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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1925.

THRILLS OF THE CHASE.

! BRITISH SCHOONER CAPTURED.

$500,000 LIQUOR CARGO.

Officials.

Alleged Attempt to Corrupt

Reading like an episode, in a sensational film is the story of the tapture of a British-schooner laden with champagne and whisky.

12-HOUR RACE.

(Reuter's Service.)

the constgaards on April 11 when the latter pretended to accept a bribe to smuggle in 500 cases of whisky and champagne.

New York, April 34.

· After a 150-mile chase Jasting

They brought the liquor the two members of the crew

and

NEW TERROR. FOR THE, RUM FLEET.

Here are ire of the new spoof craft of the "dry unvÿ." Speed, spent, strval "The ings of the smugglers"- has proved "the sulution of Thelema bad ganddo lution italoreement problem and this, fleet of ocean. awhippeta is even on the alert for pres,

ashore in the coastguard's motor bout.

twelve hisary, the British schooner Madlene Alants, with all sails Bef

The official's stated that smug- and engines going at ful specik, was exptured twenty miles fling by menys of Government from the shore by a coastguard boats was frequently attempted. culler, which opened fire as she pursued.

The etter brought ashore the crew of nine who were detained charged with violating the Anglo- American treaty.

Orials say that two men from the schooner were brought in by

CHINA'S CUSTOMS.

FRANCE AND TREATY DELAY.

4

CORRESPONDENCE PUBLISHED.

¿Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)

PEKING, April 14. The following is a free trans- lation, of the letters exchanged between Shen Juai-lin and Count de Martel handed out in French to Press representatives last night- A letter from the Foreign Minister to the French Minister, dated April 8, is as follows!-

"Monsieur le Ministre.

The Madeline Adams is valued at $75,000 and her cargo at $500,000.

PRINCE OF WALES.

(Reuter's Service:)

BULGARIAN SENSATION.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Attempt to Assassinate King.

MOTOR CAR AMBUSHED.

WANTED A PREMIER. FRANCE'S AWKWARD »

PROBLEM.

BRIAND DECLINES.

Painleve Must Consult His

Friends.

M. Aristide Briand having abandoned the attempt to form a Cabinet, the President has invited M. Paul Painleve to undertake

STARTLING AFFAIR NEAR the task..

SOFIA.

Cheuter's Service.)

Soria," April is.

BRIAND'S SETBACK.

(Reuter's 'Service,)"

Paris, April 14. The Nationalist Socialist Coun- A motor car in which Kingcil unanimously declined to join a Boris was travelling to Sofia was Briand Ministry. ambushed outside the city yester

day by an Agrarian and Com- 'munist band which fired a fusillade killing two attendants and wound- ing the chauffeur.

His Majesty escaped uninjured....

NOTE ISSUE LIMIT.' Both Chambers meet" to- morrow to vote on a Bill, aathoris ing the Banque de France to issue four milllards of franes worth of notes, thus regularising the bank's position before the issue of the next weekly balance sheet."

FIGURES IN THE CRISIS.

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Accra, April 14. The Prince of Wales left this morning for Nigeria. He was given a great send-off by the local

habhams and chiefs.

King Boris

Troops are at present scouring the countryside in search of the assailants.

GENERAL KILLED.

A second outrage took place in Sofia yesterday evening when General Gheorghief, a member of the Chamber and leader of the movement 10 overthrow the was Stamboliski Government. assassinated outside his residence.

The occupants of scores of surf AMERICA'S boats yelled "greetings and hun. dreds of natives lined in the sea waist-deep.

LIQUOR IN RUSSIA.

(Reuter's Service.)

Moscow. April 14.. The newspapers report that the Government will soon authorise the sale of liquors up to 40 per rent. alcoholic strength, which have been prohibited since 1914. At present no liquor of higher alcohole strength than 30 per

..

PROSPERITY.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS RECORDS.

SOME HUGE INCREASES,

(Reuter's American Service)

Washington. April 14. The exports from the United States in March amounted to. $462,000,000' and the imports to $385,000,000.

With one exception the imports are the largest for any month for four years, while with two excep tions the exports are the largest for forty-five months.

"I have the honour to report to your Excellency that according to the terms of the treaty concluded at Washington between the Ninent, can be sold.

President, Coolidge points out Powers concerning the Chinese

in this respect that if the prices Customs Tariff, a special. con-

are calculated on the 1914 level ference charged with adjusting all questions relative to the abolition ments of friendship towards China, the volume of trade has increased of likia, geaeral increase in the will ratify with the briefest delay in quantity by fifty per cent. duties, collection of surtax of two the Washington Agreement, so as and a half per cent, ad valorem, to permit of the immediate con- raising the tariff upon articles of vocation of the special conference. Juxury and a revision of the tariffs Hoping to receive a prompt on land frontiers, would meet in answer, please accept the assur China within three months afterance of my highest consideration," the coming into force of the treaty etc.

at a place and on

by

DEBT QUERY.

AMERICA REBUKES ‹

RUMANIA.

M. Aristide Briand.

Paris, April 14.

M. Briand has abandoned the task of forming a Cabinet.

TERMS TOO STIFF........

Later.

M. Briand's announcement that he has abandoned the attempt to form a Cabinet was made "at a l meeting of his Party and the Re-. publican socialists.

M. Briand explained that the Socialists not merely refused to join his Cabinet but made their support dependent on conditions which he considered incompatible with his conception of the premiership.

M. Paul Painleve)

THE NEXT MAN IN,

- Paris. April 14, The President has asked M. Paul Painleve to form a Cabinet.

M. Painleve has promised to give his answer to-morrow when he has consulted his frients.

[M. Paul Painleve, who was Prime Minister of France from September to November in 1917.. is a distinguished French states- man. The son of a lithographic artist, he studied science and published a book when 21 years of age. He became Professor at the Faculty of Science, Lille, and seven years later went to the Sorbonne, He is the youngest member of the Academy. A famous mathematician and scientist, he was Minister of In- struction-m-M-Briand's Ministry A pioneer supporter of aviation, he has done great service to France. He joined M. Ribot's Cabinet, March, 1917. M. (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.) Painleve has been President of the French. Senate.since June, 1924.]

WHITE GUARDS."

RUSSIA'S WARNING TO CHINA.

PEKING, April 14, The Rosta Agency publishes a a Note which M. Karakhan ad. dressed to the Waichiaopu on the 17th inst, on the subject of "White Guards" in the Chinese Army:

This Note was in, reply to the Chinese Note of March 26, which stated that there was under Chang ment of between 300 and 400 Tsungichang's command a detach-i White Guards who had adopted Chinese citizenship, but there had been no enlistment of White Guards into the Chinese Army at Shanghai, and this detachment, the presence of which in the Chin ese Army is not in contradiction of the Russo-Chinese Agreement will be disbanded as soon as the general situation is settled.

M. Karakban insists that the detachment numbers over 1,000. and was originally recruited in Manchuria and filled up with the White Guards at Shanghai.

TUPAN OF HONAN.

(Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.);

PEKING, April, 14.

have decided to appoint Yuch It is reported that the Cabinet Wei.chun to succeed Hu Ching-yi as Tupan of Honan, but Chang Tsolin and Feng Hu-hsiang are being consulted before the mandato

issued.

A mandate will be issued shortly posthumously conferring the rank of Marstal on Hu Ching-yi. Ten thousand dollars will be granted to Hu Ching yi's family for the funeral expenses. Liu Chin-chow, Vice- Minister" of Agriculture and Com merce, will be sent to offer sacri- ficial rites before the remains of Hu Ching-yi on behalf of the Government.

date to be fixed The following is a letter from the Chinese Government.the French Minister to the Foreign

After contesting at great length Most assuredly the desiderata Minister, dated April

(Reuter's American Service.) the claim that they are Chinese which China expressed at the Monsieur le Ministre,

citizens, the Note insists most Washington Conference on the "In response to the communi-

Washington,, April 14. resolutely on the immediate subject of adjustment of the cation of your Excellency dated "The United States minister at liquidation of the detachment and

London, April 14.-The Board ☀ Customs Tariff have not been April 8, I have the honour to Bucharest has drawn the atten- warningly declares, "with this

show, for satisfied on all points, but the acariat you with the fact that I tion of the Rumanian Government attitude of the Chinese authorities of Trade returns Chinese Government are none the am authorised to make known to to the fact that while it has towards the obligations undertaken Mareh, imports amounting to £112,861,000, and exports less grateful to the Governments the Chinese Government that the negotiated debt funding agree-by them there will become quite of the interested Powers who have French Government now engages ments with other nations it has doubtful the expediency and the £70,303,000. Imports represent agreed upon the prompt meeting to make a beginning as soon as of a special conference to bring possible and hasten by all mean not acted similarly in connection successful outcome of the new an increase of £2,718,000 and efficient help to China. The Chi- the process of approval of the with the Rumanian debt to the negotiations for fresh agreements exports of £972,000 compared which it is proposed to conclude with the February figures.-

Reuter. nese Government hoped particular French Parliament and the ratifica- United States.

at the pending conference.".

ly that these arrangements would tion of the treaty. concluded at be put in force as the fixed time, Washington on February 6, 1922, but for two years the projected and make speed for the prompt conference has not been convoked | meeting of the special conference owing to the treaty not having provided for in Article II of that been ratified by all the signatory Agreement, which related to the Powers. In letters addressed to Chinese Customs Tariff. the Waichiaupu, the Ministers ofį. "It is pleasant, in bringing this France have maintained that the communication to the knowledge

"Monsieur le Ministro,

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.

(Reuter's Service.)

Moscow, April 14.

told pressmen that private enter- prise would play an important part in the economic life of the Soviet Union for many years.

Tekulitions for the payment in of your Excellency, to state that According to the Rosta Agency, gold of the French part of the 1901 henceforth the meeting of the M. Rykoff, Chairman of the Indemnity are bound up with the projected conference ought not to Council of People's Commissaries, ratification of the Washington | bọ long postponed. Trenty. The Chinese, Govern Please accept the assurance of ment, having studied the ques- my highest consideration," etc. tion thoroughly, have come to The following is a letter from the firm conviction that the the French Minister to the Foreign

. Commercial operations had in- reling of a special conference Minister dated April 2 was decided in common accord by

creased rapidly in the last few all the Powers represented at the. "I have the bonour to make months, and neither State nor Washington Conference, a decision known to your Excelrency that Ico-operative trade could augment with which your Excellency's have been authorised by my their capital in a mensura entirely Government should have con Government to adhere to the corresponding to the general formed without delay. While the application of the Customs surtax, development of the economic life -method of payment of the Indem the proceeds of which are destiond of the country..

mity is quite a different quastion, for relief of the flood victims. which cannot be connected in any manner with the meeting of the special conference, the Chinese Government hopes that the French Government, animated by sent

"I am happy to bring this decision to the knowledge of your Excellency

The basis of relations between the State and private enterprise must be healthy economic com- T petfulop. Hindrance" of private "Please, accept the assurance of enterprise by the administration my highest consideration, etc. could not be allowed;

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