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COOLIDGE ASKS CONGRESS FOR TIME.
HUSTLING THE PRESIDENT.
(Reuters. American Service)
SERIOUS-OUTLOOK,
BERLIN, May 7.
Work in practically all the mines in the Ruhr has come to a standstill owing to the refusal to work over eight hours a day in accordance with the tapecernment arbitration award. Eighty-five per cent. of the miners were accordingly locked out.
WASHINGTON May 7. President Confdge has formed the leadth of Congress that he regards July for the angle ment of the Immigration ofälld far too soon permit a diplomatic arrangement with Japan,
Steps are being taken to rally sympathisers with the President's view in opposing the accep- tance of the conference report.
The President has said he would favour March
1, 1926, as better date for the operation of the new bill. He hoped Congress would accord at least as few months' delay.
The exclusion of Japanese, under the new Immigration Bill becomes effective on July 1, as a result of agreement being reached at a Joint conference of members of the Senate and House of Representatives. It is regarded as certain that the conference's report will be adopted by both Houses. The quota basis of two per cent of the 1890 census is embodied in the new bill and continues until July 1 1927, when the so-called national origin inethod will be employed. The total addmittances, however, will be restricted to 150,000 a year therefrom.]
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT.
WASHINGTON, May 8.:
The Concessional Committee has accepted Mr. Coolidge's suggestion to report on the provision making the Immigration Bill effective from March I 1925 festead of July I next on the understanding that the formal abrogation of the "gentleman's agreement will in the meantime be negotiated...
The Committee has rejected a proposal to post pone the operation of the bill, until March 1 1926,
MORE TREMORS.
ANOTHER VIOLENT EARTH- QUAKE.
Fuenza, May 8. Seismographs for two hours registered a violent earthquake
shock.
The area affected is believed to be North Bastern Asia-Router's American Service.
3,000 WORKERS OUT.
COTTON STRIKE AT SUJANGILAL
SHANGHAI, May 7. Three thousand workers, mostly women, at the Japanese Nikko Cotton Mill, Pootung, are on stilte demanding better working ditions. Courtesy Daily Bulletin.
Similar trouble has broken out in the Saxon and Upper Silesian coal regions.
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Thousands of metal workers in other industries are likely to be affected as Rutir con! reserves are very small-Reuter.
HOME TURF."
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS RESULT
CLOSE FINISH,
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LONDON, May 7.
The Two Thousand Guineas resulted as follows:
Diaphon
Bright Knight Green Fire...
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Twenty ran. Diaphon won by a head. Bright Kaight came in a neck before 'Green Fire.
The betting was as follows:-Diaphon II-2 Bright Knight-100-9; and Green Fire 100-8 Rauter.
FLAMING SWORD."
NEW SECRET SOCIETY IN AMERICA.
was.
FLOATING PALACES.
THE HUGE COST OF SPRING TOILET.
In opposition to the Ku Klux Nowadays, says the Statesman, Klan, of which, until recently, he the spring cleaning of a trans- emperor, Mr. William Atlantic liner is very much like Joseph Simmons has now incor renovating a small city from top to porated at Atlanta, Georgia, the bottom. The great ships which Order of the Hidden Hosts of ply across the Atlantic are really Knights of the Flanting Sword. no longer ships but Boating hotels He announces that the new order de luxe-only, they are bigger will be The largest detective than à big hotel. Every year these agency in the world" whose glants of the high seas retire from members will bind themselves by active service and lie up for the-most-solemn oath to supply to a thorough overhaul. The work. the police and President all know-is divided into two categories: ledge they gather "of unlawful the things essential to a seaworthy
those craft, and
concerned acts or an-American policies."
Unlike the Ku Klux Klan the with the superlative standard of Hidden Hosts will not Wear comfort demanded by wealthy con-masks, but their work will be passengers who expect to be as secret, and they will be ubiqui- luxuriously catered for afloat as on tous" in their devotion on pure American Protestant Gentile principles to merciless publicity London. May 7. of wrong-doing.", In the House of Commons, ques- Mr. Simmons declares that the tioned whether lay of the Wash- Secret Hosts intend, as one of ington signatories had responded their chief tasks to organise fre- to the Government's decision requent inspections and investi garding Singapore, Mr. Ramsay gations of all institutions, religious MacDonald replied in the negative and otherwise, and that they will, alone. and pointed out that no immediate publish regular bulletins in each. definite response could be expected because Singapore was outside the scope of the Washington agree ment. Reuter.
BRITAIN'S AFFAIR,
BOXER FUNDS.
AMERICA FREES CHINA.
Washington, May 7.
The House of Representatives has passed ir resolution by 211 votes to 114 relieving China of further payments of the Boxer indemnity-Reuter's
Service.
American
FRENCH MISSION.
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RAIN STOPS PLAY."
London, May 7. Derby did not play-to-day owing to the rain.-Reuter.
shore.
In the old days an overhaul meant paint, tar, canvasses and stout tackle of all kinds. To-day
liner requires enough paint to float a small windjammer before her vast surfaces are repainted-it takes twelve hundred gallons for her beautiful interior decorations
As for the essentials, from city, 'giving names and ad- the sailors' viewpoint, these now dresses of those concerned, and embrace a mass of machinery, electrical, apparatus, and gear, complete facts of everything which would have astounded an which is punishable under the law old-time saflor. First there are the and is un-American. in principle.”
ships engines; her spring clean involves a thorough overhaul of every working part of the turbines. Her furnaces, drawn and cold, are thoroughly scraped out; her boilers cleaned; her wireless tested and taken down; and her giant dynamos, which light the ship with some 15,000 bulbs, tested and new parts fitted where necessary.
MYSTERY PYRAMID.
RIVAL TO THOSE OF ANCIENT EGYPT.
They lie to while the gang of workmen some thousand or more swarm over the ship like an army of beneficent ants. The spring cleaning, is an expensive job, even to refit a liner in good shape costs anything from £80,000 to £130,000 the price of a good feet in the old days!
Egypt was not the only place where pyramids were erected, and
From start to finish the spring an account is given of the one at Cholula, in the land of the old cleaning take about two months. Aztecs the base lines of which are During that time her company, more than 2,000 feet on each side, which in addition to officers,
deck or twice as long as the great engineers,
hands and stewards, includes butchers, Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, OSAKA, May 7.
The age of the Pyramid of bakers, barbers, masseurs gymnas M. Merlin. Governor-General of Indo-China, and suite have arrived. Cholula in Mexico is unknown.tic instructors, expert typists, shop and proceed to Tokyo to-night-
Before the Aztecs came It was assistants (for these ships, carry Daily Bulletin
there, and fable said it was bullt shops) and a multitude of other by a race of giants descended from folk doing land jobs afloat, remain the two survivors of a great deluge on the pay roll. that overspread the land.
The pyramid has the appearance of a natural hill, as its sides are overgrown with trees and bushes, an-evidence of its great age. The interior is. composed of alternate layers of adobe or sun-dried brick, Moscow, May 7-Sensational clay, and lime-stone. The height proceedings are being taken in is 177 feet above the plain. Leningrad against a number of The four sides face the cardinal
To-day in Southampton, Belfast, judges, Magistrates and members points, and are laid in terraces that on the Clyde and the Tyne and the of the revolutionary tribunal. are now overgrown with shrubs Mersey, this annual spring clean. The charges are of blackmail and and flowers.
ing is going on. In a few weeks, corruption. The accused number Cortez declared that he had looking, as Kipling dubbed them, counted 400 towers in the city of real ladies of the seas, the mam- Cholula; yet no temple had more moth passenger liners will be Berlin, May 7-Herr Hergt, than two and some only one, making a brave showing under the the leader of the German National High above the rest rose the great blue Sprlag skies. Party in an interview stated it was temple on the second pyramid impnesthis, to expect, crvicessions with its maxandying fimmg.openday drape an from Germany to the extenting their radiance over the lands.
When the Empress of Canada desired, so long as the malo
arrived In Yokohama a few days political principles whereon the
ago, the master, Captain Robinson, existence of Germany "depended
received £2,152,10; to distribute were not made clear. We shall
Manila, May 7-A severe among officers and craw of the never impose stil! heavier earthquake about 625 miles off the liner Empress of Australia for economic burdens upon the Pacific Coast of the Philippines their good work in saving the, ship Garman people' until the points of was recorded here at 12 10 this In Yokohama, harbour, during the honour have been satisfactorily morning, and was followed by earthquake. The money for the solved Reuter,
four subsequent shocks, Reuter, crew was given by the underwriters'
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