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CABLES.

EARLIER CABLES.

[THROWOK BEUTER'S AGENCY.] FIGHTING IN MOROCCO, TURKISH LEADERS WITH RIFFS.

MADRID, July wond.

The newspapers publish disquieting despatches from Frz, posting that the enomy is entrenched between Arbristisza and Ainuicha preventing the provisioning of Spanish posts, which are holding out

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 24ra, 1925

LATEST CABLES, FAR EASTERN, CABLE US, FLEET IN AUSTRALIA.

SYDNEY'S ENTHUSIASM.

SYDNEY, July 23rd.

The American fleet arrived this morn- ing.

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A most imposing spectacle was pre sented by the entry into the harbour of the American doet, commanded by Ad

miral Coontz.

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The battleship Seattle led the line in The weather was afety and a heavy sea.

NEWS.

THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.] UNREST IN THI. NORTH.

SUMMARY COURT. FURNITURE DEALER'S SUCCESSFUL

CLAIM

THE HAWKE BATTALION.

RECORD IN GALLIPOLI AND FRANCE.

WHAT THE ENGLISH TAUGHT US. ANGLOMANIA IN FRANCE.

[BY A PRENCHWONLY.]

Do to Paris and you are told that Madame, dressed by a tailord high lile, practises le footing"-that Eng tish thing, walking every morning in No fighting unit came out of the Great the Bois; that her "feeve o'clocks To ha a for record of service than smartly attended, and that she dearly the Hawke Battalion, and its history, loves to end her evening “an daucing." largely taken from letters and diaries As to narieur Whuse clothes are sub kept by officers of the battalion, hus now on a Savileron pattern adapted to French idiosyncrasies by André de Fou- been vividly written by Mr. Jerrold.

In the Summary Court yesterday morne HAWKE BATTALION PRESONAL RE- ing, before the Puisar Judge (Mr.

GIRDS OF FOUR YEARS, 1914-18. Doug las Ferrold. (Ben, a 4.) Justice Wood) Cheung Sheung, furniture FENG WIRES THE GOVERNMENT deator of No. 2, Nathan Road, Kow- PERING, July Ard. loon, sur Mr. J. C. Souza, of the Hong- The vernacular papers report that Feng kong and Shanghai Hanking Corporation. for $309, the balance owing on a quantity Ya Hsiang has wired to the Government of furniture which defendant had bought opposing the Tariff Conference and deIt was stated that defendant had paid claring that China should have complete $299, and the claim was for what remain-

despite pressure. A aunter of Turkish rainy, but with occasional bursts of triff autonomy, and that it is against ed unpaid

Colonels, formerly with the German army, are assisting Abd El Grini

LATEST CABLES. CALM HEFORE STORY.

Paris, July 3rd. The fact that Abdyl Krim has not re- newed his ranin offensive agains: Fez, but is more active on the Eastern and West- ern wings, lends to speculation as to this

calm before the storm.

The Temps Fer correspondent forecasts important developments shortly, and ex- pects that Abd & Krim will attack the regions of Wegian in the West, and Taza

in the East, to which the French will probably promptly retaliate.

reports that Today's the begin French troops in the "Eastern, sector have driven out the Riffs from entrenched positions at Babessikha, to the north-west

of Taz The French post at Msila in the same region has been evacuated. A

ARD EL KRIM'S ORDER

MADRID, July 3rd.

sunshine.

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the principles of national equality for Fire aerophones escorted the fleet and

other countries to Ex China's tariff. the salutes were exchanged between

MORE SATISFACTORY."" Huge Seattle and Fart Queenscliff.

LONDON, July send crowds Fiped the shores Sydney wax ca fete and preparing the warmest welcome." In the House of Commons, Mr. Austen Chamberlain stated that according to AMERICANS DELIGHTED. The magnificent welcome reculls the his latest information the general situa- reception of the American Heet in 1008. tion in China was somewhat more satis- The city was thronged with people from factory since he had made his statement ail parts of New South Wales, and the on June 18th. There had been no further harbour was crowded with craft of all serious disturbances reported during the past week, while the strikers at Nanking, descriptions, besides Australian

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plates which escorted to the harbour American battleships and 3 auxiliary vessels. There was distinguishable the Beroplane of the Italian Major Di Pinedo, who is engaged on a Right, from Rome to Tokyu vid Australia, and who delayed his departure from Sydney for the express purpose of greeting the

Americans.

ments,

It is estimated that 300,000 people wit despatch from Raisat says that Generalessed the march of 2000 American Naulia after conferring with Generals oicers and men through the streets. The Americans were delighted at the cord. iality of the reception. A big programme Petain and Lyantry, left for Eez.

of public entertainments has been arranged, including a banues to-night elty the Conunniwealth, and State Govern

FIERY FIREM EN.

MELBOURNE, July 23rd. The remen of the steamer Werrena which had aboard the Commonwealth. Cabinet and a thousand guests intending to meet the American feet alleged, des- pite assurances to the contrary, that Mr. Bruce was aboard, and refused to sail until he left the ship, or apologised to the Seamen's Union for alleged insulting words which, they declared, he used to warda the Enion in recent speeches. Thte trip was finally abandoned.

It is reported from Melilla that Abd Krim is running short of munitions and, has ordered the levying of a ten per cent. tax on the last grain crop in order to replenish himself.

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BARLIER CABLES HOME INDUSTRIAL CRISIS. TEXTILE WORKERS' WAKES.

LONDON, July 22n

The coalowners have sent a letter to the miners executive, suggesting a con ference to clear up any misunderstanding! over the miners' demand for the with. rawal of the owners' proposals, as aj preliminary condition th the reopening of negotiations..

The miners executive has decided to inform the clowners that they adhere

COMMUNIST TO DIE.

RAVAL, July Sird.

A military court sentenced to death the Communist General Heidemana on charges of military espionage in wartime, and attempting forcibly to overthrow the Government.

Other Communists were condemned to Six varying terms of imprisonment,

to the decision in feet the coalowners incensed were acquitted. open conference if and when the owners' proposals are withdrawn,

NO REDUCTIONS,

Losos, July end

A further lig industrial dispute, was mentioned in the House of Commons this

"EARLIER CABLES.

NAVAL BUILDING. CABINET STILL DIVIDED..

LONDON, July wand.

His Lordship entered judgment for plaintif for $500 only, orders each; party to pay bis own costs,, und also ordered 0 stay of execution until November 20th.

Mr. W. L Leask appeared for plain. tiff, and defendant was represented by Mr. A. el Argulli.

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. ACCUSED, COOLIE RECEIVES $10.

The Naval Division, and therefore quières--Monsieur pritles himself in be the Hawke Battalion, had its begining a "portif" and knows Newmarket ning in a pre-war decision of the Com-lore. You are told of Socialist mack mittee of Imprint Defence author is ingues," which, warned by níe, you will ing the organisation by the Admiralty identify as "meetings. If you enter a of a land force (to be formed from the music hail, English dancing girls will Royal Marine Light Infantry and confront you. And when, in a restau Artillery), to be used on the outbreak rant, you protest against underdons beef, the much injured waiter will reply, it of war for the seizure, fortißcation,

is done à Panglaise," any oven, if hait or protection of any temporary naval bases which might be required avering from the imaginative South, assorb Irom private information that the Prince of Wales eats his straks almost raw, And this was why the original Hawke Truly "Anglomania" is at its height Battalion was sent off to Antwerp at the in France; but in spite of some absurdi- beginning of the war, with the unfortunties, it has made for the greater com ate result that, in the retreat, practically fort and healthiness of our people. It One way the whole of it got interned in Holland... is no recent importation.

BEAS.

A NIGHT ATTACK.

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argue that Voltaire made Shakespeare and the British Constitution' fashionable But the first true Anglomanes were the The battalion was forthwith re-formed, Dukes of Lauzun and Orleans, who just At the Kowloon Magistracy, before and at the end of May, 1915, landed at before the Revolution brought back from on rethand charged had their first real experience of fight immediately adopted by the constitution Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday, a night-Gallipoli. A few weeks later, the men London the plain, black habit which was intim another nightsoil ing. and Mr. Jerrold gives a graphical party; brought also thom racing horser picture of the chaos of a right attack. that son after made the Parisians gape soil coolie

Advancing with more enthusiasm and sneer on the Sablons ground. Since than method, and adopting the old- those days fashionable Frenchmen havo fashioned and probably mistaken habit always looked up to the English as their of cheering as they advanced, the models in dress and sport. And if some assaulting line was seen to reach the have laboured under the delusions that no trench; then there was a burst of fr-shirt could be properly laundered oat- ing from the enemy and five minutes mun oslon, that every English galler pause, broken only by a confused shout. man was born and died in, laud ing of orders by officers separated from Norfolk jacket and jockey cap, Vo their men... Each man had found one was ever really the worse for i

It was, however, the lore and auraira himself alone, as indeed happens to! men facing death at night in the open tion we hore King Edward that made as for the first time; someone had order as a nation curious to know and redy to admire and copy the ways of English el a concentration on the right; an-

people. You taught us what comfort other-bad-directed his fellows to the Jeft; a third had beard his officer call means. Then it was that Frenchwomen

took to the British "cont and skirt halt.

and first allowed their boys to play look- ball; that sport clabs grew like mush- rooms all over the land; that our houses, began to have bow windows; that Tat- tenham-court-road's furniture found on- thusiastic rotaries among bourgeois tired dining-room of spurious Henry II. suites. To claim-please notico that I do not say to prove-no, sequnintance- ship with Shakespeare's Mangungo be came "the hall mark of good education, words freely. And it is largely to H. G. Wells that our younger generations of and our writers began to quote English

boys owe their bent towards scienco and aviation.

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Shanghai, and elsewhere appeared to be

with coolie. Mr. Leo Almada defended. weakening. But the boycott movement was spreading. Peking was very quiet.

The complainant, who gave evidence at JUSTICE TO ALL PARTIES."

a previous bearing but had since dis- LONDON, July 2nd, appeared, had stated that on the 17th inst. In the House of Commons, pressed by defendant had struck him with a bamboo

Defendant stated yesterday that he had into the Shanghai disorders, Mr. Auster Mr. Wedgewood Benn regarding the sum-pole and told him that he woul Chamberlain asked to be excused making quarrelled with complainant over a sum moning of an impartial judicial enquiry killed if he did not stra a partial statement till a full statement of money which the latter owed him. On was possible. He addedd that the Gav-the morning of the 17th he had naked ernment aimed at suring justice, done to him for the money, whereupon complain. used for storing the coolies' buckets. He all parties in a way convincing to all ant tried to lock him in a small bed parties,

Replying to Mr. Beckett, Mr. Chamber had then struck the complainant with a lain stated that he had not taken steps hamboo pole which he was carrying. to discover the reasons leading to the had continued working throughout the withdrawal of the French Ambassador strike and had no intention of ceasing from the Council of Three at Peking. work.

Complainant's wife told the Court that Mr. Chamberlain emphasised that he was concerned particularly that all interest-her husband had disappeared following threats from a man whom she did not Led Powers should act together.

His Worship said he was perfectly innocent satisfied that defendant WASHINGTON, July 2nd.

a week's wages The Associated Press learns that the and is he had lost

grant trim 10 From the Powers have reached a substantial agree-he would ment on the formula under which the Poor Box. The case was one of con- the Battle of the Aner in November, whole Chinese problem will be handled.spiracy and His Worship Baggested that Some dements of the programme have the CS.P. should take.action against the not yet been formally agreed upon by complainant.

Mr., d'Almada said that his client all the Governments concerned but is is expected that the representatives of the would take proceedings against complain. Powers in Peking will shortly be able ant in the Summary Court. to submit a formula to the Provisional Government of China.-Reuter's Ameri- eux, Service.

THE POWERS AGREE.

SS. TALTHYBIUS.'

Kone, July 23rd. The Chinese crew, sixty-strong, of the Blue Funnel steamer Talthybius has deserted. A new crew is being recruit

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For heróis months the battalion endur of the hell of Gallipoli and then, on the evacuation, it proceeded to France and na even more deadly hell..

INTO THE MIST."

Its most terrible experience was

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1916, when the battalion went into action less than 20 10 all came back unhurt. with 20 offices and 41 men, of whom Without a word, without half a se con's hesitation, we saw the first wave of the battalion move from their tren ches and pass into the mist and out of sight while they were still hot more than 70 yards away. At intervala of less than half a minute other waves followed. Soon the fourth wave, 50 yards behind the others, was itself out of sight. Through the November mists, deafened by the explosion of guns, a most choked with fumes of lyduite, blinded by smoke, we saw the last of the Hawk Battalion as we had known how her favourite novelists described the But Jo! these boys laughed English.

it.

Came the War. The Tommies and their officers loomed os bourgènisa Mme. Durand's horizon. The dear woman" ex- pected tall thin, raw-boned men, gloomy and sentimental, prone to suicide on account of foga and unsuccessful love affairs, or dying of consumption on s wict of sighs, tears and whisky, and who would in. private life be either milords" For that was clergymen or

In passing sentence of six months' hard labour and 24 strokes of the birch on & Chinese who was convicted of returning. CHENGTU CALMER,

from banishment, Mr. E..W. Hamilton PEKING, July 23rd..

In this battle the Hon. Vere Harts even under the guns' muzzle, they were Early in Jaly British subjects were stated at the Kowloon Magistracy yes.

worth was mortally wounded. He was pink and white like girls, "So clean, so cucks refantz." At that advised to prepar to leave Szechuan. terday that the man's case was almost a Conditions round Chengtu have now im-record.

Defendant's record showed that after one of the 4 members of the original polite, au chère, and so free with their thin, be proved and it is considered unnecessary inprised on two occasions he was Hawke Baitaion, who, interned in Hol-time, too, t to evacuare foreigners at present.

banished for ten years in 1990 and during land, had escaped and joined the time, too, the English woman of cheap spectacled spinster in ill-fitting elathee GENERAL'S STRONG ACTION.

the following five years had been banished battalion. He had fought with it at excursion days-that tall. no fewer than five times. On each occasion Gallipoli," he had declined staff and sailor hat vanished and was re- SHANGRAL, July 23rd.

one year's hard pointment in Fränce in order to stay

Tommies, the he was sentenced to inbour, and once to five years at the in the Sghting line, he had already been placed by lovely girls and capable kind-" of that sentence he was banished from company with many brother-officers and country ever had. And that is why, in

men, he met a glorious death.

spite of vexed political questions, Eng- Supreme Court, but before the expiration wounded, and he was only 21 when, in Aurses. They were, those nurses and As Mr. Jerrold writes: "What was Bish influence is today at its highest in Company without Vere Harmsworth, al-France-Morning Post. behalf of his company, and usually car ways fighting friend and enemy alike on rying the day, by sheer force of person ality 72

The Fengtion General, acting on his There have been recently half a dozea special Cabinet meetings and numerous recent proclamation that he would not conferences of Ministers endeavouring to tolerate peace disturbers, closed down compose their differences over the. Ad-several Labour Unions to-day.

iralty's demand for the construction of new cruisers,

afternoon when the Labourite, Mr. Riley drew attention to the notiers to enforce reductions of wages on two hundred thousand textile operatives in Yorkshire

It was expected that to-day's Cabinet expiring on July rd, that the opera- meeting would settle the question or end tives' unions drelined to accept the rein a rupture between Mr. Bridgeman and Mr. Churchill, bus it was announced Juctions and failing an agreement after two hours sitting that no decision withdraw the notices on July 23rd these had been reached. operatives were likely to strike,

Sir A. Steel Maitland in reply said he has sent a latter to both sides suggesting that they hold a further meeting with a view to avoiding strife.

Sir Wa. Mitchell Thomson attended to-day's Cabinet meeting as chairmaa of the new Government committed to organise public services in the event of industrial trouble.

The situation remains critical, but it is understood that Lord Balfour bas undertaken to assist Mr. Baldwin in find- ing a middle course between the two parties in the "Cabinet.

REPORTED COMPROMISE.

LONDON, July 2cd. Reuters lobby correspondent under-

.S. OFFICIALS' VIEW..

the Colony,

WASHINGTON, July 23rd. The formal acquiescence of the Japanese "PORT AFTER STORMY SEAS," MANILA STORY OF HONGKONG Government in the American plan on the subject of China has so advanced the that the project will be ratified by all! Degotiations that officials here believe Governments concerned.-Renter's Ameri ena Service,

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RANCH ATTACKED.

U.S. SUBIECT KILLED.

PEKINO, July Bird.

TOWAGE DEMAND,

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The end of the was found the Haske Battalion still in the field preserving its reputation for courage and its person- ality to the close.

It fought long and arduously, but it never lost ite civilian character. That was its almost unique quality.

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REST-TIME PYJAMAS.

A NEW VOGUE FROM PARIS.

best ambassadors your

A CUCKOO IN A BOTTLE.

Some years ago, in the Worthing cemetery, the son of the sexton, a young man named Stoner, found a glass pickle battle. In it was a robin's nest contain- ing a young cuckoo which had grown too big to get out and was being fed by the robins, the enckoo pushing his head out. of the bottle to be fed. The cuckoo's egg must have been laid on the ground and placed in the nest with the beak.

Whether this novelty represented a coming fashion, or merely a "personal eccentricity, is diffent, to say the re-

The Manila Bulletin of July 20th con tains a palpitating account of "a glorious and ultimately successful struggle for four days and nights without a break against apparently impossible odds," which was waged by the Roosevelt Steam- ship Co.'s motor-ship Serpine.

This vessel, according to the paper's Bandits on July 20th-attacked a ranch report, when a few degrees N. of Luzon, ON THE SAFE SIDE..

and Loxgos, July 22ndstands that the Cabiect differences on the in Northern Manchurin which an Ame-experienced sädden trouble with her were rina, Major Morgan Palmer, is develop-engines, which went dead in the midet raval construction programme

winds." settled by a compromise whereby three, ing for refugees from the famine dis of a typhoon with terriño seas

Radio messages were eapt out which three in The Americans pat up a fight in which possibly four, cruisers are to be begun trieta. not earlier than December,"

It was confidently predicted at the be- ception was given by hostess who was Firth raty deranded three Major Palmer was killed and do age were picked up at Manila and inanded to

the agent of the line." 1926.

For four days and nights without ginning of the season that pyjamas would much in evidence at the Lido plage last. Other foreigners from the inch reach- in 1925 and four in 1926. Mr. Churchill, specialist, Mr. Howard, was captured: the Treasury, and the majority of the

ed safety. The American Consulat a moment's sleep the whole of the engineer have to disappear because of renewed reason, and who set the fashion of spend- Cabinet were unwilling to agree to any

This season all the best pyjamas seein thing beyond two in 1925 and three in Harbin has gone to interview the Gover force laboured to get the engine into popularity in frilly and fragile nighting hours on the sands in startling,

shape and at last these labours were re gowns, but, instead, the pyjama suit has pyjama-suits. nor to urge Mr. Howard's release.

warded and the vessel got under weigh, taken on fresh importance; it is worn 1926. The Treasury have agreed to com- promise, conditiocally on the Admiralty.

although slowly," continues the ebron-by smart women in the most unexpected to have black or dark blue satin trousers feler in epic vein.

circamstances. The picturesque teagown combined with wonderful coats and long eubatantially reducing administrative ex

Quite boudoir suits are becoming to many penses and notably suggest the re-organi:

He adds that the Silverpine arrived to has gone and in its place is a rather blouses It cannot be denied that these within a short distance of the breakwater theatrical-looking pyjanta suit. sation of the dockyards.

at daylight on the morning of July recently a well-known Parisienne receivwomen, bat sorao people regret that wo The eminent vismologist, Signor Ben 10th, but after the engines were stoppeded her women friends in toilette con seem to be getting farther and farther damli, forecasts a violent earthquake in they refused to start again, and the gisting of long, tight trousers of black away from feminine fashions, as under- or around Japan on July 30th, and says vessel was towed inside the harbour by satin, & loose Russian bloase of sealing stood in pre-war days. that violent earthquakes are probable in an Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company's wax-red crêpe and a loose mandarin coat Alaska on July 25th or 26th.

SECURITY PACT. GERMANY'S RESERVATIONS” PARIS, July 22nd. Following a detailed examination of "the German security. Note; M, Briand has instructed M. de Fleurias in London to communicate to Mr. Austen Chamber- lain the numerous reservations which the document, in the French view, de mands."

Mr. Baldwin is to make a speech in the House of Commons on July 3rd.

RUBBER EXPORTS.

MR. AMERY'S STATEMENT.

GLOOMY PROPHET:

PREDICTS QUAKES THIS MONTH.

"FAENZA; July Zard.

CONTRASTING GARMENTS. of flowered silk which had a little collar . tug.

After a natural feeling of relief that of dark sable. The flowers in the coat All the best pyjamas and boudoir or the hardy mariners thus made "port after were bright orange, red and dark blue smoking suits have costs that do not seem stormy seas" what will next interest the on black ground, and the lining was to bear any relationship to each other; Hongkong reader is the Manila Bulletin orange and blue suede cloth. further reference to the wireless messages already alluded to.

"Hongkong also listened in," it staten, nod to show the extremely precarious

LIBBON, July 22nd.

as often as not a third note of vivid bus In the House of Commons, Mr. Hume BOXER INDEMNITY FUNDS.

is introduced in the tunic-blouse. This Williams asked for the removal of the

on rubber exports Mr. ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS. Communications have also been sent to restriction

blouse may be ivory white, or silver, or "A" VISITING" SUIT. LONDON, July 22nd. Poland and Szecho-Slovakia stating that Amery replied in the negative and point-

In the House of Commons, Mr. Austen

One of the guests created a sensation bright red cost embroidered with t even if the German reply permita of the out that sudden interference with the Stevenson scheme would involve injustice

revealed a prjama satin trousers, the toiletts being com- opening of negotiations with Germany, on large numbers of individuals who had Chamberlain announced the following

suit of highly it nevertheless will involve serious con- entered into contracts on the sasamption appointments on the Advisory Committee state of affairs, the owners of the Hoog by arriving in 'a very long mink coat, Pical birds may fall straight over black

to believe that British producers of Indemnity:-Chairman, Lord Buxton; they would make a move-and-a further

cont, cut like a man's dinner jacket, of trated below, consists of a green Chiness flict with the French point of view. of its continuance. There was to reason to deal with the allocation of the Boxer kong tag demanded, $100,000 (gold) before which, thrown iginal design, Turkish Pleted by gold shoes with immensely high

trousers of black shantung

Bare legs with hand-painted clocks ne firstly concerning the interpretation of rubber observing the scheme were die Dame Adelaids Anderson, Sir John $23,000 (gold), for towing the auto trousers of dark blue satin and a short hela. A popular example, which is illus This demand the captain did not feel claret panns bordered with black breit Blk costco, contrasting effectively with schwans and fastened with red mamel satisfied with it, and he added that, Jordan, Sir Charles Addis Mr Chris port if, as he anticipated, the conditions will topher Needham. Mr. William Clark, warrant a progressive increase in the Professor: Boothill and a member of the disposed to meet, according to the paper's buttons rimmed with diamonds. With the correct mode with 1925 pyjamas The Mr. report, which would perhaps have been this wonderful visiting suit little shoes may have pointed toes and ex- bowl-toque of claret felt was WORN.

goratedly high heels, or they may be of sandál design: case of a conflict," and secondly, owing amount exportable at the minimum duty Foreign Office, Mr. Waterlow.

(Continued on nest Column). to German restrictions, in the matter of on August 1st and succeeding quarterly Cheroberlain hoped that two out of the more convincing if the ownership of "th intervals the British sources will soon be remaining three vacancies would be fill- Hongkong tug" in question had been

mentioned. ed by highly qualified Chinese. exporting at their full capacity.

Article 12 of the Covenant dealing with

the question of member States in the

arbitration procedure.

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