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LONDON, September 9th. The difficulty of apportioning the first milliard gold marks reparations paid by
THE HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1911.
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WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. FAMINE-STRICKEN RUSSI A DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S CRITICISM.
“A MONSTROUS GESTURE OF
LONDON, September 9th.. A Washington telegram, says "there is- some reason doubt that the Disarmament
LONDON, September 9th. M. Tchicherin has refused the Inter-
Conference can be kept on a plane above Allied Commission's request for permis party politics in the United States. Thesion to send a commission of investiga Democratic National Committee has
tion to the famine districts..
The Note, as given in the Daily Herald, begun to issue literature, which, in effect,!
is couched in bitter terms, objecting
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ORIENTAL LABOUR IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.
At the
VANCOUVER, September 9th. Murphy has granted an injunction re- Supreme Court, Justice straining the Government of British Columbia from forbidding holders of tim- ber licences to employ Japanese and Chinese labour.
the Supreme Court has decided the ques The injunction remains effective until
Oriental Validation Act.
THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.. JAPAN'S POLICY OF DOMINATION.
PEKING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF "JAPANESE POLICY.
[CANTON INFORMATION BUREAU.}
THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
AN APPEAL FROM CHITA.
[DALTA NEWS AⱭtsor.]
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CHITA, August 25tha The Central Far Eastern Committee of Publie Organizations for Famine Belief in Boriet Russia has issued the following appeal to the people and public organisa tions of China, Japan, America and other the countries in the Far East sa well as
overseas Russian citizens:
CANTON, September sili. The legal Government of the Republic
From the Volga River comes terrible of China has to-day issued the following news saying that the drought has com declaration by President Sun Yat-sen on fertile provinces of Soviet Russia Over pletely ruined the crops in the most
by Germany, on August 31st, has given attacks the Conference. The chief pois primarily, to the personality of Mtion of the constitutionality of the Chinese representation at the Washington 20,000,000 people are starving, and thou
the purely diplomatic Asiatic question." In the criticism is the introduction of
which, it is argued, only complicates the question of limitation of armaments, and,
Noulems, the ignatory to the Inter- Allied Note, as a bitter and treacherous enemy of the Revolution from the begin-
ale to Franco-British difficulties. The question is extraordinarily complicated, ewing to the difficulty.of estimating the respective values of the payments in kind. France and Belgium received railway material, livestock and coal. Great Brithus, can only operate "against speedying, and it concludes that the Soviet
tain received ships.
A special financial conference in Paris his reached an agreement. which the French delegate, M. Doumer. has signed under the reservation that the arrange- ment is subject to the approval of the French Government. M. Doúmer has now come to London to undertake in formal discussions with Sir Robert Horne for the purpose of reaching a binding
concfusion.
PROHIBITION IN NORWAY.
BILL PASSED BY PARLIAMENT.
CHRISTIANIA, September oth. The Odelsting has passed. by 53 votes to 41, the Prohibition Bill forbidding the importation of spirituous liquors and
wines containing over 14 per cent, alcohol
GERMAN MARK.
WILD SPECULATION IN BERLIN.
LONDON, September 9th..
und muccessful resuita,”
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LONDON, September 8th.
Beater learns that although the British Government would welcome any proposal to hold preliminary conversations in London prior to the Washington con- ference. it has not been approached con- cerning this. Since the British proposal
Guvernment only regarils the proposals as a monstrous gesture of mockery at the expense of men, dying of hunger.
TRADE UNION CONGRESS RESOLUTION.
LaNDON, September 9th-
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The Trade Union. Congress passed resolution expressing the deepest sym Puthy with the Russian people in the un precedented calamity which has befalion them, chiling upon the British organised Labour financially to support the Rus to hold such conversations was with-sian people to their utmost, authorising drawn two months ago nothing has been the General Council to start a relief done, as it is understood that the United fund for the workers of Russia. suggest States Government is making all arrange-ing an immediate grant of £1,000, em ments.
powering the General "Council to use the
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LONDON, September 9th.. majerity decision of the Grand Trunk The City was thunderstruck at "the arbitration board (cabled earlier), decision is based on the view that but for the Government's financial support the Grand Trunk must have been forced into receivership. The stocks in question amount to £37,000,000. The question of a compassionato consideration for the shareholders is left to the Government. The shareholders, who are practically entirely British, are entitled to appeal to the Privy Council.
TRADE UNION CONGRESS RESOLU. whole power of organised Labour in order to induce the Government to pur- LONDON, September 8th. chase, the necessary medidcal supplies
It is noteworthy that ex-President -The Trade Union Congress passed and money credits so urgently needed Taft's dissenting judgment places the resolution moved by Mr. J. H. Thomas,
value of the stocks slightly higher than. M.P., declaring the disarmament con- by Russia and urging the British Govern- the maximum 6xed by the Act of Parlia ference, unsatisfactory unless Labour, is adequately represented and claiming that ment to recognise the Russian Government, under which the Government as the Congress is entitled to appoint repre- ment so as to enable the proposals to be sued control of the railway. sentatives, also protesting against the carried out.
AUSTRALIANS AT British Government's extensive arma-
SCARBOROUGH.
'JUBILEE OF FAMOUS. FESTIVAL.
A Berlin message says that, in conse- quence of reccat wild speculation due to the depreciation of the mark. the Boursements programme, and asking for the has been closed till Monday. The futuro hours of opening will be restricted.
The official price of the exchange on London on September 8th was 302 marks to £1, as compared with 348 marks, on September 7th: ; but subsequently the
suspension of all war preparations at lenst till the disarmament conference hay finished its work.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS. MEANING OF ARTICLE X. OF COVENANT,
GENEVA, September 9th-
Council of the League has decided not to The Amendments Commission of the
propose amendments to Article I of the Covenant, by which members of the
LONDON, September 8th. The Scarborough Festival Jubilee was opened in perfect weather, before a re- cord crowd of ten thousand. The wicket was hard and fast.
BRITAIN'S BATTLESHIPS. Mr. Thomas, moving the disarmament the British delegates, must go to Wash conference resolution at Cardiff, said that ington free and unfettered, and as evi dence of 'good faith say that Britain has There was simultaneously a great rise four battleships laid down this year. Mr. League undertake to preserve, against
not proceeded with the building of the
in the industrin shares. There was a Thomas asked against whom these ships
were to be built.. He said that the external aggression, the territorial in- similar position at, the Hamburg, Frank Anglo-Japanese Treaty caused more fric- tegrity and political independence of Mailey three for 91, and Hendry "three
pound went to 300
furt and other exchanges.
BOARD OF TRADE RETURN. INDICATION OF SOME REVIVAL.
LONDON. September 9th.
The trade retarius indiepte some revival in both imports and exports, as compared with the law. point reached during the coal strike. Exports and imports, each, have increased about £3,000,000, na com pared with July, while the exports for the month are about £10.000.000, showing & further recovery in merchant trade in foreign and colonial goods. -Over 3,000,000 tons of coal, valued at £5,600,000, were exported in August,
Raw materials, worth £19,000,000, were imported, as compared with £15,250,000
in July; £18,000,000 worth of manufac- tared goods were imported in each month; but the exports of manufactured goods in August were £40,000,000, an in- crease of £3,250,000, as compared with July, exports.
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tion in America than anything else. The American people rightly said that if we were bound to take sides with Japan it could only be against America
men scored 280, having batted four hours. Douglas won the toss and the English-
and Woolley minde 41. Saadaam played attraetivo cricket for 50, while Douglas by careful play scored 61,
McDonald took three wickets for 90,
for 45.
The Australians have scored 30 without the loss of a wicket.
THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE.
members of the League, but to adept an interpretative resolution declaring that the object of the Article is not to per Mr. Smillie, supporting the resolution, petuate the existing territórial and politi- said that the Miners' Federation decided cal divisions, for these can legitimately that in the event of a threat of inter- be modified under the Covenant, but that THE MULTIPLICATION OF antiference be an international miners' the Article does not compol members of conference be convoked. and the miners of the League to furnish armed forces to all nations should cease work immedi guarantee territorial integrity which may ately.
be menaced.
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE'S OFFER.
WASHINGTON, September 9th. Mr. Elihu. Root has offered the co- operation of the Carnegie Institute with the American disarmament delegation. It is stated that Mr. Hughes is pleased with the offer, and indicated that the assistance of the Foundation's experts is likely, to prove helpful.
[Mr. Root is Trustee of the Carnegie
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THE DELAY OVER MANDATES:
SOCIETIES IN CHINA.
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PEKING, August 27th. That the Chinese lenders and educa tionalists are continually keeping the interest of the coming Pacific Conference before the Chinese people is shown by- GENEVA, September 8th. The Assembly of the League of Nations the fact that in addition to the Chinese discussed the secretariat's report on the Pacific Conference Association organized work of the Council. Lord Robert Cecil by Mr. Yeb Kung-cho, the Pacific Ques defended the Council's work against M. tions Investigation Society formed by criticised the secrecy of some of its cellor of the Government University and Branting's criticisms. Although he Mr. Chiang Meng-hsiung, acting Chan deliberations and regretted the delay in others, Mr. Wong Ya-hsich,, farmer settling Classes A. and B. Mandates, Foreign Minister, ox-Premier Kung Hsin. Lord Robert declared that the delay was tsaa, ex-Premier Hsiung Hsi-hin and not the Council's fault, but was due to many other prominent officials, mer
chants and students have organized what tho. United States.
they call "The Chinese People's Foreign Relations Association" in the Capital with the sole object of assisting the Chinese official delegates to the inter- national gathering, in Washington in November next.
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ADMISSION OF STATES. The Cabinet, in the course of the reply
LONDON, September 8th.
The Amendments Commission of the to Mr. de Valera, paints out that the League of Nations has rejected the principle of government by consent of Argentine" amendment for the immediate the governed, on which Mr. de Valera admission of all Sovereign States. insisted in his last letter, is the founda tion of British constitutional develop ment, but the Cabinet cannot accept as
BURGENLAND DISPUTE.
GOVERNMENT.
the basis of practical conference an HUNGARIANS CAPTURE SEAT OF interpretation of that principle which LONDON, September 8th. would commit it to such demands as set- The Board of Trade returns for August, ting up a republic and repudiating the show imports of £83,500,000, as compared Crown. So applied, the principle of with £163,000,000 in August of last year, government by consent of the governed and exporta of £81,000,000, as compared would undermine the fabric of every with £115,000,000,"
democratie Stato and drive the civilized The largest decrease in importa is in world 'back to tribalism. raw materials and unmanufactured 1 reply mentions that, if Sina Fein
All these associations and societies have appointed representatives who will call on the Wai-chino Pu officials once
Conference. serted by the Bureau➡
disease.
haa
The cross-beadings ars in-sands are perishing from hunger and In the face of this calamity which of the population and political parties of overwhelmed our country, all classes the Russian Far East have organized a United Central Far Eastern Famine Relief Committee of Public Organizations in the name of which we appeal to you, our near and distant neighbours,
The President of the United States of America has invited China to parti- cipate in the discussion of Pacific and Far Eastern questions at a Conference ta be held at Washington.
JAPAN'S POLICY OF DOMINATION.
Countless misfortunes have be fallen "The Goverment of the Republic of the various nationalities in Russia and ibe China, whereo: I am the duly consticu Far Eastern provinces during the last few Led Chief Executive, affirms that no years. The European and civil wars We were settlement of these questions is pos- claimed millions of our sons. sible as long as China is not set free bleeding and dylag in silence. Now from the policy which is defined and aged are dying of bunger, we have decid
when millions of children, women," and the elaborated in the Twenty-One Demands and further worked out in the series you know what it means to die of hunger ell to let you hear our cries. Help us, if of secret agreements, loans and conces and to look helplessly upon dying women' sions concluded and granted by Heu and children, parents, and relatives. Tell Shih-chang's administration in favour your governments to open all roads and of Japan. All other questions are sub-avenues for the import of food for tho ordinate to this. menacing policy whose starving Russians, Tartars, Chirghizes unchecked prosecution involves event and people of other nationalities in the ually an alien domination of China Volga region. Make collections of food, with her man-power and natural re-money, medicine and other necessities through your organizations or through "To secure her release from this committees specially formed for the sake policy of domination, China must be of the starving population of Soviet represented at the Conference by a deussia. Hurry! Every hour's delay costs
hundreds of lives. legation" under the direction of an Administration that is not only the Eastern Famine Relief Committed.
Signed on behalf of the Central For
is not committed and is legal Government of the Republic but
not com MIGRATION OF FAMINE promised by its dealings and relations
SUFFERERS. with the Foreign Power pursuing that policy.
scurces.
PEKING AS INSTRUMENT OF JAPAN.
[ROSTA NEWS AGENCY;}
Moscow, August 17th.
"Hsu Shih-chang and his adminis tration are so committed and so com. The All-Russian Central Executive promised. He was Secretary of State Committee in order to regulate the migra of the administration which mismanag-tion of famine sufferers transferred dur ed the negotiations connected with the ing the first part of this month 105,000* Twenty-One Demands and in conse- famine. The Central Famine Relief Com
persons to several provinces unaffected by quence sacrificed vital Chinese rights mission has proposed to the Council of He and his administration concluded Commissars to ask the rural co-operative the Secret Agreements of 1918, and societies to store seeda for the next sowing other secret and illegal transactions season-
impairing the independence and inte
grity of China and subjecting Chinese THE SUPPRESSION OF CHOLERA 3 economic resources to an exploitation subserving the same policy of domina
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Moscow, August 17th
tion. Besides this moral incompetency, The Council of People's Commissars re- the administration of Hsu Shih-chang gards the suppression of cholera in Soviet is illegal. He was elected to office by Russia as
of paramount importance Parliament which was set up in viola Special commissions have been organized tion of the Chinese Constitution and aft over Russia for preventing the spread. which he himself had to dissolve, in the of cholera. The Commissariat of Com-: autumn of last year, as unconstitu- munications has ordered the railway stâ- tional.
tions to keep boiled water for drinking On the other hand, this Govern been introduced and the Commissariat of purposes, Compulsory vaccination has ment is entirely free and stands uncom-Health has been authorized to purchase mitted vis-a-vis any Foreign Power or large quantities of vaccine and other. Powers. It is also the legal Govern medicines without delay. mant of the Republic of China, because it has been established in pursuance of the government-making power vested in Parliament, by the. Constitution.
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The moral disqualification of Hev Shih-chang and his administration to state China's case goes to the root of Chinose representation at the Confer- ence. This difficulty cannot be solved by any paper-scheme for the political unification of China. It is a Biorn reality that, must be faced if China is to secure a minimum of justice at the Conference. 6
INTERESTING MEDICAL
DISCOVERY.
PREVENTIVE AGAINST SCARLET FEVER.
The Manchuria Daily News (Japanese)
Sily
Bacteriological Institute, Tokyo,
Dr. S. Kusama, of the Kitazato been interested in the study of a preven has
tive serum scarlet fever, and memales for several against eruptive typhus, years past. He could see a ray of hope "Therefore, I, in the name and on for the attainment of his object last behalf of the Government and People autumn., Dr. Takahashi (Superintendent of the Republic of China, do hereby of the Yokohama Hospital), who has declare that unless delegation under studied under the noted bacteriologist, the direction of this Government having unbounded faith in the attain Attends and takes part in the work of ments of his senior, has applied. the the Washington Conference, none of newly invented preventive processes to: the decisions of the Conference relating his five children and has had the satia to China shall be recognised as possess faction to notice an unmistakable proof ing any validity or force."
of their efficacy.
CERTAIN POINTS EMPHASISED.
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These
The Canton Information Bureau is in a position to emphasise certain points which, while necessary for a complete or twice a week for the exchange of views understanding of the policy defined in and opinions about China and the Con- the foregoing declaration, could not well ference, and Dr. Yen has appointed Dr. be stated and underlined in it. P. K. O. Tyan and Mr. Chien Tai to points will be fully considered in a series VIENNA, September 9th. receive them at all times. Further, at the of articles shortly to be issued by the Austro-Hungarian situation has taken ations, Mr. Yoh, Kung-cho, the various tion of the chief points:
It is serai-officially declared that the suggestion of ex-Minister of Communita Burcau. The following is a brief indica- serious turn in consequence of Hungarian associations and societies
are to be insurgents capturing Agendorf, LAD
(1.)-American armament is more or absorbed into one Chinese National threatening Mattersdorf, the temporary Association for representing the Chinese leas directly related to Japanese armar seat of the Austrian Government.
nenstadt.
this united association will prove to be decrease according as the expenditure on of immense service to the Chinese official the latter rises or falls: delegates.
The
This has awakened a hope that ant efficacious preventive has been discovered? also against scarlet fever, which has beeh claiming a heavy toll in Manchuria.
(4.)What, then, is the real aim of Japan in compassing the domination of China? It is largely to work for the domination of the Pacific, through the domination of Chinese man-power and Chinese natural resources, in order to force open the gates of Australia and America to Japanese immigration. In those regions and not in China cas Japan. population.
articles. The reduction in exports is accepts the invitation to a conference, it latter has now withdrawn to Wiener 1.prople as a whole, and it is believed that ment and, must, therefore, increase or find another home-land for her surpluss
almost wholly in manufactured articles.
will be open to them, to raise the sab ject of guarantees on any points, where GERMAN TRADE.
it may be considered that Irish freedom is prejudiced by proposals already made, "LARGE FOREIGN ORDERS." The reply dwells on the desirability of the conference at which any possible BERLIN, September 8th. Sinn Fein objection, that the proposals The September report of the Prussian offer Ireland less than the liberty, describ Ministry of Trade says that the manu- ed, can be explored. The Cabinet is of facturing boom continues in most the opinion that the correspondence has
motive. The iron industry has booked inst orders for months ahead.
There is an active demand for cottons, woollens, silks, motor-cars. and
SUGGESTED CONFERENCE AT ·
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ONLY A TERMINOLOGICAL
·INEXACTITUDE.
During the mooting of the Members of Committee of the Pacific Conference
WHY JAPAN (ARMS,
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(6.)-Tha Peking administration entirely depndent on the military supe port of the Super-Tachunate, and the (2)-Japanese armament is a necessity latter is dominated by Chang Tso-lin Association, yesterday, after a beated because the immediate purpose and object who, in his turn, depends on the support discussion, a telegram, in the name of the of Japanese imperialiam is the domina and goodwill of Japan for the mainten whole of the members, was despatched to tion of China. This is not a mere inferater of his power. LONDON, September 9th.
LEJSON OF FARIS PRACE-CONTBRENCE") General Wa Pai-tu, Gaieral Chao Wen-ti choo or a prophecy. It is set down elcarly The unconfirmed report of the fall of and other military leaders in Central in the Twenty-One Demands, in the
(6.) Therefore, any Chinese delegation! branches of production. The fall in the lasted long enough, and, therefore, asks Angora is apparently baseless. The Yangtze and the Linng-Kuang Provinces China-Jean Military act in Nishizes will be unables adequately to pro mark exchange rate has attracted large for a definite reply, accompanied by. a latest information to reach London indi urging them to put the interests of the Agreements of 1918, in the Nishi-hara
China's case mea-vis Japan as foreign orders, and home buying is most suggestion for a conference on the 20th cates that the Greak attack east of the nation before those of their. factions by Loans and other transactions for which the direction of polio song
River Sakaria has been brought to a reasing domestic feuds immediately, so the Peking administration is responsibla Peking. This is the lesson to
(3.) This policy of ascendancy is justi. standstill after severe fighting during the us to enable China to present a united Bed by Japanese propagandista on the from the Paris Peace Conference when last four days, and that there are even front at the Washington Conference. signs of Greek withdrawal. The Greek Furthermore, the various associations ground that Japan most secure in China the work of the Chinese Fenos Delegazon army is about forty miles south-west of are discussing the subject of convening aan outlet for her surplus population and was fatally weakened by the Pekinge Angora.
Chinese Citizens Convention at Shanghai the raw materials for her industries. tion of the Delegation insisting on in September for the investigation of But intra-mural China is overcrowded incomplete presentation of the Shantung OBITUARY.
both domestic and foreign questions in and the climatic rigors of extra-maral case in order to avoid compromising the connection with the Far Eastern Center China are unfavourable for genuine Feking administration in connexion with LONDON, September 8th.
for the purpose of making pre-Japanese colonisation, as distinguished the Secret Agreements of 24th and 28th. The death in annonnced of Sir David liminary preparations towards this and, from the planting of purely political September, 1918. And even a delegation Erskine, K.O.V.O., D.L., who was Ser- travelling leturers will be despatched to colonies in strategic centres in China of all the talents" in Chim could not geant-at-Arms to the House of Commons the provincial capital of every province And as regards Japan's alleged depen- remove this fundamental disability from 1885 to 1915, Gentleman Usher of of the Chinese Republic and to the dence on Chinese raw materials, these can reking. In terms of the case. Chang the Robes from 1901, to 1919, and Groom Treaty Forts to enlighten the Chinese be readily procured through the ordinary Tsolin is the real ruler at Peking; and The Inverness" Cabinet conference haa.of the Robes to Queen Victoria from 18 people about the signifiesace of the channels of international trade and comwould not hesitate to compel Peking to broken up. Lord Fitz Alan and General to 1901. Sir David was a Crimean Washington. Conference to China and merce. Macready hove, returned to London,
linens, locomotives, chemicala,
THE DUTCH NAVY. REPORTED SCHEME FOR
- EXPANSION......
LONDON, September 8th. According to an Armsterdam telegram,, it is understood that the Government in tends to submit to the Becond Chamber in October a Bill providing for a con- siderable increase in the Dutch Fleet.
INVERNESS.
LONDON, September 8th. It is officially announced that the Cabinet has invited Sinn Fein to a con- ference at Inverness" on the 30th inat. to ascertain how the association of Ireland. with the British Empire is reconcilable with Irish national sapirations.
CABINET DISPERSES.
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her people and what they should do. Se (Continued at foot of next column:}
ho is precisely the type of character who
disavow any member or members of the dalegation who disregarded instructions,