MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1925.
TORCHLIGHT-OBSEQUIES.
PRESIDENT'S MIDNIGHT PASSING.
SOLEMN BERLIN SCÈNES.
Highest Honours for Former Saddler.
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Scenes that must have stirred the imagination were witnessed in Berlin in connection with the death of Herr Ebert, Germany's President, who began life as a saddler,
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TROOPS MUTINY,
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOYANG'GENERAL'S FLIGHT.
FINANCIAL SALVATION.
FRANCE'S FIRST “ UNIFIED ” BUDGET.
1850
Seventy-Five Tours
of Progress and Service
1925
MONEY FROM GERMANY
Chamber of Deputies' All-Night Sitting.
At the cost of "heavy sacrifices for the people" France has LANE, CRAWFORD'S
country. balanced her budget to secure the "financial salvation" of the
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(Reuter's Service.)
Peking, March 1. out by e Ching-y's Peking According to information given representative, troops, formerly under the contund of Chung Fu King George's Sympathy. hi and Li Chi-chen, but subse Berlin is deeply moved by Herr
(Reuter's Service.) Ebert's death and manifestationally recruited by Kan Yu-kun,
have tinied at Loyang. respect are everywhere appar- Kar Yakon bas fel. Нім
Paris, March 1. ent. All theatres and cinema's whereabouts are unkndwa, have been closed, race meetings
The Chamber of Deputies, after la Ching-Yi's forces have sur: an all-night sitting, passed by cancelled. and performance
other places.
balancing the Budget at 84,180,000,000 francs.
of
REPARATIONS PAYMENTS. people, but they would agree therato for the 'Bnancial salvation. of the country.
M. Herriot pointed out that this was the first unified” budget in which German payments figured, namely 1,250,000,000 franca for 000 for the armies of occupation.
where the coffin of Herr Ebert.music in public places prohibitedded Kan Yu-kun's troops ut 328 to 259 votes the Finance Bill the, general budget, and 660,000,-
Berlin, March 1.. Thousands of torches illu- minated the Tergarten through President of Germany, escorted by Reichswelp police, pissed at midnight from the nursing home
GERMANY'S LATE, PRESIDENT.
Herr Ebert in smiling mood.
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to the Presidential Palace, where it lies in the State Room draped in black and the colours of the Republic:
A memorial service will be held in and outside the Falace on Wednesday. This will be followed by a military parade later and a service in the Reichstag.
The coffin will be sent by rail the sume evening to Heidelberg, Ebert's birthplace for burial on
Thursday,
[Fredrich Ebert, who was born in 1872, was the first President of the German Republic' after the abdication of Wilhelm II. in 1918: He was the son of a tailor and
berrime a saddler. In 1897 he was editor of the Socialist newspaper "Burgerzeitung." He was elected to the central directorate of the German Social Democratic Party in 1907 and to the Reichstag in 1912 Throughout the war he was a leading member, in company with Scheidemann. Hease, Bern- stein, and others of the Majority Socialist party.j
until after Wednesday. Only Ching-yi has sent Divisional solemn music may be bronicasted.Loader Yes Wei-chun to Loyang to King George was among the nike control and restore order; " earliest to transmit condolences to Yoo arrived at Loyang at eleven the family. The French Presio lock this morning.
from.
dent, Prime Minister and Presi The report adds that Liu Chen. dent of the Senate also conveyed hun, hearing the report of the their sympathies and remarkable Mutiny, del to Siant tributes were paid by the, Rainhaiong, capitalist and reactionary press.. Nevertheless there is an under- current of anxiety among the Democrats leat Herr Ebert's death precipitate a conflict be- tween Republicans and Mon- archists
The London Sunday papers re- fer to the dead President in high terms and dwell upon his tact, moderation and good sense, which they consider had no little part in what internal strength the Ger- map Republic attained.
END OF THE WORLD!
AMERICAN EARTHQUAKE
ALARM,
TERRIFYING SCENIS.
Peuter's American Service.)
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New York. March 1. One man was killed and two women were seriously injured through being shaken off the platform of an elevated railway during the earthquake shock yesterday evening which was felt as far north as Sudbury in Canada, as far south as Florence in South Carolina and as far west as Winconsin.
The seismograph at Fordham University recorded an earth movement of one-thirtieth of an inch
GOOD NEWS.
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HIS MAJESTY MUCH: BETTER.
(Reuter's Serviss.).
London, Felmuary 28.. His Majesty the King is making good progress, gaining strength
daily.
The weakness, due to influenza, has practically passed
His Majesty is considerably less troubled by Bronchitis, but is not yet convalescent.
Therefore, a definite date for departure to the Mediterrean has not yet been fixed.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSIÓN.
Rio de Janeiro, February 28, Up to the present it has been ascertained that over one hundred have been killed and six hundred injured as the result of an explo- sion at the oil depût at Nictheroy, Three thousand a suburb of Rio.
houses have been destroyed.
The explosions, of which there were fifty in the space of two hours, occurred in a warehouse at Caju Island, near Nicthöroy, where considerable quantities of dynamite, petrol and kerosene were stored. Ignition was due to the heat from a burning lighter The tremor was most intense moored nearby. The victims are in the Eastern part of the United chiefly Brazilian labourers and States since 1755 and caused firemen. Many deaths are report great excitement in parts of Newed from fright. The roof of the York, people rushing from their Phenix Theatre at Rio crashed homes, pictures and crockery"fall. ing, and chairs and, chandeliers
Many big Broadway buildings Were shaken, though the crowds
were not disturbed.
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Rio de Janeiro, March 1. The death roll in the Caju explosion is not so high as feared in the confusion of the moment: Though it was known that at least ten were killed and three
M. Loucheur. said the Bill
NEW TAXES. The Finance Bill includes the imposed heavy sacrifices on the following import taxes: ten francs per quintal on sugar, 61 francs on cocoa, 62 on tea, and 6 on ride; also 22 francs per kilo on cattle or, meat, and 11 on veal, pork, mutton and beef, with a reduction of one half for frozen meat.
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PACIFIC FEARS,
Washington, February 28. Testifying before the Aircraft Committee, Admiral Sims assert- ed that the aeroplane would hold. the key to the next war. "If Japan attacked Hawaii" with a fleet of twelve aeroplane carriers
Delhi, February 28. and other auxiliary craft without In the Assembly, Sir Basil battleship, she would have an Binckett, in his Budget state- advantage over the American bat-ment, announced that the surplus that the American position in the instead of the estimated eighteen Pacific was unfortunate. "If we lakhs. He said he had budgeted are to protect the Philippines we for three and a quarter crores must have a base in the Pacific. surplus next year. Military It is absolutely essential that this expenditure had been 83% crores line of communication should be less than was expected. The kept open, and if Guam, is seized estimate for the coming year was we shall be unable to go to the 67 crores. Added Customs Philippines until it is recaptured. changes had been negligible, cou- sisting of slight reduction in motor spirit and abolition" of the import duty, on grain. He pro Admiral Sims said that if posed remission of 21⁄2 crores of Guam were defended our fleet Provincial. contributions. 'He could refuel there and then go to had taken one shilling and eight- the Philippines. He was of the pance as the exchange rate for opinion that the United States the coming year. He stated that should not have taken up the posi- twelve crores will be borrowed in tion at the Washington armament India. There will be no external conference that prevented it loan-Reuter. fortifying Guam, but military men thought it best to enter into an agreement with Japan about naval buses in the Pacific as they could not get the money to defend it.
tleships." He was of the opinion" for the year was four crores
We shall be unable to go by Guam, as it will leave our whole line open to attack."
He declared that the arma ments race was still going on, Great Britain had fifty cruisers and Japan thirty built or build ing, Japan had also laid down about eighty-three thousand tons of submarines since the war.
Mr. Sullivan, of the House of Representatives, said that Gen eral Mitchell had been severely criticised for saying the Philip.. pines could be seized in a fort- night. He asked Admiral Sims for his opinion.
The latter replied: "I quite agree, but added later that he thought it most improbable Japan would ever take them.-Reuter's American Service.
DEATH SENTENCES..
Lahore, March 1. The Baber Akali conspiracy case has concluded, five of the accused being sentenced to death, eleven to life imprisonment and thirty-eight to between three years and seven years' imprison-
jed. The Akalis are fanatle Sikhs, ment. Thirty-four were acquitt who some time ago claimed shrines as endowments, which orthodox Sikhs opposed. A num- ber of priests were murdered on refusing to hand over the temples, and soldiers and police, including British officers, were killed in subsequent bloodshed. When this was suppressed, conspiracies were started involving loss of life. The Baber Akalis carried on anti- British propaganda in "Germany and America during wartime, The acquitted were greeted with in the course of a statement before, "Satiskiatal," meaning "God is a chorus from the dock of the Senate Foreign Affairs Con- immortal."-Reliter. mittes on the subject of Inter-Allied BITING CRITICISM.
debts, said the French debt would have to be subject to a reduction * equivalent to that which the French ed with conspiracy to overthrow London, February 28.
claim on Germany had sustained, the Government, also murder and delegation to
The report of the Trade Union and an account must be taken of dacoity. The movement of this Russia evokes the British claim on Russia, whose notorious sect is now regarded as caustic comment in most quarters lack of assets should not recoil on ended with the conviction of the and is variously described as France. France, Italy and Rumania leadere, eyewash and Soviet whitewash. simply refused to pay unless the Most biting criticisms come from question of reparations" was taken the Liberal papers.
into account.-Reuter.
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Earlier Cables. Herr Ebert died without regain-swaying. ing consciousness. His wife and children and The Secretary of State, Herr Mdisener were at his bedside.
The news came as a villagers proceeded to church,
Two hundred New Hampshire hundred injured, many workmen great shock, as a previous report fearing the end of the world was.
on the island sayed their lives by sail that his condition was im-
flight, foreseeing the inevitable coming... proving.
when the lighters from Ottawa
explosion General 'mourning has been
caught fire. Cafgoes of petrol seímograph ordered for Herr Ebert, the ports indicated
and kerosene were spread on the the epicen former saddler, whose dignity and tre of the disturbance
waters in the harbour-Reuter's tact in six years occupation of the 400 miles east of Ottawa in the
was American Service. highest position in the State vicinity of Saguenay. river, enhanced the prestige he always Quebec. The nearest record of enjoyed. His death confronts the the epicentre showed a quarter of country with a difficult problem. an inch movement." The Presidential elections decur in. April or May. There is a lack of suitable candidates. Among political leaders the names of the Conservative ex-Speaker Wallraf, General Mackensen, Luther, Marx and the Socialist Loebe are men- tioned. Herr Luther has the advantage of being acting Presi- dent. His election will signify a Conservative victory. Herr Marx will have the support of a section of the Republicans, but the fact negotiations for which have Been tour.
that he is a Roman Catholic may prejudice his chances.
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Many people fainted with alarm in eastern Canadian cities.
NEW TRADE FACT.
Paris, February 28, The French and German repre- sentatives have signed the nine month modus vivendi lariff, pre paratory to ultimate conclusion of
a general commercial treaty, continued throughout the whole
Paris, February 28M. Herriot.
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The Babar Akalis were charg-
Rangoon, February 28.-The The "Daily Chronicle" says
Legislative Council has rejected the that from end to end the report is
recommendation lo accept the evidence of stage management,
Boston, February 28-Judge. British Empire Exhibition'a offer which began at the frontier and Morton has decided that the of £10,000 to secure Burma's
seizure of the Marjorie Bachman participation.-Reuter. proceeding for several months, depend upon interpreters who for forfeit tre of the slip and cargo. retorship reached the Elbe after
The delegates had to is illegal and has ordered the dis
nissal of the Government request Berlin, February - '28.—The characterised by a series of dead were specially selected English- Echo of Scandal.
locks,
necessitating frequent men because of known Bolshevik He ruled that the use of speed stormy North Sea crossing. The Moreover Luther, Marx and return of the German delegates to sympathies.
boats capable of faster speeds than German Mercantile Marine Officers' in conference al Stresemann are all held responsi- Berlin. It is believed political The Westminster Gazette" the ordinary commercial craft to Association, ble for the scandal in connection factors are to some extent respon- points out that the delegates had purchase liquor from foreign vessels Hamburg, refused to endorse the with the compensation paid to sible for the difficulties; also the little time to see much for them-anchored, an hour's rail of the cluinis made for the rotors. Ruhr magnates after the French fact that the Germans have selves, in view of the wide area and quite outside the purpose and Scotland was something of a fiance. coast, was a mere entrapment speakers declared that the trip to occupation. Much depends on insisted on
the general most they covered and the functions intent of the Anglo-American The rators and rotor power, were whether each party will nominate favoured nations treatment) organised in their honour. The. its own candidate, or whether which the French are precluded document is so worded as to renty.-Reuter's American Ser only used for four and a half hours,
-Renter. different parties will agree on a from granting under the Customs please both wings of the Labour common candidate. The reaction- law of 1919, which, however, is Party. ary parties may do so, but an circunvented by the limitation of
The "Daily Herald" hails the agreement between the Repub-the most favoured nation clauses report as affording light at last. lican parties is likely. This extra to specific categories of goods, The "Morning Poat" says the ordinary position exists owing to while certain cases of preferential Socialist leaders, had done their tariffs will be renched by gradual-best to hinder emigration to the
the failure of the founders of the stages to enable the French in- Dominions, but if the report German Constitution to provide dustry to acclimatise proper legal machinery for the thereto. As regards products in unable to stop the rush to Russia. itself becomes popular even they will be "election of a new President in the Alsace Lorraine exported to Ger--Reuter. interregnum necessary till the many, France temporarily obtains Reichstag passes a law providing preference, but the question will!
New London, March 1.-The
the election of a President by be re-opened before the conclusion coastguard cutter Red. Wing is plebiscite.
Coming Election.
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of the German Constitution con
of the treaty-Reuter,
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towing the two masted British schooner C. A. Anderson into Providence harbour, where the
Munile, February 28.The crew of nine will be arraigned for tained in an earlier message from 0.88. Huron has been drydocked entering United States faters while Berlin, a further telegram states An examination, showed a number bound for a foreign destination) that it is anticipated the election of plates and rivets had sprung: The Anderson was brought in hore of n President by plebiscite will be It is estimated the damage will by the destroyer Jouett after being held within six weeks under an take ten days to repair--Reuter.
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necessitates a candidate securing
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