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1922,
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CANNES PARLEY ANXIETY.
LLOYD GEORGE'S TOUGH PROBLEM.
AMBITIOUS RECONSTRUCTION PLANS.
LONDON, January 5.
The eyes of Europe are fixed anxiously on the Cannes conference. The problem facing Mr. Lloyd George is to reconc le British and French views on reparations and armamenta relations with fermany and Russia.
THE DOLLAR
To-day's closing rate 2 7 3 8.
T-day's opening rate 27 38.
EVENING
DRESS
CHINA'S A NURSING RING."
WASHINGTON GAINS.
POWERS' MORAL PLEDGE UNIQUE.
WASHINGTON, January 5, Reviewing the work of the conference and a num- ber of the beneficial results emerging therefrom, one of the most distinguished members of the British delegu tion declared that China had obtained a good deal. He As regards reparations it is reported that the Bitish printed out that the powers had agreed to form a naps- propose that German gold payinents in 1922 should being ring round China in order to prevent her being limited to £25,000,000 pavable in instalments ending on canonged during the process of evolution resulting from April 15 the balance of the £100,000,000 liability to be her recent revolution. I inglanced bow the United
Juftilled hy deliveries in kind.
Mr. Lloyd George has already had a preliminary two hours' conversation with 31. Briand the French Premie. The former is known to entertain amb tious plans for international economic, and passibly political, ve opretion to gel Europe on its feet again with the partipation of 14. many and Russia The stumbling hlock Paris and in some British quarters there strong distrust of Germany It is anticipated the a werd aangepakronal vaħference will follow the present
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CONFERENCE OPENS QUIETLY.
CANNER, January, 5.
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The carderence speurd qu etly. Sir Robert Horne, British Chameellor of the Exchequer, M. Lonchear, French Minister al Reconstruction, and the Italian and Belgian financial reprezentatives held a preliminary reparations conference in the morning, while Mr. Lloyd George in the afternoon cousulted M. Briand and Signor Bonomi upon questions of policy. It is understood that Lord Curzon and Signar Toretta discussed the Asia Muor question but this is not likely to be settled by the present conference as the agenda is overlull.
FRANCE ISOLATED FINANCIALLY,
BRIAND'S CHARGE AGAINST BRITAIN.
HELGIAN COUNTER SUPORT SOUGHT.
BRUSSELS, January 5. Ints viewed by a Belgian journalist at Cannes, 3. Briand, the French Premier, acrused Britain of isolating France and Belgium by the financial agreement of August 13, and promised to support Belgian priority
States took 75 years to establish a stable government while the Chinese republic had only existed a decade and declared that the moral pledge entered into by eight nations to support. China was a thing un nation bad ever obtained before in the history of the world.
TARIFF INCREASE.
WASHINGTON, Janney 5. The committer representatives of nine power- mas upproved an increase in the Chinese rastomis tarifi
lective to 5 per cent.
FOREIGN TROOPS.
LATER
The For Eastern committee passed a resolution providing for the ventual withdrawal of foreign troops
from China.
FRENCH NEWS
JAPANESE SQUADRON'S VISIT.
PARIS, January 10.
The Japanese Naval Secretary has wired M. Habat, Minister of the Navy, thanks for the recent Conial reception to the Japanese squadron at French porta and expressing a wish that the bonds between the two navies may become still more intimate.
POLAND'S PROGRESS.
A Warsaw message states that M. Ikimuat the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, receiving press repre- sentatives, outlined the great strides made in 1921 hy Poland towards economic stability. He stated that Polatid remains firmly attached to a policy of peace and moderation-Havas.
FRENCH NAVAL PROGRAMME. Another Havas message states that Paris papers
in connection with reparations if Belgium supported are trying to justify France's Washington submarine France ngalast Britain and Italy on the moratoriumclaime, assuring Britain that far from thes: being question
DENMARK BORROWS.
AMERICAN BANK'S $30,000,000 LOAN.
WASHINGTON, January 5. Negotiations have been concluded for a $30,000 000 loan by the National and City Bank of New York to Denmark.
KIEMA
INDUSTRY DIRECTOR.
POST-MASTER GENERAL'S $150,000 JOB.
NEW YORK. Janury 5. The World reports that the Postmaster-Gomeral hig signed a three years' contract to lie-oms director general of the kinema industry at an annual salary of $150,000.
KIDNAPPID "TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.
PRESSMEN'S STRONG PROTEST TO, THE DAIL,
LONDON, January 5:
Mr. Kny, the Times correspondont at Dublin has been kidnapped. Pressmen at the Dail meeting have demanded bis immediato release and punishment of the raiders.
CANADA'S NICKEL COINS.
OTTAWA Janurý 5. The firt Cavadian nichels have been coined royal mint replacing the five cont silver ploces,
WALKING TO CANTON.
AMERICAN SEAMEN SEEKING WORK,
directed agains! ber France would never protest against British naval armaments however big. The British people would re Jize the French viewpoint had their own Devonshire and Lancashire been laid bare and barren like some of France's richest provinces.” In an interview with the Continental Daily Mail, M. Briand spoke in favour of a Franco-British alliance which would be "the best proof that the French naval programme is not and can never be directed against British friends."
BOMBAY POLITICAL CONFERENCE.
GANDHI READY TO ATTEND.
BOMBAY January 5. Mr. Gandhi has signified his willingness to attend the conference at Bombay on January 14 convened by the Pandit Malaviya and a number of other non-party leaders to which representatives of all shades of political opinion have been invited.
FORMER KAISER SJED.
PIQUANT FAMILY CASE.
BERLIN, January 5. A piquant can opened in which the widow of Prince Jonohim of Prussia who recently committed suicide sued, the former Kaiser for my tittoannou, grounding her claim upen the laws of the House of Hohenzollern. Consel for the defenes claimed that the laws were no longer the valid. The case was finally adjourned as there is some,
prospect of a compromise,
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