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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925.

EPIC OF THE 'NAVY.

"CLASSIC EXPLOIT OF SEA WARFARE."

ZEEBRUGGE ANNIVERSARY.

King of Belgians to Unveil Imposing Memorial.

Impressive scenes are being witnessed to-day in Zeebrugge where the King of the Belgians is unveiling a memorial of the famous attack on the mole.

BRITISH VISITORS,

(Reuter's Service.)

fup. The purpose of these operations wus to ifistract attention from the blockships, of which the Thetis unfortunately foundered in the Bruges, April 22. Louter harbour, being caught in a The arrival of a distinguished protecting net. but the Iphigenia party from England, including Find the Intrepid penetrated the Sir Roger and lady Keyes, the entrance to the Bruges canal, and Burt and Countess of Cavan, were sunk there in a V position. Major-General Sig Fabian ani | which'almost blocked the fairway. Lady Ware, and Lord Burnham, The survivors of the crews and marks the beginning of several landing parties were then re- days of Anglo-Belgian demonstra-embarked

OLD WORLD SCENES NEAR ZEEBRUGGE

The basy quis, of centuries, ngo are to-day desertedi

tions, the central item in which is

King Albert to-morrow anveiling the imposing memorial at Zeebrugge on the anniversary of the attack on the moles

KILLING BY - GERMS.

REMARKABLE TRIAL

RUSSIAN

GENERAL SENTENCED TO DEATH.

(Reutor's Service,).

LEIPZIG, April 22. The three ringleaders in the so- called German Cheka, including the Russian General Skolewski, have been sentenced to death, and the others to terms varying from fifteen years to six-months' im- Prisonment

[According to a Leipzig message

THE CHINA "MAIL.

UNCERTAIN POLITICS.

"SITUATION SOMEWHAT PRECARIOUS.”

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CABINET'S TRIALS.

Financial Problem the Deciding

Factor.

The French political situation remains "somewhat precarious" and the handling of the financial problem will determine the new Cabinet's fate.

TEST TO COME.

(Reuter'a Service.)

Paris, April 22. It is a significant fact that yesterday evening's motion of Ministerial declaration which is confidence does not mention the of February 13, remarkable allego-therefore not yet put to the test. tions of high treason were made at the trial of sixteen Communists, The situation remains some-: including a General of the Russian what precarious since, though the Red Army,

to the effect that composition of the Government is agents of Soviet Russia endeavour- Cartellist, its policy is too mode- ind to start a Bolshevik Cheka in rute to suit the bulk of the Germany. Neumann, a former Leftites, especially the Socialists, official of the Communist party, who are chagrined over the aban- whom the Communists 'declared donment of M Herriot's policy as was a spy, deposed that a revolu- regards Alsace Lorraine. the tionary military committee was Vatican, the reduction of military formed in Germany in 1923 to service, and the capital levy. purchase weapons with money) On the other hand the declara- supplied by the Russian Embassy tion goes far to meet the views of in Berlin. He alleged that he the Opposition who, however, will himself once received $25.000 not forgive the inclusion of M. (American) for this purpose, and Caillaux in the Cabinet as Minis- also received instructions to getter of Finance? rid of General" Vuy Steckty, the tate Hugo Stinnes, and prominent industrialists Nammino also stated that at a meeting of Communist leaders in 1923 they planned an armed outbreak, in- cluding a march to Berlin. Several Reichstag Deputies were implicat ed. He added that, in accordance with instructions,

obtained phials of typhus and dysentery bacilli for use in food

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Hence the Chamber of Deputies other divided into a majority, group which supports the Government but disagrees with its policy and

GERMAN ELECTION.

LOWER TAXES.

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IRISH FREE STATE CUTS.

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, April 22, The Trish Free State Budget Berlin, April 22. provides for a reduction in the The election speeches of Herr income tax to four shillings and The Vindictive was then towed uary and Field Marshal Hinden-abolishes the duty on tea, cocoa, away from the mole by there will be wirelessly broadcast on coffee and chicory and the Im Daffodil, and though badly knock-April 21. ed about succeeded in returning

An application by the perial preference on sugar. Ho Dover.

A monument was erected in 1920 to commemorate this "classic exploit of sea-warfare.""

[Vice Admiral Sir Roger Keys was in command of operations against Zeebrugge and Ostend: | The Earl of Cuvan was hand of the Zeebrugge was retaken by the War Offee delegation at the Belgians on October 19, 1978, the Washington Conference; Major-Germans sinking several ships in General Ware, commanded a Red the harbour mouth before they Cross Unit with the French Army Fevated the place.

during the war; Lord Burnham Earlier in the war, a cavalry is the great newspaper pro- division. part of Rawlinson's | mrtet.or.l

troops. landed at Zeebrugge in Zeebrugge is nine miles North order to cover the Belgian refreat by West of Bruges, with which it from Antwerp (October 8, 1914). is connected by ship canal; its Subsequently occupied by the Ger- harbour is protected frony silting mans, it became an important sub- marine, destroyer and seaplane inse and was frequently bombard- ed from the sea and attacked from the air by Allied units.

King Albert

sand by à erescent-shaped mole, 11⁄2 miles long and nearly 100 yards wide.

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£30,000 DÈFICIT.

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MISSIONARY SOCIETY'S

REVERSES.

UNFAVOURABLE EXCHANGES.

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, April 22.

High Far Eastern exchange and the heavy costs of ocean passages for missionaries are among the causes of a deficit of £30,000 in last year's operatieas of the Landun i Missionary Society.

Similar deficits have resulted every year for the previous two years.

The last year tatilled £136.000. On St. George's Day (April 23, The Society is budgeting for an 1918) it was attacked by a Britishcome of £160,000 next year.

Flotilla under Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, including the cruiser Vindictive, the ferry-bonts Iris and Daffodil carying storming and demolishing parties, and the Iphigenia. Intrepid and, Thetis, blockships filled with cement. The vessels approached under a smoke-screen, but the wind blew

PRINCE OF WALES.

(Reuter's Service.)

Dr. Mara

4ommunist candidate. Herr Thael- mr for a simitur privilege, was refused by the Ministry of the Interior on the ground that the!

CHEAPER SUGAR. Various rémissions in the Irish Customs duties will be effective as from May 6.

The sugar duty will be reduced to the flat rate of a penny per lb.

The Finance Minister stated that the Government accepted the pro- posals of the Belgian group, which Government aid for the establishment of the best sugar industry will mean the remission of excise duties or a subsidy of £1,961,000 for a decade. If the experiment failed the loss would fall on the company which was putting up the capital.

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MURDER - PLOTS.

(Reuter's Service.)

a minority group which approves the programime but refuses to give confidence to the Government.. Subsequent events depend,sole. fly on the handling of the financial situation in which M. Caillaux will predominatet ...

NEW POST FOR HIM.

EDOUARD HERRIOT

The former Premier who has now been elected President of the Chamber, of Deputies.

HERIOT'S NEW POST.

Paris, April 22. M. Herriot has been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies by 266 votes to onez.

[M. Herriot was Premier until. the financial crisis compelled him: to resign, leaving the way open for M. Painleve to form a Cabinet with the clever financer, M. Caillaux as Minister of Finance.] EARLIER CABLES.

Paris, April 22.

A Ministerial statement read in Parliament confirms the forecasts already callest. Moreover, it em- phasizes that all other problems vanish before French soeurity u safeguard of fine cial equilibrium. It stresses the nerkssity of the wain-. tenance of the treaties and economic stability in the regime of fiscal justice. Jays that in the forth- coming international negotiations the Government will pursue thei execution of thy Dawes plan and the settlement of inter-Allied debts. A first ronilition "of world peace is France's seenrily. The Govern ment undertakes to submit for 1926, a Budget wherein all expendi ture will be rigorously ent down, He he cormed by osation without The borrowing.

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CAIRO, April 22 Gowrnment is confident that it The judicial authorities have will surmount the immediate finan- nublished a summary of con-ial difficulties, France will main- fessions of some of the ninei at the Vatican highly accused who were yesterday (qualified representative.-Hovas, indicted in connection with the

murder of the Sirdar, showing the

(Reuter's Service.)

existence of a secret society for GERMANY AND POLAND, the organisation of political crimes, called the "Society of Vengeance," of which two students and two artisans, who will be charged with the murder, and a lawyer and a Government official, who will be charged with complicity were members.

It appears from the confessions that following the

failure of conversations

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between

WARSAW, April 22. Negotiations are being resumed between Germany and Poland for the conclusion of a commercial agreement

the Premier.

the

The Czecho-Slovakiar Foreign Minister, M. Benes lunched with Pasha and Mr. Ramsay Macdonald President Masaryk, and attended a in London, the conspirators banquet in the evening given by met at the lawyer's house and

Replying to the decided to commit a political speech of the Foreign Minister, M. murder, choosing

Skrzynski, who dwelt on the Sirdar as the victim

necessity of co-operation between Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, M. The police today arrested a Benes said his presence at Warsaw milway workshops employee Damed Hajahmed, at his domicile, was a sign of sincere and lasting where they discovered a revolverapprochement between the two and a quantity of ammunition of countries whose vital interest was a type used in six outrages. For a complete system of economic

solidarity. M. Benes hoped, that, ther developments are probable the proposed treaty of arbitration

Marshal von Hindenburg. Communist party is unable to com- it aside, and the Germans opened H.M.S. Repulse at nine o'clock parties supporting the candidates Indications point to the police between the two countries would ply with the condition that the an intense fire on the mole, along; | this morning. Large crowds gave do not strive to alter tho Constitu-Jally getting to

side which lay the Vindictive the ferry-boats.

things.

Lagos, April 23. The Prince of Wales left aboard

and

him a very enthusiastic send off."

Ption.

GIANT LINER RACES TO SINKING CARGO STEAMER.

In spite of heavy losses, storm- ing parties were landed, and Legan the work of destruction, aided by an obsolete submarine (C3), which was run against the railway viaduct connecting the mole with the land and successfully blew it

BIG CONCESSIONS.

ENGLISH SYNDICATE'S

PURCHASE

Router's American Service.)

NEW YORK, April 22. The directors of the Ottoman American Development Company officially announce their actedIS ance of an offer by an English syndicate to take over the so-called: -Charter concessions in Turkey, including the railway oll nifning and other concessions› valued at $100,000,000,

the root

of

prove their peaceful aims. "Both intended to pursue the objects of the Geneva protocol.

The newspaper "Kurjerporseny," commenting on the negotiations, says that Czecho-Slovakia's re- cognition that relations between Poland and Soviet Russia definitely settled by the Riga Treaty, is an essential condition of any agreement,

BIGGER ARMY.

BULGARIA'S REQUEST

GRANTED.

(Reuter's Service.)

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"PARIS,~April 22, The Conference of Ambassadors

"Regro I was unable to save any lives" was the tingle radio from the Captain of the White Star liner Homeric who changed his course-in-response to the 80s of the dancefreighter Raifuku Marubhas granted Bulgaria permission. foundering in the heavy seas off the coast of Nova Scotia, The Hamarie covered the intervening seventy-eight miles at full speed, but she was too late to rescue any of the forty-eight members of the crew whose survival was hopeless in the mountainous seas. The Raifuku Karu lay wallowing in huge seas under the eyes of thousands of horrified apoctators in the liners Tuscanis and Hameric, which stood by helplessly. The stricken ship at last suspended berself and plunged down by the bows.

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