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MEXICAN REVOLT.
WEDNESDAY: MAY 26, 1920.
Washington, May 22
A message from Chibuahan states that Villa holds a Britisher named George Miller, superintendent of the Alvarado Milling Company at Parral, for 50,000 dollars ransom.
New York, May 22
THE ASSYRIANS.
ANCIENT MEMORIES AND MODERN CLAIMS.
In 1917 at a meeting at the London Opera House, held to welcome the British Government's declaration about the future of minded the audience that the Palestine, an Arab Shaikh re- Bedouin of the Desert were the kinsfolk and cousins of the Jews inasmuch as they were the chil-
Ibrahim Tha Terah, while the from Isase, the younger son by people of the 'Hebrews descended another wife. We had been accustomed to be Balkan races: A Commission has been appointed to investigate Carranza's death. territars because their ancestors claiming this or that piece of
London, May 21. had held it five or six hundred A message from Washington states that Carranza's death will years ago but to base modern probably have an important bearing on the action of the United policies upon sovanerable a family States wher the time comes to consider recognition of the Governmentie was which will succeed him. It is recalled that President Wilson refused that in Asia memories are long.
a necessary reminder to recognise Huerta after the death of Madera and declared that o Government could be recognised which did not rest on a constitutional and a proof of the strange vitality A further example of this fact election.
Carranza was assassinated by his own men according to adran of Ismail, the elder son of telegram from Obregon received by revolutionary agents here. El Paso, May Carranza's followers who were with him when he died have sant a latter to General Gonzalez declaring that Carranza was assassinated after being taken prisoner.
Mexico City, May 23.
PRINCE OF WALES'S TOUR.
of peoples is now to be found in Jelaim of the Assyro-Chaldeans to receive a local habitation and a national name from the Peace Conference. Assyria ceased to exist with its king. Sin-Shar Lyttelton, May 21,
Ishkun, the Sardanapalos of H.R.H. the Prince wi nales has concluded his tour of New ing to historians her methods în tradition, about 606 BC. Accord- Zealand and sails for Melbourne on the 22nd.
H... the Prince of Wales in a farewell message 13 Kew Zealandassociate with Prussian Shreck-
Lyttelton. NZ Mar 20
prosperity had been an unhappy [Mend of what modern mon says he is particularly impressed with the fact that New Zealand natlichkeit and Turkish administra I merely affords opportunity for some but for all. He had never seen tion, and the Prophet Nahum such well-being and happiness more uniformly euident throughout a celebrated her population. New Zealand is also a living example of the fact that triumphant poetry. "As a just downfall with the European race can take over a new country without injustice to punishment the original inhabitants. Both may advance by mutual confidence pride, and intolerance, Assyria for her cruelty, and understanding along the comman path. New Zealand is one of underwent the greatest monuments of British civilisation in the world, He felt servitude and for five and twenty A Term of penal. that from end to end of the Dominion there was no place where centuries, has been purging her British people had more set in British tradition or been truer to soul in the house of Bondage. British form. He concluded by references to the strong feeling of legalty existing towards the Empire and the Sovereign
His Royal Highness conferred decorations on the Heads of Government Departments and others ronnected with the New Zealand
trur.
THE FALL IN PRICES.
London, May 24.
A NATION'S HONDUR REDEEM ED. the people of Tiglath-Pileset, of After so tremendous asentence Sargon, and of Sennacherib now ak to be released in order that. they may try again, and petition to be accorded political autonomy under Western supervision. Nor have they contented themselves with prayers alone. During the war they turned out their fighting! Dealing with the possibility of a break in prices, the Times men an the side of the Allies and says trade and official eircles are of the opinion that, while sensin cooperation with Rassisas, fought valiantly against the Turks tional lumps in the case of a lex articles may occur, there are presently no signs of a steady permanent all round fall in prices Assyrians, who are for the mast Armenians and British. The especially as regarda food.
par: Christians and well-known, Telegram from New York-state that-Wall Street is beginning to
Londen, May 24. to those who have been interested fear that the fall of prices, although beneficial to the nation at pre-bury's Mission to the Assyrian in the Archbishop of Canter- sent, may be carried too far and precipitate a semi-panic and condi- Christian."were frequently en- tions injurious to industry. Giving evidence on the lack of a legislative gaged throughout committee Mr. Davison, president of the Ameritan 'Red Cross, em-war.
the whole phasised that the prevalent unrest and dissatisfaction in the Enjte-cent, of their effectives
losing Dearly 50 per States was largely due to the cost of living, orgy of extravagance and casualties in addition to serious war profiteering and he urged curtailment of production of nones-losses suffered by the sack of their-villages-and-the-hardships inflicted
poa their refugees while retreating before the tem- |porarily victorious Turks.
sentials.
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London. May 2
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Like their neighbours thei Armenians. the Assyrians oWD the perpetuation of their nation- Light in now thrown on alarming reports about Queen Alexandra's years or so to the existence of ality during the last 1,500 years bealth which were current last week. According to an.authoritative their national statement Her Majesty is sufering from a severe bronchial attack, under a succession of bishops, in | Church. This, now subsiding, in the course of which a small blood vessel burst in which each prelate was followed. one of her eyes causing troublesome impairment of vision. The hope as far as possible by his nephew, is expressed that the inconvenience will pass with care and rest. In has kept the Assyrian race from the meantime Her Majesty's engagements are somewhat dependen: melting into the surrounding upon her progrees.
THE HAWAIIAS-PEOPLE.
Moslem masses much in the same way as the indomitable Vladikas. for Prince-Bishops, of Montenegro kept alive the national spirit of this principality against cen- 1ories of Turkish onslaught. TERRITORIAL CLAIMS. The Hanse of Representatives has passed a Bill setting aside be found in its old national home] The Assyrian nation is still to two hundred thousand acres of land in the Hawaiian Islands for between the Tigris and Lake homesteads for native Hawaiians only. It is expected that this will rumish, or Urmi, in Persia. considerably assist to rehabilitate the Hawaiian race which is 33.3 This is DOW to be fast dying out.
Washington, May 24.
MORE TROUBLE IN GERMANY.
Berlin, May 22.
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worth of is he the after of “the ancient royal cities of Niniveh, Assur, Calah, and Dor Sharrukio whence successive armies issued to war with the Samerians, 'the Flittites, the Egytians, tbel
The publicist Maximilian Harden, writing to the Zukunft predicts Babylonians, the Elamite, the the imminence of another reactionary revolt, the danger centres being Phoenicians, and the Jews for a South and North-East Germany. The Kappites, encouraged by the space of cearly 2,000 years. In Government's leniency to thousands of ex-officers; are awaiting the the petition which the modern signal. The workers are unlikely again to save the Government Assyrians base laid before the Bavaria is a favourable ground for reaction as it is unwilling to Peace Conference, they ask for a remain in an empire in which it has little freedom
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Paris, May 23. Addressing the Finance Sub-Commission in the Chamber 31. ancestors those more peaceful Millerand confirmed that the minimum German indemnity had been and eminently civilized Baby fixed at one hundred and twenty thousand million marks gold with lonian Chaldeans who compiled mterest of probably not under five per cent, plus one per cent. on the first known code of laws, account of redemption. This does not include the supply of coal, practised the difficult science of material or animals instead those destroyed or stolen. France wili astronomy, and subdued the great receive 55 and Great Britain, 25 per cent of the indemnity, the re-plain- of Mesopotamis-with-e maining twenty per ceat, being divided between Belgium, Serbia and Aystem of irrigation and drainage Italy.
which made it one of the _wealthiest _and_most_fertile countries of Asia until destroyed and utterly devastated by Hulagu and his Tartars more than six centuries ago when the last reigning Caliph of the Abbaside. family was trampled to death by the pagan hordes fimes.
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