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OUTLOOK SERIOUS.
LONDON, February 1. A Bombay telegram dated January 20, states the cotton workers' strike took an ugly turn to-day when a mob of strikers began looting. The military were ordered to fire and one person was killed and five wounded. Quiet has been restored and all shops in the mill district are closed.
The strike is spreading, ten thousand dock workers having joined the
The outlook is regarded as serious.
movement.
AN EARTHQUAKE.
SEATTLE, Jan. 25.
Thre distinct earthquake shocks were felt at 1108 last night at Bellingha Windows were broken and brickwalls cracked. At Vancouver, Victoria, nd other cities in British-Columbia, the earthquake was also telt.
EXTREMISTS'IN AMERICA.
THE RECENT ROUND-UP.
·WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. President Wilson and the Secretary for Labour have decided that the communist party in America is a revolutionary party within the meaning of the American deportation law, therefore have approved the order for deporting to Austria the allen named Preis. The disposal of cases against a large number of allens. arrested during the recent roundup of extremists, | have been upheld pending this decision.
ANOTEZE SALE OF EX-GERMAN VESSELS.
RIO DE JANEIRO, February 1.
The newspapers state that American bankers are negotiating with the Brazilian Government for the sale to the United States of 26 ex-German vessels for about thirty-six million dollars.
"POWHATAN" PASSENGERS ARRIVE.
NEW YORK, February 1. The transport "Northern Pacific" has arrived with all the 271 passen gers of the "Powhatan" and also the last of the American troops from France.
NO PANIC ON "POWEÀTAN."
NEW YORK, February 1. There were eleven women and eight children among the "Powhatan passengers but there was no panic. The women boarded the "Northern Pacific" singing.
OBITUARY.
NEW YORK, February 1..
The death is announced of the well-known author the Reverend C. T.
Brady.
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AGAINST INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA:
LONDON, January 29,.
AVIATION.
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LONDON, January 7th. The Times, in the course of a leader pointing out the great part aviation must play in the future of the Empire, anys-
To us more, perhaps, than to any other nation the proper use of the aeroplane for peaceful ends is of most vital import- ance for communication with the outlying parts of the Empire and with India, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.. overestimate the importance of the possi
I would be difficult to bilities that would be opened wo by Empire air routes already survered, such a that from Cairo to the Cape, ard vast amount of pioneer work to be done others still to be organised. There is a
before these routes can be open to ordinary civiliar passengers to statesmen, mer chants and commercial travellers to whom time is an urgent factor; but difficult and dangerous as the work is bound to be, it mast and will be done. for within the Empire nothing else, not even the personal magnetism of the Prince of Wales, will prove more valuable as an instrument not only for the annihilation of time and space, but for drawing ever closer the ties of sympathy and mutual understanding which bind and the Dominether, the Mother Country
LONDON TO THE CAPE BY
AEROPLANE.
Lospos, January isth.·' out a fight from London to the Cape ria Attempts are now being made to carry Cairo. The fret machine, a Vickers-Vimy has reached the south of France and is proceeding to Egypt. The second an Airco, starts immediately, while a third, manced by South Africans, will probably leave next week.
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS AND
RUSSIA..
LONDON, January 25th. After fall consideration by Mr. Lloyd George, Signor Nitti and M. Millerand, the Government has refused Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M. Roden and Mr. Buxton passports to go, to Russia as part of a delegation appointed by the Berne Inter- national Socialist Congress,
AMERICAN FIFLES FOR IRISH REBELS.
LONDON, January 97th.. The Daily News says 2,000 American rides were landed a fortnight go on the "const of Clare and successfully distributed.
INDIA AND ENEMY ALIENS.
The papers publish a manifesto signed by prominent trade unionist and labourites, including Messrs Bowerman and Clynes, urging for immediate and complete peace with soviet Russia. It declares that the signatories will do their best to oppose Britain's entrance into any war against the Bolsheviks. They do not believe the labour party if it comes into power, will regard itself bound by military commitments made secretly.
CAIRO BOMB OUTRAGE.
CAIRO, January 28.
A man posing as a photographer threw a bomb at a motorcar contain ing Sirry Pasha, the Minister of Public Works. The Minister was uöhurt, but the car was shattered. The assailant was not caught.
AUTHORITIES SHOULD NOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
LESS THAN $300 A MONTH.
BISHOP LANDER RESIGNS.
-DELHI, January 27th The Indian Government notifies that enemy aliens will not be permitted to enter India until five years after the conclusion of Peace.
INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA IN AMERICA.
NEW YORK, January 28th. The influenza epidemic in New York, and Chicago continues to increase, bus the new cases and Si deaths in New York mortality rate is low. There were 3.68% yesterday; and 1,378 cases and 96 deatha. in Chicago. There were also 119 deaths. from pneumonia in New York and 91 in Chicago,
THE BOLSHEVIKC AND THE ENTENTE.
LONDON, January 30th. According to the Paris journal Debata the Allies that it will not authorise the the Bolshevik Government has informed resumption of commercial relations except after the conclusion of an armistice, and if it is not concluded all ships of the Entente at present in Russian ports will be sunk
THE DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN AEROPLANES.
COPENHAGEN, January 27th. Two hundred aeroplanes were destroyed in the recent fire at Warnemuende The marke damage is estimated at several million
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FROM PLANET!
When a Chinese was this morning charged before Mr. Wood with hawk- ing medicine in Yaumati without a licence, he denied that he was The February "Church Notes "re" hawking, but said that he was port the resignation of the Hongkong treating a patient and took the Anglican Bishop. On exchange, medicire to the man. The Police Bishop Lander's actual income-bas said the defendant was seen rec-worked out at less than $300 a eiving 20 cents. He admitted this month. As Church Notes says, but said that it was in the nature of" This is certainly not enough at an extraordinary series of sounds
LONDON, January 27th. Bignor Marconi describes in the Daily cumshau money to erver his ferry to support a Bishop," etc. We expenses to and from Yaumati. His church people of Hongkong can
picked up by wireless throughout the Worship said he thought the defen-hardly expect to find a Bishop will may emanate
He thinks it possible that they
from dant should have a licence, and reing to pay out of his own pocket for
another planet, SCIENTISTS SCEPTICAL manded the case for a week in order the privilege of being our Bishop, that he should get one. The def and if we are anxious to have a suggestion of the Daily Mad that other
LONDON, January 28th. Scientists are sceptical regarding the endant said as he did not have an Bishop here something will have to planets are attempting to communicate ald licence, he could not get one. be done to provide him with a living with the Earth by wireless. They generally He had tried but failed. Sergt. Ogg wage, and a suitable house."
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A special vote of thanks is record- ed to Mr. J. W. White, who acted in Mr. Fuller's absence.
said there was quite a lot of difficulty It is mentioned that the organist, to get hawker's licences. His, Wor Mr. Dearman Fuller, is turning. ship repeated that he thought the defendant should have one, and the sergeant promised to look into the matter and see if he could not zet the defendant one.
HONGKONG DEFENCE
CORPS.
NOTICE,
SERGEANTS' MESS
The Sergeants' Mess will be closed. from the 2nd instant until the new Corps is formed.
"G. E. STEWART, Captain Adjutant, H.K. Defence Corps Hongkong. February 2, 1920.
world.
attribute the mysterious sounda to solar magnetic disturbances.
P. & O. BANKING CORPORATION,
LONDON, January 28th. It is authoritatively encounced that theprospectus of the Peninsular and Oriental Banking Corporation, of which A thick fog overhung the Hord Inchape will be Chairman, has. Beez bour early this morning, rendering ned until April at the request of
Chamberlain (Chancellor of the navigation somewhat hazardous and Ezeboquer) that new issue should be launches and other craft had to creep held over until the Government Bond Bre about at quarter speed to the accom-out of the paniment of incessant blasts from The Peninsular and Oriental Company SYTETIS.
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