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ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE THE CHINA CONSORTIUM.
CONCRETE JAPANESE
SUGGESTION,
COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO MR.
LAMONT.
and suggests that after all the netual CHINESE AND THE MOTOR form of Government may be less im- portant than the quality of the gover- The Yomiuri, which made some concretà
nors. All that the Consortium is cun- The British group in the China cerned with is the establishment of a suggestions recently, goes one step fur-Consortium have entertained at dinner Gasrument that will govern. The most ther and supplies the whole text of the Mr. Thomas W. Lamovat, of Messrs. serious political evil in China to-day, as Trenty of the new Alliance, in the. P. Morgan & Co., the chief reprewe see it, is the weakness of the central
CAR.
STRANGE SUGGESTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS.
THIRD DEGRÉE PUNISHMENT.
Should the Chinese Society, for the Pro
journals opinion, it should be, and also sentative of the United States group, administration. Until strong central tretion of life have its way Shanghai. a declaration which it think should be who is nt present on a visit to London, Governinent is accepted and recognisel & motor-cue.owns and drivers are to have
Ocena
ent.
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1J
DECLARATION...
In order to attain the objects of this Agreement more effectively, the contract- ing parties will urge the United States, France, Chian and other Powers, having territorial interests in the said regions, to join the Agreement, and in the event of Power or Powers consenting to join the Agreement, the Agreement shall be cancelled and replaced by a new Agree. ment to be discussed and decided upon by the Powers concerned.
The gathering took place on May 20th,
M. Ward.
Thomas Lamort.
ambulances, and
the
spund
ved limit. Inspectors
be
on duty fra
annexed to the Treaty The suggested Treaty, and Declaration, as translated by st the Reform Club. Sir Charles Addis there can be no adequate security, and to end på trouble, says the X.-6". Daily the Japan Chronicle, read as follows:- presided, and the company present in without security the efforts of the Con-Wes, *
Alliance Treaty
cluded: H.E. Vi Kyain Wellington sortium to provide China with - Free The period of ten years fixed for the Koo, The Rt. Hon. Lord Faringdon, markets and cheap money for construenoon, it was decided to send a petition At a meeting held on Sunday after- duration of the Treaty of the Anglo The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Lugard, tive purposes must be hampered and to the secretary of the Shanghai Mugi- Japanese Alliance, signed on 1th July, G.C.M.G. te The Rt. Hon. Sir John restricted. A strong government postu cipal Council in the following terms, which 1011, having expired, the Government of Jordan, G.C.M.G., ete, Sir William lates a willing people. The foreign were drafted after the meeting: Japan and the tiovernment of Great Bri Tyrrell KCMG Sir Basil Blackett, powers may make offers of their assist tain having in view the changes which K.C.B., Sie Newton Stabb, O.B.E., Sirance, but on an ultimate analysis Chips are lost.
Shanghai is a place where many lives have taken place in the situation as a Montagu Turner, Sir Gordon Naira, an only be saved by her own exertions. accidents specially by motor cars are Reports of deaths caused by rault of the war with Clermany and the The Hon. Cecil Baring, Lt. Col. Brinsley the Consortium is to be made effective heard of practically every day This fact, of the League of Nations having Fitzgerald, C.B., Messrs., F. Anderson, it must secure the co-operation of the Society has been formed with a been formed, and believing, that to con A. G. Angier, G. Acheson, J. O. P. Chinese. We have accordingly invited putting an end to this nuisiner. tinue for the future the specially friendly Bland, C. W. Campbell, C.M.G., Wei the formation of a Chinese Group, to the tyres of motor-cars are inade relations now happily subsisting between Cheng Chen, Allan Cameron, Lo Chong, take part in the deliberations of the of rubber, they make no noise when nov. the the two Powers is the most elective means to ensure and guarantee the peace and Davis, F. Emett, O.B., Cousortium, and to participate in thing: therefore, it is suggested that a boil of the world by international coopera Robert Fleming, A. C. Gray. E. Cadvantages of membership as soon as be attached to the front wheel of overg tion, have agreed upon the following Grenfell, H. D. C. Jones, AW. Kiddy, they are in a position to shoulder the motor car in order that pedestrians and stipulations to replace the Agreement Walter Leaf, WB. Leveson, E. Responsibilities, What may prove to be th
others may be warned and prepared above mentioned, mely
Morris, C. J. Mill, W. E. Preston, Archi. the melens of such a group has already against approaching motor cars. 1.The contmeting parties agres to bad Rose, C.I.E. G. de Rothschild, H. been formed by the native banker of would suggest that this be carefully With reference to the speed limit, wa ouintain the general peace in the regions Wickham Steed. F. C. Tiarks, J. Butler China, with the object of funding the observed by drivers and enforced by the of Eastern Asia, India and the Pacific Wright. BC. Witt, Hartley, Withers, could be mate of perture, and the inning polier, With the exception of ambula
insist--e motor engines, The contracting parties agree to In proposing: the health of Mr.ence by the Chines, Group on cundi doctors motor cars, no car shall be allow respect each other's and all existing terri Lamunt, Sir CHARLES ADDIS said:rtions of control of expenditure of Inan el to exced torial sovereignties in the said regions, Lamont does not come among us as a proceeds, regarded,in the West as india shall be appointed to maintain the status quo and to defend stranger. During the Peace negotiatious pensable, will undoubtedly pave the way .m. till 5 pm. In busy places their the principle of soul opportunity for at Versailles there was no figure mors for their future inclusion in the Con- hours shall terminate at midnight. Their the coumerey and industry of all nations familiar, no delegate more generally sortium should they desire it. It was in duty shall be to take down the numbers, in those
regions. 3.The contracting parties agree to trusted by his British colleagues than Chian that banking received its earliest of speeding motor-cats, cars which are on promoté the compion interests of all na diplomacy and finance in European His movement will und in nobilising the fail to observe the municipal regulations. His reputation in development, and we hope this new the wrong side of the roads, or those who tions in the "said regions and mutually respect their own and other nations presence here to-night is significant of savings of the people for national pur Licence fees shall be increased, and the special interests in those regions in so much. It is an earnest of the conviction poses, as an encouraging and satisfaclaries of these inspectors shall be paid far as is consistent with the two fore which we share with America that of all, tory reaction to the published program- from the extra money received. going articles.
the problems left over by the war there me of the Consortiuni.
BADGES FOR DRIVERS. more insistent,
Each motor-car driver shall wear in *** 4-In case it is necessary to také stopa") is „nune
nane more •
HOPEN OF CHINA'S FUTURE, for the furtherance of the objects of this fraught with consequence for the peace
a conspicuous place a white brass plate, Hopes of the future must be based on size three inches, on which shall en- Agreement, the contracting parties agroo of the world, than the proper regulation a reasonable view of the present. It is graved his name in both Chinese and Eng to exchange views in respect of measures and adjustment of the relations between disappointing that the wheels of the Relish, together with his licence number. which they may deem necessary or expedi- the rations of the East and the West. publican chariots in China should tarry eil upon payment of a sun to ie fixed
These plates shall be issued by the Coun.. The solution of that problem is to be and that ten years after its birch the sought in the free, frank and open inter authors of the Republie should not yet Persons without
hy the Council, licenseverni taels. charge of views between the Great have sucoceded in writing its constitu-!
shall not be Powers, with the definite purpose of re tion.. Bat I take comfort in the allowed to drive motor-cars. moving the misapprehension and the flection that wo have not yet written the
Cargo wagons must be covered with misunderstandings, which keep nations British constitution, and for my part, I wire healing so that goods will not fall part, and of paving the way for the shall refuse to regard it as a calamity if he ionded to high because it is extremel
and injure passers-by.
Gooda must not common international the Chinese never write theirs. It is dangerous, especially adoption of a
It deplorable that the political, factions of bridges, policy, in China and the Far East.
essential that in this matter England North and South should have failed to and America should see eye to eye. It come to an agreement, but do not let us whether they be cargo wagons or
On all motor vehicles. 18dinary was in the spring of 1919 that the Gov exaggerate political differences which ears, there must be another person besides ernment of the United States proposed appear to be largely academic. It de driver. He shall sit at the back of the formation of a new international absurd to describe as in a state of war, the vehicle and warn people when the ear It seems that among intelligent men Consortium for China," include inio the sense in which that incution is is turning corners and when it is about here a definite view is already reached on dustry as well as finance within thunderstood in the West, a country in to back. Persons owning motor-cars cl the question of the renewal of the Anglo-ambit of its operations. Their proposals which trade and revende. continue to certainly pay this man's falary, as well Japanese Alliance. Now that Germany were favourably received in this connes and Russia are prostrate and the hypo-try. The scope of the old China Cun, foreign bonds on the market to-day than text. whatever, pass a trum which bas
expand. There are no better secured as the other items mentioned.
Motor cars must never, under any pre thetical chemies of Britain and Japan sum, with nearly a generation of the Chinese, It would be otiose to halted, it heing very dangerous to the the Alliance in its existing toponime hoquere existence behind it, was ignore the marks of progress" accom
shape. will it be consistent with the Covenant out of gear, perhaps out of date. Nearly beginning has been made with prison res
limited, and much of its machinery was plished under the Republican regime. A lives of the boarding or alighting frors, of the League of Nations to preserve the three years have been spent in refitting form; tortore has been banished from Road shall be reserved exclusively for Between p.. and 7p.p. Nanking" Alliance as it is. In case of a possible it for its comprehensive and, in some the courts of justice; the Press has been motor cars, other vehicles must go from war with a certain Power, too, we no respects, novel functions. Let no one freed; there were 69,000 Government west to east and vice versu by other roads. longer rely on British assistance. Britain has been morally released from the obliga suppose that this has been an easy task. schools open in 1910; the women of tion to give such.
THE CHAMBER OF HORRORS Poling of industrial contracts was of China have been relieved of the degrad Lysistance ever since the signing of the third Alliance Treaty the essence of the American proposals ing practice of foot-binding; opium has injury to persons wax models of deceas
Should there be any loss of life of Besides, in these afterwar days, Europe in te Conserton is tous work been banished from the country, and or injured, showing the place where dependent on the ing of the Consortium it was necessary not even the recent lamentable recrude the person was struck, shall be made and goodwill of the in general is neccurity so it is to amalgamate the interests of the scence of opium growing in some of the placed in a small, room, in which the even believed that it would be more manly several groups, and to do this without provinces can dim the ethical value of driver of the motor-car at fault shall be for Britain to tako un Art, not be in future. at ease about Americo-Japanese who were not parties to the Consortium despair of a country which has shown This method has been find very success. complications instead of expecting what presented serions difficulties. It was itself capable of rising to such moral fut in America and we think would prove
for her to comply with "in, the not consistent with our duty, as we un heights.
equally successful here in Shanghai. -circumstances.
derstand it, to prevent China from buy-It is now my privilege to propose the At the same time it is not merely ing in the cheapest market, or to de- health of Mr. Lemont. His distinguish sentimentally unbearable to abrogate that prive our manufacturers, of the right to, ing characteristic, as you may see for Alliance which has for twenty long years einpete by upen tender. Anything in yourselves, is his smile. All that may been an embodiment of the friendship the nature of a money trust or a mono- lurk behind it I do not know, but what between the two island Empires, repre- paly of industrial contracts was to be I do know is that he went to Ja Under the joint auspices of the Peking catatives of Eastern and Western civili showed. That Ei sation, and the pillar of pesce in
both
perfectly and before that compulsive smile, the oth succeeded in our object i do not claim-militarist party laid down their arms Ceteral Chamber of Commerce and the hemispheres during the two great war Indeed it passes the wit of man to de- without firing a with Rusain, and Germany, but wint vise a scheme for joint international China, and representatives of young ner was given to the press representatives
will
shot. He went to Banking Corporation. on June 18th, a din- prove a serious of view of the general situation in the working from which every element of China who had come to throw stones re of the whole country, at which it was world, because to perpetuate the specially monopoly shall be completely excluded. thained to drink tea in the sunshine of announced that Mr. Huang Yi-chu,
wealthy Chinese merchant of Japan is the most effective means to imperative, but the disadvantages of as President of the Conference, and be te guarantee universal
by inter-what is admittedly a restriction of the fore the genial rays of his saille doubts with a capital of 82,000,000, with the national co-operation agreeably to the field of private enterprise are more than and difficulties vanish and international ject of
connexion Le.. fundamental principle of the Covenant of outweighed by the political advantages harmony, is established.
twock Cucting a close
and the South Sens The the Lergue of Nations. If so, this con- for competition at the present juncturo] how is the of substituting international, co-operation
greater part of the capital is to be sup plied by Mr. Huang and the rest by Chinese merchants resident in the South. Sras The proposed on capitalists at home.
well no hy
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friendly relations between Britain and Som sacrifice of national interest is that smile. We meet him in New Yorked to establish the Chungnan in
peace
Alhana to be cautioned?
ciple of
MR. LAMONT ON THE AIMS OF TRE CONSORTIUM.
Bank
will, it is reported,
it
nection, it is necessary to consider not in Chinese affairs; but you are not to sup merely the interests of the parties directly pose that Mr. Lamont and myself, to concerned but the after-war situation in whom competition is as the breath of pos of his recent visit to Japan and commence its business on July 5th of the
Mr. Laxos, in reply-speaking pro. the world, the existence of the League of our nostrils, could have been persuaded China as representative of the American present year, Nations, schemes for international unions. to" relinquish one iota of our freedom group-aid that he was vonâdent that the bearings upon the United States, the had we not been convinced that the they would find the Japanese Banking baken this project is th: 3, although Chi- The reason why Mr. Huang has under- opposition of China and India, the senti- argument in favoar of such a course was Group working in the same good faithnese capitalists of the South Sens have ments of Britain's overseas Dominions decisive. etc. Formerly, an Alliance was made
that the other groups were. do for as long, wished to invest their capital in between
•two
Powers with a certain third
WHAT THE AGREEMENT MEANS. the bankers of China were concerned their fatherland, owing to the corruption Power for its objective and it aimed The British, French, Japanese and they were evidently becoming imbued of the internal administration they have chiefly at promoting or protecting their American delegates met in New York with a strong belief in the commercial feared for the maintenance of public own interests. Nowadays, however, an und signed the Consortium Agreement of future of their country, and in the fact hitherto placed the whole of their capital peace, with the result that they have Alliance should be formed on the prin October 15th, 1923. Our difficulties did that the Chinese na a whole were grad with foreign banks to a great disadvan
co-operation for the maintenance not end there: What was the position ally working to solid government, tage on their part, a fnot which has, of the peace of the world and in the com-We found ourselves confronted on tho whether it were in Republican or some is said, prompted him to take the lead mon interests of all nations This being one hand with the remarks of the world other form. Mr: Lamont was impressed with in setting an example to rescue the coun- so, the Anglo-Ja
Japanese Alliance shall be disorganised by five years of war and on, China and the future of China, first of try industrially Eastern News Agency. renewed in such a form that in course the other hand with Chinn rent asunder all, on account of the movement of the of time all the agreements and under by the political factions of the North and younger element of the country. Under- standings so far made and reached by South, agreed only, in this that any neath all the seeming confusion of gov
FOREIGN DIAMONDS BOYCOTTED. Japan and Britain, France and America, foreign Bnancial assistance accorded to erament there was steadily and rapidly with China for their objective, may be
The Diamond Conference held by the incorporated therein, and that not merely one party would be resented as a mortal growing a new national spirit, an ardent China, but Holland, who has territorial affront by the other. Our efforts were desire on the part of thousands to study ladies of Bombay, recently, passed a interests in the South Seas, and even the paralysed. It may be that we are con
and improve
Governmental methods, resolution boycotting foreign diamonds Philippines, when they achieve indepondemned to a further period of inaction Anyone going to China could not fail to mainly on the ground that they almost dance, may participate in the Allianco.
which, however, may not be without its be impressed with the underlying quali entirely come from South Africa where In case what may be called the Far East uses in enabling us to take stock of the ties of thrift and sobriety and honesty Asiaties, are treated as the helots of the ora and Pacific Agreement is formed in general position, to explore the held of of a great people. Knowing that, il wo Empire,
way between Japan, America, France, China, Holland, and, cars the considerations which should and take tangible measures to show our wish to look to the Consortium for
Britain, possible operations, and to weigh with could get along with that great people in future, the India and the appines, as well as guide us in framing a policy with regard friendliness towards them, we should financial nasistance, in the establishment
British
Dominions sending to there. Now I wish to say at once find them developing today from a great of their great public enterprises. If and ropresentatives in the name of the British that we are all agreed that any inter people into a great nation. With regard when that tiny came that China did so Empire; or at least in case a quadruple ference with the domestic politics of to the future of the Consortium that look to the Consortium for belp and alliance is formed between Japan, Bri China has no part in the programme of body would bare accomplished much if friendlizoan, then that was the time tain, Americh and China, or else the League of Nations becomes sufficiently
the Consortium. As a Consortium it succeeded as it already seemed to that Great Britain and America, and the Conforun hate done-in animating the Chinese other national groups ne wall, should effective, then there will no longer be any the respective merits of different forms group of bankers into some action, and stand together and achieve success in the
have По opinion to occasion for continuing the Anglo-Japan of government as applied to the old in causing them to adopt for the Chinese problems that they were going to face. ese Alliance. But we want to bridge over. Celestial Empire. Sociar as we are con- Government the same safeguards in the The basis for such co-operation must the present period of transition with the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in an amended cerned that is n question which the expenditure of loan proceeds that the necessarily be on the past of mach and amplified form. This is the Tedson Chinese must decide for themselves, A Consortium had advocated. While he national group towards its partners of why we have drafted a Treaty of Alliance nation, it is said, in the long run ob was by no means certain, yet he be the Consortium an unyielding deter- and Declaration for the information and tains the Government it deserves. If lieved that in the days to come wemination to have each for the other toler discussion of the nations and Govern that is true, and I suppose it is, it im should probably find that China wouldanes, sympathy, understanding and abid-
plies at least the possibility of change, (Continued at foot of next column.) ing friendliness.
thin
ments interested."
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