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RUHR OCCUPATION.
FRANCO-BELGIAN CONFERENCE.
PARIS, April 137
The Belgian Premier, M. Theunts, and the Foreign Minister, M. Jaspar, have arrived to confer with M. Poincare. According to the newspapers the subjects for discussion include exploitation of the Ruhr mines and the misunderstanding caused by M. Loucheur's visit to England. The statement by Le Matin that the conference will discuss a reparations plan whereby Germany will pay two thousand millions sterling in a decade which will go to France and Belgium, while reparations bonds of "C" category will be employed to pay war debts to America and Britain, is officially denied. It is anticipated that the conference will result in the Franco-Belgian Governments jointly reaffirming their intention of continuing their action on the
··Rubr until Germany presents a precise offer of payment and of evacuating occupied territory only when Germany has fulfilled her engagements.
WHAT GERMANS WANT. :
BERLIN, April 13-
A conference of leading employers and work- men in all industries and of all shades of political opinion from the occupied territory unanimously decided to continue the policy of passive resistance. They declare that the starting point of any negotia tions-must-be-a-guarantee of complete evacuation, an indemnity for damages, the release of prisoners and the return of persons who have been expelled.
MINERS "GOING SLOW:"
BERLIN, April 13. The Vossische Zeitung's Essen correspondent says that with the object of preventing the French from obtaining any coal apart from that already on the surface the miners in the Ruhr region have ber gun further to restrict production they intend henceforth to bring up only enough çoal for the -mines' own useand for essential industrial pages.
No fresh supplies will be brought up for storing.
STINNES IN COLOGNE...
COLOGNE, April 13.
Herr Hugo Stinnes has arrived,
TWISTING THE SCREW..
To-day's closing, rate 2/3 13/16 To-day's opening rate 2/3 13/16
LABOUR AND THE ARMY.
ATH PENALTY ABOLITION URGED.
LONDON, April 13,
The House of Commons adjourned till Monday after an all night sitting of twentyone hours. During the committee stage of the Army and Air, Force Annual Bill which finally passed its third raiding without a 'division the Labourites pursued obstructive tactics necessitating frequent use of the closure but the debate generally was good-tempered urged that army recurits should be entitled to contract out of any service wherein military are used in trade disputes and also demanded the abolition of the death penalty but Licut-Col. Gainness, while sympathetic, maintained that the use of military in Chiergencies arising out of industrial disputes and the death penalty were both necessary. He em phasised that the penalty was only carried out after careful enquiry and mentioned that 264 men were shot for desertion' in, the war,
and there were few incidents. The Labourites
FIJI LEGISTATORS OFFENDED.
IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT CRITICISED.
SUVÄ (FIJI), April 13.
A legislative deadlock has arisen owing to the Imperial Government's promise to refund £58,000 ex- port duties to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company without consulting the Fiji legislative authorities, The elected members of the Council have refused to sit until the Duke of Devonshire has undertaken that there will be no repetition of the Imperial Govern- ment's "unconstitutional action" The Company has ice agreed to forgo the refund, has promised a bonus on cane sugar of 42 pence per ton and has agreed to increase wages by the pence a day. prp- viding the export duties are removed,
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"ÁRAMIS” SAILING, SOON.
PARIS, April 13, The Messageries Murtime's new liner "Aramis" is shortly sailing on her maiden voyage to the Far East. She is 1145 feet long, displaces twenty thousand tons and carries 101 first-class 116 second class and 110 third-class passengers.
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PARIS, April 13. A communique states that to-day's conference, after affirming the Belgain arid French resolve to pursue common action in the Ruhr until Germany makes direct proposals for the payment of repara- tions, states that a whole series of fresh measures was considered for increasing the pressure, Decisions were also, reached for a more efficient operation. As the result of an all-night sitting in the Com- Measures are now being enforced as regards coal.mons the Cotton Industry Bill promoted by Lancz. for the railways: A further meeting will be held to-morrow.
PLAGUE IN INDIA.
SERIOUS RISE IN MORTALITY.
SIMLA, April 13.
The Public Health Commissioner states that a rise in mortality from plague began in December. There were 36,900 deaths in March compared with a mean average of 14,400 the previous four years
COTTON-GROWING IN THE EMPIRE.
LONDON, April 13,
shire private members, approved by the Government providing for compulsory, contribu» « tions by. United Kingdom cottonspinners to the funds of the Empire Cotton-growing Corporation, which should have passed its second reading to-day, was killed.
HOME BUILDING TRADE DISPUTE.
ELEVENTH HOUR SETTLEMENT
LONDON, April 13-
An cleventh-hour agreement was reached in
The rise is serious as it shows the plague is ready the building trade dispute. The employers are to assume epidemic proportions when conditions
are favourable and public health measures are to consequently suspending the notices reducing the any extent neglected. These favourable conditions, wages. The question in dispute will be referred to namely a good harvest and the requisite atmospheric arbitration. humidity, are now present. The destruction of rats and attention to grain storage are imperative. India should make on organised effort to stamp out the plague..!
MIDINETTES ON STRIKE.
TROUBLE IN RUE DE LA PAIX
PARIS, April 13. As the result of a strike of midinettes a dozen policemen are guarding the entrances of important dressmaking firms in the Rue De la Paix, The midinettes are demanding a forty per cent, increase of wages making a scale ranging from 150 francs a week for first-class hands to 32/44 franca for ap prentices, a 48-hours week and half-holiday on Saturdays.
TURKISH. CONCESSION TALK.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 13. Sy It is reported that the Government considers the French protest against the Chester concession unjustified. The Commissarof Public Works points out that the concession to the French in 1914 was hsver approved by the Turkish chamber and canse, quently is not legally binding
NEW DUTCH MINISTER TO TOKYO,
MURDERER PRONOUNCED INSANE
BOSTON, April 13.
Alienists who examined Sacco, who, along with Vanzetti was convicted of the murder of a paymus- ter aud guard in South-Braintree in 1920 have reported to the court that the prisoner is of unsound mind and should be committed to a hospital for mental diseases.
NORWAY'S INDUSTRIAL, STAGNATION.
WORKERS EMIGRATE TO AMERICA.
BERGEN, April 13., Considerable concern has been caused by the emigration of Norwegian workers largely of the best types to America in consequence of the industrial stagnation.
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