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KON”, KÄTURDAY, SEPTEMBER

TO-DAY'S

CABLES

IRISH INCENDIARIS

that armed

LONDON, September 25%

usliing of Policemen in County Clare, it is stated ght burned a number of houses in the neighbouring towal of Milltown-Melbay and two villages nearby. Three civilians were shot. diad

GERMANYE DEBT.

ANDIKA BERLIN, September 23, At a Cabinet meeting the Finance Minister stated that Germany's debt totalled 240,700,000 marks, including a funded debt of 91 milliarde.

MESOPOTAMIA QUIET.

A War Office Mesopotamia com operations met with no serious oppos Bagdad-Kut el Amars line has been com

LONDON, Sestember.

mces that minor Be

The block-house

SPECIAL-TRAIN WRECKED.

GOVERNOR COX BADLY SHAKEN.:-

Chain Now YORK, September 23, 1

A message from Phoenix, Ariana reports that a special train which Govenor Cox, the Democratic Candidate for the Presidency was travelling was wrecked owing to the rails spreading. Governor Cox and several of s his party were shaken but not seriously injured. The engine driver's leg: was broken: A

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COMING DOWN.

PRICE OF COTTON GOODS REDUCED. 19

MANCHESTER, September, 23. sur

The New Hampshire Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., employing 10,000,000 operatives and producing 4,000,000 yards weekly, announces a reduction of 33 per cent in the price of manufactured cotton goods owing to the unsettlement of the cotton market and in consequence of the heavy can- Deilation of orders.

SHIPPING SITUATION."

COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT OWING TO STRIKE-THREAT

THIRTY-THOUSAND UNEMPLOYED.

NDON, September 23.

The coal strike threat is causing a general rise in shipping freights. The shipping situation appears complex and difficult. The shortage of coal is necessitating a number of outward bound ships salling in ballast and others lying up. There are already 30,000 seamen unemployed, and there is a growing tendency for ships to be repaired and reconditioned for Continental parts.

TWO THOUSAND MURDERED.

FEROCIOUSLY TORTURED BY THE BOLSHEVIKS.

WIDESPREAD PROPAGANDA..

LONDON, September 23.

The Times authoritatively learns that during the recent temporary occupation of Vilna the Bolsheviks murdered 2,000 persons, mainly Foles Many victims were ferociously tortured. The Bolsheviks are now engaged i in widespread propaganda at Vilna, were numbers of demobilised soldiers are remaining. The Soviet recently assigned 500,000 gold roubles for propaganda in Esthonia.

PILFERING.

KIFT AT LIVERPOOL:

goods, sugar, spirits, tobacco, and Leven iron articles are carried away from. warehouses on the dock estate in Liverpool, Birkenhead, and Bootle, and the percentage of captures in SKIPORNERS ENORMOUS. LOSSES. very small in comparison with the

ESTE Snumber of thieves at work

It is doubtful #1 5 per cent.. Fetty pillering from the Liverpool offerers regard thefts in a crimina docks and from... the numberless -fight, but rather they see the goods vessels in the docks still continues, lying about-próbably someone he to say nothing of the thefts of small fores them has broached a case- articles that appear with wonder? goods and they are not stron ful:regularity from the shipping enough to resist the temptation yards that line the Mersey on both pocket some article. sides

But the mere fact that there may The heavy punishment meted out not be my writinal intent does: by benches of magistrates appears to relieve the shipowner of fiability in * have not the least effect in preventing the matter, and it was recently statedesi this monetomus iclass and crime in a police court locally that it was from which everybody interested in very rare for a ship to leave the port shipbuilding is suffering considerable without reports of cargo having been

broached being received. Even

ha report is not received before the ship stils it is a ten to one chance that one will be received from the part of destination,

loss.

It is quite evident that the public as a whole have not the faintest loss of the enormous loss caused to ship owners and others by this class of theft, A conversation overheard the other evening was typical of the the imposition of fines is no re medy for this growing evil, and most attitude adopted by the man in the benches of magistrates arę now ene street towards this kind of delinquent deavouring to put a stop to- this pilễ; They were discussing a newspaper-fering by passing sentences of Emoci. report of ascase of dock labourer somment without the option of a time. who was sentenced to a month's Ir a quite evident that tha lề thể imprisonment for the their of some only method by which the practice -- comparatively a small art from can or will be checked, to any BOSKA

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