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PARIS, September 19th.
IMPORTATION OF TEA INTO AUSTRALIA.
MELBOURNE, September 18th, The Commonwealth Minister of Customs announces that future importations of foreign teas inta Australia will be limited to 90 per cent of the total importations of 1917-18
It has been found that the recent re- moval of the embargo on Java and China
In the Senate, M." Clemencenu, during teas operated harshly against India and
an „eloquent oration, expressed the im-Ceylon.
mense gratitude of the peoples to the marvellous Entente soldiers who are
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LONDON, September '16th,
fiberating them from the sword of bar COTTON-SPINNERS ON STRIKE barism in the hour of supreme agony. Germany foolishly believed, victory would wipe out her crimes, and now the reversal of fortune is compelling the Kaiser's armies to retire, and the terrible account between the peoples, which Germany has opened, will be paid in full.
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AMERICAN MEDICINE" FOR VICTORY.
LONDON, September 18th. The Press Bureau 'announces: --General
The Lancashire Cotton-Spinners' strike for payment for unemployment, due to re- striction of output, has begun. It is feared that by to-morrow most nƐ the spinning mills will be at a standstill, «land it the strike continues about 300,000 workers will be idle, by the end of next week. Still, it is hoped this calamity may be averted.
As the result of a private conference between the representatives of the
A t;
Pershing has replied to Mr. Lloydpinners and the Control " Board George a follows: Your congratula Manchester, on Saturday, new proposals tions are deeply appreciated. It shail will be submitted to the Board of Trade, by the American Army's endeavour to
with a view to their consideration by the supply you with occasional doses of the
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8000 as he has same sort of, medicine as needed until
suficiently recovered. final victory is attained."
INTER-ALLIED" - LABOUR CONFERENCE
Loxpox, September 18th. At the Inter-Allied. Labour Conference, Mr. Samuel Gompers declared that it Wssential that the repre
of Lalmr of all the Allied countries should have" опе
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LONDON, September 16th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in a Special Order congratulates General Pershing on the victory in the initial American offensive: Convey to all ranks our unbounded admiration and
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the war in a successful issue. (Cheers.) | AMERICANS EMBARKED American Labourites were determined to do all in their power to assist the Allies nad marshal all their resources in order: to drive from occupied territories the armies of the Central Powers (Cheers) which should be opposed as long as they obeyed their militaristic and autocratic Governments, who threatened the exist- ence of all self-governing peoples. There fore the Conference should endorse the fourteen points laid down by President Wilson as the wonditions of peace. (Cheers.)
Loxons. September 17th. The Press Bureau announces The number of American troops embarked for Europe in August was 313.000, of whom 180,000 were in British ships..
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ATTITUDE OF ENEMY. SOCIALISTS. France have had the honour of special ALEX. ROSS & CO.,
mention in the German official report on the Franco-American offensive. It is an *honour" well deserved, says The Daily prem, for they have splendid fighting qualities.
LONDON, September 18th. The Labour Conference has received a Committee recommendation that an en- deavour should be made, through the Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian So-
In America the negro has long been AS cialists, to get the German Majority noted as a first-class fighting man. Socialists to definite their attitude at the the present moment, according to latest available £gures, there are 186,000 negro International Wär Aims Conference, to troops now enrolled in the American which they are at present the only stum.armies. In the United States to-day there
are at least 800,000 blacks of military age i bling-block.
now available for service against the Hun.
Even as far back as the American Civil War the black proved his fighting quali ties. Irrepressibly cheerful under all conditions, even the most adverse, he has needed only leadership to weld his great! physical strength, his proven loyalty, and his implicit obedience into an efficient fighting force.
AMERICA'S MILITARY
PROGRAMME.
WASHINGTON, September 17th. The War Department has asked Con gress to provide 7,37 million dollars, in addition to the previous estimates, for an enlarged American military pro gramme during the coming year. FOOD RIOTS IN HOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM, September 18th. Six persons, mostly children, were in- jured in the course of a collision between food-rioters and the military in the Jordaan district yesterday evening, when shops were plundered and demolished. The Burgomaster had warned the parents to keep the children indoors.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE CON-
VALESCENT."
LONDON, September 18th. The Premier is convalescent."
KILLED IN ACTION.
LONDON, September 18th. Lord Alexander Thynne was killed
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NEW AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN..
WASHINGTON, September 18th Mr. John W. Davis, of West Virginia, Bolicitor-General of the United States, has been appointed Ambassador to Great Britain.
OBITUARY.
Losbos, September 18th
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LONDON, September 18th.
American negro tredps" were, valiant fighters in the sixties; they fought side by side with their white brethren in the army against the Indians in the "later American frontier fighting, while during the Spanish-American war the famous th and 10th Regiments of black cavalry were in the forefront of the battle at San Juan Hill and elsewhere.
To-day the American army of demo- cracy includes not only black men in the ranks but black officers leading them, "and the news from France of their splendid valour will therefore be read with even greater interest by those who have known the American negro heretofore solely as the man of the ranks.
There are now no fewer than 650 com- missioned negro officers in the new Ame rican Army. A great many of these men are college graduates, many of them of high professional standing in the United States who heard the call to democracy's standard and answered by enrolling at various training camps and passing the rigorous test for officers. More than 200 other negroes are serving with the Ame rican Army in highly technical places- as doctors, dentists, surgeons, and so on. i There are thirty-four black chaplains in the American forces-all, ordained minis- ters of the various faiths.
The best estimate of the American negro as a soldier was that officially recorded by a certain American military expert of the four historic negro regiments which in other days formed the black forces of
He said:
They the American Army. are notably steady under fire, patient to endure hardship, cheerful and good- natured at all-times-and they can fight."
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