SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1925.
ABOVE PARTY.
IMPERIAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT.
SIGN OF THE TIMES.
Labour Plumps For Cementing The Empire.
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The development of Imperial trade is passing from the realms of Party Politics and Labour is plumping for cementing the bonds of Empire.
BUDGET DEBATE.
(Reuter'a Service.)
London, June 12, By the rejection of a Labour amendment by 277 to 93 votes the House of Commons has automa- tically adopted the Imperial Preference clauses of the Budget. A feature of the debate was the number of prominent Labour
THE EMPIRE FIRST.
Mr. J. H: Thomas, Secretary of Colonies in the Labour Cabinet, voted for the Imperial Preference clauses in the Budget.
members, supporting Preference, notably Dr. J. Haden Guest. Mr. J. H. Thomas, and Mr. D. Kirk wood.
Usually regarded as a firebrand Mr. David Kirkwood, the Clydesdale worker M.P., believes in cemert. ing the bonds of the Empire.
The latter on behalf of the Clydeside workers plumped for cementing the Empire as the best means of accomplishing universal
peace.
OBITUARY.
MR. C. E. F. HERBST.
FUNERAL YESTERDAY.
An old and respected servant of
RUBBER NEEDS.
Threat to British "Monopoly.
AMERICA'S MEASURES.
HOLLAND NOT TO RESTRICT OUTPUT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
(Reuter & American Service.) The Chancellor of the Exche.
Akron, Ohio, June 12. quer, Mr. Winston Churchill, welcomed the Labour manifesta-was present at the early stages of The Netherlands Minister who tion as a sign that the develop the rubber conference and a num- ment of Imperial trade apart from ber of leaders of the industry the taxation of food was passing stated that the output of rubber from the realms of Party politics. in the Dutch possessions would
He added that apart from tobacco the whole benents of the not be restricted while there was Preference would not reach the proper co-operation on the part of
American consumers, consumer immediately, notably with sugar, regarding which,
reclaimed
however, Preference would stimulate Imperial production.
WELSH NOTES,
CRITICISM OF "THE.
LAND OF SONG."
BY AP RHYS.]
rubber forms an important part
Increased USO of
of the relief plan.
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Earlier Cable.
Akron, Ohio, June 12. The Rubber Association of America has taken definite stepe to break the British monopoly on crude rubber as a result of dia- satisfaction at the restriction on export and the consequent rise in price of rubber. Temporary re- lief will be sought through the standardisation of products, parti- cularly in the case of tyres, foot- wear and mechanical goods, also "Music is being taken much by postponing for five months the more seriously in Wales to-day placing of orders for next spring. than was the case a few years ago. More permanent measures of re- The Welsh University haslief will take the form of invest- awakened to the fact that the ment of American capital design- Principality was rapidly losing ed to foster the increased produc ground and has realised that the tion of rubber in Java and other legend entwined round the motto Dutch possessions. A committee; "The Land Of Song" was but the has been appointed to confer with shadow of an empty tradition." the Dutch Government.
Thus writes William Beeson in an article referring to the work of Sir Walford Davies, Director of Music for Wales, and the progress that has been made under his direction in the musical education of the masses.
STRIKE FOLLY.
PROPERTY SERIOUSLY
.
DAMAGED.
POLICE RESTORE ORDER.
(Reuter's American Service.)
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, June 12,
Further acts of violence on the part of the Cape Breton strikers, were reported early this morning, the men looting four companies stores and damaging the fixtures. The strikers forced an
mine
FLYING FLIVVERS.
HENRY FORD'S LATEST VENTURE.
£400 METAL PLANES?
"Like Huge Silver Birds In The Air."
Mr. Henry Ford to-day manufactures 6,000 motor-cars daily, and he is confident that what he has done for road transportation will be exceeded some day by his son Edsel in aerial transportation. The American post office, with £500. The metal plane, with which
the way for commercial aviation, with the approval of the Forde, its air-mail lines extending from the tests are now being made fa the Atlantic to the Pacific, blazed the first flying machine to meet the possibilities of which are now and it sells for £5,000. It may be being tested on a regular service produced in unlimited quantities, and Chicago plants of the Ford developing 400 h.p., is practicable inaugurated between the 'Detroit but its expensive Liberty engine,
HENRY FORD'S FIRST METAL PLANE.
FORD OPENS AIRLINE
Mr. Henry Ford in here shown personally placing a package aboard the 'plane "Maiden of Dearborn."
Those of us who have had much experience of the Eisteddfods, national and local, of Wales will probably feel inclined to agree that they have not been run on lines ambitious or far seeing. enough for them to have contri- buted greatly to the maintenance of our tradition of song but few will agree with the writer of the article that this tradition was in grave danger of being consigned to oblivion. Eminent musiciens may have declined to participate in the Eisteddfod proceedings be into the power station and des- of about 250 miles, and experi- Ford, as president of the Ford entry Motor Company. It is a distance only in large planes. Mr. Edsel cause of the disinclination of the troyed switch boards and other ments with the metal aeroplane Motor Company, 'is supervising authorities to depart from the essential plant, completely cutting "Maiden of Dearborn," carrying laboratory experiments with all beaten track but the instinctive off the supply of power from the 1.000lb of freight, have demon-kinds and types of engines in the love of good music which is in- grained in every ins Welshmen of
pumps. The provincial police have arrived and are re- be, easily accomplished between motor capable of propelling amall strated that the round trip can hope of developing a arall, light storing order.
nine o'clock in the morning and craft. As soon as such an engine five p.m. The pilot for the first can be produced, light planes will Take for instance the
flight was Edward Hamilton, a be built. They will carry two or former Royal Air Force aviator. three passengers, or sponse there has been to the
If the tests prove to be financially weight of cargo. happily inspired movement by the University of Wales for the provi- permanent forces entrained last and St. Joseph will soon have a satisfactory, St. Louis, St. Paul, sion of facilities for the masses of night for duty at the Cape Breton daily service of planes, to be built Wales to hear the compositions of coalfields where clashes took place in Dearborn by the Airplanes Bach, Beethoven, Mozart. and yesterday between striking coal Company, of which Edsel Ford is Wagner by means of "missioners" miners and the police and officials president and to which the Ford who play in the most remote ham- of the British Empire Steel Com- plants will give all their assist- lets of the Principality. Enthusi- astic receptions are accorded these pay which resulted in one minerance. artistes wherever they appear and and police injured.
being killed and thirty strikers
It is no secret in Detroit that chapels and schoolrooms are
The strikers number 12,000 and Henry wants his son Edsel to crowded with people anxious to have been out for three months. become the same figure in aviation hear the works of the masters.
Again, large
The miners controlled the power that he himself is in the automo- audiences of quarrymen, coal miners and agri- by the company's officials and produce
house from where they were ousted bile field. Edsel's ambition is to
"airflivvers," baye
small
however humble a lot has always obtained satisfaction and always will do, quite independent of the Eisteddfod, if necessary,
cultural labourers
re-
EARLIER CABLE.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 12. Five hundred local militia and
ARMS EVIL.
(Reuter's Serviċe.)
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be police after a pitched battle. The planes carrying. two or three evincing extraordinary interest in company is ondeavouring to keep persona, which would be turned the performances of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire,
Parry's Mr. Carl Emil Herbst passed in the smaller villages in tents
"Blodwen " which are being given maintenance men to the mines to out by mass-production methods,
prevent further flooding. away yesterday at the Peak under the guidance and super.
permitting their sale for £400 or Hospital after a short illness at vision of the Portmadoc Operátic the age of 47 years. The late Society. Dr. Joseph Parry, the Mr. Herbst was unmarried but composer of Blodwin," is per left two sisters both of whom are haps the only successful modern resident in Hongkong and with Welsh composer in the more com. whom much sympathy will be felt plex forms of music but a new in their bereavement.
GENEVA, June 12. school of composers seems from Enforcement measures for the all accounts to be springing up, control of the arms traffic in the the work of which is in no small zones where special regulations measure justifying what Mr. are applicable is made optional on Beeson regards as the "legen- the part of the signatories, to the dary" fame of Wales as a land of song.
The late Mr. Herbst was at the time of his death chief clerk at Holt's wharf, having.come to the Colony as clerk in 1909. He was quite well known as a swimmer in his early days but had given up the sport some years ago. He
Of Perry our critic, however, has served with the local Volunteer nothing but praise and referring force throughout the war.
to the success which has attended The funeral took place yester- the revival of the chief opera work day at the Protestant cemetery, of this most popular composer he many friends attending. The regrets the absence of an English Rev. G. R. Lindsay officiated. translation of it. Judging from its Among those present were great popularity in Wales It should Mrs. McNeider (sister), Miss Gnot prove less profitable than the McNeider (niece), Master E. S. works of Continental performers McNeider (nephew), Mr. D. A. G. which quickly find a place in the Alison and Mr. J. M. McHutchon Programmes of English operatie (Butterfield and Swire), Capt. C..
companies. Riggs, of Holt's Wharf, Messru.
I. W. Williama, S. G. Hayes, J. E
Clark, Ede Madison and Pearn, s A Pike and family; Mr. and
H. Sieling, J. Landolt, J.. White, Mrs. F. H. De Vinney: Mr. and
convention under an American proposal adopted by the general committes of the arms conference
£5,000,000 DUNLOP LOAN.
(Router's Service,)
LONDON, June 12 Underwilting arrangements have
of
been completed for the Dunlop Rubber Company's Issue £5,000,000 to $35 per cent first mortgage debentures at £97. 10s..
Moscow, June 12-As unknown
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BELGIAN POLITICS.
FURTHER CABINET
DEADLOCK.
(Reuter's Service.)
..
an
HIS FATHER'S SON.
Edsel Ford.
equal
. The entire facilities of the Ford plant will be available for the pro- BRUSSELS, June 17.
duction and marketing of the Ford! large section of the Catholic Party that he can build practicable Owing to the objections of a machines when Edsel concludes to coalescing with the Socialists in planes with engines that will keep a new Government, M. Poullet has them in the air a reasonable abandoned his attempt to form a Cabinot.
length of time. The Ford agencies The decision was precipitated everywhere will be set to work by a meeting of the Catholic pariin-selling the planes and engines, and mentarians passing a vote of con- popularising aerial travel add; fidence in M. Poullet by the narrow transport. The peculiar qualities margin of ong vote with six of the "Maiden of Dearborn" abstentions.
machines which set them apart [An earlier cable stated that the from other so-called commercial Catholic, M. Poullet had succeeded aircraft include their all-metal in forming a new Coalition Cabinet construction. With the exception in which the Socialist M. Vander of the upholstering in the pilot's velde would be Minister for seat and a few minor accessories, Foreign fairs and Mr Carton, they are built of duralumin, a Minister for the Colonies Ametal alloy almost as light as. paper and as strong as steel; they indefinite periods without being The Hague, June 12-The first can be parked in the open for damaged by the elements; and they are 5001b. Ilghter than any commercial craft of their size in Europe Measuring 60ft. from-tip Valparaiso, June 12, The sailing body 46ft. long, the plane looks to tip of the wings, and with a ship Escampyla Agollia arrived like a huge slivery bird in the air. from Pascua Island where it picke
C. H. Elkins, H. M. Hendrikson, Mrs. V. F. d'Azevedo; Mr. and man yesterday attempted to asses- H. Ruttonjec, Sayce, Kelley, H. H. Mrs. C. H. Elkins; Mrs. C.sinate M. Vassendio, member of Chamber of the States General, by Taylor, P. Lanigan, C. L. Becker, Stonham and family Mr. and the Central Executive Committee a vote of 27 to 10 has passed the H. A. Castro and J. Gomes. Mrs. C. Bunje: Rev. and Mrs. of the Soviet Union, at Veltiyous amended constitution for the Dutch
Floral tributes were sent as G. R. Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. E. ting. M. Vassendin suffered a East Indies-Reuter follows:-
Histed; Mr. and Mrs. J. S. White deep cut on the shoulder. Tha Lent and Children; Therese and family rd Gomez and sisallant was arrested Renter, Mr. and Mrs. D. A G, Alison; family Mr. and Mrs FP. da Messrs. H. M. Hendrikson, H. H. Silva; Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Hayes: Taylor, J. C. Faers, J. Landolt, Captain and Mrs. Webb and J. S. Landolt, B. F. O. Dunnett, family Mr. and Mrs. Williams
"Waiter," grumbled a customer, AW. J. Hay, A. L. Alves, H. and Amily Mr. and Mrs. H. when I sat at another table, ye Ruttonjee, N. Mathieson, A. G. Castro, Mr. and Mrs. P. Lanigan: terday, was served with s Buffled, F. S. Adey, H. Sieling, The European Staff of Holt's of padding twice the size EW: Sleigh. C. B. Rigge, H. L. Wharf, The Compradore DepartAh, siry asid the water Stainfield, J. V. Gomez, K. Weble, ment. Holt's Wharf The Chinese must have been the table Mok Tai-pan, Mok Tin-tong, Mokstad & Holt's Wharf Moxings Window Man-chee Mrs. G. GdTea Butterfield and Swire, CM Ban people sitting there larger portions Leonora Gomés Mr. and Mrs. Land, Congaay,
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