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OUR LONDON LETTER. SOME FACTS AND OPINIONS ABOUT SINN FEIN.
[TROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, September 8th. CHINESE COUPON PAYMENT DELAY,
GERMAN REPARATIONS. FRANCE AND MR. KEYNES,
Of all the economists who have written on the Peace Treaty none has roused the ire of Frenchmen more than Mr. J. M. Keynes, writes the Paris correspon- dent of the Daily Telegraph. The Intest The fanncial papers give considerablems she is called upon to pay is article of Mr. Keynes, in which he doubts whether Germany can pay the prominence to the fact that holders of analysed in the Tempe and, in reply to Chinese Government Eight per cent his arguments, this journal stresses the Bonds (1924-1998) have been informed that the coupon due August 4th has not emorandum of the German Minister of been paid, the requisite funds net baying combination of mortgages which would
National
Economy
who proposes a vast been received in this country from China | enable Germany to pass over the dithcult As you are aware, the loan is commonly years by giving real guarantees to her known as the Marconi Loan, the bonds foreign creditots The Temps considera having been originally issued in 1919 to that it is regrettable that Mr. Keynes, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. against if he knew of this memorandum, did not
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Singapore; returning from Calcutta stamens proceed via Straits and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai All steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light and Fans and carry a fully-qualified approximately every Ave days oetween Canton and
& contract entered into with the Chinese 'discuss it in the article in which he pro-SHANGHAI HINE Yetimes calling at Swatow Through tickets oɛm
Government, and Inter on re-issued to the public at 103 per cent, through the British Bank for Foreign Trade The amount of the loan is £800,000. The view taken here is that the hitch is only
claimas Germany's insolvency, and argues that he is playing the game of Germany without wishing to do so.
MANILA
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temporary, and it is being suggested Germany and to decrease the expendi- HAIPHONG LINE:-Sailings from both ports every Friday,
tast the fate of the Banque Industrielle de Chine, which acted at Peking as agents for the loan, may have something in do with the affair.
Anyway as showing the confidence there is in Chinese integrity, the incid- ent has had only a very mild effect on the market for Chinese scourities. The Tunes says, in a reference to the master, that the scrupulous rectitude of the Chinese in the observance of contracts has long been a tradition in the City." It is agreeable to be able to put this testimony upon record in an article for publication on your side of the world.
TRADE UNION CONGRESS.
One fact emerges with clear and un- mistakable distinctness from the proceed ings of the Trade Union Congress which has been sitting at Cardiff, not the least disposition to have any
There is thing to do with the Revolution by force which is the cry of the Communist Inter- nationale. The extremists who have bad No much to do with our trade and indus trial troubles in the past few years are avowed supporters of this sinister or ganisation. The plain, straightforward Trade Unionist has no use for them. They have been found out. Their acts are The coal stoppage and its consequences have taught the Britia workers what would happen if the extre mists had their way as they had, in fact, in Russia,
anti-social.
Another point emphasised at the Con ference is the necessity of promoting better understanding with the workers of other nations so that, as the President expressed it, the barbaric and insane method of settling differences by killing will be remedied. A system which can produce such a tragedy as the great war stands condemned. The millenium is still afar off; there is no illusion on that score in the minds of British workers,
crease the price of the coal delivered by As to Mr. Reynes's remedies-to ia-
ture on military occupation-the com- detrimental to France France receives ment is that these two measures, whe- BORNEO. ther justified or' Dot. would bes the largest quantity of coal because her heaviest military. expenses in German mines are destroyed, and incurs the territory breaus she is compelled to keep the largest force on the left bank BANGKOK of the Rhine. It is contended that re- ducing military expenditure will pos increase the solvency of Germany, but has the right to receive by priority since will reduce the amounts which France the payment of the expenses of orenpa- tion comes before reparation.
fed the decisions of the Financial Con The French Government has not rati ference. It has been computed that Eng- land will recrive £30,000,000 from Ger. that if Germany has to cease making. many this year, and it is argued here payments from February or August next year, it would be only just to put in reserve to the common account of the creditors the largest amount of liquid money that she pays There would thus be funds available over this year. international credit, and so enable Ger with which to attempt some operation of many to tide over the period of in- solvency prophesied by Mr. Keynes In any case, it is pointed out. Mr. Keynes's article tends to prove that it is neces- sary to revise as soon decisions of the Financial Conference.
La possible the
Germany, M Poincare, late President On the subject of leniency towards of the Republic speaking at the in- auguration of the war Etain, in the Meuse. France was not inspired by hatred. If declared that Germany loyally recognised her defeat and
carnestly sought indemnify France for all the harm she had done. France would listen without any dif culty to counsels of indulgence and gen- erosity; but in the presence of an im
monument at
to
But it may be taken that more then there hot disposed to promul
before the question of settling inter-
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THE CASE OF POPLAR.
country which had learned by the defeat of her atmics,
strangely
at amnesties which would resemble capizulation.
COST OF WORKMEN'S HOUSES IN ENGLAND.
The majority of members of the Poplar Borough Council are now in prison for refusing to levy rates for L.0.0., and Asylum purposes. claim that us Poplar is a poor Boroughmittee on the cost of workmen's houses They The report of the Departmental Com with a low assessment-a penny in the £ says that the hge advance in the price only producing £3,000, while at West minate a penny rate produces about of rating in the London area; so that £5,000 there ought to be equalisation the rich Boroughs would help to pay for the poor ones.
of materials is no Ipager explicable by war restriction of outpus, because the The report instances bricks 368. per thou output is now higher than before the war. sand in 1014, and 11s. in May, 1921; and 87s. in May, 1821. Portland cement.37s per toh in 1914, not satisfied that the present cost of The Committee is material is justified, but expresses the opinion that the high water mark has begun. been reached and a downward trend has
This is a specious argument, and the Government went so far as to promise that something would be attempted to place London rating on a more equit able basis than at present." That was four years ago, since when nothing has been done. The action of Poplar is one of those things that forces the hand of officialdom. Unless some definite, step isters of all the special pleaders for Sing taken we shall have some of the other Fein in the world cannot alter that fact. poor Boroughs following, the lead that What is felt here is that if only the has been dramatically given to the a Southern Irish would-realise the impos companiment of processions of Socialists, sibility of the realisation who have escorted the recalcitrant Poplar Fein demand, and prepare, to permit of the Sing Councillors to the prison gates, with commonsense to moderate their claims. bands and banners and the waving of they could have peace and freedom the Red Flag.
once.
at
Meanwhile it may be noted that the rates at Poplar are £1 6s, in the £. This considered that there is a good deal that In political circles in this country it is is mainly due to the Borough Council is sinister in Sinn Fein'a dallying with and the Board of Guardians practising the great and generous offer of Dominion Socialism at the public expense.
Their Home Role. policy has been to scrap the constitu- his letter last week to Mr. de Valera, The Prime Minister. in tional work of years past, and dip their pointed out that under the proposed hauds generously in the public purta in settlement Ireland would have absolute order to carry out Socialist doctrines...
control over her destiny-" every perve AN IMPRISONED EDITOR.
and fibre of her national existence One of the Poplar worthies who has the Premier's phrase, and he added that
VA gone to
guolis Mr. Lansbury, the of Ireland, be free is every aspect of Editor of tht Daily Herald, which pur-
she would" in fact, within the shore porta to give the world of Labour the national activity, national expression. pure gospel of Socialiam every morning; of the American Union, sovereign though
and national development. He has lodged a claim to be permitted
The States to edit his paper from the prison-cell at they be, enjoy no such range of rights. Brixton. This, recalls Mr. T. W. Stend who hesitate to accept all this and run And yet at the moment there are some when he was on the crest of the wave the risk of a Reigh of Terror being again
of his popularity as editor of the Pall set up in Ireland Mall Gazette. He performed the feat of 18 THIS THE CASE? editing the famous jiurnal from Penton- ville.
The udreason that has so far marked The porter from the office used to visit conduct in the existing negotiations Sinn Fein's demands and Sina Fein's the goal every morning, carrying com-lende force to the argument which I munications of various kinds requiring hear used, namely, that Sinn Fein is the editor's personal attention, and the not an "all for Ireland" movement at trusted messenger returned with "copy" all, but is part and parcel of a great for the day's issue, including a leader. and world-wide It is not generally known, perhaps, that Britain
"al against Great till the end of his life Stead colebrated view is adopted and vigorously advanced conspiracy. This point of every anniversary of his committal to by the Morning Post. The paper points. prison dressed in a convict's arrow- out that Mr. de Valera call himself marked suit. I believe they were the and is called by his henchmen President. actual clothes he wore, and ho get them of the Irish Republic, and, as a matter through the kindness of the then Chair of fact, he is controlled by a secret man of the Prison Commissioners.
organisation calling itself IMPOSSIBÍN IRISH DEMAND.
Republican Brotherhood.
the Irish
Even Labour-Becialist Government would be unable to assent to the demands of Sinn Fein. Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. who has just returned from Ireland, eraphosinca the one fact that Sinn Fein refuse to face. He roundly asserts that no party could give Ireland a free and independent Republic" Great Bri- tain could no more tolerate that than the Northern Stats could tolerate th Becession of the South, and all the let- (Consimed at foot of next column, J.
The interesting information in this connection is given by the Post that the Irish Republican Brotherhood is an or Banisation which is affiliated with inter- national Recta of desperadoes, and that da Valera, using Ireland as a pawn in tho rent directing power is behind Mr. a very much bigger game, in which Ger- any, Russia and India are also pieces on the board. If this view be correct the real object is not the peace of Ire land but the destruction of the British Empire.-H.B.
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