CABLES.
LATEST CABLES.. (TAKOCGS REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PROHIBITION QUESTIONS.
ANOTHER KNOTTY PROBLEM FOR USS. GOVERNMENT.
NEW YORK. June 3rd.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE Bru, 1993.
GERMAN DYESTUFFS SEIZED FAR EASTERN CABLE
FRENCH PRESS JUBĪLANT.
Parts. Jave 3rd.
NEWS
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CONSORTIUM MEETING.
NO LOANS TO CHINA AT PRESENT.
LONDON, June ril.
TENOUGH REUTER'S AGENOT. }
LINCHENG OUTRAGES,
BANDITS JOINING
THE ARMT.
Piso, May 4th.
and
AHEAD OF THE MAIL.
{SUPLEMENTARY WIRES, FROM INDIAN PAPERS.]
AWARDS TO WAR-TIME INVENTORS.
LONDON, May 15th, The-Beyal Commission on Awards to in ventons leard a claim in respect of the Captain Heaton Armstrong, of the Deran serces for the protection of infantry by aadi Eloise.
The daimant's council stated that 200,000 smoke candles, on the lines suggested by Captain Armstrong, were used by the War Office Captain Armstrong did not claim that the idea of a smoke screen was now, but that his screen was now. »
The Fetich Press is jubilant at the!
It s reported from Taochuang that Freach seizure of dyestuffs at Biebrich,
the enrolment of bandits into the army is Hoechst and ludwigshafen works. The
preseding. Sotue of the bandits, how- zure is valued at 200,000,000 frames, and it is claimed that this is a larger quantity The Daily Telegraph's diplomatie cur-ever, do fotˇdaire to join the army,
departing than Germany was supposed to deliverį respondent, referring to the Consortium boordingly they are Th• " Wöts" in Wiscopin "anil other; waler the Truty. It is emphasised" that meeting at Paris, states that it recoin leaving their arm. States are planning to intralney similar Germany had completely stopped demended that no further luas.be granted- nction to that taken in New York State for liveries of dyestuffs for four months, to Chinn until the increase in China and thus had necumulated considerable customs dues, as stipulated by the Wash- repeling prohibition enforcement. Wash-
Lington Treating have been duly carried ington, admit that the overament, is stocks, Incl with a huge task by the withdrawal !
of
enforcement
on
was not.
1 is astered that the seizure
A proposal had been mooted for a tru officers made in the presence of the British and
the Reparations porary advance of £1,000,000 to enable Hontingers, no reported to be activ: bus Italian delegates there has been on Loticeable increase in Commission, who were requested to indi. - Peking to cope with the present diffenl ent the quantities destined for their tion, but apparently it was consitered: Liquor arrests. --
countries, which were immediately ear that this should be made conditional on! marked.
a satisfactory footing by the normali sation of hitherto atively onsieured | Ching-e Bonds, This would be a compli Peated task.
COURT'S
DECISION
TO BE STRICTLY ENFORCER
Wsknington, June Bed, The Terasury has issued shopping and liquer regulations strielly, in aesariance with the Supreme Court's decision. prohibiting" th entry of liquor inte territorial waters.
The sole exoptions granted" are in the enge of liquor for; medicinal and diplomatic' pirposes nud Jor UKO an foreign warships. Treasury states that requests made forciga Powers for amelioratif lie legislation in Congress,
The
by
byd
FRANCO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP.
MONUMENT UNVEILED
CHAUMONT.
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CHARMONT, June 3rd. President Millerand has unveiled a Imonament to Franco-American frivedip at Chaumont, General Perhing's heat- quarters from 10 to 15. The unveiling took place in the presence of a notable gathering, inelnding Premier Poincare,
Marshal Amhasstiler Herrick.
*REASONABLE QUANTITY" OF Marshal Petail and repasentatives of the
MEDIUINAL LIQUOR.
New York, June Ard. Whilst sour Treasury official Yoel that Congres may fod a way to vireunyente" ing the priests from foreign nations, others are convinced that the barred zone
The correspondril"mentions that Italy was recently soundedran the possibility of joining the Consortium, but she hesitates to previde the necessary large amounts.
OPIUM SUFPRESSION. CHINESE DELEGATE SUPPORTS
AMERICAN PROPOSALS.
Losies, June 3rd. Joffelj. Speaking at Geneva at a meeting of the Opium Comwitter, on June 1st. Mr. Chao Hain Cha, in dealing with the Amr-] rican proposal said that the amount of opiumu manufactured at present greatly excreded legitimate, requirements; there. fore, it was necessary to find a means to fimit production, in order to prevent the
"Allied mokamelių,
THE DERBY PAVOURITE.
TOWNGUARD'S
CONDITION CON. SIFERED SERIOUS..
Losos, June 3rd.
BY COURTESY OF THE DAILY HULLETIN."
AT SHANGHAL MASS MEETING
SANGHAI, June 1st, At a mass meeting held at Shanghai, Sir Skinnce Turner, presiding, the following resolution was pissed?:
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CABLES VERSUS WIRELESS CONFESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN AUTHORITY.
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A wireless foxpert writes to The Obserie. as follows:-
I have just received a copy of the annual report of the president of the Western Union Telegraph Company for the year ended December 1st last. The Western Union is the
It controls the telgraph system of worldreatest telegraph corporation in, the
with European countries. United States The president, Me. Newton Carlton, perks the USA. nl the cables connecting the
on cable telegmphy with an authority which admitted by very telegraph hari, to whatever country be may lelong.
The
report now under notice contains Bane passages which are of the first im portance. They constitute, perhaps, the Arst public admission by a great able Counsel for the Crown anid that he could authority that cable telegraphy i ferling prove that smoke screens were known in the effects of the competition of wireless telegraphy, Speaking of the income ac 170.
1992, Mr. Carlton says:-"Thera is "Lieu-lieneral Sir M. F. Rimington said count of the Western Union Company for that General Foch and Sir Henry Wilson decline in ocean cable revenues reflect investigated the iden of smoke candles in 1015 and thought it good. Witness used ing the condition of foreign commerce and smoke screen in South Africa, burning the effect of wireless com petition at low dry grass.
He goes on to say, "The radio has made Colonel Francis Adams of the Decao substantial progress during the year, not Horse, said that there was merriment in the only in improved service, but in capturing Regiment at Captain Armstrong's inventive additional business with low rates from the 1915 that they could beat the Boche with with the cables, but they efforts because the officers thought early in cable companies. The advantages still li
need waking shells, an but in view of what happened i have lungil, sed the cheaper micans af shells, and certainly they would not smoke The cable art bas advanced as it wight
it must
just uulvance afterwards they were not very farseeing. under this
"That this meeting, rejuvsentative of the whole foreign community of Shanga hai, desires to place on record its profound harror at the outrage recently committed at Lincheng and at the increasing lawless-
11. misrule,
Lincheng was of which the enhaination; and this tee Diplontie fully draws the inte
intention DE hely at Peking to this public and nith united te hape & the expression of feeding in the the intention that it may strengthen their
Ch Excellencies
h repre. hands in making suc sentations to their respective Clovernments
they
may deem necessary to secure the release of the captives who use now in ban dit hands, and bring the Central and Pro- vincial Authorities to a lasting sons of their responsibility for the restoration of under, an observence of treaty rights and the welfare of the great and friendly Chinese people.".
The resolution was proposed by Sir Edwardl Pearce, and sceanded by Mr. Harold F. Pollar,
At the close of the meeting, the Chair man rend a letter on behalf of the Chinese community of Shanghai endorsing the
resolution.
LIFE SAVING AT SEA BOATS, OR RAFTS. FOR ALL
1
rates.
Counsel for the Crown submitted that, al communication. though Captain Armstrong's invention was useful, and his persistence praiseworthy, he was not entitled to an award, because there was nothing new in it.
The Commission's decision will be pro- mulgated.
PROPOSED TAXATION OF BETTING.
Loxnox, May 15th. The proventive value of the prescut
Inws is
Fligh Letting
that
it is questionable whether tla en forcement of the law is worth the cast Liverpool, testifying before the Taxation Betting Comunities. He said that this re- stated Mr. Caldwell, Chief Constable of
presented the views of a Conference of the Chief Constables of the Northera Districts.
not
up.
Radio rates between the
United States and Europe are about 21 per cent. less than the cable rates, and princi pally because of their lower rates, the radio has captured 20
20
cured 20 per cent of the United States European business." Mr. Carlton's estimate
per cent. is spite unduly favoumble to the cables. In of the fact that this country only posses
Starconi
on Station our high-power station, the
nt
Carnarvon, built before the war, and haring nothing like the capacity, which n station erreted to day would Possess wireless is now going something like 30 per cent. of our Transatlantic trafic. It is facts of this kind which explain the next
It has been our view that the resources of radio will be combined with those of the cable in tlwdevelopment of a system of world paragraph in the President's report.
communication that will place the United | States first among all countries for capacity and reasonable rates. We are disposed. therefore, to think of the radio in terms of a great medium of transmission, and 48 a
ally,
rather than in terms of a con-
Is the light of the experience of the money betting. He thought that if wk competition."""
Inst few years, including the prolific war
with reunin gledatif the eighteenth: The hilly Telegraph spurting writer iurplus finding a way into illicit channels. period, the Merchant Shipping Advisore ready money betting at.a registered address, things will realise that these statements are
amendment of the Constitution has been)
changed.
י.
Hotspur writing late last night, mys that tin case of Town Guard is mare Férias Ban was previously supposed.
The Treaty regülaliens pros de Chat penalties do not apply to vessels feasing This is probably consument on the work foreign ports prior ta Juni 19th and art
to which the cult was subjected yesterday vising in the United States after the ban
murning. The grat of the mischief Kes has become operative No limitation on
in the shonkler. medicinal liquor has been prescribed, and i merely stated that quantity may be retained,
a reasonabla TOWNGUARD AND KNOCKANDO FIT
AND WELL.
LATER.
be accepted.
He added that the law was mest gapopular and most difficult to enfores, owing to its inconsistency as regards edit and ready.
Those who can see beneath the surface of innkers were Heensed and allowed to conduct there would
momentous. be a very soul, if any, increase of tous importance. Americansare u people of a quick perception. They look avoid com- in betting.
The evil had grown since the war and was i understand tendencassociated Cable
have not of this cour sigated. Their been widespread among all classes, especially the companies of poor, and the custom was growing among
50 courageous or so far women, but drunkenness was responsible for spokesmen, like Lord, Selborne, whom I
7he
The Barrer more crime. The experience of the Police have recently, quoted in
with contempt of competition. The old stage couch wan that the bookmaker was generally continue to speak honest. The system of spies and tits was rietors were equally contemptuous of If the
¦ He said that he did not think the Ameri- Committer, of which Sir Norman Hill is chairman, have, at the instance of tho can proposals exended the terms of the Board of Trade, examined the Statutory Opium Convention. The interpretation Life-saving Appliances Rules of May 5th, of the word legitimate as inedicinal' and '1914. Those rules, says The Times in a scientific was most rensouble and should lading artick owe their origin to the
no efficient, and the assistance of dieals so Evidently the interpreta-Tilanie disaster, and they give effect to
the governing principle that every foreign thorough, that the prosecution of illegal the competition of the railways. tinn. implied that opium amcking' was going passenger ship should carry life betting was most difficult. He held that the fight between enlles and wireless could
giving of tips in newspapers encouraged won by word, wireless would be pelessly betting.
beaten.
But the most reassuring phrases boats sufficient to accommodate all 42 board in case of need. In applying this
The witness and other Chief Constables cannot clunge the fact that wireless is principle, the rules prescribe that as many favoured the legalisation of erexiit aut cash cheaper, more adaptable, swifter in work lifeboats as possible shall be attached to betting, but apposed street batting and also ing, and less liable to interruption-and
Mr. Newton Carlton knows it! davits distributed along the length of each betting on football grounds. side of the ship, and that the remaining fifeboats may be grouped under the davits in tiers of
or three, another, or nested within each other, or deck, bridge, or poop. The Committee, however. have given in rows acring u careful consideration to representations
illegitimmte in some Far Eastern countries, but the convention allowed smoking, to continue temporarily, inasmuch as it only
therefore, recommended the committee to
POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
The Derby favourite: Townguard and provided for gradual suppression. He GOVERNOR SMITIES ACTION,
his stable companion Knockando werni placed in boxes this morning for the adopt the principles of the American pro The Daily Telegraph's New York eurres- pondent says that a telegram from Albany | journey to Epsum. Hath horses looked fit pals, as a basis on which effective inter- draws attention to the pitical aspect of and well,
Governor Smith's action in signing tho
Bill repealing the State law enforcing REPARATIONS DISCUSSIONS.
that
prohibition. The telegram says Governor Smith proposes a new policy for prohibition enforcement, by which individual States will be permitted to define what may be designated as intoxi- enting liquor. so that some States ning have light wine and beer, while others, if they an chouse, may remain bone dry, I
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MR. BALDWIN INTERVIEWED BY PARIS NEWSPAPERS.
PARIS, June 3rd.
Interviewed by a representative of the Pet Pansion, Mr. Baldwin said he hoped shortly to have conversations with his French colleagues on the subject of! reparations. Me, Baldwin said he felt
national co-operation might be cured.
JAPAN AND RUSSIA
THE QUESTION OF TRADE RELATIONS.
two
one shove ANOTHER SCENE IN, THE HOUSE. wireless theraphy the associated cable
LONDON, May 16th.
So long as British Governments persistedd
their
to private enterprise in companies could afford to sit still and do but now that the Government has conceded to privato enterprise the right to provide the British Empire with world-wide- cable companies will soon be compelled to make the same sort of public admission and ndupt
the same attitude as that of the presi du
The Rassing debate in the House of Cem. from the Board of Trade ibat. in certain ors was enlivened towards the close by the wireless telegraphic facilities, the associated Comunist, Mr. Newbold, who continually interruped.
AL
do
He finally shouted to the Chair: "Why allow charges to be made all night without giving me a chance to answer, like cent of the Westorn Union Telegrapha the bourgeois you are?"
The Chairman, Mr. Fitzroy, then ordered
foreigu-going passenger vessels, the exist ing requirements result in the ships' decks being unduly encumbered, which lends tu difficulty in the launching of the buits, ant that the provision of a proportion of
first, necessity now is rapidity of Tokyo, June 4th. rafts, instead of boate, might be f
his withdrawal from the House. Mr. Now fiction on the part of the Post Office. So advantage in saving life at sea in Soviet Russia must accept the condi- sudden emergency.
bold refused to leave, and the Sergeant-at-fare not a single licence has been issued, Law made his announcement to the House The findings of the Curts appointed to Arms was summoned, and requested the although it is over six weeks since Mr. Bonar
The latter lions laid down by the Japanese Govern-
I am here in the of Commons. ment, as a preliminary to opening the of recent years have been examined, and
The Chairman thereupon summoned the negotiations locking for a possible reator. the Committee state that the time avail-rane of the ation of relations. This attitude of the able within which the transfer of pas Speaker, who moved Str. Newbolda Cabinet will be conveyed to M. Joffengers from a sinking vessel must be sion from the House, which was carried.
completed will depend on the effect of the amid cheers and booing.
Immediately after last night's scene in the Bustained on the margin of safety (Soviet Representative) after a meeting damage the construction of the vessel Llease of f Commons, a motion was tablel in
inquire into the great shipping disasters offenderaanist International
PRAYER-BOOK REVISION. "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK'S VIEWS
The Archbishop of York, in his presidential address at the York Iiocesan Conference,
This may be regarded as the platform on rtain that a settlement could be finally to be held on June 5th; simultaneously herself. In view of the circumstances of the names of Mr. Lees-Smith and M dealt with the subject of the revision of the
reached, guaranteeing the European penc
future
of
Not
*
which Gornor Smith will be likely to go to the National Convention as the Democratic presidential candidate. enly New York, but other States
lesirions of a modification of the Volstead
Act.
PROFITABLE STEAMER DEAL
OWNERS REALISE HANDSOME PROFIT.
LONDON, June 3rd.
BARLIER CABLES.
BETTER PROSPECTS FOR A SETTLEMENT.
ed persons state, include extraordinary conc ssions.
thern
Further, the thit Mr. Newbold should be given an of reality, the stir of moveries which
were
opportunity to withdraw his un-Parlia pressure of life. mentary expression before being called upon to withdraw from the House.
CEYLON AFFAIRS IN PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, May 18th.
込
allowed
had cometru i tired when this had resulted
consistent with the self-respect of the in a state of things which was no longer Church.
Japan's minimum conditions, well inform the loss of the Emprces of terland, the Arthur Ponsonby calling attention to the Prayer Book. He said the demand for some Ery, and the fantanio, it is not ruing of the Deputy Chairman in regard to revision was only a welcome sign that there and the possible, they hold, to count on this time the member for Motherwell, and moving was in the body of the Church the sense
Plainly exciding fifteen minutes.
drawn up to suit the Lomnice uusider that, on the basis of
hopel One of the most influential Privy experience, emergencies muy arise in which
conditions of 1662 had long been ly out of touch with the realities of life Councillors, when interviewed by Reuter, there will not even be time to use all the boats that are actually attached to the,
as we know them to be, and nothing was moro unhealthy for a body than ta
ta profess said the Government was undoubtedly davits, even if they are already carried at
to obey rubrics which were universally dis LONDON, June 3rd.
regarded. It was a strango misreading of seeking an opening for the resumption of swung out. To moet such emergencies are now only life jackets and life-
the realities of the situation if they In the House of Commons, Mr. Ben Spoor themselves to support the attitude of any that what they called There is keen expectation of Germany's trade relations, but would not move buoys, and the Committee consider that, if time does not permit of the launching now reparatioris offer being ilelivered this without the fullest consultation with
af all the heavy seagoing lifeboats and raised the subject of the draft constitution "this lawlessness week. The industrial magnates have form America and Great Britain. The coun life-rufte, no alternative provision can ho of Ceylon, describing it as extraordinarily one party in the Church. There was no parish priest in the country which ebeyed made for keeping above the water all reactionary in many respects,
He caid that at the very time when it was the laws of the Prayer Book. It was only ally offend the Gerinan Government a It is alleged that a steamer which has proportion of their assets as a guarantee or pointed out that the Japanese those who are compiled to leave the
were introduced. The offer position was different from all others, ship, but that some help may be given, desirable for national barriers to be broken difference of the character of the
proposal which Happily wireless has simplified just returned to Glasgow has been sold for the payments to the Allies.
to acompanied by conditions, Indlading beerwin of the proximity of two vast coan, the prey terre con telegraphy hom als pied down, we had a proper for not only the for £300,000 in America, the owners
private management of the railways and tries which were at present in a state of question of rowing great distances to and racial representation, but its indefinite
safety, but of keeping people alost until extension.
He urged that the House should have an
The time had come when they must profiting to the tune of £125,000.
other State services, the abolition of stagnation, while Jupen must extend her assistance, which will often have been
already summoned, reaches the scene. In opportunity of discussing the constitution.
endeavour, so far as God would help them, foreign trade control, and an eight-hour trade with her neighbours in order to fact, when disasters ocur in narrow
to bring into their Prayer Book such changes day, which has eveket strong opposition and runs of expansion, and to stem the waters where help from passing vessels in INDIANS CLAIMS IN KENYA.
as were rendered necessary by the growth of religious thought and the change of cir from the Socialists, who demand that the flowing tide of insidious propaganda quickly available, the immediate need is to keep people alive for minutes. With
LONDON, May 18th. curastances in their midst, and such as would, guarantees take the form of more adequate which was slowly affecting the nation.
in all the considerations
mind, the The Socialists inve
The Outlook declares that to grant the when the task had been achieved, enable taxation of the rich.
Committee now lay down the principle warned the Cabinet of the danger of offer-
together necessary ing too little, and the necessity for making BANDITS AUTIVE AT LAOSA dant, instead of encumbering, the decks claim of the Indians in Kenya, in defiance of the fog and oboering gerne me body
CHIEF OF POLICE ADOPTS STERN with a large number of heavy sea-going ford Milner's pledge to the white settlers, regarding
'to know what changes would craft which may wel: prova useless, and would mean a second Bouth African War principle of authority and law. It was a more serious effort to come to terms.
certain and definite impossible the test of conformity to the Our information Meanwhile there are indications ofa change
even dangerous, it would be letter for a that the Union of South Africs will not life and needs of the Church except of atmosphere in France and Belgium. The
vesel to carry a supply of light rafts
permit any non-white
hite race to begiven PERING; June 4th. answer to the next German
of in letters to suficient to support the number of personszenship anywhere in Britt rights their being used. When to
newspapers to this proposal at It is reported from Tsingtao that the of of
vided in the heavy sea-going craft the white race. It, therefore, Ministers are their old and venerable cushion. The Chief of police has been the experience we now poses of disasters let them ask themselves whether they would altered and pulled about ly various
modern conditions, it Lo a general Allici energetic, from two
who wad that language i remembered Mr. Baldwin, as
the certainly seem that the slogan "Bosts prefer in the last resort to take on in a assemblies, be asked himself whether those
to keep German
that wherever it was mully
old Conservative leader. occurring daily.
for all" has not justified itself, and that scrimmage, Gandhi or General Smuta
Prayer Book as it them tho European settle- ship indicated, has put a
It is understood that the police author while boate will remain the first line of meut in the very forefront of his policy, and ities have warned the foreign authorities protection they will need to be supported Absorption for the current year was
trying to make the worship of the Church diplomatic
by light buoyant apparatus, which,
Mr. Stanley Baldwin announced in the real and rich, and as inclusive of varied estimated at 400,000 tons, while produc- according to the Oteerver's zion was likely to be reduced to 335,000 Correspondent he has been taking a deter of the dangers of partica of tourists extreme emorgency, can be quickly fung
mined line recently in the dinction of going out
The foreign into the sea; and, will provide at least House of Commons on April 9th that the types of religions life is was consistent something to which unfortunate ship Imperial Conference and the Imperial with the limits-wide, but very real-set ronsonable view of Germany's capacity to authorities have replied, urging that the word persons can hupo to cling until Economia Cosferees will be held on ap by the history of the Church of Eng-
October 1st next tons of plantation rubber and 25,000 tons persuading the French to take a
iland and its place in Christeloni.
of wild rubber.
RUBBER OUTLOOK. REDUCTION IN OUTPUT FORECASTED.
LONDON, May 3rd. At a meeting of the Rubber Plantations Investment Trust, Mr. H. 1. Welch point-
ed out that the production of plantation intter now favour joint Pdgo-French und
Anglo-Itance agrees and Beligian Premiers, it is the British world's absorption was cetimated at Government's opportunity to intervene more
electively with a
rubber last year amounted to 345,000 tons, offer. I
MEASURES.
4
"
the
ля
ля
read
of
Book
and of wild rubber to 25,000 tons, while the the forthcoming copference of the French hasdits. are active in the vicinity of availablo for immediate launching. With hypnotised by threats of trouble in India, being thrown into the cockpit to be
75,000 tons, of which America accounted der 75 per cent.
and
his speech accoprent
pay.
more
to Laoshan,
ten executions under
1 district should be cleared of bandite.
succour arrivna,
would
in
Prayer Book stil. They were
F