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MUKDEN'S ENVOYS
LEAVE.
CONFERENCE AT SUIFENHO
ARRANGED...
0
mwaka
TO DISCUSS DETAILS.
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PERING, Dec. I
THE HONG KONG
WRATH OF WANG. | LABOUR PEERAGES
CHING WEI.
DENOUNCES CHIANG KAI SHEK.
THE SOVIET BUSINESS,,
Mr. Wang 'Ching Wei, the Chi- Bese Lloyd George (of the latter's **Limehouse days"), has let him
Kai Shek
INSUFFICIENT.
MORE CREATIONS IN NEW YEAR'S LIST?"
fi
THE FIELD OF CHOICE.
(BAYTISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Roany, Nov. 30.
DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1929.
L-
BRITISH TRANSPORT MOSCOW'S "PEACE" CONTROL OF RUBBER Telegrams in
PROBLEMS.
RECKLESS COMPETITION
ti
TO CEASE. -
BUDGET.
ECONOMIC NEEDS COME FIRST.
INDUSTRY.
GROWTH OF NATIVE HOLDINGS.
A SERIOUS CHALLENGE.
The King has app
the ap- pointment of Lord Bledisloe to be Governor of New Zealand in suc- cession to Sir Charles Ferguson,
The French Aero Club has ofi- cially recorded the distance of the straight line flown by Costes and Bellonte from Le Bourget to the neighbourhood of Tsitsibar 7,90 140 kilometres world ro cord.
Chinese sources in Harbin state sell go on the subject of Chiang The likelihood of several new Herbert Morrison, has referred to is allotted to the Army and Navy | vestigated the production of rubbe! Francis Tondorf, a.director of the
the
of
present
ROAD TRAFFIC BILL. MANY NEW RAILWAYS..
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THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
RUGBY, Nov. 30,
LONDON, Nov. 30. Moscow, Dec. 1. The Minister of Transport, Mr.
The report of Mr. V. A. Tayler That under 9 per cent. of the total and Mr. John Stephens, who in. that Tsai Yun Sheng, who nego
Labour Peerages being announced the now Road Traffic Bill, the text tinted with Melnikov last August,
The denunciation is interesting at in the New Year's Honours List is of which is issued to-day.
"compared with 4 per cent ex from native holdings in the Dutch and Li Shou Keng, both of whom example of his declamatory freely discussed in the newspapers,
pended by some of the other Fast Indies, has just been publish The main provisions of the Bill, Powers, was a point emphasised bave been consulting with the style. It is dated November 28, which point out that the experience which is non-party in character,
by M. Brinkhanov, Commiesar of ed. Mukden authorities on the C.ER. and addressed to
the Central
Parliamentary have already been indicated, and Finance, in presenting the Budget. dispute, left Harbin on Saturday Executive Committee of Kromin Session has shown that the number Mr. Morrison said that its effect "morning for Suifenho, to meet the tang a Shanghai. It runs as fol of Peers on the Government Benches would free motorists from hopeless-million roubles, as compared with The Estimates amount to 11,400 Soviet delegates. They will discuss lowe
in the House of Lords is insufficiently out-of-date restrictions, but eight thousand millions last year. the details of a Mukdea-Moscow
to discharge eficiently the work of would call to order the inconsi- Seven thousand millions are appro. agreement for a settlement.
the Government in that Chamber.
derate and incompetent driver, - printed for economic purposes, 9,400 The Bill provided machinery millions for social and cutural whereby the various public service vehicles would work on something increases
needs, while there are considerable to benefit transport, a of a co-ordinated basis. Practically everybody agreed that reckless com-
large proportion of which amounts go into 5t new railways. 6,95€ petition in transport was contrary miles of which are to be built. to the interests of the community, and for the first time, under the new legislation “we should be able to take and largely to enforce a national view of British transport requirements."
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I have just learnt from a news- paper, that as a result of the grave developments in Manchuria, it has been proposed to end the civil war "NO OTHER OBJECT BUT and combine forces to resist the
PEACE."-
Soviet invasion. The report even goes to state falsely that my hand "FORCED TO TAKE is in it. ·
ACTION."
SOVIET
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Moscow, Nov. 20. In his speech at the opening sex. Bion of the Central Committee of the Soviets, M. Rykov declared that the Soviet military authorities had been forced to take more résolute measures to repulse the provocative attacks by Chinese troops and "White
guards on Soviet terri- tory, and defend the civilian po pulation. The striking superiority of the Soviet army testified that the Soviets had refrained from war, not because they were unable, but because they were unwilling to fight.
It is evident to every one that Soviet Russia 13 overbearingly aggressive in "the present Sino- Russian quarrel. It is not less evident that Chiang Kai Shek has engineered foreign invasion with the meancet and vilest intention. He provokes the war, but he does not resist the attack; he challenges the fight, but does not come to the rescue of the hemmed-in forces at the frontier, and deliberately throws down the glove, making the Russian invasion his pretext to check the nation-wide opposition te his dictatorship. When war breaks out. he puts his hands in his sleeves and looks on, while the
periled and encircled by the in- vaders. Thus he deliberately in vites the Russian invaders to de- polish the military, strength of those of his own people who oppose
Mukden authorities are left. im.
The Manchester Guardian says that the new Peers will not acces sarily be all members of the Labour Party, and it is possible the Prime Minister may turn, for the purpose of new creations, to some of the nibers of Opposition Parties who have strong leanings towards the policy of the present Government.
WIDESPREAD FLOODS IN ·
ENGLAND.
AIR PILOT'S DILEMMA.
(OLITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Rucar, Nov. 30. The upper reaches of the Thames are in many places in a state of flood, and the river in steadily rising During the past 48 hours there has been a rise of 18 inches near Windsor.
Serious floods have developed in the Midlands, and wide areas, are under water. In. south-east Eng
laud the floods have so altered the
Seeing through this, Soviet Rus-countryside as viewed from the air
Provisions of the Bill. "The measure will propose the abolition of the speed limit for all automobiles, except charabanes, buses, and heavier commercial vehicles, which will be bound by a maximum permissible speed of 30 miles an hour.,
On the other hand, "dangerous driving will be more severely penalized.
GERMAN COLONISTS GO
HOME.
AN EXODUS FROM RUSSIA,
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RIGA, December 1.
The death is announce of Father seismological observatory, "George town University. His most notable achievement was the location of the before the world was aware of the Japanese earthquake in 1923, hours
catastrophe.
tial outputs may rize from 8000 The Report calculates that poten.
tons this year to 220,000 in 1933, and then, in from six to eight years, to 300,000, with rubber at 1/64. Three workmen were killed and The Report estimates that one 18 seriously injured in a compress- million acres are already planted, ['ed air accident during the opera. and the possibility of future expantions of breaking up the White sion of the planted area is almost Star liner "Celtic,' which was. unlimited.
stranded at the entrance to Queens. Simultaneously the Financial town Harbour last December, and Times publishes a letter advocat was unable to be refloated. ing that the Rubber Growers' As- sociation initiate a move towards the formation of an international organisation for better control of the rubber industry.
Commenting on the letter and Report, the Financial Times says, that arguments in favour of estab lishing auch an organisation are buttressed is an unexpected way
of
The European Conference on the transport
денарарсть
And periodicals, presided over by Lord Burnham, concluded by unanimous- ly recommending the reduction of transport, and postal charges, and the simplification of customs and police formalities on the frontiers, which will be submitted to the
The first trainload of Germany, the Tayler-Stephene Report, League of Nations Council, colonists being repatriated from although many will shrink from Russia has arrived at the Latvian accepting the figures in the Report. As they stand, they constitute z Frontier. There are 401 persons, challenge which the industry must END OF THE "CARNEGIE.” including 157 children:
to successful operation. face, and dispose of, as a precedent
The refugees state that 6,000 Germans assembled in Moscow for the purpose of repatriation, but Other features include compul-anly 4,000 were allowed to leave, sory insurance against third party resulting in heartrending scenes for risks, and limitation of the hours of many of the families thus parted. drivers engaged in public motor services.
The Growth of Mctoring. that an air liner pilot coming yes of the Road Fund for the twelve The report on the Administration terday from Cologne, failed to pick months ending March 31 last states up familiar landmarks, and had to that the total receipts of the Fund steer a corapass course to Croydon. much less severely than other parts previous year.
In London, which has suffered from all sources were £21,208,000, as compared with £20,318,000 in the The approximate of the country, the rainfall register number of vehicles for which ed over 5 inches during November.eences were granted during 1999 The German Ambassador, Herr withstanding the fact that the The normal November rainfall is exceeded two millions.
2.22 inches. . ."
"I most emphatically declare that the Soviet pursues no other object in China except peace. We do not desire to seize a single metre of Chinese territory. The 'Red' aimy him. has displayed a high degree of or.ie lot her soldiers raid our fren- ganisation and discipline, and a tier, having no respect for any very careful attitude towards the thing. With the successive fall of civilian population of China, Nanking's efforts to secure inter habitants suffered wholesale slaugh important frontier cities, our in vention by the Powers testify to the ter. To say nothing of the loss of attempts to disrupt the direct ne- gotiations which have been proposational prestige, the economical ed by Mukden."
is already "incalculable, Not-
Von Dirksen, handed
troops at the frontier are in great | Mr.
distress Litvinoff the
And Nanking Govern-
crying for help, ment's note of November 14. MChiang Kai Shek is, indifferent to Litvinoff, in reply, refers to Chang their need. Thanks to him, China Hauen Linng's acceptance of the is covered with disgrace. preliminary conditions of settle- ment, and says that the Nanking Government's proposai can only have the effect of prolonging the conflict, and therefore it is value
to
An Obscure Bituation.
LONDON, Nov. 29. The position regarding the re ported Britiah, Japanese, and American demarches, and the sug gested nusaian Chinese proposals in reference to the Sino-Soviet dis pute, is so obscure and complicated that it is impossible to ascertain in anthoritative anarers any clear and definite idea of what is happening It can, however, be reaffirmed that China has not sought anyone's in- tervention. or appealed to the League of Nations, but informal discussions are being held in re gard to the possibility of drawing Russia's and China's attention to her obligations under the Kellogg Prot.
It is not clear with whose author. ily feelers for reopening direct ne gotiations between Russia" and China have been put out.
"Demoralised " Chinese.
HARBIN Nov. 29.
A repor; to the Rengo agency states that 10 Soviet acroplanes again raided Buchatu this after- noon bombing the station and the munition depot. A. bomb struck the powder dump, resulting in an explosion..and a conflagration. Another four planes attacked Yalu. halfway between Manchuli and Harbin, the bombing damaging a Basenger and goods trains. The Chinese forces are demoralised and are now retreating-
DR. WANG MAY RESIGN.
ŞINO-RUSSIAN TANGLE
THE REASON.
(#ak Te Fat Pao).
NANKING, Dec. 1. Te is said that the Foreign Minis ter C. T. Wang, will resign,
over-
It is under this intolerable situa of China and our fellow-members tion that the revolutionary masses have resolved to organize the Army for the protection of the Party and the Salvation of the Nation. In- ternally, we shall strive to throw all kinds of individual dicta- torship in order to safeguard the rights of the people, while external ly our task is to eradicate our domestic traitors and to ward off national grievances.
If, then, a trace is to be called for to unite against the Soviet inva ion, Chiang Kai Shek must resign, returning immediately Party Sover eignty to the members of the Party and military and political, powers to the revolutionary masses.
P
TENEMENT COLLAPSE IN
MARSEILLES.
HEARTRENDING SCENES,
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MARSEILLES, Nov. 30. There are so far two dead, nine in- jured, and eight missing, in a col. lapse of two tenement houses here. The victims, are mostly women and children. The houses had been con- demned, and tenants only "yesterday made representations to the author- ities urging action.
"Mother, other."
The figures represent one" motor vehicle for every 22 perears in. Great Britain. One person in every 18 in Britain holds a driving license.
The Report shows that the total length of public highways, in Great. Britain is 179,00 miles, which is mare by 2,000 miles than ten years ago.
FLIGHT OVER SOUTH
"POLE.
COMMANDER BYRD'S QUICK TRIP.
There were heartrending scenes
[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.] after the crash, the victims' crying
NEW YORK, Nov. 29. and groaning being agonising. An The New York newspapers report injured woman frantically implor:that the American Antarctic ex- It is only when this cause of civil rescuers to save her child buried plorer, Commander Byrd, started. war has been removed that the in the debris from where the child's this morning from his base at Little realization of united policy voice could be heard calling Americe, in the Antarctic, on an against foreign invasion is possible.
The Mayor of Marseilles, Who is South Pole and back.
eighteen hundred mile flight to the n doctor, tended the injured.
Commander Byrd is flying a big There are now four killed and three-engined aeroplane and is ac- cleven injured in the tenement ecf-companied by Bernt Balchen as pilot, Harold June as wireless Inpse. Ten people are still missing.
operator, and Captain Ashley McKinley as photgrapher.
They expect to be in continuous MAURETANIA SENDS "ALL wireless communication with a New
(Signed) WANG CHING WEI.
JAPANESE DELEGATION
LEAVES. NAVAL NEEDS AGAIN EMPHASISED
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TOKYO, Nov. 30,
thousands in and around Tokyo An enthusiastic send-off bf many
station was accorded the Japanest delegation to the Naval Confer
ence, The delegation is exiling this afternoon from Yokohana to America. Destroyers, submarines, and seaplanes participated in the farewell, all the warships in the vicinity Gring a salute.
the
Lending vernaculars ‹ take occasion to point out the import
CLEAR,"
LATER.
SAFELY ON HER WAY.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. The_Mauretania scraped & num. ber of submerged obstacles when passing the scene of Thursday's collision. The captain wirelessed, however, that the liner is not dam the obstacles consisted of wreckage aped. Cunard officials think that
precipitated into the water in the collision with the car-ferry.
York newspaper throughout the Aight, which it is expected will be concluded within twenty-four hours,
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. The newspapers to-day publish reports from Commander Byrd that he has safely returned to his base at Little. America without mishap, after a successful flight across the South Pole wherein he surveyed much of the adjacent territory."
America Jubilant,
LATER.
ance of the coming conference.of the goods trucks which werelieved by the news of Commander They strees the necessity of Japan, having & 70 per cent, ratio of large cruisers with America; also of the opposition to abolition of sub. marines, and the insistence upon a reduction of armaments, not mere limitation.
ja view of accusations against troops under Jen Yin Chi, Sun him by some Kuomintang branchea Tien Ying, and Ma Hung Kwei
of failure to deal effectively with are placed under Tang Seng Chi's the Sino-Russian issue. He left command.
Nanking for Shanghai on Thursday
last,
It is rumoured that Dr. "C. C. Wu, the Chinese Minister to the United States, will be appointed as his successor.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST. THE KUOMINCHUN.
(Wah Ta Yat Pao.)
U.S. AND EXTRALITY.
NO DEFINITE DATE FOR
NEGOTIATIONS.
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SOUTH AFRICAN CHIEF JUSTICE.
INVITATION FROM SHANGHAL
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جمند
PRETORIA. Nov, 30. It is understood that Mr. Feetham is willing to accept the Shanghai Council's invitation if the South African Government permits him. It is understood that the Minister of Justice is prepared to recommend the granting of permission,
[The Hon. Mr. Justice Feetham,
The whole country is vastly re- flyrd's safe return from his South Pole flight. He has been inun- dated with congratulations. Presi- dent Hoover himself expresses the universal pleasure of the American people, who are "proud of your courage and leadership, and glad that the spirit al great adventure still lives.".
PROSPECTS OF BRITISH INDUSTRY.
PREMIER TO CONSULT EXPERTS.
(BRITISK WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Rrozy, Nov. 30. Much interest has been roused by
NANKING, Nov. 30.. An unconfirmed report here states that the Sino-American negotia tions regarding extrality abolition | C.M.G., is Judge of the Supreme- SHANGHAI, Dec, 1. are opening on December 2, in Court of South Africa. He has the announcement that on Monday The first stage of the anti- Washington, Dr. C. C. Wu repre. been Chairman of several Commis- the Prime Minister will entertain Kuominchun campaign having been renting the National Government.
sions, notably the Irish Boundary at luncheon a representative body completed, the second stage, is to A Foreign Offier official, inter Commission in 1924-5, and the Loosi | of economists and commercial ex- begin now. Yen Hai Shan's troops viewed by Reuter this afternoon, Government Commission, Kenya perta, Several of the leading in- are to participate.
declared that the Sino-American, Colony, 1928. Previously, in 1918- dustrialists of the country have Gorginment forces of the various preliminary conversations were 19, he was Chairman of the Com-been invited.. routes are pressing upon Tung. progressing satisfactorily, but no mittee on Functions (one of the The purpose of the luncheon in kwan. The 1st Route Army and definite place and dato had been Southborough Committees on Indian to discuss the present and future
"FOMATINITA ON NEzt Columa.) =à free for me negotiationis merelora jew a prospects 61 Krifith industry,
MR. DWIGHT MORROW
AS SENATOR.
NOMINATION FOR NEW -
JERSEY LIKELY.
[REUTZB'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
ATLANTIC CITY, December 1. he returns from the London Naval It is announced that immediately Conference, Mr. Dwight Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, will be nominated as Senator for New Jersey in succession to fr. Walter Edge.
FOREIGN POLICY - OF GERMANY.
NATIONALIST BILL." REJECTED..
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INDIAN AIR MAIL`
DOWN.
FORCED LANDING IN FOG.
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BERLIN, December 1. The Indian Air Mail from Croy don made a forced landing in the fog near Frankfore-on-Meia. The
lane was damaged, but nobody was injured. There were no pas sengers aboard.
The mail is being conveyed by train to Budapest, where a relict 'place is stationed.
MINISTERIAL CHANGES.
SECRETARIAL POSTS RE-SHUFFLED.,
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LONDON, November 30.
BERLIN, Nov. 29. During the Reichstag debate on Earl Russell has been appointed It is officially announced that the Nationalist Bill, Dr. Curtius, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Foreign Minister, after an- nouncing that the Government ex
State to the Indin-Office, in place pected a rejection of the Bill, and had been appointed Parliamentary of Dr. Drummond Shields, who that there would, he a referendum Under-Secretary to on December 22, said that the Office, vice Mr. W. Lunn, who he
the Colonial Government regarded the Bill as an comes Parliamentary Under-Scére- attack against the State's authority tary to the Dominions Office. and the Government's foreign policy, about which he ridiculed the held this litter office takes Enri Mr. A. A. Ponsonby, who has assertion that the latter was based Russell's place as Parliamentary on the recognition of Germany's Secretary of the Ministry of Trans- war guilt. He declared that the port. Government had repeatedly repudi ated the war guilt, and stood by that repudiation.
Dr. Curtius hitterly attacked the author of the demand for a referen dum against the Young Plan, and enid that if the freeing of Ger many from the claims of Versailles WCTC so simple, Dr. Stresemann would not have been obliged to sacrifice himself for this purpose." Bill Rejected.
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BERLIN, Nov. 30. The Reichstag, by 316 votes to 62. has rejected the Nationalist Bill.
All the Government parties voted against the Bill, the minority con sisting of extreme Nationalists, and German Nationalists.
The Fourth Article of the Bill, demanding the prosecution of any tive of the Reich who signed agree. Chancellor, Minister, or representa
ments like the Young Plan, was rejected by 312 votes to 60, many Nationalists abstaining from vot- ing.
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R.101 IN ITS HANGAR.
A THOROUGH OVERHAUL.
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LONDON, November 30. The R.101 has been moved from the mist of Cardington and placed in the hangar. The removal was accomplished without incident. It is understood the airship will be thoroughly overhauled, and the gar view to making modifications to bags deflated and examined, with a. increase the lifting capacity.
GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN
WHITEHALL.
AMBITIOUS SCHEME. (BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] The rejection of the Bill occurred on the same day as the last, French
RUGBY, Nov. 20. flag was hauled down from the
Plans to erect new Government fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, Buildings in Whitehall are in con- Coblenz, and the Belgian flag at templation, it is learned." Aix la Chapelle, amid the jubila- tions of the inhabitants of the territory.
"ACHEN IS FREE." SECOND RHINELAND ZONE EVACUATED.
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FATAL EXPLOSION ON NON-
MAGNETIC. YACHT.
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TALTVILA, SAMOA, Nov. 30.
Car: The non-magnetic yacht, negie, which was built without iron or steel, to investigate terrestrial magnetism, by the Carnegie Institu. several times circumnavigated the tion at Washington, and which has globe, was shattered by an explosion in Apia harbour."
the air, and the captain fatally The occupants were hurled into
hurt, whilst several of the crew. were injured and sent to hospital. One man is missing.
Five neighbouring vessels were set are and had to be beached..
RHODESIA DOES ITS BIT.
HELPING OUT BRITISH TRADE.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Nov. 20.
is attached to the expansion of In view of the importance that British trado with the Empire Overseas, especially as contribut- ing to the relief of unemployment in this country, the following an- nouncement from the London office of the Rhodesian Railways is print- ed in London with such headlines as "A good customer;"
During 1999, the Board of the Rhodesian Railways has placed 'or- ders with British firms valued ́at· £1,473,883, including £231,550 for twenty-one passenger coaches and
and four hundred
ten goods.. wagens
Tenders are still under considera- tion for engines and trucks mak- ing the total orders for the year nearly one and three-quarter mil- lians sterling.
The Board points out that it is maintaining its policy of placing all its orders in Britain.
BRITISH MINISTERS'
SALARIES.
A POSSIBLE REVISION.
[DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Nov. 29. The salaries of the Ministers of the State are to be reviewed.
The Premier, in a written reply to a Parliamentary question, says he proposes to set up a committee and report upon the matter. representing all parties to consider
cision on the proposals within the The Government will take a de- next month and the work will then
He suggests the committee should", be undertaken in sections in order take the report of the committee of not to interfere with the business 1020 and consider whether it re of the departments concerned. quires any modification in the light
It is intended that the buildings of the circumstances of to-day. shall be on lines designed to add . The Committee of 1020 recom- to the dignity of the famous street mended that the Prime Minister's of Government offices and although salary should be raised from five the cost will be great, it is con- thousand to eight thousand pounds tended that there will in the end and that the galary of each of the be a saving because staffs will be two Law Officers aliould be reduced housed together which are at pre-by two thousand pounds. sent distributed over London, The Committee also recommend- The buildings will be on the ed the following scale for Mini- and will extend from the Cenotaph pounds, four at three thousand castern or river side of Whitehall sters: Twelve at five thousand, a point opposite the Horse pounds, six at two thousand Guards' Parade."
pounds, eighteen at fifteen hundred The scheme will involve the de- pounds, and three at one thousand flocked to the evacuated towns by malition of Montagu House, the pounds. special trains from all over the famous old home of the Dukes of country throuzken the evergreened what to now the dinise of their office were to receive All Cabinet Ministers, Irrékossa. celebrate the evacuation,
try of Labour.
five thousand pounds yearly.
COLOGNE, NOT. 30, Aeroplanes droning above. Aix la Chappelle painted with buga in Reriptions "Achen (Aix la Chapelle) is free," marked the evacuation of troops, from the second occupied the last of the French and Belgiar Rhineland Zone..
The occupation officially ended at midnight yesterday. Huge crowde
to