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·RUSSIA AND CERMANY, COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT NOT YET SIGNED.
BERLIN, October 2nd. Negotiations between Herr Stresemann and M. Chicherin lasted till four in the morning, but did not result in the signa- tare of the proposed Russo-German Com- mercial Agreement, chiefly owing to the Soviet demanding a loan of 200,000,000 marks to purchase agricultural and other machinery, while the Gernians were un willing to gannt more than 100,000,00% The German Foreign Ofee Commission will shortly go to: Moscow in the hopes of "arriving at a satisfactory" dolution.
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CAMPAIGN IN MOROCCO. SPANIARDS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE
MADRID. October 1st.
A communique states that pronting by the confusion of the enemy as a result of our victorious advance on September 30th we to-day continued to advance and occupied this morning "Adrar Seddon, an important position near Ajdir. The guns on this position completely dominate Abd el Krim's village. The enemy ars resisting, feeply.
AJDIR IN FLAMES.
MADRID, October 2ad. General Prins de Rivers has wireless-
ed from the battleship Alfons XIII that
at-3 o'clock this afternoon, result of the Spanish bombardment. Ajdir s afar
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1925
LABOUR CONFERENCE. ATTACK ON DAWES SCHEME
LONDON, October 1st The Labour Party Conference has adopted the Executive's resolution on foreign policy, urging the principles
"of the Geneva Protocol as the only practicat basis for securing permanent peace and general disarmament and also conder ing the offer to accept the Iraq mandate for another 23 years.
WARLIER CARENS. REUTERS AMERICAN SERVIOK
FRENCH DEBTS TO U.S.
TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT
REACHED
WARRINGTON, October 1st- It is announced that the French pip- posals for funding the French debt to the United States have been rejected. LATER.
Atemporary settlement has been
Mr. Herbert Smith, the President of reached in the debt negotiations pro
FAR
EASTERN CABLE
NEWS:
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YELLOW KIVER VICTIMS.
CHINA INTERNATIONAL RELIEF COMMITTEE VOTE FUNDS.
Pexixa, October 2nd.
The Executive. Committee of the China International Famine Relief Committee has voted $10,000 for the thief of the
request of the Shantung authorities, has
the Miners' Federation, in the course of viding for a payment of forty million Yellow River flood victims, and at the
the discussion, attacked the Dawes He said it was killing the scheme. Labour moveinent and if the Labour Party would not enquire into its opera tions and results the Miners International would do'sa
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald associated him self with Mr. Sinith's remarks, but dé fended the Labour Government's action with regard to reparations. He claimed that they took, the reparations- problem out of the hands of a political committee and put it into the hands of an economic, and more or less, impartial committee. Had that step been properly and ener: setically followed up it would have been a step forward in the emancipation of the European working classes.
CAPITAL LEVY.
The Labour Conference adopted the Executive's resolution in favour of public ownership of the banking credit systemp and alan the National Finance resolution. reaffirming opposition to food taxes and protective tariffs and demanding vigorous steps to increase taxation or accumulated wealth and excessive incomes and a large and speedy reduction in the National
Debt
Replying to criticisms that the resolu tion did not refer to the Capital, Levy, Mr. Snowden raid that the resolution did not repudiate the principle of the levy. but asked the next Labour Government
dollars annually. The arrangement
covers a period of åre, yearsoldat
T.A. RIVER GUNBOATS,
ANCIENT NOMAD RACE:
THE PEOPLE OF THE - STEPPES.
The world knows little of its greatest men, it is said. Or of ita ancient peoples either, one may add. When Mr- Ralph Fox was sent by the mission in South Coast Russia, to which he was at tachedy to buy horses for them in the wide tracts of wilderness between the Sea of Aral and the frontier of Afghanistan, be did not imagine that he would alight on an ancient and nomad race, the people of the steppes, whe, as he suggests, would seem to be, not a untion, but yagments of all the tribes
COMPLEXION CHARM.
HOW TO SECURE IT.
BY RAZBIRA RUDDEN.]
Afach of the pleasure of a day in the
open air, or a strenuous game of tennra For an evening in the dange room,
lost to the woman whose skin assumen
A
shiny, greasy look as soon as abe takes exercise. She never attains that cool and dainty appearance which essential to enhance pretty dresses or hate.. However good! are her features
however charming her shingle, the greasy skin seems to predominate over all her good points and spoil the whole
digested and nourishing food, and as much cold water during the daytime as possible, must be taken.
sent two engineers thither.
of Central Asia, who have risen to power offret. M Caillaux tomorrow takes hack the
from time The Committee has also passed a rei
to time.
The woman whose skin is inclined to American proposal, enabling, a continu- solution drying the early inauguration of
The journey, undertaken lightly be greasy does not and is easy to im ance of the discussions with a view to the special Commission recently appoint.enough, been a pilgrimage of ulven prove the appearance of her complexion. a permanent settlement any time withined to administer the proceeds of the ture and of varied and strange exper Often a poor digestion is the 'cause of that period.
farine surtax in order to deal with the fence. For months the author lived as the trouble, so the first essential part acute distress which has arisen in various the wild herdsmen live in Turkestan, of the treatment must begin with the
travelling huge provinces.
distances, - meeting care of the "diet-plenty of easily strange friends, and getting to a closer grip with the mentality of a people whose hopes had first been roused by the Great Revolution. then crushed under the new Turkeatna Soviet Republic, and who are SHANGHAI, October 2nd,
now dreaming of another and a greater Tenders for the building of six Ameri- Empire than they have ever known. can river gunboats were publicly opened We should imagine that he had nothing on the 30th September. There were two to teach and much to learn in the art from Hongkong, the Taikoo and Kowloondi buying horses. Why should the pro- Docks sending in estimates. The award festion," as we suppose we must call it, be associated with so little transparent rests with Washington.
honesty.
HONGKONG YARDS. S
The annoucement that an agreement had been reached came at the conclusion of a day fall of conflicting, rumours;}} during which all concerned laboured u ceasingly to reach an exit from the in: TWO TENDERS BCEIVED FROM passe created in the early morning when the Americans announced that the French proposals were not acceptable, it is generally thought that Mr. Coolidge. while officially silent, strongly influenced to-day's negotiations as he was aarious to prevent M. Caillaux returning without an agreement.
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OPINION OF PRESS.
NEW Youx, October and
All the morning papers regret that a full settlement of the French debt has not been accomplished.
The Herild-Tribune hopes that no political" manœuvres by M. Cailloux will be permitted to cloud, in the French mind, the fact that the American pro- posal is fair and generous,
EXPLOSION IN MANILA.
FORT MCKINLEY MAGAZINE. RAINS SHELLS.
MANIA, October end. The magazine at Fort McKinley has exploded and is raining shells into the reservation and adjacent village. believed there have been no casualties, The case of the explosion has not been
The New York World regrets the determined. failure to settle this miserable question for five years. This irritating business
including Abd el Krim's house. FRENCH SUCCESSES.
PARIS, October 1st Simultaneously with the Spanish suc- cesses a Fez commenigné claims that the French are victoriously advancing to deal with the problem of the redemp and have captured numerous villagestion of the National Debt, whereupon north of Kiffane, occupying an additional one critic described the resolution as the will continue to bedevil our relations three hundred square kilometres of ter ritory. Aided by a large use of tanks they are irresistably advancing on a fifteen-mile front.
2.
WAR CORRESPONDENT KILLED. Colonel Reginald Kahn, war correspon. dent of the Temp, was killed on the Erkenr ronul on puute to visit the French advanced posts..
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FRENCH AIRMEN ACTIVE.
F, October 2nd. The French operations on the front at Kiffane are temporarily at a standstill.
The French troops brilliantly carried all the heights, which were strongly held by the enemy and reached all their oh jectives
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burial service of the Capital Levy and with France by providing the jingoes appealed to the Conference to stop the both sides with claptrap." rot in their parliamentary party and its drift towards Liberalism.
WINDFALL FOR THE BROKERS. SURPRISE AT REDUCTION IN BANK RATE.
LONDON, October 1st The reduction in the Bank Rate, has dumbfounded City circles, because the announcement was made only two days after the Government had accepted the Conversion Loan tenders.
{THROUGE KRUTER'S AGENCY.} PARIS. PRESS DISAPPOINTED. PARIS, October 2nd. The press is disappointed at the result of the Washington negotiations.
LeJournal says: "Thus fruitlesaly in uncertainty and gloom concludes oge of the most painful episodes of peace,
Le Figaro declares that in response to
It is
CHOLERA IN MANILA.
"FORTY-EIGHT HOURS. SEVENTEEN CASES OCCUR" WITHIN
MANILA, October 2nd.
There have been seventeen cases of cholera in Manila and the adjacent pro- vinces within 48 hours. New enses, bow- ever, are dccrensing,
GESTURE TOWARDS CHINA.. FRIENDLY ATTITUDE ADOPTED BY THE POWERS.
LONDON, October 1st.
4:
once or
RUB WITH ICE: Having Adjusted the diet, there i every hope of success following upon the use of certain, external remedies The face should be steamed twice a week and afterwards rubbed briskly with ice until the cheeks glow. Many women renowned for their beauty apply the fee treatment daily, as it is excellent for tightening up the muscles and keeping the face arm. If ice is not procurable, an astringent lotion,
There is an art in this chapeu ing he says so subtle, so full of infinite tricks of paychology, thas only great artist can hope to be a success. You must be able instinctive such as orange water or eau de Cologne, ly to judge the meaning implicit in the can be applied instead. Camphor water flicker of on eyelid, to feel the in-
cerity in the touch of a band, to read is a good lation and is made at home absolutely from the minutest physical cheaply and easily. A lamp of camphor signs all that passes in your opponent's crushed into powder and a pint of mind. Nor is this all for you must
congeal completely your own thoughts, cold water is poured on it. The lotion you must never ponder or hesitate, but must be shaken well and left to stand know your goal and make. straight
SOAP AND FULLER'S EARTH:
there with swift decisions and light for a couple of days. It must be strain- ning thrusts. There are little tricks ofed before it is used for rubbing over the enemy you must be prepared to the face. avaid A Kirghis will hold your hand in his, crashing the thumb most cruelly with a certain grip; they know, nad argue till you are forced to consent to his price, sino pride and the rules of the game forbid you to withdraw or show pain. And this is baying horses in Turkestan
"
As the skin is not functioning pro Ferly-otherwise it would not be greasy friction must be included in thes treatment Substitute a. not too rough use it vigorously with some pure soap. loofab for the ordinary face glove and Afterwards dust the skin with faller's earth. #
militia, their own" judges on the re- volutionary tribunal, in short, the skeleton of a strong and enduring, social organisation.
The people of the steppe, as so often before in history, are on the march again.
It was only through the intermediary of the Cossacks that the author could get in touch with the real and ancient people of the steppe, the Kirghiz Kazaka, who had ridden their horses and pastured their flocks there centuries be fore the Cossacks emerged from savagery. The word Kazak has simply the significance of "wandering horseman," much in the sense of the "chevalier errant of the Middle Ages. They were formed by wandering adventurers from A strange people, they are, and who came A friendly gesture towards China will many Turanian nations, nameless men prophesy teedily strength hatre E with only a borse and a sword, who went awakening Bodily strength borne of of the air of the great plains and of tem- be made in the Note which will be hand- Kazak as the poor nobleman
to the Peking Government to-morrow.
romance took to the road for a living crate living is their greatest gift. They or the injured Corsican to the maquis.are frank, hospitable, and courteous to them reckon 3,000,000 souls, and their with the simple man's fear of the written The Note enamerates the measures the There are four Horder, who between strangers. Most of them are illiterate, of alliance and friendship
Powers have taken to improve the atmos-country is larger than Western Europe character. Their infant press has not The incident is criticised as showing
The Communist newspaper L'Humanite phere at Shanghai, and expresses readi- The Kazaks were a nation before the yet lifted them out of the slought of Mongol invasion, but it was only after their superstitions, if it ever will and all their lives they go in fear of witches, lack of coptart between the Treasury's
nancial advisers and the Governors of ask whether the Anglo-Saxon financiers Dess to instruct the Consuls at Shanghai the great onslaught of Chengiz Khan, heavy loss to the Treasury.
The result was a sharp rise in invest. ment issues under the lead of the gilt edged securities with a handsome profit for the brokers who successfully tendered for the Conversion Loan. If the price rises only one point the brokers profit is four hundred thousand sterling and in addition they have the ability for borrow. ing money more cheaply.
France's generous gesture" in "accepting without discussion the total bill, America has proposed to France slavery
Le Petit Journal says that certain
Americans have forgotten the obligations
.offensive were only 15 killed and 50 the Bank of England, with resultant or the workers and peasants of France to endeavour to improve the relations when, the empires of Kara-Khitai and fer spirita, nd warlocks, They name
The French losses in the two days'
wounded. The air force carried out sixty bombing raids yesterday.. ;
SPANISH PRESS PLEASED.
MADRID, October 2nd. With the recent captures of the heights, including Adrar Beddun, a communiqué lains that the Spaniards have complete. ly established the military base required for the advance on Ajdir." They are now masters practically of the whole of Albucemas Bag,t
The newspapers are jubilanti: FRENCH AIRMAN RELEASED. PARIS, October 2nd. released without serving the remaining twelve days of his prison sentence. Pre- viously to being released, he assured the Authorities at Freiburg that his firm would pay the balance of his fine.
The reduction was actually expected are to control French economic life. on September 24th in view of announce. ment of the impending issue of the Con- version Loan.
M. CHICHERIN BUSY IN BERLIN: CREDIT OF HUNDRED MILLION MARKS WANTED.
BERLIN October 1st. 3. Chicherin is very busy. He is re peatedly conferring with Herr Luther and Herr Stresdmann. He was entertained to a banquet by the latter yesterday, and to lunch by Herr Luther today. He is nego tiating with German bankers to secure credits of a hundred million marks for
in Germany.
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Khiva were broken up, that Lying rem their children after feeble animals endow- something of the strength and organisa such terrified humility will be beneath whedaste from many great tribes gave themed with sorry qualities, in the hope that tion they possess to-day. Till 1834, the notice of the evil spirits. They strange as the statement may acem-their observe no religion save in their hearts, very existence was unknown to the Rus and you rarely we one of them perform sians, and it was not until 1573 that bis ablutions and recite the format Ivan the Terrible sent envoys to the prayers, Aral Sea to open up trading negotiations with their Khans
L'Horime Libre it of opinion that thetween employers and workers final result of the American proposals
Chinn giyes similar instructions. will be that the United States will hold The Note also expresses willingness to discuss the rendition of the Mixed Courts mandate over France. [FECTERS AMERICAN SERVICE.) and the question of Chinese representa INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION. tion on the Municipal Council, promis ing to give careful consideration to the MEETING. OF THIRTY-EIGHT
Chinese objections to the proposed by NATIONS AT WASHINGTON."
flaws WASHINGTON, October 2nd: Welcoming Four hundred delegates, representing thirty-eight nations at the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary.
* Kellogg, said the attention of the world.
CLEARING THE WAY
PEKING, October 2nd.
This mnte disregard of Islam [says Mr. Fox) is the more curious kinon Samarkand and Bokhara are centres af the purest Muslim faith and are rever enced throughout Islam for their leszn ing and piety,
The effect of the Russian Revolution on this race of horsemen and abepherds, says Mr. Fox, has been disturbing in the depth of passion it has roused and the What, he asks, will become of these fenging it has stimulated. They have people and their steppe? Are they doqm-- shared in the awakening of Central to to extinction like the Red Indians Asians to the glories of the past. the of Ameried, or does fate hold for them humiliation of the present, and the in future not unworthy of their past 1: Greeti mensity of the future. The war gave the steppe dominated the world, for the them hope that the lands filched from trade of the world, before sen-ways were
The French airman, M. Coste, has been the purchase of agricultural machinery Union, the Secretary of State, Mr. It is learned that the Waichiaopu and them by the Cossacks would be restored, known, passed over, it, and to day they
It is announced that the Russo-German was centred in the study of self-govern the interested Powers have agreed upon commercial pourpariers are so advanced ment. Nothing could be more stimulat that the conclusion of the Treaty is ex-ing for the advancement of liberal ideas, an exchange of Notes disponing of cer pected before Herr Luther and Herror contribute more certainly to peace tain issues raised by the Chinese Note Streseimann leave for LocaTce to-morrow. than such an exchange of views as they of June 24th, but not including the rose in revolt, heralding at once the Tashkent and Kashgar, and over alt fem
circles Political
surmise..that M were engaged in. Chicherin's activities are not unconnected
The meeting was held in the Chamber actual responsibility for the Nanking with the discussions to take place at of the Lower House of Congress. This Road incident, the re-organisation of the Rapallo Treaty,
SUMMER TIME ENDS.
LONDON, October 2nd,
*Summer time in Great Britain ends Locarne and their possible effect on this the first time the auditorium has been Council or the rendition of the Mixed
officially at 3 o'clock on the morning of Sunday
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INTER-EMPIRE TRADE.
SUPPORT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE.
AZA MELBOURNE, October 2nd. The Empire Press Conference warmly acclaimed inter Empire trade and passed resolations exhorting the Press of the Empire to do its utmost to promote it. The Conference is establishing a sub- committee, to deal with the question.
The next conference which will meet.in London in 1938,
German Nationals, who ordinarily op pose everything Bolshevistic areat present estelling the advantages of a German Russian rapprochement.
HOME FOOTBALL.
LONDON, October 1st, The following are the results of matcher in the English League played to-day-
BESTIEST DLVISION.
Notts County, 1; Liverpool, z..
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH). Newport, 1, Bournemouth, a
THIRD DIVISION (FORTH) Tranmers, 0: Grimsby,
used for any other purpose than the assembly of the regularly elected legis lators of the United States,
CRISIS IN CHILE. CABINET AND PRESIDENT HAVE
RESIGNED.
SAZZIAGO DE CHILE, October 2nd, Following
the refusal of Colonel Ibanez, Minister of War, to resign owing to his acceptance of nomination at the presidential election, the Cabinet has resigned..
President Alessandri has also resigned, Senhor Luis Borgono Alessandria, the unsuccessful competitor at the Tast elec tion, has taken over the vice-presidency.
Court which will form the subject of further discusions.
Notes embodying this agreement be published to-morrow.
Fox is worn to the exclusion of almost any other fur piece, Silver, blue, or red fox are the favourites.
In the ensemble outfits, the colouring may be carried out in one colour, with the hat matching the dress or coat. One woman looks like a piece of green asparagus, another, a stick of molasson
There is a new Russia to-day who dominates all Asia, full of life and young vigour. Will she repeat the com guests of the great Mongols and store the peoples of the steppe to their ancient heritage? The Russian Revolu tion and the Asiatic Benaissance hava marched side by side from 1995 to 1925, and who can deny that the future is their to seize if they can find lenders great enough to point the way if the rest of the world persists in all hos tility and minnderstanding.
but they reached the breaking point of are signs that the land is taking back loyalty in 1918 when the Imperial Gov-its old domain, Railways with turbine ernment decided to recruit the nomads Jocomotives are there, motor-lorries have into labour battalions. Exasperated, they established a regular service between Russian Revolution and the Asiatic the aeroplane. national movements which were to follow. Bureal freedom was not yet and the new Turkestan Soviet Republic proved as great a curso to the nomads as the old Empire has been, Caught between the White Army of Cossacks in Orenburg and the Red Communists in Orenkent, their communications with civilisation were cut, their herds seized by the contending armies, and their grain supplies destroyed. Famine rodo quickly through the hordes, and a million had died of hunger before if Mr. For's book hail no other effect: Moscow, wiser than the so-called native it will have that of removing much of Government in Tashkent, intervened the misunderstanding of a strange and with a strong hand to save the ur potentially powerful people and of alley. vivors from extermination. Now they ing some of the existing feeling, "of are the spoiled children of the new hostility towards them. Understanding Russia, completely their own masters, is ete of the surest ways to friendship. possessing again their ancient lands,
People of the Stepper. By Ralph They have an infant Press
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