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HOME COAL CRISIS. MEN. TO CEASE WORK. `
Loxtos, July 23rd.
The Silera' Executive is instructing the miners to cease work on July 31st, except for a minimum number of safety men.
REQUEST FOR CONFERENCE.
LONDON, July 23rd.
At the conclusion of a meeting of the - crowds was held up by a distressing RE-
Miners Executive and the Special Com- vident.
The verandah of a cinema theatre inmittee of the Trade Union Congress which
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FIRE ON THE "KALYAN."
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LONDON, July 4th, Afire which attacked a cargo of egg- pulp and feathers in the No i hold of
the P. & C... Iniyon at Tilbury Dock was extinguished after three hours,
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COUNTY CRICKET. YORKSHIRE BEATS NORTHANTS.
LONDON, July 23rd..
Playing at Bristol, Gloucester defeated
Bourke Street, packed with spectators, discussed the possibility of other Unions suF-Derbyshire by au iaulugs and 2 rana. Der-
NEWS.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
UNREST IN THE NORTH. ·
FENGTIEN GENERAL'S MOVE.
*Skandma, July 23rd. The Fengtien General has closed down the Union of Labour, Commerce and Education, and also the headquarters of the Chinese Seamen's Union and a few organisations of lesser importance. Ten agitators have been arrested.
ENQUIRY RESUMED.
EVIDENCE OF EYEWITNESSES.
The enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of the victims of; the Po Hing Fong teed disaster, was resumed at the Central Magistracy yes. terday afternoon, by Mr. S. R. B. Mc Elderry, sitting us Coroner.
The Jury comprised Captain Thomas Arthur (foreman), Mr. Ho Kom Tong,
collapsed. It was at first reported that Porting the miners, a statement was issued by batted first and made only 81, Parker CONSUL MEETS COMMISSIONER. and Mr. J. O. Shepperd..
fifteen people had been "kills but it was scertained later that there were no
Putalities.
A hundred and thirty-one people were jured, some seriously.
WELCOME PLEASES POOLIDGE.
SWAMPSCOTT, July 24th.
President Coolidge is most plensed with the heartiness of the reception "accorded to the American feet in Australia. He said that the welcome was most gratify ing, and that he hoped that the visit of the het in the far Pacile would assist. in emphasising the cordial relations of the United States with the other nations of the world.
A CORRECTION.
him
urging the Government to convoke an im- mediate and unconditional conference of miners and owners, announcing that a com munication had been addressed to the Pre mier expressing their willingness to meet
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MINERS' DECISION.
LONDON, July 9th. The miners' executive have decided to meet Mr. Bridgeman to discuss the ques tion of re-opening negotiations.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT-
Loxpos, July 24th. Important dyclopments took place in the coal dispute to-day.
Representatives of the owners and miners separately met Mr. Bridgeman Reuter's Agency cabled last night the at the Ministry of Labour to discuss the
following correction:
LONDON, July 24th. Yesterday's cable "hraded Sydney" and beginning. A most imposing spectacle," should have been headed
Melbourne
obstacles to opening negotiations for a new agreement.
Simultaneously a special conference of representatives of all the Trade Unious affiliated to the Trade Union Congress was held at Central Hall, Westminster,
HANKOW, July 23rd. three for 15. Gloucester then replied with taking five wickets for 19 runs and Dennett 255, Bloodworth being top scorer with 57. On the initiative of the Chinese author Horsley took four wickets for dinningsities an interview took place this morn- Derby were all out in for 192. Parker took six wickets for 61ing between the British Consul-General and Dennett four for 60 ruos.
and the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Playing at Kettering, Yorkshire bad an easy win over Northamptonshire, winning with a view to calming public opinion by an innings and 110 ron. Northants and securing a local settlement of the batted first and made 107 runs, Forkshire
replaying with 250 for four wickets Hankow incident. (declared). Oldroyd made 109 and Rhodes 55 runs. In their second innings Northants were dismissed for the woeful total of 42 runs, Macauley taking six wickets for 19 rons und Kilner four for 21.
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Inspector E. A. Vincent, official police photographer, gavo ovidence as to taking the various photographs submitted in the case....
Capt. "Arthur: Have you been. longg at the disinfecting station?-Fourteent
years,
Have you ever known such floods be fore-This is the second time in the anme week. In typhoon weather' they had flooding, but not to the same extent,
When the old police station was there did the rain come down just the same --- When the polich station was there, there was a passage for the water.
Sanitary, Inspector J. Watson, whe resides at the disinfecting station, mud that about 9. 13 am, when he was in his ́dining-room he heard thờ crash and rush- ed outside to see what had happened, He a
cloud of flying dust. Earlier in the morning he had noticed water rushing over into Caine Lane,
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was a lot of water but did not see where it was coming from. Where it was rushing down it was about four inches deep He attributed this to the fact that coolies were probably on strike and the water pipes were choked,
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Mr. A. G. Tickle, Executive Engineer, P.W.D., then submitted his report on the calamity, which was not read.
Sergt. Chesterwoods said that he was more general character, involving Trusty questions, were simultaneously submitted walking along Caine Road on the mora-
Inspector Watt said that he was in his to Peking. The "Cothmissioner submitted ing of the 17th about 9.95 near the site of five points for consideration. Points one the old No. 8 Police Station, when be quncters in Caine Read on the morning and two referred to the protection and heard a crack and rumble. He looked in quesion when about 9.30 he heard a defence of the Concession. It was agreed round and saw a large matshed topple crash which lasted for two or in principle that a system of co-operation of towards Po Eing Fong. Practically seconds. He looked out of the window should be devised between the British, and
at the same time another matshed close and saw clouds of thist: He realized that Chinese authorities with a view to the Chinese police and military supplement. by toppled, steadied itself and then something had happened and he tele- ing the Concession police in the event of slipped to the ground. He ran along phoned to the Central Palice Headquar serious trouble. Point three referred to Hospital Road and down the steps there. the compusation in connection with the Chinese killed and wounded on July 11th, The Hill deals, inter alia, with residential It was reserved. Point four, asking for and commercial segregation and land owner the removal of Butterfield and Swire's ship." The Minister, Dr. Malad, said, the Bill did not mention Asiatics as a class Sigh watchmen from the native city, was except where unavoidably necessary. He reserved Point five required an naqur considered it undesirable to describe the nuce that there be no further maltreat- negotiations between the Union and Indianment of Chinese by the concession police. Governments regarding the Judian question. this mession.
UNION GOVERNMENT'S BILL.
TO REDUCE TOTAL OF INDIANS.
-Carrows, July 23rd. The Assembly has passed the frst reading of a Bill embodying the Government's Asiatic policy and directed towards a very considerable reduction of the Indian popula tion by the application of pressure to sup plement the inducements held out to Indians to leave the country.
He saw a temporary contractor's door. way out of which several Chinese ran, and he ran down the" stairs wondering whether there, was anyone" in the mat- sheds. While he was running down, the stairs the rumbling continued, becoming louder,
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Sergt. E. Carpenter said that he was on the first floor verandah of No. 82, Cain Road at the time. He noticed water coming up through the manhole at the junction of Seymour and Caine Roads. It was springing up to a height of three feet and the ruanhole covering was lying about two feet from the hole.
There are two divisions of the American to disenss unemployment, also the mining No further stages of the bill will be taken i The "Consul-General expressed his will The Coraner: What was your idea in He looked to see where the water was
fleet in Australia, the battleship Cali formie, fying the Hng of Admiral Robin- son, healing thirteen ships at Sydney, and Admiral Coontz's squadron at Mel- bourne consisting of 4 battleships, cruisers, and 28 destroyers.
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Losses, July 23rd Mr. Stanley Baldwin, making his eagerly expected naval construction state- ment in the House of Commons, announ ced that 'two cruisers would be begun in October, two in Fobrany, and three year ly thereafter. The Government had also decided on the annual construction of nine stroyers and six submarines, to- gether with certain ancillary vessels, ze- ginning with the financial year 1994-97,
and continus during the normal life. of the present Parliment.
and textile disputes. The miners' excea tive submitted a statement to the confer ence declaring that the miners desired i. peaceful settlement. Possibly lock-out notions might be postponed or withdrawn, but the mine-owners were perhaps the most obstinute set of employers in the country and were apparently resolved to force a lock-out irrespective of the consequences. The statement, concludes with an appeal to the whole Trade Union movement to support the miners.
WOOLWORKERS STRIKE.
Laspon July 24th.
The strike of the wool and textile ope- rasives has already begun, the aperatives resisting a 5 per cent, reduction in the cost-of-living bonus, which the employers declure is necessary foreign competition.
in order to meet
SOVIET MURDERS.
EX-PREMIER EXECUTED WITHOUT TRIAL.
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FRENCH IN MOROCCO,
SITUATION GENERALLY BETTER.
PARIS, July Sard.
A communiqué from Fez says that the enemy were caught under a heavy bom. hardment by artillery of all calibres in the vicinity of Ainaitehn and Ainmatout.
They are in full treat Northward to- wards Wergha with people and herds from many villages,
The French success has considerably | impressed the district, and the situation generally continues to improve ou al
fronts.
GERMAN POLICY.
BERLIN, July 23rd. After a speech by Herr "Stresemann, the Erichstag by 235 votes to 168 approv ed the Government's foreign policy. There were thirteen abstentiona
LORD READING GOES BACK.
LONDON, July 23rd. Lord and Lady Reading have left for India.
COURTESY.
BY GEORGIA CAMPBELL
ingness to issue warning notices as to running down the steps?-I thought it the necessity to refrain from violence, was simply a matter of the matsheds but pointed out that corresponding collapsing, and went to see if anyone was notices by the Chinese enjoining good behaviour and non-resistance to police authority were desired.
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WORLD'S BANTAM TITLE. ROSENBERG STILL CHAMPION.
NEW YORK, July 24th. Charley Rosenberg retained the World's Bantamweight Championship by knock ing out Eddie Shea in the fourth road.
OPPORTUNITIES.
AS MANY AS EVER THERE WERE.
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going and suddenly he saw the North wall gradually sinking. He saw two or three men" rushing out from a matsbed | on the East. Then the retaining wall on the East gradually fell over. He saw No. 12. Po Hing "Fong, gradually sink aud the other houses followed it.
Witness, anid that looking behind him he say that the steps were covered in débris. A. wall in front of him sud- denly collapsed. He went down a few more steps and jumped another wall and slid down the debris into the Tai On Terrace He remained: at the place for quite a while, but there were no further elides of importane
Capt. Arthur: When you were walk- ing along Caine Road did you notice the, condition of the road-There was about two inches of water in Caine
Kond
Caps. Arthur: A certain amount of this water was running over the retain-
People sometimes say that there are no opportunities for the younger genera- tion to get on in the world as I haveing wall-Yes.
That's all wrong.
Capt. Arthur: When you heard the Thus spoke Sir Thomas Lipton on his rumble and crack did you notice how 75th birthday on May 10th; and his words number one matshed went over-It beat are worth ronsidering, for there is a
sam¢
The Coroner decided to adjourn the enquiry until 2.13 p.m. on Monday, "and accompanied by the jury paid another visit to the scene of the disaster.
Mr. F. C. Jenkin attended the enquiry on behalf of fire families involved in the catastrophe (the families of Chau Si Ki, Chu Seng Sang. Chu Chung How, Wong Pak San and Chiu Xuk Chow).
WISE WORDS ABOUT FOOD.
THE EXPLODED EGG."
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FOOD AND THE FAMay. By 1”. H. Mut-
tram. Nihet, 54)
Professor Mottram, who fills so bril liantly the chair of Physiology in the University of London, has written here a wise and witty book which every house- extravagances. He tells us that egga ara wife abould read. He disdains fads and
greatly overrated:
Eggs and white fish are food for mil- lionaires. The value of the egg as food is exploded. Milk, however, makes a fine showing.
# PARIS, July 4th.
general tendency in people to believe that over, tried to recover itself, and then The Matia reports that on the night of
Though I have no patience with the they have been born into a generation toppled down. Some of these cruisers would be ten July 2nd eighteen ex-pupils of the Em-ing at the younger gencration, I often opportunities as the previous generation
embittered elders who are always sneer which will not give them the
Mr. C. W. Jefīrics (seting Director of thousand ton vessels and the remainder.
peror Alexander Lycee at Leningrad were feel that in at least one respect the youth would have given them.
of to-day is lamentably wanting.
Nearly everybody imagines that the Royal Observatory) then submitted a re-
Those who want to live cheaply may be smaller and less expensive, of approxi- executed without trial. Sixty were de
Where is the courtesy that once, if one past was an ideal time and that the port of the rainfall for June and July cheered by the knowledge that the phy ancestors do not lie, gave social inter present shows signs of decay. We think He said that on Jay 17th there would siologically necessary diet can be b
it, our fathers thought it, their fathers, course such a delicate charm und man thought it, and so on indefinitely. But not be much difference between the rain-tained for Bid a day. It consists of pers such an exquisite polish. Where
foz. of fresh herring, 1lb. 7oz of oatment, menu which is that gracious spirit which suce soften- that is cne of the illusions of life of fall at Po Hing Fong and the Kowloon and dez. of cabbage, a
which one has to rid oneself. lent a sweetness and gentle chivalry to ed, the harshness of man to man and
Observatory. It was practically the same does not sound thrilling. FICTION OF THE PAST..
all over the Colony, with the exception chewing one's food so many times that "Fletcheriam," which "consista in his relations with women ?,
If one is always living in the past and rather frequently of late.
I had myself asking these questions bewailing the present, it is certain that of the Wopg Nei Cheong Valley. before it a swallowed it has lost all
Only yester the future won't hold very much for one. day, travelling in a South Kensington And, as a matter of fact, the idea that
The Coroner: Was there any marked favour," is treated with gentle humour,
and this verdier is pronounced on it: omnibus, I saw a party of a dozen small the past was infinitely, superior to the direction of the wind on this day -1 am schoolboys, in charge of a master, take present is mainly a fiction, which we unable to say, wind is very variable. possession of the vacant seats; and foster for the purpose of excusing our though women, some of them quite old, own lack of success.
nately eight thousand tons. The All-ported to the extrethe north of Russia miralty would meet the additional ex- or imprisoned.. pense of £327.170. from the savings on The executed include Prince Nicholas other hands. The Government would only Galitzine, aged 76, the last Russian ask Parliament, to nake ndditional
Premier, on the ground of the execution provision this year in respect of the of an alleged plot in Paris against the commencement of the new programme;.if | Soviet. satisfied of the impossibility of making
The plot actually consisted. says the these savings, but did not propose to paper, of raising subscriptions to relieve allow the increased expense to constitute ex-pupils of the Lycee, now destitam an addition to the total pavy estimates.
The Admiralty would do ita utmost te diminish the extra cost of the new con- struction by substantial reduction in
POLAR ZEPPELIN PLAN,
Moscow, July 24th. The Norwegian Air Force officer, maintenance and other sharges in the Capt. Druns, has arrived in Berlin and a conference of experts navy Moreover, a committee of three submitted to unconnected with the Government would plans for a Zeppelin expedition to the
North Pole under Nansen in 1927, be appointed as soon as possible to
The route would be from Murmansk examine maintenance cost and interior economy of the Navy, Army, and Air the North Pole to Alaska or Anadyr, passing unexplored areas of the Arctic services
Ocean to investigate the possibility of establishing regular Trans-Arctic air -communication between Europe and
America rit Siberia and Japan.
There was lively questioning by Labour M.P.'s and others, Mr. Arthur Header- sour intimating that the opposition would draw attention to the matter on Tues-
# day
Mr Purcell said he wondered when they would get a Government with the courage to put the Admiralty in its pro- per place,
Is it estimated that the flight from Murmansk to Anadyr would occupy fifty hours..
a
Capt. Arthur: Would you call this subsequently get in, not one of those Memory invariably tends to idealise rainfall for June and July abnormal for boys offered to give up his seat, nor did what has gone before. The unpleasant the master suggest that any of them incidents are forgotten or softened, the Hongkong-Yes Considering that should.
Again today, in a tube, I stood for Pleasant ones seem doubly sweet in re-similar quantity has only fallen on three
membrance. This is a very good thing, twenty minutes while youths in trousers but it ought not to blind us to the factccasions previously, 1885, 1891, 1882.
Cap Arthur: Has this rainfall been rather wider than my skirt lounged back that the present will one day be the past and insolently surveyed me. Now, being and that we shall look back upon it and exceeded by any other months during young and healthy, I have no wish to sentimentalise over the "good old times." take any weary or elderly workman's
There are just as many opportunities the past few years-On the statement I Beat; but I do think that of a dozen to-day as ever there were, if, indeed, there have submitted, you will notice every young men in Oxford trousers there are not many more, and the qualities that should be one who is not exhausted by enable a man to seize his opportunities rainfall of over ten inches in 21 hours. toanual labour..
and make a success of his life are exactly the same. now as they always were.
CHARACTER WINS.
Smail things, of course, but they are typical of what is going on, every day in every train and omnibus in London. The average young man, no longer stands
Capt. Arthur said that the jury would like the rainfall for June and July day
Carried to extremes it is illogical, unscientific, and dangerous, though there is a modicum of truth in the cuit.
Gladstone's longevity must therefore have been dué lesa, to his habit of masti- eating every mouthful 32 times than to hia: vigorous physique"
EFFECT OF COLD STORAGE.
The author qurations the effect of cold storage on food:
It certainly alters flavour, and "most things which have been long stored taste, alike. Further, we know that the carnosine content of mutton; and beef falls in cold storage to shout a third of its value... If carnosine is so altered, how can we be sure that the beef is not altered in other respecta↑ The most dangerous forms of food, be
the Gaertner microbes,"" are pork, ham, bef, brawn, usages, meni pies, tinned
back as a matter of course when the train changing conditions, but the future still be supplied on Monday.
We may regret the past, we may deplore by day and witness said that this would stops or the theatre door opens. He waits, as it has always waited, to be con pusles ahead, and, if you contest his quered by those with energy, brains Fung Chuen (Banitary foreman) said cause they act as growing grounds for passage, thinks nothing of using his imagination, and personality. If you that at 9.10 a.m. on July 17th he was elbows. He contradicts women Tatly. want to Be fortunate you have got to When a woman caters or leaves a room knock on Fortune's door. She is a shy at the disinfecting station below Po Hing be merely noda wearily, murmure a casual person-but a
very good judge of Fong when be heard a rumbling and went greeting or farewell, and settles himself character! With rare lapses, she gives out to see what was the matter. He found more comfortably on the cushions. Hoher benediction only to those who decorve
·AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.
no longer thinks it a privilego if youít.
gratings and channels choked with sand, dance with him. MELBOURNE, July 24th.
And even when, he There are, admittedly, unfortunate peo- etc.
He heard a terrific crash, which proposes his bored superciliousness rug.ple in the world-that is to say people Commdr Kenworthy asked whether the
Anxiety as to the effects of the shipping gests that he is doing you a favour which who deserve to succeed and who, do not lasted about two or three seconds and he programme was drawn up without reler strike are increasing Mr. Bruce has you would do wdl to snatchat before succeed but there can be no general rule saw that torrents of water were washing ence to the ships building abroad.
without exceptions, and it would be very Mr. Baldwin, replying, emphasised urged both sides to strive for an early he changco his mind.
It is, they say, all a consequence of foolish to decide beforehand that you are down from above. The water was rusk- 0, for which we chiefly look to frnit that this was entirely a replacement settlement, as it is impossible for the the new equality of the axes. Well, doomed to be one of the exceptions. To ing through a gap in the wall on Caine Programme, and promised detailed ex Government to contemplate such a state equality is good thing. But we are abandon the fight before it is well begun Hond planations at the debate
of things.
I paying a heavy price for it.
is a form of cowardics
mest and various pickled orgaDA. Mut ton is rarely implicated."
Mutton is therefore the safest of menta in hot weather, and it is also from the physiological standpoint the cheapest meat, with the singles exception of bacon, The value of apples appears to be over totod: Apples and grapes are disap pointing"""" says Professor Mottram, re forring to their contents of "Vitamin
Far superior are farauges, lemons, and tomatoes, and vegetables of the cabbaga, varicky.