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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

就四月二十年八十叠百九千叠英

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-Charged

QUESTIONABLE TRANSACTION.

D. Melbourne with being in possession of 17 taels of opium drose, being 15 taels in excess of the quantity allow- ed, a Chrome woman pleaded noe guilty, saying she was in destitate eircumstances and had recently come to the Colony to collect a debt from emale Chiness and was given the opium instead.

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuters Service to the China Mail)

RUBBER QUOTATION...

LONDON, December, Ind., market is firmen,

Rubbor is quoted as 98d buyers.

THE ILYE

VIRKET:

The silver market i

A MAGNIFICENTS EPILOGUE OF

THE WIR

PAYING FOR THE WAR

BOLD FINANCE TO AVERT

TROUBLES

Bir Arthur Conan Doyle writes in the Amening Standard SANT

To say of us the financial side of the war is & parfect nightmare Y's CANNO 08 ADy alternative between a continued taxation which wonki weigh apon sa for ever, and a compilary Jery upaz.espital which would cause suur an Boonenske crisis as the world has zavar sean. It is diffault to say which of the two is the mora fatal to the nation wa beat Napoleon, but he left our National Debt, like bis Coraçan stiletto, deep our vitala to plague us for a century. It Looks as if several centuries would pas before our children would get the burden of Williant I off their westy

Questioned by his Worship na to

PARES December and 4 Havas message says:-President whether she could produce the man, Poincare yesterday, attended the annual defendant repbed that she did not French soldiers who tell during the siege gathering at Champigny in honour of the know where he lived and was thereof 1870 The President said that has been at the head of a great traus fore unable to find him.

And now there came forward an Stillwall, a man of ripa experience, who American man of alai Mr. AE

A fine of $60 was imposed on dark day of 1870 would be atlantic railroad, and the outlines K

an alternative of the month's hard labour

THEFT ON BOARD S.S. COLUMBIA

A Chinese was charged before Mr., C. A D. Melbourne with, the larceny of a quantity of iron pipes on board the ss. Columbia.

Sergeant Davis prosecuted.

only through a prisms of new

glory. The battle of the Marne the scheme by which all our troubles, may defence of Verdun, and the rout of the be Terted. It is at least worthy of Germans formed of the war of 1970-agnificent epilogue moet serious discussion, and in discus- ing it we should not let smaller difficul ties or objections stand in the way. It it & time for new methods since the emergency is new,"

SIX OFFICIAL VISITS TO PARIS.

PAxts, December 2nd:

SAFEATURES OF TEE SCHEKE

A Havas message says

Put in a nutshell, this scheme is to At least six omoial visits to Paris are instead of the past in finding this draw upon the resources of the future Albert is arriving next Thursday, while money, and to pool the matter with all expected to take place during Dec. King the other visitors will be President. Wil the other.ations concerned.

son. the King of Italy, the Prince Regent In detail it would be worked like

of Serbia, the King of Greece and a Bri-this The nations interested, including

Mr. George Constantine, an entish Naval Deputation giacer on the steamer, gave evidence

to the effect that he happened to go to the storeroom where various kinds. of pipes were stored, and then he ww defendant with another man in the act of tying up Pipes. Before

could ques-

tion them they the of the

on to the deck. Defendant, who was recognised by

The "BENDOLLER GIRL". Assorted Chocolates, witness, was subsequently arrested.

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Questioned by his Worship, witness sakl defendant had no business to be in the steamer,

Defendant sited he was employ ed on board the steamer as a greader He lost his tobacco box and was searching for it in the storeroom when the engineer came in.

Two previous convictions registered against defendant and he was sentenced to six weeks' rigor ous imprisonment..

CAUSING OBSTRUCTION

were

THE FRENCH RECEPTION IN

ON.

MARSHAL OCH AND M. CLEMENCEAU.

the Central Fower, would solemnly bind themselves to a pesce of s hundred. years, and also to boycott utterly any nation which broke the pledge-Large fhancial guarantees would falen be required, to be held by some central authority. This is the first step in the plan, and it the most essy since it is inconceivable that any, uation will be in position to wage an expensive war for a century to come.

PARIS, December 2nd A Havas message SEFE Marshal Foch and M. Clemenceau were cancarred shall pledge themselves to The second stage is that all nations given a wonderful reception in London yesterday They were welcomed at redzes their military and naval expenses Charing Croes by

the Duke off by three-quarters of what they were mass of people greeting them with volleys the War Their taxation, however, [Connaught and the packed in the three, average years before of choers. The British Press see inhould be kept at nots los than Marshal Foch the condo

Clemenceau the Predatter is a manThe should give in Great ror of Germany, the same sverge as during these the confidence all the Allied nations, full of resends energy and object of the vir is to arrange with Signor Orlando and Baron Sannins the preliminaries, of the Peace Conference.

THE PEACE FACT

FRENCH COMAIENT URGES

PROLONGATION.

PARIS, December 2nd.

makabout £50,000,000,

a year in excess of expenditure.This? sum, together with similar'sume from all other rations, is paid into a central, fand which would mount up from year ✅tifmir At à rate of not less than 250 millions a year and most in course of time represent an enormous total. This rum could be reckoned upon and used as a security before it was actually received in its entirety, as a man'DAD rame money on a roveraionary laterest. A Havas message #376-

This enormous central security abould French comment urges the prolonga be a guarantee for bonds which should Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared os-September, 1914; beyond the signature of to its expense incurred by the war tion of the pact made in London in be issued to each nation in proportion fare Mr. Melbourne and applied for the peace treaty. The Press also urges the Thus, when the delegates meet, Britain n remand in the case of a Chinese settling of the procedure to be followed claims, we will asy, five thousand who was charged with causing an at the inter Ally conference. The latter millions. Bonds to that face value are obstruction in Wing Yong Street in

will consist of a preliminary conversa exposing his fish for sale. Bail was the Associated Powers: There will after then banda thousand millions, or

tian

among the "issions appointed by

handed over. The British delegate fixed at $25.

wards be more general conversation whatever the gure may be to the among the Delegates The first phase American delegatey but receives borda will begin after President Wilson' ar- from France, Italy, Russia, or whoever rival.

owo ne money. Thus in s single mit- ting the whole readjusment can be tasde on paper.

ANT The Britab delegato now takes his bond home and lodges it at the Bank of England. Smaller notes, in tems, hun dreds, and thousande, ary issued on the security of that bond, and passed inta circulation, all the uations concerned having agreed to accept them as face value as international currency. Interest upon debt, and finally the debt itself, is paid off in this paper which is really money, as our present notes are money! since they are guaranteed by the credit of the whole world, and by a central. sum which will furnish ample geocrity GUARANTEE AGAINST

AGGRESSION

VAGRANTS OR DESERTERS?

Before dir J. R. Wood, V. Rutherford, J. Marginson, Johr Morgan, W. Varocke, A. Setden and T. Reversen, samen from the Belgian s.s. Le Avenir were charged with being yagarta.

It appeared that these men de Bested from the steamer which sailed on Thursday last, The Police, at the request of the Harbour Master, rounded up four of the men, but by that time the steamer had sailed. The other two men also were sub- sequently arrested. They were sent to the French Consul who also acts Constel for Belgium, but he sent them back to the Harbour Master The Harbour Master asked that they be detained until he could com municate with the Consul as to whether they should be charged with desertion or oblerwise, The Consul declined to charge them, and yester day Inspectof Kent again com raunicated with the Harbour Master who informed him that the French Conaul had cabled to Pelding on the trotter but had so far received ro reply: Inspector Kent thought that the best course to adopt would be

to charge defendants with reg

after which he wou

with the G

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Miss Emily-Chariot Lolbar, who was reported to be the richest woman in the kiojdo died as à London residence in Cavendish Square cely on September 1 * the age of 7. She was the eldest daughter of the alar Mr. Christopher Klas Mada-Talbe who represented G'amorganshira in: Parliament for 80 years sad was long the Father of the Bouse, The Talbot family's wealth in de mainly lion tatable colliesy, proj in the Rhonda And Wales valleys The Kirgim estate extends

to 35,000 screen is owced 13,600 acres in the Peainen Ehe liberally to religious mod chari'ahle institution TERA

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This plan does not mean fast Ger many will mape financial retribution. Any proportion of her bonds can be demanded from her at the Eral rend- justment. On the other hand, if the and her Allies have to pay so much into the international exchequer every car it will be a guarantes again,ARBY, Bugression which would forfeit all beñs:"} fis from fais amumnjater wealtheece

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