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THURSDAY
JANUARY 17.
IRON AND STEEL.
BRITAIN'S FOREIGN POLICY.
IMPORTANT DEBATE IN THE COMMONS.
THE VEXED TANGIER QUESTION.
Reuter's Serviced
London, January 16.
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STÅTEMENT ON FRANCO-GERMAN AGREEMENTS.
(Special News Service.)
London, January 16
1924, ALOIT
SINGER: COFT 18 CTR. ** PER ANNUM
MORE LABOUR UNREST.
STRIKES LOOMING AHEAD.
(Renter's Service.)
(Reuter's American Service-)
GIANT US. AIRSHIP ADRIFT.
There is no competition wh FIRESTONE GUM DIPPED CORDS at present prices do
meat—and bant. Tharu: are few, if any, car owners who do not openly prafer genuins quality at the right price..
- PIRESTONE users da sequre extra
mileage. --
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO, LTD.
CANTON RICE DISPUTE.
WORKERS INTERFERE WITH SHIPMENTS:
The steamer Chungkiang, with
a cargo of rice from Wabu, has had to lay up after only part of the cargo had been discharged, |whilst a large number of junks from various river towns who have come to Canton for rice have had to return with no Cargo.
London, January 16, "
A report reaches us from Can- In the House of Commons, Sir Philip Lloyd Cream) was asked At the close of the conference of the port employers and the ton to the effect that as the rice regarding the effect upon British interests of the agreements be transport workers' union on the latter's claim for an increase of merchants decline to accept the tweed German and French industrialists. He said British | dockers' wages all over the country by two shillings a day, it is demands made by the Rice interests might be affected, by firstly the salas of steek either announced the employers have informed the union that they are Workers' Guild (including more The House of Commons was crowded on the resumption of the directly by the French and Belgian Governments, or, indirectly, unable in the present condition of trade to concede any increase of wages, shorter hours and the debate on the Address.
by the disposal of accumulated stocks in the occupied territory.wages The union is reporting the matter to a delegate conference. division once a month amongst In the course of a lengthy statement on foreign affairs. Mr. Those stocks were very large, estimates varying between two and In view of the datermination of the locomotiva engineers' society to the workers of the samples) a Ronald McNeill, warmly replying to the indictment of the Govern-four millions sterling.
strike, importance is attached to the unexpected visit to their head-party of workers has been sent ment's foreign policy, pointed out that the foreign policy had been As a result of representations made by the British Govern- quarters to-day of Mr. Arthur Henderson, the secretary of the out to prevent any rice from be- essentially continuous. If there had been gross mismanagement ment, it had been agreed that a mission, consisting of British Labour party. It is believed this is connected with efforts at mediationing discharged or shipped on the during the past five years then the Government's thief critics were officials and representatives of the iron and steel trades, should
river. most largely responsible. He opined that Mr. Lloyd George would proceed to the occupied territory. The British Government had agree that if Mr. Ramsay Macdonald was going to the Foreign roade a suggestion that if these stocks wore to be disposed of, Office with a broad foot and a big heel to stamp upon M. Poincare it should be by means of something in the nature of an internal with a view to establishing peace in Europe, he would find he was Disposals Board. The present arrangement by the French Govern- in for a very heavy disillusionment. Ministerial cheers.
for tbe export of iron and steel WAS Attitude on Separatism.
that licences. which they proposed to grafit for export of steel, would be at the rate of export not exceeding the average rate of Mr. McNeill-claimed that the Government had lost no apport-export prevailing in the year 1922. There had not been any unity to enlist the assistance of the United States or to take any serious sales outside France or Belgium of steel seized, but what means open to them to arrive at a solution of the Reparations was more serious in the long run was the possibility of arrange- question. As regards separatism in the Rhineland the Government's ments being made between the French and German industralists attitude had been that they were unable to sanction ang separatism for future exploitation Sir Lloyd Giesme added that, so far as the amounting to a declaration of independence of the States forming part British Government knew, the reparations being paid in kind of the Reich which would take them outside the Reich, because that were not greater than they were before France invaded the Ruhr. would alter the whole situation with regard to the Treaty, but if they wanted Home Rule inside the Reich, Britain' would not inter- fere provided there was a sufficient demonstration that it was the will of the people themselves. Obviously in the greater part of the Rhineland the separatist movement was not spontaneous and, owing very largely to the influence of Britain as supported by Belgium it
The st. Ho Sang, a big Jardine would come to a natural end, but in the Palatinate it had assumed
steamer, is the latest ship to (Special News Service.)
Efforts to reach the Shenandoah by wireless have proved fruit-engage the attention of pistas, graver proportions. At first it appeared it might be genuine bat latterly the Government had concluded that it was not genuine and
Berlin, January 16. less. The storm broke out early in the afternoon. Captain according to information from the believed that if it were left to itself it would very soon collapse. The Chancellor Marx has declared bis willingness to enter into a McCrary, who was aboard when the vessel broke away, was con-police. Government had sent Mr. Clive to the Palatinate to ascertain the discussion of the memorial presented by the Bavarian Govern-fident, however, that she would hold. Officials believe that the air- The police hare got wind of the facts, and this had a caused a certain amount of additional Anglo-ment about the revision of the German Constitution, and has ship will be carried to Canada. Officers point out that there is no pirates intention and cabled to Singapore, with the result that French friction but be greatly hoped that such friction would soon expressed satisfaction at Bavaria being prepared to maintain the danger of an explosion, as the airship is filled with heliom.
The dirigible was last seen drifting north-westwards in heavy before the vessel's departure for be smoothed and that Mr. Clive's report would enable the Govern- Empire. ment clearly to determine its action.
Hongkong the Singapore police. wind and rain.
Westfield, January 16. |boarded and searched the steamer. The Shenandoah passed here at considerable speed, flying low. Several suspects are stated to with her engines roaring. The crew apparently trying to turn the have been arrested. airship against the wind.
New York, January 16. The Captain of the Shenandoah has sent a wireless message, saying “All O. K. Will ride out storm. Holding our own."
THE SEPARATIST MOVEMENT.
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Big Palatinate associations, in an interview with Mr. Chive, Britain's Prestige.
urged German administration, liberty of meeting and of the press, as well as that the inviolability of personal liberty and pevate pro Mr. McNeill defended the Government's policy with regard perty be restored in accordance with the Rhineland agreement, to the Rubr and claimed that those criticising the Government all fines, punishments and arrests by the Separatists to be annuiled on the ground that British prestige had been lost were wrong and the Separatists to be disarmed while the German police be General Harington had said that British prestige in the Neargivan back their arms. East was never higher, and Lord Allenby had said the same about. Egypt. One of the Dominions leaders at the Imperial Conference] had told him that wherever he went he found that the one country whose moral approval or disapproval counted was Britain. Mr. McNeill concluded by saying that according to all reporta” Mr. Ramsay Macdonald was himself going to the Foreign Office. and Mr. McNeill confidently predicted that before many months Mr. Ramsay Macdonald would tell the House of Commons that he had been completely disillusioned.
(Reuter's Service.)
CHINESE MISSION AT BRADFORD.
SUGGESTED REFORMS TO BE CONSIDERED.
London. January 15.
WITH THIRTY MEN ABOARD.
Lakehurst (New Jersey), January 16. The giant naval dirigible Shenandoah, which is ear-marked for (a naval aerial expedition to the North Pole this summer, broke away from ber mooring mast in the course of a gale, with a crew of thirty, while undergoing a test. Apparently the Shenandoah is damaged, for fragments of the outer rigging flattered to the ground. The wind is blowing at the rate of fifty-five miles an hour.
Later.
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UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.
WARSHIP MEETS WITH MISHAP.
Mexico City, January 16.
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SUSPECTS ARRESTED ON
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BISHOP POZZONI.
LYING. SERIOUSLY ILL
It is with much regret that wa learn of the serious illness of the. Right Rev. Dr. Pozzoni, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hongkong-
Some two weeks ago. Bishop
Replying to Mr. Lloyd George. Mr. Neville Chamberlain said!
The American charge d'affaires bas obtained the Obregon that Germany have now "agreed to give an undertaking for thej
Government's permission for two United States warships to visit Pozzoni bad a rather bad heart at eventual reimbursement by German exporters in connection with
Vera Cruz and Tuxpam. The United States cruiser Tacoma is now tack, since when be has experienc¬ our Reparations Recovery Act and that a German representative
en route to Vera Cruz. It is reported that representatives of three ed two others, the last occurring.. was on his way to England to discuss the "method. He detailed the
The Chinese Industrial Mission hay visited the headquarters of American banks are en route to Mexico City to negotiate a loan of last night. Medical advisers have steps taken to ensure that the big stocks of steel accumulated in the the Bradford dyers" association and inspected samples of dyed wool-125 million pesos to the Obregon Government
bean in constant attendance on occupied territories, estimated at from two to three-and-a-half
Galveston. January 16. him all to-day, as also have a million tons, should not be disposed of in any way likely to dislocate, cotton, and artificat silk goods suitable for the Far Eastern
The cruiser Tacoma, on the way to Vera Cruz, has gone aground number of priesta, world markets. A British Commission was proceeding thither and trade. Subsequently the mission attended a conference with the
The high esteem in which the Britain had suggested the establishment of an Inter-Allied Disposalsouncil of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, and fifty members on Bantauillas reefs, sixteen miles from Vera Cruz, and has wire-
specially interested in Chinese trade, where the subjects of trade lessed to the American Consul at Vera Cruz that unless two strong Bishop is held has been amply Replying to Sir John Simon, Mr. Chamberlain thought that the marks. Chinese inland transport, and a reduction in weight for tugs arrive within two hours it may be too late to pull off the attested during the day, re- prezentatives of practically every present reparations in kind were less than before the occupation of sample postage were raised. The missioners promised to bring these warship.
The United States light-cruiser Richmond is standing by the Catholic organisation, including the Rhur and he opined that in view of M. Poincare's assurances prominent Bradford business men were entertained to lunch by the Tacoma The U.S. Government is sending naval tugs. that no industrial arrangement between French and German firms Lont Mayor, and the mission later visited the Saltaire mills where bad hitherto been made that the British Government would be given they met the wool and allied trades industrial council the fullest chance of expressing its views if any such arrangement were proposed.
Board. The French had arranged not to license export for 1922.
The Tangier Convention.
matters before their Government on their return.
GERMAN SEAMEN'S WAGES.
The mission and
PROTEST BY THE SHIPOWNERS.
MR. BORAH'S VIEW OF FRANCE.
Mr. Ronald McNeill made a lengthy statement with regard to
"AMERICANS ARE PAYING FOR HER ARMY." the Tangier Convention. He emphasised that the agreement had
Washington, January 16. secured the permanent neutralisation of Tangier and the mainten-
Mr. Borah in the Senate referred to the French war debt, and) ance of the open door by establishing an international regime which would effectually prevent any one Power being predominant.
London, January 16. drew attention to the fact that France, while unwilling to come to a Mr. Lloyd George asked who controlled the Port and Mr. Mc-{ Replying to Reuter on the proposal that a conference of Ger-settlement with the United States, was lending large sums to Europe- Neill said that the share capital of the International Company man shipowners and striking German seamen should be held in an Governments, Mr. Borab characterized France as the greatest would be distributed as follows:--France thirty per cent. Britain London ander the auspices of the British national sailors and fire-military power that Europe had ever known, and declared American and Spain twenty per cent. each, and the Shereetian Government. men's union, the German shipowners declare that a discussion with the International Administration and other countries each ten: the British unions about German wages is completely out of the consequently only thirty per cent, was in the hands of France. question. If British and German wages are to be compared, ac- Opposition cries of "No" and, "What about the Shereefian count must be taken of the total difference in the situation in the United Kingdom and in Germany. Since November 1st the German! Replying to Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. McNeill said he was con- seamen's wages have been fully paid in gold currency based on the fident that the Commons would be given an opportunity of discus-dollar, and therefore are independent of all currency fluctuations, sing the Agreement if it desired.
Government? **
Reylying to Commander Bellairs, Mr. McNeill was unable to
say whether the Committee of Defence approved of the Convention before the signature.
INTERNATIONAL LOAN TO HUNGARY.
Col. John Ward declared that the agreement practically handed over the port to France.
London, January 16. Mr. Penney suggested that France should be asked for an A sub-committee of the League of Nations, including M. M. assurance that she meant to honour her debt obligations towards Bethlen and Benes, met privately at St. James Palace to consider Britain and that she and others will pay us something on account the proposed international loan of ten millions sterling to Hungary until a final adjustment is made.
It is understood that M. Clausel, the French representative, urges The House adjourned until to-morrow, when the Labour no that the loan should be for a shorter period than the twenty years confidence amendment will be moved.
originally planned, but Lord Robert Cecil, the British representative, is opposed to this.
THE SEPARATIST DESPOTISM.
FRENCH SUPPORT ALLEGED.
Mannheim, January 16.
many Chinese, calling at the Mission House at Glanealy, where the Bishop now.lies.
EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH.
NERVOUSNESS IN TOKYO.:
Tokyo, January 17. Reports coming in show that payers were meeting the cost of her army of seven hundred and the earthquake situation is prac tically the same as outlined in thirty thousand men as surely as if it was their ow
Mr. Borah read extracts from speeches made by French and Reuter's despatches of January. Italian statesmen, and declared: consciences and the consciences of their people for a repudiation of throughout Tokyo during the "They are preparing their own 15. Nervousness was general their debt." He acquitted the Italians and French peoples as a night, owing to wide and wild whole of entertaining such a proposition just yet.
AMERICA'S WAR DEBTS.
rumours, but while there were a few mild tremors, nothing worthy of note has occurred since six in the morning of January 15th. The death toll is about thirty, all Washington, January 16
Japanese, none being notables. President Coolidge has nominated Mr. Edward N. Hurley to All communications have been the Democratic vacancy in the debt funding commission. The restored, though there is con President has sent Congress an agreement for funding the Finnish siderable delay in despatching war debt to the United States of nine million dollars on which pay-
telegrams. Reuter ments have already begun.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES IN THE SENATE.
Washington, January 16.
OLD WAR HORSE AT 32. San Toy the war horse which NSW service in the South African and European wars, has died st The Democrat, Mr. Garaway, caused a sensation in the Senate the age of 32 at the Home of Rest by acausing Secretary Fall of a betrayal of his trust by leasing for Horses Loaden. January 16. the oil reserves. He charged him with selling American fuel Sterling on New York rallied to 4.264, French francs to 9105 to speculators, one of whom boasted" he was going to make and Belgian to 101, due to the contemplated French Government a hundred million dollars as his share of the loot.
EXCHANGE MARKET FIRMER
In the course of conversations by Mr. Clive with represent-financial reforms. atives of all the political parties of the Palatinate, also the heads of the Catholic and Evangelical churches, it was asserted that only by the protection of General Demetz and the French district authorities were the Separatists able to occupy the Ralatinate. The delegates banded Mr. Clive a manifesto declaring that the Palatinate would never submit, to the despotism of the so-called Separatist «Govern-
ENGLISHWOMAN KILLED IN MEXICO.
Mexico City, January 16.
Mrs. Norman Brown-Cave, the wife of a British mining engineer, was killed by a stray bullet during the fighting at Tapachtica.
THE LEVIATHAN'S DAMÁGE.
New York, Jan 16, Bài The 8.5. Leviathan, which went aground in the barbout on December 21st, sustained a quarter million dollars damage. Repsies will not be completed before April 1st.
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