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SHANGHAI SENSATION
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EARLIER MESSAGES.
The Nanking Notes Cause Disappointment."
CHINESE LABOUR.
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Position of the British Vindicated.
OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM.
London, April 13. London, April 13. The Foreign Office has issued a The "Daily Telegraph" shares memorandum on labour con the disappointment of foreignerstitions in China in the course of in China with the Powers Nan- which it states that the lack of king, Notes, the text of which it accurate information is the cause saya fully bears out the appre-of many unfounded charges bension that common action has brought in Britain against British. been secured at the, expense of employers of labour in China. firmness. It declares that a much The memorandum outlines the stronger Note had been, drafted charges which are concerned with In accordance with the rules and would have gone forward in the employment of cheap labour cheque for $50 will be sent to Mrs. the name of the British and and says that the misstatements Baskett four days hence, under re-American Governments. Reuter, to some extent arise from honest gistered cover, together with the congratulations of the "China, Mail." The correct solutions are на follows:--
North Point,
Kong Hong."
Астонн.
11, CRANE 12. AHEAD: 13,
ignorance of a very complicated and little known subject.
those of
An Indian Offer.
London, April 13. The Viceroy's camp at Srinagar
It proceeds to explain that is appreciative in reference to the nearly the whole of the capital offer of the Maharajah of Kash invested in the factories is Chin-. 1 APSE: 4 OLENT: 8, WORM: mir of personal service and the ese. British interests in China BRAG; 15, LEEZE: 16, GAIT: 18. use of the resources of the State are overwhelmingly astray by politics, are interested EAT, 19, AYR: 20. EYB: 22, LLH: of Kashmir in China, made to traders only and in a most insigni- The China Mail only in the wages question. The A19,
the Viceroy at a banquet given in Acant degree those of the capital- The in- Memorandum says that the Bri-CRASS; 33 ADAM, 16, URDE, 37, his honcur at the close of a fortist or labour employer. tish Consuls are unanimous in re- REGAL: 38, MICA; WON: 40, night's Viceregal visit to Kash-fuence of foreign capitalists, both British and Japanese, inasmuch TOT: 41. SASH: 44, STRAP 46, mi porting that the Provisional Fac-VASE; 18, EFTS; 40; SEINE: 50.||| He said he believed, it would be as they have established higher tory Regulations, passed by the ANTS; 51, HE; 53, ON; 54. TIP: a bitter disappointment to the standards and introduced human- 56. NCP: 50 CIF: 81, MAP: 6, Maharajah that the situation did itarian ideas, is entirely bene-. Chinese Government in March OTIC: 65. HIVES: 66, NOTA: 67 not necessitate the acceptance of ficent..
The inemorundum is of the 1923, exist only on paper, and RORIC: 68, DIZEN; 60, EYNE; 70, his generous offer, but should oc- ads that "probably the sole ren- CAKES:71, BANE,
casion arise he relied on his High-opinion that the disappearance of ness to give practical expression the Concessions and of extrality son for promulgating them was a
1. AMBE: 2. SCAT: S. ERG: 4to the traditional loyalty of his will probably militate against the On paive desire on the part of the ONLY: 3, LEER: 6, NAZE: 7 house-Reuter.
improvement of conditions. The Northamptons Sail.
the other hand the growth of the Chinese Government to appear at THEY: 8 WAG: 9. ODAL 10,
London, April 13. power and influence of the Nation- Geneva and before the world at MATH; 14. RATER; 17, LEAC; 19
AN: 21 EN: 23. ATE: 24. FAG; The remaining two companies balists, which ton paper at least) large in the guise of a modern and eo, YAM: 27, PULSH; 28, ADUST of the 1st Northamptons entrain has adopted a labour policy, may
30. RENTE; 3.ed progressive State." The most 20. CROSS;
at Brookwood this morning Promote such improvement.
British Challenge. įsignificans part of the Memoran-SATAN; 32 SLOPE: 34, DIVAN for Southampton, where they 35, MATES: 42. AFRIT; 43 HSHjembarked on a transport for dum is the passage pointing out, RIM: 16 VAN 47 STOATE 62 China-Reuter... that the movement for securing EN: 52, OF: 64. TOLE: 55. PIRN; 57, CHIC: 58, PICA; 59, CEDE; 80: better labour conditions
IS GE MONA; 62, PAVE; 64, initiated by foreigners. Just as{COE; 66, NUB. Hong Kong set an example to the|
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MOORE-BAULD.On March 12,
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late Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the mat-
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TO BE THROWN OPEN TO THE CHINESE:
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MISSING ACTOR.
LIVED AND SLEPT IN THE PARKS.
Conditions in foreign-factories, particulidly British and Japan- ese, are better than in the Chinese factories. A high proportion of the few British factories chal- lenge comparison with aby in the world. The movement for secur- ing better labour conditions was" initiated and led by foreigners.. ter of good Government, so has SHANGHAI PARKS.
After having been missing for both missionaries and capitalists. the foreigner set an example to'l
fortnight Mr. Frank Morrison, the The Chinese, with a few brilliant SCOTT-On April 7, 1927, the Chinese in the matter of bet-
actor and producer of the play exceptions were generally apathe- Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs.ter factory conditions.
"French Laave," was found' wander-bic, and the Chinese labour organ- Heng
ing and in a state of collapse. Itisations as far as they were not 4. S. Scott, a son, Bruce.
Kong itself can point to the child RATEPAYERS' RESOLUTION. appears that he had been sleeping led astray by politles, were inter- MARRIAGE.
labour law and the legislation gov-
out in the open in public parks, and ested in only the wages question. erning machinery workers, two
Shanghai, April 13. he was suffering from lack of food The White Paper proceeds to The annual meeting of the and exposure. He was discovered state, facts in connection with the 1927, at Santa Cruz, California directions in which it has been Ratepayers of the International by Mr. Arthur Coady, an old friend charge of failure to adopt a child Mary Miriam Moore to Oscar the pioneer in this part of the Settlement this afternoon over-
I do not know whether it was labour by-law for the Inter- Robert Bauld, youngest son of
national Settlement, which was Mr. and Mra, J. E. Bauld, world. These are facts which in whelmingly resolved to threw instinct that guided Mr. Morrison in Shanghai.
the ordinary
national open the public parks and gar- the direction of my house," said Me, due to a deliberately organised
Condy, to a Press representative, dens to Chinese in the same way but it was, by accident i found him boycott and says there is no modesty would prevent us from as to foreigners but the change was at the top of Richmond-hill doubt a quorum would have been parading. But the times are ex-will not be operative until the when I saw a man wandering about secured for the by-law had normal SMITH-On March 3, 1927, atleeptional and we owe it to our present anti-foreignism and gen-im a strange. Cazed manner.
He conditions. prevailed. The Cottingham. Yorkshire, Engselves to see that they are not conditions have been restored were so indescribably filthy and he Consuls are, unanimous in report. eral unrest, cesses and normal was smartly dressed. but his clothes memorandum says the British land. Sydney, S. G. Smith, aged]
buried in the mass of anti-British The resolution must be ratified by looked so obviously that he at-ing that the provisional factory 42 years.
propaganda inspired by our another meeting of the Ratetracted my attention Immediately, regulations passed by the Chinese I stopped and went up to him, and Government in March, 1928, exist Hong Kong, Thursday, April 14, 1927. enemies. Dr. Sun Yat-sen was payers.-Reuter.
then I discovered It
WAR Mr. only on paper, and adda: "Prob- glad once to admit his debt to
Morrison. At first he did not reably the sole reason for promul- Hong Kong.
cognise me. Just before the doctor eating them was a naive desire on came however, he recognised me the part of the Chinese Govern- and told me he had beer sleepingment to appear at Geneva, and outside he believed on Wimbledon before the world at large in the Commer
ruise of a modern progressive state.-Reuter. "
DEATH:
LABOUR IN CHINA)
"...
way
We are sure all right-thinking Chinese will be! :
The late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, when glad to admit China's debt to the
NICARAGUA.
ROUTED.
The was still in the full vigour of British for improving the condi-LIBERAL FORCES COMPLETELY
health with his mind uncloudedtions of Chinese labour, both in by illness, was used to say that it Hong Kong and in Shanghai. was Hong Kong which had in-
&
told to mind their own business
Washington, April 13.
He recogniaedi his wife when we took him over;, but could only talk incoherently. He was d'ble to recall that he had wone up to town a fortnight ago on bust
Rear Admiral Latimer reportsness and had had lunch, He said, the complete rout of the Nicara-Something snapped in my brain TERRIBLE TORNADO. guan Liberal forces in the Nerro when I was coming home."
Mrs. F. W. Chilton. Mr. Morri-TEXAS TOWN ALMOST WIPED
OUT..
THE LURE OF LONDON.
San Antonio, April 13. It is reported that a tornado killed 126 persons at Rock Springs, Texas-Reuter.
Waco, Tex., April 13.
It is reported from Rock Springs that over 50 persons were killed and 150 injured in. the Tornado which virtually "de-
An inquiry and information1 buren for visitors, as obtains in seaside towns and provincial citten.
Organised tours of places of interest.
A muntelpa motor-bout sar=
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SACCO AND VANZETTI.
spired him with the idea for the Political Busybodies.. revolution in China. The peacel Were thirty-six members of and good order which the Colony the U.S. House of Representatives Caballo region. The Liberals son's sister-in-law, considered that LTD.enjoyed under British rule, he to cable to the Governor of Hong were surrounded by Government bisiness worry and nervous illness
showed him Kong demanding the liberation of troops but broke through and were the cause of Mr. Morrison's " was wont to add.
fed, abandoning most of their break-down. "He is seriously ill convicted Communist murderers, what might be done in his own
artillery. Reuter's Americanas, a result of exposure in the bad country. This tribute to the Bri-their action would be rightly re- Service.
weather and lack of food" she said, but the doctor is hopeful that he tish has, of course, been forgotten garded as an insult to British
will pull round." in the mass of calumny that has justice. They would be promptly since been poured out by our
EXTRADITION SOUGHT. enemies in this part of the world and to refrain from interfering
with the course of justice in this. Following receipt of a requisi- The publication of the Foreign
Colony, On these grounds it tion from the Government of London is sufficiently nopular al-stroyed the town, the 800 in- Office Memorandum on labour con- must be regretted that thirty-six Indo-China, Chief Detective in-ready. according to the LCC habitants of which include 200 ditions in China, however, bringe members of the British House of spector Murphy yesterday after-General Purposes Committee. and Mexicans.
Relief parties are hurrying to it back to mind. The ignorant at Messrs. Kenworthy and Saklat- R. E. Lindsell for the extradition been trying to persuade the Com-towns hut are hindered by floods.
Commons (including, of course, noon made application before Mr. rere no organised "pushing."
Mr. Morrison and Mr. Blake have the scene from neighbouring Home and the malicious out here vala) should have been so mis- of the alleged "Hanoi" pirate who mittee that the Council ought to Reuter's American Service. have lost no opportunity to vilify guided as to cable to the Governor has been in police custody for arrange for British capital in the Far East as of Massachusetts demanding the the past three months, and was release of the notorious Commun- recently discharged by the Magis- Great monster of iniquity.
ista Sacco and Vanzetti, nowtrate as far as the jurisdiction of must be their mortification now to under sentence of death. Any the local Court was concerned. see that absurd legend demolish-merits that their case may, have He was rearrested for the par- ed, the Foreign Office Memoran- cannot possibly justify outsiders pose of extradition immediately
menacing the friendly relations after leaving the Court, dum showing conclusively that that exist between America and|
When the application was made nearly the whole of the capital Great Britain by what amounts to yesterday, accused, on the Magis- invested in the factories is Chin-nothing more or less than an in-trate's invitation, made a state- esal British interests in China, dictment of American justice. By ment. This was to the effect that cabling to the Governor of he was serving as a soldier in to an overwhelming extent, are Massachusetts the thirty-six Bri- General
liberation of Sacco, and Vanzetti. Chan Kwing-ming's those of the trader. None the less, tish M.P.'s are simply courting a army at the time of the piracy
The cable emphatically. pro- within this limited field, the indistinct snub from Mr. Fuller and (November 11 inet). General
tests against the rejection of the motion for a new trial and ex-. a stern reprimand from their own Chan's army was routed about fluence of the British capitalist, Government for meddling with December 22 and accused came
presses. "horror at the violation along with the Japanese, has been matters entirely outside their own here to look for work.
For the first time since the War a of justice committed in the case:"" all to the good. The conditions in particular sphere. They are paid
His Worship committed ac- the victor of the annual scramble death sentence and the Im- golden sovereign was presented to It demands the withdrawal of the the British and Japanese factories 400 a year for legislating for the cused to Victoria Jail to await at Westminster School for the pan- mediate release of the prisoners.
needs of Great Britain and the order of His Excellency the cake "greaze." The recipient was Reuter,
að m are better than those in Chinese lopking after the requirements of
Governor factorica, and a high proportion their own constituencies. If they of the few British factories chal deviate from that obvious duty and direct their efforts to inter- lenge comparison with any in the fering with the Courts of Justice world. The movement for secur in a foreign country they deserve ing better labour conditions was to be cailed very sharply to ac- Initiated and led by foreigners, count. It is only a pity that they RUB Chamberlain's Pain Balm on the Foxley Norris, when he presented Cannot automatically be unseated painful apota. It is panetrating, both missionaries and capitalists. not merely on the ground of such starts up the circulation which carries girl who was recently given altile Workers' Union at Moscow The Chinese, with a few brilliant interference, but for their public the congestion and pressure, that causes sovereign in part change for a 26 sent ten thousand roubles to the exceptions, are generally apathe avowal of the cause of Commur church is how It helps note. She returned it, saying she Lodz Textile Workers' Union. The
chsumate pains, lumbago, backache, would rather hava a pound note, ism, which is aimed at undermineralgia, wollen, sabing join and as she had never seen a coin like latter returned the money assert-.. the and Chinese labour organise ing law and order in every part muscles Sold and recommenied every 16 before, and was not sure if it ing it was not welcome from tions, as far as they are not led of the world,
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Communist agitators. Reuter,
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