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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRÍL5. TUESDAY, JUNE 10mm

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EARLIER CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] JOAN OF 'ARC. CAÑONISATION CELEBRATIONS.

PARIS, June 1st.

The canonisation of Joan of Arc was

EARLIER CABLES:

FIGHTING IN NORTHERN

A INDIA.

MORE LOOTING REPORTED,

SIMLA, June 4th, The Wairs are believed to be looting Naidir Khan's transport. The situation in Tochi Vally is quieter,

The tribal lahkars are dwindling, and

celebrated throughout France. Paris was the total scattered in the parties remain beflagged. All the churches and manying is estimated at 1,500. private houses flew the colours of the new Saint

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A striking feature of the celebrations at Rouen was the participation of British troops and a detachment of envalry. Scottish band heading the procession which garlanded the Joan of Arc Memorial,

The Commandant of the British Base was among the speakers at the ceremony. TERRIBLE DISASTER AT VALENCÉ. SUR-RHONE,

VALENCE-BUR-REDSE, June 8th A fire occurred here, during a cinemato graph performance, in connection with

the "Joan of Arc" celebrations. There was The A panic among 4,000 spectators. crowd rushed to the exits, and women and children were trodden underfoot." Up to the present, it is known that so are dead and 100 injured.

Bodies of Mahsuds and Sheaannis are

M. CABIO WRITER OF PEACE TREATY,

[BY ANDRE VIOLLIS.] While diplomats and statesmen turning grey in the anxious discussions - of the Peace Conference, there is at least on man who is waiting quietly, serenely, for the result Whatever this result," be

AT

knows that he will play his part in it a modest one, maybe, but indispensable;

he is the man who will write the treaty,

Are many people aware that, accord-

reported to be invading the Derajat boring to the most time-honoured laws of der. west of Dern.

A column has moved out to meet them. diplomacy and protocol, treaties must be There is no change at Dakks, save for hand written The Congress of Vienna at which were assembled. so many Em- occasional sniping north of Kabul River,

The people of Kaffristan are reported prors, Kings. Queens and hereditary to have recently organised a raid and Princes, and also a painter specially looted 5,000 head of livestock from the charged not only, to write, bet also to Afghans in the Asmar district.

draw and to illuminate, after the fashion Sardar Abdul Qudus, whom the Amir of old missals, the capital letters and sent to Kandahar to command Southern beadings of paragraphs, to add between Afghanistan, has arrived, at Dabri, sigh-ench item of the treaty vignettes: emblems, teen miles from Chaman, with a body of cresta of all kinds, symbolising with a Afghan, troops. He has written to Genskilful grace peace, abundance, joy. I even learn on good authority that minia- ture portraits of the chief personalities of the Congress adorned the margins of that mighty document.

cral Barrett saying he has received from Kabul orders regarding the cessation of fighting.

A similar message has been received from Nadir Khan. Botir have been in- formed that provided they do not remain in British territory and do not engage It is now stated that so are dead, in- in boatilities we will spend operations All pending the acceptance of our conditions

by the Amir.

LATER.

dluding 50 children and 21 women. were suffocated

LATEST CABLES.

FRANCE'S LESSON.

"THE HOUR OF REPOSE HAS PASSED."

"

PARIS, June 1st.

Peevish philosophers will perhaps allege that all this beautiful peace-paint did not make the treaty more enduring. Yet as long as it lasted it was beautiful

The French Ministry of Fernigr. 'Affairs has also its official illuminator, or rather

•

Amir Amanulla's letters asking for a cemation of hostilities has reached Similaita Calligraphe (for such is the title

of the man who will write the treaty). TRIBESMEN DISPERSED.

SIMIA, June 6th. At Tochi a column joined our troops from Zran Shah, without opposition.

The majority of the Madda Chel, aloo Upper Tochi Wazirs, are reported to be returning to their homes.

About 500 tribesmen in the vicinity of Gimi, a post fifteen miles west of Tank,

and

This post was held for about forty years by M. Garapin a well-known popular character at the Ministry, who has just retired. He had one love-in life-

the pen," to quote his own words,

if

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this simple and marvellous instrument through which buman thought is trans-

A Havas messége says: 1. M. Ribot. has delivered a speech in the Senate, which will be placarded through- out France. He said that France bad been taught the lesson of energy and have been dispersed. A number of chawal-cribed and for ever preserved ; one hate resolution. The hour of repose had pass-ties was inflicted. ed. and the time for sustained effort had

·come....

TRAIN DISASTER IN FRANCE.

BEVEN BRITISH SOLDIERS!

KILLED.

CHARLEROIS, May 30th..

A train on which demobilized British soldiers, were travelling was derailed. Thres carriages were overturned, `killing seven. Twenty soldiers were seriously injured.

FRANCES FOREIGN TRADE,

ANOTHER FAIR AT BORDEAUX.

Aeroplanes report that Afghan camp have now moved up the River Kaitu. north-west from Sinwam.

Portions of the Szhob district are still disturbed.

The wires have been cut near Fort Bandemen and at Draband in Delajat...

With the above exceptions, the general attitude of the tribes has improved.

THE INDIAN BIOTS. TWENTY DEATH SENTENCES.

SIMLA, June 4th.

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In the Amritsar National Bank murder cases, 20 persons have been condemned to death. PABIB, June. ist.

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EGYPTIAN

A Havas message says:- The French Minister for the Colonies opened," to-day, the third Foire at AFTERMATH "OF Bordeaux. It is likely to be a great success, owing to the presence of many foreign buyers.

BABLIER CABLÉS.

DISASTROUS MUNITIONS

EXPLOSION,

4 SEVERAL MILLION, FRÅNUS”

DAMAGE.

BRUSSIA, June let Bix bave been killed, six are missing, and 220 have been injured (70 of them) seriously) in consequence of an explosion at the munitions works et Haderen, owing to a fire.

TROUBLES,

EPIDEMIC OF CATTLE DISEASES.

the valgar and uneitbetic type- that time will not respect writer, which prints, without art, pages pride in his profession, faith in its im- He felt portance; & rare good fortune that many personages might envy...

His successor, M. Cario, who is also about the official caligraphist's busi a talented painter, has enlightened me acases. He not only writes treaties and conventions, which would indeed leave him too much leisure, but also all the official documenta conferring Orders or decorations on Sovereigns, and all the letters which are sent them and signed aither by the President of the Republic or Ministers. ....

These lettera are written in various characters of a scientific beauty. For the text round hand is generally used; for the headings and the complicated parad phernalia of respect and cordiality alop ing hand or the stately Gothic lettering; and from time to time the caligraphist drops into the small round hand which, goodness knows why, is called in French "I'Anglaise."

"This writing," M. Cario tells me, "displays most of all the lightness of the hand, the powerful vigour of the down- strokes, the slender grace of the up-

THE COUNCIL OF FOUR.

CARO, May 26th The disastrous consequences of the re-strokes." " cent disturbances seem to be ever increas ing. Besides the loss due to the escape of water from the Assuan reservoir, and the damage to railways, it now appears that, owing to the inability of the veteri nary inspectors to carry out their duties with a severe and widespread epidemic of for two months, the provinces are faced rinderpest and other cattle diseases.

BIRTHDAY HONOURS. ..

Un Diplomate," writing in the Paris Midi gives the following pen-picture of the Council of Four in conference:

There they ait, the four of them, in their armchairs. If you entered the room unannounced you would think you were interrupting the talk of four old cronies who had met in a club smokercom and were imparting their experiences to

M. Orlando, as a rule, is the most

Lost silent of the group, He know English,

Enormous damage was caused. Several MR. P. P. J. WODEHOUSE CREATEDch other in a mood of friendly humour,

houses and factories, and large quantities of merchandise were destroyed.

The prison of Vilvorde, which was occupied by troops, and contained the army stores, also caught fire at night.

C.LE.

SINGAPORE, June 6th- Superintendens of Police, Hongkong; Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Deputy

and carries ondoren kaga dialogue in

hearded man, who is the only representa whispers with a fifth personage, a light

assembly. This is M. Paul Mantoux, the Interpreter.

The damage is estimated at several and Captain E... J. Barrett, Assistant- t.ve of the younger generation in the

Superintendent of Police, Shanghai, have been created Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire.

million/fraceS.

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FRANCO-ITALIAN.

FRIENDSHIP..

LATIN ALLIANCE CANNOT BE DISPENSED WITH.

PARIB, June 2nd.

A Havas message says:---- The Italian Food Minister gave a din. ner in Paris to the members of the Supreme Economic Council of the Pence

Conference:

The French Minister of Commerce de livered a speech referring to the proposed

·FORMING THE WELSH ARMY,"

Dover

The most talkative of the four, on the other hand, is Mr. Lloyd George. Quick and alert, bo leads the conversation and gives its the straight line of a set unexpected turns. His brain' Speaking at the final, meeting of the zag now jumping off shead, now coming

argument. He proceeds rather by zig" Carnarvonshire branch of the Welsh back to the rear, modifying on the fol Saldiers Comforts and at Carnarvon, lowing day the opinion he has expressed General Sir Owen Thomas, M.P., gave the evening before, but always, neverthe an interesting account of the inception less, remaining faithful to his personal of the Welsh Army Mr. Lloyd George, vision, and insisting, like Galileo, that

earth revolves, he said, had to fight hard inside the Cabinet and also at the War Office to Graver and more composed is President bring the Welsh Army into existence. Wilson, whose large face reflects a kind Ode day he accompanied Lloyd of fervour. When he speaks one is con- George from the Treaty War is at once of that deep-rooted prin- spoke ciple-which refuses to admit the least divines also that, coming from a distant

· One and he world, be experiences a zecret astonish

alliance of Anglo-Saxone with France, Office to see Lord Kid fraction of a doubtful argument.

ideats,

declaring that the Erench nation could to Lord Kitchener (this not dispense with the Latin Alliance's Mr. Lloyd George on the watch over the Rhine and the Alps. This will not have it that nationality mess meat when he rubs shoulders with this union, more than centuries old, was the anything, but I will have a su rango Europe of oure-an astonishment. natural outcome of similar national Lord Kitchener and Mr. Lloyd George, which grows greater every day.

were together in a room for some time, But the most striking personality of and he (the general) expected to hear all is the Great Tiger, He is patient, LABOUR STRIKE IN FRANCE. words Twenty minutes later he was gentle, obstinate, rarely raising his voice,

called into the room, and saw the two his eye fixed on his objective, and MANY INDUSTRIES AFFECTED. like lamba (Laughter.) Lord Kitchener to die rather than to crifice to what he

read who was smoking a big cigar, said, “1. thinks arrpatour conceptions a inch of PARIS, June and am going to have 4.Welsh Army, and you what belongs to his country. To win this Havas memage says:-"

are appointed Brigadier-General supreme atake he haur itered his nature. Many French employers having not yet was taken by surprise, said General as it were, and keeps his passions in stric made the necessary reparation, and the Owen Thomas, and asked where was my control Application of do eight hour working brigade Tou: have got to make it. The others go away the day's work day law, house painters, workmen in the plied Lord Kitchener who added, ou over. He remains, motionless, unk metal trade in the automobile and rub can speak Welsh, and now you go to thought, but unshakable, and sure o ber industries, and in the clothing trade Wales and persuade the Welsh people to gaining by sheer patience this new have gone on strike.

fight.

fory.