SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926.
"CARRY ON.”
(Continued from page 1.) ·
"
NO ADVANCE.
Government Ready For New Proposals.
FIRESTONE & P.I.
OPPOSED TO BRITISH RUBBER „RESTRICTIONS.
· REQUIRES A REST.
THE CHINA MAIL.
OSMENA'S MISTAKE, | ALLIES” DEMANDS.
,"
OFFICIALS THINK HE "UNIN- TENTIONALLY EXAGGERATED,"
COOLIDGE HASN'T CHANGED.
CANTON EVENTS.
ANOTHER NOTE TO THE GERMANS.
SECRET ARSENAL IN A
JUNK?
FIRING ON RIVER..
Canton. August 26.
IS IT INOPPORTUNE?
Cleveland, Ohio, August 22.
Washington, August 20
Berlin, Aug. 27. Harvey S. Firestone, president of
Offcials of the War Department
The loss of another aeroplane, et "Strange" and "Trivial" are the Rugby, Aug. 27. the Firestone Tyre and Rubber bolieva taut Senator Osmeña "unla. The report of the meeting be- Company. In an article published tentionally exaggerated President adjectives applied in. German cir-route for the front, is suspected, twon the members of the Governin, the "Cleveland" News," sage that Coolidge's views on Independeatcles to a Note from the Confer This machine in one of a batch of
have arrived. ment and the officials of the Miners' the Philippine Islands could be when he quoted the President sence of Ambassadors to the Gerine newly ordered, six of which The mis meeting, as a Strike de. Federation events no advance to- made the richest and most pros-ing that she United States would man Government demanding:
Firstly-An unambiguous logal
monstration, was held yesterday.
ward a settlement of the coal dis-erous ecuntry in the Far East" (withdraw as soon as the islanda were decree terminating the military Representing the Association bel pute. The meeting fispersed with it stops might be taken to encourage sufficiently developed economic activity of the Nationalist organ-Merchants.. Labour, Farmers. Edu-1
2
Miners Care.
economic development...
Mr. balt
for the miners at the opening of
pions but financially for a period.
No Financial Help.
Bitter Against Monopoly.
AJ
He
to,
lisations.
11
RUBBER NEEDS.
U. S. INTERESTS IN LIBERIA.
PHILIPPINES PROSPECTS.
on Shakee
This morning, a junk was raided) off Taishatau, in the Canton River. Two men were arrested on a charge of manufacturing munitions. It is stated that a quantity of inmun- tion, for the "75" feld gun, and a smaller type, was found.
Villagers in the Sun. On district are reported to have gone to Can- ton to appeal against the Action [of some Samchun (border) plekets.
It is alleged that two shops were burned down for dealing in prohl bited goods and that over fifty per- sons were detained on cligès of smuggling of whom all but cight have been released-Kung Sheung
"General Frank McIntyre, chief of out arrangements being made for
fentionalists, Mr. Kan Kum-shek was Further interview,
He analyzes in great dets the the bureau of inslar affairs and
Secondly The discontinuance the first speaker. Winston Churchill urged at the effects of the British restrictive Secretary of War Davis ronferred
Firing was heard on the Canton close the Government's rendiaesaatem on the production of rubber this afternoon on the subject of of legal recruiting for the Reich-
swahr.
River, in the anchorage olt for such meeting if the miners, have and estimates that automobile users the Coolidge-Osmena conversations
Thirdly-The fulfilment with- Shameen, on Tuesday night and any new proposals to advance, and in the United States will pay which led to the declarations attri Mr. A. 1. Cook contially agreed, 3136,000,000 more for tyres this buted to Senator Damena in his out delay of the demands of the again last night. In both in- Inter-Allied Military Commission, stances strike pickets were hunting with Mr. Churchilthäta negotiated year than they would pay ander a Cebu speech:
It is pointed out that the Prest It is pointed out that over 2,000 town native craft alleged to bui Buttlement would be better, for all stem of free production.
reviews the history of the Stevenson dent's attitude on Philippine inde-Notes regarding disarmament breaking through their cordon-with concerned in the dispute.
Rubber Restriction Act of Novim pendence has been known to be have already been received from passengers or cargo. Stiny shots Mr. Herbert Smith, President of ber 1988 and subsequent measures indefinite due entirely to doubts as the Inter-Allied Military Commis- fell in Wongsha and
to the islands ability to achoro sion and the Ambassadors Con- The foki of a rice junk, who was the Federation, was the spokesmanxing prices for raw rabber.
economic didependence.
ference. The latest, is regarded sleeping on, deck, was struck by a "Although President Coolidge most inopportune in view of ricochet bullet. the conference. He reviewed thei "It is unthinkable. he writes, may feel that the Filipinos are en Germany's impending entry into result of the mines meent gon"that Americans will sit idly by and titled to independence." said on the League-Renter. furence with the owners who had, allow 14 conimodity HI vital to spokesman for the War Department. he said. decided to take advantage four welfare, transportation and that does not mean that he would of the Eight-Hours Act to the fullest commerce, to be held in the tight advocate the immediate adoption of extent and were determined to in- krip of a foreign monopoly that this course. berhuse circumstance sist on district as opposed to a tells us how much rubber sy may may arise which would shaps the national agreement and were
op-receive and how much we must pay drainistration's policy Tors posed to applying for help from the for it.
|material ends." Government. They the miners, "In January 1923, two months:
New York, August 30. now approached the Government to after the Stevenson measure had] ask what help the Government gone into effect, I presented figures quoting President Coolidge on in Senator Osmena's Cebu speech could give not only in the negotia- and statements to officias independence and economie develop, Washington showing them the ment. with subsequent denials and
London, August 27. seriousness of the situation and reiterations, moves the "New York
Mr. H. S. Firestone, Jun, Vlee Mr. Churchill, in replying. repeat succeeded in April of the same World" to another editorial on the President of the Firestone Planta ed what has several times been said year in having Congress appro- Philippines, this time chiding the ion Company. has arrived at on behalf of the Government printe $500,000 to investigate administration for trying to move Southampton from New York on Yut Po. namely, that the question of giving ources of rubber supply. This two directions at once and urging route to Liberia where, he
said. financial help had long passed out investigation and personal investi-hepesty about the Philippine ques
America is concentrating her CANTON DESPATCH. of the sphere of practical politics rations I have made. show there tion."
energies and holds a lease of over: The Govemment had last year given are many tropical countries wherk £22.000.000- to secure the alte rubber may be grown profitably.
"It is not a happy position," saya million acres, of which at pres
LATEST CLAIMS IN WAR under cultivation. months in which to settle, and that
the "World." "for a new Englanderent 2.000 are "On account of the enormous with a conscience to be caught but
ZONE. considerable -time much WA.A the end of Government's capital fnvolved in the growing of between the past promises elapse before rubber can be pro- assistance apart from the £3.000,000 rubber, and as investments are government heads and the present
duced extensively. reserved in this year's Budget. without return for several years, demands of a faction of his party Mr. Firestone pointed out that! What was left out of the latter sum, Americans are not keen to make which is wholeheartedly for rubber American capital had enabled then After rarious expenses incurred these investments unless they are and colenial expansion owing to the stoppage had been de-in countries under the control of! "After the promlaes we have rubber in the Philippines, if the Trayed, would be available for aids or protected by our cwn govern- been giving, it is curs, not theirs, Bill is passed by the local Legisla. to prove that we can at least be sure he expressed the opinion tha: Must, Encourage Capital. - honest; and if it is rubber we want America will eventually be able to The Philippine Islands hold out and a peon labour system, say "supply her own market.--Reuter, great opportunities for America "United Press." What amount would be and also for the islands themselves
San Frühelco, August 19. "left he could not say, but perhaps if proper legislation is enacted to Judge Jose Santos, adviser to the
half of that £3.000000" would be available for the purpose for which encourage capital to invent there In Philippine mission in the United it was det side. Do subsidy, bow-rubber growing on "a large scale, States, to-day voiced prayers to the ever small or temporary and nath-Soil and climatic conditions are American people to give plage to ing in the nature of a lean by the tent and rubber in a small way another race for in Independent Government would now be possible. lands of Mindanao and. Besilan. of: 1776 we are a separate people is already being grown on the is-government. Like the Americans Mr. Cook urged that the ultimate These islands could be made the with separate Toas 16 the country must be greater richest and most prosperous coun-Judge Santes.
in the Far East.
ing the movement of the miners menta. from any pts that might be closed; and £250,000 had been earmarket for the development of scientife research
Ultimate Loss.
by the indefinite contiguanes of the dispute than by a grant of financial
cost would exceed £3,000,000.
conditions." said
'He declared that the Filipinos |
to develop half a million acres of
HELPING REBELS,
MOVE BY A MEXICAN WARSHIP.
"LEAGUE NOTIFIED.
Geneva, Aug, 27.
FENG NOW A "PARTNER."
Canton, Aug. 27. ș The General Staff at the front telegraphed on the 25th.that the Nationalist foreee, after capturing Yochow, advanced and occupied Taungyang: proceeding towards Hsiungling which is about to be occupied. From Hslenling to Wut chang is a seven hours' train journey.
Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek is leaving Changsha for Yochow.
*
+
The Central Executive Com- mittee of the, Kuomintang an- nounces the admission of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang (the Christian General) into the Party and his
It is estimated that Great Bri- have reached the point where they The Nicaraguan Government appointment as a member of the tain now has over $600,000,000 in are able to govern themselves. He has notified the Secretary-General Nationalist Government.
The
assistance but he agreed that the vested in the growing of rubber said there was no need to fear that of the League of Nations that an effective co-ordination of all the
Plain Speaking.
which gives big returns. There Japan would step in as "Japan auxiliary warship of the Mexican Nationalist forces, as represented Dealing with the prospect of the can be no question that to-day its has no interest in us as we have Navy is proceeding to Nicaragua by the Kuomintang and Kuomin- stoppage continuing, Mr. Charchill rubber growing industry is one of nothing to offer save the needs for to help the rebels, in connection chun armies. has begun.-Canton said that he could not see how the the most valuable possessions the strategic position. Her develop with which Nicaragua has vigor- Information Bureau, via Reuter. Federation's position would be im- British Empire has. This fact is ment must be toward Manchuria ously protested to Mexico. proved for negotiating a favourable borne out by the significant state-and Korea and not toward us.” The Secretary-General has HUSBAND WANTED. wettlement by allowing force of eir-ment of Winston Churchill in re- Judge. Santos leaves for Manik cantares to end the dispute. Asferring to the Stevenson measure on Saturday "Associated Presi"
ALLEGED TO HAVE CUT for the country, much had been that rubber was "one of the prin-.
WIFE... learned during the stoppage and cipal means of paying the debt te
if he hath been asked at the outset America."United Press"
what would be the result of even
two weeka' stoppage he would have
given figures ten times as high as
ago,
making the Colonies and are allowance for the fact that no coal in the "Government Gazette." was exported. Unemployment was! better although the harvest. had something to do with that. Since
A
Mr.
I
that the
U.S. CRIMINAL LAW,
EX-PRESIDENT TAFT DE PLORES WEAKNESS.
Murray Bay, Quebec. August 21.
Chief Justice William H. Taft.i in an interview with the "Unitel
Pransmitted this notification to all. the members of the League and also, to Mexico.--Reuter."
WAY OF THE TURK.
ANOTHER PACT.
NATHAN RD. INCIDENT.
Bitten By Dog. Lee Wing, & foreman in the P.WD, was bitten by a Chinese owned dog at Chatham Road yes- terday. The man was treated and the dog sent to Kennedy Town for observation.
Ar seconding husband is Copies of the regulations ré-
I wanted by the noise in connec- thom he now knew to be the case.specting foreign Orders and Except in the great hasie trades medals applicable to persons in
FOUR DEATH SENTENCES
tion with injurice inflicted on his huntry bad shown extraordin-the,,service of the Crown and
wife as a result, it is alleged, of CARRIED OUT.・・ " ary power of carrying on.
Fan attack by him." The otherwise have been
received exports for July, for instance, were from the Secretary of State for Press, deplored the weakness and
The incidents in question took Constantinople; August 27. Better than a year
place yesterday
at 327 Nathan Four of the death sentences on Road, Yaumati the woman who published defects in the administration of
American criminal law, stating that members of the Committee of Union received wounds on the left arm this was due largely to the con- and Progress were executed at mid- and leg, being taken to the Kow- stant passage of restrictive legislight in the prison yard at Angora. loon Hospital and later to the tion robbing judges of their powers. Five other members of the Commit Kwong Wah. the general strike 50.000 fewer were room for accommodation on
also to the lack of sufficient fundatze of Union and Progress, includ
Her wounds are unemployed. People were buying national settlement. He was not for the detection and prosecutioning Reouf Bey and Ruhmi Bey, were
nos regarded as serious. coal. The Government was prepared in
of criminals. response to not called upon to buy conl to any Churchill's invitation, to make any
sentenced to perpetual banishment. He said, moreover, that there All the others were acquitted. extent now. Coal imports could new proposals.
existed a lack of organisation Reuter. be easily increased, no doubt, if
Eight Hours Act.
the courts, permitting judges ta cold weather came. On the other Mr. Churchill süld
render mass dechions, and. that hand, there was a certain output Government felt that the miners therefore, the courts were clogged here and outcrop workings were be- ought to have a choice in certain and congested. He expressed hop ing worked. There was no doubt, districts between working an extra that the public was gradually com whatever that the country was in a hour or half an hour and receiving ing to realise the loss of life and position where no difficulty was a very low rate of wages. Under property directly attributable to found in carrying on the life of the the old law they had no aach umbersome court procedure and country, a large proportion of the choice, and the Act merely moved legislatures to bring about the
that public opinion would trade of the country, and all vital that restriction... services.
Answering, suggestions that the necessary changes in administr No Desire To Humiliate. Government's proposals for the re-
·tion.—" United Press." The Government had no desire to organisation of the coal industry,: humiliate the Federation officials particularly those of collieries' am- or miners. There was nothing that algamation, would not promptly be it would rejoice in more than, see-carried out, Mr Churchill said that inx the miners again working. it was the Government's sitcero Whether it should be by national or belief that. apart from, the' question] district settlements was not for it of buying out the owners of royal-]. to decide, but he could not see why ties, which would not be of any both parties could not be reconciled. financial service to the miners t
His Excellency, the Governor in his office in the Union Building, has given his assent, in the name He had thought that the miners present, their proposals fully met might advance new and definite sug- the recommendations of the Coaled that the flight of five army the establishment of a republic in dinances passed by the Legisla- The War Department announstitution day, the aniversary of the King, to the following Or- yesterday, when the German con-land on behalf of His Majesty gestions, and if they gave a pro- Commission and it was determined aeroplanes around the South Germany, seven years ago, was tive Council: mise of solution Government to put them into operation to the American continent, which is en celebrated. qfices would have been available utmost, of its power.
ก
Debate On Tuesday.
forck
U.S. AERO FLIGHT.
TO TEST NEW TYPES OF PLANES.
Washington, Aug. 23.
RUSSIA NEGOTIATES WITH FINLAND.
All For A Sent. Seven coolies were arrested for disorderly conduct on the Praya at Kennedy Town yesterday, in- cluding two who are white treat Moscow, Aug. 27. ment for wounds sustained in the Negotiations have begun at courge of it. The quarrel all Helsingfors for a Russo-Finnish arose as to seating acommoda- security pact.Reuter.."
tion round a cook hawker's stall!
NEW ORDINANCES.
ROYAL ASSENT FOR FOUR MEASURES.
GERMAN CONSUL'S RECEPTION,
Singapore, August 12-Dr 0.5 Weber, Consul-General for Ger- many, received a number of guests
the programme for late October Amongst those who attended the
Hemisphere.
1925,
in whatever way they might prove
Ordinance. No. 9 of 1926 -AR useful.
A full report of the interview has and November, is to test new reception at the consular office. Ordinance to authorise the Miners' Adament.
Leen despatched to the Prime Min- types of planes and demonstrating were:-Lieutenant Bourke, repre-mentary Sum of $882,249.52. to
Appropriation of a Supple Mr. Smith said that in the cir- ister at Aix les Bains, and it to anti-the practicability of air freight senting His Excellency the G.O.C., cumstances it seemed unnecessary cipated that it will be discussed and passenger transportation be the Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. defray the Charges of the year to prolong the interview. They during the debate in the House of tween cities of the Western Rev. C. J. Ferguson-Davie, Mr. C. R.Ordinance No. 10 of 1926.—An were not prepared to agree to an Commons on Tuesday,
Howitt, representing the Hon. Mr. extension of hours or to district The altuation in the coal fells | It was stated that a secondary 11ayas Marriott, the Governózis #groomenta
remains unchanged. The nowe object of the flight was to promote Deputy, representativen, of the There was, however, further distrant that
order pre- "amicable
relations between different consular, bodies aíið cussion on various aspects of the valle, and the Police arrangements North and South America. As others. dispute and in the later stage of have proved quite adequate to pro- many cities as possible will be Dr. Weiser and his chancellor, the proceedings Mr. Cook anggest-tect from any throats of molesta visited by the planes and there Mr. Raedler, received the guests, ed that, while they could not agres tion those, men returning to work will be no attempt to make and the occasion was duly honoure fe extended hands there might bel-Eritish Wireless Service.. speed recordUnited Press." ed in champagne,
Ordinance to amend the Penk Tramway Ordinance, 1889. ·| Ordinance No. 11 of 1926.----An Ordinance to amend the law relating to wireless telegraphy. Ordinance No. 12 of 1926,-An Ordinance to amend the Mid- wives Ordinance, 1910,
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