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IN
“The
Secret
Four”
edecretour
Woseds No. 6
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Siidren,
..
0 .
%A0
strike
surd,
were
scized
tedey
by
the
forces
of:
cceupation.
Half
of
tlis
amount
was
cor fiscated
in the
Muelheim
branch
of the
Reickbark
arnd
the
other
eight
billion
marks
while
ir
shipment
through
Mayence.
Berlin, June 26th.-Cartain
Hars Rose,
cemmarder
of
the
Cermran
submarine
U-3
which
surprised
the
world in Ccto-
ber
1916 by suddenly
appearing
¢ff New-
purt
R.
1., has
been
arrested
by the
Del-
cians
and
imprisoned
at
Verkrade,
ac-
errding
to Red
Cross
adviees
rrom the
Rubr,
which
assert
that
he
is
lying at
t
1e point of
death
because
of
malitreat-
ment
by the soldiers.
New York,
June 26th.—Sir
Auckland
Geddes
sailed
fcr
home
today
on
the
Berepgaria
for a
three
months
rest.
The
Ambassador’s
sight,
which has
been
seri-
ously affected
during the past
few months
was
said
to
be improving
slowly.
His
friends
say
he
will
pot
become
«...irely
blind,
as
was first feared.
'ondon.
June
26th.—Lord
Astor,
speaking
before
a
charity
crpanization
on
the subject
of
probibiticn,
said
ever
since
the United Srates
had incugurated
its great
experiment
the {British
liquor
trade-
had
been
carrying
on
deliberate
propaganda
agains®
the
United
States.
He objected
to
the
deliberate
attempts
to
misrepresent
everything
associated
with the United States.
It
was
a tragic
thing that
while anti-British
provacanda
io the United
States
had
ceased,
people
were
working
in
Great
Britain
to
mis-
represent
the attitude
2nd
actions
of the
United Srates.
Lord Astor charged
that
the tiguor trade
in jGireat
Britain
bad
a
powerful
political
organization
which
was determined
to turn Lady
Astor out
of public life.
;
Qaleatta,
June 26th. —Thirty-nine
Mo-
*ammedan
boy orphans
were kilied today
the eollapse of a section
of the orphan-
huilding
in
the
heart
of Caleutta,
“e injured
were
sent to the
"~
t epty five
were
slightly
injured.
Two hundred
and
twenty-nine
inmates,
from three
to
eightesn
years
of
age,
were asleep
in the dormitories
when
the building,
which
recently
had
a
see-
ond story superimposed,
collapsed,
bury-
ing
about
a
hundred
of
the children
in
the debris,
The
others
escaped.
Ottawa,
June
206th.—Amendments
of
the
business
profits
war tax and
the
in-
come
tax act
are
10 be
introduced
in the
House
by
Mr.
Fieldirg.
The
amend-
ments
deal largely with
questions
of.-
ministration.
Regarding
the incom=
tax
one amendment
stinulutes
that the income
of a taxpayer
shall
be
deemed
to
be
no
less
than
the income
of his
chief
occupa-
tion.
Another
that
provisions
be
made
respeeting
exemption
of
the
income
of
Consuls
and
officials ofa foreign
coun-
try,
or
of
Great
Britain,
or
any
ofits
seif-governing
colonies
and
of
the
pen-
sions
of
any
members
of
the military,
naval,
or
air
forces
of
His
Majesty’s
Allies,
.
Londou,
June
26th.—The
H.use
of
Lords,
by
a
vote of 95 to 8, today
passed
the second
reading of the bill making ithe
ground
for
divorce
the
same
for
boih
sexes,
The
measure
now
stands
a good
chanrce
for becoming
law.
It was passed
by
the
House
*of
Commons
early
this
month,
Berlin,
June
26'h.—'"'No
Government
can cancel
the
passive
jresistance
policy
born
in
the
hearts
of
men
and
women
of the Rhineland
and
the Ruh+”’, Chan-
cellor
Cuno
declared
at
Kceenirgberg.
He stated
that
Premier
Poincare
is stiil
unwilling
to
negotiate
and
he
urged
a
firm front in
Germany
against
‘‘the ene-
my’s maliciousness.””
We
are
not cnly
ready
to promise
to pay,
but
v.e
are
also
readv
to
pay.
We
have
got
the world
thinking
of
our
ecase.””
His
speech
voiced the German
belief that
tiie latest
offer is
a
sincere
endeavour
to
pay
:s
_ much
as Germany
immediately
is able
on
-_reparations
and to lay
a firm foundation
~
for the full payment
of thirtybillion goid
é@%‘@a
:
= A
marks.
Meanwhile
the rising food prices
and
the
deley and
anxiety
over repara-
tions
are
causing
sporadiec
outbursis
throughout
Germany.
Fascisti
are active
in Munich.
A
group
of
them
have
at-
tacked
the Socialists,
slightly
weunding
four.
Communists
and
Faseists
groups
clashed
at Halle with
a
number
of minor
casualties.
There
is
an
increasing
de-
mand
for
an
end
to
the passive
resist-
ance
policy and
for use of
foree.
London,
June
26:th. —The
text
for
the
vroposal from
the
United. States
Secre-
tary
of State
tn
extend
to
12 miles
the
limit
within
which
searvches
{or liquor
might
be earried
out
and
ctherwise
mo-
difying the llquor
enforcement
laws
af-
fecting
steamers,
has
been
received
by
the Foreign
Oifice.
The
department
ex-
perts
sre engased
in studying
the
docu-
ment,
as
well
as
the
full
text
of
tie
United States
Supreme
Court’s
decivion
in the
ship
liquer
case
and
it will {ukeg
probably several
weeks
before
Great
tir)-
tzin makes
reply
to
the
communication,
While the Government,
it
1s declared,
le-
gards
Mr
Hughes’
suggestion
as
diii-
cult if
not
impossible
of
fuifiiment,
tue
Foreign
Office
is
desirous
of
accomnio-
dating the
United
States
views
8o jar as
is consistent
with existing
maritime
law
and British poliey.
London,
Juve
27ths—A
new~x
aud
vio-
lent eruption
breke
out this n‘.'()ri:ing near
the summit,
on
the
scuth
sidc of Mount
Etna,
plainly
visible
to
the
neked
eye in
Catania,
says
a
Rome
despateh
to the
Central News.
It
is feared
that
the
ob-
servatory
has
been
overwhelmed
Profes-
sor Carrara
reports
the
new
flow of lava
i-sprogressing
at the
rate
of
as&kilometre
an hour.
London,
June
27th.—Mr.
Bonar Law
has sufiiciently impreved
in
health
to be
able
to leave
{.ondon for
a resort
on the
south
coast.
(t
is authoritatively stated
that there
has
been
a slight
but distinet-
ly tfavourable
resuit
from
the
treatment
the Premier recently
underwent,
Washinzton,
June
27th.—Survey
of an
air route around
the
werl!l
has
been
uu-
thorized
by
the
Seceretary
of the
Army,
preluminary
to
a decision
as
to
whether
an attemet
wiid be
made
by
the
army
wir
service
1o circumnavigate
the globe,
Wiushington,
June
27th.—A
new
recu-
lation,
probibiting the bringing
of liguor
into United States
wate:s
atter
a ceriain
advance
dule
next
morth
under penalty
of
seizure
of
tle
liquor
carrying
ship
and
arrest
of its
Captain,
18
understood
to have
been
virtually agreed
upon
to-
day
as
a
result
of
conferences
among
officials here.
Itoreign
Governmments
are
to be notified again of this
government’s
intention
to
force
the
Supreme
Court’s
liguor orders
vigorously, it is
uanderstood
and
tu
warn
that
the
seizure
of «ffend-
ing ships
wiii result
from
further
viola-
tions.
Ihe pianis
to give
due notice of
the
dec:sion
so
that
foreiga
ship
lines
can
inake be
pecessary
chnanges
before
the seizure
policy b-gpumes effective.