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LABOUR STRIKE AT HOME
ENDED":
**DIRECT ACTION" POLICY POSTPONED.
GERMANY TO FINANCE
NATIONALS ABROAD.
THE HONGKONG
HER
IMMEDIATE CREATION OF A GERMAN MERCANTILE FLEET.
BRITAIN'S
HEAVY EXPENDITURE.
IMPORTANT MODIFICATIONS" IN AUSTRIAN
TREATY.
LATEST CABLES. LORD GREY OF FALLODEN THROUGH REUTER'S OBCY.]
TO GO ON A MISSION TO
WASHINGTON, GERMANY.
MMEDIATE CERATION OF A
MERCANTILE FLEET.
Rents Augu tach.
A legrain from Weimar states that. at the National Assembly, Herr Erzber ger untlined the Government's Rageint Hetioned reorganisation policy.
the tie rensend's intention to proceed, frummediately with the creatiig of a Mer Chatile Fleet, abg to make Stare vanees to Germans abronch
The nath mast raise 93,000,000,000 turks by arinual taxation.
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vies of the necessity of raising not CTPANELS suits, food stuffs could retain anlarda
THE FREE STATE OF BAVARIA,
- COPENHAGEN, August 13th.
A telegrame fran Hamburg states that Bavaria Din Ay. 165 vibes to atlopted the new Constitution of the Free
tian
State of Bavaria.
The priporal to mylents was rejected.
Loydes, August fath. In the House of Commons,, at question time, Mr. Bonar Law stated that, pend ing the appointment of Phr permanent Amador, which would be mide early next year, Lord Grey of Falloten hade
serited (Chey) to go on a mission to. Washington. to deal expressly with ques tims arising from peder,
He was sure that the House shared in the warm appreciation filt by the Gov- (erniment of Lærd Grey's patriotic action,
(which the Government thought would be
of the highest value in its infuence on the relatiuris between the two Govern- ments and the peoples, (heers.)
Replying Co Commander Konwerthy, he stated that the Government would
only be too glad if Lord Grey would arcept the post permanently. but every
who knew Lord Grey's disabilities | would share in the satisfaction felt at his
abolish titles of present hetion.
BRITAIN'S NATIONAL
EXPENDITURE.
SER. CHURCHIL'S STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS.
LONDON, August 12th.
INTELLIGENT ANTICIPATION.
f.
DAILY PRESS, SATURD Y, AUGUST
RUMANIA.
DEAR LIVING IN FRANCE, FOMPAIGN AGAINST PROFITEER STIRRING WELCOME TO THE KING,
Paris. August 12th
ING IN FULL SWING.
PARIS. August 19th.
A tavas missage says l
EARLIER CABLES,
THE SCUTTLED FLEET.
GENERAL DENIKINIS SUCCESSES. Í SOME SECRETS OF THE - LIMŊET”
SYSTEM.
BY C A UITYLIFFE HYNK}
Although the Admiralty have decided", not to raise the wrecks of the German sbips in Scupa Flow, the following ac nowel system
Further official details of General Denikin's recent success show that ki A Havas mesaug¤ z।?--
A despatch from Bucharist slescribes the | adivager is continuing on the greater-part, The enumpugn which is being waged in wathusiasm of the population when the of the South Russian front, against con- Paris against the high cost of living is in | King entered the city. A demonstrationsiderable enemy resistance, full swing I now extends even to the was made in front of the French Legution, General, spikin's capture of Kami-count in The Fapers of a Aristocratie arrondiviemnate in Chaillot the Marseillaise being sung before the shin is of greater importance than was of salvage will be read with great in- and Passy.
at first estimated. His exptures inetudest
terest to-day 11.000 prisoners, 60 guns and an im- mene quantity (of "naaterial. Twe ernek Bolshevikregiments. Were completely
HUNGARY.
THE NEW ADMINISTRATOR,
PARIS, August 12th
A Havns message says:-- Dispatches received in Paris state that Archduke Joseph has been nominated administrator of Hungery until The National Assembly elections,
af BELA KUN TO ANSWER FOR HIS CRIMES.
BERLIN, August ath elegram from Vienna says that the Government has been adried from Paris that it is responsible for the person of M.; Bela Ku who will be called upon fo account for the crimes Committed during the Soviet engine,
FERDING OF CHILDREN Cost
MENCES.
Royal Palner
THE PARIS GARRISON.
RESUMES ITS PRE-WAR
OCCUPATION,
Paris, August 12th
shattered,
Meanwhile, tienern Denikin's all- vano cavalry bas effected a junetina with A Huras, ge says:
the left wing of the Ural Cossacks nean, Paris selguurd the traps of her sarri-Eltonsko, sa miles south-east of Kami son to-day. A review was bold before the skin. troops oficially regained their barracks.
THE FIUME IMPASSE.
COMMISSION'S DECISION IN
FAVOUR OF FRANCE."
Panos, August 12th. A. Havas message Hayat -- The "Commission appointed to inquies the Franco-Italian incidents at Fiume has set at report to the Peace Con? ference, which, although" favorable to France, will not wound Italian susceptibi.
into
PARIS, August 12th. The American Relief Committee las lity. begun the feeding of 20,000 children at The Couumission was presided over by a Budapest. This does not involve the British Genemi and hold 25 sittings, ragi relaxation of the food blockade of Han-mining go witnesses.
Kary,
CONSCRIPTION.
MR. W. CHURCHILL'S INTEREST
ING STATEMENT."
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LONDON. August 13th.
CRICKET AT HOME
Losney, August 19th. Noits et Sussex by an'innings and raits...
Kent, but Haats by un ipnings; and
In the House of Commons, Mr. Win10 runs,
ston Churchill made the interesting stat
Somerva e. Es in Surrey Yurk
LABOUR UNREST AT HOME
DIRECT ACTION" POLICY
POSTPONED.
nent that next year there would be only slire matches were drawn.. two nations in the world free from con- scription: Britain, and Germany, ng "whom only one was acting voluntarily.
France, Italy, Russin, (both Bolshevist It was the impression in the Lobbyi anti-Bolshevist) Japan, and the [besterday evening that Viscount Grey United Stalis, ኒ ና unthing of the lub accepted the Ambassadorship at sinall Powers, were all proposing to enre Washington.
tinae compulsory service.
LONDON. August 13th:
ARMENIA.
In the House of Commons, dealing with the general question of finance. Mr. PLEA FOR RE-CONSIDERATION. Winston Churchill said that we had arranged that our fores on the Rhine wont be reduced by October 31st re- one strong brigade and the Air Force seen
spravod
There were still over 300,000 German Turkish war prisoners Berding And
100,000 soldiers to guard them.
Permission had now been granted to je- patriat the Turks, but although peatedly sought, the Supreme Council had not yet: authorised the War Offer to repatriate the Germans.
The maintenance of "100,000 troops, of whom 20,000 were British. in Meso- potamia. was the principal main-spring of profligate expenditure.
bes
Efforte to reduce th
dagens revisted by offers on the spot. However, the War Offer was inquiring if Aesopotamia could not successfully be policed by judicious arrangement of ‘armoured cars, aeroplanes and very fast
tanks,
By similar methods, it was hoped to reduce the present furra" of 90,000 troops in Egypt and Palestine by half.
There were 60.000 troops in Ireland. rounpared with 30,000. before, the war, but the Irish Executive was very, strongly Copposed to any arcüction at present.
Moreover, until the troops in India could I brought Hom, we were forced to maintain a duplicate India garrison. We had to maintain '100.000 men in
Losnos, August 13th. The Pines, in editorial article draw- ing attention to the deplorable condition of Armenia who is threatened by her enemies on all sides, ufges the Govern merit to consider its decision to with draw the British occupying troops, in the interests of humanity.
THE AUSTRIAN TREATY ALLIES TO MAKE IMPORTANT MORIFICATIONS.
PARIS. Angust leth;
The United States proposed legislation embarking on that systein for the first time as regards its peace-time policy. THE PRINCE OF WALES ESTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION AT
S JOHN'S..
Sr. Jous's, August 12th.
Londos, August 12th. A conference of the Triple Allianer passed a resolution that, in view of the changed conditions, as well as the changed attitude of the Government towards the proposals of the Triple Alliance, the policy of direct action" should be postponed.
STRIKE VIRTUALLY ENDED.
Loxos. August, 12th, The Yorkshire Miners' Council has re The Prince of Wales Innded at 9 a.mcommended the men to return to work. today and was accurded a very en thusiastic remption. Along the two mil
It is understood this virtually ends the route to the city the streets were decorat | strike. ed with reimphai” arches,
The Mayor and the Charter of Cour merce presented addresses of wolvesme,
The Prince was entertained to luncheon
at Government House, where the mem
hers of the Government and many off
It is understood, that the Peace Confor ence will consent to important modificacials were prescat. tinas of the Treaty in favone of Austria,, notably as regards financial reparation. claims and allocation of the old Austříän
delt..
THE NEW AUSTRIA.
PARIS, August 12th." The Supreme Council has decided to recognise the new Austria" as the Aus trian Republic and not 11. German- Austria,
HOME GOVERNMENT IRREGULARITIES. WHY NO PERSONS WERE PROSECUTED,
Losdos, Angust jath In the House of Commons, the Lord
dealt with Advocate
the recent allegations
and of irregularities. defended his, derision against prosecu tions.
He declared that, whereas the Public Accounts Committee Report made it appear that £50,000 or £60,000 were
Franes on palvake work, or leave' valu nhle assets rotting the ground. or raise a temporary civilian forre.
We also had many thousands seriously wounded in hosmital. Hep it was clear involved, the actual amount in respect
Th only menns of reducing expendi.
tre way to bring Hom the r early
THE ALLIED OCCUPATION, BELGIAS TROOPS AT MALMEDY.
BRUaszis. August 13th. Ilgian troops have occupied Malmedy. They were received with enthusiasm,
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. CHARGES OF EXTRAVAGANCE
KEBUTTED.
LONDON, August 14th.
In the House of Commons. Brigadier Genit. Seely. rebutting charge of extravagance against the Air Seice, stated that, at the armistice, arrangerente were made to produce 50.000 aeroplanes annually.
Since November 11th. 20.000 officers out of 30,000 and 204.000 out of 281,000 of other ranks had been demobilised; 210 aero-
na janssible, and restablish them in nei-tive supervision as regards the nerodrome saved, many million pounds and thousands
WHY THE DECISION WAS
REACHEIN
LONDON, Algust th Labour correspondents agree that the
decision of the Triple Allianer was due
Trade Unionists inside and outside to the unqualified opposition of promin-
the Alliance.
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The Hun, with hell in his heart, will have gone about his senttling with car- ful thoroughness. "It will not have been, a case of merely opening, sea-cocks. The whole scheme will have been plotted be fure the silus left Germany, had started. on the very first day they swing to the hitel British moorings in Scapa Flow and began to grow cel-weed on their bot-
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We must be genermus enough to The effect of this junction with the credit the Fun with brain-and hate. left wing of Admiral Kotrehak's Army
Picture the details of what you would is bound the be great, as a united anti- have done yourself under the same ciri Bolshevik front new exists along the elastaneris. The bolding-down bolts to. whole of East and South Russia, from the countless manholes in the double hot- the Northern Urals to the north-west to will all look perfectly normal to the corner of the Black Sea. In the intier inspecting gyn, but patient hack saw work
will have munde them as valuably for their" area only 30 miles separate lea Denikin's left wing from the right wing
jer as ses much patty. of the Rumanian Army along the Unies
The booty taken at, the
Papture of Poltava, included 3 railway engines, "1.200 waggons, 2 armoured trains and 20
Runs
AVIATION, PROGRESS OF THE GOLIATE.
CASE BLANCA, August 19th
The arrobus Goliath arrived bere in excellent condition to-day, and has r sumed her journey to Dakar.
as
A FRENCH CYCLIST'S FEAT.
Pants, August '19th. The French cyclist, M. Poulain, meceded in covering 12 (7) yards av height of one yard on a rinn-driven aeroplane.
THE JAPANESE IN SIBERIA AN EXTRAORDINARY PROCLAMA
TION.
A Vladivostock message to the cards,
that Lieut-Geral Saiki bus the following rotinatior to the Hussin inhabitants near Spuskaya :--
modern Imttleship is honeycombed will be The myriad compartments into which
the sun. They will all have collapsed with perfect regularity the moment water pressure pushed against them.
13:** / too will open up like venetian Blinds the moment the salvage feit starts to try lift- ing with its favourite compressed air.
You
For steady mole-work, we shall find the Hun preparation on its fleet some of the completest in mechanical history. will we that there has been no hurry about ». it, and asthing scamned
& DEAD LIFT
After the first survey I fancy the divers will report the ships are like Rabing nets, and somebody will trut out the old defini tion about a net being it lot of holes held together with string. A nian who has just successfully weighed and brought to been blown into three separate parts by xhore 1 4,000 ton cargo liner that. har Schwartzmps, suggests to me that the only method of salvage will be to pump ont Scapa Flow so that one can tackle the inb with wheelbarrows.
Now the toughness of a modern stori built ship, even after abominable ill treatment, is extraordinary, as scores of torpedoed halls now in the repairing" docks will testify. And the warship is far more toughly built thah the humblo freighter or the.
liner. She „Passenger be reduced to fishing net value for font may
Bunding purposes, hat, there is mighty little KİY in the strings that hold the holes together. Giyan a envity that will hold pumped down air, and wedern salvage tackle wil pull up anything. But the njiable He wil have left no such cavity. It with a case, then, of and lift. But how is one going to get a bold ?
Since the Japanese troops will pass
Bear Spaskaya to`morrow Elipse Poussakan who regard the Jupaiene as their uradiy elinating karetka nga tveim "aflar stigas e... Jalur byesit, wait, due for Lur other bold, those who look upon the Japansar as inkar
The plotist methed is to pass lines hony stol Hines onderneath the wreek., make fast to fifting vessels on either side. and when the tide ris and raises the Areck off the sea floor, tow her towards abeth till she grounds. And so on with The next tide. and so on..till she shows the Japnursean he worked úpon.
Friends should welcome the Japaare trojis with Russian Hugs in their hands, time to may jave cast in their logs win Ni hostila steps will be takes against the Buise vans betare, provided that they alwe was at the bottom : the ebb and,
10M Auw allegiate いよ troop. The welcome 02 the Japanese troops by tow women alone will not be tolerated. Those mate inhabitants who to not come gat pe "welcome, the"Japanese will be regarded as Belaevis and will
lealt with accordingly."
But with the ponderous masies of ship and armour plats and gun added dres the coz and son-grass of this windy, orthern flord, how are you going to get those Enes ander the wide at bottoms? I doubt whether it ena be managed, with the enormous weight that will but there
their on people like children, and iting down always from above.
The Japanese authorities oftra trit seems as though they show no racial dis- crimination in regard to the Russians.
There wangvowing evidener of oppa-ition to direct action in the mining dis tricts, pointing to the danger of a dime- trous split which would wreck the Alli ance if the campaign persisted.
Yesterday's decision of the Executive is expected to be endorsed by the conference of delegates to which it has been referred. The Yorkshire Miners' Council's admis sion of defeat is attributed to the revul- sion of strikers in favour of resumption, very
after the expenditure of 200,000 in strike pay, causing the Union funds to run low, the high prices also causing severe batā ship on them..
EARLIER WABLES,
AN APORTIVE CONFERENCE AT
LEEDS.
LATEST CABLES.
Chronisir,
OUR FISCAL SYSTEM.
is alternative, A salvage ship will boneg over each of these huge weeks in turn, and will lower ver her side a thing called a limpet.
As a matter of fact there will be a series of limpets slung together with wires and repes, so that they do not get snarled up in the tideway.
GRIP OF THE MAGNET,
A. TRANSITIONAL POLICY,
To the outward eye the limpet looks re In the coured of the debate as the ques-markably like a retangular
truse of tion of measures for the prevention of sackmeats, enes of which is the wire rope rusted, iron, with certain pendulous at- dumping. initiųṭed in the House of Can- en which it is suspended. However, down ons on June 24th by Mr. G. Terrell, it goes into the muddy, swirling water. Bir Auckland Geddes, speaking late, mit, till it is checked by the winchman. vertically or otherwise, as the tides per- said they had got to realise that this woun-
on board, who knows, the soundings, and the almost bankrupt world of Europe distance he desires from the sea floor. try stood as it were, between two worlds
oriak stop lowering when the limpet is the and the very prosperous world of Ame rien.
Between these two worlds was the very difficult
It
that
one tari aystems would be effective
hope of exchange.
whose schunge was in the relation which
dumping in the against
£18 or starl 4 country tase of New York would bear to London, and one in which the relation was that of Ber- lin to London. It was absolut impi sible to think that the trade
policy of this country was going to be solved slugs any
along
so much discussed. There was no ques
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Then somebody throws over a switch, and the limpet gets busy. Hitherto it has been merely a mass of rusted fron. Now it in an active magnet, hungering for irou and less work. It gets to grips with this collier hungers for more pay wreck, and--here is where its 'cuteness" comes in-if it
not grappled at it has suitable part it where. it lets go, and hunts olee
But when it has gripped to a food don't part of the gruere, then it
solid structure, the kick of a motor, and from its stomach
A
drills sprout, which at their way into the side of the wreck, and then, when they are
ceases to be a magnet, and its hold
Then the lump of rusted iron, abrently the wreek's side fades away, and it is hauled up by the wincheraw alsove, to he to work elsewhere Bito each of the re-charged with more and any of drills it has left behind tapped into the flank of the wrecked they are beft, pieces of steel tehes in diameter? there is made fuat a still heftier wire rope, which leads award to the surfa
tion that the whole question of British trade policy was urgent, but until the Government was in a position really to well embedded, stop. LONDON, August 12th.
see what the post-war position way, it There was an abortive conference of would be the eight of folly to announce roines out of 36 had been given up; and 4,927-hired premises but of 2,143 had been Yorkshire coal-owners and strikers at
policy that it was not tot possible to control of which he was approached was '£986.
Government had adopted a perfet expenditure by polier.
surrendered. He contended that the Air Leeds, today. The owners emphatically definite
by
policy for the transitional period. It was deinitaly announced in He conderuned the lack of administra-Foyee was worth maintaining. It had refused to discuss anything until the men
that House on March 10th that that policy had resumed work
would be reconsidered and reviewed be fore September 1st. It had never cared to be under reconsideration and review.
There was no possibility yet he hoped that soon there would be in the best in- terests of the
of announcing country
the
There is the secret of the whole imbet, date a definite permanent trade, policy days of war: screwing on er-bolts with
system, which was patented during the would come into
Until
prace cables made fast to them till you had was signed we night at any thoment, be faced by completely changed situation rate force. Given that you had ou
enough to lift with, and then lifting + in Europe. He could say, however, that brute force, the rest is easy. As I said. the Government had worked out in full the tides are kind enough to help. the detail a permanent policy which, is
lieved, would best met the sit
situation which it expected to obtain when peace was finally concluded,
vate industries. He was concentrating contracts, and said that the confusion of precious lifes. on this daestion.
Mr. Churchill emphasised that the in which the accounts were would have
most prent problem was to reduce the prejudiced the Government's case in any
cost of the nationsi government, even if
it isced the aber donant of many prosecution.
cherished schemes. He estiranted the east
of reproducing the pre-war army at ba. The House received the statement very
£65.000.000 und
£75 920.000 favourably.
Mr. Churchill' drew attention to the
He had indtrusted Conesel Trenchard fact that the Treasury and War Office
fo
had ordered inquiries into the aero- bem within the limits of £25,000,000 drames contracts immediately: the situa-
annually..
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tion was apparent. “
FRENCH CENSORSHIP.
OFFICIALLY ABOLISHED
YESTERDAY
PARI, August 12th.
A Havas moge says:-- The French censorship on telegrams in to be suppressed as from August, 15th.
SCOURGE OF BOLSBEVISM.
ITALIAN FORCE LEAVES
`MURMANSK,
ROME, August 13th. *¿TE, Italian Commission and expeditionary force leit Murmansk on August 8th for Italy.
be
The salvage, then, willke simple enough but the hill will be heavy. What I want to know is, whoisgeing to pay that bill
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