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WITH RUSSIA. Armed Sinn Feiners last night carried out one of their most success- ful coups. They made a sudden onslaught on the police barracks sear Skibbereen, took the garrison of fifteen policemen completely Germany in these farered days it Berlin, August 21.–To describe by surprise, compelled them to surrender without firing a shot and is necessary to seek a metaphori. burned down the barracks after removing machine guns and a consider-cal expression. able quantity of ammunition.
The customary outrage is reported from Ireland to-day, this case) are familiar with strange fires Dwellers in peatland fcountry being the hold-up by armed men of a Dublin Bank Three men their origin may be unknown. antered the Bank, held up the staff with revolvers and demanded which wark insidious destruction Whilst one cut the telephone wires the others illed their] Flames leap up and are quenched; pockets with money. They decamped with 2800 after warning the but often the conflagration creaps staff and customers not to leave for an hour.
slowly along below the surfser The public belief that Mayor MacSwiney must be getting food is only to reappear at some distant not shared by the Home Office, which explicitly states he is refusing) and unexpected spot. all food. There is no reason to suspect he is receiving food from That is the most appropriate relatives. He is taking hot water and medicine, which arrest certainį simile for the Germany of the deteriorating processes. The mystery of the hungerstrikers of Cork) moment. In the east, west and who have fasted two days longer than MacSwiney, is also unsolved centre there are conflagrations and is confounding the doctors.
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As regards the captured barracks called yesterday, it is officially majority have beendamped down. reported they were RLC. Barracks at Schull, County or They But no sooner is apparently the were attacked in the evening by a large body of armed men and aflast Baine extinguished than vigorous fire was maintained on both sides until wid igen, when the another flares up elsewhere. defenders were overpowered and surrendered. Ane ander tumored) 200. Many attackers arrived in motor car small pirties over
WESTPHALIA SIMMERING, mountain roads, all reaching the rentes aus ab
Take what is happening in! barracks are double storeyed, situated an hich all overlooking industrial Westphalia. In half a Schull Harbour. The palice kept the atlu keps at n
for four hours dożen places simultaneously and were altimately overwhelmed by wovering numbers. The there are sudden assemblies of military seized practically all the iba 12 mails from Dublin, what their inspirers call "the searched them and returned them later. iboer outbreaks of firing proletariat", occurred at Cork during the night, between Sinn Feiners and How far they are co-ordinated Military Curfew Patrols.
no one can judge, but they do The idea is gaining ground in reliable quarters that while police coincide with the fact that in and military reprisals in Ireland henceforward will be discouraged, Berlin and Middle Germany, another move is imminent with the object of reassering Government even in Munich. the railway: The greatest concentration of authority. This pedepends by the increasing raids on Sign Fein workers so far as possible aree power in the history of the A comparison of the ships avail Courts, which hitherto have not frequently been interfered with. hindering all transport of arms. American Navy will result fromable for next winter's wanwujzer Following of the dispersal of the "sian Fein Quarter Sessions," the munitions, or supplies which he junction of the reorganised with the naval strength available military surrounded Wexford Town Hall, where the Mayor was pre might be destined for the support Pacific Coast next January under years ago affords some striking Atlantic and Pacific fleets off the for a similar concentration tec siding over an illegal Court. The mayor was arrested. He protested of the Government's militars plaas now being prepared by the contrasts. On January 1, 1910, be had a right to hold the Court, but was removed to gaol with police. ether Court officials. It is believed the new form of activity, which | Here and there, as at
Bureau of Naval Operations. | the latest battleship in the nAYY it is recognised will entail wholesale arrests of Sinn Fein leaders, seldorf, futile attempts are made the great naval spectacle prob was
New Hampshire will be in full swing before the reassembling of Parliament on the by Communista 10 seize the bly will be staged in the vicinity authorized by Congress in 1904.
centres of municipal authority.
of the Gulf of Panama, says the construction started its 1905, and Nex York Tiows
completed in 1908. A comparison A COMMUNIST COUP"
Officials of the Navy Depart- | of the New Hampshire and the ment say the proposed mobiliza- | Tennessee follows: Elsewhere they succeed for the tion will in no sense result in New Hampshire-Lỡngth, 450 moment as in Velbert (Rhenish "grand" manoeuvres. No effort feet; breadth, 76 feet; dratt, 23 London, Oct. 6. Prussia) which was a Soviet will be made to concentrate all feet; displacement, 17,700 tons: There are indications that strong feeling exists-in most of the Republic"-an experiment which of the nation's naval strength, speed, 18 knots; main battery.fom coalfields which may lead to a majority against the proposed datum ended in reconquest by military and only ships regulitly in com- 12-inch guns and sight hieb lice in next week's ballot. The fact that the Miners Federation police from Essen and the mission with trained crews will secondary battery, waive 3-inch: Executive have not suggested how the miners should vote-probably imprisonment of the temporary participate. The exercises four subriarged torpedo tubla; due to a difference of opinion among members will evidently coralars. That was that.
jand drills will be simple 9-inch armour. Propelled by siderably lead to an increase in the vote against acceptance of the By now, only a few hours and mainly of a, competitive triple-expansion steam engines. proposed termDLA, The uncertainty as to whether a bare or two-thirds afterwards, comes the news that nature. including unofficial | developing 18,000 horse power: majority is necessary for strike notices to take effect in the event of the far-distant factory town of athletic competitions between crew, 1,250, including marines. the rejection of the terms, has been cleared up by the Secretary, Mr. Coethen, between Halle sad representatives of the two Cests Tennessee-1920. Lengt), 600 Hodges, who states that the former will sure. Meanwhile the Leipzig, has set up on its own. and of individual ships. The feet: breadth, 97 fest; draft, 31 | Welsh, Staffordshire and Northumberland Collieries, which went idle Communista bave declared it main object of the mobilization | feet; displacement, 32,300 1658 |
as an emphatic protest against the datum line proposals, have now under Soviet rule, seized
the will be to give officers and wen") spaed (contract), 21 knota, mája resumed.
administration, and issued the opportunity to compare notas battery twelve inch gas Berlin. Oct. 5.
following proclamation
and meet for a few weeks of good-secondary battery, fourteen "Brothers and Comrades in instared rivalry.
5-inch guns: two submn erect Arts, The day of reckoning is
torpedo tubes, propelled A USIQUE DOCASIOS. bere. The proletariat of the
by electric turbines whole of Germany has awakened Admiral Henry B. Wilson,veloping. 29,500 horse power; in order to break the chains its Commander-in-Chief of the crow, 1,600 1380, Including oppressors forged,
Atlantic feet, will be seniori maripes. The reactionaries are prepar-officer of the combined force, Eighteen singls calibre gun ing a new blow, so as to destroy(with Admiral Hugh Rodman, shing available for the Jamally completely. We have Chief of the Pacific fleet, second manœuvres that were not com- anticipated them.
in command. ·
pleted in 1910. They have "Therefore to doeds! Hurrah The manoeuvres will be unique combined displacement of 445,000: for the Sovie: Repablic. Long in many respects, chiefly in that tour and a combined gon power live the world revolution.” they will aFord the first actual of 112 14-inch guas, 80 twelvar, This clarion call and the seizure mobilization of the balk of the 226 5-inch and twenty-eight of local authority are the work of new American Navy. Before the 3-inch. a hundred labourers, who before war the forces were always proclaming their republic arrest- Įmore 07 less scattered and
It is evident that the German miners regard the output question| in a different light to their British colleagues, for oficial statistics disclose that the output for the first eight months of this year is seventeen million tons greater than the output of the corresponding (period of last year.
BRITISH BUSINESS DEPRESSION.
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ed the mayer and also the leader a shortage of several types
TROOPS DX THE WAY.
TEN YEARS DEVELÒPHEST.
A comparison of total-b
London. Oct. 3. Illuminating explanations why the English commercial com manity is experiencing a period of depression are afforded by Mr. Peter Rylands, president of the Federation of British Industries, in the course of an address in London to the Iron and Steel Exchange. He stated that the demand for British production had diminished owing to prices rising above the consumer's capacity to pay for them and also that since the armistice Great Britain had fulfilled a large proportion of world orders which Continental manufacturers inter of the Majority Socialists, who, of vesels. particularly of ship forces available in 1920 Wish exts hitherto were unable to undertake. The United States was of course, are not recognised as destroyers. sabmarines. light 1910 shows that this year there. simultaneously handicapped owing to the rate of exchange. But, belonging to the “ proletariat. cruisers, aerial forces-and-feet | are 18 dreadnoughts and 19 più- Mr. Rylands showed, the position was now changing owing to the
fauxiliaries, made i: impossible to dreadnoughts, excluding the revival of German and Belgian trade competition, and he pointed out
concentrate a well-rounded-out Oregon class, sgrimst 23 pg. that while German experts in January of last year were only 161,000,000 marks, they were 6,647,000,000 marks last May and had
Their evil counsel unfortunate-feer, although the major portion dreadnoughts in 1910, including undoubtedly increased since. While Germany was subsidisingly was listened to by a larae proof the battleship force met each the Oregon clase. Most of the
ilways, coal, food and other commodities from borrowed mose railwaymes, 40
portion of the workers, including inter at Guantanamo. Cuba: for battleships listed as-available vin 1910 are now considered obsolete, Britain had done exactly the opposite. The Goverment ***
that for these practice and drills. mcment the "Soviet Repablic " During the war the shortage in Ten years ago the fiary dis- encouraging deflation and removing absidies, thereby rising the Cothen is cu o from the most types of small vessels, nottroger force consisted of about cost of living at a moment when industries were endangered or rest of the world.
jably destroyers and submarines, 38 vessels; including 17 torpido serious competition. Replying to a suggestion, Mr. Rylands was sare
BYED overcome, but the entire i boats
then practically Incidentally, bas very signític- {*** manufacturers would be only too willing to adopt a policy of fixing antly, it is noticed that the feet was never mobilized, due to obsolete. This year Admirale stable prices for certain periods as far as practicable.
bundred innovators included the use of practically all light Wilson and Redman command forces aggregating several immigrants, and that all craft in the war zone, the detail destroyer were armed with brand new rifles of cruisers to escort duty and the more than 200 vessels, with A sequel is, of course, inevit-fact that a considerable portion over 100 more in reserve or under able. It is foreshadowed in the of the battleship force was on construction. In 1910, 16 sub- following official announcement daty abroad much of the time. marines were carried on the to-night-
active list of the navy This year THE NAVY'S HIGHEST”MARÉ. "Troops from Dessau andå)
nearly 100 of the Tabadables The January manœuvres will are attached to the frofindtil "with" Commission on Decimal Coinage on Sept 30, the "horning Post's" Ottawa correspondent says it is military police from Halle barel was criticised by Mr. H. Allcock officially denied that the delay in the appointment of the Minister to/been sent to Coethen to overthrow set a new mark in American 1 about 75 more under construction. naval progress. For the first The cruiser strength of the o ty the Communist conspiracy."
Dealing will the events in the time in the history of the new has shown little change in the
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iraportant fact that the value of the penny (now demanded alteration for reasons quite apart from the decimal If the Government A telegram from Riga states that the Russo-Polish delegations would now declare that bence-have agreed to sign an armistice and preliminary peace on Oct. 8th forth the round be divided into with a view to avoiding a winter campaign. [200 instead of 249 peace, the cost
of providing additional copper coins, would be curtailed and the prevailing shortage of copper would be relieved. The reduction in prices would be hastened by the provision of a new single coin equal to about a penny
EGYPTIAN CONSPIRACY.
Cairo, Oct. 6.
An
that the German Communistsquale number of destroyers and the "big eight", armoured erüttes had planned outbreaks, in antici- other light craft Submarines now, reduced to siz by the lasă
will be available in abundance, I the San Diego and the Memphi pation of the fall of Warsaw.
They were reckoning, says the together with sufficient naval No Hght cruisers of importa
aircraft for all tactical pur-]have been, ladnobet i paper, on that event, andon setting
poses and a fully rounded cut decade, di dala up a Soviet Government in
The One of the TIL DIE Poland, in order to break loose feet of auxiliary vessels.
of vessels to creases -In total xomber (Germany and enforce a coalition
with the Russian Bolsheviks. participate will depend on the strength i
(Costben, or Koethen, is in progress of recruiting, as many been in a Anhalt, 19 miles north of falle, ships are in reserve now for lack the Atlan Prussian Saxony. It has a popula of crews, bat it is probable that now. tion of over 30,000, and malting Admiral Wilson will command at con
last 300 vessels of all types. and beet sugar making an prominent among its industry The most modern of dread- According to Rester Lele oughts to participate in the the Soviet declared itself disored manoeuvre will be the great, Ten- on learning that reports of the i staden, -/he last-word in DAYAI
Four accused in the conspiracy trial cabled on Oct. 5 have been formation of similar councile in construction, this grest: fosting farthing in present money, and acquitted. The remainder, including Abdulrahman. have been found Leipzig. Halle and Hedgeburg fortress displaces 32,000 tong dar
obstacle to the guilty. Sentences will be promulgated.
decimalisation of the pound. starling would be removed..
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