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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
PANAMA-COSTA RICA DISPUTE.
ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, August 22nd.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 2810, 1921.
FAR EASTERN CABLE CHANG TSO-LIN'S FORTRESS
NEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]
and
ON WHEELS, ARMED AND ARMOURED LIMOUSINE.
IRISH PEACE IN THE BALANCE.
DOMINION, OR CROWN COLONY:
[BY TIMKE" "*"FARLIAMENTART CORRESPONDENT.]
SERMONS FROM DOWNING THE GERMAN MORAL CODE
STREET.
THE LESSON OF LEIPSIG.;
The Times of sth air, mys:--
More than one representative of the Dominions referred disparagingly to the
The highest Court of the German Em Press of this country in speeches deliver ed at the meeting on Tuesday (says The Fire has laid down that no deed, how- Times of July 8th). We view these res ever wicked, which is committed by order bukes with chastened patience, submitting of the German States is a punishable. that newspapers, even in London, are only to these wrathful man from oversea crime. That is the clear result of the
acquittal of Lieutenant Commander Neu printed to be read; that human beings ship Dover Castle. There is no contro
maun for torpedoing the British hospital are erring creatures; and that sad as it may be many men and some women show very about the material facts
Nan an incradicable, preference, in
mana himself told how he had sunk the their NAWS. the trivial
ship, killing several of her crew. It was and not his doing if any of those on board)| portentous and
The sola de
per reading. paper. sensational over the
Or
the
tion over the disputed territory, which placed for an endeavour to reconcile cities he will apparently, be travelling have created a situation not unforeseen on for a moment to reflect. on the obedience to the orders of the Gorman
The United States advises Panama that ahe does not disapprove of the Costa Rican decision.
BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA-
London, August 22nd.' The Times, discussing the Washington Conference the invitation to which Great The State Department, in a communice-Britain bas cordially accepted-aays that tion to the Government of Panama, states it is incumbent on Great Britain to define that Costa Rica has intimated its deter her policy regarding China. The journal mination to assume immediate jurisdie thinks that Great Britain is favourably
belongs to Costa Rica, in accordance with Japanese and American divergency of the Loublet award.
view as regards China. British interests there are an important factor in our relations with Japan and America,
The Times expresses the opinion that the Shantung question is chiefly one of POLISH WIRELESS. ·
moderate interpretation of the Trenty of CONTRACT FOR AMERICAN FIRM.Versailles, and thinks that the question
NEW YORK, August 22nd.
of Japan's special interests in China. The Polish Government has entered referred to in the Lansing-Ishii Agrec into a contract with the Radio Corporament, is interpretable in the sense that tion for the construction of a three-mil- it would not infringe upon the principle lion-dollar station at Warsaw, which will of the open door "in China, which we be in direct connection with Long Island have hitherto supported. "Japan, obviously, FRANCE REMEMBERS has special interest in China, parti- FIGHTERS OF SEVENTY NATIONS. cularly in Manchuria, which, if develop
ed along economic lines and without the
PARIS, August 22nd.
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volunteers belonging to seventy nations,
An automobile fortress that is at the same time one of the most luxurious limousines ever built has just been de
A political situation of undoubted livered to His Excellency Chang Tao-lin, gravity and some perplexity has develop the Governor-General of Manchuria ed as a result of the unhappy state of The machine, which in appearance and affairs in Ireland and the unrest among fact is the last word in luxurious transpolitical parties at Westminster due to portation, is also an armoured car, bullet the questioning of political allegiances.
bomb
proof and prepared either for There is a sharp and critical division on offence or defence. It is likely to be a Irish policy in the Cabinet. rulers now that news of its construction in Ireland, the certainty that the South must add that human nature boing much fence was that this age elementary model for similar cars for other nervous The elections for the two Parliaments solemas. It is sad, but it is true, and we escaped with their lives. is no longer a secret
When General Chang appears ju thearn Parliament will not meet under exist-the same everywhere it is as true in the berate violation of the
Dominions as in London. streets of Mukden or other Manchurian necessity for Crown Colony government Hughes, for example, cease from this half law, and of the express provisions of
Mr. dictates of conscience, of the naturals Let and wholly kindly beat of in the law of nations, was committed in simply in an amazingly luxurious limou sine. The car has dink wheels, special but sadly at variance with the profes
and the nature of the news about, Admiralty. The Court held that these headlights and is of a deep tan coloursions of optimism which the Chief Secre- amount an with mahogany top and trimmings. In-ry repeated until quite recently. The say, Western Australia that appears in orders exonerated the man who did the
Cabinet has for some weeks, been face to the Press of Melbourne or
of Sydney.
murders from all responsibility. That side, the fittings and finish are fully face with the problem of Crown Colony is very little indeed, and any visitor is the supremely important outcome of worthy of the official position of its
Compared to it, owner. To conform to the colours of government, and but for the Prime who has listened to
about the marked the inadequacy of the sentences awarded Chinese royalty the cushiças, seat backs Minister's indisposition would perhaps people of the West complaints of the this series of trials
have reached a decision earlier.
indifference of Melbourne and Sydney to in the earlier cases monstrous though it and arms are upholstered in mohair. The panels, lining the body are
purple and
their affairs, will notice a familiar ring | is, sinks into insignificances. In them, The question the Government has to about the speech delivered in Downing the guilty character of the acts proved entirely of inland mahogany, and there decide shall another and inal effore street on Tuesday by the Prime Minister against the accused was at least admit either side. The fittings and all metal government to Ireland by negotiation or are vanity cases of the same material on be made to restore peace and ordered the Commonwealth.
ted. Here it is denied altogether, and Not that we disagree with the argu- denied upon a principle. It is the asser used in the tonneau are of silver and must events now be left to follow their ments of Mr. Hughes, Sir Thomas Smartt, tion of this principle by the supreme cloissonne. Perhaps the most beautiful own course until there has to be set up and other Dominion representatives on legal authority of a highly cultivated part of the interior decoration is the in the South the Crown colony govern Tuesday. But the making of a newspaper European people which is of momentous lowered marquetry inlaid in the door mout which the Better Government of is special work, and they can hardly know concern for all civilized races. panels. In each of these panels more Ireland Act prescribed as the alternative the real diffenity of supplying day by charge need be made against the Court: than 20 different kinds of wood are used to government by a South of Ireland day a food of news about each of the There is not any reason, with our pro But if an attempt is made by some
This is the car as it appears to the eye. Parliament{ "
Dominions, and about India. They resent information to doubt that they were? The Chief Secretary would adhere to cognize that the cost of cabling is beavy, acting in accordance with their lights. ⠀ assassin to end General Chang's term of the letter of the Act summoning the It is heavy, and is a constant drain upon The President, in the earlier cases at office with bullet, as is so frequently Southern Parliament and, if it fails to the resources of the newspaper." But it least, showed a desire to ascertain the the fate of Chinese officials, the car can function, empowering the Viceroy to is only one of many difficulties. Space is truth without
But he was be transformed in a twinkling from inside the roof coma steel shutters military forces (they are already being besides the Dominions and India make reads it, that law condones murder or law, and, as ho Down govern, increasing the strength of the not unlimited. other parts of the Globe administerit partiality. covering all the windows and reaching to increased), and carrying on. The alterns daily demands upon it, and the balance any other crime perpetrated by the au- the steel plates built inside the walls of tive policy is to make another endeavour
between news from abroad and news from thority of the State That is the fact. the car. Concealed loopholes open on to arrange terms with the South.
The home has to he struck day by day. Lon which all other peoples, and in parti
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No
relations to the people who accept this principle. The Neumann judgment is in entire. accordance with the doctrine)
idea of military domination, may greatly each side and in the rear, and six Lord Chancellor has come forward as the dou, too, is the clearing house for the cular the free peoples of Europe and In memory of sixty thousand foreign benefit China, Japan and all the Powers automatics or rifles can come into action. champion of this second policy, which bews of the world and few understand America, ought to bear constantly in who fought in the Great War under the seriously concerned in the reconstruction. Another steel shutter rises out of the has, for its principal feature, the offer- the immensity, of the mass of materia determining their present and future; partition between the touneau and the ing to Ireland of fiscal autonomy. Put driver's seat, closing off danger from the in a phrase that every one understands front. A Colt machine gun appears from in relation to Ireland, the Lord Chan under the driver's seat and is fastened on cellor proposes Dominion Home Hute, the to a special bracket built in at the right { quassions reserved to the Imperial Par-largely for news of the other Dominion upon which Herr Bethmann Hollweg: hand side of the cowling. The luxurious lament bieng those of defence and upon what appears day by day in the Justified the invasion of Belgium ̋in.openi
French Flag, there was a celebration at the Invalides, in Paris, in the presence of the Allies representatives and a number of Ministers of Foreign States, notably of Holland and Japan.
An American delegation of former gombatants attended at Flirey, the u veiling of a monument. dedicated by the province of Lorraine to the seventeen Americas Divisions which partook in her deliverance. 100*.
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SILESIAN 'PROBLEM. VISCOUNT ISHI'S LETTER TO.
SUPREME COUNCIL
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PARIA August 22nd. Viscount Ishii, in his letter accepting the invitation on behalf of the Council of the League of Nations to recommend solution of the Upper Silesian question, expresses the conviction that it will be impossible to suggest a schistion unless steps are taken to prevent Histurbances in Upper Silesia. The Council of the League 'could only make a unanimous recommendation in complete quie-
tudo and when it is allowed to act inde-
pendently by every Government interest- că in the Silesian settlement-Havos.
EARLIER CABLES.
VISCOUNT ISHII'S DECLARATION.
GENEVA, August 21st. Replying to the Supreme Council's re- quest to convoke the Council of the Logman..ínrøeference to Upper Silesia,
Viscount Ishii says that the affair was referred to the Council without reserva- tion or restriction. Accordingly, the Council, reserves absolute freedom to deal with the subject in any manner it gregards as the most efficacious Viscount
prosperity and independence of China.
JAPAN'S NEW AIRSHIPS.
foreign relations.
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from which the actual contents each day's papers here have to be selected and arranged for publication, adaptad very Frees in each
does depend.
the
has
breach, as he acknowledged, of Germany sworn obligations; it is in agreement with the whole gospel of frightfulness as consistently practised by command of the highest German military authoritie and it brings into the strongest re
car is thus turned into a a fortress.
As an additional measure of safety in
London Press. The Press services of the LONDON, August 22nd-
dangerous times, there are fastened to
The contention, on the one hand, is London newspapers in the Dominions re- Japanese experts visited Pulham, and each side of the unr, thres swivels Belts that if the Government make an offer of present a constant effort at improvement inspected Airship R37, which is believed are provided that fasten into these with farther concessions, enlarging the sphere and involve considerable, and note The collection a snap huoko
Cresaing expenditure. of self-government, it will not conciliate to be unfinished in view of the suspension strapped to the taat soldiers may bogiaz Feia, but will be used by the ex- 4nd publication of news from all parts of the truth of the ex-German Empe
running board and have
Handles tremista only as a point of advantage] world is work of no small difficulty. I declaration that the war was. w both hands free to use rifles. have been attached to the steel roof of from which to demand with increased ever
London, paper would claim that it tween two conflicting civilizatio the car for their convenience
approached perfection; but those So if vehemence the impossible independent who are responsible for it may reflect tween which a reconciliation i attacked the car can in a moment become Republic. On the other hand, it is re- a bullet proof steel box, defended by a presented that before introducing Crown ful as the Dominion Prime Ministers like it may be found in pr
that. if their, work were a little success- machine gun and six soldiers on the out- Colcay Government it is desirable and have been in isoing to the Press timely the Roman Empire, and an inside. Scientific American side and by six more riles from the clear, to the Empire and the world that present series of meetings in Downing.
indeed necessary to make it perfectly reports of their own speeches during the 11 the greatest of the
street, they would have failed indeed.
of the air programme.
It is understood that tho experts agree that the giant among the heavier than air machines is not atted for war purposes.
"It is stated that sixteen English non- rigid machines, S.S.Z. type, 150 'Teet in length and capable of a sustained flight of thirty miles an hour, have been pur- "chased and seat to Japan.
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHINA MAIL"]
TYPHOON AT "SHANGHAI,`
...
HEAVY HAIN CAUSES FLOODS.
SHANGHAI, August 22nd.,
down. nothing very serious is reportell
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LATEST CABLES.
U.S. SHIPPING BOARD..
OFFER FOR. 201. VESSELS.
**WASHINGTON, August 22nd.
WAR PENSIONS REFORM, WESTEFUL ADMINISTRATION,
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this country has offered to the sister country the fullest measure of self-gov eromcat consistent with the integrity of
the Empire, and the security of these
istands.
divided, with an inclination towards the The Cabinet has been almost equally Dominion policy, but awaiting the Gaal opinion of the Prime Minister."
TEN LØST TRIBES.
AMERICAN AND ANGLO-SAXON
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COURAGEOF BRITISH SEAMEN
ADMIRAL BEATTY'S TRIBUTE."
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sible.
The doctrine is not new,
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is abort all I and shove
It is the logical cona. theory that the State -above the Decalogus has long permented teaching of the Goon
of German Kult". The State, Hog teaches, is an earth
and that theor
the highest circl
ly divinity; it is th
has trend super exalted above al stence. Since it has this divine charse ter, its will must be the sovereign law,
A war memorial tablet erected by the perfect realize of the moral ideat; i tribute to the memory of the men in its other ends, and that and is its own sưbị and land in the Great War was unveiled the source of all rights and all dusies by Earl Beatty at the company's offices, and against its decisions no individua) Trinity-squire, last month.
service who lost their lives both on sen
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That
State
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In moving the second reading of the War Pensions Bill in the House of Commons, last month, Mr. Ian Macpher Bot, Minister of Persiens, unfolded a re markable story of waste, overlapping, and faulty administration in the work of. the Jown! war pensiona committees. When the Ministry, of Passions was form, in 1917 these Committees were composed almost
Earl Beatty, in unveiling the memorial, it founded off, the natural laws entirely of volnitary workers,
It has the highest right. the
said that one of the outstanding facts of avail. paid officials numbering only about
the Great War was the welding together duty is to be a member of it.
against the individual and his "highest 200; to-day there are nearly 7,000 paid
of the two great en services into one, is the theoretical side of the philosophy A severe typhoon visited Shanghai pa officials and the luntary workers are
Lord Gisborough presided at the and to-day the Royal Navy and the more which has been tending more and more Saturday accompanied by heavy rain. Imittees and sub-committees, with in some Congress
comparatively few. There are 1,200 com-
second meeting of the British-Israel cantile marine were one service, the one to inspire the spirit and habit of life
at King caused foods similar to those caused by cases overlapping arena; the Pensions Y.M.C.A., Tottenham-court-road, on July of the Royal Navy it was a matter of Prussia. That is the foundation of the Hall, great service of the sea.. As a member of the German nation since the rise of George's Minister has no control over their staffs, 5th. the 1918 typhoon. The race course has and their expenditure out
great satisfaction that he was permitted creed on which has been reared the of public converted into a lake and the river overcommittees differing so
funds amounts to about £20,000,000, the decided to send to the King a telegram pect which the Royal Navy held and miration and the imitation of the
Lord Gisborough said it had been to pers which and silichheit that we hold up to the ad- flowal its banks. Offers on and near the reading of the regulations to which they and delegates of the congress of the other branch of the sea service. It was races not long before the war. The
much in the in the following terms: The members had for those officers and men of the nighted and obscurantist Anglo-Saxoni Bund were affected, though not seriously proportionately three or four times as
are supposed to confirm that some spend Britial-Israel World Federation, repre- & matter of common knowlelge that no exhibited in ghastly light the fruits Trets were uprooted, and telegraph and much as others in grants and allowance seating all parts of the British Empire, British ship ever failed to sail for want of the system. The Neumang judgment telephone poles and scaffolding blown of these committees shall be reduced to the Throne of David, present their but they had to meet and to deal with craft," German
The new bill proposes that the number assembled in King George's Hall, of a crew. The risks which these men
is a timely demonstration that it still believing that your Majesty sits upon took were not the average risks of war, dominates, not merely German Plenty of minor damage but 150 at most, and it is hoped to a much humble duty and assure your Majesty of which were not reckoned with in this and Gorman #justice." It reminds us,
diploraacy," a piracy the thoroughness and virulence man militariam," but German law
and Gers lower figure, They are to be placed ander the direct control of the Pensions of their unswerving loyalty to your humane country of ours. It was im as does the whole course of these trials Ministry, and their castitution is to be
Majesty's Throne and person." changed, ex-Service men receiving one-
Lord Gisborough aid that the British tion should be kept open and that a pro-ports called for the defence, that this perative that the lines of communica and the open avowals of the military ex- fourth of the representation instead of Empire and America were spro facto tection should be offered to those men spirit and habit of thought and life. one-fifth and the local authority only members of the British-Israel Federa who provided the sinews of war, but which have become a second nature to one-fourth instead of a half, as it now tion. The whole position of America such protection as was possible gave all classes of the German people, which provides no local funds for pension pur and the British Empire in the national, them bat a sporting chance. It would are taught them in their childhood and poses. Independent appeal tribunals, moral, religious, and financial sphere be right to say that it was not the drilled into them through life cannot cach consisting of two doctors, an ex- corresponded absolutely to the prophe-efficacy of the anti-submarine methods be thrown off and repudiated, within. Service man and an officer, are to be set cies that were made in the Old Testa which enabled these lines of communica few months or years. They are ingrain- up, and many other reforms in admipis mens regarding the covenant to Abraham tion to be maintained, but rather the ed, they persist, and they are on the face tration are to be introduced,
and the promise by which David's stout hearts and the great courage of the of them, and to the plainest and the least By these local reforms and by econo- Throne was to be established for ever. British scamen. estimates that, without the slightest ed from the Covenant, and it was the ad Earl Beatty, that, owing to the with the first principles of our commen
educated among us and among our as mies at headquarters Mr. Macpherson The House Tribe of Judah was exclud Today, it is sad to think," proceed- cistes and Allies, utterly incompatible reduction in the benefits received by function of the British-Israel Federa- economic distress, there are many who the German conscience and the German war sufferers, the cost of pensions adtion to prove from the word of the Bible have served their country in this capa- mind, Germany can never be received as civilisation. Until they are purged from ministration will bo reduced £2,000,000 a year, and that altogether a which had been chosen to perpetuate the impossible for shipping companies to cracies of the West. That is the lesson by itself that the ten lost tribes of Israel city who are on their beam-ends. It is an equal amongst equals by the demo BLYing of between £6,000,000 Bad Throne of David were to be identified find commands when there are no ships. of Leipzig. £12,000,000 will be effected. Acting on in the American and Anglo-Saxon races. I have had brought to my notice only the advice of their actuary, the Govern- I was said in the Bible that the tribes recently cases of master mariners of ment have decided that the proper time of larsel would command the gateways great records, faultless in their lives, at WASHINGTON, August 21st. to assess a man for a permanent pen- of the sea. That prophecy was fulfilled who are now on the rocks for lack of
sion is Four years after bis discharge. The Chairman of the Shipping Board
to-day in the undisputed away of Ame employment. What the remedy is I don't predicts that Congress will be asked to had not been given sufficient time to further decreed that the tribe of Israel siblu to find a remedy. That companys, recently on the results of the There were complaints that the House rica and the British Empire. It was know, but surely in time it will be pos
In commenting at the meeting of share Ppropriate $300,000,000 to meet claims consider the measure; but its principles wou'd load to all and borrow from inherited from the previous Government were generally endorsed, and the second none. The relevancy of that decree to much, he added, and he thought he was Crosso and Blackwell Company, the
was amongst those that had suffered in connection with the Shipping Board. reading was carried without a division. President. Harding has appealed for the
the position of British and America right in saying that very nearly fifty chairman stated that the unprecedented closest co-operation between the Legisla
to-day need not be enlarged upon if ships were lost in the service of the fall in the valse of all produce had mate ture and the Executive in an effort to
they only considered that in the biggest Empire- great record, a record of rially affected the profits available for war of all history Britain and America which, indeed, it might well be proud, distribution, and this accounted, for the reduce unspeakable losses and waste."
had practically sustained in food, a record for which it was suffering to DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
money, and munitions every belligerent day. Power engaged on the Allies' sido in UNITED STATES PRESS COMMENT,
the conflict. There were numerous other references to show that the Anglo- It has been suggested that the Philip Saxon and American peoples were the WASHINGTON, Acgust 21st." pines bo called tho Territory of Malays. chosen people selected by God as the A painting by Botticelli which formed traders in this country had ever had
There is really no good, reason why the of the Supreme Court to hold public George's speech in favourable.
The tone of the comment on Mr. Lloyd Philippines should continue to bear the scheme for the whole universe. The Felice, in Florence, and was stolen, was to an avalanche, and at times it wa human instrument to fulfil His great an altar picce in the Church of Bt. to face. The fall in prices was likened hearings beginning on the 23rd inst., of pointed out, however, that there are 1, and why a change should not be Nations was whelly impracticable and detective, posing as a wealthy French any price.
It is name of a Spanish monarch, King Filipe generally accepted idea of a League of recovered in a sensational manner. Animost impossible to realise produce, af. the long standing injunction against the domestle and political pitfalls attaching made. To change a country's name is ridiculous, he thought, because it took picture buyer, get in touch with the stocks in hand, valued at present, day Government by foreign oil interests to a formal tripartite alliance, which
The company, has large, whose properties have been denounced suggests treaties; consequently the "alli- certainly superior to the Sandwich was no human bond sufficiently strong in a public square. When the thief came fortunate in having ma, forward contracts no new thing. The Hawaiian Islands is no cognisance of human nature. There thief, and arranged to buy the picture prices at £2,000,000, but the company f beoanes they failed to obey ex-President's ance would he opposed by the Senate, Islands. The Territory of Malaya has a to knit the nations close enough together in a cah be found a party of police instead of any kind, and no prospective losses to Carranza's decree ordering companies to as was the Versailles Treaty The rather impressive, sat agreeablo ring to submit to the yoke of a supreme of the buyer. An accomplice inside the sab face in that respect Regarding the produce a manifest of their holdings. It opinion is expressed that the problem is. And it is certainly more native more international judicature.He believed and the cabman opened fire with revol-future, the chairman found it difficult to is believed that the decision will indicate one of finding ways and means of reach distinctive than Islas Filipinas or the the true league would be the league of vors, and a sharp fight sued. the judicial interpretation of Article ing the desired understanding
with ugly Philippines What do you think the two grest English-speaking peoples thieves escaped, leaving the picture, un-solution for the present ills of the coun- The be optimistic; bat suggested that the of the British Empire and America [harmed, in the cab,
try was hard work and producttan.
The Shipping Board has accepted a bid of $9,100 each for 201 of its ships, which Ishii is confident that the Governments cost three to sight hundred thousand represented on the Council will do
dollars each. The purchaser is the Ship mothing to prejudice judgment.
Constraction and Trading Corporation.
EARLIER CABLES.
HARMONY REGARDING
REINFORCEMENTS.
PARIS, August 20th (delayed). Bendr Quinones de Leon, the Spanish dologato to the Council of the League, was entrusted by the Frosident, Viscount Ishift with the drawing up of the report on the facts pertaining to Upper Silesia. The Repors express satisfaction at the Allies geting in perfect harmony regard ing reinforcements to Silesia, France sending a brigade and Britain and Italy each two battalions.--acas..
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QIL INTERESTS IN MEXICO SUPREME COURT TO HOLD PUBLIÒ HEARINGS:
MEXICO CITY, August 21st. Importance, is attached to the decision
"UNSPEAKABLE LOSSES."
XXVIL
Great Britain and Japan.
NEW NAME FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
"THE TERRITORY OF MALAYA.”
The Manila Times says:-
of it!
SENSATIONAL RECOVERY.
CHOSSE AND BLACKWELL'S. DIFFICULTIES.
fact that no further dividend had been declared. In common with many other manufacturing businesson it was found that the first six months of the year wer good for trade, but the latter hall of the year was regarded as the worst that