Running Encounter with Ameri: can Coastguard New York, Aug. 14.
Messages from Lauderdale, Florida, describe a running gun fight along the shore between an alleged bootlegger launch and coastguard cutter which resulted in one of the launch's crew being badly wounded and the others captured. The launch burst into flames when 'a bullet from the cutter's machine gun hit the petrol tank.
'A. second coastguard cutter captured the British schooner Aesop which was on its way to Belize from Nassau. The captain and crew of; of the schooner are being detain ed.—Reuter's American Service. tee Pact." states that the Entente is, now more than cordial "L'Belair™ states that Angto-American finance is endeavouring. Later" to dominate Europe, and France is to be asked to make sacrifices ax regards her security, because inter: national financiers have so decided, German Objections Berlin, Aug. 13.
Political circles are disappointed at the London negotiations, which, they are of opinion, have not helped towards the conclusion of a Security Pact such as Germany desires, The report that M. Briand, french Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Austen Chamberlai British Secretar State Foreign Aft have agreed th "Germany must enter the League of us unconditionally has caused shock and so hax the assertion {that France may be permitted to wage war against Germany in certain eventualities, while the news that Poland and Czecho-Slovaki fare likely to be invited eventual pact conference
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