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DISARMAMENT DECISION.

PARIS, January 25. The conference this morning considered proposals as regards financing Austrian trade and rehabilitating the country! It was decided that the Austrian question was intimately bound to in the economic condition of Central Europe. Therefore the question was referred to the ministers of commerce of Britain, France, Italy, and Belgium for inquiry, especially how to stabilise exchange. Military experts have reached complete accord on the question of disarmament

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THE HASLEWOOD "CASE.

OFFICIAL SUPPRESSION OF

OPINION.

As age advances, memory begins to play nuexpected micks. The China; Me was not, as we thought yester day it was, "the firm to deal with the paving of Lieut. Comtr. Haslewood

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the kaal Government. handled and exceedingly well hand- ed, in the following mates in the Daily Press, to which our attentio

has just been called:\"

A few weeks ago, it will be remem-

It is understood that there is no reason to fear a serious divergence in British and French opinion as regards disarmament. The question onbered, there was a recrudescence cl which British and French military experis do not agree is simply the extent the agiction against. "Chinese slar- of the arms still in the possessing of Germany in contravention to the ery." Letters and interviews" ap- Treaty. The principal diference as regards disarmament is that the British | peared in the papers, and the question believe that this can be made effectual equally safely a few weeks later was discussed from many points of than the French think. It is believed that the longest period suggested to cany out all measures does not extend beyond June.

EASTERN QUESTIONS.

PARIS, January 25. The inter-Albed Conference has decided that an Allied conference in which Greek and Turkish representatives shall participate will shortly assemble in London with a view to reacting a settlement of eastern questions WHY THE DECISION WAS REACHED.

PARIS, January 25, The decision to hold the Near East conference in London was reached | after taking into consideration recent events in Greece and Turkey, notably Constantine's retum, the development of the Kemalist movement, the possibility of a usko between the Turkish Nationalists and the Bolshevists, and the recest Greek military failures in Asia Minor. Lord Curzon mooted the idea and M. Briant eagerly supported it. The coa- ference will probably be held on February 21. The Constantinople Gar- ernment will be free to consult the Mustapha Kemal Government with a view to the composition of the joint Ottoman delegation.

WORLD'S SHIPBUILDING.

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JAPAN'S REMARKABLE STRIDES.

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doubtless many conscientions and hard-working officials utter whilst o their way to the office, and it prob- ably goes up to heaven with greater fervency than usual when changes are anticipated and new tasks bave to be undertaken. In one sense the aspira- tion is pious enough. It becomes in- plous, however, when it predisposes one to shut one's eyes to abuses, or when the suppliant makes up his mind:!} to invoke the powers of the devil in order that his ambition may be grati- Sed at any cest.

LONDON, January 25, Lloyd's Register has issued its annual summary of the world's mercantile shipbuilding which includes only vessels over 100 tons. It shows that the world's production has fallen, sharply from 7,144,000 tons in 1919 to 5,861,000 fons in 1920. The latter figure, however, is still an increase of 2,500,000 tons over 1913, which held the pre-war record. The reportoughly sincere and was willing to discloses the remarkable strides made by Japan, whose total' output was 456,642 tons, nearly equalling the whole setpat a decade before the war. The countries" with the largest outputs were the United States, Japan, Holland and Canada, totalling 3,275,595 tons comprising 86 per cent. of the total output abroad. The total tonnage launched in the Dominions in 1920 was 203,644, or 155,000 less than in 1919. ·..

JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA.

DISCUSSION OF RIGHTS SUCCESSFULLY TERMINATED.

WASHINGTON, January 25,

It is announced here that negotiations between Mr. Shidebara and Mr. Roland Morris regarding the Californian anti-alien land legislation for a definition of the rights of japanese in the United States have been success fully terminated subject to the approval of their respective governments. Mr. Shidchara has submitted his report to the Foreign Office at Tokyo and Mr. Morris has his ready for the consideration of Mr. Colby who is expect ed at Washington from South America on January 27,

TRADE DEPRESSION..

INDUSTRIES IN WALES AND AYRSHIRE REVIVE.

LONDON, Jamary 25.

The succession of announcements of works closing down or going on short time has been pleasantly broken by information that some of the Welsh tin plate works are reopening, while the lace factories in Ayrshire which were working on short time for six months have now resumed full russing.

The lady who was responsible for the most recent outcry against the Chinese custom of buying and selling children may or may not have been ill-advised. I do not, at the moment. wish to enter into a discussion of the I da merits or demerits of the case. know, however, that she was thor-

spend a considerable amount of her cwn money to help to sweep away 2 practice which she regarded as a dis- race to a British Colony. Her argu- ments might have been met fairly and openly, but were

they? Her activities were calculated, it seems." To cause annoyances and disturbances. and I should very much like to know the means adopted to bring them to an end. Later on, my wish may be gratified."

In this case there was no question of an ill-advised discussion in public tending towards the creation of racial; lightened Chinese themselves are not animosity. Some of the more en-

proud of the fact that the conditions under which hundreds of thousands of their own people are forced to live. their parents. lead to the bartering of children by Why, then, should indirect pressure be brought to bear upon enyone who, rightly or wrongly, imagines that good can be dong by ventilating the subject? The lady to whom I have referred was not a fine- She tic; she was merely humane. knew that improvernents, could only the brought about by slow processes, and she endeavoured to enlist the sympathies of certain influential mem bers of both Houses of Parliament, hoping, through them, to secure, es a first step, the registration of all adopted" servants. Nov questions in Parliament are generally regarded by permanent officials as quite u most impertinent. Was any pressure necessary, very unpleasant,' and al~]

brought to bear on the lady's husband, who holds an official position, to m dace his wife to leave things alone? I have a shrewd suspicion on the point and it makes me very indignant. The thought that such abominable misuses of power sometimes do "occur breeds distrust, end that distrust makes in possible the full measure of sympathy The International Miners' Conference, now concluded, passed a between the man in the street" and resolution noting the statement of the German delegates that stocks of the bureaucrat that is essential to the 900,000 tons of coal in the Ruhr region and 300,000 tons in Upper Silesia coming of the millenium. are at present accumulated and could be distributed inland in compliance with the Spa agreement if the transport was available, also noting that there are accumulations of coal in most mining countries and urging that such anomalies should not be allowed to hinder the improvement of tramport and the stabilisation of exchange....

Mr. Houlder, presiding at: the annual meeting of the Boulder Line, believed that when the present depression. was over we might expect some little rebound which would enable business to be resumed and developed with a moderate margin of profit.

MINZES' CONFERENCE.

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LONDON, January 25.

COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE.

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Mr. Davis announces that the Communications Conference will be

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The delicate international situa- tion which was precipitated by the killing by a Japanese soldier in Vladi- vostok of Chief Engineer Langdon of the U.S.S."Albany" has been adjusted, saya Manila Times. Admiral Gleaves, -commanding the Asistic Fleet, who left Manila for Shanghai aboard the the same vessel without completing destroyer Elliott," returned aboard

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