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SIR JOHN SIMON'S BOMBSHELL FOR COMMONS Comprehensive Franco-British Co-operation Arrangement
AMBASSADOR GIVEN
PASSPORTS
S. AMERICAN STATES
AT LOGGERHEADS.
Buenos Aires, July 13. Following a failure to adjust differences, Uruguay has aevered diplomatic relations with Argen- fine.
According tu reports from Montevideo, the Argentine Ani bassador there, Senhor Cantiku, has been handed his passport.
Later.
A further message from Mon- tevideo states that the rupture
climax to tension created by a report (subsequently disproved) that the exiled Argentine tieneral Toranze, an Army Commander during the Irigoyen regime, wa aboard a Uruguayan cruiser when it visited Buenos Aires on Inde pendence Day, on July 9th.
It is reported from Buenos Aires that the Government s handed the Uruguayan Amha sador his passport.—Renter.
EX-KING'S WILL SURPRISE
ESTATE LEFT TO PORTUGAL
Lisbon, July 13. Ex-King Manoel has left the whole of his fortune, consist- ing chiefly in property, to the country which denied him his! throne, with usufruct to his widow.
His world-famous library al Fulwell Park, Twickenhamn, is be queathed to the Lisbon National; Library.
The dethroned King's fortune is considered
the fourth largest in Portugal.
to be
There is just one doubt remain- ing regarding the disposition of the property. The bequests in dicated are emlandied in a will dated 1915 which was found in a London bank, but his Administra- tor in Portugal declares that he dined in Paris in 1926 with the ex-King, who was then making Another will, Reuter.
FRENCH SUBMARINE
DISASTER INQUIRY
FINDING
SIMULTANEOUS HERRIOT
STATEMENT
STRANGE CONFLICT
REGARDING INTERPRETATION
OTHER P
BRITAIN'S HANDS
- TIED ON THE WAR DEBTS ISSUE
OTHER POWERS INVITED TO JOIN LONDON HAS BEEN PROFOUNDLY ASTONISHED AND
WASHINGTON, ALREADY WORRIED BY THE GENTLE- MEN'S AGREEMENT, RENDERED STILL MORE UNEASY, BY THE DRAMATIC SIMULTANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENT IN PARIS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF AN IMPORTANT FRANCO-BRITISH CO-OPERATION ARRANGEMENT,
IN WHICH GERMANY, ITALY. AND BELGIUM HAVE BEEN IN- VITED TO PARTICIPATE.
The arrangement was outlined in London by Sir John Simon and the terms took the House of Commons completely by surprise. The sensation created later- became enhanced when the interpretation placed upon the understanding by M. Herriot was shown to differ from that of the British Foreign Secretary.
The declaration has nothing to do with the so-called Gentlemen's Agreement, which took the form of a
*uray Burinsuos paxy ine four chief creditor coun- tries in which they agreee oju saja ma po asped over the ratification of the Lausanne Agreement, Superspun eu dy four and would not act separate- ly.
M. Herriot declares teyzer for prom Kay; takes Britain and France much further and that Brioje a se f! jeyi p war debt payment arrange- ment with America withoq mamaq padurea aro
Sir John Simon, in the Commons, said that the two Governments have decided to exchange views with complete candour on any questions like those treated at Lausanne which may affect the European regime. They agree to work together for a disarmament solution, to cooperate in preparing for the world economie conference, and to avoid tariff discriminations.
The diving tube to be used in the treasure hunt at the wreck of the Lusitania.
OCEAN TREASURE QUESTS
LAURENTIC WRECK
DISCOVERIES
LUSITANIA TO BE NEXT
ocean
the
IRELAND PLANS REPRISALS
TARIFF WAR WITH BRITAIN
UNLIMITED
POWER
FOR CABINET
ro-
Dublin, July 13. The de Velera Government proposes to embark on prisals following the action of the British Government in imposing special duties
THE SHOT IN against frish farm produce.
THE NIGHT
NEW CHARGE AGAINST MRS. BARNEY
London, July 13.
A tariff war seems inevitable.
The Senate to-day decided to postpone until July 20 the debats on the Onth Bill which has been returned from the Dail with the intimation that the
Senato's amendments are unacceptable.
EMERGENCY BILL.
The Free State Cabinet mean-
Replying to a question by Lord while has decided to introduce an Hugh Cecil in the House of Com-emergency bill into the Dail Elr- mons to-day. Sir Herbert Samuel, rann to deal with the situation London, July 13,
the Home Secretary, stated that created by the new British duties. Another
the Commissioner of Police pro- treasure
It is believed that the steps hunt has met with success,
posed to institute proceedings proposed by Mr. de Valera are Agninst Mrs. Barney following closely upon
for the the abolition of Imperial Pre- illegal possession of a firearm. ference as between Britain and triumph of the Italian salv- age men working upon the
Mrs. Barney was a few days Ireland and the catablishment of wreck of the suoken P. & O.
ago found not guilty on a charge a tariff wall against certain im- of the murder of Mr. liner Egypt.
Thomas ports from Great Beitain. William Scott Stephen, who was The Bill will be enacted be- found shot at Mrs. Barney's fint
for fore the Dail rises
the nt Williams Mews, Lowndes Square, after a cocktail party.
Summer Recess at the end of the week.
The intest romantic story of fortunes recovered from the depths of the sea comes from the salvage
The evidence was that a strug- gle occurred between Mrs. Barney party working off Lough Swilly on and Mr. Stephen and that the re-
Reuter is officially informed that the emergency bill
will
the wreck of the White Star liner, volver went off fatally wounding give the Executive Council, the Laurentic, which was sunk by athe man-Retler, submarine while taking guld to the United States.
120,000 AS FIRST. REWARD.
It was noticed to-day that divers have found their way into
It is claimed that Sir John Simon's announcement regarding European co- operation has no bearing whatever on war debts due to the United States and can- not in any way be interpreted as a united European front towards the United the strong-room and have already States. But Paragraph One of the co-operation scheme is in the broadest terms.brought to the surface bar gold to
SIR JOHN SIMON'S OUTLINE
FULL TEXT OF THE AGREEMENT.
London. July 13.
Error of Manipulatione Conference, the British
The Cause
Paris. July 13.
As a direct sequel to the Lausan- and French Governments have issued other An open invitation to the leading European Powers to deal with the future economic and "An error of manipolation" at a political problems of Europe in that moment when the engineers were the same helpful spirit as
which prevailed at Lausanne, switching over from electric to Diesel engines, is attributed as the cause of the sinking of the sub- marine Promethee, according to an announcement made to-day by the, Ministry of Marine.
The general lines of the pre- posui were announced simul
taneously in the House of Com- mons by Sir John Simon, thej Foreign Secretary, and in the French Chumber of Deputies by¦ Monsieur Herriot.
The Committee of Inquiry intol the disaster came unanimously to the conclusion that as a result of this error in manipulation, the Sir John Simon recalled that in compressed air valve suddenly his speech last night he conclud- opened, admitting water and caused by saying that, at Lausanne; ing the submarine to dive with her they had tried to get the coun conning tower open.-Reuter, tries of Europe to look
ANOTHER RELIEF
ATTEMPT
CONGRESS ADOPTS AMENDED BILL
Washington, July 13. The House of Representatives passed the amended Unemploy-| ment Relief BIM which was adopi-| off by the Senate.
forward
M. Herriot and Sir John Simon, who made simultaneous announce- monte of tho NOW
co-operation agreement, and whose interpretation
apparently differ.
WASHINGTON WORRIED
COMMENT WITHHELD
BY OFFICIALS.
Washington, July 13. and that they wanted to secure A first-class "Allied" blunder, that the whole problem of Europe is the description given by off- Л spirit of cials of the State Department was dealt with in enndour and mutual assistance. to Mr. Neville Chamberinin's Lausanne statement in the Com-
NEW SPIRIT.
FRENCH OFFICIAL
INTERPRETATION
NO INDEPENDENT WAR DEBT SCHEMES.
Paris, July 13. The immediate consc- quence of the Anglo-French co-operation plan will be that Britain could not, as she did în 1923, undertake in future to make debt payments to the United States without consulting France.
ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
Free State Cabinet, absolute au- thority to impose duties up. to an unspecified amount on апу particular description or descrip- tions of goods imported into Ireland.
The Bill will also authorise the imposition of a Stamp Duty on any documents and transaction.
"STAND FIRM."
DEEPENING SCHEME
· DETAILS the value of over £20,000.
Ottawa, July 13. In an eloquent speech during a Another ambitious project It is offically announced that debate in the Dail, Mr. de Valera, which will be started shortly the final terms of the Americo referring to the annuities, ap- will be an attempt to recover Canadian agreement with regard pealed to the Irish people to "stand the bullion aboard the great to the scheme for the deopening firm." ship Lusitanin which was sunk of the St. Lawrence River above off the south coast of Ireland Montreal have been settled. by a U-boat in 1915.
Ife added that the decision of the Free State would not be restricted
The scheme, besides providing by the choice of the personnel The salvage experts engaged on electrical energy, will create a of an Arbitration Court and was this work, of unusual
difficulty, waterway 27 feet deep, enabling irrevocable as far as the present have designed a steel tube which ocean-going steamers to reach the government was concerned, is intended to provide a passage head of the Great. Lakes.---Reuter.
way from the surface to the hulk rendering the search for valuable comparatively easy, it is believed.
ENCLOSED STAIRWAY.
BELGIAN COAL STRIKE
AGAINST THE CLOCK.
The announcement that the new British duties on imports from the Free State will be imposed on Friday has resulted in frantic to ship their goods in time to
As a result, the certainty of a Essex and is illustrated above, en- HOPES OF AN EARLYCRcape the duties,
SETTLEMENT
Brussola, July 18.
The steel tube which was made in concerted attitude is henceforward closes a stairway one hundred feet
Long lines of vehicles laden with an acquired fact, which will long, leading down to an observa-
butter, eggs, etc., and huge droves facilitate sucecas in negotiationstion chamber at the bottom, equip
of cattle and sheep and pigs are with Washington.
to be seen at the quays awaiting Thus declared M. Herriot, thei
Iped with powerful searchlights. An early settlement of the coal shipment. Additional boats have French Premier
The method will render passage strike is anticipated as the result been requisitioned to deal and
with Foreign to and fro us simple as walking of a meeting of the National Mixed the extra traffle.-Router. Minister, addressing
the Cham up and down stairs and the struc- Commission of Mines, representing ber's Foreign Affairs and Finance ture of the tube will Committees to-day.
render it both owners and workers.
This was the construction he placed on the plan which Mr. MacDonald yesterday declared in the Commons did not present the United States with ultimatum.
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The Committocs were so satis- They had been attempting inmons, coupled with M. Herriot's Red with the explanations that MacDonald's they decided that 'no debate on the last few days to formulate an and Mr. Ramsay
the Lausanne would be necessary dur- political explanations, according to expression of this new
at usually well-informed Baltimore ing the prosent sesalon spirit which was lustrated
Sun. Baumanne.
Chamber-Neuter.
What they had in mind was no part of the Lausanne agree- ment and no part of the Lau- sonne documents.
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The original Bill was vetoed by President Hoover and an attempt It was an Invitation to adopt! in now being made to force it candid and open
Despite the chorus of denials, the suspicion is strengthening that the White House is a party to a secret understanding. The anti-revisionists
of the
In connexion with the murderous attack mundo on a pigbreeder at Kow- loon City, near the Hau Wong Temple last week, a man named Yiu Kan, and suspect threo others, including a woman, have und that the Allies are attempting the first-nimed on a charge of at- been arrosted by the mainland police, through with some variationa-discussions to which they hoped browbeat Washington and de- tempted murder and the remainder
all the leading Powers would re-clare that they would rather lose for alleged conspiracy, spond. They were endeavouring the whole of the
Reuter.
.TYPHOON WARNING
According to a telegram from
the Manila Observatory, recolved this morning, a low pressure area
relations
ANGLO-FRENCH ACCORD.
debts by re-
possible for divers to stay below The meeting agreed to the prin
for hours on end, days if it should cipe of stabilising wages
conte a essary.-Reuter.
November 1st.-Reuter.
until
MANCHURIA CITY RANSACKED
CONEY ISLAND RUINED FEARS FOR JAPANESE
FIRE RAVAGES FAMOUS
offorts of a huge army of fire- fighters.
Already the damage is known to run into hundreds of thousands
|
RESIDENTS
(Special to "Telegraph"ǝ
Taitaihar, July 14. Alarm is felt regarding develop
|AMUSEMENT PARK of dollars and it is obvious that ment at Lahachon, some hundred
OVER 200 PEOPLE INJURED
New York, July 13. Flamee are sweeping through the famous Coney Island amusement park which is in peril of being completely destroyed.
the loss will be even more kilometres to the north-west of enormous before the conflagration Teilsilar, which was attacked by a is extinguished.
Large force of bandits, said to num- ber at least three thousand, yes- terday afternoon.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE.
Later.
After cutting the telephonic and The Coney Island fire is now telegraphic wires, they started Kinder control. It, is catimated
their depredations and it is assum-. that the total damage exceeds ed that they have thoroughly loot- G$2,500,000.
ed the townL,
to promote European agreement pudiation than make concessions. as to the mannor in which futuro
Anxloty is folt for the safety of hostile to the United States. RETICENCE SHOWN.
Two hundred people were Londing members of Congress
in-some thirty employees of the South difficulties should be discussed.
Despite the
Baltimore Sun's jaro similarly reticent, but the ap-
Jurod, forty of them seriously Manchurian Hallway and the three assertion, officials who have boen paront conflict betweon the atato-
enough to require their despatch Japanese realdents of Lahachan. Tho blaza is being fanned by a
to hospital.
Upon receipt of the nows of tho oxtonds from the China Sea to the He read the terms of the an Interviewed by Router refrain ments of M. Horriot and Sir John
the from comment upon the
rald, a detachment from Anglo-Simon In their interpretations of stl brooze, several casualties Four blocks have been complete-Japaneso garrison at Teitsihar was Pacific across Northern Luzon and bouncement as follows:-
French agreement, but the im- the agreement will probably cause have occurred, and the flames have ly guttod but the famous Luna hurried to Lahachane in an at- pression prevails in official quar- another storm about war debts already gutted two square blocks Park was saved from the out- itors that it is not intended to bo Reuter.
fronting the ocean, despite the break-Reuter.
tempt to disperso the raiders- Reuter
the Balintang Channel. A real typhoon may devolop Inter.
"In the declaration which forms
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