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SHOULD EXTRALITY BE THE APPROACHING WINTRY WEATHER A KOWLOON TONG FIRST "BREEZE" AT DOLLAR'S SLUMP
ABOLISHED?
INTOLERANT REVOLUTIONARY
PSYCHOLOGY.
NAVAL PARLEY.
ARCHBISHOP URGES EARNEST PRAYER.
IN HONGKONG.
THE COLDEST JANUARY FOR TWELVE YEARS.
41-7 THIS MORNING.
PROBLEM.
NO WATER AVAILABLE" FOR FLUSHING.
PRESIDENT'S FAREWELL. TO | Hongkong ik again in the grip | PLIGHT OF RESIDENTS SHOWN
U.S. DELEGATION.
DIFFERING APPROACHES. GRASP OF ESSENTIALS. perature than this, the mercury
ISPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH."]
London, Jum," 7.
IN PROSECUTION..
ILLEGAL CONNEXION.
THE HAGUE.
FRENCH AND GERMANS HAVE
TEMPERS FRAYED.
QUICKLY OVERCOME.
The Hague, Jan. 7.
EFFECTS.
COMMERCIAL CHAOS POSSIBLE.
IMPORT TRADE PRACTICALLY AT STANDSTILL
of a cold enap, the temperature
A slight breeze" occurred dur recorded at the Royal Observatory
ing to-day's meeting of the Repara- this morning at I&slock being
tions Committee which is dealing 41.7. Wo have to go back twelve
with Germany's commitmentă. years to find a lower January tem:
temporarily frayed, and M. Tarastu, French and German tempera became BUSINESS MEN'S VIEW. Then falling to: 38.848
the French Premier, and Herr Mold- Taking other months than Jan- The fact that Kowloon Tong enhauer, the German Finance Mini- The likely, effects of the fall of the dollar on the Import trade of the Failure to secure an agree-uary into acount, to-day's tem- residents are undergoing considerator, became very outspoken. ment at the Five-Power Naval the Colony since 1925, when, in with the supply of water for flush- Minister, managed to smooth mat-known local textile authority, when ·
perature is the lowest recorded in able inconvenience in connexion |
Dr. Curtius, the German Foreign Colony were anticipated by a well- Conference in, London a fort- February, it was down to 39.7. ing purposes was emphasised by ters out, but he reminded the interviewed by a Telegraph repre- night hence would be an inter-
The present cold snap is more Mr. W. M. Gitlins, of 22, Essex delegates thint Germany could not sentative this morning. He ex- pronounced then, that experienced Crescent, who appeared before always be the
one to make the pressed his views in the following Archbishop of Canterbury in a just before Christmag, when, on Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon sacrifices. letter addressed to the Churches, December 23rd, the lowest point Magistracy this morning, on The differences arose in connex- The fall in the dollar has prac requesting prayers for its suc. reached was 44.5. This means summons for extending his water ion with the proposals for the es-tically brought the import trade of service by connecting unfiltered tablishment of a specini advisory the Colony to a standstill, because water to the Government mains."
committee under the International the new values which it has given The
Bank, which would function in the to imported cargo represent: such event of Germany seeking a mora- an increase on those of 12 months torium.
ago that not only importers but the netual consumers have been unable to reconcile themselves, and," what is more to the point, their incomes, to the new scale.
The abolition of extraterritoriality and the recent man-national calamity, suggests the date of the National Government bearing on the issues is the formost subject of discussion in China to-day. The Powers have refused to consider immediate abolition, but are preparing to negotiate the question of the gradual relinquishment of foreign rights.
The following article discusses frankly the natural ques- tion: Should Extrality be Abolished?: Written specially for the Telegraph, the author is a foreign gentleman who has spent a great purt of his life in the interior of Ching and thei outports. His views are the result of a long study of Chinese customa and methods.
Point is given to the article by the news from Wachow of the detention of two Chinese British subjects and of the refusal of the authorities to surrender them on, the ground that extrality rights no longer exist.
CONTEMPT FOR REALITIES.
actualitler. It thinks in an ideal world. If the actual dous not coincide with the ideal, there must be a conspiracy of silence about it. In the Party's good time, irregularies will dix- appear and what is claimed to be the fact now will then he true.
A Natural Sympathy. However exasporating this may
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The whole of the churches of England, Wales and the United States are setting aside Sunday, January 19th, for a day of prayer and intercession for the success of the conference.
Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. In his letter to the Churches, the
Lang) says that in some respects the Naval Conference is the most important, internationaj gathering Rinco the Paris Conference of -1919.
Serious Issues.
Failure of the nations concern- such high hopes have been enter- ed to come to an agreement after
tained would be a serious solback on the difficult road to stable in- |ternational peñce.--Reuter,
Washington, Jan. 7. American people will co-operate in Expressing the hope that the the successful progress of the London Naval Disarmament Con- ference by "pallence, encourage- ment and freedom from criticism," President Hoover to-day, bade!
tion to the Conference.
- 2 A FUN KERATY KA VEĽALISI İDEN TIL LAMENTED TO CREATION
ALLIES PAYMENTS TO
COME FIRST.
German Agree to this..
Principle.
AMERICA'S POSITION,
The Hague, Jan. 7.- The German delegates at the Reparations Conference held a private meeting with the six inviting Powers to-day when " they agreed that the Reich shall never make separate payments to the United States nor any private treaty with the United States if payments to the Allies-ander the Young Plan are suspended,
This understanding follow ged almost naturally upon the Anierico-German agreement whereby America's share of reparations in, to be paid direct-Reuter,
defendant produced notice which, he said, he 'received before, the summons and which required him to remove the illegal connexions within three days, The work was accordingly carried out, being completed within one day, but, notwithstanding, a sum- mons was subsequently served on him.
The creditor Powers contend that auch a Committee should not be vested with power to override the decision in the matter.
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Having fallen as it has by almost Gd. since this data last year, it means that all foreign imports are relatively 25 per cent. dearer than a year ago, which, to say the least, is an increase that is compensated neither by any relative increase iti the income of the consumer nor by. any surplus margin ho may have
The creditor Powers also urged that the German Railways should bo so run as to secure the payment Mr. Lee, Inspector of Meters, of the Railways' queta towards re- Intimated that the illegal con-parations, a proposal which would nexions were discovered on sbriously embarrass Germany's So- December 17, when the Water cialist Government for it would Authority requested that they be necesaltate a reduction of wages and removed, but they were
still the dismissal of many railwaymen. present on the 21st, when the
Despite the differences apparent, bad before. premises were again visited.
It is expected that the labours of the Conference will be Ruccessfully closed by to-morrow week.-Reuter:
No Inducement to Remedy. His Worship pointed out that the application for the summons
Economic Chaos.
It is almost impossible to name # period that would be essential lo enable consumers to make such a
was made on December 19, while THE SMUGGLING OF reconciliation between these in-
the notice which the defendant produced was served on December 24. There was pot very much An- ducement for remadying the defect if a man was going to be taken to
Court in any ease,
His Worship aaid that It was like putting the cart before the horse. To the defendant he point- med out that while the notice intim-
be to those who, living in a mone farewell to the American delea that this morning's temperature
Discussion of the extrality issue- la vitluded, even, one ventures tu think, in high diplomatic circles, by Livo Causes af confusion. The Nationalist Government appranches the question with the psychology of the Revolution, while the Powers approach it his- torically but the Chinese defend their position not on the high ground of their approach, but on the ground of their opponents' choosing, namely the question of i actual conditions in China, to-day", The result is confusion worse con founded.
'On the top of patently "unreal prosaic world, are the victims of descriptions of the present legal present actuality, no Briton can be code, and judiciul situation, and altogether without sympathy with with a sublime contempt for the a natiohuljst feeling which leads realities of the political situation, those whom it inspires to say that they make extravagant claims, and their country is their own, that then startle the world with a pro- they will "rule it as they like, and posal unilaterally to denounce the that foreigners must take it as whole ayalem.
they find it. For Britons have been fund of reminding the Kuomintang Policy.
world that they never will be The case for the abolition of slaves, and mean by that that extrality would be strong if the they will not tolerate any kind Nationalists confined themselves of infringement of their sovereign- to general principles, the ty by foreigners ·
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Their demand for the abolition |
principles which really move them. Wrong-Founded Diplomacy. of extrality, for the handing back
of
U.S. Delegation.
was three degrees below that then experienced,
The weather is, of course, quite seasonable for the time of the The delegation is composed as year, although present conditions follows:
are more usually encountered in February than in January.
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Mr. d L. Stimson, Secretary of] State:
Mr. Dwight Morrow, Ambassa dor to Mexico;
General Charles Dawes, Ambas- sador to Britain;
Hr. Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium;
The record low temperature for the Colony is 32 degrees, or exact ly freezing-point, this being re- corded in 1893;
Han River Frozen.
Hankow, Jan. 8. A record cold spell prevails in this part of the country. The Han River was frozen over ou Sunday and Monday. When the ice broke, a fire started amongst the boats, and any vere drown- ed through the overturning of sampans-Reuter.
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• LIQUOR.
AMERICAN PLAN REGARDING CANADIAN BORDER.
Ottawa, Jan. 7.
creased costs of daily com- modities with their spending. capacity certainly not in the short time it has taken to all and, this being so, there la not the lenst doubt that, whether by design or accident, the dollar has been forced so low that it has roached a limit which la most
Colony. It is very doubtful if a state of commercial chaos can be''
ated that the service would be dis NEW PORTS OF ENTRY. injurious to the trade of the conceted if the illegal fixtures were not removed, it did not inform the receiver that a summons would be The Federal Government has avoided.
The fact that "the" Hongkong issued if the notice 'was not com-received a preliminary report from
Mr. Massey, the Canadian dollar has given way is undoubted- plied with.
Referring to the offence, his Wor. Minister to Washington, outlining ly the direct cause of the inil of ship asked if any damage wps Government for a large Inercano was on a fictitious paper basis of the proposals of the Washington the tael, because, whilst the dollar tually done.
ровез.
His Worship: What the Water Authority object to is extending
the service?
Mr. Lee-Extending the service for flushing purposes. It is a ser lous case.
Kezidents' Plight.
trolled.
Mr. Lee intimated that the water in the border patrol, with a view 2/- and Hongkong being so was being used for flushing pur-to stopping the inflow of Canadian geographically situated, it had
liquor into the United States.
some influence in keeping the" The proposals also suggest the tact up to a reasonable value; but establishment of 500 new ports of since the silver dollar has been entry, in addition to the present put into currency, the faol has hundred official parts, at which fallen headlong in conjunction traffic across the border can be with the fall of allver, and in concentrated and adequately con- view of the enormous stocks in Shanghai of this metal practical- 11 is from n Chinese point
At present, there are thousandaly waiting to be given away, he is: of the concessions, and for sucir view, one would think, the more to things as exclusive control of river be regretted that Chinese diplomacy
of points along the border-line at a bold person who can say where und coast shipping, is founded on abandons this high Nationalist
The defendant intimated that the which motor-cars cross, and the either currency is going to end up. residents of Kowloon Tong were in object of the Washington Govern- Kuomintang policy as formulated ground, and trica to prove to the in Dr. Sun's Laat Will and Testa-world that China had now a new In this he called on the legal code, new law courts, and new
The whole of China appears to 2 peculiar position, as they had no ment is to centralise, as far They had had possible, the crossing pointa. flushing water. be visited by a cold People to unite in two tasks in prisons.
wave trouble with the Sanitary Depart The US. Government also in- Meteorological reports from order to cansummate the revolu- Whether in isolated cuses there tion, namely the unification of the are new prisons; and an occasional
Shanghal show that fourteen de- ment over the flush system. The tends to strengthen its Prohibition
connexion had been made in such and Customs forces.-Router.. nation under the Party, and the Court where a semblance of mo-
grees of frost were registered, this a way that unless a key were used, aecaring of China's place in the dern legal procedure is followed, is well speech, declared that the to 24 at Chefoo.
President Hoover, in his fare-morning, while the mercury fell the water could not be connected. family of nations.
The fresh water was only used when little to the point.
complexities of the problems at At Vladivostock
десеввагу, stake were such that no immediate degrees of frost were rece and quick results need be hoped." 6 a.m. te-day...
ment.
Complete International equality is felt to be essential to the attainment of this second aim.
'Flat Defiance,,
The consequence is that in ull those points in which it is felt that China's sovereignty is, in how- ever remote a way, infringed, the foreign Powers stand to the Party as the Manchus did to those who startad the revolution within the nation.
The abolition of extrality would carry with it the throw Ing open of the whole country
Senator David A. Reed; Senator Joseph T. Robinson; Rear Admiral Hilary Jones; and Admiral William Pratt. They are sailing from New York by the 8.s. George Washington on Thursday.
President's Farewell"
ference in three months or even The completion of the con-
great accomplishment. ́·
to foreign residence, and what four months would be in itself a concerns" the argument is how widely spread any new system may be, and what its likelihood of survival.
Mr. Stimson's Message.
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In renly to his Worship, defendant said he was an engineer.
"His Worship remarked that he there should be a fine be- he thought, that K dant was an engineer to know he could with Government There was also the
baing fresh water.
"RED" DISTURBANCE IN BERLIN.;
the hede not property question
POLICE CLASH WITH MOB OF COMMUNISTS.
Berlin, Jan. 7.
ard Position.
JOHN, JACOB ASTOR'S MILLIONS.
sa pa ng ka
as
THOUSANDS OF CLAIMANTS
DISAPPOINTED., «
Hopeless Fallure.
It is evident now that the plea ~ put forward when contemplating"
the deflation of the "dollar. namely to encourage the sale of cargo lying in Hongkong to China proper has failed hopelessly, be- cause clearances are poorer to-day than they were when the dollar was about 1/11% in September. On the other hand, world, pur- chasers of Hongkong and South China produce have withheld from buying because, as is well known, the
lower the dollar goes, the New York, Jan. 7. The United States Circuit Court cheaper becomes the produce, of Appeals has rejected the claims
It is quite impossible to find of thousands of descendants of any purchasera for import cargo John Nicholas Emerick to the for with currency falling every day. tune left by the late Mr. John Jacob and there will be no purchaser, of, Astor, the founder of the wealth export cargo so long as the fall of the Astor family.
continues; but a more healthy. fresh water, they The amount which the claimants state of trade might be reached Enter for the flush.xnected to receive had the decision when produce from South Chiny
ase of getting up gone in their favour in variously again comes into demand.
Works Depart fortimated to be from G.$59.000.000
:
The President added that there, was good will to the conference on the part of every nation in terested and he expressed the The Powers have repeatedly as opinion that, the United States sorted, and there can be no doubt had never before sent a delega- Diplomacy may, in the mean of their sincerity, that they look tion abroad with such a grasp of time, be necessary, as a cover to forward to the abolition of the aya- the essentials of the "particular the eastern district of Berlin to- less they u
A serious disturbance occurred in The defent replied that un: the real revolutionary movement, cem, and only wait the assurance problems they had to solve, but revolutionary activity is at its of adequate safeguards in the
day when police came into collision would have best when a flat defiance can be country to agree to it.
with Communists who wers de. It was either flung down.
monstrating following the funeral against the A Unilateral denunciation of
Historical Aspect.
y Department; G.8600,000,000.-Reuter's Amert- Mr. H. L. Stimson, the leader of two of their comrades, one of ment or the S treatles may be diplomatically
They approach the question, how of the delegation, in a farewell whom was a victim of the recent it was one was the other. een Service,
afray between the Nationalíšia and scandalous, but it is true-blue ever, quite differently from the message, said that this was the the Communists,
Ilis Worship remarked that it did seem rather hard, when the revolution.
Chinese. Haying in mind the his most opportune time to see if they The crowd of Communista, used In revolutionary parlance, China to the system they do not feel that decrease the expenses of a battle with the police developed, and the when the connexións had been re- torical oonditions which gave rise could not still further delay or sticks, and stones when the class defendant had received a notice to remedy the defect, to be summoned is a "amall and oppressed" people, it is in any way derogatory to ship fleet which must be set free by the China. The British Noto in reply
police drew their revolvers, but
moved, but, at the same time, there Party from political and economic to the request of Nanking for die deavour to and a mutually satis- Forty-tares "Reds" were arrest was no getting away from to
Simultaneously they would" en-| fired fats the air as a warning. salons leading to the immediato factory arrangement for limiting od Two policemen were injured in fact that he had no permission 40 abolition of extrality gives a review the building of cruisers, destrov- the scuffle-Router.
extend the service. He thought he would have to impose a fine o $15
oppression.
it is felt that extrality given foreigners a privileged position in China, that while it exists: China
Is not mistress in' her own home,
of past history which seems an aders and submarine and thus at!ll
quato justification of the system.
further. Increnso that sense of
San Diego, Jan. 7.
The defendant had to remember,
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A CONTRACT.
WANTS LONGER PERIOD AND BIGGER SALARY,
continued his Worship, that it famous
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and that it casts a reflection on equality, it is suggested that clear International good will.
If there is any question of insecurity which was essential to NAVAL AIRMEN KILLED, the civilisation and culture of they the inequality weighed against country,
foreign countries in the years when It is announced that, the
would be a serious thing if other The question of how far this the system took its rise.
churches of the United States will Two naval airmen were killed people did the same thing. There last point may be justified is The system was a corollary of the observe Sunday, January 9th, as a here owing to their amphibian were many other people in Kowno Revolutionary confinement of foreigners to limited day of prayer for the success of plane falling into San Diego Bay loon Tong complaining of the same th
areas, fat a dent
the London Naval Conference from a height of 1,500 feet-Reu- thing. His Worship thought the entra Intolerant of
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"ter's ́Amertoan Bervici:
(Continued on Pagi 8.). Reuter's American Service.
brushed aside.
Reuters
The 'a'three year $85,000 per annum Mean Service...
Stabilisation Needed.
For this purpose, it is most est sential that something like stability of 'valus be given to our currency,- irrespective on the level, although it cannot be agreed that anything so low as the present level is advan-
tageous to the Colony,
Possibly, therefore, those who may have had any influence, In re ducing the dollar to ita prosent level will now attempt to Anda basfs-a task more difficult- templates than the earlier on..
1980 Starts Badly.
A dealer in also interviewed, “ sali piece goods market was a standstills” and
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