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ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY. STATEMENT BY MR LLOYD GEORGE.

Replying on July 11th to Mr. Asquith,. who asked the Prime Minister whether he had any statement to make about the position of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty Mr. Lloyd-George'anid:-

When

I told he House Inst Thursday that I hoped to be in a position to make a statement on Pacific and Far-Eastern questions to day. I was awaiting, as 1 explained at the time, replies to con-

PRINESDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 1991

QUARANTINE RULES

PENANG.

P. & O. OFFICERS FINED.

CAPTURE OF KWEILIN, ANOTHER KWANGSI MILITÁRIST REMOVED.

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The Canton Time says:-Word has been received from General Chen Chiung ming at Nanning stating that Kweilin which was in control of Shan Hung-ying. one of the defeated Kwangsi militarists who evered relations with the former War Lord Lu Yung-ting at the last minute when his fall was imminent, was captured by the Cantonese Army. Shum Hurig-ying together with his gang of is now in the entire control of the

Cantonese troops.

DISAPPEARING ICE.

DAIRY FARM PROSECUTION.

SALESMAN SENT TO PRISON." "The prosecution initiated by the Dairy Farm Lee and Cold Storage Co., Ltd., arising out of their discovery that Chis ese stores were selling ice below the cost of manufacture, was concluded at the before Mr. G. N. Orme, yes Magistracy, terday morning.

Lau Kam, an employd of the Company, ice and the proprietor of the Wing Euk store was charged with receiving it.

As a sequel to the mooring of the P. &C. Syria to the wharf at Peking in July when there was a case of small-pox aboard, after giving a declaration to the Fort Health Othcer that she was free from disease, in the District Court Capt.

Vincent and Dr. Rachead master, Moxey, surgeon, were charged in the District Court on August 9th with The ship making a false declaration. versations which had taken place between old have gone into quarantine had minor militarists have fled and the city was charged, with larceny of 100 lbs. of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the representatives of the small-nox been reported and no passen- Governments of the United States, Japan gers would have been allowed ashore. and China as the result of our discs. The morning after the vessel's Arrival sions in the Imperial Cabinet.

in Port the Health Officer boarded the very glad to be able to inform the House vessel and found that a Goanese steward to-day that the views of the Government was suffering from smallpox, and was of the United States reached me last of opinion that be had been suffering

tory. from the disease for four or five days. night. and aro extremely satisfactory. The Chiney Government is also favour-

Dr. Moxey said that be found ache We have not yet had a formal spots and high temperature but had no able

Captain was fined $5 and reply from the Government of Japan, but suspicion that it was small-pox. we have good reason to hope that it

will be in the same sense. Now that these and the Doctor $200 and costs. views have been received. I am glad to be at liberty to inform the House of Commons fully regarding the course REMARKABLE FIRE which our discussions in the Imperial Cabinet took. I do this with particular INSURANCE CASE IN MALAYA. satisfaction, because, it will show how very valuable a step forward, we have been able to take by commen consent in the sphere of foreign affairs.

MAIN CONSIDERATIONS.

The facts

Mr. M. H. Turner (of Messrs,” Deacon, *- When former War Lord Lu Yung ting was being defeated-on every side, Shum Looker, Deacon and Harston) prose Lau Kam and Mr. A. E.Hall the other Hung-ying changed his colours and decated: Mr. FX D'Almada defended alared his intention to join with the

defendant. Cantonese against his former chief Lu Yung ting. His declaration was accept- ed with very little faith and the Canton. esp troops of the right wing were ordered to remove him at all costs. His defeat costs. Kweilin means the removal of all

Kwangsi military influence in northern part of Kwangsi province.

was caused by the

CHINA AND WASHINGTON **CONFERENCE...

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the

CANTON, August 11th.

The case for the prosecution having been concluded at the last hearing D'Almada said he would put Lau Kam in the box if the Magistrate though he had

explain the 100 lbs. of ice. The Magistrato: I think he bag... Lau Kam indicated at the beginning of his evidence that he had inadequate assistance in the performance of his duties and consequently could not make entries in his book as well as serve ous- tomers. He said he did not know tha Wing Fuk firm, had never supplied thei and had no intention of defrauding the Company.

The defendant was cross-examined.

Mr. Turner: All you had to do was to put down two numbers: for example,

the quantity).

No. 4 (the pass-book) and 100 lbs." make no entry until to people have been Is it your custom to served --Yes, I enter them together.

Mr. D'Almads submitted that the charge of larceny had not been made out. The defendant believed that the coolie, who came for the second lot of ice, was employed by the Golf Club, and not by the Wing Fuk firm.

Mr. Justice Woodward, Chief Judicial Commissioner, of the Federated Males DR. WU TING-FANG'S OBSERVATION

ON PEKING POLICY. States, recently heard a case at Kuala Lumpur in which Chop Chiat Hunt now.

CANTON INFORMATION BUREAU.] of Klyno Street and formerly of 50, The broad lines of Imperial policy in Cross Street sued for $20,000 from the the Pacific and the Far East were the North British and Mercantile Insurance

and also very first subjects to which we addressed Company Limited, for a further $20,000. the Royal Insurance ourselves at the meetings of the Imperial Company, were almost identical in both Cabinet, having a special regard to the Anglo-Japanese Agreement the future cases, and in both instances defendants of China, and the bearing of both those alleged fraud upon the part of plaintiffs. questions on the relations of the British The first-named defendants in the Empire with the United States. We course of a lengthy statement of defence, were guided in our deliberations by three said: The Bre main considerations. In Japan we have wilful het or connivance of the plain: an old nad proved ally, the agreement tifs. In or about the month of Septem of twenty years standing between us has ber, 1990, the plaintiff occupied the said. been of very great benefit not only to premises with criminal intent to obtain ourselves and her, but to the peace of the policies of insurance over stock falsely But is the Far East.

In China there is a very and fraudulently alleged to

cause numerous people with great potential said premises, and thereafter to ties. who esteem our friendship highly, the said premises and the alleged stock and whose interests we on our side desire to be

In the United the bezet by fire, and to claim in the series of Conventions entered into without any entry in the book." to assist and advance.

of such policies of insurance. States we see today, as we have always The plaintiffs' claim arises out of such seen, the people closest to our own aims circumstances and is made in furtherance and idents, with whom it is for us not of such intent. merely a desire and an interest, but 4 deeply-rooted instinct, to consult and co-operate. Those were the main consid. erations in our meetings, and upon them we were unanimous. The object of our discussions was to find a method con bining all these three factors in a polity which would remove the danger of heavy naval expendituro in the Pacific, with all the evils which such an expenditure es- tails. and would ensure the development

Mr. Justice Woodward dismissed the claim with costs. He considered further, proceedings desirable, and directed that the papers be sent to the D.P.P.

Mr. Turner contended that the first-

defendant was guilty of larceny, because he knew perfectly well that he had co business to deliver ice without a direct order.

called to the recent statement made by Dr. Wa Tingfang's attention has been Dr. W. W. Ten in which he declared that China would seek, at the Washington Conference to have worked out gen erat principles which can be applied in solving individual problems wherever they may arise in the future developments op the Pacific." Dr. Wa observed that further definition of general principles

The Magistrate: He said so, of course- regarding China would hardly add to the definiteness, and clarity of the principle. And a little dificulty in believing that of the independence and integrity of the man could have reasonable expecta China and the doctrine of the Open Door tion that the coolie was authorised, and which have been afirmed and re-affirmed then that he should supply the coolie. by Japan with Great Britain, France, Russia and the United States. The dil culty has hitherto lain in the application of these well-defined general principles to individual problems like Shantung and the allied and greater question of the Twenty-One Demands. And if Dr. Yea means that these two concrete and urgent issues are to be excluded from the ambit of the Washington Conference, which is the view now being pressed by Japan, Dr. Wu Ting-lang is prepared to hazard the opinion that, whatever else the Conference may achieve, China will At a special meeting of the Singapore stand' precisely where she does to-day Municipal Commission. the President If Dr. Yen wants more general principles and the Chief Engineer outlined the applicable to China and elsewhere in the needs of the town and the bringing up Pacific region, Dr. Wu Ting-fang believes We had in the first place to ascertain of all the departments to a satisfactory that the Covenant of the League of our exact position with regard to the state, involving the spending

of Nations contains a goodly assortment, to Anglo-Japanese Agreement. been much dou

There and irnp00,000 in ten years. The scheme which he craves to refer Dr. Yen,

ather pl notification to the League of Nations an increase on the rates to 32 per cent. YEN'S CONNECTION WITH ORDER made last, Jely constituted a denuncia together with Government grants and tion of the Agreement in the sense of fresh sources of revene. The meeting "Clause 6. If it did, it would have been approved the scheme.

necessary to decide upon some interin mensure regarding the Agreement pending to a summary of the report made ing fuller discussions with the other by the Free Press are:- Pacific Powers, and negotiations withi More water now and a margin of safety this object in view were in point of fact for the future.

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MOMENTOUS STEP.

FOR QUO'S ARREST.

The Magistrate: The position as to the first defendant seems quite clear. He is in a responsible position; he is en- trusted with duties to which he has made no objection, hitherto, on the score of impracticability to issue ice on pro- duction of

There was not, in the., Golf book, any ordor, or, evidence of any order, for the 100 lbw, of ice found emerging from the factory that morning. I am unable to and that the defendant had reasonable grounds. for believing himself justified in issuing

If we are the fen: to the coolic suppose that he might think, himself entitled it would open the door to end- les possibilities in the way of misappro Priation of stores.

to

Sentence was deferred at the cass against the alleged receiver had been con- cluded. CANTON, August 19th. The following interesting letter has been addressed to Dr. W. W. Yen, of the chi, & member of the Government here, Peking Foreign Office, by Mr. Quo Tai- who was sent to Peking by the Govern ment last winter to negotiate with the Diplomatic Body for the release of the southera portion of the Customs. Sur- plus:-

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Mr. Hall submitted that it had not been proved that the goods had been re- ceived by the other defendant.

Mr. Turner intimated that at a fur ther bearing, (it being, then 1 p.m.) he hoped to convince the Magistrate, by. citing cases, that possession by a servant was possession by a master.

The Magistrate said he agreed with Mr. Hall that there was not much evi- dence against the other defendant." After some discussion the Magistrate gave the shop keeper the benefit of the doubt and discharged him.

THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

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already in progress. If on the other hand, it did not, the Agreement would remain in force until denounced by Japan or ourselves, and would be

per cent. of houses." actually determined until twelve months Electric light for streets and houses. from the date when notice of denuncia

Cheap and icient tram service.

"Six-When the report first reached tion was given. The Japanese Govora. Be-housing schemes and arterial roads. me that you had instigated the issue of ment took the view that no notice of New abattoirs. new municipal offices, the secret order for my arrest by the denunciation had yet been given.

This

houses for staff, new small Town Fengtien Military Folice during my view was shared by the Secretary of Bail. Tanding facilities and exten-visit in Peking last February as a repre- The salesman at the Dairy Farm fac State for Foreign Affairs, but as con- sive, reclamation works..

sentative of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Dr. Wutory was then sent to prison for two. siderable doubt existed, we decided after

Ting-fang and Mr. Tang Shao-yi to month.. £ preliminary discussion in the Imperial

cegotiate for the release of the accumu Cabinet to refer the question to the Lord Chancellor, who considered it with the respective Governments. He, expressed lated Customs Surplus belonging to the to give it. Law Officers of the Crown, and held that these conversations a very strong hope South, I was reluctant notice of denunciation had not been that this exchange of views might, if credence. As confirmation of the report. heir Governments shared our desire however, has lately reached me from an given..

One of the latest Home papers coa- no longer It follows that the Anglo-Japanese in the respect pave the way for a con authoritative source. I can Agreement, remains in force unless it is ference on the problems of the Pacific remain silent. I beg to ask you the tains the following:

The report of the Commission on the The views of the following questions:- denounced, and will lapes only at the had the Far-East

(1)Did you consider what would Opium Traffe of the League of Nations. expiration of twelve months from the resident of the United States were time when notice of denunciation is bade public by the American Government be probable and natural consequence in is to be submitted to the Council of the League, now in scasion in Gepera, in given. It is, however, the desire of both his morning. It is known to the House. the event of my falling into the clutches the course of a few days. It is known the British Empire and Japan that the

of the Fengtien Hsien Ping who are that it includes two principal recom Agreement should be brought into com- M Harding has taken the momentous really Chang Tso-lin's blood-hounds 1

mendations. First, the Council is re plete harmony with the Covenant of the step of inviting the Powers to a confer-

"(2.) And realizing the fatal conse

quested to seek permission from League of Nations, and that wherever the Covenant and the Agreement are in- the limitation of armaments, to quence, did you really think the nature Central Government of China for the consistent, the terms of the Covenant held at Washington in the near future, of my mission warranted the infliction of League nations stationed in China to address themselves directly to the leaders shall prevail. Notice to this effect his so suggests a preliminary meet the penalties involved 1

3.As you had the whole force of of the Chinese military forces in their gonPacific and Far Eastern questions been given to the Tengue."

between the Powers most directly in the Waichiaopu at your command and respective localities, orging them to terested the peace and welfare of that easy official access to the Diplomatic refrain. from the cultivation of the The broader discussion of Far-Eastern great rtion, which is assuming the first Body in Peking, why was it necessary for poppy, which, though forbidden by Gov and Pacific policy to higreement on dra in international aftur en sexke the assist one of the Feng rambnen once for several years. past, turned showed general on

ay that we welcome with the tien. Hsien Ping, instead of dealing with has been encouraged by these military the main lines of the course which the utmost Jasure President Harding's me as man to man?

leaders

as a source of revenue to sustain Imperial Cabinet desired to pursue. I wise and hurt our initiative. In saying (4.)-If, however, you, considered the cost of maintenance of their soldiers. have already explained that the first this, I kud that I speak for the Empire these means inadequate to deal with me

Second, the Council is requested to. principle of our policy was friendly as a whole The world has been looking as man to man why did you not send one appoint a speciali Commission of Inquiry

with the United States. We to

the Und States for such a lead of your yarasa-runners with an ultima personally to visit the provinces in China. co-op convinced that upon this more I am cqnida bat the House will esteem tum, more especially as this course was the extent of the cultivation and the

where the poppy is

Acertain any other single factor de it as an act far-seeing statesmanship, followed by one of your colleagues with pend be peace and well-being of the and will whtheartedly wish it success zone, of your foreign and Christian methods of marketing the prohibited.

the Den We also desire, 25.

as I have

stated, need hardhay that no effort will be training and

drug. There has been so much to maintain our close friendship and co- lacking to me it so on the part of acquaintance th me!

shorter personal testimony on these and other points con

pointing operation with Japan. The greatest the British, sh shares to the full the (5.) Could it be that your long stay that it is regarded as essential to gather"

nected with the growth and use of opium marit of that valuable friendship is that liberal and pressive spirit inspiring in Germany and your present tenure of the facts at first hand, as the basis of it harmonises the influence and activities it.

Let me add by ons word as to the office in Peking as a servant of the Bandit intelligent and successful attempts at the of the two greatest Asiatic Powers, and thus constitutes an essential safeguard part played in the events by the gather War Lord, have rendered you incapable suppression of the opium trafic. to the well-being of the British Empire ing of the impel Conference in Down of acting otherwise than appealing to And peace of the East. We also aim at ing-street. ure to say that the force-to crude Fruscianism embodied in preserving the open door in China," and action we have en could not have Chang Teo-lin and his Hoien Ping?

In the interest of your claim as a

IF YOUR WEAR GLASSES · tually of peaceful progress and develop-unanimous & fash but for the intimate mines and as a Chinese, Christian, I at giving the Chinese people every oppor been taken in sorompt, effective, and

modern-educated. and

Western-trained there is almost as much "comfort: and ment. In addition to these considera-

personal consultat bet

between the Prime

pleasure in wearing Pince-nez Eye repre- venture to suggest that these questions sions, we desire to safeguard que ornithaies of hodin, and the xpre demand o autogorical copy from your Glasses, as thors' is in possessing clude any competition in naval Arma ing enabled us to 4 We have taken Your obedient servant,

perfect pair of eyes for they fit so com ments between the Pacife Powers. All counsel together wit reserve. With

(Sd.) Quo TAI-CHI. #

fortable and secure that you forget you. the representativer of the Empire agreed this result before uspood not elaborate that our standpoint on these questions the inestimable val that intimate

have them on the most important im-" WORLD THEATRE. should be communicated with complete collaboration in the duct of the Em

provement in eye-glasses in the past frankness with the object-of-securing

the United States, Japan, pire's affairs. to and China,

The management of the World Theatro twenty-five years, Pincentz Eye Glames. Colonel T WARD tad whether in an exchange of viewa,

which might

lead these negotiations was to be treat inform us that they have made arrange to more formal discussion and conference. ed as a Sovereign and her repro ments for securing the sole rights for of any prescription in either regular or The Secretary of State for Foreign sentatives left to com& decision, with screening a number of Bret rank pictures Torio form are manufactured by the Affairs accordingly held conversations the Chinese Governm without the in- at their theatre including the nempe Hongkong Optical Co., successors to terference of any otheistic Power Carpentier Fight, Eyes of Youth, and ese Ambassadors and the Chinesa

Mr. LLOYD GEGRU will be treat- Desert Gold. A new and complete Clark & Co., Manufactoring and Ba tor, at which he communicated to themed as she-is-as an andent Powar electrio lighting plant has now been fracting Opticians the most competent the views of the Imperial Cabinet, and We made the same punications to installed at the theatre, so there will be optical manufacturing establishment in naked, in turn, for the views of their the Chinese Governmels to the other no cause to complain of the the light South Ching-located in 53, Queen's

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