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ST: CROIX STALION,
,
Danzig
Aug.
25th.—Sir
Reginald
To-
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wer,
Allied High
Commissioner
of Dan-
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zig has
authorized
t“e unloading of am-
|
munition
from
the
French
erui
er Guey-
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don.
g
New
York,
Aug.
27th.-—Picketing
of
|
the
British
Consulate
of
White
Hall
|
Street
by
Irish
sympathizers,
begun
|
last
night
in
protest
against
Mr
Mac-
|
Sweeney’s
imprisonment,
is being
con-
tinued.
i.ondon,
Aug.
27th.—A
despateh
to
i
the
Times
from
Simia,
India,
dated
|
Thursday
says
that
the
Northern
Afg-
han
Garrison
at
Maimana
Sharif
has
mutinied
cwing
te
Bolshevik
influences
The
troops are
demanding
the establish
|
ment
of
a
soldier’s
Council
on
the
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Russian
plan.
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London,
Aug.
28th.—The
entire
Brit-
ish
Olympic
team
has
written
to
the
[.ondon
Times
protesting
vigorously
l
against
the
movement
in Englaad
in fa-
|
vour
of the withdrawal of Great
Britain
|
from
future
Olympic
meets.
The
let-
i
ter declares
that contrary
‘(o
the
state-
|
ment
of
Sir
Theodore
Cook,
m-mber
of the
British
Olympic council
and
oth-
ers
not i single examople of
bad
sports-
manship
or ill-feeling resuiied
from
the
present
Olympic
games
or the
last
In-
ternational gathering
at Stockholm.
The
letter
adds
that instead
of withdrawing
““we do our
bast
to make
our
participa-
tion
a
truly
npational
effort.
We
are
convinead
that
Great
Britain,
may
do
much
not
only to advance
sport
through
out
the
world but
also
to promote
good
feciing among
all peoples’”.
Berlin, Aug.
28th.—The
seaplanes
and
war
wunitions
destroyed
by
workmen
at
the Pintsche
works
at
Furstenwalde
on
the
Spree
river
Thursday
were
to
have
been
distributcd
among
Great
Britain,
France,
Japan
and
the
United
Qtates.
The
workmen
profess
to
have
heard
that
they
were
intended
for
Po-
land.
Winnipeg,
Aug.
27th. —Members
of
a
party of lead;}%g grain men
and
bank-
ers
who
travé¥sed
the
three
prairie
provinces
this
month reported
on
their
retarn
home
that
if the
crop
of
1921
praoduced
as
much
money
as
the
crop
of 1920 promised
to
do the three
prajvie
provinces
1n
WO
Sedsons
will
have
yielded
a
sufficient
sum
to
pay
the
na-
tional
debt
of
the
dominion
said
the
chairman
of the board
of the merchants
bank
of
St.
Paul.
He
estimated
the
value of
the
western
crop
zt
a
billion
dollars
and
said
that only about
fifteen
percent
of the
tillable
area
of
the
pro-
vinces
was under cultivation.
The
wheat
crop
of the year
he thought,
would
be
250,000,000
bushels
and
the
aiea
un-
der crop he
was informed
was
29,000,000
acres.
He
anticipated
that
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Aug.
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Petrograd
to
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Berlingske
Tidende
state
that
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in
that
city
are
becoming
critical
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nent.
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in
the
city.
Washington,
Aug. 28th.—The
proposed
new
relationship
between
CGrest
Britain
and
Egypt
gro ving
out
of conferences
in
London
between
Lord Milner’s
mis-
sion
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between
the
United
States
and
Cuba.
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plan be accepted
ard
made
effective by
treaty
as
proposed,
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was
said
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Britain
would retain
control
of Egyptian
foreign affairs, and
guarantees
wculd be
required
in protection of
the
Suez
Canal,
but
otherwise
the
Egyptians
would
be
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