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Ope of the prime movers RECOGNITION OF MEXICO. UTILISING THE LIBRARY. 10 the exposaTE・ WAN

Mr.

Shanghai Bank amount to £127 relations fonds in the Hongkong and

8. 8d.-an appreciabis increase on last year's balance. It should be added, however, that rather a heavy bill for printing expenses in connection with the dinner is still outstanding.

M. H. Donchos, than a wall.. known journalist in Australia

U.S. Conditions, | later the Daily Chronicle spočiał

The China Society. correspondant in South Africa The first official indication of Louis de Rougemont. and in all the European waS.

The report of the Council for the policy which the United 1920-1921 states:During the The death of Louls de Rouge- the mystery; he brought the ions with Moxing was givan by tean new members have been Mr. Donahoe got to the root of States is pursuing in the negotia year ending April 30, 1911, nine- mont, otherwise Henri Louis whole facts to light. The Daily the State Department to-day, says elected, while, on the other hand, Grin, recalls the historic hoax Chronicle exposure of the author the Washington correspondent of there have been four losses by which the Daily Chronicle exposed of these fictitious adventurea was the Times, writing on the 7th. ult, death and two resignations. Re- 23 years ago.

the outstanding journalistie It was in the beginning of achievement of the end of the known that a proclamation will invaluable work done for the At the same time it was madeference must be made to the having arrived from the above March 1898 that a seedy and 19th century. It created a great shortly parts, Consignees of Cargo by her wild-eyed adventurer

be fasued in are hereby informed that all himself Louis de Rougemons

calling sensation in scientific circles.

Santo Society by the late Mr. George Domingo announcing the gradual Jamieson, C.M.G., who from the goods are being landed at their landed at the London Docks from at the time that the true story of troops from that island, and rest interest in its welfare, and as So great was the public interest withdrawal of the American very beginning showed the kean- risk into the hazardous and/or she steamship Waikato, having Da Rougemont, reprinted from gulating the procedure under Chairman of the Council con- extra hazardous Godowns of the worked bis Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf Wellington, New Zealand.

from the columns of the Daily Chron-which the transference of govern tribyled, in a

icle, was published in popular mental functions from the mili- to its successful development, notable degrea and Godowo- Company, Limited,

Before many days ha whence, and/or from the whares, telling a story of his 30 years 61. a copy under the tittle of went would take place. In the balance-sheet, which Mr. G. B was book form and sok extensively attary to the Dominican Govern will be BEGI from the delivery may be obtained.

life among cannibals in Australia."Grien on Rougemont: the Story larger sense these happenings are Dodwell has again been so kind Goods not cleared by the 3rd It caught the public imagination.of Modern Robinson Crusoe part of the process of smoothing as to audit, that the Society's Aug, at 5 p.m. will be subject to

He told of a shipwreck in 1864 with humorous drawings by Phil

out Uuited anong the South Sea Islands. By May and pantomice akit by with the other countries in this

States Tent

All broken, chafed and dama series of accidents he arrived Barry Pain.

homisphere which is ons of the aged packages are to be left in fin one of the most desolate places the Godowns where they will be in Northern Australia—a spot on

NATIVE OF SWITZERLAND. major policies" of the Harding examined by Messrs. Goddard & which no 'white man had ever De Rougemoni's real name was Administration, and which was Henri Louis Grin. He was born ushered in by the ratification of Douglas, on 3rd August at 10a.m. put foot..

of respectable parentage in the the Colombian Treaty on April | Claims against the steamer must *CHIEF OF THE TRIBE"

His [ 20. Canton Vaud, Switzerland. be presented within 30 days of

While there by sheer force of father was a farmer, and his arrival otherwise they will not be personality so his own riotous relatives belonged to the well-to Mexico describes the fundamental already noted, a revised list of The communique dealing with Besides the two publications recognized.

imagination . mada

our-bedo "bourgeoisie," one of his broth-question for the United States as members was printed (in a rather No Fire Insurance will be dominated the tribe, became the

ста being effected by us in any case what-chief, and incidentally rescued Swiss pastor.

a much-respected the "safeguarding of property convenient form for refer two white women destined to the

rights agniest confiscation." It fence) last December. The China Louis started his career as is admitted that Mexico may Society's copy of the great Ency- Bills of Lading will be counter-most bideous form of slavery.

courier to the well-known actress adopt any policy she pleases clopaedis, Tu Sha Chi Ch'ong, signed by

Adventure followed anventore, Fanny Kemble. Later. about in regard to He married a nativa was: be 1874, he went in a similar capacity

public lands, comprising over 5,000 volumes, bat she 19 дос free had escapes from crocodiles: belto Australia. He drifted about destroy without compensation in the Library of the School of to which for some years has stood rode turtles: he had wives offered a great deal: be went pearling: Ivalid "titles Agents.

to him, but to their charme he he

which have been Oriental Studies, has hitherto proved adamant in favour of syedicates; he invented & diving-under Mexican laws"; for a students owing to the want of a mining obtained by American citizensbera of restricted value to Wamba.

dress-which resulted disastrous confiscatory policy strikes "not England was impressed. The to the experimenler and story of his adventures appeared eventually arrived in England, individuals, but at the foundations been remedied by Mr. P. F. This defect bas now in a popular travel magazine. De having worked his passage from of internasional intercourse." Rougemont lectured before the New Zealand.

O'Brien-Butler, a member of the British Association. Bombarded

The assertion is made that the Society; who spent several wooks question at issue is not the te-of the winter in arranging and cognition of any particular Ad-marking the volumes, as well as ministration, and thus when labelling their cloth cases. The ever Mexico is ready to give grateful thanks of the Society are assurances that she will perform due to him for his unselfish the protection both of persons be mentioned is Mr. P. H. Em- ber fundamental obligation in abomis. Another benefactor to and of rights in property validly snuel who has presented the

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QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS.

GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS.

Mr. Bottomley asked whether the German Government Was taking any steps to secure the extradition of the three alleged war criminals, charged with some of the most serious of offences,

with questions on dialectics, on geography, on anthropology, he came out, if not unscathed, with a certain plausibility.

FLAWS IN THE STORY.

But in the meantime, people who knew Australia began to

ly

formed various

Bat de Rougemont (writes one who knew him) was no vulgar adventurer. He made little out of his narrative, and he had no axe to grind. If he had written his story frankly as a work of fiction it might have been selling to this day, and the author might

only at the interests of particular ing

proper system of

number-

who had escaped from Germany, and whose names were upon the think. There were gaps in the have ended his days ̄i¤ ̄greater acquired, there will be no obsta-Society with a set of the

list of the seven arraigned for trial

taken to find t ́em.

prisonment.

SINN FEIN.

Commander Kenworthy asked the Prime Minister wherber he

story. The customs of the na-comfort, if not in luxury. tives, the fauna and the flora, as described by De Rougemont, did not coincide with known facts.

little furry beast without wing, whose normal home is a hole is the ground.

That might have passed as the had addressed any further invita mistake in a name; but habits, tion to the leaders of the Sinn customs, climate, conditions, all Fein party in Ireland to negotiate failed to agree with recorded a settlement with the Govern- facis.

cles to most advantageous rela-Geographical Journal. tions between the two peoples." Then follows a reference to the provisions of the Mexican Con-

HIS LATER YEARS. Sir Gordon Hewart said the in-

Last December, in the name formation which he had from the

of Louis Redman, he was admitted Attomey-General of Leipzig was

One of the first sceptica was

as a patient to the Londonstitution of 1917 which assert theo be negotiated with him, and that the persons referred to could Mr. Louis Beck, author of macy Homeopathic Hospital. He had Government's title to all deposits the making of the treaty in not be traced, bus that all possible books on the South Seas, an Ans-been taken ill suddenly, and it of oil, gas, minerals, &c, with its proper form will accomplish the steps had been and were being tralian born, and at that time was doubtful if he would recover. retrospective application, decreed recognition of the Government

member of the Daily Chronicle Mr. Bottomey-May we take staff. He voiced his suspicions-ary. To his nurse in the hospital tive. The danger, that "proper-

A serious, operation was neces-Ister by Carranza and still effec-which makes it." it that some of the more serious He knew Australis from end to he disclosed the fact that he was ties of American citizens will be that the treaty goes no further Assuming, as one must assume, criminals are going to be tried? end,and had been in many parts de Rougemont

confiacated on a great scale" is than this somary indicates, Sir Gordon Hewart said the where no other white man's foot

"He generally assumed the foreseen and condemned in ad- then it means a sensible dilation cases which were now being tried had trod

85 an "international of demands which the Secretary were some of the gravest cases in A wonderful work of imagina-name of Redman for business vance

of the Interior, Mr. Fall, and other which the British authorities. badtion." he said, "but it is all Prposes, although otherwise he wrong of the gravest character" clear evidence. He added that he wrong." There were elementary retained his name of de Rouge- to which the United States "could adherents of the Fortiter in e mont," said a personal friend. not submit." But if it be policy have not ceased to advocate. had this morning received a tele-points that struck everybody. In another quarter it was said gram from Leipzig stating that The "flying wombats

that this wrong is not They would bave insisted on em- stood

declared that "Redman" had intended, and that the Mexican bodying their demands in a prot- primarily as grotesquely the firs: defendant to be tried had out been sentenced to ten months' im. wrong, the wombat being a quiet/latterly been living in charge of Constitution of 1917 will notocol, signature to which would கI untenanted house in Southbe so construed as to permit, have been a condition precedent Kensington. For some time his or so enforced as to effect con- to recognition. Mr. Hughes bes health had been indifferent Atiscation, then it is important apparently somewhat absted few days ago a recurrence of in that this should be made clear by these demands, has embodied ternal trouble necessitated his guarantees in proper form," them in a treaty containing re- removal to the Kensington Poor Law Infirmary, where he died on

Accordingly, the United States,ciprocal advantages, and has so on May 27, through Mr. Sam worded this document that recog- Thursday evening-

merlin, ber Charge d'Affaires in nition is implicit in the fact of Ochals of the institution Mexico City, proposed a treaty signature. This is not only tem- recorded the name of Louis of amity and commerce with perate bus wise. Insistence on Mr. Lloyd George said the offer As a result Mr. de Rougemont Redman, and when a caller Mexico, in which Mexico will course which General Obregon he had repeatedly made had not was invited to the Lily Chronicle arranged for a private funeral the agree to safeguard, the rights in could have followed only at the yet met with any response.

office to clear up doubtful name of "Redman went on the property which were attached be- cost of his dignity would probably Lord H. Cavendish-Bentinck-matters. He came.

He was undertaker's books, the age belog fare the Constitution of 1917 was have resulted in the downfall of Does not the increasing lawless a remarkable figure. Slight. entered as 74. ness in Ireland demand some grey-bearded, hair brushed up

promulgated." The treaty also į bls Government and an indefinite A philanthropic lady guaranteed contains conventional stipula-prolongation of the present con- more useful policy, than one of from a high, wrinkled forehead, the expenses of the funeral, which tions as to commerce and re-fusion. Even as it is there is no wonderfully bright eyes undertook place in the Catholic ceme-ciprocal rights in both countries"; certainty that he can prevail rather bears lids, he was a man tery at Kensalgreen.

it "provides for the conclusion of over those elements in Mexico who would have been notable in

& convention for the settlement of which would refuse any concer- any gathering. He was invited

claims for losses of life and pro-sion to foreign representations, to tell his store, and he did so.

ME. BOXAR LAW'S CHESS. Then came the cross-examina- Mr. Bonar Law, who is in perty, which, of course, means the but she prospect of an amicable tion. It was conducted by a Paris, has made a number of Prompt establishment of a suit adjustment is better now than member of the staff, a barrister, visits to the famous cafe of La able claims commission, on which for many months past.

both countries would be represent- Donald who had his subject at bis 6ngers Regent, where be enjoys a game ed" and there is also a provision naturally makes no reference to Mr. saya executive. Mr. Walter U. (Unionist) has been returned for ends.

Though to-day's communique of chess. La Regent, which dates for the just settlement of bound-any other than American inter- Belfast East.

De Rougemont broke down. back more than a century, is the

ary matters." He became confused, barst out in rendezvous of chess players from

ests, it can be confidently assum- a passionate asservation of the all over the world. While Mr.

Finally, and of equal imported that the principles of adjust- truth of his story, then faltered Bonar Law was playing he was aace, there will be no difficulty mens which the United States layu miserably and refused to say more. recognised by soother chess 13 to recognition "for if General down would be accepted by the

In the meantime, the Daily player, M. Herriot, Minister of Obregon is ready to negotiate a Mexican Government Chronicle wires had been busy, the Rhone.

proper tresty, it is drawn so as general application.

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Ghe

Bowen the Chairman of the Gov- ernment Reorganization Commit- tee, said that he hoped to be able soon to submit a plan to Fresident Harding. If this is approved, he said it will be laid

Congress.

before

ment.

drift?

The Prime Minister-We cer- tainly don't propose to drift. If any further step is demanded it is an addition to the Forces of the Crown to cope with the situation. (Cheers.)

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