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GENEVA EXPERT FOR CANTON.

M. ALBERT THOMAS ARRIVES IN HONGKONG.

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LEAVING TO-NIGHT.

Canton, Jan. 4

M. Albert Thomas, the French head of the International Labour

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929.

ALL DEPENDS ON BRITAIN.

KWANG CHOW WAN' RETROCESSION.

CHINA HOPES BRITAIN WILL RETURN WEIHAIWEI.

THE RYE LIFEBOAT DISASTER.

FINDINGS OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.

MEASURE FOR RECALL.

London, Jan. 4. The Rye lifeboat disaster which wiped out practically the whole of

hamlet of Ryo Harbour on Novem- ber 15th, has been the subject of a Commission of Inquiry, which delivered its findings to-day.

Bureau of Geneva, is expected in CANTON STATEMENT. the Ashing population of the tiny

Canton to-morrow on a flying visit, He orrived in Hongkong from Shanghal to-day by the President McKinley, M. Thomas will come up to Canton on to-night's steamer, the as. Taishan, and he has 4 very full programme mapped out for tomorrow.

The Commission found that prompt and proper measures were laken for the recall of the lifeboat- when it was discovered on shore that the German steamor "Alice" whose distress call was being answered had been abandoned by her crew, and the latter rescued by another ship.

With a view to obtaining an official pronouncement in regard to the agitation for the retroces- sion of Kwang Chow Wan ter ritory, a representative of the Canton Gazette 'called at the Beginning the day at 8 am. he Canton Foreign Office on Thursday will first visit the monument of and made enquiries on the subject, the 72 heroes; from 9 am, till mid-Mr. Chu Chao-hsin said it was day he will attend various receptrue that the Chinese, Govern. tions, mostly at the different ment was anxious for the rendi- Labour Union Headquarters and tion of Kwang Chow Wan, and

The opinion was expressed, how- another at the French Consulate, he was of the opinion that France where he will meet the French would gladly return it to China. ever, that the recall flag should community.

This territory was leased 29 also have been hoisted at daybreak years ago, but according to the though it was most improbable Washington Conference of 1921-list it would have been seen.

The evidence showed that the 22, he pointed out, Wol Hai Wei, should first be returned to China lifeboat suddenly capsised owing by Great Britain.

At 12.30 p.m. the Government authorities are giving a large umn In his honour and at 3 pm. M. Thomas will leave again for Hongkong by the afternoon train. From Ilongkong, M. Thomas is proceeding to Haiphong and will probably leave for that port on Sunday, murning by the French sloop Allair.

1. Thomas is not the only Frenchman of note expected in this port during the next fortnight, About the 10th or '12th instant, Monsieur de Billy, the French Ambassador at Tokyo, is expected here for a few days. Monsieur de Billy left Japan shortly after the end of the Coronation ceremonies and has been making a tour in Formosa. He will now be return ing to Tokyo, vía Shanghai.

Britain's Promise,

"

4.

It will be recalled that the British Government had agreed to return Wel Hai Wei to China at that Conference, The French delegates then declared that France would be quite willing to return Kwang Chow Wan'to China after Great Britain had rendered Wei Ha! Wei.

"In 1925," Mr. Chu further said, "the Peking Government in- structed me to take up the maiter with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, then the British Foreign Minister. Except for one or two controver sint points, the negotiations pro- Then Rear-Admiral Stotz, Comceeded rather smoothly and the re-

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to the high seas and the gale, and Dat the deaths occurred by break- ing water and heavy Burf. Seven-1 teen of the crew died in the accident in the full view of anxious watchers on the cliffa.

Regarding allegations that the lifebelts worn by the crew were

satisfactory. Indeed dangerous, the Commission said that it was impossible to say whether the life- belts caused or contributed to the loss of life.-Reuter.

MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD.

manding the French Far Eastern trocession of the port appeared BITTER ATTACK BY A FRENCH Flect, is expected here on about to be a fait dccompli

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Deadlock Reached,

NEWSPAPER,

Paris, Dec. 12.

the 18th instant, Rear-Admiral Stotz will arrive in Hongkong on

"The profoundest liopes were his flagship, the Jules Michelat, i

A French opinion on Mr. Ramsay and will probably come up here entertained. Even the one or two on the French gunboat Argus and ed to be so divergent could have speech which appeared to-day in controversial points which appear-MacDonald and his recent Paris spend a few days in Canton-been brought together and amicably the Avenir is startlingly savage. Our Own Correspondent,

WOMEN M.P.'S AND FASHIONS.

LADY ASTOR BREAKS AWAY FROM BLACK.

Westminster, Dec. 4. Mr. Baldwin communicated to the House of Commons this after noon the decision le appoint Coun. sellors of State to ne during the illness of the King.

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Although the mood the House became intensely grave as soon as his Majesty's illness was mentioned, members, Jtle carlier, had been famously divert- ed by a complete transformation in the appearance of Viscountess Astor.

Lady reagh was complaining the other day that the women in Parliament move and have their

being under an embarrassing surveillance. But did Lady Astor reny expect the masculine eye not to netice the revoking of every article in her sartorial constitution when she walked in wearing hint

settled, but on account of the change of Cabinet of the Peking Government coupled with the in- cessant political disturbances which prevailed at that time, the negotiations, to my great regret, had to be postponed. Had it been possible to continue negotiations, the rendition of Wei Hai Wei would have been accomplished long

ago,

It runs in part as follows: "Ramsay MacDonald did his best. not to shock his audience, but we cannot forget what he cost this country and his own. His altars drip, with blood.

"Before 1914, he never allowed a year to pass without asking in the House of Commons if military alliance existed between, England and France. Owing to bin and his kind the Kainer believed in 1014)

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RICARDO CORTEZ, BARBARA BEDFORD

PROFESSOR OTTO HARTRATH

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cut fear of English intervention.

Relies on Britain. "As the whole country is now

the Nationalist "At the end of July, 1914, he or united under Government, the time is opportune ganised meeting after meeting in for the resumption of negotiations favour of English neutrality. One with the British Government in anw him fight against conscription, this regard. I can take it for and urge workers at munition granted and that the British | factories to strike. Government will

be glad to "If the polley of MacDonald had negotiate with us again, and this heen followed, the complete victory being the case, the rendition of of Germany would have been na

can pardon. Wei Hal Wei should not be far eured. A nation distant.

has not the right to forget."

"

"When Great Britian has return. ed Wei Haj Wei,. I am sure that France will fulfil her promise declared at the Washington Con- ference and will likewise return Kwang Chow Wan without hesita tion."

and dress of a light hug of WOMAN PILOT'S CRASH. cherry?

Never before bus she burst thei bounds of business-Hike black and white. The first, woman to join

hod The Commons, she established these non-caluars al

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CAUSE REVEALED AT THE

TECHNICAL INQUIRY.

WORLD RECORD BROKEN.

U. S. AEROPLANE STILL IN THE AIR.

It

Los Angeles, Jan. 4. The "Question Mark" has already broken the world record in its re- fuelling flight, having been aloft for 01 hours and 7 minutes, at 8.30 still in the air this morning, yesterday evening. It was

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The technical investigation into most as uniform; and all her the air accident at Mill Hill on Octo- successors have more or less beeber 20, which resulted in serious in-

The crew now hope to surpass imitators. So that her appeur-

the Graf Zeppelin's. record ance today was as moving as it juries to Miss O'Brien, daughter of

Sir Timothy O'Brien, will show of continuous flight. Some would be to come in a club blazer that the case was the failure to gallons of petrol was put aboard

t. Aspol.

The whole House cheered with connect up the rudder controls of just before midnight, when the

the machine.

plane was travelling at seventy unaffected joyousness. A male innovator would have suffered a Miss O'Brien was giving instru- miles an hour-Reuter's American thousand deaths, but Lady Astortion to a pupil who was flying the carried the situation off with the machine from the back seat. Miss O'Brien was in the front seat, andfamayed case which only her he controls in the back seat were working properly, but the rudder bar in the front seat was not con- nected up to them. Miss O'Brien

sex can compass,

Another Precedent.

Now that the whole convention of sombre debating modes for allowed her pupil to climb to a few women has been overturned, the hundred feet, and the aeroplane House must carefully mark the then went into a spin. next audacities in the 'movement, When Miss O'Brien.tried to right It may well be that we are the múchlue she found that she had In for a Brighter Parliament. no rudder control. She was right

Lady Astor was not the only one ing the machine by means of the of the fair group of seven to stick alone when it struck the furnish the Commons with ground. precedent this afternoon. Miss Most aeroplanes can be righted Bondiald Introduced a Bill-to] from a spin' by use of either the provide foulwear for children in rudder bar or the stick, but some the distressed arens-which will cannot be so righted, and all take go, down as the first measure to longer to come out of a spin when have as its sponsors none but one control is Inoperative.

women,

The De-Rating Bill for Scotland was debated again, and in a dia- cussion that was loaded with re- petitions Sir Robert Horne's speech was about the best, for its well- constructed argument to prove that British manufactures ought to be stimulated and cheapened by the relief the Government is about to bestow.

The second reading of the Bill was carried-by 319 votes to 160,

The P. and O. 8. Malwa, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on the 4th January at noon.

PAN-AMERICAN PARLEY.

MULTILATERAL TREATIES

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AMERICAN COMBIÑE.

RADIO CORPORATION AND VICTOR

New York, Jan. 5. The long-discussed unification of Radlo Corporation of the America and the Victor Talking Machine Company has been finally consummated.

It was announced last night that the proposal had been approv- ed by both Boards of Directors.--- Reuter...

The local agency of the Banque Franco-Chinoise Informs us that the Chinese Maritime Custonis having effected the second payment for the year 1928 on the Boxer Indemnity, the coupons No. 8 of the 5% Gold Loan, 1925, with the bonds drawn on 3rd December laat, will bo redeemable on the Washington, Jan. 5. 15th Instant through tho. Bank's The Pap-American Conferenca | Agencies. yesterday finally approved, the drafts of the multilateral treaties,

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and also the report of the Special Dr. Arthur Woo has returned Committee dealing with the to the Colony after six month Bolivia-Paraguay dispute-Reuter. Ispent abroad.

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