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Temperature 76 Barometer 29.64

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RC 1,162.

三拜金 藝六十月四年四十二百九千一英

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1924.

We have received a shipment of GENUINE

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日三十月三子甲大年三十國興華中

GREAT EARTHQUAKE SHOCK MYSTERY.

VIOLENT DISTURBANCE SOMEWHERE

WAS IT UNDER THE SEA ?

SHOCKS LASTING OVER FOUR HOURS.

; INTENSITY RECALLS JAPAN DISASTER.

(Reuter's General Service:)

LONDON, April 15. Observatories in Belgium, Italy and Egypt recorded yesterday afternoon a violent earthquake shock over 6,000 miles distant,

The instruments at Faenza observatory vibrated for over four hours and the observatory at Heluan described the shock as equal in intensity to the Japanese earthquake in September..

[Faenza, the ancient Faventia, is a city in laly on the Via Emilia Faenza which is enclosed by walls and has given the name fayence to a peculiar kind of earthenware manufactured there. Heluan is on the right bank of the Nile, opposite the nins of Memphis, 14 miles from Cairo, Here are muted warm sulphur springs and saline waters]

the frequency of earthquakes, from which nearly all the public buildings bear marks of injury. Santiago de Chile has a cathedral, a university and many colleges. Convents are numerous and splendid. In 1883 the church of La Compania was burnt by accident and 2,000 persons, mostly women, perished in the flames. Santiago de Chile was founded in 1541 by Pedro de Valdivia. The population now sumbers 587,000 people.)

UNDER THE SEA)

SANTIAGO DE CHILE, April 15. Reports of an earthquake in Chile are baseless.. The Chilean legation in London is in regular com- munication with Santiago and hopeshable saithe) quake recorded throughout the word endal sea.

VICTORIA (BRITISH COLUMBIA) April 15. Officials of the Dominion Observatory, were mystified yesterday by a series of very intense seismographic shocks lasting for four hours.

The superintendent of the observatory estimates that the centre of the disturbance was about 150,000 miles from Victoria-probably in the vicinity of the North Aleutian Islands or Alaska.

The Aleutian Islands are a chain of treeless, grassy and mostly mountainous isles with numerous volcanic peaks, stretching about 1650 miles, West from the narrow peninsular of Alaska, and be

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FALSE ALARM.

BUENOS AIRES, April 5. There was an earthquake at Santiago de Chile at 5.35 yeterday afternoon. The casualties and damage are so far unknown.

[Santiago de Chile is the capital city of Chile, situated aniidst a group of hills in a large and fertile plain. The rock of Santa Lucia rises up in the middle of the town and forms a charming park The houses are mostly of one storey, but they are substantially built, in wide streets, on account of

TALK OF WAR.

TROTZKY'S MILITANT MOOD.

|longing to the United States. The principal islands of the group are Unimak and Unalaska, the most westerly Attu. The climate is humid and stormy, but free from extremes, the temperature rarely falling below zero or rising above 75 degrees. The inhabitants are mainly Aleuts, a people allied to the Eskimo. They live chiefly by fishing. They have been partly civilised under Russian rule, and are adherents of the Greek Church. Fur-traders visit the islands for the capture of the seal, sea- otter, and Arctic fox. The population is about 8,000.]

BEGIN AT ONCE

BRITAIN'S REPARATIONS HASTE,

ADOPTING THE REPORTS,

LONDON, April 15.

Mr. MacDonald stressed the statement in the Dawes Committee report that it is an indivisible whole and that the signatories renounced all responsibility if certain of their recommendations were adopted and others rejected.

POSITION STILL STRAINED.

MOSCOW, April 15

In the House of Commons, Mr. MacDonald, Trotzky in a speech at Tiflis on April 11, denied dealing with the reparation experts' reports sald the report in the local press that he was opposed to the Mr. Government attached so much importance war at all costs over the Bessarabian question... 10 the agreed recommendations which could be He said the brought into immediate operation, that it wras situation between prepared to support the scheme in its entirety, Russia and provided at the other parties concerned were Rumania, in that willing to take the same course. The Government regard was ab-had already communicated that view to the United governments concerned, including the normal...

Poland and States. France stood be. hind Rúmanii.

"France is deve loping a madcam paign against us in

Mr. Stanley Baldwin declared that Mr. Poland and trying to drive us to MacDonald would have the united support, of the quarrel with British people in his attitude. (Cheers.) Turkey."

Mr. Wise asked whether the pact fixing Headdo-dGermany's full liability at £6,600,000,000 still stood. "The MacDonald

Mr. MacDonald replied that he was fully aware Cabinet has ab the report only made provision forsiryears beyond solutely no prin- which certain machinery continued to operate for ciples. Neverthe-an unlimited perlod, but if all the governments. less the sucess of agreed to put the reports into execution, the total amount to be paid by Germany would be a matter of arrangement.

GERMANY ALSO, READY.

BERLIN, April 15: The Cabinet has decided to accept the experts' report as a basis of negotiations and to inform the Reparations Commission accordingly.

An earlier cable stated that the Belgian Cabinet considers the report of the Reparations experts' committee constitutes a meful basis for an equitable and practical settlement.]

INMEDIATE, RESULTS.

PARIS April 15. The protocol prolonging the agreements between the Control Mission and the Ruhr in dustrialists states that the Reparations Commis

ions approval of the experts' report has opened the way to a reparations settlement and is likely to facilitate the opening of credita in favour of the Rheno-Westphalian collieries. Therefore the agreement has been prolonged until a general settlement of reparations and until June 15 at the

TROTZKY.

"the Anglo-Russlan conference would strengthen its position."

He concluded by saying that the Bolsheviks had not changed since the night of October 25, 1917.

Moscow, April 1. [This refers to the formation of the first Bolshevik military committee |

On April 14 the committees of the National Democratic and Menshevik parties at Tiflls were arrested.

LONDON, ENVOYS.

LONDON, April 5 The Anglo-Soviet conference met the Foreign Office at three in the afternoon and ad- journed at 3.45. It will meet again to-morrow after

noon.

A communiqué states that the subject of the treatles between Britain and the former Russian Empire was raised and referred to a sub-commitee for a preliminary examination, and

!!

The Home newspapers generally con- latest. gratulate Mr. MacDonald upon his firm yet tactful speech at the opening of the Anglo-Russian Con- laclined to question Russian motives. Liberal ference. Conservative", "vorgans aro explical organs, cordially welcome the conference, i and of the success of the conference, and are approve. Mr. MacDonald's policy |

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