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March 9, 1921. Temperature 59
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HOME POLITICS.
BALFOUR'S VIEWS.
COALITION CHAMPION.
LONDON, March 7..
Mr. Balfour, at a luncheon in the City given in his honour by the Catiton Club, referring to conservative differences on the subject of the Coalition said that is would remain Conservative till he went to the land where political parties no longer interested him (Laughter.) Nevertheless, be emphatically asserted that the country's interests were at present best served by coalition. The two-party system was admirable bat it was a fair weather system. The Irish settlement illustrated the value of coalition. Never was there a Time when cooperation between parties was more uscessary than now. It was impossible to think that the complex problems of unemployment, ladis, Egypt and Ireland 'could be handled more successfully by a government diawn from a restricted section of the population than by a government representing all shades of opinions and working harmoniously.
Mr. Balfour paid a tribute to Mr. Lloyd George as one of the greatest figures in the world's history. What was the use, he asked, of abusing him?
INTEREST ABROAD.
LONDON, March 7.
The political crisis has excited intense interest abroad. It is noteworthy that beth French and German comments display anxiety lest Mr. Lloyd George should resiga, the former ex ressing the opinion that his resign ation would endanger Briti b and French rapproach ment and an eventual alliance: the latter regarding Mr. Lloyd George & the protagonist of European reconcili- ation and reconstruction.
BY ELECTION RESULT.
The by ctection for Wolverhampton West conseqfeilt... upon the death of Bit A. Bird on February 2 resulted as follows:-
Sir Robert Bird (Coalition Union st).. Mr. Walkden (Labour)....... 13,799. This result means no change.
RUSSIAN REFUGEI B.
BRITISH TAXPAYER'S BURDEN.
HOYOKONG'S CHILD * BLAVERY.”
GOVERNOR'S PROMISED STATEMENT.
STRIKE SITUATION CAUSES DELAY.
LONDON, March 7. In the House of Commons, replying to questions with regard to the mui tent system at Hongkong, Mr. Winston Churchill, Secretary for Colonies, pointed out that the hands of the Governor of Hongkong had been exceptionally fall owing to the grave situation in connec- tion with the strike. while the Secretary of Chinese Affairs had been working day and night. The Governor had promised to answer his (Mr. Churchill's) telegraphic enquiries at the earliest possible moment. Therefore he (Mr. Churchill) preferred to deler statement.
SHOCKING: ACCIDENT.
CARTRIDGE FACTORY EXPLOSION,
THIRTEEN GIRLS KILLED,
LONDON. March 7. Thirteen girls hav. died and eleven are artiously injured as th: result of an explosion in a cartridges factory at Tipton in Staffordshire.
The victims were trapped in a blazing room and denuded of clothing by the force of the explosion. Some escaped to the yard with burning shio banging from them. They were wrapped in sacks and seut to hospital. Some were nurecognisable.
SINGAPORE SENTENCE.
COMMONS QUESTION.
LONDON, Match:72
In the House of Commons, rep' ing to Mr. P. W. Raffan who drew attention to the scatence of ten years' 16,79 rigorous imprisonment imposed on a Tamil named Sinivisan for robbing rizsha puller of a few shillings, Mr. Winston Churchill, Secretary of Colonies, under.oak to obtain the Governor's repor; and added that his understood the accused was guilty of thras robberies, two of which were accompanied with assaults.
"POILS OF WAR.
LONDON, March 7. The problem of thousands of Russian refugees in Europe was raised in the House of Commons.¦
Moving the supplementary Foreign Office estimate. Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, Under Secretary for Foreign Allairs, said the estimate inclu led £300,000 making a total of £1,100,000 for the maintenance in Egypt, Cyprus and Malta of former officers and their families of Denikin's force. Originally 10,000 strong this force now numbered, 5,000, as many had joined Wrangel's movement. The League of Nations was considering the question of taking over the whole problem of Russian refugees and placing them in pro-Slav Balkan countries, the cor being met by the powers interestedi.
AMERICAN FOODSTUFFS.
WASHINGTON, March 7. Mr. Hoover declares that during the past month 300,000 tons of American seed, wheat and foodstuffs had been unloaded at Black Sea porta but only 28,000 tons had been transported to the interior. Over 120,000 tons would be unloaded next month but there was no indication of any increase in the capacity of the Russian railways to handle them.
OUR FORMER G.0 0.
AUDIENCE WITH KING.
LONDON, March
The King gave an audience to Lieut-General Sir G.
M. Kirkpatrick on ralinguishing is appointment as Commander of the Forces in China.
DUTCH STEAMER'S ACCIDENT.
PROPELLER BLADE BROKEN.
PORT SAID, March 9,
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WHAT GERMANY HAS PAID.
PARIS March 7.
The Reparations Commission states that the total payments in cash, kind and cessions of state proparty by Gray since the Armistice to December 31 last amounted to 6,487,555,000 gold marks, of which 1,041,409,000 gold marks were direct payments.
GERMANY'S GOOD FAITH.
BERLIN, March 7.
The Foreign Minister, Dr. Rathenau speaking in the Reichstag said the Government had agreed that au effort must be made at all oists to show former enemies that Germany was prepared to discharge her reparation3 liabilities to the limite of her capacity. He expressed the hope that the Entente would enable Germany to raise a large loan with which to satisfy her creditors.
WEST AFRICK'S PALM KERNEL".
HOME PAPERS ATTACK EXPORT DUTY."
LONDON, March 7. Several papers are demanding the removal of the, export duty on West African palm kernels, notably the Diity Newr which declares that the plantations in Sumatra and the Malay States are the direct outcome of the tax which is threatening to ruin the West African trade.
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PARIS, March 7
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