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HANKOW DELAY.
Why the Agreement Was Not Signed.
MR. CHEN'S POINTS.
Statements Which Create "A New Situation."
Hankow, Feb. 15.
Mr. O'Malley stated this morning that Mr. Chen, yesterday made u series of statements partly referring to Sir Austen Chamberlain's. 'speech, partly about the agreement and partly about assurances.
The effect of these statements was to create a new situation.
The agreement was not signed because he thought it necessary! to put the fresh situation before Sir Austen Chamberlain in order to enable the latter to decide what should be done about the agreement. Meanwhile Mr. O'Malley will remain at Hankow to await further instructions-Reyter.
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STILL IN THE DÄRK.
Foreign Secretary Without News,
Rugby, Feb. 15.
Sir Austen Chamberlain was asked her the House of Commons whether the report that negotia- tions at Hankow had broken down was weil-founded.
He replied that he had as yet received no official report to this effect.-British Wireless Service.
NAVAL WIRELESS NEWS.
The Hankow Negotiations In- Abeyance.
The following naval wireless messages were received overnight by the local naval authorities:
Negotiations at Hankow with, Eugene Chen are in abeyance.
The situation there is un- changed.
A Chinese gunboat attempted to search the Italian gunbout Ermanno Carlotta" arriving at Kiukiang from Anking, on the plea of being Russian.
Looting Attempt.
Firing broke out yesterday at Bhasi between two divisions, one of whom attempted to loot the
town.
The situation at Ichang remain quiet but a general labour anti- British strike is threatened if the impossible" demands of godown strikers are not met.
More troops have left Ichang down-river.
states
A Chinkiang message that Northern troops are con- centrating on the Anhui border advancing from Changehow.
TROOPS FOR CHINA..
Major General Duncan At Colombo.
Colombo, Feb. 15.
The "Megantic" has arrived here with the Commander of the Shanghai Defence Force, Major. General Duncan, on board, also Battalions of the Border, Bed- fords, and Hertfordshire's on board. She expected to continue her voyage to China on Feb. 16. -Reuter
Naval Reliefs.
Port Said, Feb. 15.
The cruiser "Dauntless" and the Aircraft Carrier "Argus"
have arrived here.
H.M.S. "Yarmouth" has not teen mentioned as an addition to the China Squadron. According ly, it is presumed that she is coming out with relief crews for the China station of which there are five on the West River and ten on the Yangtse.
Transport
Pecos"-arrived try Shanghai to reinforce the regular naval units already on watch hers and in upriver points.
GRIP OF THE FOG.
Channel Services Entire ly Suspended.
EVEN KINGS MUST WAIT.
"
Rugby, Feb. 15..
NAVAL PARADE.
What Hong Kong Has Missed..
·WEATHER 'TO BLAME.
The inoldment weather this morn-
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TERRIBLE SCENES.
European Earthquake
Horrors
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SEVERAL HUNDREDS KILLED.
Vienna, Feb. 1.
The fog, which has now beset the ing deprived local residents of wit-. English Channel for five successivenessing a rare Naval display, the Latest raports confirm the days was so bad at noon to-day arrangements for a route march of alarming nature of the earth- detachments through the quake. Deaths are estimated at
that all mail and pagsenger services City being cancelled at the eleventh several hundreds, dwa to the cal- PULL-OVERS
between England and the Continent hour were suspended.
Elaborate plans for the event had lapse of a thousand been made in advance, and over Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dal- fourteen hundred blue-jackets and matia. *
Summer
houses in
through the
Reason", we are "offering
all we have left at
Marines were landed at the Naval There has been heavy destruc- Yard and Queen's "Pier shortlytion in Ragusa, Cattaro, Spalato after 9 o'clock this morning.
And Mostar.
The population is panic- atricken...
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The parade was to "have beony commanded by Lt. Comdr. R. B Ramsay, M.V. (H.M.S. "Danae"), whilst six officers from each of the There were very terrible scenes vedbels sending detachments were at Popovopolje where a row of also detailed for duty..
houses was precipitated down the Platoons of blue-jackets were mountain side and the inhabitants landed from the aircraft-carrier perished in the ruins. "Hermes" and from the cruisers
"Frobisher" "Delhi" "Danae," The centre of the disturbance is
Dragon" and "Caradoc."
apparently under sea, and it is The men were in full service kit throwing up large waves which with tin helmets and web'equip-are compelling Dalmatian coast.
dwellers to flee inland.Reuter.
ment. 1
Two bands were to have accom- panied the column, namely the mass-i The King of the Belgians.ed bands of the Royal Marines of
The First News,
London, Feb. 15. the above men-of-war and a massed: There has been considerable "volunteer band" (ke, blue-jackets) loss of life and damage to pro-
In addition to the platoons of
The "Pecos" actually arrived off Shanghai on Wednesday after- noom Her presence here, how- ever, was not announced until' last.§ night. Reports that the marines This is said to be the first time were landed immediately upon for afty years, that fog has obtain their arrival and taken to bared so complete a hold of the Chan-blue-jackets, machine and Lewis perty in an earthquake in Herze
Twelve detalled for govina and Dalmatia. racks at the race course, could nel which to enshrouded from gun sections were not be confirmed from any official coast to coust. Ships not ventur- duty, whilst four field guns-drawn deaths, are reported at Sarajevo source.
have and many were killed at Metkovio, It was said, however, to move are, anchored all over by blue-jackets were to
brought up the rear of the column. Dalmatie. that they expected to be assigned as extra units on the various. American war, craft on and near the China coast and ap the Yangtze.
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British marines, 'with their band, landed again yesterday. morning and paraded to the race grounds for drill It is not known whether they will remain on ahore,
Meanwhile Great Britain con- tinued shipping troops for China, several units being announced to sail as late as Sunday. Locally the situation remains quiet, no. disorders outside of desultory strikes have been reported- "China „Press."
Twenty-Three War Vessels. The following men-of-war are in harbour at Shanghai at the present time:→→→
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The "China Mal understands) Nineteen shocks were recorded MACKINTOSH
that, weather permitting, detach-in the course of twenty minutes. ments of the Royal Marines, some Telephone and telegraph com four hundred strong, will march
through the city to-morrow mornmunication with Herzegovina is ing. No arrangements have yet cut off-Reuter,
been made for holding the parade
of blue-jackets which was cancelled this morning.
COMPANY REPORT.
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FIGHT FOR TOWN,
A COMING BIG CLASH ÎN NICARAGUA,
SAFETY OF AMERICANS:
The report (for the year ended Deci 31, 1926) of the, Hong Kong, "and" Kowloon Wharf" and Godown Co., Ltd., for presentation
Managua, Feb. 15.. to shareholders at the 40th ordin- The rival Liberal and Conser- ary annual meeting to be held "at vative forces are preparing for a "the
omee of Mesare. Jardine, decisive fight for possession of Air traffic la likewise suspended. Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Thursday, Matagalpa, the second most im- The King and Queen of the Bel- February 24, at noon is as fol portant town in Nicaragua. gians had intended to fly from Lon- lows:- don back to Brussels to-day, but The profit on
The American Charge d'Affaires working was they have been unable to make the $754,838.14 A6 compared with has advised, Americans there to (flag-journey either by air or sea, and $932,314.11 in 1925.
barricade cheir houses and await ship), "Carlisle," "Enterprise," will remain here until to-morrow, The balance for the year, after developments. --- Peuter's Ameri- "Scarab,"
and-British-Wireless Service.
deduoting Directors' and Auditors can Service. "Wyvern."
fees, allowing for depreciation, pay? ing for ordinary repairs and a re- tiring bonus to former Accountant, 18 $487,543.12. The brought forward from last year is $331,100,56 making a total of $812.733.68, available for appropria
H.MS. "Hawking"
"Vindictive"
American. U.S.S. "Pittsburgh," (fingahip), "Asheville," "Edsell," "McCor-
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Italian.
"E. Carlotta," "Libia.”
French.
"Jales Michelet" (flagship). "Alerte," "La Grandiere,' "Marne."
Japanese.
"Tone" (flagship) "Ataka," "Kashi," "Katata," "Yanagi."
SOVIET INFLUENCE.
The Hatred of Great
Britain..
Commenting on events at Han-
COMING DOWN. Home Unemployment Again Decreases.
Rugby, Feb. 15. The latest weekly return shows a further decrease of 28,000 in the number of the workless; the total Being now 1,303:500. This is 188,600 more than a year ago. -British Wireless Service.
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Rugby, Feb. 15.
The Postmaster-General states:
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that the number of telephone calls made by the Trans-Atlantic wire- less service since its inaugúration $480,000.00 on January 7 is 888. Forty per $882,733.68 cent, were outgoing from England:
The
Postmaster Genural $812.733.68 nounces that to-morrow the service Directors: The Directors record will become available to and from terests in China, they intend to with much regret, the death of Hon. the American States of Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky, Sir C. P. Chater, Kt., C.M.G. arouse Chinese animosity against
Measrs. A. S. D. Cousland and nessee, North Carolina, South "America and France in that or-Allan Cameron retire according to Carolina and Georgia....
These States, with the others al der (and Japan, also, according as the Articles of Association and be- eventa shape themselves in the ing eligible offer themselves for re-ready admitted to the service, con-
¡election.
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HANKOW LABOUR.
election.
"DEAF" MAN GIVES SHOW
British Wireless Service.
WEATHER FORECAST,
They are leaving for China on
the tender susceptibilities of Rus-Washington is, like London, slow- BEGAN TO TALK. Feb. 16. Reuter.
sian Bolsheviks or Cantonese ly awakening to the fact that London, Feb. 15. Reds, that the hold secured by the what is really at stake is not na- The cruiser "Yarmouth" has Soviet over the Southern Chinese tional Interests, but the prestige
AWAY.
Till noon to-morrow, the official left Portsmouth with 450 naval is far greater than was previous-of the white man. The Grand Old reliefs for the river gunboats inly either believed or admitted. Man of New Zealand, the late Mr.
"You didn't know that you weather forecast for all local dis tricts is: Light N.E. winds, China. Reuter.
This feeling may strengthen the Massey, remarked to me at the were under observation in the freshening; overcast, some drizzle hands of that section of the Imperial Conference of 1923, Jail hospital yesterday, did you? or mist. Cabinet, which considers that the apropos of Turkey, that "there As soon as as you were left alone,
At 11.15 am. to-day, the Ob- time has come to reply to the So-is one thing the white man must you started talking to your next
sarvatory reported :......... viet intrigues and propagandist never do in the Bast, and that is door neighbour," said Mr. B. E. Pressure has increased moder- activities against the British Em-to show the white feather."
Lindsell at the Central Maxia ately over NE, China and S. pira in the only suitable manner,
tracy this morning to a Chinese, Manchuria, and slightly over the by the expulsion of the Soviet
found guilty yesterday of pos Yangtze Valley and at Yap. It Embassy. Incredible though thia
sessing opium and brought before has decreased moderately over may seem, I have ascertained that
the Bench again for sentence.. the Bonins and slightly over the prominent members of the large
It will be recalled that at, yes Loochoos. Elsewhere it le near- Soviet staff in London do not
terday's hearing of the case ly stationary hesitate, when in the company of Reports from up-country state the man was stone deaf and un-8 a.m. to-day barometer 29.88
Sub-Insp. J. Clarke stated that
Meteorological observations at fellow-diplomats other than Bri- that the rush to organise is ex- able to read or write. temperature 62 rainy weather tish, to express their hatred of tending to even suck "white this country, and to emphasise collar" occupations as the teach-sentence of $500 or four months Mr. Lindself having passed that the British Empire is the Ing and medical professions, imprisonment, said that it would While Chang Tso-lin and Wu Soviet's chief enemy and target, In Hankow now there are few stand in abeyance until to-day sa Pei-fu seem to have definitely de- Soviet diplomats in Berlin are workers who are not enrolled in it was necessary that some means roll in the Hull collis
London, Feb. 15 The death cided at last to launch a drive into even more talkative, and while some union or other nearly all of be found for acquainting the ten-Reuter! Hupet province with the ultim- seeking to play on the German's which have presented demands convicted man of the Court's th ate aim of driving the National natural resentiment at his depri- varying in degrees of reasonable sentence. Ists from Hankow, interest locally vation of all extra-territorial news and foreign employers. Upon receiving a certificate last night centred around the fact rights In Chins under the Verhere they have felt that the from the Prison Medical Officer; that the first emergency Amerisailles Treaty, rely boast of clafins were actuated by a genuine his Worship said that the seh- can Protectionary Force 800 how, when they have onco dia.
tence passed yesterday would marines from Manlia in the posed of British prestige and in-
stand.
SHANGHAI DEFENCE.
"Arrival of an American Transport.
Shanghai, Feb. 11.
Unions Want To Take Law Into. Own Handia.
Hankow, Feb. 10.
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