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Owners' Amendments.
TREATY DEADLOCK.
IS CHINA TO IGNORE.. THE HAGUE?
-BELGIAN OFFER..
ACTOR'S DEATH.
HISTORIC PERFORMANCES
RECALLED.
JAMES HACKETT'S CAREER.
· London, Nov. 8. " The negotiations for a coal settle ment roached a eritlen) stage to-day,
Rugby, Nov. 8.
Paris, Nov. 8. when the Miners' Executive met in
Dr. Wellington Koo, neting Pre- The American actor James London to consider a document. handed to them by the Government,mier and Foreign Minister ad in Hackett has died at a hotel in Paris embracing modifications and amends terim, of the Peking Government, after a short illness, ments suggested by the owners to has informed the Belgian Minister
In Peking that, the Sino-Belginn|| His wife was at his bedside whon the miners' proposals.
The lasues involved at the end Treaty of 1866 must be considered he died.". of last week have been considerably to have come to an end and has
The son of sa narrowed, and apparently there issued a mandate to provincial au-
actor, James thorities to this effect. only one big outstanding difficulty,!
Hackett was born in 1869 while his The terms of the Treaty provide namely the question of devising that its abrogation or fenewal can curenta were travelling, in Canada. some method or machinery for meeting the miners, demands that Belgian Government and the offer in 1892 and when 24 years old be only legally be performed by the He made his debut in Philadelphia.
a district settlement on hours and wages be subject to national 200-|| lordination and review. The owners still claim, district automony and
freedom, but the miners
went a
national tribunal or appent body empowered to consider any points) Ferising out of the terms offered to
the districts.
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Government Concern. The Government is anxious. to secure a negotiated settlement, and it is at hoped that dirangements
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of the latter to submit the question | came leading man at the New York: of law to the Permanent Court of Lyceum, the youngest, leading man stage history, International Justice at The Hague in New York was not accepted.
Hackett produced many successful paking Foreign Minister is to stand or as both."
If the present declaration by the plays, either as manager or actor,
its effect would be to deprive. Bel- gian nationals of extraterritorial: rights-British Wireless Bervice..
DENIAL BY BELGIUM A
Peking, Nov. 01
satisfactory to both sides will be the Belgian statement (referred for the Red Cross in three weeks.
A noted production was Shakes peare's, "Macbeth""" produced at the Criterion Theatre, New York, in 1918 Another was Out There," (1918) In Which Hackett played In the all-star cast, netting $700,000
obtainable without resorting to the establishment, of an appeal tribunal to below) denies the report that Hackett appeared an Old Bill in Belgium made the decisions on the the Better. Ole and created the by legislation.
Behind the question of a tribunal auggestion of France or Japan.-role of Silas Lapham în "The Risa of Silaa Lapham," at the Garrick Router. is the subject of hours. It is fear-
Belgian Statement.
Theatre in New York, 1919. . . ed this will prove a stumbling block,
"Brussels, Nov. 8. In 1920 Hackett took his entire for the miners" leaders are still de
Interviewed as to the abrogation "Macbeth" production to London, claring hostility towards a longer or the Sino-Belgian Treaty, M. and appeared as Macbeth at the working day unless they have power Vandervelde stated that steps Aldwych Theatre, with a
to argue necessity therefor in any would be taken to bring the mattor guished English company. district before a national appeal before the Permanent Court of In board. No great difficulty is other ternational Justice-Reuter- wise expected, and immediately final terms are reached the Miners' Executive. will summon another
Peking, Nov. 8. The Belgian Lagation this morn ing issued a lengthy statement out delegate conference, and if eventing the past few months neg move according to plan a resum Untions regarding the Sino-Belgian tion of work may be expected on Treaty, declaring inter alle that November 22.--Reuter
FRENCH ATTACKED.
ECHO OF MURDER OF M. ROBERT,
Peking, Nov. 8..
they were broken off by Presidential Mandate on November 6 unilateral-
ly with the ending of the Treaty ofj 18652 2017
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distin-
Later he accepted the invitation 'of the French Government to play: "Macbeth" in Paris, and received, permission for English actors to participate. Thus for the first time in the history of the stage the ramatic art was represented by three nations in a State-subsidized
Received by Royalty.
The President of the United A Latent Threat.
States, through the Secretary of The statement denies that Chi-State and the United States Ambas- nese residents in Belgium have been sador, officially felicitated the subject to retaliatory measures or player. The Crown Prince of Japan. demonstrations, and states China and the ambassadors of nearly has not agreed to Belgium's pro-every other nation in Paris were. M. Cadet narrowly escaped deathposal as regards a modus vivendi present at the performances at the spot where M. Robert (the renewable after six months, then Hackett also appeared in Paris. French consul) was murdered re-subject to further negotiations, and Londen in "Othello” and at cently, when returning to thereby leaving Belgium Hlable to Stratford-on-Avon, as guest of Lungchow from Hanol with two find herself without any treaty or honour in the same play. He was Chinese, escorted by two lorries modus vivendi after April 1927, leo twice the guest of the King fcarrying soldiers..
For at the lenet July 1927, thus and Queen of England at Bucking At the spot of the former out being forced to discuss a new treaty ham Palace.
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