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London, Yesterday. The King passed a good day. His Majesty spent the whole morn- ing sitting and walking in the grounds of Craigweil House. The Queen accompanied the King when he walked through the grounds.
The King had hoped to go out again this afternoon but the thick sea-mist developed during lunch and prevented His Majesty from again going out.-British Wireless Service.
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governments regarding revision and amendment of treaties which had been found to inflict hardship and was the practice of denouncing treaties altogether unknown.
"Perfectly Absurd"
It was perfectly absurd to say the agreement entered into by one Gov erament should be binding on a future government to accept and never to say that by negotiations it could not be changed.
That was what he meant when he said to that if circumstances arose when the Labour Party was in office and the question of amendment cr revision of allied debts arose then they would consider themselves free to enter into negotiations to revise and alter the Balfour Note. "Recklees Remarks"
Sir A.
Chamberlain and Mr. Churchill castigated Mr. Snowden's reckless remarks, the former urging Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, to tell the world that whatever Party were in office England would keep her word.
IN HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
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WHAT THE ALLIES HAVE NOW DECIDED
COUNTER PROPOSAL
Paris, Yesterday. Dr. Schacht presented counter- proposals to the Beparations Com- mittee, which will be discussed to- morrow.
The figures are secret but it is understood the creditors have pro- posed 58 annuities of 2,200,000,000 gold marks, whereas Dr. Schacht suggests 87 annuities of 16-17,000,- 000 gold marks-Reuter.
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Capetown; Yesterday. Captain Malcolm Campbell, who will make an attempt on the motor speed record, has left for. Verneuk Pan
He is most confident of success, and most impatient to get his attempt at the land speed record: finished. Reuter.-
HOME ROMANCE
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LETTER OF SYMPATHY
There was a romantic touch about the marriage in Barrow of Mr. John Eastham, aged 69, of Church-street, Barrow, and Miss Minnie Gertrude Lea, aged 70, of Homewood-road, Mitcham, Surrey. Mr. Eastham last October read an account of an inquest on Miss Lea's Mr. Snowden reiterated that La sister and wrote a letter of sym- bour favoured an all-round cancella-pathy. A correspondence follow- tion of the debts and reparations, ed, Miss Lea asking Mr. Eastham if but he would not repudiate the he was in want of a housekeeper.
He replied that he was not, but Allied Debt agreements.
wanted a wife.
Mr. Runciman declared that the Liberals would not depart from the international contracts made by the Government of the day.
The two exchanged photographs and eventually Mr. Eastham pro- posed. The pair mot for the first time in St. George's Church, Bar- row, for the ceremony.
Miss Lea's sister, who is 72, was
Their father, a doctor in Batter- sea, S.W., died 40 years ago, and Miss Lea and the dead sister, who was 80, had struggled to live on a! few shillings a week since then, refusing to draw the old-age pen- sion.
On January 23, when the trial of ex-Station Sergeant Goddard was proceeding, the maid at God-1 dard's house in Streatham receiv- Lelephone message stating that Mrs. Goddard had been taken ill at the Old Bailey and she was to go there at once. Being sus-
Mr. Macdonald's Views picious, the maid rang up the
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald declared police, and detectives went to Goddard's house fu a motor-tead that the agreements made were not sacred against revision but as long There, they said, they saw
When he as he led the Labour Party there Kimberley loitering. noticed them he walked away and would be no repudiation. He des- cribed the settlement with the threw a brown paper parcel over]
United States as bad financially a bridesmaid. a fence into a garden. This was and politically but until it was found to contain a jemmy.
Bush said changed by mutual consent, they Detective-sergeant Kimberley was sent to a reforma wanld pay every farthing. There tory when he was 16,
was nothing in Mr. Snowden's state- and sev- eral convictions had been record- ment to suggest that the consent of the Allies would not be sought be- At ed against him since then. Old-street Police-court in January, fore the settlements were revised.
Business or Sentimentality 1920, he was bound over on a charge of being a suspected per
Mr. MacDonald explained all that son. At Liverpool, in 1911, in the Mr. Snowden had in mind name of William Williams, allas whether the Balfour Note, when Kimberley, he was charged with considered as a business proposi- being a suspected person, and tion, not as a demonstration of there were also two charges fatuous sentimentality, was nimical against him of assaulting police- to Great Britain. They men. Under three charges he was titled to consider that.
months' hard sentenced to four labour.
There were no convictions for dishonesty against Kimberley since 1920, added the officer. Recently he had been working as a "tic the" man on dog-racing tracks.
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The bus struck the back wheel generous attitude in the matter of inter-allied debts 'as part of a gen- of a bicycle, and overturned in swerving to avoid another cyclist. eral settlement of reparations.
The House then proceeded to The cyclists and the driver of the discuss the Budget. Reuter.
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