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GERMAN WAR GUILT.
STATEMENT BY HERR STRESEMANN.
DENIAL RE LEAGUE TALK.
MISQUOTATION IS ALLEGED.
(Reuter's Service.)
BERLIN, September 14. Herr Stresemann, the German Premier, denies that he is responsible for the statement as regards Germany's condition for entering the League of Nations, cabled on Septembee3/
This message stated that an authoritative state- ment has been Issued emphasis-- ing that Germany cannot enter the League of Nations until the war gullt question has been solved. The Covenant will have to be altered more favourably to wards Germany before she enters the League, on the Council of which she must bc allocated 8 permanent and elective 20
not seat.
Gustaz Strescia maza
WAS MISQUOTED. Herr Stresemano declares that he has been misquoted.
His view is that Germany's entry into the League must not be made conditional on-recogni. tion of her alleged responsibility for the war.
The German Government holds the same views on this question as its predecessota.
MOROCCO.
INTENTIONS, OF SPAIN.
REDUCING NUMBER OF POSTS,
(Reuter's Service.)
$
PARIS, September 14. A message from Madrid states that the situation In the Western zone in Morocco shows improve
ment.
The road between Ceuta and Tetuan has been cleared of rebels.
The Military Directory does not intend to abandon Spain's rights in Morocco, but proposes merely to reduce the number of positions held.
WHALLEY ABBEY.
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WHITE MONKS.
THE DOLLAR, To-day's closing rate: 2/4 11/16: To-day's opening rate: 2/4 13/16
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VIEWS OF BARON HAYASHI. «
INTERVENTION TOO COSTLY
MILITARY GUARDS SUGGESTED.
(Router's Service.).
LONDON, September- Baron Consukė. Hayashi, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, has granted an interview.to the Sunday Times" on the position in China.
The Ambassador asked how the Powers could intervene In China unless prepared to spend a lot of money, which the United States and Japan
were not prepared to do.
MILITARY GUARDS,
He thinks little can be done át present beyond each Power protecting the lives and property of its nationals.
፡፡ Ho suggests the establishment of small military guards along the principal railways, either Chinese or foreign ; or herhaps Chinese under an interie- tional body of officers.
TIME NOT RIPE.
Ir will be time for the Power to intervene uɛe- fully and offer combined assistance when a definite- decision has been reached in the struggle or when all claimants have been exhausted."
Japanese statesmen to-day, Baron Hayashi said," recognise that their predecessors made a mistake in refusing to support Yuan Shi-kat as the British were prepared to do.
Bagon Hayashi testified to Chang „Tec-lin's military and commercial ability
AMERICA'S DECISION.
»
The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the United States Government has decided to co-operate in the defence of American and other foreign lives and property, in China. But no intervention of a forcible character is contemplated. Sanction of Congress is required
for this.
DUBLIN'S PLIGHT.
MUNICIPAL WORKERS ON STRIKE.
London, July 29.--A strike of Dublin on Saturday threatens to municipal workers which began in
jeopardise the success of the two chief events of the city's 1924 sea- son-the Tailteann Games and the Horse Show.
The Games, which are the Gaelic
Cromwell's men, and build a great rampart along the north side. Perhaps that is why there is no stone now standing of the Abbey church, except a minute fragment of great arch at the west end; and why the refectory and the dorter Some seven miles north of
and the kitchen are clean gone. Blackburn, on the great road that
A little judicious excavation sug leads through Clitheroe to
gests the main lines of the church. Hellifeld, lies the village of It must have been very long; and, Whalley; and on the edge of the unlike most Cistercian churches, it village lie the remnants of a very seems to have had aisles along the large abbey, says a writer in The Times." The Abbey of Whalley "ave, as well as the usual north and is little known compared with south transepts, to make the Latin some of its neighbours over the cross, and a Lady Chapel cast of the south transept. Its tower, Yorkshire border; but partly doubtless low and plain like ali perhaps, because It is Jess true Cistercian towers, seems to frequented by travellers, and have stood separate from the partly because of its Ochurch, a little on the north. But peculiarly pathetic charm, it is a still, among these green lawns, very pleasant place to spend a peacock-trodden, and flower-beds day in.
Whalley was the last of the and fine trees, one may see the abbeys founded in England by the house, the parlour, the warming lower portions of the chapter Cistercians, or White Monks. In obedience to the rule laid down rooms, and then the fragment of for them by those reformers of the the great staircase that led up to taken the place of the dissolved
the dorter.
Benedictines, St Bernard and
towers
equivalent of the Greek Olympiad, begin on Friday, and the Horse Show next week. Already a start has been made with an elaborate scheme to decorate the city.
powerhouse, gasworks, and cleans
About 2,000 men, including ing department employees, are on strike. The streets have not been and at night they are in darkness. swept since Saturday morning,
The Commissionera, who have
Stephen Harding, the English-born The Infirmary kitchen is there, Corporation, have decided to turn Abbot of Citeaux,, the Cistercians in its usual place away to the all the sewage into the Liffey always chose remote and desolate to be seen, whole or in part:.the able choking of the sewers which
south-east; and there are towers rather than risk the almost inevit spots. How much assuagement did they find from the extreme austeri great outer gate on the west, the must follow a strike at the out- ty of their life in the natural entrance gate on the north, the falls. The Liffey has a moat un- beauty that nearly always attends south. And the cloister garth is times, but Dubliners shudder to over the river on the savoury reputation at the best of such spots? The Abbey of Whalley there, chopped up by later walls, think of what will happen if the very likely had no such trees but still distinct in shape; and all strike lasts more than a few days. to look upon as those which along the western side of it is the A contemplated wages reduction now make beautiful its ruins: maltreated shell of a very beauti was the cause of the trouble, and but wooded Whalley Knap was ful and interesting building, two the men went on strike after the there and the distant moors when storeys high, which was probably authorities had decided to submit the monks lifted up their eyes unto the house of the lay-brothers. The the matter to arbitration. A con- the hills; and the Calder must have Cistercians needed many lay ference will be held fo-day to see been a clear and lovely stream brothers (there were more than when in their masterful way they)
diverted it, to flow close under 350 at Clavaulx) to work on farm if a settlement can be reached. [thoir- walls' and
and garden; and they kept them serve many under very severe discipline.ins different uses. Since their time,
FLANS FOR FUTURE-USE," the river has been sent back to its
Jus how strong and pure a tune it old bad; but the course they made
Discipline, and the purity that was. for it is still plain to see, and so, sowa out of discipline, stamp all The place is cared for, but that the Cisterciansidid, and very | empty.... Before long, however, man say, is that of the canal by plainly their building. To catch, there may once more be active life which they brought some of the sight of the exquisite dittle window where the White Monks lived and immense quantiles of brown stone of the Abbot's private chapel, at worked and prayed. The diocese for building down from Pendle Whalley and then to pass on to the of Manchester has acquired most
CROMWELL'S ATTACKA
Abbot's lodging, remodelled-by-of-the-grounds-and-rying, and, in When the last Abbot of Whallay Keneration after generation, and conjunction with
courtálutwy work that of its kind-is-northern dioceste, intends Abbot Paslew, had been hanged, very good indeed, is to come back a church our of part of the drawn, and quartered-some say,
and to build plates of At Lancaster, some say just above with relief to so much of the convent on Whalley Karp (hi Krade and severe 1
these fragments" preze
Hill.
tomb, with much else of very great at least, there are bo Interest and beauty, is in Whalley Come could eve Parish Church) the Abbey passed
Into lay hands; and little more
than a century later the owners had to defend the place agaION
ins that weste
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