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BRITISH RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
WAGES QUESTION.
CONFERENCE OF MANAGERS AND UNION LEADERS.
DIRECTORS' OFFER.
London, Yesterday:
wages
SIGNING THE ANTI- WAR PACT.
PARIS NEXT MONTH.
M. BRIAND'S INVITATION TO MR. KELLOGG.
ACCEPTS CONDITIONALLY,
Washington, Yesterday.
from American Service.
LADY HEATH'S AIR EXPERIENCES.
AS SECOND PILOT,
PREPARING FOR FLIGHT TO BATAVIA,
IN THE COCKPIT,
London, Yesterday.
en-
The Conference of Railway Man- Mr. F. B. Kellogg, Secretary of Lady Heath was interviewed agers and Railway Trade Union the State Department, has received by Reuter at Croydon on her ar leaders which has been exhaustive- an invitation from M. Briand to rival from Amsterdam as second ly considering the Companies pro- visit Paris to sign the Anti-War pilot of a 15-passenger Fokker- posals regarding & revision of Pact on August 27-28.
Jupiter of the Royal Dutch Air wages and working conditions, has Mr. Kellogg will attend provided Line. She said that she had been reached an agreement by which the ather Powers are represented by engaged to act as second pilot of omployees will accept a 21⁄2 per their Foreign Ministers.-Reuter's a Fokker Air Liner fitted with
three Armstrong-Siddeley gines, which will journey from Amsterdam to Batavia and back in the Autumn to inaugurate the new service. She was now intent on gaining experience on big Multi-engined machines and An office for the administra- would later study the engines at || tion of this road-building project, the Armstrong-Siddeley works. has been established in Kong
!cent. reduction in
August 13.
All standard agreements will remain intact but will be subject to this arrangement.
At the same time the Companies agree, wherever, sufficient work is available, that full, normal work÷ ing time shall be resumed in the shopa by which 100,000 shopmen: are at presc..t on a four-day week will be employed at least five days) and in most cases full-time.
The Companies directors offered: to join in the reduction so far as their salaries are concerned.
The agreement will be temporary and terminable on three months' notice on either side after the expiry of a year.--Reuter.
FRENCH DEMAND.
AN INCIDENT IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY,
GERMAN INDIGNATION.
THE LOOP LINE.
(Continued from Page 1.)
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BOXER FUNDS.
Portion Possibly for Railway Building?
Lady Heath said that she found the big passenger air liners easier to fly than the small machines as they are practically stable
Later in the day she flew back in the cockpit to Amsterdam with a load of passengers and freight.
Reuter,
First Woman Pilot of Air Liner,
Mention of the loop-line out-
The British Wireless report side Canton recalls to mind the talk of completion of the railway says that although Lady Heath between Canton and Hankow.. day's trip, it is understood that was nominally second pilot on to- From Hankow, a line now runs she took charge throughout the southward; from Canton, a line journey from Amsterdam and is the first woman in the world to jact as pilot of a large air liner.
It was her third day with a passenger machine.
FINE WEEK-END ?
morrow,
"Light south-west or variable winds, fine" is the official Berlin. Yesterday,
weather forecast issued for the That the German representa- 24 hours ending at 12 noon to- Live should refuse to go to Paris
This applies to Hong to sign the Kellogg Fact is al-Kong, the south coast of China ready being demanded by angry between Hainan and the German critics. This is caused Lamocks, also the Formosa by the announcement that the Channel. French Occupation Authorities have requested the German Gov- ernment to extradite three Ger mans, sentenced to five years penal servitude in default by the French Court Martial at Landau. The charge is one of tearing down the French flag from the officers' casino at Zweilbruecken.
The German Press is most in- dignant at this request, and
She flew from Amsterdam, to Paris on Wednesday and to Brus- sels yesterday.
She returned to Amsterdam from Croydon later to-day and on Monday she expects to fly to Zurich.
ence
Her purpose is to obtain experi- prior to her 20,000 miles light from Holland to Batavia and back in the Autumn.
At 11.27 a.m. to-day the Royal Observatory reported:-Pressure is highest to the N.E. of Japan.
The Dutch are sending out four Depressions are shown over S.Wservice over that route and Lady air linera to inaugurate their air Manchuria, over Tongkin, and to Heath is going as pilot of the fifth the N.E. of Luzon. The typhoon machine Fokker with three Arm- is probably about 600 miles to strong Siddeley engines, in which the N.N.W. of Guam, moving General Snyder, the distinguished N.N.W. or N.W.
Dutch soldier will be among the 'passengers.
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argues that the French demand runs northward; but the two do perience has been mainly with| shows the impossibility of the not meet as a stretch in Hunan present Rhineland regime and the province has not been built. futility of the Locarno agreement. Serious friction between the French and German Governments Group in the Nationalist Party is seems inevitable.-Reuter.
A Nationalist "Declaration,"
What is known as the Kwangsi
now in power in the territory covered by the whole of the Can- ton-Hankow Railway, completed The Nationalist organizations, in or projected.
"declaration" state
that if the Government
agrees to the Landau extraditions "Cons- titution Day" (August 11) should be celebrated as a day of mourn- ing as a repentance symbol of Ger- many's servitude and dishonour.
The request is being made to
The time has never been more opportune, from a military and political point of view, for bridg- ing the gap.
A LOCK-OUT.
OF LANCASHIRE COTTON SPINNERS.
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FEDERATION'S DECISION.
London, Yesterday. The Federation of Master. Cotton
Interest is added, however, by Spinners' has decided upon a lock- the information divulged by a out to commence on August 11.— leading Chinese diplomat to the Reuter. "China Mail's"
FINANCE BILL
M.P.'S PASS ITS THIRD READING.
Pres. Hindenburg immediately to
political corres- dissolve the Reichstag if it con-pondent that Sir Miles Lampson (British Minister at Peking) was sents to the extradition.
Meanwhile, the Government have approached some time ago with a taken no notice of the outburst but view to ascertaining if any of the are negotiating diplomatiealy with funds from the British share of the Boxer Indemnity (which has France-Reutor.
been promised for education and
London, Yesterday. other work in China) can be set
The House of Commons by 249 aside to capitalise the "missing to 84 votes defeated a motion to link" in Hunan-realisation of reject the Finance Bill, which ac- which should benefit Hong Kong cordingly passed its third reading. materially, especially if the Can--Router.. ton loop line (or the substitute now referred to) is in existence.
EGYPT'S CRISIS.
GOVERNMENT ADOPT A DETERMINED ATTITUDE.
A WARNING,
BUNAN'S VIEWS..
Asks For $70,000,000 from Borer Funds.
Mr. Churchill's Optimism.
London, Yesterday, - In the debate on the Finance Bill, Mr. Churchill, Chancellor of the Cairo, July 27.
Exchequer, said that as a result of The Government's determined.
information available at the close attitude is instanced by a warning
of the first quarter of the financial issued by the Governor of Cairo
year there was a good prospect of on behalf of the Minister of the After the above had been a surplus on the year of £14,000,- Interior to Nahas Pasha that the written, an article from the "Can- 000, ́ and there was no reason why latter would be held responsible ton Gazetto" was received, extracts the Budget estimate as
a whole for any meeting or demonstration of which bear out the report anent should not be made good.-British which might result in a disturb-the Canton-Hankow Railway and Wireless Service.
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severe.measures would be taken if the Government's ordera again flouted.
the Boxer Indemnity!--
propriated to finance the construc-
of the Boxer
The Government also warned the The railway commissioner of Hu- Wafdist newspaper "Elbalagh,”' in /han province recently wrote to the fon of the rallroad. At the recent Canton Branch Political Council' consequence of the publication-of a l statement signed by a number of urging that early action be taken National Educational Conference, ex-Senaters and ex-Deputies, that to push forward the completion of however, a resolution was passed
favouring the use the Canton-Hankow Railway. -
The Hunan official stressed the Indemnity Funds for educational were importance of this read in the de- purposes, and some difference may velopment of the southern pro- therefore arise as to the use of this The Government has further-vinces economic, political and money, more forbidden a meeting of Wafd-military affairs. There are about The completion of this railroad is let members of the late Parliament 450 11 of the line yet to be con- viewed with considerable arranged for to-morrow, and has structed, and the estimated cost of portance whether it be from the ignored the written requests of the this portion is expected to reach economie, political or military sa President of the Chamber and the $65,000,000, A.
pect, and the communication from Vice-President of the Senate to
*this 'It was suggested that on the re- Hunan states that from deliver the keys of the Parliament turn of the Boxer, Indemnity Fund viewpoint alone, the rail should be bullding.
by the Powers, $70,000,000 be ap-completed as soon as possible.
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