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NEW SALT GABELLE AMERICA & NAVAL HAGGLE OVER THE ESTATES OF THREE INDIAN PRINCES &
COMPROMISE. SCHEME.
PROVINCES ARGEE TO PAY PERCENTAGE.
SUFFICIENT ANNUALLY TO MEET LOAN SERVICE.
IMPORTANT DECISION.
Shanghai, Sept. 25. The exceptionally Important an- nouncement that the Nationalist Government has made arranges ments whereby the service of all Loans secured on the Salt Gabelle will, in future, be met regularly, has been confirmed from a variety of sources.
FINISHING TOUCHES TO "SMART" REPLY.
PRESIDENTIAL PIQUE.
Washington, Sept. 25. The State Department acting in collaboration with the Navy Department is putting the finish- ing touches to the American
PENCE.
DEFENDANTS FORGET PENALTY CLAUSE.
SOUND ADVICE BY MR. JUSTICE JACKS.
Reply to London and Paris in re- HOUSE BUILDING CASE, gard to the Anglo-French, naval compromise.
It is learned that President
Coolidge will draw attention to the future naval building programme of the United States, and a some what pointed declaration has been Issued from White House to the effect tint President Coolidge is the pending Naval B, proceeding on the assumption that thorising the construction of fifteen new 10,000-ton crufsers and one aeroplane-carrier, would be passed by Congress at the next Session.
AU-
The Bill has alrendy passed the House of Representatives, but was shelved by the Senate at the last
H
NARONAIRES,
NEARLY TWO MILLIONS PAYABLE IN DUTIES,
MAMMOTH FORTUNES.
London, Sept. 25. Probate was granted to-day of the villa of thres millionaires,
Major Hugh Gretton, Director of Buss, Rateliff and Gratton, Limited, the well-known brewers, who died in July; left unsettled estate valued for probate at £1,474,000, with net Advice with regard to agree.personalty of £1,402,000. The for- ments between contractora and Lune, which in the main is left to sub-contractors was given by Mr. his brother, Colonel Gretton, M.P. Justice Jacks, In the Summary is disposed of in a will of ninety Court this morning, when he de words. The duty on the estate will
vered judgment for the plaintiff exceed £500,000. in an action arising out of a labour
contract,
The case
WAB one in which Tsang Shing, trading as the Tsang Shing Kee, sub-contractor, sued the Wing On Lung, con tractors, for $861.18, the balance due for masonry work in con- nexion with the erection of six houses in Western Street.
It is understood that a scheme has been worked out for the pur: póse of obtaining sufficient funds' from the Salt Revenue to meet all the requirements of the Loans, Session, largely owing to the which has been carefully consider-strong criticisma of various ed and is regarded as satisfactory Church and Peace Societies.
It is now believed that President Lo all concerned.
Coolidge, piqued by the supposed
Mr. A. el Arculli was for the Anglo-French accord, intends to plaintiff and Mr. M. K. Lo defend- push the measure As soon as ed.
Budget Committee Approves.
It is stated that all the Provi-Congress is convened.—Reuter's nces have signified acceptance of American Service.
the scheme, which has also been
approved by the Budget and
Diplomatic Committees,
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A counterclaim for $1,000 as damages for breach of contract we made by defendants, who alleged that the plaintiff's men stopped work.
The Judgment.
THE RAJ
| MAHARAJAH OUTLINES
VIEWS OF STATES.
WILL NEVER SUBMIT TO RULE OF BRITISH INDIA.
13 PER ANNUM SINGLE OOPY 10 CENTS
THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY BUICK
ON SHOW TO-DAY
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD:
Talaphone Centeùi IX48 or 1247.9490
vn Wear Ni Giao vặt Haper Valle
OIL “CRACKING". PROCESS.
SYNTHETIC MATERIAL FOR MOTOR TYRES.
CHICAGO MAN'S 'STORY.
London, Sept. 25. Speaking before the Oil Section of the World Fuel Conference hore, Dr. Gustav Egloff, of Chien-
SIR JOHN SIMON'S FAREWELL
|BRILLIANT SPEECH ALDWYCH CLUB.
TO APPLY LESSONS OF OUR IMPERIAL HISTORY.
LOYALTY TO CROWN.go, said the "cracking", process. INDIA'S ASPIRATIONS.
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the
London, Sept. 25. Some very outspoken views on the relationship between the Indian Ruling Princes and British Governmont were express ed to-day by the Maharajah of Patiala in the course of an inter- view with Router's representative
at Montreux.
The estato · of the' late Jamea Oxley, banker, of Leeds, was provisionally proved at £2, 774,000. Duties on property of this valuation, and according to the dispositions of the will, are estimat ed to amount. to $1,120,000.
Further grant of probate of the will of Viscount Hambleden respect ing settled land provisionally valued at £200,000 has been issued. The The Princes were profoundly unsettled estate had already boon convinced that the British con- provisionally oworn at £2,500,000. nexion was vitally necessary to
British Wircicas.
Indla.
The time had come, however, for the Princes to make it clear that their political relations were with the British Crown and that they or their people would never sub mit to be governed by · British India,
THE DISARMAMENT QUESTION.
Delivering judgment, Mr. LEAGUE ASSEMBLY APPROVES Justice Jacka said: This is an
Under the scheme, orders will be LATEST MOTOR-CAR action in which the plaintiff, who
sent to all Salt Stations to pay a -certain percentage of their revenue ench month, into banks which will be designated by the Nationalist Minister of Finance,
per
for
of
INVENTION.
BRITISH FIRM PRODUCES AN AUTOMATIC GEAR.
RESOLUTION.
was producing over five billion
London, Sept. 25. gallons of gaselene a year from petroleum oils, and it would be Liberal leader, in a speech at the
Sir John Simon, the eminen
possible commercially to "crack" Aldwych Club where he was c coal tar, oil shales, asphalt tare, to-day, referred at some length to tertained at a farewell lunchepp and vegetable and fish oils. the work of the Royal Commission Within six months, the "crack- investigating the working of the the United States to produce mer Viceroy, took the chair. Ing" process could be extended in Indian reforms, of which he is the president. Earl Rending, the for-i
to The Cominission is leaving for India on Thursday for Ita second
The Maharajah emphasised at hydrocarbonates. necessary the outset that the attachment of supply the world's requirements, tour, during which evidence will the Princes to the Orown was as well as a synthetic rubber-like be taken by the Commission af unshakeable.
material suitable for motor tyres. various centres, and which will
A delegate expressed the hope last for seven months. that for the sake of the rubber immense responsibilities of the Sir John Simon emphasised the Industry in the East, the "crack-British Parliament to the peopled ing" industry would not be deve-of India, and said it acemed to loped,
the Commission that they could The Chairman (Sir Thomas Hol- best act as interpreters to the Bri land):-You must not take too tish Parliament of India's neede seriously everything. Dr. Egloff and aspirations if these were as* told you.-Router.
sociated with them in their en
Loyalty v. Vociferousness. The Princes had long been conscious, he said, that the allent! loyalty of the Indian Statas tended
MOTOR FATALITIES
YESTERDAY.
....1.
Provinces to Co-operate.
In every province an Indian committee elected by the Provincial Legislature would act as their col leagues and asalst in their inves
tion to know that this plan had been generally approved,
is a labour contractor, neeks to re-
Geneva, Sept. 25, cover from the defendant, who is a The League Assembly has adopt building contractor, the sum of ed the Third Committee's report to count less in world politics than $861.18 being the balance due on and resolution regarding an early the vociferous claims of the Bri- PORTUGUESE CYCLIST RUNS tigations. It was deep satisfac
verbal. agreement to supply meeting of the Disarment Com-tish Indian leaders. masons for the masonry work inmittee.. connexion with the erection of six The resolution proposes that the States were two entirely different-
dwolling houses.
ownera
on
defendants
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British India and the Indian
Exception to Nehru Report.
INTO GIRL.
Despite the initial boycott of the Commission, eight of the nine pros BUS KILLED A COOLIE.vinces had decided to co-operate,
while the ninth had not yet made? its final decision. In more than There were two fatalities you-one case Provincial Council which The Maharajah's comments arisofterday arising out of motor acct- at first resolved not to co-operate from the report drawn, up by dents, according to this morning's had reversed its first decision and Indian Nationalists including police reports
had appointed its committee, Motilal Nehru, who have drafted |
Aberdeen bus No. 804, at 7.40 Constitution, demanding the p.m. last night, ran into two grant of Dominion status; the coolies employed by the Dairy transference of political power Farm Company when near the He mentioned that a Central In from England to the people of pumping station on the Pokfulam dan Committee had been chosen
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a
Loans Outstanding..
chairman of the Preparatory The total annual sum sceared in this way will be at least $10,000,000 NO LEVER REQUIRED.
The defendant claims damages Disarmament Commission shally different entities and would for breach of the agreement which keep in contact with the Govern- always remain so. which will be adequate to meet all
they have limited to $1,000 In monta concerned in order that he Ionn requirements, namely the
London, Sept. 26. order to bring their counter-claim may be apprised of progress in Anglo-German Loan of 1898,
After Ave £16,000,000 for 45 years at 4%%%;
years aecret within the jurisdiction of this preliminary negotiations and may
of
Court.
be able to convene the Commission the Anglo-French Gold Loan of
experimental work, a British firm
The facts are as follow: The at the end of 1928, or in any caso 1908, of £5,000,000 at
has evolved a method of automa- defendant entered into a contract at the beginning of 1929, cent.
30 years,
with the building for
of the redemption
The German delegate last week thetic gear change for motor-cars. Peking-Hankow Railway; the Hu- The mechanism, which has been March 2, 1927, to construct the six reserved the right further to ex
houses in accordanca with a plan plain his viewpoint when the report kuang (four 1911, of £6,900,000 at adopted after a 60,000-miles test and specification, the date for the was presented to the Assembly
nations group) Rail- 6 per cent. for. 40 years; and they the Armstrong Siddeley Motors completion of the housea being Reuter Chinese Government & per cent. Limited, manufacturers for their November 30, 1927. Some four or
1912, of high powered models, will be on five months later, Birch-Crisp Loan of
exhibition at the Olympia Motor entered into an agreement with £10,000,000 for 40 years,
Show, which opens on October plaintiff, under which the plain- 11th. Reorganisation Loan,
tif agreed to supply labour for all There is no gear lever. The the masonry work for the sum of most important of the foreign loans which were secured driver merely depresses the pedal $3,400. on the revenues of the Salt Ad- and adjusts an indicator mounted ministration, however, was the Five-Power Reorganisation Loan of 1913, under which the arrange ment was made for the setting up of a Special Salt Inspectorale, with a foreigner at the head of the Staff. The principal and in- terest payments have long since been met entirely from the Customs funds, which were equally hypothe cated for this purpose.
The
on the steering wheel, as required.
Date Disputed.
A feature of the new invention The date of this agreement is
YAUMATI GAMBLING
SCHOOL
bera
EX-POLICEMAN DIRECTS
AFFAIRS.
is the silence with which gear disputed, but the defendants' On a charge of keeping a com changes may be effected.-British manager, admitted that the plain- Wireless.
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India, and the establishment of a Road.
partly by the Council of State and two-Chamber Parliament with
According to the driver, the partly nominated from the Central supreme authority.
incident was caused through his Legislature by the Viceroy.
It is expected to aécompany the The Princes also take ex having to swerve to avoid an ap
Simon Commission through the dhe ception do
In swerv memorandum proaching motor-car. addressed by the Associnted Cham-ing, the bus ran into two men who provinces,
Sir John Simon also announced of Commerce to the Simon were walking in an opposite direc-
that approximately 500 memoranda, Commission recommending that the tion.
had been received by the Commis Indian States be included with The injured men wors rushed to afon from all sorts of bodies In British India as a single economic hospital, but one of them died on India and elsewhere expressing a unit.
the way..
variety of opinion on the existing Motor cycle No. 273, driven by Indian constitution. He stressed Princes Take Firm Stand.
Mr. Botelho, described as a clerk, that the greatest unanimity exist tiff could not commence work until mon ganing house in Temple
The Maharajah of Patiala's re- of No. 93, Wong Nei Chong Road,ed within the Commission, October 7, ns defendants had not Street, a Chinese, who said ho
At this date, was formerly a policeman, was marka follow the same lines. as knocked down a Chinese girl, laid the toncrete.
The Greatest Case, seven months of the defendants fined $50 or six weeks' hurd labour those of the Maharajah of Bikanir eight years of age, in Queen's contract time for building the by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon a few days ago, when he stated Road East at 2.30 p.m. yesterday.
that the proposals with regard to The girl was admitted to the Gov-duty is not to enact or decide, but Sir John Simon added: "Our houses had elapsed and less Magistracy this morning.
Five others who pleaded guilty the Indian States were likely to ernment Civil Hospital, but died to bring home to the British people than two months remained.
five to gambling were each fined $8. A lead to a "chaos of mobocracy," Inter in the day, During the ensuing system. The Reorganisation Loan NANKING GENERAL'S LATEST months that is until March 7, seventh man who also admitted adding that the rulers and subjects the work apparently proceeded gambling was discharged with 4 of the Indian. States would in no smoothly. The plaintiff said he caution, after being called to give way agree to a position implying regards evidence and stating that the Arst subordination or inferiority to the had no complaint as Shanghai, Sept. 26. payinents and the defendants said defendant was the keeper and re people of British India
It was recently announced that! Speaking at the General Head-they were satisfied with the pro-ceived the commission.
Us Worship ordered all furni-simultaneously with the : Símon quarters at Nanking, before agress of the work up to that date. meeting of military officials, Gen- What happened on or about that ture and gambling implements to Commission's resumption of its enquiry, the claims of the Indian eral Ho Ying-ching stated that dato? Plaintiff's men ceased work bo confiscated.
States were likely to come into pro- China is now standing in a most and although he appears to have
'minonce.. dangerous position owing to the had men there until late in April,
It is announced that the Nation- alist Government will continue this
will not be included in the Salt scheme, but is to be covered by Customs revenue.-Reuter.
Defaults in Past,
It is interesting to note in con nexion with the scheme that the Kukuang Rallway Loan is in de fault as regards the instalments of amortization due in June 1926 June 1927, and June 1928, and as regards the interest coupons due
words.
THE IMPERIALISM”.
BOGEY.
OUTBURST.
threat of foreign Imperialism. he himself said that the visited which precoded that date, and yet The civil war had come to an end, the site every day from March 7, he was not satisfod, He apparent.
HOTHEAD YOUTHS MEET IN MOSCOW.
WANT BOLSHEVIK REVOLT
SYMPATHY WITH AMERICA.
KING'S MESSAGE TO U. S. PRESIDENT.
London, Sept. 25,
the realities of the Indian problems and to act as Interpreters to the British Parliament of the wishes and aspirations of the peoples of Indla.
"This Indian question in the years now coming is likely to be come the greatest of all cases in which you have to reconcile authori ty with freedom.
"Let us never forget that while Britain has conferred on India, the H.M. the King has sent the fol- blessings of order and of settled lowing telegram to the President government, a sense of unity and A Committee, headed by Sir of the United States of America: the experience of disinterested ad-
Butler Committee.
East and West. ⠀
"No Briton should complain. L the Indians should be eager to apply the leason which pur Imperial history lins taught. The British
sympathisers and as friends in whatt is perhaps the greatest external question laid upon the statesman' ship of to-day-the tremendous weaving together warp and woof of east and west-Reuter and Britin Wireless,
LINCOLN CITY WIN AT people, have to lend their alda
NELSON.
for the same years, on the British, he said, but it was time they con- to April 23; and saw no work ly did no more work and his men Harcourt Butler, established to in-
of the site on April
through your kind intermediary to the leaders of the Indians, the de "I desire to express to you, and ministration, it has also roused in defondants witnesses confirms 29. No evidence has been given as regards the German issue all foreign oppression.
The defendants oventually as to what payment the plaintiff Princes and the Government of the American people, my sincere sire for constitutional developmental
India, made investigations In amortization is in default, and tho Finally, he declared that the this.
condolences upon the disaster and a bellef in the virtues of selfa interest coupons from 1925 on- real unification of the country got another contractor to finish | asked for on March 7, but it seems India and returned to Britain in which has recently overwhelmed government which are an Inevitable?
should be materialised in the the work, and now counterclaim clear that the defendante refused
came to Britain to submit their and the State of Florida, as a re- and of Parliamentary experience. As regards the other Loans, military, finance and administra for the expense incurred thereby, to pay him more than 70 per cent. A number of Princes later Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands consequence of Western education, and the effect of the interference tive spheres.-Napi Chring Pao.
damages for breach of contract, so he ceased work.
case to the Commission, and it is and the cost of protecting the with the normal oporation of the
Who was in the wrong the now announced that the All-India sult of the hurricane, and my
or Solt
the defendants? States Subjects Organisation is sympathy with all those that have Administration, there has
men employed to finish the work plaintiffs
from ita effects," the been no serious default, owing to
Turning to
agreement sonding in September a deputation suffered Haggling Over Payments. which thoy made, I the fact that sufficient sums were
and composed of Dewan Bahadur, Ram British Wireless, in reserve in the Group Banks to
. What was the real cause of the that it is verbal, unless the Chandra Rao, Professor Abhyan- meet all requirements except the
dispute which arose between the memoranda made in the books ker Amrit Lal and D. Seth, which October, 1927 amortisation of the
parties on March 7th? Neither of the respective parties can be re- hopes to obtain a hearing boforo Anglo-French Loan of 1908,
side contend that it was a question garded as a written contract, but the Butler Commission. of whether the work was finished these memoranda contain nothing The subjects are anxious that or not. It resolves itself into beyond a statement of the price it should be an essential part of
agroed on which is not disputed. this, I think. The work was Riga, Sept. 25. practically finished-Mr. Hall.con- Terms of Contract. The English and Chineso de firms this, and the defendants' bill
The defendants have endeavoured
London, Sept. 25, legates to the Congress of the In-for completing the work loft un-
Lincoln City brought off a rçal. ternationale of Communist Youth, done by plaintiff did not amount to incorporate the terms of their
surprise in the Football Leagut at Moscow, held a separate confer- to more than $330, and this is pro contract with the building owner, ence to evolve plans for common bably more than it would have cost and the specification, In their agree. Meanwhile some of the most to-day, taking two points from ment with the plaintiff on the important States, including My-Nelson at Nelson. Accrington by action regarding China. had the plaintiff continued, round that these were shown to one, Baroda, Travancore, Cochin, drawing with Hartlepools move up The conference later issued a The plaintiff said that he was satishim before he delivered his tender. Hyderabad and Rajkot havo de several places from the bottom of The Singapore floating dock is manifeste calling on the youth of fied with what he was paid up to He stoutly denied this and said that clined to support the movement the division. The results, now due west of Colombo Two England and China to rally round that date, but I find that his own he only saw the plan from which, headed by the Maharajah: of cabled by Reuter, were:' of the four tugs which are towing the Communist Internationale in accounts show that he received alone, he made his calculations. Patiala for pressing the claims of Division III (North),. the vast structure called here to-order to achieve Bolshevist ro more daring the dive weeks which Much of what is contained in the the Princes before the Butler Accrington - 2 Hartlepools day for fuel and supplies.-Reuter, volation in China-Reuter.
followed than the five weeks
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Commission-Router.
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SINGAPORE FLOATING
DOCK.
DUE WEST OF COLOMBO, AT PRESENT TIME..
Colombo, Sept. 25.0
IN CHINA.
any rearrangement between the States and the Government of In. dia that States which have not fallen into line with the popular reforms carried out in British In- dia should be compelled to do so.
UNEXPECTED VICTORY IN
THIRD DIVISION. ?.
2
The recurrence of firing on foreign ships plying on the Upper Yangteze, as reported in yesterday
e, makes it clear that large numbers of bandits are operating in the vicinity of Wushank A naval wireless message
ed this morning states that
Yang Sen has despatched troon" the district to deal with the h”
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