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HOME,

THE CHINA MAILT

INCOMPREHENSION

IRRITATION AT

IN PARIS

To go from London to Paris just now la to jump out of an atmosphere of irritation against the French into one of incomprehension of the

British.

By Brig. Gen. E. L. SPEARS.

LOCAL: SHARE

MARKET.

Another Quiet Opening. SALE

To-day.

NO MATERIAL CHANGE. -

lon over here at the present tims., be broken? The following sugges-

following There are, of course, extremlats Intion seemed worthy of considera-

tion: France who would welcome the most

There is one section of military

The official summary issued by extravagant measures against Ger- aviation which is esentially aggres-the Stock Exchange to-day states: many, and also in the matter of sive-the bombing machine. If each The market opened quietly In London it is impossible, how-tariffs; but they do not represent nation placed all its bombers at the steady with no material change.in ever fond one may be of France, to the nation, and they certainly do disposal of the League of Nations, the rates. escape the feeling that her policy not represent the views of the to be dealt with by an international is largely responsible for the pre- French Government.

staff carrying out the orders of the sent deplorable state of things in

League, then the policeman will at Europe. In Paris one realises that

last have been found. Essentially the prevailing mood is a pained sense

rapid and aggressive of being very unfairly misjudged.

would follow swiftly on a breach of retribution;

On the contrary, the main impres- sion I brought back with me was of an increasing desire on the part of responsible French opinion for eloa- er co-operation with us.

Priority in Debts.

the peace.

The confidence engendered by giving legal decision a physicall sanction would go a long way to- wards

those nations! far, have not dared to

reassuring

I have just returned from a short visit to Paris, and I had not been there many hours before talks with ) It is only right, for instance, that leading Frenchmen convinced me the British public shonid know that that there is a complete misunder- France-although prepared to drive Estanding between our two countries. a hard bargain on behalf of those which, so

One caurot but be amazed once affected by our tariffs-is willing, disarm, fearing that, in the event more that two nations in such close and even anxious, to participate in of proximity, and with so many points any financial arrangement favour-utterly defeated before any

an aggression they might be mea- of contact. should show such a able to us which we might propose. sure, economic bafling incapacity to understand If the day comes when our Govern- each other, writes the General in ment whishes to float a loan in Paris the Daily Telegraph.

to stabilise the pound, it will be given every facility for doing so,

During my stay I had the oppor- tunity of meeting a number of leaders, both in the business and political worlds, and my astonish- ment at their incomprehension of, public opinion in England was only matched by their stupefnction at being so misrepresented here.

France's Gencrosity.

In another direction French thought has considerably evolved lately. The vital importance of private, debts is fully recognised, and our negotiators need no longer anticipate that France will insist on claiming complete and exclusive priority for reparations.

or otherwise, had

been brought to bear by the League upon the aggressor.

Sales.

Banks, $1,425,

Trams, $22.30. Providents (old). $5.35. Constructions (old), $5.55. Hotels, $15.10. Cements (combined), $19.30. Humphreys (new), $17.

Buyers. Douglases, $233%. Venezuelan Goldfelds, $1.80, Hotels (old), $15. Realties, $11.60...

*

Singapore Tractions, 8/-. Cements (new), $5.80. Constructions (old), $5.40. Constructions (new), $1.85. Bengueta, $11. Providents (old), $5.30. Providents (new), $2.45, Chinese Estates, $95. Canton Ices, $5. Sinceres, $16.

I have reason to know that this suggestion would receive the most sympathetic considération in France. Terribly Isolated. The conclusion any observer would form, from a study intelligent

of the French scene these days, is! $3% premium. simply this:.

France, so long spared in the economic blizzard which has been They were one and all dumbfound- Naturally the coming Disarma-battering and exhausting the rest of ed that British opinion asemed to ment Conference is a major pre- the world, is now at last beginning take no account of the generosity occupation with French politicians: to feel the cold, bleak wind that is with which France had come to our found a determination that, what-the forerunner of the storm. She no help in the Summer. They remind-over happens, no blame for the longer feels comfortable and 'safe. ed me that they had been prepared failure of the Conference, if it. She senses danger. Moreover, she ito do even more than they did. fails, shall be attributable to feels terribly isolated. There are.

Their purse had been wide open for France.

of course, Frenchinen' who are pre- us to take as much as we needed.

pared to bluster and brave the world, but they do not represent the majority.

They pointed out, too, that it was the French Government which had prevented the Bank of France throwing its holdings af sterling on the murket when the pound was falling, with the consequence that the French Treasury has had to hand over some two milliards to the bank to make good the less incurred.

A

These statements represent quite genuine point of view, for the French do feel they have been gen-

crous.

Disarmaments

Hor Kong Government Loan,

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Sellers. Indo-Chinas (Frer.), $45. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $32. Venezuelan Goldfelds, $2. Star Ferries, $102. Malabon Sugare, $38. Entertainments (old), $16. Kallan Mining, 30/-. Raubs. $39.

Providente (old), $5.40. Telephones Tpart paid), $29. Lane, Crawfords, $6.40. Constractions (new), $1.95.

EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY'S' QUOTATIONS,

On London

1/5

Here again the difference between the real French point of view and the reflection. of it in London is staggering. Frenchmen, whether

France longs to be shown the way they be farmers or Ministers, sim-to help Germany without playing the ply cannot understand the accusa- game of those elements-Stablhelm tion levelled at them here of being or Nazi--which are bent on revenge militaristic.

and which preach the immediate re- vision of the treaties upon which, after all, the very existence of the new countries of Europe depends. Bank, Wire She will, however, never find that Bank, On demand ... 1/5 1/16 way alone.

If she is left to herself, if we are

Bank, 4 months sight 1/5 3/16 not prepared to collaborate with her,

Credits, 4 months' she will remain isolated and armed.

gight But if we consider her problems months sight

Documentary, with sympathy and understanding,

Un Paria realities of the present time will Credits, we may be certain that the stark On demand

cause her to reapond, as she has not done for years, to any suggestions we may make.

The French people are so genuine- ly opposed to warlike adventures that it is inconceivable to them that anyone can believe the contrary. They point out that their army is hardly bigger than that of Great Britain if the Indian Army be in- cluded, and that an expert might well doubt whether in numbers and training they could face the German and Italian armies on equal terms In many conversations I had in Paris on the subject of disarma- Ad-real estrangement with Great Briment, the following thesis

developed:

I found that Frenchmen find it hard to understand the irritation caused in England by the imposition of the 15 per cent. surtax. Never theless, in responsible circles there is increasing realisation that the

Defying the Deep-sea Death.

price of such a small financial ad- Special photograph in con- vantage is too heavy if it leads to a junction with British miralty showing new safety apparatus.

Tropical Talkies.

Launching of H.MS. "Leander.”

Musical Blizzard at Crystal Palace,

200 Bands -

Called to the Baa !

31 Years' Record.

Sheep dogs exhibition.

tain.

With regard to our own tariffs, in spite of much nonsense in the Press, the French have no real arguments to advance against them. They see some hard bargaining whead, that is all.

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On Berlin On demand.D Coolness Needed.

On New York neas on our part. It is essential Credits, 60 days' sight 26

The situation requires great cool-On demand not to allow tracted by outcries and alarms, or Wire

ourselves to be dis

On Bombay irresponsible Press propaganda, in On demand either country. We must bear in mind that without French co-opera-Wire .....

On Calcutta tion the collapse of Germany is in-On demand. evitable, and the immediate, conse. On Singapore quences, not to mention the ultimate On demand ones, will be of the utmost gravity to ourselves.

Security has been the nightmare of post-war international negotia tions; fear of attack has led to the impasse Europe finds itself in to day. The chief reason for not dis- arming further is alway the same No French Ill-Will

lack of security. The value and im- Their only real grievance con-portance of the League of Nations cerns the exclusion of vegetables is realised, but its impotence in the and frult on the ground of disease. face of a Power bent on aggression On the whole although the is pointed out. There is the court French have, or think they have, a of law, but where is the policeman?

On Manila- good many causes of complaint

On demand Although the Disarmament Con- against us, the visitor to Paris soon ference is to open at

On Shanghai Geneva in is not only necessary in the inter-On demand realises that they do not reciprocate February, nothing has happened to ests of both countries, but in that Dollar to any appreciable extent the ill-will allay these fears. Can no way out of Germany also which cannot be which is so manifest in public opin- [be found? Carinat the vicious circle i saved in any other way.

A Franco-British understanding

Mr. Gandhi in the Cotton-shire. FIGHT WITH A KING its foo as he thrust and beat at DEBT

Welcome to Kaye Don.

COBRA.

Furious Blows.

it with his walking stick, off

which bits kept breaking.

When his stick had so dwindled that it was only. 14 inches long,

On Yokohama- On demand Sovereigns(Bank's

buying rate) Silver (per oz.)

94 94

94

94

$75

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19%

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he deemed the moment oppor- How We Are Having to Drama in the City.

tune to retreat. The report of an encounter "I turned and ran up the bank. Scene showing suspending of King Cobra, the largest venom-lowed me for

with the dreaded Hamadryad, or The snake also turned and fol Gold Standard.

about 10 yards. ous snake in the world, and one Fortunately I had so injured it of the very few which will turn that it could travel only slowly, and give fight, and even pursue and I was able to find a bamboo a man for a long distance, has and kill it outright. It measured been communicated to the jour-B feet 5 inches." nal of the Bombay Natural His-

Scintillating City.

South Africa calling the British tory Society.

Isles,

Sicily in Song,

Oriental and Ornamental. Mr. Kancko designing lacquer

work.

Mr. Barrington Hooper.

The Thunder of wheels.

A Railway Symphony.

COMPLETE CHANGE

EVERY WEEK

Mr. P. A. W. Howe, of Pyin mana, was inspecting teak tree, stumps at the time, accompanied by his native clerk. While the latter was moving a stump about 40ft away, "I saw a large nake come down the bed of the little ravine opposite me," reporta Mr. Howe

"I threw a piece of rock which,

Sir Michael Sadler, in an address at an Individualist Bookshop Jun- cheon in London on December 8, said that the Victorian age, with all its virtues, left us its arrears.⠀⠀

"It worked and saved," he said, "Investing its savings. It was not spendthrift, but it was blind to the moral implications of its own triumphs, and it loft England ill- Regrets At Being Unable To carking anxiety in millions of homes, trained, with malnutrition, with

BLIND JUROR.

Serve.

and with all the stress of anxiety When a man was empanelled that English working people and at the Old Batley as a Juror it their wives and children suffered. In was discovered that he was blind old days in any time of temporary

He was asked if he would He

distress,

if the snake had not recoiled, to be excused service, but he re. "It forgot that Its triumph had a would have hit it. It then rose plied that he would prefer to do hidden mortgage and has left us of up, ita head being some 2ft. from his duty as a citizen if his blind- our generation, to pay it all, and I {the ground; and its hood dis“ ness did not interfere with the am proud that we have tried -

tended.

(pari administration of Justice. Dodged Blows,

fongest and sternest batt

K.C. sald that With a loud hiss the great the man + senso, at públic, duty j'ingredő lak the c

lit; but, da there wit} | Vérvicen."

form for Mr. Howe, did:

chick cane walking-

with steel and with

blisk it the neck

14 and the thead'

ument raid that

Copper Cents.

Rate of Native In-

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