TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1925.
CABINET SECRETS.
ANOTHER ZINOVIEFF LETTER?
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ALLEGED LEAKAGE,
British Foreign Office Officials' Honour,
Has a secret letter from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Cabinet leaked out of the Foreign Office and found its way to America?
PROPOSED ENTENTE,
(Renter's Service.)
London, May
The publication in New York by the "World" of an alleged secret memorandum which it is asserted Mr. Austen Chamber- Jain, Seeretury for Foreign
Mg Vasten Chamberlain.
FATAL MISTAKE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHOWER OF FLOWERS.
Terrible Level Crossing HINDENBURG'S ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.
Smash.
ELEVEN KILLED.
TRAIN DASHES INTO CHAR-
A-BANC TRAILER,
(Reuter's Service.)
tom of the Foreign Office, becituse it was the second time within a
Berlin. May 11..... few months, the Zinovieff letter being the first. Was Mr. Cham- The Basic express dashed into bertuin satisfied of the good faith the trailer of a char-a-bane at a of the men in his department? level crossing at Rothmalsch be- Mr. Chamberlain replied, "Yes,tween Heidelberg and Carlsruhe, undoubtedly" He was sorry any killing eleven people and injuring jaspersion should have even buen five,
suggested against them.
The victims were male choristers Replying to Commdr. Ken-going home after winning a prize. woliny (aberal); Mr. Chamber- In a local competition. Plain said that this document wus
The chur-a-bane got. clear but not circulated by the Foreign the trailer was smashed to Office. He was not aware of any wood. document circulated to Conserva- tive newspapers.
The Zanoxieff letter wits the potorious document in vinch Moscow, gaa » justmetions to-British Coonnubists to amabge an, armed (Pisting 11. Engdanach A copy of this By was seid jo bare liked and For the Foreign Titer. The babour
Party claimed tisst it was a forgery, }; Plasts anithe bicity has been gen-[ erly accepted. Anyway it was! one of the seriding, histors against} File Labour Party in the Power: 6 }
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CHEERING THRONGS.
Silent Handshakes For Berlin Notables.
Marshal von Hindenburg, Germany's hero during the war; is the nation's idol again, judging from the welcome he received in Berlin yesterday,
FETED IN BERLIN,
(Reuter's Service.).
Berlin, May 11." A triumphat welcome given to Marshal von Hindenburg this afternoon on his formal entry
Was
into Berlin to assume his doties as President.
As the train from Hanover drew to the gaily beflowered suburban station of Heerstrasse, match-nine aeroplanes hovering over-
head dropped flowers.
The disaster was due to a signal- man omitting to close the gates.
CONGRESS SOVIETS.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ELECTED.
THREE HUNDRED STRONG...
(Reuter's Service)
Moscow, May 11.
Three hundred members of the
The President, who was wear?] inga top hat and frock coat but: no medals, was welcomell by the Chancellor, Dr. Luther, the chief Burgomaster of Berlin and other notable personages, with all of whom he shook hands silently..
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THE OLD MAN AIR. After the presentation of a hônquet by Dr. Luther's young daughter, Marshal von Hinden- burg left for _The_Chancellor's } Bakicë. The 5-mile route was Jined the whole way by cheering
anisations were very prominent, crowds which von Hindenburg. acknowledged. Nationalist or.
their earlier boycott decision, Throughout the drive Hindenburg exhibited the air, of jan old man well pleased with the
cordiality of his reception..
Me. Asin Chamberlain Central Executive Committee of House of Common u March 21the Federation of Socialist Rebul the Republicans adhered to publics were elected to-day at a congress of the Soviets,
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Any arrangement" ink
which afgh etter shouk We
be purely of a defensive character Framöl in the spirit of the conven-| art,and worked in close -buaBODY with the Longues Britain's chħën.
Affairs, presented to the Cabinet in Februay urging a new British, Preneh and Helginn entente, und -the revision of the Silesian agree
ment and the Pelish curridor astions and frimally adjustments essential conditions of British should lead the nadiens to cultivate security. had a sealed in the fruilshup if they "once go WHY House of Cominus to-day. „traat itu) utmoosiliere of yesterday Replying to Mr. Ramsay Mac- land turned to the attitude of the Dodd, Leader of the Opposition, future.
regarding the matter, Mi. Chum- An essential to such agreement berlain saith, that the memoran- was that Germany should enter dum appeared to be a copy of af the League, taking her place in the
which forument of
another Council on a förting of equality
American newspaper gave an both in bligation and otherwiso. account two months ago.
It was Thiess, we got away from tho.
the
in the public interest to give atmosphere of fear and suspicion information with regard to and the attitude of the Armed memoranda prepared by camp. Europe would ultimately be Foreign Office for his own use or given in tela new stringele, and the for a confideritial communication generation having to pay the penal to his colleagues here or in the fy of an unnecessary war would
· other governments of the Empire. harshly indgr de slitesmen who Mr. Chamberlain added that had failed to take finely measurës
M. Stalin.
von:
At the conclusion of the drive. the crowds dispersed quietly, the Monarchists marching off sing- ing patriotic songs.
To-night the President dines with the Chancellor. He takes
the oath to-morrow. „
THREE CHEERS.
Hanover, May 17.
Marshal von Hindenburg in a statement before his 'departure for Berlin, earnestly pleailed for unity.
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He said that he would bear in mind those who were" poor and distressed and would try to act as
They include Kalinin, Rykoff, Stalin, Zinovieff, Trotsky and peacemaker. His aim was for a Tomsky.
happy Fatherland.
ECONOMIC CHANGES.
Moscow, May 11.
the
the policy of the Government as whereby it might have been pre- "The All-Russian Soviet Con explained by him in the House of vented. British influence had lost gress has ratified the revised Commons on March 24 had not something towing to hesitation and, constitution. particularly changed.
inconsistency, hitta the German pro changes introduced in consequence Mr. MacDonald asked whether posals constituted a new chance, of the present economic conditions. the published document was in The British Spire, defached. It has also noted that the accurate.
from Bump by the Dominions and Republics of Turkmenistan, and "Mr. Chamberlain deprecated linked to Europe by these islands, Uzbekistan have left the Federa- calling upon the Government, to run-do what no other nation on tion, explain whether' what purpořted } the face of the earth can đọ, and
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Commdr. Kenworthy,
Mr. Banthay Maciunaid.
to be a confidential document, from east and west alike comes which if it were such, must have the ery that it is in the hands of the been improperly obtained, was accurate or not, but said that any me that there shall be no more staternent of policy of the Govern war, vrsi, ment which contradicted hist statement of March 21. had no authority whatever,
Mr. George Länsbury (Labour} askedt was such a leakage of confidential documents the cus-
SPUR TO TRADE.
BRITISH TREASURY
GUARANTEES.
TOKYO CO. BENEFITS.
(Reuter's Service.)
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LONDON, May 11, The guarantees given by the Treasury under the Trade Facilities Acts to March-3-total-£55.577.000, including £300,000, to the Toho “ElEcUNG POWET CƏ” EU OF FIFIR" for the purchase of meterials and machinery in Britain.
Brisbane, May 11-Passengers arrived from the Far East aboard the Aki Maru, tell stories of 300,000 Hussian refugees eager to come to 'Australia, as the Soviets are making the living of refugees in China im possible. Reuter.
FATE OF A TOWN.
SILVER PORT WIPED OUT.
YUKON DISASTER,
(Reuter's American Service.)
ALBERTA May 11. The silver port of Mayo, the second largest town in the Yukon, has been burnt down.
There have been no deaths.
Peking, May 11. The Japanese aeroplanes flying to Peking are expected to leave Tokyo on the 23rd and to" are on the 26th. They are the to return on the 28th. -- Reuter,
Peking. May 10.—The students' delegates, who failed to see Tuar Chi-jui yesterday, were seen by his [nádecide-čump, who promised them
that For Ching-in, Commandant of [the Preentionuiry Force, would see them on Monday and give them o reply from the Government. Pend-' ing this reply, the students are no! agitating fo-day, but the police are It is still taking pregrutions, reported in indienst circles that five of the arrested students have been 1 released on bail-Reuter.
As the train started amid the strains of "Deutschland Ueber
officially enters the capital to-day by the famous Heerstrasse,
BERLIN WELCOME.
DR.HANS LUTHER
Chancellor of Germany who welcomed President Hindenburg at the station in Berlin. His daughter presented the Marshal with a bouquet of flowers.
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three cheers for Germany. The Berlin with outlying camps. The Alles, von Hindenburg called for originally constructed to
crowd enthusiastically responded. Nationalists have prepared a
UNIFORM THAT IS LAID ASIDE.
FIELD MARSHAI,
VON HINDENBURG.
When Marshal von Hindenburg entered Berlin as President of Germany he was wearing, not his usual military uniform, but a frock lecat and silk hit. He were no medals.
AN EARLIER CABLE. [Berlin, May 11-The strain of Fredricus Rex, our King and Hero," will not assail the ears of General Hindenburg when he
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