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IMPERIAL TRADE PROBLEMS.

Reparations and Allied Debts.

(Reuter a Service.)

九十月四平能一 THURSD

APRIE $19.

1923.

KOWLOON LAND SALES.

Sam and

Another Big Deal Put Through.

PUNJAB BUILDINGS SOLD.

London, April 18. At the conference of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, in London, the president, Sir Shirley Benn, emphasized the need for Britain seeking in the British Empire compensation for the loss of the old European markets. Settled trade with the boom on at present, with Chinese There is evidently a property Continent was not to be expected for many years. The Association buyers paying good prices for must see that the Imperial Economic Conference proved prolific of

available sites. achievement.

Further Reductior

日四月三

CANTON CRISIS.

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DR. SUN REPORTED ON GUNBOAT,

Latest News of the Fighting.

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ULD OFFENDERS.

Stiff Fines for Persistent

Law-Breakers.. -

A Yunnanese Attack. About 6.15.p.m, yesterday, the Yunnanese suddenly sounded, on their bugles, the signal for the as- sault and charged to the socomTM paniment of much cheering and a fine of $250 was inflicted on an outburst of rifle fire. The the master of the ferry launch Wa effect of this move could not b: Suo, who came before Comdr. Reed, but it appeared, that the Beckwith, at the Marine Court. Kwangui defenders on some of this morning, ebarged with oafry- the hills wera retreating.

Heavy.fighting was also report

number allowed by his HomÍONS ing 24 passengers in excess of the

Te are informed that the

C have decided that and Directors of the P. and O. 6. N.

after the 2nd, pratimo, the rasge from Hongkong to Londer BURAKYEL BEING USED. rates by the Company's varikula reduced to £100 for 1st aaloda

ed from the direction of the Sbok It was stated that defendant hi single ticket and to £175 för lat; Speculation still persists re- Ching Arsenal, and it was report-been priomly conpicted sleten Mr. A. Balfour, the president-elect, moved a resolution, which was

We learn to-day that Mr. Fred

saloon return ticket, available for garding the movements of Dr.ed that the Yunnanese expect to times. two yearB. adopted, urging the convocation of a meeting of business men and Ellis has sold his plot of inad on

The Ind. saloon Bun Yat-sen. It has been reported capture it shortly. Details are, The master of the steam launch financiers to consider independently the settling of the reparations Granville Road, Kowloon, just tickets will be used to £70jin mome quarters that he fled to however. lacking. The, mainTak Hing, against whom six- the Shareer on Monday after fighting is expected to take place previous convictions were record- problem, declaring that the security of France against agressing, to below the Club Recreio, known as single and £123 return. which she was justly entitled, should be settled apart from the ques-inland Lot No. 542, on which

noon, but this has since been in this direction, as General discounted by other statements Shum Hung-ying's main forces carrying 16 excess passengers.

ed, was ordered to pay $150 for tion of reparations.

Mr. Balfour said he believed that Britain even-stand the four bousas known as tually must assert herself as regards the best means of securing Punjab Buildings. The purchas

saying that he was engaged in are concentrated along the Can "German reparations.

official business aa late as Tuesday top-Hankow Railway and the ere are two Chinese, Messrs. Yu In the course of the discussion, the Liverpool delegate said that Kamo and Chan Tsing-chueo.

afternoon. The armed launches North River. France had lost four million tons of coal by her action in the Ruhr. and the price paid is over $650,-

which were previously stationed During the next few days there Moreover her army in the Ruhr was costing five millions sterling 200. The area of the property is

off his headquarters at the Cement will most probably be heavy monthly which otherwise should be going towards the debt France about 94,000 spuare feet, and the

Works are now said to have left, fighting at Samahui. owed Britain. Another resolution was adopted which urged the purchase price therefore works

as also are many of the guards at Government to settle the question of Allied debts fearlessly and out at $7 25 a foot.

the building, and the belief is boldly, as it had done with the American debt..

expressed that Dr. Sun is no longer there..

ITALIAN POLITICAL DIFFERENCES.

Fascisti Termed a Passing Phase.

Roma, April 18.

Punjab Buildings were origin. ally erected to accommodate N.C. O's of the Indian Army stationed here. They bare for some time past been in a somewhat dilapid. ated condition, sad when eventu. ally pulled down will remove something of an eyesore from that part of Kowloon,

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TWO DETECTIVES,

In the City.

Defendants in Opium Case. Charges of misdemeanour and larceny of 50 taels of raw opium were heard against two Chinese detectives, Cho Kum and Tsang Tam, at the Magistracy to day,

Inside the city di has been Sub-Inspector Clarke, in outlin-

quiet during the last few days, the ing the case, said that two small A Peking telegram which we only noticeable feature being the boys who rode on bicycles on the are able to publish through the special patrols sent out by the day in question, were engaged by courtesy of the Daily Bulletin Department of Public Safats, and a man not in custody to carry 104 | states :—" A. wire received in off-the Merchants Volunteers. taels of opium to Matsschung.cialcircles from Cantonstates that The Mayor, acting on the ins- He preceded them in a ricksha Sun Yat-sen bas boarded a gun-tructions of Dr. Sun, has ordered and was the first to be intercept boat." This is the latest informs ed by the detectives and searched. tion we have on the point. The drug not being discovered on bin. be was released, and

A Canton Official Report.

a few minutes later, as the boys. We have this afternoon receiv came up, they were taken to ated the following telegram from Mr. secluded spot behind some bamboo Eugene Chea thickets and ordered to turn over Canton, April 17,4 p.m.

the collection of a special tax of a sum equal to one month's rent from householders to defray the extraordinary military expenses.

road the master of the Tong Thor,

For dilobeying the rule of with one previous convictión, was fined $30.

KOW-TOW IN COURT.

"You Can Chop Off My Head.

A man brought up for hawking vernacular newspapers without & licence this morning adopted a very reverential demeanour to- wards the Bench. He kow.towed several times, and finished up with.a salaam and a salate.

Sergeant Elston:-I think it is. only fair to inform your Worship. that the man has just come out from the Lunatic Asylum, where he has done three weeks.

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The resignation of Cavazzoni and others on April 17 marks the

The Knutsford Terrace" irst Cabinet difficulty since the advent of Signor Mursolihi, and is;

Sale. the outcome of a difference of ideas between the Fascismo and the Catholic Congress on questions of imperialism, the State, and pro- Regarding the sale of Knutsford

Heavy Casualties. portional representation. It seems that the Catholic popular party Terrace, we learn that the price

Another Canton correspondent desire to preserve separate identity se they are not aware how long paid was about $750,000, which

writes us to the effect that the the present dictatorship is likely to last. Signor fussolini, despite works out at about 83.65 per the opium. One complied and White Cloud Mountain bas Yunnan casualties are consider recent advances towards Catholicism and a rapprochement with the square foot, Mr. V. Yvanovich handed over to the detectives the been captured by the able. Not a few dead have been left The defendant brought up a wit Vatican, apparently intends to insist on the Cabinet members carry-being the broker for the purchaser, amount of drug mentioned in the Yunnanese, who, together, with on the roadside and on the hillsness who, however, could am ty ing out the Fascist programme. The Catholic Congress resolutions Mr. Wong Po-keung. As to charge. The other refused and Dr. Sun Yat-sen's other lo sal between the East Gate and the soything much to help bise referred to the present Govscoment as a passing phase of Italian the future of this terrace, we was taken into custody.. At the troope, are rounding up the White Cloud Mountain. The On being cautioned agaifies A -politics," whereas Signor Mussolini, reviewing the Milanese Fascisti, understand that the newPolice Station, in a search, 23 fasle enemy.

bade the commanders "keep ready to respond at any moment to my owner will probably build on

loases of the Kwangsi forces are, I repetition of the offence,defendant The enemy revolt has been however, believed to be heavieraid-You can obop of my head appeal for the next inexorable development of our revolution." the tennis courte in front

still, since they have die most fam discovered hawking news- of the block, and when this

of the attacking. The. Kwingsi | papers. work is completed most likely the bouses comprising the existing terrace will be demolished and new residences erected on the site. Canton Villas fetched $240,000, or |$5 90 per square foot.

BAVARIAN RESTLESSNESS.

Nationalists Increasingly Active.

Berlin, April 18.

of opium were found on him.

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When charged recentiore the definitely crushed. The general Court he had been sende down to a view in strikingly expressed by Ene of $200, or threlangithe, look w pepaper which says: This boy will be brought up as a Wo Pei-tu's great coup against wimees in the present case, Dr. Sun Yat-sen has taken place. Inspector Clarke added.

And it has failed."

The defendants were remanded on bail of a thousand dollars each

RUSSIAN GRAIN FOR GERMANY.

Helsingfors, April 18.

Disquieting reports are to hand of Nationalist activities in Bavaria. An organisation styled the Reichsflagge recently paraded at Ansbach before "General Ludendorff, some members of the Reichswobr participating. The Bavarian Minister of Justice has left for Berlin to request the Government that the Reich should not agio Moscow, the Russian grain exports hitherto total 161 million poods. According to a statement by Zinovieff at the Communist congreas gravate the position of the Bavarian Government by the issue of war. It was stated that negotiations have been opened with the German rants for the arrest of the Nationalist leaders. The Bavarian Minister Government for the delivery to Germans of one-third the quantity of the Interior, referring to the manoeuvres of Nationalist organisa of grain available for export in 1933. tions, assured the Dist that the Government was strong enough to repress any excesses, and refused to intervene to protect the two Nationalist editors for whose arrest the Supreme Court at Leipzig has issued warrants, declaring that they had seriously insulted the

resident of the Reich,

UNSOUND EGG YOLK FROM CHINA?..

London, April 18.

troops putnumber the YanusncEN, an order binding over of the de- and the latter hare gone through fendant in personal auraty of

trying ordeal during the past $10 was made. two or three days, but they are A Washington cable to-day better equipped, better led, and states that the United States is better men than their opponents. considering withdrawal of . re- cognition from the Peking

What the People Say... Government, as a reprisal in the

Coltman oase.-EUGENE CHEN.

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The Fighting.

Regarding the cause of the breach between the rival armies,

News in To-day's New Advertisements.

A notice of interest to sinateur,

Furnished apartments are VE- cast overlooking the Public | Gardens.-Page 4.-

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Consignees are notified of the arrival of the ss. **Dacre Castle "." -Page 4.

& correspondent informe as that wireless sathusiasts appears on (Our Own Correspondent) this is what the people are

Page 12. saying——— Canton, April 18.-

Annette Kellerman is appear- That Shum Hung-ying is nowing at the Star Theatre in "A Fighting on the outskirts of the the puppet of Wu Fei-fu and is Daughter of the Gods” —Pages 7 city has been proceeding since carrying out his master's orders! the 15th., and has been mare

That the Kwangsi effort failed, and 12. severe than is usually the case. because Li Yik-piu launched the On the 17th, in the morning attack too soon, and certain the Yupnose were at Shabo and Yunnan officers did not respond In the House of Commons, replying to questions. Mr. Chamber-tion on the White Cloud Moun- was intended

the Kwangai forces were in posito Li's invitation to a feast, which lain mentioned that about two thousand tons of liquid yolk of egg from tains and the bills stretching them for duty!

to incapacitate" China had been condemned as uasound by the London' authority in to

девр the Canton-Kowloon 1922. He was not aware what proportion was due to the excessive Railway.

That Shot Hang-ying turned Dayton Chic, April 18.

Their position was on Sun Yat-sen because Sun pro- Lieutenants Macready and Kelly, starting in a Fokker mono-

amount of preservative:

s strong one, and heavy firing mised him $100,000, then REVE plane on Monday, landed yesterday evening. They were aloft con

continued all day, the Yoa-bim $40,000 only, first of all, to tianously for 2165 minutes, twenty seconds, covering 2.541 miles,

ganese being unable which is a newworld record for sustained £ying. They havelsosclipsed

to dis one what Shum would do with it lodge the Kwangri troops from Sun intended to give him the the records for the 2,500. 3,000, 3,500 and 4,000 kilometres, their res-

the beights. Meanwhile, however, balance when he (Shuro) began to pective times being 1.397 minutes three seconds, 1.561 minutes

Santiago de Chile, April 18. The new Chilean proposal to limit the naval armaments of Latin Li Fuk-lam, Lau Yak-shan, and Shum only used the $40.000-10 Cantonese forces under Generals pack up and clear out, but when thirty-two seconds. 1,828 minutes fifty-one seconds, and 2,106 minutes American countries to sixty to eighty thousand tons, thus virtually Lau Tsun-wan were advancing make his pheition in Canton thirty-eight seconda. Lieutenant Harris ic & De Haviland 4B maintaining the Status Quo as regarda capital ships, is now being from the railway, and reports stronger, Sun would dot pay the biplane flew for 653 minutes, averaging 114 miles an hour, breaking considered by the technical experts of the Pan American Con-state that they made statisfactory balance. Hence the difficulty, and the French recorda for the 1,500 and 2,000 kilometres.

ference.

FURTHER FLYING RECORDS.

London, April 18.

Yugo-Slavia, Rumania, Belgium. the United States and Turkey bad been invited to the resumed Lausanne conference. There was! reason to believe that the United States would be represented for the same purpose as on the last occasion. Russia had not been invited! because the Allies and Turkey had agreed to the terms of the draft Straits Conventiona, concerning which Russia had been invited pre- viously.

ANOTHER SLUMP IN MARKS.

nament.

THE SOUTH AMERICAN NAVIES.

LENIN TO RESUME HIS LABOURS.

Riga, April 18. A message from Moscow states that Kameneff told the Cam: mucist congress that Leain is now out of danger and hopes eventually to return to the political arena. His illness was due to overwork.

SIMPLER CUSTOMS FORMALITIES WANTED.

Geneva, April 18.

progress.

Mountain Gans in Use. Both sides were in possession

the fighting.

Conflicting Reports.

whom

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made Shon the

A notice of interest to military contractors appears on Page 4.

Mr. L. S. Greenhill has been appointed Secretary to the Bong- our Iron Mining Company with effect from March 7th. 1923.— Page 4.

LISTEN.

Shareholders in the Caatan In-

the notice on Page

range Office Ltd. should refer to

ing appreciative audiences to the "Too Much Business" is draw-

Coronet Theatre. Page 12.

$300,000.00 is available for in- vestment-Page 4.

advertising message may be you No matter how important your

must give it judicious publicity in THE RESUMED LAUSANNE CONFERENCE.

order to get the best results. AUSTRALIA WITHDRAWS FROM TENNIS CONTEST.

Melbourne, April 18. of mountain guos. The Kwang- Official reports issued from Can.

The electrio irone advertised In the House of Commone, replying to Comdr. Kenworthy, Mr-O'Hara Wood to make the journey, it has finally been decided that one of the hills, which ceased defensive points on

Owing to the inability of Messrs. Patterson, Andgson and si forces had one is a position on ton claim that all the Kwangsi

the by the' White

Hongkong Ronald McNeill said that Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Australia will not be represented in this year's Davis Cup tour: fire about 4.30 p.m. and the Cloud Mountain were captured on Telegraph " yesterday have all Hotel's Electrical Department in the Yunnanese had two which were the 17th. instant and that the been sold. Notice of the arrival io positions on bi ground on enemy retreated towards the eschide of the Sbaho Road, Arsenal, which was, however, of new stocks will be given in about 2,000 yards from the seized by the Yunnanese yester

due course.-Page 12. enemy's position. The supply day. On the other hand, another same time as the Kwangri gun on the White Cloud Mountain are of ammunition ran out about the report states that certain points ceased fire, but about 5.30 p.m. still held by the Kwangsi men, one of the guns received fresh party of supplies and took up another counter-attack position about a quarter of a mile Kau Ling yesterday. further forward. They opened place changing hands several fire on the heights and quite a times. The battle is said to be portant announcement by the few of the shells apparently took still proceeding, fairly beavy Dragon Motor Car Co. published effect. Both shrapnel and high casualties being suffered

& report from the West River OD Page 3. was fairly large number of states that skirmishes are taking local auction sales to be held in Particulars of the important misfires, due to defective fuses. place between the Yunnan and the near future are given on but the supply of these appeared Kwangsi troops at many points Page 4. to be plentifu).

along the river from Mahow to The morale of the Yunnanese Shiühing, and also near Sambut Boattlers is being screened-

At the World Theatre The appeared excellent, and they seem

Censors at Work. Pages 4 and 12. ed to be well supplied with stores, They have good communicationa with Canton by the Shaho Road, fed to censor the newspaper. It Five censors have been appoint- which makes it possible to trans the been ordered that only official port: both, men and stores by military news be given, with the out-day, and the Kang Yi Hospital is pepers are appearing with blank motor, as was being done yester- result that many of the vernacular quite close to deal with wounded. spaces du some pages,, showing, The camalies were fairly heavy, that the censors have been at [espécially in wounded..

London, April 18.. A feature of the exchange market was the fall of the mark to 140,000 to 150,000 to the pound sterling. It later rallied to 125,000 to 130.000. French francs consequently fell to 71.50, but recovered to 70.90.

Berlin, April 18

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The severe fall of the mark is attributed to the withdrawal of the Reichsbank's recent stabilizing measures, and the purchase, instead of the sale, of foreign currencies. The industrialists also| need forsigo raw,inaterials.

TRAIN-WRECKING ORGANISATION."

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Brussels, April 18.

The enquiry into the attempts at train-wrecking on the frontier

has revealed the existence of an organised band with beadquarters)

at Berlin. After the explosion yesterday, abots ware exchanged; in

The Council of the League of Nations has decided to invite the Irish Free State, Germany, the United States and Mexico to attend the conference at Geneva ca simplifying customs formalities.

DUNDEE JUTE DISPUTE OVER.

Loadam, April 18. - The Dispute in the jute trade, which closed all the mills at Dundee for eight weeks, has been settled, and the mill will resume operations on Friday.

ONLY DE VALERA LEFT.

London, April 18. of Dan Breen leaves De Valora as the only

the darkness between troops and train-wreckers lurking in the woods, standing Republicso containing several day's supplies of food.

A number of suspects have been arrested. They carried knapsacks

legrama on Pages 2 and 3.)

explosive shells were used. There

Car owners should read the im-

To-Day's The closing z demand.