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THE WAR.

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General:

LATEST CABLES:

(THROUGE HEUTER'E AGENCY.]

A BERNE RUMOUR

Losos, September 27th. Reports from Berne, which are so often. unreliable, say that Dr. Kublaton ver bally intimated to the Nuncio at Munich

that Germany is willing to consider peace on the basis of the evacuation of Belgium, eves contributing to repairing the war damages, but that the separation between p Flanders and the Walloons must continue,

AMERICA'S SHIPBUILDING

PROGRAMME.

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WASHINGTON, September 27th. It is officially stated that the ship building programme provides for the ray- pletion of 1.600 merchantiaen. aggregat ing 9,200,000: tous, practically within twelve months.

EARLIER CABLES,

BRITISH SHIPPING.

LONDON, September 20th, The Admiralty announces that during the week the shipping arrivals were 9,776 and the sailings 2,691,

Thirteen vessels over and two under 1,600

tony

and that Germany, is entitled tá freely for "ere sunk, while, ten were unsuccess

́develop her enterprise i Belgium,

esperially in Atitwerp.

MR. ASQUITH ON GERMANY'S BMIBARITY.

attacked

Two fishing vessels were sunk,

ITALIAN SHIPPING.

LONDON, September 26th. During the week ending: September zird, the Italian shipping arrivals were D4D and the sailings 470,

The sinkings were one steamer above 1,300 tons and six small sailing ships,

LONDON, September 26th. Mr. H H Asquith, addressing a war- aim meeting at Leeds, emphasised that with negligible exceptions we bad present.. ad an unbroken front, and an unshakable resulte for three years. We had noting ship escaped,

Anteamer and asailing ship were damaged, but reached port while one sail-

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR UNREST

ENDED.

MELBOURNE, September 26th

THE IRISH QUESTION.

LONDON September 20th,

Sir Horne Plunkett speaking at Cork,

Resenting the fintroduction of the card that the prevalent optimism regard- ing the Consention was more than justi system, the employes of the railway worked. It had plissed the most important shops at Sydney struck on August

Stage and was approaching the next. He Other Railway and Tramway Unions

Loped the Constitution would be com struck in sympathy, almost completely

pleted stopping the services in New South Wales, which later gradually improved.

The Government, which adopted the firmest attitude, employed, voluntour labour. Numerous Unions in New South Wales and other States, including coul miners, seamen, lumpers and carters, struck, practically stopping shipping and refusing to handle goods handled by voluntary labour,

THE SWEDISH ELECTIONS.

STOKHOLA, September 25th, M Branting has won a Further Diy Mats, three being from the extreme Socialista.

The strike has been a complet failure After several weeks of idleness the rail-tion 9. waymen have returned to work under the card system, the Government promising an enquiry at the end of three months into the working of the system.

A general resumption is expected and there is now a prospect of a prolonged industrial peace.

The position at present is-Social Desnoerals, 80 Extreme Socialists, 10; Liberals, 58: Conservatives, 61; National Association; 3; and the Fensants Associa

Conservatives claim both (Houses?) but there are Independents who will vote

respective of parties, ARGENTINA RAILWAY STRIKÐ

BUENOS AIRES, September 20th. The railway strike is very serious. The strikers have refused the Gofern

NEW GOVERNOR OF FINLAND ent's offer of arbitration.

The shrikors, including women, are try- 1ng to hold up trains.

PETROGRAD. September 26th. M. Nekrassoff, ex-Vice President of the Council, has been appointed Governor

Stakhovitel, who has resigned

Moto M.

required a repetition of the righteousness UNDER-SECRETARY FOR THE General of Finland, in succession, t

of our cause to sustain that revolve, but

it was useful to repent to others the peace for which we are fighting. It cannot be found in the cessation of hostilities, fol-

COLONIES.

LONDON, Septémber 20th.

The Press Hurent announces that Mr.

lowed by territorial bargaining, ultimate W. A. S. Hewing, M.P., has been appoint.

ly embodied in paper pacts, and there fed Under Secretary for the Colonies. left to the mercy of chance. Still les ca

we look for a picace worthy of thự name, in any arrangement imposed by the victor on the vanquished which ignores the prin 'ciples of right and defies the historic tra- ditions, aspirations and the liberties of

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

NO SEPARATE PEACE.

Pañis, September 20th.

URUGUAY AND GERMANY,

MOSTE VIDEO, September 6th It is asserted that before the week-end the Government will propose in the Cha her a ruptare with Germany

ARGENTINA AND GERMANY

BUENOS AIRES, September 26th, A great demonstration in favour or M. Kerensky, interviewed by a repreruptare with Germany has been arranged the propies affected. Such so-called trea-sentative of the Fury declared that to take place to-day. ties simply provide a fertile breeding tussin was beginning to re climb the ground for future wars. An example of slope and would reach the top. Flo this is the Treaty of 1871, to which the emphasised that over half of the forces of single act of international spoliation for the Central Powers were on the Russiau MEN'S STRIPED ZEPHYR SHIRTS a large share of the calamities now de- Front. Hussin had to hear a tremendous vastating the world can be traced. The enemy effort, but had pulled herself German reply to the Pope teeped with together and would do her utmost to nebulous and unctuous generalities. There ain victory, Russia would never is no indication that Germany wilf not repeat the crime of 1871. To take practi.

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COTTON CONTROL ORDER.

LONDON, September 26th- The Cotton Control Order cones suito operation on October 1st for the fixing of prices of raw cotton. Umojal values will be fixed daily for good midding, American, "fully good, fair and good: Egyptians. Deduction will bende to putain official values sold and ch terms

cal steps for a lasting peare, was she reads had become national and there would be will also be quoted. The profit that cau

to restore Alsace Lorraine, give Belgiam full independence without reservations and with as complete material compensa tion as possible for the devastation of that country and the sufferings of the people? A definite reply to these enquiries could be given in a couple of sentences which are worth a whole column of pious platitudes.

Mr. Asquith reiterated that we had not aimed at the annihilation or degradation of Germany or her people. It was true that this manner in which the war was engineered, and still more the brutal cruelty and refined inventive wickedness with which it was carried ou must long affect the world's estimate of the German character. Nothing had created greater consternation in the world than

great results therefrom.

THE PREMIER RETURNS.

PetruGrad, September 28tli. My Kerensky Bas returned from Hvad- quarters.

SENTENCED TO HARD LABOUR FOR LIFE.

General Sukhomlinoff formerly War Minister, has been found guilty of high

treason and sentenced to hard labour for life.

Madame Bakbomlinoff, who was also tried, was acquitted.

KAISER'S PEACE MANOEUVRES DENOUNCED:

Kaiser's Reply to the Pope's Note, The Russian newspapers denounce the describing it as undeniably in consequence of the Russian Revolution, for Germany

by added must not exocad twenty-five points in the case of American and seventy-five points in the case of Egvd- tian. The dealings covered by the Order

"are solely in raw cotton und not

futures.

ESCAPED GERMAN PRISONERS RECAPTURED.

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There have been some casunities among the troops.

GERMAN COTTON SUBSTITUTE.

ZUGION, September 26th It is reported from Munich that owing to the success of oxperiments on nettles as aubstitutes for cotron, 20,000 acres in Dormany will be devoted to nettle growing- in 1918. The estimated Vield is 10,000 tong of abre. A Bavarian Nettle Company is being formed, within capital of 1,000,000 marks.

KILLED IN ACTION,

LONDON, September 26th Brigadier General FA Maxwell bus been killed,ONA

It is understood that another zon of Mr Bonne Lay, an officer in the Flying. Corps, is missing. One sun is already a prisoner with the Turks

THE SILVER MARKET.

Lopes, September 2uch The silver market is steady,

KORNILOFF'S CAREER. TRAVELLER STUDENT, AND. BRILLIANT SOLDIER. General Korniloff was born on June 30th, 1870, in a little village of Western Siberi at very hun

very humblo Cossack parats- Compelled from his earliest infancy to work hard to support his family, he managed by his indomitable energy, and self-taught to enter the Lader Corps ab sne age of 13. a Six years no had mastered foreigu Juaguages and entered artillery College at retrograd, and

LONDON, September 26th. Ning of the escaped German, officers have been recaptured, including the

chicinal his coutrasoft. Every whare at the head of his cafes, an excellent Emden's Captain, Captain Mueller, the mathematrema and an erudite istorian, aviator Otto, and Thelan, the famous the might, bad he quotes, he had an easy

andrailian tareor in wie metropole tunneler whose previous four escapes have Instead, he chose Turkestan allured by carned for him the nickname of "The the prospe of nard work, is expeditiona

to dangero Hun Monte Cristo."

batnesses, and of the study of new peoples and languaged in 1895- noticing a hole in a turnip Geld close to with no guest hours, and returned The esenpo was discovered by a labourers entered the Stufe Con graduated

to f'urkestan

the German opinions and fervent applause is now: silent, about concessions which she the huts. All escaped at 4.30 in the morn

at the barbarous transgressions of its

would have made at the beginning of the year. The only possible Entente reply is a prosecution of the war most vigorously, with Russia redoubling her efforts.

ing, with umple provisions, clothing, tobacco and self-drawn maps

Six were re-captured at breakfast time, one carrying a huge portmanteau.

Thelan and a companion were found asleep in a wheat field, and two others were playing cards in a ditch.

Some children blackberrying met Mueller in a wood and gave the alarm. He was recaptured by mid-day.

DALING MISSIONS. Between 1804 and 1902 he carried out a series of daring missions in Afghanistua and Persia, often aiguiseu as a native As a result of his explorations he was able to make important cultiutions to out he was on tangtags mi-stor science. When the Japanese War broku in India. He commanded a brigade dur ing the war, and there displayed first? class military talent winning golden opinions from his app and, ine Cross of St. George Alten the war he was attached to the General Staff, and travel- led continually in Asia and Europe the From 1907 to 1911 he was Milithey t taché at Peking, after which he compend

Three were captured wulking on road, and they said that they were used the Trans Amur frontier Tore which

Government. It shows from what an measstred perils, from what sethack of civilisation mankind has been delivered, now that the Allies have forever shattered Even Maxim Gorki's organ trounces the the dreams of a Gerinan hegemony Kaiser, and says that the moment has come Prussian militarism is our objective, for the Russian democracy to deliver an We have no other wish for German demo- ultimation to the German workers to cracy than that, after shaking off this repudiate the Kaiser's protrusions. soul-destroying incubus, it should learn the GENERAL KORNILOFF'S REVOLT: lessons and enjoy fully the blessings of

The former War Minister, M. Suvinkoff, freedom. The positive side of our first writing to the Bourge Gazette, explains aim is not the restoration of this status that General Korniloff's revolt was due que, but the establishment of an interna to misunderstanding. He says that tional system under which the nations alter he (M. Savinkoff) had obtained M. roads. great and small should be ensured a stable Kerensky's consent to General Korniloff's Other maps found on the prisoners had foundation for independent development reforms and General Korniloff had agreed the roads to the East Coast marked most I assume, as a matter of course, the enemy to M. Kerensky's request to send a accurately.

LATER evacuation of occupied territories in Cavalry Corps to Petrograd in view of the

The German officers, mentioned earlier, France and Bussia I have already re- Dossibility of Minimalist disorders, 3. ferred to Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium.

Lyoff, the former Procurator of the Holy escaped by tunneling under the barbed

H.M.S.

GLASGOW” AT: BUENOS AIRES.

Losnoy, September 27th.

Kleuter's Agency laras that the British Minister at Buenos Aires has officially reported that the visit of the cruiser Glasgow has profoundly affected the Argentine Government and people, who are impressed with the friendly disps tion of Great Britain. The people in the capital spared no efforts to ext and the most cordial welcome to the ship's officers and crew, and this is greatly appreciated by His Majesty's Government,

Synod, informed General Korniloff that M. Kerensky was willing to form a Direc torate of which 1. Kerensky, General, Koralloff and M. Savinkoff would be the

General Korniloff principal members.

on workers from London seaking work, Polier on bicycles were scouring

wire

TAXING UNENLISTED

AUSTRALIANS

sccompanied him in the great mur, hama live as one of the most brilliant pages His command of the 9th Division vill of the history of the conquest of Galicia and of the retreat. He aaorificed himself to save the left wing south of Tarnow Wounded, he fought with a small guard till all had fallen. His captivity and escape from an Austrian prison nod brought him imense and, well-deserved His triumphal return to Russia last year popularity.

LEADER OF MEN

At the beginning of April he became commander of the forces in Petrograd, but

unable to endure the systematic misrule of the committees, he asked to return to the front. His capture of Haitz and Kalvaz signalised him as a leader of men. His bold and masterful letter to the Provisional Government in-

MELBOURSE, September 24th. agreed thereto, and 11. Lvoff thereafter A Bill authorising a tax on unenlisted handed M. Kerensky an ultimatum en bas passed the Senate Committeesisting on the restoration of the fighting written by himself, and purporting to An amendment exempts bachelors ever efficiency of the army stamped him with come from General Kornilo, demanding sixty sub a gros, locore of under £100 the

a Korniloff dictatorship.

M. Kotensky telegraphically enquired. Do you subscribe to the words of Lyoff on your behalf↑ **

General Korniloff, being ignorant of M. Lroff's ultimatum, replied in the, affirmative, whereupon he was relieved of his command and revolted.

yearly

A SPANISH MINISTER

RECALLED.

MADRID, September 20th The Spanish Minister in Belgium has been recalled.

oldier and

The physique of the man harmonises with his intellectual and moral qualities, Of middle heltht spare and erect, he is hardy and untiring like bis Cossack ancestors. His bro and head are well shaped his feature ugged and swarthy, his eyes small and picking, and bis

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