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FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.
PAINLEVE MAY UNDERTAKE FORMATION OF MINISTRY.
CONTÉRSION 2. BRIAND.
PARIS, April 15th. Briand, talking to his friends, anticipated that M. Painlevé would more readily finil support than himself. "I made the mistake of my political career in trending on a few toes; and, naterally, I met the owners' toes again when I was riced to wait until the National Socialist Council deeiled its conditions for sup parting me. But I have an iden that when a rupe is made to support a hanged But it is better not to be at the sad of that rope.""
According to 'Echo de Paris, which predicts M. Painlevé will agree to form a fabinet-but' that his. Government will be ephemeral the main obstacle in M, Brian's path was M. Herriat's hostility.
The newspapers insist on a speedy solu.. tion of the crisis in the national interest, the organs of, the Left declaring that M Faintéré har'uo right to shirk the respon- Nibility,"
SUPPORT OF SOCIALISTS.
LATER
3. Painlevé received a delegation from the National Socialist Council, which nsored him of support, identical with that given M. Herriot.
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BRIAND ABANDONS TASK.
PARIS, April 14th.
M. Briand has abandonded the task ef. forging a. Cabinet. --
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M. Briand's announcement of his bandonment of forming & Cabinet was meting of Republican
zirade
Socialists..
M: Briand explained that the Social- _inta had not merely refused to join the Cabinet, but had made their support dependent upon conditions which he considered incompatible with his con ception of the Premiership.'
• President Douergue has asked M. J'ainleve to form a Cabinet, and the intter has promised to answer to-morrow after he has consulted, with his friends.
"Both Chinbers will meet to-morrow to vote on the Bill authorising the Ban- que de Framer to ixue four milliards of franes worth of notes, thus regular ising the Banquie's position before its issue of the next weekly balance-shout.
The Nationalist-Socialist Council have unanimously declined in join the Briand
Ministry.
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PRINCE OF WALES. NIGERIAN PROGRAMME ONCE AGAIN ALTERED.
LAGOS, April 15th.
The Prince of Wales' programme in Nigeria has again been altered. Now he will avoid Oye, where small-pox bas iwaken out.
He should have attended a durier at Oyo on April 20th.
The Prince is disappointed, but deferred to the decision of the loend Medien Authorities. It is hoped the quarantiue at Lagos will he lifted by April 18th to enable the. Prince of Wales to lay the foundation stone of the new cathedral.
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KING BORIS IN PERIL. LATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION
ENDS IN FAILURE.
«MORDER OF GENERAL SUCCEEDA.
SOFIA, April 14th.
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FOOTBALL AT HOME. LATEST. RESULTS IN LEÀQUE -
*MATCHES.
LONDON, April 14th. The English League matches played to-day resulted as follows:-
‹ DIA IRION (1, Arsenal. 2: West Brom., O. Huddersfield, 9:"Bury. 0... Leeds, 9: Bolton, 1. West Ham, : Sheffield U., 2.
DIVISION LÍ.
Bradford €, 1: Blackpool, 0. Coventry, Clapton, D.. Fulham, 1: Barnley, 2 Leicester. : Scuthampton, 0.
DIV1910N 1. (SOUTH). Bristol R. 1 Reading. 0. Merthyr, 0; Watford, 1; Northampton, Queen's Park R., 9. Norwich, 0 Southend, 1. Newport 24-Charlton, 1.
DIVISION L. (NORTH). Doncaster, Nelson, L Halifax, 1: Darlington. 1. Rochdale, 8; N. Brighton, 0. Rotherham. 1: Southport, 3 Tranmere. 3; Wigan. 3. Chesterfield, 2: Grimsby, 0.
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OBITUARY.
MR. JOHN SARGENT.
LONDON. April 15th. The death is announced of Mr. John Singer Sargent, R.Ą,
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The late Mr. Sargent, was born, as Florence in 1858, of American parents, He exhilated at the Paris Salon in 1879. and has continually had pictures hung there and at the Royal Academy since He was be most fashionable as he was the greatest and most daring of living portrait painters. O late years he has confined bitself chiefly to landscapes, though in 1922 he had portraits of leading Generals hung in the Royal Academy.]
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- PLOT IN COLOMBIA. ARMY OFFICERS FOILED IN-
ATTEMPTED COUP D'ETAT.
BOGOTA, April 15th. While the President of the Colombia Republic was supposed to be absent from the Capita visiting various departments, a group" of army officers planted a rags Ceto.. They proposed to. capture the Palace and overthrow the Government.
But the President returned midden and had the conspirators thrown into prison. An investigation was immediate- ly begun to ascertain the unifications
of the plot.
Bogota, formerly Sante Fe de Bogota, is the capital of the United States of Colombia, in the State of Cundinamarca, situated in 49 44. N., 74° 14 W
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RUMANIA'S DEBTS: UNITED STATES IS ANXIOUS FOR FUNDING AGREEMENT.
WASHINOTON, April 14th The United States Minister at Buch- arest has drawn the attention of the Ramanian Government, th thu fact that while it has negotiated debt fund ing agreements with other nations, it has not acted similarly in connection with the Rumanian debt to the United
Staten.
were
Exports from the United States in Barch amounted to. 8432,000,000 and the imports
$385,000,000, with one exception the imports being the largest for four years, while, with two exceptions the exports were the largest
for 45 montba.
President Coolidge points out in this regard that if prices are calculated on the 1014 level the volume of trade has increased in quantity by 50 per cent.
U.S. "PROHIBITION LAW. BRITISH SCHOONER CAPTURED- AFTER STERN CHASE.
NEW YORK, April 14th
A motor-car, in which King Boris was
After a 100 mile chase lasting twelve hours, the British schooner adeleine travelling to Sofia was ambushed outside Adams, with all sails set and her en- the city yesterday, by an Agraro-Com-Bince going munist band, which fired a fusillade, killing two altendants and wounding the chauffeur. His Majesty escaped unin- jured.
Troops are at present scouring the
search of the assailants. ..countryside, in
GENERAL ASSASSINATED,
L second putrage in Hola yesterday evening, when General
There
WAS
can
from
at full speed, was captur. ed 20 miles from the shore by a coastguard- outter, which opened fire' as she pursued the schooner, and brought ashore the crew of nine, who are being detained and charged with violating the Anglo-Ameri-
Treaty. The officiala. that two the schooner were brought in by the coastguards on April 11th, when the lat ter pretended to accept a bribe to smug- gle in 500 cases of whisky and cham- pagne, and brought in the liquor and two members of the crew ashore in the coastguards' motor-bout.
BBY
It is stated that muggling by means of Government boats is frequently at- The Madeleine Adams in fled at $75,000 and her cargo at 8500,000,
Kibeorghieff, a member of the Chamber and leader of the movement to overthrow. I tempted. the Stambouliski Government, assassinated outside bis residence.
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POLITICAL SITUATION FAR EASTERN CABLE
IN CHINA:
[FROM THE DAILY BULLETIN."]
CHINA'S CUSTOMS TARIFY.
SINO FRENCE CORRESPONDENCE NOW PUBLISHED.
PEXINO, Agrit 14th. The following is a free translation of the letters exchanged between Mr. Shen Juai Jin (Foreign Minister and Count de Martel (French Minister) handed out in French to Press representatives tast night:
A letter from the Foreign Minister to the French Minister,, dated April sth, is as follows
"Monsieur le Ministre."
NEWS."
[From Our Own Correspondent.} .
CHILD LABOUR'IN SHANGHAL, LACK OF QUORUM PREVENTS - MUNICIPAL DISCUSSION.
SHANGHAI, April 15th. Owing to the lack of the 302 votes necessary to forin a quorum, the Extra ordinary Meeting of Ratepayers was not held to day to discuss the Municipal Council's resolution with regard to Child Labour in Shangbai.
ARAB "DIE-HARDS." EXPLAINING EXTREME POINTS OF VIEW.
A correspondent of the Tinues recently in Palestine, wrote on March, 18th:—
Lord Balfour is on his way to Jerusa lem, where he will open the Hebrew Uni versity on April 1st, and apparently tho. Arab community has already begun to rehearse its coremonial of mourning in honour of the occasion. His arrival is to be celebrated by ovcomplete fussation of work, by the closing of the Arab Holy Places" by the appearance of funereal black borders on the pages of the Arab newspapers, and by the calling of meetings in prayer and protest all over the country, lu other we, the Arabs have decided to give a tit-class imitation of what the Indian agitator would call a hartai,
fast approaching completion, Na-wan- ded your Jow friend is enthusiastic, naďa you would be more ready to share hig enthusiasm if, in it, he did not forget no many things -
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THE OTHER SIDE.
"First and foremost, he forgets that the Arab is the original owner of the land. and that the very Declaration which cam mitted the British Government to the policy of establishing a national home for the Jews in Palestine expressly stipulated that the rights and privileges
of the non-Jewish communities must be preserved. He forgets that much of thes knecess won by the Jewish tarmer is due to the fact that the land has be ploughed and prepared for countiesa agen by the Arab and his despised single. furrow plough. He forgets that if the Arab likes to live in a mud hut and tall the soil according to the custom of his Hurtals are not very useful instru- ancestors, ha tha every right to do so ments for securing constitutional reform, and it is not for either the British Ad and the stubborn determination of the ministration or his Zionist neighbour to Palestine Arab to ault in his tent instead thrust model cottages and motor tractare of helping to safeguard his own future upon him. He forget above all, that is the despair of his friends to-day. Ha the smug' satisfaction and the arrogant never tires of reciting his alleged griev-claing of so many of the Jewish lender ances, but he seems either unable” or un- Are alipost na obstructive to an amicable willing to suggest a remedy, It is this settlement and almost a embarrassing
spirit hopelessly obstructive
which to the Administration as the die-hard prompted him to worn the Constitution dourness of the Arab pessimists.
tbe considerable voting powers offered to of September, 1929, to refuse to exercise him, and to reject the proposal for an Arab agency that was made in the follow. ing your.
A little while ago the writer had a con- versation in Jerusalem with the Grand Multi-a tall, red-bearded Arab whese dignity of bearing added to the pictures heraqueness of his white headdress and long black silk robe. He was full of stories about the injustice done to his people by an unsympathetic Administration and
But when he was. the usurping Jew. politely asked to suggest some scheme What would lead to a solution of the problem and at the same time satisfy the honour of his race he merely folded his arms. looked through his window across the flagged courtyard of the Mosque of Omar, and said haughtilyThe Arah people will never accept anything found ed on thuit false Declaration."
[*AND LITE HONOREL) FRENCH PRESS VIEW.
PARTS. April 15th. Le Journal expresses the opinion that get the the Chinese Government, to money needed by it, must increase the Custom duties tariff. But such increase requires the agreement of all the Powers
It is, then, a difeult to gain an i partial atatement of the position to-day that on is compelled to look for evi dence in the daily life of the people, and- have there are many signs to encourage the hope that the situation will settle it- self so long as race hatreds on either side are not fanned by tactlessness or by deliberate agitation. Some of these signs of view, others are little things to be found are important from a political point in the farm settlement and-th market place. For instance, many of the Arabi shopkeepers, tired of cutting off their nose and their custom-to spit their face, are at lest putting Hebrew trans lations of their signs in their windows, and so attracting Jewish patronage. Near Jafta a Jew¿and an Arab have entered into partnership in a cigarette- making industry. A Haifa Jews and Arnbs are working alongside each other. Over and over again one bears the che in the construction of the power plant. of this sentiment. It does not meon Making all allowances for Jewish exag- much, it certainly leads nowhere. In geration (to say nothing of Arab canarda exxelly the same way, the Caire effendi, about forced sales ") there certainly seems an increased tendency on the part when asked for his suggestion as to the
of the Arab farmer to sell his super Chian promises again to resunie paysafeguarding of the Nile water supply,
next door. And in Jerusalem the police ment of the Boxer Indemnity in gold. automatically casts his eyes heavenward, fluous lands to the industrious Zionist and repeats. Long live Zaghiul and the Let us hope the promise will be kept-independence of Egypt. Both points of no longer prepare for the worst every view are equally exasperating to those time a feast-day or an anniversary comes who are sincerely anxious to find the just round to rouse memories of Jabotinsky These may be -side- answer to a nuestion that is admittedly far the Jaffa riots. bristling with difficulties. It may getting are at least more ilha nothing to the Palestine Arab that the minating than the partisan claims of accusations against the Administration eith side. which they recited in a pompous report to the League of Nations Mandates Com- mitte at your were disproved ane by He continues to complain about the past and refuses to discuss the future. The pity is that his unreasonableness and it may fairly be added his ingratis tude is fast losing him the sympathy of even those British who five years ago were frankly anti-Zionist
fras...
FROM THE DAILY BULLETIN.")
CHINA AND SOVIET.-
HALF-WAY HOUSE
TRROCGA AKK'S ADENOT.) CONSIGNMENT OF ARMS. ALLEGED BIG SEIZURE ON *have the honour to report to your
GERMAN STEAMER. Excellency that according to the terras
SHANGHAY, April 15th. of the treaty concluded at Washington
The "China Press reports that 8,000 between the Nine Powers concerning ther Chinese Castoms Tariff, a special con Mauser pistols and 1,400,000 rounds of ference charged with adjusting all ques-ammunition, valued between six and eight tions relative to the abolition of litin, hundred thousand dollars, are alleged to general increase in the duties, collection have been seized in a raid on the Germas of surtax of two and a half per cent.
steamer, B. Rickmers? by loent Cus ad calucem, raising the tariff, upon artichs of luxury and a revision of the toms officials on Monday morning.
The 3.4. k... Hickmers arrived tarifly on land frontiers, would meet in China within three months after the on Sunday frem Dairen coming into force of the treaty "at"a place and on a date to be fixed by the Chinese Government. Most assuredly the draidereth which China expressed at the Washington Conference on the subject of adjustment of the Customs Tariff have not been satisfied on a faints, but the Chinese Government are none the less grateful to the Governments of the in- terested Powers who have agreed upon the prompt meeting of a special contarlading France." ference to bring efficient help to China. The Chinese Government hoped particu
arty that these arrangements would be put in force at the fixed time, but for two years the projected conference has not been conveked, owing to the treaty not having been ratiɓed by all the signa- tory Powers in letters addressed to the
M. KARAKHAN 'ON QUESTION Waichiaopu, the Ministers of France
OF "WHITE GUARDS." have maintained that the regulations for the payment in gold of the French part
Perse, April 15th. of the 1901 Indemnity are bound up with
The Rosta Agency publisher Note
for before it is too late. Because, the ratification of the Washington Triday || The Chinese Government, having studied Which "Karakhan aldrissed to the
while the members of the Arab Executive the question thoroughly, have come to the Waichiaopu on the 11th inst., on the sub
are sulking in their tents, the Jew is cut in the fields, digging himself in both literally and figuratively and leaving firm conviction that the meeting of aject of "White Guards" in the Chinese
T politics to take care of themselves- special conference was decided in com- Army,
A minor result of the bitterness of the eems incredible that the avowed leaders The Note was in reply to the Chinese Arab attitudes expressed by its.
of the real, owners of the land should mon accord by all the Powers represented at the Washington Conference, a decision Note of March 5th, which stated that leaders is to make it drifiendt indeed for allow those whom they regard as
invaders to advance step by step, instead with which your Excellency's Govern- there was ander Chang, Trung Cheng's the observer who visits Palestine to gauge of making teens while they have every ment should have conformed, without command a detachment, of between a to-day. He has to sift two extreme chance of a favourable settlement. Frem delay. While the method of payment and 100 White Guards who had adopt classes of evidence, for if he is inet with the point of view of population alone, of the Indemnity is quite a different ques
even though the Arab fear that the ed Chinese citizenship," but there had nothing but gloomy shakings of the head the Jewish case grows stronger every day, from the Arab, he finds an exaggerated tion, which cannot be connected in any
far from realization. Three years ago there, madine with the meeting of the special ben no enlistment of White Guards into optimism on the part of the Jew that Zionists will outnumber them remains the Chinese Army at Shanghai, and this ing. The Jew would have you believe were 650,000 Arabs in Palestine to fewer, conference, the Chinese Government hopes
than 80,000 Jews. To-day the Jewish po that the Freach Government, animated detachment, the presence of which in the that everything in the mandate is lovely
with the possible exception of the Arabpulation is estimated at between 125,000
But even the Arab farmerad 130,000. No wonder that there is by sentiments of friendship towards Chinese Army is not in contradiention of farmer.
to subscribe to the so-called Nation China, will ratify with the briefest delay the Russo-Chinese Agreement, will be dis-recording to your Zionist's story is growing section of Arab opinion ready
beginning to realize that his sole mission
alist party, the creed of which in m the Washington Agreement, so as to per-
in life is to sell his unums of land to effect, Let us take all we can get and his kind Jewish neighbours across the mit of the immediate convocation of the
read. Consequently every pleasant field then sak for more." The old leaders of special conference.
that the traveller sees is cultivated by the party have had their day. Perhaps a Jew who is making three bushels grow they think, somewhat wistfully," of their where the improvident Arab raised only early prestige and their sudden power, one; every pateb of barren rocks on the and their free trips to London in high- mountain side is a inonument to the in- sounding delegationa" "But it ia cer- tain that in aaddling the "Arch farmer eptitude of the Arab farmer. No wonder so runs the arugment, that each fresh of Palestine who cares little more fox dunum that passes into Jewish hands is politics than the Egyptian fellah-with securing the peace and the prosperity of the yoke of their own stubbornness, they are running the risk by losing his ene Palestine.
It must be admitted in all frankness for him, British patiener, cannot last for that the Jew has much reason for pridefever, Jewish immigration cannot be in the signs of achievement that can be dammed by boycotts and black borders on seen throughout Palestine to day. Drive the newspapers, and it would be very bad over the beautiful hills that tower above luck for the Palestine Arab if one day! Jerusalem, down into the valley where he were to find himself the victim of too Joshua's armies once marched, and along many lost opportunities. the broad highway that leads to the sas, and you will see some strange contrasts
Hoping to receive a prompt answer, please accept the assurance of my highest
consideration," etc.
THE FRENCH REPLIES. The following is aletfer from the French Minister to the Foreign Minister, dated April sth:---
banded as soon as the general-situation
is settled.
"M. Karakħan insists that the detach ment numbers over 1,000, and was origin- aily recruited in Manchuria and filled up with the White Guards at Shanghai.
After contesting at great length the claim that they are Chinese citizens, the Note insists most resolutely" on the immediate liquidation of the detachment Monsieur le Ministr "In response to the communication of and warningly declares, "with this at your Excellency dated April 8th I have titude of the Chinese authorities towards the bonour to acquaint you with the fact that I am authorised to make the obligations undertaken by them there known to the Chinese Government that will become quite doubtful the expediency the French Government row engages, to make a beginning as soon as possi-and the successful out-cond of, the new ble and hasten by all means the pro-
otr.
TWO EXTREMES. -
1.
the real truth of the situation us it is
after a while becomes almost as irritat
cess of approval of the French Par- negotiations for fresh agreements which cement and the ratification of the it is proposed to conclude at the pend-mud walls, dark low doors sheltering
treaty concluded at Washington on February 8th, 1929, and make speed for the prompt meeting of the special con ference provided for in Article 11 of that Agreement, which related to the Chinese Customs Tarif
ing, conference."
TUPAN OP HONAN,
HU CHINGYI
"It is pleasant, in bringing this com munition to the knowledge of your Excellency, to state thit henceforth the
Parise, April 14tb... mesing of the projected, conference
It is reported that the Cabinet have ought not to be long postponed. ↑
Please accept the assurance of my decided to appoint Zuch-Wei Chun to highest consideration," "te.
succeed Hu Ching Yi as Tupan of Honan, The following is letter from thebut Chang Tao Lin and Feng Ya Hsiang French Minister to the Foreign Minister are being consulted before t the mandate dated April 2nd:—
is issued.
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"Monsieur le Ministre,
have the honour to make known Lo your Excellency that I have been authorised by my Government to, ad. here to the application of the Customs surtax, the proceeds of which are "des tined for the relief of the flood victimd" I am happy to bring this decision to the knowledge of your Excellency?
"Please accept the assurance of my highest consideration," etc
- (Continued on nezi Column).
There is a half-way house somewhere between the two, and the friends of the Arab are urging their lenders to advance
PLAGUE IN RUSSIA--
THOUSANDS OF DEATHS all
OVER THE COUNTRY. Wiring to bis paper on March 12th, the Riga correspondent of the Chienga Tri base stated
in agriculture. On the one side of the road is an Arab village; primitire grey children and beasts alike, some of the thatched dome-shaped huts little better than those of a Kafr krael. In a feld behind the village a beat old Arab is YUER WET CHUN MAY SUCCEED ploughing blous furrow with the help
of mall donkey and a slow-moving Foked together. He might have stepped
A bubonic plague sepidemic is taking from an illustration of the Old Testa menf; his methods and his dress-alike a heavy toll of the peasantry throughout are those of the days of David. Beyond the Russian provinces The Soviet. Co the field again, the inevitable herd of missariat of Health has just issued black, gaite is browsing on the hillside report, which is published in the Moscow
"Fah!" morts your Jew friend, these Pranda, giving details
During the past winter, in the Bagm goats are the curse of Palestine"), otherwise here is no sign of life. At all cheff district (the Khirghiz Stepper), this the Jew waves a impatient, almost 9,172 persons were infected with the á contemptuous, hand,
plague, and of these 9,015. died. - In Across the road stands one of the new Astrakhan 13,240 died out of 13,526 casen; Zionist settlements. The cottages, modern in Turkestan 2,200 died out of 2,250 case? in desigur, show white agaluat the green and in the Stavropol Government are vince Men, womps, and children are 911 persons died out of 938 infected. working busily in the fields, which are The plague is now spreading and ba already giving promise of their first appeared in the Kubin und Don dir and bechives are going up on all sides in the Crimea, and even in Quecam harvest, neat wire fences, farm buildings,tricts, and averal chars have been found
Ten miles further on and the red roofs recent order of the Health Cotamiamariki of Tel-Aviv-that in ushroom city which closed all provincial hospitals and sn bas sprang up alongside Jaffa comes called the majority of the physicians to into view. Further north still and near Moscow where there are at present 3,500 Haifa a great concrete, power bouse unemployed doctors This explains the the third link in the Butenberg chain-is high death rate in the provinces
A mandate will be issued shortly post humously conferring the rank of Marshal on Hu Ching Ten thousand dollars will be granted to. Hu Ching: Yi's family for the funeral expenses. Liu Chin Chow, Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Com. merce, will be sent to offer sacrificial rites Before the remains of Hu Ching Yi on behalf of, the Goven
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