CABLES.
***
BONGKONG
LATEST CABLES.
BUDGET DEBATE..
LATEST CABLES.
SUGAR THE
CENTRAL POINT
(TSLOUCH HEUTER'S AGENCY.)
OF DISCUSSION. "
CHESTER CONCESSION IN
Two ex-chancellors, Mr. Asquith' and
TURKEY
EX-AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
PROTESTS.
السج
New York, April 17h. Ex-Ambassador. James Gerardy has pablicly protested against the Chester concession, insofar that it infringes the rights of Armenia under the Treaty of! Severes. Ho declares that the contract
LONDON, April 17th.
DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1923
W
NEWS.
LATEST CABLES. FAR EASTERN CABLE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. BRITISH POTTERY TROUBLE
The
SETTLED.
LONDON, April ù.
(THROUGH AKUTER'S LOKNOT.]
·HONGKONG BROTHELS
dispute in the pottery trades, QUESTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS threatenect to end in a general
LONDOS, April 17th... In the Hours of Commons, in reply to
Sir R. Horny successively spoke on the re-which sumed Budget debate in the House of lockout on Saturday, was settled yester
ASTATION IN ENGLAND. [NECESSITY FOR STANDARDISATION
OF HOMES.
LONDON, April 17th. Presiding no a meeting of the Strangers Homo for Asinties, at Limehouse, Earl Winterton commented on ita admirable work, alating that nearly one thousand Indians had been cared for in the past
THE WAYS OF SMUGGLERS HOW THEY ARE" DEFEATİNG MODERN LAWS,
We have always had a rather soft place. in our hearts for pirates and smugglers, if they were not mean or too bloodthirsty, saya the Daily Telegraph.
Commons Both, in the main, approved day by the workers agreeing to a ten perin question" by Lord H. Cavendish year. He said that on Viscount Peel's mast of us. boen. moved to admiration by
of Mr. Baldwin's proposals.
It is obvious that the claims for relief
cent. reduction.
Bentinck regarding the precautions taken dirretion, he, along with Sir Cyril Cobb, for sugar will become the central point FRENCH TEXTILE STRIKE BECOMES verify the ages of girls catering Lord Ednan, and Captain Seagrave,
of the controversy.
Mr. Asquith has joined issue with the Labour members as regards the Income Tax, declaring that even tour shillings in with Turkey in 1913, on which the the pound is a bad and pernicious form
cassions are based, called for the construc- tion of railways and the exploitation of mineral resources in the Armenian pro- viners, which are unfulfilled.
EARLIER CABLES.
FRENCH OBJECTIONS
DISCUSSION.
UNDER
of capital levy, and that the tax has dried up the stream fertilising the whole field of industry and employment. He denied that it was a class question.
COST OF LIVING.
ANOTHER SLIGHT DECLINE.
LONDON, April 17th. NEW YORK, April 17th.
The Labour Ministry statistics show Admiral Chester, dealing with the that the cost of living on March 31st was French objections to the Chester cances-seventy-four per cest, above pre-war cost, sion, said the French declaration of war but is the lowest since April, 1917. and
favourably with against Turkey had automatically scrapped compares
78.0 on any concesioa between the two nations.
February 2nd... PARIS, April 17th.
U.S. IMMIGRATION ACT.
DIFFERENCE OF
OPINION.
The Journal Drs. Debats understands that the French are not protesting to America, but are expressing the hope that Washington will abide by its established policy, namely that the open door does not concera concessions prior to 1014, and will support the French standpoint in any discusses which the cotxessions might
rais
וי
A
WASHINGTON, April 17th,
It is understood that President Harding shares Mr. Cary's ziews, cabled yesterday, about the prejudicial effects of the
nigration Law.
GENERAL.
Luz, April 17th.
.1K
Hongkong brothels. Mr. Ormsby Gore were inspecting establishments at London quoted the Governor's report and added and other seaports where Asiatic seamca The Textile strike has become general, that he would consult the Governor rovers temporarily lodged. They had uuan. garding the evidence which the girl herimously concluded that the only satis SEAMEN'S DISPUTE-
self took to the brothel-keepers in order to factory place of the kind was this home, and they had decided that there was an show that the Secretary for Chinese almost imperative need to standardise the
SEAMEN'S OPPOSITION
'COLLAPSES.
HULL, April 17th, The seamen's apposition to the reduced national rates of pay has been broken. The dieppo has obtained a full crew.
EARLIER CABLES,
CREWS SUMMONED AT SOUTHAMPTON.
| Affairs had given her permission to enter conditions under which Asiatic, seamen
the brothe
were received and provided for upon arriving in English ports.
OPIUM MONOPOLY
PEKING CABINET CONSIDERING QUESTION
Pexixo, April 17th. It is ported from an unofficial, "but apparent reliable Chinese source, that! the Minister of Finance about three weeks
ASIATIC PROBLEM IN SOUTH AFRICA
ASSEMBLY DEBATE ADJOURNED INDEFINITELY.
CAPETOWN, April 17th." The Assembly debated the motion of the ago proposed an opium monopoly to the ministerialist, Mr. McKeurtan, urging tho segregation of Asiatics, who said that, Cabinet, and the Cabinet agreed
A
Did not Sir James Thursfeld make a scholarly defence of Paul Joues when it was the custom to call that hero of the Americans "a pimto" and to condemn him with bell and book; and hase we not the restraint which Paul Jones observril when he encountered a ship laden with could also exbibit on occasion? Even Avery passengers and by the generosity which 1 and his companions, thought most of if em cama to the gallows, bad sympathisera be- cause they shed no blood and show them- selves to be somewhat pleasant rogues. It was the sneaking popularity which pirata 8 enjoyed so long as they showed themselves. at heart good fellows which rendered, their supression so difficult. Whut boy does not love reading of Captain Kidd or of Bartholomew Roberts, their fathers wink ing at, if not encouraging them in their excursions into such by-ways of literature
SMUGOLING IN OERMANY.
As with pirates, so with smugglers... Authority was greatly embarassed in the old days to High Protection by men who revealed in their acts that they were aportamen, and could sometimes be gener ous to the point of foolhardiness, even at the risk of their freedom, if not of their
lives. It is small" wonder that a peer, in the person of Lord Teignmouth, who was LONDON, April 17th.
for many years & Constguard offic should have been moved to write, with a One hundred and thirty-two members of
This informant states that the Cabinet in his opinion only hy this means measure of ill-concealed aduration, of the crews of the Windsor Castle and
Smuggling Days and Smuggling Ways. has instructed the Finance Minister to could Indians obtain citizen rights.. Almanzora, have been summoned at
draw up a more detailed proposal, and The Labour member, Mr. Strachan, For a good many smugglers whom the pre- ventive men hunted down were very lovable Not Scuthampton for unlawfully combining to then re-submit the matter to the Cabinet, moved an amendment providing quiet, well liked by their neighbours. impede the progress of the voyage of the and, in the meanwhile, to sound the pay for equal work, and demanding infrequently, indeed, they owed their escape- vessels. The case has been adjourned to Powers and find out whether there would more vigorous repatriation policy.
be strong opposition to a monopoly.
Mr. Duncan, Minister of the Interior, April 23th.
member of Parliament, Wang Wen Pu caiphasised the impossibility of dealing The Ellerman licer Aleppo has been interpellated the Government yesterday, with such a delicate problem without con- He declared unable to obtain a crew at Hull, where protesting against the opium tocnopoly, gidering outside interests.
watching the problem, and pointed out scale, as the seamen persist in their refusal to and stating that it would mear giving up that other Asiatics besides Indians were Faccept the reduced national rates of pay, the policy of the last eighteen years.
that the majority of Intans in South Africa were born there, and cannot be emigrated wholesale. He doubted whether segregation in urban areas would solve the problem, but proposed to introduce a measure, containing residential, trading, and segregation clauses, next session.
The debate was adjourned, and it is not likely, it will be resuined.
KOSCOW-VLADIVOSTOOK TELE- GRAPH RESTORED.
The Secretary of Labour, Mr. Davis, has A WONDERFUL INVENTION”| reported that a shortage of labour already
LEADS TO A WONDERFUL FRAUD. exists, and that he will be preparing a new immigration bü!
WASHINGTON, April 17th. Hitherto there have been only diplo matic discussions of a purely preliminary natare between the United States and The Chairman of the House of Repre Frances regards the Chester concession,sentatives Iminigration Committee defends It is semi-officially stated that the United the Act, and declares that the big corpo- States awaits further particulars of the rations are attacking it because they want condession, after which, if satisfied as to cheap labour.
its validity, it will support it.
LATEST CABLES.
THE RUHR..
GERMAN RHINELAND COMMIS
SIONER EXPELLED.
OCCUPATION COSTS. THE QUESTION OF AMERICA'S QUOTA
..
WARRINGTON, April 17th. The American request, made to the Allies in Paris, for priority of payments as regards the cost of the army of occu- BERLIN, April 17th. On the ground this his office is pre-nation, is interpreted here as only mean- judicial to the authority of the Intering that the United States shall receive the first payments from the annual quotas Allied High Commission, the latter has fixed between the Allies for distribution arpolled Prince Hatzfeld Wieddenburg, from German reparatiors. German Commissioner in the Rhineland, notwithstanding the Prince's protest that the appointment was made by the Ambas
sador Conference.
BRUSSELS, April 17th.
A supposed attempt on the life of the Minister of War, M. Deveze, when travel. ling between Herbesthal and Aix-la- Chapelle, by the laying of a bomb on the rail back, has led to the Rhineland High
It is not believed that America asks for priority of payment for the full amount! of American claima
WIRELESS CONTROL FOR AEROPLANES
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL
DEMONSTRATION:
PARIS, April 17th.
LONDON, April 17th,
THE COLTMAN CASE. AMERICA STILL PRESSING FOR A SETTLEMENT.
PEKING, April 17th. It is understood that America is still pressing for a settlement of the Coltman caso, but there has been little progress
therein.
Moscow, April 17th.: Telegraphic Communication between
The Grand Duchess Xenia Alexand rovos of Russia, a sister of the late Taur, and a niceo of Queen Alexandra, bas been awarded £10,000 damages in Mr. Justino]
The chief point still outstanding is the Darling's court against Albert. Frederick dismissal of General Chang Hsi Yuan's Calvert and Maurico Storabach, the Chief-of-Staff, to which General Chang latter of whom had previously bean still firmly refuses to agree. Generat deported from England, who are alleged Chang Hai Yuan has dismissed him from Moscow and Vladivostock has been restor. by a conspiracy to have obtained that the post of Chief-of-Staff, but still keeps ed. amount from her. The Grand Duchess him in an important post in his office. Thig gavo eridance that she was induced to does not entisfy America, which demands part with her jewels in order to provide that he should be dismissed from the money for a wonderful invention which army, and then tried by the courts,
to rovalutionise the world and provide enormous wealth.
BRITISH AGRICULTURE-" GOVERNMENTS PROPOSALS
OUTLINED.
LONDON, April 17th. The Minister of Agriculture, interview-
It is stated further progress is not likely till Mr. Alired Sze arrives at Washington, when he will take up negoti ntions with America.
a
A DIVORCE CASE FROM BORNEO.
LONDON, April 17th Arthur Bruce Charles Francis,
of British North Borneo, has been granted a decree nisi in the Would Divores Court on the ground of his wifes
adultery with John formerly working under the petitioner in North Borneo
ed, outlined the Government's proposals former resident' fer dealing with agriculture. He an nounced that the Government introduce a Bill in the present session for reducing the assessment on agricultural laud from half to a quarter. The ex- ebequer would grant. two and three- quarter millions in England and Wales
Warren Norman,
BANDITS NEAR KALGAN.
Peixe, April 17th.
A successful experiment with a wire for making up the difference, which Sir legaly controlled aeroplane has been car-R.. A. Sanders described as the biggest Commission expelling the German railway ried out at Villesauvage aerodrome. The concession givan to agriculture for a cf the 12th inst. that bandits held up and
staff.
IRISH REBELLION.
A NOTABLE CAPTURE.
LONDON, April 17th. The well-known Irregular, Dan Breen, has been captured in a dugout near Limerick."
U.S. NATURAL WEALTH. BESTRICTION UPON FOREIGN PARTICIPATION.
BAVARIAN PROBLEMS. GOVERNMENT AND THE
FASCISTI.
Monion, April 17th.
Loxoox, April 17th... In an attempt to lift the restrictions The capture of Dan Breen is notable,
upon foreign participation in the natural
A trial of strength is impending in in view of his ingenuity in evading the wealth of the United States, the Roxana Bavaria as a result of the Government's relentless pursuit Bratly, of the British Petroleum Corporation, which is controlled decision to summon Hitler, leader of the Authorities during the Anglo-Irish war, by Anglo-Dutch interests, has appealed Bavarian Fascisti, fer inciting his sup when a reward of £10,000,000 was offered against the decision debarring it from porters to oppose Republican institutions. for his capture; and secondly, the Free holding leases in the Indian oil lands
M. G State forces, who nearly caplared him
WHITE-AUSTRALIA, along with Liam Lynch last week"
The Froo Stato forces yesterday sur prised, Breen in a dugout. He was only partly dressed, and was secured before he was able to resist.
BARLIER CABLES,
FURTHER CAPTURES OF IRREGULAR LEADERS,
LONDON, April 17th..
It is officially announced in Cork that troops have arrested, near Mount
ARGENTINE COLD STORAGE:
GOLF BY POST. HOPE FOR ALL
[FROM THE TIMES."]
Every thoughtful sfulont of advertise. mente must have been struck by the enormons number of persons who are antions to help him on his path by our respondence. There is hardly anything that he cannot learn by this means, whether it be how to give up smoking, play the piano, or beguile an editor. But there is one siugular comission. No one is prepared to
I am not a business man, but I cannot teach him epistolarily how to play golf. help thinking that here is a real opening for talent not blessed with capital. A. brief but poignantly-worded manifesto, headed, "What is your trouble? Are you a slicer ?" and ending with 12 stamps to be sent in strict confidence would, in my belief, be the first step on the road to fortune.
in answer to
from capture to the kindly aid tf inen and women who know them best, and not always men and women of their own class either.
In this country smuggling has for all practical purposes long heen degd; hat in Germany it has been revived since the
our special correspondent in war und is being carried out on the grani Berlin indicated a day or two ago. Of cunre, the temptation in the other side of the North Sea has been very great, for the Government, at Berlin has erected- barriere against exportation as well as against importation. Whether it has ten well advised in the course which it has taken is beside the point. We are con cerned only with the result, which is the growth of a brisk contraband trade. There is nothing picturesque about this latter day smuggling: but it is conducted with recourse to every conceivalle stiatagem and at the expense, of course, of the gener ral body of Germans. Certain shi-pkeep- ers, for their own ends, are encouraging foreign visitors to evade the existing law. We are told that if you buy one of the fine trunke for which a certain firm in Berlin is justly famous, it is delivered to you with a few labels of London or Paris hotela prominently displayed on it, and with a few abrasions simulating leng usage.
Thus is the law defested.
CUSTOMS VIGILANCE.
But the amuggling business, as lus been revealed, is Laing conducted on a tar big- Ser cale that such a incident» might suggest. All kinds of wares are being got out of the country by various subter- fuges, and even raius loaded with goods forbidden for export are disappearing It looks as though much of the ingenuity which the Germaus employed during the great war in the effort, usually with poor success, to defeat our blockude, is now being used domestically.
The secret of dealing with smuggling, which we alone among the nations dis
LICES. In this country it in not aga role. covered years ago, is to make it poor busi- worth the risk involved and the risk is no small one owing to the vigilance of our Castoms officials and the severity of the punishment which is inflicted on those who are "found out."
WORLD THEATRE.
A FALNUM THRILL,
It is reported from Kalgan under dato
The business would grow steadily in volume. To begin with, the advertiser. his own Landwriting The Goverment further pro- | robbed two motor-cars cutaining two would fill four sides of notepaper with aeroplane rose and flew over the aerogeneration.
drivers and eleven Chinese some nerve-racked socketer. With his drame, then turned and landed, in posed to hand over between one and a Russian
quarter and a half millions from the passengers. The bandits stopped the cars first earnings he would engage a boy; then
The William Faraum Company was response to pressurò cn buttons.
surplus road fund, to relieve rates for at the bottom of the hill, where they had he would bay a typewriter, and in less than
to slow up. The booty was most valuable, no time be would find himself surrounded given some thrilling moments in San the upkoop of rural roads.
ona consignment of furs alone being worth by a bory of fluffy-haired young ladies in Francisco during the making of the now Scuttlera," dasbing blouses, clicking away for dear life. William Fox picture. In the $10,000. The, drivers, on arrival at
This is demonstrably no idle dreas Let which is being shown at the World Kalgar, reported the outrage at Tit Le granted that for the moment it mat. Theatre up to Saturday next, Mr Tung's, yamen, but were informed that ters very little what you tell any golfing Farnum plays a detective from Lloyds they should have made the report to sufferer, so long as you tall it him with of London. He allows himself to bo another official 33 miles north of Kalgan. good bedside manner. If he believes in you Shanghated as a common asilor. The first He will for at least one round hit the ball. mato orders him to unfurl the sails, and (Continued on next Oçlüma.)
Moreover, he will forget that the very same when he is at the top of the mast, having thing happened when he was last given an an intense dislike for him, orders the infallible cure. At the end of that one round ailors to loosen the yard. The result, in the making of this scene was that Mr. he will sit down and write you a testimonal, Farnum, as Jim Landers, Happed about saying that alicing for a long time he bore, on the yard very much as a loose cont professionals were in rain, but now be feels sleeve would flap out of a racing auto- that he will never alice any more as long as mobile. For a few minutes every one's he lives, and he has recommended you to breath is held Of course, Mr. Faranm Then the Captain's all his afflicted friends. His subsequent knew his strength, but the watching crowd letter reproaching you with his relapse you could not be sure will not have time to answer, being by that daughter, who was not in sympathy with time kree-deep in the sclaflugs and top the plans of the cante, shouted an order, pings of his friends' friends. And so your to square the yard, and Farnum climbed business will increase like them sums in down to safety. Many other thrilling the ithmetic book 'bout the nails in the scenes are shown in this marvellous picture "The Scuttlers "is written by horses' shoes, Sammy G
Clyde O. Westover, a well-known screen Boon you will have quantities of printed author, and J. Gordon Edwards directed and numbered slips, relating to every known the picture. It is a beautiful film worth golfing disease, to be sent out automatically seeing- by the staff. Only now and again will the master's personal supervision" be re- quired. What am I to say to this gentle. Laying the foundation-stone of man, Bir?" one of your young ladies will "House of Velasquez and a National suk you. "Ho say he is always, hooking, Fine Art School in Madrid, Inst month, although he does not shut his club face," King Alfonso declared: "I am not "Dear me, Miss Smith," you will answer dosertor. I reman at my post, and will rather testily, "you ought to know that by die there if necessary. A King of Spain' this time. B.16, of course. Not too tight can do no such thing as has been im with the right band and don't hit so hard.puted to me? His Majesty, was given a
great ovation.
SIN
MATTHEW NATHAN AND JAPANESE IMMIGRATION
BRIBBAS,, April 7th. The Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan," in speech at Ipswich referred to the need for white immigration, as there was a real danger of the Japanese spreading in Australia.
HOME FOOTBALL
LEAGUE RESULTS..
LONDON, April 17th. Following are the results of Saturday's Molleray, Barrett and Stan Gaynor, the postponed matches:- commanders of the weet division of the Sheffield United... o Eventor.
Newcastle.
•1 Bolton Irregulars,
UNDER
Hitler declares that he does not intend to obey the summons. The attitude of the Bavarian polios is doubtful. The Government has also proceded against two editors of Nationalist, papers, ITALIAN POLITICS. MINISTER AND
SECRETARYS RESIGN,
Roža, April 17th. 'Minister Cabazzoni and three under secretaries of state, Signors Verallo, Milani and Grouchi, all belonging to the popular party, have resigned at a meeting of Ministers convoked by Bignor Mussolini, who criticised the attitude of the recent congres of the popular party at Turin Rigmor Musial reserved his decision as regards acceptance of the resignations.
BUENOS, ATES, April 17th The Chamber has passed a Bill authoris. ing the Government to expend on million plastres in order to establish cold storage worka at Buence Aire under the Ministry of Agriculture.
SOBITUARY.
ME. LAURENCE GINNELLA
NEW YORK, April 17th. The death has occurred of Mr. Laurence Gingell. He had concluded a storm career as the self-described envoy of the Do Valera faction to America,
BISHOP D. S. TUTTLE..
ST. Louise, April 17th.. The death is announced of Bishop D. S. Tuttle, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.