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view of the solidfying hostility of pro- tectionism Mr. Baldwin’s means to drop it, anvway for the tima being. Never- theless speculation eontinues busy, on the assumption that an election is Im- pending and the expectation grows that Parliament will be dissolved very soon after its first meeting next Tuesdav and that an elaction wiil be fixed for D2cem- ber. Some of the best informed politi- cal writers, who hitherto have scouted reports of a December election, abun- doned that view today and <ay that the section of the Conservative Party wshing the appezl to be deferred until Jauary has been overruled and that a ‘‘snap”’ ¢lection, which will be held almost iwi- madiately, has been decided upon. London, Nov. 11th.—A coparatively new Premier is believed seldom tc bave been calied upon to meet such an em- barrassing and confusing set of circum- stances as Mr. Sianley Baldwin wili be called upen to face wher Parliament, which was only elected about a year aygo, reassembles next week, Neither with nor witnout the Premier’s wish the country has been firmly imbued with the idea that Parliament will meet ounly {0 be immediately dissolved, but it be- gins to appear to be exceedingly doubt- tul whether this course will be followed. When only a few weeks ago Mr. Bald- win announced his conviction that pro- tection was the only remedy for unem- ployment, it is doubtful whether he really contemplated bringing the ques- tion up to the test of a zeneral election so speedily and he certainly cannot have foreseen such a grave state of affairs as now has arisen out of th veparations imbroglio, with apparently no hove of a reparation conference in which the Upited States will participate and with Germany in a condition whers nobody dares prelict what the next move wiil be. What seems reaily to have happen- ed is that Mr. Baldwin’s hand bas baen torced py the sturdy proteetionist ol his party and by the presence here of Mr. Bruce of Australia and the Don:irion Premiers pressing for a tari'l. London, Nov. 11th.—Under the head- ine of ‘‘Foreign Affairs’”’ appears the iollowing: ‘lt was while the conferenc? was sitting that the President of the United Siates renewed the offer oif the United States Government to take part in an International conference, or 1,;- quiry, to investigale the Lnaropean proh- lom acd to report upon the capaciy of Germany to make payments, to whieh she is pledged. The conference cordial- ly weicomed and decided to tuke immedi- ate advantage of this overtureand com- munications were at ouce entered into with the Allied powers to obtaiz their cooperation. The conference, atter care- ful consideration of the policies which ®. % been pursved, was of the opini- ol that the European situation could only be lifted on to a plane of settlement by the cooperation of the United States =T &Rl 3 &Y | and that if the scheme of a common in- - quiry, to be foliowed by common action, were to break down the results would " b 2 nimieal both ta poace and the econo- . mic recovery of the worid > The follow- . ing signif~tnt passaze follows: °'lt is | t.°¢ that in’ such an event it would be ' desirable for the British Government to -~ consider very carefully the alternative '* of summoning a conference Irseif, in order to consider the financial ard econo- wic problem in its widest aspect.’’ Con- - tinuinyg the summaery says, ‘‘the confer- - ence, so much of whose time was cecu- . vied two years ago with the question of a renewal of the Japanese Alliance, noted with satisfaction the results of the ' Washington Conference, which added | immensely o the security of the world, . without disturhing the intimate relations ' that have so long exis’ed bectween the Empite and its former ally. It recog- | mnizes with satisfaction the obligations - ineurred under tha Washington treaties. - The conference while aillirming the princei- . pleas the three miie limit, thought it . desirable- and praectieal tn meet the United Sta'es request for the conclusion of an experimentigi agreement. A special | comimittee examined the quaestion of neuotiating treaties und whil: its report | does not directly aifi: n the right ot the - Dominions to make treaties independent- i Jy. it lavs down the foilowing priseini t It 1s desirable that notreaty shouia be negotiated by any of the governments of the Empire, withou: due eonsideration of its possibie effect on any cther parts ! of the Empire or the knmnpire as a ! whole’’. The coa:mittec alsc say 2 that befcre auny steps are taken for conclud- | ing a treaty, any other part of the Em- . pire.ikely te be interested is to Le in- | formed. Bilateral' treatiss, imposing i obligations on one part_oef tae Empire orly, shou'd be sigred by the represen’- atives of the Government of that part, but where the treaty uaposes cbiigations ob mere thanu one part of the Empire, it . should be signed by one or more pleui- potentiaries, on behad of all the Govern- i meunts concerned. ‘The conference re- colved that treaties negotiated at Inter- pational conferences stould be signed by . representatives of ail the governments . of the Empire represented at che confer- t* rce as was doue at Paris and Wuarh: | inglopn. ' Berlin, Nov. 11th.—The pr-sent lcca- tion of the disappearirg ex-Crovn Frince is po: known, but it is annour.ced in ofli- cial quariers here that Frederick William + spent Saturday night with friends on an - es ate ncar Hildesheim . in the neighbour- ' hoou of Hanover, azd would make a sec- i ond break in his trin f:on Wicerngen to- night arriving some time on Monday at ' Qels, where it i bis intention Lo sojourn . in his castie. The departure of the Ho- henzpliern heir from uis island retreat | and his entry into Cermany coes not | seem to have caused the excitement ' in Berlin that might be expected, .as it synchronized with the Munich in- surrection and widesgread, elamour for a dictatorship. It has zroused’ consider- able eariosity, but popular cvinion ap- p:ars wholly disinelined to-associate him with present or tulure nationalistic ma- chinations if only for the reason that he is viewed as being wholly out of the run- ning, in that he is corsidered a liability to any reaciionary enterprize. From the pelitieal point of view, Frederick Wil- liam’s return is thought likeiv: to bring about a sertous diplomatie sequel in the nature of a formal protast from the En- tente Powers, pnssibly ereater than that already uiade, dospite Chaneellor Strese- mann’s orief offictal centention that the German “overnmant knew ot no reason in law, or in faet, which would justify its refusal to grant a German private citizen the privilege of returning to his native country. The ex-Crown Prince is reportad to nave given the Stresemann Government somethirg moie precise thana mere “‘gentl man’'s agreement’’ that he intend>d to coid: it himeeif wholly as a private burgher anl coniine his activ.ties o the limits s t cor a*plain country squire, Iha2 Chancellor was ai so given the ‘assurance, it it sa:d,. that Frederick William wauid keep himeell out of t e rangegof interviewers and cameras while on the way to Dels. Washingtor, Nov. 12th.—The Briti h Government bas notified tle Treasury that jis next payment on tle war debt due Docember ibth, wili be in Liberty Bond:, The pay nent will include $25, 000,000 on the wvrincipal of the ahliga- tion, an ! $69,000, 060 interest, Borlin, Nov., [l2th.—-Ado!ph Hitler, leadep of the Faseisti in Bavaria, was ar- rested after his flight, from AMunich, in a villa beloneing to Ernest Hanfstaen- gel, tformeriy a New York art dealer. The villa is located in Utl ng Bavaria. Hanfstaeigel is eredited in Perlin as beiny one of Hitler's finnncial backers. Athens, Nov. 12th.—The Kinz wiil comply with a request made by the mili- tary Republican faection that he leave Greece for a tries ;»z‘:'mt‘i, pending the clearing of the gereral situation. It i undarstood that the Monareh twiil depart for two months and that he will either appoint a regent or ask the Gowernuaant to consti‘ute a sqeency Dycastic quss- tions will be discussed by the ussembly later. Two of the King’s chamberiains, M. Nieolaidis and M. Viachos alleced to have been implicated in the reeont mutiny, have boeep liberatod. Lon ton, Nov. 12th.-—-Sir Thomas Pax- ton, ex-Lord Provost of Gilasgow, who w s caosen as the Urionist cantidace for th: Ceatral Division of Gilasgow in the Lvo-eleetion eomsequent upon the death of Mr Bonar Law, has declined ro accept the nomination, on the ground of medi- ¢ | dvice arainsi his participating in an el=¢:l n contest., ltis sugges:ed, how ever, that ne ils not prepared to embrace Lie Goverpment’s protec inn poliey,