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THURSDAY. NOV. 25, 1926,

THE SOUTHERN POLICY:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1926.

080.

DAY BY DAY.

GERMAN DISARMA-

MENT

QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS,

IMPORTANT MISSION,

That unity sprang from a realien- tion of the point that this particu- lar proposal was in truth afined at

TO`STEP ASIDE IS HUMANI-B141178.

SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN the undermining of the Customs

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TO FARIS AND GENEVA. Administration, with an implied Yesterday's health return showa policy of completo Treaty abroga-one case of diphtheria and one of

Rugby. Nov. 24,

Rugby, Nov. 24. typhoid fever. Both were Chin-

Str. Auston Chamberlain was Sir Austen Chamberlain will tion. True, special pains were

asked in the House of Commons break his journey in Paris when, taken by its sponsors to explatt

The forthcoming wedding is any Sir William Davison what was in eight days' time, he leaves Lon- that there

"would be po inter

nounced of Mr. Henry Georgement in Germany, in accordance League Gounell which opens in the existing position of disarmadon to attend a meeting of the ference with the Customs service, Hond, of H. Me vindictive with the Treaty of Versailles. Geneva on December 6th. but the Powers were not to be so Miss Ethol Frances Nowlin,

He replied that there were still The Foreign Secretary will a certain, number of points out-spend two days in the French capi- onally put off. They apprised the school teacher of Tientsin,

Amongst the passengers who ar-standing and that. "negotiations tal, and will have opportunity for move for what it was, and their suspicions have now been amply rived by the President Taft to were proceeding between the Al- discussing current European pro confirmed by the news from Han- day were Admiral and Mrs. W.H.G. Hed Military Mission of Control bloms with M. Briand. The as- Bullard, U.S.N., Lleut. Col. and and the German Government, pected presence of Dr. Stresemann kow. The main point to be borne Mrs. E. B. MacIntosh, Mrs. H.

Sir William Davison further In Geneva for the Council meet In mind at the moment is that Birkett and Dr. 1. 0..C. Donelan. asked whether Sir Austen Chamings will give further opportunity berlain's attention had boon drawn for renewing with the Gorman will be time enough for the

The Chinese Telegraph Adminis-to certain passages in the 1926 Foreign Minister personal contact Southerners to talk of revising thetration In Canton is removing its edition of the Rechewehr Manual and friendly discussions,

Lord Cecil will represent Groat office at Nam Kwac. to now pre-of Instruction which reflected mises in front of the Government upon the Trenty of Versailles and Britain at the Committee of the German Council Which meets on December Treasury, whilst the office at Sha- which showed that the men will be removed to Sha Kee Government were not really carry-1st to consider various questions later on. A new office is to be ing out the spirit and intentions relating to Article 16 of the Cove-

of the Treaty.

nant. The Committee will be opened at Honam.

Sir Austen Chamberlain replied mainly concerned with examlalng. that his attention had been called the French proposals on this sub- to the passages. Té understood|ject which were put before, the that when the attention of the Preparatory Commission for Dis- German Government was drawn armament: last Spring-British to the matter, the Manual was Wireless, withdrawn from circulation and that no further copies of it would be lasued.--British Wireless.

foreign relations when they have won the right to speak for the whole of China. And even when that day comes if it eventually does the issues will have to be faced by negotiation and not by either the one side or the other aceking to attain its ands by in sisting on a policy of complete sub jugation to the other's demands.

One of the first points to strike the student of Chinese polities on reading the interview given by General Chang Kai-shek to foreign newspaper correspondent will be that he is somewhat premature in his pronouncement. The gravamen of his observations autonomy...

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The funeral of the late Capt. William. Edward Clarke, whose death in Shanghai has already been announced, will take place at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, to-morrow afternoon, the cortage passing the monument at 4.30.

The following appointments were made by the Admiralty on Oct. 22; W. Howard- Sub-Lients. E Crockett, to Despatch, addl." and C. H. de B. Newdy, to Vindictive (Nov. 2). The following appoint- ment was made by the Admiralty on Oct. 26-Wt. Cox, to Hawkins, (Dec. 10)..

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“OBITUARY.

LIEUT. H. N. LAY, R.N.

COTTON PRICES.

NOVEL SCHEME TO ASSIST,

New York, Nov. 24. Some of the lending, southern The sympathy of many old manufacturers of fertiliser and China hands will go out to Mrs. cotton-seed products, have inau-. Lay, of 82. Margaret-street, W.1, gurated a nationwide, movement widow of Mr. Amoy Lay, of the for the use of cotton bags instead Imperial Chinese Customs, in the of jute for half their products, in death of her youngest son, Lieut. order to assist the prices of cotton.

Reuter'a American Service.

The British Commonwealth. Even if one allows generously ΤΟΥ the usun! high-sounding phraseology used in the making of valedictory speeches, there is the ring of conviction and genuiness in the speeches of the Overseas Premiers delivered at the closing Session of the Imperial Con ference, when such high testimony

Mr. J.L. Geldart was fined $8 was paid to the great value of the by Mr. J .H. B. Nihill, at the Kow- work accomplished. There can bó no doubt that the Conference has loon Magistracy this morning, for. N. Lay, RN, as the result of a seaplane accident near Malta on achieved a triumph, especially in allowing his dog abroad without a.

Amsterdam, Oct. 5.-During connection with its report on Em-muzzle. The defendant, who was Oct. 21, in which three officers pire unity and relations, because fined in May last for a similar and a telegraphist lost their lives.

Lieut. Lay, who had qualified as repairs to a shop in the centre' of it has been made an intricate and the impression that the muzzling pilot, was attached to the Fleet Groningen-Josef Israels's birth- delicate problem by the growing order was not being observed as Air Arm. He entered Osborne placen charcoal drawing Was

of the various

College in Jan., 1916, from a school discovered on strictly as formerly.

the plaster of a Dominions. There was a seeming,

near Brighton, and was appointed wood-covered wall. As Ternels's is that, once the revolution is suc-paradox in the position by which

as midshipman in Sept., 1919, to parents.once inhabited this house, Cessfully accomplished, thea federation of "self-governing"

the Benbow. He was appointed it was surmised that the drawing Southerners will, without negotia-countries acknowledged allegiance

for air training at Netheravon in had been made by their famous to one central authority, but that

June, 1924, after a year in the son. The head of the local museum tion of any kind, proceed to tear obstacle has been cleared away by

minesweeper. Truro, and it was has now confirmed this opinion, up all the Treaties and remove an ingenious arrangement where

while undergoing the pilots' course and the shopowner has had the every vestige of foreign control. by His Majesty the King is avowed

that he was promoted to lieutenant drawing covered with glass and as the common Sovereign of all in "All the Powers who are willing to place of the old idea of an Imperial

in Oct., 1924.

suitably framed. make a complete renunciation of Government exercising control their privileges, including the giv-and guidance over daughter States. Each Dominion is the seat of a

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offence, stated that he was under

While on her way from the China station to Plymouth the cruiser Durban had her topmast carried away when off the coast of Portugal. The accident occurred on Oct. 21, when the wind and sea caused the vessel to roll. The top mast was prevented from falling to the deck by the wireless aerials and guys, and no one was injured.

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In succession to Paymaster Lieut-

ing up of the foreign Concessions, wholly responsible, Government, enant E. D. T. Churcher, Pay- will be counted as friends: the free to make Treaties and per- master. Commander Henry Rogers, others are not essential and are form all comparable matters, buto.b.s, has been appointed Secretary not wanted." The abolition of ex-styled as His Majesty's Govern to the Commodore in Hongkong; ment in Australia, or wherever and Paymaster Lieutenant A. T. tra-territoriality, is not to be de- might be. It is a very satisfying Phillips, after three years, on the nendent on reform of China's law and comprehensive idea, and one Admiral's staff at Devonport, has courts; it must be conceded, what- which will undoubtedly give much been selected for, duty in the Com- ever the conditions existing at the joy in the Dominions where loyalty modore's ofhec

Lo His Majesty has always been au time may be.

marked a feature. Co-operation" This outline of Southern policy and co-ordination are all that is

to

The Vary Jors!

"Lived happy ever after"

Is a true thought, like as not, But what we'd really like to

know,

Is "ever after" what?

i'.

A recent mention of bi-lingual whole life. to demonstrate that waitresses has brought to light material possessions are of no still more amusing incident of a value whatever. The Secretary of State may or- similar nature. An English ser dain (as he has just done) that the geant in a military telegraph office needed to fill in the framework, official spelling of Hongkong should in India was sitting in his booking- and the vast amount of practical be. "Hang Kong," but this, says the pifice one day when a native en- work done by the Conference and Mercantile Guardian, will not alter tered and placed a telegram, on its numerous Committees on all the almost universal custom of spell the counter. "Jurori hi? Is this manner of subjects stands out as it in one word. If we are to be

go express rate?” asked the the second important feature of official and consistent, let us also the historie gathering.

It looks as the Dover (Ohio) tercourse between the Empire's Loon, Pe King, etc and we might light came the fumbling reply. "The Mikado"; for their sentence.

The in- write Shang Hai, Tsien Tsin, Kow sergeant in his bost Hindustani

(and proud of it he was). "Eugh? magistrates have been studying Premiers and the renewed friend-odd Yang Taze Kiang.

Again the same inquiry was rapped on four drunkards of ten days? im- ships will have a beneficial reper- cussion in their own countries and, The Canton Bureau of Finance out, even more sharply and dis- prisonment each man to drink as Mr. Baldwin has said, there has has issued a notification prohibit tinctly "Jurori hi? Heo. juld one gallon of water every day"— beeen a refreshment of spirit ining the runnnig of all waggons wallah hi?" Then followed a is an excellent specimen of the every corner of the Empire. More with iron tyres, or wooden wheels gesture of bewilderment from the Gilbertian penal code. It is also than over is the Empire growing within the city limits, and order- perfett English, "I do not under water-torture of the 17th and, bordered with iron, on all roads native, next a sigh, and finally in a mild approximation to the into a real family of nations.

stand you. Would you mind 18th centuries, which consisted in speaking English?"",

having tenor even twenty-pints

is illuminating as revealing the Kuomintang aims in all their nakedness, but a more one-sided plan for solving the Chinese pro- blem could scarcely be conceived It is a striking example of "Take all and give nothing." Apparent ly it has not entered into the mind of General Chang Kai-shek that the millenium cannot be brought in by a mere stroke of the pen, or that it is only by the process of negotiation that the relations be tween China and the Powers can' be, altered. There has long since been a general recognition of the point that Treaty revision has to come, but the trouble is that at Paris the moment there is no-one Bruskels

Amsterdam with whom the Powers can ne-Berlin gotiate. That brings us to the Copenhagen"

Vienna point that the Southerners have Helsingfors not as yet by any means carried

Lisbon Buenos Aires the revolutionary movement to

Shanghai fruition in China. The real Yokohama New York struggle has still to come in the Genevn

Mi North, and we imagine that Chang |

Stockholm Tag-lin will have a good deal to Onlo say before anything like finality is Madrid Periched.

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Rugby, Nov. 24.

.1387%

ing sume to be fitted with rubber wheel coverings within a limited time of two months. The prohibi tion is to prevent the damage of the surfaces of the roads under the heavy pressure of those wheels Bays the Canton Gazette:

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of water forcibly poured into the In New York they are building a body. They were administered in skyscraper church. The structure half-pint doses, with a few seconds will tower some 20-or is it 307 interval to give an opportunity to storeys high. It will have apart confess. It was one of the tor-

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A Tokyo message of Nov, 20thments, offices, atores to rent. The tures indicted on Mme. de Brin. 34.86 anys:Prince George, who is visit income will more than pay its cost villiers, the famous poisoner. 12.13 ing Japan on his way Honic, sails and its running expenses. And— 20.43 this afternoon on the Empress of oh, yes there'll be a very fine

.18.12

Little Emily had been to church: .34.40

Russia for Vancouver. Though he church apditorium tucked away in

travelling incognito, the Prince a corner somewhere. They didn't for the first time. On her return her grandmother asked if she had 2.17/32 yesterday called at the household conduct an "endowinent fund cam- been a good little girl. 45.23/82 department enquiring after the paign" to bulldit. Regular

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2/5 Emperor's condition and leaving a business methods were applied, man even offered me a plate-full- "Yes, Grandma," she said. "A .2/0.5/16

10.6/16 felter addressed to, the Regent, ex Bonds were issued, mortgages se of money, and I said, 'No, thank 4.83.18/16

20:15 pressing condolence on the illness cared, just as in the erection of

115% of his father, who, however, faim 18.18. proving.

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bers of the congregation bought

It is, surely, a novel chargo · An excellent concert in aid of bonds, which will pay 5 per cent.

That church will prosper. Little which Lord Birkenhead makes the Wunchal Wesleyan Church

We wonder whether Chang Kal

1/6. 06/04 Fund, was held at the Wesleyan doubt about that. It will over against tea in saying that it "ac- ..1/11 Sailore and Seldlers' Home last have to give chicken pie suppers Colerated Dr. Johnson's death from shek really believes that the

evening, when the Hongkong Male to make up a deficit in the pastor's dropsy." It has been charged with Southernors will eventually be

Voice Choir mado a very success salary. There'll never need, to be affecting the nerves, with causing ful appearance, for the first time any rummage sales, in the parish indigestion, with encouraging idle. ablo to dictate terms to the whole

this season, They gave a num-house, to meet that church's bills. ness, and even (by Cobbett) with of the Powers and force them, to

ber of very pleasing aclections, It doubtless will have a bland, "filling the public-house' But t give in all along the line whilst According to to-day's report of all excellently sung and these were slightly plump secretary, who'll is a new thing to hear that John- no concessions are made on the the Royal Observatory, another augriebted by solos by Mrs. Gay have as neat a set of books as son drank himself to death, and ho doubt the point will be contested.. anticyclone has formed over China Cumping, Mrs. F. White and Mis you'd care to see. Chinese side? Even on the ques-and south-east Mongolia. Fresh F. McGill The Contributions A New York writer Bays it's tion of the Canton surtaxes the monsoon may be expected along the from the instrumentalist, Mr. J.ather strange to think that this Southern leadora recently found auth-east coast of China and over Braga, gave variety to the pro- $5,000,000 church, with its gold the China Sea. The forecast up till gramme, while the Rev G, Arrow-bonds and gilt-edged mortgages every single one of the Powers noon to-morrow is North-east, amith Infused much humour with and lucrative proporty, was erected united in opposition to the scheme. winds, fresh; fine to cloudy." his Items in lighter vein.

in the memory of One who gave His

I say, waitah, nevah bring me a

steak like that again."

"Why not, air.?" "It simply isn't done,

thing