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TO-DAY'S CABLES.
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FRENCH PREMIER RESIGNS.
NEWS A THUNDERCLAP AT CANAES.
CONFERENCE LABOURS ABORTIVE.
DELEGATIONS PREPARING TO RETURN HOME.
LONDON, January 12.
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To-day's closing rat: 27 1 8.
To-day's opening rate 2,7 118.
FRENCH PREMIER RESIGNS.
CANNES CONFERENCE DISBANDING.
PARIS, January 12.
M. Briand divined the unfriendly feeling of the House and gave it no opportunity for an adverse vote. M. Millorand imunediately accepted his resignation. the news of which came like a thunderclap at Cannes, The German delegacion to Cannes is being examined where the labours have thus proved abortive. M. before the Supreme Council to day. In the meantime, Lounch-ur announced his intention of returning to Paris Herr Rathenau, who as principal spokesman appeared immediately. Although the conference continued to before the Reparations Commission to explain the realisten to Herr Rathenau's statement, the delegations were son for the requested moratorium, showed remarkable steequently making preparations to deport for home. skill in evading the commissioners' questions and advancing arguments in support of his case. He offered 401 000,000 gold marks accompanied by conditions relating to deliveries in kind instrud of 729,000,000 gold marks.
TEN TRUNKS OF DOCUMENTS.
BRITAIN HAS NO ARMY!
PARIS. January 12. Aliand's speech was delivered in trying cir cumstan The Premier veral tinues in disgust packed up his manuscripts owing to interruptions bist was persuaded to continue on the restoration of order by the President.
A Brinn warmly insisted that French interesta were not being neglected an ' movingly paid a tribut to British, sincerity. He declared that Britain's laud aud
ile asserted that the German Fraile balance showed a del ct of 1,5 0,000,000 gold marks which conflicts with the commission's evidence. He estimated that alter allowing for the depreciation of gold German ex ports on be computed 2,500,000 gold marks and a Faroes would be brade France in the event of a offered guarantees in the shape of higher railway, postal. | menace to the latters' Froutiers. and telegraphic rates, reduction of food subsidies, and
This was geeted with a cry from the Right:
to rease a prices of coal. Small committers of German and | "Britain has an army *** alled experts will study the facts and figures – The (er-
Sensation followed the coun'ing statement accom-
turns have brought with them ten trunks of documents. į paned by a disheartened gesture: I have no right to SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED, go forward in battle if not sure of not reiving a koife
in the back."
LONDON, January 12.
The centre of interest in international politica has temporarily shifted from Cannes to Paris where early sensational developments may be expected as regards | the fate of the proposed Anglo-French pact guarantee. ing France against German aggression. Rejection of the part in the form at present suspected by France is likely to lead to the downfall of M. Briand.
FACING HIS CRITICS.
PARIS, Janjary 12,.
SAM ERICAN IMMIGR TION RESTRICTIONS.
CUNARD LINE ALLEGES FINES UNJUST.
WASHINGTON, January 12.
The Cunard Line has sent a letter to the House of Representatives immigration committee stating that investigations have showed an error in the Secretary of
The French Premier returned to the capital in the Labour's accusations in connection with the imposition morning to face the critics and to endeavour to convince of fines mentioned on December 19 and subruits that the his colleagues of the sounduess of his attitude at Cannes. | Immigration Bureau's earlier figurer showed that the com- His position bas undoubtedly been seriously shaken || lenient of Hungarian immigrants had not been reached owing to the impression said to have been shared by at the time and that all the Hangariaus aboard the many Cabinet Ministers at the meetings on January 10"Aquitania were eligible for admission, and 11, presided over by M. Millerand, that he was con- sidering modification of France's claims in respect of German reparations and acquiessence in a morator um in exchange for the pact.
PROPHETIC DOUBTS.
An earlier cable stated:-Mr. Davis, Secretary of labour, has ordered fines to the limit of the statute to be levied against the Cunard Line owing to the arrival on December 10 on board the "Aquitania of three hundred Hungarians, although it is alleged that the Immigration Burenn on December 1 informed all steam- ship lines that the Hungarian immigration quota up to July 1922 had been exhausted.}
CLOSED ITALIAN BANK
SALVAGE OPERATIONS MAKE GOOD PROGRESS.
ROMs, January 12.
It is reported from a trustworthy source that
The Cabinet Ministers moreover hold that certain pledges should be exacted from the Soviet Government, particularly for recognition of Russia's enormous debt to Frame and French bondholders, before admitting the Russian delegates to the economie conference at Genou. The opinion is expressed that M. Briand will take up a strong stand to day at the Cabinst meeting when he will submit the broad lines of the pact and then offer bis colleagues the alternatives of complete solidarity with bin or resiguntin co bloc. Even if he succeeds in get-negotiations are progressing to reconstitute the Banci ting his colleagues' endorsement of the plan evolved at Italiano Disconto with Italian and forsiga capital. (Tha Cannes he will have to run the gauntlet of the criticism bok suspended payment in December) Mr. Otto Kahn, of the Chamber of Deputies later in the day with doubt United States, and M. Dreyfus, Paris, are expected to participate in the now concern, according to Italian commercial delegation statiments. The Banca Discotto opened on Tuesday on the authority of the tribunal to transact certain business, including the opening of new current accounts free of moratorium, the collection bills, the purchase and sale, of Government bonds. There is every hops of shortly removing all remaining difficulties.
ful result. CABINET UNANIMOUS BUT PREMIER RESIGNS!
PARIS, January 12,
M. Briand attended a Cabinot meeting after which he announced that the Cabinet was in unudimous agros-
PARIS, January 12,
ment with him,
M. Briand has resigned.
PARIS, January 12. M. Briand has telegraphed Mr. Lloyd George expressing the opinion that his successor will be able to resume discussions and accomplish plans which both had in view. The Chamber of Deputies reassumbles on Thursday. The President has summoned M. Poincare who is regarded as favourita for the premiership,
LATER.
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KING GRANTS IRISH AMNESTY
RELEASE OF POLITICAL OFFENDERS),
LONDON, January. 12
Mr. Winston Churchill has authorised the annotinte-
Mr. Balfour opined that M. Briand's resignation willment that the King has granted an amnesty in respect not appreciably affect the conference. A leading of political offences in Ireland prior to the trace. The American delegate concurred with this view. Elsewhere clense of prisoners begins forthwith.
in American official circles some uncertainty is oppressed regarding the now French Government's attitude an battleship limitation and other questions. Meantime M. Sarraut remains at Washington..
WASHINGTON DISMAY.
WASHINGTON January 12.
M. Briand's resignation bas been received with dismay in nonthrones cirolos.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT..
POPE CONGRATULATES KING.
LONDON, January 12.
The Pope has telegraphed the King congratulating. lim'on having contributed off actually to the great work of bringing phaco to Ireland.
DUTCH BOMB OUTRICE.
COMPLICITY BRINGS JAIL,
The trial of
A PARIS, January 12. It has boon clear during the past few days that M. Briand bad love contact with feeling in Parle regard ing the major questions on the Oanhos dorila,
Tas Hangų, January, 12 The Promier to day took the bull by the horns, ongoing
persona accused wil complicity in the his pulloy balors the Chstaber of Debitids, enqueially bomb outrage here in November last whim part of the pudiating Trenpli opposition to participation in the house of Major Verspyck, a member of the count martial Galoa conference when the United States had alreed whleb tried the daso of this military" defaulter Groon- participate tahrein, emphasising the rondinens of the
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