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FRANCE OBDURATE.
GERMAN PROPOSALS REJECTED,
SUMS TOO SMALL.
(Reuter's Service to the Ghína Mail,),
PARIS, May 3
The Cabinet has decided that the Gernian pro- `posals are not acceptable owing to the conditions laid down therein and the absence of guarantees; also owing to the insufficiency of the sums offered,
EXCHANGES DEPRESSED.
LONDON," May 3.
The German proposals have depressed the foreign exchange market which finished a little steadier. Marks slumped to between 180,000 and 185,000 and closed between 174,000 and 178,000. French francs were finally quoted at 69 and 75: Belgian ar 80 and 65.
ABOVE ALL
The draft of the French reply to the German note, which had been despatched to Brussels, declares that the offer is not acceptable, above all owing to Herr Cuno's preliminary condition for negotiations, namely evacuation.
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The reply declares that the Allies intend to keep the pledge, which after three years' fruitless patience they have seen fit to take, and points out that the offer gives no definite guarantee of Germany's good faith.
IRAQ GOES AHEAD.
BRITISH TENURE ENDING SOONER.
* TREATY PROTOCOL SIGNED.
(Router's Sorojca to the China Mail.)
LONDON, May 3.
A more definite statement than usual regarding the British tenure of Iraq was made by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the House of Commons,
In reply questions he announced that on account of the Iraq Government's substantial strides. Ei in the path of independent and stable existence since the treaty was signed with King Feisul last year, both parties had now signed a protocol terminating the tresty upon Iraq's entry into the League of Nations, or anyway not later than four years from the ratification of peace with Turkey."
REMARKABLE AVIATION.
LONG DISTANCE FLIGHT.
SAN DIEGO, May 3. The latest remarkable feat of continuous trans- Continental flight has been achieved by Lieuten ants Macready and Kelly who have just arrived in
monoplane from Hempstead, New York,
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(Lieutenants Macready and Kelly recently-
The Government to-morrow will communicate made a new world record for sustained flying, re- the text to London and Rome.
AERIAL MENACE.
LIMITATION CONFERENCE WANTED.
BRITAIN READY.
LONDON, May: 3.
In the House of Commons, following a question
dealing with the relative strengths of the air fleets of Britain, France, Italy and the United States, Mr. P. A. Harris (Labour) asked whether the Govern ment considered calling a conference for the limits tion of air forces on the same lines as the Washing ton conference.
Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for Aired: Yes. A proposal of that kind has always been mind..
__CHESTER_CLAIMS. *
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE.
FRANCE'S RIGHTS.
PARIS, May 3.
The Petit Parisica's Lausanne correspondent reports that Mr. Crew, the American observer at the conference, told General Pelle the United States Government would not uphold the Chester claim to the Samsua-Sivas line and that while maintaining the principle of the open door, it considers the rights acquired by France in 1914 cannot be discussed.
(Samsun, a Black Sea port in the Trebizond vilayet, exports tobacco, grain, etc. Formerly it was a flourishing Greek settlement. Sivas is the capital of the vilayet of the same name. The vilayet, 32,300 sq. miles, has a population of 1,000,000. Rich in minerals, it has also a very fertile grain-growing soil, orchard, vineyards, and timber forests. Admiral Chester secured a big concession for an American syndicate.]
£1,000 GOLF CONTEST.
KEEN COMPETITION SEEN.
LONDON, May 3
Ted Ray (Oxhey), has won the Daily Mail £1,000 golf tournament at St. Annes. He did 72 holes with an aggregate of 288. Len Holland (Northampton) and Abe Mitchell (North Foreland) tied for second place with 289 strokes. Duncan with 290 was thund. AMERICAN SUCCESSES.
maining aloft, in a Fokker monoplane, continuously for 2,165 minutes, twenty seconds, covering 2,541 miles, San Diego is a town on the Pacific Coast; California, well-known as a winter health resort.]
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GIVEN UP FOR LOST.
MISSING BOAT TRAGEDY.
CAPETOWN, May 3. Twelve passengers of the "Mossamedes," in- cluding the Englishmen Vane and Spring, are now presumed to be dead.
The Portuguese mail steamer "Mossamedes" was found stranded on Cape Frio, Portuguese West Africa, her boats missing, with the 237 souls aboard jacluding 29 women and 35 children. A heavy sea was running at the time. Three of the boats later reached port safely but one was not seen again after dipping below a heavy wave. As she went
a man in the bows was seen signalling frantically but unintelligibly.]
PERILS OF WEALTH.
ASSYRIAN THREATENS MILLIONAIRE.
ARRESTED WITH STILETTO.
NEW YORK, May 3.
An Assyrian silk-worker, named Murad, armed with a stiletto, was arrested in front of the resideace of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, fr, whose life he had. threatened. Rockefeller was not injured.
[Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. is the son of the world's richest man who built up the huge Standard Oil Company. Mr. John D. Rockefeller visited Hongkong in the course of a tour of the Far East.)
DAVIS CUP TENNIS.
AUSTRALIA'S REPRESENTATIVE.
Sydney, May 3. Anderson has unconditionally agreed to join the Davis team.
[Anderson, the well-known Australian tennis player, had declined to join the Davis Cup tennis team because he could not get away from business. A. public subscription was opened to provide a substitute but he still refused to go, saying the ex- pense was entirely a matter for the Lawn Tequis Club.]
TRIUMPHAL PROGRESS.
POLES FETE MARSHAL FOCH
The visiting American golfers scored a decisive victory for the St. George's cup at Sandwich, Dr.
WARSAW, May 30 Willing and Mr. Francis Quimet tieing for first
Marshal Foch who has arrived to attend the place with 153. The American skipper Gardner Polish national fete had a triumphal progress from played 154. There was a record entry of 121, the frontier where he received the rapk of Polish Including the leading English amateurs, six of marshal, He drove through decorated and flower whom tied for fourth place with 157. Dr. Willing strewn streets lined with cheering crowds from the and Mr. Oujret play an 18-hole decider to-morrow, station to the Premier's residence.
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