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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ALLI'S NEW PROJECT. IN REPLY TO LATEST GERMAN
PROPOSALS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MABUH STA, 1921.
LATEST BLES.
SINN FEIN' OUTRAGE..
MILITARY GOVERNOR KILLED.
LONDON, March 7th. Colonel-Commandant H. R. Com- ming, Military Governor of Kerry, has been killed in an ambush near Clon bannin, Co. Cork, in which 4 military Allies were killed and 2 others wounded. Those
LONDON, March 7th (4 n.m.).
It is understood that the new German proposals were considered by the
FAR EASTERN - CABLE NEWS.
IF
[BY COURTESY OF THE CBINA MAIL
MORE EARTHQUAKES1 ESISMIO SHOCKS"RECORDED IN
SHANGHAI,
SHANGHAI, March 7th. Siccawei Observatory records strong
AMERICAN NEWS.
[BY U. NAVY RADIO.]
AVIATION" IN THE STATES.
WASHINGTON, February 24th. The construction of two fast aeroplane carriers costing $48,000,000 is authorised by the Naval Appropriations Bill as adopted by the Senate sub-Committee. of this amount $18,000,000 will be made
the work.
SINGAPORE STEAMER
WRECKED.
"HONG MOH" STRIKES À ROCK NEAR SWATOW.
FIRE CRACKER FACTORY EXPLOSION, CORONER'S INQUIRY OPENED.
POSSIBLE CAUSES DISCUSSED.
Mr. G. N. Orme sat as Coroner at the
BEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. Magistracy, yesterday afternoon, to in-
The Singapore s.a. Hong" d'oh has been quire, with a jury, into the circumstances wrecked on the Lammock Island, pear of the deaths of the victims of the explo-Swatow: She was transporting a large sion at the Hoi San Fire-cracker factors, number of Chinese coolies and heavy loss of life occurred, owing, in many instances, to the pamengers jumping overboard with their belongings tied to them. The master of the vessel, Capt. Halmes, is among the missing.
last night. They have been drawn up by who laid the ambush numbered 500, and seismic shocks in Kansu and Shansi pro. available next year, with which to start Ho. Mun Tin, ou February 25th. the German Finance Minister, Herrit was the biggest ambush recorded so far, vinces. The Chinese newspapers are
Bchroeder, and mainly comprise the acceptance of the amount of payments during the first five years an laid down st the Paris Conference, subject to re- vision after that period, an increase in the 19 per cent. export tax to 30 per cent., the issue of an international loan of eight milliard gold marks, and, in conclusion, " commercial treaties virtually providing for the abolition of the inequality clauses. The foregoing terms are conditional on Germany retaining Upper Silesia.
*** The Allies recognised that the offer was quite unacceptable, but on Mr. Lloyd
·George's initiative agreed to a project which will include the payment of fixed annual sums of three milliard gold marks for 30, instead of 42, years, the levying
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on the importing countries of a 30 per cent. tax on German exports, with a fixed
MAYOR AND EX-MAYOR BOTH
SHOT DEAD.”
LONDON, March 7th.
The Mayor of Limerick, Mr. Clancy, was shot dead in his house, this morning. His wife was wounded.
jumpy.
SHANGHAI
STRIKE SETTLED.
SHANGHAT, March 7th. The French tramway strike has been settled by a 20 per cent, increase in wages. The strike served to rivet public
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The ex-Mayor, Mr. O'Callaghan, was attention, on the Company. The Council's also, shot dead in his house.
RISINGS IN RUSSIA, WHOLE BALTIC FLEET JOINE .
REVOLUTIONARIES,
LONDON, March 7th.
The situation in Russia romains hazy.. No big revolutionary success has been reliably signalled. Clearly the Soviet Government is most perturbed and is doing its level best to pacify public feel. ing by distributing more food.
ultimatum. to improve the service expires
THE LAND-OWNERSHIP QUESTION.
Ataris, Texas, February 24th. The House of Representatives Com mittee on State Affairs has reported favourably on the Anti-Alien Land Owner ship Bill, designed to prevent Japanese from acquiring land.
ANOTHER PROHIBITION.
Boise, IDAHO, February 24th. The State Scante has passed. by 30 wotes to IB, Bill prohibiting the sale on March 9th. The ultimate development and importation of cigarettes or cigarette
is obscure.
REPORTED RUSSIAN BIBINGA.
ANTI-BOLSHEVIK MANIFESTO TO
PEKING.4
SHANGHAI, March 7th. Peking advices privately received in Shanghai stato that General Ereschati- zky, representative of the anti-Bolshevik forces in China, has submitted & mani- Reuter's Biga correspondent communi- entes a Kronstadt Revolutionary Comfesto to the Peking Government denouno
papers
AMERICAN MAIL ROBBERY..
Torzno, Ohio, February 24th. The Post Office inspectors who are investigating the recent robbery at the Toledo Post Office declare that the loot stolen by the five bandits concerned amounts to approximately $3,600,000.
NEW FLY PEST.
WASHINGTON, February 24th. Quarantine to become effective on April 1st, will be imposed on fruits and vegetables, from India, the Philippines,
The following were empanelled aa-a jury-Mesars. H. Smith, R. A. Green, and G. P. Eveleigh. As usual, the inquiry was confined to the death of one of the victims, woman named Leung Sze being chosen as typifying the
Kist.
Inspector Murphy was in charge of the case on behalf of the police.
Dr. J. T. Smalley, medical officer for Kowloon, said that, on February 28th, Leung Sze was identified at the mortuary by her aunt. The woman died as the
result of burns.
Mr. R. S. Vergette, overseer of the Public Works Department, produced plans of the premises, as they were before the explosion.
The Hong Mu left. Hongkong last Thursday for Amey with passengers from Penang and Singapore. These comprised about 70 cabin and about 800 Chinese deck
passengers.
The deck passengers werd mostly police returning to their hotca from the rubber plantations in the Straits Settlements The ship had no direct
passengers, from Hongkong for Amoy
It is reported that she struck Lam- mock Island, on Saturday, and broke into three pieces. Whether the dienster is due to high seas or fog is not known at present, but several reports have bean received of fog in that locality.
The Navy gave valuable help in ing a wireless message, immediately re- saving lives, H.MS. Forglore, on receive
paired to the score, and succeeded in
Mr. E. Dovey, Government analyst, said that on March 2nd he received a packet of crackers and a small wooden box containing a paper packet of explo- aives similar to those used in the crackers. The crackers were found to be such rescuing lives. She landed these suz- charged with 13 grains of explosive. The vivors in Hongkong yesterday. witness gave the formula of the explosivo The Coroner: In the formula a re- cognised one 1
Witness: Yes; it is sensitive to per- cussion and ignition by flame or spark. It is quite a violent explosive.
Kuaranteed minimum estimated to pro- mitteo's wireless message, which is to the g the Soviet agent Yourin and enume Ceylon and Java, owing to the danger. of used in making the crackers.
effect that the orewa of all the Baltic rating the crimes of the Soviet author.the black citrus fly pest.
duce between six and eight milliards after five years..
The Reparations Commission would be empowered to determine the amount to bring the total under the new project to the Paris agreement total, namely, 226 milliards,
The German delegation has so far not sigpified its views on the new project.
FRENCH VIEW OF GERMAN
PROPOSALS.
LONDON, March 7th. -- Reuter understands that Lord D'Aber-
Fleet vessels there have recognised the anti-Bolshevik Government. The arena have requested all officers to remain. at their posts. It is also stated that Kronstadt sailors attacked the Soviet troops occupying Petrograd districts. The Soviet garrison at Oraniebaum repulsed and shelled the attackers. Following this the Revolutionary Committee sent four warships, which bombarded Soviet forti Ecations.♣
EXCHANGE OF LECTURERS, ANGLO-BATAVIAN SOCIETY
SCHEME.
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ities. The manifesto is noteworthy, taken in conjunction with the reported revolts in Soviet Russia."
THROUGH REUTER'6" AGENCY.} FAMOUS AIRMAN ENGAGED BY
JAPAN.
LONDON, March 7th.
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At the invitation, of the Japanese Government, the pioneer airman Oswald Short has gone to Japan. Thirty exports are going to construct flying boats. RUBBER PROSPECTS IN MALAYA AND 'GETLON.
LONDON, March 7th.
It is estimated that January's outputs on the estates of the members of the Rubber Growers Association, who agreed to a restriction of output, have fallen
by 30 per cent.
It is understood that the Government scheme for assisting the industry in
DENVER BUILT ON GOLD:
DENYRE, Col., February 24th. Two miners appeared to-day at the Recorder's Office here and damped on the counter two sacks of gold which they alleged were dug from vacant lands in the heart of the city. They hare filed claims for land embracing ground beneath the City Hall, a large part of the business district of Denver and the Union Pacific station.
SHORTAGE OF FUEL IN RUSSIA.
New Yonx, February 24th. According to advices from Riga, the shortage of fuel is causing an acute crisis in Soviet Russia, and traffic is suspended on 4,500 miles of railway..
APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURE.
WASHINGTON, February 25th. The Senate has passed an appropriation for agriculture carrying $1,000,000.-
AMERICAN AIR MAILS.
NEW YORK, February 24th, The air-mail which was conveyed from San Francisco to Hazelhurst, arriving yesterday, left San Francisco at 4.30.
nt 4.60 on Wednesday afternoon.
The Coroner: I take it there is no thing out-of-the-way or objectionable about it!
Witness: No; it is quite in order. He added that he had formed a definite opinion, after inspecting the premises,
to where the explosions took place. There was one main explosion and two subsidiary ones; the principal one did not take place first.
H.M.S. Carlisle, which was also coming from the North, received a wireless tole- gram instructing her to proceed to the scene of the disaster, and she succeeded in picking up 201 Chinese. They were landed at Hongkong last evening, and were taken to the Tung. Wah Hospital, where they received food and every atten tion. With the exception of one man, who had his ribs broken, there were no injured people, but, as a consequence of rumours to the contrary, ambulances and - five or six medical men were in waiting at the wharf. There was only one woman and one child amongst the rescued.
The China Navigation Company's vessal, the 18. Shane, which was in the
The plans put in showed that the factory building consisted of two wings, Fight and left of a central domed strac- ture. The trouble began in the left wing, where part of the process of manufacture was conducted, but the main explosion took place in a small room off the central vicinity of the wreck, succeeded in saving part of the building. The walls of this the European crew of the Hong Moh, with room were blown out and the roof was the exception of the Captain, who is re- sent bigh into the air. Inspector Murphy ported to be drowned. This vessel has considerable quantities of crackers, in & also taken on board 29 of the Chinese dock completed state ware stored in that passengers.
said that apparently packages containing
room.
POSSIBLE CAUSES.
Captain Holmes is well-known in local
Mr. Dovey, in reply to further questions waters and has been in the service of the by the Coroner, said that the use of an Indo-China Navigation Company for iron hammer would be quite sufficient to many years.
explode the powder. The powder was The s.8. Hong Moh is a British ship, very light, and if some of it adhered to
zon and M. Loucheur interviewed Herr von Simons this morning, and then, it was -stated that they communicated the out-
THE HAGUE, March 7th. lines of the new German proposals to the
A scheme for lectures on scientific Supreme Council ab Downing Street. It is stated in French quarters that these are subjects by English doctors in Holland not regarded as acceptable.
and by Dutch doctors in England has been HERR VON SIMONS' STATEMENT. drawn up by the Anglo-Batavian Society, LONDON, March 7th. in communication with the London Uni Owing to the momentous nature of this versity and the Royal Academy of Science morning's conference, an enormous crowd of Amsterdam. gathered outside Lancaster House. Mr. and Boeko have, consequently, gone to alayn has been referred to the Colonial o'clock, on Tuesday morning and arrived struck with an iron hammer. The drop Singapore. The vassel was built in 1891 Lloyd George received a tremendous ova tion, the crowd surrounding him shouting
Make Them Pay," Herr von Simons' statement, which he Spring. made before the conference, reiterated Germany's inability to accept the Paris proposals. He declared that, owing to the far-reaching difference of opinion and
Profestors Salmonson
England. Other Dutch professors are ex- pected to follow, while several English : professors are to lecture in Holland in
EARLIER CABLES.
WESTERN UNION CABLE DISPUTE.
Office. The official decision has not yet been delivered.
DEAN INGE AND EDUCATION. COMING COMPETITION WITH THE FAR EAST.
the bead of a nail it would be sufficient registered in Singapore. Her owners are to cause an explosion, if that nail were the He Hong Steamship Company of ping of an iron hammer on the floor
would be sufficient to cause the explosion by a Glasgow firm of shipbuilders. Sho He saw a shoe with iron nails in it at bas been plying regularly between Pen the scene of the explosion; it would be) very dangerous to wear such a shoe 28, Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow and
a certain amount of the powder got
explosives factory, seeing that Amoy, principally in transporting coolies.
on the floor. The use of such shoes Was
in an
The prospects of the scheme being of real service" to planters, would seem, says the Times, to be jeopardised by delay, It is reported that such draatio economica have been effected in Ceylon that many estates can pay their way temporarily even at the present prices. Consequent the grave difficulties in the way of a per: ARREST OF MEN ON CABLESHIF.ly, Ceylon companies are content to abide New York: March 7th by the original 25 per cent. restriction The long-standing controversy between plan. the idea of presenting a new plan for Union Cable Company, over the laying of BANVARD COMEDY COMPANY be of even more commercial value, to was owned partly by American and partly prise up the nails, and, of course, the
the-State Department- and the Western
fect solution of the reparation problem, the Germans were compelled to abandon
the Barbados-Miami cable, has reached its
total reparation, and had decided to re-elimax.
a 12 per cent. export duty which was not arrested.
thought practicable.
Such tremendous payments were only. possible if a large part of them could be financed by way of a loan. The proposal could be made only, if Upper Silesia, by virtue of the plebiscite, remained Gorman, and if restrictions imposed on Germany in the commerce of the world were abolished..
WAR IN PANAMA.
COSTA RICA'S TRUCULENT
ATTITUDE.
WASHINGTON, March 8th.
in the Panama sud Costa Rica conflict He had a lengthy conference with Mr Denby, Secretary of Navy, and Mr. Weeks, Secretary of War.
Panama and Costa Rica have” replied
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absolutely prohibited in explosives Lac- Mr. Dovey was asked by the Coroner tories. The witness added that the in- if he had any questions to put to the stipulated for the use of eight grains of Dovey said he thought there, were very structions in the formula used by, the firm manager, arising out of his evidence. Mr.
sidered evidence of carelessness. found 13 grains. explosive in the crackers, in which he distinct signs of carelessness
That might be con The Coroner: The iron clogs should have been kept out altogether, for in- Woo Yun Pan, manager of the Hoi Sanatance, and nailing the spools was a Fire-cracker Factory, who had the fingers dangerous practice. of both hands swathed in bandages, was
The Lord Mayor presided at the ar of the City of London College, held at nual distribution of prizes to the students the Mansion House on January 22nd. the prizes, in the course of a short The Dean of St. Paul's, who distributed address, said he did not know how long it would be before the college undertook to provide instruction in the languages of the Far East. In the near future the next witness. He said the Company likely cause of the whole affair. It is Mr. Dovey: That, I think, is the most knowledge of Japanese and Chinese might as incorporated in Seattle, U.S.A., and admitted that the hammer was used to young people in Great Britain than a by Chinese capital. About 40 workers next time a spool is required to be nailed OPENING PERFORMANCE.
knowledge of Dutch and Russian, ..... vert to the idea of a provisional arrange An American submarine chaser fired on
He was glad also to learn that there were employed in the left wing. They down, it is expecting too much of human ment. Germany was prepared to pay the cableship engaged in connecting up fixed annuities provided for the first five cable with a shore station. The men on Comedy Company opened their season at tional work on the part of employers said he made the rules which were to be the use, of the hammer would be quite Mr. W Banverd's London Musical had been greater co-operation in educa-worked at eight tables tying up cracker nature that the hammer should not be cases and inserting fuses. The witness used. With all that explosive dust about, years, also, to give a full equivalent of the cableship stopped and were promptly the Theatre Royal, last night, when He had noticed, in conversation with observed by the workers in the factory. enough to cause the explosion.
large audience was charmed with a bright business men, that the heads of great They were: that there must be no smok and entertaining production in the form establishments were becoming increasingly of a revue.
EVIDENCE OF SURVIVORS. The Company sang and alive to the importance of a good gen- ing, and that persons must be searched on danced-through a succession of attractive cral education in these whom they wished going to work to see that they carried young girl employed in the factory scents, a slight plot serving to string to- to employ. They were not anxious for nothing likely to cause danger. If any was next called. She said she was a gether a number of attractive items. A the young people they engaged to logs with irons nails were noticed they powder-filer. She was working with five good deal of humour was extracted from specialise too early in the work they were were ordered to be removed.
others on the day of the explosion in the President Harding is keenly interested 4 railway station scene, but the most going to do, but preferred that they The Coroner: There was no absoluto small room near the centre of the build-
duet. By the Light of the Stars, sung would quicken their wits and enlarge the workers were not allowed to bring in Best one). successful musical contribution was should have a general education that rule that they should not be worn?
·ing (where the principal explosion took Witness: That is so. He added that place, at some time subsequent to the MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S REPLY.
by Miss Isabelle. Horley and Mr. Tan mind. If you will give us a well-
She Alled cardboard tabek Maclean. Miss Winnie Goodwin and Mr. educated young man," they say, we can matches. The usual number of workers with explosive by means of a twelve- LONDON, March 7th...
trust that be learns his business in the nt the factory was from 130 to 150 or pronged scoop. Her first knowledge that Adrian Ross gave a speciality dance
160. They were all women, except eix, something was wrong was the sight of After Herr von Simons' statement Mr. to the recent Notes of Mr. Colby offering which was remarkable as a display of course of the first year bec
Dean Inge said he had been shown over. There was a female scorcher who some people running. She ran too; in fact Lloyd George referred to the great the good offices of the United States, but acrobatics. Miss Viola Williams ang modera educational institutions, and corn-simes had another woman to help her. gravity of the situation, and said that the reply of Costa Rica is described as Neville as the principal comedian contri-boy there It was amazing to him how the men?
Some tuneful songs and Mr. Leonard parod them with Eton when he was. The Coroner: How about searching the explosion after she got out of the she ran all the way home. She heard the nature of the answer, which the Allies unsatisfactory. It is reported that Costa were forced to give, could not be doubted, Rica is still maintaining troops in disbuted largely to the success of the oven immensely superior these new institutions The witness: There were only a few
building. but a reasoned reply will be given in the puted territory.
ing. The beauty chorus quickly got were to the leading public schools in the men, and they mostly did not smoke. T
This witness seemed too young to have It is stated that if the two American on good terms with the audienes by their distant period of forty-five years ago. frequently went there and had them under in hand or of the questions put to her. any sense of the importance of the matter The conference journed at 1.20 p.m. warehips proceeding to the
scens of graceful dancing.
When he heard of the excellent machinery observation. He added that he thought After some time spent in fruitless.quen to re-assemble at 4.30 p.m.
hostilities are insufficient others may
and of the steady, hard work done at the explosion was due to the foreman tions, the Coroner asked Insp: Murphy FRENCH MINISTER OF FINANCE
these institutions one wondered if it were leaving a hammer in the workroom after if he had another witness who might follow.
wise to send one's boys to the old public using it. IN LONDON.
schools instead of to one of those, modern In reply to further questions, the he had one at the other end of the scale, prove more useful The Inspector said technical colleges. But everyone had a witness explained that spools of thread and led into the witness-box an ancient There was a fairly good attendance at feeling of affection for the old public wound on to wooden sticks were nailed to dame, who said her duty was to insert St. John's Cathedral, last night, on the school system, and he hoped that these each bench. When the thread was fuses in the crackers. It appeared that occasion of the second organ recital Mr new and vigorous institutions would pended the wood was prised up with the she was working in the large room where Denman Fuller presented a programme, infuse more energy and serious view of prising-end of a fiammer-head and a new the trouble began, but she, too, said she brimful with variety and almost daring life into the boys of our public schools. spool was nailed in position The nailing heard, no explosion."People ran, so in the selection of the pieces. There was It was unnecessary, he said, to call was done with a picco of hard wood and she ran too." One gathered from the the familiar Largo from Handel, with the attention to the enormous importance of was only to be done by the foreman. He poor creature's muddled story that the Sonata in F Minor from Mendelssohn sound technical education at the present had warned the women to this effect. was twice knocked over and nearly crush There was feverish activity in Confor- and Tahaikoucky's Pathetic Sym- time. We had blamed England in the Metal Scissors were used to cut the ed to death by the weight of people whe enco circles on Sunday night. An unex-phony. These pieces enabled Mr. Denman past for being behind the times in mat thread. No lights were used in the facfell upon her in a terrible straggle to get peated meeting of the Supreme Council Fuller to reveal the possibilities of theters of commerso, compared with other tory Loose powder was kept in out through the doorway. I prayed The Minister of War. M. Barthou, on lasted two and a half hours, and adjqhrn-Cathedral organ. Many wont to hear nations, especially Germany, No doubt his arrival in Paris, from London, ex.ed for an hour
Mascagni's Intermezzo, from Cavaliera there was room for improvement, but it magazine 250 feet from the main building for morey and called out loudly," said pressed completo satisfaction at the It is assumed that the Allies have learnt Rusticana, for the first time on the organ was colleges like the City of London Col explosion. Powder was brought from the twines, and her words muscledobt
The magazine was not affected by the results of his visit to England. He said the line followed by Herr von Simon's A feature of the recital was the singing legs that would help to keep our trade that the Allies were in perfect agreement, new proposals, which are believed to offer of Misa. Bertha Meischke, who gave two and commercs up to date. We would magasins as required. The management & were doing the same. No doubt
a-basis for discussion, NE
Tonight's meetings are the outcome of and Gounod's Repentir, and mored only from Germany, but also from Japan Secretary to carry on the business.
molos, Cesar Franck Fanie Angelicus have to meet formidable competition, Dot had a written permit from the Colonial the clamour and confusion made it dif ficult for any of the survivors to give a. clear account of what happened. - (Continued at foot of neat column.) the new German proposals.
and China
(Continued at foot of next column.) The inquiry will be concluded to-day,
afternoon..
PARIS, March 6th The Minister of Finance, M. Doumor,. bas-gonó-to-London-to see the Premier M. Briand, who, today, conferred with French experts after their meeting with the German exports Later, Marshal Foch had an interview with M. Briand.-. Hayas.
PERFECT AGREEMENT
PARIS, March 4th.
NEW GERMAN PROPOSALS.
LONDON, March 6th. Herr von bimons, interviewed by Reuter, indicated that the Germans will be submitting now propoenis to morrow.
BUPREME COUNCIL MEETS.”
LONDON, March 8th.
ORGAN RECITAL AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,
distinct success