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* TUBBDAY NOVEMBRIS 11, 1918,
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BY TELEGRAPH.
(Reuter's Service to "the China, Mail).
GUILDHALL BANQUET.
IMPORTANT SPEECHES,
LONDON, Nov. 11.
"At the Guildhall Banquet there ras the usual brilliant company in elading Cabinet Ministers Diplo mats, Peers, Archbishop of Canter bury, Tord Chief Justice, Naval Military and prontinent men of the City.
THE FIRST LORD AND THE NAVY.
THE
MAIL.
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"BRITISH POLITICS.
THE PRESS AND THE BYE. ELECTIONS
LONDON, Nov. 11. Comments on the results of tho eles
tions Turi on purely party lines: Lin lithgow splendid," Reading magal sacred by the whole of the Mussul-ficent" is the keynote of the Unionist mans, many millions of whom were papers, which declare that it would be loyal and devoted subjects of the shearmadness for the Government to British Crown (Cheers.) Great Britain would gladly offer any help ignore the warnings againat Home Rule.. in the prosecution of that course, to which the Turkish Government might invite, without forgetting the three other Powers who had a special concern in the well-being and deve- lopment of Asia-Minor.
The Liberal organs, on the contrary, maintain that local factors and the un- popularity of the Insurance Act are mainly responsible for the losses.
The Times says the reinita show that the ovuntry does not like a polioy Jead.
Mr. Churchill, in replying to the toast of the "Imperial Forces," said that next year the country would have a force of 150,000 sailors and marines, which was the largest en record.
The Daily Telegraph expresses the He emphasised the part played by Londoners in the Navy, They met to-night, he said. under The Chinese Republic had now taken opinion that if the Government now circumstances freer from danger to her place among the politics of the makes an offer to Ulater it will have to European peace, but nevertheless, world, and in common with other be on generous lines. there must be no relaxation in effort.utions, Great Britain had recognised The estimates of 1914 would show substantial incrense, and be declared that even in the region of the air the Navy need not fear com parison with any other country.
A CRITICAL YEAR FOR CHINA.ng to civil war.
The Morning Post declaros that Mr. Asquith, continuing, said abas Ministers cannot contians to be op there were other parts of the world posed to the demands for a general confronted with special perplexities election, and dangers. This had been a inost critical year in the history of China.
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BRITISH OVERSEAS. ARMY.
General French, also replying to the tonst, expressed tisfaction at the prosence of the large numbers of minbers of the Overseas Domi- nions at the Army Manturres. This. attested to the growth of the effici eney and the strength of the Over seas portion of the Army.
THE PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.
THE WAR IN THE TALKANS.
that it would be impertinence to comment at this moment on its internal affairs; but in view of our interests of Britsh trade which were relations in the past and the vast
hound up with its future develop ment, they were only anxious to see authority stable and the Central Government accepted by the Pro- inces and effective throughout the whole of China.
MEXICO.
The Daily Mail considers that in face of such verdicts as Government can attempt to use armed force in Ulster,
The Standard describes the election results as a staggering blow to the Government.
The Daily Chronicle declares that the Unionists fonght mainly on In
Home Rele bad little place
surance.
is the mouths of the speakers,
The Daily News done not believe tha The Premier said that though result indicates an anti-Government Mesico was still in the throes of tidal wave, and declares that the Man- civil war there had never been and date of the Government has been could never be any question of poli-maintained..
tical intervention, on the part of Great Britain in the domestic. con- verns of Mexico or any Central or South American State. It was n
part of our right or daty in that part | of the world at any rate to prevent
MR. BONAR LAW ON THE RESULTS..
Mr. Bonar Law telegraphed to Capt,
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CONDON, Nov. 1
A wireless dietroes call has been received from the German tennsport Rhenania, bound for Daressalam with three hundred troopa. A inter mesings, however, states that the transport is safe, and is making for Lisbon.
OBITUARY.
SIR RICHARD SOLOMAN.
LONDON, NOV. 11. The death is announced of the Bon. Sir Richard Solomon G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., KQB., High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa since 1010.
Born in 1850 at Cape Town, Sir Richard was called to the Bar in the Inner Temple in 1879, and in 1886 was appointed legal adviser to Lord Rosmead on his mission to Mauritius inquire into the affairs of that island. His many appointments and offices in South Africa included mem- bership of the House of Assembly Cape Colony; Attorney-Genersi 1898- 1900; legal adviser to Transvaal Ad- ministration and to Lord Kitchener 1001 and 1902: Attorney-General of Governor of the Transvaal 1905-8, the Transvaal 1903-07; Acting Lieut-
Member of Eredutire and Legisla. tive Councils of the Transvaal. He represented the Transvaal at the Delhi Durbar in 1901, and Agent General for that colony in London from 1907 to 1910.-
WALA
LORD MAYOR'S SHOW.
FINE MILITARY DISPLAY.
LONDON, Nov. 11. Though the Lord Mayor's Day was showery, the decorated streets were thronged with people. There was on also a representation of a Lord
revolutions or to attempt to preclude Wilson as followsAfter Linlithunusually fine military display, and
Mr. Asquith, who was cheered on rising to reply to the toast of His Majesty Ministers, said that a year ago they were witnessing the con- control civil war. The utmost
Balkan States. It ludno sooner
that Great Britain could do was tow, the wonderful victory at Rending
give what protection was possible to is a plain intimation to the Government Mayor's Show of the seventeenth British lives and property in times that their Irish policy is impossible.” of urgent danger and crisis. rumour had found credence in some quarters that at a moment when the
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THE MEXICAN FERMENT.
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PRESIDENT HUERTA,
flet between Turkey and the Allied been ended than it was followed by an outbreak of hostilities between the victorious Allies. The clash of arme but now happily ceased. but thousands of lives had been sacri- Beca, millions of treasure spent, va tracks of territory devastated, and. above all the inevitable horrors of war, things had been done and suf- Hored which had shocked and repelled the whele, civilised world. It was Boo Roon to draw up the debtor and breditor account and say whether there had heet or would be a tal-tion of the United States had had the principal figure at the Cates, where
United States were taking a line of their own with regard to Mexico that firent Britain had entered upon a new departure or policy deliberately opposed to that of the United States, and calculated to thwart it. There was not a vestige of foundation for
UNMOVED
LONDON, Nov. 11 Atalogram to New York Strqm
such a rumour on March 31, which Mexico City states that President was before the present Administra-Haerts appear to be unmoved, and is
century, when the new river scheme was completed. Sir T. Vansittart Bowater, the new Lord Mayor, was warmly cheered.
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There is oore uneasizom apparent concerned, for the future of the because having neither the will nor at the United States Embassy than at populations for whose interest to the power to intervene, they were the Palace, where it in frequently inter- a new distribution of power in the bound to deal with whatever was for ingly suggested that the United States Balkans they had severally become trustees. It was an easy task to the time the de "facto Government; will ever intervene. blame Europe, but although they had and because there appeared no Jelement except Huerta that offered hown themselves impotent to pre- vent or curtail the lamentable effu.any prospect for the restoration of
Americans declare that the waiting policy cannot be long maintained, but
March 81.. "Since then there has that there will be a new election, al
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THE NEW ZEALAND STRIKE.
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sion of blood, yet to anyone who stability arkl/order. That was on President Huerta merely raiterstes the Secretary of the Labour Federation Couch Counter (Mr. S. B. Bremner). remembered the history of ie East been no change of policy by the which neither he nor Blanquet will be announced that all the Unioze ja
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THE BALKAN'S STRIFE.
British Government. Great Britain action that the area of conflict had States' policy would have regard to
gladly assumed that the United candidates.. been circumscribed. Mr. Asquith the legitimate commercial interests emphasised that for a generation of Mexico us well as of their own. The past there had been one main pre-exchange of views with the United cccupation of European diplomacy. States had been marked by perfect namely, to prevent the re-opening cordiality and nothing could happen of that question in the belief that to disturb our common resolve to it could not be revived without the
maintain a friendly and sympathetic certainty of open dissension and grave risk of a possible war between had done more to forster that spirit
understanding-(cheers) and none". the Powers themselves.
than"Mr. Bryce." (Cheers.)
falsited.
TURKEY'S HIGH-HANDED
ACTION.
LONDON, Nov. 10.- After numerous delays, the Tur- kish peace delegates have received
Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin will call out their möübers today.
(Wah Tu Foto's Service.)
ALLOGATING. LOANS."
OPPOSITION FEARED.
--Pezino, Nov." 11 The Government has decided to the long-waited instructions from devote Fa. 80,000,000 of the Belgian
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Mr. Asquith concluded by point momentarily disappointed any hope development of the port of Pakow qualified-admiration was that those apprehensions had been completely out that there were signs on the of a speedy settlement, as the Porte and a similar amount to the construc horizon portending the inevitable not only inakes no concessions, but ton of the Wuchung-Hankow Rail- It was true that events had revolved themselves sometimes slackening of the voluton and the formulates fresh demands. The Way A proposal to use the re in a fashion that seemed to menace velocity of the tide of trade. There Greek Foreign Minister has declined mainder of the loan, Fs. 80,000,000
had been the initiation almost every Indirectly the susceptibilities or the where of costly schemes of social to discuss the latter pending their for administrative expenses has been interests of particul Powers reform, and, in addition to the waste consideration by the Cabinet. There had been moments of grave of wealth in actual warfare, there anxiety; but by the exercise of pati had heen air unprecedented addition ence and tact, of self-restraint in both-on land and sea of the apparatus some quarters, of atrenuous goodwill organized destruction. All that. in others, those difficulties had been imposed a dangerous strain on the overcome, and they in London might taxable capacity and credit of rccall with pride that the unitednetion, which must react on tlio Norddeutsche Zeitung discussing the AMMUNITION COLLECTED AT
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nal well-being. (Cheers.)
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A QUESTION FOR STATESMEN AND BUSINESSMEN,
The Foreign Offices of Europe continued Mr. Asquith, had plenty of business still before them in cón- nection with Albania and the Bal- kans, and it would be too much to His last word that night was to ask say that they were satisfied with the question Was it not time for such a settlement as had alreadyStatesmen and every man of bugi been made, but they at any rate were ness to take counsel together to resigned to it and they were prepared secure a saner and more fruitful with goodwill and a common desire appropriation of the
for the continuance of peace tsources of mankind?" (Cheers.) make the best of it.
RKÉYJA ÁSIATIC PROVINCES.
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