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EMPIRE TRADE.

OCEAN FREIGHTS AND FACILITIES.

SUGGESTIONS SOUGHT.

LONDON, July 28. The Board of Trade announce that the Imperial Sharing Committee is prepared to receive before January 1 suggestions from any persons bodies in the Empire regarding ocean freights and facilities, and conditions in inter-Imperial trade.

GENERAL DYTE.

PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS RAISED.

LONDON, July 28..

In the House of Commons, replying to Major Mackenzie Wood with regard to public subscriptions being raised on behalf of General Dyer, Mr. Winston Churchill said that the King's Regulations forbade the acceptance of such a present but as General Dyer had now applied to retire he did not propose to take any action.

POLAND SURPRISED.

BOLSHEVIKS ATTACK IN SPITE OF ARMISTICE.

VIOLENT FIGHTING.

KALEVALA KA

WARSAW, July 28.

A communique states that in spite of the acceptance of the Polish armistice proposal, the Bolsheviks resumed violent attacks on the whole front, capturing various points eastward of the Galician frontier and advancing 20 kilometres southwards of Grodno.

BOLSHEVIKS CROSSING LINE DEFINED AT SPA,

BERLIN, July 26.

A Warsaw wireless message states that the Bolshevists have captured Pisk and are crossing the line defined as the Spa Conference's armistice Proposal.

THE DOLLAR.

To-day's closing rate 4/0

To-day's opening rate 4:01

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

{Kester's Service, to the China Mail.)

THE BOULOGNE CONFERENCE.

LONDON, July 19th. The British Note to the Soviet regarding the future of Poland was drafted this after noon at Boulogne according ➡ Mr. Lloyd George instruction

Millerand rence did not imple recognition of the approved of it, provided that the confer- Soviet The Nele was signed on behalf of Great Britain alone. It will be submitted to America and Italy before despatch to Moscow."

The French are sceptical of the immirrce of the conference and of the conference being contand to Poland, but, if arranged, they are determined not to be drawn to other paths. Francs is willing to waive the question of the repudiation of the Russian "Debt and the cessation of the Sovic propaganda, ant the Russo-Polish question is settled.

It is believed that if the Soviet displays sincerity in the Polish preliminaries, the negotiations may be widened.

The Premier did not disems the sur- render of General Wrangel.

Lithuania has seag an ultimatum, to the Soviet, owing to the failure ëf the Bol-“

berists to cracuate Vilna.

MEXICAN RIDDLE.

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Sache Paes (Texas). July 27th. General, Villa's arrival at Sabinas was followed by a sharp encounter with small Government forces. 1 is reported tha Villa's forres number 400. Villa is about to start on the war-paih nales his surrender on his term is onepted by the Enerta Government.

It is stated that Villa has seized the American brewer. Mr. Haegelin, whom he

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MEXICO CITY, July 97th, A Goremmens hullerin Paton that Villa teingraphed to Sener Hurra offering his surrender aromitionally. The Gover ment instructed him to report himself General Martinez and repair the railway- Villa replied that the railway was repaired,

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A message from Berlin states that the Russian commanders were disining bitself Affectionately, Francisco inclined to cease hostilities in accordance with the Soviet's orders owing to the prevalence of Tsarist officers.

LURE OF POWER.

The leading Russiar. Nationalists, failing to win Allied help, have established an organisation in Berlin endeavouring to secure the co-opera- tion of the German reactionaries, who welcome the alliance, acping thereby to regain power and acquire political and economic predominance in Russia. TO ESTABLISH BOLSHEVIK REPUBLIC.

COPENHAGEN, July 28.

A Magdeburg paper asserts that an agreement has been signed between the Soviet, the German Independent Socialists, and the Spartacists providing for the proclamation of a Bolshevik republic in Konigsberg, Danzig. Breslau, and other towns immediately the Soviet's troops have crossed the

also the formation of a Red frontier,

German army under

All the trains are now randing regularly northward.

NEGRO PUGILIST.

NEWARK Jul 27th Harry Wells the negro heavy-weight boxer, knocked out Fred. Fulton in the third round in a 19-round contest.

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the Russian General Tontscheff, and the establishment of revolutionary tribunals, communist municipal,commissions, and the nationalisation of industry, the Russian army maintaining order and protecting the proletariat-reached Brisbane by the steamer

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NEW RATES START EARLY IN AUGUST.

LONDON, July 28.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law announced that the Govern ment had accepted all the recommendations of the railway rates committee except with regard to workmen's fares the increase of which would be further considered. The increased fares operate from August 6, except the workmen's which operate from September 1.

LEAGUE COUNCIL MEETING.

IMPORTANT SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED.

BLOCKADE POWERS,

LONDON, July 28.

The Secretariat of the Leauge of Nations announces that the subjects to be discussed at the meeting of the Council at San Sebastian on July 20 will include the co-ordination of measures for applying blockade as a weapon of the League, the creation of an international permanent health organisation, the best methods of applying the dispositions of the covenant in connection with the administration of the ex-German overseas poBSESSIONS by mandatory powers, the relations between the Council and the Assembly of the League, the claim from the Government of India for membership, and the Executive committee of the international labour office."

TAXATION LIMIT REACHED.

GOVERNMENT 'ACCUSED OF EXTRAVAGANCE.

IGNOBLE AND FOOLISH."

A well-known shipping man who

"Mataram" from Singapore declared that Singapore was the worst place in the wide world to live in at present. He explained that living expenses were prohibitive. The absolute minimum hotel rates averaged 15 dollars a day, the dollar having a fixed value of 25. 4d. Even at those rates accommoda- tion was difficult to obtain, and at the best could only be described as second class. Commenting generally upon affairs in the Straits Settlements, he stated that the market was down to nothing, that was to say, it was equal to the normal pre-war market. When the "Mataram "left Singapofe tin was quoted at 106 cents and rubber at 15 cents less than a fortnight previously, He attributed the falling off to the in- fluence of Japanese financiers who were fighting strongly for a forward position in the Singapore market..

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LONDON, July 28.

In the House of Commons, on the third reading of the Finance Bill, Mr. Asquith contended that the wasteful and extravaġnot expenditure, was more attributable to Government policy than to the administration. He cited the example of Mesopotamia where the estimates were recently largely reduced but the forces are now being increased.

Mr. Austen' Chamberlain agreed that Britain had about reached the Limit of her taxable capacity. He pointed out that the expenditure in 1918 and 1919 was £34,000,000, and £46,000,000. It was reduced to £21,060,000 last year, and to" £12,820,000 this year. He believed it to be an ignoble and foolish policy to give up all care for Mesopotamia and Palestine and abandon our responsibilides elsewhere. We purchased neither security nor economy thereby, The Government had gone as near to rationing the "Army, Navy, and Air Force as was possible in a world where

masters of events.

The Bill passed the third reading.

"OH, PHILIPPINES!

Philippines. Isles of my dreams,

I greet you from our rocky shores i

A Minstrel sings beside our streams And roams with a heart that adores.

My yearning to see you is great. And admire your beauties untold: I know not if you will greet Dahuyeg" when your shores i be-

hold

But time will come when I will be

In Philippines, where stars are dreams;,

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And like the birds I sing at heart;

With your Minstrels I left the gourd. To give you greetings from my heart.1.

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