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April 6, 1928, Temperature G8.

Barometer 29 98.

Rainfall 0.28 inch.

No. 18.844.

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號七月四年三十二日九千一英

Humidity 56.

每日二十月二

DONGKONG, BATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1978

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ACROSS THE CHANNEL FOR A SHILLING

LONDON, April 6

FRANCE AND BRITAIN.

M. LOUCHEUR'S VISIT,

WILL HE SUCCEED POINCARE?

LONDON, April 6.

The possibilities of "motor cycling in the air" are a prominent topic in consequence of the flights of Mr. Barbot mentioned yesterday. It transpires There is much interest in London and Paris in that a British plane called "The Wren," built for connection with the visit of M. Loucheur to England. the Air Ministry, is undergoing trials with weights In addition to Mr. Bonar Law, M. Loucheur had. of only 205 pounds. It is twenty-three feet long conversations with Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. Stanley and five wide and has a thirty-seven foot span. It Baldwin, Sir P. Lloyd Greame and other prominent. is propelled by a seven horse-power engine and is ex-prople. It is suggested that he is taking careful pected to fly at forty-eight rafles an hour. Mr. Barbot soundings of British opinion and it is regarded as in an interview suggested that with a shillings-significant in view of the likelihood of his being worth of petrol and an acroplane costing £70 it the next French Premier in the event of the fall of should soon be possible to cross and recross the Poincare, which is regarded in some quarters as. Channel with considerably less danger than attends

a motor trip along the coast from Faris or London. imminent M. Loucheur is known to be in favour He believes tourists and travellers will soon be of Anglo-French co-operation and recently outlined launching skyward in their own machines, Hea plan of settlement an essential. feature of which asserts that his machine can take off anywhere and

was the separation of the Rhineland from Prussia land without wind at twenty-two miles an hour, though not from the Reich and the demilitarisation "The air motorist will go as he pleases with no of the area under the League of Nations or some yelping dogs and.no burst tyres at a height of say International body. 150 feet whence the countryside is always. in view.

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COTTON-SPINNING CURTAILMENT.

LIKELY TO CONTINUE

The Paris papers are kecoly discussing M. Loucheur's interview with Mr. Bonar Law in regard to which Le Matin, utters a warning that France must be ready with terms of settlement. It says the reparations total of £2,500,000,000 would. be acceptable to France provided France received a mlaumum of £1,800,000,000 and the Rhineland was completely demilitarised with an international LONDON, April 9. police force and French control of the Rhine bridge- Sir Charles Macara, in a letter to the Manches-heads. ter Guardian states that the fifty per cent curtaifTM

SATISFIED WITH HIS TRIA. ment of the production of Lancashire and American cotton-spinning is likely to be continued beyond Mr. Louchour, interviewed by Reuter before the present month.

AMERICAN TEXTILE WAGES. **

EMPLOYES OFFER

FAVOURED.

LONDON, April 6. The Fall Rivers Unions affiliated to the Textile Council voted in favour of accepting the increase of 12/1/2 per cent. in wages which the Textile Mang facturers Association offered with the object of pre venting a strike.

RED ARMY CHIEFS.

ARRESTED BY BOLSHEVISTS..

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 6.

A message from Tiflis says that the Commande. er-in-Chief, General Egoroff, the Chief of Staff Pougatcheff and several staff officers of the Red Army in the Caucasus have been arrested on a charge of conspiring against the Bolshevist author ities.

JAPANESE IN AUSTRALIA.'

BUYING UP A COLLIERY.

MELBOURNE, April 6,

The Herald's Sydney correspondent: says:a large Japanese commercial concern is negotiating for the purchase of a colliery at Newcastle. Ships will be immediately available to transport the output.

1. LONDON,. April, 6.,

proceeding home admitted that his conversations. with Mr. Bonat Law and Lord Derby, Mücher on the international situation though he emphasised their unofficial nature. He declared that his impressions of his visit were most satisfactory. He found everywhere the greatest friendship for France.

PARIS POLITICIANS PEEVED.

PARIS, April 6, Political circles supporting M. Poincare are annoyed at some of M. Loucheur's activities in England and fear that German resistance may be encouraged by the publication of a plaŭ in: London attributed to him for the reduction of repara- tions, a series of international loans, gradual but rapid evacuation of the Ruhr if payments show regularity, the conversion of the West Rhineland into a German federal state to be demilitarised under the League of Nations.

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LONDON, April 6.

The railway dispute is easier in consequence of the Companies, new offer only to reduce the bonus by lalf, consolidating the remainder, if possible, in

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CONFERENCE EXPECTED TO RESUME.

LONDON, April 6

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