MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1918.
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FRENCH MILITARY
$
TROUBLE FEARED IN ULSTER.
MANŒUVRES.
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FIRMS REMOVING THEIR
BRITISH GENERALS PRESENT.
LONDON, Aug. 23.
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.
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LONDON, Aug. 25.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SCOTTISH LETTER.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) ·
EDINBURO, July 20.
THE NAVY AND SCOTTIAN VEEL UIL Mr. Winston Churchül'e statement as to the Navy has aroused much interest in the A telegram from Washington states ail traile circles in Scotland. Though the QUARTERS.
that it has been decided to increase Scottish producing conipanis have been the 11,000 troops on the Mexican bor-under centret to apply oil fuel to the LONDON, Aug. 23.
dor by, 14,000 in order to facilitato British Navy in fairly consulubis qua
tities for one year, this is the first Several big Ulator firms are inquiring A British military mission, hoaded by Field Marshal Sir John Freash, and for sites in England in the ovens of prevention of contraband and Mexicanecasion on which the importance of the with such prominence. It will be observed including General Grierson, visited the Home Rule becoming law, following incucions; also, in the case of neces Scuftish off industry has baca brought bo the example of Messra (Fuinness, whosity, to form a unit for a succesful too the notice of the House of Commons that fe. Churchill stated that according to camp at Obalons, following the counsecured a hundred acres at Salford, and expeditionary foros.
calculations (which were no Joabt submit. bined 'infantry and cavalry maneuvres.
Messrs Jacob. biscuit makers, who
ted to him' from wall-informed sources) The mission received the atmost obtained promises in Liverpool.
Scottish shales albao, if developed to their cordiality,
fullest enpacity, would yield between 400,000 and 300,000 tons for 150 years. At present the output from localition close to Rosyth is about 250,000 tona, and de velopments are being carried which could be vigorously pushed in the event of an arrangement with the Admiralty. Una distinct advantage to the Navy of a Scottish oil apply is that the quantities which it would be possible to obtain can be ascar- tained, wheroes the lives of this abroad is unknown. It is scarcely necessary to point out the obrione beacht of having ready available supply in times of war.
AUSTRIAN MILITARY
MANŒUVRES,
LONDON, Aug. 25. A Vierba message states that General Caneva, late Italian Commander in Tripoli, Las arrived at Ischl as the guest of the Emperor to follow, the Austrian manoeuvres.
THE IRISH MANŒUVRES.
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IS IT A WARNING?
LONDON, Aug. 24. The Saindard's military correspond- on: says that an infantry brigade is being brought over from England to
EMIGRANTS FROM LONDON. DERRY.
BOOM IN EMIGRATION.
LONDON, Aug, 25, The Alan lizer Scandinavian is! taking nearly two, hundred emigranta, to-day from the Londonderry district to Canada. The local manager of the Allan live states thai this is one of the biggest emigration years ever knowa.
BRITISH AND FRENCH FRATERNISE:
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LONDON, Aug. 25. The British Mediterranean Fleet, now
from General Drude, who asked
participate in the inter-divisional man- at Orug, received an elaborats welcome
avros in Ireland, and the officers are
FRENCH AVIATION FATALITY. TWO MEN KILLED.
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LONDON, Aug. 25.
A Paris telegram states that in a hydroplane race from Paris to Dean ville, an aviator Damed Montalent and his passenger wore killed,
THE POWERS AND PEACE.
LONDON, Aug. 25.
for
LOST BURNS TREASURES.
There is somo |
A Paris telegram states that 31.
Incredible and dapiombly," is the Pichon, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, speaking in the deparment of Jura, comment of Lord Rosebris on the reported said-Everything leads to the be-saic of certain Barns manuscripts by the hef that we are reaching the end of the Liverpool Athenasum, & private Abrary, to
an American collector. crisis which so often mised the danger
doubt as in whether the sale is actually of war between the Great Powers. complete-the negotiation have taken Now need is universally felt
place in grant socrvop-bat it is believed assured pence. Concerted action in that the Committee of the Athenaeum Europe has ended in an unsatisfactory have accepted an offer of £8,000, it has restored peace and has not grant ed an excessive advantage on one side, or crashed the other. M: Pichon went on to eulogise the services of the Triple Entente in the work of peace.
Much
aaking if it is not a warning to Vister, Admiral Milas to "prolong his stay sort of settlement, but it sufficée, since indignation le exprossed, not only in Scat-
The Authorities also intend to raise a
The Govern
forty-eight bours.
BALKAN SQUABBLE.
OPLE,
LONDON, Aug. 24. Nothing to known in London of the Powers adopting a definite proposal with regard to Adrianople, and the
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THE LONDONDERRY RIOTS. LONDON, Aug. 24-
large mounted police for duty in Tre- land and are inquiring into the riding capabilities of the existing military THE POWERS AND ADRIAN. police. A strong cavalry force wilk first be sent to Ireland. ment intend to send out socret agents to find out the strength of foeling in England against Home Rule, and these
At the inquest on the mon Arm agenta will make special inquiries, at
Vienna report of the imminent present-strong, who was shot while looking out the Rifle sad Usionist Clubs.
The Tinies states that conferences ation of a collective Note to the Porte of his window during the recent riots for making final preparations for rais consequently considered prematare, in Londondurry, the jury returned an The Turkish assurances are regarded sisting the Irish Parliament and fur catablishing provisional government in as disposing of the more acute question as to the territory on the right bank of the Maritza.
Ulster have been fixed for the 24th to the 30th September:
A message "from Vienna states that! the semi-official organ Wiener Allgemein
CANADIAN OFFICERS TO AT-Zeitung announces that the question of ́TEND AUTUMN HANŒUVRES.
OTTAWA, Aug, 24.
Mr. Hughes, Minister of Defence, and twenty-two officers, have started for England to attend the autumn army Mr. Hagbes will afterwarde study the remoaut problem in Europe.
ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.
LONDON, Aug. 24. Serrey drew with Worcestershire at Worcester.
at
Middlesex beat Warwickshire Birmingham by an iasings and 37 rnas.
Adrianople has lost its international character and become purely a Turco Bulgarian matter.
The chances that Turkey will be allowed to retain Adrianopla appear to be growing daily.
The prospects of an agreement on the Enancial boycott are not promising, and French investors who have to bear the brunt, and who have already made great sacrifices in deference to Russia's politi- cal views, are unwilling to do more.
MORE, FIGHTING,
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In Constantinople it is oficially announced that the Bulgarians attacked a. Turkish advance post at Ortakeny,
ment. The Turke captured a Colonel and 123 soldiers.
open verdict.
STANDARD OIL DEPOTS AT SMYRNA ON FIRE.
SMYRNA, Aug. 24.
A fire occurred at the Standard Oil Depots, in which 2,500 cases of oil were destroyed and tasks exceeding one thousand tons endogered.
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CHINESE NEWS.
THE PREMIER ARRIVES.
(Wah Tex Yat Po's Barvice.)
PEKING, Aug. 25. Hung Hsi Ling, the newly appoint ed Premier, has arrived at Feking and assured office,
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PRESIDENTIAL ORDERS.
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land but thesughout the whole of Britain, at the salt of these Glenriddel manuscripts, as they are called. On every side ity in stated that the maney would have been forthcoming is this country if the matter had been inade more public. The papors are comprised in two quarto rolamos, iate- cre of which, this pret transcribed
Jutter his autobiographical
to Dr. John Moore aod I of his published poetical pieces, and into the other 27 of his press compositions. The volumes were prepared for his neighbour and friend, Robert Riddel of Glenriddel,
bis cortespondence. Ous of them was and are frequently referred to by Barns in
unboished at the time of Riddel's death in 1794; the other had been in Riddel's hands for some time, and was reclaimed by the poot in a touching leter that he wrote to (probably) Mies Woodley in the summer of that year. The two books appear to. have been handed over, with many other of Buss' manuscripta-"the sweepings of his dock" when it was arranged that Dr. James Cutie was to write the official biography of Baris and to edit his Works; and Carrie appears to have retained them when bal task. was completed. They remained in the pos session of his family until 1853, when his widewed daughter-in-law-Mr. Wallace Curria-prosented them to the Athens
in Liverpool. In a leader, the "Liverpool Daily Post" declaros that it is difficult to End a shadow of an excuse for the Com. mittee's action. About a decade ago,"
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"Kent beat Hampshire at Dover by 153 but were repulsed after a tharp eng Kan Kwong. younger brother off been made known to the general body of čoch himself was a brilliant inventor. Hol
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The match between Lancashire and Essex, played at Manchester, resulted' in a pointless draw.
THE JAPANESE CHUISER "KONGO."
OREEK RESERVIETS." An Atheus telegram sites that seven classes of reservists have been dismiss od the colours.
ALBANIA,
"The Albanian town of Delvino has. organised a Committee of Delence,
NEW AND SECRET TORPEDOES,
LONDON, Aug. 24. The Konge takes out forty White. resolved to resist the incorporation of "head torpedoer of a new and noorst the State of Albania.
-design which will be able to travel from ten thousand to twelve thousand yards
at forty-night knota., They wore maan-
factured under the personal supervision
of Commander Fukuda and Lieutenant
Shimei.
SERVIA REJOICING,
The President has appointed Lung General Lung, superintendent of the water police of the Kwangtung pro vince, and has placed all the gunboats under his control. Other orders pro- libit officers frem belonging to any Folitical society, and call upot rebel soldiers to give up their arms before their surrender is accepted.
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For prospectus and full particulare apply to... it says, "We wers the happy means of near the little village of Lugar, Ayrshire, a foiling an attempt to disposs of them for breaze tablet being unveiled on the cottage the benefit of the Athensum shareholders, where William Murdoch, the inventor of who then, se now. valord the convenicone gas Lighting, was born on 26th August of an extra tos-room or another billiard-1754. The family trace their descent literary treasure, and who now, by means and the father of Murdoch, a mill- of a secret transaction, the nature and weight aid miller, designed the first iron- results of which, we are informed, have not toothed gearing in Geat Britain. Mar In its of coal gea at Redruth in 1792; where he into a large sum of enah. shareholders, have converted theis volumee began the investigation of the distillation news columns, the "Post" points out that fighted his offices and etages by its the Athenses, which was founded in 1798, geacy, and in 1708 he showed the results or fully half a contury before the potablak in his premises at Scho. Like many ment of public libraries, has been chosen another pioneer, however, he did not as the custastian of many teamsures of reap the full benefit of his invention literature and art. Beside the Baras The memorial tablet at Tugar, which is MSS. it has bad entrusted taste keering the erected by the North Pritish Association William Rossos 1188, which Liverpool of Gas Managers, shows Murdoch's head could ill afford to loss; and quite recently in relief, modelled by Mr. Gamley, A. R there was added a collection of bistorie S. 4, after the Cheatrey best at pra. documente given by Mr. H. Yates Thomson: sort in the Wai'aco Monument, Many of the Herdman pictures of bygone Liverpool are xlso boused within its wall. "Frets these facts," the "Post" says, "i will be scan that the institution has
DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN KOB L LADY.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 25.
The deal in the Burns manuscripts pro- The rebel leader in Nanking, Horribilities fa semi-public character." Hoi Ming, alleges that German gun-mises to enter upon a sensational stage. boats buve fired on the Lion Hill The question is being asked in Burns Clubs
The Japan Chronicle of the 14th inst." Forts. He wrote to the German and to the Burs Federation, Was the sile legal, and can the Liverpool directors, Iteuter's Belgrade corresondent states Consul upon the subject and in reply be compelled, on the ground that they-The death occurred in Kobe yester- Though not that the Servian Crown Prince made a received an emphatic denial of the Corries never had any right to the man- day afternoon, with painful suddenucss, of ceremonious entry into the city at the allegation and an intimation that if scripts, to hand back the American dellara, Mr. G. G. Pakenham. head of ten thousand troops. The city such stories are repeated strong mead squash the bargain? The position of oriously ill, Mrs. Pakenham had been in
the Burnsites is that, socing Dr. Currie was decorated with Rage and Lophies, surce will be taken. as well as captured Turkish and Bal
BRITISH GOVERNMENT ORgarian gunä.
DERS ITALIAN DIRIGIBLE.
LONDON, Aug, 24 Beater's correspondent at Milan tele- graphs that the delegates of the British Airship Department have arranged for the construction of a Forlanini dirigible for the British Government, as after Hitnessing the trials they found that Bairship combined the advantages of the
rigid and non-rigid type
COAL PORTERS STRIKE.
LONDON, Aug. 23.
The coal porters who were engaged"
DEATH OF COUNT VON ̧ WELLENBURG.
VIENNA, Aug. 24... Rear Admiral Count on Wellenburg
of the Austrian Navy, who had to have
REBELS DEFEATED.
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only got a loan of these valuable manns-pocr health for some time past, and since cripte, and that he retained them in his turning from Arina, where she made own, posesion, they were neither his ser
his son's, and onsequently the widow of stay daring Jore and Joly; bad show Wallace Carrie had absolutely no power to signs of increasing weakness. Though In The Northerners have defeated these deod of gift to the Liverpool fairly good health at midday yosterday, rebal troops in an engagement to the athensum, West of Chung-king, Szechuan Pro- rince.
ADVANCING ON NANKING.
ABACRIFICE FOR CHINA,
Mrs. Pakonbam had a sudden solzura in the afternoon, and gradually lost conscionan osa, passing away at 4.45 p.m.
The Secretary of the National Bible Sudety of Scotland states that "one of the
Mrs, Pakenham was the daughter of Mr. most original thinkers, and one of the most emiltont preachers in Beotland, as well and Mrs. W. G. Bayne, of, Shanghai, and The troops dispatched under Fungus who fma had offered to him some of harm there in September, 1866, Sho
the highest honours Glasgow University at Nanking have groaned the river Bional Bible Sociuly Kwok Cheung to punish the rebels can bestow freach ship, has cost to the as educated chiefly at Dinop, in Franco, Scotland his gold [and when still in lior teena cima, cub to
both his legs amputated in consequence of an explosion during the trial of and landed four miles below Hsu- and silver medals, to be converted into Singapore, where her father had opened, ■ twelve inch gun, is dead,
kwon despite the heavy fire to which may do that the Society may send the branch of the North China Insurance Com Gospel to China at this critical time. The they were subjected by the rebels modest giver 6458, 20 30 account is my pany. Shortly afterwards Mr. Bayne was from Lion Hill Forts. This forehands to be mentioned to any one or any transferred to Yokohama, and it was there will assist in attacking the city at the bint given as to it Tai Ping gate.
THE ST. LEGER.
LONDON, Aug. 24. Shogun has been scratched for the
to unload the lighters for the new St. Lager
Japanese cruiser Kongo at Plymouth
have track for more pay.
It is expected that the Kongo's crow
KEEP IT HANDY:
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The American Lift boy je neatly always equal to energénoica, saya writer. Used to ups and downs, presum,
bly
will do the work themselves, and the TMMEDIATE relief is neccesary in st
A girl once explained the difference Japanosa Naval Attache is prepared to
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