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January

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1923 E-NATRIXR

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service w the China Mail.),

ON THE RUHR.

FRENCH ATTITUDE STIFFENS.

t

DIFFICULTIES AHEAD.

PARIS, January 10, The Reparations Commission has decided that there— has been a fresh German default, France, Belgium and Italy vating in favour and Britain abstaining.

ATEL.

The Reparations Commission has officially declared defaults by Germany in regard to deliveries of coal timber and cattle.

ESSEN, January 16. The French occupied Dortmund at noon..

PARIS, January 16, The carrying nut of the requisitioning measure previously decid:d upon, began this morning at Esen.

WASHINGTON EXPECTS COMPLICATIONS.

WASHINGTON Janusiy 16. Official circles anticipate that France is likely to be faced with a similar position to the Germinus in Belgiori in wartime, failing to derive oxpected benefits owing to -the refusal of the labourers to work except ander com puleion. Officiale are discussing the possibility of the Germans cutting uff food supplies from the Rube in which event they force very serious complications, the French army of occupation becoming a liability instead of an asset to France,

MILITARY PRESSURE LIKELY, ==

PARIS, January-16.

ROBBIR

AN AMERICA

THE DOLL

ON

CHINESE LABOUR FUN 'BRAZIL PLANTATIONḤ,

Lospos, January 16.

The Times New York correspondent states that American robber manulaotørere ard Bocking to have the Government retaliate against British restriction of the rubber cutpat. The United States Tatif Commissien stated that it was not empowered to act on the theory that Britain was discriminating against American Importers but considers investigation will disclose other defensive possibilities.

* Mr. Harway Firestone, President of a large tyre Company, recently consulted President Hardingin regard to a scheme for, necquiring rubber plantations in Brazil to the worked with imported Chinese labour. Plane bave

essed to a point where the question of supply. ing the labourer with rice is being investigated...

-Repersentatives of British interests who are said to- wenty per cent of the worlds output of rubber ved to confer with American manufacturers. reported that they could arrange to modify the, situation in regard to exports from British colonies.

DEATH SHIP.

1800: PLAQUR STRICKEN PASSENGERS.

Aruess, January 16.

veritable death ship has arrived at Pisons from amon and Constantinople. Of two thousand pass- engers sixteen bandred were stricken with typhus, hillpox and cholera including two doctors out of three, Thirty-dien dead were buried at den and twenty five

The French attitude-has-considembly stiffened in consequence of the German obstructionjeta. There are Bians that the occupation of the Rabe is likely to be comme lesa invisible and less parely efonomic and that German resistanca will meat very visible military pres- sure. There is already talk in the press of taking hadde hodet to be burned in the ablp/c:10) maven among business men and high officials in the occupied territory.

Me

Le Matin foreshadows making the Rubra Bhiqui land buffer state in the event of continued German re calcitrance.

GRAVE TROUBLE-IMPENDING..

ERSEN, January 16.

died in the fiarbour. The Greek health authorities.

The Clovesment has barred the admission of further fages until the epidemica are controlled.

DEBT FUNDING DISCUSSIÓ V,

ANGLO AMERICAN VIEWS DIFFER,

The occupation of Dortmund places the French in

WASHINGTON, Janusty 16. possession of the entire Westphalian mining area. The directora of the mines still decline to execute any in

Anglo-American dibanding negotiations have revegled divergent views relative to the rate of interest structions except those of the German Gɔvajoment. --

The first conversations of the French with reprenadering the British suggestion of a rate of three per and the length of the repayment period, the Americans acatatives of the mineowners and workmen demonstrate cent to low while the British want a longer period of grave difficulties ahead in obtaining the coal requiryi. One director who was intervieved by. Reuter, drow Americans. The soma doubt whether agreement repayment that the ball century proposed by the attention to the large incrents of the Bolshevist element will be reached before the British leave for home on amongst the miners and asserted that if the French

Asterday. accupied the wines the workmen of their own accord, would refuse to work. He added that the output of coal bad diminished by twenty six per cent, since the occupation.

Rasen, January 16.

NO AGREEMENT REACHED. -

WASHINGTON, January 17. Owing to American dissatisfaction with the British terths the Anglo-American debt commissioners failed to reach agreement and adjourned to January 18. In the

Forty German industrial leaders were invited and fifteen turned up at a meeting with the French meantime the British are osbling to London seeking military authorities at which General Simon threatened (pather instructions...

to impose a sanctions courtmartial on industrial workers

unless coal deliveries were resumed to-morrow,

NO: EXPLANATION NEEDED!

FAXIS, January 17.09.

A corcmuniqué lesued by the Reparation Com-

mission declare it is unnecessary in the present case to

OBITUARY,

INDO CHINA'S GOVERNOR.

COLOMBO, January 16.

nek Germany for an explanation because the voluntary: -- Tus death has occurred of M. Maurice Long, nature of her defaults has been clearly established.

A FASCIST MOVEMENT,

BERLIN, January 16.

Political circle aro ¡gofęroadly very alarmed at the development of the Fascist movement in Bouth Bavaria. Their propaganda favours a dictatorship and they are, stated to have been mormonely aided by the occupa tion of the Rub, The Fasciat leader Hitter is credited with endeavouring to effet a general rising. The Frankfurter Zeitung cites the late January 20 for the coup d'etat which Ritter is contemplating.

NEW ORINESE TIRIFI.

COMMENT BY THE TIMES,

LONDON January Times dealing with the force

effective fire pat.cent. Chinese -narmkily the Chinese mai

cotton goods maufactures

position is not maintained at present that British exp Herz.

petition they have met digre the will strengthen the aeivion of which in mctcnt of e

Govertor General of French Tudo Chinn, who was leanded here in November while returning from France, lowing to an albank of favär.".

AMERICAN LADY'S DEATH,

WASHINGTON, January 1636.

Mu Ravid, Jah Hill, wife of the ex-American „Germany, died as the result of injuries motor car accident.

THUANILÈS AND MEMB

TRUCK ARBANGED.

PARIO, January 16.

A message from Memel states that a trace has been cluded with the Lithosniane, operative until the receipt of the Conterance Ambasador's instructions. the monastirak the nential, zone, has been båtween the French and Lithuanian forces.

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