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LONDON, May 10.
BRITAIN ANSWERING GERMANY'S OFFER
› ITALY'S SIMILAR REPLY,
(Router's Service to the China: Mail,)
LONDON, May 10,
Reuter learns that the final touches are being.
There was a warm outburst in the House of commons in connection with "sending he "Harc-put to the British reply to the Germin reparations bell" in relief of the "Godecia" to the Russian offer which will be separate from but, it is under coast to take up fishery protection duties as the out stood, will be on much the same lines as the Italian
reply now in course of preparation.. come of the arrest of the trawler "Lord Astor.”
Mr. Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said the "Lord Astor" was arrested The fishing teh miles off the Murmansk Coast. British agent at Moscow had been instructed to "obtain the necessary confirmation of the news and then to demand the immediate and unconditional release of the vessel and the repatriation of the
crew.
The Allies, including the United States, will probably receive a copy of the British note, and London and Rome will exchange copies respectivë- ly before the same is delivered to Germany.
Replying to questions in the House of Coni- mons, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the Ex chequer, said the Government did not propose to exchange views as regards the German offer with the United States which did not claim reparātions- --
Having occupied the Ruhr, France and Belgium The "Harebell's" orders were to prevent in-
claimed that they alone were entitled to answer terference with British vessels outside the three Germany's offer. When satisfactory proposals" mile limit, using force if necessary. (Loud Minis-had been made the Allies could act conjointly.). terial cheers and Labour cries of "More war!")
"MORE WARI”.
Mr. G. Lansbury (Labour), addressing the Ministerialists excitedly shouted: "Why don't you send the feet to New York, You are a lot of cowards. You are afraid of America."
The Speaker intervened.
ELEVENTH HOUR HOPE.
LONDON, May '10.
FRANCE'S HEAVY HAND.
LONDON, May 10. A report from Mayence states that a court martial las sentenced twenty high German railway officials to imprisonment, for terms ranging from four to ten years on charges of espionage and in- Citing the railwaymen to resist. the orders of the authorities.
WORKERS' DEFIANCE.".
BERLIN, May 10.
The executive. councils of the German trade
In the House of Commons, in reply to an urgency question by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald voicing the grave concern of everybody and hoping it would be possible at the eleventh hour to maintain peace be- tween Britain and Russia, Mr Ronald McNeill, Under unions have issued a manifesto declaring they are Secretary for Foreign Affairs, declared nothing con- nected with the "Harcbell's" despatch would bear the sinister interpretation Mr Macdonald feared."
SOVIETS CLIMB DOWN?
LONDON, May 10. Reuter learns that the reply of the Soviet Gov. ernment to the British note protesting against the seizure of the trawler "James Johnson" several weeks ago is moderate in tone.
The Soviet claims the right to fix a twelve-mile territorial límit irrespective of international law, but is prepared to submit the matter to arbitration provided there is no question of the infringement of Russia's sovereignty and independence.
UNSEAWORTHY!
LETTERS FROM
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SERIOUS CHARGES
ready to collaborate in the payment of reparations to the limits of possibility, but the passive resistance of the workers in the Ruhr is a spontaneous move- ment, not suppressible even by the cruellest force. will continue as long as the illegal situation in the Rohr and Rhine districts fasts.
FRENCH DESPOTISM." GREATEST BLOW-AGAINST~LEAGUE,”-
LONDON, May 10.
The Ruhr again monopolised the attention of the House of Commons on the occasion Sir John Simon (Labour) moving a reduction in the Retsign, Office vote. He drew attention to a decree pro- mulgated in the Saar Valley imposing heavy fines and imprisonment for criticising the Versailles? treaty or the administration under the treaty, in-
luding the League of Nations.
Mr. Asquith challenged the legality of the decree, which had gone forth in the name of the League of nations," a more despotic piece of work than anything in the annals of Russia and the greatest blow ever struck against the League's authority."
Lord Robort Cecil demanded the withdrawal of an action worthy of Prussian militarism." He regretfully expressed the opinion that joint Anglo- French action was impossible in view of the last French note.
GOVERNMENT'S PATTERING.
LONDON, May 10. Serious allegations are contained in a question asked in the House of Commons by the Labour member, Mr. Johnston whether the Board of Trade was aware that letters written at the beginning of March by officers of the "Okara" had been received in Britain declaring the ship was unseaworthy..
Mr. Johnston asked whether some of the plates Mr. Ronald MacNeill, Under Secretary for were only one eighth of an "inch thick, whether Foreign Affairs, replying, agreed that the decree holes could be hammered into them, and whether itself had no defender in the House of Commons the lifeboats at boat drill were filled with water..but doubted the wisdom of immediately bringing Lt. Col. A. Buckley, Parliamentary Secretary of the decree before the League and uncompromising - the Overseas Trade Department, undertook to ly denouncing it. He thought the actual procedure investigate, He added that as far as could be of the French administration had been immensely ascertained the vessel had not been examined for exaggerated. He declined to make a broad state- many years as she had not sailed in home waters.
The Speaker informed Mr. Johnston that he must give notice of a question whether there was any authority in India for examining British vessels engaged in coastal traffic.
[Earlier cables reported that the British andla 8.8,
Okara" was a total wreck and all lives were presumed to have been lost. The steamer seat out S.O.S. signals during a very heavy cyclone bat- ween Calcutta and Rangoon)
AMATEUR GOLF TOURNEY.
AMERICA'S ONLY SURVIVOR.
LONDON, May. 10.
In the Deal golf toumey, Quimet was the only American survivor at the end of the fifth round. He knocked out Neville in the fourth mound by two holes and then had a very narrow squeak against the Handsworth player Bretherton, winning at the eighteenth hole.
The Turnberr player Hope defeated Rotan in the fourth round 3-2, but Tolley beat Hope in the fifth by one hole.. Wethered beat Willing in the fifth round 2-1.
gry LADIES' SEMI-FINAL SENSATION: N LONDON, May to In the ladies golf semi-final. Mrs. Macbeth, of Bowdon, sensationally defeated the idør. Miss Wethered 2-1 andı. Missy Chambers. Virral) beat Miss Brown (Formby) 325)
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ment regarding the Ruhr pending the despatch of our reply to the German note, but said the bedrock of our policy remained the maintenance of the Anglo-French alliance.
The motion was rejected by 238 votes to 143.
HOME SHIPBUILDING DISPUTE.
NATIONAL AGREEMENT REJECTED
- LONDON, May 10. There is a prospect of the prolongation of the shipbuilding dispute, the boiler markers ballot Thaving resulted in 4,475 votes for and 14,565 against acceptance of the national over-time night-shift agreement.
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