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NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT.
PARIS, September 24th.
A Havas message says;
All papers, a fex Socialist jourakin ex- cepen, are unanimous in expressing the Presidential election, which, they any, con- deepest satisfaction at the outcoms of the slusively shows that France is repudiating party strifes and wrangles and has adopt- ed a policy of order and work and social progress,
Le Gaulos perceives the dawn of a new Republicas era.
A joint conference of coal owners and miners fich sat for three hours this morning discussed the cause of the rockudd of output and means of securing increased output. The conference then adjourned till to-morrow for the purpose of enabling members to consult their respective committees. It is understood that negotiations are proceeding in the friendliest manner. There are grbunds for hoping that a mutually satis factory settlement of the dispute will be reached almost immediately. It is expected that a definite decision, will be subulties to the national con ference of miners' delegates in London on September EO for acceptance.
Meanwhile, however, the Intransigent spirit la making itself evident in South Wales. A meeting of the executive council of the South Wales Miners' Federation at Cardiff to day passed a resolution declaring that in view of the very general protests from districts against committling the miners in the present negotiations to the future regulation of wages by output, the council has decided to telegraph to the Welsh re-
Importans and leading provincial papers presentatives on the committee of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain join in with the Parisian Press in view stating that the council is unanimously of the opinionher the present deing the election as the happiest event of the times and in regarding M. Hillerand as mand for an increase in wages should be settled and whole matter of qua de red dot as e pr the consolidation of present wages and the method regulating future part de B changes, should be subject to investigation and further consultation with the whole of the workmen.
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LONDON, September 27.
Le Journal writes: The imposing majority given to B. Millerand iaveats him with the power to carry on the task under taken as Premier. France now, has head whose persuasive and firm authority will ensure governmental action harmonious in its continuity rerootest districts, reports are piling up in the Havas office testifying to the unanimous satisfaction over 1. Millerand's election.
From
and og joyda on payunb jaaq power of the new President, who, as rer, secured for France the benefit!
from the Peace. Tretty and stopped the onrushing ranchy short, this
ensuring for France the present unparallelled tran- quillity amidst disturbed Europe.
Public opinion in Paris and the pro- vinces is unimous in regarding that the election was prompted solely by patriotism and the spirit of national union, as n ft.
wel for the future.
wer to popular aspiration and being
The coal situation is brighter to-night than it has been for some weeks much to the public relief, General satisfaction is manifest among the owners and miners at the prospect of the negotiations reaching a lasting settlement. The belief is confidently entertained that the datum line will be fixed at to-morrow's conference. In this connection Lord which Aberconway, Chairman of
Sheepbridge Colliery,
Papers in Alsace-Lorraine and in the held its meeting to-day, anticipates that the line will be approximately devastated regions are most sanguine in greeting the devation to the highest office man who in a few 240 million tons, which is well below what the men have produced in the in the country of a past. It is understood that the miners are anxious that the datum line months as High Commissioner sticceeded in in tune again with the Mother Country pro- should be determined so as to secure on the present output the 29 cd-e-vivifying, re-organizing and putting vance they have been claiming, but it is quite likely that they will not adhere vince curbed for fifty years under the to it in view of the fundamental underlying principle of the conference Prussian yake. .. which is endeavouring to find means of adjusting wages to that whatever extra pay the minera get above present earnings will be accompanied by increased output which would repay the coal-consuming community for the concession. Lord Aberconway mentioned that the output perman working at the face in Sheepbridge in 1914 was 755 tons. Last year it was 668 tons, and for the current year 561. In a tribute to Mr. Smillie he said that in the way he handled the matter at the finish he played the game. Things might have been very different if he had not, added his Lordship.
FRENCH PRESIDENT.
KING'S MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION.
ESPECIALLY: CORDIAL.
LONDON, September 26.
A leading paper in North France pertin- antly sums up the ananimous impression, stating that M. Millerand was actually pushed into the Elysee palace by the nation's consensus of opinion. es the nation felt that a strong-willed man was needed flore..
PARIS, September 25th-
A HOTS: 4ssage says: The romarkable ease and rapidity with which such an elaborate operation a shaping the Cabinet was carried gût în, a few hours ago oulogistically commented upon, by most papers, who unanimously approve the choice of Senator Leygues as Premier.
In the afternoon, a Presidential message was rend in the Senate and in the Chamber, of Deputies. The message acknowledgen that the clearly-expressed denirs of this National Congress is for the Government to continue the same policy as before, add-
extet strict execution of the peses treaties, the Versailles Treaty? eapecially being the ser charter of Europe and the world. Every plant of social reform is entitled to examination but none, in any case, will be imposed upon the people by violence.
The new Premier then read a declaration, stating that he will continue his predoces- sor's policy and see to all the treatice being carried out,
A Havas message states that most of the papers note the favouring that the present most urgent task is to with which the Presidential message and the new Cabinet's declaration met in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The message and declaration are permeated by the same leading thought which according to Le Gaulois, aims essentially at co-ordinating Government action. Obviously, writes Le Petit Parisien, Parliament-still reposes the fullest confidence in M. Millerand's policy which the new Cabinet will make its own.
"
M. Milterand was the recipient of a great many congratulatory tale- grams, among which was an especially cordial message from King George, expressing the conviction that the sincere amity so happily uniting France and Great Britain will be maintained and strengtened during M. Millerand's tenure of office, and assuring him that the King will do all in his power to co-operate with a view to that end. The message concludes with a wish that France may be soon restored to the prosperity to which her sacrifices for the cause of humanity entitle her. Queen Wilhelmina, King Alfonso, Signor Giolitti, and Mr. Lloyd George also wired their war- mest congratulations.
The Chamber adopted by 507 votes against 60 a motion expressing confidence in the Government.
U.S. TRADE OUTLOOK.
WASHINGTON, September 28th, The Statistics Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States predicts good business for the remainder of the year, despite some disturbing factors in the outlook. It says that buying in August was on a liberal scale, but on a sober basis of Deeds, as contrasted with speculative
U.S. BANK CLOSED.
THE LORDS AND IRELAND, corders and stipendiary magistrates, and get our cases tried before benches of captains and majors unpolluted by purchasing in July. Rightly or wrongly, the Govern- 'a legal training, with certain limited meat in 1914 decided not to prosecute rights of appeal to brigade, and divi- Mr. F. E. Smith for treason, and Mr. sional commanders. The reason why Lloyd George has since thought fit to we do not practise this piece of
BOSTON, Sepetember 26th make him Lord Chancellor. But now economy is simply that court-martial By the order of the authorities, the that the school of disorder in which he justice is relatively inexpert and Fal- Cosmopolitan Trust Company, which has then helped to teach has given us in lible justice; only worth using when deposits of five million dollars and branches directly the Ireland that we see, it ordinary skilled justice is utterly un- abroad, has been closed. This is the fifth would have been more decent it the attainable. In Ireland there is no dim-banking concern closed in Boston sizce the arrest of the Italian financier, Ponzi, an a Bill for the restoration, of order "culty in manning benches with profes- charge of Iardeny. in Ireland had been introduced sionals; the real trouble is in getting Ponzi claimed that he could by manipula in the House of Lords by some evidence in places where public sym- tion of international postal coupons return one less notorious - is a pioneer of pithy with persons accused of political to clients 50 per cent, an their money in rebellion in Ireland. There are many crimes is strong, or where, at any ninety days. His liabilities are reported
to be $7,000,000, Conservative peers who had no truck rate, dislike of crime is a less power- with Sir Edward Carson's rebel army ful feeling than dislike of English or government, and any one of them government: A court-martial may would have been a more seemly spon- sometimes be found willing to convict sor for a Bill to repress political on less-evidence than a wholly pro
LONDON, September 25th. crime. The rest of the debate was fessional Bench, but the general in
Meanwhile, the Lithuanian-Polish tangle serious, though necessarily hurried, stinct of English courts-marlin, at is intensifying. The Poles have notifica and the House of Lords-clas! wise any rate in non-political casce, is in the League of Nations denouncing the too late, like so many other people favour of convicting.nobody who can Lithuatian armistice, on account of Bel- has quite lost its old habit of treating by any means be let off Where the sheviks massing troops on Lithuanian and the Polos all Irish questions with repetitions of instinct folds in Ireland the old dim territory against the Poles,
have begun a new offensive against the a few stock phrases of misunderstand culty will remain; where, if anywhere. Lithuanians and occupied Kopaciowo ing and contempt. One speaker after some amateur judge mistakes the prac simultaneously the Lituanians have another fastened on the point that tice of convicting without pidence appealed to the League of Nations request- martial law is not an improved form for rhadamanthine justice there maying inmediate intervention to stop the
now Polish aggression. of ordinary law, but only the partial, be more convictions, but not respect- or total substitution of amateur judges able ones. You cannot work any re- for professional ones. If martial law storative miracles in a country by were all that some of its excited ad putting the administration of-law in vocates describe, we ought with all the hands of third or fourth rile courts haste to dianise our judges of the High instead of first or second raters:- Court, our County Court judges, Re- Manchester Guardian,
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