MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1925.
A VITAL *IF "
HINDENBURG AND PRESIDENCY,
WHAT HE WILL DO.
When Personal Wishes Avail Nothing.
Marshal von Hindenburg is a candidate for Germany's next President. Although he is known to be Monarchist, he refuses to. Bay so in direct terms,
MILITARY PANOPLY.
(Reuter's Service.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
PRINCE IN TROPICS.
Heat Too Much For Staff.
NIGERIA INCIDENTS.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS AT POLO.
(Reuter's Service.)
Minna, April 19. The Prince of Wales left Kano this morning enroute for Lagos. His fiest destination is Jindan..
BLOOD FURY.
HIDING COMMUNISTS KILLED.
BOME OUTRAGE INCIDENTS.
Woman Murdered to Preserve Secret.
That the wife of the man who procured the explosives was killed to preserve the secret of the plot is one of the startling statements matte in connection with the Sofia bomb outrage.
PLOTTER'S SUICIDE.
(Router's Service)
L
the Presidential contest on April
The Minister for the Interior, 26 against Marshal Hindenburg,
interviewed, said the Agrarian | whose nominion shows that thei reactionaries have wrested the
Communist "paly had sold itself ¦
· Hanover, April 19. scendancy of the Nationalist
jta foreign interests. The arrest- ¡Sofa, April 19. ed criminal members of the party Standing for an hour like a Party From the Stresaniann The Prince has clearly bencfited Several Agrarian leaders who had made disclosures which made graven image, attired in Fistd-group. Thus the votes given to from the polo yesterday, which support the principle of a conli-the discovery of the authors of Marshals uniform and wearing Hindenburg, though unlikely to was his first ride since March 28tion with the Communists, also cutrage possible. the Iron Fross, Marshal yon secure his return, will be interest-; The intense hent has slightly certain members of the legal The Premier declared the Gov- Hintenlairy this morning reviewing, as an indication of high water affected some members" at the executive bommittee of Com-ernment's determination, to re- cdl a parade of some 2.000 grave park in Gorman nationalism, for Prince's staff, though in nowise munists, were discovered hidden press Communist and Anarchists' stepping members of Nationalist the chances of the third candidate (seriously.
in houses in Sofia.
attempts, The Government is organisations,
Campinated, the Communist Herr [Ibadan is a town in the west Some rusisted and Were killed introducing a Bill to provide This is his first publie mpedy- | Phielmann, are negligible. province of Southern Nigeria, by persons maddened by the loss grants for the families bereaved ance site' his nomination in the Sanifestoes from innumerable capital of the Yoruba states. of relatives in the Cathedral by the explosion. presidentini eléction.
Pretionary organisations anp-It is 12 miles from Lagos." The explosion.
· Interviewed by Reuter, shurshid | si dieally appait for support for town has a British President and
Captain Krtoneff, who is alleged von Hindenburg said that if he is "Our Tather Hindenburg the is a station for Hausa tropps.to have procured the explosives" eftctor President he will net com German, the Christian, the Hero," Silk is made at Ibadan and cotton used in the Cathedral, hus com- stitutionally to protect the nws against Marx, representative of is grown in the vicinity. There uitted suicide. His wife is Bald of the Reich, He is Specially he international Jewish spirit." is a market for cotton there too. to have been killed by the Com interested in the question of the whereto the Socialis and Com- The population is 175,000.)
munists in order to prevent her security per amanteeing the Jomunist newspapers retort with
from revealing the plot. frontiers of France and Belzjum. the invective of "Mass murderer,
Bindenburg asserted that Cegs butcher, bloodhound.” mang's „Enstern Frontier muit he altered by neviations,
fle enigmatictly replied to
A MAN OP WAR
Hindenberg wearing the From Cross,
question whether he favourval a republic or a monarchy by saying personal wishes are of no avail
Spirit of Unity.
Hanover, April 19.` Marshal von Hindenburg, in pursuance of his presidential candidature, this evening received a number of German and forėign journalists..
He read out to them in a vigerous, clear voice a statement of which the theme was the need for restoration for peaceful labour of that spirit of unity which characterized Germany in the war. This would be a unity not concerned with Party politics but an outcome of wholesome feeling. As President of the Reich he would only think of his duty and strive for the best interests of the Fatherland on the basis of the constitution and Germany's pre- sent position in, the 'world,
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A Cathedral servant has been arrested. It is alleged he was bribed to permit a man to place the infernal machine in position.
British M.P's. Mission.
EARLIER CABLES.
Kano, Nigeria, April 18. Despite the long railway It is noteworthy that the Centre journey heye, the Prince of Wales and Democratic organs, while played tennis this evening and jeppasing. treat Hindenburg re-after dinner attended an open air [spectfully, and D. Marx, in his dance which was a veritabile The British members of Parlia- peeches, refers tu Marshal fairyland. Hluminated withment," Messrs. J. Wedgewood Mindenmurg with reverence. It is myriads of coloured lights under labour), P. B. Malone (Conser-. Vignificant. however. that the the staraprinkled African sky,vative) and W. Mackinder prospects of German trade have The whole floor was specially con- (Labour) have arrived in Solia to. Fevrenitly been the dominating note verted from wild bush two miles study the situation:
the campaign, the Marites from Kano in
"The War Minister, in an inter- a space of six ing the recent slump in the weeks.
view, declared an increase in the Joreign loan musket as an argu- Though only 130 white people formy was indispensable to muin- Hi against the Nationalists, are resident in Kano, five hundred tuin order Steps would be taken ad the latter labelling Movs as whites attended the dance, mostly to conscript an additional 70,000
anti-capitalist cunditate on uniformed officials from all parts men. ount of his Socialist support. of the Northern Territory. The 3 electors ng confronted with guests included twenty-five Euro- bewildering ass of teatle puan, ladies, charraingly dressct. talisties, constituting the chief nineteen of whom travelled nor materiál argument, of ench side mous distances. The Prince that its sindite alone is Ekely shook hands with all and danced to attract foreiga capital,
practically every dance.
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Addressing an audiency of Lw.ny thousand. Dr. Mark Said that Germany must make sacri-
THE DURBAR..
Kano, April 19 Crawls were swarming to
fices in order to maintain peace Kane all night blowing horns and Fant Secure 'her western playing sleep-destroying en- Frontier. Nevertheless, thethusiasm. ' The scenes, this
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Conspirators Arrested?
Paris, April 19. A message frim Safer states that the police have distovered the authors of the Cathedral outrage. They are alleged to be Yankoff and Minkoff, President and Vice- President, respectively, of the Central Communist Committee. have been arrested. Almost all the Communist leaders:
Earlier Cables.
Sofia, April 18.
| Franco-German understanding morning were amazing. Streams One of the three domes of the was a valuable political aim," but of plodding visitors were visible Sveta Nedelia Cathedral, where acceptance of the security pact on all the ronds for. miles, re- the infernal machine was deposit- as regards the west afforded all sembling converging armies of ed, has completely collapsed, also the of reason why Germany ants.
the south porch, while there is crust remember the unurtural
The Emirs had already congre- grave danger of the central Dome conditions in the eastgated for the Durbar. Most of collapsing, the social affinity binding them travelled hundreds of miles The whole town is mourning them to Austria. Germany must accompanied by hosts of retain and all shops are shut. again put forward a claim for ers, many of whom died from the national union with Austria and intense heat, disease and jungle the resurrection of the Great Ger- accidents en route.
many.
FRANCE'S POLITICS.
(Reuter's Service.)
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At the Durbar at 8 o'clock this morning there was a wonderful cavalry display. It was a case of horses everywhere. Twenty thousand were ranged in horse-
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RHESUS IN PORT.
(Reuter'a Service.).
Port Said, April 19. The steamer Rhesus has arrived shoe formation. all flaunting the here towed by another vessel. gayest colours, and, with British She will discharge her cargo then officers galloping about complet-go to Alexandria for dry dock ing arrangements.
WAR CRIMES.
FORMER CROWN PRINCE"
EXONERATED.
„GERMAN COURT'S FINDING,
(Reuter's Service.)
Berlin. April 10 The Supreme Court has con-
eluded it investigation Info the. alleged war crimes of the former Crown Prince.
The court has found that the Crown Prince never ordered the burning and plundering of villages and towns. He was not responsible for the executions ordered by the military tribunals of his army corps.
Therefore the court quashed further proceedings.
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FOOLISH DREAMS.
Paris, April 18.
Hanover, April 19. With not a single member of M. Herriet's Cabines remaining in
Marshal van Hindenburg, re- office, and with five: Senators ap-
repairs, after which she is ex-plying to questionnaire submitt- The commotion was hushed pected to return here to reload. pointed Cabinet members. M. upon the arrival of the Prince of
ed by Reuter's correspondent, said Painleve has done his best to Wales, the complete silence being victims includes thirteen Gen- he would respect the military as The final Bat of Cathedral that if he were chosen President placate the Senate, which brought the Hausa token of respect. Then erals, three Deputies, the Mayor well as the other provisions of the down M. Herriot. The question the band of the Nigerian Regi- of Sofin, eight high Government Versailles treaty. remains whether the
His outlook Senate, ment crashed into a stirring officials, two lawyers, nineteen was a peaceful one.. which sentenced M. Caillaux, will march, followed by the rolling of women and seven children. tolerate a Cabinet wherein M. hundreds of native drums.
All He was convinced that it would the victims were buried in the be foolish for Germany to indulge Caillaux is a dominating factor. The Prince was seated on a dais same grave after a funeral ser- in warlike adventures which after The Senate at the moment seems covered with 4 multi coloured vice in the cemetery. One of the the war he had always. opposed He asked them not to expect inclined to bury the hatchet, pro- ennopy captured in from him the programme of a bably on account of M. Caillaux's seventy years ago.
fighting bell-ringers of the Cathedral is because they could only end dis-
those His Royal among Party man who, entered into well-known aversion to a capital Highness watched the parade, suspicion.
astrously, detailed political issues. The levy. A likelier contingency is a first the infantry and artillery, most important.consideration was split in the Left Cartel, that the latter carrying the gunparts: To restore German prestige in the strange alliance of Radicals and on their heads. Then the Emira
Socialists. for M. Briand is op- worki,
A Place in the Sun. posed to abolition of the Empussy Nothing was more capable of to the Vatican which is one of the jeopardizing the peaceful object, chic points in the Cartel's of the restoration of the Father- | programme. land and collaboration in the pro- wzees of the world than blatant falsehoods about a threatening German military reaction having inspired his candidature.
in the sun of the nations."
To attain this the grave charge of our war guilt must be dropped. You will surely believe all this! prattle about my unconstitutional plans and reactionary and other dangerous machinations is sense- The address was frequently in terrupted by shouts of Bravo!" and enthusiastic cheering, especi ally at the reference to war guilt. Earlier Cables.
less.
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arrested
on
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MOLES
As a military expert he did not think Germany was even capable of defending herself against the The parade closed with gallops small neighbouring states. troopers charged with lances and past by detachments,
Poland and Czecho-Slovakia pos- swords drawn, halting spectacu- finish to a wondrous demonstra-sessed bigger standing armies,
a fitting larly, two feet from the dais. The tion of loyalty never seen before and .were protected by, the cavalry thereafter marched past and never to be seen again. The military alliances. headed by bands playing ancient spectators were entranced. The question as to whether the instruments, all clad in gorgeous A reception to the Emirs. Socialists will support a Cabinet uniforms. The concourse of followed, the latter squatting in a which rejects the capital levy is spectators, whose blond was fired semi-circle fully fifty yards from authoritatively that the Peking Paris, April 18.-It is learned temporarily settled, for the by the continuous roll of exultant the Prince to hear his address. report of settlement of the con- socialist lenders, after conferring drums, cheered tumultuously... The official intérpreter was stand- troversy re the French share of He emphasised that he was only with M. Painleve to-day announci
DEVIL DANCERS.
ing near the Prince, and the the Boxer Indemnity is pre- striving to ensure German sovered that a broad agreement was eignty and freedom with a place declaration should be based on the coutred in the old-time uniform of them to approach, whereafter equally satisfactory to the two latter, remarking that the Emirs mature in the form wherein it; reached that the
Numerous riders were Ministerial
were unable to hear, motioned was published, but an agreement ame principles as inspired the Crusaders or in chain mail com they squatted at the foot of the countries is well within sight.-
plete with visor, and added a Herriot Government.
dais: M. Briand's tactical talents bizarre touch to the dazzling Outbursts of frenzied have full scope in smoothing the scene. relations of the two chambers, cheering rent the air as the dense failure to improve which may columns filed past the dais to the mean that a dissolution will be accompaniment of deafening inevitable; but M. Painleve's drums. mathematics are likely to be taxed in solving the personal equation of antagonism between M. Briand and M. Caillaux.
The dominating factor remains Berlin, April 18. finance, whereanent
publie With the Socialists given a anxiety is such that even the quid pro quo in the shape of the bitterest opponents of M. Caillaux election of Herr Braun to the are resigned to swallowing the Prussian premiership, Dr. Marx, pills of his political revival, for the Coalitionist candidate, seems almost mystic store is set upon asured of Socialist "support in his financial technique and
strength of purpose. London, April 18. General Hou Shu-tseng is in charge of a Peking, April 19-The Re Chinese mission which has organisation Conference disposed of arrived in connection with a tour the remaining agenda, items yeater- to study the general political and day, including the regulations for The scene was staggering, economic systems of Europe and the national delegates conference, thousands of superb horsemen America. The mission is recog-which were approved. The Con- standing in their stirrups, sbriek- mised by the Government, which ference again. meeta to-morrow to ing waving their swords and ia extending its facilities. Gen-discuss the financial rehabilitation bouncing in their saddles. It was eral Hau and staff dined at the proposals, and the closing session truly an orgy of colour Chinese Legation last evening takes place on Tuesday.
(Continued at foot of next
Column.).
Reuter.
of the Daily Bulletin.
Interspersed between files of cavalry at the walk appeared groups of dancers, wildly gyrat ing and shouting. They were perfect types of devil dancers.
Every moment, saw something fresh in the never-ending proces- sion-brilliant all red uniforms, golden bows and arrows, five-foot trumpets, plumed helmets and finally a most magnificent body of Bornu Cavalry, with heads be- feathered, rode waving" cutlasses and swords, accompanied by a special troop mounted on beauti- fully caparisoned camels and carrying enormous silk flags.
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