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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 192

PEACE FOR THE WORLD.

BANDIT OUTRAGE.

THE CHINA MATE

BRITISH EMPIRE'S GREAT MISSION. MILLION BUILDINGS BURNED.

PROTOCOL A. BOOBY-TRAP,

More Likely To Cause War. Than to Secure Peace.

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Britain's foreign policy was the subject of another important debate in the House of Commons yesterday when the Geneva Protocol was again discussed.

LABOUR ATTACK:

(heater's Service:)

London, March 24. in the House of Commons they debate on foreign affairs. was opencil by Mr. Arthur Henderson, Home Secretary in the Labour Cabinet, who said that the Goy ernment had taken a very serious step in declaring against the policy of the Geneva Protocol and

TURN TO THE FUTURE. Any arrangement into which we might enter should be purely of a defensive character framed in the spirit of the covenant and worked in close harmony with the League. Britain's obligations and friendly adjustments should lead the nations to cultivate friendship if they once got away from the atmosphere of yester- day and turned to the attitude of the future.

FOR THE PROTOCOL AND AGAINST IT..

FOREIGN PRIEST SHOT,

(Reuter's Service)

SHANGHAI, Mar. 24.- According to Foreign reports re ceived in Shanghai, bandits on March 13, attacked the village of Yong-Cheng-Yu, In Mongolia, where there is a large Christian population.

They looted it and burat the premises of the Belgian Mission, including schools, church and orphanage.

ד י. וּ;.

ELECTION BOYCOTT.

TIAN EXTREMISTS THREAT.

PREMIER EXPLAINS CRISIS.

Impossible to Work With Zaglul Pasha.

following the dramatic events. cabled yesterday..

Egypt's extremists have decided to boycott the coming elections

TROUBLE BREWING.

(Router's Service.)

Cairo, March 24. It is understood that a meeting

tion of Parliament because the election of Zaglul, the director of a calamitous policy, ne President of the Chamber, revealed a hostile spirit in the Assembly. Therefore it was impossible for the Govern- ment to fulfil its duty to the country.

They also set on fire many houses belonging to pative Christians; shot the priest, who is believed to be a of the Nationalist Executive Com-

NEW ELECTORAL LAW. foreigner, and thoroughly pillaged mittee has decided that the Party

rshall boycott the next elections. It is understood that the the village.

(Parliament was dissolved with Government contemplates intro- dramatic suddenness, the Premier ducing a new electoral law before stopping the proceedings in the the next elections, the promulga- Chamber and reading the decree, tion of which will involve post- The dissolution was due to the ponement of the date fixed in. King's declining, to accept the yesterday's decree.

The bandits compelled the vill- agers to carry their loot for them. When they departed, the bandits left behind a sack, containing three heads and two:hands. “

FIGURES IN THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS.

CONFECTIONERY OF DISTICTION:

WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED.

'CONSIGNMENT OF

FRENCH CONFECTIONERY.

-IN THE FOLLOWING VARIETIES :-

PRALINES À la ROSE

1.10 per lb. DRAGEES CHOCOLAT · Ex.

1:30 1.30

POUPONS

PATE VERTE

1.10

1.10"

1.10

AMANDES SURFINES GOMMES FRAISES

CASSIS ABRICOTS

PAUTAN & UNDERWODE I

Mr. Arthur Henderson who

eriticised the fecernertfin turn-

try down the Genen Pictocol.

encouraging a return to the dis-

Me. Anstee Chamberfair, Scern. tary of State for Poreign Affairy, who defended the Government's artive.

An essential to such agreement credited and dangerous policy was that Germany should enter of separate limited alliances the League, taking her place in and undertakings, (Opposition the Council on a footing of cheers).

equality both in obligation and Mr. Ansten Chamberlain, otherwise. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in reply, recalled that the MacDonald Government re- jected the treaty of mutual assist ance proposed by the League of Nations on the ground that the guarantees therein were insuf- ficient to justify a State reducing, its army; and that the treaty would necessitate. an increase in the British Navy.

Mr. Chamberlain said that he feared the Labour Government had not applied the same tests to the Protocol. The ideas of M. Herriot and Mr. MacDonald with regard to security were poles asunder..

SEA POWER NEED. Mr. Chamberlain said that the Labour Government's idea was the suppression of individual pacts and regional agreements by one vast, universal scheme of international insurance, but that was never the policy of the for- eign governments, which did not mean to abandon local alliances but or the other hand regarded the Protocol as something which must be followed by special sub

sidiary agreements.

HOLLAND'S TREATIES.

The

(Reuter's Service.)

THE HAGUE, March 24: Second Chamber has. approved the treaty of amity with Turkey, also the trade treaties with Latvia, Esthonia and Canadi.

MOSCOW'S DECREE.

SINCLAIR OIL LEASE CANCELLED.

$200,000 DEPOSIT RETURNED

(Reuter's Service.)

Moscow. March 24. After seventeen hours' delibera- tion the High Court gave judgment that the Sinclair oil concession in Sakhalien was null and vold and decided that the $200,000 deposit should be returned to the com-" pany.

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EARLIER CABLES.

BUKLINGERI

LETTER TO THE KING.

Moscow, March 24. At to-day's hearing of the resignation of the Cabinet follow- Sinclair oil case, counsel for the ing Zaglul's election as President Government declared that since of the Chamber. A decree fixed THE CRY OF THE WORLD. the concessionaire's rights were Unless we got away from the violated by the Japanese occupa the new elections for May 23, the atmosphere of fear and suspiciontion of Sakhalien, the concession new Parliament reassembling on

June 1.]****** and the attitude of the armed aire, being an American citizen, camp, Europe would ultimately should have sought the assistanc be given up to a new struggle, and of his Government. ̧ the generation having to pay the penalty of an unnecesary would harshly judge the states- men who had failed to take timely .measures whereby it might have been prevented.. British influence had lost something owing to hesitation and inconsistency, but the German propesuls constitutod a new chance.

war

The British Empire, detached from Europe by the Dominions and linked to Europe by these islands, can do what no other nation on the face of the earth can do, and from east and west alike comes the ery that it is in the hands of the Empire that there shall be no more (Cheers.)

war.

A BOOBY TRAP. Mr Lloyd George criticised the Protocol, which he described

booby trap for Britain bait

THE MAN WHO IS HIT.

Head of the Sinclair oil syndicate,

He stated that the Soviet could not enforce its rights on territory cupied by Fican and therefore was not responsible for, the non- fulfilment of the contract. cellation of the

Counsel requested the can

and

Cairo, March 24. Ziwar Pasha, in a letter to King Fuad tendering his resignation, mentions, that he resigned after the elections but His Majesty charged him to form a Ministry.

He says he proposed the dissolu-

CRIME IN BENGAL,

NEW LAW THAT MUST BE PASSED.

(Reuter's Service.)

Lord Allenby, who in watching Britain's interests.

abortive

There have been attempts at 'demonstrations in several parts of the country. Cairo is very calm, but the stu dents are somewhat restive.

MURDER ARREST

Cairo, March 26, With a further arrest to-day in connection with the Sirdar's assassination, the opinion is ex. pressed that it is not unlikely that all the alleged participants will now be rounded up.

[The Sirdar of Egypt, Sir Lee Oliver Stack, G.B.E, C.M.G., was fatally injured on November 19. Two bombs were thrown at him as be was driving from the Ministry of War. Three of the four assailants escaped, when the one bomb did not explode. They fired several rounds from revolvers, hitting Sir Lee Stack, his Alde-de-Camp, Captain Camp bell of the Black Watch, the chauffeur and a policeman. The Sirdar was badly wounded in the. stomach and had to be taken to DELHI, March 24.

hospital, where he later succumb- The Viceroy, Lord Reading, hased. The attack on the Sirdar was certified the Bill as essential to made in Shariakas Relaini, a main the tranquillity of the Bengal Pre- and busy thoroughfare of Cairo. sidency and the measure will The chauffeur; despite his wounds, be presented to the Councils of drove off at full speed and brought State to-morrow with the Viceroy's the car to the Residency, which is recommendation to pass it as nearer than the Sirdaría (Sirdar's

originally framed.

FRANCE AND JAPAN.

AMBASSADOR ON GROW. ING FRIENDSHIP,

ed with arbitration. He urged the Government to take the moral The Protocol displayed a lack lead of Europe in setting up a of appreciation of the implica more general arbitration treaty tions for an Empire, such as ours for the purpose of settling inter-

ly by a vote of 72 to 42 has reject

(Delhi, March 24-The Assemb-residence).] senttered over the world and national disputes by more effec based primarily

ed the Bengal criminal law amend on sea power. tive methods than war. The whole of the terms were Mr. MacDonald, defending the

ment to the supplementary bill, framed for the special purpose of Protocol, said that what was

despite the Viceroy's recommenda "States with land forces who were essential to Europe was to try to

tion to pass it in its original form. anxious regarding their frontiers, change the military mentality of

including the three clauses which Britain, like the Dominions and the alliances

the Assembly previously deleted. us a basis for forfeiture to the Government of The bill goes to the Council of India, was unable to sign the

security into

a new habit of the Company's deposit of 200,000 State which probably will pass it Protocol because we did not think, thinking of arbitration,

Ten Roubics. it would promote security and years of the Protocol would lead

as recommended.] Defondant's counsel pointed out" disarmament. The United States thither.

that the Company had thrice asked the American Government to intervene, but in view of the absence of normal diplomatic. relations, latervention was regard-

contract

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had not made an official declara- He feared that more ill-will tion regarding the matter, but would arise from honest attempts as far as he knew the trend of to carry out different interpreta American opinion the Protocol tions of the Covenant than if the would be viewed there BS possible cause of war rather than an increwed security for peace, GERMANY'S GOOD FAITH.

Mr. Chamberlain added that the German Government was sin cerely and honestly attempting to

fl parties had been enemies for ed as impossible. We

yenys.

LUCKY STRAITS

GOVERNOR'S TERM EXTENDED

(Reuters Service.),

LONDON, March 24,

(Havas Agency.)

MARSEILLES, March 24. Interviewed here M. Claudel, French Ambassador to Tokyo, emphasized France's increasing moral influence with Japan and Јарасеве

sympathies towards France, ac evidenced by the Finally, Sinclair's counsel.

seuding to Indo-China of a mission Mr. Baldwin, replying to the asked for an adjournment pending

headed by Prince Yamagata, the debate, said that the Government the receipt of documents from was now waiting to ace what New York proving the Company's

most prominent Japanese states- possibility there might be of the efforts to get assistance from the

Indo-China's peacefulness and interested parties coming to American Government. The re-

prosperity crosted a deep im- produce a better state of affaira. gether. The Government was quest was, however, refused."

mission. The Therefore the British Govern- trying to find an agreement, but

The King has approved the expression on the ment had seriously discussed it was too early yet to say what

tension of the term of office of Sir tous resulted in the clarifying of their proposals which amounted might happen. They did not

Laurence Nunns Guillemard, Japanese opinion about Indo- to the fact that Germany was mind how inclusive a pact was..

The Government was asking The exact period of the exten-China conditions, and the reaching prepared to guarantee voluntarily. They could not say who would the Dominions to allow their re- sion has not been definitely settled of fullest accord over customs and other questions what hitherto she had only come into it. The only thing presentatives who would attend [Sir Laurence Nuns, Guillemard, duties accepted under compulsion of the clear was that however inclusive the Assembly of the League of KC.M.G.. is Gwernor of the fateresting to both. treaty, namely the status quo in the pact was, we should not Nations in the autumn to come to Straits Settlements and High Britain in sufficient time before Commissionen of the Federated the west. She was prepared to undertake any direct or mutual the conference at Geneva in order Malay States. He has held there eliminate war in both the east and guarantee beyond what was in- west as an engine whereby thecated. They did not want to to confer together and endeavour posts since 1919, and he has the Irenulation of sing an exceedingly, alteration of the treaty position extend Britain's sphere that way; STEP TO WAR

to-go-united to Geneva

able administrator Educated af could be obtained, though she was although whatever countries

In the House of Lords the Lord Charterhouse and Trially College,

Canibridge, he catered the Im

not prepared to renounce hope of might be found possible to bring chancellor expr eventually modifying parts of her into an inclusive pact, they would eastern frontier by peaceful welcome them if it means

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