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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
RUSSIAN FAMINE INVESTIGATION.
London, Sept. 9.
M. Tchicherin has refused the Inter-Allied Commission's request for permission to send a commission af investigation to the famine districts. The note, as given in the Daily Herald, is couched in | bitter terms, objecting primarily to the personality of M. Noulens, a signatory to the Inter-Allied adte, as a bitter and treacherous enemy of the revolution from the beginning and concludes by saying that the Sorie: Government only regards the proposals as a monstrous gesture of mockery at the expense of men dying of hunger.
Labour Sympathy With Russia.
The Trade Union Congress has passed a resolution expressing the deepest sympathy with the Russian people in the unprecedented calamity which has fallen upon them, calling on British organised labour to dnancially support the Russian people to the atmost, authorising the General Council to start a relief fund for the workers of Kusa:a, suggesting an immediate grant of £1,000, empowering the General Council to use the whole power of organised labour in order to induce the Government to purchase necessary medical sup- plies and money credits so urgently needed in Russia and urging the British Government to recognise the Russian Government so as
o enable the proposals to be carried out.
GERMAN REPARATIONS.
London, Sept. 9.
THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF CHINA.
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matter, basing his refusal as re- gards the former on the fear that Japan might treat publication na la casus bell His refusal to ap- peal formally and officially to the Powers rested on the view that China could not properly invoke— because she was not a party to- the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of any of the other Conventions con- cluded by Japan separately with France, Russia and the United States, insuring the independence and integrity of China and the principle.of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in Chica.
This purely legalist view of a des- perate situation was reinforced, with the same sense of unreality. by young Dr. Wellington Koo, who was closely associated with Taso Ju-lin during the negotiations con- jaected with the Demands. He con-
The difficulty of apportioning the first milliard of gold marks, Įtended that the conclusion of these reparations paid by Germany on August 31st, has given, rise to Conventions had been derogatory Franco-British - difficulties. The question is extraordinarily com- to China as an independent and plicated owing to the difficulty of estimating the respective values of sovereign state in that they pur- payments in kicd that France and Belgium have received in railway ported to deal with the question of material, live stock and coal and Britain in ships. A special financial her independence and integrity conference at Paris has reached an agreement, which the French without consulting and regardless delegate, M. Doumer, signed under a reservation that the arrange of her views on the subject. When ment should be subject to the approval of the French Government. M. Doumer has now come to London to undertake informal discos slons with Sir Robert Horne for the purpose of reaching & binding
conclusion.
BRITISH TRADE.
London, Sept. 9.
it was suggested that a Great Power like France had not hesitated, at the outbreak of the Great War, to appeal to Great Bri tain for assistance, the present writer was met with the devastat ling rejoinder that the dignity of China forbade any appeal to be The trade returns for August indicate some revival both in made which involved her
recog- imports and exports as compared with the low point reached during nition of treaties to which she was the coal strike. Exports and imports each increased about eight not a party although Chinese In- million sterling as compared with Jaly, while experts for the month terests were affected were about ten million sterling, snowing a further recovery in The other fact is connected with merchant trade in foreign and Colonial goods. Over three million the Chinese acceptance of the Jap- tons of coal valued at five and a half million sterling, were exported anese ultimatum which closed the In August. 19 million sterling worth of raw materials, were imported. negotiations relating to the compared with 15 million for July. 15 million sterling worth of Twenty-One Demands. As a TE- manufactures were imported each month but the exports of manu- factures in August were forty million sterling, an increase of 3 million compared with July.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Geneva, Sept. 9.
Isult of British intervention, Japan had practically to withdraw the įmore obnoxious terms included in the Demands, known as Group Y: jund she accordingis instructed her representative in Peking to prevent an uitimation to the Chinese Gor ernment, insisting on acceptance of the Demands cave as to Group V On the receipt of these instruc-
The Amendments Commission of the Council of the League bas decided not to propose amendments to Article ten of the Covenant whereby members of the League undertake to preserve against external aggression the territorial integrity and political inde- tions, an official of the Japanese pendence of members of the League, but to adopt it and an inter- Legation had a conference with pretative res.lution declaring the object of the Article is not to Tiap Ju-lin who was told the fact perpetuate existing territorial and political divisions, for these can but not the text of the ultimatum be legitimately modifed under the Covenant, but that the Article to be precested in the course of does not compel members of the League to furnish armed forces to guarantee territorial integrity which may be menaced.
THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
London, Sept. 9. doubt that the Disarmament Conference can be kept ca a plane According to a Washington telegram there is some reason to
Committee has begun to issue literature which, in effect, attacks the above party politics in the United States. The Democratic National
Conference. The chief point of criticism is the introduction of "purely diplomatic Asiatic questions" which, it is argued, only com- plicates the question of the limitation of armaments and thus can only operate against speedy and successful results.
WILD SPECULATION.
Berlin, Sept. 9.
the day. Hoan was informed: and he at once authorised a state- ment to be made to the Japanese representative in the sense of an unconditional
acceptance to the modifications effected in the course
the ultimatum was delayed, "and of the negotiations. Delivery of
municated to Tokio. As the latter Yean's acceptance
was committed to Downing Street. the text of the ultimatum could art be varied to include Group V; and it was delivered next day in I'ts original form. ·
STA
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The fact that Japan eventually opposed Yusa's astumption of the Imperial title may be interpreted |
evidence that the Twenty-one De- mands were not a trading proposi-
In consequence of the recent wild speculation due to deprecia. in one of two ways. It may be
tion of the mark, the Bourse has closed till Monday. Fature hours. of opening will be restricted. The official price exchange on London on September 8th was 362 marks to the pound compared with 348 on September 7th, but subsequently the pound went to 369. There was simultaneously a great rise in industrial shares. position exists at Hamburg, Frankfurt and other exchanges.
A similar
EMPLOYMENT OF ORIENTAL LABOUR.
Vancouver, Sept. 9.
on to secure Japanese recogni- tion of the Hunghsien regime, as Yean's abortive reign was styled. Or, it may be evidence-23 some nafriendly critice have esterted- that the Japanese read their Machiavelli with some care, par- ticularly the 18th chapter of The
In the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Murphy granted on injunction Prince, where the Master points restraining the Government of British Columbia from forbidding out that "Princes who have set the holders of timber licences to employ Japanese and Chinese little store by their word, but have labour. The injunction remains effective until the Supreme Court has decided the question of the constitutiodality of the Oriental Validation Act.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Toronto, Sept. 9. An appeal will be taken to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council against the Majority award of the Grand Trunk Hallway arbitrators.
NORWAY'S PROHIBITION BILL.
Christiania, Sept. 9. The Odelsthing has passed by 52 votes to 41 the Frohibition Bill forbidding the importation of spirituous liquors and wides containing over fourteen par cent. of alcohol.
on how to overreach others by roat things, and in the end had their cunning, have accomplished
the better of, those who trusted to honest dealing.” And we leard from Mr. A. M. Polley's Japan's Ozaki, an ex-Minister of State and Foreign Policies, p. 22, that “Mr.
leading politician, and also s Thighly respected citizen, has said: "Deceit may be pardoned in pre- Dortion to the benefits it confera." means need not be regarded if the Viscount Miura said: "Ways and object required is attained, so he murdered, the Queen of Korea
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