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MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL.

AMERICAN FAMILY BRITISH RULE IN

CIRCLE.

INDIA.

IS MALAYA RUMBLING?

in Japan.

Relations of U.S. with Strange Misconceptions Mr. Roland Braddell's,

Latin America.

Washington, Dec. 21. In Japan, the most extraordinary British The United States Government miscnceptions regarding during 1980 gave frequent indica-rule in India are rife, while false Lions of ita derire to enjoy the gond assertions cirentate freely and gain the Tokyo will of the Latin, American republics ready credence, writes

Morning and to avoid any unwarranted in correspondent of the terference in their affairs.

Post.

Rotary Speech,

In a leading article upon Mr. Braddell's Rotary speech, the Malay Mail makes the following reference to "ominous rumblings."

"It Is impossible within the limits of a single leading article to deal even briefly with all- of the

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

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Social Functions.

To-day Ten Dance at Kong Hotel.

Tonight Dinner Dances At Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels. Entertainments. To-night-Theatre Royal, "West-instructions to sell by Public

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

Queen's Theatr Auction,

*Theatre

Theatre;

Although nearly one half of the Recently, for example, one of the American republies underwent se-lending papers in Tokyo has strong- vere politient or economic crisis asly censured the British Government points raised even in the few ex-minster Glee Singers."

To-day the result of depressed world nmr-for "refusing" to let any Indian cerpts from Mr. Braddell's speech

"Call of the Flesh." the kets for agriculture and minerat Congressmen attend Round-that we have reproduced, and wo

To-day

Central while another. products, the United States in every Table Conference,

therefore propose

to comment "Mamba.” case carefully avoided political in-though less reputable, journal

upon them later on. For the Today Majestic volvement in the international af-editorially asserted that "British

day, let us first consider the "His First Command." fairs of any other country.

soldiers are ruthlessly shooting "ominous rumblings" in the To-day-World Theatre. The outstanding, feature of down defenceless Indian, crowds Federated Malay States. Does Mr. "Love and Duty" (Chinese drama). United States international political without mercy."

Braddell refer to the prosecutions To-day

Star T'heatre. policy during the year was the To imagine from this that Japan, of a few irresponsible Communists "It Can Be Done." prompt recognition of de facto gov-as a nation, is strongly partisen and politically amorphous

Home Malls ernments which could give 3s with regard to the Indian. Nu- tents which have taken place within To-day-Inward from America surance of their ability and deter-turalist mogement would be the past two years, or to the out-and ports Empress of Asia and mination to fulfil international ab- labour under a mlaapprehension.

pourings that have appeared in President Taft); Ostward for ligations. This policy was gen The bulk of the people are probably certain news sheets? It may be Europe, via San Francisco, 5 p.m., erally regarded by Latin American but little interested in the rights that he has more concrete evidence and Europe via Siberia, 6 p.m. peoples as an indication that this and the wrongs of the question, and "popular discontent" than he (President Jackson). country was not employing its right few, even of the many who are mis-would deem it politic to publish To-morrow-Outward for Europe of recognition as an instrument of led into the belief that British rule For the manifestations to which via Siberia (Khiva), 10.30 a.m. evercion.

in India is tyranny personified, are we have referred afford a singular.

Sports. more than passively sympathetic

President Hoover's use of the arms endaurgo, authorised by act of Congress, to the advantage of the federal regim during the Brazi- lian revolution, was perhaps the

controversial feature

The United States'. tariff law

to

matcon-

Fly deceptive "indiention" of the with the alleged wrongs intlerted on true state of nublic opinion.

Gandhi and his followers:

Bions."

Neither he nor his followers must

tive and

covenants.

See Diary on page 12.

Meeting.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Steamer,

***GLENTWORTH "

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 26th instant.

No zlaims will be admitted after the. Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 1st February, 1931, will be subject to rent

All claims against the vessel must bo presented to the undersigned on or before the 11th February, 1931, or they will not be recognised.

All broken, chafed, and damaged So-Gonds are to be left in the Godowns,

therefore, to sympathise with them sons in British schools at an early eiety's Annual Show of Flowers and where they will be examined on the

20th and 31st instant at 10 am, by our surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.

The British Example. As for the Japanese official class, forget that this is a Malay coun- vestment

views of Their their attitude is best summed up in try and that the United States policy toward Latin the words of a well-known Japan-Highnesses the Eulers and their

Lammert's Auctions. subjects must always take preced

From ANTWERP AND PORTS. America during the year. Some ese statesman, who in the course of

To-morrow-At 178, The Peak, ence over those of Europeans, Chin- international abservers felt that thela recent talk I had with him on

Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- employment of such an embargo Is the subject of the present situation ese and other aliens. The Straits household furniture, 10.30 0.1.

Wednesday--AL the Settlements are British territory;

Industrial formed that all Goods are being land- inconsistent with the trend of in India, remarked: "Our main

concern in the matter is to watch but the Malay States are not, and Commercial Bank, Queen's Readed at their risk into the Godowns of policy toward non-interference.

the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf In the economic sphere, the year the reaction on Korea and Formosa, any aspirations towards administra. Central, office furniture, 10.30 a.m.& Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon,

Miscellaneous. electoral reform which

whence and/or from the wharves de- was marked by a rapid decline in and to try and learn from the way

Wednesday Lecturo at Helena very may be obtained. volume of Unital States loans to you British handle the situation in may be cherished by residents Latin American countries, and by India how best to deal with our within their borders must ever be May Institute, Kowloon.

Wednesday Munsang College definitely subordinated to the re- falling import and export trade.

own problems in our oversea posses-quirements of the present Treaties, prize distribution, Kowloon City, 3 New Tarif.

Faced as they are with somewhat unless or until Their Highnesses, p.m.

Thursday Ells Kadoorio School provoked some dissatisfaction. in similar problems in Korea and and their subjects through them, Latin American countries, and Formosa, Japanese officials are na-consent to the revision of those prize distribution, 19,80 a.m.

February 19-Entries close for casioned readjustments is trade. turally disinclined to censure Bri-solemn and invariably honoured

Society's We have yet to hear Horticultural

Annual As the year ended, Mexico, Chile tish rule in India. Rather are they even a whisper of political ar social Show of Flowers and Vegetables, Colombia, and Argentinn were re-appreciative of the difficulties with

discontent among the Malaya, un-noon. which the

February 25-Horticultural British administrators have to contend, and are inclined, less it be in, regard to having their in their trials and tribulations in age instead of having to keep them Vegetables, City Hall.

in Malay schools during the most stead of condemning their actions.

impressionable period of their At the same time, there is a small

childhood, There may be also a but active group of Japanese whe are openly sympathetic with the latent element of fear that races Indian extremists and ready to be. other than their own lieve any calumny directed against ish may, in what they would con- the British Raj. These men lensider to be an evil day, secure an themselves readily to the machin- even larger measure of control over actions of the little group of Indian public affairs than is the case at To a man the Malays malcontents living in Japan, and present.

in the observe their traditional and splen- are generally to be found ranks of the Black Dragon Society didly sincere loyalty to their rulers,

News has been received in Bom- Chemical Diamonds are equal to real and other similar reactionary or- and it is a matter of common know-

These are the same ledge that Their Highnesses are bay, that the Cotton Association in diamonds in brilliancy, lustre and ganisations.

decided to start a hardness. Cut glasses like reni dla- He, "Can I throw you a kiss?" men who, a few years ago, joined in /satisfied with the wisely cautious Liverpool have

the abortive Pan-Asiatic movement, and considered efforts which are be Futures Contract Market for trad-monds. Proof against fire, steel fille and natric acid. Price per carat ing made under the existing system ing in Indian cotton. Trading will H.K. $5 nett Terms Cash or C.O.D. Indian Agitators.

The American Chemical Diamond It is interesting, therefore, to of administration to secure for begin on February 2.

The following styles will be ten- Co., P.0. Box 300. PENANG, ported to be studying various note that the headquarters of the ther progressive improvement in

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. phases of their own tariff laws Pan-Asiatic League, which appears conditions within their own States.derable against the new contract. with a view to revision. No coun- to consist of four or five Japanese, try openly challenged the principlò two Indians, and a Chinese, recent- that tarif legislation is a matter ly issued a circular concerning the of domestic and not international arrest of some Indians in the small policy,

French settlement of Chanderna.

She: "Don't be lazy!"—

Smith's Weekly, Sydney.

Extraordinary

depression ingor, above Calcutta. According to

화살

or the Bri-

HAPPY REUNION.

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HOME.

London, Dec. 12.

INDIAN COTTON TRADE.

Bombay to Lose Its Futures, Market.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersign- ed by

DODWELL & CO., LTD.. Agents. Hong Kong, 26th January, 1931.

Bombay, Dec. & AMERICAN

4.

the first having been selected as a basis: Central Provinces saw- ginned; Junjab machine-ginned; Punjab-Surat (surtees); Cambodia; surplus taken care of until it is re- Karangunni: Broach and Rangoon. quired. At no time, and especial- The Liverpool move is the directly at present, can the many milis outcome of the disorganisation of afford to buy twelve months' supply the cotton trade in Bombay, fellow-of cotton in a short space of time. ing repeated hartals During the In normal times, as the crop moves last eight months the cotton market into the market, the merchants are here remained closed for no less propared to take care of all arrivals than 66 working days. A large which they can hedge in the Fu-

are absorbed by pur-

prices of basic commodities during this pamphlet, "India is at war with MR. T. B. BARRETT ARRIVES the year gove an increasing in-Britain" (sic). The French au- ternational importance to the thorities, it is declared, ought not United States. anti-trust laws. therefore to have permitted the International agreements looking to extradition of the arrested men, but

have treated the stabilisation of sugar, petro-should

them

There was a happy reunion at portion of the future usiness in tures Market. These hedge sales leum curtailment of production soldiers and interned them. were retarded in realisation through The Japanese Government has Southampton this morning, when cotton hitherto cane in Bombay will are made in months for future de- uncertainty as to their legal con- always been inclined to frown on Mr. T. B. Barrett, who in August now he transferred to Liverpool. livery and sequences in this country.

this league. Nevertheless, its pro-last was granted & free pardon by Cotton brokers in Bombay stand to chases made by consumers against United States relations with par-Inouncements find their way into the Governor of the Gold Coast lose heavily as the result of this future requirements, or by specula- ters who believe that before the ticular Latin American countries of the columns of the Japanese Press after serving three years' hard move.

What "Hartals" Have Done.

contracts mature they will be able special interest during 1930 were from time to time, as also do the labour on a conviction for obtain- false pretences,

Under the as follows:

hysterical ravings

Indian ing ehares by of

It has taken years of thought and to resell at a proft. on board the Llandaff President Hoover sent a special political agitators, who have fled to arrived

toil to make the Bombay Cotton Present conditions in Bombay, the mission to Haiti and subsequently Japan to escape justice. As no- Castle and was welcomed by his Futures Market what it was. Until majority of would-be buyers have made effective Its recommendations. thing is ever done to correct the wife and daughter.

the civil disobedience campaign been scared off, as no one will risk The trio, faced a battery of

purchase unless he knows he will the chief purport of which was to gross misrepresentations of British

began, the Bombay Market had at be able to get out of it whenever he tained world-wide Importance and restore legislative Government and rule made by them therein, it is cameras.

Mr. Barrett declined to talk of assure the constitutional elce hardly surprising that the Japanese

Ryots the Sufferers, tion of a new president,

the people In Bombay and other reading public como to believe that his experience, but hoped the result was being used freely, not only by Handa. Off.

Gandhi's characterisation of the would be the establishment of some parts of India, but also by cotton

The present state of affairs in The United States kept hands off British. Raj as "Satanie" is justi-Court of Appeal, in which all dealers in Britain, the Continent. Bombay has reacted in the most classes of defendants could be sure the United States, China and Japan. cruel manner on the Indian ryot, during a Dominician Republic fied, political turnover early in the year,

to receive justice.

He paid a tribute to the way the The events of the past eight months who has little power to hold back and American relief organisations Vargas, and there appeared to have

bave shaken the faith of the major- nis crop, and he is now being forced alded in hurricane relief during the been no impairment of the tradi- Colonial Offico bad dealt with the aty of these dealers, for a Futures to sell the result of his inbours at Summer. The White House sent a tional cordiality between the united caso, but hoped the Gold Coast - Market, to be of any use to the prices ruinous to himself,

thorities would adequately com- trading community, must be broad special emissary to ascertain whe- States and Brazil. ther the situation required modi-

Nicaraguan Canal.

pensate him.

Mr. Barrett was convicted at acations In International fiscal pt- During the year inconclusive con-

versations were held concerning a Accra In 1921 on a charge of ob- rangements.

African Products; The United States Government treaty to govern relations between taining from promptly recognised the de facto the Canal Zone and the Republic Ltd., £10,000, in the form of Governments following revolutions of Panama; United States army bonus on shares held in the com-tion it is much narrower then it American Futures Markets, in In Argentina, Peru, and Bollyla, engineers pressed the survey of the pany by falas pretences. asserting that it acted promptly Nicaraguan Canal project; and the

to

wishes.

Future With a antisfactory and always available for trading. Market in which he can protect During the last eight months the himself against the fall in prices, Bombay Market has been closed on the merchant will only buy at bar no fewer than 65 days, when it gain rates. He can, if he wishes, cught to have been open.. In addi-hedge his excess purchases in the

As a world market it Liverpool or America, but he will *sed to be. He was sentenced to three years has ceased to exist.

only do so provided he can buy In- "In order that in the present United States avoided intervention hard labour, part of which he ser

It is difcult to understand the dian cotton at a price relatively so economic situation our delay may in Cuba under authority of the ved in Britain...-

mentality of those who have been cheap that he has no fear of ultim- Mr. Barrett's solicitor explained responsible for the indiscriminate ate loss., To hedge in these markets not embarrass the people of these Platt Amendment; desired by some friendly countries in re-establishing Cuban political elements.

that his client was the sole are closings. Now that another crop he must pay brokerage, which is an- United States and Mexico rela-holder of the company, which was is being marketod, their normal intercourse with the!

the people tther loss to Bombay. rest of the world.”

tions continued to reflect the good subsequently wound up,

who are the greatest losera The loss to the Indian cotton OMeinl Washington warmly en- will engendered by the embassy of He contended that the Court of are the poor ryots, who, after trade during the last year is fn- tertained President Elect Julio Mr. Dwight W.. Morrow, who bo- Criminal Appeal in London, should months of toll in their fields, are calculable. Not only had the mor- 'Prates when he returned the good came United States Senator in hear appeals the Crown being forced to accept considerably chants to sell off the balance of last will visit of President Elect Hoover December. He was succeeded by Colonies, te

tess for their crops than would have year's crop at a ruinous parity, but to Brazil. When a revolution broke Ambassador J. Kelbern Clark an Mr. Barrett was in East Africa, Lean the case, had the Bombay Cof-the low prices which, have now to out in Brazil, the United States Ambassador to Mexico,

when he received news of his on Market been allowed to function be accepted by the ryot for this proclaimed an arma embargo, · dis- Economic relations between the pardon

in a normal manner. The market year's crop tremendously reduces advantageous to the revolutionista, two countries were depressed by

ng of a crop like cotton is a highly and in many cases wipes out his and penta cruiser to bring homia low prices of Mexican "allver,

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