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IMPORTANT DEBATE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
London, Feb. 12.
In the House of Commons Mr. George Thorne moved an amendment to the Address regretting that the Government had not recognised many of the impracticabilities of the Peace Treaty nor appreciated the grave dangers to the economic position at home and abroad by the delay in restoring settled conditions in "urope and the Near East
Sir Dona Maclean quoted General Smuts's message in which he said the real work of making peace would only begin after the Treaty was signed and he opined the whole ex- perience of the past month had shown how substantially ne- curate was. General Stnuts's estimate of the situation. Sir Donald Maclean appealed to the Governinent to take a long and statesmanlike view and further to fix the amount of the indemnity. He deprecated the length of the German black ist and foreshadowed years of international litigation there- anent. He urged there was no lupe of a sound economic fature for Europe without free trade all round and a start should be made in the new States of Central Europe.
Lord Robert Cecil urged the impracticability of a present undertaking the revision of the Treaty although some of its terms would have to be revised later. Mentioning Egypt, the Middle East. Mesopotamia and Armenia he sall the situation was profoundly serious chiefly owing to the delay in dealing with the Turkish question. He deprecated farther delay ani suggested that the League of Nations should publicly debate the Russian situation and also send to Bussin two international missions, first to ascertain what was going on there and vendly to define the provisional boundaries of Russin and the border States.
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Mr. Balfour, replying, declared that neither the Allied or German experts were able in estimate what Germany could pay ten or fifteen years bener, The Treaty provided that Germany might offer a lump sum within four months. British Government had always been most anxious to care- fully limit its list of war criminals bat was not enabled to examine other lists. The British list included nobody who had carried out illegal orders unless he exceeded such onders He sympathised with the difficult position of M. Clemenceau who approved of the British viewpoint but who was unable to escape the inclusion of persons guilty of individual crimes. Mr. Balfour believed that no colours were too dark to pain a great part Europe but the deplorable situation was not due to the Treaty but was the outcome of the war and the result of applications of the principle of self-determination wherein new States were refusing to co-operate with their neighbours. Mr. Balfour denied that. Britain was in anywise responsible for the delayed Turkish peace. He considered the suggested, intervention of the League of Nations with regard to Russia of no avail because its leading members had already unsuccess- fully tried to discover a solution at the Peace Conference.
Broadly speaking, the reason why Europe lacked so many fundamental necessaries at present was because Jabour produced much less than before the war and credit had been shattered. A great amelioration in the condition of Europa might be possible if the countries which the war had left richer than before (Cheers) fully aisted, Britain's greatest contribution to the solution would be to maintain intact and build up her great fodustrial system around which the whole security of Europe really revolved.
Mr. Thorne's amendment was rejected by 254 votes to €0. At question time Mr. Chamberlain announced that the Government had informed the United States that besides 12 millions sterling voted for the current financial year for the relief of Ceneral Europe the British Government was prepared to contribute a further sum not exceeding half the contribution of the United States and not exceeding ten millions sterling which would be used to provide British foodstaff, raw materials and other essentals and to pay freights on goods carried in British ships. The Canadian Government had in- timated its desire to contribute. (Cheers). The Government was confident that other Allied and neutral Governmenta would co-operate.
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The Echo de Paris publishes the views of Dr. Charcot, the cele- brated Antarctic explorer, on the proposed British attempt to reach the South Pole by aeroplane. Dr. Charcot said that, in his opinion, thera was no reason why such a project should not be practicable,; as the flight was beset with fewer difficulties than, for example, the crossing of the Atlantic. The dis- tance would, in fact, bo only some thousand miles, and an aeroplane should be able to accomplish in sixteen hours the journey which it has hitherto taken months to accomplish.
Dr. Charcot recalled how, on. his return from his second ex- pedition in 1910. he heard of Bleriot's crossing of the Channel, and even in those early days dreamed of a conquest of the South Pole by air. Two years hter he talked with Vedrines for the possibilities of such 'a'n undertaking, but at that time, although Vedrines was only too ready to attempt the feat, aviation was hardly tar enough advanced. | and, moreover, such an expedition would have entailed considerable cost. Then came the war, and the iden had to be abandoned.
Dr. Charcot did not know what route the British expedition pro- prosed to follow, but in his opin- ion the most practicable was that taken by Scott. starting from; Boss Bay.
Although the journey would be accomplished in 2 single fight. Dr. Charcot thought it more likely that it would be carried out in: stages, and laid great stress on the necessity, if any new dis- coveries were to be made, of a stay in the neighbourhood of the Pole. Otherwise the fight would be a mere tour de force, certainly admirable, "but the British," said Dr. Charcot. "are too practical to limit themselves to a mere fight." Dr. Charcot thought that land- ing should present no difEculties, as the ground was solid, and for the most part level, except for the escarpment that has to be crossed. some 500 miles inland. In case of having to land in the snow, Dr. Charcot said that he had no doubt that the British had. pre- pared for this eventuality, pos- sibly by fitting their "machines with skis instead of with wheels. The one thing to be feared, in the opinion of the explorer, was the frequent violent tempests that rage in that region, and to which Captain Scott fell a victim. I Provided that modern aeroplanes were capable of coming through these storm safely, Dr. Charcot saw no reason why the British scheme should not be realisable.
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Early one recent morning Cap- tain Charles V. Coombs, of the Canadian General Headquarters, Argyle House, Oxford-street, W., died at St. George's Hospital of a revolver shot wound in the head.f It appears that at about midnight| the police were called to the Gros- venor Hotel, Victoria, where in, his room they found Captain Coombs, clad in his pajamas, lying with a wound in his right temple. Dr. Russell Forsbrook, of 48. Lower Belgrave-street, who was called as soon as possible, dressed the injury and the officer was immmediately removed to St. George's Hospital.
Enquiries brought to light the fact that Capt. Coombs was forty years old, and for some months past had been living at Clapham. He and two ladies went to the Grosvenor Hotel for lunch. Cap-1 tain Coombs took a quantity of whisky. The ladies left about) 6.30, and before leaving, one of thèm, a special friend of the Captain, asked him what he was going to do. He replied, "I am going to get absolutely drunk and then pass out," At 9.30 she called him up on the telephone, and asked him how he was gott- ing on, and he said, "I am pass- ing out." Later, she went to the botel accompanied by her nephew, 2 boy of twelve, and at -11.30 went to Captain Coombs' .room. He was then quite intoxicated, seem- ed very shaky, and made no reply when asked if he was feel- ing better. She then told the boy to speak to him, and Captain Coombs said to the lad, "Lawrie, don't touch whisky." He then snatched a revolver from under! the pillow and shot himself in the head.
Captain Coombs sailed from Canada in November, 1916, and| went to France with the 116th Battalion, with which he remain- ed until the end of the war.
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