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CABINET.
Loynoy, November 11th. A supplementary list of Ministerial appointments includes the following:--
Parliamentary Secretary for Education,
The Duchess of Atholl Postinaster-General, Sir William Mit
hell Thompson. Minister of Pensions, Mr. G. C. Tryon Minister of Transport, Col. Wilfrid
Ashley, Under-Secretary for India, Earl. Win.
Foreign Under Secretary, Mr. Ronald
McNeill.
The Colonial Under-Secretaryship bas been offered to, Hr. Ormsby Gore, at pre- sent in East Africa, but his acceptance has not yet been received.
A BOND OF SPEECH.
AMERICA AND THE EMPIRE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, “NOVEMBER 13r8, 1924
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ARMISTICE DAY.
WORLD-WIDE, CELEBRATIONS.
LONDON, November 11th. Traffic was held up for hours in Dublin," there were such enormous crowds parti. eipating in the Armistice Day celebra-
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THE WAR IN MOROCCO.
INEXONABLE CAMPAIGN."
MADRID, November 12th. Extensive operations are now proceed- ing in Morocco, in pursuance of the
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U.S. RECOGNITION OF SOVIET
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ADVOCATED.
AMERICAN SENATOR'S PLEA.
HARRISBURG, PA, Nov. 11th American recognition of Russia was World-wide celebrations are recorded Directorate's resolve to bring the cam-to-day advocated by Senator Borah, who paiga against the Riffs to a conclusion, is mentioned as the possible successor to even though this involves a certain with the late Senator Lodge as Chairman of drawal from the enemy country.
the Foreign Affairs Committee.
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IN FRANCE.
The day was observed as holiday in France, shops being closed and the streets beflagged. The chief cere mony was at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
Marshal Foch deposited a wreath of palms and M. Herriot a wreath of Bowers at the memorial tablet to the British fallen in Notre Dame Cathedral.
CEREMONY AT THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE.
Pints, November 19th Armistice Day was celebrated as usual throughout France. In Paris at the Are LONDON. November 11th. de Triomphe, M. Doumergue; Ministers, at Marshals and Ambassadors saluted the Sir Auckland Geddes delivered Westminster the first Walter Hines Page tomb of the Unknowa Warrior and ob memorial lecture, founded by the Eng served a one minute's Silence, after lish-Speaking Union in memory of the which the troops marched past. Inte American Ambassador to Britain.
CELEBRATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES,
The audience numbered 2.000, includ ing the Premier, diplomats and repre sentatives of the Dominions.
Lord Balfour, presiding, paid a very high tribute to the late Mr. Page," and dwelt on his belief that the future of the world largely depended on friendly Anglo American co-operation.
Sir Auckland Geddes emphasised that America had profoundly influenced the .British Empire, and some of the sister Dominions, particularly those with an .outlook on the Parific.
POLITICAL CRISIS IN ITALY.
SERIOUS OPPOSITION TO FASCIST PARTY.
General Prima di Rivera, who ex- changed the Dictatorship of Spain for the High Commissionership of Morocco; is directing operations, and has boldly decided to fall back from the holy city of Sheshuan, 45 miles south of Tetuan, to a new "fortiñed line.
Mr. Borsh said he did not believe that disarmament, open markets, and settled economia conditions in Europe would be possible without a previous settlement of the Russian problem
OHINA.
(THROUGH RESTRE'S AGENCY.]
MARSHAL WU PEI YU SAILS FROM
CHEFOO.
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EFFORTS TO INTEROEPT HIM.
FAXING, November 11th," Marshat Wa Fej Fu sailed southwards from Chefoo yesterday afternoon. It is believed he intends to land at Haichow Bay with the object of reaching Laoying. rid the Langhai railway, but Marshal Chang Tao Lin is rushing troops scuth
wards from Tientsin in order to occupy Hsuchowfu and intercept Wu's passage. Referring to American opposition to
DELICATE SITUATION AT the recognition of Russia under the Com.
PEKING. A communique says that the Spaniards, munist Government, Mr. Borah asked
Although Marshal Tuan Chi Jui has supported by warships and aeroplanes, how, with every other large nation recondemned the eviction. [of the Manchu provoked an engagement with a view to cognising Russia, the United States was Emperor); he is endeavouring to prevent inflicting exemplary chastisement, só as going to help matters by sitting on the an open rupture. The situation, how- to facilitate their subsequent retirement aidelines, aud withholding moral leader- in the course
of hard fighting the Spaniards" lost 10 killed and 58 wounded.
The War Office has decided to postpane the disbandment of the 1991 claas, "and call the 1923 class to the colours, in order to pursue an inexorable campaign.
OIL TANKER ASHORE.
CULLBRCOATS, November 19th.
ship.
The wireless station reports that an Anglo-American Oil Company's, steamer of 4,957 tons has gone ashore in Latitude.",
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U.S. BATTLESHIPS.
A STRANGE -"ORDER.'
WASHINGTON, November 11th. In pursuance of a widespread conten- tion that the United States is the only country carrying out the scrapping of capital ships, which have been placed out of commission by the Washington treaties, ex-Judge Hitz has issued an
ΦΤΕΣ offers fruitful possibilities of trouble, for General Feng Yu Hsiangis nominees at Peking are striving to con- solidate the position of the emergency Government, whereas Marshal Chang Tso Lin and Tuân Chi Juj, having benefitted by Feng's betrayal, are oh- viously seeking a favourable opportunity to throw aside General Feng's machinery and lay 'their own foundations for a new Government.
PLANNING THE DISPOSITION OF FORCES.
SMOKING CONCERT. HONGKONG CRICKETERS ENTER-
TAIN SHANGHAI,
Asmoking concert promoted by the Hongkong Cricket Club in bonour of the Shangbai Interport cricketers, was held last night at the City Hall, and was ex- ceedingly well attended
Mr. H. R. Hancock, Chairman of the Club, presided, and Major General Sir John Fowler.K.C.MG, C.B... D.SO., and Commodore Grace were present.
An excellent programme was given by the following performers:-Mr. Gonzales' Orchestra, selections; "The Yeoman of England," Mr. Dowbiggin; Piano solo, Mr. Bowes Smith; Baritone Salo "Friend o Mine," Mr. Musitano; Song, Mr. O. Enger; My Old Shako," Mr. Hyde Lay; Song, Mr. Hannibal; "The Trumpeter," Mr. Patterson; Mr. Olive (in ventriloqual sketch); and "Strike up a Song," Mr. Keown.
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THE CHINESE SOLDIER.
BY BRIO, GEN. C. D. BRUZ. C.D.)
In the year 1998. during a moment of inspiration, the then British Government. decided to make a naval base of the Chinese port of Wei-Hai-Wei. In order. to contrul and administer the hinterland of the new territory it was also decided to maintain there a regiment, locally recruited, but led entirely by British officers and non-commissioned officers. It would perhaps be a pardonable ex- aggeration to say of these British officers and non-commissioned officers what Cæsar wrote of himself and his famous cam- paign-Frai, Fili, Kari. But it is no exaggeration to say that the reputation as soldiers which the men of the Chinese: Regiment, with the help of their British
made for themselves is as high in China to-day as it was twenty years ago,
The writer has fought with and against Chinese soldiers. He has no hesitation in confirming what he long ago said, that if properly ted the Northerners are the finest Oriental raw material in the world. second to none. He possesses a constitu tion of iron, together with most of the
NEW Yonk, November 11th. Armistice day was observed by nation- wide patriotic ceremonies, held in "most of the cities. The two minutes' gilence was observed on a signal by a'bugle, and 36.12 North and Longitude 2.48 West order designed to restrain Mr. Wilbur, Yu Hsiang and General Lo Yung Hsiang chicers and non-commissioned officers,
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TIENTSIN, November lith. Marshal Chang Tso Lin, General Feng
Navy Secretary, from executing plans to met Marshal "Tuan's residence last destroy the battleship Washington, which night, but the conversation was social and it is suggested should be converted to an serious problems were not discussed. aeroplane carrier.
A meeting of the commanders of
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Taps
broadcast by wireless She requires assistance immediately." Special services were held in the churches and parades of troops and military balls · Advices from Methil (West Fileshite) were given.
state that the Anglo-American steamer President Coolidge visited the Un- previously mentioned is the Cheyenne,
Mr. Wilbur has called upon the Attor. Marshal". Chang's and General Feng The Northern Chinaman has a physique known Warrior's tornh at
Arlington She is ashore on the rocks off St. Monnas, zey-General. It is asserted the suit can cemetery, and crowds made a pilgrimage and is lying practically high and dry. Her not interfere with the plan for, destruc- to Arlington, where hundreds of wreaths rudder post is gone, and she is holed intion of the Washington by gunăre in a were deposited, as well as on the tomb several places. Tugs are standing by.
of ex-President Woodrow Wilson.
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ROME, November 11th. There is growing opposition to the Fascist Government and its methods, fanned by the Combattenti Association, -consisting of ex-servicemen. A cullision
PARIS, November 12th. between the two organisations, a few days The papers point out that Messrs. ago was followed by General Peppino Baldwin's and Chamberlains speeches Garibaldi, lender of the Combattenti, ex-at the Guildhall.are for France, Belgium pressing a desire to fight a duel with Siguor Mussolini which, However, did not eventuate, but General Balle,, head of the Fascist Militia. has challenged General Garibaldi.
The Government have now prohibited
and the Little Entente as satisfactory as possible, because they certify that Anglo- French relations will develop in a kordial atmosphere, and permit of the hope that true peace will be established on a basis
DUTCH WORLD FLIGHT.
AIRMEN REACH. AMBALLA
ALLAHABAD, November 19th. The Dutch airmen reached Amballa yesterday.
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MANCHESTER COTTON
TRADE,
EVIDENCE OF IMPROVEMENT.
LONDON, November 11th. The Federation of Master Cottonspin-
all political meetings, which the Com. BRITISH TRADE IMPROVING ners, at Manchester, has decided to re-
battenti declare is directed against them. The bitter feeling has been intensified by
a striking Combattenti appeal on the eve
BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
LONDON, November 19th:
An improvement in British trade" for
commend its meathers to vote in the forthcoming ballot that the weekly hours of work in mills spinning American cotton
mining test on November 14th.
Mr. Theodore Robinson, of New York, has been appointed Assistant Secretary to the Navy,
units to-day discussed the stationing of the respective troops. It is understood that for the present General Feng will have charge of the railway from Langfrugal, temperate, and. inng to Peking and be prepared to pro- cred to Wachang with General Hu Ching Li's Shensi troops. if necessary, while Fengtien troops will hold the Murden line and the northern sector of the Tsingr railway, in preparation for a advance to Nanking..
potential virtues of a first-class soldier. The Chinaman-does not drink. He is 4 wonderful mar- cher. He can carry all day an equipment few European soldiers could. He is cheery, child-like, and in his own was careless of danger. Which is not to say that he is any fonder of being killed than any other soldier.
BRITAIN AND MEXICO..
MEXICO CITY, November 11th. The Foreign Secretary, Senor Saenz,
It is stated that Marshal Chang in has stated that it is understood unoffiends to station thirty thousand troops cially that preliminary steps are being
15 Tientsin and the vicinity sad a taken for the "resumption of diplomatic similar number at Shanhaikwan.
relations with Britain, through the j friendly offices of the United States.
Mexico, is always willing decoroudly to UNITED STATES TRADE, discuss all points pending between the TEXTILE INDUSTRY DEPRESSION.
two countries.
PROHIBITION DEFEATED.
HOME BREW EXEMPT.
HALTIMORE, November 11th.
A revision of the Prohibition Commis sioner's policies and regulations will pro- This is regarded as trustworthy evi
bably be necessitated by the decision of dence that the trade is improving rapidly. the United States Court that the one half of one per cent. clause in the Volstead law does not apply to home-made or home consumed beverages,
of the reassembling of the Chamber,October is shown in the Board of Tradebe increased on December 1st from 02 to attacking the Government in
401. veiled returns Imports are £120,455,000, and terms. The manifesto declares that the exports 208,588,000, showing increases of Combattenti have never recognised any £19,561,000 and £1,305,000 respectively monopoly of patriotism, and emphasises compared with September that the Grst and foremost duty is obedi. ence to the law. It invites parliament and the Government to see, that violence ceases and that the law resumes its nor ...imal course for ull.
TROUBLOUS TIMES FORE? SHADOWED IN ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.
BRITISH SOCIALISTS IN RUSSIA.
BEN TILLET ON WAR AGAINST
CAPITALISM.
THE GENEVA OPIUM
CONFERENCE. DIFFICULTIES IN COMMITTEE. GENEVA, October 11th.
It is surmised from the protracted Moscow, November 12th.
nature of the deliberations of the sub- The Delegation of the British Trade committee of the Opium Conference, The Italian Parliament opens today. Soviet Trade Union Congress, where they uniform plan for controlling the illicit Union Congress were present at the which is proceeding in camern, that the with indications of troublous times ahead received a continual ovation throughout traffic in opium is encountering difficulty. The Opposition have published a strong the proceedings. M. Zinovie strongly manifesto to the nation, reiterating their criticised Mr. Ramanay MacDonald's de-
THE AUSTRALIAN SHIPS decision not to participate in parliamen mocratic pacifism and urged a universal tary work as long as the situation it deunion of the labour classes. Mr. Purcell
STEWARDS' - DISPUTE.
nounced last June, when it withdraw
DECLINE TO ATTEND" LUNATICS. is reported to have endorsed the latter from Parliament after the Matteotti mur-
SYDNEY, Noveinber 11th. proposal and said that he saw no possibi- der, continues, in even more aggravality of Russian Trade Unions being
The Stewards' Union has resolved to ted form. The manifesto claims that the omitted. Mr. Ben Tillett appealed for tie up all the Commonwealth lipers until Opposition represents, the majority of the
the dismissed men he reinstated, and as nation, but power as being illegally,
aasurance be given that the members shall excrdised by a minority.
not be asked to attend lasatica.
OBITUARY.
This case arose on a trial of Mr. John' Hill, who created a sensation by distri- buting home-made wine to hundreds of neighbours.
MISTAKES IN STATUES. WHERE THE TRAFALGAR-SQUARE
LIONS ARE WRONG.
most
In Aghting temperament the Northern Chinaman 14 more akin to the Turk or the Russian than the French or Italian soldier. In attack the Chinese soldier is slow and methodical, Hike the Turk. In defence, under modern conditions of trench warfare, be will be ideal. Nerves, in the European sense, he does not possess.
The following extract (May 1901) from the pen of a well-known foreign corres- -pondent serves to show what the Chinese soldier was twenty years ago. The (Wei-Hai-Wei) Chinese Regiment tribute to the excellent way in which the now numbering 1,400 men is a standing
British officer handles native Jevics. I A New York correspondent of a Lon had the pleasure of being present at the don paper writing a month ago said siego of Peking, and when the relief The "great industrial boom expected by came no men, among the most motley many Americans has not arrived with rollection of
got together, with the two com- the autumu, and whatever improve could be compared with meat there has been is moderate, and in paries of the Chinese Regiment so far as
instances disappointing. As
physique, "obedience, and soldierly quali little trend, and it is believed they will The first quality of a soldier is forti- result, the stock markets have shown ties go." Napoleon has left on 'record: continue at a slow and irregular pace tude in enduring fatigues and hardship until industrial activity is quickened, bravery but the second. Poverty, hard either through an improvement in world ship, and misery are the school of the trade, or, as some think, when the good soldier. Few. Asiatics, if any, Americans have shown at the November more nearly full these requirements elections that they have chosen a Con- then does the Chinese soldier-Dasly servative President and Congress and uit. rejected Radicalism..
of
the
A
wealth Minister in London whose func-
had been made previously, but hitherto Minister cannot bind the Cabinet. He it had been rejected on the grounds that
would only become really useful, the objectors say, when he had spent years in London, and then he would be out of touch with Australia.
Despite the Republican claims
AUSTRALIA AND BRITAIN. prosperity, however, there is a great deal of discontentment in various sections
COMMONWEALTH MINISTER 1 in the particularly of the country, textile industry, centred in the New
The Hon. W. G. Gibson, of Sydney, as England States. Here it is estimated
a result of his experiences in England, that 200,000 mill hands are idle and have to face the prospect of securing, employ. favours the appointment of a Common- ment only at wage reductions ranging tions would be separate from those of the from 10 to 25 per cent. The cotton and High Commissioner, who, Mr. Gibson ollen mills are suffering ssions they states, has not enough time to handle
from one of have ever known, and the unfavourable the tasks of two positions. The Minister effect on other lines of business is pro Ministers, who were largely ignorant of would be in constant touch with British Curious mistakes exist to show that nounced. A rise in agricultural prices Australian and Dominion affairs gener-- sculptors like the rest of us, are ang haa temporarily relieved the farming alls. T The trouble now was that Austra thing but infallible. How comes,itaitoation, although, even here, accord- that Cromwell, in the famous effigy out-
lin was so far away from England that ing to some experts, the outlook is none side the House of Commons, is wearing too good, because the American wheat members of the British Government were his spars upside down! What is the farmer will within, few years be forced of the Commonwealth. The suggestion unable to acquire first-hand knowledge archer, decorating the west side of the to abandon the export market owing to New County Hall, Westminster, doing his inability to compete with the lower with his bow in the wrong hand? Why production costs in Canada, Argentina. does the soldier in the War Memorial and Australia, outside the Royal Exchange perpetually. Americana have their minds very much on offend against King's Regulations by foreign market prospects just now, and for standing at ease with his hands covering that reason there is some impatience, to the top of his rifle barrel, and why does sce, the loan to Germany underwritten the Prince Consort, in Holborn-circus, and the reparations settlement put into raise his hat in salute-a thing no self practice, so that its effect upon world respecting Field-Marshal ever did trade can be observed. Americans are
are an equestrian statue at Enton launchinabington bent upon
out as foreign investors, hut, Hall, Cheshire, of the first Duke of West
avoiding minster about to start out hawking--the foreign entanglements, prospective aport, that is, not the kerbaide occupa. purchasers of German bonds are being tion! The statue bas been pronounced warned to buy them only on their merita. a good example of its kind, but experts and assure themselves that the bonds are in falconry point out one fault: the bird secured by every reasonable anfeguard is carried on the wrong arm. And, since European countries, it is urged, should mention of n bird brings animals to absorb an equal amount to America, so mind, a friend who is a Fellow of the that investors here will receive the pan- Zoological Society always waxes indign tection which will come from joint own- square, on account of the unnatural French, and others. Americans posture of the famous lions. Lions, he the necessity of participation in this insists, lie with their front paws turned European financing to aid economic re-rst three letters. It is estimated that it inward; never placed flat to the ground, habilitation, but they are being warned, will take 18 years to convert the whole as Four bombs have been found in a public Order of Merit in 1974. The distinguish- | "Btories of. Statues in the October" faith," and to demand full information a radius of ten miles from Oxford circus:
liana have them."From perhaps unnecessarily, not to invest on of the Landen telephone servize within
to the automatic system. Strand Magazine.
the conditions governing the loan.
union in the fight against Capitalism.
SITUATION IN SPAIN. Signor Mussolini, in a speech at a RIGID PRESS CENSORSHIP. meeting of deputies of the majority par- ties, said the Government intended to
Paris, November 12th. ; Le Journal prints n report from advance rapidly along the road towards normality. He denounced the action of Madrid stating that over eighty militant. the Opposition in absenting themselves extremists were arrested yesterday in from Parliament, as unconstitutional, Madrid alone. The Censorship is stricter and emphasised that the Fascist party than ever, newspapers not being allowed had changed its, constitution, and illega to mention the arrests in the provinces. lities and acts of violence had diminished.
BOMBS IN PUBLIC GARDEN. He paid a tribute to the Government's foreign and domestic policy, and emphas ised the importance of Colonial develop mcut schemes.
BARCELONA, November 12th.
garden and five arrests have been made.
SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE.
LONDON, November 11th. The death has occurred of Sir Archi- bald Geikie.
AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES YOR. LONDON.
In the October telephone directory, four London exchanges have new names. Hornsey is to be known as Mountview, Hammersmith as Riverside, Bromley as Ravensbourne, and Dalston as Clissold. The new automatic telephone system, which
To be started in London in 1928, requires“ the first three letters of the exchange to by the abscriber, and some existing,
be
dia change Hamer would cause co
was lately Director-General of the Geolo ant when passing through, Trafalgar | crship of the loan with the fusion, because of the similarity of the
[Bir Archibald Geikie, K.O.B., O.M., gical Survey of the United Kingdom. He was Secretary to the Royal Society from 1903-08, and its President from 1908 13. He was elected a Life Trustee of the British Museum in 1013 and received the
ed geologist was 80 years of age-].
these-