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CABLE S.
EARLIER CABLES, (TULDUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
THE BRITISH BUDGET.
SURPLUS REVENUE £36.000.000.
RELIEF FOR TAXPAYERS.
LONDON, April 18th. The Rt. Hon. S. Baldwin in his budget speech mentioned there was a deficit in rospect of the estimate on ten, the redne
THE - HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1923
LATEST CABLES,
BUDGET WELL RECEIVED BY
·COMMENTATORS.
LATEST. CABLES.
CROWN COLONIES.
IMPERIAL ECONOMIC
CONFERENCE.
LONDON, April 16th.
THE CHESTER CONCESSION. "ANGORA DESIRES TO BLACKMAIL
FRENCH NEGOTIATORS.” ·
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS
(THROUGH BUTER'S AGENCY.]
£25,000 A YEAR FROM BIRDS NESTS. -
THE CHINESE DELICACY FROM BORNEO,
Me Owen Rutter, Author of "British
article last month to the Daily Afait:-
Far ap in the great limestone eaves of North Borneo are found, glued to the sides jn hundreds of thousands, the edible birds pests so loved by Chinese epicures for making soup,
LONDON, April 16th. "A model," "fair," and "popular,” are among the adjectives applied by com
PARIS, April 10th
In the House of Cominens, Captain INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN MALAY. North Borneo, contributed the following mentators to Mr. Baldwin's Budget, which According to Le Hati Premier Berkeley suggested that in view of the is generally praised for holding the series Poincare has issued instructions that the economic importance of the Crown uvenly between debt edemption, and Washington Government be approached Colonies, the leaders of the clected of the Legislative Councils relief from taxation. The latter, indeed, in regard to the Chester concession. It members
QUESTION OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION.
-LONDON; April 10th.
In the House of Commons, replying to questions, Mr. Orinaby Gore declared that
The nests are built by a species of care- haunting swift, which breeds in colonies, are formed not, as the natives believe! They are front ses foam but from a glutinous substanco
the birds themselves.
syndicate Governors of each of the principal the High Cotamissioner was consulting Produced from the largo salivary glands, of tion of duty not having increased the $10,000,000 this year, £45.000.000 next negativo the advantages conceded to Colonies should be invited to attend the 'Malay rutors, with a view to arranging and the black. The white nests are clean
consumption to the extent anticipated,
to
is given less prominence than the proposal is pointed out that" certain concessions and/or the most recently retired ex to allocate for the sinking funds granted
the American
The French Imperial Economic Conference in an the best form of political representation Government, therefore, must make full advisory capacity. Me Bridgeman replied for Indian immigrant labourers. The expectations of businessmen baen reservations in view of the forthcoming that he was not in a position at present |
year, and a maximum of £30,000,000 French nationals in 1914.
thereafter.
been
The Budget surplus is £30,000,000. The duty on tea ul sugar is unchanged. But There are reductions in the Income Tax of
exceeded, and Labour members sixpeure, and beer a penny a pint, and
yesterday were les indignant than has the Corporation Tax is redured by one half. The question of a tax on betting been usual on Budget nights. since 1914. has been reforyel.to a committee, [" The Daily Chronicle, which is profoundly The general expectation of reactions disappointed at the failure to continue on drastically in taxation caused unusual interest in Lloyd George's policy of Air. Baldwin's budget, twenty members of reducing expenditure, and the Daily the House of Commons waiting to secure Herald, which" denounces This rich seat, at seven in the morning. The Houseman's Budget, which is giving nothing to was packed who. Mr. Baldwiu rose, and the poor," are the only newspapers dwelt on the improvement of trade and diminution of unemployment last year. roundly condemning the Budget. Covernment securities had appreciated,
savings bank deposits had increased; and a supils of £101,000,000 had been employed in reduction of debt. The surplus was really due to a reduction of expenditure by £247,000,000 in two years." He hoped to effect further economies in the current year. If any department presented a supplementary estimate, it must be met by savings in other directions. It was im- portant to redeem their debt from the
reventio.
· He estimated the expenditure at E816,386,000, of which £350.470,000 were | debt charges. The revenue from customs and excise would be £6,000,000 res than Inst year. He did not anticipate another good year from death duties or Trisome Tax. The total revono on the basis of existing laxation would. by 2352.670.000 leaving a strplus of £30,000,000.
THE RUHR.
CONSIDERATION,
negotiations at Lausanne, Le Matin
14. alleges that
Angora Assembly apparently desires to blackmail French negotiators, quoting as an example the troops concentrated Turkish Syrian frontiers,
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the
MERCHANDISE MARKS. BRITISH BILL EVOKES UNFAVOUR- ABLE COMMENT.
Loxdos, April 16th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. McNeill, replying to Mr. W. M. R. Pringle (Labour) as regards the proposed mark-
GERMAN OFFERS WILL RECEIVE ng of s and other commodities, in merchandise marks, stated that the Bill had evoked unfavourable views from
France, The Netherlands and Lithuania.
Brussels, April 16th.
M. Thounia declared that France and Belgium were ready to examine carefully any German offers, if these were mado with the object of effecting reparations.
BARLIER VADLES.
GERMAN MINISTER'S
DECLARATION OF POLICY.
BERLIN, April 18th...
US. IMMIGRATION LAW.
"ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THE COUNTRY EVER DID."
to odd to his previous replies,
COTTON. INDUSTRY.
SECOND READING OF BILL
PASSES HOUSE.
Losnox, April 10th. The second trading was manneuvred through the House of Commons of the Cotton Industry Bill, providing for compulsory contribution to the Empira Cotton-Growing Association, of which the passage was endangered owing to the House not sitting on Friday, in conso quence of Thursday's long sitting.
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RANGOON STRIKE.
WORKERS. DEMAND ARBITRATION
BOARD.
RARGOON, April 1sth." New Yox, April 16th. Is is expected that a settlement of the Mr. Gary Chairman of the United strike in the Tenongyaung oilfield, in Stales Steel Corporation, is no admirer which ten thousand are involved, demand-
JAPANESE REGENT AT FORMOSA.
TAIROKU, FORMOSA, April 16th. The battlecruiser Kongo, with, the Prince Regent aboard, arrived at Keelung at 10 ac this morning, arriving at Taikoku at 2.20. Everywhere there werd evidences of popular enthusiasm. A re ception will be held at the residence of the Governor this evening, An amnesty has been granted to political prisoners.
JAPANESE ROYAL PATIENTS IMPROVE.
PARIS, April 16ƒh Princess Kitashirakawa and Prince Asaka continue to improve,
[The Prince and Princess were involved in a fatal motor smash at Bernay at the beginning of this month]
SINGAPORE
AUSTRALIA'S GUARD.
NAVAL
MELBOURNE, April 18th.
There are two kinds of nests, the white and semi-transparent, the fine threads of which they are interwoven being not anliko those of a shredded wheut cake."
The black nests are discoloured and havo grass and feathers mixed with them. The black nests predominate, but the white, from which the best soup, is made, fetch from ten to fifteen times as much as the others.
The bird caves are in reality the interior of hills which in the course of ages have become hollowed into a series of caverns
height.
chambers many hundreds of feet in Overhead are jagged openings through which shafts of light dimly penetrate. Under foot are deposits of guano often thirty feet deep, Tho birds share their of Box and Cox understanding between the haunt with myriads of bats; there is a kind
two, the birds occupyng the caves by night and the bats by day.
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The right to collect the rest is vested in certain families of natives and is handed down from generation to generation, The | collection, which takes place," twice a year, is a perilous proceeding, and can be under- taken only by skilled men who have been bred to the work.
From a rattan staging stretched across the roof of the cave flimsy rattan ladders, sometimes 600ft. in length, are let down, The collector descends into the gloom arred with a four-pronged spear to which a light- ed candle is attached.
Swaying dizzily in mid air and clinging with one hand to his fruif support, with deft stals he detaches the nests, which are removed from the spear-head by second man and placed in a basket.
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Once collected, the nests are packed in strips of tree bark and are sold by auction the nearest Government station. The bidding is made entirely by the Chinese traders, whip export the enetton, are usuall West Australian baso proposed by divided into three shares, one for the here
In view of the Imperial Government's of the Immigration Law. He told the ing a large increase of wages and recog-scheme for developing a naval base at shareholders of the corporation that the nition of quality of treatment of Ameri- Singapore, the Commonwealth Govern- Contrary to international expectation, barriers to aliens erected by the Act had can and Burman skilled workers, will be ment has deferred action as regards the the Foreign Minister, Docter Von Rosen-threatened to create a serious labour deferred, owing to berg, in a speech in the Reichstag made shortage, and this was "opo of the worse tion of a hundred members of the dis the alleged victimisa.
no definite proposals ne regards the re-things the country over did." parntions problem. It is believed, how ever, that Germany's ignored January offer of thirty milliards of gold marks
eventually form the basis of
The increase of revenue" from the sale with of surplus materint is targely responsible | solution. for the surplus.
Provision will be made to deal with evasion of Income Tax. A tax on botting greably attracted him, (Cheers), but he bad no time to investigade it fully, thoro
th
The Reich will not entertain plans for the formation of Rhenish
Federal State or the transfer of its rights to international organisations. It rejected.
recent Franko-Belgian 'proposal for a system of gradual evacuation of the Rubr. Replying to M. Poincare's· Dunbirk
Mr. Gary estimated that the total value of the Corporation's holdings had in- creased by a billion dollars 'since the or ganisation come into being twenty years agi.
US. NAVAL PROMOTIONS.
Ji
missed labour union. The strikers demand
the appointment of as arbitration board.
TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE. DISPUTE IN FRENCH FACTORIES.
Pagis, April 16th WASHINGTON, April 16th. A message from Lillo states that 5,000 Adinital Long has been appointed textile workers have struck in the chief of the Bureau of Navigation, factories which are not paying the wages Rear-Admiral Andrews will succeed demanded by their union, but 3,000 others speech of yesterday, Dr. Von Resenberg Admiral long as commander of the have boon allowed to work in the factories declared that Germany was compelled to import British coal; but admitted that American fleet in Europe, with the rank where the scale has been accopied, currencies were being sent abroad, is of Vice-Adraital, order to save the people from hunger. He denied that the Schutzpolize were in any way a military organisation; and wound up by expressing Germany's deler- misation hold out until Franco cognised Germany's rights.
ford be intended to refer the matter to a
select committee. He was prepared to
take risks in the matter of a reduction of taxation, including a rednetion in the charges for parcel post and heavier letters, also a reduction on foreign letters to two ponce halfpenny, and a redaction of the Tontal of telephones and the rate at publie call offices. This would involve a loss of £1,000,000. In view of the reduction last year, there would be no further relief in
FURTHER. EXPULSIONS respect of ten, and there would be
RAILWAY OFFICIALS.
COBLENCE, April 18th. chango on sugar (Labour protests) as owing to the special circumstances the The Inter-Allied Rhineland Comm's. consumer would not benefit by a reduction | sion has ordered the expulsion of a further of the duty. Flo hoped, however, that a 1,236 German officials, chiefly railwayinen, reduction would be possible as an early
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BERLIN, April 16th.
TO-
BARLIER CABLES.
THE DOGS OF WAR
LITHUANIA'S BELLICOSE
ATTITUDE
Admiral Henderson.
SOUTHAMPTON'S, WONDER
DOCK.
LARGEST OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD.
The receipts from auction
ditary owners, one for the collectors, and one for the Government,
In a good year the amount realised reache over £5,000.
'COLUMBUS'S SHIP.
A MODEL AT SOUTH KENSINGTON Within the next few months A very intresting model of Cristoph i Southampton will be in a position to dry Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, whic dock the largest vessel aföät.
the Spanish Government haye presented, A large floating dock is being built for has been placed in the Science Museum in the purpose on the Tyne by Messra. South Kensington. The Santa Maria, Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. It is was the flagship of the squadron of three being constructed in two sections, and in vessels commanded by Columbus dur.tg June they will be towed to Southampton, his famous voyage in 1492 which led to where they will be coupled up. The dock the discovery of America. will be the largest of its kind in the Apart from ita historical association; the
world. Its overall length will bo 900 fent,model is of considerable",interest as a ity cirar" width of entrance 134 feet, and representation of fifteenth century ship the draught of water over keelblocks" 36 | building. In proportion to its length it fcet,
is broad and dep in comparison with
SEAFARERS' WAGES.
It will be capable of accommodating modern types. It has a square stern REDUCTION CAUSES STRIKE IN vessels of 60,000 tons displacement, and, and a full round bow, and the fore- of course, will be able to deal with the castle overbungs the stem to a consider- IRELAND.
Majestic, which at present can be dry-able extent. The hull bas full Jiner, and it docked only in Germany or America. LONDON, April 18th.
is strengthened externally by horizontal An idea of the magnitude of this vast walls and vertical skids. On the starboard.. The cross-channel services between Liver-structure will be obtained from the fact side of the model most of the planking prol, and Dublin and Dundalk
that it will cover an area of about 31 has been omitted to reveal the interontTM acres, and that there will be 10,000 tonitructural details. suspended owing to a strike of the Irish of steel in its hull. The weight of the rivets alone will be about 800 tons. They transport Workers Union against the will number 4,000,000. national reduction of seafarers' wages,
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---OCCUPATION " EXPENSES. AGREEMENT DIFFICULT OF
„ATTAINMENT.
are
There are three masts and bowsprit, the latter carrying a square spitsail and the foremast one square sail. On the pola mainmast there are two square sails, while the mizzen mast has a lateen or triangular Bail.
WARSAW, April 16th.. Thero is further trouble botwoom Poland and Lithuania owing to the Lithuanian
The height of the dock from the bottom Premier, Galvanauskas, notifying the
of the pontoon to the top deck of the side walls will be over 70 feet. The dock is Council of the League of Nations that
a. Vehaped structure, which can be sunk
Tatereating flags and pennants are shown Lithuania intends to contest the decision
to any desired depth by admitting water into the interior. When the dock is thus on the maste. On the foremust there is a of the Council with regard to the Polish-
sunk the vessel to be docked is hauled on white dag with a green cross, the ensign of date. The beer duty would be reduced a The French have postponed payment of Lithuanian neutral zono before the Hague
to the pontoon, or the horizontal portion, the Baad of Discoverera, while at the truck PARIS, April 18th. of the U. Oh the water being pumped of the mainmast there appears the Royal, penny a pint, part of the redaction being the fine of a hundred. and five million Arbitration Court, and reserving the
out the dock rises, carrying the vessel Standard of Castille, quartered in white and borne by the brewers. The cost of this marks recently imposed on
At a meeting of the committes on the with it, until the pontoon deck is red, with castles in gold and red lions Essen in right to declare war on Poland from the expenses of the armies of occupation, the completely out of the water
The escutéleon of the Catholio Monarchs reduction was estimated at £13,000,000.respect of the murder of a Freach soldier.beginning of May. The Polish Press is European delegates decided to adjourn Majestic about 80,000 tons of water will great
When lifting a vessel of the size of the with Eagle of Et. John, and the traditional streamer of the "This year there would be a reduction in FRENCH MINISTERS TO CARRY indignant, and accuses Lithuanin of do the discussion in order to consult their have to be pumped ont of the deck To Castille Armadas are represented on
effect this there are fourteen centrifugal mizzen mast. Near to the door of" airing at any cost to provoke war. The respective Governmcats aving to new pumps, which will accomplish their task Columbus's cabin there is a standard. newspapers allege German instigation, objections by Mr. Wadsworth,
in four hours the
the duty on sweetened tablo' wafers, and the cider duty would be abolished as it was not important to the rayonne al
abolition would be of some importance to agriculture. The Income Tax would be reduced six pouce, costing £20,000,000 in the full year and £19,000,000 this year. The Corporation Tax would bo halved. Altogether the roductions would cost £1,000,000 this year and £17,000,000 in a full you. He had gone to his utmost limit to relieve the taxpayer without im pairing the credit of the nation.
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OUT SANCTIONS. ~
Duesselbons, April · 10th, Mousiours Maginot. De La Stoyric, and Le Troquer, the French Ministers of War Finance, and Public Works, respectively, have arrived to carry out the new measures in the Ruby decided on at the Franco- Bolgiaa_conference in Paris.
REPARATIONS PROBLEMS.
FRENCH SCHEME OUTLINED.
PARIB, April 16th..
The French scheme of reparations, which is being submitted to Belgium, is Thy Chancellor of the Exchequer said hasxl on the 1921 schedule of payments
A
on
The floating dock will be connected to representing the emblem of the Royal Koenigsberg of a secret arms depot. They latest and the existence between Berlin and American delegate, as the result of his the shore by means of four mooring this standard ashore when he took poures- powers conferred on him, and he carried booms, each 110 feet long, attached at the exchange of telegrams with shore end to four reinforced concrete slon of the discovered land. The fore and say Poland cannot be asked to sign the Washington. It is now expected that an dolphing As one of the dolphins will main sails are decorated with large crosses,
have a bridge to the shore, there will be and a painting of the Virgin appears o statute being drawn up in Paris, giving agreement will be difficult of access to the dock at all times.
the stern. Lithuania sovereignty over Memel.
Nearly 1,000,000 cubic yards of soil will attainment than was at first anticipated.
bo dredged to provide a berth for the drydock near one of the existing qays AN AMERICAN LAW UPHELD This work is being performed with the
utmost expedition.
BRITISH INDUSTRIES.
REPRESENTATION. IN DUTCH,
INDIES.
LONDON, April 10th.
British Industries for co-operative repre
A scheme promoted by the Federation.of sentation of British manufacturers in the
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WARLINGTON, April 18th. The Supreme Court has declared that. the grain futures trading law is valid and consitutional,
that in the four yeare ended March 31st for A. and B. Bonds, totalling fifty Dutch Indies promises success. Mr. R.NEW.U.S. ORUISER LAUNCHED of England för fifty years £85,000 of the vessel was constructed, and a voyage
last, the external debt had been reduced milliard gold marks; while C. Bonds will
Department, £10,000; ad Charles Pale PHILADELPHIA, April, 10th,
The modal, which the Spanish Govern- meat have so generously presented, was made under the supervision of Captain Don Antonio de la Reyna y Pidal, Director of the Naval Museum at Madrid, and it is a copy of a model in that museum. It was made from information obtained from The late Frederic Harrison left £34,000; documents, tida maps, various drawings Montague Gluckstein, the tobacconist and and paintings found in different archives. chairman of Lyons, the caterers, £67,000; and churches as well as from Columbus's. Albert Sandeman, a Director of the Bank diary. In 1892-8 a full-sizo reproduction
Michael Brathero, Indian Educational was made across the Atlantic
thorpe, the Midlands sausage-maker, £205,000, The estate of William K.
Possibilities of an armed conflict with Vanderbilt is appraised at the value of France are daily discussed in the German £84,530,980. The cons W, K. and Harold Press and on public platforms without B. Consuelo inherit the balk of the for reserve (says the Daily Telegraph of tune. It da revealed that the dead March 2nd). Hocently, at the meeting of MISUNDERSTOOD"
millimaire settled 8,00,000 dollars upon the Hanoverian Land League, Hinderburg
Duke of Marlborough when he mar called upon the company Losmos, April 16th.
never to forget Mr. Ramsay Macdonald congratulated
ried Mia Consuelo Vanderbilt, and only that we are Germans and everywhere..da In the Hour of Commons, replying to half was paid over. The remainder is list our duty, and if necessary fight till the Mr. Baldwin on his stand against post-aren instead of banging out the payments as efficient as possible, it has now been Lt. Comdr. Kenworthy, Mr. Ronalded among the debts of the cotute Shortly last standard, is torn to rags, and the for, thirty-five years, as provided in the decided to reduce the membership to McNeill did that Rusein had not been daughter Consuelo, Formerly Duchees of cladel it a better to perish in honour
before his death Vanderbilt gave his fast hlade broken to splinters, and com poning doba reduction.
The resolutions were agreed to
1021. Schedule.
twenty.
invited to the conference at Inusanne,
|Marlborough, 15,000,000 dollars,
than to live in shame.
the scheme
Neil Williams, the representative who will by £200,000,000 not. He explained that serve to offset the inter-Allied debts. take charge of intercets of the firms con. our Canadian debt could be regarded as A semi-official statement, points out that cerned, is leaving on April 27th. It was- settled. The internal debt had been re the chief feature of the plan is to provide originally proposed that duced by £219,500,000 sinov last year and 4 incentive to Germany to pay off should include thirty manufacturers, bai promptly, particularly through the con-in view of the rize and importance of traction of a foreign losh, in order to the firms who have joined, and the desire secure progressivo ovacuation of the Ruhr to make the representation of each firm
was now £810,000,000..
The light crubor Trenton, which is one of ten building, has been launched,