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THE POSITION or SUGAR.
WASHINGTON, March 31st. The Department of Commerce to-day estigated the world production of boot and cane sugar for the crop year of 1933-1023 at: 20,450,000 short toos which is 2,14,000 "No more than the February estimates. estimate is made of the probable consump tion. It
It is
be taken into considera. tion. The statement says:
Inerrased European production indicates that the demand for Cuban sugar may be
TUESDAY, APBIL 10г. 1993.
THE CHINESE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The annual general meeting of tha Chinese Cunoral Chamber of Commerce was beld yesterday afternoon when the following officials were elected for the following year-
Chairman.-M. Li Po-kwai (one of
The Eerning News,publishes a cryport hand slut that the stocks on Hongkong's leading Chinese rice
LONDON, April 8th. documents, published in Dublin, shone that at a meeting of the from Harbin that bver 3,000 were drowned Irregular Executive, held on March 23rd, on April 7th, and thousands rendered motion by Barry, Deputy Chief-of-homeless," is a result of the Booded Staff, reconded by the commander of the Sungari River bursting the Hainkiang Trregular Arst southern division." That dyke near Fuchation. It is reported that further resistance to the Free Staten score of villages were carried away. Government would not. Enrther the cause
WELLINGTON KOO ACTING
FOREIGN MINISTER
less than last year."
"
chants);
Ener
Vico-Chairman.--Mr. Ho Kwong: Treasurer.-M. La Wing-kwong i. Vice-Treasurer:—Mr. Chan U-ting: Legal Adviser.--Mr. M. K. Lo; Secretary in charge of the English sration of the Chamber of Commerce
work-Mr. T. N. Chau,
OUR LONDON LETTER,
EMPIRE WIRELESS LEFT TO: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
THE GOVERNMENT'S INDECISION OVER HOUSING,
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, March 8th.
▲ BET-BACK FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
The Government have bad a very bad fright over the defeat of Col. Stapley, Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Home Office, as East Willesden, and Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen. Minister of The total can production for all coun
Health, at Mitcham. Both candidates tons compared with 14,600,000 last year. tries reporting is estimated at 14,735,000
Exiled to secure seats at the General The Cuban production was 4,696,000 tons.
Election in Norember, and since then they RISE DUE TO LEGITIMATE CAUSES.
have been trying to woo other constituen NEw York, March 29th.
Executive Committes-The Hon. Mr. cies which were considered "safe" from the The Association of Mill Owners and Cane R R Koterall, Mesars. Li Yik miui, M. Conservative party standpoint. Now, har Growers of Coba to-day sent a message K. L. T. N. Chau. Chau Suikt, Ho Iu, ing been defeated again, both candidates to Horatio S. Rubens, honorary president Tong Yat-chuon, Fung Chi-ming, Lobare handed their resignations of office of the association, expressing the opinion Chung-bur Simon Teeyaa. Chan Pik-to the Prime Minister, and there PIKING. April 8th... that the rise in the price of sugar wa chuon, J. M. Wong, To Sze-tuen, Ho Wing will have to be a re-construction of the
and not to and La Choungshui.
Government. Only a very superficial Mandates issued early this morning due to legitiants causes
speculative acts on the part of Cuban
mbe
observer would attribute what has happen accepted the resignation of Huang Fu, producers sold tree during the
ed to personal shortcomings on the part Further evidence of the straits to which an appointed Dr. Wellington Koo acting development of the erup without attemping
of the candidates. The election in each to hold for speculative rise, The His in
case was fought avowedly upon the simple Foreign-Minister.
price is attributable to the statistical position
domestic issue of housing. and the demand for consumption.*:
SPECULATION CAUSE OF BISE.
of independence," was defeated by only onn vote, the voting being å for û against.
IRREGULAR COMMANDER'S II
امیر
LUMINATING REPORT.
Lostos, April sth.
the Irregulars have bren eluced arg contained in the report of a meeting of Irregulars belonging to the first southern division, in which the cominander
DR.
PERING, April 9th.
The Governinent have forwarded a despatch to Parliament stating that. owing to the urgency and importance of
The
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA, March 31st. C. H. Huaton who recently resigned as Assistant Secretary of Commerce, expects to confer with Fresident Harding to-day re- expressed the opinion that the advances in prices were due to speculation.
The annual report of the Chamber does not refer to any of the past year's activities. It, however, mentions that the subscriptions for the year have been a record. It also refers to the appointment of an English Secretary which has been made necessary by the increased English correspondence and intercourse. Dealing with expenditure the raport states that year, mainly due to the large expenditura incurred in filting up the new premises of
Now we have the assurance that private enterprise will be able to give us within 19 houths facilities which ought to have been ours years ago. We are pro misel rapid and cheap wireless telegraphie communication - with distant markets, including those of the Far East. There is also the agreeable expectation that this service will be available without any charge falling on the national exchequer. It will be conducted under competitive condi ions, and will, it is stated, produco an actual revenue by means of licences.
LIBERAL LEADERSHIP.
4
The question of the leadership of the Liberal Party, if and when the shattered sections of that traditional power in the State are able and willing to unite, is being widely discussed just now. But, so far as I can see, there are grare doubts whether anything practical will result from the war- ing of the olive branch by Mr. Lloyd George at Edinburgh. He performed the ceremony with characteristic dourishes of oratory. As far as I am concerned," De said, "there is no question of leadership." And he added, "Let him who can head; let him who will follow.". This reads very well in the newspapers at breakfast next morning: the sentiment is excellent. But, it is naked, whom would Mr. Lloyd George follow in bis meek and docile mood?
endorson the opinion of brigade com foreign affairs, they have appointed Dr.garding the sugar situation. Mr. Huston this has been double that of the previous which touches every home in the land ex. claims his allegiance displays all these..
manders. that F summer campaign is imposible. He says, "The division has boom fought to a standstill, and is flattened out. In the three Cork brigades twenty- nine have been killed, and roughly thirteen posts captured, and six seriously
Wellington Koo acting Foreign Minister, without waiting for Parliamentary rati-, fication, but the Government hopes that Parliament will speedily ratify his ap pointment.
It is expected that Dr. Wellington Koa will assume his duties to-morrow.
A delegation from Szechuan arrived
attacked. If Ave men are arrested in each
Bren wa 26 finished. The main аге auffering great privations, the morale is guing, and the enemy is in a very strong to-day to urge the appointment of Yang position, with several battalions in Cur-Sen as Military Governor of Ezecbuan. tagli."
SUN CHUAN FANG'S ARMY REACHES TOOCHOW.
SHANGHAI, April 8th. A semi-official statement states that Admiral Sah Chen Ping be wired to the Government stating that the forty-scoopd
REPORTED OIL FIND.
MELBOURNE DISCOVERY PROVES A FAILURE.
SIX MONTHS FOR PROBE.
WASHINGTON, March 18th. It was indicated today that at least six months will elapse before, the result of the tariff commission's inquiry into the sugar situation will be made known.
AMERICA'S SILVER BULLION REQUIREMENTS,
WASHINGTON, April 1st. Director of the Mint Scoboy predicted to day that treasury requirements of silver bullion purchased under the Pittman act will be fulfilled by July first. He said about 20,000,000 fizie ounces remain to be bought under the act.
VEGETABLE OILS UNDER THE V.8. TARDT.
WASHINGTON, April 1st.
the Chamber.
THE REFINERY COOLIES'
ROW.
COMBATANTS BOUND OVER TO 'KEEP THE PEACE.
The thirty-five coolies charged in con- nection with the recent free fight at the China Sugar Refinery made their second appearance before the Magistrate (Mr. J. R. Wood) yesterday morning.
It will be remembered that the fight started on the lines of a World War. Two small boys quarrelled and fought. The
He has himself sketched the ample To readers in the Far East it is. I UP sess. "Ism willing to follow," he declared. qualifications which his leader must pos pose, impossible to convey adequately a sense of the profound anxiety, bordering on "apy leader who possesses the necessary panic, with which tenants are obsessed at vision, resolution, wisdom, courage, and the mare prospect of eviction as soon as inspiration. And Mr. Lloyd George is, of the Rent Act expires. This is a subject course, to judge whether the chief who
All I can say is that the test is so severe sept where houses have been purchased by necessary qualities. the occupiers (often at an exorbitant price) in order to keep a roof overhead. Tenants that only one man could "hops to pass it Terywhere sen themselves faced with the successfully-sad that man is Mr. Eloyd alternative of having to quit or to pay any George. So it will be wise for the student preposterously high rent the landlord of politics to regard his statement on the chooses to fix as soon as de-control takos subject of Liberal leadership as a plain that the ex-Premier is place. Thus the "acid test," as President intimation Wilson would say, for Col..Stanley and Sir prepared to be his own leader, and that he Arthur Grifith-Boscawen was whether they will be pleased to as a Liberal Party of would rote for continuance of control sorts, if not the Liberal Party, fall in be till the housing shortage is made good. hind him. As they were unable to give the requirTHE PABBING SHOW. ed promise they were signally defeated, the former by a Liberal and the latter by a Labour man.
THE CASH IN A NUTSHELL.
I cannot go into the complexities of the housing question in this article, or discuss the difficulties with which the Government are confronted. There is, for instance, the argument of the landlords that while the
The other weak we had the Chancellor of the Exchequer politely asking the people of the Channel Islands to pay their share of War taxation, from which they have been authority of the British Parliament. It is exempt, since they are not under the dire necessity"need's must when the devil drives," as the old saw puta it-that
Inland Revenue Commissioners, for the
The Southern Tariff Association has asked mothers took sides and fought each other. butcher, the baker, and candlestick maker" compels this application. Now we have the the oil discovery at Williamstown, and regiment, which is part of General Sun the United States Tarif Commission not to Next father came in on the side of mother, I of the old rhyme-every trader and mano-me reason, proposing to tap a new source.
MELBOURNE, April 8th. The Government export has investigated
declares that there is no evidence of oil from below the ground. The geological
conditions are unfavourable.
EABLIER CABLES.
FRANCE AND BRITAIN
FRENCH COMMENT ON M
LOUCHEUR'S VISIT.
PARIS, April 8th. The newspapers deprecate apprehensions that M. Loucheur's visit to England will result in a weakening of France's policy and declare that it simply means a
reparations and France's debt to Great Britain, provided Germany can meet the arrears of the American debt,
Chuan Fang's army, reached Foochow on A telegram states that the April 6th. troops arr well. disciplined, and the Foochów populace is not alarmed.
Lia Kuang Hsiung has wired declining the post of Coast Defence. Commissioner of Fukien and Kwangtung-
BOKER INDEMNITY ALLOCATION.
SUGGESTED TEXTILE SCHOOL AT SHANGHAI,
In
in
1
com-
grant applications for a revision of the import dution on vegetable oils and peting fata
AHEAD OF THE MAIL [CABLE MESSAGES FROM INDIAN PAPERS.]
FORTOLK FARM STRIKE.
Naturally, when father facturer in the country could make tons of revenue by demanding payment of In- and fought.
of money during the war, and since, owners
with street I came in, his clansmen had to back him up, of house property were provedited by the come Tax in connection
processions. and, of course, the clansmen's friends Bant Act from getting rid of a tenant and There is the Lord. Mayor's show in came in and took sides, till finally a battle selling the house, or from raising the rent London, or a Royal procession through royal was in progress. The women tore except by a narrow margin specifically Fleet Street and the Strand, or to open each other's hair, and the men exchanged laid down by law. On the other hand, Parliament; or it may be that some is the argument of the tenania provincial town, has organised a pageant, bricks, stones, and anything due that came that, as the war stopped all building by or the "Lord of the Manor is marrying LONDON, March 17th.handy, including bamboo palen. What private enterprise, house famine was the village maiden amid rustio rejoicings Between 10,000 and 20,000 farm workers happened to the small boys was not re-created, which the Government's promised in any case, where windows are let or Last night, ceased to work in Norfolk, as
lated; probably they stood back and housing schemes have failed to remedy, and stands are erected to enable people to therefore it is unjust to hand them over toes the passing show, why not make money enjoyed the fur,
Eventually, however, the police arrived the clutches of predatory landlords. This out of it? This is the simple plan no
consequence of notice of reduction of their wages from six penco to five pence, half penny an hour and the increase of the working week from 50 to 1 hours. There was a joint peace conference to-day It is not noteworthy that the present rate in Norfolk is 34 shillings a week compared with 30 shillings in Deron.
THE RUBBER EXPORTS RESTRICTION.
LONDON, March 17th.
and stopped the commotion.
Yesterday Mr. F. C. Vaux appeared on behalf of the defendants. He pleaded for leniency on their behalf, and prodüend the President of the Chia Chow General Workers' Asciation, the men's guild. This worthy, offered to act as a personal ourety on their behalf, and His Worship (Mr. J. R. Wood), bound them over in the sum of $50 each to keep the pesics for six
months
BOY ASTRONOMER. CHANGE IN STAR FOUND WITH
NAKED EYE
there
is the case for both sides in a nutshell.
conceived by the Commissionere, to whom. In the circumstances, the first move was everything that can be taxed in these hard with the Government. The Housing Questimes is deserving of attention so long as tion was one of the main issues at the it brings grist to the Treasury mill. General Election. But all that has been done by the Government was, first, to fob▲ TEST CANE. off both landlords and tenants with smooth
The matter has Leen definitely raised Assurances that their claims to consideration with regard to a Pageant at Preston, and a would be dealt with, and, secondly, to test case is to be made of it in the Courts. troduce a Bill proposing to de-control the The Commissioners of Inland Revenue highest-rented houses first. Now, the effect argue that a pageant passing through the of this would be to protect the working class streets is as much an entertainment, as a tenants and throw the middle-class house tableau on the stage of a theatre, and that, holders to the wolves. The latter have if people pay a householder for the pri paid and ruffered already to the breaking vilege of sitting at a window to watch the point of endurance, and this seeming dis
"characters" go by, the householder is like.. regard of their position was the last the lessee of a theatre and therefore should straw. We therefore find Exat Willesden be subject to taxation as such. and Mitcham rejecting the Goxetament candidates--both members of the Ad ministration and one of themi a Cabinet Minister with smashing majorities.
SLINO nonchalence
is
Until now the streets have been a free show where we can all witness the ever- changing drama of life, with its comedy
LONDON, April 8th. letter to the Observer, Mr. strengthening of the Entente. Thy Echo Charles Watney, parliamentary rapra Me Paris urges the Government to make untativo of the Textile Machinery
• plain statement to that effect so as to Makers Association, draws attention to correct the misinterpretations placed ox the scheme to establish a textils technionl the visit by certain Engilsh newspapers, school in Shanghai, now
before the Maten dealares there is a
chanco of reconciliation of the sof
British Government, and says he believes Great Britain, France and Belgium, Mr. the scheme will bo warmly approved by
the Chinese Government" and Chinese The Westminster Gazette points ont that Bonar Law's Cabinet likely to make interests in Shanghai, and also has the the maintenance of the present restricted etraceptions with regard to its share of godwill of Lancashire, and there having ratio of rubber uporte under the Steren- any long personal knowledge of China and British trade prospects.
son scheme, is not only essential if the The scheme is necessitated by the keen. industry is to remain on a paying basis, nese of American competition. It will be but it is also highly important from the RUBBER 'RESTRICTION.
a stiff fight to recapture the predominant tandpoint of paying interest on the position Britain heid before the war. A British debt to America The paper saya STEVENSON. SCHEME FINDS...
textilu similar American
school
the latter amounts this year to £31,000,000 FAVUUR IN AMERICA. Shanghai has done them a great service and assuming that the United States by
It
only 2,000,000 tons of British plantation vital to Britons to follow such ཨུ LONDON, April 8th. -
18 peace per pound, it will good example. Undoubtedly the scheme rubber
America last Following a visit to London to study comes under the category of educational cost her over £3,000,000.
A correspondent at Athens, writing to a the probable effects of the Stevenson work valuable to the two countries, for rear took over 775,000 tons and the esti
At the time of writing, the news is that and tragedy, its pleasures and sorrows, and London paper, MAYO? restriction scheme on the crude rubber which the Boxer indemnity is to mates for 1923 is 285,000 tona. trade of the United States, Mr. B. G. remitted. The creation of the school will!
William Nelson Abbott, who is credited new Housing Bill is to be introduced it in appalling even to think that a Govern This means that the Government havement llepartment is seeking to fix a charge Work, of the B. F. Goodrich Company, go fur to maintain British prestigu in
with discovering that the star Beta Ceti learnt their lesson. They cannot afford to that now and then (as in the case of upon us for looking on under the pretext TWO GAINSBOROUGHS STOLEN. atales there will be no shortage under the China. Apart from the initial cost of
had become of the first magnitude, is a boy ignore the middle-class voter with the Preston) some part of the play is specially scheme, which is temporarily serving a construction, it is suggested that the
LONDON, March 18th,
of British parentage. He le 16 years old, Two most valuable Gainsboroughs were cut but has been studying astronomy a make-shift opportunist, quick-change me a particular interest in the outcome of the as heretofore, the staged for our amusement. Londoners have good purpose for the growers and annual allocation can bo Very small. manufacturers alike.. The American There is every hope that the Government from their frames yesterday and stolen from a manufacturers have concluded that there will earmark, at all events, a portion of residence near Newbury. The owner Mr. bobby for fire yra ir inte natthods of the Coalition-s legacy Mr.legal battle between Preston and the Com of H. C. Button was awakened by the burglars it as a career, and is already a member of Bonar Law and his colleagues hare missioners, for there are mora processiona is no immediate hops of American rubber the sum available for promotion in quantities that would emancipate the technical education in China, to which movements. One of the two Cainsborough the Société Astronomique de France and inherited-are no longer practical poin the streets of the Metropolis, than in any
The moral of the recent manufacturers of the United States from British commercial interesty in the Fur portraits of the Duchess of Devonshire was the Association Française des Observation litics.
other city in the world. Eust are officially pledged,
stolen in 1876. The most notable picture d'Etoiles Variables of Lyons.
that British-grown rubber.
want propele theft of recent years was that of the Mona "I was standing on the terrace roof by-elections Lisa which was stolen from the Louvre bat of my house," he said, "preparing to sincerity in politics. They mean to have a DOMITMONS AND THEMELOTIÐ. subsequently restored.
tako observations for the Association square deal on a matter which so nearly a Etoile Variables, when I noticed with touches the hearth and home as housing has been heard outside offcial cirolce has and rentals. They intend to insist that been considered by the Cabinet dealing the naked eye, the extreme brilliance of their rulers shall cease to regard politics as with the unemployed problem from a new LONDON, March 19th."
Beta Ceti, went to the talmoge tu cont
anglo. It come that Ministers have gironí Addressing the East Indis Association, pars Bets with the star Allebant, which aditione me."
favourable attention to s proposal that the Dr. Gilbert Bister declared the new policy is taken as a unit, and found that Beta EMPIRE "WIRELESS.
Editorial comments in the newspapers Treasury should guarantes loans for de of protection in India was a mistake and bad increased in brilliance more than 8 would prove and disappointment. There magnitudes. I determined the star's are all mich in the same strain in rospect velopment works in the Dominions, on the was more need in india for direct energy and position on a chart and telephoned to the of the Government decision to permit condition that the bulk of the money is effort for remedying evils coming from Athens Observatory, where it was said private enterprise to develop wireless enter-spent in this country. My information is rapid industrialism than further stimulation
prise within the Empire. Mr. Benar that one of the Dominions has proposed. of the movement by such methods as Pro that nothing had been observed. tection.
This was on February 26th. I telein heartily congratulated on having resolved loan of three millions sterling for railway graphed next day to M Camille Plaza to reverse the policy of the Coalition based material to be manufactured here. marion, the astronomer, in Putis: *Bad- on the iden that there should be no Needless to say, there are great pos- INHER ORAMBER OF PHARAOH'S den brillianco of Beta Ceti superior to wireless chain" unless it was under sibilities in a scheme of this description, and that of Aldebaran. For the next two Government control-managed, presumably, it would not be surprising if the Government February 18th, 1923, will be an historis days observation was impossible owing by the Department which has found the decided to give it a trial. The illes seems day in the annals of Egyptian archeology, to clouds, but on the third day I noted business of controlling the telephone system For on it the Earl of Carnarvon and his that although diminished in intensity, the confined to our own borders rather more assistants plorced the wall of the inner brilliance of Beta Ceti was afill much more than can be efficiently handled.
Since then it has been chamber of King Tutankhamen's 3,000 than normal.
It has taken a long time to arrive at this ing this proposal the basis of a permanent year-old tomb, and in it discovered beyond the power of my telescope to make decision, and in the meanwhile France, the scheme for helping to find work for the BAILIN, April 8th.
marvels beside which even the remarkable further observations owing to the earlier United Stater, Japan and Germany have army of unemployed in almost every part The Lithuanian authorities at Memol
transures heretofore brought to light fade setting of the star and the intervening been allowed to secure an advantage over of the country, representing nearly every havo declared a state of siege in connes-
into relative insignilimpen. Down to the twilight."
us through our dilly-dally policy. Perhaps branch of national activity in the realm rf tion with the suppression of the German
present these wonders of Egyptian art *** Beta Ceti la o star in the constella the most striking object lesson as to the industry, inhabitanta general strike as a protest
The fourth official Commercial Fair, have only been glanced at in the rays of tion of the whole ...(Cetns)," in the futility of officialdom in this matter was As at presont arranged, the matter will against the incorporation of the Memel which the King opene to-day occupies electric damps thrown through the hole Southam Hemisphere, near Pisces and that provided a few weeks ago when a wire. be raised in the House of Commons during Busincases have two large buildings in addition to a made in the wall by the exerators, but Arics. It is 2,350, million million miles less telephone, message was received in the present session. It should be under- region in Lithuania. been ordered to re-opes on Monday numbor of loeks.
attracted it is already known that the holy of Troopa violently broke up a Gorman mass private firma from all over the Continent, the dead Eharach rests there under a from the earth, and, the increase in bril London frpin America while the experts in stood, of course, that the schema, raferred meeting, and the mournent of Emperor the Far East and America, the only gorgeous shrine or canopy of unbelievably liance noticed now must have occurred London were unable to reply in the same to, involving a lan with the sanction of Wilhelm the First at Home) was over- Government represented boing the Union beautiful design and workmanship.-Daily 400 years ago, that is, during the reign of way, In the face of this something had to Parliament, is quite separate and distinct
of South Africa and French West Africa. - Telegraph, Marowa
Henry VIII
be done.
from the Credit Facilities Act-HB...
NEW LAUSANNE CONFER-
ENCE.
TURKS STILL MAINTAIN RESERVATIONS.
Constantinople, April 9th.
The Government of Angora has pro- posed that the Lausanne Cnference shall inert on April 23rd
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 8th. The Turkish reply to the Allied Noto. fixea April 23rd for the next Lausanne. Conference. The reply maintains certain resoryctions on the economic and financial questions, and questions with regard to mixed tribunada and guarantors for foreigners.
THE MEMEL DISPUTE. AUTHORITIES DECLARE STATE
OF SIEGE,
THE FATAL MOTCE SMASH.
BOTH PATIENTS IMPROVING,"
BERNAY, April 9th. Professor Hartmann has operated under a local anaesthetic on Princess Kitaahi- rakawa, who underwent it very wall. The Princess is satisfactorily progroming and Prince Asics ontinues to improve, it not being found new, sary to operate on him.
INDUSTRIAL UPHEAVAL.
SAILING OF THE LINER
FRANCE CANCELLED.
Le HAVES, April 8th. The sailing of the liner France has been cancelled, owing to the engineers obduracy, and the 250 pazenger havo bern again conveyed to Paris,
BELGIUM'S COMMERCIAL
PAIR
BEDESZA, April 8th.
It has
PROTECTION IN INDIA.
TOKB.
I hear that a schema about which little
to work in well with the movement to en- courage inter-Empire trade. There are, I am sesared, even the possibilities of mak