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H YRAR.
CHRISTIANSIED,
V.l U. 8
A.
THURSDAY,
13ra
MARCH
1924,
football
matech
between
teams
repre-
senting
Ireland
and
Wales.
The
Duke
accompanied
by
Mr.
Thomas,
left
the
train
at
Newport,
which
is
the
birih-
place
of
the
latter.
The
Duke
laid
a
wieath
on
the
cenotaph
and
inspected
a
gathering
»f
ex
service
m~n,
sjeak-
ing
at
a
luncheon
subsequ
nily,
the
Duke
said
he
regarded
his
visit
to the
birthplace
of on 2»f
Waies
foremost
sons
as
a
most
pleasant
duty,
Mr.
Thomas
in
a
short
speech,
recalled
his
you'h
»s
an
errand
boy
and
said
it
was
the
British
Constitution
that
had
cnabled
a
humble
boy
to
return
to
Lis
01l home
as
a Seeretary
of State
and
accompanied
by
a
member
of
the
Royal
Famy.
Suech
a constitution
was
worth
preseiv-
ing.
The
Prince
of Wales
lert Padding-
ton
by
a
later
treain for
Cardiff, which
was
decorated
with flags in
his honoar,
He
was given
a
wonderiul
recepuion
in
Cardiff.
Rerlin,
March
9th— Exbplaining
the
proj-ci of a
gold eredit
bajrk
to the
Bul-
get
Committee
or
the
Reichilagy,
D).
vehaeht
President
of
the
Reiehsdani,
said
that the capital would be two hundred
million
gold
marks
and
that
toe bank
would
be entitled
to
issue
notes
{0 the
extenui of one
hundred
million goll notes,
The
shares
would
be
on
the
vasis
of (ne
pound
sterling,
as
also
tue
new
nink
notes.
He
advocated
that
:he
board
of
Direciors
should
be exelusively
Grrman
and
that the eapital
should
b 2 deposited
atroaill
and
the
bank
manazed
by
the
Roich:bank
and remaia
outside of po.ities.
The
one hund-ed
nullion
io
notes,
woich
the
bank
is entitled
to
issue,
would
be
employed
in buying
[o cign
currency
es-
pacially pounds
and
doliars,
waich
vouid
La circalated
ia Garmany to s raising the
total capital of
the
bank
to live
hundred
million go d macks.
Dr.
Szoaedt
earpha-
sizad
that
the project
was
not aimed
at
introdueinz
a new
eurrency,
but
at
es-
tablishing acre it bank
aond
theretore
it
should
be proviied
that the bank’s
eapi-
+al must
be supoled
in Pounds
sterhing,
London,
March
9 'h.—luvestigating
the
unemployment
doie,
rather
thaa
spending
it, is the latest
proposal §of
the
Laicour
Government.
Pians
have
been
formulated and
will be submitted
to;Par-
liament shortly
to
extend
tiie
payment
of the dole to boys and girls of
fourteen
years of age,
instead
of only to
those
of
sixteen,
which
is
the
limit under
the
present
legislation.
The
former
age
is
the
statutory
time
for leaving
school
throughout
the
greater
poriiod
of
the
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TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX
STATION.
London,
Mareh
9th—Mr.
Winston
Churehill,
Inderendant
eandidate
1)
the Abbey
Wesiminst
r
by eleetion,
hus
issued
an
electionr
address
in
‘vhich
he
says,
'‘Although he
do
not
giudege
the
experieneced
Trade
Uniounists
their speli
of offiee and although
I recognize
the
pa-
triotism
of some
of the leading
ministers
and
maony
labour
men,
I
am
sure
the
whole
spirit of
the sociaiists
party ani
the
doc
rincs
they prucaim
w:ll be
des-
tructive
to
the
welfare
of
Great
Britain
a~d
the
greatness
of the
Emvpire.
lam
sure
tha
socialist
party
will not
allow
{heir
representauves
Lo govern
oo
mod-
erate
lin’s very
jone.”’
Melbo irae,
Ausiralia,
March
9th.---
The Prenier
Mr. Stanley
Bruce,
arcived
here
on 3aturday
on his return
‘rom Lin-
don.
Mr. Bruce
inan
interview,
said
(hat air defence
wouid becoie
on 2 of tne
most
important and
most
delicate
ques-
tiors
for consideration
by the
Common-
wealth
Goverament.
He
said
he
was
sanguine
that
the
Imperial
Gover
ment
would
agree
to
grant
the
preicren
ces
embodied
in
the
resoid!ions
pass-
ed by th: imperial Beonomic
Conference
in Londcn.
He paid tribate
to Mr. Qan-
say
Mac Donald and denied
a report
that
the
Premier
had
slighted
bim
in Eng-
land.
On the contracy,Mr Brace said, his
reiations with Mr.
Me pDonald
were
most
cordial
«nd
he
was
satisfied
that
the
impire
was
gafe
in
the
hands
of the
Labour Government
in Londo.
London,
March
9th.— I'ne
Duke
of
York,
the
Premier
and
Mr.
Thomas
Seeretary
for
the
Colonies,
sharad
a
saloon
in a train
from
Paddinzton
Sta-
tion to Cardifl
yesterday,
to
attend
the
No. 59.
~
country
and
today
there
are
thousands
~
of
youngsters
who
are
unable
to find
'
work after
they leave
school.
It
is
pro-
.
posed
that
the
boys and
girls
shall
only
receive
the
dele son
condition
that
they
|
attend
juvenile educaticn
eentres
until
~
employment
is found
for
them,
and
.
this
way
it is
hoped
that
their
general
.
efficieney will ba
inereased
rather
than
.
diminished
as
resulis
today
under
the
i
wasteful
methods
that
make
them
idle
|
during
the eritical months
of
their
life.
|
Oiher
proposals
now
being
considered
t
and
praectically agreed
to, inciude
unem-
|
plovment
jusurance
of workers
who
lose
their j-bs througn
strikes
and
loexouts
in which they
do not take any
part.
The
proposals
are likely to
meet
with
strong
|
opposition
on the ground
that
any
such
|
extension
of the dole
1s likely
to
demor
!
alize industry.
|
New
York,
March
9:th.—Mr.
Alfred
Smith,
President
of the
New
York
Cen-
.
tral Railway and
President
oc
Director
.
ot
many
railway
and
industrial
enter-
.
p ises
throuzhout
the Uniied
States
and
Canala,
was
thrown
trom
his
horse
in
Central
Park
yvesterday
and
died without
regaining consciousness
while
being
tak-
ea
toa
hosptal.
Aithou_.h
62 years
old
|
the
railway
president
wasin
exceiient
'
heal
h and
hors back riding
was
one
of
|
hs[avuri
e reciéatiogs,
;
Newv York, M reh
10th —Respon ibility
|
for
the downward
course
of the
French
franc
is laid
to
the
macuinations
of
Ger-
.
mans
and
Germ
n
baskinyg
institutions
'
by M. Poincare
in
a
special
cabled
ionter-
view
whieh
wiil
appear
in
Mareh
12th.
issue
of the
‘'Outlook.”?
Certain
Germ-
.
ans
estimate
thut
thedeelire
in
French
|
frane
value
ruay
cause
genticr
treatinent
!
of
Germany
by Fiance’’,
M,
P.incare
d ciared.
H:ving
dreetly
contributed
{
tothe
faiof
the
Fran 2,
German
banks
|
now
reveal
therr
aim.
Fut
they do nut
i
reckon
rigbt.
France
witl show
herself
(
as firm
as
ever
iusist
ng on
reparations
.
as they
have be2n
es ablist.ed,
Ihis prin-
|
ciple
once
sottied,
Franc 2 will, on
the
|
other
hand,
cooperaie
1 the methods
of
|
payment
asin geneial
economic
restora-
|
tion,
by
ecouciliatory
measures.
The
French
Government’s
aciion, and it only,
has® brought about
the
meeting
of com
'
mittees
of international
experts
in which
we place
great
hope.
If
a satisfactory
solution
for us,
acceptable
by us, of the
present
problems,
1s
at
last ‘reached,
it
‘
will be due to
the persevering
efforts of
(Continucd
on 4th page.)