WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1925.
ARMS EVIL.
FORTY-THREE NATIONS TAKE ACTION. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. China and the Harm She Has Suffered.
Forty-three nations are represented at the League of Nations conference at Geneva on the arms evil. Three of the nations are not members of the Lengue.
RUSSIA'S ABSENCE.,
(Reuter à. Service,)
Geneva, May 4.
tur. The hoped the conference would be sudcusaft:l.
Mr. Chalow (Britain) declared Britain was very desirous of reach ingreement in the interests of The pleonry sitting of the In-race unit civilisation. berational Arms Conference dis-The sitting was adjourned. ousselitho draft convention.j
M. Masuda (Japan) dwelt on
A. Chleborin, Soviet Commie-
OSTRICH PLUMES.
African Finery For Prince.
INLAND WELCOME.
A SPLENDIDLY MOUNTED'
COMMANDO..
(Rcutor's Service).
Capetown, May 5. Reuter's correspondent with the Prince of Wales at Robertson cables that a splendidly mounted commando of 150 Burghers met the Royal train at Worcester and escorted His Royal Highness to
riding in the Mayor's carriage
white ostrich feathers.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BRITAIN'S
BACK TO GOLD.
$166,000,000 PURCHASE.
CHURCHILL EXPLAINS
Possibly Unnecessary but Completely Justified.
"The Chancellor of the Exchequer was questioned yesterday regarding the purchase of $166,000.000 for paying instalments of our debt to America.
LOSS NOT KNOWN.-
(Reuter's Service.)
delines then that would hamper Fair traders anduly by the strain or
the exchange.
Mr. Churchill expressed the opinion that the precaution might Tandon, May 5. have been necessary but it Wis In the House of Commons, reply- completely justified.
10 Mr. Josiah Wedgwood Asked to consider the taxing of Elabourt, Mr. Winston Churchill, inpirts of furs, feathers and pre-
stated 4.kra.t the $10,000,000lud got quite enough clauses in the
the debt to America, was at present this year. worth about 231,250,000,
that importance, dupon attached tex sur of Poreign. Affairs, recently in various ceremonies the Prince the Chancellor of the Exchequer;cious stones, Mr. Churchill said he' gratitude for the re-operation of the the bege of Nations that the drawn by horses with plumes of sccumulated by the Treasury to pay Finance Bill to satisfy the House)
conference. The expressed brul the Secretary General of
tale
United States nt regretted the Soviet Government declined
absence of Bussin.
to
įpurtaripate in the international con-
D
Mr. Burton Hulled States) de ference on ilus coutrol of ama arid clared the people of
Americauitions, on the ground that the onruly desired to give substantial question involved interference by ovince of the sire interest by leg with the internal affairs adding any consimolive effort towards the eminichaner of pence. Fle appreciate th Mr. Matum'> friendly references,
Me. Flor Wei, painted and tak China had sndered from the truffe in mens which hall been forced upon i
EMPTY NORTH”
WHAT AUSTRALIA 'MEST 10.
(Reuter's Service.) -
Matue, May 5. The Minister for Home Terri dories, Mr. G: F: Pearce, outlining the Commonwealth's proposals
for
the development of the Northern Territory, said that the railway would be extended, poris. windd be constructed and petrol and oil tanks would be established at Port Darwin for the purpose of encouraging motor transport.
He had recommended the Gov- ernment to appoint a commission of three, comprising an engineer, a pastoralist and a business man to reside in untirely control of the -development of the territory.
BACK TO MOSCOW.
TROTZKY RECOVERS
HEALTH.
(Reuter's Service.)
of the Soviet.
JAPAN'S WELCOME.
WARSHIP BRISBANE'S
VISIT.
(By Courtray of Daily Bulletin).
"Tokyo. May 5. Pregations are being made here for a reception to be tender- d to the Brisbane, the first Aus- tralian warship to visit Japan, which will arrive at Yokohama on May 13 and remain there till Mex. (20.
The Brisbane will receive relies in the model of the Japanese Cruiser. Ibuki, which performed teritorious services in conveying Australian troops to Europe.
The relies, etc.. are for the Australian War Memorial.
STILL ASHORE.
SHIP STRANDED NEAR SINGAPORE.
From Our Own Correspondent.)
Singapore, May 5.
THE NEW ARM.
NAVY MEN TO LEARN AVIATION.
(Reuter's American. Service.)
Washington, May 5. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Curtis D Wilbur has signed
{PEYSTONE,TIEN DE DUW, YOLK
aviation
1 was impossible to state precise. y the average price of the purchase and very duficult to enlernto the less thereon.
Mr. Wedgwood asked why Mr. Churchill could not have waited to minke the parchuses for the Decem- ber payment,
-
Mr. Churchill replied that he was very anxious to secure that the Fransition to the gold standard would be made under the most favourable circumstances.
He wanted to get out of the way beforehand as miny as possible of one chligations to purchase dollars because we would have to go to the market in the autumn to buy catton, whent and many other things, and if we went to the market to buy
BOXER.DEMNITY.
DISPOSAL OF JAPANESE SHARE.
chy Cuairtesy of Daily Bull"fin),
Peking, May 5.
A formal exchange of letters last night conveyed that an understand. ing has been reached between the Chinese Government and the Japan- ese delegation which has been con- ferring with the Waichiaopu on the subject of the disposal of the re- mitled Japanese portion of the Boxer Indemnity for cultural pur-
DORPS.
It was decided to appoint a joint Commission of 21 members, of whom ten will be Japanese and the remainder, Chinese, with a Chinese
The steamer Ceylon is still.
Mr. Carlis De Wilbur. ashore in Temiang Straits, sixty miles from Singapore. Lighters orders establishing have been sent to take off the courses at the Naval Academy at Annapolis where all graduates The Ceylan, owned by the henceforth will be trained as pilot, Chairman. Rotterdam Lloyd, does not call at observers." Hongkong.]
cargo.
Moscow, May 5. M. Leon Trotzky, former Soviet/ Commissar for War, has recover- London, May 5-It is reported ed his health and is returning to from Rome that Swiss industrial- Moscow, where he will resume his ists suggest joint French.. work. It is officially denied that Kallan and Swiss petition to)
directory consisting of Britain that the silk tax be delay- Kameneff. ZinovieT, Stalin and led until January 1, 1926.---
Reuter,
· Trotzky is being established.
JAPANESE CRUISER LAUNCHED.
RUINOUS."
1:
MORE SILK DUTY
PROTESTS..
Reuters Service.)
London, May 5.
A meeting of the Cotton Spin- ners and Manufacturers' Asso- clation of Manchester passed a
resolution opposing the duties on artificial silk yarns and objecting to any excise duty on woven fabrics containing artificial silk yarn sold in the home market.
Sub-Committees will be appointed at Peking, where a library is to be established, and at Shanghai, where it is intended to establish a science
Institute.
קני
to
[During bis Budget speech Mr. Churchill said that when
the Government decided to return to the gold standard many months ago, the Treasury began discreetly necumulate collars, and had 'now necumulated the whole of the $186,000,000 required for the June und December payments of the American debt and all our other American debt obligations this year:]
FORMALLY APPROVED. (Reuter's Service.)
London, May 5,
The House of Commons passed he third reading of the Gold. Standard Bill without division.
Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Cabinet, moved a Labour ammend- ment earlier this week refusing to assent to the bill, which he said by providing for return so the gold standard with undue precipitancy- might aggravate the existing grave raditions of employment and trude depresssion. Mr. Snowden emphasised that he did not oppose the return to the gold standard, but he protested against the Govern ment's precipitaney, The amend- ment was defeated.
AGITATOR JAILED.
TSINGTAO COTTON
STRIKE.
(By Courtesy of Daily Bulletin).
Tsingtao, May 5. The police raided a strikers'
meeting yesterday afternoon and arrested a school-teacher named Tung, from Kweichow, against whom the charge will be that he is a Communist, and that he is at the bottom of the cotton-mill strike.
A large quantity of Communis- It is estimated that the Commistic literature found in his room sion will handle $2,000,000 has been confiscated.
annually.
It is prysed to begin activities immediately.
CANTON CRISIS. (By Colertesy of Daily Bulletia.)
Peking, May 5,
· Foreign telegrams from Canton state that the Kwangsi Comman A special meeting of the der is demanding the resignation advisory committee of the Brad- of the Chief of Police, who has ford Chamber of Commerce, withdrawn to Honan, where he passed a resolution inviting the intends, to make a stand with a Chancellor of the Exchequer to few hundred gendarmes. receive a deputation regarding The Yuunan Commander is not the artificial silk duty which they taking any part in this attempt to declared would be ruinous to the oust the Chief of Police. Bradford export trade in materials containing art!ficial silk.
The deadlock remains, but the general belief is that the jailing of the chief agitator. will cause the strikers to weaken.
The owners have repeatedly de- clared that they will not grant the strikers' demands.
Riga, May 5-It is reported
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CRUISER NAKA LAUNCHED.
The second cruiser to be launched in Japan since the Washington arms conference, the Naka, has taken to the water at the shipyards in Yokohama. The Naka, which is now being fitted out, is 5,600 tons and is capable of. thirty-three knots.
London, May 5.
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CARDIFF SURPRISE.
£3,000,000 CONCERN TAKEN OVER.
(Reutera Service.)
London, May 4. Surprise has been created by the issue of an order in the Chan-" cery Division for the appointment of a receiver and manager for the great Cardiff concern, the Gould Steamship and Industrials, Ltd.
The company has an authorised capital of £9,000.000 "with | £500,000 in debentures issued.
The application was made with the company's consent on behalf of the Eagle Star and British Dominions Inqurance Co., trustees for the debenture holders, and the business is being carried on for the shareholders' benefit.
WORLD FLIGHT,
ITALIAN AVIATOR'S
PROGRESS.
(Router's Service.)
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