GENERAL NEWS.
Carranza Seeks Peace. Washington. Mr. Lansing, Bla cretary of State, has received a communiostion on behalf of. General Carranes practically asking for recognition, and pro- posi g that his agents should meet the agents of other factions) at a peace conference.
Doctor's Fortune.
An estate of £225,799 is left by Dr. Bertram Harbert Lyne B vens, M. D., of 107, Park-street, Grosvenor square, W;, and Gay- loge, Stockbridge, Hants, who died on May 9. He left all the properly to his wife for life and then for his children.
.America May Take over the
Government.
Washington, August 9. Ad. miral Caperton, who is now at Portau-Prince, bas advised the State Department that he is not permitting the Presidential olcot ione in Haiti to take place, as he fears an uprising. It is probable that the United States will take over the Government of the Re publ'o.
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Nobel Peace Prize. It is announced from Stockholm that the Nobla P ace Prize n t year will be reduced by £1,125, which amount will be deducted as the Swedish Defence Tar, It is difficult to see anything anJA the Pall Mall Gazette but irony in New York World's revelations kilos of explosives, gunpowder, Alna! the present state of the concerning the maligo activities cartridger, shot, and weapons, and of the German propagandist Austria-Hungary also sold similar world sufficiently stows what a huge farce the whole thing is; agents and German official con- munitions to the same parchsser, and that the Swedish Government pection therewith are felt here to though in smaller quantities."
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expected to cannons is only a farther comis Bre
discrediting the Boer War is appended to activities in development. "Si pacem vis" German
the the Note, which also anggests that United States even more than the Germany and Austria had re- Bays the Cabinet of Stockholm.
formation of Mr. Bartholdt's Suspension of Worth's,
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The newspapera point out that
ite present contention."
Terrace" The Poak. Nos.
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On the other hand, the Ger- gramme-£15,180 less than hse hitherto been the case. This mine mana here seem to thrive upon seriously, if not fatally, embar-TOLET-Cheltondale, No. 97, has been very heavily worked, discomfiture better than upon rassed by the lack of arme The Peak Fully furnished. and from time to time rumours anything else, and the Depart and ammunition and of the Apply Linstead & Davis. ariee ss to the likelihood of its meat of Justice is conducting an
means to produce them in becoming exhausted, so it is well investigation of the labour situa sufficient quantities to supply the that many other sources of tion and certain other things with requirements of national defence. ing the pressure of the Turks in armies should make a decisive radium have been discovered, which the Germans are suspected The United States has always the Canosaur, and on the other, of movement before everything pos- The English Kadium Institute to be concerned, the result of depended upon the right and opening the Straits and so maak-sible has been done to ensure suc draws supplies from Cornwall; which may compel sotion.-Times. ролог 10 purchase arms and ing it possible for Russia to excess. For "we have already bad France bas ita rodium mines near New York, Aug. 16.-George munition from neutral nations port her grain and receive foreign Limoges and Anton; and a firm of Sylvester Viereck, the post-editor in case of foreign attack. This products of which she stande in mining engineers long established of the Fatherland, who claims to right, which it olsime for itself, it in Westminster owns mines at be both an American citizen and a Guards, in Portugal. The de descendent of the Hohenzollerne, osanot deny to others. rosits in England and France are was sick" yesterday, and quite HOW BRITAIN HELPED generoneandstatesmenlikearticle misgivings. It says: "The Racelan ja this morning's Noveys publis would read with a deep small, though of good quality, anable to offer any explanation of
Fremya, which presents our sigh of relief an official statement, whilst the Portuguese deposite his latter suggesting various
cass in the most favourable light in which it was authoritatively are extensive and of highgrado devices by which he might secretly
possible. The paper reminda its declared that all the operations of ore. Bome experts maintain that collect $300 odd monthly from the in the near fatare Portugal will German Government towards the
The Petrograd correspondent readers that when people here the Alies form an organic whole, grested the British ultimatum based upon a uniform strategical yield the chief radiam supply for support of his journal. It is of the Daily Telegraph says: Au with unbounded jubilation they idea worked out by joint agree-
passible that the Post Office au excellent impression has been were thinking of our Fleet alone, ment." thorities will take action ugainst
For our part we must be no less him for failure to obey the lawofaced here by the statement and that no one in the slightest
made by Sir George Buchanan to degros familiar with the strategic generous in our acknowledgment which requires a newspaper to a Russian journalist on the part relationships of Europe dreamt of the fortitude and determination indicate articles the insertion of which Great Britain has played, for a moment of receiving sub-shown by our gallant Allies. The We guarantee all kerosene oil Trading with the Enemy Second which is paid for.
and is playing in the conduct stantial assistance from us on magusnimity of Russia has never
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of the war. With regard to land. And our Fleet has actually appeared in such impressive light is" motoring" somewhere in the the action of the Fleet, the
folälled "the most optimistic as in the hour of her adversity. A Adirondacks and cannot be reach-Ambassador confined himself to a hopos, for "how difficult, and few days ago it was reported that ed, and Captain von Papen is in- recapitalation of the seven pointa visible. Claussen, the cffcial enamarated by Mr. Balfour in h's possibly desperate, would be the she had received an offer of peace German Press agent, whom the recent communication to a New were to appear in the Baltic not that at the present moment there position of Petrograd if there from Germany, and replied at once documente stowed as the proud York paper, and the facts he marine second class armoured ves could be no question of a discus- possessor of an option for the challed in respect to our Army and sels, but the entire combination of sion of terme purchase of an American Prese industry are familiar to English German Dreadnoughts, held to the When the fall facts become agency, simply denies the gena readere; but the following passage North Sea only by the existence known the promptitude and de- intness of the documented from his remarks throwe fresh of the mighty Fleet of England." cision of this answer, will appear
Notwithstanding the
light on an episode of the cam
Morever, Raasis obtains a ell the more oreditäble, for there invisibility of Captain von Papen, sign which has been much de considerable portion of her raw are reasons to suppose that the World publishes to-day bated, especially in this country: materials through Archangel, Germany, in her anxiety to free Chingga 35 Connaught Road, memorandum bearing hin signs. When Turkey declared war whereas, if the German flest bersell for the impending straggle ure, dated: July 7, in which be Russia turned to Great Britain could have risked the despatch of in the West, was prepared to so- Shanghai
Kingang 0/0 Chungsang reports to his Government the with a request that she would even a couple of armoured ships cept conditions which in the light Queen's Road, Shanghai. steps he had taken to prevent divert a portion of the Turkish to the White Sea" that port would of the momentary military sitan. 168 Des Voeux Road, Cen.
R. BLACK delivery to the Allies of supplies
from the Caucasus by long have been nothing, but tion, on this front, undoubtedly Superintendent.
mesnof a counter-Zemonstration gkong, 17th September, 1915, of liquid chlorine-Timer
rains, " and " not a single wagon appeared to her exceedingly (2 blocks West of Cent. Market) American Reply to Austria.
load of goods would have been heral Eustis, however, far from The Operations in the
landed there ven have lost your appetite Washington, August 16,- The st some other point, protest
being influenced by such tam pis 1944 Dardanelles aa ore of the big variety of Note dispatched to Austria on
opposes the lation, would not even listen to daint" dishes af the LEEAN- August 12 lays partionlar strese were undertaken with a double
them DRA JAFE is mure to sempt on the 180) that Germany and ohtoon the one hand of reduc idea that
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