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SUN'S LATEST

TO-DAY.

LATEST MANIFESTO.

May Appoint Own Customs Officials.

FOREIGN INTERFERENCE UNJUSTIFIED.

WILL SUN TAKE OVER CUSTOMS HOUSE?

Regarding the Canton Customs) dispute. Dr. Xun

Yat-sen's Government has authorized the

following statemen

The Chinese Maritime Customs is a Chine Grow-repent Service, and it receipts form part of the

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national

revenues

months to

These Customs receipts are pledge ed for the service of the punitive indemnities assessed under the Buxer Protocol and other foreign ublications, after payment which the balance remaining is known as the "Customs Surplus".ment who, however, in defererer

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DECEMBER 21. 1923, B+ SINGLE: COPF 11 CTS

THE AFGHAN POSITION."

SOVIET ALLEGATIONS DENIED.

HOPE THAT BRITISH

DEMANDS. WILL

BE MET.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, December 20. In zonnection with the serious situation on the Afghan border, juwing to the failure of the Afghan Government hitherto to hand! over the murderers of British officers official quarters in London are more hopeful at present, and are awaiting the result of the Afghans' efforts to arrest the criminals. It is hoped the Afghans necessary to decide what further pressure is needed. will fulfil their promises in this connection, otherwise it will bel

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CANTON

OUTLOOK.

Labour and Military Meet.

DR. SUN CABLES MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD.

PROPAGANDA IN HONGKONG.

BY SPECIAL TELEGRAPH" REPRESENTATIVE)

comes

AS

WAS

£49,000. A final dividend of nine per cent. is declared making after another, and the new or dispute.

one meeting is being held a more amicable solution of the

THE RESTORATION OF HUNGARY.

Paris, December 20.

The Christmas Treat to the threat made to takemer te in Saciets of St. Paul takes place at Poor under the care of the anly the administration of the the Catholic Union Club on Sun Chinese Maritime Custoons of day the 43rd. inst.

There is no question of any aggressive British action, although | Canton. It insisted that the

all means available will be employed if the moderate and just) question was 4 purely Chinese |

The Imports and Exports Dept. British demands be not complied with. The allegation of M. Chi internal affair and consequently will be entirely closed on Decem-cherin that Britain has threatened war on Afghanistan and demand-

her. 25th. ft will be open for ed a rupture of the Russo-Afghan relations is absolutely untrue. Freiga did not concern the

Canton, December. 20th. General Yeung Hi-man, General "Uneasiness Powers, and it added that as this business from 9 a.m. to 12 moča

In Moscow.

The situation at Canton for the Tam Yin-ngai, and other high- tiovernment had waited patiently on the 26th of December and the

Riga, December 20, next week may not be productive | placed officers who had then just for three

of January, Licensed A message from Moscow states that M. Chicherin, interviewed, of any fresh developments, as come direct from a conference will be entirelyi said that British Eastern interests had been colliding with Rassia until the limit of ten days fixed with D. Son at Headquarters. day for a reply, it seemed hardly Warehouses reasonable for the Diplomatic closed on those dates..

for several decades. Britain was endeavouring to obtain absolute for a reply by the Inspector The Labour party was repres- hegemony in Body to complain of precipitate]

Central Asia. The British demand towards General of Customs at Peking to eated by Tse Ying-pak and others, Afghanistan had created the greatest uneasiness action on the part' f this Chivern)

in Moscow's the Note served on the local Com- whilst Li Chi-kwai took the chait diplomatic circle as Afghanistan was regarded at the last buffer missioner at Canton, ordering him in his capacity of President State between Britain and the Soviet republics. 2. In normal circumstances Diplomatic Body and as proof of In this way the continuity of the to the representations of the

to retain the surplus and deliver of the Canton Rehabilitation routine work of governmen: here.

it to the Canton Government Society. The Civil Administra- the Customs Surplus is payablə tə

the conciliatory spirit actuating Chinese Maritime Customs Ser

when called upon. the Govern- tion was represented by Mayor the Central Government; and it

would refrat taking a vice will be preserved; and any was so pail to the Government at definite action for another tw

will endeavour to con- Sun Fo. Another interesting Peking until 1919, when the Cur weeks in order to await the decircumstances, is only likely if

solidate its understanding with member of the party was Lo disorganization thereof, in thef Situtionals: Government which son of the Diplomatic Body.

the Labour Guilds. I have spent Hao-gam, Commander-in-Chief A message from Moscow declares that the Soviet Press state the whole day in sounding various of the Shensi troops, a potential had been established in 1917

the Inspector-Ger erat of Customs that owing to numerous bands of Chunchu's deserters ravaging the officials on this matter.and.despite figure La following the Heral ¡lissalution im the 14th instant. this refuses to co-operate with this Amur districts, and other parts of Mancharia, the Soviet's authority the statements of Tae Ying-pak to situation.

the present military ei Parliament and other treas in-

What took place at con Government in the administrative there exists only on paper. sidered reply from the Diplomatic work of the Customs within its rarred at Bokhara and Ferghans, whither Rad troops have been sent such as to lead colour to the be- was informed that the talk was

It adds that new cutbreaks have oc- the contrary, appearances were able aut at Paking successful-

the meeting is a secret, but I If asserted its claim ma share in who cabled it from Peking territory.

under date of the 11th instant

lief that in this matter the Goy-mostly of "an informal nature.” the Surplus to the extent of 15.7

The reply states of the whole.

that "the 10-This statement would noti

ernment and the Labour people. From a foreign source which Signatory Powers of the Final be complete unless two consider

as represented by the Kuomin- took the trouble to ascertain the 3. -Thi share in the Custom Proporcl of

BRITISH MEMBERS. OF REPARATIONS COMMITTEES. September thable points were emphasizet, one

tang, are moving as one! A car- Surplus was paid to the Constitu1 derive from that Protocol legal and the other moral in its

outcome of the meeting, it was tain degree of scepticism is ad- lesmed that nothing definite was tionalis: Government up to Marel

Paris. December 20 the right to ensure priority of implication,

The British members of the Reparations Committee on the considering

missible when The first is that 1929, when internal differences payment of interest and amortiz foreign obligations, including the German Budge: will be Mr. Montagu Norman and Sir Josiah Stamp, unanimity has been reached approached

to reached. the claim that The Government has been among the members of the Gov, ation of certain "bin Irans Boxer Indemnity, are secured on While Mr. Reginald McKenna will serve the committee to enquire amongst the various guilds over Party, and Mr. Luk King-for, by the Labour ernment led to them wimpertinent of secuter on the Customs re-the N PROA and not 07 the into the question of Gecran capital abroad. rexalar payment. Since then the venues previous to 1901 and buildings uni

which Tse Ying-pak wields who received the Government at Canton Bas re-payment of interest and amoritz properties of the Chinese Mars

deputation, authority, but it is clear that no informed me that he had advised peatedly pressed for the resume tion of intemnity mentioned intime Customs. If, therefore, it]

efforts have been spared by the them not to do anything un- tion of payment until finally, sa

Article thereof. but no treaty becomes imperitive for

leaders 10 bring the labour reasonable,

thero September 5th. last, ja men, oman right has beet maferred upon Government to install ang new! -

organizations into line on the talk of a strike being pro- Zum on

subgent Was them decide for what purpose Customs officials in the

The British-American Tobacco Company reports a net profit of

subject. With chat aim. posed a an alternative to communicate-i by the Digde the Chinese Government hatiniai-trative and other buildings matic Bedpat Peking in which use funds which at the end of the Customs here, the Foreign curried forward.

twenty-four per cent for the year, as last year. this

Tse Ying-pak. com- Governmen: roatende each year shall remain at the Powers un

A total of £3,531,000ganisation known as the Canton menting on the issuing of the that the disposal of the Chuston-disposal of thes wernment Customs Surplus without any as in the case of the

Rehabilitation, Representative, or latest Note by Surplus was entirely a matter of after service of the said isans and Treaty

the Canton Educational Society (whatever Government, pointed Chinese concern, baire autside inden.nity

richt 341 interfere!

to this the ambit of the competence of entirely provided for"

name one may care to give it is possibility occurring after thé been with such

routine of administration. And they are

undoubtedly playing an im- the Fureign Power- wh were

ten days which he stated was 7. This is an explicit confirma less entitled interiere in view

It is hoped that Hungary will be restored, after the example of stir up feeling on the matter.

portant part in the endeavours to covered

by the document. interested in the Customs revention of the contention which this of the undoubted fact that the Austria, as a result of an agreement reached by the Council of the

Labour, he said, was acting in- the extent only of the Government has throughout in- Customs revenues collected og League of Nations regarding an international financial scheme with labour organisation hopes will in the matter.

The firs: measures, which the dependently of the Government foreign obligations charged theresisted upon, and it completely side the territory of this Govern that object. 22. The Pilematie Boty were dissipates any doubt as to the men: being more than ample, to

facilitate the work of the Canton therefore requested boinstruct the validity and propriety of the the extent of many millions, to

Government in its negotiations

THE LATEST NOTE. Commission of Bankers to hand action which this Government meet all foreign obligations, thère

for the retention of the Customs over the Customs Surplus immelhus hitherto taken in the matter is not the lightest prospect of

As to the actual tone of the surplus, have bean orderly lately to the Inspector-General of of the Customs Surplus.

Brussels, December 20.

note dispatched the other day This Customs officials here affecting

enough. The numeract vernac- Customs who would then

The King bas laid the foundation stone of the wireless station ular

to the Inspector General of Governmenthold andthe Diplom- or otherwise endentering

organs thea Rugsselede, near Bruges which is expected to be sufficiently Labour interests have publisheda Commissioner at Canton, Mr.

controlled requested by this Government to tie

by Customs through the local Budy specifically divide it proportionately between that the disposal of the Customs foreign obligations.

admit punctual service of all Such powerful to communicate with all the big stations of the world. mass of propaganda and one Canton and Peking and to refund Surplus is a matter with, which

Eugene Chen says it was issued statement contained therein is to the Surplus accumulated since the Foreign Powers have no treaty The For ign Powers are mainly 11. The other peint is this)

routine the effect that the Labour Guilds purely as

matter March 1920.

right to interfere; and therefore interested in the revenues of the

have taken the situation into their in the administration of affairs 4.-Save her hare telegraphic when this lovernment claims itChinese Maritime Customs to

own hands, and, of their own the Canton Government has of the Customs OVET which intimation on September 28th. share of the Surplus it has to deal

accord, addressed a communica- that

The Council of the Royal Meteorological Society of Britain has tion to the American Conani atquestioned control. He inform this memorandum

the extent and in respect of their awarded the Symons gold medal for 1924 to Mr. Takemettsu Okada, Shameen on the subject of the ed me that "the order to the was with the rival Government al under the consideration of the Peking and the Inspector-General pective shares in the Boxer director of the Central Meteorological Observatory at Tokyo. Diplomatic Body, no reply was of Customs and with them clone.

Indernity. This Indemnity, it

American representation in the Inspector General was conched vouchsafed to this Government The PekingGovernment may send punitive or penul sum inflicted must be noted. is the "sole!

naval demonstration on the river, in the most fitting terms and in until the 3rd. instant-after near- its armed forces here to prevent ly three months' delay when the this Government from receiving survives from the pre-war perind.

There were hints thrown cat of the covering letter to the local Con defeated people which

possible repercussions by the Commisioner & reasonable period Diplomatic Body cabled a mess-its share of the Customs Surplus. Indeed, there is

Labour element as one result if was allowed for compliance with age stating that they had learned But

the order." the Foreign Powers

armed force is used. On the no treaty in that this Government, without are not justified to assemble similar pensity: even the Treaty force to-day which imposes a

other hand, it is of marked in- The point claimed by the Can- THE USE OF WIRELESS. awaiting

terest to note the report also pub-ton Covernment as a concession memorandum of September 5th.. their ships of war in Canton tive but reparatory indemnities of Versailles does not assess puni-

Galveston, December 20.

lished in these organs that the on the part of the Diplomatic bad threatened to take over tem-harbour in order

Rebel despatches from Vera Cruz claim that the Federal troops

Japanese diplomatic

Body at Peking was the ad- porarily the administration

mission that, the balance of of nominally, a disputable right but gainst Germany. Further, were defeated after eight hours of fighting between Puebla and entative in China may act as an the Chinese Maritime Custums practically assist the Peking must be pointed out that most of Tetzmelocean. The rebels captured three machine guns, and, took division of the surplus between foreign obligations charged on the intermediary in the matter of the Customs revenues, after all at Canton, and informing this Government to impose its will on Britain, France and Japan-are zaco, an important rallway position.

the Great Powers America. prisoner three hundred men. Hard fighting is progressing at Apit-the two Chinese Governments. I service of the Customs receipts (overnment that the foreign this Government. representatives

not pre 8. In these circumstances, the Bow only interested in the Boxer

enquired of the Japanese Consul had been met, was Mexico City, December 20, pared to admit

Indemnity to the extent of seeing!

Gen. Obregon has told foreign journalists that his enemies from him a denial that there was

concern the General at Canton and obtained which did ference with the Chinese Mari clear. As the Peking (tovarn that their respective shares are refused to give battle either at Vera Cruz or Jalisco, but continually any truth in this statement, of this admission gave to the Powers. Its interpretation time Customs and, in the event ment, being illegally constituted applied to various purposes in the retreated, tearing up the tracks to prevent pursait, and leaving" japan is not in the position to shape its latest Ndte accordingly. of any such attempt being made, and nationally repudiated. is no:

prisoners and munitions behind. He, however, expected a battle in act as an intermediary in any

Canton Government its cue they would take such forcible entitled to appropriate or dispose,

the west coast state of Jalisco shortly. On the contrary, the rebel measures as they might deem fit of Customs Surplus funds, this sion must be made to the series of ing that the revolutionaries control the States of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, share Japan has in the protection servant of the Chinese Republic, 12.Abrief reference in conclu leader Adolfo Huerta has broadcasted by wireless a statement decla case," said the Consul General, which takes the form of an order Government has today issued an domestic bons mostly loated by Puebla, Colima Jalisco, Zacatecas, Michoacan, Nayarit, Aguas of the Customs revenues. There to hand over the surplus.

with obvious reference to the to the Inspector General as B 5-On the 5th instant, this order to the inspector-General the Peking authorities for pur calientes, and Guerrero, adding that the rebels possess forty thou-is more than a suspicion that this DIPLOMATIC BODY'S REPLY, Government replied that the (a) to retain at Canton or other poses of either war against the sand armed troops, who are fighting spiritedly, without pag. Chinese Maritimne Customs was places to be designated first and last a Chinese Govern- Customs revenues collected within connexion with sundry pre- all South or corruption and bribery ment Service and was subject, at in the territory of this Governsidential elections at least with respect to the ports meat and, after providing for aIn 1931. these loans were con- Peking. within its territory, to the orders proportionate share of the funds)solidated by the Peking Govern- of this Government. The reply required for the service of the ment and charged on the Customst went on to state that as its Cus-foreign obligations charged on the and Salt Surpluses and the Wine tinning. Twelve had been counted within twenty-four hours. It is front" which is essential for the

A message from Tulean states that earthquake shocks are con- torns revenues were remitted to Customs, to pay the same as may and Peking and there used so as to re- be ordered by this Government: Inspector-General

Tobacco Revenues, Ірабе other revenues for, the and (b) to refund and make good being placed in charge of the

several meetings have been held follows financing of one military expedialt arrears of Customs Surplus service thereof. The Diplomatic

between the various public and "The conclusion arrived" at! tion after another against it, payable to the Goverment bere Body, in their reply of December

labour organisations in the city, which it is desired to this Goverment intended to since March 1920.

MR. BORAH WANTS WARS ELIMINATED. order the Customs authorities to 9.If this order be not obeyed, these Icans thus: "...the Corps 11th deals rather summarily with

but, so far as I could ascertain, convey to the notice of Washington, December 20,

the banquet held at the Hotel the Canton authorities con " cease remitting to Peking this Government will proceed to Diplomatique are in

Mr. Borch has re-introduced in the Senate his war resolution, which the Labour leaders came granting or refusal of the claim Asis last night was the fint at comed is to the affect that and retain the funds for local appoint new Customs officials concerned with the service of which failed to pass the last session, urging the outlawing of all into direct contact with the does not lie within the province use. It emphasized that no inter- who will recognize its anthority these loans which was instituted war, and suggesting a judicial substitute in the nature of an Inter-milltary officials in the matter of the Corps Diplomatique fence with the Customs was con- and loyally assist and co-operate without, - their

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interests of China itself.

BIG BELGIAN WIRELESS STATION."

JAPANESE METEOROLOGIST HONOURED.

London, December 20.

(Reuter's American Service.)

CONFLICTING MEXICAN CLAIMS.

TOLL OF COLOMBIAN EARTHQUAKE.

Guayaquil, December 20.

repres-

suggestion was thrown out as a

feeler." LABOUR AND MILITARY MEET. To bring about that "united

net

A

matter

to

From a reliable source uncon- nected with the Canton Govern- ment I have secured a copy of→ the full text of the Diplomatic demand, received at Canton on Body's reply to Dr. Sun's original

the estimated that the dead total one hundred and fifty, and several purposes of the Government, the 14th instant. This reads as of Customs hundreds have been injured.

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