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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

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POLAND'S PERILS

of a

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HYTE, August 5th. No reply was received up to 2.35 p.m. frgin Moscow, but there are indications that the Soviet will not aœept the last Raitish position LONDON, August 9. reza tan-day truca, Tha

gloomy The position is confused," epitomises the Russo-Folish situation restosons yesterday morning, and is on the The afore-mented proposal reached ing from the Bolshevika' summary, brushing aside of the Allies' proposals. basis that neither the Foles nor the Soviet The Poles' acceptance of the Bolshevik terms for a conference has intro for the Allies are to improve their military duced a baffling feature which, in view of the absence of explanation to position during the ten days, pending epi Polish quarters, is momentarily bafiling, but may mean that the Bolsheviks

arrived at have offered some tempting bait to the Foles to accept direct negotiations.

DANGER OF CONTINENTAL HEGEMONY,

The Times says that it would be easy to point out how Mr. Lloyd George's optimistic opportunism has led to " this disastrous situation from which a graceful" exit it is almost impossible to imagine." The Times urges close co-operation between Britain and France against a Russo-German plot for the formation of a continental system mare grandiose even than Napoleon's.

GRAVITY OF SITUATION.

The Daily Chronicle admits the gravity of the situation but assures that no peaceable measure will be neglected to bring the Bolsheviks to a reason- able view.

The Daily News throws the blame upon France and expresses the opinion that if the decision rested with Britain there would be peace in Russia within a fortnight.

INSATIABLE LUST OF CONQUEST.

to. conclude peace.

M. Millerand and his party Folkestone at 9.30 am, and were welcomed i by Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Curzon, and Lord Beatty.

M

hea it adjourned for lunch,

The Conference at on until 1.35 p..

Mr. Balfour has arrived

· LONDON, August 8th. The Mosam Government has refused to agree to the Britisk proposals made at Hythe, and the Conference has referred the matter to its naval and military advisers who will submit a report to-morrow.

TIBE August 8th.

(7.p.m.)

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The Conference is still sitting.

a news

has leaked out regarding the deliberations. It is believed that the conference will last

the whole of to-morrow,

*LONDON, August sih.

A Warsaw communique of August 7th states that the advance of the Bolsheviks in the direction of Warsaw, Grodao and Bie-

lostok has been stopped, The Poles are

The attitude of all sections of Labour in England grouses considerable steadily holding positions on the left bank of the Beg where beary fighting is proceed. attention. It should be explained that Labour's uncompromisingly anti-ing Tas Poles have erserated Lenda on Polish standpoint is due especially in moderate circles, not to approval of the northera front. Bolshevik ideas, but to resentment" of what they consider Poland's unwarranted attack upon Russia and Warsaw's insatiable lust of conquest beyond the generous boundaries fixed by the Allies.

WILD TALK OF GENERAL STRIKE.

There was wild talk at various meetings throughout the country yes- terday of a general strike to prevent war with Russia but responsible leaders discountenance such extremist tactics.

PREMIER TRYING TO PREVENT WAR. Germany, as from the beginning, is doing her best to pick a quarrel. with the Allies, but it is unlikely that she will be given anything approaching a plausible excuse for interference.

The Daily Express understands that Mr. Lloyd George, although disap- pointed with the Soviet reply, is still using all his energies to prevent a declaration of war.

TAKING NO RISKS.

PARIS, August 9. Allied troops on the East Prussian frontier are busily engaged in destroying and blowing up accumulations of German war material and munitions, evidently for the purpose of saving them from falling into the bands of the Bolsheviks, The Germans are complaining that the incessant explosions are alarming the population.

MANNEX MOT TO LAND.

TO BE CONVEYED TO UNKNOWN SPOT.

LONDON, August 9. The Liverpool police announce that instructions have been received from London that Archbishop Mannix must not be allowed to land at Liverpool, though the liner "Baltic." arrives at the Mersey poft this evening. It appears, therefore, that the Government intend to tranship the Archbishop. at sea and convey him to an unknown spot, from where, it is stated, Dr.- Mannix, unless made a prisoner, will immediately proceed to Liverpool.

At Queenstown, last night, from the water's edge to the tower of the Cathedral, there were blazing rows of candles and electric lights. The Cathedral bells were pealing "Come Back to Erin.”

PRESS CONFERENCE. »

AN IMPORTANT RESOLUTION CARRIED.

Ottawa, August 9.

At the concluding sitting, the Press Conference passed a resolution in favour of admitting weekly newspapers, and literary, trade, and technical journals to the Empire Pruss Union, declaring that benefit would result from provision of opportunities for interchange of staffs between British and Dominion newspapers with the object of increasing the efficiency of handling information from different parts of the Empire and affording means of exchange of ideas regarding newspaper organisation.

MARY PICKFORD.

COMING TO THE FAE ŽAST.

WILL SHE VISIT HONGKONG?

Stop! Look! Listen!!

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair banks who is now Mr Mary Fick ford are coming to the Far East nevet fall do

At least that is what Mary paid just before she and Douglas, net well for a long, delayed European honey- moon Mary remarked that she had always been crazy about the Orient” and that they planned to make the trip in the autumn. Though five weeks of living in Japanese style to get

the proper amniosphere for: Madame

especially interested: in-the: cont to Japan, there is no dout

China will also win a large place in ber heart. Mary Pickford-films are by no means unknown to the Chi-) mese and as for the foreigners, it can safely be predicted that rubber" will become the most popular com- modity in Shanghai during Miss Pick- ford's visit.

Nor is Douglas to be forgotten. To see him trying to leap over the Great Wall with one bound or round up yaks on the plains of Mongolis would be well worth the price of a ticket north-Shanghai Gazette?

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FRAUDS AND THE LAW.

MOST ELUSIVE CRIMES.

Fraud in all its many forms is the most elusive of crimes.

In the school for detectives the sub- ject is dealt with only on broad lines for-general guidance. It is solely in the school of practical experience that an officer can hope to grasp its nice- ties and intricaties and realise the enormous amount of hard, anxious. work inquiry into a fraud oken iD- volves.

Hundreds of deliberate frauds are committed in the Ciry and West End, but so delicate is the law that only in very few cases does justice prevail,

Victims of obvious swindles consult their own solicitors with a view to

taking action, only to be told in the majority of cases that the law is „powerkss.

I remember one case last year in which a young man was wickedly de- frauded of £30,000 (I will not say, how, because the method might be- come popular.). He was the dupe of A convicted thiel, and his pasems tried hard to take criminal action. The police. however, lacked statumry authority to move in the matter.

Frequently the dividing line be- tween fraud and larceny (theft) is very fine.

Take a simple instance. A man goes into a tea shop and orders a meal of the value of 25. for which he re- ceives a pay ticket. In order to avoid payment he goes to another table or to the counter and orders a threepenny bun, for which he receives another ticker. He pays for the bun but not" for the other refreshments.

A case of mean and deliberate fraud, you would say. No, the lew says it is a case of stealing the first pay ticket!

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Cheque frauds are a special subject in the comprehensive curriculum ol the detectives' school.

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"How criminals obtain cheque books. and the signatures of wealthy people, bow forgeries are committed and the amounts of cheques altered, the use of acids, methods of detecting "for- geries--all these subjects and many more are explained with illustrations by one of the professors.

The number of forged cheques pass- ed at business houses is very birge, Only a few months ago a girl of six- teen ordered about £100 worth of goods from a well-known firm and "paid" for them with a cheque that wes promptly dishonoured,

Well-dressed women are the clever. est utterers of “dud" cheques. They have a Winsome, insinuating way with them which allays suspicion, and it is: seldont indeed that a shopkeeper Lakes upon himself the task of questioning the bon ides of one of these crafty

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