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The League ng Nations I undertaking an' extremely ditḥcult task in attempting to compose Sinn-Japanese differenres on
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tion of Japan being content with an assurance, of protection: she wants It "effectively secured." Quile conceivably, her inter- pretation of this phrase might In prove unpalatable to China. the speeches of the Chinese and Japanese delegates at Geneva, mitch was made of the boycott) movement. Dr. Sze's submission that no Government can compel ita people to buy what they do not what is not Impressive. It would
Chinese
and
DAY BY DAY
HE THAT IN ASHAMED TO DE REEN IN A MEAN CONDITION WOULD BE PROUD IN A SPLENDID ONE-Searce,
Mystery of the Wiggin Report.
By H. B. ELLISTON.
TOW that Viscount Ceel has clearly its position must be as-
N° carneatly called the atten-gravated by the net amount that
afternoon at about 4 o'clock-one day queries probably will be re- does not want any more short-
Two bontwomen were each fined $5, or five days, for having loltered within hundred yards of the seawall of the Naval Yard, by the Hon. Comdr. Ifole,
tion of the Lengué of Nations As- has led the country, And the at the Marine Court this morning.
sembly to the report on interna-position is further aggravated by Then, Hakone Maru, fram London tional debts made by the Wiggin the loss of confidence. be much more so had the move-vin Marseilles, Naples, Suez, Colombo Committee under auspices of the for International Settle-
confidence Germany To repair went been a spontaneoux exhibland Singapore is, due here, this Bank
etise Tho As to whether the report term credita.
withi tion of patriotic feeling, but it is earlier than the orighial schedule.
actually meant what it has gen- which they may be recalled under- beyond question that
Knocked down by a lorry, betonging Lerally been declared to menu-minen rather than supports con- authorities in all parts of the to the Dairy Farm, at Pakfulum Rond, namely, a substantial reduction of fidence. Germany wants money country base fostered and an 11-year-old Chinese girl was taken German reparations and allied that can be used for such purposes and if so, why it did as having raw materials abroad to the (vernment Civil Hospital nemraged the movement.
suffering from yesterday
rather War debts-n
not say so more plainly. Yet the for her Industry--loans for than tuvested it with a much more evious injuries.
mystery dissolves upon an exami-term of years,
The Wiggin Committed agreed ► Eserinis significance. The picture
The last Sunday Service of the nation of the filets.
Raymond Poneare once told with the Germans. Germany which we published gesterday: University Christian Assoclitlus for showing a Chinese merchant of this year will be held on Sunday, 18th committee of technical experts: said, does require outside assist- be tempted to write ance, and, if this is to serve a October, at 9.30 am, in St. John's "You will Shrugiai publicly-exhibited in a
Hall, when Dr. G. A. C. Herkists will your report as if the problem were useful purpose, it must be an a
one long-term basis. rige because he had been dealing deliver a talk on "Science and Rell-ine-teaths teelinien and
What Poincare Оле tenth political."
have credit before he is Japanese yonde. plain ion." All are cordially invited.
meant was that the experts mast can borrow money. On the basis of the usual financial criteria the the net that the of
Jung Tai, eaxan aten not forget the human equation, Chinese authorities are making naunch Wan Lee, was charged before Periodically the statesmen have Wiggin Committee gave Germany a the the Hon. Comdr. Rule, at the Marine found themselves in an impass good credit standing. It agreed sarims Tori to suppress
Court Thin morning. with having over the international economie that the crisis "is not justified by movement; they are oven prepared moored alongside the Kowloon City obstacles which have arisen since the economie situation in the coun
the Treaty
int
evidence
encouragement of the movement, imprisonment.
at which Japan has every right ta complain.
On the other hand, Japan must have known from past experience;
that her actions in Manchuria would inevitably produce anti- Japanese agitation, as the boycott in the traditional method of re-
China
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Even the
Versailles. The try." Germany has done her part to allow anti-Japanese organisa-Ferry Wharf without the permission of the owners and in such a position GWA over-ride their tions
4x la cause obstruction on October 11 cause has then be remitted to a in consolidating her credit. by At 7.15 .. This of itself is fact I defendant was fined $10, or unn werk's But the experts have not been al-as to extract favourable comment On admitting the charge, committer of financial experts. measures of self-help so genuine powers.
lowed to forget the human equa- from the committee. tion; in other words, politics. Yet investors, nirendy univading The members of the Wiggin German bonds, are shy of further Committee set up by the recent re- commitments. Bankers also parations conference at London hesitant about making the long- were not told to bring forth any term conversions they have endon politico-ancial solutions. They cd in the Wiggin report. The were to inquire into the imme- reasons are identical. Germany is diate and further needs of Ger-a "political risk," and the removal SHOT-GUN FAILS.
rlak "is the frat And many and study the possibilities of this of converting a portion of her fundamental condition of
credit Capetown, Sept. 18. While attempting to recapture a short-term credits into long-term worthiness.
So we
come back to politica. tallation in China. Dr. Sze wnation which had broken away from credits." It was perhaps hoped
more. The Settle the pollties that preventa right in describing this agitation a trap, the Rev. M. Taylor, an that they might do
Amerinan missionary in Northern statesmen apparently wanted the investors from buying a German Two as a cause, not an effect.
Rhodesia since 1907, was so bad bankers to go ahead and do some-bond, and the problem is solved. The funeral of the late Augustofarther thoughts suggest them-ly mauled by the animal that ho thing on their own responsibility This is why the bankers' committee in helping to put Germany back could not suggest definite financini Alberto de Roza will be held on
selves. The first is that by died.
for
securing long-term Friday the 16th instant after
When travelling in the Zambeson her feet. At least, they hoped plans in threats ເ Requiem Service at 8,30 am, at the indulging
wa Valley he was informed by a gang the problem would be kept in cold credits and loans to Germany, It was not in their province to offer Roman Catholic Cemetary.
China's leaders are not helping the of road workers that the lion had storage for a while.
political suggestions of a specifie situation; the second, that Chinn's excaped.
With embarrassing prompti- nature which, if followed, would Borrowing a shot-gun, he gave! disinclination to negotiate direct chase, and on meeting the lion he tude the committee rendered its permit them to come to grips with which report. Only on the first part of the financial problem. All they with Japan is equally regrettable. fired three shota, all of
the agenda was concrete action could do was to hand the ball back. Nut by the display of such an missed,
The beast became infuriated taken. Foreign short-term cre- to the atatesmen who had passed attitude will the clouds be dis
FEFIC charged Mr. Taylor, who tried dita in Germany had already been it to them. Lo fire his shot-gan again, but the frozen by a qui intrel of the This circumspection is the chief persed,
order to al
for the circumlocution of safety-catch jammed. The lion uxchange m pouneed upon him and tore off his low the German to lift these re- the Wiggin Committee. Various The Way to Stop War. landa and then ambled awas into strictions, the committee formulat, interpretations of what it meant
the bush.
ed "gentlemen's agreement"has
have filled the world press. It is Willingly
nwillingly, the
When help came Mr. Taylor was among private bankers to let their widely held that it recommended nations of the world #re being places ou a stretcher and carried forced to accept the fact that they miles to Choma, but he died "stay put" at feast for six a cut in reparations and war debts. This does not emerge explicitly After that what then? The from the report, but it is between can no longer live to themselves. Train his wounds.
search for an answer formed the every line, and for at reason The greatest trade depression in
second part of the Wiggin Com-justifies the head-lines. The In- fact an international zone. if it omittee's terms of reference. This ference is sustained by the history has effectively demonstrut-
member of the com- the comic interdependence served the pel, it invaded ferri-is the real question at issue. Ger- that every bations. The Manchuria im-
· Moncheria kumtan. Döven - 16 11:3
broglio is serving the purpose of tory would be restored and it would many cannot return to normal inmittee has gone on record at some
receive full compensation for fos-her international finances just on time as a revisionial
a promise that the bankers will French and Belginns Wero algna- here in the Bast, it is by no means illustrating political ti
A ses from the offending nation. not weaken her any more, at least tories of the Young report under easy to weigh up the pros and cons and Japan cannot indulge
out in and endeavour in give an impar-quarrel privately. Other countries, cardinal principal of the plan is not for six months. They have al-which two-thirds of the reparation billion dollars has been return for similar remission On tiat Judgment on the situation with great principles is safeguard that no treaties, other than the ready weakened her. It is said liability would be biotted
Kellogy Pact, would be recognised, that s As in most disputes, there is right are forced to take an active in-
bothi
terest. The developments in the and with the suppression of these withdrawn in the last nine months. war debts. and wrong
The "sine que non of economic sides, bail.
the aid from the central banks and situation, for good or for ill, must outside Erenties, it is contended, Offsetting the billion dollars is
nations would automatically striking a balance. 'sober reflex- inevitably produce repercussions
the lifting of some $400,000,000 of recovery" is stated to be an assur- their "parti pris" and would be in repurations off the German back ance from world statesmen tion suggests that Japan has been of a vital nature elsewhere. The
international political relations a position to resolve international for the next ten months, primarily at fault, and that the League of Nations is, in fact, fae-
Several hundred millions of tol-ore established on the basis of questions impartially. It would
Reparations reactions against her nationals ined with its first real test. If I
from the and war debts, being intergovern
"political China are an understandable if fails to adjust the conflict satis materially assist the cause of dialara separate the amount which mutual confidence."
armament because national armies has been drawn out
not beon regrettable Consequence of her factorily. its very existence, the would be superfluous, even a danger amount which has been sent back. mental obligations, are If Germany were suffering from a relations." They have
out on Cown arts. The provocation Kellogg Pact and the whole causs
to their own country should mili-capital shortage when the crisis established or worked be gravely
tary leaders get out of hand.
starled, as most experts agree, busis or common consent. There (which Japan complains is no new of disarmament will
delract fore they
from that jeopardised, if not completely thing, although the policy of pin-
confidence" which the shattered Half-measures, or the pricks may have become intenst closing of eyes to certain alarm. fied with the growth of national ing facts, will not prevent catus-) feeling amongst
Chinese trophe. It is imperative that the on this occasion Admittedly, that policy reflects no League should credit on China when applied to exert all its authority, no matter to Even La nation with which she is sup-what steps that may lead.
posed to be in friendly relations, assuming that a solution is found without resort to drastic measures, But, even in, it is difficult to and we hope and believe that this escape the impression that, in the will be possible, the affair will knowledge that the Powers were surely bring a renewal of the argu-, preoccupied with other issues,ments for the implementing of the apan derided to force the issue. Kellogg Pact. One interesting Japanese, military activities in suggestion has been put forward Manchuria, unt forgetting the un-which is worthy of the closest con- Justified bombing of Chinchow, sideration. The proposal, briefly, take a lot of explaining away, the is that the Kellogg Pact be sup ported by the force of an inter- i prime fact being that her troopnational army under the control have one outside the zone speel of the League of Nations. The Tied by treaty, in infringement of offender of the Fact would the de China's Rovereignty. Japan fined us the nation which, armed, claims, of course, that this act was entered into the territory of an- forced upon her by reason of her other nation. No excuse would be Interests being placed in jeopardy, accepted. The punishment would but she would appear in a much consist in the occupation by the international army of a portion of more favourable light in the eyes the culprit's country, as large as of the world had she first exhaust- that which he had seized from his ed all other mothods before neighbour. This territory would resorting to military action. On then become. un international zone, the point of the withdrawal of the administered by the League, and forces within the Railway Zone, would cease to be part of the ter ritory of the country concerned for the Japanese attitude in that this all tims. If the attacked country step will be taken as soon as retaliated. It would also become a security for her nationals is offoc- culprit. It would lose its invaded tively accured. It will be noticed territory, which would also become that there is-apparently no ques-i
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Another oblique approach to the same
is the statement that
the paralysis" of the
economic world can be cured only "by restoring the free circulation of money and gooda." One ex- planation of tariffs la the
doter- mination of the creditor powers not to receive the goods which Ger many must sell abroad in order to earn her huge foreign payments.
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remedied by an outflow
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have
of the creditors' surpluses. But,
ain political forcen here again checked the achievement-of-equili brium, and of major importance in this connexion is the disturb
political relations caused. ance to by
the collection of reparations and war debta. So we get. back where we started. The vicious circle is complete.
is
Revision of theso obligation only one of the inferential recom- mendations. These run the whole gumut of cures for economic na- tionalism. They leave the reader to determine himself what are the reintions that have not beet established on a plane of "mutual confidence." If the delegates had themselves been asked to specify. they would have certainly difor el, say, on such points as treaty' rovisions, but they are at one ̧În (Continued on Page 7.),
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