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VIEWS AND NEWS BY FRENCH AGENOT."

PARIS, Aug. 5.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

(Beuter's Service to the China Mast.)

LABOUR UNREST AT HOME.

LONDON, August 6th. The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police announced yesterday evening that the Police strikers in the country num LONDON, August th...

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

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THE WAR HONOURS.;

Loxpox, August 5th The following bonours have been 'can- forged for war services

since 1915.

02: the

The supreme council has decided ❘ bered 2.380.

Field Marshal

Douglas Haig, that the general officer commanding j

CB, K.CIE., T., Colmander. the French troops on the Rhine meeting of the Manchester Police have in Chief of the Britishy Arndes Franco will be the commander-in-chief resolved not to strike.

The meeting expressed the hope that the of all the Allied troops

Admiral Sir David Beatty:Q.B in Government would, withdraw or kinend G.0.V.O b.§.O.. occupation, In view of the preponder- the first four clan of the Police Hill Grand Fleet since fot ance of French in the International

DON BOROPost Augiu), 8th, force on the Rhine

The House of Lords pasar the second General Sir Ednand Henry Byaman

Mace Bill reading of the Police

Allenby, G.C.M.G. KC.B., Commander LONDON, August 6th. in-Chief of the Egyptian Expedition Meetings of the Police as Bristol. St.Force, since 1917. Helen's, and South Shields have decided bodily to resign from the Police Union. General Sir Hubert Charles Onslow THE THIN END OF THE WEDGE" Plumer, G.CB., G.C.M.G.. G.C.V.O.. Coumarder of the Third Army, British Expeditionary Force in France, since 1915. General Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, KONG GCV.O., K.C.B. Commander of the Fifth Army, British Expeditionary Forte in France...

Prices have fallen in many French cities, but a coal shortage is feared for France next winter. Steps are being taken. The task of distributing throughout France the good's pur chased recently from the American

LONDON, August 6th. The South London. Tube strikers have army occupies the attention of the passed a resolution affirming their deter French controller of supplies. Everymination not to resume until the Police measure will be taken to prevent Bill has been withdrawn, and declaring speculation by profiteers, when the that the Bill is the thin end of the wedge foods have left the hands of the to suppress the freedom of the individual.

LoxDoy, August 6th supply organizations.

Five hundred and thirty-one London and South-Western drivers are out as a result of the Nine Elma resolution. which was not authorised by the Executive of the Society Bank Holiday traffic was considerably delayed,

AUSTRIAN PROPOSALS

RECEIVED.

PARIS, Aug. 6. The Austrian counter proposals have been received.

UKRAINIAN GENERAL

MURDERED.

Helsingfors August 6. According to a telegram from Kieff it is reported from Bolshevist source that the Ukrainian General Gregorieff has been murdered,

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

Translated for the China Mail from

the Wch Tsz Yat Pa.):

SHANGHAI, Aug. 8.1 The Japanese Foreign Ministry has announced the following terms as its settlement of the Shantung question:

(1) Troops at Chiao-chow to be withdrawn after Shantung is returned to China.

(2) joint control on the Chiao-chow Chi-Nan railway..

LONDON, August 6th..

A meeting of railwaymen at Liverpool.. Yesterday evening. passed a relation calling on the Executive of the National Union of Railwaymen to support the Police strikers.

In the event of the Executive's refusal, the meeting favoured direct action.

LONDON, August 6th. Fresh railway trouble is brawing na result of dissatisfaction over the new scale of pay proposed by the Government.

BARCSYS..

General the Hon. Mr. Julian Hedworth George Byng, K.CB. K. C.M.G., M.V.0 Cummander of the Third Army, British Expeditionary Force in France, from 1817 till 1915, and then Commander of the Fourth Army

Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O.. Second in Command of the Grand Fleet since 1917--

Vice Admiral Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, E.C.R. C.M.C., C.V.O., D.§.0. Commander of the Channel Fleet in 1917 and 1918.

Bear-Admiral Sir John Michael de Robeck, K.C.B., Commander of the Bri- tish Mediterranean Fleet since 1917.

1918.

Commander Sir Reginald Yorke Tyr- ahitt, K. C.B.. D.S.O., Commander of the Destroyer Flotilla of the First Fleet sirce "Field-Marsbuk Sir Henry Hughes Wil Bath the Tube and the Nine Elmsson. &.C.B.. D.S.O.. Chic: of the T- strikes have been repudiated by the Execuperial General Staff, since 1913. tires of the Taions concerned

Loxpo, August 8th.

LONDON, August 8th. The miners at Ashington have resumed

work.

General Sir William Robert Robertson, G.C.B., K.U.V.0, D.S.O.. General Office: Commanding-in-Chief.

Great Britain, ainer Tute, 1913.

Gen-rai Sir Wilham Riddet Birdwood, CB, K.OS.L, K.C.M.G.,

C.I.E..

LONDON, August 5th. The Northern Miners' Association has volving 11.000 workers in the Midlothian New Zealand Forces, from 1914 to 1918. resolved in favour of a general strike, in-.S., Commander of the Australian and and East Lothian collieries.

General Sir Hugh Montagu Trenchard, K.C.B, D.S.O., Commander of the Royal Air Force.

G.C.d.

LONDON, August 6th. The bakers' strike, which is inconveri- encing London and the country generally, pool. The Lord Mayor stated yesterday Hankey, K.C.B.. Secretary of the War has resulted in a bread famine in Liver.

Lieut. Col. Sir Maurice Pasca Alert evening that not a single load was procurA MOVE TO REDUCE THE GRANTS.

Cabinet since 1916, able in the city.

LONDON, August 8th.

LONDON, August 6th. Bakers Union rejected the offer

A ballat among the members of the

The Labour Party has decided on a move of to reduce the grants to £200,000. arbitration.

The main oriticism of the graats in the Lundey, August thLobby the smallest of the recognition A meeting me Municipal employés accorded to the Air Force. Asociation of Liverpool has resolved on a

MARSHAL FOCH'S GENIUS. strike unless the tramway-men's demands

PARIS, August 7th. are conceded..

A Hayas message 8255:- Mr. Lloyd George, in the House of Commuus, paid a great tribute to Marshal och, the Allied Generalissimo, by whose genius the war was won in 1819.

LONDON, August 6th. Liverpool was quiet yesterday, except for a fre. (caused by an incendiary) which gutted the Corporation's wastpaper stores.

LONDON, August 6th.

PAST PEACE PARLEYS.

(3) Tsingtau to be conceded to Japan as a Japanese settlement.

Efforts are being made by the peo- ple of Shantung to fedeem the rail ways that have been conceded to the Japanese under various loans. The Shantung people have requested in Liverpool has appointed a general A meeting of Trace Union organisations the central Government to issue Strike Committee to carry out the resolu- a public loan for that purpose. tion cabled on August 4th.

Being unable to make a satisfactory [The Executive of the Triple Alliance arrangement with the Peking govern-decided, on August 2nd, to bring about a ment, Li Yat Hoi, the representative transport, and railways unless the Gevertatated that after the Pope's peace pro-

general strike by the dislocation of mining. of Shum Chun-hsun, decided to ment adopted certain policies in regard to posals, Cour de Salis, the British Mini

peace negotiations in August..1817, retun to Canton on the 8th inst. The Russia, military service, and conscientiouster at the Vatican, was instructed to in- president refused to see him. The premier declared that the suggestions made by Li Yat. Hoi were not satisfactory.

The Cantonese at Peking have appealed to the Customs Bureau for perroission to export 200,000 piculs

of rice to Kwangtung for charitable

sale.

objectors.]

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.PROFITEERING AT HOME.

SOME INTERESTING REVELATIONS."

LONDON, August 5th. The first pubile meeting of the Commit

LONDON, August 6th. Commander

In the House of Commons, in reply to Kenworthy. Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, referring to the alleged

form Cardinal Gasparri that the Govern- ment could not reply as it was hope- less to attempt to bring the belligerents to an agreement until the Central Powers had given same indication of their war objects,

Cardinal Gasparri replied narrowing the issue to Belgium and emphasising the Reichstag resolution opposing annexa tions.

The president sends Linng Shi Yitee of the House of Commons to enquiresion, did not rest with the Reichatag. to ask Chu Kai Ken, North Chief into high prices and profiteering. was Eeld delegate, to return to Peking. Liang today. will go to-morrow..

Mr. G. H. Roberts, the Food Control

Count de Balis observed that the deci Cardinal Gasparri wished to pursue the Government for an official declaration matter," and telegraphed to the German

Chan Ngai, the resident general of her. said that prices were bound to rise relative to Belgium.

whether they were controlled or uncon Mongolia, reports to the government trolled. that outer Mongolia is still loyal to the Republic. The demands made by a Russian General have been entirely refused.

NEW MANILA INDUSTRY.

He mentioned that there had been ille- gitimate speculation among wholesale dealers in bacon, ham, and hard. Some parcels of bacon had changed hands Sve times before reaching the public.

Mr. Roberts declared that there was profiteering in the clothing and boot trades.

BUDA PEST. 1

Count de Salis raid that Belgium was

one of the many issues. the Eritish Government bad considered it Before receiving Count de Salis's report undesirable to be drawn into a piecemeal discussion, and had decided that if the should state their terms in full. Central Powers wished to negotiate, they

Count de Salis was therefore instructed not to intervene in any way. in the nego tiations between the Vatican and Ger- many. The matter then dropped.

RUSSIA.

LONDON, August 5th. A communiqué states: General Maynard reports that a success

The Asiatic Pet. Co., s.s. "Cassis " (Captain J Bain) is leaving for

Pants, August 8th. Manila to-day. The "Cassia" is a

The Supreme Council has decided that an Inter-Allied Military Mission, consist tanker which discharged a cargo ofing of Generals, shall be despatched im- oil at Shanghai and has been under moediately to Budapest accompanied by ful raid was carried out on August, 2nd, repairs here.

an escort not exceeding a company for The Cassis goes

each Power.

by combined foreca on land, sea, and air, to Manila BRITISH TROOFS ON THEIR WAY. with a view to surprising the enemy's for .an entirely new business,

BERLIN, August 5th That is

on Lake Onega, and capturing the Botilla to take 2 cargo of

A.telegram from Vienna says that Bri-port of

of Talvuiski, 20 Juiles south-east of cocoanut oil Home. Previously the tish troops are en route to Budapest from Medvvejyagora. Men copra was shipped and the crushing done at Home, and in Holland. On the suggestion of Mr. K. Hoover,

PARIS, August 5th. etc. Now machinery has been installed the Supreme Council has decided to raiso in Manila and the oil obtained from the blockade of Hungary, conditionally the copra there, thus saving much on the good behaviour of the new Hun- shipping space as the "Cassis" can garian Government.

take over 7,000 tons of oil.

We understand this is the begin ning of this new departure on the part of the Asiatic Petroleum and allied companies.

MOSCOW TRIO:

Fiume.

The request of the Budapest Govern ment to Budapest has been refused. ment that each great Ally send a regi

The Hungarian Government has been informed that the Rumanian troops will remsin where they are antil Hungary complies with the terms of the Armistice THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS" OF

NO AMERICAN COAL FOR EUROPE.

Two enemy steamers, armed with 3 inch A third ran ashore. guns, were captured in good condition. Talvaiski was captured, also 20 pri-

soners

CRICKET

LONDON, August 6th. The Australians beat Sussex by an innings and 54 rune,

Warwickshire beat Derbyshire by 10 wickete,

The following matches were drawn- Hampshire v. Middlesex, Kent v. Essex, Surrey y. Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire v. Lancashire, Gloucestershire . Somerset shire, and Leicestershire v. Northampton-

PARIA, August 7thshire.

A Havas message says. To-morrow night at the Kingsclere At a meeting of the Supreme Allied Hotel music lovers are to have the Council in Paris, MrH, O. Hoover, the opportunity of hearing the Moscow Food Controller, staled that no coal im- Trio, three Instrumentalists who parts to Europe evuld be expected from received the most favourable notices

the United States.

Consequently, the Supreme Council has in north China Iast autumn. They decided to form an Inter-Allied Council play tip-top stul in tip-top style, for the production and distribution of according to those panegyrists. ii coal, naing, Czech and Polish workers in

the French, Belgian and German mines.

BILYER.

LOSTON, August 6th. Bilver is quoted at 57d. buyers and ed sellers. The supply in short. There is & demand from the Continent

Silver is quoted at 50jd: buyers and

KEN LANDON, August 5th. 156-7-16d, seller. The market is quieter.

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