efect
that
a
provisional
revolu' onary
government
had
been
prociaimed
in some
rarts of the country.
Accordinz
to
the
oTigial version the
outbreak,
recently
re-
ported in certain
districts are purely loca|
being confined
to Southern
Bulgaria.
Belgrade,
Sept.
22nd.—The
Minister
of
Justice,
who is acting Foreign
Minis-
ter,
replying
in the Chamber
vesterday
to
gaestions
asked
by
the
Democrats
on
the subject
of Fiume,
said
the
Gov-
ernment
had
acer2pted
the
official
ex-
planation
by
I-aly
of
the
apnaint-
ment
of
General
Giardino
as
military
Governor
of Fiuma,
that it was
made
in
the interest
of ord>r and
in
no
way
mo-
dified the legal aspacts
of the question
at
is3ue
between
Jugo-Slavia
and Italy.
New York, Sept.
22nd.—-So
far as
the
New
York publishers
and
officers
of the
international
printing
pressmen
and
as-
sistants
union
are
concerned,
the stiike
of
pressmen
on
Mthe
New
York
dailies
which
began
at midnight last Monday,
is
erded.
The publishers
last nizht signed
an
agreement
for memb:rs
of
the inter-
national
union
to man
the
presses
deser
ted by members
of
the local
pressmen’s
union [which was
dissolved
through
revo-
cation
of its charter.
London, Sept.
22nd. —Mr. Bald win was
expected
to confer
with Lord C I.z
to-
day
regarding
what
British
statesmen
consider
the “‘imminent
coliapse
of
Gei-
many.’’
It was declared,
however,
that
the
latest
secret
German
proposais
for
abandonment
of passive
resistance
in the
Ruhr,
on the condition
that
German
citi-
z=ps expelled and
arrested
be
ailowed
to
return
to
their
homes,
does
not
apply
directly
to
Great
Bri‘ain, since
it
was
submitted
through
the
Belgian
Min-
ister
in
Berlin.
Great
Britain,
how-
ever,
is
following
the
situation
cilosely
and
understands
Chancellor
Siresse-
man’s
proposals
have
been
submitted
officially
to
both
M.
Theunis
and
M
Poincare.
Mr Baldwin wassilent
onthe
sunject
of
his
conversations
with
M.
Poinecare
1n Paris,
but weil inform>d
per-
sons
believed
that the
new
German
pro-
posals
may
have
bean
considered
by
the
two
Premiers
and
wera
not
adarly
so
sanguine
as the French
about
the
trath
of reports
widely printed
in
Paris
that
Messrs.
Baldwir: and
Poincare
has
reach-
ed
a basis
for agreement,
Great
Britain
expects
‘anything
to happ2n’’
in
Ger-
inany
when
the
Stresseman
Government
finally
is forced
to announce
pub'icly its
¢omplete capitulation
to the French.
London,
Sept.
23rd.—A
state
oi
war
has
been
declared
by the
trovernmeant
in
Bulgaria
as
a
consequence
of
Crmmun-
istic
riots,
says
an
KExchange
Telegraph
despatch
from Sofia.
|
Brussels,
Sept.
23rd.—The
Gordon-
Benneit
Cup classis,
the annual
balloon
race
for aeronauts
of all countries,
which
staréed
here
today
in
terrific
gusts
of
w’
|
and driving rain
has
already
cost
three
lives.
Os
the 17 entrants
assem-
bied
for the
race
13 so
far as
is known
21
EkLO 12
VLS
aren
the air.
One
ol°che balloons, report-
ed
to be
the Swiss
“*Gerevy’’was
struck
by lightning
and
Lieuts.
Von
Curningen
and
Wheren
were killed.
The
Spanish
balloen
*‘Polar’’caught
fire
and its pilot,
Becar
1,
was
killed
and
his
assistant,
Gomez,
injured.
The
United States
con-
testart,
*'St. Louis’’ was
unable.to
with-
stand
the
pressure
of
the
archer
rope
when
hit
}
»
a half gale and burst
before
the star'
Pariz,
Sep*.
23rd..—A
Hava’s despatch
.
from
Fofia d. ted Saturday
savs
the
Bul-
garian
Chamb.r
of
Deputies
was
dis-
solved
by
Royal
decree.
The
despatch
adds
that the
dat:
of the
elections
had
not
been fixed, but
'nder
the constitution
these
would take pl.ce
within
2
months
of the dissolution of the Chamber.
London, Sept.
23rd.- Viscount
Morley
of Blackburn,
ex-Lord
President
of
the
Council and Secretary
of State
for India,
died tonight
at
his
resicence
at
Wimble-
con
from heart
disease.
He was
tuken
il! cnly
this
morning
and
his
end
was
peaceful.
London,
Sept.
23rd.—The
Marquis
of
Ripon
(Fiederick
Olive
Robinson)
died
stdd
‘nly yvesterday
while oat shooting
on
the
Moors at ;Studley
Royol,
his
York-
ghire
estate,
Washington,
Sept
2°rd
—Because
it is
now
impossible
to
get
erouvgh
German
postage
stamps
on
an envelove,
the
Ger-
rman
Government
has
given
up
the
use
of
stamps.
Officials
of
the
Post-
(fllce
Department
were
notified
today
that
the cost
of printirg the
stamps
al:o
is greater
than
their
face
value.
Pans,
Sept.
23rd.— British
wemen
to-
day,
in
the
Pershing
Siadium,
defeated
French
vwomen
in
a
series
of
arhletic
events,
‘ihe
visitors
<ecred
60
points
against
37
poinis
for the
local
atnletes.
A French
girl.
Violete
Gourand
Moris,
ctroxe
the world reeord
for throwing the
weight mzking 21.01
mstres.
Miss
Pal-
mer,
Engiand,
lowered the record
for the
250
nietres
cCash,
covering
tle
distance
in
35%
seconds.
Miss Thompson,
Eng-
land
equalled the
record
for 100 yards
in
11 2/5 seconds.
The Brit:sh
women
won
the huraless,
the high
jump,
the
250
me-
tres,
the Lroad
jump, the
100
yards
dash
and
the relav
race,
while the
French
wo-
men
vere
victerious only in throwing
the
javelin and the weight
event.
Rome,
Sept.
23rd, —The
nation
yester-
day paid solemn
honours
tc General
Tell-
ini and
his eomrades
‘on
the Italian
see-
tion
Os the
Greco-Italian
boundary
mis-
sion, massacred
by unknown
persons
noar
Janina,
Greece,
on
August
27th.
The
bodies
were
brought
to
Rome
from
To-
ranto.
Beriin, Sept.
24th. —Chancellor
Stresse-
mann
today
informed
the
Ruhr
and
Rhineland
defence
organiziiion of
the
Government’s
decisior,
to
capitulate
to
I'rance.
Resistznce
must
be
given
up
without
condition,
the
Chancellor
told
the first delegates
who
visi'ed
him,
The
fate
of
German
eitiz
n-
expelled
from
the
oceupied
arcas,
or
imprisoned
for
obaving tne
Government
orders
for
re-
sistance,
cannot
be
taken
into
consider-
a‘ion,
Chancellor
Stressemann
said.
However,
he added,
there
is
reason
to
believe
that
most
§of
these
will
be
res-
tored
to
their
homes
when
official and
pub'ic
announcement
of
the
decision
to
abandon
resistance
is
made.
He
will
make
known
the
Government’s
decision
for unconditional
surrender
to delegates
of
the
remaining
Ruhr
and
Rhineland
organiza‘ions later
this
afternoon.
The
State
Premiers
will be
informed
tomor-
row when they
meet
here
with
the
Gov-
ernment
and
when
{the
Reichstag
hears
it officially on Wednesday.
Beriin,
Sept.
24th.—Meetings
of
both
the Democratic
Party and
the Berlin
So-
cialist
group
were
held
here
yesterday.
The Socialists
adopted
a
resolution
de
claring that
the
present
Governm:nt
had
not
come
up to expectations.
The
policy
and
attitude
of
Minister
of
D-fenc.
Gessler
was severely
eriticized,
the
So-
cialists
clearly
expressing
their
laek
of eontidores
in the
Minister.,
The Dem-
ocratic
Party
gave
Herr
Gessler
an
onportunity
to defend
his
policy
in
per-
sHn.
He
addressed
the
Partv
mee'ing
on
the internal political situa.isn,
)n con-
nection
with
the
latest
ilun:ours
of
an
impending revolt,
“‘ifit
should
come
to
a fight
-’ he said,
*‘'l can
assurs
you
my
orders
wiil
not
lack
eclesrness.
1
will
stake
miy
poiitical
reputition
that
the
officers
and
men
of the
Reichswehr
will
execute
my
orders
premptly.”’
In
con-
nection
with this statement
it
is
report-
ed
that
all
preparations
far proclaiming
a sta‘e
of emergency,
if necessary,
have
already
been
taken
by
the
respactive
Ministers.
London,
Sept.
24:h
-An
Fxchange
Telearaph
despateh
frem
Constantinople
quo'es
an
Angora
messace
as
stating
that
the
Britivh Government
has
decided
to
press
for
the
withdraw:l
from
the
Stratts
of the
flotilla
of
U'n ted
States
torpedo boats,
stationed
at
Const:n
ino-
pie and
that
Adnanbey,
the
Na.ionali t
representative
in
Constan
inop'e,
|as
ma le representations
to the United State
High
Cohrmrnissioner
there.
Simla,
Sept.
24ch
—A
severe
earth-
quake
was
feit
in
Kerman,
Persia,
last
night.
Considerable
damage
was
done
ty>
buildings,
but
there
was
no
lonss of
life.
'l'be first shoek
lasted
for two min-
utes,
followed
by
four
additional jtre-
mours
over
a
periaod of
ninetv minutes.
Slight trembliags
were noticed
:his
morn-
ing.
The shoek
was fe!t at several
other
Persian
towns.
Teheran,
Persia,
Sept.
24th
Several
villages
in
the
vicinity of Bujnurd
a-e
reported
to
have
been
destroyed,
with
casualties
as far
as is known
of 123 dead
and about
1.0 injured,
in
the earthquake
which
shook
the
region
last Thuesd
vy,
says
a
despatch
reaching
here.
The
shocks
are
continuing.
Damage
is also
reported
in the district of Shirvan.