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FORTY LIVES LOST.

Large Ship Has No Time To Alter Course.

* Province Town, Saturday. The United States submarine

NOTE TO CHINA.

Naționalists Repudiated By Soviet.

NOT HARBOURING "REDS."

Shangbai Russian Consulate Preparing To Leave.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

A Note from M. Chicherin,

1916 PROMISE.

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"No Great National Interest Served."

Boston, Nov. 28, Philippine independence and more S4 has been rammed and sunk addressed to the Commissioner of regular relations with Russia were by the coastguard destroyer Foreign Affairs of Kiangsu, was advocated by Manley 0 Hudson, "Paulding" off Woodend.

handed to Mr. Quo Tai-chi yester- Bemis professor of international The S.4 carried four officers day afternoon by the Soviet Con-law at Harvard, in an address be- and 36 men and was attached to sul-General.

fore the Boston branch of the For- The New London Submarine Base. It points out, firstly, that the 'eign Policy Association on "Storm Eye-witnesses say that the Soviet Government never recog- Centres in World Politics." Pro- "Paulding" was entering the har-nised the so-called Nationalist fessor Hudson recently returned bour about sunset when the sub- Government of Nanking and that, from a year of travel and study of marine suddenly came to the sur-all the U.S.S.R. Consulates in Europe, Africa and the Near East face dead ahead of the destroyer, China exist in consequence of the "and Far East. which had no time to change her 1924 Treaty between Russia andĮ "I think that one visiting the Peking All Consular appoint- Philippines for the first time is The vessels crashed and the ments in China are made with the struck by the fact that Americans submarine disappeared.

knowledge and consent of the Pek- have such a small part in the Gov- The "Paulding" reached the ing Government and therefore ernment," he said. "It is mainly harbour with her lower hold flood-cancellation of recognition of Son Filipino Government, but the poli- ed and will probably have to be viet Consuls can only mean that tically-minded people there seems to breached to prevent her sinking. the Generals who seized powers at want it to be wholly so. They talk

The S.4 was of the same class Nanking are acting under im! as the S.51 which sank off Block perialist pressure. Island in September 1925.

course.

None Saved.

Washington, Yesterday.

Not Responsible. Secondly, the Soviet ener- getically repudiates the statement The Navy Department an- contained in the Nanking Note of tounces that none of the crew of the 15th inst., that the Soviet

a great deal about our promise, of Hindependence as soon as they had

established a stable government.

"I was somehow not as much im-|

pressed as I feel that I ought to have been with the superiority of American officials In the islands

40 have been rescued from sub- Consulates commercial agencies over Filipino officials. Among them marine S.4-Reuter's American are responsible for "Red" pro in public life there I met several Service.

puganda and have been the

Filipinos who, judged by the public) Answering Taps.

asylum for Communists, especial- Province Town, Yesterday, ly alleging that the Consulate of men I have seen at international A diver tapped with a hammer Canton was guiding the revolu- conferences during the last 10

do credit to almost) on the side of the sunken sub-tionary movement of the Pea- years, would marine and heard answering taps. sants and Workers in Kwangtung. any country, who would compare Another indication that life Thirdly, the Soviet Government favourably with some of our Con- still exista in S.4 comes from sub-are convinced that the attitude of gressmen. marine S.8 which is in the neigh-the Chinese authorities in Shang- "Nor can I see any great national bourhood of the entombed crew. hai will be more harmful firstly to interest which is served by our re- It believes that it got replies to the Chinese people are the Na- tention of the islands. Some people her submarine signals.-Reuter's tionalist interests in China, while talk about our prestige in the. Paci

the people who so lightly start a fic as if it came from our posses- Internal Rappings?

hostile policy against the U.S.S.R. aion of the Philippines. Provincetown, Yesterday. will first feel the harm thereof. Divers are already exploring M. Kovlovský and his staff are where the S.4 sunk. One reports preparing to leave on the 2st inst. that he heard rappings inside the by a Russian steamer for Vladi- submarine as if somebody was vostock-Reuter. signalling.-Reuter.

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win and the Filipinos will lose." United Press.

Hankow Measures. Six Men Found Alive.

Hankow, Yesterday. Washington, Yesterday. The Navy

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sympathisers might migrate to nounces that six men have been the French Concession has been found alive in the torpedo room of shattered by the fact that the £4, into which air is being pump French policy has been instructed ed. Divers and the entombed to inform all the Russians em-AMERICAN POLITICS. have established communication ployed in Soviet establishments by means of hammer knocks. that they must leave the conces Reuter's American Service.

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In addition to Captain Ferguson and the Greek merchant Paniato- poulos, Arab merchants and several

Tokyo, Saturday." servants and carriers were killed. The newspapers are very in- Capt. Ferguson had travelled to terested in the Chinese National- meet the Nuer chiefs' followers at ists' rupture with the Soviet. a post 400 yards inland and was The "Chugal" considers that discussing business with Paniate this helps to confirm that the So- poulos when a youthful Nuer throw viet policy to redden the world a spear at him.

has failed, but fears, however. The weapon barely broke the skin, that the Soviet baulked in China and Ferguson promptly hurled it may seek more fertile soil. back, but the weapon went wide. Therefore it warna Japan to be The attack, however, was signalls-jon_guard.

entrance to Parliament,

The Governor mobilised the Na- tional Guard to prevent the session of the Legislature until the Courts had decided on the legality of the various aspects of the enquiry.—| Reuter's American Service.

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