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4,000 MILITIA MEN TO RESTORE ORDER IN STRIKE AT GEORGIA
NEW SOUTHERN CONCENTRATION
to
Reaching ocean depths which man had never before adventured, nearly half a mile below the sea, of Hamilton. Bermuda. Dr. William Beche, American explorer, above, and Otia Barton, a fellow scientist. tell a graphic story of strange fish and other wonders of the uncanny deep they saw from the windows of their hermetically- sealed steel ball shown herr
AYRES' WARNING TO GOVERNMENT
Economic Recovery Now Depends On Wisdom
BARRIERS NEED REMOVING
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
GUARDSMEN ESCORT FOR
STRIKE- BREAKERS
ARMED TROOPS STAND BY DURING
ATTEMPT TO OPEN MILLS GRAVE COAL MINE RIOT
New York, To-day.
Attempts to break the United States textile strike, and to re-open southern mills under the protection of armed troops, were to be made last night by the southern mill-owners.
Four thousand militia men have been mus- tered for strike service in Georgia, while in North and South Carolina; 2,000 National Guardsmen are ready to escort strike-breakers to work.
An actual photogras of a "klanvocation" held on Stone Mountain, Georgia, by members of the revived Ku Klux Kl 1 is reported that Hiram W. Evans, Texas dentist, who has been re
elected imperial wizard, will lead his cohorts in a crusade against the Huey Long Influence in the South.
PRINCESS MARINA'S
Meanwhile, the New York labour leaders have rejected the silk textile manufacturers' proposal that the silk workers sym- LOCAL EUROPEAN pathetic to the strike should be submitted to N.R.A. arbitration.
Reuter.
CANTON BOYCOTT
OF FOX PICTURES
IS NOW SETTLED Agreement Reached In
Southern Capital ·
THREE-MONTH BAN ENDS
From Our Own Correspondent)
it
Canton, Saturday. After boycott of three months. the films of Fox Picture Corporation are again being shown in all first and second run theatres here.
The boycott was first started
Johnson's Resignation Demanded By Union
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL...
Washington. To-day.
The United States Textile
Union officials have demanded the resignation of the National Re- covery Administration. General
Hugh Johnson, for his assertions
ALLEGED TO HAVE
SOUGHT OWN LIFE
SUICIDE ATTEMPT BY POISON
"TIRED OF
Said to have been tired of life, that the textile workers violated|Mr. John Ryder Randle, 50% native the June agreement when they of Plymouth, residing at No. 9, struck.United Press, per S. EMorrison Hill Road, was dritted Levy, and Companý,
Troops Called Out In
Alabama
TWO NEGROES KILLED IN COAL MINE RIOT
Birmingham, Alabama, To-day.
to the Government Civil Hqpital at about 1 p.m. yesterday, affering from the effects of a dose f per- mangenate of potash, alleed to have been self-administered in an attempt to commit suicide,
Randle, B single man was formerly attached to the Ginese Maritime Customs.
Before his removal to Hapital
Two negroes have been killed yesterday he was attended Dr.
by the Sun Kwok Man Theatre, and several injured in a coal mine Bunje.
hose deposit of $2,000 Hong riot in which 2,000 workers bat- Kong currency with the Fox Pic-led with the police.
ture Corporation was confiscated The sheriff has asked the Gov- POLICEMAN RUN
because payment for the use of ernor of Alabama. Mr. B. M.
films
was in arrears. In the Miller, to send troops. Reuter. course of the dispute no other second run theatres showed Fox pictures.
These disputes have now been settled, however. and Fox pic- ¡tures are now being screened.
By Telegraph, Copyright, Teleara jagain in several theatres, al-
phic Messages Ordinance. 1894. Re though the releases are invari- ecived September 17, 8 a.m.)
jably four to eight weeks behind those of Hong Kong and Shang-
Cleveland, To-day. Mr. Leonard P. Ayres, the noted hai. statistician, in his monthly review. states that the future progress in
(Continued on Page 0)
General Johnson The Bugbear
NO SUBMISSION TO N.R.A. WHILE HE IS HEAD
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAN
(By Telegraph, Copyright. Telegra- phic lossages Ordinance, 1894, Ra. ceived September 17, 31.20 a,m.)
Washington, To-day. The Silk Institute has proposed
DOWN
Jockey Club Employee Involve
Police Constable Ezpatrick, A.23, was admitted the Gov- ernment Civil Hostal hat night following a ptor adel- dent in Wanchai Rd. Fitzpatrick was knoged down by a car, No. 1497. driv by Mr. T. Cranston, of the Hongong Jockey Club, at about 1.55m, and re- economic recovery depends on the CHINESE GIRL'S FATAL FALL that the strike be submitted to the ceived injuries to higight leg.
N.R.A. for public hearings to be His condition is noterious. Attempting to climb a drainpipe, held for the purpose of obtaining a ment abstains from yielding tot No. 3, Pennington Road, Wan-fair settlement. temptations to undertake more chai, yesterday morning, at about The Textile Strike Committee 11 o'clock, an unknown Chinese Chairman, Mr. Francia Gorman, forced girl, aged about 4.years, fell on has rejected the proposal. "We chances which are economically her head, receiving fatal injuries, shall not submit anything to the invalid, and characterisea infla-She died while being transferred to N.R.A. as long as General Hugh
wisdom with which the Govern-
than it can manage effectively.
against warns
He
tion as an insiduous fraud among the Tung Wah Hospital. economic fallacies.
"Our need is not inflation, but
the removal of barriers impeding AUSTRALIAN PARTY
production," he declares-United
Press, per S. E. Levy and Com pany.
73,000 PICNIC BAY TICKETS SOLD
to
The mammoth $1.00 sweep, be run on the Picnic Bay Stakes, the Seventh Race at Saturday's meating of the Hong Kong. Jockey Club, is receiving support quite equal to that accorded to the Jul- Ing Sweep, over 79,000 tickets having been sold up to 8 o'clock this afternoon...⠀⠀
Mr. Sun Fo left Nanking by air this morning for Kaling where he will 800 Marshal Chiang Kai-zhek,
TRIUMPH
Majority Secured In Federal Elections
Melbourne. To-day. The final result of the. Federal election is as fol lows:--
United Australla Party, 35. United Country Party, 13. Federal Labour Party, 18. State Labour Party, 8.... Thas the Lyons Govern ment, now in office, is nssur. ed of a majority without the ald of the United Country "Patty""Reuter."
Johnson occupies a position of in- fluence," he asserts.-United Press, per S. E. Levy and Company.
TWO S.W.B. PRIVATES MISSING
Descriptions Issued By Police
Two South Wales Borderers pri- vates, Edward Farrell Smith, and Alfred Thomas, are reported to have been missing from Murray Barracks since yesterday. They are described as: Smith, 19 years, 5 feet 5 inches, fresh complexion, brown eyes and hair. Mole abova left thigh-bone.
Thomas, 20 years, 5 feet 5 inches, fresh complexion, grey, even, black "hair, acar on left knee.
Katherine,
Breskika, the ose life. Idi agitation” rist^ralëk, her: the". mother of revoluti is reported
against
in Prague, Csechoskia. She leared with the Set rulers, Sewand left the country an
BLUE SHIRTS
SUPPRESSED
IN CANTON
SEVERAL SUSPECTS
ARRESTED
NO SERIOUS ACTIVITIES
From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, To-day.
The activities of the Blue Shirts in Canton appear to have been practically curbed, following the arrest of several suspects, although no official report has been made. Many of them are merely report- ing to their headquarters on mili- tary and political conditions here, and are not necessarily engaged in more serious activities.
ROYAL WELCOME tral
PRINCESS MARINA
AMERICAN BOOM
GOVERNMENT WARNING
AUTHOR NOT TAKEN TOO SERIOUSLY
SPÈCIAL TO CHINA MAIL (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phie Messages Ordinance, 1804, "Re- ceived September 17, 9.01 a.m.).
Washington, To-day. Government officials have warned the public not to take too seriously the predictions contained in Major Angus's "Coming American Boom" which the press is wildly printing, especially the impli- cations that a speculative era of quick profits is forthcom-
ing.
The Administration wel- comes optimism regarding fundamental economic re- covery, but "speculation will not put people back to work," it adds. United Press, per S. E. Levy and Company.
2. EUROPEAN GIRL BITTEN
BY DOG
Miss Stella Franco, of No. 141 Wongrefchong Road, was admits led to the Government Civil Hos
pital yesterday, suffering from a bile received from a dug, the pro- perty of Mr. Kragh, of No. 187, Wongnelchong Road.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair to showery, with moderate nds, was the weather, fore- o-day, as issued by the Royal Observatory this morning."
5,000 GATHER AT
FOLKESTONE PIER TO GREET VISITOR
The recent execution of Colonel Pan Chih, of the Cen- Pacification District. was.due to the fact that he not only operated a secret arsenal at Shek Pel, but supplied arms to Blue Shirts and other reactionaries, it is said.
In the Blue Shirts party are three cliques, namely the Wham- ̧·
EXTRA POLICE AT poa faction, composed of grad-
VICTORIA
PRINCE GEORGE ON PLATFORM
Landon-To-day
uates of the Whampoa Military Academy, the, Young Wing-tai section, and the C.C. group con- sisting of Messrs. Chen Kuo-fu
and Chen Lieh-fu."
Many of the divisional and Large crowds heartily wel route commanders, in the Nan- comed H.R.H. Prince George's king armies are graduates of the "bride-to-be Princess Marina of Whampoa Miltary Academy and Greece, when she arrived from
are sympathetic to the Farls yesterday afternoon, ac movement. Mr. Yeung Wing-tal companied by her parents.
was the former Commissioner of (Continued on Page 9).
Five thousand gathered on Folkestone pier and cheered and shouted "Welcome to England,” while extra police. were sum- moned to deal with a crowd of 10,000 inside and outside. Vic- toria Station, London.
Prince George was prozent on the platform.― Reuter.
NEW INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Canton's Pledge To Small Industries
PROTECTION GUARANTEE
(From Our Own Correspondenti
Canton, To-day.
new
DEPORTATION OF 72 CHINESE
..
Japanese Reply Expected To Be Satisfactory
Tokyo, To-day.
A Foreign Officer spokesman has declared that Japan will shortly be sending a satisfactory reply to Nanking's note regarding
the deportation of 72 Chinese to China.
He forecasted the possibility of an extension of Article IX. of the Portsmouth Treaty, prohibiting Russia and Japan from maintain-
A promise has been made by the ing armed forces in the vicinity Provincial Department of Recon-of the Korean-Siberian border to struction not to compete with small the Manchurian-Siberian border, industries in order that those en-and also the formation of a mix- to deal with 'all gaged in handicraft and artisan ed commission work may continue their pursuits frontier matters, including inci- without government competition or dents.-Reuter. interference.
According to vernacular reports, TYPHOON WARNING the Government will give, protec-i tion and encouragement to owners Still About 1,400 Miles of small industries. The Provin- cial Department of Reconstruction
is represented to have pledged not
Distant
to engage in those manufactures The typhoon is situated about 600 which are made by native factories. miles, east of Southern Luzon, pro- - but will produce only those goods bably moving west-north-west, ac- that are now imported from abroad cording to a warning issued by the or that are not yet manufactured Royal Observatory this morning. locally.
This is confirmed by a warning received from Manila through the American Consul-General, which gives the position as 181 degrees east longitude and id degrees north latitude.
still some 1,400 miles distant from the Colony.
(Continued on page 9.)
MEXICO RUMOURS
· DENIED
Virtual Nationalisation Of Mines Refuted
SPECIAL TO CH.NA MAIL.
Mexico City, To-day. :- Officials have denied the ru- mours circulated abroad that Mexico plana the virtual na- tionalisation of mines which
This disturbance
and no immediate local effect is likely.
LOCAL RAINFALL-
The local rainfall recorded at the Royal Observatory for the 24 hours ended 10.80;6.m. to-day was 1-06-
would be tantamount to nation-inches, bringing the total since.
alisation of silver-United Press, per 8. E Levy and Com- pany.
January 1 to 91.20 inches, as.com pared, with a normal average ; 78.22 Inches.