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THE FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS. BRIAND DECLINES TO FORM A GOVERNMENT.

DOUMER SUMMONED.

PARIS. November 24th. ̧ M. Briand has declined to form a Government.

AL Paul Doumer has been abmimonesī. Ho bas asked for 24 hours to consider the question of the formation of a Cabinet.

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It appears the Socialists refused M. Briand's offer of three portfolios and claimed half the seats in the Cabinet.

LATER.

M. Briand on leaving the Elysee, told

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 1925

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MAILS VIA SIEERIA. SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS..

Loxpos, November 24th. Serious allegations were made at a meeting of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce of heavy delay and misent riage of mails from Great Britain to the Far East eld Siberia,

Delegates asserted that many mails are mising and letters are tampered with, apparently when passing through Soviet territory.

The

matter w Postmaster-General

referred.

to

the

** CORPSE FACTÒRY." THE STORY CROPS UP AGAIN.

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS.

LONDON, November 24th.

The German corpse factory story

THE COTTON INDUSTRY. OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK.

FAR EASTERN CABLE SOME PICTURES OF NELSON.

NEWS.

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REPORTED REVOLUTION

MUKDEN.

PIRING, November 24th, An unconfirmed report current here this evening states that revolution against Chang To Lin has occurred at Mukden and that Chang Tao Lin has been made prisoner.

UXY, GAALINGTON, DD, THE

HEADMASTER OF STUK 1.

On October 21st it is impossible to write of anyone except Nelson. There is

THE FUTURE OF "MOSUL

MR. AMERY'S DEFENCE OF

BRITISH POLICY."

Mr. Amery Secretary of State for Do minion Affairs, was subjected to cofsider.

no parallel to the dominion which he axeratie fecking að af meeting of bis con-

LONDON, November 24th Au optimistic view of the future of the cotton industry, was "taken by Mr. Richard Brocks, in his presidential CHANG TSO LIN A PRISONER?cises over the imagination of bis nation address at the annual meeting of the Manchester Cotton Association.

The great reason why there was more optimism existing to-day than for several years past, was the bountiful cotton crops of the world, and the world

was assured of the most adequate supply.

EXPLANATIONU Britain had 87,000,000 of the world's

PEKING, November 25th. spindleage of 160,000,000,

It is reliably reported that the America's spindleage was 18,000,000 Mukdenite General Kuo Sung Ling, largely engaged in applying domestic stationed at Luanchow, has revolted requirements, so it would be strpneelit

gainst Chang The Lin. General Chang we failed to recrive our due, share of any

Tap Ligns was sent from Shanhaikwan improvement in world buying.

to suppress the revolt but Kuo Sung Ling's troops are reported to have de-

The organised curtailment of the

THE

fortunate in life, fortunate in the hour of his death, he has been the favourite of Fortune to the end, and Trafalgue square, planning in London, is a ft memorial to the mast imaginative piece of towa- the best beloved of our national heroes.

It is curious, by the way, that as fine a piece of work carried out in the heart of London has left so little record in the domestic history of the time. There are few Londoners who could name the who planned the square or the official then existed) who had the courage to sanction.its completion. You will even find it a pleasant exercise to ask your either the column itself or the statute woll-informed friends of what material which surmounts it is composed.

stituents which he addressed at Spark- brook, Birmingham. The interruption: from a small party at the back of the halt began when the attributed the r0- duction in the price of bread to the Food Commission, and continued until the end of the speech.

No statesmau since the war, Mr. Amery said, had made a greater contribution to warus the atmosphere of peace and good willin Europe ihan Mr. Austen Cham- berlain bad done during the last few months. It was too early yet to make the result of the Locarno Conference. All that we could do was to hope and believe that that sober, conference at other, day would be justified by re which Mr. Chamberlain spoke the

salty and that we should see that any A "STORY, OF ST. VINCENT."

rate in that part of Europe which affecta most nearly, solid ground of good There is another piece of good fortune which Nelson shares with Wordsworth, in will and mutual confidence replacing the that almost all those who have written morass of suspicion and distrust, and about him have written well Southey's the smouldering enmity which had kopt bas fallen on other writers too." Mr. years since the war. Our important task spired than when he contrasted the un- and security, the foundations of which dying, fame af. Nelson with that of the were laid two years ago by the Treaty. no grudge: strong silent Englishman whom the nation of Lausanne. We have is erroneously supposed to love. There against Turkey for the unfortunate part is, perhaps, some pardonable exaggeration she played in the Great War," added in his saying that there has only been one Mr. Amery. We are only concerned Englishman of the kind, and that he was to live with her in neighbourliness, and & Dutchmen whom no Englishman could so far as we can to co-operate in her tolerate, but it is genius winch makes regeneration, but we are equally entitled

es missioner of Works (if such an I conndent and certain prediction about

the pressmen ho would be delighted cropped up in the House of Commons put had undoubtedly saved the industry feated Chang Tso Liang, and Kuo Sunelife needs no praise, but the inspiration Earope from settling dowd during the

from a serious financial crisis. Even Ling is now stated to be advancing to- Chesterton was never more: happily in- in Iraq was the establishment of peace.

to include Messieurs Herriot Painleve, Klotz, Paul Boneour, and even repre sentatives of the Centre, in the Ministry, if Republican unity was capable of restoring the country finances, but he was unable to obtain the support. neces- sary to command a stable majority.

to-clay.

Sir L Worthington Evans replying to Commander Kenworthy's request for information of the source of the rumour and to what extent the War Offer acerpted it, said the statement. Srst appeared in the Zokal Änzeiger, Berlin,

now, despite the most optimistic dut look, curtailment was still, essential to avert excessive over-production and

ruinous prices.

The question of the "futures" market

wards Mukden at the head of four

divisions

RAILWAY REPORTED CUT.

LATER

It is reported that Chang Tso Lin's

M. Paul Doumer, President of the and in two Belgian newspapers. Later for Manchester was seriously engaging troops bave cut the railway at Chinwang him add that long after the strong silent and in honour bound to defend the rights

Senate Finance Committee, is Governor of Indo-China.

THE FALLING FRANC.

LONDON, November 24th. The French franc in London fell

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to 128.65.

M. DOUMER'S FINANCIAL POLICY.

PARIS, November 25th.

in

As in the case of M. Briand, the chief obstacle to M. Doumer's success Cabinet making is the attitude of the Socialists, which is still unsettled.

M. Doumer yesterday evening outlined to M. Herriot his financial reform pro- gramme which rejects the Socialist pro- posals for a capital levy and the taxation

of national bonds.

THE RIDDLE UNSOLVED.

Laten The franc in London this morning went over 199 to the £"

PARIA, November 25th.

Besides the Socialists, a section of the Radicals is opposing M., Doumer, whose prospects of forming a Cabinet are less rosy to-day,

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a German Army Order was captured, appearing to confirm the story. The War Office 'saw no геллод to disbelieve ita trath but did not think that public interest would be served by further questions on the subject.

attention.

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WATCHING FOOTBALL: FROM

THE AIR.

"A PROTEST AGAINST HIGH. PRICES.

[A cable from New York on October 3 25th, said: In connection with the stir arising from the report that General

NEW YORK, November 25th. Charteris, Chief of the British In-

Disgusted with the high prices specula- telligence Staff during the war, told the National Arts Club, at a recent private tors were demanding for tickets for the dinner that the story that the Germans belled the belies of dead soldiers for annual football classic between the Army the purpose of obtaining fat was a deliberate invention, General Charteris and Navy endets, fourteen enthusiasts told & Heater representative before he chartered a plane and watched the match left for England that he had been in by circling in the air. The cost was little correctly reported. His references to

in in excess of the prices that speculators "propaganda, which were purely

cidental, were made, with the express were demanding.. purpose of emphasising the principle followed by the British that propaganda,

to be effective, must be based on truth. En added that he only mentioned the case of the corpse factory," for the purpose of emphasising that the report was not utilised for propaganda when it became known that the soldier's diary on which it was founded, wag, fictitious

PI

THE IRISH BOUNDARY

... COMMISSION. STATEMENT BY PROF. MACNEILL.

LONDON, November 24th. Professor J. MacNeill has resigned

It is impossible to say how the riddie from the Free State Government. will be solved.

The alternatives include, firstly, a government of the Left hloe including Socialists; secondly, a Socialist Govern ment with the participation of other groups of the Left bloe; thirdly, a coal-' tion, Left with Centre, hüt excluding Socialists; fourthly, dissolution and fresh elections. Meanwhite time presses and the franc is still falling

(THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.]. FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

M. CHICHERIN TO VISIT PARIS."

..

LATER, Professor MacNeill's" resignation was 1 resident announced in the Dail by Cosgrave.

Professor MacNeill, referring to the statement issued by the Boundary Com-

the 3rd, said it on mission calculated to cause grave misconception. He would not controvert it where it stated bare facts, but he distinctly con troverted its colouring.

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tao in order to binder Kuo Sung Ling's

advance.

The temporary collapse of the Mukden party has immensely strengthened Feng Yu Hajang.

and interests of those who, in a peculiar sense, are under our trusteeship and for whom we have undertaken obligations, not only to the world, but to whom we have also undertaken a direct obligation by treaty.

heroes are forgotten there will go ringing down the centuries, the great, English cry of Kiss me, Hardyly But to my mind the most brilliant pic ture of Nelson as he lived is given in The Gentleman," by Alfred Ollivant, a book less known than its great merits

With regard to Mosul, Mr. Amery con- deserve. There is one scene in particular tended that there was nothing provocative which I find it difficult to read without in the policy of the Government. Could emotion, describing the death at the battle of St. Vincent of one of Nelson's the Government, he asked, in fairness to FENG ACCUSED OF BREACH OF AN great friends, and his reception of the those for whom they were trustees, give news. The narrator. is an old seadog any other answer than the answer they nicknamed Ding-dong, who served under gave to the Turkish claims! There were Captain Caryll on the Terrible, and he is two nations voluntarily agreeing to sub- They mit a difficult question to the League of telling the story to Caryll's son. daring manoeuvre, and by the time they to the cause of peace in the world than followed Nelson on the Captain in his Nations, and nothing contributed more got alongside she was a theer hulk

CHANG AND FENG,

AGREEMENT.

PEXING, November 24th. General Chang. Teo Lin has accused General Feng Yu Halang of breaking the agreement, following an attack on Mukden troops withdrawing from Pao- inglu, by Honan troops, which nominally sapport General Feng.

A message from Peking on November

OPIUM SEIZURE AT NEW YORK: stated that representatives of Feng

TINS FROM MAÇÃO.

NEW YORK, November 25th.

Yo

siang and Chang Tso Lin had sign- ed a peace agreement, providing for the withdrawal of the Manchurian troops

As we pass her, your father Jeans

that question should be settled by the League of Nations, and should be ac- cepted badestly and straightforwardly over the rail"

Well done, Captain," says he, lift-by both the parties concerned. The policy of the Cabinet was the natural and in' his hat.

inevitable conclusion of the policy follow- Nelson blaks his one eys up. I can

ed by every Cabinet since under Mr. see him now.

Asquith's Government we were first in Mesopotamis. Surely it was not a party but a national matter that the honour of this country should be safeguarded and upheld in its relation to smaller and weaker countries Nor was it party matter that any method which

peace should be made a success, should not be wrecked beforehand, even before it had had a fair chance of being tried

*That you, Kit" he pipes through bis nose that way of 'is'n. You've got it all your own way now. I'm a wreek

Good luck, Terrible;

الدار

"HALF WOMAN, HALF HERO".

The Customs seized 44 tins of opium 30 miles eastward of the Peking-Hankow great Spaniard, but in the capture of the could contribute to the cause of world-

secreted a the refrigerator room of the Eastern Prince which had arrived from the Far East. The tins were marked with the name of a Chiñced merchant in Macao. The English steward and the Chinese cook-have been detained.

DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN SCHOOLMASTER.

FORMER HEAD OF BLUNDELL'S.

line and the establishment of a joint office in Peking to discuss the Premiership, the reconstruction of the Cabinet and the election of a President-3.

MILITARY SITUATION GROWING WORSE.

PEK:30, November 24th." The general opinion here is that the military situation is growing worse.

The Chief Executive instructed Wa Kuang. Hain to again proceed to Tien- tsin to see Li Ching Lan and urge the maintenance of peace.e

Chang Tso Lin has wired accusing Feng Yu Hsiang of a breach of faith in connection with the recent agreement.

Wa Kuang Hsin returned to Peking and has been working hard to maintain perce."

LATEIL Mr. Augustua Lawrence Francis, aged Kuang Hsin is reported to 18, formerly headmaster of Blundell's have informed the Cabinet to-day that School, was found dead in bed on Octo fighting between Fergtien troops and ber 18th... When he was appointed head- Feng Yu Hsiang is almost unavoidable, master over fifty years ago, at the age both sides being almost completely pre- of 27, he was the youngest in the counpared for action. try, and when he retired in 1917 he was great Public the oldest among the Schools. He was a descendant of Sir Philip Francis, who championed Wilkes, was fought Warren Hastings, and credited with the authorship of the letters of "Junius His father was a Cambridge man who became a Judge of the Buprene Court of New South Wales, and he himself took a first-clase in the Classical Tripos in 1876, followed by lus M:A degree and a Fellowship in the following year. One of his first steps at Blundell's was to urge removal out of Tiverton into the open country, and, although it meant the breach of many precious associations with--nien lil

Wu Kuang, Hain accordingly felt for Tientsin, this afternoon.

RAILWAY CONFERENCE. MAT: DEADLOOK.

The Terrible went on and boarded a great four-decker Captain Caryll lost his life; and this is how the narrative ends.

Bo. I calls a cutter away and rowed aboord the San Josef, the men blub- berin' like a pack of babbies, to break it to Nelson. Like twins, them two, Nelson and your father: that like, ye

see!

Well, there was the Commodore or the Don's quarter-deck, Berry beside him, the Spanish Captain afoor him, and behind him A British Jack-Tar tuckin' the Spaniards' swords under his arm like so many umiberellas.

"I breaks Nt. to him short and straight.

says

Ι.

out,

Mahan's great life, or of The Year of Trafalgar, by Sir Henry Newbolt, is con tinually struck with his power to crystal- live his thought into a sentence stamped. with his own personality. It is in part, no doubt, because he was not afraid to put into words what other men think but

not like to say. It is not uncommon Tor a mun to feel that his only wish is to sink with honour into the grave," but

Captain Caryl's compliments, sir,it is only Nelson who says it, and the

And he's dead."

same is true of his other similar utter ance: I trust my name will stand on are for record when the moneymakers are f 50 this

can

Nelson claps his hands to his face on my neck aloor 'em all-Dons too. as though I'd struck him. Then he falls

power was never more evident than Dingdong Bays be. I loved him

just

tha

I loved him in the last months of his life. He left that was Nelson all through England for the last time with the words, one 'alf woman, t'other 'all hero.

I have much to lose, but little to gain, Then he pulls himself together.and I go because it is right, and I will But there he says He lived verve the country faithfully his anxie like an English gentleman and he died ties are summed up in the ery wrang like a British seaman. May I go that from him during the months of waiting.

And he Oh, French fleet, French fleet, if way when my time comes. .sweeps off his cocked hat as though it but once get up with you I'll make you A message on London, dated Novem

might has been to the King, and-

payer

dearly for all that you have made. ber and, said Professor John MacNeurs

me er 1 and the last words in his "God bless Kit Caryll, says he.", resignation as a member of the Irish

May the Great God," private diary are, Boundary Commianina, which the Execu

Another great writer of English, Mr. Whom I worship, grant to my country. tive Council has accepted was announced

WH. Myers, has found inspiration in the and for the benefit of Europe in general, theme. In a lectare delivered at on a great and glorious victory and may no and. (so far as I know) napublished, he misconduct in anyone tarnish it'; and may Emyvale Monaghan, as being because

spoke first of the attraction, which the humanity after victory be the predomin he had lost faith in the other members

sea has always had for our nation, and of the Commission." President Cosgrave

strikes a note which Mr. Corred in Internt feniture in the British Fleet For myself individually, I commit file to declared that he likewise had lost faith and was forced to, the conclusion that

years has made familiar. There is Him Who made me, and may. His blessing the other members wore swayed in the discharge of their judicial duty by Archbishop Temple and Blackmore, the ernmentino sign an agreement regarding something in the sea, in the sailing out light upon my endeavours for serving my. perilous and unknown which seems to self, and the just cause which is extrusted threats and political influences brought

the through passenger communication from the safe and the familiar into the country faithfully. To Him I resign my to bear upon them.]

Soviet-Japanese-Chinese railway, the conference concerning the matter has conventional I need not say how the been temporarily suspended on the sugpirit of the British people has for cen- gestion of the Soviet delegates.

turies found one of its best loved outlets It is not surprising that something in this kind of solitary comradeship, of this glamour fell on all who had to do with him and was not absent from fix patriotic adventure..!!

He rose, it I am not mistaken, to real funeral in St. Paul's There, says. Bir When the funeral ser

PARIE, November 95th by President Cosgrave," in speech at

Le Journal states that M. Chieherin has asked for a passport for Paris, which he is hoping to visit shortly. The paper assumes that the object of his visit to "M. Briand is to get Russia included in the policy of European reconciliation, and assumes that it is obvious that 'M.. Briand will point out to M. Chicherin that 'France is still awaiting the effects of her conciliatory attitude towards Rumia and emphasize, that Bolshevist propaganda continues and the debt

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THE "RUBBER MARKET.

LosIDON, November 25th. On the Stock Exchange zubbers opened within burst of activity. Subsequently in places, but the undertone of the Profit-taking developed and values eased market is still very firm. --

CHINESE GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO SIGN AGREEMENT.-

M The Moscow, November 24th. A semi-oficial message says: In xiew of the refusal of the Chinese Gor

my

author of Lorna Doone," it was carried out with success, and the school, by any between the Soviet railways and the from a man all that is unreal: and to me to defend. - Amen." Amen Amen ”.. expenditore of £30,000, gained thirty acres of playing fields and many other advantages.

The Russian and Japanese Commission on goods traffic will begin work in a few

MALARIA AN EMPIRE ENEMY,"|| days time."

'The direct annual cost of sickness

THE LIKIN QUESTION,

PERING, November 9th Dr. Andrew Balfour, director of the and death attributable to malaria," said London School of Hygiene and Tropical, The Cabinet to-day decided to make Medicine, at the Guildhouse, Eccleston- the Enancial rehabiliatatina committen

a

eloquence in the passage describing Nal Henry Newboid and ung, Sir Lanse

son's pursuit of Villencave to the West vice had been Indies. Then, began that great

take

chase, that mightiest pursuit and tiern Heard, Garter King at Arms, fulfilled his

God to pleased Almighty which the world has known, that racey me in the traditional form. This it admiral and admiral, of armament and of this transitory Box into His Divine most Noble Lord Horatio armament, of nation and nation a race mercy that and Baron Nelion" of

settlement is still awaited; and that M. DRUSE DEMAND FOR COMPLETE square, London, recently, between special organ to arrange for the abolition where the racecourse was not of Nemean the Nile, and of furnham Thorpe, in the

Briand will ask whether the Russian leaders are disposed to persevere in this. attitude or became a factor for peace.

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DUTCH GOVERNMENT CRISIS.

THE HAGUE, November 25th The Queen has asked Dr. Marchant, the leader of the Liberal Democrat party,

to form a Cabinet.

Dr. Marchant

matter)

considering the

INDEPENDENCE.

BEIRUT, November 20th.

** The Druse leader, El Atrash, has issued a manifesto declaring that the Druses will not accept anything less than com- plate independence.

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SCOTTISH FIRST LEAGUE

Loudon, November" Pith. In the Scottish League (Div, I.), Queen's Park lost to Airdrieonians by one goal to five.

£50,000,000 and 280,000,000. A further of liking vast loss is caused by diminished indus. trial efficiency is a result of the disease. People did not realise, he continued, that malaria was constantly warring against the British Empire, picking off its officers attacking its mercantile marine, and crippling trade. Although we knew how to frustrate the activitics of the parasite, we were not applying our knowledge sar in 'n ̈ few localities. The annual world death toll from this disease exceed od 2,000,000,

A film produced by the Rockefeller ing Bavadane to the rank of Royal Con-After all, it is net unnatural that Nel-Then, as if constions that this fell Foundation depicting the life, history of sort in order to support the rank of the son should have inspired eloquence in words contained no adequate description those who write of him, for he himself of the dead, he added, in breach of all the parasite and its distributor, the moschild she will bear the King quito, was shown. If there were no King Lama was educated at Oxford.

was, whether consciously or not, a great precedent, and the hero who if the mosquitoes," added the speaker, there.He fortore” p polygamy and abolished phrase maker. The reader of Captain moment of victory fell, covered with

immortal glory would be no malaria.”.

the harem maintained by his father.

greensward- or Olympian sand but over the

Baron Nelson of the the boundless barren sea, and the train County of Norfolk Baron ROYAL BIRTH IN SIAM,

Cand Nile and of Hilborough, in the same. blasts of equinox and plenilune, and the RECENT DECREE RECALLED.

hurricane And the cyclone, and the land- Order of the Bath, Yice-Admiral of the 107 5 Testery marks we

were the stars in their courses, the White Squadron of the Fleet, and Com- 12 HANORO November 25th.

Pleiades and armed Orion, and all the mander-in-Chief of His Majesty a slaps. The birth of a daughter to Queen companies of heaven, and the cheers and hand vessele in the Mediterranean; also Suvadanas recalls the decree issued by plaudits were thunder and cannonade, and Duke of Bronte, in Sicily, Knight. Grand King, Hama last month degrading Queen the prize was the world's deliverance and Cross of the Sicilian Order of St. Fere Lakabi, who was described as incapable the pledge paid was death.” ́ ́

dinand and of Merit, Member of the Ottä- of satisfactorily carrying out here BECAUSE IT 15 RIGHT. Commander of the Order of St. Joachim

man Order of the Crescent, Knight, Grand towards the King and country #4

and rais

ors were Bordas and Euroclydon, County Knight of the Most Honourable

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