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SITUATION IN IRELAND. ANGLO-IRISH DISCUSSION ON
TREATY.
LONDOS. May 27th. A discussion occupying an hour and half, took place at the meeting of the Anglo-Irish signatories to the Free-State treaty. The discussion centred on the arrangements for a' general election in Iralind. A further conference will be held 29th inst.
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BARLIER CABLES.
THE DERBY.
THE FAVOURITE PONDOLAND
LAME.
LONDON, May 6th.
ANGLO-IRISH DISCUSSIONS FAR EASTERN CABLE
IN LONDON.
THE PREMIER TO PARTICIPATE.
LONDON, May 26th. The Anglo-Irish conferences on the situation created by the Collins-de Valera
NEWS.
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Newmarket announces that Pondolandpact began in London. At a lengthy in-
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AFFAIRS IN NORTH CHINA.
MR. YEN RESIGNS.
PEEING, May 29th, formal meeting between Mr. Grifth and his colleagues and Mr. Churchill, the Dail Mr. W. W. Yon (Minister for Foreign Eireann President submitted the Pro-Affairs) resigned last night and is pro-
ceeding to Shanghai to-day, visional Government view of the Fast.
a
yesterday and to-day walking with limp and is reported to be auffering from a boil on the off bind leg, with the result He walked that the hock" Cha" 6ljed. slightly laue this morning but it is expected that this will be remeslied in a day or two,
"Mr. Churchill subsequently reported the trend of the discussions at a meeting of the
over by Mr. Lloyd George. Cabinet Committee on Ireland, presided
The Premier will preside at the "con- ference between the British and Irish Lingfield Course letting for the Derbyosignatories to the peace agreement to 5-1 against Pondolang,
Mr. Solly Joel, the owner of Pundoland, states that the horse did trotting exercise this morning and the trainer is quite satisfied with his condition.
in full work to-morrow..
He will be
BRITISH SOLDIERS SHOT
LONDON, May 27th dunmen attacked two British soldiers
Mr. Solly Joel later stated that Puniy with a cycle-car outside College Green Post Office, Dublin, this afternoon, killand's prospects were good and that "what- jag one and seriously wounding the ever beats him will win."
other. The assailants escaped.
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Twenty-three were killed and seventy wounded in the shootings at Belfast be tween 20th and 20th inst.
IRISH PARLIAMENT TO MEET. The Dublin Provisional Government has issued proclamation summoning Parliament to meet in Dublin on July 1st. THE HAQUE CONFERENCE.
THE HAGUE, May 27th. The Foreign Ministry has appointed Dr. Bakhuyzen of the Consular Service to organise a conference of emmissions and experts at The Hague on June 28th, in accordance with the 'Genoa resolutions.
[Dr. Banhuyzen was formerly Consul- Comerat for the Netherlands as Singa- pore. ED.]
SOCIALÍSTS
TO
DEFEND REVOLUTIONARIES IN MOSCOW.
THE HAGUE. May 27th.
THE LATEST BETTING.
LONDON, May 26th.
LATEST CABLES.
OTHER STARTERS.
morrow, at which it expected that Mr. Collins will be present.
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EXCESS PROFITS DUTY. IMPORTANT. DECISION REGARDING
RUBBER ESTATES.
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THE SITUATION IN CHINA,
*A DOER OF DEEDS HAS ARISEN.
LONDON. May 27th. With the reservation that the reorganis ation of a great country like China is difficult, and large cannot pected immediately, a long article to which The Times gives prominence pro sents a hopeful pictuns of China's re covery, and concludes, by saying: Let
the
LENIN'S TRUE AIM.
WORLD DESTRUCTION.
[The author of the following estimate of Lexin in distinguished French writer, who, a A pecial correspondent, apsat sararel, years is Enunla turing the war and the Revolution.]
BY CLAUDE ANET. –
The views that people take of Lenin fare, as a rule, quite simple, but quita wrong. They rogand him as a sectarian, a fanatic blind to everything but his "principle," and so far they are right But they do not see that he devotes to the service of his "principle" the portentats resources of his intellet and of hia čun ning. He is crafty, mischievous, deceit, ful, a har, it need be; and from that point of view, as the merits of politicians are sascured to-day, he is undoubtedly the greatest politician alive. No one knows better than he how to be an opportunist,
His course is never straight..
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SIR ERIC GEDDES.
THE MAN BY ONE WHO KNEW HIM.
They say that no man is a hero to his valut, and I suppose that for Ministers of the Crown ars heroes to their private Secretaries, says & writer in the Weekly Despatch. Your Minister, whatever his political complexion, has his hours of intense anxiety, of grave annoyance of impatience and irritability, dus perhaps fiver
of
to some domestic jar or a touch Sir Eric Geddes, a general of the Army
at
an admiral of the Navy, Minister the Crown-all these at 46 years of is ingrely a name to the man in the streets. albeit a respected name and one that will
remembered. What is he like be leng close quarters I found myself immensely interested when the chance care to nd nut. He had sent for me to be of what I could in a small capacity that
relation. brought me into direct person with him for a few months, and the first thing to impress has, was bis geniality. Rumour bad it that he was a bully, and rumeur lied. Hard he might be and un- yielding, impetuous beyond a doubt but always courteous and often smiling...
Ho was a great worker, early at his office, and he laboured at a great pace. generally behind a big tigar, often in his shirt sleeves.
But what is his "principle" People suppose that it is the establishment of the new Government show practical reign of absolato Communism. That is an capacity and the foreign Governments error. Lenin was bred in the school of Losvos, May 26th.
through the Consortium will supply what Mara, but has never believed that society could live by Marxian roles. But, some The Court of Appeal has decided that ever money is deemed essential. the third part of the Fourth Schedule of Commenting editerially on the article, one objects, does not the history of civis the Finance (No. 2) Act of 1915 does not The Times says that British industry has lization in Rusata show us an attempt at
I chanced once to me a very truculent provide for the appreciation of such capital the strongest of reasons for turning at the practical application of Communism?
the beat of an industrial crisis. The cut- assets as a rubber estate by growth and, intention to the trade potentialities of Undoubtedly; but this requires some ex- Labour leader going in to see Sir Eric in calculating the percentage standard by China. It points out that despite deplor-planation. In the first place, I am quite look was very bad, the extremist tail was The Derby Letting is as follows: reference to which the profils are calculated i able donatio conditions, China's foreign | confident that the failure of Communism Wagging the Labour dog, there was Krava for the purposes of Excess Profits Daif. trade has persistently expanded, thus pro in Russia, of which we have numberless danger of a disastrous development to against St. Lou; -1:Captain Cut:le; G-1 the capital of estate evners must not be mising indefinite extension with settled proofs offered to us by the lenders of the which I need not refer explicitly, and this conditions and improved communications. movement themselves, did not come as a representative of the extremists, atrode
Desirable results, says The Times, Pendoland; 100-8 Tamur; 18-1 Craigan- taken to be increased by money" spent on
maintenance or development..
"seem more possible now than at any surprise to Lenin. He anticipated it, for into the sanctum as though he had pur gower: 25-3 Lord of Burghley.
time since the Revolution, for a door of he had always known which way the move chased the tee simple of the whole build- THE BRITISH ENGINEERING deeds hay arison who fears no foe. I ment was tending, When an attempting and had brought an ejectment order
Wu's judgment equals his valeur, we may is male to involve him in the ruin of with him.
I saw him half an hour later. Even hope for speedy improvement in the great Communism, Leniu smiles quietly to him. land in which he is the outstanding self, for that only proves that he has his moustache seemed limp; he had been "principle" to Canossa and learned to lower his prond figure!!!
ucceeded, in "keeping bis
mors look.... secret. It is something far MR. CRANE, FORMER AMERICAN simple than Communism: it is the prin ciple of destruction. Lenin is beart and Boula Slar, and there are to be found in him, in a terrifying intensity, the symptoms of that peculiarly Russian malady, Nihiliem. somn instructions, In this he is spiritually akin to Bakuoiasier." He might have added that he and Tebernitoheski. These unfettered had saved it. minds are controlled only by the idea of destruction, and one would need the pen of a Dostoievsky 10 depict the ravages wrought by that flea ca the human soul. Society is in their eyes an evil organism, rotten, odious, intolerable. It must be destroyed, and on completely that not a
remains in existence. single bourgeois or capitalist institution
LONDON, May 27th.
DISPUTE. FINANCIAL STRAIN ON THE UNION
LONDON, May 26th.
St. Louis will be ridden by Archibald.
The A. E. V. has decided to call a Na. and Reecha by Gardner. Flavius hnational Conference of delegates at York ou been added to the list of probable starters mentioned in the cable dated May 25th.
THE BETTING.
LONDON, May 9th. Today's Derby betting quotations were 6 to 2.St. Louis, 9 to 2 Pondoland, 11 to 2 Captain Cuttle. 13 to 2 Re-Echo, 100 to Tamar, 100 to 6 Northend. Is to 1 Crai gangowar.**
BATON ROUGE SCRATCHED.
LONDON May 27th.
x..
today.
An officu Soviet despatch states that Baton Rouge was scratched at the socialists Vandervelde, Resenfeld and Liebknecht have arrived in Moscow to defend the revolutionaries mentioned in a
bir message dated May 16th.
Cu tir arrival at the sturion they wear wubbed and followed to their hotel by hooting crowds, "whom the militia kept
at bay. FIRST SOVIET
VESSEL AT
HÜLL.
THE Harz, May 27th.
of
PONDOLAND'S NICE CANTER.
LONDON, May 7th. At Newmarket, Pondoland did a nice five fulong canter on Thursday, His hind leg was bandaged, but he appeared to walk home quite sound.
THE GERMAN ́LOAN,
COMMITTEE ADJOURNED.
PARIS, May 27th.
struin on the Union in consequence of the June 2nd. The decision is due to financial protracted nature of the lock-out.
EXPLOSION AT AUSTRIAN
MUNITION FACTORY,
HEAVY CASUALTY LIST.
VIENNA, May 26th.
It is now reported that 20 were killed and 250 injured in the explosion at Blaman, Lower Austria (ve Earlier Cakes), due to ignition of pieric acid at the dynamite factory. Enoriques dimage way stone.
WILD WEST GOES EAST.'
NEW YORK ROBBERIES.
New Yoxx, April 3rd. In the middle of the afternoon when Washington-squire, in
the residential quarter of Lower New York was crowded, six masked men entered the house of M... Albert Shattuck, a wealthy retired financier. After driving Mr. and Mrs. Shattuck und eight servants at the pistol's. point into the cellar, the intraders tan- sacked the house and removed a large
MINISTER TO PEKING. STRANGE STORY CONTRADICTED.
SHANGHAI, May 28th.
A French wireless message denies the report circulated locally alleging that Mr. Crane, a former American Minister at Peking, has been sentenced to twenty imprisonment by the French Military Court at Damascus, for inciting disturbances in Syria.
years
LONDON, May 27th.
In his sanctum Sir Erio sat at the big desk in the centre of the room; he looked slightly flushed.
"I think." he said, after giving mo that the situation is
On another occasion he sent for me at
the end of a long conference with the re For cnce, he looked tired, and I remark......... presentatives of certain railway internsta
ed it.
I've been at it hammer and tongs," he said, "and the upshot is over a million pounds saved for the country."
His keen eye had detected a flaw in an important item in the claim of the railway companies; be had done the st. Behind him were the experts of his own.
lished broadcast, by an American paper, The sensational story which was pub that Mr. Crane, formerly American 'Lenin's true object is the ruin of human Minister at Peking, has been sentenced to society as at present constituted. How twenty years' imprisonment by a French to attain that ubject. He knows that choosing-Sir Hardman Leter: Sir Fran court-martial at Damascus, for inciting he must first win the confidence of cis Dannell, Sir George Beharrel, and the Syriane to revolt, has been denied. the masses and obtain their support. others. The rüblic screamed because he
Mr. Crane in an interview with the Paris correspondent of the Fer Tork Herald declares The report is quite uptrue, as no communication of any judgment pass d by any tribunal has reached me, I had no quarrel with any French official at Damascus, Paris or elsewhere. It is most regrettable that the currency given to the story is calculated only to annoy French people. Nothing is known at the Quai D Orsay us to who reported the sentence on Mr. Crane.
OPIUM CONSUMPTION.
paid big salaries to big men, but in that morning he had probably saved the whole coat of his Ministry.
indeed I know that all were proud to could not
.
The Committee of the Reparations Com quantity of jewelry, and other objects INCREASED PRICE RESTRICTS USE order to arrive at Communism, which in of power.
cannot But he knows also that one stimulate men to action if the goal that
A sure test of a man's calibre is the one offers them is a mere negation. Ben is a believing animal, and must be allowedÌ to imagine that he is working towards some quality of the service be can win. I think positive end. Otherwise he can never be give him the best they had to offer. Thero stirred from his normal apathy. Lenin, & was so forlorn hope be sound psychologist, satisfies the believing have led. Bezenth the forceful and ofted animal by offering his Marxist programme, menacing exterior there were the qualities a fine programme that bus never yet been that marked the statesman and the ad used, but is admirably fitted to kindle the ministrátor, and the greater, the trouble. imagination, since it offers un nothing the more alarming the situation, the more less than an earthly paradise. But in freely could he draw upon those reserves. Whitehall may have exhausted the acope Lénin's mind belongs to, the category of Ideais, it is necessary first to destroy all of his ambitions, it could not exhaust the The housebreaking was carried out with
LONDON, May 7th.
existing institutions, and that is a reality, reserves of his capacity. A very great In replying to a question by Mr. John Iu undertaking this task he has shown personality has passed from our "public the precision of a trench mail. The gang quietly entered the house, opening the door
An untiring wool- by means of a skeleton-key. One remnined Wilson in the House of Commons, Major en gurl at the front door, two proceeded. F. L. Wood states that owing to the man, he
Borneo Company's policy of the forest. Already the whole of Russia. to the rooms on an apper floor where Mr. North Shattnck and his wife were reposing after restricting the consumption of opium by is laid bare, cleared, levelled. Future 1 clear fell luncheon. Another entered Mrs. Shattuck'ster nie increasing the price, consum generations will have
on which to build their houses. What bedroom and made straight for the secretion has fallen from 19,066 pounds in
they housen are to be Eenin does not know; hiding place in the dressing table and trok 1919, to 11,287 pounds in 1921.
nor does he care. Suficient unto the day ber revolver.
is the Inbour thereof.
The first Bolshevik ship the Kärl Marz
mission which is considering the proposed has arrived at Ball with a cargo Timber. The vessel was flying the Sovies German external loan, has adjourned till at inst. in order to enable members to completo investigations.
Eng.
NO REDUCTION IN RUSSIAN ARMY.
SOVIET AWAITS THE RAGUE CONFERENCE.
Losos. May 27th. At a meeting of the Central Executive of the Soviet at Moscow. & motion for the reduction of the red army, was with
drawn.
NAUEN WIRELESS
EXTENSION.
BERLIN, May 27th. The wifes plant at Näuen is being developed. Seven mare maste are to be erected as the four old ones scrapped. The Trans-Atlantic Radio Company has increased its capital by 45,000,000 marks
in order to obtain the requisite funds. The Executive passed a resolution that
DUTCH ROYAL CRUISE, since the Genos Conference had failed to define the relations between the Soviet
ROTTERDAM, May 27th. Queen Wilhelmina, Prince Henry and and the Bourgeois Governments, the re- duction of the army should be, leit | Priboss Juliana, have sailed on a cruise undecided, pending The Hague Confer along the Norwegian coast,
AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPION SHIP.
İRİYOR.
COMMUNIST. ALIENATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY. PERSECUTION OF PRIESTS.
LONDON, May 27th. The Observer's Frankfurt correspon dont states that according to advices received from Rigs. opposition to the Berict policy of alienation of church treasures is growing.
Archbishop Arseny of Bostoff and 84 priests at Petrograd have been arrested owing to the hostility to the Soviet's policy.
LONDON, May 27th.
In the Prestwick Amateur Golf Cha pionship Final. Mr E. Holderness "of Walton Heath, beat Mr. J. Caven of Cochrane Castle one up
of falue.
The others descencel to the sersanja" hall, where diner was in progress. The raiders were evez aware that the lock ca
the door of the cellar into which, the prisoners were shut was insecure, and detailed a man to guard them.
While the robbers were making a clean sweep of the house, the butler managed to squeeze through the cellar window and gave the alarm. At the same moment that the eatry are wraing that the butler had escaped the police enterel the square, and the robbers tumbled out of the front door, brandishing revolvers, and scattend among the crowds thronging the pavements.
Mr. Saattuck's footman pursued one of the robbers and captured him after a chase of half a mile, during which the fugitive throw away his overcoat, the pockets of which were found to contain jewlery worth £5,000. The rest of the gang escaped,
A CAREFULLY-PLANNED "HOLD-UP.”
A few hours earlier a train on the New York Central Railway was "held up" in the best Wild West style by 40 robbers EARLIER CABLES. · near Poughkeephie, about 55 miles north of New York, and it was only the fact that COUNTRY CRICKET.
the robbers had mistaken the train for one carrying silks and registered mails which THE CHAMPIONS LOSE POINTS.
prevented a loss of property worth £100,000. LONDON, May 26th.
STRATIS SETTLEMENTS LOAN. UNDERWRITERS LEFT WITH 98 PER CENT.
Lesson, May 26th. The underwriters of the Straits Battle- ments £4,200,000 loan have been left with 98 per cent. of the loan which is quoted at 13 points discount.
RUBBER EESTRICTION... ANGLO-DUTCH CO-OPERATION.
THE HAGUE, May 26th. A Dutch official is visiting London to request the British Government to discuss with the Colonial Office the question of an agreement between the Dutch Indies and Straits Settlements rubber-growers for the restriction of production. It seems that re. striction is only a question of some months.
"A CURE FOR SYPHILIS."
MAN'S HEROIC OFFER.
The Academy of Sciences recently heard communication from Dr. Roux on the The eminent treatment of syphilis.
unexampled energy
hus, felled every tree
IIF
THE KING'S HONOUR FOR MR. BALFOUR." The Right Hon. Arthur Balfour, M.P, (Lord President of the. Council), was res cerrel in audience by The King on March Lenin might well consider that he has 3rd, when His Majesty conferred upon bina now done a full day's work, and is entitled the honour of Enighthood and invested to rest, were it only a queaton of disintegrat hip with the Insignia of a Knight Com- ing and disembowelling the social al pasion of the Most Noble Order of the political life of Bussia, as it has been' Garter. As a cable informed us last week fashioned in the slow course of time. But the new Knight has now been given an his vision if not so restricted. There is Earldom.. Europe still There is the world...
A London contemporary mule the flow. ing interesting comments on the conferment of a Knighthood on Mr. Balfour."
The Russian looks at things from the universal standpoint. There is a strain of Mongol in him. The Mongol anys, "Thers Queen Elizabeth was the last Sovereign
heaven; is but one God in
there who made a practice of investing com should be but one master on the earth. moneta among her subjects with the Carter, Lenin feels that be bus effected zobal of the four she so honoured one, be thing so long as his programme of destracing a duke's younger, son, was a courtesy Lion has not had world-wide application. lord, and the other three. Sir Henry From the first he bad said:There Sidney, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Sir is no revolution but the world-revolution." Francis Knollys, were already knights He is stretching his tentacles, over Europe bachelor when admitted into the Order and Asia. He is reading his emissaries of the Garter. The future Duke of Bic into India as into Germany, England, Italy. Vingham was already a knight when King He is employing everywhere the tactics that James made him a K. G. in 1616, and even have served him so well in Bussia. He Sir Robert Walpole, who became "Sir offers the Communist paradiso in which he Bluestring" in 1726, had previously been himself has never believed and to the made a Knight of the Bath, failure of which he himself bears witness.
But in reality he seeks only to satisfy bi basic lastract of destriction.
Thus for a precedent for making an ́ in- titied commoner a Kinght of the Garter
we have to revert to the case of General
In one of Tolstoy's "novels, there is a Monk, who became Sir George Monk, E doctor of the Pastour Institute reminded character, who, when someone says to him: G., in 1660-although he had previously bis audience that he had already inform-If we latened to you the world would often been styled "Lord General. Sell
The attack on the train was organized oued his colleagues of the researches of M.
of call that a disadvantage" Lenin would doubtful whether there has ever before At Lord's Essex wou on the first innings an elaborate scale. The train was stopped Levatidi on the prevention and cura come to an end," replies, "I should hardly { in 1660 the times were unusual, and if i
against Middlesex.
At Nottingham, the home team best Warwick by pine wickets. For the winners BRITISH ROUND-THE-WORLD John Gunn, in the first innings, scored 150.
FLIGHT.
DELAY AT LYONS.
PARIS, Mes 97th. Blajar Blaks who left Croydon 24th inst. luft for Lyons to-day. He was de layed waiting the second De Haviland machine: which is accompanying him on his world flight, and which the fog com- polled to land at Penshurst. He also elled on President Millerand who had expressed a desire to see Major Blake.
At Manchester, Janezshire best Leicester-
shire by four wickets. In the winner first innings, Makepeace made 169 and Jas, Tyldesley 112 not ont..
At. Cambridge, Yorkshire beat the Uni- versity by nine wickole.
At Baik, Surrey beat Someract by 221
the
and told them how the em- malady and
GREEN" DIAMOND.
while it was crawling up a stiff gradient at ployment of a composition into which see in it a positive advantage, for thus only been a case where a man hailed by the commoner has in one day become a suail's pace. While some men uncoupled the biomuth entered seemed to give every could he antisfy his infernal pride-Times, ordinary method of addressing a simple Knight of the Garter without intervening engine others began to open the vans. It satisfaction. He now had to inform them was then that they discovered their mis- that M. Levatidi had since discovered a
step of any kind, and thus entitled to take procedence of Privy Councillora, Bir take, and having learned from the engine further remedy, which was at once a cure
The green diamond, one of the rarcas Edward Gry, when first made K.G. took driver that their quarry had already passed and a preventive. It was an arsenical by, the robbers retreated to where six sodium salt, and experiments on rabbits motor-lorries and a number of motor-cars attacked by syphilis, and already show stones in the world, which Mr. Nevick, precedence as a Secretary of Staile, and more ting and disappeared. They had ing legions, had given the most conclusive a resident of Bloemhof (100 miles north later, as a Tiscount, and Sir Arthur Bal results. The lesions had healed. M. of Kimberley), claims to have found in four, E.G., while holding the office of cut every telephone and telegraph wire for Levatidi had gone still further in the pur- his neighbourhood will probably be sent Land President of the Council, will not several miles in every direction, and desuit of his researches, and had found e stroyed the instrumenta at wayside stations man who agreed to have the virus of the Europe for sale. It is believed to be require to make use of the special prece nour the scene of the attack, consequently disease injected into fix
his system
When the stone was found by Mr. Novick, dence prescribed for Knights of the Gar over an hour clapsed before the alarm done, and lesions appeared. M. Levatidi who has been digging for 18 years, it was ter, if commoners. In the same way Lord
the then administered injections of At other times during the day one arsenical asarum sit A-Terbright-Inter black, weighed about 5 carats, and was Lascelles who "received the Garter, takes London, May 26th. murder and five “hold-ups were per- the lesions had healed, and the man was Apparently of title vadae When it had precedence as the eldest son of an earl, Sir Eric Geddes has been elected a petrated in various parts of New York by to-day completely cared. Dr. Roux aid beer, Baked, however, a flawless emerald although he is, strictly speaking, just as
ed that the remedy could be taken cather green diamond was revealed. After being much a comawuer
cat the diamond was reduced to 14 carats. I knight Director of the Dunlop Eubber Company.
by injection of ingestion-Reuter.
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