CABLES
LATEST CABLES. {THEOUGH BLUTER'S AGENOT.)
PEACE IN SIGHT.
GENERAL HARINGTON'S ADDRESS TO TURKISH DELEGATES.
THE COAL IS WITHIN REACH."
CONSTANTINOPLE, October 11th.
In a conciliatury speech presenting the proposed Convention General Sir Charles Harington thanked met Fasha for his order for the cessation of the movement
of troops.
described the terras As generous, and said the Allied troops would be removed from Constantinople on the declaration of peace. It appeared to him that the Turks were offered nearly all their national aspirations without loss of life and without disturbing, the pence
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THUESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 1922.
DAPEST GABLES,
GENERAL ILECTION BEFORE | IRISH CATHOLIC HIERARCHY
CHRISTMAS.
ANNOUNCEMENT, BY THE "DAILY |
CHRONICLE."
LONDON, October 10th.
It is as certain as can be, that there will be a general election before Christ- mai, announces the political correspondant of Mr. Lloyd George's organ, the Daily "'hronicle; following a meeting of the L'abinet at which the question was de
EARLIER CABLES."
DENOUNCES REBELLION.
MURDERS AND · OUTRAGES-
CONDEMNED.
LONDON, October 10th.
OUR LONDON "LETTER. CHINESE FOR REALISM IN
LONDON. THEATRE.
DEATH OF - FAMOUS JOURNALIST
[FROM OUR OWN CORREBTONDENT.]
CHHAPEK KEPRINTS,
NEW ARMY - MENU.” COOKERY "LIKE MOTHER DOES,"
Soldiers of old, and particularly the Chelsea pensioners, who recall the rigours of the Army life of forty and fifty years ago, will open their eyes in astonishment and envy, when they read the new regu lations for soldiers' messing, now issued to oficers throughout the Army,
Officers are to see that they acquire an
▲ business visit I paid this week to several of the leading booksellers revealed the fact that books are getting cheaper. But this statement contains no message. of comfort for insatiable novel readers. so far as I can learn from my publishing friends, the seven-and-sixpenny novel has come to stay, for the present at last. I no referring to those libraries of reprints of famous classics that used to be the joy of
tions of books. the studions in building up their collec
In future the cookhouse is not going The price of reprints, it will be recalled, to be a "cesspool" for all the blockhead ing to half-a-crown, and has remained Every soldier sent to the conkhouse is rose steadily during the war from a shill-who can do nothing useful as soldiers. at the latter guze despite the recent to be trained in cookery. decrease in the cost of paper and printing. At last, however, a fall can accurate, competent knowledge of the sub- be rearded. The price has gone down ject, so that they can give a scientific glance further reduction in view of the fall in kipper. Tha service is to be brought up to the wages of the working-clases.
appetising display. Beef and potatoes are pot simply to be served, but nut bafords the troops attractively, so that half of it will not be left, and consistent loss of food entailed, coupled with expense. All of this results from lessons learnt during the war. A more scientific appreciation of the value to an army of good feeding and a more scotirate translation of the dictum that "an army. marches on its stomach" was then obtained. hence the new directions of Colonel Wright, Inspector of Army Catering.
A full meeting of the Trish Hierarchy |
Loxoow, September 7th. at Maynooth has issued a pastoral letter]“fast OF WEZ.” -", mest strongly condemning the revolt and In a recent Letter I remarked upon the guerilla warfare against the Free State predilection of present day theatrical wri. Government, and declares that killing ters and managers for sceres with China Nationalist soldiers is murder before God and Chinese as part of the play. This is The letter denounces robberies, the deseen again in East of Suez, with which truction of roads and railways, and other the thestrial season may be said to have outrages, and ones that persons been re-opered at His Majesty's Theatre guilty of such crimes will not be given this week It is more, truly Chinese iu liberated. The only doubt is whether it. Absolution or admitted to Communion one sense that the famovi "Chu Chia to two shillings; but there is room for at the ill-cooked porridge or the under-done
they persist in such evil courses. Any priests approving af the insurrection aro Chow" which had such a remarkable run false to their sacred office. They are
at the same house under Mr.. Oscar Asche, guilty of the gravest scandal, and will not for in this instance some forty real-and-no- be allowed to retain the faculties held mistako-Chise are introduced to satisfy from the Hierarchy.
the passion of the author, Mr. Somerset Maughäm, for realism. į ·
can be taken before the meeting of Parlia.
ment in November
A SPLENDID ELECTORAL OPPUR
TUNITY FOR MR. LLOYD GEORGE-
Mr. Lloyd George manifestly considers that the prospective, successful issue of the Government's policy in the Near East, which evoked such violent criticism on
and prosperity of their country "your the part of the opposition, offers a not to
goal is within-rench and will be entirely
be missed electoral opportunity,
GREAT ACTIVITY IN POLITICAL CIRCLES.
MUTINY OF IRISH REBEL "PRISONERS.
DESPERATE TIGHT WITH THE GUARD.
:
|
Will there ever be a successor to that estimable Mr. Dicks, who in my buyhood days used to sell paper-covered editions of most of the posts for a modest sixpence It was in such volumes, roughly bound and printed in small type, that I first made acquaintance with the complete works of Byron, Shelley, Robert Burns and other immortals. Then there were also the ad- mirable publications that Chambers used to publish for a few pence each. Are they to have no successors? AMERICANS AT OXFoncé
EARLT CUP OF TEA
The acton Association are by no means pleased with this arrangement, as English actors and stage hands are out of work in large number; but, as the management were able to satisfy the objectors that the Chinese in the play perform on musical instru- Losnos, October, 10th. ments that no English player could use and Despite a close watch over the six has also sing quaint chants in their own tongue, dred irregulars captured during the Four the incident did not dovelop. It is all done in in your hards in forty-five days, anıl
Courta zhting and incarcerated in the first act, in which there is a street scene your administration established satisfac-
Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Arma and am in Peking, with large numbers of Europ There were, consequently, the greatest munition were smuggled in and distri.eans and Chinese (the real natives above torily. All the Allies ask is that, the present zones shall be respected till the activities in coalition circles yesterday. buted among the prisoners, who revolted referred to) and other nationalities. For to-day. They failed in their attempt to ten minutes there are confused noises and ratification of pince secondly, a limiz Porty whips and organisers mei to con- overpower the guard after a desperate shouts and pandemonium generally, making sard, who is in charge, says schools like fast to follow. Each midday meal must' for sending gendarmery fato Thrace: nad, sider the reports from Constituencies fight in which three guards and brea wonderful and novel representation of the Harvard "have something of the Oxford include meat, vegetables, sweets, and tea
thirdly, the presence of the A'lied detach.
prisoner were killed. None of the pris Mr. Chamberlain conferred with his con-oners escaped.
Chinese Capital.
As to the play itself, the story is chiefly ments and missions in Thrace for a very servative colleagues and then with Sir HARRISONS AND CROSSFIELD and the troubles socially and otherwise that concerned with a ball-caste Chinese girl inevitably happen to a couple of English- men of good standing one is in the Diplo- matic servis-who linked themselves up with her. A long run is predicted for the play.
Taited period." He added that the Greek delegátes would be disposed to sign with certain reservations.
THE SIGNING OF THE AGREEMENT.
News of the signature of the agreement at Madania at 11 o'clock yesterday even. ing arrived too late for comment in the morning papers but it was not inexpected: Undoubtedly it will be received with universal satisfaction and relief: It is pointed out here that the renewed evidence of Allied solidarity was an important factor in inducing the acceptance of the terms by the Turks. to whom it was clearly indicated that they were the Allies? last word
EARLIER CABLES.
AGREEMENT COMMUNICATED TO ISMET PASHA,
MUDASIA, October Oth. General Harington has communicated to Iamet Pasha the text of the Allied con- vaation. Ismet said it was necessary- tox refer to Angora, but promised a reply by tomorrow afternoon...
GREEK DELEGATE'S INSTRUC TIONS.
*
ATHENE, October 10th. Roplying to the demand for instruc tions, the Government has telegraphically aathorised Generat Mazarakis, the Greek delegate at Mudania, to sign the protocal only if the Turks sign.
AGREEMENT SIGNED. "
CONSTANTINOPLE, October 10th. The Mudania agreement has beco sigued. THE TERMS OF THE PROTOCOL.
Edward Carson. Mr. Lloyd George con sulled various co-liberal supporters who endorsed the wisdom of an early election. Mr. Horne and Lieut. Col. Amery decided to postpone their respective visits to the United States and Canada.
Sunde counsellors are advising Mr. dyd tieorge to resign, in view of the threatened revolt of his conservative axiations, but talk of his resignation is at present not regarded seriously,
Mr. Chamberlain intimated that, fol- loving Mr. Lloyd George's resignation, if
..
REPORT."
CJ
DECREASE IN. PROFITS..
LONDON, October 10th. Messrs. Harrisons & Crossfield's report for the year ended June 30th shows that the net profit was £149,000. After making provision for the preference shares, the directors propose to pay 5 per cent, ou the deferred shares, carrying forward £45,000. Investments amount to £1,400,000. In the previous year the Company made a profit of £184,000, paid 7 per cent. on the de. ferred shares, carried forward £45,000, and held investments of £1,413,000.
BRITISH SHIPPING AND U.S.
be it summoned to form a Government,LINERS he will advise His Majesty to dissolve Parliament,"
NEW ISSUE OF DUTCH BONDS,
AMSTERDAM, October 10th. The issue of six million guilders City Scurabaya 6 per cent, boads, at Dal, is impending:
REPARATIONS COMMISSION.
M. BARTHOU." UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED PRESIDENT,
th
PROHIBITION,"
TO CARRY USUAL LIQUOR
SUPPLIES,
LONDON. October 10th.
ADAM AND HE—NEW STYLE
i
A good opinion can be formed as to the line upon which the women's political move ment is likely to develop in the near future The main plak in their platform is equal pay with men fer equal work. This policy way clearly encinted at the meetings of the Societies for Equal Citizenship. which have just concluded at Oxford. The feeling that is known to exist among tealers throughout the country on questions of pay has helped to force the questici to the "front,
Some men are paid less than men although they have as good, or better, qualifications; on the other hand, there are women who get more than men because they have academic attainments the latter do not posses, and the men do not like The North Atlantic conference at Liver.it. I belire the point is stressed that pool only informally discussed the Ameri- men have, generally speaking, heavier can liquor ruling and took no action responsibilities than women. A man maz concerning same. All liners due to leave have a wife and family, ho eats more, and supplies of intoxicants. Liverpool this week will carry their usual he, is in fact, a more expensive creature in bis habis, and altogether he is in a different category.
OBITUARY."
MR. ISAAC GUGGENHEIM,
Losdos, October 10th. *
The American copper magnate, Mr. Isaac Guggenheim, has died at Southamp.
ton. PARIS, October
M. Barthou has been unanimously elect- ed president of the reparations commis sion in succession to M. Dubois.
THE GREEK PREMIERSHIP.
Aruss, October 11th.
M. Tdaímis has now intimated his rendi- Des to accept the Premiership, ITALIAN AVIATION
CUP.
WON BY FERRARIN,
NEW YORK, October 10th.. An Associated Press message from Mudania gives the text of the protocol presented to Immet Pasha by the Allies. The terms are mainly as already cabled,
Bour. October 10th. but it provides that Greek troops evacuate
Ferrarin, who flew from Rome to Tokyo Baat Thrace within about fifteen daya Allied contingents of about saven batta-12 120, won the Aviation "Grand Cup of lions will occupy East Thrace to ensure Italy covering the course of 2,004 kilo the roaintenance of law and order and to metres in 12 hours 37 minutes. Only two support the Allied missions. The continentrants qualified in the eliminating trials gents and missions will be withdraw72
EDUCATION AND THE PRESS.
THE. DECIDING VACTOR:
DEATH OF LOR. SIMS.
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The new Army cook must henceforth. on I suppose that as a nation we may take account begin his day's work without it as a compliment that forty American being shave; he must not smoke in the students have been in England visiting the cookhouse, and must have dean hands and University cities and comparing the Eng. nails. The new time soldier is to have lish way with their own. Mr. H. C. Gos his early cup of tea, with a liberal break-
touch," but there is otherwise a great and supper at Axed times must follow difference. American naiversities would each day.The seating accommodation is the mass of the people like the Universities queues for rations. Dishes must be serv- have more students. Oxford does not reach to be comfortable, and there are to be no
do in the States.
ed hot. It has been calculated that no day's food need cost above 1s. 8d. cost outside the Army for the same. menus would be 3s. 9d.
It is always of interest to "see ourselves as others see ̈ us.” What particularly struck our American visitors
was the studiousness of the English. "Our stu dents," Dr. Gossard said, are highly motor-senseland need action. I we gave the freedom in the States that you and if our lectures were not compulsory have here I'm afraid they'd tear up the town, they would never be attended. It is a great trait for people to sit and think for
themselves."
WAYS AND MLANG.
Another side of University life in these days is however, emphasised by an agonised letter from a son to his mother which has appeared in the Press. He "oat ran the constable," as the saying is, and get badly into debt at Oxford, with the result that his whale career is clouded. The case with which undergraduates can obtain credit at the Universities has often been mentioned, and it will probably be a subject of dis- cussion until meats are adopted to remove temptation.
The
The following are sample menus for breakfast
Sunday-Toa, bread, salmon, margarine Tuesday, Tea, bread, margarine, fried steak, gravy.
ThursdayTen, bread, fresh herring3, margarine.
Friday. Ten, bread, fried baton, baked beans, tomato sauce.
For dinner the following are laid down:- Sunday Roast meat, potatoes, peas, plain pudding.
Monday-Meat pies, boiled potatoes, Rangoon beans, rice pudding.
boiled potatoes, cabbage, apple pie.
Wednesday, Baked meat,
beans, bread pudding.
Friday-Roast ment, potatoes, butter
includes ten, bread, and margarine, with Tea is a dainty repast aach day, which additions, on various days of jam, kippers, and cheese.
Hay-box cookery is advocated in the to what the hay-bot will not do. cook-house, bat a special section is devoted
recipe as have all the male
Every kind of soup supplied has its dishes. Thus plain sunt pudding is pot for 30 men
appreciation of the value of money, finds A boy fresh from school, with no himself in Oxford (or it may be Cambridge) in a new and wonderful world where life is gay adventure. He enters a shop in the window of which something catches his at fancy, and asks the price. A sam is stated which is ridiculously high, but he does not realise it. He offers to pay, but the suggestion is gently pushed aside na of no consequence in the happy home of learning. lives unselfishly ministering to the wants Tradesmen there appear to spend their
of impetuous youth, and
Flour...
30 pounds. Dripping
...pounds. Salt
1 ounces. "While in the new Army jam roll six pounds of jam go to 16 lbs. of flour,
chased from the scientific, food value,
The whole of the menus have been dis
and hygienic points of view, not forget- Wave with a smile the proffered cointing cost and labour-saving, and the future of the British soldier in the Army brought nearer to "home from home," with. cooking "like mother does.”;
away,
And blush that such a “gent" should
wish to pay.
A
All they ask for is name and college. It no wonder that a proposal is put forward that parents or guardians should select whose bills they are responsible should certain shops where undergraduates for A GREAT OSTRICH FARMER. have credit up to a specified amount, and
STORY OF A CALIFORNIAN MILLIONAIRE. that outside this charmed circle tradesmen who gire, credit must do 80 st their own risk.
COSTS AT THE UNIVERSITIES.
But all the argument on that score is beside the mark. The fact that counts and is proved by the logic of experience is that pay is determined not according to a man's need bat according to the value of his work. There can not be any other sound basis; and the most that women claim is that in the work-a-day worldby thĩsstandard should they be judged. If intelligently and strongly pressed this argument is irresistible. At the opening of the summer vacation Moreover, the argument, if necessary, can be course at the Bingles Training College, buttressed and strengthened by the fact Yorkshire, on August 2nd, Visccunt Burn that so long as capable, women are treated ham gave the inaugural address, speaking at a disadatage compared with men for on National Education and the New exactly similar work there must always be
Bir Edwin Talbot of the danger of "sweating" and "blackleg paper Preas." Batley, vice-chairman of the Higher ging." This is the one thing every sane GRANDEducation Sub-Committee of the West man desire to avoid, whether he be a Riding County Council, presided. In the bricklayer's labourer or a Harley Street course of bis address Lord Burnham said specialist. that if education was to be continued be
Away back in 1887 (says Bird Notes and yond the schools and 'univérsities it must
Newe) there appeared upon the streets of as a matter of work-a-day life, be largely The death of Mr. George R. Sims at the
Los Angeles, California, an English ex- dependent on the help and support of age of seraty-fire means the passing of
It used to be said that Oxford was "the collegian driving before him about four the newspaper Presa. Unfortunately one of the lut of the old Bohemians. It home of lost causes,"
but now-a-days, as dozen-ostriches. Hy was the of hitherto co-operation of this sort had not also means the loss of a kindly, genial, things are respecting expenses, the new wealthy parents, and had conceived the in this connection he wished to pay over the Anglo-Saxon world. His thres Oxford is the cause of lost hamra. I learn and Arizona would be suitable for th been thorough as might be desired, and personality whose writings were known all rendering of the witticism should be idea that the sun-dried wastes of California hearty tribute of respect to the provincial columns in the Referee every Sunday signed as the result of a few inquiries that any African ostrich, and that profit could bo Fre. There was no doubt that provin Dagonet," was a feature of the paper, undergraduate who has less that 350 made by sale of their feathers. His name cial newspapers throughout the country consisting as it did of witty paragraphs dificult to make ends meet.
a year to his credit will find it extremely was Edwin Cawston; for two years he had given a serious attention to educa. commenting on men and affairs, jokes, mas to scrape along on £300, but they have Ostrich Form to the residents and Some try exhibited his ostrichce in a so-called tional matters which of the whole had verses of a topical character, sometimes been lacking in, the metropolis, where serious but more often gay.
to forego almost everything in the way sun-scorched, rurals in the vicinity and they very seldom attracted notice, unless It is almost incredible, but is a fact of pleasure that makes University life to the grand army of touriste over perco they involved some fiscal burden or some nevertheless, that for forty-five years Sims happy memory for a man to the end of his lating through Southern California. But he religious difference. That was the wrong contributed this article, beaded Mustard
earthly pilgrimage. way to treat education. If education was and Cress," without a break for even one
There is the further fact for those who observed his birds dying; he had purchased them from the Boers in Natal, daren them to play a greater part in national life tween the two great agencies which could and from Africa, and, was never late with Four, or more sa the case be, necessary Helena, to the shore at Galveston, Texas. his "copy" from every capital in Europe, which is often overlooked-that £350 a
them over the rolling Aflantie, past Saint advance it, the schools and the Press.
Proceeding to speak of German methods, it. He wrote it when he was ill in bed, to keep an undergraduate at the Univer Lord Baraham said that they produced and after operations; and, indeed, the sity only covers 24 out of the 53 weeks he loss of them meant the loss of twenty
in the calendar.-H.B. that worship of the State which in itself article last Sunday was sent in as usual on Was an evil. Education here had less to the Saturday two days before he died. do with the formation of a national Mr. Sims wrote a large number of plays character than it had in Germany. There which won him fame and fortune. His was never. here that same anxious and most succntol, produced when he was syndicated effort that there was in' Ger- quite a young man, waa"The Lights o many to use all the agencies of education London," which brought him in 250,000, to promote a definite policy and to instil He knew London as few men know it, and regular creed, Whatever charges might be lived to sep the amusing changes in be brought against Whitehall of trying to habits and manns that have occurred centralise the machinery of education and since the Victorian period of bis youth to crush out local initiative, it had never Recently be wrote that London to-day, been said that it was done for the purpose compared with the faunting vice and of shaping, the national mind to definits drunkennen of the good old days, in a views on conomic or political subjects, Puritan pandira, Y The time but come for a grand inquest More than any other man of his time
thirty days after completion of the and Ferrarin was the only starter in the
evacuation of the Greek forces, or earlier if the Allied Governments agres that "nde- quate provision has been made to main- tain law and order and to protect the non-Turkish population. „
New neutral zones at Chanak and lamidt will be delimited by mixed com- missions consisting of one officer from each of the Allied armies and, one officer from the Angora Government. The Angora Government undertake not to transport troops into nor raise or main tain an army in East Thrace until peace bas been ratified.
actual race. སྙ》
MORE SOVIET ** LIBERTY.-
·TRADE UNION COMMITTÉE MEMBERS ARRESTED.
RIGA, October 10th. there must be a working agreement beweek. He used to any that, he had sentare concerned with paying bilis fact into the bold of a sailing ship and brought
Members of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Trade Unions have been arrested by order of the Soviet Supreme Tribunal
A serious rising is reported from North MR. LLOYD ACCEPTS HIS Caucasus, where too insurgents destroyed or disperand the Red forces. A punitive CRITICS' CHALLENGE.
cxpedition is now engaged,
WILL DEFEND HIS NEAR EASTERN POLIOT.
Lawson, October 10th. Far from bowing to the clamour of his critics, Mr. Lloyd George, in characteris- tic fighting vein, has decided to accept the challenge. He will speak on Oct 14th at Manchester, expounding and de fending his Near Eastern policy. The bearing on the political situation.
DUTCH WATERSIDE STRIKE
BARLIER CABLES.
HUSSIA AND THE URQUHART AGREEMENT.
"A SHOOK TO THE BUSINESS WORLD."
LONDON, October 10th"
TOMASONIC MOTOR LIFEBOATS.
thousand dollars.
"Therefore, be obtained a ranch at Nor.... walk, near the ocean some twenty miles away, and there for ten years tended his strange fock, trying to attract some vizitors s from Los Angeles to whom he might sell A new and powerful motor lifeboat was feathers. Neither the visitors nor the recently sent by the Boyal National Insurrounding gentry purchased his plames, stitution to its station at Peterhead. This so he had to send, then to London and sell host has been presented to the institution them wholesale in the open market, the by the Freemasons of England as a thank ostrich feather market of the world. offering for the safe return from Canada At the beginning of the present century. of their Grand Master, the Duke of Con- he moved nearer in Los Angeles, and with naught, on the conclusion of his Governor his increasel ostric population began to Generalship of the Dominion, and is to advertise his feathers all over the United be named the Duke of Connaught. The States In five years he was a million. inaugural ceremony took place on Aug.
speech is likely to have an important confessed that he was disappointed at the should be revised and reconsidered, both that made him love the poor, and his representativo in Scotland of the Unite an incorporated company, and sailed for Mr. Urquhart; interviewed by Reater, in which all parte of our national system Bima had that "spirit of Dickens" 28th, and the Duke of Atholl who in the ire he then transferred his interests to Boyict's DoD-ratification of the Raso in their bearing one to the other and in greatest work was to make life easier for This Duke of Counsughs" is the third employed him in recruiting work, and his Grand Lodge of England, named the boat his native land. The British Govorament tie norsement, but the last werd had their relation to the whole. The second. the children of the London luna febess which the institution oves to the three sons entered the Army one of these not been said. He was convinced that ary school system must be dealt with, and especially to fecing of little ons generosity of the Freons of England, fell at the Dardancies, In 1920, while politics would be put in their proper its relation to the universities better de attending the elementary schools. You the other two being the "Albert Edward" engaged in a game of tennis, lo passed. piae and the agreement ratified when Aned. The national ideal of this coun- cannot each starving children, he argued, Clacton-on-Bes, and the Alexandra away, evidently owing to strain on the Husla's rulers realized the greatness of try tended too much to the side of literary and if this State takes the responsibility at Hope Cove, Devon & three boas heart. He was an athlete in his youth and the shock they had administered to the sand clerical attainmenta, rather than to of educating them the State ought to see have not only been presented but sadowed had won gold and silver cups at Charter- conidanios of the budinem warld.
manusi and mechanical skill
that they me mot hungry.”,
kosse School for various aihletic fends.
ENDS.
AMERDAM, October 10th." The strikers as this pers will "resuma *20-morrow.
by Sam BrogstadCELE