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CHINA ERISIS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11TH

-NOBEL PRIZES.

·BRITISH MINISTER AT HANKOW, SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN, M. BRIAND,

C. DAWES AND DR. STRESEMANN HONOURED.

THE WAR IN SHENSI.

(BEITIKY - WIRELESS SERVICE)

RUGBY, December 10th.. Although London is without official confirmation, Presa telegrams report thas Mr. Miles Lampson, the new British Minister to China, has reached Hankow and has had informal conversation with some of the Cantonese officials.

(RHUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

OSLO, Decemgar 10th. The Nobel Peace Prize for 1995 has

been awarded to Sir Austen Chamberlain and

the American. General Charles Dawes. The Peace Prize for 1990 has been awarded to L Briand and Dr. Stresemann.

Mr. Lampson's visit to Hankow was

The awards were announced at an im- primarily undertaken to be to investi-posing ceremony, attended by a nationally primarily undertaken to investigate representative gathering, including the the situation in the Yangtze Valley, King and the Crown Prince.

and he has discussed local conditions with the British Consular officers station- ed at Kiukiang and elsewhere.

The newspapers. report that Saburi, who was the Japanese delegata at the recent Extra-Territorial Conference, is also in Eankow and is in close contact with Mr. Lampson.

The conditions in Haakow are

re-

ported to be practically normal, the Cantonese authorities having checked the

extremist labour elements.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} MR. LOCKER LAMPSON'S STATEMENT.

LEXING, December 10th. Mr. Locker Lampson's statement in the House of Commons that the Customs.

revenue

Dr. Nansen, in a speech, said that it was the Dawes' plan that Arst brought light to "darkest Europe" after the war, while the initiative at Locarno came from Dr. Stresemane, Sir Austen Chamberlain and M. Briand, who had contributed most to the conclusion of the Rhine Treaty,

U.S. OIL SCANDAL.

· MR.`DOHENY CROSS-EXAMINED."

INTERESTING REVELATIONS. ~

IXEUTER'S AMERICAN, SERVICE]"

WASHINGTON, December 10th. Cross-examined in the Oil Conspiracy Case, Mr. Deheny asserted that it was the "Japanese menace of 1991 that induced him to embark on the Elk Hills Jease and the Pearl Harbour Storage Contract. He said that Admiral Robison, Chief of the Naval Bureau of Engineering. patriotically appealed to him to ensure that the American Navy had an adequatë supply of oil in Hawaii, lest the Japanese threat should materialise and the United States find-itself in the position of Bel- gium when invaded by the Germana

Mr. Doheny added that Admiral Robi. son confided to him that the United States Government called the Armament Conference for the purpose of having

AMERICA'S VETERAN

JURIST.

"MR” ELIHU ROOT HONOURED,

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

THE COAL DISPUTE AFTERMATH.

MINERS WORKING ADMIRABLY.

[SKITIER WIRELESS, SERVICE]

Rugar, December 10th.

SHIPPING DEAL?

· AN EXTRAORDINARY - DENTAL,

[RKUTER'S AMERICAN AIRWICH)

NEW YORK, December 10th.

Mr. Franklin, President of the Interna-

New Yorx, December 10th." Mr. Elihu Root has been awarded the

800,000 miners are now at work, and tional Mercantile Marine, denies the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Memorial if the demand for coal in increased, as statement published in the New York Medal and an award of 895,000 in appre-a result of further price reductions, press that the Royal Mail Steamship ciation of his services for the creation considerably more men will be employed Company has offered to purchase the Leyland and the Red Star Lines. He of a Fermanent Court of International and permanent unemployment among adds that he has received no offers and Justice at The Hague since 1990. miners, as result of the stoppage, will

is not negotiating a sale. bo much less than had been feared.

(BRITISH, WIKKELERS SERVICE]

BRITISH TYRES. FURTHER REDUCTIONS

ANNOUNCED.

ReaBY, December 10th.. Further reductions, ranging from ten to twenty per cent, are announced in the prices of British automobile tyres. This is the third reduction by British manufacturers this year. In April the

The last of the export embargoes will be removed at midnight on Sunday, after which anthracite and coke máy bó freely exported.

[Several telegrams have been recently published giving details of the purchase.

REMARKABLE DOINGS IN NATHAN ROAD.

The Council of Mining Assosiation, which is a Coal-Owners organisation, yesterday approved of the formation of the joint pit committees including repre- MEN ENTER HOUSE ON PRETEXT sentatives of, the workinen. They also decided to contribute to the Research Fund.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] The Emergency Regulations.

LONDON, December 9th..

OF LIME-WASHING.

DEFENDANT SENT TO PRISON.

Alleging, at the Kowloon Magistrney

prosecution was a "frame-up," Mr. D. McCallum, appeared for a Chireso charged with the possession of a dagger.

which had introduced a new spirit in the other nations confront Japan. Adverting prices were lowered by ten per cents, and a House of Commons has agreed to yesterday, that the whole case for the relations of former adversaries, eliminat- ing the Rhine as a cause of conflicts in European politics.

CHANG TSO LIN GOING TO

PEKING?

COUNTER TO SOUTHERNER'S RE- RECOGNITION CLAIMS.

to the #100,000 loan made to the late Secretary Fall, Mr. Doheny insisted that it was merely a personal transaction, up- connected with pending oil contracts.

MATRIMONIAL TANGLE. AUSTRIAN COUNT AND AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE'S 'DAUGHTER.

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in October by a fifteen to twenty per sent. drop.

Machines and engines were subjected to a much more drastic examination than

those of other countries. Technical and

A motion repealing the majority of the Emergency Regulations, apart from those required to control the export of coal, and supplies of gas, water and electricity pending the return to normal work. THE INDIAN CURRENCY

SITUATION.

scientific experiments were constantly being made to introduce new type of machines more easily controlled and safety devices for diminishing the like NEW BILL FACED WITH A HARD lihood of accidente.

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New York, December 10th. Count Ludwig Salm, Austrian nobleman

WIRELESS" WONDERS. was the only source whereon It is reported, says a Toho message, and ex-International tennis player, is British capital loaned to China was that Marshal Chang Tao Lia will shortly seeking a judicial separation from bis A NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY. secured has caused considerable aurprise go to Peking in order to make a round wife, Millicent, daughter of Colonel

RuGay, December 9th. in financial circles, where it is pointed pot calls on Ministers of various Powers Robers, malti-millionaire magnate of the

Next Sunday will be the twenty-fifth out that the Anglo-French and Crisp for the purpose of seeking under-Standard Oil Co. loans are entirely secured on the salt and standing with them,

His wife is willing to separate, but anniversary of the wireless experiments conducted by Senator Marconi which re- Hukunngs" half on salt, while in 1913

denies the court's jurisdiction, as Samsulted in the transmission and reception, the Reorganisation Loan was theoreti

is not residing in America.

for the first time of wireless signals be cally also secured on salt, though met out of the Customs in recent years. ·

GENERAL CHANG Y'S TROOPS

SURRENDER.

Fooсnow, December 10th. General Chang Yi's troops surrendered to the Cantonese last night, the main condition being their incorporation in the Cantonese Army

BRITAIN NOT TO INTERVENE.

LONDON, December 9th.

In the House of Commons, replying to Sir Frederick Hall, who asked whether Mr. Miles Lampson's pronouncement in Shanghai that there could be no question of British intervention in the internal affairs of China was made on the in- structions of the Government, Mr. Locker Lampson said that the statement accord- ed with the policy frequently expressed by Sir Austen Chamberlain. He added that the latter had frequently made it. clear that every possible step would be taken to safeguard the lives of Britishers:

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HORRORS OF SIANFU. GRAPHIC STORY FROM SHENSI'S

CAPITAL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PERING, December 10th. The terrible conditions prevailing in Sianfu are described in & graphic despatch from Reuter's correspondent in the Shensi war zone, dated November 20th, when the City was still under sulsiege and fierce fighting was in progress.

Horrors.

The General Headquarters of the An Kuo Chun (Tranquillity Restoration Army) will, it is stated, be removed to Peking, and a Regency Cabinet, which may be called the Government of the An Kuo Chun Army, will be formed by General Chia Yun Peng. The formation of the new Cabinet will be made after further counding of the opinion of Mar- shal Wu Pei Fu's faction, and this means a step towards the movement to nominate Marshal Chang Tao Lin to the Pre- sidency.

Testing the Situation.

PEXING, December 5th. In order to seek an understanding with Ministers of foreign Powers about the raission of the An Euo Chun Army prior to his entry into the Capital, Marabai Chang Tso Lin, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, has sent a representative to the American, the French and the Acting British Ministers.

At this time when the atmosphers in foreign diplomatic circles is in favour of fecognition of the Southern Government as a de facto Government, to what extent. the atmosphere will be alleviated by Marshal Chang's entry into Peking is being watched by the public with keen

interest.

BRITISH ACCOUNTANTS NOT WANTED.

A Tientsia message from the Asiatic News Service, dated November 30th, states that a telegram from the Ministry of Justice to General Cha Yu Pa, Tapan A Chincee refugee, who managed to get and Civil Governor of Chihli, reports that through the lines, though robbed of his the Chinese Accountants' Association of money and clothes by soldiers, told the correspondent that the city streets were

Tientsin are requesting that no foreign strewn with the dead of the poor who chartered accountant be permitted to died long ago and remain where they practice outside the foreign Concessions fell. Soldiers were robbing the people of

nor to be employed as auditors for all suplies and food could not be pur: Chinese firms. The Waichiaopu says that chased, though human flesh was offered there is no accessity to discuss the quei- for sale. Many were subsisting on bean- takes normally used as cattle food or fertiliser. All dogs had vanished from the streets, and the troops were living cu horseflesh, millet and four including the husks.

tion with the foreign Legations as the

The Count admitted in court that during the honeymoon he received £500 as the supposed author of newspaper articles entitled "How I wooed and won

Millicent Rogers."

AN ABANDONED FLIGHT. PRAIA, Cape Verde, December 10th. Senhor do Barros. has given up his

flight.

A telegram from Genos, dated October 17th, stated that a Brazilian seaplane, piloted by Senhor de Barros with three companions, left on a ten-day flight to Santos, Brazil.]

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AMERICA'S CONSISTENT WAR DEBT POLICY. STATEMENT BY U.S. SECRETARY

OF THE TREASURY.

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WASHINGTON, December 9th The outstanding feature of the report of Mr. Mellon, the Secretary of the Treasury, is the impression it gives of the United States reluctance at present to reconsider any of the war debt settle-

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tween the Old and New Worlds. It was on December 12th, 1901, at St. John's, Newfoundland, that Marconi successfully received signals from Poldhu, in Corn

FIGHT.

SIR- B. BLACKETT'S SPEECH

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, sitting with Major C. Willson, criticised the evidence given by the prosecution and said, that there must not be any compromise in the case. either it had to be one of a very serious nature or that the whole case was ́ ́a ridiculous one.

A Chinese detective, on oath, said that he went to a house in Nathan Road, Kowloon, on November 21st to investigato a larceny case, and, on coming out of the house, he saw a Chinese loitering about Witness in a very suspicious manner. was in the act of going up to the man, when four other Chinese rushed out of another house (No. 235) and scattered in different directions. Those men were fol-

LONDON, November 10th. The Indian currency situation is stil: obscure.According to a Delhi message the Government's Currency Bill is facedowed by a fifth man, whom witress with a hard fight in the forthcoming session when the Swarajists will oppoee her groups are meanwhile un decided.

At the same time Sir Basil Blackett's recent speech at Cawnpore has helped to alear the situation, especially his fat denial that the agriculturist will not in any way suffer as a result of the rupee ratio of eighteenpence, which the Bombay The occasion is taken by writers in the press, till recently, echoed by other pro- Press to pay tribute to this achievement,vinces, especially attacked for the very as having marked the beginning of a reason which Sir B. Blackett has denied." wonderful era of wireless communication.

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NEW BRITISH ROAD VEHICLES BILL.

NIGHT DRIVING ACCIDENTS.

RUGBY, December 9th. As a preventive against night driving accidents a new Road Vehicles Bill has been introduced into Parliament. It

provides for the compulsory use of four front lights on automobiles and limits the range of their beam

(THROUGH RELTER'S LONACY, ] EMPEROR OF "JAPAN.

CONDITION WORSE.

Torro, December 9th." An Imperial Household bulletin, issued last evening, says that the Emperor's condition is worse, with symptoms of bronchial pneumonia in the right lung Loyal Tramwaymen.

ToxYo, December 10th,

It states that 97 per cent. of the total of the obligations held by the United States have been covered by the nettle ments and that a fair trial can be had not in theory but in practice. The existence of the Foreign Debt Commis sion terminates on February 9th, 1927, as the Commission has practically coma deference to the Emperor's illness, pleted its work.

which has definitely developed into paeu- The report adds that no debtor nation onia, the Municipal tramwaymen beld will deny that the payments arranged urgent conference which it was decided for the earlier years of the 62 year period to cancel the strike, which had been are well within its capacity, while in declared on Thursday night, on the con the eight years since the Armistice, the dition that the authorities discharged American debts bas meant practically none of the tramwaymen. nothing to continental Europe, since the settlements (England's excepted) have been only recently

completed. Mellon emphasises that the United States Government has maintained a consistent policy against cancellation, and he quotes statements by the late Pre- sident Wilson to show there was no thought of cancellation.

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NORTH AMERICA'S WINTER.

Chinese authorities can enact any rule

GRAIN. ÇAREIERS LIBERATED. they like to restrict the activities of foreign accountauts in inland cities.

NEw York, December 9th. i A message from Fort William says that General Chu has instructed the district magistrates of the province to prohibit the ice jam between Lake Superior and foreigners from practising in non-treaty Lake Huron has broken, liberating a dest ports, including those ports which have of grain carriers, laden with several been voluntarily opened to foreign resi-million bushels of wheat, which had dence and commerce by China without previously been caught by early wintry

conditions.

Éritish Doctor's Appeal. A touching appeal, on behalf of the Chinese staff of the hospital which the combined missionary forces, in Sianlu are running, is made in a letter from treaty obligations,

Dr. Clement Stockley, of the English CUTTING OFF THEIR OWN NOSES. Baptist Mission," with has reached the Rev. Mr. Shields of the same mission.- Writing from Sianfu on November 19th, Dr. Stockley urges efforts to get permiş. sion for the hospital staff to leave the city for their homes.

Fosed With Starvation.

MARTIAL LAW AT TIENTSIN.

(Asiatic News Service.)

*** We are truly in a desperate state and

TIENTSIN, December zad nothing but starvation-stores us in the Since the promulgation of martial face. Hundreds are dying in the city inw,. no persons are allowed to walk in daily and it is impossible to buy food. the streets of the native city after 12p.m. You cannot understand the state of without special permits and all theatres, affairs, it is just simply awful. It is eating houses and places of amusement difficult to bury all that die of starvamust shut at 10 pm On account of the tion, and many lie in the streets for days enforcement of these rules, businesses in unburied and uncared for. We foreig ners can last about two weeks if we are allowed to keep the little we have." All "are well and we should like to stay

few days longer to help those we can, and see if we can help with any efforts, for peace, but soon we will have nothing to eat ourselves. Of course if the staff can not get out we will have to share our supplies with them and that will not last long

the native city of Tientsin are suffering serious losses and many commercial houser have either closed their doors or removed to the Japanese and French Concessions. The Ft Shih Pao, there fore, anticipates further prosperity for the foreign Concessions in Tientein as the Chinese authorities are pxerting their best efforts to drive out the native bus nessmen by intolerable taxes and other

obstacles

U.S. MINE. DISASTER;

MANY WORKMEN KILLED,

LIBERIAN RUBBER.

FIRESTONE GROUP'S

AGREEMENT.. :

LONDON, December 9th. It is announced that a Firestone Rabber Group agreement and also an American loan contract has been signed and ratified by the Liberian Government and the Legislature.

Mr. Harvey Firestone has left Mon- rovia for-Accra en route to America.

BEET SUGAR.

YORKSHIRE FACTORY SCHEME" -ABANDONED. “

LONDON, December 9th. The big sugar refiners, Mezgra Tate and Lyle, have decided to abandon the project of building a sugar beet factory in Yorkshire on account of the experience gained through working the existing factory in Suffolk."

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New You, December 9th. A message from Princeton, Indiana, Bir Ernest Lyle, at the anginal meeting says that over thirty miners are believed of the firm, expressed the conviction that to have been killed a few minutes after a British sugar beet factory had so hope starting work, owing to explosion in to exist without a subsidy, and the the Francisco mine, South-west Indians prospect of decreasing and ultimately The explosion was due to gas, and blew ending the subsidy did not warrant the off the top of the airshaft and forced the stage outlay of capital involved in build cage to the

top

of the mine.

ing new factories. [THROUGH ZAUTH'S AGENOT.] THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

PRIVATE - ARMS MANUFACTURE.

GENEVA, December 9th. The League of Nations Council has decided to invite the United States and Russia to send representatives to a meet ing at 'Geneva early in the sutumn of the Special Committee which is to draft a Convention on the supervision of the private manufacture, of arms.

FRENCH BUDGET. PASSED BY THE CHAMBER

PARIS, December 8th. The Chamber of Deputies has passed the budget by 410 votes to 135.

The estimated expenditure amounts to 39,634,408,139 Irance, and the estimated receipts to 40,999,101,038 francs,

Only the Socialists and the Communists voted against the Budgete

The Chamber has adjourned until December 17th.

Hadras and Delhi, where influential The latest development is in Calouttay newspapers warned Bombay propagand- a to stick to facts and argas fairly, With the tendency to firmer-exchanges the Government's task will be easier if sa upward move occurs.

THE CHINESE "BISHOPS

IN FRANCE.

WELCOMED TO PARIS.

(THROCGE REUTER'S SERVICE.]

PARIS, December 10th. The four Chinese bishops have arrived in Paris and have been greeted by the ecclesiastical authorities.

MARCONI'S MARRIAGE.

› ANNULMENT PROCEEDINGS.

ROME, December 9th. At the request of the interested parties, the Sacred Rota has decided that all proceedings in the application for the an nuiment of Senator Marconi's marriage shall be conducted in secrecy in order to avoid unpleasant discussion

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what was stated to be a file-dagger, the Witness, on searching the man, found handle of which was showing out of the pocket. At the same moment, a Chineso lady rushed out of the house shouting that ive respectably dressed Chinese had entered her house with felonious intents. Witness then took the defendant back to house No. 235, where he was identified by the lady as one of the men who had; entered the bouse in the pretext of lime- washing the house, and that when she became suspicious the men bolted.

Defendant's Story.

The defendant's story was that he was formerly a boy in the employ of the Repulse Bay Hotel, and that he was given a week's holiday on account of ill-health. He overstayed his holiday, and, on the day in question, he was invited out for

walk by a friend named Young Chong.

Defendant came to Yaumati with this man, and when they were at Nanking Strest, Young Chong gave him the in- strument to carry saying that he had to go into a house to ask for some money, They also met three other men, and together they proceeded to No. 235, Nathan Road Young Chong then asked three of the men to wait for him outside and told defendant to go into the house with him. Defendant did not go into anyone's room, merely remaining in the passage-way. During the time he was in: the house, he saw no one and beard no conversation between Young Chong and anyone. Young Chong then came from upstairs and told him that he could not find his friend. They then left the house, Young Chong going out first. When de fendant came out to the road, he found that Young Chaps, and the other three had gone. Defendant began to walk away and, when a few yards off, he was approached by the Chinese detective, the Chinese lady of the house. Later, he was put under arrest.

who searched him and took him back to

[A message of November 24th stated It is learned that the Sacred Rota is examining the case for the an Marconi and his wife whose maiden Court, defendant aaid that he had always; nalment of the marriage of Senator

In answer to questions put by the name was Beatrice O'Brien. The alleged been on friendly terms with Young Chong, nullity consists of a condition said who used to visit him quite often. But to have been agreed to by which they some time last year, Young Chong asked could separate whenever they wished him for a loan of money, and "since that According to the canon laws, the Catholic time, Young Chong had not been to visit Church considers marriage indissoluble him.

and such a condition nullifies the mar-. Mr. Nihill: Oh, after borrowing money Tiage. A Diocesan Court at West from you, he did not come to sea yen, is minster has already annulled the mar that it (Laughter.) riage.]

AN ITALO-GERMAN TREATY,

CAUSES NO SURPRISE.

GENEVA, December 9th No surprise is expressed here at the reports of the imminence of the signature of an Italo-German Treaty of Arbitration and Friendship, as it has been known for some time that negotiations had been pending

The Treaty is in the spirit of the principles of the League and similar to the treaties with Spain, Switzerland and other countries.

* Called 'to. Whitewash." When the Chinese lady of the house was called to give evidence, Mr. McCal lum objected on the grounds that the lady was in Court when the first witness was giving evidence, and also that the Нів prosecution. had closed their cane. Worship pointed out that the lady was called in rebutal to the defendant's story. The evidence of the Chinese lady, was to the effect that she was taking her sienta on the day in question, when her amah reported that some men had called to white-wash the house. The defendant, it was stated, went into her room," and told her that he had come to lime-wash to place. She stated that defendant”

looked very fierce," and that she noticed a dagger in his pocket, wrapped up in newspaper. "I became suspicious, and went into the back yard to avoid Loscos, December 9th him," said witness. When the men left The late Sir Paul Chater, member of the house she cried out Thieves, Ro the Hong Kong Executive Council, left bers estate in England valued at £138,000 net.

DUTCH DIVIDEND.

THE HAGUE, December 9th. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company has declared an interim dividend of ten per cent.

SIR PAUL CHATER'S ENGLISH

ESTATE.//

“ROYAL DUTCH

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] OBITUARY.

SERVIAN EX-PREMIER

BELORIDE, December 10th. The death is announced of ex-Fremier Pachitch

Mr. McCallim painted out that it was absurd to think that the defendant had gone to the house with any criminal in. tents, and then allowed the lady to leave the house and go out into the back yard. Furthermore, had the lady shouted out thieves and robbers, as he had stated,

" it was very wonderful that the Chinese detective did not state so in his evidence. Mr. McCallum submitted that the Chinese detective was in league, with the man called Young Chong to tramp up the charge, pointing out that it was a curious. coincidence for the Chinese detective to beron the spot at the time

The Court held that defendant was guilty and sentenced him to 10 months' imprisonment, with hard labour,

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