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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 1922,
TO-DAY'S CABLES.
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IRISH FREE STATE BILL
COMMONS DEBATE POSTPONED).
TREATY CONFERENCE SOON,
LONDON, February, 23.
THE DOLLAR.
To-day's closing rate 2/5 1/16
To-day's opening rate 2/5 1. 16.
CHINA TEA TRADE.
ALLEGED RUINOUS DUTY.
QUESTION IN THE COMMONS.
LONDON, February 23,
bad
In the House of Commons, asked whether the Goy The Chancellor of the Exchequer faced a long erament intended, to proceed with the Irish Free State question in the House of Commons by Mr. W. bill in view of the Ardfheis decision, Mr. Winston Forrest implying the differential tea duty Churchill said that the Irish signatories of the treaty ceased to have value even from the view-point had been invited to London for an early conference of revenue and suggesting the duty had gone far regarding the whole situation.
Mr Austen Chamberlain said the Government did not propose to take the Irish treaty bill on Monday.
Asked whether it was intended to proceed with the bill at all, Mr. Chamberlain declined to make a further statement before seeing the signatories of the treaty. Mr. Churchill announced that with the concurrence of both Irish Goveroments, Mr. Justice McCardie bad been appointed to conduct the enquiry into the Cloues shouting affair on February 12. He hoped the enquiry would begin early next week.
DE VALERA SCORES A POINT.
LONDON, February 23,
The bargain approved by the Ardfheis yesterday in regarded as indicating numerous formidable difficulties
to ruin the China tea trade with Britain, there'y im peding export of manufactured go as to China and asking whether Indise and Ceylon tea associations would have any objection to removal of the differential rate. Sir Rober. Horne replied quoting the revenue from China tea for the past three years as £221,000, £179,00) and £236,000 respectively. He declared that he was not informed regarding the ruinous effect of the duty nor regarding the altitude of the associations mentioned.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.
GENERAL MANAGER ARRESTED.
PARIS, February 23.
M. Pornotle, the General Manager of the Banque
the Sante prison.
in the way of the Provisional Government and not as healing the split in the Siou Fein ranks but as merely Industrielle de Chine has been arrested and conveyed to checking its development neading decisive battle at the polls. Mr. De Valera, by postponement of the election has scored an important point, while Messrs. Griffith and Collins have secured temporary freedom from the danger of a snap vote in the Doi Eireann where their majority is precarious, also from the threats of mutinons sections French Government with the Chinese Government to of the Republican army.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA.
PARIS, February 22. The Senate foreign affairs committee has passed M. Reynald's report relative to the Banque Industrielle de Ohine approving the undertaking of negotiations by the
The future is regarded both in Dublin and London lo for a solution safeguarding the material and moral
intereste concerned. Havas. with misgiving as prolongation of the existing uncer-↓· sainty may have disastrous consequences.
GERMAN
INDEMNIT Y,
BRITAIN'S SHARE.
LONDON, February 29,
LATER.
M. Pernotta was arrested in connection with a charge Made by the Paris engineer to the Seine tribunal regarding operations which Pernotte was concerned in connection with the issue last year of shares for a chemical products company the whole of which were taken up by the Banque Industrielle de Chine. The shares once rose to a 450 per cent. premium but subse-
ITALIAN POLITICAL DEADLOCK.
In the House of Commons in answer to questions,quently relapsed. Sir Robert Horne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that Britain had not yet received a penny of indemnity from Germany. On the other hand, the cost of occupa tion was over a milliard gold marks. This had been repaid to the extent of 970 million.
FRANCE'S DISAPPOINTMENT.
GENOA POSTPONEMENT CERTAIN.
LODON, February 23. The protracted political deadlock in Italy makes Postponement of the Genoa conference certain.
Signora Demicala, Bonomi and Orlando have suc
PARIS, February 24, Disappointment at Germany's default with the in- demnity payments on which France counted to balance her forthcoming budget was freely voiced in the Cham-cessively decliced to form a cabinet. ber of Deputies during the debate on a special vote of 131 milliard francs subsequently to be charged to Germany,
The Minister of Ficanos explained that the sum would have to be secured by means of fresh foons and regretted that Britain was more occupied with resuinp tion of trade than reparations.
M. Poincare outlined the difficulties of seizing German securities held abroad owing to the involving of neutral countries where the cecurities had been placed.
The vote was carried.
CASTEX ARTICLE AGAIN. COMMONS HEAR BALFOUR.
LONDON, February 23. The much discussed question of Lord Lee's alleged misquotation at the Washington Conference of an article by the French naval Captain Caster on the sub- jezt of submarinism semiofficially published in France, was brought up in the House of Commons to-day.
[A Rome cable dated February 18 stated: The Cabinet has resigned. It is practically certain that the consequence of the second defeat of the Bonomi Cabinet is the postponement of the Genoa Conference. It is expected that Parliament will be dissolved as the only way from the impasse.]
STOCKBROKERS BANKRUPT.
FORMER U. S. TREASURER A PARTNER.
NEW YORK, February 25. Federal receivers in bankruptcy have been appoint- ed for the stockbroking firm of Kardos and Burke whose liabilities amount to $1,500,000 and asseta $150,000 Burke was formerly Treasurer of the United States and three times governor of North Dakota.
AMERICAN LABOUR. COMBINE.
OVER 2,000,000 WORKERS UNITE.
CHICAGO, February 28.
A conference of representatives of over 2,000,000. Mr. Balfour regretted that the article had not been coal miners, railwaymen and longshoremen has agreed permitted to fall into oblivion. He said the Custer to combine the forces of their seventeen unions with a atatement did not commit the French Government but view of effectively protecting union workers in wago it was impossible to ignore the views of high officer struggles.
who approved submarinism directed to destroying with-1. out warning merchantmen with their crews, passengera, and cargoes. It was such operitions which Captain Custer proudly claimed were originally devised by French ingenuity that the governments of Franco, Italy, Japan, the United States and the British Empir a Washington unanimously declared geovaly. unmos and provokuord the perpetrators liable to the punt ment of pirates. (Cheers,
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GERMAN COMMERCIAL MISSION.
___ BERLIN, February 23. League of German industrialists has elected most prominent members delegates of the German commercial mistion which is going to Moscow
tions in RusaA.
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