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MELBOURNE, Aug. 1. The Commonwealth government announces that it intends to issue a peace loan of $25,000,000, The interest with bonus will average 5 per cent. Legislation for compulsory subscriptions will be passed if the lean is not fully subscribed.

PENSIONS.

LONDON, Aug. 1. It has been announced in Parlia- ment that the Government has accepted the recommendations of the pensions committee.

COMMERCIAL WIRELESS

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POLICE STRIKE.

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ALLIES IN COUNCIL.

PARIS, Aug. 1.

The Supreme Council to-day con LONDON, Aug. 1. sidered the recommendations of the In the House of Commons at ques military advisers as regards Danzig. tion time Mr. Shortt, the Home It was decided that Polish troops be Secretary, stated that the lightning forbidden to enter the town and that police strike attempted yesterday German troops must evacuate it. night was perfectly, well known to the The administration of the territory authorities, who made all necessary has been placed in the hands of three preparations Out of 21,000 metro-delimitation committees. politan police, only 546 failed to

report for duty. Those unable to As regards Memel it was agreed. give a satisfactory explanation would that German troops should evacuate immediately cease to be policemen, the town but in view of the difficulty The strike had completely failed maintaining order when the everywhere in the provinces, except troops are withdrawn, the whole at Liverpool, where about 300 out of question was referred to the com- 1,700 had failed to report.

LONDON, Aug, 1. The House of Commons passed the third reading of the Police Bill after Labourite protests.

mission on Baltic affairs.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

The Labour party opposed all the main clauses of the Police Bill. Mr. Clynes mcved the deletion of the (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) clause stipulating that the police with any person outside the police federations should not be associated service. This amendment was pega- tived by 117 votes to 28. A motion

THE COLONIES.

LONDON, Aug. 1. The House of Commons voted £17,000 for the completion of post office wireless stations in Oxfordshire and Egypt. It is hoped that a comby Mr. Clynes for the deletion of the IDEAL IS UNOFFICIAL ADVICE! mercial wireless service will be clause prohibiting policemen from operating between those two points joining a trade union was also nega- early in 1920: The service is in tended to be the first link in an imperial wireless chain. It will greatly accelerate messages to India and the Far East, because it has been arranged with the cable companies that messages for the Far East can be sent by government wireless to Egypt and thence be transmitted by cable, thus obviating the cable delays between England and Egypt.

15.000 AIRMEN WANTED.

LONDON, Aug-1. The Air Force appeals for 15,000 recruits for four years service.

cived. Mr. Shortt, the Home Secre

LONDON, July 31. tary, said these clauses were not directed against the outside trade ported yesterday, Col. Amery said Continuing the speech partly re who sought to deprive the community in the protectorates and colonies. unions. They were aimed at those immense leeway must be made up of the protection which the police Their were pledged to give...

administrations had been understaffed and their development LONDON, August 1 brought to a standstill. He em-: strike on July 31 was issued by the far more than the restoration of pre- The announcement of the police phasised that reconstruction meant so-called Police Union, which has war conditions. We must establish been responsible for previous troubles, a new and more positive standard' but which lost a large percentage of of duty members after the settlement of the towards the

and of obligation wages question. The union claims parliament

peoples to whom. that thousands have struck but the trustees. There were territories of wis responsible 23 highest trustworthy estimate at 3 boundless potentialities which urgent- o'clock this morning gives about 200 ly demanded development in the in- strikers scattered over all thedivisions.terasts of our own inhabitants and These will be dismissed to-day. The the impoverished world. LONDON, Aug 1.

city police refused to participate.colonial administration

British Lord Robert Cecil at a banquet of Present indications point to an best in the world

was the the Centre Party, referring to our elaborate union plan to stampede the war.

before the industrial relations, pointed out that men.. Numerous taxis carrying the going to improve

but henceforth we were the greatest war in History was leaders scoured London persuading The colonial service must be brought it greatly. bound to cause social upheaval. He the men to strike but they were to the highest state of proficiency. favoured profit sharing and other generally received coldly. It is He paid a tribute to the work of the methods to assure the workers of a expected that the extremists will fair share of the results of their gain more adherents but the move labour.

ment at present is regarded as a failure.

PROFIT SHARING.

AMERICANS v. NEGROES.

CHICAGO. Aug 1.

The city was comparatively calmn yesterday, for the first time since Monday. Over a thousand casualties have so far been ascertained.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1. The terror and bloodshed abated last night but sporadic fighting has prevailed since despite the fact that troops and police are continuing to patrol the city. The total death-roll so far is 38, including 18 negroes.

GERMANY'S NEW CONSTITU. TION,

BERLIN, Aug 1. The Weimar Assembly, finally passed a constitution by 262 votes

to 75.

AIR MAIL TO MADRID.

MADRID, Aug 1. A British aeroplane which left London at seven this morning, carrying a bag of morning papers, landed at Madrid at three this afternoon..

AIRF TITLES.

AIR FORCE OFFICERS GRADED.

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SUDAN IRRIGATION LOAN.

officials in wartime under exceptional difficulties, and declared that the whole permanent scale of salaries in the colonial civil service needed revi- sion and must be seriously considered in the near future. Married life must be made more possible by improve LONDON, Aug. 1. The House of Commons unari

ments in housing and in health mously passed the third reading of be made the rule rather than the matters. Married life should the Government of the Sudan loan BB, guaranteeing interest on the wished to enlist the full co-operation exception. Moreover government The loan is chiefly for irrigating through the council chamber, but by Sudan government loan of £6,000,000. of the unofficial community, not only. 300,000 acres of the Sudan for cotton-its advice and support. The ideal at growing.

i which they were aiming was to secure the participation of the people

A DESIRABLE RESTITUTION.

as far as they could in the govern

BUT WHY TWO DEPARTMENTS?ment of a country.

LONDON, August 1.

The problem was difficult and It is officially announced that all complex, sometimes owing to the income tax deducted from wounds, sometimes owing to the smallness backwardness of the population, disability, and disablement pensions also from war gratuities, is to be or scattered character of the people, refunded to all concerned. Officers or, as at Malta, where the populace should communicate with the pay master-general and men to the in. land revenue department at Australia

House.

EVACUATING RUSSIA.

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LONDON, August 1. Although the situation of our troops in north Russia is not causing immediate anxiety, certain units are being despatched as a general reserve to meet eventualities. These reserves will be at the disposal of General Rawlinson, who will co-ordinate the retirement from two fronts.

MERCANTILE MARINE TO HAVE WAR MEDALS.

lived within the precincts of a military fortress. Health was one of the gravest problems of recon- struction. The countries must be made healthy not only for the whites but for the whole population. Diseases must be tackled in a comprehensive and bold spirit. Furthermore, in the labour problem our main hope lay in inducing the native to become a cul. tivator. Railways in the crown colonies must be multiplied.

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AMERICANS AND NEGROES.

CHICAGO, July 81. Yesterday evening, troops patrolled the negro district. There was con- idemble fighting elsewhere.

LONDON, August 1. The Air Ministry announce that the King has assumed the title of Chief of the Royal Air Force." The following new titles for the Air

LONDON, Aug. 1. Force have been approved, taking The Board of Trade announces effect on August. 4: marshal of the that the British war medal will be air, air chief-marsbal, air-marshal, granted to British Dominion and air vice-marshal, air commodore, Indian

The negroes are firing on twins of mercantile mariners who the Now York: Central Railway.. group captain, wing commander, served for not less than six months squadron leader, fight lieutenant, during the war.

Hundreds of negroes have appeal- flying officer, and pilot officer. The called the mercantile marine war to be faced with starvation, as the Another medal,ed for protection. They may be said corresponding army ranks are field medal, will be awarded to mariners drivers of supply-vans are afraid to marshal general, lieut-general, major who completed at least one voyage enter the negro district. general, brigadier, colonel, lieut in the danger zone. Stewardesses colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, and other women serving aboard and second-lieut.

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