CABLES.
LATEST CABLES.
(TAROVOK RSUTER'S AGENCY.}.
CHECK FOR FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
ON QUESTION OF CIVIL SERVANTS PAYMENT.
PARIS, December 20th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER
LATEST CABLES. {REUTER'S AMERIČAN SERVICE] THE MEXICAN UPHEAVAL FURTHER FEDERAL SUCCESSES..
New York, December 20th. It is officially reported from Mexico City that the Federal forces haya cap- tured Zacoalco, Vera Cruz.
It is reported that General Sanchez, The Government received a check on commanding the Rebel land forces, has ♫ show of bands in the Chamber of gone to Esperanza to confer with the Deputies which, by 331 to 20 votes refer-other Rebel lenders in under to devise a red the Bill for an increase in payment plan to terminate the condiët. to public servants, owing to the higher cost of living, to the committee för fur- ther consideration.
The Government had proposed that the increase be 283,000,000 franes, whereus the Socialists demanded 1.180,000,000 francs.
NEW ROYAL DUTCH CO DIRECTOR
LONDON, December 20th. Mr. J. B. A. Kessler his been elected meraber of the Board of Directors of the Royal Dutch Company.
EARLIER CABLES.. SERIOUS SITUATION ON AFGHAN FRONTIER SOVIET ALLEGATIONS ABSO
LUTELY UNTRUE,"
EARLIER CABLES.
CONFLICTING CLADIS.
CALVERTON, December 20th. Rebel despatches from Vera Cruz claim that the Federal troops were defeated
FAR EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.]
PROBLEMS FOR SOCIAL
EXPERTS:
22ND, 1923,
[As Competitions appear to be increas ingly popular in newspapers, we intro.. duce one which might fittingly engage the minds of many over the Christmas. holidays-a time traditionally associated with the pastime of asking conundrums. Answers to the questions should he sent in the in envelopes marked Social top left hand corner,, to the Editor of the Hongkong Daily Press by the th inst. Na prize of $30 will be offered for the best, or any answers received. The answers which the Editor considers the best still be published-when space per-
THE FUTURE OF CHINA. MR. T. P. O'CONNOR OPTIMISTIC,
LosDos, December 20th Among the guests at the annual dipner of the Central Union of Chinese Students, held under the Presidency of Dr. T. K. Lee, were Sir Denison Rossmita. 1 -
and Mr. T. P. O'Connor. The latter said that despite all the row happening, the future untional unity and integrity of China were assured.
CHINA'S HOUSE MUST BE PUT IN ORDER BY OCCUPIERS. Mr. Chao Hsin Chu warned students after eight hours of fighting between of the uselessness of merely copying Puebla and Tetzmelocean. The rebels what they learn here when they return suptured three machine guns, and took home. He advised them to adapt what prisoner three hundred men. Hard fight they learn to Eastern conditions. He ing is progressing at Apitzan, an im said he considered it was an impossibility for the Monareby to be restored in portant railway position.
China.
MEXICO CITY, December 20th. “General Obregon has told foreign journ alists that his enemies, refused to give battle either at Vera Cruz or Jallo," but continually retreated, tearing up tracks to prevent pursuit,' and leaving prisoners and munitions behind. He, however, ex- pected & battle in the west coast state of Jalisco shortly. On the contrary, the LONDON, December 20th. In connection, with the serious situation rebel leader Adolfo Huerta las broad on the Afghan border, owing to the failureciated by wireless a statement declaring the Afghan Government hitherto to that the revolutionaries control the States hand over the murderers of British officers, of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Puebla, Colima --official quarters in London are more hope Jalisco, Zacatecas, Michoacan, Nayarit, ful at prisent, and are awaiting the Aguascalientes, and Guerrern, adding that result of the Afghans' efforts to arrest the the rebels poses forty thousand anned riminals. It is hoped the Afghans will troops, who are fighting spiritedly, without fulfill their. promises in this connection, pay. otherwise it will be messary to dreide what further pressure is needed],
LATEST CABLES, CHESTER CONCESSION.
There is no question of any aggressive British action, although all means avail, CONCESSION NOT ANNULLED. able, will be employed if the moderate and Sust British demands be not complet) with. The allegation of M. Chicherin that Britain has threateurd Afghanistan and demanded a rupture of the RussiAfghan relations is absolutely natrue,
War On
new house must be put in China's urder, but this was the duty of the occupiers-not of outsiders,
41
Mr. Chno Anid he considered that the system of education in Great Britairi was- particularly suited to China, because of the existing facilities and friendly rela tians it creates. He hoped that the kind offer made by the British Government to remit the Roxer indemnity for education- al uses would come into effect at an carly, date.
PEKING CABINET RESIGNATION
1.
Mrs. A is giving a large and most im portant linner at her house on the Peak at which the Lord High Executioner is expected to be present.
"
At the last moment, she finds she is a man short and telephones to her hus band to get someone.
Mr. A invites Mr. B. a young man who has recently come out to his offer.
On arrival at the dinner Mr. B is found to he suffering from excessive liquid fuel consumption.
What should Mr. A do?
II.
22
Mr. A has been invited to a guest night with the 35th North, Berkshire Regiment. On arrival in the anti-room he finds that Captain his host, has obviously forgotten his invitation to MK A
What is A to dol
III.
Mr. A in going out to dine on the Peak has to descend a very steep approach to the house he is ingited to.
The path is wet and covered with green 10085. Mr. A falls and covers him; self and his clothes with the moss and
slime.
1
It is already the appointed dinner hour and A does not know his host or hostess very well.
What should he do? IV.
#
A certain Mr. Y arrives in the Colony and takes a house on the Peak. He is said to belong to the best London Clubs. He unlis on the leading residents, who return his calls and invite him to dinner and to dances at Repulse Bay, He, in his turn, entertains them most lavishly.
After a few months he leaves
the
Colony in a very hurried manner and it is found that, to say the least, some of his bil's have not been paid.
He is next heard of as doing time in a Canadian gaol
""
CHINA'S POSITION IN BUSINESS MARKET FOR BRITISH GOODS: MANUFACTURES AND MACHINERY.
“LONDON JOURNAL'S, „ŘEVIEW OF
SITUATION,
of the
1 country
Si
THE POLICE BALL. ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL EVENT AT THE CITY HÅLL.
Not the least successful of the an dances held in Hongkong" so far this season was that organised by the local police and hold last night at the City HAIL Between three and four hundred were present, the floor was in splendid The announcement that the Chinese condition and the dance music by the Com Hongkong Hotel Band was all that could Government have appointed mission to examine the financial pesi be desired. II.E the Governor attended the Republic and put forward the function and he was necompanied by tion of
for improving the communion Lady Stubbs and Capt. Neville (3.11.02) schemes
received to the Governor). The otheincipal tions in commercial circles with omsiderable guests were the Captain fuistendent sceptici-m, a writer in the British of Police (Mr. E. D. C. Wold Mrs. We have heard se Wolle and the Deputy Supependents Kapart Gusette thing like it on many previous occasions. No doubt every successive Government of the Force A manber of the past and of Ching sets out with the intention of present Police Magistrates, are also
restore the honoured guests. They were doing something drastic to country to normal sonditions, only to find Wood. Mr. R. E. Lindseli, MW. Melbourne, Major Willson (first clerk, to itself powerless to "carry its achemes Hamilton, Mr. V. L. Smith, AC_D_ high. The pity of it is that, as Colone, the Magistrates) and Mr. J. Frauks Bidder, of the Associated British Loco-
were the Gavdaninent motive Manufacturers for Chiun has (Superintendent of the Gaol). Amongst recently told the members of the Leeds others invited Chamber of Commerce there is a great field Medionl Officers and the sisters the As on former occasions, the hall was cultivate tical chaos makes it impossible to of tende lying fallow in China, bas poli. Government Civil Hospital. it. Yet the failure of the Chiness Gay-tastefully decorated for the occasion, the ernment to restore normal coalitions to the principal colours being blue and white, At the head soultry do not apparently suggest that the colours of the Force. outside interference with the same objees of the main staircase was hung a large in view would lead to successful resalts, painting of the police badge in blue and shades In St. Andrew's and. 'St. Most likely the direct conseqare would white and draped in hunting of similar be a general boycott of foreign goods.
George's Hall a very pretty effect was In the circumstances, what is the best gained by the use of twirled streamers in alternating blue and white colours policy for trading firm who have an in terest in the commerce of Chin? Granted These were pendant from the centre of the fact of internal chaos in the country, the ceiling to the four walls of the hall
tripped the light fantaste tod and of the impotence of the Government (in Maypole fashion) and the merry to restore conditions to the normal, it is couples nevertheless undeniable that the Republic underneath. The Governor's dais was in as a whole is ripe as a market for import- St. Andrew's Hall underneath the por ed goods of almost every descriptim. It trait of the late Queen and it was in this can no longer be said that Chine desires hal: the blue and white coloured stream. to remain independent of outside iteners pendant from the ceiling and the re and commodities. As we stated in the last and white flags and bunting on the walls issue of the British Export Guelfe, the created a remarkably pretty effect. In vogue for electric lighting has been all the rooms and on the stairease there popular from one end of the Republic to was a profusion of pot-plants. A well- the other, and even the difficulties handi- served supper was laid out in the old capping communications cannot prevent Chahber of Commerce room, the cater- Chinese industrialists and the well-to-do ing being in the hands of the Hongkong classes even in the remote interior from Hotel Company. A well-stocked refresh obtaining installations. The same is true ment bar and a card-room were on the of other Western goods. It is a remark- ground floor."
The Committee of the Ball were in abl fact, toc. that in spite of Chinese barcott against Japanese, goals, a great dehted to the Superintendent of the of business continues to be transact- Botanical Gardens for the loan of pos el between the two countries, Even plants and to the Commander of. H.M.B Great Britain, in face of the chans that Tomar for tags. is prevalent in the market, trived last year to export to the Republie manu- factures to nearly £24,000,000, or within little more than a million of the 1921 total: while the U.S.A.'s contribution amounte
TRADE MAINTAINED,
PEKING, December 30th. Following the Cabinet's resignation which was announced yesterday and which the President declined, instructing them to carry on, they, have explained their position by referring to Parlia.
Write an account to be used by any ment's telegram to the provinces de one of the leading residents as explain-premiing rear. nouncing the Government in connectioning her part in this nafortuunte" affair.
bune on the lady's husband will be with the allege settlement of the gold answer which setely throws the franc issue. The Government was then considered. obliged to circulate the truth to the pro-
evinces
Mr. A, a widower, who has acquired large fortune in the "Mah Cheuk set) market, encourages an attachment his daughter has formed for a Mr. X. an officer in the Royal Navy. He is under the delusion that Mr. X is the eldest son of Sir William X, Bart, the Sausage Kink.
to $100,000.000 against 8105,000,000 in the
CHAOS NOT UNIVERSAL."
The officials were as follows: President. Mr. R. H. E. Marke. Hon. Secretary-Mr. C. E Terry. Hon. Treasurer-3. A. J. C. Taylor M.C."s-Messrs. V. Russell, J. Greig, W. Dyer and J. Mitchell
Committee-Messrs. A. Smith, P. Con- dan. A. Y. Baker, A. Reynolds, W. Nair, J. MeWalter and L. Mist.
The dance programme was as follows 1.-Lancers are
2-Fox Trot... 3.-One Steps ....
Ameliz
Cherie"
Out where the Blues Begin" 4.-Tango Waltz
Till We Meet Again
NEW YORK, December 20th. Mr." H: G. Knowles, younsel to the Ottoman Development Company, has denied that the Turkish: Government annulled the Chester Concession, but he said that a new company had been farmed in London with a capital of £5,000,000, to finance the construction of: the Samsunsiva railway, which bis com- A message from Mosenw states that M.pany decided not to övertake. Ultimate- Chicherin, interviewed," said that British by, the whole concession might pass into "Eastern interests had been colliding, with the hands of this company if his com- Russia's for severni decales Britain was any should be unable raise the necessary spite of our declarations, charges against Mr. A inform Mr. X that the intended and circuitous. Of course, in the circum- | 14.-Waltz
BRITISH "AND RUSSIAN INTERFSTS CLASH.
BIGA, December 20th.
"endeavouring to chtain absolute hegemony capital in the United States.
in Central Asia. The British demand to wards Afghanistan had created the great est uneasiness in Moscow's diplomatic circles, as Afghanistan was regarded as the last buffer: State between Britain and the Soviet republics.
"RED" DESERTERS. RAVAGE PARTS OF MANCHURIA.
EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO. THREE TOWNS DESTROYED.
Ďņuglas, Arizona, Dec. 20th. Reports received state that an earth- quake which occurred at nine o'clock last night destroyed the townships of Granadas," Huasbas and Opoto, in the state of Sonora, Mexico, killing and injuring many.
GERMAN HOLDINGS IN U.S.
:
TRADE
NEW YORK, December 20th.
statements:
Surprisingly, Wu Ching Lian xent_ou another telegram, again containing mis
Since Li Yuan Hung' Governineat promised the French Lega.
When the marringe settlerent comes tion that China would pay the indemnity to he prepared it is found, to the horror gold francs, a plan which Parlia of Mr. 3. that Mr. X is of humble origin, ment rejected, foreign finance ministers his father being only a Professor of have continually considered the matter Anatoniy
Io solution. without arriving at 還
Lu what precise form of words should the Government are still being made to marriage cannot take placet
.B.-As questions 4 and 5 are both the effect that we have taken & different
of these should be course, and we therefore think our win-ilifficult, one only cerity is questioned and feel we ought attempted to resign."
EARTHQUAKE SHOCK NEAR
MANILA.
MANICA, December 20th. There was an earthquake lasting a few seconds at four o'clock this morning in Verde Island Channel, 150 miles south of Manila The shock woke up people who were sleeping.
JAPANESE METEOROLOGIST
HONOURED.
LONDON, December 20th "The Council of the Royal Meteorological The Time states that, hankers esti-
that German holdings in the Society of Britain kas awarded the maited states stand at approximately Symous gold medal for 1924 to Mr. Take- $200,000,000 dollars easb, or its equiva mettu Okada, director of the Central lent invested in Liberty Bonds, Treasury Meteorological Observatory at Tokyo, Certificates. Bankers' Acceptances, etc., which could he used as a basis for inanc ing one to two billion dollars worth of trade.
RIGA, December 20th, A message from Moscow declares that the Soviet Press state that owing to CAN BE USED TO FINANCE BIG numerous bands of Chunchu's-deserters ravaging the Amur districts and other parts of Manchuria, the Soviet's authori ty thers exists only on paper. It adds that row outbreaks bave occurred at. Bok- hara nad Ferghana, whither Red troops have been sent to crush them.
COMMITTEES. REPARATIONS BRITISH MEMBERS APPOINTED.
PARTS, December 20th. The British members of the Reparations Committee on the German Budget will be Mr. Montagu Norman and Sir Josiah Stamp, while Mr. Reginald McKenna, will serve the committee to enquire into the question of German capital abroad."
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. PROFITS.
LONDON, December 20th.
Com- The British-American Tobacco pany, reporta a net profit of £4,495,000. A final dividend of nine per cent, is declared making twenty-four per cent. for the year, as last year. £3,531,000 is carried forward. RESTORATION OF HUNGARY
PARIS, December 20th.
US. OLYPIC TENNIS TEAM. JOHNSTON NOT TO BE INCLUDED.
NEW YORK, December 20th.
It is officially announced that Mr. W. M. Johnston will not be a member of the American Olympic lawn tennis team in 1924, owing to pressure, of business.
EARLIER CABLES COLOMBIAN EARTHQUAKE
A total of MANY HUNDREDS KILLED AN
It is hoped that Hungary will be re tored, after the example of Austria. a a result of an agreement reached by the Council of the League of Nations regard- ing an international financial scheme with That object
BIG WIRELESS STATION FOR BELGIUM
INJURED.
shocks
GUAYAQUIL, December 30th. A message from Tulcean states that are continuing. earthquake Twelve had been counted within twenty four hours. It is estimated that the dead total ons hundred and fifty, and several hundreds have been injured.
MR BORAH WANTS WARS ELIMINATED.
(BY COURTESY OF THE "DAILY BULLETIN."
CHINA'S PARLIAMENT.
ASSAULT ON SPEAKER.
PEKING, December 20b. Huang Y, a member of the House of Representative, who was arrested by order of Wa Chingilien for. assault during the melee in the House on Tuesday, has been liberated on bail.
HORN ON MAN'S HEAD,
5.-Fox Trot: 6.-Eightsome Reel 7.-Fox-Trot 8-One Step
10.-Waltz ..
4
Tricks
Silver Stark.
+i#olonia
All Forever"
What is the explanation of this here is no denying how great are the hindrances against commercial develop ment, and yet there is very litt diminu- tion in the volume of trade transneted. The key to the situation lies in the fact that while some district of China are seriously affected by the conditions, others are relatively or wholly free from them. Shanghai, for example, finds trade prac tically normal, if the situation is not con- dative to actual expansion; and the port's connections in the interior of the Republic have also been little nfected. Other --Boston-Two Step trics are equally fortunate, and, diffeu-11-Fox Trot ties placed, in the way of communications 12-One Step notwithstanding, there are few parts of China which cannot be reached by one route or another, even though it be show 13-Fox Trot-Every Little Miss stances it is hardly to be expected that 15-Fox Trot Chinese merchants will lay in large stake 16-One Step of any class of merchandise, but they are 17-Lancers in most instances ready enough sufficient for current requirements. Per --Waltr haps one of the most remarkab features
to take
con-
Piedziny Blues "
Bay of Sunshine"
"Cut Yourself A Piece of Cake*
Must-Have A Mister! 4 Through The Night Biming. Bay
10-Fox Trot ...
11-Fox Trot
-Waltz
Tonga- Casino ....Nelly Kelly """. I'm Nobody's Baby
"South Sea Isles
Wandering Home.""
ON BEING RICH. USELESSNESS OF TOO MUCH MONEY.
of the whole situation is that financial-Highand Scottische conditions remain comparatively stable Indeed, it is generally admitted that they At the Airstralian Medical Congress, have but slight connection with naliticat last month, a remarkable specimen was events, In that fact alone there should exhibited in the pathological museum of be considerable encouragement to
hort Gin, long, curled like a ram's, that tinue business with the market, ormerly grew on the crown of the head an aged dr. Photographs wero of a shown of the horn before it was removed by Dr. Syme, a Melbourne surgeon, afteri five or six years' growth. The horn is brittle at the base, and was fractured dar ing the operation,
FINANCIAL WORRIES.
PEKING, December 20th. The Government's financial worries loom larger as the end of the year Feng Yu-hsiang has asked the Govera approaches. ment for funds with which to pay his troops in Peking before the end of the It is understand that the Commander. in-Chief of the Peking Garrison and the Chief of Police are petitioning similarly.
year,
YANGTSZE SQUADRON,
CANTON "NAVY REINFORCEMENT.
It is understood that Huang Yi and the
PERING, December 20th. other anti-Wn Ching lienites are bringing a suit against the parliamentary guards It is reported that the Ministry of the also for assault, which action is perplexing Navy is contemplating the reinforcement "the Procurators' Court.
of the Yangtze Squadron by the naval LATER. additions from Canton.
In view of the recent happenings in the House of Representatives, in which Wu Ching-lien used the parliamentary guards as a bodyguard, the police authorities in Peking resolved to substitute A police guard, which arrived at the Hour of It presentatives this afternoon,
The parliamentary guards, entirely under Wu Ching-lien's control, refused to hand over.
who are
The police guards have asked their chief whether they should forcibly turn out the parliamentary guard, and they are remain. ing At the House of Representatives
ting frther instructions.
LATISL
MARQUIS, SAIOHJI.
Torvo, December 20th. Marquis Baionji's clition at present ful is critical, but the physicians are hope
RESTORATION BUDGET. GOVERNMENT'S SUBMISSION TO
SEITUKAI.
GREAT BRITAIN AS A SUPPLIER. The above survey of the situation,
Money bas for man a limited value” derived as it is from the first-hand.
His success ther evidence of British, Bsport Gazette cor-writes Mr. W. L. George, the novelist, in respondents at the principal business centres Harper's, Muyazine, is substantially corroborated by the Cus fore cannot consist entirely in money. My toms report for last year, which shows, own suspicion is that while money is for example, that the import trade in almost essential to success, there is a point machinery not only hell its own during at which it cases to be of any use at the 12 months, at even exceeded the all. We can take as an illustration the
of the year before. In regard to case of a newspaper,
achinery, it is exceedingly interesting to I suppose that everybody knows that something the note that so far as imports into Shanghai the newspaper which he buys for three the high are concerned, the United Kingdom in the cents costs the proprietors
In the three months eight cents to produce, owing to" largest supplier. ending March of the present year, out of cost of collecting new; the profits come newspaper total imports of machinery vahed at out of advertisements, Now
day can 2,819,100 Haikunn taels, Great Britain with a circulation of four hundred thou pull, let us say twenty supplied 1,779.243; the U.S.A., 681.008: Mand Japan, #207,027; Germany. 78,580; Den thousand dollars of advertisenterts a day. In Suppose the circulation goes up to five mark, 16,000 and Canada. 9.203, electrical material again Great Britain hundred thousand and that no more advert., supplied to the extent of 2,951,507 Hai- tisemats can be printed, because there iz à kaan tiels, against 2,763,055 from Japan, limit to them, because all the advertis 1,698,149 from the U.S.A., P01,239 from ments that can figure in tha: particular Germany and 592,883 from Hongkong, publication are captured, becaust the good proportion of the last being also public refuse to read exclusively advertise undoubtedly of British origin. The inents, then, on all the extra circulation British preponderance is excellent evidence there is a loss of five cents a copy That that the Chiness are no longer buying on paper is reaching a point beyond which the score of price alone. They recongize access is not only useless, but damaging. that cheapness is too often associated with rubbish.
This seems to offer a perfect: paralle with the situation of the man who e -- PROMISE UNDER NEW ADMINISTRATION.
Un to a certain point All the evidence available points to the making money, conclusion that while Chinees trade in un- money has been a very good thing: first questionably handicapped in many direc-it bus given him a higher standard of tions, there is still plenty of opportunity living then, by accumulating, it has pra for commercial enterprise on the part of mised him that this standaril shall be kept those who are sequainted with the require up throughout his life, as his fortune
A grow, he s security, not only for him meats and tendencies of the market,
been put to the self, but for his wife, and childrim after term has not yet to long have he is dead. Then it gives him as much chaotic" conditions
A
DA PARALLEL.
bear hindrance to progress; but it is luxury as he can enjoy. The
possible that the new Administration, what! That is what is interesting) under the Eresidency of Marshal Taso a certain point, the accumulation Kun, may be able to deal more effectually money becomes-nothing but with the trouble than those which have habits After being a privilege preceded it. At any rate, it is anticipa into a responsibility Chins and other countries will be rendered on the only indication of antipatr ted that commencia relations between believe smoother and the new rime then has foreign interests that will remain
is altogether a good deal i Suffrage Bil at the roomlar sonion and bably the horents of Tananese pads will, that should entrega
British enterprise in the marke Wantinged & fist në next column.) RO to the country on the ima
Tokyo, December 20th This morning's papers comment on the Government's subepimion to the Seiyukai WASHINGTON, December 20th. At six o'clock the parliamentary guards on the reduction of the Restoration Bill, BRUSSELS, December 20th. Mr. Borah has re-introduced in the handed over to the police. The former which was passed by the Lower House by
taken to the police head- a large majority. The King has laid the foundation stone Senate his war resolation, which failed were then
quarters, where they an remaining, vend The newspapers stato that the of the wireless station at Rupsella near the moon, urging in outing qistimi whether they be enrolled or that the Government will introduce the been the rate for some time post Bruges, which is expected to be sufficiently inwing of all war, and suggesting a
disbanded. powerful to communicate with all the big judicial substitute in the nature of an
International Court, slations of the world."
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