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THE SHANTUNG NEGOTIATIONS. JAPAN'S PRICE FOR MINES AND
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SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL TO BE SUED. CLAIM FOR TLS.. 100,000 DAMAGES FOR WRONGFUL ARREST.
The prolonged litigation over the affairs dramatic stage at the Mixed Court on of the Russian Volunteer Fleet reached a Saturday, when Dr. O. Fischer, counsel for the agent of the defendants, informed libel for Tis. 100,000 against the Muni cipal Council, as a result of the arrest on the previous day of Mr. R. E. Elleder.
In amplification of a reveat Shanghai The entire morning session of the Renter's Peking core-spradent writes: According to the otheial communiques issued by the Sino-Japanese Joint Com United States Court for China one day, cable 'we quoto the following report from mission as well as to reports appearing in last week, was taken up with the hearing | the "F>>C", "Dolly Ners of the 18th inst. :--- the vernacular press, the Japanese dele of the case of Kamnorovsky gates have demanded that their Goveth- méht be reimbursed for the mines which Fire Insurance Company, en a petition would be turned over to be hereafter of intervention presented by Mr. J. B. jointly operated by Chinese and Japanese Davies, representing M. A. Topas & Co. capitalists And as regards the salt fields compensation has also been de Mr. P. F. Farson represented Me Kamothe Court that he would file a auit for manded. The reimbursement for the ruvsky, and the Hartford Fire Insurance mines is understood to be somewhere around ten million yen, while that for the Company was not represented by enunsel, salt lields is over seven million yen. Theis Honour Judge C. 8. Labingier pros datter figure in said to cover the loss of sided as the bearing. prospective profits for five years and also allowance for employés whose services will soon he dispensed with.
ARTICLE" XXII,
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follows:
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who succeedled Messrs. Patstone-& Pat- stone as agent for the Elect.
The port in the X Daily News In addition to the actions brought says: The plaintiff, Mr. P. Y. Kamo against the defendants by the crows of rovsky, seeks to secure from the Hartford the R.V.F. strs. Erican and Astrakhan Fire Insurance Company the premium of for alleged non-payment of wages, the As regards the mines Article XXII. Y15,000 for which sunt he alleges certain Fleet were also sued by Messrs. Patetone the Shantung Treaty pruvides" as typographical machinery of his, since & Pattone for $40.000 in respect of ad destroyal by fire was insured with devances of money to the Fleet and the The mines of Techwan Fargize and fendants. As stated by plaintiff in the provisioning of the Br and datrak recently respecting this claim Chinlingehen, for which the mining right witnesslox he had requested the Russian A decision given by the Mixed were formerly granted by Chica toyd .. and Transport Co, to make Cours Germany, shall be handed over to a con-arrangements for insuring his property ordered that the accounts of the Fleet's pany to be formed under a special chartered with said Company for 13,000, indebtedness were to be placed in the ter of the Government of the Chinese which was done and a receipt given him. hands of the Court Accountants until the Republic, in which the amount of Japanese Witness did not have the original receipt defendants would be able to meet their capital shall not exceed that of Chinese in his possession and was unable to swear liabilities. As the present representative that stated that insurance, had been of the defendants, Mr. Elleder, was capital
The mode and terms of such ar taken ont with the Hartford Fire Insur-thought to be about to leave the jurisdic rangement, shall be "determined by the ance Company, but believed that is had tion of the Court last week. plaintiff's Joint Commission provided for in Article been so placed, as the Russian Lloyd coutisel (Mr. M. L. Hartigan) applied to sor) and Mr. Ivanoff (who has been trying 1. of the present Trealy. And as re-.8. and Transport Co. placed most of Mr. Jacobs (the Junior American Asse gards the Salt Industry, Article XXV. of their insurance with that company. the same Treaty reads.
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ARTICLE' XXY.
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In January, 1021, when the fire cecur-the-cases with the Mixed Court magis Whereas the alt industry is a Corred, plaintiff applied to the Russian trates) for a summons for $20,000 - ernment monopoly in China, it is agreed Lloyd company for payment of the policy mediate shop security. Mr. Elleder was His counsel was that the interests of Japanese subjects and was told to come to Shanghai to unable to provide the recessary accurity or Japanese companies actually engaged collect same. He was given the policy and was accordingly taken into eustody in the salt industry along the coast of and letters authorizing him to collect the at 3 p.m. on Friday,
shop security. Kinochow Bay shall be purchased by the same from the defendant but had not been successful in bailing him out on The, 5,000 Mr. Elleder will file a suit for Tis. s," said Dr. Fischer, Goverment of the Chinese Republic for able to do so.
PEUTECTION AGAINST OTHER CLAIMS,
100,000 damages," fair, compensation. and that the exporta
He was tion to Japan of a quantity of salt pro
The position of the Hartford Fire against the Municipal Council early. duced by such industry along the said coast is to be "permitted on" reasonable Insurance Co., as stated by its agent, ext week as a result of this.
Mr. H. A. Wiley, manager of the Ame arrested late in the day and ordered to torras.
Arrangements for the above purposes, rican Foreiga Insurance Company, was give $20,000 security at an impossible including the transfer of the said in simply to ascertain to whom the premium time. On a plea that they had no place terests to the Government of the Chinese was rightly due and to be protected to keep foraiga civil prisoners, the police The policy locked him up all night at Hongkew Republie, shajl be made by the Joint Com- against duplicate claims. mission provided for in Article 11. of the issued by them was made out to the Police Station, searched him, deprived present Treaty. They shall be completed Russian Lloyd S.S. and Transport Co., him of his glasses and even his necktie, as soon as possible, and in any case notun goods purporting to be their own pro Elleder is subject to Russian law. In later than six months from the date of perty. In the meantime the said com- Russian law there is no such thing as im- the coming into force of the present pany has gone out of business, and M.prisonment for debt."
Defendant, who came into Court a few T. Topas & Co. had sequestrated their Treaty."
minutes after his release, protested vehe- assets. SPECIAL PRIVILEGES ASKED FOR
The point at sue was whether themently against the action of the police It had been absolutely Simultaneously with the claims for compensation of ten million yen it is un-Hartford Fire Insurance Co. issued and plaintiffs. derstood that the Japanese commissioners direct insurance policy or a re-insurance-i
immediately. have likewise advanced claims bearing policy, or whether Mr. Kamorovsky was impossible, he said, to put up $20,000 upon the organisation of the proposed insured with the Russian Lloyd. S.S, and Sino-Japancie Company, the questions of Transport Company or with the Hartford favourable treatment and reduction Fire Insurance Co. The question invol ved much expert testimony on technical mining tax,,etc.
points of insurance custom and law and the witnesses in addition to the plaintiff were Mr. H. A. Wiley of the American Foreign Insurance Association. Mr. G. A. Moskovski of the American Asiatic Under- writers, Mr. Serge Heimann of S. He mann & Co., and Messrs. Deukelski and Runshkovsky, both Russian barristers. [The decision has not yet come to hand.]
CHINESE ATTITUDE,
Concerning the last two, it appears that the Chinese delegates are prepared to treat the Japanese claim generously, since not a few mining companies ope- rated jointly between Chinese and foreign capitalists have been accorded favourable treatment in the matter of freight space and godown accommodation, etc.
WASHINGTON TREATY BILENT AS-TO-
COMPENSATIO3.
On the other hand, the Japanese cluim for compensation to the amount of ten million yen is being firmly resisted. Whereas the redemption of the Kiaochow- Tainan Railway and the salt fields. etc., is provided for specifically in the Shan tung Treaty, nothing is said at all in the sanie Treaty about compensation for the And what is transier of these mines.
THE TELEPHONE RAMP
IN CALCUTTA, PROTEST AGAINST INCREASED RATES.
At the invitation of the Rotary Club of Calcutta
and the incorporated La Society, & conference was held on August
especially significant, the minutes of the Shantang conversations in Washington are understood to be ale silent on this 26th at the Head Quarters of the British Indian Association on the subject of the Arw Telephone Contract Delegates from important particular.
ORGANISATION OF THE COMPANY, As far as can be gathered, the dis-many Associations were present.
A lengthy discussion followed in which position of these mines as recorded in Article XXII. of the Treaty was not finally each delegate gave his views regarding the or more alternative increased rates and the inefficiency of the service. With one exception the opinious come to until one schemes had been considered and been of those present were unanimously that on abandoned. Of the three mines, the one the evidence so far, put before the public at Chinlinchen contains iron, whereas there was no justification for the increase the other two contain coal. According to in rates particularly such a high increase.
17154 Chinese law and practice, no alien is a very strong point was nady of the fact allowed to operate an iron mine in this that whether an increase in country, although this privilege is per mitted in regard to coal mines. Hence it was proposed that Chinlinchen mine should be separated from the other two for the purposes of discussion. As this was unacceptable, the disability of all foreign, not only Japanese, nationals to
"That, in the opinion of this Conference, possess more than fifty per cent. of the total shares of Chinese-foreign comhaving regal to the inefficiency of the panies was pointed out. Then China at Telephone Company's service, there is tempted to redeemt all the mines, but case made out for the
justified or not, as regards the question of capital expeliture, it was certainly at proper that such an increase should be netioned until the service bu xen was carried resolution following placed on a proper basis of eficiency. The unanimously:- +
AN APPEAL TO MOSCOF..
Before the close of the brief but sensa
tional proceedings, Dr. Fischer informed. the Court of his intention to cable at ence
Moscow and M, Joffe, the Soviet re- presentative at Peking, with reference to the affair. Counsel said he would also the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs. communicate with the Consular Body and
not present, having been called away to Mr. Hartigan, plaintiff's counsel, wis Peking on urgent bosiness.".
CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE. COMMENT BY THE TIMES."
Striking figures from the latest Custome report on the trade of China have been extracted by Mr. David Fraser and pub libed in The Times and a special Reuters cable to China says:
The Times commenting on these figures, points out the remarkable expansion, of China's foreign trade. in spite of the political troubles of the past ten years and says that all observers in the Far East are unanimously of the opinion that the fringes of the country only have so far beer exploited commercially.
The paper thicks that the interest in this great field seems far below what it might be, considering what opportunities ere whome business is still stagnant in are provided for a nation of manufactur consequence of the war. It is shown that China's foreign trade, even in the pre- sent disadvantageous circumstances, ranks among that of the first half dozen trading nations of the world.
Japan demurred. As a feat compromise, sir, and that suited or any in this region of much promise.
the above treaty formula was agreed
upon.
This compromis it is pointed out, is a concession on the part of the Chinese Government. As such, there can be now little reason for compensation:
The claim for loss of prospective profits in connection with the retrocession of salt felds is based on five years and esti mated at nearly three million out of the total of seven million yen
This seven million, is pointed "gul, is in excess of the "fair compensation" laid down for the retroceded saft Gelds,
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THE MID-AUTUMN LOAN. CHINESE BANKERS STIPULATIONS.
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