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XIMATE FIGURES :
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London, Yeesterday. In the House of commona, tu answer to questions, Mr. L. M. S. Amery,' (Dominions Secretary) stated that the following was the estimated expenditure for the naval defence of various dominions for the year 1928-29.
Australia £3.387.000. Now Zealand, £711,000 (including £125,000' as an instalment contribu- tion towards the base at Singapore.
South Africa £98,000. These were approximate figures. Canada $2,725,000.-Reuter.
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SOLUTION NOW?'
TERMS DRAWN UP FOR CHINA AND JAPAN
AN ÁLL-NIGHT SESSION
Shanghai To-day. Dr. G.-T., Wang (the Foreign Minister) had another conference |with Mr.K. Yoshizawa (the Japan- se Minister to China) at 6 p.m. yes. terday, lasting until 4.30 a.m. to- day.
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London. Yesterday.
In the House of Commons, Mr. H. W. Loker asked the Government, It is believed that the session reproach Japan with a view to getting
on behalf of British interests, to ap sulted in the drawing up of a solu-through communication restored on of the Teinan problem (which isnt present was immobilised as the Hon-acceptable to Onina and Tapan the Tientsin-Pukoy Railway which the major issue between Chira and result of Sino-Japanese differences. Japan).
Sir Austen Chamberlain replied
Dr. Wang left for Nanking this that the position was still unsatis- morning, presumably to obtain the factory, and he was enquiring whe State Council's acceptance of the ther Japan would take steps to settlement, the terms of which have effect an improvement.-Reuter. not been divulved. ·
Minor Detalls
Tokyo, Yesterday. Though no concrete advance has been made thus far, Japanese off- clals express themselves as well satisfied with the progress of the Yoshizawa Wang negotiations. They appear confident that a de finita step forward in the solution of the Tainan question will be wit-ly reseed in the next day or two.
THE COLD SNAP
MILES OF ICE IN NORTH CHINA SEA
BLIZZARDS IN EUROPE
Peking. Yesterday.
of extreme- A suddon spell
waather has hit the cold North China coast, causing many shipping.
coastal
A message from Moscow says that Trotsky is still in Russia and
The vernacular papers attach difficulties to that the reports that he had been drowned while crossing the Black importance to the report that fresh Several ships are finding difficulty Sea to Turkey were baseless.-Reu-instructions have been sent to Mfr. in breaking through the ice which ter.
Yoshizawa, but according to the extends more than thirty miles to official spokesman these instruc- the sea from Tongku. tlons merely concera questions of
Ice-breakers have been very busy minor details to which Mr. freeing ships which have been Yoshizawa requested the Govern- frozen in. ment to reply.
THOSE CRUISERS
US. TIME CLAUSE TO STAND
Chinwangtao, which is usually
It is reiterated that Mr. free from ice, is now icebound, the Yoshizawa was given blanket in-lce extending seventeen miles from Washington, Yesterday. structions at the time he left the coast. The Senate has refused to Tokyo, since, when the Government It is expected that the steamer eliminate from the Naval Construc-attitude had undergone no funda-"Belgenland," with 460 world tour- Ition Bill the time clause under mental change-Reuter.
LEFTIST HERE?
T
ists on aboard will not be able to reach Chinwangtno to-morrow.
Europe's Worst Winter
London. Yesterday.
which the new cruisers must be laid down before July 31 thereby incurring the risk of a presiden- tial veto on the bill as President
A wave of intense cold is passing Coolidge has intimated that he will
Shanghai, Yesterday. over Europe, resulting in the worst There only consent to the building of.
Chinese newspapers report that winter in living memory. four cruisers in the first year if the Natiotnalist Party has invited have been heavy falls of snow on the the time limit providing for the Mr. Wang Ching-wai, the Leftists Riviera and in Greece, and unpre- laying down of five cruisers annually leader, who is stated in those recedented cold in Italy and Czecho- from 1929-31 is dropped-Reutersports to be at present in Hong slovakia. American Service.
"SHARE SENSATION”
NO EVIDENCE AGAINST R. M. GUTIERREZ
R. M. Gutierrezz, the Portuguese charged with aiding and abetting in the uttering of a scrip purporting to be for 500 Tramway shares (in the ""Share Sensation" case) was again before Major C. Willson, O.B.E., at the Central Magistracy this morn- ing.
Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., said that he had no evidence to offer against the defendant, and the Magistrate accordingly ordered Gutierrez's dis- charge.
Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, Sar., was for the defence.
The case against the two Chin- ess, arrested in connection with the same affair, will come before the Court to-morrow.
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Kong, to return to Nanking to A blinding blizzard has been blow- participate in the forthcoming ing for forty-eight hours in Con- third national. Kuomintang confer- stantinople and trams are literal- ence.--Reuter.
ly snowed under. No trains have arrived for three days and half the town's water supply is frozen.
Several ships in the Black Sea are sending SOS signala.
LEGATION CHANGE
Peking. Yesterday.
Mr. B. C. Newton, acting Coun-
Ice Four Ft. Thick
In some places, the snow is more sellor of the British Legation, who than four feet thick, and all com- is to be stationed at Shanghai, | munications, by land and sea, are proceeded to Nanking by train practically paralysed. this morning-Reuter.
.There have been numerous deaths from exposure, but a new and more terrible danger threatens Constan- London, Yesterday-News has tinople, large packs of famished been received that Flight Lleut. wolves having ventured into the Chapman and Flying Officer Davis, outskirts of the city, attacking the occupants of the Victoria aero-human beings.
plane which made a forced landing The wolves have been driven in on January 29 when proceeding from the country, and are infesting from Peshawar to Kabul, are safe. the suburbs, striking terror into Two Victoria machines on Saturday the inhabitants, brought twenty Indians and three Germans to Peshawar from Kabul. -British Wireless Service.
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From Buenos Aires It is report- ed that sixteen Argentine cowboys have perished in a blizzard on the Cardillera range, of the Andes.— Reuter.
London, Yesterday-The death occurred yesterday of Sir Frederick Jackson, aged 69, who was sometime Governor of Uganda Protectorato and a noted naturalist and big game hunter. He spent thirty years. in East AfricaBritish Wireless Ber vice.
Mary Carber, aged 87, of Bake well, Derbyshire, - was gradually suffocated by fumes from a smoul dering candle which had burned down by her bedside.
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