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No. 18.930. 二拜亞 騶七十月七年三十二百九十
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SINGAPORE AND WASHINGTON..
PACIFIC STATUS QUO.
BASE NOT A CARD UP OUR SLEEVE. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, July 16.
In the House of Commons replying to Mr, G. Lambert and Capt. Wedgwood Bonn, Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery, First Lord of the Admiralty, said it was clearly understood by all the delegates at the Washington Conference last year that Britain was
retaining full free
Col T/C Amery
CONFERENCE IN DIFFICULTIES.
AWKWARD CONCESSIONS,
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.).
LAUSANNE, July 17.. of the Allied naval forces, the conference is finding Baaides the Turkish demand for the withdrawal
difficulties with regard to concessions, concerning which the French assert America has intervened. The French have protested against the recognition
the treaty of some pre-war concessions, which were not absolutely legally accomplished when the war broke out, notably the railway regie and the Turkish Petroleum Company.
dom of action regarding Singa- pore. There was no discussion of any particular arrange- ments 'wo of any
The Turks admit that the Chester concession other of the Powers prejudices the perferential rights of these conces concernedcontem- sions. They say this is unavoidable, as the Angora plated at the naval Assembly has approved the Chester concession. The bases outside. the zone explicitly de-
new Turkey wants to abolish all preference. fined in the agree- ment.
the
The Cabinet first approved the pro posals for Singapore base in June of 1921, there was no reason why the details of the extra facilities we were going to est ablish there should have been com- municated to) Washington. (Loud Ministerial Cheers.)
Protests were evoked by the suggestion by Capt. Benn that we had our hands to a document purport- ing to maintain the status quo while keeping a card up our sleeves.
In this connection it is pointed out that the Chester concession bristles with options and it is asked why should options be granted to one group and refused to another.
LAUSANNE, July 16.
While the concessions question has not yet been settled, it appears that an understanding has been reached regarding the evacuation difficulty, under which the three inviting Powers will retain one cruiser each in Turkish waters, instead of two,
pending ratification,
THOSE RUHR "PLEDGES,”
PRESSURE BEING INCREASED.
FRONTIER BLOCKADE.
LONDON, July 16.
Mr. Amery repudiated this as a gross libel.mination to maintain the pressure in the Ruhr is The latest sign of French and Belgian deter- (Loud Ministerial cheers.) He emphasised that the reported in a message from Cologne, where the Washington agreement in nowise limited the par drastic prohibition of all ordinary passenger traffic ticipants as regards the building of other than capital across the frontier of occupied Germany has been ships or the improvements of dockyards in the summarily extended to July 26, causing the utmost Pacific or other waters. None of the Powers had consteration among thousands awaiting the expiras sent any communications to each other as regards tion of the blockade to cross the cordon. any of these matters.
HOME DOCKERS' STRIKE.
IRELAND NOW INVOLVED.
LONDON, July 16. 'The strike of docker's has spread to Ireland. The dockers at Dublin and Cork have struck against the reduction in wages of 2s. a day. Many vessels have been held up.
The mea are dissatisfied with the method of calculating the cost of living figure, by the fall of which reductions in wages are determined. The leaders point out that the agreement signed in September last making wages dependent on the cost of living must be upheld. They point out that the men will benefit when the cost of living rises.]
COUNTY CRICKET.
LATEST RESULTS.
LONDON, July 16. Derbyshire, at Chesterfield, lost to Somerset by 61 runs. Horsley obtained 5 wickets for 40 runs and s' for 45-
At Maidstone Kent defeated Leicestershire by eight wickets. Woolley (F.E.) scored 136 not out in Kent's first innings.
Warwickshire lost to the West Indies' team by nine wickets at Birmingham.
HUGE BRONZE EAGLE.
FITTING AIR FORCE MEMORIAL.
LONDON, July 16,
The Prince of Wales unveiled a memorial on the Thames Embankment to officers and men of the Air Forces of the Empire who fell in the war,
The memorial is in the form of a huge bronze eagle, poised for flight and looking towards France, The eagle's claws are embedded in a globe, belted with signs of the Zodiac.
The top of the pylon, made of Portland stone, is 55 feet high.
REACTION LEADER'S ESCAPE.
GERMAN PRINCESS ARRESTED.
[Drastic measures were imposed by the Inter Allied Rhineland Commission. Germans were- forbidden for a fortnight to cross the frontier between occupied and unoccupied Germany except, in connection with the food supply or for strong family reasons
BRITAIN'S NOTE
• LONDON, July 16. In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Mr. Stanley Baldwin stated that the draft of the British reply to Germany would be communicated to the United States.
MOTOR GLIDERS.
100,000-FRANC RACE FEAT.
STIFF CONDITIONS.
PARIS, July 15.
The Grand Prix for motor gliders was won by Coupet who covered 310 kilometres in 4 hours, 47 minutes and 9 seconds. He was the only competi-. tor out of seven starters to finish;
up owing to engine trouble.
Barbot, when leading at the 28th lap, had to give
The prize was 100,000 francs. Barbot. was awarded the second prize of 20,000 francs..
Tre machines had to fly a 10-kilometre circuit than 250 kilogrammes and had to cover a minimum thirty times. Each machine had to weigh not more of 500 kilometres, with only twenty kilogrammes fuel and lubricants. Also it had to rise to a height of 500 metres within half an hour.
IRISH REPUBLICAN ENVOYS.
DEPORTED FROM AUSTRALIA.
SYDNEY, July 16, The Irish Republican envoys O'Kelly O'Flan- nagan have been deported. They sailed aboard the "Mongolia."
nagan and Father O'Kelly who had been pro [The Irish Republican envoys, Father O'Flan- pagandising in Australia were arrested on April 30, on a charge of unlawfully engdging in a seditious charge but were ordered to be deported, meanwhile enterprise. They were discharged on the sedition remaining in custody.]
GERMAN CONSUL GENERAL
AUSTRALIA'S 'ARRANGEMENT.
BERLIN, July 16-
MELBOURNE, July 10 Princess Hohenlohe Ochringen has been arrest-
The Prime Minister, Mr. S. M. Bruce has ed at Munich in connection with Herr Ehrhardt's announced that following negotiations with the escape,
Imperial Government, the Commonwealth has Herr Erhardt, the leader of the Monarchist agreed to the appointment of Dr. Busing as German Naval Brigade, which was prominent during the other Pacifle island not specified, Dr. Busing will Consul-Goneral for Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Kapp rebellion, has escaped from prison in Leipzig have his headquarters in Sydney. where he was undergoing trial. A reward of 25,000,000 marks has been offered for his capture}
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