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April 17, 1913,

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April 17, 1914,

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President Huerta chalihues to

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London Received April 15. London. Received April 16,

Huerta has submitted the de- Reater's correspondent Washington says it is learned mands of America to the Senate that when Mr. O'Shaughnessy, but their doision is up to the the U. S. Charge d'Affaires, present unknown. apprised President Huerta of the General Villa reports that the prop sed naval demonstration, Federals retreating from Sen Huerta argued that the episode Pedro have been caught between of the arrest of the orderly was two rebel forces. General Villa a subject for arbitration by The is heading his own forces and Bague tribunal. President hopes to land a crushing blow, Wilson emphatically replied,

Later. through Mr. O'Shaughnessy, that the time for delay and evasion bad passed and that the United States would temporise no longer

Battleship Sails..

Renter's correspondent at Philadelphia says the battleship Michigan has sailed for Marico.

Anti-American Feeling.

Reuter's correspondent at Wa-

London. Received April 16. Huerta's Conditions. Router's correspondent

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Washington states that it trans pires that President Haerts has attached a condition that the Amo icon ships saluto acknow ledging toe Mexicanes' salute. It is authoritatively stated that the only point remaining is the number of gune,

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Crisis Considered Ended:

London. Received April 17

The constitution of the new Japanese Cabinet is given in a special cable tely.

An avistion, flight from Ni.

London. Received April 17.

London. Received April 16. Sr Elward Grey has had an In a latter to the Times, the Rouler's orrespondent at Paria audience with His Maj aty in Bishop of South Tokyo strongly says the Ligue Nationale Aurienuo forthcoming visit to France. Chinese Covernment in stopping Aero Olub for a flight from St. Petersburg to Peking has been connection with Their Majesties' condemns the action of the has arranged with the Russian

Already an army of decorators supplies or recalling large num- L'etersburg to Peking; probably and electricians are transforming bera of Chinese students from arly in June. the streets of Parie.

CHINESE SITUATION.

shington states that it is officially - Officials consider that the HEMMING IN "WHITE WOLF.

reported that Huerta has practicrisis is ended, and they hint cally promised to fire the salute.

"American Acceptance.

date of

that the salate will be acknow ledged, pointing out that alates in similar disputee in the past, have always been acknowledged and that acknowledgment will in no wise constitute a recogni- t'ou to the Huerte Government.

President Wilson, in receiving Press correspondente, said there was no precedent for refusing to return salute; therefore Presid. Ant Inerts's offer must be Some anti-Amerio.n demons-accepted. No-orders had yet trations are reported from Vera been issued recalling the Fleets,

the since Oruz and other pointa,

the saluto had not been fixed. Ha boped it would not .be necessary to submit a message to Congress on the subject. Is. lid not favour a blockade of the Pacific Coast because this would merely shut off trade. omg

yield, something on the subject of

London. Received April 17. President Huerta continues to treat the situation, lightly and telegraphad yesterday that the Tampico incident was of no spo cial importance. Mexico had. Garsals with nobody; lengt of all with the great American

nation."

MEXICO.

the blockade and neutral nations after the slute had been fired.

Franco-German Influence, . A later message from Washing- ton states that the Government may, retain increased naval forces

has been frad. in Mexico after the desired salate

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Tokyo for political reasons. Sach policy converts quiet) reasonable well-affected students into anti-Government ravolation- aries.

London. Received April 17. Reuter's Peking correspondent RACECOURSE GAMBLING. hemming in the White Wolf states that 50,000 troops are brigands at Kienchow in Shensi, which Is been looted after great slaughter..

The troope have resolutely attnokod the brigands and killed hundreds, and the remainder are endeavouring to retreat.

ONE WAY OF STOPPING IT.

London. Rereived April 16... It is reported from Tulsa, Oklahoma, that, soting on ordere issued by the Governor to prevent The situation has already rambling on the rnes course, the greatly improved. Some towns State Militia fred a volley over- have escaped looting by opening head, as the horees were coming. It is understood that the their gates to the brigands and down the straight, thus breaking French and German Ambassadors paying heavy ransoms. Those up the played an important part in resisting have been subjected to

The Adjutant-General says indlacing President Huerta to appalling ernsity, and many that if another race is run the Mission doctora are attending to soldiers will shoot down the the wounded.

borees:

race

'BRITISH NAVY.

BARLY TENDERS.

London' Received April 17. The Admiralty has invited tenders for two battleships for the 1014-15 programme.

tenders for many years. The This is the earliest-inviting of

1910. ships will be ready by October

MEXICO'S PLAN TO SECURE $10,000,000.

arranged.

Anti-American demonstrations are reported from Vera Cruz and other points.

President Huerta has decided 10 fire the slate demanded by Americs on the latter agreeing toʻacknowledge the same,

The Changli incident is closed by Japan agreeing to remit $20,000 for the relief of the families of the deceased police.

To prevent gambling on the Racecourse the State Militia fired n valley during a reos at Tules, U.S.A., breaking up the race.

It is reported that: "Pesident Huerta has practically promised to fire the aulute demanded by the United States.

President Wilson has notified President Haerts that the time and America will temporice no for delay and invasion has passed

longer..

By a resolution of the Chinese Financial Conference, all chiefs of Taxation Bureaux are in future required to remit gross receipts to Feking

The Bishop of South Tokyo states that the recalling of Ohi

NEWS,

When Mr. Wilson made his pro- test against Huerta's Presidency No one can say that any one of then called out,."Viva Oubita out the least comprehension of it,e did a service to mankind. We them is a man without reproach: libre" but scarcely had he have to allow that of the English. did the same in Servia ourselves So Mr. Wilson has got himself finished than a rain of blows Neither can afford to act as if his

in s like caBE.. When he went stalemated. and Mexico is left descended on him, and he was

New York, March 2500 students from Japan con... neighbour's outlook on the world further he was sure to fail, as all prey to any leader who can laft half dead. The men whom

A dispatch from the City of verta them into anti-Government By R.B. Cunninghame Graham, was non-existent, merely because.

revolutionaries.. he cannot see it standing in his men fail who threaten without gather a few hundred men and go he had taken for a band of patriots Mexico says A plan line, been force behind them to make them on robbing to the cry of Liberty. were Spaniards in disguise, adopted by which the Treasury owa biokyard. The point of

nelves obeyed. He must have This kind of warfare 1 have seen Rubbing his shoulders, and drag will secure 100,000,000 pesos It looks as if Mr. Wilson had vow of the citizen of America known that Mexico was self-sup-many a time. Nothing destroys ging his own cart, for they bad (£10,000,000), half to be immedi can chew. Only time can showtant as the Poles. The United porting, and hence a financial and wastes a country more. Noth-Icarried off his mule, he set out tely available and the balance as 3 and log book on page 6. bitten off a little more than Ee and that of the Mexican are dis- whether or not this is the ongo: States took from ourselves. the boycott had no significance, lfling sets brother against brother once again upon his way, stumbl-required.

he did not, either he had no more effectually nothing, dising along the bright red road, The result will be the resump "Betsy" was produced at the but Mexican jerked beef is not reverence for abstract justice and knowledge of the world or he was solves so utterly all principles of und oursing as he went. After tion of the interest on the Foreign Theatre Royal Fast night and diet easy to assimilate. Quite for law as an entity. The Mexi- badly carved by those who should kindness between man and man. an hour or two as he came round Debi on April 1 and the early the comedy proved a big success. clearly Mr. Wilson was within can inheritel from Spain the idea have known. This want of know- A little of such strife couverts à a turn; he fell upon another band revocation of the 50 per oral Arrangements for the dog bis rights when he declined to of individual justice (or injustice) tedge comes from a failure to paradise into desert. The very of men. These were in regs; advance in the import duties. The show were completed at a meeting recognise General. Huerta as Pre- when wrongs appears too heavy take in another point of view. animale turn wild again, and fly their machetes had no sheaths, plan involves the issue of Trea- last night

for endurance. Thus, though of Had it been any European State, before mark ni 1 ke anteloper. their feet were stack in sandale, sury notes against the unsold Bidont if it seemed good to him;

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but when he farther said that course the American no more acts or had a process of the kind been Worst of all, it has a fascination and their horses had their manos balance of the bond issue. aut. An interesting letter to the never under any cireamatanances up to his own code than we our applicable to the United States; it for people who have become and tails all full of burse. Once botized in May, 1913. These bands editor, offering a solution of the should Huerta be the President of selves do, or than the French or would have soon brought either accustomed to it, although it falls and be was surrounded and will be placed with Mexican banke housing problem appeara tɔ-day, Mexico he went a little too far. In the Chinese, he still holda that to their knees. In Mexico life upon the peaceful with the great robbed of everything that still at 30 per cent of their face value, The annual meeting of the

human life is Esored. The fact, whilst saying he would never

and conditions were arranged eat force.

retained, and once again he was the banks to fesus legal currency China Traders Insurance Com cheaply differently. The mines are owned Two anecdotes will serve to called upon to testify, intervene he intervened, for the Mexican holde life

After against them at a legel ratio of 3 did hie ancestora in very nature of an intervention is 49

some hesitation, he shouted out, to 1. Guancial operations fell upon an interference with the interior Spain. So did the Aztece, than chiefly by foreigners, hence all illustrate my meaning.

A general, sa bauquat in a Viva Espana, thinking the The plan only awaits President affairs of a country over which whom no race more savage we them and left the Mexicane revolutionary State, is said to second band was sure to be Huerta's signature, and this is Union Insurance Company of you have no natural right to rule to te found in all America. From That he took such a step in per- the two races the Mexicans have unreathed, Huerta must have have deplored the approach of

88 patriots. Once more & rain aideraticu of the banks' assistace today's issue. fect faith is plain to all, for Mr. sprung. In Spain, in the old laughed grimly in his sleeve, for of peace, with all its misery." composed of Spaniards disguised expected in a day or two. Ia con- Canton, Limited, is reported in

of blows desconded оп his President Huerta promises to Wilson is a man as honest as the Carlist wars, prisoners on both he knew well that he was quite Another to have written in

beyond the reach of such a boyfriend, "I send you three hut head, and when he came back abandon the Federal Bank soheme day. Still the mere fact of his sides were always butchered, and colt as long as Mexico grew crops, dred volunteers. Do not forget to to his senses he was lying in the and also the proposed 1 per cent

in Mexico. killing prisonera in intention does not make his step civil war has always been the General Carranzs, in the north, send me back the chains.

road alone. This time even his tax on the capital of corporations was in another case, but he, too, This is what now is going on coat was carried off......

and individuals.- more prudent. One hears aboat au honest broker (whatever that tule. It dose not strike men who was beyond the reach of all finanin Mexico, Before the war Gener

No one can say that such a state. may be); but honest school- hold life cheaply in the same way cial operations as long as the al Tenazos was said to have a of thingsis satisfactory to ordinary masters are not so common on as it strikes ourselves. After a great herds of cattle roamed the million head of cattle in the men: What is the remedy? In BRITISH SHIPBUILDING

not killing prisoners, plains. Then Mr. Wilson played States of Coahuila and of Nuevo the first place, to recognise that Presidential thrones, or chairs I but killing, that is the

PLANT IN HOLLAND. think they call the things. Aú

his only card and raised the Leon. Now all his cattle bave Merico is a self-governing and an honest pedagogue, looking upon crime against the Holy Ghost; prohibition on the import of arms either been eaten up or have gone independent State, and that all Uned States. As a High Perhaps from having lived in That, too, has failed, as it was wild, and he himself lives on a interference from the outside will

Fouth in lands where killing bound to fail, for General Carlile farm in California. Both School and on Mexico aa 8

only make things worse. Surely, naughty boy to be deprived of prisonera was a frequent granza, powerful in the north, he parties carry on their strife under is does not seem impossible to play till be has purged himself off it does not strike me with such his contempt, is a new view of horror as it dose other people: neither transport nor such a force the name of Liberty "Long compromise. If Mr. Wilson would as he can move, Bls men are live the King give me your drop bullying-for though be Where is the difference between things.

the killing of a man who use chiefly guerrillas, oach bringing cloak," the Spanish proverb says bullies with the best intentions he pondent states that substantial Kowloon, Most schoolmasters err not from intention but from lack of fought to the last cartridge and his own horse and gun, but, like In Mexico it is the samstill bullies-and suggest some-progress bas recently been made.

the Highlanders of old, not liking. Ifanoy that the ordinary man thing that both General Carranza by Mesra, Furness, Withy, and Messrs. Hughes & Hough 2.301 killed many of your meu, and knowledge of the world. Mexico then throws up bis hnade, and Lastly, there was another diffi poor Chinese in Cuba who went bloodshed might be saved. If he plans for establishing a shipbuil-P

to go, far from their own homes, is in the same position as the and Huerta can agree to, muchCo. in the development of their In A World is out all from shooting down a regiment that onlty. General Carranza, once out peddling with a cart of notions cannot, and as he has no force at ding and repairing yard on a large is a in itself; extremely

has been manæavrod into a place the United States by language, where it cannot 10siat? In either governor torta Cola, lives in the old Sponich times. As his disposal, and France and site at Schiedam, near Rotterdam. ing of H.K. Cotton 8. and D.

apon protestations of his revolution was perpetual, and he e36e you shoot men down who

love of liberty. He, too, ebooie knew little Spanish, he had learned England both combined could do a contract bes been placed re- have no power left of resistance and bange

bat little if they intervened, it cently with Messrs. prisoners, or two

two phrases that he hoped would may be best to let the rival par Hunter, and Wigham for the con- the coautrios almost impossibland, the distinction seeme to me the least allows them to be shot prove effectual. Somewhere about ties fight it out until they are straction on the Tyne, and The United States takes its tradi-autoine Woot prisoner and and hung, with equanimity, His Pinar del Rio's party stopped enhausted. In fact, what else is delivery at Rotterdam, of a large Menais, Hughes & Hough--2.30 tion from ourselves, and, as

murders with his own hande, dressed in drill, carried machetes, chester Guardian

The dook will be of the sectionni mine. Those who shoot pheasants and both of them refuse wore large straw hats, and rode

Tuesday April 21. type, combining the advantages Annual General Meeting of Traditions, holds in their entirety and attend bull fights do beliefs and prejudices which, not as a rule find any pleasure in Therefore between the three, ride who pass their lives upon a any investigation of their deeds, their horsest as only those can

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Island with ourselves, time and the daily contact with peoples at least on torturing a cat, and I have seen Villa, Carranza, and Huerts, horse. The chief, after abstract tion of the Home Secretary, has

Sale of Chinese Porcelains capacity of 10,000 tons, and wil! Messra. Hughes & Hough-2.30 equale have greatly modified. the audience in a bull-ring rise who, by the way, styles himing all that took his fancy in the been pleased to appoint Mr. F. selfdocking. It will have a lifting We, though we do not under- with a roar of wrath upon a bull-self the Cromwell of Mexico, cart, said See here, Chinaman, W. W Wilberforce, Stipendiary be the longest dook of this par-

just as his predecessor-General for who are you for Spisin or the Magistrate at Bradford, to be ationlar type which has yet been P.m it, have to allow, just as we stand the rim and fog exist, the fighter who killed a pigeon with Santa Ana used to call himeal! Republic of the Single Star Metropolitan Police Magistrate, to built, although somewhat similar existence of the Latin point of his sword as it flow past him in the Napoleon of the West, there The poor Chinesewithered "all the vacancy caused by the bolted sectional floating docks

Little, as we say in Scotland, and resignation of Air. Baggallay. are already in operation" view, The Latins, equally with the ring.

by race, by history, and by a bar which in itself alcne, renders community of thought between

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