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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 1; 1932.
THE CONFERENCE
AT OTTAWA.
DELEGATES TAKING A
WEEK-END REST,
Ottawa, July 30. For the first time following at extremely hectic ten days, the delegates to the Conference re resting over the week-ond.
After Lord Bessborough'o garden party the majority will proceed to Lucerne for golf and fahing in the lakes and streams of the Gatineau River.
BOXER INDEMNITY
CHINA TO WITHHOLD JAPAN'S SHARE
EINSTEIN THEORY
as
CHALLENGED
OXFORD PROFESSOR AND UNIVERSE
Shanghai, July 30. Mr. T.V. Soong has announced of the Japanese portion of the that the payment of the instalment The conception of the aniverse Boxer Indemnity, due on the 31st which is sponsored by such fa- ZUN ever-expanding bubble, inet. and amounting to £33,000 is mous astronomers being withheld for the tinie being. Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, as Professor China's action in withholding and Sir James Jeans, has been Japan's portion of the Boxer In-challeneged by Professor Arthur demnity payment will exacerbate Milne, Rouse Ball. Professor of the Sino-Japanese controversy, is Mathematics the bellef of well-informed persons sity, and an authority on mathema- at Oxford Univer- who view the outlook with the tien astronomy. deepest dismay. While financial circles believe China's credit is not improved by this latest deve lopment, officials in London re fuse to comment. but it is under stood they are watching closely.
Meanwhile, oMcial Japanche The discussions have proceeded quarters consider that China can- with the strictest secrecy, render- not withhold payments indefinite- ing an announcement unwise till ly, as it would involve breaking the work is more or lesa completed, the Trenty made after the Boxer It is known that the raising of disturbancea. Not only would price-levels was the keynote of all Japan be involved, but other na the work. All the committees wit- tions who are party to the Boxer nessed struggles between the ex-Indemnity agreements. Thus tremists and the moderates, in China's new move would be a bad which the latter gained the day.
precedent for all those concerned.
Reuter.
Much progross has already been made. This week was occupied in the work of the various commit- tees; and it is expected that the whole picture of Empire trade will be pieced together for presenta tion to Lord Hailsham's commit- tee some day next week.
Meetings of the heads of the various delegations to-day were mainly occupied with discussing whether any news can be given out to the world. The Dominions committees who have reported. are those dealing in butter, meal and fruit, and it is believed they will all take the line of prefer- Puces, varying according to the commodity, with restriction of the foreign proderet under abnormal circumstances.
LAST HONOURS.
FRANCE DAYS HOMAGE TO MEN OF PROMETHEE
known objects, the spiral nebula, The fact that the most distant- are moving away from the earth at speeds which their distance is explained by what Increase with
Profesnor Milne describo "common-senso busis."
And there is no reason to sup- use that the universe itself is
or resembles, ns Siri expanding James Jeans recently expressed it, a stick moving downwards from its position of equilibrium with ever greater speed.
Professor Milne's explanation. which is published in "Nature" is obtained by considering what would happen to a large number of particles, the elements of the universe, moving freely at re- elatively great distances from esch other,
Elementary Principles.
Ifc. shows on the most elemen- tary principles, excluding such Paris, July 30. complications as even the simplest Last bonours were paid the 62 theory of relativity, that the space men of the crew of the French occupied by the particles would, submarine Promethee, when Pre-after a certain interval, continu- Next week will be devoted to a mier Herriot, and N. Leygues, ously expand without limit. Continuation of the talks of the Minister of Marine, and high An important advantage of his United Kingdom delegates with Naval officers, aboard the destroy-theory, Professor Mine points those of the Dominions and meet-er Bison, crossed the spot where out, is that it explains why the inx of the Dominions committees the submarine lies, dropping universe is expanding, whereas
on poultry, eggs, cereals, meals, tobacco, wines, fish and timber, which are expected to give little trouble compared with those af ready completed.-Reuter.
Satisfactory Progress.
London, July 30.
The work of the Ottawa confer- ence is proceeding so satisfactorily that sume observers forecast the conclusion of Conference in the third week of August. A review
wreaths and saluting the dead with 21 guns while a band played the Marseillaise.
the accepted theory is unable to provide any explanation, other than mere cliance, why the initial The Bison was followed by a move was in the direction of ex- flotilla of submarines and destroy-pansion rather than contraction. crs and the Cunard liner Lotharin gia, carrying the relatives and friends of the lost sailors-Reuter,
YANGTSZE RECEDES.
BELIEVED PASSED
of Imperial Trade issued by the MENACE FROM FLOODS NOW United Kingdom Delegation has been received as, a valuable con- tribution to the clearing of
the ground.
Shanghai, July 30. The National flood Relief Com- The Committee on financial and mission's statements say that the monetary questions niet YES high water on the Yangtse River terday and full statement
is receding so rapidly that WAUS made !" t.lice
of repre-gineers report air danger sentative of each delegation. catastrophic floods such as last The South African representa-year's is now "over. tive explained the reasons for the The highest water registered at decision of the Union Government Hankow was 14.2 feet on the 16th to remain on the gold standard. inst. Since that time it has fallen The Indian delegate emphasised four feet. It is stated, however, the fact that the benefits to pro-that the river may rise again next duction and trade of the preferen-month, but not likely above the tial system might be swept away Hankow bund level.--Reuter. unless supported by monetary and eredit policy ensuring the stabi lity of general wholesale prices.
The Australian prepresentative similarly pointed out the flis- [astrous effect to Australia of fall-
ing prices.
LOAN CONVERSION.
TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS NOW
BEYOND A DOUBT
of
A Concert composed entirety of music from all parts of the Empire, from the oldest folk songs to works
London, July 30, The triumphant success of the war of master composers, was attended loan conversion is now assured. Well by the Governor-General and the over 2,000,000 applications out heads of delegations in the Capl-2,000,000 have been received, of which tol Theatre last night.--British | 1,900,000 are for conversion. These Wireless.
include nearly all the big holdings.
The Federation of British Industrien in a business forecast for the third quarter of the year describe the con- version scheme as the greatest step since the onset of the slump,
Currency Problem.
Ottawa, July 31.
A piquant situation has arisen towards world recovery success of
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fin order to expedite business) of a sub-committee of the Mone- tary Committee, consisting of ong member from each delegation, to consider the whole question. now that the facts and position of each part of the Commonwealth have been submitted.
The chairman of the sub-com- mittee will be the Canadian Secretary of State. Mr. Cahan, whose views on the currency ques tion are known to be somewhat at variance with those of Mr. Stevens, the Canadian Minister of Trade, who is chairman of the main Monetary Committee. Reuter's Sperial Service.
CUSTOMS TAXES
NEW SCHEDULE TO COVER SEIZURE DEFICITE
Nanking, July 31. In order to raise funds to meet foreign and domestic loans and obligations pending the settlement of the Manchurian Customs scizare, the Chinese Government has de- eided 10 increase the Customs duties on certain commodities, to he effective on August 1.
Details are not available yet, but it is understood that wines, tobacco, artificial silk and medicines are affected, some as high as 80 per cont.
The new duties are expected to bring in twenty million tacis an- nually, which about covers the deficit on Custama revenue due to the Manchurian Customs soizure.— Reuter.
the operation is likely to make the turning point in Britain's commerical position"-British Wireleer.
LAND ANNUITIES
"The explanation," adds Pro- fessor Milne, abandons the eur vature of space and the notion of expanding space, and regards the observed motion of the distant nebulae as their actual motions in Euclidean space
before (space Einstein).
"We may say that creation and undirectional evolution (expan- sion rather than contraction) are brought into a single mathema- tical schome." The start would be the condensation of formless | matter to form the initial parti-
èles, and the rest would follow.
Cosmic Time.
Professor Milne, however, adds one sop for the scientists. The existing theory of the expanding universe was based on a mysteri ous something called "cosmic time," which implied a departure from the mathematical identity of space and time which was one of the characteristic features of Ein- stein's Theory.
The new explanation abolishes this distinction-but it may be a relief to up-to-date conversation- alists that Professor Milne secks also to abolish such phrases as "space-time" and the "structure of space." The new jargon, if Professor Milne has his way, will be "the hypercomplex of world lines which can be reconstructed from our observations."
But on this point popular fancy must await a further dissertation which Professor Milne promises.
A PAINFUL FALL.
DAME LLOYD GEORGE MEETS WITH ACCIDENT
London. July 30. Dame Margaret Lloyd-George, G.B.E., the wife of the Tam Liberal leader, Rt. Ifon. David Lloyd-George, fractured her right arm as the result of a fall, whitet walking in the garden of her home a Brynawelon, Criccieth, Carnur-
von.
She was removed to hospital where her arm was get. She is
progress-Reuter.
DE VALERA REITERATES.
HIS DEFIANCE
London, July 31. Mr. De Valera was enthu- siastically received at a
mass meeting at Limerick said that he reported to be making satisfactory Was not going to wasto any further time in "futile enden- vours" to secure arbitration on the Land Aunuities dispute. Io reaffirmed that he would never accept the principle of a tribunal drawn solely from the Empire.
He said that he saw Tittle chance of a solution by arbitration or negotiation.-Reuter.
BIG SHIP COMBINE
LABOUR SPLIT
1. L. P. SEVERS CONNEXION
FROM LABOUR PARTY
London. July 31, At a conference of the Bradford Independent Labour Party it was decided by a vote of 241 to 142 to immediately dis-affiliate from the Labour Party.—Reuter's Special.
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London, July 31. A company to be known as the has been "Royal Mail Liners, Ltd. registered at Somerset House with a the object of taking over all the ships noniinal capital of £1,000,000 belonging to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, the R.M.S.P. mont transports, the Nelson Line nnd the KING'S BLDG David Melver Company, No other assets of these companies are being (Gop Shoe Fert bought.
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