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CHINA TARIFFS.
Customs I. G. At Shanghai.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Important North and South Negotiations Pending,
Peking, Yesterday.
Contrary to the Japanese re-
U.S. MERCHANTMEN. LATE EARL HAIG.
Government Controlled
Fleet.
PRESIDENT DISAPPROVES..
A 15-Year Programme. To Cost
$250,000,000¿AL CHAMA NE
To Be Buried In Scotland.
NO ST. PAUL'S SERVICE.
His Own Wish To Lie On Bemersyde Estate.
Washington, Yesterday..
London, Yesterday. The Senate by 53 votes to. 31 Although the Dean of St. ports Sir Miles Lampson's trip to has passed the socalled "Jones Paul's had accepted the Govern South China is not connected with Bill" which iFrésident; Coolidgement's request for the burial of the tariff question.
opposes providing for the build- Ear! Haig in St. Paul's, it was an- Reuter learns on most reliable ing up of a Government-controlled nounced later, that Ear! Haig's authority that there is no ques-merchant fleet through a. 16-year own wish was to be buried on his tion of a resumption of the Inter- replacement programme totalling Scottish estate at Bemersyde. national Tariff Conference $250,000,000,- Reuter's Ameri-There will be no service at St. and that the Peking Government can Service.
Paul's-Reuter.
America Sends Condolences.
London, Yesterday.
will not appoint Mr. A. H. F. Edwardes Inspector-General, at
least until after his return from NORTH CHINA WAR.
the South.
Mr. Kellogg has telegraphed to Sir A. Chamberlain his con-
Mr. Edwardes informed Reuter (Continued from Page 1.)dolences at the death of Earl that he would discuss. various
Haig saying that Americans are tariff questions with the South on their Soviet masters, which grateful in their recollections of the basis of the proposals he had usually have been traceable to the splendid spirit of unity be made last August. Naturally, Mukden or Harbin. Lately, the tween Haig's forces and the the details could not be divulged interruption of the telegraph American troops in war time. in advance.
traffic from Peking to Siberia by Sir A. Chamberlain, in reply, Important developments are the Mongols. at Ürga, without refers to the irreparable logs expected in Shanghai in view of any ascertainable reason, has sustained by the Bitish Empire the fact that in addition to the greatly stimulated surmise, but and says the British people join| visit of Mr. Edwardes, Messrs. reliable news is lacking.
the Americans, in commemorat- Mead and McLorn, who are pro- Paper Army Shown Up.. |ing the splendid spirit of unity of minent in the Sait Gabelle and The results of the Ankuochun the Anglo-American forces in Post Office, respectively, are both New Year conference here either war time and pray that no shadow in Shanghai negotiating with the were unimportant or very secret, of difference will ever darken South with the consent of the for it is denied that General Chang Anglo-American North, while the French Minis-Tsung-chang's position was dis- Reuter. ter, M. Martel, is at present be
lieved to be in Nanking.-Reuter.
The Other Version. The "Japanese reports" men- tioned above probably mean the following:-
Peking, Jan. 27.
The question. of officially ap pointing Mr. Edwardes,, acting Inspector-General still is undecid- ed. Mr. Edwardes, it is reported, will leave here for Shanghai with~| in a few days, in order to nego- tiate a thorough understanding) with the Nanking authorities con- cerning the maintenace of the original system of the Chinesee Maritime Customs, "It also is said that, taking this opportunity, Mr. Edwardes privately will make arrangements with the Nan- ing authorities for the re-conven- tion of the Customs Conference Toho.
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THADI ENVOYS ONLY.
Ottawa, Yesterday. Mr. Bennett, in his first extend
friendship.
Condolences.
London, Yesterday.
The French Government has appointed Marshals Foch and Petain to represent it at the pub- lic military funeral.
M. De Fleuriau, the French Ambassador in London, will per sonally represent. President Doumergue. The Belgian Govern- ment has also appointed a mis- sion to attend.
M. Jaspar, the Belgian Premier, has telegraphed to Mr. Baldwin: Deeply moved by death of Earl Haig, I beg your Excellency to accept my sincere condolences. The loss of the illustrious Marshal affects not only the British Em- pire. It is felt keenly by all my Nationalist Wa-Han army.
General Cheng Chien of the compatriots who treasure the is expected to join the break rendered by him to our common He memory of incomparable services away from Chiang Kai-ekek.cause." Last march he was in control at
Nanking when the anti-foreign offering his sincere thanks and The British Premier replied outrages were committed.
adding: "My countrymen will cussed. The public are incredul-value highly the sympathy of ous,, since it is widely known that their ally and the generous tri- his position in Shantung is almost bute which your Excellency pays to the services of the late Field untenable, while the retention of
Marshal." the province depends solely on Marshal Sun Chuan-fang.
Prior to the New Year, General There has been to-day a re Chang Tsung-chang's front line markable demand for wreaths of troops refused to consider further Flanders' Poppies from the fac
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800 Russians Sacked. Six thousand useless men were disbanded, with $6 each and a Mr. Bennett particularly objected suit of civilian clothes, also 200 to the proposed appointment of a Russian officers and men. The Minister to Tokyo and dwelt on men retained received $3 each, the decrease in Chandian exports, irrespective of the pay due to the dirainution of the earnings of them. The larger share of the railways and the continued exodus Shantung revenues already goes of population to the United States. to Sun Chuan-fang's army, which He pointed out that while immi- is well paid and equipped.. grants in 1925 froin Britain number Large bodies of General Chu ed 59,000 and from the Continent Yu-pu's troops have been with the Second Suffolke, Municipal 8,000, the figures for 1926 were drawn to the Taming area, yla the Volunteers and Police furnished 49,000 and 78,000, respectively. Wei River and the Grand Canal Churds of Honour while hundreds of He urged parliamentary investi: and to the Tientsin-Pukow Rail-Chinese and foreign prominent per- gation.
Mr. Muckonie King, the Premier, son is unknown, unless the Kuo- and cheered while General Dunean way north of Tsinanfu. The reasons personully bade him farewell in the course of his reply said that minchun occupation of the north ambarked on a Navy launch for the Canada's favourable trade balance bank of the Yellow River below Malwa,Heuter.
was $151,000,000 and was still the Taming has prompted the substi largest of any country in the world. tution of Sun Chuan-fang's forces The Commons adjourned early to there also.-N. C. Daily News." attend the Speaker's reception in honour of President Cosgrave, whom the Government afterwards invited to, a dinner.-Reuter.
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