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LAUSANNE, April 23-

The first meeting of the resumed peace con- ference was held this afternoon. Sir Horace Runbold, presiding, explained that the work reb maining to be done would be divided between three committees. The first would deal with the political and judicial parts of the treaty; the second with the financial; and the third with the economic. A special committee would deal with the com- mercial and fiscal regimes.

[The Feast of Bairant is a great festival of Mohammedan countries in a sense analogous to the Christian Easter and following upon the four weeks fast of the Ramadan.]

He hoped the Turkish delegation would be back in Turkey by the Feast of Bairam.

Ismet Pasha declared that Turkey had always shown a firm will to serve the peace of the world., The labours of the conference should be promptly concluded if goodwill were shown.

TROUBLE BREWING?

PARIS, April 23.

[The Temps confirms the report that the Turks have massed on the French frontier of East Cilicia several infantry battalions and artillery. The paper says that if the French flag is attacked or threatened, French conciliatoriness will change into something very different,!-- ----..

(Cilicia is an ancient province of South East 'Asia Minor. Its capital is Tarsus.}

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HOME TEA: DUTY

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IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. ·

LONDON, April 23.

PATHAN LEADER'S TERRIBLE CRIME.

TAUNTING WOMENFOLK.

(Renter's Service to the Chia Mail.)

PESHAWAK, April

A remarkable story regarding the predominant motive of the Ellis outrage has filtered through./

. It is stated that the crime was committed as a result of a vow taken by the ring-leader of a gang - wishing to avenge the humiliation inflicted on him- when some police rifles were recovered from the Bostikhel tribe. It appears that the women so taunted him as to make his life unendurable. -Therefore in conformity with Pathan custom he swore on the Koran before his mother, who had been prominent in reviling him, that he would per- form such deed as had never been heard of before.

Miss Ellis, 15 years old; was kidnapped eleven days ago by Afridi raiders who murdered her mother, wife of the district staff officer.)

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OMINOUS REMARKS.

BALANCE OF POWER IN EAST ASIA.

DUTCH NAVAL ANXIETY.

THE HAGUE, April 23. The royal commission considering the bill providing for the construction of a fleet to guarantee the neutrality of the Dutch East Indies rejects the suggestion that the legislature should suspend passing the bill pending the re-establishment of financial equilibrium in the Intlies:

The commission says. Holland cannot con- template leaving this extensive archipelago. undefended navally without abdicating from her position as a colonial power. She cannot close her eyes to the radical change in the balance of power going on in East Asia or to the problems of which peaceful solution cannot be assured for years.

The duty of providing a fleet cannot be delayed

the immediate passage of the bill.

In the House of Commons a motion for the re-and the Government should do its utmost to assure duction of the tea duty from 8d. to the pre-war level of 5d, which was supported by all the opposition. groups, was defeated by 257 votes to 179.

The supporters of the motion contended that as heer was not a necessary to the same extent as tea and was not an article of such general consumption, the reduction of the beer duty was not sufficient relief for the indirect taxpayer.

The Labour members generally favoured the complete abolition of the tea duty,

Major A. Boyd Carpenter, Minister of Labour, on behalf of the Government, contended that tea was the least onerous of all duties. He pointed out that with imperial preference the duty was actually little higher than the pre-war level. The Government could not afford to lose the £3,900,000

involved.

The duty was finally confirmed by 260 votes to 182.

During the Budget debate, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) stated that in view of the reduction last year there would be no -further relief in respect of tea and there--would be no change in sugar (Labour protests) as owing to special circumstances the consumer would not bene, fit from a reduction in the duty. He hoped, how ever, that a reduction would be possible at an carly date. The beer duty would be reduced a penny à pint and part of the reduction would be borne by the brewers. The cost of the reduction was estimat ed at thirteen millions.)

LOCK OUT THREAT,

SHIPBUILDING EMPLOYERS ULTIMATUM

4

THIRTY THOUSAND AFFECTED.

D FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.

The emission adds that the Government, before A Second Chamber discusses the bill, should submit to the States General specific pro- posals outlining the measures it considers indis- pensable for framing the country's budgets, on a sound basis and make clear that the fate of the. Cabinet depends on the adoption or rejection of its proposals.

Myr. Patyn, a member of the commission, while agreeing with the conclusions, considers that on the scure of economy the bill, after it has been passed, should not take effect before January 1, 1926, in order to permit the establishment of budgetary equilibrium.

Myr Trip, another member of the comnfission, dissents from the conclusions and urges that the adoption of the. Bil by the States General should be postponed until the financial situation has been restored..

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CONSCRIPTING BRITISH SUBJECTS.

ANGLO-FRENCH DISPUTE OVER. ·

LONDON, April 23.

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In the House of Commons, in answer questions, Mr. Ronald McNeill, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that Anglo-French agreement had been reached with regard to the. question of France's right to conscript British sub- jects resident at Tunis, rendering it unnecessary to refer the case to the permanent court of arbitration at the Hague.

[A cable message from the Hague dated Feb- ruary 7 stated: The Court of International Justice has delivered judgment in the dispute between the British and French Governments regarding the French nationality decrees in Tunis and Morocco which the Council of the League of Nations referred to it. The Court has decided against the French

LONDON, April 23. The Shipbuilding Employers' Federation has notified a lockout for April 30 against members of the boiler makers', iron, steel, shipbuilders, woodwork contention that the decrees are matters of purely ers' and plumbers' unions unless the unions pre-domestic concern.] viously intimate that they are prepared to accept

One of the, Barbary States in North Africa,

the national overtime and night shift agreement Tunis is a French regency. It has an area of concluded on March 22 between the Employers'

Federation and the Federation of Engineering and 45,000 sq miles and a population of 2,000,000,] Shipbuilding trades.

The latter Federation has called a special mee ting in London to-morrow to consider the position, About 30,000 men are directly affected.

ILLEGAL CHINESE ACTION,

STRONG BRITISH PROTEST.;

LONDON, April 23,

CHINA'S CUSTOMS SURPLUS.

QUESTION IN THE COMMONS.

LONDON, April 23.

In the House of Commons, Dr. W. A. Chapple (Liberal) asked whether the Government had received a request by Dr. Wellington Koo,, China's Foreign Minister, to the diplomatic body to release about £320,000 customs surplus for the purpose of covering arrears in pay and expenses of Chinese diplomatic missions abroad,

In the House of Commons, replying to Sir J. Hood (Conservative), Mr. Ronald McNeil; Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said the British Mr. Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Minister had strongly protested to the, Chinese Foreign Affairs, replied that he had received no in- Govenment against the illegal action of the provinformation with regard to this report except what cial authorities in Chekiang and Fukien in imposing had appeared in the press.

an ad valorem tax of 20 per cent. on Imported cigarettes in contravention of the treaties.

reply had not yet been received.

LIMITING ARMAMENTS

SOUTH AMERICAN PLANS,

SANTIAGO DE CHILE, April 23.

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SYDNEY, April 23-

A public subscription has been opened to provide a business substitute for Anderson and thus The President of Chile has invited the Pre-enable him to play in the Davis Cup matches.

Meanwhile the Association is withholding the sidents of the Argentine, Brazil and Uniguay to conter at Monte Video in September with a view to Cabic announcing Australia's withdrawal.

SYDNEY, April 24 settling differences which have arisen over the park b armament question and which there is a prospect The Tennis player Anderson has decided not to will not be solved by the pan-American Confer accept the subscriptions on the ground that the question of expense is a matter for the Lawn

The Presidents of Brazil and Uruguay are re-Tennis Association to deal with. ported to have accepted: The President of the Argentine has accepted in principle:

[Monte Video is the Capital of Uruguay Situated on the Plata estuary it has a population of 270,000.)

: An earlier cable reported that owing to the in- ability of Patterson, Anderson and O'Hara Wood to make the journey, it had been finally decided that Australia should not be represented in the Davis Cun contest.

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