SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1925.
PRINCE IN TROPICS.
LANDING
FROM SURF BOAT.
INLAND JOURNEY.
Native Children's Song Tribütes:
Having already visited, Sierra Iseone and the Gold Const the Prince of Wales has now reached Nigeria where he is being accorded A very enthusiastic welcome.
UNIQUE EVENT.
(Reuter's Service.),
FATAL RIOTS,
Balfour's Palestine
Visit.
CROWD FIGHTS, POLICE,
►
| THREE PEOPLE KILLED AND
MANY INJURED,
(Reuter's Servies.)
Damascus, April 11. tionally formed by tribes forced to At the conclusion of prayers in emigrate southward by the spread connection with the Ramadan of Mohammedan Empire. The Festival, & crowd 6,000 strong first historical record occurred marched in the direction of Earl Seccondee, April: 9. early in the 18th century, when Balfour's hotel. In the hottest "sunshine, the Osai Sutu conquered the neigh-i Syrian gendarmes and police Prince of Wales landed at Taka-bouring tribes, and made Kumasst who attempted to stop the radi. He unveiled a memorial the centre of his dominions. demonstrators were attacked with Commemorating the fact that he A later ruler, Osai Sutuutones. was the first person to enter the 'Quaminë, became involved in a harbour which will be completed, war with. Britain us result of his two years hence.
depredations in Eantiland (1907- There was unparalleled enthu-11). War again occurred in siasm and the town was en fute,
A 14-Hour Trip.
Seccondee, April 10, The Prince of Wales landed from the Repulse' by surf boat, after which he proceeded by train to Coomassie..
Before his departure from Seccondee, the Prince received and shook hands with 250 ex-Service
men.
1873-74, when Wolseley defeated the Ashantis at Amanful and took Kumassi; and in 1895-6, when, King Primpeh was deposed and exiled. The province was annexed by Britain in 1901. It is governed hy the Governor of Gold Coast or his representative,
A fight ensued in which Spahis participated.
Two people were killed and seven gendarmes were injured. One Spahi officer and three men were injured."
THE CHINA MAIL.
STITCH IN TIME.”"
HERRIOT'S FINANCIAL POLICY.
CURIOUS LOAN ANOMALY."
The Peace More Costly Than the War.
That the pease has cost France more in loans than the war and the Poincare Government clandestinely borrowed large sums from the banks were statements made by the French Premier in the Chamber of Deputies.
LEFT BLOC'S FATE.
(Reuter's Service.)
Paris, April 9. It has now been decided that the Chamber of Deputies shall debate and vote on the Government's financial proposals to-day.
Thus the Government will know whether the Left Bloc is holding together.
A New Turn.
1924 clandestinely borrowed twó and a half milliards from the banks.
He had not revealed the truth earlier because he was convinced France must be given a balanced budget before an appeal for exceptional sacrifices was possible in order to help the treasury out of a hole, for only then could the country feel the money would be devoted to the redemption of debt and not to current expenditure.. Paris, April 9, Inaccurate Balance Sheet. There has been a new turn to M.. Bokanowski, for the Opposi the financial situation as a result tjon, while admitting the pre- cf.a meeting this morning of all cedent of occult borrowing, charg Damascus, April 10 groups of the Left Bloe to which ed the Government with being the Yesterday opened ominously. Loucheur, who disapproves M. first to bear responsibility for the rasat. Shops and offices were Demonzie's Bill, submitted a publication of an inaccurate hal- closed and crowds thronged the scheme for remedying the finan-ance sheet by the Banque of streets, but shortly after mid-day cial stringency by doubling the France
Disturbances also occurred in the Jewish quarter.
LULL BEFORE STORM.
The chief exports are cocon, rold, and Kola Rubber is produced The natives, manufacture cotton the roar of the crowd was audible income tax, increasing the luxury The Chamber of Deputies.. Long lines of native children goods, gold and silver ware, and from Earl Balfour's hotel a quar-taxes and applying the proceeds to subsequently voted its confidence sang the National Anthem and earthenware. They are pureter of a mile from the square. the creation of a debt redemption in the Government. "God Bless the Prince of Wales as negroes. The principal religion is In spite of the efforts of mount- fund. Simultaneously the debt
Narrow Margin. the train steamed, put on the felishism. Polygamy is stilled police, a mob of 5,000 using would be reduced by successive
Paris, April 9. sticks and stones broke through conversions.
The Chamber of Deputies car- the cordon and rushed to the The plan was favourably receiv-fried a "vote of confidence in the hotel, driving buck the small force ed and will be submitted to the Government's, financial policy by of mounted police and gender-Finance Committee of the Cham-201 to 242 votes. merie.
ber. Thus the Left Block which
Journey to Coomassie, which takes practised, fourteen hours.
Great Welcomé. ··
Sumassi. April. 10.
The Prince of Wales has arrived bere.
"J
...
He received a great, reception. Dense crowds lined the streets
nad the town was beflagged.
The Prince reviewed the ex-Ser- vre nien and attended a service j the English Church.
Kumassi is the capital of Ashanti, the inland district of the Gold Coast Colony, West Africa. 'The surface of Ashanti is covered
with wood. Land, which is cultivated in the neighbourhood of tire towns, produces large crops of Praias, tobacco, stigar,"cocos, and pineapples. Gums, dye-woods, and timber are also Important. The climate is hot and damp
C
The early history of Ashanti is cbscure. The nation was tyndi-
SOVIET ARRESTS.
CHARGES AGAINST EX- TSARIST OFFICALS.
(Reuter's Service.)
Moscow, April 10. The Rosta Agency states that the trans Caucasian Governmeni has arrested a number of officials ir Nakhichevan, the autonomous -republic, including the people's commissaries of internal affairs, agriculture, and finance. -
Charges of abuses, of authority and of incompetence are being 'brought against the arrested men who are mostly rich ex-Tsarist ..officials.
The commissary for internal affairs, Babaev, is accused of appropriating 15.000 roubles be longing to the State. Some of the others are said to have supported the Turkish anti-Sovlet Party of Mussavatists.
•GOING HOME. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
TRAIN SMASH
TERRIBLE SPANISH
¡DISASTER
TWENTY-SIX KILLËD.
FEARFUL TUNNEL MOUTH
SCENES.
(Reuter's Service.).
BARCELONA, April 10. Seventeen people have been killed and 50 injured through the derailment of an excursion train in the Sarria district.
. HEAVY DEATH ROLL.
BARCELONA, April 10
Up to the present 26 people have been reported dead and 105 injured through the derail ment of an execursion train...
BURNED TO DEATH. The identification of many of the victims was almost impossible as a number had been crushed between the train and the walls of the tunnel -
Others were burned when the wreckage caught fire.
FAMILIES WIPED OUT."?
BARCELONA, April 10.
The train, which was travelling at a high speed, was derailed at a sharp curve at the entrance to 2 tunnel.
"
OFFICER'S DARING. **
M. Demonzie's Bill threatened to
Earlier Cables.
Puris, April 9. Despite its very narrow escape from defeat last evening; it seems "Various."
Felear that the Government is re- The extent of the excess of the solved, to carry on in face of the bunk note issue over the legal opposition shown in the Senate. limit was disclosed in the weekly Furthermore, it stated that M. alance sheet of the Banque of Herriot will not leave office unless France showing the notes circulantefeated either on the Vatican ton to be 43,004,762.000 which is polier or the financial programme, 2,004,762,000 above the limit. though he may drop the capital
This inflation was previously levy proposal.
A French gendarmerie officer slit, may reunite behind M. lying practically full length onfaucheur's scheme. horse-back singly charged the crowd and broke up their forma tion, enabling his men to rally to rush back the crowd to a safe distance from the hotel.
The gendarmerie repeatedly fired into the air and finally the African cavalry was brought up. FLASH OF SWORDS.
The crowds fled into side streets concealed in two items "various" It is now decided that the before the soldiers swords, on both sides of the balance sheet Chamber debate and the vote on Eight armoured! brought up in the afternoon and decrease respectively of over twoposals will be held "to-day, thus car's were which to-day show an increase and the Government's financial pro-
fresh colonial troops were march- (milliards, Advances by the the Government will know whe- ed into the town in the evening. Lanque of France to the Treasury ther the left bloc is holding They took up positions in the are given as twenty-two milliards, square to prevent the mobs re-which is exactly the legal limit assembling."
about fifty, of whom fifteen were The civilian casualties were
sent to hospital, three in a very dangerous condition.
Earf Balfour left Damascus
His destination is, by motor car. not known."
NEATLY DONE.
together.
A finance committee may not A Curious Fact.
be ready to report on the Demon- Paris, April 9.
zies bill or any substitute there- "A stitch in time saves nine." for until Friday the momentous, declared M. Herriot, defending his debate will not be held in the policy in a two hours' speech in Chamber until Friday night or the Chamber of Deputies.
possibly Saturday. Besides the They were faced with the Socialist plan of Capital levy other curious fact that the aftermath counter-projects, are being con- of the war had cost 165 milliards sidered by the Finance Committee, Later. Earl Balfour, interviewed by milliards.
in loans, whereas the war cost 145 including the opposition scheme Official for a huge lottery loan, Reuter, was very disturbed, but
Dealing with the relations be admission that the Banque de expressed great satisfaction that tween the Treasury and the France, at the Government's re- none of the rioters was shot.
Banque of France. M. Herrio! said quest manipulated its balance General Sarruil visited Earl he only followed his predecessorsheets in order to conceal the Balfour at his hotel in the after: who had constantly resorted to illegal note issue has intensified noon and evidently recommended Earl Balfour to leave Damascus, occult borrowing from the banks. the mistrust of the Government's financial policies, both outside and Foincare Government in April of the Senate.
M. Herriot mentioned that the inside Parliament, particularly in
for an hour later, while General
The carriages were crushed against the sides of the tunnel
The bodies of the terribly muti-Sarrail halted his motor car on lated victims include a number of the bridge opposite the hotel, children. Several families were centring the eyes of all, and while wiped out.
a further diversion was created by aeroplanes dying overhead and dropping smoke bomba, Earl Balfour left his hotel in a motor car unnoticed..
TRADE UNION POINTS.
RESULT OF LONDON CONFERENCE.
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, April 10,
His destination is not known. Leaving Palestine.
Secret Loans.
NEARING SAFETY.
CLAN MONROE GOES TO HAVRE.
(Reuter's Service.)
The strained political situation is reflected in the comments of the newspapers, the opposition organs "are not satisfied with the sugges- tion that the Government may drop the capital levy proposal and vigorously demand that a solution must be found to the financial deadlock. According to the "Echo De Paris" M. Briand is surround- jed by a crowd of flatterers urging him to make a bid for office. M. Herriot's decision to fight is due. to the insistence of the Socialist Earlier Cables.
Headers and it is expected that M. London, April 9. Herriot will demand an all night The steamer Clan Monroc re- sitting on Friday in order to ports that she has collided with, obtain a decisive vote. the Dutch steamer Jonge
Antwerp, April 9. The Clar Monroe is making little water. She is going to Havre.
Catharina and that the latter has
sunk in the Wielingen fairway. The Clan Monroe picked up twenty [of the crew, who have been landed
NOT YET.
Baalbek, April 10. Earl Balfour will embark on the steamer Sphinx at Beirut. Earlier Cables. » The official report has now been and this morning were quiet but Damascus. April 9 -Last night issued of the conference in London from "April 6 to 8 between the bazaars are closed in anti- the delegates of the all Russian sipation of a big demonstration. Central Council of Trade Unions, Earl Balfour remained in his hotel Singapore, April 9, headed by M. Tomsky, President this morning. He is to be a guest Admiral Everett is leaving for of the Council, and the repre- at dinner of the French General Home on the Antener on April 13. sentatives of the British Trade Sarrail this evening and proceeds
[Announcement was recently Union Congress General Council, to Baalbek to-morrow. made that owing to reasons of ill- of the Congress, to deal with headed by Mr. Swales, President health, Vice-Admiral Sir Allen F. difficulties in the way of affiliation Everett, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. C.B. of the Russian who succeeded Vice-Admiral Sir movement to the International Trade Union Arthur Leveson, K.C.B.. to the Federation of Trade Unions. command of the China Squadron. The conference reached agree... | is giving up that command and ment in favour of joint efforts to leaving for Home on account of induce
(Reuter's Service.) the Amsterdam, inter- ill-health;]
national to agree
London, April 9. Amsterdam, April 9.
In the House of Commons, Sir unconditional and Immediate A strike for increased wages with and sank the Jonge Catharina Walter de Frece asked whether in conference with the repra has broken out in the Government in the Wielingen fairway. Six of view of the feeling in China that. sentatives of the Russian trade relief works in the Moorland dis- the crew are dead and three industrial enterprises should be unico movements by the free fricts of Friesland and Drenthe.
missing. exchange of information, and the
It is reported that in many
HIS LAST WORD. (Reuter's "American Service.)
1 Washingtor, April 10. President Coolidge, replying to a memorial by Peru. against various parts of his Tacnaarica award, especially with regard to the arrangements for heling the plebiscite, snya that he regards the award as "final without appeal."
COSTLY BLAZE.
(Reuter's American Service.)
New Jersey, April 10. Fire destroyed the nail factory of Igoe Bros.,, and several other factories.
The loss is estimated at be- tween $4,000,000 and $6,000,000,
to
1
free
VICIOUS STRIKERS.
DAMAGE TO HOLLAND
D'AMS.
NO MODIFICATION.
(Reuter's Service.)
at Flushing by tug. The Clan CHINA CONSORTIUM POLICY. Monroe is anchored in Wielingen Channel with bows slightly damaged. She is, however, mak- ing no water.
Later, The steamer, Clan Monroe was from Fremantle when she collided
establishing of a joint advisory places the strikers set fire to piles i council consisting of the chairmen of peat, cut telegraph wires and and secretaries and three members of each movement.
Fierced the dams.
NEW ARMS PACT.
SUGGESTED SUBMARINE
ABOLITION.
(Reuter's American Service.)
Philadelphia, April 10.
Visecunt Lee of Fareham, for- mer First Lord of the Admiralty,
The authorities have offered a reward for the discovery of the offenders.
HOITY. TOITY.
MEXICO'S SCORN FOR BRITAIN.
(Reuter's American Service.)
Mexico City, April 9. Mr. Aaron Saenz, Foreign foreign
addressing the English speaking filimister, discussing Union, advocated a new arms con-affairs, declared Mexico had ference to consider the abolition not attempted and did not desire of submarines,
HOME BUDGET.
THE NEXT TASK FOR PARLIAMENT.
(Reuter's Service,)
London, April 9.1 Parliament has adjourned until April 28 when the Budget will be introduced.
ISLAND'S FUTURE.
excluded from the scope of the Consortium's activities the Government would try to secure modification of the existing policy. Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared he was aware that the feeling existed but he could not consider nedification without stronger arguments than had yet been produced.
Capetown, April 9-Ministerial cheers greeted Mr. Havengas' assertion to the Assembly that in the new tariff policy the govern- ment was never animated by anti-Britich feeling the pre
onderating factor Veilig South Africa's Interests first. The The Hague, April 9.Minister referred to General
(Reuter's Service)
to peek a resumption of diplomatie The Government has appointed Snute observation in 1928 to the He said that land disarmament relations with Britain, as the Professor Van Vollenhoven its effect that the position was one was not feasible, air disarmament Government considered Britain's representative in the arbitration sea, and said that fact had been was impractical, and naval dis-refusal to recognise it an affront, proceedings to decide whether generally felt. The Government armament was properly settled. He added that relations with the Mangas Island will belong to were now treating the question on by the Washington Conference. United States were very cordial, Holland or to the United States. asound economic basis. Reuter
SPECIAL PURCHASE OF
CHRISTY'S TOWELS.
TO BE CLEARED AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES
No. 1 size
2
*
45" 24" 45 24
$1.80 each
2.25
3
45
2.25
13
52×33
3.00
626 "
54' 28"
3.25
В
56'* 42°
4.50
57** 42*
5,00
*80**48*
9.00
744
Bath Sheets
SEE WINDOWS
NO BETTER TOWELS MADE
SOFT AND ABSORBENT::
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
SPECIALITIES.
HARVEY'S BRISTOL MILK
OLD GOLDEN SHERRY
HARVEY'S BRISTOL CREAM
Solo Agents
FULL PALE SEERRY
CALDBOOK, MACGREGOR & CO, LTD. 15, Queen's Road Central.
COLLARD
PIANOS
Tal, Tá CentraL
BEST FOR THIS CLIMATE
'NEW MODELS® AT
ANDERSON'S
LET US MOVE YOU
.
Our fleet of trucks will do it......
EFFICIENTLY AND CHEAPLY.
LOW RATES
FIRST CLASS SERVICE
THE HONGKONG motor tranSPORTATION CO., LTD.
28. Des Voeux Road, CentraL
Phone Central 1813
F. 0. Bax 645,
Cross Words Made Easy
Juborgs
By Drinking
Tuborg Beer
Purveyors TÓ
The Royal Danish Court.
The One and Only Danish Beer on the Market.
8 doz. pts.-818 duty paid. £
4 doz. qts.-$20
Tubura
**TERIAL DOUBIUS-
GANDE, PRICE & CO. LTD.
WINE MERCHANTS AN ESS
Tel. G. 135
Hong