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THE KING
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DOCTORS' PRONOUNCEMENT AFTER LONG CONSULTATION
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London, Yesterday: The weather conditions were Ideal at Bognor to-day and the King sat for some hours at the open window of his bedroom at Cmigweil house.
Further warning, however, that the King's full recovery must still be à long progress was given in a bulletin issued last night, after lengthy consultation between Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir Stanley Howell, who signed the bulletin, and officials of the King's household.
The bulletin recorded satisfactory progress during the past fortnight and stated that weight and strength has increased and that the sleep refreshening, while His Majesty is now able to read and apply his mind for short periods of time.
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FRANCE AND BELGIUM NOT SOLD
THAT FORGED TREATY
Brussels, Yesterday.
Full time working in the British coal mines is likely for the next three months in máný districts." A number of Yorkshire mines, which The newspaper "Nation Belge" were working three and four days declares that the alleged Franco- weekly for the past three months, Belgian secret agreement, published are now on full six days a week; one in the "Utrechtee Dagblad" was is even working seven days.-Reu-forged by a well-known Flemish ter.
| activist employed by the German secret service. The German au- thorities were not aware of the for- gery. The. activist, who was born in Belgium, was, offered 100,000 marks for the text of the 1920, Con- vention, and proceeded to forge t are stated to have the backing of when he was unable to procure it. General LI Teung-jen and his col-The document came to be offered to leagues at Wu-Han, the Central the "Utrechtse Dagblad," which Government has only announced published it in good faith. that a commission will inquire into the matter.
CHINA CRISIS ·
(Continued from Paga 1.)
-General Lu's Case [From & Correspondentl
The following report from Nan king, it has to be emphasised, was The bulletin recalled, however, written several days before there that: "One of the most anxious was any talk of the Klangal forces results of the grave Illness was being involved. the severe exhaustion due to pro- longed toxaemia, For this reason careful avoidance of any sustained
Nanking, Feb. 27. effort of body or anind will be neces-
On arrival here, after a rather sary for a lengthened period in or ignominious fight, from Hanah, der to ensure completeness of re- General Lu Ti-ping has made out covery, which though still some a good case for presentation to the months distant, we confidently anti-Central Government. cipate."-British Wireless Service, The strongest evidence in that
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London, Saturday.
General Gallet, chief of the Bel- glan General Staff, whose name figures largely in the alleged minutes,. has repudiated them as a forgery, while General Debeney, who is alleged to have signed the minutes on behalf of France, says that the only time he has been in Belgium was in 1825, two years before the alleged conference."
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On the arrival of the Amsterdam exprean at Brussels half an hour after raidnight, a man corresponding to the description in the "Nation Belge" was arrested and charged whereas most rulers in the past, with forging the document publish- when expelled and accused of ed in the "Utrechtse Dagblad.": “squeeze,” have taken the line of Albert Frank Heine, the arrested least resistance by remaining out Belgian activist, alleged to have of the way, Gonera! Lu Ti-ping has admitted that the document supplied come straight here to appeal, by him do the editor of the activist En passant, it has to be borne in newspaper "Schelde" and reproduced mind that the Wu-Han leaders still was a forgery, for which he was {wield considerable influence in the entirely responsible. Mr. Lloyd George's scheme to re- counsels here.
He confessed that the "treaty" duce unemployment in a alngle
General Chu Pel-teh, the head of was an imitation of a former treaty year has been hailed by the Liberal the army units in Klangai pro- between two foreign Powers, and newspapers as evidencing the ra- vince, which stands between Wu-was concluded long before the war. vival of the ex-Premier's dynamic (Han and Nanking, is definitely on It had nothing to do with Belgium national influence, but the Conser the side of General La Ti-ping be- and Holland. The so-called official, Wedding cake for transmission by post to places outside the vatives and Labourites are most cause of the alleged aggressiveness reports of the military officers Colony must be securely packed in tin boxes.
scornful.
of Wu-Han in relations toward also forgeries, he admitted, Sir Wm. Joynaon Hicks, in a Klangai. General Chu Pei-teh is
Selling the "Treaty" speech, said: "It is a lively rabbitquoted as going so far as to back Heine first offered his treaty, to get from a hat."
General Lu Ti-ping and to have modelled on the old Franco-Russian Mr. L. M. S. Amery, Dominions offered to pay for the upkeep of his Treaty, to the German Espionage Secretary (referring to Mr. Lloyd troops.
Buraan at Mulhelm who, doubting George's promises when he launch-
The question being asked is whe- its authenticity, rejected the offer, ed national insurance) said:-
ther General Chu Pel-teh, who has He thereafter sold it through an "Where is your ninepence for four-been in a precarious position be Antwerp journalist for whose arrest perice now? It is a modest slogan cause he is outnumbered by Wu- a warrant has now been Issued. compared with a hundred millions Han, will take advantage of the
Heine does not consider that he for nothing."
Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, ad-flow of feeling against Wu-Han sold France and Belgium. 1 merely cheated a buyer and that is a venial dreasing a Labour demonstration, and precipitate hostilities?
It is felt that the desire to main-{swindle." said:"Lloyd George has renewed some of his old pledges, many of tain the peace at all costs, in the them still in the pawnbrokers. For interest of personal and National- example, homes fit for heroes." ist interests, will prevail against Mr. J. H. Thomas said:"The the wishes of some to see a cam- Welsh Wizard's new trick entitles paign against Wu-Han, with the jhim to be called the world's hope of Wu-Han's defeat.
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In the Second Chamber the Foreign Minister (Jonkheer Dr. F. Beelaerts van Blokland) declared that in view of the denials of the British, French and Belgian Gov- Mra, R. Bryant, a sister-in-law
ernments regarding the "Utrechtse The "Shanghal Sunday Times" Dagblad's" articles, there was no of Mr. Henry Ford and two children, are stopping at the home publishes a report to the effect that reason for the Dutch Government ten vessels, among them four be to make representations to the J. Raven, 655 Avenue longing to the China Merchants above mentioned Governments with Joffre, Shanghai. Mr. J. Warner S..N. Co., have been commandeered regard to the subject.-Reuter. Brown, a friend of Mrs. Bryant by the Chinese authorities. and manager of the American-reported that the vessels, ander the Orient Banking Corporation, Tien- instructions of Nanking authorities, tain, is also residing with Mr. will receive orders for the transport Raven, sayo a Shanghal paper.
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6-regiment of Northern troops and the temple, and allanced, the armed and imprisoned within the denly remited.
mutineers fire and then began dis Winter Palace. Two of the re- gunmen coster the Shan-clothed arming them,
guards the vicinity of the well-known Lama Temple, disarmed them, and fired" ahots la théi
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