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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927.
MAHRATTA ́ LEADER.
TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION)
INCIDENTS.
POLICE FORCED TO FIRE.
Bombay, May 3. The week's celebrations in con- nection with the tercentenary of the
LOUD JEERS.
Trade Union Bill Again Debated.
GENERAL STRIKES ILLEGAL.
OVER 350 EXPERTS.
LEAGUE'S GREAT ECONOMIC CONFERENCE..
RUSSIA SENDS DELEGATES.
Rugby, May 3. The League of Nations Interna- London, May. tional economic conference which birth of the Mahrattu leader Shi- In the House of Commons to-day meets ut. Geneva to-morrow under vaji has opened with the Govern- the Labour members were notably the presidency of M. Theunis will ment proclaiming a public holiday. quieter during the resumed debate be more fully representative in
The main procession has been on the Trade Union Bill. abandoned owing to the organisers The opposition was opened by Mr. held under the auspices of the character than any conference yet resenting the police banning the A. Henderson who accused the League. elephants and lathi displays. Government of endeavouring to pass:
Most of the participants are a measure aiming to destroy the tries, including four States which Over 350 experts from 43 coun-) Hindus. The Moslema are holding unity, solidarity and utility of the are not members of the League-the aloof. but it is reported from Trade Unions. Boroda that Moslems stoned a pro- Mr. F. H. Rose (Labour) express-Egypt-are expected to be present. United States, Russia. Turkey and cession and ten people were in-ed rather independent views, while jured. Reuter.
objecting to his own Party's, policy tive and cannot conclude a conven- The conference will be consulta- because it was based on crude de- tion, for the delegations have been A message from Surat states that
nunciation, He opposed the Bill. chosen by the various governments the Shivaji tercentenary celebra- on the ground that it aimed at a for their various capabilities, and tions were marred by Mahometans shadow. The prospect of a general not as spokesmen of official policies, stoning and assaulting Hindus who strike was now not only dead but were marching in procession damned. through the streets,
Tragic Sequel.
Bombay, May 3.
The police were compelled to fire. One person was killed and two in- jured-Router.
PERFECT SECRECY. CLAIMS FOR NEW SYSTEM OF WIRELESS.
ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS USED.
Rome, May 3. Professor Majorana, of the Uni- versity of Bologna, claims to have discovered a system of wireless telephony in which ultra-violet rays with a very long wave length are employed.
Experiments have been made be- tween Bologna and n place sixteen kilometres distant.
have
Conversations are said to been carried on with great clear- ness and perfect secrecy.-Reuter.
ALTERED SEAPLANE
TRANS-ATLANTIC RULES INFRINGED.
They include industrialists, mer- chants, bankers, economists, agri- Mr. C. G. Ammon (Labour) con-culturists and officials and repre- tended that the Government was sentatives of, workers and con- legislating to keep civil servants sumers
organisations
out of the trade unions and to keep operative societies. its opponents out of the. House.
and
-03
because he and Mr. Walter Baker-British Wireless Service.
Four of the members are women. (who also had a postal service con- resign their seats if the Bill were Bection) would probably have to
prased.
CHOLERA AT SAIGON.
The Labour members loudly jeer-1 Quarantine restrictions have ed during a speech by Sir Laming been imposed at Hong Kong against Worthington Evans, Secretary for arrivals from Saigon on account of
5,240,000 MORE VOTERS.
What Full Franchise For Women Meant.
London, May 3. Sir William Joynson Hicks in the House of Commons said he estimated that 8,650,000 women over twenty-five and 1.590,000 under twenty-five will be en- franchised by the Bill mentioned on April 13-Reuter.
[In the House of Commons on April 13 the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, announced that the Government would introduce next session a bill equalising the franchise at the age of twenty- One.]
cholera.
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¡decided List of ships expected to be in wireless communication with Hong tinuance of Captain de Saint to prohibit the con- Kong To-day:-
President Grant, President Jefferson, Namsang, Delta. Tanda, South America on the ground Roman's trans-Atlantic flight to.
Ringside Sents $3.00 each. Soldiers and Sailors Half Price Maru, Sul, actor. Oldekerk. Kingyuan, Kotsu Maru, Shinyo that the seaplane has been so War, who challenged the Labour for One Dollar Seats, except on
Atsuta,
transformed en route that it no Party to a campaign in the country,
Saturday. longer conforms to the conditions turned they would remove the pro- proclaiming that if they were re- deemed requisite by the air tection which the Bill conferred on authorities.-Reuter.
the community against being starv [An Agadir cable dated May 2ed into submission by a general stated: The French aviators, strike. Captain de Saint Roman and Lt.; Mouneyres, have left for St. Reuter. Louis, Senegal, en route to the Cape Verde Islands; whence they will attempt to fly to Brazil.]
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[The following message from Rugby is incomplete and some parts are doubtful].
While not agreeing entirely with the Bill's proposals for contracting into levy for political purposes it| eriticised the use of trade union general funds for political purpose. The right to strike was preserved but was modified so as to become A forty-eight hour truce from worse than direct challenge of that May has been arranged in order right. The Bill must result in ren- to enable General Moncada, the dering unions less effective than in Liberal military leader, to pro- the past for bargaining ceed to Tipitapa to confer with It made almost every sympathetic] Mr. Stimson, President Coolidge's strike liable to be held illegal, whe personal representative, who has ther or not it took place with
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an en-notice. It crippled the unions by deavour to make peace between curtailing the right of picketing 3.30 p.m. the rival factions. -Reuter's and 'dealt a heavy blew at them.
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U.S. NAVY PLANE FALLS IN FLAMES.
Norfolk, Virginia, May 3. Two well-known United States naval officers, Lieutenant Pollard and Lieut.-Commander Page, 10.30 a.m. have been killed owing to the 1.30.p.m. aeroplane which they were re- 3.30 p.m. turning to Hampton Roads catch- 5 p.m. ing fire in mid-air and falling in flames. Reuter's American Ser- vice.
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The issues raised in the Bill had never been before the public at a general election, and he urged it was an abuse of Parliament and government to propose a serious reversal of the law without author- ity from the people. If gelevances existed the question should have been the subject of a full, and searching public inquiry,
Government Reply,
Sir Laming Worthington Evans, Secretary for War, replying for the Astbury's judgment in support of Government quoted Mr. Justice
really a declaration of the existing the assertion that clause one was
law that a general strike was legal. If na Sir Henry Sleaser in the Labour Government had sald this was a true law, the necessity. Ing a general strike illegal. It was was increased for legislation mak-
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Tokyo, May 4. moved. Continuing this speech at Yesterday's Ministerial confor-amid interruption," Sir" "Laming ence formally reached agreement Worthington Evans pointed cat A to confirm and adopt its predeces- that the Elll might not limit the sor's policy towards the tri-right to strike or have a sympathe partite disarmament conference.
tic arike, unless it was designed to (7), the government of the com-] Reuter.
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