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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES: THROUGH BELTER'S AGENCY.] GENOA CONFERENCE. AMERICA WILL NOT JOIN HAGUE, CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON. May 15th. The State Department has declined the invitation to participate in the Hague
Conference.
THE GENOA CONFERENCE OVER AGAIN.
LATER. The statement, which we transmittedl by the American Ambassador to Italy. says the United States" is unable to cofl. clude that it can helpfully participate in the meeting at The Hague, a it would would appear to be a continuance, under a different nomenclature, of the Genoa Conference, and it is destined to encoun- ter the same difficulties if the attitude discard in the Russian memorandam of 11th ist. remains unchanged.“.
THE FUNERAL CHANT OF GENOA. AMERICA'S DECISION CAUSES"
DESPONDENCY.
1 LONDON, May 15th, For the moment, at all events, sceptics and believer alike are inclined to chant the funeral oration of many of Genoa's
bop:x.
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Yesterday was day of alternating courage and despair, with a distinct re- "vival of optimism towards midnight, when M. Rakowsky stated, albeit with aaron reservations regarding the wis- dt thereof, that Russia would go to the Hagar. Simultaneously the American Ambassador to Italy is credited with stating that he believed the United States would participate. Indeed it is widely reported that passages providing, Erstly, no separate agreements, secondly, the commission to report to Governments
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17TH, 1919.
LATEST CABLES. ANGLO-JAPANESE RELATIONS PRINCE'S VISIT A SOURCE OF GRATIFICATION.
In ta13
LONDON, May 15th, editorial on Anglo-Japanese relations, with special relation to the Prince of Wales visit, the Daily Tele- graph says; if the visit has placed the traditional friendship of the two nations on a new basis containing elements of permanence, that is a development which will be a source of gratification to the people of Great Britain.
U.S.A. SUPREME COURT
RULINGS."
LIQUOR IN TRANSIT LIABLE TO SEIZURE
WASHINGTON, May 13th:
that decided The Supreme Court
across the United liquors in transit 3tates, from one foreign port to another. are liable to seizure under the prohibition
law. TRADING IN FUTURES NOT TO BE TAXED. General relief is felt
sourceR
THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA,
A MOSCOW DOUBTS ON
MESSAGE
LONDON, May 15th." Official Soviet
in London gloomily deny the correctnews of the Moscow official telegram cables on the 13th inst., and declare that the nerd British greater than ever. Millions are being on starvation rations, while three and half millions are bereft of the necessaries of life.
and
American apistance
ד'
of
'SCOTTISH LEITER.
THE LABOUR BLUNDER AT KILMARNOCK,
SCOTLAND'S "AIN GAME.
The Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society is a venerable body, although we need not date it back to the year 1899, fr couple it with the battle of Bannockburn. As Dr. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]`· Wallace Williamson puts it, "Somebody lost the minutes." Lord Anderson, to Epixon, March 22nd.
whom the problem of the Burgess's age was As times goes on, it becomes more certain anbmitted, is not greatly troubled with_the land's ain game." If it was merely a ques- that the Labour party made a great blunder question of dates in the matter of "Scot when they rojected the Right Hon. Andrew tion of dates and club minutes the Black- Fisher as candidate for the Kilmarnock heath Golf Club might chhim precedence members of the Society at their annual dinner the Moderates among the Labourists are not to remember that when James I. of Scot fed Burghs at next election. All over Scotland over the Burgess. His Lordship naked the a little upset at the affrent to which the land went with his followers to London to take possession of England, and manage the local rank and file bare subjected the ex-
affairs of England, which Scotsmen had done Premier of Australia. For some time.ever since, there was no doubt that "old every effort of Labour has been directed Scotch Jimmy" and the other Scots took fowards undoing the dunge to their cauan their golf clubs with them, and it was they who founded the Blackheath Golf Club. of which the Extremists have been guilty: Accordingly, if Blackbeath was the oldest and just when the general public bad golf club in the world, it was founded by begin to forgot certain Bittle unpleasant Sectsmen. Lord Anderson has not the incidents' Kilmarnock steps in with a vota alightest doubt that Jingling Geordie Heriot instigated by the "Reds" of the West of was the first treasurer. Not only did James Scotland. It's enough to make a man VI. piny golf, but so did his mother, Blazy swear!" is the verdict of one of our most Stuart; and James VI. played golf,it was prominent Labour leaders. It is fully in his time that one of those Acts of Parlia recognised that the Kilmarnock Labourists, meat was promulgated forbidding the people in turning down their fellow townsman, to play at "gowff or fitba, or any other were acting within their rights. At the unprofitable game." same time his public recorl and his strong local connection ought to have made him a good candidate for the constituency, in the opinion of the party headquarters. Fisher, when asked if he had anything to say about the resolution of the Kilmarnock
No complaints."
The interpretation placed on the earlier message is that famine aid reached its highest level on April 15th.
The previous cable said:-An official telegram from Moscow states that the worst of the famine crisis on the Volga was passed April 18th, when six and a quarter million people were receiving relief. The fact that thirty million poods of seed have been supplied makes the future more hopeful.]
COTTON INDUSTRY DISPUTE. GENERAL LOCK-OUT THEATENE LONDON, May 13th. The cotton meeting at Manchester men in trade tioned in a cable of the 11th inst., decided
Mr.
BRA¶ABLE, STHOKK.
GOVERNMENT." "AND PRESS. ·
LORD BURNHAM'S PLEA FOR
BETTER FACILITIES.
Lord Burnham was the guest of the Foreign Press Association at huncheon on March 16th at the Cafe Royal. The chair
correspondent of Le Journal and president was taken by M. J. DE MABaillac, London of the association, who said they greeted Lord Baraham as a brother of the pen.
LORD BURNHAM said the right per formance of the duties of the foreign cor- respondert was essential to the pence of the world. He believed the comradeship" of journalists throughout the world to be a real and living thing. No one would dony, be thought, that London was the news centre of the world. If there was over to be a Press Bureau of the Universe it would assuredly be located in London, for we had here the nucleus of a universal system of listening posts. The position carried. heavy duties and great responsibilities.
He knew something of the work of a special correspondent during the Jameson foreign correspondent, having acted as Raid-certainly it was for his own new- paper [laughter); bat, nevertheless, he had had the experience. The facilities provided for foreign newspaper representatives in this country were not yet sufficient or satisfactory. Those present were better. treated now than formerly, but he said to the Government that the conditions under which they worked could be, and ought to be, improved. (Cheers.) Almost up to the year in which the war began they were when they want to the Foreign Office for information they seldom got beyond a Civil Service messenger..
eireles it consequence of another decision that unless the men resumed they would Trades Unionists and Co-operators roped, occurred in a watch on the course at Kin, treated almost as undesirable aliens, and
declare a general lock-out, involving 110,000 workers.
of the Supreme Court, namely, the ruling
The previous cable stated: The Fede- ont of the section recently enacted..._re
convoked a meeting to consider a general garding futures in the Trading Law, iration of Master Cotton Spinners bave posing a tax of twenty cents a bush lock-out unless n settlemens is reached in connection with the suspension of work on speculative dealings in futures,
in two Oldham mills. The employers NO TAX ON PROFITS FROM CHILD contend that the operatives are violating
agreements.}
LABOUR.
The Supreme Court also ruled out the Child Labor Law, which taxes the profits of concerns employing children.
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EARLIER CABLES.
TURKISH BARBARITY IN ASIA MINOR INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATING BODY PROPOSED.
LONDON, May 13th.
In the House of Commons, in reply to
The perfect fluke, as the hole in one has beet called, though it turns up at regular interrals on our goling greens, has always peculiar interest of its own. A cotable coincidence in this connection recently in the Firth of Clyde, in which Sheriff J. B. THE LONDON SCOTTISH AND MESSINER, Ballingall was one of the players. Mr. The London Scottish' memorial at Mes- Ballingall hit a full iron stroke from the
He would recommend for consideration sines will be a tall cross of granite, orna- tenth tee, and the ball carried into the hole mented with the badge of the regiment, and remained there. That was in itself here the system in use in the United States, and upon its contral column will be in startling event, but it did not alone dis- where the President received every Thurs- scribed the various countries, places, and tinguish the occasjon. Two holes later one day, the journalists of all countries, and dates of service. The inscription on the of his opponents, Mr. Charles Cassels, jur., answered their questions frankly. These base, will read, "Near this spot, on Alla locul player, also holed a full iron from interviews were private, and those who Hallowe'en, the London Scottish came into the tee, his ball lighting on the green and attended them were placed on their pro
Sherift fessional honour not to report them. To action, being the first Territorial regiment trickling gently into the hole.
Ballingall is an old hand in the matter of the best of the speaker's knowledge the to engage the enemy."
holes in one, for this latest fout brioga bis President's confidence, had never been total up to five. Not the least curious abused. Lady Hops, whose death at an advanced aspect of the perfect fluke is its distribution The Prass, concluded Lord Burnhain, age is announced, was a daughter of General in history. For some it never happens in a
must be international. Sir Arthur Cotton of Wolcot, Dorking, lifetime at all, and with others it multiplies, there were already three "Internationals" Mr. Emanuel Nobel, interviewed with Surrey, and the second wife of Admiral Sir Harry Vardon, strange to relate, has done (laughter); so he supposed the Fress was regard to the report cabled on the 13th James Hope of Carriden. As Commander only one solitary hole with the single stroke, the fourth, even as it was the fourth estate, inst, dented that his Company had sold in-Chief in China, the Admiral brought and that was nearly 20 years ago. Sandy and in his opinion this fourth inter- " single ebare to the Standard Oil about the capture of Pekin. He was Herd, however, has been prodigal in this
to anyone else. The deal wounded, and died at Carriden House in respect; he has a record of no fewer than national made more for the peace and Company, or mentioned was probably between the 1881, his grave in the old churchyard 15, of which all hot four have been done at prosperity of the world than all the others Bolshevists and the Standard Oil Com-adjoining being mounted with a cable from Coombe Hill. There he has actually done put together. He added that, contrary
one of his old ships. It was in Bo'ness four holes twice in one, and one bole three but rather lost heavily, by war.
to an old belief, newspapers did not profit, The report mentioned was
on that Lady Hops began her life-long tem-times. Several remarkable incidents have nouncement by the Standard Oil Com-perance and religious activities, and one of been recorded. Players have boled in one owners with the Nobel interrats in Nobel Russian oil properties.]
RUSSIAN OIL P RCI FRTIES. STANDARD OIL REPORT DENIED.
pany.
LONDON, May 15th.
An
THE LATE LADY HOPE.
asted cf being empowered to take the questions, Mr. Chamberlain said that the Pany, that they have become equal her benefactions is a large and handsome twice in the same day, twice in the same
Gina decision, were inserted with a view to areting the wishes of America; thereby also placating France, whose views on the Bussiin question largely coincide with thor of "Americs. Consequently Wash,
based on the belief that the Hague Com mission is not very 'promising if France is
report that the Turks had murdered ten thousand Greeks in Asia Minor had been confrmed. The Government could, not allow to remain uninvestigated the appal- ling reports of barbarity of the Angora Turks, who systematically extrominate
He WEB 11, WE TO
the building in North Street, Bo'neas in which round, and even at consecutive holes. The COMMUNISTS & REVOLUTION.
she was, wont to carry on her good work more amazing half in one has also been accom among sailors and dock workers in the plished. A hole in ene has been done in the port. She was born organiser, and elo- quent speaker and preacher, and a generous giver to all good causes.
UPPER SILESIA. FINAL CONVENTION SIGNED.
GENEVA, May 15th. The final convention for acttling the ofairs of Upper Silesia has been signed tiaries.
LATE OF AMGY.
The death is announced at Weybridge, Surrey, on the 20th inst. of William Snell,
ington's decision has eranted deependency Christian maincrities, for whose protection by the German and Polish plenipoten late of Amoy, China, son of the late R. D. not new. Two sides in a foursome event opening proceedings, but subsequently they
the Government, in the proposed terms of peace, assumed responsibility.
whom the League of Nations appointed
KHORILL TO DE. ELSIE INGLIS
Orr, banker, Helensburgh. M. Calonder, the Swiss statesman, hostile to it. Nevertheless, there remain Viscount Curzon, requesting that arbitrator in the dispute, made a speech in which he said that the settlement was a dwindling few who trust in the Pre-France; Italy, and America co-operate an enormous feather in the cap of the mier's ingenuity to find a way out of the with Britain. proposed that pach send | League. difficulty.
an officer to Asia Minor to investigate. INTERNATIONAL If the Angora Covernment refused perej BARLIER CABLES.
THE ALLIES AND RUSSIA..
mission, the Government would have to reconsider its actitude to the peace pro- PARTICULARS OF THE ALLIED FLAN AT, GENOA.
posals.
LONDON, May 15th.
OBITUARY..
MINERS.
TUAL CO-OPERATION. LEAGUE OF NATIONS APPOINTS COMMITTEE.
kind.
The Communist Party of Great Britain past two Open Championships, and the hole opened a two days' conference on policy at St Pancras Town Hall on March 19th, in each case was the eighth. Abe Mitchell did it at Deal, Jock Hutchison at St. Mr. Arthur McManus, chairman of the Andrews. Holing in one by opponents party, presiding, Sore 200 delegates, in- were present in the same match, as happened in cluding a few women,
rarer, but it is Reporters were allowed to be present at the the Kira incident, is
were asked to leave. at Markeaton a few years ago furnished a case in point. James Braid once figured in a hole-in-one comedy. His opponent, who had an allowance of a stroke, boled out from the tee; Braid picked up his ball and made for the next hole. SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR.
In his opening address Mr. McManus said the goal of the Communist party in re- A memorial has been unvialed in St.
ference to a revolution in Great Britain was Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, in memory of
the outstanding topic of the Press, who had discovered some secret plot. "We say Dr. Elsie Inglis, founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Service with the
openly," said Mr. McManus, "that we are extending the solidarity of the working INTELLEC-Allies in France, Serbia, and Russia, who
Old James Mackay looked after an open class towards a world revolution. That is died on active service in 1917. It was fit-
our object. We say it openly, and there ting that Edinburgh should commemorate railway cro-sing. One dark night a man a citizen whose name is remembered all over in a cart was run down by a train.. The
are members of our party in gnol for having the Contiacat, but there are other monu-old man had to appear in Court. A the courage to say in the open what the ments to her memory of a more practical gruelling examination left him unshaken newspapers think they have discovered in be had waved his huntern frantically. "The In the High Staet of Edinburgh in case ended in favour of the crossing-keeper the Hospital for Women and Children and the company. The railway superis- which bears her name. It is now being tendent called the old man into his office, enlarged and endowed in recogniton of the and said, You did wonderfully, fames; work done by this great woman surgeon. was afraid you would be tripped up, but Nurses are here trained in midwifery and you never wavered."." No, sir," answered the care of women and children. Dr. James, but I was feared a' the time yon Inglis, when she first started the place, lawyer body wad ask me gin my lantern had the idea of a homely house, not of an imposing hospital, at their own doors, and the work will continue to be carried on in these simple lines.
GENEVA, May 18th. The Council of the League of Nations The Allied plan which the political sub- FORMER LEADER OF SOUTH WALES has appointed a committee of ten to commission consider to-day and to which
study the question of international in tellectual co-operation. The committee Bussia has objected is to appoint_two
includes Prof Gilbert Murray (Eng ommissions of experts, one of the Euro pela Powers, which will meet at the
land), Prof. Bergson and Mac. Curie Hague on June 16th, in an attempt to
(France), Prof. Einstein (Germany), and Mr. Banerjee, Prof. of Political Economy reach a
at Calcutta University.
LONDON, May 13th:
The death is announced of the Right
unanimous agreement To Hon. William Abraham, P.C.
the memorandum to Russia. The
after that, will decide if they seire to be members of the other commission of experts, which the Ruians will be in vited to join at The Hague on June 26th. All the Powers except Germany will be invited to the first commission.
GENOA, May 15th.
17
[The deceased, who was 80' years of age. was the son of a working miner and wag educated at the Carnarvon National School. He was M.P. for the Rhondda Valley Division of Glamorganshire from 1686 to 1918. and was a former President of the South Wales Minera Federation. The political sub-commission has ap He was popularly known Mabon."
La 1010 he declined an appointment aa. proved the memorandum to Russia drawn Mining Advisor to the Home Office up by the five convening Powers. The
owing to advancing years text confirms the summary cabled carlier regarding separate commissions, absten-a Privy Councillor in 1911; and was given tion from propaganda, and an invitation the LL.D. degree of the University of
Wales in 1917] to the United States. wore short, but lively, as her map MAJOR-GENERAL BIR-H. BUNBURY,
The
of the sub-commission
testing against
inst M. Chicherin's letter of
protest against the exclusion of the Bus- sing from the first commission and the
INTERNATIONAL LOAN FOR GERMANY?" MR. P. MORGAN TO COLLABORATE.
NEW YORK, May 15th. was made Mr. J. P. Morgan has sailed for Europe aboard the Olympie to join the sub-committee of the Reparations Com mission which is to enquire into the con- ditions under which an international losa to Germany might be raised...
LONDON, May 13th. Major-General Sir Herbert Bunbury,
$4,080.
prohibition against Rumia signing KC.E., formerly of Hongkong, left separato trentice which were published in the Press before the sub-commission wae aware of them. M. Barthou described M. Chicherin's letter as ac attack upon
France.
M. Jaspar (Belgium) assumed that Belgium also was attacked.
The incident ended with MM. Barthou and Jaspar declaring that if the Russiana accepted the 'decisions of the sub-commis sion they would recommend their Govern. ments to adopt them.
PROPOSAL.
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SOLICITOR'S DEATH -
SENTENCE.
COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL DISMISS APPEAL.
LONDON, May 15th.
There will also be a memorial in Serbia for the training of nurses. The present difficulty of obtaning a suitabe building, and the general unrest in the country have prevented the project being carried out, but it is not abandoned, and the Serbian women doctors are keenly interested in its work »
oral ACH HABONRY.
..
"
was lichted."
"MR. HUGHES'S BIG D.
A BEWILDERED DEPUTATION.
secret."
A resolution was passed declaring that the conference, realising that the offea- sive of international capitalism against the workers is being developed with the hopa of stabilising capitalism through reducing the workers to an unprecedented standard of revolt in avery Continental party, of misery, welcomes the signs of the spirit which, with the co-operation of the Com- manist movement, will develop into a rurolutionary attack against organised capitalism."
system. favour
1
The conference.was continued in privato, « The resolutions adopted included one.en- MELBOURNE, April 4th A deputation of shipwrights and allied dorsing and accepting the tactics of "work. tradea complained to Mr. Hughes, the ing in and through the existing working. Prime Minister, that four Commonwealth class organisations, the trade unions, for ships had been repaired at Antwerp in- the purpose of transforming them into stead of in Australia, and that two had revolutionary mass organisations aiming of the capitalist the overthrow been
repaired in India by black labour at
in Another resolution was eight anuza [8d.] a day. The annual Convocation of the Supro
the deputation reached the black
of "destroying the Farlia Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland was inbour allegation Mr. Hughes jumped mentary strong-hold of the capitalist class, held this week, when Companion Sir Robert from his chair and turned on his inter- King Stewart of Murdotoun, Past First viewers with, Black labour be damned and replacing same with the working-class instrument of administration and govern. Grand Principal, installed Companion the Go to blithering blazes. Don't talk to me
ment-the Soviet.” Earl of Cassilia as First Grand Principal, a about black labour."
A resolution dealing with the relations of post which he has filled for ten years. In Hurrying from his room, he pushed his the course of the proceedings it was stated way through the deputation. Only one the Communist party to the Labour party LONDON, May 13th At Dudley, Yorks defeated Worcester that Royal Arch was practically getting back alig had been repaired at Antwerp, he stated that; with the object of identifying by an innings and 220 runs. Oldroyd scor. to pre-war level, but in view of the state of said. The policy of the Government siteelf with the organised working class, the ing 121" and "Roy Kilner 117, while Rhodes] trade throughout the world, and the de-o bave all repairs effected in Austraila, Communist party accepted the. tactic of
HOME CRICKET.
THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP.
ارم
out
The Court of Criminal Appeal bas uz oda, the
home team deforted position was as good as could be expected.
by an innings and 205 runs, animonsly dismissed Armstrong's appeal. John Guna scoring 110 and Parton 106. PREMIER'S VIEWS ON THE HAGUE Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, for the de-In Glamorgan's second innings Richmond
fonce, intiinated his intention of seeking captured six wickets for 22: leave to appeal to the House of Lords. At Bristol, Gloucester best Sussex by GENOA, May 15th,
(Herbert Rowse Armstrong, & solicitor ten wickets, Parker taking seven wickets Mr. Lloyd George, interviewed, said he was not going to The Hague. He agreed and an M.A. of Cambridge, was sentenced for 27 in the visitors' first innings, while that The Hague would be a prolongation to death for the murder of his wife by In the second Dennett obtained woven of Genoa, but would only deal with arsenic poisoning. He was also indicted for 6B.
murder a fellow Bussis. Its work was merely preliminary for attempting to
In recognition of their services to China, in connection with the Disarma- mont Conference at Washington, Mr. Leasing, former American Secretary of SOOTTISH ROYAL ARCH MASONRY, Blato and Dr. W. Willoughby, former Political Adviser to China have been Ta shou Chia-ho Decoration by the Presi- dent of China, decorated with the first grade of the
tock fire wickets for 24.
pression which was the aftermath of the war, but one must allow for emergencies.
The deputation endeavoured to appesen seeking affiliation with and working withiä At Northampton, Derbyshire beat and in view of the fact that their Chapters him, but he slipped into his motor car and the Labour party locally and nationally, Northants by two wickete The home in Queensland had seen fit to join the now was off, while the astonished deputation "holding it to be the duty of the Communist party to make the political organisation of team, in their accond innings, were with Supreme Grand Chapter of Queensland, to stood helpless in his rocą.
Labour an instrument of revolutionary who Bill
which they wished all success, the present
progress," Apart from Craft haer of Boothaul was Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Bootland was the largest Masonic body in the world. AMOTERE SCOTTISH MARRIOX OLOSED.
·Scarcely a week passes without the an mansion. The latest addition to the list is nomcement of the closing of another Scottish Blackadder, Berwickshire, the roperty of
Information, a Straits paper says, has the widow of Sir George Houston-Boswell. The explanation is the familiar one, the cost been received from the commanding said they were not so prosperous as they
level.
The ad- back getting of upkeep is too great under present officer, H.M.S. Merlin, that he has fixed were last year; they were practically circumstances. Like most old country the position of North Beef, Paracol residences in the North Country, Blackadder Islands, and finals that the west extreme missions to the Chapters under the Scot has its own ghost, Imown as "Pearlin' Jean" of the roof lien 4 miles 360 degrees of the tigh Constitution daring the past year chart No 94 The whole of the reef masonry, the Supreme Graad Royal Arch W. M. Johnston defeated W. T Tilden The estate used to be called Blackwater, and, charted position on British Admiralty totalled 5,753. Apart from Craft Free
Masonic body in the world. the truce. If an agreement with Russia have resulted in no appreciable political was concluded, he hoped it would convert changes. M. Poincare and M. Barraut in the final of the Pacific Coast Lawn despite the change in the spelling, it is still should be moved a corresponding distance Chapter of Scotland is the largest
Tennis Charapionship by 75, 70, 6-1, 6-0, known by that name in the neighbourhood, north of its charied position. - re-elected. the truce into a permanent pact.
to exploring t
g the possibility of an agree-solicitor, Mr. O. M. Martin, in the same ment. The Russians would meet the other manner.) Towers after Juny 20th on a footing of absolute equality, but if the Russians re-
fared to participate
have
nothing
more to say," the Premier declared. All
the Powers except Bussia had accepted
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FRENCH ELECTIONS.
TENNIS IN AMERICA. "TILDEN DEFEATED IN PACIFIC. COAST-FINAL
.PARIS, May 15th.
The elections to the Councils General
BERKELEY (California), May 15th.
At the annual meeting of the Supreme held at Edinburgh, the Earl of Cassillia was installed head of the Grand Chapter for another year. Beporting on the pro- Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland,
grass of Bcottish Royal Arch-Masonry, he
to pre-war
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