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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. THROCOK REUTER'S AGENCY.] CONSTANTINOPLE PLOT.
TO ASSASSINATE ALLIED OFFICERS.
CONSTANTINOPLE. September 19th.
It is reported that British Intelligence authorities have discovered a plot or ganised and subsidiaed by the Angora Nationalista, chießy among Turkish officers, with a view to stirring up a revolution in Constantinople, seizing the surrendered war material, sprending dis affection among the loyal Indian troops and assassinating the leading officers of
the Allied forces.
Seventeen desperadoes are said to have "been brought to Constantinople, specially to commit murders. General. Hacington has submitted the list of those compro- mised to the Turkish authorities and has demanded that they be arrested and “handed over within a work to be tried by
the Allied Court,
AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE'S
MINES:
AMERICAN SYNDICATE'S
VENTURE.
various Central European Governments, which have sequestrated and confiscated i the properties of the latter, estimated to be worth £40,000,000 aud to consist of
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER- 19TH, 1991.
SITUATION IN GERMANY,
BAVARIA TEMPORISING.
BERLIN, September 11th It is officially announced from Munich that the Bavarian Government has bot yet reached a Anal decision in regard to the Berlin decrees. It appears that while the majority of the Bavarisa Cabinet favours rejection, a compromise has been reached between the Bavarian delegates and the Central Government.
M
FAR EASTERN CABLE THE CASSEL CONCESSION IN THE FAR EAST IN PARLIA-
·NEWS.
(THRUVAN KETTER'S
CHINA'S PART IN 'LEAGUE “OF
NATIONS
DR. WELLINGTON KOO'S VIEWS.
Geneva, September 19th.
Reuter,, said that the honours which bad Dr. Wellington Koo, interviewed by
KWANGTUNG.“
PROFESSOR DEWEY'S MEGALO
MANIAC HALLUCINATION.'''.
!
MENT.
ORIUM CULTIVATION IN CHINA.
THE CHAOS IN CHINA
A PROBLEM FOR THE PAUIF
CONFERENCE.
Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, Under-Secre
AJ Japanese correspondent, writing tary for Foreign Affairs, replying to Mr. The Times, asks:-What is to be Gershom Stewart, recently said:-Papers
considering a compromiso desires to con- come to hit from the League, of Nationsfilitary and Civil Governors of the 10g in China, seemed to have beea ‘gatis. I problem of the Pacific?.
A committee of the Diet which has been tinue negotiations with Berlin with a view to obtaining further concessions.
REPORTED RESIGNATION OF BAVARIAN MINISTERS.
LATER.
A Munich message states that the Pre mler, Herr von Kühr, and the Minister of Justice, Herr Rothe, who were regard promise have resigned. ed as the strongest opponents of com
FILM ACTOR'S PARTY. FOLLOWED BY SENSATIONAL CHARGE.
of
י!
SAN FRANCISCO, September 19th. arrest
A sensation has been created by the the film actor,
Fatty Arbuckle, "who is charged with murder in connection with the death of Virginia Bappe, a film actress, who died after a party in Arbuckle's apartment..
The District
Attorney states that Arbuckle is charged under the section of the Code which provides that life taken. in rape or attempted rape is considered murder. The complaint was filed after a post-mortem and the examination of several persons, who are alleged to have been attending the party.
Arbuckle, who was at Los Angeles, re turned to California and surrendered. The prisoner "declined to make a state- meat
A "Special Correspondent" contribut ing to the London and China Express & criticism of Professor Dewey's startling are now being prepared for submission future of China? The Pacião Conte exasperating and amusing' article into Parliament showing the present pasience is about to meet, and the Powe the New Republic says:--
tion of opium cultivation in China It will bare. to consider this questio His tale of mystery and imagination is is the case that China undertook to put tract made by Major Louis Cassel and a which the export of opium from Indiation of China is the kernel of the who based on the discovery of a colliery con-down cultivation as the condition on After all, does it not seem that the pos Chinese, named Sum Pak ming with the was stopped. At that time opium-grow- as president of the Council and acting' chairman. as the opening of, the second Province of Kwangtung. But his render-factorily suppressed, but I regret to say At the present moment China is in Assembly, were really honours bestowed of the contract finds so faint an echo the recent reports indicate a marked
in the on China.
He was glad that these honours had inuse examinati itself that a clause-to-revival in certain provinces and there is chaotic condition. There is no centr examination is called for in the evidenes of suuggling of Chinese opium Government. The Government at Pekiz come to China, because China had been
interests of decency and fair play,
into Hongkong on a considerable scale. governs a low provinces near the capit playing a very great part in the League tract delivers to a British company &ly addressed to the Chinese Government. enforce its decrees.
No The Professor premises that "the con-hai. Strong protests have been repeated. only, and outside of these is unable
doubt is also smuggled into Shang- ever since she entered it the important part taken by China's province for a period of 10 years, but but have hitherto remained entirely un- steadily declining, and many other pro
He recalled monopoly of the rich coal deposits of the
Ita authority delegate in the deliberations of the first here at the outset the document does not heeded. The League of Nations are ovinces are declaring their independenc Assembly and pointed out that China, at bear him out in the least degres present, was represented on the Council contract enumerates and excludes st coal whole opium question
The actively interesting themselves in the of the League, and, also, ou the com
It is confronted with another and riva mines for which mining rights have boun
NAVAL POLICY. mittees dealing with military, naval and grantes, and on which work has com
(August 3rd) In Committee of Supply ters only one province that of Kwang Government in Canton, which admint aerial affairs, opium traffic, amendments wenced, also seven coal mines for which
n the Navy Estimates, Mr Amery, in to the Covenant, transit and communi- mining rights have been granted but on referring to the policy of laying down these two Governments agree, they en tung. The Powers have decided that unt cations. China participated in several which work has not commenced. It then four capital ships this year, said: international conferences
make no further loans to China. under the permits the concessionaires to prospect this moment there were under construc auspices of the League. China's repre-
in certain other districts bordering on tion whole battle fleet of vessels of a Council of the League, in regard to the agatative acted as Reporter to the
the lines of railways from Canton to administration of the Mar, the organi of the Province, during a period of nine hire all ships of earlier design wore Nabic afloat at the Battle of Jutland, and in the face of whose shattering shell months, perhaps to be extended sation of the secretariat and finance of months, and to demarente areas none of to instant and complete destruction by the League, and the opium problem which shall exceed 10 square li, in which Japan had eight of these vessels, one of while he was a member of the committee they may desire to carry on mining which was already completed, and all of
the penetration of
their on Upper Silesia. League became her nos only as a great cuted shall be granted the company for bad voted money for eight more to China's active participation in the end of the 15 months the areas do demare which would be completed by 1923; and
operations. It then provides that at the country, but because the spirit of the League was essentially the spirit of the the revelation in this case
years The most fitting comment on
be completed by 1928 Chinese, who were the greatest lovers of
lies in the pener. The Chinese civilisation was built fact that 10 square li are equal to three up on the central idea of upholding the of the Kwangtung Province, is 100.000 square miles, while the estimated aren square miles,
supremacy of right and reason over forco
And i might. He was glad to note the
countries.
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At
Kowloon and to the northern boundary incomparably bore powerful than from foreign countries. Her provincia
THE RAILWAX PROPOSALS.
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to 13
Yet China cannot live without suppor
observers that the increasing power o military governors, are many of them 1 open revolt. "It is agreed by foreig these governors is the cause of the grow trict their influence. The field for th commerce of all Powers trading with magazines. ing chace; yet nothing is done to res
more restricted by this state of things. China is necessarily becoming steadil
When the Conference meets at Wash
Rear-Admiral Adairesaid the suggestion about, competition in huilding of war naked, What is going, to be dong PARIS, September 12th.
that the armament ring was bringing ington the question cannot fail to b should go to the coming Conference with asking it already. They are asking, Wil Negotiations have been concluded by
vessels WILS utterly ridiculous which a powerful American financial
We Certain English newspapers in China ar increasing interest taken by the Chinese
the United States and Japan with a de the Powers agree to the abolition of extra syndicate champions the claims of the
Press in the League, because the continued pervades Professor Dewey's comment on
A similar megalomaniac hallucination that furtune and with the knowledge teritoriality, of spheres of influence, o
faite Austrian Archduke Frederick against SUGAR-GROWING IN INDIA. success of the League depended primarily Posadas Professor
ships could be built should foreign control over posts, telegrapha on the support of public opinion in al vides, as indeed . The contract pro-
the necessity arise.
and Customs? If so, what will be the Commander Bellairs said Japan's anval position as regards the personal safety mining concession At least two questions before the precessionaires of the existing means of that fact which was leading to the race cial interests 7o
should
provido, for the use by the con press that for more intensive than of foreign subjects in China, and the sent Assembly greatly interested the Chitransportation, and for the construction
ever was that of Germany, and it was security of their financial and commer -national Court of Justice. China, may be deemed adrianble for the purposes but her navy had a larger
armaments to-day, Japan was not
"Japan was until lately supporting the armaments, which will promote peace,
She did so because ent tribunal of international justice.inas-
it a monopoly of all further trans- way towards preventing wars.
New the districts in which the conces Dr. Wellington Koo
sionaires are permitted to prospect are port the compieton of ratificationrailwaying over or adjacent to the two of this Court.
fore-mentioned; consequently, He mentioned that along
possible railway lines contem- specially
interesting to China were the these two railways to the areas demarcat plated in the contruct are branches from
of
of
personnel
The report of the Committee appointed Rese, namely, disarmament and the Inter-f such additional roads and railways as only building wore ships than we were: Peking Government. land and industrial "holdings, including growing and manufacture in India, just naturally, wished a rapid reduction in of its business. A harmless necessary the German fleet. at the beginning of she realised thut without support from only a ton of sugar per acre compared also, a speedy establishment of a perman.lause enough, but the Professor finds ia the war. He thought the war staffs were The syndicate is, anxious, to secure the Hawaii. An enormous percentage of the much as such a court would go a long (ortation facilities of the proviace." right in coming to the conclusion that the itself against the disintegrating influences
atoe works and mines in Teschen.
steelworks and mines, with a view to re- sumption of operations on American lines.
MANDATES PROBLEM:
TO FOUR BIG ALLIES."
GENEVA. September 12th.
JAVA MODEL RECOMMENDED.
SIMLA, September 11th. at the end of 100 to investigate sugar published, emphasises that India produces with over 4 tons in Java and 4 tons in sugar contents of the one is lost through antiquated methods of
production and. inefficient milling.
The report recommends the adoption of the Java system of
mechanically lifting
soon to re-
matters
the
only
Dr. Wellington Koo." the acting Presi-industry in the Java model, proceeds that the Council of the League and the add that this colliery concession
Capital ship remained the basis of sea power and that the policy which the Ad- miralty were pursuing was a wise one.
(August 8th), Mr. Cecil Harmsworth providing for assistance being afforded informed Sir John Rees that there was no article of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty
ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY AND INDIA.
outside that Government could not asser
operating to its disadvantage. But Japan was regarded as doing this solely from interested motives. She accordingly with drew her assistsace. From that time for ward the decline in the power of Peking
has been continuous.
DR. WELLINGTON KOO'S LETTER Lane loads on to the carrier, and expresses amendments, to Articles XXI, and X.`ofed. Nothing short of divine ecstasy could {by Japan to Great Britain in the event familiarised with the doctrine of sel
the Covenant, the election of Judges of enable one to consider thess little de-of external dificulties or disturbances in appointment of non-permanent members the International Court of Justice, the canvilles and deacry a provincial mono- Iodia.
He hoped for a satis Pium question.. factory outcome of these questions,
FRENCH AVIATION, AGE AS MISSIONARY.
dent of the Council of the League of Nations, has sent the Governments of the Four Big Allies a note confirming the letter of Dr. Da Cunha, asking them to spare no effort to reach a settlement on points under discussion between them, and the United States in regard to mandates.
COLLAPSE OF BRIDGE.
DROWNED: 5 INJURED. CHESTER (PENNSYLVANIA), Sept. 12th. Twenty-four were drowned and 6 in- jured by the collapse of a bridge on the river here, owing to the breaking of the rusted iron supports.
The majority of the victims rushed on the bridge to witch the rescue of a drown ing boy.
JUTE MILL SHORT TIME. OPERATION IN CALCUTTA.
CALCUTTA, September 12th. The operation of short time in jube mills has been extended till the end of December.
EARLIER CABLES.:
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN
"DISPUTE.,
AMBASSADORS' COUNCIL'S NOTE
TO HUNGARY.
די
the opinion that the present tariff. com- bited with ocean and railway treights, amply protects the Indian sugar industry
The organisation of the fadian Bugar report is essential to progress. Organisa. tion should take the form of an Indian Sugar Board composed, firstly, mainly of officials and,
of non-officiala. ultimately, An imperial Sagar Research Institute should be established to control research
in the provinces.
The Committee pays high tribute to the Dutch Indies General Syndicate of Sugar assistance given the Government by the Manufacturers, the Dutch-Indien Research Association of Java, and the sugar indus try, whose courtesy and cordiality were unforgettable,
RUSSIA'S CATASTROPHE. MILLIONS DOOMED TO STARVE
TO DEATH.**
HELSINGFORS, September 11th. A well-known Russian writer, inter- viewed declared that Dr. Nansen had quite of the famine-stricken people
misery
41
PARIS, September 19th.
with distinction in the military flying Guines as missionary, covered himself Father Bourjado, who is going to New service in war-time.
He was fourth in the list of Erench aviators for the number of enemy aero planes brought down and was awarded the Legion of Honour, the Military Cros and numerous palms.
JAPANESE ́ALPINIST'S FEAT.
BERNE, September 11th. The feat which may Alpins climbers have attempted vainly has been accom Yukomaki, of Tokyo, who with three plished by
a young Japanese, Mr. of Russia and the relief necessary to save guides, ascended Mount Eiger by the them. The fumine struck the most fertile eastern approach. All of the party were parts of Hussin, where the country's sun-in splendid condition at the end of the plies are grown... It would never be arduous climb. possible to supply, food for the twenty to [Mount Eiger, one of the highest peaks twenty-five million people needing it, at of the Bernese Oberland, attains a least one-third of whom were doomed to altitude of over 13,000 ft.] atarve to death.
The starving hordes are feeing mostly eastwards. Twelve thousand were recently refugees meeting. killed at Bugulma through two armies of
FRENCH ECONOMIC OUTLOOK SELF-SUPPORTING IN WHEAT.
AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING
INDUSTRY. "DEAD AS FAR AS FREIGHTERS ARE CONCERNED."
-
THE VALIDITY OF THE CONTRACT.
Sir J. D. Rees: Is the hon. gentleman stated as almost likely to lead to serious aware that the contrary is so frequently
consequences?
Mr. Harmsworth: I hate seen the statement made, but there is no founda. tion for it.
BOLSHEVIST FORGING OF
CHINESE BONDS.
determination advocated by. Presiden During the Great War the world was
Wilson. Did it lead to no confusion, and has the world received nothing bat bezie statesmen who adoped it be equally will it from that doctrine? Would all the
the affects of its actual application in ing to adopt it now that they have seen Europe, Egypt, and India?
accounts for the anxiety of the British partners in the Consortium that the com pletion of the Hukuang Railway be the firs undertaking financed by the Con- sortium" is decidedly below the belt, for in the first place this railway is the half. finished enterprise of the earlier Con-
Unless there is a clear idea of what Government that it be completed without pressed and carnest wish of the Chinese sortium, in the second place it is the ex
will result from the application of the doctrine of the integrity of China, "the open door," and equality of op and in the third place, so much of delay, the line as is required for the purposes
portunity," it is hardly likely that any of the colliery concession is already com-ject of correspondence between the Com- attempt to put it into execution. Befor A matter that has lately been the sub- thing but trouble will result from the plated.
mittee of the London Stock" Exchange doctrine, moreover, the Powers should
subscribing too unreservedly to such The contract was made in 1920 and the agents for the loan, is the discovery; and interests in China will be respected and the Credit Lyonnais, one of the Professor takes marked exception to the according to circumstantial evidence, of
have guarantees that their existing rights particular administration with whom it the forging of a number of Four Per Conference meets, those who will be ros was concluded. Elsewhere, he recounts Cent, Chinese Bonds of 1805 by Russian
It is well, therefore, that before the with undisguised satisfaction that the Bolshevists. deal. Now a contract can only be made of the old Imperial Government, of very important questions.
The Chinese loan of 1895 Ponsible for their respective countries at succeeding administration repudiated the
was originally issued under the auspices a councils should ask themselves these tion is, mutatis mutundis, as pertinent of the exchanges has caused a large culty, the end of which it is not easy with the Ins and not with the Outs, and Russia, which was one of the guarantors they may find themselves confronted by Otherwise every word of this chapter of the Revela-
of the bonds. Since the war the position position of quite extraordinary dif the Kwangtang party instead of their the bulk of them were formeris domiciled as it would be if the contract were with transfer of the bonds from France where to foresee. brethren of Kwangsi.
It is truc that changes also take place in the Central to this country. The British investor. Government Morarchy nor Dictatorship nor Republic bonds are an absolute first charge on the at Peking, but neither has been attracted by the fact that the has yet gone back on the authorised chop Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, the or mal of the Government of China, their yield from which in 1920 was £16,800,000, reply to the above, says that the autho Mr. B. Lenox Simpson, writing in On or their predecessors. And, anyhow, as against a sum of less than £1,000,000 rity of the Central Government is werk as is noted by the Professor with glee. required for the service of the 1895 loan, ing perfectly in regard to the five major the Central Government's ratification is An incidental further attraction has been Revenue still withheld,
Discussing the arrangements for the able in a number of foreign currencies, this year will show collection of that coupons and drawn bonds are pay Railways, Posts and Telegrapha-which Departments-Customs, Salt, formation of a company to take over the including Swiss currency, as consequence £10,000,000. concession, and the division of the shares of which, while the redemption price of into "A", and "B" shares, Professor, the bonds is par, as much as 113 is at the Dewey's paraphrase has the appearance present time being bid for drawn bonds. stamps, the collections will soon be very In regard to wine and tobacco and tors of the company and three millions change, the bulk of coupons just now find maintained, will be not far short of of wilful perversion. He writes, "the
A
It was apparently at Genova, where, much improved. The foreign trade of the shares go unreservedly to the directhrough the high prevailing rate of ex
year, if the present rate of increase is the B shares are to be allotted by
"THE CHAOS "A VALUABLE.
STIMULANT TO TRADE.
year on the whole is quite satisfactory. Preston, Construction Company of directors of the company at their their way for 'oncashment, that suspicions Chinese $3,000,000,000. Owing to the fal
pro-
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INVESTING PUBLIC SAFEGUARDED.
PARIS, September 10th. The grape harvest, now in progress, is Sidelights on the present condition of
LONDON, September 11th, bidding fair to rival wheat as regards the shipbuilding industry of the United quality and quantity, so the agricultural States are thrown by Mr. James R Under the circumstances, prices of the with the Fullor
expert connected the PARIS, September 11th.'
chief commodities should soon shows Am
The conecsaion itself were first aroused as to the existence of in the value of silver the storing amount America. substantial decline.
Interviewed at Liverpool on ted by the directors of the company who
vides that the The Ambassadors Conference has sant
A shares shall be allot forged bonds.
will not be more than in 1919 and 1920. his arrival from New York, he asserted the Hungarian Minister at Paris a Note ther measures tending to reduce the cost dead in America as far as freighters are shares
The Cabinet is contemplating new fur that the ship construction industry is are of British nationality in such man-
but it goes to show that" chaos" seems The forgeries, it is understood, have to act as a valuable stimulus, which other mating that the nets of violence com- of living and to curb speculation, mitted by Hungarian bands or regular
Beras they may decide, and the "B" been effected in clumsy manner, for cou- countries might do worse than imitate Vader troops in West Hungary directly involve great show is being held in Paris in order
concerned. Practically the only vessels of the company who are of Chinese na bonds the numbers of which were drawn the field for the commerce of i be allotted by the directors pons have been presented relating to When your correspondent declares that responsibility on the part of the Han-to advertise the most modern methods of Preston said that regarding general trade to be of European nationality, thres the bankers who act as agents for the is making an observation which is deli
are oil-tankers. Many large garian Government.. Inviting Hungary wheat cultivation.
decids. Inasmuch as three directors are ter is now being closely investigated by becoming steadily more restricted, be to evacuate Burgenland, the Note declares address, the Minister of Agriculture sibly this would continue for months, but arrangement seems to be a perfectly fair have recenuy purchased bonds of the not the slightest intention of asking for
At the opening everything was scratching bottom. Por Chinese, and the seventh British, the loan. In order to reassure investors who berately misleading... that punitive measures will be employed stated that France should soon become optimism prevails, especially in the direc- onc, and the Bevalation seems to be Chinese 1886 loan it may be stated that the abolition of extraterritoriality nati to ensure the execution of the Treaty of self-supporting as regards whent.
China has Trianon it Hungary persists in her pre- sont attitude.
Business
in decidedly on
tion of the erection of dwelling-houses. trend.
the upward The steady depreciation of German
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF exchange is causing some misgivings, as foreboding, possibly, an acute German crisis. The mark is now worth less than one halfpenny.-Havas,
ALLOCATION OF REPARA-
TIONS:
MATTER TO BE REFERRED TO ALLIED CONFERENCE
PARIS, September 10th. The French Finance Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in London had another informal talk, during which the financial issues were reviewed in the friendliest spirit. The whole matter is to be referred to another Allied conference
Havar.
U.S. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
SHIMIDZU'S PROGRESS
"PHILADELPHIA, September 11th. In the United States national lawn tennis singles championship, second round, Shimizu beat the Californian, "Allen, by 6-3, 6-0, and 12-10.
Government's auspices, whinhuilding firms have closed down. Mtionality in such, manner as they may and cancelled some time go. The mat- Powers trading with China is necessarily
OBITUARY,
1
LONDON, September 11th. of Milford Haven.
The death is announced of the Marquis
batten, frat Marquis of Milford Haven,
[Admiral Louis Alexander
Mount- born 1854, was formerly Prince Louis of Battenburg. He married his cousin Prin- cess Victoria, daughter of Princess Alice and grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, and entered the Navy in 1888, serving in the Egyptian-War (Medal and Khe- dive's Star). From 1902 to 1905 he was appointed Director of Naval Intelligence, subsequently commanding the Atlantic Ficet and then the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Home Fleet. From 1912 to 1914 ho was First Sea Lord.]
JUSTICE:
PARIA, September 10th. The election of the French jurist, Prof. Weiss, Lord Finlay, and the Japanese jurist, Mr. Oda, as judges of the Inter- sational Court of Justice at The Hague is considered as assured.-Haves.
FRENCH EXPRESS ACCIDENT
LEONS, September 11th. killed and 00 injured.
In the express train accident 20 were
LATER
burg-Lyons express train derailment.
Thirty-eight were killed in the Stras-
SAN ANTONIO FLOUDS.
SAN ANTONIO (Tex.), Sept. 12th. ally threatened. The dead are now The foods are not no serious as origi- estimated at 30, and the damage at $10,000,000,
little distorted.
MUTUAL INTERESTS IN DEVELOPMENT. under the regulations of the Stock Ex-her codes are ready, which may be 13 Vainly one may search through the con- change they are safeguarded, as the years bence. There is no foreign cons cession for a single word out of harmony, Principle is there uphold of once a bad trol over Posts, Telegraphs, and Cus with the famous New York Consortium delivery always a bad delivery; in other toms. All foreigners in these services ance with the resolutions of the Asso have recourse against the sellers, who in The crux of your borrespondent's letter Agreement, or for any provision at vari words, the buyers of forged bonds would are Chinese Government servants, ciated British Chambers of Commerce at their turn could claim the same rights of is the section in which he deals with the Shanghai, Yob the unhappy contract is recourse against the parties from whom history of Japan's support to a corrupt denounced na if it were & piece of sinis they bought, and so on as far as the chain elique which he calls the Peking Govern ter treachery and a forerunner of the af backward reading could be effectually ment, thrown out of office last year after Part of the plot is that are Canto mirara of South China by Great Britain applied In City circles the opinion was still in Riding in one of the cliques expressed yesterday that very few of the still in hiding in the Japanese Legation built such as will convert Canton with forged bonds have been brought to this in Peking, and many have just been sex its: 1 talllions of inhabitants into a side because nearly all the Chinese 1805 tenced to death by delazit by the Sup trath of the matter! No more than the don lately have borne the French stamp, only interest in China is commercial, and "way station!" What, in fine, is the bonds that have been imported to Lon-reme Court as traitors.
Britain' natural desire of the shipping and in which is presumptive evidence to some British Empire trade and shipping stil Canton, British, foreign and Chings, to extent of their genuineness-Times. dustrial, con consumer of Hongkong and
bo
easily hold first place. It is not to the interest of, the mercantile community to have alien putting forward projects to
make some use of the stores of cheap coal lying almost at their door The reputable names of the firms and companies con will be worked for the public benefit; the Chinese severely alone in the
suficient guarantee that the poncession save China, the one policy is to leave stituting the syndicate who are to take
have stood in China for fifty years and insinnations. and his Chinese associate, names which tion of Professor Dewey's preposterous ner it has done during the past ten years over the concession from Major Cassel they are, indeed, in themselves & refuta "chaos," to let trade grow in the man more for straightforward trade, are a would have said, the whole thing is⚫gical problems to be worked out by the As Hanry Labouchere and to allow the solution of the sociolo (Continued at foot of nest column.) farrago of nonsense.
men who know.
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