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HONGKONG, THUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1924. 日四初月五子甲三士愛海中

EXPERTS' REPORT.

GERMANY'S POSITION REAFFIRMED.

FOREIGN POLICY STATED.

•Reuter's Scruter molt b

BER, June 4

Herr Marx made a statement of the Govern thent's foreign policy in the Reichstag. He declared intended to continue the preliminary work of carrying out the experts report in conformity with his previous-announcement that Germany was ready to co-operate with the experts plans as offer- ing a quick solution of the reparations problem.

The Government was prepared to translate the report into reality but the measpres they were preparing would only be enforced if it was clearly shown that the other parties would accept the report as indivisible and, unchangeable.t

{An earlier cable stated that Herr Marx's efforts to reach an agreement with the Nationalists, to form a big coalition have falled owing to the latter demanding alle, resignation of Herr Stresemann and refusing to guarantee the continuity of the foreign policy J.

FRENCH POLITICS.

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PARIS, June 4. M. Painlove have been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies by 291 votes.

General Maginot polled 209 and the Communist M. Marty, 27

"

IRELAND'S PROBLEM.

DETERMINING THE BOUNDARY,"

COMMISSION APPOINTED.

(Reuter's Service. }

LONDON, June 4

In the House of Commons, making a statement about the Irishnegotiations, Mr. Runsay MacDonald intimated that the Government had secured a chairman for the Boundary Cominission, He would announce the name to-morrow.

The Govemment had also decided to ask the judicial committee to advise them regarding the legal and constitutional powers to constituto the Commission.

The committee would include the Chief Justice of Australia and he hoped also a member of the Canadian bench.⠀

There was every reason to believe the judicial committee' would be able to sit and resolva. the issues in July:

The Government had not abandoned hope that › the two Irish Governments might reach an agreed settlement before the Commission was constituted,: though even in that event the Commission would he necessary to give formal effect to any agree.

ment.

RUMOUR'S CHOICE.

$

LATER.

The conciliatory utterances of Mr. Cosgrave, Premier of the Irish Free State, and Sir James Craig Premier of Northern Ireland, had encouraged these hopes. Mr. MacDonald said that at a meeting with the two Irish leaders on Sunday he had asked them to consider certain proposals. He had since M. Paul Painleve, statesman and scientist, is submitted them in the form of a letter. He hoped Socialist Republican in politics. He was appointed Irish statesmanship would enable a solution to be Minister of Instruction and Inventions affecting. national defence to the Briand Cabinet (October reached (Cheers.). Reuter 1915) and succeeded General Gallieni as Mluister of War. He was member of the War Committee, Prime Minister, Minister of War (September

It is stated unofficially in the House of December 1917); and President of the Parliamentary Commons Lobby that Sir James Rose Innes, Chief Aviation Group in 1918. As Minister of War he Justice of South Africa, will be Chairman of the was accused by General Nivelle's) supporters of Irish Boundary Commission. having interfered with the French offensive in - April 1917, which ended in a breakdown, but made a successful defence. He was appointed. Advisory Director General to Chinese Government Railways, ia 1920. M. Briand is, the author of numerous scientific works and a Life of Nurse Cavell. He is Chevaller of the Legion of Honour and a Member of the Institute.

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MILLERAND STANDS PAT.

!....

PARIS, June 4t

ANOTHER STRIKE?

NDERGROUND RAILWAYS THREATENED..

COMPLICATED SITUATION.

LONDON, June 4.12 The shopmen, and electricians of the London According to the Matin, M. Millerand does Underground Railways and the Great Western! not dream of resigning. If the politicians whom system have decided to strike at midnight owing to the country has called to office decline it, M.wages and working conditions. Millerand will call someone else to form a Minis- The strike is disavowed by the National Unjon try. If this Ministry is overthrown it will ope of Railwaymen whose members will remain at after an historic debate on the queation of the work. President's right to appoint a Cabinet, Thereafter M. Millerand will take final decisions.

WEMBLEY'S VISITORS.

LONDON, June 4.

Count Azo, brother of the Emperor of Japan, and Countess Azo, visited Wembley this morning. They toured the Austrailan and Canadian Pavilions and the Palace of Arts.

The Count was very interested in the Canadian National Railways exhibit where he contrasted Canada's mountains with Japan's.

GERMANY REBUFFED.

(Reuter's American Service.)

WASHINGTON, June 5. The Senate has rejected a proposal to lend Germany $25,000,000 to purchase foodstuffs here!

HOME CRICKET.

SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR.

LONDON, June 4, At Sheffield, in the match between Yorkshire and the South Africans, rain interfered with the first day's play. A small" crowd

This will prevent general stoppage, but the situation is complicated by the action of the Locomo

ve Society in sending a strong letter to the railway companies giving a time limit for the satisfaction of a number of demands In, connection with anomalles arising out of the last strike settlement and threaten- ing drasticaction if these demands are not conceded.

JUST AS WELL

LONDON Jule 4. Russian quarters in London discredit the report of M. Trotsky's speech at Podolskio view of the fact that Trotsky has not left Moscow, re- cently.

According to a telegram from Warsaw M. Trotsky, in a speech at Podolak, declared, that the Soviet needed the Straits and Constantinople. Therefore Bessarabia was vital to them as the first step towards, Constantinople. If the Rumanians or Poles tried to har the way, the Soviet would fight them.]

PARLIAMENT OF CHILDREN.

DEBATE IN PRESENCE OF. REAL CABINET.

Agarious ceremony has just

was present. The weather was taken place at Prague, where, dull when stumps were pitched beneath the eye of President

SPORTER'S VIGI

Motrie RAILWAYMAN PORT

AMUSING STORY: IC

Mr. Henry Chappell, the Bath railway porter post, author of "The Day, had many good stories to tell when be addressed the Bath Rotar- iants" Họi han spent thirty-thro

and the wicket sticky, Yorkshire Masaryk and Ministers of State, the G.W.R.. scored 187 for 5 wickets (Oldroyd what might be described as almost Obo: of his bost stories was that of 67 and Rhodes 52)-Reuter.

SKELETON IM AN ATTIC. CHILD'S REMAINS IN BRASS

STUDDED BOX..

WRAPPED IN SILK VEIL

an official Parliament of Children a nervous parcele poster's midnight

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sat in. the local Chamber of vigil with a coffin which lay in his Deputies,

room awaiting despatch by a morn- The children of all the schools train. Before starting his lonely in Czecho-Slovakia, to the number witch a number of his fellow-wort of 250,000, had says the Fetite joined him in a meal, and in- Journal of Paris, been instructed coffin, the conversation, men en pired possibly by the presence vî to elect representatives to sit atpazinone, spirit-apping, and other a "Children's Parliamentary Ses-penny, mifestations, so that sion, under the auspices of the when the meal was ended the parcels, While workmen were engaged Government. Af parter was in a state to imagine in converting a house in Cornwall-

A hundred youthful "members bosta peecing round, every bulky Hardens, Kensington, into dats, of Parliament were accordingly parcel in the office. they found in an attic the skeleton elected," and, in thepre. During his temporary absenes of a female child in a box on sence of M. Masaryk and other from the room a fowl escaped from a which were the Initials J.F.N.', in authorities, a sitting took place, rate, and, in s spirit of mischiet brass nails.

during which various questions his hates, placed it inside, the empty At the Inquest at Hammersmith, were discussed. Tap, tap, tap, came from the

coffin and again secured the lid. Mrs Jane Pye said she had been Most of these were matters cos; and Who's there?" Whis employed at the house for 15 years, which specially concerned school-pered the terrified porter. Anothes The tonauts were the Misses boys and girls, but the "Children's series of taps, accompanied by rus Norton, two elderly ladies, who Parliament also entered the g and ending in a thud, froze the Coroner: Did they keep many manding from all their elders, the poor deaded out of the door political domain and passed a vote blood in his reine, and with a cr Witness said there were four, whose representatives they had and raced up the platform, shunting The Initials on the box correspond with them in the gallery of the it's alive! It's live !" and collap; ed with those of one of the should use every attempt to pre

Parliament House, that they sed on a seat, brothers who Hed some years ago.

left in November last.

ervants

The next morning the undertaker's Dr. E. F. Travers sold that the serve the peace of the Corian toon, who arrived for the collin, were skeleton had been to the box for The children representatives persuaded to remove the lid. There abour a fear. It was wrapped in a ranged from 12 to 10, and some was not util then that the parcels was a handful of feathers inside, and woman's veil of flue silk paint or made exceedingly godd impromptu poruse understood the joke that had

An open verdict was recorded, speeches,

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