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THE IRISH SITUATION.
RUTHLESS DESTRUCTION, BY
TRREGULARS,
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LONDON, July 27th.
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SATURDAY, JULY 2913,
AMERICA AND WAR LUSSONS.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN, STUDYING THE PROBLEM.
LONDON, July 171-SENSE OF WORLD PARTNERSHIP.
MR. TAFT'S ASSURANCE.
Reuter learns that the Cabinet Com. mittee on Unemployment, the appoint- ment of which was announced by Mr. The "Hon. Willings, H. Taft, Chief Lloyd George in the House of Commons Justice of the United States, was enter that afternoon, deals with the wider
Committee, under Sir Alfred Mond, deals 19th, at the Hotel Victoria. London,
measures.
1923
TIM AMERICANIBING PROCESS. Another source of misunderstanding calls for comment." We are engaged in a gigantic experiment. We have offered our country and its opportunities aa "a kpme for the people of Europe who have "been “ambitious to better their economia: condition. Qur purpose has been to amalgamate them into our citizenship For 'and make them loyal Anigricans,
in this, and many of our beat Americans
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
The report of the Board of Trade Coin-pects of the problem, while the Cabinet Itained at dinner by the Pilgrims, on June decades we were wonderfully successful The Irregulars, destroyed Marconi's wittee, "on the effect of, the application of with local aspects and various palliative Lord Desborough presided over a com-
The new Committee of which Mr.pany of about four hundred. great wireless station at Clifden; burning part two of the Safe Guarding of Indus- down the reveiring station and bombing tries Act iò fabric gloves and glove Lloyd George is Chairman, will examine The Earl of Balfour, in proposing the
the various causes of unemployment,
causes, has concentrated in our large house. Transatlantic fabrics manufactured in Germany upon especially those connected with the loss health of Mr. Tait, said that Mr. Taft was, traffic has been transferred to the Ongar | employment in the fine cotton-spinning and lack of markets abroad and will also he believed, the only man who has erer,00 rants who, whether naturalized or not, it might be said, that, Municipal Govera devote its attention to an overseas settle cupied as executive position above which Station, Essex.
ment scheme which it will endeavour to there was none existent in the world and put into full effective operation.
ajudicial position of which precisely the ENGINEERING dispute,
same thing might be said. The President of the United States and the Chief UNIONS ADVISE MEMBERS TO Justice presiding over great federal Courts were sach of them men who had, by the Constitution of their country, and by the greatness of their country itself, unique positions in the world. (Cheers.)
IRREGULARS' RESISTANCE WILL BE BROKEN WITHIN TWO WEEKS.
LONDON, July 27th.
industry in the United Kingdom, con- cludes that"in view of the present excep tional circumstances, and the strictly limited duration of the proposed order, there is no reasonable ground for believ
WORLD'S LIGHTWEIGHT
An official statement issued in Dublin, prorogning Parliament to August 8th,ing that it would reduce such employ- aya the rapid progress of the Nationalment, Forces in the West and in Munster, en Bourages the hope that organised resist ace by the Irregulars will be broken within a fortnight, and no further post- pasement of Parliament will be necessary.
CHAMPIONSHIP.`
LEONARD RETAINS TITLE.
JERSEY CITY, July 27th,
In a twelve round contest. Benny It mentions "that Are ministers and Leonard retained the World Lightweight sixteen members of the Dail are engaged | Championship against Lew Tendler. The
the suppression of disorder.
match resulted in no decision. NATIONALS CAFTUBE WESTPORT.
Dualis," July 27th. The Nationals captured Westport, County Mayo, after combined land and aa operations. The Irrogalary ffed, to the surrounding country.
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REBELS ESCAPE FROM PRISON,
Losos, July 27th. Political prisoners to the number of 105 escaped from prison at Pundalk through hole in the wall due to the explosion of a mice laid by confederates outside The mine was connected to the Muni- oipality's electric supply Cutting the wire exploded the mine. Fighting ensued in the streets, where several ambushes were laid. Two Regular commandants were wounded. Many windows in the town were broken by the explosion.
IRISH PARLIAMËNT · FURTHEN
PROROG ED.
Losnos, July 97th.
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THE "EGYPT" INQUIRY.
LASCARS REFUSE TO OBEY ORDERS.
Losos, July 27th- At the Board of Trade enquiry into the loss of the P.&O. liner Egypt, Mr. Halliday, Supernumerary Third Officer, continuing his evidence, testiäed that after the collision he did not are the native headman who transmitted – his | orders to the Indian seamen;
Mr. White, Second Engineer, said he ordered a large number of natives out of the boats and ordered them to help with the other boats One boat, filled with people, which he was helping to launch; went down with the ship. He went down as well, but rose and found an oar to which he hung on for two hours. water-tight door in the stokehold would never close. Some of the hatives would not do duty, but two did not attempt to "getaway: "they stood on deck and sank with the ship.
One
Mr. Hamilton, Third Engineer, testi-
fused to row near the liner, to take off the people, and backed away,
It is announced that the Dublin Govern-fied that his boatload of 23 natives re- mant has decided to prorogue Parliament
a further fortnight.
ATTACK ON IRREGULARS.
LONDON, July 97th. The Nationals are attacking the sternly resisting Irregulars on three sides. When opposition is overcome, a way will be opened for a general advance on Cork, whero heavy fighting is anticipated.
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THE U.S. COAL STRIKE. STRIKE LEADER PREDICTS RESUMPTION OF WORK.
NEW YORK, July 27th.. Lewis, the leader of the striking coal minera predicts that an inter-state juist conference will be arranged in a few days time, which will permit the resumption of mining,
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MILLION TONS OF COAL FROM CARDIFF AND NEWCASTLE.
NEW YORK, July 27th.
A representative of a British' colliery states that orders exceeding 700,000 tons
LASCAR'S COWARDLY ACTION. The Solicitor-General read affidavits by | the passengers. The first testified that there was much panic amongst the native crew. There was only one case of panic amongst the passengere. No lives would have been lost if the Egypt carried a white crew.
ACCEPT REDUCTIONS.
LONDON, July 27th. After a determined effort to secure modifications from the employers, the Unions concerned with the threatened engineering strike have advised their. members to accept the reduction and
continue at work.
The employers propose to reduce the war bonus by three instalments of is. 8d. each during the next three months, be
inning July 31st.]
INDIAN SEDITION CASE, » FIVE YEARS TRANSPORTATION.
THE GERMAN INSTALMENTS,
(THROUGH RXUTER'S : AGENCY.] ANNUAL MEETING OF CHINA ASSOCIATION.
CHINA'S WONDERFUL TRADE.
LONDON, July 27th, | trace their descent from such immigrants. Presiding at the annual meeting of the
Of recent years, however, the demand for labour, by reason of the enormous ex-Chium Association, Mr. D. Landate said, pansion of our industries and other except where fighting had been occurring cities and elsewhere inasses of immige trade in China had flourished wonderfully.
have, in their congestion, retained the same environment as in their home coupment in many great cities and Local: tries, and have not felt the American Government generally, had been good. ing influence to which the earlier immig cants were subjected. Our immigration is Great improvement would result if the now restricted, and we are making wide people of China could rid themselves of sproud efforts to Americanize our foreign residents. But home and racial pre Military Governors who wasted, the judices have not been mitigated, as in was hoped they, would be by living under country's money on the upkeep of armies the American Flag. We are not
disfor their own personal aggrandisement-- couraged, but we are waking to the seces-and replace them by Civil Governors. aity for more effective measures. •
Politics, too which seem to
A GREAT STEP TOWARDS be the The relations between Britain' and' America, important as they are to easiest thing for immigrants to learn,
REUNIFICATION. the whole world, will bear study. We
has prompted organization of hyphenated are the eldest daughter
The coping together of the North and groups, the moving spirit of which is to Mother. For nearly two hundred years promote political action of the group South, if it proved permanent, was a she gave us wide opportunity to learn The naturalized citizens who have yield-great step towards the unification and along lines of supposed racial interest. self-government from the lessons of her ed less to this temptation than any others experience and by actual practice. Wo
ME. TAFT'A RÉPLY. •«
The Taft, in reply, said:-
statesmen.
of our
For want of a united and effective gor ernment in the decade after the Revolu tion we delayed compliance on our part with our
Government...
HONGKONG UNIVERSITY'S WORK.
He thought that many who had written on the subject of education of Chinese in this country, had overlooked altogether the work of the Hongkong University.
CHINESE EDUCATION,
were born with the instinctive love of that are the British and Canadians, whe sink stablishment of a Central individual liberty which she had been into American citizenship so completely. The political position appeared much hammering into the form of constitutional and are so, loyal, that are cannot dis- guarantees for five or six hundred years, tinguish them. They lose nothing of leva more hopeful than for many years. China AMRITSAR, July 7th.
and on that foundation we builded our
of their old home, but they transfer their
was to be congratulated on the Washing. Gurdit Singh, who sbsconded after pro-infant forms of colonial government political allegiance without reservation..
It is hard for a British subject living ton Conference decisions, and the return. minently participating in the Calcutta Then under a Royal leadership which was riots in 1914 and who on the return of reactionary and blind we revolted and in his own country filled with a homo- of Wei-hai-wei should result in no hard- sixty emigrants from the Far East re won our independence after a struggle, geneous people to understand the occar ship to those who are engaged in trade cently surrendered to the police, was rendered half-hearted on the part of the sional and temporary political power of toding sentenced to five years transporta. Mother Country by a lack of sympathy a hyphenated group in America constitut at the port, provided it was recognised as a treaty port and kept open to foreign tion on a charge of sedition.
among her more liberal and far-sighted ing only a small minority, but holding in
trade. zome States and districts the balance of power between two great.political parties| divided on other issues. In such caSON the great body of truly American voters are not aroused upon our foreign rela- tresty obligations. Great tions and have their thoughts on domes Britain, on the other hand, in the exigtie matters. The truth is that we are encies of ben death struggle with Napo so far. away from close contact with leon, transgressed our rights. Thus we neighbours that our foreign relations dried into the second and the last scarcely figure much in a national elec British-American war. It cannot be said tion. The real strength of fundamental FORMING A FOUNDATION FUND. that in the war of 1819 great glory was public opinion upon such issues is only achieved by either belligerent, but only manifested upon seme such occasion as
PRKING, July 7th. that such glory as there was was evenly the World War. Even then it took three The Cabine at a meeting this morn- distributed. Then came the Treaty of years for our whole people to learn howing approved the allocation of $70,000 Ghent which settled nothing by its terms deeply concerned they were the out from Chao Tung Pu monthly for except that war should end and peace come. Indoctrinated as they had been education, which brings the monthly total ensue. The questions which were declar by nearly a century of the Monroe Doc to $990,000, Half the revenues of the ed to be the cause of the war were trine and the warnings of Washington expressly postponed for further negotia and Jefferson, they could not think of tion and never recurred again at least to themselves in a European war; and not give trouble.
until Germany conclusively showed in her. madness her heartless disregard of the lives of innocent American neutrals did the truth dawn on our people.-
PAYMENTS MUST BE MET.
Pants, July 28th. Replying to the German Ambassador, who had requested reduction of the instalments payable to Germany's private creditors, A. Poincare stated that owing to German bad faith regarding her debts, the Allies unanimously insisted upon the continuation of the payments-namely, £8,000,000 monthly..
GERMAN TRADE.“ IMPORTS GREATLY EXCEED EXPORTS
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BERLIN, July 27th," Germany's excess of importa over ex parts for the first half of the year amounted to 121 milliards of marks.
COUNTY CRICKET.
'ANOTHER WIN FOR YORKS.
LONDON, July 27th. At Worcester, Notts beat Worcester by an innings and seven runs. A pathetic affidavit by another passen- At Dewsbury, Yorka beat Gloucester by ger, who wife and two young daughters an innings and 233 rang. were drowned, said the natives became panic-stricken whilst the passengers, officers and white crew were calm. The" Lascars could have saved my little chil dren, because the sea was calm and at least 25 minutes elapsed between the collision and the sinking of the ship. One little girl repeatedly called to the Lascars to help her but they did not take the slightest nation. A passing Laser tried to tear the life jacket from my wife's
back."
Another passenger referred to the heroism of the nur, Sister Rhods, who did much to calm and inspire the passen. gere and was praying when the ship turn. ed turtle.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE
SOVIET,
for delivery by mid-September have been BRITAIN WILLING TO CO-OPERATE. placed. The price has risen from $6.45 to $9 per ton.
Roughly million tons of coal-have been ordered in the Cardiff and Newcnetic areas for shipment to Americs.
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MEETING OF ALL RAILWAY. EXECUTIVES.-
New York, July 7th Mr. Cuylez, Chairman of the Railway Excentives, after conferring with Presi Hent Harding last night, announces that a meeting of executives of all the railways in the United States will be held at Net York on Tuesday:
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PERSIAN FINANCES. PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF
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LONDON, July 17th.
known banker, Mr. Arthur John Fraser, who prominently participated in the raising of loans for Japan during the Russo-Japanese War, AUSTRALIA RATIFIES THE
* WASHINGTON TREATIES,
The death, is announced of the well-
MELBOURNE, July 27th, The Senate has ratified the Washington
Treaties.
SAFETY IN THE AIR. IMPORTANCE OF CARRYING TWO
CHYPRENATED GROUPS OVERWHELMED.
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Elrin and Heiloogkiang Government For- estries will be devoted to an Education Foundation. Fuad.
It is a commentary on the plans of
OHINESE MEDICAL PRACTICE, mice and men that a treaty, so unpro pitious of continued peace'and lacking in
ENCOURAGING QUALIFIED MEN. settlement of apparently pressing ques- itions, should exceed any other in our
PIKING, July 27th. " history in its beneficent effect. One hun
Then the hyphensted groups, were
The South Tungchow Medical Associz-i dred and eight years have rolled around, overwhelmed in a real American publiation has protested to President Li Yuan with all the capital hanges in civili opinion, and our people turned, to use Hung against the Ministry of Interior's sation, economic, social, and political, Kipling's expression, to the instant need regulations, governing medical practice greater perhaps than in any five hundred of things." Then they came to know and surgery, on the grounds that the re- years before, and yet the peace declared the enormous sacrifices, the superhuman gulations are unduly severe and do not at Gheat has been undisturbed. Within effort; and indomitable courage, with offer encouragement to these qualified. three years after the Treaty of Ghent the which Britain and our other Allies had The latter point is believed to be intend- Rush-Bagebat agreement, quite informal been fighting, not only their own, but oured to obscure the issue, as the suppres in its making, freed our great inland sess battles. They acquired a dim iden of the sion of quacks would certainly encourage that divide the United States and inestimable losses of the golden youth of qualified men. Canada from hostile warships, and the Britain and France and of the heartrend. The regulations in question provide boundary of four thousand miles betweeing sorrow that visited every family, with regard to Chinese practising foreign them has lain unprotected by a single high and low, in the struggle. Spurred science that only men possessing diplomas fortification ever since.
by these examples, they rushed to arms, issued by responsible institutions" be and in a marvellously short period were allowed to practise, and they make it. armsment in 1517, which I hope will be the Allies the needed preponderance with be proficient in their science. Those not It was shortly after the limitation of able to furnish the new troops that gave essential that the old style practitioners perpetual madus vivends, was estab which to win the victory, and to justify so qualified will sot, be allowed to prac lished that at the instance of Canning, the previous four years of noble effort, ie, their premises will be closed up and Britain's great and Liberal leader, we tenacity, and endurance under untold in the event of death or enfeeblement Bounced at Monroe Doctrine to the hardships and burdens without which the having resulted from their practice, they world. It was a warning to European world would have certainly succumbed to will be prosecuted at law. Powers that we, mast insist on a policy military despotism, on their part of hands off" towards North and South American Governments strain to which all the peoples of the strengthens the hands of those who stil With the sympathy of England, we have Allies were subjected was bound to bring stand rigidly for the Monroe Doctrine been able to maintain that doctrine ever a reaction, and we have all been going and its supposed corollary, the doctrine Bince. Both because of its logical through an interval of convalescence. of hands of European questions. sequence and a wise caution enjoined by Convalescence is not a period of good But we are making progress. We are Washington and Jefferson, we sedulously nature or common sense, and we much acquiring a consciousness of our partner- cultivated, until the World War, a policy regard, bickerings and unreasonable senship with the nations of the world and on cur part of 'hands off" Europe and sitiveness not as a discouragement but our share of responsibility for what the European questions, and the results so as a symptom of recovery. The plan for world does. The war and its lessons have justified the policy that it became deeply bringing nations within spermanent not been lost on us. But the conditions ingrained in our ustures.
agreement for the settlement of all dif- prevailing with us are such that our pro-
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
Following this war, the overwhelming
REACTION AFTER THE WAR.
Our
In the House of Commons, in reply, to questions, Mr. Lloyd George said that if
PILOTE. the Russian Government announced plain. ly an intention to pursue the policy fore
The friendly feeling evidenced by the ficulties and the continuous maintenance greas. must be slower than some amang Lieut.-Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, shadowed by the Euwian delegation to M., president of the institution of Bush-Bagehot treaty and our entente of peace succeeded with all the Allies as would wish. The great step forward THE U.S. RAILWAY STRIKE. would certainly do all in its power to Times as follows:-
The Hague, the British Government Aeronautical Engineers, writes to The continue without serious strains upon it it was concerned. The history of the Pacific and the Far East which were over the Monroe Doctrine was not to but the United States, so far as making made by those trestles affecting the
aseist Britishers to enter into negotiations
in the controvarkies over Oregon and matter in the United States is part of signed in Washington last winter, and with the Russian Government and to Six,The recent accidents to commer, that over the North-Eastern Boundary the politics of that. country into which have been sincs confirmed by the Senate carry them to a successful conclusión, « cial aircraft have to some extent shakan setiled by the Webster Ashburton agreo I cannot enter or say who or what proof the United States, is most significant. the public belief in the safely of this ment. Then our Civil War and what we vented the consummation of what many It is so not only because of the import- ance of what the treaties really achieve, mode of transport. The onus of blaforgarded as injurious and unjust British desired.
but because of the moral effect upon us. is usually laid upon some inherent fault sympathing with the South left a wound in the structure or design of the machine, which, fortunately, was for the most part All I can say about it is that in look and the nations who joined with us in and the real cause of the accident often healed by the Geneva Arbitration dia ing back over the controversy, American tho, assertion of the interest of all in res-- remains an insoluble mystery.
pate. Then came the Venezuela Boundary membership in the League would have pect to each, and of each in respect to ALLAHABAD, July 27th.
dispute, which the level-headedness, self-
We have suffered from the war, but A message from Teheran states that a which anfety in the air depends; one is Salisbury brought to satisfactory solu: conviction, confirmed by a century and a less than our European Allies.
There are, however, two elements upon restraint, and sense of humour of Lord had to overcome a deep-seated pepalar bill has been presented to the Mejlies for the machine and the other in the pilot. tion, bat which in its inception startled quarter's experience of the woman wealth and prosperity have been much the engagement of an American, Mr. Mills It is indeed a point of great importance the two countries as by a bolt out of a
America's keeping out of European less affected.While that increases our Paul, as Director-General of the Persian for future guidance to be able to separate clear sky
entanglements. Of course, the World Finance Department with full executive clearly, whether a failure has cocurred in Our origin, our fundamental common reaction from that supreme effort res They know, too, that the united notion Wat itself shook this conviction, but the comparative powers, it also increases our responsibility Our people know this. power under the Minister of Finance."
the material part of the machine or in its human direction. My council feel that conceptions of a free popular government, tored some of its strength
of, Britain and the United States in world no advance along thead lines is possible our common insistence upon the guaran The Senate of the United States is a matters is sure to make for peace. They unless it be made compulsory upon air law, our common language, literature and body of very pecular governments! funo-know, therefore, that it is of the utmost tions, and its power in restraining our importance that the friendly relations craft carrying passengers to carry two ethics, bind the great body of our people foreign relations is great and exceptional, between the two great countries which pilots, and urge that such bo made to yours. This forms our-basic public the constitutional requirement that no hare maintained, ometimes under most obligatory, Medical amination, as opinion which ultimately controlsour present compulsory at somewhat long national course. Our more than a cen treaty can be binding upon the United trying conditions, for a century or more, intervals, could not, of course, be changed fury's continuous pesce gives those who States unless initiated by the President should be made closer not only for the to a daily routine; but by the provision understand our country the utmost anu and confirmed by two-thirds of the benefit of both, but for the welfare of the DATE UNCERTAIN OWING TO
of dual control, the liability to accident ance of its continuance. No trouble, arises Bruste, was intended to surround the world. through human failere would be reduced between the two comtries that of affirmative treaty making power with As a citizen with no official mandate, ITALIAN CRISIS.
Tho Ambassadora' Conference has
to a negligibla minimum a
America do zot, all of us, look forward very serious limitation. It is so rare I beg the Britons whom I am addressing LONDON, July 27th.
authorised the Zeppelin Company to COM- The effect of continuous flying upon the to its settlement either by negotiation or that any party has a two-third majority not to be misled by temporary ebullitions egarding M. Poincare's visit, de Lloyd exceeding the dimensions prescribed bythera is much data available, nor does the state or find us a constant factor in our the wisdom of which both parties did not United States in respect to our foreign In the House of Commons, questioned struct an airship for the United States nervous system is not one upon which arbitration. Any other event is not con- in the Senate that it would seem to have of one faction or another, but to const sidered for a moment This American beer intended to prevent any treaty in on the fundamental public opinion of the George said that a dificulty had arisen the Allies for German airships.
fact that some pilots have done sa many consequence of the Ministerial crisis.
The new airship is to he of the rigid as four journeys between Patis relations. It sometimes produces an:sp-concur. Whether this was wise or not relations which will always prevail in in Italy. The date of the visit must type, with a capacity of 70,000 cubic don in a day reasure one as to the fact on the part of our people over irritating. United States is concerned, and always Britain as a most necessary security for parent indifference or lack of excitement la not the question. It is a factor in real exigency, and which regards the every international situation in which the maintenance of friendship with Great depend entirely upon when the crisis was metres, and will have a length of 200 that the nervous health of pilots is receivingoes that is misleading to the British
metres and a speed of 125 kilometres fing the attention that it deservEN
the peace of the world."
Tentative proposals for the settlement ef, the railway strike have been drawn up after a series of conferences between
Fresident Harding and the labour lead
er. It is anderstood that the plan, de tails of which are withheld, will be sub- mitted to the Railroad Executives.
M. POINCARE'S LONDON VISIT.
wolved.
Mr. Paul, with seventeen assistants, is expected to leave America abortly for
Persia
GERMAN AIRSHIP FOR THE US. ALLIES AUTHORISE EXCESS
DIMENSIONS,.":
BERLIN, July 7th.
tees of individual liberty, our common
observer.
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