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THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION. FAR EASTERN CABLE CARRANZA'S SUPPORTERS KILLED.
EL PASO, May. 13th, General Obregon states that high officials
POLISH OFFENSIVE AGAINST accompanying Carranza ware killed in an
* RUSSIA.
PRIME MINISTER'S OFFER.
LONDON, May 14th
It is authoritatively learnt that the Polish Prime Minister, M. Skalaki, has fatimated Poland's readiness to goson "negotiations with Bussis.
resume
"POLAND'S POLITICAL AIM.
COPENHAGEN, May 14th. A message from Reval says that M. Tasilevski, the Polish representative in Babonia, said that the Polish offensive "was part of the programme for an alliance of the Russian border States against Germano-Russian Alliance Foland would mosive East Galicia for helping the Ukraine. M. Vasilevski's task is to induer Esthonia to join the alliance which aiready compris Poland, Finland and Rumania.
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“engagement between Apizaco and Apam. CARRANZA'S DETERMINED STAND,
New York, May 13th
A message from Vota Cruz states this Carranza's army of 4,000 has been sur- deter- rounded by rebels and is making a mined stand in a strong position, near San Marcos.
CARRANZA BEATEN. -
NEW YORK, May 14th. A message from Vera Cruz states that Carranza's forces have been driven from their positions at San Marcos.
NEWS
[ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ITALIAN AVIATOR ARRIVES IN FEKING
PEKING, May 18th, Forrazio, who is participating in the Rome to Tokyo flight, arrived in Peking at noon from Tsingtao, and received 'nn
welcome. enthusiastle
The Marquise
MAY 18TH, 1920.
LINER RATES RAISED. PLAN TO COUNTERBALANCE
SLUMP,
Some of the great shipping companies are already taking stops to recoup thom Folven for the slump in freights, says the
Daily Express
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CABINET CRISIS IN PEKING. NOVEL PREMIER PRESENTS HIS RESIGNA-
TION,
CURN FOR SHELIA.
SHOCK..
SCENES OF FEAR ACTED OVER AGAIN.
An Asiatic News Agency message from
A remarkable theory on the cure" of Peking of May 9th states :---
Owing to the Shantung issue and the shell shock by hypnotism is given in the existing financial stringency, during the British Medical Journal by Dr. William The North Atlantic Shipping Conferordinary Cabinet meeting yesterday, Pre-Brown, inte medical officer in charge of nee, which consists of the Cunard, White mier Chin took his colleagues by surprise Craiglockhart War Hospital for Nouris Star, Anchor, Canadian Pacific, and other by stating that he could not carry on the thenie Officers, and reader in psychology Shell Shocked London University. at large companies working the North Atlan Government any longer. On account of tic trade, has decided on dy all-round illness, Mr. Chen L, acting Foreign.
Durazzo, wife of the Italian Charge advance in passager rates and in freight linister, did not attend the Cabinet meat. Phtients, ho maintains, can be cured by
d'Affaires, kissed the aviator and his com- The patriots greeted him with Viva Chinese greeted him with Wansui," thou- sand years"
General Ting Ching, head of the Chinese Aviation Department, presented a silver incense burner on and bearing the
0
rates from Great Britain to the United States and Canada. This is the third increase since the outbreak of the war.
The passenger fares in a typical And rican liner, the Baltic, as various periods before, during, and since the war, 210 shown in the following table:---
1st. clad, el. 3rd. cl. Pre-war £20 0
0 27 £11 0 £180 £19.0 1DIS .........
£35
·1020.........
0 £20 0 £130 0 £14 16 New rate....£38 10 An addition of 33 per cent, as sur Wang Kai-wen, on behalf of the Presi-charge must be made to the 1920 figures, dent, pinned on the Order of Weahn and 25 per cent to the figures of the new (Fourth Class) on Ferrarin's, breast."
The aviator leaves for Tokyo in three days.
A message from Brownsville (Texas) inscription To the First Man to Fly says it is understood that in accordatoeroes the Continent of Asia with an agreement with Carranz and the rebels the last Federal stronghold on the United States border will be surrendered to-day.
CARRANZA ESCAPES.
VERA CRUZ, May 15th. ZEPPELIN'S OVER WARSAW.
Carranza, with a picked force of s LONDON, May 14th. Seven Zeppelins flew over Warsaw on thousand, has escaped to the mountains, 1 is believed that they are after destroying & train of war material. May 9th, -arrying" German Staff Officers who are The remaining Federalists are still stab going to Bussir to reorganise the Bol-bornly fighting the gevolutionista.
abevist army.
The Poles declare that this violates the Treaty of Veranilles
WHAT POLAND WANTS,
PARIS, May 14th.
Interviewed in Rome, M. Hatek, the Polish Foreign Minister, "declared that Poland haù no imperialist uinus and claim -ed that the disannexation of the territories
Poland
possessed in 1772, and the Polish -sapture of 160 locomotives and 2,000 gans proved that the Bolshevists were prepar- ing to invade Poland, but as soon as Poland's objects were attained, she would be ready to negotiate with this Bolsheviste. AMERICA AND PEAUS. MODIFICATION OF RESOLUTION.
NEW YORK, May 13th. The provision in the Republican Peace resolution requesting President Wilson to. negotiate with Germany for a separate treaty has been struck out on the motion of Senator Lodge,
The Senate will vote on May 18th on the resolution.
AMERICAN RAILWAYS. DRIVERS AND FIREMEN PROPOSE TO STRIKE...
PITTSBURG, May 13th.
the Train drivers and firemen on Fennsylvania, Baltimore, Ohio, Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroads have voted for a
FOUNDERING OF “SUKESKI.”
NO LIVES LOST...
CALCUTTA, May 14th. There were no casualties in connection with the foundering of the Sukeshi CONSTANTINOPLE OUTRAGE, ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF GRAND VIZIER
STUDENTS RETURN TO BOOKS. PEKING, May 19th." Students resumed classes to-day.
THE VACANT PREMIERSHIP.
PINO, May 19th. Chow Shu-mu has declined the Anfu
rate.
The shipping companies contend that the surcharge is imposed to counteract the unfavourable rate of exchange between this country and the United States, au declare that as the exchange value of the English pound increases the surcharge will be correspondingly reduced.
The public want to know why the sur charge should be made at all. The west bound passenger pays for his passage in English money and travels in a ship that is rationed in this country. What possible justification is there for any surcharge
The public also want to know why, if offer of Premiership. It believed that it is not necessary to make any surcharge on the freight for goods, it should be Admiral Sah will also decline it
necessary to make it in the case of pas senger rater.
H
GOVERNMENT.
ing, but the draft reply from China to Japan was explained to the Ministers byt Mr. Liu Chung-chick, Counciller of the Foreign Office. After a brief discussion
thes
draft document was revised, and shortened in accordance with the wishes Marshal Tuan Ca-jui, capecially those of the latter, because this powerful leader or the Peiyang atlitary carby dominates the Government and his vuws carry more weight than those of the chief executive in Chinese ponitrus nowadays.
and desire of Dots 'resident asu aná
working off the emotion repressed at the time when the shock occurred.
"Tako," says Dr. Brown, the condi tion of almost any bad case of shell shock on any of the fronts during the past five
years. Ail such cases show loss at memory of greater or less artent. They may have, forgotten every thing that has happened since the shell burst, and they will ex- hibit other loss of function. They may show loss of voice, of powers of walking. of bearing, or of the power of voluntary control..
"It will be found that such a patient or is very easy hypnotised; if it be sug- gested to him that he will remember the
On the termination of the Labinet meet di resignation to the fresident, who, us 12 Premier Chin sent in his letter matter of formatity, resurned it to him
Caiet Secretary through the Cabinet At the same time, at the special request of the President, arpal Tun returned to Peking, from his private eirenastanets of his injury be will pet residence in Tuanho for the discussion or again the whole circumstances, and in that the Cabinet crisis, and it is reliably reprocess his various functions will return. ported that both the President and the
"If he has been dumb, bo will now Marstal arrived at the conclusion that Chow Shu-mcu, the poet friend of Presi speak, without the necessity of suggesting dent Hsu, who is now Fresident of the If he has been paralysed, movement Administrative Court and was formeriy
ense General done! organizu a new Camnet, in
Wo have brought up the lost Governor of Heilungkiang, be requested to will occur in his irabs. What has been Chia actually wants to retire this time.
Marshal Tuan returned to Tuanho this móries, and with the memories the lost morning saying that be will not interest functions. But we have done more than himself in Cabinet affairs any further. that, we have given him an outlet for an Tien Wen-lieh, Minister of Agriculture! and Commerce, has declined to set won emotion which was originally experienced currently for Premier Chin so that the by him with so great an intensity that ha Cabinet crisis wil be solved by Chow
in a vessel that is packed from stem to Shu-mou's acceptance of the offer, but it could not do full justice to it, and his
is reported that in view of the attitude mind split in the attempt." of the majority party, that is the An-fu Club, in the new Parliament and his lack Brown, has already declined it. of any connection with this party, Chow
The passenger not only pays more than double his pre-war fare, but he receives WAR INDEMNITY FOR CHINA.much less comfort. He often has to wait a long time for his passage, and he travels NEGOTIATIONS WITH BERLIN
stern to its utmost capacity.
"While under abeil fire," adds Dr. The latest increase in freights is of a
the conscione personality was According to & semi-official telegram weeping character-no less than 30 per
partly from a sense of duty-duty of a to cover from 30 to 40 per cent. of the received by one of the Government ot, with exceptions which are claimed
trying to suppress the emotion of fear, Wa Chi-sen, Chief Secretary of the soldier-partly in self defence-nything CONSTANTINOPLE, May 14th...
boards from Paris signed by Dr. Koo, total shipments. In these exceptions,
and certain metais and chemicals, the Chin this morning at his private residence,
In curing the patient we bring up the A policeman attempted to shoot the says a Peking dispatch, negotiations, with which include fertilisers ollstig: Presidential Office, interviewed Premier to get away from it. Grand Vizier but only wounded a
The would be assassin Germany concerning damages and losses crease is 25 per cent. This is the third persuading him to remain in his dual-post, repressed experience once more. We en- attendant.
suffered by Chinese merchants and others increase that has taken place on pre-war at least, for the time being, in view of the courage him to work off the emotion in- arrested.
during the war are in progress satisfan freights. The dates, and increases are as į dangerous situation of the country, other- | volved in it."
THE PRÍNCE OF WALES. AUSTRALIAN LABOUR COUNCIL DECISION.
SYDNEY, May 14th. The Labour Council, after a heated debate, bas decided not to participate in the welcome to the Prince of Wales.
EMPIRE MOTOR FUEL
APPOINTMENT OF NEW COM. MITTEE.
LONDON, May 15th An Empire Motor Fueis Committee bas been appointed with a view to developing the production of additional supplies in all parts of the Empire.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, May 15th. The death is announcement of Mr. Ronald Burrows, Principal, King's Col lege, London."
COUNTY CHICKET.
#trike, owing to the alleged failure of the E WILSON SCORES CENTURY FOR Railroad Labour Board to take action in
mospect of their wage demands.
EFFECT OF RECENT STRIKE:
WASHINGTON, May 13th.
The appeals for relief received by the Inter-State Committee Commission indi-
pate that 233,000 rail, trucks have been tied up or delayed owing to freight con- gestion at the principal railroad terminals we a result of the recent strike AMERICAN TRAIN BOBBERY ROBBER HOLDS UP POSTAL CLERKS.
- SUSSEX,
LONDON, May 14th. Marylebone beat Nottinghamshire by 5 wickets.
Lancashire beat Leicester by 129. Susser beat Warwick by 138 runs in the Sussex second inainga H. Wilson
scored 187.
TAXATION OF WAR WEALTH,
COMMERCIAL MEN'S PROTEST. LONDON, May 18th.
commercial, Bepresentative banking, and Stock Exchange bodies have made representations to the Select Committee strongly criticising the scheme for the levy on war fortunes and urging the danger of a Anancial panic if the levy is imposed. EARLIER CABLES.
CHICAGO, May 14th. A daring robbery took place in train bound for Chicago. A man entered the DECISION LEFT TO THE COMMONS mait van and intimidated the postal
Losnos, May 15th.
shot dead.
UNREST IN IRELAND. MINUR OUTRAGES REPORTED.
LONDON, May 14th. Further minor outragea are reported from Ireland, including the burning down of the Curbel court house Reinforce manta for the Irish Constabulary am arriving from England.
torily and it is reported that the total amount to be paid by the German Repub lie to Chinese merchants and others for contracts and commercial agreements, private debts is about $22,000,000.
It is believed that port of this war in demnification will be paid to China put of the German money which has been left
in Chinese hands.
follows:
Year. 1918 1910
1920 (April)
.
Per cent.
25
or 50
wise the President shall be forced to
Dr. Brown quotes the case of his cura resign office as well.
With regard to China's wristen repay to of a gunner, who had been suffering for Japan, the revised document contains two years from a tremor of the arm, less than two hundred words. The pro-dating from the time he had been blown posed reply simply infornis. Japan that as up at Ypres. He sent him to sleep, and China is not a party to the German peace suggested be should live again through. treaty, it is not her business to pegotiate his experience at. Ypres. He did so wheat with Japan on the basis of the said treaty, plaine Dr. Brown, and began to shout
had happened at the time.
He was apparently serving the guy Kiaochow are useless, because they were and that documents handed over by the out all sorts of things, which showed what German Government to Japan concerning officially cancelled by China when she de- and someone else was handing him aw- clared war on the Central Powers in 1917 munition. Then I noticed that he was
moving the handle with his right hand with the consent of the Allies.
of the Cabinet crisis, it is his band began to shake violently, and Then, ha be soon he was abaking all over. doubtful whether China's reply can
suddenly became absolutely still. I sug gested that he should continue to remem ber all that he had just gone through, and then woke him up. He looked at the hand, which was absolutely still, with amazement...
It is claimed by the companies concerned that circumstances over which they have as control have driven them to make these The prisent increase in a very belated increases. With reference to the revival of Sing one said an official to & Daily Express German relations, the Government has representative. We have always treat wired to Dr. Yen, Chinese Minister ined the question of advancing freights with Copenhagen, instructing him to inform the the greatest besitancy, because we have Berlin Government that China inclines always taken the national view, and have to consider the proposal of the revival of recognised that the tendency of an in- Sino-German commercial and industrial crease must be to restrict trade. Our pro relations apart from politics, and there is sent action is necessitated by the general
report among the Chinese this increased cost in handling goods, both here sent to Mr. Obata within next week. Cordes; formerly of the German Bank in and on the other side, by the increased
wages Peking, will be one of the German dele Frice of coal, and by the increase in the gates for the negotiation of a new Sino- German commercial treaty with the Chin- ese Government.
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of the crows
BUNKER COAL "Coal has increased 300 per cent in price, while wages have increased some To thing like 140 per cent, since 1814.
UGLY GIRL WANTED.
VAIN NEW YORK QUEST.
NEW JAPANESE COMPANY made no increase in freights since March girl whose features are adjudged ugly, has this tremor, in his hand, The next morn
ENTERPRISE IN EASTERN INNER
MONGOLIA.
ton."
this has to be added the fact that we can not drive our ships so fast. We have 1918, and since then the price of coal has gone up, from £2 169, to more than £7 per The Daily Express would like to know why the shipping companies have decide LASIATIC NEWS AGENCY.)
ed on this wholesale increase in freights MUKDES, May 7th.
at the very moment that a large reduc There was an important function yester
tion has been announced in the price of bunker coal. day when General Chang Teo-lin opened
South Wales conlowners, in corsequence the Sino-Japanese industrial and cattle- raising development company. Its prin- of urgent representations regarding the Baron Okura, head of the Okura Co-recently decided in the national interest cipal shareholders are General Chang and price of bunker coal for liners, have pany, who made his entire fortune in to enter into an arrangement, lasting China. The new company is called the until the end of August, to supply bunk Hain-yeh" corporation and is chieflyers at £2 158. free on board at South intended for the development of the vast Wales and Tyne ports, and at 23 12s. 6d. tract of arable farming lands in eastern free on board at Scottish parts. This is Inner Mongolis where Japan daims less than half the price that has been paid special sphere of influence. The capital is of late for bunker coal. The action of the 85,000,000. Nearly all the arable lands, coalowners in national interest" sweeps both Government and private, have now away one of the main reasons urged by One the shipping companies as justification been purchased by the company. important stipulation in the prospectus, for the latest increase in freighte which has been sanctioned by the Chinese The two leading companies concerned authoritics, is that, in case of necessity, are the Cunard and the White Star, Evi- the company may extend its activities to dence given by Sir Alfred Booth, chair Outer Mongolin and other parte of Innerman of the Cunard Company, at Mongolia and Manchuria.
recent Dockers Inquiry showed that in 1914 that company paid 10 per cent. divi- dend and 10 per cent. bonus, in 1915 10 20 per cat, in 1817 90 per cent, sud in COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH per cent and 10 per cent, bonus, in 1916
GREECE.
1918 70 per cent, on the double capital, with £500,000 placed to reserve, ATTITUDE OF PEKING GOVERN
·MENT.
the
"His gun had been blown up, and the Á novel advertisement which has been emotion which this experience had excited appearing lately in all the New York in him had been bottled up for two years, newspapers, offering a prize of £20 to any with the result that be had suffered from so far clicited but one response, the lone ing he was able to shave himself with an applicant subsequently admitting that she ordinary razor, for the first time since did not really consider herself plain, but his filneas." answered the advertisement on being dared The to do so in order to win a bet. advertisement was interted in good faith. Brown, was that of a Flying Corps
the manager of a taillinery association,
Bry
BACK TO THE AGE OF THREE. A Another interesting cure described by
The doctor was
who desires the services of a really plain signaller who was blown up by a bomb, girl at a forthcoming fashion exhibition and as a result found on regaining The manager admits that he is going to consciousness that everything appeared have a hard time in convincing buyers twisted at right angles to its ordinary that the new millinery creations are worth position,
The first attempt at bypnotiga only the fabulous prices the creators mean to ask for them. He wante an ugly head in effected a partial cure. order to persuade American women that then informed that his patient, when a Further hypnotism not the millinery designing art has reached child of sir had shown similar symptoma such a stage of perfection that anyone can after a fall.
some accident must have occurred in the be made to appear beautiful through the effecting a cure, Dr. Brown concluded that cause ibe addition of a perfectly appropriate bat,
symptoms gown, and other accessories, and that first six years of his life to expense is a secondary consideration.
After the fourth hypnotic sleep he no- membered that at about the age of throm In the manager's opinion there are many vony plain and even ugly girls in New York, but he is now on the point of admit he had upset some hot coffee down his ting that even $20 will not make a single right arm and had felt a pain in his left one own it Five times as many girls as side. He remembered that when he woke were required answered his advertisement that time be felt the bed to be the wrong for attractive models. The only unpleaway round. saat incident to date connected with the
That was the first experience of dis
advertisement has been due to a silly mis orientation he could remember. It occur- take made by newspaper photographers,
to the left and everything twisted round for applicants and asked permission to produced a fainting fit, in which he fell to the right. The man was completoi who mistook three young lady reporters red to me that the scalding of his arm fuhlight them, a request which was re- fused with some show of hauteur.
cared and very soon applied for his die charge
The last report of the White Star Line showed that in 1918 the company made a profit of £1,341,542, after providing for excess profits duty. The report stated.. VIEWS ON HOME RULE BILL. that the fleet had been maintained at a high sandard of efficiency.'«
A STRANGE MEMORIAL.
END OF THE WORLD.
DATE FIXED 10,000,000,000 YEARS FENCE.
clarks and carried off packets containing The Report of the Select Committee on As the train reached taxing war wealth increases says that, $100,000 in cash.
after close examination of conflicting Chicago, two policemen stopped the rob testimony the Committee has concluded ber who, fired a revolver at the head that the difficulties in administration of such a task are not insurmountable' and of one policeman and temporarily escapan amended scheme of the Board of
Dr. Koo has been instructed to inform
The Times Now York correspondent ed, but was subsequently overtaken and Inland Revenue is administratively prac
the Greek Minister in Paris that the
Bays, Sane American opinion on the Irish ticable, because the examination of tax-
situation seems to agres that the enact payers returns, valuation of property Chinese Government accepts the proposal
ment of the present Bill, with amendments, and the assessment and collection of the for the negotiation of a Sino-Greek com
promises the only escape from an in- duty could be effectively carried out, mercial treaty, provided that the Grook
Enitely dangerous" deadlock. When while the cost of administration and col- Government, in the same way as the lection would be small Bolivian Government, agrees to enjoy so
If the financial conditions of the coun- extraterritorial rights in China. It is A curious war memorial is to be found once the Hill is passed, Sinn Fein, it is The Rientific writer, Mr. Charles Nord- try are such that that it is urgently neces-reported, says an Asiatic News Agency at Swaffham Prior a little village in observed, may either reject the Parlament
in the parish Church painted windows centre of agitation, but at least the British researches, says, in an article in the Mindárn sary to raise a sum of £500,000,000, meinage, that this condition habeon Cambe The inhabitants elected to place it establishes as a fraud or use it is a mann, basing his opinion on the latest representing various war activities, with Government will have redoomed ise pro- that the end of the world will not come objections against such a tax should not accepted by the Athens Government. be allowed to stand in the way of its im-
explanatory texts beneath. Thus, on one mise of self-government, so many times for ten thousand million years.
frustrated or deferred. The New York Helmholtz and Henri Poincaré estimat position. Moreover, although the sug
aide of a window is to be seen's tank Beeming Port takes comfort in the thuighted that the sun would have burned itself SPEEDING UP THE MAIL.
"Hut the man that shall touch them must gested tax is strongly opposed by the financial and commercial world, there is
tains immense deposits of radium-meatm The Strait Times notes that two new be fenced with iron on the other is that it is often darkest before dawn, and out within eight million yong, but the a very large body of public opinion which regards it na just and necessary P. & boa are now on their way to German submarinë enmeshed in the Coop The abandonment of the Home Rule Bin recent discovery that the anlar ma con- However, the financial conditions govern Bombay, both in a class described as the sea net, with the words: Though they through fear that it will not work would that the duration of the sun's heat is mel- fastest and best-appointed ships of the be hid from my night in the bottom of the be only a surrender to the fatalistic fled, since the Committee was appointed. fleet on the Eastern route The Braten, thence will command the serpent philosophy from which Ireland has suffer tiplied almost indefinitely. by the Budget proposals and the offer of bringing the mails of April 15th., reached and be shall bits them and third so these many years. It would be The rays of the fun, which is the touTER LONDON, May 15th,
new 5 per cent fifteen-years Treasury Port Said on April 1st in excellent picture, of a Red Cross purse tending soquiescing in a situation of stalemate in of all terrestrial life, should therefore scientist in Copenhagen haa produced Bonds Therefors the Committee is of time. The English mail are now being soldiers in hospital, is interpreted the trenches. The only hope of escape is last another ten thousand million
opinion that the desirability or ex-speeded up. The last, mais reached India And the Lord i It is not good that by a break through. The Bill carries the at least, unless a catastrophe is occasione
with another plancki of, the destlingi cancer in rate by feeding them on the pediency of the tax must be left to the in 10 days, and it is expected this, the new man should be alone. L'will make him only promise in sight of such a solution by the solar body coming into m
decision of the House of Comme
boats will do the trip in much less time helpmeet for him"
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