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AWAITING A NEW CHINA

SHIPPING SUBSIDY.

ACTIVITIES OF THE SILVER LINE

AMERICA AND FAR EAST.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, Feb. 10.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

SNOW BOUND.

UNEVIABLE EXPERIENCES

IN NEW YORK

WILD WEATHER AT SEA...

(Router's American Service.)

FIRATES TO DIE

SEQUEL TO THE "TUNGCHOW" OUTRAGE

FOUR DEATH SENTENCES,

(Reuter's Serviss.)

Shanghai, Feb. 10... The French Mixed Court has pronounced sentence on the eight Chinese who were charged with having taken part in the piracy of the C. N. s.s. "Tungchow" at the end of last year.

Four of the men were sentenced

New York Feb. 10.. In the House of Lords, Baron: The city is snow-bound, the snow Farmoor drew attention to the being a foot deep in some plases. British subaidy under the Trade A thin string of motor vehicles is Facilities Act to the Silver Eina. only able to crawl at a snail's pace Ho sald that its ships were un along the roads, whilst pedestrians doubtedly employed in the trade beare walking in single file along the tween America and Singapore pavements between the banks of to death, (Straits Settlements There was now Ave feet high. Many of the The remaining four were hand- main roads outside the city are fed over to be dealt with by the closed to, traffic, Trains, on the Chinese authorities and putlawed Eastern States Railway are hours from the Conasseiom lato

a very large carrying trade in the four British lines between these points, besides Japanese ships and shipa subsidised by the American Government, and at present there was more than the necessary ship ping accommodation.

Gangs of unemployed are trying to sear the show, which continues to falk

A BRITISH HERO.

It will be recalled that there eight men wore arrested on board the ON s.s. "Soochow "on in formation received by the French police that members of the gang

Boon to Shipbuilding..

Wild weather prevails at sea, but Earl Plymouth, in replying, said only one wreck has so far been re-were returning to Shanghai to com” that the Silver Line was given aported, a schooner being driver on mit another atrocious, crime. Four loan of £117,000 of which the the rocks of the Massachusetts of them were identified in Court by British Government guaranteed the const, when several of "the crew, Mr. Nisbet frst officer of the principal and interest. The loan was were drowned. granted upon the condition that almost the whole proceeds must be utilised in building, the necessary ships in the United Kingdom for aervice between New York and the Far East. The orders had formed a great boon to shipbuilding yards.

He pointed out that there a divergence between shipping and the shipbuilding industry's inter- ests, but the authorities who

wax

MEDAL FOR "BRAVEST DEED OF THE YEAR”

"Tungchow?" and Mr. Scott, the second officer. Several of the pan sengers in Tientsin, to whom photographs of the prisoners were sent, also recognised accused. Their evidence, sent by post, was accepted by the Court:

The prisoners" defence was complete donih" that, they were on board the pirated vessel. Four of them pleaded that they were, in Walchow at the time. Those who put forward this plea declared that they had been officers in the anti- Bolshevik forces and had been re-

.(British Wireless Service.)

Rugby, Feb. 10, The Stanhope Gold Medal award feeling. Were there a stable Gov- granted the guarantee had carefuled by the Royal Humane Society ernment in China the present pro-ly considered the effect of such for the "bravest deed of the year, blems would be easier of solution. upon shipping: The Government has been given for 1826 to duced to poverty.

did not consider that these new Grimsby fisherman, named Duncan ships were Ekely to Interfere with Britlah. vessels!!

GOLD SALVAGE

DIVERS WORK ON WRECKED

LINERS

Souter

M. du Fac de Marsoulies, who There is too much war, and too

with Mr. A. E. Seddon. prosecuted many taxes to pay for war. As

He is a member of the crew of Mr. Strawn but it, "the solicitude

the steam trawler "Honoria" on behalf of the "Tunguhow

owners, the China Navigation Co... which was engaged in fishing after describing the piracy said of the other nations is that the

miles off Iceland fu half a gale that four of the men had been tariff shall not be so high as to

with heavy cross seas running Identified by two of the officers and produce, no revenue, and that the

The mate was washed overboard, several passengers. In the case of and was soon fur astern of the the other four they had an alibi. revenue thus produced shall not

(British Wireless Service,): vessel. He failed to reach the life yet they all returned to Shanghal te dissipated by the war lords in

Rugby, Feb. 10.. buoy, and Souter plunged over in the same vessel and embarked at futile and sanguinary, wars." All An interesting statement was board. reached the lifebuoy, swam the same place. Walchow, from of which brings us back to the old made in the House of Commons with it to his unconscious mate, which four came, was well known. and oft-repeated saying that the by M F C C Davidson, Parlia- and supported him until the vessel to the Court as a nest of pirates. easiest, surest, and most rapid mentary Under-Secretary to the manoeuvred into a position from nearly five which it was possible to throw a Admiralty, that

way for China to embark truly prosperous era is by ridding herself of the incubus militarism and all other evils tendant thereon,

on a millions sterling of gold have keenline, by which both men wore even- first recovered by Admiralty divers tually got on board.

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from the wreck of the White Star The Captain states that if the of liner Laurentic, which was for arst attempt to throw the line had at-pedoed by a German submarine-off been unsuccessful it would have

the west coast of Ireland in 1917

been impossible, owing to the wind The exact value of the gold was and heavy seas, for a second £4,968,000, and the cost of salvage attempt to have been in a position EMPIRE OVERSEAS. was £135,000 This included a to effect a rescue. Extreme risk It is, declares a writer in the bonus of 16,789 paid to the afficers waa incurred, it being impossible

and men, who had carried out this to launch a boat. Contemporary Review, no extra-trak without loss of Kig for vagant dream to visualise the material, Commonwealth as being at some

SERVICES.

CAIRO TO KARÁCHI ROUTE.

future day, the centre of power of NEW AIR On a former occasion the oppor- the British Empire...... No such area of land in the history of the tunity was taken in this paper toworld has ever been held by a single out for comment some group of people united by blood pertinent utterances by Mr. Silas ties, and by domestic and national H. Strawn, the American delegate deals, and among whom there has never been any real discord

BAL BOARD OF TRADE,

LAST MONTH'S EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.

(Reuter's Heroica;)

y

London, Feb. 10. The Board of Trade returns for January are as under-

Imports

Exporta

Re-exports:

£118,000,000

£60,000,000

£12,000,000

The figures for January 1925,

were

Importa Exporta

Ra exports

$129,000,000 £69,000,000 #13,000,000

SILK IMPORTS.

RUSH TO EVADE THE NEW DUTIES:

NO REPETITION.

(Reuter's Service.)

HAGUE'S PNG.

A MONTH'S COMPULSORY LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

....

(Reuter's Servios.)

Amsterdam, Feb. 10. The Postmaster-General at The Hague has been granted a month's

re-

compulsory leave of absence owing apparently to dissensions as gards internal administration with" the responsible Minister..

The administration of the I

"Da partment meantime Has been en- trusted to a directorium consisting of three permanent Departmental 'heads:

BULGAR LOAN.

NO APPROACH MADE TO BRITAIN.

(British Wireless Service.)

Rugby, Feb. 10,

In the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary (Sir Austen Chamberlain) was asked whether any approaches had been made to this country by the new Bulgarian Government with regard to a loan? He replied that no such apˆ proaches had been made.. CAPITAL FOR ITALY.

TO HELP HYDRO-ELECTRICAL ENTERPRISES.

(Reuter's Service.).

Ametordam, Feb. 10. Sir Sefton Brancker has passed to the Conferences on Tariff and.....To this group of people-through The Hague on his return Extraterritoriality utterances small in numbers when they from Sweden. In an interview he that rise far above the popular of the Commonwealth are taken explained the detalle of the pro- into consideration numbere are posed Cairo-Karachi air route, add- conception of representative to be added. No "hangers-on," ing that the service from Karachi American opinions on Chinese but stock of the right sort with to Rangoon would be undertaken topics. Less than a month ago training to equip them for the by the Government of India.

vast possibilities to be found in Str S. Branckar also discussed Mr. Strawn delivered a striking Australia. The Prince of Wales' with Mr. Plesman manager of the address, to the students of Taing activities since be returned from Dutch Aerial Navigation Company, Hua College, Peking, in the course his last tour, are not without the possibility of running a BRE- of which he spoke with the en- significance. Following on his vice from Singapore to Australia gaging frankness characteristic stirring appeal for sojourners. in via the Dutch East Indies which, different parts of the Empire, however, would be conditional on of his countrymen, His words

came the announcement of the the result of negotiations with the formed excellent propaganda establishment of a big Agricul Dutch and Dutch East Indies Gov material in every sense of the tural College- somewhat on the ernments, term. He told his hearers, for in-lines of the Hawkesbury College of Australia, to be directed by a

London, Feb. 10. stance, that he has "thus far seen farmer head of that institution

The rush of imports of silk; no convincing evidence that where young men are to be train

goods last year after the impend- China's present-day troubles are ed for life "down under." The

been announced in the Budget in any degree sttributable to the Prince, we are told, "is taking a

TOUR.ing imposition of the new tax had keen interest in emigration." He so-called unequal Treaties or to has visited the training centre re-

was the apparent reason for a means are virtually concluded with question put by Sir Frederick 4 group of American bankers for the Imperialistic attitude of the ferred to and made himself

Wise (Conservative, Iford) in the issue of a lean of twenty foreign Powers On the con- thoroughly acquainted with the

the House of Commons as to whe-million dollara, to the Italian course of instinction to be given. (British Wireless Service) trary, Mr. Strawn stated that The Prince's interest in this in-

Rugby Feb. 10:ther such action would in future Credit Institute for the develop ment of hydro-electrical enter the evidence seems to be over-portant matter foreshadows an

The arrival in London yesterday be circumvented. whelming that the troubles of intensive campaign-not merely of Major and Mrs Courtirent, The Prime Minister, Mr. Star Frises in Italy The bonds will

than

in the interest of the Dominions who recently completed the key Baldwin, in replying said: probably bear interest at the rate China are internal rather

concerned and vast numbers of journey from Cape Town to Cairo "When the time comes it will be of seven per cent. that external and

unequal

young men but in the interests in Crossley motor-cars, was the found that we have not overlooked Treaties, extraterritoriality, tariff of the Empire itself. The policy occasion of a demonstration of the important matter of dump autonomy and Imperialism are of a "white" Australia has been welcome at the Royal Automobile|ing."

but it is Club. political slogans which are availed rigorously maintained. of by the agitators to excite the people of China into a frenzy of criticism and unrest?

Tactfully, Mr. Strawn proceeded to wain the students against accepting any of these slogans without a most careful study of the facts, and next referred to the part that America is prepared to play, quoting the U.S. Secretary of State's Note to the Chin Foreign Office on September 1925, which expr

assist China to realise her tion, but emprANT

of giving.coner

Ching's ablity and enforce respect far. foreign lives and suppress disorders: forele agitation wh

Later Sir S. Brancker sailed from Rotterdam for America, where he' hopes incidentally to meet Folker, the famous airman. AFRICAN CAR

JOURNEY OF SIXTEEN

INAR MONTHS.

pen to question how long such a The expedition, which started in policy can be maintained if Autumn, 1924, took sixteen months aggressive measures are not taken to complete, and it is the first time to people the place with British that the journey has been made by People: The Prince's interest motor

will be found to be catching and Although many adventures are the good that will result will prove recorded by the tourists, and in again that HRH like this illus, some parts Mrs. Courttrent was the trations grandfather, is Britain's first white woman to enter them, best ambassador. A thriving Aug 20. great difficulties were encoun- tralia is not merely desirable intered during the journey; and, the Interest of Australia itselt, apart from being on one occasion There is a growing trade between submerged in a river, there were China and Australia, in which no insuperable mechanical troubles. Hongkong takes a not to be jdly passed over, Australia low produces cotton and of been famous for

abou

Aside from being president of the Empress of Scotlan ern Star club, Mra, Edith

attle

RUM RUNNING,

SPAIN COMES INTO LINE SAVE:WITHS TREATY, Z

(Reutera American Service.)

Washington, Feb. 10,

(Reuter's American Service,)

New York, Feb. 10 It is understood that arrange-

ORGAN CONCERT.

The fourth of the series of cone, certs in aid of St. John's Cathedral Orfan Land afforded another treat to the many who attended. Regret at the absence Smith war feit but tions of Mrs. Davies for her, were excellently

The compositions of Graig,

A Treaty with Spain to prevent Scott, John Irela liquor smuggling has been aigued Baca-Gounod, by Mr. Frank A. Kellogg, Secretary Carey figured In of State, and the Spanish Arabas- towards adorn It is similar to the Treaties artistes with Great Britain, Italy, and Bowes-Smith

Mathieson, other countries.

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