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THE RHINELAND EVACUATION
VARIED VIEWS-
MILLERAND AND POINCARE IN STRONG OPPOSITION
PREMIER CONCILIATORY
Paris, Yesterday.
THE PRINCES' TOUR
IN AFRICA
IN MOMBASA
TOWN EN FETE: EVERYBODY CELEBRATING
Vejlede k
"WILD ENTHUSIASM”
London, Yesterday.
While ex-President Millerand During the stay of Prince of
CRISIS IN GERMAN
TEXTILE TRADE
40,000 AFFECTED
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OUT TO-DAY
"BITTEN STRUGGLE”
Cologne, Yesterday. Forty thousand textile workers
was speaking at Clermont-Ferrand, Wales and the Duke of Gloucester will be locked out to-morrow at
he strongly opposed the evacuation
Muenchengladbach, Rheydt and en fete Viersenkempen.
A bitter struggle is anticipated.- Reuter.
BARGO MONGOLS
of the Rhineland, demanding that if in Mombasa, the town is to-morrow the Nationalists became and the inhabitants of many 'races The men are demanding a 15% masters of Germany what guar-and complexion are participating per cent. Increase of wages, which antee would remain to France or in the great variety of celebration. the owners refuse. the Allies, M. Poincare, at Cham- The streets are gally decorated at bery, made a strikingly concillatory apeech. He said that France had night time and between streams of not agreed to enter the negotiations, motors and rieshas is the curious with the secret intention of drag- spectacle of closely veiled Purdah ging them out or causing a break-women riding pillion on motor down. On the contrary they would cycles. While Europeans were pursue them with good grace and celebrating the royal visit at Gov- with confidence in the final resuit, erament House, the natives held a Nothing would be so fatal for the great "Ngome" in the native quar work as co-operation erabittered by ter, where weird native music ac bad temper or rendered frigid by companied the native dances. acepticism-Reuter.
NAVAL PACT
PRESS COMMENT ON THE AMERICAN NOTE
VARIED VIEWS
London, Saturday. The morning newspapers tend to view gloomily the prospects of im mediate progress of disarmament following the delivery of the American Note, the tone and con-. tents of which, they opine, was only
COME TO TERMS WITH THE
'CHINESE
GENERAL PEI'S TACTICS
Peking, Saturday. Tribal Dances
Representatives of the Bargo To-day the princes visited the Mongols and Chinese met this week native quarter, where tribal dances when it is understood an agreement were staged for their entertain-was reached whereby the Barga will ment, the native women dancers under Chinese sovereignty. have autonomy "but will wearing coloured waistcoats and
A Counell will be created 'con-
remain
long white trousers, Other dan-taining representatives from each cerg were weirdly painted 35 ghosts. When the princes left the district of the Barga. The Chinese natives crowded round with wild have agreed to withdraw all ex
peditionary forces and enthusiasm and sang many songs including several of war time and took part in what amounted to a soldiers' songs in broken English. revolution shall be punished.
British Wireless Service.
Gen. Pei's Wires
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FROM ROME
to be expected. The reply is char- acterised as dignified, weighty and lucid and written in a friendly tem- PARIS PAPER AND ITALIAN
per.
The "Daily Telegraph" says the Anglo-French proposals are killed by the reply as they were bound to
KING'S "ABDICATION"
REPORT DISCREDITED
Paris, Saturday,
none who
Peking, Saturday. It is reliably reported that Gen. Pet Chung-hsi wired to Nanking on the 27th inst. requesting that all troops of the Fourth Group should return to Hankow Immediately on the ground that the Chibli-Shantung troops had been suppressed and there was no more work to do.
It is generally believed that the be killed with the passage of time
Jaction was really meant to test the and an improvement in the atmos The "Quotidien" Rome corres-attitude of the Nanking Govern.] phere of controversy. A basis of pondent reports that the King of ment towards himself with the discussion accommodating the re-Italy intends to abdicate after hope of obtaining a reward for his quirements of both Britain and signing a decree dissolving the services. America may be found but at pre- Chamber and that Signor Mussolini sent there is clearly no prospect of intends to instal the Duke of Apulia
us King-Reuter. British "Faux Pas" The "Daily Chronicle" says the
Los Angeles, Yesterday. faux pas of British diplomats over
The Duke of Apulia, who is on the Anglo-French agreement ought his honeymoon here, in an interview not to be attributed to chicanery or declined to credit the Paris "Quoti- wickedness. It is nothing worse dien's" report, which he described than stupidity.
it.
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Gen. Pel Chung-hsi is also reported to have wired to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek re- questing the latter to release him from the post of acting cam- mandant of the National troops in North China.--Reuter,
MANCHURIA DECIDES TO FLY IT SOON
TARIFF AUTONOMY
The "Daily Express" says that American Service.
"plain boloney." Reuter's NATIONALIST FLAG not until the full text of the Anglo- French agreement is published can judgment be formed regarding the Bombay, Saturday.--The negotia- reasonableness or otherwise of the tions with the millowners and very decided objections of the Unit-strikers which, were regarded as ed States.
hopeful have now broken down on The "Daily Nowa" says. It re- the question of the cut on the mains for France and Britain to weavers' wages-Reuter. scrap their precious compromise forthwith and to thank the fates they have not quite managed to ruin
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The "Morning Post" says it is Anglo-French compromise is dead. authorities definitely have decided [to be hoped that the tone of the The "Echo de Paris" says the re-to'fly the national flag on October note, which was entirely reason-ply, leaves the important question 10 throughout Manchuria, "Japan- able and friendly, will assuage the of small cruisers, in the air without ese objections notwithstanding." resentment which is being worked opening the way to bargain.
From Nanking It is reliably re up by a section of the Press.
The "Ere Nouvelle" regrets that ported that the Nationalist au- The "Times" says the best that America is unappreciative of the thorities are preparing. to exercise can be said is that there are clear pacific algnificance of the Anglo- their right of tariff autonomy on indications in the American note French agreement.
or about January 1, 1929, accord- (of a desire for consideration. The
That the door remains open to ing to a new schedule, drawn up [door is not closed and the absence
of material results up to now is further negotiations is the French by a specially appointed Commis
official view of the American note.sion.-Router.
no condemnation of the sincere No immediate reply is contemplat efforts that have been made to ed as the question must be examin At an Examination for Sanitary ed leisurely from a general stand-Science held here on July 9 and 11, point. It is considered probable 1928, ex candidates presented
|achieve them-Reuter.
New York Press Comment
A New York, Saturday, that after an oxchange of views, themselves. The following two can- The unusually spirited nature of France and Britain will reply didates, both of Hong Kong, satisfied the American reply is the topic of separately.
the newspapera.
The New York American" re-
joices at the refection of the sug-1
Japanese Opinion
Tokyo, Yesterday.
the Examiners and passed the ex- amination-members Thomas Arm- strong and James Reid. At an Examination for Sanitary Inspectors
geation that America had become a Various opinions are expressed held at the same time there were 11 party to the Anglo-French "secret by the vernacular Press on the alliandeLUMAT
American disarmament reply. The candidates. The following four The "Herald Tribune" says the "Nichi Nicht" compares "America's candidates satisfied the examiners as United States is ready to resume brutal straightforwardness with to their competence to discharge, the duties of a Sapitary Inspector under Its quest of all-round naval limita- European craftiness," while the tion that not of the "Jug-handle" "Kokumin considers that Amer Arthur Foster, Kowloon, George the Publicy, Health? Act, 1875;— kind which benefits others to the ica's apparent insistence on the disadvantage of America-Reuters ratio she proposed at Geneva shows Frost, Hong Kong, William Charles American Service that she is moved by self-interest. Richard Lamprill, Hong Kong, French Oplatons Consequently the paper takes the Henry George Stevens, Hong Kong.
Paris, Saturday, occasion to emphasise that "ain-
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