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THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1927.
HANKOW POSITION."Times" correspondent says the
Mr. Chen States His
Views,
NATIONALIST GUARANTEES.
London, Jan. 12. Mr. Eugene Chen has cabled" to the Daily Mail declaring that It is the duty of the Nationalist Government effectively to pro- tect the lives and property of British subjects and other for- eign nationals at Hankow and' in other parts of China, subject or to be subject to Nationalist con- trel.
His Government will not fail to
cular case.
f get
Chinese merchants were anxious- ly inquiring when they would
MAKING ROOM.
"SUFFOLKS!
THE CHINA MAIL.
open, fearing the consequences as LOCAL ACCOMMODATION: FOR Chinese New Year settling day approaches.
Messages from Shanghal cor- respondents report that the Con- aular Body, yesterday resolved to defend the settlement against mob. violence in whatever form.
It is pointed out that whereas in other places it may be possible
French Comment.
Paris, Jan. 12.
MESS IN HOTEL SAVOY.
Shortage of local barrack accom- modation, suitable for white troops
BUILDING BRICKS.
The Quality Not As Specified?
ARBITRATION QUESTIONED.
the would be satisfed if the arbitrator sat out the award it self in the form of a special case, or set a case prior to the award, delaying the award until applica tion had been made by him (Mr. Jankin).
Limited Powere.
"He
Potter
Mr. Jenkin had gone so far as to formulate seven points of law. On the grounds that there had which he said were questions has to be faced with the impending been "legal misconduct by the arising for setlement in the arrival of the 2nd Batt, the Suffolk arbitrator (Mr. Colbourne Little). manner he had suggested. to divorce protection of life from Regiment in the Colony, on transfer Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., applied in had also pointed out that the not a legal protection of the concessions, the from Gibraltar
the Supreme Court this morning arbitrator was Four companies and headquarters before Sir H. C. Golian for the tribunal. size and importance of the Shang-
Could there by any doubt, after hn! Settlement make such a dis-wing (which includes the battalion setting aside of the award.
Impossible. British tradesmen, etc.) have to be pro-| Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., and reading the note and the letters tinction
ivided for. Wireless Service. "
Mr. H. S. Fitzroy opposed Mr. which bad passed, asked Mr. From Whitfield Barracks in Kew-Potter.
Potter, that it was. Mr. Jenkin's loon, a Battery of Royal Artillery Mr. Potter said that the desire to get the opinion of the The Chinese situation is report-will move out to Stonecutters Island arbitration proceedings had re- Court and that he desired an op- award compensation for any lossed to have been the subject of a to join another Battery there. One ference to disputes arising out of portunity of making the neces- sustained, should special circum-statement by M. Briand to the company of the 2nd Suffolks, will, a building contract. It was alleg sary application? Mr. stances interfere with the dis-Ministerial Counci yesterday, therefore, be put at Kowloon. Aned that certain bricks had not submitted that there could be no charge of this duty in any parti- and affairs in China are still other company will be stationed at been put in as specified in the doubt at all on the point.
Cases did not lay down, and among the topics of the day here.yemun, attached to another Bat- agreement. At the arbitration, He declares that it is necessary
The "Oeuvre" remarks that iftory of R.A.
the present applicant Hang never had done, continued" Mr.
for
Two compailles and the beadquarYip) was represented by Mr. Potter, an exact precedent as to British statesmanship to the privileges of extraterri-
the form of language to be used view Nationalist control over the toriality are obsolete, Chineseters wing will be put in Wellington F. C. Jenkin.
Mr. Potter regretted that Mr. before an arbitrator in bringing Concession area as the outcome of justice is also obsolete. The Can-Barracks (east of the Naval Yard)
of circumstances which tonese should remember that and Victoria Barracks (up. Seven-Jenkin was out of the Colony as to his mind the fact that a made it the enly alternative to Japan and Turkey only got rid of and-Six-Penny Hill, opposite Wel-questions as to the exact meaning apecial case was desired by coun- of the language used by himsel to be stated by the arbitrator, Armed British forces shooting the capitulations after westernis-lington Barracks).. moro Chinese, and a consequent ng their administrations. Faced For officers of the battalion ata would arise in the course of the All that was laid down was that counsel should not life low until general strike that would have with a flood of anti-foreign feel- tioned in the city, the Mess will be case.
established in the Hotel Savoy The other side (Kung Ng) had the award had been given-points paralysed life and destroyed pro-ing that might perhaps go as far where, it is learned, the whole of been represented at the arbitra of law must be raised: at an perty values in the Concession. a a massacre, the signatories of
The event may be viewed in the Treaty of Washington again the second floor will be available. tion proceedings by Mr. E. Zeit- earlier stage.
If it had been made clear to deeper sense as an act determined realise their solidarity and are Officers with companies in the out-lyn.
the arbitrator that certain points by objective forces which in large going to put their heads together. lying parts wilt, of course, atay in
At the outset of this morn-of law were desired to be decided afairs operate independently of It is not so much a question of the quarters there.
ing's case, Mr. Potter indleated and in the face of that the that he would not proceed on the arbitrator made his award, then point in his case which alleged he was guilty of legal misconduct, BRITAIN & GERMANY that the arbitrator did not inves- said Mr. Potter.
The affidavit of Mr. Wadeson tigate the quality of the bricks.
WES Belgian Consul Hustled.
The arbitrator said that he could (instructing Mr. Jenkin) Shanghai, Jan. 12..
by inspection, which he in fact also read as indioting that it was From a telegram" from Han-
made, decide a certain thing and made clear in the course of the kow, sent by the Nationalist news agency, it appears the Belgian
the other side said that he could arbitration proceedings that cer- not. In view of a conflict of evid-tain points of law affecting the BRITISH CABINET MEETING:
Consul suffered an unusual ex- perience yesterday.
Marginal notes by the ex-Kaiser fence of this kind it would be dif- rights of the parties would be Rugby, Jan. 12:
The telegram states that ato letters written by Lord Haldane ficult to say that there had been called upon to be decided..
Evidence given: at the arbitra-| The first Cabinet meeting in the Chinese business man has been in 1912, endeavouring to establish legal misconduct in this regard.
But it was the contention of tion was read concerning the New Year is being held de Down arrested on a charge of being re-an understanding between Wilhelm ing Street this afternoon, and it sponsible for the temporary, de- and his advisers, form a sensational applicant that the arbitrator was quality of the bricks used in the is understand the Chinese intention of the Belgian Consul-feature of the final volume of the guilty of misconduct in the strict building contract in question. tion we be considered-British General at Hankow police archives of the German Foreign legal sense (not, of course, of This was to the effect that the moral turpitude), continued Mr. owner said that throughout he station, after having been hustled once..
"Complete bunk and without Potter, in that he had not set out had complained, through Mr. through the streets by coolies, allegedly employed by the arrest consequences," scribbled Wilhelm his award in the form of a special Basto, the architect, of the qual stead of politico-economie rela- fed man. The coolies have also against Lord Haldane's remark to case or in pot delaying the max. ty of the bricks used. Later he the effect that Von Bethmann-ing of his award until he had in admitted that bricks of the speci tions, between England, whose been arrested.
The case is up before the Han- Hollyweg's speeches had been well dicated his intention of not set. fed quality having been delayed, lifeblood is foreign trade, and
ting it out in the form of a he gave the contractor permission received in Eritain.
to use up to 100,000 bricks of in-|| Nationalist China whose marketskow mixed court-Reuter.
Against another remark to the special case...
ferior quality.. effect that no Government would
men's will and foresight.
the British memorandum as Envisaged thus, the act will countering the excesses which Become the cornerstone of politi-the populace might commit cal realism, whereon British char against the whites.-Reuter, arber may begin to build a new structure of purely economic, in-
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Wireless Service.
are
open to the nationals of Powers that cease to treat this country as a semi-colonial depen- .dency.
Peking's Cabinet."
Peking, Jan. 12. The Cabinet met this morning and decided that Dr. Wellington British merchants in Hankow Koo remain Premier and Minister have also a responsibility of their of Foreign Affairs.. own. Their refusal to resume! The Cabinet also decided to business in spite of the actual re-issue a mandate declaring the en- atoration of conditions enabling forcement of the Washington 214
FORMER KAISER'S 1912 COMMENTS.
MORE GURMAN ARCHIVES
"Legal Misconduct."
Deprived of Right? It was a clear rule of law that be able to quieten public opinion if parties to an arbitration desir in England, and that the conse-
tested, the arbitrator was not en quences would not be calculable fed to get certain points of law Germany through Austria wore involved in war with France, Wil-titled to deprive them of that bem wrote, "We have calculated all right, whatever motive he might have, and it might be of the best, The Court jealously guarded this Against Lord Haldane's
right."
ra-
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The case is proceeding.
FATAL MEXICAN AFFRAY.
Mexico City, Jan. 12. The mayor and a local deputy are among those killed in the Cocula affray mentioned yester
them to do so in safety may make per cent. surtaxes, and instructedferences to the theory that the right for it was the one hold it day. for permanent injury to British the Foreign Office to inform the balance of power was an axiom of had upon arbitrators on matters
Legations to that effect.-Reuter British foreign policy, the Kaiser of this kind trade and property in Hankow.
".
are
This deliberate suspension" of
Mission Property.. business is perhaps part of some
Peking Jan. 12. undisclosed, plan, which is fur- The Nationalist troops ther evidenced by the determined seizing American mission "pro- attempt of the British voluntarily Iperty at Shaowu and in other and unnecessarily to çdop them-parts of Fukien.
wrote "Sheer rubbish. It will make England our eternal enemy,”
Mr. Potter read from the ac- cepted shorthand note of the arbitration proceedings, the sub- missions of Mr. Jenkin. Mr, Jenkin had pointed out to the ar- bitrator (1) that he (the arbitra-
selves up in the Asiatic Petroleum The American authorities have BISHOP OF LONDON.tor), had a right to state his.
Company's building in circum-ordered missionaries to leave stances some sleep on the floors, some places, and prepare for im- though warm beds await them-mediate departure from other suggestive of a desperately be- places in Fukien-Reuter. leaguered garrison.
A Cabinet meeting this after- noon will consider matters arising out of the situation in China- Renter.
Mr. O'Malley Arrives.
Rugby, Jan. 12.
The Acting Counsellor of the British Legation at Peking, Mr. O'Malley, as now reached Han-
A SHANGHAI STRIKE.
Shanghai, Jan. 12. Five hundred employees" of the Sincere Company struck this morning, but the store is carry ing on with 200 employees who own shares in the company.— Reuter.
SHANGHAI, CRIME.
TRAMWAY FOREMAN SHOT
VIEWS ABOUT HONG KONG UNIVERSITY.
It appears the municipal, au- thorities opposed a "religious de- monstration, whereupon Catholica attacked the municipal officials and employees and policemen, and a regular battle engued.
The agrurians have decided' "to| support President Calles.
JJ
A mesangs from Torreon des award in the form of a special cribes the discomfiture of a band case; (2) that before he made his of rebels, of whom two were killed award he could state a case for and ten captured by Federal the opinion of the Court; (8) the troops, who summarily executed Interviewed at Singapore the arbitrator would be acting wrong pine prisoners and spared the Bishop of London said that he hadly if he ignored the point; (4) other an octogenarian.-Reator's only been a few days in Shanghai that Mr. Jenkin should be given American Service, and nine days in Hong Kong, and an opportunity of making any he felt that it would be rather pro- necessary application before the sumptuote to say much about China. arbitrator gave his award. "However," he said, "my impression Mr. Potter submitted that a is that the best thing we can do, fair reading of Mr. Jenkin's re A Chinese foreman of the certainly at Hong Kong, is to patch marks was clearly that he in Shanghai foreign
settlement up a peace with the Canton Govern-effect said "there are important tramways, while driving in a ment and no wait for perl apa afty points of law which I desire to rischa this morning along a quiet years for some Government in have decided by the Court and part of the Settlement, was at-Peking. I also think that the In- have a right to obtain the Court's tacked by three Chinese, one of demnity should be spent upon Hong decision. He also had said that whom shot him dead. The assail.Kong University and not be sent ants escaped.
to Peking, where it will only be at
DEAD.
"Shanghai, Jan. 12.
The victim was a man who, the mercy of the particular war lord following the May 30th affair, who happens to be in charge there," did more than anybody to get the tramway services resumed, and to keep the Chinese workers at their posts.
For this reason, the authorities consider the crine to be more than ordinarily significant. -
kow, and is staying with the Con. Reuter sul-General.
"His first duty will be to report upon the recent events and crist- ing conditions.
·INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
200 STEEL SWORDS.
REQUIRED BY SHANTUNG TUPAN.
Peking, Dec. 28. Two hundred steel swords have: been ordered by General Chang: Tsung-chang in a wire received at
Rugby, Jan. 12. "The first of special bulletins re- He will discuss the situation with Mr Eugene Chen, the Can-garding the European influenza Talnan on December 26 from Nan-
tonese Foreign Minister.
king The tupan asks that the
SAFETY FIRST.
apidemte being issued by the words, be completed within Ave Sir Percival Phillips, the "Daily, health seat on of the League of days and shipped to Nanking. Mail" correspondent at Hankow, Nations spring. telegraphs that "with O'Malley's Denna from Belgium, Czecho-They will be distributed there arrival it is hoped that the dell-Blovakin, Denmark, ance, Ger- among General Chang's sabor.
dinate officers. cate situation at Hankow has many, Great Britain aur Impland, passed definitely from a phase of Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, naval action to that of diplomatic Spain, Sweden and Switzerland all negotiation for a settlement of indicate that the attacks are of the grave issues raised by recent short duration and are not excep events."
tionally severe. The British destroyers Britain the Health Ministry "Wishart" and Verity" have joins the Influenza incidence andAs a result of the cinema, disas ed the other naval vessels at mortality, are normal for the time ter, the city authorities have or Hankow.
of year.-British Wireless Service.dered that all theatres presenting The situation is quiet there, and Mr. Chen has isued a drastic. proclamation enjoining the popu lation to refrain from all disorder and to "stop all anti-British and
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
Rugby, Jan. 12.
The "Westminster Gazette states
and Mr. Chen has issued a drastic that Mr. Malabar, who is a Fellow
Montreal, Jan. 12.
stage features of any kind must be equipped with the same fre" pre- vention alde na the legitimate houses, including automatic spring Llers and an asbestos curtain, within twenty-four hours,
the time that negotiations are be the Royal Photographic Society, At least ten thestras presenting ing carried on with Great has, after fourteen years export- specialities in connection with a been Britain."
mental work invented a non-in-cinema programme have The British banks were still flammable cinématograph film-forced to laists the stage sots closed on Monday, and the British Wireless Service.
Router's American Service.
Arrested Priests.
Mexico City, Jan. 12. The two arrested Roman Catho. lie prolates have been released: Bishop Tabasco, who was ordered to be deported is believed to have been taken to Vera Cruz. Meanwhile Secret Service officers are carefully examining the papers and records of his eplecopate-Reuter's Ameri can Service.
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