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CLOSE OF CATHOLIC THE EVACUATION OF SOVIET AND MODERN
CONGRESS.
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NOTABLE SCENES.
GILDED & DECORATED STEAMER
AT. SYDNEY.
THE PAPAL COLOURS.
Sydney, Yesterday.
RHINELAND.
BANKERS' VIEWS.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT AND INTER-DEPENDENCE.
REPARATIONS.
Berlin, Yesterday.
At the opening of the Congress
WARFARE.
NOVEL METHODS.
INTERESTING THE POPULACE IN ARMY, MANOEUVRES.
CONCERTS, PLAYS, ETC.
Riga, Yesterday, Magnificent scenes concluded)
Remarkable arrangements were, the Eucharistic Congress. Car- of Bankers at Cologne, Dr. made by the Soviet authorities to dinal Cerretti in the afternoon, Curtius, the German Minister in interest the population in the carrying the monstrance contain a "national economy" statement Russian Army manœuvres now ing the Host and accompanied by with regard to the German de-being carried out in the Kiev dis a brilliant galaxy of Chamber-mand for the speedy evacuation triet.
lains, proceeded to Manly wharf of the Rhineland, said: "The The people will be instructed at and boarded a gilded and decorat- other side suggested negotiations a given signal, to carry out pres- ed steamer upon which huge over the reparations question. cribed precautions against gas crosses and a magnificent altar. We do not recognise inter-depen-attack, such as the donning of had been erected.
dence in our demand for evacua-gas masks and the going under-
A party of Australian Victoria tion and the revision of our ground lecturers, singers and Cross men carried a canopy of ex-financial obligations, and we know actors are distributed in the "war quiste workmanship and pro- the Rhineland itself repudiates area" to give concerts, plays, etc., fusely studded with sparkling the purchase of evacuation." of a warlike nature between the jewels above the Host.
Dr. Curtius emphasised, how battles and street demonstra-1 The Papal steamer was follow ever, that the German Govern- tions. War films are also being ed by a sister ship carrying a ment was ready to negotiate as utilised. thousand men in brilliant blue to reparations. Reuter. uniforms, then followed a flotilla
British Attitude.
The armies participating in these manouvres have received a of other steamers with membersi The German Chancellor, Herr declaration from factory workers of the Congress, all flying the Muller, accompanied by Herr Von "we are following your activities. Papal colours.
Schubert, Under Secretary at the Remember at a given moment:
The steamers made a proces- Wilhelmstrasse, yesterday had a We are ready to take up arms Bion to the harbour heads where conversation at Genova with Lord with you against the capitalists." Cardinal Cerretti uttered a bene-Cuahendun Acting Foreign Secre- A Turkestan division is. parti- Į diction to the "Oceans of the tary. It is understood that views cipating in similar manoeuvres in World," then to the quayward were exchanged with regarding to the Leningrad area-Reuter. whence a huge procession went to the question of the Rhineland the cathedral through densely evacuation, on which subject Lord packed streets.
Cushendun explained the British The celebration of the Sacra Government's attitude. Press re- ment and the benediction by Car-! dinal Cerretti concluded the Con- gress-Reuter.
GRIM JEST !
COFFIN AS WEDDING PRESENT.
"HAPPY LIFE" CLUB.
Vienna,--A 'grim feat by mem-
was the occasion of an libel action, heard in the
unusual
ports from Geneva state that a meeting is contemplated of the re- A presentatives of governments inter- ested in the Rhineland-British Wireless Sérvice.
AN AGREEMENT.
BETWEEN BRITISH AND FRENCH NAVIES.
London, Saturday. The London newspapers assert
THE MARNE.
TRAGEDY” OF COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING,
GERMAN VIEWS.
Berlin-To all that has been written on the Battle of the Marne is how added an account, in four volumes, of Germany's official history of the battle. It may be taken to express fully and finally the German point of view.
bers of the "Happy Life" Club that owing to America's objec-. In the summing up, the Ger man command is criticised with tion, the British Government has frankness. The saddest charac- Courts recently, when it was des- Anglo-French Naval Agreement, the writer finds, is that one can Graz decided to drop the proposed teristic of the whole "tragedy," cribed how a young wife was hor
Official Denial,
describe the entire battle without rified shortly after marriage to find;
Later.
80 much as mentioning the a coffin standing at her door. ‹
Official quarters declare founda-
Supreme Command. The respon- Herr Georg. Dahn belonged to tionless the newspaper reports sibility for defeat is unburdened the club, the wealthy, eccentric as to the proposed withdrawal of fon to the shoulders of the Second members of which swore an oath the Anglo-French Naval Agree Army commander, General von to remain unmarried for life. ment, and explained that the pro- Bulow, who conducted the battle
Having discovered that
4posals are still before the United happy life was something quite States, Italian and Japanese Gov. not as a strategist, but as a mere Idifferent from that prescrib-ernments and that no action can For von Kluck, the First Army
ed by the club rules, Dahn threw be taken till their answers are its principles overboard and mar received.--Reuter. ried his charming Viennese secre-
tary, neglecting to inform the club THE HARVESTERS.
of his defection. -
What the Maid Found.
15.
WITH THE 10,000 IN THE LAND OF THE MAPLE.
Winnipeg, Saturday.
¡tactician.
von
Baron commander, and Hausen, the Third Army com- mander, the writer has high preise.
Coming to the crisis of Sep- tember 8, he describes how, while The day after the couple re-
the Guards Corps commander turned from the honeymoon the
was thinking of nothing but bell rang at the door of their
the victory which he saw ap-| newly-furnished flat. The maid The police allege that the com- proaching on, his front, General opened it to find undertaker's men paratively few malcontents among yon Bulow was bent on retreat in black carrying a coffin and the British harvesters were oring from an enemy who proved General von bearing a letter. The terrified ganised by Communists with a not to be there. girl rushed to her mistress, who was Glasgow ringleader and assisted Bulow had. ordered the Guards Empress of Canada alone, with the letter, crying, "A by local Communists. Out of the Corps to attack Sezanne with all
man has brought your coffin, 10,000 only 800 are returning energy,
Jhome, alleging unfair treatment, The bride opened the letter, though they were offered jobs at which was addressed to her hus-$4 a day with their keep.Reu- band, and read; "We wish you the ter.
Tenyo Maru
-Per SEPTEMBER Glenogle Tal Ming
10.
President McKinley
8 p.m. 4.30 p.m.
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11.
Main Limchow... President McKinley SEPTEMBER
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Empress of SEPTEMBER
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ma'am."
best of everything. Therefore, since the only good wife is a dend wife, we send you this little wed- ding gift. (Signed) President, Happy Life Club."
The shock was zo great that the wife fell, unconscious... When she came to herself she Indignantly ex- pelled the undertakers...
Judge's Verdict.
TO BUCHAREST,
LA SUCCESSFUL BRITISH
TRIP.
General Misunderstanding. "The troops thought that this was the signal for a decisive vic- tory. They redoubled their efforts; the defeat of the enemy was becoming ever more pro- nounced. Little did they imagine that all their heroism was a cover for a withdrawal."
The writer expresses astonish- ment that in an age of wire and Rugby, Sept. 9. wireless, of automobile and aero- The flight from London to plane, no sort of consultation be- Bucharest, a distance of 1,600 tween the First and Second miles, has been accomplished in Armies was even attempted. Her action for libel against Herr one day by
"Only when the order to re- Flight-Lieutenant Gottfried Keller, president of the Scholefield in a Vickers Visibility treat had been given and the fact club, was heard in a crowded court. machine with a 530 horse-power communicated to the first Army Her counsel asked for, exemplary Napier Lion engine. Including was the question raised as to the damages, but Judge Presinger two stops for refuelling, the jour position of that army, three declared that the president was not ney was completed in 12 hours days late it wan guilty of libel, although the joke British Wireless Service. was in the worst taste, and even dangerous. Frau Dahn will sppeal
to a higher court.
It was the same with the Third Army, to whom General von Bulow did not even communicate his decision to retreat Not till 180 In the afternoon did the Warsaw, Saturday. Third Army commander hear of
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A director of the well-known Lon been inaugurated from Goynis, to the First Army,
don firm of tobacco manufacturers, via Havre, to Bouth America With this conflict between Mesura. Godfrey Philips & Co Reuter.
arrived in Shanghai last Saturday
generals on top of that between general and troops there was no
in the person of Mr. G. S. Merrick. Geneva Testerday. Both the solution of the drama but catas- He travelled by the R. M. S. Em-Assembly and Council of the trophe." press of Asia."
League have elected Mr. Hughes,
United States ex-Secretary of
A party of 215 nonagenarians, State, as a member of the Perman- The Marchioness of Lincoln octogenarians, and septuagenarent Court of International Justice shire has been elected president lana haye been entertained by the in succession to the American of High Wycombe Wanderers' | Wycombe Phonix Harriers to a Judge Hammett Mors, who has re Football Club, in succession . to motor trip to Hampton Court,
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