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LABOUR CABINET

Railway Leader as Colonial Secrytary.

THREE PEERS GET PÓSTS.

(Reuter's Service).

London, January 22

The Baldwin Cabinet held a inal meeting this morning. after which Mr. Baldwin motored to Backingham Palace and tendered

is resignation, and advised His Majesty to summan Mr. Rainsay Macdonald, who arrived at the Palace at noon accompanied by Mr. Clynes, Mr. Thomas, and

ther Labour leader

The audience lasted an hour, and Mr. Macdonald was sworn- has a Privy Connciliar. He was given an oration when leaving Buckingham Palace

Later. it was ficially an- nounced that the following would form the new Canet,

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Pre mier and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. James Ramsay Macdonald, the new Prime Minister, was born at. Lossiemouth in 1866, and is therefore 37 years of age. His wife, who was a daughter of the late Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., and was an authority on women's' labour questions. died in 1911. There are two sons and three daughters. The new Premier was educated at a Board School and from his early manhood days has played a prominent part in connection with the activities of the Labour Party, of which he

was

Secretary from 1900 to 1911. He became Chairman of the Independent Labour Party in 1906 and held this position for three years, From 1911 to 1914

and was a prominent figure in het conferences which concluded the railway strike rf a year later (Sept. 1919) He was elected vice-

MR. JH. THOMAS.

chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1921.)

Sir Sydney Olivier. Secretary of Stale for India..

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WEDNESDAY

“JANUARY 237 1924, nÅTHIT "*:PT BETS

CEMENT COMPANY.

PROPOSED INCREASE OF

at a Board School and privately. Mr. Thomas Shaw, Minister and entered the Civil Service la of Labour.

11886 He retired in 1893 and (Mr. Thomas Shaw, CRE

took up joumalism and lecturing born in 1873 and educated stan He sat in Parliament as Socialist elementary school. He is another Lancashire representativÁSAMT

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MR. PHILIP SNOWDEN.

M P. for Blackburn from 1906) to 1918. He has published much material on Socialism.)

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Mr. J. R. Clynes, Lord Privy Seal and deputy leader in the House of Commons.

MR. THOMAS SHAW.

was elected for Labour, and Preston in 1918. He was appoin ed secretary of the International Congress of Textile Workers in 1911. He was made a CBE in 1919.)

Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, Post- master General.

CAPITAL'

Firestone Int Hles For Dollaz

othe

provements it means less possibility of tyre. Injury and even more mileage than ever, THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD,

GOVERNMENT'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.

A THREE WEEKS' ADJOURNMENT,

**Reuter's Services)

London, January 22.

"Another local Company intends taking steps for the increase of its_capital. This is the Green Island Cament Co. Ltd, for

The House of Commons was crowded to-day. Mr. J.H. Thomas which Messrs. Shewan, Tomes provided a novelty in Labourites' dress, appearing in a morning cost and Coste managers.

whilst Mr. Ramsay Macdonald entered later attired in a frook coat. meeting of shareholders is which is the regulation attire for an audience at Buckingham Palace. shortly to be called for the pur-He took his seat on the front Opposition Bench and was greeted with pose of considering resolutions Labour cheers.

increasing the capital of the Mr. Mackenzie Wood bad a successful ballot on a private fem- Company from $3,000,000 (con-bers' motion and announced that he would raise on the Estimates wisting of 400,000 shares of the the question of the Singapore base.

nominal value of $7.50 each) to Mr. Baldwin, in mosing the adjournment till February 12, an- $5,000,000 by the creation of

400,000 additional shares of the nounced that the Government's resignation had been accepted. He same value. It is proposed that said that the date of reassembly had been chosen to suit Mr. Ram- the new shares be issued in the say Macdonald.

The Liberal Mr. PA. Harris protested against a three weeks* proportion of one new share for every old share at par, one dollar adjournment in view of the railway strike.

The House agreed to the adjournment. Mr. Ramsey Macdonald per share to be paid on accept did not speak- ance and the balance to be called up at such time as the Directors think fit, at least three months notice of any call being given.

TO-DAY.

Closing Exchange 25. 4. 3/16 Barometer 2 p.m. 30.06 62 Temperature 2 par

$3 2 p.m. Humidity Lighting Up-Time 6.05 p.m

[Mr. J. R. Clyces, who is 53 years of age. was former secretary of the Lancashire District Gas-

[Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, O.BE history. He started the Nex workers' and General Labourers'

on.. the served

Coal Trade Statesman, a clever weekly reyiaw, Union. He was elected Labour

in 1913.] M.P. for a Manchester division Organisation Committee and on the Coal Controller's Advisory

Mr. John Wheatley. Minister in 1906. He was made a Privy Committee. He was elected to] Councillor in 1918, and that year Parliament in 1916 as Labour of Health. succeeded the late Lord Rhondda

Lord Parmoor, Lord Presid ent of the Council,

Mr. Kindersley, during the ballot on motions, gave notice that on the Civil Service estimates ho would move a resolution on the subject of empire development whilst several Ministerialists gavo notice that they would call attention to the position of the Air Force. A meeting of Liberal Meribers of the House unanimously pass- ed a resolution declaring, inter aliu, their steadfast determination to resist every attempt to destroy private enterprise and to establish the socialisation of industry.

The Voting

An analysis of last night's momentous division shows that the majority consisted of 187 Labourites, 137 Liberals, two Irish Nation- alists, and two Independents. The minority consisted of 245 Con- eervatives, 10 Liberals, and one Independent. Eight women voted, five being against and three for the Government.

A Bankers Promise.

London, January 22. Lord Colwyn, speaking at the annual meeting of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, said that if bankers were called upon to give advice or assistance to the new Government they would render any help in their power. whatever their personal political views. Tha cation was greater than party.

in the Artists Rifles during the improvement in trade. The Chambers would oppose nationalisation war. He was official war artist and they believed a capital levy would be disastrous. He under- to the Ministry of Information.) Istood that the coming Budget would show a million or two surplus,

but economy was necessary in order to relieve taxation. Mr. Noel Buxton, Minister of

The meeting by a large majority passed a resolution urging va Agriculture and Fisheries. the Government the desirability of a Bill carrying out the economic [Mr. Noel Buxton. who was resolutions of the Imperial Conference, and also passed a resolution born in 1869, is the second son of in favour of Imperial Penny Post.

Advice by Chambers of Commerce. as Food Controller, resigning member for the Ogmore Division [Mr. John Wheatley, an artist

of Glamorganshire.]

painter and engraver by profes

London, January 22, Inter.]

Mr. F. W. Jowett. First Comision. wher works in the British Museup, was born in 1892, and is

At a meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Com missioner of Works.

the eldest son of Sir Zachariah [Mr. Frederick William Jowett Wheatley, silversmith, who was merce at Birmingham, Sir Arthur Balfour (President) said as long as [Charles Alfred" Cripps, first Baron Parmoor (created 19141, J.P.. was born in 1861. He was knighted in 1920. He studied the Labour Government was not controlled by Communists the Queen's Counsel, and was Councillor and for eight years others, and served as a Sergeant takings for the benefit of the country. We were on the verge of an was born in 1852, the son of a for fifteen years a Bradford City under Stanhope Forbes, R., and Chambers of Commerce would give it all possible aid in its under- educated at Winchester and Oxford. He was made a Queen's Counsel later. He was elected to Parliament as far back as 1895, "[Sir Sydney Olivier, B.A., Las Conservative M. P. for the D. K.C.M.G., C.B., is the son of a Stroud Division of Gloucester- clergyman, and was born in 1859. shire. "He sat as Unionist M. P. He was educated at Oxford and for the Wycombe Division of in Germany, and entered the Bucks from 1910 to 1914.) Colonial Officesin 1882. He has

Mr. Artbur Henderson, Secre. held official appointments, includ- ing a Governorship, in the West lary for Home Affairs. Indies. He has published several (Mr. Arthur Henderson, who is literary efforts. His recreations 59 years of age, served an appren- are described by himself as "the ticeship as a moulder in New- normal forms of loafing and castle. He became Chief Whip dilettantism." His chief club is of the Labour Party in the House the National Liberal]

of Commons ja 1914, and was

Viscount Chelmsford. First Lord of the Admiralty.

[Frederic John Napier Thesiger is third Baron and first Viscount Viscount Chelmsford (created 1921). He was born in 1858, and educated at Oxford. He was Governor of Queensland. 1905- 1909, and of New South Wales, 1909-1913 and Viceroy of India 1916-1921, He is a Unionist.

Mr. Stephen Walsh. Secretary

MR. RAMSAYI MACDONALD for War.

at

LC.C. from 1301 to 1904 and cellor..

editor of the Socialist Library in

MR. F. W. JOWETT.-

Sir T. Fowell Barton, third A resolution way also adopted urging the Government to Baronet, and was educated at approach the French and Italian Governments with regard to their Cambridge. He was A.D.C. to his debts to Britain.

WB.8 the latter father when

Australia Governor of South

What France Thinks..

Paris, January 22.

in 1896. He was wounded by a

The Right newspapers foresee nothing but ill from the advent political assassin in October 1914 of a Socialist Government in Britain. The Left and Extreme Left while engaged on a mission aimed papers hail the event as a triumph for democracy, opening up a at securing the adhesion of the new era. The Centre and Governmental organs confine themselves Balkan States to the cause of the to a hope that things will go all right.

Allies. He has published much literature on the Near East. He was elected to Parliament in 1905

as Libera! member for Whitby.! and from 1910 to 1918 represent- ed N. Norfolk.]

Mr. William Adamson, See- retary for Scotland.

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FUTURE OF CHINA.

POWERS ASKED TO BE PATIENT.

London, January 22.

The Chinese Mission has left London for the United States en Mr. William Adamson born in 1863, the son of a Scottish route to Japan The High Commissioner, interviewed by Reuter, miner. He became Labour M.P. paid a tribute to the cordiality extended them in England. He said Locomotives and rails for West Fife in 1910, and has China had every prospect of cotton ciltivation development leading China was beginning been chairman of the Parlia-to the growth of the industry generally. mentary Labour Party. He was were urgently needed in China for transport. made a Privy Councillor in 1918. to develop her industries. China's foreign friends need not take too pessimistic a view of the Chinese political situation. Educational chairman of the Public Health;

Mr. C.P. Trevelyan, President improvement was spreading throughout the country, despite occ&- sional disturbances, and industry and commerce ware making rapid He was elected to Committes. Parliament in 1906 se Labour of the Board of Education.

(Mr. Charles Philips Trevelyan strides. China would prove a land of surprises if the foreign Powers member for West Bradford, re-

was born in 1870, the eldest son accorded her support and exercised patience while awaiting her taining this seat until 1918.).

of the Rt. Hon. Sir Gregeneration. Brigadier-General C.B. Thom Trevelyan. He was educated at and Harrow and Cambridge, san, Secretary for Air.

of the London among other appointments was

member 2

[Apparently this is Sir Court

He is self MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON. uid Thomson, K.B.F, who has School Board from 1896 to 1897,

had a very distinguished military and Parliamentary Secretary to

AERIAL ROUTE TO CHINA.

London, January 22,

[Mr. Stephen. Walsh, who was he was leader of the Labour born in 1839, was elected Labour Parts. He was Erst returned to M.P. for the Ince Division of Farliament for Leicester in 1906 Lancashire in 1906. He became and held the seat until 1918, when Parliamentary Secretary to the be suffered defeat by heavy Ministry of National Service in majority. Contesting East Wool-1907, and to the Local Govern- wich in 1921, be was again defeat-ment Board from 1917 to 1919. ed, but he was returned by a big He started life as a coal-miner

Commander Boothby, lecturing at the Colonial Institute, said the majority for Aberavon

in Lancashire. General Election in 1922 and in educated but well-read man.] the recent election retained his

Viscount Haldane, Lord Chan-elected chairman of the Party on career. He was born in 1866, the Board of Education from 1908 there were indications that a beginning would shortly be made with eat. He was a member of the

the outbreak of the war. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, to 1914. A Liberal, he resigned an airship route to Australia which could be developed by stages, made a Privy Councillor in 1915. joined up in the war, and was from the Government "as a protest possibly sis Egypt, Delhi and Singapore to Port Darwin. The es- [Richard Burdon Haldane, and joined the Coalition Govern-attached to the General Head- 1905. He was a member of the

member to receive Egypt in 1916. He was men-Great Britain in the War"]

ANGLO-AMERICAN LIQUOR TREATY. Royal Commission on the Indian L. D., firs: Viscount (created meat in May, being the first quarters Staff of the B. E. F., in against the policy which involved tablishment of a big bi-weekly service to Australia would require a

A Beuter's message says the

London, January 22. and received rapid promotion. Civil Service in 1912-14. He is the 1911), and Privy Councillor, was Labour author of numerous publications born in 1856 and educated at Cabinet rank, as President of the tioned in despatches four times. A "Surprise" Appointment.

Edinburgh and in Germany. He Board of Education.} on social and labour problems.]

entered Parliament in 1885., às Mr. Josiah Wedgwood, Chan Among his many decorations for announcement of the constitution

The British Embassy in Washington has been authorised to war/service are Italian, Mont of the Macdonald Cabinet came enegrin and Serbian Orders and quite unexpectedly. It was made Liberal M. P. for Haddington-

within two hours of the Frima communicate to the American Government the draft of the Liquor Bar in 1879. He was Lord High [Commander Josiah C. Wedg-medals.]

Mr. Sidney Webb, President Minister obtaining the Royal Treaty as approved by the British Dominion Governments. It is approval of the appointments understood that the Treaty entitles the United States to search (Mr. James H. Thomas, who is Chancellor of Great Britain from wood, who is 50 years of age, after

This he sought in the course of a within an hour's steam or sail from shore. 48 years of age, began work when 1912-1915. He is well versed in being an assistant constructor in of the Board of Trade.

and of great literary Portsmouth Dockyard served in ine years old, and eventually Law,

the South African War and after Mr. Sidney Webb, who is aged second visit to the Palace during became an engine-driver on the attainments.] G.W.E. He is general secretary Mr. Philip Snowden, Chan-wards became a resident magis-53, was for eighteen years one of the day, when he kissed hands on

Mr. J. H. Thomas, Secretary

of State for the Colonies.·

of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Bervants. He was elected MP for Derby in 1910. In 1917

be paid a visit to the United States

in connection with the war, and was made a Privy Councillor the

ALH opposed the rail-

shire. He had been called to the celler of Duchy of Lancaster.

cellor of the Exchequer.

trate in the Transvaal. He entered the leading Progressive mambers his appointment, Most of the Parliament as Liberal member for of the London County Council appointments, as Libited, had

administration,

was caused by the

of Lord (Mr. Philip Snowden, who was Newcastle-under-Lyme. He join Hai an authority on economics bean anticipated, but the greatest born in 1864, is a Socialist, and ed up in 1914, entered the Royal and public-

his wife was the Englishwoman Naval Division, was wounded, especially who, toured Bolshevilk Russia and retired with the rank of municipal ads in 1920 and published her ex-Commander. He joined the wife

1919.1

educat

capital of £6,000,000.

THE GERMAN PROBLEM

Pari First Exp A communique states ncluded that an independent gold bank

oreign rmany with the co-operat

ittee has sed in

en being