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號四拾七百卷千姿萬或第 日七初月式拾年寅丙 HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 10th, 1927. 蠱拜禮
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY: THE CHINA CRISIS.
TIME-TABLE.
4.30,
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13.08 11.1912.42,063.11 5,24 6.19 8.09
8.1: 10.40 11.51
3.15 6.29 823 8.13
Tripo
...Dep 7,16
Taipo Markat Dep. 7.21
Fanling
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THE HUKUANG LOAN DEFALCATIONS.
BANKERS PRESSING FOR CUSTOMS SECCRITY.
POWERS' NOTE MODIFIED?
All Home newspapers &Te now.)
Some furtive Saying and a sight devoting considerable amount of upward trend in Hakaang Railway pace daily to the discussion of Loan is recorded in consequence of Chinese Affaira." The following ex-rumurs of an international Note tracts are taken from papers recent calling the attention of the Chinese Authorities to the defalcation on the ly to hand:
Deccumber payment, says Mr. Rod- ney Gilbert in a message to the The relations between China and Daily News from Peking the Powers are based on a series dated January 2nd. of important international treaties. The Note, it is reponed, points Many of these treaties need revision out thus the accumulated défalen- In the light of changed circum tions on this loan now exceed stanees, and Great Britain and the £500,000; and it insists that, since ther Powers have not only shown the revenues allotted to the service their willingness to revise the of the load by the original agree- treaties; they have been infinitely ment, are now inadequate or not patient in the toilsome search for available, it is imperitive that the Chinese Government with whom service of the Mukuang Loan should could negotiate such a revision, ¡ now be assumed by the Customs, they reisting with forty or fous substituent Govornment, dushed with its poli- to the date of the Hakuoug agree tival and military victories, claims mont of the year 1900, already to be the real representa It is ascertained that a Note in te of the nation, and as such puts this form was actually drafted, but A de forefront of-its-programme that as the result of in exchang the abolition of what it calls the of opinions between the British, unequal treaties," of the privi- French and American Legations. t e secured under these treaties to was considerably toned down and I foreigners, including the right of re-written, in web fashion as simply ex-territoriality, and also the for-to duplicate previous reminders to eign control of the Custorns ad- the Chinese that the Hukuang pay- ministration. The principle ments were in default and should be that international treaties better secured, but oritting any lightly he repudiated by one-sided defalte commands about security or declarations of violent action is service. simply inadmissible. The form of Government China is for China herself to decide. It certainly is no concern of ours. But no Chinese Government of whatever colour man, without seriously compromising ita. international position, simply re pudiate the engagements entered into between its country and other Powers.
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THE WEEK'S DIARY.
To-day.
Extraordinary general meeting Teak Tramways. Limited, H.K Hotel, 1a.m.
Sikh community celebrate birth-
day of Sri Gurce Gobind Singh Ji. at Sikh Temple.
H. K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. King Edward Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m..
ship race.
Yachting: Ladies' 6th Champion-
H.M.S. Huskins Concert Party at Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Way of a- Girl,"
Hearts."
World Theatre: The Act of
Star Theatre: "Golden Dreams" Principal Mails: -Inward: Europe ria Siberia (Tirptiz),
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Tuesday,
Sanitary Board Meeting. 4.13 Annual Congregation at H.K. University, 5 p.m. (tes 4 p.m.)
H.K. Hotel ten dance, 4.30 p.m. Cymdeithas Dewi Sant (St. David's Society) At Home City Hall, 5.30-7.30 pm.
H.M.S. Harkins concert party at Theatre Royal, 9.13 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Greed." World Theatre: The Fast Set. Star Theatrer The Beauty Prize."
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Principal Mails:-Outward : Europe vid Marseilles (dentar), 1.30 p.m.; Canada, U.S.A., etc. Telephone: Central No. 373 This modification was based on a Europe rid Victoria and viá technical point raised by one Lega-Siberia (President Grant), 3.30 p.m.. tion that the Hakung Loan is not entitled to security"on the Customs until likin has been abolished.
The bankers concerned are much displeased and are presting for re- consideration of the Note or for independent Notes from two of the Powers interested, in the original form.
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Wednesday, Football: Interport practice. H.K.F.C.. ground, 4.15 p.m.
Hockey-Sim Shield Competi- tion: Army 7. Club, U.S.R.C. ground, 4.30,
H. K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. King Edward Hotel, ten dance,
4.30 p.m.
Male Voice Choir concert, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 9 pm.
HMS Hawkins concert party_at_ Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Greed.!! World Theatre: "The Fast Set." Price." in- Star Theatre: "The Beauty
Beauty Prize."
No one in his senses has ever con-hand in glove with inthe ext templated a war at a vast distance treme section being ankly Com from the British bases to maintain munist. The Cantonese aim was any particular régime in Chinn. abolish existing treaties and the In the days of the Taiping move foreign status at the earliest mo- nent the British Government did ment. He contended that the com. not interfere, though General Gor- plete disappearance of the present don entered the Chinese service. Safeguards affecting foreign It is clearly beyond the power of terests in China at the present time any British Government to under-would unquestionably be disastrous take military intervention in China. to British interests.there, though he Our first desire is that peace agreed it was possible to modify and prosperity should reign the existing status. The British in throughout the Chinese Empire: If China, he said, were prepared for the history of the last seventy-five certain modifications, which must years be studied it will be found be accompanied, however, by cer- that British influence has always tain guarantees and the mainten been used with the object of secur-ance of certain conditions in the ing a strong and solvent China, interests of British trade in China. The aim of the Bolsheviks is to in-l jure China, with a total disregard for the welfare of the Chinese, in order to hurt Great Britain by de stroying her Chinese trade.
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DAILY CHRONICLE.” being very closely watched th polist Boor, Chinn Building. Whether the Chinese General'etical and official circles in Washing- Lilera professions can be taken at ton. The majority of the news- their fall face value is a question Papers print long despatches daily
Annual Meeting St. David's which we cannot judge, and which from Londen, China and Japan Society, Hong Kong (Cymdeithas geed not now concern us. Enough and every fresh development, and
Dewi Sant), Mr. D. J. Lewis' office that the wisest observers on the spot especially any hint of a new move
(Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and' Max- on the part of Great Britain, is sure us that the Liberal and followed with the greatest interest.ter) Prince's Building, 5:30 p.m. Nationalist doctrines which he pro-
Queen's Theatre: Take it fram fesses are those which have rallied The official view is that arned in-
Me popular support to his side. It is tervention of any kind on the part
World Theatre The Hunch- utterly misleading to talk of this of the United States either with back of Notre Darae."
s Red mavement. Bolshevik or without the co-operation
Star Theatre: "Refuge" agents have been busily at work Great Britain is out of the
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Saturday. and, wherever they find likely soil. Department is distinctly one Bus the fame they have fanned has wait and see." The State Depart been the flame of an indignantment has reiterated that American Nationalism, which is in revolt naval forces are available only for against the rule of ambitious and the protection of American live grasping Mandarins, and the for- and property, and would not be eign influence which controls Chin-used to maintain the present Cus- toms administrations at Hankow or elsewhere. The collection of Cus- toma is regarded as being the fune What we should do, and what tion of the Chinese Government, would do more than anything else in certain quarters it is suggested to make China safe for Europeans, that Great Britain has purposely would be to treat her exactly as exaggerated the Bolshevist menace one of ourselves and to claim no in China and the degree of intimacy privileges that are inconsistent within the relationship between Canton the independence of the country and Moscow for her own purposes. It is nonsense to think that This opinion has also been reflected 400 millions of people can perman-in despatches from correspondents ently be kept in an inferior poli in China of one or two newspapers
on the side of tical status, and England and which, seldom err America between them might give excessive 'Anglophilism." a lead in policy which would make On the other hand, the most re- life safe and advantage the trade sponsible section of the Press is which is our main interest in the fully alive to the implications of country.
the policy of Soviet Rusisa in the Far East and expresses regret that the Big Powers, on account of jealousies and dissensions amongst Under the chairmanship of Mr. themselves, have been out-generall Hilton Young, M.P., a meeting of td in China by the agrate of the Deers and Members of Parliament Kremlin. Listened at the House of Commona As the New York Times puts it
DALLY GRAPHIC,”
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Cricket and Football: Details in Saturday'a jɛsue.
II.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Queen Theatre: "Take it from
World Theatre: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Star Theatre: "Refuge"
Sunday. (Mounted Infantry Co., H.V.D.C.)
Point to Point race, Fanling
Golf: Bogey Pool.
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on December 7th to a statement on in a leading article: While The Times goes on to say that al- the situation in China by Mr. E encouraging the Chinese to throw though Soviet agents have under- M. Gull, who expressed "the view of the yoke of the foreign immined British prestige in China that the Cantonese movement was perialists, the Russians are at the and urged the Chinese to boycott not haphazard, but was a construc- same time trying to hide from the firitish trade, the British Empire tive movement in which, however, world the fact that of all the for-persists in enduring.
"It is a there were many fawa. He declareign nations in China, Russia has habit," the paper says, that it ed that there was justification for interferred most in the internal acquired more than a century ago beliering that the Cantonese con-affairs of China during the past few and which it cannot shake off, even stituted a Left wing which was years."
though the Russians and others do |- (Continued on next Dolumn). (Continued at foot of nézi columm), what they can to help 'it reform,'
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