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ALLIED ECONOMIC EXPERTS.
RUSSIA'S OBLIGATIONS REPORT.
GENERAL GOLD STANDARD RITCKS.
Loxoox, April 1
To-day'r closing rste 2/5 9:16. To-day's opening cate 5:5
AEROPLANE FISASTER.
FAMOUS AVIATOR KILLED.
SIR BOSS FMITH'S DEATH.
Losos. April 13,
The machine got inter a spin and crashed wher approaching the serodmme to land.
PILOT LOSES CONTROL.
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Lesbos, April 13,
The report of the allied experts meeting in London the eve of his starting a world fight from prior to the Genoa conference recommends regarding Croydon on April 25 Sir Row Smith and Lientenant "Russia and its preceding goveroments' financial obliga Bennett were killed in a crash in a practice fight at
tions that compensation for foreigners who have lost Brooklands this morning. property be mobilised in a fixed lump sum, and pecuniary, indemnities shall be acknowle 'ge by handing over in terest bearing bonds. A Russian debt commission will be formed to supervise these operations and select 25sts as a basis of security for bonds which must be consolidated by November 1977. The report further provides for overhauling of the judicial system which shall be independent of the executive. Foreigners shall bave the same rights to enter or leave Russia as practised in other countries. There shall be no forced loans. Postal and telegraphic censorship, shall be abolished, freedom of commerce shall be established, and penal sentences shall not be indicted on foreigners without the consent of the condemned person's consu
BACK TO GOLD.......
LONDON, April 13. The speediest possible rature to the gold stan·lard
is the allind experts'. main recommendation regarding
Prior to the accident Captain Cockerell tested the machine for thirty minutes. He then handed the machine over to Sir Ross Smith who, accompanied by Lieut. Bennet ascended. They few well for fifteen minutes in exo ant flying conditions with a westerly wind blowing fifteen miles an hour. Suddenly the machine developed a spin. Apparently the pilot lost control. The seropiane descended at a terrific speed and crashed on the top of an inca fence. Sir Ross Smith was killed instanty and Lient. Bennett died two minutes Hater. Sir Kieth Sorish intended accompanying his brother Lat arrived at the nerodrome after the machine bad ascended and witnessed the dia ster.
BROTHER'S TERRIBLE AGITATION.
LONDON April 14.
descend and nose dived to a hundred feet from the
The air disaster was witnessed by the beads of the the stabilisation of currency. This should be assisted Vickers firm and 1,500 of their employees. The machine by an associati mei e-nual backs, also by an interna-cited above Brooklands for twenty minutes, beharing tical codvection for the purpose of centralising and splendidly. Sir Rose Smith shat of the entire to Co-ordinating the demand for gold to Avaid üuctuations in p to which are likely to follow competitive shot5 a number of countries to segare metallis resa Esch country should be left free to decide whether to pop the hd gold parity or new a parity appretim ting the present exchange value of its cotrendy Experts advise early, abandonm nt of react imports and expoms which is applied to desam countries with object temporarily to protect the pres
GERMANY'S FINANCES
Pans, Apr 13.
round when be tried, to straighten out but the machine came down spinally and saddenly crashed, becking down four trees and narrowly escaping the concrete track of Brooklands. Keith Stith was terribly antap-d he be realised what had happened, sal be finaz bim self across his brother's body. The machine is a total wreck, although the petri enged and dil not catch fire. The fabric was torn off the machine to cover the 1oons witch were taken to Weybridge mortuary.
FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.
Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, K.B.E., M.C., D.F.C. A.F.C. was famous for his dight to Australia in 1919, the first ever made, for.which be received his knightbooi The Reparation Camminica, in the course of a and a prize of $10,000 from the Australian Government. draft reply to the German te rejting the demand: Born in Adelaide (South Australia) in 1893 he was for Allied control of Germany and the lery of sisty educated at Queen's School in that city and War, ston School. Scotland. He served on Gallipoli and Sinai milliards of new taxation, but expressing willingness to with the Australian Light Horse and spent two years submit data clarifying the German financial situation, with the Australian Flying Corps in Palestine. He repeats its observations on See inadequacy of Germany's made the first fight from Cairs to Calcutta in 1918.] Cnancial efforts and the necessity of inaugurating a Sir Keith Macpherson Smith. accompanied bis system of financial control. The reply declares that if brother on his flight to Australia and for this received Germany does not take the measures necessary to pat his knighthood. Educated with his brother he spent his its finances in order, the cadmission will be oblige! on early life on a sheep station and after school joined the May 31 to adopt certain measures which, however, will staff of Elder, Smith and Co., Ltd. Adelaide to learn not interfere with the administration
the stock business. Rejected for active service to Aus ralia when war broke out, he went to England in the beginning of 1917 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. He served until the Armistice as a pilot and fy- ing instructor. For his services he was mentioned in despatches.]
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JAPAN VISIT.
-YESTERDAY'S ENGAGEMENTS.
TOKY, FRIDAY..
[The two brothers were to bave started from Croydon on April 25 on a world fight on a Vickers Viking amphibian machine, fitted with a 450 horse power Napier engine. The route was to have been vis Lyons, Egypt, Mesopotainia, Persia, India, Banus, There was a heavy downpour of rain this morning. China, Japan, Kamchatka, the Aleatians, Alaska, The Prince of Wales and his staff attended a service at Canada, New York St Joen's ́ and then across the Et. Andrew's English Church and unveiled tablets to Atlantic direct to Ireland or alternatively via the Azores. Tokyo Britons and British officers attached to the The estimated duration of the flight was three months] Embassy who fell in the war. Notwithstanding the
weather thousands lined the route,
The remainder of the day was spent privately. In the evening the Pria dined at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. On Saturday morning the Prince reviews troops if the weather is fine and in the afterrDON' attends a garden party given by the British Society. At night a dianer and a ball are being given at the British Embassy.-(From Sir Herbert Russell. Renter's Special Correspondent.)
INDIAN UNBEST.
BOMBAY HARTAL.
BOMBAY, April 14.
As a culmination of the national week's inaugum: tion of Gandhi's Swaraj campaign hartal was rigordnely observed in the native quarters of the city. The bazasis, stock exchange, and bullion and cotto markets were closed. There were no disturbances.
· INDIA'S ADVOCATE GENERAL
BOMBAY, April 14. As the first Indian to occupy the post Jamshed Kanga has succeeded Sir J. Thomas' na permanent Advocate General..
ARSENIC“ MURDER.
SOLICITOR SENTENCED.
LONDON, April 14
After ten days trial on a charge of murdering his
nity, and sentenced to death.
SEXEVOP 7 JAILED.
BAIL CANCELLED.
New York, April 14.
Semenof, the Siberian general, has been jailed owing to the guaranteeing company cancelling its bail band as i sequel to the evidence beard before the Senate com- mittee by General Graves, American commander in Siberia and others reflecting on Semenoff's administra- tion of affaire in Siberia.
Semeno, was arrested on arrival at New York from Wasbi gton in connection with a civil action alleging the theft at Chits in 1919 of furs and wollers valued at $475,00. belonging to the Touterata Home and Foreign Trading Company, which is now bankrupt. Semenoff, after strenous efforts, secured bad in $25,/00.
DUBLIN CONFERENCE ADJOURNS,
LONDOS, April 14. The Dublin conference reached no agreement and wo-day adjourned artil April 19.
á Landon cable dated April 10 stated:-The ominus ramours concerning imminent possibilities of further troubles ia Ireland are somewhat relieved by the news that Messes. Collins, Griffith, De Valera and Cathalbraghs are to meet in Dublin to-day to convid x proposals for's trace or se tlement.]
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