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CABLES.

· LATEST "CABLES. [THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]) SHIPPING DEPRESSION. STRIKING REDUCTION IN FREIGHT.

LONDON, January 17th. Where are plentiful signs of extreme depression in shipping. The recent beavy fall in freights to illustrated by the quota Boss for the carriage of coal from the United States to Rotterdam which is now 4a ton, as compared with $99 a ton a

year ago.

Bosponsible Dutch shipowners say that the actual cost of transportalion je 80 a ton.

It is surmised that owners prefer to krep their ships at son to îneur loss temporarily In the hope of obtaining letter freight in the early fature, instead of swelling the Brge number of vessely already laid up in port:

THA HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

FOREIGN POLICY OF FRANCE,

M. LEON BOURGEOIS” ASSURANCE,

PARIS, January 14th.

A Havas message says:-- On reelection to the presidency of the Senate, 3. Leon Bourgeois, in a spooch, outlined France's foreign policy, stating that it threatens neither any other nation's nor, right in the legitimate interest whole world. France fought for liberty. and right.. France is peace is still embody- ing for all pooples liberty and right. When France is insisting upon the necessity of treaties being carried ours and ruins and disorder în bor devastated pravaces being mado good, it is again every nation's right that she is vindicating...

NEW FRENCH CABINET. VIEW OF PARTIES IN CHAMBER.

PARIS, January 14th

A Havas message says;--

COLONIAL" "OFFICE."

TO HAVE MANDATED MIDDLE EASTERN DEPARTMENT.

London, January 17th.

By a very narrow majurity, the Times saya, the Cabinet recently transferred tha Middle Eastern mandated territories

rritories to the Coloniar Office.

OPPOSITION TO HUGE DEPART MENT

LONDON, January 17th.

It is stated that one of the reasons for Sir Auckland Geddes return is to enlist his organising ability in connection with the pending re-organisation of the Colonia Office which is beginning to be made prominent feature in the newspapers.

The Daily Mirror, which was most stranu. ous in its anti-roste campaign in the Dover byelection, denounces the plans for another huge departmens to throw away

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JANUARY - 18TH, 1921.

FAR EASTERN CABLE YAUMATI SHOOTING AFFRAY

CAPTURE OF THE SUPPOSED RINGLEADER

NEWS.

[FROM OUKOWY, CORRESPONDENT))

TRENOX CHINTER DOMMEROTAL BORGOL IN SHANGHAL.

PEKING, January 17th The Cabines has authorised the Ministry of Finance to provide funds for the ostab fishment and maintenance of a Commercial School in Shanghal jointly controlled by

HIS PROFERRED BALL FOUND TO BE "ARMED.

A man who is supposed to be the ring leader in the Yaumati shooting affray in which Sergt. Gardiner lost his life, has been arrested by the police. Infor mation was received that the man was in hiding on Ping Chau Island, and on Friday night Inspector Willis sent a large posse of detectives to the Island. They Both Governments will jointly provide the made the journey in a small sailing craft annual maintenance expenses which areas the police launch would be too well estimated as 190,000 dollars.

the Chiness and the French Governmanta,

the latter having contributed 30,000 dollars

towards the establishment expensas."

{THROUGH RIUTER'S AGETOY.}

NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO

JAPAX.

PARIS, January 14th.

A Havas mesango says :----

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COLLAPSE OF SHANGHAI PIECE-GOODS DEALERS,

100 FIRMS CLOSED.

Tha Shanghai Gazette says:--

On soont of the heavy drop in the silver" exchange, the piece-goods merchants have been very hard hit and, sithongh the Piece-goods Merchants Guild has tried to devise memwares to save the situation, little Improvement has been made or nocount of the heavy losses involved,

The local native banks have aggravated the plight of the piece-goods dealers by announcing that, in view of the financial stringency of recent months, they will da mand that their claims be settled 10 days known. Landing at Ping Chau, the de- earlier than has been the case in part years. tectives, under cover of the darkness, This has led to the closing of more than made their way to the district where the 100 shops dealing in cotton and woollen wanted man lived, and surrounded his piece-goods, which combined with an house. The man tried to escape, but he equally large number during the past few months, brings the total of failures in this was arrested. He was loud in his pro-line of business to more than 100 (1200). testations of innocence and said he could Theen collapse have also affected the native banks, some of which have had to suspend good man." He named someone, whom It is reported that piece-goods merchants

M. Paul Claudel just appointed French det bail for any amount, as he was a business. more millions" in connection with the re/Ambassador to Japan is not only one of the police sent for, taking the precau-/20 the river ports also find themselves in a According to. Le Temps, a delegation ported incorporation of the Middle East France's ableas diplomats, but also a highly tion of searching him. In this man's difficult situation.

In the meantime, the Houlder Line has representing the various parties in the department in the Colonial Office.

scelled the construction of two ateamers, owing to the heaviness of the building costs. PACIFIC LINER'S TOWAGE FEAT. FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES IN

STORM.

LONDON, January 17th. " The greatest long-distance towage feat on record has been accomplished by the 4,500 ton Pacific liner Huanthand, which responded Eo an 8.0.5. in mid-Atlantic from the British Peer, 4,000 tons, which had lost propeller in a gole. The Huanchano Brought the British Petr. 1,581 miles to Barrow amid most stormy conditions neege stating the most skilful manœuvring.

NORWEGIAN LABOUR PARTY.

MAJORITY OPPOSE MOSCOW INTERNATIONALE

CHRISTIANIA, January 17th.

The Norwegian Labour Party has de- finitely split. The majority of the mem bars have joined a now party called the Norwegian Bocial Democratia Labour Party who oppose the principles of the Moscow Internationale.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

ANNOUNCEMENT AT PARIS

ACADEMY,

PARIS, January 15th.

A Havas message 8575- At to-day's sitting the Academy of Sciencos was informed by its President that the Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace to M. Leon Bourgeois, this being the fourth time that the prize is awarded to a French citizen.

THIRD TEST MATCH.

ENGLAND'S GOOD FIRST

INNINGS.

ADELAIDE, January 18th. 7 The third test match was begun on January 142

Australia mado 34 runs in the first innings, Collins contributing 162 and: Old. Keld 50.--

Parkin took 5 wickets for 60.

gifted poet and writer, who is generally

H.M.S. Ainsi, the flagship of Rear Admiral Barrett, C.B., commanding on the

Chamber of Deputies called on President Millerand to express the wish that the new Ministers should not be selected among members having compromised in any way Middle East is most disquieting in view of tion and profound comprehension of the and there were found two more revolvers Yangtze, is to bo shortly offered for sale. with parties upholding revolution and social disorder. **.

M. PERET'S RECOMMENDATION. "PARIS, January 15th. A Havas message says? Although haring ceased endeavouring to form himself. a Cabinet because of his inability to secure the

held to be one of the foremost representa possession was found a revolver of high The Westminster Gazette thinks that Mr.tives of the modern French School, As calibre, loaded in all six chambers, and H.M.S. **KINSHA” FOR SALE, Churchill's domination in a tremendous Consal to China, M. Claudel wrote a book there were six more rounds in his pocket. field of expenditure represented by the which is remarkable for its been observa. The man's premises were then searched

Eastern peoples and things, which book is and about 30 rounds of ammunition. The perhaps his master-work.

man, and his son, who lives in the same house, were arrested on a charge of illegal possession of arms.

his-financial record.

MILITARY RAID IN "DUBLIN,

BARBED WIRE AND BARRICADES IN HEART OF CITY.

LONDON, January 17th The military made a most remarkable esion of men raid in Dublin early yesterday morning. whose co-operation was, in his opinion, The operations are likely to continue for indispensable to the cohesion and the three days. A densely populated area, duration of the future Cabinet, M. Peret nearly half-a-mile square, in the heart of continued approaching, various persons

the city was occupied ; crmoured cars and likely to help. M. Peret then called tanks were placed in position and scatrice were posted. The military lolated the on President Millerand to whose

barbed by

wiro and erected choice he recommended either M Poin-

barricades. Three bridges were seized Care or M. Briand as the head of the

cut off future Cabinet. Shortly afterwards M.

occupied commanding positions Briand was asked to call at the Elysee in high houses, sandbagged the windows Palace where he had an interview with President Millerand.

PROSPECTS OF NEW CABINET. Losbox, January 17th. The new French Cabinet, though regard as unequal as regards the polities! quality of the parsonnel is nevertheless summed up as a workman-like beam-likely to obtain strong support in the Chamber.

This is M. Brigad's seventh Ministry since 1909: **

As the Erst Socialist Premier he acted

drastically when faced with a revolutionary labour crisis. His most vigilant critic will probably be the ex-President M. Poincare, who declined to take any portfolio but that of Foreign Affairs in the course of M. Peret's abortive efforts in form a cabinet, on the ground of the supreme importance attached to the integral application of the Versailles Treaty,

BARLIER CABLES.

POLICY OF THE BRIAND MINISTRY.

PAZIS, January 15th.

The Cabinet is completed. M. Briand is Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Barthou Minister of War, M.

Areų,

and the dock-Land Wak Troops

THE LATE SIR Y. J. ANDERSON.

LONDON, January 17th. Brigadier-General Sir F. J. Anderson, C.B., ex-Colonial Engineer, Etraits Settle ments, left £9,881,

- At the Magistracy, yesterday, the two men just referred to were placed in the dock. Mr. Davidson, solicitor, represent ed them. The first man arrested, in con- nection with the Taumati affray, is ex pected to be Brought before the Court

MR. HENRY KESWICK ON A to-day.

YACHTING TOUR.

Mr. Davidson said he was instructed to

plead guilty. The statements made by

were partners in a show, to which was the two men were to the effect that they

attached a fruit garden. It was the de fendante practice to employ watchmen at night to keep away thieves from the garden; these arms were handed to the watchmen at night and kept in the shop by day. The defendants asked that in the circumstances the case might be

This vessel which was originally built by the late Mr. Archibald Lätile for service on the Upper Yangtze, to travel up and down the Gorges, was gold by him to the British Government, we believe, about the Boror year. She will be sold, presumably, by auction The old vessel was nothing much to look at, but she was reputed to be the most comfortable vessel travelling on the Yangtze and there are many who will re gard her disappearance from service under the white ensign with very real regret.

A brilliant theory has been advanced in one quarter that she could very well be moored alongside the Bund to serve as hotel-N.-C. Daly News.

JAPANESE WEATHER

FORECASTS.

INADEQUATE AFPARATUS, The Tokyo drahé remarks that there is growing dissatisfaction among the general public with the weather forecasts issued by the Central Meteorological Observatory, which are found to be unreliable. An of cial of the Observatory, interviewed by the

Mr. Henry Keswick, formerly the head of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., in the East and who since leaving. Hong- kong in 1911, has sat as a Member of Parliament for Epsom, and has served in the war as a Major, reached Hongkong on Sunday on a yscht, built on the model of a destroyer, with two funnels, and named the City Sark, after a fanious old-time China tes clipper. and mannted machine-gune. The reason för

treated leniently, the raid has not been disclosed. . It is be--

Mr. Keswick left home on NovemberThe Magistrate (Mr. G. N. Orme).

Mr. Davidson: I suppose it was care. lieved that a search is being mado forth, and the yacht on her trip has called Why didn't they get a licence f

at Bordeaux, Marseilles, Monte Carlo, Jessness raid is to locate a suspected arsenal. House Islands, Cochin, Colombo, Bangkok, of these weapons, without a licence. urgently wanted men, or, alternatief Naples, Fort Said, Suez, Aden, Lacesdive The Magistrate: It is a serious thing which the Observatory must forego oplos

to have a revolver of the calibre of onethe authorities granted considerable

appropriation for improvements. to house searches are proceeding. Bis Singapore and Penang,

Mr. Davidson: They had previously arrests have been made... Nobody is allowed

applied for a licence and been refused. to enter or leave the prescribed area in

Inspector Willia interposed to give the Magistrate an account of the circumi- which the markets are situated Bearch

stances connected with the arrest of the ghts were planted last night and field

defendants, as related above. kitchens were serving troops with food.

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RIOTS IN CORK.

TWO WOMEN KILLED.

LONDON, January 15th There was serious rioting in Cork last evening following an attack on two police men who were coming from a football match, both of whom were wounded. Y |

Armed police in motor lorries proceeded to clear the streets and firing continued during the afternoon and night. ties, including a Customs officer shot dead and two women and four other civilians

Mr. Keswick is on a tour of inspection of the Eastern branches of his ärm, and is combining pleasure with business. He will be remaining here until after the

Asahi, admitted that there was complaint, but pointed out that the inade quate equipment of the Observatory was responsible for the faulty forecasty issued. Accurate wesiber prophecy, the official explained demanded costly apparatus,

UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS.

LONDON.

Races and when his business engage. The Magistrate: What sort of place/XURY AND POVERTY IN

ments are completed, he expects to return home on the yacht via the Panama Canal.

KOWLOON TO WAICHOW BY RAIL-

NEW PROJECT.

The Waichow Chamber of Commerce

is this?

Inspector Willis said it was a shop; he had no information about a garden In view of the circumstances under which the men werd arrested he asked the Magistrate to take a serious view of the

case.

December 20th. Though West-end hotels are arranging their Christmas entertainments with their customary lavishness and while shop win- doms are overflowing with a wealth of toys and presents and while the markets are crammed with abundance of meat and The Magistrate: Are the people shop-poultry, this promises to be scarcely s

merry: Christmas. keepers 1

Never were..contrasta Inspector Willis They are, but we

Dobreen wealth and poverty, so startling. have other information which it might Out the one hand the rich may buy a rocking. not be fair to mention in Court.

horse at thirty pounds and turkeys at threo has passed resolution to build a railway both defendants had pleaded guilty, the Saturday, was £33,405. On the other hand The Magistrate remarked that, although shillings a pound, while the total value of

same. He asked the senior defendant if of the unemployed. For example: an un- he took the responsibility for the poses employed and homeless ex-service man sion of all the weapons.

without pension or donation was found with his wife and new born child in Totten«. ham court-road on Saturday night An- other ex-service man with a family of five de living on fifteen shillings a week of which nine shillings is spent on rent. The question of the hour is unemployment. A novel sight in London streets recently has been collection boxes for the relief of un

motor cara advertised in one paper on

There were a number of other casual. from Waichow to Ping Wa Station of the degree of their liability might not be the papers are full of details of the suferings

Canton-Kowloon Railway, a distance of 45 miles. The cost is estimated at about $3,000,000.

wounded.

INTER-ALLIED CONFERENCE. NO QUESTION OF INVITING GERMANS

LONDON, January 17th.

AMERICA” AND JAPAN.

The senior defendant said that he did. He added that he had a number of shops, and there was no police station on the island.”

The Magistrate It, is doubtful whe- ther I ought to give the option of a fine, but they seem to be respectable shop kesperso

England compiled 447 runs in the first Marraud Minister of Interior, and M. Paris has been postponed till Jaunery 24th. Government bad informed Mr. Obata that A fine of $300 was imposed on the employment. Mr. Thomas in the Commons

sonings, Russell'e scoro, being 135 unmish ad. Wooley made 78, Makepeace 60 and Douglas 60.

Doumer Minister of Finance. The new Minister of Marine is M. Guisthau

The Minister for the Colonies is M. Albert

ATTITUDE REGARDING

Australis, in the edcond Innings, has do Barratt. far made 71 for 3 wickets.

LONDON'S AERIAL WAYS. NEW FOKKER MONOPLANES TO .BE USED.

REPARATIONS.

The Conference of the Allied Premiers in The Conference is expected to last three or four days. It is not yet certain whether the Italian or the Belgian Premiere in present, but the Italian and the Belgian. Foreign Minister will attend. There has boon ao question of inrting the Germans.

EARLIER CABZES.

mgren des

TO BE HELD THIS WEEK.

LONDON, January 16th. It is officially confirmed from Paris that the Inter-Allied Conference has been postponed not later than the end of the week, pending, the installation of the Briand Cabinet. . .

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. STILL 14,000 ILLICIT DISTILLERIES.

WASHINGTON, January 15th.

sonior defendant. His son

A SHANGHAI CANARD. Despatches published by a Chinese paper in Shanghai alleging that the Japanese there were signs that a Japanese charged. American war was steadily approaching, and that it would be necessary for Japan and China to co-operate for a common Political cause, and, therefore, Japan had decided to adopt a friendly policy toward China are characterised by the Japanese Foreign Office as pure canards, without the slightest foundation

Furthermore, it states, reports calcu lated to lead the public to believe that relations between Japan and America are seriously strained are persistently being circulated in one form or another, particularly in Shanghai. While such fabrications hardly merit formal refuta- tion, these rumours are entirely ground and can only be characterised as mis chievous misrepresentations.

was diss

ARMED ROBBERS AGAIN. A VICTIM STABBED ON LAMA

ISLAND.

on December 18th warned the Government that, unless they took action bofore Christ mas, the Labour party would be forced to do so, Government is expected yo announce its unemployment policy in the Commons to-morrow.

THE VLADIVOSTOCK TRAGEDY.

On Sunday morning the police received

A Vladivostock telegram dated January notification of an armed robbery the 10th in the Shanghai papers reports tha previous evening at Sokowan village, incident which is at present receiving on Lama Leland. Their informant Raid consideration, at Washington in the follow that while she her husband, and othering terms members of the household were having The Chief Engineer of the American their evening meal, four men entered the warship Albany, returning to his ship at house. They were armed and when her four o'clock, yesterday morning, was shot husband offered resistance one of the in the back by a Japanese soldier, it men stabbed him. All the inmates of the is stated. The engineer, replied with two house were bound and the place ranzack" revolver ahots. Although wounded through ed. A quantity of clothing and jewellery, the lung above the heart, he reached the

and the robbers made off in a boat be Jonging to their victim who is a fisherman. The police arranged for the "removal of the wounded man to the Government

Civil Hospital:

Loupon, January 28th While some Paris, correspondents are LONDON, January 17th,

apprehensive that the advent of the If is proposed in Spring to use for a Briand Ministry will mean a hardening regular London to Amsterdam air service of the French attitude towards Germany and a divergence between the French with connections to Germany, Denmark and and British viewpoints; Le Matin de Breden-e fleet of wooden-winged Fokker clares that M. Briand approves the policy of President Millerand and M. Leygues monoplanes, now being built in the Fokker with regard to reparations, namely, Company's works in Amsterdam. Each agreement with the Allies and especially The first year's results of Prohibition LAND BOOM AT WO SUNG. money, and three muskets were stolen, ship unaided but died to-day.

Great Britain with the object of de- show that the people consumed 41,000,000 machine is "capable of carrying a finitely securing modified demands rather proof gallons of distilled spirits, leaving

$2,000 PER MOW. than striving after larger payments or 51,000,000 gallons in-bonded warehouse. standing albae. N

Bince the Government announced tho Spirits are still being made in 14,000 intended development of Wooung as a illicit distilleries. There were 123,000 commercial port, ibers has been a rush of gallons of spirits destroyed and 83,000 scd buyer, with the reals that the price still demoblished. The storage tax-and | "has jumped very high. Land on ako banks. fines totalled over $23,000,000. of the Yuntssopang has been sold for $2,000 per mow, and further inland, but accessible PERSIAN CABINET RESIGNS. by river, for $400 per mow REPORTED ABDICATION OF THE

·BARLIER CABLES.

AERIAL FEAT.

1,100 MILES IN 10 HOURS.

MELBOURNE, January 15th, The airman" De Garis, with a pilot, few on D.E.4 to Melbourne from Bris

hans, making threo landings en ruts. He covered 1,100 miles in ten and a half

hours.

THE O'CALLAGHAN DISPUTE DEPORTEE TO RE-SHIP AS

SEAMAN..

SHAH.

WARRINGTON, January 17the The squabble with regard to Mr. O'Callaghan Was been temporarily settled by the Labour Department permitting him to come ashore and to re-ship as a

TEHERAN, January 16th. seaman for abroad. This step apparently

The Cabinet has resigned. An uncon stays execution of the State Department's firmed report says the Ehah, has abdicat deportation order, which still stands. ed.

Farma" land, five 24 distant from the Whangpoo River, cannot be had for less than $200 or $300, Land brokers have made huge profits and their policy of stick ing for the very highest obtainable bidg has made it difficult to purchase large tracts of land suitable for factories, so the purchases liave, on the whole, boon for small lots Shanghai Gasstià.

| GRAND CHARITY CONCERT.

BOLSHEVISM POR THE CHILD.

A lecture on Türkestan Under the Bol shevists was given or a meeting of the Contral Asian Society recently by Major Bailey, who was a political officer in Bus Booking for the Grand Charity Concert in Turksetan in 1018, whence he escaped organised by Madenie Lottie Gordon for sen Austrian: He said the passants in Turkostan were only Bolshevist as long an Saturday next, at the Theatre Royal Bolshevism consisted in dispossessing the opens at Mesere Montfig's to-morrow landlord and paying no more rent. They' morning at 8 o'clock. It is stated that then discovered in a short time that they tickets for the concert have been in great were bourgeois Bolshevism was taught in demand and the entertainment promises the schools, and from "about the age of to be a great success. Those who intend 12 the children formed Borials and dis- to be present at the concert are advised missed their teachers and did what they to book seats early.

liked.