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MR. CHURCHILL'S SUGGESTION.
LONDON, September 8th. Mr. Churchill, "addressing the" gather ing at the Gold Coast Civil Service dinner, auggested that, something might be done to relieve the present lack of
mterprise and initiative in the business and industrial world by placing orders for railway material and all apparatus needed to develop the natural resources of the Crown Colonies, which Parliament
had so far neglected.
Many of our old customers, Mr. Churchill said, have disappeared. We have killed a lot of them, and put others. in the bankruptcy court, no that they are unable to repew their orders with the regularity and abundance which wo are entitled to expect. Why did we not look in the great circle of the British. Empire where there were asseta, in which we could sink £200,000,000 in, the next on years with certainty, recovering every penny invested?" It seemed to him that
THE HONGKONG" DAILY PRESS," THUB÷DAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1951.
LATEST CARZEŃ.
BELGIAN AERODROME FIRE. MANY AEROPLANES BURNT.
BRUSSEL, September 29th.
A great fire has destroyed the Evere aerodrome and many wroplanes have been burnt. were heard in Brussels.
The explosions of petrol
**PORT AUGUSTA” FIRE
BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL.
CAPETOWN. September 27th." The firm on board the Port Augusta has been extinguished. Apparently. Daly a number of pinzos have been destroyed.
DRUGS CONFERENCE. FRENCH RESOLUTION REFERRED TO COMMITTEE.
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GENEVA, September 9th The French Government's opium resolu tion has been referred to the Opium Con sultative Committee. which later aur miss the question to the Council.
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SOYA BEAN. "HUNGARIAN DOCTOR'S DISCOVERY
"LONDON, September 29th. "It is the matter of the highest politi. cal importance that the West should laurn the lesson of cheaper living as taught them by the East in the adaptation of the soya bean as an article of food. Given the existing situation on the Con- tinent, this is the only real solution of the problem of reconstruction" says a statement made to the Timer Vienna porrespondent by Dr. Berczeller, a young Hungarian who is experimenting with soya bean as food.
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OUR LONDON LETTER.
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'CASTOR" ACCIDENT.
LORD
· Loxdur, September 29th, A motage from Rigs says eight mem- bara of the crew of the cruiser Cantor woro drowned in an attempt to lower a boat is heavy sons.
AIRMANSHIP. WORLD'S SPEED RECORD BROKEN.
„PARIS, September 27th. The French airman Sadi Le Conte has beaton the world's speed record by attaining 206 miles in an hour.
WAR IN ASIA MINOR,
WHY GREEK OFFENSIVE FAILED. Dr. Berczeller claims that he has nic
SMYRNA, September 29th. corded in creating three foods, namely,
Reviewing the operations in Anatolis bread, flour and milk, in which the bio-in "Augist, he is now evident that the logical factor is taken into account. Greek offensive failure involved a great This "manna" bread is the cheapest sacrifice. Their right wing was too ex- in the market, very palatable and easily tended, when they crossed the river digested, while the
Sakharia and the Tarks attacking drove milk is 11 very similar to cow's milk at nearthloss, including most of the artillery.
back two divisions in disorder, with heavy LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
the cost.
He suggests that these food
The Greeks were completely held by the stuffs are suitable to combat the Russian Turkish second line, upon which the Tur THE SIXTH COMMITTEE AT WORK.
GENEVA, September 9th
famine, being to their cheaprcas, compact-kish counter-offensive developed with con adoptedness and speediness of production, while siderable and unexpected reserves against the development of the Crown Colonies unanimously the combined resolution by the diffusion of these foodstuffs would Staff, after a hurried council of war the exhausted Greeks, whose General was one of the factors which ought to Lord Robert Cecil and M. Schanzer ask lead to the permanent cultivation of the It is estimated that the Greeks lost
I decided to retreat behind Sakharia be used in solving the temporary collapsing the Military Commission to driftsora in the Ukraine, which will be very 23,000 men in a desperate fighting. The of markets and purchasers,--(Cheers:)
Turkish losses, also, were very heavy. general proposals on the reduction of important to the future provisioning of GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS FOR armaments for submission to next year's
TRADE REVIVAL.
Assembly.
travel to
The Sixth Committee hus
The resolution resulted in a lively de- bate, in which Mr. Fisher, M. Schanzer and Lord Robert Cecil participated.
Europe.
ART CONGRESS. CHINA'S REPRESENTATIVE.
LONDON, September 28th. The Premier has invited the Financial Secretary of the Treasury to arrange for
PARIS, September 27th. a number of financial experts and com- The Committee then discussed the Ras-, The International Congress of the His- mercial representatives to
sin famine. Dr. Nansen vehemeully tory of Art has been opened. China is Gairloch to discuss the Government's pro- denounced "the deplorable political represented at it by Mr. Lou Kao, man posals for trade revival.
atmosphere surrounding the problem. ager of the Chinese School Delegation The Board of Trade favours the exten-flatly denying the rumour that one of Europe. sion of the scheme of export credits, Mr. Hoover's food trains had been while land reclamation, and road develop pillaged by Soviet troops He, declared
sot will, also," be considered.
INDIAN
UNREST.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE PROGRAMME.
that the American relief organization was naw. feeding three million children, in- stead of one million.
Lord Robert Cecil warmly upheld Dr. BOMBAY September 27th..
Nansen's agreement with the Soviet, The Conference of the Nationalist Con-which he considered thoroughly satisfac- gress and the Khilafat Workers in Sind tory, and urged the Committee to express has passed a resolution requesting the approval of the agreement. Congress to adopt civil disobedience from November 1st.
TRIAL OF ALI BROTHERS.
KARACHI, September 27th, The trial of the Ali brothers, Dr. Kitchlow and four others opened to-day before the City Magistrate.
Mr. Fisher wound up the debate, de- claring that the Governments were not able directly to assist the relief schemes.
EARLIER CABLES. GERMAN DEMOBILISATION.. ALLIED CONTROL COMMISSION'S
DEMANDS...
AFGHAN TREATY,
PROBABLE INFLUENCE OF DELEGATE.
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· ESHER'S - STORY OF THE REAL LORD KITCHENER.
BRITISH RAILWAYS AGAIN" UNDER PRIVATE CONTROL.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}
Loydon, August 18th.
TAS KITCHENER TRACIEDY,
Lord Esher's book just out under the
rian.
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MARRIED OFFICERS
ALLOWANCES.-
THE UNFAIR TREATMENT OF
NAVY
The anomalous position of naval off in being refused the marriage, allowa conceded to those of corresponding in the Army was brought to the no of the House of Commons last month Rear Admiral Adair on the third ing of the Appropriation Bill, and Thursday by Lady Astor upon the mot title. The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener," for the adjournment.inted out
Rear-Admiral Adair tells the general publie what was known the marriage allowances concedeil in since the early days of the war to some of the Navy were withheld from th Year's Estimates to lower deck. rati and suspected by many. The book is officers--an anomaly which left the na based on the author's correspondence and officer the only member of the three fi upon a journal which he kept during a forces who was not given anyth towards maintaining avvite'and child the momentous years from 1914 onwards and a home. The
Admiralty bad He does not publish everything he regarded the recommendations of knows; indeed. "he proposes with the Grand Fleet Committee of 1918, who consent of his co-trustees of the British pointed out that naval officers ha Museum to seal up the correspondence keep up two establishments- UNIO for sixty years the period of reticence their own maintenance on board selected by the author of Waverley and a home for wife and family on she After which. "Lord Esher thinks, they They had, moreover, abolished the may be of interest to some fnture histo measure of an allowance of £24 for e
child. This was particularly bard plainly, showing that Lord Kitchener officers.
But be tells enough, and tells it from the lower deck to the position those who had raised themselves by me
was unequal to the task with which he whole worse off to-day than in 1914. The naval officer was on
world war. Lort Esher sets the matter of the men of the other fighting servi was confronted at the outbreak of the should be put in a position equal to t down without any equivocation. He and enabled to maintain his wife and South Africa, and he only as yet away in China or the Mediterranean, was no longer the K. of K. of the Soudan family in a modest home while he was aware of the tragic fact.
The clsewhere. They would not get the ri governing forces of the situation over-stamp of men into the naval -othe whelmed him, but only his intimate ranks if they did not pay them sufici Then, we read that Kitchener was un friends guessed what was happening." to maintain a wife and family.
Lady Astor quoted a letter from adopt new methods which he himself married a naval office. twelve mon receptive to new ideas, disinclined to Raval officer's wife, which said: did not originate, alow to take advango, and wo are separated for two ye tage of the experience of lesser men." because he cannot afford to take me Burdened with this mental equipment he cently married a soldier from the
to the Far East. A friend of mine was called upon to work with a civilian who is being trained for the Air For Cabinet. Hitherto his word had been He has been sent out to Elypt, and "A FIGHTER OF INFIDELS." law; now he had to act with a Cabinet had
of . No wonder he did not succeed in allowance afno.
pasunge for his wife and NATIONALISTS HONOUR
The married officer these ciremstances.
the Army was getting enough to supp Some of his political, colleagues disa wife and family, and the naval off liked him, some distrusted him, some was not. The naval officer was sont be feared him; but he became involved in there, and everywhere, and by the intrigue-it' could not be otherwise and ature of things he had practically his powers were taken from him one by keep up two homes The Navy had operations. The leader did not lend; and other fighting Services. one: munitions, recruiting, and, finally, right to ask whether its services were
less value to the State than those of Lord Esher says when Kitchener went to Gallipoli iz November, 1916, many hoped he would not return." Truly it was a tragedy that such should come to pass, Government has left them with fur and not less so because even then the available for development. Perhaps great mass of the people everywhere still best uugury for prosperity is the fact t thought of Kitchener as a hero... THE RUSSIAN FAMINÉ.
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CONSTANTINOPLE, September 27th. The National Assembly at Angora has conferred upon Mustapha Kemal the raak latter designation being an honour given of Marshal and the title of Ghazi, the into a fighter of infidels.
Mustapha, replying, said he would not lay down arms until the list Greek had been driven from Turkish soil.
SIMLA, September 28th. Ghulam Siddiq, member of the Afghan Mission Kabul.
to Europe, has returned to
fuence the Indo-Afghan negotiations, in His" arrival is expected to in-
view of the experience he gained in Europe and elsewhere.
SOVIET CLAIM IN UNITED STATES,
CLAIM FOR POSSESSION OF STEAMERS.
New Yoak, September 28th. The Soviet Government sued the
Russian steamers in New York waters → Federal Court for possession of certain
The Judge held that the Soviet Govern
Police witnesses gave evidence saying
BERLIN, September 27th. that the utterances of the accused pro- Commission demands that the German A Note of the Inter-Allied Control posed seconding the resolution of the police force be immediatly reduced to Khilafat Conference in July, declaring, the level demanded by the Entente, and declares that nothing has been to inter alia, that it was at present unlaw carry out the stipulation for decentralisment could not appear as a litigant in fel for a Mussulman to enter or remaining the force, which, still organised American courts, because it was not re- "in tactical units, is really a mobile fight- ing force similar to the Reichswehr.
ALARMIST REPORTS.
an the British army.
LONDON, September 27th, In connection with the revival of alarmist reports in regard to the strength of the German Army, Reuter learns authoritatively that the Inter-Allied Control Commission is perfectly satis fod with the progress of the surrender and destruction of German armament.
cognised by the United States.
ROYALTY TO VISIT ANATOLIA."
ATHENS, September 27th. King Constantine and the Crown Prince will arrive at Anatolia on the 29th inst. Great preparations are being. made for a popular welcome.
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ARGENTINE LOAN.
BUENOS AIRES, September 28th. Negotiations have been concluded for an American loan for the Argentine Government of $50,000,000 at 7 per cent.
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TO RESTORE EXCHANGE AND STIMULATE TRADE.
NEW YORK, September 27th. A syndicate of Enanciers has purchased two-year seven per cent. Argentine amount of $50,000,000. This is the first Government Treasury gold notes to the
financing of Argentine bonds from New expected to help to restore exchange and York for five years. The operation is to stimulate trade.
MARTIAL LAW IN BELFAST. SALUTARY EFFECT OF NEW REGULATIONS.
LONDON, September 27th. "Gunmen" in the riot area of Bel- East had a sample of martial law for two hours prior to curfew last night, troops alearing the streets with the bayonet.
free
the railwayman have no deep sense grievance such as the miners had wi the mines were decontrolled. The wa settlement has been reached without or trouble, and the prediction of a gr strike has been falsified.
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Appeals are being made in England for succour for the unfortunate millions in Russia who are dying from famine. But, to speak quite frankly, the view generally taken if that while it is dia- THE ENGINERES' CLUB, tressing to hear of the borrors of the
Members of the sagineering profess calamity, it is not to ho supposed that on your side will be interested to les the public will respond as would have that the Engineers' Club in For boon the case had the conditions beca about the formation of which I wr different. There is the humanitarian some time ago, is now an accomplish feeling, and on that score a desire to fact. Premises, have been acquired assist; but there is also the feeling that Coventry Street and Whitcombe Str assistance means the bolstering up of formerly occupied by the Road Club; Bolshevism. The scare started in some of the doors will be opened to members the papers as to a danger to this country from September 1st. The membersh from cholera, which is said to be trave already exceeds 2,200, and new memb ling westward, is not justified. The ar
rangements for dealing with "disease at are being rapidly enrolled. English ports is so excellently organised As I have previously explained, that it would be extremely difficult for Club is intended as the London home break through the sanitary cordon. infection, except in isolated cases, to the British Engineering profession
aident in this country or coming fr overseas. Apart from engineers, prop allied branches of the professiona membership, includi
THE KING'S CIVIL LIST
-In view of the public attention which eligible for has been directed towards the income of architects, chemical engineers, metall King George, by his Majesty's patriotic gists, etc. The subscription is at p request for Parliamentary permission to sent ten guineas per annum for Londo liquidate a part of his personal property five for country, and two for overde and thus meet a deficiency not of his members. Mr. E. Manville, M.P., is p own making, it is instructive to recallsident of the Club, and Mr. Edmund the history of what is now known as the Hill is acting as hon. secretary: King's Civil List. A friend who is an
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UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM,
SIR ALFRED MOND'S OPINION.
LONDON, September 27th. Sir Alfred Mond, addressing pressmen at the Ministry of Health, declared that nemployment is due to causes over which the Government has no control. Official quartèra "state that there is not that the Soviet reply to Marquis. Curzon the most salutary effect, shooting ceasing Private person in the country. They must try to stabilise foreign the slightest apprehension of any pos- exchanges, so that British foreign trade sibility that Germany will be able to may improve, and the cost of produc organise and equip an amy of such size tion must be reduced. He was glad to as to constitute a danger to the Allies say that there sooned to be some indica- There are plenty of men, but all the tion of more confidence on the part of necessary armament and equipment is purchasera, as inora orden were being lacking." received. Unemployment insurance had
been a big weapon in dealing with the SYNDICALISM IN GERMANY. situation. It was hoped to extend its scope by the Government advancing
WORKMEN TAKE POSSESSION OF £20,000,000 to an unemployment insurance
DYEWORKS. fund. The position was serious but he was not in any way, pessimistic.
SOUTH WALES. COALFIELD. OWNERS QUESTION INTERPRETA
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BERLIN, September 27th.
A message from Frankfurt states that workmen have taken possesion of the dyeworks at Hochst, and will not allow anyone enter without their consent. There has been no disorder. The French authorities have annotineed that they will not interfere, but have requested the workmen to refrain, from violence.
ALL-RUSSIA COMMITEE.
LONDON, September 27th. A serious position has arisen in the Bouth Wales coalfield owing to a mis- interpretation of the settlement the last coal strike, the Mines De partment requiring the owners to contri. MEMBERS CONDEMNED TO DEATH. bute a further 10s, per ton, amounting to £750,000, towards wages. The owners ex+
LONDON, September 27th, pected the sum to be provided from the In view of the alarming reporte regard- Govorament subsidy of £10,000,000, of ing the safety of members of the All- which £3,000,000 remain.
Committee, Dr. After a hurried meeting at the Cardiff graphed to M. Tebicherin asking whether Coal Exchange the owners decided to the report that four members of the Con- close a large number of collieries. If the mittee had been condemned to death is decision is carried out the unemployment true. situation in South Wales will be seriously aggravated.
COAL EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS SUSPENDED.
LATER Following the South Walta. conl bomb shell, all quotations ware withdrawn at the Swansea Coal Exchange to-day in view of the uncertainty of the position.
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DEMONSTRATION.
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Colond Campbell, who has been 40NDON, September 27th.
pointed military governor of the city, The Foreign Office is of the opinion immediately issued regulations which had does not attempt to answer the very grave after 8 o'clock a.m. yesterday, though charges against the Soviet, which are there were sporadic attacks with revolvers based on definite evidence. The Soviet, and other weapons during the day. apparently, merely contents itself with A military communiqué issued concern- stating that certain individuals are noting this says that Catholics were attack involved. This is unimportant in viewed in nine cases, including 'three where of the well-known fact that, owing to workmen were driven from employment. their mutual distrust, the heads of the in the teath case a Protestant was beaten Soviet departments" are always changing. I in a Catholic areal
U.S. PEACE TREATIES. "NOT MATTER FOR PARTY ACTION."
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FIRE AT NOTTINGHAM
SOAPWORKS..
authority on the subject has given, me LETTERS OF CREDIT. some details. The List stands at thei Lloyds Bank has decided, to gra Pre-war figure of £470,000, of which only World Letters of Credit for the t £110,000 a year is allotted to their of tourist, travellers, and others journa ably more and greater demands upon it holders to obtain cash at nearly 50 Majesties' Privy Purse, which has probing abroad. The letters will enable t than are made on the income of any towns in parts of the British Empi and other countries of the world. Th The Civil List dates from the reign is not, of course, an entirely new of William and Mary, Originally the parture in banking, as letters of cred income of the Sovereign consisted of have been obtainable almost everywher Crown revenues from land, Excise duties, but the extension of the arrangement and other sources, supplemented by most towns will be a considerable .00 money specially assigned by Parliament. renience to the public. Some of t In 1700 George the Third surrendered other big London banks may soon the greater part of the hereditary re expected to follow the lead set venues in England and accepted in their Lloyds... In that ease before long it w place a Civil List of £800,000 per annum, be a very out-of-the-way-place where t On the accession of William the Fourth visitors possessing a banking account the Civil List was fixed at £510,000 per London nods to carry a-large sum "annum and Queen Viatoria's Civil money with him.
List was settled under similar
a
LONDON; September 27th.
ditiona King Edward the Seventh IRELAND UNDER THY TRUCH. WARRINGTON, September 27th
Damage to the amount of £90,000 was placed his hereditary revenues unreserved. done by are to a soapworks at Notting-ly at the disposal of Parliament, and, between the Crown forces and Sinn Fe Following the trace declared in Irela The conference of Democrat Senators ham. Many hands are rendered tempor- following the recommendations of decided that the peace treaties are not arily idk matters for party action, hence individual Senators are free to follow their orn judgment in the voting in regard to ratification...
Select Committee of the House of Com- while the peace negotiations were p mosa, the Civil List Act of 1901 made peeding both sides have claimed cree the amount payable for the List £470,000. for the punctilious regard they have pa "Chinese" Wilson, as he is called-ho This is the amount at which, it stands to the strict observance of the ngr
ment. But this has ita humorous is really Mr. E. H. Wilson, a Birming-to-day. hata man, and formerly a journeyman
as is indicated by a story which is goi U.S. SUBMARINE SINKS, gardener at Kew Gardens-is one of those RAILWAY DECONTROL
the rounds. Items that a pickpock who have found that romance and adven- The railways"are now freed from, a was caught in the net by his intend OPEN TORPEDO-TUBE THE CAUSE. ture are still to be had for the asking. Government control that has lasted over victim, who desired to hand him over
As a result of four journeys into Western seven years. The history of those years the police. But the latter, in their Los ANGELES, September 27th. China in the past 14 years, says World's owing to the war, the trade slump and gard for the truce and not knowing a The United States Pacific fleet sub Work, he has doubled the number of dis- the coal strikes, has been gloomy. Havos thing about the parties, were marine R.6 snk at anchor in San Pedro sinct species of woody plants capable of has been played with railway finance, picketpocket might be a giren afraid torpedo tube. Two of the crew are be-Man (where they are now growing); an extraordinary amount of energy into be handed to the Binn Fein patrol. Harbour, owing, it is said, to an open
outdoors in being grown
in England;, sextbit the outlook now is more cheerful, some political motive for his net.jus to the Arnold Arboretam, near Boston, and the railway companies are putting cordingly, they suggested that he, shot loved to have been drowned
more different and distinct trees and shrubs than are to be found native in the their services with the determination to the Sinn Feiners showed an equal GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,cool, temperate parte of Eastern North make good the ground that was lost pect for the trace, declaring that
might be a member of the Crown for America collected in the interior of under control. SHAREHOLDERS' COMMITTEE TO
China, within the last for years, and The companies are fortunata in the in disguise. Eventually, after long d successfully introduced into cultivation; moment in which they have come into beration, it was decided to chaing more new planta than any other plant- their own again.” It seems probable culprit up to the railings of a chui hunter. Mr. Wilson is not yet 50, but, in that the nation has so the worst of the for a day, with a label attached to i
committee has decided to appeal to results, and is now on a journey round which the railways have made with the happen anywhere outside of Ireland The Grand Trunk Railway sharehold-also searched Japan and Korea with good somewhat botter. Moreover, the bargain that this kind of thing could har
addition to his Chinese travels, he has strike trouble, and trade conditions are explaining his offence. I rather ima
the Privy Council.
the world.
(Continued at foot of nézi volana,). HL.B.
ROME, September 27th. A band of Fascisti or extreme Na- tionalists headed by a Deputy, gr. Vicini, demonstrated in front of the Prefecture at Modena. The troops fired, killing five and wounding 25, Sgr., Vicitis being among the wounded..
APPEAL
LONDON, September 27th.