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三拜禮 號六十六年十二六九千一英

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CHICAGO, June 15.

CHANG CHING YAO DEPRIVED The nomination speeches were traditionally forcible and picturesque.

• OF HIS TITLES. Governor Allen in nominating Gen. Wood, declared him to be the out- standing candidate and best-known to American Congressman.” Mr.

PEKING, June 14. : Rodenberg likened Lowden to Lincoln. For seven years the ship of state A mandate deprives Chang Ching- had been straining every timber and drifting on a sex of tacertainty. The yao of his titles, bur orders him to pilot was confused and bewildered by strange voices and false lights. Fremain at his posts to retrieve his

position. Charles Wheeler in presenting Senator Johnson hajed him the main scourge of the last bosses from the Republican fempie. Johnson was a leader who knew so well how to wield the political cudgel that even party knaves were forced to play the game. Williss, et Governor of Chio famed Senator Harding, declaring that he was the man to save American institutions in these days when Bolshevism and anarchy stalked fiery-eyed and militant across the planet and even dare shake their bristly hair in our own country.

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BOLSHEVISM IN. INDIA.

IF NOT KILLED AT LEAST SCOTCHED.

LONDON, June 14.

The India Office declares that the Bolshevists are doing their utmost to stir up trouble in India. Their agents are active throughout the East and the general feeling of unsettlement affords a congenial atmosphere for prom!. paganda. It is well known that there exists at Mosco a special depart- ment for the direction of Bolshevist activities in the east outside the boundaries of Russia. Whenever possible native populations are incited against Western governments who are represented as the embodiments of imperialistic and capitalistic greed, Britain is held up 23 2 particular enemy. The Indian Government" is fully aware of these efforts. The machinery of the Moscow 'committee is well known and the government of India is actively engaged in counter measures and propaganda. It cannot be said

that

NEWS FROM CHANGSHA.

PEKING. June. 14. Telegrams from a Chinese source state that the women and children gi Changsha sought refuge in the British and American Missions. Order is being restored in the city. ·

CHINESE AVIATION STUDENTS.

PEKING, June 14. Four aviation students have left for Manila for training in the Curtiss aviation school.

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NO SUCCESSOR TO DR. MORRISON.

PERING, June 14.

I am officially informed that the Government will not appoint a suc- cessor to the late Dr. Morrison.

AN OFFICIAL AND HIS WIFE

PEKING. June 14.

there is no Lin Chen-yu. an official of the menace ir India from Bolshevism. It is a fact, ho er, that is by Do Ministry of the Navy and a brother of means at great as it was. The invasions of Persia and Armenia may the celebrated novelist. Lin Wan-li, partly be ascribed to the failure to bring about, as confidently predicted, and his wife were murdered while the ruin of British rule in India. The Indian Government is satisfied that asleep last night by a former cook who if Bolsheviso in india Eas not been killed it has been scotched, but the was captured by fifteen-year-old position calls, not for alarmist measures, but for the continuance of a firm, sister-in-law and handed over to the

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- Wrangel has achieved the first objective, namely capturing Melitopol for Hongkong on Thursday. Five thousand prisoners, twenty-seven guns, and five armoured trains were taken. Wrangel's casualties were five hundred.

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Muiller has informed the President that he is unable to form a cabinet. The President has summoned Heinze, leader of the People's Party.

COLLISION BETWEEN CHINESE AND JAPANESE.

PEKING, June 13,

A semiofficial statement says that a collision occurred between a Chinese gunboat and the Japanese garrison at Nikolaievsk." "No details

are known.

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR US. PRISIDENCY.

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CHICAGO, June 13: Senoid Harding, of Ohio, has been nominated Republican candidate for the presidency.

[This news was exclusively given in Tuesday's China Mail, with some account of Mr. Harding's principles and affiliations. ED., C. M.]

DIVISION OF SPOILS.

PARIS, June 13. The Reparations' Commission has approved a provisional arrangement for the distribution of surrendered German oil-tankers. France obtains control of 17,000 tons, Belgium 12,000 tons, and Italy 9,000 tons. The United States is opposed to assignment of vessels until American interests have been safeguarded.

POLES RETIRE IN CONFORMITY WIFE ORDERS,

WARSAW, June 14.

An official statement says that the Poles in conformity with orders, have begun to evacuate Kieff. After destroying the bridges over the Dnieper, the evacuation is proceeding very orderly. The enemy, attacking the rear guards, was repulsed with great loss.

CAPTAIN TRYATT'S SHIP TO BE SOLD.

CATCHING" GERMAN

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Details of the long-distance wire- less dictaphone, reveal, a correspon- dent writes to a home paper, a secret of the Intelligence Department which during the war was of great assis

tance to our armies,

Every day, at the Intelligence Department's wireless laboratories, German high-speed wireless signals

caught" and fixed on the: wax cylinders of receiving dictaphone. Afterwards the records were taken off and the messages analysed.

were

BLURRED MESSAGES,

The particular pse. of the dictaphone in wireless telegraphy as distinct from the telephonic records was thus described by a Marconi official

"Ordinary transmission of Morse code at a medium rate is intelligible direct, but when it is increased in speed to 70 or 100 words a minute the sounds blur almost into one note. But when recorded on wax the notes can be differentiated and "translated" at leisure."

Another important secret which the Government has had up its sleeve for months concerning the rail strike last year was told to the writer by the man who first put up the idea.. This was the wireless telephonic system put into operation by the Government on the rail systems of the country to facilitate what traffic was' running and overcome hostile cutting of wires.

OYER 170 MILES. The indignation caused by the Government's decision to sell Captain "So as to safeguard the lices the Fryatt's steamer, the s.a. "Brussels," was reflected in the House of Com, Government were loaned a number mons this afternoon. Replying to a question by Sir John Butcher regard. of portable sets of wireless telephonic ing the "Brussels," Captain Stanley Wilson said that the steamer was so equi ent suitable for conveying in lorries They are of highly efficient badly damaged that nothing interesting remained of her. The Government standard make, and were placed at had no use for her, but if sold she might be made some use.

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LONDON, June 14.

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MELBOURNE, June 13.

When the Frince of Wales embarked on HMS Renown for Sydbey received a most enthusiastic send-off. He motored through three miles

with cheerfag Crowds, to-Poft Melbourne Replying to a

Leeds, Rotherham, Wellingborough, St. Pancras, Derby, Leicester and Bir mingham

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were

Tests are carried out and all farewed address, the Prince expressed his keen appreciation of the kindness centres worked to a programme, and, of his welcome. He declared that he was absolutely fit after his week's with one exception, was beard. The holiday and was greatly looking forward to the remainde; of his Australian farthest point was 170 miles be

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