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CABLES.

EARLIER CABLES,

THROUGH MUT'S ADENOY.]

GERMAN REPARATIONS.

TEM HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1923,

LATEST CABLES,

BRITISH AMERICAN YACHT

RACING.;

Byng August 14th, Amerien won the ith British-American

England leads by 200 toʻzal

GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S POLICY, | Cup „much.

BERLIN, August 14th.

An expression of willingness to submitt the Ruhr question to the International] Court of Arbitration was one of the chief features in Chancellor Stresemnice speech in the Reichsing.

To outlining his policy, Chancellor Streseman furiber said that the new

Government was formed.cn a way broad parliamentary basis, and would prove the strongest Calhet against any idea of al

violation of Geraming since the Republic

HARLIER CABLES,

THE GENERAL STRIKE IN

GERMANY.

COLLAPSE IMMINENT.

BELLIN, August 14th.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

(TUROVUN NECTER'S AGENCY,}

SUPPRESSING TUCHUN RULE.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL BRUCE'S,

PROPOSALS,

LONDON,August 15th. Strong measures to suppress Tuchun rule, is the principal feature of a scheme propounded by Brigadier-General €. D. Bruce, in a letter to the Times, for solving

EMPIRE PRESS.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION. “ Although

7:0 definite arrangements have yet been made, it is hoped and be- lieved that the third Imperial Press Con ference in 1998 will be held in Australia, and that New Zealand will be included in the itinerary. This statement was con- tained in the fourteenth annual report of the Council of the Empice Press Union, whos annual general meeting was bell in the Board Root of the Newspaper Proprietars' Association, Bouverie Street, Viscount Burnham, the president, occupy- ing the chair.

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**AN AGE OF THE CINEMATO-

· · GRAPHIC. BRAIN.”

U.S. SOLICITOR GENERAL ON PRESENT-DAY TENDENCIES.

SHAKESPEARE'S BED-ROOM

PLAYS,"

„Despite strenuous efforts by the Com | China's present problem of disintegration. the report of the Council mentioned that at The Hague and transmitted to the mischief between Great Britain and

statius,

He says if nothing is done, disintegration by the Tuchas will soon be an accous plished fact. The still existing possibility

rexistane was sleeply rooted in the firm ways are running, and traffic in the State of the unification of Chim cannot survive 10ds compared with Is. formerly, in the attacks on London amd ather citim during Beck paid a tribute to the part that the

munists, the collapse of the general strike is imminent.

The gas works are still idle, but work has been resumed at a number of power was established.

"Chancellor Stressman said that passiveda The trams and the underground_rail. enuvietion of the justice of its cause, railways is almont Bormal, This had just been unequivondly" resog-{

Attempted "detaonstrutins in various

they might assume that the statement of police, the British standpoint would find an echo in France and Belgium,

Chancellor Streseman said he did not

nised by the British Government, and parts of Berlu were suppressed by the writer is of the opinion that next to the cable companies and the Imperial cables

doubt that any impartial grhitra derision

would restore the Ruhr to Germany. -

Herr Stresemann only vaguely referral to the possibility of a resumption of re- parations after unrestricted administra tion of the Rulir had ensured to Germany, all imprisonezi Germany Ivased. Geritar givru. breathing spacy, and provided the burdens itaposed permit of the continuance of the State economic ife and further development of the nation. Finally he referred to the necessity of restoring order at higus and appealed to all classes to unpport the Gold, Loan, He declared that it was the laty of the Government to satisfe the demand for a stable currency. He re garded the demand for a stalık basts, for wages as justified and concluded: only is lost who striders himself. Wel have the right to believe in Germany's future, and it is otte task to set it."

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work.

district,

The situatigi has become worse Stettin, where the dockers bave strunk A number of shops were plundered, especially the latchers and bakers,

The Communists, are stirring up the peasants, with the result that strike have broken out on 30 states in the Soldie Partial strikes are numerous at other places.

The Communists appeal for a general strike at Leipzig tailed.

The Communist attempted to pet the inhystrial town of Seitz, where uine Communists were killed and 30, including several policemen, were wounded in a fight with the polien,

Five civilians were injured as the result

of a rollision with the polles at Hanhirg. Order, has been restured at Lurbock. AUNE-LA-CHAPELLE COMMUNISTS

KILLED.

AINELA-CHAPELLE, August 14th, Hundreds of Communis empanied

The Reichstag passed, a vote of esnfid-by cyclists patrolled the town and a um ence in the new Government by 5 to her were arrested, en which the Con 70, there being twenty five abstentions.munists attarked the police station. FRENCH YELLOW BOOK EXPECTED,

The German police threw hand-grenades "and emptied their curbines and revolvers at the crowd, which the mounted jedice | charged..

and woundest

Sixty of the demonstrators were kille

SHORTLY.

PARIS, "August 14th. » A Yellow Book will be published shortly replying in detail to the British. Note.

LORD CURZON IN FRANCE

PARIS, August 14th.

holding it.

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fie proposes that the Powers tell the C'entral Government that it should hold

each Tuchur responsible for the lives foreigners and safe travel, and the foreign Powers should back up the Chinese mes aures to deal strongly with them within two years: also provide the money for gratuities al the reassimilation into civil life of the disarined adherents of the Tuchuns,

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WORLD AIR RULES.

RAIDS ON CITIES BANNEL

JURISTS' PROPOSALS,

The Washington correspondent of the Che Tribune telegraphs:** minimise the horrors of warfare in the Far-reaching regulations desigued to air, which perhaps will be the chier

Mr. James M. Beck, Solicitor-General. theatre of the next conflict between of the United States, was entertained to have been framed by a com- luncheon at Hyde Park Hotel by the nattens missiou al eminent jurists representating the principal Powers under a provision of English-Speaking Union. The Right Hon the agreement, made at the Washington Winston S. Churchill presided, and in Conterenes' on the limitation of arma- ments Bolens is the text of the rules proposing Mr. Beck's health declared that one after another the hostile influences. governing the use of aircraft in war as On the subject of reduced cable rates, hnally approved by the commission sitting and obstacles which had tried to make on April 18th last the Westera Usion Teles respective Powers within the last for America had been weakened or swept graph Company announced reduction days. It will be observed that aerial away. In particular he referred to the charges for ordinary trate across the from the industiate theatres of military Irish problem and the danger of rivalry of d. tfive cents) a

word in their bombings of divilian populations removed boneficent effects of the removal of the Atlantic. The new rate was, therefore, operations, as in the case of the airship in naval armaments. In his response Mr. nanay more yeața of Tuchan misrulo. The case of mesanges to and from the "Fastern the world-war, are outlawed. The more union was playing in the spiritual solidi-

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of North America. The other important regulations are as follows: fication of the English-speaking work, Articls Aerial bombardment for the upon which, the welfare of the world British, the Chinese are the most truly made similar reductions, A similar re purpose of terrorising the civilian popula would, he declared, ultimately rest. lernocratic antion of the world. They to and from certain parts of the West property, not of a military character, or did not think we sufficiently emphasised duction was made in the cases of messages tion, of destroying or damaging private Proceeding, he said that sometimes he

of injuring non-combatants, is prohibited, our common faults and responsibilities. enjoyed a marchical government, like ladies and Central and South America "Deferred" Transatlantic rates had been the-British, for centuries, and be doubts ruined by id. per word, but this reduc- force compliance with requisitions in kind came out of his grave, what would his Article 23-Aerial bombardment to on. Supposing that William Shakespearo if any Asiatic nation can flourish as a

tian dil not include Canada, which or payment of contributions in money is impression be of our civilisation to-day t republic. He believes, if it were pos-less than half the ordinary rate. Appar

case the deferred ** rate was already prohibited,

No doubt his first thought would be that Article 24) Aerial Lombardment is so amazing at civilisation deserved a now sible, to carry out a referendum in China,ently the object of the cable companies in legitimate only when directed at a mili. play, and he would go to a London man- the restitution of the monarchy would with these reductions was to compete tary objective, that is to say, an object of ager and say he desired to write a play with wireless telegraphy, the new cable which the destruction" or injury would to be put upon the London boards. receive millions of votes, and it would rates being approximately equal to the constitute a distinct military advantage. Thereupon the London manager; if he best suit the country's present condition;tions had been made in Press cable only when directed exclusively at military manager, would say, "Well, perhaps wid

wireless rates. No corresponding reduc

(2) Such bombardment is legitimate was not unlike his New York: brother but he realises that it is for the Chinese charges, and inquiries of the cable com- forces; military works; military establish could put it on the stage if you could to evolve their own government, and for meat that there was none in contempla portant and well-known centres engage (Laughter.) Shakespeare would say that panies and the G.P.O. elicited a statements or depus; facturies constituting in write what is entled, in the language of

the theatre, a bedroom farce." the foreign Powers to aid them in upay pointed out that the need for wire ur diningtively military supplies; lines of he had written three bed-room, plays. tion. With regard to wireless telegraphy, the manufacture of arms, ammunition, lesa competition with the cables to South communication or transportation used for

"Othello." "Cymbeline," sad "Ham- Africa had been strongly urged by the military purposes.

let," and thereupon the London manager London" representatives of a large group of South African

(3) The bombardment of cities, towns, would say, "We don't want that high- newspapers. The

villages, dwellings, or buildings not in the brow stuff. We want something short facilities offered by the Government wire inmediate neighbourhood of the opera- and snappy, as the American manager less system for cabling to the East were signs of land forces is prohibited. In cases would say, something with pep in it. wordage and time of despatch, and de war 2 are, so situated that they cannot the minimum of intellectual effort.” livery was less reliable than by the cables. be bombarded without the indiscriminate (Laughter.) still severely limited as regarded both where the objectives specified in par- the maximum of manly excitement with

Further improvements in these respects. bombardment of the civilian population Shakespeare would not be in London over, should prove to the cable com the aircraft must abstain from bombard many weeks before he would have the panies that the best way of forestalling

great disillusion that this generation gave In the immediate neighbourhood of all the inordinate emphasis that it was the threat of formidable competition was to cease exacting from Press correspon the speration of land forces the bombarl. pleased to put upon mere physical power dents the present exorbitant urgent" nent of cities, village, towns, dwellings, while the great things of value were sub- rate for Aashing" big news.

or buildings is legitimate, provided that jected to the most shameful neglect. We Mr. Robert Donald (chairman of the there exists reasonable presumption that the greatly overvalued Enowledge, but we The Time in a leader says it does not council), in moving the adoption of the military concentration is sufficiently in under-valued wisdom, which was quite.. believe that the Note addressed by the report and financial statement, mentioned portant to justify such bombanhueat, another thing. We greatly overvalued Powers to China will have the slightest of reduced cable charges, but on the

that progress had been made in the way having regard to the danger thus caused quantity and undervalued quality. The

to the civilian poppulation,

same applied to speed and sureness; POLICE CLASH WITH STRIKERS ] effect. It says it is transparent “make question of wireless telegraphy they only

automatic efficiency, snd individual AT WILHELMSBURG.

recorded history and not progress. The Bee" in a land of "mako see." It eri-union seemed to be always getting near

ginality: play and work; rights and craftsmanship, standardization, and ori- ticises the formality of phrase and the to a statement from the Postmaster

dutics, because to-day, in our democratic General when something happened to put

civilisation, the one insistent need of the argument of the document which, it suya, them off. It was nighly probable that Article 25.-in bombardment by gircraft | average man was "What are my rights 1" deceives nobody in China, and nobody the country might find itself committed all necessary steps must be taken to spare, but how rarely and infrequently, and in out of China who does not want to heto overal millions of capital expenditure as far as possibie, buildings dedicated to what a pessimistic tone did he ever sponk and a subsidy for wireless, running over public worship, art, science, or charitable of his duties to the Commonwealth. deceived. It says the Note might have several years, without the House of purposes, historic monuments, hospital (Cheers.) When he came to London, Mr. heen deemed satisfactory had the sign Commons having an opportunity of dig ships, hospitals, and other places where Beck proceeded, the first thing he saw on "tories stated how and when they propose cussing it.

sick and wounded are collecte), provided the newspaper placards was Suzanne in to carry out their stated firm determina

Sir. Frank Newnes seconded the resolu

mill places are not at the time used for Tears (laughter): "Hobbs Not Out! tion.. tion. The terms are hardly worth im-

FCRUCIAL ACZECIAL QUESTION.

and Placen must by day be in it was a question of whether Jack Demp- inedinte discussion at present. They are

dicated by marks visible to aircraft sey was about to be put up against some- The President, in the course of discus The use of marks to indicate other one else. The fact was that the time had only empty words which will not greatlysion, referring to telegraphic communi- buildings, objects, or places than thos come when a little healthy pessimisma move the phantom Chinese Government,cation, said the question was a crucial specified above is to be deemed an act of would be the beat foundation for the re

the Empire," and or the very rea! and active Tuchons and it were satisfactorily answered it would secure by night the protection for the ing

unic perfidy, A belligerent who desires to construction of the world. We were liv go a long way to show that they had last hospital and other privileged "buildings brain with a thousand images Bashing an age of the cinematographic brignads.

The Times endorses General Bruce's their hold in handling things to prue above mentioned must take the necessary across the screen of consciousness, when

Apero had been many dis referred to sufficiently visible..

ho read in the morning, and no longer paper urges the signatories of the four-ensions on the subject at the Business Article 27-Any person on power Washington Treaty to agree and Council of the Post Office, of which he belligerent or neutral aircraft is to considered the truth or falsity of any net promptly, unless they are content to

was a member. He had spoken in exactly deemed a spy only if, acting clandestinely thing he read. (Cheers.) You read some- the same sense as members of the Council or on fais preteners, he seeks to obtain thing that reflected upon your kinsmen see Chink sink into an abyss while dis of the Union, but the worst of it was while in the air information within cross the seas.

You did not stop to cussing measures for her preservation that the Pestmuster-General changed once belligerent jurisdiction or in the zone of consider whether it was true or false- Tine is the mais factor in the problem.

a fortnight (laughter)-and though he operations of a belligerent with the inter- This picture of the moving picture brair had a great respect for the permaneat tion of ammunicating is to the hostile was never more picturesquely brought to his (Mr. Beck's) attention than a year officials of the Crown, he did not wish Party to sew, the policy of Great Britain entirely,

being received in audience by King Albert ago when he had the great honour of left to them for their moulding. (Hear

of Belgium. There was a man, who was hear.) Tradition in a department of

one of the great heroes of all time. State was a very good thing, but if it

(Hear, hear.) At a moment's warning be became stereotyped or fossilised, then that State to prevent, was not willing to admit that is ought to hold good for all time. (Hear, hear.) We now had in power a business Govern- ment; and it ought, above all things, to show business capacity in dealing with and surmounting difficulties that were undoubtedly pressing in regard to wire loss telegraphy. Its area was strewn with the wreckage of abandoned hopes and un- The latest intelligence, is that Mr-envoury controversies. We had to get Weatherbe is sick. Negotiations for his away from all that, and let the past aircraft the release have reached a deadlock because bury its dead in respect of these matters.

BERLIN, August 14th. The Communists attempted to erect a barricade to prevent the passage of tram- Lord Curzon, is ar prisent undergoing in the Fast End, and fire on the police, who returned the fire, wounding ut Baguo! It's

four person.

hermal treatment

(France).

AMERICA AND EUROPE.

US GOVERNMENT POLICY UNCHANGED.

WASHINGTON, August 14th. Mr. Coolidge presided over the first Cabinet meeting. All the Cabinet ofheials now in Washington have agreed to serve in their present capacity.

BERLIN, August 14th.

While the Hamburg polico were pro- reeding to Wilhelmsburg to relieve the Police Station beleaguered by the strik ers, the latter attempted to block their progress by a volley of stones.

The police responded with revolver fire, killing three and wounding eight. **

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US. SEIZURE OF BRITISH SHIP.

FEDERAL COURT'S IMPORTANT DECISION.

It is authoritatively stated thint so far as Marquess Curzon's" reparationg piza zecords with Mr. Hughes' suggestion, the Government is ready to play its part in a fresh dewrmination of the economic con. ditions in Germany. Mr. Coolidge's administration adheres to the tradition which was laid down, in a speech by Mr.

NEW YORK, August 14th. Hughes in December The Government does not sees that the way is open to The following significant decision has offer any direct aid in the present crisis been given by the Federal Court uphold but will readily respond to any appealing the Government action in sizing the for aid frem abrand, when help can be British vessel Marion Masher off Fire given with due regard to the Thirrests of laud on July 25: the American people.

The President vessel hovers around the American coast, does not see any occasion to call a special though three miles from the shore, with Brasion of Congress before the regularinet to violate the laws, and is caught in December Bession.

the act of smuggling or attempting to smuggle intoxicating liquors, and it shown that it is having, contact with the shore, its seizure, though of foreign registry and outside the thresmiles limit, i justified."

PIT EXPLOSION IN US

SEVENTY DEAL COUNTED.

KEMMERER, Wy, August 14th, An explosion occurred at one of the Kemmerer pits (Wyoming),

Of one hundred and thirty-five miners who were entombed, twenty-nine have up to the present been rescued, but seventy Head, have been counted.

RUSSIA ENDORSES STRAITS

CONVENTION....

Bose. August 14th. Jordanski, on behalf of Russin, has gned the Straits" Convention concluded

Jausanne

CHAR-A-BANC CATASTROPHE, LOURDES PILGRIMS KILLED.

TABLES (Pyrenees, August 14th." Twenty-three Dutch Lourdes pilgrims ero killed at Sainte Sauveur as the result fa char-u-bane falling jutó a ravinez s The driver was trying to avoid a woman

The road.

HOME CRICKET.

LONDON, August 14th A Manchester, Hampshire beat Lanca- shire on the frst innings. For Hauta, Brown" in the second innings scored 104

Surrey beat Middlesex at the Oval on the frat jonings Surrey had 482 for and declared, Hobbs contributing 130 and Bandham 112. In the wound innings they scoral 230 for 7 and declared, Sandhain compiling 73. Middlesex, scored 201 (Hendren 80, not out) and in the second knock 323 for 8 (Hendren 142 not out). magnificent finish, Hendron saving Mid- dlesex from defent

At Weston-super-Mare, Kent defeated Somerset by seven wickets. For Kent, Woolley in the second innings scored 100, not out.

Essor defeated Gloucestershire by six wickets at Cheltenham. För Essex, in the first innings, O'Connor compiled 128 and Douglas 147, not out Claude Ashton in the second innings took 7, wickets for 51. For Gloucester, Smith in the fret innings knocks up 147.

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COMPENSATION TO BE PAID.

compensation for injuries to person or to A belligerent State is liable to pay property caused by the violaten of the provisions of this article.

4 British Proposals to deal with the Tuchuns. Thetical advantage within the Dominions of measures to render the special signs,no man remembered in the evening, what

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ENGLISH CHANNELSTEAMER'S NARROW ESCAPE

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TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY PASSENGERS ENDANGERED.

-Loxbox, August 14th.

The Southern Railway steamer Priserss End, from Southampton to St. Malo, with 250 passengers on hart, struck Min quiers Reef Jersey, in a fog early this morning.

It was considered advisable to lower the bont", two of which were filled with passengers, wh behaved, in a most orderly

manner.

There were no ezsunition.

CHINESE POLITICS.

PEKINO, August 14th. Mandates appointing Chang Hư us Minister of Finance, concurrently Tupan of the Salt Administration and concur rently Director of the Currency Bureau were issued this afternoon,

BANDITS' EKITISH' QAPTIVE.

'. MR.. WEATHERBĘ SICK.

PRING, August 14th

the Crown.

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bound to respect the rights of deutral Article 30-Belligerent aircraft, are Powers, and to abstain within the jurisdie tion of a negtral-State from the commis sion of any act which it is the duty of

Sulmeuently the vissel floated off with the bandita demand ransom in arms he- They wished now to take a fresh view, belli Porter work upon an aircraft to Paris literally another 100,000 people

the

tile, proceeding to St, Malo underfore landing him over.

her own stayum.

There is no news of the two boats, but

no apprehensions are falt; 'ns the sun is i calm.

ARRIVAL AT ST. MAIO,

LATER The Poiners. Eño arrived at St Malo with all her passengers. RUSSIAN TRADE DELEGATION M. RAKOVSKY'S" "ACCEPTANCE! STILL UNSETTLED

BERLIN, August Téth. The question of Great Britain's neerste anes of M. Rakovsky's appointment to London is still unsettled,

· [FROM THE "DAILY BULLETIN.””]

PAYMENT OF TROOPS.

FUNDS.

a.

hazarded Crown and 'Throne for right bound to use the means at its disposal:

Article 46-4 neutral Government is (cheers)--and if his little army had not stood at the gates and delayed the Ger- 1. To prevent the "departure from its man advance, who could truly say that jurisdiction of an aircraft in a condition Paris had not fullen and the Battle of the to make a hostile attack against a helli Marne. been an impossibility 1. gerent Power, or carrying or accompanied A smile came into the face of the King, by appliances or materials, the mounting of the Belgians when he said that, after or utilisation of which would enable it all, the greatest heroes of this age were to make a hostile attack.

Charlie Chaplain and Douglas Fairbanke 2 To prevent the departure of - an

crew of which includes any to London 100,000 people would crowd to (Hoar, hear.) If Charlie Chaplin came of the combatant forces of a

see bim; and if Douglas Fairbanks went" and he hoped and believed that was pos

provent sible. He could not conceive anything designed to prepare it to depart in con would crush in order to touch the bem of travention of the purposes of this article, his coat tail. (Hear, hear.) In America, that would conduce more to that end

on a sunny day, 100,000 people gathered On the departure by air of any aircraft despatched by persons or companies in together in a great stadium to see a box- neutral jurisdiction to the ontler of ang match. It brought back the thought ment must prescribe for such aircraft ngerously near the stage of the Hippo belligerent Power, the neutral Govern that the English-speaking race was doo-

military operations of the opposing belli- it was that the stage of the Hippodrome route avoiding the neighbourhood of the drome, and if experience taught anything

tees may be required to cusure, that the decay of any people (Cheers.) But gerents, and must, exact! whatever guaran- was generally the first indication of the aircraft follows the route proscribed. while the page of Shakespeare

neglected, his spirit was not dead, They ought to revive the love of Shakespearo

than that they should in the first place once again approach the new Postmaster TSAO KUN" AND WT PEI FU REQUEST brosion and ability they all had great General, in whose quiera confidence. (Hear, hear.)

After the report and accounts had been passed,

Mr. Percy Hurd. M.P., moved, and Sir Harry Brittain, M.P., Breonded the fol lowing resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

Pexiso, August 14th Tsao Kun has requested the flover. ment to pay $100,000 for his troops.

Wa Pei-fu als roquesta funds,

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WIRELESS IN CHINA

PEKING, August 14th A report has been issued by the Mitsui Company giving the results of the official M. Rakovsky denies the "puti-British tot of the wireless station at Shanghiao, utterances arila to him in the foreign sear

Communication was successfully Press, and he proclaims himself to be n

advocate of the closest economic Anglo-ablished on August 10th with Bordeaux. The text is being continued, with Sainta Eussian co-operation, considering that the present time is most favourable for parti Assise, Nauen, Carnarvon, the Marshall cipation of British capital in the recovery Islands, etc. of Russia.

M. Rakovsky,, who has departed from Berlin, hopes soon to go to London,

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

"... LONDON, August 14th. French Francs further depreciated to 83.00, and Belgian Francs to 100.13...

German Marka were quoted at between 10,000,000 and 12,000,000 to the sovereign.

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OBITUARY.

DUTCH EX-MINISTER FOR THE COLONIES.

Angrezdam, August 14th. The death is announced, following an operation, of M. Cremer, ex-Minister for the Colonics,

CABLE KATES.

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SANDHURST COURSE.

PERIOD REDUCED TO 18 MONTHS.

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"That the new Postmaster-General, Sir]. Laming Worthington-Evans, MT., bo necessity of getting more communication along the English-speaking race, so that asked to receive at the earliest possible between Australia and New Zealand and again a truer emphasis could be placed moment a deputation from this Union to Great Britain and other parts of the upon what after all were the great values.

of human life. (Cheers.) ol point out the urgency of the provision of Empire, omething at least might come effective Empire wireless communication." the cable rates. They often heard speakers at public gatherings from the Commonwealth and the Dominions re- Bir TJ. Bonnett, M.P., raised the proach them for the little newe in Eng. question of roduced cable rates, and re-fish newspapers on matters of public ferred to the excessive profits made on the interest to them. That surely depended Pacific cable. They did not expect the upon the cable rates; and there was no

It is officially nanounced that the Pacific cable to work at a loss, he said doubt nothing would do more to produce duration of the course of instruction at and, on the other hand, they did not ex- a better crop of news and comment than the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, pect it to make enormous profita. If any to get those rates down to a lower and is to be reduced from two years to 18 service could be done by putting a ques as most people would think, a reasonable months This shorter period will com tion on the matter in the House of Com- basia (Hoar, hear.) They would accept mence with the endets who join the college mons he would be quite willing to do so. Sir Thomas Bonnett's after to ask a ques in September. As a result the number The President thought the ides suggestion on the subject in the House of Com available for commissions in 1825 and sub- ed might serve a useful purpose. It mons, and, if no satisfactory answer were sequent yours will be larger than the gum- memed to him that, considering the vital received, a debate might be raised upon ber who are able to obtain commissions

Lontinued at foot-of-rast Column)`' || it: (Hear, hear.)

|cach year under the present system.