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RUSSIAN REFUGEES,

PARTS December 27k. The remnants of General Wrangel's AT which are senttered over Con- annople. Ingo-Slavix and Tunis, are becoming source of anxiety. The condi- tions of 30.000 refugees in especi

it, are disquieting, owing to the ravage

China, of which at present good men are very few and insufficient to cope of typhos, the sheence accommodation and of communications in the country.

with the volume of business. He alleges that since the armistice the re-

presentatives he bas mer had better stay at home as by falling foul of the Chinese they are ineffectual

D'ANNUNZIO ASSATEED.

EARLY OCCIPATION OF FIUME EXPECTED.

FIERCE FIGHTING.

which is a room desest

Frenet newspapers declare tha: France Cannot indefinitely provide the wants of 70,000 Russians, who must find work to earn their living, instead of complaining.

GERMAN GRIEVANCES,

BERLIS. December 27th, The Foreign Minister, Herr von Sitions, in an article in the Frankfurter Zeitung. declares that the more the Treaty of Ver- sailles is carried into effect the SVISO becomes the position of the German people, hindering the maintenance of civil order be and be complaing, especially, of the Allies

preventing the cooperation of various volanwer organisations. He believes, how ever, that the businesslike proceedings of Giolitti the Reparations experts at Brussels indi- ordered che tha, Germany's war deb, will be fixed

within reasonable limits.

ROME, December 28. The events in Fiume bave left a painful impression and, it is feared, will cause an agitation in the comtry. The theatres in Milan were closed. The Government has issued a warning that demonstrators in favour of D'Annunzio will be severely ponished." Signor informed the anxious deputies that

been troops Ead

as far as possible to avoid bloodshed. at Fiume whose occupation is expected to be completed to-day. He denied the report that D'Amnuzio had been killed or wounded or that private houses at Fiume were shelled, {" although he admitted that a warship fred a few rounds at D'Annunzio's beadquarters and barracks.

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Unofficial accounts of the fighting confirm the report that the Italians refrained from using their artillery although they encountered houses transformed into machine gun nests and the streets were defended by barbed wire Fighting was fierce. A rebel armoured car made a desperate stand and its crew were killed before the car was captured.

A message from Trieste on December 27 stated: Firing continued today, The investing forces have been reinforced. The Mayor of Fiume requested an interview with the commander of the Abazzia division which was granted.

ARMED GERMANY.

DISARMAMENT QUESTION REACHES CRITICAL STAGE.

ENERGETIC ALLIED NOTE.

LONDON, December 28.

The question of the disarmament of Germany has reached a critical stage owing to the failure of the German Government to carry out the provisions of the Spa agreement. A conference of ambassadors in Paris' decided to refer the matter again to their respective governments. According to the Echo de Paris, although the German regular army has been reduced to the 100,000 stipulated for January 1, Germany still retains an armed force of about 300,000, including police and customs officers, and forest guards, besides irregular organisations formed during the revolution comprising 2,000,000 ines with over 1,000,000 rifles and a number of machine guns. According to Vorwaarts, the Allied reply to the German refusal to disband the civil guard in East Prussia and Bavaria, which is couched in very energetic terms, calls on Germany to respect the Allied decisions.

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NEW YORK, December-28, . - The harbour boatmen's union which has voted for a strike on January 1, is sympathetically supported by the masters, mates, and pilots' union, involving altogether 5,000 men who refuse to accept a 60-hour week. •}

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FROTECTING THE PANAMA CANAL

WASHINGTON, December 28.

The fortifications committee is shortly introducing a bill in Congress by which the Fanama Canal will be made impregnable against attacks from the air, land, and sea.

NEW GANADIAN DRY DOCK.

VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, December 28. The Government has contracted with Messrs. Lyall and Sons, of Montreal, to construct a dry dock at the Esquimalt by yard casting $4,300,000

CHRISTMAS 14 IRELAND,

LONDON, December 28. Altogether eleven persons were killed and several injured, two banks were robbed, and newspaper offices in Dublin and Cork, were 'attacked during the Christmas holidays in Ireland.

FACTION FIGHTS.

MURDER AVERTED.

POLICE »QUELL' LOCAL DISTURBANCES,

was stopped without difficulty when the accused were arrested. While the police were engaged in quelling this disturbance, a serious crime was com

mitted in another part of the district in connection with the same trouble,

The faspectos added that while he was not pressing for a heavy pensay Siz Fukion.Chinese were this he would like it to be impressed, ou morning charged with riotous and dis the accused that they could not do at orderly behaviour by fighting at No. they liked. They gave the police a 81, Connaught Road West, yesterday lot of trouble by breaking out moming, GAN

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CLYDE ENGINEERING OUTPUT.

LONDON, December 7th. The shipbuilding and engineering outpat of the Clyde works in 1820 was as follows: 263 vessels of 669,060 tons were launched and 665,917 horse-power machinery coastracted for merchantmen, as empared with 79 vessels of 632,454 tons and 1,500,000 horse- power machinery last year.

CRISIS IN FIUME.

HOME. December gith. So far the Italian Regulars have lost 30 killed and 100 wounded in the fighting against D'Annunzio's Legionaries. The latter have broken, up four bridges on the Recina river.

The Municipal Council in Rome has adjourned, after ordering the Sag on the Capital to be half-masted as an expression of its anxiety regarding events in Fiume.

RUSSIAN CONSULATE.

HONGKONG OFFICE.

TO BE CLOSED ON JANUARY 1ST.

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The following correspondence has taken place between the Russian Consul in Hongkong and the Govern ment of the Colony-

"Hongkong, Nov. 29, 1920. Str. Under circumstances over which I have no control I am forced to close the Russian Consulate at Hongkong soon.

The liquidation of the affairs of the Consulate necessarily occupy some time, and I will bave the honour to faform you later of the definite date of the closing of that institution which has been in my charge during the last ten years..

In asking you to bring this to the knowledge of His Excellency the Governor, I take the opportunity to offer you the assurances of my high. consideration and very sincere thanks for your assistance and invariable

-(Sd), V. D'OETTINGEN. The Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.

courtesy.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, Nov. 29, 1920. Siram directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 468 of the 29th November in which" you report that the Russian Consulate at Hoogkong is about to be closed.

I am to express the regret of this Government at the coming termina- tion of the cordial relations which it has maintained with you over so. long a period; and I take the oppor- tunity to thank you for the valuable assistance and advice which you have so frequently given in all matters relating to Russian affairs? SA.

I assure you of my highest con- sideration---I am, etenee

(S1) MEFLEICHER,

Colonial Secretary. Mans. V. D'OETTINGEN,

The Consul for Russia, Hongkong.

According to subsequent informas tion from the Russian Const the Consulate will be closed as from 1st January, 1921:

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