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WITHDRAWAL OF
JAPAN
British Press Comment
E. Levy & Co.
7, 10% mubaÉ STREET
LIVRTEKST BANKKAR ↑ BHONERS
London, Jan. 18. The "Daily Telegraph" declares that Japan has withdrawn from the Naval Conference with dignity and good temper, but the paper admits that the loss to the world is great.. Japan, will very probably not plunge the nations into an armaments race, but she can now pursue her own course untramelled by obliga- tions.
Now that the Washington Treaty has gone the strongest security for Far Eastern peace (non-fortifica- tion of the Pacific islands) has dis-
AIRPLANE CRASH appeared, and a momentous decl-
Cotton,
May............
11.04
Rubber, December
14.53
$1,015.
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$76
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Mercantile Bks. "A"
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60
10.96 10.95
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80
2133
239
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2.3
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Ch. Fin Corp. Urd. S.
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Insurances
191
Anaconda Copper .............................
283 281
El. Bond and Share .........
171 171 173
381 29
171
General Motors
SUBJAŠN
551
551
551
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Montgomery Ward
367
371
STA
371
N.X. Central
30
301.
Canton Auburnated...
1975
U.S. Steel.myaondoah,
301 18+ 473 481 481
308
IPIE
3970
Underwriters
$1.00
31.10
Union Insurances ........
8565
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China Fires
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314
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Uncertainty
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Tientsin, Jan. 18.
INQUEST
slon by Great Britain and the Em- pire may be required at no distant date if the balance is disturbed.
An Anglo-American naval under- standing" ruling out competitive
Coroner's Searching building between these two great
Questions
Alexandr.a. Jan. 15.
The foreign business community Keen questioning by the Caron- in Tientsin faces the year 1938er with regard to the time which which uncertainty, if not actual elapsed before a search was made misgivings, due chiefly to the un- for the wrecked Imperial Arways setted poilical situation in Northliner, City of Khartoum, was the main feature of the resumed in- Although the politics! and quest on the victims of the disas
China,
military situation has been com- paratively quiet for the pasi two. or three weeks, most business men do not feel that this is lasting peace, but is more of an armistice until after the holidays or at least until after conclusion of the London Naval Conference.
The truth is that Japanese busi- ness and industrial leaders share the same belier and are reluctant to make any new commitments or undertake any new enterprises until conditions in
section
this
ter.
Mr. McMeek ng. Superintendent of the air base on the night the disaster, stated that he was told a8 p.m. that the flying-boat had not yet landed, and he went to the landing-stage to see whether there were any signs of the liner,
mission to
nations may partly compensate for the loss of the larger hope and in itself be a strong guarantee for peace in the Pacific.
The "Morning Post" considers
there is more cause for regret than for surprise. Japan has acted en- tirely within her rights in denouncing a treaty she considered derogatory to her dignity or dan- Berous to her safety, "but we must retain our opinion that equality of security cannot be said to rest, as the Japanese case implies, upon equality in armaments
"Now that Japan has asserted to equality we look her claimn rather for co-operation than con- lct in the Far Eastern sphere." | the paper says.
"TIMES" VIEWS
"The Naval Conference will go on comments the "Times," adding that when simficient progress has been made other naval powers, such
He then returned to his afce and asked Lieut.-Car. Mick'eth- Walt, of the destroyer Beagle, who was waiting to meet a passenger on the City of Khartoum, to put to sea for a search. This was at have been sufficiently clarified.8.15 p.m., about an hour after the as Germany and Russia, will proba
bly be invited to participate and accident. Stabilized conditions in North
The Commander-in-Chief of the work out a new treaty which will China, they believe. will, be the signal for renewed activity in all British Fleet at 8.52 p.m. gave per-effectively contribute to the cause
Lieut.-Cdr. Mickleth-of peace and disarmament. unes of business, commerce and walt to put to sea, and the Beagle Despite yesterday's unfortunate New mills are being started at 9.35 p.m. The order was withdrawal, says the journal, the planned, other mills and factories delayed in order to obtain the world will continue to desire will be reopened, millions will be latest information from the plot Japan's co-operation in this good spent on improvement of CO-
of an Imperial Airways plane who and necessary work. fast motor, road had just arrived- $1010munications, "a
will be constructed between Tien-
kester.: tsin and Tangku, farming will be revitalized through *technical, financial and marketing aids the farmers and other improve. ments will be undertaken.
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$21.30
12.70
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Yaumati Ferries
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38.40
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Cauton Lvo
$16
BLAS
21.10/20
$1.68
$9.36
170 ets.
Gewents
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Dairy Farme rea Amusement *******
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Constructions, (oid)|
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$10.70
$8.80
18/6
industry.
CHINESE NEW YEAR SETTLEMENT
Assistance To Peiping Merchants
Peping, Jan. 18.
Japan's attitude, Zzyz the "Times', la plainly unreasonable and is to be explained only by the dominating influence now exercis- ed in Tokyo by elements which have neither the knowledge nor the wish to understand the world out- side Japan.
No responsible. Japanese states- man can, says the journal, think seriously of challenging the United States to a race in naval construc- tion. On further reflection, Japan may come to realise that an agree
But in the meantime Japanese and other foreign business men appear none too happy over pre- sent conditions. Xiri discussing business prospects. with importers and exporters, bankers, retailers, small shopkeepers, "cabaret mana- gers, shippers, professional men Plans to reileve the plight of meat on matters which they regard and merchants of all categories. | merchants
and shopkeepers in as secondary," such as an inter- the consensus of opinion was that Pelping who are facing failure at change of construction plans re- business now is "Hair" and the Chinese New Year settlement garding maximum tonnage and prospects are "uncertain.” -
period two weeks hence are going gun-power of individual vessels, I'nion News.
forward rapidly, according to Mr. may be better than no agreement Lui Tze-shang. Director of the at all
Rauter. Bureau of Social Welfare here.
General Sung - Cheb-yuen and ". General Chin Teh-chun, the Ma- yor, have reached a decision to instruct the banks of the city to loap $10,000,000 to the merchants during the next fortnight, Mr. Lui told newspapermen this morning”
TELEPHONE AFFECTED BY WINDSTORM
Poping. Jan. 18.
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As the result of a windstorm last night, the long distance tele- $21.30 phone service between Tienkyin and Peping was put out of com- mission this morning, Repair: art. now being effected and service expected to be resumed some time
Central News Agency.“
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CANADIAN CONSTITUTION
Ottawa, Jan. 15."
The Canadian Provincial Gov- ernments and the Dominion Gov- 'ernment are. at present meeting. te discurs amendments to the Con- stitution.
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The conference. proposes
the formation of a Loan Counch to give financial afp to the Provin- 'cial: Clovernmenta.—-—-—. Reuters Bulletin Service.
Passing through Shanghai en The Chinese Government has ap route to fokyo where he will parti- proved the sites selected for the construction of Lhe session of proposed cipate in the present Parliament, thero, Mr. P. Nagata, American, British, German, Japan former journalist, and present Far ese and Russian legations and Eastem representative an embassies in Nanking. It is also American Arm, arrived her yestated that the Belgian, Nether- terday in the ss. Asama. Maru, of lands, Portuguese, Czechoslovakian the N.Y.K. Line. Mr. Nagata har and Danish governments are plan- been on a business trip of several ning to establish their legations in months to Hong Kong, Canton, the capital instead of in Peiping. and the interior. While there he made an inspection tour of the The desecration and robbing of A Pan-American Labour Confer
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various branches of the American the tombs belonging to families of Corn Co. Formerly, Mr. Nagata the Imperial dynasties and other was president and editor of the wealthy persons in North China, "Kwanto PRO," in Dairen, but has prompted the Central Govern robently he passed over office ment to take steps to severely editorship, to his brother, although punish the persons responsible for he still retains the presidency of such outragen. A mt of rules
the peper. He does not, however, write y articles br take an ac tive part in the editorial side of the journal.
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adopted recently gives the death sentence to person or persons, found guilty of being armed and desecrating and robbing tombs.
LABOUR CONFERENCE
Bantiagy, Jan. 15.
ence was held here today, at which the American Federation of Labour and Independent Labour Federation representatives were present.
JAPAN J
Mr. Butler, Secretary of the In- ternational Labour Office, sald the meeting was a great success, being beyond his expectations. Reuters Bulletin Bervice. A m
FRENCH STUDENTS
IN ARMS
Annoyed With Prof. Jeze
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press)..
Yesterday the question was «dis- cussed at two meetings, one a Lpecial meting of the Chamber of Commerce and the other a meeting of the currency stabilitza- tion committee of Pelping. The [By Telegraph, Copyright, Tala latter was presided over by the graphic Mensager Ordinance, 1894 Mayor, General Chin Teh-chun, | Received, January 16, 3.30' •p.m.)" and attended by financial leaders, members of the Hopel-Chahar Po- litical Council, the president of the Felping Chamber of Commerce, a representative of the Tientsin Mayor and others Union News.
ELECTRICITY FAILS IN NEW YORK
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DEATH OF LORD
FORSTER
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25 cts. each
TRAIN TRAGEDY
Great Western Rly's
Claim Shattered
London, Jan. '15,
London, Jari, 157 ~ The death has occurred of Lord Forster, former Governor of Aus- Įtralia. There is no heir, both his sons having been killed in the
A shadow has crossed the Great Western Railway's claim to be the Great War.- Reuter.
cafest rakway in the world. by the The late Baron Forster, who was fatal injuries received by the driv- the first holder of the title, whicher and a passenger when the Pen- was created in 1918, was born on zance-Londen night express could- January 31, 1886, and was educated ed with five trucks which broke at Eton and New College, Oxford. away, from a local train at a sid- He played in the Eton XI. the Ox-ing near Swindon. '. ford XI and for the Gentlemen. against the Players.
Twenty-six others were injured. six seriously,
The
Company had previously
He was a Lord Commissioner for the Treasury in 1902-05, and Fin- ancial Secretary to the War Omee only had one passenger train ac-.
cident involving death to patsen- from 1915 to 1919. From 1920 to 1925, he was Governor-General of gers in the last twenty years. This
occurred in South Wales in 1928. Australia, and he was also a mem-
when one person was Elled- ber of the Army Council.
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
Plans for the establishment of a
powerful trade guild in north Dr. Joseph F. Rock, the Amer China L being considered by can botanist, explorer and authori oficials of the Manchuris Exporty on Yannian, who has spent some Paris, Jan. 18. ters Union according to the time in Peiping, "has left for his Students of all the faculties of Kokutau News Agency. The pro-homa in Yunnanfu. Dr. Rock's Sorbonne have decided to enter jented organ will engage both in present visit to Paiping was for into a general strike unless the imports and exports.
the purpose of renewing acquain Minister of Education cancels the
tanceship with old friends and to Mr. Clarence A. Davies, of "The scarch for rare Chinese books. Fo lectures of Professor Jeze of the Japan Advertiser, Tokyo, is now also has made arrangements for faculty of law and immediately in Peiping having come from the publication of the first volume reopens the faculty.
Professor Jeze, it will be recall-tokohama and Shanghai una of his new book, The Ancient brief visit." "The present is Mr. Nakhi Kingdom of North-western ed, represented Abyssinia during Davica third visit to Peiping. He Younan: Its History and Geo- the investigation of the Ualual is a guest of Mr. A. Cecil Taylor graphy," which is to be published incident and thereby forfelted the of the "Peiping Chronicle." by The French Bookstors, to La released from the press in Juna, sympathies of numerous French-
Peace" "confer 1996. This deals with the early"
New York, Jan. 15, Some 60,000 persons on their way bome in underground railways and occupants of over a million homes and offices were plunged police to be prepared for all nant, and appeasing Italy's and out a kingdom in western Yunnan, into confusion at 4.15 p.m. to-day | eventualīties.---
men, particularly students. The Convocation of s authorities, fearing disturbances inence with a view to revising, the Nakhi history and tells of the little the student quarters, are taking existing treaties, in accordance known peoples of western - Yunnka no chances and have ordered the with Article 18 of the League Gove who, in the pre-Han times, carved
when the electric supply: falled in Transotian Kuo Min.
an area comprising virtuallymall New York north of Manhattan and extending to the northern bound- ary of the Bronx,
ROME COMMUNIQUE
Electric lifta and clocks stopped and Mayor La Guardia called out
Home, Jan. 15, 18,000, extra policemen to prevent
A communique leened late to tooting and disorders. Over 7,000
remen stood by for extra service day states that Italian forces on The black-out continued for the southern Soma and front three-quarters of an hour before have claimed to have won a com the services began to be restored pleto victory after a gay bale and the millions of emergency they innicting heavy losses on the
'candies were snuffed out. "Reuter:
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Germany's territorial, economic-Brechnen and Tibet and for several and colmial claims, is being centuries ruled that part of the strongly urged in influential Bri world from their capital a Ki tish quarters and may shortly be kiang. Dr. Rock's work is the re- considered by the British Cabinet, Iault of painstaking original re Havas learns
search among the tribes of Yunnan and is based partly on ancient According to official reporte, is- records kape in hieroglynhië seript und by the China Office of the by the priest sorcerers. Several of International Labour Bureau, thara these valuable manuscripts, in a were over 5,800,000 unemployed per style of writing And a langunge sons in China during 1935. The developed by the Moso people, were report was compiled from a survey discovered by Dr. Rock during his of the provinces and cities of extensive travels in Yunnan, sinor Hopes. Shantung, Honan, Kinngea, 109 They provide the only with Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangri. Hupen, Den record of the history of co Hunan, Kuangtang Kwange, the most interesting of all 1.04 Nanking, Bhanghai, Paiping, aboriginal peoples found in the Tsingtao and other places,
west and southwest of China.