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GERMAN

wireless memange from the George, the entry of Fashington states that President Wilson banda: played will probably not sit at the Pasce, table. Alles and phe He will be repressated by delegates,

while remaining in close contact with the tane. The officers hends of the other, Nation at any rated with how

ME CLYNES

Lordow," December 19th › Frank Mr. J. B Clipes, speaking at Notting, For

they had ham expressed his inability to confrm the statement that he was attending the

Fand Peace Conference, ai had been pravionaly cabled.

4.

- SCANDINAVIAN BEPRESENTA

„ADATION**

CHRISTIANIA, December 14th. *. |- The Government have proposed that the Danish and Swedish Governmenta, taka steps to secure Scandinavian representa tion at the Peace Conference, especially ng regards the League of Nations and compensation for maritime war losses

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

LONDON

December 13th. A telegram from Berlin states that the differences

between the Provisional Government and the Boldiers' Council continue.

The latter opposes the summoning of the Constituent Assembly to which the former is pledged

The presence of the Guards in Berlin hae produced a calmer feeling

The entire German Press, excepting

ting the Militarist newspaper, approve of the meeting of the Reichstag on the ground that it

impossible to summon a Cor atituent Assembly within a fortnight, and alleging that the Allies will occupy the whole of Germany unless order is maintained.

GERMAN BOHEMIA.

AMSTERDAM, December 14th A telegram trem Vienna states that the Czecho-Slovaka occupied the German Bohemian towns of Reichenberg, Tran- tenaus and Gabiona

MOSCOW WANTS MONEY BACK.

BraNa, December 14th..

A wireless message from Moscow states that the Government demands that Ber- lin should restore 22,000,000 marks, de posited by the Soviet Government in the Berlin Bank

FRENCH DEMOBILISATION=

of the troops Wis

18th,

THE MAGISTRACY:

AN INGENIOUS EXCUSE.

Avery ingenious excuse was 121– vented by a Chinaman in Mr. C. AȘ D. Melbourne's Court this morning when he was charged with stealing a bird and cage, valued at 820, ham takos that at a house in Hollywood Road. In his Auto Berlin the dafence, the man said he recognized,

the bird as being one which had escaped from its cage in h's bouse sometime last nonth

Weber

plationare

- taking the cage with the bind in it them down from the hoor where it was promote of hun at the door of campminans kid that house, with the intention of recisim

ing the bird, when he was chased and arrested by a watchman. - Thi

of

ted Herr word

RIOT IN BOETITËSARY

* Bar December 19th. A telegram from Prague states that large mobs plundered and wrecked the shops at Aussig in Bohemia Rioting continues in spite of all the efforts of the Rizes police, civic guards and troops. and machine-guns are being freely used. Many casualties Eave occurred.

GERMAN REVOLUTION.

NO AMMUNITION FOR BERLIN

TROOPS

AMSTERDAM, December 12th. A telegram from Berlin states that the Government has appointed January 1st for elaborate afresco celebrations in bonour of the revolution.

AMSTERDAM, Desember 12th, 4 telegram from Berlin Lokal Anzeiger intimate that the Executive of the

with dess its invitation to Bolshevist Delegation as the troops on the Eastern Front refused them pase age through the German lines,

story was considered too thin, and a previous conviction for larceny having been proved aghines him, he was sentenced to weeks hard labour with four hours stocks in Beu of the last day

VA VERY YOUNG ROGUE

A small Chinese boy was the delen- dans in a case before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne this morning in which he was charged with the larceny of s gold mounted rattan bangle from the persion of a five-year-old boy in Queen's Road Central

AMSTERDAM, December 12th The Berlin Excutive of Soviet has decided to deprive the troops in Berlin of ammunitìour.

From the statements made in Court. It appeared that the small boy used to live with his meter. Owing to his incortgible conduct, she cast him off, and he fell into the company of a number of bad companions. Two months ago he was arrested for the crine of larceny, and was ordered by the Magistrate, to be hirched. This evidently did not desen him from going wrong again, for on Saturday whilst a small boy was being carried on the arm of a man, he came up. from behind, and, snatching a bangle which the boy was wearing, ran off He was seen by the boy's mother, who raised the cry of * Thief' and BRITISH OCCUPATIONS he was arrested by a Chinese Police Reservist. The bangle was not re- covered and it is presumed that the boy passed it on to confederate when he was pursued..

AMBERDAK, December 19th A telegram from Cologne states that 29,000 British troops have arrived there Lordon, Secember 12th",

An American command states We have occupied Coblenz and hold the west bank of the Rhine From. Rolandes, Bouth of Bean; to Trecklingsnanie

CV KAISERS OBLY STEMPORARILY":

IN HOLLAND.

The Magistrate ordered him to receiva 12 strokes of the birch and to be kept in the House of Detention for 48 hours.

A CHINAMAN'S SENSE OF

San Cheong is evidently of a humcrous terrh of mind. One of his

PARIS, December 14th. In the Chamber, the Under-Becretary,

THE HAGUE, December 12th Deschamps announced that the demo- In the Second Chamber the Fremmer bilisation of the Reservists will begin on said that no Power had hitherto objected December 25th Altogether 19,000 men to the Baiser's stay in Rolland, which,

be demobilised. He out that

sa tem there has been no denichilisation in Ger powever, can only be made of the Fire Brigade turning out. The

many.

FINLAND...

STOCKHOLM, December 14th The Finnish Diet has elected General Mannerheim Administrator of Finland. General Mannerheim is at present in London.

HEATY FRENCH TAXES,

PARIS, December 11th..

A Haras meware states ri

French indirect taxation produced in November over £17,000,000 £3,000,000 in excess of the taxation produced in November, 1917.

·PRESIDENT - WILSON.

PARIS, December 10th,

fr vourite jokes is to raise fake alarms of fire, and thus enjoy the spectacle

latest sample of this joke occurred

AMSTERDAM, December 13th According to the Telegraaf, the Pre- mier, in the codru of a speech in the Second Chamber, declared that Holland sight of No. 1 Fipfloat lying of the

one or two days ago, when he caught

Queen's Statue Wharf, and hit upon it as sp object for his joke. Fae,

was willing to confer with the Allies re garding a new place of residence for the

Kaiser- A fire be bawled to the float, get The or Kaiserin is very serviously ül A heart spesialist, from Berlin has been

GERMAN GENERAL " CHIMED."

PARIS, December 1st

up steam, quick The police were tired of the joke, and pounced on bim before he could mabs another cry. They hauled him before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, this morning, who ordered him to pay $2, or to A telegram from Cobleng states that the undergo five days imprisonment in German General von Jeans and the ex default He was also ordered to Military Governor of Belgian Luxemburg have been arrested and imprisoned at repress be rumour for a percit, of Metz. It is stated that they will be six months, failing which he was to charged with the summary execution of pay $20 into the Police Treasury- 119 inhabitants of the town of Arion in

The Ministers of Marine and Foreign DEEPER INTO GERMA Affairs and others will be accompanied

{CUPENHAGEN, December 13th:

THEFT FROM AN OLD WOMAN.

For stealing a pair of fowls and a pair of trousers from an old woman

a. China

by Mr. Sharpe, the American" Ambasat- dor, General Pershing, and Colonel

A telegram from Berlin states that, the living at No. 1, Bai Street House to Brest- on December 12th to

Entento is sending an allimatam to the man was sentenced by Mr Meh welcome President Wilson who is disem: Government to dissolve all the Soviets, bone to days hard barking at midday on December 13th. mesatime withholding supplies of food- President Wilson will reach Paris on stunts, and resezying the right to pene- Saturday morning and will be met by trate deeper into Gert

President Poincaré and MC

M.Clemenceau

Har Ebert returning & troo

at the B LATE BUSame Gates and

Later, he will be

cheos at the Elysee the

lying

GERMAN 1200

ODEJAL

On the afternoon of December. Lath in the proper tion of the official reception will be held in President A Bergan Wilson's honour at the Hotel de Ville convocatio

PARTS December 13th President Wilson arrived at Brent

MAY VISIT SWITZERLAND 7 MARK INKA Luados, Documber 12th.

The George Wailington, conveying Pro sident Wilson, 2 passed over the scene of the Lusitania tragedy off the South Irish the

INDON December 12th. The Ame

Admiral Bima, bas, dailed from British

Fresid

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under

The Federal Council has tad, Presi dent Wilson to visit Switzerlanda

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Mr. J. E. Wood boy pleaded guilty from his master, who lived in a house

the Frave

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