CABLES.
LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH - REUTKA'S ADBOY.]
·NAVAL LIMITATION,
VESSELS "GREAT BRITAIN HAS SCRAPPED.
LONDON. March 1st. In the course of a speech in London, the Ht. Hom Lt. Col. Amery said that Great Britain has scrapped warships totalling 1,600,000 tons since" the Wash ington Conference or, with the ships in of "construction and the suxiliary vessels scrapped, some 2,000,000
cruisers, 83 cruisers, 283 destroyers, as torpedo-boats, and 101 submarince.
the course
THE HONGKONG
BRITAIN'S AIR FORCE
WEAKNESS STRESSED IN HOUSE OF LORDS.
DAILY FRESH, FRIDÁT, MARCH 29ED, 1928.
FAR EASTERN CABLE BY COURTESY OF TER DAILY BULLETIN.")
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN
NEWS.
ĮTAKOTON (REUTER'S AGENOT;}
UHINA'S FINANCES, Š
** THE FURTHER SUGGESTIONS BY TIMES" PERING CORRESPONDENT.
LONDON, March 1st, The Peking correspondent of The Timer,
LONDON, March 21st In the House of Lords, Lords Birken- head, Haldane, Long and Carson gravely laid stress on the weakness of the Air Forco contrasted with that of other Powers. Lord Grvy emphasised the in- creasing uncertainty of the situation in Europe and the danger of fresh competii tion in armamente, particularly aerial, and said that anless a greater sense of security came about it would be imposs-
ible fur any Government to bold its poei. tion unless it could show we wore in 'n position as regards aircraft to secure the
tions had been laid sufficient for the
a concluding article on the Bnancial chaos in Chian, says that be considers the situation demands earlier attention than
QILINA
DR, SUN YAT BEN'S FOLLOWERS INDIGNANT.
PEKING, March ist. Last night's mandates created consirler able surprise in political circles.
Sun Yat Son's followers are indignant, and they are expected to start a vigorous opposition against the Cabinet; they may even bring a vote of no conâdence in is possible by awaiting the recommends the House of Representatives this after tions of the Foreign Commission, proposed
Various political bodies are holding at the Washington Conference to formulate
"DOOD
AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.
LIBEL BY RIDICULE.
LITIGANT TO PAY DAMAGES,
[ASSOCIATED “PRESS: MESSAGES TO MANILA PAPEER. ]
A remarkable action in which damagos for libel were claimed war beard at the SPECULATIVE SUGAR PRIDES. County of London, Sheriff's Court last month. Mr. Bartram Ewart: White, solicitor of the firm of Raid, Sharman BRATTLE, March 12th.. The Northwest Staten Co-operative Fruit WC, he was represented by
Bedford Row London, Growers to-day talegraphed Herbert Leverson, proceeded: against Mr Hoover, secretary of commerve, protesting Robinson, turf commission agent, of against the rising price of sugar and charno- | 26, Yale Court, Hampstead The
defondant did
·and terized it us "largaly speculative."
not appear, anrepresented. The case was heard beforn THE U.S. MERCHANT MARINE. jury which eluded two ladies.
0
WE
Mr. -Laverson mid the Court was asket SEATTLE, March 14th: " to assess the amount of damages Mr. White L. A Frothingham, representative, in was, entitled to recover against Robinson,
who had libelled him very seriously r congress from blasachusetts on his way to the Far East, said to-day that Robinson was a bookmaker about ab years without an adequate merchant marins ago. Mr. White's firm were acting for a the United States would be virtually at Mr. Hatrick, who brought an action against Mr. Robinson, a very large sum of money be added:
If we are to keep the Philippines we outside the court, Mr. Robinson consenting must have a merchant marine to control to pay money to Mr. Hatrick. our commerce with the isla
BOXING.
tons, including 33 battleships and battl defence of vital parts of the country conditions, under which the 2 per cent /spooial moetings-this afternoon to desido a standstill within ten years and then being involved That action was settled
against any possible attack Replying, surtax should be granted. As an alter their course of action in view of the the Duke of Sutherland said that founda-native, he suggests that the interested
fatest developments.
support of a force twice or thrice the Powers should appoint a small omittes present size. The Marquis of Salisbury of experts to propare evidence for sub- was pursuing the matter without inter assured the House that the Government mission to the commission; otherwise the
shortly to announce the result of its deliberations.
FARLIKE CABLES.: FRANCE FAVOURS" RATIFICATION OF AGREEMENT.
Panis, March 21st. A report presented to the Foreiga Affairs Committee of the Chamber on the Washington naval agreement favours railcation, but only for the duration, expiring in 1938, and not an indefinite period, renewal thereafter. to bo by tacit agreement, while the ratio
normal
A number of members of Parliament are circularising the provinces denouncing the foreign policy, but especially with re the Cabinet owing to alleged failure of forenes to the 1918 Treaty.
This circular states that both Houses
was, removed to s
For some reason best known to himself, owing to those proceedings Mr. Robinson had a grudge against Mr. White.....There was difficulty in getting the terms of settlement carried out. When that matter was "pro- ceding the libels started and they continued
up to the end of last year.
Counsel then indicated the libels com-
mission, and hoped it would be possibls | representatives of the mide Powers who asked the Government to declare, the American Cat is believed he may have plained of. Some were contained in letters
AMERICA AND RUSSIA.
SOVIET FAILS ΤΟ INSPIRE CONFIDENCE.
are to assemble at Peking will and them-Treaty pull and void, instead of which selves confronted with a deluge of figures, discuss the Treaty with a view to its the Government merely asked Japan to and a tissue of complicated issues, with abrogation.
The Government thas virtually ad
Treaty, whereas the action demanded would have meant that China had not recognised its existence.
NEW YORK, March 14th. Bill Brennan who was knocked out last Monday night by Luis Fiepo, South
hospital to-day. was a terrific right hander on the base of concussion of the brain. The knockout blew to Mr. Hatrick. One read
"Dear Hatrick, Don't let White: get-
You are good Brannan's brain which dazed him for you to burn your fingers.
gune for a lawyer, for you are so easily Kome time. He complained of pains in
fed. Lawyers are hungry sharks. Have a for the next big mice was rushed to the hospital.
Physicians said to-night that Bill Brennan law and you cannot lose much
he runs in. I who was injured in his fight with Luis Firpo Monday night, shows every sign of hav-
Condition gives no present cause for
Los ANGELES, March 14th.
which they will be totally unable to deal mitted the existence and validity of the his head to-day and soon afterward, be it on Beaurill pay you better than
until they have lived in the country for years. The correspondent does not dia- guise the possibility that, if the moma is'
The circular states that Premier Chan
Bession on Monday.
of strength established ought not to be Women's Committed for the recognition cleared up and the Chinese Government Shou Tseng admitted failuro at the secron ing taken an awful beating but that his To Tricky White, Reid-Sharman
considered immutable,
TE RUHR.
GERMAN SABOTAGE TO BE
CHECKED.
Lo
Colousy, March 21st, The Inter-Allied Rhineland High Cominiusion has decided prohibit forthwith all night traffe except by rail between occupied and noccupied Germany, in order to prevent unruly persons committing crimes in the Rhine land and then escaping to unoccupied Germany.
LONDON, March 1st.
It is officially announced that the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission has decided from March 28th, to replace the| uniform import daty of ten per cent. by the German import tariff in the form in which it stood in April, 1027.
INDUSTRIAL UNREST,
THREATENED STRIKES:AND-LOCK-
OUTS AT HOME.
LONDON, March 21st. Replying to a delegation from the
of Russia, it is understood that Mr., Hughes declared that reports reaching the department had failed to inspire con- Adence in the Sories, or furnish a basis for discussions with Moscow.
Mr. Hughes afterwards stated that the attitude of the State Department was ons of non-interference in Russia's internal conors, but a determination not to enter into discussions for recognition until the Soviet be established on a sound basis for international intercourse. ferring to the Russian debt to America, he said that indulgence and proper ar rangements were one thing, and repudia-
tion another. A
FRANCS STRONGER
Ro
LONDON, March 21st The French frano, on Continental support, appreciated to 89.50, and the Belgian to 77,50
HOME SPORT. RESULT OF LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
is given a fresh start, renewed insolvency may succed solvency. Any anfeguards can only hinder the tendency to revert to bankruptcy, and if the Chinese persist in taking the downward path the for- eigner will have to run this risk.
PEKING POLITICAL SHUFFLE.
FOREIGN MINISTER RESIGNS..
Pesino, March 22nd. Huang Fu, the Foreign Minister ro- signed yesterday, and proceeded to Tien tsin. His resignation is reported to be due to attacks against the Government in connection with the alleged mishandling of the 1918 Treaty question.
It is also, atated in Chinese political circles that Huang Fu does not desire to refuse to accept Japan's reply, which the LONDON, March 21st. Cabinet is reported to intend doing.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS FEAR TOOCHOW.
FENGTAI LOOTED: BEIGANDS. ÖR
: TROOPS?
the
The
result (of Handicap was:
White Bud (6871). Roman Bachelor (100/8). Soval.(50/1)
LONDON, March 21st. The result of the building trade unions' ballot is a fifty percent, majority against the acceptance of the employers' terms for a reduction of wages coincid- ing with the commencement of the Government's housing scheme. This focusses
the portents of an end to the industrial second and third. peace which has lasted winer 1921.
attention on
growing
A strike of farm labourers in Norfolk and Suffolk is spreading, as the result of importation of labour from other countries. The trouble in the coalfields
Lincolnshire
Thirty ran, and the race was won by length, with half a length between
LEAGUE FOOTBALL.
NO MORE PUZZLE ́·
ADDRESSES
LONDON, March 22nd.. has been secontuated by the decision of Enddershold beat Preston North End by In the English League (First Division)
the South Wales miners' executiva to 9 goals to mil. In the Scottish League, Lender three months notice of termius Kilmarnock beat Third Lanark by a tion of the national agreement in order goals to pil. to reopen negotiations on the working conditions and wages. The electrical power-Tongineers threaten to call a general stoppage owing to alleged victimisation. There is also ascontent among seamen consequent on the ship- owners' demand to reduced wages. The British Pottery Manufacturers Federa tion intend to notify a lockout on March 24th as the operatives have rejected the employers modified demand of a ton per cont. reduction in wages. Sixty thousand sro affected in this case. Negotiations are expected to continue.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS. SUGGESTED CONFERFNCE AT
WASHINGTON.
Roue, March 21st.
LETTERS MUST BE DIRECTED IN
ORTHODOX WAY.
No more "puzzle addresses” in the fat of the G.P.O. Letters addressed in orthodox fashion will in future be returned
to their senders.
The department which used
to spend a
lot of time and prided itself on the successed
that a rote of consure may be moved in Parliament against the Premier for alleged general failure of the foreign of the Cabinet shortly.. policy, and that this may lead to the fall
Some of the vernacular papers state
TREATY OF 1915.
CHINA DISSATISFIED WITH JAPAN'S REPLY.
PERING, March 21st. The House of Representatives to day passed a resolution by a large majority. urging the Government to refuse to accept Japan's reply with regard to the abro gation of the 1918 Treaty
to the Cabinet, this evening,
The above resolution will be forwarded
The second resolution was also pasard saking the Government to inform Japan that China is dissatisfied with the reply regarding the Treaty
INDUSTRIAL MAGNATES
GERMANY'S REAL MASTERS.
&
Another libellious communication was ed.
It conmined the
russages:- "No doubt the exchequer has run low. LE FOU
could persuade your client to go the world, said to day, he had received an monkey, and have
Jack Dempsey, champion heavyweight of on long enough you would be like the wise
all the
cheese afer of $750,000 to fight Luis Firpo, South
defendant once addressed a com- American champion, at Buenos Aires inmunication to "Re he White." That November.
said counsel, is obviously a play on the words. be a white man another
legal adviser.
ILLNESS OF BISHOP TUTTLE.
[Bishop Tattle is eighty-six years old and has been presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church for twenty years).
ita, White was addressed ag” Bộ
mock legal notice way sent to dra White. It road:
the high court
Be White of 1DOD.
ST. Lour, YC, March 14th. Right Rev. Daniel S. Tule, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the of common sense, world's division: Uny, United States, il with a grippa Hetween Be White (plaintiff and willing lapsed into coms to day and his death is Robinson (defendant). Take note that believed to be imminent.
» writ of inquiry into the scarcity, of clients will be executed on Sunday the 1st day of April, 1923, at the bour eleven of the cock-a-doodle-doo in the foot in the INCREASED WAGES FOR ARIZONA London, when and where counsel had borough of Hampstead, in the county of better appear
behalf of the wild Plaintiff (with a capital P) aforesaid The Sheriff pointed out to the that it was not a question of chy damages. It was a question of tend ing the defendant that he would annoy people by such ridiculous The jury assessed daniages fendant at £10-
COPPER MINERS.
PHOENIX, ARIZ, March 14th.. Copper mining companies throughout Arizons were posting notices to-day of ten per cent. wage increase to all day wage la bourers, affective March 15th.
INDICTED" FOR PERJDEY.”
NTÄCK, N.Y., March 15th, Evan Barrows Fontaine, a dancer, and her mother, Mrs. Florence K. Fontaine, were Indicted for perjury to day in connection with the dancer's suit of $1,000,000 for breach of promise against Cornelius Van- derbilt. Whitney,
A-STORM-WRECKED TOWN,
"A SCANDALOUS PARADOX”
The French Ambasador, his Excel- lency the Comte de Saint Aulaire, speak ing on February 14th at a luncheon given by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, PEKING, March 22nd said he intended to speak plainly about Gen. Yang Sen's forces are reported to a nightmare to most of them
reparations, although the problem must He be completely masters of Wanksien, Ohung hoped he would not be disclosing any Chow and the Fuchow,district. All the diplomatic secret if he confessed that he
MEMPRE, Tary, March 18th. was inclined to take the French point of
Light people were killed and more than Szechuan troops there are reported to view on that subject Franon accepted fifty injured during a storm which wrecked The latter is reported to be pushing on been invoked against her. have gone over to General Yang Sen. the principle of the interdependence of the village of Barage, Mississippi, yesterday. nations, though that principle had often | The storm also damaged the towns of Bardis,
The ruin of Hemando, Philipp and Crenshaw, Missis rapidly towards Chungking, which he is France would have its effect upon the sippi. Buildings were confident of capturing.
trade of Great Britain, He asked thems perzone injured destroyed and several
Marg, March 15th. General Sun Chuan Fang's troops are to consider what that effect would be if
It was reported to-day that the town of reported just outside Foochow, and it is France, which was Great Britain's most Savage, Mississippi, was wiped out by undicially reported that Bua. Chuan important customer, were to be crushed wind storm. Fang is ikely to enter Foochow to day. by a burden of debts incurred first to The troops near Fengtai are reported to have mutinted on Tuesday night, and it in stated that they looted, the shops. Military circles state that the looting was doue by brigands attired in uniform. JAPANESE EMBASSY RECEPTION. get
LONDON, March 18th.
repel German aggression and then to TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE SURVEYOR restere ber devastated territory. YesTM France, after four years of exemplary patience, had received from Germany practically nothing, while during this many over 100,000,000,000 francs. It was period she had had to advance to Ger
an incredible and sesadelous paradox that Loxon, March 21st.
France had been obliged to become the The Japanese Ambassador gave
banker of her aggressor, whose productive it achieved in deciphering apparently reception to members of the Japan power had been retained intact. Some unintelligible hieroglyphics and occasion Society and others, including the Chinese newspapers declared that Great Britain ally pictures--has been drastically cut down. Charge d'Affaires and representatives of in similar circumstances would have The "puzzle address office cost the tax- the Foreign Office, the Lord Mayor and acted differently. He agreed Great Bri- payer
more money than it was worth.
It Lady Mayoresa,
tolia would have acted more firmly and served a useful purpose when we were not so educated o
In people as we are supposed to be
more quickly. to-day, when all sorts of weird specimens of
The American delegation to the Inter- | handwritings had to be interpreted somehow national Chambers of Oammance Congress or other, but the anthorities think there is no has agreed to a resolution to be submitted need for such things now. to the finance section on Friday, ruggest.
This will put a stop to the pranks of school boys who addressed their letters in Latin as a
ABIATTUS IN SOUTH AFRICA,
Care Town, March 21st. In the Assembly, the Ministeriallet, Mackcurian, gave notion of a motion requesting the Goverances to consider for the Asiatic community,
States narys who completed a survey for Captain Harry M. Hodges, retired, United
He had thirty years service, of which twenty the trans-Pacific cable in 1900, died to-day three was actual ses duty.
A" GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT.
WASHINGTON, March 16th...
D. W. Davis, ex-governor of Idaho, to-day was sworn in as special asistant to the secretary of the interior. He will be the personal side to Secretary Work.
OBITUARY.
A FAMOUS BURGEON,
...on
доб
ELLIS ISLAND.
SIR A GEDDESS REPORT.
Extensive and expensive changes. system of dealing with immigrants at New York, and pomihis, as other receiving stations would be trail veel effect were to be given to the intent by Sir Auckland Goddes na the con visit to Ellis Island, at the end of h The visit was made on the invitations in the company of Mr. Davis Secret for Labours to whom the State Departe ment had referred the complaints an through the British.
Embassy with
the treatment of respectable British at the crowded fumigratim Ellis Island
Mr. Davis, himself (83) Beaters New York correspondent), on the advice of officials
the Immigration Burea
inclined to believe that, while conditions 110 badan had been represented, and the island were not perfect, they went not that the provision of additional anaal
examined the conditions with all the would remove the cause of most compl
Bir Auckland Geddes, however, w
many things wrong, but any remedy knowledge of s
medical expert,
found
• SCARROTY on racial or national-lines
would i Ive large expenditure and many changes. He tasted the food and pronounced it “all right," but coundered - the sleeping quarters terribly crowded, if not absolutely insanitary, and it was admitted that they were certainly not attractive owing to the evil odours and personally repulsive condition of the immigrants, and that woud be hardship for any person of refinement The industrial magnates were the real
to spent night in such masters of Germany. They had a doubla
The result of the observations
the investigators appears to be that if any object to avoid payment of reparations
relief Was to be provided it would be and acquire wealth, in order to prepare
to make, soma - provision for military and economic revenge It was apornning scheme, which involved that burden of debts that she could not resist most surgeons of the country
on at least according to social status
bowever, former seilous, and it a new German aggression. France had 1y of Chicago, died to day." He to accept the suggestions
of the decided that the German magnates had startled the medical world in 1914 by bossador he would have to go to Con- fooled her long enough, and that the proving the theory of gland transplant gress not only for formidable supple
estimates in dition to the magnates should be compelled to pay the ing. He transferred the glands of an taxes which they were now cluding and eighteen years old boy who had committed large sums already voted for the migration loving to be borne by the working classes suicide, to his own body. to go into the Ruhr and occupy the of Germany. Therefore, France decided stronghold of the defaulting magnato He declared that France was neither ARMAMENT REDUCTION IN JAPAN militarist ner imperialist, and she desir
Los ANGLES, March 14th.
kng, an international economio conferemos] «try on" for the Post Office, and to the wiles the allocation of, separate, distinct nzoni yango would be so crushed by the Da G. F. Lydston, one of the fore Theolxtacle Awere prepared
Especially to deal with reparations, inter of the joker who bacured the intended des Allied debts, exchange and international tination of his postal packet in some design
or conundrum,
erodita. If the resolution be carried, it is believed the Italian delegation will suggest that the conference be held in Washington
THE NEAR EAST TURKISH COUNTER PROPOSALS
UNDER CONSIDERATION.
LONDON, March Elst The Allied conference to consider the Purkish counter-proposals has opened at The Foreign Office Lord Carson made
short speech of welbome, and sub committees were appointed to consider The various Turkish proposals.
At
one time the people whose job it was to discover concealed addresses resorted to all sorte of devices to help them out of their difficulties.
They were allowed to use any book which came in handy for the purpose, and had many ingenious methods of ferreting out hidden meanings, but all that has now stop pod.
Instructions have been issued that the to consult only books of referrence they are
the oficial Fost Office guide and local directories
UHINESE LEGATION" DINHER
London, March 21st. HE. and Mrs. Chao Hain chu entertained Colonel P. T. Etharton, Miss Barrett, the lady writer, going on a visit and prominent Chinese to dinner at the to China, and other prominent persons Chincan Legation.
ست
7,000 MEN DISCHARGED...
Toxyo; March 21st. Three thousand workmen from the foros
EX PRESIDENT OF RATE BROTHERHOOD.
BALTIMORE, March 16th. William S. Carter, former president of the Firemen, died to day of arterio sclerosis. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and
EX-PREMIER OF SPAIN
MADE, March 14th. Mannery Allende Salazar, former premier,
ed peace as much as any other country. We shall, of course, still do our best
But he bad learned by bitter experience that the Germans, and their great to deliver letters addressed by obviously illiterate people, and we have sufficient
misgustos in particular, would oboy only staff in the blind division to cope with
How, he asked, could Francs be such cases," an official of the Post Office Tokyo area 3,000 from Kyoto arsenal suspected of harbouring thoughts of codied to-day. told a newspaper reportez
Similarly we have men who know 1,000 from Kure Aramal to-day request and begemony. It was on reconst
that letters addressed cived notics of discharge, in pursuance STORY
will be delivered."
of the armament "roductions policy. Every Bomb
* puzzle, addresses” which military and police procnation has beɛa of the Post Office has
in unravell taken to prevent disturbances. ing are preserved
coutlines in bestemt books. LONDON, March 31st,
Es war delivered" One letter addressed to
IRISH ARRESTS.
HOUSES RAIDED IN
DUBLIN
תנ:
BO..
Fron State detectives raided ten hou Mayor at the Mansion House in Dublin, and effected numerous artists, noduding the Republican Director of Publicity and a despatch-bearer carrying
mizenge for DaValors?
all the alphabet, with the exception of this letter was ecrawled over another anvelope, which the Post Office discovered was intendend for a Mr. Nowell
JURT (SYSTEM FOR JAPAN.
Torro March 2nd.
The Upper Hope has paid a Bil providing that the jury systems become effective in Japan Arnars anos. The
Bill was passed by 1143 votes to a
On the question of the Gallipoli graves, is the Tarks remained obdurate Lord Curzon stated our position in
to reform
Am
Write ad for a modification of 255 existing.
and it is suggested that any legislation laws raised secious dou
difficulties G
The Livestigation also disclosed the fact that tion of immigrants would involve more for the sopara- any scheme room than is available on Ellis Island, and the
would adoption of the plaa volve the purchase of other quarters,, which would be not only expensive but hard to find. Mr. Davis now knows what Sir Auckland Geddes thinks of the position, and it is presumed that, he will work out a schame which will meet some of the defects which have been brought to light in existing methods
Angry menes vers witnessed Bouth African when Mr
mada
that, the contrary, France bad, re postedly naked her Allies to sprinte thamelyes with her Babr policy, and be need not remind Great Britain that Place at the side of France was always kept open for this country. France Bacal terms, Anxious la we are gium, and Holy hora already deding said, to remove our troops from Con-ad Dr. Jansson, and sube themselves to that good work. If Great stantinople and from Gallipoli, I here the Lobby when reproa Britain whose prestige stood so high in solemnly declare that not man thall Bailey Mr. Boyers retaliated by calli the world, would consent to give her co-be moved until this question shall have Bir Abe Bailey Bar The latter operation, the whierment of the can been settled in a spirit of deceday, equity, once struck Mr. Beyers & Blow on the gnon tank would be greatly facilitated." and boun
mouth, drawing blood
Attack on the memories