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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE LOCARNO CONFERENCE.
Paris, Oct. 20. Interesting comments are made on the results of the Locarno Conference by the newspapere.
Pelit Paristem says that the most exacting critics, must be satisfied with them.
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Yesterday's Drawings.
The fourth consignment of sub-
L'Echa de Paris says that the complexity of the contradictions inscription griffins for the Hong- the agreements are disquieting, and that there is a possibility that the Anglo-French defensive accords no longer exist. ...
Le Journal Gaulois says that the entente cordiale Is re-born and
is again the pivot of European equilibrium.
Berlin, Oct. 20.
kong Jockey Club, consisting of 4 geldinga and 2 mares, arrived by the 8.8. Sunning yesterday morn-
ing.
The Tacglicherundschaul says that the German conception triumph-Jockey Club Stables, at Causeway! ed completely and that a peaceful revision of the Treaty of Versailles is not altogether out of the question..
Germania says that Locarno proved that Germany is again regard. ed as a world power.
The Berliner Tageblatt says that the western Pact is the Magna Charta of the future life of European nations, and that never before Ins Great Britain so bound herself.
Vorwaerts says that the idea of a lasting peace has been realised. The Diplomatisch Politiache Correspondenz, which is the official mouthpiece, omphasises the importance of article 20 on arbitration treaties which it believes makes almost all the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles subject to arbitration.
Even the Nationalist journals acknowledge that much has been achieved at Locarno though they condems the various detalls of the treaties.
Moscow, Oct. 20.
M. Krassin, who has arrived with M. Kharkoff to participate at the session of the all Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, in an interview in regard to the results of the Locarno Conference, declared that the Security Pact was a means of drawing Germany into the sphere of anti-Soviet policy and preventing her rapprochement with Soviet Russia.-Reuter.
GERMAN SHIP YARD DEPRESSION.
The drawing took place at the
Bay, last evening. The Stewards
Lieut-Col. present were
Hall Brutton and Mr. H. Birkett.
The numbers were draWN by Bower, R.N.," and Commander Lieut.-Commander Thompson, R.N., with the following result:
No. 26. H. H. Tayler & Co., m.g.. No. 27 Dyer and Beith, g.g. No. 28 M. J. T. Bagram, ch. m. No. 20 Mr. Sha, b. g.
In Holy Trinity Church, Strat-) furd on Avon, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson has unveiled a tablet to tho memory, of the actors The tablet, who fell in the war. which has been placed in St. Peter's Chapel, is of grey marble, and has been designed by Sir George Frampton. It is about two feet long and eighteen inches high, and bears a specially writ- ten verse by Rudyard Kipling,
London, October, 20. Sergeant-Major Jackson, Ran- Newspapers from Berlin say that the contract awarded to the goon Battalion, A. F. I., has ro- Deutsche Werft to build five motor ships for a British shipping firm, coived nows from Home to the which created a sensation in British shipyards early in the year, effect that his son, Pto. Jackson, has had a sequel in the announcement that the Deutsche Werft is Royal Army Ordinance Corpe, has won the Young Soldiers' In- faced with a serious loss in the fulfilment of the order as trade con dividual Championship for shoot- ditions have exercised depression. Most German shipyards declare
ing. The lad, before going Home that the Blohm Voss yards at Hamburg are nearly empty. The in 1922, was for 18 months a Reiherstieg Werft is still closed and unable to complete four vessels member of the Rangoon Battalion under contract for which they accepted an uneconomical figure. The Shooting Club and attended the Vulcan yards at Bremen are approaching idleness. The Danziger Bisley Ride meeting and the Al- Werft have paid off 2,000 workers closed down. The. Boersen Zictung de sho: Command moeting win- states that the crisis is so serious that no State help will improve ning several prizes at each meet- matters.-Beuter..
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