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CABLES.

LATEST OABLES.

(THROUGH ZHUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMAN REPARATIONS. MOTION IN COMMONS, FOR SUSPENSION OF ACT

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY,

FRANCO-SWISS. DISPUTE, QUESTION OF FREE CUSTOMS ZONES.

The newe-

A DEBT SETTLEMENT. "AMERICA'S REPLY TO ALLIED PROPOSALS

ARCH 2918 – 1925.

FAR EASTERN CABLE IS THE MONARCHY DEAD

NEWS.

·{THROUGH REUTER'S (LUENOT.} ORIENTAL DEVELOPMENT

COMPANY'S BONDS..

BIG ISSUE IN" "NEW" YORK,

IN CHINA ?

VIEWS OF BIR EDMUND BACK.

HOUSE, BART,

THE CURSE OF CHINA.” REVALENCE OF BRIBERY AMONGST,

PUBLIC OFFICIALS. MAGISTRATE'S STRONG COMMENTS:

BERNE, March 20th.

WASHINGTOK, March 28th,

Two well-dressed Chinese were charged Mr. Hughes reply to the second

The recent marriage of the ex Emperor befors Mr. E E. Lindell at the Magis- Painful surpriss has been excited in Switzerland by a note from the French proposal by the Allied representatives for

Hauan Tung, and all the possibilities

tracy, yesterday morning, with offering involved therein, have raised in many Government requesting the Swiss Govern payment of the costs of maintaining the ment to enforce as early as possible the American army in Gormany, has been

New Yoxx, March 28th,

minds the question to which this article a bribe of $10 to a Chinese detective, a

Mr. I.co d'Almada appeared on behalf free zones convention of August 7th,cated to Mr. Wadsworth, the American

A banking syndicate, braded by the contributed to the new Peking paper the of both defendants and said that the facts LONDON, March 26th.

1921, although the referendum in Switzer-

representative in Paris, who will deliver National City Company will offer to Far Eastern Times seeks an answer. Sir were that the second defendant was A Captain W. Wedgwood Bean moved the

land on February, 18th, 1923, overwhelm-it at the meeting to-morrow of the com

morrow, $19,900,000 six per cent. bonds of Edraund Backhouse's intimate knowledge member of the Tang Sin Hospital Cour wapension of the German Reparations ingly refused its sanction.

mitte of the Reparations Commission, Recovery Act of 1921, on the ground that papers, even those pro-French, unani- The amount collected was small, and in-mously condemn the attitude of France which is considering the question, un- the Oriental Development Company, guar of Chinese affairs, and of the philosophy mittee at Chaton, and had been to It is believed the reply antoed by the Japanese Government. The that underlies Chinese political coop: Kongmoon with the object of collecting

tions and practice, qualifies him to suggest money for the hospital, as flouting Swiss democracy, Free zones officially.

and answer that cannot be lightly. On his return Journey he put up at a were established by the Treaty of Vienna indicates willingness by the United States price is 92. in 1815, to meet the peculiar geographical to deduct from the total claim the value

regarded. He writes:—.

boarding house in Hongkong and on the situation of the canton of Genova, which was surrounded by French territory of German property which, came into the

The role of a prophet is always a risky day of the offence he was returning from The France-Swiss agreement of 1860, possession of the American my FRENCH PRESS DEMANDING TRIAL one, and yet we have no hesitation in the house of Dr. Wong, where he had when Savoy became French, withdrew the

affirming that a permanent Restoration of French enstoms frontier some miles in result of the Armistice, probably about order to permit free trade with Savoy, 53 million gold marks but the Franco-Swiss convention August, 1021, abolished the zones. French contend that a convention accept- ed by the Swiss Parliament should not have been subjected to a referendam.

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convenience was caused to British traders, and also on sooount of the situation in #bo Buhr areni

Mr. Baldwin replied that there had been remarkably few complaints regarding the working of the Act, which had yielded £1,000,000 since April, and altogether £11,000,000. Up to the present there was mo sign of any falling off of trade, as

whale, with Germany.

of

The

The motion was rejected by 143 votes EINSTEIN AND LO‚N.

SUDDEN RESIGNATION CAUSES to 77.

A STIR.

Replying

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.

OF ANDRE BERTHELOT.

PARIS, March 26th. The failure of the Banque Industrielle de Chine has again come to the fare An influential section of the French Press characteristically excathedra pronounce

the Monarchy is impossible. In the Arst interviewed that gentleman as to a sub- year of the Republic the present writer, scription for the hospital On his way having ventured to assert in The from the house he mes the first defendant. Spectator that the Republic had come while the second defendant was in this to stay was severely taken to task (in Sun Company's store to buy some

U.S. MERCANTILE MARINE. SUGGESTIONS BY STEAMSHIP OWNERS

mant) by Mr. J. O. P. Bland in his "Pre cigarettes à Chiness detective accosted the is demanding the trial of M. Andre sent Policies in China." After ten years Arst defendant, the police suspecting that WASHINGTON, March 28th to a request by the Shipping Berthelot, ex-director of the Banque, in we still adhere to our opinion and he was collecting money for military pur-

maintain that we were justified then, and

the detective who he was and what wa Board for suggestions, the American connection with the large sum of money are still justified, in using then, she poses in Canton. The first defendant told Steamship Owners Association in a letter Andre Berthelot handed to his brother people are well satisfied with the Republic. his object, but the detective took him into Critics who point out the weakness of the custody and he was taken across the rond GENEVA, March 20th.

contral Government fall to remember that some Indian constables were stand Einstein's sudden resignation from the recommended that the Board should retire Philippe Berthelot in 1918. committee of the League of Nations from business and scrap all the inferior The latter has issued a statement deny the science of Chinese statecraft has ing. In the meantime the second defend- intellectual co-operation is described here vessels and sell the remaining tonnage to

"a brickbat thrown into the blue The expendituro for the coming year is waters of the League." Einstein was ap-/ American citizens withouli restrictions ng that the transaction was in any win! Blways been to let the country governant had coma on the scene and money was

COUNTING THE COST. IRELAND'S ESTIMATED EXPEN-

DITURE FOR

1992

Dustin, March 9th,

timated at over £42,000,000, including the arity £10,500,000, being an increase $1,000,000, and £10,000,000 compensation for damage to property,

MODERNISED BATTLESHIPS. BUGGESTED SEBIES OF DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES.

WASHINGTON, March 28th." It is suggested in official quarters that President Harding may institute a series. at diplomatic exchanges with Great Britain and Japan, in order to determine the extent that battle feets, allowed under the Washington Treaty, shall be moder

mised.

EARLIER CABLES,

INDIAN FINANCE BILL. BEJECTED BY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

Da, March 28th. The Legislative Assembly by 59 to 47 has Gually rejected the Finance Bill as it passed the Council of State, thus rofusing to double the salt tax. N

THE DEBATE IN THE ASSEMBLY.

LATER.

In the Assembly debats preceding the rejection of the Finance Bill, Jamaadas

03

AUSTRALIAN

SETTLEMENT.

SCREME TO POPULATE THE

TRUPICAL NORTH.

THREATENED STRIKE. WAGE CONFERENCE RESULTS IN

POSTPONEMENT.

FALL RIVERS, Massachusetts, Mar. 26th The textile werkers have postponed the strike threatened, in connection with the demand for a fiteen per cent, increase of wages, pending the outcome of a further ware conference on April 20th, which the manufacturers have asked for.

AUSTRALIAN SUGAR. FEDERAL PRICE GUARANTEE WITHDRAWN..

ever

if

it.

Iteolf without interference by the ruler. passed betweed the two to be Handed to It has been well said that the decline of the policeman, for the purpose of the policu showed that the men were attempts at centralization

Leaving saide the haloych days of the collecting money for the hospital.

Mr. d'Almada added: "I think your dynasty first manifests itself by excessive saving face." Enquiries made inter by

the Han Dynasty, wo find that her two Worship will agree with me that it is tho birth of China's history and starting from greatest rulers, Wen T of the Han and usual custom in Canton, in order to avoid Thinking that the same Chao Kuang yin, the founder of the Bung arrest for trivial offences, to pay over Dynasty, respectively owed their success to some money.

MELBOURNE March 29th. Mr. Bruce, the Premier, commenting on the arrival of New Zealand's ship Uhatham for exercises with the Australian Hicet, said be hoped such mutual co operation would be extended to the whole of the Dominions and Motherland, thus realising Empire naval co-operation with cut sacrifice of the Dominion ships, The not to renew the agreement with the ings in the Banque's stairs.

yeaue of future Queensland sugar growers after June SINGAPORE, HAVAL BASER Pacific would be the events, therefore it was necessary that the 20th, after which, the Governments will Pasito Powers should have the closet buy supplies from the cheapest possibl. QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. remarked "Man ought not to prop up possible unity

MELBOURNE, March 28th.

The Federal Government has decidedgarding the tardiness of judicial proceed./faxation that their decline began. But chinese detective arrested the defend-

pointed on the committee in May, 1999, all the vessels not sold after a reasonable bribery; declaring that the payment was n but was absent from the first meeting in August, 1929 His absence was believed time to be scrapped. They are of opinion famuy matter, not connected with the to be due to the unfavourable attitude of that "the American mercantile marine in Banque's affairs, and in accordance with the German universities towards the foreign trade cannot be built up through a proviso that it should be returned League, but Einstein wrote to the chair

Andre Berthelot required man saying his absence was due to his Government operation.”

Philippe Berthelot returned it in 1921, forthcoming departure for Japan, assar- ing him of his desire actively to co- operate with the committee on his return. One Swiss, paper comments at his raig

when the Banque was embarrassed, and the negation of the autocratic principle procedure held in Hongkong the defend. it was there placed unreservedly at the The iron hand of Kublai Khan compelled ants gave the money to the detective- subjection for some twenty years; but His clients had committed no offence in nation, as showing that Einstein is more

the company. disposal of

Philippe that monarch was unable to bequeath as the Colony and the police he contended, his had no right to arrest them without av German than Swiss, despite his Swign

A legal point in his favour Berthelot adds that he intervened more sther than troubled inheritance to naturalization.

long because the provinces enjoyed which, however, he did not pTHEN WHE often on behalf of the Banque de l'indo successor, The Ming Dynasty endured a warrant.

complete autonomy; while the Marchus that there was no offence in this case China than the Banque Industrielle.

profited by the resentment that the because the detective had no warrant QUESTIONS IN FRENCH CHAMBER appalling atrocition (unparalleled even and he had no right to arrest them; Premier Poincare declined to reply to in Chinese history) of the early years or therefore there could have been no bribery questions on the subject in the Chamber their dynasty had engendered, and made Even if his clients had been collecting for good their rule on the basis of respect military purpoew the detectives had no had, of course, to go through certain of Deputies, suggesting that the matter for the teaching of the anges that the right to arrest them. The defendants be left until the forthcoming debate. An voice of the people is the vaion of God formalities with the Secretary for Chinese

It was only when they endeavoured to Asin A interpellation was made by a deputy re-enforce upon the provinces unpopular.

Dotective Sergeant Ellis said that the for amistadon gives by Great Britain in ante because be was not mad with allowing Gordon to plan the campaign of their statemoore He had information the Imperial forces against the Taipings that the second man was soliciting sub-

policy of which the late Prime Its ecriptions for the Canton Army

The Magistrato:. That was no reason that which God is causing to totter

for arresting them, w the fanchus would have been dispossessed Lospor, March 26th.

fifty yours earlier, and Chint spared the Sergeant Ellis He is supposed to In the House of Commons, replying to misrule of the Empress Dowager and her have obtained permission from the Seere- Mr. Lambert, Mr. Bonar Law said that eunuch-ridden court. And it was the tary for Chinese Affairs, the General Staff, and the Air and Naval waaten disregard of repestod warnings The Magistrate He may be supposed. His Worship went on to say that the appearance from the acme after a fatile the Committee of Imperial Defence, con and infatuate attempt to defy the will detective had no right to arrest, except cerning the building of a naval base of the provinces in regard to railway ander a warrant of some kind. To the defendante he said. Even though the detective had no right to zTIEst you, you at Singapore, and approved its recom- policy. P mendations. The date of the final recom. At its birth the Republic es peculiarly had no right to give him the money. unfortunate in the fact that President Your duty was to have come to the mendation, that the decision of the late Yuna Shih-k'ai was rightly trusted by Station with him and explained. If you Government in favour of a naval base bo none (so far as Chinese were concerned), had done so there would have been no

and that his policy of playing off one trouble. This is the cured of China rearmed, was December 14th “B

Mr. Lambert asked whether Chiness or faction against another rendered unity this offering of bribes to Chinese public mon would be employed. ME imposible, as long as his sinister and servants which prevents them from doing Bapar Law said that that question did bunefal personality remained to menace what they consider to be their duty. You

the future. From the beginning he 'be ought to have known better. trayed the Republic by granting to the Manchu Emperor the right to remain in the Forbidden City pending some date în the dim and uncertain future when the Court should retire to the Summer Palace, which, as always in the esso of the Another point of vital importance, which Master, is founded on common cause and is (evidently of set purpose) not elucidated on the essential equality of mat in the terms of abdication, is the question If the picturesque relie in the Forbidden

Hoping to establish the cucleus of a white, contented population," the Federal divide the Government proposed to

Territory ialo four Land Northern districts, for settlement. Pastoral leases agricultural and town lets sold...

BULICS.

UNITED FRONT TO TURKEY

LONDON, March 26th.

Dwarkadas said that the Salt Tax would would be issued for 42 years, a conversations in London have resulted in staffs participated in the 'proceedings of that caused the Manchu dyresty's dis to but the law does not say so

go into every home as a messenger of revolution, and would force co-operators to admit the shallowness of the reforms, which, they believed, gave them rent

POWLIB.

Bir Montagu. Webb contcoded that the Salt Tax proposal was financially un- ecessary, and politically provocative.-

FLOODS AT BAGHDAD.

INTO A DESERT TRANSFORMED

·

LAKE.

BAGHDAD, March 28th.

The Allied delegates state that the complete Allied front visa via the Turkish counter proposals. -

EMPIRE CRUISER-WEIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP:/

LONDON, March 28th. At the National Sporting Club in the Bir Malvalm. Bailey replied that the Under the increasing pressure of foods, Empirs cruiser weight, championship, Jack proposal was made in the interest of the Tigris has burst its left bank twolve India alone, and the steps taken by the miles north of Baghdad. A handrod Soldier Jones (Canadian champion) who Government, under its extraordinary apowers, were perfectly constitutional He quare miles of desert around the city retired in the fifth round,

have been transformed into a lako, and

refused to believe that such steps would tribesmen and herds are taking refuge mean the wrecking of reforms. A

The President declined to allow dis, in the city. King Feisul turned out with cussion of the motion, stating that the his bodyguard and personally assisted to Viceroy was wrongly advised in the use repair the broach, which is threatening of extraordinary powers, and imploring the northern division of Baghdad. The him to abstain from certifying the Bill Maude Bridge, which was carried off, is It is understood that a non-official deatuck in the mud er milés downstreami. pratation will wait on the Viceroy' to The river shows no signs of falling

ALLEGED OIL MONOPOLY. PUSITION OF US. COMPANIES

morrow.

BANGE OF NAVAL GUNS. AMBIGUOUS CLAUSE IN NAVAL PACT.

IN BURMA.. WASHINGTON, March 28th

indentical Mr. Hughes has sent an mmunication to the Secretarics of the Interior and of Commerce, and the Federal Trade Commission, with regard

Bloomfold (British

champion)

beat

TREASURY BOND ISSUE.

LosDox, March 20th, The list of the Treasury Bond issue of March Yard, closed this morning.

EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS, : LONDON, March 28th,

white

not arise.

M. OLEMENCEAU'S STORY. TO BE FILMED WITH CHINESE ACTORS

The defendants were fined £50 each.

PARIS, March 28th. The filming has begun of M. Clemen In the exchange market French francs coo's work "Le Voile du Bonheur" of the continuance of the Imperial title City, with its ancestral worship in the depreciated to 73.55, then zallied sharply for the film production of which M. after the death of the ex-Emperor. The Hall which should be the Pantheon of the Clemenceau recently signed a contract. Manchu House is under the food impres. Republic; with its levish bestowal of post- at the last hour to 71.30 on Continental The plot is laid in China, the principal sion that it is to be continued for all humous rank and canonization upan support.

Belgian Francs touched 85.85, then character being a blind poet who magically time; and it would be well, if Parlia faithful courtiers, with its mediaeval po

recovers his sight only to find a friend ment were to interest itself in this matter and blazon of vanished power, its five- improved to 85.25 Sterling in New York has stolen his work and that his wife is by passing an act that the Imperial title clawed dragons and its Pu Tzu, ite closed better at 4.59.

unfaithful, and finally tears out his eyes shall not be hereditary nor capable of eunuchs and its peacocks feathers, pre- that the Manchir sents to the new ora a eulion (albeit LONDON, March 28th.

in order that the veil of happiness shall transmission, and In view of the misapprehension in

A CORRECTION.

norer again be rent. All the actors, ex- Emperor shall fulfil the terms of his ineffectual) challenge, and defiance, is there erlain quarters with regard to Great

cept no woman, are Chinese amateurs, abdication by withdrawing to the Summer pot & more vital danger to the Republic from some military aspirant to imperial: Britain's attitude towards the range of

WASHINGTON, March seth..

and the furnishings have been brought Palace her heavy naval guns, as affected by the

The masage regarding the naval ratio from China. The scones have been con-

Although in our opinion there fe not honmurs who may follow in the steps of Washington treaties, it is pointed out to statenients that Queen Victoria signed

and Ming dynasties! In our judgment that the United States Senate recently proclamation, in 1884 and that su

relative Baval detail.COM Clemenovania personally the slightest danger of a permanent Res. the founders of the Han, Tang, Sung torstipa of the Monarchy, the the answer is in the negative: - Tusn voted a sum for increasing the range of agreement was made with Britain in 1886 of the Fowers should have read Ex-structed with the greatest attention d

Emperor's continued residence in the

Shhh'ai's usurpation will find the American naval guar in view of the eluding American oil companies from porta consider the

Forbidden City is highly provocative imitators In these days of rapid com alleged increase in the range of the Burma, and protecting the Burma Gil strength of Britain, the United States. superintending the filming.

in calculated to raise false hopes among munications and then that power of the British main batteries contrary to the Company from all foreign competition and Japan is actually, 6, 5, 4, instead of

the Royalist party. It was his presenon the Washington treaties. It is It says the British Government han 5, 5, 3 as originally agreed." terms wow definitely stated that the range of stated that these documenta "are spurious, the British gans has not been increased and the State Department has accepted

OBITUARY.

MME SARAH BERNHARDT.

since the treaties were concluded, and the this statement United States has been informed necord- ingly. When the Senate voted the money competent circles in London pointed ont that the clause in the Washington treaties with regard to the elevation of gur mountings was somewhat ambiguous, ad alleged that the signatories might, wader this clause, possibly justify an in- crease in the range of their heavy naval gaus, but such a stop has certainly not bern contemplated by Great Britain, at

azy rate.

PILFERAGE AT SHANGHAI. INCREASING IN EXTENT - AND IMPORTANOR

UHINA'S FINANCES,

CONTEMPLATED GENERAL

RECONSTRUCTION.

響

there that enabled Chang Hann in 1917 Pre such an Lpecial plob would to perform his comic opera coup; and inevitably be divulged in time to rally LONDON, March 20th, there is always a danger that another public opinion and to forestall fe contin In the House of Commons, replying to military leader, for his own ende, may mation. It was in no small degree, the questions, Mr. Ronald Mayeill mid the repeat the experiment. Such a Bestorn pres that defeated Yuan Shiba's Mr. G. H. Stitt, Chairman of the Government was paying attention to the tion might possibly endure for a month nefarious design, which leaked dat revorst present or two, but we cannot believe that, apare months sooner than the hated despot hati intended, "A militarist with imperial Panta, March 28th.

British Chamber of Commerce at Shang problems arising from the Barah Bernhardt had a bad night, and hai, in the couren of his adderee at the chaotic state of Chinese financer The from Peking and its environs, oven

would be to prepare for the abolition of evince the least anth later toward the jealousy of big brother generals and the She woke up wanaal meeting of the Chamber last chief purposes of the Tariff Commission negligible portion of the population would ambitions would have to reckon with the her condition is critical.

Pilferage from ships in the port has kin, and to determine the conditions on rentecitated porpee. We are told, forsooth, keen interprovincal yivalry which would from a coma in the afternoon, and a week, asid pricat was summoned During the period of consciousness she gave detailed in become so serious that, in spite of every which the customs surtax of two and that the farmers attribute the lead years fiercely resent the dooning of the purple The Oregons are in multitudes, but pone structions as to her funeral, requesting preesation being taken for the proteo half per cent, may be granted. It was since the inception of the Republic to the by nativo of one favoured providos. It plenty of flowers. Bbo referred to her tion of cargo, thefts are increasing in not contemplated that the Commission absence of Divins Banculdu for the existing is writton in the Canon of Changes" rosewood coffin, which she had had made numbers and importance. The organi should undertake the general fancial regime, owing to the abandonment of the shall be Paramount: When in the past SENTENCED TO thirty years ago. The doctors were sation of the enlprits and lack of polion reconstruction of China. SDEATH.

smazed at the vitality of the patient, protection Domoganurate with the needa PARIS, March 20th of the port leaves hipowners almout Bausea, March 28th, Barah Bernhardt died at sight this powerloss to deal with this most afrique A mesage from Moscow states that evening Sho expired peacefully, without matter, and it is to be hoped that immer Archbishop Cieplak, charged with con- any suffering, in the arms of her siste steos will be taken by the Customs spiring against the Soviet, also Bishop Bho received extreme unction late in the Authorities to alevintą the sitastion. Bunziewcing, bave been sentenced to death, afternoon, after which morphia was in. The Customs are being pressed for a reply and other accused priests to imprisonment jocted. Members of the family and house to the representations made by this ranging from ten years to three years, hold then gathered in the death chamber,Chamber through the Coouslar Body and The priests contended that they only where they remained to the end. The Inderstand that the matter is a presentations, Sir R. A. Bandere statail the for

room was so after filled with dowers, being considered by the Inspector ward allegiance to spiritual authority.

SOVIET JUSTICE.

OLERGY

General of Customs

ØHINESE EGG TRADZ IMPORTATIONS INTO UNITED KINGDOM.

time-honoured Imperial ritual at the

Temple of Heaven Bat does not the successful generals have founded dynas- Sage expressly delare that the worship ties, they were aided by the difficulty of of the Almighty is in no sense peculiarly communication and were able from a small an Imperial attributs and that as each nucleus of territory in Honan or Shen pao i imasi à Bon of God (Hon of gradually and in the slow course of many Jenny all are entitled to present pray years, to extend their way over several Lars in Deity in fear and trembling provinces; but the consolidation of each In the House of Commons, replying to theen a useful and politio fiation new dynaty cocupied at least a genera 1.057010 EEN were imported into this town macred prerogative; but it is stelfo, besides which the viewaitades ol Emperor to claim the function tion of internecing turmoil and relentless United Kingdom from China in 1912, quite contrary to the view of Confucins, the Republic saute their proportionate compared with 408,000 in 1971.

(Continued at foot of neat column, insignificance and yield full hope for

LONDON, March 28th.

the future