el.
The heartfelt sympathy
of the
C
-
adian people
goes
out
to
the
A nericin
nation
in its ¢r at loss.
New
York.,
Aug.
3rd
—Owing
to
the
death
of
President
Hardinr
al
Stock
Exchang:s
and
all
oth.r
princ.pal
mar-
ke's
are
closad.
Toronto, Aug.
Brd —Th2
bereavement
that
has
visited their
neighbor
ovar
the
line
has
touched
thz2
heart-strinrs
of
Canzda
as
well and today
from
one
end
of
the Dominion
to the
other
there
are
manifestations
of sorrow
for the passing
of President
Hardinz.
All day
a siream
of messazes
of symvathy
have
been
flow-
i
ivo
aaross
the brd r fron
Federal
and
P ovincial Premiars,
ofiziv aniundizil
leaders
in
the
life o
the
eruntry
and
from the h2ads
of the
Municipal Govern-
ments.
In dozeas
of eities,
larz2
a3
well
as
smill, and from
ocean
to
ocea
,
flags
0a
puaniic
biildings
are
flying
ac
half
!
mast
and Mayors have
vaiez21 th-ir
per-
|
sonal,
as
well
as
tne
genarval
feeins
of
i
loss
in the passing of the
man
who,
while |
engrossed
in
the
vast
concerns
of
his |
own nation,
found
the
time and
in«iiia-
tion
to
pav
his
neighbours
a
frienlly
E
visit.
The
friendly
tone
of
President
Harding’s words
when
in Vancouver
last
f
week ¢aught
the
imagination of
Canadi-
g
ans
in astriking
manner.
as
was
nauy?
E
evilent
by the
commentat
the time
of
¢
Cainadian
public
men
and
newspapers
§
an therefore the telegrams
of sympatby
§
now going to Mrs.
Havding,
or
to
Wash-
§
ington,
are
not
emply
formalities,
but
exprassions
from the heart
of the people.
All leading
Canadian
newspapers
today
bear
editorial
witness
to
the
sense
or
loss
felt in
the
Dominio.
and
refer
in
woras
o
kindness
and
respect
to
the
great
American
who has passed
fron the
scene.
Ottawa,
Auz. 3:d. -Lord Byng
Vimy,
Governor
Goneral
of
Canala,
sent
the
|
following message
ot condolonee
to
Mrs.
Warren
Hirding
today.
‘‘Please accept
J
the
deepest
sympathy
of
myseli
and
§
Lady Byng in the
sad
loss
of
your hus-
§
band,
President
Harding.””
It
was
an-
nounced
tonight that the
Canadian
Govt.
B
was send:ing
President
Calvin
Coolidge,
§
through
the usual
diplomatic channels,
a
formal messaze
of eondolence
in
the
re-
public’s loss of Its chief executive.
Ryd~
Isle
of
Wright, Auz. 3rd. —Tae
yacht
races,
in
the
contest
for the Brit-
ish American
Cup,
have
bz2en
posiponed
owing to the death of President
Harding.
London, Aug. 3rd. —Mr.
Ballwin,
the
Prime
Minister,
was
greatly
concerned
to learn of the death
of President
Hard-
ing, whom he
met
»n
bLis
recent
visit to
th2 Uaited
States
in ¢onnection
with the
funding of
the British
debt.
M. B.K-
win immediately
sent
a message
of sym-
pathy
to Mrs. Harding.
MM
.‘
London,
Aug.
2nd.-—-Mr.
Baldwin
to-
pight
informed
the
House
of Commons
that
Lord
Robert
Cecil
would
be
the
Chics Delegate for
Great
Buitain
at the
5 F i
x
2 VIS
forthcoming
meetinr of the
Assembly of
the League
of Natins.
Londen,
Aue.
21.d.-—-Mr.
Baldwin join-
ed with Lord Curzen
in informing Parlia-
ment today that the reply by
France
and
Belgium to the
British
reparations
note
seemed
to hold out
no
prospect
of a
set-
tiement of the Ruhr situation
in the
near
future,
nor
the
opcn
ng of
a discussion
reguarding
reparations.
l.ondon,
Aug.
2rd.— Dublin despatches
to
scome
of the
morning
nesspapers
as-
sert
that
the
Irish
Free
Stute
will
re-
lease
all
prisoners
in
acecrdance
with
vesterday’s
ruling
of
the
< urt
of Ap-
peals
and
will then
re-arres:
th2m
under
the
nex
Publie
Safety
Act.,
whieh
the
Dail passed
last
evering.
'Th's
measure
provides
that
the Government
mayv
con-
tinue
to hoid prisorery
charzed
with
ac-
tive opposition
to
thre Free
S:ate.
Harbin,
China,
f.ug.
2nd.—Conearted
ac
i>n
has
been
taken
by
the
British,
Urized
S:ates,
French
and
Japanese
Con-
suls
here
to
protest
against
the
seizure
0" the Chinese
Eactern
Railway
land
de-
pactment
by Chang Bo Lin, the War Lord
of
Manchuria,
who
ordered
all the rail-
ways
lands
ceded
to
Russia
under
the
old treaties
to be ta'"»n
over
by uis
prov-
incial government.
'The foreigm consuls,
viewing the
seizure
of
the
land
d-part-
m-nt as
a direct
v:ola
ion
of
the
Wash-
ington
enactments,
p'aced
their
official
s2als
on
a ehest
containing
deeds
to
gail-
wey
lands.
After
meeting
to
discuss
the defense
of toreign interests,
the Con-
suls
telegraphed
their
diplomatic
repre-
septatives
at Peking.
'lhe
situation
hLas
been
further
complicated
by
Chang
Bo
Lin ordering
Chang
Hikin
Siang.,
ihe
new
head
of the railway iand department
to open publiely this afternoon
the sealed
che:t containine
the land
deeds.
Repre-
sentatives
of
the
raiiway
shareholders,
the board of
directors
and foreign banks
have
registered
a
protest
against
the
War Lord’s a :tion.
In additior, the Rus
sizn press
here
is
iznoring
the orders
of
the
Chinese
authorities
not
to print the
news of the land
department
embroglio.
London,
Auz. Ist.—Great
Britain
has
discovered
what is said
to be
a
precedent
established
by the United Stetes
herselr,
which
it
is
cliimed
here
sipporis
the
conteniion
that
Briiish
ship:
should
be
permitted
to
enter
United
nitates
poris
with liquor übder
seai
‘T his cropped
up
in the House
of
Commons
today
in
the
usual
list of questions
and
a
swers
con-
cerning prohibitton
Sir Wiliiim Davidson
arked Mr. Rona'!d
MeNeiil,
Under-Secre-
tary
for Foreign
Aftairs,
whether,
in
connection
with the refusal
of
the
Gov-
ernment
of the
United
States
to
allow
liquor te
remain
uader
seal
in
British
ships in United States {ports,
the
atten-
tion of that Governneat
had
been
feailed
to a despatch
forwurded
by
the
United
States
Government
some
years
ago
Lo
the Spanish
Goveriment,
which,
while
admittinz the legal right of every
nation
to prescribe
the
conditions
under
sliica
foreign
v-ssels
shouid “be
admitted
to
their ports,
laid it down
that
these
con-
ditions
must
not confliet with well known
and
well established
usages
regulatirg
commercial
intercourse
between
civiliz-
ed nations,
which could
not
be
violated
without giving just
cause
of complaint
to nations
whose
interests
would
be
af-
fected
by
their
violation.
Sir
William
said
ti.is despateh
is
quoted
in
interna-
tional
law and.
the
[Under-Secretary
re-
plied
that
1t certainly seemed
to
afford a
precedent
whieh
might
be followed,
add-
ing that th:
advisebility
of ealling
the
attention
of the
"Jnited
States
Govern-
ment
to the
matter
was
receiving
con-
sideration.
Members
also
interested
themselves
in the
disposition
of
the -
cuor scized,
whether
it
was
destroyed,
oris being
hel
unt.]l the
matter
is
set-
tled.
'l have
not
myself”,
replied
ihe
Under-Seeretary,
“uaken sufficient
inter-
est
in
the
fate
of
the
liguor
to
asce:-
tain”’, this evoked
cheers
and
laughter.
Deauville,
France,
August
2nd.—The
French
tennis
plavers
by
completing
their defear
of Spain
in the
finals
of tie
Eurapean
Zore of the Davis
Cup
tcurna-
men',
bave
e
rned
the richt
to
travel
to
the
United Stites
to
meet
the winner of
the Australia-Japan
finals
of the
Ameri-
can
Zovne
Championship,
to
ddctermine
what
nation
is to oppose
the United States
in the chailenge
rcund.
New
York,
Aog.
2nd,—Farly
disap-
peararee
f the
skidding
German
mark
frcm
the firancial
horizon
of
the
world
and substituticn
«f a
new
curreney
on
a
gold Lasis
was predicted
by
John
Foster
Dulies,
noted
economist,
and
former
member
of the United States
Peace
Mis.
sion
at
Versa
lles,
upon
his arrival from
Europe
vesterday
on the Majestic.
Gen-
erzl
conditions
in
Germany,
Mr
Dulles
said,
were appaliing and
he
eould
see
no
way
ou! for her,
rave
the recrganization
ofter finances.
If the
nark
was elimi-
nated,
be
said,
the
outstanding
issue
probatly wuli be redeemed
in
the
new
money
at carrent
ra
es.
New
York,
Aug.
2nd.—F.ereh
and
Belgian franes
established
new lov
rec-
ords
for tne year
1n today’s
forcign
ex-
change
mariet,
as
a
result
of
Mr. Bald-
win’s speech
to the
House
of
Commons
in which
he asserted
there
was
no
hopa
of Great
Buitain reaching
an early apree-
meunt
with
Frune:
and
B lgium
on
Gerp-
man reparaiicns.
Freneh
franes
dropp
five poiuts,
to 4 574,
German
marks
and
other exchanges
aiso
lost
ground.
London, Aug. 2nd. —ltaly’s written
re-
piy to the
British
reparations
eommuni-
cation
arrivel
in
London
today,
after
Mr. Baldwin’s speech
had been delivered.
A
cabinet
council
was
heid
in the Pre-
mier’s
room atirer
the House
rose
to con-
sider
further
the
Government’s
policy
and
arrange
pians
for
the
ho!diig of
another
council
during the®r:cess,
in the
evint of M.
Poincare
m:king as:: ther
communication.