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ZINOVIEFF LETTER.THREAT TO KOWEIT.
Revelations By An Ex-Editor.
TWO COPIES RECEIVED. ·
How The "Daily Mail" Forced
Government's Hand.
London, Yesterday.
Consequent upon a letter in the
Tribesmen On The Warpath.
TROOPS FROM INDIA.
Attitude Of Chieftain Puzzling The Authorities.
Basrah, Yesterday. Koweit is in a state of tension
REJECTED.
Britain's Treaty Terms To Egypt.
SARWAT PASHA RESIGNS.
Further Military Occupation The Stumbling Block.
Cairo, Yesterday. Sarwat Pasha has resigned, The Ministry has resigned. "Observar" in which Sir Thomas owing to reports from the interior
Since the summer conversa- Marlowe, late Editor of the where the tribes are evidently on "Daily Mail" explains that the the war path and preparing a big tions in London with Sir A. "Daily Mail" received a copy of offensive in which Koweit is ex- Chamberlain Sarwat Pasha has the notorious Zinovieff letter (pected to be the main objective been scheming to erect sufficient from two different sources on Oc-of the advance.
support to withstand an extreme attack. He un- tober 23, 1924, but emphatically It is stated that a battalion of nationalist
op- exonerates Mr. Gregory, Mr. troops are going to Koweit from doubtedly anticipated to
position to some of the clauses Ramsay MacDonald has issued a India.
statement to the Press to the Ibn-Saud's attitude is a conun- of the proposed Treaty, especially effect that Marlowe's letter shows drum. It is stated he sanctioned British military occupation for a conclusively it was a conspiracy the tribal attacks owing to his further decade; which is gencral- and that "the original Zinovieff anger at the recent devastationly regarded as the main stum- ictter was probably a fake but caused by the R.A.F. or alterna- bling block. Many thought that certainly its use was a fraud.” tively, he was unable to withhold Sarwat was playing for time by protracting the conversations through Lord Lloyd, who was hoping to return to London and endeavour to seek further conces-
Mr. Marlowe received. a tele-the tribesmen.-Reuter. phone message from a friend that
(a document "showing the rela
tions between the Bolshevista and
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the British Labour leaders" had RUSSIA & GERMANY.sions from Sir A. Chamberlain. been circulated to the Foreign Office, Home Office, Admiralty and War Office.
The Prime Minister knew all about it but was trying to avoid publication.
Mr. Marlowe relates how he obtained the two copies of the
COMMENT ON COMMERCIAL
NEGOTIATIONS.
MOSCOW SCEPTICAL
Moscow, Yesterday.
Though the extrème Wafdists are bitterly opposed to Sarwat they do not appear to be inclined to shoulder the burden of office at present and it is possible that the Treaty would be rejected without la ministerial crisis if the Wafdists had not become convinced that Sarwat had not only been in con-
letter separately from other The tenth anniversary of the versation with Sir A. Chamber- friends and how when it was signing of the Treaty of Brest-lain but had actually agreed to the learned that the letter was being litosk has been signalised by news-text of the Treaty.
on Russo-German The dissolution of Parliament published in the Press Sir Eyre paper articles Crowe decided to publish it off-commercial negotiations, which up is not unlikely.-Reuter.
to. now have been encountering cially,
snaga..
It is understood that Sarwat, before resigning, informed Lord The "Izvestia" opposes the Ger- Lloyd that the Government re- mun suggestion to establish an ex-jected the new treaty terms offer- port bank on the ground that such ed by Britain. Reuter, as neither
Terms Unacceptable. a bank is unnecessary
No Acceptance.
Mr. Marlowe saws he has never Been Mr. Gregory nor had any connection with him and had not paid him or anyone else a penny for the Zinovieff letter. Reuter.
side proposes to revise the Russo- It is understood that the Egyp- Mr. MacDonald's Views.
German Trade Treaty embodying tian Cabinet has replied to Lord Mr. MacDonald says he does not the recognition of the Soviet mono- Lloyd that the Treaty terms are believe the Zinovieff letter was poly of foreign trade.
unacceptable as incompatible with communicated to any outside body The "Pravda" protests against the independence of Egypt. It is by anyone inside the Foreign the efforts of the German Press to contended the terms. implied the Office or any other Department ascribe a "sensational character" right of Great Britain to occupy an event Egypt, which the Cabinet was The Postal Service to Swabuc & neighbouring places in entirely which received the letter from to the negotiations as
The letter whereon the fate of the Soviet de- unable to admit.-Reuter. the Foreign Office. auspended until further notice.
passed into the hands of politi-pends.--Reuter. cians who took the chance of rousing the country upon fraudul- ent issues. He thinks the Foreign Office officials crred in judgment and he is unable to understand why he was not telephonically in- formed of the "Daily Mail's" in- tention or the Foreign Office in- tention to send the note to Rakov- sky. He concludes that he never! formed a definité conclusion about the Zinovieff letter but the important point is not its authen-i ticity but the use to which it was put.-Reuter.
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TANGANYIKA.
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In an interview with a Reuter route to correspondent while en Geneva, Sir A. Chamberlain said clear that it was now sufficiently
Government that the Egyptian would not accept the Treaty he had negotiated with Sarwat Pasha, "It is a misfortune," observed Sir British therefore Auaten; and relations with Egypt would tinue to be regulated by the 1922 Declaration-Reuter.
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Berlin, Yesterday. At a meeting of the German Colonial Organisations the ex- Governors of East-Africa and Klao- chow, Doctor Schnee, Captain Meyer Waldeck, ex-Colonial Minis- SPANISH TANGIER. Matters raised in the report of ter Bell and others delivered the board of inquiry into the specches protesting against alleged !
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Newspapers believe the Prime Minister will decline a demand for a further inquiry into the inci- dents connected with the letter and the publication of it in the
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ONE ARMED" BUTTON'S OLD
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Paris, Yesterday. The Franco-Spanish Tangler Agreement has been signed by which Spain's desire for a fuller share in the Administration of Tangier has been met by an amend- ment of the 1923 Statute; and Spaln of the has been given command gendarmerie hitherto held by Bel- glum 'und a more active role in re- gard to the police.
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To Other Powers. A communique states that the Agree-
Press, together with a note of departure for Vancouver, where protest sent to Rakovsky, then he is going to settle, said that France-Spanish Tangier Soviet representative in London since he had left China eight ment will be communicated to the by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, at months ago, Marshal Chang Teo-British and Italian Governments, to parti- that time Secretary for Foreign in had twice implored him to re-which will be invited Affairs. Recently a committee
turn, but he had decided to keep cipate in the conversations in Paris presided over by Sir Warren out of it while he was safe. There shortly with regard to the Franco- Fisher have investigated the mat-
When Italy's adhesion to the ter and it is considered unlikely were others in China who coveted Spanish proposals and conditions.
his position. Reuter. that any useful purpose would be
Tangler statute agreements has served by further inquiry.
been reached by four powers it will then be submitted for the assent of The question of how the "Daily Thomas adds that he had never the other interested Powers- Mail" became possessed of a copy to his knowledge seen Mr. Gregory Reuter.
International Negotiations. of the Zinovieff letter before nor had any connection with him
The first stage of the interna- publication by the Government is direct or indirect.
tional negotiations concerning Punishment Adequate. answered in a long letter by Sir! Thomas Marlowe, editor of the In a speech in his constituency Tangier concluded yesterday. with "Daily Mail," He states that two last night, Mr. Ramsay Mac- the signing of the Franco-Spanish days before publication he heard Donald, referring to the result of Agreement under which a greater of the existence of the letter the Francs case inquiry, said the share has been granted to Spain in administration of Tangler from two old and trusted friends. punishment of those found guilty the.
Never Seen Gregory.
A
On the following day he received of most culpable folly had been without affecting the basis of the coples of the letter from two dif- swift and terribly, severe. He Statute of Tangier and the sover- ferent sources. The Zinovieff considered, from a personal point eignty of the Sultan... letter did not cost the "Dally of view, the punishment was ex- France and Spain will notify Mail"
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