CABLES.
BARLIER GABLES. (THROUGH, HEUTER'S AGENCY.]
· EGYPT AND THE LEAGUE.
BRITAIN'S FIRM STAND AGAINST INTERVENTION.
GENEVA, December 4th.
Great Britain, on November 19th, sent Note to the Secretariat of the League of Nations referring to the resolution of the Asserably of October 2nd, which beld
that the Disarmament Protocol was open to the signature of non-members of the League.
As the terms of the resolution might suggest the communication of the Pro tocol to Egypt, the Note recalls the British notification of 1999 to the other
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS –SATURDAY
PLOT AGAINST BRITISH CABINET MINISTERS.
SENSATIONAL ASSASSINATION
STORYL
·LORD ALENBYS DISCLOSURES
·SPECIAL POLIGE MEASURES.
LONDON, December 4th.
A sensational story, is published in the busily fail to the effect that a plot has been discovered to assassinate prominent members of the Cabinet.
News of the conspiracy is supposed to Have reached the Government in a des- patch from Lord Allenby, High Commis sioner in Egypt, the receipt of which was followed by a special meeting of the Cabinet.
The Cabinet meeting was acceeded by a conference of police chiefs, who
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
[FROM THE*** DASLY, BULERTIN,""]
CHINESE BARRED IN
DECEMBER
CANTON NEWS.
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LABOUR UNION. AMALDAMATION.
1924
THE OPIUM DEADLOCK.
THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL
MAKES MAN
AGREEABLE
COMPANION
The Geneva Upium, Conference has ful- Sir Arbuthnot Lans who is Consalting Alled the
made some Sur
Guy's Hospital and to the months ago and, ended in a deadlock. Hospital for Sick Children, writea în the. As far back as July Anti-opium Workers in London doubted whether the Confer
• To swid furthes friction among the MANILA, December 4th
labour unions in Canton, an attempt is Pending instructions from Governor being made to amalgamate all the lead
Few people seem to realise the remark- General Wood, the Constabulary haveing organizations. The most influential
ence would even be held, because during|able benefit which results from the prevented 23 Chinese sailors landing from labour federations in Canton at present the preliminaries necessary for the form moderate and legitimate use of alcohol. the schooner Lee Tong, of Portuguese
are the Chung Kung Hui,” Generalulation of a programme an impasse was The vast difference that its absence mažes registry, from Amor, which was wrecked Labour Union› the ** Kung Yeh Luen simost reached. As the delegates to the was very forcibly impressed on me on ant of the coast of Pagasinan on November Hob Hui, Association of Industrial Opium Conference were only those re-foccasion on which the President of 24th, as they fear a clash with the natives. Workers; and the "Kung Tai Pias Hui,
în suburban medical society invited me to or Workers Conference. Each represents
address its members, all of whom he had a number of labour unions. The Workers
Renerously asked to dinner. He was Conference has members from the first
what is generally spoken of as a man. two, it being wholly composed of organis-
of high principles; he was a staunch ations affiliating with the Kuomintang
teetotaler, as were all the members of Political Party," The Conference is part
his family. His hospitality at the meat
WHAT'S THE USE OF PARTIES? ALL GOVERNMENTS ARE BAD" A Business Mab wrote in Truth, the week before the General Election:-
and For three years past. more, people
presenting Far Eastern possessions which opium is a vital question they were all fighters and went to the table in fill armour both for offence and defence Only one of the Monopoly Colonies of the East (Hongkong), bas unreservedly asser ted that financial considerations will
Powers on the subjects of the special arranged elaborate measures of prated have been expecting that some politician of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Red programme Derer stand in the way of opium, reform, did not comprise alcohol, and the only
Anglo-Egyptian relations and which are defined in the declaration recognising Egyptian independence, which relations vitally involve the rights and interests of the British Empire, and therefore any attempt at interference with affairs in Egypt by another Power would be regard- ed as an unfriendly act.
BRITISH NOTE CIRCULATED.
-erament is consequently unable to admit
that the Protocol, if signed by Egypt, would enable the Egyptian Government to invoke the intervention of the League, of Nations in the settlement of matters absolutely reserved to the discretion of His Majesty's Government.
tion and gave instructions to armed door group of politicians would wave a tectives to act drastically of necessary.
magic wand, mumble a mystical, incaa tation, and-ley presto unemployment would vanish, taxation be reduced houses SOVIET AMBASSADOR," AT
be built, and all the problems that make PARIS.
post-war life almost noendurable" be xwept away.
M. KRASSIN'S AIMS.
PARIS, December 4th.
All the others are still silent, and it drink supplied was water and lemonade.
The dullness of that dinger and the sube. would be almost unthinkable that. Pos
that beause alcohol if taken in excessive
quantities or at wrong times is prejudi clad to health, or to the performance of the finest work, it is wrong to take ik
at convenient times and in favourable cir
applies to cumstances. The same surely appli every useful drug we possess-morphia, belladonna, strychnine, quinine, da No drug is useful in moderation that se not huresful in BICEI,
It embraces 13 labour unions. There are 117 Tabour unions in Canton altogetherí--
sessions, which raise from 20 to 46 per aquent apathy of the meeting hare left
unique and indelible impression on my. GENERAL LI FOOR LAM RESIGNS. cent of their revenue from opium, should
be prepared without fight to surrender memory. What I object to is the attitude General Li Fook Lam, locally known as
such a source of income, and nt, the same assumed by many enthusiasts who assert Silly asses! Yet maybe there is some excuse for the uncrowned king of Bona, Canton.
ne load themselves with the heavy ex- them. Things around them create their has submitted his resignation as the compenditure of an effective prevention ser Several thousands of Communists de-illusion, and the newspapers are most to mander of the ard Corps of the Canton vice if opium were suppressed or res-
blame. Much of the daily reading of The Note says that His Majesty's Gov. Krassin, the new Soviet Ambassador ing them that their troubles are due to the protest against attempted interference League Conference, as the Narcotic one monstrated outside the station receiving the simple public consists of articles showe Army. His resignation is taken as a tricted. Had this Conference been a full
Government of the day--it does not with his control of Honam b
by the Yunnan to France, with cheers for revolution.
matter of which or how many parties is
now in process is, over forty nations A strong form of police maintained
may consist-and that their only possible ese- Several days ago, the Yunnanese, would have been represented, and the hope lies in tao Government of the mor raided some houses in. Hocam and arrea balanced judgment of powers not direct- order.
row, which, of course, means, any other, Government than the present; it may be ted about 20 persons for ille gamblingly interested in opium cultivation er an old one returned to office or a new one and opium smoking. It has been ap smoking might have smoothed the way formed of fragments of the old ones I parent for some time that the Funnan- to some useful decisions, but as it was,
It has been stated that alcohol is of only those were present who had nothing no use in medieme. That I would deny lock gives added conviction to the long contrary, it is one of the most useful foods stated fact that Enance is the arbiter in and drugs we possess. It is difficult to all spium problems. It is impossible to prove this in the case of the adult, since escape this conviction. Whatever may of the medical man with the symptoms the attempted interference on the park
opium when used in moderation revenue duces such slight results that opinions must undeniably be the aim of
Far Eastern Possession which permits a yearly average consumption of 48 cunces of opium by each of its 160,000 Chinese indented coolies. All these coolies are
Early in-my professional life I waz not opium smokers, therefore those who brought intimately into relation with are must have passed far beyond moderated on a few hours after birth. Many
infants, Young
some of whom were oper ation and will rapidly become such moral of these children were most difficult to and physical wrecks that at the end of feed, they refused to drink their bottles, their contract, debt and their addictive or if they did they very soon rejected
The Secretary General replied enquir. tion of normal Russo-French relations Government; hat it would be different traffic, at least, in order to prevent their to gain and everying to lose. The dead. absolutely, and would assert that on the
M. Krassin, on his arrival at the Soviet Embassy, told the Pressmen that the Sovigt's immediate aims were the resump
ing whether the British Government in economically, commercially and tended that the Note should be circulacially. He denied any intention of zed to those Powers to whom the Proto- diately floating a loan. in France. col had been sent, and a reply was re- TO ENSURE WORLD PEACE.
on December 1th, stating that this
was the Briiish Government's desire, U.S. PRESIDENT ON CO.OPERATION." "good; that all Governments are bad; that Yunnanese, but pocketing the income him- be said by the most virulent defenders of conditions which he calls disease pro
Teived
and the Note was accordingly so circula- ted.
«SECOND · OPIUM CONFERENCE.
STILL IN COMMITTEE STAGE.
GIEVA, December 4th.
self..
may even be worse than any existing ese will hold strongly to the gambling finan-and therefore, people think, better.
Why not tell the "truth" Instead of fores from financial embarrassment imme-shrieking from the housetops the bless General Li is being accused of allowing
ings of Free Trade, the advantages of Tariff Reform, the universal paaucen of gambling to exist within his jurisdiction Socialiam, for Heaven's sake let this without paying the necessary fees to the stupid nation know that re party is gay
the only difference between them is that some, are worse than others. None of them en cure unemployment, or build houses, or even make peace. They can all only. middle and promise and muddle again.
To expect anything else is not reason daily in Canton, in its issue of December able. To ask a Government any Goath, had the temerity to report a robbery erament to cure unemployment is like asking a child to lift a ton weight. It case of the preceding day and mention
"Red." is entirely and altogether beyond its the culprit: Tang Xun, as a power, Governments were never made for terms local newspapers dare not use when that kind of job. A tyrant might do it,
dictator, given brains enough, could describing the Chiese Bolshevists in
CHICAGO, December 4th. Fresident Coolidge in a speech at a luncheon here, said they could no more ensure stable peace without co-operation among the nations than they could secure victory without alliances.
America must constantly be ready to The sub-committees of the second. opium conference continued their discus--
help, at home and abroad where aid was sions to-day. The date of the plenary desired, and where it could be effective
sitting of the conference depends upon the work accomplished by these com mittees.
It is now possible that this conference will not conclude before Christmas an adjournment inntil after the holidays in
mooted.
THE OTHER CONFERENCE On the contrary, the first opium con- ference reassembles to-morrow, for the „Purpose of discussing the Chinese objec- tion to the terms of the protocol. It is hoped that an agreement will be reached.
TEXT OF ANGLO GERMAN TREATY.
'MOST ́ FAVOURED NATION' BASIS.
LONDON, December 4b... The text of the Anglo-German Com- mercial Treaty has been published.
The treaty will remain in force for five years, and it replaces with modifien- tions the treaty passed in 1898. It secures for British subjects and com pamies national" treatment in Ger many in respect to taxation and shipping, except possibly the coasting trade.
As the basis of the treaty is the most favoured nation treatment, legislation must be passed by Great Britain remove ing the war time disabilities from Ger man citizens and companies in respect to their engaging in non-ferrous metal industries and hanking in the United
GOVERNOR GENERAL OF SOUDAN
SIR G. ARCHER APPOINTED.
CAIRO, December 4th.
But Government formed out of a political party—a group of people, all shouting together! alfabouring their loudest, and all shouting something dif- ferent-the thing is absurd!
There is a cure just as there is a cure for most evils, can we but find it. Go ernment cannot do it. Parties of polisi Sir Geoffrey Archer has been appoint. clans cannot do it. Trade Unionism can
not do it. It can help, it can hinder ed: Governor of the Suran.
oh. it can hinder most damnably-hat- il cannot cure? 2.
LATEST CABLES. ĮREUTERS AMERICAN SERVICE,
U.S. TREASURY BONDS:
NEW ISSUE OVERSUBCRIBED.
WASHINGTON, December 4th
A treasury long-term bond issue of approximately $200,000,000, the first since
· 1003, was over-subscribed to two and a half times.
EARLIER CABLES.
AMERICA'S GOLDEN OUTLOOK. OPTIMISTIC TREASURY REPORT.
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A FORBIDDEN DESCRIPTION.
Thet Kung Ping. Pan, a vernacular
Canton..
*** A NATIONAL FUNERAL:" By special order of the Civil Governor or Canton, Dr. Wu Ting Fang interment in Canton, to-day (December 6th,) will be given the honour of a national burial. Dr. Wa died in Canton, in the summer of 1922, when acting Governor of Kwang tung Province.
may and do differ most widely, not only on the use of alcohol, but on that of very many other drugs. Do doctors Over
greet
of alcohol, the presence of which in large number of these little patients made the difference of life or death.
- I have seen almost precisely similar results in feeble old age on innumerable occasions.
presence
their contents. The addition of a few habits will keep them bound in a for- drops of brandy to each bottle effected a eign land until death. Without naming marvellous result. The child swallowed the above Eastern Possession it may be If by any chance the brandy were omitted
the tasty milk greedily and retained it taken as the extremest example of the from the bettle after a mouthful the many monopolies which tiffer from a child thrust the bottle away angrily and only in a mild degree, and how Euro spat out the food, which was distasteful trolling these monopolies could meet in beno posible infant by the few crops pena representatives of the nations con- to it. In such cases, as these there
doubt as the Conference at Geneva for two weeks and afforded to the not arrive at some unanimous decisions CURSED BY COMMUNĪSTS.
for lessening the consumption of opion The business man is cursed by the Com EXORBUTANT TAXATION.
amongst the eight million Chinese in these Foreign Colonies, is simply manist, despised by the professional classes, preached at by the Church, lam
The exorbitant taxation on shipping credible. The disappointment is intense, and the shame incalculable. The Con pooned in the comic papers, and hounded and freight along the North and the ference did not meet to discuss entire It does not require any medical skill or by the Government. But he is the only West Rivers of Kwangtung is causing a suppression but to arrive at a general knowledge to realize that exactly, anale man who has a dog's chance of solving
plan for
decreasing present consump gous experiments are going on in the in- the problems that the politicians claim great loss to native tobacconists in Can-tion, with revision after a number of years termediate period of life. In civilization as their private propertyAny business Canton, according to the Ultiver Com. of any plan not to be agreed upon. The man bears a very trying mechanical rela man who will to-day sell a consignment mercial News. It appears that the Chinese main item in the programme of the tion to his surroundings. He is wrongly of British manufactures overseas is worth
British delegate which formed the basis fed, and his habits is regards the adian more to the country than any ordinary tobacco commonly used in Canton and.) of the Conference was to arrive at Functioning of his gastro-intestinal rystem of his bowels are hopelessly bad. The M.P. Any buricess man who can keep on vicinity by the older persons is cut and decision on a max
maximum amount of opium selling such consignments is helping more then mixed with tex oil before being put Monopoly Countries. This presented harmful series of maladies from which
to be permitted per 1,000 Chinese in the is so unsatisfactory that ho devolops to solve our problems than the entire Cabinet and all the politicians in the market. In the last few months, dificulties of course, for the per capita the negro and other primitive rices liv
We need a selling campaign," not, &
Consumption varies each monopoly: ing in their normal surroundings are because of lack of tes oil from the North One monopoly sells 17,000 grains per quite free. One of the chief results of general election; a combined movement,
& party dog-fight: as advertising and the West River towns, the price of capita per annom to its Chinese and this, though perhaps not such a deadly push, not a deluge of political speeches tea oil in Canton has jumped from 80 to other like Hongkong only sells 244, but one, is the general mental depression that WASHINGTON, December 4th. a million pounds-which is the minimum 19 a jar of 30 catties, and the demand been arrived at which, however small tion because of the impaired digestion of
surely a percentage reduction might have is so intimately associated with civilian Mr. Mellon, Secretary to the Treasury, cost of demoentic appeal to the count for it has been very much greater than would have been a step in the right diree the community. As in the case of
spent on boosting our products in South in his annual report to Congress, pre-America, the United States, and the the supply, even at this high figure. On lieve that the anancial loss of even a reasonable amount of alcohol facilitatem
tion We are forced unwillingly to be infant, the addition to the me of dicted several years prosperity and British Dominions, would do more to solve account of high price in tea cil and some slight reduction stood in the way of un- digestion, and enables the individual to healthy conditions in the United States, our problems-particularly, the outstand
1ng problem af unemployment, for our times untimely supply of this article anmity. Only the most sanguine ever enjoy a meal which, without the
imagined that the registration and licens of the stimulating action of alcohol. such as succeeded the, 1806 election.
others are all bound up with it-than the tobacconists appear to suffer
no ing of opium smokers and the refusal of would be repulsive to him. That sicchal "Mr. Mellon explained that his predio changing our Government ten times in little
licences after a given date, would be an is not necessary to the health of the tion was based on the fact that the ver- Labour can help, of course. It can cut
ten « minutes."if that were possible. S
animously adopted as in view as a moderate amount will often make, hipe
This would have robust individual is well recognized. meant that the, diet of Americaps was overwhelmingly outca canny and strikes and "asia
the depleted revenues. To date nothing more agreeable companion. - against the various theories which are nonsense, and get on with its job when,
has been done, everything is as you do, the chance comes to make that job a good
were, and the brain and moral fibre of Inconsistent with economic laws He one and permanent. But he initiative Kingdom and the employment of added that the United States was the has got to come as it always has come owners in the districts of Kwanging confic
the participating nations hra resulted in es grains per capits per annum, and this from the busiuras, men of the country, an extra charge of 1/3 or 1/5 on the The
word advance has ben quantity is only little shove the 15 grains first nation to come through the post-war Despite the idiocy of successive Govern.
been decided by the League Health The great mass of prohibitions on the transition stage quccessfully, but Ameri-ments, it is they who still keep car ordinary rates according to locality, for stopped. It is greatly to be regreted as legitimate mount Commentee that America wok no part in this Conmedical purposes, yet this was used as importation of goods into Germany. ca's commerce and industry must main moving, still keep their brains cool and
support of the Kwangtung Univer ference because she had no Far Eastern reason why monopoly, using which impeded British trade with Gertain its anchor to windward in futureLes us forget that Parties and Cover in the province, is now leading to the Brent, and Senator Porter, would have at and would be Indicrous were not inch
with an opium monopoly,
‚17;4000 their courage high dank Fuity," the highest institution of learns otherwise one is convinced that Bishon grains per capita, should not reduce her many will be swept away, and the
annual consumption. It is preposterous, west-favoured nation clauses will be world trade, for as America had rements exist. It needs a lot of dois discussion of Bolshevism. The president this Conference as at the former one interpreted in the most liberal manner covered, so now was Europe becoming abroad. More efficiency at home. Lower of the University, Mr. Chau Luis com-fied the whole discussion on to a high reat moral issues at stake. To remove..
but we have got to do it." More travellem Both parties agree to abstain from
this stigma from the world's TECOTU, ausing their respective tariffs as means of stabilised, thanks to the Dawes Plan.
ed costs as a result of better organisation plaining to the Civil Governor in Canton and quibbling with technicalities. Right meet agam later under better conditions morn plane and have shamed the atring is to be hoped that the Conference will discrimination, and both will adopt the provisions of international conventions"
OUTSIDE COMPETITION.
-not of wage cats. A harder "push for business in the markets of the world of the non-remittance by the district right and brooks no interference ex or that the matter will be referred back on trade and shipping concluded under Although it was one that the improved That way salvation lies. There is no magistrates of this special fund colleccept at the cost of penalties so black that to the whole Conference of the League the auspices of the League of Nations, situation in Europe would benefit the other.
by their side the penalties of right are Every nation represented at this Confer- notably the Barcelona-Geneva Treaty, United States, Mr. Mellon warned that
ted by them for the University. The white and invitings which applies only to the United King cheaper production and the lower stand-
enco 15 a signatory of the Hague Com Inct is that many in the districts are bem thrown at the very opting into sto art, of that Convention
The whole Conference seems to hare vention and has affirmed her adherence dom but right to adhere to the treatyards of living abroad would couple a is accorded to the Dominions, India, the closer calculation da the part of America
hexitating of mapportan institution domin wild state of confusion and aggravation clares The contracting Powers shaik
which de Colonies, Protectorates and the British to
ated by the Bolsheviste
by the statements of the Chinese Dele take measures for the gradual and effec mandated territories, whose goods shall
gation, and this social and mental dis
tive enjoy most-favoured nation
suppression of the manufacture of order was never recovered from To internal trade in and use of wards the end an attempt was made to opium,
cars: have mollify the irritation but it was an ince
the Conference was in a bed temper the all the way through, or this has mo The phrase about hitting below the belt defended their
is largely respon is surely a little out of date. For those by magnifying open, have come to the conclusion that the other who go about as I do, with their eyes cheap opium into t
they need to be And I doubt if there opium belts are worn very much lower than to furthe
be any vulnerable part left below the lowest #belt-fr Idwin.
man seamen on British ships: P
LIBERAL INTERPRETATION.
is
in the
SAYLEGS OF A WIEL
No gospel founded on hate will ever be markets. The past four ears had the gospel of our people.fr. Bukkiin. treatment witnessed a cat in the per capito I-regard Bolshevism as a most detert- tax on the United States from 834 to able form of Government--Afr. Snow $27, while public expenditure, which in des
in Germany, but the German Government is empowered to withdraw this privilege in respect to anywhere in the Empire which has not adhered to the treaty be fore September 1st, 1990.
OIL MAGNATE MARRIED.
1990 exceeded: $6,500,000,000, had been I have lost my artches, but I am not reduced during the past year to going to lose my sent-Ur F1 $3,500,000,000
Thomas Cl In forecasting a further tax reduction, Mr. Mellon declared that the reductions lungs as they are bad for the temper
General Elections are as good for the already effected bad been at a great 31r. Robert Lynd sacrifice to business, and the warned
LONDON, December 4th.- " Sir Henri Deterding was married at against the utilisation of the field of tar. In a firm believer in the intervention London registry office to day to Mrsation asa feld for socialistic experi of Providents on rare and special occe Lydia Bagroutini, a Russian lady
meat, or as a club to punish mutess "b sions-SerHerbert Barker te
THE KWANGTUNG UNIVERSITY AND BOLSHEVISM:
The question of the surtax on the land
Civilisation as we know it is doomed Lewis Donaldson- because it is anti-Christian-Canon
clock
Chinese but
and coas
the tufw
ans the
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