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TRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1919.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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HOME RULE AGAIN.

-DISCUSSION. RESUMED IN FARLÍAS MENT.

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LosDas, Oct. 11.

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THE BALKAND' OUTBREAK

ATHENIANS WANT WAR

On the arrival of the King of Greece at Athens, he was met by an enormous orowd who received him with an GENTRAL WARFAFE STILL IN ovation. In a sposob, His Majesty

THE BALANCE."

sbaum.] tham for their greeting and their manly, calm attitude, which was worthy of the Helenis people. Sub sequently M. Venizelos, the Premier, fadressed the crowd,, stating that they still hoped peaco would be maintained, since neither their neighbours, nor

LONDON, Oct. 10.

The House of Commons was (Router's Service to the China Mail) arowded when Mr. Asquith moved the guillotine resolution in connee. tion with the Home Role Bill.

The object of the Government, the Premier said, was not only to pass the Bill in the present Parliament cheers and counter-cheers) but to pass it with the provisions so care- fully critised and revised as to be- come a really workable measure. The time available was ample and generous.

A mosting to express sympathy with Servia has been held in Moscow, where 3,000 persons have volunteered for service.

STILL. HESITATING.

Whatever their ultimate decisions may be none of the ather Balkan The Opposition's object was destroy, not to amend, the Dill. States have yet declared war.·· Indeed· Without the use of the guillotine, they have intimated their intention to they would consame time and pro-wait a day or turn before replying vent the Bill passing in thre to formally to the Note of the Powers." become law.

Mr. Bonar Low, in moving his amendment, said that the Coven MIDNIGHT DELIBERATIONS:"

-ment were being impelled to pass u measure which they knew had never been approved by the people. Mr. Benar Law dwelt on his remarks states

A message from Constantinople that at midnight the five regarding Ulster, and said that he Ambassadors were still deliberating fully recognised his responsibility in upon the taxt of the communication to the matter. They had been told here that they were adopting law be addressed to the Forte.

·lessness, but he believed that there must be a limit somewhere. The people had rezisted Jamės II. and *Robespierre the Constitutional

authorities.

LATER

Continuing, Mr.. Bonar Law said the Government knew that the sense af infisties which the people of Ulster were suffering was such that possible. which outbreaks were might mean massacres. They had

only been restrained by the wise deadership of Sir Edward Curson-- (Prolonged Ministerial laughter)-- ard from the belief that there must He be an appeal to the people. arn that Ulster was at present like a powder, ming. He asked "Has the Government ng respout.

sibility and if it meant, without election. to carry Home Rule at the point of the bayonet. If so Heaven help then. If not, as he believed was the case, they were a body of Alicawbers' incurring terrible respon siblity. If blood-shed cume, the blood guiltiness would be theirs (Opposition cheers).

LATER.

Mr. Bovar Law's muendiment was rejected by 329 votes to 232.

The House then adjourneň.

THE ILL-FATED SUB-

MARINE.

FUNERAL OF THE TICTIMS."

Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

Losnox, Oct. 11.

There was an impressive funeral service this afternoon of those drown- ed in the Submarine B2. A Buinber of warshins were prosent and the

dottila to which the B2 belonged. Hundreds of people, watched the ceremony from the cliffs at Dover, but a pull-like haze enveloped the funeral and the feet.

"THE BELFAST SPEECHES.

.AUEPTIDS IN TE COMMONS.

(Router's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, Oct. 11. In the House of Commons, Mr King

asked whether the speeches of certain Privy Connellre and also their Coren- ant at Belfast had been referred to -the Law Officers of the Crown in order. to report if there bad been a break of their oath of allegirace.

RUSSIA'S TEST MOBILISA-

TION" FINISHED.

As the German and Austrian Pross has bees voicing suspicions regarding Raasian mobilisation, it is officially declared that the test mobilisation recently ordered has been finished and the reserviste disbanded.

A MONTENEGRIN PRO. CLAMATION.

A tulegram from Cetinje states that King Nicholas in a proclamation to the people calls upon Montengrios to help their brethren who are being massacred in old Servia, and says they can to assured of the sympathy of the civilised world, and would be assisted by Servia, Bulgaria and Greece.

SERIOUS ACTION.

A dispatch from Podgoritiza, the Montenegrin headquarters, dated the 9th inst, atates that after an artillery duel along the whole line for 21 minutes the Turks were compelled to retire from their first position ou ́Mount Eleninitza Hy.noon. the whole.

mountain was evacuated.

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friends desired conquest but what had been demanded was' indispensabia to the peaceful co-existence of the Balkan | (Reuter's Servics to the China Mati.} | States and Turkey. During the specob,

LONDON, Oct. 13. cheers where raised for war. The Reuter's Podgoritza a correspondent. telegraphs that the Montenegrinus resumed the barbardment of Det elitch yesterday morning. Simul taneously, a battle was proceeding in payment of 20 cents cash, Hong- front of the Turkish town of Tuzi... |

Premier naked for silence, and repeated that he still hoped for peace. –

FRANCE AND THE UPHEAVAL

„The " Dobstr” deplores the entangle-. ment of France in Morocco in view

War.

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of the evitable European eciais, what-titch, crossed the frontier yesterday.

The Oakum Pickers, by L. 8. Gibion. • ever may be the issue of the Balkan morning near Berans. Detcbitch Maid in a Market Bardan, by Old Graves.

fell at four o'clock in the aftemoos, The Turastile, by A. E. W. MANOR.

The House of Fortuna, by HazPunbarton and the Montenegrin standard was The Blas Bird's Eye by George Edgar, hoisted at various positions. Heavy Torpent's Tooth, by B. AL. Croker. losses were sustained on both sides. The Myster Queen, by Fergus Hume

The Queen's Per by Mr & Mrs H. Fraser. There were rejoicings in the Monte-The Lighted Way, by T. Philipe Algpen- negrin camp.

FRENCE AEROPLANES FOR

THE BALKANS.

Thirty French aeroplanes have reached Iausbruck on the way to the Balkan, Staten.

'AUSTRO-HUGAKIAN'S

POSITION.

Reuter's Vienna correspondens elä graphs that Count Berchtold, a dressing the Hungarian Delegation, dwelt upon the efforts that were being made towards peaca He concluded by saying "Our policy is not conquest, but that does not mean that we are nos interested in the Balkans. We have vital interests there and are determined to defend them.”

GREAT BRITAIN AND THE - RETENTION OF VESSELS.".

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LONDON, Oct. 11.

House of Commons that the British Sir Edward Uroy announced in the

Ambassador at Coustantinople, bad boen instructed to point out that the retention of the Greek vessels was unjustified by international law “ and as far as the interests of Britons were affected we must strictly observe all rights."

GREEK FRINGE LEAVES FOR

THE FRONTIER.

Reuter'a correspondon: at Athens telegraphs that the Greek Crown Prince will leave Thessaly for the frontier on Saturday.

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and Staff had ridden out early in the THE EMPIRE TRADE. morning to an adjacent meantain, amid the cheers of the inhabitanta.

A PATRIOTIC DEMON- STRATION.

COMMISSION.

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LONDON, Oct. 11.

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From the Angle of Seventeen, by Eden

Phillpots.

The Hab Trap, by Daniel Woodrofe.

Halcyono,, by Elinor Glyn.

LIVELY "YOUNG TURKS.” The Orat, by Rex Buah.

PROCESSION WITH REYOLYERS.

(Reuter's Service to the Chino Mail.)

LONDON, Oct. 11.

A telegram from Reuter's Constan- tinople corespondent states that ve thousand students armed with revol- vers made a demonstration of protest against 'the Government's attitudo towards reforms in Macedonia. They went in procession, clamouring for war, to the Porte where they broke the windows. Mahmud Mukhtar, the Gend Vizier, harangued the crowd, who constantly interrupted, and their dispersal was only obtained on his promising to receive a deputa- tion from them.

KWANGTUNG NEW3.

(From Our On Correspondent).

A GOLU STANDARD FOR CHINA. That thinking men are not mistied with the present monetary cafusion in China in uvidenced by landing article in

the Wa Te Yat Po, in which the editör bas published a lender, novizely con demning the present silver system, and the confusion that frequently results therefroms." The writer points out, that at present all the nations of the world, even wacht subordinate peoples as those of the Straita Settlements and India, have a gold standard, and have discarded silver. Iberefore, if this is so, it is surely evident that there must be some advantage in the application thereal, or all other peoples would not have adopted it. But the main

contention is that China is losing every way, or has done in the past, and if sho negotiates this low will probably lowo again. Be points out that during recent years, perhaps twenty, whibt China has been

The Empire Trade Commission havearly paying in indemnition, geld has been. dear, and therefore much, silver has been

ro assembled and are taking evidengedmined from the country in urder to Punctually at o'clock Captain on emigration. This will occupy

meet the claims of foreign antinus Prince Peter, the youngest son of King | fortnight, after which evidenco will be upon her. Ou the other hand, just at pre- sent, when China noods this big lonn, silver Nicholas, firadi the first shot in the war taken on Imperial trade. at the Turkish positions on the hills The Commission sails for Australia is done, and therefore when the gold is Opposite, the bands meanwhile playing on January 15 and returns to England changed into silver it will be about one

in July.

the Royal hymn.

A BATTLE ENGAGED IN.

tenth less in value compared with the prices ruling about a year and a half ago. Of course the woskness of this argument.is

A KING'S ASSAILANT.seen at a glance, It rosy mine to paas

THIRTY YEARS' IMPRISON-

MENT.

After the Turkish evacuation of Planinitza, the Montenegrins, covered | by their guze, advanced to attack the Mr Asquith replied that he wa

strongly fortified, inoantain Detchitch aware of the speeches and tint the commanding the road to Scutari. The matter was being considered-(Libera! Turks at two o'clock in the afternoon

(Reuter's Service to the Oline Mail.) abeora.)

LONDOy, Oct. 10. Junded troops on the shore of Lake

Reuter's correspondent at Rome THE PANAMA CANAL Scutari, near the frontier. A battle

ensued along az extensive front. The telegraphy that the anarchiet d'Alba, Crown Prince Danilo, who is the 'com.convicted of an attempt to sinate manderia Chief, and Prince Péter have the King of Italy in March last has Reuter's Bervice to the China Mail.) just returned from the battlefield to besa sentenced to thirty years in

QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, Oct. 11.

consult King Nicholas

A BULGARIAN ATTACK.

Bir Edward Gray, in reply to Pro- | -fessor Hewins, M.P., suid After the passage of the Panama Bill we in formed the United States that if Bulgarian paranta and soldiers at eventually there was a difference tacked sad, drove out the garrison between the two countries respecting from the Turkish blockhouse at Kalova the Bay-Pauncefuit Treaty, which could on Monday. Rot be settled otherwise, we would sik for arbitration on" the whole subject, including the views of the legal ad- wisirs of the Crown. The matter was now under the consideration of the Government.

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LATER.

that when this lom in being repaid silver, will be dearer still; and forther it is to the advantage of Chi in paying her inderani- ties at present. We are not here interest. ed in this point however; the main fast in the situation is that there are some of her thinking people who are wise enough to 4to the present confusion, and who see further that there is not only confusion. but there is likely to be low In this] world be that has money can afford to wait till the condition of the market war rauts him in doing busines; on the other hand, the can who in poor mast do basi.

prisonment, seven of these being soli-nows whwa the call emmes, for with him, it tary confinement.

is a case of doing something or slarving." Chias is in the position of the poor man," and must got money, whether it is dear or

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