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GEORGE CANNING. THE TOUR OF STATE. CHOLERA IN PERSIA.
Death Centenary of Famous Man,
HIS FOREIGN POLICY,
Faced With Difficulties After Napoleonic Wars.
Rugby, yesterday.
Princes and Premier In America.
GEN. DAWES' SPEECH:
Surprise References To Geneva. Conference.
Serious Epidemic In
East Provinces.
54,000 INOCULATIONS. Anti-Cholera Serum Being Rushed By Air.
Fort Erie, Yesterday.
Basra, yesterday. To-day is the 100th anniversary The Prince of Wales, accompani A cholera epidemic has broken of the death of George Canning: ed by Prince George and Mr. and out on the banks of the Shatt-el who was British Foreign Secre- Mrs. Baldwin, trod the United Arab and up to the present 187 tary from 1822 to 1827 and was States' soil for the first time in their deaths have occurred at Abadan, Prime Minister for four months North American valt on the oc before his death.. Newspapers de casion of the ceremony of dedicat-17 at Mohammerah and 66 Basra.
ing the Peace Bridge.
Fifty-four thousand people have vote leading articles to the great in the presence of an Immense been inoculated against cholera in statesman. It is recalled that concourse, the formal opening of Basra alone, .. Canning, when he became Foreign the structure was effected by the Hoechst-on-Main, yesterday, Minister, was confronted with cutting of a white ribbon stretched At the request of the Persian world conditions following the across the boundary line at the cen- Government the German dye in- Napoleonic Wars not dissimilar tre of the bridge, and by the Prince dustry has despatched by air via from those of our recent times, of Wales and Vice-President Gen Moscow 100,000 tubes of anti-| All the problems and unrest aris-shaken hands across it.
Dawes having previously cholera serum to Teheran to com-
eral
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ing out of the Napoleonic Wars The Royal party with high Cana-bat the cholera epidemic in the complicated international policy.dian officials, then crossed into eastern provinces.-Reuter.. To steer a steady course amid the United States territory and together [The Shatt-el-Arab River is at currents and rocks needed both with General Dawes, Mr. F. Kellogg, the head of the Persian Gulf and vision and strength, and Canning Secretary of the State Department, 120 miles in length, formed by the revealed himself as a great minis-the Secretary for Labour, and the union of the Tigris and Governor of New York State drove Euphrates. The cities mentioned to the Speakers' dais between lines in the above cable are situated on of American troops, where specches the banks of the River. proclaiming Anglo-American amity were deiievered.
ter...
To Seek Peace.
SACCO & VANZETTI.
YORK.
As the "Times" remarks, to describe Canning's policy would be to write a history of the chief
Hoechst is a big industrial town events and movements of those
on the River Main, in Prussia; years in the old world and new. The Prince of Wales, In a brief which is noted for the manufac Lord Castlereagh, who had pre-address, hoped the bridge. would ture of dyes and chemicals.] ceded him at the Foreign Office, serve as a continual reminder to saw before he died that Englandt was the first and highest duty of all that to seek peace and easure could not remain a partner in an his and future generations. alliance with continental govern- General Dawes followed and de- ments which aimed at the sup-clared that peace among the Eng- pression by arms of the popular lish-speaking peoples was firmly TENSE EXCITEMENT IN NEW movements which began to break based ол common instincts and out over Europe shortly after the ideals. The instinct of self-preser Napoleonic War.
vation bound us together and there- Canning trod in his footsteps in in lay the ultimate guarantee of MANY PROTEST MEETINGS. developing and applying this safety and progress for western
New York, yesterday, view. He did much to foster in Mr. Baldwin said that problems The police have organised' a the world the idea of nationality between the United States and the flying squad of 14 motor-cyclists, which his own disciple, Palmer British Empire have arisen and protected by two armoured cars, ston, adopted with less reserve. will arise and opinions will vary in case of violence during the His recognition of the Spanish-how they shall be solved,
'Only American republics was one of his recently they had momentarily to Sacco-Vanzetti excitement. So most important strokes of policy. differ, but they knew in their hearts stringent are their precautions it did not affect their friendship. that all crowds in the neighbour- Mr. Kellogg, who represented hood of subway stations, are dis- President Coolidge, declared, the persed. Many recipients of bridge would further encourage threatening letters, apparently cordiality and friendliness in official from anarchists, have handed relations, happily inaugurated by them to the police. the recent establishment of direct diplomatic relations.
-British Wireless Service.
AN OLD COMPLAINT.
DEATH OF GOVERNOR GENERAL WOOD.
- Boston, Yesterday.
civilisation.
A thousand miners in Denver Other speakers included Mr. strike. Two violent explosions have started a four-day sympathy Mackenzie King. Mr. Ferguson occurred in the Italian district of (Premier of Ontario). The cere-1
The death of Major-General mony concluded with the singing of Utica, New York, but it is not Leonard Wood, Governor-General the National Anthems of both coun- thought to be connected with the
of the Philippines, was sudden. tries. Major-General Wood had a tumour removed in 1910, involving a bone
General Dawes,
present agitation.
It is believed in Washington
The most striking portion of Gen. that in the event of further explo-
of the skull. Trouble recently re- Dawes' speech was his reference to sions, the powerful deportation
Geneva. He said the Geneva Con-
curred necessitating an operation, but the fact was not published in ference was but an incident in the law will be employed--Bouter's deference to his wife's wishes. ciple of equality. Anglo-American
steady onward murch of the prin- American Service. Déceased visited President Coolidge
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CONRAD NAGEL AND Paris, yesterday. at Rapid City and declared himself naval strength, as agreed at Wash- Meetings protesting against the
sentences ington by experts, may be slow in Sacco-Vanzetti
are
fit and able to continue to govern interpreting that principle in terms being held all over France with the_Philippines.-Reuter's Ameri-
of their respective ship programmes the exception of Paris.--Reuter." can Service...
but it was unthinkable that Britain
Moscow Joins In.
Moscow, yesterday.
"Banged Up." "I'm like a banged-up freight and the United States would again burden their peoples with competi- car that is still running on its wheels," Gea. Leonard Wood told tive naval building. Although the Representatives of local organ- naval requirements of Britain and isations known as the Baptists, the press correspondents in South the United States differ, there is no Molokhans and Tolstoyans have Dakota on June 24, when he an excuse for inaugurating competi- telegraphed to Pres. Coolidge ask- nounced, after a long talk with Pretion in the building of ships which ing for clemency for. Sacco and sident Coolidge, that he will return neither deeds., Geneva would re- Vanzetti-Reuter. to his post as Governor-General of the Philippines in September. The sult in a stronger world demand for
· No Stay of Execullon.
Boston, yesterday.. General's homely figure of speech the work of interpreting the prin had no reference to his political for- ciple of equality and shall continue The State Supreme Court has de
till a fair agreement is reached, tunes, for the President had just The newspapers stress the import of Sacco and Vanzetti for a writ nted counsels' petitions on behalf informed him that his work as excance of General Dawes remarks, cutive over 12,000,000 people was The "New York Times" declares of Habeas Corpus, a stay of wholly satisfactory. He was refer that General Dawes overleapt the execution and a writ of error. ring to his physical conditión. A barriers of diplomacy by plunging Reuter's American Service, the Chicago Tribune" explains, the into the question of naval limita General Is "badly battered up from tion to the surprise of an assembly. 4.30 pm two operations, an automobile wreck of 100,000.
and an accident on shipboard, which 8.80 a..
The Herald Tribune" describes cracked three ribs, but he has a the sperch as a "whirlwind.” 8.80 4.30. his old indomitable fighting spirit.” 130 p.m.
The newspapers of America, are 8.80 p.m. somewhat puzzled, however, by the
AGREEMENT WITH GERMAN TRUST.
4.80 p.m. fact that the President, on the same SOCONY AND DYES,
today that he bade General Wood go Noon back and continue the good work on 12.30 pm. the islands, also told the press cor- 2.80 p.m. respondents that he favoured plac- Ing the Philippines under a civil bureau at Washington--preferably with the Department of the Interior -Instead of under the War Depart ment
at
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- Boston, yesterday. The Sacco Vanzetti defence Bookbinders, committtee has telegraphed to
THE "CHINA MAIL", Book- Pres. Coolidge asking him to in-
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New York, yesterday. The church at Black Hills, Dentist. Where Pres. Coolidge, worshipped yesterday, has been searched by
| detectives. — Reuter's American Berlin, Yesterday Services
An agreement has been reached Taxi Man Mobbed. between the German (Dye Trust Paris, yesterday, and Mr. Walter Teagle of the Stan-Ataxi driver, who ignored an
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The Louisville Courier-Journal use of technical experimenta con the Sacco Vanzetti executions was ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD." charges President Coolidge with ducted by both parties and arrangemobbed by strikers. Police rush-
straddling, because "où-tie: one ments regarding various matters
hand he Indorses the military ré- relating to the general working for ed up and a force fight ensued. gime under General Wood, and on both concerns neuter,.
the other approven what was to
be the civilian adminis
commended in the repe
Carmi Thompson, who went to
islands, last year as the Froilder
personal representat
Louisville,paper, like others South, thinks the question; ther or not the inefficier Autocracy in the
be abolished"
of these two ady
To this the
tort, quite unanimously
istno Samilitary auto Philippines, nor
eficiency
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Five arrests were made. Strikers were very active in Paris this morning and tried to hold up the They smashed the of some of the cars.
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