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Berlin, May 25.

The Garman Chancellor. Wirth, addressing a meeting at |Karlsruhe, asserted that Germany could convince the warld of der {goodwill only by repairing the ruins she had caused.

Paris, May 30.

EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS.

Sequel to a Village Murder.

At the Magistracy yesterday after- noon Mr. F. M. Hazlerigg, Assistant Cown Solicitor, applied for the extradition of In Tau, an memphy-

Bonds worth 850,000,000 gold marks were handed over to the Reparations Commission by a German courier, who arrived in Paris-ed Chinese, to Canton on charges yesterday evening with the bonds in an ordinary diplomatic valise.

UPPER SILESIA.

Paris, May 30. The Cabinets of Paris, London and Rome are inter-communicating views about the Upper Silesian question. Paris and London seem to think interesting the Italian proposition to submit for ratification to the Supreme Council the result of the intercommunications and o commit to the Ambassadors Council details for the fulfilment of

the decision.

PRAYERS FOR THE NATION.

London, May 30. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, after consultation with other church authorities including the President of the Free Church Council, have issued a manifesto urging the need of prayer at this time of anxiety. They recommend special prayer for the nation and the world, particularly as regards Ireland and industria、nd inter- national conditions, in all the churches on June 26; also on behalf of statesmen and all holding responsible office everywhere in the Empire.

CIVIL WAR VETERAN'S DEATH.

New York, May 30. "The death is announced of the civil war veteran, General Horace Porter.

General Porter, who was born on April 15th, 1387, at Hunting- don, Fa, served as Colonel of Staff and A.D.C. to General Grant and was later the President's executive secretary. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General for gallant services in the field. He. was the principal speaker at the dedication of Grant's Tomb, New York, on April 27th, 1897, for the building of which he collected the necessary funds by private subscription. From 1897 to 1907 General Porter was the US. Ambassador to France.]

AEROPLANE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

Washington, May 30

It is reported from Morgantown, West Virginia, that an army ambulance seroplane crashed whilst flying at a great height daring & thunder storm at night time. It is supposed the machine was struck by lightning. All the occupants, five officers and two civili-73 were killed.

AMERICAN HIGH-SPEED SHIP FOR NAVY.

Washington, May 30. In the House, the Naval Committee approved a Bill authorising the construction of a high-speed ship to carry about 86 aeroplanes. the cost to be $25,000,000.

ANOTHER STRIKE THREATENED.

London, Max 30. The ballot of the members of the Operative Cotton Spinners Amalgamation on the wages question, shows that 95.5 per cent. voted against the proposed 30 per cent decrease. The mills close on June 4th failing an agreement being reached but negotiations are being entered into between a committee of masters and men which meets to-morrow. Half a million workers are involved.

THE POLO TEST.

London, May 30.

of murder and armed robbery in Sam Chan-tin village, Ping. Shan district, on March 22nd.

The proprietor of a grocery shop! in the village deposed that at 10 pm on March sind the fugitive with about ten others Liako înto his shop and rovered him, his mother and wife, and three man with fire- asts The fugitive was wearing a air of dark spectacles apparently He and his to disguise himself. accomplices ransacked the premises and stole a watch and some clothing from his.. He knew the fugitive Ile lived prior to the robbery. about two miles from his village and was an undesirable in his own' village. He also recognised three of the aiber robbers, two of whom re sided in Sam Chau-tin village. He saw the fugitive in Tammati on May

that he was arrested.

and it was on his information

Three men, who were in the grocery shop when the robbers en- tered, gare-corroborative evidence.

The next witness was the grocer's wife who stated that when the tugitive and his accomplices were about to leave the shop her mother- in-law called out his name and that of one Liu Yan-fook to return some of her property. The fugitive fred: asiat at her, the ballet hitting her in the abdomen, while Lin Yau-look stabbed her and killed her oatright.

Witness was robbed of several hundred dollars worth of property. The fugitive was wearing a pair of dark spectacles, a point on which' all the other witnesses concurred.

The fugitive called the principal' tenant of a house in Reclamation Street, Yaumati, where he used to lived, and a fellow tenant, as, wit- nesses. Both of them asserted that the fugitive returned to his village some time before the Chinese New Year and came back early in February, and since then he had lived continually in the house up to the date of his arrest.

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The whole proceedings originat- ed in a cattle deal between rom. plainant and a man, who was once tay partner in business," said the fugitive. Some time last year his partner bought a number of bullocks from complainant and went to sea without paying for them plainant demanded payment from him, but he refused. Complainant therefore had a grudge against him.' At the conclusion of the evidence. Mr. Orme remarked that he believed the fugitive bad been pace a cattle thief in his own village, from which:

had fted

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his depredations He doubted whe ther the fugitive took part in the

The first Polo Test match will be played at Hurlingham on June 18th. It is asserted that the English team has not yet been chosen. Experts favour the quartet mentioned on May 20 substitat-robbery and murderia Sam Chan-tio. ing Lieut-Colonel Melvill for Major Barret

The names previously mentioned were Lieut.-Colonel son, Majors Barrett, Lord and Woodhouse.]

TENNIS.

Mr. Hazelrigg point out the strong Tomkin-evidence of the fugitive's identity

London, May 30.

The Middlesex Singles Tennis Championship played at Chiswick was won by Dr. A. H. Fyzee who beat F. Hunter 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4.

THE COAL CRISIS.

London, May 30.

At their first district meeting the miners in Lanarkshire rejected the government scheme. There was not a single vote in favour it arbitration.

MANCHU RESTORATION

PARTY.

Rumoured Alliance with Semenoff.

that he can always keep in close touch with Semenoff's activities.

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given by the witnesses. His Wor. ship had to consider whether he believed these witnesses or the two women witnesses of the fugitive.

Mr. Orme said it would have been difficult for all the witnesses to have ascertained the identity of the fagitive in a country house in view of the fact that he was alleged to bave worn a pair of dark spectacles) and to have been in the company of ten others It was practically im possible. The fugitive bad evident ly been a cattle thief and was, cer- tainly no good to anybody, not even his own village, from, which he bad

to run away.

Mr. Hazelrigg stated that there were discrepancies in the evidzace of the fugitive's witarases with re- gard to the time the fugitive left According to reliable reports Yaumati for his village.

BASE.

in the possession of the Chinese| Mr. Orme said he was of the authorities, the aim of Semenoff opinion that the two women gave A rather sensational report from is to use the territory of the evidence on no other motive bat to Harbin is in circulation amont Chinese Eastern Railway as his tell what they knew..

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Mr. Hazelrigg asked bis Worship the effect that against the Far Eastern Republici he discredited the evidence of the that city to Attaman Semenoff has established of Siberia, while the policy of Crown that an arded robbery took!

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of the Mancha Chungsetang or Sheng Yun aims at the restor-place in the Sam Chan-tin village on the Imperial Manchu Restoration!ation of the Manchu Dynasty in March 22nd.

The Magistrate said the Ingitive Pary. Prince Suh, in Port Arthur China. If this cannot be done,

for military and financial co-adds the reports, then the Man-might have been aeen taking away. operation in Manchuris, Mon- 'chu Restorationalists will raise some of the complainant's cattle. golia and Siberis Pance Sab, the cry of "Manchuria for the He would remand' him to consider former President of the Miniary | Manchus the hope of the evidence.

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ofthe Interior, who has been living re-establishing, the

Mr. Hazelrigg intimated that the

in Port Arthur since the downfall Manchus in Mukden at the fugitive's story of the cattle deal

of the Mancha Rule in 1911, has commencement. The Chinese was too weak.

now appointed ex-Viceroy Sheng officials are greatly alarmed, be- Mr. Orme remanded the Iu Tam Yan, a Mongol, of the Shen-Kan cause it is feared that the joint until Monday to meble him to Provinces as his chief represents movement of Attamen Semenoff

tive in the three eastern pro and Prince Sah is connected with cure his witnesses, one of whom vinces of Manchuria with his the present serious situation in is said to be a Chinese Catholic

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