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THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRE38, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19TH, 1999.

CABLES LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS. FAR EASTERN CABLE

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

مینی

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC

PROBLEM.

AMERICAN PREPARATIONS FOR

PARTICIPATION".

NEW YORK, December 17th. Despatches from Washington indicate

participate in the investigation of Ger many's ability to meet her Reparations obligations.

As an initial step, in order to assist in the solution of European problems, it is reported that President Härding has

ANOTHER CONFERENCE

SUGGESTED.

WASHINGTON, December 17th. In the Senate, Mr. King of tab, introduced I resolution authorising President Harding to call a Washington

with which the United States have diplo matic relations, with the object of activ- ing at a general international agreement effectually to reduce, and limit land and en armaments, in the interests of peace and for the relief of all nations from the expenditure on preparations for war.

BRITISH EVACUATION OF

* DUBLIN.

ENTHUSIASTIC SENDOFF FOR

NEWS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.) SKEIOUS ANTIFOREIGN OUTRAGE

*... AT. TIENTSIN.

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TROUBLE OVER À TEN DOLLAR NOTE.

TIENTSIN, December 17th.

It appears that, on Saturday night Signor A. L Boveri (Chief of the Italian

AMERICA · ́TO-DAY.

country!

"A" DARKEN. SIDE.

Bounded the Senators on the advisability tion of the British evacuation of Dublin Tungchow a soldier demanded a tax of so young and yet so splendid, so | spoken that "Joy.in widest commoraltying up on every side, new roads being

of another international conference..

what happens to a man who is down the splendid gorge through which it flows. Why, min-1-r, it is fast becoming a slave They also soured for the public the AN AMAZING CIVILISATION.

shores of the lakes that He in a glittering obain outside the town-like the lakes of [BY HAROLD SPENDER IN THE

Hamburg City. They have saved thomes DAILY TELEGRAPH."

Various leaflets and bills, hidden away in shores for over from the selfishness of side streets--but not published in the news villadom. Now each lake has a great MINNEAPOLIS," October, paper-express the same sentiment, which Bafectory" for the people, a big store During the last three days we Salgrave explains the very hitter feelings that lie bo-house of boats, and a bathing centre for disarmament conference of Government, ITALIAN CHIEF OF POLICE FIRED ON. / delegates have taken a lightning tour of hind the present railway strika, and which | Saturdays and Sundays. Soms way down the Mid-West. We have travelled through also lay behind the first miners' strike is great picnic place, with seats and three States, and now we are in a fourth. trites dangerona and ominous, both intents and there the people come in The three States are And South Dakota, and the fourth the spirit shown on both sides and in thousands to see the beautiful falls of the the weapons used. The injunctions" staying at To-day

have in The Peling and Tenten Times ro Minneapolis. To this brief space fine which have now bean approved by the Longfellow's immortal reine, America, is Mid-West, with rare and extraordinary againgi Labour, carried and enforced with those little waterfalls have shrunken up. that American experts will probably burdens of inordinate and unnecesar Ports another serious anti-foreign out have visited five important cities of the Courts. amount, really, to coercion laws not a happy land for waterfalls. Even opportunities for a bird's-eye view of their the general approval of the great American perhaps appalled at the fate of the fals splendid development and amasing pos middle classes. Meetings and speeches are of St. Anthony nearby-falls which hars sibilities.

forbidden, and private sentiments are liable been harnessed and bitted, dammed and For in each of these cities we have been to be reported and punished. The Indus walled, sproned and curtained, till the received by reception committees, headed by Police at Tientsin), Signor Zotti, an- the Mayor of the city, and containing allra Court created by the State of Kansas Mississippi itself seems ashamed of them.

the most induential citizens. In each case was found by us, an investigation, to be little Returning from our ride, we pasy od other Italian, and two Ruselan chauffeurs they have not only feasted and banqueted us more than a court for the suppression and through a district where this new land is

·TROOPS.

from Peking were proceeding to. Tientsin their quick fashion, all the chief features of the other side to the joy of which I have forment of new Efe-wooden houses spring

but they have also shown us, in punishment of Labour agitators. Such is passing through all the offervescenes and LONDON, December 17th.

by road. At the South barrier at their Remarkable scenes marked the comple-

and yet so finished, so enterprising spread." and yet

bitten out of the ground by great machines, Puzzled and perplexed by this sombre all this growth driving ahead at fremhied and the transfer of the remaining bar one dollar ninety conts.Signor Boveri What are the impressions left on contrast, I spent last Sunday morning speed, penetrating ery inch of the woods

British minds after this rapid survey raoke and posts. Dane cheering our offered a $10 note and asked for change, There is first, the impression of amazandaring through the poorer districts of left to private enterprise. For the life of lined the streets when the last four British regiments, numbering between but the soldier insisted that the exact ng natural resources being developed at Lincoln, Nebraska, and "talking to the young America works with a rast, reckless,

lightning steed by the quickest three and four thousand men, marched amount must be handed to him.

in working men in the little wooden houses consuming, almost devastating energy- been on this planet. that struggle along the unpred sidewalkL. Already the vast pine forests which covered marched past General Macready.

that great valley of the Missouri and half-made runds that lie behind the these regions have been devoured. The pressure of the crowd as the North Wall While the conversation was proceeding

up which we travelled from Kansas Bashing glory of the main streets I grout saw mills of an earlier period have was so great that the ranks were broken other soldiers begun loading their rifles, City through Lincoln and Omaha right as chanced upon an average poor man's vanished, for there is no more wood to and the quay gates rushed. '.

Sioux Falls, that pioneer outpost The Irish commander-in-chief, General and Signor Boveri tendered his card, of the earlier stage of settlement. So dwelling little unpainted shack," and saw, and the ground is covered with young Mulcahy, attended the transfer of mili- suggesting that the matter be adjusted rich is the soil, se fertile right down to I opened talk with an old lady and an old birth and aspen trees, now being torn up

depth of about 100ft that at present no workman who were rocking themselves in their turn.

American rocking- the Irish tricolor, and also reviewed the with the soldiers superiors at Tientsin. aultivator needs Artificial aid for the on the inevitable Free State garrison. The last troops He assumed that the matter was settled production of those rich and bountiful crops chair on the verandah in the sun.

In the midst of all these newly-settled which make this part of America the Thay were both cheerful, healthy homes we mwa large, oblong, white-painted

rator of sailed to the strane uld Lang Syne" and reentered his car, but had only gene granary of

of the world. The Governor and "Let Erin Remember."

types of the elderly American Sha speaking at ten yards when three or four shots were e

our banquet showed me her bouse. The rent was building of wood. It was a " grade school", compared the valley of 250 a year. I could obtain lodging in settlers. My kind host explained to me stari to the Nile Valley,

our elementary school" for the new cats also two or the street so the za ured me, as that this school was what is called three

But the Misunfurnished room for fire dollars (£1) a year.

*section school.” These schools exist only souri Vin

has one great advantage over month But they were all houses which in wooden sections. They are put together The foreigners · immediately stopped alloy of the Nile, because it can I would have been condemned by a good like a house of wooden bricks, to provide a

produce those crops without the incon British "local authority; and I thought venience of a yearly flood. Indeed, the very would prefer to stay at home and inhabit newly-developing district with school extravagance of nature in this region of one of our new concrete Government while a more permament structure is build- the earth creates new danger. For is cottages in Buckinghamshire; for they are ing. I wondered what our good fire insur- encourages the thriftless farmer, and, for

car feeling gently stunned-as a poor. the moment, places the thrifty farmer at a palaces in comparison, and the rent is ance companies would say, and sat in the money

compete with the man who is using up the wealth of the soil Yet even this rich

soil will have its period of exhaustion, and it is then that the Mid-West will pass into a more critical and more difficult phase.

EARLIER CABLES. AMERICAN PARTICIPATION"

New York, December 17th. American participation in European

affaire dominates the 'news and editorial columns of the American press The determination of Mr. Harding to find some way to join in ættling the repara- tions problem is generally approved. The Republican newspapers see in this a logical development of the Republican policies, while the Democratic papers argue that the new development justifies Mr. Wilson's policies.

U.S. PRESS FAVOURS AMERICAN SOLUTION.

The

tary beadquarters, after which the boisted

ILLICIT EXCHANGE SPECULA-fired,

TIONS.

"

DUTCH-BELGIAN ENQUIRY.

BRUSSELS, December 17th.

FIFTY-TWO SHOTS STRIKE

· TRAVELLERS' CAN.

the

the

the

which

PASSION FOR SCHOOLS.

The Nation Beige states it has been and left the car. Signor Boveri went to decided to send a commission of legal the soldiers' hut in order to investigate The Tribune, Republican, congratulated experta to Amsterdam to help the Nether-when the soldiers struck him with their the administration on its apparently lands legal authorities to enquire into catering the European economic problem he a little or nothing Britisher so often does at the achieve

in which a firm situated in the Nether-burst of Kring began, hundreds of shots on phosphates and nitrates cannot for housing in America. lands is alleged to be implicated.

at the precise moment when an American solution has become possible.

The World, Democratic, rejoices to per ceive that the President is beginning to discover the impossibility of the policy of isolation, and that discontent here must grow unless the agriculture surplus finds a market abroad.

The New York Times advocates equip ping Europe with ploughs and seeds, not for humanity's sake but because it is good business. It isn't saving the old world, but the whole world, ourselves included."

LATEST CABLES. LAUSANNE CONFERENCE. RUSSIA BECOMES IMPATIENT.

LAUSANNE, December a17th The Russians have again written to t Secretariat of the Conference, alluding to

Y

the absence of a reply to their communi- cation of December 12th in reference to Bussian participation in all Straits die cussions, for which they suggest the

formiation of a yub-commission.”

EARLIER CABLES.

THE LOSS OF THE

"VINHLONG"

CONSTANTINOPLE, December 17th..

STEAMER COLLISION.

BRITISH VESSEL HADLY INJURED.

YaUIDEN, December 17th.

being fired. fifty-two of which struck car, but the foreigners, who were all at "safe distance, were not hurt

the

a

The foreigners all went to the hut, nod the soldiers re-entered and cleaned their rifles, but did not molest the foreigners

The British steamer Elizabeth Harrison, outward bound, and the Dutch steamer Prinses Juliano, from Batavia, collided further. in the North Sea Canal. The former was badly and the latter slightly damaged. The former is returning to Amsterdam for repairs.

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL

ELECTIONS.

PROBABLE COALITION

GOVERNMENT.

MELBOURNE, December 17th The latest election returns' indicate the following possible state of parties: Nationalist 27, Labour 35, Country 10, Several doubtful seats may Liberal 3. alter the postion, “

78.

victory Senate returns are not yet to hand, but as only half of the Senators face the electors at each general election,

with DNA exception, до Opposition majority in the Senate is extremely un- The death roll on the French transport | likely.]" Vinhlong is now estimated at fifteen, including elght Senegalese riflemea. ́PARLIAMENTARY. BY- There was a dreadful panie on the vessel, which besides a crew of three hundred carried a company of Senegalese and some officers' wives, making five hundred, also army stores Rescue work was hampered by explosions of the munitions and smoke and Rames Destroyers came so close

aboard them down ropes and planka.

A British destroyer tried to tow the transport ashore in order to beach her, but was unsuccessful. Salvago tugs were powerless in the face of the Boating furnace. It is believed the fire was due to a short circuit

ELECTION.

CASTLE EAST.

LONDON, December 27th. The first death in the new Parliament,

at Newcastle East, where the late Mr. has taken place, involving a by-election Bell gained his sent by a majority of

3,085.

After three hours an official arrived and apparently reprimanded the soldiers,

who allowed the car to proceed.

The damage" is estimated at $400 but the car was workable and reached Tien tain on Sunday morning.

iza

CENTERS OF DISTRIBUTIONS.

We tamed talk of wages and prices.ments of this all-conquering civilisation. The old man, I learnt, was her lodger instance of the school passion whisk The section school" is only one new painter. There was also another lodger. the old lady slept in the kitchen. She consumus this people. I learn that all was a widow of 76. I told her of our through the country districte up in these English old-age pensions-10s. a week over scattered, thinly-peopled States of the Mid- 70. Her eyes sparkled "Ahi" she said. Wost they are organining "community Dotted throughout - this tremendous That is the country for a poor old woman schools" These are central schools, to which country are the grest cities of Lincoln, to live in!" For of course, they have country children are conveyed in a system Omaha, Minnesota, and St. Paul. They are ao old-age pensions in America, nor sick of motor wagons. They are said to be at huge centres of collection and distribution for the agricultural wealth of this region. insurance, nor unemployment benefit, nor once cheaper and more useful than the wealth of the son, taming the come into our wo hare set up in England-except in with them there is developing a system of these citics capitalists collect the any of the great social machinery which entered schools of the old order. Along village and factory libraries by the school and the bogs into bacon, converting at some States, workmen's compensation. immense read the vast and varied products The old painter, the lodger, then talked authorities. Sometimes I wonder whether of these river valleys into food both for their in his slow, cheerful, American way. He all these things good as they are--really own Continent and for ours. Here you see was working eight hours a day, and or make up for the very high taxes of the the great elevators and the great stores ing 60 (half-a-crown) an hour. He had Federal, State and City Governments. For which seem to overshadow, mere may nothing to complam of, except prices. But these taxes, taken together, are a very hoary burden on the small middle-class thing is on a vast colomal scale. organisations seem to overshadow the in the usual complaint of the American work- For this middle class man, here se in dividual farm. The

speed of

of the mundane man, Tain tright that the rich should be England, who often sends his children to movement dirty and

dazzling for the poor drinking it when the poor man can't get it. private school, does not gain so very much Karopean, and while he watches all this It'stands to reason that that ain't fair!" from all this expenditure. Like that old

he reflects

and depressed by a

to hint at the moment when machinery,

then he was a single man, easy-going and

FINANCIAL FREEDOM FOR CHINA HAYO taken the place of humanity contentéd. "About Prohibition be expresset American man.

THE CONSORTIUM CRITICISED.

ADVOCATED.

LONDON, December 17th."

nation

of which

sbsence,

we

has doprociated twenty to thirty per cent, expanse of thou look out over a vast rolling about in a car than stayin' home drinkin⚫ motorists drive all the way from. Min.

to

field, 'in

ernment deprived of the power to utilise more than

function"

DATAMAZING PROGRESS..

An article in the Financial Times, on Continent, dig forlornly on his darkened for the American, like the Englishman, lady in the back street at Lincoln, be, too, (A Reuter's telegram published yester the pancial needs of China, dwells on the thousand human problems. Here he sees a has a consuming sense of "fair play" would prefer some benefits of a more fleshly that has apparently decided to throw and the present contrast between the kind. Prices mount all the time; and the day gave the total number of seats as now Consortium's unpopularity in China ite whole energy into its own development, drink opportunities of the rish man and fact that the President has passed the consisted of 75 members, but it is possible

The Last House of Representatives and complains that the British attitude and for the moment seems to think only the poor gives him a deep and abiding Fordy Tariff, while vetoing the Bonus

of Europe in order to pity her.

offence, and partly explains that moan of Bill, has not been received with any shout of that, owing to an increase in population seems to be to insist that China must da]

Such is one. side of the great moving unrest which one can always hear behind exultation. For although Uncle Sam likes the present Lower House will consist of business with the Consortium or nobody. Panorams is at me fairly record that the clash and clatter of this prosperous Ball, likes to buy in a cheap one; and

which we have witnessed. On

to sell in a dear market he also, like John' 76 members. From the figures to hand a

the other The writer asks-If the Chinees Gov-never before have I seen such an immense American life. National-Country Party Coalition seems

The old lady chipped in with her point But there is no Geddes movement here yet. there are no cheap markets left in America 1 This would be looked on as a Government Consortium, are other avenues to be clot good. This is a land of splendid schools of view, "I reckon the antemobile's doing gtill the authorities are sponding with both probable in the House of Representatives. prament" is unable to do business with the readiness to use wealth for the common

And

wonderful universities. While we sa much harm as the drink. Everyone's and Anglo-American investors to suffer were in Topeka, that picturesque city just mad on it. They'll spend their last hands. Perhaps the expenditure on roads

which bave visited for the indefinitely 1.. -

second dollar on it." The old workman would not is greatest of all Concrete roads are being time after two years' VESSEL A FLOATING FURNACE. and the Government holds overy seat DEPRECIATION OF CHINESE CREDIT. motored some twenty miles to the town hare that "Why, I guess," he put in his cut at express speed right across the Mid- Lawrence half way to Kansas City There slow, raminating way, "I guess it's a West. There will shortly be a continuous He is of the opinion that Chinese credit we ascended a hill called "The Orand" on the long sight better for a man to be going concrete road, without a single break, from

+ Kansas State to New York. Already top of

the rich State of Kansas Cover Which is perhaps nearer the truth on account of the default of the Vicirersing the summit of this hill is a gigantic uni- That is how the other half lives." Not neapolis to California. The other day I Marconi Pacific development and the versity, with 6,000 studenta, young men and for them, these old working people, the free ma wan who had taken a motor tour of young women. The university is supported golf courses, the great universities, the huge wonder the railway companies are becoming 4,000 miles right through Canada No DEATH OF MEMBER FOR NEW- Chicago Continental Bills, and declares firent buildings, with every variety

by the State of Kansas. It possesses magni public parks. All that glowing civilisation alarmed. that many reproaches. levelled against #Faculty both old and new-from classics leaves them untouched. It is for the young

It really looks as if the motor-car and the active. All they want these old The tuition is absolutely free, dentistry. Peking are undeserved, because no Gor) and no parent of any student has to pay people is to have the wheels of life oiled running on a vast State system of concreta;

Charles Wake- maintenance. Sir

A little as they go down the road to the roada, and passing from good hotel to hotel that many persons escaped by klambering namely the Labour member, Mr. Bell, its revenues for national purpoas Cap Kansas University, received a tremendous system of thorough provision against the seriously challenge the American railway..

#greeting from London to grave that awaits ne all; and the British in these beautiful cities, might in the end oration from 3,000 students gathered in the three great distresses of average lifeWe can all the more seriously entertain great auditorium, which can now only hold sickness, accident, and old age-touched that speculation after all these nights OPEN FINANCIAL COMPETITION about half of the members of the university them instantly more vividly than all this spent on American railways, even with

SUGGESTED.

display England"- the old lady put shaken bodies. For this dragging railway the luxury of a special car to soothe our The writer declares that Peking should These young men and young woman come it is the country for a poor old woman bo given freedom-to deal with bankers in for the most part, from the scattered farms to live in 1" But the old man mghed strike, with the slow but sure depreciation "ARMY'S INCREASING, TASK.

Enasss. They are trained in all the patriotically to hear that, and slowly pat the end, precipitate a change. Already it of rolling stock that is going on, may, in London, Washington, Paris and Tokyo, scientific sides of their agricultural patsits, in: "Ab but America is a great has greatly increased the use of the motor TOO MUCH "TROPICAL SERVICE.

in open competition, and considers that and they go back to run their farms in the ASSASSINATION.

most up-to-date fashion, linked to the world country!" The Earl of Midleton, speaking at Kings-

the Maritime Customs, and Salt Gabelle byone now supplemented by the ex And so it is I have been motoring ever give it up?

the universal motor car and the universal GREAT INDIGNATION DISPLAYED. ton at a banquet given by the Mayor, said would enable China to raise the capital

tending Radio. That is the which that as one who had served for twelve needed to put her house in order, explains why you will and to the remote to-day through the suburbs of this great, WARSAW, December 17th M. Narutowicz died in a few minutes years at the War Office he desired to make

He asserts that with open competition farms of the Mid-West men of the highest handsome city of Minneapolis, only fifty His aide-de-camp arrested the assailant plea on behalf of the men of the Re the prices of China's bonds would im intelligence and culture, finding in agrical-years old, but already enriched with splen official returns of the county of

tura à stimulating pursuit, and laughing did public buildings, a great university, and taken to the Palace in the Pros Army had to police a larger part of the prove. The funds, required could be at you when you suggest that they are and glacious parks. It is a dream city of London which have just been issued, give The body was covered with a Polish fing gular Army Before the war the British

world than the Army of say ather nation, raised, on the most advantageous terms, remote from the world. They possess incredible wealth-this "Uity of Water the population of the capital se 7,480,201. dential carriage, followed by a large and there was a danger now that the Army and lenders would exert themselves to indood, both the advantages of remotenessita Iruge four mills run solely by the The area known as "Greater London" had crowd in awed silence, All flags were hdif-masted and pifces of amifsoment would be expected to do too inne breement obtain guarantees for proper Administra moment, ran into the neighbouring town athon Falle on the Mississippi, that million during the last ten years. In the and vicinity, for they can always at any art power that comes from the St. increased its inhabitants by over half-a- closed. Business was also suspended and conferences since 1918 had been to tion and for their own protection

The result of practically all the agreement

in their Ford card, or

or listen is There is great indignation at the outrage,

the Radio to concert or speechs from mighty river which, here in its early youth, Administrative County, consisting of the the adjacent city. Barely here is the only 200 miles from its source, yet sweeps City and 28 Metropolitan Boroughs, the most amazing development of human life through this city and its suburbs with a population was 4,484,823, a decrease af reminding ens more of the dreams of marcha of mighty, silver-glistening power. over 37,000 in ten years, pointing to a Erewhon and the Utopies of More, Bellamy. What a city !! What a ver! But even Londency to mek homes further from the and Wells than. anything elsewhere

exist

greater than the river is the mergy and Place of work The City, as the business ing on this strange and wonderful

cul planet. But

side of this enterprise of the men who have planted and beart of London is called, where many turn again to yet shines by night developed itman by no means all British Work but few aleof, is the most thinly Bustering civilisesionarling night. I had but largely Beaudinavian, for Minneapolis placed, for the most famous square

are only 20-inhabit a tall the other day with content on his group of fur noetug men from News for the wory zal, 385 more women than a brakesman on been largely peopled from Norway, A mile it world. wayside talks “Geel he

heid."Don't you be blinded by those Mayors and folt This gland, looking shend some twenty years ment in the Administrative County, in ago, foresaw that this city, lying here on Increase of 25,928, while the proportion got hold of everything food, bespoke down the banks of the Mississippi. So they men to 1,166 Nearly 28,000 of this sum is just a rich man's country. They have this tremendous ziver, would expand far has risen from 1,157 women per 1,000 houses

the very earth voʻlive Are grinding in down. They take toll of started a Parks Board and a parks tax, and bet, is accounted for by widows. Of theso everything rally the tolls. High under it they secured for the public the banks over 11,000 are in the age group, 20 to 20, Vages? Liok at the high price1. And ) of the glorious river, and the great views of Cand

Bil war widowa”“

*

POLISH PRESIDENT'S

but the country. is calmi

NEW CABINET TO BE FORMED.

The President of the Chamber, tem- porarily acting as President, has entrust ed the Chief of the General Staff, General Ladislas Sikorski, with the formation of

impose larger responsibilitics, wider spheres of activity and longer periods of servico abroad upon the Regular Army. Their numbers had been reduced, and there was hardly a soldier of age who was not forces to spend practically the whole of bla "service in foreign countries, usually

CHINESE PREMIERSHIP, CHANG SHOT TSENG'S NOMINATION

Dew Cabinet Skrzynski, the Polish under tropical conditions. That sort of A

Minister."

If Great Britain desired to police the

APPROVED,

PIRING, December 18th

Following his explanations of his poffey to a gathering of members of Parliament

ACTING CHIEF OF GENERAL

Near East, and also aimed at being the this morning, the House of Represents STAFF APPOINTED."

arbitor of the West, it could not be done tives this afternoon, approved of General by moving the same body of troops from Chang Shou Teng's nomination sa Pro- WanɛAW, December 17th. one place to another, and therefore states- Marsbol Pilsudski has agrood to pro- men must ask the nation to make the mier by 399 votes to 60. wizionally act as Chief of General Staffsxmáficos_necessary to maintain an ado- za succession to Marshal Bikorski,” quste Army.

The Bill wie Jutroduced by Jao Hiss Hsiang. Wa Ching Lion presided

B

A ̧UTFT AND A KIVIS,

car for long-distance travel. And once the American acquires that habit, will he

LONDON'S POPULATION.