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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924.
FRANCE, AND U.S.
QUESTION OF DEBTS
DISCUSSED,
OFFICIALS NOT PERTURBED.
(Reuter's American Service.)
The Ching Mail weighed to reach mini conclusions China's ills." At Shiukwan. Government, as far as official
HELP NOT NEEDED.
STRANDED VESSEL SAFE.
ARRIVING TO-NIGHT.
This evening, the s.s."Talkoo Wan I" is expected to arrive in Hongkong little the worse for having gone ashore, near Hainan Head, not far from the Hainan Straits.
Coming up from Java with a Sugar Refinery, the steamer first cargo of sugar for the Talkoo wirelessed for immediate assist- ance. Accordingly, it was decided to send a tug from the "Talkoo Dock this morning."
Yesterday another message was
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en-
Our special correspondent paints a gloomy picture of conditions in
Washington, December 29., Canton, "He writes that the Luen
The report that France intends Yick Insurance Company, of
to repudiate her debts to the Hongkong. has already closed its United States precipitated "a de- Canton branch and it is anti-bate in both Houses of Congress. oipated that other Hongkong firms vania) told" the Senate that
Senator David Reed (Pennyal will follow suit after the Chinese France should understand she New Year unless the Kuomintang will have to pay. He expressed régime is ousted, or withdraws its the opinion that France did not destructive policies. It appears mean to pay anything. but said that numbers of soldiers of this polley was not supported by received stating that the s.s. fortune have recently flocked to the French people. Canton to seck service in Dr. Sun some friend told France her pre-that conditions at high water It was timeChinbua" was standing-by and Yat-sen's Red Army. They now sent. course was a mistake, even would ba find that Canton is by no means a from a selfish' standpoint.
wirelessed later All in the day." A third message Tom Tiddler's ground, and their her friends would Approve was to the effect that the nationals (guild' brothers, chiefly) France's expenditure to arm" Taikoo Wan I had been re- have been forced to raise funds to against invasion; but if invasion floated-presumably at high water "repatriate them by the thou-came. France would need more--that all were well, that the ship sund." This naturally is bad for money and it would be impossible was proceading to Hongkong and business as it is taking a lot of for her to obtain credit if she had expected to be here this evening. money. out of the City which, repudiated her obligations..
Particulars as to the cause of the under 'happier circumstances, In the Lower House Congress-grounding are not yet available. would flow through business man Thomas Blanton (Texas) channels. In addition to business declared the French debt would unrest. however, there is the be refunded amicably' as soon as menace of further fighting. Our the French peuple woke up to correspondent writes:
their moral obligations. "General Lin Chen-ting, who controls the
OFFICIALS NOT PERTURBED. lower four circuits in Southern inclined to
United States officials are dis- Kwangtung has already declared pudiation in the recent action of see any hint of re- himself on the side of Dr. Sufi M. Jusserand,
Speculation has been rifa in the Yat-sen in the coming conflict France's balance sheet without thusiasts, as to whether Harold
who published Colony,
*"soccer" with General Chan Kwing-ming, mentioning the money due to the Walden of the Wish Wynne Co. who is the leader of those opposed United States. On the contrary, is the "Fanny" Walden of the aspect of the problem carefully to Bolshevism as cure for it is emphasised that the French famous Spurs. bused, not upon individual view-Press gangs have again been busy communications to
It is known that in one office ar Washington any rate, curiosity was roused to on behalf of the Red Army and are concerned, throughout has re- the extent of somebody suggesting points, such as those of the the position is said to be so serious cognised the equity as well as that Mr. Edgar Warwick be com mariner looking only to the safety-4000 coolies having been carried the legality of these obligations. municated with on the subject. of his ship, but upon the broader off in the last round-up-that the It is expected here they will be However, it was decided to ring rtains of the Colony's general Canton-Hunkew Railway authori-"worked out" in time in the same up a gentleman who was know
Mr. John Duncan has traffic between Shiukwan and arrangement of the British debt. for Tottenham and he settled the ties have had to suspend goods friendly spirit as marked the to have been connected with the not even limited his work to Canton. Politicians meanwhile
international "right-winger playing providing port facilities, but has are doing little to calp the public set out to find, by analysing the mind and have already organised,
He was positive that Harold Walden is not "Fanny" Walden under the auspices of the Kuomin- Colony's trade and reviewing other tang, a grand parade or New
of Tottenham Hotspurs. However, Fur Eastern port schemes, which Year's Eve. This is to demons QUESTION UNDER DEBATE the member of the Wish Wynne facilities are at once the cheapest trate "in favour of the following:
Co. who sang comic songs to his own accompaniment was rumoured and most efficient for meeting local (1) Freedom of the Chinese Race:
to have played, years ago, for nents. This he has done with a Bolshevism during 1923; (3) Bel- .(2) Practical introduction df
Manchester City, another English. skill and industry that are above shevism to dominate the whole
First League team. The authority also said that the Walden in the praise. His
report therefore Republic 1925; (4) Successful up-
Colony at present is believed to represents just what the Colony's rising of the People against Mili
PARIS, December 29:
possess a runner's-up medal in the arism; (5) Success of Chinese Interpellation regarding business community has most People in overcoming Imperialism; prosecution of "L'Eclair" came
F. A. Cup competition, and that he the
has been given an international wanted-d plan for the commer- (6) Support to the People's up in the Chamber of Deputies cap. On reference to records it | cial development of our harbour, National Conference as advocated when the Minister of Justice, de was found that if he played
of the by the Kuomintang; (7) Support fending the Government's action, for either
Manchester How much of Mr. Duncan's report to the preparatory caucus for the declared that the only restrictions.
big league teams, he will be put into effect remains to National Conference; (8) Opposito secret documents concerning has only twice been represented
on the liberty of the press applied! not verg well have won be seen, but there can be no doubt, tion to the proposed Peking Recon- the external safely of the State in a Cup Final and won on both runner-up medal. Manchester looking to its scope and the struction Conference .for RACINE. On December 22 authority-with-which it is pre- for the abolition of all unequal; covered in the office of "L'Eclair" Manchester
division of spoils; (9) Demands documents, similar to those dis-occasions.
the He asserted. that incriminating Paris, Georges Racine, aged 63 years: Chairman of Racine Sented, it will long remain the treaties and (10) Re-unification came from the archives of public Wanderers and then in 1908.9 & Co. S. (By cable).
classic document upon a subject of China by peaceful means." administration. The Government Manchester United bear Bristo! that, far more than any other, Bolshevism as a peaceful means would have full light thrown on
City. A Manchester team has holds our hopes for the future.
to reunification is delightful?. the affair and whoever was respon- Bever finished up as losers in the
sible for the leakage, would be final. struck down however highly | placed. The debate was adjourned.
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welfare.
MONSTROUS."
.HON. MR. HOLYOAK ON
UNFIT POLICÈMEN,
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL INCIDENT,
The
$1
L'ECLAIR" EXPOSURE.
IN CHAMBER
STAND BY GOVERNMENT.
(Reiter's Service,)
CAIRO MURDER ECHO.
COURT OF ENQUIRY SIFTS EVIDENCE.
TWO MEN REMANDED.
(Reuters Service.) ̧.··
Two Men Remanded.
question.
of
could.
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In the season 1903-4
City beat Bolton
ARMED ROBBERS.
תזרח
"Fanny" Walden's prowess and Preparing Speeches.
personality on the field must be well-known to Home football Somewhat astonishing to victims THE HARBOUR REPORT.
enthusiasts. Diminutive by com- of the popular fallacy that truly
parison with the usual
has league forwards, he great speeches may be made to Historic is the only term that hubble out of the mouths of pro-
an excellent reputation för per can describe the report presented minent politicians would be the During the disenssion of the
fection as a right-outside forward. by the Colony's Port Engineer, article by the present Foreign Police Votes by the Financial Com
In 1914 he was capped (for |England) against Scotland and in ooxxxxxxx | Mr. John' Duncan, M. Inst. C.E, cn Chamberlain, which appears in the Legislative Council Committee, Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Austen mitter at yesterday afternoon's
| 1922 against Wales. Memory may The commercial development of current number of the "Empire under the chairmanship of the
not be correct as to whether he got his F. A. Cup final medal our harbour. For historic it is in Review." Besides being of peculiar Colonial Secretary (Hon. Sir Cland
when the Spurs, won in 1920-21. many ways: The Colonial Secre-interest in that it is written by Bevern the question of medically
Rumour goes that he was badly one who both by his own observa- unfit police recruits arosé.
Injured in the semi-final or z tary said yesterday that a more tion and in conversation with his Chainioan stated
CAIRO, December 29. semi-final replay' and was "thos interesting and important docu-father has had opportunity of It is estimated that $5,000 will connection with the murder of the cently he has been kept out of the Ten more of those arrested to kept out of the great victory. Re- ment has seldom been laid before getting authentic information be required to cover the passages of Sirdar of Egypt have been re-field owing to injuries to a knee. the Council. Sir Claud Severn about the practice of great men recruits returned to England as leased. Two of them are deputies could have gone further without past and present, the article has medically unfit.. The Government and embrace the prominest a charm of its own, the phrasing has been in correspondence with the Wafdite and leader of the so called over stating the case. He could being as delightful as the matter Secretary of State on this mutter of Students' Army." safely have said that the report is interesting, Chatham, he the number of officers sent out, to may prove the most important tomed to send the younger Pittmedically unfit and I hope range. has remanded Abdel Rahman Coming into town to collect out- reminds us, was not only accus-the police who have turned" out! The Court of Enquiry, however, document in the Colony's history, specimens of oratory to study but ments will be made to guard against Fahmy, organiser of the notorious standing accounts, a Shaukiwan for upon the commercial develop-bade him take up any book in it.)
"Vengeance Society" who was tradesman who ment of the harbour, as everyone some foreign language with which
Hon. Mr. Holyoak: Are these imprisoned in 1921, and Nokrashi home by ricsha, was set upon knows, depends the future pros he was well acquainted, in Latin men examined before they leave Rey, Under-Secretary of the In before sunrise this morning, in terior in the Zaglulist Government Yee Woo Street (which runs from perity of the entire Colony. Other and Greek especially and to read England?
The Chairman: 'Yes.. out of this work a passage in Eng-
The Government has prohibited the foot harbour reports there have been lish, stopping when he was not
of Jardine's Hill to Hon. Mr. Holyoak: Can we
students, who are non-voters, from Causeway Bay) and robbed of a in the past, but they have all been sure of the word to be used in claim on the Home Government for participating in any way in the considerable sum of money. so much tinkering with the English until the right word came
forthcoming election campaign. there men? to his mind. To train his son in
The Chairman:
I don't
think problem. Even the late Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice dealt with caused him to recite day by day
sonorous elocution, Lord Chatham we can.
Hon. Mr. Holyoak It seems to only one aspect of the matter, the in his presence passages from theme monstrous that they should pass providing of wharves to meet beat English poets. The author their arrival here are found to be men who within a few weeks of points out that the non-use of post. Kowloon's future, needs as a notes is not a sign that the most railway terminus, which, Mr. John careful preparation has not been (ate Duncan's report, if it does not say undertaken and quotes the case Hon, Mr. Holyoak: I say mone so in as many words, shows to be of his father who took immense trous." the wrong angle from which to "Such a speech as that with which been most annoying.rather ox- pains with his prepared speeches. The Chairman It certainly ha approach the problem, looking to he opened his tariff reform cam-pensive. the fact that the through railway palgn in 1908, or those in which
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The Chairman: It is unfortun-
THOSE WAR DEBTS.
FRENCH FINANCE MINIS- TER'S STATEMENT.
was returning
He had stayed the night with a friend and had started out early to get back. Two men dashed out from the dark at Yee Woo Street, stopped his ricsha and took away $220 and a wrist-watch. Yesterday the police had to inquire into a robbery at Kip Shek Mel in the New Territories.
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVALS
DISCUSSION NEXT MONTH.
(Router's Service.)
PARIS, December 29. Hon. Mr. Holyoak Have we a In the Chamber of Deputies, M. from the North is not likely to be he developed his "Unauthorised record of these medical reporte? Clementel (Minister of Finance)
Programme" in 1885 meant. not completed for many years, and only months of study beforehand a record of everything and those of the question of inter-allied debts Dec. 28:-Lt. Col. E. Fox, Miss A The Chairman: Yes We have implicitly admitted the possiblity Per P. & O. s.s. Kalyan on anyway the bulk of the Colony's but days of actual work upon his records were referred to in the cor- beibe discussed at the Conference Davis, Mr and Mrs Dunlery, MrF. trade will always be water borne.notes." Mr. Austen Chamber- respondence.
of Finance Ministers in January. Redmond, Mrs A. Bowes Smith, Reverting, however. to our main Jain's-article-is-accompanied with|
-He-promisedy however that no Mr-E. Dovey, Mr-W. Baker, Mr decision would be binding until and Mrs J. Craig, Mrs F. Reed. theme, we repeat that never before reproductions of notes used on the
Haips Thors Harà Conghs. occasion of famous speeches by
bad parliamooťa assent
been Master and Miss Reed. Miss B.- han such a complete report as Mr. famous men. Other articles, in a The danger of lofcents in its tendebay | Secured.
Trotter, Mr and Mrs W. Hynes, John Duncan's been presented book to which as a general rule on your cold, hire it reaches this French support of America's Mr R. Cameron, Mr Calthorp, Mr. to devil p into plusrixy sed, prenmónia, M. Clementel foreshadowed Mr W. Riddell, Mr S. Hopkins, Never before has the commercial only experts on the subjects danger point and for the snorland demand for a share in the repara H. Stark Mr I Cook, Mr G.
touched upon are asked to contri-palttal, bossy breathing, take Cham development of our harbour been butes are on the Prayer, Book as a halaley Car Bomedy, littorale tione payment för matorii Thickett, Mr. T. Robinson, Mr We taken as a whole and every single national asset and the lost books verywhere
Elott, Mr W. Le Sage...
damage.