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ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE M. CLEMENCEAU.

SEVEN SHOTS AT POINT- BLANK RANGE.

[BY.COURTESY OF THE DAILY BULLETIN."]

New York, Feb. 19.

An "Associated Press message

states

Seven shots were fired at M. Clemenceau, the Premier of France, at point-blank range by Emlie Cottim, known in anarchistic circles 12 Milan.

Three bullets struck the Premier. One bullet entered under the right shoulder and lodged under the left shoulder, missing the spinal cord and lungs, the other two wounds being scarcely more than abrasions of the skin on the right arm and right hand.

Two other bullets passed through M. Clemenceau's clothing--"Ameri can Wireless."

KOREANS APPEAL TO AMERICA,

[BY COURTESY OF HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."

PERING, Feb. 18.

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(Router's Servios to the China Mail.)

INFORMATIVE COMMUNIQUE,

February 20, 1918, Temperature 53

未已歲年入國民中

HELPING CHINA TO HELP HERSELF.

In sovemil important departments of internal administration which have been conducted with efficiency and success, the Chinese owe much to LONDON, February 17th. A communigud from Paris, dated foreign guidance and genius. The February 17th, anys.

Maritime Customs, with which the The Supreme War Council met to-day. name of Sir Robert Hart will always Marshal Foch informed the Ministers

tice.

OBITUARY.

Lokpos, February 17th.

of the acceptance by the Germans of the be associated, and the Post Office are conditions for the renewal of the Armis-the most notable instances, and now to the must be added the Salt. Gobells which, under the superin *end:ace of $7. Richard Duns, his f attained results which must be highly Igratifying to the Chinese Goveza-

On the eve of Sir Richard's" ment. departure from China, it will be of interest to survey the work that be has accomplished during his five and a half years' residence in that coun-

Sir Wilfrid Laurier is dead.

JELLIGOE'S ITINERARY.

LONDON, February 17th.·

The Admiralty, states: The following is the proposed itinerary of the tour of Admiral Jellicoe by E.M.S. Yew Zealand. The dates should try. To this end we are greatly. be regarded as purely tentative, depend helped by a very excellent account ins mainly on whether the work in the of his achievements during this various Dominions can be accomplished

in the time allowed:-Leave Portsmouth period, seat to The Ticies" by on February 20th, arrive at Gibraltar on

February 24th; leave on February 25th, the Shinghai corespondent of that arrive at Port Said on March and leave journal. The Sak Gabelle, like on March 4th arrive Suez on March 4th leave on March 5th, arrive at Bom bay on March 13th; leave about May ineficently controlled, with the re Ist arrive at Colombo on May 4th: leave

many other Chinese institutions, was

on May 5th, and arrive at Albany, King! salt that there were many leakages George's Bound on May 15th,

in the revenue it rielded to the

Admiral Jellicce probably disembarks it Albany, procecting to Melbourne and Central Government in Peking. Sydney, arriving at Sydney about May Fortunately for the Chipse Govern 31st.

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Members of the Korean IndependThe ships during June or July will ment, one of the terms of the Re- ence Committee in China bave peti- visit the principal ports, in New Zen- organisation Loun of 118 stipulated tioned the American Minister to land, returning to Sydney to re-embark for the organising of the Salt Gabile,, China asking American aid for Korea, Admiral Jellicou about August 15ta... stating that the Korean people look He will leave Sydney on August 15th. to President Wilson for aid and are arrive in New Zealand on August 26th, ad Sir Richard Dane was appointed hoping that the Peace Conference leave about October 1st, and arrive at Santo undertake the task. How success. will take up the problem of bettering Francisco on October 20th, vid Fiji, fal his forts have been in this work the condition of "cur voiceless nation,

Bamon, and Honolulu,

may not be generally appreciated, containing two million oppressed people."

and it is well, therefore, that the facts should be put on.. record. At the beginning of his regime his path

THE SLUR UPON

HAPPINESS.

-YEAR..

was beset with all sorts of difficulties. Such Chinese system as was in exist ence was totally inadequate for the control and collection of revenue, and new methods from beginning to'

Admiral Jellicce probably disembarks at San Francisco for Ottawa. VISIT TO HONGKONG EARLY NEXT Admiral Jellicoe will leave British Columbia about January 1st, next year, and arrive at Honolulu on January 8th. Eg will leave Honolulu on the 12th. ariving at Yokohama on January 21st leave Tokohama on January 28th and arrive at Hongkong on February 1st leave Hongkong of February 4th and arrive at Singapore on February 8th; "It is not only the pessimists, burlane Singapore on February 10th, and end had to be created. Undaunted

Farrive at Colombia February 14th, leavo

Colombo on February 18th, and arrive by be collossal task, and with in- at Mombasa (Kilindini) on February finite patience, Sir Richard set to

the Mombasa Chilindisi on March let, and arrive at South Africa work to overcome the conservatism en March 7th leave South Africa on of the Chinese and to create order April

24th, and arrive at St. Helena on out of chaos. The correspondent we april 24th; leave St. Helena on April have quoted above tells us that be goth, and arrive at Ascension Island on travelled from one end of the country February 8th; leave Ascension Island on April 29th, and arrive at St. Vincent to the other; and, despite ancient Island on May 3rd; leave St. Vincent teemed interests, gradually succeeded Island on May 5th, and arrived at Ply-in breaking down the monopolies, co- mouth on May 11th.

some of the men and women the have best earned the right to talk ACLE ite who tell us that happiness is not a thing we ought to look for," says the "Times." And we, partly from a prick of conscience, and part ly because life seems to bear out what they say, incline to believe them...

"So much so that on finding in Mr. John Yeats's essay the other day the remark that a deliberate search for happiness was what prompted.

OFFICIAL NEWS,"

LONDON, February 17th. A communiqué from Paris, dated

Irth, says:--

ordinating all the systems, institut- ing a single tax at the place of origin, and thereafter permitting salt to travel free. When we remember the inherent disliko of Chinese officials

und people to change of any sott and the obstacles which they put in

the benign wisdom of Shakespeare The Reparation Commission met to-day the way of every suggested reform

and of good women,' one had quite an admiration for his courage....

But should happiness be made a. motive? The fear of treating it sc comes probably from our obstinate habit of clinging to the means and forgetting the ends which are really worth having. It is the timorous view of life. We are afraid to look the best things in the face; are sometimes shy of beauty But to cultivate happiness means deliverance from the evils-the tyranny of desires, one following on another and none ever satisfying: and the loss of all the meaning of life which comes of ignoring the act of living.

we

and received evidence regarding, Italy, Serbia, France and Belgium,

WHAT FRANCE KNOWS.

PARIS, February 11th.

The

The French Government knows that Germany is actually preparing a gigan campaign, in an endeavour to crush French commerce and industry the moment the peace treaty is signed

**JUMER IS ACUMEN.”

PARIS, February 11th.

A Hava message attics:- A decre establishes summer time from Marh 1st till October 3th.

ARIS TO WARSAW.

Pariz, February 11th..

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A. Havasmessige atates :-- The first Paris to Warsaw express, via Vienna, lef Paris on Sunday evening.

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The measure of his success may be gauged by the fact that before his A Havas message states:- At meeting of the Supreme Inter advent the revenue derived from Allied War Council, M. Clemenceau made, sult was estimated to be about a mot emphatic statement that Frazee $35,000,000.. For the third com could tot possibly permit any importation pleted year of Sir Richard's adminis of ray materials into Germany, French argument is that Germany has tration it yielded $72,000,000, of already dere most incalculable harm to which, after the service of the loan, all French industries in the occupied reo surplus of $52,000,000 remained gions.

Tel: 345. to the Government. The correspon- dant alluded to above observes that but for civil strife and the sequestra- tion of the sale revenues by the South Western Provinces they would probably have produced by now' $100,000,000; and in the estimation of some good judges the amount. would have been considerably higher. The brood result of it.all is that the system which Sir Richard construct ed hus rot only satisfied every need of the Reorganisation Loan, but has produced an annual surplus which rapidly became the mainstay of the Government. There is one aspect oh's success which we should like to emphasise, and that is that in carrying out his work he has relied. Jargely on the assistance of Chinese, theinselves, the number of fore guera employed being relatively few. It in elated that many districts are wholly in the hands of Chinese with out the faintest detriment, thus com pletely upsetting all traditional be- hefs as to the impossibility of ex "A Flavas besango states -

pecting the honest administration of In an intrview, M. Clemenceau stated public funds from the Chinese un- Let us admit that happiness that two methods were discussed for controlled. Indeed, Sir Richard crystallisia the Armistion into terms Dune is very emphatic on the ability tests the generosity of souls. To ensuring pace. One was to fix, at a

definite lint, German armaments; the of the Chinees to manage their own offer it as a recipe in these times other, to rate the Allied demands for the affairs subject to little advice. The may seem a mockery, but it is not surrender of German war material, mak-secret of his success beems to be the necessarily a mistake. What Words-ing it imposible for Gramany to equip consistently sympathetic attitude he

maintah larger fortes tihn were worth called in one of his sonnets-approved by the Allies.

adopted towards the Chinese

emphatically a sonnet for the times – our ancient English dower of inward happiness "may be something which needs to be kept alive by those who can tend it, like a sacred fire, with a sense of hope, if not of realisa- tion."

"The one point, Schopenhauer thought, in which the brutes were superior to men was their undisturbed enjoyment of the hour. Happiness restores us this innocence, bovine no longer in the mood of 'carpe diem. It simply reminds us that those who live solely for the future can never experience anything, and it alone knows the secret of resolving the other tenses into the present, which solution is the nearest approach we can make to the eternal. To do this demands an effort and energy of its own, and that is why it has been said, that it is harder to bear happiness than to bear sorTOW.

PRASTIC TERMS.

PARIS, February 11th

A Havaa pesange alates :- D The French Press and public every where discns the remarkable situation created by the publication of Marshal Fech's new drastic peace terms.

PARIS, February 11th

JAMN WOULD RESENT.

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