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A PUBLIC CONFERENCE AT WASHINGTON.,
THE CALL OF LONDON. RELUCTANT AU REVOIRS OF THE OVERSEA MEN.
BY MARGARET BALL.
These are packing days, days of dis- carded blue and abandoned brassieres, of repeated calls at passport offers and the chartering of berths,
The thousands of dwellers from beyond the seas are preparing to turn again
interests, to their interrupted
I have watched the faces of these home- farers, as they, snt in solemn rows on bardbarked benches, in the passport offices. For the most part they were sor
s faces, not illumined by the thought SAN FRANCISCO, September 18th.
4 joyous reunion with the old life. President Wilson has called a public have spoken with many home-going Canadians about their return, have mien conferend with the Lahpur Party at toned the rims freedom of the great where the Rockies Mais their Washington to discuss plan of closer heads; of a summer pt profitabl
snowy
Law indolence on the backs of the St. L
where the habitant fisherman rence. relationship between Capital And Labour.
with of day braids the approach President Wilson has appoisted, among patches of patois song: have sketched a picture of merry camping parties in the wilds of
Now Ontaries with Indian guides others. Mr. John Rockefellor, jó, Mr. E.
I have with endoes upon their backs. Gray, president of the Stock Corporation: tramping from lake's edge to lake's edges and "Me. Norman, Haruch, chairman of visualised illimitable stretches of waving wheat, through which the prairie wind the Industries Hoard, to meet the Labour whispers softly.
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THE FRENCH' NAVY.
NO NEW CONSTRUCTION TO BE UNDERTAKEN?
Pants, Septeniter 17th.
A. Havas sage says: The French Ministry of Marine is not asking a vote for the purpose of com
pleting the five Dhirendnoughts whow con- struction, was suspended in tara. Erance has at present several large Battleships which ar and 6ghting whis.
CRICKET AT HOME
CHAMPION COUNTY BEATEN,
Loxpos, September 15th. „The Rest of England beat Yorkshire, the champion county, by ten wickets.
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS,
{TROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
HOW JAPAN'S REFUSAL TO ENTER THE CONSORTIUM IS VIEWED IN PERING
SIKRE EXCUSES.
Beautiful vesions, all of them--and yet. those who are returning to them senile only faintly at the thought of their re turn. It is as if they wished to push the idea of departure further and further. from their minds
Why?
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Such a business pulling up stakes, says a colonel, who has been in England more than four r years.
Ir a lazy creature and don't like moving, after I am planted. says the metrom of big Canadian hospital.
Mere excuses. of us have become these years of war.
The truth is that all
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There are a thousand little fascinations but this big, incongruous metropolis what themelves into our lives
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known to ourselves, and which, per. hups, we do not realise until the day breaks when we are to leave them all be hind.
There is the joyous camaraderie, of the streets, full of such a melange of traffic as made us smile at first. The old lady
the bath chair, starting on a perilous pilgrimage across a thoroughfare thund ering with the ceaseless roar of wheels: the little moke bearing a barrowful of multi-coloured Blowers and making of the street a streaky fairyland; the army parement hucksters, with their trays of tawdry treasures; the flower women and their wit, the true bred Cockney, with the case and sangiroid produced only by centuries: the great, surging sea which streets and ebbs and Bows along the
draws everyone who wanders by its edge.
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THE GLAMOUR OF THE CITY.
Then there is the quiet London, ever whose grey stone walls the thunder rolls | in mailed monotone. The London of ancient court and mysterious alley ways. above which tall turrets rise and ivy. clustered doorways speak intiaately of deeds wrought by those whose names in the newer lands are almost mythical from distant association
PERING. September 21st." Japan's reply to the Allies that she will refrain from joining the Consortiumile monument, has, in some
has not excited any surprise in Peking. where diplomatic and financial circles believe that Japan is deliberately, throw ing down the gauntlet to Western finance and diplomacy.
:
In other words. Japan is asking for recognition of her paramount position in Manchuria and Mongolia, failing
which Japan will refuse to ratify the Peace Treaty or enter the League of Nations,
Liberal Chices gircles hope that Japan's bluft will be called, and that. shoald Japan prove recalcitrant, money, will be forthcoming from the remaining members of the Consortium.
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·(THROUGH REGTER'S "ÄGENCY. } PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE SHANTUNG QUESTION.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 13th. President Wilson, in the course of several speeches, referred to the Shantung agreement and reiterated that what Japan got was not China's rights, but was solemnly Germany's, and Japan pledged to forgo sovereign rights.
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monument. become a part of This realisation comes lives. especially strong to us, when we are about
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TEVOIT 30 we wish to say au revoir and not adieu, for the only thing which gives us any delight in the return to old interests is the thought that one day we shall come
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RIDER HAGGARD ON THE KAISER
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The debate on the trial of the Kaiser elicited the following from Sir H. Rider Haggard
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