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EFFORTS FAIL.
General Election In Germany ?
NO COMPROMISE.
Dissolution To Come After Budget Negotiated.
Berlín, Yesterday.
|LATE EARL OXFORD.
Peacefully Passes Away.
PRIVATE BURIAL
French Tribute To Great Statesman.
NOT A SUCCESS.
The Pan-American Conference.
INSOLUBLE PROBLEMS.
Conference Closing With Mach Business Unfinished.
As announced in the final edi-
Havana, Yesterday. Efforts of party leaders to tion of the "China Mail" yester-
Some of the most influential reach a compromise on the Educa-day, the Earl of Oxford and members of the Pan-American tion Bill have failed. According Asquith has passed away,
Conference frankly admit that it to the Right and Centre party A later cable from London is confronted with problems, leaders the coalition Government stated:--
which at present are insoluble. Hope of Lord Asquith's life) The United States and the was abandoned on Monday yet Argentine have notably clashed It is understood the Govern- owing to his amazing constitu- over the tariff issue. ment will now make every effort tion the ex-Premier lived till 6.50
The Conference will conse-
can consequently be regarded as dead.
to push through the Budget, after this morning when he passed quently close, as previously ar- which the Reichstag will be dis peacefully away among his fami-ranged, on the 20th inst., with solved. It is certain that Ger- ly at his home The Wharf," much business unfinished. many will be in the throes of a Sutton Courtney, Berkshire. During the discussion of the general election by May 28 next. Lady Oxford watched at his bed tariff issue Senor Pueyrredon
side for days and nights,
-Reuter,
BIG NAVY.
PRESIDENTS VIEW PREVAILS.
Washington, Yesterday.
French Gratitude.
Resigned?
(Argentine) announced that he would not sign a Convention París, Yesterday,
which did not include a refer- "Upon his shoulders fell the ence to the necessity of abolishing crushing responsibility of plung-the excessively high barriers to ing the British Empire into the the free flow of Inter-Ameri- war. It was he who took the can Commerce. "DIALECTICAL PERSUASION." momentous decision
for Mr. Charles Hughes (U.S.A.) this act alone the French people replying declared that insistence should bow peaceful homage and thereon would affect the vital Mr. Britten, of the House of gratitude before the tomb in sovereign rights, of nations.- Representatives' Naval Com- which Asquith is now being lower- Reuter's American Service. mittee, has declared after his in-'ed, laden with years." terview with President Coolidge, The quotation, from the news-
Havana, Yesterday. that the latter is hopeful that paper "Excelsior" indicates the Following the non-appearance Congress will pass the Govern-esteem in which Lord Oxford and of the Argentine delegates at this ment's $740,000,000 Naval Build-Asquith is held in France, morning's session of the Com- jing Programme without material | Reuter.
mittee of the Pan-American union change.
| affairs a rumour has arisen that One of the most significant, It is stated on behalf of the Dr. Pueyrredon has designed the pointe was President Coolidge's Earl of Oxford and Asquith's chairmanship of the Argentine eagerness that no time limit family that he will be buried pri- delegation and also the Ambassa- should be placed on the completion vately in accordance with his dorship at Washington.-Reuter's of the programme but that this special wishes and not in the American Service. should be left to Presidential. dis- Abbey as suggested by the Gov- cretion.
Private Burial.
ernment. A memorial service, however, will be held at the Abbey on Tuesday. next.-Reuter,
Henry
WAR CONDEMNED.
ANGLO-AMERICAN TREATY
ARBITRATION,
London, Yesterday.
Mr. Britten now supports this. Many of those well-informed believe that while he is obliged somehow to pacify the Republican The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, big navy advocates, the President, better known as Mr. H. H. Asquith, does not wish to carry through was born at Morley, Yorkshire, on such a gigantic programme, but September 12, 1852. He has been
In the House of Commons, in Letters and postcards for Europe and the British Isles are for dialectical persuasion at the next the resignation of Sir
wishes to use it as a weapon of Leader of the Liberal Party since Locker-Lampson stated that the reply to questions, Mr. G. warded via Siberia if so superscribed.
Disarmament. Conference-Reu- Campbell-Bannerman
preamble of the Anglo-American ter's American Service.
1908, and was Prime Minister con-been communicated to the British April, draft treaty of arbitration has tinuously from that date until December,
Government and 1916.
contained a He entered Parliament in 1886, and represented strument of policy in the mutual clause condemning war as an in- East Fifeshire without a
break relations between two countries. until his defeat in the General Election of 1918. Re-entering the discussed most carefully--Reu- The whole subject was being House at a by-election in 1920, he
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LORD CECIL'S PLEA.
COURT OF INTERNATIONAL
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BRITAIN'S POLICY.
London, Yesterday.
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in
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represented Paisley until his re- jection at the poll last year.
Earl Oxford's first office was that!
FRENCH REVENUE.
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a motion was proposed by Lord of Home Secretary, to which he was Cecil urging the Government, appolated in Mr. Gladstone's fourth after consultation with the Ministry in 1892. In Opposition The Dominions, to accept the jurisdic-from 1895 until 1905, he became January tion of the permanent court of in- Chancellor of the Exchequer In Sir franca, showing an increase of ternational justice in judiciable Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Gov-118,000,000 francs over January disputes by signing the optional erament.
of last year and of 187,000,000 on beyond the customary system of Educated at the City of London the Budget forecasts.-Haves.
School and at Balliol, he was called
clause.
Earl Cushendun, in reply, was to the Bar in 1875 and took silk in unable to hold out any hope that 1880. He was at one time A
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Britain in the immediate future lender-writer on the "Spectator." Asquith's full and emphatic phras- would change à policy which had He took a prominent part as one of ing, fit for noble themes, that inter- been consistent since 1820, and the counsel for the Irish members preted the determination of the thought it would be unwise to go before the Parnell Commission. country and first laid down its war beyond the customary system
aime. arbitration and take a leap in the Two periods, already well attest-
The Heir. dark by signing the optional ed and documented by contempor- The late Earl's heir is his grand- clause which was not considered ary memoirs; stand out in the late son Julian, the son of the brilliant really to affect the question of Earl's parliamentary career." The Raymond Asquith, who was killed peace.-Reuter,
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binder. During the years between 1908 and understood, will be the heir's future 1914 he was the leader of a Cabinet designation. In these days' of No. 88, Wyndham Street. which had more than a usual com- breathless change, it is pleasant to plement of strong personalities and know that Raymond Asquith's embraced a wide range of political name, below that of his father, has Dentist. conviction from the Right to the already survived one septennial. re- Left of Liberalism. Colleagues of painting of the staircase in Har In connection with the British tribute to the patience, the im- had only time to begin what would both shades of view. have paid court-buildings, Temple, where he authorities' refusal to allow the American actress, Miss Alden; Porturbability, and the reserve of doubtless have been a distinguish- Gray, to appear in a play in Lon-strength which enabled him to ride ed career at the Bar. don, the Actors' Association of through to an agreement.
the most stubbora...controversies.| America has enquired of the
of Oxford, by his first marriage. Electrical Supplies. American Consul-Genéral in Lon- The second period opened with Mr. Herbert Asquith, Brigadier- don whether England has an Im-August, 1914. Those first months General Arthur Asquith, and Mr. migration quota and, if so, whe-climax of the then Mr. Asquith's tinction in the war.
of the war will stand A6 the Cyrll. Asquith, all served with dis- ther actors are included:--Re-Premiership. The clash of con Lady Bonham Carter, who married Their sister, ter's American Service.
viction in the Cabinet went beyond her father's Private Secretary, Sir his power to weld it. Lifelong Maurice (then Mr.) Bonham political associations were tested, Carter, in 1915, is a gifted speaker. and some broken. Throughout the By his second marriage with discussions, as we have read of Miss Margot Tennant, daughter of them since, the Earl of Oxford, the late Sir Charles Tennant, Bt., stands out among his fellow-which took place in 1894, the late St. Louis, Yesterday Ministers la dignity and solidity of Earl had one son and one daughter Lindbergh says he does not in thought and judgment, a national-Mr. Anthony Asquith, recently an tend to give up experimental flying Prime Minister, equal in cool nerve undergraduate at Balliol and an He is perfectly willing to sacrifice and patient courage to the crisis of amateur musician of repute, and his life, if he happens to be killed a century. Mr. Winston Churchill, Princess Antoine Bibesco, wife of while Dying. He does not consider in his book "The World Crisis, the, Roumanian Minister at Wash- what he is doing is hazardous fly has given us the Ists Liberal Chief's, Ington, whose desided literary gifts ing in the sense of taking unneces portrait in those days: Bolld: as expressed in several books, have a sary risks, Reuter's American Bera rock. When the crisis was curious affinity with the work of vice.
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