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Return To Bismarck Type Of Government Country Unfit For Self-Government

Washington, Jan. 23.

The French Government has proposed in a note submitted to the United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom a new constitution for Germany, in which the German National Parliament or Reichstag would be abolished and Germany return to the Bismarck type of Government in a loose decentralised con- federation of comparatively independent Ger- man states, Reuter learns authoritatively to- day.

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The following are the details contained in the hitherto unpublished note which the French

CAPONE ILL

Miami, Jan. 22.

Al Capone, former Chicago gang leader, lying ill de Nis villa here after an apopletic stroke, toas reported by his doctor last night to have ral- lied and regained conacione -ne "Scarface Capons" was re

leased from prison in 1930 and since then has lived in retirement at Miami, He was. sentenced in 1931 to 11 yenra · imprisonment for a £50,000 tax evasion after he had e- caped arrest for gangster activitica. Reuter,

Government delivered to the other members Yugoslavia

British Support

of the Big Four during the last few days. Firstly, Germany to be a, by the sanction of all effective. comfederation of separate Ger- belligerenta. mun states., in which the chief powers are invested in the fater and the Federal Govern- men functions limited to such overall considerations asbe eunication of the principles food, transportation, on which an Interim agreement france, Dosts and telegraphs and cer- should be based, Lain aspects of economic and

oreign affairs,

Stendly, Assemblies within each state in be appointed every four years, and, representatives elected to the "House Stutes.""

of

Thirdly. The House of States ta appoint every year a new Federal Presklent who would Federal himself appoint the Government for the above functions.

Fourthly, The State Govern- ments to be responsible for all other functions, to have their own police force, to appoint judges to the overalt German Supreme Court. to be able to appoint Ambassadors to foreign and negotiate state matters with them but to be forbidden to make alliances or mergers with other states.

powers

Fifthly, International trea- ties for Germany as a whole i would have to be approved by the a two-thirds majority of

House of States.

Australian Plan

Meanwhile the Australian

The first practicni step would

the

of The next session Council of Foreign Ministers in Mscow should anthorise Interim agreemen! and the axisting agreed agenda aliould not be permitted to prove ac obstacle.

This draft should cover the principles to govern the final pruce settlement, including the fan of Government and de- limitation of frontiers and. also the principles for current ad- ministrative control.

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Withdraws Attache

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Athens, Jan. 22. It was officially announced to- day that Yugoslavia is withdraw

Attache from ing her military Greece and has requested Greeca to withdraw Her military attach chomm Yugoslavia

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"Queen" Not At

Fault

London, Jan. 21. The Queen Mary was free from blame for the collision in which the crack 80,000 tons British liner cut her escorting cruiser Curacoa in two during the war, an Ad- miralty Court decided today.

Dismissing with costs the £1,500,000 action brought by! the Lords Commissioners and the Admiralty against the Cunard White Star Company; the judge said the collision was solely due to the negligence of those in the Curacoa.

coast

of Donegal in October 19-12-

The collision-off the

occurred in broad daylight in fine. clear weather, the judge

It was understood that the reason for the withdrawal ad- said. an

vanced by Yugoslavia was that Contrary 10 some reports the presence of military attache there was no submarine or in the respective capitals was "n longer considered necessary under cther alarm in operation. "It the existing state of diplomatic is abundantly clear that the relations between the two coun-collision was one which ought never to have been permitted relation

This was a direct reference to to happen," he declared. the withdrawal of the Yugoslav

The £1,300,000 damages ambassador frem

Greece last September, since when Yugoslavia 338 officers and men when the sought included life claims for has maintained a charge d'aires A short discussion followed in Athens, whlic Greece has con- Curacoa sank-Reuter. Colonel Hodgson's statement, tinued to be represented in Bel- drink which Sir William grade by an ambassador. Strang, British deputy, indicate latest Yugoslay move with the Observers tend, to connect the ed Britain's general sympathy fact that Yugoslavia has not yet with the. Australian standpoint notified the Greek Government of and gave the assurance

that the Britain would do everything United Nations Border Commis- possible to ensure a final solusion which is to meet in Athens tion along these lines.-Reuter, on Jan. 31.-Reuter,

names

the

Yugoslav

Major Cousens Loses His Commission

Sydney, Jan. 23.

delegate to the conference of Major Charles Hughes Cousens, against whom

special deputies for Germany unger that the Germans

are

unfit for self-government when he made an important statement on Australia's attitude to the future of Germany today.

charges of treason arising from wartime Tokyo broadcasts were dropped, is to petition the Governor-General to revoke the Army Board's decision to cancel his commission. Former senior officers of the war, said that the Board's deci- Speaking on behalf of the

Major's old division have 'pro- sion was most unjust. Australian Government, Lieut tested strongly against the deci "If Major Cousens is guilty enant-Colonel William Hodgson

after

De Gaulle Rejects A Medal

.

Paris, Jan. 22. General De Gaulle hasi

accept the military medal which

refused to

the French Government has also proposed to pre- sent to Mr. Winston Churchill, Generalissimo Stalin and the represen- tative of the late Presi- dent Roosevelt.

all

The medal ranks above

tions. His reasons were given in

other French military dieting- letter to M. Leon Blum, until

morning. recently Prime Minister, publish- General de Gaulle wrote: "The

ed

gave the following, list of fac-sion and members of the divi- so are 15,000 other prisonere-of- tora which ought to govern the sion propose to hold a meeting war who were forced to work, German peace settlement: to decide how they can help for the Japanese," he said. acts which accomplished wer

"It seems rather spiteful carried out at a time when by 1. There should be no Ger- him.

Major force of circumstances I exercised They are not going to let the punishment man Government fcr Botne

matter rest and will force the Cousens. had been committed the functions of minister of state years to come.

2.The Germans-are-unfit issue one way or another, it was for trial and it was decided to and those of chief of Govern- for self-government. Nothing stated.

drop the charge."

"It is obviously not conceivable would be worse, he said, for Brigadier Taylor, former The Sydney Sun said in an!

state or Government should decorate themselves in the the peace of the world than commander of Major Cousens' editorial:

person of those who personified and directed them and for the manner in which they did so.

"If Major Cousens

to hasten the formation of a brigade and an ex-prisoner-of-can not be punished normally Central Givernment for the

sake of convenience.

The generat nature of the

peace settlement ought not to bel BOAC

kept from the German people.

4. Ref:re the final pence settlement an Interim

agree-

ment must be imposed on Ger- nkly.

Plane's Atlantic Feat

Colonel Hodgson added that premature› signature of a peace

Prestwick, Jan. 22. With one of its four engines treaty would bring a future German, Government into dis- unserviceable for the most part of its trans-Atlantic journey, a repute and he quoted the exam- British Overseas Aircraft Cur- ple of the current instability in Italy, where the Italian Gov-poration Constellation with 20 people aboard made' a perfect

by normal justice,, he should not be punished at all."

Will Petition

Major Cousens said that the trial cost him over £6,000, which he will endeavour to

recover from the Government.

con-

that

"Let me add that for the man who gave himself the mission of leading France and the French union since disaster and servitude untii ictory and freedom, there 're- acceptable

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