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NAVAL LIMITATION. BRITISH SUBJECTSTM
BRITAIN LEADS THE WAY,
DISCUSSION ON NAVY ESTIMATES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] »
IN CHINA.
QUESTIONS IN COMMONS.
WITHDRAWAL OF REGI. MENT FROM TIENTSIN.
"(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
LONDON, March 17. The First Sen Lord, Mr. A. V. Alexander, introducing the Navy
LONDON, March 17. estimates, said that the reduction In the House of Commons at inadequately expressed the magni- question time Mr. A. A. Somerville tude of the Admiralty's efforts to naked whether Mr. Henderson was wards economy. No other Power satisfied that the safety of British had voluntarily made such reduc- | subjects was assured at all the tion. His Majesty's Government Treaty Ports of China. nated with greatest satisfaction Mr. Henderson replied that he that in the general world outlook, had received the text of the resolu- there was justification for a furtion passed at a meeting of British ther slowing down of the rate of subjects at Tientsin, stating that naval construction.
the withdrawal of the British Our expenditure must be in battalion from the town was in- relation to our future needs, which opportune at the present time. could not be ascertained until the results of the Naval Conference were announced. He deprecated the public discussion of conference questions, and to-day hoped that the feelings of pessimism in that connection would prove unfounded
Singapore Base,"
Referring to the Singapore base. Mr Alexander said that consider. Bule slowing down of the work had been found possible without pre- judicing the ultimate decision.
Otherwise the net expenditure for 1930, after allowing for contribu tions from the Dominions and from Colonial sources, would have been three times that of 1920. The final decision as to the future of the base would be taken as soon as possible after the Naval Conference, and after consulting the Overseas Gov. ernments.
Commons Debata. :
LATTE,
In the House of Commons it was agreed that the votes for the per sonnel of the Navy and some other items, apart from the asseverations of the Naval Conference, were doomed to failure.
The speakers in the debate on the naval estimates refrained
raising Conference problems..
from
Mr. Henderson stated that one battalion was still stationed at Tientsin and would be kept there for the time being. The strength of the British military forces in China was in accordance with the recommendations of the military
advisers.
JAPAN AND INDIAN TARIFFS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 17.
In the House of Commons, at question-time, Mr. Arthur Hender sop, the Foreign Secretary, stated that the Government had received a communication from the Japanese Government complaining at the dis criminatory effects of the proposed Indian cotton duties on Japanese goods.
Mr. Henderson added that the Government of India munt peces. aarily be consulted before a reply to Japan could be made.
COALMINES 'BILL.
Mr. Churchill, on behalf of the ANOTHER DIVISION TO-DAY,
Conservatives, reserved complete liberty in re-examining the position later.
replying .tc
Mr. Alexander, criticisma, said that the Govern ment would take no steps a re garde naval policy without a full consultation with the experts.
JAPAN AMERICAN AGREEMENT.
CONFLICTING REPORTS IN
TOKYO.
[TRAQUAN REUTER'S AGENCY.}
TOKYO, March 17,
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Rugay, March 18. Another critical division on the Coal Mines Bill will be taken in the House of Commons on Thursday, when the Government. hope to com- plete the Committee stage of the
mensure."
An amendment has been tabled by the Conservative and Liberal members for the deletion of the provision to empower owners to fix minimum prices for con products in any district to which the scheme applies.
It is anticipated by the Press that probably thirty-five members While officials continue to bo ex-favour of the amendment but that of the Liberal Party will vote in tremely reticent regarding the assent by Liberals may be sufficient prospects of Japan's aceptance of to ensure the passage of the clause.. the latest terma proposed in the It is considered unlikely Japan-American agreement,
any the Liberals will vote with the Gov. circulation of conflicting reports appear to indicate a strong differ ence of opinion between the Navy
to define ita Office and the Foreign Offee in spite of recent official assertions to the contrary.
A semi-official statement emanat- ing from the Navy Office takes strong exception to the proposed strength of both the eight-inch- cruisers and submarines. It asserts that the Navy by no means accepte such a proposal.'i
Enquiries in official sources, how ever, have brought forth a flat de- nial that this represents anything more than the personal view "of certain officers.
HATRY'S APPEAL.
SENTENCE CONFIRMED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 17. The Court of Criminal Appeal has refused leave to Clarence Hatry to appeal against the sentence of 14 years' penal servitude passed upon him by Mr. Justice Avory.
Lord Hewart, who presided, said the Court endorsed" the Judge's opinion that the frauds of which Hatry was convicted were the most appalling that had ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country. They considered the sent ence not a day too long.
Sentence will begin as from to- day. Hatry was convicted January 25.
on
INTERNATIONAL COTTON
meeting to-night ernment, The party is holding a
attitude.
U.S. CONGRESS BUSY.
CHINESE ANTIMONY,
[UNITED PASS.]
Washington, March 12. The Senate to-day maintained the pre- sent tariff rate on antimony and rejected the Oddie Amendment of of a four cent fat rate.
Senntor T. L. Oddie, who is from Nevada, declared that a low rate or sliding scale would strengthen the Chinese monopoly on antimony The Senate adopted a Bill an propriating G81,000,000 for the Federal Farm Baard, in order that this organ may have it as a weapon to stabilize prices of grain.
GANDHI'S MARCH.
SMALL-POX AMONG
FOLLOWERS. .
HOW CAN WE GO HOME NOW?
(THROUGH RAUTER'S (CENCT))
ANAND, Bombay, March 17. One of Gandhi's "volunteers has pontracted smallpox, and Gandhi has directed him to stay here "and" net to return to Ahmedabad, what ever happens."
Another sought permission to go home to Baroda, and promised to he back in the evening. How can we go home now demanded Gandhi, refusing permission.
The headman and seven village tax assessore have resigned.
Police Precautions,
BORSAD, March 19. In addition to the small-pox caso which was left behind at Anand. there are now three casualties among Gandhi's volunteers, who are all accompanying the party by pooy-carriage.
Gandhi and his followers arrived way to Borsad. In the evening at Napa in the morning on their there were elaborate police precau tions at Borsad which is the dis- trict in which Vallabhai Patel was arrested.
Mayor of Dalcutta on Trail,
RANGOON, March 15.
tions or to be released on bail.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930.
KWANGSI CAMPAIGN.
BIG BATTLE ON WEST RIVER.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENг.]
CANTON, - March 18
IN THE NORTH.
TELEGRAM WAR CONTINUES.
MOVE BY FENG YU HSIANG,
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
A fierce battle is reported to be
PEPING, March 18 raging in the Tanghsien district in A further contribution to circular the upper parts of the West River telegrams has been made by one not very far from Wuchow, No signed by fifty-three Krominehun, further details are available, excepted by Lu Chung Lin, but not signed
Shanxi and Kwangsi generals head that Pei Chung Hsi is in command by Yen lisi Shan and Feng Yu 51 the Kwangsi troops.
Haiang.
This is noteworthy, because after reciting
Big defensive measures are being taken in Wuchow which is at pre- sent delended by troops of the 6th Military Route and a detachment of garrison troops, sent from Car- ton. The city is quiet, but has all the appearances of an armed camp.
JUNK EXPLOSION IN CANTON.
REPRISAL BY BANDITS:
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]
CANTON, March 18. One man was killed and threa persons were slightly injured in an explosion in a Koming junk shortly. after midnight yesterday off the West Bund. The explosion was thei work of bandits as a reprisal to the refusal of the junk-master to pay The junk theprotection fees."
crimes," the telegram definitely Chiang Kai Shek's nouaces sa expedition against Chiang, and declares that every- one throughout the nation is justi. fied in trying to kill him.
It is confrmed that the, Nanking troops have withdrawn from Tai- nanfu to the South. Feng Yu Hsiang has moved from Tungkwa to Shenchow, and his troops are reported to have occupied Loyang, in Honan, while other Kuominchun forces are helding Chengehow.
AN OPEN BREACH WITH
NANKING.
(THROCON REUTER'8" AGENCY. ]
1.
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PEPING, March 18. Shansi troops to-day occupied the local office of the National Government Commander-in-Chief,
FRIGHTFULNESS ' IN WAR.
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST CHIANG KAI SHEK.
FL
PASSING OF
EXPLOSIVE BULLETS AND
POISON.GAS.
Wo have received the transla. tion of a circular telegram sent out explosive bullets and poison-gas by Mr. Wang Ching Wei regarding said to have been shipped by Nan- king to Haiphong, Indo-Chins, for the seal of the "Kwangs: Provincial Yunnan Province. The copy bears Government which is responsible for the authenticity of the state ments made therein. Regret is ex- General in Hong Kong had not pressed that the French Consul
been informed of the facts when be was recently questioned on this matter, and naturally had to an French Consul-General has since swer that he knew nothing. The been informed of the fact. It will be understood, of course, that this statement is an ex parte one issued by the Kwangsi clique, which hos established "Government" Nanning
at
Bombs on Non-Combatants. The following is the text of the circular telegram sent out by Mfr. Executive Committee, elected by Wang Ching Wei, Chairman of the the Second National Congress of the Kuomintang ---
"We have received a report from
which reads as fallows: man of the Kwangsi Government,
The trial of Sea, Gupta on a charge of sedition has been openep. has been for years on the Canton. They disarmed a dozen guards and Sen Gupta refused to answer ques-Koming run, and. has never been also closed the Kuomintang party General Wong Shiu Hung, Chair- pirated. It had on several ocea-headquarters. They replaced the sions encountered pirates, but al-National Government employees at
beat them off. the Telegraph and ways managed to
Telephone. Recently the pirates sent to the Administrations with their junk-master a letter, threatening to nominees, thus making an open blow up the ship unless their de breach with Nanking. mands were complied with; but the master ignored the letter.
WORLD TOUR BY SHANG-
- HAI MOTORIST.
(THROUH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 17. Mr. Allen Isaacson, who started out from Shanghai in March, 1926, on a honeymoon motor tour of the world, has arrived in London.
In the course of the tour, he got mixed up in two revolutions in China and one in Afghanistan,
FRENCH REVENUE INCREASES:
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TROOPS MUTINY AT BIAS BAY.
WIRELESS STATION
DESTROYED.
(Wah Tr Fat Pao.) According to a brief report from
Cantonese Canton, the
troops, quartered at Bins Bay, mutinied on Friday and destroyed the wire- less station in Pingboi, in which district, Bias Bay is situated, No official report has been received by the Canton authorities in this re- with gard due to the interruption of telegraphic communication between Pinghei and. Canton.
PARIS, March 17. The revenue returns for the month of February totalled Frs. 2,894,000,000, showing an increase of Fra. 300,000,000 as compared with the Budget forecast, and Fra 160,000,000 - 15 compared February of last year.
AMERICA'S EXCESSIVE
WHEAT.
WARNING TO REDUCE
ACREAGE.
It appears that on Saturday, Chinese gunboat, the Kwang Kam, while on patrolling duty arrived at the Bay and the captain of the gunboat was told that the garrison troops on the Bay were in revolt. He reported the cecurrence to the Canton Government on Sunday when the gunboat arrived in the The Naval Headquarters
(UNITED PRESS.]
Washington, Mar. 11-An ulti-City. mátum was issued to-day by Al- were ordered to dispatch at once exander Legge, chairman of the three gunboats, the Motung, Kwang newly created Federal Farm Board, Kam and Man Sang, with a bot ordering the wheat growers of the talion of marines and a battalion United States to cut their acreage
of the cadets of the Military School in Whampon to the Bay to deal by 10 per cent.
Otherwise, he warned them, they with the situation, would go broke" through over- production of wheat:
Mr. Legge declared that the Unit- ed States cannot hope to compete in the foreign wheat market be- cause of high production costs and transportation charges added. "
Alleged Tarifi Plot.
LATER. Senator Gerald P. Nye, n Re- publican, issued a statement to- day through the Democratic Na- tional Committee predicting that
The cause of the mutiny is not yet revealed. It is understood, however, that the matincers might have been incites by the Com munists. The number" of the mutineera is limited being one to two companies. No details are available at present..
BRITAIN'S INTEREST IN. MANCHURIA.
THE SINO-JAPANESE TREATY.
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AGREEMENT INITIALLED.
NANKING, March 12, Mr.. A. Shigemitsa, acting Japanese Minister, accompanied by Mr. Yokotake, Commercial Attache, Mesra Hayashide and Horiuchi, Secretaries to the Legation, and others, arrived here this morning.
A conference was held at 10 between Mr. Shigemitsu, Dr. C. T. Wang, and Mr. T. V. Scang.
In an interview Mr. Shigemitsu said: "I am not yet in a position to make public the exact contents of the Agreement' reached between China, and Japan. But, I can at lenat state that the Agreement con- Bists of 10 articles and is accom-
panied by a number of memoranda. "I cannot say that it will be satisfactory to everybody, but I can at least state with confidence that it should be sufficiently effective to become a basis for the solution of many pending questions in regard to the customs tariff problem be tween Japan and China.
LATER.
Agreement was initialled here at The Sino-Japanese Customs Tarifi
its
SPAIN'S
DICTATOR.
FULL HONOURS ACCORDED.
[THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]
MADRID, March, 17, "Let passion-be silent and history Peak, concludes the Conservative of the ewspaper Epoca, one
up the feeling of the country gen- stagest opponents of De Rivera's Dictatorship. The phrase Bums
erally."
The Government made a state- death, and pointing out that Prime ment regretting the General's de Rivera pacified Morocco and reached the highest post in the State Therefore it recommended to a Captain-General be rendered to to the King that the honours due De Rivera.
Remains Taken to Madrid.
PARIS, March 17. The body will be placed in a special van of the Pyrenees Ex- press with full pomp and honours, including, the band of the Garde Republicaine.
M. Doumergue, the French Fre sident, will be represented. The body will be accompanied to Ma drid by De Rivera's son and the Spanish Ambassador.
NEW YORK POLICE METHODS.
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SEVERE CRITICISM.
CHARGES OF BRUTALITY.
[UNITED PRE99.]
"Chiang Kai Shek, in the hope that Yunnan would send troops to attack Kwangsi, has enused a shipment of approxim
NEW YORK, March 12. ately two thousand cases of nm- Mr. Norman Thomas, Socialist, munition to Haiphong, Indo-candidate for the Presidency at the China, to be transported to Yun-last national election, to-day started Ban from that port. Twenty-eight move to oust New York's debon- of those cases contain explosive [naire Police Commissioner, Grover bullets and substance. for the Whalen, because the latter recently diffusion of poison-gas. A repre- sent to their employees the names rentation has been made through of 300 New York Communiste. our representative to the Govern- The Commissioner explained that ment of Indo-China with regard be submitted the names in order to this matter. The Government that any move against law and of Indo-China, in view of the order " on the part of the Com grave nature of this affair which" | munists might be watched. involved the law of nations and Mr. Thomas charges that such an. the treaties signed at the Hague action amounted to a blacklisting and at Washington, has decided to the people named, since they to publish all the facts and to would be in the position of police report them to the League of suspects, and their chances of re- Nations.
taining respectable employment fisting is illegal under Federal lawa. would naturally be lessened. Black-
Chiang Kai Shek, in his des dietatorship, has employed all un large-scale political issue, since perate greed to create a personal
The case is likely to become, a scrupulous means to effect this end. He has deliberately stirred ap civil any New Yorkers who are for war; he has endeavoured to anni aroused over police brutality in from being Communists have become hilate those troops which refused to manhandling participants in and be his tools; he has massacred our spectators at public gatherings of comrades whom he has failed to late. Mr. Whalen bas been placed wealth; he has brought untold suf coerce by force, or corrupt by under attack by a number of im- ferings to innocent people. He has Ver Tark World, whose reporter, portant newspapers including the recently despatched aeroplanes to H. Hickman Powell, a recent visi Kwangsi to bomb densely populated or to the Far East, was struck and undefended cities, towns and down by a policeman while he was villages, which lie outside the war copying the number of another area. Numberless people who are officer who had just struck non-combatants have been killed or bystander at a demonstration. It is now learned that the Cus. wounded and their dwellings des- totas Tariff Agreement consists of troyed..
Political reasons were responsible five articles and five protocols. A
for the Whalen appointment by As if unsatinted by such "at-
Mayor Jimmy résumé of the agreement is as fol- rocities, "Chiang Kai Shek has now charged, and his regime is declared Walker, it is fows:-
resorted to explosive bullets and 1-Recognition of the complete poison-gas. The use of explosive pressive measures for publicity pur to Have been characterised by op- tariff autonomy of China.
bullets is prohibited by the De- -Japan enjoys the most favour-claration of St. Petersburg, signed to run rampant."
poses while crime has been allowed.. ed nation treatment.
in 1839 by the representatives of 3-Recognition of the uniform taxation at the maritime and land
seventeen States. The prohibition was reiterated in a declaration frontier Customs.
adopted in 1800 by the First Hague. Conference and in the Regulations. of 1899 and 1007 respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land.
6.30 p.m.
Further it is stated that such questions as the scope and tariff rate of commercial commodities that will enjoy reciprocal "treat ment, abolition of likin and the similar transit dues and readjust
protocol.
the Republican party would speedi NEW CONSULAR BUILDING IN ment of loans, are treated in the
i find itself in a situation zuch as
it was in 1912,
He asserted that there existed an "unholy alliance," engineered by astute high tariff lords like Grundy of Pennsylvania, which sought More Funds for Naval Conference.
tariff rate that would put $10 in The same Bill includes $150,000 new burdens on the farmer for for expenses of the American de-every dollar put in his pocket. legation to the London Five-Power Naval Limitation Conference. Op ponents of the Administration had contemplated using the threat of withholding of funds as a means of wringing concessions, but it was apparently decided that this would bc inadvisable.
An appropriation of $12,000,000" for river and harbour works was also passed.
J,
Cuban Sugar Dispute.
LATED The Senate to-day entered un- animous. consent to an agreement for a vote on Thursday to recon- sider the question of the tariff on Cuban sugar.
Senator Nye, who comes from North Dakota and is classed among the Western Insurgents, declared that there were "stacked cards" to fix votes among the Senators and bring about high tariffs on sugar, erment, lumber and oil, all at the expense of the farmer.
JURY CHOSEN TO TRY DOHENY.
TEAPOT DOME OIL SCANDAL AGAIN.
HARBIN.
The British Government has de- cided to appoint a trade represen- tative to Manchuria, which showe that the Government is alive to the importance of Manchufia and its future possibilities.
DANISH ROYALTY IN JAPAN OFFICIAL RECEPTION IN TOKYO.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Torro, March 18. The Danish Crown Prince, Prince
The employment of poison-gaa forbidden by a declaration adopted by the naval and military forces is in the Hague Conference in 1800, and again by a declaration signed at the Hague Conference of 1907. And the prohibition is embodied in the Regulations for War on Land, The Naval Disarmament Conference at Washington adopted in solemn words a resolution forbidding the use of poison-gas. The signatory Powers agreed to be bound by this prohibition and all other civilized nations have been invited to adhere thereto.
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RUBBER FROM "GOLDEN ROD."
EDISON'S SENSATIONAL
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DISCOVERY.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.)
FORT MYERS, Florida,
March 18. Mr. Thomas Edison, who is de- voting his energies to the problem of producing rubber from the Golden Rod plant, told reporters that in another five years the Doited States will have utilizable rubber crop.
Mr. Edison said: "In under a rear we discovered a variety of Golden Rod growing ten feet above
Knud, and Prince find Princess pletely disregarded, in violating breeding,
"Chiang Kai Shek, has thus com- A man's head. which, by cross-
Д
сад produce a plant
in
It is probable, saya the Harbin correspondent of the ... Daily News, that the Commercial Attaché will make Harbin his headquarters, for the new British Consulate- General will soon be ready for ac- pupati of architecture it is nothing Axel arrived at Yokohama this those august agreements entered carrying eight per cent, fine grade point it is nothing morning aboard the Fienia. After into by almost all the civilized rubber." pretentious, the building is large formal welcome, they proceeded nations, enough and occupies a most central by special train to Tokyo, where and the moral dictates which are Ford, recently purchased for Mr. international good-faith It is noteworthy that Mr. Henzy position in New Town, the site they were greeted by Baron Shide common to all mankind. He is Edison being excellent and with extended hara and other distinguished per- therefore not only a criminal offen- Georgia.
huge plantation grounds.
It is really time that large and,
sona in the name of the Emperor. der in China, but a culprit "defying financially strong British engineer party will reside at the Kasum-
During their stay in Tokyo, the the established order of the world. ing firms should pay more attention ignacki Palace, and will carry out clarations adopted at the Hague signed in 1919, during the Paris. "To those Conventions and De-Trade in Arms and Ammunition: to North Manchuria, for, with one
a busy programme of social enter and at Washington, France is or or two exceptions they are containments beginning this afternoon both China and France are signs of which is prohibited by inter- spicuous by their absence. They are with a visit to the Emperor and tories.
Peace Conference, arms the use often big contracts offering, for
The French authorities national law should not, under any which foreign firms compete, but
Empress.
have now decided to publish the circumstances: be exported. The the orderá usually go to Czecho-
facta and to report them to the same Convention provides for the slovak, German, Swiss, French or
League of Nations. The people of establishment of a American firms.
China, though completely deprived national Office for the supervision Central Inter- The Skoda Works actually get
of the freedom of speech and Press over the trade in and the distribu more than their share of the big
under the tyrannical rule of Chiang tion of the arms and ammunition engineering orders given, but they
Kai Shek, must nevertheless, in specified in the Convention. NEW YORK, March 17. have a large staff of engineering
It is reported in Wall Street honour and dignity, oppose him to bullets and the poison-gas, which order to uphold their national "Insomuch. да the explosive experts and tender for every order
that negotiations for a merger of the uttermost. that is going. Thus it is that this the Chase National Bank, the "The explosive bullets and the have been imported to China, both are prohibited by international law firm is supplying goodly quantities Equitable. Trust Company and the of railway material to the C.E.R.. Inter-State Trust Company, have noison-gas which are still held at violated the Convention. It is im-
substance for the
diffusion of the seller and the buyer have. besides getting bridge work and pinetically been completed. other contracts. It is also building If the combine is effected, as
Haiphong cannot, have been manu-perative that the League of Nations steamers and barges for Chinese seems certain, it will result in the netured in China. They are likely and the Central International Office steamship companies, and is engag-formation of the largest bank in
to have come from some other conduct an, investigation into this. cd in supplying the wants of a
the United States, the total re Convention for the Control of the the responsibility of the delin- In accordance with the matter with a view to ascertaining undertakings.
G82,800,000,000.
(UNITED PRESS.] Washington, March 12-A jury FEDERATION.
Senator John J. Blaine of Wia- was selected to-day to try the oil consin at first objected, requesting | magnate, Edward L. Doheny on a (THROUGH REUTER'S "ÄGENCY.]
time to summon Mr. Deber Grant, charge of bribing the former 8e- PARIS, March 17.
president of the Utah-Idaho Sugar cretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, The Committee of the Interns Co. and other Utah companies and to obtain valuable oil lease con tional Federation of Master Cotton corporations and First President cessions.. Spinners and Manufacturers As of the Mormon church, for ques- sociations, meeting in Paris to-day, tioning with reference to charges confined its discussion mainly to that Mr. Grant was present in the resolution of the Barcelona Washington when the former vote Cotton Congress as regarde the was taken. establishment of national cotton propaganda committees in each aff. listed country.
The Secretary-General, Mr. Aran Penrac, has resigned after 25 years' service, in order to take up an im- portant adpointment in Egypt. His appointed his successor.
This trial results from the suc- cess of the prosecution in convict ing Mr. Fall on a charge of ac- cepting such a bribe, some months ago. The Fall case. is on appeal, following imposition of sentence of imprisonment and fine.
It has been alleged that Mr. Grant attempted to influence mem- bers of the Senate in favour of a Mr. Doheny is linked with the high tariff on Cuban sugar to pro- famed "little black bag" episode tect domestic, beet sugar largely when $50,000 was sent, to the Secret produced in Utah.
ary as a loan, according to the Senator Reed Smooth of Utah Dohepy-Fall contention, but as a
tion vote to-day,
tried Mr. Fall.
BIG U.S. BANK MERGER. [DEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE,]
source,
son. Mr. Norinan Pearee, has been attempted to obtain a reconsidera- bribe in the view of the jury which dozen or more other industrial sources being in the region of (Continued at foot of next column). quenta.-WANG CHING WEL"