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BRITISH TRADE.

Severe Foreign Competition.

London, February 22.

PRO-IRISH PROPAGANDA IN FRANCE.

Sir Hamar Greenwood's Apology to Mr. Asquith and Mr. Masterman.

In the decision he recently gave In the course of a year we HOW MUCH IT 18; THE LITTLE have lots of funny things sent to LEAB AND WHAT WORLDS AWAY-in the action brought by the us. Sometime ago a generously

builders of an aeroplane which minded person in the United

Gunner O. N. White has been crashed at Kingston on its way States sent us some shares in a posted to the Marazion, sub-to Australia, for the recovery of mine, provided Wo joined a

marine depot ship at Hongkong; certain moneys under a policy of! Society. The share cortificate and Gunner C. H. Bulbeck to the insurance with the Union InsuT- was a fine looking document but Tamar at Hongkong.

ance Society of Canton, Judge

In the House of Commons, Mr. Clough asked whether British Bray set a precedent which very goods were suffering from cheaper foreign competition in the Empire. we couldn't find the place where

fow of his colleagues who may in Mr. Kellaway replied that British oxports in Empire markets were the mine was said to be'and we didn't

Major G. C. Wainwright, Royal future have similar claims to adversely affected in 1920 by the scarcity of British export coal and. understand what the

and decide can hope to follow also by formidable American and Japaneso competition, particularly Society was all about. So our Marine Light Infantry, large W.P.B." had to accom-Lieutenant K. E. Privite, of the with

successful cheaper American railway material, motor cars and tin plate and modate what the person concern- same corps, have been appointed defence adopted by the Insur- Japanese textiles and hardware, but the disadvantages were counter- ed had spent ten gold conts to to the Hawkins, flagship of the ance Company to the effect balanced by ability to quote a firm price and definite dates of delivery. send us. The last mail in from China Station, on recommission-that they had been misted about Severe European competition must shortly be anticipated. The the States brought us a little ing.

the identity of the machine they proportion of British exports sold within the Empire had continuously booklet about a new world langu-

were insuring and that it had and gratifyingly increased. Forty per cent, of the exports went to age that the Rev. Edward P.

Engineer-Commander A. W. Jnever been their intention to in- Empire markets in the last quarter of 1920, compared with 37 per Foster, A.M., has invented. It is Turner has been appointed to the sure a machine taking part in cent. in 1913. called "Ro" and the English river gunboat Boo on the such a hazardous enterprise as Key to it is called the Yangtze, and to the flotilla the Australian race would have

Roap."

On the very front generally on the transfer of the very little chance of another page we come across the interest-flag of the B.N.O. Engineer-Com- auccessful accomplishment where ing announcement that "Ro is mander Turner is presently serv- the fact that under present-day wholly a priori. That is, it croatosing on the Kinsha, which is the conditions machines are continu-

a ally undergoing its own stemwords, taking nones. N. O.'s flagship. of them from other languages."

Jehango in type and use were

London, February 23, Between

1 and 28 is pages

In the House of Commons, Sir Hamar Greenwood apologised to Amongst the passengers who entertained. crammed a whole lot of words

Mr. Asquith and Mr. Masterman for the implication that they were that look like nothing on earth arrived by theo P. and O. 8.8. Kar-

The question of aviation insur-concerned in the publication of propoganda in France mentioned in and suggest about as much. mala was Mrs. Drummond, wife of Let us take one example: "Ye, Mr. W. H. Drummond, the well-ance presents a wider range of yesterday's report. Sir Hamar quoted from letterpress purporting ab rev av s ro id ah, nd ab yuk known barrister. Mrs. Drummond difficulties for the computator to be signed by Mr. Masterman, but it has since been ascertained reb in Ro." That collection of is a daughter of the late Sir than those encountered in other that neither Mr. Masterman nor the Liberal Publications Depart-

"Yes, I Edmund Grimani Hornby, form directions of insurance business, ment is involved.

(Documents besmirching the British Government in respect of Correspondents are roquested to observe the rule which requires monosyllables mean them to forwar! their names and addresses with communications understand what you say to me,erly Judge of the Supreme Court since it is a well-known fact that.

"On page in Constantinople and afterwards

depreciation estimated under this their action in Ireland have been disseminated in France.]

a percentage addressed to the Mitor, not necessarily for publication, but as an and I can think in Ro."

32 of the book we come across Chief Justice of the Supreme heading runs to evidence of their bona fides.

ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS. All communications intended for publication should be address-the information that "Ro is the Court for China and Japan at which in terms of ordinary insur ance, is out of proportion to the a priori language, and it is writ-Shanghai.

cost of the aeroplane itself. It has! ten in the stare, as well as in logic and the absolute necessities of At 4.30 p.m. yesterday after-been revealed that of the many going noon, a sudden squall which insurance companies who are tak The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36] the world, that Ro is

to win." Perhaps it would sprang across the harbour cap-ing up the business of aviation in- near the surance not one of them could per annum. (Payablo in Advance.)

The rate por quarter and por mensom, proportional. Subscrip- be kind of us to urge our readers sized a cargo boat tions for any period loss than one month will be charged as for a to swot this thing up in case western entrance to the Yaumati calculato to a representative figure they find themselves muttering breakwater. She had aboard a the accurate rate of depreciation The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee the English language when it is crew of six persons and a email on which such insurance is based. Viscount Grey referred to Anglo-American relations and declared Anglo-Japanese Alliance. His lordship discussed the possibility of is accessible to messenger. Poak subscribers can have thoir copies dead as a doornail. But instead child, the son of the mastor, and The absence of uniformity in de- that the people of the United States seemed very conscious of the delivered at their residencos without any extra charge. On copies we are going to tell them not to a cargo of 150 piculs of iron bars. sign, the changes which are being the Alliance involving an Anglo-America war, but they did not were rescued by a constantly applied with the view seep aware of the existence of the Anglo-American Arbitration

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921.

JAPANESE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE IN CONFERENCE.

have.

Progressive Canton.

the crew motor boat, but the child was drowned,

the restriction of tho

with the

Viscount Grey on Arbitration Treaty's Effect Respecting Japan.

London, February 23. At a banquet in his honour at the National Liberal Club,

Treaty, which would make war impossible, if observed.

LIBEL ACTION BY RUBBER TRUST DIRECTORS.

Defendant Withdraws all Imputations.

London, February 23.

A libel action by the Batavia and General Plantations Trust,

the Trust, who in letters accused the Directors of the

worry, because we don't quite see where the Rev. Mr. Foster or

to improvement and the varying conditions of its service obviously anybody elso has the right to

creates a wide range of difficulties worry us with twaddle of this

The inimitable Harold Lloyd in the way of a computation of kind. If Mr. Foster thinks he is going to scrap all the beautiful last night provided the fun of the the rate, and may lead to some languages of the world and sub evening at the Coronet in a fine novel conditions being instituted stitute-something resembling a comedy which featured also his in a policy thus granted. Such man suffering from St. Vitus new partner, Mildred Davis. A conditions if they have to do Dance trying to sneeze, he had doctor newly launched into with batter "come to" before his efforts practico, a secret home-distillery, machine to the use documentally drive him into a home for the and a girl patient formed the specified for it, or incurably insane. He has asked ideas for this lates: Lloyd comedy, prohibition of any changes in the Ltd., against a Tonypandy printer, Mr. Robert Davies, a shareholder us to review this book, and we which greatly adds to the reput-structure of the machine whilst in

ation which this comedian has under the period of insurance, Trust of mismanagement and imputed misappropriation of unpaid attained. There wore a few gaepe may act as an adverse factor in dividend, was settled in the King's Bench Division to-day, the as Harold, saturated to the point the development of aviation. In defendant agreeing to pay damages and costs and to withdraw all We have been glad to notice of of inebriation with the home- the case of the claim in regard to imputations. Inte a deal of evidence showing brew, walked on the narrow ledge which the Union Insurance were that there are amongst the pre-round a building, Mae Murray is sent rulers in Canton men of seen in a drama entitled "The progressive and practical frame Beloved Traitor," a really good of mind, who are keen to the story by that popular American point of enthusiasm in working author, Frank L. Packard. for the public weal. We have previously had occasion to refer to the decided transformation which has been effected by the

A well-known writer opening up of new and broad waters are announced. The new thoroughfares in the city and to captain of the Moorhen is Lieut.- aviation in a discussion on the the many other improvements Com. V. P. Alleyne, until recent rate of depreciation says that effectedly executive officer of the light under this head is considered which have been

the cruiser Constance. To the Robin, the steady depreciation that must It is clear that from

Lieut. J. M. Heath, from the sloop be taken into account whether municipal point of view Canton is now being well served Laburnum, is appointed; while the machine is flown or not, it

Changer in the commands of

gunboats in British

Chinose

the defendants, one instance of the complexity in the nature of aviation insurance business has been dealt with, and the decision given will no doubt have its reflection in the terms granted by insurance companies in future.

on

THE QUESTION OF DISARMAMENT.

Britain Waiting for New U.S. Administration.

London, February 22, In the House of Commons at question time, Mr. Bonar Law stated that he thought it undesirable or at least premature for the Government to express an opinion on the question of approaching other Powers in regard to disarmament until the now United States Government was installed.

FURTHER CUTS IN BRITISH STEEL PRICES.

London, February 22, North-East Coast steelmakers have further cut prices between Two months ago the price for there are men working hard the new captains of the Wood-being a well established fact that, 35/- and 60/- por ton for heavy raile, behind the scenes to make it cock and Woodlark are Lieute.

The Japamse Chambers of Commerce have just been in a better, moro modern and heal. G. E. Boultbee, from the light despite all reasonable care that was £25 per ton; now £18. Shipplatos are £21 instead of £17 10s.

machine of whatever character session, and the extensive agonda contained resolutions upon many thier city than it has ever been cruiser Cardiff, and Ivan W. be taken of it, if an air and joists are £16 instead of £21.

command of the destroyer there for any length of time, it COUNTESS BERNSTORFF SEEKS TO RECOVER matters of first-class importance, especially in relation to China. before. And they are succeeding, Whitehorn, hitherto second in is placed in a hangar and left despite innumerable difficulties.)

AMERICAN PROPERTY. As a matter of fact, the programme was overloaded, between thirty To show that the progressive Shamrock in the Atlanic Fleet-loses a great portion of its former Lieut. A. G. B. Wilson, D. S. O value. In the first place, the and forty subjects being down for discussion. With only three

Washington, February 22. The wife of the ex-Ambassador, Count Bernstorff, has filed a

days availahie, the time was hardly adequate to full treatment of idea is abroad in Canton, let us who is to command the Scarab, fabric will have become soggy, presence of Mr. Yamasaki, the Consul-General at Shanghai, who under way for the holding of and since June last has been on work will, in all probability, suit in the Supreme Court of the district of Columbia to recover a all the themea. A notable feature of the proceedings was the site the fact that plans are now belongs to the surveying branch, and certain parts of the wood-| intimate relations between Japan and China," he observed, "much hibition, which is to be held in the staff at the Sumbarine Depot work depends on the bodies which you represent," and he asked his the spacious pavilion in the East at Gosport.

surveyed the subject of commerce in its wider aspects.

wiowe.

"In the Commercial and Industrial Ex-

warped. This would million dollars' worth of property seized by the Custodian of Alien necessitate, sooner or later, Property in War Time, on the ground that the property was a very complete and thorough inherited from the Countess' father, who was an American. overhauling. A still more serious factor, however, that must be

Garden where the memorial audience for sincerity of purposo, laying stress on the principle of services to the men who fell in

Mr. Yamasaki the open daar" and equality of opportunity.

the recent troubles are now tak- Crown Prince's party will travel enjoined co-operation with the people of other nations in helping ing place. The object of the on the Katori, the flagship, of the considered is for that due to U. S. DEMAND REGARDING MANDATED TERRITORIES. China to develop her resources, and having regard to the vastness Exhibition is to encourage the Third Squadron, accompanied by obsolescence, within the period

Washington, February 22, of these there is scope for all. The meeting was evidently in general development of home manu- the Kashima, both of which wore of a few years the machine will

The State Department has presented to the Council of the sympathy with the trend of the Consul General's statesmanlike factures, and prizes are to be constructed in Britain. It is an have lost, practically, all of its

awarded to the best exhibitors. old practice for the beirs of original value. It is reasonably League of Nations a demand that all Allied and Associated nations Japanese business men are obviously at pains, especially having The idea of utilising this pavilion European reigning houses to go safe to say that the machine of be given equal opportunities in mandated territories. regard to the falling-off in industry after the boom, to cultivate the for such a purpose is an excellent globe-trotting the

Prince of to-day will not be flown in general good graces of their huge neighbour. The boycott consequent upon one, and General Chan King-Wales has lately won golden use four years bence. The air- Shantung hit Japanese trade beavily, and, for the matter of that, ming, who is a leading spirit in opinions while emulating his plane is in a state of constant has not been without a detrimental effect upon Chinese commerce, the project, is to be commended father and grandfather; but it is evolution, both as to type and so that in both countries there are movements for improving for this further evidence of his an innovation in the case of the construction, and this fact must relations. The Japanese commercial community recently deep interest in Canton affairs. dynastie house of Nippon. The not be lost sight of. This is parti made representations to their Government with & view to Concentration on matters such as impending tour has prompted eularly true of the present time Congress as regards the Belgian obligiation, and the Senate and

the emphasising of the Shantung problem, prejudicial effect which the dispute exercised upon Japanese in this and on municipal progress speculation as to its purpose when most of the machines on the House of Representatives Committees have agreed to the Immigra dustries. Of course, Japanese traders are handicapped by the will yield far more than inter- and political writers have been market have been built for war tion Bill as amended, influence of the strong Chauvinistic element, but the Government minable squabbling on political busy with theories, but it is purposes with the lowest possible stated that the object of the tour factor of safety and the greatest! ie educational rather at Tokio is evidently recognising the need of doing something to

than possible speed and climb,

the solution

affairs.

U. S. LEGISLATION.

'Washington, February 22.

As expected, President Wilson has formally recommended to

BELGIUM'S DEBT TO THE U.S."

Washington, February 23. Belgium's debt to the United States as affected by the President's recommendation is stated to ba $171,780,000 out of a total of $343,445,000.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR ARRIVES AT NEW YORK.

New York, February 22,

conciliate her neighbour. Recently it made a provisional offer of A Distinguished Visitor. political. Seeing that the island a substantial grant towards the foundation of a University for The Colony will soon have an Empire of the East has adopted Chinese students. The liberality of the Japanese donations to the opportunity of welcoming a dis-so many features of Occidental Famine Fund, including a contribution from thousands of Japanese tinguished visitor in the person civilisation and has many links TAXING ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

A Melbourne message says:—— children, has helped to a better spirit.

of the Crown Prince of Japan, with the West, it is a natural Wido discussion has taken place of late in reference to who is proceeding upon a lengthy saquoi that the Mikado's son Though Mr. Hughes' present of Japanoso ambitions in China, and many reports of Japanese infringe itinerary, in the course of which should, like many of his country- £25,000 was free from income- ment of China's sovereign rights have gained publicity, the precise

Sir Auckland Geddes landed after a delay of several hours' value of which it is not always easy to assess Baron Hayashi he will, of couras, be entertained men, study Europe at first band. tax, a good many other people are by King George. His Imperial Nothing contributed more to the not so fortunate. The latest to recently assured a London interviewer that Japan sought no special Highness, who was born on April popularity of the Prince of Wales feel the probe of the Federal quarantine, owing to the stringent anti-typhus precautions. rights in China, and fully subscribed to the doctrine of the open 29, 1901, will also call at the during bie rocant voyagings Taxation lancet are members of door. We do not know how far the repudiation of special rights would be indorsed by Tokio. Probably it is largely a question of Court of Bucharest, thus recipro-thau his unconventionality. The the English cricketing team, who

of Roumania. (of Japan is of a interpretation. In a souso Japan must have special interests, if eating the visit to Japan of the etiquette of the Imperial House have been asked if any of their highly income is derived from sources not special rights, owing to the natural factor of her propinquity, While in Europe the Japanese ceremonious character, but it within Australia. The Federal Politicul hegemony is another matter. So long as the England of Heir-Apparent will avail himself may also be remembered that the Taxation Department explains has arrived. the East" observes the principle of the

is no option but to collect the tax. quite possible for the nations to work together without any opportunity of inspecting of adaptability of the Japanese has that if the answer is "yes," there

the theatres of the great war. The passed into a proverb. abnormal friction.

open door," it should bo

Crown Prince

NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR.

New York, February 22,

Mr. Alfred Sze, tho now Chinese Ambassador to Washington,

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