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PAN-AMERICANISM.
Defence of the Monroe
'Doctrine.
COLOMBIA'S ATTITUDE.
BROUGHT BACK.
Chinese Who Escaped From Jail.
SCALED PRISON WALL.
Questions Of United States Policy Fourth Refugee Reported Shot In
Raised.
Washington, Yesterday,
Canton,
THOMAS HARDY,
Heart Taken From Body.
CREMATION CEREMONY.
Ashes To Be interest la Westminster.
Three of the four Chinese prison-
Rugby, Saturday. A telegram from Bogota says ers who effected a daring escape An eleventh hour alteration in that the Chancellor of Colombia, from Victoria Jail on the afternoon the arrangements for the burial of interviewed, declared that he had of November. 14 last year, by scal- the late Mr. Thomas Hardy was instructed the Colombian dele- Ing the wall of the now prison made last night. gates to the Pan-American Con- building, were traced in Canton by ference to remain neutral in the local detectives and arrested by the event of a discussion as to the Chinese police last week. United States' attitude toward Nicaragua.
It was decided to place the fam- ous novelist's heart in the church- yard of Stinsford, near Clorchester, The men who arrived here from and to inter the ashes in Westmins- Canton yesterday under a heavy es-ter Abboy. Colombia has long cherished cort of local and Chinese police The decision represents a com- feelings of resentment against were Li Pul, Chan Chan-chau and promise between the views of the United States in view of the Ho Iu.
Hardy's own people in Dorsetshire, Hatter's recognition of the revolu- The fourth man was reported to Including several relatives who de
tion whereby Panama broke have been shot dead by Cantonaired him to be buried in his own away from Colombia and formed police whilst they were attempting countryside, and those who took the a separate Republic, making it to effect his arrest. possible for the United States to build the Panama Canal. Hence, if the Colombian delegates re- main neutral it is believed very unlikely that many other dele- gations from Latin America will stootly
Pan-American oppose policy of the United States,
Twenty-one Republics' will be represented at the conference.---- Reuter's American Service.
Two Russians Arrested.
New York, Yesterday.
A telegram from Havana states
LOST AIRMEN.
WARSHIPS GIVE UP THE
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NO TRACE FOUND.
viaw that the great writer belong.
ed not to Wessex alone but to the whole nation.
The decision is in keeping with Hardy's own wish, the opening words of his will were: “I desire to be buried in Stinaford Church." A doctor removed the heart last night. Numerous other Instances of burial of the heart apart from the body are recorded by history, After soarching 24,000 square but such cases have been very rare miles of ocean the warships which in modern times. The tragic fate have been searching for the Hood- of the poet Shelley is recalled.
Was Moncrieff aeroplane are returning When Shelley's body
Wellington, Yesterday.
cast
that the police have arrested two to port, having failed to find any ashore near Viareggio in July, Russians who are alleged to have trace of it, but the search on land 1822, it was for the time buried in arrived from Mexico for the pur- is continuing most vigorously sand. pose of fomenting trouble when President Coolidge arrives to- morrow for the Pan-American Conference. Reuter's American Service.
Coolidge Arrives.
Havana, Yesterday.
Reuter.
Later in the presence of Byron, Hunt and Trelawney it was [A Wellington cable published on cremated to permit the interment Thursday stated: Another ocean of the ashes in the Protestant flying tragedy is feared owing to a Cemetery at Rome. The heart lack of news of the fate of the which would not burn was snatch- Australian airmen Captain Hooded from the flames by Trelawney, The battleship "Texas," with and Lieutenant Moncrieff who yes-It was given to Mary Shelley and. President Coolidge on board, ar-terday attempted a fly from Sydney is now at Bournemouth.--British rived from Key West, being en-to New Zealand. It is still a Wireless Service. thusiastically ovated by immense mystery whether they crashed down crowds, to attend the sixth Pan-at sea or reached an isolated spot American Conference, Reuter's in New Zealand.] American Service.
GREEK LOAN.
Monroe Doctrine Defended.
Hava, Yesterday. President Machado declared that it is outside the competence of the Pan-American Conference to judge the general policy of the United States in respect of the GREAT BRITAIN'S SHARES. latter's intervention in the affairs
of small States. Moreover, he regarded the Monroe doctrine as
ISSUE IN A FORTNIGHT'S TIME.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Of the new Greek loan of
The Pall-Bearers.
London, Sunday.
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Cremation Ceremony.
The coffin containing the remains
the noble action of a President of £6,500,000 Great Britain's share of Thomas Hardy was convoyed yes- the United States to prevent the will be about £3,500,000. It will} reconquest of America, and it bear interest at six per cent, and terday by road from his home at ought to be maintained-Reuter's will be offered for public, sub-where the cremation took place. Max Gate, Dorchester; to Woking, scription in about a fortnight's The ceremony was simple and brief. time. The remainder will bej
American Service.
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raised in America, France, Italy, Sir James Barrie and a friend, Mr. and possibly Sweden.
afternoon Sir James
Glimour, with the local Free Church The loan will be devoted to Minister, were the only witnesses. three objects-the stabilisation of In', the Greek exchange, refugee funds, Barrie and Mr. Gilmour left for and balancing the Budget. The London, where they handed the urn revenues securing the loan will be containing Mr. Hardy's ashes to the under the control of the Interna- Westminster Abbey authorities. tional Financial Commission in Athens as in the case of previous loans. British, Wireless Service.
To-morrow at two o'clock, simul- taneously, the ashes will be buried In the posts corner at Westminster Abbey, whilst Mr. Hardy's heart will be interred in a bronze casket
New York, Saturday. A number of scientists yester- day evening witnessed a demon- stration designed to prove that television has almost sufficiently AMERICA & FRANCE. in the grave of his first wife at
advanced for general introduction into the home.
BAN REMOVED IN FRENCH FLOTATION.
A FRIENDLY ACTION.
Stinaford, near Dorchester-the Millstock of his books.
Mr. Hardy will be the first novel- ist to be buried in the Abbey since Dickens, and the first poet since Ser- Tennyson.--British Wireless
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