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GENERAL REVOLT.
SEQUEL TO RELIGIOUS LAWS.
FIFTY ARRESTS.
Mexico City. August 17.
QUEER REQUEST.
EGYPTIAN DIPLOMATS TO REFUND, EXPENSES.
PARLIAMENT'S DECISION.
Cairo, Aug. 17. Fer the third time this year ques-!
1+ is uncleially suggested that Parliament bus adopted tions relating to Germany's entry into League of Nations will be up-the forre mentioned on August 15motion that Ziwar Pasha and hermod at the "September meeting was part gia erneinl revolutionary i Ahmed Zulficar Pasha. ex-Minis-
ters in Rome, each refund £500) of Council and Assembly which invement genasequence will be invested with According to Pdie is paid to them for travelling" ex-
fully have been, planned, in the Purbla. jan importance which
Morelos, Miena.an, Judise, peugnised here. Germany's application for member-Chinahua States and the Federal ship was first considered at the District of Mexico City. alarch meeting of the longer when Fifty arrests have been nude in hitch recurred owing to claims byexico City in rünnection with an Spain. Brazil, and Poland to receive alleged abortive plot and wide on the Council readerisings on August 15 against permearn seats
the Government's religious policy simultaneously
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penses when they were appointed and afterward. sanctioned re- trospectively by Ziwar Pasha when he was Finance Minister. Others may be requested to re- fund similar payments. Reuter. LA Faire cable of August 18 stated: The wholesale abolition of Egyptian Legations and Con sulates abroad has been voted by The whole question, of the com.
A San The cable published Parlament s a measure of jposition of the Foureil was as the
economy. Spain, Sweden, Swit- Juntcome referred to a special Com-Testerday stated:The American! mitter of representatives of Bfteen authorities have arrested and inzerland, Brazil, Belgium, Holland, ¡prisoned 150 men, mobilised three (zecho-Slovakia and Roumania miles on this site of the Mexican are affected hereby. The Foreign hers of the Council and many rentier, under command G Minister opposed the abolition of
The Committee's interim report,! whted hud Previved a unanimous Enrique Estrade, Mexican the Spanish Legation, but the Chairman of the Parliamentary, drst reading and was later present Secretary of War, when on ed to the Coarit, approved of the point of making an insurgent de commission, which proposed the brent on thwn across the bonde.
whole matter, said this was so-called "Cecil" plan for the cren-
agreed to by the Minissers.] · Man ar nie temperary membera, The captured inclfde Estrada and his staff. The authorities also of whom throw should retire eagh!
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armoured track, tw one-ton trucki tion for a period of three years loads of amnisation and lorries) subjeft to a proviso that by a twofa transporting the revolution-!
GREECE MAKES UP WITH thirds majority of the Assembly
countries including all the mem!
the"
not more than three Powers could ries: also documents giving com-) be deglared eligible for a further Pigte plans of their projected in-
surrection. period.
The effect would be to create three semi permanent seats, which would, be filled by the vote of the Assembly,
Spain's Claim.
METAL "TRUST.
FRANCE AND BELGIUM HANG BACK.
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Paris. August 17. newspapers declare that
YUGO SLAVIA,
FOUR CONVENTIONS.
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Balkan--horizon-.........
Spain had agreed to this plan on the anderstanding that her claim to a permanent seat should not be jeopardised, and the question of permanent seats was to have been dealt with at a further meeting of the Committee in June. No such meeting was held, as it was thought negotiations for the formation of which has completely obscured the Other Conventions Are being that it could only register dissen-Metal Trust have not led to as
rupture but France and Belgiimerotiated with. sion on the main problem, but the have asked time to reconsider the Bulgaria, the whole of which spay Albania and
gether was at the June" meeting of question of signing an agreement istify a hope that the time is not the Council left to the Presidents until September 17.
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distant for the conclusion of a pact between the Balkan States.-Reuter.
EMPTY COFFIN.
MORE ABOUT KITCHENER MYTH.
London August 17.. The journalist, Frank Power. who for some montha has been ex- ploiting the story in a Sunday Berlin, August 17. The reports from Paris that the newspaper of Kitchener's fate after the torpedoing of the "Hampshire" Metal Trust negotiations have broken down are denied. It is off the North of Scotland during The present position is Brazil has announced her resigna- declared that the French and Bel-the war, recently went to Norway, several of the "Hampshire" crew tion from League and Spain has gian delegates reserved their deal-where he declared the bodies of indicated that she will not submit sion as regarde the signing of an were washed ashore and buried.
He returned with a case enclosin herself for re-election as a tem- agreement until September 17.
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Quoting precedents, the Japan Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors. blems and those of European recon- do not propose to re-open the struction which will come before it negotiations because they consider ese Government protests and de- -British Wireless Service.
that the quota question has been definitely settled in a manner doing justice to all parties.-Reuter.
COTTON INDUSTRY.
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KOREAN PLOT.
OFFICIAL DENIAL OF REPORT.
Tokyo, Aug. 17.
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