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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
BRITISH PREMIER ON THE ENTENTE.
London, April 9 Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George, zho was warmly cheered, said the conference at San Remo as undoubtedly the most remarkable since the armistice. Before the coaletence misunderstandings, serious enough, had been made grave by deliberate fermenting by very reck. less persons, but the sky was again clear. All the principals" were pleased with the results, because misunderstandings And been removed and suspicions dispelled. Disagreenient and solely arisen as regards the Ruhr. He emphasised that the whole dispute was whether the Allied or German troops should suppress the Ruhr trouble. The Alhes, except France. Advocated the latter alternative, with a time Jimit fur the withdrawal of German troops, failing which the occupation of any German town would have followed. As a guarantee it was also proposed that Allied officers should arcompany, the German troops in order to see that the specised numbers were not exceeded and that their methods were not too stern or vindictive. He emphasised that that difference had now been entirely cleared up The Germans were informed that as soon as the troops in the Ruhr Valley were reduced to the numbers penaisted by the Allied letter of sth August, the French troops would withdraw from Frankfort and Darmstadt. The statement that French troops would not be withdrawr. until Germany had been disarted and certain other elauses of the Treaty had been enforced was in no way accurate With regard to the raisunderstandings, the removal of which placed the alliance on a firmer basis than ever (theory the French andoubtedly believed that Britain did not mean t enforce the Treaty, especially in traard te reparation anj disarmament. In the despatches to France with regard to the Rohr, the British Government made it quite clear that the difference was purely a question 'od pudlicing and restoration of order, and that when it came to disarmament, reparation. and such matters we could take any action agreed between the Allies The San Ben ́s conference dispelled all suspicion.
thereanent.
Misunderstandhing al atuur fram suspicitas created by. the utterances of very powerial personages in France and the writings of powerful journalists induating the intention ja use the delays in the execution of the Treaty for ulterior motivere. Annexation of the Rhineland and the cual areas was openly advocated. Britain ad to make it absolutely clear that she would never mesent to any such policy. We could not bequeath Lu our children azather Alace, Lorraine. (Cheers. M. Millerand and biz asuwlates readily and sincerely gave tila assurance that the vast majority of Frenchmen were upposi to such plizy equally as the British. The speaker attached The Sherman Muisters had no imapeetaaer to that been invited to cofes wub the Angle French Minister face to fame, because, although there were numerous commissions, the commissioners might be the virgins of the parable - poons were wise, some faswish, and the Allies not always quite sure that the discussions were gonducted quite in areordance with. the Supreme Council poliev. The questions disenssed won'd be, fest, disarmament, then reparation, then the Army of Occupation The Allies Lad agreed that war weapons must be destroyed. The British Herr in Germany charged with the destruction of the weapons rejected that flermany had faithfally accounted for all guns, but the greatest dialy was being atzerienced with regard to rides, owing to the men not sorrendering them. He understood the real diffenity was that the German Greenment did not command authority. The soldiers reßed them; beat the greatest difficulty is that we are dealing with a broken backed people which does n : command its will Its actions are convulsiYP. It has ceni. mand of speech and 'that's abost all There is famine in th land" It was essential that we get the Germans zone and aeroplanes.
As regant treparations, it was remgnised that Germany rangot pay at present, but it was necessary that she abandon her exasperating attitad of reading acetonent of her liabilities and submit proposals for payment. He emphasised that the Allies were not going to Sia on 27th May 10 disenar nhatrine questions. Germany must make dešnite proposals. which world mceive the fairest impartial consideration Elm time limit of froir months after the signature of the Treaty conceded to Germany, wherein to anbenir concrete propomla for settlement of her Pabilities, Lad already lapsert
THREATENED SINN FEIN STRIKES.
London, Apr 99.
In the House of Commons. on the motion for adjour aral, Mr. T. P. O'Connor raised the question of the threst of Irish dookers of strikes at Liverpool and Glasgow unless Sina Feiners were released.
Mr. Sexton, representing Liverpood dockera, said he had warned union members not to participase in the strike but was afraid the situation was getting beyond control
Sir Donald Marleau urged the appointment el a special tibanal to try Sian Feiners.
Mr. Shortt promised to submit the suggestion to the Government. Sing Feiners had never been treated as convicted. The movement at Liverpool was ret br Trades Unions bar had been engineered by local Sinn Feiners. The Government would not yield to threats at Liverpool or elsewhere.
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STRIKES IN SERBIA.
Belgrade. April 5.
A telegram from Lubliana states that a train proceeding from Agram was held ap by striking miners who play fired the The Hrastynsk military guard repulsed them, Three thousand strikers at Lubliana killing one assailant. attacked the police and the latter red, kiling ten and wounding twenty-one.
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
ARUY DISCIPLINE.
London, April a.
Lord Peel stated in the House of Lords that the death sentences passed during the whole war in all theatres upon officers and men were 3,074, while only 343 were carried ous. All the latter wero conârmed belára execution by the Com- mander-in-Chief.
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London, Apr 2
In the House of Lords, Lord Southborough mored the appointment of a departmental committee to investigats the different kinds shalshoek, the enquiry to include infliction of . the death penalty on charges of cowardice.
Lord Horne, speaking in the capacity of a General, sug- ported and expressed the option that if there was any suspicion that a crime committed might be due to shellshock. the coartmartial sentence should not be conarmed until the ...arcused had been under medies! observation for a suicient time to ascertain whether his mental balance had been afected.
Lord Peel, replying, pointed out that extreme care had been exercised by courtmartiala In such cases a medical adviser had always been included it there was a suggestion of any mental or nervous disorder. The Government opined that great advantages might be obtained by the proposed inquiry. Many nervous and rental conditions encountered were entirely new to the medical' officers. The connection between forms of disease met with during the war and civil. he was very close. The experience gained in the was might be of great value in other fields. The War Office would be glad to accept the view that a Departmental Committee " should be appointed and it might be wise to have a mixed committee including among members with expert knowledge and in view of the disciplinary side of the inquiry a lawyer and perhans a soldier!
The motion was adopted
THE BUDGET.
London, April 2
In the House of Cuinzona, Mr. Terrell moved the re- stiva of the excess profita duty.
Uhamberlain emphasised that although willing to ronsider an alternative it was his duty while trade was prosperans to make a real effort to redure the vast debt which was embarassing commerce and was a potential danger to the credit of the country. There was nothing at present more im. pertant owing to our dependence on overseas supplies of fed and raw materials than that our international credit should stand high, especially in America. He was content that the Budget be judged by the verilict of informed American opinion. The Badge: imgt, at our standing again in the very from: Lue as a great £nancial, evmmercial, and industrial nation. The mution for rejection was defeated by 57 votes tu
The corporation tax was adopted. A Chamberlain intimating that co-operative dividends would be exempted from the ta
ALBANIAN INDEPENDENCE.
Londen, April 25
Is the House of Lords, Lord Lamington naked a question in which he alluded to the Albanane fear of invasion by Seridanser Greeks. He asked the Allies to give an assurance that the independence of Aibanua, guaranteed in 1912, would not be infringed. Lord Crawford, replying, said the Supreme Council won'd not tolerate any aggression of the nature suggested or allow it to affect the final settlement of the Albanian quea. n. Meanwhile it was impossible to give further aaaurantes.
PEACE OF IUROPE.
Home, April 8.
It is reported Irvar San Fiene that, conversing with liahoz journalista, Mr. Lloyd George stated that the German Chan. celor would attend the Conference at Spa on 95th April en an equal footing with the heads of the Allied Governments and be able to make proposals on the fature peace settle. ment of Euroze.
THE TWO THOUSAND.
London, April 23. The race for the Two Thousand Gdinray resulted: 1. Terratema; 2. Allenby: 3. Paragon. Seventeen ran: half length: three lengths. The S. P. betting was: Tetratema 21: Allenby 100-7; and Parazon $1.
AIR COMMISSIONS.
London, April 2 The Air Ministry announces that the total suaber Royal Air Force tadets, including colonials from the Dominions, dispersed up to 7th April was 21,251, of whom 3,000 were gazetted to temporary and 5,950 to bonorary com- missions. Ex-cadets of the Royal Air Force who were in training at the armistice and have not been notified of their gazellement to honorary commissions should apply to the Air Ministry giving their regimental details,
A FRENCH REVERSE.
Paris, April 23. The French at Urfa suffered considerably. It is reliably reported that their losses amount to one third of the effectives, which amounted to seven handred, composed of two com- panies of whites and the remainder Senegalese.
AY EXAMPLE TO THE LEAGUE.
THE RED MAP AND THE WORLD,
Spanking at a meeting in the Manchester Town Hall recently Mr. Richard Robinson, han. secretary of the local branch of the League of Nations Union. said that in the eyes of a great part of the world the fact that Great Britain had accepted under the League of Nations a mandate for the government of Some two milion miles of new territory meant simply that greater
part had been painted red. He sug- gested that an art of specific sacrifice on our part, such as the putting of the Suez Canal unde international control and the establishment of a Goremment in Egypt, would put heart into the peoples of Europe more than ADS- thing else that could be imagined
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The meeting was the annual meeting of the Manchester and District Branch of the National Council of Women, and the presi- dent of the Society, Mrs. W. H. Johnson, was in the chair.
Mr. Robinson. Baid that although we were all in favour of the League of Nations, and although the ideas it embodied had been before the world for centuries, we had to confess that the prospects of the League as established by the Peace Treats were gloomy. So far from there being peace, there were 2,000,000 armed men in Eastern Europe at this moment, and no one could say what disasters loomed ahead. Nor could we lose sight of the economic position of Eastern and Central Europe. "
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Mr. was, however, Robinson said, some hope in the position. The League was in being. It had been subscribed to by 45 nations. It had held its first labour conference. It was about to hold its first economic conference and to hold an inquiry into conditions in Russia. It was an accomplished fact, and what was required was the forca of public opinion throughout the world in its favour.
But something mors was re- quired, and that was to recapture the ideals with which we had entered the war. He believed that that could only be done by some conspicuous act of good faith by an attempt to reach that ideal on the part of some Great Power. What Power better than Great Britais! Neutral countries, and to some extent. America, were watching the effect of the war upon Great Britain. Under the League of Sations we had accepted a man- date to administer some two million miles of new territory with due regard to the native populations. and he believed that such an administration was our honest intention. But other nations did not regard the matter in the same way. They knew simply that the new map of the world was rider than ever be fore. Britain surely was able to make a sacrifice to show the world that she believed in the principles of the Lengue of Nations and 10 prove that bez reasons for entering the
were unselfia3b. A com mission
sitting in connection with the administra- tion of EgyPL Consider the effect upon public opinion if we determined to internationalise the Suez Canal and to assist a bomogeneous people to set up. under our protection, a national Government of their own. The effect of such a decision he be lieved would be for the good of Great Britain and for the good of Egypt, but thy effect upon the public mind would be inceleul- able.
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