TIMES—SYDNEY SUN CABLES

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 73, 20 March 1914, Page 6

TIMES—SYDNEY SUN CABLES

LONDON, March 17. Sir E. Grey (Foreign Minister) speaking in tho House of Commons, said that France had verbally informed England of her desire to discuss some moans of adjusting the difficulties arising out of the neighborhood of French colonies to British possessions in India. This Hvould: .possibly involve an exohangu of territory. The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral (Very He v. W. It. Inge) said that Protestant asceticism was responsible for the modern business man giving his unremitting attention to money-making, which disqualified him for 'the finer pleasures of life. It was a queer sort of religious self-mortification which induced a. man who was constitutionally indolent to choose the strenuousness necessary to become successful in Ousineas.

PAKIS, March 17. The sensation caused bv the shooting of M. Galmette (editor -of the ' Figaro') by -Mine. Callaux (wife of tho Finance Minister) is comnai>abie to the assassination of President Carnot. The political consequences of the act will be far-reaching and will profoundly influence the impending French elections. PEKIN, March 17. Japan ii entering the field of industrial enterprise in China and an era of scrambling has sot in. The Chinese lack capital, resulting in the giving of foreigners valuable concessions for nominal payments. Britain is insisting on the recognition of her rights in the Yang-tse Valley.