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H.E, Dr. W. W. Yen, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China, con armber of z periodical called The tributes the following article to a special
Weekly Review of the Far East:-
In her reply accepting President Harding's invitation to the Washington Conference, China gignited to the world
was in charge of this work, is overworked can and requires assistance.
WHAT THE CHINESE THINK OF THY
CONFERENCE
HELIGOLAND.
werth' while.
By
SCOTTISH LETTER. THE TRADE SLUMP.
THE GENTLE HOUSEBREAKAR,
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OF STEEL INDUSTRY, [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT I
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THE VIEWS OF CHINA'S FOREIGN IS IT OF ANY STRATEGIC VALUE!,
MINISTER.
An epidemic of housebreaking is ons The demolition of the fortifications of CUAL PITS CLOSING AND COLLAPSE evidence that amateurs are principally
of the features of the hour. Heligoland are now said to have been
As it is LONDON, November 28th:
satisfactorily carried out, and the special Correspondents paint gloomy pictures
the progress of the work is returning to Commission which has bean, watching!
concerned, it is boing asked if it is not one of the results of unemployment Pro of famino-stricken Rusia It now
fessional burglary-the night business- EDINBUROE, October 19th. appears that there is no chance of saving
England in the light cruiser Delhi,
No Scottish industry has suffered more tell me that the great expansion has been haa also been rife, but insurance, people Naturally this country millions of sufferers. The Volga is now
from trade depression than shipbuilding. in housebreaking, and what is known as interested than any other in the dis- nation. In the current works magazine break in by night you are a burglar,
more directly ering in its tasks, gradually overcoming closed leaving starving people in the that she would adopt a broad and con- many, the view is held that the strategic fact that the market, is so bad that since through an open door or window and Every week adds its own story of stag: larceny from dwelling-houses. When you armament of this ocean fastness. the obstacles and clearing the way for famine districts blockaded by winter ciliatory spirit at its meetings China has value of Heligoland, either to Germany the beginning of the year pored order lift what you can find you are a larcener. of Messrs. Barclay, Curie, & Co., the when you break in by day you are a Clyde, Sir G. B. Hunter discloses the housebreaker, but when you slip in solid achievements. The fears expressed which bars the only way of escape. Re-also-evinced her readiness to co-operate, or to ourselves, was greatly exaggerated, to build a ship has been received by one One of my friends has been broken. in abroad of cartaja Powers trying to wreck lief is only capable by sledge, but many under suitable safeguards, with the to support this idea. the Conference are not seriously regard. horses are dying from lack of fodder. Fowers in all questions wherein she is Heligoland served the Germans as an example of the present state of affairs-articles were overlooked, valuable
and experiences of the war seemed rather of the shipyards associated with the com- ed as the wreckers would only injure is now expected that it will be im vitally concerned, in order to help to advanced base for destregers and sub- A small vessel, now nearly completed, bas mark of the smal
pany.
Ho gives an ali too eloquent on each occasion the really valuable upon three times within 18 months, and themselves. Japan tenaciously clings to possible to harness a sufficient number make the Conference for the limitation value of an advanced base such a com- only half the cast of building the ship, gold watch and a child's toy watch were
marines and an airship station. ber demand for & ratio of seventy per of eleighs to convey the available sup, of armament a success.
But the been sold at a price which is practically sonal experience of burglary years ago, a There can beparatively abort distance from the coastal that is, at a loss of about 30 per cent.
In my one per- wont, instead of sixty in capital ships plies to destitute villagos.
only deplorable results from the race for
frontier did not prove of much advan- as compared with Britain and America.
naval and military supremacy, "for, with mines for defensive purposes after ber of a firm well known in the East, the gold one.
tage. The Germans ringed the island struck by Mr. Harold E. Yarrow, mom child's watch, value ore penny, and tett
A more cheerful note, fortunately, ia burglar,
lying side by side in a box, and the should it continue, the peoples of the
gross bungler, took the battle of Heligoland BightWe did in his Presidential address to the Soot-
the of misery and suffering, and it is China's end of it was that the island became so being a sensible people," he says, and The queer thing is that he is not a rich Far East will be drawn into the vortar the same thing so as to bottle up, thetish Institute of Engineers and Ship is beginning to. fear, that the insurance fortifications as a naval shelter, and the builders. "We have the reputation of offices will rate him as a hazardous risk. duty to avert such a catastrophe, if she perilous for either friend or foe to sp while the times we are passing through man, just comfortable, and that he keeps Wy friend of the three housebreakings, proach that it had a pretty dull time. are depressing, he thought we could con no money or jewellery of value in nis The heavy artillery mounted upon it was fidently look forward to a bright future house. Such persistence in futility aug. seidon fired during the war. It was But he adds several warning notes. Not gests that the housebreakers are either often asked why our Fleet did not bom-only must we produce at such prices as amateurs of badly educated in the craft. Broadly speaking, there are two views bard it: the answer is that it was not compare favourably with foreign competi-The professional, as a rule, never enters of the Washington Conferenc
The art view is highly optimistic material damage to the massive batteries within his knowledge that many orders attention
We could not possibly have done any the articles in a reasonable time. It was mation of the valuables that await his tors, but wo must also be able to supply There are many who hope that the Con- without suffering injury, and probably Bad been lost owing to the uncertainty
a house until he possesses fall infor.. ference will remove all the disadvant.very consideracio injury to the ships of fizing a date for delivery, and DoD ages and inequalities under which China which attacked the island. Far removedfidence in this country had been shaken is placed in the foreign and domestic as it was from the track of our ses com by the unsettled situation. will regain all that she has lost, and gic reason for our recsols to approach relations. In other words, that China munications, there was never any strate The serious condition of the coal min- the other Powers. simistic
The second view is profoundly pes it remained impotent throughout the of fourteen Scottish pits shut down powerful sea fortress in the world, but Scottish collieries. This makes a total given of the closing down of nine more which, in their opinion, is intended only to come into action. Whether we should
There are also people who war for the simple reason that we never since the month began. have little faith in the Conference, gave its tremendous armament a chance to enable the great Fowers to re-adjust have endeavoured to get into the Elbe amicably the conflict of interests in the but for this outpost astride the approach regard to the weak or amaller nations Elbe is very strongly fortified and our Far East for their own ends, without is a very moot point. The estuary to the and rights of China will be the subject cular tactics advocated by Churchill of They gloomily forebode that the interests sea strategista never favoured the spects of dissection, and partition at the Con-routing the rats out their holes." ference International control, if not of Beyond affording a safe harbour, the whole of China's administration," least. of her finances, is a prospect for Heligoland was of very little use to
the limelight, now it is to be behind. For a long time football has been in which the Chinese people must be pre-Germany as a submarine base. It only
the footlights. The Scottish National parod. Will China emerge from the brought the boat fotillas two hours Conferenes a second Egypt or a second nearer to our Northern coasts, whilst it auxqAPORE MARRIAGE DISSOLVED.
Players are to produce a single-set piece, Turkey! The picture before their minds was much more remote than Zeebrugge,
dealing with one aspect of the game as is gloomy.
"Ostend, and Borkum for Channel and The more reasonable view is neither Atlantio depredations. As a destroyer action of divorce by Margaret Bella 10s, with, say, a centre-forward as the Evidence was led before. Lord Anderson it affects the common people. Later they in the Scottish Court of Session in an propose to give something more ambit. the one nor the other. Britain has sont a Note to France Government în calling, the Conference is probably of rather more utility. But Torrybarn, against Alexander Sim, now WHO WON THE WART
The American and coastal patrol rendezvous it was Sinclair Finnis or Sim, The Nese, Principal character, the hero, of course: China, and at the same time to reconcile and wireless station, a role which any Petersham, New South Wales. The mar looms so vast that he is convinced he no doubt imbued with the desire to help its chief function was as an observation or lately residing at 107, Crystal Street, the interests of the Powers in China.
To the American, his share in the war warship could have filled quite as effecriage took place at Singapore in April, alone conquered (writes the Rev. Norman tively. We have never learat precisely 1913. The pursuer, who is 34 years of Maclean, who, alter attending the Pan- station. But as it only brought Zeppelins but a few months after the marriage he is now, on, a tour through the States).. to what extent it was used as an air age, said that the defender was a planter, Presbyterian Conference at Philapelphia. and seaplanes about half an hour nearer lost his employment. Hs took to Among certain classes,
ZARLIER CABLES. ARMY OF OCCUPATION, AMERICAN TROOPS SAILING FOR HOME.
ANTWEEP, November 27th.
BOBLBANES-
THE OHINESE QUESTION. As regard China, negotiations are pro- greasing satisfactorily. The delegates. re- xard the idea of regulation of the ques- tions of extra-territoriality and mixed tribunals favourably but they declarë that thorough inquiry is necessary into, the existing situation. The status of foreign post offices raises the question of reconciling efficiency and security with reasonable Chinese desires, but the suc casa of these undertakings as well as of
The American troosport Contigny the more complex questions of financial
bound for America with six hundred will be placed on an equal footing with Heligoland. Doubtless it was the most ing trade is reflected in the intimation in Caithnesshire. They have all fallen roorganisation and disarmament will soldiers of the American Army of acou- inevitably depend upon the Chinese pation and the bodies of eight hundred establishing a Government able to act in American soldiers killed in France, and the name of the whole of China. It is other transports with more American pointed out that foreign Powers, no detachments' will sail shortly.
Le Journal states that the American army of occupation will be reduced sevon thousand men.
re-
matter how well disposed to China, cad- not establish an independent Chinese Government and without financial organisation, which is impossible except under foreign supervision, no Chinese. Government can exercise authority or remain independent of the influence of, individual foreign Powers. The Chinese question, therefore, is not yet regarded as capable of an immediate drastic solution.
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·PARLIER CABLES. PRESIDENT'S HARDING'S SCHEME
GENERALLY APPROVED.
WASHINGTON, November 28th. President Harding's opinion in favour of continuing the International Confer ence, is universally approved. It is pointed out unofficially that Britain hae always been most anxious to participate in any movement to promote the peace of the world. The President's suggestion, however, is felt at present to be more or less an American domestic question on which it would not be proper to express an opinion until the details are worked out and Congress has drafted a scheme fully approved by the American people. ADMIRAL BEATTY OPTIMISTIC.
VIVIANI ON ADMISSION OF;
GERMANY. WASHINGTON, November 27th. Asked with regard to the French atti tade towards the proposal to admit Ger- many to the present and future Confer onces, M. Viviani replied that France would refrain from discussing the ques tion until "those who violated human rights manifest a sincere repentance for a long period."
THE WIESBADEN-
AGREEMENT. BRITISH NOTE TO FRANCE.
EXPRESSES CONCERN.
PARIS, November 27th.
to
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saking by what means France proposes: to safeguard Germany's other creditors it the Weisbaden agreement la enforced. The Note declares that Britain views with concern France'r delay in ratifying the financial Convention of Angues 13th. ENGLISH NATIONALS AT---
CILICIA.
WARSHIP FOR THEIR REPARATION:
PARIS, November 27th.
talking with M. Bonnevay, the acting The British Ambassador at Paris, Premier, informed him that the London embark English nationals wanting to Cabinet proposed to send a warship to leave Cilicia-llavas.
KIPLING HONOURED.
LONDON, November 27th. Mr. Rudyard Kipling has received the diploma of doctor of letters from the University of Strasbourg-Havas.
ITALY'S UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS.
PUBLIC WORKS THAT DEVELOP -
THE NATIONAL RESERVES.
INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF CHINA.
at
He has shot his 1000th stag in his forest The Duke of Portland has accomplished what is claimed to be a stalking record.
to his gun since he came into the Duke- om in 1570.
industry is drawn by Mr. Andrew Gray, of the expense, however, is seen in the What the miners' strike has cost it a A doleful picture of the Scottish steel impossible to estimate. One small item President of the Iron and Steel Institute, anual report of a single county-Midlo only is are in blast, and only one of papers will be taxed £5,000 on account. Out of 109 furnaces in Scotland, he says, thian-where it appears that the rate works that are working are not running the sum was spent on feeding the miners' these is producing hematite. The steel of the three months' idleness. Part of more than 25 per cent, of their capacity children, and part for extra police. The reason for this state of affairs is
that we cannot compete with the Con- tinent, which is still quoting pounds below home costs..
We won the
The international control of China's evident, cannot become reality. Not to any objective on this side the North gambling and drinking, but matters war has become a watchword, and in adminipration for reasons which are too only will it fail to achieve its objects, Sea the advantage in this respect was had improved-before witness returned to connection with this feeling this story but will also endanger the permanent peace of the Far East. The same may
a vary-limited-one. bo said in a less degree of purely foreign our possession on the outbreak of ed to return home in about six weeks. Florida this summer, and he went bath- Suppose Heligoland had remained in 1014. The defender wrote that he intend
Scotland for health reasons in March, is told by a Canadian. financial control. No one wishes to deny hostilities, what should we have done He wrote to her father for money, and a ing. On the beach was a huge poster the unsatisfactory conditions prevailing with it! Coming with such abruptness sum of £30 was sent to him, but it was forbidding bathing, as there were sharks "There was an Englishman down in in China, but the Conference must con as the war did, more than likely the never acknowledged. She did not receive in the bay. But the Englishman plunged sider more deeply the troubles in China, which are more superficial than real, garrison would have been unprepared to any letter from him until last year, in. The watcher of the beath rushed up temporary than permanent, contingent
withstand a long siege, and the Navy when he wrote that he was not in a and reprimanded him. Oh, I am all than fundamental. adjust itself to new conditions. The which the Germans would certainly have certained from inquiry at Sydney that the watchman, instantly interested. The China has had so far only ten years to taining them in the face of the efforts in steady mild for her; te he was not right, unid the Englishman, I took pre-
The Republic of would have had no easy task in main Revolution upset all authority, politics! made to present this. The island was in he was working regularly and earning Englishman turned round and showed bis
employment. But she had a cautions. Social and moral restraints have lost straction to, our blockade organization Anderson held desertion proved and stars and stripes, and on the other unitics,
What precautions? asked traditions, and discipline. Do sosea necessary link in, or an ob- good wages. their influencé. It has afforded unit merely served ng a magnet for inten-granted decree of divorce,
After other evidence Lord bathing suit. On one side it bare the.. scrupulous officers and politicians to sive minelaying, which would equally
belonged.
seixe power and ignore the rights of the have happened to whichever Power it had FISH THRIFT. people. At present, the people are help- less to offer any effective opposition, but of public and private morality will be the time will come when the sanctions re-catablished and when the people will become the masters of the situation. PRESENT GOVERNMENT NOT ENTIERY KES- PONSIBLE FOR EXISTING SITUATION.
-REFORMS IN CHIKA.
de legend, We won the war.' And the bather said, 'I was perfectly safe, for There was a common impression dar no shark that ever swam the ocean would Ite area is only the size of Hyde Park, planged in an will probably lapse into entire disuse. ing the war, that the whole country, was
As for the future of Heligoland it ing the war, and for many months follow. swallow that and it cannot maintain any population Without doubt there was reckless spond story of the little girl who was going An American, who was swapping ChTAWA, November 27th.
orgy of extravagance, stories with the Canadian, replied with a... without a steadily flow of supplies from ing. There aro always plenty of im with her grandmother to Canada. At the Addressing the Canadian Club, Lord
the mainland. The Gormans have stop provident people to whom more money end of her prayer, the night before start. Beatty said the fact that he was able to
ped the erosion of its shores by a colossal means nothing more than more spending, she said, "Good bye, God; to accept their invitation indicated that on naval questions all went well at Wash
work of concrete buttresses, and they ing., But there are others, and the great morrow I am going to Canada.” Much has been said against the Peking have built a magnificent harbour. But numbers of those others was revealed by Governmen. ington." The governing principles were
But to be fair one must for commercial purposes this is valueless, the Duke of Atholl at a conference of You have got that story wrong, not remember that it is heir to the ills which sa there is no trade to attract ships. Scottish Savings workers held at Ay much wrong, but just a trifling mistake universally accepted; therefore if the Con-
The Canadian retorted with this score," ference were to close to-morrow it would
had their birth ten years ago, reaching Even fishing vessels do not use the island Before the war only 345,000 persons in in punctuation. their climax under the present adminis hero accomplished something towards re- The Italian Government is meeting itement exorcises more authority than mat catches. In fact, it is hardly an exig well over 20 millions.
tration. Moreover, the Central Govern since there is no market for their Government funds. Now the number is morrow I am going to Canada!!"
except for sheltering from the weather, the United Kingdom were holders of said rently was, leasing the world from the great burden problem of unemployment by setting the people think, and does put a certain geration to say that Heligoland, dis- has invested over 500 million pounds
What the little girl of armaments. The limits imposed were idle me to work to develop to the amount of restraint upon military lead-mantled as a fortress, is of no more in War Savings Certificates and Govern-
Good By God, to- not derogatory to the dignity of the utmost the natural resources of the coun-
Scotland alono British Empire, which on the sea would trys
ers, who, if it did not exist, would have be na safe in the fature as in the past.
long ago brought. North China into inter than the Mewatode is to Plymouth-an, woman, and child in the land.
use to Germany or any other countryment lcane-an average of £100 for every The sum of 700,000,000 lire has been necinie war and anarchy. devoted to public works, and about an which will affect the destinies of China other 100,000,000 lire has been assigned for decades and not for months or years,
The Conference in making decisions Naval and Military Record.
HEIRESS TO “A MILLION AND These are remarkable. figures; they to land reclamation. These works are
speak not only of thrift, but of something
QUARTER. being carried out, largely by private must not be led satray by present an initiative and by consortiums, to whom satisfactory conditions, which are tran
even more relevant to the prosperity and The quest of the Golden Girl is resolved THE TUTUES OF OHINA IS BY NO MEANS
stability of this country. It has always by the disclosure of the terms of Bir the Government grants subsidies and leat and not deep-rooted.
been understood that one reason for the Ernest Cassel's will under which his concessions.
DARK.
rational conversatiam of the French grand daughter Edwina Ashley, twenty Funds for these enterprises are obtain-
China's past and present history shows peasantry is that they have a real stake years of age, is the chief residuary legatee ed from banks.
In China the reforms have not, as in the handicap of internal upheavals, the cajoled by the plausibilities of the agit sterling. The total estate as far as can be that the people are sound and with all in the country. They are not readily inheriting nearly a million and a quarter on improving the telegraph and teletrary, they have rather ascended from phenomenal.
Another 150,000,000 lire will be spent government to the people. On the con- during the last ten years has been in Government funds. And with the 40 per cent, comes up to 22,100,000. other countries, come much from the social and economic progress achieved ator because their savings are invested ascertained is six millions. The duty st. phone systems. Government has authorised the laying of progress has been uneven, irregular and China is by no means dark The customs country. It means that half the popular chosen from the a treasures for many
And in addition, the the people to the government. Hence the experience, therefore, the future
In the light of recent 20 million investors, big and little, who Several legacies are left to relatives, in- a qubmarine cable so as to obtain direct communications
of have grown up since the war in this cluding an annuity of £30,000 to the tests- sometimes spasmodio, and it takes a with Spain, Greece, longer time to attain success and achieve trade both in exports sad imports, and concerned in the maintenance of the friends Tise sighths of the residue is Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, thus ment. But reforms, to secure any solid it would seem that commerce in China British Government.
returns indicate a growing and rapid tion of the United Kingdom are directly
tor's sister and mementoes are to be rendering Italy independent at foreign permanency, should proceed in the long instead of being retarded by revolution- cable compancs.
run from the masses to those in powe horse-power is proceding rapidly. Be- vinces which have had the advantage of ties of the Ukinow people in self-govern India Steun Navigation Company by portions; one goes to the niece and one. The development of Italy's water It will be observed that the coast pro- This gives proof of the great potentiali- The s.s. Mantela, built for the British eighths of the residue is divided in three to be divided into eight parts, of which sry disturbances has made great strides. LAUNCH OF BRI719H INDIA LINER. fore the war, she obtained about 935,000 longer intercourse with Europeans, have ment or in being able to prosper with Messrs, Barclay, Curie, & Co., Ltd., was to the nephew Felix Cassel. The grand- Edwina gets five, and her school-gir! power from that source. Since than the more sobievements to point to
sister, Mary three. The remaining three total horse-power has been increased to progress is more obvious and greater tions which in other countries would Yard on the Clyde. The vessel is of the majority of marriage..
Their little government, to cope with condi- successfully launched from the Whiteach daughter's share is held in trust till her 1,750,000.
than that of the hinterland provinces paralyze trade and industrial develop intermediate cargo and passenger type, Another important industrial project and southern provinces.
The
contrary is also true of the northern mente. In considering the situation in and will have twin-screw turbine engines most of her time with her grandfather, marshes, which cover about 150,000 acres government for Chica would, therefore, she is of the size, and has a population, goared type, capable of developing a sea in 1990. She was presented at Court, the is the reclamation of the Pontine between Rome and Naples. This land
A successful China, it should never be forgotten that of the Brown Curtia double reduction who gave a ball for her at Brook House After her mother's death, Edwins spent be wise to regulate the progress in the of a continent rather than of a country. speed of 14 knots. The boilers and same season and is well prepared for her heretofore has been submerged for five conservative element in the North and regret, if the Conference on the limita can work either on coal or oil fuel described among her own circle as the
South so as not to let it outrun the months each year by torrents which
The people of China would sincerely bunkers are so arranged that, the vessel new responsibilities. She has been West. mountains ad, stagnating on the land, government to encourage and assist the result of disagreement among the parti Accommodation is provided, for 105 first youngest hostess in England and acted as
It ought to be the duty of the tion of armaments should fail as the converted that area into a dangerous and backward provinces. On the other cinating Powers Over Pacific and Far clade and 41 second class passengers, the her father's "Chatelaine" at Newmarket
gerous hand, the progressive provinces should Eastern-questions. The newspapers state that the French The company organized with a capital less fortunate ones In short, there will be obliged to pay the price for secur. lighting to living spaces. Lazgo public is typically English and looks attractive. Government considers the Franco-Italian of 50,000,000 lire to reclaim this sec forms in Chins should not be entirely ing such agreement, and they are quite rooms are provided for both classes, all She has fair hair, blue eyes, is studions, pot look down upon and abandon the they hope that it is not Ching that alone adopted, so as to give the maximum Duke of York and Prince Henryhe At the same time, Inchcape system of inner room being a year ago, when the entertained the incidont closed, but has telegraphed to tion has been in operation about one from the top downward, nor upward to determined that if the price to be paid public rooms being on the promenade reads much, is fond of country life, danc Washington asking that an inquiry be year and has reclaimed about 7.750 acres. the top, but should be's movement in involves ber beid in regard to the source of the false and made them into fertile wheat lands both directions. information cabled thenos.
or farms for growing tomatoes
territorial or political deck A special feature of this deck-ining, and is a keen golfer, having played |_ (Continued at foot of next column) it will be realated as unjust, and the large extent of clear space for games on practically all fashionable courses is
and recreation;
Europe.
REPORT CONCERNING M. BRIAND DENIED.
Paria, November 27th. The Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Marquis de Della Torretta, read in the Chamber and the Senate a telegram from Signor Sohanzer emphati. ally denying the report about M. Briand taocking the Italian Army..
The Premier Baron Bonomi, uttered a regret that Italian newspapers dared to publish such a false and ridiculous ne port.-llavar.
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