CABLES,
LATEST GARLAN [THROWOK "RECTER'S JORNCY 1" BRITISH RAILWAYALEN, GOVERNMENT OFFER TO BE REJECTED.
THE
HONGKONG PALET
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. FAR EASTERN GABLE ISSUE IN COMING PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
NEWS
(BY COURTESY OF THE "CHINA. MAIL.""""
STRAITS INCOME TAX,
SINGAPORA VAQUary 19th.
Wakiroton, January President Wilson, in a message to the Democrat National Committee, declares that, the only way to determine the will of the American people regarding the In response to summons from Mr League of Nations is to make it the issue from taxation
LONDON, January 11th.
Lloyd George respecting the railway situation, Sir Eric Geddes, Minister of Transport, and Sir R. S. Horne, Minister of Labour have gone to Paris.
Consequently, the conference between the railwaymen and Sir Eric Geddes £xed for January 12th bas, been postponed until
in the next election AGAINST PRESIDENT WILSON, MR. BRYAN SUGGESTS IMMEDIATE RATIFICATION.
WASHINGTON, January 9th. Mr. Bryan, addressing the Democrat
The Straits Settlements Association has memorialised the Government suggesting that incomes of $500 monthly be exempt
The Bill is being considered on January 19th.
SHANGHAI AERO CLUB.
SHANGHAI, January 13th. Mr. Y. C. Tong, was elected president and Major McBain, vice president of the
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
CANTON“ NEWS
Caron January 12th.
ANDI-SAMELING CAMPAIGN,
Yin, 1830.
ANCIENTART OF MESPOTAMIA JAPAN AND CHILD LABOUR
Dr. James T. Shotwell in the course of a letter to The Times writes:
January 13th, when Sir kric will have National Committee, At a banquet at Shanghai Aero Club, which was formally Canton. the Kang, On. Insurance Company, be published in que course it will be points in history. At first glance it would
returned with the Premier's views on the question.
Moreover, it is anticipated that s L'abinet meeting is being held on January 13th, and that a decision as regards the rejection of the Government's offer will be communicated on Tuesday.
It is pointed out in Government circles- that if the men's full demande are con- deded, the nation, would have fought the uutuma strike in von, and it is regarded probable tha the Government will be annule to lecse from the position already taken up, while, it is believed that the the terms hostility or the branches arranged with the leaders is largely due to misapprehensions.
to-
Meanwhile, it is noteworthy to recall that, in a recent speech at Birmingham,
Mr. J. H. Thomas described to a
message:
organised on Monday. The club may par chase an aeroplane. DISASTROUS FIRE AT SHANGHAL
Jackson Bay, at which President Wilson's was read, opposed President Wilson on the question of taking the League issue next election, declaring that the Democrat Party must sccept the com
SEAGA, January 13th. The Shanghai Brush Faatory in the: promises necessary to secure the mtifica-Chaper district was ablate an Monday night Many lives, probably between. twenty and thirty, are believed to have
tion of the Peace Treaty.
SYRIA,
FRENCH CHIEF OF STAFF KIDNAPPED.
LONDON, January 8th. The forming Pust says that news has been received in London from Cairo that the Syrian National Volunteers held ap 4 train on which General Gouraud's Chie of Staff was travelling, on the Beirut- Damascus line, and removed him to the mountains.
It is assumed the Chief of Staff was pro-
ceeding to Damascus to investigate the an immense advance and a fair and bon-Baalbek fight when he was kidnapped. ourable settlement which the men ought to accept as it would bring untold Bless ings on the great mass of the railwaymen
DISTURBED EGYPT.
MORE DEMONSTRATIONS IN CAIRO.
Caino, January 7th. The Italians in Cairo are excited at!
the death of a compatriot, à
FURTHER WILLY-NICKY
LETTERS.
THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE HYPO CRISY OF THE ENGLISH.
LONDON, January 8th., The Morning Pat publishes further Willy-Nicky" correspondence. The December 4th, 1903, gives
been lost.
As a sequel to the recent fires in
and two other insurance companies have suspended business. The insurance rates have been increased from $10 to $25 for $1,000 in consequence.
THE SALT BUREAU.
It is stated tha; a new Superintendent of the Salt Revenue Bureau is to be ap pointed and the name of Tsang-Yin, the até Treasurer of Canton. is mentioned
in this connection.
Assyrian Department, who arrived it cocomic po
means
and
'acceptance-
LATEST DISCOVERIES IN
The Arst agromment" between Bart, and BABYLONIA
West on labour standards was reached the International Labour Contaranse ** An, antigambling campaign initiated The British Musean continues to Washington recently, when Japan accept by Christians was formally launched last uphold the high tradition of public red the principle of abolishing child
vice, that has always diringuished it: | labour.
A proposal was made to the Com- Baturday, when à mast meeting was held During the war, its Director, Sir ference in a draft convention from the at the Cation Hospital Compound in the Frederick Kenyon, while werving an organising committee that the minimuna
Enna of Court. Oficarse for child labour should be 14. Japan. afternoon. The meeting was attended by Major with the
Training Corps is contributed, by the agreed, with three modifications in view more than four thousand people repre- way, upwards of 10,000 offcers to the of the special gircumstances provailing in penting fifty organisations, and speeches British Army-did not lose sight of the the Far East
wers(1) That opportunity afforded or excavations in
though
the minimum age should be 14, were delivered denouncing gambling aesopotamia. There were at Brat en children over 19 who had finished their Other efforts are also being made to comtrusted to Captain Campbell Thompson, elementary education should be admitted bat gambling, and the Christians will Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities and
a former assistant in the Department of to industry; (2) that children between 12.
and 14 who have been employed may be make a joints appeal to the authorities en Intelligence Omicer at Baarn. This submitted to transitional regulations; and Parliament for the prohibition of officer's work at Abu Shahrein and Tell and (3) that the law admitting children Muqayya produced a quantity of pr under 12 to certain light and easy work gambling in the province.
historic Bints and pottery of great in-
should be repealed. Storz TO THE FIRES
terest and välde, which were described by him in a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries in nath last. As this will It may be that this is one of the turning
seur to be a slight thing that Japan. enough to say here that his work will be exhibited along with the antiquities pre should have decided to participate, on
formed sently to be decoribed, and that it
Westery Poly even terms, with a sort of shoeing-horn to their discovery. Powers in the movement for "sofial wel- It was intended that on his return to
which is indicated England after the Armistice he should of law prohibiting the exploitation of be relieved by the late Professor King. child labour in with whom bo had were foue But the implicat factories, and Museum at ayunjik in pre-war times-
are far-reaching if.it Profesor King. however, having been is now moving forward in the aphere at reads attacked by the files which unaocin adjustment with something of that and adaptability happily caused his death Later, his place same quick intelligence was taken by Mr. H. R. Hall, also of the which it has shown in the adoption of
Occidental
military, and The difficulties in Mesopotamia in February last. Be at the In view of the work on the reclamation once took up Captain Campbell Thomp proposals for labour legislation suitable the acceptance by Japan of of the whingehow shores, near Macmo, wiese, we bank of Turkish prison-
in countries of mature economic develop- being continued by the Portuguese in ers superintended by Arab foremen, unrenching the full development of the ment are very great! It is only now spite of a protest by the Cantee authors earthed antiquities enough to all 32 huge factory system, and as in the
packing cases, which arrived in Europe European nations, in
of case the ties, the Pering Government has now sent without mishap. The whole excavation
from bandicraft to factory, it profited atologram to the Military Government was completed by May last, and has estab
Where "BUSPENDED."}
dilcaming the question of sending gun-lished a record for speedy and successful by an abundance of cheap labour
system wark
ing to one on this basis, the shift-
level is a difficult proce SHANGHAI, January 13th,' boats to revent the Portuguese from
and if inaugurated The most important of these relics besult in greater hardships to the workers
too suddenly may re The nineteen shopkeepers summoned at carrying on the reclamation. The Mili-
long to the mely period of Babylonian than the Mixed Court (criminally) for refusing a Government pipposes, to send three civilisation known as the Sumerian, from ton under the old regime. The Japanese to pay rates, failed to appear.
more gun boutein ndition to the three the race which dwait in the plains of sicer this marte, therefore rightly con-
this matteras one of TAVA which the Feking Government is said to Sumer, the Biblical Shinar before the
portance to the economic welfare of Mr. Lineberger, the American lawyer sending. Sensational developments are coming-in of the Semites. They were a Japan and were slow is accepting the representing the defendants, was suspendareeted as there are some 300 Portuguese great rags, perhaps of Mongoli desiting obligations of membership of the Inter- soldiers on their way to Macso to pro-ties acquainted with the use of writing national Labour Conference. But they tect the reclamation works.
whole culture of the Babylonians and participate was due, not to any Assyrians has been thought with justice mat with the ideals laid down, but to a WANG ANTONG LEAVES SHANGHAI,
The authorities haye received reports to have been derived from them. The sense of honour which forbade them to from Shanghai that Wong. Yaptong, the most novel and interesting of 'same obligations beyond the chier or the Northern Fease Delegation, discoveries were found at Tell Obeid, a of enforcement,
so ponsibility sentit Bhangani, on January 370. site previously untouched, about 4 miles Governm
towards the standards of factory Woud is said to have returned to rexin to the west of Magnyys, which last place to sec the ex-Premier, Tuan Chi-jus,is the Biblical Ur of the Chaidees.
legislation as is indicated in the news From about the formation of a new Labines in The gum of the collection is a small sent
Washington, it surely means that it is stated, 15 za beed figure, in greenish-gray basalt of a *king wong,
measures are in preparation m Tokyo. message Sumerian King or viceroy He is repre- which will raise the level of life in Japan, ppointed Premier. Another Waves that Wong has seen recalled to treated with his hands clasped over his and, through the new provisions for Feling for pasty reasona wengs de Broast, and the unmutilated face shows education, secure, an intelligence in its poftare has given rise to doubts about the arched EYCOTOWB
joged together,
-farmed Lew era in the Orient. the somewhat straight lipa, and the Amy-marulder chin of the statue of Gudea, king of the Sumerian city of
One woman leapt from a high vernudah
and was instantly killed and incingrated The foreign fire brigade was assisted by the native brigade.
AMERICAN LAWYER
ed by Mr. Grant Jones, the British Assesor, for remarks practically threaten ing a Chinese riot if the case were not adjourned for ten days.
The Municipal Council has levied by distrains process on the recalcitrant shop keepers, the majority later paying
The Council is adamant.
[THEODGE RECTER'S AGENCY.) {
RECLAMATION NEAZ MACAO,
work at Abu Shahrein
A DIMARKABLE STATUE,
cf
the
it bastion
to
at lesat as early as 7,000 B.C., and the made it clear that their rele
rapidly now
When, there
moves
that
from the Kursaal, who was killed by a formation of the clandestine arming of { SERIQUE SITUATION AT IRKUTSK resumption of the Shanghai Conteraquiling but thort and delicately the citizenship which will be the dawn of a
blow from a pickaxe handle while en deavouring to force a cordon of British troops who were clearing a crowded cross- Ting for the passage of a guard of honour from the station after the departure of Lord Allenby on January 8th
in
Most of the orchestras refused to play last night, as a protest against the death
Egyptian agitators, making capital of the incident, arranged a procession to the Cemetery in the, morning..
The Italian Consul General, who od the British explanation, diverted the funeral to avoid demonstrations. "
There was an Egyptian demonstration in the Kursaal at noon, when the displayed the Italian flag and shouted "Down with England" Long live Italy" THE WORLD'S SHIPBUILDING STATISTICS FROM LLOYD'S
REGISTER..
Lloyd's Register shows that nearly 3,000,000 tons of shipping were being built. in the United Kingdom on December 31st, an increase of 177,000 compared with September 30th, and over 1,000,000 com Pared with December 31st, 1918. This includes 55 vessels of 10,000-tons and 'up- wazda.
The world's total in nearly 9,000,000 tons about 187,000 lower than on September 30th:
Chinese by Japanese as "nignals from
Loxpey, January 8th.
tile admiral of the Atlantic to the Ad. The situation is increasingly serious at miral of the Pacific and me
Irkutsk, where there are 9,000 anti-Kolt-
with
On January 3rd, 1904, he encloses Eng-chak insurgenta. They are being con dish Press articles on the German Navy stantly and Russia's policy to illustrate, the adipus incomprehensible hypocrisy of English".
Korea mast and will be Russian, but when, and bow concerns only you and your country." On January 9th, 1904, he hope "the Japs will listen to
son, notwithstanding the frantic efforts of the Vile Fres of a certain
dantry,
LONDON TO AUSTRALIA,
"TWO MORE AUSTRALIANS
* ATTEMPT BIG FLIGHT.
LONDON, January 8th
GERMAN ADMIRAL'S
INDISCRETION,
pace.
ROID PROVEMENT.
Del-Exuncil Bages of Skit patla-kbout-3800 BCMAILS BY POST.
the
FUMBAY-KARACHI SERVICE.
steamar
bs
sted in order for widening thei
All the Dow in the Louvre. Unlike this lost, how gehirn Road to 100 feet.
on the Bund are to be destroyed ver, it bears no inscription, and is bare
beaded instead of being the peculiar The first nerial postal service in India reinforced
level roadway. In rebuildin round turban of the Louvre statue. While begins between Bombay and Karachi machine guns and aeroplanes, the insurer deres to follave the there is no doubt that the two rulers were about the middle of Thaudry on have been ordered to the of the same race, the style of the new been brought about by the combined en tions given by the Municipa Cou gents are holding on the town.
vesting a margın, for widening the statue shows that it is at least: 500 years (thusiasm; of the Government of Bombay earlier tan re of Gudes, and was more and the Director General of Posts and understood that General Semenost, v
it probably, made, about the reign of En- Telegrapha The precise date of com- temetra, an carlier King of Lagash, of mencement is not known. An aeroplane westward of Chits, has appealed for the
13th January whom the Louvre has several inscriptions. will Bombay ESTUDENTS' AGITATION. despatch of a Japanese Division.
Almost equally important are the series rival of over on wartly after the as- healthcary Government on hearing of copper castings which Mr. Hall
another will leave Karachi every Sate thất Chượng, hug yew, the unan obtained from the same site. These are day morning in time to catch the Lucmus, não clusta all the schools in constructed on a care of clay on which going mail steamer. The rout
route will man owing to the students agitation, a layer of clay mixed with bitumen has
vić, Nawanagar, provided the hay terogained to the Peking Govern- been moglied, this having then heen Waharajab consents in serodrome ment hiring for the Tuchun's dismissal. covered with plates of thin but pure cop being established in Bis The Lufucation Association in Canton per How these plates were attached a machine used will be De Haviland longe very clear, but some of them bear distance bombers and will be capable of held a special meeting on January 11th to
nails which seem to have been pressed Charying three passengers and nearly in the sppointment of the hoop in into the jinder structure, which looks as thousand pounds of baggage or diphts at the Government Law School the if this Lact was first moulded into the Letters will have to bo specially The resignation of Admiral, Maurer,hool for garls and the First desired form and then after hardening had for the air romte and to, bear an add commanding the Baltic Bleet, has been mary School The students of these
the metal hammered
Letters posted. it so as to take tional sight-anna stamp accepted, following Admiral Meurer's lions are now on strike in sympathite shape. These casings comprise their London marked for transmission With the "principals who have been die model of a bull, appareatly about half Bombay to Karachi by air route will New Year Order of the Day describing mesod. The teachers of these schools are life-size, with borns of gold, the tip of be sent from London in a special bag must bear an additional one-shilling
probability of large serial port ever being formed at Bombay; and the pressatchene in fox the cold weather months, faring which the seroplane will land on dry mud fista 14 miles outside the city. The place met tioned for the serodrome for the monsoon months is Manmad which is three and
AMAZING, ORDER OF THE DAY. Bangis, January sth.
and
The Australians, Lieutenante Farrar the glorious deed of the scuttling of 41% contemplating protesting against the one of which has been found and is now stamp. There seems no and Macintosh, departed to-day from Scapa Fleet handed over, through a dishes of the Civil Governor in the
Hounslow on aeroplane D 59 for Aus
tralia.
THE MOULDERS" STRIKE, EMPLOYERS TERMS AGAIN REJECTED.
LONDON, January 8th,
The result of the moulders' ballot ou
and 9,631 are for the acceptance.
THE LABOUR PARTY NO ALLIANCE WITH THE LIBERALS.
LONDON, January 8th,
inatter.
graceful breach of contract," and demand. BANDITS IN LINSHÄN. ing rerenget
*#
·DUBLIN“ „SENSATION,
CONSTABULARY OFFICER SUM- MARILY DISMISSED.
LONDON, January 8th.
DEMANDS.
or
ed the baze of a throne or Beat.
▲ LION-HEADED EAGLE,
cabuted,
sá hornida
of
parta
with the remains of the figure about 6 inches long, is of pure gold, and is hollow, the thickness of the metal hav- ing, appareally, made any filling or back The authorities have received reports ing unnecessary. There is also the bend from the Linahan district that the prm of a large Lion, with inlaid eyes of red cipol city in the district was raided and white stone, teeth made in one piece on January 6th by a gang of about 300 from some sort of shell, and a tongue of bandite, who have now established them red stode or clay, Beveral smaller lions a half hours from Bombay by traine selves there. The Magistrate was away this, but bore no traces of bodies attach Sumerian character, which when doc.
heads were also found near panthers from the city at the time. All the localed to them, and probably, therefore, forta phored may supply us with their prai officials have fled.
mata date. There are also from this wīta. REVOLUTIONARY LEADER.
some clay blades for hoes formerly sup Sung Yuen-yan,
van, the leader of the revoBus the most extraordinary of these posed to be plaeolithic, and many fint is a large plaque bearing idin and grystal saw blades and others Nearly 5,000,000 tons are being built corning the settlement shows that 18,718, The Timer Dublin correspondent on in Fulien, has been compelled to works in copper abroad, a, decrease of 265,000 as compared are against the acceptance of the terms that is sensation has been caused. Berg by leave Fuktion: Bang, who is member in very him it be the we known cognis smile implements which thow the culturm
the summary dismissal of Bir Joseph of the Canton Parliament, has been asked ance or symbal of the city of Lagnati, co of the period to have been “chaleolithic, with Beptember
of a lion-headed eagle, with wings or, in other words, that of a race which to attend, the Constitutional Convention displayed, grasping gin, its two claws aus, both stone and metal implements as ober 30th owing to the de
Bryne, Inspector-General, Boyal Irish in Canton, but he is going to Shanghai,
pair of stag crease of 600,000 in the tonnage being,
the same time. Constabulary.
CANTON BUFFRAGETTEN. ~ --
would say
The plaque is
LA PARA ROYAL PALACEL built in the United States
petition, signed by many young 8ft. broad by 3ft ein. high, and the horns At Muqayys, or Ur of the Chalben CANADIAN LABOUR'Sues who are supporters of women sal- of the stage are modelled in the round Mr. Hall in continuation of Captain,
like those of the bull just described, 22
and frage movement recently launched in
Campbell Thompson's work, came across Canton was presented to members of the must have extended beyond the l
the platen
GEFAP, the foetal hins in
the remains of a large building, prob Constitutional Convention yesterday been
careful, reconstruction, but date can be put at about 3,400 BC,
measuring about 150it by 100ft be And clause in the laws of the Constitution if this can be satisfactorily accomplished it was burned down probably during the giving women 'equal rights with men and it will prores pf the most striking Elamite invasion 100 years later. But it
Traliefs of, the earless
andrization known Orawa, Jengery St, equal educational facilities.
to us fet drove seems to have been rebuilt and grain d in the Seventh Century B.C.,, when it whe In an interview with the Canadiah, Tuchun, Mok Wing on, entertains the remains of clay pillars of consider relics from Ur of greater antiquity, are, Lesser Antiquities from Tell Obeid are inhabited by priestly families. All the the military lenilere on January 13th, the able size, decorated by an external cover however," of the Gadis Period and no naval and Yunnanese leaders on Januarying of small triangular pieces of black clade many old Sumerian tabletâ not yek ith the heads of educational and chari and red stone and mother of pearl. The read. Among there was the head of ahle, institutions on January 16th and way those were attached to their bee or temale status in doldrite, showing the the merchants on January 18th. Mok backing has yet to be investigated, but will also entertain, M.PA in the new some peculiar V-shaped holes on their hair ingeniously modelled in stone. The
foner surface will probably give a clue with lacustrine shells of large sisey
whole site sees to have been cove building of the Treasury, HANNING BOTES, TU
There are also some clay "nails" about of which are from tin, to Bin, long A message from Namming states that which it has been suggested were inserted probably had come religious or symbolic
possibly also formed the better. The Prendent, Hsu Sbi-chan religions or superstitiousmative which the teeth of the lion Hent a doctor to attend to General Luka Other objects of interest are planoconvex and other accessories to state Boote the President learned of the bricks of the earliest Blumerian type, frag manufactured. From this, ante, loc, General's illness. The Tuchun, Tam Homents of pottery decorated with patterns the clay top of a drain or sink, al
Iso-bonds of globular Form Bolb mace-heads bear strong resemblance to comma, formed like a bath, with the the earliest Egypti
BRITISH PRISONERS IN
RUSSIA. LONDITIONS OF EARLY RELEASE
COPENHAGEN, January 9th. M. Litvinoff, interviewed by Reater,
aid that an agreement had been reached in principle with Mr. O'Grady. A de finite compact now depends upon whether Britain can persuade the Archangel Gay-
∙ernment
Mr. Arthur Henderson, speaking at EXTENSIVE CHANGES SUGGESThe petition demands M.Pa. to include.roquiaed, to powder, tais plaque will & Royal Palace, built of burnt brick!
Widnes, repudiated the suggested aliance.
of the Labour and Liberal Parties on the ground that such alliances spelled a com- promise, while Labour stood for prin oiples, which did not admit of a compro
mise.
LICENCING REFERENDUM.
RESULT IN NEW ZEALAND.
4 WELLINGTON, N.L., January 8th.
LED TO GOVERNMENT.
Government, Labour Officials reraested legislation establiming“ day, and 44-hour week. They demanded for right of organisation and the of the principle of collective
ENTERTAINMENTË, J
inches long, some straight, gome
to release certain Bolaher. The result of the Licencing Referenssistance in the formation of co-oper General Lak Wing-ting is now slightly between the bricks of temple walls from reason for their collection, th
prisoners. Immediate release of thedum showed: for the continuation of the
tive societies, revision of the
British wounded depends on the libera present laws 241,000 votes; for State par for arbitration in industrial dispu tion of these Bolshevistas
chase and control, 32,000; for Prohibi-
tion.
madian tál
limitation of Oriental immig Consequently the absolute majority diction of the permanent which is necessary to carry any change, tary forces and represe was not obtained and the present Hicent on the M aging Bo ing systera continnen.
Railways
The majority of British women internetion, 270,000,
Russia have already been liberated on M. Litivinoff's representations while Mr. O'Grady urged the British Government to release certain Russians in London.
ming again went to Lungchow on Jaani in black-pigzzed, and pottery Sandit clay pet of amphora shape, and
ary 6th. A hig fire occurred in Nanning workers in the early morning on January 4th
when more than 40 shops were, burnt downed the fire raged for four hours nad the loss of firoperty was considerable.
found with many clay
Trom the tomb in
These, however, are much
early
Buberiani mlic
jez (Contínued as foot of next column.)
than 300 B.C