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DEATH OF THE SIRDAR.
Carno, November 20th. The Sirdar of Egypt, Major-General Sir Tee tack, died at midnight."
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The Sirdar slept calmly, under a nar potic administered at ten o'clock in the -evoning, but, a défaite decline in his -condition bêgan at 11 o'clock, the heart
becoming very weak.
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THE OPIUM” CONFERENCE AT GENEVA.
COMPLETE AGREEMENT NOT YET REACHED.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 1924
GENEVA, November 20th." The second Opium Conference conclud- ed with a general discussion.
The Canadian delegate declared that Canada was prepared to give her general support to the movement for the limita- tion and the manufacture of opium deri- vatives, and also effective control of its import and export.
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Mr. Sze (China) pledged China's sup- port to the Conference.
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The Egyptian delegates, suggested the The Sirdar expired peacefully at 11.45 inclusion of hashish in the list of nar
coties.
Prior to the death of the Sirdar an emergency meeting of the British Cabinet was held to consider the situation aris ing out of the attack.
The meeting insted nearly two hours. A despatch from General Allenby was considered and the nature of the protest to be made to the Egyptian Government was discussed.
Que paper says an official announce- ment will probably be made in London and Cairo simultaneously to-day of the action the Government proposes to take It adds that in official circles in London.
the opinion is expressed that something beyond a mere verbal protess and the punishment of the criminals, in what was unquestionably a "carefully concerted outrage, is necessary, and it is anticipated that strong. measures will be taken.
A CHAUFFEUR HERO. · *
Cano, November 21st.
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The Turkish delegate dwelt on the suffering of the Turks from fashish.
Sir M. Delevingne (Great Britain) said that Great Britain was of the opinion that complete elimination was impossible, though limitation
of production was possible.
The India delegate accepted the scheme prepared by the advisory committee.
The American delegation submitted a plan with a view to combatting the traffic. after which the meeting adjourned till the afternoon."..
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THE WORLD'S SPORT.
FOOTBALL
LONDON, November 20th. The League match between Freston North End and Sunderland resulted in a win for the latter by two goals to one.
RUGBY.
Lonpos, November 20th. At Oxford, the All Blacks defeated Oxford University by 33 points to 15.
CRICKET IN SOUTH AFRICA.
PIETERMARITZBURG, Nov. 20th The match between Mr. Joel's team of English cricketers and Natal was drawn,
Mr. Joel's team scored 179 runs. Kennedy compiled +4.
In their second innings the English team scored 109 runs for the loss of five wickets,
Ernest Tyldesley scored 40 runs. Natal scored 202 runs, Taylor compiling 38 run..
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MO.C. IN AUSTRALIA.
SYDNEY, November 21st,
In warm weather, before 12,000 people, and on a good wicket, after forty minutes' interruption through rain just after lunch, New South Wales scored 42 for
The resumed Opium Conference listen- ed to addresses from philanthropic wickets. Bardsley made a magnificent societies, largely British and American. 142 not out, and Taylor scored 31. and one French and one Chinese. submit- ting suggestions to combat the use of narcotics.
private associations.
The Spanish delegate proposed that the Secretariat should distribute inform. The hero of the tragedy is March, Siration, to the delegates of suggestions of Lee Stuck's chauffeur, who is an Aus tralian, not Egyptian na previously stated: There is general admiration for his cool ness in driving his car to the Residency although twice wounded.
He says that the car seemed to be surrounded by gunmen, and shots were coming from, the front and rear. He thinks that at least eight men were in- volved, all of whom were dressed as effendis, with one wearing a false beard.
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Cairo, November 21st. The newspaper drum says that the British Government has instructed Gener-" al Allenby to inform King Fuad and the Egyptian Government of Britain's devi- sion to separate the Governor-General. ship of the Sulan from the Sirdarship. MORE LABOUR TROUBLE IN AUSTRALIA. NON-UNION LABOUR BOYCOTTED,
MELBOURSE, November' 21st. Railwaymen and stevedores arc refus ing to handle cargo, including butter, valued at £130,000, on the peninsulars at Maloja There is intensified waterside trouble whence, according to a Union official, anything might eventuate."'
The strike aims at the abolition of the : Sydney Maritime Bureau, consisting ex clusively of ex-Service" men, supplying non-Union labour.
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GERMAN GENERAL SENTENCED.
LILLE, November 20th.
to-
The Conference adjourned till morrow, thus showing that agreement has not yet been reached regarding the Japanese contention, respecting import
licences.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. FOREIAN SECRETARY TO ATTEND COUNCIL MEETING AT ROME.
Lornos, November 20th, Reuters Agency is informed that Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is proceeding to Italy in December as the British representative on the Council of the League of Nations, aud thus misses the opening of Parliament.
It is not yet certain whether Mr. Cham berlain will official attend the various meetings of the Council similarly with Lord Parmoor, who was appointed ad hoc, but it is not impossible that such an ap pointment will be made.
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A VERY HARD CASE, BIO BOMES BEATEN BY
BATTLESHIP.-
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NORFOLK, VA, November 21st. The uncompleted dreadnought as ington, which is being destroyed under the Naval Limitation Treaty, was yes-
AUSTRALIAN-CHINESE TRADE.
ENORMOUS POSSIBILITIES IN
REBUILT TOKYO.
TO BE MODERN CITY.
[BY HIDEJIRO NAGATA, MAYOR OF TUXTO.]
Mr. Cohen said that the Chinese were. becoming increasingly large buyers of leather goods from Canada and the United States chiefly. The annual trade with America in hides was worth about SIGHT."
Tis. 30,000,000. Canada had only secured her trade in the last few years. That was The official reconstruction programme WHERE AUSTRALIA CAN SUCCESS because the Canadian Government had for Tokyo, which is to be completed 20
FULLY COMPETE
backed up the big organization of pro- 1928, will constitute merely the founda- ducers and manufacturers which had set,tion for the Greater Tokyo which is our Delivering an address before members out to capture the Chinese market.
final goal.
The work of reconstruction, in all its of the Queensland Parliament, in the old
BUTTER AND WHEAT
phases covers a field vastly greater than Speaking of butter, Mr. Cohen said Legislative Council Chamber recently, that Australia bad done a fair business would be impossible to complete it in the one on first thought supposes and it Mr. Henry H. Cohen, one of the foun-in this commodity, but those agents who brief time many people seem to think ders of the trade section of the Mel-aid she was holding her own were not should be sufficient for the task. The bourne Chamber of Commerce, and exported to Chins £225,000 worth of must look far into the future in order to telling the truth. In 1893 Canada had experts who have the plans in hand British representative of thus body in butter: Canada could only produce avoid mistakes which at later dates Shanghai, declared, that there were enor. butter for a few months in the year. But could not be rectified. Every step must to keep up her supplies abe imported be taken carefully and with the proper mous possibilities for Australian traders from New Zealand, and re-exported preparation as a quarantee that it is in China. A direct and subsidized line batter to China-butter which she label. not being taken unwisely,
led Canadian!. of steamships, atted with insulation
Canadian shipments of wheat to space, was one pecessity. Another was a Shanghai in the past few years had co-operative organization in China of been- Australian.trade interests.
Between 30 and 40 members listened to the address," which was an instructivo one Mr. Cohen was well armed with facts and figures, and the fact that his speech lasted only a little over half an hour added to its value,
Mr. Cohen said that trade with the East was of vital importance to Aus- tralia to primary producers, manufac turers, and to the vast body of labour. Under existing conditions Australia could not compete with other nations he would confine his observations mostly For the sake of brevity. Mr. Cohen said to Shanghai.
**MUCH MISUNDERSTOOD."
China, he said, was much misunder America had captured the greatest, share stood in Australia. One of the reasonsĮ
1920, £0,300.
1921, £60,000.
1929, £600,000.
1024, £1,500.000. Australia none at all Flour shipments
was practically America had been-
-1919, £950,000,
1920, £300.000.
1991, £730,000.
1929, £3,330,000.
The construction of new streets is merely one part of the city's work in re-.. pairing the earthquake's damage and taking advantage of this opportunity ta build a better city on the ruins. There remain the 'construction of a harbour for Tokyo, eshals in the city, and to Yoko- hama,
the building one wires and the lay- of parks, the removal of overhead
from shipping ing of a modern sewage system.
The most careful attention is being paid by our engineers to the plans for a city-wide sewage system which will bring sanitation here to a plane comparable with the best anywhere in the world. The new system bad already been begun. in Sbitaya and Asakusa before the earthquake. The installation in Nihom and Shiba will be completed in 1997. The bashi, Kychashi, Marunouchi, Kojimachi total appropriation for this work is Y+3,300,000.
1993, over £3,000,000
by Mr. Cohen were those relating to the Among other interesting igures given trade of Shanghai:
1021, 22,880,000 tons. 1999, 97,770,000 tona. 1023 33,330,000 tona. America bad increased her tonnage from 2,818,000 tons in 1922 to 5,140,000 tons in 1923!
EXCHANGE PROBLEM:
In addition to this. Y950,000 has been. appropriated for general improvement of sanitation. This amount is to pro- vide facilities for the disposal of garbage. and similar purposes. The improvement and extension of the water supply sys tem will cost, Y100,000,000.
terday given over to 14 inch bomba from China is fast becoming Westernized established banking facilities in the East powerful positions, who have catered to
of Chinese trade was that she allowed thei cultured "Chinese of the merchant classes) One great dificulty before Australia The municipal transportation system to go and leave there without andus was the exchange problem, Mr. Cohen also is to be improved, at a cost of restrictions. The same thing applied to declared. For all goods sent to. China, Y2,100,000. the student classes. He was a White drafts Ead to go through London. Aus- These are merely examples of the dire Australian and a Protectionist, but he tralian goods were thereby placed at, ations in which the work of reconstruction thought the restrictions placed on these disadvantage, amounting to 4 per cent is branching out. It even incluries the classes of 'Chines were too harsh. Stu While in Melbourne he had addressed establishment of employment bureaus, dent classes were not allowed at all,members of the Federal Parliament, and day nurseries, consultation stations and and cultured merchmutmen had to pay had pointed out the urgency of establish a great number of other agencies of apoll tax, and have their anger printsing at Batavia, Hongkong, and Shang. social service. It is difficult to grasp taken. He thought this was only a hai branches of the Commonwealth, Bank. the full extent of the
Programme which matter of misunderstanding. If Australia He understood the Federal Government eventually is to be carried out...
large share of bad the question under review. He hoped disions prevailing since the earthquake expected to secure
Technical difficulties and economic con- Chinese trade there must be reciprocity. the Queensland Government would throw have served to retard the work to a cer Today Australia imposed excessive its weight into the fight for the starting tain extent, and it has been delayed duties on goods that could not be grown of such branches. Other countries hau also by the machinations of persons in or manufactured at home.
After Mr. Cohen had urged the import selfish interests. All the time, however, the battleship Texas. but she is still in a state of chaos, now, but some day with distinctive trade marks, he said the capital which finally will be built here continued Mr. Cohen The country is ance of exporters branding, their goods we are keeping before us the pictares of afloat, and not materially damaged, only some great met will consolidate the dis-that because there were
united forces, and Australia, if she does freight rates now in existence between nation may be proud,
competitive a new Tokyo of which all the Japanese dented about the armour. The hull is not establish markets now, will be hope- Australia and China- Japanese line! The problems that confront us practically free of water, despite the ex-lessly out of it."
in the of steamers was running-some people reconstruction plans, are not only those plosion of underwater charges.
A WAGING A CAMPAIGN.
thought all was well in this connection. of to-day, but of to-morrow and fifty and But the Chinese have a hatred of the one hundred years from now. If we can As a test of ita resisting powers, thenstralia to wage a campaign for a ship go out, and freights will be just as high then there will be no need for anxiely as Me, Cohen stated that he had come to shipper." This Japanese company will lay a proper foundation at this time. vessel will to-day be aerially attacked by ping subsidy on trade to Shanghai as ever. You must have direct shipping, to the cy's future as it will develop nine bombing aeroplanes, each carrying said that had been sought for the with insulated space, and the rates that along the lines which anticipate the
past four years. The Federal Govern-are operating to-day, if you are to future.Japan.. missiles weighing one to two thousand ment had promised that it would sub- succeed." pounds.
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LOS ANGELES WATER
DISPUTE.
LOS ANGELES, November 20th. The aqueduct dispute has been settled, following a pledge from the Los Angeles The British delegation will leave for Clearing-House to co-operate with the Bome probably on December 5th.
ranchers' efforts to secure a fair share of water for irrigation purposes.
The presence of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affaire further prove the British Government's desire to promota the work of the League to the atmost.
INTERNATIONAL COM- BINATIONS, SOVIET WORKING OUT PLANS:
LONDON, November 20th.
The Times correspondent at Riga states
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sidize steamers, but had not done so. Organization of trade concerns was en- That Government spoke of the need for other necessity, the speaker remarked. immigration. But what was the need of America, Germany, and other countries immigration unless overseas markets were had them. They paid cash against docu- established Str. Coben said be felt con- meats in their own countries, and it was fident that when he had finished his cam-impossible for any single Australian con- paign the Australian people would com-cera, never mind how powerful, to corn. pel the Federal Government to do its pete against them. Some big co-operative duty to the taxpayers.
organization would have to be established interests. in China on behalf of Australian trading
"LAURENTIC'S" GOLD. NINETY-NINE PER CENT.
... RECOVERED.
Majesty's salvage vessel Racer recently The return to Portsmouth of his marked the end of the salvage opore ing, Mr. Cohen admitted that Australian On the question of packing and label
tions which the Admiralty have bee carrying out for the past few years on. traders had made mistakes. But it was In asiwer to a question by Mr. T. the wreck of the armed liner Laurentie- been ruinous to Australian trade in ported in North China from Australia, Lloyd's List and Shipping and Aleran nonsense to say that those mistakes had Foly, Mr. Cohen said that coal was im- The result of the undertaking, states China. America bad made the same mis but there was a big business waiting in tile Gazette, has been that over 90 per takes, but when the United States Gov- the South were the organization there.tu per cent of the £8,000,000 worth of ernment subsidized the shipping her work it up. Other countries had repre specie which went down in the ship has trade leaped ahead in leaps and bounds. sentatives on the spot to watch out for been safely restored to the Treasury. At. The same thing would happen to Aus contracts that were being let.
the beginning of this year there were 154 tralian trade...
A TRADE IN HEAT.
To a question by the Premier Mr, bars of gold remaining buried in ther Theodore) Mr. Cohen said that Hong-wreck, and the salvage vessel Bactr kong was a free port. The other parts arrived on the spot in the Erst days of of 6 per cent, on all goods. There were of these as possible before koally closing in China imposed only a nominal duty April for the effort to recover as many inland duties, but these would not affect down At an earlier period of the work said that in Australian trade.
all the structure of the ship and wreckage had been removed, right down to the outer skin of the. vessel, which formed.
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LATIN AS A LIVING LANGUAGE. WHERE IT IS USED IN LONDON. could be established in a few years Ao enormous trade in meat with China In his address to Convocation recently Speaking of the possibilities in this
direction, Mr. Cohen the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University February he had been present at Marshal (Mr. Joseph Wells, Warden of Wadham) Chang Tso Lin's manceuvres in Man-
churia. He had been greatly surprised In reply to an interjection by Mr. Ras it were, a carpet lying on the sea bed. reverted to the custoen of speaking in to find that the troops were being fed on Bedford that trade with China would be This carpet had been swept clear of gold, Latin, which had been disused for seven meat twice a week. And Chang's was subject to the buying capabilities of the but it was crumpled and torn in many years. The last Vice-Chancellor to only one army of many..
Chinese people, M. Cohen said that places. In the first month of the present that political circles in Moscow are busy address Convocation in Latin was Dr. the better class Chinese were becoming Day in Canton 175,000 coolies had asked boulders at the bole, and as the excava
As showing the rapid rate at which wages in China had increased in the last | season a number of the bars were working out plans for new international Blakiston, President of Trinity.
three years by 100 per cent. On May tained by digging out and sifting ther Westernized, Mr. Cohen aid that a few combinations, particularly with regard to Latin is not quite so dead a language years ago the European afternoon tea for an eight-hour day. They did not France, Japan and China. One group in England as it might be supposed bahit was unknown in China. Today, in set it Mr. Cohen observed, but it tions were deepened and extended so that
all the Treaty ports, it had become the showed that they were after better cop-
divers could squeeze themselves
right advocates the re-establishing in some form to be. Hundreds of thousands of Roman custom And the Chinese were not only, litious, and were going to get them. derneath the wreck more gold was dis One of the so-called "war criminals," the lofa Franco-Russian pre-war alliance, while weekly in their churches and educational homes, they were also eating them at cent batter than it was three years ago,
Catholica, of course, hear it daily or consuming Occidental foods outside their Their spending power to-day is 100 per beneath continuous plating. A very fine covered several feet from the tears, and German General von Natlusius, who was soutenced in contumacians to five years with regard to Far Eastera polier, an institutions. By the act of Uniformity their own meal tables. And Australia and in another couple of years it will spring and early summer favoured the undertaking, but with the late summer imprisonment after the war on the charge article in the Pravda says that the of 1962, Eton, Winchester, and West should supply not only a large portion be another 200 or 300 per cent. better." of stealing furniture and articles of clo b-immediate need of the Soviet is to regulate minster were allowed to use it in their tities of clothing to the Chinese.
bad Mr. W. Deacon raised the question of
weather set-in, and soon the distur of these edibles, but could sell great quan- ing from the chatea in which he was her relations with Japan, but the Soviet public services, and to this day West-
back loading. Mr. Coben replied that caused stones and shingle to sweep into
bance of
the surrounding wreckage billeted, during the war, was recently re- diplomatista insist that Japan should minster has Latin prayers every day at
American ships always returned to their and over the working place faster than. arreated when visiting his father's grate curtail her demands for naphtha concessions, the end of school, and every third year
own country with full cargots of rice, it could be cleared out, and now any at Forbach, and was to-day re-tried by otherwise they refuse to enter into further it has an evening service wholly in Latin tons of dried fruits Australia's share not be produced in America But be feet deep. The result of the struggle bas Last year Shanghai had imported 889 condiments, and other goods that could sold that is left there is buried several General von Nachosits at renacusly begotiation and will create a nem com ber 1780, 1995--in honour of its benefac and was wine to Tis: 900,000,000
in the Abbey the next will be on Novem- of that trade was only 34 tons In bame questioned whether they were going to been the recovery of 12 of the 164 bart, denied the charge, but the court decided by and economic alliance between the Soviet tors. At this service not only are the market-if the shipping facilities were worth of Australian goods unless Aus majority of four to three that the accused and Chins; and Japan must understand prayers, the Psalms, and the bymans in there. A large number of small second tralians bought Chinese goods in return. was guilty, and he was sentenced to one that such an alliance will menace her the ancient language the long list of benefit was a poor class trade. The better loading. Chins could export tea, silks Cohen said that timber could be imported
Latin, but the head-master reads out in rate factories were basy in China, but With a direct line there would be back Fear's imprisonment and ordered to pay schemes unicas she takes in this factors The costs of the prosecution.
At Oxford, all University business is, class Chinese and the Europeans would laces, underwear, fors, and napery, and into Australia from Borneo to compete rale, transacted in Latin, to the not consume the output. The trade in would take in return, besides the goods with the American Oregon. He had been THE SPANISH WITHDRAWAL tonishment of many visitors, particularly good class hams and bacon was supplied he had previously mentioned, fresh fruit, informed that there were available salt
IN MOROCCO.
from America Dr. Farnell, Mr. Wells's by Canada, which had made a study of copper ingots, wheat, flour, bran, wines, woods that would make excellent butter prodcocasor, favoured English for his the Chinese market, and which was sup steam engines, electrical, and other Convocation address, as did Dr. Strong, plying a seven or eight lbs. lean ham machinery, iron and steel goods, blan-boy is described as a farce, and the sentence. General Berrano and the Lieut. Colonal as an infamous set of vengeance. Even who were mentioned yesterday were killed
the present Bishop of Bipen and Vico Australian hams were too big. However, kets, suiting, tweeds, hides, and skins, HEAVY COMMISSION CHARGED. Chancellor, when Dean of Christ Church she would lose the mall trade she and other things. Every American vessel A question from Mr. Bell elicited the the moderate Tageblatt is most angry, during the withdrawal from the Sheshuanas, the official University language; and were not provided... and says that unless the sentence is Tataan line.".
At Cambridge, too, Latin is recognised already had it the shipping facilities that arrived at Shanghai had her cold reply that commission charges amounted
storage accommodation full of fresh fruit to about 20 per cent, in China. promptly quasbed it will be an incredible
when another seat of learning celebrates a There was an unlimited market in and vegetables. Of course, large quan Mr. Bedford: That is not peculiar to disgrace for French Democracy, H. Her An official communique to-day says that centenary, or the scientific men of Paris China for 2-lb. cheeses. He had been iss tities of vegetables were grown in Chins, the Chinese trade. They are rather riot, and the Cabinet. The Nationalist General Federico Berenguer was wounded
do homage to Pasteur, or the Rockefeller pressed by the display at the recent Bris- but under such conditions that the better moderate, papers demand German reprisals, and the moment he took over the command Institute confers some new benefaction bane Exhibition of this type of cheese, classes of Chinese and the Europeans Moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Cohen, undoubtedly the German Government will from General Serrano, and one list, colonel upon mankind, the address of the Univer. but a big Brisbane exporter had told bin would not eat them China also pro the Premier said there seemed to be so take further action, especially as the ver was killed and two Reut-colonels were sity of Cambridge is always in Latin, that he did not see how it could be ship diced organes, apples, and so op, earthly reason why Australia should not dict will be good election propaganda for wounded, in addition to a number of written by the Fablie Orator. On the bed to China profitably. And last but her seasons were the same as secure and hold a share of the Chinese the Nationalists against the policy of officers and soldiers, mostly belonging toes the Royal Family of Britain, the tradi ported from Canada and the United clear four months run every year
other hand, when the University address year, and Mr. Cohen, Shanghai im- Canada's, and Australia would have
trade. If Mr. Cohen, awakened interest reconciliation with France.
the Native Legion.
| among Australian producers and mans- tion in that it shall be in English to States £1,250,000 worth of cheese
facturers he would be rendering the MCA(Continued on west column.)
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GERMANY UP IN ARMS.
BERLIN, November 21st,
The whole Fres is indignant at the sentence in the Nathusius trial, which
combination.
Manam, November 20th.
Replying to Mr. J. P. Peterson, Nr.