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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH SKUTER'S AGENCY.].

FUTURE OF PHILIPPINES.

AANILA, October 17th. Speaking at his Inauguration 3 Governor-General of the Philippines.

BYOKAMOB

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH,

DISORDER IN EGYPT.

NATIONALIST LEADER'S TRIP.

LEADS TO SHARP FIGHT.

Losdon, October 17th.

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ARRIVAL OF CHERLIN CHAPLIN."

"SPEECH "THROUGH THE ETHER."

SIR O. LODGE ON WIRELESS

pupular Government to the fullest extent the evening. Zaglul was not allowed Wages should be maintained at the war public notice after the marriage of nights. thinking of the arrival of My things-tolegraphed and ran electric

mbodied in the Jones Bill.

IF WASHINGTON CONFER

ENCE FAILS.

NEW AND POWERFUL FAR.

EASTERN FLEET."

to land, but he made a speech from the steamer counselling the people to disperse quietly.

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SINN FEIN OUTRAGES.

COMPENSATION AWARDED.

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THREATENED U.S. RAILWAY

OUR LONDON LETTER.

The arrival of Mr. Charlie Chaplin in STRIKE.

DEATH OF A NOTABLE ADMIRAL London has not show the great Metro- politan Press in the very best light. The ABSENCE OF PUBLIC SYMPATHY.

[TROM OUR OWN COXLESPONDENT.]

cinoma "star" has been written up for weeks past. It is scarcely an exaggera NEW YORK, "October 18th.

LONDON, September 15th.

sion to say that we have had Charlie

AN ASTONISHING FEAT It is anticipated that if the threatened The trip of Zaglul Pasha, the Na- railway strike eventuates over half-a-THE MARQUIS OF HILFORD KAVEN.

Chaplin from: hour-to-hour. Anybody who remembered, or thought he remem scientific principles underlying wireless "Speech" through the other: or the million will cease work on the 30th inst., GENERAL WOOD'S INAUGURATIONtionsliet leader, up the Nile led to a

and that two millions will be out on The tribute paid to the character and Kennington was interviewed and photo given by Sir Oliver Lodge in the Ushar bered, Charlie, as & poor little boy at telephony was the subject of a lecture. SPEECH.

short but fierce fight at Assiut between November 2nd. The men were already achievements of the Marquis of Milford graphed, until the stunt became ridi Hall. Edinburgh, on September 8th. on Zaglulites and supporters of the Prime opposed to the 12 per cent. reduction of Haven by newspapers of every shade of culous because of the maltitude who the ove of the meeting of the British

wages ordered by the Labour Board. A opision is remarkable. The, note in all claimed acquaintance with him when he Association in that city Minister, Adly Pasha, Sticks and stones subsequent notice of further cuts has of them is genuine and sincere. For was quite unknown. were used and a shot was fired from the of the Chicago Great Western Railway known down to 1917 as Frince Logis of lack to his native land were Press photoreal thing in the material universe. It added Enel to the dame. The President many years the late nobleman, who was On the ship that brought the favourite.

To him. he said, 'ather was the most crowd whereupon the police fired several predicts that the railways will be able Batterburg, performed work for the graphers and special correspondents. The penetrated the pores of matter, even into General Leonard Wood said that he in-volleys in the airjand the crowd scattered. public sympathy with the railwaymen was when it was fashionable to refer ing how he played deck quoits, smoked ture, and it extended to the farthest coa

to carry on, owing to the absence of Royal Navy of permanent value. Tima atter sent messages by wireless describ- the innermost recesses of atomic strpe- intended to establish a policy of efficiency. Twenty-ons were injured of whom one

The Tribune explains that the public, slightingly to economy and morality, with a view to subsequently died. Order was restored incomes, does not see why railmen's prinealings whose

"the Battenburgs,"

By its aid they.. having had to submit to a reduction of phrase that included the whole family of someone or other on board, until at last saw and analysed the nebula at distances

a cigarette, and gave his autograph to fines of visible space. names .cano into you might have imagined the people of too wast for anything but mind. lersh

this great country could not sleep o Through it, too, they did more pressio Prince Henry to Princess Beatrice. But Charlie Chaplin. It is, of course, a trib motors, even tramway cars, guiding the things have changed with the passage of "the years."

ute to the power of the newspapers, and energy by a wire itself inert But one The late Lord Milford Haven will be Agent who arranges such things.

uiere so to the cleverness of the Publicity thing the other did not do was to convey remembered in history as the man who

sound. ..

They saw through the other; I wonder, assuming that it were pos- they did not talk through it. They could LONDON, October 18th, pressed "the" button when war was sible for Mr. Charlie Chaplin to express utilize the ether for the conveyance at The Recorder of Cork has awarded declared, and ordered the Grand Flest an honest opinion on the subject, whe sound only by transmutation. The Smith, who was captured by Sinn Feiners Powers. Towards the end of July, 1914.that there is something lacking in the must be delivered up to £10,000 to the widow of Major Compton to take the men against the Central ther he would not be the first to admit sound, vibrations must Be transmuted, while on a sketching expedition to the Fleet, which had been assembled for understanding of a section of the London travel as radiation, and at the distant the ether to Blarney in April and subsequently shet maneuvres, was about to disperse; but Press and public which necords hini a station it must be received by something Lord Castlemaine has been awarded he foresaw trouble in the Austrian-ulti Stenter notoriety-and-welcome-than-war-which-could-transmute the energy back 101,339 compensation for the destrue. natura to Serbin, and on his own res ever necorded to the heroes of the late to sound again.. agreed during the Imperial Conference Zaglul accordingly abandoned his visits tion of Moydrum Castle on July 3rd. ponsibility kept the ships mabilished at war on land and sea

The widow of Brigadier-General Lam-Spithend. Thus when the final crash PREMIER'S AMERICAN ADMIRERS.

Sir Oliver Lodge described wireles bert, the allicer who was shot while res came the Germans never had

The present of a

telephony as an astonishing fest Ha #chance.

cabinet of choice turning from a tennis party on June to get their ships out of Kiel, and were cigars to Mr. Lloyd George by a party the wireless transmission of

was not, he raid, specially astonished by Soth, has been awarded 19,000.

hotiled up. There is no doubt this fact of American admirers passing through signals, like the dot and dash of ordin profoundly influenced the course of the London is one of those little courtesies ary telegraphy. It was no more dificult GEN. PERSHING "WELCOMED war at sea.

which strike the popular imagination. to send impulses naross

space than to The gift was sent all the way to the guide them by wires IN LONDON,

Highlands, where the Prime Minister is cani had made practical as wireless

What Mr. Mar Those who are in a position to speak un sengers who are a familiar sight in the might have been regarded as an improve- on holiday, by one of the District mes might have come in first, and then wires. the subject, are agreed that Lord Milford London streets. Mr. Lloyd George knows ment, like speaking through Haven was a born sailor. It is said that how to seize upon the dramatic possibili- instead of shouting into the open air. a tube LONDON, October 16th.

his enthusiasm for a sailor's life may be ties of a situation. He appeared on the Any mechanical sending key, and many General Pershing, accompanied by

traced to his reading of the yarns of terrace of his Highland retreat, and was Field-Marshal Wilson, was met on arrival Marryatt and other writers of seafaring photographed signing a receipt for the that

A mechanical relay could accomplish. from Paris, at Victoria Station by an fiction. At the age of 14 he became a cabinet, and telling the messenger that But no mechanical relay could foliow distinguished company, including Lord cadet in the British Navy; and, unlike the gold pen he had in hand was that the variations of quality in human Lee, Sir-Worthington Evans. Captain same personages of high estate, be with which he signed the Peace Treaty voice: no agency short of the electron Guest, and representatives of other thoroughly understood his job. The late That is just the touch that was calculated would be quick and docile enough. Ministries and Departments. A great Lord Fisher once described him as my to ensure a paragraph being sent round

But crowd of British and Americans cheered heat captain," and the compliment was the world.

with their aid the feat was accomplished... vigorously. The Duke of Connaught not an empty.one.

Apropos of this incident. I have heard the intermediary could travel a thousand. and the electric waves which acted as will entertain the visitor at luncheon at But within three months of the outfit said in the Clubs that although the miles or more before being received and St. James' „Palace, to-morrow.

break of war he met the tragedy of his would be a mistake to suppose that he

Prime Minister received this gift it once again transmuted. professional career. It is all to his credit would be prepared to accept similar courtesies from strangers. If he were to do so there are possibilities, and this is an imperfect world.-H.B.

Lornox, October 17th. The Daily Express understands that. the British and Dominions-Governments

that if the Washington Conference Inited) to result in an understanding regarding the Pacific it would be necessary to estab-

Jish a new and powerful Far Eastern fleet, the strategic headquarters of which would be at Singapore. The Express adds that the new Beet, if it comes into exist

Considerable crowds had assembled at[". Sohag in Upper Earpt. to welcome Zaglul but owing to the possibility of disorder the reception committee, after consulting the authorities, znet the steamer and advised Zaglul not to land.

to Sohag and Cirgeh. ASSASSINATED IN MOSCOW. SECRETARY TO A POLISH COMMISSION.

WARSAW, October 17th. Frankiowicz, secretary to the Polish eace," will be the joint confers of the Repatriation Commission has been assas Dominions and Britain.

sinated in Moscow.__

"SITUATION IN BELFAST.

MURDERS AND THREATS.

LONDON, October 16th.

Messages from Belfast continue to re- port_desultory Fring in the streets Young Protestant Shipyards Workers were found murdered on Saturday evening, "white an official communiqué, mentiona two further minor affairs on Sunday. Order was restored our the arrival of Crown furces..

The communiqué atids that a number of threatening letters have been served

ou Protestants, giving them 48 Hours in which to quit their homes or be bombed THE SILESIAN QUESTION. RECOMMENDATIONS ENDORSED BY AMBASSADORS CONFERENCE.

PABIS, October 16th. The Ambassadors Conference has ac- cepted the recommendations of the League

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. HIGH-POWER INSTALLATION ON P.&O. STEAMER..

LONDON, October 17th.

A message from Capetown states that the Peninsulag and Oriental steamer, Baradine, with high-power wireless aboard, has been in constant direct touch with Bordeaux during her voyage-from England to Capetown. She has iso distinctly heard Annapolis and San Francisco.

Paris, October 16th.

An important international agreement, providing for co-operation via the full development of scientific and technical im-] Provements of wireless services through eat the world, has been reached by the four principal wireless, telegraph com- panies of the British Empire, France, Germany and the United States. It in- cludes an arrangement which will prevent

of Nations relative to Upper Silesia. the wasteful use of the relatively few

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TO HONOUR "THE UNKNOWN. WARRIOR."

RUSSIA'S PLIGHT.

́THOUSANDS OF STARVING TARTARS.

REVAL, October 16th. Thousands of starving Tartars from the Volga region have arrived at the town of Gdow, on the north-eastern shore of Lake Peipus. Half of the party died from starvation during their two months' directed to the Exthonian frontier on the wanderings, The refugees have been ground that foodstuffs are more easily procurable there than elsewhere.

L'ENTENTE CORDIALE,

LOVE FOR THE BEÀ.

that he bore the misfortune like a man. Feeling against Germany was so intense that he became the object of wague rumours. There were people who saw the sinister power of Hidden Hand" in everything. In the circumstances, he resigned his position as an Admiral of the Fleet. The story is told that soon afterwards he met a friend in Pall Mall who jokingly, remarked that it was rumoured in London that his Lordahip London. No, you are astern with your had been interned in the Tower of news," he replied rather ruefully,

was shot at dawn this morning."

WANTED A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

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THE RESTORATION OF AUSTRIA.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS' SCHEME EXPLAINED.

"The

France, Italy and Japan-made a de four Allied Powers-Britain claration in March last that, on the understanding that Austria desired the application of the International Credit Scheme of the League of Nations, they would release for a period of years their lions under the Treaty of St. Germain in respect of claims against the Austrian Government for the cost of armies of provided other interested Governments occupation. relief credits, and reparations agreed to similar postponement,

four Powers declared that they were taking the accessary steps to obtain

other Powers.

A MUSICAL NOTE.

COLISH

One more principle he must emphasize. How could the human ear or any lustru ment follow variations of millions a secondi It could not. Only the electron could do that. If in addition to the oscillations coming. from distant station they set up home oscillations, in a small subsidiary vacuum tube; of near ly the same frequency-it the incoming" waves vibrated a million, mes, for in-... stance, while their local arrangement vibrated a million plus 500-what would happen? They would beat They would give 500 beats a second, and that was a musical note. To that they could ten, and upon that the variations of intensity could be superposed.

Details of their execution will be dis-wave-lengths available for long-distance AGRICULTURE AND VITICUL. | in all its bearings, came to the conclu- tho release of the liens on the part of the a thousand times, by using the electrons

used to-morrow.

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The Geneva award was notified to the Allied High Commission at Oppeln.

"EASTERN ADMIRAL'S "

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MISHAP.

· STEAMER ARRIVES SAFELY AT

ALEXANDRIA...

ALEXANDRIA, October 17th." The steamer Easter Admiral, which recently broke down 16 miles from Alexandria, has arrived.

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DR. WELLINGTON KOO. RETURNS TO LONDON FROM

PARIS.

LONDON, October 17th. Dr. Wellington Koo bas returned London from Paris,

to

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR. WANTS COMMONWEALTH TO BE SUPREME POWER.

LONDON, October 17th. The Times' correspondent at Melbourne states that the Interstate Labour Con- ference passed a resolution in favour of making the Commonwealth the supreme governing authority-in' Australia, with unlimited.powers, the States having only such functions as the Commonwealth confers. The resolution provides for the abolition of the Senate and also for vest ing the final jurisdiction of all causes in the High Court and for disallowing Acceptance of Imperial honours by Aus tralian citizens.

communication.

EARLIER CABLES. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN GREEK PREMIER.

VISIT TO PARIS AND LONDON.

Arsexi, October 18th.

TURE.

That was not the first plan adopted. PARIS, October 15th.

The savants of the British Association

The first plan was the utilization of The papers are giving prominence to

at Edinburgh have been discussing

crystals and other detectors, such as the Times leader emphasizing the necessity among many other things the question

Fleming valve, to rectifs the oscillation of the English-speaking democracies and what is the best and most practicable

to check all the negative pulse, and France keeping close together,

tongus for adoption as an international

utilize all the positive-to let only one feet harmony between France and Britain that the wise men have carried the sub

alve The papers are rejoicing over the per auxiliary language. But i fail to observe

sign through. Thus they got the vacuum Haras.

But soon this was improved by over the Upper Silesian question.joct any farther along the road of know

Lee Forest into a magnifier; so that ledge. A Committee. of the Association,

an original impulse, exceedingly weak. having carefully considered the matter

could be strengthened a hundred or even. sion that Latin is too difficult, that a

es relays and putting a number of relays modern language would offer undue ad-

The object of this auspension of liens in series. vantages, and that an invented language available for valuation and

was to make Austrian assets free and The persistent drought is greatly bum-

So also for transmitting the magnif pering autumnal tillage. The vintage is pared to decide between Esperanto and

is the best. They are not, however, pre security for foreign credit on the lines of impulses from the first valve, the ane

ing device was available. изе 3.5

The electric... first-rate, quality.-Havas.

four Powers also But while the learned are talking at Committee of the Leage of Nations to

asked the Financial coll be used to stimulate another valve, need not be given to the ether they Edinburgh all the world knows that the problem is in process of glution. Eng Austria on the basis of this declaration the

organise a scheme for application to Sa 13 to increase their intensity until

waves generated lih is largely in use in every country on The Financial Committee obtained from enough to be allowed to rush across the powerful

zon race will carry you now all over definite declarations from all the Austrian the fraction of a second. And there, earth. The tongue spoken by the Anglo- the Austrian Government, supported by Atlantic. That they were able to do

when this could only be said of out drastic internal reforms, and duties wide by that time, yet they preserved Fre.ch.

residue, since they had spread far, and Moreover, French is not any the period of transition the Committee langer the acknowledged language of sees its way to obtain for Austria foreign fail their peculiarities intact; every pos diplomacy, a privilege it has enjoyed till advances without which she can make no of the speech was retained and could be recently since the days of Louis the progress.

reproduced, and by adequate magnifica- Fourteenth. The Peace Treaty was drawn

The World Cotton Conference in Eng-tion could be made easily audible. English as well as French; and, land unanimously supported the scheme although our friends across the Channel in the interests of foreign trade stabilisa have tried to get the French language showed a litme besitation in suspending tion and revival. First of all Italy

"ENGLAND HAS DONE HER approved as

oficial at tho forth hor liens, but there is every prospect of coming Washington Peace Conference, her now falling into line.

SHARE."

to have its rightful place. they have not succeeded, and English is

leea abundant than expected, but of quite Ido, both of which are frankly artificint the International Credit Scheme. The directly actuated by the microphone.

FRANCO-JAPANESE LOAN

RENEWED.

were

mier, M. Gounaris, who, with the Foreign French loan of yen 50,000,000, due mid-Europe, although the time is not long political parties undertakings to carry though what arrived was only a feeble

The Chamber, by 227 votes out of 240, passed a vote of confidence in the Pre- Minister, M. Baltazzis, accordingly em barks on a destroyer to-day for Brindisi en route to Paris and London to explain the views of Greece in regard to Asin Minor to the Governments of the Powers. ENEMY IGNORE THE SELF- STYLED GOVERNMENT OF

CONSTANTINOPLE

Ho

but,

It is unoficially reported that the Japanese negotiations respecting the November, has resulted in a two years renewal upon very favourable terms- Haras.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

(BY COURTESY OF THE CHINA MAIL.”).

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CHINA.

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The Chamber was packed and there were large crowds outside. M. Gounaris' speech was frequently, applauded. stated that Greece now occupies six times DEATH OF A WOMEN'S LEADER IN as much territory in Asia Minor as pro- vided for by the Treaty of Sevres and almost the entire railway system, despite undoubted Greek superiority, the

SHANGHAI, October 17th. enemy has refused to submit. Referring to Dr. Fearn's Sanitarium of Miss Grace The death occurred on Saturday at the action of the "self-styled Government Coppock, general secretary of the Na of Constantinople," M. Gounaris consider tions! Young Women's Christian Associa ed that the real Turkey was the Govern- tion of China. Miss Coppock's death ment of Angora, und said Greece held removes one of the greatest women leaders mandate from the thres great Powers in and will be felt in every province and Asia Minor, but a more complete entente section of the country.

with these was necessary.

MM. Gounaris and Baltazzia will also visit Rome.

THE DISTURBANCES IN INDIA GREAT OFFENSIVE IMPENDING:

AGAINST THE REBELS.

BOMBAY, October 16th.

The march of events is solving the question of a common speech throughout the world; and English seems to be des British Association appear to have been tined to occupy that great position. The wasting time!

BAILING BEPS GOING CHEAP.

German sailing ships have been chang: During the last few days surrendered prices ranging from one to two thousand ing hands at auction in London at

The chief anxiety now is the attitude of Amerien creditor, and if she does not suspend her America is the biggest liens it will place the whole scheme in jeopardy.

A NATIONALIST'S VIEW.

late Mr. John Redmond, in an interview, Mr. Redmond Howard, nephew of the referred to the reply made by Bir James land to the Redmond plan." trial should be given by Northern Ire- Craig to his suggestion that a ten years'

the bounds of the Finance Committee of The matter is for the present, outsido the League, whichis waiting to know how far the Supreme Council has been able Minister has rather misunderstood

"I am afraid the Northern Prime to effect its side of the bargain The request. Mr. Redmond Howard said, Europe as a means of setting Austria on asked both Mr. de Valera and Sir James schame is looked upon most hopefully by

my financial and industrial quarters in to secede from the Empire. In effect I and has regarded it as an invitation

throughing is done, or if something is pire, unity of Ireland, and safeguard- her legs, and having a health repercussion Craig to give a ton years trial to the

Europe pounds. They have been of from between

Redmond formula of integrity of Em- ber magazines writes The title of equipped with all the latest devices for plete clos in Austria. There is anxiety of saving Ireland from the worst cetas- A Home paper reviewing the Septem-three and four thousand tons, and are not done soon, there is prospect of coming of the minority, as the one means "Two Hotels" in the current issue enabling them to compete with the grim to know what America'sly will be to trophe since the day of Cromwell. How of Blackwhod's Magazine gives no and grimy ocean steamers. The appear the request of the Supreme Council She ever, Sir James points out in his reply indication of Hope. Dawlish's sound ance of these vessels in the Thames, with

is not being asked to be generous but to that the Act leaves it open. for the estab reasoning on Chinese and German pro- their towering masts and tapering spars, make possible a business scheme for im blems. One is surprise to find, not has evoked the enthusiasm of all seafaring Proving business, including her own.

lishment at a real unity in the form, of a Superior Council. Ireland is, in fact, merely a pleasant story of the idiosyn folk who have seen them riding at cracies of hotel life, but a plea for a anchor. It is understood that they will

given a right to draft her own constitu lifting of the policy of revenge with re-all be purchased on German, account,

tion, and the real difficulty lies in the gard to reparations, From the mysteri-and return to that country for service in

NEW SMELTING PROCESS. separatist demand put forward suddenly ous doings of the cosmopolitans who the nitrate trade with South America.

at the last election, after Ireland had haunt, the Wagons Lits Hotel, Peking,

One of the chief objects of Mr. Massey's been for a hundred year pledged to im hedrifts warily and unnoticed until he hope expressed in some quarters that was to witness experiments in the melt-

I mention the matter because of the visit to Darlington (Darham) recently, perialien as an equal partner. A Martial-Law Ordinance has been valuable work rendered during the war

launches out into a description of the soms at least of the ships may be bought ing of Taranaki iron sand at Summer halfway by accepting the principle of "Ulster has already gone "more than promulgated, providing for the constitu- by Chinese labour battalions, subtly ad- under the Red Ensign. They son's works. The Government has engag has now changed its historic attitude. tion of military courts to try certain

Home Rule; it is Sinn Fein which offences in the martial law ten, co vancing this and other good reasons as ought to be of use as cadet ships, ita ed an eminent metallurgist to report ing the commission of acte calculated to consequent on the Boxer risings should England how to handle vessels under system of electric furnaces with a hearth and many a time when we were boys grounds on which the burden of debt said, for training the future mariners of upon a series of experiments with a It was my grandfather who in 1873 frat. REALISES THREE AND A QUARTER interfere with the success of military or he lessened or even cancelled." Is evil canvas, for such knowledge is the founds of dolomite. A great heat is generated, my uncle used, to tell my cousin and put forward the Home Bule principle, MILLION FRANCE.

police operations and communication to never to be blotted out by good!! hetion of real seamanship and cannot be sufficient to liquify titanic acid, conse myself that it would be our duty, if the rebels of information in regard to queries, PARIS, October 18th. the movements of troops. The Police Herquarter larly by her buy the suggestion is that there are people of and steel of high-quality are produced. well to carry on the old tradition Pr

Similarly describing obtained in any other way. Another quently, the furnace is not choked. Iron The sale of the celebrated Ferrari courts will consist of first-class Magis Occupation at the Doma Hotel, Cologne, leisure with sufficient romance left in It is said that if electricity were obtain I hold that England has done her share

him they downed collection of stamps has been concluded trates or Sessions Judges with powers he gives a good idea of the amienhle them even in this prosaic age to induce able at a cost one-tenth of a penny, per at Paris, and his yielded a total of similar to those of a summary general relations between our soldiers and the them to patronise a sailing ship in pre-unit, or £3 each horse power per annum, 3,271,837 francs. The highest price given court-martial, but death sentences will Germans, pointing a very obvious moral.ference to a liner for a voyage across the the electric system would be cornmer was 113,000 francs for an unused block have to be confirmed by the Generul com- Hope Dawlish is a pen name world. But as to this of six 1843 double Gensyas.

manding the district.

used by Sir Francia Piggott.}?

Tha_my_mally payable, as it would enable small- doota!!!

quantities of ore to be melted,

VALUABLE STAMP

COLLECTION.

A message from Malabar states that a great offensive against the rebels is expected to begin almost immediately."

DRASTIC METHODS DECIDED".

-UPON.

SIMLA, Ocober 16th.

in this last offer. It is up to those who have always maintained that Home Bule meant neither disruption nor persecution to fight for the principle of Imperial unity and toleration of minorities.

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