MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

( BV TUIiEOKAI'H -TKH rlUiflS ASSOCIATION BEAM TEST DISAPPOINTING: (Received this day at 10.15 a.in.) LONDON, Jan. 11. The Australian beam test was disappointing. The conditions "ere had. but a better reception is hoped for at nightfall. (iKRMAN'Y • ‘TWO-FACED.’’ PARIS, Jan. 14. The newspapers chorus disapproval of Germany’s dihitorincss regarding uisarmaent negotiations. “he Rappel” describes Germany as two-faced. .MATCH MONOPOLY. LONDON. Jan. 14. It is reported a big combine ot match making companies including the American group is submitting to the Government scheme in grant them a monoply. The largest part of profit from sales in France going to the State and Ift per cent .to social works, hut only part oT t7e profits from sales in the colonies and foreign countries to go to the State. Tt is believed the combine contemplates making the manufacture of matches a big French industry on a large scale.

TIAXKOW CONFERF.N'CE. (Received this dav at "libls a.in.) SHANGHAI. Jan. 14. Although the Secretary attends the Hankow Conference between Eugene Clien (Cantonese Government mouthpiece) and O’Malley (British delegation), a Secretary specially was sent from Peking to negotiate for the return of Hankow concessions. Evidence is not wanting of disagreement between the Conferences. The Nationalists’ policy was clearly outlined in Cliiangkaishek’s Hankow speech a month ago. Part, of the programme has already lieen fulfilled, despite the fact that at the time of the speech foreigners in all China said the fulfilment of the programme was impossible, yet within a month a. majority of the foreigners reMdjpig lin iYauigtspc including missionaries are fleeing for their lives to Shanghai, which is regarded as a place of final stand of the British in Yangtze. The Admiral then declared there wore sufficient forces to protect British lives and property. Subsequent events proved otherwise. Perhaps now. with a dozen warships anchored off the shore of Hankow wo may talk business with tiie Canton authorities, hut if Britain believes she will regain the concession without forcible means she is mistaken. Eugene Chen, in a statement, said:

“Extension of Nationalist authority to the foreign settlement in Shanghai will not take place as the work of capture but as an inevitable incident of the resistless advance of the Chinese Nationalist movement. When that day of triumph comes, we will he mere conquerors but as administrators and conservors of work done there by foreign nationals. Such a. warning cannot be unheeded by foreign powers. Unless the movement by Canton for abolition of concessions and expulsion of foreigners from China is arrested at Hankow a bloodv conflict between Chinese and international forces now concentrating in Eastern waters is certain. Never in the history has there been such a concentration of foreign navies in China as at the present time, Britain's including the latest type. Hankow negotiations are therefore watched with apprehension.”