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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER STH, 1920.
DUTCH STEAMER HELD UP,
FLOODS IN SCOTLAND GERMAN AUTHORITIES REFUSE
NOAH'S ARKS ON THE DEE.
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RISING IN SICILY: PEASANTS TÅKE OVER LARGE ESTATES.
TRADE DEPRESSION:
EFFECT OF CONTINENTAL COMPETITION,
LATEST CABLES.
¿TERJOGA_MEUTER'S ADENOT.)
FLOODS IN SCOTLAND.
PONIES AND SMALL STOCK SWEPT AWAY,
Lospos, October 5th, Parts of Scotland have been devastated by wind and rainstorms. The river Dee and Don have flooded the countryside for miles. Hay, corn and poultry were swirled from the lower reaches of the Die towards the son while the Garthdew Bleach Factory was inundated and £10,000 damage was dons.
Further up the river, Shetland ponies were swept away and drowned. Five drifters and trawlers broke adrift in Aberdeen barbour. Three were recovered and two were washed up. Serious damage was done in Perthshire, a large area being deeply submerged and small stock drowned. NOAH'S ARKS ON THE DEE.
LONDON, October 8th..
The Highlands have experienced the worst foods since the historic overflowing of the Moray in 1899. It is impossible yet to 'gango" the "extent of the disaster, but the rivers Tay, Spry, Dee and Don are: raging torrents,
Farmers in the Balmoral area were inalared and were rescued with difficulty by a motor boat. Hereabouts a herd of Shet
land ponies was swept away."
In the lower reaches of the Dee, sheep bayricks, trees and poultry were swept away to the sen,
DUBLIN OUTRAGE.
HOLD-UP IN BANK.
Loknow, October 5th. A eustonary outrage is reported from Ireland to-day. This is a case of a hold- up by armed men in a Dublin bank.. Three men entered the bank and ordered the staff
hands and demanded arms, whilst one ent the telephone wires and the other filed his pockats with money and decamped with £800 after warning the staff and the cus 'tomers not to leave the bank for an hour. SINN FEINERS SENSATIONAL
COUP.
LONDON. October 5th.
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TO LET IT GO TO DANTZIG..
BERZIN, October 5th.
A message from Kier says the German
TRADE DEPRESSION. EFFECT OF SERIOUS.
COMPETITION.
TROUBLE IN PALESTINE.
SERIOUS REPORTS. News by no means reassuring in DATE, writes a correspondent to the Warning.
(TUE SERIOUS GOLF SEASON. UNPOPULAR PRACTICES. PEOPLE WHO BECOME A NUISANCE LONDON, October 5th, authorities have held up a Dutch steamorish commercial community is experiencing dition of aftafe in that country, and it is a very seriously, is a writer in the Illuminating explanations why the Eng: Post, has been received through private Golf never really stops all the year.
sources from Palestine regarding the con-round, but there are times when it is to be . from Rotterdam bound for Dantzig and
period of depression were afforded" by, conveying two American aeroplanes equiMr. Peter Rylands, the President of the have to be inegrand, Public semuity in the past few months has meat" a golf is very probable that our garrison will Yet, Zaily News, The hot weather af ped with machine-guns which were meant Federation of British Industries, in the many of the Razas leaves mach for Poland, and ordered the captain" "to course of an address at the London Iron | desired; and affrays, sinetimes developing ever much of a nuisier a man might bẹ to to be course with heaps of elbow room, and how- discharge the cargo or return to Rotter and Stand Exchange,
ato sul batiles, arg" fréquent. Thus tinm.
tween our troops and Arab, at Engeddi, Bet these haleyen days for the differ ara himself he was not necessarily so to others. recently there was a serions sacounter, be in the Hebron distrat. Naive reports practically is as end, “ail we now anter 4.442752 that 23 British and Indian soldiers were killed and 30 wounded Among the upon the time when the player must obey dead was an English enptain. Another the Decalogue in letter as well as in spirit end of July in the same district, r.sulted i
ngagement, which also took place at the and remember the Beatitudes if his golüng
He stated that the demand for British production has, diminished owing to the prices rising above the consumers' capacity to pay them; also since the Armistice, Great Britain has fulfilled a large pro
CARGO DESCRIPTION.
BERLIN, October 6th... A memago from Kiel say that the cargo of the Dutch steamer consists mainly of American tinned beef with two British portion of the world orders which. Con. in the benting off of the insurgents with soul is to be saved.
aeroplanes.
NOTE TO GERMANY.
PARIS, October 6th, The Conference of Ambasadors has sent a Note to Germany as regards the
CAMPAIGN.
LONDON, October 6th.
tinenin) manwacturers and interests so far were unable to undertake, The United
owing to thê rate of exchange.
simukanemusly handicapped
States
But. Mr. Rylands showed, the position
at the point of revolvers to hold up their stoppage of "the above steamer recalling is now changing owing to the revival of that under the Treaty of Versailles the Liermans and Belgian trada competition. navigat of the Kiel Canal is entirely and he pointed out that German export, fres
which in January last year were only POLAND'S WARS.
of the value of 161,000,000 marks, were of TRUCE TO AVOID WINTER
the value of 0,047,000,000 marks last May, and they have undoubtedly increased siner, While Germany is subsidising railways, A telegram from Riga says that the coal, food and other commodities from Russian and Polish delegations have agreed barred money, Great Britain has done to sign au armistice and a preliminary exutly the opposite. The Government was prace greenient un October 8th, with a view encouraging deflation and removing sub- to avoiding a winter campaign,
sadies thereby raising the cost of living at moment when industries were endanger ed by serious competition.
Replying to a suggestion, Mr. Rylands sure that inanufacturers would be only too willing to adopt the policy of A patrionic offer has been made by an fixing table prices for certain periods
Armed Sian Feiners, last night, carried out one of their most succesful coups They made a sudden onslaught on the police barracks near Skibbereen and took the garrson of fifteen policemen completely by surprise and compelled thom to surrender without firing a single shot. They then burned down the barracks after removing the machine-guns and a considerable quan- tity of ammunition
THE CONSTABULARY HARRACKS,
RAID.
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LONDON, October 6th. As regards the captured barracks, it is officially reported that it was the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Schull, Co-Cork, which was attacked in the evening by a large body of armed meng
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PATRIOTIC OFFER,
FOREGO INTEREST ON WAR STOCK,
LONDON, October 5th.
Edinburgh firm, which insists on anony-far as practicable,
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the loss of one officer and aine then killed and a considerable number of wounded
THE LOST BALI.
the antives without reserve, it seems clear life unblemished, and who are even respected
There are people who go u Though one cannot accep; figures given by
uthenew through
that both the encounters were on a con-be their fellow men, hat who fail miserably sitlerable scale, and the numbers of Arts in their duty towards humanity ance they in arts auainst must have run into several hundreds,
get within sight of a golf course. Open A still more serious affras is reported Tribesmen from the Beni Atia, Beni Bela, in public and private life, yes when, it to have occurred in the Jordan valley handed and ebaritable they frequently se
Jericho and forced the local government hold ap a whole army of golfers while they Shammar. and Bashar tribes penisent
curios, tok lost hall they will relentlessly to retire to Jerusalem. The tribesmen, authorities, collected the cattle of the in-economy obsess them at such moments, after the disappearance of the British scour the wilderness. The mania for Jesusalent Government, and then retired and they neglect that courteous wave of habitants, who bad remained loyal to the across the Jordan.
the arm which would allow the advance af
PROTESTH.
The unrest in Palestine, of which these incidents are symptoms, is undoubtedly others to continue. Perhaps, of course, the widespread, and the situation is certainly wan has been blufting the world all the time ning, very high, as is shown by the murder until he found himself upon the golf links, delicate, Feeling in the Haman is run- of Aladdin Darouby Pasha, the Syrian and only then has his sal been laid baro. Damascus Government. Premier, and other high officials of the If it be tot so, he is still a nuisance, to use Haman is geo- no stronger n word, and must be put in graphically as much akin to Palestine as the same category as the affable creature it is to Syria, and the feeling amongst the sometimes encountered. varlike sedentary Arabs who inhabit that The pincipal defect about the latter in fertile region, is probably as strongly anti-that he has forgotten all about the 19th British as it is anti-French. Hence one hole, if indeed he ever heard of it. His must expect the excitement now ruling in voice is heard shouting greetings to long that district to have its repercussion in lost friends-lost at any rate for the pre- Palestine,
Ivious hour or two-and all manner of prople increase since the arrival of Sir Herbert his favourite poet. These items are right Anti-Zionist sentiment has been on the the stynic he laid on the 3rd green and acquire stray hits about his family history,
Samuel The latest manifestation of this and proper at the old, in fact a goodly feeling has been shown by the protests" stock of them is the only way to win this Fiebron, and Gain. These were around they are the things, that stir other drafted in the same form; and ran follows:
people's bile and create heartburn. When, With all due respect to his Britanies from now onwards, golf comes into ita LONDON, October 8th.
Majesty and to your person (Sir Herbert
own, these and like diseases on the golf The Central Profiteering Committee is dreision taken at San Remo (., the
Samuel), we beg to protest against the course must be eliminated. Mr. Auston Chamberlain has gratefully co-operating with treders with a view to granting of the mandate to Great Bri accepted the offer.
reducing the cost of living, and as a resulttain) and against your appointment.
The Jaffa notables, on returning from NEW CANADIAN MINISTER.
of investigation it is anticipated that derusalem after having heard the King REASON OF DELAY IN APPOINT-will be placed on the market, abo standard citizens
large supplies of guaranteed good clothing age and Sir Herbert Sammel's speret, are reported tn have said to their fellow
"We are returning from the MENT..
burial of the Holy Land.". ballding materiala, af fixed prices. It is LONDON. October 6th,
suggested that the standard price for men's Contrary to the Associated Press message uit be £5, West End tailors are at present! from New York of September 30th, the charging 15 to 18 guinea":"
EFFECTS OF CENTRAL PRO-
FITEERING COMMITTEE.
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wity, to forego interest totalling £25,000 TO REDUCE COST OF LIVING, Mtional Asociere of very popular hole, but for the rest of the aceruing in the next five years on £100,000 war stock. The firm foreshadows a possibla similar extension for another five years, after which it hopes others will be encour aged to do the same,"
A
A vigorous Fire was maintained by both sides until midnight, when the defenders Shipping in Aberdeen suffered severely.worn overpowered and surrendered. The Five drifters and two small steamers were raiders numbered 200. Many of them arriv wrecked shore. A big watchdog, fastened. in a kennel was swept into the Dec. Tho
ed by motor-cars in small parties over the dog was record. Great numbers of wild mountain roads, all reaching the rendezvous
about dark. rabbits herded on the tops of grain stooks and "wooden storesheds floated on the Dee
The barracks are a double storeyed build. like numbers of Noah's Arks. The Bleaching situated on
that it is officially denied that the delay. a high hill overlooking fields linen works were partially destroyed.
Schull harbour. The palice kept the raid-in the appointment. of a Minister to repre Rent Canada in Washington is due to The damage is estimated at £10,000.
MINERS'
STRIKE THREAT.
GLOOMY OUTLOOK,
.
Morning Pou's Ottawa correspondent says
SCIENTIFIC FOOD METER
FOR: TOKYO.“
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THE SILVER SINNER There is hope, says Kipling somewhere iusty drunk in public, but little or nose or another, for the man who gets uproar, for the silent drinker. In the fame way man may foozle all down the fairway and still keep his place, doing little damage to anybody, but there are people--they seem to hunt in couples-who may not be classed as were genial blanderers. It happens that A pair may me the course cles, before them and drive off, but when about to play their second another wet of players suddenly emerge before them and without o much w
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THE FASTING LORD MAYOR. LABORATORIES FOR STUDY OF by your lenya" smack their halls in
LONDON, October: 5th. The public belief that Mr. MacSwiney must be getting food is not shared by the
NATION'S NOURISHMENT: A Calorie meter,, one of only five of the kind in the world, will be used in the Japanese National Laboratory to test
the directing of the green. Of course, far the previous ball hour they have both been out of bounds hunting after lost balls, and having retrieved them they barge into the course regardless of all others. At such
er at bay for four hours, ultimately being objections by Sir Auckland Geddes. Home Office which explicitly states that nourishments in food stuff. The laboratory times a regret that golf is not played with
delay is attributed to the absence of
The Do
American President is
overwhelmed by the overpowering numbers. The military wized practically all incom- urgency, owing to the lull which is likely is refusing all food. There is no reason will be erected on the present site of the math creant and french mortars is per ing mails in Dublin and searched them and until the
to suspect that he is receiving food from mate of Y 250,000. Dr. Saekiku, who will the only kind of argument 'likely to appeal Sugame Hospital, with a budgetary esti-fectly excusable. Lethal weapons are shout returned them later. Heavy outbreaks of elected."
relatives. firing occurred in Cork at night time be
medicine which arrest certain deteriorating abandoning his life work to devote himself has worried much about three and four
He is taking hot water and be in charge of the laboratory, says he is to these people. teen Sinn Feiners and the military curfew
processes,' · |
Throughout these summer months robody. to the public service." patrols.
The mystery of the hunger strikers" in In Dr. Saekika's opinion, the Japanese
ball matches, Cork. who
There has generally bee have fasted
days physique is much weaker than the physique it will be a different matter. They are
rom and to spare, but from now onwardi longer than Mr. MacSwiney, is also un-of the Western races, and there is great very interesting way to play golf, but they solved and is confounding doctors
GOVERNMENT MOVE TO RE- ESTABLISH AUTHORITY.
LONDON, October 8th.
LONDON, October 6th. There are indications that a strong feel ving exists in most coalfields which may lead to a majority against the proposed datum line at the next week's ballot The fact that the Miners' Federation executive Das not suggested how the miners should vole-probably due to difference of opinion among the members-will evidently con- siderably lead to increase the vote against the acceptance of the proposed terms.
The uncertainty whether a bare or two thirds majority in necessary for strike notices to take effect in the event of the rejection of terms has been cleared up by the Secretary, Mr. Hodges, who states that the former will infice. Meanwhile, the miners at the Welsh, Staffordshire and Northumberland collieries which were idlo as an emphatic protest against the datum line proposals, have now resumed work. ITALY'S LABOUR TROUBLES NEW GOVERNMENT MEASURE.
LONDON, October eth. The Italian Government bill regulating It is believed that the new form of activi industrial relations arising from the recent ty, which, it is recognised, will entail whole metal workers' dispute will shortly bo sale arrests of Sinn Fein leaders, will bo introduced into the Chamber,
in full swing before the m-assembling of Parliament on October 19th.
The idea is gaining ground in reliable quarters that while police and military re- prisals in Ireland are henceforward to be discouraged, another move is imminent with the object of reasserting Government authority. For this idea evidence is forth- coming in the increasing raids on Sinn Fein courts which so far bave infrequently born interfered with. Following on the dispersal of the "Sinn Fein Quarter Bessions" at Navan, the military sur rounded the Wexford Town Hall where the Mayor was presiding at an illegal court. The Mayor was arrested, and he protested that he had a right to hold the court but he was removed to a gaol with the other court - officiela, 15
GERMAN MINERS. LARGE ÎNCREASE IN OUTPUT.
BERLIN, October 6th,
will probably accept the position.
It is understood that Sir Robert. Borden
THE "BISMARCK" FIRE. EXTENT OF DAMAGE
LONDON, October 8th.
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two
ared of improving Japanese health.". Bo cause of that condition and also because sometimes lead players of experience and SITUATION EN MESOPOTAMIA. the Empire is in need of a food policy much sweetness of disposition into unworthy
COLUMN TO RELIEVE SAMARA,
much needs to be done to improve the food actions, This is particularly liable to It would appear that the damage to them to bord St
of the nation,
happen during the next weeks, when the The Carolie méter, which is worth easy methods of summer are fresh in play- Bismarck was not so extensive as at first
LONDON, October 5th. Y.20.000, was made under the supervision
ers' minds reported. At any rate Lloyd's agent at anzounces that a colunin proceeding finment Testing Laboratory. Dr. Backiku ex-been lost and won, but there are others to Probably it is natural for The War Office Mesopotamia communiue of Dr. Benedict of the Carnoyie Nourisher ember of one of these combinations Hamburg merely reports that the fire Ur to relieve Samara reached Leluk-pects to combine science and practice so
to desire to hole out after the hole bes destroyed one room above the engine-room.hairi on October 1st without opposition. na to make valuable contribution toward be considered and there are many ways in The advanced railhead on the Ur-Hamara the improvement of food. The laboratory which they can help to improve the temper CAIRO TRIAL.
railway is now Bacha, thirty-six miles from will have 30 different départments to take of the whole golf course. Samara
up a study of the different phases of the food problem.
FOUR ACCUSED ACQUITTED,
CAIRO, October 6th.. Four accused in the conspiracy trial have been acquitted. The remainder, in clading Abdel Rahman, have been found guilty. The sentences will be promulgated,
KAVOBITUARY."
* LONDON, October sth. Heinemann, the well known publisher.
The death is announced of Mr. William
C. N. Williamson.
The death is announced of the novelist,
THE POSITION IN JAPAN. AN OUTSPOKEN SPEECH.
NO. SELF-DETERMINATION.. Only a few matters connected with serious golf have been here mentioned, hat they should help the player to bear his THE SUMMIT OF CHEEK.
responsibilities in mind. Wherever self- determination may apply, it does not apply HUMOURS OF NON-CO-OPERATION. to a golf course, for there the player
under a government which, if abused to The Pioneer (Allahabad) writes: Ing will some day rise in its wrath and kost countries the idea of persons asking deport the self-determinist, Probably there for concessions from a State railway to are a few who come into the latter category, facilitate their attendance at a meeting but happily very few, and the majority called to consider the question of paralys-through ignorance. For instance a young ing the Government would appear incre golfer acquires a bag of clubs, a few ballo dible. The Congress organisers in the and usually a partner as well versed in the Mr. Inkaj, the leader of the NationalissPunjsh, however, appear to have request game as himself, and off he goes feeling party, and member of the Diplomaticed the North-Westers Rallway to arrange like a lord of creation. He has not, how- Council, delivered on outspoken speech re. that the charges, amounting to nearly Rs.over, the most important thing of alla cently on the occasion of the opening of 5,000, on a special train for delegates to book of ruire and so itant to make his branch of his party at Wakayams,
attend the meeting on non-co-operation af own and other people's lives a misery. He expressed his belief that the League Calcutta, should be waived and they, no The rules are tolerably simple, but what i PEASANT RISING IN SICILY.no practical value.
of Nations was merely an ideal, and had doubt, feel that they have a grievance be better is that, the etiquette of the game in
All the nations, he cause their modest application was not OCCUPYING, LARGE LANDED
said, were arming themselves, and real granted. world peace was not yet in sight. ESTATES.
MANILA BLAZE.. STATE BUILDINGS DOOMED.
LONDON, October 8th. The Times Manila correspondent reports. that the Philippine Senate, Treasury and int buildings are ablaze. They are a far despite the efforts of the Fire Brigades. ing furnace and are probably doomed,
GERMAN FORGER, ENGLISH
£1 NOTES.
laid down in clear and shall we may?.. beautiful language, and even if a man. offends against the rules there is much hope for him provided he observes, the etiquete
CARNEGIE BOOKS FOR TOKYO
According to the Epoca, it provides re- form of the Supreme Labour Council and creates a special technical council' of 160
Japan was surrounded by unfriendliness members, equally composed of representar
everywhere, including China, Australia and] LONDON, October oth America Internally, Japan's traditional tives of employers and workers with
Serious agrarian disturbances have been ideals had been shaken up, and Bolshevism legislative well as consultative powers as
occurring in Sicily recently, and organised Administration did not seem able to deal lately appeared at one of the leading banks was menacing the country. The present The Tageblati (Berlin) reports that, a man regarda disciplinary measure, and working.
bodies of peasants, many of them armed, with the present difficult situation. Its and presented 10 English pound sotes, for officially accepted a gift of 1,800 volumes conditions in frotorien The Council will
It is evident that the German winers re have now begun to take pussession of the policies caused suspicions on the part of which he requested German money. The donated by the Carnegie Pence Fund wan
A ceremony at which the city of Tokyo........ adjudicate on all questions involving the Berd the output question is a different large landed estates. Already, 200 estateh nya, agapant is, and in fact Japan was bank clerk's suspicions were aroused and held in the new library building at Hibiga reintions of the employer and the worker light to their British colleagues for the monk lid five hundred peasants to occupy party, although in a majority in the Diet, The police allowed him to go, but watched political solence, history, Jabour problemom
now, regarded as a second Germany, the man was defined. In the course of a the other day.
He further everted that the Government police interrogation he compromised himself, in commerce, industry and agriculture, and afficial statistics disclose, the output of the an slate at Sant Angelo, One hundred tion was feeble, and even the militarists and man who was waiting near the building pedise, are sent by the peace fund to arsish The books, which include volumes an will elect a permanent committed to pro first eight months this year 17,000,000 tons landowners ambushed the returning pes burnerats were losing their power.
Possesses no real power, while the Opposi him: an ho left the bank and approached 200 other social anestions and encyclo pare and supervise the enforcement of greater than the output of the correspond-rants and fired, killing one and wounding gathering of all the scattered forces under contain no fewer than 10,000 forged English the Hibiya Library. They are said to he Irbanr legislation.
with a large portfolio. A police officer again in promoting penciful relations between ing period last year.
Mr. Inuka strongly advocated the intervened, and the portfolio was found to nations, Those sent to Japan are now a new banner,
worth Itween Y.40.000 and Y.50.000,
have been occupied. In one instance, a
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pound notes.