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TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1925.
FACING FACTS:
PLD METHODS THAT MUST BE SCRAPPED.
PREMIER'S APPEAL.
Attacking the Social,
1 Evils of the Day. The Premier is arging employers to take their employees mors and more into consultation regarding routine and management.
THE NATION'S, FOOD,
(Reuter's Service.)"
London, Juhe 1. Before an audience of 50,000 people, a speech was made by Mr. Stanley Baldwin at a victory rally at Welbeck Abbey in which the Premier appealed for an all-round increase of ten per cent. in indus-
ARMED RAIDS.
Chicago Bandit Sensation.
BOOTY WORTH $30,000.
HOW A BANK WAS ROBBED.
Mr. Baldwin pointed out with (Router'a American Service.) pleasure that his appeals for an industrial truce had resulted in
Chicago, June 1. the men of both sides sitting down
Five armed "desperados antared a together and facing realities as bank in the Chicago, suburb of Cicero, barded the thirteen em- never before.
He concluded by inviting the ployees into a back room, scoped employers to scrap their old up $10,000 and escaped in a motor methods and seek, a novel and car. more intimate relationship with the workers and, seek brains and
BRITAIN'S MAN OF VISION.
EX BANOVIN
The Premier has made a stirring appeal to Capital and Labour
to work, ogether for their common good.
regarding:
trial efficiency, and announced his new ideas wherever they exist and intention to appoint a permanent take the employees more and more
consultation food council to carry qu the re-into commendations of the recent com-routine and management. mission
He expressed indifference to the Conservative critics who com- plained that he had not sufficiently denounced his opponents and de- clared he did not intend to waste time in denouncing movements like socialism but was going to attack the evils which produce them.
FATAL OPIUM CLASH
(Reuter's Service.).
SHANGHAI, June 1. Press reports state that General
the Fini Mukden Army, was killed and Cheng Que-jui, Commandant of the twenty-eighth Brigade and Yuen Shi-fu, Chief of the Martial Court, were seriously injured yesterday afternoon, fellowlig a disagreement during a conference in an upper' story of the Mukden Headquarters in Chapel suburb, Shanghai.
Li Kweker, Chief of Suff of
AIRSHIP FUGHT.
(Reuter's Service.)
ROME, May 31.
by the King.
Admiral Demagaz vice-president
tion to the officers. of the Directory also gave a recep
The airships. left fer Toulon in the afternoon where they landed at 7 pm and will return to Italy on Tuesday.
Later in the day a party of men, possibly the same gang, entered & large jeweller's store in the business part of the town and by similar tactics sécured loot valued $20,000.
A LOSS TO ART.
DEATH OF LUČIEN-
GUITRY,
(Reuter's Service.) „
The death is Lucien Guitry, ·
THE CHINA MAIL.
RED". MAGIC.
COMMUNIST CONFERENCE SENSATION,
FOREIGN DELEGATES.
How the Home Office Was
In
Defied."
Ispite of the Home Office edict that foreign delegates, should not be allowed to attend the Glasgow Red conference there wore present a German, and a French Communist,
SPIRITED AWAY.
(Router's Service.).
London, June 1. There was an enthusiastic and dramatic scene at the Communist conference at Glasgow when it was announced that in spite of the Home Office ban on foreign Reds, Dr. Stocker, the fraternal German delegate, was present.
The doors were locked.
#i
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PARIS, June 1..
announced of
Lucien Gultry is father of Sacha Gultry. The Gultrys-Father, som and wife of Sacha-recently gave successful recitals of plays in London from the pens of Lucien and Sacha. They was of immense interest-played entirely in French -and stamped the Guittys as supreme in a line of Dramatic art which they had made their own.
THOMAS R. MARSHALL,
"FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT
DEAD
Dr. Stocker went on the plat- form araldst tremendous enthu siasm and the singing of the "Internationale."
He declared it was childish and absurd of Sir William Joynson Hicks (the Home Secretary) to think he could stop the British revolution by endeavouring to prevent the Communiste of differ- ent countries from meeting.
TSINGTAO TROUBLE.
(Reuter's Servico.)
TOKYO, June 1. This afternoon, the Tokyo Lab. our Union representatives visited the Foreign Office and presented a copy of a resolution which had been passed at a mass meeting in support of the Tsingtao strikers and demanding the "suspension of armed Intervention, refrainment from threatening the Chinese Government, and the punishment of the blindly selfish Japanese capitalists."
The Chairman, Mr. Pollitt then' introduced the second.. foreign delegate, the French Communist Mdlle, Laval, who like Dr. Stocker, was spirited away after delivering an address.
THE MAN THEY DEFIED.
Sir William Jayneon Hicks, the Home Secretary, whose ban was described by the Reds as..childish and absurd.
Half an hour elapsed,before the Pressmen were allowed to leave the Hali..
The Communist leader Mr. MeManus apologised for detaining the Pressmen but declared the. Government was responsible.
1.
In the House of Commons last. week in reply to questions, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, intimated that permis- sion had been refusert to various The Government, replying, emphasised that the warship was foreign Communists to attend the not sent for the purpose of strike Communist conference at Glasgow suppression, but for protecting the on May 30. Any of them landing Japanese residents from probable without permission would be The death is announced of Mr.riots owing to the Chinese inabildeported. Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice ity to do so. President of the United States from 1913 to 1921...
(Reuter's American. Service.)
NEW YORK, May, 25,
[Mr. Marshall, who was widely known as an after dinner speaker, had been America's twenty-eighth Vice President, serving with the late Woodrow Wilson.]
BACK TO GOLD
(Reuter's American Service.)
OBITUARY.
MR. JAMES JONES. (Courtesy of the
the Dally: Bulletin.) SHAGEAL May 31. The death is announced of Mr. James Jones, senior partner in the firm of Jones and Clarke
Mr. George Lansbury and Mr. J. B. Clynes asked the definition of subversive propaganda and whether the Government had decided that Communist pro- paganda was illegal.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks re- plied that certain things were permitted to British nationals but the Government could not permit foreigners to come here and do them (Ministerial cheers.)
Mr. Lansbury asked if this was the result of communications with other governments with a view of preventing Britons participating international conferences
WASHINGTON, June 1.......
Peking, June 1-It is now The Federal Reserve Board thought that Chang Tso-lin's visitin has published the details of a plan to Peking will be deferred until abroad..
Sir William Joynson-Hicks rem whereby American Enancial in- after the holding of an important
of the Fengilen plied that there had been no terests support Britain's in the conference
at Tientsin. General international arrangement and maintenance of the gold standard leaders
Teheran, June 1.-The Mejliss has passed a law granting a sole Government monopoly for the ex-
ware-housing of tea sugar.
port, pure and sugar. The overnment will levy a duty of two "kraus" on sugar and six trans" on tea respectively.-Reuter.
The halian airship Esperia wire lessed that she left the Ciampino aerodrome near here at 8.45 yester day evening and joined the airship in Britain, While there were Chang Tsung-chang left Tsinan that this action. had been taken Tientsin yesterday, and without reference to any other from the Pontedera aerodrome actually two distinct transactions, for
Governments. near Corsica at midnight. They one being the establishment of a Marshal Lu Yung-hsiang, Mili arrived at Barcelona at eight in the direct credit of $100,000,000 to the tary Governor of Kiangsu, and morning and made a good lazding. British Government by Messrs. Cheng Chien, Civil Governor of and General Chiang They were received by the civil Morgan and Company, the state Kianga, authorities and naval and military ment deals
with the arrange Tong-hsuan, Commander of Bandit officers. The crew were received ment between the Bank of Eng-Suppression on the Shantung-A
land and the New York Federal hui-Kiangsu border, are expected Reserve Bank prior to the
reto arrive in a few days, Admiral establishment of the gold standard Wen Shou-teh, who is acting as and the abolition of the ban on Governor of Tsingtao, is reports gold exports from Britain.
to be negotiating for the transfer Other Federal Reserve Banks to Fengtien of the Chihli Gulf are also participating in the crea Squadron. ⚫tion of a credit of $200,000,000 for the Bank of England upon which it can draw if conditions require,
The Reserve Bank undertakes Strasburg, June 1-M. Doumer gue has arrived to attend the to sell gold on credit to the Bank It appears that General Chang annual gathering of the Federation of England during the next two Tsung-chang, Tupan of Shantung, of French Sports Associations. years, but the sum if not exceeding sent Cheng Quo-jui to Shanghai to He was received enthusiastically, $200,000,000 shall be outstanding The credit, as far investigate the local traffic in Speaking at a banquet he said that at any time. opium. A disagreement arose the maintenance of peace called as used, shall bear interest at one Sustained vigilance between Yuen Shi-fu and Li Kwei- for
und per cent, above the Reserve Bank's quilo certain that discount rate with a minimum yuen, whereupon the latter's body. France was guard fired, wounding Yuen, whose those who began thewar no longer of four and a maximum of six par Bodyguard returned the fire harboured thoughts of revenge. cent., or, if the Federal Reserve wounding Cheng. Li Kwei-yuen until there was no longer any fear discount rate exceeds six, then at jumped out of a window and broke that treatles were being regarded the rediscount rate of the bank. Un Interest payable by the British his neck...
as mere scraps of paper. France obtained guarantees of Government on credit established in D similar safety she could not justly he is determinable reproached for showing great pru. manner. dence-Havas:
According to anti-oplum circles, a large quantity of opium reached Mukden headquarters on Friday evening,
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Bimla, June 1-The Persian BNĂ Baluchistan border has been in a disturbed condition for some time.. The latest reporta show that the Persian garrison at Khwaab is besieged by Persian and Baluchistan tribes and has already suffered heavy casualties.-Renter.
Now, York, June 1-In valedictory leader in the Washing. ton Post Mr.. Harvey suggests the
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