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November 8, 1919, Temperature 23
No. 17,795, 六拜禮 八月一十年九十一百九千一类
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HAVAS REVIEW.
SPEECH BY BRIAND.
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Humidity. 83.
November 8, 1918, Temperature 74
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HAVAS REVIEW.
Pasia, October 31st. Marshal Foch was recently directed by the Supreme Council to make a full and careful investigation into whether or not Germany has observed the terms of the Armistice since it was signed nearly a Fear ago. M. Aristide Briand, six times prime minister,
His repurt speech lest night at Nantes, when he set forth the programate of the the sinking of the German surrendered sets farth the successive ed as importante violations of the terms, such as Republican majority at the forthcoming elections. After sketching France's feet, the belligerency of Von Der Goltz war effort and her victory over the German invader, M. Briand said that in the Baltic States, the protracted de in the past the government of the country had been rendered at times lay in the evacuation of those!
PARTS, Nov. 1.
Fextremely difficult by differences between varioua republican factions. I the failure to turn over the locomo
Changes of government, he said, had been too frequent, and a homogeneous freight cars, and agricultural machinery majority was necessary to ensure stable government in future. Other of specified, and the delay in M. Briand's points were as follow.
returning the works of art stolen from France and Bel reported, such as the sales of aeroplanes giua Other minor violations are also and the non-delivery of several ships.
We must consider the advisability of modifying our constitutional Jaws so as to ensure the election of a president of the republic ou a wider basis and introduce into the constitution guarantees against confusion between the legislature and executive.
The president of the republic should be able to exercise a wider and more efficient role.
Steps are urgently needed to reduce the paper monetary circulation, which is one of the causes of the high cost of living, and of the fall in exchange.
All taxation that kinders production must disappear. Bureaucratic routine must be broken to permit the re-establishment of the devastated regions.
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Labour problems must be studied by masters and men in common. Referring to the question of armaments, Mr. Briand advocated the complete disarmament of Germany..
The Council has decided to recall to Germany's memory the Armistice terms. A semi-ncial advice announces that the Supreme Council, acting apon Marshal Foch's report. Eas decided that the German Government shall be called upon to sign another Treaty to say that it will fulfil the November armistice
terms.
When asking for the prolongation of the functions of the Supreme War Coun cil, M. Clemenceau urged that the Inter
A sign of the times is the opening, announced to take place on Monday, Allied Military Directorate was still very of the new continental offices of the Great Eastern Railway Company innecessary to supervise the working of the Paris. Before the war the great continental traffic routes outwards from varies England radiated through Berlin. Now the metropolis of Europe is Paris After enforcing, the Treaty, would go to control Commissions, which, and all European business of the Great Eastern in passengers and freight is to be centralised in Paris.
Germany.
ENDURANCE OF INDIAN SEAMEN.
COLD WEATHER TOYAGES TO AMERICA PROHIBITED.
Great resentment has been cred among British shipmasters voyaging
This step will be the means of preserv-; ing the Allies military authority conven- MR. WINSTON
trace_uader Marshal Foch, and, conse CHURCHILL'S MOTOR CAR.sed if the German Government shows quently, the readiness of such force to be
Fitself recalcitrant.
"RED ROLLS" INLAID WITH
SILVER,
A direct Franco-Canadian steamship service has just been re-tstablished.
Yesterday, Eugene Criqui, the French; bantam-weight boxing champion, beat!
A. few more of the rare and re- Sam Killer, the British champion, in the freshing fruits of the Prime Minis-fth round of a 20 round contest. in the East by the after-war revival ter's economy measures ware realised of the provisions of the Indian Mer for the Britial tax-payer last month chant Shipping Act which probibits at the Gougerest motor-car sale the engaging, during the winter as Olympia, whet a fleet of "kxuri. months, of Indian crews for journeys ou pleasure cars to quote the to ports on the American coast within Maistry of Muniticas own descrip.
a certain latitude. These provisions tion--was sold by suction. Faint were made some years ago as a re memories of happier days clung suit of complaint that Indian seamen round the enamelled beauty of the had died from the effects of cold. Fears as they stood sleekdy parked Their apertion was suspended dur- in the glass-roofed hall-days when ing the war and the hope had been gentlemanly journey to the Cecil raised that they were abandoned for for the Savey from the War Office ever; their revival has given strength constituted the major part of a day's to the opposition there has always usefulness. been against them.
The piece de resistance was the A British shipmaster who has had car used by Mr. Winston Churchill long and intimate acquaintances Secretary for War. The "Red with the East and Asiatic seamen Roils "was its pet name, a sweetly and who has recently arrived in purring piece of perfect machinery, Colombo from Calcutta, in an inter- with an interior inlaid with silver in view with a Times of Ceylon ropie-quartered mahogany, and upholster. sentative, expressed high indignationed in own suede cloth and morocco, at what he termed the unfairness of "The finest car ever offered at an the provisions, which, be averred, auction," said Mr. J. Trevor, the "I have a wager us to materially added to the eter increas- auctioneer. ing paxisty and burden of the work in luxury. It belonged to Mr. the price it will fetch. It is the last British Captain. During winter Winston
Churchill." (Derisive months, he explained. vessels with laughter.) Indians crews bound for Boston and Bidding started at 2,500 guineus, New York were obliged to put in at dad the "Red Rolls" was` Erally Newport News to disembark the Laknocked down to Mr. F. Mears, of dians whose places were taken for Richmond, a controller of picture the rest of the voyage by American palaces, Timies steamboats, and runner. This entailed long do the Chelsea Football Club, for 3,550 lay, heavy expense and serious inguiness. Mr. Trevor said he had convenience. If shipmasters wished; host his bet, for he considered it to avoid putting in at Newport they would fetch 4,000 guineas. hud to ship Chinese or Minlays, who, A number of other Rolls Royce cans in addition to demanding much high-ware then sold, one of them for er pay, were not nearly so satis 2,100 guineaa," the car used by Lord fuctory as Indian seamen, who al-Covan in Italy.
zoost invariably worked faithfully
and well Long experience had
The
taught him that Chinese and Many experience was that the Indian did seamen were not, reliable and, given not suffer in the least degice from vourable opportunities, were in the cold of New York or Boston, clined to desert in America.
Captain
which, if intense at times, was more mentioned anomaly of prohibiting hardy Bengal land, to where seamen were allowed the healthy then was the case in Eng seamer from making the tuil jours to go freely all the year round. The ney during winter months and yet Indian seaman, was not a bad judge allowing Siniraless to go. In the of his own power of endurance and present days of storage of shipping he was most anxious for the abroga halts for the changing of crews werk, tion of the restrictions which pre- he said, a serious matter.
vented him from going to latitudes Discuming the provisions, from where other Asiatics were allowed. humane and not a commercial point Medical opinion, added the captaip: of view the Captain said that the, was that there was absolutely no Indian seamen themselves were danger to Indians travelling to any bitterly opposed to them and com- part of the American const during plained tant work was being taken any part. of the year: The Ladien from bhem for the benefit of alien members of the crew were provided sailors Frequently he had been with warm clothing, but the wes requested by the seamen to disregard her seemed to affect them so little the provisions and to ship them for fast the difficulty of ships officers the prohibited areas. His personal was to get them to wear it.
OUTRAGE AND TORTURE.
APPALLING CONDITIONS IN MEXICO.
Bliss Arnes Lout, "warren jour- nalist, after investigating the situa tion in Mexico, was a witness before the Senate Foreign Relations Còm. Tittee at Washington. She said that the conditions in Mexico were appalling. American women ware carried off by bandits and tortured. One American fariner was tied to tree and stabbed until he becznie iDeane. The women captives were at the mercy of the bandia. Meri- can troops were equally guilty of these, outrages.
Miss Ages 0. Tout is an Ameri- can woman journalist. In the New York Independent of June 14 she wrote a graphic description of the conditions prevailing in Mexico DS she saw them, under the beading "Mexico is Our Next Job:" Rer. indictment is a damning one. She says: In Mexico city to-day there ore 116,000 children running about homeless and schoolless, and in many cases orphaned by the nine years of, war. The fate of the boys is bad enough. Another nine years and they will graduate Full fledged criminals. The fate of the girls can be seen in any Mexican hospital... Thiesk conditions
unbellable. Girls in the Gulf country ave sold as low as five dollars. Neither on the sufferings of daughters of American colonists be told here. They and on record in the State Department. At one time there were 50,000 American colonists in Mexico. There are less than 5,000 today. The others have fed long since for their lives, lear- ing their life work-coffee, or sigur, or cotton plantations in smoking zuina. The record of these is as
gium. Multiply Belgium by seven gruesome as anything told of Bel-
years instead of four, and a faint ides of conditions in Mexice can, be glimpsed."
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN.
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