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TREATED UNFAIRLY.
US, AMBASSADOR AND WAR DEBTS.
BRITAIN'S FEELING...
STÅLE BREAD.
MUST BE POPULARISED IN FRANCE.
PROFITEERS WARNED.
Paris, Aug. 20.
SUBMARINE LOSS.
MISINTERPRETATION OF AN ORDER,
NOBODY TO BLAME.
New York. Aug 20.
London, Aug. 20. The "New York" Worki's" "cor. Decrees prescribe the furnish..
At the inquest at Devonport respondent in
Washington de-ing of returns of all areas under 29 disaster two officers gave on the victims of the Submarine claros that the chief
reason wheat, an estimate of the yields, evidence of ordering water to be for the reported return
of control of cereal moyements, and taken in to grim the vessel. Mr. A. B. Houghton. the existing stocks of grain. U.S. Ambassador to Crent The Cabin:
The Chief Stoker has prepared a preted the order and flooded the
misinter-i Britain, to America, is te general plan of economy. It hustaks. discuss the debt situation with a decided to control the sales of view to obtaining a modification commodities and improve the died of suffocation due to
The jury found that the men of the debt agreements in order system of supply and working of foundering of the
the to padify the growing opposition the public provision markets.
submarine in European nations.
Stale bread must be popular-ception of an order.
which was the result of muscon- The correspondent adds that, Ised, and meals in Restaurants whist Mr. Houghton does not must be limited to two courses.impossible to blame anyone for The Coroner said that it was favour immediate yielding to the clamour of the debtors, he is con-Reuter,
the mistake.-Reuter. [vinced that the time is not dis
tant when the debts settlements
Must
that
he
An Evasion
11.
especially
Profiteers will be prosecuted.
Renson For Order.
Rugby. Aug. 20. The inquest on the six men who lost their lives owing to the foundering in Devonport Dogk| yard of Submurine H 29 revealed that the disaster was due to the flooding of the ballast tanka order. owing to misconception of an
TRADE LOAN, be revised, with the British who
(Continued from Page 1) Bays. May
will- be ing to adhere to the agree The trade Town is hereby ment but feel that they have been charged upon and shalt be payable treated unfairly since greater eon-out of the generid revenges cessions have been made to others, assets of the Colony of Hongkong. and -Reuter.
The Governo shall appropriate The evidence showed that it was out of the general revenue and intended to admit sufficient water nssets of the Colony such sume to the ballast tanks to put the may be necessary to provide for all hull down a few feet more in the Payments of interest and repayment
water for the purpose of carrying. principal moneya required by theout certain tests, but owing to a terms of the agreements under misunderstanding so much was which the respective principal allowed to flow in that the yea- rushed in through the open hatch sel submerged until the water
great rapidity-British Wireless ways and caused her to sink with
Service.
Washington, Aug. 20. The State Department officials were unaware that Mr. Houghton, who is holidaying in Scotland, is returning to America, but
re-
marked that it was the vacation
season-Renter,
BIG BATTALIONS.
LEAD TO MUTUAL DISTRUST
AND FEAR.
London. August 20
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All principal moneys acknow- Tedged by the Secretary of State coming within the provisions of this Ordinance, as provided in section 2. and all-interest received by the Government of the Colony Hongkong on loans made for the purposes referred to in the pream- ble to this Ordinance, and all prin-. elpal moneys received by the The papers give prominence to Government of the Colony "of Mr. Kellogg's speech at lattsburgh. Hongkong upon the repayment on, and reciprocate the expressions of recovery of such loans by the goodwill.
Government, shall be. and shall be The "Morning Post" quotes Mr. deemed always to have been. Kellogg as saying that competition exempt from the defence contribu- Duttable articles forwarded by letter post to Great Britain are trust and fear. The "Post" saya it Contribution Ordinance. 1901, and in armaments leads to mutual dia- tion provided for by "the Defence thable to confiscation by the Customs. Such articles should be for- warded by parcel post only.
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TANGIER.
FRANCE AND THE SPANISH CLAIMS.
Paris, Aug. 20. Many of the papers are dealing with the question of Tangier.
The "Petit Parisien" thinks it reasonable to wait for, Spain to form before one should express an give her aspiration some concrete is the other way round, and there all such principal moneys and in- opinion. The paper adds that for the inducement to create erest hitherto reseived or appro-France-Spanish co-operation in armaments must be removed by priated by the said Government, er Morocco yielded too satisfactory! means of an amicable agreement, hereafter to be received or appro- results not to consider. her re-i which it points out is being pursued printed by the said Government, vindication as to her greatest wil in the Balkans, whereas, it declares, shall be deducted from the Colonial ingness in the matter. deliberations by a Sub-Committee revenues before the calculation of of the Lengur's Disarmament Com Government under the said Ordin the sums payable to His Majesty's mittee produce deplorable differ- ences of opinion.
The "Journal" says that! logic, and that the Spanish claims Madrid's arguments do not lack
do not affect France's essential interests. His Excellency the Governori The "Matin" states that the
ance.
The "Daily Chronicle says that) it is evident that Mr. Kellogg has, under instructions from the French Government stands by the
wishes
to combat obstructionism;
with regard to certain Continental Secretary of State for the letter of the Treaties and that Powers by the weapon of publicity. Colonies, been pleased to recog-Tangier's statute can be revised The "Chronicle" hopes that Britain nise Monsieur Pablo Castillo as only by the Powers who drafted will help him in the matter-Consul for Mexico in Hongkong. it--Havas. Reuter.
"If Geneva Fails."
New York, Aug. 20.
"The United States is to call her
own parley un arms if Geneva
falls" is the head line to
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
"New York World" dispatch from Bookbinders. its special correspondent at Presi dent "Coolidge's "camp.
The correspondent claims that President Coolidge intende to pro- ceed further with naval limitations whether the League of Nations is successful or unsuccessful.
He states that Mr. Kellogg hinted at this in his Plattsburgh speech.
The writer claims that this statement of President Coolidge'a intentiona is the first concrete in- formation since the inception of the
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