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BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION
- THIS "MONTH,
THE FIGHT BEGINS,
GENERAL PARTY ENTHUSIASM,
LONDON. October 10th.
The majority of the members of the House of Commons have already pupe
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11TH,
INDUSTRY AND UNEMPLOYMENT,
Though there are signs of a „listinet improvement in industry, the severe de- pression continues, The Ministers have leen hetively engaged in the develop-
ment of a constructive policy to stimulato
industry and encourage trade, as the only means of dealing fundamentally with un- employment. Meanwhile the provision of increased unemployment benefit has light-
THE CIVIL WAR
CHINA.
IN
(THROUGH REUTER'S...AGENOT.].
CHANG REPLIES TO DIPLOMATS,
PEEING, October 9th.
Chang Two Lin, in his reply to the diplomats Memorandum, states that should he attack the capital, he will instruct his subordinates to endeavour
WAR AND THE RAILWAY.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF CHIHLI MILITARISTS.
h
THE FATE OF PEITAIHO.
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PROSPEROUS FRANCE.
ATTRACTING THE IMMIGRANT.
THE DEVASTATED AREAS,
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SOVIET TREATIES,
NO INFORMATION REGARDING ORIGIN OF "FULL POWERS.”
POWER OF RATIFICATION,
their constituencies, where, to-day, the and the burdens of the catepayers and avoid injury to the Legation Quarter says the P. and T. Times. Members afsign, workers have been arriving each manating from Parliament, it could
election battle begius in earnest. There alleviated the sufferings of innocent via Are indiclitions that the Conservatives and tims of industrial depression. It hopes Liberals will avoid three-eurnered con-
the meantis taken for å fifteen years tests in a number of constituencies by
building programme will effectively mutual concessions with the approval of
He fully realised that there are historic monuments in Peking, as elsewhere in China, and if the diplomita wish to avoid danger of these being injured they
Tej Fu so leare Prking.
front to-morrow,
gans openly advocate this course, though concludes by referring to the measures the Diehard organs are opposed to taken to assist agriculture and regulate ang co-operation. All the party head- the wages of agricultural labourers, na -quarters are feverishly active. All 'pro-well as to take a new census of produc- FENGTIEN FORDES METREATING.
fess to be well prepared. The, Liberals tion, and free educational development
PEXING, October 9th. y to now have only 200 candidates, but
A communiqué issued this evening Hope to put in the field nearly as many
soldiers and their officers.
For nearly three years unemployment About 57,000 Chibli troops bad passed in the ordinary acceptation of the word The following letter by Mr. F. J has been practically non-existent in Right relativo to the Anglo-Sovich through Ticntain since the beginning of France. Since 1999 that country has been Treaties appeared recently in the London the mobilization against Mancheria down on the flood-tide of a brilliant economic Times:
revival, and the problem has been the Sra-Last April 1 drew attention to to September 25th; since when few troop dearth of labour. which has consistently the serious inodification of Constituę“ trains have come down from Peking Great Britain. has no need to consider ment that in future all treaties would be retarded production. France, unlike ciccal practice involved in the liver- The conduct of the Chihli militarists ou emigration schemes for a surplus popula-presented to Parliament for ratification; the railway continues to be disgraceful, tion. She is welcoming a constant stream the power to conclude a treaty not of immigrants. Something like 6,000 for
not assume the prior command" in the Traffic Staff are off duty at Pekingively reflect the position, inasmuch as adopted in regard to the Anglo-Soviet
week, and that figure does not conclu volved in ratification. The procedure. and Fengtai as the result of savage as-coal-miners and agricultural labourers. Treaties constitutes a new departure from saults, Hailway employes are constantly the two classes in greatest demand, enter that practice in the following particulars
the country without registration. This (I deal with the general Treaty only): being assaulted or threatened by the growth in the foreign element in the po
1-It is not made in the name of the The compulation, though it has been evident sinen King. but between the States, of | Great Britain and Northern Ireland, their loaders. Severni Conservative armly the serious overcrowding: ant should get President Taao Kun and Wu mandeering of cars and interference with ile beginning of the century, has recent-
tratie frequently necessitate the cancel y become very pronounced. Last year of the one hand," and the Union of hug of trains between Peking and Tieu Latone there were 269.000 immigrants, nad Sovie: Socialist Republiess of the other tain. Most of the platform space at the of these 119,500 were Italians, 33.000 were hand"; "hand" being substituted for Wu Pai Fu and his staff will go to the Chengyangmen (Peking) Station is ou Belgians, and 12.000 Portuguese. Nearly the customary part," possibly to re-
cupied by ears which are being held in half that total found employment in the
present in a figurative manner the join- readiness for Marshal Wu Pei-fa and his devastated regions Italians in Franceing of hands in recognition "). | staff. The presence of foreign troops at now number at least 850,000. Belgians -The full powers" which the res Tientsin East has served to keep the 470,000. Spaniards 350,000, and Poles pective "plenipotentiaries" have "found militarists in check. The only casualty 120,000, though the alien inlux includes in good and due form " do ust emanate, reported here up to date is a yard coolis, representatives of practically every on the side of Great Britain and North- who received a word cut on the head. nation in Europe. But on the afternoon of the 23rd inst: the
ren Ierland. from the sovereign authority The foregoing facts and figures of that State. plane special nearly led to serious con- conditions in Fratice, prepared by treaties to which that sovereign authority conduct of the troops escorting au aero-taken from the report on the economic 3-Articles 2 to a deaf with existing
turned out, and a machine gun actually Paris to the British Fanbassy. There which, I think, is of doubtful constitu
The Annamese guard was J. B. Cahill, Commercial Counsellor in is a high contracting party, in a manner mounted on the platform, when the cail- way officials and railway police interven post-war recovery in a very complete nul
port, which tells the story of "Franctionality. ed, and managed to prevent further remarkable for has been issued by the hut no indication being given as to the v
The Treaty is to burntified 2; trouble.
Department of Overseas Trade, and origin of the full powers," A typical instance of the sort of thing copies, are obtainable from HIM. Sta authority from whon; the ratification is passengers between Peking and Tieursin tionery Office (88. 3d.). must now expect, occurred on Saturday. The trains which should have leit at 3.45 and 5.25 . were replaced by a train which actually left Peking about 9.43 crowded with passengers. This train in cluded a dining car, which like every ober ear was absolutely packed. It got to Fengtail, and proceded to Huangtape, of her own mining, artallurgical, and the next station, where it was stopped by agricultural requirements. and of the a wire from Fengtai ordering the immedi overthowing populations of those coup ate return of the dining car to that tries no longer possessing an outlet in station. As far as can be ascertained the United States. some Chihli militarist at Fengtai, who had caught sight of the dining, ear, de-
use-hence the order: The numerous pas
2 ♬ your age. '
Various party leaders are arranging to address big demonstrations throughout the country. Nearly 30 women candidates are already in the field compared with 33 in the last election. The number includes bight Conservatives and 17-Labourites.
The Labour Party is optimistic of re-
turning with increased strength.
The Unionista are confident that they will recover many of the seats lost on the Protection issue. Some are even pro-' phesying to obtain a clear majority.
The crisis has only slightly affected the stock markets, where the removal of un. certainty has been welcomed.
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Losdus. October 9th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Mac- azonald said he regretted that the action
from recent restrictions.
THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE,
NOT TO BE POSTPONED,
LONDON, October 8th. Mr. J. H. Thomas in the House of Commons said that yesterday evening'> happenings would not interfere with the Government proceeding with the pro- posed Imperial Conference.
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claims a victory on the Shanhaikwan front, and adds that the Fengsien forces are retreating.
EUROPEAN LADY ATTACKED,
MEN CHARGED "AT" CENTRAL
COURT.
COMPLAINANT IN HOSPITAL."
Three men who last Wednesday were arrested in connection with a robbery with violence on Mrs. Florence Deacon,
of Broadwood Road, while she was walk- ing in that thoroughfare on the 4th inst., were brought up before Mr. R. E. Lind
sequences.
the
to proceed remains in doubt. In dealing with the magnitude of the
It may appear to be the height of tech- recent immigration movement, which benicality-or, if you will, it illustrates describes is a striking phenomenon." the depth to which technicality can des Mr. Cahill notes that France seems descend-when I say that if the provisions tined to receive even greater numbers of of the Treaty had been embodied in an Italians and Poles, as a consequence both agreement, these defects would dis
appear if the necessary legislation were a passed (except (3) as to which I am doubtful). The Government has a right
BRITISH WORKERS' PREJUDICES.
Representatives of the Sinclair Com.sell at the Central Magistracy yesterday cided that he would like it for his own i ended the efforts to tempt orer the Chau-do not professs to alter it, and as such
(to enter into agreements with other Gor- eraments within the law; and if beyond the law, subject to the approval of Par liament. But treaties are part of the law of the land in so far as they are given effect to by the Courts. The points I have indicated are so serious that it is conceivable that, the question being in issue, the Courts might hold this Treaty to be-nat et mon areau, as not having been made as the law re- ¡quires.
Less success, on the other hand, has at pany (viz. the Pan-American Fetro-and formally" remanded.
sengers, foreign and Chinese, in the nel any considerable proportion of the The date of their next appearance bo dining-car, with their baggage, were unemployed from England. Last year, leum Company) have telegraphed to the
therefore ejected, and had to find what for instance, one big French establish fore the Magistrate will depend on the accommodation they could in the remain-ment concerned with the repair of loco Persian Government accepting a petro-state of Mrs. Deacon's health. Inspecturing cars, Many of them had to ride in motives and rolling stock offered to leum concession in North Persia though Aris explained to Mr. Lindeell yesterday the vesitbules, and some of them are said engage several hundreds of burri
to have been unable to find any room skilled workers for an indefinite period, a loan which was original! a condition that she had been admitted to hospital, except on the roofs. Among the passen-paying them attractive wages and pro of the concession will not be made.
gers thus treated was Miss Hoare, sister riding them with very of the Councillor of the British Legution, houses, and even placing recreation room who was on her way to Tientsin and and fonball pitches at their disposal, Shanghai Her baggage was mislaid in This scheme did not succeed.
Obstacles from the British workers' the ensuing confusion, and was not re- covered until later. Meanwhile, presum-view-point have been the language dif-the Minister signature, were emphasized
of the opposition parties yesterday even-! ing had rendered an exction inevitable. | GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE.
His Majesty had consented to the dia. solution (Ministerial theers). The Gor- emment was anxious to prevent the gen- <ral election slashing with the municipal | elections in November, and proposed the prorogation tegight, the nominations for Deteller bath, and the election for October
ไ
THE BRITISH ATTITUDE.
LONDON, October 10th. The British reply to the recent German memorandum in regard to Germany's admission to the League of Nations has been handed to the German Charge
and was in a serious condition as a re- salt of her experience.
The men were also charged with being concerned in a recrtie armed assault and -rubbery-in. Kennedy Road, when the victim was a ricksha coolie.
A fourth man, charged with receiving Mrs. Deacon's gold match, Alleged to have been stolen by the three other men, was also remanded until such time as
20th. (Ministerial cheers). The date of d'Affaires. It is understood that it 'wel-ra. Deacon is well enough to attend the
on the the election would be dependent
comes Germany "as 31 member of the Court. Irish Bill finally passing to day but he
Jimculty League, but emphasises that as regards
understand there would be no
in the Lords today, and the dissolution any special conditious, this is a matter
WEMBLEY IN 1925.
OF RE-OPENING.
ably: the Chill militarist responsible for this outrage, had his tin and afternoon nap in the commandeered car.
THE LAST OF THE.
GONDOLIERS."
comfortable
That the doctrine of the treaty-making prerogative is to-day in need of careful revision no constitutional lawyer will deny. Its weak points that it leaves too much power to the Foreign Secretary, and that Parliament is loth to dishonour
in the House of Commons debate. Bat where legislation is necessary, it has the power to decline to pass it, and this in
lealty, operative not only in the work shop hut in social relations and leading to comparative isolation for at least considerable period: the change of food more effective defence against encroach habits as regards kind of food or man-
ments of the prerogative than au inde- ner of meals, (eg., absence of substantial terminate refusal to ratify something, marning meal); the necessity for work which it had no power to authorise. I ing the whole or part of Saturday after agree that, sooner or later, many old pre- noon: the dissimilarity in housing, aerogatives must pass into th melting pot All accounts agree as to the remarkable conimodation; and not least because the of practical revision; but the course change which has come over the national normal wages have appeared smail adopted in the present case resembles conversion into English currency. too much the method of the blow-pipe He of Italy since Fascism took it in hand. We hear now of the impending reform of franes a day with the exchange at Revision should ant be a very, dificult Venice. In less than two years the last having appeared as only five shillings matter; for the prerogative is exercised on the advice of a responsible Minister; gondola will have disappeared from the The Commercial Counsellor describes treaties are framed by responsible. De- waters of the Queen of the Adriatic. It may seem incredible, but it is true, that how resolutely France has tackled the partment. The Government for the lime head of the city administration, Signor estimates that by next summer the work and it is not good that Government, Giordano, who, as our correspondent in of reconstruction, for all practical, econo-however able, should in so important Rome has stated, lately eigned an agree- mic purposes, will have been completed.
day."
a
could occur to-night. Parliament would for the League to decide without any HOME GOVERNMENT IN FAVOUR this has been ordained deliberately by the problem of her devastated areas, and he being, therefore, has it all its own way; met a week or two after October 20th., outside interferepce.
IRISH BILL PASSED:
The Royal assent has been given to the Irish Bill, and Parliament has been pro-
togurd:
In the House of Lonis, on the Irish Bill discussion, Lord Carson" moved, but subsequently withdrew, an amendment
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IRAQ" BORDER DISPUTE.
MENACING TURKISH FORCES.
LONDON, October 19th. Anxiety is increasing in regard to the critical situation developing on the Iraq frontier, where an invading Turkish force has not only maintained its ground but has been reinforced and is continu-
ANGLO-DUTCH AIR AGREEMENT.
LONDON, October 10th.
Government has decided in favour of re-opening the Empire Exhibition in 1925. The extent to which the Dominions will participate in not yet known, but the Cabinet committes concluded by stating that even if some of the exhibitors with draw, there is still a larger number ready to replace them
"THE OFFICIAL GUARANTEE.
QUESTION OF SUBSTANTIAL - INCREASE.
LONDON, October 9th.
In the House of Commons, replying to
THEATRICAL PROMOTER'S
AFTAIRS.
ME. C. B. COCHRAN'B HEAVY LOSSES,
"
At a meeting of the creditors, of Mr. BC. B. Cochran, theatrical producer, on
It is authoritatively stated that the ruent with a local electrical-engineering Early in 1924 there was a population of matter be practically free from the con
company, by the terms of which cress 4,234,000 in the ten departments officially tro of Parliament large boat and gondola in Venice is to be comprised in the war areas, and a mere fitted, within the space of twenty month, 40,000 fewer than 1911. Ordered Jocal with an electrically-driven motor. Signor administration has been re-established: Giordano is, it seems, a Royal High Com-in 3.239 out of 3,233 communes where missioner appointed Acting Mayor, it had been suspended, and there are presumably because of differences of actually more public schools, as well as opinion between the Fascist Government more teachers in these districts than and the titular Mayor. There is nothing there were before the war began. out of the common is that, but what can next spring one-fifth on the ruined chur september 22nd, the Official Receiver not be usual in such an act of absolutism ches may be well advanced towards re- referred to Mr. Cochran's big losses in Live various theatrical and boxing enterprises, as the decreed transformation of all goa-storation or actual replacement. dolas into motor-boats, in spite of the stock has increased eight-fold since the necessitating the borrowing of money at passionate protests of artists, antiquaries, Armistice, the wheat crop has regained heavy interest to pay authors and others- Mr. Cochran estimated his liabilities at hotal-keepers, sourist agencies, and, of the pre-war output, and the sugar beet about £30,000. His assets included many course, gondoliers, whose ancient order crop is rapidly extending under to shares in various Companies but he did is not merely threatened, but apparently
stimulus of the bigger sugar consump
not expect them to produce much. As a dcomed irrevocably to extinction. The tion.
Extremely rapidly progress has been matter of fact, all his assets of any valno Commissioner's exercise of his powers is made in the last eighteen months in the
were charged. a matter with which we have no concern,
A resolution was passed for bank-
and a question, Mr. MacDonald said he be but all the world is plainfully interested salvaging and speeding up of production
the appointment of joint trus- lieved the proposal had not yet been in the disappearance of what for centuries in the devastated coal mines in the Nord
Mr. Cochran's representative said that has been thing essential to the romance and Pas-de-Calais department. By 1925, passed to increase the British Govern a
ment guarantee to the Empire Exhibition and beauty of Venice. A gondola without given sufficient labour, they will doubt some of his friends hoped to assist him Ain making a proposal which would satisfy a gondolier, without the long, sweeping less exceed their pre-war output. from a hundred thousand to six hundred oar and the graceful movement of its similar prophecy is made in regard to his creditors. thousand pounds sterling. He said it wielder, will be no gondola, it need hardly the coke supply. Several entirely new —
be said. To fit up a gondola as a motor undertakings have been opened out in could be carried out administratively, but boat is like running & tramway through the regions where the armies had fought of international competition. the matter was still being investigated Stonehenge, or crowning the Lord Mayor and the effect of this programme of re of the big metallurgical concerns have of London in his panoply of state with construction and development will be increnand their capital and further ex- a bowler hat. It is clear that the local as Mr. Cahill observes, a great reinforce tended their influence in France itself NEWFOUNDLAND SCANDAL.
interests think so, or think that those ment of the industrial power of Northern Holland, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Ron- mania, and Austria. The chemical in- EX-PREMIER NOT INDICTED. visiting Venice will think so, in which] France.
they are undoubtedly right. Old Lon-
dustries have seen a highly important" ST. JOHN's (Newfoundland). Oct. 9th. doners have lamented, and still lament,
amalgamation of their principal dye- Surveying the position of French instuffe concern with one of the two The Grand Jury have rejected an indict the passing of the hansom-cab, with
which the Hle of our capital did suffer an dustry over the widest field, the report dominating concerns in the heavy che ment against the ex-Premier, Sir Richard artistic, loss; but what is that compared declares that its processes and equipment mical trade
French foreign trade has been extreme have been completely modernised, and the and the transformation of the picturesque
that the Ulster Parliament should be con- sulted equally with the Free State before the Act be enforced; and the Bill then passed its third reading. The Bill thus ally pushing forward pickets into Angora. passed both Houses, unamended, the de-Up to now it has, practically ignored the claratory apiendment mentioned yester-British notes and verbal remonstrances. day not being incorporated in the Bill. which received Royal assent this evening. DATE OF THE ELECTION. Mr. MacDonald in the House of Com- mons announced that the general elec- tion would take place on October 20th, KING'S PROROGATION SPEECH
The King's speech on the prorogation of Parliament says it believes the Dawes settlement will largely contribute to the restoration of international commerce and "hopes that the disarmament and security protocol as adopted by the Assembly of the League of Nations, which will be laid before Parliament as soon as pos
The Haare, October 10th.
The Second Chamber, has accepted
provisional Anglo-Dutch agreement re- garding air navigation.
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THE WORLD'S SPORT,
HOME LADIES' GOLF TITLE.
M155 WETHERED IN FINAL
LONDON, October sih. At Coodenbeach, in the English ladies'
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MODERN METHODA IN, TKADE.
Beveral
sible, will lead to the first practical golf championship, Müs Joyce Wethered, Bquires, charged with larceny of public with the electrification of the gondola industrial capacity of the country, alikely active, and within the last twelve measures for lightening the heavy bur- the holder, defeated Miss Coeil Leitch in funds, holding that the evidence of 1 person standing and swaying at the car from the material and technical stand-mouths, the weight and value of the ex- the sixth round, by 4 and 3; and beat female ex-secretary is insuficient to into a mechanic crouching over an en points. is far superior to that of 1814.parted goods have shown an astonishing
ideas of the nations.
The speech refers to the Anglo-Russian treaties as a necessary element in the; general pacification and economic recon- struction of Europe. It regrets the failure of the Informal discursions with the Frizio Minister of Egypt; and saya that steps have been taken in conjunction with che. Governments of the Dominións for nore efficient markeling of food in this country.
Lady Cruise by € and 5 in the semi-final.
Miss Wethered meets Hias Fowler in the final to-morrow.
AMERICAN BASEBALL.
warrant's true bill.
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HINDU-MOSLEM ENMITY. FURTHER TROUBLE, AT ALLAHABAD.
ALLAHABAD, Oétober 9th, Hindu-Mollem disturbances continue. Three people were killed and 20 injured Playing at New York, Washington to-day, totalling o killed and 70 injured defeated New York by a to 1
WORLD,SERIES RESULT.
New Youx, October 10th.
since October 8th.
gine! At a loss for any other explana-France has found in Alsace a wonderful growth. Notwithstanding the adverse in tion, we conjecture that the Acting Mayor range of acquisitions to her natural re-uence of the exchanges, our Ally's bes may be a pupil of Marinetti, the founder sources and manufacturing power; she eastomer is still Great Britain, which of the Futurist movement in art and let has carried out a wholesale reconstruc takes 20 per cent of her exports, follow- From Great. tern, who clamoured for the destruction tion of the textile industries, coal and closely by Belgium. of all museums and monuments of the iron mines, metallurgical and engineer-Britain she in turn takes more importa past in Italy, and reserved his most ing works, and gines and chemical works than she takes from any other country. violent diatribes for the preserving of the in the devastated districts; and she is Coal represented two-fifths of the valus ancient glory and romance of this very benefiting by the war-time transplanta- of all British imports to France in 1923, Venice. Be that as it may, it seems that tion of industry from those same regions and this year the situation may be affect the fiat has gone forth beyond recalling, to centres like Lyons Grenoble, Bored by the reemption of deliveries from She has also con Cermany, uspended subsequent to the and that the modernisation of Venice is deant, and Bouon. to be began at a point at which the solidated her great industries in order Ruhr oornpation, and. by the increased foreign visitor will like it east-The that they can play their part in the realm output of soul and, coke in France
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