cognition
of
the
*‘Gentleman’s
Agree-
ment’’
with
Japan
on
the immigration
guestion.
This
action
is
preliminary
to
adoprion by the S2nate
bv an overwhelm-
ing majority of
the
House
Japapes2
ex-
ciusion
provision.
Whatever
the
result
would
have
been
without
the
incident
or
the
Ambassador’s
letter,
that
com
munication
served
to
change
ihe
votes
of
several
admiunistration
ieaders,
in-
c¢lu
ing Senator
Lodege,
Chairman
of the
Foroign
Relations
Committee.
Senators
gener-ily
threw
off
the
usual
resiraints
in
lealinz
with international
quest:ions.
Thev
were
biunt and
outspoken
in
their
dec arations,
that,
in vicw of the “‘grave
consequences’’
warning
in
the
Ambas-
sador’s
letter
there
was
nothing
for
then
to
do
but
to
make
it
clear
once
anc for all the
immigration
is
a
domes-
tie
question,
in
the
handlinz
of which
no
independent
power
could
interfere.
Eerlin, Apnil 14th.—Coal
miners
from
the
Ruhr
today carried
the boly
oif Havo
Siinnes,
late
German
industnal
leador,
from his private
Viila
in
Granewald
to
the
erematory,
to the
accompanimen:
of
melodies
played
by
their
own
band,
while
a miners
chorus
alternately
chani-
ed
dirges
and
sang
Westphalian
ok
Songs.
Two of
the rumbers
plaved
were
the Wedding
Mareh
from Lohengrin
and
the Rhineland
song,
both of whien
were
favourites with Herr Stinnes.
Simplicity
marked
the funeral
services
for the
nay.
nate.
'l'nere
were
no floral tiibutes
visi-
ble and the official flag
of
the
Stinnes’s
Merchant
Marine Fieet
was
the
only
in-
signia
on
the
piain
oaken
casket.
Ad-
dresses
by old friends
and business
asso-
ciates
and
an eulogy of Stinnes
as
a
fa-
ther and
a man by the Reverend
Dr.Co-
nrad, who
delivered
the
funeral
sermon
for the late
German
Empress
constituted
the
oral
part
of
the
services.
Among
the speakers
was
Rudolf
Hold,
veteran
mine
foreman
{from
Mulheim
one
of
Stinnes
oidest
and
most
trusted
employ-
ees
and
tne
man of
whom
the
magnace
was
wort
to
say
°‘‘l’llplace
my life in
Hold’s hznds
any day.”’
Washir.zton,
April 14th.--Decision
was
reached
by the Senate
Committee
inves-
siga'ing
the Department
of Justice
at
an
executive
session
tocay tocite Mr. Laugh-
clty, President
of the
Midland
National
Park of
Washington
Courthouse,
Ohio,
anc
brother of the ex-Attorney
General,
hes(
re the Bar ot the Senate
on atcharze
of contenipt.
Now
York,
April
14th.—More
than
2,407 members
of the
(apadian
Bar
As-
sociaticn
have
requested
steamship
re-
servations,
association
cfficials announced
inr #
gatihering
of Caradion
and
United
Stat~s
lawyers in London
on
July 20th
as
guests
of the British Bar.
In addidon
1o
the
Berengaria,
which
sails
July
12th,
the
Aquitania
and
Laionia
have
been
chartered.
The association
plans
to
pre-
sent
the
English
hosts
with
a
mcmorial
to
Blackstone.
A
special
commiitee
is
to decide the nature of the memarial.
=1
URO
X
& VIE
Berlin, April 15th.
The
Cabinet
today
cecided
to accept
the Experts
Report
as
a
bis
for
negotiations
and
to
inform
the
Revarations
Commission
to
this
ef-
fect.
This
is
in line
with
the
attitude
raken
by
the
conferees
in
vesterday’s
meeting
between
the
Central
Govern-
m-nt
and
the
Premiers
of
Federated
otlates,
London,
Aprii 1;)‘h.~~ The first
official
expression
of opigion
of the
Reparation
Experts
report
from
Prime
Minister Mae
'onald
came
in the
House
of
Commons
tod2y,
wnen
he announced
that
the
Gov-
ernment
had
learned
with
the
greatest
satistaction
of
the
unapimous
signing
of
the
experts
Findings.
The
Experts
report
constitute
1o our opinion,
said
the
Fremier,
an
unbiased
and
carefully
tiought out endeavour
to aid
the
Govern-
manis
concerned
in their task
of reach-
ing
a
seltlemert
of this vitul
and
long
standing
problem.
His Majesiy’sy Gov-
ernment’’,
added
the
Premier,
‘attach
s 0 much importance
to the agreed
recom-
menaations;which
can be broucht
into im-
mediate
operation
that
they
are
pre-
pared,
for gytheir
part,
to
support
the
scheme
inits entirety
provided
all
the
other
parties
are willing to take
the
same
course.
and
on April 10th
communicated
that
view
to
the
Governmen's
coacern-
ed, inclucing tie
United Siates’’.
After
the
Prime
Minister
had
made
his
an-
nouncement
on the
Experts
Report,
Mr!
Stanley
Baldwin
declared
the
Premier
would
have
the
united
support
of
the
British people
in his attitude,.
Thls
de-
claration
was reczived
with cheers.
Tokio,
April
15th.—Foreign
Minister
Mabui
in
a
siatement
today
to
npews-
paper
('z)r‘l‘:*spundum:;,
protesied
against
exclusion
of
Japanese
from
the
Unired
States
declaring
‘‘we
have
causz
for
grave
anxiety and
we appeal
against
any
action
which
ean
only wound
us
to
seme
extent
and
bring
little satisiaction
to
you.”’
Rome,
April
15th.—The
observatory
at
Faenza
registered
a
vio ent
earth-
quake,
beginning
at
6.30
o’clock
last
evening.
The
seismozsraphie
instru-
ments
vibrated neariy
tor hours.
Dublin, April 15th.—The
seismograph
instrument
at
Ratnfarnham
Castle
was
agitated
for one
and
a bhaif
hours,
begin-
ning
at
5.41
o’clcek
yesterday
atter-
noon.
London
reported
last
night that
the West
Bromwieh
Observatory
at 5.38
p.
m. yesterday
recorded
an
earthquake
shoek
more
severe
than
that
in Japan
last
year.
The
disturbance
was
esti-
mated
to
have
been
about
7,000
miles
distant,
supposedly
in
the
Pacitie
Ocean
bed.
Victoria, Arril
15th.—Meteorologists
are mystified
by
the
severe
earthquake
registered
in
Victoria
and
elsewhere
on
Monday morning.
The
series
of shocks
which lasted
for a period
of hou:s,
were
s 9 inteuse
that
tremendous
changes
in
the earth’s crust have
taken piace
at the
c:ntre
of the
disturbance,
according
to
Mr. Denison, Superintendent
of the
Gon
zales Height Staiion.
The unusual
fore
-
ation of the waves,
as
registered
st
e
Gonzales Heights and other observatorics,
made it ditficulf to determine
the position
of
the
quake.
Mr.
Den'son
howeve:
estimated
the center
of the
disturbance
to b 2 about
1,500
miles
from
Viciori.
probably
somewhere
in
the
vicinity
of
the
North
Aleusan
Islands,
or
Alaska
Peninsula.
The
first shock
occurred
at
830
a.
m.
lhe
maximun
swing
was
three inches
on the
seismographie
chart,
placing
it
on
a
pir
wWith
some
of
he
most
severe
earthguakes
of
the
recent
past.
Calgary,
Alta.,
April 15th.—
Fear
of
swolien
and
flooded
rivers
throuchout
Alberia
was
felt here
last
night,
follow-
ing
a heavy
snhow,
sleet
and
rain
storn
which
swept
over
the
greater
part
of
the
province
yesterday.
Llast
veur
rivers which
flooded
caused
considerabie
damage
in Calgary
acd
Southern
Alber-
ta.
ROW
OVER
TUT'S
TOMB
STARTED
BACK IN 1789.
Chicago
Professor
Traces
Dispute
Back
to Finding of Rosetta
Stone.
Chicago,
April 3rd—More
than
a centu-
ry
ago
a
French
officer
with Napoleon’s
forces
stumbled
over
a
stone
covered
with strange
inseriptions
in the sands
of
Ecypt,
and
as
a
result
the
seceret
of the
true significanee
of the
tomb of King Tu
tankhamen
may
be
lost to
the world for-
ever.
This
is the
belief
of
Professor
.
|
Luckenbill of the Oviental
Institute,
Un
iversity
of Chicago.
He
claims
the
re
cent
squabble
between
Howard
Carter,
Brittish scientist,
and
the Egvptian
gov-
ernment,
over the
rights
of
exploring
the
tomb of
the Pharvah
dates
back
1o
the
incident,
in
1799
and
is
a elimax
of
years
of smoldering
nationalistic
hatred,
Ttis
century
of
jealousy
between
Frencu
and British scientists
had
its -
ception
in French
pique
over
the
posses-
sion
by the British
ot the
tamous
Rosetta
stone,
originally discovered
by
a
Irench-
man
with
Napoleon
torces,
Professor
Luckenbill elaims.
The
stone,
which
provides
a
key
to
the
translation
of
the
Eeypuan
language,
was
found
in
1779.
|t
wauas
kept
in
Alexandria.,
When
that
eny
was
ceded
to
the
DBritish
in
1804 thoy
acquired
ihe stone,
and
it since
has
resi-
ed
1n a British museum.
The
French,
Professor
Lucke:nbill
as-
serts,
have
seized
upon
the
Carter
ex-
pedition
as
a
means
of avenging
the oid
wrong
and
are
strring
up
the present
Ezyptian
government
against
Carter
and
his
forece
of archaeologists.—
Boston
American,
April 3rd.
‘