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THE TURKISH CRISIS.
POPULAR INDIONATION.
Rentor's
[Service to the Telegraph."] London, January 23.
GENERAL NEWS
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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1919.
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It is stated that Mr. Ma, Chinese Consul-General in Seoul, recently transferrod to Yokohama, after the transference of the consuler business to the newly appointed Consul General upon his arrival in town, will first go to Peking OFFICES TO LET First Class,
central accommodation, light and T. Godewa zitusted on water front, prior to departing for his post, in order to make preparatory ur airy, on First and Second Floor, East Point. For further particulars apply rangements concerning his offiiulis new building being erected for Messrs. Property Office, Jardine, Matheson & business. He will leave town for WTAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., Cou Peking about the 20th inst. LTD. Entrance from Des Voeux Road. Hocgkong, 18th Ang., 1912. Seoul Press.
Reuter's correspondent at Con stantinople states that the official announcement of the Cabinet's
A Strange Accident. resignation says hit the Cabinet's
Briof information is to hand of decision, in reply to the Note from a curious-cecurrence at Menglem- the Powers, tuabandon & Irianople bu, says a Straits paper. Accon and part with the Aegean Island, ing to the news received, blasting was unconstitutional, and the operations were proceeding, submission of the decision to on whether in a nine or terris extraordinary assembly, in viola cannot be ascertained, when a tion of the rights of the people, quantity of stone flow into a had roused the indignation of the neighbouring kongsi, killing | country and led the people town Chinese." The polico are in- demonstrate before the Sublime quiring into the matter, but there Porte. This was the cause of
ano reason to suppose it was any- the resignation.
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The crowd was still, not die: persed at 7 p'clock on Thursday{ evening.
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btains. Indeed, they are both in favour of Sumatra. Growth is more rapid in Sumatra, yields, so far as we have been able to com- The subject of the F.M.S. v.. who was arrested on arrival in Sumatra and the relative cost of Pare, are superior, and coolies are cheaper. The next year or two H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND. Singapore by the steamer Sanda-producing rubber in either will probably confirm this view, kan last month in charge of 2,000 country has received a certain for the island is so far only a tahils of illicit chanlu, line been amount of ventilation during the emparatively small producer, sentenced in the charge of attempt few months. No fiuality and has not yet got into it stride. The other point is the terma on ting to import. Evidence was would seem to have been reached London, January 23... given by the chief flier of the so far in the controversy. It would which land was acquired in the His Majesty the King nadakan, and his Worship then appear that the mattor should FMS and whether the Govern February 5th will inspect FM S passed sentence of a fine of $5,000 be divided into two separate ment should modify the conditions Now Zealand at Portsmouth. The or six months' imprisonment. An phases. The first concerns the on which it was so
freely battleship, which is the gift offer was also made that the subject of the taxation that rub-aken up. The land was New Zealand to the Empire, chandu, which is worth $9,000 bar concerus have to meet in offered on certain terms and leaves on her cruise on the follow $10,000, by en-cated. A uither country. The second would it was taken up on those terms. ing day. Sho stays at Now Zumised was the head chinchew of be wheitor the F.M.S. Covernment It would scarcely room that they is exacting too much out of the ara prohibitivo from the acroage. industry, to the extent, that is, taken up, that they are at oven that those who entered into baronerous seems also apparent from gains should be relieved, presum the reports of the various com An interesting visitor to Sing ably because the like product can panies. Mr. Brockman, the pore just now is Mr. Edmund be produced at a cheaper figure Chief, Scorelary of the F. London, Junitary 23. Mitchell, who is there in connecelsewhere. There is little doubt. S., in moting Mr. Mac, Mr. Asquith his informed ation with an American Company that Sumatra can market its pro-fadyen's resolution, and in his deputation from the British Con-of cinematograph actors who are duce at a cheaper rate than pre-annual report, had some effective ton Growing Areciation that he engaged in representing eastern vails in the F.M.S., but we points to make. Laad on which will intro:luco at the earliest ino-plays and legends in their ment next session a Bill authoris natural settings Mr. Mitchell are inclined to think that this the imports come to £3 per acre
arises far more from climatic. ing the Government to guarantee has bad a long career of
per annum yielded a profit to the and soil conditions, and choa-holders of £00 per nore. Another s loan of £3,000,000 for the Sadan travel, having spent many years per coolie wages, than from caso pited was that of an apN. Government for cotton growing. in India, Australia and America, difference in taxation. True the plication for 6,000 acres .in and he has written a number of actual land rent is cheaper in Pahang, at a cost of $1 por fintorosting hooks and given Sumatra, but against the per acre, and
before even the lectures in many parts of the cent. export duty, which is prac-application was approved a pro- tically the only impost on. rubber A Crocodile Story.
spectus was issued in which it One evening, recently, while from the States, you have in Sum was stated that this block of land one of this boatmen was sented in atra the income tax, managers' was to be sold to the shareholders the Government sailing prahu and assistants personal taxes, at 84. Gl. an acre. Blocks of land which are almost invariably pair for which a maximum of $3 could alongside Sipitang wharf, Borneo, he was horrified to see the head by the companies, and cousiler by charged would be sold to and upper parts of a moderate able import duties on many artie shareholders at £5 an acre. Such sized croco lile enter the boat and 10s. It would be very instructive to baing the case, it is only fair that regard him with interest. The compare the working cost of these careful inquiry should be made various items, which would-lead, to show that blame lies at the shrieke of the proposed victim
we believe, to considerable is Government door in the degree. word successful in campolling the President Taft on based compita crocodile to beat a retreat. Fur-similation. What hits the F.M.S. that has been represented. The tions wherein account was taken ther, the boatman's story was cor-company more is the case where big surplus of the F.M.S. bas of the amount American coast roborated by the marks of the good deal of land is hell but been built up out of tin, to which wise shipping would havo brate's forefeet clearly seen on
is not planted up or in bearing.rubber cun lay only a very modest paid if not exompted and the decking of the bont.
After the agreed number of years claim: The agitation has at least at the lower rate had passed and had one result in that the Govern in such a way that the pro. portional share of the cost of the In Memory of Illinois Veterans the full yearly rent became payment has undertaken "that if re- Canal and working to be borno
Andersonville, Ga, December able, it would be much more than lief is néoded and merited for this by foreign shipping would not 20-In the presence of Gov. the 18, per acre, which usually industry, or any other, the Go- be increased by the exemption, Deneen of Illinois, his staff and a meets the case in Sumatra. vernment will not neglect its ob the lose resulting where from large party of Illinois veterans.
It is becoming more apparent ligations.” would fall on the United States and representatives of the Govern- each day that the cost of produc- Government aloner
Tyre theft at Singapore. The fact that the Act gives the ment, the monument erected to tion in Sumatra is less than in the
Sergeant Major Breman, of the the memory of Illinois soldiers Peninsula, and that even if the President powers to do stane buried here was unveiled to-day rent was greatly reduced in the RA.M.G., at Singapore reports to thing contrary to the interests Addresses were delivered by Gov. latter it would probably not suffice the police that thievce took the possessed, by British shipping is Dencen and Capt. J. J. Ryan, to bridge the division. The rubber tyres off an ambulance no just cause for complaint unless U.S.A., attached to the Depart-plantations of the Malas Peninsula waggon which was lying at the it is thus exercised, and illment of the Gulf, who accepted the could only compete with their back of the military hospital. The British objections rest on some shaft on behalf of the Govern- neighbours if their land gave a tyres are valued gt £15. thing moro substantial than the mere possibility, there is no need mont. The Illinois monument, higher average yield of rubber, or, for arbitration. Mr. Knox ad. which cost about $10,000, is one they had
It is believed that the bardea on the British taxpayer will be inappreciable.
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