1912-05-30

AYURSDAY, MAY 80, 1912,"

THE CHINA MAIL.

BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH. SECOND EDITION

of Coeymont.] PORT OF LONDON

STRIK

THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Toxsos. May 20. Sir Edward Clarke, K.C.. in his report on the strike, finds for the -men-on five of the seven disputed points. He expresses the opinion

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GENERAL" BOOTHS

CONDITION.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail

26 Losges, May 30. The inflammation in "General Booth's eye has spread, and row seriously jeopardises the sight. His general condition is good.

[COPYRIGHT:] CHINESE STATE AFFAIRS.

THE LOAN AGREEMENT.

(Wah, Tai Yat Po's Service.)" PERING, May, 30. The State Department bae sent an explanation to the Consultative Chamber stating that no clauses

that much of the trouble in the case THE MALECKA CASE, have been decided in regard to the

of the employment of the non- unionist on the 25th was due to a breach of the agreements providing for reference at disputes to the Board of Trade.

STRIKERS ABRED TO RESUME

WORK. "

Mr. Sydney Buston, President of the Board of Trade, in a covering letter announcing a conference on the 31st inst. asks the Trinsporters Union to adhere to their agreemnanta, and to resume work now" that Sir Edward Clarke has cleared up the misunderstandings regarding agree

ments.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

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( Beuter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, May 30.

It is now known officially that Miss Malecka's sentence involves life exile to Siberia.

AMERICAN PRESIDEN- TIAL ELECTIONS

SWEEPING VICTORY FOR MR. ROOSEVELT.

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NEW STEAMERS FOR THE P. & 0·00.

(Reuter's Service to the China

LONDON, May 20. The P. and O. Lire have ordered two steuners of the Ballarat class for their Australian service via the Cupo.

THE KING AT CHELSEA HOSPITAL.

A UNIQUE REVIEW. big loan agreement, pad it is because the Government is pressed by urgent (Reuter's Soroice to the China Mail.) noeds that certain privileges, have

LONDON, May 30. H.M., the King, inspected tha been given to the Representives. They are merely preferential bene- Chelsen Pensioners yesterday. This fits, it is explained, and not extra-is the first review of thin body by a

The Provincial ordinary interests.

reigning sovereign since 1805. Governments are only prohibited to solicit foreign loans during the time negotiations are going on in London

SEPARATE GOVERNMENTS.

The Consultative Chamber will pusa the suggestion that the three Eastern Provinces of Manchuria will (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.cach have its own government, with-

Loxnos, May 20.

out being under the control of one Governor-General,

Mr. Roosevelt, las obtained the STRIKE COMMITTEE'S ATTITUDE. most aweeping victory of the cam- paign at New Jersey, where the returns indicate that he has won all the twenty-eight Republican Dele gates.

The Strike Committee last night decided to attend the conference, but requested Mr. Burton ba mast the committee to-day.

Meanwhile the strike continues.

GOVERNMENT INSISTS ON MAIN-"

TENANCE OF ORDER.

THE BIG LOAN AGREEMENT.

Hung Hi Ling the Financial Minister, has circulated a telegram

THE POSITION AT FEZ. to the various Provincial Govern.

RUMOURED MASSACRE OF EUROPEANS DISPELLED,

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ments to the effect that if sufficient reliable funds can be obtained the big loan question can be cancelled at

once.

SALE OF ROYAL JEWEL),

A statement by the Fame Office, denies the allegations made in

LONDON, May 30. manifesto be the strikers on the 28th

Rumours current yesterday of a Inst., and says it must be understoo that the Government insists on the wholesale massacre of Europeans at

The Empress Dowager has given maintenaïs of order, and will use Fez have been dispelled by a mes- all the resources at their disposal to sage from General Lyautey in which orders for the Royal Family's jewels he states that on the fonday and the to be sold by auction. Half of the ensure a food supply for London,

following night the Berbers returned proceeds will be a subscription to the SHIPOWNERS REFUSE TO COM-to the walls of Fez, and had been Government and the other half is to

PROMISE.

incesssantly firing, rendering it im be distributed among the poor female possible to leave the town or mount attendants and cunuchs in the Sir William Nelson, of the Nelson the minparts, but bat no attack had palace. meat carrying line, in an interview,been actually made on the town. said the shipowners had their backs

to the wall, and refused to be a party

FEELS.

to any compromise between the HOW MR. ROOSEVELT Government and the strikers. would lay up his ships if the Govern- ment made any bargain with the strikers.

THE PORT AUTHORITY'S ATTITUDE.

The Port of London Authority, in a statement, refuses to discriminate between unionists and non-unionists. and threatens, if the strike continues after May 31st, to pay off its em- ployees.

(Reuter's Servics to the China Mail.

LONDON, May 29.

Mr. Roosevelt, who has returned to New York, has stated that he is feeling after the campaign like moose bull

BRAVERY REWARDED.

MEDAL FOR THE CARPATHIA'S CAPTAIN.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, May 20.

PREPARING FOR THE

CONFERENCE.""

LONDON, May 30.

A Waebington telegram states that Mr. Buxton and the Strikers' Com- mittee had a Conference this after the Senate has passed a vote of noon at the Board of Trade. They thanks and Congress has appro- discussed preliminaries for Friday's printed a thousand dollars for A Confere The men desired an medal for the Captain of the Car- assurance that every section of the pathis. employers would he represented, and that any Agreement would bind all the Transport employers.

SCOTTISH CLAN FEUD.

SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND.

The King visited the Hospital, but Sir George White; the Governor; was too ill to receive His Majesty.

BRITAIN AND THE MEDITERRANEAN.

AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.

Lonno, May 80. Beuters correspondent at Malta telegraphs that Lord Kitchener has arrived there. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Churchill also jarrived

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THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE.

LONDON, May 30. Renter correspondent has been informed that the reports attributing an international political character to the meeting of Lord Kitchener, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Winston Churchill are totally unfounded.

It is known that Lord Kitchener has taken advantage of the presence

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LORD KITCHENER'S PLANS.

LONDON, May 80.

Reuter's correspondent at Malta telegraphs that Lord Kitchener, con trary to his original intention, will In a long peep behind the scenes of not visit Gibraltar. He is returning "Shakespeare's England," which Earls to Egypt on board the s.s. Hamp- Court is busily preparing for its May-to-shire, probably on June 2nd. October rüa, a Morning Leader" repte. sentative gained some swift ideas of the conscientious detail involved in such sn enterprise as this."

"THE NEXT RELIGION."

Mr Zangwill's Censored Play. In reproducing these Elizabethan days exactitudo in every dolnil is essential.

It depends entirely upon your point of although probably not one visitor in ten view, and upon your conception of the will be sufficiently well versed in Eliza-functions of the dramatist, remarks the dramatic critic of the Daily Telegraph. If bethan history to recognise it when it. is you regard it as his business to entertain, accomplished.

you will hardly vote his latest effort iu dra- matic art

if you conceive it to

"The host illustration is provided by th work of dressing the show," which Mr Seymour Lucas, R. A., a famous expert in Elizabethan costumes, is supervising.

Over a hundred people have been hard at work ince January nunufacturing the Fart's Court costumes at Beasts, L. and II. Nathan's in Coventry-st.

access;

be his duty to educate, your verdict will perforce bu coloured by saur own particular

outlook upon the intricacies of belief as belief is understood in these days. He is

lu can hope an optimist, indeed, who feels th 6, iu these times of religious uncertainty, he can

regar el 1.As such to convert unbelievers.

จงส from his own special point of view, to hit nwn mode of thought, and

to what his own thought is. "All the dresses have had to be inade quite clear

his efforts at purersion must perforco from models of authentic costumes of the lamentally fail. And thus with Mr Zang- period," said Mr_Nathas, and in some will. That he is brilliant and epigram-1

he Was wise in cases we have had actual articles of Eliza-matic we all know; that

writing The Next Religion" is doubtful. bethan wear before us. This cap," he so long as religious belief of ons kind or STRIKERS OPPOSED TO SIR A foud is rending the Scottish High went ou, taking up a roogh, loote-crowned other remains the dominant festaro in the led, the EDWARD CLARKE'S FINDING. lads. The chieftanship of the Clancap from the table, was made from one lives of men and women, so long must

of science hage failed, palpable truths of Macrae is in dispute. A Fiat Augustus found behind some wainscotting in West difference of opinion remain. Where the At a mass meeting of 15,000

ed as Mr Zangwill may be, by the highest people; held at Tower Hill, Mr. Goa-ergynine set the spark to the powder by inster Abbey. It was a workman's cap witty sentences of even the most successful mutives and by the most earnest desire to ing, Strikers leader, Raid that Sir stating that the Clan Macrae was a minor that had lain there since the sixteenth writers cannot hope to succeed, and, animat Everything mule for this production seek after truth, he cannot break down Edward Clarke stated that the men sept in the strictest sense, and that the century.

protagonists for the chieftainship had in

tradition. Moreover, you will hardly know after seeing his play what it is he seeks to prove. Christianity, as we understand it, coman in for merciless attack. Riman

account for his designation of the new Cathedral as that shrine of superstition nevertheless bardly admired. How ole

in Westminster whilst his own co religionista evoke his scum by the ex- clan.tion and reply of two of his charac *tery Jaws don't worship Christ!" "No, but they worship Christians."

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were not entitled to refuse to work the quarrel lost the sense of due proporis fit to go in a museumi, so strict has been the beliefs hallowed by long centuries of

with non-unionists; but this they were going to do. Carmen were the tion." Since these words were spoken the attention to accurate detail,"

recently, the fight for the coveted post hat One of the biggest and merriest scenes has become more bitter, and, threatens to will be the reproduction of Horsley Down divided the countryside into at least two air. For this an authentic print heleng-Catholicism, though lat down lightly, is factions Major Maerne-Gilstrap, who has ing to the Society of Antiquaries has been

worst paid class of, the community and were asking the Government for A minimum wage: He demanded final settlement with machinery for adjusting future difficulties.

NON-UNIONISTS UNMOLESTED.

utilis.d.

that the wow entered the lista, helds Macraes were no small fry. They had, he Nys, a separate tartan, badge, and war- cry, and lived under the hereditary juris-brought to life again for Earl's Court:

Here are some of the quaint characters on this slicet of the faiz who are being

Some hundreds of ruilaists at diction of their chief, who led them to the Docks are unloading test, and their wars. They possessed men of culture, conveying it to Smithfeld: thy and jand were famed for their fidelity to Prince not being molested.

A quack doctor,

A "fine city" pig woman.

A sword and buckler an.

A juggler with educated apo...

Awise justice of the punce" (in

stocks.).

A hubby-horse man;

The play is based upon subject by no mran dalamdir. You have the ligh churchmid siled by doubt, hecoming in fact, of the new reformor, the creator,

the religion"-the religion that accepts the

Revelation of Science. You have his wife,

steeped in the faith of her fatters, strug

A sweet singer of new balls (augling between love for her husband and that

TACK)."

Charles Edward;" who wandered through their country with a prica ou his bend; bus no Marras would give him up. Ons of the FRANCE'S BIRTH RATE. Pase, in the querel says that the man who lies the best claim to le chiefship is n hepherd. The other believes that the

A "Ecstard monger" (apple seller). representation of the chiefs lives in the ancfunt Brahan-Cantle, and in Coloney-oorn-catter,

A mouse.cap.3. Stewart Mackenzie of Beaforth.

MORE DEPLORABLE THAN

EYER."

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"LONDON, May 29.

A Paris telegram states that the birth rate in France last year was more deplorable than ever. Deaths exceeded birthe by 84,889.

HOME CRICKET.

MAN MASQUERADING AS A WOMAN.

tween a Berlin nursing sister and a young min who, has been living the life of n benulifal and accomplished Indy" saist int in a loading wholesale conl firm.

The aavistant, who was given power of

A gingerbread woman_.

of her old farm of belief. He fesigns bie

ly convened.

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Bishop of the His one+ while Atheistic friend of Oxford dayn The names of the queer folk on this shoot accepted the dogmatic Christianity Chrast include Master Zeal-of-the-land" (n pori- upon hit by a dorant wife, thus incurring

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binephsmer's son. The views of the ro erromantative through roots where Eliza blasphemy of years by the murder of the thethan halberds, unies, guns, daggers, farmer have been brilliantly put forward. Reuter's Service to the China Militorney by "her" employers, as a reward plumes, pouches, rate, tsbar's, kirtles and frequently in inants, which would wound LONDON, May 20.. for “hor" several years of faithful service, stomachers strowed tables and fours sede, aceptibilities of no man number. Essex beat Derbyshire by an inn-recuntly had to go to hospital on account walls, and complete suits of armour toud Few, for fastmes will appare of the dow

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