boat-builder here named Curtis yas, announced that he has made Contact with the kidnappers. of the Lindbergh baby. and. has been informed that the baby continues well uty ho is uniting Ca, Lind och absent from homo since Satur ind the missing baby, Gay ona mysterious mission, Hi Yeturned this morning and said he had seen Col, Lindbergh but is mot free to aay where.—Reuter.
Now York, Apr. 10.
Col, Charles Lindbergh has been "double-crossed" by the kidnappers of his infant son. He has paid them the $50,000 ransom, money they, de, manded' but the criminals failed Keep their promise and have noi communicated with the famous aviator since.
Gol, Lindbergh has therefore quested the ce-operation of all tiitizens in tracing the bank notes the paid the kidnappers, the numbers been circulated by "The ransom money notes of five, ten and t denominations and the kidnappers gon but the child has not found.
According to. the "New York Mirror," Col. Lindbergh puld the on April 2 in a nearby city island boathouse. There was a dramatic meeting between the outraged father and the kidnappers who examined each bank note for markings.
At this meeting Col. Lindbergh, says the newspaper, received traction to fy. over Marth Vineyard and drop x message de-Siemating he baby The first attempt at contact because rival gangs of rum-sunni scared the kidnappers, says "Mirror, but a second contact La Tuesday was successful until bungled by the rushing in of police and coastguards. Tt is surmised that this blunder of official factions has pers that tom maddening failure of the gang to Keep its promise and return the veral days were permitted to elapse after the payment of the ransom in order to give the kidnappers every opportunity to keep their agreement. Tt was not intended to use the numbers of the notes With which tle ransom was paid But' inasmuch as the kidnappers Broke their agreement it was felt that every possible means muse be utilised: to effect the return of the Baby and therefore the ce-operation of the Federal government was Yequested in tracing the bank-notes. Apr. 11.
Itis reported that the kidnappers of the Lindbergh - baby have established contact with Col. Li proposed an ex. change of the dollar-notes handed over to them last week after which it is promised that the baby will be "Last Week Col. Lindbergh paid the After Waiting far several days Col:
promi child. Lindbergh appealed to the Federal authorities for assistance in tracing notes, and the kidnappers ape parerfly realise that it will now be Snvpeshible to cash them, Meanwhile, the latest offer of a reward for the return of the baby comes from a. prominent. bootlegger who is offering $20,000 through the Boston Globe. He is not actuated any sentimental or kind-hearted motive however. He asserts that the police activity in connection with w-the kidnapping has disturbed the rum-ranning industry and. declares hat Sie is worth $20,000 to get matier ended."—Reuter. speech were When T was in the House there was a majority of 80 for free trade, for electoral reform, and for national reconstruction.
All that has gone—now a majority of 400 for protection. All those great progressive measures swe {nto the dust heap and the Liberal Party an insignificant band whose yolees and votes do not count.
'No fight was ever put up for free trade. I agree with Mr. Ramsay Mur' on the whole that' we have been fooled.
In the the Liberal leaders: lost their heads, The Tory leaders Kept theirs. We were out-generalled, out-manoeuvres, bamboos!-
een" pleased to call the stupid the party "we "had "always party.
The hesitation, feebleness, and poltroonery which have ' been exhibited in the last few weeks in Yeference to the vital question of the Far East has done mare of Nations: then anything that has wmage the prestige of the
happened, Te is not a National Governme it jure party Government, Ave we to abandon free trade? Of the tocsin were sounded hearing is still quite good. Free trade is a great issue of peace on earth.
There is no fighting at by-cleetions. Unless something is done the Liberal Party will have disappeared, and lost its mission, its message, its vitality, and its freedom. Out only hope is in the rank Statesmen have their minds too exclusively fixed upon the dangers of revolution. Reaction is the surest way round to revolution, I appeal seriously to the Conservative members of the House to remember that a hard and barren materialism in this situation will most certainly lead to disaster.
My hope is that men of progressive minds, wherever they are, whatever party they belong to, oF of no party at all, that they should come together to save Britain, and through Britain the world from the calamities that seem to be lowering so darkly over the fortunes of mankind.
Major H. L, Nathan, MP. who resided on the occasion, described it. Lloyd George as the greatest living Liberal in the world," and added:
hen all the great men who strut across the stage to-day are dead and gone, and their contro-verses and petty squabbles and personal antagonisms had vanish-and been forgotten, there will stand towering above them all the ud record of Mr. Lloyd point in Mr.. Lloyd George'
speech which caused finite resentment was his attack on Sir John Simon's foreign policy. There was a meeting of the Liberal National Group at the House of Commons later in the evening when on the motion of Mr. George Lambert and seconded by Mr. Tan Macpherson, both of whom had heard the ' speech, the following resolution was adopted unamimously.
That this meeting of the Liberal National Group warmly congratulates Sir John Simon on the prominent part he played at Geneva, especially in is work for peace through eof Bone and. in maintaining 2. close accord with the United States Par Eastern affairs—Reuter a Special.
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