NAVAL POWER.
AMERICA DESIRES
INCREASE.
OUR GREATER SPEED AND
RANGE.
Washington, Jan 8. Soorotary Hughes before the naval committee of the House of Representatives expressed the| opinion that the elevation of the guns on American capital shipe
MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.
NOT MUCH HURT.
London, Jan. 8. The Marquis of Balisbury is much shakon by his fall while hunting, but is. progressing favourablo.
It is expected that he will be raplaced on the Opium Conference delegation by Viscount Cecil. Reuter
Gonova, Jan. 8th. Britain has roquonted a wook's would not violate the Washington postponemout of the Opium Con- Treaty, although it might havo foronco on account of Lord Salle an unfortunate effect in tonding bury's accident.Reuter.
to promote competition in naval
armaments.
Ho added that while Britain
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
LAND RESUMPTION.
AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.
That the contention on behalf of the Crown was correct, and that the Crown Lands Rosump- tion Ordinance and that the New Turritorios Regulation Ordinanca could not be impugned on the grounde put forward by the plain- Bir tiff, was tho fi ding of Henry Golian, who had been informed that tho Crown intended to resumo possession, claimed that the action which the Governor-in-Council had pur- ported to take was wrongful.
Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., appoar- ed for the Crown and Mr. F. C. Jenkin represented the plaintiff.
The reply of this Attornoy Gopo-
hort considered the proposed a)-[SOVIET VERSUS THE rai, o's defined by his Lordship
torations a a violation of the treaty, Japan thought the op- posite.
Mr. Wilbur gave ovidenco of the administration's policy of economy procluding his reconi- monding a programine of increas- ed gun elovation; and said no would also the unable to endorse the ponding Bill for appropriation of soventy million dollare for naval construction.
As for the raising of the elevat- ion of the guls, Mr. Wilbur ex- plained that the director of the Budget bad prosented President Coolidge with a proposal to pro cood with the raised gun alevation programmo, but the President considered the expenditure there- by involved would conflict with hin financial policy.
Mr. Wilbur reiterated that the
annual expenditure of a hundred
and ton million dollars in ten years would bring the whole navy up to the 5/5,3 ratio, but he insist- od that ibis ratio would be aohloved by complution of repairs to the battleship Florida.
He added that the British and
American navies were equal in tonnago, but the American ships wore two knots slower, dun to the American architects' policy of
CHURCH.
SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE.
Rigs. Jan 8.
A nossage from Kieff says the Cheka
has arrosted fiftoon Church dignitaries in connection with the discovery of Church valuables which wore hiddon from the Soviet.
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Commissar Ivanoff Archimandrito Clement, head of Monastory, the Potchorskaya with directing the concealment of those valuables, with the of Archimandrito assistanco Makarius and Abbot Eustracius.
Reuter.
U. S. A. AND THE WORLD. COURT.
Washington, Jan. 8. Mr. Willis introduced into
Congress a resolution proposing
that the United States should outer the World Court, with a proviso that America would not us bound by the advisory opinion
putting woight into the armour of the Court.—Bevter's American and guns instead of increasing Service. the engine-power. The British guns outdistanced the American ones by fiftorn hundred yards,--- Renter's American Service,
SEVERE COLD.
CAUCASUS INDUSTRY
IMPEDED.
Riga, Jan. 8. Continued sovore cold is ro- ported to have brought to a stand- still economic life in the Caucasen. The thermometer varies betwoon 10 and 20 begroes below zero Fahrenheit.
INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.
Paris, Jan. 8th. British quarters refuse to dis- close anything as rogards the Churchill-Clementeltalk on debts, but there is ground for stating that a settlement on the lines of the French proposals to America will be unacceptable to Britain.
--Reuter.
"KID" MCCOY'S
SENTENCE.
At Baku industries havo stop- pod, and at Murgun the colton is rotting beneath thirty inches of
Los Angeles, Jan. 8. of snow. The fruit trees, espaci Tho ex-boxer "Kid" McCoy, ally the tangerine plantations, charged with the manslaughter,
was that all land in the Now Territories became Crown land by the N.T. Regulation Ordinanco 1910, and that the Ordinances were perfectly valid, oven though, which was expressly denied, they were inconsistent with tho ob ligations entered into by the Convention.
Mr. Jenkins had argued that failure to comply with Article XXII of the Royal instructions invalidated the Ordinances. Ho further argued that the Colonial Laws Validity Act did not cuto defect due to tho abroncs of a suspending clauso, inasmuch as the reference to instructions in Section 3 was to instructions of a special character and not to those givan, undor Article XXII of the R. I.
In Hongkong, continued His Lordship, the authority of thiu Governor to concur in the 'passing of laws wore Rivon in Article IX of the Letters Patont. As ho road Article XXII, logislation which foll within the purview of oven if the Governor had failed the Legislature was good law
to carry out the Royal Instruc- tions. He might have to answer for his neglect, but the section appeared to specially provido that failure on the part of the Govornor should not affect the validity of laws otherwise pro- perly passed by the Legislativo Council and assented to by the Governor.
The action was dismissed with] costs. A stay of execution for a month, was granted.
DAY BY DAY.
The master of the motor boat! Phoobue was fined $15 at the Marine Court this morning for failing to observe the rule of tho road.
With the arrival hero of the P. and O. linor Moroa yostorday and, lator, the President Wilson, there was a big tax placed on the have been damaged, The rivers of a woman, has been sentenced accommodation of the Hongkong arax and Kura are frozen, caus to from one to ten years' im- Hotel. The result was that beds ing a stoppage of mills and prisonmont.-Renter"s American | had to be fixed up for visitors shortage of four-feuter.
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A POPULAR ISSUE.
Washington, Jan. 8. The American Telegraph and The result of the flovernment's Telephone Company's issue of offer of 314 per cent. conversion five per cent, debentures has been stock to raise funds to pay off oversubscribed.-Reuter's Ameri- fifty-three million pounds sterlingen Service.
of Exchequer Bouds falling duo Fobruary 1st. is that ton lors amounting to £59,050,000 have been received. All at and above
£77/10/16 will receive full allot- the M.C.C. and Australia starts The third Test match bot woon mont-Reuter,
kat Adolaide on the 16th instant.
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world U.9.A. the
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