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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 86, 16 August 1923, Page 6

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Ifress, Association—Copyright. Australian and jw%i Gable Association. ~-.. Noon),,. , ; <&u» J. LL~* -, Lb-nflon,. August 15. Free State ..troops arrested de Valera, while addressing an election meeting at, Ennia. , • (Received 12,55 p.m.) ,/,. Berlin, August 15. Ctommunists attempting . to force traniwaymen to strike, last night averjiurned and smashed a number of_"oars.. They are,-now resisting the police behind hastily constructed •barricades and all, trams are again sipped, in the provinces continues. jHjree.,.: were killed ,ajd fourteen "in Seftenburg, Saxony, and 'tnre6'w6re killed and nine injured in, Wilhemsburg during a fight. A collision occurred between . police and strikers at Orefeld and 150 Gommunisits were arrested for plundering shop*' : ;'■

(Received Noon.) ' , Paris, August 15. The newspapers generally fail to see. in Herr Stresemann's speech anything Satisfactory, and blame Britain accordingly. . - • 'The. Petit Parisien remarks: Herr would. have spoken differently if, the British Note had not awakened in Berlin a false hope- of British intervention. , '.■'•fEb.e? Echo de Paris says:> Tlie British Note-having galvanised German Nationalist opinion the people of Berlin d»re not accept to-day what they wejre resigned to yesterday. . .The; Matin states: It is bad calculation on Britain's part to believe t>hat she will become mistrosp of Europe, by increasing the value of the Sterling. Europe has always overthrown tyranny, and she will likewise overthrow the tyranny of the-sterling. Seoul, August 15. disastrous tidal waves on the north-west coast 'of Korea swept a>w!ay hundreds of houses and damaged shipping* Hundreds of lives were lost. An unconfirmed report .states that over a thousand are dead. , * .v ; Delhi,. August 15.* At the Calcutta ■" tea sales the quality generally was somewhat inferior to recent suJes. The better classes were firm at Jate rates, but the poorer classes were hard to sell, at. lower quotations-. ,Duat s were 1£ to 2 annas weaker. Heavy floods are reported in th©. damage is estimated at fifty lakhs, of, rupees. Paris, August 14. A ohar-aobanc, containing a party of j twenty-three tourists, was re tuning tq.lKrardes from an excursion to he Pyrenees when it plunged over iho roadside 250 feet into a raging iorxenU. There, is* only one survivor, Who lies helpless at the foot of a ravine. ifforts: at rescue have so far been iruitless, owing to the inaccessibility of,th#. spot.