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HOME MINING WAGES.
PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT,
LosDay, May 13th.
A conference of representatives of coal owners and tumners in needriance with the recommendation of the recent court It is announced that the British Empire of enquiry has resulted in an agreement, Corporation has contracted to supply-to-day on the subject of wages, on tormi 1,900,000 tons of ime-ore to German | to be submitted to the men a deleri buyers within the next six months. conference on May 28th. Twenty large steamers will be required for the conveyance of the ore. SURPLUS WAR MATERIALS, BRITAIN NEITHER BUYING NOR "SELLING.
Losbox, May 15th...
The British Government has declined to request the Lithuanian Government or other Baltic interests to sell them surplus war material.
The Cabinet is resolved not to sell such material to foreign countries.
THE DETAINED FARMER. ECHO OF MENTAL HOME CASE
LONDOS, May 16th
The Court of Appeal has given judg went in the Harnett case, allowing Adams appeal and entering judgment for him with costs ordering.
The wala provisions of the proposed agreement allew for standard profits to consist of fifteen per cent of the star dard wages, instead of seventeen per cent, asat present. The wiiniuum rate- of wages has been increased to thirty three and a third per cent. The division of the surplas profits is to be 88 per cent to wages und 19 percent. to profits, respectively. No zhle-bodied adults wages are to fall below forty per cent of the lowest paid class of day wage workmen in the particular district.
POINCARE'S FAITH IN THE EXPERTS..
CHEQUERS VISIT DEFINITELY OFF.
PARIS, 3iny 18th.
FRENCH AIRMAN PROMOTED. CAPTAINCT FOR DOISY.
Paris, May 13th.
The Minister of War has entered the name of Lieutenant Feiletier Dovay with a view to promotion to the rank of Captain, and Serjeant Bein, to the rank of Knight of the Legion D'Honneur.
BRITISH PLANE FOR PORTOQUESE.
a
-LISBON, May 15th A message from Karachi aay the Por guess airmen hope to resums their fight on May gend, in an aeroplane which the British A.F. has placed at their dis posal.
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U.S. MILITARY BONUS....
WASHINGTON, May 15th
AHEAD OF THE MAIL.
FROM INDIAN PAPERS
GERTIE MILLAR WEDS A PEER.
LONDON, April 30th
1921
THE FOUR BIRTHDAYS. CHRISTIAN GENERAL'S PROTEST AGAINST. WASTE.
"AN IMPASSIONED. APFEUG
PEKive, May 6th General Feng Yu-hsiang took eegnsion Lord Belle and fra Lionel Munck on the suggestion of General Hauch ton, better known as Gertie Millar, wero married at the British Cosulate at Paris Tze-heng. Superintendent of the Peking The Church and Consulates were deco Police, that he join in the birthday cele rated with white flowers and the Churchbrations of Premier Sun Pao-chi, Wang Service was fully charal, Mendelssobu a Huntching, Chief of the deegunting. De Wedding March being played as the bride partient of the President's Office and and bridegroom-descended the aisle -
The large congregation included Lord
Dudley's twin sons.
Lord Dudley had a enmelis in his button-hole and was very cheerful. His best man way Major Dudley Gilroy.
19.
the Manchu - Prince Flsun, to assert his
opposition to the squandering of a large am of money at a time when conditions. in Chins are so serious and disruption ad piverty atures in on the (lovezanical from all sides.
THE, INFORMER. SINGAPORE JUDGE INSISTS ON:
HIS EVIDENCE
THE POLICE "OBJECT, AND WITH -DRAW SA CHARGE,
At the Singapore Assizes; last week, the samencement of a case in which Chinese was charged with being possession of a large quantity of forged 85 notes, the Chief Justice called the Attention of the Deputy Public Prosecu tor to the fact that a witness whom the accused wanted to call had apparently been kept away by the police
"Alf Whiting: He is an informer, my m His Lordship. He is an informer, ba Lord. he is the most important witness in the case. The accused desires to call him, and I think be ought to be called "V"
Mr. Whitley said that the police had refused to give the address of the in- former
Addressing General Hauch, The Chris tian Cieneral writes as follows a in receipt of your latter regarding the joint celebration for the birthdays of His Lordship: You need not give tho Premier Sun, General Wang. Mr. Li and name of an informer unless it is neces Prince Haun, in which it is suggested that Sary for the purpose of the defence. The I take part in order to promote good informer in this case is the most import friendship. I should follow your good unt witness. I rule that this man most intentions but Premier Sun wont to the be called
The bride was dressed in grey, had ornaments of pearls and orchids, and was accompanied by Lady Honor Bridgement Lord Dudley's eldest daughter, and André Messager, the composer..^___^
The ceremony at the Consulate lasted two minutes, and was most informal, amid quint pots and Indders, as the Con- sulate is being redecorated
Westera Hills to avoid a celebration of Mr. Whitley said the informer only The religious ceremony was subse his bit day by his friends, thereby clear took part in the case on the distinct Present Coolidge has record the Soldiquently held in a neighbouring Church.ly showing that he did not like the idea understanding that he would not be of his friends spending their money in called. If His Lordship supported the cr Bonus Bil
The honeymoon will be on the Riviera, that way. I personally took a small gt accused's application, he air. Whitley) The advocates of the bonus have. anand it is understood that the couple pro
to Premier Sun's home in order to offer would have to withdraw the charge, pose to live chiefy at Le Touquet in ugunend an attempt to pass the Bill over future.
iny congratulations and as feveral Wang His Lordship said that a mere informer Huai-ching's birthday was celebrated in was different matter, but this was the most important witness in the cases, the President's veto.
a simple manner at his home, I wrote The accused had tried to subpoena him LATER
RELPAST-LIVERFOOL AIR SERVICE pair of scrolls myself and offered him but he had apparently heed kept our of congratulations in person When the The House of Representatives will vote
birthdays of Me. Li and Prince Hsun the way on May 17th on the question of passing
LONDON. April 30th.". come, I will do the situe with them. Mr Whitley anid the Soldiers' Bonus: Bill over, tha veto,
The Belfast-Liverpool air mail service Therefore, your suggestion that I should applied to the police for the address of NOT IN THE FAMILY, opened to-day, the Lord Mayor, and the join the celebration of these four gentle the informer, and the police refused to High Sheriff of Belfast and Sefton men's birthdays when a theatrical per give it, contending that it had been given agreeable to me,Please
to them in confidence This is the first unsubsidised inland; my expressing my humble view on this air, service organised to a definite time subject. schedule for commercial transport, on guarantees from the commercial commu- nity.
M. Poincare in a long private and cardial letter to My. MacDonald express od the costs of the appar granny regret that he is unable to proceed to NON-IN-LAW DECLINES TAMMANY Brancker being the passengerne formance and the like will be arranged,
ed
the Chequers as arranged, expresses the
opinion that an Allied agreement ik per fectly capable of being realised on the basis of the Experts' plan.
costs of the heat trial are to abide by the result of the rehearing with certain limitations
flo February, last a proposal was made that the Government should appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the lunacy laws, as the result of a lawsuit in which a farmer named Harnett was awarded a total of £33,500 damages against two doctora, Mr. Bond, Commis- sien in lunaey, 'and a man named Adam who had a home for mental case.
Harnet was detained in asylums for over eight years, but escaped in 1021, when specialists certified him same. The jury found that he was sane when he was detaimed in 1912 and that reason.
able care had not been exerciséd.).
HOME BUILDING TRADE DISPUTE.
"EMPLOYERS' OFFER.
."
LONDON, May 15th. The building trade operatives and executives have decided to submit to a ballot embodying the new terms offered
INTERNATIONAL EMIGRA-
TION.
CONFERENCE IN ROME
Rova, May 15th.
On the opening of the international emigration conference, in the presence of the King, Cabinet Ministers, and diplo matic representatives, Mussolini welcomed the delegates from fifty-nine States atten- ding, and laid stress on the necessity for safeguarding interests and on the point that laws for the protection of emigrants should insure principles of humanity and justice
A "BIG" "BANGA
LEADERSHIP.
New YoRx, May 15th. r. Foley has declined the Tammany leadership on grounds of health.
[Mr. Foley is the son-in-law of the late Charles Murphy, the former lender of Tammany Hnil]
NOT OVERPAID.
FIVE HOURS: 20 CENTS.
A Norwegian marine engineer named Andras Walla, 21, appeared before Mr. it. E Lindsell at the Central Magis tracy yesterday on a charge of refusing to pay his legal ricksha fare and with assaulting an Indian constable.
According to evidence it appeared that from 10.30 p.m. to 3 o'clock in the mora ing the defendant kept "a rieksha in
EXPERIMENTS IN SOUND" WAVES attendance whilst he went into the
PARIS, May 15th
Hongkong Hotel King Edward Hotel and various places in the Wanchai dis- Ten tons of metinite exploded at La trict: When he finally got to Blake Pier, Courtine at 7.3 p.m. and provided a high disregarded the coolie's demands for bang for which listening posts on the ricksha bire and was proceeding, to buy
́s ticket on a motor boat to return to
FINANCIAL STEINGENCY. Financial stringency" "exists" every- where and there is suffering: among the The aeroplanes are timed to do the ommon people." The troops and police are starving because they are unpaid, while journey in 24 hours.
the schools lacking funds free strikes If there is any money available, it seems NGLISHMAN'S JOURNEY THROUGH to me that it should he properly utilized.
RUSSIA,
"Lostos. April 30th, Sir Percy-Loraine, British Minister at Teheran, has arrived in London.. this being the first occasion on which a He journeyed home through Russin, an official has traversed Russia since the war. He was amicably received every
where.
SHIPBUILDING CONCERN IN
BARCELONA
LONDON, "April 30th. Madrid. nes shipbuilding company
A theatrical performance and feast would require the futile expenditure of thou sands of dollars penditure of
--process-server
A BREACH OF FAITH." His Lordship said that the polico wera. not entitled to keep the principal wit ness in the case out of the way. Where an informer was a necessary witness his name had to be given.
fr. Whitley said that in a large num ber of cases, where a man was found as the result of action by an informer, ex- actly the sanie argument would apply.
His Lordship replied that in many. cases the informer ought to be called, but in this case peeused desired him to ho called, and rested his defence upon his evidence.
Recently rain has been scarce in the
Mr. Whitley: The accused persons Metropolitan District and the wheat and other crops are dying, so that a spring in these cases are very anxious to find famine is likely Sun, Wang, Li and out who the informers are, and I submit Haun in their various oilices are working that where there is other independent day and sight, planning measures to re- evidence to establish the case the pres lieve conditions which might be caused by cution need not give the informer's a famine and they abould not allow us to name spend money foolishly on them. Mo. His Lordship Why should the no- Political conditions in the country are cased not be allowed to call the man whos disturbed. The situation in the Three was the prime mover in the whole thing T Mr. Whitley: In nearly every case Eastern Provinces, in the Bouth-western provinces, in Canton, Yunnan, and Kuei- the informer is bound to be the mana chow, cannot be foreseen and while this who knows most about the case. political upheaval goes on throughout the His Lordship said he would insist on country, people are suffering. We in high the informer being called, and he woul since we cannot share the great sorrow subpoenaed.
by employers with a recommendation in ground and in the air had been established his ship. The coolie got an Indian con has been founded in Barcelona under the office, are the servants of the people, and reserve the case for this witness to Ex
vour of their acceptance. The offer is in most countries in Europe, with the table to intercede for him aud: Walk auspices of - Krupps, entitled the NAW } with the President, and we are not able Mr. Whitler: It would be a breach of
an insedinte increase of ose halfpenny per hour until the statutory revision next January, when the employers are will- ing to stabilize wages at 15. 8d. per hour in Grade A towns, with subsequent reductions of one halfpenny per hour for every drop of eleven points in the cost of living index figure...
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"BRITISH. SUBJECTS' CLAIMS.
TRADE BAIT"
LONDON, May 13th.
Hader
object of studying the behaviour of sound wave
is alleged to have then struck the com The experiment, tional auspices, is a continuation of the
official, interna-stable and knocked off his turban,
The defendant, in reply to the Magia test made is Oldebroeck, in Holland, in trate said I did not want the coolie 1929. Similar explosions have beru to wait." arranged for Friday and Saturday,
THE WORLD'S SPORT.
HOME CRICKET.
LONDON, May 15th COUNTY MATCHES,
The Magistrate: Why then did you not let him go? If you did not pay him he would naturally wait.
The defendant; I paid him 20 cents. The Magistrate: Twenty cents for five hours
Defendant went on to say that it was from the Seamen's Institute that he Kent at Gravesend beat Northampton first engaged the ricksha. It took bim by twenty-seven runs. Kent stored 206, straight to Blake Pier and he paid what Wells taking 4 for 25, and in their second he considered the right fake-twenty innings 67, Wells taking 4 for 20.North-cents.
The Magistrate: It is no use your whole time. I don't believe you.
Defendant was fined $10 for the assault and ordered to pay the ricksha coolie 82
Ticion of Levant. Its capital is fully sub- scribed, and no shares are being offered to the public.
If-conditions allow the company will build warships and locomotives, besides merchantment."
MEDICAL AFFOINTMENTS...
VIEWS ON HUBBER RESTRICTION.
to relieve the sufferings of our people, we faith on the part of the police, haring must put our hands to our hearts, feeling obtained this information under a dis they are our own responsibility. Even tinct promise, if they were to expose while we are practicing economy. and this man to very painful possibilities. promoting diligence. I fear that it will not These coining gangs are very powerful. save the critical situation hy a thousandth organisations and unfortunate things part
happen to witnesses. I cannot take ther offering congratulations; with | responsibility of exposing this man th feasts, aur hearts must be reverent and such danger respectful to those whose birthday it is, Mr. Whitley, after consulting with the Logos, April 30th: and if we are not respectful in our hearts, police officers, withdrew the case, and The Anglo-Indian Association in Lon- even though the celebration magnificent the accused was discharged.
which is intended only please the guests, don has memorialised Lord Olivier re- I am sure it will sudden the hearts of the garding the enforced retirement of a large number of Assistant Surg ons in one being honoured. If our hearts are the Indian Medical Department and the sincere, respectful and reverent, even
are-offered. denial of appointments to students who small gifts will please those to whom they My army had not been paid før aver It is stated that these drastic steps ten months and it is practically impos It bas are not so much due to reductions in the sible to follow your suggestion British Army as to the introduction of become the habit of celebrating birthdays expansion in the RAM.C. rank and in a very extravagant manner, and unless file in fedia as a post was measurese alter the custom, it will grow worte Gentlemen, Great are the blessings wa Lord Olivier is prayed to order the and degeneration is bound to follow. It enjoy under restriction, which he an early appointment of a representative ruins everyone both in money and time daubtedly saved many companies and is committee to report on the grievances You are a righteous man and I dare speak dividuals from ruta; but how long will of the department, which is a reserved my feelings to you Peking, our national, those blessings last! How long will we capital, is carefully watched by Chinese be able to control the market? In and foreigners alike and we should pracSumatra there is an enormous increase tice economy and simplicity of manner of native produced rubber, quite apare which is my aim and idea of which I am from smuggled rubber which is put down constantly thinking and praying day and to that count. Do you suppose the Faight-Chung Mat
plenary meeting of the Anglo-Soviet còn- ference the British excluded from the 153, Freeman taking for 12 and
Woolley 5 for, 14. scope of the conference the peace treaties Sussex defeated Gloucestershire at Bris- to which other countries were co-signa-tal by an innings and sixteen runs. For
A communique states that nt to-day'sants compiled 193, and in the second in telling lies. You had his rickaha the have duly passed for the department.
tories without consulting the latter..
Ruskin
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SATISFACTORY NEGOTIATIONS.
- Losnoy, May 16th:
TWO CENTURIES...
the
second
"TEST" OF: HONESTY. AFRENCH METHOD
subject under the Reforms.
"PLIGHT OT BRITISH
MAGRICULTURE.
A CHINESE MARRIAGE
FRAUDA CONSPIRACY TO. PROCURE". ENGAGEMENT MONEY.”
THE MENACE IN SUMATRA.
At the third armual general meeting of The Prang Besar Estate, Ltd., Mr. Un Gough (in the chair) said
Sussex, Cox compiled Ta Tate in the Questions were discussed concerning List Closter innings took for 1, and laims by British, subjects against Russia since the revolution, and inter-govern Cox, in the second & for 66.... "mental claims, on which a divergenco.
of -opinion resulted. The conference then At Nutthighan, the match between adjourned to afford the Soviet delegates Notts and South Africa why resumed in an opportunity of studying the British glorious weather, before six thousand From an ingenious test of public proposals. It meeta again on May 2nd.
The Russian imports for April are
spectators Notts compiled 165. honesty which has just been carried out The South Africans replied with 236. by an evening newspaper, the Parps Soir, valued at thirty-one million gold roubles. Nourse knocking up 147, not out, in one it would appear that only about per and the exports at twelve million hundred and ninety-five minutes with cent. of men are scrupulously honest. The Kamenell at a Communist party confer superb all-round play, hitting nineteen hundred men, representing a wide variety
Netherland ludies Government will really. newspaper's experiment was made on one
stop or even check this? I doubt it ence anticipated a favourable issue of the fours Staples took 5 for 75.
Loxtow, May 1st.
Does this rapidly increasing native pro- Anglo-Soviet conference, and in such Yorkabire beat Cambridge University at
ersity at of occupations and social grades. Their
In the House of Commons, a private
duction worry the big American and ase, if credits be given, part of their Cambridge by an innings and six runs names were selected from directory,
Dutch companies over there? It does. orders might be placed in England. He Yorkshire compiled 911 for and de- fire being chosen to represent each pro Member moved that the House views with
not. Well then, why this strange com stated that private capital in Bouth Clared, Sutcliffe, contributing 108, not out fession, or stratum of social life, and to serious concert the coxtinned reduction
placency on their part, especially as the governed eighty-three per cent of Cambridge scored 111 (Rhodes taking
ench one was serta fetter enclosing, af. of agricultural nereage in Great Britain,"
chance of the Dutch joining our, or aux the retail trade, and fifty per cent of the for 23) and in
iniuga 117.
in postage stamps with the following and urged that a way should be found by
other, restriction scheme, may ber eat- wholesale This percentage was too
note: In reply to your letter I am which the greater proportion of British
sidered as doubtful in the extreme! I Jarge, and the State should be masters
NEW COLF RECORD.
enclosing herewith the sum of of, which wheat might be used for making flour,
The Peking Daily Noize (Chinese) do not intent to commit myself to the in the home markets.
I own you" The name of the writer thereby stimulating wheat-growing.
answer, but I en tell you that they come. and a privata address were given no The Minister for Agriculture, Me FOUR ROUNDS. 1 260.
There are certainly disadvantages in ditions and taxes imposed on the Dutch mention being made, of course, of the Buxton, asserted that the arable ares in the old Chinese way of making mar Rubber Planting Companies are no longer LONDON: May 15th newspaper
and was practically the same as before ringes. One does not know how one's as unfavourable as they used to be. The At Deal in the Daily Unit £1,000 pro Those who receive the letter and the war. He had not found from the bride is going to turn out until she comes Government policy has changed and com
the contest was ecclosure, must have been at once that farming community apart from those over in the sedan chair, and then it is prales no longer need refrain from Offcial circles profess satisfaction at
fesional golf tourtunatowne profession there was an error, and that their duty who recommended Protection, any other too late to repudiate the marrings con saking accessible, and opening up the won by the young the progress of the Anglo-Boviet negotia-CA. Whitecombe, who, following a was to return the uni immediately. But proposals put forward than those tracts on tions and are hopeful of a successful out wonderful first round in seventy yester-only thirty did so thin regaining seventy which Government was adopting, namely Mr. Lan Hsiao Feng a young man in Sumatra I am told, and I believe Fargo trace of available good jungle land come notwithstanding a certain acerbis day which broke the coure need, accom either being content to profit by a mis assistance by research and education and of 25, living in West City got himself it, that this work has already begun which the diplomatic correspondents state plebed a marvellous fourth round intake or at any rate willing to give them an increase of the very large sums engaged to a young lady of 20, daughter Also I can tell you, that within a very few was apparent times at yesterday's sixty-nine to-day, aggregating 280, which elves the benent of any possible doubt already devoted to scientific and financial of a widow Mrs. Ha through the uach years there will be enough guaranteed.
British championship course record. without seeking explanations,
aid to farmers in the matter of obtaining nations of a professional matchmaker. high-yielding material in ficmatra (deta communiqué :
revents
A hundred leading Britseb Professionals "The most honest were members of credit. -opinion on the subject of inter-Govern competed. The previous best novo Parliainent and men of letters, for in
Lis, however, never saw his future is behind Sumatra in these matters), "to mental claims, which the British re bole record over a championship course each of these categories, four promptly.
The motion was creed to without a wife, and he being a simple winded chty, plant as much as they "may require i quested should be postponed on account was 101 by James Braid at Prestwick in returned the money, while only one kept
took the match-maker's words for grant augant their present la productire of technical dificulties of messment. 1006,
ed that this bride was young sul beauti-lands, to knock out the native rubocz it. Next in order of merit come civil
ful May 4th was set as the wedding and, unless we pat our house in order servants, doctors, and chimney-sweeps, PENSION OF EAVAL OFFICEES. day. When the bridal haly arrived, who in Malaya, to knock dat Malayan Rabb each class having three who returned this
should step out but an old ugly woman in addison. Of course, this will take remittance against two who kept it.
LoxpoN, May 1st." She proved to be the widow, Mrs. Hu some years and I do not think sharm Ministers of religion, seidemicine,
herself. Lin, naturally objected to hay holdora in Malayan Companies neeû ba diplomats, actors, and magistrates had a private Member's motion drawing ing a wife twice his age. Ha demanded alarmed provided their Directors are US each only two sepresstatives out of Live attention to the portions of retired to cancel the whole affair and to have shortly become, alivo to the dangers of who did the right thing, while the pro Naval Officers and declaring that there is engagement money returned. To this the situation. There are already tigas portion was only one in fire among the was no justification, for depriring the widow, ars. Hu, would not consent. of an awakening, bat, unfortunately, one lawyers, publissers, manufacturers, dress retired Naval Oficer of his persion Ghe-inated on becoming Mrs. La or two very leading men in the rubber makeri, hair dressers, tailors and bakers, during the period of a war in which he rereupon, Lan called in the police, and world, having made only cursory visits Grocers, butchers, and wine merchants had served, Mr. J. Thomas satouneed it we discovered that the professional aid shailos investigations into a subject, come out of the test with the least credit that Government was appointing a co matchmaker and the widow had fre- which requires deep study, have to sommer For in every case they kept the admittee, on which there would be a Bankersently worked together to get engage extent Conchided that there is no int
Officer, to consider the whole question,
rent money from their victims.
mediate cause for worry,
conference. BASK
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The Soviet representatives," however, objected on the ground that a postpone ment would mean shelving the claims they advanced, whereas Britain would only shelving part of her cläime, e
The British delegates also formally proposed that compensation be paid to the dispossessed British "proprietors of holdings in Russia. The Soviet promised to consider this proposal after peinting out the difficulties of evolving a general formule which would be oompheated by the difference between the British; and Soviet social systema,
DELAMERICAN BASEBALLA
AMERICAN LEAGUE" New York, 1, St. Louis, 2. Boston, 2, Chicago, 4.- Philadelphia, 6; Detroit, 12. Washington, s; Cleveland, 6.
VERNATIONAL LEAGUE,
Chicago, New York, 4 -Pitteburg,” 4. Philadelphia, a
Cincinnatti, G: Boston, 4 ft. Louis, 3; Brooklyn, 6.
and asked no questions?
division