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Saturday, June 21, 1930.

Fifth Moon, 25th Day.

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中華民國庚午年五月廿五日| 1345

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1930.

OUR WAR DEBTS,

Britain to Get £5,000,000 from Germany.

EMPIRE'S SHARE.

J

Rugby, Yesterday.

The memorandum on British re-

ceipts from German reparatione

under the Hague Agreements is

issued.

BRITAIN AND KONGMOON NOTES.

THE POPE

LORD STRICKLAND'S

HARMFUL ACTS.

Poverty Drives Peasants to Banditry.

BUTCHERS ON STRIKE.

[From Our Own Correspondent.] Kongmoon, June 19.

The high price of living here has driven many to poverty, and con-

The inemorandum explains VATICAN'S TIRADE sequently piracy and robberies have

that the total annual receipts of the

dally become more common. .The price of rice, for instance, has in-

United Kingdom comprise, firstly, DESIRE FOR CORDIAL creased by 30 per cent during the

་

RELATIONS.

past two months, and charitable bodies are collecting funds to relieve the poor by selling cheap rice,

the share which the United Kingdom is entitled to receive out of the Ger- man annuities prescribed in the experts' report. The plan did not fix the exact amount of the United

Vatican City, Rome, Yesterday. Venting the full flood of its hatred Kingdom share and only fixed the annunities payable to the British upon the British Premier of Malta, Empire

as a whole. But It was a White Book has just been issued understood that the Intention of at the Vatican by order of the Pope, the experts wus

to provide for the in connection with the dispute bewhich neighbours mutually guaran

tee to meet certain expenses. - United Kingdom during a period of tween Great Britain and the Church

Tried To Escape.

required

56 years precisely the annual amount on the religious and political ques-

to make up with tion, receipts

from ούτ

our

allied debts,

the

war

Owing to the Civil War, there are no soldiers: to spare for the sup pression of the bandits, but to pre- vent matters going from bad to worse the Magistrates arn starting a "Tithing Militia" system, ander

In an attempt to avoid Involun- tary military service, a coolie re- cently jumped from a train bound for Kongmoon. He was travelling with a gang of coolles who were to have been sent to Canton by junks. The man received serious injuries from his fall and had to be removed to hospital. He was an employee of a firm at Suncheong.

Butchers Strike. The butchers

the inter- With the Italian' love for

debt metaphors, the White Book at payments to

United tributes to Lord Strickland the States Government, and to provide mentality of Erastus. ("Erastian- an average sum of £2,600,000 during lam," as a by-word, is used to denote a period of 37 years for the rest of the doctrine of the supremacy of the British Empire, this sum re-the State in ecclesiastical causes). presenting approximately the full The document further accuses Lord Strickland of the constant am-

of Kongmoon share which the rest of the Empire bition to destroy the Church of went on strike recently a. would have received on an average Rome's privileged

the against If the German annuities during the sanctioned under the Constitution tax. The trouble atill Arst 37 years had been distributed of Malta. He was the chief cause mains unsettled, and in the mean- in accordance with existing per- of all the religious difficulties and time the ple have been unable to centages.

the present disturbances In Malta. procure ment for two weeks,

Our Debt. To U.S.

position, as

The White Book declares that the

protest

sur-

re-

report of Monseigneur Robinson, PRESIDENT'S PRAISE, who was sent to Malta

+ the Pope

It has been agreed that the Bri- tish Empire share shall be divided between the United Kingdom and the to conduct an impartial enquiry into Rear-Admiral Byrd at rest of the Empire on this basis the matter, was entirely unfavour- The resulting annuities payable to able to Lord Strickland.

It was

the United Kingdom have been com- as a consequence of this report that municated to the bank for interna- Lord Strickland. was declared non tional settlements, These receipts persona grata with the Vatican. represent only the payments speci- fcally provided for in the experts report.

The document reveals that the

"eye witness" account of the dispute published by the Vatican and de- scribed by Ministers of the Imperial Mallese Government as "infamous" and "false," was provided by Monseigneur Robinson himself.

It is emphasised by the White

Secondly, the United Kingdom will receive cash payment of 192,000 reichmarks of £5,000,000 trans ferred by the other creditor Gov- ernments in order to cover the pay- ment of the British debt

to the Book that only some parish priests United States in 1929-30.

announced to the people that it Thirdly, there are annuities pay- would be a "mortal sin" to vote for able for 37 years to the United the Constitutionalist cause. They Kingdom by France, Belgium and were immediately recalled by the Italy under tthe Hague. Protocol of Bishop.

White House.

GOLD MEDAL AWARD.

Washington. Yesterday. Rear Admiral Byrd, the Amari- can Polar explorer, and all the mem- bers of his expedition, were received by President Hoover at White House to-day.

Mr. Hoover congratulated them on their great achievement.

To-night Rear-Admiral Byrd was presented with the Gold Medal of the National Geographical Society.

Router's American Service,

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BANK RATE LOWER.

Chicago Follows Suit of New York.

August 31, 1929. These annuities The Vatican (the document states) were offered by the other creditor is unable to accept an electoral truce, Governments as a partial means of as this would deny to the clergy compensating this country for the their constitutional rights. difference between receipts to which The Holy See desires to maintain we were entitled under the new plaa cordial relations with Great Bri- The Federal Reserve Bank of and the amount which we should tain and hopes that Great Britain Chicago has reduced its re-discount have received if the total German will adopt measures to curb the rate from 4 to 3% per cent-- payments had been distributed in "harmful" activities of Lord Strick- Reuter's American Service...

Chicago, Yesterday,

accordance with the percentages land. The White Book declares Yesterday the Federal Reserve previously in force-British Wire that the Vatican will omit nothing to Bank of New York reduced its rate lesso Service,

restore normality In Malta-Reuter, to 2% per cent.].

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