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DRAMATIC SCENES.
PARIS, November end. The Government has resigned.
LATEX The Government's resignation was due to the Chamber, by 279 votes to 375 Preachers in pulpits all over the king anally rejecting Article V. of the Gov.
LONDON, November 22nd.
dom extolled the late Queen Alexandra's blameless life.
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Reverent crowds all day silently gazed at the drawn blinds of Buckingham Palace. In fine weather Londeners thronged Hyde Park, a subdued note of black prevalent.
Messages of condolence are pouring in from all parts of the world, from such places as Mexico and Japan and froin such potentates as President Hindenburg and King Hussein.,
The gun carriage used in the funerals
of the late Queen Victoria, and the late King Edward will be used at Windsor.
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When M. Herriot announced the result
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DANGER.
LONDON, November 2nd.. Professor John MacNeill's resignation as a member of the Irish Boundary Com- mission, which the Executive Council AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN has accepted was announced by President Cosgrave in a speech at Emyvale, Monaghan, as being because he had lost faith in the other members of the Commission." President Coegrave de
of tho vote M. Paialeve arose and walkedclared that he likewise had lost faith out of the Chamber with his portfolio and was forced to the conclusion that the other members were swayed in the dia under hie aPEI. He was followed by
JAPANESE POLICY.
STRIKING ADDRESS BY MR. HIOKU. INTERNAL CHANGES AND ATTI
H. G. WELLS AND CHINA,
INTERESTING FORECAST OF COUNTRY'S FUTURE. Speaking at what he described as "the youngest and prettiest public dinner ha had ever been at the gathering of Chinese students at the Hotel Cecil ta celebrate the 14th Anniversary of the Republic of China, Mr. F. G. Wells said that the progress of the West since the Renaissance had been due to a Chines invention paper; but we had forged prahend because we had an alphabet and
TUDE TOWARDS CHINA. Japan's China Polky was the sub jeat of an address delivered by Dr. Ek Hiöki, Japan's chief delegate to the Cus: toms Conference, at the meeting of the Peking Community Forum held at the Returned. Students" Club in Peking re- cently.
Addressing a crowded audience, sided over by Mr. D. W. Edwards,
China had not, for the ABC. had made the rapid popularisation of knowledge possible.
PERING, November 23rd. The situation has grown worse in the past forty-eight hours,
Honan troops continue their advanca
Dr. Hoxx said: In recent years there into Shantung and have occupied have been profound political changes in
It shocks me to hear that there is a Japan as a result of the steadily growing influence of the people themselves in
nationalist movement in China," said
"I hope China will not....... Marshal Chang Tso Lin is reported to governmental affairs. This internal change Afr. Welis
has brought the whole domestic and entch the disease from which the West Taining, near Yenchowfu
is suffering, China is a civilisation, not. ment more and more into line with the
line cosmopolitanism or else for a triumph of wishes of the mass of the people. The nation. We must prepare for a great general development of policy, resulting the rat and ant in hudacity.”
Mr. Wells added that he felt it was from this internal change, has been reflect- ed not only in the Japanese Government's almost a duty, in view of certain things foreign policy. Internal change in Japan year, to
other members of the Government amid, sharge of their judicial duty by threats have wired the Fengtien and Knomin-foreign policy of the Japanese · Govern-
the cheers of Radicals and Socialista,
The Government's delent was not sur- prising, as a majority of as in the
and political influences brought to bear President Cosgrave declared that Mr.
upon them.
morning was a narrow shave, because MacNeill had left because the right casualties, and the release of munitions policy towards Chian but in Japan's whole which had happened during the past.
Communists who habitually vote against the Government abstained. They voted against the Government in the
afternoon.
short-term debt as it falls due, and in no case in excess of this amount.
EARLIER HAPPENINGS, The Chamber had previously adopted Articles III, and IV. stipulating that the total of National Defence Bonds can only be increased to provide the sums CONSTRUCTOR ON THE PROJECT.nrcessary for the re-payment of the
ROME, November 23rd. The Italian Colonel Noble, Engineer of the Air Force, who invented and coo. structed the airship in which Amundsen, Nobile himself and s crew of fifteen mechanics will undertake the Polar flight in the Spring, delivered a lecture at the University in the presence of M. the King, members of the Government, the civil authorities and other prominent
people.
The Government then narrowly escaped a defeat on a crucial amendment sup pressing Article V. of the Government's proposals, providing for the spreading of the payment of certain short-terri bonda over twenty-five years, commencing January 1st, 1923. The amendment was defeated by 277 vows to 249, after M.
He stated that the scientific Painleve, amid great excitement, had
goal of the expedition was to establish the presence of land or sea, and the actual nature of the Polar region. The proposed course would be from Spitz bergen to Cape Barrow, North Alaska, " distance of 2,200 miles, of which 700 miles separate Spitzbergen from the Pole. It is estimated that the journey will take sixty five hours. As it is impossible to construct hanger at Spitzbergen, a special shelter will be built with a moor- ing mast. The airship will travel to Spitzbergen is three stages, 1 Pulkam
and Trondhjem. Preparations are in full swing. Experiments with fabrics cap- able of resisting the temperature of the Pole have been successful..
GERMANY AND LOCARNO.. THE GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN.
BERLIN, November 3rd. At the opening of the Locarno debate in the Reiebstag, Herr Lather declared that the Government would resign after the signature of the Locarno agreements in London on December 1st. Ho ex. pressed the opinion that the new Govern- ment could only be one which was deter- mined to pursue the policy of harmonis ing the Locarno Agreemente.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE: SCRAMBLE FOR RUBBER SHARES.
LONDON, November 2rd.
A feature of the Stock Exchange is the wild serable in the Rubber share. market which has reached boom-like pro portions Business is being conducted
declared that the Government would resign if the albendment were carried. PRESIDENT ACCEPTS CABINET'S
RESIGNATION,
President Doumergue has accepted the Cabinet's resignation.."
There was a sharp exchange of unpar- liamentary epithets between members of the Right and Left partion, when the Government left the Chamber, which was- adjourned until Tuesday."
M. Briand is mentioned as the probable successor to M. Painlève.
AN EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MEASURE CONTEMPLATED.
LATER.
The Government, resignation was im- mediately succeeded by a series of excited party conferences, which made little hendway beyond revealing the desire of the members of the Left to persuade the Socialists to accept portfolios and thus restore the Cartellist regime. The So cialists so far have made no decision and may have to convene a national congress to determine their course of action.
The financial position is too critical to admit of delay and, regardless of the Cabinet situation, M. Painleve will on Monday submit
emergency measure authorising the Bank of France, to advance a milliard and a half of francs to meet immediate needs.
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of our people in the north, enshrined in Article XII. of the Trenty, are being shamefully fouted, He was of opinion that the grave situation demanded the most careful consideration by the Gov- ernments of the Free State and Britain. He appealed for restraint on the part of the Irish people "and promised to take steps to prevent the infliction of injustier upon Ireland:
hun Joint Headquarters complaining of the hostile nation of the Honanites at Fastingfa and urging compensation for and equipment seized; also complaining that Fengtien Military Commissionera,
and Tamingfu areas have been replaced and Hsien Magistrates in the Pactingfu
by Kusminchun nominees which is a
violation of the agreement.
Foreign reports from Shantung ind- cate that conditions there are bad; and brigandage largely increasing. apprehension is felt regarding the Ame
Muchi
President Cosgrave said that Mr.ricans at Weihsien. Owing to brigands MacNeill told him that he was com sccupying the city the American com pletely satisfied that there was no like munities are leaving. lihood that the work of the Commission would yield a report based on the terms of reference.
movement towards liberalism. In acquir
Be
is still going on; it seems to be a steady for the attand and speak out an apologe
countrymen when he said he was ashamed ing an increasing measure of influence aspirations of China. He was sura Japan are finding an ever larger opport for what had happened in China. nity to express, through the actions of over their Government, the people of was speaking, for the majority of his
their Government, their genuine friend- ship for other peoples, and their deep desire to see justice and mutual fair deal. ing prevail in the relations between Japan and other nations, particularly in the relations with her neighbours in the Far
East
Tha
but
As to what the future had in store for the world, Mr. Wells said he thought that
It they could come back in 100 years they would find not numerous nations, but three great masses of people. He thought they would find a United States of Europe, a great America, and a great China as the three pillars of the world.
TOO GREAT RESPECT TO THE DEAD.
Is this liberalising and democratising of Japan's Government, the Sovereign. himself is taking a leading part. cleavage between Throne and people, movement represents thus, not a growing LORD KNUTSFORD AND BURIAL. a common effort of both to make Japan in the fullest sense one of the sisterhood of forward-looking and constructively helpful nations Japan still falls short of the ideals of her people in this respect.. ing steadily toward their realisation. But these are our ideals and we are work
I have spoken thus of the changes in the general influences which are deter mining Japan's policy because it is neces- bear them in mind if one is to appreciate sary to understand these changes and to fully the change in Japan's attitude to reward China. These interaal changes must
Brigands have also scized Tichowfu, to twelve American missionaries are atationed.
Alluding
The Government bas sent the Vice- to a newspaper report that
to the Commission was favourable to the Minister of Communications to Tientsin transference of territory in Tyrone to to persuade Yeh Kung Chow not Ulster, Mr. Cosgrave declared that this resign, taking a chihling mandate
fusing to accept the resignation.
was contrary to assurances given by
Lord Birkenhead and Mr. Lloyd George
at the time of the signing of the Trekty. He added that the Commission had no- right to take away any Free State territory.
AMERICA. AND PERSIAN OPIUM: GRANT OF 820,000 ENQUIRY EXPENSES.
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STUDENT TROUBLE IN PEKING. CONFLICTS WITH POLICE.
PEKING, November end. "The students to-day attempted to de- monstrate in favour of "unconditional tariff autonomy,
The police forbade the demonstration and several clashes occurred in different parts of Peking, in which a number of students and police were injured.
A number of the students later demand
GENTVA, November 22nd.. The United States Bureau of Social Hygiene has contributed $20,000 towards the expenses of the Commission of Ened to see the Chief of Police, and upon a refusal of their demand they smashed quiry into the cultivation of opiam in the hoarding outside the police head Persia, as a result of the suggestion of quarters. They also hurled stones at the Mira Hamilton Wright: United States door and wrecked the Tarif Conference delegate at Genera last year. The object cur standing there. of the proposed enquiry is to investigate the possibility of cultivating alternative crops to replace opium and to assist the population to find other means of earning, their living
The forthcoming meeting of the Coun cil of the League of Nations is to appoint the Commission, which it is hoped will be able to visit Persia in February and submit its report to the Juns session of the Council.
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AN ATHLETIC RECORD.
Toxro, November 3rd-
Miki of Keio University has tied the world's record for the 200 metre low
hurdle race at 24.8 seconds.
BRITISH TEXTILE WARRANTY. DEVICE TO STOP, PIRACY, CLOTH SAMPLE WITH GARMENT
be understood, too, before those outside Japan can perceive the sincerity of the Japanese Government to-day in its de- claration of friendship for other nations and of its desire for the prevalence of justice and fair dealing in Japan's inter national relations. We are not simply rendering lip service to these high ideals: we are seeking in every possible way to "I do not need to review here the realize them in our actiods. illustration of our new policy given n our proposals submittel to the Customs Conference. I would remark, however. that these proposals were submitted be cause we believe that some such course of action will be fair not only to China but to all other Powers interested.
Following the receipt recently of a London gangs, Mr. F. N. Charrington, threatening communication from East/ superintendent of the mission held at the Great Assembly Hall, Mile End, E gavo instructions that if he should die Hospital, Whitechapel-road, E., for an- his body should be given to the London" atomical study
Writing to Mr. Charrington, Viscount Knutsford, chairman of the hospital, said :-
"I think your will should be widely known. People pay much so great re- spect to the dead bodies of relations, and every day it saddens me to see elaborate processions passing the London Hospital, tuneral horses followed by Eineral cas- riages and, too, bedecked with towers, and inside I see quite poor people.
I am
"We must fight against this. leaving in my will an earnest request that none will attend zy funeral except the nearest relations.
I wonder if it be true that legally you cannot leave your body to anyone! I have been told so, but I don't believe this. At any rate, it is possible to say: that if your body is not sent to the Lon don Hospital the executors are not to receive any legacy you may make them.
the
I believe this is what the Chinese theinsalves want; and I would associate myself with Dr. C. T. Wang in saying that
"Our bodies ought to be thrown into the spirit of bargaining should be kept out of all the Conference discussions, the sea if not used for the increase of
fair solution of shell shows want of faith, I feel gether to work out a We are here as friends sitting down to knowledge. This super-attention to difficult problems involved in Japan's Mr. Charrington, interviewed by a relations with China. There is ro time newspaper reporter, said: "The ordi here to discuss all these in detail. I do mary method of burial I think most want to say with all possible seriousness horrible and disgusting. There is much and sincerity, however, that when the to be said for cremation, but burial at time comes to deal in detail with these sea would be my choice if the law of other matters, Japan's attitude will be the the country did not prevent it.I bave same as it is at this Conference: to give decided to give my body to the London China's right to the, exercise of full all my life to my fellow-creatures, and if practical expression to our recognition of Hospital, for I have tried to be useful sovereign authority over the territory of possible I want to be useful in death. China and in her relations with other [A number of burials have taken place Powers. All we shall ask is what we on the Goodwin Bands and elsewhere of believe the intelligent Chinese themselves the coast of Great Britain.] realise is necessary: that in fairness to must be given to the legitimate and estab fished interests of foreigners in Chine everyone concerned due consideration.
A CHARTER PARTY DISPUTE. "It"secms proper to say at this point
In a dispute which has recently been that a general survey of the situation reveal: one outstanding fact underlying settled by arbitration in London, & A simple device which may play an the proposals for this Conference in steamer was chartered to load a full important part in expanding the British Peking The Powers other than China eargo of cotton in fully pressed" bales, textile industries has just been patented. have come together for the purpose of seeds, and/or other lawful merchandise For many years manufacturers of high restoring to China rights of which she at 234 6d. per scale ton of cargo grade textiles in Great Britain have a deprived by the circumstances attend scheduled at 18 cwt, The owners were been denied the full fruits of their entering her adjustment to new conditions and afterwards asked to agree to the ship prise and skill because their goods have of giving up interests legally acquired and ment of 1,000 tons of 16 cwt cargo, but legally held by them at present. And they declined to consent, unica is 6d. A QUESTION TO THE PRESIDENT beco imitated and a spurious article with this giving Japan associates herself, extraircight was paid, which the foisted upon the public Designs have heartily recognising the passing of the charterers would not accept. When,
however, the steamer was at Kurrachee,. been pirated, distinguishing labels imi conditions that once prevailed for it is PHILADELPHIA, November 2rd.
the charterers or their agents, without Mr. Lewis, president of the Minerstated, and even printed names on the obvious to the most simple-minded obser
ver that Japan's well-being can be aided the knowledge of the owners, induced The political outlook is confusing and Union, has seat a letter to President cloth have been copied.
For example (says & London paper), most powerfully by the presence in the the captain to give the required option Coolidge asking whether the Government
land of her great Continental neighbour States, where British fabrics are highly
ever before. popular, that vast quantities of cloths
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with great dificulty. Price movements uncertain, M. Briand is regarded as the desired to intervene to maintain the it has long been notorious in the United of a greater peace and prosperity than fat 22a ed., instead of the charter rate
continue in the ascendant...
M. KRASSIN ↑ ILL.
Moscov, November 23rd. M. Krassin has gone into a nursing home suffering from nervous prostration, 'serious anaemia and affection of the heart as a result of overwork. He has been recommended to continue, the treatment for several weeks and then go abroad.
OBITUARY.
CANON 0. H. ROBINSON.
LONDON, November 23rd. The death is announced of Canón C. E. Robinson, D.D.
[Canon Robinson, who was 64 years of age, had been Hon. Canon of Ripon since 1897. He travelled in Armenia in 1802 in order to report to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the condition of the Armenian Church. In 1993-85 he conduct ed a pioneer expedition to Eano, the" commercial contre of the Central Soudan, starting by way of the river Nizer, after "first making an ineffectual attempt to reach Kano by crossing the Great Sahara from the North He was the author of a large number of religious publications us well as some books of travel.
only man capable of forming a concointegrity of the wage agreement in the tration Cabinet based on a majority bituminous coalfield, and, if not, whether of the Centre and Left, and not on the the union would be justified taking its Left Cartol is were the Herriot and own measures to enforce it. Painleve Cabineta
The various parties of the Left Cartel held meetings after the resignation of the Cabinet, but were unable to agree upon policy Finally a a joint confer euce of Bocialiste, Badical Sociclists, and Republican Socialista passed a resolution declaring their determination to support only a Cabinet of the Left, under M.. The three Herriot or M. Briand. groups total 278 deputies; therefore, it is couutial that they obtain the support of at least twenty of the forty Radical Left group to assure a majority in the chamber to the Government, prepared to carry out the Cartel's policy.
SLUMP OF THE FRANC.
NEW LOW RECORD.
LONDON, November 23rd. The fall of the Painleve Government caused the French frane to slurp at the opening of the London exchange market to a new low record, 125), the result of heavy.selling.
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of 23. dd.The owners refused to agre On the basis of agreements made to this reduction on the ground that it was not in accordance with the terms of the charter, which the captain had no sold as imported, either British or Scot between China and various Towers, in- tish, are only copies of the genuine ending Japan, great foreign investments
238 6d The dispute was referred to articles and are made in America. Often have been established in China and a vast power to vary, and they claimed the full the stores themselves are the innocent and complicated structure of trade and victims of unscrupulous manufacturers other relations has been built up, binding arbitration, and it has now been held or merchants, and there in a strong closely together the Chinese and the that the owners contention is the right opinion among the reputable business foreigners. With the change of conditions, and an award in their favour for men in the United States against the in China, it will be necessary to revise the the full amount claimed has been given, froud which is perpetrated on the treaties which forms the foundation for. public. So far as the British textile Sino-foreign relations to-day. Bat that industries are concerned, the deception revision and the resulting changes in thea damages not only their trade, but also their reputation because the spurious ay other would work grave injury to Both Chinese and foreigners For, after article is almost always inferior and all, it must be remembered that the Chi unfavourable results to the British nese themselves profit quite as much as manufacturers have rested.
do the praigners from the foreign trade
"It is Japan's conviction that this happy state can be reached surely only by international co-operation, and this is become the basic principle of bar policy in dealing with all nations, including, of course, her ancient neighbour, China
relations must come in an orderly way NEW YORK, November 22nd Courtguard officials announce that ram fleet of twenty-two vessels has re-appeared off the New Jersey cost loaded with Christmas cheer, after being scattered by the activities of prohibition The coastguard officials are puzzled by the new tactics of carriers and runners, for the rum Beet keeps con- stantly moving between Montauk Point east of Long Island and Atlantic City from fifteen to hundred miles, from the
agents.
The ordinary citizen's Christmas cheer depends on the success or failure of the officials in solving the problem how ja liaison is being effected between the ships and the shore.
At the conclusion of Dr. Hioki's nd- The device which has now been hit and the other activities of foreigners dress, the Chairman fovited questions, and number were asked. Information was upon to stop this piratical trade is de China signed to identify the cloth from the So I am confident that the clear requested from the speaker upon points: mill to the consumer, and it has been minded leaders in this country will do ranging from the Japanese attitude to patented by Mr. Robert E Lin their best to preserve all that is good in wards. Bolshevism to certain aspects of ton, a prominent New York, importer these laboriously built foundations of the scheme presented by the Japanese of British woollen and cotton fabrics China's business relations with the other Delegation to the Customs Conference A small square sample of the fabric nations and I am certain that these Dr. Hioki, who explained at the outset used in each garment cut from the actual nations although I speak with authority that he had not expected to be questioned piece is secured with a riget to an for my own country alone will strive and that he feared that, under the cir identification tag which is a certificate their utmost to narist China to asume cumstances, he might not be able to reply of origin, The sample of cloth in large her rightful place in the march of progress adequately to all the queries that might good humouredly and was beartily ap enough for comparison with the garment towards peace and prosperity, the world be put forward, handled the situation and the seal can hardly be tampered with over
pinuded at the close of the proceedings
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