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TitH YEAR
CHRISTIANSTED,
V.l U.S.
A.,
WEDNESDAY,
12ra
SEPTEMBER
1923
possibility,
however
absurd.
Jo
that
cise cortain
parts
of
my
ultimatun
can
be modified and
Greece
held responsible
in
a lesser
degree,
which the
conference
can exactly
¢
timate.
The
second
con-
clusion
is
th
Greeks
did
eommit
the
murder.
If ¢.ch
is the conclusion,
there
can
be
no
doubt
that
the
conference
would be entirely
in agreement
with my
demands.
The third
conclusion
is
that
not only Greeks,
but Greek
oflicials were
responsible.
In that
event
the
Premier
said,
he supposed
his
demands
would
be
inereascd
and
completed
by
supplemen-
tary penalties.
‘‘l'hat
is
why'',
he
con
tinued,
‘‘ltalythinks
the
wtole
invesu-
gation
can
only
be
made
by
the
great
powers
conseious
of their duties
and at
ing in the full light of day,
and
turnin-
terminab'e
into
conclusiv:
discission’’.
Premier
Mussolini
then
asserted.
‘'no-
thing will make
me recede
from
my posi-
tion,
or
aceant
a
compromise
at the
ex-
pens2
of the
na ton's honcur.
We will not
admit
that
tue
offence
to
Italy by the
crime committed
azainst
our
officers
can
be discussed
and judged
by the assembly
at Geneva,
and
allow
me
to
say,
that
[
belicve that
you
would
do
the
same
in
our place.
Norwich,
Conn.,
Sept.
Tth.—Three
of
the Australian
tennis
players
wichdrew
from the annual
tennis
touraament
here
on acerant
of
the
Tokio
disaster.
John
B. Hawkes,
th2
first
Australian,
having
received
word
that
his father
was Killed
in
the
earthquake
sent
word
that
he
must
retire
from
the
contest.
lorth-
with his companions
F.
Meclnnes and
W,
B. Schlessinger,
in detereace
Lo
nim also
annouced
their
retirement.,
Tae
Janan-
ese
players,
among
tnem
>himizu,
also
retired
because
of the disaster.
London,
Sept.
Tth.—Sivr
Win.
Pudie
Treloar, ex-lord
mayor of London, widaly
known
as
th2 “eripple’s triend”’, d ed
to-
day.
Sir Wm.
Treloar,
who wasa promino-
ent businessman
and Mord Miyor of Lon-
don in 1906 and 197,
was founder of
the
Lord Mayor Treloar
Hospital
forerippies,
Hampshire,
was
an
honorary
ftellowv
of
the Orthopaedic
Association
anl
a m>n]
ber of the Corporation
of the City ot Lon
don sinece
1880.
He was
an Alderman
for
a number of
vears.
Paris,
Sept. Tth.--M.
Poincare
left this
afternoon for hissummer
home
at
Sam-
pigny.
He
will deliver
another
'‘Sun-
day
sermon’’
at
Damvillers,
when
he
will probably
answer
the Stuttgart
ad-
dress
of Chaneellor
Stressemann
in which
the latter referred
to a
prssible
economie
accord with France.
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Chicago,
Sert.
6th,—Mr.
Upham,
tre: surer
of
tie
Republican
National
Committee,
will ask
President
Co)lilge
to itervene
in
‘he
Franco-(German
im-
inpasse
over repara
i-ns
as
the first step
in putting Burope
on
a
sound
economic
basis,
he said,
upon
his
return
here
to-
day after
navin.
studied
the
Kuropean
situation
through
the
Summer.
He will
go to Washington
next week,
on
invita-
tion of the
President,
to
report
on
old
world corditions.
London,
Sept
6:h.—Taking
advan-
tage
of
a
stront
wind
at
a
height
of
2000
feet,
the
pilot of
an
airship
in
the Manchester-London
Express
Service
covered
the
distance
between
the
two
cities today in
a
total
flying
time
of 75
minutes.
The
averagze
sp2ed
wa3
near-
ly 160 miles
an hour.
New York, Sept.
6th,
~A message
from
the Governor
of Osaka,
made
public
to-
day
at
the
dJaparese
Cousul
General,
estimales
the
total
casualties
in
Yoko-
hama
and Tokio at
from
310.000
to 320,-
000.
Two hundred thousand
houses
were
barned
in Tokio, said the statement.
Paria.
Sept.
Tth.—lhe
Ambassadors
Conference
can
reach
one
of three
con-
clusions,
said
Premier
Mussolini
in dis-
cussing
with
Le
Matin’s foreign
editor
the negotiations
for
a
settlement
of the
(ireco-Italian impasse,
*First’’, the Pre-
mier asserted,
‘lt may
decide
that the
* calprits
were Albanians
and not Greeks.
That is a
pure
hypothesis
and
very un-
likely, since General Tellini is
geverally
considered
to have
favoured
the Albani-
ans,
but | mention it so
as
to exelnde
no
No. 210.
Copenhagen,
Sept.
Trh.—The
Russian
C‘ouncil of Commissars
has
decreed
that
Soviet rables
of
the
1922
issue
shall
be
invalid
in
Russia
after
November
Ist
and
in
other
countries
after
December
Slst,
according
to advices
received
here.
Londowu, Sept.
Bth.—The
members
of
the
West
Indian
Cricket
Team
were
entertained
by the
West
India Club at
a
dinner
at the Hotel Ceeil last
night.
Mr.
Cecil Rutherford
who presided,
proposed
tha health of the
team
and congratulated
them
on the
success
of
their
tour.
Mr.
Austin
responded
to
the
toast
and said
that
they
had
come
to
kngland
deter-
mined
to put
ecricket
first
and
foremost
and
all had
earried
this
out
in letter and
spirit,
-
The
toast
to the
home
cricket-
ers
was proposed
oy
My,
Challenor
snl
res:onded
to by Mr. Slade
Lucas.
Fallodon,
lEng., Sept.
Tth.—lf the Lea-
gue
of
Nations
ils
not
used
in
a crisis
such
as
the
present
Greaeo-Italian
one,
then it wou'd
have
to be
dissolved
and
Europe
would
be
fuced
with
the
old
state
of things
that
exisied
before
the
war with competition
in armaments
and
preparations
for
a
new
war
and
in the
iong run a general
wgr
worse
than
the
last,
Viscount
Grey
of
Fuallodon
assert-
ed
in
an
address
here
tnday.
In
the
League
of
Nations
we
have
an
instru-
ment by which
w» cal reach
a cettlement
preferable
to
war.
The
roal
interests
and
securities
of ourselves
depend
upon
the l.eigues
policy
being
upheld and
in
that
alcne
is to te found
the prospects
of
future
peace
and security,
1
trust there
is encurh
publie
opinion
to
uphold
the
League policy.
Viscount
Grey
said that
the crisis
in
foreign
affairs
was
acute,
owing
to
what
had
happened
between
Italy and
Greece
and that
so
far
as
his
sympathy
was
concerned
it
was
with
Jtaly.
But the crisis
which has developed
he added
has
transcended
all
sympathy.
The real
redress
for the wrong done Italy
would be
justice,
after
a
full enquiry.
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10th
1923: