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THE NEW CHINESE TARIFFS.

DISCUSSION WITH SIR MILES LAMPSON,

JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

(Wah The Fat Pap).

SHANGHAI, Dec. 11th. The Japanese Chargé d'Affaires in Peking has notified the Diploma. the Corps denying Japan's intention tarif of ignoring China's new schedule, except on the point that at the Japanese Consul-General 'Shanghai is not in & position to Accept the Nationalist Govern- As ment's Note to such effect. regards the problems of rearranging the Sino-Japanese loan services

THE HONG KONG DAILY · PRESS: WEDNESDAY,

INSURING ARMS FOR DUTCH EXHIBITION

CHINA.

REFUSALS FROM MANY COUNTRIES.

LONDON UNDERWRITERS'

AGREEMENT,

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.)

• Lospos, Dec. 10th.

Ia the House of Commons, to-

AT THE ACADEMY.

ANXIETY AT THE PALACE.

CARE OF VALUABLE PICTURES,

KING'S TEMPERATURE STILL HIGH,

SEVERAL HOURS' SLEEP,

ESCORT OF TORPEDO

BOATS.

[DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE. Į

Ruczy, Dec. 11th... Two Dutch torpedo boats, after,

· (THROUGH MAUIM'S AGENTOT.)

LONDON. December 10th. Every development in the King's illness, with its persistent ebb and day. Mr. G. Locker Lampson, re-accompanying to British terri flow, is awaited by the public with plying to a question, made an in- torial waters the Batavier Line intense interest and arctionate teresting announcement on the sub steamers in which ore pictures of concern. It is recognised that ject of prohibiting the insurance of great value for exhibition in Lon-anxiety must continue for at least don, will pay a courtesy visit to several days." This morning's, news arms and ammunition to China.

London. The first is due to arrive that the King had had several hours. to-day and the second to-morrow.

sleep and that, despite the high The pictures will be unloaded at temperature, there was "No (im- the Custom House quay, and in pairment in strength" was received

He stated that the Institute of London Underwriters had reached an agreement with Underwriting Associations in France, the Nether

and the proper manner by which landa, Greece, Japan, Poland, view of their great value adequate with a measure of reliet,,,and fur-

the new tariff schedule will be en- forged as regards Japan, Mr. T v. Soong and Mr. Yada are continuing negotiations in order to arrive at

some arrangement.

Switzerland, Yugo-Slavia and the United States prohibiting the in- surance of arms and ammunition destined for China,

Favourable replies had been re-

tria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Sweden and Turkey, but the agreement had not yet been formally adopted by

these countries.

arrangements have been made for their protection both during their transfer to the Royal Academy and while they are housed there. These pictures include those lent by the the exhibition of Dutch art to he opened in January.

and Ru-

ther reassurance was felt by the an nouncement that the Queen bas every hope of fulfilling an engage- ment to unveil to-morrow, on behalf of the King, a memorial to the men

DECEMBER 12th, 1928.

"CELTIC" HIGH AND TROUBLE IN SOUTH REPARATIONS AND

DRY.

WHITE STAR LINER BADLY HOLED,

ATTEMPTS TO REFLOAT FAIL.

(THROUGH AVTER'S ADENOY.

LONDON, Dec. 10th.,

In the early hours of this morn-

AMERICA.

BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY IN

-"ARMS.

LEAGUE COUNCIL AS PEACEMAKER.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]

NEW YORK, Dec. 10th Much excitement has been arous-

White Starliner Celtic after a Mexican Legation at Montoridec, ing just before dawn, the greated by the receipt of news from the

war between Bolivia and Paraguay rough Atlantic crossing, while Uruguay hinting at a danger of negotiating the entrance to the har

and reporting

severe frontier clash a few days ago,

bour at Queenstown, Ireland, ran on to the rocks, going hard aground.

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quarrelling spiritedly regarding the ownership of Elchaco, one of

It has been well-known for some The vessel is high and dry on the time that the countries have been rocks. Apparently she is badly holed," a

as it is reported that some of the compartments already con- tain twelve feet of water.

There is no immediate danger, however. The passengers from the United States, numbering some 254,

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EVACUATION.

RHINELAND QUESTION UNDER REVIEW.

CHAMBERLAIN -CLEARLY

RIGHT."

[RITISH WIRALISS SERVIC

Rucar, Doc. 10th.

A plain answer to a plain ques.

Wedgwood (Labour) in the House tion was asked for by Colonel

cussion on whether the British of Commons to-day during a dia Government agreed with the French point of view that reparations and the evacuation of the Rhineland were

linked up.

The matter was first brought up last week, when Sir, Austen'declin-

the most fertile areas in this parted to answer without formal notice

of the question. of the world, and having an area

Mr. G Locker-Lampson, the of over 100,000 square miles,

Under-Secretary

Foreign

• for. Affairs, replied that the Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, stated op Monday last the views of the Government both as to the law and the policy applicable to this question...

Bolivian and Paraguayan troops came into collision on the frontier a few days ago, a fierce battle en- and landed, but the crew are re-suing. Although only small bodies their lives during the war. The maining on board for the time be- "of troops were engaged, it is re Duke of York is also fulfilling acing. engagement to-morrow in connec tion with the lifeboat service.

Long Consultation.

are

The enforcement of the new tariffceived from Associations in Aus Dutch Government to be shown at of the mercantile marine who loota ve been transferred to tenders "schedule was the leading problem put forward for discussion at the first, stage, of the negotiations be. tween Sir Miles Lampson, the Eritish Minister and Dr. CAT. Wang, the Nanking Foreign Minis ter, at Nanking yesterday. Si: Miles declared that he had cabled the Nanking Government's Note announcing the enforcement of the new tariff schedule on February lat, 1925, to London for instruc- tions.

Dr. Wang then emphasised at some length the necessity of revis- ing China's old tariff rates and ex plained in detail the Nationalist Government's intention of adopting i this new tariff schedule.

Sir Miles said that, until receir! ing instructions from Lenion, be could not make suggestions to the Nationalist

Government

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M. Locker-Lampson added that a law in March Germany passed prohibiting the insurance of arms destined for China,

THE PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE.

COOLIDGE WELCOMES

DELEGATES.

MONROE DOCTRINE UNDER DISCUSSION.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

Conference

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10th.. President Coolidge, in welcoming the delegates to the Pan-American on Conciliation and whether the tariff problem hetween Arbitration, in which twenty-one China and Great Britain could be nations are participating, exclud- better settled by an independent

ing Argentina, paid a tribute to Sino-British Tariff Agreement, or

the part which the South American through a new Sino-British Treaty Republics have played towards the

advancement of peace.

FRENCH TREATY.

(Wah T Tai Puo).

SHANGHAI, Dec. 11th. It is reported that the French Minister to China has received in structions from the French Govern- ment with regard to recent negotia- tions of the Sino French Treaty Agreement and will again proceed to Nanking in the near future.

SHANGHAI OPIUM SMUGGLING.

POLICE AND "MILITARY IN OPPOSITION.

(Wah Te Fat Poo).

SHANGHAI. Dec. 11th. Akbough not fully official, a statement made by Mr. Wei Tao Ming, of the Opium Suppression Committee, is to the effect that as Tesult of long investigation there is no absolute evidence leading to the conviction of either the Shang- hai Garrison Headquarters or the Shanghai police concerning the smuggling of illegal opium. How- ever, neither party acted in a proper manner when, the discovery of the upium was made.

For in-

stance, Sergeant Lee, who carried

Was

}

The Conference is a continuation of the Havana Conference which broke down in February on the question of arbitration. The dura tion of the Conference is indefinite. The Monroe Doctrine is likely to be given much prominence during the digeussions.

OUTBREAK OF STRIFE IN AFGHANISTAN.

NO BRITISH SUBJECTS INVOLVED.

BRITISH WILELESS BERVICE.)

RUGBY. Dec. 10th. Questions were asked in the House of Commons to-day regard ing the situation in Afghanistan, Mr. G. Locker-Lampan stated that the Government, were BA- aware that any British lives were in danger there. The Government were in constant, communication by wireless with the British Minis ter in Kabul, who would take all possible steps to secure protection from the Afghan Government

He believed there were one or two thousand British subjects in Afghanistan, but of these very few were British people.

In addition to exhibits from Hol

been lund,

have contributions. promised from "Amezien, Hungary, Switzerland, Finland wania. In all there will be about 208 old masters, one hundred pic tures of the Modern-Hague School and two hundred drawings, en- gravings and etchings.

POPULAR BRANDS OF TEA. DECREASED SALES FROM CEYLON.

MARK OF ORIGIN.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

LONDOy, Dec. 10th. An interesting enquiry was open- ed to-day by the Standing Com mittee of the Board of Trade, which ant to consider whether an older should-be mede requiring imported tea to bear an indication of the country of origin.

The applicants were the Indian Indian and Ceylon Associations in Ten Association, and the South London. The principal opponents were the Teabuyers Association, the Incorporated Association of Retail Distributors, the Associa tion of Multiple-Shop Proprietors, the Scottish Wholesale Tea Trade Association, the National Federa tion of Produce Merchants. and other bodies. All were represent- ed by counsel.

The applicants and that the position with regard to Indian and Ceylon tea imported into Britain had changed in recent years. The proportion of Dutch East Indian

It was authoritatively stated this afternoon that there had been no change in the King's condition since this morning, but it is to be noted that there is considerable reluctance to comment upon this morning's bulletin, which stated that His Majesty had passed a disturbed night, though there was a slight in- provement in his general condition.

It is understood that the coming few days are regarded as likely to be anxious ones.

ANXIETY NOT DIMINISHED.

Loypos. December 11th.

A bulletin issued at 11-15 this morning states that the King had several hours sleep. His temperature remains high but there is no further impairment of strength:

To-day's bulletin is not re- garded as satisfactory, and the naxiety of members of the Royal Household is not allayed. The continuance of high tempera- ture ments that infection still exists. and the position in this respect is not improved although fever is no worse.

Among the

passengers twenty-nine survivors of the Festria disaster

LATER. Attempts to refloat the Celtic have hitherto been unsuccessful, and the depth of water in the halda has increased to twenty-four feet.

ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS

SURPASSED.

BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR HEAVY BOOKINGS OF SPACE,

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Roo, Dec, 10th. The prospects of the forthcoming British Industries Fair, to be held in London and Birmingham from February 18th to March 1st, are extremely satisfactory.

Captain Hacking, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Board of Trade, making this statement in the House of Commons, said in London applications had been re- ceived from 1,296 British manufac- turers for 207,476 square feet. This surpassed the record achieved this year, when 257,000 square feet were Ïet. 1

In Birmingham, the whole avail- Table area of 900,720 square feet had been let for same time, and, the Birmingham authorities were now forming an open-air section.

PICCADILLY CIRCUS STATION.

CEREMONY BY MAYOR OF WESTMINSTER.

THROUGH EEUTER'8-AGENCY.]

The doctor's consultation lasted tea consumed was increasing and for over two hours, which is much the quantity of Indian and Ceylonger than usual, while they re- lon tea decreasing, in spite of a turned to the Palace in the after steadily increasing total consump noon and spent a long time with the tion.

patient: Sumatra

tremendous re-

Monday Evening. -

LONDON, Dec. 10th. sources for the cultivation of tea

At 8.30 p.m. the following

The Mayor of Westminster bere which hitherto has been little de-bulletin, signed by four doctors, moniously opened the new Piccadil- veloped

was exhibited outside Buckinghamly Circus Underground Station,

had

Counsel examined Mr. Thomas McMorran, former chairman of the

Indian Tea Association for over

two hours.

He said that there had been a diminution of 3,000,000 lbs. in the consumption of Java and Sumatra tea in Britain during the first ten months of 1928 as compared with last year. He did not agree that quality and price were the only things considered by the public; some would prefer Empire tea

Palace':-

The King spent a quiet day The signs in the lung have im proved. The feter persists, though it is not so high as last evening and is due to some return of the general infection, which necessarily affects the condition of the heart.”

To-night's bulletin is regarded in Palace circles as disquieting and ever less satisfactory than that of the morning.

The situation is now described Mr. William Campbell, the chair- man of the Ceylon Tea Association, as anxious, the important feature examined, said he did not know of the bulletin causing new appre- that all the wholesalers and re-hension being the fact that the tailers were opposed to the applica- general infection has in

The inquiry adjourned."

He understood the disturbances were confined to the neighbour. tion, hood of Jalalabad and Dakka, and that negotiations for a settlement in these places were proceeding.

AMERICAN NAVAL

IMPROVEMENTS.

INCREASED APPROPRIA- TIONS APPROVED.

(ARUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICZ)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11th. The Naval Committee has op-

THE NEW P.R.A. SIR WILLIAM LLEWELLYN

CHOSEN

(THROUGH, REUTER'S AGENCY.). LONDON, Dec. 10th. Sir William Llewellyn, K.C.V.O., R.A.. has been elected President of the Royal Academy in succession to the late Sir Frank Dicksee.

(The new President was born in

Cormen, Lefebre and dinand

He is the painter of Ferrier. many famous, portraits, including the State portrait of Queen Mary the United Services Club portrait and others of Her Majesty He became an A.R.A. in 1912 and an RTA, in 1920.]

measure returned.

"

Spread Of Poison.

some

The King's medical advisers at the end of last week were able to. report that the infection had been localised and that His Majesty wi in a safer position.

That situation is now-reversed The spread of the poison from the lung to other parts of the system must have an effect on the beart, and deep concern is felt as to the result.

The four doctors were in consulta tion for an hour and a half this evening before issuing the bulletin. staying the night at Buckingham

اوال

Labour Tribute.

which is claimed to be the largest in the world, and which has taken nearly four years to construct.

The Mayor, by manipulating a small switch, lighted a lamp pedes tal and simultaneously started the eleven buge escalators.

VALUABLE OLD DUTCH BIBLE.

Forted that over eighty soldiers were killed on both sides.

Intense enthusiasm for, war pre!

vails in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, but Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay is quiet.

The Peace-makers, The Pan-American Congress has

special appointed a

committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Kellogg to devise a means of con- ciliation for the rupture between Paraguay and Bolivia,

It is expected at Lugano that the League Council will communicate with the two governments to-day counselling moderation and a paçi- fic solution. Both diaputante are member of the League. Bolivia

Sir Austen Chamberlain desired him to say it would not in his opinion conduce to good feeling or progress if he now made a com- parison between his own statement and any statements which might have been made by any representa tives of the other Governments con

cerned. Sir Austen thought it much more important to seek a practical solution of any difficulties which stood in the way of the evacuation than to discuss the points of difference, which, impor-

has not paid her subscriptions for tant as they were, might be found five years and has not participated not to be the determining factors in the recent Assembly meetings, in the decisions which had to be but Paraguay is in good standing and has always actively particis taken. pared.

"NEW BILLION DOLLAR

COMBINE.

HUGE MERGER OF RETAIL STORES.

Conversations In Progress.

Further questioned whether the Government considered the ques- tions of reparations and evacuation linked or not, Mr. Locker Lampson said he hoped nobody would press him on this particular question at the present moment. Conversations NEW YORK, Dec. 10th. The amalgamation of twenty-two were going on between the various retail department stores, the nego Liasions for which it is understood Governments and it was really not have concluded, embodies ain the public interest to add any-" $1,000,000,000 combine controlled

[RECTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICE].

by the Hahn Stores of New Jerseything to what bad been said, "The combine in expected to form the nucleus of the largest system of retail stores throughout the world.

NEW RAILWAY ENGINE.

SWEEPING CLAIMS FOR INVENTION.

A statement on the same subject was made in the House of Lords by Lord Hailsham, following criticism. by the Labour Peer, Lord Parmoor, who argued that the Peace Treaty compelled us to withdraw "troops from the Rhineland without waiting. until the whole of the reparations had been paid. “

Legal Examination. Lord Hailsham quoted the ave Articles of the Treaty from Article 428, and examined.cxhaustively the legal side of the question.

At the engineering works of Messrs. Marshall, Son and Co., Gainsborough, is an engine which revolu.

He said the Government's view of the interpretation of Article 431 its designers anticipate may tionize steam railway engines in all parts of the world. By a new ar

of the Versailles Treaty was well- rangement of gear, Mr. J. T. Markoowa. The question of that inter- shall, of Harrogate, and a native

many.

The very frst thing said at Geneva by France when this ques tion was raised was that the judicial view expressed by Germany was one

of Gainsborough, claims that thepretation and its correctness was size of the present cylinders can be a matter of acute controversy at the reduced by a fourth. If all the moment between France and Get- A QUEEN'S GIFT TO US.A

claims made are substantiated, Mr. Marshall. has removed one of the {BEUTER'S AMERICAN SELVICE]

greatest defects of the present ordi mary and high-power locomotives in NEW YORK, Dec. 10th.

and Wilhelmina Queen

the regard to waste of steam by con- Netherlands Government have pre- densation and back pressure in the sented to the Cathedral of St. John cylinder upon the advancing pis- ton. Bricfy and in non-technical 'the Divine beautifully bound copy of the Staten Bijbel, a Dutch terms the inlet for the steam is the translation of the Bible, printed in outlet for the exhaust."

1858.

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CABLE BILL PASSED. (THEOGUN REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Dec. 10th The House of Commons to-day passed by 233 votes to 97, the third reading of the Emperial Telegrapha

Bill.

Mr. Marshall said the railway companies would be able by means of it to reduce running costs by £1,200 or £1,500 on each engine a

year.

I was a matter of acute practical the two that she could not possibly accept. disagreement between parties.

In those circumstances, our Gov- erament desired, if possible, to see an agreement reached under which there might be early evacuation of the Rhineland.

We had stated that publicly more In the present engines," than cnce and the Foreign Secre- said Mr.. Marshall, steam is so tary had been at pains to try and badly wire-drawn," technically transfer the discussion from the speaking, that there is an extra plane of arid legal argument into ordinary loss of power, which with the more practical sphere of an

terested parties. fuel and running costs amounts to agreement between the most in- thousands of pounds waste a year, The railway companies are greatly

Chamberlain Right,--- interested in the invention, which

The Lord Chancellor proceeded Prince's Hurried Journey...

an expert considers" the greatcet The Prince of Wales, who is now advance in steam-engine construc to analyse the terms of the Article on the fourney from Brindisi to tion since Stephenson. It is assert and said that whether one looked Mr. Ramsay MedDonald, the late Boulogne, received the latest news ed that if the English railways at the language of the Treaty itself Labour Premier, gave a lecture in of the King in telegram at adopt it, though they will only have or at the contemporary declara- Paris yesterday on the aims and Bologna station. During a brief to spend £1,000 in altering each tions, one was driven to the me policy of the British Labour Party hall at Milan the Prince sent tele- existing locomotive, they will put conclusion, namely, that the inter- He prefaced his speech by saying grams to the King of Italy and the railways on an interest-paying pretation placed on the Article by that his visit had been made uncer- Signor Mussolini conveying his basis in addition to finding employ the Foreign Secretary way obviously The only thing to work upon was. tain for some days by the illness of thanks for the messages received ment. for thousands of men. Pre right. the King which had. aroused in from them and for the perfectly parations are already being made.

at the Gainsborough works for to try and bring about an agree

ment between the interested powers the hearts of the British people an organised special train service. HOOVER IN CHILE."

affectionate anxiety which had been

Early tomorrow morning on ar developments. [TX2OUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.] one of the most remarkable mani riving at Boulogne the Prince will Mr. Marshall is the inventor of for the early evacuation of the festations of our time. He added, embank on the destroyer Torth for patents now used on almost every Rhineland, He most devoutly trust VALPARAISO, Dec, 10th." All rulers and potentates of Dover. A special train will carry lecomotive in the world He beed no foreign power would think Mr. Hoover ban arrived at earth might well envy the position him to London where he will arrive longs to the famous family of May we desired to handle this problem He has shall, whose century and a half old other than from the viewpoint of the report that any special condi- Santiago de Chile and was warmly which King George-occupies in daring the morning,

ied by any forma for their steam 10ad rollers and wards the friendliness of the tions Guide that the Pratident men the minds of all sections of his specially requested that his arrival firm have a world-wide-reputation. mutual good and to asist-to-

Hureshing BARDCO Sino-Japanese tariff &greement. bare of, the Cabinet and large people

(Continued at foot of next column.) I lity. All Powers would be treated alike. crowds.

out his duties when he was inform proved several bills sponsored by December, 1863, and was educated Sir Stanley Hewett "is again ed that a big consignment of illegal the chairman, Mr. Britte, at South Kensington under Sir E. opium was being smuggled into authorising an increased appro- Foynter and at Paris under Fer- Palace. Shanghai Chinese territory. arbitrarily arrested by the soldiers priation for the modernisation of of the Shanghai Garrison Head the battleships California, Okla. "quarters. On the other hand, the oma, and Nevada, and the con- Shanghai Police issued a circular struction of two feet submarines. telegram reporting that the Nation. alist ferees in Shanghai had assist- ed in the smuggling of the illegal opium, though they had no deânite evidence to support this statement. YEN IN SHANGHAI (Wah Tuz Yat Pas);

SHANGHAL, Dec. 11th.

triplier reports that

he would proceed direct to Nin- king, General Yen Hsi Shan this mording arrived in Shanghai.

"REPORTS DENIED.

(THROUGH" RESTER'S ACKROY.]

NANXING Dec. 11th. Interviewed by the Chinese Press, Mr. Hu Han Min officially denied. the report that the Nationalist Government had recognised the Nishihara loans, and also denied-