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THE DOLLAR STILL PIECEGOODS TRADE VIGOROUS ACTION PROHIBITION POT BRITAIN READY TO

SLIDING.

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LOWEST IN HISTORY EQUALLED TO-DAY.

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四拜體 • 號九月正英港香 THURSDAY, JANUARY

9, 1930.日十初月二十

IN SAMOA.

ABOILING.

FORCE TO BE APPLIED IF NECESSARY,

BOTH IMPORT'S AND EXPORTS SERIOUSLY AFFECTED.

GLOOMY FORECASTS.

A further fall of a farthing was registered in respect of the Hongkong dollar when exchange This opened this morning. brings the T. T. rate down to 18. 6148., which is as low as it has ever been, in the history of the Colony. A precisely similar rate prevailed in November and December of 1902, so that we have to go back to 27 years to find to-day's record equalled.

BRITISH YARN PRODUCTION

MUCH CURTAILED.

COMPETITION IN EAST.

Landon Jan. 8. The annual report of the Yaru Section of the Manchester Cham- ber of Commerce states that owing to the continued depression in the

| STRONG ORDERS TO CURB THE NATIVE UNREST.

WASHINGTON SMILES OVER.

SENATOR'S BON MOT.

|FRIENDS SCANDALISED."

Washington, Jan. 8. Its not faken long for the bitter feeling over the enforce ment of Prohibition to exhibit It- self in Congress.

SET EXAMPLE

PREMIER AND NAVAL REDUCTIONS.

OPTIMISTIC REGARDING THE CONFERENCE.

export trade for cotton piecegoods CRUISER ON THE WAY To-day, was the third of the new AMERICAN GOOD WILL.

Wak

and cotton yarns, the production of British yarn during 1929 seriously curtailed."

British exports of cotton yarn started the year well, as almost 17,000,000 lbs. found an outlet in January, but in the next three months they gradually declined.

The tide turned in May, when the gure jumped to 16,000,000 lbs., only to slump, however. -10 12.3 million lbs. in June.

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Sersion and the Prohibition. Pot. bolled and sizzled in the House of Representatives all day.

Wellington, Jan. §. The New Zealand Government has decided to adopt a firmer Mr. La Guardin, the fiory Italian policy in the islands of Samen who represent New York, denoune- and have authorised the Admin-ed enforcement us at present car- istrator to take whatever action rled out as a failure. he may consider necessary to an sert the law and maintain order.

"

He strongly condemned the practies of the coastguards in shooting to kill

· The Government further or- The "Drys" allied to the de- dertd

thecruiser Dunedin,lence of the coastguards and de-. carrying a seaplane to leave mauded the support of Congress in their efforts to suppress ram-run ning.

Dunedin

Throughout July and August. the volume was stendy. Then Auckland for Samoa. there was a sharp drop to 10.2 |

is now on the way, million The. in September. The

The decision to take strong ae- concluding: months of the year revealed no outstanding features. tion follows the serious

The report adds: "In the trade bane at Apia on December 28th,

The Treasury Department states that the Government contenplates distur-the addition of 500 new ports of entry along the Canadian border

London, Jan. 8. Mr. Ramisay MacDonald left Lossiemouth, his home in Scot land, for London to day, with the object of completing prepara- tions for the Naval Conference,, the arrangement of which has been his most brilliant achieve iment as Prime Minister.

Before his departure he made a tutement to the Press regarding would deal with every class of the Conference, saying that th

warship from dreadnoughts to submarinos,

Things were very well advanced, There were little points on which

agreement had not yet been rench-

The continued drop is causing much anxiety in business circles in the Colony." One merchant stated, in the course of a talk with Telegraph representative, that not only is the decline stop in India, we had to contend not When a European police-constable. I and to do its utmost to prevented but none of them was of AD

only with increasing competition an Irishman, was bouten to data from Japan, but with the produc; tions of Chinese" mills.",

ping the Colony's import trade, but exports are, abso

being jeopardised, inasmuch as dealers are proceeding on a hand-to-mouth basis, waiting to see when the bottom is reached. With prospects of a further fall,

the

It is becoming "increasingly evident, says The report, that more hepanese mills are turning their exporters sliould wait for the counts-Reuter.

by a mob of riotous untives.

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Serious Outbreak.

The outbreak was the most seri- os since New Zealand assumed the mandate for the islands. It police to arrest certain "wanted"

crossings elsewhere.

Premier Optimistic.

Constguard oficials, while ex- great importance" that an agree pressing regret at the shootings,ment was impossible. Indicate that they are determined to carry out their duty.

Mennwhile, Hoefal Washington is tittering over a bon mot attributed

He felt quite optimistic about prospects. I was no use shout- ing before the conference was difficult matters, to be arranged,

Hays, It is only natural that attention to the spinning of finer resulted from the attempt of the to a certain Senator in reference over, for there were one or two

most favourable rate. «

Cardinal Mistake.

In the opinion of this gentleman, a cardinal mistoko was made when it was decided by the Banks to revort to the silver basis. 1f, he anys, the dollar was considered too high at 2/-, it would have been far better to fix on a rate of, say, 18. 9d., but ratain the note basis.

THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE.

AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS

TO FUND.

New York, Jan. 8. The American Shakespeare To pin the dollar to silver, which has now become a bye-product of Foundation, which is working - in error, co-operation with a British Com- other metals, was a big Obviously, both in the interests of mitte a rebuild and endow the importa and, exports, he added, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at stability is the great need. He Stratford-on-Avon, has issued a recalled how india had solved a fiuncial statement. precisely similar problem to that of Hongkong by stabilising the raper.

Gloomy Forecast,

This show that there was a net balance to the credit of the Foun- dation an December Rist las Camounting to £176,000,,

The balance includes a gift of | £50,000 from John D. Regkefeller,

Stratford,

Annther well-known business made to the British Fund in 1927, ) man, in the course of an interview, but which is retained by the gave a most gloomy forecast for American Committer to secure the the trade of the Colony in the henefit of high interest rates in present year. Basing his predicw York, but it does not cluded tion on the fall of the dollar, e carinus donations forwarded by said that if the dollar had merely Amerienn contributors, diretto, dropped a couple of points at the time the Banks wished it to do so, things would have been different. .""There can be no doubt that the contention of the leading bankers that an inflated dollar was keep- ing trade away wax a“ Correct one," he said. “However, I am quite sure that no-one wished it to fall as low as it has done,, and no-one thought it would do so.”

"As the matter now stands," he continued, "we already find our salves in a most unenviable posi-; tion, and I cannot see how we can possibly extricaté ourselves during 1920,"

Business Ceuves,

"At the present time, all our Chinese customers have reused (Continned on Page 14.).

it is estimated that the cost of the new Theatre will be £1,50,000. “¡Router's American Servisi,

MARINE WIRELESS

OPERATORS.

MOVEMENT TO SECURE BETTER CONDITIONS.

JUNIORITAMONULARARONARY ANGLEZENS CASTILLO TEMAT SAN

BOTTOM OUT OF THE SILVER MARKET.

Lowest Price on Record

Reached in London,"

FURTHER FALL FEARED.

London, Jan. V Comumenting on the fall in the price of silver on the London bullion market. to 20.5,416. per ounéo-the lowest on record--the Daily Mail.says there is little hope entertained. of the discovery. of new markets for silver sufficiently "important to offset the loss entailed in the almost .. universal abandonment of

- silver as standard of vur-

reney.

The silver industry, there fore, la in an neute state of over-production which most authorities are of the oponion presages a further fall in values, though bullion dentera generally believe that the quotation will settle at a paying level for China.—- Reuter.

men who were participating in an anti-Government procession, -

The mob attacked the polles London, Jan,, 8. and a fierce hand to hand struggle

ensued. Conference A

was WES held In: London to-day between the Aaso-

to his colleagues: "Let him that is without gin jamongst you, east the first stone."--Renter's Ameri- can Service,

PIRACY OF APANESE

*STE

HAUL ESTIMATED AT ABOUT |

$5,000.

The . Kynjin Maru which was pirated after grounding outside Canton about a fortnight ago nr rived in Hongkong this morning from Keelung on her way to Can-

fon.

When imuiries were minde re- garding the affair, it was found that all the officers' belongings were taken away by the pirates, beside all movable material that they were! able tu lay hands on.

According to an offer of the ship, the pirates made a haul of about $5,000,

The Ryujin Maru is due to leave for Canton to-night.

HONOUR FOR FORMER EDITOR.

FREEDOM OF CITY OF MANCHESTER,

London, Jan. 8. The Manchester City Council to-day decided to confer the Free. dlom of the City on Mr. C. P. Scott, for many years the famous editor of the Manchester Guardian,

British Wireless policeman beaten to death and two others ciation of Wireless and Cable would have shared his fate but Telegraphists and the Engineering for the arrival of reinforcements, and "Allied Employers regarding the request of the telegraphistë

for

One

Nine Denths.

a revision of the present The new arrivals were forced to TUCSONYEREMTEC conditions of service of marine| uke their revolvera to rescue their

STOP PRESS.

NANKING ALARMED BY SILVER SLUMP.

CONSIDERING ADOPTION OF COLD STANDARD.

Shanghai, Jan. 9. An emergency meeting of the Government is being held at Nanking to consider steps to. deal with the chaotic situation created by the unprecedented slump in silver. ·

Although a gradual fall was regarded, as inevitable,, pspòculative... activities

mastly blarhed for the present " rapid decline,

are

According to unofficial newspaper, the Government is considering the abolition of the teel in favour of a dollar

"standard, with the eventual,

adoption of a gold basis for ChinaReuter.

colleagues and four of them were

·

wireless operatorë.

The case for the telegraphists injured in the enterprise.

- Eight members of the Mou, the having been stated, the Con- ference was adjourned to give the native party; were killed including employers

Chief Tamasese, and twelve were an opportunity considering the position. British injured. About three hundred nu- Lives took part in the attack "on the police and about thirty of them suffered minor injuries.

Wirelenn

PAISLEY CINEMA

DISASTER,

of

MANAGER OF THE CONCERN GRANTED BAIL.

London, Jan. 8. Charles Dorward, the manager of the Glen Cinema, Paisley, who faces a charge of culpable homicide in connexion with the terrible dieuster on New Year's when seventy children lost their lives in panic, caused by a fire alarm, 'op peared before the Magistrate again to-day, hog

Official Orders,

- Euter.'

Following the receipt of in-

etructions from the Government, the Administrator hanhenused official notices to be posted at all the chief centres in Samoa, quiring all Samoans, not usually residem in certain areas to leave them and to return to their own homes before Saturday next.

Fifty-eight specified persons have been called upon to meet the Administrator at Mulinu to-duy

Manchester University, only recently [Mr. Scott, who is an Hom, LL.D. of retired from the editorship of the Guardian after holding the post sinee 1872. He was Liberal M.P. for the Leigh Division of Lancashire from 1885 to 1905.]

SILVER EMBARGO"

POSSIBLE.

SHANGHAI CHINESE NOW ALARMED,

„JETTUUNTAUSTNICOMUNESAERBRAND

R.A.F. FLYING MISHAP IN EGYPT:

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Avro - Machines Collide In Mid-Air.

FOUR OCCUPANTS KILLED.

London, Jan. 8. Four lives were lost in an air collision in Egypt to-day, the victims all being members of the Royal Air Force.

The Air Ministry made an official announcement to-night as follows:

“As a result of a collision in the air which occurred to-day a1 Aba Sueir, in Egypt, be- tween two Avro machines of the Flying Training School. Flight Lieutenant Richard Greenslade, Flying Officer Charles Galpin (the pilots of the machines), Corporal Williams and Leading Air- craftsman Leonard Green.. were killed,' "-British Wire- lose.

130 FMR AWNIN SINGLE DOFT 10 ORKTU

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DUNLOP CARRIES THE TRAFFIC. They're Britiah, too.

LOCAL BRANCH : Padder Building,

C. 4554.

SHOULD EXTRALITY BE ABOLISHED?

LEGAL INGENUITY IN CHINESE CIVIL ACTION.

HYPOTHETICAL CASES.

ĮSPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH."}

Appended is the second instalment of the special article on the vexed question of the abolition of extraterritoriality in China. Our contributor, who has spent a great part, of his life in the Interior of China and has had ample opportunity of studying closely the matters with which he deals, to-day seeks to show some of the salient features of the exercise of ex- trality, and the consequences which would follow unilateral infringement of foreign rights and privileges,

He draws attention to the insecurity, of life and property in China to-day, and to the serious possibilities, not at all remote, which would follow abrogation of treaty rights without the substitution of some other system.

It is no discourtesy to China, says, our contributor, to say that civil cases depend almost entirely upon bribery. Without adequate assistance in the shape of money, a judge, will find it difficult to give a just judgment.

ACTOR SEQUITUR FORUM REI.

What is extrality? The Chi-Thessible to avoid "cases.” At nese translation of the term de present the system bus fallen into seribes it as the special jurisdic, desuetade. ¡

tion of consuls. It is the system The Chinese Church has, set ili by which any legal case in which face against it; and the mission- a foreigner is concerned may be faries are relieved to be quit of it tried either by or in the presence

Sulid Advantages.

Extrality however covers much

of his consul, and, by which all the relations between a foreigner and the Chinese officiula er govern-more than actual law cases. The ment are controlled by the con-fact that all legal matters be sul or higher foreign officials.

tween either individual. Chinése. In criminal cases in whielt or the Chinese authorities "g foreigner is the accused hie con- through, the Consul brings the sul would, in accordance with the whole legal status of the foreigner principle actor sequitur forum rei, in a treaty port under foreign nct as judge, with a Chinese civil jurisdiction. magistrate as assessor, and the code

His treaty right to purchase and applied would be that of the hold property is safeguarded by defendant's nation,

its registration in the consular

If the foreigner were the pro-court, his freedom from arbitrary secutor the case would come an taxation, his neutrality as regards in the court of the district magis-Chinese warring factions, ha free- trate with the consul sitting asdom from 'political interference assessor, Civil cases are similar-and from malicious prosecution, ly tried.

all rest on his extra-territorial rights.

All such jurisdiction is applied in treaty ports, outside which no foreigner has the right to reside or to own property, with the ex ception of missionarice."

These are solid advantageṛ to forego which would gravely Jen-- pardise the whole position ní“ foreigners in China.

Important. Exceptlan.

This exception has been an im

If the possession of these rights portant one in the history of ex- seems to give the foreigner an trality, for by a clause inserted advantage over the Chinese In, the CANCELARIA DE Vin one of the treaties, misfotar some place, it is doubtful if it

societies acquired the right to can be called undue advantage.". arising not out of any ill will, but own property inland: and, further, out of the different conditions of missionaries secured rights of

protection the countries.

these were subjected to persecu- tion by their fellow citizens.

He saw no reason, however, for fearing that accommodation would

not be reached.

The Premier added that it was

of converts

when

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Certainly, to deprive him of them unconditionally would place him in a position vastly inferior to that of the Chinese So far an property ly concerned

The foreigner has not the "ad these rights renaft, except, that rantage which the Chinese hate miralty up to now that the British tween the Embassy in Peking, the Chinese life and methods, and the with the full consent of the Ad- negotiation has been going on bean intimate acquaintance with Government was prepared to make Foreign Office and the British Se various circumlocutory proposals at the Naval Conference cletics for modification of the of dealing with roving armies, and methods which would mean a considerable terms on which property may be reduction in the British naval pro- held, the conversion of deeds of

rapacious officials. gramme without, in any degree, purchase into deads of perpatusl impairing the security of the Em- [lease, and so on: phe

International Equilibrium. "But," he concluded, "everybody both at home and abroad must very clearly understand that these reductions will depend upon an in- ternational agrogment. It is quite

·Impossible for any one country to

The Credit of China,

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Missionary property is of course The matter cannot therefore he held for the benefit of the Chinese, I discussed now as if there were no and means are being sought to history. Under the protection of hand ever church property to the extrality, foreigners have invest church bodies, and to place schools and hospitals under boards of management.

capital and engaged in big en terprises which, if not for the sake of the foreigner, then for the credit of China must be safe- Problem of Security, guarded. It is under no dishon Shanghai, Jan 8, The Government of Greater beyond what can reasonably be

The whole problem of auch: urable conditions that these in Shanghai is perturbed by the connational equilibrium."

regarded as a state of Intertransference is one of sucurity treats have grown up. However much China may now wish thi Linuous decline in the value of silver and contemplate an embargo Naval Conference will lunch with od difficulties in the past. While honourable international engage The Japanese delegates to the There is no doubt that the right Abrogation of the treaties, they of protecting converts have arent were and have continued to be on silver movement.

The officials say that the drop in einl country residence at Chequers an, the one hand it was dicumenta. If they are to be changed

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald at his offi having serious effect on, the on Saturday.-British Wireless,

to avold helping a man driven it must be in the course of nego Government revenues.

from his village for refusal to patiation, and they must be replaced tribute to idol festivities, yet often by conditions such that what has the aid of missionaries, acting legitimately, been done under them Washington, Jan. 8. through their consuls, or ape con ba secured and continued. The American delegation to the

proaching the magistrates with London Naval Conference leaves for the suggestion that the consul was Present Conditions, England to-morrow amid a chorus at their backs, was, sought for

EXTRALITY ISSUE.

SIR MILES LAMPSON CONFERRING

American Viewà,

would

of good will from every section of cases othar than strictly those of What in fact the community,

extrality were abolis Twenty-eight others, also spec!-

The New York Herald-Tribune

Forsccution fled, whose arrest for various

which is a Republican journal sup On this question a difference of delay consideration dffences has been prevented by

Nanking, Jan. 8.

porting the "Big Navy" group, ex procedure arose between. Protest teed by some Sir Mic Lampson has arrived presses the opinion that great difunt and Roman Catholic Missions: would lete the beplication was made this required to turn organisation, are here and will confer with Dr. CAT. Boulties may arise as the resultar the latter frankly used seletame, titisan Siret cons

for release on bail and the to surrender at Apia bo Wang, the Foreign Minister to conflicting national interent, but in law suits as a means of attract Court decided to admit him to bail, fore noon on Saturday next day regarding the abolition of ex-

Reuter.

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ing converts, the former did all

nt-case