FRIDAY, MARCH 13 1
HELPLESS LEAGUE.
BRITAIN'S
POLICY DEFINED
"NEED FOR BRUTE FORCE.
Economic Sanctions As a Weapon for Peace.
と
That the League of Nations must be able to enforce the Covenant "by "hrute force" is one of the polnts in Britain's policy as regards the
proposed Protocol.
AMERICA'S ATTITUDE.
(Reuter's Service.)
GENEVA, March 12. Mr. Chamberlain said the work of the League continues to be beneficent and promising. Though Americi remains in friendly aloofness, Individual American's have extended their sympathy and service with generosity.
It would be very unwise to add to the liabilities already incurred by the League without considering the machinery of the Covenant, which was already weakened by the abstention of certain States.
The change, especially as regards economic sanctions, amounted to a transformation,
Economic sanctions would be a weapon of incalculable power, but the mere existence of powerful economic communities outside the League changed all that.
PROTECTING THE AGGRESSOR.
Referring to clause fifteen of the Protocol, Mr. Chamberlain said His Majesty & Government did not desire to relieve the aggressor of his duty of repairing the damage. The Government strongly held the view that frontiers should be neither lightly made nor lightly violated The Government accepted the print ciple of sovereign States managing their own affairs but considered it unwise to embody these generali- ties in dogmas of inflexible rigidity applicable to alt circum- stances and all time.
His Majesty's Government failed RO SCO why the League should deliberatoly deprive itself of the discretion which all other tribunals were free to exercise in dealing ➡ith unprovoked aggression or barbarous war.
Mr. Chamberlain said the second half of clause Afteen protected the aggressor, and asked whether in such a case the "League was to do nothing better than to ask for
money.
THE VITAL NEED. The additions, made to the original covenant had destroyed its balance and altered the spirit and emphasis laid on sanctions, milliary procedure, etc.
He suggested that the vital business of the League was not so much promotion of friendly co- operation and reasoned harmony as the preservation of peace organising for war, perhaps on the Jargest scale.
The British Government held the opinion that anything leading to the idea that the main business of the League was war rather than peace was likely to weaken its fundamental task.
·BRUTE FORCE- NEEDED."
Mr. Chamberlain asked: Why -should disarmament immediately
follow acceptance of the Protocol? Why should a new scheme succeed when an old one had lamentably failed? The Covenant, if kept, will afford protection. But what the objectors doubt is when it comes to a point will the Covenant be
kept.
Brute force was what either some faithless member of the League or some predatory nation outside would fear, and brute force only could in their own view give the security
they needed. His see how this would be bettered by Majesty's. Government failed to
the Protocol.
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the nations concerned by means. of treaties framed to maintain an: unbroken peace, t
No quicker remedy could be found against future calamities,
FRANCE UPHOLDS PROTOCOL.
GENEVA, March 12. M. Briand (France) after dwelling on the importance of Mr. Cham- 'berlain's speech, defended the protocol which he said was nothing but a development of the Covenant, He did not believe there was any British statement. France stood thing formal or decisive in the
by the Protocol but was not op- posed to amendment thereof.
M. Briand concluded by reading the French Government's state ment in favour of the Protocol.
VARIED OPINIONS."
DR SUN YATS
DEADHEAD
*GÉNEROUS IDEAS
E-BUT
WAR AGAINST LO
FRENCH PAPER'S ESTIMATE.
RUINED BY PERPETUAL VAIN AGITATION.
(Reuter's Service)·
PARIS, March 12 In their obituary notices of Dr, Sun Yat-sen the evening papers. pay a tribute to his patriotism, while regretting his latter-day Bolshevist proclivities.
The Temps says that Dr. Sun had generous ideas but ruined his reputation by ignorance of the conditions of sound policy, and by perpetual vain agitation.
PEKING TRIBUTES.
PEKING, March 12.
called at the residence of the late All the members of the Cablost
Sun Yat-sen" and, expressed their condolences...
M. Karakhan, Soviet Ambas- sador, also called, and the Embassy flag was lowered to half-mast.
The Cabinet meeting to be held to-day was suspended, and in- structions were issued to official
organisations to place their flags
at half-mast
GENEVA, March 12. (Signor Scialoja (Italy) agreed to some of Mr Chamberlain's
The funeral arrangements have criticisms and accepted the prinot yet been announced, but it is ciple of defensive pacts under the understood that the Government League.
have expressed their intention of holding a memorial ceremony in the Temple of Agriculture.^-
Baron Ishii (Japan) declared that Japan had not yet completed her study of the Protocol. She ap preciated the lofty sentiments animating last year's adoption thereof.
M. Hymans (Belgium) said he was convinced the protocol would ultimately bear fruit.
The South American delegates affirmed their solidarity to the League.
M. Mello Franco (Brazil) stated that the British statement must not discourage the world.
EALIER CABLES.
GENEVA, March 12 Mr. Chamberlain, addressing the Council of the League of Nations announced that His Majesty's advisers, after discussing the protocol with the representatives of the Dominions and India, were unable to sign or ratify it in its present form.
"HIS FRIEND LENIN."
(Reuter's Service.)
Peking, March 12-Sun Yat-sen.) left two wills, one addressed to. his Kuomintang colleagues, the other dealing with the disposition of his personal property.
stated
BEWARE
FOUR HUNDRED
BLASE AND BORED.
Marie Lohr's Husband Stops Snowstorm,
"I'm fed up with them. Blase and bored, they come to first nights with jaded appetitcs merely to say, I was presentit and Ka"
Thus My Anthony Prinsep, the and seventeen-shillings for dress London theatrical manager, on circle seats for the first night.of London's exclusive four-Offenbach's "The Grand Duchess," hundred.""
opening at the Globe. There' will be nb first night list of free seats, and I hope by this means to keep out of my theatre those who think they have a sort of prescriptive right to a free seat for every first night.
He has declared bitter war on them, and now, if they wish to be present, it will cost them 41 4s
cost them for stalls.
Ban Mr. Prinsep has declared war on the theatrical dendheads" who, because of social status or other influence, obtain free stalls for first-night performances at most. theatres...
"I am charging," he says, "twenty-four shillings for stalls
EGYPT'S ELECTIONS.
EXTREMISTS STRONG
SHOWING
(Reuter's Service,)
Cairo, March 12. for Parliament up to the present The results of the final elections
are as follows:-Zaghlulists 97; others 98..
ng
Fourteen results are Zaghlul himself has been re- elected.
"There are about. four hundred
of these first-nighters in London, and I'm tired of most of them. They come to the theatre blase and bored, their palates jaded by years of first mighting. They are predisposed to criticise adversely, and many of them are totally incapable of judging the merits of a new play, merely wanting to be present for the sake of saying, We were present,
"They wouldn't dream of going to a theatre except on a first night, and they go about belittling what they have seen and doing all the harm they can. I'm fed up with them !!!
FAMINE RELIEF. (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)
Peking, March 12. The annual meeting of the International Famine Relief Com- mission was opened this morning.
The meeting was attended by representatives of all the provin- cial committees, except Shanghai. "The Chairman of the Commis- sion, Mr. M. T. Liang, In the course of his opening address, said "We find that the Shang- outstand-hai Committee has $450,000 lock
ed up in mortgages, which should be employed in relief of famine. The retention of this fund by Shanghai has been the subject of such very severe criticism in Tientsin DEFIANCE.impel the American Cham- ber of Commerce to pass resolu- tions on it, and other groups may add their voice of disapprobation. The matter, is becoming serious, and it devalves upon the delegates. here to indicate definitely to the incoming executive commtîtee what action they should take, so the apirit in which the fund was as to have this sum employed in donated...
CHALLENGE TO SENATE OPPONENTS.
ATTORNEY-GENERALSHIP
ISSUE.
(Reuter's American Service.)
the contents of these documents Wang Ching-hual announced
this morning. The first "for the past forty years I have engaged myself la national revolution, the alm whereof has. been to secure freedom and PRESIDENT'S equality for China. From my experience I know well that to gain such ends we must urge the masses to co-operate with, those races have treated us equally. Since of the world that
the revolution is not yet completed, all my colleagues The British Government did ought to strive continually. In ac not believe that the protocol, as it cordance with my writings on the stood, provided the most suitable plan of national construction, method of attempting the task it outline of reconstruction, three was intended to perform. He people theory and my declaration had not had time personally to at the first delegates conference Attorney-Generalship. India and the Dominions, but had cation of the National Conference the Senate by 47 votes to 39 reject- confer with the representatives of in Cantos. Regarding the conyo [After over a month's debate, heen in telegraphic communication and the abolition of unequaled Mr Warren's nomination for with the Dominions. Canada was unable to accept the protocol.ed, you must work speedily to President Coolidge supported. A treaties which I recently advocat the Attorney Generalship, which Reuter.
achieve these objects.
wave of applause swept galleries when the rejection- was announced.]
DOMINIONS HOSTILE.
Empire's sympathy
Mr. Chamberlain stressed the main themes of the protocol, but with the changes which had been made in the protocol were formal
the
Sun Yat-sen's other will states: "I have sacrificed myself for national affairs so that I have no property. What I have left con- house, all of which go to my wife sists only of books, clothes and my as a remembrance. My son and my daughters are already grown up rather than substantial, and able to live on their own aiming at theoretical completeness means. I hope they follow my rather than practical effect, and footsteps. accomplishing nothing of impor disarmament, It appeared from tance to the cause of peace and telegraphic communications that Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India were also unable to accept the protocol. He said he was not yet in possession of the views of the Irish Free State.
CANADA'S DEFENCE. -
(Reuter's American Service.)
OTTAWA, March 12. Neil, Independent member for In the House of Commons, Mr.
British Columbia, moved.. that Canada should consider the question of the defence of our sea coast, our ocean-borne lines and commerce, and urged that Committee should consider the of sanctions was certainly neces matter with a view to framing a
SANCTIONS ESSENTIAL,
While every scheme of sanctions was open to criticism, some scheme
a
PEACEFUL DEATH.
WASHINGTON, March 12. President Coolidge has thrown down the gauntlet to his opponents in the Senate by agalo submitting Mr. Warren's name for the
the
MOVEMENT TO SUPPRESS INDIA'S OPIUM.
TRAFFIC.
(Reuter's Serolée.)
DELHI, March 12. In the Assembly Mr. Duraiswami Alyangar moved that the opium grant be omitted from the
died peacefully at half past nine, effective speech.
A Bulletin says
Estimates. He urged cessation of Sun Yat-sen the opium traffic. Dr. Datta, in an being conscious to the Inst. Yes suppression of the traffic and a terday afternoon he issued final number
urged the instructions respecting several
members Mr. Ramchandrarao moved the appointment of a committee of investigation.
matters and informed his wife that he wished to be embalmed and placed in a casket similar to that of his friend Lenin, and be buried on Tiger Hill, Nanking."
He conversed with friends until His body has been sent to the Peking an hour, before his death
Ualon Medical College for em balming and a telegram sent to Moscow asking for the immediate despatch of a casket like Lenin's. The body will remain in state probably in Central Park for two or three weeks until the casket
sary as without it the League would | Canadian defence policy, pointing afrives.
be as insecure as civilised society without magistrates or police.
His Majesty's Government might be content to say it preferred the Covenant unamended to the Covenant amended by the Protocol, but it did not wish to be merely critical.
They were willing to consider the possibility of approaching the question from the state unsuccess fully attempted in 1923.
out that Canad's ten thousand mile coast line was defenceless. He was of the opinion that the League of Nations was a source of weakness, which, Britsip would not have entered if she Ind thought the United States would remain aloof. Mr Neil believed that wir might occur any day in the Pacife, and Canide should not be dèfon istens.
FOR CHIA'S GOOD. (Reuter's Service.)
Amb
THE QUICKEST REMEDY.
Mr. Chamberlain concluded by saying that sice the genera pruvi. sions of the Coveanut catast vantageously bestifeard and dece extrenie Cases with wild and Esiter my League might have to ded wand i mafestori probably affect certaa nationis, of | Murnik 1. RISPRA Df nations are porxAAN
others, Fins Majesty's Government had come to the cop lusiva thi tas lovey da -best-way-to-deal-witir die ait estem ziņ
was to supplement the Covenant by special arrange nents to meer·lectates a special needs. These must be Jiershilly an purely defensive, la spirit will the wou do Covenaut, and lu close harmoar the pr with the League. These would be but a c ìbost attained by knitting together, only on
DANDÓN. Məcli ca
Co vidze U Jveri Co.Sites War
BRITAIN'S ARMY.
(Reuter's Servico.)
LONDON, March 12 The army estimates for 1925- 1926 re £44.5CD,500 compared with £45,000,000 for 1924-1925. The estantisment of the regular army is 10,000 is compared with 161,000 last year, luckidjog 4,000 Indian mups employed in the air minig- by at Toge? The-reda tion is due qoidaïistrative economics Faers is my redaction In the fighte fuero is a shortage of Ta tree thiusand debugging" ja "the British army,
VIR BAITS6, 1896)3*74*Tian" we are "Approxinstely-up to
Kontrolling during the past und on={! by aunts has been die
only 30,000 rectulis wire plained out of 34,000 Britt, de l'agenoly Enearny reservoi SI TRATTA SA ad the territorial army.
of Indian
supported him.
The debate was adjourned.
1.5 to
BRITAIN'S TRADE.
IMPORTS STILL EXCEED EXPORTS.
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, March 12. The Board of Trade returns for February are as follows:--
£12,897,000 and exports £69,350,000 Imports £110,147,000 and Exports £69,330,000; compared with imports,
in January.
STORM HAVOC. (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.).
Osaka, March 12, A message from Sakai states
were smashed by a sudden gust of that two aerodromes, together with a number of hydroplanes, wind which awept over Western Japan this morning.
12-Arrange-
Peking, March ments have been completed for the floating of a domestic loan of
cent.
Tokyo, March 12-An elabor- $15,000,000 secured an the customs is being worked out for the mem-years. The price is ninety and ate programme of entertainment revenues over a period of ten bers of the French business men's the Interest eight per mission, which is arriving early Amortisation, will begin with the cludes an audience of the Prince three years will be deposited with in April. The programme in- fourth year. The interest for Regent, visits to Nikko, Nagoya, foreign banks. Repayment will Kyoto and elsewhere. The hosts be made from the German boxer will include the Foreign Office, indemnity fund, which is at present. Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, serving thirteenth year treasury etc.Courtesy of the "Daily bills which by then will have been Bulletin.
redeemed.--Reuter.
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