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BERTHELOT RESIGNS.
SEQUEL TO FRENCH BANK FAILURE.
The
failure
of
the Banque
of head
the
IDAD
'Phone 1500,
Prime Minister in the affairs of his ove department as is ruvioured will afterwards be shown. Ou thing, bowever, LA certain. Who- ever goes to Cannes, whether M. Briand or another, as lead of the French Government, he will not have! at bis disposal the immense knowledge | and experience of French foreign! politica and international meetings possessed by M. Berthelot.
M. BERTHELOT'S LETTER,
M. The letter 10
Briand, in which M. Barthelot declares his irrevomble
decision
to
r'ign
FATALIST CZAR.
THE CHINA MAIL.
READY TO BE SACRIFICED
FOR RUSSIA.
In the current issue of the Revue des | Deuz Mandos, M. Paleologue, who was Frouch Ambassador at Petrograd on the eve of war and during it resumes his intimate account of the part which the Czar and the Czarina played in the conflict. As a study
berlain, Count Frodericks, whom be well know, a letter telling him that
out two
"Our duty to God, our Sovereigns, and our countries obliges us to do all that is in our power to bring about a rapprochement between Emperors which will abl: their Governments to find the basis of an honourable ponce. If we can restore their former friendship we shall ace the end of this hideous war."
On the margin of this letter the Czar wrote: "That friendship is dead; on the human side of Russia inlet no one ever mention it to me A little later as effort was decomposition and of her Sovereigns again." there is nothing to touch it.
made by the Germans to appeal to A What stands out from his dis the Czar through the Czarina. closures and from the entries in his Russian lady of great family was journal is the guwavering steadfast-invited to Darstadt to see the ness of Nicholas II. to the Allied Czarina's brother, the Grand Duke of oause. "Amid the faithless, faithful | Hesse, and was given two letters, one only he," from the first hours to the to the Czarina and one to the Czir. last of these tragic yeara. Immediate That to the Czarina said: "I know ly after the outbreak of wor M. you have become ontirely Ruesian, but Paleologue whe summoned to the I cannot believe that Germany is Cabinet of the Czar, who said to him: absolutely effaced from your German "As for me, I shall fight to the beart." That to the Czar was accom- last. To win victory I shall panied by a note accusing England of sacrifier my last shilling and my treachery to him. This was the Czar's last man. So long as there is a reception of them as old by Sazonoll:
on French or
"Taking two letters he flung them enemy territory I will not sign peace." contemptuously upon his writing table. "The Czar's character," said M. Then in a stern voice, he said, 'Show Sazonoff, the Russian Foreign Minis me the note !* ter, to M. Paleologue, "is essentially one of mystical resignation.". And he told this strange story which he had from his brother-in-law, Mr. Stolypia, murdered in 1911 by the Perrorists:
Russian!
"One day in 1909 Stolypin propus- ed to the Czar an important interual measure. He made a sceptical gesture and said sadly:
*** succeed in nothing I under- I have no chance. And human will is so powerless."
as ye that threw times suce the latter became Prime Minister he has asked to be relieved of his duties as Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but that each time thehis request has been refused. But now he feels that the continual attacke, the abominable calumnies, and the absurd reproaches heaped take. upon me during this last year in conse quence of the failure of a bank of which my brother was one of the heads. makes me fear that I shall no longer possess vis-n vis foreigners in discus sion with whom I have daily to defend the interests of France, the necessary authority to enable me to continue ber." to Berve the State well." M Berthelot then goes on to say that
and **Courageous
Desolute by nature, Stolypin protested with energy. Then the Czar said to him: Do you know on what Saint's Day was born?"
is it Jio
"At carb phrase of it he burst out into angry exclamations: To make such proposals to me, shameful? This whole document is a tissue of lies. England is preparing to betray Russia indeed. What absurdity"
The barer of the lettera WIS instantly ordered into a conventus the punishment for ber intrigue.
BEGINNING OF REVOLT. Yet beneath the surface the Ambassador actrď that Russian resolution was being undermined. Moscow friend told him in June 1915
A
Industrielle de Chine has had it first--and li very important repercuss on on the public service in France. The close criticism in the Chamber of the part played by the French Foreign Office in connection with it did not bring about the immediate fall of the Government, but it has caused the resignation of the Secretary General at the Quai d'Orsay, M. Philippe Berthelot. Thereby there disappears from the prost. of the permanent French Foreign Oflies who bas gradually collected into his hands all the threads of French foreign policy, and, his critics say, all the authority and means of directing it. Ever since the circumstances connected with the failure of the bank became public knowledge there have been rumours that M. Berthelot might one day consider it necessary to resign, not because the president of ti e bank, M. Andre Berthelot, against
The patriarch Jon's day.' whom legal proceedings Lave been
***Thank God! Your Majesty's taken, is bis brother, but on accountin Che couree of the debate reign will end gloriously”. of the attempts which he was alleged he was reproached with three kinds No believe me, Stolypin. to have madu
the of act, each of which had been have something more than a presenti-
Of the Czarina and the Grand influence of the French Government perverted at the speaker's fancy. ment- have an inward conviction abroad to bolster up is brother's Nevertheless," be adds, " the that. I am destined for terrible trials Duchess Elizabeth, her sister, he concern when 4. himself knew personal and direct telegram sent to and that I shall not receive my repaints interesting pictures: what its real situation was. Some of our financial agent in New York, ward here on earth. How often have these charges, such as the effort in although fully justified in itselt, 1 not applied to myself the words of January last to obtain the assistance like those sent to the Far East and to of British bauke through the inter- London at the demand of the consor mediary of the French Ambassador tium of banks formed by the Govern in London, were brought up in the ment which preceded youre, can be Chamber in the Farmer lime; but criticised as to form, inasmuch as I M. Briand covered Berthelot ought to have submitted it to you, in
ob
M
A this occasion. deputy of spite of its urgency." M. Berthelot
"Pardon me, sir, I don't remem
Job: For the thing which I greatly feared comes always on me, and all the evils I am afraid of descend on me."
EXPIATION.
the Right, M. Taittinger, advanced concludes with insistence upon the steadily to the issue which he foresaw,
two farther accusations against M. scrapulous manner in which be bas Philippe Berthelot firet, that the exercised his duties, and adds that
missions
the
Fatalist throughoat, he moved with that " passive and resigned quietiem" which the author finds to
be the dominant characteristic of Russia. Alter the cruel disasters of 1915 he took himself the command.
to
SHIP FRAUD.
£100,000 INSURANCE ON OLD
BOOTS AND IRON.
Suspicions of Lloyd's underwriters that a number of Greeks were attempt- ing to defraud British underwriters: have led to closer inspection of ship's cargoes and some remarkable die- coveries.. Loenen on ships sailing under the Greek flag are so heavy, and of late have been so frequent, that underwriters will in futuro effect insurances on them only after the fullest inquiries.
"It is quite clear that there are skilful Greek rogues who are making fortunes out of the English insurance market "afhigh official of Lloyd's told a reporter. "During this year well over 50 Greek ships have gone down with cargoes, involving something like £3,500 000, of which most falle on Lloyd's and English companies.
insurance
"We do not regard them all with auspicion, but theat losses are more than abnormal, and for many of them' there does not seem to be a satisfac- tory explanation. After a nice break- lust, crows seem to sail away in boats Tron a ship that is sinking in deep water from some unknown cause.
It is certainly true that never before have underwriters beau re- garded as such good gams for pluck. ing among people to whom this sort
of thing appeals,
OLD BOOTY.
"When a small steamer loaded at Alexandria last month with a cargo more than 1400,000, insured for Lloyd's agents there boarded the vessel just before it set out for Smyrna. Inspection of the cargo revealed that it consisted of old war
stores left in Egypt after the armistice, The days of Czarism are counted. such as old boots, old kit, and the The like. The value was assessed at less It is lost, irreparably lost. revolution is inevitable. The middle than one tenth the amount for which class will give the signal for it, imaginit had been insured.
"We believe we have frua...ad ing that they are going to save Russia. From a middle-class revolution wo by prompt measured what would a workers' have been perhaps the biggest frand shall pass at once revolution. Then a ghostly anarchy in the history of marine insurance. will begin, an interminable anarchy, The underwriters cancelled the risk and the ship left with its cargo ten years of it!"
uninsured. Further inquiries have revealed that the rargo was not destined for the Greek Army, as had been alleged while the ship was at Alexandria.
The Czarina loves Russia with a fervent love. By u strange pheno- munon of mental contagion she has assimilated by degrees the oldest and most peculiar characteristics of the Russina Boul-its obscurity, its motion, its vagueness, which find their final expression in religious mysticism. The docility with which she has submitted to the ascendancy of us back to the days of Ivan the Rasputin is most significant and takea
Terrible."
ller sister Elizabeth and the
"We have not yet been able to gat into touch with the man who effected the insurance; he is not the owner of the ship, and what further action is likely to follow is uncertain.
A MOHAIR STORY.
The chairman of Lloyds, Mr. another steamer in a speech to the insurance Institute of London last Sidney Boulton, reported the case of
week. This ship, alleged to have a
Suspicions were aroused before she sailed and high prices were paid to reinsure. But she arrived all right, much to the surprise of all concerned.
place of my acts that bas weighed upon my and this was the reason for his action Dowager Empress warned her and the cargo of mohair, had it insured for
Czar of their immense danger and of the infamy of Rasputin. Of the Dowager Empress M. Paleologue wa
Foreign Office had given to the is the idea that I might be reproach d French Catholic
with an appearance of reason for one Far East the vice their posit with the Banque decision and makes it irrevocable."
which Mme. Vyrouboff, the Empress's Industrielle a
M. Philippe Berthelot has ben io few days before the ?
intimate friend, gave M. Paleologue: crash came; and, secondly, that in the French diplomatic service since
He feels that in such grave cir telexrum had 1889, and a very large part of the cumstances it is his duty as Czar to told: January of this year a been sent by M. Berthelot to the intervening period has been spent at face all the responsibilities of the war French Government's financial agent | the Quai d'Orsay. He is known as au
and put himself at the head of his in New York asking him to obain indefatigable worker, which, combined troops. Before reaching this convic Americao financial assistance of with KL Amazing retentiveness tion he had deeply reflected and temporary nature for the bank. M. of memory, has given him 24 prayed earnestly. He said to us the Briand, in reply declared that as
remarkable knowledge and a very other day. after hearing Mass soon as he became Prime Minister M. great authority in questions of Perhaps Russia needs an expiatory Berthelot had old bum about the France's foreign policy. During the victim to save her. I will be that
was in, and war M. Berthelot was Deputy Chief of victim. Let God's will be done!'"' difliculies the bank recounted the steps taken by the the Department of Political and For William II. he expressed Government. 14 Lry 1.0 Save Commercial Affairs, of which he war it. He could BO,
however,
answer straight off M. Tulanger's allegations, and this, combined with the fact that Le proposed to present bill empowering the Government to use the Boxer indemnity in order to put the bank on its feet again caused the debute to be adjourned. AD the forces of the Opposition, with M. Tardieu in the forefront, were known
preparing for to b
a resump tion of the assault on the Government, when, without warning, even in or diamy well-informed quarters, came the news that M. Berthelot bad re-
sigust. How far his action will serve tu du the point of the attack on M. Brual, or whether this will be pushed with reloabled vigour on the lines of alleged aegligence on the part of the
promoted to be head in 1919, and in the following year he succeeded M. Cambon. There is at present no indication as to whether the post will be maintained of Secretary-General of the French Foreign Office, and, it so, who M. Berthelot's successor will be.
STRAIGHT AT IT.
HERE wпouse of our "boating around
T the bush. We might sa well out
with it first as last. We want you to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy tus next time you have a cough or cold. There is no reason so far as we can see why
indignant scorn. "He is never sincere for a moment. He has ended Ly entangling himself with his lies and sota of perfidy." This antipathy the
Czarina shared :
"In recent years she entertained a personal dislike for William II., and upon him ale laid the responsibility for this abominable war which makes the heart of Cbrist bleed every
£200,000,"
be said.
She has not shown any want
It turned out that the cargo was of courage or decision. She is tou frank and impetumus. She is carried worthless rubbish. It had been intend- away when she tries to advise her son,et to run her ashore on certain rocks and sometimes says quite the opposite in the Mediterranean, but when the of what she intended: she offends and captain arrived at the spot he funked humiliates bin. Then he stands on it. The weather was unpleasantly is rights and reminds his mother that stormy and there was a chance of he is Emperor."
Of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth he
drowning.
He was too stupid to concoct sys: "Widow of the Grand Duke another plan and so blundered along Bergius, she is a strange being, and her to the journey's end. He was im whole life is full of enigmas. Tall, prisoned on his arrival in Greece, thin, with bright eyes, open and yet whether for having made a mess of it searching in their look, with delicateur for his crimes it is unnecessary to festures and a charm in her bearing inquire." and her gestures, there was a mystory in her married life. Sergius was the most suspicious and inquisitorial of husbands and never allowed his wile mercilessly in a rough and tinging to remain alone with any man,
tone, even going so far as to address He kept an eye on her correspond-insulting remarks to her in public.
day. When she learnt of the burning ence and reading and criticised her One day, after a violent outburst of
of Louvain she cried. I blush to have ever been German.' 327
GERMAN INTRIGUES.
Many German attempts to induce
for
you should not do so. This preparation the Czar and Czarina to make pence by its remarkable surce has gained are noted.
In December 1914, at world wide reputation, and people another moment of disaster overywhere speak of it in the lugholi erms of praise. It is for sale by nat Russia, William II.'s Chamberlain Jhemista and Storekeepers.
Eulenburg, sent to the Czar's Cham-
I'LL JUST TELL MAGGIE I WUZ OUT WITH THE DUKE DE
HOOK- SHE'LL BE
SO PLEASED SHE
WILL NOT SCOLD
ME FOR BEIN' OUT SO LATE!
WE
the Grand Deke, old Prince B., who CURE THAT COUGH. was present at the scene, spoke a word THEN you have trouble of compassion for the young wife. She conghi, it does not mean that you answered with candour and surprise. have co sumption or that you are going to leave it, but it does mean that your I have nothing to complain of, What- lungs sie thre-tened, and it is just as ever may be said. I am happy, for I weh to be on the safe side and take am greatly loved.'” She too incurred Chamberlain's Cough Remedy before it i is too late. For sale by all Chemists disgrace by her devoted entreaties to
her sister to abandon Rasputia. anu torekeope 8.
BRINGING
UP
I WUZ WITH THE DUKE DE HOOK!
WITH WHOM?
FATHER.
AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO « ADMIT YOU WERE
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