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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
IMPORTANT POINTS RESERVED..
Paris April 3. The Drafting Committee of the League of Nations has com pleted the draft of the new text of the Covenant, while reserving the French amendments to Articles 8 and 9, suggesting the organisation for the control of armaments and the creation of International military force to enforce the decisions of the League, the American amendments relating to the Monroe Doctrine And the Japanese amendment claiming equal rights for Japanese
with the subjects of other nations.
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(ESTABLISHED, 1881).
TUESDAY. APRIL 8. 1919.
FROM THE PULPIT.
THE RIBAND OF BLUE
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The war has left behind it à profusion of badge, stripes, but an
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Par. April, 3. The Council of Four appears to have agreed to the necessity decorations" of conceding to France the exploitation or the Saare coulfield as an age which no we compensation for damage. As regards reparation, the Council has expert would pretend t the nature of the damage which Germany should repair rather than content simply to know that the not yet fixed any figure; it is devoting itself at present to determiningtinguish, and most of
the total indemnities she ought to pay
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PRESIDENT WILSON INDISPOSED.
Paris, April 7.
President Wilson passed a satisfactory night, and was able
>it up during the day.
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With the rest obtained on Sunday President Wilson will be able
to attend Monday's meeting of the Council of Four.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM..
Washington, April 7. the US Navy. Mr. Daniels, has received a The Secretary to message from Rear-Admiral Grant stating that President Wilson's personal medical attendant said-President Wilson had better be confined to his bed antil. Wedne-day morning. There is for alarm. Anwrion Wireless.
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MILITARY FORCES IN EUROPE
Washington, April 7 General March. Chief of Staff. has announced figures relating to the statistics of the military force- in Europe, which show that the armies of the Central Powers at present organised constitute about 16 per cent of their strength when the Armistice was signed, while the Allied forces still organised comprise 77 per cent. of their total strength on Nov. 11. 1918.
JAPANESE EMIGRATION TO PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
Washington. April 7.
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I hope neither you nor I are found mying "O I forgot" as we did in our teens about a number of things we did particularly obarge Notes of a sermon by the Her, urselves to remember. If your J. Kirk Maconachie at Union memory
was superior The Pan Yun Yin Tung firm, mechanically it ought to-day so of 85 Queen's Road Central, was [Church, on Sunday morning:-
Forecast :=-fair. Barometer "Speak unto the Children of to be superior morally. It is the burgled during the night of the Israel, and bid them that they young folk who need to tie knotson 6th and 7ik instant. A sum of that the armistice is being 19.88 Temperature pOL.
for the decision of the delegates) which was in the back room. make fringes on the borders of their handkerchiefs to keep them $11,900 war states from the safe respected in Shenai is responsibis Humidity 1 pan
As the door of the safe was in Shanghai to resume the Con their garments, and that they in mind of their undertakings put upon the fringe of the bor and then the handkerchief may be found open and showed no trace ferance, which will probably on April 1st. Accord ders a ribaud of blue: And itteft at home. Anyhow the older of being forced, the presumption re-open shall be to you for a fringe, that you grow the less need should is that it had been opened with ing to telegrams both parties are agreeable to this ye may lank upon it, and reavem-there be of the "riband of blue" the aid of a duplicate fey
course, and to make it ber all the commandments of the to keep you up to the mark about'
more official the President will Lord, and do them. "Number remembering the commandments of the Lord to do them, for you
issue a mandate calling upon the Conference to be re-opened in (Wah Ter Yot Po Service.) come to know better and better
view of the satisfactory report presented by the commissioner how wholesome and just and good. That is to say if you they are.
Shanghai, April 7. accepted by both parties. This is very satisfactory indeed, and an Tang Shao-yes yesterday, and The Southern delegates called not de- have been careful to maintain a digood confession, and
demonstrates beyond the slightest after discussion decided that it is bilitating your soul by hiding The nine German subjects who doubt the sincerity of the better to re-open the Conference blue ribbon served that purpose arrived in Hongkong this morn pasceful settienient. But reports tinues the North will be blamed.
for your light. Incidentally the are being repatriated from Swatow President in striving
and if the Shed fighting con from Shensi indicate that the The re-opening day has been fixed sla. It was not meant foring per the s.s. Haitan.
They were escorted by an arm-statement of Chang Jui-chi for the 7th inst, and Chu Kai-kim tentation, by a mack upon i case at the st coveted of, and he was a poor kiad of/ed guard of Chinese on the voyage is by no means complete. He is notified accordingly.
and were met by a guard of British | kept as far from the scene of such distinctions was supposed Jew who ever tried to hide it. Marines upon arrival and escort.hgetilities as was compatible with The Chinese community-has
aw a distinction_drawn theed straight to the Naval Yard for safety. be
the bine
He could report that all telegraphed asking Liang Cal- ribbon
other day between French and embarkation on the Blue Funnel was quiet for the very good reason chap to return from Paris im- the verv united and exclusive Urder of the Garter, British character, which may or steamer Antilochus. o unto that he chose to see no fighting.mediately, because there are From that circunstance the ex- may not hold good, but at leastward occurrence took place dur-An American observer who has suspicions of his activity in pro-
Theing the voyage. will point the moral.
jast passed through Shensi tells paganda work for a certain pression "blue ribbon" has come
man the highest distinction decoration if he has que, and Major Morgan, Major Macdonald respected between the regular delegates work.
On the same vessel travelled me that while the armistice is country, thereby hampering the Frenchman, it was said, is proud is any givea line of 34
A certain important person pro- teatur, from the turf upwards mounts it on all occasions, but and Mr. Moorhead. Commissioner troops of the North and the South
the Tuchun of Shensi is attacking | poses that after the Paris Pesca But this book of Numbers in the Briton is half ashamed of it,
a brigand army of 3,000 holding Conference China should reduce a drawer.
the city of Kienchow...
herårmy and start reorganisation. ubler than the Garter, and the and keeps it in
The matter requires big expenses, and the raising of an internal of the week was the Japaness whole
The next most interesting event loan of 400 millions, with the
country's revenue warning to the Government that security, is suggested. if the premature disclosure of the Yesterday both Tang Shao-yee secret Sino-Japanese agreements and Cha Kai-kim received Cheung
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to barry their representatives to investigate the Shansi situation, and guarantee no future fighting.
Hung Shut-choo (the convicted murderer of Shun Chao-yan, representative of the Kusmingtang some years ago at the Nanking Railway Station) was executed on the 3th inst. in Peking gaol.
The Cabinet has decided to
The vanguard has been trans- ported.
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with decorations, it
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poor place
to keepThere was a fire here oare, "Du one's Christianity, favoured very few, but the right of every larselite.
brother," one of them is saying light a caulle and put it under to anorlier, looking at the empty no cause it ww Dut like modern
decoration intended to publish bushel?" If they ever do, one fireplace. That is the best that the wearer' mak or sohieverneutsting certain is that the candle can be said of a church where should occasion 1088 to Sui-ku's telegram, stating that to other piple: it was a re will gut, as soon as it secondary interests are permitted Japanese financial and com-fighting in Shensi Province is winter to himself of duties still has exhausted the bit of oxygen to displace Christ, that there was merciai
interests the Japan-now totally stopped. be done, and that, I rather shut in with it, which does not a fire there once. Yes and there ese Government would hold Paris, April 7.
Government think, is the kind of decoration take long. The religion of were missions, and there was the Chinese
which a man is half ashamed Marshal Foch has telegraphed to the Allied Governments that most needed in this world. 1
prayer, and all manner of good sponsbible for the same. Needless the right of the allies to use Danzig for the landing of Polish troops might on the Royal Carter fade away. Try keeping works and ready workers, so long to say, this has had its effect has been formally upheld in the conference with the German re- if I had it, and feel tempted to it to yourself and you lose it the fire was keep slight. Joe Fublication of the secret presentatives.-American Wireless,
rest on my past services to the Try to ist nobody know about it. There have been periods when King, bat this other bine ribbon and before you can firm round the empty grate has characterised calculated to place Japan in a keeps me thinking of what the there will be none left for the church at large. And a favourable light in the eyes of King of Heaven has done by to know about.
[Christian system or something other nations, especially as two call Fit- Tiit,
"G.I gives us of a semi-Christianised order British and two American agree Lest we forget," aud obedience any reminders. Such in early may have been ably expounded, ments have just been published, loyalty backed as usual by the reminder time wa- the “riband of blue, to proved to be this or that, to fill although they were never regard. that he is the Lord our Go Who the Israelite, and such in later days this position or the other in the ed at any time as secret agree-despatch an army to Mongolia. brought us up out of the Laud was the central ordinance of our general term of thought and ments.
But it is all cold of Egypt.
Curistiau worship which we cele-progress, How much we stand in need brate this morning, I refer of and
with t power Two days ago there were lively The Allied Armie strength on Nov. 11 totalled 13.633.000, and of the reminder every one knows course to the Communion Service, on the meu who
give it scenes in the House of Repre- on March 31st only 25 per cent. bad been demobilised.
assent or xive the sentatives. A debate was in General March said that the Archangel situation, from a who knows his own heart. It is which in one form or another has their military point of view, was well in hand, and it was incredible to the easiest thing, unfortunately, been a means of grace, a boud of mark their patronage; and progress on the Eighth Year Press Club on Tuesday afternoon a method of perishing souls have had to say Domestic Loan, as a result of on the occasion of the first thing that the Allied forces could be driven into the sea by anybody.to drop into a listless, indifferent fellowship, and
There was a fire which it had been decided to call reception given by the Club, It is announced that the War Department plans to have the frame of mind with regard to making confession of faith from wistfully:
the Minister of Finance before whose international aspect was American force out of that portion of Russia by the end of (-2).—God's mercies, and consequently its first institution by our Saviour there once".
I his commandments, for it is this day. Different theories
end American Wireless.
my sixth year's the House. His Excellency duly emphasised by the number of appeared, but before he could be different nationals represented. perfectly certain that if you have about it are held in different ministry here and am beginning questioned or make a statement The speeches dwelt
this one a seventh, sad the one wish and there was an interruption from importance of the work of the the churche, bui Un one you will have small heart for point nothing but agreement prayer of my heart for this church the floor, sad one
member pressmen in promoting the peace the other. It is rather a puzzling exista among them all. Whatever and my own ministry is that the tried to strike another. Confusion of China. Recent reports of Japanese emigration to the Philippine Islandshing, is it not, way benefits in the Communion may or may not fire on our altar may never die followed, and the sitting was
Mr. J. S. Willes, the former having increased to large numbers are denied by Mr. Emanuel particular should be readily be, it is at any rates way of bring-down but glow more wardly adjourned.
one Been воге and
editor of the Kobe Herald who Quezon, President of the Philippines Senate and Chairman of the forgotten? The memory of aning to remembrance. That is For
injury sticks like a burr, but the shown by its foundation upon the more 38 years
It is tolerably certain than was committed to ten months' Independence of the Philippines Commission.
President Quezon said that there always was a movement at recollection of a blessing is often Jewish fas-over which in the except to manifest the Lord Japaese efforts to promote imprisonment for the Japaness "Our memories," Christian ceremony it displaced, Jesus Christ the church has no separatist movement on the part form of less majesty, is now in Japanese to and frorn the Philippines, but there had been no notable the briefest.
says one of the plain-spoken old The Passover was. of course, reason for existing, and certainly of Mongolia have failed. increase of late.
They Peking, having acted on advice to President Quezon also asserted that he did not believe the divines, are like nets, grate,instituted as a perpetual periodi-no continued power to exist offered to sponsor a Mongolian leave Japan before the Court of statement that the Japanese had any designs upon the Philippine strainers, that let the pure water cal remembrance of the turning Furthermore it becomes one's deputation to the Peace Con- Cassation confirmed the decision Islands, except for the admission of their commerce.-American
run away, but retain mad, trash, point in Jewish history, sad we deepening conviction that noth-ference in Paris and to finance it, of the lower court. Wireless.
and so forth." I doubt if there be read, in the the matchless dignity ing else does people any real but the offer did not appeal to the anything which makes us more of the Scripture record, that on good. I see that for practical Mongolian leaders, who are in ashamed of ourselves than the the occasion of His last Passover, purposes, when all the talk is inclined for a closer association difficulty of forgetting a slight or "The Lord Jesus, the same night done and the argumentation 30 injustice, aud the lumiliating in which fle was betrayed, took finished, to be without Christ is ease with which kindness can bread; and when He had given to be without God and without slip out of mind, and also duties, thanks, He break it, and said; real hops, without real motive I suppose it is because we take the this is my body, which is for you; and inspiration to a life worth good things for granted. We this do in remembrance of me."living. I see that to drift from! assume that life owes them to us, Once again in this, as so often the faith is to drift, it may not be
Liang Shih-yi talks bigly and especially in youths, before we otherwise, the Saviour gathered into vica, but on the whole into have done anything much to everyt ing around His own futility, as many a man and glibly about the Chinese group deserve the. That is one great person. If He Himself is kept woman drifting on the tendencies which he is forming with a view to financing Chinese railway liference between youth and in remembrance nothing which of life in the East is secretly construction. He has mentioned maturity in the matter of memory, is necessary will pass out of mind. aware. We hear many lament the figure of ten million dollars You hear people deplore as they He is to be remembered, more-ations in this place as to "Houg-as the amount which the Chinese advance in years that their over, in the crowning set of His kong memory? Truly there does group could raise, I am informed memory is not what it used to life; which was His death. seem to be something is our that he would require at least be. You find you don't remember Throughout the ages the Cross climatic conditions which affects five times that amount before he names, or feces, and especially has been the centre ofall which canus unfavourably in that respect. could hope to obtain a place in how the faces and the names strictly be called Christian, to But let it not be said that the any group of financiera interested ahould fit together. The same which there is a vital difference microbe is getting at our very in the construction of Chinese with the books you read or the between the gospel of our Lord souls and causing them to forget railways. In this connection it news you hear, unless the news and othar faiths. To be put in God's gracious benefits, making is interesting to note that Mr. J. J. Abbott, the representative of happens to be local and personal,reuembrance this is to be kept us oblivious of all we owe to the American group of bankers, in which case it is gossip, which, near the Heart of the truth, by Christ. Let our souls rather be had tiffin with the President unhappily, sticks. Yes, still are which, ultimately, we stand, stirred up, as we prepare to today. there not some things which-you- There is a famous picture in gather around His table, to renew remember not worse but better which a number of Russian our vows that our lives shall be Leading Chinese officials and than 20 years ago? Your duties refugees are shown hanging over more closely fashioned according foreign diplomata and other for instance.
stiended at the Interna an empty grate inja deserted inn to His will.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
SAARE COALFIELD ANNEXATION,
STILL A KNOTTY POINT.
Paris, March 30.
The main difficulty for the Council of Four is whether the great coalfield of the Saire Valley shall be annexed to France which earnestly needs the output of this region to compensate ter for the destruction of her coalfields in the North. The practical solution of the difficulty seems to be that there will be three kinds of frontiers laid down for Germany, territorial, economical and military. The Sarre Valley would be embraced within the economical frontier. Haras
Copenhagen, April 2 The Bargomaster at Saarbrucken has removed to Posa by order of Marshal Foch.
VIRTUAL DICTATOR OF HUNGARY.
Berlin, April 3.
The "Dauteche Tageszeitung" reports that Bela Kun, who is the virtual dictator of Hungary, has arrived at Munich-accompanied by a-larga-suite.
Copenhagen, April 3.
A Budapest message states that's Red Guard at least 20,000, strong has been organized.
that
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with China than ever before. On turned from a prolonged trip into the other hand Attaman Semenoff | Kansu. His original objective seems to be making progress with | was Turkestan, but the end of the his plan for an independent state war made this unnecessary. composed of Burists and Trans- was American Vice-Consulat
large. Baikalian Cossacks.
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