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CHAPEI JAIL PRISONERS. HUNGER STRIKE.
SHANGHU, November 1st. Owing to bad food the prisoners at Chapei Jall are hunger striking. The authorities are apathetic,
A Havas mesRJU MAAKDAL "A large petroleum deposit has just been struck upon in the French province of
FOCCUPATION
OF HAYTI. AND A MISTAKE IN ADDITION:
THE NEW CHINESE DUTY.
WASHINGTON, October 30th... WASHINGTON, October 28th. Conditional on a similar concession from General, Barncti, ex-Commandant of the like other Treaty Powers, the United States United States Marine Corpe, giving evi-Government has consented to a temporary dence before the Naval Cours of Inquiry extra tax of 10 per cent. in addition to in the conditions of the occupation of Hnytt the present Customs duty on American by the United States ferees, said that 2.250 goods entering China. The old duty will native were killed during the occupation, be restored at the end of a year. The nat 3,230, as provolsly stated. The increase is for the purpose of assisting erronepus announcement was due to a wi>Ching to support. its thousands at famine
sufferers.
take in sauition,
THE LAAT ALIS
DIED AS A MARTER."
Činčianati, Uctober 28th.
martyr.
IL
GERMANY AND CHINA.
OUR LONDON LETTER THE REVELATIONS ABOUT
+ BOLSHEVIST PROPAGANDA.
BIG COAL CONTRACTS WITH CHINA
Instances of repariée were recalled, and it was agreed that the best in greent yesta stands to the credit of Sir Edward Carton: Examining a hostile witness he asked. “* Is it true that you sometimes drink to ex-
SILVER AND TRADE. SUGGESTIONS FOR BRUSSELS
40% CONFERENCE.
A mwmarandım for presentation to the AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA,
"That's "my" business, anopped International Finansial Conference held in [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] + the witness. Instantly Sir Edward in- Brich on 24th September was taked by
quired with just a inch of his North of the League of Natims. It was drawn LONDON, September 23rd. The latest revelations with regard to then land brogue, Have you any other by Mr. Findlay Shirras, Director of Statis
but-inex 1
belated Lincere...
closures contained in a series of intern
COAL FROM CHIÑA.
Fen East coast of South America.306-200 West coast of South Amerien 946,619 Java Bangkokin South China Kore
370,000 $150,000 100,000
NEW JAPANESE SUBSIDIES. FOR TWO NEW SHIPPING LINES.
The new shipping subaidies granted by the Japanes Government amount to 1376,027 for the line to the east of South America: (Osaka Shosen Kaisha), Y,669. for the line to the wet coast of South America (Toya Kisen Kaisha), ¥75,000 for she Jaya Bangkok line (Csaka Shosen. Kai ties in India. The memorandum states that sha), Y5,000 for the line along the coast of Disky
Heralit (and Balshevist | gok-
South China (Nisshin Kisen Kaïrda), and LASY COME, EASY 00,
the future, of silver is governed at the pre¥30,000 for the Korean line (Choven, Yusen Russia Blood Money as it is bluntly enlled-is, a nasty far for the Socialists the poor miner !" The Leeds current time by three main considerations Kaisha)
The subsidy arrangements came into foreir hero. It is amusing to read the assurances pondent of the forming Push telly a move (1) The mise proguętion, and the key to of various intellectuals of the Partying stor of the terrible lot of the miners this is Mexico; (2) the world demand for Other at unce the amounts mentioned are! jenly for the rest of the year, Full amounts that the trold has never been the organ in that locality. Nothing is too good for silver for coinage and similar purposes, and for the newly absidized lines will not be, of British Labour. Their enger desire to their table. They buy art city which the here the demands of India and China prepaid until the next financial year, when the unrelated to the paper which ordinary artisan cannot look at a good dominate; and (3) the action taken by the as of the subsidy will be as follows: preaches Bolshevism as the ideal form of deal of money goes in backing horses, and United States Goverment in regard in the Government is, perhaps, natural in the the pup of coal lost by men going to the purchase of silver under the Pittman Act. circumstances, but the disclaimers are too races is eavily 1,000 tons per mine per India and Cama, it is to be remembered, to carry conviction that they are. In some cases it has been 1,000 tons lack (1) education, (2) a developed banking per day. The miners wages appear to system, and (3) enxy communications. The
In addition, it is understood that two new Even now the whole story has not been permit of their missing a day's work as absence of these three essentials of advanced shipping lines will be inbaldised from peat told in detail, bus the damsing fucks well as paying the expenses of a day's progress will lead to a demand, for silver year, che to Shanghai and the other to clearly established that Mr. Francis Meyoulag and betting, for they bes heavily For many years to come,
to come. The extent of North China. The subsidy for the former 11215.000 and for the latter, E117,000. pell, a director of the Daily Herald,
this demand will, of course, depend on the The Shanghai line refers to a new exprees eived £75,000 from the Bolshevista to nasace the paper. Yet it is only a few It seems a pity that British miners and degree to which Asia finds it posible to pas enger service which the Nippon Yusen Kaisha will open betareon. Shanghai and weeks since Mr. George Lansbury, the their leaders cannot see what is happening export to Europe and to America her pro Nagasaki with two fast steamer which have
BERLIN, October 30th,,
editor, solemnly declared that not a bond, in the world. They are too busy with their ducts, chiefly food and raw materials. A already been ordered from England.
The new subsidion for services to the east pola franc, not a romble" had been affairs to take heed of large develop. Imable exchange facilitates the free move. In the course of a speech in the Reichstag,
Java nad Bangkok, along the coast of them.
thas assist commerce. The Babington South China, and between Korra, and Governor Cox, replying to a questioner, the Foreign Minister said as regards Gorrived. This was in answer to the dists that are bound profoundly to affect ment of funds to and front a empatry and and west coasts of South America, between cepted wireless messages that had passed which, I learn, has been made for thecluded (ant the conclusion is importnat in ping companies to maintain the lines open- Of special. significance in the contraet Smith Commitee on Indian Currency con-Japan, with the exception of the last men
tioned line, are designed to help the ship- between members of the Soviet Government transpart of American coal to Europe for view of the large variations in the Honged during the war and do not conflict with on the question of paper supply for the the next five years at the rate of seren kong and Shanghai exchanges) that the proposed intention of the Government Herald. I discussed the transaction in a million tons per annum. It is understood stable Level of exchange, gives the most to holish the present subsidy system, der recent article, and there was no reasonable that the pinhead price is five dollars and for the employment of capital, and that the shipping companies concerned can pro- healthy condition for production and trade which inducial afd is given to lives which doubt that the Bolshevisis were willington. Again, Australian, coal is in order for large changes in the exchange value of a, ftably operate maided says a Japan finance the Herald, which they regarded their own medium for propaganda. Scandanavia as a price below that at which currency are, as evil, which should be avoid papers
The abject of the authorities in trying ta English coal is sold there anw, China, as ed as far as possible but if a large change The £73,000 is the proceeds of the sale your reader know, is under contract in estatals stability, at the now level rather is to abolish the subsidy for lines where it has taken place, it may be preferable to revise the absidy system it is reported, of Russian jewels in England. The police send 100,000 tons of coal to France, and than to submit to the further change which is no longer wanted in order to use it for Mr. Edgar Lansbury, a son of the editor something bene a quarter of a million tons especially if their course shortens the dificult for the companies to keep up with. of the Daily Herald. No matter what
China there was persistent demand for course the paper now takes it has ruined more per annum at £10 per ton delivered period of rising exchanges. In India and out outside all."
at
pay port in Europe. The price, per articles of national importance by the its chances with the British public.
haps, seeing high, but it is no more than Allies Imports to pay for these exports MADAGASCAR SPIDER'S WEB. PORTS AND PACIFISTS,
· POSSIBLE MANUFACTURE INTO Italy is paying for English coal to-day were unobtainable, as the energies of thể Allies were confined to the production of The vitally important point about all this muations of war. The result was the piling is that while the British miners are striving up of a large favourable balance of trade It appears to be established that the a squeeze the last peau aus of the indus which in turn increased the demand for Madagascar spider's web ena be woven into silver on the part of silver-using countries cloth that might warrant the spider's cul- try to benest themselves, and are appar Had a larger supply of silver been avail tivation for purposes of textile industry. ently ready to hold the nation to ramoms able, exchange rates would have been lower, The silk of the spinning spider has beerk under threat of a strike, competitors in the and in turn the east of commodities sight, known for centuries, even by the savagen supply of cup are alreads in Europe from ming markets. Silver, in other words, Lury one Alcide d'Orbigny, in South have been lower in price in the world's con-of Paraguay, and in the seventeenth cen- three Continents,
For account of it carcity, was a not an America, ordered a pair of trousers of the important factor in raising directly the material. There is a spinning spider in AND STARVATION.
world prices of those artiles of export from Verzielt which is apparently related to PARKING AND S
A great deal of nonsense has been written Asia, especially articles of national import the Madagascar species. about the sufferings of the Lord Mayors of ance required in the prosection of the The bife of the fadagascar spider is not.
war."
dangerous. The vgg that products this
strike. A medical expert informs me that a an agreement among Governments regard-cocoon, one inch in diameter, of a yellow thirty days fast is now uncommon, it is ing, the purchases, and sales of silver would colour at first, but turning white after an air, at the end of which time several often imposed by physicians for chronicus lead to a steadying of the market and exposure of two or three months the
"size of û pi deep-seated, and nervous maladies, and evention of speculation; and (2) hundred insects, with the
whether improvements in the currency head, burst the shell and emerge. Three there is no physical pain whatever.
systems of those silver countries not po months later, the female is two and on
one-sixth of that size. The female is gen Nature has done her cleansing work, and "ffected.
erally black, lives in solitude, and only natural hunger, returns, starvation begins,
tolerates the prosence of the male at limited periods,
declared it Mr. Macwiney died as a man relations with China that there were still considerable difficulties to be cleared up, owing to lack of resources and overseas
DEATH OF COMMANDER"
SWEDEN'S EDS.
NEW PREMIER'S DECLARATION.
STOKHOLM, October 28th,
The Premier, Baron Degeer, has stated that the Government will firmly adhere to
the previons Government's policy in regard
traffic,
G. L. PAGE.
LONDON, October 28th Commander G. L. Page, she was on
12.4
to the Aland Islands, carefully consider all fave from the China Station, was found have traced the money to Mr.Mornell and 10,000 ton to Denmark, and is offering is necessary for return to the old level, the maintenance of new lines which it is"
country.
dend. in a taxi cab at Ealing last night. A discharged shot-gün in the cab suggested that the gun had been discharged accident
possible measures to support. "Industrial and commercial life, and
exercig, strict wconomy but will maintain ally. the quality of Sweden's defence.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. TURN OF THE TIDE IN FAVOUR OF
DEMOCRATE.
LONDON, October 30th. Three weeks ago a Republican victory for Senator Harding in the Presidential eléc tion was regarded as a "dead certainty," and it was thought that the Democrat, Governor Cox, will be hopelessly beaten- Since then there has been an extraordinary
WORK OF FRENCH MISSION IN
"PARIS.*
Mr. Francis Moynell is a familiar figure in certain Hterary and artistic circles in PARIS, October 28th. London as a minny poet. His mother has an established reputation a poots and "A Havne message says:
essayist under her name, 'Alice Meynell, Professor Painleve and members of the His father. Mr. Wilfrid Mernell, is a French Scientific Mission, which recently wealthy man devoted to literary pursuits visited China. have arrived at Marseilles. who writes under the om-de-plane of Besides imparting practical advice upon "John Oldcastle." The editor of the Daily Harald has hitherto been regarded even by re-organizing rail-roads and establishing
his enemies centros for higher learning in China, the mind is warped by sheer fanaticism in re as a man of integrity whos
journalis at all, but a timber merchant, with a long connection with Socialist pro paganda in London. During the war the public heard of him as a parifet and An institute entirely to be devoted to notorious" Little Englander."
CLOTH
"change" in the situation. Firstly Senato mission, according to M. Painleve, was able] gård to politics. He is not a profesional Cork as a result of his self-imposed hunger Two suggestions are madam (1) Whether er is laid by the female in a sky
to obtain important realts in the matter
reach and the Chinese Republics, of future scientific intercourse between the
.
Harding's uncompromising repudiation of the League of Nations amazed the country, staggered his numerons. Repablicah p porters and subsequent explanations wero Chinese studies is soon to open in Paris, people believe that in regard to the Bal Whed through the process of fasting wasing a gold standard could not be half inches long, white the male remaina
in Peking...
The Chinese University in Lyons is to be developed, thanks to a subsidy graated by Southern, China.
Many
"by his associates, and that he never knew what
was going on behind Wa kack, "although this but not before, You may fast for thirty THE CALIFORNIAN QUESTION The spiders are carnivorous and by pr
does not excuse him as the editor of a public newspaper.
regarded as lame and unsatisfying; then, and a French University is to be established shevist subsidy he has been a cartoon parodying flaphart's “Immacu late Conception "bas outraged the feeling Hof Roman Catholics, necessitating full public apologies, and finally, the pathetic appeal from Presideri Wilson, who is ill and suffering, made in a speech from an invalid chair, has touched popular emotious, wonderfully heartened the Democrats "and produced an extraordinary reaction in his
NEGOTIATING WITH SOVIET
SENATOR HARDING'S DENIAL.
AFTER THE HOLIDAY.
During the holiday season now nearing its clove there has not been anything com
or forty days with impunity and safety, Ent you cannot starve for more than three or four.
The first couple of days of fasting are the most trying because the patient feels
parable to last year's rush to the sea. Onot the doctors callbabis hunger,
which is not tre hunger at all. After that reason is that ibe, summer in England bas all that is required is physical rest, mental bren blighted by absence of sunshine and confidence, and as mitch pure water as the
patient can drink.
a wind that seemed to come straight from the North Pole. Another reason that
WASHINGTON, October 27th. Consequently, it is now predicted by that Mr. Young, the American Commis Mr. Bainbridge Colby has announced influential persons that the Republicans are sioner at Riga, has informed the State people are not a lavish with their money,CASSELL B. CHANGING HANDS.
likely to lose in the Sesate, making Senior
Department that Washing, on Vanderip who There is not so much money to burn" is stated to be negotiating with representa- tives of the Soviet with a view to opening a was the case a year ago when to many Lenin that he represented: Benator Hardon demobilisation. trade relations, is reported to have told men had just drawn back pay and gratui
Harding's election a pyrrhis victory. present the Republican majority in Senate is only two.
A
the
Ing.
PRESIDENT WILSON PRAISES"
MR. COX
WASHINGTON, October 29th, President Wilson has written to Mr. Cox declaring that he has followed the course of the Presidential campaign with admira tion and that he believes Mr. Cox will
receive
about to change bands, the new owners
A CONFLICT OF CULTURE.
Bulleting one of the leading San Frisco newspapers, which has been on spicuously sponsing the anti-immigration
ference frequent the forests. In some of the wooded gardens in the suburbs of the capital, especially the old royal parks, they the impression of being gregarious; bus may be seen in millons, and would givo this is not so is being the abundance of campaign, has published, in response food that brings them together in arcuing to an inquiry from the correspondent of peace and amity, As soon as the supply one of the leading Japanese newspapers for fails they fight and devour and another. information regarding the Japanese, an In Paris some years ago there was rar article which says, among other things. Libited a piece of spider-wilk fabric, 19 15" In is true some politicians and certain Farda long and 18 inches wide. It was newspapers are trying to make political capi-woven of 100,000-yards of spun thread of and mt of the alien land law; but the sen. 24 strands, and for its manufacture 23.000 timent is primarily the expression of the spiders were required.
There were PTO-·
cured by offering the natives so mach a hundred but they brought the inserts in by basketins, mostly dead, so it was found necessary for the winding-off machines to go to the spiders. However, the piece of
g golden-low.colour.
THE GILBERT ISLANDS.
The great publishing house of Cassell is mind of Californians, the proof being that being Mears. W. E. and J. Gower Berry both the Republicans and Democrats favour who own the Sunday Times and many the proposed exclusionist law. other papers Cassell's was at the height California's aversion to the Japanese 14 At Marion (Ohio), Benator: Harding Hat the rupacity of seaside hotels and of its prosperity in the eighties when the not a matter of race prejudice, but a pro cloth was completed, and was of a shimmer.. -
glamour of Stevenson's "Treasure Island" est against standards of living that are declared that he had never heard of boarding houses, not to mention that was upon it and it had published Rider calculated to undermine western standards. Vanderlip, knew nothing of the matters peculiarly English typo of person, the sea. Haggard's King Solomon's Mince It is Californians concede that the Japanese sre discussed and was in no way interested inside landlady, has shown no abatement the latter work was a modest £50, though ane to the modern Oriental world what surprising fact that all the firm paid for & wonderful people in many respects. They them.
They felt aggrieved if visitors refused to it subsequently dealt with the author on Greece was to the world of her day- but
There is u
sunething Gilbertian in the MEXICAN OUTLOOK. berobbed to the tune of three or four more generous lines
they are also an expanding people, and British Colonial Office report for 1913 John Cassell, the founder of the house, they are expanding our direction, relating to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, EARLY SETTLEMENT EXPECTED.hundred per cent above ordinary prices
was the son of a Manchester publican and Already they are in the majority in the The report laments the disappearanom of for indifferent accommodation.
nu he conceived the idea of publishing Americas territory of Hawaii, and they the old order of senior native Government WASHINGTON, October 28th,
leap books and periodicals was a water show an amazing increase in California officials w As to the landlady glass, I hear that in man on the Thames, In recent years the There is no need for race prejudice and the report, fifty miles in length, the Nentor Pesquiora, Mexican High Com some towns round the const families arrived arm be felt the competition of George no necessity for race bitterness but the magistrate is responsible for the good order "On an island such on Tabitenes,” adda dive emphatic cederements from the has pens a letter to find the roots they hul backed months Noirts, the Hornsworths, and C. the unique advantage of two our natives
to Mr. Bainbridge Colby setting forth voters
of the country?
Mexico's position and urging Amorica to ahead had been let to other people, of, of Fearson
civilisations, Oriental and Occidentel, and whose feuds, ights, crimes, meknew, land President Wilson concludes that Mr. Cox rehabilitate Mexico in the eyes of the course, more money, The sequel in oneHIS POINT OF VIEW.
we are no a diandvantage in competing with squabbles, births, deaths, marriages, has spoken truly and fearlessly on the great. Mr Bainbridge Colby declares that the bustance that was related to me in decidedly Hat Pemberton, the novelis, who was them. Our gravest fear is that they may village, crops, fisheries, and complaints are legues st make and expresses entire on letter offers a basis, on which the pre pleasing. Paterfamilias went to the Chief formerly editor of Cassell's Augasne tells impose their Oriental civilisation upon our the subject of his incessant attention.
Lastory of his early days with the firm, Western home land.”
He must watch over their relations with liminaries to recognition can proceed, and Constable and stated his case. The Strong When he went there Wemyss Read was in Adence is lim
traders and missionaries, protecting the foreshadone an early settlement of the Arm of the Law directed him with wife, supreme command as manager, and was Mexican question.
rights of all parties; he is responsible In nod family to the best hotel, and at the end un beso see what the rise of Newnes meant
Jarge male and female prisons and their x pubisher et popular periodicals. It
rationing, for the good order of all re- of the fortnight the troubled one was told was pointed out to him that Camell's would
gisters" "and" accounts kept the Scribe to bring the bill," This was done, and, bill have to petljust their ways to meet the in hand, the Chief Contable called on the competition, but he was deaf to all re
monstrance. landlady and gate her the choice of paying ***
EARLIER CABLES.
EXPENSES OF CAMPAIGN.
New York, October 28th. According to the Republican Treasurer's "reposs to the Senate Committee appointed to Investigate the expenditure in nee sion with the Presidential campaign, the Republican National Committee's expend tare is $3,443,000
NI.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS. NORWAY'S REPRESENTATIVE AT GENEVA
BZPÁRTER IN COURT,
CONDITION OF CHINA. JAPANESE AMBASSADOR'S"
LABOUR IN HONOLULU,
EMPLOYERS CONCESSION,
CONCERNA
village officials, and he has, the infmitely dificult task of keeping the peace between LowDon, October 16th the antagonistic, Christian socle, and the UHRISTIANIA, October 30th the difference in the hotel bill and whatne day he sent for Max Pemberton
Want 100," he said, to enlarge Is an interview in the Daily Telegraph, Pagans. For this he receives £21, a year. she had agreed to charge the visitors, or, four magazine. You say you have only 64 Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Ambassador be prosecuted for fraud
pages against the 120 pages of the Strand,
that while they are printing a hundred to Great Britain, professed grave, disquie tude about the present internal condition of illustrations you are only pristing twenty: China, where the nati disunion, the Jedi My dear boy,,have no anxieties, In A few days ago a party of well-known months, or twelve at most, Cour a the growth of the unheally militarist party these mad impotence of the central goverment, and barristers were discussing eto people will be in the Baskrupley Court, the suggestion being that this is disaster, but the tireless energy pagasin of which the Bolsheviks are taking
This Batoni hing allitude nearly landed (offers a dangerous field for subversive pro practically a thing of the past. There are of Bir Arthur Spurgeon brought a return the fullest advan pleasantries on the part of Bench and Bar of prosperity in abundance in recent years Russian madnes
verybody laugh except the victim is not people to see that no chances are lost in their bu somehow the quick retort that makes Under his able management the old glories in varaus parbe
2 revived, and the Mers. Berry are just the Manchama
often heard.
the future: -/B
The ex-Premier. (M. Bichr), the Stock, fees Nansen will represent Norway in holm Minister (M. Hagerup) and Pro the League of Nations at Geneva.
REVOLUTION SUPPRESSED. The Treasurer of the Democratic Na tional Committes claim that his expend URASTIC MEASURES IN BOLIVIA ture has been only,, #10,000, so far,
BUENOS AIRES, Ortober 28th. ELECTION TAKES PLACE TO DAY. It's reported that an attempted revolu-
ption broke out in Bolivia but was qui
WARRINOTON, October 30th,
suppressed.Twenty seven ringleaders were The Presidential Election takes place en executed. The guthorities have imponed a November 2nd.
censorship.
HONOLULU, October 1st- After a prolonged campaign for higher de wages on, the part of the workeng, flav ing lavishly spent Employers' Association has agreed, to the
especially in raising of the minimum wage for me gandists, and from 820 to $30, a month, the minimaru, exclusively wage for women, being raised from $15 te
$12.00 – month.
pare
moet