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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.

LETTS DERERMINED TO HOLD RIGA.

Copenhagen. October 12.

The Lott Press Bureau publishes a message from Riga dated the 10th inst. saying that under strong pressure by superior German forces, Lett troops abandoned the left bank of the Dvina.

The enemy is now in the suburbs, but the Letts hold the right bank of the Dvina.

Esthonian armoured trains arrived at night to assist the Letts, who are determined to do their utmost to hold Riga until the arrival of reinforcements.

BALTIC SHIPPING EMBARGUES,

Berlin. October 11. According to the Stettin Abend Pot, a telegram from London" has reached the German Government, having been retransmitted by Le Baltic Port Authorities, informing that owing to the attack on Riga, free passage permits to German ships in the Baltic are provisionally withdrawn. All ships now in the Baltic must be recalled and no other ships will be permitted to put to sea. vessels encountered in the Baltic are able to seizure.

GERMANS BOMBARDING RIGA.

Stockholm. October 11.

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An Esthonian communique reports that the Lettish Government has left Riga and gone to the station at Rodeapols. Lettish troops retired across the Dvina and blew up the bridges, taking up their position at the bridgeheads.

Artillery and machine-gun fire is now going on between the Lett and German troops. The fatter are bombarding Riga with artillery and aeroplanes.

BERMONDT A TRAITOR.

Stockholm, October 12.

General Judenitch, in an Order of the Day, has declared -Colonel Bermondt & traitor and expelled him from the Army.

LENIN'S ASSASSINATION DENIED.

Helsingfors, October 12.

A message from Reval says the report that M. Lenin has been assassinated is denied, but it is stated that he has lost all influence and has been imprisoned by his colleagues lest he try to flee from the country.

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THE OMSK GOVERNMENT.

Paris, October 12.

GERMAN MINE-SWEEPERS RECALLED.

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STRAITS NEW GOVERNOR.

EDISON LAMPS

Singapore, October 13. Two or three of the Malayan papers comment unfavourably on The Prince of Wales luncheoned with the leading citizens and the appointment of the new Governor, Sir Laurence Guillemard, aise representatives from Edmonton, Saskatoon, Calgary, Vancouver and other cit es he has visited during his tour.

MUNITIONS FOR CHINA.

Singapore, October 13.

A speech was made by the Prince who announced, amid that he W29 arranging to purchase & vociferous cheers,

ali ranch in Alberta, with a view to having a home of his own in the West. He hoped, incidentally, to help a few ex-Service men by employing them thereon. The atmosphere of Western Canada appeal- The s.s. Nippon, an ex-German ship which was handed over to ed to him intensely and be would return to the old country realizing the Allies in Europe and is now under Italian control, arrived here that the Western provinces were going to play a most important on Saturday from Spezzia, Italy. She has left for China ports and part in the future of the British Empire. The line the development is carrying arms and ammunition.. of Western Canadians took would influence the future destinies of the British Commonwealth enormously.

The lunchern remplates the official portion of the Western Canadian tour. where, as the Lieut-Governor said to-day, bonny Prince Edward has won all hearts, His Highness now proceeds to the great clay belt to visit the silver mines et Cobalt. After this he is returning to the manufacturing districts of Ontario.

ALLIED NOTE TO ROUMANIA,

Paris, October 11.

THE SHANGHAI DEPARTMENT STORES.

FROM ELECTRICAL DEALERS

TODAY'S EXCHANGE.

The closing rate of the dollar, oʻ demand, to-day was 45/2.11-16d.

THE WEATHER. · Forecast-Fine. Barometer 29 96. Temperature 2 p.m.--70. Humidity p.m. ~~$3

DAY BY DAY.

The S:. John Afulance Brigade aquatic sports are to be held at the V. R. C. on Saturday next. There are 15 events, one of which is a 100 Yards Race open to members of the naval and military forces.

The American Consul General has received instructions from the Department of State indicat- ing that hereafter American citizens returning to the United States and bearing passports issued or renewed within six months will not be required by the United States Government to have such passports verified by Con-

Shanghai, October 13. Students here demand that the Wing On and Sincere Companies cease the sale of Japanese goods. Both managers on being inter- viewed insist that they are not selling thern. The Wing On repra- sentative has been recalled from Kobe. Both state that they are insular officers. sympathy with the student's movements. The Sincere Company is awaiting instructions from Hongkong to close its Kobe office.

DISASTROUS SHANGHAI FIRE.

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Shanghai, October 13. Five hundred people are homeless and seventy houses have been destroyed by a fire in the Chinese city to-night.

The Allied Note to Rumania is moderate and conciliatory. It reviews the points where on Rumania disagrees with the Entente, and explains the reasons for the insertion in the Treaty of clauses relating to minorities. It provides that the Special Commission, which was appointed to-day, shall examine the Rumanian requisit- ions in Hungary and declares that the Allies do not consider that PLAGUE RATS IN LONDON. the Friedrich Government represents the will of the Hungarian nation. It also emphasises the inconveniences arising owing to the Rumanians not signing the Austrian Treaty.

AUSTRALIA'S BUDGET.

A HUGE WAR EXPENDITURE.

Melbourne, October 8.

In the Federal House of Representatives, Mr. Poynton, in General Judenitch has officially recognised the Omsk Govern-introducing the budget, said that revenue for 1918-9 was £44,750,000, and the expenditure was £45,000,000. The war expenditure totalled £311,500,000 and the estimated deficit. for 1919-20 was £3,250,000. The Public Debt of the Commonwealth and various States was £708,000,000. There was no new taxation, but Old Age and Invalid Pensions would be increased from 12s. 6d. to 15-weekly. The Government's shipping programme provided for twenty steamers of 6.000 tons, of which three had been launched; four vessels of 3,000 tons, all of which were being built; and five steamers of 12.000 tons to be constructed in England. The net earnings of the Common- wealth Line were £3,500,000.

Copenhagen, Gctober 12. A message from Berlin semi-officially confirms the Stettin Abend Post telegram, cabled earlier. It appears that the telegram from London was sent by the Inter-Allied Naval Commission, which also ordered the recall of the German mine-sweepers.

OTHER ITEMS.

Berlin, October 12.

The Lokal Auzeiger's correspondent at Mitau says many Lettish troops have joined Colonel Bermondt.

A telegram from Koenigsberg says strong Esthonian columns are marching from Segewald to Riga.

The Lokal Anzeiger learns that the British Fleet has departed from Riga.

E. S. AERIAL DERBY.

New York, October 11. In the Trans-Continental Aerial Derby, Lieutenant Maynard was the first to arrive at San Francisca. from Mineola. It is unofficially estimated that the actual flying time was 2,701 miles in 1.492 minutes and 5514 second-

Major Spatz and Lieutenant Kisl have arrived at Mineola from San Francisco. being the first east-bound fliers to complete the flight.

BOLSHEVIKS ARREST JEWS.

FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Paris, October 12.

INVASION OF CITY STORES.

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A boy, 16 years of age, was to- day charged before Mr. N. L. Smith with picking the pocket of a man, The complainant' said that whilst he was walking near the Central Market yesterday afternoon defendant tried to pick his pocket. He caught him in the act. Mr. Smith sentenced defendant to six weeks hard labour, and to receive 10 strokas of the birch, as he had a previous

quence of measures that we have conviction. taken against the lesser rat Idanger.

The Bazaar Committee of the "In London, and particularly Society of St. Vincent de Paul in the ity, we have adopted con-has decided to bold the Society's crete floors to keep away the annual bazaar on December 7th. From time time the public burrowing. eby species, and res- Preparations are now in progress have been warned concerning the taurant kitchens, with the same dangers that confront the country object, have been pat at the to make this year's bazaar a owing to the increasing numbers house-top instead of in the base record success, and the Com- ment. All this has suited the patrons who have assisted sa mittee hopes that those generous In an interview given to the climbing, plague-carrying varie-liberally on former occasions by Daily Chronicle by Mr. M. A. C.ty, which, by the by, is the financial help and by the provi- Hinton, the leading British greater danger to man because itsion of prizes will continue to authority on rate, new and sen-is not greatly afraid of him.

extend their kind patronage to sational light is thrown on the "No doubt the first specimens this year's bazaar. ** subject.

of rats.

came off a ship, and from one Rats," said Mt. Hinton, "are City roof these expert climbers of two kinds, brown and black.would have had no difficulty in At the Police Court to-day a Since, by the by, most of the latter making their way to others. Chinese was charged before Mr. are brown, while many of the "Their rapid and general dis- N. L. Smith with snatching. a former are black, one must not tribution could not probably have bangle from a small baby. The hope to distinguish them by hue. occurred. but for one factor-mother of the child was carrying They are, however, quite distinct means of communication. They the baby, walking along Queen's have been crawling along the Road West, when defendant in other respects.

"The brown zat weighs between overhead telegraph cables (police-came along and snatched the 14ozs. and 17oza., is clumsy, aby,men have lately seen them doing bangle from its wrist. The moth- a burrower, and the familiar so), and thus have had the range er gave the alarm and defen- species of town and country. The of all London's-upstairs food sup-dant was arrested. Mr. Sinith. black rat seldom weighs more plies.

sentenced him to three months* hard labour, 10 strokes of the birch and four hours' stocks.

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than 8oz., is graceful, a climber, "What do you propose?" has a long wail, and is the species, "Those cables," replied Mr. that travela in ships, lives Hinton, "must at once be made in great multitudes in India, and rat-proof. The need is the more has been responsible for the urgent as plague is frequently A handsome contribution to the terrible outbreaks of plague, no: detected among ships' rats that Fryatt Memorial Fund has been the honorary only in warm countries, but also arrive in British ports. Remem-received by in Western Eurpoe.

ber, rat fleas feed on the blood of secretary, Lieutenant In the Senate, during the course of discussion on the Peace Treaty,

"The black rat came over to infected rats.

Moore, R.N.R., in the shape of a M. Clemenceau emphasised the necessity for vigilance. He tributed Britain with the Crusaders, but "Besides infesting horses, dogs remittance for £1,000, contribut- Britain's efforts to make nations free-(cheers)-and declared that he

was largely killed out by the and pigs, rat fleas often migratend by Messrs. Mackenzie & Co., feared German economic domination more than military domination.

formidable more

brown rat, to man.

Ltd, Bhanghai, and forwarded Germany had no longer the organisation or means of action. Guns which arrived early in the 18th | "A single germ," the naturalist by them through the medium of and fortresses had been granted to Germany in the East because century. We had in fact, got rid mentioned in conclusion, "will Captain L. D'Oliveyra, secretary it was to Germany's interest to defend herself. It is not to France's of the greater rat peril, but it has suffice to infect s man with of the China Coast Officera interest to see a Bolshevist Germany. France had nothing to fear just returned, largely in conse- plague."

Guild. In their letter accompany- from Germany.

ing the gift, Messrs, Mackenzie say they are desirous of showing in a material way their apprecia- tion of the fine work of the British Mercantile Marine during the war. There being great demands on the fund, any further con- tributions would be gratefully received by Lieutenant Moore, The Arcade, Liverpool

PARIS TO MELBOURNE.

FRENCH AVIATOR STARTS FLIGHT.

Issy les Moulineaux, Oct. 12. The aviator, M. Poulet, started at 8.15 this morning, for Geneva, on the first stage of the Paris to Melbourne flight.

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DON'T FORGET.

London, October 12.

Reuter is informed that the Zionist Executive Committee in Petrograd and other prominent Zionists were recently arrested by the Bolsheviks on account of Entente sympathies.

JELLICOE REACHES FUI ISLANDS.

Sava, October 6.

Admiral Jellicoe has arrived. He was met by a fleet of sailing and welcomed by native chiefs. Admiral Jellicoe, in a

RUMAMANS EVACUATE HUNGARY.

Buds Pest, October 12. The Rumanian military authorities announce that the Ru- manian troops hava evacuated Hungary, west of the Danube, without disorder.

-AUSTRIA'S FAILING FOOD SUPPLY:-

Vienna, October. 18.

In the National Assembly, the Food Minister declared that the suggested that Savs would probably be the Pacific naval base. danger of collapse of the food supply was imminent.

The French pilot, Charles.. Godefroy, flying through the famous Arch of Triumph in Paris. The aeroplane had only" 15 feet clearance on each side, The French aviator, Navarra, was killed recently while testing a plane to fly beneath the archi

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