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'TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1925.

YES OR NO?

FRANCE AWAITS M. BRIAND'S REPLY.

PREMIERSHIP IN BALANCE,

Extremists Again

Approach

Painleve.

Will M. Brinud be France's next Premier in succession to M. Herriot that is still the topic of the hour in the world of politics.

AWAITING ANSWER.

(Reuter's Service.) |

Pufis, April 19. M. Brand saw M. Doumorgne it

FOOTBALL,

THE CHINA MAIL.

SURREYS DRAW WITH "THE REST."":

The exhibition game between the East Surreys (League Winners) and a team chosen from "the Rest" drew a large crowd to the Club Around yesterday afternoon, the result being a goalless draw.

The teams were as under:- East Surreys.-Douglas; Cooper and Jordan; Petter, Mitchell and Bristowe Charlesworth, Eston, Humberstone, Butler, and Mackle worth.

Presentiste Mr. Edoyd, George not only in bengeois and Celtic descont, hut in temperament and appeur-

The Rest.-Lau Hing-cheung; ance; and it is certain: that the two Wynne and Bishop; Leung Yuk- are alike in disposition that they tong, J. Stewart and Watson; worked together with mutual com- Harris, Johnstone, Forsyth, Li prehension and perfect harmony. Wai-tong, and Chan Kwong-iu.

Referee, Mr. Spencer; Lines He told the Dies tubby is rẻ. M, Psiukere was in M. Briand turning to the Elysee, curly in The Giveramena till December, 1916. men, Messrs. Marfett and Smyth. evening when he will give his he was War Minister in M. Ribot' off for the Surreys and opened the Miss Dorothy Holyoak kicked answer regarding the Premiership, Grumet ind. Prine Minister.

from September November, game, which was fast and interest- ACCEPTANCE CONDITIONAL, 1917. He was well acquainted ing throughout.

Of the two teams, the Surreys Landon, April 133, There is still no silition to the French crisis.

A. Briansabeephatice, Temtius dependentzon, the socialist Congress

Fesmorrow.

TALK MITE PRESIDENT;

Wars, Mail 1833. M. Briand conversed with the 1Presideût for De minkes

in the

He returns to the Elysée tostnuUES

Intesi şey olequinl.

MONEY TO LIVE.

"LABOUR PARTY'S NEW SHIBBOLETH.

CIVILISATION'S NEEDS.

Move Denounced By Ramsay MacDonald,

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald asserted, at the, annual Conference of the 1.1.P., that if a Bill were introduced into the House of Commons to determine the living wage, based on the needs of civilised.existence, it would not last half an hour.

COMMISSION APPOINTED,

"(Router's Service.)

with gif facts about the War and fox | were,more aggressive and showed said that if a Bill on these lines recently fluttered the dovecotes of }

was,

Later, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald

were introduced into the House of Commons it would not last half an hour.

The Sene 1917 billed the highest better combination. The shoot places in the Government, being

of the soldiers ing intimately concerned with all the

however, erratic, Eaton in [changes in the French command particular failing with some kicks Replying to critics, he said that

which occurred during the war and

close range. Jordan and it was insufficient to express particularly with those that brought Bristowe played a brilliant game sound idents. They had got to Boeke gud Prtnite to the head of and repeatedly destroyed some help provide a sound method of

Tairs.

good movements of the opposing applying those principles,

EARLIER CABLES...

LONDON, April 13..

at

side. Whistles for offside were

frequent during the game. Bristowe, netted, the ball in the early part from close in, but Es-on was declared offside, the decision being received with rousing cheers

In an interview last night evening to pur" the M. Briand informed journalists by the spectators

that he was studying the financial economic situation

Som Radical and Radical Social and

very

In deputien aux approuded closely and in the morning hopes 37. Patu orging hot to peron.to be able to give M. Douergue Biler his hial and to try to forma definite answer when they meet

again at the Elysee at noon.

a portada rat.

Was

Stewart, Li Wai-tong and Chan Rest team and put in hard work. Kwong-lu, were the pick of the The Surreys' goalkeeper had a lot to do in keeping some hot shots away At the other end do, and his brilliant defence saved Hing-cheung had more work 10 his side from being beaten.

Lay

M. Briand considers it is impossible to form 4 Ministry with out his being assured of rong durable collaboration, and

Toward the end of the game, affed that if he came into power the Surreys were all on he would insist on

their- an urgent ratification of the convention opponents' goal time after time, with the Banque de France and and they strained very nerve to until the final whist.e the necessly for clearing up the financial situation.

and

score sounded.

116 was reported yesterday that M. Pished junk" metased Premier saying that he wason viewed in any Ministry farmed by him would bly enter the wie ditinalties which bud catised the fall of M. Herriot. He el pinion has the new Proraier should be a member of the Brit, but someone who was Jess

He would follow M. Herriot's directly involved in the recent foreign policy, based political battles that himself.

(arbitration, security

dis Presidens opmerge them, sum armament. He would maintain inowed"M. Broph, whö intimate an attitude in favour of an that he would give his muswer Embassy, at the Vatican without after the conferere of Socialists making it a question of confidence. 01 Tursdur

If, as stated yesterday, “M. Arisite Briand takes office as Prime Minis- ter it will be for the eighth time since he took to, politics in 1982 as one of the lulers of the French Socialist Party, The commences ment a hostilities in dar Great War. -found-hit-Minister of Justice 3 31. Viviani's Cabineng and when he formed his own Government, abortly afterword the war was in an extremely critical state. Just as that Premiership was confronted with the problems of War, so had his last Ministry to handle the manifold questions which had arisen out of the peace and in his conduct which occurred in Shanghai cnted Mrs. Luard with a bouquet of Thursday, when Yang Tsi-song roses in a silver holder, tied with'

SHANGHAI MURDER

FURIEN NAVY CHIEF

KILLED.

By Courtesy of Daily Bulletin).

Presiding at the annual con- ference of the Independent Labour Party, which was opened in Gloucester on Sunday, and attended by, Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donal and practically all the prominent members of the Party, Mr. Clifford Allen urged that the national living wage dictated Labour should unitedly demand by the needs of civilised existence and not depending upon the varying fortunes of each indus.

|

try. He declared, that the amount of such wage should "either be so inhuman as to put' the rich with their lives of luxury Gloucester, April 13. to shame for ever, or so correct On re-assembling, the annual us to ring the death-knell of the Conference of the Independent wasteful profit-making system." Labour Party passed a resolution Industry and the banking system

wage based on the needs of then control the import of food in favour of a national commis-must be transferred to public sion to determine what is a living ownership, and the nation must

civilised existence."

ard raw materials. It may be recalled that Mrs. Philip Snowden

the Labour Party by telling Canadian audiences that Mr. MacDonald was the worst politi- val lender there had ever been, She subsequently explained that “ the reason for his badness was that he attempted to hold two high offices of State at one time, [with the result that his bealth and his nerves went to pieces. This was undoubtedly true, but the fact that the wife of one of his colleagues should have passed such strictures upon her Leader shows that the Labour Party is by no means the happy family lieve. It is an open secret that which they would like us to be Mr. MacDonald did not see eye to eye with his Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Prime Minister phde his friends among the more. recent recruits to the Party like Lord Thomson and Lord Arnold, and his other colleagues often found it hard to get a word with him. Perhaps the true explana- tion of this was that Mr. Mac- Donald attempted an impossible feat and was a tired man after the first fortnight of office: Fatigue makes a man petulant Mr. Mac- and easily bored. Donald's colleagues were very long-suffering with their Leader pared to forget the blunders of and would have been quite pre-

last autumn, but it looks as if Mrs. Snowden's indiscretion com- bined with outspoken criticism at the annual LLP. Conference at Gloucester muy make a perman- ent breach between him and a powerful section of his party.]

P

GOOD WORK,

KIDNAPPERS' GANG

.BROKEN UP.

(Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)

hapat

PRESENTATION. After, the game Mrs.. Luard

SHANGHAI, April 12 presented the cup and medals. Mr. McCubbin, before asking The China Press reports that the Mrs: Luard to present the trophies activities of a gang of kidnappers, said that the East Surreys had who daring a period of years are football was at all times good.children; are believed to have been worthily won the league. Their alleged to have stolen hundreds of He hoped that they would beseenbroken up through a raid made by at football again next year. He the Chinese constabulary on what congratulated: them On being is believed to have been the gang's League champions and Southheadquarters in a village located China on being the runners up. on Tsunming Island.

Mr. McCubbin thanked Mrs. Luard for attending that afternoon to give away the cup and medals. Mrs. Luard then handed the Hongkong Daily Press Cup to Eight children,, believed to be QMS. Charlesworth, captain of victims of the kidnappers, have the East Surreys team, medals been released. to the East Surreys senior junior teams and runners-up

Shanghai, April 12. Fullwing close upon the murder of Tan Hapsing, ex-Tuchun of Kwanger The Thim. Fross" remedals to the South China team.. ports a savond political assassina

Miss Charlesworth then presen-

cheers were given for Mrs. Luard.

of these he showed himself as a commander of the First Wised the Club colours, after which three of wisdour, possessing fact al wisdom in no stimil nivasure. "Ti was due in part to the belief that Briand had fallen too great a victita

Brigade" of Land Forces of the Fukien Navy, and an intimate of i Tri-fu, was shot on board the the Stoumer Singshing just s

Fechow.

to the clams of the Weblessel was leaving Shanghai for enedamer who resented the in- forestan of Great Britain in the segotiations then prxeeding. thatcense's hodyguard is being held the downfall at hie Ministry was brongin bail. Briand is said the Chinese Daval authorities..

CHINA'S CUSTOMS.

REPORTED GOLD FRANG AGREEMENT.

(Courtesy of the Deily Bulletin)

Peking. April' 12. The Waichinapu issued to-night copics-of-the-letters-exchanged. between the Foreign Minister and the French Minister.

A

One of the members of the

Yang Tri-k-ong" hud proceeded to Slangbus from Foochow Inst month in order to go to Rangehow to at tend the relebration of Sun Chuan- fang's birthday.

DR. SCHURMAN

PAREWELL TO CHIEF EN ECUTIVE.

By Candlery of Daily Bulletin).

Peking. April 12.

The former, which is dated April R. draws attention to the decision of the Washington Con-Dr. Jah Selum but a fare-4. ference to hold a special Customs weit interview today with Tuan Conference in China. It claims aljni, vjo entortaled him at my that the payment of the French | informal rito. share of the Boxer Indemnity in Dr. Schauma, who will be the

RIFLE 'MEETING.

VOLUNTEERS' ALL-COMERS

SHOOT,

Yesterday, the last day of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps' rifle meeting, was favoured with good weather at the Kowloon City rango.

The all-comers competition re sulted as follows, out of a record entry of 144, more than half of whom belong to the Surrey Regi

ment

200 500 600 Yds. Yds. Yds

1. Major J F

Drake (Surreys) 33-31-31-95 2. N. L Railion

27 33 91

(H. V. D C) 32 30 31 93 3 Marine Baker

(H.M.S. Tamar) 31

Car- Marine rington (Stone- cutters Kange Staff)... 31. 20 30 40 Range Prizes-200 yards, Ldg.

·

Revolvers.

In the open revolver competi lion, Marine Baker had another success, scoring a possible, all shots in the centre of the ball. The results were:-

gold francs and the summoning guest of lot of the American Smn. C Griggs (H.M.S. Ambrose); of this conference are totally dif-Assertation at a ball to be held 500 yards, Cpl. Green (H. M. S. ferent actions, and hopes that to-mw night, is proceeding Ambrose); 600 yards, L/Cpl.

Meaker (E. Surreys). the Preach Government will South by train on Wednesday agree to the ratification of the morning!) Washington Agreement as soon At Pukow, Dr. Schurman will as possible an as to permit of the he met by Admin McVey, and be ianeviate summoning of a will avd to Shanghai on the special Customs Conference. flagship Isobel, soiling for America The French Minister. in reply, ou humid the Presitiont Jackson en dated the following day, does not mention the gold frane, but in- form the Chinese Government the French Government is viller to hasten by all means the ratiation of the Washington Agremont and the summoning of a Curlems Conference.

REPORTED AGREEMENT.

Later. The Fronch and Chinese authorities still refuse to confirm

or deny the reported gold franc agreement..

April 19.

On Dr, Schuman's departure from Peking. Mr. Mayer will act

Charge d'Affaires,

MARINE MISHAPS.

(Reuter's Service.)

Port Said. April 13.

The s.. Canton has arrived here

In chew of the former denials, unassisted. Her stem is bent to

I. Marine Baker (Tamar.) 2Sgt. Tugweil (Stonecutters

Range Staff.).

3. Sgt. Carpenter (H.K. Police.) There were very few entries for the Corps revolver competition, which was won by Sapper E. R, Dovey (Engineer Company) with score of 29 out of a possible 30.

DAMAGE TO RHESUS. (Reuter's Service.)

PORT SAID: April 13, -

the minion generally prevailsport from forecastle head-to The Rhega," fi asharcia: that indicates that a settle forefect. Temporary repairs are thirty feet of water; she is holed Inert has been reached.

being effected by means of co- on the port side above her bliga Curtain circles also hold the {ment boxes.

boxes. The soya beans to kesis, horizontally-about-twelve- Opinion that the Chinese chose the bags in oumber one hold are feet by one. The englue-room is holiday season for the signature being discharged in order to full of water, and it is feared she of the agreement in order that the examine the forward bulkhead is making a little le number six news should leak out gradually. There is no damage to her cargo hold Temporary repairs are bes and thus lessen the agitation and undue detention is not anti-Ing effected in the hope of bring

cipated

log her into Part Sild. (against the agreement.

I

Four mea were arrested on: charges of kidnapping after they had vainly tried to beat of the constabulary by firing.

MAY DAY.

JAPAN SANCTIONS PROCESSIONS.

(By Courtesy of Daily Bulletin).

TOKYO, April 12.

The police have sanctioned a May Day procession of about 30,000 conditionally that the paraders shall not carry flags, banners or sticks, and that no revolutionary songs be sung.

Korean and other colonial work meu are prohibited from part!- cipating.

TUPAN OF HONAN.

(Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)

- PEKING, April 12.

It is understood that the Govern- ment contemplates appointing Sun Yueh Tupan of Honan and Yo Wei-chun Civil Governor.

The Government are reported to have wired to Feng Yu-bslang asking his opinion regarding these appointments.

OBITUARY.

BARON HIRATA.

RAILWAY TROUBLE,

JAPANESE GUARDSMEN

KILLED,

BANDITS ATTACK.

(Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)

PEKING, April 11.

A report has reached the Japanese Legation to the effect that on the 4th inst, a small squad the South Manchuria of Japanese soldiers belonging to Railway guard, while making their rounds Eetween Tayushu, and Tssichia were attacked by about a score of | bandits near a bridge over the

Liao river

Rifle shots were exchanged, and. about five minutes afterwards the bandits made off.

Two Japanese were killed.

Representations regarding the incident were made to the Chinese Foreign Commissioners at Chang. chum and Mukden..

"

Peking. April 13.-No decision has as yet been announced in regard to the appointment of a successor to the late Fu Ching-yi. Yo Wai-chin has assumed.charge

bable that the Shensi militarista! (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.) of affairs, and it is thought pro- Tokyo, April 14.. will insist upon his becoming Baron Hirata, ex-Privy Seal, | Tapan--Courtesy of the Daily died this morning.

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