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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S. UTTERANCES;

NO MORE "BALANCE OF POWER."

London, December 28." President Wilson, speaking at the Guildhall this afternoon in response to an address of welcome by the Lord Mayor, said

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PRESIDENT WILSON'S UTTERANCES.

BELIEF IN PROVIDENCE..

●CHRONIC DISORDER IN BALTIC PROVINCES.

"SITUATION" GROWING WORSE.

London, January $.

Apparently the situation in the Baltic Provinces is growing!

"BRITISH SQUADRON CANNOT RENDER ASSISTANCE.

The Commander of the British squadron has declared that he is

Copenhagen, January 3

London, December 29, At noon on Saturday, addressing a large delegation from the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches, President worse. Mr. Lord Mayor. We have come upon times when ceremonies Wilson said Gentlemen-I am very much honoured and, I like this hate a new significance which most impress me as I stand might say, touched, by this beautiful address that you have just read here. The address which I have just heard is most generously and and it is very delightful to feel the comradeship of spirit which is graciously conceived and the delightful accent of sincerity in it indicated by a gathering like this. You are quite right, Sir, in kayunable to intervene efectives seems like a part of that voice of counsel which is now everywhere in that I do recognise the sanction of religion in these times of to be heard.

I feel that a distinguished honour has been conferred perplexity, with matters so large to settle that no man can feel that upon me by this reception and I beg to assure your. Sir. and your not believe in Providence. It would be a maze without a clue. his mind can compass them. I think one would go crazy if he did associates of my very, profound appreciation, but I know that I am only part of what I may call a great body of circumstances. I do Unless there were some supreme evidence, we would despair of

TO BE WITHDRAWN OWING WINTRY: WEATHER,

London, January 4

It is announced that British warships will be withdrawn from

TELEGRAMS.

(Bruter's Service to the "Talegisph."7

→THE SILVER MARKET.

London, Jan. 2.. Messrs.Samuel Mentaga and Company's report says the market is quiet and featureless. Shanghai exchange is still at 5/2 to the taal.

OBITUARY,

not believe that it was fancy.on my part that I heard in the voice the results of human counsel. So that it is with genuine sympathy the Eastern Baltic owing to the wintry conditions, but will remain INDIAN MUTINY VETERAN,____ of welcome uttered in the streets of this great city and in the streets that I acknowledge the spirit and thank you for the generosity of in the Western Baltic. of Paris something more than a personal welcome. It seemed to me your address."-Reuter's Imperial Service.

FIGHTING IN HUNGARY.

that I heard the voice of one people speaking to another people and it was a voice in which one could distinguish a singular combination of emotion. There was surely there the deep gratefulness that the fighting was over. There was the pride that the fighting had such a culmination. There was that sort of gratitude that the.. "nations engaged had produced such mer as the soldiers of Great; Britain and of the United States and of France and of Italy-en

A message from Berlin reports severe fighting between Czechs whose prowess and achievements they had witnessed with rising and Hungarians at Pressburg. Telephone communication between admiration as they moved from culmination to culmination. But Vienna and Budapest is interrupted.

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Copenhagen, January 3.

GERMAN NAVAL CHIEF RESIGNS..

Copenhagen, Jaguary 1.

GERMAN DEMORALISATION AT RIGA

London, January 3. drawn a short distance from Riga, had to abandon thousands of A message from Berlin says the German troops, who have with comrades and an enormous quantity of property to the Bolshevista.

NEW SOCIALISM IN GERMANY.

London, January 1. Herr Ledebour with two prominent colleagues have formed a new Socialist Party in consequence of their expulsion from the Inde- pendent Socialists and their disownment by the Spartacus group.

ANTHER ELECTION RESULT.

London, January 3.

AEROPLANE" ALTITUDE RECORD BROKEN.

The Kennington election result is as follows:-

Mr. H. G. Purchase (Coalition Liberal) Mrs. Lucas (Unionist)... Mr. Glennie (Labour)....

4.705. 3,673. 2,817.

"London, January 3,

WARSHIP EVOLUTION.

THE STRANDED HOSPITAL SHIP.

U.S. SHIPS TO BE ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN.

Washington, January 3.

London, Jay, 3. The death is announced of

the Indian mutiny and had Lieut. General Sir James Hills- Johnes, who served thoughout distinguished military career.

MR. R. G. KNOWLES-

Lenden, Ja", 1. A New York message reports the famous comedian. the death of Mr. B. G. Knowles,

GOLF.

RAILWAY CUP DRAW,

The following is the draw for the Railway CupMrs. J. Tay- lor (bye), Mrs. Fletcher (bye), Mrs. H. Griffin (bye), Mrs. Leask.

Mrs. Morrison Miss Wilkinson

there was something more in it, the consciousness that the business is not yet done, the consciousness that it now rests upon others to see that those lives were not lost in vain. I have not yet been to the actual battlefields, but I have been with many of the men who have fought the battles, and the other day I had the pleasure of being present at a session of the French Academy when they admitted Marshal Joffre to their membership. Thar sturdy serene soldier

A message from Berlin says that Admiral von Scheer, Chief of stood and uttered not the words of triumph but the simple words of the Naval Staff, has resigned. acception for his soldiers and the conviction which he summed up in a sentence, which I will not try accurately to quote but reproduce in its spirit, was that France must always remember that the small and the weak could never live free in the world' unless the strong and the great always put their power and, their strength in the service of right. That is the afterthought-the thought that some- thing must be done now not only to mark the just settlements, that, altitude record, reaching 30,500 feet. Two airmen were frostbitten A British biplane yesterday at Ipswich broke the world's of course, but to see that the settlements remained and were and one sent to hopital Cobserved and that honour and justice prevailed in world. And as I have conversed with the soldiers I have -been Entore and more aware that they fought for something that not all of them had defined but which all of them recognised the moment you stated it to them, They fought to do away with an old order and to establish a new one and the centre and characteristic of the old order was that unstable thing which we used to call the 'Balance of Power, a thing in which the balance was determined by the sword which was thrown in the one side or the other, a balance which was determined by the unstable équilibrium of competitive interests, a balance which was maintain- ed by jealous watchfulness and an antagonism of interests which though it was generally latent was always deep-seated.

The men who have fought in this war have been the men from free nations who were determined that that sort of thing should end now and forever. It iBvery interesting to me ty observe how from every quarter, from every sort of mind, from every concert of counsel there comes the suggestion that there must now be not a balance of power, not one powerful and group of nations set off against another, but a single overwhelming powerful group of nations who shall be the trust of the peace of the

orld. It has been delightful in my conference with the leaders of the Grappa victories, lined the route, which were artistically Four Government to find how our minds moved along exactly the decorated and profusely beflagged. Masses of spectators everywhere ed Krovoletz. A battle is progressing, the artillery participating.

A Russian wireless message says Ukranian rebels have surround- same line and how our thought was always that the key to the peace gave President Wilson a great welcome. The enthusiasm is was the guarantee of the peace, not the items of it; that the items described as unprecedented. would be worthless unless there stood back of them a permanent concert of power for their maintenance. That is the most reassur-

Mr. Daniels informed the Naval Committee that all capital. Mrs. Crawford, Lady Ress ships of Navy will in future be electrically driven. He declared that Davies Mrs. Maitland, Mrs. the New Mexico, which was the first electrically driven Dread-Adams Mrs. J. Stewart, nought is the most powerful warship afloat. She had developed fiss Dennison v. Miss J. Rodger $1,000 horse-power, and a torpedo would have to destroy all four Mrs. Thursfield v. Mrs. Arthur, propellor shafts to cripple her.

REMOVING THE WOUNDED.

New York, January. 33 The re-floating of the hospital ship Northern Pacific has been unsucessful. The removal of the wounded has begun.

PRESIDENT WILSON IN ROME,

RECEIVED BY KING AND QUERY OF ITALY.

Rome, January 3. President Wilson arrived to-day. He was received by the King Queen, ministers, and the authorities.

An immense crowd welcomed him most enthusiastically. Picked troops and marines, who participated in the Piave and

PAPA STATE DINNER."

GERMANS V. POLES.

CONFLICTS ON THE FRONTIER.

EMIGRATION PROBLEMS.

London, January: 4. The Government has appointed a Committee under the chairmanship of the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies to deal effectively with emigration problems during the reconstruction period.

A BATTLE IN UKRAINE.

London, January, 4.

BRITISH DELEGATES AT PEACE CONFERENCE.

COMPOSITION NOT YET DECIDED UPON.

London January 2.

Mrg Redmond Mrs. Goodhan Mra. Middleton Smith v. Mrs. McKenny, Mr. Moore v M Anderson, Mrs. Dreaper v. Mrs. A. E. Griffin, Mrs. Ritchie (bye), Mrs. Montague Harston (bye), Miss H. Rodger (bye)....

First and second rounds to be played by January 24, third round by February 7, fourth round by February 21 final by February 28.

B. K. D. O'S FORTICOWING COSCEET,

The organisers of the ford coming smoking concert to be given by Major H.A. Morganand Officers of the Hongkong Defence

A Press Bureau statement, issued to-night, describes the Corps to all the members of the

as unauthorised and inaccurate. It states that the Prime Minister at the Theatre Royal, have and the Imperial War Cabinet have not yet decided the composition be extremely fortunate in of the British Imperial Delegation, and until this is settled no enlisting the co-operation of the announcement regarding the advisers can be made.

FOOD SHORTAGE IN AUSTRIA,

Vanity Fair".artists, who lave kindly consented to assist with- several items, thus ensuring a

Later. ing thing that has ever happened in the world. When this war President Wilson this afternoon called upon the Queen Mother began the thought of a League of Nations was indulgently considered and subsequently received the Citizenship of Rome at the Municipal as the interesting thought of closeted students. It was thought of Palace, where he delivered an important speech... as one of those things that it was right to characterise by a name A State dinner will be given in his honour to-night and to-mor- which as a University Lian I have always resented. It was said to row he will call on the Pope and confer with the leading Italian officially published information, cabled yesterday, regarding the Corps on Friday, 10th instant, be academic, as if that in itself were a condemnation. something statesmen, after which he will proceeded to Milan, Turin and some British delegates and advisers at the Inter-Allied Peace Conference, that men could think about but never get. Now we find the practical Italian industrial centres. leading minds of the world determined to get it. No such sudden and potent "union of purpose has ever been witnessed in the world before. Do you wonder, therefore, gentlemen, that in common with those who represent you. I am eager to get at the business and write the sentences down, and that I am particularly happy that the ground is cleared and the foundations laid, for we have already accepted the same body of principles? Those principles are clearly

most up-to-date programme, the and definitely enough stated to make their application a matter

balk of which will be contributed which should afford no fundamental difficulty, and back of us is Posen is critical. The Poles occupy the town of Posen and the A message from Berlin says the situation in the Province of hat imperative yearning of the world to have all disturbing questions, eastern part of the Province, also the town railroads. They have re-victualling Austria has arrived at Vienna. It has been found Captain George Ash, from by them. An interesting per Reuter's Agency is informed that the Allied Commission for sonality in the shape of have all threats against peace silenced, to have just men every issued a proclamation announcing the country's reunion with that the food shortage in Austria, especially in Vienna, is very bad. Texas, here come together for a common object. The peoples of the world Poland. aat peace and they want it now not merely by conquest of arm but by agreement of mind. It was this incomparable great objec

There have been several frontier conflicts between Germans and anticipated may have to be made for re-victualling the population.

Probably a much more extensive arrangement than originally to give an exhibition of La0- that brought me overseas. It has never before been deemed exagainst and defeated the Poles.

Poles, ip the course of which the Germans used their artillery cusable for a President of the United States to leave the territory of

LOYAL INDIA. the United States, but I know that I have the support of the judg ment of my colleagues in the Government of the United States in saying that it was my paramount duty to turn away eren from the imperative tasks at home to lend such counsel and aid es I could to this great, may I not say final, enterprise of humanity." Reuter's Imperial Service.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS...

Copenhagen, January 3.

THE EX-KAISER'S FATE

RUMOURED AGREEMENT BETWEEN BETISH AND DUTCH DENIED

The Hague, Jan: 3.

The Telegraf learns that an agrement has been reached be. tween the British and Dutch Governments regarding the ex-Kaiser's position.

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London. December 28. At the American Embassy to-day, addressing the deputation from the League of Nations Union, which was headed by Viscount Grey and included the Archbishop of Canterbury and Viscount. Reuter's Agency is informed that in British official Bryce, President Wilson said "Gentlemen.-I am very much thing is known about the British and Dutch arrangement regard complimented that you should come in person to present this addressing the ex-Kaiser, which was cabled earlier...

GERMANY'S OBLIGATIONS FOR FOOD SUPPLY,

CABOO AND PASSENGER SHIPS DEMANDED.

Paris, January 4,

and I have been delighted and stimulated to find the growing and evailing interest in the subject of the League of Nations not only a growing interest merely, but a growing purpose which, Lam sure, will prevail and it is delightful that members of the Government which brought this nation into the war because of the moral obligations based upon a Treaty should be among those who have brought me this paper, because on the other side of the water we have greatly admired the motives and subscribed to the principles It is officially announced that the Allies and the United States which actuated the Government of Great Britain. In obeying that are agreed on the necessity to furnish food to newly liberated and moral diete you have shown what we must organise: namely that also neutral and enemy territories. A mixed Entente Council has same fox and sense of obligation, and, unless we organise.it, the been formed, of which Mr. Hoover is Director-General thing that we now do will not stand. I feel that so strongly, Mr. Hoover, in a statement, estimates that Europe

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ALLIED COMMISSION TO RE-VICTUAL THE COUNTRY.

London, January 3.

A REQUEST FOR AUTONOMY.

Delhi, January 2. Congress. The moderates mostly abstained,

Six thousand delegates and visitors attended the National

Mohan Malaviya, a member of the Vice-Regal Council, in his Presidential Address, offered loyal and dutiful greetings to His Majesty upon the successful termination of the war. He said Indians were particulary glad to think that while despotic mon- archies were disappearing, the King-Emperor sat even more firmly in the affections of his people. He suggested that Congress should send a message to the Peace Conference that India is prepared to contribute in every way possible towards its success and to support the League of Nations. He thought India's representation at the Conference should be more numerous Referring to India's great contribution to the war, he asked how far India prouid- Share gin the fruits of victory He repudiated, as insulting, the suggestion that Indians were unfit to govern themselves and hoped the principle of autonomy and self-determination would be extended to India.

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throwing and other cow-boy festa, A thoroughly enjoyable concert is thus promised. H. E. the Officer Administering the Government will be present.

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY

Victoria Theatre 9.15p.m. Coronet Theatre 9,15 p.m.

TO-MORROW.

Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Coronet Theatre.15 pm

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8-

Thestra ---Royal Concert Mme. Zaleska, and M. Kiriela 9.15 p.m.

ESDAY JAN 29