PRESS TO ATTEND NAVAL CONFERENCE.
A CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.
BRITAIN ACCEPTS OPTIONAL CLAUSE IN ARBITRATION.
MEETING TO-MORROW.
PRESS TO BE ADMITTED.
BOG ETEK'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Jan. 285. At a meeting held this morning it was arranged that the next plenary session of the Naval Con- ference will be held on Thurday.
It was also decided that a certain quota of the Press representatives attending the Conference would by. admitted to the proceedings.
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FURTHER DISCUSSIONS.
[TaxоCO REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Jan. 28.
The delegates to the Naval Con ference met for an hour and three- quarters this morning, and con- tinued discussions on the agenda for the next plenary conference. Immediately afterwards the whole British delegation, including all the Dominions met in the committer
rooms.
LONDON, Jan, R.
Reservations,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1930.
Mr. Henderson anid he wanted to say very clearly and definitely that three classes of disputes were excluded from the British decla- ration of the neteptance of the Optional Clause. They were, first- 19. disputes with other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, secondly, disputes upon matters falling within what
was called the domestic jurisdic the of a State, and thirdly, dis piles for submission to some other. method of peaceful settlement.
None of these reservations dimi nished the value of Optional Clause. In all our legal disputes' with other nations without excep tion the powers of justice of the Court would remain the final arbiter.
Freedom of Action, Mr. Henderson referred to the Armendment put down by the Opposi tion, anking the acceptance of the Optional Cluse "subject to an ad ditional reservation relating to the laws of war ng laid down by the Foreign Secretary nt Geneva on September
1924, absolutely necessary to safeguard it being
the freedom of action of the Bri- tish Navy."
The meeting of the leaders of the
Mr. Henderson said the opera delegations adjourned until to-mottings of the British Fleet to which TOW.. The discussion was centred he was then referring at Geneva largely upon the Franco-Italian
were exclusively operation in a viewpoints, the French strongly ease where, we were engaged in a maintained that global not eate
warlike operation on behalf of the
BRITISH · EXTRALITY THE C.ER. DISPUTE.
POLICY.
GRADUAL ABANDONMENT.
I
FOREIGN SECRETARY'S
STATEMENT.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON. Jan. 27-
by Sir Kingsley Wood and Capt. Replying to a series of questions
Eden in regard to the extrality situation in China, Mr. Arthur Henderson first of all expressed deep sympathy with Sir Miles Lampaori, the British Minister, in his sad bereavement.
OPIUM IN EGYPT.
"YOUNG GENERAL ***
ANNOYED.
A GRAVE DANGER.
CONITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
9
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(Wal T Tat Pao)
Muxdes, January 23. Thai Yun Sheng, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Harbin, who negotiated and signed the recent Habarovsk Protocol, has arrived here and has interviewed Chaug Houch Liang.
He told Chang that the Soviet insisted, upon the re-instatement of the former Russing director of the Chinese Eastern
Hailway.
managing.
The Young General was annoyed Sir Miles, he went on, bad al-
on hearing this news, and repri ready entered into detailed negotia.manded Tsai for his failure to re- tiens with the Chinese Government for the gradual abandonment of British extra-territorial rights in China. These negotiations began ob January 9 and were still in pro-
ress
Mr. Henderson recalled that in the British aide memoire of Decem
agreed that ber 20, the British Government the process of the gradual abolition of extrality should be regarded as having begun in principle as from January 1, 1930.
The Tung.On Case.
sist such an unreasonable demand, Ra the Soviet authorities had pre- viously promised not to reinstate
Railway. the former Russian head of the
Tsai has been instructed to settle this question satisfactorily.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL AWAITS DEVELOPMENTS.
HARDIN, Jan. 28. The former Russian managing director of the Chinese Eastern Railway is staying at Vladivostock,
of the strong opposition of the Chi- Harbin to resume his duties in view
gorics tonnage should be the start- Covenant of the League of Na (mentioned by Sir Kingsley Woods having postponed his departure for
ing basis of the Conference. This tians and with the approval of the point of view is likely to he recept Council or the Assembly at Geneva. able to the conference. M. Tardien
It was in these circumstances, said the atmosphere of the Confer-only, that he said it was necessary ence was most cordial, at declined in the general interest as well as to disclose whether any decision of the interests of Great Britain had heen reached..
that the British Fleet should be able to operate with the freedom which might be required to secure Auccessfal termination of sane.
THE OPTIONAL CLAUSE.
tions. LONDON, Jan. 27.
International wireless broadenst. ing as a feature of the present Naval Conference was employed to night by Mr. Wakatsuki in a broad, cast from London to America in a statement of Japan's case at the Conference. :
In answer to further questions, he said he had received no report of the alleged incident at Wuchow, namely, that the Chinese authorities had refused to hand over to the British
British subjects, the pilot and cox- naval authorities, two swain of the Hong Kong launch Tung On, in the ground that extrality privileges had
abolished.
nese authorities.
FABRICATED "FACTS" ABOUT INDIA.
LONDON NEWSPAPER VICTIMISED.
REASSURING STATEMENT REGARDING INDIAN SECURITIES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE)
RUGBY, January 28, Major-General Russell
Pasha, Chief of Cairo Police and Director of the Egyptian Central Narcotics
Rugar, January 27. Intelligence Bureau, supplemented A residerable sensation was his recent outspoken report at yes-created in political circles over the terday's sitting in Geneva of the week-end. by the appearance in the League of Nations Opium Advisory Daily Express, on Saturday, of a Committee.
Russell Pasha stated that out of fourteen million inhabitants in Egypt, half a million were drug addicts. The situation, he added,
was worse in Egypt than in other great inroad upon the lower middle. countries, as drugs had made a class and peasants. Despite ener- getic intervention the situation was serious, and he emphasised the necessity for putting an end to this
Bcourge.
plausibly detailed article, purport-
ing to be a summarised forecast of the Simon Commission's Report,
Immediately after the publica tion, it would appear, Sir John Simon interviewed the Attorney General, and as a result an official inquiry was made into the whole affair. The article was, of course, sheer invention, but revelations have
by the British and Italian Govern- Following a strong plea for action ments, the Committee has begun to been made vindicating the Daily study in detail a scheme for limit-Express. medical requirements ing the output of drugs to certified
CARGO-TAX IN ANNAM.
REFUSAL TO ABOLISH DUTY.
(dh. Tas Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Jan. 28, Mr. Chang Wei Han, Commis who had been deputed to negotiate cloner of Foreign Affairs in Yunnan, a Commercial Treaty between China. king that the negotiations are likely and Annam, told Pressmen in Nar to be suspended.
It is stated in Russiao circles here that the Moscow Government is considering the question is to where the been
The French authorities have re- proposed Sino-Russian Insed to resume conversations in Conference will be held. The Chi-view of the fact that the Yunnan nese authorities are opposed to the authorities are reluctant to abolish conference being held at Moscow.
Large numbers of Russian troops
Cargo-tax." are stationed at Chita.
Sir Kingsley Wood then drew attention to the "serious incident" in connection with the arrest of New Obligations.
Commander McBride at Hankow. Neither in 1994, and certainly Mr. Henderson promised to en not in 1929, was it expected that inquire into the matter and to see becoining a member of the League what could. Le done.
of Nations and accepting all the Replying to Captain Eden, Mr. obligations of its Covenant, we Henderson said that the Govern were going to claim the old timement had been corresponding with freedom that we had before there was any Longue of Nations.
He expressed confidence in # happy conclusion.
Loxnox, Jan. 98. In conclusion, Mr. Henderson The House of Commons. - after said that all the Governments of rejecting by gr vorce to 193 a the Dominions had signed the Conservative amendment in favaur" | Optional Clause, The British of a reservation that the British Commonwealth of Nations was ab- feet, in the execution of any work solutely united in the decision to for the League of Nations, should be subject only to British maritime law, agreed to a Government re- solution anproving the ratification of the Optional Cave.
Brosy, Jan. 27.
other owners in regard to extrality. Replying to Mr. Wardlaw Milne, Mr. Henderson, said he would not go so far as to say that the action of the Chinese Government was quite wrong.
Position of British Residents, take this great step forward in newhile negotiations were proceeding, Mr. Milne then suggested that ceptance of international arbitra- the position of British residents in tion and the substitution of rule thing was difficult, and perhaps of law for Tele of force. He asked
dangerous. впалітоци
for n decision
the House dreision-a which would strengthen the lead
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en.
which the Government deavouring to give to other na tions.
Opposition Amendment,
, Sir Austen Chamberlain, the for-
Mr. Henderson said he was well things in China. They were deal aware of the unsettled condition of
ing with the situation in the best way possible, and the questioner could be assured that the Govern ment have at heart the interests of the British residents in China.
Mr. G, le M. Mander Lib.) sug-
In moving a resolution authoris ing the Government to ratify the signature of the Optional Clause, binding Britain to submit disputes to the Permanent Court of Interna- tional Justice at The Hague, Mr. Henderson said that the signature was an important development of mer Conservative Foreign Minis the old treaties of arbitration, moving the Opposition amend-gested that discussions with China which, before the War, this country such a stage of world opinion, that might conveniently be dealt with ment, said we had not yet reached on the so-called unequal treaties put into use.
These old treaties were agree in a position to depend alone on
any or nation could say they were by using the powers under Article ments between Governments. But experience showed that they had the good faith of others for their
security and safety. important Imitations.
They al contained the old reservation relat ing to honour and total interests, which reservation was subject to interpretation by each Government to suit itself, and the result was that in a given case a Government could refuse recourse to arbitration.
rk
Pre-war Defects.
11e declared the whole drgument of Mr. Henderson's speech was not really based on the Pez Piet of Paris but on the obligations of the Covenant of the League. Those obligations were in force in 1994 Why then was a naval reservation just as much as they were
so eccasary in 1924, now unneces
The Optional Clause removed all sary? the defects of the pre-war arbitra-
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now.
TROOPS IN HONAN.
QUESTION OF SUPPLIES.
(Wah T Tat l'an)
PEPING, January 28. Ilan Fu Cha, one of the dubious Generals recently telegraphed to Yen Isi Shan requesting that tered in Honar, should be stationed Yen's troops, which are now quar-
elsewhere in view of the fact that the people of Hond'n-who are continual warfare-are not able to poverty-stricken as a result of the
supply his troops with food and stores.
In reply, General Yen has wired to say that he quite greed with what General Han suid, adding that perhaps Chiang Kai Shek will con- sider and settle this question.
$
the so-call **
SINO-GREEK TREATY.
APPROVED BY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
(Wah Ts: Yat Pad).
Explanation in Dommons. There was some excitement in the House of Commons to-day when it became known that Sir John Simon") had put a question on the Order Paper dealing with the article in question. Sir John Simon, who is the chairman of the Commission, in vited an explanation.
Replying, Sir William Jowitt, K.C, the Attorney-General, sinted that the chairman of the Daily Express had placed himself unre servedly in his (the General's) hands and hail assisted Attorney-
article. him to discover the source of the
Fabricated "Facts,"
INDIAN SECURITIES.
(THROUGH REVTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, January 28.
In view of the unsteadiness of certain Indian securities in the, London market Nationalist Congress great intercet following the is attached to a letter from the India Office replying to a corres- pondent's enquiry regarding the Indian Sterling Securities. British Government does not intend to allow such a state of things to arise in India by which the re- padiation of debt could become & eeivable that Parliament in dealing Practical possibility. It is incon- with any constitutional change in India, could fail to provide safe- guards against any breach of con-. ditions under which loans issued....
The letter concludes that the
were
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
RUGBY, January 27, Sir Arthur Hirtzel, the Per- replying to a correspondent, gays. manent Under-Secretary for India, that certain Indian securities, while issued under the authority of an Act of Parliament and charged on the revenues of India, are, not guaranteed by the British Goverb-
ment
The Secretary for India, he says, cannot deal with hypothetical con- ti agencies, but he authorises a Government has no intention of statement that "the present British allowing a state of things to arise. in India in which a repudiation- of debt could become a practical It was provided to the paper by possibility, and that itis incon- an Indian journalist named Vishnu ceivable to him that, in dealing Karendakar, who was carrying on with any scheme of constitutional At least, he provided the facts" fail to provide safeguards, should a so-called Indian News Service. change in India, Parliament could. upon which the article was based. they be needed against a breach of Karendakar had since signed a the conditions under which these confession in the presence of Sir; loans were issued. John Simon and the Attorney- General, to the effect that he fabricated the "whole story, though. he based his conclusions upon the result of a close etudy of the situation."
Needed Money,
He also confessed that he fabri cated the story in order to get
SHANGHAI, Jan. 96. The text of the Sino-Greek Treaty has been approved by the Legisla-money. tive Council. The Treaty has beca concluded on the basis of mutual equality, and is drawn up in Chi nese, Greek, and French. The term of the Treaty is three years.
The Attorney-General added that e was fully satisfied that the good faith of the Daily Express was be yond question, and he acknowledged the assistance given by the prin cipals of the paper, without which, NEW CHINESE GUNBOAT.he said, the information, so neces
sary, could not have been obtained LAUNCHED AT SHANGHAI,
(Wah Tez Tal Pee).
INDIAN STOCKS RECOVER.
[BLITISH WIRELESS SERVICK.]
Ruday, January 23. An outstanding feature of Stock Exchange business this morning was the marked recovery in India Stocks, following the official state- ment to holders that the Govern- ment his no intention of allowing a in which repudiation of debt could state of things to arise in India...
become Да
practical possibility. Both 3 and 3 per cents, show gains of four points, while the rest of the list are one to two points better.
AUSTRALIA DAY." NEW U.S. MINISTER
SHANGHAI, Jan. 28. The Chinese gunboat Min Chuan has been launched. She is over 200 feet long and will have a speed of CELEBRATION IN LONDON. 18 knots. She will carry ten guns, and a crew of 150. The gunboat will form part of the 2nd Nations! Soundron
Nineteen of the League of Nations GRATEFUL GENERAL CHINESE IN VLADIVOSTOCK Covenant.
Progressive Abandonment,
Mr. Henderson replied that the Government had already initiated discussions with the Chinese Gor; ernment "for the modification and
progressive abandonment" af Bri tish rights, and he could not at pre- sent see any advantage in the proce dure suggested.
CASE.
OFFICERS REJECTED.
WILL EXTERMINATE BANDITS.
(Wah Te Tat nu.)
SHANGHAI, January 25. an interview with Press re presentatives at Bauchow, Shih Yo
very grateful to Chiang Kai-Shek for his kindness in forgiving them. He and his troops, he continued, will now, try their best to serve the Party and the Central Govern- ment, and will do what they cau to clear out all bandits in Honan.
PEPING, Jan. 28.
tion system. It conferred jurisdic the Foreign Secretary had adduc-
He confessed the reasons which NO SETTLEMENT OF TUNG ON San said that, he and his troops fcel tion upon the Permanent Court ined as having led him to abandon international disputes which the reservation which he thought could be settled by means of law,necessary in 1924, only confirmed Under its terms no State could him in the opinion that the reser- refuse to allow a dispate to go vation, perhaps something more before the Court.
than a reservation, was necessary No special agreement for the to our national safety and securi submission of a dispute would be ty... required. No State, by dishonest Sir Herbert Samuel (Liberal) quibbling, could avoid the obliga- said his party would wholeheart. tion it was under to obey the court: edly support the policy and action
I say so because the British Gov- of the Government. erament so often in the past has desired, and to future, we believe, will always desire, to arbitrate in international disputes.
Following the rejection of the Tory amendment, the House ap proved Mr. Henderson's reselu.
Rucuy, Jan. 21..
tion.
With regard to the Tung On case, mentioned abové, a naval wireless message from Wuehow states that no agreement has yet been reached with regard to the launch Tung On. It is reported that owners of. Tung On offered $3,000 to settle matter or alternatively to pay for the salvage of the Tien Hoi, but this was refused 87,500 being demanded.
The various associations of pez telegram to the Poping authorities sants in Honan have sent a joint asking for drastic action to he taken for the suppression of bandita in the Province. They stated that troops in the Province number
A GRANT IN AID.
(Fah Tz Yal Pao.)
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
RUGBY, Jan 96. "Australia Day," the 142nd an- niversary of the landing of the Grat explorers at Botany Bay, was cele- brated in Londoa yesterday by a special church service, a reception, NANKING, Jai, 29.
and a dinner at which Mr. James The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Trade and Commerce and the Aus- Fenton, Commonwealth Minister for has remitted 8.000 mochlea for the tralian delegate to the Naval Con- relief of poor Chinese residing inference, was the guest of honour. Vladivostock.
SIR JAMES JAMIESON RETIRING.
CONSUL GENERAL AT SHA- MEEN DURING BOYCOTT.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANOIAT, Jan. 98 Sir James Jamieson, British Cen- for Home on the s.s. Mantua to-day sul-General at Tientsin, is sailing un retirement after 44 years' service
in China
TO CHINA.
ARRIVAL IN SHANGHAI.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Jan. 28. Mr. Johneon, the new United States Minister, arrived this aftor- noon on the 8.8. President Grant, and is residing at the Cathay Hotel for a few days before going to Nanking to present his credentials to Marihal Chiang Kai Shek.
After returning for another brief visit here, he will proceed to
In his speech he said Australia, Peking. in common with other countries, Feeling the effects of the stringent financial conditions which
WILS
at present prevailed. He pointed U.S. & PROHIBITION.
out, however, that in Australia Commonwealth stocks were stable at good prices. The Commonwealth had paid over a long series of years interest to the amount of 509 million sterling, and had never yet! failed in her obligations.
Gold-Mining Revival. Australin had contributed. about
DRASTIC STEPS BY ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
"WET ENFORCERS" TO GO.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, January 28, Prohibitionists 'must
practise what they preach, declares the it is his intention not to appoint Attorney-General while stating that "wets" as United States attorneys
30 million sterling to the wealth of the Empire in gold. They were on eve of great gold-mining revival. [Sir James Jamieson, who is 63 One company was spending three years joined the Consular Service million sterling, on introducing new in China in 1888, and served as about 100,000, but the number of
processes and methods for. making bandits is even greater. It is de
Chinese Adviser to the Burma-low-grade are payable. Deeds Not Words,
Chinese Frontier Delimitation The decision to cancel entirely the.clared that unjete action is taken,
Another big interest whose, repre- We regard the acceptance by this. The Admiralty announeed to-day, country of the Optional Clause as in a Fleet Order addressed to the construction of the two eruisers the population in Honan will perish,
1888-89. He was later Commercial "entative had just returned from or marshals, because no man who Australia, intended to spend a logical consequence of our com- Naval Dockyards, that the orders has no direct relation to the pro-
Attache to H.M.'s Legation in Chine, and Consul in the Con- mineral areas in New South Wales.
£600,000 in developing considerable mitment to the Paris Peace Pact for the building of the two Brilehedings of the Naval Conference, although it is justifiably taken as of a year ago.
10,000-ton cruisers Surrey and
Bular Service. He was seconded for service under the Colonial If the Fact was to be of real Northumberland have been canell indicating the healthy belief that value, and if it was not to become ed.
Office as Superintendent of Chi- nesc labour in the Transvaal from
e scrap of paper, its word must The suspension of work on these.
Further Reductions.
!
the Conference will produce results. Exchange of Views..
The delegations to-day continued upon the many aspects of the pro- their discussions which touched blems before them and enabled thera further to exchange and define their
views.
MORE MONEY WANTED.
HUNAN TROOPS FOR
KWANGSI.
(Wah Tu Yot Poo.)
NANKING, January 28, The Central Government is in
be followed by actual deeda. It two cruisers was announced by Mr. was, in part because the Govern in the House of Commons last July Rameny MacDonald, the Premier, ment believed. they would be strengthening the power of the when he gave particulars of big cats Pact of Paris that they had desir-in the naval programme proposed ed, as one of the first actions in by the Government. their foreign policy, to accept and
The heads of delegations met in atify the Optional Clause,
He then stated that one sub the Prime Minister's residence in The Government were of opiniod marine depot ship and two sub- the morning and remained there for that a general acceptance of the marines had been removed from the ramme of work to be submitted to three hours, discussing the pro- Optional Clause by all the mem: 1929-30 programme, that other naval the Conference, then adjourning receipt of a telegram from General bers of the League of Nations construction was to be slowed down, until to-morrow morning. would be a most powerful factor, and that the 1920-30 programme was directly, as well as indirectly, in to be re-examined in the autumn...
Busy Delegates. ncreasing international security Surrey and Northumberland were In the afternoon, there was a against war. They were convinced both to have been ten thousand meeting of the Japanese and the hat the creation of true internaton cruisers. Although neither of British delegations, followed later ional security was inseparably as the cruisers bad yet been laid down, sociated with the establishment of preliminary work had been carried
strong and comprehensive systero out for them. of arbitration.
(Continued on next Column.)
by a meeting between the French, Italian and British delegations, This evening the French and British delegates met again.
Ho Chien, Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, to the effect that 30,000 Hunan troops." are ready to advance to attack the anti- Nanking troops in Kwangsi. · ·
Commission during the season
1905-8,
Sir
Bir James is an Hon. LL.D. of Hong Kong University the honour having been conferred upon him in 1918. As Consul-General in Canton from 1909 to 1926, James was very well known in this Colony. He was at Shameen during the strike and boycott of 1925, and a crowded public meet- ing held at the Theatre Röyal, Hong Kong, in that year passed a resolution expressing confidence in and admiration of the ability with which Sir James was hand- ling a very difficult situation. He was transferred to Tientsin in
1026. A sum of $300,000 is demanded i by Ho for current military ex- penses," and he assured the Govern- ment that his troops would capture Kweilin in a fortnight.
He received the Coronation Medal in 1911, having been made C.M.G. the previous year, was
·knighted în 1923,] : ́
Preference for British Goods. Referring to the new Australian tariff and the fears expressed re- garding the effect on British trade, he said a margin of preference bad been maintained, and it still was the policy of his country to give preference to British next to their own manufactures.
DEATH OF DR. E. W.
EMERSON.
habitually drinks or holds pro- nounced views opposed to pro- hibition should be directly concern- ed in prosecutions under the Pro- bibition Act. Such should seek jobs in other departments privately.
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The administration will at an early date press for the transfer of prohibition enforcement wholly to the Attorney-General's jurisdiction;
BIG FORTUNE TO CHARITY,
AMERICAN PHILANTHRO- FIST'S 'BEQUESTS. '[REUTER'S AMERICAN' service.]
MORRISTON, Pennsylvania, January 29. The late Mr. Edward W. Bok left two million dollars for the purpose of carrying on his charities. The Waldo remainder of his estate goes to his
widow.
FAMOUS ESSAYIST'S SON.
(THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]
CONCORD (Mass.), Jan, 27, The death is announced of Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, son of the famous emayist, Ralph Emerson,