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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1926.

ON THE RHINE.

WITHDRAWAL OF FRENCH: TROOPS.

A PROMISE" KEPT.

ULTIMATUM.

"NO

MODERN VICKINGS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

TIGER'S" LETTER. THE TWENTY-ONE,

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A NOTE TO BULGARIAN MINISTER..

A VOYAGE OF 6,180 MILES.

POSSIBLE EFFECT IN "

AMERICA.

SHANGHAI WAS ONCE THE VENUE.

CONTENTS SECRET.

Sotia Aug. 11.

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Rugby. August 11.

The contents of the Note are

TINY SHIP'S EXPERIENCE.

ago.

Labrador. Reuter.

PRESIDENT'S INTEREST.

This

PAN ASIATIC CONGRESS.

Boston, Aug. 11.

New York, August 11,'

Nagasaki, Augušt 2. After 6,400 miles voyage President Coolidge Bret learn off The Chinese delegate proposed A reduction of the Rhineland | The diplomatic representatives Occupation Forees, involving the of Yugo-Slovia, Roumania, and from Bergen four modern Vikings Clemencenu's letter as he set before proceeding with the general withdrawn of several thousand Greece have hunded a collective have arrived on a tiny ship model-by the Areside of his ancestral discussion, the cancellation of the French trams, will take effect next Note to the Foreign Minister. Med on that in which Leif Ericssonome in Plymouth. He was so inTwenty One Demands" must Be de

Kalfoff, regarding the activities crossed the Atlantic 900 years terested that he delayed the de-felded upon as preliminarios.

parture of his special train,, from resulted in a conflict with the of bands of Comitadjis.

Captain Folgero, the leader of Plymouth untfi, the text was avail-¡Japanese delegates. Mr Y. Norimoto, M.P.. who was to reside the party, said that the trip was able.

The New York Times's "* juneventful except that they ran

cor-jover the meeting, and Messrs. Mori short of rations and were caught respondent who is following Pre-jaad Nagamine, M.P.S.. resigned as for several days in icepacks offsident Coolidge is of opinion that Japanese delegates, resenting the the sole effect of the letter will be proposal made at the very beginning to Increase the opposition to ral of the Conference.. Lin Kupin. fication of the French debt muttle-Chinese delegate, stated that the ment. whilst some of the advisers Congress was originally so be ean- to the Administration even thinkivened In Shanghai--but waa- that it will tend to strengthen the shelved owing to the fact that arguments of the Borah clique, who Shanghai was in the sphere of in- contend that the agreement is influence of Great Britain.. Wonk Flenient.

Kung-so, another Chinese delegate, Other fields who are in close emphasised that before uniting the contact with the President-inelud Asiatic mices. the establishment of ng Senator, Ernst. who declares friendship between the Chinese and that the language of the letter Japanese nations should not be insolent and pertinent-consider disregarded. Therefore, Japan tha 解门 attark On American should dret abolish the Twenty-one- policy from such a distinguisher demands and other, treaties of in- Frenchman demands an official requality, which are obstructiona to friendship. The Asiatic races AD- The New York Timer under must not be at variance, otherwise protest

which especially roused the Pres' advantage of them. Government proposed, to bring Lin Paihouni, of which he was notEnt was the comparison of the the matter to the notice of the informed until the execution was Trenty between the United States League of Nations.]

It will be recalled that she re- duction of these foress was vispn. lised as part of the "Policy of not divulged, but officials declare Concilation" initiated at the time that it is not an ultimatum- of the Locarne Treaty. When the Reuter. British troops sevacuated the [Reuter wired from London on Cologne area and were transferred August 31-The possibility of to Wesbaden, their strength, was trouble in the Balkans is indi- reduced from 15,000 to 9,000; anicated by questions in the House! the Belgian force, when about the of Commons asking whether steps same time it was transferred to the will be taken to prevent Yago PEKING GARRISON. seconi zone, was reduced to be Slav troops, entering Bulgaria. tween 7,000 and 8,000. Some res Mr. G. Locker-Lampson. Under! ductions were also made by the Secretary of State for Foreign French, who have a great prepon- Affairs, in reply, said that there' derance of decapation troops, but is no reason to suppose

that

Peking, August it. it was hoped that when the pressure troops had yet entered Bulgaria of internal polities had relaxed as the result of the recent Wang Huai-ching's resignation sumetently to enable him to turp Comitadjis incident. He added from the Garrison Coramandership his attention to the subject. M. that the Government was closely which was at first, believed to be Briand would give further effect to watching the situation. There the usual protest against the This conciator) procedure.« was reason to suppose that Yugo-payment of funds for the upkeer

In an interview after the formia Shy forces would be order of the Metropolitan Pelicé, and Bly. Lion of the present French Governed to pursue any. Macedonian Military Establishments, now ment, M. Briand derlared its inten- bands crossing the frontier.

# He pears to have been

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WHY THE COMMANDER RESIGNED:

lon e pursue the Pacaran policy understood that the Yugo-Siavisgainst the summary treatment of /tands that the part of the letterthe white races Would take a menn!

and the farthering reduction of French troops in Rhineland, de re warded in London as indicating the falfkmens of this promise--British Wireless Service

RELIGIOUS LAWS.

ARCHBISHOP'S FRESH

OVERTURES.

DETECTIVE KILLED.

SHOT WITH OWN REVOLVER BY NEGRO.

RACE FOR LIBERTY.

over.-Kenter.

NORTH v. SOUTH.

WU PEI-PU'S. CONTEMPT FOR CANTON,

and Germany with the Russo German Treaty at Brest Litovsk.

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COAL FROM STETTIN.

INCREASED TRANSHIPMENT,

Borah's Views, Päis ddubon August 11. Senator Borah has issued a state-, ment. characterising the letter as cruelly misleading in its remarks

Owing to the strike in England about the sale and Independence of very large quantities of Silesian France and as deliberately unjust coul are shipped via Stettin. to Eng

regards America's separate hand and to all those countries Pence trenty. Nevertheless, hitherto supplied with coal by Great Says that it is pathetic in Britain. Latterly Dearly 10,000 clemenceau's manifest love. of his tons of con have been daily tran- Peking, August 8.

We can afford to ignore shipped at the port of Stettin. Marshal Wu Pei-fu has devantry

M. Clemenceau's wrath." sident Calleg to suspend his ret

Anisely declared that he will

The real quantity that might be Senator Borah adds they shipped if all lifting arrangementa ligious restrictions until Congress aegro who killed with his own never return to Hankow before fconveged, apparently with the revolver at the Police Headquar the suppression of the North-west Want to cancel their debts let them are in use and if worked in three detective.. who had jus army. The Tupan of Hupeh. Gen. include at the debts and all the returns is shown by the following

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Mexion City,, August FE

Arfalishop, Vera has again mad-1

evertures Ra'a truce, asking Prop

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Coolidge on the Fence.

terminate

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Priests Executed.

Mexico City, August 11. Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz Flores has arrived from Michion-l can. He stated that two priestsi and 30 laymen were executed byj the military authorities August 1 andag ringleaders in the rising against "the government in a proj test against new religious regula-1 Lions.

The Archbishop nilded that a day-long buttie

fought Zahunyo, where the Cathotics re-] fused to hand over the churches to the Municipal Committees. Fistvi persens were killed. Federal reli

New York, Aug. 11. The whole Police Force have |been scouring the city to find

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the

....HÜGE FIRE,

SEVEN GREAT OIL TANKS EXPLODE.

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COLLAPSE WILL COME SOON.

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the war-Reuter,

PRINCE OF SIAM.

however,

(Continued from.pag: 1) Penang had to pass through had passed through without dif- Kedah. He himself,

ficulty, he added.

Prince Dahni leaves Hongkong

5.5. "President McKinley."

The Royal Family.

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calculations

The coal-tip at the Reiherwerder

harbour of Stettinshoots a waggon.

tran-

harbour, which forms part of the with 20 tons of coal per five minutes info the vessel, mearing a shipment of 5,700 tona of coal per 24 hours at this plant alone. The ¦ same quantity can be handled „by four transporter bridges available at the same harbour district and having a loading capacity of 60 tonå per hour each, so that this special place for bulk cargoes can "deal with 11,000 tons and more daily. ecal is available at the free port Another place for transhipping

handle 40 tons per hour each, 17,000 equipped with 18 cranes which

tons a day. Furthermore, muny' for this purpose, so that the tatai ccal frms have cranes of their own

coal shipping capacity at Stettin amounts to 38,000 tons a day.

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Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN THE "MAIL.”

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hope that the legislature mayers a

parations show that the benefit Part Tess severe restrictions arrested him for stealing a motor eral Chen Chia-me, recently sent

uncellation will go to ale humanity 3 The detective brought the pri- special message to the Marshal and she betterment of the masses of pointing out to him the extreme Paul Smith's (New York), Aug. 11. Sener to the Record Office and danger of the capture of Yochow Europe, and not on the beneft of imperialistic sehe new which are En conformity with his decision was bending over a ledger record-by the Cantonese troops, which now crushing the life out of people to maintain a "hands. of attitude ing the details of the offence possess sufficient strength to dis-who are no sense responsible for as regards the Mexican religious when the negro snatched a re-turb the whole Yangtze Valley. controversy, President Coolidge has volver

detective's In reply, Marshal Wu said that degliard to receive a delegation of holster and riddled him with he would direct his whole atten- the Knights of Columbus, which three bullets.

ition to the affairs in the North, tingires to present u petition entl There were other policemen in leaving the affairs in the South ing "on the Secretary of State to the room, but the murderer rush to Marshal Sun Chuan-fang. He the "gnominious con- ed out of the office before did not think it necessary that he tempt shown by President Call they were able to grab him. He should return to Hankow. for Atcericans by resolutely de-raced down the corridor, dodging

Having failed to convince Mar- manding that they be treated with other detectives, and reached the shal Wu of the importance of his the same consideration and respect street, where he disappeared presence ch the Bunan front.

Mexicans in this country."

amid a salvo of shots from his General Chen's delegate proceed- The Committee were advised to pursuers,

ed to Pactingfu to interview Mar- present the petition and any other] The negro was discovered wan-shal Tsao Kun requesting him to protests to the State Department.-dering in the streets in the use his influence. General Pan this afternoon for Manila by the Bowery district, and arrested. Shao-Hsin was sent at once Three detectives were killed by Marshal Tsao to Changhain. inst week alone whilst fighting tien, where Marshal Wu explain." desperate criminals-Reuter.

ed to him the whole situation in It may be recalled that one of a very eloquent way, which at the Princesses of Siams passed once convinced him of the reason through Hongkong a short time ableness of the course taken by ago on her way to Manila where she intended taking up nursing the Marshal. it

Marshal Wu said "The Canton-work

"H.M. King Sukhodaya, of Siam ese Northern Expedition is noth- ing but a talk and the crea has had a sound practical educa- tion of a kind of atmosphere. The tion in Siam and European coun notably England and internal administration of Kwang- tries, tung is but a mixture of different, France. In his early years he opposite elements, therefore its lived under the immediate care of Baltimore, Aug. 11, collapse is only a question of his father and mother, their late Firemen are battling with a time. I know for certain that Majesties King Chulalongkorn Jorcements ended the struggle huge conflagration caused by a many of the evil disposed there and the Queen Mother. His early explosion yesterday evening of are waiting an opportunity to education was carefully supervis great tanks, containing rise in mutiny: General Chiang ed by them, and took the lines

Sporta: to his later Royal half a million gallons of petrol, Kai-shek is still lingering at accorded kerosene, and benzol, on

the Shaukuang, and why does he not Brother. King Chulalongkorn had August 16--Baseball at Happy! grounds of the American Ondare to march into Kiangsi terri- strong belief in an English Valley, All Star Filipino team Company.

tory? Indeed, that man is full education, and held that Princes South China. 4.30 p.m.

of the Blood should be given the

August 16A1, Happy Valley, Our army Nearly 100,000 people watched of fear and anxiety!

gathering opportunity to proceed to Eng- Stur Filipino Baseball team v. the spectacle of the flames shoot- and navy are now

land 10 receive a first-class .S.S. Helena, 4.20 p.m. ing 100 feet high, creating a pall extraordinary strength in the scholastic education and, as far as "August 18-All Star Filipine, of dense smoke.

vicinity of Yochow, fortifying the The intensity of the heat in-

"bank of the Nilo River. The possible, experience in military Faseball team v., All Hongkong, jured seven. persons.

enemy cannot fly, and there is affairs. His younger brother, who at Happy Valley, 4.30 p.m.

Auction. August 14-At Godown No. 1, The firemen are throwing up a no fear of the invading hordes has now succeeded him as King. A wireless service between curtain of water to prevent the of Cantonese. Moreover, Mar-went to Eton, and there received

Kowloon Wharf & Hongkong & passing Godown Co, Ltd., Kowloon, 228 Vienna and Amsterdam was in- further spread of the flames, shal Sun Chuan-fang has agreed a general education,

packages augurated by the Dutch Minister they are unable to penetrate the to direct operations there, and through the ordinary course with in Vienna. Jonkheer van Nispen fire area-Reuter.

that relieves all my anxiety. Just considerable distinction, But in basketa, artificial paper flowers angi Totsevenuer.

think of the miserable condition addition he served in the Army paper lanterns. 11 .m. of the North west troops! I have attending the Military College at

Meetings. August 11-Meeting of H.K. driven them step by step into the Woolwich, passing all the exam- corner, and it does not require nations, and receiving a commis 1ranch, Marine Engineers' Guild, twenty days for me to exterminion as a fully qualified lieutenant Saflors' Home, West Pt., & pra ate them. Mencius well said If of the British Army. Later he

August 33-Annual meeting nỶ was on duty as an officer of the the United Asbestos Oriental- you dig a well to a depth of 9 jen Royal Horse Artillery at Alder- Agency, Ltd. In the offices (72 feet) without meeting water, shot.

Meners. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., no04.

"Reuter,

WILK

WIRELESS ERA.

SERVICE. BETWEEN VIENNA AND AMSTERDAM.

unt.

FIRST MESSAGE TO QUEEN.

Amsterdam, Aug. 11.

The first telegram was trans- mitted from the President, Dr. Michael Kainisch. to Queer

Wilhelmina.-Reuter.

A WOMAN'S MIND.

"MA" FERGUSON VEERS ÖNCE AGAIN.

FIELD OF FIGHT STILL,

Austin (Texas), August 11. "Mu" Ferguson has again exer cised woman's right to change her mind, a fortnight ago she sporting ingly announced that did not in- tend to stand again for the Gov- ernorship altough Attorney-General Moody was nearly 2,000 votes short of the required majority over all the other candidates for the Gov- crnorship.

"Ma" now proclaims in a 2,000 word document that she will again enter the campaign with all her beart.-Reuter."

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FIREMEN BAFFLED.

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FRANC RATE.

FLUCTUATES IN

LONDON."

London, August "11."

it will become a useless dry. well

if you discontinue your efforts.'

I must win several

decisive

The French franc in London opened at 175% and soon went to face. The ancients said that to 178.-Reuter.

a traveller performing a journey i

battles; otherwise I will lose "JEWS STRANDED IN BAGDAD.

Closing Rates.

London, August 1. French francs closed at 174.62 and Belgian at 1774.-Reuter.

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FRENCH POLITICS.

Entertainments.

August 12-Queen's Theatre; Circe. The Enchantress.""

August 12-Star Theatre:

Charlie Chaplin "The Gold Rush"

August 12-World Theatre; The Limited Mall."

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"One is left wondering about London, July 19-In the House Great Men. There used to be 36

of 100 li, he had only done half of of Commers, replying to questions many of them."Philip Guedalle.

with regard to the 140 Jewish,

his task when he got through 90 families hold up in Bagdad, en

Vancouver, British Columbia.-

. The other 10 are the hard-route to Palestine, where they de-Four ships will sail from this port est, but I must fight on, I thank sire to settle, Mr. G. Ormsby-Gore shortly for the Western Arctic the President for his kindness, said Lord Plumer had informed Ocean, carrying trade goods and but I must, declare that in a week him that the cases were being in-stores worth an estimated figure of or two the world will be able to vestigated by the Palestine Zionist $300,000. The Hudson Bay Com- appreciate my decisions."

Executive who would presumably pany le sending in two vesacis, 8.8. Marshal Wu has great confid-formally apply to the High Commis- "Baychimo" and the powered ence in the loyalty of General sioner as soon as it could. PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS TILL Tien Wei-chun, and further de

schooner Baynaud. A' Van- He understood it was doubtful couver company is sending the clared that all the rumours how far the families concerned powered Ketch Nigalik, and Cap- against Tien had come from the possessed sufficient independent tala C Klangenberg's schooner Legation Quartera, where the means to qualify for admission Inta Old Mald No. 2 has just sailed. | Kuominchun , refugees are. Palestine, otherwise than under the All but the "Baychime" are ex- "A.N.S."

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pected to winter in the North,

OCTOBER.

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Paris, August 11. Parliament, has adjourned til the middle of October-Reuter.

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