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AGAIN. YERTY INCIDENT "CLOÅEN
Losos, April 3rd. The -German Treaty incident down for the second and, it is hoped, the at tim yesterday at Gierea with the Ten Powers reply to Germany. The reply inc: darbally voices the most general opin ion that ferman action in concluding a treaty was contrary to that spirit al Noyal en-operation which is essential to the
aloration of Europe."
MORE FAVOURABLE OMENS. Omons you now more favourable for the most critical phase of the Conferener this week, which will show, whether Me. Lloyd fitorget great sim, for a real Euroman Pear Pret cun È rentiel.
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The Pernah Delegates, dospine" the glony and irritated strie of feeling gree valent in Paris pesterday, were move enzi ciliatory The French Delegate is resu ing membership of the Russian Affairs. Hub Committee, following the withdrawal
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TURSDAY APRIL METU, AQUI.
LATEST CABLES.
THE PRINCE IN JAPAN.
LUNCHES WITH THE PRINCE REGENT.
Toxro, April 24th.
On Monday the Prince of Walow" went
A TOPICAL LECTURE, FAMOUS CHINESE EXPERT ON PLAQUE.
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KIETY. THOUSAND DEATHS. The trouble was to convince the natives. of the dangers they were facing. “Nobear' was the fatalism of the Chinese altitude towarda lifa mors elsarly illustrated. They, an hundreds of their follow- creatures die, every day and yet they
imulation. They would rather die than do There were 60,000 what we told them deaths and not a "kingle proovery.
When this last epidemin e
“JAPAN" AND SIBERIA, SUCCESSFUL ISSUE OF THE LAUREN CONFERENCE.
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LABOUR TROUBLES IN JAPAN.
ANOTHER STRIKS AT LEVERS. --
The Japanera papers report that she
Foreign manufacturing firms in Japan Prolonged conference at Dairen be (ays the Japon Chronicle) seem to be tween representatives of the Japanese specially exposed to labour troubles. They Government and representatives of the may rigidly adhere to the Factory Acu,
have at last resulted in the framing of to
aro required by law t it" is all no purpose--troubles continue - × Convention. The Conference has ex- atated. Two or three months ag tended over eight months during which the latest trouble among them. 1920 time there have been twenty-eight sit-ployee of Messrs. Lever Bro. (Japan) Limited was brought to an und by the
sightseeing in the beautiful Harkons sity had the privilege, yesterday, of listen- oppowni ail our ideas of sanitation and Clovernment of the Far Eastern Rapablig / extend more privileges to the men than
PASHION THE. MOLOCH OF CIVILISATION, Medical students of Hongkong Lolver-
lecture of The Plague Epidemic in Manchuria in 1920," by the distinguished Dr. "Wa Len-tels, Physician Extraordinary to the Preside it of China
district, but the visit was marred by thing to a weather..
To-day the vivid grown mountains, amid
which nestles the Yumoto villä, where the and Diretor of the Manchurian Plans occurred we were much better prepared. | ting. The xt of the treaty, which was intervention of the polie, who propemil
Prince is staying, are shrouded in Prevention Service, Harbin. Dr. We wan introduced by Professor Farle to the large heavy downpour,
the leading assembly of students as Chinese medical man in Chisa, founder ¦ and first President of the National Medical Association of China, a promoter of the
This morting the Prince of Wales went shopping in the picturesque village of Miyanoshita when the Japaner. puzzle toys are made,
Later he metered to the Imperial villa beside Lake Harkone, and took lunch with the Prince Regent. This will be their last mortis of the tour. -f From Sir Herbert Russell.}
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE
ENQUIRY. PACIFIC MARITIME CO. NOW INVOLVED.
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We had not only past experience, but in | inforivally concluded at the conference The interval wo had established the of the Japanese, and Chito delegates at Pingu Prevention. Service, with properly Da'ren on April 8th, as transmitted by quipped hospitals, and laboratoris, the Jiji correspondent at Daiten, is as Thero hauf also bean some education of the follows: people on the question. Although the Population had risen in the ten years from
That the For Eastern Republie' gor ertment formally declare adherence to the anti-Communism principle,
That the Far Eastern, Republic gor
to millions, the total mortality was only 8,000,-too large a figure, but a
roat decline, compared with the 60,000 oferament recognize the agreement previ The previous epidemic:
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compromise, which was neceptes | By the men wnd the firm, »ud., under which sick pay and having allowances were provided for. Nevertheless, there was. Do improvement in the work, which even under Japanese standards Was pour. A few days ago a deputation demanded to me the Manager, To lay before him a fresh series of demands. “He refused to see them on the ground that an agree- ment had been entered into, "which" was
binding on both sides. The chief do pusly concluded by the Japanese army | mand apparently, was för "better treat- ment," which, being interprètel, seems in authorities with the Russian administra
the main to have meant first-class hospital
tions in the Far East.
tccommodation in the case of accident or
That the Far Eastern Republic got.
illness due to employment, with a suhemo malament mrugnize the concession to
of regular increase of pages indépendent of Japan of rights on the Araur river to capacity. On the Manager refusing to see
Fol that conceded the exte
FIEDERY NIGHTS
to
the deputation the men first “! went slow" and a few days later walked out. Ther upon the firm chissed the works and ab- nounced that if the men returned to their employment by the 11th instant they would all be reinstated, otherwise new workers regions of Siberia and North Manchuria | Jasian concerning the right of Japanese would be engaged. By absenting themselves
as Dr. Earle said just now-(laughter)— That the Far Eastern Republic gov-
publie central Hempital at Peking and of many anti-opinin cimpugns. Dr. Wu wa chify known, said Professor Earle, for his work in connection with the Page Prevention Service which had
"What was the original cause of this gadded immensely to scientific knowledgvi
plagno? In bubonic plague it was the of plugue and its provention. We are particularly interested in that subject," parumonic pingue it also started with a member of the rat family; only Prol. Early added, "because" p'ague is always with us in Hongkong and the this rat in a little bigger than usual: it
is the size of a cat and, instead of living Chita Ungrity quarters, are always subject to
in severs-and in flongkong University, the invasions of mts."-(Laughter.)
Dr. Wr was very heartily applauded an rising to begin his lecture. He pro
atairs of the Pacific Maritime and Cortions to Hongkong University on having |mercial Company, founded by M. Albert monised a grant from the Rockefeller Galluser in July 1918. and who is now Foundation to establish two new chairs. A great impression has been made by charged, on the complaint of numerous in surgery and medicino-(applause) Mr. Lord George's plain words at yester.shareholders, with infringing the com. My hope in," said Dr. Wo, that the the deaths of thousands from pneumonic day's meeting of the ten. Allies, when he firmly intimated that the British desire to cooperate with the Allies was not likely to continue if it appeared that feuds were.
Panis. April gard The lagery into the affairs of the Banque
it lives underground in the mountainous ernment cosclade
agreement with
of the Russian Memorandin nonoorval | Industrielle Be Chins has extended to the Inced, his remarks by offering congratula- These animals are very fierce; they have engaging in fishery oa the Russian Mari, from work of their own free will the men
in yesterday's cables.
WORDS.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S PLAIN
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thereby promotesi. Headed that the
British Empire was determined to xur mount any obstacles for the achievement
of pance.
FRANCE'S ATTITUDE. M. Barthou, following, declared that ha approved of all Mr. Lloyd George had id. He and his colleagues were most
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any law. Abuse of confidruce and swind- fing nte allergeed. "
A. Pernotte made considerable advances
to the Pacific Company out of the coffers of the Batique Industrielle, to whom the company owed 190,000,000 francs, when M. Gallusser finally received his congé.
M. Gallusser, however, declares that the debt is only about one quarter of this
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MINOR.
«Constantinople, April 23rd, Angora's reply to the Allied note insists un the necessity of commencing the eva- cuation of Asia Minox simultaneously with the declaration of the Armistice, but proposes to meet the Allied Dolegates ab
future will
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short ears; very sharp claws and long, else, very thick fine fur.”
HUMAN FINKLY AND HUMAN MISERT.
Dr. We made it clear that, in a vase,
of our Chinese, plague was due to the human lore of particularly graduates of this University, self-adornment. The people of Manchuria taking a prominent part in the research went to hunt for the animals-the
work of
THE LOCAL PLAQUE
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time coast-
have lost all right to claim leaving allow- unces and have thus placed themselves eu- tirely in the wrong.
That the Far Eastern Republic gor- *ernment agree to the stationing of legiti
Thoro the matter remains for the present. mate representativos of the Japanese government in Chita, Valdivostock and It would almost seem that in the case of other places where the stationing of such foreign manufacturing firms it will soon be representatives is deemed necessary.
of advantage to import workers from Europe That the Far Eastern Republic goy- ernment make efforts for a peaceful solu
or America. Wages paid are fat approxi- tion of administrative rights of the Mari- mating to the European standard, while the time state and strive for the maintenance efficiency of European and American workers of order and peace in that state in effect is a much superior that in many cases there would be an actual saving Japanese territory is the Far East.
workmen, with their lower efficiency and That the Far Eastern Republic guv carelessness in the use of machinery, are go- srament guarantee positive safety of theing the wrong way to work for improving lives and property of all foreign residents their position. An improvement in the in the Russian territory ід Easter workers' position which came about by im- Siberia
proved efficiency would be far more stable in its results.
TO OPEN, VLADIVOSTOCK,
the world, especially that of marmote-xcause, before the war, the furing the unification of the whole Russian China, for the medical knowledge of was bought in large quantities by the China is still far from being complate, Germans to be changed into imitation. and I believe that the people who will
Sable was sable~(laughter.) carry out that research most successfully much loved by all sorts of people, very
·will be Chinese-graduates,”
especially ladies, that those who could afford it bought the real, and those who could not bought the imitatibu. Millions of the peits were sent overland to Leipzig, dyed, and changed into imitation sable. They wore worth 40 cents when they left Manchuria and some came back there, being then worth $6. However, the real Ten thousand hunter sable comp $40. used to visit the Manchurian roses to trap these animala.
Speaking first of plaque generally, Dr. We mentioned that for practical purposes there were only two kinds of plague,
books septicamie plague" was described; that was what the patient usually died of but eases of primary septicemia were very, fex indeed Bubonic plague was caused by the bacillus pestis being conveyed from the rat, through the rat-floa, into
ad.
sanzious to dispel all difficulties, and to THE EVACUATION OF ASIA bubonie and pneumodic, although in the
couperato fully in the renic restora. sion of Europe and the peace of the world. In the meantime it is reported that not only are demands for a security pact with Britain being revived in France, but also for a wide military anvention includ ing Poland, for the enforcement of the
allies' claims against Germany.
BIR ROBERT HORNE PROCEEDS
TO WINDSOR... Sir Robert Horne jõurceyed to Windsor immediately on his return from Genoa, Boran sudience with His Majesty.
EARLIER CABLES.
BUSSO-GERMAN TREATY.
GENOA, April grd.
The Representatives of the ten Powers
The result of that infection was
"That the Far Eastern Republic gov ernment remove the defences in Vladivo stock and open it as a free commercial port
Thas the Far Eastern Republic gov. ezament grant foreign residents the right of losing larki necessary to conduct their thirty-six years. businees for a period not exceeding
According to the Japanese paperst various barristers, schoolmasters, and labour leaders are mediating" in the Lever Brothers dispate. Not the less of the trials of the victims of this sort of affair is the necessity of having to be polite to the interminable busybodies who intrude in order to mediate One of the troubles at every foreign factory in Japan where up-to-date methods are. nurse of catching, and skinning the
train's number of men who undertake, the risks of infection and he then gare ernment recognize the right of foreign have full wages from the beginning, only marmots the hunters were subjected to That the Far Eastern Republic govno sort of apprenticeship but must a thrilling account the fight against
Russian territory and export it. band of doctors: The story is too long t
That the Far Eastern Republic gor erament, open all iron mines in its Bus Dr. Wir went on to explain how, in thaian territory to investment in, and employed is that the owners have to
operation by
by foreigners.
that buboes Formed in the groin, under the the plague carried on by the Kallant subjects to cut timber in the forests in to go off to some rival native concern as
Ismid preparatory to Pour Parlers, and armpit or elsewhere in a gland area. The organisms would pass into the blood then to negotiate an immediate peace if stream and cause septicemia, but the grounds for an "understanding ca be primary factor was the flea, and its found.
habitat, the rat,
EARLIER CABLES.
AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.
HOSTILITIES TO CEASE. -*
LONDON, April 24th
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tall in the present issue and too interesting to sport by over-compression. The nar rative will be continued in to-morrow's
paper.
That the Far Eastern Republican "experts" on high wages as on as they government recognize the proprietary have learnt a modicum of usefulness at the rights of foreigners but that personal cost of their employers' time and freedom of individuals shall be guaranteed machinery. This ta high wage standard in strict accordsate with the constitution | which new raw hands expert the foreign of the Far Eastern Republic, and no firm to live up to. And when the industry recourse shall be taken to any compulsory becomes well established there is a good deal of feeling that anch's foreign concern has no right to exist in competition with Japanese pctories. In the end all lose alike. Japaness as well as foreignere. Japan bas at least learnt the art of protecting herself from “exploitation."
In pneumonic plague," continued Dr. CHINESE APPRENTICES AND requisitioning or commandeering.
THEIR PAY, Wu, “you don't have the flos or the rat and when wo first went to Manchuria to |· A MAGISTERIAL COMMENT. study plague we were obsessed with the preconceived idea of such a connection. Bat
The conditions of employment an offered in young Chinese apprentices by the
REVISE TARIFF. ` "That& revision of the customs tariff be made by a special committee to be appointed by the Far Eastern Republic and the Japanese government at the con alusion of the present treaty.
TAMOJ met this morning and sent the respondent understands authoritatively and devote our attention to the human comument by Mr. J. A. Fraser, at the terests to be granted by the Far Eastern
who signed, the Note of protest Ger- The Westminster Gazettes Dublin cor-
President of the German delegation Molo reserving for their governments the right to declare null and void any clauses in the Russo-German treaty which may be recognised as contrary to existing trent os, and declaring that the incident may Low be regarded as closed.
THE TEN POWERS REPUDIATE GERMAN ASSERTIONS,
LATER. The ten Powers! Note declares that there is no shadow of justification for the statement that the Germans were forced to conclude a soparate agreement with Buwis by refusal of the convening Powers to consider difficultice which the proposals
that an agreement has been reached be fuctor. We asked What is the method tween the military leaders of the Repub of infection between sufferers! We had lican and Free State sections of the Irish Army for a cessation of hostilities, The no difficulty in finding that it was agreement is purely military and does not through the breath, especially at night affect the political issue. The people will be left to freely pronounce upon the time when patients, aiready with a cough, Treaty.
infected contacta That knowledge led to the question of prevention of infection and the final method adopted was the use
BRITISH COURT IN MOURNING.
Losnos, Ápril 24th. The Court will wear mourning for Lord Leopold of Mountbatten for a fortnight.
of the experts in London would have that Lord Leopold Mountbatten,
Wad
That the extent of the rights and in- a few of us dared to break away from itinere Company was the subject of a
Magistracy, yesterday afternoon, after Republic government do not exceed the hearing the evidence brought against a extent of those granted, by the Soviet young, timid-locking apprenties who was government.
That the Far Eastern Republic gov- charged with the larceny of a $100 bill from the Firm. The Magistrate expressed erament refrain from any propaganda the opinion that the paying of little or calculated to bo prejudicial to the pence "That a military agreement concern. for them to go wrong, no wages to apprentices was an insuntive of the Japanese government.
From the evidence it was adduced that ing the withdrawal of Japanese troops on Sunday evening the defendant in from Siberis be arranged after the com- going past one of the cashier's desks pick.usion of negotiations, on commercial ed up the bill. The boy, on being pur-
relations. sued, was seen to drop the note into spittoon close to where he was caught
The cashier, in giving evidence, said that his own wages were 30 per month.
The Manager of the Exports Depart
of a mask"
AN UN-HEARS 07 ISLAMITY.
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Dr. Wu exhibited the mask and later showed sinematograph pictures of doctors,
shall be written bath in the Japanese and "That the text of the present. treaty "asian languages and two copies of the text to be kept by both governmenti,”
The clauses of the text may be subject
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FILMS FOR THE FAR EAST.
In the interview that Lord Northelife gave to Mr. Loyat Fraser, he pointed out how eager Asiatics were for the pic- tures," and that, unfortunately, what they saw very largely consisted of the worst kind of American films, dealing largely with crime and rice Scanty clothing for women is an abomination to an or most advanced Asiatio, and yet their influenced by an aborce of decent gar opinion of white women was necessarily ments, which would causes nstural re vulsion and shock. A considerable censor- ship has been exercised over British films, East in comparison with their competitors.
[It was stated in our yesterday's issue attendants and patients all wearing maak, ment of the Firm told tho, Magistrato i to more or less alteration as the reenit and they are very little seen in the Far
that the boy had been under suspicion of further negotiations at a pont-confer. created for Germany, The German dele- A.D.C. tó, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and looking like members of some mystic for some time and, for that reason, bones ression but no important chango, A recent,traveller has pointed this out,
is said, is likely to be made. gates, when they conferred with the de- This was an error.
of Powers, sever
It is Lord Louis brotherhood. The lecturer mentioned that had been moved from the second floor to had been 41 days in greated that the London, Proposals fourseatton, who ith A.D. C. to the Prince a pad of cotton wool in the mask, if kept the fintos of the Conga by and his wagen afforded no basis for discussion in con- lato Lord Leopold Mountbatten was the dry, was found a sufficient safeguard ference, and that the German delegation son of H.E.H. Princess Beatrice and with but to conclude a separate treaty HRH Prince Henry of Battenberg. Disinfectants were not accomary and only
The alegation that informal discussions Prince of Wales is the son of Princess
Lord Louis Mountbatten, A.D.C. to the incommoded the patient by burning his with the Russians on the subject of the Victoria and Admiral the Marquess of
nose and mouth. recognition of debts oxposed the Germans Milford Haven.
"The world had never heard of such
Russla
s the risk of being confronted with a
cheme inacceptable to Germany was
mqusly unfounded, as no scheine could
STAINER'S CRUCIFIXION.
The
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and also the fact that incalculable harm « has been 'dons to the prestige of the while man by the showing of films that depict. were $2 per month. It was the usual ** MILITARISTS HOPE TO a daily happenings, sandid crime and vice. Scores of kinetas houses, are being EXPLOIT SHANTUNG,
merved with this fare; the audiences take entstom in the Firm, the witness added, to take apprentices on two months' trial, They were also allowed food and lodging. The largest mining company in China just what they are given, and believe it The Magistrate: If he had boon satis thus far was registared pesterday at the to be true to life. He asks if the British factory how much would he have got 1
The Witness: I daresay he would have the operation of mines along the Shantung on of a read educational and national Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce for of sterling value could not find an outlet here Assuredly a good deal of informa- got 3 or perhape 85 and his "tucker." Railway. It is to be capitalized at value could be perpetrated, and the role of 1910," said Dr. Wu. The second The Drumental Manager formed the $20,000,000, and is organized appareat- ons took place in 1920. I was first sont opinion that he was a most disorderly ly by the military party on of the white man be elevated rather than
boy.
fung ander the leadership of General-what too frequently happens-debased. to investigate the plague of 1910, In the course of ovidence the Magi Chin Yun-peng, Gereral Wang Chan was an extremely interesting disease rate asked the boy what he did with all yuan, and a number of others General Oh," replied the boy, Wu Peifa is reported to be bitterly op his money?
a plague as the first Manchurian plague
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The Witness: "He was not carrying it,
ave been accepted by the conference without the fullest discussion by the com- mittoes, in which Germany was represent LAST ORATORIO AT ST. ANDREW'S. ed equally with the other Powerna Bank
FRENCH HOSTILITY.
An augment
augmented choir of 50 voices com posed of members of the various Church (non-medical membora of the audienco what I do not spend in Hongkong; I nosed to the company upon the grounds] OVERHLARD AT THE MAGISTRACT PARIS, April 23rd."
and Chapel choirs in the Colony and smiled at this indication of professional | send home to my mother in the country.” that the concessions for these Shantung The anti-Conference views of the news trained by the organist and choirmaster napors are daily increasing in bitterness of St Peter's Church (Mr. GO. Field scarcely anything was known of in
atcnthos asm—and пр
that time The Exports Manager then added: mines was regained solely by the chorts An English witness: The defendant the majority to-day strongly favour im gito) gave a
The wages may appear to be very small of the Chinese people, at the Washington went into the kitchen to get some water. of
to you, your Worship, but they have Conferenon and not by either the initie The Magistrate: How was he carrying mediate French withdrawal from donos, 2 very pics rendering
on" at St. Andrew's was a chance for any
porsan keen on exce lent opportunities. We send them to tive or the wisdom of the military leaders. it? bat some, like the Intransigeant, express Church, Kowloon, last
night the opinion that the conference will end
investigation, although, the dangers were school, both English and Chincas. We Pri-fu protected against the company choruses were wor
well spatained in a fiasco whether France quite or stays, and therefore advises remaining in order solos and quartettes word very pleasing. rather great and more than one docter they care to they can get on very well. prior to its formal registration and your Worship: he Had it in his hand bor
Some of the men on the same floor as been supported in this stand by numerous
hind his back, by pro The bartione soloist-Mr. Crocker-wrefused to go. It was a pleasure to the defendant get as much as $60 to $80.
No wonder the Court littered: to avoid the blame of being the first tornato's D
to attend but Mr. ratahlish a little laboratory, and work Later, it was stated that on commenting is to operate all of the mines along the groups of oitizens. The mining company of the Wesleyan Church mido CONFLICTING VIEWS. ·
& splendid bstitute. The wing put this problem of pneumonia pages his apprenticeship the defendant's, uncle Kirochow-Tainan Kailway as soon as this
following lades and pertferren took the principal which was disturbing not only the Chineas signed a bond for a little under $200 is restored to the Chinese authorities. It in bolioved that the military leaders in parts in the oratorio, Miss G. Brock, Miss Giovanarnt hat many other Governments guaranteeing the boy's good behaviour. Mow Burg, Mr Of Rer. Fieldgate understand that there was
Mer Arniu,
which had interests in China. You can
The Magistrato took into considerationvolved in the company will shortly begin
The Revenue Oom in a town of North Hoggar and Gavile.
for the boy's youth, and imposed a fine of negotiations with the Japaness for the provided at the organ
auxiety. There were thousands of deaths, 203 with the option of one month's in- utilization of their mining properties and Bohemia have, the Prague Gazelle states, no signs of the plague abating and it was priorment
equipmentAccording to reports from | appointed an official whose title in German "Leboremitte ruschlusseinstellungskom spreading southward. The Gove nment
Loyang Wa Polls in quoind as saying that is gave me full powers and there were
the Military party should rat benefit either minionsvorsitzenderstel vertreter "[De. plenty of volunteers amongst British,
directly or indirectly by the possession of puty President of the Food Rationing French and Russian doctors,
Winding-Up-Commission].
RAPALLO, April 23rd.
A meeting of the Little Eatente and Polad endeavoured to find a mi media to secount for the difficulty in which they were placed oving to the corBirting views of the Brith and Italian delegates, on, the ore hand, and the French and Bel- gians, on the other. It was decided to prem France not to contribute to the kreaking up of the conference...
There was a good attendance and at the conclusion of a very enjoyable pro Cramma & collection in a'd of the main tenance fund of St. Peter's Church was
mude.
esuse
After the boy bad boon led out of the Deck the Magistrate recalled the Kkports Manager and expressed the opinion stated in the opening paragraph.
these mines.
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