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Pants, December 13th.
The twelve years' negotiations between
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The first Dutch Red Cross train has left for Germany carrying £4,000 worth of foodstuffs and right, van louils of cloth
TION DINNER"
TRADE DEYALOPMENT a well-known recent instance, determination of the Conference, A Con-
We have all followed the proceedings SIR JOHN JORDAN ON CHINA judge fro SPEECH AT THE CHINA ASSOCIAould have condemned her to pay much fereuse which imposed the adilitional tax,
heavier damages than the foreign repre- irrespective of reduction or abolition of of the Imperial Conference and watched sentatives in Peking demanded. (Laugh- |-likin, would fail to carry out the spirit with great interest the efforts that are Following is the test of the speechter.) The outrage occurred in a province of the Washington Agreement, and would being made to develop trade within the delivered at the China Association Din which is under the control of the Peking act in violation of the Treaty of 1902 Fampire, but tride without the Empire is ner in London, by its President, the Rt. Government, and of which the present on which the agreement is explicity equally important- (Hear hear) —and Hon. Sir John Jordan, P,C., G.C.M.64., President of the Republic was at that G.C.LE, for many years H.M.'s Minister time inspector General, It is, therefore, fitting that reking should be held respon at Peking
Gentlegen, I proposing the next sible. toast. Trosperity to the China or
to-night we are concerned with the trade of a country which numbers a fourth of the human race. The foreign trade of China is still in its infancy. It is ploscy
Great Britain, France and Spain, regarding Five Dutch soup kitchens will be ciation" it is usual for the President { Take, for example, the iminense trade of nose interests. Now, "angTM arrangeinent upon E300,000,000; and China is the
Ang Tangier, have been virtually con shortly opened in Berlin and Essen.
cluded. It is expected that an agree ment will be sigued within a few ins as the three countries yesterday signed convention for the formation of an international company to reconstruct and administer the port. "
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BANKRUPTCY, AN NOUNCEMENT. Beis. December 13th. In a Bual effort to postpone the an
crament.
which this terrible disaster has unused.
based. (Applause.) It would also stul- tify itsell, as it is morally certain that it would ever be able to take any sub sequent steps for the abolition of likin. Elsewhere the problem is not so simple. It would betray not only British but Chi- of this Association to say something at these anual mctions about the situatie Yangtze, China's great waterway, in regard to likin en only he conclad largest undeveloped market in the world. tion in China. But before speaking of and one of the great water-ways of the in consultation with the, provincial to-day. Our trade there cannot be said
At its mouth stands Shanghai,authorities, who have also a right to be China, I feel sure I are interpreting the world, feelings of all present by taking the first the great port of Eastern Asia; six hun consulted about the applicaton of the to be in a satisfactory" state. Take, for In pre-war time opportunity we have had of offering, to dred miles from its mouth is Hankow, process of the surtax, part of which instance, our great staple export, Män-, the grant neighbouring Empire and people the future Birmingham of China; and they will naturally claim as compensation chester cotton goods. of Japan an expression of our profound eight hundred miles further us beyond for the loss of likin, it is on these sympathy in the great calamity which has the Gorges is Chungking, the outlet for grounds that this Association has urged about 8 to 10 per cent. of the export The that the Special Conference should be so trade in cotton goods went to China, and hefallen them. (Ilear, hear.) Most of the rich Province of Szechuan,
the Upper Yangtze, enlarged as to embrace a general review it is estimated that 100,000 people in this us have lost friends there, either Japan navigation, of
times owing to the almost, impassable the most hopeful merns of reconciling Bogucement of its bankruptcy, the Gov. 1980 or our own countrymen, god we chuim hazardous and difficult as it is it all of the whole fiscal situation, ns offering country were directly and indirectly eme PORT AGREEMENT A MINOR
ja special bare in the wide-spread griet Barriers inposed by nature, is rendered the differepees between Peking and the played in connection with this exports” to kirstio intent to rewrt AFFAIR.
Let me also interpose a personal remark: still more difficult and dangerous in re provinces, and of furthering the political In normal times the export to China was, LATER.
taxation by the issue of regulations under.
I should like to express my deep apperent times by the work of man. Furcign re-unification of the country, (Applause.)
During the first six Tangier has been without a port for
the Emergency Powers Bill imposing ad- ciation of the high honour which the steamers plying on these trencherous Another reason for the vulargement of roughly speaking about a quarter of fourteen years owing to international ditional and very heavy burdens compelletubers of the China Association hase winters are exposed to rifle fire from both the Special Conference is that until then that to India.
done me in electing me to be their Prestbanks, and have often to run the gaunt is some agreement between Peking and mouths of the present year the export
Personally coat have wished fet of a continuous fusilade for miles. the provinces the application of the in- differences, but cow that an agreementing taxpayers tu dispose of some of their dent. has been signed, construction of a port property in order to pay; furthermore that Mr. Anderson, who has so long and could show you loss of steamers which creased duties is attended with great to China has been only about one-eighth so worthily filled this office, could have expose extraordinary events. The United difficulty. To give them to Peking would of that to India, and at that rate the taxes due in January for Rhine autheen persuaded to hold it for some time! States Government, which cannot be
porting and favouring a Government to made final, I took it up because 1. felt taken significant measures for dealing which the provinces ohjeet, and might sume: 30,000 men instead of 100,000 OF even lead to unlesirable attempts to in- course, disorganisation in China is not Ruhr relief are being collected now, but longer. When, however, his decision was accused of andus, severity to Chian, has expose the Puwers to the charge of sup- trade this will only employ at the most the revenue from the will only suffies that it is the duty of everyone of us to with this state of things. Finding ap- for a limited period. "The Government contribute his share to the solution of peals to Peking quite fruitless, the Ameri terfere with the Customs Administration, the sole factor in this decrease, int it
enu Admiral, under justructions from You, gentlemen, who are familiar with the great problems which confront us in Washington, has placed guaris on Ameri- the whole question, know perfectly well is a very 'important, one which calls for
can steamers, and has authorised them! do not possess further resources, China... (Applause.) apparently considers there is nothing left be done but to appeal abroad for a large loan. The form of this has not yet been settled.
will be offered for public tender.
A concession to operate the port will be granted to un-international company, in which Frince will hold thirty per vënt. of the shares, and Bigland and Spain will each hold twenty per cent.
It is pointed out in London that the port agreement is a minor affair, which must not be confused with the interna- tional statute. Tangier is now negotiat ing with the British, French and Spanish
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NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE- A Berlin message says the Government
Never in the history of this Associato reply when fired upon, and the com- that if the Customs increase' is given vu- Eserious attention in the present state of tion. or. inileed, in the history of foreign anders of American gunboats have been conditionally, the abolition of likin: will
tercourse with China, bare, we had to instructed to beat off at all hazards at be postpone until the Greek Kalents unemployment in this country. Nor a
face a more difficult situation. Chaos
nat far to seek.
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representatives and the delay in the bas decided to usk France to negotiate tion of a form of Government. far, in al-have been notified of the role thus assig" of bringing all Chinese parties together maintain our position there in the pres
signature of the statute is due to hesita tion by Spain to agree to the arrange stent, which maintains the authority, in Tangier, territory of the Saitan of Mortie- go, whom Spain regards as a French pupe
pet.
When the new draft statute is "signed it must be submitted to the other..signa- torics of the Algeciras Past, including America and Italy. LIMITATION OF DANGEROUS DRUGS.
TWO INTERNATIONAL CONFER- ENCES TO BE CONVENED.
PARIS, December 13th. The Council of the League of Nations has decided to convene, next November,
tivo separate international conferences,
one to deal with opium smoking and the other with itation of the manufacture
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able to oppose
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DISORGANISATION IN CHINA.
DIRECT RESPONSIBLITY.
BUGGESTED, REMEDY FOR DÍVICITS,
in China, to
see
which our trade in China rests are being undermined by and China have become almost synonymtacks by antive brigands and military and you know better than I do that likin Chinese disorganisation our only trouble, ous terms.
The causes, of the presentits, and baye heen given wide diseres a burden on trade, for the removal of the very foundations on
tion. This appears to me to be the only which lath Chinese and foreigners have The
(Hear, pressed for the last 30 or 30 years. confusion are
pulicy in the circumstances. gradual decline and ultimate collapse of bear) All the leading military and civil have dwelt upon this paint at some new and insidious assaults from without, the Manchu Empire, the premature adepauthorities in the provinces concerned length because, so far as I can see it and it will require incessant vigilance to
offers the best, if not the only, chance vance of the political development of the
to thresh out between them the differ-sent dissolving conditions of the whole directly on the Rhine and Rohy questions.
country, the usurpation of all authority to the American patrol force on the
Yangtze.
ences which now keep them apart. Some Eastern World. Politics and trade are form of political unity is, in my opinion, inseparably conngeted in. China, and in The German charge d'affrites will call at by provincial satraps, and the Great European War have all marked stages in the Quat D'Orsay in this connection-the purse of China's descent. In former This policy is an eminently sound one, a condition precedent to the solution of lacas,
upheavals in China we have always leen and might profitably be extended to other the Chinese problem, and alt our efforts my daily work there I never kibar where amitou and settled parts of China, a long as the country should be roncentrated on that point, the one end and the other began You ANGLO PERSIAN OIL SHARES Europe to Chinese confusion. Init since remains, disunited, the only practical What form it may take a loose Felern have now political influences at work the war confusion in the West meets | course for the Powers is to hold the tion of Provinces, or a more "compact: which are subversive of the whole basis LABOUR OPPOSED TO SALE OF
confusion in the East and the two re-net de forte authorities of the separate units system of Government-matters little so on which the British commercial position successive gruerations of our countrymen, upon each other. The war profoundly
Soviet envoys at Péking are preaching GOVERNMENT SHARES.
modified the position of the Foreignsible for the maintenance of order long as it establishes a common working in China has begu gradually built up by
in the areas which they respectively cou-arrangement,
Dirces responsibility is the one
to upplanding audiences of Chinese Powers in China. The Chinese had little trol." LONDON, December 13th.
conception of the principles for which it thing which Chinese officials of all classes I man, of course, aware that these views: statesmen the doctrines which have In view of rumonts of the possibility of was fought, and simply thought all have always tried to avoid, and directot ucet with general acceptance, and, brought Russias to her present state, and the Government selling its shans in the Europe had gone mad. As an all action on the spot is likely to prove for that other solutions of the Chinese pro- the seed is being sown an receptive soil nese peasant aner put it to me, the mere eficetive than cireuitous orders blen have been proposed by highly com- for a harvest. of similar upheavals in
sent through a powerless Government, at} Anglu-Persiani Oil Company, the executive Emperor of Germany was a mad dog and
all the other mad dogs of Europe were Peking. One fact alone will illustrate retent authorities. One of these reached China. Evidences of an active and per- committee of the Labour party has, que after him. (Laughter.) The wear itself the helplessness of the Peking Governe within the last few days in the shaper nicious propagduda are for found in ted Mr. Ramsay Macdonald to convey to weakened the 'respect for the foreigner, ment. It professes anxiets to stop opium of an extremely interesting and carefally the literature which is scattered Broad- Mr. Baldwin their opinion that the dis and the consequences of the war have cultivation, and there is no reason to prepared pamphlet issued by Mr. Chang cast all over the country,
gone far to destroy it any of the great out its sincerity The plain fact, bow. Ying Hun, a former Minister of Finance It is for the present generation of
British residents nations of Europe have forfeited the posal of the shares would be contrary to
Bioment is growing twice as much opium which was recently held at Peking to pubile policy, and in the present circum-Treaty Rights, they formerly colored in her, remains that China at the present and Chairman of a National Commission
ernment. The author approaches the handed down to them by their fore- China and are now unable to Chinese as all the rest of the world put together study the financial problems of the Goy that the heritage which has been inrisdiction in all things Russia for (Laughter.) 1.5",
mental fads of doctrinaire enthusiasts 2. instance, who before the war held a stance would be improper...
But the above proposal can only be a nuistion from an entirely different angle fathers is not sacrificed to the senti nagi dominant position in China, are
in acknowledgment of the great services destitute ceptional circumstances, and the constant situation must precede unification. Time wandering in thousands in suppliants for Chinese justice and are temporary policy: forced upon us by ex- The holds that a solution of the financial And here, I would like to say a word Condition throughout the country. In ain of foreigners and Chinese alike will not permit me to review his argu- which the Associated Chambers of British some 7,000 should be to bring about political unity.ments. btit. briefly stated, they amount Commerce are rendering in the Far East. Shanghai alone there are Russian refugees living to this: The to
Assistance of that much-ahased, but little face at present anual deficit of nearly night their late chairman, Mr. Burkill. public charity a
read, instrument the Washington Con- £10,000,000 a year. He asserts that the and their very capable secretary: Mr. Gull of drugs, aut also the production of raw ELLIS ISLAND A BLOT ON THE
ference. Washington, with all its faults. roceeds from the 2 per cept, surtax opimu. All States which are members of
Concurrently with all this loss of for did several things for China. It restored can be utilised without reference to the (Applause.) The organisation of this the League, also all signatories of the
eign prestige, the disorganisation into her the leased territory of Kinochow, abolition of likin, and proposes that a body, which is thoroughly representative China has gone from bad to worse, The of which she had licen unjustly deprived, new loan of £120,000,000, secured on the of British commercial opinion in China. 3019 Convention will be invited to the
not only large commercial but consider The Assistant Secretary of Labour, Government in Peking has lost its hold first by Germany, and afterwards by the Customs, should be floated by the Peking marked an epoch in the history of British over the provinces, and receives little or Allier. It redeemed a promise which Government. The money would be used trade. Its members are men stationed in second conference, the programme for
addressing the tumigration Conference,"
no revenue. Its President is generally a had been made to her when she entered for paying off existing debts and for fur- all parts of that vast country who have It pro suficient to cover its administrative ex-able administrative experience, and their `which will he prepared by a special con advocated further restrictions on immigra mere gure head who retires to the safety the war, and raised her Customs tariff nishing the Government with a
of a foreign concession at a treaty port, to an effective five per cent. pittee of six members, including the tion, and desired that the acute labour when his position bociine no longer ten- vided for the withdrawal of the foreign penses for one year. This, he considers. f annual deliberations in Shanghai -wra The Parliament migrates from post offices, which had not been alto- would enable the Government to disband marked by a knowledge and breadth of shortage of a few months ago had become able.
No member of this Association wishes an unemployment problem, which threat place to place, drawing its salary im-gether free from abuses, and thereby troops and regain control of the country view which have gained general accept- artially from the different parties and acknowledged the efficient work of the Personally, I do not see how the Pekingas beth amongst Chinese, and foreig ened to assume menacing proportions: inding its presidential elections a wel Chinese Postal Adininistration. All these Government in the present state of the ro DROWNED.
come opportunity of supplementing its were just and valuable concessions, and country expect to raise a loan of over
it is China's own fault if she has not £100.000.000 in the present chaotic state to be unfair to China or desires anything of China, and, even if it screeded, I but her good. Our interests are in Mr. A. J. Derbyshire, of Utica, a
income. (Laughter.) CRASHES INTO SEA NEAR
director of the Americanization Council, Manchuria, which covers an area ore, made a profitable use of them.⠀
and-a-half times as large as France, the But Washington also held out to China have grave doubts about its ability to timately ponnd up with her" welfare, nn) HASTINGS
crented a mibi grasation by "demanding two Canton Provinces, which practically munals of expectations which were regain by these means its lost control what benefits her benefits is Most of Losbox. December 13th,
the removal of the Ellis Island immigra form the hinterland of Hongkong, the siject to certain specie conditions, atul over the provinces. But I claim no mono us have spent the best years of our life people. We are all firmly convinced that South-Western Provinces of Yuunan and to two of these I wish especially to direct poly of wisdom in such a complicated in the country, and have learned to. An Americen airman, Laurence Sperry, tion station, as it was "A lot on the
Kucichow, the former of which adjoins your attention-Extraterritoriality and question, and recognise that there is room admire the sterling good qualities of ber
I am afraid we cannot hope for who placed hiniself and his neroplane at country." He stated that he had come British and French possessions, and the the two-and-a-half per cent. increase of for wide difference of opinion much a nation of 400,000,000 of industrious and immense Province of Szechuan, which in the Customs revenue.. The Washington the disposal of the Liberals during the from Italy in the guise of an immigrant, imperial days financed Chineas adminis- decision is read to both were used improvement from the recent change of intelligent people are not going to election campaign, crashed into the sea and his expericnes was one long series tration in Tibet, have all now broken off upon the British Treaty of 1002, and did President at Peking. It has, however, at succumb to the military incubus which relations with Peking, and set up, inore little more than reproduce and expand least one advantage. It brings out in now weighs so heavily upon them, - and off Hastings yesterday, while he was of humiliations."
or less, independent Governments of their the language of that document. As re-its true light the dominating influence of that their wonderful patience and tena Kiangsu and Cheklang, the two gards Extraterritoriality, it is only neces the so-called militarists in the Councils city of purpose will pull them through rule fur Amsterdam. Ile is believed to
THE MEXICAN REVOLT.
richest provinces of the whole country.sary to say that this Association and all of the Capital. For some years past the their present difficulties, as they have have been drowned,
with Shanghai as a commercial centre, those who have followed recent events in Presidents have been little more than done through so many similar ones in DEFINITE BATTLE EXPECTED. have wisely entered into an arrangement: China have no hesitation in affirming respectable gureheads carrying out the the past. As Lord Balfour sait et Wash- for the preservation of peace within an that there can be no question of aban policy of the Military party under a ington, China must work out her own des Republican guise. Not the Tuchung tiny in accordance with the changes of WASHINGTON, December 18th. area in which immense foreign interests doning or modifying our Treaty rights at have throng off the task and have ele changing warld, and all we can do is to (Applause.) The treatment present. are at stake. The text of this agreement lins fortunately been communicated to the which the Russians have received is a vated one of their own number to the help her along her path. That we fef of Yuan Shih Kai's uld generals who has times to do, and we gladly recognise the Government controls the whole Republic. consular authorities in Shanghai, and painful warning against anything of the headship of the State. Tsao Kun is one sure our own Government is ready at all borne a part in most of the political, efforts they have made during the past. Cruz and forms a valuable precedent na au almost kind. except small sections of Vera
CTORS INCREASE AND LIKIS.
movements of the last few years, but who wear to find a solution of Chinese pro Jalisco. Obregon's forces are already in solitary instance of the recognition of
foreign rights,
There has been considerable misapprehas no claim to be more than a leader of items. For one proof of their interest contact with the Rebels, and a definite China has, it will be seen, become a
congeries of disjointed provinces ruled by hension in regard to the Customs in the Chibli faction. His election accent in China we are especially grateful-the battle is expected during the present militars, ontraps, ho ore ne allegiance crease. People have been speculating uates the partisan character of the Peking decision to remit the Boxer indemnity Lord Alfred Douglas has been sentenced week. A vigorous final attack in planned to any central authority, and who show about the use to be made. of the money, Government. and will probably tend to Fication, to which a part of thet money:
against the Rebels,
American delegate.
AMERICAN AIRMAN
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"LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS CONVICTED. SIX MONTHS FOR CRIMINAL
LIBEL
LONDON, December 13th.
COUNTRY New York, December 13th.
The Mexican Embassy states that the
to six moaths in the second division, for riminally libelling Mr. Winston Chur-
chill.
Military officers of all ranks with exception of Cenerals Sauchez
Mr. Justice Avory, summing up, said | Estrada are fully supporting the
ho did not believe any counsel had ever
"rament.
WASHINGTON, December 33th. Senator Lenoct, after a conference with
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scant respect for the obligations which as if it were to become a liquid asset widen the breach between it and the will presumably be applied, is the one China, as a sovereign State, has contract the moment the Treaty is ratified. I reseceding Provinces. On the other hand, mon bond which, in spite of all the
Chinn's great commend all such to study the Treaty the Government, if it secures the support differences, links taxether Chinese of all theed with other Powers, and army of unemployed numbers about a They will find that the Special Confer of Wu Pei Fu, may be able to tighten cines. And it is filing that we should million half uien, who are alter-ence which is to deal with the question its hold over the Provinces north of pay tribute of gratitude to our Gov nately soldiers and brigands, ond, who, has to take immediats steps to prepare the Yangtze, and consolidate that part Minister at Peking and our Consuls
gulinrls heavy task, which he has ad instead of reeriving a dole from the the way for the speedy abolition of hikin of the entry into a confederated Chine Sir Ronald Macleay has had h State, are allowed to loot the law-abid and for the fulfilment of the other con- Tuchuunte
Only one of two things can save Ching, mirghly discharged, and we extend to ditions of the Eighth Article of the 1902 QUESTION OF US. LOAN TO ing classes (Laughter.)aptured and Treaty, with a view to the levy of the either an agreement amongst all parties him a full measure of our sympathy and
Foreigners GERMANY.
held to ransom in many parts of the surtaxes. As the abolition of likin sill to sink their differences and work support. (Applause). And to the Con- country a good number have been kill.necessarily take time, the Conference has together for the regeneration of their sular Service, on whom na ever-increase ed, and consuls have been fired at. One to consider the interim provisions to be country, or the appearanes of a strong ing load of responsibility rests in these of the latter, who happily survives, is applied prior to its abolition and the ful-man who will do for China what Musso- unsettled times, we owe an expression of here to-night. The culminating outragefilment of the other conditions of the 1902 lini is doing for Italy. There is no hope our special thanks for their courage and was the Lin-Cheng affair, the particulars Treaty, and it is to authorise the levying of Tsao Kun proving such a strong man,fortitude in facing unexampled difficul And now. gentlemen, I ask you to of which are well known. The note which of the surtax from such date for such and the main chance of his being able ties. (Applause.) the foreign representatives at Peking purposes, and subject to such conditions to carry on at all lies in the support of
his old subordinate, Wy Pet Fu Unlike drink to the Prosperity of the China as it may determine; addressed to the Government there con this question and the cordial approval of In other words, the imposition of the most of his fellow-Tuchuns, Wu is not Association. this Association, and its demands were additional 24 per cent, Customs duty is only an educated man, but a capable
Mr. H. W. Looker, proposed the toss. regarded by ns ns perfectly just and ren to be part of the scheme which stipulates military leader, and, although he has dis sonable. Indeed, China has reason to that immediate steps shall be taken to appointed the extravagant hopes that congratulate herself that her ense was prepare the way for the speedy abolition were at one time formed of him, he is of "Our Guests, sod Mr not submitted to the decision of a Diplo of liking and the application of the pre- still in a position to make or mar the for Stewart proposed, the health, of the roatic Tribunal in Europe, which, to ceeds is a matter left entirely to the tares of ba quondam chief, Tsan Kus. Chairman
been allowed greater intitude that Mr. Hayes, whose address to the jury was a mixture of diatribo against politicians and vituperation of Mr. Churchill Mr. Justice Avery emphasised that Lord 'Alfred Douglas persisted in the libels President Coolidge, statel that he wou after their falsehood had been proved in the Morning Post He took this action hold in abeyance his Bill of appropria. without the slightest grounds for believing tion of twenty million dollars for German he was telling the truth, and his defence a had been conducted a most opproprious relief, pending the conclusion of negotin. manner. His Lordship ordered Lord tions for an international, toan to Ger- Alfred Douglas on the expiration of the sentence to find a sirety to keep the pener many. He added that he agreed with particularly towards Mr. Churchill, fail. Mr. Coolidge that guy and to Germany should be a business rather than a ing which surely he was to undergo a
charitable basis, farther six months' imprisonment,
Gershom