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GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S defeat.
CONFIDENCE MOTION REJECTED.
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BERLIN, November 23. The Reichstag rejected a motion of confiden
in the Government by 230 votes to 135.
BERLIN, November 23.
THE DOLLAR.
B-To-day", closing rate 2/3 13/16.
To-day's opening rate 2/3 11/16.
日七十月十五
FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
PREVENTING POSSIBLE RUPTURE.",
· (Router's Bervice to the China Mail:)
PARIS, November 23. The Chambar carried a vote of confidence in Government by 500 votes to 70%,
Bonfidence followed a speech by alog with flavonent decision of the
of Ambassadors which the Premier de...
ed was in no wise perfect but France preferred abaddon provisionally part of her ideas and
Upon the reassembly of the Reichsing H Stresemann immediately demanded a decisióei whether the Government possessed the confidencemands in order to avoid the withdrawal of her of the Reichstag whereupon Herr Scholz, leader of
ed to raise the matter in debate.
the Peoples' Party, moved a vote of confidence. Thes from various treaty institutions and present a ensuing debate speedily revealed the precarioususeable rupture. He continued: "We shall jobsin the best guarantee of security in the opinion of the Government's position. Von Seeckt's dearges, i were the subject of a lively discussion in the lob Poch and Petalu by consolidating our present bies and the Communists unsuccessfully endeavour sitions to the occupied territories.
PUBLIC GALLERY CLEARED,, *
PARIS, November 23. ** Tumalt arose at one paint during M. Poincaré's fotech, necessitating a temporary adioumiment and learance of the public gallery. M. Foincaré stated the French negotiators had signed the Peace
THE OFFENDING DECREES.
BERLIN, November 23. General Von Seeckt, as the supreme executive authority in the Reich, has forbidden and dissolved all.organisations and institutions of the Nationality in opposition to the President [M. Poincaré National-Socialist and Communist parties and is also ordered the confiscation of their property. Và
GOVERNMENT RESIGNS,”
BERLIN, November 24.
The Stresemann-government has resigned.
HOME ELECTIONS:
MANY TRIANGULAR
held the post at the time] and Marshal Foch. "Then
y did you accept the treaty?," shouted a Deputy. Intended to resign, but the Presidents of the Chamber and the Senate, also Marshal Foch, asked the të remain ” replied M. Poincaré,
Anotable intermipter was M. Mandel, former Secretary to M. Clemencats, who refused to sit Town until the House was adjoumed.
RUHR AGREEMENT.
PARIS, Nóvember. #3.. Mi Poincaré annoanted in the Chamber, amid eers, that an agreement had been reached be- Ween the Allies and almost all the Ruhr industrial-
ts for the resumption of deliveries in kind. 21:
POLITICAL CLOUDS GATHERING.
“SWARAJISTS” (BLA
The number of prospective triangular contests Is larger than anticipated. There will be at least fifteen at Glasgow where Kelvin Grove alone is without a Labour candidate. There is some un easiness in Conservative quarters over the fact that a dozen of Mr. Baldwin's followers are standings Free Traders, lest it might turn the scale agala the tariff budget. The Liberals are still convince that they will at least become the second largest
LONDON, November 23. party. Far from combining against the Tories, a very keen fight is developing between Liberals vincial Councils recently dissolved on the com
The Indian Legislative Assembly and Pro- and Labourites. Thus Mr. MacNamara, in his elec-pletion of triennial terms. Elections are tion address at Camberwell, where the contest is proceeding and will conclude in mid-December. triangular, appeals to electors to deal a crushing blow both to Protection and Sazialism. Mr. Árthu Henderson speaking at Newcastle, declared tha the attitude of the Liberals and Conservatives in some constituencies looked commonly like an unholy alliance to defeat the Labour putty.
CHICAGO MEAT PACKERS.
ARGUMENT WITH GOVERNMENT.
now
The two main Indian piities are the Liberals, who are still willing to assist the British., and the Swarajists or Non-Cooperators. The elections hitherto have been characterised by apathy and it is estimated that only forty per cent. of the elector- ate are voting. The outstanding feature has been the success of the Swaraj candidates, particularly in the Bombay Presidency where they won 25 seats out of sixty. Elsewhere the results are very in- complete but in Bengal a sensation was caused by the defeat of S. R. Dis, Advocate-General and leader of the Constitutional Party, by a Swarajist. The Liberal reverses are attributed to inferior or ganisation, the belief that they will be subservient and the dissatisfaction with the Kenya settlement, the Viceroy's exercise of his prerogative as regards the salt tax and his announcement that India must salt for six years for a revision of the constitution. ablest Indian politicians have been defeated at the The outlook fe gloomy: Already several of the polls and replaced by men who are determined to hamper the work of the Government if unreason-
CHICAO, November 23. Mr. Swift, President of Swift and Company, the meat packers, has sent a letter to Mr. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, declaring that only upon" a direct order of the court would representatives of able domands are not conceded. The Swarajists' the Department of Agriculture be permitted to ex-refuse to concede us effective control of the election manifesto declared that "should the British amine his firm's books. Mr. Swift draws attention machinery of Government, our members will resort to the fact that no charges are pending against his to a policy of uniform and continuous obstruction Company and argues that if the Government is with a view to making government through the empowered to majutsin accountants permanently, at Assembly and Councils impossible." the offices of Swift and Company it would also be empowered to establish such accountants per manently in all business offices in the country. It is believed that other packing companies will sup- port Mr. Swift:
ARRESTED BELGIAN OFFICIALS.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S REGRETE
BRUSSELS, November 23, The German chargé d'affaires has expressed to the Foreign Ministry the German Government's regrets at the arrest in Lelpilg of the Balgo French Control Commissionerė.
IRISH PRISONERS.
FED UP.
COTTON-GROWING IN AUSTRALIA
FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS' OFFER.
MELBOURNE, November 23.
In connection with the scheme for cottongrow- ing in the Northern Territory the Federal Govern ment is offering leases in perpetuity of 57 blocks of thousand acres each rent free for the lifetime of thejessees or twenty-one years from the com- mencement of the leases, whichever is longer. This - is the first definite stap to establish cotton-growing.
in the Northern Territory
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CLAIM AGAINST CLAN LINE.
LONDON, November 23. The House of Lords his. wed the appeal of the Standard.Olf Company! New York, from the
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