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PEAK WATER.
PUMPING FACILITIES ARE ADEQUATE.
REASON FOR WARNING.
With regard to the request of the water authorities that Peak residents should eliminate waste in the consumption of water, it is understood that this has no reference to the pumping facili- ties,
VIENNA REVOLT.
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Food trains are running.
The Government is said to be drafting in loyal troops, partieu-| larly from the Tyrol, In view of reports that workers armed with weapons taken from the arsenal, are marching on the capital.
There is no confirmation of the report that part of the Viennese garrison mutinted,
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MENIN ROAD.
UNVEILING OF A BRITISH MEMORIAL.
RELATIVES TO ATTEND.
"Rugby, July 17.
Many thousands of relatives and friends of British soldiers killed on the Menin Road during the Great| War will attend next Sunday when an impressive memorial-the Menin Gate which has been erected to A sensational story that Italy designs of Sir Reginald Blomfield, The engine which was badly had sent an ultimatum to Austria will be unveiled by Lord Plumer. damaged in the Pokfulam pump that unless Italian trains were al- The gate, which is surmounted by ing station disaster a year ago loved to pass through Austria to a British Lion. looks towards the has been reassembled and is now Germany the Italian railway staff Ypres Salient, and is a memorial to successfully operating, the and troops would force them 56,000 officers and men who died pumping facilities being suffi- through, is discounted by a Rome there and have no known graves. Elent to cope with the Peak sup-report that provisions and mer- chandise from Italy destined for pb.
Germany will be diverted through Chiasso.-Reuter.
Refugees.
The request for economy was merely as a result of the con sumption on the Peak having been very high recently with the result that low pressure tricts were suffering.
Budapest, July 17. Refugees from Burgenland are dis-flocking into Hungary, where the
WHY HE FLED.
STARTLING STATEMENT BY CHINESE.
"According to a statement he made to the police he came here because he had murdered a mani in the country !"
authorities are taking precaution against the spread of disorder from Austria.-Reuter.
Berne, July 17.
The Central Committee of the
Swiss Socialist Party has tele- graphed sympathy to the Austrian socialists in their fight.-Reuter.
The Secretary for War will take part in the ceremony, at which the King of the Belglans will offer his country's tribute in person, Bri- tish Wireless Service.
VISITING LONDON.
PRESIDENT OF AN AFRICAN REPUBLIC.
Rugby, July 17. The Dresident of the Republic of Liberia, which is one of two in- dependent States of Africa govern- ed by people of African descent, will arrive in London to-morrow and will receive an official welcome. On Friday His Excellency will be received by the King at Bucking- ham Palace in the morning. He telegram received by the Austrian will lunch at the Foreign Office and Minister. stating that order has will attend a Royal garden party in been restored, the police had the
the afternoon.-British situation completely in hand and Service. all possible precautions had been
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London, July 17. The only positive information received in London direct from This startling statement was Vienna yesterday was an official made to Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning by Inspector Grant with regard to a Chinese youth who was charged with the theft of a bex containing 11 pieces of female
lothing worth $30.
The accused admitted the theft.
taken to prevent further distur
bances.
were
Other official 'assurances received in Paris that the "General strike," was not general and the Government was in no danger.
Sergeant Whant said that the property was stolen from No. 124
On the contrary Vienna is still Second Street, West Point. The accused who had recently come isolated telephonically, telegraphi from the country lived there with cally and by train. Some well in-
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Honolulu, July 18.
At the Pacific Relations Confer-
a telegram from President
Coolidge was read hoping that
a clansman. When no one was formed quarters believe the revolt ence about, the accused helped himself has Communist origin and direc- to the property and walked out. tion, but at present the real facts true friendship between the na He took the things to Hunghom are not fully known.
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The accused, a native of Sankui village, Sanon district, said he was new from the country and did not know local regulations.
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The City Council has decided to among the extremists not only constitute an armed police force with Dr. Seipel's Rightist Govern- from members of the Republican ment, but among the Social De- Twenty-six Chinese were ar Schutzhund. In the meanwhile mocrats, who formed a powerful rested by the Wanchai police only the possessors of special per- Opposition which
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The latter, however, organised When the case was called be- The sale of alcohol has been
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Many buildings bear scars re-an attempted coup with startling morning, three of the men, all of
The swiftness, taking as their signal whom were on bail, failed to an-ceived during Friday's riota. swer their names, and their bail hospitals are full of the hundreds the acquittal of three anti-Social- of wounded. Motorcars are being ists accused of shooting at the crowd during a Socialist demon- of $5 each was estreated.
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Paris, July 16. The Cabinet is at present con- referring with the Social Democrats According to information ceived in official circles here the to secure a united front against Mr. Lindeell fined, the 22 Government in Vienna is now mas- the rebels, but the outcome is pro- gamblers $3 each. He fined the ter of the situation.
blematical, whilst the authorities' keeper $50, or in default, four It is stated that the Socialists are difficulties are accentuated by the; weeks' jail.
negotiating with the rioters with a severe pruning of the Army under "Pai Kow" dominoes and $8.05 view to the restoration of order, the Peace Treaty-Reuter Position Mastered. which were seized on the premises Reuter.
Bratislava, July 16. were confiscated.
The latest news from Vienna reports that 12 persons were killed and 115 injured the majority being
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Berlin, July 16. A message from Vienna states Five Sikhs were this morn- that the police yesterday evening
ing charged before Major C. succeeded in driving back the riot policemen.
At the end of the day strong Willson
with assaulting two ers towards the suburds. other Sikhs in Queen's Road A battalion of infantry with patrols of mounted foot police dia- and restored Central. Sub-Inspector Carey machine-guns is guarding Parlia-persed the crowds
order. 8.30a.m. informed the Magistrate that ment building. There is complete Troops now occupy the squares the two complainants were still calm in Austria outside Vienna.in front of Parliament Buildings
in hospital, and asked for a week's formal remand, was granted.
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Paris, July 18. A message from Vienna states that a general strike was proclaim Lieut. G. F. Dent, D.C.M., of ed yesterday evening.. the 2nd Battalion the Welch. It is officially reported that 12 Regiment, had a narrow escape people were killed and 120 injured, 9.30 p.m. shortly after last night's thun- but it is generally believed that the derstorm. He was returning to casualties were much greater,- his mess from the U.S.R.C. Reuter.
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Railwaymen Strike
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[Infuriated by the acquittal of three Nationalists charged with killing two Socialista, a mob of Socialists in Vienna got completely
4.30 p.m. Recreation Club by ricsha when Communications Cut. 8.80 a.m. the coolie slipped and precipit Telephonic and telegraphic com-out of hand. After storming the ated his passenger into the munication between Vienna, Berlin, Law Courts, they started crectlug K.C.C. grounds a drop of fully Prague and Budapest has been in- barricades in the streets, and the twolve feet. The coolie and terrupted since six o'clock in the wildest disturbances followed, with ricsha followed, the ricsha being evening-Reuter. damaged and the officer and 2.30 p.m. coolie suffering somewhat from
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