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LONDON CONFERENCE:
TURKEY PRESENTS MANY DEMANDS,
COMPLETE FREEDOM SOUGHT,
LONDON, February 24. The Conference sat all day. The Turks attended in of the morning. Tewfik Pasha was absent, being indisposed. Mustapha Reshid announced that both delegations were in agreement and asked the Nationalist Bekir Sami to state his case,
This demanded the 1913 frontier of Europe; the fixing the frontier of Asia Minor by agreement with the Turkish and Arah majorities to the respective districts; that the frontier in the east be the pre-war Turco- Persian Hine and the Turco-Armenian frontier as fixed by the recent trenty between the Governments of Angora and Erivan; the return of Smyrna to Turkey after the evacuation of the Greeks; freedom of navigation and was in-demilitarisation of the Straits under Turkish sovueignty; the representa- attended meet- tion of Turkey on the international commission of the Straits; the protection wen with consider of minorities; recognition of Turkey's judicial sovereignty, the appointment of i
a commission of foreign and Turkish jurists to mödernise the judicial system; sufficient military and naval forces to ensure international order and defend coasts and frontiers; reorganisation of the gendarmerie with the assistance of foreign officers; the withdrawal of foreign troops from Constantinople and from Turkey after the ratificarish of the Treaty; the complete financial and economic independence of Turkey; and the valuation of damages for mutual reparation.
SHANGHAI BILLIARDS.
GRAY DEFEATED.
WIN FOR SHANGHAI CHAMPIÓN.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 25. Porter, the Shanghai amateur champion, in a game of 1500 best honesty of the Chinese and the satis- Gray by 150, Gray conceding 500. factory nature of the business done Gray, who was not in championship with that country, and while I believe form, paid a tribute to Porter, that this praise is fully deserved describing him as the best amateur where the older generation of Chinese he had ever met Gray leaves on merchants in the treaty ports are Saturday. concerned, and I hope the younger generation realise the importance of maintaining this bigh reputation, I
must in fairness point out that the factories during my recent tours have credit is largely due to the British mer-convinced me we are now in a posi- chant houses in China, who stand be- tion to, supply all China's require tween the British manufacturer and meats, and that, if our workmen the Chinese dealer, who take the risk remain true to their traditions, they of fluctuations in exchange and prices, will once more turn out goods which who carry the goods when consignees will be the best value to be had for are found wanting, and who, more especially in the export trade in produce, supply
The Conference adjourned, after which it heard the Turkish statistical statement claiming that the Turks were in the majority in Smyrna and Eastern Thrace, which should be assigned to Turkey. After the Turkish delegates withdrew, the conference invited M. Calogeropoulos to, submit the Greek statistical statement for Smyrna and Thrace.
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SENTENCE OF DELTIL
APPEAL AGAINST IRISH MILITARY COURT DECISION.
CIVIL COURT POWERLESS.
LONDON, February 25, The King's Bench in Dublin has refused an application for habeas corpus by a Tipperary named Allen condemned to death by a military court for possession of a revolver and a book entitled "Night Fighting," holding LONDON, February 25, A proposal made at the Near East Conference to appoint a British that it has no power to interfere with a military court in the martial law French and Italian commission to proceed to the spot and enquire into
THE CROZIER AFFAIR. questions of Smyrna and other matters raised by the Greeks and Turks has
LONDON, February. 24. been welcomed in French and Italian quarters. It is anticipated that the
The Crozier affair has been the subject of further questions in the Greeks and Turks will accept. The opinion is expressed in conference House of Commons. Sir Hamar Greenwood denied that the cadets had return- circles that this would bring a solution with the least possible modificationed to duty and reiterated that they were sent back to enable them to come of the Treaty of Sevres.
plete the învestigation. The suggestion that Crozier's letter was 'due to the "-
Mr. F. H. Fox, CMG. FRGS. H.M.Commercial Counsellor in China, is about to return to his post in Shanghai after six months spent in this country. Mr. Fox has recently completed a tour of the principal commercial and industrial centres is Great Britain and Ireland, in the course of which be visited some forty
the monez. I believe the Chinese The Near East Conference decided to ask the Turk and Greek delega. frustration of his efforts to secure a high standard of discipline was not representative factories and inter
know and appreciate this fact, and Itions to-day, whether they are prepared to accept the result of allied taves. founded on fact. It was through the miscarriage of General Tudor's viewed over 250 firms. In the fol-
necessary feel certain that, given a fair feidtigation with regard to Smyma and Thrace and, subject to that accept the letter that Crozier thought he was ignored, but he was not. Sir Hamar lowing article he gives a brief account guarantees of measure and quality of equal opportunity in China and remaining terms of the Treaty of Sevres. Acceptance of the proposal Greenwood said that he was bound to support. the Chief of Police,
The above considerations make me a steady output at home,
will involve inquiry by an inter-allied commission.
of the impressions.be formed during
the
his stay in this country, says the hesitate to encourage firms in this we need not fear any foreign Journal of Commerce.
country Speaking generally, I found an un-with expected degree of interest be There
outlets.
to 'deal direct competition. The war undoubtedly. native fimus in China. hit us badly in China, as it gave our are, of course, excep: competitors chances which they
ENGINEERING TRADE.
In the engineering business, more particularly in that concern with the supply of electrical plant, I found &
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GERMAN REP & RATIONS.
DELIVERIES IN KIND TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
LONDON, February 24.
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especially in view of Crozier's unwarranted statement that indiscipline was being condered." The speaker accepted the motion of Captain Redmond to adjourn the House for the purpose of debate but agrested postponement for a week in order not to delay the passage of the Un- employment Insurance Bill. "This was agreed upon.
· LONDON, February 25. In the House of Commons, Sir Hamar Greenwood stated that 62 “ members of the forces in Ireland had been arrested fox robbery and other offences since January 1.
EGYPTIAN CONSPIRACY.
MEMBERS OF VENGEANCE SOCIETY SENTENCED.
ing taken by our manufacturers in tions, and I know that the tendency naturally seized, and we still suffer China, and far more. business being is for some of the larger Chinese from its after effects, restriction of done with that country than I had firms in Shanghai and Hongkong to credit, high cost of production and realised was the case. The bulk of establish branches or appoint agents slowness of delivery. But I feel sure this business appears to be carried on in London through whom they can that these difficulties are only tem-
In the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain stated that deliveries in through, merchant houses on this side, deal directly with the manufacturer,porary and will be overcome, and kind up to the present allocated by the Reparations Commission to the and though I am loth to suggest any but, speaking generally, this method that our manufacturers, with the aid British Empire wäre 3,181 tons of dyestuffs, 304, ships, of a tonnage of departure from long established, and of doing business is not to be recour of our unrivalled banking and ship-1508,000, of which 262 had been sold for £13,609,000, from which £3,100,000 on the whole satisfactory, business mended at present: the difference] ping facilities and our well equipped methods, I feel that in view of the" of language and business customs, selling organisations in China, will in was to be deducted for expenses and repairs. development of the foreign trade of distance separating buyer and seller, time succeed in recovering the trade Sir A. Williamson said that the War Office had received from Germany China which is now taking place and and the stumbling block of exchange we have lost and even surpass all 346 million marks in local currency towards the upkeep of the Rhine army. the increasing competition of Japan, are practical disadvantages which out former records..
..COUP D'ETAT IN GERMANY FEARED.
CAIRO, January 242: America and other countries in weigh, in my opinion, the theoretical I am not uamindful of the pitfalls
·BERLIN, February 24..
Sentence in the conspiracy case cabled on October 5 has been the Far East, it is time our manu advantage of direct transactions.
which beset the path of those who
As a result of violent pan-German propaganda following the decisions! promigated. Seven death condemnations include Abdul Rahman Bey, facturers took steps to get into closer
trade with China, some of them, touch with the Chinese markets, so
such as the bugbear of exchange of the Paris Conference apprehensions are entertained of an outbreak of local secretary of the Egyptian Nationalist delegation. "All sentences were as to be in a position to follow up
unfortunately likely to be lasting. disturbances in Germany during the London Conference. The possibility commuted to fifteen years' penal servitude. Fifteen sentences of imprison- their goods, to watch changes of,
others, such as the restriction of bank of an attempted coup d'etat is even discussed. The Allgemeine Zeitung, ment were reduced to periods varying from twelve to two years' punishment. demand and fashion, and to take most gratifying activity among many credits, and the existing demoralisa. prompt advantage of new trade of our largest manufacturers. Some tion of the China markets, it may be an organ of Herr Hugo Stinnes, publishes a warning againg heedless The sentence of thirty lashes on eleven of the accused was annulled.
are opening their own offices in hoped, of a transitory nature. Com-action which will only renew foreign suspicion of Germany's military It is gratifying to note that mer China and rightly selecting Shanghai petent judges are of opinion that a leanings and be imputed by the German proletariat to the whole of the chant firms in London and Man as their headquarters; others are revival of business, both import, may middle class instead of a few political adventurers. chester are making a practice of joining with non-competing firms to be looked for next spring after the
GERMAN DEFIANCE DWINDLING. sending out travellers to China, who, maintain representatives in China, Chinese new year, which falls at the where possible, carry their clients' who in m207 cases work beginning of February. But I have
BERLIN, February 24. samples with them, and it is to be with merchant firms; others, in this brief review purposely With the approach of the London Conference Harr von Simons hoped this practice will be contioned, whose business does not warrant | avoided dweiling on these hindrances as the day has passed when China the expense of sending out special because I have noticed among bosi intransigence appears to be wavering. Pressed at the economic council to were the preaching of sedition, the assassination of the Sultan of Egpyt, merchants can afford to sit in their representatives, are appointing merness people in this country a tendency say whether he was prepared to oppose an unequivocal "no" to the allied Ministers and other Egyptians, of whom the Society disapproved. It ia offices and wait for orders to come chant firms, preferably those provided to magnify the difficulties of trade demands, Herr Simons recollected that the Paris decisions had not been alleged the Society organised the recent attacks on British soldiers, also the with engineering departments, their with China and to make them an brought forward at random but as the result of fierce conflictá. He urged bomb attacks on Ministers. It appears the ramifications of the Society agents. It is impossible to lay down | excuse for keeping out of the market. any hard and fast rule as to the best My, aim has been to encourage mer. the taking into account of allied unity in drawing up the counter proposals, extended all over Egypt. It is stated it had correspondents almost throngă- I am, however, still of opinion method of doing business in China, chants and manufacturers to take a especially as the French newspapers were saying that the London Conference out the world. It is noteworthy that some of the accused exhorted, the that the best channel for selling as conditions vary so much in dif- long view and make their plans for had not been called to discuss revision but the execution of the Paris Society to adopt Sinn Fein tactics. British goods in China is through the ferent trades, and bere I would again the future, being confident that their decision, in which case Herr Simons declared the conference would be British merchant firms who have call the attention of manufacturers efforts and their outlay will," in the futile, their own bouse in London or who may contemplate entering the fulness of time, be amply rewarded. Manchester, and branches at least China market to the desirability of China is changing, perhaps more in Shanghai and Hongkong, and consulting the. Department of Over-rapidly than her well wishers could preferably in Tientsin and Hankow seas Trade as to the best means o desire, and a growing force of public: as well By using the word making a beginning.
opinion is demanding, along with far branches" I do not mean to imply
reaching reforms in her system of that the firm should be controlled
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BEST METHODS FOR CHINESE MARKETS.
FUTURE PROSPECTS.
I need hardly point out that, in government, a drastic revision of the
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LONDON, February 24.
*M. Venizelos left London and now does not intend to confer with M. Calogeropoulos,
AMOUNTS CLAIMED." -
The Reparations Committee has given out the amounts claimed by
COAL TRADE.
MINERS FEDERATION DELEGATES OPPOSE, DECONTROL
from this side, as it is most impor- the case of a vast and partially deve-conditions under which foreignere each of the allied or associated nations. France's total claim amounts to 218- tant that the men who conduct the loped country such as China, imme- reside and carry on their business in billion of francs. The British Empire's total is 24 billion sterling and 71⁄2 business in China should have com diate results must not be looked for, the country. The old order suited billions francs. That of Siam is 9 billion marks (gold) and 1,100 milion pete liberty of action.
and that manufacturers must be us well and we shall not lightly francs. Japan claima 832 million yen.. Many of the China merchant
prepared to pay for their footing," surrender our hard won rights for houses are old established, with but there is no question that the the sake of the new, but at the same bong" names that are known and foreign trade of China, in spite of time we must be prepared to recognise respected throughout the length and frequent setbacks, is steadily growing and adapt ourselves to changed con- breadth of China; they have breaches in volume, and may show extraditions, and, above all, make it in all the principal treaty ports and ordinary expansion during the next clear to the Chinese that they may good connections in the interior; few years, if the efforts now count on us for sympathy and sup
LONDON, February 26. their financial standing is sound, and being made to settle the country's port in their efforts to develop the they possess a knowledge of local con internal affairs prove successful and commercial and industrial resources
The delegates to the Miners Federation at a private conference in ditions and customs, bought by long China accepts the means now offered of their country. The interest new London passed a resolution protesting against the proposed decontrol of and often costly experience, which of making the much needed exten, being taken, in China by our mer- the coal trade, declaring that the Federation would oppose decontrol with they are able to place at the disposal sions of her railway system. There-chants and, manufacturers, and the every means in its power. of the manufacturers whose agencies fore I would strongly urge the British Increased volume of trade which they hold. The manufacturers' manufacturer who may be seeking may, with confidence be looked for as difficulty is that there are not enough fresh outlets for his products to turn a result, will be of the greatest value of these firms to go round, but their his attention to China and make his; in strengthening the hands of those number is increasing, and will con arrangements for representation in who are entrusted with the safeguard- tinue to increase, as the trade that country now before our trade ing of British interests in China, and develops and British goods come rivals consolidate, the positions they whose duty it will be to deal with forward more freely than they have have won during the war.
the various problems which will done in the past. In this connection.
Cheapness Las been in the past come up for solation during the next
I should mention, because it does the determining-factor in the sale of few years.
"JYELLOW PERIL."
DEAN INGE ON THE FATE OF THE WHITE WORKER.
LONDON, February. 241
Dean Inge, speaking at Epsom on the "yellow peril" declared that the We are fortunate la abolition of war and a league to secure international justice would seal the not seem to be stenerally known, that foreign goods in China, and there is possessing in the Association of doom of the white worker whose labour movement produced a type of the Department of Overseas Trade no doubt that our trade has been British Chambers of Commerce in workman without survival valfie.
is always prepared to advise firms in handicapped to a great extent by the China and the China Association in
this country sa to the demand for comparatively high prices of our London two representative and in-
CHINESE AS TRADERS.
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A NEWSPAPER'S OFINION,
7 LONDON, February 25,
"Their products, the strength of wares, but it is certain, that, as the fluential bodies who, in consultation
foreign competition, and the names Industrial development of the country with Chambers of Commerce, and Commenting on Dean Inge's views on the Yellow Ferli* the Dai of suitable agents in China.
proceeds and the exporttrade in raw other associations in this country, Chronicle points out that even assuming the Asiátic races have the a and semi-manufactured materials in may be relied upon to voice the initiative and organising power to govern the markets of the creases the Chinese will want and be sidered opinions of both merchant control military forces as Dean Inge forsees, the deve able to purchase a better class of and manufacturer on all questions; ty with which firms in this country goods. This is where we shall beneat, where British trade Interests are con- civilisation will produce a demand for a higher, star
reducing their tendency to cutwork and unde bare witness to the commercial because my visits to representative cerned,
In the course of my recent tour I
was much impressed by the unanimi
A cable dated October 5, stated :---One of the most important cases in the annals of Egyptian criminal trisis has ended in Cairo, in which Abdul Rahman Bey, an ex-Provincial Governor and ex-servant of the ex-Khedive," and twenty-seven others, comprising etudents, lawyers and members of the Moslem University at Elazbar, were accused of conspiracy as members of a criminal association called "The Vengeance Society," the objects of which
CURRENT PROBLEMS.
IRÍSH CRIME AS MR. BONAR LAW SEES IT.
LABOUR AND - UNEMPLOYMENT.
LONDON, February 25., 'Mr. Bonar Law, speaking at Leeds, referred to Ireland. He declared that if the Government gave for crime what they would not give to reason crimes would spread and it would end the British-Empire. “As regards unemployment, if Labour restined to power tomorrow instead of caring unemployment they would have a shaking of confidence everywh to incalculable disaster.
UNEMPLOYMENT DONATIONS INUREÄSED..
leading
LONDON, February 24,
In the House of Commons, in the comme of the discussion on the Unemployment Bill, the Government agreed to increase the donation to
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NEW YORK, Febșuary (24€
The air mail transported from San Francisco to Harelhurst Aarodrome Long Island in 33 hours 20 minutes was conveyed by relays of and left St Francisco at 4.30 in the morning on Tuesday, and arr 4,50. in the afternoon on Wednesday,
HARDINGS CARINER
MR, HOOVER OFFERED SECRETARYSHIP OF COMMERCE
WASHINGTON, February 24.
Mr. Hoover was offered the secretaryship of commeres but asked Mr. whether he would be of more service there or director of rellet. Ha proposed, to Mr Harding to enlarge the scope of the partment but did not make this a condition of his acceptance.