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PARIS, May, 24

M. Poincare and the Cabinet have resigned in

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RUSSIAN SITUATION BRIGHTER.

SOVIET'S CONCILIATORY NOTE.

(Reuters Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, May 24. Reuter learns that the general Anglo-Russian consequence of the situation is considered much brighter and that the Senate's decision prospects of a rupture are now believed to be re-

it is not motė), competent to try

LATER. Marcel Cachin' "and" the other French Cominunists arrest ed in the Ruhrat the time of the French 'occupation.

M. Millerand, the President, has de- clined to accept the resignation.

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"Marcel Cachin, Communist member of the Chamber of Deputies, was rested on January. 19 after his Par liamentary privilege had been annulled Early this month he was provisionally released with ten other arrested Communists.]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS,

LATER.

The Senate, giving its decision, in the case of Deputy Cachin and thirty-two other Communists, which resulted in the Ministerial crisis, was sitting as a High Court.

The accused were charged with revolutionary activities at the time of the French occupation of the Ruhr in January. The German Deputy Hollein was also accused in respect of speeches delivered in Paris in March."

After the public prosecutor had read the in-

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by M. Douhe.gue) discussed the inatter behind closed doors for three and a half hours, after which it de- clared by a majority of thirty votes that it was incompetent to try the cases.

M. Poincare thereupoy called the Cabinet Council and decided to go to the Elysee and resign on the ground that the Senate's vote indicated non-confidence: in. the Cabinet, but M, Millorand refused to accept his resignation,

HOW THE CRISIS AROSE.

While official comment on the Russian Nole je impossible owing to the fact that the Cabinet, to which Lord Curzon is understood to have told Mr. Krassin he must submit it, has not yet been properly constituted.

Well-informed circles consider the Note Superficially it appears unusually conciliatory.

very sailsfactory, but closer examination does not seem to give real satisfaction to the British demands...

OUR AMBASSADOR ILL

SEVERE EYE TROUBLE.

WASHINGTON, May 24.

Sir Auckland. Geddes, the British Ambassador, is confined, in

a dark room under medical orders. He is suffering from severe eya, trouble.

WASHINGTON, May 24.

The oculist says that Sir Auckland Goddes will be laid up for several weeks.

KRUPPS FEEL THE PINCH

"FORMER MANAGER WANTED AGAIN.

BERLIN, May 24

The Krupp directorate has requested the Government to release Herr Wiedfeldt, the Ambassador to the United States as a diplomat to PARIS, May 25.emble his resumption of his former post of general Ministerial crisis was preceded by a rather anager of Krupps in consequence of the difficulties. colourless debate in the Chamber of Deputies on caused by the recent arrests and sentences of Krupp the subject of the Ruhr, in which M. Poincare directors in the Ruhr affirmed his resolve not to consent to the German) desire for a three years' moratorium. He referred to the atisfactory increasing supplies of coal and coke from the Ruhr and said that France could afford to await the first move by Germany. France would not admit any modification of the 1921, scheme of payments,

CABINET RESHUFFLE."

PRINCIPAL MINISTERS REMAIN.

OUTCASTS STILL OUTCASTS.

LONDON, May 24

It is learned that all the principal present ministers have accepted office in the new Cabinet, including the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Derby, Viscount Cave, Sir Montagu Barlow, Sir, Samyel Hoare, Mr. W. Bridgeman, and Mr. L. C. M.S Amery.

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EMPIRE DAY.

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OVERSEAS WREATH.

LONDON, May 24

A feature of the Empire Day celebrations was the laying of wreaths of the loveliest flowers at the Cenotaph on the behalf of the Dominions and the Colonies. The ceremony took place in the presence of a large crowd.

Some 800,000 school children in Loadon alore fistened to their Majesties gramophone, messages." They paraded and saluted the flag. They then had a holiday.

HOME CRICKET.

WEST INDIES MATCH,

[Herr Krupp von Bohlen, head of Krupps, was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment, and three other Krupp directors were given heavy terms in connection with the disturbances of March 30.]

PARIS MAY DAY RIOT..

JAPANESE SENTENCED,

PARIS, May 24.. The Criminal Court has passed sentence of three months' imprisonment and subsequent -ide- portation on a Japanese journalist named Sakej Hayashi for assaulting the police and using a false passport.

The man was arrested on Máy 1 following a Communist meeting at Saiat Touen.

LEAGUE OPIUM WORK.

SIAMESE PRINCE'S PART.

GENEVA, May 24.

The Opium Commission of the League elected M. Leon Bourgeois (France) President, and Prince Charoom (Siam) Vice-President.

It was decided to invite the United States delegation to participate in the Commission's work.

EGYPT GOING DRIER?

WOMEN'S PETITION.

CAIRO, May 24,

It is reported that the American Minister has handed the premier a petition signed by 6,000 Egyptian women urging the introduction of the prohibition and that the Premier has promised to. submit the matter to Parliaments

SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS.

AUSTRALIAN TOUR IMPOSSIBLE.

CAPETOWN, May 24. The South African Cricket Association has regretfully. declined the invitation of the South African team to visit Australia prior to its English tour on the ground that the trip is impracilcable.

EGYPTIAN PLAGUE SCARE

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CAIRO, May 24

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