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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 1923.
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LORD MORLEY'S" FUNERAL.
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LONDON, September 27th. Lord Morley was buried toalny, accord- ing to his own-wish without fuss. The motor hearse, on which three wreaths hind been laid, left his resilence in Wimbledon followed by a single motor enr
car. The cofla WAK
"covered" with a black and gold Inwind, September 20th. which was surmounted by
Mr. Asquith for the erection of new super-power pated in the atation at Harking, near London, which Green grematorium." After the chaplain will cost several million pounds to cops had read the opening sentence is tur pete, has been awarded. The now stationsson. The cites mourners were the de burial service, Mr. Asquith read the which is one of the capital stations or ceased's nephews, Guy Morley Surgeons prised in the plan of the reorganisation of London's eletricity supply, will have a Captain Morley and F. W. Morley. capacits nearly equal to the present con King was represented by the Earl of Mal aamption in the London area. In dur mesbury and many celebrities representa- to carry the current from the station to tive of the Universities, and Liberat the South London ares a special tunnel: Associations were also present lucluding seven feet in diameter and 60 feet deep. Mr. Augustine Birrell. Lord Gladstone. is to be built under the Thames
Lord Peatland and Mr. Perer. Dumbelt. representing the Secretary of State for India
It is announced that a building contract lowers and ple service at Gol
"DEFENCE OF FREE TRADE.
LONDON, September 97th-
In the course of a speech to-day at the oponing of the autumn campaign of the Independent Liberal Party Mr Asquith attacked the proposals for the develop ment of Imperial Preference and empha ised the necessity for defending Free Trade, which had been given a set-back both
at home and abroad in the past હેમ years. He said that a section of the wool trade was not only asking for shelter an der the Safeguarding of Industries Act but the Dominions and Colonies had put an export duty upon wool, while other countries and other great manufacturing interests were following suit. Agriculture also was making an insistent and clamour ous demand. Er advised the latter tackle the middlemen Liberals regarded Preference, which had been defined as the ideal of a self-sufficient and self-sustained
to
IRISH INVASION OF SCOTLAND.
LONDON, September 27th.
The Irish Invasion of Scotland led to
the Glasgow Presbytery of the Church of Scotland yesterday unanimously adoptinz
motion in favour of calling on Ministers to exhort the people to vote at the approaching Municipal elections for candi dates who fully sympathised with Scottish traditions and ideal The mover of the motion declared Bat an awful calamity would overtake Scotland if the controllin power in the country should in the coun of time pays into the hands of those of alien sympathies and extraction,
land, which had been proedeling during The great immigration from rural Ire- the last half centurs, was seriously affect ing the whole of the social and moral tone of the
clays Community of Glas
Empire, as a mischievous chimera without How "The population were drawing
real value, He asserted that the ring of fences was equally harmful to the protec-
ted, and to the obstracted.
RETOET TO ME. ASQUITH.........
LONDOS, September 28th. Mr. Neville Chamberlain speaking in Birmingham to-day said that Mr. Asquith's speech was equivalent to aging to the Dominions Sorry, good friends, you have come here for nothing because your ideal of common helpfulness is a mis chievous chimera. We do not want a ring Tesco, Kindly abolish the 25 per cent. preference you give for our manufacturers, and substitute free commercial inter change between you and foreign nations." He expressed the opinion that, in a gen. eration or two, the Dominions would ha among the powerful peoples of the world, and the influence of the Empire would be unlimited if only it remained' united,
UNEMPLOYED FRACAS IN POPLAR.
upon parochial and philanthropic re
far out of cources of the city to a degree proportion to their numbers, and contri-
buting largely to filling the Police Courta
brisons. He suggested that the Cor doration of Glasgow should set an example by not giving any sljen a new job as long as there were Scotsmen competent and willing to do it.
INDIAN PURCHASE OF GOLD.
LONDON, September 23th. Commenting on the considerable shrink- age of Indian gold buying in London duz- ing the past fortnight Owing to direct shipment from Durban, the Torning Post City correspondent saya in ordinary cir cumstances the bulk of Indian purehason will continue to come to London an account of the uncertainties of direct | transport which prevail elsewherE,
STATUE OF EARL HAIG UNVEILED. Losnoy, September 27th Five hundred unemployed of the
Toyoos, September 28th. extremist type invaded the Board of An equestrian statue of Earl Hair. Guanlians offices at Poplar, locked the givenne gift to Edinburgh by Sir doors and refused to allow the Guardians Dhanjibhoy Bomunji, a Bombay Parsi to depart. The Guardians thereupon gentleman, was unveiled on the Castle telephoned to the police 40 of whom Esplanade today Lady Baig was pre- appeared, but refused to force an entry sent Lady Bomanji, in handing over the without the Board's written authority, sintue, said India ricided to no one in her Meanwhile, a moh gathered in the streat admiration for Earl Haig The Lord Pr and Mung the Red Flag" while the in-vost performed the unveiling ceremony. vaders hoisted a Socialist banner on the and accepted the custody of the statan building. At first the Guardians refused in the name of the City.
to give permission + the police to enter, but eventually decide, on the suggestion of the Mayor to request the police to break in. Written, authority Wis accordingly dropped from window. and the police smashed. their way through the windows
and doors
The invadors tumbled benches and chairs downstairs but missed the police men' heads. The rioters then rushed the police en masse and a most violent struggle ensued. Batons were used freely and an quemployed injured, while 14 had their wounds dressed at the local hospital,
THE
HE PRISONED
"SPANISH · PRISONER !!
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LONDON, September 27th. By means of wireless warnings from Paris reported to the Spanish Polier, the latter have arrested a gang at Barcelona working the Spanish prisoner Swindle" The men arrested include two public tele graphiste
THE
TOLL: OF THE SEA
LONDON, September 30th. Au-extraordinary--series-of--collision» occurred in a heavy fog in the Channel.
Two small vessels were sunk, and throm men are missing, while a number of ships were bailly damaged, but succeeded in reaching pork. The outward-bound Cur arder Scytlete was obliged to return tay Liverpool with her passengers as result of a collision with the homeward-Bound Waite Star steamer Cedric in a dense for off the south coast of Ireland,”
FEEDS
CAMBRIDGE.
OF UNIVERSITY.
LONDON, October 1st. a Cambridge, the Vice Chancellor. the At the opening of the academic year Rev. E. C. Pearce, addressing the Senato announced that from the present year the Government would make an additional This is believed to be one of the first manual grant of £30,000 to meet Univer- symptoms of the now Government's detersity needs, including superannuation mination to infuse energy and efficiency into publio departments,
COTTON TRADE CRISIS,
LONDON, September 27th, The Manchester ~ Guardian's - Oldham correspondent states that important devo lopments are occurring in the cotton trade with the object of aserting a financial crisis. An emergency committee has been formes, including members of the provin cial emergency committee, prominent in- bers of the general committes of the Feder ation and heads of groups of mille. The committee considered a schame to form a cotton control board, which it is proposed will
include representatives of spinners and manufacturer organisations and operatives, but not cotton merchants" or brokers. Deputations from the committen met heads of the Board of Trade. It i slated there has been a case for Govern- ment intervention to save the trade from distater. The factor causing spinners. who in the past strongly opped control to support the new body is that they were constantly being underest in the market by threepence or fourpence to the pound.
INCIDENT ON COTTON EXCHANGE."
LONDON, October and. Tens of thousands of pounds have been fost by cotton operators on the Manchester, Exchange through the breakdown of s mechanical price recorder showing the movement of prices at Liverpool. Hun- dreds of traders were awaiting the con dition report on the American cotton crop but the machina did not indicate sny drop in Liverpool prices when the same was received.
Cotton at one time, was 50 points higher on Manchester than on Jalgor -pool and 100 above Now Yark. There was tremendous excitement and activity when the breakdown was discovered.
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