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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1921.

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INDIAN AFFAIRS.

THE DAVIS CUP PARTICIPANTS.

SINN FEIN'S REPLY.

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REJECTION, BUT READY FOR FRESH NEGOTIATIONS.

Mr. De Valera Argues that Proposals are not **Dominion Status."

( Beuter's Service, I

London, Septembar L

Frecautions Against Food Shortage.

(Reuters Service,)

Simla, September 4. Owing to the rapid rise in the price of foodstuffs, especially off wheat, the Government of India has decided to continue the pro- hibition of the export of wheat and tour, at least till the end of March. In order to prevent depletion of stocks or enhancement of prices, supplies for the military will be as far as possible parchased abroad. In order to encourage private iniports of wheat, rarticularly from Australia and to assist the Indian fleur mill industry, the Government has decided to permit the re-export of imported wheat"

The Irish repis rejects the Government's proposals on the ground that they are not Dominion status and says the rejection is irrevo-in the form of flour to the extent of 40 per cent, of the weight of the cable but that Nina Fein is ready immediately to appoint plenipot-n-] wheat imported. tlaries on the basis of the principle of government by consent of the¦ governed.

Later

Mr. De Valera's reply to Mr. Lloyd George's letter of the 20 ulti says that the Irish, too, are convinced it is essential that some definite immediate progress should be made towards the basis which further negotiations can usefully proceed. Ele describes the historical references in Mr. Lloyd George's last communication as fallacious, and says that the essential data of the problem are, firstly that the people of Ireland, acknowledging no voluntary union with Great Britain and claiming as fundamental the natural right to choose freely for themselves the path they shall take to realise their : nations? testing, tave by an overwhelming majority decland fori independence and established a republic.

Admission of Natives to Foreign Dept.

Simla, September 4.

introduce a substantial Indian element into the foreign political With the approval of Mr. Montagu, it has been decided to department of the Indian Government. Recruitment will be made from the Indian members of the Civil Service Indian commissioned officers in the Indian Army, and in cases of special merit from officers of the provincial Civil Services.

The Moplahs' Desperate Resistance.

Calicut Sptember 4.

The tigo at Tirurangadi which resulted in the capture of the jrebel leader, Alimusaliar, and forty-two other Moplaha. Jasted several] hours, the rebels resisting desperately to the end. About Forsy Maplahy were killed, while two British soldiers were killed and four wounded. The rebels used a kind of rocket carrying a sharp spiče. | A quantity of explosives and weapons have been captured.

Not Invitation to Free and Willing Partnership." Great Britair on the other hand (continues Me: De Valera), acts; as though ireland was bound to her be a enntract of union that forbade separation. The circumstances of the supposed contract As a result of the rebellion the harvesting of the Best crop it were notorious, yet on the theory of its validity the British Govern almost me of the question, and in many parts fears are entertained ment sod Parliament claim to rule and legislate for Ireland even to in regard to the second crop owing to the wholesale paralysis of the point of partitioning Irish territory against the will of the Irish labour. A Madras message states that trouble is still brewing at people and killing or casting into prison evers Irish citizen refusing Mannataghat, and hundreds of refugees are freille to Palaghat. allegiance. The British Government's proposals are based funda- Repons of robbery and plundering are arriving from Ponnani. mentally on the latter premises. The Irish rejected the proposals local police hate telegraphed saying that the treasuries at Ponnani and the rejection was irrevocable The proposals were not an and Chawgat are threatened, and requesting urgent military aid. invitation to Ireland to enter into a free and willing partnership with ! It is reported that an ultimatum has been sent to the rebels demand- the free nations of the British Commonwealth.

ing their surrender in forty-eight hours.

Conditions would Divide Ireland Artificially.

Rebels Seeking Flight.

GERMANY'S FIRST CASH PAYMENT.

The

The proposals were an invitation to Ireland to enter 'under con.i

Hombay, September 5, ditions determining that her status would be delisitely inferior to the p The situation at Malabar is easing, as the rebels are fleeing from status of these free States. The Dominions were all guaranteed the troops into the jungle. Alimusaliar (the Moplah leader) and against domination by the major State, not only by acknowledged number of other Moplahs have been sately conveyed to gxol. constitutional rights giving them equality of status with Grear Britain and absolute freedom from routral by the British Parliament and Government, but by the thousands of miles separating thera from Great Britain, Ireland would have guarantees neither of dis tance nor of right. The conditions sought to be imposed would divide her into two artificial States, each 'destructive of the other's influence in any common council, and both subject to the military, astal, and economic control of the British Government.

Neutral and Impartial Arbitrator" Proposed.

French Protest Against Non-Participation.

Paris. September 3. The Government has refused to sanction the Allied financial, experts' agreement, under which france tad no share in Germany's first cash payment. The allied conterence is to reconsider the matter soor Hume

Collisions With Police.

Herlin, September 5.

The Irish were willing that a neutral and impartia arbitrator should judge between diametrically-opposed interpretations of history and the tact of geographical tropinquity held by the British Government and the Irish. The British Government refuse and, threaten to give effect to their view forcibly. If the British Govern ment adopt that course, the Irish can only rasist. Force will not

The Government has also issued a proclamation concerningj solve the problem; it will never secure victory over reason and right, agreement upon Imperial measures. On theother hand, sanguinary Threats and force must be set aside from the beginning as well as collisions between the police and demonstrators are reported from during the actual conduct of the negotiations. The respective Coburg and Bavaria, where a number were wounded by hand- plenipotentiaries must meet untrammelled by any conditions except grenades and gunfire.

the facts themselves, and must be prepared to reconcile subsequent differences not by appeals to force, covert or open. but by reference

to sorce guiding principle on which there is common agree-

ment.

"Government by Consent of the Governed" as the Test.

FRENCH WHEAT CROP,

Record Yield per Acre.

Paris. September 3.

The Irish proposed the principle of Government by consent ofį According to an official statement, this year's French wheat the governed. It is a simple expression of the test to which any crop is nearing three hundred and twenty million bushels, with a proposed solution must respond if it is to prove adequate. On this record average yield of twenty-four bushels per acre-nos. basis only, the Irish sees hope of reconciling the "ecosiderations which must govern the attitude" of Britain's representatives with the considerations that must govern the attitude of Ireland's re- presentatives, and on this basis the Irish are ready immediately to i appoint plenipotentiaries.

AUTOMOBILE GRAND PRIX.

Frenchman Wins in Record Time.

Brescia, September 4.

Belgian Wins Cycle Race.

(Other Telegrams on Pages 1, 2 and 42 ̧

EARLIER

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

PRAYA MOTOR SMASH.

This Morning's Accident.

W. T. Tilden (U.S.A), who scored a sensational victory over Shimidzu in the chailenge round of the Davis Cup Singles Championship.

SenkoShimidzu, the famous

Japanese player, who won the two first sets against Tilden.

Subsequently he was hand-

capped by an attack of cramp.

between two-

armed

Wm. M. Johnstod (U.S.A),

wbo Was alio successful against # Japanese rival, Kumaga,the former winning

by three sets to lose.

Ichiya Komagae, a resident in America, who has been described as superior to bis compatriot. Possibly be was not in his best form against Jobaston.

News in Today's New Advertisements.

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(From Our Own Correspondent.i

to be overhauled. The accident Shameen. Bamour has it that A motor-car accident resulting could easily have been much Chan was arrested because he. in serious injury to coolie cc-more serious as there are many SINGAPORE TRAMS.

curred on Connaught Road West thick pillars only a few few feet Hongkong magistracy some five was a witness in a case at the Singapore Sept. 3. this morning as Mr. R. Weusthoff. The automobile Grand Prix. the course of which is thirty times

Withers considering the report manager of the Asia Backing part and the car went right years ago in which a man was

charged with taking part in! The final episodes of The Son oyer, a lap being 17 kilometres, 400 metres, was won by the French-of Mr. Don, the expert from Corporation, was coming to hist

Reagona, Singapore Municipality office from Repulse Bay. When man, Goux, on & Ballot machine in 3 hours. 35 min. 9 sec. Telesin0,000 sterling for the approaching the Yoen On Wharf REVENGE FRUSTRATED,

robberies in Kwang of Tarzan" are haing screened at tung. Extradition proceedings the Kowloon Theatre to-day- averaze speed was 1443 kilometres hourly-e world's record. The

were thes being taken secord was a Frenchman, Chassagne, and the third an Italian, quis of the tramways less (5 Canton steamer fatty) the

and Paze 12, Wagner, close up. During the rage Bording covered the seventh good tuning order.

the cost of putting the plant in driver of Mr. Weusthoff's car was

Chan Care ezidence. The "Mr. Fixit" holds out at the Subject to about to pass a moring tram, it Release of H.K. Chinese in iterated, the Court holding that 12.

charges failed and the man was Coranet for one day more-Page at a speed of 155 kilometres hourly.

Verification the stores are at pres is said, when a Chinese suddenly eat valued at £59,000. This is a darted out from in front of it. To

Canton.

he was purely a political offender. final take or leave offer.

aroid an accident the chauffeur The Enal act of the drama sor-Tuchan, but with the change of

Long Chai-k wong

Mee Cheong advertises photo- སྙ then the brakes causing the rounding the arrest and imprisongoveruments the man bas since stock of Community Plate-Page graphy in natural colours-Page 2 Lane, Crawford have a fas automobile to skid sharply on the meat at Canton of Mr. Chan Shu- risen to be a military officer of 3 wet asphalt road. The car shothong, a well known Hongkong high rank. It was on his orders across the road and knocked over buiiness man and ship owner that Chan was enticed to Canton The Tiantain-Fukaw Railway ha

a pedestrian walking near the seems to have now taken place.. and arrested, a desire for revenge particulars of the next matricula resumed. The passengers walked pathway and the frost part of it It will be remembered by our

tion examinations-Page 4. a quarter of a mile north of Men-went over an to the pavement readers that Mr. Chan was decoy-haring led the officer to such a two feet below the surface of the ed to Canton and there arrested.

length.

The H.K. Rope Cay, announce road.

at the instigation of a military demand was a strong one and abare. -Page 4.

The British Consul-General's an interim dividend of $1. par AMERICAN TRADE WITH jured and he was rushed to the into a filthy cell, but managed to obtained. On Thursday the man the services of a Chiness gentle- The coolie was seriously in-official. The prisoner was thrown Chan's release was at last A British Compsay requires CHINA.

Government Civil Hospital for let bid friends know that bis life. Brescia. September 5.

Shanghai, Sept/4. treatment. His case was diagnos-was in danger. As he was a

was conveyed to the Shameen by man on a commision basis.→→ The Frenchman, Sadi, in a le Cointe, won the aviation Grand American exports to Prix of three hundred kilometres in 73 mia, 9.1/5 sec. averaging 144 during July were G, $5.700,000 skull and at the time of going to Consul-General interfened on his Chined as a compound fracture of the British subject, the British

motor car..

Page 4.

Watson's advertise Bath Salts miles per hour. An Italian, Beakpapa was second in 89 and the imports from Chion G.press he was still unconscious behalf and at only succeeded in

and other toilet necessition. -*

Paris, September 4, A cycle race from Paris to Brest return, a distance of eight hundred miles, was won by the Belzian: Möttiat, in 55 hours, 7 min. 8 seconds. The Frenchman, Christophe, was second in fifty-five and a half hours.

min.

AVIATION GRAND PRIX.

Frenchman's Success.

FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN. EN ROUTE.

Paris, September 3. The French Ambassador to Japan, M. Clandet, has left Marseilles Japan.

i used

TIENTSIN-PUKOW

RAILWAY.

Shaugbai, Sept..4.

taitsze.

$10,000,000

Mr. Weusthoff and the driver of getting the conditions of the the car were not scratched and imprisonment, ameliorated bat CORDILLERE AND the car escaped being badly demand the man's release.

"GLAUCUS.

damaged. The front right-hand One Canton correspondent side mudguard was, buckled for fofi Shanghai, Sept, 4.and the buffer was STOLER 01. Wi

us that Mr. Chan The Cordillere and Glaucos have Further demage Was DOL

on Thursday fast, Tded over to the both bun dry docked.

but the cat WHE

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