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NAVAL ARMAMENTS. BRITAIN WILLING TO JOIN IN LIMITATION.
Lospos, April 8th...
In the House of Commons, at ques- tion-time, Mr. J. C. C. Davidson, Under- Secretary of State for the Admiralty. said that the Government would gladly' cooperate with the other principal Powers in a further restriction of naval They bad already drawn
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GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED - TO CARRY OF,
Paris, April 9th.' Despite the narrow escape from defeat fast evening, it seems clear that Govermach attention to thir subject, but the ment is resolved to carry on in face of the apposition shown in the Senate. Furthermore, it is stated, M. Herriot will not leave office unless defeated either on the Vatican policy or Snancial programme, though he may drop the capital levy ⚫ proposal.
REFLECTION IN PRESS.
PARIS, April 9th. The strained political situation is re- Aected in comments in the newspapers,
The Opposition organs are not satis fed with the suggestion that flovernment may drop the capital levy proposal. They vigorous demand that a solution must Le found for the financial deadlock.
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Ardoning to Echo de Paris. M. Briand is surrounded by a crowd of flat- Lerers, urging him to make a bid for
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M. Merrint's decision to fight is due to the insistence of the Socialist leaders.
It is expected that M. Herriot will demand an all-night sitting on Friday
decisive vote.
in unter to obtain
As the Finance Committee will not be
publication of a reasoned statement of the British naval needs as a basis for the limitation of naval armaments, as suggested by my questioner, would not conduce to this end. Nor would it be in the
interest.
Sir Hrury Page Craft (C... Bournemouth) declared that Great Bri- tain had decreased her naval armaments
Lieut.tol. Sir J.
far larger extent than any other naval Power in the world (C., Hulme) asked for an assurance that in any further. conference British naval power would not be reduced disproportionately Mr. Davidson said that, the question was hypothetical.
to other Power,
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SLUMP IN PIECE-GOODS. EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMITTEE
OF INDUSTRY.
LONDON, April 8th. Trade, witness on behalf of the Federa Before the Committer of Industry and tion of Master Cottonspinnets Associa Japan in India and the East
ready to report on M. De Munzie's Billions referred to the comgenerally,
or any substitute therefor ull Friday, the momentous debate will not be held in the Chamber of Deputies til! Friday night or possibly Saturday.
Besides the Socialist plan for a capital Jevy, other counter-projects are being con widered by the Finance Committee, includ ing the Opposition scheme for a huge lottery loan.
The official admission that the Banque af France, at Government request, manipulated the balance sheets to conceal the illegal note issue, has intensified the mistrust of Government's financial, poli- cics-both outside and inside Parliament, particularly in the Senate.
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NOTE LIMIT EXCEEDED..
PARI, April Sch." According to La Liberte, M. De Monzie told the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies that the Banque de France, since January, had exceeded the legal limit of its note issue by francs 3,300,000 in order to meet the Goveru
ment's need for cash.
H. Berenger, Reporter-Cirneral, in his Budget speech in the Senate, stated that the excess totalled over two milliards of francs.
BUSINESS IN SENATE. After adopting motions Peducing cer Lin item in the Public Instruction Estimates, the Senate by 142 votes to 140
passed a resolution in favour of Festuring the appropriation for scholar ships which *ከ Finance Commission
bad decreased.
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and from local productions, and ex- pressed the opinion that the present difficulty and absence of bulk trade was
mainly to the high price of the raw material and impoverishment of the main consuming countries.
rent to that extent.
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NEWS.
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THE DETENTION OF RUSSIAN OFFICIALS.
Lorvos, April 8th.. In the House of Commons, replying to a question suggesting that representa tions should be made to China to speed up the trial or procure the release of the Russian railway officials, M.M. Ustroumoff and tiondatti, who are now in prison in Harbin, Mr. Austen Cham berlain said that he was seeking re- port of the case before deciding whether any action was possible or desirable..
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"A CREATIVE SPEECH."
TROTSKY AND EFFICIENCY.
as cathedrals in the Middle Ages; and, the What was to prevent lie: Cook and plough which has come down from time his friends buying and managing a colliery immemorial, typified the works) of immi in the past, so, to-day, the pesan liner to show the possibility of maintaining & substantial living wage and working a (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
The Prime Minister, who, with the Earl on the one hand, and the actor caesix-hour day? I do not know whether the other, are typical of what the ere his disinclination to do that arises from DOMMERCIAL ALLIANCE.
of Oxford and Asquith, received the free-tive and inventive forces of man van his realisation of the inevitability of
(Cheers.) We have also loss vis- JAPAN, GERMANY AND SOVIET dow of the city of Leeds on March 13th,
(Laughter ible, lens tangible, but equally real-a gradualness. But at any rate he has MAY JOIN HANDS.
addressed * Conservative demonstration marvellous financial machine, which does not yet learned to say so. of 3,000 people at the Leeds Coliseum on the work of exchanging commodities and cheers.) The Prime Minister quoted Trotsky, who, he said, had discovered. HARBIN, April'sth
the previous night. Mr. W. H. Clarke,month by month and year by year, not in the last few years and written that Baron Goto has passed through here president of the Leeds Conservative An- whole world. It has stood the strain and only among ourselves, but throughout the
the more easily did the Russian pròle- tariat pass through the revolutionary on his way to Tokyn. He informed the sociation...presided. The Prime Minister shock of the war. It has maintained chur-
structive work. Trotsky had also said Fress that he favours. a triple alliance met with an extremely enthusiastic ring those critical years the high stand. crisis the harder becomes now its con
ard of efficiency and integrity which has
what no leader of the extremists had yet. between Hassia, Japan and Germany onception, and was supported by a consider-made this country the faancial centre of said in England, We must learn to work able number of members of Parliament, the world. It has helped this country to commercial principles.
votes would be cast for a revolution in including Lieut. Colonel the Hon. F. Spay her debts, while claiming debte owing more eficiently." He wondered how many Jackson, M.P., the chairman of the party to her from no man, and you can measure, England if people were told the only re organisation. Mr. Baldwin's speech was the value of the nation by estimating the
suit would be that they would have to relayed by wireless to another large ruin which would succecil if only confid
work more efficiently. (Laughter and audience in the Town Hall.
once in it wers ever to be destroyed.
cheers. Trotsky said in his book, "In The PRIME MINISTRE said: You will (Cheers-)
Fussia before and after the revolution probably have seen that, owing to the
there existed and exist unchanged efforts I have been making as a peace-
Eussian human nature."Trotsky, the maker I have been called,, among other
And an, while I and many others may man of action, studied realities, comment things. revivalist. I am. revivalist. because I am in favour of a revival of teel at times a passing regret for theed Mr. Baldwin. He had slowly and re- the inevitability trade, and a revival of that good feeling changes that have been wrought in our luctantly discovered what Mr. Webb dis- among mankind that never ought to be old country, yet it is a tremendous spec-covered two years ago, allowed to fail. I have been told that be-tacle to see the millions of this country's of gradusiness." (Laughter and cheers) cause I try for peace I am afraid. Afraid citizens, not maly of England, of Great Mr. Baldwin also quoted Air. Bertrand of what I am afraid of nothing except Britain, but of a Commonwealth which is Russell, who in America had said, '** The to be found in every quarter of the globe, Marxian formala in to simple; the world [that, owing to certain amount of latent
is not made as simple as that. When and whose people are in a real sense participators in a League of 6fty Nations you hear anything that, projects a glorious tupidity which exists in our fallen human mature, some of our fellow-men should act unwisely instead of wisely. Nothing that bound together to try and ensure for future in some golden age, it is well to I have said recently has been new teach their children a peace in this world which be reminded that such doctrines are by ing so far as I am concerned, but it sither they nor their fathers have been no means new. That showed comment attracts attention from the fart that I able to maintain. (Cheers.) I feel weed the Prime Minister, that a leader
intellectual thought am Prime Minister. As long as I occupy are living to-day in one of the creative of that office I shall go on teaching the epochs of history, that our responsibility Socialists was learning the inevitability gospel that I have taught in a humblers tremendous, that our lot may be glor of gradualness." (Laughter and cheers) ious; but I am convinced that this is The Premier continued:" The future sphere all my life, the hope that be-
no time in which people should even holds some promise, when we have to-day fors I die my fellow-countrymen and
destroy the so many men in the Labour movement women may embrace it (Cheers.) The dream of attempting th
mechanism which has stretched nur in who hold sane and just views of the poss dominant issues in the world today are peace or concealed war. It is the same telligence and widened our horizon to the ibilities of human progress, with whom I utmost parts of the earth. We owe our am convinced we may be able to work position and our place in the world hand in hand to effect great improve. largely to the fact that we were the first ments in the conditions of our people nation to endure the pangs which brought it is to help to bring this about that the industrial age into the world, but have been appealing, not for a We are also paying the price of that passive tranquility, but, for active good privileged priority, and the price in part will in this country, which has been There room now for a great diversity is par hadis-planned and congested towns, absent for too many long years. (Cheera) our back-to-back houses, our ngly fac tories, and our smoke-laden atmosphere of financial, managerial, and wage rela-
tions in industry, room for more experi From the first there were minds, over sensitive or prophetic, who felt these ments with these relations than have things or saw possibilities of evil in the been made hitherto. I want to help to future which were ignored by the mass of remove the atmosphere engendered by men in the wild rush of progress and the the presence of great armed forces drawn up as they were in Europe before 1914,
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SITUATION IN CHINA. [1proudé zrcYER'S AGENCY.]
PEKING-MUKDEN RAILWAY. QUESTIONS IN COMMONS RE CHANG TSO LIN'S ACTION.
CAPETOWN, April th The abandonment of the present Imsentations
announced Budget rush by Mr. Havenga in perial Preference Wils outlining the adjustment of preferential tariff on a quid pro que basis, under which British goods will benefit to the extent of £300,000, and the Dominion's 150,000, compared hitherto with E880,000 and £90,000, Prespectively.
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abroad and at honie.
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Socialist State.
among
the
meré
They considered that British commerci- at supremacy in cotton gootis could pot
In this country
see increased be seriously challenged with reduced
wealth, increased comfort and feisure of taxation and longer working hours. On
LONDON, April sth
the masses of the people. Do not imagine behalf of the Manchester cotton associ
In the House of Commons, Sr. H. W. tions they suggested that, as regards raw
Looker (U., Essex, S.E), formerly of that I mean that all is for the best yet. But if you look hack over forty or fity cotton, certain Empire cottons should
Hongkong, drew attention to the fact be made tenderable against the Liverpool that, Chang Tso-in still retained a scyears no one can doubt that we have fatures contract, and thus receive a pro- tion of the Peking-Mukden Railway which been able to maintain a vast population in per status and expedite their develop-he seizes in 1999. Не suggested
that the a greater degree of comfort than would Government should make representations have been imagined possible in the early regarding such retention and thus pat an days of the industrial revolution. Those end to the wrongtai retention of the who worked two or three generations ago which constituted serious to effect the progress we have seen were of the railway agreement, and probably driven too hard by the circum impaired the security upon which British stances of the time, and they had little capital was farnished for Chinese lines. thought to apare for anything but produe-haste after new-found wealth. But there
Mr. Chamberlain replied that repre- tion and more production. That is why has not arisen antil lately a party-ur eyeing each other with a view to poss
were being
mude both atto-day we are beset by a tangle of social should I say a section of a party-who ibilities of battle, and keeping their eyes Peking and at Mukden to secure the reproblems from which we would have been were prepared to scrap the whole system fixed so much on their own vested in- turn of the section.
Asked whether he did not think the comparatively free had our ancestors had of private enterprise and to substitute terests that they became heedless of the
whole community. time had arrived to consult the other that wisdom which we are to-day search for it-t ans rate, on paper-(laughter)greater and more clament, needs of the The Prime Minister described the ad- Now, we Conservatives of this genera- Powers interested with a view to taking for. I only trust that we, in our turn, shall not hand on to the next cen- definite steps to get settled the position tury, and those who follow after us, a tion share with the Socialists quite as ministration of the Unemployment. In in Chios, Mr. Chamberlain said that legacy of urban difficulties such as those honestly and truly the most ardent desiresurance Acts as a question in which all had been communicating with the other who went before have banded on to us. and determination to attempt to remove parties might unite, and went on: It is economic disabilities which cripple. the a gigantic social experiment started since Powers concerned, and if he saw opportProgress has been made in spite of mush
the war. The fund has, beer, subjected aity of advantageotisly taking any steps callousness and apathy of former days, poor in mur midst. (Cheers.) "We dis-
to a tremendous strain, and so has the But none of us eas pretend to be satisfied trust their method. Their method is that
administration and the benefit itself. with the conditions of things today. We the State should become the common
There are dificulties and there are fare faced today with the phenomenon of owner of the menos of production; in
abusex. There may be arising from it other words, in the old phrase, they are a million newly infranchised citizens en- listed in support of what is now the great- in favour of the nationalisation of the evils which need combating and correct- And means of production, distribution, and ing think it is quite plain that any est second party in the country.
If this implies anything, it Government which hopes before long to there are sections of that party whose exchange avowed object is to end the system of implies the possibility of transferring the deal on comprehensive lines with the industry which prevails in this country ownership and direction of industries to question of national insurance should to-day-and-anong a small section, to the nation. operating through bureau endeavour to gather together, to harvest, fund it if necessary by violence or revoluerats and committees, and by that means. And learn from the experience and the we should get rid of the evils that heses working of that benefit during its exist try means.
us. We should multiply the amount ofence, with a view to paring away abusen goods-to-be shared out, we should be and increasing ita utility to the whole rid of unemployment: we should achieve community,
MR. LANSBURY'S COMMENT.. equality of opportunity, and we should
There were things said in the House of have freedom and fraternity! That is the millennium promised to us. Now, I be
Penny postage is
Won the best time.
in history, the was deliveral by- Budget perch
who fore Africander, Mr. Havenga,
revision The
of the tariffs shadowed adequately protecting home industries, admitting raw materials free or at the
"a quid pru you
he would do #D."
"FROM THE " DAILY... BULLETIN."}~`
1:
OHIEF EXECUTIVE'S AIDES.
Premier Herriot, who had previously lowest possible rate, adjusting Imis, PROVINCIAL ADVISORY ASSEMBLY
complained of the Commission's hostni ty, made the vote a question of con fidence.
The Cabinet will meet later.
twist
It is expected that the Government.,, w resign to-night.
- Later.
Contrary general anticipation, the Cabinet, after conferring for over three and a half hours, lid rot announce its resignation, the consideration of
for which it had been urgently convened.
The Cabinet merely issued nuique to the effect that it had discussed M. De Monzie's Bill and other athairs of no moment.
PON
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Preference on
maximum and minimum providing for rates ou certain commodities, to enable the Government to argotiate most-- favoured-nation agreements with cous-
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PERING, April sth.
tries "outside the Commonwealth, pro- 'The Cabjort дге considering the viding for suspended duties in ascentstablishment-of-a-Provisional Advisory enaurrd Assembly, the function of which will dustries, which thereby are of protection when the Government are be to advise the Chief Executive.
According to the regulations submitt- satished of the need of such.
The revenue amounted to £25,310,000,ed to the Cabinet yesterday, the Assembly and expenditure £24,540,000.
NEW POLICY ILLUSTRATED.
of tariff policy, duction in duties on such goods as cotton und woolten pires gooda. cotton "threads, and mechanical tools, and the aboli tion
of duties in the ease of agricultural machinery and industrial On the CLAN BOAT IN COLLISION NEAR contrary, the duties of: Blankets, rage, motor-cars, petrol in bulk, printed mat ter, and machinery, would be increased.
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DUTCH STEAMER SUNK.
FLUSHING,
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will consist of one delegate from each of the military and civil authorities of the provinces, one from each of the Suaiyuan.
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SOCIALIST SCEPTICISM... That is a formidable challenge. It is one which in some degree confronted the electors at the last election, and they gave their verdict with no undecided the new tagit poller, insinnered the repeat, Jurica gunely, Metropolitan voices. Pat we should make a profound miscalculation, and our I shall never one from each of the Tupans of the Fron make, if we regarded that verdict as tier Defence Force, and also from the final. We have for our part to earn the Commanders of troops under the direct
rect finality of that verdiet by the way in threaten from Mongedi. which we conduct ourselves in sice delegates from Mongolia, Turkestan, the thing, Tibet, Chinese (Cheers.). We shall win again if all of us in Parliament, and in the country, do Chairmen of the Provincial Assemblies,
our duty. (Renewed cheers.) We shall one delegate from each of the Provincial
bodies, and 10 to 15 delegates win because our principles are in closer specially employed by the of with tie paracer and conditions. of our people then any traditions or any tive.
The Assembly will discuss the resolu-principles of violent change. And we tions of the Reorganisation Conference shall win, also, because many of the regarding financial and military readjust leaders of that party are becoming in ment, also matters connected with the creasingly sceptical of the merits of their foreign treaties, and it will also attempt spread from the top to the bottom.
promote provincial self-government | (Cheers.)" pending the completion of the national and provincial consitutions.
The Assemby will have a Speaker, a Vice-Speaker and a Chief Secretary.
quid
hundred
oned out that if he had worked LONDON, April 9th. The captain of the Steamer Clan would not have got three Mourse reports that his vessel collided | thousand sterling of preference but only with the Dutch stenger Junge Watharina, two hundred thousand, hence the pre- The latter was sunk in Wielingen fair- Tercucy was about thirty per cent. more
yuu basis.
way.
The Mica Monroe Bicked up twenty of the Dutch crew, who, were landed at
Flushing by a tug.
The The Monroe is anchored in Wielingen Channel; her bows are slightly ainaged, but she is making no water. LATER.
Fifteen, of the Dutch ernw" were saved. Six are dead and three are missing.
The Olan Mohra was bound from Fremande,
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HOTHEADS OF DAMASCUS.
"SCENES' OF UPROAR OUTSIDE LORD BALFOUR'S FOTEL..
DAMASCUS, April 8th.
Lord Balfour has arrived here. Crowds later demonstrated outside his hotel, and the manager rushed into Lord Balfour's room, closed the shutters and torned off the lights. The crowds hurled stones on to the balcony, hitting
drago man. The police forced the demon- stratora back from the hotel towards the square opposite,, where Hery speeches were delivered.
Several persons were arrested. Quiet was restored by this evening. Numerous police are remaining in the vicinity of the hotel
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DAMASCUS, April 9. Last night and this morning all' was quiet; but the bazaars were closed in. anticipation of a big demonstration.
Lord Balfour remained in his hátét this: morning. He will be the guest at dinner of the French General Barrall this even ing; he proceeds to Baalbeg to-morrow,
less this, on be a Cyrus to use mont ben on Monday about unemploy
an illusion in a few words--becausement benefit Mr. George men are not yet good enough for a State with which I warmly agree, and I cannot like that. And when they are they will help thinking if they had been said from not need it. (Laughter and cheers.). Men my benches they would have prompted
great deal of
it shows are not born free, they are not born
that in a muster like this the righe to investigate it is not on party lines bet by co-operation of all those interested in
that it there had been really a quid ponational treasury, national taxation and own gospel, and that scepticism will (Laughter and cheers.) The doctrine is
WALSH ISLAND.'
FLOATING DOCK, WILL BE CONSTRUCTED..
SYDNEY, April 8th. The Commonwealth Government have accepted the proposals of the Government of New South Wales for the construction of a Houting dock at Walsh Island.
The dock, which will have n
displace ment of 13,000 tons, will take two jears to build, and the Commonwealth flovern- ment will contribute £120,000 towards
to
HOLLAND'S COLONIES. WIRELESS SERVICE TO DUTCH INDIES PLANNED.
Mr.
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eqant, and they are not born fraternals and I will ask any mother in the audience (Laugh if she does not agree with me.
We have to achieve our freedom and
Believe me, our greatest difficulty in ter.) equality and the gift for fraternity, and, the past, and even to-day, in bringing owing to our fallen human nature, achieve back that essential confidence to Europe is the creation of an atmosphere in which it with a great deal of effort. It costs more effort for some than others, and forces hitherto hostile can be brought there are some who will never achieve it. to negotiate Ricably. What is true of Europe is true of England. Should wo not make some effort to have our homes also an illusion, because if you handed
in the sunshine of industrial peace and over all the industries to-morrow to the The function of industry in the modern Labour party to control they would find progress, rather than where the clouds
are dark and the storms beat? If we CA State is to produce and distribute goods they would have to battle with forces not and services which are wanted by the only beyond their comprehension but be only create in this country such an atmos community, and to do it in such a way yond their control. The crucial test isphere as I desire, we shall make the I make no mock of the powers of Nature, the inventions of our as react most favourably on the livelihood unemployment. and life of all concerned. If you take Labour party that they failed to cure scientists, the abilities of our managers, and the skill of our workmen "subserve the a broad view over this country for a long unemployment, because the task is be- period of time, you will find that this yond the power of human men. common purpose of elevating our people. But if, instead, we nourish a spirit of function has been discharged on the Sydney Webb.once used the phrase which whole with remarkable, success. Let us he found most comforting, namely, "The class-selfishness and mutual hatred, wa not forget that in admizing the personal inevitability of gradualness." The phrase shall not only infallibly prevent the poss- initiative that has been necessary to bring reminds me of one by Charles Dickens, ibility of any revival in trade, but AMSTERDAM, April 8th.
Partia shall with certainty ultimately destroy the cost. The dock will be used for According to the Handelsblad, the this about a vast co-operative effort has who, writing of the success of
that industry, the careful preservation of been made such as you see in modern mentary candidate, showed how he was commercial purposes, but in time of war official committee enquiring into the posted. The condition of Leeds has come returned by coining the magnificent which affords the only means, by which or in any other emergency, the Comal and telegraph services recommends monwealth Government will take control. that the Kootwyk wireless station be con-about under our existing system, and if phrase, "He was aiming at the illimit the less. fortunate people in this country structed specifically to communicate with you look back only a few generations you able perspective. Mr. Webb's phrase can hape with the goodwill of all classes the Dutch East Indies, and that it should will see England an agricultural isin, entitles him to rank with the discoverer to share themselves in all the "gifts. that. our civilisation bas to offer them. (Lond be handed over to private enterprise. with a population not exceeding ten or of the law of gravity, and long years
# dozen times that of your city, and living hence I trust there might be a statue, cheers.) DUTCH DOCKERS' STRIKE. in a vastly inferior condition as regards to Mr. Webb in Parliament-square, bear-Acknowledging a vote of thanks, Mr. comfort and housing. I am not myiaging the legend. "In memory of Sydney Baldwin said: I do not believe any AMSTERDAM, Apdit 8th. that everything is perfect, but when we Webb, who discovered the inevitability leader ever felt so proud of his party as The mehanical workers at the docks are taking stock and looking ahead let of gradualness on June 26th, 1993 (Loud I did on Friday, and I do not think that crease of wages and annual holidayg
scious of the progress that has been made Labour party who believe in the inevit capacity and enthusiasm in the rank and up to now. The Titanic forces let looseability of gradualness more than they do file of the Conservative party as there is SADOUL IS. ACQUITTED.
by the industrial revolution of the eigh-in violence. (Cheers). There are some to-day. (Cheera.) teenth century have changed the face of leaders who still believe that catastrophic Pants, April 8tb....... Badoul has been acquitted.
the country and all the features of our changes will bring about much that we
For a variant to the usual run of national life. They have called millions would all like to see. There is Mr. Cook, OBITUARY.
of people into existence, and have sub-for example, and, since he left office; Mr. schoolbay howlers, or to pidgin Eng dund the forces of nature to minister to Wheatley seems impressed with that doc Hoard of Education, which has caused list, the world is indebted to the Chicago trine. But in the hearts of many in that No one loves the country and the coun- parts I am convinced that their faith what should become a classis essay to be
Bet forth in
It type. is about frogs, and try life more than I do. When I look at in Socialism as a remedy for our present was written by a young Norwegian. an indatrial development of this kind I fills has been chastened and modified by What a wonderful bird the fros
(Cheers) When be stand, be sit almost. When be cannot fail to wonder at this development their experience in office.
MOSCOW SOVIET.
MANY WOMEN GAIN SEATS ~AT ELECTIONS.'
Moscow, April 8th.
The elections to the Moscow Soviet declared a lightning strike for an inus not forget at the same time to be con- laughter.) There are many leaders in the at any time has there ever. been so meh
munists and 1,308 non-party candidates resulted in the return of 2,554 Com-
It is officially pointed out that the latter constitute 34 per cent. of the whole i cent in the last Boviet number, compared with only 123 per Nine hundred and thirty-three women were clected.
VON HINDENBURG YIELDS,
DECIDES TO STAND FOR PRESIDENOY.
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BERLIN, April 8th. to persuasion, and he will stand for the Marshal von Hindenburg has yielded Presidency.
PATRIARCH TIKHON.
Moscow, April 8th. The death is announced of the Patriarch Tikhon, whom the Bolshevists impri- soned for protesting against the confisca Orthodox third belonging to be released tion of valuables the Russian
a year ago.
their wants.
•
ars as a reflection of the mind of man and a Responsibility as a very sabering effect, hop, he By almost. He ain't got no nothing alien or extraneous. It is the of reality to leaven a very considerable by either. When he sit, be sit on what witness of what it can accomplish. It is and it does not take a very large, dose, sepse hardly. He ain't got no tail hard- output of the creative forces of mur race, fump of theory. (Cheerz:)
be ain't got almost."