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Adaptability of Wireless Telephony.
NEW YORK-LONDON.
Engineering Institutions Hold Successful Joint Meeting.
London, Yesterday..
1928:
THE SALT GABELLE. EXACTLY THE SAME.
Immense Drop in
Revenue.
A BAD YEAR.
Call On Customs To Meet Loan Obligations.
Peking, Yesterday. A meeting at which half the The total net Salt Revenue participants sat in London and lodged with the Group Banks in the remainder in New York to 1927 amounted to $5,850,000, a day successfully demonstrated decrease of $11,265,000 compared the adaptability of long distance with 1926.
Britain and Submarine Craft.
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THE SMALLER NATIONS..
Those Who Regard Submarines As Only Weapon.
London, Yesterday. Britain's attitude towards the proposed abolition of submarines was voiced by Mr. W. C. Bridge- man at the Constitutional Club. He said: "Our position is exactly wireless telephony, By special Excluding the amounts retain the same as stated at Washing arrangement microphones and ed locally and credited during ton. We are glad if submarines loudspeakers linked up with the that year in the Group Banks by can be abolished, but the weaker ordinary trans-Atlantic telephone special arrangement the revenue and smaller countries regard sub- enabled the British and American retained by provincial author-marines as the only weapon, and Institutions of Electrical En-ities în 1927 amounted to we have to take them into con- gineering to hold a joint meeting $52,557,000 against $47,672,000 in sideration."Reuter, and converse together as though 1926. both were in the same room.- Reuter.
"STEEL FRAME.”
INDIAN COMMENT ON COMMISSION.
BRITISH BONA FIDES.
Lodgements with the Group Banks and local appropriations amounted to $57,907,000, a de- crease of $6,879,000.
The report of the Gabelle says the decrease is due to the civil Wars and military interference. Only Chihli and Shantung dis- tricts in 1927 remitted revenue to the Group Banks.
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Foreign Obligations.
CABLE LINES.
QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GOVT. ASSURANCE.
London, Yesterday,
With the exception of New Delhi, Yesterday.
($2,750,000 paid as subsidy from
the Group Banks to the Chihli) · There was an extraordinary spec Tupan, there was no release for In the House of Commons tacle presented on the occasion of
the general purposes of the Chin-Comdr. C. Bellairs asked Mr. the Assembly debate on Mr.
ese Government whereas $8,868,- Churchill whether, in view of trad- Lajpatral's' motion of non-con-800 was so released in 1926.
ing and Empire interests involved fidence in the constitution and $6,497,944 was paid on account by competition between the tele- scheme of the Statutory Commie-of foreign obligations secured on graph companies, the Treasury sion. The House was crowded, the the Salt Revenues.
would exercise similar pressure to public galleries being packed and
The Yearly Services Reorgan-prevent the amalgamation of com- the keenest Interest was taken inisation Loan (1913) was arranged panies as they had done in the in the first instance by the Salt case of large banks in the Empire. Mr. Lajpatrai, whose resolution Administration and subsequently
Mr. Churchill, replied that the pledged the Assembly to have refunded in full by the Customs. subject was being comprehensively nothing to do with the Commission
Scarcity of Funds. in any shape or form, said he did Scarcity of funds prevented the reviewed. At present he was not
the result of the voting.
not believe in the British bona fides, full payment of foreign oblige-in position to make
thereon.
The Commission's Ignorance of tions secured on the salt, while Indian conditions, history and the usual service of part of the
a statement
Comdr. Bellairs asked: would Mr. politics was their greatest dis-Hukuange and the full service of Churchill bear in mind the fear of qualification. The Commissioners the Crisp Loan was paid by bal- the public that action by the Gov- could only be gramophones of ances carried over from the pre-ernments concerned might be deter- bureaucracy and eventually gramo-vious year and the lodgements in mined by ownership of the Pacific phones of the Secretary of State. the Group Banks 1927 fands were Cable-and "that is a danger we Furthermore, the Indian problem insufficient to meet the instal- want avoid."
was beyong the competence of any ment on amortisation due in 1927. Mr. Churchill replied that the Commission. He concluded by de-and- the Anglo-French loan most careful attention was being claring that the Nationalists were amounting to a quarter of a mil-given to the matter in all its bear- open to negotiations but refused to lion sterling. The balance withings.--Reuter.
be the victims of camouflage. "As the Group Banks could not be long as the British steel frame sur-maintained at the former sum of rounds us it is impossible to achieve seven millions and amounted at anything."Reuter.
the end of 1927 to $1,014,000 com- pared with $4,860,000 at the end of 1926.--Reuter.
Member Dles,
The session was adjourned owing|| to the sudden death of a Sind Non-Mohammedan rural member,
TRIBUTES IN THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS.
Hahchandra Vishindas, who af- LATE EARL OXFORD. though very ill went to Delhi from Karachi in response to an urgent nationalist whip in order to vote against the Commission. Vishindas was being conveyed to a house in an ambulance car and died on route. ---Reuter,
London, Yesterday,
GOSSIP.
U.S. NAVAL SECRETARY AND ADMIRAL.
New York, Yesterday. The newspapers note the ab- sence of Mr. Wilbur from the ban- quet on the occasion of Bear Ad- miral Plunkett's retirement owing The House of Commons ad-to age. Mr. Wilbur excused him- journed at four this afternoon as self on a plea that he had to ́ap- a tribute of respect to the late pear before the House of Repre Earl Oxford.
sentatives naval committee, but tha Mr. Baldwin, moving the ad-"New York Times" says that Mr. THE FLYING BOATS. [journment, paid a tribute to de- Wilbur told Colonel Simmons, pre-
AIR TOURISTS' ARRIVE AT SINGAPORE.
ceased, "Perhaps one of the great-aident of the American Marine As- est Parliamentarians of the last sociation, that he would be unable century. He was a fine, intellec-to attend because he would appear tual scholar and a speaker unrival-to endorse Plunkett's speech of led in our own generation, of un- January 21. assailable integrity and unwaver- ing loyalty and magnanimity,"
Singapore, Yesterday, The four Royal Air Force flying boats have arrived, having covered
Mesara Ramsay MacDonald, the 500 miles from Mergul in Burma in seven hours. They will Lloyd George and T. F: O'Connor remain at Penang for a week also joined in. the tribute,
Beuter...
HINKLER AT CALCUTTA.
حبت
Captain Hinkler has arrived. Calcutta, Yesterday.
Reuter.
COMING TO CHINA.
Reuter,
High comedy; grim tragedy and splendid romance in the fascin
ating story of a circus clown, who became a king..............
SAMLIEL, GOLDWIN
・prente
RONALD
COLMAN BANKY
VILMA
The MAGIC
FLAME
4.HENEY KING
AT THE
Induction
Based on the Stage Success.
QUEEN'S
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At 2.30, 5.10 & 7.15 .....$1.00, 60 cts., 40 cts. & 30 ets. At 9.20
..81.50, $1.00, 60 cts & 40 cts
Splendid pageantry and delightful romance in a story of medieval France-
With
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A handsome actor and two leading women in the old, yet ever new, story of the man who came back"-
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New York, Yesterday, The Burial.
The "Evening Post's" Washing- The late Earl Oxford will be ton correspondent states that as buried at All Saints, Church, Sut the result of a flood of protesta ton Courtney, on February 20. present. Reuter. Only relations and friends will be against the Government's naval Dentist.
programme, Congress is likely to make considerable cute in the orf- In the House of Lords, the Marginal estimate of the 26 cruisers demanded. The Navy Department | quesa of Salisbury, Conservative may be limited to 16 while the ap
propriation for submarines may be.
The House of Lords.
Leader, anid Lord Oxford as a
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, Na. 74, Queen's Rond Central. Tel. Central No. 1255.
New York, Yesterday great party leader, statesman and Costes and Lebrix declared to a administrator would hold antre deleted as the result of the sink- Havas representative that they will mendous position in English hising of the S4 and Mr. Kellogg's Electrical Supplies. shortly hop off to San Francisco tory. As Premier in 1914 he had recent gesture in favour of the where they will embark, for Tokyo. the moral courage to accept the abandonment of submarince. Thence they will return to France arbitrament of war though no
aboard an aeroplane across China, man was more opposed to war."
India, Turkey, Greece and Italy- Reuter.
Lord Haldane, for the Labour Party and Lord Grey, Liberal, Joined in the tribute, Lord Grey who was Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of war in 1914 and He clared that the fact that this on country came into the war as it PEACE SUGGESTIONS TO BE did with practical unanimity was
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