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AUSTRALIAN 'LABOUR BACKS UP REDS.

CAPITALIST WAR' IN PACIFIC.

PREPARATIONS ON CHINA COAST.

(THROUGH BELTER'S AGENCY.)

JAPAN'S COMMERCIAL

TREATY.

TACTLESS MOVE BY CHINA.

REGRET OF LEADING PAPERS.

[THROUGH ZEUTER'S AGENCY,]

Tokyo, July 20th, MELBOURNE, July 91st. The leading vernacular papers, By a large majority the Trade commenting editorially the Union Congress has passed a re- Nationalist Government abrogating solution in favour of preserving the Sino-Japanese commercial the affliation of the Australian treaty, express deepest regret council of Trade Unions with the

The fahi doubts whether the Pan-Pacific secretariat of the Red Nanking Government really intends international and other foreign pending the conclusion of a new to enforce the temporary measures bodies on a snap vote after a heat-treaty because if this is enforced it ed disccasion. Thus one of the may cause serious developments. most far-reaching questions on the The Jiji says that i§ Chins wants agenda has resulted in a decisive an equal treaty she should first for the Reds. Mr. Ryan, of perfect her internal administration,

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MINERS ON SIDE OF PEACE.

MODERATES IN THE LEAD,

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOX.]

LONDON, July 20th.

The Miners' Conference at Llan- dudno, by 309,000 to 102,000 votes, defeated a resolution condemning the peace-in-industry discussion be. tween the Labour Council and a group of leading employers.

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at the recent risit of the Pan- Pacific conference 'to Shanghai the

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Moscow said the length of the Chinese coast was active with war like preparations by Britain, France, America and Italy. This was evi- dence that the capitalists were fighting for the possession of China and that the danger of war was very great. Mr. Ryan declared the idea of getting in touch with workers in Pacific countries was to prevent capitalistic war, and to help to im- prove the workers' status.

Mr. Gardeh, New South Wales, moved endorsing the " affiliation, opining that the workers of the Pacife should unite in combating the danger of war in Pacific by assisting the workers of the more backward countries to improve their position."

solution

The conference also passed a re-

of a federal body for the control of industrial dispute.

Soviet War Aima.

Moscow, July 21st. M. Bukharin, speaking at the annual Congress of the Communist Internationale, dwelt on the difficul ties experienced by capitalistic countries in the reconstruction of capitalism on a new technical basis.

He said these difficulties had been increased by the growth of anti-capitalistic forces-for example, in Soviet Russia and by the revolu- tionary movement in China, as well! as the discontent in India.

The struggle for markets, said M. Bukharin, demanded a new reparti tion of the world, which meant war, He emphasised the necessity of strengthening Communist influence among the peasants, and concluded by saying that, if war broke put among the capitalistic countries, the Communist Internationale would! endeavour to convert it into civil

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INDIAN TRAIN WRECKERS.

OVERSEA MAIL TRAIN

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

MADRAS, July 21st. The engine of the mail train from Colombo was maliciously derailed near Tanjore but was replaced and the train proceeded.".

The police used firearms in a collision with South Indian Railway strikers at Mayavaram,

The Aokumin thinks that China should consider seriously special relations with Japan which is the only nation in Asia capable of effec tively aiding China's emancipation.

The Chugai, regarding the Chi- nese note as an indiscreet demand, says that such unreasonable abroga of international relations. tion of the treaty means severance

The Hachi is rather sympathetic with the stand of the Nationalist Government while denouncing the note as a breach of international faith.

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CHIANG KAI SHEK'S. RECEPTION.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

PEXING, July 20th. A large number of foreigners at tended Marshal Chiang Kai Shek'a reception.

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At 4.30 on Friday morning, the Japanese official reporte state, the Chinese suddenly opened fire from a fort.

Nine of the police were injured; the strikers' casualties are unknown.

Fighting continued for soma The police also fired ол the hours. Both sides auffered a num crowds which stormed the station ber of casualtica at Tuticonor. One man was killed and several injured,

At 10 this morning, however, Ku Chen's forces commenced to with- draw and the fighting ceased.

Reinforcements were drafted in from stations along the line which has been deserted and badly dam. aged by the rioters who have torn HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS up the rails and cut the telegraphs.

COTTON, LOCK-OUT

THREATENED.

HALF A MILLION MEN AFFECTED.

(THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, July 20th.

IN EGYPT.

STONES FLUNG AT NAHAS PASHA.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

ALEXANDRIA, July 20th.

It is learned from Tantah that 500 police dispersed'n' crowd which was gathering in connection with the visit of the ex-Premier Nahas Pasha. The crowds stored the police. There were ten arresti,

Nahae Pasha has returned to

A grave decision, threatening a lock-out of half a million cotton operatives in Lancashire, has been taken by a special committee of Cairo, the Federation of Master Spinners' Association in Manchester.

The committee met to consider the strike of spinners in Ramsey Mill, Oldham, over a workman's refusal to join the Trade Union.

SOVIET GRAIN POLICY.

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"(THROUGH" REUTER'S AGENOT.)

After the discussion, the com- mittes decided to recommend to an

Moscow, July 20th. extraordinary genoral meeting, "to

The Council of Peoples Com- be held on July 7th, that all the missaries has determined all extra- Federation milis be closed at noon ordinary measures to get grain on August 11th and remain closed from peranata, such as confiscation until the Ramsey Mill strikers re- and the restriction of trade between The lock-out would affect about villages, and has sanctioned an in-

creased price for grain, N 120,000 operatives in the American Section, 80,000 in the Egyptian Section, and 300,000 weavers. ·

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DUTCH GIRL'S FEAT.

(THROUGH" REUTER'S AGENCY.}

AMSTERDAM, July 20th.

A young Dirtch girl, Miss Leib brand, has succeeded in swimming the Zuider Zee from Stavoren to. Khuiden, in 10 hours, g

It is estimated that she covered about. 22 miles.

The Council has also instructed the People's Trade Commissariat to secure a timely supply of industrial goods for the peasants.

'ALSACE AUTONOMIST'S:

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{TAROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PARIS, July 20th. Dr. Rickhng's appeal has been dismissed but it is expected that he will be reprieved.

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