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CABLES.

ZABLIER CABLES.

[ROVOX RETER'S AGENCY.]

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. SEPARATE COLONIAL FLEETS,

LONDON, July 28th. The Imperial Conference discussions are reaching a state of finality. It is understood that the policy laid down in 1017, that each Dominion will provide its own Navy and protect its own bases The Conference has been reaffirmed. gave attention to the growing importance of oil fuel, and is now considering the provision of oil-storage, at all important

naval bases.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 201

UPPER SILESIAN PROBLEM. FAR EASTERN CABLE

ATTITUDE OF GERMANY.

"London, July 28th.

The Cabinet to-day discussed the latest Upper Silesian development. IA ia understood that the meeting of the Supreme Council may again be somewhat delayed.

Reuter learns that the German Foreign

Minister handed the French Ambassador

GERMAN RIGHTS UNDER PEACE TREATY.

LATER:

In consequence of the realisation that raids on the mercantile marine are

As regards the German Note to France. likely to bulk more largely in war-time

it is authoritatively explained in London.. operations in the future, it is urged that

that Germany is entitied under the the Dominions should be prepared to Treaty of Versailles to refuse the French undertake the loenl control of communi.request for transport of troops, but is extions and to protect constal trade wit submit what she considers

breach of the treaty, to the three Powers where possible with light cruisers and collectively, submarines, while the Dominions will

BRITISH REPLY TO FRANCE. train their own personnel. Importance

Losnos, July 99th.

by the Dominion Premiers, formulated a Note to France which, it is understood, French Ection in Upper Silesia.

is also believed to be attached by the Conference to Imperial co-ordination of the convoy system. the Dominions en

NEWS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

FAR EASTERN FREIGHTS.

BRITISH SHIPPING COMPANIES' RECOMMENDATION.

to low, per ton.

PRELIMINARY PROPOSALS FOR DEALING

WITH CREDITORS.

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CHINESE SLAVERY, HISTORICAL SKETCH.

The Hon. Kr. Lau Chu Pak was re- ported in a contemporary a fer days ago as saying that there are no slaves in Chins

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1931.

couraging the construction of merchant.phasises the necessity of joint Anglo- such creditors will have the option of paying of tribute, consisting of slaves, to be the slaves of the same

men readily convertible into weapons of defence and offence. As far as is ascer tainable the Conference, after accepting the principle of separat Navies, will levate its energies towards inatual co- operation and co-ordination with a view to maintaining vital sen communications

KID

at present-regarded, as

of recent

ment by instalments of deposits, and all other forms of clans, these latter credi tors being also offered the option of exchanging into preference shares.

The bank will reserve the right of r verted into preference shares.

FLYING MACHINES FÖR

WAR PURPOSES.. BRITISH PROTEST TO CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

to

mn wartime and building up Navies DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER FILM. paying in anticipation all debis uteo. nd their numbers decreased. But the increases, Before his master he can not the Chinese authorities would give facili- ·

atrong enough to combat likely enemies.

AMAZING DEVICE FOR OUTWITTING OFFICIAL EXHIBITORS.

LONDON, July 28th."

The President of the Tribuns! of Commerce will have the right of deci- sion, in the event of any difficulty in determining the nature of a claim.

This was

The next scene soos her in a new home. which often proves itself a hell-where abe is given new name according to the fancy of her master. There she has got to drudge and drudge from dawn to night, from week cid to week end, from

[ARIATIC NEW AGENCY, } year to year, until the hour of her "mar- Perhaps it was this statement that The qualitieations of such a slave, whose riage strikes to restore her freedom.

PING, July 21st, prompted a resident to send

Sir Beilby Alston, British Minister, LONDON, July 29th.

for duty it is fret-to attend upon the mis- perusel a copy of The St. John's Hehe treas or her daughter, are skill in hair-ment

has sent a despatch to the Chinese Gov

Aviation A meeting of the representatives of the Shanghai) for December, 1912, in which dressing and applying, cosmetica, British shipping companies engaged in S. T. Kus. In view of today's "mass meet she fails of any duty, she is taught how the Mongolian expedition, because, is Bureau protesting appets an article on "Chinese Slavery" by is relied on as a maid-of-all-work.

She against the use of the British dying in Berlin a Note stating that the Ger-Far Eastern trade was held in London, gwhich is being convened by the two

If machines by Marshall Chang Tao-lin for man Government will acknowledge the

o discharge it reasonably well by the rat yesterday. It recommended that freight, Chinose members of the Legislative Coun-tan-stick, the whip, the bugaboo, or slap- thinese Government with the British Vi decision of the Supreme Council, which from the United Kingdom to the Farteres el in the following extracts from sc. is treated like a beast in human tirely used for commercial purposes... accordance with the stipulations of the eil, oar readers will doubtless be in-ping, pitching, etc.

Acroplate loan agreement signed by the in extreme CASLA it understands will meet shortly to deni East should be reduced by from 7s. Od. the article:

Vickers Co. the aeroplanes are to be on. with the question of the transport of a

shape." Her food is simple. Concession of the right by the Govern mean, life mirable. The worst part of dress French division across Germany.

ment to parents,, driven by "necessity to her lot, is that she is within the reach high Chines military officer who has According to the account of a certain BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHIFE.ell their children, and to famine-stricken of the avarice, hatred... 72 luge of the

people to sell themselves to be slaves, in master.

just arrived in the capital from Mukden," The latter sometimes makes order to seek a livelihood under the pro- her his own concubine ur that of his

Marshal Chang Two-lin has taken away" two additional big machines from the vision of the rich, began with the Han won-this only conditioned by the degree Government Aeronautica! Department at dynasty. In the reiga of Wen-ti, people of her beauty. If not, her owner is were seen to redeem crimes by voluntari- required by law to procure her a bus

Nanyuan to accompany the Feugtien LONDON, July 29th.

troops to Ouler Mongolia: but in reality ly passing into State slavery. The band at her marriageable year, when she the nachines are still lying at the station Details are now available of the pre-upling custom of bribery for ofhis relieved of domestic servitude and--to of the Poking-Mukden liminary proposals for dealing with the slaves of selected beauty began under the sky again, I before she has arrived at never go to Outer Mongolia because all

cial positions with gifts comprising girl use a Chinese expression-sees the blue Mukden.

Railway "at These lying machines will creditors of the Banque Industrielle de faire. This emperor had also up this stage, fortune, should turn against the press propaganda about the so-called Chine. It is proposed tant payment by intneri over the entire families of the to another household or, worst of all, ben circulated in order to divert the press geven rebellious kingdoms, and her master, she may be sold by him either Chinese military expedition to Urga has priority should be made in the ease of rebel chiefs to State servitude; in Kingti s to the brothel to live a shameful life. attention of the Russo-Mongolian rabble all claims having purely

reign even the provinces of the insurgent banking

The lot of the male slave is even The Cabinet, at a meeting attended origin, as, for example, chrques, bills, tha seething cauldron "of civil war, bought he has to repay with labour forsion of the Russian reactionary electients leader's met such a fate. As China was harder for the sum for which he was at Chit to ataack irga for the suppres so as to permit the Communist troops of the Far Eastern Russian Government etc., within six months of the granting slavery assumed more and more the shape life since his marriage is not endowed there. Now that Urga has been cap- of the réglement transactionnel, but all

of the determined fate of all captives.

Before and in the Tang dynasty theren, nay, his children's children, continue and his entourage have run away

with the gift of liberty-and his chilil-tured by the Chita troops and Ungern Instead of independent ventures, which exchanging their total claims into pre- to the Son of Heaven was, the order of Though the assumption by the boadman Chita Government hand kick the terri- -

owner. Manchuli, the question is: Will the are apparently favoured in some quar ference shares.

the times; later on, however, it began to of the surname of the family, of which tory to Chinn or to the so-called Mongo- tors in France, the Note, couched in cod. ciliatory terms, hopes to smooth the

The arrangement provides for repay. felt as an evil, so that stops were he is made a member, is now becoming lian revolutionary government at Urgat

that the annual slave tribute from Yung proved. When he is at a tender age, in taken to stop it. difficulties, although a conference

It was first decreed obsolete, his condition has scarcely in The Chinese Government did not give chay should cease. Under this dynasty good family his duty is to wait upon forces to enter into Chinesa territory for August 4th is impossible in consequence

the whip and bamboo were restored na

official permission for the Russian Red French action.

the master's son in his study; but when the suppression of the Russian reaction- punishments, so the channel of recruiting he gets advanced into manhood or old aries; but there was of State slaves was. as it were, choked, age, his duty changes while responsibility standing between Chita and Peking that ณ secret ander wane of State slavery was gradually over us abusive language; if he does, physities to the Reds who will hand back the bondage: pirates infested the coasts of atone for it. It is a gross violation of of the Ungern invaders balanced by the waxing evil of private cal punishfhent is ready to make him territory to China after the suppression Shantung-the. human beings they could lay hands upon master; be, however, can be fogged or patch

capture

of whatever relationship for a slave to strike, his specially inentioned in the official dess and the selling them as chattels to the scourged or tortured or even killed-it Minister of the Soviets at Moscow: to The Dempsey Carpentier âght had a

earliest bidder to be slaves became their remains with the authority of the owner, China, dated the 16th June, 1921.

from M. Tchichirin, Foreign- sequel in the Chancery Court, London.

lawless vocation. At the beginning of and none will intercede or dare step in Import Company a perpetual injunction which, to-day, granted the Western

PARIS, July 8th (delayed).

the Sung dynasty when Taitso occupied to cry Halt." The stockholders of the Banque Indus the dragon throne, the inhabitants of punishment for the commission of a crime In the law courts the restraining the exhibition of the film in trielle de Chine held a general meeting the southern provinces made the bargain by the bondman is, according to the penal ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE, breach of their copyright. It was ex-to-day with M; Andrew Bertheist as

of human beings a calling. The close code of the Ching dynasty, one degree jects, like the Constitution question and plained that the defendants were inno-chairman, supported by Weng Taengtses authority over the bought, whom they Hence, by reason of the unevenness of

of such bargains gave them absolute severer than in the case cent victims of a fraud, and had done representing the Chinese Government, hired out for drudgery so that in return penalty on the one hand and for the of the free.

plaintiffs through the exhibition of a Peking syndicate. ing questions at the week-end. The Con- fraudulent Sim.

Besolutions were passed approving the

The first record of debt slaves palm of the "squeezers of the court on ference at present discussing air com How the latter was greared was narrat. accounts, also the Board's application to pears also is this dynasty when the the other, the slave-however maltreated munications. The report of the specialed by the perpetrator to an interviewer. the Court for a transactional settlement and other provinces, being unable to officials. Sometimes he may redeem his poverty stricken in Fukien, Chekiang.seldom, if ever, sues for justice from the committer therrod "has not yet been pub- The perpetrator, a young New Yorker, of its liabilities. The situation is now settle. their accounts with their wealthy liberty by his labour or through the help Lished, but it is understood that it disengaged a camera-operator, who climbed quite hopeful, hardly any doubt subsist creditors, were, voluntarily or perforce, of his friends. but nevertheless the owner July 8th, 1920, which the Governments cusses several schemes based roughly on

to the water tower outside the stadium ing as to the bank's ability to weather turned over to bondage men and women has a perfect right to refuse his manu- the early institution of a permanent

on the eve of the fight, drilled a hole in out the crisis and resume business soon. alike. In the time Kaitai of Liau people mission; for the Manchu code which, to the League of Nations on the subject surrice of airships to Egypt, with experian iron tank on the top of the tower. The Chinese Government's sensible, far- mental flights in the direction of India, letting out the water and another hole seving standpoint in the affair is most pawned their children into temporary ment as a new set of laws is not yet in-

of Great Britain and Japan jointly made in fear of the wolf of hunger frequently unjust though it is, is still in enforce of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance Agree Australia, and South Africa, developing in which a telescopic lens was fixed. favourably commented upon-avas, slavery, but an Imperial Rescript ordered troduced-does not recognize the right dressed to the League the following joint subsequently a permanent regular ser- On-the termination of the fight the New

the

pawsed to return to their respective of the bondman to liberate himself by notification under the date of July 7th

ment, the two Government further ad- vice to those Dominions. The latter Yorker lifted the lid of the tank and will involve a considerable addition to found that the operator. who had been

homes, thus nipping the practice in the means of labour. bad. the airship feet, costing, according to fourteen hours inside, had fainted, but

Even though liberty. Another origin was the forced WASHINGTON, July 9th. enslavement of the innocent by unscru-

sgraatod him, after he has amassed

"Whereas the Governments of Great the newspapers, £10,000,000.

had secured, the picture, with the excep Oficial circles are entirely satisfied Pulous officials and especially military his master, sometimes, avaricious of his of Nations in their joint notification wealth in the world through industry, Britain and Japan informed the League Router belteres £6,000,000 nearer the tion of the last round, a copy of which with Japan's reply anent the Pacific conficers; the prevalence of this was for

The scheme, if adopted, will the New Yorker obtained by bribing anference. The way is now clear for the tunately checked by an edict in the Yuan claim ownership over him.

riches, may, by fraudulent involve the establishment of mooring operator at a private show of the official preliminary negotiations respecting time enslaved people in large numbers; as,

means, reof July 8th, 1920, that they recognized mast stations. It is suggested that two film. The New Yorker then sailed in a and place of meeting.

dynasty The powerful at this period

the principle that if the Anglo-Japanese The will of the slave is always sub. Alliance Agreement of July 13th, 1911, in Australia and one each in Ceylon and fast boat to London, where he sold the cedure and comprehensive consideration nehl in shansi, made bondage the lots confined to his kind; in case he has be in a form which is not inconsistent

Details of pro- for example, Troong Tang. the great ordinate to his master's. His marriage Kenya (South Africa) will suffice.

is continued after July 1921, it must prints, selling them also throughout the of the agenda before the delegations of one thousand innocent persons. Continent. They were actually being assemble is regarded as assured.

got the consent of a free woman to be with the Covenant of the League. they exhibited in London when the plaintiffs'

the sheltering of raying lads and lasses received from the master. Notwithstand further action, that they are agreed that criminal character was not attached to his wife, the final sanction has to be hereby notify the League, pending manager arrived with the official

for the purpose of selling thein as slaves the fact that he is a recognised mem. if any situation arises whilst the Agree- pictures.

until the Ming dynasty. With the com-

ber of the family, he stays outside the most remains in force in which the pro of the Japanese attitude when gin of the "Manchu dynasty ancient pale of citizenship." Yet history points cedare prescribed by the terms of the public slavery was revived in a dis. out that bondsmen have risen to bigh Ag cement is inconsistent with the pro guised but severer form-banishment; stations of power-challenging the in- since the banished, sparated from his fluence of the highest officials of the the League of Nations, then the proce cedare prescribed by the Covenant of native place by a number of miles varying State and using the emperor as a puppet. dure prescribed by the said Covenant with the seriousness of his crime, was and that female slaves have become shall be adopted and shall prevail over obliged to undertake hard labour under queens Wei Twong-vien, of the Ming that prescribed by the Agreement." the inspection of Government officers. dynasty, and Haien-tung, the last emperor

quiested in: few, if any, have questioned. But there is a brighter side to the Throughout the whole length of Chinese of Chinese in whose veins runs the blood Nistory, private slavery has been cof a slave, are excellent examples.

HINDRANCE ΤΟ

DISARMAMENT. Having given an historical account-in-three things which are unfilial, and to ton, in a cable dated July 8th, said: it as a moral, social, and economical evil, picture. Mencius "teaches, There are The Times' correspondent at Washing- complete, as it may be of this institu. have no posterity is the greatest of As time passes the American feeling of tion, the writer invites the reader's atten tion to the present conditions of slavery. is the deep-rooted custom of ancestor Japanese Treaty deepens. "I am able them. Coupled with the sage's teaching disquiet at the renewal of the Anglo- The State alaves-slaves who, if female, worship, which prompts the people to to Bay alled the harem as inferior wives to the regard the want of a son with horror.

with absolute certainty," emperor; eunuchs, who ranged from those any persons who give birth to no sons, availing to get inserted into the new writes, "that all efforts have bean un- who kept the order of the royal house purchase boya and adopt them to be treaty of alliance a clause exempting hold to those who stood head and should. sons.

These slaves as a rule have the the United States from the implications serve no good purpose, because the con

AIR COMMUNICATIONS,

OUTLINE OF PLANS.

Lospes, July 29th. While the Pacife question occupied much time at the Imperial Conference,

- rapid progress was minde with other sub.

the naval defence of the Empire,

LESUMR BUSINESS 9005."

It is hoped to dispose of the outstand. / everything to minimise damage to the and Count De Ferol, representing they might swell their pockets with their lack of the wherewithal to grease the

mari

LOUVAIN LIBRARY.

¡TS RESTORATION.

PACIFIC CONFERENCE.

American officials consider that Japan- ese opinion respecting, subjects not for discussion, cabled earlier, is not a con- dition of Japanese acceptance, but a fore-

agenda negotiations begin.

NEW YORK BUSINESS MAN'S cast

AFFAIRS."

·PROTECTIVE STEPS MERELY

PERSONAL"

NEW TELEGRAPH SYSTEM.

LOUVAIN, July 9th. The first stone of the new university library replacing that burned by the Ger- inans 1914 was laid by Mr. Murray Butler, President of Columbin Univer uity, in the presence of their Belgian Majesties and distinguished gathering.

CHRISTIANIA, July 29th. Mr. Butler is chairman of the Ame

NEW YORK, July 25th. it is reported that the Soviet Govern rican committee which is erecting the building Three English representatives affairs of Mr. Louis Liggett, head of Telegraph Company a concession to work It is announced that the personal ment has granted the Great Northern were also present, including the librarian the of the Manchester Ryland's library, which Liggett's international Co. have been mark, Japan and China, whereby the United Drag Company and of a telegraph system between Russia, Den originally promoted the reconstruction placed in the hands of trustees, owing Company scheme and which has sent 38,000 books to a decline in the market price of the Moscow and Petrograd.

must establish stations ́ ́al, 1) Louvain.

| company's common stock and forthe purpose of conserving Mr. Liggett's assets and protecting his creditors.

Mr. Liggett has issued a statement emphasising that the situation is merely personal, and that. does not in any

BOXING DISPUTE.

JOURNALISTS DECIDE

AGAINST REFEREE,

CLEVELAND (Ü810), July 9th.

sporting writers have named Bryan

way affect the financial soundness of the Co., or their respective subsidiaries.

BURDETT-

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COUTTS. M.P.

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15 fours. Andrews and Gregory scored 5) and 50 respectively. Louden took wickets for 144. Essex, in their second innings, have made 136 for 4 (Hubert Ashton 66 not out).

wages.

manumission

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FURTHER JOINT NOTE TO

LEAGUE OF NATIONS,

The Foreign Offer in Tokyo has issued statement containing the text of th statement follows:-- communication ta the League.

The

With reference to the notification of

he

AUSTRALIANS VESSEX.

LONDON, July 99th At Southend, before thirco thousand The Stato boxing commission of torn! | (Drug) Company, or of the International spectators, in brilliant weather, the era above the people, ruling and govern. best lot-they are treated as sons in every of the treaty. To conceal this fact will

Australians, on a fast wicket; completed ing together with the Manchurian slaves respect; in fact there is no distinguish their innings for 435. Collins carried-wore swept away.in the same streaming mark between them and the free.tinuance of Britain's and Japan's 850. his score to 119, including a six and which swept away despotism.it remains Of course, sa exceptions to the ill-lot ofciation in alliance, however, it may be to consider the domestic slaves, for whose bondage, generous and kind masters are

found ized, no measure taken, no law passed, visinn slave are well fed and clothed Britain and America boing in accord.

no campaign is yet organ-

under whose protection and pro- modified, is an insuperable obstacle to Seeing that there happens to be a dif. and housed While admitting that the America's policy of close and friendly ference in the treatment of male and average lot of slaves is bad, the Holot co-operation presupposes that Britain femalo slaves, let us treat them undor can eata Spartan raw loses its signific will be free from such commitments as separate headings and first the boud sor-

ance here in China. vant of the female sex.

the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The Al- If ever slavery will give way to liance will prevent any agreement regard. That the number of female slaves, far be exploited in two ways. First, because country, we have enough to revive in our possible-the solution of the Pacific. exceeds that of bondmen in China may ever it will be swept clean from this will complicate-perhaps rendering im "liberty, equality, and fraternity if ing the limitation of armaments, and

"At Harrogate, Yorkahiro defeated man is a thing newly feared from the

in this land the quality of women with memory its existence.

problem. Northamptonshiro by an innings and West, while the conservative view has have been made towards the abolition of As yet no big. philanthropic strides always been that the woman is more or less regarded as a curse,

slavery in China. The Church which misfortune, recognises to class distinction and ref a burden. Second, it is because at the padiates the difference between the

Downey as the world's middleweight DEATH OF MR. champion, asserting that in a twelve round contest here, fast night, he knocked out the holder," Johnny Wilson, in the seventh round. The referee Gardner, of Boston-which is Wilson's home town. gave Wilson the decision on a foul

NEW TYPE OF SHIP. INTERNAL COMBUSTION REPLAC ING RECIPROCATING ENGINES,

LONDON, July 28th. The death is announeed of Mr. William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett Coutts..."

LONDON, July 23th. At the annual meeting of Messrs. Arm- strong Whitworth, Sir Glyng West, the chnician, said that those most qualified to judge held the opinion that internal combustion engines would gradually re- place reciprocating engines. ultimately lending to the construction of a new typo of ship.

"AFTER THE WAR."

DATE OF OFFICIAL TERMINATION.“

LONDON, July 28th.

in House of Commons, asked whe-

COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, July 28th,

Gloucestershire by an innings and 83 At Southampton, Hampshire beat

runs.

[Mr. Burdett-Coutts was the widower of the late Baroness Burdett Coutts (one of the then rare peereszes in their own right), whom he married in 1881, assume ing his wife's name. The deceased gentle- man, who had been the, Conservative M.P. for Westminster since 1885, was 297 (7) runs. born in the U.S.A. in 1851, his father being Mr. Ellis Bartlett, of Plymouth, New England. His grandparents on both sides wero British. Mr. Burdett Coutts took an extensive part in public work, also assisting in the carrying out of the philanthropic plans of his wife, one of the wealthiest women in the United Kingdom.]

QUEEN OF HOLLAND.

Tan HAGUE, July 28th.

"FRENCH IMPERIALISM."

INTERNATIONAL REGATTA.

THE HEAT IN SHANGHAI PRESIDENT'S DEOLARATION- ATriage of the daughter tradition ro-wrongs done to the hand and the free, the average maximum- temperature" waż During the first 21 days of this month, quires her parent to provide a dowry applies the same penitential discipline A.3deg., and the average minimum tom-" 50 large that it can keep his " face to slaves as to masters and preaches perature 76.Odeg, as compared with an before his kith and kin. For these two against human inequality, has only so PARIS, July 28th (delayed). reasons, it ever a parent whose desperate far been shaping the public opinion of avera As guest of the city of Havre and of circumstances may have been

average maximum of 87.8deg, and an the French Maritime and Colonial caused by famine, inundation, gamer our people against the evil; (this effort,

average minimum of 77.20deg, for the we hope, will bear a rich result). Ex.. samo period last year. The temperatures League, M. Millerand attended the Inter- or smoking (which may be regarded as cept the Door of Hor," national Regatta. He reviewed the the father of slavery in China) would in Shanghai for Chinese girls from this month there was 2.65in. of rain, a

were taken in a shaded position near the a rescue York Cathedral. French Channel Equadron and Allied sell his children as a necessity, be would being sold for immoral practices, and the

During the first 21 days of warships anchored in the roadstead, the first dispose of all his daughters before

attempt to rompared with 303in, for the correspond- ing period last year. The highest, tem- down his family name and to worship anti-alavory crusade. But now "China Oth instant, and the highest temperature So far, the State, too, has raised no perature this month was 97.0deg on the him after death. At present, domestic is entering the great comity of nations during the first 21 days of July last year. alaves aro mostly bought through with a demand for

brokers of human feat at privs 1ng of aluts or treatment on a foot was 14.01g, on July 5th, 6th and 1202-

thalition. Dolly Newr. varying according to health, age, and of slavery in necessary to display the action ones with the signature of the to protect a large number of citizens general appearance. The whole trans equality before the law of human beings;

tween the dear parent (1) and the helpower; to raise the standard of public music, for which they are quite extra- authority of the acquirer and usually hitherto almost unprotected in practice: would give up politics, for which they I only wish indeed that the English in a tragic scone of the departure be to improve the morality of the slave have no capacity whatever, and take to Ice girl-perhaps never to meet again. morala; to check kidnapping"!

ordinarily gifted-Mr. Bernard Shaw.

To

Now that the Cabinet crisis has been British cruiser Dauntless and the Ameri. giving up his son, upon whom, howevlavo Refuge no material ther he was able to announce the approx-i settled Queen Wilhelmina, accompanied can battleship Pittsburg being especially unfilial he may be, he relies to hand check its advance is made. imate date of the official termination of by Princess Julians, sails on August 3rd, conspicuous.. the war, Mr. Lloyd" George replied aboard the steainer Merope on a visit

September 1st next, except as regards to the Norvegian Fjords, 1

Speaking at the dinner of the Obam Turkey,"

ber of Commerce, M. Millerand said that **DUTCH SHIPPING BILL

France had to fight and pay dearly for peace. Now she means to keep it and THE HAOUS, July 25th surprise; otherwise France

to provide, in every way against any The Dutch South African Bhipping ambition. PARIA, July 20th, ..... The Bank of France, has reduced its Subsidy Bill bas passed the first Chamatated, is a meaningless expression

BO French Impérialism" he discount rate to sh per cent

bar by 19 votes to 13

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BANK OF FRANCE.

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