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LATEST CARLES (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

COMING BRITISH ELECTION.

PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED.

LONDON, October 20th,

“LATEST_QABEES.

ANGORA'S WARNING TO THE BANKS, PROTEST BY ALLIED HIGH COMMISSIONERS.

'CONSTANTINOPLE, October 23th The Allied High Commissioners have protested against the warning given by Hamid Bey-the representative of the H.M. The King has signed a proclama-Angora Government-te the banks, to the tion at Sandringham disolving Parlia-effect that Angoza will not recognise pay ments made on account of the Constan- tinople Government,

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EARLIER CABLES,

MR. LLOYD GEORGE ATTACKS INDEPENDENT LIBERALS.

Loxpox, October 25tL

1. The Commissioners point out the seri

As effects of this decision, including the fact that officials have not received their salaries for seven months -

ACTION BY THE POWERS. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing 250 Ne-

CONSTANTINOPLE, October 13th. tional Liberat LP's and candidates at the] =

The Allied. High Commissioners handed Hotel Victoria, defined the attitude of thi National Liberals towards the various para Note to Hamid Beg pointing cut that, ties. He said it was necessary to resist the the threatened mensura, will bring starva- Socialists declaration of relentless war, tion to widows and children and other The attitude of the National Liberals towards the Independent Liberals had been

Government, pensioners, and will also put defermined by the latter declaration of an end to public services and public war and their attack on thirty National order, thereby leading to anarchy. Liberal seats. He accused the Independent

The powers have therefore ordered the Liberals of concerning themselves less with principle than with piques. He deprecato 1 banks to carry on as heretofore. They factions opposition to the new Governinert, declare they are unable to admit the con-

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TRADE AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA.

STATEMENT BY M. KRASS‡N.

B, October 25th.

M. Krassin denies that be has resigned. He declared that the Soviets will again deal with the Urquhart agreement when British. and Russing relations have coterod a new plase

PHOTOS

ACTRESSES, BEAUTIES,

STUDIES. DRAWINGS.

M. Krassin, the Kassian trade represent GREAT CHOICE AND VARIETÝ, ative, was reported to have resigned because the Seriets had refused to ratify the Russo- Asistio agreement owing to Great Britain's Near East attitude.]

THE AUTUMN "HANDICAPS.

RE-ECHO WINS THE CAM- BRIDGESHIRE.

LONDON, October, 25th. The Cambridgeshire resulted as follows:

Re-Echo (25-1),

Poisoved Arrow (7-1), .. ... 2. 3. Hasty Match (50-1), Thirty-four ran. Won by a length and a half, the third being another length behind. DR. VON RATHENAU'S

MURDER."

ACCESSORT - SENTENCED.

BERLIN, October 25th. The State Court at Leipzig bas sentenced the "er-naval officer, Districh, to three months' imprisonment for attruping to

I sail it was for the Conservatives to tentiom of the Angora Government in this assist the murderers of Dr. von Rathenau.

decide the attitude of the two parties. Nevertheless, if Die-Hard" candidates were put up, directly or indirectly, to attack National Liberal seats, they would hare no alternative but to spread war- (Cheers). This was regarded_by_the audience as a plain warning to Mr. Bunar Law not to oppose National Liberals.

MB. LLOYD GEORGE'S ELECTORAL SLOGAN.

Mr. Lloyd Georgo defined his policy as “Britain first and Party second."He exhyrted his followers to help and not to hinder any Government, to refrain from unfair criticism and to co-operate in a policy of peace and co-operation with the Allies, while refusing to allow Britain to be tied to the chariot of any other land-Cheers). He instanced the Straits, declaring that had we committed the policy entirely to the Allies, the freedom of the Straits would have been gone. He emphasised the need of co-operation between capital and the encouragement of agriculture. While be opposed artificial stimulants to trade; certain aids were legitimate, for instance, the Trade Facilities Act, which he claimed had been most successful in assisting trade

abroad and in the Dominions and India.

maiter.

INTERNATIONAL CONFER- ENCE ON MARITIME LAW. LIMITATION OF OWNERS' RES- PONSIBILITY,

BRUSSEL, October 9th:

The International Conference on maris time law have unanimously, endorsed the draft of the international code, for the limitation of responsibility of shipowners to fa per ton in respect of the vessel and freight and the creation of a special fund, equivalent to £8 per ton, for the victims of disasters.

PROHIBITION LITIGATION. FURTHER APPEAL BY SHIPPING COMPANIES.

WASHINGTON. October 25th. In the Supreme Court, Judge Brandeis refused the foreign shipping lines application for a stay of xecution gainst the enforcement of Judge Hands' decision, upholding Attorney-General Daugherty's raling.

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TRADE WITHIN THE DMPIRE Mr. Lloyd George and that when the erisis came, the Government were con- sidering a scheme for considerably extend- ing the use of British credit for Imperial development, which it was intended to submit to Parliament in November. Hemitted, as a matter of policy, to enter said the surest trade was trade with the American waters with liquor under seal. British Empire. He concluded by paying The shipping companies intend to

The Treasury simultaneously announced however, foreign ships will still be per-

.

THE IRISH CONSTITUTION, BILL FINALLY RATIFIED BY SOUTHERN PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, October 25th. The Irish Constitution Bill passed its final singe at a meeting of the Southern Parliament. It now goes to the British Parliament for ruifention.

WHY A DOCK?

A PLEA FOR ITS ABOLITION..

A Legal Correspondent writing in The Orver of September 3rd says:--

Owing to the fact that the deck has not been erected at the new Justices' Court at the Guildhall, Gerard Lee Bevan sat in a green upholstered chair, and the question seems to arise quite naturally-why, in the times of humane treatment of alleged criminals, do we continue to use a dock at all In the bad old days all prisoners appeared in the docks (which is an old Flemish word meaning a cage") heavily loaded with chains and fetters, and round the dock ran a cheveux de frise of iron bars and spikes The docks, in fact, was literally a cage, and even to this day rows of iron bars continue to ruil it round-

How anyone who stands his trial in such disparaging situation can ever be nequitted remains one of the justifications of the jutor. The English principle that a man is innocent until he has been proved to be guilty has often been severely shaken by the forbidding appearance of the pri

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a tribute to Mr. Bonar Law and the Labourites, Mr. Clynes, Mr. Henderson appeal from Judge Brandeis decision.oner in such a dock. Appearances are and Mr. Thomas, but said the danger of The hearing is set down for the end of form is right up against it. In America Peps Defend Your Lungs Against both parties was that they possessed next month. fanatical tails; hence the necessity of party which was strong enough to keep ins Government in a middle course until Britain emeged from her difficulties. In- cidentally, he attacked Mr. McKenna, ARREST OF PRINCE ALEXANDER whom he accused of being chiely re- sponsible for the Liberal split în 1916, when be professed exaggerated loyalty to his chief, whom he now deserted.

MR. MCKENNA'S CONVERSION.

Loxos, October 25th.

Editorial comment to-day dwells perhaps more on the speech of the former Liberal Cabinet member, Mr. McKenna, than on the constitution of the new Ministry.

The Conservative, organa

hail Mr. McKenna's conversion as a testimony to the soundness of Mr Bonar Law's policy.

The Liberal newspapers regretfully say farewell to their former champion and ex- press "the opinion that the success of the tew Government at the polls would result in the vary dangers which Mr. McKenna is anxious to avoid, because it would speedily shed the moderate elements and revers to undiluted Toryiam,

they have abandoned it for the chair, and in England, where we have of late years GREEK DEBACLE - IN 'ASIA made such strides in the direction of giv

ing an alleged criminal the fairest of trials, the abolition of the dock in a re form which many legal practitioners would approve.

MINOR.

EARLIER CABLES.

WEATHER REPORT.

The weak-cheated have no longer eanse to dread the anival of the collseason, for those novel breatheable tablets, Feps, make the chat

and langs strong and cold-resting."

"Catching a call at this season, should nerer be regarded as a mere natter of course, nar.is versary for the old branchial trouble or a thinis to be as bad as ever

When nur hack of mering indicates the

ATHENS, October 25th Prince Alexander has been arrested, after a preliminary examinatiga, in copa nection with the military debade în Asia

Tout foretilla a revival of old chest Oct. 26th at 11.62-Preure has dent of the old-germ, or un exhausting Minor. He will probably be detained increased considerably over central Japan and complaint the wise policy is to take Peps the residence of Prince Nicholas..

moderately Erom S.W. Japan to the Bonins without delay. As Pepa tallets dissolve in It has increased slightly in south-western, de month, they give off powerful medicinal districts,

funer These Larneliately drenate through The Eastern Bra depression is now central the air pastages destroying all gurus that have over the Sea of Japan.

Found their way to the nostrile, throat ar An anticyclone may be forming over bronchials. At the same time thesere infamed Chrins

membrane the healed and proteaed, Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending hard plilegim is softencil and expelled, breathing at 10 am. 26th Oct. 0.00 inch. Total since inse may, and that long-standing cagh January 1st, 68.14 inches, against an average am cheat reres chou disappear. By there, of 80,122 inches."

quick

the direct action Peps key trouble off The forecast for the 24 hours ending at lungs, and wet cold or chilly weather can be noon to day is as follows:-

faced without the least fear. DISTRICT

FORECAST NE winds, wod ersto to from Bae, cooler.

SERIOUS POSITION OF FRENCH WINE TRADE MARKET SOUGHT IN FAR EAST.

PARIS, October 25th. The wine growers of France are alarmed at the prospect confronting them. Eighty per cent of these pre-war customers have Hongkong to Gip Hock been lost owing to prohibiti n in the United The Independent Liberal organs take a States, stoppage of importation of French pessimistic outlook The Manchester Guor-winès into South America, and closing of dian, which was formerly hopeful of Liberni the Russian and German markets. ro-union, bewails the fact that Mr. Lloyd trade at home is almost paralysed by George is still tied to a section of the Tory taxation and the sort of cultivation has Party

increased. The Comte de Ferrand, Presid- ept of the Union des Syndicats du Medoc urges that new markets should be found in China and Japa

LABOUR'S POLICY..

·FREEMASONRY.

PRINCE OF WALES INVESTED AS BGW.

LONDOS, October 25th.

Formosa Cliannel

NE

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South coast of Chins between The game M

Hongkong and Lamocks No. 1 South coast China between The same as

Hoogkeng and Boizan No 1,

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

From Och 27th to Nov. 2nd, 1922.

HIGH WATER,

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Loxbos, October 25th.- The official Labour policy for the Election has been issued. At the outset the man- festo, which is signed by all the members of the Labour Party Executive, stater that, recognizing the need of lightening the deadweight burden of the National Debt, the Labour party proposes the creation of

War Debt Bedemption Fund by a specialThere was remarkable some at the graduated levy en fortunes exceeding Albert Hall, some nine thound British £5,000 a "revised system of taxation for Freemasons attending the Invititure of the revenue purposes, an increase in death Prince of Wales as Senior Grand Wardea of Grand Lodge, Enghali Constitution. duties on large calates and super-tax on

FEL large incomes, incomes-tax relief for low The Duke of Connaught picnded in the incomes, and advocates the taxation of land capacity of Graad Master. The represen a Satur 28 311

fire character of the gathering was indicated by the fact that most of th; Lodge of Sa England, Ireland, and Scotlan! sent o ly

ree or four delegatee.

values, dan kegy

The Party's unemployment policy involves the antional organisation of industry. large programme is recessary in regard to public works.

The racal policy provides for the restora

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and the establishment of Agricutural Cound the Grand Master, which was handed to cils to promote agricultural intercals. The Grand Lodge. The Duke of York, Master Thir

of the Navy Lodge, was present. The Industrial policy involves the prop Prince of Wales received an oration. Inationalisation of mines and railwayz,

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The Teatreatount is based on the scientifs fact that just a bold is breathed into the agstens the manly, to be offclier," must also. be traded in flat in way it is alwaya

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For chillin is first stages, and so prevent trouble mading to the lungs or starting bronchitis,

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