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WƑÆX# WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER S. 1920.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE STARVING LORD MAYOR.
LABOUR ACOUSES GOVERMENT OF BLIND STUPIDITY,
Landon, September 6.
The Trades Linion Congress has passed a resolution expressing its indignation at the Government's decision to allow the Lord Mayor of Cork to die, stating: We, in the game of the whole. organised labour movement, will hold the Government responsible for the death of the Mayor and remind them that such blind stupidity will render reconciliation between Ireland and England almost impossible."
CONDITIONAL RELEASE POSSIBLE.
London, September It is announced in telegrams from Viege (Switzerland) that Mr. Lloyd George has declared that if a guarantee is given that the murders of Police in Ireland shall cease, he believes the Government would be prepared to release McSwines and other hunger-strikers, adding that telegrams from Ireland proved that the unconditional release of the Lord Mayor would have a disastrous effect on the mprale of the Insh Police and make government of Ireland -possible.
AMERICA USABLE TO ACT.
New York, September 6. The State Department bas sent a letter to McSwiney's brother saying it is not in a position to protest to the British authorities against the arrest and imprisonment of one who is not a citizen of the United States.
THE "MESPOT" SITUATION.
PEARS FOR A CAME
London. September 7. Replying to numerous ant pus enquiries with regard to the afety of the camp at Kirind. sopotamia, where British women and children are quartered, the War Ofice announces that both General Haldane and the Civil Commissioner consider the camp quite secure, and operations are about to commence which will Fader feasible the withdrawal of its occupants from the country
BRITISH TRAIN CREW OVERWHELMET
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
POLAND'S WARS.
EARLY PEACE WITH LITHUANIANS EXPECTED,
Warsaw, September 6. Hostilities between the Poles and the Lithuanians have virtually ended. Peace negotiations are expected to be held immediately at Marienpol
A PROTEST AGAINST POLISH ISTRUSIOS.
London, September &
A telegram from Vienna states that as a protest against the occupation of Eastern Galicia by the Poles, à Cavalry Division composed of Galicians and Ukrainians under General Fawianko, who has been actively fighting the Bolsheviks, crassed into Czecho Slovakia with the whole of its staff, borses and ammunition, and has been interned.
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POLAND APPEALS TO LEAGUE
London, September 7. The Polish Government has appealed to the League of Nations requesting mediation in the Polish-Lithuanian dispute, pointing out that an unprovoked attack was made on the Polish troops and no- less an improvement takes place in the situation Poland will be cam- pelled to declare war on Lithuania.
POLISH DELEGATES ARRESTED.
Warsaw, September 6. The Foreign Minister's protest to Soviet Russia requesting their immediate release furnishes the first intimation that the Bolsheviks had arrested a number of Polish delegates at Minsk and are still detaining them.
UNSATISFACTORY INTERNMENT CONDITIONS.
The
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
1. S. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.
MARRED BY AVIATON PATALITY.
Forest Hill, Seriember 6, Tilden won the National Lawn. Tennis Championship
of
G-E MOTORS
POLICE RESERVĖ.
WAITING FOR THE
MEDALS.
Judging from replies which we have ressived to inquiries, there doss not appear to be good ground for the hopes of a resuscitation of the Police Reserve. The means by which the services of this
|recognition, namely, meðalm for work and meritious certificates to all members, are being considered in responsible quarters.
America by beating Johnston by 6-1, 1-6. 7-5, 5-7, 6-3
During the play a naval seaplane encircled the courts, when the engines stopped without warning and the manhine plunged to organization will be givan a fitting earth and crashed in the sight of a thousand aws-stricken spectators.
The two aviators were killed.
NEW MEXICAN PRESIDENT.
Maxico City, September 6. General Obregon has been elected President of Mexico. General Obregon was formerly Minister of War. Hostaged the cap d'etat which led to the overthrow of Carranza.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
Shanghai, September 1. It is reported that Wu Pai-foo will be appointed Tushun of Foochow and that Li Han-chi will be transferred to another post. A special representative from Lak Wing-ting has had an interview with Wa in connection with the fighting between Kwangsi and Canton troops.
Before fearing Peking, Chan Jok-lin and Teo Kwan declared that the strength of the Fengtien and Chihli troops remaining in the atam capital must be sufficient to maintain order: therefore their numbers
must be unlimited.
Paris, September 6. Foreign Office information leads to the calculation that 123,000 Rolshevik troops have taken refuge in East Prussia. Polish Government is dissatisfied with the internment conditions BS Bolshevik bands 272 roaming East Prussia and even ra-crossing the frontier. attacking Polish villages and then again taking refuge in Germany. This rosnozuvre was adopted in the attack on the fortress at Osowiec and Suwalki. Poland has requested the Allies to require Germany properly to intern and disarm the refugees.
DOCKERS' MISTAKE.
HOW A SHIP WAS HELD UP.
London. September 6 Another regrettable episode involving the overwhelming of the British crew of an argoured train, after a gallant fight, is narrated io to-night's War Dice Mesopotamie communique. It appears that
Loudon, September 7. the garrison of a camp at Samawah Railway Station was being withdrawn to the town and an armoured train covering the operation Labour's determination not to handle any munitions for Poland train broke down. It was rushed by some 4,000 insurgents. It is reported led to a ship being held up at Bro le owing to dockers refusing to that the crew put up a resolute defence and inflicted 500 casualties load fumigating machines aboard the vessel for Danzig, apparently but was finally overpowered. Forty, including two British officers, under the impression that the machines were some deadly implements are reported missing. The insurgents captured with the train one of war. The Council of Action has intervened and explained that the 13-pounder, one Lewis gun, three Hotchkiss machine guns and 40 machines are intended to destroy vermin and prevent typus and boxes of ammunition.
other diseases, and has urged the dockers to release their embargo,
Reports from other parts of Mesopotamia show that the Assist- ant Political Officer at Hit on the Upper Euphrates, bas withdrawn by armoured car to Ramadi, while north of Bagdad a train attempt." ing to reach Reled from Samarra was fired on a compelled to turn back. The 38th Brigade Division reached Piuseris, os the Middle Euphrates, and found the brides across the river partly destrozed.
THE COLL CRISIS.
NOT YET CONSIDERED BY TRADES UNION CONGRESS.
Loados. September b.
The Trades Union Congress has adjourned till to-morrow, with-
t touching the coal crisis.
GOVERNMENT TAKES TIME BY FÜBELOTR.
London. September 7. The Government is evidently preparing for the wor, in case the miners' leaders prove obdurate, and has begun organising the distribution of food in the event of a strike. The Government has in view a partial stoppage of the railways, and arrangements for the carriage of necessaries by road transport are being made. This work has been entrusted to three subordinate members of the Ministry and two eivil servants. Each has been allotted one of five districts into which the country has been divided for the purpose There Commissioners are now engaged in ascertaining what the position would be in their district in the event of a strike, and will report upon the means of relieving the distress that would follow,
THE COMING WINTER.
LABOUR'S GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
London. September 6. At the Trade Union Congress, Mr. Thomas gloomily foreshadow- ed a break in the trade boom and said that all the evidence tended to show that the coming winter would be in many respects the hardest experienced for a great number of years. He declared that it was a sad commentary upon our social system that while the whole world was requiring goods, food, clothes and houses, people who were anxious to provide them were prevented from so doing.
THE ST. LEGER.
SOME FURTHER STARTERS.
London, September 6. In the St. Leger, Manton will be ridden by Lane. Further probable starters are Caligula (A. Smith), Double Bed (Piggott) and Stronghold (Slade): Prince Galabad, Celestial and Attilius have scratched.
The betting is 9 to 4 Spion Kop; 9 to 2 Orpheus: 8 to 1 Silver; 100 to 9 Black Gauntlet; 20 to 1 Allenby and Abbots Trace.
ANOTHER SOVIET REPUBLIC.
ALLEGATION OF BRITISH INTRIGUE
Landon. September
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MUZZLED PRESS.
CANTON PROTEST AGAINŠT
CENSORSHIP
Having been virtually denied the right to publish what a newe- paper thinks true. or reasonable. and to avoid personal danger to the editors concerned. the Canton Press Association, composed of the leading journals of the city, rease publishing all will soon news relative to the present con- ict between the administration and its enemy.
The censorship has been too severe and unbearable, and there seems to be no other way to aroid interference than by ignor ing the issue altogether.
The action. while pathetic,
A Moscow wireless message reports that a Soviet Republic bas forms the last and only protest been proclaimed at Bokhara, where Red troops occupied the principal against an attempt to kill the military points. Documents were found, adds the wireless, reveallast living atom which stands for
the freedom of the press. ing British intrigues with the Afgban Government.
fanton Times.
Bokhara is a feudatory Central Asian State attached to Turkestan and lying between it and Afghanistan. Ed., M.K.TI
DUBLIN'S DILEMMA.
A GRAVE FINANCIAL POSITION."
London, September 1.
GLASGOW AND RANGOOS
SHIPPING SERVICE.
HENDERSON LINE'S NEW UNIT.
We learn that the certificatoE *TO ΠΟΡ ready and will be distributed to member of the Police Reserve on the arrival hars from Home of the medals which ware ordered several maniks
IS MACGREGOR ROSS A SCOT?
PROBLEM OF AN
"UNDESIRABLE”
What to do with MacGregor Ross is a problem that daily grows more pressing for the United States Immigration officials on Ellis Island. England does not want him, and the United States cannot prove that he was born in Scotland, and Ross urges that be himself cannot remember where he was born.
It is charged that he is member of the Industrial Workers of the World. He has been very active in ita sifairs on the Brailei Coast, and has been andlares, behou. deported as an undesirable alien.
To the Federal authorities in Seattle Ross's name sounded no Scottish that they arrested him with 85 aliens recently and sent him to Ellis Island. Ross told the Messrs. P. Henderson & Co. officials he bas quite sure he was have made a potable addition to not born on the other side of the their cargo and passenger service Atlantic, although he does not between Glasgow, Liverpool, and know exactly where he was born. Rangoon, in the s.s. Amare poora,nd he cannot remember his a vessel with a gross tonnege of parents. He claims the United 5,100, measuring 480 it in length States as his native land, bat and 59 ft. broad. Built by Messrs. there are no records to prove it Denny Brothers, Dumbarton, the Ross's earliest recollection is Amarapoors is one of the first of selling papers on the Bowery passenger liners to be completed in New York in 1864, when he was embodying in her design the latest about ten years old. He remem- requirements of the Convention bers driving a canal team in for the Safety of Life at Sea. She Pannsylvania and going Weat is of the type known as the two later. compartment" ship, and while
Assistant Secretary of Labour externally similar to previons Loais F. Post, who reviewed the units of the Henderson line, she the case, signed the order for de- portation. To deport an alien, is divided internally into eleven water-tight compartments.
however, it is necessary to obtain bappy combination of passenger passport from the country to accommodation and cargo ca- which he is to be seat. The Bri- pacity has been achieved in her tish authorities, in the absence of construction, and neither service
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THE CHINA STATION. has been sacrificed for the other proof, refuse to believe that he is
British subject, and will not She has a carrying capacity of
issue a passport. Negotiations 10,200 tons, with accommodation are proceeding with the British for about 150 first-class pas- Ambassador at Washington.— sengers, and the fitting out of the Central News. vessel in respect of the latter service illustrates the progress that has been made since 1914.
A representative company had
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 4/241.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
Commander J. H. Harvey, who has just been advanced to that The Government's decision to withhold ita grants owing to the rank. was navigating lieutenant of Dublin Corporation's allegiance to the republican parliament has the light cruiser. Kent, China resulted in the Corporation recommending that in order to meet the Station, shortly after the late war the privilege of inspecting the grave Bosncial position created the salaries of its employees be opened, and in that capacity was vessel at Queen's Dock, Glasgow, reduced by 23 per cent. for nine months and that the Sanatorium with the Kent when she fought the where she was receiving her first German cruiser Nuremberg at the cargo. The visitors were met by Dispensary and Home be closed.
battle of the Falkland Islands and members of the firm, and in the sank her, and again at the parsait tour throughout the ship may and the sinking of her sister comments were forthcoming on cruiser Dresden off the island of the convenient and up-to-date manner in which she is fitted out. Juan Fernandez. Subsequently
Following a luncheon on board. be was navigating officer of the at which Mr. J. C. Grabam, of perature:-80. Humidity :-87.
Messrs. P. Henderson & Co., pre- The newspapers announce that Lord Hardinge, ex-Viceroy of destroyer Sandhurst and
sided, Mr. Mackay, Rangoon, in India, has been appointed to succeed Lord Derby as Ambassador inmanding officer of the
ships Dairy and Kellet. given the O.B.E. last year for his proposing the toast of "5.8
Amarapoors,” said
had ho travelled many times between
Paris.
LORD HARDINGE AS AMBASSADOR TO PARIS.
London. September 7.
WRANGEL'S SUCCESSFUL ATTACK.
Constantinople, September 6. According to the latest official Bussian news, Wrangel's counter-offensive have been successful and the Reds are retreating rapidly towards the Dnieper.
A Warsaw message says another detachment of anti-Bolshevist Russians has left Warsaw to join Wrangel. Up to the present. 18,000 men have left to take up arma with Wrangel.
ANOTHER GERMAN INCIDENT.
services.
Com SUZVEZ He was
Sub-lieutenant V. N. Sturlees
THE WEATHER.
2 p.m. Barometer-29.71. Ten-
p.m.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY,
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has been posted to the Hawkins, this country and Rangoon, but
the
steamer DOW
waz. the flagship of the Commander-in-
most up-to-date vessel he had Chief of the China Station. He
seen. He believed that she was was appointed s middy in 1918, the largest unit of Messrs. General and reached his present rank Henderson's fleet, and he hoped
Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.35 rently. Acting Sub-lieutenant Ashe would long be spared to trade R. Freeman is to join the Alacrity, between Cisagow and Pangoon.
Hongkong Theatre-5.15, 7 19 Acting Sub-lieutenant R. and carry backwards and for and 9.15 p.m. Hamilton the light cruiser Carlisle, wards the merchandise of the Acting Sub-Heutenant
two countries. (Applause.) Aldridge the gunboat Bee, Acting The Chairman, in reply, slated Lieutenant F. H. Jefferson the that all the credit for the con- gunboat Starab," Acting Sub-lien-struction of the vessel was due tensat C. B. Tidd the gunboat to Messrs. Denny, Bros, ber Hongkong Theatre-5.15, 7.15 Gant, Acting Sub-lieutenant L A. builders, whose work, despite the sad 9.15 p.m. Humphrey the guabost Tarantula fact tha: it had been carried on and Mate A. T. Woods the light under considerable difficulty, was cruiser Cairo, on the China shown in the Amarapoors to be Station, with the outgoing naval up to the standard of pre-wat
Berlin, September 6,
A supply train for the French troops in Upper Blissia was held up at Erfurt goods station by the Railwaymen's Committee, a mil lion rifle cartridges being unloaded and timer cas en exploded. The Imperial authorities have already proceeded against the culprits..
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excellence.
TO-MORROW,
Coronet Thestre -5.15 and 9.15. p.m.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.
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