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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER TH,
IRISH CRISIS: PREMIERS REPLY TO ME DE VALERA.
INDUSTRIAL GERMANY
SIR TREVOR DAWSON'S TRIBUTE.
INDIAN BOYCOTT:
CALCUTTA DEALERS' ATTITUDE.
LATEST CABLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHIPPING AND ENGINEERING EXHIBITION.
AIR TREVOR DAWSON'S TRIBUTË
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LATEST CABLES,
LATEST CABLES,
CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON
PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS. IN
LONDON.
LONDON, September 8th.. The Times understands that the work of drawing up the Washington Conference agenda has advanced sufficiently to per- mit informal conversations regarding the exact definition of limitation of arma] meats and of the subjects for discussion. Consequently, preliminary conversations are to be held in London immediately.
CHEMICAL DISARMAMENT. HINT TO WASHINGTON
CONFERENCE.
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LATEST CABLES.
TOWN ABLAZE..
RESULT OF CARELESSNESS.
ANNAPOLIS ROYAL (NOVA SCOTIA),
September 8th. by a cigarette carelessly thrown down, has A Bee, which, it is believed, was started destroyed about one third of the town, doing damage to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars. A number of people are homeless,
FRENCH TRADE.
FORECAST BY MINISTER OF
COMMERCE..
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FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE IC
GELSA MAIL.") AMERICANS" ESCAPE YEOM JAIL AT SHANGHAI.
SAVAGE ATTACK ON JAIL
SHANGHAI, September 8th. About o'clock last night prisoners named Henry C. Muncie and A. E. Norman, made a daring escape from the American jail. They savagely attacked a jailer and threw ammonis on his face They got clear away and have not yet been captured.
DUTCH
THROUGH REUTER'S "AGENCY.]
BANKING AND SHIPPING
A DREADFUL SACRIFICE,
WU PEL-FU'S RUTHLESSNESS,
With regard to the breaking down, the
embankment above Kingkow August 17th the native press at Hanko publishes the following graphic account, which we have reason to belinya, ia make stantially correct.
On August 17th the Chikli çami Hunan troops were engaged in battle as Falchow until aurimet. Owing to the fire from the naval squadron the H sould not resist and retreated for four or five li At this point General Wa of the gunboats and, seeing the trend of Pei-fu himself went on shore from one the battlefield, at once decide to break down the embankment and food the southern men out. He therefore gave ordere to his men to" commence digging into the embankment...
› THE IRISH CRISIS.
TEXT OF MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S NOTE TO MR. DE VALERA.
LONDON, September 8th. Although no inkling is given adficially As regards the Premier's reply to Mr. de
safeguarding their common interesta LONDON, September sth.
Valera, several morning papers state that the Note suggests a meeting with Sina Fein delegates provided that Dail Eireann agrees to remain within the Empire.
PARIA, September 7th. In an interview with a representative of L'Echo de Paris, the Minister of Commerce, M. Dior, stated that general:
Hearing of this dread order, the IN JAVA. business recovery is to be expected before
farmers in the neighbourhood mine before NEW YORK. September 8th.
the winter. Stocks are getting depleted,
the general and falling upon their kneens AMSTREDA, September 9th. The opening wasion of the American and orders are increasingly numerous.
begged him to desist and space their Several companies and corporations lives. General Wu, however, turned st Chemical Society was attended by many The export business is improving steadily. interested in banking and shipping in the deaf ear to their supplications and the distinguished British scientists. Are The Government's timely resures to help Dutch East Indies have founded a cen-digging was continued. The
embank solution was passed urging the Disarmamentation bearing fruits. The econo tral council, under the presidency of the ment was very stout and only two small mic situation would steadily revert to ex Minister Treub, for the purpose of holes were made in it; bot through these ment Conference seriously to consider the normal, should Germany keep meeting her question of chemical disarmament, į as
obligatious punctually--Huras. affected by the development and mainten- ance of the chemical industries of several pations.
TO GERMAN WORKERS.
EARLIER CABLES.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
At the opening ceremony of the Ship ging and Engineering" Exhibition, at Olympis, Sir Trevor Dawn, Chairman of Vickers, paid a tribute to the indus- try and enterprise of Germany, from who re be had just returned. He declared that the engineering and electrical works. there were hives of industry, perfectly CARINET MEETING IN THE HIGH FOUR TERRITORIAL DISPUTES IN equipped. The output was high, and labour was working harmoniously on wages of 4 macks an hour, namely, at the prosent rate of exchange, of 3d. an hour. a compared with is. Ød, an hour which similar workers received in England.
RIOTS IN BAVARIA
ON THE OCCASION OF WORKMEN'S
DEMONSTRATION.
H
LANDS.
LONDON, September, 7th.
A meeting of the Cabinet which is expected to reach a momentous decision in regard to the future of Irish peace negotiations opened at Inverness Town ing the Premier and other Ministers on Hail this morning, the Provost, welcom
their arrival. A crowd of thousands in the streets, windows, and on roofs, vociferously cheered the Premier, who was half an hour late, having breakfasted and talked at length with the King at Moy Hall, whither the Premier motored early in the morning from, Brachas
PiBis, September 8th. A message from Mayence says that seri ous rioting has taken place in Spires (Bavaria) on the occasion of workmen's demonstration, in connection with the murder of Erzberger. The Government Castle. offices have been partly demolished.. Numerous arrests were made Workmen atruck to obtain the release of those im- prisoned. They stormed Government offices, and the police had to open fire. One workman was killed, and many were
wounded.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
VALUE OF COVERNMENT STOCK.
OTTAWA, September 8th. The Arbitration Beard, appointed by the Government to determine the value of Preference and Common Stock of the, Grand Trunk Railway-recently acquired by the Government has decided that the stock is valueless.
INDIAN BOYCOTT.
CALCUTTA DEALERS' SUGGESTION TO MR. GANDHI.
CALCUTTA, September 8th. Mr. Gandhi, in pursuance of his for- eign cloth boycott, met a number of cloth dealers.
It is understood that some of them re- quested six months' time in which to dis pose of their stocks of foreign cloth, after which period, they said, they would not deal in such cloth
GOVERNMENT'S REELY TO SINN FEIN.
The Cabinet unanimously approved the
Government's reply to Mr. de Valera,
which was handed to Commandant Bar ton, who proceeded to Dublin at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, The Premier sent special courier to Moy Hall to informa the King of the result. Pending Mr. de Valera's reply no official information in regard to the tenour of the Government's reply is obtainable, but the text will be published tomorrow evening. CABINET COMMITTER'S POWERS.
Later.
At to-day's meeting at Inverness, the Cabinet appointed a committee, consist ing of the Ministers Dow" in Scotland, who are fully empowered to deal 'with the | Irish. situation immediately Mr. de
Valera's reply arrives...
ISLINGTON'S UNEMPLOY- MENT DOLE:
DECISION OF HEALTH MINISTRY.
HAND.
FAMINE-STRICKEN RUSSIA.
FOOD FOR STARVING CHILDREN.
Waste and off for the purpeas of facilitat ing the running of food trains, steamar, yesterday, left Millwall en route for Russia, under the auspices of Save The | Children Fand.
LONDON, September 8th. Loaded with 630 tons of food-muffs for the starving children, also with cotton
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BARLIER CABLES...
STORY OF TERRIBLE CONDITIONS.
THE R.38 DISASTER,
MEMORIAL SERVICE AT THE ABBEY.
LONDON, September 7th. A Memorial Service to the victims of the R38 disaster was conducted at West- minster Ahpey by the Dean of West minster. The King sad other members of the
Royal Family were represented. The American Ambassador, the Bishop of Con pecticut, Vico-Admiral Niblack, and American and British detachments were
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the water swelled into the land behind and after three hours the rifts had spread. from ten to 4.000 feet in extent. from Kingkow, south from Wulint and rast to Aalanhn the food spreads covering in all more than 100 li of landi with water. No such tragoly as this has been seen since the Chi-Yao year of the Tao Kwang Emperor in the Ching Dynasty.
DEATH OF THE INNOCENTS. "When it became known that the am- bankment was broken the farmers, bring 18 their young and their aged with them, ran to find refuge; but so rapid was the inundation that they could and embankment which were still standing. pone save along those portions of the Now at this time the sun had gone down and the moon was just rising, and there-/ fore the Chihli troope distinguish who were the throngs
to be southern soldiers, they opened fire sembling on the south side of the ex- bankment, and, suspecting the refugees upon them. At the same time the Hunan troops likewise suspected the crowds
not
GENATA, September 8th. Besides the Upper Silesian problem, on which a committee is working secretly. the Assembly of the League is confronted
members; namely, the disagreement be with three territorial quarrels among ita GRAPHIC
present.
BODIES OF AMERICAN VICTIMS tween the Poles and the Lithuanians as
CONVEYED BY CRUISER. regards the possession of Vilas; the An unimpeachable quarrel between Albania, Greece nad torrible famine conditions in parts at the 38 arrived at Devonport and were
LONDON, Septembêr 7th. Serbia as regards the Southern Albanian Russia and
The bodies of the American victims of the powerlessness of the placed on the cruiser Dauntless, which frontier; and Bolivia's application for Soviet to cope with the Problems is our sailed for New York. Flags on the ships the revision of her 1904, treaty with Chile tained from an intimate letter written in the harbour were lowered to half mast. gathered on the northern portion of the
to M. Lutovinov, the Soviet representa and the flagship Impregnable tive at Berlin,, by his brother at Moscow, minute-guns. The latter, in a graphic story based upon
The Armaments and Blockade Commis- sion Has agreed to the proposal of Lord Robert Cecil for the utmost publicity as the meetings of the commission.
M. Viviani, in a statement regarding the Commission's work, said that en quiries made regarding the possibility of limiting national expenditure on EVA- ments. were inconclusive. Most of thei countries interrogated insisted on the uncertainty of the political situation.
NEW VICE-PRESIDENTS.
PARIS, September 7th,
A Genova message says M Leon Bour geois, Mr. Arthur J. Balfour and Vig count Ishii have been slected vice presi dents of the League of Nations Havas.
EARLIER GABLEM.
DEBATE ON PROCEDURE.
in an
LONDON, September 7th..
account of the
Gred
GAS
GENTLEMEN v. PLAYERS.
PLAYERS MODERATE SCORE.
LORDON, September 7th. Playing against the Gentlemen, rt Scarborough, the players scored 198 in their first innings.
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SURVIVOR'S STORY OF DISASTER
AND RESCUE.
of
embankment to be Chihli soldiers and they also turned their rifle fre upon these unfortunates. ner, more than 2,000 innocent people. Thus, in this sorry man- were killed by the callous gans, while those who wore drowned the number is not smaller than 1,000. All building in the vicinity of the embankment were destroyed, while the cattle, autumn crops, -- and all the wheat that had been reaped, were washed away by the water.
The people who remains" alive in these districts now weep bitterly and murmur that Wu Pei-fu is but the same or worse than his predecessors despite his celebrated reputation among the northern, militarista." - Central "China
Post.
the reapits of official investigations into AMERICAN MAIL ROBBERY: the whole situation with which he wa entrusted along the banks of the Volga, STAFF OVERPOWERED BY mentions that the three months' blazing
BOMB. drought left absolutely nothing in the Samara area,
perishing from the absence of food. The ring,
TEXAS, September 8th. Four bands intent on the train mail- which is only now at the beginning, in car threw a small gas bomb when the comparably surpasses that of the 1891 postal clerks refused to open the car. experience, when the Administrative door. The fumes overpowered the clerks, machine was properly functioning, in and the robbers carried on their design. contrast to the present disorganisation. "The ruins of Russia aro being finally ground into dust,” concludes the letter.
The writer surveys the future prospects of relief in frank but pessimistic terms, and shows that the sole inhabitants of the formerly rich area of Samara are
THE WEALTHY MEN OF the aged, who remain and die in their
SINGAPORE, corners The peasants at Saratov, have been driven to such extremes as selling
Commenting on a recent law-suit be- their children into slavery, and whole
tween two medical men, relating to families are entering into servitude for a THE LOSS OF THE GENEVA, September 7th.
the Singapore *PERLIS." | partnership agreement
Free Press Baya!- few foods of flour Hungry villagers are The Assembly of the League engaged migrating to the Orenburg steppes, the
Now we know who are really the animated debate on procedure. track of which is marked by the bodies
men of Singapore and how it in M. Hymans (Belgium) emphasised the of horses and sometimes of hamza
Bill to make money in these." benefit of open discussion of the Council's beings. The writer says that even if the
hard times. The Eastern. Skipping Co.'s steamer
The profession of the law report. Lord Robert Cecil warmly sup twenty thousand workman remain they Perlis, was lost recently of Pulau Pisang, when it comes to a race for wealth, for has to take a station well to the front. perhaps the League's greatest hope, per- half million Soviet officials and have to Siamese steamer Chakrabang and others can give them plenty of weight and a ported saying that such discussion was have to satisfy the demands of six and a Some survivors were rescued by the
their brethren of the Aesculapian school parliament. mitting a glimpse of a future world's supply the Army. They should be well by the Lian Choo. Captain Aria bin argued that open discussion was con- possibility of any.
M. Matta (Switzerland) fod, but there is no flour ner apparent Jamin, of the Peris, died shortly after elever man who got to the position of
It used to be reckoned that beating. being rescued. Karnrberk (Dutch Foreign Minister, just ings of demoralization and confusion man to reach Pulau Pisang, related his that time obviously he was no good.. But Tuan Besar in one of the Eastern firms trary to Standing Orders, but Dr. Yan
To a representative of the Pinang The writer proceeds to reveal the feel Gazette, one of the survivors, the first
was given ten years to secure a pleasant competency, If he could not do it in elected to the presidency of the Asses which have overcome the staunchest cour exciting and hazardous experience. bly) overruled the objection, and the rades. He believes that the Brst consign, said: We'left Trang on Wednesday morn the Chamber of Commerce, these Hon'bles Assembly decided that there should be, meat of relief of corn from abroad willing at 10.55 am. At that time the sen
all the time these astute members of
tivities of the League, great open debate on the past year's transform the people into the Govern was very rough. It was raining heavily, of the Legislative Council Day even ment's hated and deadly foc.. Referring and as we got outside we caught a strong
these members of Municipal Commis- na our friend Mr. Peck Unemployed demonstrations have been to the Secretariat of the League by Ger- charitable organisations to combat the on, the wind increased to a gale, the says from a clique by a clique for
Twenty new treaties have been handed to Soviet opposition to allowing foreign wind on our starboard. As the day were selected marked by unruly scenes at various many for registration, mostly dealing famice, he says that the alternatives are places in the provinces, notably in South with her economic relations with Hang- the sacrifice of twenty million starving near Pulau Kupai the vessel was unable daily ills.
seas grow bigger and more violent, and clique"-have been left behind by that
quiet community which attends to Wales at Sunderland, Bristol, Liverpool ary, Austria, and Czecho-Slovakia, but people to the utopian folly of a world to make further headway. To make mat- reckoned to be able to do in ten years For what the merchant. and Dundee. The most serious was at ape restores peace with China. This rovolation
or to share its burden in ters worse, the water began to come on the Medico can accomplish in five, and Dundee, where windows were smashed action on Germany's part is regarded sa crder to save millions from starvation board. I reported the matter to the cap although the arithmetic in the case had and shops looted.
a method of semi-officially proposing her He declares that he has chosen the latter, tain, and he endeavoured to manoeuvre rather an Einsteiniah Bavour in its in- The Cabinet, now at Inverness, has candidature for membership of the and believes his brother will do the the ship round before the wind. appointed a Committee comprising Bir League.
parent, none the leas the average citizen Seas troduction of factors not usually ap Robert Horne, Dr. Macnamara, Sir Alfred Mond and Mr. Munro to deal with
will now glance at his doctor's bills with the unemployed problem:
something approaching eavy, and wonder thousand or has caly just put by the first whether the gentleman is in his hundred ifty thousand of
LONDON, September 7th. sanction the Islington Board of Guard The Ministry of Health has refused to
The Marwari Chamber of Commerce has for a man, his wife and six children. ians' employment dole of 73/6 weekly passed a resolution in favour of not our This ruling-that the Islington "scale is chasing further foreign cloth until Decem-illegal-is bound to affect in an import ber 31st, in order to steady the market ant degree the agitation that is spread and help to deplete the accumulated ing over the country, owing to the dia stocks and thereby to create atmosphere for future operations...
content of the workless at their relief, as compared with the Islington, terms,
UNRULY DEMONSTRATIONS. “
LATER.
healthy
FALL OF ANGORA. LATEST GREEK COMMUNIQUE."
LONDON, September 8th.
The Smyrna report of the capture of Angora is still unconfirmed.
The latest Greek communiqué from Athens, of September 5th, says that the Greek left wing is engaged in sectional fighting. Aeroplanes bombed the Angora railway station.
EARLIER CABLES.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
POST-WAR SCIENCE.
LONDON, September 7th.
The British Association opened at: Edinburgh to-day. The programme covers every field of scientific activity, including the newest problems and their applica
NEW SHIP-REPAIRING WORKS.
HARLAND AND WOLFF ENTERPRISE.
LABOUR REPRESENTATION.
LONDON, September 7th: The Trade Union Congress at Cardiff passed a resolution demanding the re- organisation of the League of Nations so as to provide the fullest opportunity for the adequate dempcratic representation of all nations in order to prevent the catastrophe of another war.
same.
REORUDESCENCE OF RED TERROR,
STOCKHOLM, September 7th:
The Dagens Nyheter learns that Petro- grad, Kieff, and Odessa are panic stricken owing to a recrudescence of the Rod Terror. Wholesale arrests are, re- ported in connection with the discovery of an anti-Soviet plot headed by Prof. Tagantsev, who is said to have been shot The resolution declared that peace along with sixty more conspirators, in could only be secured by the creation of cluding Prince Tumanoff and Messrs.
confidence of each country, which was an international body possessing the Soviet officials.. only obtainable by adequate direct re presentation of Labour on the Council of the League of Nations.
LONDON, September 7th. tion to everyday life. Bir Oliver Lodge, The Belfast shipbuilders,
popular lecture last evening entitled Harland and Wolff are to open a ship Sporch through Ether, dweit On the repairing works on the Thames, on the wonders of wireless telephony.
15th inst, when they will undertake all Sir Edward Thorpe, in the presidential maintenance address to-night, dealt with some aspects London Authority.
the Port of of post-war science. He remarked that, inter alia, the National Physical Labora MOTOR-BOATS CHAMPION- tory had grown at a most
by
rapid
rate and
work for
SHIP.
RECORD SPEED,
DETROIT, September 7th.
was dealing with an extraordinary range of subjecie, its researches being most im portant to the national life. The bulk of Bir Edward Thorpe's address was de voted to the results of the latent investigo Miss America 11. won the Lake George tions into the superlatively grand ques tion of the inner mechanism of the atom," trophy for the mile speed championship which term atomic weight" acquired for motor-boats. A speed of 80.507 miles an altogether new significance, demand per hour, a world's record for hydrop jag joint study by chemists and physi-, lanes, was attained. cista. He concluded by referring to the application of science in the great war, denouncing the use of poison gas, and other chemicals, and hoping that the Association would sat its face against the continued degradation of science in aug menting the horrors of war.
THE RIOTS IN EGYPT. MURDERERS EXECUTED.
Aizzandu-September 8th- Three Egyptians convicted of murder- ing Europeans in the May riots have been hanged.
Four more executions take place to
morrow,
BRITISH VESSEL" SINKS.
LONDON, September 7th. for the international motor-boat race at The Maple Leaf VII., & British entrant Detroit, eack in the first race, while going at full speed, her bottom.dropping
out
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COTTON MARKET.
WILD OPENING: SHARP DECLINE
New You, September 7th," 180 poista higher but later collapsed, Cotton again opened wild, at 130 to The decline reached the two hundred point limit, add the market closed weak.
THE ST. LEGER.
many
OUTSIDER WINS IN FIELD OF NINE.
LONDON, September 7th.
集
Mr. Clynes, M.P., moving the resolu tion, criticised the Government for fail- ing to send anyone who could claim to represent Labour at the present meeting The Bt. Leger was run in glorious wear of the League at. Geneva.
ther in the presence of an enormous crowd, the result being: Polemarch DEMAND BY PROFESSORS AND (50-3), 1: Franklin (100-0), 2; West-
STUDENTS.
ward Ho (8-1), 3.
Ning ran. One and a half lengths separated first and second, the third being another three lengths away. N
GENEVA, September 7th.
..Ho
broke over her continually, and the cap tain, realising that the ship was doomed, gave instructions to lower the boats, Lifebelts were issued to everybody.
Considerable difficulty was experienced in getting the boats away, and all except the lifeboat were in a water logged coR.. dition.
About 3 p.m. I jumped into the sen and, awam away from the ship, which foundered a few minutes later. At that time the nearest land was Pulau Pisang, which was about two miles away.
our
THE REVENUE OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. THIRTY AND A HALF MILLIÓNÉ. The narrator, in concluding his story, said it was about 11 p.m. when he was
Owing to the great fall in revenue, driven ashore. Next morning he met the revenue of the Straits Settlements four other membera of the
which Crow.
in 1919, WBA estimated Although careful look out was kept, no $37,185,000, is now expected to realise not ships were seen, and night found them more than 830,558,000. A refund of over still on the island, without food. On payments for the defence contribution in Friday morning, & Chinese survivor ww8
21817-18, 83,448,000 has been made by the washed ashore, and at 7 a.m. a steamer Treasury This makes the total anti-t
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hands and making signals with a piece of $3,156,000. It is expected that, the sighted, Lian Choo. By waving their cipated receipts $34,028,000, a net decrease of cloth, they attracted her attention. expenditure for 1981 will amount to he stopped, lowered a host and brought 841,950, and at in anticipated that the them safely aboard. Ho had spent two
cash balance the end of nights and a day on the island, and had year will be between $6,000,000 and that time. He did not know what hap.LB. repays before the end of the year existed on harbs and tamarinds during $7,000,000. This will be increased corrés The League of Nations has received a
pondingly by the amount which the request signed by professors and stadents
pened to the others when they left FAVOURITE UNPLACED. representing fourteen countries for the
steamer, but be was of opinion that some to the Colony account for rice sold. Franklin led for a quarter of a mile, of them may have succeeded in reaching formation under the auspices of the when Tremola went to the front, and led one of several of the other small islands, League of an international organisation the field by six lengths at a mile. Enter-with which the locality, abounds.
IRON ORE FROM JOHORE. of brain-workers, so that science and edu-ing the straight Franklin, Westward Ho, League similarly to capital and labour. cation may be represented within the and Craig-an-Eran were racing abreast,
The other day, a Weltevreden corres bát a furlong from home Poletnarch took
pondent asked whether it is true that the lead and won easily. Craig-an-Eran
5,000 tons of iron ore is being shipped finished fourth,
monthly from Johors to Japan. Another The runners and riders were hole calendar, and it should be
The world nexis an entirely new correspondent says he does not know the march (Child), Franklin (Gardner),
nained quantity, but export does take place, the Westward Ho (Cazzlake), Craig-an-Eran
ship "perpetual,"
outside, near Pengarang, and after That is the propom in a Bill intro roquest of new calendar makers. Ho
correspondent states that the yo Ironworke (Japan) have a conces Naayo would add a new month to summer (just work the ore at Batu Pahat. The Mitsui Bion from the Johore Government to when it is hottest), and dall it Centre. Bussan Kaisha have a contract to ship It would come between June and July 100,000 tons this year to Japan. No Then there would be thirteen.
doubt details of this new industry will be given officially in due course Straus Tienza
TOULON'S FUTURE,
8th.
· 13-MONTH · YEAR,
(P. Bullock), Roman Fiddle (Halme) duced by Representative Drane at tholding the sails direct for Japa
Miletina
Foundation (Los), and Tremelo (Bear: (Henry), Thandarar (Donoghue).. ley
AS A COMMERCIAL PORT.
FALIE, September The naval port of Toulon will become a commercial port in the terms of & con- time aracnal are ceded to the Chamber port of Lepi do Milhaud and the marion. fract officially approved, by which the
Craig-an-Eran started favourite at 4-1
of Commerce for commercial purposes ex- Polemarch, 74 against Franklin, 6 to 4 The place betting, wars. 6-1. against clusively.
on Westward Ho.
Mr. Drans would also, divide the year into four periods of thirteen weeks each.