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CABLES.

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[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE HOME ELECTION. PREMIER ATTACKS CONSERVA-

TIVES..

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

THE CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.

(THROUGH HELTER'S AGENCY.]

A WAR LORD IN HONGKONG,

"HIS DEPARTURE TO ENGLAND.

SHANGHAI, October 2nd. Little Hau departed for Hongkong An appeal for Liberal support, and a yesterday, where he will tranship to vigorous attack on the Conservatives, was made by Mr. MacDonald in a speech at

LONDON, October 1st.

the Hippodrome, Sheffield, where he had

as enthusiastie reception by an Audienc of over four thousand Thousands of -others were unable to gain admission. Queues had been formed outside sinee six in the morning.

The Premier declared that this cam- paign was to him like a whif of victory,

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England.

Sun Chuan Fang hus returned to Hang- chow and Chi ilsich Yuan is not coming

FAR EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

THROUGH BICZEK'S AGENCY.}

URWISE REVOLUTION.”

SOVIET, CLAIMS,"

Loydon, October 22nd.

SCOTTISH SPORT. FOUR SOCCER LEADERS.

1924

TOURING THE WILD,

CHARM OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.

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[BY TEE TIMES!"

ADELAIDE CORRESPONDENT; }; /

58 RAF MEN KILLED

THIS YEAR"

TOO MANY: RISKST

BEGINNERS ON OLD-FASHIONED MACHINES.

Within a few years Central Australia Fifty right RA.F. men have been bill sight-seeing tourists. Official patronage The public, which has come to regard has become popular as a country for ed in flying accidents sings läst January- has been extended to the through trip to Darwin. Last year the Governor af railway travel, in perturbed at the heavy from Oodnadatin, the southern railhead, commercial flying as being as safe as South Australia, Sir Tom Bridges minde death-roll in the RAF

year the Governor of Victoria, Lord motor trip, to the interior, and this

Stradbroke and Lady Stradbroke have gone to that land of great distances.

try for air, "errors of judgment

According to Mr. Fench, Unster-Seeres cause most of the accidents, and somn of them occur at training schools, ž

- [FROM OUR OWN. CORRESPONDENT]

EDINBURGH, September 17th. The big four of the League were again pre-eminent, Airdrieonians Hiberman, and Celtic All won in the Rangers, miast convincing fashion, and none of After five years' efforts Communism Airdrieonians had the biggest wore but

them yielded a goal to their opponents is approaching her hour of triumph in Probably the achievement of greatest merit was Rangers substantial win at the Far East, and shortly China's Ayr, where the champions disposed of 400,000,000 will be united through the United had the misfortune to meet hi

the local club by goals

to none. Ar communist international to the Soviet champions in one of their devastating The Arctic explorer Stefnasson has Government under the Red" fag. After ds, and in the circumstances the recently gone there too.

But Mr. C. G. Grey, the aeronautical focal team carried themselves well. Hibs ot many years ago an excursion into expert, suggested to the Daily Express China comes. Imlia, and after India, a maintained their distinction of being the Central Australia was a signal achieve that the real trouble is that out-of- SHANHAIKWAN SECTOR. world revolution," this, according to the only club who have collected the mari

ment and the long journey to Darwin dato aeroplanes are being used: Safer manu points. The

Amateurs fought almost an epic adventure, but now the machines have bean evolved, but at pre- REPORT FROM PEKING.

Evening News Riga correspondent, is the amely, but were over matched. Celtics frequency of visits has made the trip a sent the R.A.F. has not a sufficient tenour of the latest articles of the Soviet Victory over St. Mirren was overwhelm commonplace experience,

The Airdrieonians, too, had a runaway is

change sappily, ne tregt duo to

The route motor, transport -Pexisa, October wind, press. Discussing events, the Soviet press

over the new First-Leaguers

Under present conditions," said Mr. the centre of the Johnston, Cowdenbeath, the other pro-

Catmont Ix The reported retreat of the Fengtieners there in

a beaten track.

[Grey, crashes are likely to continue -sudden of Central Australia recalls

19 | probably at an increasing rata, for at the Communist University of Tashkent,

Professor Sir Edgeworth David rust another year.

There is a "If the Governans at even' placed time coming." he said,

Bei Pau Shan will take full charge.

the

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but a griz struggle was ahead next week. in the Shanhaikwan sector seems to be Chinese communist agitators educated in Greenock club being forced to sfid. toll" mé some years when people: £20,000,000 at the disposal, of the Air

Their opponents would leave no stone doußtful, but the big guns hare appar where hundreds of Indian agitators were

unturned to damage Labour, because it had been too successful in caring for the interests of the country at home and

abroad. if there

was any danger of extremism in Britain, it would come when an incompetent Tory Government was in offer. The Premier, in appeal ing for Liberal support, claimed that Labour had the Liberal spirit, widened, broadened and heightened.

ANTI-LABOUR SPEECHES. Lord Birkenhead, speaking in London, said he believed the heart of the nation Was sound and true, and would repudiate

the mad economic philosophy derived from the hysterical writings of Karl Marx. He found everywhere a stern determina tion not to permit the crime of leading money to Russin, which was the most important issue of the election.

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ently been drawn back, and the pressure iso trained with a view to overthrowing overcome, for Chibli headquarters, and the British rule in India. The Bolshe first army, are returning to Shanhaikwan. Erists declare that amid the present poli. The Shanhaikwan's 14th 24th and tical turmoil in Europe the time is ripe

for a Chinese revolution. divisions have captured Chishan, which

THE is a strong position on the way to Chiu- men, the fall of which was inuminent. Pushing on the part of Clovernment troops seized four strongholdi.

MARITINE CUSTOMS.

MORE HOME TALE.

of

lothian were again on the down grade. less than five goals. Heart

Hibernians, Queen's Park,

Falkirk; 2: Heart of Midlothian, 1. Airdrieonians, 6: St. Johnstone, AST United, 0 Rangers."4 Celtic, 3; St. Mirren, 0. Cowdenbeath. 5; Marton, f. Dundee, 3: Kilmarnock, 1, Hamilton Academcials, 9; Aberdeen, Partick Thistle. 0; Raith Rovers, C. Third Lanark, 1; Motherwell, 1. NORTH BERWICK, GOLF LINKS.

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will flock to see the country from all Ministry for building new machines of parts of the world. It is an amazing the latest type they could not be built storehouse of knowledge and possesses in less than a year. features not to be found in any other A large number of accidents could

part Sir Edgeworth David was refer-nos be helped formerly, but now they can ring to scenic aspects as well as to scien-be helped. Many old war-time machinca tific phenomena, and Captain S. A. are still in use. White, the Australian ornithologist, who

It is now possible to bail a machine has been six or seven times to the in that will not nose-in even when being terier, and has an artistic understanding down slowly, providing, of course, that of the colour and goods of this vast the pilot does not deliberately cause it territory, agrees with him. If people to do so. only knew the wonders and beauties of These deroplanes are being issued to travel there, he says, they would go in the Flest air arm, and the home, defence thousands during the winter scan Berrice. But they are agh-powered war-

Although it cannot be said that the difficulties of the journey have been over-planes.

the trail for the tourist has been blazed Caso may be), and add that this course come, the dangers certainly are past, and

LACK OF MONEY! This type, built as a lower-powered.

models.

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If one was to describe to an göller a Losos, October sand. Mr. J. O. P. Bland, letter to the course as having the first eight holes Times, refutes General Bruce's strictures straight away into the wind, then one Realizing their losses, the Fengtieners on Sir F. Aglen and points out that across, and nine holes back again, with Aglen's duty is to carry out the instruc- the wind behind or rice vera, as the thrice attempted to regain the lost positions of the Chinese Clovernment so long is so crowded between a high road, with tions, but were repulsed, leaving a thous or are not in conflict with his duti villas on it, and the sea; that it is dread-in a manner that admits of no confusion, machine, is urgently needed in the fring

as custodian for foreign bondholders, saad killed and woanded in the field, The writer says that had Aglen refused fully easy at half the holes to find oneself has been asserted by a recent motorist schools. The obstacles are lack of money

to consent to the floatation of the loan on the wrong fairway-that at one place that all the talk of a perilous enterprise and the time taken in iuilding. when they finally retreated in the dire he might regnbly be accused of syming, and finally, that the most. con- time when the dreaded Depot Sandhills, need the highest degree of security in there is, moreover, an undisguised cross is only so much posing. There we s Thus, training squadrons which most pathising with the rebels, tion of Chiumen. The Fengtieners there

spicuous hazards or obstacles are straight miles of continuous ridges, had to be dying, still stone walls on such a description no negotiated. They vary from 3 to so

use old. antiquated war were estimated at 12,000. In the Shan-

golfer would have any choice but to say feet high, stoping to the south, and that it was a thoroughly bad course presenting almost

The Air Ministry is not to blame. haikwan sector the Feugtieners yesterday

perpendicular face Yet (writes a Times correspondent): this to the north, a freak perpetrated by the is purely a matter for Parliament to

decide. attacked three times, but were easily

is all true of North Berwick Old Course; prevailing wind. The terrific climb over and its place among the best links in the these ridges can now be avoided by fol repulsed, and the position at present is!

world has never been seriously disputed lowing the bed of the Finke Biver, and Which shows the futility of applying one of the greatest obstacles to the unchanged.

mathematical analyses to spiritual things northern advance is thus,overcome. S. North Berwick Old Course though possessing half the faults, considered un- pardonable in golf architecture, is the most fascinating of linka; a fascination of temperament, of figure, and can plexion for the greens and fairways are hear, perfection, of infinite variety and caprice..

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A DOMINION COMMANDER

Lord Curzon, also speaking in London, aid the Russian loan had disturbed the commercial community more than buy proposal of the Labour Government, whose assumption of office was a foolish and fatuous experiment due to the stupid- ity of the Liberal party. Ile ridiculed Mr. MacDonald's assertion that his Gov-

LONDON, October end. ernment in eight months had contributed

Captain George Hyde takes command more to peace thin all the other parties to-day of the craiser Findictive, which during the last eight years. Lord Curzon is preparing at Chatham to relieve the -himself had received a personal and pri-Diomede on the China Station. This is vate ansurance from each of the Dominion Ministers that they were entirely satis- Bed with Britain's foreign policy in the past, and desired its contínuance on the same lines and in the same hands.

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the first time in pezes conditions that a captain of any Dominion Navy has taken command of an Imperial vessel.

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THE NY.I. DISPUTE.

ACGGESTED PRESIDENT.

TOKYO, October ad. Takeshi Shirani, President of the Government Steel Foundry and ex-Civil Governor of the Kwantung Province, has been recommended for the Presidency of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha in succession to Baron Ito,

EX-SERVICE CIVIL SERVANTS.

THREATENED DISMISSAL OF

30,000 MEN.

Servants has issued the following state- The Association of Ex-Service Civil

ment

EX-KAISER'S SANITY.

STATESMEN'S FOREBODINGS.

SECRET PREWAR HISTORY.

[FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH's ". CORRESPONDENT.}

BELLIN

Again, in the past there has not been (1) There were zoo few mechanics to enough fring practice because--

keep the machines in first-class flying

condition; and.

(2) There was not enough mondy to buy petrol!

The route is picturesquely circuitous. one river having to

to he cro

crossed eight tunes in 16 miles. The courses of the creeks are marked by stately gams, un-

"The mechanics were not adequately equalled anywhere for their massive sym-trained. Garage mechanics are of no us metry and beautiful foliage. In other at all. Now that the Air Force bas. the parts there are fine belts of desert oak mechanics and the petrol, mere flying is many of the trees rising to n beight of being dous, but the safest type of machine between 30 and 40 feet without a branch, is still lacking." the boles growing as. straight as lances. This year's fifty-eight deaths have de The acacias are also most attractive, curred in thirty-eight accidenta. Eleven with their spiky leaves, and the bushes of the nccidents and twelve of the deaths in the wet season clothe the rugged land-happened in training schools, the pilots scapes in soft, tinted garments."

being short service officers under instruc. tion

BLONSO TIM-?

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Nature's decorative effects when the Parliament that the question of accidents On August 8th Mr. Leach stated in goes forth with her brushes and palette in relation to lack of flying experience aid these amazing flower gardens are was being closely watched by the Air gorgeous. The blossoming time is brief

Ministry. in this region of scanty rainfall, and the colouring process must be quick. Fight- for existence against the heaviest odds, the plants develop with remarkable AEROPLANES. TO CARRY of a few weeks. In this battle for the rapidity, germinating, maturing, flower

preservation of the species tremendous edity and tenacity have been develop

and in

SOLDIERS.

READY NEXT YEAR

re-asserable, and one question which will Within a few weeks Parliament will be definitely raised is that of the settle- organised in different bodies, each deal ment of ex-Service men. These men are

ing with its own particular problems, but the root principle is the same. One of the organisations in the yna of the Cabinet, yielding to Chauvinist clamour, At the very moment when the Marx forthcoming the ex-Service Civil Uniri sociation. This associa revives the question of responsibility for Labour had no real conception of the ZAGHLUL PASHA "AT HOME. during the war, are now temporarily em long ago as 1800 leading persons in Ger- tion comprises men who, having served the outbreak of the war, we learn that so

Imperial idea, and paid lip service to the

ployed in the Civil Service. Their periedy were seriously considering the po of service in the Civil Service varica from ibility of having the Emperor William Dominions, Mr. J. H. Thomas in numer-

CAIRO, October 21st.

three to five years. They do not occupy declared incompetent to rule and placed

Wonderful aeroplanes, capable of transe ous speeches had boiled over with frothy

the highly-paid posts, their average pay under guardianship. A book by the his

Captain White, talks of the garden of porting fifty fully armed soldiers--appro In a speech at Alexandria, where he being £3 15. per week. Their average torian, Johannes Haller, to be published the interior." It must no longer boximately a platoon of infantry are being patriotism, but they pursued their policy was given an enthusiastic reception on are mostly married.

age is 36. They number about 35,000, and shortly, contains the following statement thought of as n" desert," but a perfect built for the Air Ministry. Even there made by Cardinal Hohenlohe, brother of garden undergoing a swift transforma- however, are nos believed by experts te apart from and contemptuous of the his return from Europe Zagalul Pasha

The Southboronga Committee, which the Chancellor, immediately before his on almost from the moment that rain represent the last word in trodp-carrying Dominions, They had dropped the re-declared that he was ready to sacrifice recently presented its report to Parlia death to Prince Philipp Eulenburg:

touches it. Brilliant blooms over the machines. meat, was appointed to investigate the "I know you are absolutely devoted to ground for immense distances. There solutions of the Imperial Conference. his life for Egypt's independence. He claims of the ex-Servic: temporary staff the Kaiser. In the present position give are swainsonins in pinks, deep rods troop trains able to carry 200 or 30

They talk with confidence of flying Imperial preference and the Singapore pointed that the British Foreign Office booted, without undergoing an exauton his guard and very cautions. I know maroon, and a brave little pink daisy whirled through the sky at a speed of

to obtain permanent posts as vacancies him frank advice. The Kaiser should be purple, white,

bright

yellow,

and soldiers with equipment, who can be scheme, which the Dominions considered White Paper had not mentioned that he nation. The objections to an examination positively that the idea of declaring him with a white centre; blue asters, from 100 miles an hour. vital to their security, and finally they asked that the position of High Commis-are that in their case it should not be of unsound mind is being considered in 18. to ft. high, which spring up in the The new serial troop-transport Very many, including claypans and on the tablelands; the machines are being constructed entirely bad signed the Boviet treaty, with which sioner in Egypt should be analogous to necessary, for practically all these men many beads.

have been employed for some years carry-exalted personalities would gladly lend blazing scarlet of the Sturt pea, spilling of steel. In the rooms fuselage will be not a single Dominion Prime Minister had that of other foreign Ministers and doing out their duties efficiently as the their hands to initiating proceedings over the white sands like a stain of tip-up seats arranged on lines similar to

Warn the Kaiser.

blood clared that the Egyptians had gained by report admits

and tree fuchsias, the smallest sympathy, which was the

sparkle An examination was previously at- the London conversations because they tempted, but so ridiculed by Parliament letter in which, on July 14th, Eulenburg. Even chose 28 miles of Depot Sandhilla

The statement is to be found in a long every colour under the diamond

of the winter sun. most humiliating and disgraceful act had confronted the British with their and the Press that it was abolished. The reported to Prince von Buelow the sub-are not within the category of a de of their gunmen. The country would ia- British had replied with a refusa), with.pose an examination, with this pro-According to Eulenburg, he cautioned the are a wonderful-garden. Captain White | tribal insurrection will thus be British annals. They were in the hands rights, supported by proofs, while the Southborough Report again attempts to stance of a conversation with the Kaiser.rt" for in the rainy season they, too, Soldiers being taken to the scene of scie viso:That 5 per cent. of marks should Kaiser against strength of Bismarc says there are 70 species of flowering to travel in greater comfort than if they be added if the candidate has a high kism," which he described as a force shrubs and plants to be found along this wore making the journey by train. Egyptians had learned that they must from the head of his department. But even firmly fixed in many German hearts the In the ravines which intersect Forced marches will be a thing of th

report of efficisney and good conduct of which the roots are still deeply and

sist on having a Government that would not allow the claims of the citizens of the

Empire to be bartered in return for the

embraces of the Bolshevista.

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THE GERMAN ELECTIONS, COMMUNISTS' HASTY RETREAT BERLIN, October 22nd.

out proof or justification

that

LONDON CONFERENCE. GRADUAL EVACUATION OF THE RUHR.

tivo examination.

said

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those of the interior of a London omai bus, bat folding back Bush with the side in the transport of soldiers that cra can be used for carrying supplies of the cabin, so that when not engage

enabled

including timber hardships of and all the..

CLITI

over "arïd, angel country

possibly enemy-infested cou

will

The troop-carriers of the air will add new and important factor to warfare. It will become possible for a small t highly trained body of troops to cause damage out of all proportion to their numbers to destroy railway, bridges roads at important junctions, and r as they went.

troop

vegetation, to allot some 5,006 vacancies to successful was more firmly rooted there than any, which rise for 100ft, without a single efforts, strengthen their union, adhere candidates out of total of 35,000 now Eulenburg continues

There is also a cycad, one of firmly to their rights, and not lose any temporarily employed. This will mean Account of the conversation, as follows: aldest living plants in the world, with if the Report is to operate, that 30,000 His Majesty made a rather violent a history of millions of years Is in opportunity of energetically claiming men will be disinissed, and their places sally against elements which did not found in fossil formation in other coug- them. The nation must remain solidly taken by boys and girls from the schools, deserve consideration and which he had tries

PAINTED CLITY. grouped under the banner of Complete who will it for the customary competino reason to fear. Thereupon

that in spite of his Majesty's view, that independence for Egypt Egyptians

Of the physical features of the Central The situation is viewed with grave con the Kaiser was too firmly rooted in Ger- Australian landscape, the Yellow CE, must never accept separation. (Vorifer-corn by the Ex-Service Association, and man hearts to leave room there for an-into which the geologists can read a hisay works, and then return a rapidly One result of the dissolution of the ous cheering) They must never admit very active steps are being taken to obe other must adhere to my standpoint tory of 33 millions of years, presents The first of the large, types of

a single foreign soldier should tain Parliamentary action to prevent that Bismarckian should not be flouted striking colour scheme. On its great carrying planes will be ready for pa Reichstag is the abolition of the immunity remain on Egyptian soil

there 30,000 men being thrown into the His Majesty, I said, underestimated cer- yellow face there is written the imperish Scal tests early next year. It is pro of members Consequently there have

ranks of the unemployed. In Canada, tain dangers which might appeas any moable story of the age when Australia was tions exist hy which permanent status is Majesty were some day to irritate, public periods are recorded here one a matter Cup engine, but later the semi. Diesel been basly departures from Berlin of the

in South Africa, and in India regula- ment in the life of the State. If bis in the grip of ice Two other distinct babe that, at the outset, they will be equipped with the new 1,000-hip. Napier majority of the 62 communist deputies

given to ex-Service men temporarily opinion" by something, circumstances of 25 millions, and the other of 18 millions employed. 'It has been the practice in might arise in which bo would find him of years. The cliff is about soft, high; cil-burning motors are likely to be - against whom warrants of arrest were

this country since 1914 in the Civil Ser-self in condition of constraint

And time and weather have painted the tradated, lessening, as they will, the ma issued on charges of treason, conspiracy,

vice to absorb men and women into per-

of fire in the air. 10 By this turn in the conversation the sandstone in browns and deep reds, light Diplomatic circles in London have been my were of the Great War these what I understood by z condition of con- upon them with diganing fletired from the high cliffs gives the uncanny manency without examination. In the Kaizor was much upset. He asked me yellow and orange, and the sun plays. Some were also accused of the informed from Coblenz that the German could not, except in a few casce, have straint, and who were the people from Cliff, in the Finke River, is exposed to impression of overlooking a crater. The

effects The manufacture and forgery of passports and and Allied experts have agreed to the buen ex-Service men and women.

whole of the western flank of withdrawal of certain pledges, including

whom it might be feared. I replied that the setting rays, and in the Inter after. La Donnell Danges are massively sculp other official documents recently discover abilition of the Customs between the oc

The complaint of the ex-Borvios men in 4 dangerous political situation, ed through a police raid on a Berlin flat taxes on cost and coal products, and ex- Civil Service, and new that they are the Government might retire to cover his bably 200 feet from the immense brown hundreds of feet deep, and approx mate

cupied and unoccupied parts of Germany, was room for 50.000 additions to thevated by an incautious act of his Majesty,

is that, while they were fighting, thera which perhaps had been caused or aggra on the strats take on a kaleidoscopic tured, with Heavy Tree Gap forming

Crown Point, sing abruptly to pro- which makes a great natural reservois, huge gateway to a vast arena of rock, The ex-Deputy Hollein has already been port and import taxes, and restoration back and are temporarily employed, Majesty-it might even be forced out plain, and quite fat along the summit, lyreight miles square. Water can be got

of the control of State forests to Ger

every obstacle is being placed the Then under the circumstances many. evant constitutes part of the way of their absorption in the Civil Ber- might be undertaken in the men action shows the original level of the count here at any time of gradual evacuation of the Rahr promised vice. The vacancies must be filled, and, the object of bringing about the abdica around, and in the wonderful, element

It is the only projection for

depth, and there is a

that they are entitled to recognition.guardianship.

The climate, too, is most exhilarating, The aesociation, has a very defnite sup

a considerable distance. Captain White No matter how bat the days may b On hearing these words the Kaiser be describe Horseshoe Bend as the wee the nights have a delicious coolness, th port in Parliament, and there are already came very serious, and asked who chald Best place in the interior, with its temperature ranging from 107 degree so strong that their will receive this question Eulenburg repeated the rear down into this black gloomy spot share gives one the feeling of being signs of a further acquisition of support possibly cherish auch ideas. In reply to oproliered sombreness of setting. Toto 72 This invigorating, buoyant atmo i satisfactory, settlement,

statement of Hohoalobe given alive. ¿Conbiosed at food of next Colum)ited ny.

etc.

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BERLIN, October 21st The elections to the Reichstag have been fixed for December 7th.

LONDON, October 21st.

Many

mies

Lie

year at a shallow

by the recent, London conference having proved their efficiency, they claim tion of the Kaiser or placing him under mosphere may be seen on every side for round of granite, Roodholding

ONE STEP DUESSELDORF, October 21st Karlsruhe and Mannheim without in. The French troops have evacuated vident