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THE FIUME QUESTION.

BRITISH MISSION LEAVES,

All news regarding Fiume is coming

Losbon, September 17th. from Rome and is apparently censored. also the British and American contin- The British Mission Eas left Fiuma,

gents, while the French troops are muster- ing at the base.

M. Viviani, the ex-Premier, delivered an eloquent speech in the Chamber of Deputies. Addressing himself to the opponents of the Treaty be pointed out that the practical consequence of a refusal to sign would te to leave France isolated against Germany France has succeeded In obtaining satisfaction for claims of economic order which would enable them under cover of a military frontier not only to live but to prosper and develop. The Chamber unanimously adopted a resolution to placard the speech throughout the country. Meat continues issuing statements tend- Clemenceau is expected to wind up the debate on Friday the 19th inst.

The French Ministry of Marine is not asking for a vote for the purpose of completing the five dreadnoughts whose construction was suspended in 1915. France has at present several large battleships all good fighting

units.

It is not clear whether the insurgents, are still in control. The Italian Govern- ing to minimise the extent of the insur now abandoning. gent movement, which, it says, many are

British froops occupying the French Zone in Syria will be gradually replaced by French units in November it being the date of the relief of Mossol which becomes a subject of negotiations between M. Clemenceau London that the Italian authorities in- and Mr. Lloyd George. The Arabs are expected to look to the French for future advice and support. A commission appointed by the French Senate as a High Court of Justice announced that M. Caillaux has been sent to trial on a charge of attempt against the security of the State abroad. The charge involves the death penalty, according to the penal code and the code of military justice.

The Chief of the Bureau for the Repression of Fraud made a descent on the Bon Marche in Paris to verify the prices of sale and the purchase of stuffs placed on sale.

LABOUR IN US:A.

PRESIDENT CALLS FOR A CONFERENCE.

ITALIAN AUTHORITES INTEND TO BLOCKADE

Loybox. September 17th. It is believed in official quarters in tend to blockade Fiume, and starve out the insurgents. This would explain the departure of the Allied contingents.

HOW THE RAID WAS HASTENED. Roxs, September 17th. The Ideanazionale says that d'Annun- zio's Army consists of 10,000 regulars and four battalions of Fiume volunteers, who occupied a fortifed line of strategic post- tions round Fiume.

The raid was hastened on in conse quence of the British carrying out their instructions to dissolve the National Council of Fiume and disarm the volun- teers

The Council has seized stocks of food- stuffs, in view of rationing the popula tion even for a long blockade.

General Badoglio has arrived at Fiume.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18. President Wilson has called for a public conference with the labour party at Washington to discuss plans for closer relationship between capital and labour. Mr. Wilson has appointed among others John Rockefeller, Junior, E. Gray, president of the US. steel THE BULGARIAN DRAFT. TREATY.. corporation, and Mr. Baruch, chairman of the industries board, to meet the labour representatives.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[Transined for tho China Mall from the. Woh Tee Yst Po.].

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 19. Mr Choy Yuen Pui resumes duty as president of the Peking University to-morrow. He has ordered the students, to dissolve their political

association.

Mr. Wong Yap, Tong is expected to arrive here this afternoon.

China has notified Japan that she I now considers the military pacts

have lapsed.

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PARIS, September 17th. The Supreme Council has adopted the Bulgarian, draft Treaty, which will be handed to the Bulgarian delegates at the Qual d'Ormy on the morning of Septem bor 19th.

STORMS AND FLOODS IN TEXAS,

NEW YORK, September 17th.

The neutral shipowner's had a gala day at the Baltic Exchange a July of 5,000 inhabitants in Texas, states that A telegram from Corpus Christi, a city 29, where they made several big there were over 120 fatalities, and purchases from a series of very damage estimated at £2,000,000, owing to interesting vessels put up for auction great storms and foods which have occur by Messrs. Kellocks.

The steel part-awning deck steamer "Magda," about 2,351 tons gross and 1988 by Messrs. W. Gray and Co. at carrying about 3,550 tons, built in

West Hartlepool, was sold for £11,000 to Messrs. Antonio Candinia, of Bilbao.

W

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PETROLEUM DISTRICT LEASED,

LONDON, September 17th. The Daily Mail correspondent in Berlin telegraphs that the Frankfurter Zeitung in responsible for the announcement that the Rumanian Government has leased the great, State petroleum district to the Standard Oil Company.

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UNIVERSITY.

LONDON, September 17th.

. MR. BULLIT'S STATEMENTS

›INACCURATE.

The steel single deck steamer Cordova (2,387 tons gross), carrying about 3,220 tons, built in 1888 by „Messrs. Oswald Mordaunt and Co, at NEW CHANCELLOR OF CAMBRIDGE: Southampton, stated at £10,000, and jumped up by five thousands to 550,000, after which she was knocked down to Messrs. Lambert Brothers, PEKING, Sept. 18.

It is understood that Mr. A. 3. Balfour Ltd., who bought on behalf of neutral will be nominated Chancellor of Cat- The Banking Group are showing a purchasers. The same firm also bridas University in succession to the changed attitude regarding financial bought for £92,500, for neutral late Lord Rayleigh. accommodation to China. Apprecia- owners the "Sokoto," a steel cargo and tion of China's need for immediate passenger ship of 3,092 tons gross assistance is manifested by the reregister, built in 1899 by Messra. presentations which are being made Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Ltd., at to the respective home countries in Barrow. Her starting price was i order to obtain authorisation to make £40,000, and there was some very The American delegates refuse inter-

PARIS, September 17th. immediate advances.

keen bidding between neutral views regarding the statements made by

the American curnalist, Mr. Bullit REFUSAL TO APOLOGISE TO THE

Although introduced by Mr. H. G. before the American Senate Foreign JAPANESE CONSULATE,

Kellock as the historic ship of the day, i conversations be had with Mr.

Relations Committee, telling of private Lloyd having carried the King and Queer George in Paris, after he had returned round the world, when they were the from Moscow. Duke and Duchess of York, and "well worth buying on that account as a souvenir," the steamer "Ophir" (6,942 The American delegates deprecate the tons gross) built in 1891 by Messrs. R importance being attached to the quota- Napier and Sons, at Glasgow, could tions and misguotations of private con- attract no bids and was. withdrawn. Gersations of plenipotentaries in Paris So were the "Glengo (2,963 tons when the Peace Treaty was in a liquid gross), the "Mona's Isle" (1,564 tons Mr. Lloyd George characterises. Mr. gross), a paddle passenger steamer. Bullit'a atatements as grotesquely in- and the steel cargo and passenger accurate. steamer "Devaney" (314 tons gross).

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Part of the proposed Changchun settlement involves an apology to the Japanese Consulate which Chang Tso lin declines to make.

JAPAN, CHINA AND MONGOLIA.

The Chinese are greatly exercised over a loan of one hundred million yen, secured on the copper and iron mines of Sinklang, which, it is feared, will involve railway construction by the Japanese, shutting off China from Mongolia...

CHINA AND THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN POWERS,

OWEETS.

meschants. It will be forbidden toi use the word "enemy" in connection with the Germans.

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Mr. Bullit alleged that the Premier way then prepared to consider a peace. offer from M. Lenin.

state.

AGREEMENT ON THE SYRIAN QUESTION.

PAR19, September 17th. Le Temps says that Mr. Lloyd George and M. Clemenceau haye agreed that the British troops, on October 1st, ball evacuate all the territories north of the

Owing to internal troubles in Ger many and China the censorship con- tinues in both countries, China is NORTH THREATENS THE SOUTH provisional frontier between Byria and prepared to abolish the censorship when Germany does so,

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The German and Austrian war prisoners in China will be repatriated when the Allies approve of the general scheme. CHINA'S FINANCIAL POSITION.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 17.

The Financial Committee held a meeting and decided to reform the financial position as follows:-By repaying the sum borrowed from

additional tax suspended for a long

Palestine. The Peace Conference will adjust the frontier later. decided that if the South are still op Britain will cause to exercise responsibi The followers of Tuan Kisti have Apparently, the Mçeul District is not posed to the appointment of Wong

comprised in the region where Great Yap-fong as chief delegate for the

Tity North, thus obstructing the peace not entail French occupation in Damas The departure of the British troops will negotiations, Northern soldiers will cus, Hami, Home, and Aleppo, which sta be sent to attack the South.

in the rane considered as a possible, Arsh State or's Confederation of States in the 1016 Agreement.

Nevertheless, Arsh power hora must henceforth depend on French counsel.

THE CHIEF NORTHERN DELEGATE.

Wang Yap-tong reached Nanking

the salt tax, by reviving the military on September 16th. He will report to the Peking Government the day time, and forcing the different he starts for Shanghai: » Provinces to send the sum formerly

| agreed upon to the Central Governi

ment.

GERMÁN PROPERTY IN CHINA.

ACTING PREMIER WANTS TO

RESIGN.

The support of the French will relieve the British in Cilicia,

KOLTCHAN'S NEW OFFENSIVE.

PEKING, September 16th The new offensive ordered by Admiral Koltchak on practically the whole front, in view of the transferonos of many Bol shevis troops to General Denikin's front, in mosting with great success.

Eight Kung Sum-cham, the Acting Pre-Balshevist regiments have been destroyed. An order will soon be issued can mier, wishes to tender his resignation Many prisoners and much booty bava celling all previous regulations, in on account of the attitude of "the been taken. regard to the property of German students"--Commercial News.

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