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OCCUPATION ARMIES.
A POLICY OF REDUCTION.
Rugby, Feb. 10. Questions were put in the House of Commons to the Foreign Seerer tary as to whether the Allied troops in the occupied areas of Germany were to be reduced.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926.
CIVIL AVIATION,
POSSIBLE SINGAPORE AUSTRALIA SERVICE,
THIEF SENTENCED.
FOND OF TYPEWRITERS.
A Chinese was sent to prison for six weeks by Major Willson Amsterdam, Feb. 10. Major General ·Sir Softon at the Central Police Court this Brancker, Director of Civil Avia-morning. He was charged with tion in the British Air Ministry, stealing a portable "Underwood" a raincoat, the passed through the Hague on his typewriter, and return to England from Sweden. Property of his master, who re- Interviewed, he explained the de-sides at 6, Princess Terrace. Sir Auston Chamberlain replied tails of the proposed Cairo-Kara- The defendant pawned the arti-| that the numbers of the armies of chi, air route, adding that from cles, and obtained $20 for the
typewriter. occupation were actually 74,500 Karachi to Rangaon the service
When a record, showing a pro- would be undertaken by the
similar men, or very close to that Agure. Government of India. Sir Sefton vious conviction for a It was not the case, as had been Brancker also discussed with M. offence, was handed to the Magis- atated in some newspapers, that Plesman, Manager of the Dutch trate, his Worship remarked that Aerial Navigation Company, the the defendant seems to be rather the Governments of the occupying possibility of funning a service fond of typewriters. Powers had decided to fix at or at from Singapore to Australia via about that figure the total of effec-the Dutch East Indies, which,
would be conditional on the re- QUININE MONOPOLY, tives of the second and third zones.sult of negotiations with the In fact, at a conference of Ambas Dutch and Dutch East Indies sadors it was stated that the effec- Governments later.
tives would be considerably reduced Sir Sefton, Brancker has sailed and the reduction would be to a from Rotterdam for America where figure approaching normal. The be hopes, Incidentally, to meet Herr occupying Powers were giving a Fokker.Reuter. tention to the various problema in-
valved, with a view to appreciable
reductions of the existing number
of troops as soon as the Trenties of Locarno had been ratified and the measures of amelioration intro- duced into the regime of occupa tion had a natural pacifying effect on the situation within the occupi- ed territory British Wireless. ·
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GERMANY AND LEAGUE.
THE APPLICATION FOR
ADMITTANCE.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS SUGGESTS SUBSTITUTE.
London, Feb. 10.
The Morning Post · correspond- ent at Geneva says that the League of Nations Commission on Malaria has reported that nine-tenths of the world's annual production of cinohna bank, totalling 10,600 tons, is produced is the Dutch Indies. The demand for quinine considerably exceeds the annual supply of kilograms. In view of the failure Berlin, Feb. 10.
of offörts to secure a reduction of Germany's application for ad-
prices and increased pro- mittance to the League of Nations duction, the Commission kas has been handed to the Secretary started experiments to decide General of the League. It is whether cinchonine and other signed by. Herr Stresemann and alkaloids and a combination of briefly requests the application cinchona alkaloids "cannot to be placed on the agenda for used instead of pure quinine, with the meeting of the League as soon the object of securing a substitute as possible. It attaches a copy and thereby breaking the quinine of a note from the Governments monopoly through participating in the Locarno forces. — Reuter. Sir-Like many others, I have been greatly surprised to read, in agreements, answering Germany's.
the participating in connection with the withdrawal request for elucidation of Article of deposits from Shameen banks, 16 of the League's Covenant. The that the employees of foreign Note says that the Articles are banks are permitted by the interpreted to Chinese Chamber of Commerca member of the League must loy- to resume their duties, etc., etc.
Had the foreign banke no say ally and effectively do his part to make the Covenant respected in the matter?
and opposé all aggressive action
(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
Shameen Banks,
Had the Consuls nothing to say in the matter?
Locarno
mean that each
be
economic
SEAL FISHING.
JAPAN AND QUADRUPLE PACT.
London, Feb. 10.
In the House of Commons, re-
in a manner compatible with his plying to Major C. G. MacAndrew military position and considering (Conservative), Sir Austen Cham-
geographical
situation.berlain said that the Japanese]
Did they permit the employees to come back to suit their own his. ends after staying away to suit their own ends?
Did they not tell them that, as
Reuter.
they had stayed away so long, "LAURENTIC” GOLD. they might continue their, con- sidered attitude till they were sent for?
NEARLY £5,000,000
RECOVERED.
Government had expressed a desire
to call a conference to discuss the' extension of modification of the Quadruple Pact dealing with Seal Fishing Areas Convention and not necessarily to terminate it next December. He did not know whe-] ther America was prepared to negotiate with the Soviet on the question. Reuter.
Suppose Mr. Fat Tin-can did want some of his safely stored- away money, all right; let him come along with his cheque and
Rugby, Feb. 10. wait till some one of the few re- In the House of Commons, "an sident employees could find time interesting statement was made by
BOXER INDEMNITY. to cash it for him. If cloring Mr. W. C. Davidson, Parliamentary time came before he could be at-Secretary to the Admiralty, to the tended to, there would be plenty effect that nearly $2,000,000 of EMINENT CHINESE: INVITED of time to-morrow or the next gold had been recovered by Admir-
TO COMMITTEE. day or next week.
alty divers from the wreck of the Does the Strike Committee, or White Star liner Laurentic, which
London, Feb. 10. In the House of Commons, re-i the Chamber of Commerce, or Mr. was torpedoed by a German sub- February 12, Mr. Wu's Government own the marine off the west coast of Ire-plying to Mr. C. P. Trevelyan February 12. Shamoon banks body and soul?land in 1917. The exact value of (Labour) Sir Austen Chamberlain stated that after consultation with February 12. Yours, etc.
the gold was £4,958,000, and the the British members of the Commit- cost of salvage £138,000. tee established under the China, This included a bonus of £6.739 Indemnity Act of 1925, the British paid to the officers and men who representatives in China and the had carried out this task, without Chinese Foreign Minister, he (Sir loss of life or material.-British Austen Chamberlain) had approach- Wireless.
ed three eminent Chinese to join the Committee. Their names would be published as soon as they] had definitely accepted.--Reuter,
February 11,
February 18. February 23, ANNIHILATING TIME AND
February 14.
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VESSELS NEAR FORT.
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11 am. layed in America, was received vessels were expected to be Fri., Feb, 12, 2.30 p.m. back in England. Discussing the wireless communication with experiment an official of the Hongkong:
"Correspondence bearing vessel's name only.
GERMAN BUDGET.
THE INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.
Berlin, Feb. 10.
LIQUOR SMUGGLING.
PREVENTIVE U. S. SPANISH TREATY
In the Reichstag Herr Hogan
Washington, Feb. 10. moved the first reading of the 1926 A Treaty with Spain to prevent Budget, which balanes at 7,400,- liquor smuggling has been signed 000,000 marks,
by Mr. Kellogg and the Spanish The Finance Minister, Herr Ambassador, similar to the Treaties Reinhold, outinied the Government's with Britain, Italy and other programme. He said there were countries.-Router's American Ser- 2,100 bankruptcies last month and vice. approximately 2,000,000 unemploy
Bon,
SPANISH FLIER.
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ITALIAN INDUSTRY.
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New York, Feb. 10.
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It is understood that arrange- B.B.C. at Savoy Hill said, that Kashima Maru, Hosang, Ting-ments have been virtually con- the reception was good and parti-sang, Lumaeus, President Jack-oluded with a group of American cularly free from atmospherica. Miikesan Maru, Fushimi bankers to issue a loan of twenty Despite the fact that the music Maru, Hermelin, Pacific Maru, U. million dollars to the Italian In- had travelled over 8,000 miles be-s, S. Ford, Nassa, Altai Maru, stitute for the development of fore it was received in London, Kwongchew, Glenfalloch, Seang hydro-electrial enterprises there was no detectable difference bee, Kaying, Bengal Maru, Kojun Italy. The bonds will probably, between the transmission at Maru, Bingo Maru, Talma, Lai-boar interest at the rate of seven per eont-Reuter's American sang, Telemachus. Daventry and the music as re- cetred from America. Tha
Service. journey it had covered was from Ciro's Club, London, to Daventry, where it was broadcast. Belfast, Maine, picked it up and passed it on to New York (W.J.Z.), who' passed it on to Schonectady ARRIVES AT BUENOS AIRES. (W..Y.), who re-broadcast it to
Buenos Aires, Fab, 10. The Spanish aviator Franco has passed on to 2LO.
During the whole of the expert-arrived here from Monto Video- ment the American and English Reuter's American Servico." In the House of Commons, reply-engineers were in direct com- Bill would be introduced to reduce the present one per cent. turnovoring to Sir Frederick Hall, Sir Ausmunication, via Marconi's, “by tax to .6 per cent, and the Comten Chamberlain said that the ap-wireless. panies fusion tax from two cent, to one per cent-Reuter.
ed. The chief causes of the crisis
were lack of capital and excessive LEAGUE OF NATIONS.bo picked up in England and
taxation. Various economies would henceforth be covered by loans. A
-London, Feb. 10.
ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME.
Later.
SILK IMPORTS.
RUSH DUMPING NOT OVERLOOKED.'
London, Feb, 10. The rush of imports of silk goods last year after the impending impo- sition of the new tax was announced in the Budget, was the apparent,
Frederic Wine's reason for Bir Senor Franco was oficially
question in the House of Commons perproximate totala of the contribu- "It was just like a conversa welcomed on arrival by President
tions by Britain, France and Italy, tion in a room," added the official de Alvear. He had to
as to whether such action would be pro- henceforth be efrcumvented. respectively, towards the expenses Wo broadcast a phrase of of the League of Nations since its music, and America commented enthusiasm of the throngs. The said that when the time comes it tected by the police from the Mr. Stanley Baldwin, replying, The weather forecast for to-incention were £482,000, £390,000, on its quality and reception as whole city was illuminated and wil be found that we have not morrow is:-N.E. winds, strong; and £228,000, including the cost of soon as it was concluded. It was gonorally overcast, some drizzle the International Court of Justice. the annihilation of time and beflagged. Reuter's American Sor overlooked the important matter of
dumping-Reuter.
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