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[Reater's Service to the "Felegraph."] INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.
Paris, Oct. 20.
The secretaries of the French General Labour Confederation and the Freach Railway Unibus with other Socialist trades ahion leaders left France yesterday for the United States to take part in the first International Labour Con- ference instituted by the League of Xations-Havas.
THE ATTACK ON PETROGRAD.
London, Oct. 29. tieneral Yudenitch, whose head- quarters are at Tsarskoeselo, is ap- parently meeting with stiffer Bol- shevik resistance and he is con- centrating his troops pending the arrival of guns and reinforcemeats but is so confident of victory that he has telegraphed to America appealing for food for Petrograd when captured. Yudenite's force is estimated at Helsingfors.not to excred twelve thousand while the Bolshevik are reported to have concentrated twenty thousand.
Gedor gabled on the 20th that Finnish military authorities opine that Petrograd may be a trap for Yudenitch.
A new threat in Deziken's rear is indicated from Constantinople which reports that the followers of the brigand chief Makhno have cut the railway in the Crimea.
London, Oct. 22
The Admiralty announces that four Bulshevik destroyers on the 21st attempted to attack the Esthonian vessels and British des- | troyers lying in Kaporia Bay. Two Bolshevik destroyers were sunk and six survivors were picked up. There Kere no British TOP Esthonian, casualties.
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London. Oct.
London. Oct. 23.
from General Fudeaitch yesterday admitted that enemy counterattacks have parti- ally upheld the adrance oa Petro- grad. These attacks extend from BRITISH COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT.
of Krainajagorka, which is still holding out. to Tsarskoeselo. A new feature is the appearance of Bolshevist tanks which the Moscow wireless says were manufactured in Petrograd. Their appearance at the front is inspiring the Reds with en- thusiasm. eace the struggle for Petrograd may become a battle of tanks as Yadenitch is also using then Cas reasch for the pause in Yadenitch's advance is believed to be the forts built in 1915 to guard the approaches to Fetrograd and the
telusal of Finland to
co-operate
with Yudenitel on the score of ex- pease Another embarrassing fac- tor is now admitted that Krons-
tadt is still in the hands of the
Bolsheviks.
Stockholm, Oct. 23. Trotsky in a manifesto issued at Moscow says the position is critical. The troops have retired from Pal kovo the extreme mit of the de- fences of Petrograd and further re tirement will transfer the fighting to the city. Trotzky says that tanks are now supporting the Red troops who have rallied but the enemy is only one march from Petrograd. Work on the fortifications must be continued and the defence of the city organised.
FINLAND NOT SHARING THE ATTACK.
Reval, Oct. 20.
The Bolsheviks are still stubborn ly resisting ten versts south of Petrograd Regiments are arriving from Boscow to defend the city.
Helsingfors says that Finland wili not officially participate in the at- tack on Petrograd, which both the Socialists and Agrarians cppose the latter on the ground of expense.
THE COST OF LIVING.
London, Oct. 23. The Miners Federation conter- eace lengthily debated the in ceasing cost of living. It animously decided to urge the Pac- liamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress to arrange for the labour movement to meet and de-
Lord Miner presiding at a dinner of the Corona Club, tributed the war services of colonial civil ser. vants including those who were compelled stay at their posts. It
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comprising it.
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the
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THE FAR EASTERN NAVY.
Melbourne, Oct 21. Lord Jellicoe's report on naval affairs emphasises the desirability. of Australia becoming self con- tained as regards manufacture of guns, mountings, explosives and other munitions also aircraft. It states that the difficulty of guard. ing Australia is greatly increased by the smallness of the population, absence of strategic railways, in- mense coastline and distance from Britain and declares that the Fer Eastern naval problem concerns
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GENERAL DIAZ IN LONDON.
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· Telegraph. · · AMERİCAN AERIAL RACE..
Washington, Oct. 23.
The War Department's records in
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57 sees and Maynard in 67 hours. 13 mins. 10 secs.
WAS A
was impossible to lay down a 50 should be provided by those con- Haig, Admiral Wemyss, Mr. Chur
the Empire as a whole and the feet don and was welcomed by Marshal eral rule for extension of self 50stituent parts for which it is vital-ebill and an enthusiastic crowd. ernment to the vast Empire hut they should lead as far as possible of the Empire are likely to demand ly necessary. The naval interests towards giving the people
within the next five years a strong management of local affairs and the Far Eastern Beet, comprising ves- development of the colonies and sets of the Royal Navy East Indian protectorates was imperative. He
IMPERIAL PREFERENCE, intended to get all the money posadian and New Zealand navies, Squadron and Australian, Can-
Bloemfontein, Oct. 3. sible for such development despite The report suggests that each
At the South African the difcalties of these days of Dominion and India, also Britain,
Unionist. Ne-Party Congress, Sir Thomas rampant economy. He was com should bear the cost of the vessels. Edent we would receive a substantispecially allocated for the defence
Company hold Smartt, leader of the opposition, thousand sterling prefer-declared that the present al contribution from Germany to of their own harbours. The an-
ence stock in the New Zealand and good opportunity for "the best wards relieving the war burden. Mr.nual cost of maintenance of the Australian Land Company bearing man." The government of General Buckmaster's proposed capital Far Eastern fleets is estimated at interest at four per cent. levy on war profits deserved careful £20,000,000
In paying Smuts ought to Kieze it. The Australia's share dividend the Land Company deduct Unionist Party were prepared to consideration. He denied that would be £4,000,000, yearly, rising ed the United Kingdom income tax amalgamate with the Ministerialists. there was any necessity to rush into to over £6,000,000 in 1927. The of five shillings in the pound. Un-jbut the Unionists" did not such schemes. The wolf was not Fleet would include at least eight der the Finance Act the Company simply absorption. Sir Thomas at the door and whatever was done modern battleships, eight modern they must not draw more revenue battle-cruisers, tea light-cruisers from incomes under fifteen hundred. forty destroyers and thirty-six There were great sources of wealth submarines. in the development of electricity, wireless. new methods of transport and in the science of the air, also in the colonies and protectorates if they, developed more energetically than hitherto. Both the country and the Empire were potentially immensely rich.
The debate was adjourned..
AMERICAN LABOUR.
Washington, Oct. 23. The National Industrial Confer ecce groups representing labour and | cide on a policy which will bring introduced by Mr. Gompers recognis the public voted for the resolution
about a reduction.
LORD CURZON BECOMES FOREIGN SECRETARY.
London, Oct. 23
Lord Curzon has been appointed Foreign Secretary and Mr. Balfour has been appointed Lord President of Council in succession to Lord
Curzon
GOOD NEWS TRAVELS SLOWLY.
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WHD.t
in respect of having paid Colonial Emartt "advocated imperial prefer. income tax on part of its income fence. earned overseas received repayment of the United Kingdom income tax
LABOUR AND EMPIRE. at the rate of eighteen pence in the pound. The question was whether i
London, Oct. 22. Mr Arthur Henderson, discussing the Insurance Company as holders Labour's Imperial Policy in the of preference stock were bound to
periodical "Overseas," writes that Auckland, Oct. 23. pay more than three shillings and The Iron Duke, with Lord Jellicoe sixpence in the pound tax on their
Labour is certainly not a Little abroad, in the course of a tour of dividends. The Court held that the different to the potential utility of Englander in the sense of being in- inspection picked up two whitemen deduction of five shillings in the this great alliance of free states and one native on Christmas Island pound from the dividend was ac who met the landing party with recording to statute and they were implies. Labour stands in all its which the Empire in its best aspect not entitled to share in the rebate traditions for the principle which
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volvers in hand, believing them to
he Germans. They did not know the paid to the Land Company. war was over, having beer cut off from the outside world for eighteen months.
BALTIC EVACUATION. “
Paris, Oct. 19.
The Supreme Council decided yesterday that General Mangin shel
has made the real strength of the Empire, namely conciliation through self government.
TURKISH TERRORISM.
INVESTIGATING THE TRUSTS. ing the right of collective bargain.
Paris, Oct. 20. ing. The employers group voted
London, Oct. 24. be sent to the Baltic provinces in The beads of the Oriental nation- against the resolution, which was In the House of Commons Mr. connection with the evacuation alfa) Christiann, comprising the Or- lost under the rule requiring un-Bridgeman stated with regard to von der Goltz's troops. General thodox,Armenian, Catholic and animity. Subsequently the labour the investigation into the operation | Mangin, until recently, was in com-Protestant communities, hero teles group withdrew from the Confer of trusts that enquiries were being mand of the French troops on the graphed to M. Clemenceas demand ence. Mr. Gompers, addressing the made into the cost and profit 'n Rhine occupation, and is one of ing occcupation by Allied troops of Conference, declared the executive, all stages of handling and distri. France's youngest and most energe the principle, points of the Ottoman of the Federation of Labour on the bution of fish, and enb-committeen tie Generala. He has played a pro- Empire for protecting Christians previous night voted to support the were investigating cotton, tobacco minent part in the greatest battles under the present reign of terror in, steel strike morally and financially, and soap,
the interior. Hevse.
of the war.