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A REPARATIONS PILL." The President-elect (Mr. Arthur Balfour) VALDABLE; LEASEHOLD PROPERTY

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POTENTIALITIES OF THE EMPIRE. SIR A. SHIRLEY BENN AND TRADE.

It expressed the opinion that the

in regard. uncertainty At the sixty-third annual meeting of present

detrimental to the the Association of British Chambers of reparations is

world And 13 fara. Commerce at the Hotel Victoria, London, venting the improvement of industry on April 18th, when there were nearly 400 and commerce." and requested the Execu delegates present, Sir Arthur Shirley tive Council to consider the advisability

in cooperation with the laternational The 14th Day of Joxx, 1993, at 3 o'cLOCK ↑ X, Beus, M.D., in his presidential abbies,

Chamber of Commerce and other associa

Moser, LAMMERT BROTHERS | said that it was their duty to see that the tians, nf calling a meeting of business men

and financiers to consider independently AT TIME OFFICE, Dudonil Scannt. [ business point of view, was properly pres

what is possible in regard to reparations sented to the Govgrument of the day.

with a view to educating the PTHE Property consists of First ALL.

The resolution Hear, heir.) There could not be a morepinion the world.

THAT piece or parcel of ground situate added the view that the security of importans function than that in a country

Office as SECTION France against aggression to which she is registerul in the Colony of Hongkong, and which lived by commerce, as we 'did, and

thereer just now it was of peculiar 'importancy entitled simuld be settled apart from A of INLAND LOT NO. 2186 together with the messunges erectio wiring Street and now known as No. 13, Secondly ALL THAT atrip of land at the rear of the said Section A of Inland Lot No. 2168. being a scavenging lane. All of which pro

of the term mises are held for the residue

from u 10th day of May. 1916, 78 Fears from created by the Crown Lease thereof together with the valuable machinery now situate in or upon the said premises. 1 at No. 1 Gordon Street.

Particulars and Conditions o; aslo may obtained frous

the because

reactions

partly politics and legislation upon. in- dustry were, never so speedy tr devastating, and partly avanse since the war some Government departments all the world over had got it into their heads that they could rau nay man's business

the question of reparations.

The

of 10 per went., whereas if the countries concerned had taken the advice of that association two years ago und seized the German Customs wo shoni to-day har Iren much further advanced and have had

German reparations.

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Sir Algernon Firth declared that Ger- mang was evading taxing her people in under that they might accumulate in HONGKONG CIGAR STORE, LTD. for the purposes of aggression in trade throughout the whole world. Franco rea-

Mr. Bonar Law, said Mr. Balfour, had show a the greatest courage when he told France that whilo we were anxious to help in obtaining reparation we did the feel thuit the seizing of the Buhr was the best There is a pill to way to got them. wallow in this matter." Mr. Balfour con tinned and the politicians of the world have been too busy putting sugar on it so attend to the swallowing of it. But the @ CO., LTD. better than the mat himself. There was

whole question and to be faced. kwery need for the commercial interests of British view as represented by Mr. Bonar Great Britain to make their views not

Low had been so far largely barne out. It was an inevitable economic fact that merely known but fot. (Hear, beztr.)

they could not extract reparations either The Association of British Chambers of in cash or kind from a debtor by destroy

So far the only Commerce looked at the world from A

ing his productive power.

France had made to get anything at „British angle and with the deternisational born to erect & Custom barrier to safeguard and promote British interests So looked at, the world of today. I am bound to admit, does not present a very cheering aspect," said Sir Arthur. "But I again emphasise our British character and our "British mutlook. May it not be that we shall find, compensation for the eveno- mie chaos in Europe and "for, the, loss of old Europgan markets if we seek it in the British Empire! Would it mot he better for us. if, instead. af mourning the sever ance of all connections on the Continent. we set ourselves vigorously to building up new ties under the British flag Europe was scarred and crippled by the war and "by the peace, and there were some whparations was changing rapidly, and he beliovid her to be so far gone on the road to run that complete recovery woulit-take many years, to wrwomplish. “Buy” he con- tinted, "the Empin is young, tigermus, aod under-populated. a vast and varied treasuredmuse of wealth only awaiting the men and the capital to unlock Ca

A supplementary memorandam on the anyone doubt that it is in the latter and Cotton Crop of 1922-25 issued by the ast the former, quarter that the future of hammerein!" Intelligence Demriment. this country bas! He went on to describe | India. deals with the final estimate of the our scheme of existence, and said that its Cotton crop received from Madras and stability depended on the tooth and as-supplements the Final General Memo interrupted functioning of a whole com-randum on the trop iesped on the sand plex of economie processes not merely at February, 1923.

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and that, and knew what she would have to face in the future if Germany were allowed to escape reparations and their responsibility as the nation which vanquished in the war.

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Mr. John H. Fehay (United States) said that public opinion in she Crited. States in regard to this great question of re

wis optimistic enough to believe that, in another year, it would be quite different from what it was to-day.

The resolution was carril.

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