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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MARCH [20, 1931.
SINGAPORE BASE
SINISTER DESIGNS
SCOFFED AT
CHINA RAILWAY PROGRESS
·BIG ORDERS PLACED IN ENGLAND
QUESTIONS ON NEW ten thousand tons of rails for the
WORKS
London, Mar. 19. Several speakers sought information regarding the Singapore Base in the course of the report stage of the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons to-day.
London, Mar. 19. The Chinese Government pur- chasing Commission have ordered
Canton-Hankow Railway and Boven thousand tons for the Shan. tung Railway to be delivered at Hankow before July,
The orders are divided botweon
Fleet Iron Company.
ACTION DEMANDED
MANCHESTER AND, BOARD OF TRADE
COTTON INDUSTRY
PROTECTION
London, Mar. 19.
In view of the breakdown of
tiations and the increasing dia- machine-tools for the Canton- and very energetic measures Tenders for £20,000 worth ortress in Lancashire, very prompt Tankow Railway are being con- are urgently necessary to pre- sidered.
serve and to extend the cotton
man. Long's and the Cargo the Anglo-Japanese textile nego-
passengers train locomo trade in the markets of the Four Mr. George Hall asked whether the recent naval conference at tives are shortly being ordered for world, says a resolution sent to Singapore was responsible for the the Hang-klang Railway Reuter. the President of the Board of
Trade. extra million pounds sterling allocated to buildings, repairs and lands.
The Civil Lord, Mr. Euan Wallace, replied that the sum to be spont on the Singapore Bane was even now below the original
LAWLESSNESS IN AMOY AREA
estimate which in 1023 was about STATE OF EMERGENCY
£14,000,000.
The conference was not connect- ed with the Increased estimate and there were no sinister designs re- extra garding Singapore. The
sum was required for the equip ment of electrical works. He con. cluded that the idea that the Singapore Base was a threat to anybody was a sheer delusion.
It might as well be said that the base at Devonport was a threat to America.
When the money in estimato was spent, £714,000, they would have an adequate base, properly equip ped and defended.
The House approved the vote Router und British Wireless,
PROCLAIMED
The resolution, which was drawn up by the Executive Committoo of the Cotton Trade League in Man- chester, demands immediate ac- tion so na to secure the re-employ. ment of thousands of Lancashiro
workers and the restoration of Great Britain's largest export in- dustry.
COMMONS QUESTION,
(Special to "Telograph")
A question was 'asked in the Com- топв regarding the interview Amoy, Mar. 19.
between the President of the Board of Trado and the An attempt to smuggle a large
Ambassador which consignment of petroleum Into Japanese
place following the Amby
frustrated by the took Wha Customs, who seized a launch breakdown of conversations last which was abandoned by the work between representatives of smugglers,
Lancashire and Japanese textile industries.
One of the fugitives was shot by the Customs officers,
Colonel Colville, replying, said the Japanese Ambassador had in- timated that he would com- Increasing lawlessness in the municate with his Government. aren has led to the declaration of He was unable at present to any
further-Router a state of emergency-Central | anything News.
British Wireless,
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LOAN TO CHINA
·BRITISH BOXER FUNDS AS SECURITY
in Shanghai, will amount to £2,000,000, the proceeds of which will be entirely exponded on rail- way construction, subsequently re- sulting in large orders for railway. material in Great Britain, added. London, Mar. 19.
Sir John Simon. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir John Simon's statement was Sir John Simon, Forelim Secretary in reply to a question from Mr. J. announced that the Chancellor fs. Rankin, Unionist member for the Exchequer had offered so ob East Toxteth; asking whether it Joction to the sterling loan, for the would be a condition for the ap construction of the Canton-Hankow proval of the loan that all railway Rallway, being secured by the material required in the under- British Boxer Indemnity Fund. taking should, as far as possible, The loan, which is to be raised be purchased in Britain-Reuter.
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