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OUR CONCESSIONS.
Challenge To The Nationalists.
EVIDENCE OF SAFEGUARDS.
Dissolution Of Hankow Concession Regretted.
London, Yesterday.
MONEY FOR CHINA.
Despatch of $50,000 From Mexico.
CALLES UNMASKED.
More Facsimiles Of Documents Pablished.
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IDLE LIST.
Insurance Board's Scheme.
EMBRACES TWELVE MILLIONS.
Government Concession For Graduated Scheme.
New York, Yesterday.
Rugby, Yesterday, At the annual dinner of the The latest of a series of articles, The Unemployment Insurance China Association In London, accompanied by alleged facsimiles Board, based on the recommenda- Lord Southborough declared that of President Calles documents is tions of the Committee which, under until Chinese Nationalism could published.
Lord Blanesborough, recently inves- furnish some evidence of a con- The "New York American" as-tigated the whole problera with par- structive capacity of the safe-serts that President Calles ordered ticular reference to finance, of a guarda under which British trade the despatch of $50,000 to the Mexi- scheme now embracing some 12,- had hitherto been conducted, can Minister in Russia for the use 000,000 work people, will be consi- these should not be further weak- of China when the Nationalists dered in the House of Commons to- ened.
were marching on Shanghai. day, and to-morrow and Wednesday have also been set aside for dis- cussing the measure.
The dissolution of the British Concession in Hankow had been most harmful to British interests there and in the Yangtsze Valley. The safeguards represented by the Concessions should be tempor- arily maintained.
Earlier Telegrams.
Washington, Nov. 15. The scheme is on a contributory The Mexican Embassy describes basis to which employers, workers the alleged facsimiles of Mexican and State are all contributors. documents, mentioned yesterday, as New rates of contribution and bene "forgerica which are unworthy of fit are proposed and the bill and a Negotiations for a radical comment."
further amendment have now been, change in the nature of the Bri- The "New York American" in the advanced by Government whereby tish Concession in Tientsin should meantime is publishing further fac-further alterations to benefit are not be continued. (Cheers)-similes alleged to have been issued put forward. Reuter.
by President Calles or his subor-; Under the existing scheme there dinates, showing the trend of Mexi-le à dividing line at the age of 18. can policy with regard to Nicara-between adulta and boys and girls. The adult unemployed man receives
BALKAN FLARE,
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SABRES.
gua.
A cable dated November 14 stat- 188. weekly and adult women 158.. ed: The "New York American" re- while a boy between 16 and 18 gats produces the facsimiles of a docu- 78. 6d. and girl between 16 and 18: mant purporting to be an order years, 6s. In the present Bill it is signed by President Calles of Maxi-proposed that a man shall receive éo, authorising the payment of 178 and a woman 156., a young man 100,000 pesos to Zepeda, for the from 18 to 21 years 10s. and a purchase of arms and ammunition young woman from 18 to 21 years for the Liberal revolutionary army 88., and a boy from 16 to 18 years 6a, and a girl from 16 to 18 years 58.
APPEAL TO THE POWERS.
Sofia, Yesterday. The Police, charged with drawn sabres and a number of students was injured following demonstra-in Nicaragua. tions against the alleged ill-treat- ment of Bulgarian Minorities in Yugo-Slavia and Roumania." Tho speakers appealed to the great Powers to intervene and protect the Bulgars.
* Soviet Delegation.
Rome, Yesterday. Processions with speeches and patriotic songs were a feature of demonstrations in various provin- cial cities against the so-called
Yugo-Slavia provocation.-Reuter.
[A London cable of November 11 stated:-After negotiations dating back to March, 1926, the Franco- Yugo-Slavia Treaty of Friendship is expected to be signed in Paris to-day. It is reported from Rome that a strong feeling has been aroused in Italy regarding this as Treaty is regarded as unfriendly to Italy, antagonistic to the League of Nations and calculated to make trouble in the Balkans, where France is now..bound to Roumanis and Yugo-Slavia, whilst the Treaty is expected to draw Italy closer to Hungary and Bulgaria.]
DISARMAMENT.
COMING CONFERENCE AT GENEVA.
LABOUR'S GOAL.
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The Government amendment is a concession to the demand that there should be a graduated scale for per sons over -18 and under 21 and it provides that benefits to the unem- ployed young man should advance to 108. at 18 years, to 128. at 17, New York, Yesterday. years, and to 14s. to 20 years. Mr. William Green, President Women's benefits advance propor- addressing the Union of Orthodox of benefits and contributions, it is of the Federation of Labour, tionally. Apart from the amount
the Federation was striving to the debate on the Bill will be con- Jewish Congregations, said that probable that much interest during
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Rugby, Yesterday..
Questioned respecting the puni- tive expedition to the Solomon establish a universal five-days der of District Commissioner Islands to avenge the recent mur- week in industry in order to con Bell, Cadet Lilles and fifteen na- serve the physical, mental, and live policemen, Mr. W. G. A spiritual powers of the workers. Ormsby-Gore said in the House of The whole social structure would
be strengthened if this goal were Commons that a special force of reached.Reuter's American Ser-constabulary had been sent to the neighbourhood of the outrage for the purpose of restoring order. and effecting the arrest of the perpretrators.
TO OPEN ON NOVEMBER 30.
London, Yesterday. Lord Cushenden (formerly Mr. Ronald McNeill), who succeeded vice. President Cecil as Chancellor of the, Duchy of Lancaster will represent the Government for the first time at Geneva on the occasion of the preliminary Disarmament Confer- ance on November 80...
STRIKERS KILLED.
INCIDENT IN AMERICAN
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The principal business will be the A WARNING DISREGARDED, appointment of and fixing of a date
for a meeting of the Security Com- mission to work in conjunction with
Denver, Yesterday, Disregarding a warning from
Every endeavour was being made to arrest and bring to trial the murderers without blood- shed British Wireless Service,"
TRANS-JORDANIA.
THEATY FOR AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT.
FUTURE ADMINISTRATION.
Rugby, Yesterday.
the Disarmament Commission. The the Mountain Fuel Company, who latter will probably overlap the work the Columbine Coal Mine, League Council meeting on Decem where a strike has been proceed bor 6 which Sir Austen Chambering for months; hundreds of lain, Secretary of State for Foreign people engaged in a demonstra Affairs, will attend-Reuter. tion on the property.
Italian Demonstrations. The police warned them to de- In the House of Commons to-
Rugby, Yesterday.
part, but order, was ignored, Particular importance will attach whereupon the police res, ki day, Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, to the attendance of the Russian ing three persons and seriously Under-Secretary of State for the Soviet delegation at the preliminary injuring twenty, the latter includ- Colonies, stated that a Treaty Disarmament Conference-British ing a woman dressed as a man would shortly be concluded » by Wireless Service,
The Governor has declared which autonomous government in martial law in the disaffected Trans-Jordania would be formal- areas. Reuter's American Ser-ly recognised.
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