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August 28, 1922, Temperature 79.
ESTABLISHED
HONGKONG,
Barometer 20.02
No. 18,666.
一拜禮 號八十月八年二十二百九十二英
BUSINESS NOTICES
Rainfall. 0,99 inch.
MONDAY: AUGUST, 78, 1922,
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Humidity 05.
August 28, 1921, Temperature 77.
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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
REPARATIONS.
NO DECISION TILL WEDNESDAY.
PARIS, August 27.
The reparations commission met in the morning but is making na decision till Wednesday. It informed the Reich that it can be heard then if it wishes.
"GERMANY COMPLETELY BANKRUPT."
PARIS, August 27,
The newspapers state that Sir John Bradbury and M. Mauclers informed the reparations commission that all German ministers except Herr Hermes and Her Bergmann confess that Germany is completely bankrupt. Herr Wirth said he was afraid the efforts of the mission to Berlin bad undoubtedly failed. The French con- sider the latest German proposal in regard to deliveries of wood and coal as unsatisfactory and of very small value. It is asserted that the French government will maintain its standpoint.
HAVRE STRIKE.
SERIOUS STREET FIGHTING.
LONDON, August 27.
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FRAN00-BBITISH DISPUTE.
QUESTION OF NATIONALITY.
LONDON, August 28.
The first time two first-rank powers bave appeared in opposition before the League of Nations concezna Tunis and Morocco, in regard to which Britain hus placed motion on the next agenda. The British com plain that the French have no right to impose French nationality on British sabjects born in Tunis and Morocco which are not French dominions but merely protectorates. Britain has frequently protested that British subjects of Maltese origin have been handcuffed and compelled to join the French army. Francé contends that she possessen sovereign rights to impose nationality on foreigners born in her protectorates. France refused to submit the dispute to arbitration upon which Britain bonded over the dispute to the Lengue. The council is meeting on August 30
NEW AEROPLANE RICORD.
210 MILES AN HOUR.
TURIN, August 27.
The famous Italian airman Brakapa in a Fiat R. 700 aeroplane Row a measured kilometre at a rate of over 210 miles an hour. This is claimed to be the
LOSS OF THE "FRANCE,"
"AN UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT."
A strike of six thousand dockers at Havre for higher pay accompanied by interference with the traffic and sympathetic twenty-four hour strikes by seamen and other workers led to serious street fighting. world's record. Strikers stoned the police, who fired killing thres and wounding 37. The strikers have fortified the strike. committee's headquarters with barbed wire and bar. ricades of telegraph poles and tree trunks. They tore up pavements and dug trenches. The police in the morning occupied without bloodshed a building which beld the extremists who were driven ont after six had been arrested. Troops occupied the railway station enabling the departure of traina. Reinforcements of troops and police are arriving.
ORDER RESTORED. WHAT OF WORK?
HAVEE, August 27. In addition to the six strike leaders, the police have rounded up and arrested numerous agitatore, including Meetings are prohibited. Order is now
Women. restored.
SOUTH AFRICAN NOTABLE'S DEATH.
DIES IN HIS CAR.
JOHANNESBURG, August 27,
BREST, Aug. 27.
Naval Circles are unanimous that the wreak of the battleship "France" was an Quavoidable accident, The loss is regarded as very serious as there were only seven battleships of the "France" type in the French navy but it is pointed out that the Washington treaty allows France to build a suocesser. It is stated that one of the missing eailors has been picked up.
THE IRISH TRIATY.
STILL CARRIES WEIGHT.
LONDON, August 27, The death of Messrs. Collins and Griffith, the retire. ment of another signatory to the treaty and the deser- tlon of a fourth in novice affects the status of the tresty, Mr. Winston Churchill, telegraphing to Mr. Cosgrave the foregoing added "On the contrary both tides will feel it all the more sacred a duty to carry out the ant of recon- The Hon. Lient-Gen. Sir L. J. Van Deventer,niliation." Mr. Cosgrave replied that the provisional K.C.B. died suddenly while motoring. He was second Government. would unswervingly adhere to its pro- in command to General Smuts.
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gramme for giving full effect to the treaty.
NEW YORK. B. M. Jewell, head of the shopmen's unious, said the men could not sign an agreement with only a portion of the railroads. Agreement was to be signed either by all or none. :
WASHINGTON.
The dep't of stato is officially advis. ed that the Argentine Government has accepted the renunciation by the Western Telegraph Co., to a British concern of its rights and monopoly in
that country.
NEW YORK
Cable advices say the Irish insurg ents evacuated and the Free Staters occupied the Commercial Cable Co's station at Watervills.
It is reported from the railroad labor headquarters, where it was said It is learned from the government the unione are preparing for a fight secret service that information has to a finish, that they dispatched a been received that a member of a telegram to the strikers throughout notorious German organization travel- the country calling upon them to ling as "consul" has arrived in Paris renew the struggle with redoubled to kill Poincare, who is being closely vigor.
guarded.
SPRINGFIELD,
Shanchow in the province of Honan to the legatione say a Greek surveyor and French engineer and his daughter were kidnapped and held for ransom. A dispatch from Harbin, Manchuria, says bandits seized a train on the Chinese Eastern Railway. One Jap- anese and one Russian were killed.
BERLIN.
Economic distress in many sections Germany threatens to become more sarious owing to the downward plunge in value of the mark. The government is worried,
New York. Railroad executives and shop'draft Inaders are leaving for home to realign their forces for a finish fight. The The company unions say they are prepared to hold will resume traffic within a few days. until they win. The executives "say PARIS "we will break the strike within a
week,"
CHICAGO. The railroad shopmen's strike has approached the end of the eighth week, with the committee of the Big Five mediatore and executives conferring in New York to the accompaniment NEW YORK of reports of outrages in several An agreement has been signed Mr. Sheppard,-hand of the railroad sections of the the country. Two covering fifty per cent, of the coal conductors, who has been assisting in bombe exploded in the vicinity of the winers. The Washington agreement attempts at a strike settlement, said Roundhouse Hotel, housing worker is also signed, covering the Oklahoma mediation by the brotherhoods had of Chicago, and at the Alton round reached a point where there is house twenty miles south of
Jacksonville, Ilinos. nothing more to be done." Cabinet, members announce that
LOS ANGELES. The following night there was rail the Administration will refrain for the Thirty-five Ku Klux Klansmen greasing and the cutting of air hose. present from making any move in the were acquitted of charges of felony Citizens are terrorized. The Illinois rail strike situation. It is indicated, growing from the trouble of last April. central train was stoned near New
abortive Oleans. An
sttempt however, that the president is firmi in The jury deliberated five hours."
made to dynamite his determination to stand by his
Banlab Da Lake atatements to congress. He is "re The French dreadnought "France" bridge near
Missouri, Arimal fornman's solved to use all power to maintain capaized and sank after striking transportation.
rook in Quiberon Bay. The number home at Jacksonville, Florida, was NEW Yoas of cascaltice is cuknown, She dynamited; and disorder is reported
from Garett in Indiana.
ÚBICAGO. The protestant churches in Chicago
fields.
WASHINGTON.
PARIS,
PEXING.
was
a
A statement by the rail excontiros carried a crew of 1108,..., after the railroad conference broke up, (they representing thirty thras per The American gunboat "Isabel”! cent of the country's roads) said and other foreign gunboats sailed for were urged to join the catholics, they were willing to take the strikers lobang on the Yangtze, river on Jews, modisunginna, apsine), the. Ku back with all their former rights hub apponnk et soldiers, fring, on foreign Klux-klap, Sodowing an anti Ka that thermions-valused,
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