THE
HONGKONG DAILY
PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST
10TH, 1924
CABLES.
LATEST CABLES.
(THOUGH RACTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON CONFERENCE.
GERMANY MAY ACCEPT.
THE HALF A LOAF
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PRINTAPER
Lindos, August 13th.
With ratire septicement at stake, includ
WELSH
LATEST, CABLES.
BYE-ELECTION. SIR ALFRED MOND WINS.
LONDON, August 13th-
The West Carmartbra bye-election, perssitated by the retirement of Sir T -Griffiths to give Sir Alfred Mood a seat,
remited as follows:-
Sir A. Mond Liberal2...... 19.780 My. Chwon. (Labour) ......... 8,237 Sir A. Stevens Stephens
(Conservative)
VISCOUNT KNOLLYS.
7.806
OBITUARY.
Loss. August 15th.
LATEST CABLES. [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE) DIED. ON WAY HOME. WIFE OF A PHILANTHROPISTA
NEW YORK. August 13th. Mes. August Heckscher, wife of the American philanthropist, dizil nhonrd the
FAR EASTERN CABLE SINGAPORE NAVAL WORKS. THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
NEWS.
(THROUGH RECYER'S AGENCY.)' A COOLIE'S DEATH
POLICË INSPEKTOR CRANGED.
SHANGHAI, August 131. Police Inspector. Thomas Dhune, was
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INVISIBLE
THE ULTRA-MICROSCOPE
NO CHANGE OF POLICY. lu the House of Lords on July 14th, the Marquis of Linlithgow asked the Goftrument whether it was intended to
BY THE SCIENTIFIC, CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIME."] dispose of any of the plant or materials collected for the construction of naval
Two Datch investigators. Professors works at Singapore: whether any orders Paul Frosch and H. Dahmen, have sue- for such plant had been cancelled; and
| Mingwazia, "which is ons wat hour charged at the British Police Court this when, in view of the statement. by theeeeded in isolating the virus of foot-and-
from London.
BRAZIL.
ANOTHER REVOLUTION!
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mouth disease.. the virulent contagious (1) March 1sth, his Prime Minister morning with causing the death of
malady of cattle which in recent years has enolic employed by the station police. Majesty's Government intended to rezon
saler the question of developing the naval brokna through our protective cordon the The prosecutor stated that Dunne. was base at Singapore. He asked the ques and threatened economic, disaster to dissatisfied with the work of the coolie tion because of an advertisement which wk-raising industry of treat Britain.. appeared in the Straits Times, which an- and reprimanded him, The culis bounced that certain material collectedIt has long béeu sacepted that the causa- for the purpose of constructing naval tive agent of this pligue must be a works was for sale, Uneasiness had been living organism capable of surviving out- aroused mainly because it had been
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"The death is announced of Lord the outbreak of another revolution hospital. A medical examination showed understood that the decision of the. Gov- / side the body of cattle for a sufficient
Knollys.
ng the benefits Germany can gain by.j
New YORK, August 15th. arrying out the Daws plan and floating
The Herald and Tribung state, that
cany impudent and the inspector slamed the 40,000.on Juan, it is generally
Amerigan, business men are disturbed by his face. Next day the coolie died in thought that the Germans will recognise that half a leaf is better than no bread,
ernment not to go forward with the naval time to spread by unknown ways. It has Brazil which has kept the ratisley region an injury to the bee of the skull. The works was not final. The Prime Minister heen equally clear, however, that it be the little-known group of and will accept the Herriot, evacuation i
[Viscount Knollys, (CB, GC.V...
of the Amazonas isolated for the past | ease has been adjourned for a week in had said that in his mind there was no He
Enality about the decision, and he made longed to
"Alter passers," organisms so minute as plan, though possibly they will remporise has passed away at the age of 57,
"The Brazilian consulate denies | order that a pad-unzten be held. Bail fit clear that there were eircumstances in
to be inseparable from a liquid contain- in order to save
the Nationalists' faces. was private secretary to King Edward month.
ing them by a Pasteur filter. and occupied similar position in the Lansion papers endorse the pinion CX-household of King licorge until retire knowledge of another outbreak, but ship of 8500 in the ncensed's own regnisance his mind which, if they fame about, might
was allowed. prossed to the Cioran delegates by went in 1913. The Visentry was creates complain that while everything is ed in 1911.- previons to which Lord Messrs. MacDonald, Kellogs and other nolly's was known as the first Baron of quiet as far as Para, the Government has forbidden pavigation further down the Allied rejagsentatives that in view of the Caversham fereated in 1902).]"
Amazon. state of public opinion in France M. Hercut has gone as far as possible in proposing the maximum of one year as the loterval before evacuation
The
situation is eased by an intimation that' viremstances might eventually make an earlier evaluatisis possible.
M. Herriot, at the eleventh hour, made two further concessions by offering to evacuate imingdiately a number of the mare recently oceupid plays, like the Rhine ports of Mannheim at Wesel and the zores between the bridgeheads on the right bank of the Rhine, and also to withdraw the French and Belgian railway mei whim reserving the right to reinforce the railway troops in ease of emergency.
HARON HAYASIES VIEWS. Baron Hayashi, who rarely express an opinion of the Conference, yesterday expressed ennearvence, prepgunending the fiermans to accept the French proposal.
FAPLIER CABLES:
BARLIER CABLES. TROUBLE IN THE SOUDAN. SYMPATHETIC EGYPTIANS. STEAMSHIP LABOURERS'
* DEMONSTRATION, --
KHARTOUM, August 14th. Two hundred and fiity of the Railway forces at "Athaxa are confined to barracks, and guarded by Soudanese troops. The
ngiraders are under close arrest.". „Labourers employed in the steamer service, armed with sticks and hammer attempted a demonstration to the north of Khartoum, but it was broken up police, assisted by British troops.
CAIRO. August 14th. The newspapers publish an appeal Egyptians to hold a demonstration to morrow in sympathy for the Soudan.
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A battalla of British troops and squadron of the Air Force have gone to Port Soudan, where H.M.S. Weymouth is. standing by,
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BARLIER CABLES. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE "RE- PUBLICAN NOMINEE. HIS PROGRAMME.
WASHINGTON, August 14th. President Coolidge, in accepting the Republican nomination to the Presidency. said he proposed further tax reduction and promised to appoint a commission to investigate the means of aiding agricul ture.
He summed up his foreign policy in the word Peace" declaring that when
SINO-SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS. FAITHLESS AND CRUEL STEP:
make it essential to proceed with the. It appealed that completion of the base. the Government were sacrificing the very comer-stone of our aaval policy in the Far East in order to negotiate some som foreign. Löwer. agreement with They had neser heen told what agreement it was sought to make,
The identification of a living virus and the possibility of making a pure culture from it realnost essential stages in developing metals of protection or of cure, la the absence of such exat know- ledge the meats of the transference of infection and the efficacy of treatment, by Lesbos, August 15th.
Viscount Chelmsford (Eirst Lord of sera or by drigs can only be capirical Commenting on the report that the
the Admiralty), in reply, said there was guesswork The Dutch profesors now cultures of Chinese Foreign Minister had promised no change of policy on the part of the have not only isolated the vins, but by the time of the signature of the Sine Government. So change was indicated have been able to make pare.
by the advertisment referred th. When it on solid melia. Thus the first stagu Sovie: Treaty to discharge all Bussian the Government made, its decision the towards conquest of the disease has beer. question arose as to what was to be done reached. The methed they have employ refugees from Chinese state service, with the material that had been collected.ed has been the use of the ultra-micros was, it would seriously deteriorate. The light-rays beyond the range of viability They felt that if it was left where it cope and the taking of photographs by cost of freight, 297,000. The rest of re-shown the way towards a method of re- turning it, to England would have been search of the atmost value in many
diseases plant was worth 500, or with the There can he little doubt that they have
writer in the Daily Telegraph sante that this is a faithless and enel step, and quite unprecedented in moden history.
SHANGHAI MAN'S WILL.
Losipos, August 15th.
Mr. Walter Cyril Ward, formerly Shauthai, left. 968,744.
considerable, and the Admiralty had a | obscure of the objects which have to be
considerable stock of similar, material on hand at home, in excess of requirements The value of the materials was £21,000 orders had been cancelled if the policy which the Prime Minister bad failed, the adumbrated
Government
investigated by biologists are almost in- visible under the microscope rither be have abpust the same refractive index as cause of their minute size or because they the fluids in which they are examined. is the use of pigments of other chemicals chosen so as to produce differentiating effects on the objects in the microscopia held. Another method, sometimes errone
ultra-microscopic gusly described as
The Dawes plan was under way he would (BT COURTESY OF THE DAILY BULLETIN."; would have to go back to the considera. One device For overcoming this dithealty
propose another international conference
NORTH CHINA FLOODS."
to discuss, a further limitation of arma- ments. He declared in favour of proteESTIMATE OF MONETARY RELIEF. tion, and indicated that if he be elected he will adjust the tariffs from time to time, as needed.
Mura. August 15th. The battalion of the Dorsets mentioned yesterday as going to Egypt will remain Europe.
the Soudan.
A $1,000,000 · SHORTAGE.
drought in five "provinces only.
Tary had
Viscount Long expressed great dissaris faction with the Government's reply..
The Earl of Balfour asked what was
tion of the Singapore leta, wen exploring the situation, and that day a meeting was held to consider how best the Prime Minister's policy could! be carried into effect. It was impossible is the use of a dark background with
strong lateral illumination. It was by. to state the exact date when the Govern ment intended to reconsider the question this method that Metehnikov and his It was necessary to approach mornasseintes Grst made visible the trans- PERINO, August 11th
Powers than one in regard to the Prime parent spiral organism of syphilis.
Dust particles, completely invisible He upheld the autherance of the United
The International Committee hope Minister's policy.
under ordinary light, become clearly
scalight visible in a beam of
as we have States to the Permanent Court of Inter-
all seen when a ray pisses through a Baional Justice, and approved of Ameri- shortly to receive statistics regarding the
in the shutters of a darkened room. The late Lord Bayleigh was the real cans assisting in the restoration of food darange, and says that in the uran-
time it must be recognised that the re-meant by Lord Chelmsford's reference in chink
Viscount Chelmsford was understood inventor of ditra-mieroseups when, in 1899, be showed that only suficiently in- In the curse of his statement rent floods live caused more damage than consultation with certain foreign Powers.
to be seen in Egypt to relieve the Argyll and SutherCoulidge said he would have preferred a
France, and Italy were all represented tense illumination was required to make
of the power at the Conference which resulted in the visible a particle too small
microscope. land Highlanders, who will he sent to method of exclusion less likely to offend the 1920-1221 famine, which was caused by to "reply that the United States, Japan.
"" tion made to that pact it would be almost The wave lengths of the visible parts Washington pact, and that in any addiby the highest
the spectrum lie approximately be
millionths tween 700 and 400 mierdas necessary for those Powers to meet in conference again.
which
it is illuminated cannot The Earl of Balfour replied that that of a metre), and any object smaller than ref was an extraordinary attitude The con placut half the wave length of the light had nothing to do with the Washington diffraction. Very itch smaller particles, struction of the naval has at Singapore seen in its true form and size because pact. Singapore was deliberately however, cube made visible in the fort path of the Government more difficult if different in shape by being observed in a outside it. He did not wish to make the of diffraction ranges larger in size and anything to retrace the unfortunate step solution containing them at right angles there was the least hope of their dog mowerful beam of ligh: sent through the they had taken.
to the axis of the microscope The first satisfactory assemblage of apparatus for this purpose was contrived by Siedlentont and Zsigmony early this century, and modifications and adaptations of this are sold by various optical firms.
THE WORLD'S SPORT.
HOME CRICKET.
WIS FOR SOUTH AFRICANS.
the sensibilities of the Japanese and had
Hitherto the incomplete reports re- lone all he could to minimise ant harm but the laws had been passed and aperived by the Committee indicate serious praved, and the incident was closed.
We must seek by some means besides immigration to demonstrate the friend- ship and respect we feel for the Japan
ese nation.
foods in Chihi, Huana, Shantung Kiängsi, Fukien and Kwangtung, and it is estimated that between 10.000.000 and LONDON, August 14th.
12,090,000 people are, or are shortly to At Eastbourne there was fine weather. and a moderate attendance, when. Hare lie would have preferred a method of destitute When the losses of neo- quias resumed their match against South Africa. Playing on a good wicket. they exclusion less likely to offend the sen-perty and crops are calculated the figures compiled 213 (Jurding 40, Evans 42-) Car-gibilities of the Japanese and had done. ter took 6 for 40. "
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all he could to minimise any harm, but the laws had been passed and approved, and the incident closed, "We must seek by Home- incans, besides immigration to demonstrate the friendship and respect
THE FRANCO-GERMAN HITCH..
Losos. August 14th. The pressure of public opinion in France and Hernang on M. Herriot und Herr" Marš, respectively, is responsible for the delay in reaching a settlement in) London. Each vaner made by either towards a compromise is severely critic ised'in both capitals, as a surrender. j
M. Herriet during yesterday's "distus, sions with the Germans and Belgians, which was remarkable as being the first time foreign statesmen had conferred at Downing Street without the presence of a British Minister, was fervent in the
DAVIS CUP TENNIS. expression of this desire to establish n
PATTERSON" DEFEATS SHIMIZU, new era of Franco-tierman zapproche. mput. Here Marx agripted his desire, to
PROVIDENCE (RHODE ISLAND). August 14th. „public opillion hampered his desire to
evarunty the Ruhr before year, but in the opening of the American ne finals r the Davis Cup. Patterson <enqüired whether M Herriot was certain (Australia) beat Shimizu (Japan). 7-5,
11-3, 6-4- i romaring in power for a year.
O'Hara, Wool (Australia) beat Okamoto (Japan), 6-4, 2-4, 6-4, 2-4, 6-1. "LOUCHEUR IN LONDON.
The match between Patterson and A ding-dong struggle Shimidda throughout, especially in the second sex, in which Patterson was most fully exten ded. The Australian dropped a tantalis- chop streke when 50, and with a
The arrival of M. Loucheur in London is regarded as significant. He is the author of the scheme of Franco-German
Going in again, South Africa scored 125 for 4 (Comaille ), and thus won by six wickets.
;ing.
Was
must run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Lord Chancellor said he made Lord For instance, at Kalpan alone foreignBalfour a present of the facts that Sings. pore was wholly outside the boundary observers place the damage at not less line agreed upon at Washington, and displeasing to Australia and New Zen- than $30,000,000, and only a portion of that the decision of the Government was the city is inundated, while in some land. The question was, what would ke of the Government of establishing a w base in the East which would be for quite admitted that the Government's The Committee expect that the follow-offence just as much as for defence! Heherwise would be invisible. It is pas on which the Government intended to Herr Wiedfeldt, the German Ambassa- ing sums will be available for relief policy might fail, but it was the policy dor to the United States, has resigned, purposes:-From the Customs surtax, stand or fali..
we feel for the Japanese nation."
GERMAN AMBASSADOR
RESIGNS.
WASHINGTON, August 14th.
and sails for Germany on September 15th.
or 30 feet of water.
RAILLESS TRAMS.
38,000,000; subscription campaign in China, $2,000,000: transportation si taxes, $2,000,000; mission $1,000,000; and Chinese scurcis, $2,000.000, "L.C.C. HIGHWAY COMMITTEE'S
REPORT.
Sources.
jadustrial rapprochement, which the Lop: series of vious base-line drives and anthe following declaration by Trotsky in leaving a shortage of $5,000,000, which it.
Kames.
is hoped to raise abroad.
are
SUTRA MICROSCOPE PHOTOGRAPHY, The ultra-microscope can be used to other regions. whole towns are undergo the effect on the general foreign policy detect the presence and estimate the quantities of particles in a fluid which sible even by elaborate calculation to estimate the true size of the particles. in 1904 by Köhler, who took photographs Bat a still more interesting step was mado by using the short waves of ultra-violet
sht.
ht. Certain
and ap structures in cells
of parently some the
filter-passers transparent to all visible waYe lengths of light. but are more or less upaque to ultra-violet rays to which the. photographie plate is sensitive. It is this RED ARMY STRENGTH:
method, hitherto little used because of the
the apparatus required, complexity of The Roda Ageney published recently
The question of railless trams (which that Frosch and Dahmen have now deve untakeable service took" the next connection with the statement made in
by Köhler. Ho don Conference in 1921 rejected because,
The Chinese have not yet been able to is one not without interest to Kowloon) loped. Frosch used an ulti-microscope
is the subject of a report by the High constructed at Jena In the second singles match, O'Hara the House of Commons by Major Attles,
ways Committee of the I.C.C. which bechtained the ultra-violet light by burning cadmium in a high-tension electric spark it provided for French penetration intó
Jore the was brilliant with his service and stendy Under Secretary of State for War, to the
on July 15th: The Committee deal with the relative The cadmium light. passed through German mines and factories. M. Loun driving. This gave him an easy effect, that the strength of the Red arsay estimate the damage from the foods.
"SAFETY FIRST" IN SHANGHAI. Major Attire is misleading British!
costs and efficiency of railless trams and quartz prism, formed a spectrum with a <heur, backed by the French iron masters, victory in the first set The Japanese was now 1,300,000.
exhausted himself by frantic endeavours
EDUCATING THE CHINESE
motor-omnibusex operated
narrow zone of visible light in the yellow is now opposing M. Herriot's abandon to return the Australian's cannonball public opinion, and that of the whole world. The Red Army, which at the end
corporations as compared with the Coun- and green-blue parts, and a very drives.
eil's tramwaye and the London Combinezone in the invisible ultra-violet region. ut of this scheme. M. Loucheur is the
Okamoto, however, developed a sudden of 1926 reached its maximum itrength of
SHANGHAI, August 14th. In pursuance of the policy of educating cnibuses, and the question ne to how These invisible rays were incused
Tar lender of a powerful group of Left Radi-streak of brilliancy in the second set. 6.300,000, has steadily decreased in size.
it would be sound policy for the lens of quartz glas and conducted to the As the light was invisible, the ordinary" constantly outmaneuvring Woods, and At the end of 1921 the strength was winning 6-2. Woods by "smashing drives 1,000,000, and in September, 122, it was
to be by way of railless tram, dertaking the third set puzzled the Japanese, 695,000. heing therefore less then than the the Chinese regarding safety Srat," future development of the Council's un- ultra-microscope.
ed, and
spocess was obtained only by a long series of trials until ther who contented himself with a back court figure mentioned by Major. Attlee. At
Okamoto won the fourth
The Committee state that the Council's
by adjustment was reached Proper 610.000, including air naval, and nd Municipality are giving free cinema tramways. chiefly on account of Wood's erratie play the beginning of 1023 the strength was the Traffic Department of the Shanghai and omnibuses rather than fixed track methods of focusing could now be cuinary
On June 1st, 1924, the army nm shows on Woods, however, steadied in the fifth.
forces.
open spaces illustrating the tramway manager has summarised the ad- and took no chances. He enrily delented
bered 302,007. Major Attire doubtless
as Correspondent of cost of operation, satisfactory results were obtained first-
of pleuro accommodation, speedy, and operation with the causative organism wear and tear of in bad weather, the advantages are with pneumonia, which was found to be not one of the bacteria, but a yeast-like or- the track rideration, however, states canism propagating by budding.
The main
The virus of foot-and-mouth disease, the report, must be the financial one,
big grown on a solid medium, gave rise tro and while the tramcar has such
migrons i advantage in seating accommodation, the colonies from seven to
in for operation, must diameter. With bigh magnihention are Moscow, August 1th.
always be considerably less than that of the nse of light of the shortest possible SHANGHAI, August 14th.
wave length, it was found possible to The expedition organised by the Far
The Chinese Recorder (a missionary smaller vehicles...
If the tramway system operated in get photographs of individuals of the
proved to
to be bacteri East Geological committee reports the discovery of a very rich naphtha deposit
tenth proposition with reference to the Rubrat Kamchatka, on the banks of the Bogatment has on many orcasions made pro- publication) for August mentions that the central London aren the revenue a organisat, which
a micron. Sub-cultures to the posals for the drawing up of a practical since the Lincheng affair.in May of last
there no reason to think, that expenses generation have been obtained and evacuatiễn, and hope to receive an an. chevka, in the Gulf of Kronetz
programme of disarmaments for Europe rear nine foreigners have been killed and car mile would be ingreased, whereas with an estimated length of about one
a car mile would increase. And the world, and is still ready to stand 35 captured by brigande
"The If the Governments: The editor deduces from, this that the
general manager agrees generalis, proved to retain their virulence.
Knowledge of the nature and cunse of by these proposals.
with the conclusions of the Pirmingham' of Mr. MacDonald and M. Herriot took days when a certain prestige attached to the initiative, in a reduction of arma the person of the foreigner in China are and Manchester reports that, except for n disenss is not necorarily immediately ments in Europe we should give them passed. They are now as liable to be outlying routes, for narrow streets, or followed by the discovery of a cure, but entire support. Such an initiative would captured by brigands or maltreated by for undeveloped areas, the tramcar is are the more defenceless the most suitable vehicle, bath from the Saancial and utilitarian points of view."?. coincide happily with the tenth anniver coolies as sary of the outbreak of the Great War Chinese classes themselves.
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game,
cals, hitherto supporters of the Govern- ment. M. Herriot" has,, to reckon with the contingerey" of a withdrawal of that support when he meets the Chamber. The only hope of a solution how is that Mr. MacDonald or an American, or the his opponent, Belgian M. Theunis, may find some formula for a compromise. The Belgians. are in no way so adamant on the subject of evacuation as the French.
BERLIN ASKED FOR ADVICE. The German delegates have decided to "refer to Berlin telegraphically the French
sicer by to-morrow.
The Daily Graphic's diplomatic corres- pondent understands that Herr Marx has telegraphed to President Ebert re commending an acceptance of the French Evacuation plan.
NAPTHA FOUND IN КАМСНАТКА.
GEOLOGICAL COMMITTEES
DISCOVERY.
ARGENTINIAN WORLD
"
set
FLIGHT. ZANNI LEAVES FOR BANGKOK,
BANGOON, August 15th
The Argentinian aviator, Zanni, left for Bangkok at 1.30 o'clock his woning.
them.
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obtained his figures from, the Intelligence perils of the road and ways for avoiding Department of the War Office. If the bend of our intelligenis service supplied
The shows are being attended by thou such fantastic information he would be immediately cashiered and prosecuted.sands of Chinese... regret that I do not know the customs of the British War Office. I hope that false reports at not encouraged there. spite of the fact that 600,000 is an in- significant number in proportion to our area and population, "we shall attempt to reduce it furiber. The Soviet Govern.
In
THE FOREIGNER IN CHINA.. NO PRESTIGE NOW-A-DAYS,
ventthese show that us regards seating, the
tem.
cost a
Dutch Corrand Beror. Arcoding to
work. it is a great advance towards it, and the Dutch ewrass should lighten th