France
and
Great
Britain, the
diploma-
tic correspondent
of the ‘'Evening Stand-
ard’’ states.
Washington,
April 9th.—*Voluntary
in-
stead
of compulsory
universal
military
training as
proposed
by the
army
re-or-
ganization
bill was
adopted today by the
Senate.
As
adopted
the plan
which the
War Department
is te put
in
force
dur-
ing the calendar year of nineteen
twenty-
two, provides
that all
men between
the
ages
of eighteen
and twenty-eight
years
would be
eligible for four
months
train-
ing in any
one
year they might elect.
London, April 10th.—Notwithstanding
the insistence
of
France
that
there
was
no alternative
for her,
in the circumstan
ces,
except
the
occupation
of
German
tecritory,
and
her
denial
of
the
state-
ment
th't
she
acted
without
w rning,
officials here
view
France’s
note
as
con-
ciliatory,
because
of
the
expressed
de-
sire of France
for an allied
conference.
This
view is emphasized
by the fact that
Mr. Lloyd George left
today
for San
Re-
mo, though
it
was
stated
yesterday
he
might postpone
his departure.
Mr. Lloyd
George
did not attend
the
meeting of the
Supreme
Council
which
was
held
this
morning,
and Lord Curzon
was also
not
present
because
of illness.
It
was
sta-
ted that the
council
did not discuss
the
German
situation,
but continued
to work
on the
Turkish
treaiy.
In other
official
quarters
the French
note
is
considered-
to have
relieved
the
tension
of yester-
day.
London,
April 10th.—The
declaration
that the allies repeatedly
declined
‘0 sanc-
tion
an
advance
of
French
troops
east
of the
Rhine,
and
that
the
statements
by M.
Millerand and other
French
mi -
isters
g.ve the
impression
that
France
would abstain
from
single-handed
action
against
Germany,
is
contained
in a
note
outlining
the
British
attitude
sent
to
Paris,
says
the ‘‘Times’’ emphasis
is laid
on the fact that
grave
problems in
con
nection
with
the
execution
of the
Ver-
sailles
treaty
may
arise
in
the
future,
and
it is assumed
that
France
will
not
act
again
on
her
own
initiative, other-
wise the work
of the
peace
conferemce
may become
futile.
Reports
from
Paris
saying
that
France
has
been
told
that
Lord Derby would
be
instructed
not
to
participate
in the conference
of ambassa-
dops
in Paris
until
France
had given an
assurance
that
she
would
in future
act
in unison
with her
allies, are
confirmed
by the ‘‘Times’’, which
says it has
learn-
ed that the French-Africar.
troops, which
originally occupied
Frankfort,
have been
replaced
by European
forces,
it being ex-
plained
that the Africans
were only used
because
they were the
nearest
to Frank-
fort
and with
the view
of taking
swift
action.
London,
April 10th.—At a world
con-
ference
on
Finance,
which will be
held
in
Brussels
early
in
May,
when
the
Supreme
Council of the
League
of
Na-
tions convenes,
representatives
offoreign
2k vEUR X
AY IS
countries,
it is planned,
will discuss
for-
eign
exchanges,
trade
credits,
taxation
and
values and
standardization
of
bud-
gets.
The
world’s
leading
ministers,
bankeirs
and
financiers are
expected
to
attend
the
conference.
Each
ccuntry
represented
will be
under
the obligation
to lay before the
econference
its
balance
sheet,
giving the full debi*
and
credit
position and the country’s
own particular
financial
difficulties
besides
stating
de-
finitely its
exact
degree
of
bankruptey,
if any.
1t is thought probable
that
neu-
trals who prospered
through the war will
be
asked
to
suggest
a means
of aiding
less
fortunate
nations and
it is also
be-
lieved
that
an
international
loan
for
Armenia will be
asked.
London,
April
10th.—Mr.
Lloyd
George
leaves
for a conference
of Allied
Premiers
at San Remo,
Italy,
this after-
noon.
He will
make
the
trip
by
sea,
according
to a statement
issued
at Down-
ing Street
this morning.
The
announce-
ment was
made
that
no
conference
of
the
Allied representatives
for
the
dis-
cussion
of
the
Franco-German
sit-
uation
was
expected
here
today.
Washington,
April 10th.—Sailors
are
deserting
from
the United
States
Navy
wholesale,
and
officers
are
resigning
daily,
it
was
disclosed
by
Admiral
Washington,
Chief of
the
Bureau
of
INavigation,
in
testimony
given
this
morning before
the
Senate
Committee,
investigating
the
part
played
by
the
navy
in
the
war.
Admiral
Washing-
ton declared
that
unless
the
pay,
both
of
officers
and
men,
was
raised,
the
navy could
not
be
saved
from
disaster.
He
said
the American
Navy
had
been
going down
hill rapidly since
July
1915,
and told the
Committee
that the
deser-
tions during the last half of 1919 totalled
4,666
men,
including
1,000 petty officers
and if the
present
conditions
continue,
he asserted,
the Navy
not
only
will be
undermanned
by
1921,
but
a large
per
cent of those
on
the roster
will be
inex-
perienced
boys.
The
Naval
Medical
Corps is in the
worst
condition in its
his-
tory, the Admiral
declared,
200
medical
officers having resigned
since
the
war.
London, April 10th.—The
Duke of De-
vonshire, Governor General of Canada,
in
an address
to Derbyshire
farmers,
con-
trasted
favourabiy the Canadian
banking
methods
with those of England and said
it
was
centainly
to the credit of
Cana-
dian bankg that
much
was
done to
help
people at the beginning that
they judged
a man by his character
and
treated
him
liberally in misfortune.
He hoped
more
lib%ral
policy
would
gprevail
in
Eng-
land.
Toronto, April 11th.—Lieutenant
Wil-
liam
Barker,
V.
C. D.
S. 0., has
been
awarded
a
secon:
silver
medal
by
the
Kiag of Italy for his
wonderful
and
he-
roic fighting in October
1916, in which he
tacklad
a large number
of Germans
sin-
gle-handed
and
shot down six
of
them
before
he
was
broug
it
down by
the
en-
emy
fire.
He
now
holds
more
decora-
tions than
any
other
living British
air-
man.
Paris, APril 15th.
-The Press
comment
favourably
on
a proposal
by the
London
Cabinet
relative to
the
disarmament
of
Germany,
collective
representations
by
the
Alliez
not
having
always
obtained
the
desired
resuit.
They
applaud
the
attitude
of England
and
trust
that
her
proposition
testifies
to a happy
evolution
nf her policy.
M. Millerand, in the course
of.
a
newspaper
interview,
denies
the
obligations of certain Italian newspapers,
attributing
the occupation
of Frankfort
and
Darmstadt
to
a
desire
for
annex-
ation and
as
a manifestation
of the spirit
of
militarism.
He declared
that France
was
not animated
by
any hostile
senti-
ment
or
spirit
of
vengeance
towards
Germany,
and
only required
the
pay-
ment of what
was due to her.
He added
that
the
Allies should be
aware of
Ger-
many
until she
was disarmed.
He
also
expressed
his
conviction
that
friendly
Italians better informed, would recognize
that
militarism did
not
reside
at
Paris,
but
at Berlin.
Paris,
April
14th.—The
Allies
have
taken
the initiative for
a collective
note
for obtaining
from Berlin the strict
exe-
cution
of the clauses
of the Treaty
rela-
tive
to disarmament,
and in case
of
re-
fusal
by Germany,
the delivery
of food
will
cease.
This action
by the Allies
is
fully justified by the
bad faith
of
Ger-
many
visible in all directions.
Paris,
April 15th.—A despatch
to
the
““Journal’”’
states
that
the
Govt.
has
derided,
as
a
precautionay
measure,
to
guard the aporoaches
to the Govt.
offices
and
other
public
buildings,
and
has
stationed
15 large tanks and
20 machire-
guns
at various
points.
A
new
conspi-
racy is feared,
having
for
its
object the
seizing
of power
and
an
Alliance
with
Soviet
Russia
for resuming
the
war
against
France.
The Wolff Bureau
states
that
General Luttwitz
and
Major
Nos-
choff have been
arrested.
San Remo,
April 16th.—Premier
Nitti,
accompanied
by
General
Radoglio,
has
arrived here.
Marseilles,
April
16th.——Mr.
Lloyd
George
arrived
here
today
and left for
Nice
with his suite,
where
he
will pass
the night.
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