TREATY REVISIONS.
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FRANCO-ITALIAN RELATIONS.
COAL DISPUTE.
NEW MOVE BY PEKING GOVERNMENT.
SEQUEL TO RECENT INCIDENTS.
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LONDON, November 9th. M. Briand and the Italian Ambassador conferred yesterday on the recent in-
PAXING, November stb. The Cabinet this morning approved the Waichiaopu's suggestion for the forma-cidents. tion of a special commission to study..and prepare for the revision of all Size Foreign Treaties due to expire soon.
The Waichisopu's memorandum notes the fact that the Sino-Spanish Treaty expires on May 1927, and the Cabinet has decided to notify Spain five months in advance of China's desire for a revision
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Le Petit Pariarm understands that M.
GOVERNMENT'S SUGGESTIONS,
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LONDON,November 8th.
THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
CONSIDERATION OF WEIGHTY QUESTIONS.
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1925.
FIFTY YEARS OF PARLIAMENT.
AS LORD OXFORD SEES THEM.
LIBERAL MINISTRIES.
Fifty Years of Parliament," by the Earl of Oxford and Asquith; £.G., in two volumes, with it half tone plates, seas published recently by Cassel at 50.
nët.
RUGBY, November 8th. The Government's suggestions to and Further progress was made to-day with the coal dispute are believed to be on the the consideration of questions concerning Le Matin says that the Quai d'Orsay following, lines, firstly, the mining inter-Imperial relations, which the Im- considers the violation of the French percentage in addition to the basis rates. perial Conference has referred to a Coming with politics and Parliament during Consulate at Vintimiglia requires special be that provided for in the 1921 agree-mittee of Overseas Prime Ministers. The protestation and adequate apologies,ment, and that this basis minimum be sub-committee on treaty proceduro also while incidents at Tripoli and Benghazi paid whatever hours are worked; second- met. have been settled satisfactorily farly, that the ratio for the division of the proceeds of the industry between wages France.
profits vary between 87 and 13 per cent and 85 and 15 per cent, according to the circumstances of each district; thirdly, that the present mode of ascertaining It is the considered view of the State (stigators of the incidents and to check proceeds continues; fourthly, that the Department that the terms of the Sino- extremists' demonstrations. Signor Mus-subsistence allowance to the low-paid day American Commercial Treaty will antsolini should contemplate sending a wage men be retained; and, fifthly, in permit denunciation by either party Attention is drawn to Article 17 of the Treaty providing that either party may demand a revision at the end of 10 years from the date of exchange of the ratifica. tions in January 13th, 1903, failing which the treaty will remain in full force for a further decade.
The American Standpoint.
WASHINGTON, Nayember th
According to the strict letter of the Treaty, the question even of revision would appear to be in abeyance until January 1931 but the State Department
Briand will shortly receive a note,ux- plaining the measures decided by Signor Mussolini in order to punish the in-
circular recommending that Italian papers show more courtesy to France.
THE ROYAL WEDDING.
ENTHUSIASTIC SCENES. ON
BRIDE'S ARRIVAL.
BRUSSELS, November 8th.
the absence of a national agreement a guarantee be given to the Prime Minister
from each district.
As
Good Progress Made,
LATER. foreshadowed earlier, the coal negoziations proceeded most hopefully, though the miners throughout were adamant against conceding longer hours,
Most of the present week will again be devoted to work in committee and, as at présent arranged, ne, full session of the Conference will take place until Friday. It will then have before it for approval several reports on technical and general subjecta.
Three such reports were completed to day by the Economic Committee which is in constant session. One of them deals with the steps that should be taken to overcome the pollution of navigable pters by the waste oil, of vessels. An- other discusses questions arising on the Brussels Maritime Law Convention and a third deals with the valuation of goods for Customs purposes.
NELSON'S LAST WORDS,
ANSWER TO BASELESS CONTROVERSY,
EYE WITNESS" STORY.
What were Lord Nelson's last words?
The question has been raised by a letar published in the Daily Sepress, disputing the statement in an article by Mr L Bore-Belisha, M.P., that Nelson said. Kiss me, Hardy! when he was dying. The writer of the letter declared that "What Nelson said was, Kismet, Hardy!'
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A book by an ex-Prime Minister deal
the times when he played a leading part in them, and including his own Ministry,
Surgeon William Beatty (who was is such a unique production that a
afterwards knighted) was at Nelson's cordial welcome and considerable cirou-
side when he died on board the Victory volumes. It is true that, of some 40 years iation are assured for Lord Oxford'a two
at Trafalgar, and he published an ac count of the great admiral's death in during which the author has been in 1807. His narrative records that Nelson Parliament, he omits altogether (not said, "Take care of my dear Lady he unaturally) the last 1, Fly Hamilton, Hardy, take care of poor Lady ing their place with descriptions and Hamilton. Kiss me, Hardy! " Freciations of what occurred in politics while he himself was still at the Lity of The narrative continues, "The captain London School or at Balliol. It is true now knelt down and kissed his cheek, also that, handsome and imposing sa when his Lordsaltip said, 'Now I ara entis- reader's expectations as to quantity, duty!" these volumes are, they hardly meet the fed. Thank God, I have done my
Quoted by Authorities. owing to thick paper, wide margins, a division into seven parts and an excra Beatty was a trained observer, from ordinarily large number of chapters-70 the nature of his profession, and an for 571 pages of letterpress-with the officer whose character was “irreproach- What is offered the public in two volumes consequent blank spaces and blank pages. able.
His account of the death of Nelson at 50s, might well have appeared,to has been accepted by all the recognised judge by the original editions of similas authorities and freely quoted by them," attractive volume of 400 or 450 pages at Admiralty, to a Daily Erpress represen works of political importance, in a single said Mr. W. G. Ferrin, Librarian to the half, or less than half, the price.
Nelson knew he was dying Lord Oxford's clear and scholarly when he requested his old friend to kiss rose is always a pleasure to read: and him. There is, after all, not very much where (as frequently happens) he quotes difference between Hardy's netion and
the quotations are judiciously selected speeches by himself or others, or passages that of & son kissing, his father under from well-known political biographics, similar circumstances. and woven adroitly into the story authoritative work, The Dispatches and Sir Nicholas Harris Nicholas, in his
any purpose beyond making contre may be surmised that, so far as he has Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount
tative.
The Forestry Committee has concluded people knocked down" and trampled by at the conclusion of the Conference beed on the subject of world timber supplies Barriers were broken down and many but a statement was issued at midnight its reference and a report has been draft the pressure of enthusiastic crowds tween the Cabinet and the miners, declar- in relation to the forests available. At anxious to see Princess Astrid and Princeing that the Conference had adjourned tention has also been given by the Com recalls that the Fowers agreed at the Leopold, when they landed at Antwerp as the Miners' Executive found it neces mittee to the outlook regarding, soft bution to history," he hopes to allure Nelson," published in 1848, accepted.
A Miners' Delegate Conference being summoned for Wednesday.
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Tariff Conference and also at the in: from a Swedish cruiser, and escorted by sary to consult their constituents. vestigation of extraterritoriality, the fact the Belgian King and Queen, and royal- that the Sino-Belgian. Treaty apparent ties and dignitaries drove to the station ly does not confer on China the
Equally wonderful were the scenes in right to initiate negotiations for revision, Brussels, which was en fete, Steel-hel- although it entitles the King of the Belmeted troops guarded the route, "seventy- gians to do so. It is so radical a varia-five" guns fired a salute, neroplanes tion from the terms of the American circled averbend and crowds cheered as Treaty as to permit the American Govern- the carriages drove to the Palace. King ment to remain as unparticipating, though Albert, Princess Astrid, Prince Leopold, an interested listener in the Sino-Belgian and the Duke of Vestergotland, the mining dispute.
discussion.
SINO-BELGIAN TREATY.
A DENIAL BY LEGATION.
PEKING, November 8th. With regard to Belgium's 'decision to ask the Hague Court to interpret Article 46 of the abrogated Sino-Belgian Treaty,
Rucay, November 8th.
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The Miners' Executive considered for three hours this morning the compromise plas drafted by the Government of the
This afternoon they proceeded to Down
bride's father, despite the rain, alighted en route and with bowed heads said aing Street and submitted their views to prayer at the tomb of the Unknown the Premier and Coal Committee of the Soldier, on which Princess Astrid placed a wreath.
Cabinet.
The coal-owners were then summoned and were interviewed separately. The conversations were still proceeding, at half-past seven this evening.
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RUGBY, November 8th.
From statements made by the members Prince Heary will represent King George, at the wedding of Crown Prince of the Miners' Executive, it would ap the Belgian Legation "denies the report that the decision was made on the sugges-Leopold of Belgium and Princessstrid Pear that important points are still in
tion of France or Japan.
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SUN'S TROOPS RETREAT.
SHANGHAI, November 9th. There has been fighting around Wusueh. Marshal Sun Chuan Fang's troops are reported to have retired down river.
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Marshal Sun himself is at Nanking,
BIG CRAFT LAUNCHED AT
KOBE.
NEW JAPANESE SUBMARINE.
SHANGHAI, November 9th. In regard to the submarine launched Kobe to-day, details are secret, but
of Sweden, which will take place on Wednesday in Brussels.
INQUEST ON MR. AND MRS.
ROSCOE BRUNNER.
dispute.
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U.S. MINERS' WAGE INCREASE.
NORTON, Virginia, Nov. 9th.
EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. A general wage increase of 30 per cent. has been granted in the Virginia coal LONDON, November 8th.
At an inquest at Wandsworth on Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Brunner, who were found shot dead in their house, the
evidence showed that Mr. Brunner had
fields.
U.S. GOVERNMENT SHIPS.
BIDS FROM PRIVATE CONCERNS.
WASHINGTON, November 9th Three bids have beer. "submitted by the
been in ill-health for two years, and was most depressed by serious business troubles, for which he, as Chairman of Messrs. Brunner, Mond was held respon- Shipping Board for the purchase of five it is reported that it is of 2,200 tons,sible and had to vacate the Chairmanships of the Government's "merchant" with a speed of 23 knots, and carries ship. He, was also most disappointed line, two of the bidders being the two 12-cen. gans, also an anti-aircraft that he was not made a Director in the Winchester and Kenny Companies of 8-cen. gun and an aeroplane.
new amalgamation. His financial posi- New York. They offered also to charter. tion was very sound. His wife on the five ships of the United States lines. Both bidders fixed the price of each of REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA. day of the tragedy visited three news.
the five vessels at $200,000. paper offices. MANAGUA, November 9th.
A force of 500 liberal revolutionaries is reported to have occupied Matagalpa, one of the largest towns in Nicaragua,
As a result of representations from the United States Legation, Government troops are rushing up to protect American coffee growers.
Sir John Brunner testified that the wife had not accepted the vacation of the Chairmanship which Mr. Roscoe Brunner had accepted loyally, and Sir John was of opinion that if Eloscoe learned that she had been visiting newspaper offices on his account that would be enough to turn his brain..
woods which, in Britain, constitute eighty per cent. of wood used for in- dustrial purposes and the question of whether, in view of their diminishing quantity, substitutes can be found in tropical forests Steps necessary for the conservation of present resources have also been considered and the report, which contains recommendations on these matters, reviews the programme for a further Empire Forestry Conference to be held in Australia and New Zealand
In 1828..
These and other reports await the ap- proval of the Imperial Conference.
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COTTON RESTRICTION.
EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT BACKING.
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NEW YORK, November 9th. Traders regard the comparative strength of the cotton market despite the huge figures in to-day's estimate of 18,000,000 bales compared with 8,000,000 in 1921 as the first sign of the good effects of the Government financing plan wolving the withdrawal of 4,000,000 bales
and the reduction in the 19%/ acreage.
The Agricultural Department admits that an uncertainty exists as regards the quantity of cotton which will be left unpicked, especially in view of the dis- position of the farmers to leave the lower grades unharvested.
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back into the fold Liberals who have lapsed to Labour, and to give pause to others disposed to follow their example, by this agreeable narrative, which, with out apparent bias beyond what is pardon able in a party leader, brings into relief the solid grounds of performance on which the Liberals claim to be" the efficient parts of progress. There is, to be frank, not a great deal in thess volumes which will be new to those who we familiar with the political history of the last 20 years; and for them the in- terest will rather lie in the admirable appreciations and criticisms of political leaders with which it abounds, and in the discussions in Part VI and elsewhere of incidental questions such ne Third Parties, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, and Patronage.
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The Gladstonians," In spite of Lord Oxford's undoubted reverence for his old leader Gladstone, he diagnoses his weaknesses, and acute ness in passages like this:-
It is one of the many paradoxes, in the complicated temperament and charec- ter of this illustrious man, that, with an almost unrivalled faculty of lucid and convincing statement, he took what seems like a perverse pleasure from time to time in sang and writing things which puzzled and baffled plain people.
Beatty's account after exhaustive in- quiries and investigations.
Mr. G. W. Younger, discussing the subject in the Mariner's Mirror in January, 1995, "asked if Hardy misinter preted Nelson's words-a possibility in the confusion of the cockpit, amid the din of battle.
Mr. Younger was unable to find any authority for saying that Nelson ever used the word "kismet," and the spon- taucity of "Kiss me, Hardy!" is more acceptable, considering Nelson's tempera- ment, than the alternative theory.
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omission" of Queen Victoria, not to ask. Gladstone's advice in 1994 as to his SUCCESSOT. But the Queen followed what she regarded as constitutionst practier, which is set forth in a locus classicus in
The Letters of Queen Victoria," First Series, Vol. II, ch. 21. When Lord Derby, on resigning in December, 1852, volunteered advice on the subject, the saying Prince Consort interrupted him, that, constitutionally speaking, it did not rest with him to give advice and become responsible for it, and that no- body could properly throw the respon- sibility of the Queen's choice upon him"; and Lord Derby admitted that, "strictly speaking, the Sovereign acted upon her He revives fading memories by the dis own responsibility." The Queen clung criminating manner in which he conjures to her prerogative, and only consulted up before our eyes such colleagues of the outgoing Minister on this point when Gladstone's as Clarendon, Lowe, Card- the bad special confidence in him; and it will be remembered that in 1839 her well, Spencer, and Granville--not to men- tion Childers," without whom it was one Majesty on her own initiative sent in of Mr. Gladstone's foibles that no Liberal the first instance, for Lord Granville in Cabinet was adequately equipped" He order to avoid an invidious choice be gives a highly finished comparison of tween the two veteran ex-Premiers of the Harcourt and Marley," that incongruous Liberal Party, Lord Palmerston and Lord couple," who had hardly a prejudice John Russell. in common and whose "intercourse,
Cabinet Etiquette. once they became friends, was chequered In an interesting passage Lord "Oxford by periodic misunderstandings," but who describes the nature of a meeting of the were at once the leaders of the Anti Cabinet as he knew it Imperialist or Little English school and
It is not, or was not in any of the Gladstone's principal lieutenante in his Cabinets in which I have sat, the custom Home Rule days. Noting the intimacy which, in spite of many clashes in the (unless in exceptional casea not always Hust, grew up after 1885 between Cham of the first importance) to take a divi- It was left to the Prime berlain and Randolph Churchill, Lord sien. Oxford somewhat unkindly remarks that Minister to collect and interpret the No "they were both born and highly train general sense of his colleagues. ed demagogues." Of Parnell, with whom, stranger (unless specially summoned to as his counsel before the Special Cot give information on a particular matter) mission, he had intimate conversations, as ever admitted; and when a messago he writes that his mind was a strange came from outside, the door was always MEXICO CITY. November 9th.
compound of insight and obtuseness, opened and shut by a Minister. No food Ten were killed and 30 wounded as a that he saw at intervals things which or drink was allowed, except some hard A third offer by Mr. Kermit Roosevelt result of local elections, according to other people did not see, but was apt biscuits, which were believed to date from to be inconceivably blind to things the time of Pitt, and some plain water. which aloost everybody else saw-for Smoking, was strictly tabooed. proposes to purchase the steamers at reports from various parts
example, his failure to grasp what would matter of seating there was no order of $230,000 each and operate the United Republic.
be the effect on public opinion, first, of precedence, but each Minister always his admission in Court that he intended occupied the same place. In my Cabinet, States lines on allocation by the Govern ment, The Winchester Company also SENSATIONAL AMERICAN TRIAL. to deceive the House of Commons, and, Morley sat on one side of me, and, after secondly, of the squalid O'Shea divorce the outbreak of war, Kitchener. It was Two great figures" who left contrary to etiquette for any member. of the Cabinet except the Prime Minister Propose to construct two additional ex press ships suitable to operate with the
the Liberal Party over Home Rule are described in A highly sympathetic to take notes, and the only record of Leviathan at a total cost of $30,000,000,
the proceedings was in the letter which Goschen ("a most expert dialectician and a master of effective he wrote to the King, and of which a I remember that, when my evidence for the Hall trial, the State epigram") and Devonshire (very cogent copy was preserved by his private secre
and impressive though with a heavy-tary. yesterday engineered what the news gaited mind "-" the best illustration in attention was called to the fact that a papers describe as an "abduction."
our recent history of the power of Per. Minister was apparently taking notes on Bonality"). Lord Oxford's appreciation his own account, I felt bound, with the Mrs. Gibson known as the pig is perhaps intensified by the fact that assent of all my colleagues, to make a woman." and the chief witness of the both these eminent men were towards the somewhat sharp remonstrance.
close of their lives at one with hira in prosecution was taken from hospital his animated defence of historical Free where she has been confined with. kidney Trade against Chamberlain's new policy
of Tariff Reform. trouble since she collapsed in court on November 3rd. Fearing, apparently, that she would, be operated upon without his consent, the State Attorney invaded the hospital and after a verbal encounter
The Jury returned a verdict of murder of which the Shipping Board is to loan and suicide..
two thirds under the Merchant Marine
AMERICAN'S GIFTS TO" FRANCE.
PARIS, November 9th. The retired American banker, Mr.
SEQUEL TO SPANISH PLOT. Edward Tuck, living in Paris, has made a gift to France of the historic chateau
MADRID, November 8th. and grounds of fifty acres at Troispreaux The Noticiero Del Lunes declares that near Paris, which will be united with the the arrest of Senhor Lerroux is not con- chateau and park of La Malmaison." Mr. nected with the Separatist plot, but is due, Tuck previously founded and still main- to the circulation of a pamphlet signed tains a hospital and a school of domestic by him which the military authorities economy at Rucil, near Paris, and has seized. donated his collection of works of art to the City of Paris.
CONVICTS ATTEMPT ESCAPE. FAMOUS AMERICAN ACTOR.
COLUMBUS, November 8th."
PARIS, November 8th. Nine out of eleven convicts who escaped The American actor, James Hackett, from prison were captured after a fight has died in his hotel in Paris, after a with the police. Three prisoners were short illness. His wife at the
wounded.
bedside.
OBITUARY.
WILL
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The Potter Company offered 81,505,000 for either the President Harding or the President Roosevelt. The Atlantic Trans port Company offered $4,000,000 for the Leviathatt.
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THE BETTING" TAX.
EFFORT TO SECURE REPEAL. ›
LONDON, November 8th.
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STATE ABDUCTS"
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In the
It may be remembered that it is to the practice of taking notes by a Minis ter, the 15th Lord Derby, Disrach's For- eign Secretary in the 'seventies, that we Obiter Dicta..
owe the only contemporary evidence of One or two ubiter dicta in the book the details (subsequently fiercely disputed provoke surprise and comment. Remark several of his colleagues in Parlia ment) of the critical Cabinet during the truly that the House of Commons Eastern crisis on March 27th, 1876-the hae had undeserving favourites, Lord meeting which resulted in his resigna- Oxford suggests Castlereagh as 4 tion: Now that a Cabinet secretariat has research has tended, without lessening hoped that the unbusinesslike system of Canning's renown, to vindicate Castle-keeping no formal record of Cabinet reagh's policy and to place him high decisions, a system which has often been was a most indifferent speaker, it is understandings, will never be revived. Among British Foreign Ministers. As he responsible in the past for similar mis- creditable to the House, to have recognis Lord Oxford obviously views the new de ed his eminence. Another questionable parture with doubt, if not disapproval. judgment is that it was a "strange have no experience of its working,”?
is his cold comment. Wontinued on next Columni)
A movement to secure the repeal of the with the House Physician had Mre example. But surely all recent historical been working for some years, it is to be betting tax on constitutional lines took Gibson rushed off by ambulance thirty definite form at a mireting of the mem- miles to the Jersey City Hospital, where bers of the Victoris Club in conjunction the prosecution hopes to get her fit to give with the Betting Reform Association:
A £90,000 fand was opened and £2,880 evidence on Thursday or Friday. But was subscribed in a few minutes. Dona the doctors there think she will be unable tions are being solicited throughout the
to leave the hospital for three weeks. country.