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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY

SEPTEMBER

151 1919.

FREE TRADE

LORD CREWE AT HYDE

The Marquis of Crewe address- ed a Free Trade demonstration Eat Hyde recently.

The principles of Fre Trade, he said, were once more being systematically attacked, but with greater hope of success than even in

Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's raging and tearing campaign. All that they asked for, generally speeking, was to be allowed to con- tinue the policy of Free Trade which before the war had brought such prosperity to this country, unless.. some specific reason could be shown for departing from the old policy. D- stead of showing why certain Articles should be protected, the Tariff Reformers simply pro- daced from their musty old cupboard the same stale Protect- ionist arguments which had been exposed over and over again for the last hundred years. Was this picturesque but futile grant of Imperial Preference "contained in Mr. Austen Chamberlain's Bud- get going to stop where it was, or was the Government going to recall the never yet contradicted statement of Mr. Joseph Cham- berlain that if we wore to embark on Imperial Preference we must have a tax on food? Ninety per cent of our imports from the dominions consisted of food and raw materials. There could not be Imperial Preference except as part of a general scheme of Protection. One of the relations of

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preference was retaliation. which could be exercised by otber coun- tries than this (bear hear),

and the probability was that it would be exercised. One of the keen demands of India had been for a measure of fiscal freedom, so that she might impose duties on imported products such as cotton goods. We had been able to refer to the analogous position of these islands, but once we adopted a general policy of tariffs on im- ported goods the farce of our argument to India disappeaed.

Our financial position, if not actually desperate, was so peri- lous as to make the use of that word hardly improper.. Economy, national and private, was there- fore. of paramount importa, ce. He was glad to notice that Mr. Asquith dealt with this topic at Plymouth with the unrivalled force and lucidity which he was able to bring to bear on such a subject. Those of them who had known or had served under him retained an absolutely undimishej faith in Mr. Asquith's soundness of judgment, no less than in the patriotism of which he had given so many evidences. (Cheers.) There was now in public life a tendency to substitute expedients for principles, and to attempt to deal with the difficulty of the moment by the impulse of the moment rather than by settled. lines of principle.. We should fare badly if we did not recognise that there did exist a code of principles in public life, trans- cending the desires and interests of classes, and applicable to all different conditions.

KEVERSE THE PRINCIPLES OF WAR.

The moral temperature of most people was just now somewhat raised not to a high fever, but to temperature of 100 or there. abouts-not dangerous. but dis- turbing. (Laughter.) The various evidences of violence which had occurred in ordinarily peaceful parts of the country must be ex- plained, even if they could not be excused, by this rise in temper- ature, and he sincerely hoped,: when the thermometers were next consulted, that they would be found to be normal. During the war thought was frowned upon, while action in almost and direction was applauded and admired The motto almost came to be: Don't think, but act. Now. that motto had to be reversed to: Think before you act, and look before you leap.

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Mr. W. M. R. Pringle said the nation was face to face with a situation of extreme gravity. No decisons which were based on the evasions, the compromises, and the accommodations of Mr. Churchill and the present Prime Minister would be equal to the occasion. (Cheers.) We living under highly protectionist conditions. Under the system of licences it was in the power of the Board of Trade, by prohibi- ting the importation of any article, to enable the home producer to charge the consumer any prices he pleased. It was not a bad thing altogether as it showed how protectionist mach- inery would work. The favourite scapegoat. just now was the profiteer, but the profiteer, was simply taking advantage of a tendency which arose from protectionist conditions.

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EARLIER TELEGRAMS:

AMERICA AND THE TREATY.

Washington, Sept. 10. The Foreign Relations Committee has formally reported to the Senate the German Peace Treaty, with forty-five amendments and four reservations which are intended, to guard "American rights and sovereignty"

The report characterises the treaty as an alliance which would breed wars instead of securing peace.

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The Foreign Relations Committee's reservations prú- the unconditional right of withdrawal from the League,declination of the assume obligations ofArticle Ten of the Covenant except by Congress action, the United

•States to have the exclusive right to decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction and the interpretation of the Monroe doctrine to be determined by the United The principal amendments provide equal voting power for the United States and Great Britain in the League Assembly, the return of Shantung to China, the withdrawal of Americans from commissions deciding ma ters wherewith the United States is not concerned. The Committee opines that other nations will accept the Ameri- cat amendments for without us their League is a wreck and all their gains from victorious peace imperilled." The Treaty will be debated in the Senate on September 15.

Washington, Sept. 11

The minority report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, signed by all the Democrats excepting one. urges the speedy ratification of the Treaty without reserva- tions or amendments.

GENERAL PERSHING.

New York, Sept. 10. General Pershing headed the first American Division along a five mile route. Millions of spectators indulged in unparalleled enthusiasm.

CARDINAL MERCIER.

New York, Sept. 10.

Cardinal Mercier has arrived.

AN ABANDONED LAUNCHING.

London, Sept. 11.

The launch of the light cruiser Despatch at Glasgow has been abandoned, the vessel jamming on the waye.

STRIKE IN LORRAINE.

Mets, Sept. 12

A strike of engine-drivers on the Lorraine railways has paralysed trüffic and only food trains are running.

BY-ELECTION RESULT.

London, Sept. 12.

The Winner by election resulted as follows.

Mr. Arthur Hendersón, (Labour),.

Mr. F. M. B. Fisher (Coalition Unionist)

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GERMAN WAR PRISONERS.

Berlin, Sept. 11.

It was reported at a conference dealog with the return of war prisoners that there are at present 95,000 German war prisoners in Great Britain. The British Government hope all will have departed within a month.

BRITISH AT SCUTARL

London, Sept. 11.

A telegram to Athens from Constantinople reports that twelve" thousand British troops bave landed at Scutari in the Bosphorus to occupy the Brusa-Afon-Estahissar Rail- way.

London, Sept 12.

Twelve hundred, not 12,000 British troops have landed at Scutari it being merely an ordinary movement of British troops from Batum.

BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED..

Cologne, Sept. 12

The affair at Easkerchen, cabled on Sept. 6 was a fracas between two British soldiers and three Germans. one of the former has died from bis injuries and his assailant has been executed.

HISTORY OF THE TANKS.

London, Sept 10 Speaking at the British Association Sir Tennyson D'Eyncourt told the history of the tanks. The military: wanted a landship capable of crossing gaps of five feet with a weight of fourteen tons on the axle, carrying a crew of ten, several guns, fuel and water for twenty miles. After experimenting unsuccessfully with two linked up tractors a machine with fifteen feet wheels was ultimately produced The tank as used at the Somme was subsequently improved upon. He mentioned that the very latest tanks possess smoke screen creators, bulletproof spherical gunmountings," unditching gear, signalling apparatus and a special arrange ment for traversing soft ground.

DAILY NEWS" EDITOR. RESIGNS.

London Bept. 10

Mr. Gardiner has resigned the editorship of the "Daily News" and joins the Board of Directors.

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