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British Empire

The Ulster Boundaries

The Ulster Cabinet met yesterday at the house of Mr. James Craig, near London, with a view to giving a final answer to the British Government, on the subject of the appointment of members of the Irish Boundaries Commission.
As was to be expected, the Cabinet confirmed its intention of not appointing any delegates to this Commission. However, the Ulster Cabinet considers that the offer made to President Cosgrave to settle the question by mutual agreement remains full and complete.
In view of the refusal of Ulster to carry out one of the clauses of the Downing Street Treaty, the British Parliament will meet on September 30th to discuss a bill of the MacDonald Government providing for the passage of a Bill necessary to constitute the Boundary Commission without the participation of Ulster.
However, if the bill in question is passed, the situation will remain serious, for Ulster can always refuse to ratify the decisions of a committee on which it has not been represented.
The whole evening press is commenting hotly on the decision taken this morning.
The Evening Standard and the Evening News stress the seriousness of the crisis; the Evening Standard considers that it has reached its climax.
According to the Star, efforts are still being made to arrive at a settlement, and officials from the Colonial Office have been sent to Madeira to confer with Mr. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonial Office, who is to stop there on his way back from his visit to South Africa.

The Anglo-Russian Treaty

In some Labour circles the hope is now expressed that the House of Commons will ratify the Anglo-Russian Treaty, Mr. MacDonald not being averse to its being modified by reasonable Liberal amendments. There is a small section of the Labour Party which believes that the Government should appeal to the country on this question, but neither the Prime Minister nor his principal aides share this view.

The Filaine Peace Prize

The Filaine Peace Prize was won in Great Britain by an Irishman, Mr. Bolten Waller, one of the experts attached to the Boundary Commission between the North and the Irish Free State,

Germany

Responsibility for the War and Germany's Entry into the League of Nations

The communications made yesterday by Wilhelmstrasse to the Press are intended to throw some ballast into the question of the revocation of the confession of guilt, and to mask at least temporarily real differences existing between the Chancellor and the Foreign Secretary.
The newspapers all declare in identical terms that they have learned from an authorized source that the two politicians have found themselves in complete agreement to postpone the sending of the note on responsibility to a more favorable moment, and that the Council of Ministers which will meet on the 22nd or 23rd, under the presidency of Mr. Ebert, will only adopt and formulate this point of view.

It is hoped that the socialist Ebert will make his calming influence prevail in favor of Germany's entry into the League of Nations and against the sending of the note. This compromise, considered by some as a personal success of Mr. Marx over Mr. Stresemann, is hardly to the taste of the nationalists, who openly deplore the new defeat of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Stresemann's situation is again made delicate by his overly marked advances to the nationalists and by his hasty retreat. It is therefore not surprising that Zeit, the official organ of the populist party, is trying to save face by continuing to defend exactly the nationalist point of view on the question of Germany's entry into the League of Nations and on the issue of the note on responsibility for the war.

Berlin political circles are very embarrassed by the statements made by Lord Parmoor in Geneva about the exchanges of views he is said to have had with the German delegates in London with a view to Germany's entry into the League of Nations.

The Wolff Agency publishes the following denial: We do not know whether Lord Parmoor really made such statements, and whether the Socialist Parliamentary Service has reproduced them faithfully. In reality, Lord Parmoor did not talk to any German delegate in London about Germany's entry into the League of Nations.

Following this denial, the Socialist Parliamentary Service asked Lord Parmoor for confirmation of the statements attributed to him by the Socialist Parliamentary Service correspondent in Geneva, which we reproduced yesterday,

Franco-Belgian-German Economic Negotiations

In anticipation of the economic negotiations with France and Belgium, the German Congress of Commerce and Industry has decided, in a confidential session held in recent days, on the terms of a resolution which will guide the German negotiators. In particular, they would ask that Germany obtain most-favored-nation treatment, and that the customs exemption for Alsatian-Lorraine products be abolished in all cases. It is also sent from Düsseldorf: In order to respond to the requests formulated by the Reich Ministry of Commerce in view of the forthcoming negotiations which are to take place on the subject of the conclusion of a Franco-German trade treaty, the "Reich Verband der Deutschen Industrie" and the "Arbeitgeber Vereinigung" have just sent to all their members a circular tending to obtain a detailed report on the industrial and commercial relations which each of them would like to have with France.

Ministerial vacation

Chancellor Marx arrived yesterday in Sigmaringen.

M. Stresemann will leave Berlin this evening to spend a few days at the baths of Wildungen. All the ministers will be back in Berlin by September 23.

Inter-allied military control

Members of the inter-allied control commission arrived yesterday in Kiel to inspect the naval establishments there.

Italy

The manuscripts of Titus Livius

By virtue of instructions from the Ministry of Public Education, a ministerial commission proceeded to question Professor di Martino, in the presence of the Prefect of Naples. According to initial information, Professor di Martino had not found the manuscripts, but only indications concerning the manuscripts of Titus Livius. However, the questioning and investigation are continuing. On the other hand, the correspondent of the Giornale d'Italia in Naples announces that Professor di Martino had declared that he had discovered an unpublished document preserved in a public place and that he was going to reach, according to this document, a positive result concerning the manuscripts of Titus Livius; but the noise raised by the news of the discovery prevented him from continuing his studies.

New indictment in the Matteotti affair

Le Sereno learns that the investigating judge, Mr. Occhiuto, who is dealing with cases connected with the Matteotti affair, has issued a summons for the appearance of Mr. Carlo Bazzi, director of the Nuevo Paese, who, from Paris, where he is currently, is said to have actively participated in the controversies over the assassination of Mr. Matteotti.

Poland

The Concordat

Mr. Ladislas Skrzynski, Polish Minister to the Holy See, has arrived in Warsaw to take part in the government's deliberations concerning the conclusion of the Concordat. The principles of the bill regulating the status of the Catholic Church in Poland having already been worked out under previous governments, it is now only a question of a final adjustment. Professor Stanislas Grabski (brother of the Prime Minister), charged with the formal conclusion of the Concordat, will shortly go to Rome.

Yugoslavia

The Croats and the Government

A telegraph from Belgrade to the Times: A large Croatian meeting was held in the open air on Sunday in Zagreb, attended by 50,000 people, mostly members of the Croatian Peasant Party. Mr. Raditch spoke and said that his party would enter the government, but that there was still an agreement to be concluded. He added that the final aim of Croatia, an aim which he always had in view, was the establishment of a Parliament and a government in Zagreb. In government circles, these statements are satisfied and the imminent arrival of Mr. Raditch's representatives is expected to set the conditions for his party's participation in power. In another speech at the same meeting, Mr. Raditch declared that the "most pacifist" government was that of Great Britain and that after England the freest country was Soviet Russia. That is why, he said, the conclusion of an Anglo-Soviet agreement is a very important fact.

Bulgaria

Political Assassinations

The Bulgarian Telegraph Agency publishes the following information: The dissensions between the various Macedonian factions, which have recently become particularly active, have degenerated into a bloody struggle that has caused new victims.
Thus, on the 13th of this month, in Gorna-Djoumaia, the named Aleko Vassileff and Georges Athanassoff were assassinated. On the same day, in Sofia, Slavtcho Kovatcheff and the communist deputy Hadji Dimoff were also assassinated. The first two were considered to be partisans of the autonomy of Macedonia, while the other two belonged to the so-called federalist group with Bolshevist tendencies. The perpetrators of the two assassinations committed in Sofia have been arrested.

Regarding the murder of Todor Alexandroff, the following details are given: Alexandroff was treacherously killed on August 31 in Macedonia by two gang leaders from his entourage, Chterio Vlaknoff and Dintcho Vreteranoff. They had gone over to the party of Aleko Vassileff, who had declared solidarity with the Bolshevist federalists, such as Georgy Athanassoff, Tzankoff, Yevkoff, while Todor Alexandroff was at the head of the nationalist movement.

The Bulgarian government took all necessary measures to ensure peace and order in the border areas. Todor Alexandroff, born in 1882, was one of the most famous comitadjis. He took part in all the struggles against the Macedonians, against the Turks. During the war he operated against the Allies on the Struma and was a sort of agent in the service of the Germans. After the signing of the Treaty of Neuilly, he resumed his campaign, demanding the autonomy of Macedonia. He committed or had committed a large number of assassinations. His friend, General Protogueroff, is said to be taking his place as revolutionary leader.

Greece

General Guillaumat in Athens

A telegraph from Athens to the Times: General Guillaumat, a member of the French High Council of War, has been invited by the Greek government to go to Athens to give his opinion on the subject of the training of army officers. He has accepted and will probably be accompanied by three or four officers.

Sweden

The Congress of International Law

We are sent word from Stockholm: The members of the Congress of International Law held in Stockholm have visited the city and the University of Uppsala. At the banquet given in their honor, Mr. Hammarskjold, former Prime Minister, Governor of the Province of Uppsala, welcomed them to this city, the intellectual and moral capital of Sweden. Archbishop Soderblom of Uppsala then spoke to extol the work of the Congress which seeks to establish the idea of ​​law in all areas of international life. The guests departed with a charming souvenir of the magnificent hospitality which had been extended to them,

Hedjaz

The Advance of the Wahabis on Mecca

A new telegram from the British Consul at Jeddah says that owing to the advance of the Wahabis on Mecca, no new development has occurred in the situation, The rumour that British troops are being permitted to pass through Syria is considered fanciful in London. The main object of the British Government is to keep the road to Mecca free. The corvette-aviso Clematis has been ordered to Jeddah to protect British interests.

United States

The Consolidation of the French Debt

According to a Havas dispatch, Mr. Coolidge declared yesterday that the settlement of any debt owed to the United States must depend on the debtor nation's ability to pay. If the Debt Commission recommends to him the consolidation of the French debt on terms more favorable than those granted by England, President Coolidge will ask Congress to amend the present Consolidation Act, so as to permit a final settlement, in accordance with the agreement which may eventually be negotiated between the Debt Commission and the government. The rumor having circulated that Mr. Clementel would go this winter to the United States to come to an agreement with the American government on this question of debts, the French government announces that, in spite of its strong desire to arrive at a settlement, it does not seem to it that negotiations undertaken at this time have any chance of success.
In the first place, the French Minister of Finance will be absorbed for several months in the preparation and discussion of the next budget.
In the second place, the new American administration will not take office until March 4. At that time, Congress being adjourned until October, the government in Washington will be free from all domestic preoccupations. The time may then come to enter into negotiations.

Mr. Coolidge and the Future of Aviation
Mr. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, has just been urgently recalled to Washington to discuss the next budget for the Navy. It was officially stated yesterday at the White House that the President had been deeply struck by the happy result of the daring raid of the aviators around the world, and that he considered it his duty to study thoroughly the possibilities of efficiency for the future of the air arm, before committing himself. too far perhaps in an excessive development of the war navy. This is doubtless the principal reason why President Coolidge appears averse to an increase in naval expenditures.
On the other hand, the President foresees, for naval armaments, a period of transition, during which the assistance of experts will be indispensable, in order to prevent millions of dollars from being sacrificed in vain in the purchase or construction of useless vessels.

Mr. Davis suffering

The first casualty of the current presidential campaign is Mr. John W. Davis, the Democratic candidate. Following a farmers' meeting at Bunceton, Missouri, where Mr. Davis spoke, the Democratic candidate's arm suddenly swelled considerably from the wrist to the shoulder, as a result of the excessively vigorous handshakes inflicted on him by his over-enthusiastic listeners. On the doctor's advice, Mr. Davis stayed in bed yesterday and will have to refrain from any further handshakes for more than a week,

Brazil

The Revolution

Reuter news agency receives from Buenos Aires: The Brazilian revolutionaries have taken the ports of Guayra and Mendez, on the upper Parana (southern Brazil). They are said to have killed or taken prisoner all the federal soldiers, except the commander and fourteen of his men, who managed to escape and went to Puerto Aguerre (Argentina), where they were disarmed by the naval authorities.
Several hundred Brazilian refugees have arrived in this last port. They say that the western part of the State of Parana is in the hands of the rebels.

China

The civil war

The fighting continued without decisive results north of Shanghai. The army of Kiang-Sou received from Ou Pei Fou a reinforcement of 3000 men,
Tchang Tso Lin issued a proclamation saying that he intends to fight Tsao Koun, the President of the Republic. On the other hand, he sent him a telegram, in which he denounces the "crimes" of Ou Pei Fou, for whom he requests that he be put on trial. The telegram adds: "As Your Excellency is surrounded by the traitors of Ou Pei Fou, I will send aeroplanes to find out what is your state of health and to ascertain whether you are still at liberty.

There have already been some exchanges of shells on the Manchurian frontier, near Tchao-Yang. Trains, carrying 16,000 men, have left Peking in the direction of Tchan-Hai-Kouan, where Tchang Tso Lin is concentrating.

The new Prime Minister, Dr. Yen, took office yesterday. The representatives of the English and American governments have officially protested to the Chinese government against the measure prohibiting their nationals from travelling in the provinces of Kiang-Sou, Tche-Kiang and Ngan-Hueï.

Assassination of the Prime Minister of Mongolia
The English newspapers are informed from Tien-Tsin that the Prime Minister of Mongolia, Dr. Dazan, has been assassinated by the Mongolian Bolsheviks, who are plotting with Peking the total return of Mongolia to China.