CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. "{THROUGH KHƯTER'S "Laingr.]" DISASTROUS STORM AT
HOME. VESSELS SUNK AND TOWNS SNOW-BOUND.
LONDON, February 18th. A storm and a gale, accompanied in many places by heavy snowfalls, swept Scotland and North-England daring the week-end, ten foot snow-drifts and foods disorganising traffic in many parts. A number of towns and villages are now
bound.
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Three vesucis were sunk and one abandoned at sea, while five were driven ashorn on the East Coast. There were a number of thrilling rocket apparatus rescue scenes. The captain and crew of an Italian steamer were hauled to the top, of, 300ft. high cliffs.
RUBBER RESTRICTION. GROWERS' COMMITTEE RETURNS FROM AMERICA.
Läsoos, February 15th- The Committee appointed by the Bubber Growers Association to proceed: to the United States to discuss the ren triction acherne; has returned.". Obser member stated that the result of the visit was in every way satisfactory, and the committer bad had no difficulty whatever in convincing the "American manufactur ers of the equity of the scheme.
THE RUHR,
INGENIOUS EVASION, OF CUSTOMS
FL
CORDON.
DUSSELDORF, February 19th.
A train conveying men belonging to the French engineer corps from Dalhausen to Weitmar was run into from behind by
string of five locomotives coupled to gether. Two soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded. Eight men were slightly hurt. The cause of the accident is not yet known,
HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH,
FAR EASTERN CABLE BRITISH OFFICIAL
43
NEWS.
*(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NEW - AUSTRALIA-FAR EAST SHIPPING LIFE.
SHIPS UNDER HONGKONG REGISTER,
SYDNEY, February 18th. The private buyers of five wooden ships from the Commonwealth Line announce The French have discovered An in that they are preparing to inaugurate a genious. Gerzan method of evading the new trading line to East Asia. The Ber. custom cordon, by despatching coaliga, with which the venture will be ostensibly consigned to Holland and unopened is transferring to Hongkong regis. loading it over the frontier and sending tor, owing to the heavy cent of running
The French, under Australian conditions. it back to Germany. countering this yesterday held up 120 trucks of iron and steel have seited two hundred and fifty million marks intended for use as strike pay. at Treris, and have also taken possession of 10 million marks from the municipal treasury at Gelsenkirchen in consequence of the town's refusal to pay a line of 100
COLOGNE, February 18th. General Payot has arrived here to coti for with General Godley on the question of the transport of French troops in the British zone.
million marks.
The Franch ALLIES SIBERIAN OPERATIONS. FRANCE AND BRITAIN REQUEST
PAYMENT FROM LATVIA...
RIGA, February 18th. Following, a similar French demand, the British Government has requested Latvia to pay £134,500 for the evacuat- ing from Vladivostock of Lettish regi
THE LUXOR DISCOVERIES. LARGE ASSEMBLY OF DISTINGUISH.
ED
PERSONAGES.
Luxor, February 18th.
In the presence of Lord and Lady'
and Janin in Siberia,
"
The Latvian Pross contends that the demand is unfair, saying that the troops fought under the command of the Allies.
WIRELESS PRESS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE “' BÁILY BULLETIN."}
AIR EXPRESSES. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM
. CONNECTED.
LEUIELD, February 17th. Arrangements have been completed for the inauguration next Monday of the express air service connecting Manchester and Birmingham with the Continental air services, which start from the London
Croydon. aerodroms
Au eleven-seater aeroplane will occupy only two hours on, the journey from Manchester, to London, including the time odite stay at Birmingham, where it will land in the grounds of the British Trade Fair.
"TEST CRICKET.,
Larin, February 17th. The fith and final cricket test match between England and South Africa was begun to-day at Durban.
Of the previous four matches each side has won one, and two have been drawn.
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NEW INDIA PORT. ONLY REFUGE IN 1,000 MILES.
DINING IN LONDON. WHERE OLD ENGLISH-
FARE MAY
BE FOUND Developments are on foot, to create one of the finest harbours in the world on There is wisdom, in gastronomie ex- the east coast of India,
tremes and though rules here, as else "Vizagapatam harbour." said Sir where exist to be broken on proper oc George Godfrey, Agent of the Bengal casion, we find ourselves as a rule hap- Nagpur Railway, "ituated half
Way
between Calcutta and Hadras, is a very pleat in restaurants of the very highest necessary port for this 1,100 miles of the rank and in homely English eating-houses, east coast of India. Madras barbour says a writer in The Saturday Review......
not cffer safe protection during There is Ste's, in Panton Street, Tor does
a Lavourite of our for cyclones, and therefore there is practically speaking, no port of refuge for vessel lunch; there was, till the other day, the between Colombo and Calcutta,
years
"A scheme for a harbour at Vizaga. Sceptre in Warwick Street, where in a patam has been under consideration for poky" room upstairs one enjoyed good,- many years. It is not intended that a plain, English food; we still have Snow' large harbour should be constructed in in Sherwood Street, facing with quiet as the first instance. The first stage will be surance the middle class splendours of berths for three steamers, but the natural the Regent Place, and De Hem's, in physical formation of the back-water Macclesfield Street, almost in Shaftesbury permits of progressive development, berth Avenue. by berth, as the trade of the port Snow's Cofee and Reading Rooms; develops. Some 15, or 20 years must the title, to begin with, pleased us. It clapes for the harbour to be made into is an affirmation of the bond between high living and high thinking or at least u one of the nest in the world."
bookish habit of thought No doubt the. early patrons of Snow's which is exactly one hundred and one years old, were men of great.sppetite, physical and in- tellectual; and, even later, according to vague legend, Dickens used to take luneb, a midday dinner, there and would write an instalment of his work on the But it is years' old tables still in use. since we BAW any man of letters eating
PASSING OF FOUR GREAT
WARSHIPS.-
BREAKING-UP OF THE "NEW ZEALAND" AND "PRINCESS
ROYAL"
20
Most
The present game, which will be played finish, will therefore, decide the contest.
At the close of play to-day England, who batted first, bad scored for eight
LEAFIELD, February 18th. The battleships Agincourt and Victori there among the wholesale cloth-mer- England gained lead of 102 runs in ous, and the battle cruisers New Zealand chants assistants from Golden Squars.
IF Snow's has a speciality, it is rabbit mants which acted under Generals Koor the anal test match with South Africa at and Princess Royal, aso to be broken Pombined with pickled" pork.
Durban, South Africa being dismissed for immediately. With the exception of the visitors to the place, however, order a Victorious these vessels are being demo- lished in secordarco with the terms of the rump steak, which costs them no more. than foursees pence, or a mutton or pork Washington Agreement.
chop. You sit, in the room on the first Six hundred and sixty-night feet long floor by proference, a small room with and of 27,500 tons displacement, the dy green-tiled walie, in these compartments court was originally built for Brazil. characteristic of the older English eating- After being launched, however, she houses. Before you is an old highly- bought by the Turkish Government, but polished table, shaped like the stick of a at the outbreak of the war the was fan, so as to be narrower at the end purchased by the British Government and joining the wall than at the end project- joined the Grand Fleet: During the ing into the room. There is no table. Battle of Jutland the Agincourt fought a cloth to hide the surface of the beard, duel with a German battle cruiser and narrowly escaped being torpedoed.-
A pro-Dreadnought belonging to the Majestic cluse, the Pictorious was used during the war to accommodate dock yardmen who were engaged on repairing ships of the fleet.
BOXER INDEMNITY.
ALLIES AND TURKEY.
LEAFIELD, February 18th." While en route for Excihehr, where INQUIRY BY FEDERATION OF BRITISH ho will probably meet Mustapha a
Ismot Pasha has had conversations with General Harington and Mr. Neville Henderson, British Chargé d'Affaires, and other Allied High Commissioners at Constantinople.
A meaange of cordial goodwill to him personally, and for the future of Turkey
INDUSTRIES.
LONDON, February 18th. The Federation of British Industries The Philippines plantation proposal has Allenby and the Queen and Crown Prince
of Belgium, Suleiman, the Under Seere has decided to appoint a committee in not been taken seriously.
tary of State and Public Works, Lacau,
ANOTHER SOVIET....
CONCESSION.
GRANTED TO GERMAN AERO-
PLANE COMPANY,
-
BERLIN, February 18th. Advices from Moscow state that Junker zeroplane building concern has concluded an agreement with the Bol. ahoviats permitting it 10 machines in Russia, and to
and though napkin might be produced on demand, any genteel talk about a serviette would properly involve you in trouble. Your Food is set for you on a white metal tray, from which you do not move the plates; a waitress pushes to wards you a china salt-cellar the size of a breakfast cup and other ponderous items of the cruet, and you fall to. "The. meat is always of good quality and nearly was engaged in carrying always cooked with skill and care, though Canadian troops. She took part in the the rush of business is occasionally too admirablo battle of the Dogger Bank and Jutland. much for the staff, and, an This battle cruiser also served in North surprise, the green vegetables are not American waterg as a precaution against sodden, the appearance of Admiral Von Spee's squadron, in 1914,
Costing two and a half million pounds, the battle cruiser Princess Royal was first commissioned in 1912 During the
war sho
lamet Pasha declared his desire for the Director of Antiquities, and numerous connection with the Government's deci-Was conveyed from Lord Curzon. distinguished persons and prominent gian relative to the Boxer Indemnity. peace, which the Allied representatives Ho was informed that reciprocated. Egyptologists, the inner chamber of Tut ankhamen's tomb was officially opened. The Committee will examine the question Great Britain is still willing to sign the A Lever-ending cavalcade of all kinds from the viewpoint of industry, and will Pesco Treaty as submitted to Turkey at of vehicles wound its way to the tomb,
Lausanne, and he was strongly advised radely breaking the antient brooding make recommendations on which the exe accept the offer before it was too late. silence of the royal necropolis.. The
It is emphasised here that Great cutive committee may take action. rigour of convention had to bow to the
Britain has every desire to enter into cordial relations with Turkey if only the a exigencies of spaco and the ventilation poaditions within the tomb, and Lord
Turks will on their part do something to Allenby chatted with the Queen of the
assist in the cultivation of such relations, It is strongly felt that further concessions Belgians in his shirt-sleeves on accound fof the eloveness of the atmosphere.
would too seriously compromise the "in terests of the Allies and the world and construct Queen did cot hesitate to squeeze into the narrow, dusty aperture made in the maintain a
not be really advantageous to Turkey, All soaled door.
overjoyed "were
be further discouraged. Not only the regular service between Sweden, Russin at the exquisite treasures within the first production of "Katinks as foreign capital and commerce would political sequently a host of distinguished persons, musical comedy by Otto Hanerbach and business community but all and the American and French Ministers, music by Rudolf Friml. The production parties feel that safeguards were redaced part in the Battle of Jutland: the coffier aroused the presumption that suffers by comparison with any of the by the Lausanns concessions to be affected by the Washington Agreement pressed by members of all parties in Par- are the Conqueror, Monarch, Orion, it may contain other mummies Besides Gilbert and Sullivan opetas, but it in furthest limit, and this viow: has boca 'ex-
Neptune, and Erin, that of Tutankhamen, but certainty will nevertheless a vivacious comedy with liament during the past week. -- not be forthcoming during the present
and Persia:
EARLIER CABLES.
THE IRISH REBELLION.
THREE PROMINENT LEADERS SURRENDER.
LONDON, February tốth. Heretofore the Irish Provisional Gov. eromont has been most "Bilent regard. ing the number of rebels who have surrendered. It is unofficially stated
that they /are
THE LITHUANIAN DISPUTE. POLES ATTACK LITHUANIAN
TROOPS..
~The
visited the new chamber. The vastaces of
THE THEATRE, PRODUCTION OF " KATINKA,” The Theatre was crowded last night for
year because it is believed that Lord several good musical number, and a Carnarvon has decided not to work fur delightful variety of excellent dancing.
ther until next season.
FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER, EXPRESS CRASHES INTO GOODS TRAIN
FIRE IN MANHATTAN
ASYLUM.
NURSES AND PATIENTS PERISH,
NEW YORK, February 18th. Twenty-two violent lunatics" and "three Burses were burned to deaths in a fire at the Manhattan State insane asylum.
BOHEMIAN ASSASSINATION. MINISTER DIES FROM WOUNDS.
The action of the play concerns the marriage of the beautiful Katinka to a Russian noble who already posesses a wife, but immediately after the ceremony abreety American tourist, Thaddeus
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BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR.
LEAFIELD, February 18th. The British Industries Fair, which will be open throughout the next fortnight, contains an enormous range of exhibits grouped in definits sectione according to the industries they reprezent. One of the which have only in recent years been much manufactured in Great Britain is being devoted to toys and chemicals for medical and research purposes.
The New Zealand was completed in November, 1912, at the expense of the New Zealand Government. She made a
the world. Displacing 18,600 tome and measuring 690 feet, the New Zealand took rise to New Zealand and thonge round
The five remaining capital ships
BACKING HORSES IN" *** MESPOT.".«
(NEXPENSIVE MURALS,
Afterwards, if you are rightly advised, you have apple tart, the making of which is understood at Snow's though we are bound to say that the very best simple
don.
Hopper, telis. Katinka and her lover most interesting sections for commodities than worrying, over the prosperity of a small extras, will amount to something
Baarah races
the and
attract
"tart Gennaro," served at the "Italian restaurant of that name in New Comp- fruit tart to be had in London is the
ton Btreet. You may conclude with cheese, which is always reliable at Snow's. Black coffee is unknown, to the establish- meat, but & vast cup of milked and sweetened coffee of good quality is served, standing on a massive sucer like the tray of a candlestick, which coats just two-penos, probably the cheapest. cup, quantity and quality considered, in Lon. During the meal you will have A RACE COURSE IN THE DESERT drank beer or stout, for no one seems to be tempted by the single item on the Backing, horses is a much more exciting wine-list, a half-bottle of claret.
Your bill for two people, with some pastime for the natives of Mesopotamia imported king.
ried waitress will find time to thank you them like flies to a honey-pot, and this like six or seven shillings, and the har Arab Epson is a curious and diverting for the few pence of change you leave sight during the autume meeting writea Sir Percival Phillips in The Daily Mail, with her. When, having gone down the into Piccadilly" The British colony recently created this short, steep staircase and along a little racecoursy in the desert, two miles Ramage, you emerge beyond the town A new grandstand, Circus, you will gaze cs" poople the bricked and roofed, with backless bench great majority of whom have paid twice hidden beneath Persian rugs, is the pride or thrice as much for a less satisfactory They lack variety, and if often of all Europeans. Behind it are wooden, meal. But such meals are not for every,
day. mat-covered sheds for horses, trainers, repeated at short intervals will dull ap stewards,
all-important "Totalisator" and its appendages The preciation,
AN OYSTER GROIN. The late Mr. G. E. Sims, it is to ba course itself: Native gamblers congregate Paddock is a patch of desert-like the around the wooden sheds and deny each feared, was a poet in the pre-Georgian other's stable tips in raucous Arabic mode, and to quote his rhymed enlogies. They are shaggy, dirty, and picturesque of De Hem's would be ineffective in the. at a distance. They it in ciroles in the era of the Sit-wells. But he erred in dust like a lot of crows, heedless of the art rather than in doctrine in recommend- There are mob surging around them, as they decide ing De Her's for oysters,
better oysters possibly, and certainly there are on the favourite for the next race.
oysters more impressively too bright and good for human nature's mysterious recesses in their rough brown served, but where else are, bysters, not
like a garment Bundles of filthy notes are produced from caftans (an outer
shillings a dozen? "And where are sur- bathrobe) and lovingly counted before daily food, herved the diner for two around the railing of the paddock, mark holl-encrusted walls of De Hem's oyster making the fatal plunge" They Burgo soundings more appropriate than the It must, however, be borne in mind that ing each nervous horse së it walks pas grotto The rooms upstairs, which we with miacing step, debating its good and
the smoke of too many pipes, bears no bad pointe, while the Arah jockeys squat prefer as boing remote from the bar and at oevalds and accept the good wishes of sort of resemblance to a grotto, and the attempt to represent pools of water by Another rush to put their money down painting marine vegetation on pisces of The queues wind across the dusty exclo glass reveals both the faith that moves sure, varying in length, but longest of all mountains and the mountains that can in front of the little window labelled "50 not be moved by faith, but all this is Bo part of the innocence of the place. Bupees to Win,"
The man-in-the-desert dour not play for also with the myriads signaturea în safety. Usually he is all out to profit pencil, ee the oyster-shells covering the ever it is, he never changes expression. celebrities is quite as it should be. Besides heavily or go down in the dust. Which walls; that they are not the signatures of course, heedless of the Punjabi variety of straightforward English faro, The bell rings, and away they acramble to oysters, De Hem'a offers a considerable
PARIS, February 18th. The Strasburg capress, travelling at that the nobleman's wife is still alive in many, and include fifty miles an hour, crashed into a shunta Constantinople hare and undertakes at least three prominent men. An ing goods train at Pont Abinson station.
Twelve persons are reported to have been to discover her. In the effort he gets into
FOREIGN EXCHANGES. all sorts of scrapes and imperils his own army, communiqué announces an
exkilled and thirty injured.
matrimonial happiness. The three acts tended amnesty, to February 20th in the
LEAFIELD, February 13th. which are laid respectively in Russia,
The most remarkable feature of the case of two columns commanded by Pierce
Constantinople and Paris provide some foreign exchange market was the sharp Pierce has offered to
The rate in North Kerry,
exceedingly pretty stage settings which recovery of German Marks. alone are well worth seeing. The part from 147,500 to 20,000 has been to some surrender the arus ct his men, but is
of Katinka is taken very convincingly by extent in the nature of a natural reac
tion." unable to assemble all his men before
Miss Patti Russell, and Mr. Victor The French franc continued depressed, Tuesday,
Prince plays the part of Thaddeus T.whilst the Italian currency also depreciat. Hopper with a success that keeps the ed.
Sterling on New York continued firm, by audiener in laughter throughout the play. virtue of the British Debt repayment. Miss Byil Walkeley as Hopper's wife,
COST OF ARMAMENTS. was delightful and like Miss Russell
LAABIELD, February 18th.' captivated the audience by her tuneful
A remarkable revelation of the increased singing Special mention must be made PRAGUE, February 18th.
to a Parliamentary question. It stated The Minister of Finance, Rasin, bas of the Russia, Turkish and Tango dances at of armamenta in given in the reply died of the wounds inflicted on bim by by Miss Sylvia Miller, and Mr. Harry that the pre-war cost involved, in the an assassin on January 5th.
Williams and the orchestra is to be cam-building of a similar type of battleship FRENCH WORLD FLIGHT.plimented upon its important contribe-corresponding to labour and material prices current in 1923 would be about tion to the success of the production £3,300,000.
The production is to be repeated to-
a modern capital ship embodies features found necessary due to war experience which involves considerably greater ton nage, offensiva and defensive armament, and consequently cont
LONDON, February' 18th." Berious fighting has arisen over the Polish-Lithuanias' territorial dispute, according to an official message from Kovao, which alleges that Polish troops of all arms, after ocupying Orany in the
PARIS, February 18th. neutral zone, advanced into Lithuanian
With the object of advertising French "territory and attacked Lithuanian troops, aviation, a squadron of six aeroplane night.
will start on March 15th on a world It adds that already, there are scores of flight under the patronage of the Govern dead and handreds of wounded. Iment, via Egypt, Persia, India, Japan, Canada, South America, South Africa
Lithuania has appealed to the Council of, and Spain. "the League' Nations for its interven
tion.
EXCITEMENT IN VIENNA SERIOUS POLITICAL
AFFRAYS.
VIENNA, February 18th. Political excitement deads to more or Ono lens serious affrays almost daily. person was killed and two wore wounded yesterday evening by shots fired from a tram-car, in which an altercation was proceding, following a Monarchist moet
BURMA'S TIN RECOVERY..
RANGDON, February 18th." It is announced that the Government scheme to aid the tin industry, which came into force in February, 1021, ter- mirated as from February 15th in con equence of the rise in the price of tis
NEWFOUNDLAND POLITICS. ST. JOHN, Newfoundland, Feb. 19th The Legislature has dissolved, as the Premier, Bir Richard Squires, has decid- od to appeal to the country for a man- date confirming an agreement with Messrs. Armstrong Whitworth for twenty million dollar paper mills on the west const." A general election will be held at the end of April.
DOCTOR'S DISCOVELY.
MALARIA INJECTION FOR PARALYSIS. A now treatment for general paralysis, dovised by Dr. Von Wagner, in described in the Lancet by Dr. Aleiander Piled,
NEWSPAPER BUILDING LIKE A
CATHEDRAZ
the mob, N
the
The world's most beautiful newspaper a professor in the University of Vienna building will shortly be erected in Chi “A small quantity of blood is taken cago by the Chicago Tribune. from a person suffering from tertianIt is the design of Mr. Joba Head malaria and this is injected into the back Howells, of New York, son of the late of the paralysed patient. After one or William Dean Howells, the famous pipers, kirling an incongruous Scottish at moderate prices. It is one of the few. two weeks the paralysed patient has an novelist, and it has won for him the air up and down in front, of the grand places where the simple art of making £10,000 prize offered by the Chicago stand, whore Europeans and the upper hot-pot is seriously carried on, and there attack of shivering, followed, by high Tribune in its architectural contest; strata of the Arab social world sit in the are chops and steaks, joints, a meat pud temperature. When 10 or 18 such attacks
The new building, which will be known shade, Away go the hormos, every eye on ding and so forth. A couple of plain have occurred they are chocked by the we
as the Tribune Tower," is a thing of them. They finah amid shrill "Hi-English owests are generally on the bill of quinine,
lishment would revives modest delicacy Or 141 paralytic patients treated in transcending beauty. It will look like in a veritable dust storm. Bcarcely is the of fare, and these will be liked by those wondrous cathedral, so tall and stately winner past the post before the Arah who like them," but we wish the estab this way 51 are said to have completely are its fiata. It is Gothic in style, and backers are raming back to collect their which seems to have vanished from. Eug recovered and 18 greatly improved. It
winnings. The leader in s syndicate will land-greengage pudding, not tart, a dir- It will be 400 feet high a hundred and craw his lost and with the partners tinction the importance of which will be remembered by the reader, if there still is claimed that good results have also will be made of light-coloured stone.
other forms of twenty foot less than the Woolworth, quat confdentially in the dust while th
building in New York
tastored notes ate doled out, one by one beans of Abraham Hayward.
beat
obtained in
paralysis...