1926-11-12 — Page 7

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SPEAKS OUT.

"DISTRUST AND SUSPICION"

EUROPE.

APPEAL FOR GOODWILL,

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TREATY ISSUE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1926.

THE CHINESE NOTE TO BELGIUM.

TEXT OF REPLY.

MURDER TRIAL.

JURY INSPECTS. THE

TALAMBA."

The Talamaba murder trial was continued before the Chief Justice, Sir Honry Gollan, at the Criminal Sessions this morning, whon one of the Indian guards was further questioned by Mr. H... Sheldon, who la appearing for the defence. Attorney General, the Hon. Mr. J. The Crown is represented by the H. Kemp.

The prisoner is charged with the murder of a Chinese on board the British steamer Talamba while on the high seas, when they together with others, were being deported from the Straits Settle- ments. The unfence, is that the prisoner killed the man in self-de- fente while being assaulted.

The abrogation of the Sino- Kansas City, Nov. 11. Besian Treaty, which means that Armistice Day was celebrated Belgians will no long enjoy extra throughout Amerien to-day, by announced in the form of a Note territorial rights in China, was two minutes silence and other to the Belgian Minister, reading céremonies, but interest was con-as follows:

"Monsieur Le Miniatre. centrated on Kansas City, "where

Replying to the alde memoire Prasidant Coolidge unveiled a war which Your Excellency handed me memorial, upon which the Queen yesterday, I have the honour to of Roumania laid a wreath.

state that the Chinese Government profoundly regret that in spite of President Coolidge said; "They repented concessions they tell us we are not liked in Europe, made in the course of negotiations but such reports are undoubtedly for a modus vivendi to take the exaggerated. We are a creditor place of the Sino-Belgian Treaty of agreed that ho had let four men This morning, the Indian guara mation and we are more prosperous.1865, the Belgian Government did out from the deportées quarters than some others, This means that our interests come within the not see its way to accept their because they said they wanted to European circle where distrust proposition, which I communicated get water. When he opened the to you on October 28, embodying door he could see the four men and suspicion, if nothing more,

important concession, bat but be agreed be could not see the has been altogether too common." instead, reverting, to the original stairs behind them, leading down position before the commencement to the quarters. Witness denied of the present negotiations, it pro-that he made a statement either to posed to raise the question of its the police or to the Crown Solici interpretation before the Perman-tor that when the trouble started. ent Court of International Justice.he made a fifth man go back into

the deportees' quarters again.

It was alleged that the prisoner

RARE FRANKNESS,

Rarely has President Coolidge spoken publicly so frankly and freely regarding Europe. He qualifed his remarks by saying: "It is not for us to pase judgment upon the less favoured. In their

an

KEEN REGRET.

"While adhering to their view

place, we might have done worse," as regards the terminability of the asked for medical aid when he said he had been assaulted before the He appealed for goodwill and Treaty of 1865 by notice, the stabbing; and asked a Chiese de- friendliness between American Chinese Government cannot but and other peoples, and emphasized express keen disappointment that tective for the doctor, but the de- the World Court if the require-cable settlement of this question that America would only adhere to their untiring efforts for an ami-tective walked away and the doc- ments of the Senate resolution should have failed to bring about were met by the other interested the desired result. This is all the more regrettable us the "progress of the negotiations bad already Feached a stage when the point at issue only involved the question

nations.

ADVOCATES PREPAREDNESS.

whether a definite period should not be set for the conclusion of new Treaty.

denied this in the witness-box this tor did not come. The detective morning. He said he saw the de- portees three times a day when ho took them food, and the only com- plaints he received was as to the quality of the food. He had heard no noise that would suggest any

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DUAL DISASTER,

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of Juan Rosales, former president

President Coolidge declared that

fighting was taking place among Mr. George Bernard Shaw has of the town of Batangas, were universal conscription would be

the deportees in the hold. applied not merely to manpower

Mr. Sheldon suggested to his been awarded the Nobel Prize for found on Saturday morning by but to national wealth, in the event "The setting of a definite period of another war. "To, exflose some within which a now treaty is to be Lordship that the jury should take Literature for 1925, the amount reacue workers, unconscious, but

not an unusual

men to perils of the battle id concluded is while others are left to reap large practice in international negotia- gains; to make a sacrifice of one tions. The Chinese Government man and a profiteer of another, déem this the more necessary, not does not harmonise with our ideals only because of the existence of a of equity." President Coolidge nation-wide sentiment in China advocated the maintenance of an against the indefinite continuance adequate standard of air, naval of unilateral treaties and un- and military preparedness but dis-equal. treatment, but also as a claimed on behalf of America proof of the earnestness of both Imperialistic designs. He Governments in their undertaking reiterated the desire to lesson to conclude a new Traaty within a competitive armaments, especially reasonable period. naval. Regarding debta,, Presi dent Coolidge expressed the

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the opportunity of going on board the ship, which was in part, and roundings where the stabbing od curred. It would, he said, take only a very short time, and he the prisoner's case that the jury considered it to be important to and his Lordship should see the boat for themselves.

The case is being continued this afternoon.

see the exact nature of the aur

A TREATY CANAL.

BELGO-DUTCH PACT RATIFIED.

being 118,000 Swedish Kronor.

alive, straddling the branches of a tree floating near the mouth of the Calumpang river. -

BRIEF SKETCH OF “G. 3. 8.”

famous dramatist, critic and satir and the two servants, and it is

George Bernard Shaw,

Nothing has been seen or heard. the

of the former president, his wife ist, was born in Dublin in July. ant stock. His education, he says. An arc-witness of the tidal wave 1856. He came of English Protest believed that they were drowned. was very bad, but out of school ke of Bauang, in which 100 are known picked up a good knowledge of to have lost their lives, described modern music. After being for the beach there as the most ghast- five years a clerk in a land agent'sly sight imaginable. office he went to London' with his

Some were killed by iron roofing parents in 1876, got another post blown by the wind, others crushed in an office and began to write by falling houses, but the majori- novels. In 1884 he joined the Fabian Society and was an active washed away the houses on its were drowned when the river Socialist propagandist, both as a banks. street speaker and writer. Through

NOT ACCEPTABLE. opinion that moderation was X "While taking note of the de- mutual international obligation, claration of the Belgian Govern and he deprecated extortion and ment that as soon as the United oppression. Je stressed the fact States, Great Britain, France, and

William Arelier he went into four- Early in the evening, when the The Hague, Nov 11. that America had consistently Japan shall have concluded a new pursued a policy of the recognition Treaty with China, the Belgian After rejecting by 68 votes to naliam, first as a reviewer on the Calumbang river became a torrent, of the sanctity of international Government engages itself to ac-44, a motion to render negotiations Pall Mall Gazette and then as art the eye-witness saw a whole nipa obligations, and declared that the cept in the matter of jurisdiction on the Belgo-Dutch Treaty of 1925 and musical critic of the Saturday shack, with its occupants praying world could not rest on any the same dispositions as may be regarding a canal from Antwerp Review. He was one of the earlie inside it, being washed out to eea.. agreed upon between China and to Moerdyke connecting with Rot-est British champions of Ibsen and More than 150 persons were any of these Powers, the Chinese terdum and the Rhine, the Second.

hometals at Talim and Turia Government cannot accept it in Chamber, ratified the Treaty by 50

Islands at Rizal as a result of the, lieu of a definite period for the votes to 47.--Reuler.

blowing down of 50 houses, Cap- conclusion of the proposed new

tain R. Jalandoni, provincial com- Treaty because it is obvious that if

mander of Rizal reported.. every country whose Treaty comes

roof of the constabulary barracks up for revision were to take the

also was blown off. same position a vicious circle would be completed and there would be little hope of bringing into existence the new Treaties. so essential to the common inter- sts of China and the foreign

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A charge of receiving three cases of. "Daisy" butter, the pro- perty of the Dairy Farm, Ice and

ments yesterday, but was made public to-day.

It makes clear that Belgium was willing to grant the concession of the abrogation of the Treaty of November 2, 1865, by mutual agreement, but the Chinese Go- vernment insisted on limiting the modus vivendi period to a few "Th face of the position now months, after which Belgium the same to have been stolen or taken by the Belgian Government, would have neither a Treaty nor a

the Chinese Government felt that modes vivendi.

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of the Wai Louny "compradore gian Trenty of 1865 terminated."

shop, of 72, Des Voeux Road Cent tral, before Mr. J. HI. B. Nihill, at the Kowloon Magistracy this mor- ning.

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NEW TREATY,

The terms of the Presidential Mandate, an English translation of which was enclosed, is thon quoted, after which the Note pro-

The

Constabulary officers, provincial officials and Red Cross workers have had the relief organization in full operation. Committees were formed, and all able-bodied' in-. habitants were pressed into ser- vice clearing up debris. High school boys were, put to work. Bodies were being recovered and in Batangas 85 were buried as well as 37 in Bauang.

"PLOTTER" RELEASED.

SPANISH TARTY LEADER.

Madrid, Nov. 11. His Arst play "Widower's Hounes''

Alejandro Lerroux, the leader was hooted when it was produced of the Spanish Republican Party, in 1892. Then came "The Philar who was among the sixty arrested derers," a satire on the cranncipated in connection with a plot against women, "and "Mrs.. Warren's the Government, has been libernt- Profession" The latter was ban-ed.—Router. ned by the English Censor and, when it was given In New York,

is, therefore, obliged to discon- tinue the negotiations which were being carried on, and will take the question of law which is raised by the interpretation of article d6 of the Treaty of November 2, 1865, before the Permanent Court of In-Wagner, as shown in his Quintea- Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for ceeds:

ternational Justice at the Hague, sence of Ibsenism" and "Perfect the defendant and applied for a "In conclusion, the Chinese Go-instituted by the Assembly of the Wagnerite." week's formal remand..

vernment wish to emphasize once League of Nations on December The case was accordingly admore that in seeking an early con. 13, 1920; in accordance with ar- journed for one week, bail being clusion of a new Treaty on a ticle 14 of the Covenant of the fixed at $500. Mr. J. D. Thomson basis of equality and mutual res-League, which was the subject of appeared on behalf of the Dairy pect of territorial sovereignty, the protocol signed at Geneva by Farm Co.

they are not only carrying out the Chinese and Belgian Govern- their bounden duly to the Chinese ments whereby they agreed to re people but are prompted by acognize the competence of the HYDERABAD AFFAIRS. genuine desire to promote friendly Court in all questions which the relations and the mutual interests signatories might submit to the of Belgium and China., The Chin-Courts.

"Recourse to the Permanent ese Government are, therefore, ready at any time to negotiate to Court implies on the part of His conclude a new Treaty with the Majesty's Government no unfriend Belgian Government on the basisly feeling towards China... His Delhi, Nov. 11. of the above mentioned principles. Majesty's Logation has, therefore, The Indian Government has is- "I have the honour to request been instructed to declare to the sued a communique to correct the Your Excellency to transmit the Government of the Republic that impression created by certain state-contents of this Note to the Bel- in the event of the decision of the ments from Hyderabad and publish-gian Government, and avail my Court being favourable to the Bel- ed in the Indian Daily Mail.

Helf ." etc. (Signed) V. K. gian view, the Royal Government The communique says that not Wellington Koo.

will be ready to continue secking for a conclllatory solution, inspir- Nizam and the Government of

THE BELGIAN REPLY, ed with the spirit which animated India has been seriously nis-

Peking, Nov. 7. It from the beginning of the nego represented, but the announcement The Belgian Legation's aide tintions, which is only a desire to that two offers are shortly to a memoire, which was handed to the satisfy Chinese aspirations while appointed to the Nizam's Executivo Walchiaopu od November 5, was safeguarding Belgian interests" Council is baseless.-Reuter.. not given out, with other docu--Router.

EXPLANATION BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT.

only the attitude of both the

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the actors were prosecuted incid and the English domination in Ire ents which evoked very pungent land in "John Bull's Other Island," comments from Show. "The Man in which the average Englishman of Destiny" is a mock-heroic skit on is depicted, as absurd and upprac- Napoleon and "You Never Cantical and the Irishman as a com- Tell a delightful farcical comedy monsense fellow. In "Man, and- dealing with the new woman.

Superman". Shaw describes court-

In each play Shaw has attacked ship as the war of the sexes In some time-honoured sham or pre- which woman is the pursuer, un- judice and by his brilliant prefaces consciously carrying out Nature's and his elaborate stage directions purpose. Among his other plays he once more found a publie for are "Candida," which shows the the reading of plays.In these pre-Influence of Ibsen, "Androcles and faces he gives his views on the the Lion Heartbreak House," theatre, art, history, society and the delightful "Fanny's First Play. polities."Caesar and Cleopatre" Major Barbara," "Captain Brass- is a skit on the hero-worship and bound's Conversion," "The Doctor's pseudo-romanticism of history and Dilemma," "Back to Mothusalah" a caricature of the hypocritical type the performanes of which takes, Bev of Briton, while romantic morality eral nights, and in 1923, the won- is attacked in "Devil's Disciple" derful "Saint Joan.

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