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Hongkong. Tuesday, July 7, 1925.
may understand man. Perhaps the greatest disaster that ever befel sinful man was that unhappy
incident of the Tower of Babel,
AN APPEAL.
PRAYER FOR THOSE IN CHINA.
"TIME OF CRISIS."
(Reuter's Service.)
TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1925.
DANCERS KILLED,
(Reuter's American' Service.)
! Boston, July 5." While a hundred persons were participating in the Fourth of July celebrations at the Pickwick Club early in the morning and an orchestra "was playing dance music, a wall of a five-storey build- Ing. weakened by adjacent ex- cavations, crashed down on the dance floor, entrapping the dancers between the floor and the fallen metal ceiling work..
Rescue
was moat
London, July 6. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued an appeal for prayer churches and homes on behalf of Christiane engaged in missionary work, especially educational work in China, also any Britons who may be endan- necessitating the removal of the difficult, gered and statesmen of different front wall which threatened to nationalities on whom rests the collapse in addition to the debris. responsibility at a time of crisis. Hitherto twelve dead were "For them we ask wisdom, power brought out after a night and day- and vision which shall lead to long search. Voices, chiefly of firm, considerate and generous women, were heard calling for handling of a situation that is help from the debris early in the extraordinary and difficult." morning but became silent later.
NEW COMMANDER.
(Reuter's Service.)
Paris, July 6. General Naulin, commander of the thirtieth Corps, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief in Morocco..
U. S. AND CHINA.
(Reuter's Service.)
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RIFFI ATTACKS,
FRENCH REPULSE NIGHT.. OFFENSIVE.
SHARP ENGAGEMENT.
(Reuter's Service.)
Paris, July 6.
violent Riffi attacks were made on A message from Fez states that
the night of July 5 on a group of French positions at Upper Leben, near Ainmatouf, and
were
French advanced north-west of repulsed with heavy losses. The Kiffane after a sharp engagement in which arms and munitions were enemy infiltrations, women and captured. In view of the recent children have, as a precaution, left
Taza.
DOSSER'S TRIAL.
(Reuter's Service.).
Shanghai, July 6.
FALSE REPORTS,
(Reuter'e Service,)
Hankow, July 5.
The evidence in the Dosser case The American Chamber of Com- was continued this morning. merce has written to the Chinese Two Russians, Detective Bebenim Chamber of Commerce to endea and Constable Kedrolizansky, vour to make known to the who accompanied a British detec Chinese the true facts of the tive to arrest the accused couple, Hankow affair.
described the finding of in- After warning the Chinese criminating documents, with Chamber of the danger of allow-especial regard to a certificate ing false reports-the-American-from-the Soviet Agitation Depart note says that there is nothing to ment.
add to the despatches from the Cross-examined, Bebenith ad- Consuls to the Chinese authorities mitted that he once worked for London, July 6.
on June 15, which contained a the Bolsheviks at Vladivostock, The United States "well-mean- complete and irrefutable state- but denied that when sent on a ing suggestion" to reform im-ment on the Hankow incident, and Soviet mission from Vladivostock, mediately extra-territorial rights encloses copies.
he embezzled Soviet funds, He, in China is the theme of a long
however, admitted being sent on such a mission,
leader in the Daily Telegraph which declares that hy doing so at the present hazardous moment the United States would be assuredly regarded by Japan as having at last thrown down the gauntlet:
MILL FRACAS.
heartedly, and urge you in fair- "We stand by them whole.
fact clear to the Chinese people." ness to co-operate in making this
HENLEY REGATTA.
·(Reuter's Service.)
London, July 4. Dull weather prevailed
Kedrolizansky admitted that · before joining the Municipal Police in Shanghai he was an officer in the White Russian Army at Vladivostock, also that he was formerly a political enemy of the Bolsheviks, who imprisoned him leased when the Japanese Look at Vladivostock. He was only re-
The case was adjourned until to-morrow.
over the port.
EUROPEAN CHARGED.
ALLEGED BREACH OF TRUST.
In the District Court at Singa pore a European, named Mr. W W. Matthews; *W charged with criminal breach of trust in respect of $2,000 worth of watches belong. ating to Messrs. V. R. Vick und Co. Chief Court Inspector Meredith
O case
In the final for the investigations, as the accused was Visitors' Cup, Third Trinity Col-only just arrested. lege (Cambridge) beat Brasenose The serused, who pleaded, not (Oxford) by two lengths in 7 guilty, objected to a postponement, minutes 45 seconds. In the Grand stating that if there was Challenge Cup. Leander beat the against him it was a civil case. He Thames Rowing Club by three added that he was not an agent, but quarters of a length in 6 minutes 53 seconds, which is a record for the course
partner with Mr. Vick, and that about $4.000 must be due to him from Mr. Vick,
In the Diamond Sculls, Berés- Mt. Franklyn Robinson adjourn- ford beat Gollan easily in 8ed the case for a week, fixing hail at minutes 28 seconds.
$2,000.
Attention is drawn to efforts! being made to throw the full responsibility for the incident on the British authorities and the note says: it so happened that a point in the British Concession was attacked, but as the British Naval officer in charge of that The paper points out that of all post acted for the International the Foreign residents with inter-community of Hankow, we, as when tongues at one time of ests in China the Japanese would part of the combined defence force equal sense-became confused. not only suffer most by a medi-
which included French, Italians, From that time dates conflicts,fication of extra-territorial rights Japanese and Americans, as well strifes, misunderstandings and all but in, the present mood of the our share of the responsibility of as British must therefore accept. the rest of human waywardness. Chinese, the Japanese would be so Is not a universal language the patently menaced that, pacific as.
their action. panacea for most of the ills of its present intentions are, Tokyo life? True, people of the same would be persuaded by the mere tongue quarrel, and, misunder- instinct of self-preservation to stand, but the means are quickly take immediate action. at hand to readjust and make The editorial adds that side by plain. Not so with those who side with the anti-foreign move- speak in divers tangues. The ment, the next few months will see civilised mind cannot, for instance, the development in Manchuria "of quite grasp the fact that those of a fierce triangular struggle be- the same race fight each other to tween Chang Tso-lin. Japan, and the death. This civil strife in China Red Russia. Unless Chang, with -to the foreigner at any rate--is or without outside assistance, is Henley to-day, but a large crowd inexplicable. He asks questions able to enforce a definite limit to witnessed the finals in the various asked for a postponement for further and is given the reason. China is the continual penetration of events. a land of many languages and Russia "the Island Kingdom must dialects. One district cannot intervene."" understand another. To those of The paper ends by skying that one Province, the members of if to this necessity is added an another are foreigners, if neces- attempt by the United States to sary to be treated in the most. weaken the guarantees which arbitrary fashion. This explains Japan now enjoys in China, there MOST ESSENTIAL.
why Yunnanese are prepared to can be only one end to the affair. fight Cantonese, and contrariwiser Each to the other is a foreigner-] There are services and services an enemy, a suspect. And so it that must be maintained during goes on. From which it would the strike. Some are of lesser appear that nothing permanent in
Beresford interviewed after thei importance than others. One of babel of tongues in China is the peace line will occur until the
racing said that he had relinquish- Shanghai, July 5.Mr. Mac Shanghai July 6.
ed the Philadelphia Gold Cup Murray, the newly-appointed the most essential is undoubtedly brought down to one common On Saturday night, a Municipal which he had handed back to the Minister to China, left Shang- the sanitary service. At all costs factor. It is a big job-but no constable arreated a Chinese who American oarsman Hoover.
hai this afternoon on an American that must be kept going to the bigger than following a campaign had been firing crackers in the that the English Amateur Rowing in Tientsin to-morrow afternoon.
His ground for doing this was gumbont. He is expected to arrive utmost capacity. At all costs-let of slaughter. And the results will street. He detained the prisoner
that the Reuter, that be repeated! There must be unquestionably be more lasting. in a cotton-mill compound pend. Association insisted no possible risk of an epidemic of CORRESPONDENCE.
ing the arrival of the police car. Diamond Sculls constituted the
Hundreds of Chinese gathered World's Amateur Championship hitherto received by the War De Washington July 6-Reports disease following the epidemic of
in front of the mill, where they and not the Philadelphia Cup as partment indicate that the test idleness. In normal times the Sani-
were addressed by two agitators, claimed by the Americans. tary Department is badly under-
who urged them to attack the In the Stewards' Cup, Third staffed. One inspector for an area (To the Editor of the China Mail) of the agitators, who struggled by 2 lengths in 7 minutes 27
mill. The constable arrested one Trinity (Cambridge) beat Leander as only two thirds as great as in the size of a fairly large village at
and attempted to seize the con- seconds. Sir-When I read in your stable's revolver. Home cannot be said to be enough columns that part of the resolu
In the Ladies' Lady Margaret, for local conditions. It is streets tion passed by the Kowloon the cotton mill employees went to by 2 lengths in 7 minutes, 7 (Cambridge); beat Radley College if not miles off the ideal. Residents Association in regard the constable's assistance. seconda. What can be said of that staff in June during which the ser- Dizik, belonging to the
to payment of wages for the days.
An American seaman, named
In the Wyfold Cup, the Thames during a period of emergency such vants had worked, I rubbed my McLeish came on the scene and, (Cambridge) by 4 lengths in 7 U.S.S. Rowing Club beat Selwyn College as the Colony is passing through eyes and read it again to make seeing that the situation was
minutca 35 seconde. at present? And there is the army sure that my eyes had not played critical, fired, shooting through
In the Thames Cup, First of sanitary coolies. They stood
me false. Yes, there it was as the head of a Chinese who was Trinity (Cambridge) beat the by the Department during the be spread over a probationary from behind.
plain as can be "such payment to about to jump upon the constable Henley Rowing Club by 1 length 1922 strike. On the present occa- period of at least one week." dispersed,
The crowd than in 7 minutes 16 seconds, and in the sion intimidators have got to work Ye gods
Silver Goblets, Third Trinity We know well that The two agitators were arrest (Cambridge) beat Leander by 4 and the rest has been easy: the boys are not justly entitled to ed and will appear in the Mixed lengths in 8 minutes 17 seconds. Still, not all the Sanitary coolies their contract and we sternly The wounded Chinese died last
any wages at all-having broken Court to-day. are out and it is essential that say "No Boy!! I cannot pay you night. Two foreign onlookers Highness Prince George arrived these should be paid a wage com- your wages to-day, you have for from the mill state that the yesterday, and attended mensurate with the vital importfeited them by striking, but I will American's action
Credits. A monor: #ght-13/4-] averted u ance of their work-the most pay you in seven days' time!
serious situation...
Independence Day Reception at opregn
· Degumentary; 6monība styki TG-L. The K.R.A, I presume, are necessary of any work in the acting upon the Hongkong Cham
the American Club.
On demand Colony. It is believed that there ber of Commerce's recent recom- to-day the Inter-University Polo London, July 4-At Hurlingham
Credits: 4 mouthy is a sufficiency of coolie labour at mendation. It might be as well Match was contested, Cambridge shocks of some strength were ex-on work
Tokyo, July 5.-Earthquakes Berlin
On densad the prevailing market price. That touch with that body when they Reuter.
therefore if they were to get in beating Oxford by 8 goals to 3perienced at Tottori yesterday. On demand It is reported that a few buildings “Credits: 50′ were shaken down, but there were wire.
STRIKE PAY.
is an important factor in relation would, I think, be informed that
to the health of the Colony. But the probationary period the
it is as well to publish the assur
ance for the benefit of the public
In general Chinese.
(Reuter'a Service.)
Other Chinese rushed up, while
Shanghai, July 5.—His: Royal
Chamber had in mind was from has left the nursing home and has
· Paris, July 4-Stave Donoghue | no casualties.
the final payment might fall: six to eight montha!! So that proceede
Reuter
on Chinese and somewhere about Chins New
God bless Esperantists!
| Habel":
KUIVATION-PILE DRIVING A CONSTRUOTARN-ON-
ION FILE DRIVING & CONTA
at any rate are trying to sub
the spoken word of all nations
one uniform level so that man
Year Why on earth
of one weekY
well pay
their retur
thamather
an
muster for defence forces yesterday
September. Nevertheless the results are considered satisfactory.- Renter's American Service.
Franco-German commercial negotia Paris. July 6-Taat protracted
tions have broken down is attributed to the fact that both countries are tariffs and that it is impossible to about to introduce new Protectionist conclude a permanent convention until these are passed by Parlia ment.-Reuter.
EXCHANGE.
Hongkong, 7th July is. On Bondon ›.
Bank, Wire.
On demand/5 bis (20 day'a nigiri..
4 montém machi
On Bombay
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London, July 5 The French reply to the British Note
has been receiv
Ou
nizes – sym
sideration. The replies of the
other five nations, to
circular Note was ser
hich the