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DAIL EIREANN READY TO APPOINT PLENIPOTENTIARIES.

NEUTRAL AND IMPARTIAL ARBITRATOR,

LONDON, September 4.

The Irish reply rejects the Government's proposals on the ground, that they do not offer dominion status. It says that rejection is irrevocable but Sinn Fein is ready imusediately to appoint plenipotentiaries on the basis of the principle of government by consent of the governed.

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WOPING MURDER.

ACCUSED ON TRIAL

PRISONER GETS WETTING.

An audience almost as big as the one that witnessed the actual tragedy insaif crowded into the Criminal Court this morning to listen to the proceed- inga at the fri of Yeung Ko, the accused man in the Waping Theatre murder case..

The Acting Chief Justice (Mr. H. H. J. Gompert) presided and the

following-Robert Gray (foreman),

C. E. Tavares, V. F. V. Ribeiro, R.

Mr. De Valera's reply to Mr. Lloyd George's letter of Augur 26 says that the Irish, 100, are convinced that it is essential some definite and injury of seven was composed of the mediate progress should be made towards a basis on which further negotia. tions can usefully proceed. It describes the historical references in Mr. Lloyd George's last communication as fallacious and says that the essential data of the problem are as follows ----

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5. Judah, J. I. 'Gutierrez, E. M. Xavier and D. J. Cuthill.

For the prosecution the Attorney General (Mr.J. H: Kemp K.C.) appear-

Hazlerigg, the Assistant Crown Solicitor. Mr. F. C. Jenkin defended the prisoner who pleaded not guilty.

The people of Ireland, acknowledging no voluntary union with Greated and assisting him was Mr. T. M. Britain and claiming as fundamental and natural the right to choose freely for themselves the path they shall take to realise their national destiny, bave by an overwhelming majority declared for födependence and established a republic.

REJECTION IRREVOCABLE.

Great Britain on the other hand acts as though ireland were bound to her by a contract of union that forbade separation. The circumstances of

Before the Attorney General began his opening address Mr. Jenkin told the Judge that the prisoner had been marched to Court through the rain and consequently was wet through. A change of clothing had been sent

the supposed contract are notorious, yet on the theory of its validity thefor. and Mr. Jenkic trusted that British Government and Parliament claim to rule and legislate for Ireland. even to the paint of partitioning Irish territory against the will of the Irish people and the killing or casting into prison of every Irish citizen refusing to give allegiance.

The British Government's proposals are based fundamentally on the latter premises. The Irish have rejected Mr. Lloyd George's proposals and that rejection is irrevocable. The proposals were not an invitation to Ire- land to enter a free and willing partnership with the free nations of the British commonwealth.

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the Court would give the man or of opportunity later changing. At a subsequent stage a small parcel arrived in Court zäd at His Honour's direction the proceed- legs were adjourned while Yeung Ko retired to put on dry trousers and a

singler.

Opening the case to the jury, the Attorney General said the evidence would be that the dead man, The proposals were an invitation to Ireland to enter under conditions an actor called Li Sui Fan, was determining a status definitely inferior to the status of these free states, shot on the night of August 16 while performing on the stage at the Wo- The Dominions are all guaranteed against the domination of the major state ing. Handing three large plans of not only by acknowledged constitutional rights giving them equality of the theatre to the jury, the Attorney status with, Geat Britain and absolute freedom from the control of the General explained that the shot British Parliament and Government but by thousands of miles separating that killed Li Siu Fan was fired ipho stood in the them from Great Britain. Ireland would have the guarantees neither of by a man

front row of the stalls. It all distance por right. The conditions sought to be imposed would divide her happened very quickly, and nobody, into two artificial states, each destructive of the other's loffence in any perhaps would get a very good view common comcil and both subject to the military,.naval, and economic of the actual firing.net control of the British Government.

CAN ONLY RESIST FORCE.

The chief evidence - against thri

the Attorney. prisoner, continued General, would be that of a Chinese detective who happened to be in the threatre and who, acting with great promptitude, ran after the man who fired the shot and pursued him as far as Gilman street

The Irish are willing that a neutral and impartial arbitrator should judge between the diametrically opposed interpretations of history and the fact of geographical propinquity held by the British Government and the Irish. If the British Government refuse and threaten to give effect to their view forcibly, the Irish can only resist. Force will not solve the problem. It here the fugitive was impeded by will never secure victory over reason and right.. Threats of force must some one passing along the road and be set aside from the beginning as well as during the actual conduct of captured. He resisted violently, and negotiations. The respective plenipotenziaries must meet untrammelled by it took three other constables to any conditions except facts themselves, and must be prepared to reconcile arrest him. During the pursuit he threw away a long white coat. subsequent differences, not be appeals to force covert or open but by which had a mauser pistol wrapped reference to some guiding principle on which there is common agreement. up in it. There were one discharged The Irish propose the principle of government by the consent of the cartridge and several live rounds in governed. It is a simple expression of test to which any proposed solution the pistol and the weapon, was jammed. Another pistel was must respond if it is to prove adequate. On this basis only the Irish see a found near one of the exits but this, hope of reconciling "considerations which must govern the attitude' the Attorney General pointed out, of Britain's representatives with considerations thaf must govern attitude of Ireland's representatives, and on this basis the Irish are ready immediately to appoint plenipotentiaries.

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FRENCHMAN ESTABLISHES A WORLD'S RECORD.

BRESCIA, September 4,

had nothing to do with the case-it was probably put there by someone

who feared that if it were found in his possession he would he suspected of the crime.

Mr. Kemp confessed that he could not prove any motive for the crime but that, be arged was not ad essential part of the case. If the jury were satisfied that the prisoner was the man who fired the abot that The Automobile Grand Prix, the length of the course 30 times, over a killed the actor then they were bound lap of 17 kilometres 400 metres long, was won by a Frenchman named to find him guilty of the murder.

The evidence followed the lines Goux on a Ballot machine in three hours 35 minutes "nine seernis, at an of that given at the Police Court: average speed of 1442 kilometres per hour, a world's record. The second hearing. Dr. Moore of the G. C. H. was also a Frenchman, named Chassagne, and the third an Itelian named gave medical evidence about the Wagner who was close up. During the race Bordino covered the seventh at a lap speed of 155 kilometres an hour.

800-MILE CYCLE RACE,

PARIS, September 4,

A cycle race from Faris to Brest and retum, a distance of 800 miles

victim. Mr. F.C. Neville, a surveyor

in the P. W. D., put in plans of the theatre and neighbourhood and Mr. G. W. Arenell, of Lane Crawford and Co., gave expert evidence about the Mauser pistol

Two era witnesses of the murder

was won by a Belgian named Martiat, in 55 hours, seven minutes, eight | were also called this morning. One seconds. A Frenchman named Christophe was second with 554 hours.

'INDIAM FLOUR EMBARGO.

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SULA, September 4.

of them, a married wonian named Tso Kwan, was unable to dentity the accused but the other Li Pul one of the actors, said that it was the prisoner who fired the shot,"

Li Pul was searchingly - CHDES examined by Mfr. Jenkin about the identification parade at the Police Station. He said that the prisoner wás among a number of men who

Owing to the rapid rise in the price of foodstuffs, especially wheat, the Government of India has decided to continue the prohibition of the export were lined up together. All of the of wheat and flour, at least until the end of March. In order to prevent men had long white conta- on sad depletion stocks or enhancement of prices, supplies for the military will be some were barefooted. as far as possible purchased abroad. In order to encourage private imports Mr Jenkin inquired whether a long of wheat, particularly from Australis, and, to assist the Indian flour mill white coat and hare feet were not a very unusual combination and the industry, the Government has decided to permit the re-export of imported winess replied that they certainly wheat in the form of four to the extent of 50 per cent of the weight of wert. He had never, he declared, wheat imported:

INDIAN GOVERNMENT BERVIOR."

SnILA; September §i With the approval of Mr. Montagu, Secretary of State for India, it was decided to introduos s'mastantial Indian element in the foreign and politi

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