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Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers. All

persons, with certain exceptions, whe

remain in the Colony for more than * days are required to Register them selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1918. Forms of Registration giving the particulars erquired may be obtained at the G.P.O.

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11-Fire Fund

3,997,047

Fil-Tale & Annuity Funds... 17,567,590

Sinking Fand Accent ......

Ravenne Fire Branch

123,230

£23,970,367 £2,831,456 Táfs and Annuity

2,141,593 Ersachet.... Revouse Marine Department... 297,239 Other Receipts. «manen

478.940

£5,339,228

The Accumulative Funds of the various Branches are separately invented, and, by Act of Parliament, are wet.aside to weat the claims under the "respective Depart scents of the Company's Burinaes,

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LETTERS.

EMPEROR KARL'S PEACE negotiations last August, sad he did not know about the Emperor Karl's letters when Count Revertera mode This first overtures,

REMARKABLE REVELATIONS OF AUSTRIA'S PROPOSALS.

OFFER TURNED DOWN AFTER LENGTHY DISCUSSION...

LONDON, May 8.

The Sub-Committee has still to bear the evidence of M. Briand, and M. Clemenceau before presenting its conclusions.

THE PARLIAMENTARY COM-

MITTEE'S FINDINGS: "

PARIS, May

The Parliamentary Foreign Affairs

The Manchester Guardian's Paris Correspondent gives a summary of the evidence of the French Ministers Committee, in concluding its in- and ex-Ministers before a Sub-Com-vestigations into the dossier regard mitree of the Foreign Affus Coming the Emperor Karl's letters to mittee, which shows that the En Prince Sixte and the Armand-Bever- peror Karl wrote the second Peace tera discusións, passed a resolution Letter early in April, 1917, presumexpressing the opinion that the peace ably to Prince Sixte of Bourbon converentions initiated and continuerl In it he declared that he was con- by Austro-Hungary in 1917 and 1918 vinced that he could induce Germany never provide an opportunity for a to make peace, provided the terri-peace acceptable to France and her torial demands of the Allies were Allies. restricted to Alsace-Lorraine, it being understood that all the occupied territory evacuated by the Belgian Sovereignty would be unconditionally restored. The Emperor added that be had already been assured of an agreement by Bulgaria, and he asked that the confidential character of this letter should be loyally respected by the French Government.

The Correspondent says M. Poin

PEACE HY NEGOTIATION AND SURRENDER

INTERESTING DEBATE IN

"HOUSE OF LORDS.

Lowdoy, May 6. In the House of Berds, Loudť Denbigh called attention to the Pacifist activities in the coun the general ignovance of the German

war-ans

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care, in the course of subsequent negotiations, proposed that Austria Iord Besterhook stated the fifth should cede Trieste and the Trentino War-Anne Committee were

to Italy in exeimage for Siles The with the Pacifist propagands. The Emperor Karl replied that there was publication of Prince Lichnowsky's an initial obstacle to this proposal, Memous had done much good and namely, whereas Austria occupied.

were undoubtedly partly responsible Trieste and the Trentino France d'd for the very little industrial unrest

at mesent existing...

not occupy Sileäin.

The dossier includes a statement

Lord Lausdowne protested against by an important Austrian personage being classed with the advocates of that if Germany proved intructable peaca by surrender: He did not and un, armistice was declared be-participate in secret conferences-1 tween Austria and the Allies a revolu-connection with it. He adhered to

tion would break out in Germany at his published views, but during the the instigation of the Minority offensive it would be wrong to create Socialists.

an impression that the country was divided. Such overtures occurred but broke down because the proposers

M. Ribot, in his evidence, stated that he had to choose between refus

ing the Austrian proposals and break-discontinued them or the overtures

ing with Italy. He considered him- self bound to choose the former alternative. M. Ribot admitted that:

were incompatible with Allied bon

our and safety. Prace by negotia- tion was at present impossible, Mr. Lloyd George agreed, only after because the country was confronted considerable hesitation, to a negative with the gravest crisis in its bistory

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(Italian Secretary for Foreign af preant was chimerical and such Affairs) insisted.

The dossier, shows that Mr. Lloydce by negotiation as was exhibited- at Brestlitask and with Humania George insisted more than once offered no encouragement. Until the the importance of the Austrian pro German military spirit abated, the posals and the desirability of not

ides of pursuing negotiations for un lowing favourable un opportunity honourable and lusting peace was Cin of making peace. The correspondent, which we could not regard with any says M. Policaré, however,, main-

hope of success. tained that the war could only be ended by complete military, victory by the Allice,

Lord Lansdowne twitted, Lord Den high for opposing peace by negotiation Lord Lansdowne said he wished to Some members of the Sub-Com-

encourage a widely felt Austro-Germa raittee were of the opinion that the desire to stop the butchery, Lord Carzonr Emposer Karl's proposals would sail that broadly speaking the heart hase teen turned down immediately of the labouring classes, was absolutely without disetission, but for Mr. Lloyd sound. The Allick always agreed that George,

if responsible an apparently lona fide penca overtures were made, the Allies concerned wers free to investigate them, and if anything came of the overtures the other Alfies would be consultod

THE OPERATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA

M. Prink ve defended M. Ribot's refuenl on the ground that any other course would have involved a rupture with Italy.

The correspondent afirms that Further evidence shows that in July, 1917, the German Go

pt-vid Belgium and 11 Brinnd,invited peace discussions

rland with Baron von Lanchon. This over, Ifure, was refused the French, Italian and Britie Governments

TURKS ABANDON POSITION,-

LONDON, May 8. message from

An offici

without consulting "United: States

Rum

and 7th

were in favour

the

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MES. BLAIR