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GENERAL NEWS.

Mixed Court at Shanghai, Regarding the Mixed Court Affaire China has negotiated with the Diplomatic Body and the

•Diplomatic Body has consented to the Chipeto proposals provided that the following four provision. are accepted by Chino, sajá1Â Chinese contemporary:-1.-Tho Mixed Court should deal with its affairs as simplified by the exist- ing system. 2.-The warrants should be controlled by the Muni- cipal police as hitherto. 3.-The place of detention now in exist- enes thould be kept sa bitborto. 4. The expense of repairs made to be refunded.

German Life Insurance Losses

During three weeks,' ending Dec. 7, German insurance com- panies paid 15,000 000 marke (about $750,000 to the widows of men killed in the war, upon policies on which only one instal- ment had been paid. Indirect Damage and Indemulty In China,

The claims made by foreigners: in China for indemnity for the indirect damage done in the first Revolutionary fight have been decided to be rejected in toto, and the sum which had been in de posit in foreign banks for the parpose of payment of indirect damage, will be banded over to the Chinese authorities to be used

for the fund to pass over the settlement of the year of the old China oslendur.

Well-Known Chinese Journalist's 'Death."

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a silant ship steaming desperately for shelter. The whole after Cook 'was ablaze - whon she entered the mined. area. From the Singapore Free Press. Meantime the Lion tarned her London, Jan. 27-A telegram attention to the struggle between from Amsterdam states that is is the light cruisers, using her speed semi-officially declared in Vieans and gun power to great foot. that Baron Burino deolares that She worked to head off and drive Austria will refuse territorial the German light cruisers upon concessiona to Italy Or to the pursning Britishers. This Roumania, even if that means was a difficult task in view of We notice by the Peking papera

the large number of shipa en- that Mr. T. C. Kung, of the Pre their intervention. sidential Office, died on the 19th The North Sea Fight. gaged. The Lion greatly damag. nit. Mr. Kung was born and London, January 28.-The ad these vessels but they sac- educated in the Straits Settlements Scotsman story of the battle in ceeded in escaping. In and afterwards spent some time the North Sen, obtained from all caros guns were swept from the in India. Afterwards he went to classes of ships engaged, says that mountings, and the hulls were Shanghai where be was associated the point where the Germans battered. A number of the enemy with the Republican Advocato," a were met was 24 hours from the light eraisers must be unfit for well-known weekly magazino. English coast: Taie indicates action for a long time."

The Blacher was doomed from Subsequently he went to Peking that their objective was primarily

the first but fought gallantly. and there assumed the editorship Newcastle and alco Hartlepool. of the Peking Daily News, from The strength and composition Her upper works were smashed which office he was called to be of the raiders was quickly out of all semblance. The fittings the head of the newly established ascertniced by the destroyer of the ship and practically every library in the Presidential Office. screen. The British, within a few gun was put out of action. It is Affairs in Mexico, minutes, singled out their comitated that just at the close of the Washington, January 29. batants, destroyer to destroyer, action the Arethus successfully Conditions are wereo in Mexico light cruiser to light orniser, torpedoed the Blacher. The men than at any time since the death and battle craitor ta battle aboard were seen to leap into of Madero. Carranza forces have cruiser. The

were the sex as she heeled suddenly entered Mexico City in large most glesful as they dashed to over. She ank steadily, with numbers and now hold the city the aitzek. One commander & very alight beel, until the decks

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graph.' of the Carrazza forces and way It was a long chase before the appeared scores of swimmers captured and imprisoned by guns began to talk. Both sides attempted to reach it and cling to Zapata roin after leaving the city. went at full speed forty miles it, but that support was denied Chaos reigns supreme and the before it could be said the guns them by her sinking.

British light cruisers and To livos of foreigners are held cheapware doing real damage, in -Manila Bulletin.

The Lion led the line, followed destroyers, having abandoned the THE Origin of "Boches." by the Tiger, Princess Royal, chase of the other German ships, The coatific discussions as to Indomitable, and New Zealand turned their attention to the the origin of the word Boches, in the order named. As soon rescue of hundreds of the! bestowed by the French soldiers [a1] the Lion overhauled the Blacher's crew. They would have upon the Germans, still contiane, Blucher she gave her a broad-saved more than they did, but and many are the ingenious side in passing, damaging her Zeppelin and a number of explanations cffered by the line frightfally. The Tiger and seroplanes appeared from the gaiete as to ila origin. But the Princess Royal also broadsided direction of Heligoland, giving problem is very simple, according her as they passed. It was al-wide berth to the battle cruisers to the camelot who, despite his ready evident the Blacher was and light cruisers for fear of anti- grey board, proves a serious com- doomed and she was abandoned aircraft gans. They attacked the! petitor of the women and boya by her speedier contorta. The destroyer which were rescuing selling the afternoon newspapers obase by this time bad continued the Blucher's crew.

The men employed in this work to the frequenters of the Cafe de for two hours. The enemy's light

the state in the bitterest way that the la Paix. "It's nothing but aneraizore endeavoured in abbreviation of the word Albecke, plackiest manner to cover the airships dropped bombs, upon which in the Parisian urget has fleeing battle-croisere. When that them with murderous intent. The always meant Allemands, Ger- was hopelese, as the British were destroyers promptly scattered, mans," he said with the air of speedily overhauling them, they and the German aircraft desisted authority that permits no con- also thought of their own safety. from their attack and made home tradiction. "Argot knowe "po Then the Lion, which had over-wards.

A light temporary derange. linguistic laws, and that is why healed and smashed the second there is no apparent reason for its cruiser in the German lino, as ment of the running gear of a origin. Try justia wall to explain that the fight was likely to be British vessel may have led sir- wby argot makes of Paris prolonged into the mine-fields. craft observers to conclude that Pastroche, of Bastille Bastocbe, The Tiger, Princess Royal, and she wan riously damaged, but of cigarette cibiche, of ami amin- Indomitable were not within in no case is there damage to a ohe, and of rigolo (which means range of the enemy's large vessels, British ship other than slight.

One rescuer states that a Ger- funny) rigolbcohe: "That's all so it is certain she wrought ter there is to it, but my scientific rible bavoc, The fire of the man superior officer, who was friends are welcome to all the Deiflinger and Boydlite was taken from the water and assisted investigations they can make. growing weaker. The Der filinger, on board a worship, said that the There is no reason, I say, for the when within balf an hour of the Germans in the ses were provided word Bcche, but dose not it fit mined area, was a-fire forward, with equipment for remaining the Germans?"-Exchange. . 5. flames Weeping her fore afloat and all would have been deck. Wreckage of her chaltered rescued but for the intervention. The sum of £1,350,000 as upper works strewed her decks cf aircraft. fanda for the indemnity to be and her guas were silent. paid to foreigners by China is When she entered the mine ares have suffered mont kept by the foreign tanke con- she must

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