CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. [TROUGH ACTER'S AGENCY.} WARNING TO AUSTRALIA MENACE OF JAPAN'S SURPLUS POPULATION.
SYDNEY, Ja'y tot
Mr. W. M. Hughes (ex-Prime Minister * Australia), in the course of a striking warning issued in the Sydney kaily Tele- graph with regard sto· Australia's 'empty «paces, discusses Japan's 'need of an cutlet for her surplus population, and its re Jation to Australia. He says that it is hardly for Australia, whose great need is population, to complaiù if Japan does not
1) consent to 'impose checks to the increase
DAVIS CUP TENNIS. SPAIN DEFEATS HOLLAND.
LONDON, July 10th.
At Eastbourne, in the Davis Cup first Europein semi-final," "Spain" defeated Holland by winging the firgo two singles and doubles.
LATER.
Comte de Comar and Elaquer, beat Timmer and Bryan 5/4, 6/3 km 6/2.
HOME CRICKET.
INTER-VARSITY SCORES.
LONDON, July 10th. Oxford, is heautiful. batting wicket, yesterday, scored 482.
Taylor scored 190,
A beasy thunderstorm, with a deluge of
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FAR EASTERN CABLE THE ROMANCE OF REUTER'S
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NEWS.
(THROUGH="REUTER'#'. AGENCY.]
PEKING POLITICAL ENIGMA.
FURTHER RESIGNATIONS AND
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APPOINTMENTS,
PEKING, July 10th.
Dr. Welington Koo is returning from the Western Hills to-day, and officials are hopeful that he will now take up the position of Foreigu · Minister.
Under the healing The Romance of Reuters in the Making of Newspapers," the following article appears in The Graphic:-
The news that Routers are moving part of their establishment to a commodious building on the Thames Embankment,
STRANGE, ADVENTURES,
·TUR AGENCY'S «WAR· SERVICES. The outbreak of war in 1914 put Rou Their correspondents have often bad ters in a position of the highest national strange adventures. When the Committen importance. "It was fortunate that, the fot Unioa and Progress'achieved the coup agency found in Sir Roderick Jones, the d'eft at Constantinople, Reuters, corre present chairman and managing director, spondent, Mr. Fergus Ferguson, met sucessor to Baron Herbert, admirably Talaat Pasha, who informed him that hu fitted to deal with the crisis. The great had got the Cabinet, shut up inside mut.
of her own. TE she does not, nothing is rain in the early hours of the morning. PENGPO TO BE OPENED AS A contained a Royal palaci. Stow, writing place the trusteeship of the agency in
surer than that before many years have paserd, her overcrowded and half-starved millions will make a grand trek.
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He asks these millions karck at our doors. how can we deny the adinit tance?" and declares that it would be more in the interest of the greater part of the world that these milions should settle in Australia and produce wealth, than that they should remain idle and die.
He concludes by saying: "A"little time is still burs wherein we may fill our vacant
spaces with men and women of our own, race, and do ad that is needful to auke good our claùn to this great and fruitful continent.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
WORKERS
· CARTRIDGE · · FACTORY
KILLED AND "INJURED.
MON, ILLINOIs, July 10th. Nine persons were killed and 25 injured by an explosion, which took place in the shell room of the Western Cartridge Co.'s factory The dead include four women;
COAL TRANSPURT RATES.
COMMISSION
INVESTIGATE
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left the pitch very difficult, and under n hot sun Cambridge were all out for
FREE PORT.
which was recently vacated by the Port of the world's news agencies had was waiting for the Sultan to approve A mandate issued at midnight yesterday of London Authority, is a proof of the nintained a patriotic indepen their nominees. "What about wiring?" growth of a great business, but it in-dence in a war of life and death, when asked the correspondent. That is al aceopted Chang, Ying Han's resignation valves no breach with the past. The pre large part of the world depended upon right," said Tainat. The wires are cut and appointed! Kang Ko Ming Finance mises which Reuters have occupied for Routers for the news of the struggle, and just at present, but I will see that Ren- Minister. It is still uncertain whether the over half a century will still be retain an honest statement of the questions attem" message gets through." . And it did. latter will take up the post, but Cabineted for that, part of their work which is issue, special measures were considered Mr. Guy Beringer, their correspondent in officials are optimistic,
specially connected with the City. The necessary to entrench that independence. Russia during the revolution, was impri- Jewry, with its sober seventeenth century house, covering three freeholds in Old } Tho first business was to re-organise the soned by the Bolsheviks, and was for a Company. The shares were scattered long time in hourly expectation of death. facade, is one of the most interesting among 1,200 holders, and easily purchas- In the Great War it was a Reuter des buildings in London. In the Middle Agesable source of danger during a time patch that first told the Allied world that the street was part of the Ghetto; then of national' peril.
the United States had broken off diploma it advanexd in prestige, and at one time
Accordingly the directors resolved to tie relations with Germany.
Bat of all Reaters "scoops" the most in 1308, rescribed it as "a very goed the hands of a few representative British remarkable was their announcement of the PERING, July 10th. open strict, graced by buildings inhabited citizens, among whom were the Hon. Mark relief of Malcking two days ahead of the The Cabinet to-day decided to open by merchants and people of repute." The Napier (at that time chairman), the late Government or anybody else. Reuters”. Great Fire of 1666 made a clear, sweep of Lord Glencouner, Viscount Peel, the late telegram reached London at 9;15 on Fri. Pengpo as a fres port. They have ap-
the neighbourhood.
Sir Starr Jameson nad Sir Roderick day,, May 18th, 1900, from one of their pointed Cheng Yuan Chunn Director of Oxford best Cujubridge by an innings the Port Opening Administration,
On the palace site was creeted a build. Jones. The old stockholders were bought correspondents on the Boer side-a Scots- 22.
ing which over
one hundred sears ago out un cost of over half a million for man! It was instantly forwarded to The Cabinet have also decided to was advertised in the Time 94, Old ling, and Reuters. Limited, the shares in the newspapers and telephoned to the Cumbridge followed on with 136..
| allocate $600,000 from the Peking cetroi, Jewry, ʼn very comfortable and desirable only a few hands, came into being. Lord Mayor, who announced the news The fielding and bowling of Oxford were for educational expensen in Peking,
dwelling-house with garden." The garden Having completed his re-organisation, from the steps of the Mansion House. excellent. "
has long since gone, and if the ghosts of Sir Roderick Jones served first in the Copics were sent to Queen Victoria (who the former "people of rapate" ever Department, then, as Director of Pro- in her diaries makes several references to return they will find the low-pitched ceil-paganda, în the Ministry of Information the interest which she took in Router's ings they know; but they will find, too, throughout 1917 and 1918, and during telegrams, and on this occasion, asked to their bedrooms occupied by editors busy that time he placed the managing-diree see the original), to the Prince of Wales, with typewriters and tape machines, and torship of Reuters in commission. But and to the varicus Ministers Within u the reef festooned with wires, along which after the Armistice he not only completed short time late editions, were selling by travels the latest news from the four quar his task of setting the old business on the the thousand, and in the House of Com dos that an organisation which is the activities in ters of the globe. It is a pleasant pars firmest foundation, but be quickened its mons, at it p.m., Mr. Chamberlain stated
dozen new directions.
rung là àn hour and 'a half.
a
Stevens took six wickets for 20 runs
LYTER.
Bettington (Captafay took eight wickets
for 60.
minutre.
The innings occupiest, two hours and ten
COUNTY SCORES..
Lesvos, July 10th. At Nottingham, Lancashire at Sutts by an innings and fourteen ruus. For
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CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
PETITION FROM HONGKONG ASSOCIATION,
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"Losuos, July 10th. In the House of Commons, Colonel John Ward, M.P., presented a petition from the Constitutional Reform Association in Hongkong praying, so far as the non- should be housed is a place which sugceeded Mr. W. F. Bradshaw as manager had been received, be had no reason to last word in modern business enterprise Meanwhile Mr. S. C. Clements had aucthat although no official confirmation Chinese unofficial testers of the Legis gests the limited horizons and the quiet, and secretary, and the late Mr. F..doubs the accuracy of Reuters' informa to the second innings took & for 89. Theative Council are" concerned, for the plain old edifice, the door of which has Reuters conscience," retained the chief tion. The whole world, including Lurd
decorous life of cider days. For that Dickinson, the sagacious keeper of Lancastrian, Makepeace, in the second abolition of the principle of Government innings compiled 105, not out,
Noth Whyall scored 148, and Richmond
Yorkshire at Hull beat Seinerset by un innings and 133. For York Holmes any |ailed 199, not unt, and Sutcliffe 139.
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nomination..
ACCURACY FIRST,
not been shut night or day for fifty editorship until his death. In recent Roberts himself, who had despatched the years, is in touch every moment with the months various changes have been made, relief column and who read out the Ren- remotest corners of the earth Messages including the appointment of Mr. John Pour into [BY COURTESY OF "THE BALLY BULLETIN," |
and go from it which begin Buchan as deputy-chairman, and the ad-ter telegram to the troops on Church or end in tropical jungles, in Himalayan dition of Sir Edward Grigg and Mr. & Parade at Bloemfontein, was wholly de snows, and the furthest islands of the C. Clements to the Board." SUN YAT SEN WANTS MP./S TO GO | gea. Cables despatched by men-with the
pendent upon. Routers. SOUTH
hua of London in their cars are pr❘ THE CLEARING HOUSE OF THE WORLD'S NEWS. sently passing through places where mon-
Reuters today are the greatest clearing keys may break down the wires and elehouse in the world for the world's news.
Every great organisation must have its phants lean too heavily on the telegraph They are not merely engaged in the re-standards, and the chief asset of a nowa poles. In the heart of Africa, in the ception of Foreign news and its distribu.agrney must be a reputation based upon Holy Land, in sacred Mecen, throughout tion to English newspapers to the Lona scrupulous fidelity to such standards. the East from Bombay to Tiber, frota don papers direct and to the provincial Java to Tokyo Heater's news in para- mount, and often the only newa.
At Kettering, Northants beat Glamorgan by two wickets. For Northants, Wiley in the second innings scored 116. not out. Surrey at Glasgow beat Scotland on the first innings For Surrey, Sandbar in the first innings compiled 124.
Hampshire beat Warwickshire at Bir-STATUS QUO" AT CHANGSHA.
RESTORATION DELAYED BY LOW RIVER.
PERING, July 10th. Two of Sun Yat Son' emissaries are reported to be at Tientsin urging members of Parliament to go South.
WASHINGTON, July 10th. Acting on'n' recommendation made by the Coal Commission, the Interstate Commingham by an innings and fifty-eight.
merce Commission has ordered an inves.
tigation of all rates for the transportation of anthracite mined in the United States An investigation has also been ordered regarding transport rates for foreign anthracite.
DOCKERS' DISPUTE.
SOME OF THE MEN TO RESUME WORK.
LONDON, July 10th. There are growing sigas that the Klockers' strike is waning. The men have now returned on the new shilling cut term
· For Hants, · Mend knocked up 292.
The West Ludies beat Leicestershire at
Leicester on the first innings. The West Indian, Fernandes, in the innings com
piled 110..
Kent at Tunbridge Well bent Essex by ten wickets,
For Kent Hardinge in the first innings scored 100,
NEWS BY CARRIER PIGEONS,
journals through the Press Association-Beuters' greatest possession is their name but they also read news all over the and the goodwill which adheres to it. world, not only from Britain but from The agency is a carefully constructed and every foreign country. The globe is The romance of Reuters is of a piece divided into areas, each of which has its brilliantly manipulated machine, and it with their historic habitation. More than Reuter general manager. 80 years ago, before the days of railways manager is controlled from London, and
Each general is a machine with a soul. It aims at
are under the head office. The agency
PEKING, July 10th. and telegraphs, a young bank elerk on the onch, tura, controls the managers and speed; it seeks to ensure that the news restoration of the status quo has been ed courier as
It is reported from Changsha that the of beating the mail coach and the mount-in the case of one or two areas which world shall be on the wires immediately Continent of Europe conceived the idea correspondents within his territory, save of any important event throughout the
means of conveying news. delayed by the fan in the river, which He started a service of carrier-pigeons has its representatives in every important after its happening. But far above speed has prevented two Japanese river bants which were used to distribute the fatest tions in the smallest places. The many silent than win a short-lived reputation
betwood Brussels and Aix-la-Chapelle,
city of the world, with intricate connec. it puts accuracy. It would rather be- ascending the river to Changsha.
market prices. He prospered, and when
ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT
Toavo, July 10th.
the telegraph came he was one of the Reuter services issued from the head office
first to see its possibilitica. Presently we spread out like a fan as they get farther with false or faulty news. Its aim is find this Julias Reuter beginning in a from England, and reach the farthest that most difficult thing, objective trath, small way in England, where, in 1851; the great national agencies, Reuters are
corners of the earth, The senior of all which is far more than merc. formal he opened officra at No. 1, Reyal Exchange Buildings. ilis staff ecnsisted of a single in close alliance by treaty or by contract accuracy. In its messages it eschew, all offion boy, Ir. F. J. Griffiths, who in Inter with the chief agency, in every country bias and tendencious" purpose. It is years became Secretary of the Company in the world.
under no control of Government, or finan THE CLASSIC INSTANCE OF A “HOWLER,” At first, Julius Router, who had become
- rist vznap ne political party a
nn English citizen, confined himself to
THE RICHEST MAN.
Mr. Hisanmro Oyama, a member of the MR. FORD'S VETO ON TRADE Chamber of Commerce, Tokyo, left for
* UNIONISM. ·· ···
Shanghai with the object of investigating The revelation of the enormous arenina, the Chinese and Japanese situation, the Stock Exchange information, but he soon Mr. Kipling has long ago expounded at Bermondsey, while they have alsolation of wealth by the Ford Motor Com
extended his business to commercial and the romance of modern journalia Thero Bon says, one to speak it and one to hear decided to resume at Barry and Cardiff, pany, made by the filing of its annual boycott conditions and the improvement then to general now. After many efforts are few dull moments in the work of a but some of the other centres are still statement this sek, atfracts attention of relations. holding off.
"EABLIER CABLES.
LONDON, July 10th All the dockers at Grimsby, Immingham and Liverpool have resumed, work. ***
Eleven thousand dockers are still wat Birkenhead.
it
(says the Christian Selenen flonitor) to
JAPAN.
It takes two to tell the truth, as Steven-
he induced Mr. John Walter of The great agency, and many whimsical and it, and Reuters have always aimed, ni Times to take a daily news service, and dramatic incidenta Reuters editors have only at a verbal correctness in atatement, the reputation of Reator, was established much to contend with in elucidating Presa
LOW-POWER MONOPLANE.
BRUBBELS, July 10th. Lieut. Simonet resc 2,000 feet in lesa than one minute in a seven horse power those of Ford, but that his lavish gilts Foreign Oleo are given out, but the to various charities and foundations have monoplane from the Evero Aerodrome and reduced his capital below the Ford level, spokesmen to the Press make statements Port of London Authority.
The only corporation with a larger hold conveying the alleged personal views of States than the Fords' is the United the principals. ing of cash and securities in the United
States Steel Corporation, but that cor- poration) hns
romained in the air for 20 minutes.
US SQUADRON AT GREENOCK
LONDON, July 10th.
1,700 cadets on board, has arrived at 700 American battleship squadron, with
more
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the fact that Mr. Ford has been fro, in SOVIET CONVERSATIONS" WITH the main, from the attacks commonly
by the agency's work in the American messages sent in plain language bat in but at a true impression upon the mind made on the accumulators of great wealth.
Civil War and the campaign of Solferino. an abbreviated and frequently mutilated of the receiver, Moreover, the agency. He and his only son own the whole of the
Toxic, July 10th. The quarters were now at No. 3, Loth. form; but it is rare that a mistake is has a proper sense of responsibility. capital stock of the company. Their net
bury, where the business beenme Reuters made. The classic jostance of a how-There have been cases where Reuters have profits last year were 8119,000,000. The The Kawamani Joffe preliminary "con Telegram Company, Limited, whose earler" happened many years ago when, in secured information of the first import in various banks amounted on February cash holdings of the company deposited vorentions" continue to involve announce liest work was to lay the cable between a ressage from Reuters Sydney correance, but which they have withheld on Lowestoft and Norderney, the first rec-spondent relating to the opening of a grounds of public policy. That is why 28th to over 8150,000,000, The two men ments of approaches and retreats; with tion of the overland route to India. In new railway in Queensland, there ap the agency possession the confidence of Fifty vessels are being held up at together are believed to be the richest balons d'esas being floated through the the spring of 1871 the head office was peared the words Governor twins first Governments and the confidence of the No news organisation Mauchester, where 8,400 dockers are on men in the world, and are certainly in
moved to Old Jewry. The agency, which son. I should have been "Governor ordinary man. atriko..
enjoyment of the largest individual in native and foreign Press by both sides, in 1861 employed a single offes boy, has turns first so; but a bachelor Gover-ever received a higher compliment than come possessed by any capitalists of to-which produce floods of speculation. now fourteen departments, heavily man nor, over sixty years of age, appeared as that for more than two days, without day. People who like to figure on the
ned, at headquarters, which direct having become the father of twins, the official confirmation, and without any cor comparative wealth of great captains of Officially, only the barest statements branches all over the world; and it has elder being a son 1
roboration from any other source, the industry assert that the revenues of John from the headquarters of M. Joffe and the become necessary
whole of the British Empire should have find scope for further
"SCOOPS."
celebrated the Relief of Malcking catirely D. Rockefeller have been greater than
development in the fino, building on the Embankment, formerly occupied by the The aim of a good correspondent is to upon Routers word. Not less striking be first in the field with news, and Rea were the tributes repeatedly paid it dur Julius Reuter, the lounder, had that ters have innumerable striking successes ing the Great War. A certain Reuter genius which can divine the significance to their credit. The first announcement message was held up by the authorities, of small beginnings. He was the first man of war between France and Austria in though the same message was published to appreciate what exactly the rapid 1859 was issued by Reuters. The release elsewhere. There were good reasons for But Heuters On the surface the negotiations include transmission of nows meant to the world. of the Southern Commissioners, Mason withholding the news,
Ford Company are possessed by two men and claims for material compensation as ceptions. For example, he obtained a Lord Palmerston. 170,000 steckholders. The holdings of the questions of responsibility for Nikolaiev He had not only a masterly command of and Slidell, was first known to them, naturally asked why there should be this detail, but he had great imaginative con- and they had the privilege of informing discrimination against them. The answer They were a week was "Because if this news is published only-father and son..
·concession ·· from the Persian Govern- ahead with the news of the murder of under Routers name people will believe Amazing as it is that so colossal a for well as "saving_face.”
ment in 1879 to construct railways Lincoln (this was before the days of the it," tuno should have been accumulated in the
These, hawever, are regarded by well-throughout that country with the object Atlantic cable), their New York corro [space of twenty years, "for "twenty years
of knitting together Persian and British spondent overhauling the mail steamer ngo Ford was a bookkeeper on a slender informe observers, as covering the vital interests The scheme failed, though the and flinging on board a tin case contain
A considerable amount of labour, unrest the Assembly passed a resolution, by 3 ing that its accumulation should have that the conclusion of a two day debate, salary, it is, perhaps, even more astonish point, which are recognition of the capital was forthcoming, since he was ing an account of the tragedy, In those is at the present moment prevalent in il-supported by the British Government, pre-cable days Amorine news was sent by Shanghai. Various demands have been vetes to 36, urging an amendment of the been accompanied by so little public Soviet and the cess on or lease of Northern who did not share his breadth of out steamer to Roche Point, County Cork, noted within recent days for substantial
eform. Act restricting the Viceroy's certi hostility. Even labour, organised labour Saghalien to Japan. -
look Mr. Henry M. Collins, who played and telegraphed thenco on Reuters own increases of wages on the part of the fention power to measure essential to ordinarily so tenacious of its privileges, safety and tranquillity in India.
According to Reuter's informant, a large part in these negotiations, is still line to London. To get ahead of their lower paid workers, and only a week or is virtually quiescent in contemplation of the Ford success. More than aby one man nothing else matters much at present av The barony conferred on Julius competitors Reuters used to have their two ago strikes involving 2,000 or 3,000 Reuter by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha despatches enclosed in a hermetically employees were recorded. There seems THE NAGPUR TRIAL: or group of men, he has made Detroit a Recognition of the old debris and trees in 1871, in recognition of his public ser closed box, with a flag affixed, which was fitte indication of the agitation subsiding
Russia and compensation non-union city, but in doing it he led the by NAGPUR, July 10th.
Russin's claim for vices, was recognised twenty years later dropped by the purser off the Irish coast, way to paying "bigh wages, and making iko'aievsk god
by Lord Salisbury's Government. Other picked up by a steamer specially charter says the NC, Daily News. The latest Jattan Lal Bajaj and four of his lieuthigh wages pay him. But for all his refusal damages. by the Japanese in Siberia Ey wise the life's work of the father, of ed for the purpose, carried to Crook is on the part of the rice carriers of enants were sentenced to go months to recognise, union labour in his shops, all be merged into a proposal, on which, telegraphic news, who gathered the wires baven, and there telegraphed. It was Nantao who have presented an ultan of me we find no outery against his product if Mr. Kawakami and M. Joffe sgroe, of the world into his hand, and who was Beaters who, in the Zulu War, Brat an to their employers for an increase of ne rised by the spokeemen of union labour, third conference may be called...
described by The Times as the most nounced the news of Isandiwana and the less than 30 per cent in their wages, "DEUTSCHE BANK DIVIDEND and his cars are owned md driven Menwhile, tradal relations have intelligent man of his day," was ignored Princo Imperial's death. They had the failing the payment of which they intend
generally by men who hold union cards opened temporarily.
by the country of his adoption. In first report of the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, to strike In addition bortmen engaged Bratis, July 10th. It is a curious phenomenon that on one The present preliminary conversa 1876 the Baron's eldest son, Herbert, be- the first despatches from the expedition in the local lumber trade threaten to conso The annual report of the Deutsche of the touchiset points in the organisations may be broken off without pro came managing director of the agency, for the relief of Gordon, and in 2007 gave work as a result of a reduction in their Bank shows a net prait of nearly six tion of industry Mr. Ford, without yield, judice at any moment if found advisable and, though by disposition a scholar out the complete text of the secret treaty wages from $20 to $18, while 10 Inc. milliards of Marks, and a dividend of 300 ing one single fata, has been able to avoid to postpone them until the time is more rather than a man of affairs, conducted between Great Britain and Russin con makers in Ferry Road have already come per cent, is declared,
propitions any, controversy whatsoever.
successfully until his death in 1013. cerning spheres of inäumen in Pornia.
#Greenock.
INDIAN REFORM ACT.
SIMLA, July 10th.
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