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FIGHTING THE BOLSHEVIKS.
Paris Oct. 15.
The Council has received message that Yuletitel is expected to take Petrograd in two days.
Stock Out 15.
A telegram from a usually reliable source, hitherto unconfirmed, states Gat Yudenica's cavalry has reached. Petrograd."
Helsingfors, Ort. 24.
The Finnish. General Staff reports that Kronstadt hoisted the white dag this evening. "A deputation of Petrograd workers me: Yudenitch and asked him not to bombard Petrograd and promised help against the Bolsheviks.
London. Oct. 19.
A War Office commanique says a 1 Aberk ofensive on a large scale against Tsarisin began on Oct. 11 but failed alter two days with severe losses. The Cossacks westward of Tsaristin crossed the Don on a wide front, prisonering twelve hundred, while farther westward the Cossueks occupied the line of the River hoper from its junction with the Don to Tishanskaya. They captured Kaluch, and Patiorsk; prischer ing two thousand. An entire Red-regimens was destroyed.
GERMANY PREACHING BOLSHEVISM.
Paris, Oct. 16.
The Temps states it has bit, discovered iu Bohemia. from German documents of undoubted authenticity that the " Berlin Government is sending 200 Garman offers to organise Bolshevik preaching and to futment revolutionary troubles in Allied countries.-Havas.
EMANCIPATING" THE EAST.
London, Oct. 1C.
A Moscow wireless message says that speeches of welcome to the Afgian. Embassy promised that Soviet Russia would support Afghanistan in fighting for emancipation from age- long oppression in the East, namely, British Imperialism." Vali Khan replied that the Afghans strongly hoped with the assistance of Soviet Russia to gucce di emancipating Afghanistan and the rest of the East.
RELIEF SHIPS FOR INDIA.
London, Oct. 16.
It is understood that the relief ship Espa wik, sail for India on Oct. 30 with 500 male passengers, half of whom are Government servants and half private. It is suggested that the P and O. Kalyan which is due at Leit from Nort Russia on Oct. 17 should be employed as a relief ship.
THE SHANTUNG PROVISION.
Washington. Oct. 16.
The Senate continued the debate on the Shantung pro. vision in the Peace Treaty. The majority of the speakers expressed their determination to vote against it. The vote was postponed owing to the number desiring to speak.
PITS CLOSING DOWN.
London, Oct. 18.
Mr. Murray the Secretary of the South Wales Coalowners Association Has telegraphed to Sir Auckland "Geddes that unless export licenses are withdrawn some collieries must close. A number of pits have already stopped.
OBITUARY.
London, Oct. 18.
The death is announced of General Sir James Wolfe.
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Members of the British Assocía- tion which is meeting at Bourne- mouth, are rather prond of its nickname; which shows that scientists possess a sense of hum- our, för it was bestowed by members themselves, and not by the general public in derision.
In fact, the patient donkey figured on the programme of ope of the entertainments during the meeting at Belfast some years ago. On that occasion Sir James Dewar's presidential address on liquid air aroused much interest and the cover of the programme- depicted the professor leading an ass draped with the Union Jack. and bearing panniers full of liquid air.
The British Association owes its origin to an article by Sir David Brewster in the Quarterly Review. He explained that interest in science was on the
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could only be maintained by a society of nobility, clergy, gentry, and philosophers"! No one more enthusiastic over the idea than the Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, father of the famous Liberal statesman and grand- father of the present peer, who drew up a constitution for the proposed association.
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He suggested that the first meeting should be held at York. and persuaded his father, the northern Primate, to become pat- ron and Viscount Milton to act as president. The Philosophical Museum in the grounds of St. Mary's Abber, formed the meet- ing place, and nearly four hundred people were present, at the to mal inauguration. when the objects of the new society were discussed.
The number of lectures was comparatively small. so that there was no need to divide the congress into sections; as is abso- lutely necessary nowadays, bur so successful was this first meet ing that Oxford was made the place of rendezvous the following-
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More than ever does the Association deserve its name of British, now that it holds some of its meetings in the Dominions across the seas, and as time goes on, and distance is annihilated, these will doubtless become more frequent. The congress of 1914 in Australia will ever be memor- able for the outbreak of the war. which interfered so sadly with its programmie.
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