CONCESSIONS IN SIBERIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 290, 4 December 1920, Page 7

CONCESSIONS IN SIBERIA.

AMERICA AND THE SOVIET. JAPANESE OBJECTIONS. (Received 8.30 n.m.) WASHINGTON, December 3. Official Japanese quarters declare that japan's objections to the Soviet Government granting territorial concessions in Siberia to an American syndicate are based on a treaty Japan made with the old Russian Governments, under which Japan was allowed to exploit valuable lislierics on the north Siberian and Kamschatka coasts. It is held that the concession would bar Japan from fisheries. It is also probable that Japan will contend that the concessions violate her position in the Far East, as outlined in the Boot-Take Hara and Lansing-Ishii agreeV ments with the United States.— (U.P.) | "GRAFT" IN EAST PERSIA. I HUGE WASTE IN CAMPAIGN. COST OF £100,000,000. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 3. Tho "Daily Express" correspondent at Bombay states that an article in the "Times of India" exposes enormous waste of money in the East Persian campaign, the cost of which is estimated at j £100,000,0(Xl. Examples arc a luxurious I* encampment at Turbet-i-Haidari, eighty miles from Meshed, which cost £100,000. It was later discovered that it was built on private ground, whereupon the owner was- paid preposterous compensation.

Tho profits of the road builders and camel contractors would make multioillionftires green with envy.—(Reuter.)

NO IMMIGRANTS. [ AN AMERICAN PROHIBITION. MORE FOR TWO YEARS. (Received 8.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, December 3. The chairman of the Immigration Comi mittee of the House of Representatives has submitted a bill suspending all imniif gration for two years. — (A. aud N.Z.)

JAPS. IN CALIFORNIA. I RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION. MAY GO BEFORE LEAGUE. * (Received 10.30 a.m.) TOKYO, December 3. Baron Sakatani, ex-Minister of Finance, in a speech before the conference of twelve associations interested iv Japanese-American relations, hinted that California's anti-Japanese legislation might come up before the League of Nations. He added that he was not certain whether a new treaty between the United States and Japan would solve the problem. It was necessary to ' inform Americans that Japan's case ' rested unon the principles of justice.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) SHIPYARD GRAFT. A CARPENTER'S STORY. SYDNEY, December 3. The inquiry which is being conducted by the Federal Public Works Committee Into the construction of ships for the Commonwealth Government, was continued to-day. In reply to Mr. New-land, M.L.C., a carpenter who was employed in building Bhips said he put in dummies. Mr. Newlands suggested that it was a matter of straight-out fraud. Witness' . .replied: "Yes; I was acting under in*l ttructions."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) A FRAUDULENT SALE. AND A TIMELY BOMB. LONDON, December 3. At the Guildhall to-day Barnet Samson charged Louis Segal, Abraham Segal, and Henry Himmelschein with conspiring to fraudulently sell him 44,000 sheepskins for leather, knowing they were worthless for the purpose. Samson's I counsel said these were skins stored iv the dried-skin warehouses in Old Swan I Lane, off Upper Thames Street, London, in which a bomb exploded on November J HO. The bomb exploded among the skins, I' out counsel did not make any accusation regarding the bomb against accused. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) ALLIANCE. A SAFEGUARD FOR PEACE. LONDON, December 3. Ear 4 Derby, who recently retired from the position of Ambassador at Paris, •peaking at a welcome home at Manchester, advocated an alliance between Britain and France as the best safeguard of the peace of the world. If there had been an alliance in 1914 the war would not have taken place, as Germany would have known we would side with France. Such an alliance now would prevent a similar war in the future. France was a little afraid of the attitude Britain would take as regards German reparation, but the right principle was "every penny Germany can P»y, Germany must pay." "I would show no mercy," continued Earl .Derby. 1 What must be decided is how much Germany can pay and yet exist."—(A. tad N.Z. Cable.)