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FLOODS & 'QUAKE.
Widespread Damage In America.
ONLY SIX FATALITIES.
Many Public Utilities Dislocated.
FRENCH POLÍTICS. DEMOCRAT ROYALTY
Resignation of Stormy Mr, J. L. Garvin and the
Petrel.
A NEW PARTY?
Socialist Foreign Policy Spelle War.
Monarchy.
UNSHAKEN SURVIVAL. Everything To Unite The Nation.
New York, Yesterday.
The proceedings of the Chamber
London, October 16. Mr. J. L. Garvin, in an article) Floods, owing to the continued were enlivened by the announcement
the in "The Observer", to-day, urges heavy rain, have caused wide- that M., Franklin-Bouillion,
a brilliant writer should spread damage in New York State notoriously stormy petrel of poli-that and New England, besides four tics, had resigned the chairmanship specialise upon the wonderful fatalities in Vermont.
of the Foreign Affairs Committee story of the unshaken survival The damage is estimated at and had severed his twenty-five and strengthening of the British hundreds of thousands dollars. years connexion with the Radical- Monarchy while other famous
Many bridges were washed away in Massachusetts, where two fatalities are reported.
Train services are disorganised and light power cut off in some towns. Many trams and buses in New York are held up.
An Earthquake.
San Francisco, Yesterday, An earthquake of considerable duration and moderate intensity. was felt along the Californian coast from Santa Maria to Santa Barbara early to-day. No dam- juge is reported.-Reuter's Ameri-
can Service.
TRADE BARRIERS.
ROUMANIA AND CRUDE OIL.
JAPANESE RICE TRADE..
Geneva, Yesterday.
The Trade Barriers Conference, which is deliberating on various exceptions to abolition, agreed to
Mr. Bouillon.
the Roumanian reservation as re- Socialist Party because the latter gards crude oil, but declared that
sovereignties have disappeared lor have fallen into the custody of
dictators.
He sketches Royalty's declining popularity since King George III resulting in it being widely whispered forty years ago that if Edward reigned he would be the last King. The aged Queen' Vic- toria's reappearance at her Jubilee auddenly made her both a legend and an idol.
. King Edward aucceeded at a moment of national and imperiali danger. His patriotic instinct foresaw the coming storm result- ing in his support for the re- organisation of the army and the navy, while his Continental visits dispelled fears of Anglophobia.
Prompted by sagacity, King Edward also began to make king- ship a more intimately and more widely popular social insti- tution.
Monarchical Idea.
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The ultimate result has been to create one of the wisest and most genuinely human and sympathetic achievements. The monarchical idea now is absolutely democratic representing nothing which can
this did not adhere to the prohibi-had developed a leaning toward the tion measures and hoped that socialists. Roumania would raise prohibition M. Bouillion holds that the condivide the nation but everything
as soon as possible.
tinuance of a party truce in eenen The Roumanian delegate con-al to Anancial recovery and is of eurred.
the opinion that the socialist for
A long debate ensued on the sign policy spella war with Germany Japanese reservation in respect within a decade. of the export of rice and the importi of dyestuffs and synthetic pro- ducts.
which unites it.
The incomparable instinct to harmonise with the changing na- tional conditions reached its smoothest working under King The Empire is now George V. stronger than ever.
M. Bouillion subsequently intim- ated that he intends to form a new The Japanese delegate undertook party, the "National Union League," to endeavour to get his Govern- with a view to the forthcoming elec-themselves to the services of de- ment to regard prohibition in re- tions.-Router. spect of rice as of a temporary character.
It is understood that the prohibi- admitted tion for dyestuffs was
for
on the same conditions as Great Britain. This reservation is! subject to the Japanese Govern- ment's approval.-Reuter.
NATURALLY!
DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH. IN ILLINOIS."
ONLY BUNKUMI
MOTOR SHOW.
The Royal family are devoting
mocracy, aided by the ideal of Empire and united by freedom, thereby completing the evolution of the social monarchy.
The King and the Prince of Wales are indefatigable in sup- The porting social movements.
PRINCE OF WALES LAUDS Queen and the Duchess of York
BRITISH.
similarly assist women's non- party movement. ADVANCE OF THE INDUSTRY.
Rugby, Yesterday. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, open ing the Scottish Motor Car Show at Glasgow, to-day, said that he was always glad to be associated with any British Industry, and specially : Chicago, Yesterday. pleased to do anything to encour- They don't speak English in age an industry which had gone Illinois but American," says Mayor ahead as the British motor indus- Thompson in letter to the
a
Chicago Library Board, adding try had done. That industry had position which "The official language of Illinois advanced from a
of
by law passed through the efforts was little more than the production the late State Senator, Frank of means of pleasure to be one of Ryan, is American." Reuter's the most important industries in American Service.
the country, employing a very large
AFRICAN DISCORD.
SENATE & PRECIOUS STONES BILL.
AMENDMENTS REJECTED.
Capetown, Yesterday. After seven divisions the "As sembly returned the Precious Stones Bill to the Senate whose
2.30 p.m.jamendments the Minister of Mines 3 p.m.
refused to accept-Reuter.
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GERMAN FLIGHT.
ARRIVAL REPORTED AT THE AZORES.
Ponta Del Gada, Yesterday.
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.
Whatever else may be the re- sults of the extension of women's franchise it will further streng- then the Crown which is already an unchallenged miracle of his- toric vitality.
DISMISSED.
ESTHONIAN EX-MINISTER IN
TROUBLE.
JUDICIALLY ACQUITTED.
Reval, Yesterday, Birk has been judicially ac quitted and released, but he has been dismissed from the service- Reuter,
[A Reval cable of October 27 reported: The trial has opened of Birk, former Esthonian Minister in Russia, who is charged with "dis- obeying the orders of the Govern- ment, and publishing, in the inter- ests of a foreign State, secrets con- cerning Esthonia. Members of the Cabinet and the Chief-of-Staff were present, with the Minister to Mos- cow, as chief witnesses.]
14,000,000.
RESULT OF TURKEY'S
**CENSUS.
Constantinople, Yesterday. The census shows a population
Said to have been too big even for the screen-A wonderful stóry as a magni- ficent film --
JULES VERNE'S MIGHTY DRAMA
MICHAEL STROGOFF
Amazing battle scenes-Massed troops ou the field of action-Charge of a horde of 4,000 Tartar tribesmen - Thrilling åd- venture in settings of magnificent realism Court scenes beautifully filmed in
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14,000,000, of which Constan- Dentist. tinople bas 860,000.-Reuter
section of the population. Fine re-or liable cars were now produced at 1.30, p.m.
The German seaplane DL220, prices well within the reach of those 2.30 pm, which was delayed by bad wea of moderate means. 230 p.m. ther at Lisbon, has arrived at the
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[A cable of October 28 stated:~ The first regular census ever taken The Prince of Wales emphasised in Turkey is being carried out that motor manufacturers must not under most rigorous conditions. Azores-Reuter.
[A Schellingwoude cable of lose sight of the export trade. To ensure a correct tally citizens of British are forbidden to leave their houses October 18 stated-The German There were thousands seaplane DL220 has set out for overseas who wanted British cars throughout the day in conso- Lisbon, en route to the Azores and in preference to those of foreign quence of which all shops are shut and pavements are descrted. make. Local conditions. In our There is no traffic in the streets America.]
great Dominions were many and and the waters of the Bosphorus varied, but they were well worth and Golden Horn are clear of all
FRANCE & PETROL studying in order that cars might small craft. 600, of
be produced for Colonial, use which stantinople alone, assisted by police, drew up the lists and soldiers saw that no citizens. Ieft their houses:
IMPORTATION MONOPOLY
OPPOSED,
are
Paris, Yesterday. All experts heard by the Petrol Commission of the Chamber opposed to the creation of a mono poly for the importation of petrol.
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