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THE TRADE LOAN,

FIRST BATCH OF APPLICATIONS APPROVED.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1925.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

ABOLISH SUBMARINES.

London, November 16. The Hon. Colonial Secretary

Lloyds appeal for the abolition of submarines firids general up- advises that the Committee up- pointed to advise the Governmentproval with the Press and public. The suggestion that Britam should matter has been regarding the issue of the trade call a world conference in connection with the Joan has submitted proposals for mooted, though it is feared it is foredoomed to fallure after the pro- the distribution of a sum of ap.ject has already been torpedoed at the Washington Conference despite proximately $2,000,000 among 26 British, Japanese and American support, applicants, and arrangements have been made, with the approval of His Excellency the Governor, for the immediate payment of the money.

It is recalled that Britain has already recorded her opinion in favour of the suppression of submarines, securing the insertion of a · declaration to that effect in the minutes of the Washington Conference. The Morning Port says that for this country to raise the ques-" tion will expose her to the charge of aceking to get rid of the chosen weapon of the smaller Powers, which wrought immense injury to Bri- tish shipping during the War.

The Daily News argues similarly.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and

The Daily Chronicle hopes that with a changed atmosphere since China, and the Mercantile Bank of! India, being the three banks nu-Locarno the grim tragedy of the M1 will bring home to the Govern- thorised to issue notes in the ments the need of completing the work unfinished at Washington.-- Colony, have jointly arranged to Reuter,

place 22,000,000 at the disposal of: the Government in the form of an

liberal overdraft, on

terms and without the deposit of security.

The Committee is continuing the scrutiny of the applications made for the grant of further loans and of securities offered.

GERMANY'S

DAMASCUS SITUATION CRITICAL.

Damascus, November 16.

A grave situation is arising in Syria owing to the non-arrival

The strength of the insurgents and. of French reinforcements. brigands is continuously increasing.. The French forces, which are inadequate, are concentrating on the protection of the towns and railways. Everywhere else the insurgents roam unhindered. The latter are already knocking at the gates of Damascus, and even Beirut is not free from the threat of an attack. Any time dur * COLLAPSE.

ing the past three weeks the Druses.could have captured Damascus, but have refrained as they do not wish to see the city in ruins. In the EXTRAORDINARY ALLEGA- circumstances the possibility of a general rising throughout Syria has to be reckoned with. The Emirs of Taher and Ezzeddine, who TIONS PUBLISHED.

were arrested after the bombardment of Damascus, have been released, That the German Socialists, The Emir. of Taher was prominent in the recent disorders protecting through agents in Britain's pay. Christians.-Reuter.

Lator. were directly responsible for Cer man's war collapse, was alleged The situation is not desperate if sufficient reinforcements arrive during the recent Munich libelpromptly. It is understood that two thousand have just been landed at action against the Munchener

Beirut. Reuter. Post, arising out of the attacks on Professor Kossman, who, in the course of an artiolo, accused the Socialists of abetting in the Gorman debacle.

Major von Hoeder; chief of the counter-espionage branch of the German General Staff, déclared that the gigantic results of the spy systems of Lord Northcliffe were only possible through the assistance given by the Socialists, who, he alleged, were prominent- ly associated with an organization in Holland for training deserters, who again crossed the frontier for further service with the Gor- man arms and acted as Allied agents.

This organization was sup- ported by funds from Britain:"

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Before their Excelloncios the Viceroy and his Lady at Darjuling an interesting lecture at Govern- ment, Hoke animals, complete muscular tissues, sensory and motor nerves and that lie had invonted a delicate instrument with which he could prove this statement.

TRANS-AFRICAN FLIGHT.

London, Novéniber 16.

Mr. Alan Cobham has departed from Croydon on a trans-African: flight to Cape Town on a De Havilland fifty, the same in which he recently flew to Rangoon with Sir Sefton Brancker. The machine has reconditioned and fitted with a 385h.p. Armstrong-Siddeley been Jaguar engine. Mr. Cobham's companions are his mechanic, Mr. Elliott and a film representative, Mr. Emmott-Reuter.

Á LIMITED LIABILITY HORSE.

London, November 16, The Derby winner, Manaa, has been turned into a limited liability company with a capital of 200,000 £1 shares, mostly held by Mr. E. E. Morriss and his wife, and called the Banstead Manor Stud Company. It was originally intended to float all Mr. Morrisa's racehorses but be found it was against the rules of racing, although there objection in connection with horses at stud--Reuter.

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