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CABLES.

EARLIER CABLES.

(THROUGH RESTER'A AGENCY.]

RACIAL EQUALITY.

FRANCE AFFIRMS A PRINCIPLE.

Pats, July 9th.

A Havas message says:-- After a debate, in the French Cham ber of Deputies, on an interpellation res lating to enses of ill-treatment of French coloured soldiers by the United States Military Police, a resolution was passed, unanimously afirming the quality of all colored citizens, declaring them to be entitled to the protection of the law, and calling upon the Government to in: flict appropriate punishment or those who

committed a breach of the law,

DEAR LIVING IN FRANCE THE ROOT CAUSES TACKLEN.

PARIS, July 26th. Hlavas message saya ber The whole question of dear living in France being dependent on the fall to the value of the Irune and the lack of French freightage. Arrangements are being made

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THE "HONGKONG · DAILY PRESS, -THURSDAY,~: JULY Slør, 1919.

recipiga do armHM.. As in all such crisey, it is the merchants and people who suffer. "General, Meng's officials attempted, to seize the funds of the three banks

PEEING NOTES.

PHCM OPR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

PEXING. July 18th. The Cabinet deadlock continues, and the Changchun, and what has actually hap trouble is all because the Anfu Club, or pened in this respret is got quite cleat. at least a majority of its members, is not One thing is certain. The people are permitted to dictate the persoanel. Pre-alarmed and are Reving from the storm sideng Hsu is standing firm, and that is, entre, while trade and commerce are perhaps, the only redeeming feature of paralysed, the present disgraerful situasjon. Even General Tuan Chi-jui is not associated wish the selfish policy of the Autu party, which seems to be making a last effors to recover its waning strength. The better lements in the North as well as in the South Ary indulging the hope that the President will survive the present trial

THE VICE-PRESIDENCY,

has declined. This would show that Tan has departed from his former policy of fighting the South and is inclined to leave

NATION'S TRIBUTE TO DEAD. melody, the last inte-connery took their

HEROES OF THE SEA.

SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S.

Avast congregation, which included the King 'anti Queen, as well as Queen Alexandra and other urinbers of the Royal family, gathered in St. Paul's Cathedral, on June 13th, to pay homage

Other collecta followed upon this time We give Thee seats. Shortly before noon Queen Alex- of silent thought: andra, in company with Princess Victoria humble thanks for the life and example of and the Empress. Mario of Russia, a bowed our brothers who, having fought the good. figure, which excited respectful sympathy, ight and finished their course and kept passed up towards the choir. The solemn the faith, now rest from their earthly strains of Beethoven's Marche Funèbre“ had just died away, and the organ was pealing forth a restful voluntary, When

labours." Another collect was recited, and then came a prayer for those whom the war has mulé desolate and broken- warted," and after this, measured words

that those Who remain to carry on the

nation's work and maintain the nation's standard of iceals may be worthy of those who have given their lives to their King and country."

YJ

TRE ARCHBISHOP'S ADDRESS, The dignified service ju memory of the Navy's great, dead was now drawing to- wards its close, and the Archbishop of Canterberg, from the palpit, delivered an address which will not soon be forgotten a sincere and fitting tribute to the

pit. The King and Queen were accom-buted to our victory. He said: | panted by Prince Albert, in the uniform of the Royal Air Force. The Royal party included Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Admiral the Marquis of Milford Haven; Commander and Lady Patriein Ramsay were also present.

Three hundred years ago the world's greatest poet wrote of England as

This sceptred isle, This Fortress built by Naturo for herself : This progous stone set in the silver sin.

for an extra number of ships to be placed Wen-lich, who does not want the job and the party to have Tsao-kun elected were by day from the sea. is the hallowed place microcosm of the nation, and also an un-To-day wa remember, we thank God for,

at Frasive's disposal,

FRENCH TRAVELLING

RESTRICTIONS

NEW PASSPORT REGULATIONS.

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PARIS, July 8th.

A Havas message says:

After August 1st pasports available for year will be issued to French citizens desirous of travelling abroad. They will not have to be presented on each journey

for the French visn.

DEATH OF PHENCE VICE

ADMIRAL

FORMER EAR EASTERN COMMANDER.

PARIS, July 6th.

A lavet musage Hys: Vier-Adiniral de Jonquières,, who coni: manded the "French Squadzon in Far Eastern waters during the Russo-Japanese War, has died in Paris at the age of 69.

FRENCH LABOUR

AN EVOLUTIONARY REVOLL"- TION."

PARTS. July 25th.

A Havas message says: The General Secretary of the French General Confederation of Labour bas de fined the pending changes necessary to benefit labour as an evolution rather than a revolution, calling for an evolutionary

class but for the equalising of social rights and making an end of exploitation by social parasites. PRESIDENT PUINCARE'S TOUR REMARKABLE SCENES AT LIEGE.

PARIB. July 28th.

revolution, not in the interests of one

A Havus message says:—

The tour of President Poincaré came to a.conclusion with femarkablo· sennen of enthusiasm at Liège:

President Poincaré recalled the tragic days of 1914. He presented to the City the Cross, of the Legion of Honour.

President Poincaré was presented with a gold commemoration medial and Marshal Fock with a sword of honour.

M. CLEMENCEAU. ANOTHER VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.

PARIS, July 25th

to the memory of offers and men of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs entered in the, Royal Navy who have given their lives state, passing to their recastomed seats The advisability of electing a vice. presidency is again being discussed. Then the servior of their King and country in the choir. A few minutes inter Dean during the war-1914-1918. " It was fit-Inge.. the Bishop of London, the Arch Anfu Club wish to nominate Tuan Chi- ini. for the office, but the Field-Marshaling that this shrine round which the deacon of London, with the Chapter, pass busy life of the world's greatest commered to the western entrance of the cuthe cint, Snancial, and manufacturing city dral to receive the King and Quen at throbs with caseless insistence, should the head of the steps. Mr. Walter Long. have been chosen for this dignified tribute

First Lord of the Admiralty, and Admiral of strength between himself and the mill-matters open with a view to compromise to the men of all ranks and ratings Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, First Sen Lord tarists. The position is absurd, and and reconciliation, Undoubtedly the

of the naval service who, in lofty deș- followed the clergy. Then, the procession would be impossible in any other country. Andu Clubis idea is that the President ion, laid their all on the altar of the made its way back past the uretanding En accordance with the right giver bim may be forced to resign, and that cause of freedom. For Nelson chose St.,)

congregation, and their Majesties took under the constitution. Hsu Shih-chang eventually it would be well to bays #] PrulWas his last, resting place; and there their places immediately beneath the pub Amen wha, more than any others, contri proposes to nominate a Premier. He has militarist as vice-president who coulda Collingwood in his turn was laid to not actually submitted the naine of Chow

Asnaw the month aid down by Hsu rest, and it bas bxicome the place of sepul- obre of the great seamen of our Tuce. Shil-chang At the same time such a Shamu to Parliament for endorsement

Elsewhere are enshrined the ashes of desive bétokens an unwillingness to ge; on those who have served the nation in other because the latter has gone out of its way to express disapproval of Chow Shu-me terms with the South. It will be remem. walks of life, but St. Paul's the Cathe

dral Church of the ancient city which for the office and to suggest that Tien

bered that last- antufin' the attempts of

aprang from the sea and is nurtured day

The congregation was now complete, a frustrated by the auroitness of Liang to which are borne the mortal remains of pressive picture in blue and black, re: | what our island ses have seen of heroic the immortal.. heroes of a maritime lieved by the gold of the naval officers Shih-yi, who engineered abstentions which

people. left Parliament withong, a quorum. That

uniforms. The service opened with the and tireless devotion on the part of gal. The last rent War, fought in ships of singing of Godfrey Thring's familiar lant men, ander conditions more perilous policy was dictated by a genuine desire wood, gave to the nation many precious hyun, which recalls perhaps better than and more exacting than can be pictured to compromise with the South, which, it relics to be laid reverently in the house any other the undeasing contest between by one in a thousand of those for whose of God. But where, except in St. Paul's, sailors and the wa Fierce raged the safety they unflinchingly offered and lujd was felt, should have the selection of Vicecan we commemorate the deathless deeds tempess our the deep carried the mind down their lives. Never more surely than President.

of those who in the late struggle for away from the cathedral and the densely in these dve inconfparable years as the civilisation made the great sacrifice? crowded City lying around it to the storm well-being of Enghud depended upon her Cradock. Hoog. Arbuthnot, Bonham, Cay tossed, windswept, and fog-enveloped sons who were afloat. But this time it Löxley. Prowe, Savill, Sowerby, Win ocean, on which our seamen for over four bas bean the well-being pot of our British tour of the Tipperary, and all the other weary years fought in defence of every Leles, but of the world. And so we lo

Verse by verse well, King and Queen and people, tor I-tang. the Speaker of the House of Be web by tide and current. The sea has fict with nature in the terms of man's dral, over the graves of Nelson and Col to the Shanghai Place Conference, Mang200 officers and men who have gone to interest of civilisation

their death for us, lie in nameles graves, the hymn was sung, interpreting the cun-emember before God in our great Cathe presentatives. has been appointed. He become for this people a place of many conflict in his everyday life. Minar lingwood, what these inen hare done and' has declined, but whether this is to be of thankfulness that men and women of the service, then recitari the familiar pas. and men of the Royal Navy only, but These men." Not the officers glorious memories, and it was in a spirit | Canen Childs-Clarke, who was to intone given. taken seriously or not remains to be seen all ranks of life turned towards St. Paul's sages from the Order for the Burial of the those aboard every other craft as well. At the same time is-is doubtful if he Cathedral on June 13th. After more Dend. 1 am the resurrection and the There has perhaps never been "anything I know that my Redeemer nobler, anything more steadily magnani- than a century the uge-long traditions of life.'; would, be persona greta with the South, this great maritime race were. challenged. liveth.

"We brought nothing mous--strange as that epithet would sound whose leaders appear to be genuinely and on June 13th, the ordeal past. repre-into this world, and it is certain we can to them-than the daily, nightly courage. anxions for the resumption of the Con-sentatives of the whole nation assembled take nothing out." The rboir intervened the cheerful resource, the sleepless vigil. in pride and gratitude to pay tribute to next with Psalm. 114, perhaps the most say, of the crew of the minesweeper ou ference in the hope of reaching a peace the men, ur contemporaries, whose names significant and ureaningful of all the the North Sea in mid-winter, or of them settlement. This wish for peace might are now enrolled for all time in the songs of David in the days when the who manned a tug for towing war freight make the Southern delegates Fess critical als of the sca

world war lies just behind us. It was from Thames to Tigris, the Psalm of the Huguenota. Some years of the Northern delegation. THE PEACE, TREATY.

ago an old seal was discovered which onec belonged to one of these harried refugees, who found sanctuary in our midst it bord

says se, should be appointed. Not to be out-generalled, the Anfa Clab has since jut. forward (ha Shen, the Minister of Justice, whom it has asked the President to accept. Hou Shih-chang very cleverly countered by stating that he would agree to this nomination provided the Anfu Club could prove to him that the initia tion in respect of the appointment should

Chu Chi-chien having declined tẻ con, come from Parliament and not from him-tinue to act as this Northern delegate sell. This effective reply, based as it'is upon knowledge of the provisions of the Constitution which the Anfu Club itself approved in Parliament, is not calculated to afford much solner to the militarists

and their m ions

THE

THE SHANGHAL, PEACE CONFERENCE.

Telegrains from. Paris state that the Chinese delegates are discussing with the other delegates the possibility of arriving at an arrangement which will enable them

MONGOLIAN ENTERPRISE. The question on many lips these days ix: What is the reason for transporting a portion of the National Defence Army, now known as the North-west Frontier befence Force. into Mongolia "It is known that the Mongols are quiet and with to be left undisturbed to mind their own affairs. The report that Somero is still endeavouring to promote Mongo Jian State is discredited. At any rate, it is tolerably certain that he failed to interest the Mongol lenders in his scheme to sign the German Peace Treaty, butganising ability the former Command Yes some 7.000 soldiers have been assem- opinion here is opposed to such a proceed bled in Kalgan for transfer to Urga and ing, the belief being that China's present intervening points. Son people who position is very advantageous. There is know the militarists but are ignoring of no doubt that China will sign the Treaty their immediate plans affirm, that the with· Austria. Meanwhile, hews from abbie scheme is a aquest proposition, Tokyo would suggest that Japan, in re It may be so. The purchase of automo-sponse to hints from her Allies, Bas enter bilen gives point to this theory, especiallyed upon preliminaries with a view to the when it is remembered that motorcars are retrocession of Kinoehow. Not" before not the only requirements of a so-called time either. Still, the report may be in modern army. Guns, munitions, clothing-tended only to allay Chinese distrust and stores, etc., have to be obtained, and that inspire a confidence in Japan's fidelity to establishes a cash nexus which does not her pledged word vitiate the arguments in favour of the acceptance of the squeeze theory. One of the commanders of the "force now

WEIHAIWEI AND PEACE".

gathered in Kalgan was good enough to explain that the movement of troops to the North-west frontier does not indicate any military operation. He said that the North-west Frontier Defence Army To H.M. the King-The inhabitants of should not be in Peking but should be Weihaiwez desire to submit to His Majesty in the North-west, and to the North-west the King their hearts congratulations on

the signature of the Treaty of Peace un it was going. He professed to see no- conditionally by the Government of Ger thing unusual in this proceeding. Had many, by which has been secured a satin not other countries forts and garrisons at factory issue of the war for liberty wazed by the people of His Majesty's Empire, various points along their frontiers? His

Whether their fame centuries" long should.

ring

They cared not over much, But cared greatly ti serve God and the

King,

And keep the Nelson touch. And passed content, leaving to us the pride

Of lives obscurely great

THE NAVY'S REPRESENTATIVES. The service was fixed townoon, but wor- shippers were warned that they should be in their sents at least three-quarters of had been carried out by Rear-Admiral bird was soaring Heavenward, and the an hour earlier. All the arrangements representation of a net from which a Sir Lionel Halsey, the Captain of the motto consisted of the sixth verse of this feet of anxious war days, to whose Psalmi, "My soul has escaped even as

bird out of the ware of the fowler For-Chief of the Grand Fleet referred in

The lesson of the day was "taken from terms of high appreciation in his Jutland Revelations xx.. and was read by the it is only by slow degrees that we have despatchs Uficers, of commander's rank Dean from the steps of the chancel. The one to know what things went on at sea acted as sidesmen. It may be doubtd leason was followed by the singing of the very day, every night, during the long whether even St. Paul's Cathedral ever anthem which has brought comfort and drawn war. The heroisms of peril and

consolation to so many mourners;

of patience had bad, under its roof se great an assechly beard a voice from Heaven enving unto our eyes We men and women at home

be firmly hidden from of naval officers, all in uniform, moved by a common impulse to do honour to me: Write, from henceforth blessed are went about our work in dusty street and comrades who had fallen honourably in the dead which die in the Lord even smarty of in rural hillside, wondering.

the war by sea. What memories were re-

with the Spirit; for the rest from their Praying, sometimes listening: but without the knowledge which is now proudly ours. The tense strain. the splendid self- vived of the recent life-and-death struggle hour and their words do fallow them.". of the British people as they moved up A one glanced round on that great us to their places? Audiral of the Flect sembly and caught the murmur of the

held in leash; the monotony, un-relaxed" .. Sir David Beatty carried the mind back traffic without, a mere echo of the busy Heligoland, and one remembered the part wife or orphaned son or daughter but to the early foray into the Bight of life of victorious Britain, with its world. wide dominion, unbroken, not a widowed he took in the Dogger Bank action, and, later on, at Jatland, Admiral Sir Charles must have felt that life had not been Madden, formerly Chief of Staff to Lord surrendered "for" nothing by those they Jellicoe, brought in a sea-breeze as the loved. pret Commander-in-Chief of the recon-

THE MEMORIAL OF THE DEAD.”

stituted force in home waters; Admiral The anthem ended, the congregation recollections of the Doter Patrol, and Sir with an all-embracing petition. The Sir Reginald Bacon's figure, conjured up knelt to pray. The supplications began Roger Keyes, his successor, was also pre- Memorial of the Dead "

restraint of the men in the great whips but eager of Harwich, of Rosyth, or

only guess before. And all the while we Scapa Flow; the keen vigil of the dark patrol we know them now; we could

were paying bit by bit, man by man, in the cause of right, the ruthles tribute of a great war. Young lives, the pride and sunshine of countless homes, buoyantly, fearlessly offered. manfully laid down. glad service. We have given of our s We solemnly recall to-day that splendour force some 57,000 lives, the very pick of our British youth and manhood, and for the nobility of their sacrifice we rever. ently thank God.

The following messages have been trans mitted from the inhabitants of Weibaiwei to A. M. the King and to the Prime Minissent Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee trans Let us remember with thanksgiving. ter through the usual channels 2 -----

ported the wind fur over the Atlantic to and all badour before God and men, all the lonely Falkland Islands, how made for ever famous; Admiral Sir Dudley de

ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines. Royal Naval Reserve. Centuries hence men will tell of the ex- Chair personified the 11th Cruiser Squad- Royal Naval Volunteer. Reserve. Royal ploits of Gallipoli, or Jutand, and of the the ring against the enemy in the "Far ron, which, in fair weather and foul kept Naval Air Service, Royal Naval Divi-skilled strategy and fertile resourceful- sion. Minesweeping Service. Coastness of our High Command. The hulk of North; Admiral Sir Henry Jackson re- Watchers, Queen Alexandra's Royal the Hirer Myde upon the Turkish beach, called the work which was quietly ear

Naval Nursing Service, Women's Royal the great dead of the Marines upon the Naval Service. Mercantile Marine, and mole of Zeebrugge, will live in poetry ried on by the Naval War Staf; Admiral Sir Alexander Duff brought with him, as Bea Scouts who gave their lives for and prone. The Army is ever foremost their King and Country in the great to testify that its task in Flanders or the Department, memories, already growing

East. nobly planned and stoutly done, was To the Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George-"The dim, of the Navy's fierce contest against These yards ended, silenec. ""long made possible only by the dauntless skill inhabitants of Weihaiwe desire to offer piracy. Admirals Sir Montague Brown- silence. brooded over the crowded Cathe which guarded the waters untiringly for. you their hearty congratulations on the ing, Sir Hugh Tothill, Bir Herbert Heath, dral. The mind travelled in the unbroken the ceaseless passage of armaments Bird signature of the Treaty of Peace uncon Sir Rudolf Bentinck, Sir Edward Charl- stillness over land and sen to waters, now meh. No other record like to this stande ditionally by the Government of Gerton, Bir Stanley Colville, and Bir Re-san-kissed, which so recently were the in the annals of the seas. And, brothers," many, a result in no small measure due gingid Tapper, were other outstanding stores of deadly contest. fir Christopher we all know it, it has been worth white to your Celtic ardour and strenuous figures in this great gathering of ofhiosrs Cradock, within the memory of the 1t is worth while. We have lived through

M, Clemenceau has won another vote Neither did he attach any importance to riches and the United States of Ame the former-Chief-of the Anti-Bubmarine

A Havas message says:-

of confidence in the French Chamber of Deputies, following on a debate on the the report that Semenoff was "on the financial policy.

The Sgures were 304 road with 2.500 inen. The general's votes against 134.

The Minister of Finance anid that the innerturbability may be shaken when he Government's taxation budget, amounts learns that information from more reli- able resources than he has to draw upon is to the effect that Semenoff is still doing things" in the neighbourhood. He is con

to 1,000,862,000 francs.

INTER-ALLIED EC INOMIC

IMPORTANT MEETING IN LONDON.trolling the Trans-Baikal portion of the

COUNCIL.

PARIS, July 26th.

A Havas message says:

Trans-Siberian railway. But, despite the conflicting reports, there is every reason Great importance is attached in Paris to believe that the movement either repre- to the meeting of the Inter-Allied sents an intention to control the Mongols Economic Council taking place in Lon don on July 28th, at which the Ministers or is designed to get the army out of of Reconstitution and Supplies will re Peking to a place where it will not be so present France.

much in evidence.

BULGARIA.

WILL SHE GET AN OUTLET TO THE SEA

PARIS, July 25th.

A. Havas message says:-- The question has again been raised whe ther or no Bulgaria is to have an outlet to Egern Sem...

THE KIRIN TROUBLE.

!

A few days ago it was reported that the troops of Chang Tso-lin and those of Meng En-yuan had actually come into conflict

near Changchun, but later telegrams discounted this intelligence,

inbours.

war.

who, in various capacities, helped to youngest in the assembly, was fighting large days, large doings, at a great june maintain our primacy of the seas. For with unquenchable courage against beavy ture in the history of mankind. Through THE BANK OF KWANCTUNG. the test, the congregation represented the odds; the officers and men of the cruiser the testing fires we have striven to reach nation which the Navy served so faith Pegasus, caught defenceless through no the height of an ennobling trust. And This Bank, was established eight years fully; Sir Edward Carson and Mr.. fault of their own. were being shelled by

we are not afgid, as we ponder that ago and was registered, with the Hong Winston Churchill were present us farmer, a merciless foe; merchant seamen, with ancrifice and all that it means we are not kong Government, though, it is said, the First Lords; the Duke of Connaught out an apology of gun for their protec afraid, weak and wayward though we be capital was wholly subscribed by Chinese Trinity House. Cantain Sir H. Action. pirates of the twentieth century; one sa tering of the world. for the coming of the

attended in the uniform of the Master of, tion, were being brutally murdered by the link it with our pravers for the bet subjects. Its capital has been increased Blake and other Elder Brethren being in one mind's eye hospital ships and Kingdom of the Pride of Peace. from 81,000,000 to $2,000,000, The Bank has recently decided to isso notes from also present on behalf of that ancient cor vessels bearing relief to the starving sink. The Archbishon having concluded, "the August 1st. It is also proposed to corporation; the Admiralty, the Board of ing under the explosion of mines. Pic congregation, led by the choir and band. vert its capital into a gold currency" by Trade, and other public departments as turcs such as these crowded upon one durang William Walsham Howe's hymn of increasing it to £800,000 at some future sociated with our ses interests were reing this period of silent prayer, sitting thanksgiving. "For all the saints who date, the shares to be issued at £5 each, presented. Over and shove all these were surrounded by scores of men and women from their labours rest. From the steps when £600,000 will be reserved for the widows, soas, daughters, and other re- who had fait the full poignancy of grief of the High Allar the Archbishop pro- original shareholders and the balanos latives of the men who had died at sea. which such incidents of the war brought nounced the, benediction, and, the con- offered to the public.

to countless homes. One know that many gregation standing, the strains of Cho- The silence of the hour preceding the mourners were absent from this prat pin's Dead March filled the Cathedral, its service because the community, which opening phrases merging ag length into a opening of the service, when the hum of their men helned to save, has so soon for note of sustained triumph, which well basy traffe stole from without into the

From the cathedral, was at last broken by the band gotten to translate inta tokens, not of befitted this historic service.

ense, but of bare mubsistence, the gratitude Western end of this Mother Church of Chatham Division), under the direction hackermend of this memorial gathering lenging notes of the Last Port" nccred of the Royal Marine Light Infantry which is dus to these sea heroes. In the London there rang out the buglers' chat. of Licut CJ Hoby, Mur Doc And the hours of mourning women, thed by the revellle sounded within the appropriate programme of murte had widows of naval offers, who are proudly Cathedral, and echoing and re-echoing been arranged, opening with the plaintive striving on a mere pittance to support through transept, choir, and chapels.. strains of the Overture in from Bal-; themselves, în descaso and bring on the Thus did the service end, marking the livan's "In Memoriam the music children left to them

11 asacred nation's thankfulness for the Navy's filled the transepts of the cattedral with-heritage-

triumph-Daily Telegraph.

SHELL, TRANSPORTS. Messrs. Vernon & Smyth have received the following telegram, dated July 95th, from their London iganty

“Bhelis, 171;- ́ex rights (=246/6 cum It is reported New York has bought 750,000 ordinary, shares direct from the Shell Company.

tre claiming Western Thrace General Meng has since indicated his tatally, and if she is granted this terri-willinguesa to vacato his poor and retom tory, it will bar Bulgaria from a direct to Prking, but there is little definito news outlet to the ዖሪ

France and England are inclined to from Kirin.. Indications point to the right) faveur Greck claims.

garian claire

The United States seems to favour Bul-Absence of fighting and to the pos sible arrangement of the dispute without

ASSEMBLING OF THE CONGREGATION.