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CABLES

EARLIER CABLES.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

CIVIL WAR IN BELFAST. NUMEROUS INCENDIARY FIRES

Lordor, August 316h.

The Belfast conflict, is mesuming all the estures of a civil war. Yorterday day fighting continued at night when thị total casualties since the youthreak resched 18 killed and 200 seriously wounded.

THE HONGKONG DAILY

SITUATION IN MESOPOTAMIA.

AUCCESS OF RUNITIVE MEA

PEKING NOTI

MOVEM INT FOR RE-UNION WITH THE SOUTH;

"attack

fotill

Inkos from Nasirich reached the town

some opp

In the Hillshares. column. “ advanced zíne milm ***Hames, from Jerboiyah and

erous incendiary Ares occurred light up the

bole city. The

punitive messures againes in the neighbourhood. b

fing of

Bes

this fores, which is now returning to Hillsh which" "town in qu

rebolu now by

North of

Beled was

here were 90 confagrations in the

Bhaakil district, where practically every

and grooy shop and many publis upied by Roman Catholic were Fire Brigada was nonhle to

ids made upon it..

and hundreda

houses

#hich kos

ports!

the

rking

-THE SOUTE):

astioni in Peking

From the Sou

Beled is wh

garrison at

The

Tas Khermutli small column which killing thirty

to Nanking, baa

off the memy,"

on the pla

the-dot

rock from the Curragh

Dublin, by mot salus morning, whence they were despatched

special trains towards Belfast, Corfow Law has been introduced.

The

HIS MAJESTY'S POSITION.

London, Augnet Dist." The Private Secretary to His Majesty the King, the Lord Stamfordham, rep}

Horatio Bottomley who

kmita

ratker

it would be disa

make such

the

step

Bakubab station and town, which worn found to have been sacked by insurgents, were retaken on August 28th.",

In North West Formis, Persian Cossacks are refitting at Manjil. The Reds have not pursued them. Our reconnsaimange, which -to i-was, sent out reports that there GRAPE NO his enomy within 95 miles of Menjil,

relas Cork

Uncon-

MINERS STRIKE BALLOT.

MAJORITY IN FAVOUR OF STRIKE.

London, August 31st."

The official figures of the miners ballet tional and for a strike are: 606,79% for, and 238,865 for sovereign to

against: ents upon the Constata- tion. He points out that even if his Majesty youred the release this could only be

raiga's personal, action in the face of his Ministers advice and with, presumably, the remit of their There was also the further risk that the country at large might regard the price paid au too high for the object attained and would blame his Majesty for resting a grava political crisis at a time

THE POLISH SITUATION.

NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN

OFF

TRIPLE ALLIANOR SUPPORTS

MINERS W

LONDON, August lat. The meeting of the Triple Alliance, after bearing Mr. Smillie, passed a resolution declaring that the Allianc was unabi mously of the pinion that the miners' claims were reasonable and just and should be conceded forthwith."

being att PAR

more official

himself.

Ag doubt his plaint is not without res

for 17 has ever been the custom China

FRIDAY SEPT

methods

that from

Sone.

on being naked bout China,

FIELDS

TOUR OF THE BATTLE fortitude and sacrificing amos, everyt

it hald dear for the sake of France. Arras is not an industrial town with a stapla industre of the type of the textile contrem farther north. But it has a longer him 1918, and it must be restored, auThe Hi- sh race, would seem, has here a debt

HELP FROM ENGLISH CITIES

DERHEIMS AND THE CHAMPAGNE TAX,

*The Timer has been publishing a saries of honour to pay.”: One would like to think of articles on tour of the Battlefield, the of the more historic English com is that The following is one of them:

munities sharing the proud responbility the most hard.

The first signs of the revival of the de. for the restoration of the ancient capital whose vastated regions are so fine a sight that of Artois to its former placid beanty: seem to fill the foreground of the battle. The City of London could undertake no by Thang seld picture. Yet, on closer examination, higher duty.

iful

by the Ministry | this proves to be no more than an exquisite . Could not a similar spirit of comrade patel Impied upon a huge cartas of a ship be established between the aller world in ruing. The material waste which Linglish towns and the battlefield villages resulted from the German invasion of Bel- of Teres and the Somme, which have gian and Northern France can only the undergone a martyrdom as terrible, though. realized when it is seen in all its brutal not za spectacular, as that of the chie nakedness. It is so colossal as to rend the great fuld for the perpetuation of the

around which they chater Here is beart and oppress the mind,

As one surveys the, almost immensurable Alliance in the hearts of the British and extent of the catastropin which has le French peoples. It would save one of the fallon our Allies heron the narrow nega, problems with which I was constantly faced it in dificult to resist the feeling that the in my tour, and that was how to eutzee state of "dian have ret done to help the French and the the battlefields and all that they mean.

British people might do more than they that the people at home thould, ngs forget een allowed Belgians in their gigantie task of rebuild- nsidered in a ing their shattered towns and bringing Yet what

Musim back into cultivation their wasted" fields;

do so. The returning population is very poor doing ould use the material 11, lost all it had in the war and the Ar it is

making French Government cannot afford more get to put fir member of the limited measure of compensation, celler of the

The only assets that the people have are increase of the huving asked, pluck, patience, and energy, The aro

"a surt of war key to Mangalia, owing a dauntless spirit, and a will to

work which will assuredly overcome every is as ou

Fcan be appre paased obstacle in the end. Time i

on their side. Dames country third hus they deserve a more active alls One and sees the poor shelf of the old city. would like to think that each of these If Reims is ever to regain it former pros

to have more than one string to one's bow, with its mumense possibilit besides, the Southern invasion of Fukien,

far

bim

was struck

representing a desire to hold more torri. Talib how differens, eye," the tory, and therstore, acquire fa reater looked at the little bit of

-they saw bargaining strength, takes it diful, tot XLATIONS WITH RUS To impugn the bona fulce of the Bouth, st

Russo Chinese stions are under dis least of wection,

face, the cussion at present.

In official careles here, it is believedys the President's policy of uniting the Sou in order the more easily desired peaceful settleinest abandoned and that: have to make

either with party

the unl

only

ing a comproming; with? Peking would find itself position for dealing with section by

name it itself. And it looks na the first to

The conference is re-assembling to-morrow Shih-ker in 1915, will be the to consider fe further policy.

It is understood that this resolution. Wa fully anticipated and in

blocks the way to further negotiations for an ultimate

peaceful: antzlemenij

COAL CRISIS IN AMERICA

PRESIDENT WILSON ACCEPTS

MINERS' CHALLENGE.

peace with Peking,

the ath

strong

Russian

„rather, whi

tee

"ON ALIME

doing or,

ritish Government adopting

**Ypres or

in this year's Bud The Chan

defence of the ting wice as

the British proftear for the sorry jest it rough the Chemin de Boissone to Reins

rexiving communities was being, awisted on its way, in the true spirit of the Great Prity, it can only be by the aid of the Alliance, ans, of our richer store, which huts around here, about sover he champagne from the rich vineyards on the the Germans coveted but were prevented from looting by the heroim of our help in beating off the great German forgotten British troops gave invaluabad diere joined to that of these unconquerable onslaught of May, 1818. None of the fighters

Allied troops fought with greater galian WARDS OF THE HOMELAND.

in those dark days on the Aisne than try The case for some measure of

of organized Scottina Division. There is a spot off assistance is overwhelming, sad it is not the main touring road to which pilgrims too late for the more nourishing communi- from over the Border will repair for many ties in our midst to give their earnest con- years to come Here glands a truncated fideration to some such plan that of obelisk dedicated while the battle wan adopting towns and villages in who raging, to the Scottish troops with a fine of loving admiration by the en who had fought by their side.

alifit Tyseription in. her language than on this simple

payment the Hoyer. Indemnity into the Busso- sinto ruins their youth so lately fought and died. Is in extraordinary how strong an presumably became the character appeal this country makes to the English-

that here shall hidasom always of Sengland "amid the

and compositips of this bank has under-, man," When our midiers landed in France the consideribic change since the time on what was in most cases, their first | ibm.

-journey to 'a: foreign, land, they were sur inese Government undertook, to prised to discover how closely the country the glorian thi 'portion of the indemnity into this resembled their native land. The same roses of France! The money is now being paid into tourist, as he makes his way from the co

thought must often occur to the battlefield

for ironicalix the contrast between the irit of the soldier, and the 'harsh' Chinese Government Banks. In the through the lowlands and over the ridges mics of the politician. It is not a

into the heart of the land.

The sand if the champagne tax were a general lewy second place much interest is being aroused dunes along the Belgian coast might have on imported wines. There has been no in the vuit of a mission from the Verb- bere transplanted from our Norfolk coast controversy over the proposat for an a

The knendinsk Government. It is understood around Well and Hunstanton.

round increase of the wine duties. But Ipres battlefield, in the lowlying Flanders he proposing & special surtax an sparking have reached Urga and may be expected plain, is very little different from our Fenine, the British "Peking. In certain quarters objection country A Lancashire miner would soon French nation

nment presents the raised to the reception of a country around Leas And the Somme laid waste during the war, is to be taxed the strange paradox feel at home amid the pitshafts of the fat that the produce of Champagne, which was very cogent reply given has been well likened to the uplands, of ons penal scale, to the great profit of the ons have entere our own down country in Burray and all wines of Burgundy and Bordeaux,

or ace

which came through unscathed. It may

Sakl not follow their excellent

yupport, and for that reason, batten on the wealthier. Szechuandie, who are suffering from a number of externally *PLAGUE OF LOCKETS iroposed governments, Yanaan is a hard province to conquer by. itary opera tions. Public opinion would dampprove of further killing af brothers, and it is likely that Chang Chi-yau will be conciliated rather than conquered. PROBLEM OF FINANCE,

The Government is more impecunions than ever, and desperate eforti being "made to raise money and to reduce

obtained from local expenditure. Small ums

hanks,

PARIS, August 97th.

message from Warsaw saga that the Minsk negotiations have been interrupted. Most of the Polish delegates have gone to

LONDON, August 31st. Brest Litovsk and the Soviet delegated to

arrently with the coal crisis in Bri- Mscow. Both sides will probably resume tatu

solar criam has arisen in the Conference within a week at Biga, by Almerítn

ashington -- message says permission of the Latvian Government.. that President Wilson has signed the mine

"RE-GROUPING OF FORCES.

wages &ward, increasing the miners' wag generally felt that if adequate funds London, “August 31st,

17 to 20 per seat, Meanwhile, the miners to be procured it must be from the Except in the Lemberg region, where have threatened to strike unless the sortium or from the ferce fighting continges, the operations on minority report, recommending higher Group, any, advance so obtain

Polish front have died down. Both

Caward, is adopted, to which President part of a Consortium loan. Gare ides are evidently busy re-grouping their Wilson has replied that the challenge would un has, however, declared

the

A Bolshevir communique issued to day claims the capture of a number of villages near Bielostok, where, it is expected, the Red counter-offensive will develop..

GENERAL WEANGEL'S POSITION.

Tao

for

that money can be raised by internal loans. eign borrowing and expressed the belief, Ume can appreciate the patri

the

be accepted, and, in the event of a strike, the people would find a batitute feel to tide them over until the time the miners wish which is father to the were ready to abide by their obligations.it is folly to shut one's to the hard facts of stern reality, Even the boss of ZAWODATY CRICKET SON

the internal loans, based on such sterling

the

regards General Wrangel, a communi- MIDDLESEX WIN CHAMPIONSHIP. | tu

res that his force which landed

has cessed to exist, and iM

are hiding in the reeds Over thousand prisoners and a large amount of matemał were taken, whilst three, Generala

were out down.

AMERICAN NAVY.

STILL TO HAVE WORLD

PRIMACY

ARLESTON (VIRGINIA), August 3lat...

Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, in speech here said that the delay in tho ratification of the Treaty of Versailles had prevented a castibo of naval enlargement ned there had, therefore, been no change in the plans of America-for naval develop ment, which “will give our Navy world

are quoted at about $70

LONDON, August 31st, in spite of the fact that the Middlesex has won Lue County Champion regul paid and amortisation haa ship, with a percentage of 77.00, Lancashire meneed. The Government ruins is second with 74.61.

by every internal lösn

-Middlesex heat Burrey by 53 FURE.

Lancashire beas Worcestershire by nine

bands the Government payi Partly in bouds. The unfo needing money, sell these st

Chi

wickets.

Yorkshire beat Hampshire by an innings depresses and 35

Suese boat Leicestershi wickets.

34 A YEAR 1

notion of cute financial distress. The The London Traffe Combine is in s

cost of carrying London does not quite half-your ! The the statement which is involve a los but a profit of £40 for the

Bard made by the directors of the Underground

Eletric Railways Company.

We are not only completing a great The dividend on the Bix inval armour and projectile plantat

Charleston, but we are building-enormous facilities elsewhere.

bonds je passed over, and, ends are being paid the percentage practically all the stools

much smaller than list.

In addition, the General Omnibus Comp other part of the combine, man Aghting Anuncia

tion

In support o

tioned

bonds. (1919)

although the

internal loans are not ta, bề this time

ESIS OF MARTIAL LAW:

On Monday martial law

its THE ANGEL'S SLE.

If Lens recalls the source of his wealth conceivably be sound a firent propon on why to the Lancashire man, is it not the nation, but sentiment and good feeling alike.

toral ward of the great city of Manches

out for rejection. ter, thriving as never before pathe MA PER case of Long first because, in all the le must not be inferred hat Hing is dovatated regions, it shows the largest city of the dead. This is no better must pars before its wrecked and flooded French peppis in their dating than the aren of

absolute destruction. Many year lilastration of the high condenes of the collieries are at work again, and the town dogged way in which theyre ettire self is more like Pompeii than any other about the restoration of there historic car hardly a building from end to end of streep in ruing with her and, there an the whole frout, That is to say, there and its noble shrine. You see direct indne this large industrial town which has remiracle of preservation like the Roman round foor. So like Pompeii in this a gasp by the sigh of a well-filled electric tained any of its superstructure above, the Gate of Hars only to be pulled up with respecta alike it in another, for Lena tram-car howling along to one of the outer again to-day a considerable popula suburbs. The angel known as the Saile street there are to be seen clearings among of the Cathedral for a sure sign that the Hon All the way down the long main of Reims still stands on the great the rains for the dwellings which proclaim two days had seven the coming of the new Lens The spirit city will rise again on its naben Witer roses are bloomine on every bush in the which has, brought these people back to the Aisne Valley, but Reims must be deprived and bury sites of their old homes should appeal with of its beauty for a general m... On bid- seen passing special force to the Manchester man. Lens ding farewell to my host I was traed to

not unfor does not ask for charity, nor does the come again soon,

Bumblest village belaren the Yser and the natural "ith that

Answered with the

Apparently there is no end to the trouble that is descending upon North China this year. As if the long drought had not been sufficient, ruining as it has done most of the larveits, a plague of locusts has come along and destroyed the later and younger shoots, no fewer than twenty two haines having been so visited in the neighbourhood

anthropist encours

giving one

the

teyl auth

ent

delay

You see,

ime wense of the gomme In the whole of my tour I did would be to see Reims rest

not see a single beggar said, sadly

If Manchester adopted Lens, Bradlong. That will take 20 years.

"prav","de ford might follow its example by stretching he explained ESE BRUSHES...

tores The That is the hear of the m

have no etits hand to noted the statements a to tered of the large towns on the British but there is litle money in the coffers of

ostpost of Li

probably the least bat is great potentiaealth in all this region. infected Japanese brushes, front. With a patching a large pro. Beims for the biggest taak hier it ha secting this Mr. & Yada, the Japanese made at least habitable. To pass through If no other motive can move the British portion of its have been or can be faced in all the centuries of its history- Conant-General in London, writes:

rmentier by the wow train from Calais Government, canot pity stay their hand. Bristles

Lille, after night has fallen is an eerie Belma must not be taxed-Timpa- experience. The town boby, more dend brushes in

my than it is for every third or fourth house

shows forth the faint ligh, of a eandle wave and it is clear that, although roofs may. Healers to have fallen and upper windows have been only shattered the daily round has been resuZIA-

“after.

thes,

beföri

making

THE MACKENZIES,

The privilege of the exclusive right to ed, un: the lower-foors.””] Bus industrialy hava naked savages on his coat of arms him brushes Armentières, must still be in a very bad been the subjecs of an action by Colonel the way, If the factories survived the bam Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth. Two years the hands of refinere bardment of the two Armies, it was only age certain arms were granted to Mr

to suffer the gutting of their machinery Fraser Mackenzie, of Allangrange, and her have been import when the German left the town. The first bushand. Captain Robert Bearlett Ersser Whole

dealers. signs of the revival of industry are already Mackenzie, of Bunchrew. The arms include bristles for to be seen in the rising of new chime the Mackease crest of a mountain in flatus, Hacks and the roofing over of factory and for supporters two savagen wreathed buildings To what finer use could Bradsbout the head and ddle of the "bely

wealth with laurel, pet tion of baton recf with firi citizens of it, their hair also

Put some

Sin his band:

from the top fames. Colonel objcesed

grant of the Cofitaingand Mr. Mackenzie de the ground that the particular supporters, two savagen not merely belonged to him but were also those which from time immemorial pertain- ed to and had been used house of Benfolde

the

thought tha Haceno right to a

the

„harp, even though their hair

to the Recond-

sion, sad the Divi

and irmod the