Canada via the, Church lenders.
would in no way suffice to restore, Buffnio.--Router.
Proposals Adopted.
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As already stated, the National the financial situation,
Previous Cables. Delegate Conference, sitting in M. Poincare, Premier and Fini Minister. Bald thuk the
Toronto, July 26. London yesterday, referred those ance
Was in the
There were fourteen deaths in! proposals to the districts and re- present Bl
for caulk ture of
leak Ontario over the week-end from commended their acceptance,
Four have. The labour correspondent of the to prevent the ship from sinking alcoholic poisoning. Times" says that assuming that He foreshadowed further steps to been sent to hospital including two the proposals as endorsed in the create a Sinking Fund, involving a sixteen-year-old girls. The police! districts, the executive will be nu-grenter fiscal affort.-Reuter.
are investigating ether sudden deaths in West Ontario. thorised to negotiate with them as
Paris, July 31. Indications point to the importa- In this connection, he ja basis.
The Chamber of Deputies adopt-tion of the poisonous liquor through cites comment on yesterday's con- |ferences-made, by one of the execu-ed, the new financial proposals, by Buffalo. where deaths have occur
9 to 158, including the article in-red under similar circumstances, tives who said:
the remuneration 01 A message from Buffalo says that! "The delegates discussed the pro- erwasing posals as though they represented] Senators and Deputies from 27.000 the shops of twenty soft drink re- the conditions of peace that coull francs to 45.000 francs per an-tailers have been closed following the deaths of thirteen of their patrons owing to wood alecholl poisoning.
Question of Confidence.
be had for the asking, whereas we num.-Reuter. know the Government will not we cept them, and we can guess that; the owners certainly will not."
Paris, July 31. The Chamber of Deputies polish- The police are of opinion that Toronto. out of the sixteen recent deaths in The correspondent said that the ed-off twenty-seven executive itself has no illusions on twenty-nine articles of the Finance and other Canadian towns are duel ilube subject. It has already con-Bill in four hours. Only two gave to drinking liquor smuggled across
sidered what steps it will take when rise to a division, one imposing the frontier from Buffalo.
has cbtained authority to pro-fresh taxation of Jiquors, the other police are co-operating with Cana- dian officials in an attempt to locate ceed. The present intention. is not revising the succession of duties.
M. Poineare made their adoption the manufacturers. to go either to the Government or
Buffalo, July 27. to the owners, but to appeal again a question of confidence whereupon
The District Attorney his direct- Its the Church leaders to prepare they were carried by subatantial
the way for negotiations. The majorities.
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Tokyo, August 1.
ZIONIST DEAD.
MR ISRAEL ZANGWILL.
London, August 1.
The denth has occurred of Mr.
The Pan-Asiatic Congress opened Israel Zangwill the well-known this afternoon at Nagasaki, fifty Zionist and author at the age of delegates from Japan, China, India 62 years,Reuter. and the Philippines attending..
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'QUAKE SHOCKS.
CHANNEL ISLANDERS
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CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE.
Rugby, July 81.
An earthquake, which was felt in the Channel Islands yesterday afternoon was of some severity. Houses in Saint Helier and other places rocked for several seconds, and a tidal wave was formed round the coasts. The tremor caused considerable alarm in Jer- sey Guernsey, and Alderney. Goods fell from the shelves of shops, whilst in houses pictures and ornaments were shaken from their places on to the floor.
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Mr. Israel Zangwill was born in and other places, and on this side Except the Chinese delegate, who attacked Britain's imperialism, the London in 1864, and was practically of the Channel at Bournemouth Dentist. speeches, did not contain anything self-educated, graduating B.A. with and elsewhere in Hampshire and
but generalities. urging the Asiatic honours. He became a teacher and Dorsetshire. British Wireless HARRY FONG, Dentist, race to protect their own interests, then a journalist. He edited Ariel; Service, -Reuter
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FRENCH FRANCS,
QUOTED AT 200 IN LONDON.
London, July 31.
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PUBLIC HEALTH.
INVENTION OF A FRENCH PHYSICIAN.
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