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FATAL RIOTS IN BELF ST.

POLICE USE MACHINE GUNS.

DISARMMENT ACGURY

BRITISH NAVY SUSPENDS RECRUITING,

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GERMANY NOT ARMED,

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SNIPING AT SRIPYARD WORKERS.

LONDON, November 22, Rioting occurred in Belfast during the week-end. The troops were compelled to fire. The police used machine guns. There were a few casgaltics. The trouble was renewed last night. Three persons were billed and eight wounded. A shop was looted and burned.

LONDON, November 22

Two people are dead as a result of renewed spiping at shipyard workers in Belfast to-day.

GERMAN PAP JAN PLANTATIONS.

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT'S DECISION.

MELBOURNE, November 22

In the House of Representatives, Mr. Hughes stated that in view of the approaching completion of the work of repatriating Germans the Federal Government had decided to sell appropriated plant tions in ex-German New Guinen. Preference would be given to offer from ex-soldiers.

LIVERPOOL OPIUM DENS.

FORTY-THREE CHINESE CHARGED.

LONDON, November 22.9 The forty-three Chinese arrested in the police raid reported yesterday were charged at Liverpool with keep- ing, using and frequenting premises for opiumi smoking, Fines ranging from £5 to £25 were imposed in some cases.

INTERNATIONAL FENCING

AMERICAN SWORDSMEN WIN TROPHY,

NEW YORK, November 22. American swordsmen have won the international fencing trophy, scoring 24 points against 18 for the British in three matches.

CHRISTINE NLSSON DEAD

OPERATIC SINGER WHO BECAME COUNTESS.

STOCKHOLM, November 22,

The death is announced of Countess Casamirauds, formerly Christine Nilsson, the operatic singer.

FRENCH PHILOSOPHER DEAD.

DEATH OF EMILE BOUTROUX.

PARIS, November 23, The death is announced of the philosopher Emile Boutroux.

AUSTRALIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

WESTERN PROVINCE DEFEATED.

CAPETOWN, November 22, The Australians beat Western Province by eight. wickets.

INTERESTS IN CHINA.

IMPORTANCE OF THE FAR EAST.

LONDON, Novembar 22, been suspended but it is understood that the recruit ug The recruiting of ordinary seamen for the Navy bas

of bays and certain other special ratings will continue.

BERLIN, November 22.

I

With regard to M. Briand's speech at Washington it is semi-officially denied that the Reichswehr is mostly former officers and non commissioned officers. The majority of the Reichswehr are youths who joined up. after the war. The protection police are in no way con- tralied by the Imperial Government but by the state governments and their sole task is to maintain order in the interior. Their numbers, organisation, aud arma- ment are regulated by Entente control commissions. The police only possess rifles. Light guns are allowed them fighting. The citizens' guard mentioned by M. Briand but no heavy guns which would make them. suitable for

destroyed. All armament factories in Germany have has long been disbanded and its weapons surrendered.or closed and their machinery has been destroyed...

APPALLING CONDITIONS IN ASIA, MINOR. LABOUR GANGS PERISH WHOLESALE,

LONDON, November 22.

The first report by Colonel Rawlinson who was lately released by the Turks has been received in London. It gives an appalling account of conditions in Asia Minor and says that 9,000 American prisoners from Kars employed as labour ganga in the neighbourhood of Erzerum all perished except about 800. The victims were replaced by Greeks deported from the coast districts whose death in the winter Colonel Rawlinson considers certain;

EASTERN TELEGRAPH INTEKPRITE.

NEW CABLES COST £1,476,000 LAST YEAR

LONDON, November 22.

The report of the Eastern Telegraph Company for 1920 shows an expenditure of £1,476,000' on new cables and £301,000 on partial renewal of main line cables.

ASPHYXIATED MOPLAHS.

REPORT CONFIRMED.

LONDON, November 22.

The India Office confirms the report of the asphyxia- tion of 64 Moplabs (mentioned in our earlier cables.) It appears that the prisoners were in a closed railway luggage van or vans.

BANDITS FIGHT POLIOT.

AFFRAY NEAR SANTA CRUZ.

BUENOS AIRES, November, 22,

Five persons were killed and 17 wounded in a fight between troops and bandite near Santa Cruz. Over 170. bandita were captured."

Reinforcements have been sent to maintain order in

Patagonia.

ARMAMENTS CONFERENCE, of our policy in China were to be scarcity of capital the international judged not by professions of goodwill fiancial problem could not be solved to the Chinese, but by the without fabricating credits by the issue operation of interests foreign to of international paper money. This China under the protection of international money must be accepted the prestige of the British Governator by all Governments, or all ment. We could not seriously attempt central banks. It must be Govern- At the resumed international con- to reduce expenditure on armaments ment money, and ought not to be legal ference on Economio Recovery and until our policy no longer aimed at tender in private life. But it might World Peace, at Caxton Hall, Mr. Viscount Kano (Japan) said Japan which the different Governments or financial or commercial exploitation.be used as a special reserve against Arthur Henderson said that the was often accused of being the most the different banks could issue bank- Washington Conference would be militaristic and jingnistic country in notes or certificates. Its total amount faced by the same fact which faced the world. The failure of Prussian ought to be limited, and it would be the presont gathering-that arms militarism had taught Japan a redeemed at fixed rates. A definite menty depended upon poltoy. If the striking lesson. At the same time fixed sam, say fifty billion marks gold. Governments wont to Waelington Japan was finding the burden of might be handed over to the Allied with a genuing desire to decrease the arfauments almost intolerable. Dis Governments in the proportion to expenditure on armaments they would armament was more urgently wel which they were entitled to reparation, have to go with a considered policy comed in Japan then in any other and Germany would be bound which would make the need for arma, country, ments less urgent. The policy Arase

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