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ELEGRAMS.
NEW GERMAN CABINET,
Berlin, June 20.
been formed. It includes Herr Bañer (Foreign Minister). Hany,DIYA Minister of Communicationer
ster of Defence)
CISION TO SIGN,
London, June
Paris correspondent, writing yesterd
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Governt has decided to sign the
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NOTHER EXPLANATION.
Paris
No commİLİLİ tion will be received from the German Delegation till noop to-day, either as regards the c rejection of the Treaty. The Daily Telegraph report based on news that the German Cabinet is divide
sberger in favour of g
BRITISH AIRSHIP'S FLIGHT.
London, June 21.
The R.34 has returned to Haddington from a two-thousand miles ruise, including Wilhelmshaven, Friedrichshaven, the Kiel Canal, Hamburg and the Baltic. It did not visit Berlin. It battled with a gale for twenty hours on the homeward flight.
A GERMAN REQUEST.
Paris. June 21.
Up to last evening no communication had been received from the Germans asking for an extension of the time-limit. What happened according to Bertin, is that a Note from-Count Rantza was handed to M. Clemencesu on the 20th, pointing out contradic- Cons between the Allies, covering Note of the 16th, and the altered art of the Treaty, aho differences between the latter and the copy received on May 7. It asks that the contradicitions be cleared up in writing before the expiry of the time-limit.
THE ALLIES' PRECAUTIONS,
Paris, Junė 21. Marshal Foch has 750,000 men "ready to advance from the Rhine and it will be a simple matter to occupy in a few hours Frank- fort, the financial centre of Germany: Essen, with its enormous Krupps Works; and the great industrial area of Westphalia-Haras.
NO DALLYING."
Paris, June 21. Secret information has reached Paris that Germany will sign the Treaty. It is learned from the best authority that M. Clemenceau, Mr. Lloyd George and President Wilson will not grant one minute's extension unless absolute promises are made that the Treaty will be signed, one week being the outside time-limit for extension. It is believed that Germany will ask a further postpone- ment on the grounds that a new Government is in process of forma tion. However, unless guarantees for signature are given, French, British and American troops will start marching forward at daybreak on Tuesday.-Haras.
A CASTING VOTE
Berlin, June 21. It was Herr Scheidemann's "casting vote that gave the Cabinet majority against signing the Treaty. The Independent Socialists e declared that the Noske Cabinet, which. Paris expects will terialise, will be a provocation of Labour:
The Mittag Zeitung opines that Herr Erzberger will be the probable Foreign Minister and bead of the new Delegation to sigu The Treaty.
In Paris the fall of Herr Scheidemann is believed to entail the fall of Herr Ebert.
ALL LANCASHIRE MILLS CLOSED.
BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL.
London, June 21. All the Lancashire cotton mills have been closed down, in onsequence of a wages and hours dispute. Sixty million spindles and thousands of looms have been stopped.. Business in Manchester" at standstill and stocks are at a premium. The Minister of Labour has invited the disputauts to meet immediately with a view to considering the submission of the dispute to arbitration..
THE AFGHAN SITUATION.
AMS
GERMAN WARSHIPS AT SCIPE FLOW
used to stop.
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ance with the terms of the Armistice, with skelefon German crewà as caretakers, wil.
SUNE BY THE GERMANS.
The Admiralty announce t
Tow have been sank rely detained.
certain interned Gi abandoned by their
KURDISH RISING QUELLED. –
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It is officially announced that a Brith force Kurdish Sheikh mentioned on May 29, capturing & hu It rescued all the British prisopers.
[The message of May 29 reported a serious Kurdistan. headed by the local Sheikh)
HOE RULE FOR
London, June 21.
In a speech at Edinburgh, Mr. Asquith declared that Home Rule for Scotland was as necessary as for Ireland. It had advanced to first place in the political arens.
HOME CRICKET.
London, June 21.
Yorkshire beat Derbyshire by ten wickets. Kent beat Sussex by an innings and 123 runs. Northants and Lancashire v. Leicestershire were all drawn.
Surrey v. Cambridge, Hants v. the Australians, Warwick *.
ALLIES ROUT BOLSHEVIKS.
"London, June 21
ment through a
A Murmansk communique says that by a bold flanking move- Bolsheviks at Kartashi, south-west of Medvyejagora, killing twenty forest, the Allies surprised and routed the
only sustained one casualty. and capturing fifty. The surprise was so complete that the Allies
LOSS OF RUSSIAN CRUISER.
London, June 21. Reuter learns that a British submarine did not sink the Russian cruiser Oleg, which was probably mined.
THE FRENCH MINERS' STRIKE.
Paris, June 21.
An official Note states that the general strike of French miners is rapidly ending. A Bill has been unanimously adopted by the Chamber of Deputies providing that the eight-hour day in mines should count from the time of the first miner going down to the time of the last miner coming up.-Haras.
. London, June, 21: An India Office communique states that the Amir's reply to the Scaroy's letter proposing armistice terms, while thought to afford | basis for peace negotiations, has raised points which require the Indian and Imperial Governments careful consideration. The Viceroy was authorised on the 19th to further communicate with the Amir,
on certain conditions, to receive at Rawalpindi the Afghaned
whom the Amir proposes to send when the Fast of is over.
GLORIOUS FRANCE.
Paris, June EL
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settled German city and port of Ramanians for Hunga Russian countries, of Po Caoch lands. The Biom
Babber is firmer, there being large Chinese and Japanese buying Treaty of 1871 was made
THE STRAITS RIOTS.
CRUISER GOES TO FENANG.
Singapore, June 26.
the greed afarival. The
Wilson. Treaty of 1919 is framed 10 as to revive the normal course
of industry in Europe
WE CLAIM ALL THAT IS
POSSIBLE:
The cruiser Sydney has gone to Penang, where Martial Law has been declared, but the situation seems fairly quiet. All is quiet. It is true that the terms In Singapore.
THE SINGAPORE SITUATION.
The town is quit.
Singapore, June 25. The Japanese Consul and business organisations have issued a circular thanking the Government for its efficient measures and urging their nationals to avoid provocation and attend quietly to business. Rioting in Penang continues and is widely mixed up with the rice trouble.
STRAITS PEACE CELEBRATIONS.
The Straits Peace celebrations have been fixed for August.
Singapore, June 25,
RIGHTS OF THE PRESS.
Shanghai, June 27
A sharp issues arisen on the proposal of the Council to amend the Municipal Laws providing for the licensing of the Settle ment newspapers, including foreign, with power to prevent publica- tion of matter which the Council considers dangerous. A ratepayers meeting has been called for July 10 and a hot fight is promised. The Chino Press in a leader strongly opposes the proposal. American bodies are resolved to disapprove efforts to restrict press rights.
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EARLIER - TELEGRAMS.
THE PEACE SITUATION.-
Berlin, June 29.
A message from Weimer says that the National Assembly- has passed a resolution by 237 to 138 agreeing to sign the Treaty,
Amsterdam, June 2
A message from Weimer says that in the National Assembly Herr Bauer declared that the Government has.. decided to sign the Peace Treaty provided it is ratified by the National Assembly.
Paris, June 22
A German note. received appoints Herr Haniel Haimhausen as Germany's delegate to make explanations, receive the counter-explanation and direct negotiations. M. Clemenceau, President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George are now considering the note and drafting the answer. It it understood the Germans are ready to sign the Treaty without recognising the responsibility for war or under. taking to surrender the guilty persons whom the Allies named. It is understood the Allies are not prepared to accept any conditions and unless the Germans siga uncon- ditionally the armies will proceed after seven in the evening of June 9
Paris, June 27.
It is officially stated that the German Delegation has informed the French Government that Germany will sign the Peace Treaty without reservations.-"HATSE.”
PEACE WITH JUSTICE.
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imposed on Germany, rast ne they are, form but a fraction of what stern justice might claim. But to claim all our due is practio- al suicide, for it would deepen, our Tremendous losses or rather“ would plunge us into an indefinite future of chronic war. We do exact much. That Belgium akali at once receive one hundred mill- ions sterling that France shall recover her provinces intact, and bave invaluable mines of fron and coal, shall have restoration of her rained cities, and the solid- safeguard of the League Coven- antat sa: Italy shall have her true froggar in the Alps and shall control the upper Adrjat e fall this foundation
international Peace po, cof more would be to fall back on the ways of Metternich and Bismarck.
of Right-in its moderation as The new Treaty is the triumph well as in its strength.
Let us contrast the Congress of Vienna, 1814, and the Peace of Paris, 1815, with our teras of to-day. When the object was also to construct a new Europe after the aanikHation of an. aggressive Empire, The Com ferences lasted nearly two years, during 1814 and 1815. The final Cpugress of Vienna and then of Paris in 1815 lasted from Febru ary to November. Prussia, we are told, came “with an undying hatred af France." The minor States were "pawns in the band of the Great Powers," and were tossed about from one master to another. The rivalries and suspic- ions of the Powers increased daily. The object of each Power was to secure the utmost possible for itself. The Prussiana Tere all for revenge." They and their. German followers cried out "for the dismemberment of France"; for huge indemnities and the cession of great provinces.
Wellington, Castlereagh, and the British Cabinet resisted these wild schemes of dismember- ment and spoliation** Hav- ting sécured Jur maritime supremacy, azd destroyed Napoleon's Empire, the policy of Britain was security and not revenge. Bad as were many of the acts of the Congress, they work
"dut their redempt would have been much worse- ion by forced labour. It is cal-would have involved fresh wars culated that in mere destruction but for the moderation of they have done damage to the British statesmen. (amount of £50,000,000,000--much of this also, like Louvain, Ypres, Mr. Frederic Harrison writes Arras, and Rheim, is irreparable as follows,
damage. If we had claimed The Peace of 1871 was the twice that sum by long years of triumph of Might over Right instalments it would be no more The Peace of Might. The Prus-than the old rule of Moses-like sian Terms of 1871 made inevit-for-likó-equal retaliation for able the war of Nations in 1914. Wing
THE NEW TREATY AND OLD TREATIES.
NATIONAL WRONGS OF 1815. Ruthless transfers were made of peoples from one sovereignt
another, as if Europe were a chess board and the nations were pawns.
and and the
All this is shown in the valuable account of the Congress of Vienna. Mr. C. K. Webster, just isused Office the work I have just by the authority of the Foreign
The Terms of the Allies in 1919 But a different measure in our will do all that is in human rute. Wemand not one-twen- power to close the era of armed (tieth value of the injury we have suspicion, in which Europe has suffered, not an acre of true. Ger- quoted. lived for nearly two generations, man land of ancient right, no book we find that at least twenty In the coloured map of this Put the two-Treaties side by forced labour of German man or side. The war of 1870 was an woman, no visible humiliation of different States of countries were unprovoked and wanton attackon their national self-respect. Every to another. It was then that France, skilfully engineered by clause of the Treaty speaks of the Dannig Posen, Saxony and the handed over from one soverờigns Bismarck to look like defence, effort to combine just reparation Barre district were given up to the deliberate. purpose of which with the moderation that one
was to trample on France and to great people can show to anotheria Belgium and Luxem reduce her to a minor Power in their hour of archy and rule our given to Holland The terms exacted, after crushing It is a truly democrátic
Flume and the Dalmatian defeats and the overthrow of the The Great Powers, led Empire, were the seizure of two out by Britain and
af her most patriotic and valuable provinces, and a huge debt which demands of e
stoudly resisted the Prussians believed would and of
but victorious and glorious. Hovas.
Lunching at Verdun, Mr. Lloyd George said France in devastate reduce her to permanent distress. af hom
Later.
Mr. Lloyd George and party have returned after a two days I visit to the battlefields at Verlun.
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