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TERRIBLE MISTAKE.

AIRMEN BOMB WRONG PEOPLE.

AFGHAN BORDER VIOLATED.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mei!)

SIMLA, June 18.

British airmen accidentally violated the Afghan border in the course of operations against tribesmen whose offences included firing on British troops and kidnapping Hindus.

DRY SHIPS.

PROPOSED TREATY WITH AMERICA.

RECIPROCAL RIGHTS.

"Renter's Service to the Okina Mall.)

LONDON, June 18. to Mr. Somerville, Mr. Ronald McNeill, Under In the House of Commons, replying. Secretary for Eoreign Affairs confirmed the report Bombs were dropped, killing two Afghans and that the United States proposed the conclusion of wounding five, also damaging.livestock.

a treaty for the enforcement of the prohibition of The British Government has expressed its un-the Importation of liquor whereby United States qualified apology and has arranged to pay full officers will be allowed to search British vessels within twelve miles of the coast, in return for which compensation.

the United States will allow liquor on British ves➡ sels if placed in bond within that area. The matter was being considered. The proposal, did not in- volve altering international law as regards ter- xitorial waters.

WORLD COURT.

CHINESE JUDGE INSTALLED,

STEAMER DISPUTE. -

THE HAGUE, June 18,

FRENCH MEASURES.

NEW YORK, June 19.

It is stated that the French Ambassador bas arranged for sailors on French steamers to receive The third session of the Permanent Court of half a litre of wine daily on the homeward voyages International Justice opened in the Peace Palace, Drafter leaving the 3-mile limit within which all wine: Loder presiding. The new judge, Dr. Wang Chung on board is locked up, hui, of China, who is replacing the late M. Barbosa;) was duly installed, also Professor Walter Schreck- ing who has been appointed by Germany to partci-) pate in the case of the steamer." Wimbledon."

The German Government refused passage for the steamer through the Kiel Canal in 1921, and the Allies are now claiming damages against Germany under the Versailles Treaty. Germany alleges that the ship was proceeding to Danzig with a cargo of 4,000 tons

of war material for Poland which was then warring against Russia.

[Dr. Wang Chung-hui is a Chinese jurisprudent of international repute. Not only has he made a thorough study of Chinese ancient laws, but he has also studied jurisprudence and international law in England, France and Germany. Among other posts he has held that of Minister of Justice,] •

BELGIAN POLITICS.

CABINET CHANGE,

BRUSSELS, June 18 wes King Albert has entrusted M. Theunis with the formation of anew Cabinet. M. Themis has reserved his acceptance until he has conferred with his colleagues regarding the possiblity of settling the question of the Flamandisation of Ghent University. [M. Theunis was Premier and Minister of Finance in the late Government which resigned when the bi-lingual dispute came to a head.]

BECKETT'S HAND INJURED.

POSSIBLE FIGHT DELAY.

LONDON, June 18,

Joe Bleckett, the boxer, has injured his left hand which may possibly involve the postponement of his fight with Carpentier at Olympia on July 4-

On the advice of Sir Herbert Barker, the bone specialist, the hand was X-rayed. Sir Herbert Barker after he has seen the photograph expects to be able to decide whether Beckett will be able to box on the scheduled. date.

[When he last met Carpentier, Joe Beckett was knocked out in a sensational manner.!

MONSTER SUBMARINE.

WITHIN NAVAL PACT.

LONDON, June 18.

It is announced that the new British submarine in nowise contravenes the Washington naval agreement.

[Brtain's new.super-submarine XI, is the largest in the world. It displaces 3,600 tons submerged, 1,400 tons greater than the largest German” subé marine. The guns are 13in. calibre. The cost, without armament, is £820,000.

INDIAN AGITATOR ARRESTED.

NATIONAL FLAG. DEFIANCE.

NAGPUR, June 18, Seth Jamanlal Bajaj, a prominent non-co-operator member of the working committee of the National Congress and leader of the passive resistance movement against the prohibition of the pational Ang in processions, has been arrested;

LENIN BETTER.

Moscow, June 18.

Lenin has transferred from the Kremlin to a villa in the subiæbs. It is reported that his condition Indicatea slight improvement.

DAVIS CUP-TENNIS.

MANCHESTER, June 18 Playing for the Davis Cup, Gomar and Flaquer beat Lycott and Go

CLOUDS DISPERSE

BALKAN WAR DANGER OVER

POWERS' TIMELY HINT,

LONDON, June 18. Despatches from Vienna and Budapest indicate that the war danger in the Balkane is diminishing. The alarm expressed particularly in the Yugo-Slavi- an preas, which called upon the Government to in- tervene with arms in the Bulgarian revolution, has somewhat subsided, M. Pashitch preferring to adhere to diplomatic methods to prevent any in- fraction of the Treaty of Neuilly. It was the inten tion of the little Entente Powers to make a joint demarcha at Sofia on June 15, but this was abandon- ed in consequence, according to Vienna, of a hint by representatives of the Great Powers against the dan ger of hasty action...

M Rahitch is Yugo Stavin's Premier and Mins ister of Foreign Affairs, Journa

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 18. -The British authorities have received information that the Turks are endeavouring to remove from Thrace guns and troops clandestinely sent there i violation of the Mudania armistice, when the Turkish and Greek hostilities were threatened.

Hearing of the concentration at Silivria, British aeroplanes photographed the unusual activity. Des- troyers watched the port all night and caught a transport early in the morning. The seizure proves conclusively the failure of Turkish military propar- ations in Thrace,

ACROSS THE POLE,

AMUNDSEN'S FLIGHT ABANDONED.

AEROPLANE TROUBLES.

CHRISTIANIA, June 18. The Minister of Defence has received a telegram from Captain Amundsen's brother stating Alaska: "Trial to flight took place on June 17. The that Amundsen has telegraphed him from Norwick,

result is very unsatisfactory. I am sorry but I shall be forced to abandon the proposed flight."

[Captain Amundsen, the well-known Norwegian polar explorer who was first to reach the South Pole, intended to fly across the North Pole.}

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The Admiralty has ordered the Amundsen relief expedition to return from Spitzberged as soon as possible.

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MARK'S FATE SEALED.

LONDON, June 18.

Marks closed at 765,000. The Market holds the Lopinion that it is impossible for the German Fauthorities to stabilise the currency.

French francs sympathetically declined to 75 and Belgian to 88.45.

AMERICA'S FINANCES.

BIG SURPLUS THIS YEAR.

WASHINGTON, June 18. Addressing ameeting of governmental bureaux, President Harding, detailed the national revenue and expenditure showing a surplus of . $200,000,000, compared with a deficit of $323,000,000 last year

BROTHER KILLED.

RIGA, June 18, The officer killed near Bialmmstok was Balakhovitch's brother, not the well-known general himself.

Harlier cables reported that the well-known Anti-Bolshevik, General: Balakhovitch: had“:: bèen. assassinated at a place between Brest-Litovik and Bialystok,

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