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BRITAIN'S FINANCES.
EFFECT OF OFFICIAL ECONOMIES.
Lower Services Estimates.
Rugby, Feb. 8.
"It la generally anticipated that. as a result of the economies effect- ed in public services at the suggea-
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1926.
ITALY'S POLICY IN UPPER THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
TRENTINO,
AUSTRIAN UNEASINESS.
Paria, Feb. 8. Though hitherto reticent in com- menting on the subject, the news papers "splash" the report of Signor Mussolini's speech regard ing the Upper Adige...
The Gaulois applauds Mus-
PROGRAMME FOR
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GERMANY'S ENTRY NOTED
WITH SATISFACTION.'
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Rugby, Feb. 8. General satisfaction is shown by the British newspapers at the prospect of the, formal application by Germany for membership in the League of Nations, which it is expected will be drafted at a meat
TO-MORROW. The following is the programme for the fourth of the series of concerts being held in St. John's Cathedral hall in aid of the organ fund.
(Cyril Scott), (b) I have twelve exer B-Songs,-(a) A Roundel of Rost (John Ireland), Mrs. N. Mathieson...
Miss Elsie Mackay, daughter. of Lord Inchcape, the shipping magnate, had the distinction of being appointed the only woman of the Pilots' Advisory Committee of the Air League Miss Mackay has had an air pilot's certificate for three years, She is often seen over the Stagland Airdrome flying, 1-Pinno Solon-(0) Nocturne alono and is rogarded as one of Sekumann; Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith. the pioneers among women in ("Nightingale"), Grule; (b) Soaring. tion of the Cabinet Economy Com- solini's tone, as: "Europe since ing of the Berlin cabinet to-day, 2Sungs() In Davon, (b) mittee, and of the committee set up Locarno was being slowly rocked The decision to apply was approv- Where Corals Lio (Elgar), Mrs. Naviation. She was for a time on the stage as Poppy Wyndham, under the chairmanship of Lord to sleep to the sound of the pured by the foreign affairs com- Mathieson.
It mittee of the Reichstag last Thurs- Colwyn, the national expenditure ring phraseology of pacifists."
3-(a) That Night, in May, but in the last year, has” taken for which the Chancellor of the says Germany is now warned on day and sanctioned by the federal Love is for ever (Brahms), Mrs. A. M.
charge of the interior decoration states on Saturday, and it is anti-Bowes-Smith. Exchequer will have to budget will the eve of entering the League.
Le Journal draws attention to cipated that the Reichstag applica- 4-Plano Solos.(a) Preludo in E, of ships belonging to her father's probably be reduced by ten million the Anglo-Italian rapprochement tion will be received in Geneva) Nocturne in minor. (c) company. pounds in the coming year.
Fantasic-Impromptu (Chopin), MS. and collaboration, and declares this week.
A. M. Boyge-Smith. Next year's estimates of the that Count Volpi in going to Italy Bghting Services are not yet pre-from London spent two days in pared for publication, but fore- Paris, and interviewed M. Briand, casts indicate that in "the aggr when he discussed "subjects very gate they will show a reduction different from the French debt." compared with figures for the pre-This paper points out the necessity sent year.
for France's keeping informed of The Timer understands that in any Anglo-Italian political agree he coming year there will be ament being prepared.-Reuter, reduction in the Navy estimates in
Vienna, Feb. 8. spite of the new programme of Uneasiness and much comment ruiser construction, and in Army has been caused by the passage in Estimates. These will more than Signor Mussolini's speech in which balance the increase in the Airho declared Italy would never Force estimates, which will not be remove her flag from Brenner but so large as originally contemplat. carry it farther if necessary. The led.-British Wireless,
leading daily, the Neue Freie Presse, considers that Mussolini's menaces open a threat of war, and concludes: "The policy of custor gil cannot successfully be employ- ed in foreign policy, especially in the present Locarno era. Ger- many cannot be intimidated by such threats as Mussolini has uttered in the Chamber.. The fight for the most primitive rights of mankind cannot be suppressed by decrees."--Reliter,
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Rugby, Feb. 8.' The Minister of Health in con- i Junction, with the Medical, Reiļ Search Council, has appointed a Committee to inquire and report From time to Lime, firstly on mal- ters relating to the preparation, cesting and standardisation of vaccine lymph, secondly on prae- cal methous which are available, in the light of modern knowledge, o diminish or remove any risks of vaccination, and thiraly methods of vaccination which are most appropriate to give protec- tion against the risk of small-pox infection in epidemic and epidemic periods and to co-ordi- | nate the work of investigation of these questions in this country and abroad, having regard to the
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FILIPINO LEADER.
AGUINALDO RE-ELECTED VETERANS PRESIDENT.
A Significant Election.
Maning Feb. 8. Emilio Aguinaldo,
General leader of the indurrectiona [against Spain' and the United
States has been unanimously re- elected President of the Filipino Veterans. His election has con- alderable political significance as Aguinaldo is extremely influential and opposes immediate separation from the United States-Reuter.!
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A formal meeting of the Council will then be called without delay to convoke a special meeting of the Assembly, which must elect (a) Songs my mother taught Germany a member by a two thirds me, (b) Cloudy heights of Tatra majority and will undoubtedly (Dvorak), Mrs. A., M. Bowes-Smith. endorse the recommendation of 7-Piano Solos-(a) Prelude in G the Council that she should be fut, (b) Prelude in G minor (Rach come an additional member of maninoff), Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith. that body.
Germany should thus be able to take her place as a regular and. permanent member of the Coune at its next quarterly meeting in March.
The treaty of Locarno becomes valid when Germany becomes a member of the League.
of the existing members, took the Precaution of ascertaining from cach of the ten members of the Council individually, whether they would approve of the addition of Germany to the number of per-
manent members.
It is reculled in the Times that "when the question of Germany's)
In due course replies were re- entry into the League of Nations reived from all ten, which were was first seriously discussed in the understood to be generally favour- Autumn of 1924 the then German able. There is no question of the Government, realizing that the Assembly running counter to the un- number of the members £f the animous resolution of the Council. League Council, whether perman- There are in addition the assur- ent or not-permanent, could only ances given at Locarno."-British
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