TO-DAY'S
CABLES.
Renter's Service to the China Mail)
"WHEN ARE THE BRITISH COMING?"
DAILY PRAYER OF MILLIONS IN STARVING RUSSIA.
HORRORS IN THE BIG TOWNS.
LONDON, August 24.
An Englishman for many years resident in Astrakhan arrived in London to-day after several months' journey from Astrakhan. Shown the Sverskadagblad's message cabled yesterday he said that the burning of Astrakhan was in no way improbable. The situation in Russia could not
Ant.
SHIPPING.
THE CHINA MAIL.
KING OPENS NEW DOCK EXTENSION.
THAMES PROCESSION,
The opening by the King of the new extension of the Royal Albert Dock in mad week was made the occasion of a picturesque river page
The weather was appropriately fue, and when the Royal party left Westminster pier there was a great scene of enthusiasm, crowds lining Westminster Bridge and the corner Driving from Buckingham Palace. of Bridgestree:.
THE CLIPPER STEMS
GOING.
REPORTED C.P.0.8. DECISION.'
it signalises the completion of the first and most immediately pressing part of the great scheme of improve ment which you set before yourselves upon the passing of the Act of 1908
"Not only will this dock receive.
News comes from an American ito its waters vessels af far greater sz: than pave ever before entered source that the Canadian Pacific the Port of London, but it has been Company has now decided that it can ipped with the finest and most dispense with the services of the andern buildings and machinery, so beautiful little clipper-stemmed "Em- that cargoes can be unloaded and press of Japan," and that the Ameri- despatched with greater speed to all can Admiral Line has secured a two- parts of the kingdom, and foreign month option for her purchase to re- countries. The new cargo jetty which place the "Governor," lost in collision you have made and opened at Tilbury some time back. The former portion within the last few weeks it another of the story is very probable, consider- to ervice, and which would make noble testimony to your enterprise" ingaw ships which are going ou the tule 8,000-ton "Japan" quite out
one may be forgiven for expressing doubt. The Washington Govern ment is not likely to sanction the
COST £4,500,000. The new dock, which forms the
be realised by outsiders. The outlook was becoming worse dally. The the King, the Queen, Princess Mary, Southern extension of the Victoria of place. but with regard to the latter
peasants had ceased to cultivate the soil and the scarcity is the grain areas was greater ever than in Moscow which was a paradise compared with The narrator's family lived Astrakhan, Nijinovgorod, and other big towns.
months on herrings and half-a-pound of bread, a ration which cost 2.000 roubles. The outbreak of cholera was not surprising when children searched the street offal and regarded decaying herring as a prize. The narrator's salary of 70,000 roubles a month was just sufficient to secure a fortnight's milk supply for one child. The daily prayer of millions was "When are the British coming?"
PACIFIC POWER! TREATY.
COLONEL HOUSE SAYS LET IT BE QUADRUPLE.
THE INVITATION TO CHINA.
LONDON, August 24.
and the Duke of York, with their and Albert system of docks, is the suite, arrived at Westminster at 2 10.largest work yet undertaken by the They were received at the pier, which Port of London Authority, and has was rastefully decorated with flags cost £4,500,000. Viscount Devonport, and Lord and bunting, by the Home Secretary. Ritchie. As their Majesties descended the steps to the pier, LCC. school childrea sang the National Anthem. The Majesties embarked on the "Wargrave," which steamed slowly into inid-stream amidst tumultuous cheering from the crowds lining the Embankment.
The centre arch of Charing Cross Bridge, under which the steamer passed, was gatiy decorated with dags, and the motor launches which are moored opposite the Terrace of the House of Commons were trimmed Their Majesties rainbow fashion,
The fact that the work (interrupted for a period of four years by the war) has been in hand since August, 1912, gives an idea of its vastress.
In it vessels up to 30,000 tons re-transfer of a British-built ship to the gister can berth and discharge their U.8. Hag under the existing circumst- Under the Red Ensign cargoes within six and a half mile of ances except as a very temporary! the heart of the City. Hitherto the measure. largest vessel that could be acom- she would be debarred from the best- modated in the Authority's chain of paying part of her service by the cocks has been of 19,000 tons register, Coastal Shipping Protection measure. and that only at Tilbury, twenty-six As an alternative it is suggested that miles below London Bridge.
she might act as a feeder to the main services, which is quite likely, for they miss a certain amount of traffic along the China coast at the moment, The new dock is 4.578ft. (consider though not very much. She and her ably over three-quarters of a mile) in two sisters were among the most length, and its width varies from beutiful liners ever tamed out, so 710 to 500ft.
bandsome that, although they left the Rover," and as they passed the sixty-four acres, a depth of 38t, and sometimes used as an advertisement Tower a salute was fired by the guns its 10,000 (nearly two miles) of by their builders. The Empress of Their Majesties had a veritable quay walls provide berths for four China" came to grief some years ago, I there.
At the western end of the wet dock while the "Erpress of India" served progress of triumph down the Thames their way to the opening ceremony extension when required) and 1001t: the war-being maintained by Indian on board the steam yacht "Rover" on i is a iry deck 750ft. long (capable of the Loyalty hospital ship during Shipping, werehouses, wharves, and wide at the bottom. This is equipped Princes and is now a "country ship." various buildings along the riverside with electric travelling cranes and Altogether ther were three splendid displayed flags and bunting, and air compressor plan for operating vessels, and it will be a long time be- crowds of people cheered as the King: pneumatic tools. Adjrcent sites have fore their appearance or their per- and Queen passed.
already been raken by well-known formances (they held the Trans-pacific ship-repairing firms.
record for many years), will be forgot- ten by seamen.
A message by Colonel House from London published in Philadelphia as transhipped below London Bridge to The dock itself has a water area of Barrow thirty years ago, they are still
regards the Washington conference says that however much Britain and her Dominions may sympathise with the general attitude of the United States regarding Asiatic and Pacific problems, the consensus of opinion at the Imperial Conference favoured renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, the only alternative possible being something in the nature of a triple treaty among Britain, the Caited States and Japan. Colonel House thinks that the invitation extended to China was a move in the right direction and adds that if it should develop that a treaty among the Pacific powers is advisable, by all means let it be a quadruple treaty.
AGRICULTURAL WAGES.
BOARD'S REVISIONS EFFECTIVE FROM SEPTEMBER. 5.
LONDON, August 24.
The Agricultural Wages Board has decided to make orders enforcing revisions of wages from September 5.
[A cable dated July 22 stated The Agricultural Wages Board, at which the farmers and workers were represented, decided to issue forthwith a statutery notice of a proposal to reduce the minimum rate of wages in the case of adult male workers x shillings weekly, others proportionately, provided that the minimum for adult males is nowhere under 42, weekly A month is allowed in which objections may be lodged. Six hundred thousand wokrers are affected.]
SIA SAM DOES DEAD.
There was a scene of great en thusiasm as the Rover passed within the lock gates and was locked in.
Children at the dock-side sang pat riotic airs while the "Rover" was in the lock, and the pier heads were lined; by seamen from H.MS. "Pembroke," and boys from the Royal Hospital School at Greenwich, the "Warspite," the "Arethusa," and the "Exmouth"
THE "ROVER" ENTERS. As the "Rover" passed through the lock gates and under the bascule through a silken band or entering bricke into a large new deck it broke
teen of the largest steamers.
IS A CHIEF ENGINEER A WORKMAN?
LEGAL PROBLEM AT LIVERPOOL.
FRENCH PORT DUES.
PROPOSED TAX PER PASSENGER AND TONNAGE.
Paris, July 7-The Goverment The House of Lords ruled that the captain of a tug is not a workman has introduced a bill aiming at the within the meaning of the Work reform of port cres. According to his relative cannot recover compensa into two separate taxes: the first. nica's Compensation Act, and that this bill, the dues are to be dividei
A great outburst of cheering signation in the event of his death by ac-assessed on the net displacement of cident. At the Liverpool County the ship, the second in accordance Court, his Honour Judge Thomas was with the importance of the business The first presented with a problem as to dore at each port. whether the chief engineer of a ship tax to be levied at each port has been comes within the purview of the Act fixed at 30 centimes per net ton of and whether a claim for compensa-displacement for long distancesteamers and at 15 centimes for international tion can arise,
GENERAL WHO RAISED CANADIAN CONTINGENTS FOR THE WAR north end of the dock.
li-ed this, the first entry of the vessel into te dock, and the cheering con tinued as the "Rover" steamed round the sack and moored to a pontoon near the specially erected dais at the
On disembarking the Royal party were received by the Chairman of the Port of London Authority, Viscount Devonport, and his Majesty, who was 10 naval unilorm, inspected the guard of honour of Royal Naval seamen. Members of the Fort of Londoa Au thorny te presented to the King by the Chairman, and immediately Im-afterwards the Duke of Connaught, as Master of Trinity House, presentre the Deputy-Master of Trinity House. Captain Sir Actun Blake, and the two Elder Brethren, Captain Thoma- Golding, C.B.E, and Captain Owur Jones, CBE, who were on escer duty with the Trinity House ichi
'Patricia."
LINDSAY, ONTARIO. The death is announced of Sir Sam Hughes.
Lieut-General the Hon. Sir Sam Hughes, K.C.B., MP., was Minister of Militia and Defence, Canada, from 1911 to 1916. Sir Sam Hughes who saw service in the Souta African War, raised Canadian contingents for the European War in which he also served. He was noted for having made several personal offers of Colonial mditary assistance to the Empire in perial wars.1
JAVA OIL
ABOLITION OF EXPORT TAXES SOUGHT.
THE HAGUE, August 24. The directors of the Batavia Oil Co., in a letter to the Minister of Colonies, urgently request him to do his utmost to abolish export taxes on oil products and prevent the imposition of other taxes on u from the Du ch East Indies. They request that any further taxes should be imposed on the profits of industry and that all industries should be placed on the same
footing for that purpose.
U
KOPIFUL PORTENT.
STEEL AND IRON WORKS RESUME.
LONDON. August 24.
The applicants were the widow and coasting steamers. For passengers three young children of William landing or embarking, the tax is fixed Williams, of Gwespyr, North Wales, at 10 francs for ordinary passengers who was chief engineer of the steam and at 1 franc for emigrants.coming ship Vanadis," of Liverpool (Messrs. from or going to, long distance ports, S. William Cce and Ca.. Tower build and at 2 francs for ordinary passengers, ing). On the 10th of July last year, and at 1 frane for emigrants coming while the ship was in dock at Swansea, from or going to, ports in the British Willians disappeared while on duty Isles and the Channel Islands. No and five days later his body was found tax will be levied for passengera com- in the dock. He was in receipt of ing from or going to French or Algerian weekly wages of £6 5s. The owners ports. raised the defence that Williams was not a workman to whom the Act applies, as he was in receipt of more H. Majesty was requested by the than $250 a year, not earned by manu. Chairman of the Port of Lundunai labout.
WATERTIGHT DOORS.
A NEW LOCKING ARRANGEMENT.
THURSDAY. AUGUST"25
1991.
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surface, and are arranged so that they approach each other when the door is being opened. The internal cones engage with a double-ended cOL placed conically with the door shaft, the latter one being fixed in a position
contact with the cone the friction
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
[To the Editor of the China Mail."'i
MR.
MASSEY.
LONDON. August 24th. The French Ambassador conferred the Grand Officership of the Legion of
PANAMA-COSTA RICA DISPUTE.
Authority formally to name the new Mr. Newnan, for the applicants, In some circumstances the arrange- so that the rats will jamb on the cone dock extension, and after usaver had stated that although he was described ments for holding watertight doors in at the instant the door is open. The beer offered us the Archbishop un Canterbury ni Mjesty gave the as chief eugiceer, the vessel was aan open condition are not entirely doubled-ended core is fixed to. a name "King George V. Dock," and small tramp of 150 tons, carrying two satisfactory. With the working of bracket through which the shaft cheers and a fanlare of trumpesnecessary in the course of things that al heavy vibration, doors may creep between the nuts and the cone prevent Honour on Mr. Massey. declared the dock for ually open amio engineers and one fireman. It was the ship, and specially under occasion passes so that directly the nuts are in Williams should have to perform a away from the position in which they sounded by Rayal Trumpeters
The guns of the Royal Ar-en good deal of manual work on the ship, are Icit and gradually close or partially the shaft being rotated.
The angle of the cone is arranged so fired a salute, and the Nasonal and he submitted that this part of close the doorway. There are various Arthem was played by bands.. his duties brought him within the locking devices by which doors may that no jar or vibration will release
WASHINGTON, August 24th. Alter lea their Majesties re-em scope of the Act. Counsel called be kept open. The latest seems to the brake, but at the same time so barked on the "Rover" and steamed evidence to show that the deceased be one in which use is made of a fric that a turn of the shaft to close the
On Angust nd, the Foreign Minister informed the State De- through the new passage into the
to work a very simple indicator which partment that Panema will not resist opened Royal Albert and Victoria Dock to had to execute all the running re-tion brake definitely arranged to come door will immediately release the
Buckingham wholly for the lubrication of the inspect the shipping. They returned pairs while at sea, and was responsible into operation when the door is fully brake. Or the two ruts is arranged of P
engines.
The brake is on the shaft leading can show in any convenient position Costa Rica's occupation of the disputed Mr. Gething, for the owners, argued direct to the gearing for working the whether the door is open or closed. territory. In reply to an address presented that even if Williams did some manual watertight door. It may be placed This indicator has the great merit by the Port of London Authority. work it was perfectly clear that the in any position on the shaft, whether that it is so simple that it cannot his Majesty agreed with pleasure substantial portion of his work was at the door itself or at a position on a get out of order. The whole fitting that the new dock be known as of a supervisory nature, concerned deck above the compartment in which is mechanically sound and cannot get the King George V. Duck. He con with the oversight of the engines, the door is situated. The brake out of order. tioued:-
"The ceremony of today will, and as his wages were more than consists of two nuts working on right Messa. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Barou Ishil has decided bimself to present a report on Upper Silesia to hope, prove an important landmark 1250 a year the claim could not stund. and left-handed threads on the shaft Richardson, of Wallsend-on-Tyne, are
Judge Thomas reserved his decision. The nuts have an internal conical the patentees of this device. in the history of the Port of London.
The Ebbavale steel and iron works which were closed for six months, throwing out of work 8,000 men, are starting again immediately. Every
thing points to a period of prosperity.
UPPER SILESIA
BARON ISHII HIMSELF TO PRESENT REPORT.
the Council of the League of Nations.
PARIS, August 24,
10
by
motor car
Palace.
KING'S REPLY.
BRINGING
UP
FATHER.
SILISIAN PROBLEM.
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The Danish representatives, at the be M. Zahle, Minister in Stockholm, Dr. forthcoming assembly of the League, will
Folketing. Melbesen and M. Munch, member of the
WHATS
THE TROUBLE
JERRY
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WHAT IS THE NAME
OF YOUR DOCTOR?
MY NERVES ARE BOTHERIN ME:
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