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DEATH OF EXPRESIDENT. WILSON.
ENGLISH PRESS ON HIS CAREER.
Loxpox, February 3rd. The late Mr. Wilson's outstanding qualities and failings as a statesinan are summed up in long critical studies of his
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY ́ 5r¤, 1924.
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ANGLO-FRENCH DIFFERENCES'
**CONFLICTS CAN BE SETTLED.'
LONDON, February 3rd.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's, letter to M. Poincare says:
many
Our two countries have gone through such trying times said"by side, and maila such sacrifices together in the common to you a personal note not only to inform cause, that on coming to slice I address
you of the change but also to send greet- lags and good wishes. I grieve to find so unsettled points causing US trouble Bareer in the English papers. Partien- concern, and assure you that it will my daily endeavour to help to settle In attention is devoted to the part he
mutual benent, to our
You have your public opinion
and I mine, you have played in connection with the Great War.
your national interests to conserve and
1 mine.. He is recognised as having been a great protect and
Sometimes at first they may conflict, but I am sure by strena idealist who more than anyone inspired us action and goodwill the conflicts the United States to enter the war,bute settled and policies devised in marsait
who failed when it came to a question of political tactics" and hammering out the peace. It is considered a mistake on his part ever to have gone to Yer uitles. A high tribute is paid to his complete sincerity, and particular note
is taken af the fact that "he" was instru "mental "in saving the Covenant of the Dengue which alche has eamed him a niche" in history. It is agreed that posterity is likely to appraise his worth even more highly than the present genera
Liost.
بازها
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BRITISH PREMIER'S MESSAGE.
Luxpas, February 3rd,
A: S. this agring My Witgon was uneonscious and his pube very weak. Dr. Graysan remainal at Mr. Wilson's home this morning instead of going to his own hope for breakfast, as usual,
LATER.
Ex-President Whon died at 11.16 this norning, without regaining consciousness, His death was peme-ful and painless Mrs. Wilson and Dr. Grayson were by his
In accordance with a
pre
bedside,
be
them.
of which France and
Britata can remain in hearty operation. We can be frank without being hostile, and defend our countries interests without misy: thus the Entente can be much more than nom- inal, and France and Britain can advancu! together to establish the pence and security of Europe"
MR. POINCARE'S SYMPATHETIC
REPLY...
31. Poincare replied:
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HOME FOOTBALL
LONDON, February 3rd. Following are the results of Saturday's Association matches --
FIRST DIVISION, Preston, 3; Notts Forest, 1. Blackburn, 2: Middlesbrough, 0.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE Hibernians, 3; Ayr United, o Kilmarnock, 3; Partick T., 1. Morton, 1; Celtic, 0. Queen's Park, 1; Hearts, 1 Raith Rovers, D: Hamilton A., 1. Rangers, 3 Motherwell, 0. Aberdeen, 9; St. Mirren, o Airdrieonians, 3; Third Lanark, 1. Clyde, 0; Dundee. Falkirk, 2: Clydebank, 0
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SPORT AT CHAMONIX.
CHAMONIX, February 3rd. United States by e to one.
In the ice hockey final Canada beat the
In the finals of the Olympic bob-sleigh competition, the Swiss tenni was first, ia the Olymple record time of 85 seconds, Britain came second, Belgian third and France fourth. There were no mishape.... RABAÚL MAGISTRATE AR- "I am much touched by your kind RESTED BY POLICE. letter, and hope wholeheartedly "that your efforts for the welfare of your country
SYDNEY, February 3rd. will be successful. You may be sure the The police have arrested the magistrate memory of the times of common trial and of Rabaul, ex German New Guinea, on sacrifice, when the bonds uniting your country to milo were knit together, are of seven thousand pounds worth of bird a charge connected with the exportation ever present in my mind. I deeply regret of paradise plumes, which is strictly pro- that several questions, important to our two countries are not yet settled.
Like bibited. you. I shall do my utmost to solve them sion in Australian newspapers lately, There has been a good deal of discus- by a friendly agreement to our mutual navantage. If we have to take account regarding alleged maladministration in
New Guinea.]
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MACAU'S NEWSPAPERS.
THE DOUGLAS TRIAL
CONCLUDING STAGE
The trial of Lord Alfred Douglas, 33, For reasons unannounced #1 lähend has for publishing, a malicious, and defama temporarily suspended publication. Otory libel euucerning Mr. Winston Chur- Combate is being ished on Sundays, as chill, was concluded at the Old Bailey well as on Thursdays, to replace 0 Lineral A Patria continues to grow in
on the 15th ult. size and in popularity.
A PIRACY INTUATION,
PROFESSIONAL VIEW OF HIS
COUNSEL'S 'SPEECH.
Both the legal journals comment Leverely ou the speech made by Mr. Cecil Hayes, defendant's counsel at the trial of Lord Alfred Douglas.
The Law Journal says:-
The independence of the Bar, which has long been recognised as essential to the administration of justice in thes courts, involves a sense of responsibility which, happily, is rarely wanting. When-
the traditions of his calling by allowing his privilege to degenerate into licence, the profession, no less than the public, have good reason to make an earnest
The libel complained of was contained in a pamphlet entitled The Murder of Lord Kitchener, The Truth of the The owners of the 5 Chuen t'huw Battle of Jatland and the Jews." It ever a member of the Bar does violate terrived an intination that their ship alleged that Sir Ernest Cassel and Mr would be pirated. The sun!' sailing of the Chien Choir from Hongkong on Churchil planned and carried out a plot Saturday, 2nd February, was, therefore, pullish a false report of the Battle of capella The Sui Tui had a very Jutland (May 31st, 1916), and that Sir heavy passenger list, as
Ernest and a syndicate with which he protest, a result but before sailing, a very large staf of detec-
was connected made $51,000,000 on flue- tives instituted, a very thorough search.
tuntions of Hritish and German securi- ties on neutral Stock "Exchanges. Mr. Churchill was alleged to have received a large sum of money from Sir Ernest.
EXHIBITION OF ARTS.
*
An exhibition-of-arts is to be held in Macao, in the Hall of the Leal Senando, this month. This exhibition is intended primarly för students, but amateurs and professionals may also contribute. Medals and certificates will be awarded.
THE BISHOP'S SECRETARY. Rev. Father . M. da làman, for some time, Rector of Seminario de S. Jose, Macao, has been appointed Secretary in His Lordships the Right Reverend Lord Bishop José da Costa Nunes, Bishop of Macap. Rev. Father B. Camacho, his previous secretary, has been transferred to the Seminario, Rev. Father F. 3. Bragance is succeeding Father Limaw as Rector of the Seminary..
&
A HIGHER CLUB SUBSCRIPTION. The monthly subscription of the Macao hunther of members have resigned as a Club has been raised to 85 from 83.
protest against this measure.
SPORT.
Foothall continues to be the principal form of sport in Maeño. A match with a Hongkong team was arranged for China New Year's Day,
COLONIAL SECRETARY,
Dr. Alfredo Santos having left. the vacant Mr. Sebastino da Costa has been appointed to act as Colpnini Secre- tary in Maceo pra tem.
of public opinion in our respective roun. tric "and" safeguard national interests. I am confident in applying each in our own sphere, a vigorous action of goodwill to the settlement of problems arising be- [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE-1afice of Colonial Secretary is temporarily manner as to maintain between France tween us, we shall solve them în such a
FAITHFUL TILL DEATH. and Britain a policy of co-operation essen- tial to
countries and the tran- HEROES OF THE TACOMA," our two quillity of the world. My own frankness will be no less than Fours, and if in CHARLESTOWN (S. Carolina), Feb, Brd, defence of French interests I show som
The repair ship Prometheus has arrived fervour, as you in defence of British inter here with the bodies of Captain Sparrow ests, you may be sure that nothing will and one of the radio operators on the ever change the cordiality of my deep-cruiser Facoma who perished in a storm Tonal feelings. It is impossible that after the loss of the Tacamo recently. animated as we both are by such seat The bodies of two other operators have ments, we should fail to make the Estente not been recovered. effective and fruitiul of the result it enn
It appears that after the Tacoma was and ought to hear. in order that the piled up on a reef, Caut. Sparrow went and sveurity and freedon to work."
and sent out the 8.0.S." When the cabin began to break up under the pound ing of the waves the men still stuck to COMMENT ON THE CORRESPON. their work until standing shoulder high Becoming exhausted, they in water inade a inst desperate effort to get below and join the remainder of the ship's company, but were suddenly caught by a giant comber and swept overboard....
VICTIMS OF RAILWAY
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THR SEMMING UP.
One may hope, therefore, that the strong condemnation by the Attorney General of the extraordinary speech which Mr. Cecil Hayes made in defence of Lord Alfred Douglas at the Central Criminal Court-a speech which, in its malignity and baselessness, aggravated Mr. Justice Avory, summing up. aid the gross offence of his convicted client that the real issue in the case was whe-will be followed by some inquiry by the ther the words written and published by Benebers of his Ina inta conduet which Douglas were true.. The defendant com plains, he continued, that his case has not been put fully before you, That means that in his view he has not been allowed to tell you what was the informa tion on which he acted, or what was the belief, under which be acted.
was condemned by Mr. Justice Avory as well as by Sir Douglas Hogy, and which has been the subject of much vigorous comment in the Press in all parts of the country.
The recoguised rules of advocacy per- mit an advocate to do all that he honestly He is mistaken in supposing that either eu for his client, but they certainly did of these matters affords any answer to not justify Mr. Cecil Hayes in nading this charge. When he complains that his his own calumnious attack upon Mr. counsel has been stopped or hindered in Winston Churchill to that for which his : putting his case before you. I am bound client was sent to prison for six months. tq way I do not believe any counsel in "An advocate," said Sir Alexander aur court of justice has ever been allowed Cockburn, in his classic definition of the
dressed you yesterday at considerable client; but I couple that with this quali greater latitude that has been allowed to functions of the Bar."should be fear- Mr. Cecil Hayes in this case. Headless in carrying out the interests of bin
length, but until he came to tell you what heation and this restriction-that the evidence he proposed, to adduce in sup-arms which he wields are to be the arms port of the plea of justification, his speech of the warrior, and not of the assassin. was a mixture of a diatribe on politicians It is his duty to strive to accomplish the and vituperative abuse of Mr. Churchill interests of his clients per foa, but not
per nefas,”
He told you among other things that a politician was a person with the hide of rhinoceros and the skin of a chameleon somewhat mixed metaphor. How either of those animals can do with the skin of the other I leave you to imagine, (Laughter.)
concern
You have no concern here with any question of politics. and no whether the Gallipoli enterprise was well or ill-advised.
arranged agreement, about a hundred men whole of Europe may find again peace with the operators to the wireless enhin man of the house committee on hanks. the time advised him that it was not
and women of all erveds gathered in front of Mr. Wilson's residence had prayed shortly before his death.
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DENCE. WASHINGTON, February 3rd.
LONDON, February 4th. The bulletin announcing Mr. Wilson's
The MacDonald-Poincare correspon death is signed by his physician Dr. Gray-dance does not give rise to much fruitful en and "p The heart's action be comment, but it is noteworthy that there is an absence of any unfavourable critic- came more and more ferble, and the heart ism of the Premier in any quarter. muscles were a fatigued that they refused to act longer. The end came peacefully. The remote causes of death lie in the
-health which began more than four years ago, namely arterio salerosis, with bemiplegia. The immediate cause of death was exhaustion. Following a diges Five disturbaner which began in the early part of last week, but had not reached an acute stage, until the early morning Dr. Grayson is hours of February 1st
strain-worn and restrained his tears with difficulty as he announced the death to waiting" journalists, Mr. Wilson during his last days slept ftfully, later passing period of occasional unconsciousness. He
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FILIPINO LEGISLATORS AND FOREIGN BANKS.
For that reason it ia I say that no one ea complain that Mr. Hayes has been ANTI-BANK LAW BLOCKED. hampered i presenting any defence which the defendant has in point of law. The Manila Timrk of Wednesday last
Mr. Churchill, he continued, had told them that why no libel proceedings were Representative Semifin Hilado, chair- taken in 161 was that counse! had at made known today the decision of his worth while to take notice of such bixels. You must he quite aware," added the committee to kill Senator Alegre's bill prohibiting foreign banks from necepting deposits and current accounts unless they judge, that public men are often sub- ject to attacks and gross lihely, and it incorporate under local laws,
they were always to take proceedings for After hearing the objections of prolibel their time would be greatly occupied minent bankers, Representative Hilado
in the witness-box instead of attending said, the committee believes the passage
to their affairs." of the bill would create a difficult situa tion which would affect disastrously tho
connie condition of the country,"
HONESTY IN POLITICA.
A member of a learned profession ought never to stoop to regard himself as a mere hireling a point which is emphasised by Dr. Stowell Rogers in his admirable brochure on "The Ethics of Advocacy."
DENCHERS' ATTITUDE-, The Law Timea says:-
Mr. Justice Avory, in his summing up, aid: "I am bound to say that after a long experience at the Bar and on the Beach I do not believe that any learned counsel in. any court of justice has ever been allowed greater latitude than has been allowed to Mr. Cecil Hayes in this
case,
Headdressed you the previous morning a considerable length, and until the adjournment his observations were a mass of irrelevance to any issue you have to determine. Until he came to tell you what evidence he proposed to adduce in support of the ples of justification his speech was a mixture of a diatribe_ore politicians and vituperative abuse of Mr. Winston Churchill.
It is clear that the matter. ought not to be allowed to rest, and for the honour of the profession the conduct of counsel Some people. the judge continued, had should be seriously considered by the Mr. Hilado also said that it should be heen saying lately that in polities Benchers of his Inn. No one would sug the policy of the Government to help the honesty was not always the best policy seat for a moment, that freedom of speech establishment of more bauks generally thought that the letters do not advance, the position much, and that
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in the There might be people who still thought at the Bar should be curtailed in the 1ands. For that reason, he added, his
that it would have been better not to lightest degree, but liberty must not be 3. Poincare's reply conveys the impres-
farrowing stories are told by survivors committee would report this evening the let the public know the extent of our counsel must not be used to make un
degraded to licénce, and the privilege of sign that no exchange of courtesies will of a collision between trains bere vester-Guanes bill muthbrizing creation of pro- Jutland losses at ance Lord Balfour deffect him from the Rubr Policy.
day, when seventeen lives were lost. The vincial banks with capital of not less than took the view that it was best to publish warranted personal attacks ever at the wreck immediately caught fire. Many of F95,000. EARLIER CABLES.
at once all that he knew. and believed behest of a disgruntled client. the victims were pinned under debris Speaking of foreign banks, Mr. Hilado Heferring to Mr.
GHASTLY INNÜENDÕES.” Churchill's cross- and watched the approach of death As said that their fozucial soundness cannot examination. Mr. Justice' Avory added The Spectator, which also comments on the flames crept cearer, the spectators he doubled cause they are backed by that what was shid a great many years the matter, remarks that counsel for averted their faces in horror, being help
css to render aid. AMERICAN GOLF TOURNEY.
Los ANGELES. February 3rd. Willie Hunter and George Vonel feated Havers and Ockenden over thirty- six holes yesterday, by 4 and 3.
BRITISH RECOGNITION
OF SOVIETS......
SATISFACTION EXPRESSED IN
RUSSIA.
Commissarjat of foreign affairs giving the
LONDON, February 3rd. The Russian telegraph" agency in Lon don has received a message from the
a resolution adopted by the text of Second Congress of Soviets after Eit- vinoff's report of the de jure recognition of the Soviets by Britain. expressing FAR satisfaction at the recognition and declar ing that co-operation between the peoples refused nourishment towards the end. of Britain and Russia remains one of the
Messages of sympathy have poured in as the news of the death bas spread, one of the first being from President Coolidge.
Mr. Raumsay MacDonak bas seat a juted question's and misunderstandings, sneage to the American nation and Mrs. and levelop and consolidate economic Wibon, saying he is deeply grieved to relations,
first cares of the Soviets, which in ae cordance with its policy of peace will make every effort to settle all the dis-
The congress stretches out
hear of the death of the Ex-President, a hand in fraternal greeting to the British He knows the whole British nation shares people.
This feelings." Mr.
Wilson had the fize
vision of reason and wiadera, leading Europe to peace and security, He has gone before the fulfilment, but will be recognized as one of the world's greatest pioneers.
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ITALY AND RUSSIA
FAVOURABLE TERMS OF
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(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.) „ SIR EDWARD STUBE'S MANILA VISIT.
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME :::
CURTAILED,
DUTCH JOURNALIST'S
PRESSIONS OF SINGAPORE.
Whistles, de paper garlands, whisky
"BIG BERTHA”
the founder of the League of Nations. comprise a treaty commeres and the other gurats being representative their senses. The Singaporevof every-iny there accusations" were untrue, and in f. made in all. When the Gesman Army he
the leading capitalists of their home coupage remained true to-day,The man the defence attempted to save his client tries.
who make a mistake never made by envering Mr. Churchill with mud in To say that because a man the hope that a certain amount of it IM- had made a mistake and he did not would stick and would make an impres say Mr. Churchill had made a mistake sion upon the jury. We quite under- therefore he was not to be believed on his stand that when a counsel has a hopeless oath was an extravagant proposition.
case he naturally turns to aspersion be- The well-known Dutch journalist D.
Referring to the evidence of Mr.
cause he can do little with the evidence. B." who has been travelling in the Far Harold Spencer, Mr. Justice Avory said Decency has a code nevertheless, and in Last, gives ante ippressions of Singapore there were persons who suffered from
"cur opinion Lord Alfred Douglas's coun- in the Nieuws rall den bug. He delusional insanity and appeared to be
sel went far beyond the mark.. little For the present I am spiritually a
Bane, and who woukt deceive the most If counsel are allowed to make every sort tired. Singapore irritates me, harts mel Bangs against the impressions of beauty 1 expert and acate observers, la of gunstly innuendo against a public mass who is merely protecting himself in the I think happened to touch upon their particular enjored in Peking. the chimes of the pan, etc.
Cathedral bera delusion. Mr. Spencer admitted that on
honour will hesitate to take what is un- are tiresome, dull, and intrusive, and the September 17th, 1917, a medical board right way there is a danger that men of building itself second rate and rub
certified him insane.
The jury after an 'absence of 9 minutes doutedly the right course." The Christinas celebration in the were more boisterous and noise-ranking returned a verdict of guilty. than cheerful. An imitation of amuse
£100 SURETY. Tent it
was nothing more, Hooters,
Mr. Justice Avory, in passing sentence. cracker, plum pudding, cheap said: Alfred Bruce Douglas, it is to be
SEVEN LONG-RANGE GUNS FOR SHELLING PARIS sodas and the fox-trot, That was all. No regretted that your undoubted literary MANILA, February 4th. mistletoe, no old fashioned counter-lane abilities have been degraded to such par-
There were no less than seven," Big The American and Filipino entertaining! A dismal imitation of & Christmas poses as this. If I could have taken the ment programme in honour of H. E. Sir tree, and thrice damned hanging of the view that you could have been honestly Berthas," but none now remains, accordl Edward Stubbs and Lady Stubbs will un asband was norempansing the awful deceived into believing the truth of these ing to the Frankfort General Anzeige fortunately have to be curtailed" on hobble-ap-and-down which is called at accusations I should have taken a differ which says:
The long-range guns that borbanded account of the death of ex-President Wilpreet dancing. I was glad, when after ent and more lenient course.
In view of the fact that in the action Paris in 1018 were built in the Krapp it New Year's Eve, with its mad-house son
Covernor General Wood yesterday gave noise, the web feastweek was finished tried in the High Court against the works even guns of this type were a lunch to Sir Edward and Lady Stubbs, and the people seemed to come back to Morning Post you had full notice that
gan its movement of retreat in the mer of 1018, three of these were in service life town suffering from dyspepsia view of the fact that the only person upon Filipino leaders,
and had temper.
feasting, whom you apparently sought to rely in at the front, while, the others were dil As there was no rollicking Singapore is an alcoholic Bed support of this plea of justification was in the
of Jami
a person like Harold Spencer, whom you more chance factory in Paris, two of yourself have denounced in your own them were completely taken apart; Rome paper as a person unworthy of belief, of the parts served to build other caunos, OUTWARD MAILS DELAYED.
must act on the view that you have deli while the rest was melted up. Two other berately persisted in this ples of justifi- guns had been so used that they could be
no longer
broken up at the works. A. Calcutta message of Jamiary 17th cation without the slightest excuse or obtained petroleum and coal concessions, Central China. The total rice produe states: 'Strong representations have been without the alightest grounds for believ and were loved for long-rango work were in existence only three long-rango Italy will appoint an Ambassador to Motion in China was recently stated by made by the Bengal Chrimler of Coming that you were telling the truth in this On the signature of the Armistice Uzere
the Chilli 7ndustrial" Magazine to cow and Russia an Ambassador to Rome.
305,910,000-picule. Kiangsu ranks first as mere to Government at the repeated late pics.
arrivals of the weekly mails from Europe. If I had been applied to I should have guns, which had been placed since the
beginning
ning of the German retreat. It in a rice province, having highly fertile soil of caves deliveries since the beginning of been obliged to slake out then not pra therefore not at all strange that, despite RUSSIA'S NEW RULER
and extensive fields devoted to it. The December, only thres have arrived on time, being had in law because it does FORMER BANISHEE TO SIBERIA. olimate and soil conditions is Hunan and while the others have been respectively fess to justify one-half of these libels. In the precipitate retreat of the Germans. Hupeh are well adapted to rice culture three," one, two and two days late, and view of your previous experience in this the cannon in question were not discover- pd Foreseeing the occupation of the RIGA, February 3rd. Southern Anhwei is well known for it, this week's mail by the Della is also court it is obvious that you must be Rykov has been officially elected Lenin's but northern Achwei is too cold and too expreted to be two days late. Prominent taught, like other persons, that you must Rubs, these three guns were completely destroyed in the course of the year 1919, their remains were broken up or need for disgraceful and successor as Chairman of the Soviet dry. Other rice provinces are Kiangai, business men describe the situation as ah suller punishment
Szechuan, Chekiang, Kwangtung, and lutely Peoples' Commissars.
The sentence is that you shall be in building industrial or other machinery. Ryokov is, z Rassin pezsant by origin, Fukien. Of all these producing, prai
All the statements made in divers places, aged forty-three, and Jun engineer by vinces, only Hunan, Anhwei, and Kiangsi profession. He was arrested and sent to have a surplus for export, their surplus communications find it absolutely impoxi sentence you shall find a surety in £100 seconding to which four long-range ezanom ble to reply by return of rail within two re-arrested was banished to Siberio in estimated at 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 picule heen available, in the past few weeks. It particularly to Mr. Winston Churchill.
haviour to all his Majesty's subjects, and absolutely without foundation. 1911. He became Commissary of Home a year. This quantity; however, is in-
is generally contended that India is being
The majority of the elected members of The Daily Telegraph says the Ulster Affairs in 1918. and has been head of the adequate se a supply to the non-produc- neglected for Australia, the P. and D. and that in default of your finding that Boundary Conference has adjourned for Council of National Economy since 1919. ing provinces and annually from 1,000,000
tested against the appointment of ten. on the Australian ran to an extent render months. a month during which the leaders will He became prominent by his very able to 19,000,000 biculs of rice are imported being forced by competition is concentrate surety you be further imprisoned for six the Fijian Legislative Council have pra- Lord Alfred nodded and turned and members of a large commercial firm in iconsult their followers. It is believed management of supplies during the civil from Siam, Cochin-China, Korea, and
ing punctuality on the Indian route nimosh India.
Fiji to the Exre:tive Council, left the dock. impossible. that little progress has been made so far. war.
AGREEMENT.
HOME, February 3rd.. The Temps say the memory of" Mr. The newspapers says the Italo-Russian AVilson will be imperishable, if only as agreements will be signed to-day, and The Intransigeant says France owes Mr. tion and customs agreement, with Wilson grateful homage. He loved justice mentary agreements embracing two proto and was France's friend.
cols consisting of eighty articles.
ID contains de jure cognition of the Soviet Government, and RICE PRODUCTION IN CHINA. provides for delivery to Italy by Bassia of a large quantity of corn. A consider
Rice, the producing area of which is able reduction on customs tariffe in
chiefly the Yangtze Valley provinces, is It is Russia will be conceded to Italy.. stated that the Italian Government has the principal food in Southern and
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A CONDITION OF BRITISH RECOGNITION.
LONDON, February 4th. The Telegraph's political observer states that the British Note to Russia was only presepted after the Soviet bad "accepted the principle of membership of the League of Nations for which it will apply at an early date and a promise of complete cessation of propaganda in India
and Ching.
THE, ULSTER BOUNDARY QUESTION.
LONDON, February 4th.
The
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declare that
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ceiving hundreds of important business months, and at the expiration of that must be found. Leading firms reprisoned in the second division for six
Archangel in 1900. but escaped, and being i transported to other parts of China being which is the virage time that has to keep the peace and be of good ba / Atill exist in one, form or another, arW,
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