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August, 19, 1919, Temperature 78.

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No. 17,545,

號九十月八年九十奎百九千叠英

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COPENHAGEN, Aug. 18. Vorwants anounces that Maxim Gorky was captured and shot by the troops of the notorious Bolshevik Peters.

TRANSIT STRIKE IN

NEW YORK.

FARIS, August 13th.

(Reutor's Service to the China Mail)

NEW RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

LONDON, August 15th..., The Times correspondent at Roval, tele- The Supreme Council, counter-replying to Rumania, expresses its satisfaction graphing on August 12th, stated that, as that Rumanía intends to work in agree-a result of the suggestions by the British ment with the Conference's policy in Mission to the Baltic States, & new Rus faian Government has been formed for the Hungary.

Hence, it expresses the hope that Ru- Provinces of Petrograd, Pakoff and Novo mania intends to confarm with the deck-gorod. ions of the Conference, communicated The new Government in which General through its Military Mission in Buda Yadenitch is War Minister, has recog-

nised the independence of Esthonia. pest, by the Supreme Council

HELSINGFORS, August Jah.

A new Russian North-Western Provi sional Government has been formed, with M. Lianzoff as Prenner. The general com- plexion of the Ministry is moderately Revolutionary. Socialistic and strongly anti-Bolshevik,

Lowbox, August 15th.

It points out the the Conference had thrice acquainted Bucharest with the de- NEW YORK, Aug. 17. tails of the present Akled policy towards A strike on the subway and ele. Hungary, as regards disarmament of Hun. vated railways has held up traffic in garian troops, maintenance of order with Manbatten and the Bronx. Three very small foreign forces, re-victualling Hungary, and abstention from all inter million passengers are carried daily.ference in internal politics. The Mayor of New York is instituting The Supreme Council insists that the According to advices from Helsingfors, final recovery of her railway and agri-the North-West Russian Army began a cultural material and live-stock cannot counter-offensive on August 13th, on the. west bank of the Sarva--Yamburg Rail. take place at present

Way, 80, miks south-west of Petrograd.

a service of motorbures. The war department has lent 300, while private motorcars are plying and charging nominal fares.

MEXICAN BANDITS HOLD UP AMERICANS.

The Peace Conference alone possesses the right to fix reparation by Hungary, and its distribution among the interested States.

Seither the Rumanian Army nor the Government has the right itself to Ex Rumania's share, as all the assets belong- ing to Hungary are the pledge held by the allies in common.

The movement is developing favoUT ably Whole battalions of Reds have been wiped out. Many have been captured and much, material has been taken.

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BLOODTHIRSTY SAVAGE CAUGHT, WASHINGTON, August 18. Davis and Peterson, two army

BUDAPEST, August 13th. airmen, wrote to army headquarters

COPENHAGEN, August 18th.. The preliminary examination of the It is officially, panounced from Budsex-locksmith. Jancsik, Commander of a in Texas that they are in the hands of Mexican brigands who are holding pest that the Cabinet has been re-formed Bolshevist Red Guard was begun at them up for $15,000 ransom, and with Freidrich still Premier Police Headquarters yesterday. The pri

Lovaczy, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and General Schnetiler, Minister for

threatening death unless the money is received by August 16. It is rear. ported that the money was forward- ed in order to save the airmen.

A MAGYAR DEFEAT.

All the Bourgeois, Radical and other Parties represented.are the small farm-We ers

Clericals, Anti-Semites. Conservatives And the old official class.

soner bore traces of a severe beating at the hands of the Rumanians,

The room was filled with a crowd of witnesses, who test ed. me

Fed. inter alia, that 200 persons were excented on the prisoner's

at Dursa perele orders,

Jancsik denied the charges or pleaded. that he acted under the orders of the Bolshevist Government.

Several portfolios have been offered to the Social Democrats who hesitate to PRAGUE, Aug. 15. accopt owing to fears that the Conserva Czecho-Slovak troops to-day oc- tive and Burgeoise parties intend to cupied the bridgehead at Pressburg,abolish Count Karolyi's scheme for pro-ed by Reuter, said that many bodies of

portional representation. Crossing the Danube at two points, partly on rafts and partly by bridge, they silently captured the Magyar picket, whereupon the whole garrison surrendered.

BOLSHEVIES STILL LOSING.

LONDON, Aug. 18.

BUDAPEST, August 16th. Several British monitors and two patrol boats arrived here, on Friday to watch the Danube shipping The crews were joyfully greeted by the pablic

LETTS.

BERLIN. August 15th. The German Government, in a Note to "The War Office states that anti-the Entente, denies that the evacuation Bolshevik revolts are reported in the of Lettland has been purposely delayed. whole area opposite the western portion of Denikin's front' The Bolsheviks are reported to have been driven out of Odessa by the populace: and peasants. They are said to be evacuating Kieff and the whole of the Ukraine. The latter may be an optimistic conclusion but in view of the success of Grigore bands and other anti-Bolshevik elements there is little doubt that the prospects of the Bolshevik cause in the southern Ukraine are not the brightest.

BRITISH OFFICIAL REFUSES TO LEAVE MEXICO.

1See Earlier Telegram-]

It says that the evacuation is proceed ing in accordance with the plan agreed upon by Generals ron Der Goltz and Gough on July 19th.

It declines to comply with the demand for the recall of General von Der Goltz, which, the Note considers, would be an encroachment on German military authority. It reserves the right to recall Von Der Gel high the evacuation sufficiently advanced.

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LONDON, Aug. 18, Reuter learns that Mr. H. C. Cummins, British charge d'affaires, ordered to leave Mexico City, has

not done so. Meanwhile the Amer ican and French consuls have pro- tested against General Carranza's

order.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON A STEAMER.

The Straits Times of Aug. 71

reports:

It concludes by declaring that the Ger- men Volunteers are feeling very bitter at the non-fulfilment of the man is Cabinet's promise to allow them to settle in the country and become Lett citizens.

The Note warns the Entente of the danger of increasing friction by an over- basty evacuation.

LABOUR IDEAS.

LONDON, August 18th.. Liverpool has repadiated the proposed The Executive of the Dockers' Union at three days' stoppago, August 16th.

ren

At the Northampton National Socialist Party Conference, Mr. Will Thorne, M.P. arged the development of a dis- ciplined, educated and organised demo- cracy, capable of carrying out a democratic reconstruction policy, as the best means of defeating Trusts and Mono- polies.

Mr. Thorne strongly opposed Bolshevist tendencier.

DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS.

LONDON, August 18th.

The present Chief of Police, interview!

the victims of the Bolshevists had been Eshed out of the Danube, including that of the Professor Dr. Benz BRITISH OFFICIAL ORDERED OUT

OF MEXICO.

New York. August 17th. The Associated Press correspondent at Washington states that General Carrania has ordered Mr. H. Cunard Cummins, British charge d'affaires in Mexico City, to leave the country. No reason has been stated.

AUSTRALIAN STRIKE FAILS.

BELBOURNE, August 1 th. The protracted and costly Federal seamen's strike has ended by the mon accepting the Government's conditions.

DANZIG.

BERLIN, August 15th. A German Note has been presented at Versailles requesting that negotiations be begun as speedily as possible on the sub- ject of the new Constitution of Danzig and its relationship to Poland,

DEMOBILIZING.

COLOGUL, August 17th. The reduction of the British Army of Whole Divisions at a time are returning Occupation 13 proceeding rapidly.

to the United Kingdom;

The British military authorities are permitting those soldiers who volunteer to assist in harvesting-at full rates of pay,

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THE NEW PRESIDENT.

LONDON, August 18th. Lord Lee of Fareham has been appoint- ed President of the Board of Agriculture [Sir Arthur William Lee, who was born in 1855, entered the Royal Artillery in 1838. He served as Adjutant of the Bougkong

An unfortunate and, what proved to be, a fatal accident. took place

Japanese The Morning Part states that Biz Volunteers in 1889 and 1880. He retired steamer "Liverpool Maru" as George Buchanan Bas been appointed

On

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from the Army in 1900, when, he had attain-

Professor of Strategy and Tactics, R.M.C., Canada, in 1993, holding the appointment European war started, as a Colorel on the for & years, He rejoined the Army when the taff. He became Parliamentary Military Secretary, in the Ministry of Munitions in 1916 and Fersonal Military Secretary ka Mr. Lloyd George for a few months in 1916

He was Director General of Food Production in 1917 and 1018. Lord Lee has travelled widely over the Far East.]

SHIPOTNER DEAD.

she was nearing the port from Ambassador at Rome, and that Sir Wiled the rank of Brevet Major. He became Hongkong on Tuesday afternoon.liar Tyrrell will be second in com- The vessel is carrying a force of 587 mand" to Lord Grey at Washington,

The samo newspaper states that Mr. Czecho-Slovak officers and men, most w. . Maz-Muller has been appointed of them invalids, who are returning Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantin after strenuous times in Siberia, to ple, Sir. George Clerk Minister Plopi Russia, via Trieste. From what can potentiary to Czecho-Slovakia, and the Hon. Theophilus Russell, Minister At be gathered, it appears that a Czech

Barge. private was handling a revolver when

[The Rt. Hon. Sir George Buchanan, it went off, and killed a comrade F.D., G.C.B., G.0.7.0., G.C.M.G. near by, the bullet lodging in the Ambassador at Petrograd from 1910 to 1918. victim's side. On the arrival of He wan Second Secretary at Tokic in 1879. the vessel in port the Marine C.B., was Senior Clark in the Foreign Sir William Georgn Tyrell, KC.M.0, police were informed of the fatality office and Private Secretary to Lord Gray

LONDON, August 18th. and Inspecter Joyce proceeded from 1807 to 1915, He acted as Cader

The death is announced of Lord Inver on board, the body being later re- Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to

clyde. 1003. moved, under his direction, in a special launch to the shore, and .V.O., was E.M's. Consul-General at death the principal Director of the shipping Mr. William Grenfell Max-Muller, C.Berclyde, was born in 1864. He was till his (Sir James Cleland Burns, 3rd Baron In.

thence taken to the morgue at the Budapest, from 2013 till war was declared. General Hospital for post mortem He has served at the Embassies at Can-irm of G, and J. Barns Ltd., Chairman of the examination. At the coroner's en- stantinople, the Hague, Washington, Mad the Burns 58. Co., Ltd., a Director of Christiania quiry this morning Stejskall Stanislav, rid, Mexico,

and Peking. Cunard Steamship Co. and Director of the who let off the shot that killed Chad Since Hungary declared war he has been Clyde Steamship Owners Association. He

employed at the Foreign Offico.

has been Chairman of the Glasgow Ship aky Francis, said deceased was a

Sir Georgs Bumall" Clerk, E.C.M.G., | ownors Auxiation 'since 1000.}" great friend of his. On Tuesday C.B., has been connected with the Embassier afternoon deceased produced a box at Copenhagen, Stockholm, Fotrograd, Ber- containing some linen, and in it was lin, etc. Since 1910 he has served in vari- also a revolver. Witness took the capacities in H.M's. Embassy in Con

PARIS August 17th. revolver out, and it accidentally went

The death has occurred of M. Involaky, off, the bullet lodging in deceased's Russell, C.B., C.V.O., has been diplomatic the ex-Russian Foreign, Minister. body. Deceased died the next morn secretary to the Secretary for Foreign Ing. Another soldier gave corrobora Affairs since 1915. He has served in Rome, tive evidence, and the coroner reAires and Vienna.]

Athens, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Buenos served his verdict...

́stantinorle,

The Hon. Theophilus William Ode Villiers

BUEZ CANAL BLOCKED.

SERIOUS DELAY,

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LONDON, August 15th. preparation they can compound. It can

Lloyd's report that the sinking of the he bought from any chemist,, A bottle will keep for yous, and no home is com- Italian warahip Basilicata, near Tawak, plate without it. For me By All after a explosion, has blocked the Buz Chemists and Starakeepers..

Canal sines August 15th.

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SILVER.

LOEDOR, August 13th. Silver is quoted at 687d spot and 56 15-16d, forward. The market is steady.

Loxbox, August 14th. "Silver" is quoted at 58id spot and 67d. forward. The market is steady.

LONDON, August 15th. Silver is quoted at 50d, spot and 671d. forward. The market is steady,

Lorton August 18th. Silver is quoted as boj upot and 571ð forward.There is Chinese demand."

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