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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
REPARATIONS.
(From Our Own Correspondent J
THE RUBBER QUESTION.
London, May 4. As regards the proposed measures against Germany it may be recalled that the Treaty provides for a fifteen years occupation of the Singapore, May 4.
Rhineland but the now terms extend the period indefinitely until The rubberites are making a final Germany pays. Further, if occupation of the Ruhr fails to bring ffort to secure legislation for the the Germans to their senses, naval penalties are likely to include compulsory restriction of output, warships anchoring in Hamburg, Lubeck, Stettin and Bremen onsidering the voluntary scheme harbours, with crews patrolling the quays, to enforce the customs. o be futile. The Straits Time Allied statesmen are highly satisfied with the results of the con- Las prepared an alternative scheme ference. The scheme for payment by Germany through guaranteed fa Itubber Control Board invested
price exceeds 80 cents.
with absolute powers to restrict bonds was mainly the work of Mr. Churchill and M. Loucheur, xport, thus indirectly compelling French circles are fully confident in this scheme, M. Loucheur be restriction of output till the declared yesterday that the bonds will be the international money
of the future. 36 regarde Mr. Churchill's
Paria, May 2. M. Briend's point of view, as expressed at yesterday's London lecision concerning rubber, after areful consideration in consultation conference, met with the unanimous approval of French public with the Board of Trude the Rub-opinion, which considers that further parley with Germany is er Growara' Asunciation concluded utterly useless and that military measures should be proceeded with, hat legalation for the compulsory Germany remaining meanwhile at liberty to comply until occupation estriction of rubber should not be of the Ruhr district is an accomplised fact-Vale. ntroduced as compulsion would Marshal Foch has returned to Paris and the members of the avolve considerable financial Reparations Commission have arrived in London.
sability. which the Federated Malay States could not afford and i
London, May 4, The German Ambassador in London is ignorant of any new vould involve undue government offer from Germany, of which the Reparations Commissioners, also, | aterference with economic coo-have heard nothing. litions. There was no assuraber hat producers in other countries milarly restricted might not enelit at the expense of the Malayan producers, perhaps per. nauently. The conditions must be
lowed to right themselves,
STRAITS RICE DECONTROLLED.
Singapore, May ( Rice was decontrolled on Mon- lay. The price immediately fell rom. Til gents per ganinng to from 15 to 3 cents.
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TROUBLE IN UPPER SILESIA.
Berlin, May 4.
A grave insurrection has broken out in the Polish part of Upper Silesia and the Inter-Allied Commission has proclaimed martial law. throughout a great part of Upper Silesia, also concentrating tanks and troops in the principal centres of disorder. It appears that on the occasion of the Polish National feast day insurgents crossed the frontier and occupied Beuthen, Kaltowitz and Tarnowitz, where serious shooting occurred and a number of railway bridges between Oppeln and Karlsinat were destroyed. Another report declared that the insurgents numbered twenty thousand irregulars who engaged in fierce fighting with the German plebiscite police.
London, May 4.
British telegrams state that the Polish outbreak in Upper Silesia occurred on the right of May 2nd, on the eastern border of the Upper Silesian industrial area and in the region of Pless and Rycbuik.
The insurgents captured most of Ryebuik. Several soldiers in uniforms participated.
A number of Italian officers and men wore wounded. A British police officer was made a prisoner, but subseqantly released.
Shanghai, May 1. There will be an elaborate cere- It appears that the Allied troops recaptured Ternowitz. French mony in connection with the laying troops are still fighting the rebels in Katrowitz, British official of the fondation stone of the new circles take a very serious view of the movement, which is con- premises of the Hongkong andsidered to be a determined and systematic attempt to anticipate the Shanghai Bank which takes place decision of the Supreme Council by forcibly seizing disputed areas.
to-toorrow,
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
OPIUM CONVENTION.
Geneva, May 4.
Shanghai, May 4. A Consultative Commission of the League of Nations has been At the Anti-Opium Association's entrusted with the control of the trafle in opium and other harmful annual meeting it was revealed drugs. Its object is to assist the Council of the League with a view that enormous quantities of opium to ensuring the carrying out of the provisions of the Hague Opium and morphia were stored in Takio Convention. Sir John Jordan (Britain) and Mr. Hamilton Wright and Yokohama ready to ship to America) were present as experts. The Commission Has requested China.
the Council of the League to request members of the League who have not yet ratified the Convention to do so without delay.
A resolution was carried to the effect that the Chinese delegatel to the League of Nations appeal to all the Towers to prevent ship- ment of the narcotics to China.
GENERAL NEWS.
TIENTSIN ON EDUCATION.
AMERICAN NAVY.
Washington, May 4.
It is announced that President Harding objects to the provision in the Naval Appropriations Bill requesting him to call a Naval Dis- armament Conference on the ground that it might appear to convey congressional recommendation on international policies within the jurisdiction of the Executive. It is stated that the Bill, which has already passed the House of Representatives, will therefore be sub- mitted to the Senate without this provision. It is understood Pre- The Union of the various publicsident Harding desires approximate disarmament but reiterated the bodios of Tientsin has submitted pinion that ample appropriations should be provided to carry out a telegram to the Government the 1916 programme and""round out" the navy before the disarma- firstly expressing bitter oppositionment programme is established: against direct negotiation with Japan for the settlement of the Shantang issue, for a just decision of which
the Government IS
requested to submit the matter to. the League of Nations, and secondly urging the Government
COMMERCIAL RADIO SERVICE.
Washington, May 4.
The naval authorities announce the establishment of a com- ercial radio service between the United States and the Dutch East
to allot a fixed source of receipt | Indies.
for an Educational Reserve
Fund, so that education may not be affected by political develop ments.
REVOLT OF TIENTSIN RICKSHAW
MEN,
LIMITING IMMIGRATION.
Washington, May 4.
With a single dissentient vote the Senate passed the Emergency
A Tientsin message says that migration Bill limiting admission to the United States of Aliens over 10,000 rickshaw coolies, ou
to three per cent. of each nationality resident in the United States account of the high cost of living at the time of the 1910 census. and rise of prices of daily neens- sities, held a mass meeting to discuss the means to oppose the proposed new rickshaw tax. No decision was arrived at and another meeting has been plann.
MORE WAGE REDUCTIONS.
New York, May 4.
It is announced that a reduction has been made of 20 per cent.
ed. On the receipt of this report in the wages of day labourers employed in plants of the United
the Tientsin Police issued an order Stutes Steel Corporation, affecting nearly 175,000 men.
prohibiting the holding of such meetings. The rickshaw coolies are greatly dissatisfied and are: said to have been secretly plotting fur a public demonstration or
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New York, May 4.
It is reported that Mr. Washburn Child, editor of Collier's Weekly, has heen selected as U.S. Ambassador to Tokio.
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London, May 4.
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Geneva, May 4.
A message from New York reports the death of the wellknown astronomer. William Robert Brooks,