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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1921.
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THE MURDER OF SPAIN'S PREMIER.
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OPIUM SUPPLIES FROM INDIA.
Mr. Montagu's Statement Regarding Smuggling from Hongkong.
{ Renter's Service. )
London, March 9.
In the House of Commous, replying to Mr. Gershom Stewart, Mr. Montagu stated that he asked the Government of India whit amount of opium was exported 'from India to Hongkong and the Straits in 1929, and promised to ask Mr. Churchill in regard to the prevention of smuggling from Hongkong and the Straits to
A Reprisal by Syndicalists.
(Reuters Service. )
Madrid, March 9. The plot to assassinate Sentor Dato (the Spanish Premier) was hatched by Spaniards in Paris as a reprisal for the repression of Syndicalist disorders in Barcelona. Sentor Dato receive a telegram of warning from Faris on March 6. There were three assassine riding in a single motor-cycle and side-car. All fired Browning revolvers with both hands. Senhor Dato was hit in six places and his car was hit with twenty-seven bullets. Commander Kenworthy declared that the export was very heavy. The Foreign Minister, Sentor Lema, has been recalled from This was taken up by Japanese merchants and taken to China. He Barcelona, where he should have presided over the International urged the stoppage of the importation of opium from Indis to China | Communications Conference. in unnecessary quantities. Mr. Montagu agreed.
China.
Sir John Rees suggested that the cultivation of opium in South China was so great that the disposal of this small surplus wee negligible. Replying to Commander Konworthy, Mr. Montagu stated that his information did not bear out the statement that there was no poppy-growing in China except on a strictly-regulated scale.
Hongkong Government's Contract.
Replying to Mr. J. D. Gilbert, Mr. Montagu stated that the agreement for the supply of Gujerat opium to the Government of Hongkong was renewed for five years from the 1st of January, with the modification that Hongkong be supplied with ten chests of opium monthly at a fixed price. The Government of Hongkong was not obliged to take sny prescribed minimum quantity of opium.
OCCUPATION OF GERMAN TOWNS.
Allied Delegates in Conference.
London, March 9.
The beads of the Allied Delegations mot at Downing Street and considered reports of the occupation of Duesseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort, also that of the Inter-Allied Commission which has seized the Customs frontier in the occupied territories.
The British Bill as regards a levy on German imports has already been drafted and been submitted to the British, French and Belgian experts with a view to drafting similar Bille for other Allied countries.
When the Penalties Will Cease.
London, March 9.
The Conference of Allied delegates has settled the details of the enforcement of the penalties and has agreed that the ponalties shall cease when the questions of the indemnity, disarmament and war criminals have been solved.
No French Design of Annexation.
London, March 10. In consequence of suggestive comments in the French newspapers regarding the outcome of the establishment of the new Customs barrier in the Rhineland, Mr. Lloyd George, at last night's on- ference invited M. Briand to endorse the assurances previously given by MM. Millorand and Clemenceau that France did not template annexation, or even autonomy, of the Rhineland. M. Brian L, in so doing, emphatically declared that responsible Frenchmen did not entertain such a feeling. Mr. Lloyd George expressed pleasure at the assurance..
Further Area Occupied.
Berlin, March 10,
con-
A Belgian cyclist company of cavalry has occupied Hamborn and Hyssen works at the coaling Port. There was no incident. Martial law has open proclaimed.
MR. CHURCHILL'S ARRIVAL IN EGYPT.
Schoolboy Demonstrators,
Alexandria, March 9. Mr. Churchill's arrival occasioned sporadic demonstrations, principally on the part of schoolboys, who shouted "Down Churchill" Two Policemen were injured.
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MORE WAGE-CUTTING.
Chicago, March 9. It is reliably reported that the large railways are preparing to reduce wages.
LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
SHANGHAI FAMINE RELIEF DRIVE,
Shanghai, March 10.
A mass meeting to-morrow starts off a week's famine relief
Half a million. dollars have already been pledged.
drive.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
Peking, March 9.
The British and Japanese Ministers have not concurred with the suggestion made by the Southern Government asking the Central Government to assign 212 million taels from the Customs duty surplus for the dredging of the North and West Rivers.
Information from Berlin states that the Chino-German Com- has decided to have the Treaty signed within a week. mercial Treaty has been ratified. The Minister for Foreign Affairs
On receiving information from a foreign source to the effect that one half of the city of Urga has been destroyed by fire, the Government has ordered immediato invistigation.
· Shanghai, March 9 The political difference between the Anfa and Chili parties has become serious, and Tse Ying has mobilised the 26th Division in | Machong to strengthan the Anfu influence.
(Other Telegrams on Page 2.)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA'S COTTON TRADE.
SHIPPING OUTLOOK.
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Labour M.P's Concern.
Guilds' Reply to Moller & Co.
London, March 9.
GERMANS ARRIVE
HERE.
Prisoners on the Way Home.
CROWN PRINCE
ARRIVES.
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A MISTAKE.
All of us make mistakes. Wa But Does Not Land.
made a bad one yesterday. We The booming of guns at 8.20 have been asked to. We haven't. want to correct it, not because we The .. Gujarat arrived yester-this morning anounced the day from Vladivostock with arrival in the Cony of His But because we feel that it is only 1,350 Germans, and Austrians, Imperial Highness Crown Prince fair to the person concerned, men women and children, who Hirohito of Japan on his way to even though he is at the moment
several thousand miles away. have been prisoners of war in Europe. Siberia, some of them for six On the arrival of the Japanese our readers regarding the difficul- Yesterday, in our little talk to years. There were also on board squadron, which comprises the ties which we had experienced in somis fifty Rumanian officers flagship Katori and the oruiser obtaining information concern- with their wives and a few Kashima. under the respective refugees from Vladivostock. commande of Captain Kanna anding the arrangements for the These people are going to Captain Koyama, salutes were ex-Prince of Japan, we attributed visit to Hongkong of the Crown Trieste to-morrow via Singapore changed with Signal Hill and to Captain McGrath (formerly and Sabang and Sumatra. At the Commodore's vessel, the His Excellency's A.D.C.) certain Sabang they will be allowed to Tamar. Taking their cue from remarks made over the telephone. land, to stretch their legs, so to previous events of a similar speak. They have not been character, large
In point of 'fact, it was His Browd allowed to go shore at British began to gollect at Blake Pier was speaking to us. We wrong- Excellenoy'a present A.D.C. who ports. The Gujarat is calling where the landing was expectedly assumed that it was. Captain especially at Sabang for the ex- to be made. If their expectatione McGrath, who is not in the Press purpose of letting these had led them to hope for a Colony. An apology is therefore prisoners of war go ashore for a sight of the Crown Prince, few days.
they
due from us to Captain McGrath were destined to be The German Red Cross charter-disappointed, for, instead in- absentio. We unreservedly
of make it. ed the boat from Mesare. Nemazes the person of His Royal High- for the transportation of these neas. there emerged from the people to Trieste. From there Pier at a quarter to eleven, Vice they go to their respective homes. Admiral Oguri, the Commander- The reason why these prisoners In-Chief of the Squadron, with his of war have been so long insuite, an array of naval officers Siberia is that when the Bol-in full uniform and decorations. sheviks came into power railway Some time after the arrival of communication was too ataorgan. the Squadron, His Excellency the iged all over Russia to enable Governor had gone aboard the them to be repatriated. A good Katori to offer his personal greet- number of these prisoners have inga to the Prince, and this call been living in goode waggons in was subsequently returned by His different parte of Russia, until Royal Highness aboard H.M.S. being sent to the base at Curlew, where he was also met Vladivostock.
by the civil, military and nayal
of at officials
the port. At Vladivostock there was 14 degrees the landing of Vice Admiral Lighting-up time to-day is 8.31 of frost, and in going in and Oguri at coming out, the
Blake Pier the Gujarat Captain Superintendent of Police, went through miles of fold (Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse) was in ite. The men state that it is not command of a force of over fifty safe to be at Vladivostock after policemen and detectives station. dusk as there are over 10,000 fed in the vicinity, while the traffic unemployed there and crime is arrangements were under the rampant. Conditions aro very supervision of Inspector Garrod,, bad, there being practically no On landing from the pinnace business in the city.
When the Gujarat was
ly Russiana whom the Germans The women on board are most- married while they were prison- ers of war in Russia,
CHINESE SOCALISTS.
Welcomed In Hongkong.
¡TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 21. 236d.
THE WEATHER.
2 p.m. Barometer:-30.04. Tem- peraturs 56. Humidity :---60.-
LIGHTING-UP TIME.
p.in.
DON'T FORGET.
Today.
Musical Comedy Co. present Theatre Royal, Banvard
Girls and Giggles "-9.15 p.10. Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.15
which brought him ashore from was received by His Excellency's the Katori, Vice Admiral Oguri A DC. (Mr. Burlingham). The Band of the Wiltshires struck up the Japanese National Anthem, and at its termination, the P. Vice Admiral inspected the Hongkong Theatre-5.15, 7.13 Guard of Honour
supplied and 9.15 p.m. by the Wiltshire Regiment. The
party were then conveyed in motor cars to Government House, where they were received by His Excellency The Governor.
To-morrow.
Coronet Theatre -2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 p.m.
Hongkong Theatre--5.15 7.15 and 9.15 p.
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PREMIER'S FIRST TAILOR.
A warm welcome was extended to the Socialist leaders, Messrs. Hsia Ying peh, Chang Chi and The Vice-Admiral returned to Feng Chiyao by the different his flagship after his reception at labour organisations in Hong-Government House. kong, yesterday, says to-days The squadron is due to Canton Times.
resume its trip to Europe The reception was held at on Sunday. A Beries cf he headquarters of a certain entertainments are being planned | of its then value and menorganisation and several by the local Japanese community
re leaving the Coast daily, hundred members of the different in honour of the officers and men Mr. Robert Jones, the tailor ither.in American shipa Labour Unions were present.
of the squadron. We are inform-who made Mr. Lloyd George's ar paying their passage. to Australia as the exchange value by the labourers in Hongkong that during the
Much progress has been made ed by the Japanese Consulare first pair of trousers, died at stay of the Llanystumdwy the other day, at of the dollar has no We have received the follow-attraction for them. So, that if have been establishdd.
further lately and about 140 trade unions squadron here Hie Imperial the age of 99. He had spent his international trade, Mr. Graeme (? Mr. W. Graham), a Labour M.P., reference to the report of an necessity of cutting expenses, it coal yards and boatmen will also preside at a banquet to be The last time Mr. Lloyd George In the House of Commons, in the course of a debate uponing for publication-Sir,-With Messrs Mollar & Co. have the reported that the workers in the stay on board. He will, however, years had lived in the same cottage. It is Highness will in all likelihood whole life in the village, and for 60 urged the Board of Trade to remedy Britain's position in the Japa-interview with Mr. nese markets, part of which we wore in danger of losing owing to the Messrs. Moller
Lucas, of is fairly clear that wages are organise separately to the other held on board the Katori to- visited Lianystumdwy (he attend- uncertainty of our deliveries and high prices. He declared also that should be obliged if you will find bogin, of which more latter.
Co., we ( not the particular place to labour organisations. China's cotton trade was developing remarkably, and threatened room for the following. the keenost competition.
To revert to the "Lindsay Sir Robert Horne, replying, warned
(1.) The statements that the Moller" as being here and said to the House of the "Lindsay Moller" & "Nauoy he laid up. fatility of anticipating substantial results from the resumption Mollor" are both laid up are nega-
pre-Award of trade with Russia, although he was
We understand she is charter rates for all Eur- a beginning. Sir Robert pointed to the addition of 80 per cent. of South China Morning Post for the African ports for $350.00 per day, want to also pocket
anxious to make tived by the advertisment in the ed for Mauritius and Southpea 51,684.85
which Mollor and Co. spindles, agreeing to pay sixpence per bale of cotton used in this last five days, which inform the that is per month, country. The Government promised £50,000 yearly for five years public (at display advertisement in order to develop the cultivation of co ton within the Empire. rates) that these vessels are re- The Government also proposed to improve guarantees under the export credit scheme, guaranteeing 85 per cent of the merchante' spectivoly →melling price.
on
&
less Charterers
Commission the berth for Mauritius and- Bourabaya respectively.
(2.) There are no Japanese OF Norwegian vessels advertised as
SOVIET TROOPS REFUSE TO FIGHT ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS. being on the barth for those places.
Reappearance of Brusiloff.
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$10,500
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morrow afternoon, when amongst ad the Church school there when the visitors who are to be invited a boy) he had a chat with the old there will be His Excellency the tailor and congratulated him upon Governor, the heads of the local bis great age, leaving with the military and naval forces and the cheery megange, Make it■ 390.15 chief officials of the Government. hundred."
The assembly of hosts will include Prince Kain, Dr. Mura, and Viscount (late Ambargider to brings the estimated
Court of St. James) total profit up to $3,797.65 the
Crown Prince Hirohito, who la You quote Mr. Lucas as saying Chinda who comprise the Royal
Suite.
the first of four sons of the that he thinks Moller and Co. 367,50
Evidences are perceived in Emperor, are prepared to pay a fair living
almost twenty years town to-day of the of age, having been born in April $9,132.50 wage." We think, with the above the Charterers pay Light and Har- figures before you, it is probable patriotic feeling which the visit 29th, 1901. He was proclaimed bour Dues, Coal and Water.
that you will think that the men of the Crown Prinoe bas evoked Crown Prince in Septeraber 9th,
com- 1912. (3.) Amerioad vessels which Stores, therefore his expenses per
Moller pays Wages, Food and may also have ideas, peculiarly amongst the Japanese
their own, as to what is a fair munity The local Japanese Perhaps not many know that may be on the berth for these Month are as under:--
living profit,
Consulate and business offices the present tour of the Crown trades) are all paying American -European Wages
Further than this, we, as in-have a good display of flags and Prince has not its precedent in Coast rates which, at present ex- isobange, is nearly double China
(Award rates)
dividuals (and not as representing bunting decorating the exterior of the history of the Royal family the Guilds) are prepared to pay, to their premises, whilst such rights of Japen, and if is on Indles- Coaer rates.
$2,075.00 Chinese Wagen
any local charity which you may s8 those of Japanese carrying tion of the rapid progress (4.) B. & S. and Jardine's have
nominate, the sum of $100.00 if small strips of white rattan with which Japan has achieved i granted
$854 00 several
Messrs. Moller and Co, can prove the national flag attached there Western less that the present concessions Victualling Allow- sinos the Award, e.g. increased
youthful Japanese tour of the Crown Prince bas to your satisfaction that the ad to and ance $270.00 Pensions, increased leave-pay. Ice $76.00
vertland oharter trip of the dressed in their best dresses of last been made. The only paral extention of free passages to
Stores and Repairs
Lindeay Moller" is likely to in-many colours, are frequently met in the history of Japan la the vis children.
volve the Company in a financial with in the streets of Prinor Takaok, son of the $1,000,00
loss if Award rates are paid to the To-day a party of 200 bide- Emperor Bage, to Cochin China European personnel,
jackets from the squadron gre some hundreds of years. Cheque enclosed for $100.00.
being entertained in B. Andrews: The departure of the royal Yours et PER WE KIRBY,
London, March 9. The latest British official news from Russia states that all quiet at Moscow, but many Soviet troops at Petrograd are refusing to fight the revolutionaries. Trotzky and Zinovieff have taken up their headquarters in the fortress of St. J'eter and St. Paul it have appointed General Brusiloff Commander-in-Chief.
INCENDIARISM AT LIVERPOOL.
Firês at Many Farms.
London, March 10.
(5.) Routs have been increas- ed this month by about 85%.
(6.) Dairy Farm prices have advanced 25 per cent, as is the cans with those of Wiesman and the Chinese Compraadress Kat
(1.) THE 1
Extensive incendiarísus accurred in the Liverpool district last Fires burst out at many farms simultaneously. A farmer at was fired at. Two men were wounded and ond man was which so mucho grød near haystacks. Polios, at Bauforth captured five fall" MTK
Ship's Share Offlor unkeep $300.00 Insurance (approx- imate) $1,400.00
3,725.00
Lanving a profit of 63,406.50. Asst. Sec. Chine Coast Offers
25er month
Guild
Hall A similar fupotion will be tours
held to-morrow, for the bought of in
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an equal number of sailors, while bur other Tatera sing