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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES.

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CRITICAL NEAR EAST SITUATION.

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BRITISH NAVAL REINFORCEMENTS

LAND AT CHANAK.

CONSTANTINOPLE, September 17th. The key of the situation at present is Chanak, at the head of the famous Nar-

row, Kemal Pasha's friends urge him to Occupy Chanak add thus confront the coming conforenes with a fait accumpli, H.M.B. Iron Duke his landed naval rein-

forcements, so all danger of a surprise

occupation has passed. Colonel Shuttle.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH. 1923.

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NORTH STAFFS" FOR CON- STANTINOPLE.

GIBRALTAR, Beptember 17th.. "The 1st. North Staffords are standing-by prior to leaving. It is understood that they are destined for Constantinople.

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"Pants, Septembar 17th.

A message from. Smyras states that the funds of the French banks there have been safely removed aboard a Franch vessel.

THE ASCENT OF LAW.

LORD SHAW ON IS EVOLUTION.

ADDRESS TỎ AMERICAN BAR,

Lord Shaw was the guest of the Amari- esa Bar Association at their annual meet ing at San Francisco, on August 9th. His address dails with the development of law in the United States, and con-

tinued:-

ascond, the view widens and everywhere, as I am is, the range of law is seen to ascend. But, ministers of reason, bastir yourselves. For the other side, the bru tality of force has but the other day been vastly reinforced.

A NEW YEAR."

with an uneven hand. Only the blind, the cruel, or the unjust in heart can wink the eye to this unnameable curse.

Probably upon this continent, great as it is, you do not recognize that wide plate of equality to which. I rofer. It is ; your privilege to distribute justice to that raarvellous agglomeration of races which

A new fear is at the hoart of mankind America, has taken to her broad bosom.

Having had to study for many years at this hour. It is connected with the the dash of opinion, and the collision of adrance of science. Never since the interests, not alone between individual world began had force, brutality, and On the criminal side your task is not men bat, on a higher range between anarchy such an opportunity. War, with yet complete. De, coltur, the memory classes a society, and, on a still higher all its sacrifice, has not been too dear it of oppression these are very real things between State and Commonwealth, bo. it open the eyes of mankind to the appal- to be suddenly let loose in a citizenship twen Province and Dominion, do let a ling gravity of continuing in the worship of freedom. They leave the lawyer and bear in mind the correlatious of things, of force and of further defying the the reasoning citizen sa irksome hat alf the correlations of things be truly governance of reason, à noy era opens high and responsible duty. That duty grasped, then the very secret.cf justice to mankind. If you conceive of inter- is to ave, Liony and order alike by has been unveiled.

national law as binding all nations, then that equal hand and that noble and re-

international law--I speak it with sorrow solute bearing of justice itself which are

but conviction-international law is in Take that thing, which we call a man's shown by respect and true fealty to the

ruins. Force under immoral or non- regular administration of the law. Every right. He ought to be able to vindicate moral control can, we know, undo, and man bis own ave gets sudden feroit against all the world. But one imbas undone, the humanest conventions of cities of lynch law Wherever the Eng-perious and resounding prohibition is the ages. And a destruction can now be Nish tongue is spoken the ground is too into his own hand. And well he knows which will overthrow the achievements of faid upon him; he cannot take the law accomplished in the course of minutes sacred for that; wherover free mon reason if he thinks of his own right and of him mankind built up in the course of cen- together jurisprudence readers to justice self alone, and begins to exercise it with turice. The earth is affrighted.

» MAN'S RIGHT.

STOP THIS NEW WAR” Under the heading "stop this now war" The Daily Mail attacks the Government's policy in the Near East, as bordering en insanity and trusts the Dominions with Antly refuse to be (entangled in another disastrous military enterprise. It says, Mustapha's peace not far removed from the ters are

ASSISTING REFUGEES. terms propounded by Lord Curzon and

ATHENS, September 17th. considers that Mustapah's demand for the

Refugees from Smyrna state that Bri- Maritm line. is at present not exces-ish, American, and Japanese vessels in sive. It agrees with the statement-made the port took aboard all comers without examining papers. French and Italian by Aga Khan in an interview that, access ships only accepted foreign subjects with to the Black Ses can be safeguarded by Passports.

THE LAST GREEK ARMY IN an internatioual commision.

ASIA MINOR." "MORNING POST" ATTACKS MR.

PAR13, September 17th. A message from Angers claims that seven thousand Örecks of the last Greek Army in Asia Minor" have bean A sincerer and more stately homage, that sole idea, then collisions will take

Men, unless reason and the arbitrament - A lesser, but get quits notable, exten place, hat will encounter surprises and MALTA, September 17th.

sion of the range of law has occurred in mishaps and ho will come to grief. What of justice be reasserted on the earth, will A steamship carrying another 750 Bri-the emancipation of women. I presume has happened to him? He has forgotten ruins of human happincas have been over- hide beneath the ground on which the tish refugees has arrived from Smyrna. that you have, ga. we have, Married Wo that the correlative of right is duty.

thrown. Do you think this picture" over- men's Property Acts, with their sequels, AUSTRALIA PREPARED TO SEND

Disputes among classes are, wider in drawa 1 social and legal The case, however, is scale, often mort sinister in the appeal not here the same as with the enfranchise both to force and to prejudice and more law your great country has produced In the task of widening the range of MEDOVINE, September 17th.

tion of the law of contract for the law dangerous to society at large.

aupremely great advocates." I sometimes, After consulting the Cabinet, the Pre-of status; it is their reconciliation with gure which must now stand betwixt think that the federal ides, the idea mier, Mr. Hughes, announced that the each other. I dare say you and the con- the fell ingesed points of mighty opwhich the genius of Hamilton and Whah-

posites" is still as before the 94M0 Government is prepared to send a contract side of it not unmanageable, but, august, figure of Justice itself, with law ington combined to impress upon your tingent to the Near East if necessary. on the status side, how you get along as its instrunient of reconciliation.

people, under which Stato rights could be with the variety of State law and State

guaranteed and the Union kept secure, is

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LLOYD GEORGE'S POLICY. Fresh occasion for alarm is discovered

captured. 2

worth commands the defences, which are already formidable. Bluejackets. helping the Allied soldiers to dig in They are working six hours daily on this. RUSSIAN ASSISTANCE FOR THE TURKS.

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by the Morning" Post, whigh trenchantly attacks Mr. Lloyd George's policy and adopts the 1-told you so" attitude. It says that behind Angora's armies are Moscow's Trounsels. The Bolsheviks are etraining every effort to reach the Straits, and is ofthe opinion that Kemati and the Bolsheviks will hesitate to face the Allied and Balkan State, combins

quently divert attention against Great Britain alone, in" Trak, "Palestine. Egypt and the whole Moslemt world.

DAILY TELEGRAPH HOPES FOR

"AN EARLY SETTLEMENT.

TO CAPTURE THE PARDANELLES.

RICA, September 7th. 1. Trotzky, at Moscow, presided over

■ secret conference of the revolutionarytion, but fears that Kemal will conse council at which it is reported to have 'been decided to prepare the southern military and naval forces for action, pré- sumably to assist. the Kemalists. Soviet corps is believed to be stationed on the Turse Asiatic frontier ready to Basist in the march to Constantinople. It is understood that the Russo-Angoran Treaty binds the Soviet to co-operate with Abe Nationalists in the capture of the Dardanelles, receiving as compensation complete freedom of action in the Black

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AMERICAN OPINION OPPOSED TO

TURKS IN EUROPE.

Naw Foss, September 17 American opinion urges that the Turke arist not be permitted to return to Lurope.

SCOTTISH AIR FORCE DETACH MENT FOR CONSTANTINOPLE. MALTA, September 17th The Scottish Regiment Air Force De- *achment has departed for Constan- tinoplo.

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A CONTINGENT.

CANADA TO CONSIDER

OTTAWA, September 17th,

men of tho slave; it is not the substitu-

But tho

The distinction between freshen" af/ Council which is to be held to-morrow, law of Scotland in this department of the relative of liberty is order. Society, how a men have discerned the day in which

the Straits, which it emphasises as among the primary, conditions of soeurity of the Empire, and the Turkish ownership of Constantinople is no basi sight of by, the

Parliament will be summoned to deal It is probable that a special session of

with the matter.

Daily Telegraph, which hopes for an conferred for two and a half hours..onal professional brethren who practise and posites are correlated by a third entits, hard against wroug, from the humblest

early, and general "stlement, in which Constantinople will "he" handed over in accordance with Allied intention

It

thinks that it was well and wisely decided to lay the facts of the situation before the Dominions and invite them to and Contingents to defend the fruits of victory, for which they, jäid deur diring the war That the Anzacs are ready to answer suffiers to show that overseas por uons of the Empire well understand what is at stake on the shores of the Dar danelles,

legislation on the subject, of divorce, and Again, the temptation is great to exalt on the eve of establishment on a world still keep your heads, and are able to in liberty and to achieve its own rights scule All nations claim their State News of the invitation to the Dominions atlead to business-this fills me with at its own hand. The temptation is rights, all nations protest against a super- I know how difficult it is to vastly reinforced by combination, and State, just as Hamilton's battles had to to tend a contingent to the Near East wonder. Came as a great aurprise to Government barmonize Sato laws. England has been sheer lawlessness gets many to defend it.

Something has been forgotten in all be fought against a similar idea of the

Union being regarded as a super-State, officials. The Premier, Mr. King, said trying for a generation to approximate that the maller was cle for the Cabinet to the deceat, sensible, easily working this--namely, a correlative, and the corFarsighted, able, philosophically mind. matrimonial relations, and as yet it has ever, even in convulsion, decrees that failed. Of all the forms of amour the either class, religion, nor party shall be now live, and the plight of humanity one which is most ridiculously. hard to denied freedom. that that freedom is, a 13 which we now welter. To them it was accomodate is amour propre.

This is noble thing, se noble that the freedom of justice, the verdict of reason and the certainly so among States and nations all must be protected by the freedom of appeal to law, which are the salvation of and legal reform which points to homo each being exercised within the limits of mankind, and that appeal was grounded geneity is of the derided and suspect public neder. Andes fr dom and order upon essential and fundamental prin- feantime, the range of your laws for are male to dwell together, and the up-iples of right distributed with equal advise must be immensely increased by that austere reconciler Justice, and to the highest spheres of human associa

tion and activity. And these, I society is saved.

To philosophers like homemade difficulties. should reckon, bring in their train a As in the bumbler sphere where the law Kant and Grotius have succeeded men of goodly store of troubles in the regions of knows neither rich nor poor, so among Powerful practical insight, such as your domicile and succession. Is the harmonis-classes the law knows neither high por ing of your laws of status a

vain low, supreme or struggling, influen- dream for the United States, an objec- tial or humble, and deals with all tionable or impracticabla idea

In an equal hand and equal mind. Without that there can be no nameable thing, corruption, can democracy of free men, for that un- society to rot. Give what name you like to the colliding forces, call one organized labour and the other organized capital, neither the cas nor the other. The hum law in the administration of justice knows. blest organized workers have equal rights themselves, not only against organized capital, but against the organisations of their own class.

"LAW OF CONTRACT.

with

awn Presidents.

We men of the Anglo-American race, we must be comrades all;.comrades for ever. And I know no plainer, call to the com- radeship of righteousness than a common loyalty to law and to methods of its sure cause and equal appeal to reason.-Tint.

When olases, however, are divided

BIRTH-RATE RECORD.

land and Wales in any second quarter of The lowest birth-rate recorded for Eng. the year, except during the period of the war, is reported by the Registrar-General in his return for the quarter ending Juge 30th, 1022. Births were registered to the

THE UNPOPULAR TURK.”

PARIS, September 17th M. Poincare and the King of Serbia the Turco-Greek situation, the Serbian Foreign Minister being present. It was subsjuently stated that the recressing by the Nationalista to the European side of the Straits would be regarded as most dangerous by Sorvia, who, although she has not yet taken any military measures, has informed Britain and France that she would be greatly alarmed by the return of Turkish rule in Thrace, which would

A few briel words only, and those of seriously disturb the situation.

nothing but commendation of your law The Agora representative, Ferid Bey.of contract. I venture to accentuate the afterwards called on the Serbian King solidarity between England and America that he assured them that the return to ciples inform and regulate over & Yas and Foreign Minister. It is understood on contract law. In your case its prin- the Turks of Thrace would oot in any way sad active continent stretching from ocean endanger the Balkan countries

to ocean; in our case they interface the KEMALISTS READY TO MAKE

world. Naturally, the same principles are found, and possibly even better co LIMITED CONCESSION. BARLIER GARLES.

ordinated, in other lande--say, in France PLAGUE AT SMYRNA.

CONSTANTINOPLE, September 17th.

under the Code Napoleon; naturally they are derivative from ancient systems; against classes, then too often a more number of 200,550, bring 7,023 fewer tkan BRITISH CABINET CONFERENCE. SMYRNA, September 17th.

The Turkish papers agree that the free historically they may be exid to serious trouble appens. It is not now the in the preceding quarter, and 24,766 fewer dcm of the Straits must be respected. have Plague has broken out owing to the

found luminous exposition by application of legal principles-those of than in the corresponding quarter of 1921. Losos, September 17th. The principal Nationalist organ says that the immortal absence of sanitary arrangements, among the Near East is shown by the fact that heads it to believe that the necessary sacried

the adjuring of legal The illegitimate baths totalled 8,732, or The critical nature of the situation in information from a semi official source of the Antonines, who subtly thread-methods those of reason. The awful 1,248 fewer than in the second quarter

jurists of the Age Justice: it is refugees, adding to the toll from starva: Mr. Lloyd George found it necessary fur-fices will be made within the limits of into the open air of fair dealing, A power and reason, between cinas despotiem males and 98,041 female giving a propor their way through technicalities collision has come the collision between of 1921. Of these births' 102,503 were tion and massacres.

ther to confer with members of the the National pact to put an end to the claim of monopoly, would be absurd; wo and tyrannst on the one hand, and free-tion of 1,016 males to 1,000 females. The "THE TIMES" ON ANGLO-FRENCH Concerning this he was in communication impossible that the matter of the Straits true inventors. But it is ours to acknow- cardinal principle is the appeal to jus were 45,162 fewer than in the preceding quar- Cabinet at The Chequers to-day present situation, but that it is absolutely do not set ourselves up as the first and dom and equality on the other. The deaths registored numbered 120:315, and with Marquis Curzon and Government can go beyond the National pact. ledge and to share, and over vast spaces tice each of its class bas its rights against ter, but 11,4more than in the correspond- LONDON, September 17th. departments throughout the day.. A

of the earth to distribute a priceless in- the other, each of its class has its duty ting quarter of 1921. They included 1,479 The necessity for whole-helirted Anglo-

Cabinet Council is being held at Down NEW FRANCO-GERMAN heritance which has helped to dissipate the other in asserting the rights and in males and 68,836 females, corresponding to French co-operation,

ing Street at noon to-morrow.

the misunderstandings, to smooth the in-performing the duties, each bas its liberty an annual rate of 127 per 1,000 enumerated us the most effective

INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENT.

iercourse, and to increase the comforts of of assertion, but each in the performance population and a proportion of 1,045 males means of convincing Kemal Pisha that there is no wisdom in challenging Allied

of its duty must be restrained by that

induence, is insistril on in to-day's presa.

It does strike me, for instance, that a order which ensures the liberty of all. It 101,000 females. The highest death rate THE LITTLE ENTENTE.

It is reported that "an agreement on propos not of contract alone, but of many 16, indeed, a tough nut. The appellants of children under 1 year of age was 157 per the lines of the Stinnes-Labersac arrange-ether branches of the law, there is a two in the case are truly not one class against The Times, especially, reasons that

BERLIN, September 17th.

ment has been signed at Stuttgart be-fold development which, having a his another, but society against both. France, which received the British asste-military convention alleged to have been of industrialists.

The newspapers publish the text of a tween South German and French groups torical origin, is very notable and very ment of September feth somewhat chillily, signed at Marienburg on August 31st, by

wholesome. Tho tge has gone by for especially as regards armed intervention, representatives of the Little Entente tract for the supply of enormous quanti which has lost its usefulness and mean The arrangement referred to is a con- symbolical and ceremonial procedere, if neessary, points out that both nationsque of mid-East Europe, and declaring ed into by one of the Stinnes combines of law powerful ana profound books and correlations cow, but collisions. Not cor undertaking jointly to defend the status ties of German building material, entering. There thus come into the literature are int ол

preserving the permanent that they will regard a threat to any and Marquis de Lubersa, on behalf of a a wealth of cases to perplexing as, if yield freedom of the Straits. The differcace of signator as a threat to all.

French combine, embracing seventy per ed to, would drive manlysis, to the point opinion is chiefly one of method, France · FRENCH PRESS COMMENT. cent of the co-operatives engaged in re-or contortion and the lawyer or student construction in the French devastated, to confusion and sheer mystification of regions.].

CO-OPERATION.

favouring sole reliance on diplomacy while (ireat Britain thinks this should be backed up by visible and tangible evidence

neutral zones.

The Serbian Foreign Minister comes to London to-morrow to confer with Mr. Lloyd George and Marquis Curzon.

PARIS, September 17th." The British statement is the subject of i is unanimous in insisting upon the free- considerable newspaper, comment, which |

BERLIN, September 17th. mankind.

RUSSIA AND AMERICA.. INVESTIGATION MISSION NOT DESIRED BY SOVIETS, ....... LONDON, September 17th,

کر ہے

mind,

REASON AND FORCE.

who

1,000 at Barnsley, while in the care of chil dren under years of age died from diarrhea and enteritis the worst figure was 17.5 per 1,000 births at Actön.

and so approach the higher region. Not registered, the infant mortality was equal Let us proceed, however, to consider Measured by the proportion of deaths of quite another and a very different topic, idfants under one year of age to births to 83 per 1,000, this being 2 per 1,000 relations of ideas, but collisions of below the average of the ten preceding ordination, no compromise. It is war to population for the quarter under review by method. Here is ao blending, no co second quarters. The natural increde of the knife-war between the method of excess of births over deaths was 80.235, as force on the one, band and the method of against 40,322,129,345, and 116,845 in the Any recent statute forms an illustration reason on the other. Reason and fores second quarters of 1919, 1920, and 1921- ready to hand. Hardly is it born into since the world began have been in grips. The number of persons married in the first of earnestness of intention to defend the dom of the Straits, but otherwise is non-

the world than jadges fall upon it, tear-When the former has prevailed the quarter of 1922 in England and Wales was ing it analytically to pieces; and unless majesty of the law has been justified. 101,148, a decrease of 66,834 from the The Times shown the committal. Attention is directed to the

they called it at least inartistic, they would When the latter bas prevailed civilization number in the preceding quarter, und was Great Britain is equally reluctant, like attitude of Britain, who, despite a desire

not be in the fashion! But then their has been wounded, the estimate of human 50,526 less than in the porre pending for a peaceful settlement, is declared to France, to engage in an armed conflict, be taking steps to reinfores her militers

tura comes; and their frequent lines of life has been lowered, the achievements quarter of 1921 This number corresponds error are produced and produced with a of mankind have been destroyed, and law she recognises the incalculable conse. contingents at Constantinople and to

to an annual rate of 10.8 per 1,000 It is reported that Soviet represent touching deference, till by and by the itself has fallen from its high estate, enumerated population, despatch warships in case of eventualities. tives here, have informed the American plain English of the Act does not know dethroned, brutalized, and thea trampled quences of resorting to forcible action,The papers are not enthusiastic in favour Ambassador, that the Soviet Government itself; and only great judges take the underfoot. cven in unquestionable vindication of her of France embarking upon military cannot put to the despatch of an Amari-liberty to announce that the Act means In every range of law, from the hum- rights, and thinks that both nations have operations against the Kemalists, though can official investigation minion to what it says. If you have in your great bleat to the highest, this operates. When Writing in a Hankow paper on the been guilty of foulte since the armistice it is the general desire that France shall Hussin, is suggested, but would welcome country statutés like the Employers' the superior in position, in influence, in subject of the Ever Changing Metro- keep her engagements to the Allies an oloisi mission for the purpose of Liability Acts and the Werkmen's Com- numbers, in adherents, or in rook takes polis," (meaning Shanghai)" Rover" and must adopt a give-and-taks attitude. The Petit Journal considers the true opening negotiations, or a non-official pensation Acta, euch as we have in ours, the law into his own hands, then the says:-Shadghal to-day presents a kalci- ^ DAILY NEWS” FAVOURS CONFER-solution of the problem of the security of mission of business-men for the purpose you may have an inkling of my meaning insistones of the domination of force overdoscopic appearance. Ever pulling down,

ENCE OF POWERS.

the traits is to entrust their defence to of acquiring information, It invites

reason is promptly illustrated, and the ever rebuilding, ever improving and ever an independent force strong enough to fresh proposals based on the principal of The Daily News declares that the deal with any would-be disturber of the equality.

The catial privilege of law is to dress But the rejection of the domina may go away for six months, or one private wrong calls aloud for legal re putting all its eggs in one basket. You defend the canon of its equality--namely tion of force, the taking of law into its year or more at the case may be, and on safety of the Straits, the permanent peace, thus ensuring that the interests of

SEAMEN'S STRIKE that all must have equal treatment by the maintenanen of which is unanimously all parties with be adequately safe FRENCH guarded....

Las, ns the broad inevitable resultant hand, applies not to individuals your return you simply gasp with amazo ENDS. phasised in every quarter, is due to

rght of free citizenship. When every alone and on the higher range to classes ment at the building activities around you the intervention of the Little Enterto,

"PARIS, September 17th.

citizen can truly feel that the law can of a:oiety, but it applies still higher: all and the marked changes which present be appealed to as his friend, then strength nations, gooner or later, who in this colli coming back to Shanghai and feeling at themselves to your vision. Instead of

with whom France is anxious to remain

The French seamen's strike has ended and healing come into the body politio sice between force and law prefer

TURKS FIRE ANOTHER TOWN. LONDON, September 17th

EQUAL TREATMENT.

a it is

on good terms. The newspaper favours from you feel yourself a stranger According to a semi-official message without incident." Bhips are now sailing and the function of law, even on the domination and power, come to a misor. home, being drawn by the old feeling of an early conference of the great powers, tossed that the Turks have set fire to the that the next step will by the adoption of at which all the Balkan States, not ex-ove of You all the Focky and audumia maane to make the new working regima.

dered nearly all the Greek Armenian unworkable: cluding Bulgaria, will be invited to softle inhabitants. the position in the Near East once and ITALY WILL SUPPORT THE ALLIES. for all. Stress la laid on Rumania's vitalite

Bow, September 17th. intercet in getting na

outlet to the The Tribuna, says that-Italy solidly sup Mediterranean, while other Balkan ports the Allies in safeguarding the free- dom of the Straits, but the paper has States are anxious to be freed from the reason to believe that. Italy is unable to danger involved with the Turks as neigh assist with contingents in the event of

military operations becoming necesary.

bours.

BAVARIA DEBARS "MERE TOURISTS,"

of differences between man and man, adds by the sword Law reached up to this same Shanghai, bht wing to modern art to the healthy sense of independence gher level, and as the years go forward and enterprise It Is the same dear old which is the essential of progress But will do with a greater and greater lady renovated and ring comtimaally whenever men, decent me, not rebels or majesty of command, and justice, alill the new clothes of the unit fubien. If you. criminals, cower beneath the law, being reconciler, will carry its principles with stay in the hotel and shrplz gaze out afraid of its inequality, saying to them it i. to that highest range, adjuring, force of your window, and des the continual selves the world is not my friend, nor as a solvent of disputes upholding the procession of mctor-cars coming and the world's law" ther they become the way of reason, and asking the aid of going, the question naturak ze stalang The Bavarian Government announces tempted to moannemer and evil ways.

starved apothecaries of society and are great lawyers as its ministers..

you, where are all tress propte going to that owing to the economic situation, And that society do retten where one ing of justice is no doufot's bebest, but answered. The old hong lie of Bhang Bo we come to realize that the dispens or coming from. The question in sally more tourists will benceforth not be per citizen as againes another can overpower part, as I say, of the ministry of reagon mitted to enter or sojourn in Bavaria. him or undermine him by law wielded in the affairs of men. Thus, as you

BERLIN, September 17th.

bai is a thing of the pants Shanghai has adopted the pattern of London,