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BONDS OF EMPIRE-

LABOUR'S ARDENT LOYALTY.

MR. THOMAS ELOQUENT. -

PRESERVING THE CONSTITUTION.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, January 28.

An Anzac luncheon was given on Australia Day in the Hotel Cecil.. The Prince of Wales was among the guests. Sir Joseph Cook, the High Com- missioner presid- ed. Mr. Thomas, pre- sent Secretary of Colonies and the. Duke of Devonshire, former Secretary of Colonies, were also present.

A cablegram was read from Mr. Page, acting Prime Minis ter of Australia, say- ing that Australia

desired 10 continue

to stand shoulder, to shoulder with the sister Dominions and the Motherland to preserve Intact the Empire whose existence offered the best hope. for the future of the world.

that Australia Sir Joseph Cook declared reaffirmed her loyally to the Crowa and was deter- mined to continue to be a buttress of the Empire, never a burden thereon.

The Prince of Wales paid a tribute to the services rendered to the Empire by Mr. Massey Prime Minister of New Zealand and the straight statesmanship of Mr. Bruce.

The Prince said he could not see too much of the Empire and he hoped this year to see, the falfilment of his task of seeing all the Dominions when he sailed to South Africa on May 1,'' He was" Looking forward to his visit to South Africa as much as to any he had made,

"ANOTHER SHELL-SHOCK PATIENT."

Mr. Thomas related that when he first visited the Colonial Office on Tuesday with all the humility and modesty characterising his Party, the porter asked whom he wanted to see. Mr. Thomas said he was the Colonial Secretary. The porter med to another porter and said: Another shell-shock patient!" (Loud laughter.)'

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RUSSIAN ARMY UNREST.

LENIN'S DEATH SEQUEL.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

WARSAW, January 28.

- It is reported from Moscow that, there is great unrest in the army, partly in consequence of the death of Lenin,"

The barracks have become the scene of political disputation. Lack of discipline is manifest.

It is added that the central authorities are alarmed and are sending suspected battalions to the furthermost provinces of Siberia. The garrison at Moscow has been reinforced by troops from the Western frontiers.

BRITAIN'S MIGHT,

TRINCOMALEE, January 28.

A feature of the visit of the British cruiser squadron which arrived during the week-end has been the daily crowds of all races. Hundreds have been flocking in froin districts over hundred miles distant.

[This refers to the British cruiser squadron now touring the world. Trincomalee, is a naval station on the North-East coast of Ceylon. The population of the district is over 29,000.

HARDER FIGHT.

RAILWAYMEN STILL DETERMINED.

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SECRETARY'S STATEMENT.

LONDON, January 28, Negotiations not having hitherto produced any tangible results, the Secretary of the Locomotive Men's Union has declared that his executive are considering intensifying the fight.

- ICE HOCKEY WINS.

CHAMONIX, January 28. In the Olympic ice hockey contest the United States beat Belgium 10-0, and Sweden beat Switzer land 90,

LATER. Canada defeated Czecho-Slovakia 30-0.

GETTING TOGETHER.

ITALY AND JUGO-SLAVIA.

ROME, January 28. According to the newspapers, the Italo-Jugo- Slavian treaty of friendship stipulates reciprocal neutrality in case of war. Also at Jugo-Slavia's request it provides for co-operation in economic and military defence, thereby giving a special character to Italo-Jugo Slav relations in all the political problems of Central Europe and the Balkans.

BOMBAY MILL STRIKE, -

Mr. Thomas said he was prouder of the Empire than ever. A sort of, bloodless revolution had occurred without any disturbance. Many people were apprehensive about the Labour Government,

BOMBAY, January 28. but the Prince of Wales and the King were least

The strike in the Standard mills, due to not apprehensive because they knew that patriotism, paying the workers a bonus, has extended to 32 love of Empire and service to duty were not of the 85 mills in Bombay which have closed down, monopoly of class or creed; because they recogais- ed that there were men of humble birth denied Varsity education whose sense of duty and patriot- ism was equal to that of any oibertype of man; and because they were not unmindful that during the war the Empire was preserved by the man from the slum as well as the man from the palace recognis- ing a common duty.

SPIRIT OF LOYALTY.

If in the hour of trial all sections could unite to defend the right all sections could be trusted to do the right thing at any given moment. Therefore the great change in the Government merely meant that the old country and the old, Empire would continue.

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making idle 60,000 operatives. It is expected that all the mills will cease work to-morrow,

OUR FOREIGN POLICY.

AWKWARD PROBLEMS AHEAD.

THE NEED FOR TACT.

LONDON, January 28. Reuter learns that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was interviewed by the Quotidien prior to assuming office as Premier. He has given no interviews to the press since he assumed office. This does not imply that the general lines of his policy differ from those foreshadowed in the interview, but When he succeeded to office, raid Mr. Thomas, obviously their development must be a question of the Duke of Devonshire unhesitatingly placed all time. his experience at his disposal. . That was character- The questions of Russia, Anglo-French relat- istic of the spirit which made them proud of their country and feel that it would survive all changes and difficulties. He hoped his successors would be able to say that they, the pioneers, did nothing to weaken the great Empire of which all were proud. British constitution, so broad and democra- ic that it enabled an engine cleaner yesterday to be a Minister to-day, must be preserved and Empire maintained. (Loud cheers.)

The Duke of Devonshire said that if he and his colleagues criticised it would only be because all were anxious to arrive at the best possible solution, They were prepared to use every possible effort for the further development and prosperity of the Empire.

NAVAL OIL LEASES.

PROBING ALLEGED.

SCANDAL

DENEY. ASKED TO RESIGN.

(Reuter's American Service.).

WASHINGTON, January 28.

lons, reparations, etc., must be developed very carefully and in the most liberal spirit, always with view to the Govemment's policy of restoring Europe and establishing once more universal co-operation.

SEPARATIST MOVEMENT.

PARIS, January, 28.

It is understood that the Government has pro- posed to Britain that the question of the main- tenance of order in the Palatinate and the security.. of the French troops there be submitted to the Con- lerence of Ambassadors.

The Temps admits that the Separatist move- ments have all been, a fiasco and adds that the. movement in the Palatinate has apparently had to be abandoned.

seek the Senate's action to remove the present head of the Navy Department.

RESIGNI

INCOME TAX DOWN

WASHINGTON, January 28, The Committee of the House of WASHINGTON, January 29. The Democratic leader Senator Representatives has voted a 25 per Robinson moved a resolution cent reduction in the tax on expressing the Senate's view that unearned income to $20,000, President Coolidge should request lacomes under. $5,000 will be the resignation of Mr. Denby. He classified for purposes of reduc also proposed that the President tion as with earned incomes. In the House of Representatives demand the resignations of other the appropriations committee reNavy Department officials and ported on a bill providing Presl officers whose relations with the Teases indicate dent Coolidge with a fund of of reservo $100,000 to cover the legal costs of malfeasance of office. The motion any prosecutions necessary in the went over under the rules of the Teapot Dome CARO,

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SHANKTOWN, January 28.

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· Senator Walsh, declared that double explosion in a lodging Further search had been abandoned unless the resignation of Mr., house believed, to have been due owing to the rapid rise of water. Denby were in the hands of the to the Ignition of dynamite stored The majority of the victims were President by, sundown, by would, in a collar by a wood clean te marriedig

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