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COAL CRISIS.
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the minera, The result of the ballo would be declared on Satur- day or Sunday muxi. 1. the ballot. were in favour of the proposals was the Government going to take any actions to give these proposals ù
negotiations?
A HUGE CLAIM. »
Ottawa. Aug. 4, The Government is number of distillery and other Capt. W. Wedgwood Bennchance of being made the basis of firms to recover monies alleged (Liberal. Leith) initiated
London, Aug. 4. In the House of Commons
Serious Objections.
a dis- to be due to the Treasury in con-russion on the British-American į nection with the Customs probej debt settlement"in which he in- Lilisclosures,
videntally deped the fact of Lolonel G. R. Lane-Pox, Secretary The principal suit is against Mr. Winston Churchill (Chan- for Mines, said that, as the House the Dominion Distillers Limited,,, cellor of the Exchequer) bengknew very well, the Bishops' uzset Montreal. for: $700.000 In con-entangled in the controversy with Free Church leaders' proposala nction with the sale from bond, Mr. Andrew Mellon (Secretary of were brought before the Govern for denatured alcohol which, it is the US Treasury) and challeng-ment. There were certain fundas mental objections to them, and alleged, was subsequently convert-jing Senator Bornh. purposes beverage
Chamberlain, those objections had not been re- Secretary of State for Foreign moved by anything which had Affairs, in replying, suit that accurred since. Nothing had hap- statement was attributed rightly pened to make these proposals more or wrongly to Mr. Mellon which antisfactory now than when the Prime Minister gommented upon
ted for Reuter.
MISSION TO U.S.A.
AUSTRALIAN DELEGATES
ALSO GOING.
A similar British misalen, was announced on July 31. and will leave for America in September:]
REFLOATED.
HAKUHO MARU REACHES
"YOKOHAMA.
Tokyo. August 4. The Japanese vessel Hakuho- Maru has been refloated and en tered Yokohama this morning.-. Reuter.
I
Sir Austen
misrepresented the character of hem a few daya'ugo, the British borrowings. Mr.
Quoting from recent speeches | Churchill had stated the facts cor-¦
by Mr. A. J. Cook, rectly, but had not complained of made
Miners The..
Secretary the the terms of the debt settlement.
for Mines con- Minister Sir Austes Chamberlain, add-onded that the terms of the pro- jed that no British Government i
CHALLENGE TO BORAH.
Need to State the Plain" Facts,
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MR. BRICE'S REQUEST.
Melbourne, August 4. Mr. M. Bruer, the Common would think it becoming to theed basis of settlement were wealth Prime Minister, has naked dignity of Great Britain or comunsatisfactory as they were being presented to the men in a form the empligers and employees or-patible with British honour to go different from that in which they ganisations to nominate eighteen cap in hand or whining to be had been accepted by the Bishops
of her persons earb. from which the Gov-excused
obligations.
and Free Church leaders. ernment will select a
off (Cheers). There was a tradition party jeigh persons, to visir America to in Great Britary to preserve the teared that the clerics had failed so get Mr. Cook to take a reasonable study industrial conditions-Reu- most 'friendly relations with the viewpoint just
United States. "We rejoiced at Union Congress had failed. But if every sign of improved feeling in the United States toward Great anything did come from the ballot 2003 more favourable lines the Britain. Long may it continue. Government would miss no oppor- Cor in friendly union and co-tunity of doing its utmost to secure operation we may achieve mucha genuine" and complete settlement. not merely for ourselves but for No settlement could come, how- the peace and advantage of the ever, which did not face economic work". (Cheers) -Reuter.
facts. It was for the coal owners and the minera to negotiate. No The one could do it for them. Government would do everything to make that possible..
Getting Worse. Mr. D. Lloyd George, the Liberal The Hakuho Maru was reported Among various other questions Lender criticised the attitude of Istranded on the Bosso Peninsula atraised in the House of Commons the Government. Things were get-f the entrance to the Bay of Tokyo was that of British-American re- ting worse week by week. So far jon July 26. She was bound from lations.
as públle opinion was concerned. Captain Wedgwood Benn the intervention of the cleries had Ixion, Helios, Havenstein, Nisshu Maru, Delta, President Jackson. L. S. ports to Yokohama with a
(Liberal) said that it was unfor- altered the whole position. Nagpore, Banka, Namsang, Haiting, Sarpedon, Stanley Dollor, Skolma, carge of lumber. ¡
tunate that the Chancellor of the Cook's slogan was having * Muensterland. Sydney Maru, Venezia, Fooksang Shirala, Glenogle,
Exchequer had been drawn into a astrous effect before that interven- Soochow Velsella, Kalyan, Cyclops, Friesland, Seangbee, Hellas,
controversy, first with Mr. Mellon tion. But now he and Mr. Herbert Yeljun Maru.
and later into a challenge with Smith had gone to the country with Senator Borah on the subject of proposals embodying what Mr. lour financial relations with Winston Churchill and the Coal;
Commission recommended, America. Mr. Baldwin, the pre-] London, August 4.
sent: Prime Minister, went to public opinion would judge the dia- The sole survivor of the bal America and arranged to settle Pute on that basis. loon disaster. died in Bedford the British debt not because we
Government Waiting. hospital. His wife was killed yes-wanted favourable terms but be-] Sir Arthur, Steel-Maitland, terday. The pilot was E
cause of the spirit of this coun-Minister of Labour, expressed the Willows, who, from 1905 Ull the try which found a very suitable willingness of the Government to end of the war, played a leading mouthpiece in Mr. Baldwin, who take action as soon as there was role in the development of British was straightforward and busi-a possibility, of getting a useful airships and kite ballons. It was heaslike. That motive did not go result by bringing the two sides principally owing to his efforts without recognition in America, together. As soon & it looked as Cha the air defences of London and he thought it was Fresident though mediation would be useful, Bookbinders. were so efficient during the air-
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complaint, and we will discharge our obligations, but at least we Sir. Austen Chamberlain, would like it to be known in what LEE YEE, Secretary of State for Foreign manner that money was borrow- Affairs, In replying, said that a ed and to what it was devoted." statement was attributed to the
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who would have decided otherwise which Captain Wedgwood Benn The C.P.S., RM.S. "Empress, of than that that promise should be had named had contributed to pro- Russia" left Yokohama on July 31, honoured. The proposal of this duce that feeling. Long might it (and is due at
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