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the parties directly concerned are interested. Great Britain allied herself with the Japanese to check the Russian advance in Manchuria, and other combinations are conceivable In the event of Russia in the future seaking to establish herself in China to the detriment of the interests of other Powera" However that may be, the
PARLIAMENT
AND THE ARMY. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
PREMIER REFUSES TO ACCEPT COLONEL SEELY'S RESIGNATION.
point of immediate importance is that the MINISTERS DEPRECATE “THE UNFAIR. INCONSIDERATE activity of the French and the Belgiane, in
AND IMPROPER REFERENCES TO THE KING. the words of the Times Correspondent, contraste extraordinarily with the visible achievements of British policy." A very exhaustive review of the railway situation was published in a recent
THROUGH REUTERA AGENCY.
IZHBOUGH BRUTEK'#'AGENCY.]
THROUGH REUTELS AGENOY] The DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. 23rd inst, was not bofore them.
A dobate in the House of Lords followed paragraphs Colonel Seely added were harmless in themselves, but the Cabinet the same lines as that in the House of
appeared as an answer to General Gough The Marquis of Lansdowne declared were nashle to endorse them because they Commons. making conditions. Continuing, Sir that he did not believe the Army would Edward said the Government still main be used to coerce Ulster. The episode had tained that General Gough returned to been unfortunate for Colonel Seely, but unfortunate for the
Aumber THE OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE COLONEL SEELY'S STATEMENT IN his post unconditionally. It would be would be more
of the Far Eastern Review (a technical journal which has devoted much attention to railway questions in China), in which a mass of evidence is produced which it claims proves that the British Government has been hoodwinked, British interest orificed
LAID DEFORE PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, March 28th.
A White Paper issued yesterday con tains correspondence regarding the recent
PARLIAMENT
Colonel Seely, in the course of a long statement in the House of Commons, emphasising that he had nothing to conceal, explained that the steps taken were precautionary measures to protect
well known to him to-day what the Government. Government's decision and answer was They stood by the frat portion of the communication, and were responsible for nothing else. They never contemplated the use of fores to coerce Ulster, but the
Lord Haldane (now Lord Chancellor, bat formerly Secretary of State for War) warmly asserted that the Government never intended the subjugation of Ulster LOBBY VIEWS
to international finance, and immense rail events in Ireland. It begins with the Government depots, The instructions Government were prepared to use forco The Parliamentary position is now
way systems made available to Russia, through her political and financial allies, for future sctivity in China. A very clear cane is made out that the Belgians are in reality acting in Ching in the interests of Russia. The proof is in the composition of the so-called "Buasjan Group" in the Sertu ple syndicate, including as it does the Banque Sino-Beige, the Societé Belge d'etude de Chemins de Fer en Chine, the Societé Gene rale de Belgique, and the Banque d'outremer (Belgian), together with the Russo-Asiatic Bank, A. SPITZEL & Co., J. HENRY SCURON- DER &Co, and the Eastern Bank, Ltd. It is with, under the King's Regulations. resignations owing to a complete that was why be believed all this had
Memorandum by Colonel Seely with
*** were issued with the full authority of the to any extent to make the will of the clearer than it has been for some time. reference to an interview by him on Cabinet, as it appeared to the Govern country prevail That contingency could The Government is confident of passing the 16th December with tho Generalment and General Bir Arthur Paget that not arise for a long time. He leathed the Home Rule Bill, and there is a Officers Commanding He says that he the opposition movement might result in any prospect of coercion, and still hoped general belief that a dissolution will made a statement to them regarding the oil commotion, therefore the Govern it would be avoided. A conflict between follow its enactorent.
The opinion in the Lobby is that the Whon the possibility
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of resignations of commissions in the event of it being opposed bring the country very near Revolution, brought up, he said he would hold each by an armed force They were most any of them responsible for seeing that there
anxious throughout to avoid
Then came the was no conduct subversive to discipline.
provocative action. Such conduct would be dealt with forth-
honest misapprehension of General
bat for the Government to allow their policy to be dictated by the officers of the Army was a certain road to Revolution
It is of great age, very fine, pointed out as a remarkable and significant Paper says that General Sir Arthur Paget's statement, the officers believing General Gough did not realise the fire he
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HONGEONG, MARCH 27rH, 1914.
Iv an article recently contributed to our
columns by Mr. MooDE BENNETT, of Yun-
nanfu, it was very clearly shown how successful French enterprise has been in bringing the whole of South-West China within the future sphere of French influence. We note that this success of the French in
opacitance how M. DE Vos, quietly working in Poking for the advancement of purely Belgiau interests, though at the head of what was afterwards admitted as the official Russian Group, should have secured the concession for the extension of the Kaifeng Bailway on behalf of the Cia
concession
arisen from an honest misunderstanding, Paget reported to the War Office at mid- to be a plan to overwhelm Ulster by a was kindling by putting an apparently night on the 20th inst, that the Brigadier and 57 officers of the Cavalry preferred to accept dismissal if ordered North Colonel
Colonel
surprise attack There was not a shadow of foundation for these rumours, Seely emphasised that any suggestion that Seely replied immediately authorising General Bir à Paget to the King had taken any initiative in this suspend any senior officers who resigned matter was, absolutely without founds
the
or otherwise disputed his authority, tion. In the broadest sense," he said, ordering General Cough and other officers His Majesty took no initiative of any to report themselves forthwith
kind: This he repeated emphatically War Office, directing that they be relieved
amid loud Opposition cheers. of their commands, and saying that officers were being sent to replace them. He added that the resignations of all the
his
COLONEL SEELY ANNOUNCES HIS RESIGNATION. Colonel Seely then apnounced resignation as Secretary of State for War, explaining that the reply mentioned
Generale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine, and afterwards succeeded in getting the agreement altered so that now the terminus of the line is to be near on the north bank of the Tangchow Yangtze almost opposite to Shanghai. A Will study of the map, it is pointed out, convince anyone that this is an essentially Russian project and do vetails into the Grra trans-Asian line, which bas always been set aside for Russia, Be it observed that this her, long-cherished desire for an "ict-standing, adding, however, that free port." We need not recall the attempt Government must retain the right to use made by the Belgians to nobble the the Forces in Ireland or elsewhere fo Hank ow Canton concession some years ago maintain law and order, and to support It was woll known that Belgian meant the civil power in the ordinary execution Russian interests even at that time, and of its duty, but that the Government had the official disclosure of the composition of no intention whatever of taking advant the Russian Group can lear ejthe world no age of this right to crush political longer in doubt that the Belgian Banks are opposition to the policy and principles simply helping Russia to pursue in the of Home Rule East her deeply laid schemes Prevented from getting access to the sea on the coast
officers should be refused. Finally, in a letter from the War Office to General Gough, he said the Army Council were satisfied that the incident connected with in the fourth section of the White Paper will enable Russia to attain the resignations was due to misunder-
the
It is noteworthy that General Paget's.
included in the White Paper,
not
signed by himself, General Sir John French, and General Sir John Ewart, was a Cabine document, but the signatories inadvertently added the concluding pars
Colonic graphs, which gave the appearance that the officers had secured terms. Seely declared ibat he alone was to blame, because he was absent from the Cabinet which approved the document.
SPEECH BY THE PREMIER Mr. Asquith in a speech said he the most unfair, incon- regretted. siderate, and improper attempt to
innocent question.
FURTHER SPEECHES. Mr. Balfour moved the rejection of the
debate was raised. He accused the Consolidated Fund Bill, upon which the
Government of manœuvring to compel Ulster to take the offensive. (Cheers.)
Mr. Ramany Macdonald declared that in the event of tyranny by the majority in Ulster against the minority he would support the Government in sending troops to Belfast. He advocated higher Day for officers, with a view to allowing
Democrats to take commissions.
Ny. Austen Chamberlain characterised
Colonel Seely's resignation as a pat-up job, and said that Colonel Seely had prepared the paragraphs, which the,
fall of the Government was averted by
the
the tendering of Colonel Ɛeely's resigné- tion and the Government's explanations during the debate, though Ministerialist are still dissatisfied with the bungling which led to a dangerous complication.
ULSTER M.P'S DEATH
ABYE-ELECTION IN BELFAST
LONDON, March 26th.
The death is announced of Mr. Robert James McMordie, Unionist M.P. for East
Mayor of Belfast. At the last election Belfast sinoo 1911, and formerly Lord
Mr. MoMordie was unopposed.
ROYAL VISIT TO CHESTER.
LONDON, March 28th. Their Majesties the King and Queen were given an ovation at Chester when they opened the new wing of the Infirm ary. The King, in a speech in the Town Hall, said he rejoiced in this fresh opportunity of close contact with the industrial workers,
TEACE IN THE PACIFIC
AUSTRALIAN PREMIER AND FIRST LORD'S
ASPERCIL
If these Government now repudiated, in consulta
Ministers remained, then the paper which tion with Lord Morley.
they approved was binding on their the colleagues.
MR CHURCHILL REPUDIATES
INSULTS."
Mr. Winston Churchill, who was cheered upon rising, interrupted, and repudiated Mr. Chamberlain's “insulte."
revised nor examined the two paragraphs
MELBOURNE, March 20th Speaking at banquet, the Premier, fon Joseph Cook, referred to the Churchill's speech on Naval Estimates, and said he hoped Australia would always be friendly with Japan, and that the Treaty would continue. However, when they were asked to rely on the Japanese Treaty
serious situation was created.
CROWN PRINCE AND GERMAN COLONIES
of Korea, driven from Delay and Portlastructions to the officers arO Arthur, and excluded by British diplomacy
At the interview with the Generals on bring the name of the King into political He said that Lord Morley had never alone for peace in the Pacific, a very from getting a railway terminus at Canton, she has at last managed, through the 16th December Colonel Seely said the events. From first to last, he declared Belgian assistance, to get a railway conces law clearly laid down that a soldier was that His Majesty had observed in every which had been referred to. He men- way the position of a Constitutional tioned that the battle squadron which was tion through the very heart of the Yangtze entitled to obey an order to shoot only
monarch. Referring to General Gough; ordered to Lamlash on the 11th ins Basin down to the mouth of the river. if it were reasonable under the circum-
the o stances. If therefore, othcers and Only those who take a map of China and
he said the Government would never would remain there during the crisis, and проп trace out the concessions which the men believed that they were French and the Belgians have acquired to take some outrageous action, for assent to the claim of the officers to went on to declare that the great issuð can estimate their significance and bear instance, a fuassaore at a demonstration demand assurances from the Government of the Array versus Parliament and the ing upon trade developments in China of Orangemen who were causing no (Lond cheers.) Such a claim would put People had been raised, and every effort in the next quarter of a century. The danger to their neighbours, they would the Government at the mercy of the Navy had been made to show that it was always Times Correspondent at Peking has pointed fact and in law be justified in contem" and Army (Prolonged cheering, thight to shoot a Radical or a worker. scornfully to the indifference shown by the British Government to these activities and
fo
its failure to lend diplomatic support to
plating refusing to they bad as the Liberals sanding and waving hats, hand- effects might be upon the discipline of kerchiefs, etc.) The Premier said he the Army. But there and never been any refused to accept the resignation of Colonel Seely Ho vigorously repudiated intention to give an outrageous and illegal
the suggestion of coercion of Ulster. The order to the troops What had to be faced was the possibility of the troops
Government offered exclusion to every county in Ulster, and he denied that being required to support the civil power
there had been a plot or intrigue behind in protecting lite and property when the App police were overpowered. Attempts had
the back of the Cabinet to provoke Ulster. been made to dissuade the troops from
(Opposition cries of It is true) The cbeying lawful orders when supporting
Premier did not apologise for the taking H of proper steps to preserve order. the civil power. General Gough wrote that this impression, which on the 23rd inse to the Adjutant General
then explained that the Cabinet consider opravniledinsking on behalf of the officers whether
in the event of Home Rule becoming lawed the letter to General Guugh
similar British schemes. He specifically mentioned that Messrs. PAULING & Co., who as a result of negotiations with Bux YA-SEN obtained a concession for a line from the Yangtsze port of Suasi to Singyzfu, through the medium of the in Kwoichow: got their concession con- Banque Industrielle de Cuiue las been armed by the Chinese Government in spite the subject of a recent communication of the British Government rather than in to The Times by its Correspondent in
consequence of its support. It will be Pakiog. He says: "It is clear that the satisfactory to British residents in Chins to French have obtained rights which la the koor, on the authority of MassA. PAULING futura vill give them predominance in Ch South. Western Chion, and which enable undoubted
them to construct railways north and south Chin, is erroneous,In this instance,
upon Ulster.
were
exception of the last two paragrap
inadvertently added by Colonel Seely without the knowledge of the
Cabinet.
of the Upper Lungleze, and which may be the write, we received the fall sup they could be called upon to enforce it contained in the White Paper, with the construed as entitling them to dabar any port of HIS MAJEST Government the contract for the other nationality from railway enterprise iu u getting that region. Yet the Yangtze was at one Shasi-Singyifu railway signed by the time regarded as a British sphere into which Chinese What British residents in China the intrusion of other Powers was warmly would now like to learn is why it is that resented. The policy which led to the four other Powers have been allowed to acquire cornered Hutang Railway agreement concessions to build railways through the provoked bitter controversy at the time, very heart of territory in North and South and it is instructive to maliza at the pressut China, which for many years past has bou
There was Unionist interruption at this and someone shouted. "That is a
damned lie.!!
Mr. Churchill then earnestly appealed to the Opposition to consider whither they were drifting.
The Consolidated Fund Bill passed the second reading by 314 votes to 222. COLONEL SEELY'S POSSIBLE. TRANSEER
It is understood that Colonel Seely will be transferred before long to another position in the Cabinet.
POSSIBLE RESIGNATION É
The papers discuss the possibility of Field-Marshal Sir John French and General Sir John Ewart resigning.
COMMENTS IN THE LIBERAL PRESS
MR. CHURCHILL'S ANGER.
The Liberal papers declare that the The atease excitement of the House Government as a result of the debate waa inflamed by Mr. Churchill denounce stronger than ever.
PROJECTED VISIT ABANDONED.
BERLIN, March 26th. The proposed visit of the Crown Prince
HOME TURE
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General Cough made reference to a verbal communication from the War Office by General Paget, and asked for a clear depnition of the terms duty as ordered and active operations," any in the duty consists of the
Candy Tuft maintenance of order and the preserving a hellish the suggestion in a The Daily Chronicle says that if China Cock moment that that very agreement 18 now acknowledged to be British spheres of ton of property all the officers of the question as to whether he expected the General Gough persiste in his claim he instrumental in providing for the French influence, A plain exposition of the policy Brigade will carry out the duty movements of the shipa and troops to must go, and that if all the officers of Le Touquet. the essential link between the forminus of of Iliadisjesty's Government on the subjechowever, the daty involves the initiation lead to fighting. He withdrew the expred the Army joined him, they also must go, | their southern railway at Chungking and might be of some service in allaying Chengtu, the point where their svetem apprehensions which are now felt regarding of active operations against Ulster the son regretfully. meets the great Belgian system, Whether the safeguarding of the British trade following officers respectfully and under interests in China, which are manifestly protest prefer to be dismissed," General menaced by the French and Belgian railway Gough then details the names of 60
officers of his Brigade. concessions above referred to
the French and Belgian systeme can ever be used by Russia as some observers maintain is eventually certain to further her own which others besides designs is a question
STB EDWARD GREY'S VIEWS. Sir Edward Grey said that when the Cabinet authorised the communication to General Gough, the latter's letter of the
The Daily News believes that the in- cident will be found in the end a fortunate episode for the Government
chievous rumours relating to the King. At any rate it has disposed of the mis.
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OBITUARY:
LONDON March 28th.. The death is recorded of Mr. Frederic Mistral the Provencal