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Probate of the will of: Captain'
MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1927.
DRIFTING TO WAR.
INTERVENTION MENS TROUBLE WITH MEXICO,
Washington Jan. 8.
United Staton visitors that he was willing to submit the differences with Washington over the new land and petroleum laws to the Hoguo
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War the only way to avoid greater menace to Moxico. Callas thought the withdrawal of United States recognition from
William Edward Clarke, a Director During the debate in the House his government would be interpret of the Hongkong, Canton and of Representatives on the situa-ed by his opponents as an encour Macao Steamboat Company, Limit-tion in Central America Repre-agement to revolt."
He declared
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tage," Talpe, has been granted to expressed the opulun that the were suppressing them.
ready bogun, but the Government Mr, William Edward Leonard Ehen- United States was "deliberately ton, of Mesirs. Deacons firm, one and consciously drifting into war said two governments were es As regards Nicaragua, Calles of the Executora named in the will, with Mexico.-Reuter's American tablished in Nicaragua, namely
Capt. Clarke died on November Service.
violence and legality, and legali- 18th, 1920, at Shanghai..
Senator Borah's Viewa. "
Ly. The net value of the Hongkong
Washington, Jan. 8.
"Mexico recognised the govern-. property amounts to $126,166.20.
After a conference with Preatment of legality; the United States His will W.As executed ondent Coolidge, Senator Burak paus rocogn-sud July 13th, 1920. He appointeed on the doorstep of the White violence. That's all."
the Government of The Union Insurance Society of House to tell the journalists that Canton, Limited, and William Ed- the United States had no businese ward Leonard Shenton, whom fail-In the world in Nicaragua. Ing Reginald Frederick Mattingly, whom falling Michael Howard Tur-
ed, who resided at the "White Cot-sentative Huddleston of Alabama that revolutionary efforts had al|| C. E. WARREN & CO.,
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The President had given hira no proof that American lives and pro- perty were so imperilled in Nicara- gua as remotely to justify Ameri- can intervention.
Later Senator Borah, expressed the opinion that the sheer force of American arms was holding up the| Diaz regime. If anybody in Nicaragua Was constitutionally entitled to be President It
was
Government has ordered its forco A Mexico City message, says the
to execute summarily anybody bearing arms against the Govern ment..
Federal troops in the past few days have killed 85 bundits and re- volutionaries, the majority at Guanajuato. Thirty-five have been killed in minor battles.- Router's American Servico.
An Offer To the Liberals.
Managua, Jan. 9. President Diaz has offered the
To his daughter Kato Eleanor Livesay he left articles of silver ware, and to his daughter Sybil Mary Dennys other articles men- lioned in a second schedule of the will.
To his wife he leaves all his wearing apparel, personal ornn ments, trinkets and jewels, furni-] ture, plate, plated goods, linen, Sacasa-Beuter's American Ser-liberala a general amnesty, and glass, china,books manuscripts, vica. pictures, prints, "statuary, musical Instruments, and all other articles of personal, domestic, or household ass or ornament, and all his wines, liquors, consumable stores and provisions, and all his motor cars and garage, furniture and plants, garden tools and implements,
Other Bequests. Also to his wife the sum of $1,000 to be paid to her as soon as possible after his death Tor her immediate requirements.
President's Comment.
Washington, Jan. 8. ment on the opposition displayed
President Coolidge's only com-| to his policy in Central America is a reiteration of the statement by Mr. Kellogg carlier in the "day that the United States marines tect the lives and property of were landed in Nicaragua to pro-! United Staten citizens.
In the course of a re-statement
To his trustees during the life of his daughter Muriel Liliana, the Clarke an annuity of £200, to be paid by such instalments as the trustees think fit.
He bequeathes all his real estate and personal estate and effects. not otherwise disposed of by codicils, to the use of the trustees; His residence at Tai Po, New Territories, known as "White Cot- tage upon trust. for his wife dur- ing her life with full liberty" for her either to reside there, or to receive the rents and profits.
His wife is to receive daring her life the yearly sum of 36,000 in, Hongkong currency, (free of all death duties)."
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President explained though a White House "spoken- not always enquire into the man" that the United States could
authority on which another' ·RO- vernment rested when it found a de facto government apparently exercising authority in protecting the property and lives of United States nationals as well as those of other foreign countries.
The United States would re- cognise that do facto government, and having extended recognition, was prepared to take up the same attitude in its support as had taken on behalf of General Obre- gon's government in Mexico in From and after the death of the 1924, whop the United States bad survivers of his wife and daughter consented to sell arms and am- Muriel Lilian Clarke, one half munition to Obregon's Govern- part or share of the residuary trustment to enable it to maintain its fund is to be placed on trust for stabilitys-Beuter's Américan Ser- his daughter Kate Eleanor Livesay, Į viçe. or if she predeceases the testator.
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Washington, Jan.9. Mr. Huddleston said there were interests in this country whieh for years, had been trying to seize the oil-mining resources of Mexico, They cared nothing of our duty to Mexico as a weaker nation He described as false the malicious," alleged suggestion of the State Department to the American press hat Bolshevism was the issue in Nicargua.
Diaz was a tool of the New York bankers, and the presence of New Delhi, Jan. 8. American forces in Nicaragua Sir Samuel Hoare's air liner has would not only bring on a war with arrived. The party was given a Mexico but arouse anti-American great welcome. All Government feeling in other Latin-American offices were closed and a huge countries. If there was war, he assembly, including a number of would nominate the American dil notabilities, greeted Sir Samuel barons, certain sensation-loving- Heare's party and Sir Geoffrey newspaper proprietors, and leading Salmond, who motored to the Vice- United States federal officials for Regal Lodge, where they are guasts the front ranks of the United during their stay, of Lord and States army. Lady Irwin-Reuter
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The same subject. also came up in the Senate, where Mr. Reed of Missouri used language equally emphatic, asking pointedly whether the well-known White Hotse #pokesman was not really Pre- sident Coolidge himself.
The first of a regular schedule the President to go alow in the Mr. Heflin, of Alabama, advised of flights of the new Empire direction of war. "We owe more airway between the Persian Gulf and Egypt was
to America than any oil interest." yesterday when a west bound air-Routere American Service. liner left Basra for Baghdad and Cairo carrying about one thousand urgent letters and parcels, most of thom addressed to Great Britain from India.-British Wirelcas.
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New York, Jan. 9. A message from Mexico City. says President Calles Informed
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