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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1920.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

NOTICER

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK WARS,

London, Sept. 2

It is estimated that there are close upan 2,000,000 rats in Mon- mouthshire. In other words, A Polish communique claims that Budienny's army, which has there are four times as many rats been causing the Poles considerable trouble in Galicis, has been an- 35 man, Woœau, and children. nihilated.

At Abertillery, the principal mining town of the Western As a result of Pales violating the frontier and conficts with the Valleys, they ate a plague, and it | Litbunnian troops, the Polish Military Mission at Korno has been re- might be safe to assume that in quested to leave Lithuanian territory. An acute situation has arisen the locality the proportion is between Poland and Lithuania owing to Polish troops, on the pretext double the average far theaf clearing up remnants of the defeated Bolshevik army, advancing county.

into undeniably Lithuanian territory; and a telegram from Kovno, the Panic was occasioned in the capital of Lithuania, speaks of war being inevitable if the advance streat there when bands of rata continues. Clashes between the Polish and Lithuanian troops where- ran across the road as people in both sides suffered heavily have stimulated fresh trouble. were leaving chapel.

London, Sept. 3.

Eforts have been made to re- duce the number of the peals, and poison has been laid down A telegram from Polish sources-dated 1st Sept, says that in con- sad traps have baen sai, bat in sequence of Soviet mobilisation orders the Ukrainian peasants have the absence of a thoroughly revolted and are forming guerilla detachments which are marching organised effort the rats seem to against towns which are Bolshevik headquarters. It is stated that be as numerons as ever.

the provinces of Kharkoff. Kheraan. Kief and Ekaterinoslav are in the midst of civil war, which is extending to Volhynia and Fodolia. Also a similar movement has broken out in the neighbourhoood, of Odessa.

Why Abertilley should suffer so exceptionally it is difficult taj explain. But it is probable that; the rats have multiplied becausƏ

of the curious attitude of somei Budienoy, after advancing beyond the Zamox), was attacked by miners towards them. In some Haller's army group in the rear, and finding himself surrounded began mines rats are numerous.

to retreat. He undertook several cavalry charges despite enormous

Familiarity not only breeds losses in an endeavour to force a passage through. In the course of contempt, but sometimes leads to the fighting Badienay's army was destroyed with the exception of a few a sort of affection on the part of detachments. The retreat is completely disorderly and pursuit con- the miners. It is by no means tinues. The war booty is great. Among the Bolsheviks killed ware uncommon for miners to have two brigade commanders and twelve commissaries,

their pet rats in the colliery

workings

And the rodents know only too! well when they are welcome and when they are not. So far from seeking to exterminate them underground. they actually | encourage them, allow them to be | present at meal times, to run and play over their feet and legs, and they regularly feed them: in fact, some colliers keep tit-bits" for their favourites."

MR. BALFOUK'S REPLY TO M.-KAMENEFF.

London, Sept. 2.

Mr. Balivur, replying to M. Kamenet's note of 26th August, ex-¦ Presses gratification that the Seriet has renounced its demand for the creation of a Polish workers' militia, but denies that the British | Government has ever recognised that limitation of the Polish Army) RAT-FATTENING COMPETITIONS: tɔ fifty thousand men was a just peate condition The British Gov- Some rats are known by name, jerament merely declared that this condition would not be considered and it bas even been known for saticient ground for active intervention. Mr. Balfour regards the individual miners to enter into's Soviet's statement that the proposed civic militia was a concession kind of competition for the fatten-to Poland as evidently a jest, but a jest intended to disguise the true ing of the rats which they were character of Soviet diplomacy and certainly requiring an explanation. accustomed to feed.

Owing to the Soviet concealment of the intended cature of the Polishi Men, who adopt this attitude civic militia which concealment is now admitted, the British Par- towards rats underground

liament, which at its adjournment was most anxious about the Polish Bie

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BRITISH CLAIM AGUNST UNITED STATES,

Washington, Sept. Lon

The Shipping Board announces that it is examining Britain's

situation, separated under the impression that Poland would neither claims arising out of the detention of the Imperator and other liners lose its national independence nor its legitimate frontier. The Par-which loaded repatriated troops. It is stated that Britain has not liament of this country was certainly deceived, and the reason there-

liabilities are determined.

the surface.

for may be conjectured, but has not beet avowed. Dealing with asked for any specific sam but is seeking to obtain demurrage whilst Where ordinary people would treat the presence of a rat in their chitcherin's suggestion that British objections Greasent were due the ships were tied up in America, reimbursement of the crews' wages house with loa:bing and fear, the to the fact that the civic militia must be composed of workmen, Mr. Britain is expected to file specific claims when the United States and the cost of reconditioning the vessels for passenger service. miner has been indifferent. The Balfour declares that he is in error. Objections would have been ax probability is that a long period, strong if it bad to be composed of millionaires. Finally as doring which rats have been regards 1. Tebitcherin's comparison of conditions of wage-eaming treated rather as a joka than as a populations in Soviet Russia and Britain, Mr. Balfour does not doubt may dated partly see at the forest danger, bestar to this remarcable that there are inequalities in Britain, which now do not exist in finssis. increase in their numbers, till observing that he never for one moment questioned the complete. they have become a real economic cacy of Soviet methods for making rich men poor, but he fears that danger

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They are inreding the houses, bunting for food, penetrating into pantries, frequenting bedroom:s. and making ruas in the roofs. walls, and wainscoting.

It is possible that Abertillery is

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IRISH LYREST,

London, Sept.

Practically

it is undoubted that they desert

Police and military set are to the town of Ballaghaderreen as places where they find a determin- reprisal for two policemen shot dead there last night. ed attack is being made upon the whole main street has been destroyed. them, and make their way to neighbouring localities.

Considerable work

There have been sensational reports of vast captures of arms

NEW YORK'S TROUBLES.

New York, Sept. 3.

While the Brooklyn traffic strike ties up suburban travelling and work at the docks is still hampered by the longshoremen's strike, three more strikes have added to New York's troubles. Fifteen thonsand painters, three thousand van drivers and two thousand Įplumbers have now struck for increased wages and less work..

KOREA AND CHRISTIANITY.

London, Sept. 2,

of pro- and munitions in police raids at Belfast, but it is announced officially paganda is being carried on in that only one rife and one hundred and sixty cartridges have been The Salvation Army's Commissioner at Capetown, Mr. Hoggard Monmouthshire with a view to seized,

| (formerly of Korea and now Commander in South Africa) Iactured securing joint action throughout Belfast generally is quiet to-night, and incendiarism has prac-on Korea, which he said was to-day the most christian nation in the the conaty, and a rat destruction Lically ceased. The general situation is well controlled. The chief Far East. He said those who had embraced christianity had given

about a year.

the police and military are busily engaged in dislodging the snipers. and death for their belief

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However, it is clear that so far) the general public have not grasp ed the reality of the danger, and the work of extermination is not being carried out with sufficient ruthlessness.

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Washington, Sept. 8.

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London, Sept. 2.

Lloyd's report as much overdue the L. Temzan Maru, which has

STRINGENT MEAKCRES. Saturally the people Abertillery are rather indignant that their town should have been

A thrilling accident to Submarine 55, manned by four officers given so much notoriety, and they and twenty-six men, is reported. The submarine became disabled in not been heard of since she sailed from Montevideo for Hio de Janeiro

on 17th May. are endeavouring to minimise the partly submerged state east of Cape Henlopen. A transport in extent and the seriousness of the the neighbourhood obtained a precarious hold on the stern. Mean- plague by asserting that their time dozens of vessels raced to the rescue. The transport pumped town is no worse off than any in air to the submarine for thirty-six hours through a hole cat in the |otber—a statement which tends latter's stern, thus keeping the crew alive. Latest reports show that

to prove that the reference to all but two have so far been taken off. hundreds of millions of rats in

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SUGAR BOWL RIOT.

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New York, Sept. 2.

This is being done, and perhaps the towos-people are the more in earnest in their warfare upon the rodent because their extremity What is described as a "Sugar Bowl Riot" broke out among has been the occasion for wit-in seven hundred and fifty immigrants in the dining rooms of the aliens other folk, as in the case of great inspection depot, at Ellis Island. It appears that to-day for the anonymous joker who wired; the first time since the war real sugar was served in place of war "A Pied Piper has arrived at time molasses, and numbers had not, soos real megsz since 1914. Liverpool Shall we send him to Consequently when the sugar bowls appeared there was a scramble Abertillery ***

for the contents. This quickly degenerated into, free fights, and Abertillery certainly needs the the early birds who had poured the contents of the bowls fufa, their work of a Pied Piper, but they pockets became objects al gebaral attach

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OBITUARY

Madrid: Sept. 2.

The death is announced of Cardinal 'Gaisabols, the Primate of

Leipzig, Sept 2

The famous German psychologist Professor Wilhelm Wandt.is dead.

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