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HONG KONG 'BUSINESS REPORTS.
Yesterday's business. dure in Hong Kong on rice, sugar, and other foodstuffs, included the fol lowing transactions :-
Rice.
Per Picul.
Green Flower Pot white rice
700 bags... Black Sham Lam white rice,
292 bags
......
7.33
"Green Sham Eam white Star
rice. 292 bags ....... Green Flower Pot white Siam
rice, 30 baga
7.82
7.38
Tud Kam white rice, 240 bags. 7.47 Black Seal White Siam rice,
7.20 8.17
bag
743 bags Green Seal pink rice, 440 bags Green Sent white, brewer rice,
163 bags..................... Black Seal white broken rice, 800 bags............... Black Seal white broken rice,
54 bags Me
5.95
6,50
5.38
Red Sea white broken rice,
507 bags
Black Seal white brand, 2,000
5.69
3.27
Green Seal white brand, 260,
bag Green Seal brand, 78 bags. 2,45
3.30
Sugar:
Per Picul
Fine granulated sugar. 250
bags No. 18 course powdered sugar.
200 bags...
$5.30
8:00
No. 18 coarse powdered sugar,
400 bags
6.00
No. 4 course powdered sugar:
500 bag ....
*.33
7.39.
No. 24 course powdered sugar,
200 bags
Miscellaneous.
Red rei, 20 pieces, at $18 per piece. Ten oil, 200 cans, at 228 per can. Red melon seeds, 30 bags, at 828,50
per bag.
New white grapes, 500 cases, at $38
per case.
Newehwang red beans, 30 bags, at
$8.90 per bag.
Middle black buana, 60 bags. ht $6.10
per bag.
Nan Toi green beans. 30 bags, at
87.10 per bag.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
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GERMAN EXPERTS.
IN THE SERVICE OF
CHIANG KAI SHEK.:
COLONEL BAUER'S RECORD.
HOME COMMENT.
GERMAN CRUISER QUES
TION.
THE COMMUNIST PROTEST.
KNOTTY POINTS FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
[TRANS-OCEAN VIA PAN-ARIA,}/
Referring to Colonel Maximilien"
BERLIN. Nov, 15th. Bauer's appointment as an adviser, The Communists in the Reichstag to Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, the have given notice of two motions China Express and Telegraph says:
fis connection with Ludendorff of want of confidence, the first was maintained after the Great directed" against General Groener, War and in 1920 he undertook, Minister of Defence, and the other with Herr Kapp and General von against the Cabinet as a whole. Luttwits, to upset the new German by force. After the collapse of the
The Cabinet of the Reich discuss- Patch he led to Austria. Fromed the attitude of its individual there, however, he kept in touch members towards the Socialist with Fascist and "Puischistele motion regarding the construction ments in Germany, notably the of new cruiser. It was agreed Hitler movement in Bavaria and that Ministers should be free to the so-called "eastern school who vote as they pleased. dreamed wildly of co-operation with The Social Democratic Parlia- Soviet Russia in a war of revenge mentary group decided to support against the Western Powers. Under the Social Democratic motion calli the amnesty of Septeraber, 1995. Beling for the cessation of the work "returned to Carmany. How he will on the construction of the battle get along with his new anti-Bolahe- cruiser. The Chancellor of the
rist and anti-Imperialist masters party, endorsed this step. remains to be seen. Clever as an Forwaerts, the Socialist organ. organiser and with a genius for in-points out that a situation has vention-he was partly responsible arisen in which the parties have for the German 17-inch howitzer hitherto co-operated on the Govern- he is nevertheless reputed to be ment benches are now opposed to notoriously headstrong and un one another upon a question re- scrupulous. Even the Fosaische garding which public opinion is Zeitung can only describe him as greatly agitated. The paper adds nn undisciplined political adven that the real point of issue is whe turer." and as a national Bol ther the Liberal bourgeois parties shevist." According to the Berliner will support the Social Democrats Tageblat the simple facts of recent in their policy of defending the appointments of Germans.. so far Republic and furthering social as known, are:-
progress and ceonomy or whether A Chinese Commission, accom.
Liberalism will seek its own for panied by Colonel Bauer, has been tune elsewhere and independently travelling in Germany on behalf of the Socialists.
LATER, of Chiang Kai Shek and has
The debate in the Reichstag, on engaged a few German technical the vexed cruiser question began experts to go to Chinn. Commission has been requested Sheialists of their motives in bring with a lengthy explanation by the by the competent German author-
The
ities not to engage any farmering forward their motion in favour
officer.
So far as is known ng the construction of the cruiser.
of stopping all further credits for officers, but merely five technical Dr. Mueller, the Chancellor, experts, have been engaged as stated that the present Cabinet had advisers to the Government and inherited the cruiser now being have gone to China. They include bits.
from the Jast Govern- a geologist, an expert in tele-net. So far the expenditure graphy, a communalpolitician, up it was well within the limits and a building expert. The Chi of che sim voted.. As the nese Commission itself has return division was likely to be a close fo China and has only left behind thing, he intended to vote as a in Berlin a few officials to carry party man against the cruiser and on its work:
not as Chancellor in favour of it.
General Groener, Minister of Defence, urged that the construc tion of the cruiser was a matter of national defence and should not be treated as a party question.
New Yonk, Nov. 22nd. The sharp drop in prices on the
Highly circumstantial though the New York Stock Exchange yester story is it seems strange that no- day proved to be merely a natural thing had been heard of it earlier, reaction, largely caused by the sud-for, according to a Shanghai report, den collapse of Radio Corporation Colonel Bauer was actually in China stock,
last December and January, and Germany's tiny navy must be kept Spectacular advances, therefore, was known to be in Canton when up to date, particularly in view of marked to-day's business, huge the Communist coup took place. the enforced weakness of the atmy. buying orders pouring in from all What has led the Nanking Guvern- Owing to her geographical situn- over the country
The Radio Corment to seek military advisers in tion, Germany must be prepared poration not only regained the lost Germany has occasioned a good deal and in a position not only to de- ground, but soared to a new high of speculation. It has not 'escaped fend her frontiers but to maintain level at 387.
notice that the responsibility for and guarantee her own neutrality. matters connected with the, disarma General Groener added that some ment of Germany having passed to of the present vessels of the. Ger- the League of Nations, the question man navy were 23 years old. of the employment of German ex- perts. by the Chinese Government. THE ADVENTURES OF THE it raised under Article 170 of the
The total of the day's trading was again 6,000,000 shares.
** CASSUM."
Trenty of Versailles, would have to be officially brought to the notice STATEMENT BY CAPTAIN OF of the League by a member State
THE "SINKIANG/
ALMOST CAPSIZED IN HEAVY
,་",, SWELL.
An exact account of what happen ed to the steamer Carsum, formerly H.M.S. Bodlark, which was re- ported to be in trouble while bo Her way from Shanghai to Hand Kong, has been given by Capt
Aluther, master of the C.N.S. Sin kiang, who encountered the Carruen) at a spot some 80 miles north of Wenchow. A
This has not yet been done but Britain, which was responsible for the exclusion of German ex-officers from service abroad, may do it.
proceeded on their respective ways, Capt. Mather at once sending a wireless message to H.. Consulate at Shanghai reporting the position of the Cassum in accordance with
the request of Capt. Knight.
BERLIN, Nov. 18th. The large crowds which gathered outside the Reichstag this morning indicated the interest taken by the public in the debate on the cruiser question..
Herr Treviranius (Conservative) urged that Germany could not make her future secure by pacificism alone, while other Powers maintain- ed an ambiguous attitude on the question of Naval Disarmament.
Herr Otto Wels delivered an im- passioned speech protesting against. the building of the cruiser.
The
ech was the subject of a special meeting of the Cabinet as Herr
'Wels' utterances eansed concern among the parties which participate in the coalition.
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GERMAN WAR GUILT.
THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES,
LORD GREY'S OPINION,"
Viscount Grey's. Twenty-five Years, 1889-1918, which was first published in 1923, has now been
moral cflect to make individuals or nations sign confessions of guilt by force."
"But the effect [Lord Grey cou- tinues has not only been negative
Darren Bay is situated behind an island known as Bella Vista and it was in this spot that Costum almost came to grief. It was later when the ships were in a position on north of Sbetung Pass that signals question at issue was not only the issued in a cheap edition of three the true causes of the War. It has
Capt. Mather said that on the morning of the 10th instans, he saw a vessel ** surging, along his port bow some distance away On coming nearer to the vessel in question, he was able to see that the vessel was making signals by dis playing numerous daga. Two mes sages could be made out. These were Can you give.us coal?" and another Report us to Shanghai.?? Capt. Mather replied "Follow me to an anchorage." He then made for a spot behind Shetung Island and there dropped anchor.
were exchanged which subsequently resulted in a conference while, at anchorage behind Shetung Island.
Fortunate Not To Crash.
In the course of the conversation,
abstentions
The Socialias motion was rejected by 255, votes to 203, with eight The Fassische Zeitung says the cruiser but whether, under present conditions, it is possible to create a Government' holding office for a long term and capable of realising a programme of European con solidation and economic recovery.- Straits Timeri
THE NEW ZEALAND ELECTIONS
the quality of the coal, his on- Capt. Knight said that, owing to gineers had been quite unable to keep a head of steam, with the re repeatedly been encountered. Hug.. sult that positions of difficulty had ging the coast as the Careum neces sarily had to do, it was essential that complete control be possible at LIBERALS TO TAKE OFFICE all times, as, with the heavy swells runaing and with strong winds, the light ship drawing only four feet needed the maximum of power in dealing with the various situations which arose in the course, of the trip.
i
AGAIN.
SYDNEY, Nov. 18th.
t has been positively mischievous. The Article has so worked upor German feeling as to hinder im- partial and dispassionate examina- tion in Germany of war guilt and volumes. To this, the "People's concentrated national opinion in Library Edition," as it is zamed, Germany upon efforts to throw the Lord Grey contributes a special blame upon other nations; it has introduction, which precedes the even led to passionate assertions table of contents and the original that Germany alone of all those introduction,
After expressing grateful acknow. engaged in the War had no war
guilt. ledgment for the general acceptance of his "book, Lord Grey uses the pression in Germany of feelings It provokes and intensifies ex- occasion to remind crities who co- plain that he has taken no notice whether the German national view" that make other nations doubt of foreign documents which have about war and militariam has really come to the light only since the changed, and it is this doubt that War, that post-War revelations are
Bot relevant to the scope and pur-in the eyes of moderate and con. pose of the book. He also recalls ciliatory opinion in neighbouring that its main purpose is not to the future."
countries still throws a shadow on
Speed Down To Three Knots, The Cassum later came alongside the B. & S. steamer and Captain Knight explained bis predicament. He said that he had had a very
make the vindication or condemna rough time and, although given to
The New Zealand elections eur-
It is not, however, easy, Lord tion of any country the final word. understand by his owners that the
For this reason the question of Grey proceeds, "to undo a blun Carsum could make 13 knots had
prisingly resulted in the downfall of the Coates Government, which war guilt was not examined closely. der of this sort." There are only been able to accomplish six
formerly numbered 52 members in A criticism, however, from & Ger- Genuine objections to cancelling the kaota in the very best circum We all but capsized in the swell House of 80 and now has only man source which suggests that Article." The time" has not yet stances. Oл many occasions his and then the wind drove us towards į 37. It is almost certain that the Germany could not control Austria come for making formal alterations speed had been little more than the rocks and we were fortunate veteran statesman three knots. Capt. Knight attribut- ir. not erashing," said Captain Ward, who is 74 years of age, will
Sir Joseph now leads Lord Grey to write at in the text of the Treaty, and to soine length on the Article in the remove the Article "would certainly éd this to the quality of the coal Knight.
again take office as Prime Minister Treaty of Versailles" which extorts be used by German partisans a he had been supplied with at Shang-
Capt. Mather thought that the as leader of the Liberals, who are the admission that Germany and admitting or at least implying Ger hai and the two cuptuins had a
Carrum would only proceed on her now called the United Party. Their her Allies were solely responsible many's innocence. To this none of altort, conference in regard to the voyage from Wenchow to Hong slog
Further, if the position. As a result of this con Kong in daylight and would select
is, Happiness for Every for the War." Lord Grey does us could agree."
not consider whether the Article is Allies struck out the Article, “their versation, was decided that the auitable anchorages to spend the The United Party holds 27 seats. true, but whether it is not out of act would be construed as evidence best course was to make for Wen-hours of night. As is now known, Labour gained six and now holds place in peace treaty, and whe. that they themselves feel some con chow, and take in bunker, there, as,
the vessel pemained in Wenchow for 30 seats.
ther its effect has not been mis-eciousness of war guilt, an admis although the Sinkiang could give five days due no doubt to the in-
chievous. The liquor poll showed a vote of
sion they would all ́ resent as un. the assum coal, no useful object ability of Captain Knight to obtain 3 to 2 in favour of continuance
"It seems to me," Lend Grey true," particularly Belgium and while we strove to avert would be achieved when the vessel suitable bunkers and his observa of the present system. Bir Joseph writes, "to be very unfortunate France, was Lo near to Wenchow and, more tion of weather reports-North Ward is "wet," while Mr. J. G. that this Article was put into the war and found our suggestion over, the transfer of coal during China Daily News:
Confes, leader of the former GovTreaty at all." It appears to sup- blocked at Berlin and Vienna." the heavy swell which was running [About a week ago the Cassum ernment, is "dry,"
port the claim for reparations, but Nevertheless (Lord Grey adds]," would have been a slow and tedious was.reported to have left Wenchow At the General Election in for this purpose he holds it to be over when a blunder cannot be un- operation which in all probability since when no news has been re- November, 1925, the result was unnecessary; it seems to be ill done, it may be well to say that is would have meant another night's ceived. Probably: she is creeping Reform Party, 65; Liberala and conceived even if it bo intended to had better not have been done; the anchorage for the C'asrum in an un- south along the coast, foosing nve Truependent Liberics, 117 Labour "support a waterial cisim "From more statement of such an opinion suitable appt. The vessels, therefore deze only father adventures Party 13: Independent 1--Straits the moral point of view Lord Grey about it may do something to
(Continued on next Volumin). · voyage.]
Times.
calls it peeless
is of no moderate to consequencer.
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