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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TURSDAY, SEPTEN BEBITH 1949.
GENERAL ELECTION: PROBABLE RESULT OF MINERS STRIKE. TURKISH CROWN PRINCE RUNS AWAY BUT IS TAKEN BACK, BOLSHEVISM IN ITALY: CLASH BETWEEN WORKERS AND TROOPS FEARED.
LATEST CABLES. ĮTHROUGH LEUTER'S AGAMUT;]
GENERAL ELECTION IN
BIGHT. HET
PROBABLE RESULT OF STRIKE. Larray, September 19th.
Itu unquestionable thes
Govern
SIR ROBERT HORNE CRITIQISES MINERS.
Larnas, September 11th Sir Robert Harm, interviewed, declared thag & pirike was inevitable if the miners refused to abate, their damanda, which were
The Government wu mensced by an industrial atriks for political
M. KAMENEFF'S DEPARTURE: ALLEGATION OF BREACH OF FAITH.
LONDON
it is noteworthy in this con may influentis) quarters regard MOVEFERNCH OF TOS submetty An illegal,
It is reported that, "before leaving,
"Lloyd Geor
kang to from Mr. used that Kussia edges and had been
LATEST CAREKS. NEW RUBBER SU
200 lb
AMERICAN MINERS,
PRESIDENT
RECOGNISE
TROUBLED IRELAND.
TEJ CASE OF LORD MAYOR OF CORK.
LONDON, September 19the turday night's bulletin sty” Mr
DOES NOT EIR VACATION.
September Tith
Geliminated the bol peror condition.
In conne shthracitë
WDER Preventidge", ona, tármus
ith the action of 100,000
Lion of the
Great Britain.
A
pointed
ident
li is stated that M."Kanined will nok
za a remilt of a coal strike,
Lens throughout history has ever, benzi call- | Fa(smphasised that a quarter of a million | be allowed to return, Em, the other hand, Wilson has notified the miners his retisal
upon to Esca
મા
miners refaied to support the claim, and alonic problems as the present: Coalition, the miners agreed that a revision of the The state of Ireland aggravated by Mr wages system might bring them greatly Machiney ebbing life daily grows princreased earnings, while increasing 'ontpat gressively unwholenatis. The country is in
and cheapening post
the consumer, H. the throes of a number of secondary strikes; concluded by saying that the Miners some, like the electricians, are threatening Federation had taken up the attitude that so become of the first magnituda Mesope they would not discum this position until mia is inflamed. The Polish-Ruian que they Brit, suveeded, by menacing the pub don is rife with the graves European colic, in extracting a fat-rate advance which plications, although, momentarily, the omena are brighter. The Italian labour troubles canning the gravest apprehension, over and above all, Great Britain
M. Arasaan hai taithfully, observed | his pielges, and is remai
RUSSIAN FOOD CRISIS.
DESPERATE BOLSHEVIK APPEAL.
LONDON, September 12th The Soviet's wirelem appeal throughout Hamia indicates a great food crisis, as it declares that the daily bread problem is the most important question of the days owing to the had harvest, and orders all workers organustions to mobile thair foros for the purpose of obtaining foodtr
the:: were afraid to justify before an im partial tribunal. Cynicism could not go further.” The miners" repented amovera" | stufs from the värs) districts. Mans of anselfishness and, regard" for the
ELECTRICAL STRIKE THREAT
face to face in Torznight interests of the community might now be
ene miners' strike, with a
estimated at their true value, llenge of revolution on Bolibevist, BONS lines by an internal blockade of coal up plins which will be the most fateful domestic ong since the Civil Wars of the 17th Cen tury, for, if the minern, defeat the Govern ment, Boviet tyranny would be established and the franchise become a supreme faron, The vole would be wate paper and majority rüle abolished,
LEADERS DO NOT FAVOUR EXTREME MEASURES.-
LONDON, September 19th-
*POLAND AND RUSSIA.
NEW BED OFFENSIVE.
send to the Coal Committer to re-corider the wage award:
President, Wilson has declared that when mubody of men, collectively, refrained from work by mutual understanding, it strike, po matter by what name called.
MEXICAN BANDITS. OUTWITTED BY THEIR CAPTIVES.
NEW YORK, September 9th.. The
Department learns from exico City that Mr. Johnson, a British
aptured by band
condition is much worse. He
sod, bus la vill ISH LONGSHOREMEN'S
Negr
RESULT.EN
STRIKK
NEW YORK September 11th. "replaced the Irish longshoremen who deserted the White Star piers by a ¤ratest: 'Againas: the treatment of Arch- huhop Mannix and. Mr. HacSwiney,
There was no disorder.
LORD MILNER
EARLY RETIREMENT FORECAST-
LONDON, September 19th The Dispatch foreshadows alon retirement of Lord. Milner from Colonial Offices. UL
KIEL CANAL ORDER. AMBASSADORS' CONFERENCE
PROTESTS..
Paz18, September 10th,"
A Hayas thesisge says:——
Cambon in the chair, bar passed a resolu
The Ambasadors Conference, with M.
tion on sending Germany a Note protest ing against the stopping of ships passing through the Kiel Canal bound for Dantzig. GALLANT CATALONIANS, RECEPTION IN FRENCH CAPITAL
Pants, September 10th,
haxcaped,
A Bayas message szy thing Guadalajara
A reception took place of a delegation lovernment ; troqpa" The of Spanish Catalo tans who fought as
has also
and volunteer in the French armies during in order to go to the war. The delegation brenght s dag for keeping in the French Army Museum. Department tales The Catalonians, wär lowest were 10,000 that the Government is purchasing 40,000 casualties, out of a force of 12,000. rifles from England and Germany with which to equip the Mexican army which is being re-organized, b
Losops, September 12th, A telegram from Warsa reports that 5. new Bed general offensive is expected in the next few days, The Bolshevik, in Volhynia have brought up in fresh divi It is announced that a campaign will sions, and are re-grouping the Northerp ba begun against the ontlaws, especially armian
those preying on paymasterwin, the petro-j leum region,
At a meeting of representatives of the even unions of the London Electric The Polish communique admits that the workers, Jast evening, a resolution was pass Reds have succeeded in forcing the Bug
Kline, near Kamionks, and Strumilova, ed in favour of sympathetic strike in connection: with the ilectriciane, lock-out,¦ÂË the employen per withdraw the lock-out notiem,
The extension of the strike to London that the forces i vanld involve
It is now clear that, after the failure of the next move - m135 minem, and
playing mately And
their
fu | HITCH IN PEACE POURPARLERS.
AMERICAN SHIP AGROUND.
FEARED WILL BE TOTAL LOSS."
Beptember 10th. way the American 7,300 tons from
EARLIER CABLES.
Lloyd
steami ENDOR. September thi telegram frim Moscow mys M. Tchi. Batare
18 aground in the barbour.
passengers are being landed. -
AMERICAN CRUISER ON ROCKS.
LONDON September 10th.
the eberíu baa announced that the Bolsheviks The forepart is resting on rock, and it will carry them over the Metropolitts public services-lighting, the at the eleventh hour have decided not to feared that it will be a total low. The
tubes,
ete--but it: ine to send peace "delegites to Rigs to meet the ative of the Poles The hitch appears to be due to the Letts not guaranteeing minunity from All interference for the lamian: auxiliary permouse) but only for the delegates and experts.
ked circles are, of opinion that En the went of a strike & General Election will be unavoidable of the result of which there can be Hiile doubt. Such an appeal
the country will not be without its com
Unions concerned will nööpt the. dation, as it is believed, that some, so pre- wit are not in favour of drastic setion.
it in dechred, as the 1918 Elec. SERIOUS OUTLOOK IN ITALY
were "abnormal, and the House of to-day is not a true mirror of the
Meanwhile, last week's Labout: Congress
WORKERS COMMANDEERING
FACTORIES.
LONDON, September 11th, The latest reports show that Italy may
GENERAL BUIDENNY'S FORCE BETREATING.
ARSAW, September 9th
-that- General
A wireless message states that the American cruiser Pittsburg, with Admiral House on board, ty hard aground on rocks off Liban in
sition proceeding to
↑ An American tran
FUTURE OF RHINELAND.
Budjenny's force, Efter, a new and unsucOMPLAINT OF NEGLECT B7
heary fighting to the east of the Bug
has been, impressive but confused. On the one hand, the extremists have shown more be on the verge of a revolution. Negotia-
The Poles have occupied Krubieszów, clearly than ever that they desire to make tions are proceeding between metal workers
In the region ti the Narew a Bolshevik kad sa metadonna and detachment was defeated, 500 prisoners being acounter-power to Parliament by and minators about which the reporta are as
taken organising -Frades Unionism as a State present "conflicting. Mawile, the move- within a State but dominating, the rest, ment a spreading. but the more sober elements of the Com Workers have commandered the rubber p gross which Mr. Thomas managed admirably factories in Turin and Milan, including the FRANCE AND BELGIUM HAVE NO were stronger than the debates suggested, Pirelli chemical works where 10,000 persons
In various parts of the country, there employed:
The Socialist Deputies are supporting the miners have tendered strike notices, boca S
workers, but the Socialist Party has not substantial percentage of the miners and Magday
Channel yes made a însă decisión. South Wales has refrained from puttingMTAHANGA TAO
lt in saated, we are informed from Milan;
GERMANY
PAN18, Septembar 10th,
to
In the North, the Poles coupy the line, Augustow-Suwalki and haya received orders the
ayaid conflicts with the lithuaniank.
sent M
expre
the Rhinel
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
·SCIENTISTS” PROPORAL, AT BRUSSELS CONFERENCE,
Barssels, September 19th. A Bavas mesage says A number of well known scientists met under the chairmanship: the French Professor Appleton and, resclveg on found. ing an international university. NEW STATE OF GRANDLIBAN
CELEBRATION IN ALEXANDRIA.
PAR15, September 12th,
"A. Havas message says"-2 17, CI-
Jiban
MIC CAAUST
WINS
STRONG COARTI
STEAM
Löwdos, "September
The Marylebone Cricket Offà
trong All Eagle by an innings and 5 runs, boting 105 rune,
TURKISH CROWN PRINCE "MAKES UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT
TO JOIN NATIONALISTE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, September Turkish Crown Prince pied to. Hea ta' Nationalists He has
plared under rigorous care and bosta have been sei
FRENCH SUBSTANTIA
PIRIK, Septembe
A Havas meage says
"The combined proceeds from taxes for the
500,000,000) month of August, are franes, baing a large incr with August 1919,
edinates...
STEAMER AGROUND · NEAR SINGAPORE.
637 ANNAMITE TROOPS ON BOARD.
"News was received fa: Singapore on the 3rd inst. by wireless that the inter-Allied steamer Alienberg, now running under ther French dag, ya ashore for the ocks off Lima: Island near the Horsburg: Light and that she was leaking badly. A later | message asked for assistance in the form
of lighters to remove the passengers, somes 637 of them most of whom were Aunamita troops The laskage was getting wors and the ship's pumpa vera unade to dry
The Harbour Board tug Forums despatched with all haste, as well as som lighters Before noon. they got to the scene but by that time the fare part of the vessel was flooded, The General Gallien, aho & French liner whose Bingar pore agents are the same as those of the. grounded steamer Hessz Moine Comte & Co., ao put to the scene and stood by receiving all the passengers on board It was apparent from the start that
thing effective could be done to extricate the ship from its position with the cargo on. All the paengers being transferred to the General Galliens; the latter vessel The Forssa and | put back to harbour.
the Swila, the other; harbour board tog remained on to render whatever saistanem
Singapore Free Paris. they could.
LOCUSTS IN MALAYA COMPLETE EXTERMINATION
At Alexandria, the diplomatic bodyr for
The Director of Agriculture in his re- were present at the› festival arranged by i pon for the year, 1819 potes that locuata the Byrian Colony to celebrate the recent finally disappeared from, the country in July when the remaining, staff was paid proclamation of the new State of Grand off. No reports of their pressace
since been received and it may, therefo be ssumed that this pest has beet 200 pletely exterminated. If it has been, this is one of the few instances, if foot. only one, on record of the complete. mination of locusts, The pest: kppeared. however, in Borneo, and the services the Acting Entomologist were lent zulvise om methods at control.
SUGAR SLUMP. EXPECTED IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, September 19th reported that sugar alump immipeat. Before long, the retail price
to: be ed
FARLIER CABZES.
GERMANY'S OLD SHIPS. FOUND TO BE IN BAD CONDITION.
LONDON, September 16th,
A Havas message says: After arbeying through Lower Alastig, where he was warmly greeted everywhere, ;- Millerand bag arrived at Strasbourg-
The Times New York correspondent says Le Valls, the Leg pendence of the Falatinate, has land, of 54,000 tons, my Dever
the liner Leynalkan, formerly the Fater
gain. be an address of greeting
seen on the high seat. She is lying [dest republic in
that his Hoboken Dock
partially sunk ranit in the an mud, in such a state of disrepair that sild econotas over £2,000,000 would be necessary to restore cal actuation in the Palatinate which has her for seg denies the rumour been knes by Germany.
odt
ITALY'S REQUEST
FOR AUSTRIAN SHIPS FROM
DIFFERENCES.
FARI September 11th... A. Hayas messsge aɛya f---- LA Tem positivel
diffe cow having
that the Government, which so far has supplying munitions
act, if
The Sunday Times in pointing out that beerA arrangement exists by which Parliament can
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g
som been, neutral, would be compelled
be summoned over the Polish affairs, urge
Immediate summoning of Parliament
for
dels anticipated, all the facturiew in the country are seized by wor
M.MILLERAND'S TOUR.
ASSURANCE TO ALSATTANE
PARIS, Septes
ent, with whips of; to pre-
trate, to the miners
gency spelling: inevitablo bloodshed and civil war.
their
sconcilable attitude..
In the com of the Food Ministry state
LATEST CABLES.
MODERATES GAIN VICTORY.
Lospos, September 19th.
A Haras meest g M. Mille today cftia
and
Assorted
"maintain, local
French units.
DOUBLE EVENT.
SPARIO; September 11. A Havas message says:-2: The che da Parit, states that Italy, in the course of the coming conference between H. Millerand and Signor Giolitti, likely tonák for 32 / Anytrian merchant, "shipe now in Fremel, hands, also for en, increase in hipments of phosphate and icon are from
FRANCO ITALIAN CONFERENCE
“ATALI-LES-BAINBRE PAIE September 12th,
dor Giolitti hav
ment, whied earlier, Mr. McCurdy em-
phasised thaw, while hardship is inevitable if A telegram from Milan says the moda the mining maike comen, he is satisfied that,
with the loyal co-operation of the communi- rates have gained a complete victory over
ty and the maintenance of civil order, the extremists at a meeting between the Arrangements" which have been completed general workers and Sociali will cure adequate bug restricted supplies of food for the whole countryck
PARLIER CABLES
D'CONTROLEER'S THREAT.
largo
majority voting in favour of settling the POSTPONEMENT OF REPA metal workers' strike through Parliament.
FRENCH LOAN.
Benter
'OVER-SUBS RIBEI
MERICA
CONFE
coming conference" Franco Italon amity.
La Petit Farisien, believes that the ques blog to come first in the discussion are reparations, war damages and the pod, admittance of Germany into
overnmen
SHARES TO BEARER..
ABOLISHED IN ITALY.
A far-reaching financial measura kan voted in the Italian Chomber, the
which is to abolish company shares bearer, which will all have to be convertach into nominataye shares. The object of thes reform, is to enable the Italian-re authorities to trace holders of large que tities of share and judge bester, ther divitial contributive power as The object has been under The bill had been suggested Nivoral the Chamber during the pas
Signoz Nitta's Milstein, and time witdirdawo tinder allege Large financial circles and Signor Giolitti's Cabine German schema and presenter
How
The Shipping Board has also had return ed to it the Fo liner "Kron
cently auctio
was re-ment, gwing thereby
Bocialiste, Fazre
A
democratic factions in
to indiosta that the latter is in så bad 'miinued in shares in, Italy im ëatinhkted boondition za-the
DEATH OF FILM ACTRESS. THROUGH SWALLOWING LOTION.
Fith
(brother
Mary Pickford)
has
DESI
NOT
ber 11t
about, sixty-seven milliards of lin, may be added another category of Treasury bonds and savings põejis:- estimated massahont milkands of lips, and which will remem beaver Out of the remainZAK AZKY)
milliards only really forby
come under the
žive phares. tax, which it b
be able to impČIMI OTH
zwólve to
bacon
whole con
an hour?