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What Do Men Talk About Before Rushing Into Battle?

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1930.

OTTOMAN PUBLIC, DEBT.

REPORTS OF CUT

REPUDIATED.

INDIA SITUATION REVIEWED.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVE- MENT STILL DECLINING.

(THROUGH RENTER'S AGENCY.]

Lognos, Oct. 27.

The Government of India's up- preciation of the situation up to October 24 says that attempts to arouse Fresh interest in Congress aulivities in Peshwar city con. tinue.

Provincial reports for the first half of October show that the pre- gious improvement in the situation has been maintained. Thern, hns been a decline in the intensity of the civil disobedience movement.

Madras shows signs of a return to a normal frame of mind-

The number of convictions in the United Provinces continues to be high.

The position in regard to the boy- cott of foreign cloth is unstable, though it is being sold openly in many places in most provinces.

The economic situation in Bom- bay city has improved, and there has been a substantial reduction in the number of unemployed mill lalmurers.

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Defiance of Congress.

Roour, Oct. 27, The Government of India's ap preciation of the situation up to October 4 states that provincial reports for the first half of Octo- her show that the previously noted mprovement in the situation was maintained.

The position regarding the boy- Lot of foreign cloth is still un stable. Most provinces report that it is being sold openly in many places, but it is not clear whether the sales are of existing or now stocks. In the main distributing centres there has not yet been widespread and open defiance of Congress, although there is rensan to believe that in some of them

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ret sales are being carried on, Piece goods merchants of Bombay have, however, rescinded the resolu tion passed earlier in the month to

open-sales. ..

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Picketing Dropped.

Angora, October 23.-In official communiqué, the Council of the Ottoman Public Debts, officially denies Press rumours which stated that the Council had accepted a reduction of one-third on the pay- NANKING, Oct. 27. mants of Turkey on the Novembor Following Hong Kong's suspen-coupons. It also denies the rumours sion of two Chinese football play that the engagements relating to ers, the Central Kaoinintang Athle. the contract of June 13, 1928, will stitutione has been definitely drop. The picketing of educational in. tio Association has telegraphed the receive a less favourable treatmentned from the civil disobedience Lohhwa Club of Shanghai and all than the others.

pragramie, in view of the email newspapers throughout the country The regulation of June 13, 1928, success attained and the large- urging the Lobhwa Club to with- and which we ratified on May 15,

measure of resentment enused in draw from all competitions spon. 1999, determines the successive pay the Central Provinces. The move sored by foreiga football associn-meņts to be made by Turkey in ment in favour of parallel institu- tions,

order to meet its Gnancial obligations has not shown any particular tions. The Treaty of Lausanne had imposed upon present-day Turkey 63,25 per cent, of the former Otto- man debt, and the agreement of 1928 determined a scale of payments similar to the Dawes plan.

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LONDON, Out. 27. The United Kingdom, the United States, India and Russia

Mr. Llewellyn Jones, coroner for among the 1 countries, concerned Flintshire, addressing a Rhyl jury in the manufacture of opium and at an inquest on a 78-year-old mar- other drugs, represented at thoried woman, who was fatally injured. preliminary Opium Conference at by a motor van, said the accident. Whitehall Place.

emphasised the importance Mr. Arthur Henderson, the everything connected with vehicles Foreign Minister, welcomed the on the road being kept in absolute.

ly perfect condition. delegates.

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sult that he could not see very clearly. He did not suggest neglect to keep the wiper in proper cond: tion justified the jury in preferring a charge against the driver, but there was no question that had the wiper been working, the driver would have seen much more clearly and the accident might have been

Viscount Mushakoji, Senior Secretary to the Antwerp Legation, was born in 1852, in Tokyo, of an ancient Kuge family. He graduated in Law at the Imperial University in 1007. He is connected with the Foreign Office. His younger ro- avoided. ther, Sancatsu Mushakoji, is a man of letters..

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

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BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION.

SHELLING OF GERMAN STEAMER.

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BERLIN, Oct. 27. A message from Rio de Janeiro states that the Baden's captain was not arrested,

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Rio De JANEIRO, Oct. 27. The sudden terrific din of rifle fire and machine-gobs, thought to botoken a counter-revolution; -sent the population scurrying indoors,

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