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THE RUHR OCCUPATION. FRENCH COAL SEIZURES PROCKED. QUIETLY.
ESSEN, January 17th A French official message statee that owing to the German diversion of barges of coal intended for France and Belgium, * number of barges on the Rhine which were intended for unoccupied parts of Germany have been seized, and menaires have been taken to prevent the toading of similar cargoes,
The French Authorities met the railway stalls yesterday with the object of enlist- ing their co-operation. The procedings were fairly friendly.
The army of occupation consists of six divisions Herr Thyssen has departed for Hamburg, which is now the went of
the Coal Syndicate..
PARIS, January 17th.
It is semi-officially "stated that the con- tinued diversion of train loads of cont to France and Belgium is being affected
without incident.
CQAL OWNERS THREATENED WITH COURT MARTIAL.
BARI, January 17th'..
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other local government experience on boards of guardians and education come mittees, I formed, the opinion that some DEBT FUNDING.
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machine but once they realise the absoluto futility of the proceeding they will doubtless settle down, LONDON January 17th Reuter learns that Mr. Ba'dwin will [TROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, ]
The so-called "intellectuals" of the The annual bullion letter of Messrs.probably return to England from Wash
Labour Party have been a failure up to ington in a few days to consult the
LONDON, December 7th. the present, with one exception. This is Montaguo & Co states that the absorp: Cabinet with regard to the debt funding
Mr. Philip Snowden, who has gifts of tion of silver by India and China has negotiations. It is emphasized that there. LLOYD KORGE'S NEW HOME
is no question of a rupture, the conver. Mr. Lloyd George has arranged to real cratory, and made a fine speech the
There make his London home at 10, Cheyne other day on the unemployment problem been so large that come decline is to be sations merely being suspended.
like contribution to debate. The egregious new claim to fame. expected unless the price becomes really is no reason to suppose that Mr. Baldwin Walk, Chelsea, and that district has reasonable, well-balanced, statesman
will not return to Washington soon. It therefore a cheap.
is pointed out that now there is only a bouse is within easy reach of West Mr. Mcrel, conceited and opinionated, small difference with regard to the rate migster, and also Abingdon Street from got up a few days ago and delivered a of interest and term of payment. Both whence the control si distinct fuck self satisfied stagey "speech on foreign sides have made concessions and exereded in connection with National Liberalism is affairs that fell completely flat on a half Since be left Downing empty House; and another "intellectual WASHINGTON, January 17th.
Street Mr. Lloyd George and his family Mr. Noel Buxton, is duller than over. The members of the American Debt have been in a dat near Victoria Station. ANOTHS WAR MEMORIAL. Funding Commission state that the sug gested figure of three per cent interest on the British debthoneries is, paying on certain loans. It is still be reached. Possibly the British hoped that an agreement on principle delegation will delay its departure if no agreement be reached by Saturday.
Probably within a year, the output of the United States will again come far sale into the world's markets, already overstocked with demonetized silver, while a still largor production by Mexico is probable, and further improvements in Canadian production are also possible. Therefore, the future movements of the price of silver cannot be considered fav. ourably, though a heavy setback in quot
ations may, in the long run, affect ont- pot, but there is always a possibility of the price creating very low records with in the next two years unless some un known and helpful factor comes into
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WASHINGTON, January 17th. Tomorrow's meeting of the Debt Funding Commission will be in the nature of lente taking for Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues, who wait for Home on Jan: 20th. The Americans have intimated to the British delegates that President Harding is unable to assent to any plan which is not likely to receive the approval of the present session of Congress, there- by delaying the settlement for at least a year, and similarly holding up negoti- ations with other European nations, in which it is hoped the British arrange ments will serve as a precedent. It is pointed out that the ground has been details to be settled in an exchange of sufficiently cleared to enable the Anal will confer with American diplomatie telegrams. manufacturers regarding the fixing of prices.
NEW YORK, January 17th. A delegation, including Sir Stanley Bois (President of the Ceylon Association
The coal owners have not, up to the present, replied, to the requisitioning ordera, and six owners, were warned yes. terday afternfor that they would be summoned before a Court Martial if they in London), representing British rubber persisted in their resistance
He
"The German Imperial Coal Commis mioner arrived at Esser yeaterday. had a long interview with the represen tatives of the Allied Coal Mines Bureau with a view to ensuring deliveries of re parations coal to the Allies. The scope Of the conversation is not known, but whatever may have been settled the sol- lection of the coal tax, in paper marka, begins to-day on behalf of the Allies,
BUHR MINEOWNERS MAINTAIN
THEIR ATTITUDE.
Essz, January 17th.
The representatives of the Ruhg mine ongers have banded to the Occupation Authorities a long declaration signed by each individually, reaffirming their deter. mination" not to deliver coal to France or Belgium.
FRENCH SEIZE RUHR RAILWAY STATIONS.
ESSEN, January 17th. La pursuance of their policy for the control of the coal exports, the French bavo seized all the railway stations in the Buhr district.
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CONSTANTINOPLE MURDER. SIR CHAS. HARINGTON'S WARNING
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WASHINGTON, January 17th. President Harding is in bed with in- fluenza, and has cancelled all his engage
ments.
SOVIET OIL CONCESSION. AMERICAN ENGINEER SAIL FOR
BAKU.
NEW YORK, January 17th. The murdered British Coldstream A party of officers and engineers will guardsman was buried with military hon-sail for Baku on January 97th for the ours. Essad Bey, the Turkish Police Purpose of drilling, under the terme of an agreement between the Internations! Commandant was summoned to General Barnstall Corporation and the Soviet Head Quarters, where Sir Charles Haring. Government giving the Corporation a ton warned bim that if such incidents concession to operate a large section of were repeated the military authorities the Baku oilfields.
H
| would take their own measures to protect
his utmost to have the murderer arrested," the troops. Essad Bey promised to do THE LITHUANIAN TROUBLE and agreed to strengthen the patrols. ALLIES TO ESTABLISH "POVI-
SIONAL GOVERNMENT ·
JIM LARKIN PARDONED. SENTENCE OF FIVE YEARS REMITTED.
ALLY, January 17th. The Governor of New York has pardon: ed Jim Larkin, the Irish strike leader
who is serving a sentence of five years' on a charge of criminal anarchy.
BERLIN, January 17th. Although the reparations deliveries to France and Belgium have ceased, it is stated that they will continue to be made to Great Britain, Italy, Jugo-Slavis, and Foland
Pants, January 17th. Orders have been given for the immer diate exploitation of the State forests on the left bank of the Rhine as a salction wing" to the default in timber deliveries
PARIS, January 17th.
PARIS, January 17th. The Conference of Ambassadors has decided to send au extraordinary com mission to Memel to constitute a Provi- sional Government ander the aegis of the Allies."
NEWCASTLE BYE-ELECTION. BIG MAJORITY FOR ME. ARTHUR
HENDERSON, '
[At the General Election, Mr. Bell won the seat for Labour, from the previously, sitting Liberal member (Major Barnen), The figures were:-Mr. Ball (Labour),
ESSEN, January 17th. The French Authorities are taking steps to control the "movement of coal, and have established control stations at Essen, Werden, Muelheim, Bottrop and Oberhausen, which will also direct the The Germans havs declined an invita "use of rolling stock. It is significant tion to attend the Reparations -Cammis 10.084; Major Barnes (Liberal), 6,999; that none of the twenty thousand trucka sion on the "question of benzal deliveries Mr. G. Stone (National Loberal), 6,973. despatcted from the Ruhr to Germany to Italy. twenty-four hours ago have returned. It
is reported that the Berlin' Ġvorament
BRUSSELS,-January 17th.' The Ministry of War bias received a
has ordered that the coa! wagons are not telegram showing that the Balgo-German
Mr. Henderson, it will be recalled," lost his seat at Widnes to the Unionists.}
BANKING PROFITS.
carried on.
Chelsea is of course, inseparably associated with Carlyle, who lived for many years almost within a stone's throw
of
the ex-Premier's future
to
ELEMEMTS OF WIRELESS, "AN UNTECHNICAL DESCRIPTION.
It is convenient'te, think of the asther kind of gas filling all space, bus so through. solids, liquids, much finer that it passes continuously and gases. through even molecules and atoms. When & stone is dropped in a pool af water, circular waves spread out from it. When a rocket explodes in the air, sound waves spread from it in every direction, travelling very much faster than the ripples in the pool, but still taking, an appreciable time
..
PRODUCING ARTHER WAVES. Electric Waves 'can be sut up in the
First,
ether, what corresponds in their case to the stone thrown into a pool or the ex- plosion of a rocket in the air is the pro- duction of a current of electricity o cillating or virbrating at a hign re quency in the wires stretched in the air at a transmitting station. The waves so There appears to be no end to the num sent out into space travel at the rate of her of war memorials The erection of 193,000 miles a second, a расе which the latest in London is to be completed in allows them to pass from London to & Mocca of literary sightacers. Chelsea stone parapet on the Thames Embank eye. But to produce waves" which will residence, in a house that has long been author work or so on top of the masive Australia in less than the wind to is alfavourite haunt of artists in these meat opposite to the entrancs to Middle travel, these great distances without fad days, but it is tolerably certain that the Tample-lane. It is, in fact, on the spot ing out, very powerful oscillating currents
which was known as. Temple Pior in the are needed. quarter will give it a significance even of the L.C.C, used to carry, passengers possible by three great inventions. great newcomer. this picturesque.
old days when the little river,stcamera In the last five years this has become eclipsing its past records.
up and down the Thames, calling at there is _the_miga-frequenry alternator, BROADCASTING AND COPYRIGHT LAW. " scores of piers en route. The memorialine rotating dynamos used in towns pro- I am informed that novel points of is to the officers and men of the subance what is called a low-frequency cur copyright law are arising in regard to marine service, who made the supreme rent, reversing or oscillating only from the broadcasting of musical and literary sacrifice in the war. When this work is fifty to two hundred times a second. The excerpts by wireless. Mr. Godfrey completed it will mark a notable addition high-frequency current required for wITE: Isaacs, managing director of the Marconi to the ormamental side of the Embank less has to reverse from twenty thousand Ch, who has been intimately concerned ment, which was once described by a to one hundred thousand times a second.. with the formation of the Broadcasting great French antist as the finest thorough: A grindstone turned too quickly will y Company responsible for scading out fare in London. Near by, on one hand, in pieces from centrifugal forco, and it concerts and other items, has, I hear, is a memorial to Mr. W. T. Stead, the seemed impossible to imagine machinery the speeds required Informed the Society of Authors, famous journalist, and, on the other which could rotato
Composers that they hand, is that remarkably interesting for wireless, until Alexanderson, un on- Playrights and
monument of a dead civilisation-Cleo sincer of the American General Electria. intend to respect everybody's rights
Company, and Bethenod-Latour, No music except for charitable purpose patra's Needle.
France, solved the problem. is broadensted from Marconi House in
Next, there is the improved Duddell consent of the Performing Rights Society Thames Embankment suggests the ques-macy and this country, by which a pow London until they have obtained the
Beforenco to the memorial on the Poulson are generator, used both is Ger to their broadcasting music for fourteen days, pending the making of an agree. tion how long it will be before many of erful high-frequency conuous current | ment. Of course, there is a good deal the tributes to the heroe dead of the generated by means of in electric aro great war fall into decay. In one form of non-copyright material available, bat, aa was pointed out to me, those who now or another you meet the everywhere you belong to the great army of "listers-in" 50 The cities and larger towns possesa want their programme to be up-to-date. imposing materials representing the For this reason it is evident that there whole population under the municipal Will be many difficult points to be ity; in addition, learned bodies, societies, decided under the Copyright Act, and religious denominations, and so forth before things are properly adjusted it' is have each their special tribute of remem. probable an amendment will be required thing of the same kind is to be met with; branos: In the smaller towns some to the existing law,
and I believe there is scarcely a village in the country which has not its memo
GREMAN TAKES ON FOREIGNERS.
COUNTLESS TRIBUTES.
I learn from a reliable source that rial. foreigners, including many English So far as the big centres are concerned people, have recently shown considerable the upkeep of the war memorials in a eagerness in the purchase of real estate proper condition is tolerably certain; but in Germany, more particularly in the what of the otheral In rural England large towns. Bentola a10 st there are no fands available for the pur- ridiculously low level, and the purchase pose, and it is to be feared that after the price of houses is equally low. In certain present generation has pamed away, and circumstances £100 will purchase several the poignant memories of suffering and houses,
of ascrifice have grown dim, the wayside memorials will lose something of the simple dignity they now possess having come so recently from the hands of their
THE MEN FROM BOOTLAND,
I men
in
a chamber hired, with coal-gas, zero- ne, or alcohol vapour. Third, and most, important, is the cattery of "themonic
ves," a series of structures locking ake rather complicated incandescent electric lights, cach globe perhaps as large as a foot in diameter. By one of these three seta of devices, powerful transmis sion stations are able to produce ather waves which travel round the world.
DETENTING AND AMPLIFYING, But there is no use in sending out mes sages through the ather unless there is the possibility of receiving them. If a tuning fork be sounded at some little of different pitenes, the fork of the cor- distance from a battery of tuning forks rect pitch wall vibrate in response. Electric tuning is more complicated; the 2,400 yards of the wares sont out by waves differ in length form 200 to the stations with from 2,000 to 10,000 horse. qualitics. But tuning can be done, so power generators, and in many other. that by allotting groups of wave lengths to different purposes, detectors can be arranged to respond only to one ect of signals.
To illustrate the almost incredible deli- cacy of the detectors now used to pick up
With this in mind it is rather curious to learn, also, that the tendency of the Germans to get the fast fraction out of foreigners is increasing. For a long makera time hotels have charged foreigners for rooms and board several hundred per during in the English climate. It seems
Nothing fashioned by man is really en cant, more than is usual. The States pity that there is no means of ensur theatres fallowed suit, and now, accord- ing to reports, in some places foreigners for all time the preservation of the wireless messages the American authors.
countless reminders of the war in the of a Radio book, recently reviewed in are being taxed in proportion to the form of little memorials in granite or The Times Literary Supplement, bor- length of their stay, these taxes to be marble-often a alonder crocan, or a row an instance from the ultra-microme paid in the currency of the country to oboliek, or an emblematical figure which ter, Let a steel rod a foot long and a which the foreigner belongs It is not have been set up with loving reverence half-inch in diameter be held horizontally Loxbox, January 17th, surprising that foreigners are beginning in the countrysides of England.
Our in the air by one end fixed in a vice. sitated by the death of the Labour M.P., The Newcastle East bye-election, aroca
to keep out of Germany.
climate is, for instance, slowly but surely end. Its weight benda the stool-rod to an Now let a house fly be placed on the free Mr. J. N. Bell, resulted as follows:-
destroying "Cleopatra's Needle, siready extent which can be measured, for a Mr... Arthur Henderson (Labour) 11,068
The House of Cromans have heard mentioned; it endured without material difference in the listance between the two Major H. Barnes (Ind. Liberal) 6,639 with ouricus interest the new Labour change for a couple of thousand years plates of an electric condenser smounting Capt. Geb (Conservative) 6,430 Members returned in some force from the on the banks of the Nile, but it is crumblo one five-hundred millionth of an inch West of Scotland. The large contingenting after less than a century on the banks causch an electric variation which can
of the Thames.-H. B.
be made visible as a moving spot of light, from Glasgow lost no time in, unburthen- ing themselves at Westminster.
There is, therefore, no longer any dif tioned in a previous article that, in spite
oulty in detecting the ether waves sent of their professed intention of stirring
GERMAN DISARMAMENT.
across the world by the transmitting stations. But they are much too rapid things up in the House of Commons, the | traditions and atmosphere of Parliament
"BERLIN'S REPLY.
and too minute to be heard in the re aiver of a telephone. The princces in would be too much for them, and that they would probably soon find their level.
BERLIN, December 11th, the fairy tale let down a thread of her hair from ber tower; her lover attached This is what, in fact, is happening. Thore The German Government has despat bas been a few scenes caused by one or shed to the Ambassadors Conference its slender silken card to this by which enough for the rope-ladder" of escapo. forvible rather than polite; but no man Sept. 29th and Nov. 17th as to the disarma And so the delicate and rapid waves is able to stard up against the cries of meat of Germany. It declares that, if which come into the instruments of the Order, order that come from all parts during recent months appreciable pro reiving stations are used to set going gress has not been made in the disarma stronger and slower waves, and these of the House on such cocasions.
Members flocked in when Mr. Newbold, ment of Germany, it is because disarma again are used as the trigger of stilli
mant has been completely concluded, not the one and only Manbor returned as a Cumunist, got upon his fect for the only within the limite of the Treaty of stronger currents short enough and first time. Ho is a big follow with a Versailles, but in accordance with the powerful enough to make the diaphragm vory all head, and a voice that could London altimatum. It has protested to of a telephone receiver vibrate in an make itself heard across the Thames, the Allied Governments. against the inaudible fashion. The amplifiers" used But he is not correspondingly equipped justifiable demands of the Inter-Allied for this are Fleming's thermionis valves - with ideas. He will never again have so Military Control Commission, but has improved by the "grid" or electric filter
invented by De Ferest. received no reply. largo an"auidence. Mr. David Kirkwood, who had to be deported from the Clyde There has been (continues the Nofey. arca during the war because of his no-systematic obstruction by the German mischievous activities, is a emotional authorities to the carrying out of disar
The reduction in the number of houso featherhead also with a loud voice-who allied Gorssente are requested to fies from myriads to comparatively evidently fancies himself as a humourist the are to Mr. G. D. Hardie, a younger brother of bring them to the notice of the Gorman lew, is referred to in an article on
successful crusade against flies and child Government, which will take steps to remortality" by Mr. E. Halford Ross, in the late Mr. Keir Hardie, is another of medy them. If it has not odmplied with the current issue of the Journal of the The only one of the new Labour men contained in the five points, it is because summer, he says, he toured England and the demands of the Ailled Governments Royal Society of Arte Daring Least the same sorkke
who has so far showed some promise in these five points are closely bound Wales looking for house flies. In those Mr. Shinwall, who is, I believe, a Polish with the vital economic necessities of places where fortantly they bred in my Jew He had the adaptabiilty of bis Germany and the safety of the Reich, as riads, there were only a few. In other race and speaks in an easy, quiet welk na with considerations of internal places, where before there were then- natural style, perfectly adapted to the policing. If the German Government
to be returned to the Ruhr. It is under-incident, when some Belgian troops were LONDON JOINT CITY AND MIDLAND two uáruly Labourites using "language reply to the notes of that Conference of the was able to pull up a cord stout
stood the German mine owners have been fired upon, cabled yesterday, was simply giren until noon to day to decide who due to drunken Germans firing rovolvera ther they will carry out the orders of the The Belgians retaliated. There were co French. If they refuse, na undoubtedly casualties. they will, further sanctions will be inme. distely enforced"
The properties of
Krupps, Stinnes and Thyssen will be the first to buffer, as they are the richest Ger- man lenders in industrial warfare.lo
HUGO STINNES CANCELS CANADIAN CONTRACTS.
PABIS, January 17th. The Hava's correspondent at. Ducesal A Berlin mesange anys it is announcedorf states that it is learned from a good that the head office of the Hugo. Stienes source that, owing to the occupation of company has been transferred from the Ruhr, Hugo Binnen has cancelled bis Muelheim to Hamburg.
ECONOMIC PRESSURE TO BUC- CEED MILITARY ACTION.
BERLIN, January 17th-
contracts for iron ore with the Canadian companies, consequently 8,200 workers in. Newfoundland are likely to be idle.
DISTURBANCES IN GERMANY CONTINUE.
A message from Esser mays a large number of troops le proceeding eastward, engandering the belief that the French will e correspondent of the Liberte st
Duesseldorf reports disorders culminat extend the area of occupation to-day The French hitherto have not exercised ing in a pitched battle between National the threatened control of coal from theists and Commuista. The French did not Rubr to the interior, consignments of intervene, but as a precaution dispatched which are proceeding normally. The two cavalry regiments with a tank me transport of reparation coal has not been tion.
PARIS, LATER. resumed.
DUSSELDORT, January 17th. The disturbances between German Nk A French official statement says the tionalists and Communista, mentioned by future mnctions will be cacanie, not the Liberte, cccurred at Dortmund.
military. The French now control and regulate the coal trafic The Germans
BANK REPORT.
LONDON, January 17th. The London Joint City, and Midland Bank, reporte that for last year the net profit was £2,253,000, and a dividend of eighteen per cent. is recommended, cour eighteen per cent, dividend in, 1931. pared with a profit of £3,454,000 and
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DUTCH INDIES, LOAN.
́PROVES A' BÜÖCESA.
LONDON, January 17th. |— The subscription-list-for-the-Dutch-
Indies loan closed before noon. LOAN OVER SUBSCRIBED WITHIN
“ONE HOUR.
LONDON, January 19th, The Dutch East Indies Loan Was largely over subscribed within an hour from the time of opening..
THE DEMOURAT “STEM.”
dobater.
· EXTERMINÁTING HOUSE FLIES.
A
Mr. Hendy's decision to abolish State House of Commons. As to his views I wishes to settle the reparations problemands, they were conspicuous by their.. Beremony will please the democrat
absence Out of the way villages, and FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET
though it may disappoint the tradeamon ay nothing, but he promises to be a good it must concentrate all the coonomio forces some farm-houses, still sheltered the STILL UNSETTLED.
of Dublin. Of late the Lord Lieutenancy:
of the nation on increased production grabs and insects, but anch places were today offered deliveries of coal to Italy,
That will be impossible, if Germany is comparatively few and far between. LONDON, January 17th. in which Lord Fitzalan has boca HOT 80 ** RED ** AS PAINTME but the latter is acting in conjunction
Nowe from the Ruhr has had a further confessing he found "no undue pleasure The other afternoon-chance throw me obliged to destroy raaterial indispensable The figures showing our infant mort with the, French and Belgians La con
to agricultural or industrial production. alite reduction are astonishing, ho quence of the Germans not complying disquieting influence in London on the has listed mainly on ceremony. As into the company of about a dozen of the
The German Government adds that it adds. The aumber of total deaths is not with the order to resume eiteries, the foreign exchange market German marks Mr. Asquith put it in a caustic phrase new Labour Members in the tex-room of
cannot, agree that certain outstanding yet available, bus the accurately eati French are requisitioning coal and pro- are now 84,000 to 85,000. French france only a few year ago, it provides a the House of Commons. They proved questions have not been settled, as is mated death-rate is available, and stands, eseding to take measures, agirkt indiviare 99.15 and Belginn frames 70.00 certain amount of Parade, ritual, and themselves to be not montly so "red" in contended by the Control Commission, during the warmest weeks, at 50 per dal industrial magnates. The state Sterling in New York, owing to the debt ceremonial of State, and enables gracious they are printed. They are reasonable in Germany, it asserts, is not soaking to 1,000. Compared with that of 638 per ment concludes by saying that the mines hitch at Washington, has receded to 4.831 well-mannered people to discharge accial private convention; and are without evade the Treaty, but is ready to display 1,000 during the warm weeks of 1911 it Marks closed at 80,000 to 87,000 Sterland charitable fanctions" No Governor that truculent self-satisfaction which a conciliatory attitude and anxious that in an amazing record. It is reflected in are working normally and there is no in
Ing is 4.04). French francs are at 69.70 named Tim can take precisely that view marks their public form. Many of them the work of the Military Control Com the general death rato. This has fallen "dication of trouble.
and Belgian at 78.20.
of his duties.
have had sẻ good deal of municipal or mission shall be ended. (Costinued at faat of next colums.)
to its lowest-8.9 Der thousand.