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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Era, 1923.
LATEST CABLES. FAMOUS NAVAL CONSTRUC- TOR" RESIGNING,
Sir E. H. Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, K.CE, BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION | F.R.S, D.SË., retires from the Admiralty "FEELINGS RUNNING HIGH.". at the end of the year and rejoins Arm-
strong Whitworth's
LONDON, December 3rd. The closing stages of the election cam 'paign are fast and furious Feelings are running high. Several candidates, including Lady Terrington and Sir George Norris issued writs for alleged libel, one against 21 newspaper, the other against the chair- man of the lowal Conservative association.
Rowdyism continues. It was rumoured that at (lasgow some candidates are re Eaining the services of pugilists as body, gunnls à loghit, in North Batterson." has been placed under police protection,
consequent on threats upon his life by
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LLOYDS QUOTATIONS.
[Sir Tennyson d'Eyncourt has been Director of Naval Construction at the Admiralty since 1919. He served his time at Elswick, and subsequently went to Fairfield as Naval Architect, but three or four years later returned to Elwich as Naval Architect and remains for ten years when he left to take the high office under the Admiralty that he has filled for the past eleven years.]
SMUGGLING ON US CANADAN
BORDER.
GOVERNMENTS WILL ARRANGE TO “ÉXCHANGE, INFORMATION."
WASHINGTON, Decesther 3rd.
SHEFFIELD COAL-MINE
SEVEN
DISASTER
KILLED; - THIRTY
INJURED.
SIX
Lospos, December 3rd, It is reported that forty men havo biện killed in the Nunnery salpit, at Shetheki. Tubs containing 178 men were hurka to the bottom of the pit-haft owing to a rope! breaking Ambulances and doctors have hen rushed to the pithend, where there is a large crowd. Hitherto two men have been rescued, seriously injur.d.'!
A train of twenty to thirty tubs, rach containing about four men, was being
drawn up the inclined road conveying tho meu from the pit bottom to work when thế rope snapped, and the train dashed back
at terrific speed for several hundred yards
The men had no chailce to jump cha The State Department agy that the fan-tube and passengers were hurled to United States and Canada will shortly gether with terrific force. His bodies have arrange to exchange information regard-hitherto been brought up, some unrecogn- Forecasts of the final results varying sinuggling liquor from Canada to the isable. A dozen men have been seat to Lloyds yesterday quoted Ave guineas per Upited States and the smuggling of bospital. cent against the victory of the Labour narcotics, silks and other merchandise › Party; fifty against a Liberal majority : | into Canada,
andh, eighty-five against a Conservative, Government with a working majority. "
CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES
STONED.
The Marquis of Hartington, a Con. servative candidate who was in a motor- ear along with Colonel Spender Clay,
Treaty arrangements will be necessary.
EARLIER CABLES. DEADLOCK IN US. CONGRESS OPENING PROCEEDINGS' DELAYED.
WASHINGTON, November 3rd. Congress opened at midday, and has to
LATER
FAR EASTERN CABLE AMERICA “READY TO HELP
ATTITUDE TO WORLD PROBLEMS.
NEWS.
of their money, borrowed by their Govern- ment and then loaned by their Government. were still being used. to maintain greater armies than ever before existed, for pur The Prime Minister was among those posea surely of no concern to the Unite present at the Pilgrims' farewell dinner States what then? Had the United THE POWERS INTIMATION TO to the American Ambassador, beld at the States not at least tried to help to win the Hotel Victoria, Northumberland-arenus,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.}
SUN YAT BEN,
on October 23rd. Lord Desborough, chait Peace, as the rather absurd popular phrase HANDS OFF MARITIME CUSTOMS man to the Executivo Committee of the re, as once upon a time they tried to help
to win the war? He thought so. Pilgrims, proxided.
REVENUES.
PERING, December 4th. Following Sun Yat Sen's threats' some weeks ago, the Diplomatic Dody has caused an unofficial intimation to be conveyed to him that the Powers will not permit any interference on his part with the Kwangtung revenues from the Maritime
Customs,
It will be remembered that, in 1919-100 the
question arose
of returning the
Kungtung portion of the customs re us based on thirteen-seventeenth per accumulated surplus, "The state of warfare between Péking nail Canton had they ceased. All foreign obligations having been fully met, it was held to be à matter, for arrangement between the The Nunnery disaster is less serious than Central Government and Kwangtung. was previously anticipated. Rescue work The atplus in those years was large has been completed, and all the bodies owing to the price of silver, but it was shave_boot_recovered except two which 200 duly out of the actual surplus that the literally cut in half. The final list of allocation was made. One of the argu- ensualties: gives were killed at 36 in ment-used then was that such an alloca- jured.
tion would aid in bringing about re- unification. Time is held to have taken
SENTENCE REMITTED.
Conservative candidate for Tanbridge, face in almost unparalleled situation NEW YORK FINANCIAL COMPTROL the force out of that argument.
was leaving a meeting last night when owing to the conflicting aims of different the car-was stoned and the windows groups. The progressive bloc, which
ninahed"
Mr. O. F. White. Liberal Candidate for Western Derbyshire, died this morning.
LER GRANTED EXECUTIVE
„OLEGIENCE
|
it
TWO OUTSTANDING EYEXTS.
A year ago (fr. Harvey went on) it was an apparently universal opinion in
Mr. Baldwin, in proposing the toast Europe that the crux of a settlement hy in determination of the amount of of "The American Ambasador" said: Englishman more than this and we feel but that the sum could not be fired I do not think anything strikes aeparations that Germany could really pay, when we look down the list of Ministers because of contentious of interest.d parties. and Ambassaders from America that Only an unbiased and unconcerned, yet America has always sent to us of her competent; authority could ascertain al best. (Cheers.) We have learnt to look certify to common satisfaction the pro- to America for men of exceptional qualities ducible and collectable compensation. and wo hare berer been disappointed. The United States filled the bill. The United States was disinterested, because |(Cheers.) Me' Harvey, the last name.
the United States had waived all reparation on that list of distinguished men, has been among us for only about two and claims upon Germany for the joint
■ half years, but during that timis it secount of the Allies. Clearly, a moral has fallen te his lot to be associated obligation rested upon the United States with two create the Washington Cou to act. Such was the opinion, such the ference and the settlement of the American judgment, put upon us from all, o nearly debt by England that, I think, will all quarters of the globe. leave a mark behind. (Cheers.)
HE, HARVEY'S REPLY.
With what result? Very reluctantly, aleven months ago, Secretary Hughes want as far as diplomatic usage permits, and, The American Ambasador, in reply, without even requiring a formal request recalled his firat speech to the Pilgrims two from any Power, offered to provids and a half years ago and said that since that American adjudication. If you know the evening much water had splashed over the United States as I know it, you would dam, and, in the mutual interest of their realize that that was "a somsawhat" brave two countries at least, he was happy to be thing to do. Well, Mr. Hugher did it; leve, much good had been accomplished. he did it publicly America came to the (Cheers.)
door of Europe, and lo and behold, the We can most easily reckon [he continued] door was cload The United States was the approximate total by visualizing con-not wanted. What could the United changes had transpired in the meantime. nation have done? The United States ditions as they would appear to-day if no States do?. What could say self-rape ting
Suppose, for example, that in addition to want home.
AMERICA WILLING TO COME IN."› the troubles now besetting there hovered
Conditions above us the clouds of the Anglo-Japanese
on the Continent · "have Alliance, which, having served its original changed somewhat during the eleven mon- The situation is firm and clear and Sun Purpose, had become an actual menace to the that have elapsed, but there is no the peace of three great nations; of the material difference in the fundamental Fat: Sen will be faced with a serious situs-] constant and ever increasing peril of situation. The need of a financial plan to WASHINGTON. December 3rd,
tion if he attempts to carry out his threat possible, even though accidental clashes on prerent economie disaster in Europe i
the Pacific Ocean; of the multiplying, from obviously no less imperative, and it is quite President Coolidge has grante "execu-HIGH POWER WIRELESS STATION necessity of self-protection, of naval within the range of possibility that the armaments to a degree never before preparation of such a plan has bean tive clemency" to Comptroller Craig, the
imagined; of growing distrust, rapidly rendered more feasible by the abanden- chief financial officer of New York City ANNOUNCEMENT BY com-
MANAGING Pproaching resantinent, concerning the ment of resistance by the Government. If financial relationship of Great Britain and so, while Secretary Hughes gave no option. who was sentenced to two months' imprison.
DIRECTOR OF MARCONI'S, the United States; and finally, perhaps in perpetuity, and could hardly renew his ment for contempt of court. A remission
most disheartening of all, the seemingly proffer without, seeming to be intrusive, of the sentence has been granted on the
LONDON December 3rd. unending, centuries-old problem in Ireland, there need be no question of my Govern- At a meeting of Marconi's Wireless whose satisfactory solution had become ment's entire willingens to take part in wommendation of the Secretary "fer
between England and America, How anggested, if requested to do so by all of Justice The President said the decision Telegraph Co., Ltd. Mr. Godfrey C. absolutely essential to faith and friendship such an economic conference as he originally was solely due to the public necessity of Isaacs (Managing Director) referring to vastly more desperate, if not indeed the Allies chiefly concerned in German positively hopeless, would be the outlook reparations. That in to say, in few words, keeping Mr. Craig in his post as comp the high-power station at Peking, an- here in your country, there in mine, and that under President Coolidge, as noder troller. He condemned the Comptroller's nounced that, consistently with what had everywhere throughout the world, if these President Harding, the United States stands conduct in cricing the Federal Courts been agreed on at the Washington Con-Portents of disaster of only three years ago quite ready to help in any practicable way still blurred the skies of to-day. Happily to promote recuperation, feilungadat "the there, hartadereratz at least, is cleared. world. We are willing to “come in," ka These things did not merely happen, the saying is, as soon as we are asked, but They were done by men. And out of the surely we cannot be expected to smash in door. No; the Monroe Doctrina doing sprang perhaps the greatest of the blessings in the establishment of a faithful forbids. relationship between all English-speaking AUSTRALIAN DEDT TO BRITAIN, peoples such as ina unati existesk in many
claims to wield the balance of power, is Colonel Spender Clay was severely prepared to fight determinedly for the wounded in the hind.
enactment of its own programe, which DEATH OF A LIBERAL CANDIDATE. includes the reorganisation of
LONDON, December 3rd.
mittees. . : Disagreements on this point may delay the opening of proceedings. WASHINGTON. November 3rd. In the House of Representatives the MIL. LLOYD GEORGE'S OPTIMISM. Progressive blog will make good its threat to create a deadlock over the election of the Speaker. No candidate has received the necessary majority over all others in the first ballot.
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·Loados, 'Deeruber 3rd.
In the course of a speech at Cambridge railway station while en route to Norwich Mr. Lloyd George declared that, whatever the result of the elections Liberalism
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WASHINGTON, November "Bed After four ballots, none of which re would win such a triumph is bed not been sulted in the election of a Speaker, the
Houso adjourned until to-morrow.
“KINO ALBONGOS VICIT
TO ITALY.
NOTHING MYSTERIOUS IN ITS PURPOSE.
won for many
2 day. BOWIHES DISTURB MR. CHUR CHILL'S MEETING. Therr wera remarkable scenes 11. Д meeting addressed by Mr. Winston Chur- chill at Finbury Park Empire Theatre this afternoon..
LONDON, December 3rd. The Spanish Embassy in London, in A crowd of rowdies tried to prevent him view of the interpretation placed on the speaking, and their boos competed visit of Their Spanish Majesties, draws attention to the statement of Primo de with the cheers of his supportéri fur Rivera that there is nothing mysterious several minutes. Eventually, Mr. Chur in the purpose of the visit. The Spanish policy is perfectly clear. The consolida chill obtained a hearing, but he was con- tian of the Hispano-Italian bonds will stantly interrupted. Mr. Churchill develop the renomic connections and in- fluence in Latin America and will "bukul his interruplers by declaring that diminish the cause of Hispano-Italian they wore striking at the foundation of competition in the Mediterranean. We are only thinking of peaceful defence. Neither France nor Great Britain has any motives for alarm."
democracy.
PARTY FORECASTS. With the election campaign in its last stage, the party experts are indulging in forecasts, including anopposed returns, ps follows:-
A referane by Mr. Churchill to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald evoked opposition cheers and grin of **Good old Mac¡ '| andUp. Rebels ! **
LATEL Mr. Churchill's London tour continues to be characterised by lively beckling, The Conservative estimate 339 Conser- especially on the subject of the Darvatives, 187 Liberals, and 120 Labour and
six others.
The Libernis estimate 248 Conservatives," 240 Liberals, and 120 Labour and seven others.
The Labourites estimate 310 Conserva
others.
danelles, but the speaker's neat sallies triumphed at Shepherd's Bush and Walth amstow, notably at the latter, where the
ters.
audience threatened to eject the interruptives, 139 Liberals, 160 Labour and six "The wide divergenes in the Conservative and Liberal estimates is due H difference of opinion with regard to the outcome of 275 three-cornered contests.
LABOUR'S CAPITAL LEVY. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, speaking at Aberavon, denied that his willingness to
leave the working out of the capital levy to Treasury officials was a weakening of his opinion. He pointed out that the Bianchester Liberal, Conference approved the principle of the lovy in 1919.
MINISTER'S FINAL
PRIME
SPEECH.
Mr. Baldwin, in the course of the final speech in his national campaign, at Liver pool, where he received: sa" enthusiastic reception, stated that the real fight in the elections is between Liberals and Labour.
The Prime Minister said he felt con vinced that if the Labour party did not exist, the majority of Labour voters would rather vote for a change in the fiscal policy than for: a wait and see policy If I get a mandato from the country, I mean to carry it out to the full."
Mr. Baldwin is speaking to an audience of 8,000 to-night at Derby, and Lord Birkenhead is addressing a great meeting
Except among the Conservatise optim. labs, the consensus of opinion is that therd will be a Conservative majority, the only question being whether it will be sufficient to carry out the policy of Protection.
MR. ASQUITH'S CONFIDENCE. Mr. Asquith, in the coure of a speech at the Glasgow Liberal Club. denounced the election rowdisap. He said he felt sure that it was repuguant to the Labour lead. er While he would not hazard any con icture with regard to the precise com position of the new House of Commons he felt reasonably confident that Mr. Bald. win would act ger a majority adequate to dethrone fwe trade in Great Britain. (Cheers.)
days will strive to win alight alvantage, All the parties during the next three which may mean so much. ·The centre of gravity remains in this industrial North, particularly Lancashire, where the Union ists are intensifying their efforts. TRUSTS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED.
LONDON, November 3rd,
יין
The Cabinet members, Sir Samuel-
in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester Hoare and Sir P. Lloyd Greamer, speak while Mr. Lloyd Georga is making a raiding at Chelsen and Hull respectively, Eas Anglia, where the Liberals hope stated that the Government had decided to win soms of the agricultural, seats from that if combines were formeil as a result the Conservatives, maga
of the tariff, they would remove the tariff and proceed against such trusts.
(Continued of foot of next column.)..
AT PEKING.
INTER VARSITY - SPORTS.-Imperial wireless OXFORD DEFEAT. CAMBRIDGE BY
FOUR EVENTS TO ONE.
LONDON, December 3rd. In the Inter-Varsity relay race at Ox- ford, Cambridge ware beaten by Oxford by
four events to one.
PASS.
THE MONEOR DOUTRINE.
of New York. The President's aetion has ference, the company had invited this removed what promised to deep times we were interested: 18-join national political Louet Certain political them in this Chinese enterprise. The lenders of both parties had sharply companies had agreed, subject to satis it of the sentence factory arrangements being made and the passed on: Mr. Craig, who refused to
adjustment of details
years more than a century. I doubt if Mr. Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia," recant his statements, made four years ago,
Mr. Iannes stated the company was con-anyons here fully comprehends the in proposing "The Chairman," said that reaceting on Judge Mayer's handling of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit receivership, fident that it would soon be able to magnitude of the change in the attitude of Australia was a young nation, and perhaps the people of my country towards the foreign policy did not altogether come which Mr. Craig alleged was seriously announce the completion of the agree-people of yours that has taken place in the within the ambit of her present activity. ment with the Fost Office with regard to past few years. I confess that I did not but if she had foreign policy, it was the prejudicial to the city's interest.
until I went home last summer. But them policy represented by the Pilgrims that from all sections-and-all sources there of an ever closer association between the poured in upon me evidences that con- great English-speaking nations of the stituted a veritable revelation.
World. · ·(Cheers.). In Australia they were glad that the Washington Conference had P. AND O. ANNUAL BEPORT.
taken place; and he thought it was the THE DIVIDEND.
Mr. Harvey said that the United States only thing that could bare compensated had a national policy with respect to for them for having lost the alliance with LONDON, December 3rd.eign relations, à distinct and clearly defined their courageous and ever faithful ally The track was in bad condition, but the
The manual report of the Peninsular policy, from which there had been no Japan. (Cheers)
The Prime Minister had referred to deviation in a century of time. It was Oxonians, who include, five Americans ran brilliantly. They won the half mile in and Oriental Steam Navigation Company promulgated just one hundred years ago the American debt, and they could see 1.31 and one fifth, an Inter-vardity record, the mile in 3.97 and one fifi, atherows that after providing for, deprecia come December 2nd when the event would from his remarks that he was proud that be duly celebrated throughout the lengib Britain had stood up to ber obligations. Inter Varsity record, the four miles in tion and adding £105,000 to the Insurance and breadth of the United States. It was In that matter the Prime Minister 19.14 and four fifths, and the 450 y Find, making it £1,200,000. there is a not, technically and precisely speaking, a really got his inspiration from Australia hurdles in 17 and two fifths, Cambridge
credit balance of £517,000 on the year's national policy. It was an American (Taughter and cheers.) Australia, of all won the two miles in 9.6 and two fifths.
to the countries in the world, stepped in principle. They were accustomed accounts, including £101.000 brought for refer to it as doctrine-the Monrue first; they came to Britain, to bom THE INDIAN FRONTIER
was really a dictum, they had incurred debt, and fer funded ward. A dividend of five per cent. is Doctrine; it OUTRAGE..
the only dietam ever declared by a it and made an arrangement iimilar to declared on the preferred shares and President of the United States without the arrangement with Amerig. The only CAR FIRED ON WHILE ENTERING twelve per cent, on the deferred, tax free, legislative sanction, which possessed real distinction" was that. Britain did not the full authority of fundamental and give them nearly as good terms na A sup of £183,000 is placed to reserve international law. The Constitution was America gare to Britain.(Laughter.) Dai, December ard. Particulars of the murder of Major for the redemption of the 5 per cent. the chart, and the dictam was the com- Possibly that was not an inappropriate pass of their Declaration of Independence occasion for him to suggest to the British II.E. Finnis show that he was motoring debentures, £10,000 is added to the pro-The three comprised a matchless whole in Government, on behalf of the Australian towards Manikhwa to attend a meeting but owing to a mistake the Zhob levy vident fund, and £101,000 is carried for the development of modern civilization people, that Britain, having made such resembling the trilogies of antiquity, a satisfactory arrangement with America, corps was not ordered to guard the dan ward.
The Monroe doctrine comprised two would not be acting altogether un Berous spots in the Haxiuband Pass, where
made the same several tribal limits meet. The car was
A cen- arrangement with them. (Laughter und fired on as it entered the pass, and Majer
distinct pledges, of which each was the generously if she essential corollary of the other. Finnis and the driver were instantanenly
tury ago, and for long thereafter, probable cheers.) for the Indian mail services e
encroachment by Európe was a menace shot,
[Six per cent. on the deferred shares to America; the United States, with a total population of barely ten millions, was paid as an interim dividend in May, The distribution on deferred stock is the boldly forbade it., To-day the probability The Rev. Grifith Thours, Vicar of Mor- same as that paid for the two preceding of interference had ceased to be even riston, and formerly Vicar of St. David's. possibility, in the face of an invincible Carmarthen, who wae stalled Canon of hundred millions. But the United Brecon Cathedral on October 18th, starteil carpenter's bench when he was U.S. AERIAL EXPEDITION TO States had not changed. They kept their
years of age. He worked as a carpen promises. They would not impose their NORTH POLE
will upon Europe. or upon any part of ter until the day he sat for this matricula
tion examination, as Lampeter College, Europe. And they would not now owhere ha took his homtiate of divinity, hereafter." participate in the political after a two years course at the top of his brails of Europe. Let that be under class. He sent in the host Cirock paper in stood. The Monroe Doctrine was no less the final examination that had been written, sacred in their eyes now when they were rich at Lampeter for years, and was complimen; and powerful than when they were poor ted by the Oxford examiners, and weak. It continued to bo, in all its phases, the cornerstone of their national
Assessing the earthquake damage in and Japan, the Swiss Bank Corporation puta policy, and must be recognized accepted as such in all international it at £187,000,000, which, if added to the transactions.
public debt of £383,000,000, still leaves Was it a harsh doctrine? Was it Japan favourshly placed. The monthly. narrow, ungenerous, or mean? As one bulletin of the Corporation points out weighed in the balance the considers that up to the present the Japanese tions which soomed to be actuating colonies have cost the State considerably European Powers, the position of the more than they have brought in, and that United States, is a relative sense, at a large amount of capital in still neces any rate, could hardly bo pronounced inde hand, they are likely to be very useful to sary for their development. On the other fensible. But Ignore all that. Wholly Japan during the period of reconstruc disregard the irrefutable fact that billions tion.
MOTOR CAR ACCIDENTS. OVER ELEVEN THOUSAND DEATHS IN AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, December 3rd. There were 11,066 death from motor car accidents in the United States last year, an increase of 1,198 compared with the previous year
Los Angeles ha the highest death rate. 29 decimal 5, and New York's was 16 decimal
3.
The report mentions that Messrs. Harland and Wolf and Hawthorn and Lesli neo building four fast steamers, each of sixteen thousand tour, specially
years.]
WASHINGTON, December 3rd.
The Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Dealy has announced that doünite plans have hoen drawn up for a naval aerial expedi tion to the North Lelo ziext summer.
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U.S. OFFICIAL CHARGED.
INDIANAPOLIS, December 3rd. Governor McCray has been served with warrants for his appearance to answer AMERICA'S HUGE DIRIGIBLE MAY eight indictments for forgery and embezzle ment His friends have furnished twenty- five thousand dollars bail.
OUTRAGE
Lopes, December 3rd. A septuagenarian farmer named Bren. nan was shot dead and his nophow danger- ously wounded during an aray at Grange, Co. Sligo A number of arrests have been made.
BE USED.
WASHINGTON, December 3rd. The Board of Officers who will study the problems of the Polar expedition will meet inmediately. It has not yet been decided whether the great rigid dirigible Shenandoab" will be used, or heavier than air craft, pr. both,
The route and date of departure" have not yet been detertained.
WORKSHOP TO CANON'S "STALL.
work at a 12