CABLES
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LOCARNO CONFERENCE.
STRESEMANN DISPOSES OF POISON RUMOUR.
LeeAnn. October (th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
EARLIER CABLES.
CAMPAIGN IN MOROCCO. FRANCO-SPANISH CONTACT IS ESTABLISHED AT SYAH.
Frz. October 6th. Contact has been established between the French and the Spanish troops at Syah. The news has profoundly impress-
the whole country.
FRENCH STILL ADVANCING,
LATEST CABLES. [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
COLUMBUS OUT OF DATE. NORSEMEN SETTLED IN AMERICA BEFORE HIM
Hatirax, October 7th. The steamer Prary, the aeroplane car- rier of the Macmillan Arctic expedition. has arrived herr. Captain Macinillas, interviewed, and that he believed dis
Fzz, October eth.
coveries in Labrador would prove ena The French advanced from Hab Karonclusively that Norsemen settled in to Djeb el Berkane, thirteen miles north America, before the arrival of Columbus, of Kiffane,
He declared he had discovered one settle ment about 1,500 years old.
A crop of rumours has been spreads daring the past twenty-four hours, be- ginning with a story of a plot by German.
· Nationalists 19 assassinate Herren Luther and Stresemann because they were will ing to renounce any further claims to Alsaer-Lorraine, and ending with a res port that the minor indisposition of Berr Stresemann is really due to his being poisoneta
The Inther story was effectively dis posed of by Herr Stresemann's appear- „ing at the funfernce-to-day,
WESTERN AND EASTERN PACTS.
Locarno, October 8th.
A singularly good and sympathie feel ing was apparent during the two hours' sion of the Conference to-day, but no critical questions have yet been reached, such as the arrangeraent under which Germans will
enter the League of Nations" and the conclusion of the Western and Eastern Security Pacts
It is believed that the jurists reached a conclusion as regards the Western Pact, but that is serious difference of pinion still exists between the French, Polish, and German standpoints as re- gards the Eastern.
LATEST CARLES.
FAIR PROGRESS MADE.
Locauxo; October 7th."
A substantial part of the Western Security Pact has been completed. It is expected jurists will add the "nishing touches to-day. But the glass is not set so fair with regard to other subjects to be considered and it must not, he forgot
*top that all questions, are interlopendent. VIEWS OF FRENCH PRESS.
PARIS, October 7th. Newspaper Jespatches from Locarno toshadow a tug of war with the German representatives, particularly on the question of the Eastern Pact.
'L'Echo de Porix says that the optimísto with which the conference opened has „bern" replaced by greater reserve, ́it
The rain is delaying operations, but the French havis renched Job el Nador and Jeb el Braret with cavity co-oper- ation.
ARD EL KRIM'S METHODS.
"PAL, October 6th.
A message from Tangier states that, Abd el Krim hack. the Foreign Minister Si Mohamed Zerkane whom he accused of betraying the Rifan cause fired from the month of a canuon. Several prominent tribal leaders were also executed
LATEST CABLES. RAIN INTERVENES.
MADRID, October 7th. Heavy rains prevented the continuance of the combined French and Spanish cavalry operations in the Melilla sector today. Activities in the past 5 hours have been mainly confined to air-raids.
EARLIER CABLES.
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SOVIET FINANCE.
STATE BANK PROJECTS LARGE CREDITS.
EARLIER CABLES.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.
SAGE MAXIMS ON SECURING PRACE.
Oazana, October 8th.. Addressing a convention of the Ameri can Legion. Frysident Coolidge predict rd that the world would prepare for an- other conflict unless racial animosities were demobilised and an attitude of universal toleration created.
He hoped that Amerien would take the lend in this connection, and begin at home.
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Peace and security were more likely to sult from fair and honourable dealings and mutual agreements as to the limit of armaments by nations than any at- temps at competition in squadrons and battalions. Mr. Coolidge expressed the opinion that the military should he sub- ordinated to and governed by civil authority, therefore any organisation of men in the military service bent on in flaming the public mind for the purpose of forcing the Government to action through the pressure of public opinion was an
precedent.
Moscow, October 8th. M. Sakotsikov, "the Commissary of Bank has concluded an agreement with exceedingly dangerous undertaking and Finance, has announced that the State
a group of the largest German banks
"America first" was a per- whereby the latter will grant the State- Bank., a, credit of 73,000,000 German fectly enrreet ospiration for American marks, which, combined with a trade to cherish, but the problem they had to many of goods on credit valued at solve was how to make America first. It 100,000,000 gold marka. A term Of could not be done by cultivating national
several months" is suggested for the credit. M. Sokolcikor states that this
bigotry, arroganer, and selfishness. credit is the first of a series of large Hatreds, jealousies, and suspicions credit agreements projected by the State would not produce any benefits in this Bank.
direction."
credit, will enable the purchase, in Ger-
SHIPPING STRIKE.
TROUBLE OVER ORVIETO'S " COAL.
SYDNEY, October 6th. The crew of a collier refused to leave
which arrived here from Melbourne on
being realised that the Germans will the wharf to coal the Orient liner Orin Hay nu extremely keen game.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S FEARS. UNHAPPY ABOUT BRITAIN'S OUTLOOK.
Mr. Lloyd George, who for several weeks has been at Criccieth, spoke in October 2nd. The wharf labourers also the village institute at Llagystemdwy, refused to handle, the. Greletu's coal the village where he spent,, his boyhood, The exporters' proposal to pay the He said he was there not as a statesman, good, bad, or indifferent, but as an old striking samen, an extra pound or the village lad. He had known that vilings for the homeward journey in view of the off and on, for over sixty years, and he disastrous delay in exports was without was very devoted to it. He admired its Eve Nuncille says that the shadow result, owing, it is believed, to the op beauty and loved its traditions,
position of the shipowners.
Poland and Czecho-Slovakia are appre- housive in the matter, la France will
not desert them.
The
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WHERE IS CHICHERIN?
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REPORTED TO BE IN TWO PLACES
AT ONCE.
"I am a believer in villages," proceed ed Mr. Lloyd George. I am a believer in the country. I do not know what is going to happen-who does? I do not like the outlook What follows a great war are just broken waters after a great storm, and they have not calmed down BERLIN, October stb.
I feel exactly as I did when, with my M. Chicherin is still here. He visited wife and daughter, I crossed the whirl of President Hindenburg, this being his Niagara about two years ago. On that first time inside the Presidential resid-wire rope you look down and you see just a sort of swirl of waters. Looking down
of Russia dominates Locarno.
estion is whether Germany is looking West on Enat. According as this ques tion is answered afirmatively or neiga tively so will the Locarno pour parlers Signify the commencement of the recon- struction of Europe'· or the inauguration of a dubious situation, heavy with perilence. for the Allies,"
Le Journal's correspondent says that French circles ip Locarno declare that it will be inadmissible for the proposed Fact to suppress or to weaken existing treaties Should Germany try to go buck on the engagements into which she has entered in the course of negotiations before the Conference the responsibility for a check will rest entirely, with her.
FLOW OF COLD.
SECURITIES LITTLE AFFECTED., "BY PAYMENTS TO U.S.A.A
LONDON, October 7th, The recent large gold withdrawals from the Bank of England are believed to be for America, owing to the
usual autumnal payments. The exchange nd. justment Ead been without much effect on gilt edged securities in view of the fact that large arrivals are expected shortly from Africa, which are held up by the shipping strike3
Yesterday the withdrawal reduced the not influx since the restoration of the gold standard in April to £2,160,000 compared to £8,651,000 carlior.)
BOOM IN RUBBER.
HEAVY BUYING ON LONDON MARKET.
LONDON, October 7th. On the Stock Exchange, despite alight reaction in commodity prices, the excite ment in rubber shares continues. Buying this morning is said to have come from all quarters and prices are soaring.
Rouz, October 6th."
M. Chicherin, who was supposed to be on the way to a health care in Ger many, is reported to base arrived at Moran, in the Trentino:
ANTI-MALARIA CONGRESS.
TO MEET AGAIN IN ALGIERS IN
FIVE YEARS' TIME.
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THURSDAY, ' OCTOBER 8TH, 1923
WOMAN SHOOTS A BANDIT. TO SAVE THE LIFE OF HER HUSBAND.
An astonishing story of an encounter between a burglar, a bank manager, and his wife, in which the wife shot the burglar dead to anve her husband's life,
Matthew Kolidee, a bank bandit, at St. was disclosed at the ingast held on
Catharines, Ontario, recently,
Mr WR. Rodger, wife of the St. David's bank manager, was completely exonerated by the jury.
"We and, from the evidence submit- td. said the jury, that Kolides came to his death from a bullet wound iu- ficted from a shot fired by Mrs. Rodger in protecting the life of her husband. We also appreciate the beroism shown by Mrs Rodger, and would recommend that recognition be shown her for her quick action in saving the life of her husband and the property of the bank,”
DOG'S WARNING,
Mr. Rodger, in relating to the jury the account of his death struggle with Kolides, said that the watch dog in the down, he found the cellar door opon. bank downstairs barked, and, going
He let the dog out, and he ran round
ning, but returned.
He went back to bed, and about four o'clock in the morning his wife woke him with the remark, Look who's here The cat, which had been locked outside the wereen door, had jumped or the bed.
Rodger, with the remark.. "This house must be haunted, said he started for the verandah, intending to put the cat out, and then go to secure his revolver and make further investigations.
There was suddenly command. Hands up." and a shot whistled by him. Rodger made a grab for the man who had fred. "He could not see him, but grabbed for the point where he saw. the flash. "
THE STRUGGLE..
He seized the man's arm and they struggled for possession of the gun.
They worked out on to the verandah, and Rodger thought he had the gun turned on the man so he could pull the trigger, but Kolides wrenched free and with the butt. began to belabour Rodger over the head
move,
FROM GRAIN TO MARGATE. A PLEASANT TOUR THROUGH DICKENS COUNTRY.
SNOW IN SCOTLAND.. GALES ON THE ENGLISH COAST,
„ADVENT OF WINTER
LONDON, September 4th. Snow in the Highlands, gales" and
Last Thursday I said to Belinda, "The ruin has ceased; a heat-wave is promised; we, will oil and grease Elizabeth III.,, und take our road trip round Kent, frumor abnormally high tides all round the
first stage in through the Dickens roun
Grain to Dungeness-three days. The coasts, and a bitter Folar wind in London are among the vagaries of the weather reptyd to-day.
We left Gravesend looking away from the narrow streets to the wide Thames, with liners and tawny-sailed boats. Soon we turned north up a little hill to Chalk, which is one way to the Isle of Grain, now no longer an island,
During ngale in the Mersey the Cana-. diner Freife liner Montente broke her moorings, the Cunarder duronia fouled. her propeller, and several other vessels dragged their anchors.
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years. At Hornsea, in Yorkshire, the sea invaded the land to such an extent that Gelds were fluuled, and the residents are moving about in boats,
There were remarkable scenes on the sands at Broadstairs dus normally high tide.
Bu MA Ab
At Chalk Dickens spent his honeymoon,
Tents were washed away or buried in and began "Pickwick." Over the door of the church is the "funny" monk,' at sand by the sea at Broadstairs, whers which he always pused to smile on his such a high tide has not been seen for walks through the marshes. We glimbed the church tower, touched the bell wo years old, and saw on the tower-top the remnant of the brazier from which, in eld days, they signalled from church tower to church tower. This is the coun- try of "Great Expectations. Northward, over the marshes. is Cliffe, where livel who brought Pip up by hand." Joe Gargery and his wife, Pip's sister. Miss Havisham's house was at Rochester..
We did not stay long at Cliffe, for a mile or so farther is Cooling, where, in the churchyard, Pip first met the convict. There are the "lezenge tombs," and there by this lonely, but now famous, God's acre I saw a child playing who might have been Pip.
In a half an hour or so, when we had learneyed eastward to Grain at the month of the Medway, we saw the per- fect modern fort-ugh-terribly effective, entirely unpictorini.
During the night a strong north-easterly wind drove the sea right up to the back of the main bay, washing away tentam. dozen yards or more. Other tents were haried three and font feet deep in sand.
DIGGING FOR GOODS. After their tenants arrived to-day sa strong detachment of volunteers was ROGIE at work with spades digging for the bid-" den goods, and there were loud cheers when something hopelessly ruined was salved.
People had left in the tents clothing, parasols, shawis, wraps, tennis racqueta Grain is not yet called Grain-on-Sea, and the usual paraphernalia which accom but if I was forced to spend a month in i panies parties at the seaside.
Every- an unfrequented place, with a tent and a thing was ruined." sailing-boat-Grain might tempt me. Just Such a heavy high tide has not been
across the Medway it looks upon a mile seen at Broadstairs for four years.
is Sheerness, or Sheerness-on-Sea; but There was a sharp frost at Brighton as Elizabeth III, does not swim, we had during the night and a shrewd nip in the to run back, a lovely ride, with Medway | air today. Furs and overconts were views all the way, to Rochester, ♫ famous city, a Dickens city, but a city
worn by many visitors.
truments. After a wakeful night we took that would take first prize for the noisiest the Old Dover Road, and turned north at Key street, for the Isle of Sheppey (the Isle of Sheep), which is divided from the main land by the Swale.
FIELDS UNDER WATER, enced last night no. Housea, the York- Extraordinary high seas were experi shire seaside resort, which is crowded with visitors from Hull.
The waver dashed over the promenade and tore alcove aratings from their fastenings, and these fonted away.
The Swale is crossed at Kingsferry by Mrs. Rodger then fred, and Kolider
a bridge-toll eighteenpence. This pleas it over him and ordered him not to market produce does not prepare one the railway station, and 1st it on one went over. Seizing the gun, Rodger heldant, pastoral land-sheep, cattle and
The sea cune right frun the bench to for ancient Queensborough" nothing side, but trains were not affected.. menacing Sheerness with its crowds of living in bungalows had to get to the happens here now," said a small boy-or Inland felds are fooded, and visitors workmen returning from dinner. My station and shops today on horseback concern was not with the Royal Dockor in bonts. yard, but with. Sheerness-on-Sea as a summer playground. It is a tiny South- end. The people provide their own amusements. I could look all day at the passing ships.
the door," said Rodger."I saw her Mrs. Rodger shot the mag through
through the screen as I struggled with the man, and I think she asked me if I was hurt."
had ever fired a gun before in her life. Rodger said he did not think his wife
SCHOOL TUCKSHOPS.
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Inland there is history, in the churches of Minster, going back to a seventh cen- tury Saxon nunnery, the highest point of the Isle of Sheppey-such views 1-and
Eastchurch All seems to change except the old churches. The history of England
is written in their monuments.
EVIL OR BLESSING? Dr. Vaughan, headmaster of Rugby School, presided as a discussions at a meeting of the Educational Section of the British Association on diet in re- lation to health in schools.
Dr. G. E. Friend said it was not a
generally recognised that the ways proper functioning and development of the mind depended at least as much on the ability of the cook and caterer as on the ability of the schoolmaster. Sup. per as a regular meal he believed to bo airplanes. unnecessary and harmful. Tuckshops were probably necessary evils. Is was
and educational leantages, but they possible that they posessed esthetic should always be under strict super- vision, and should never be opened until after dinner:
Hampers, if allowed at all, should be limited in number and quality, and be subject to restrictive measures. Having dweis upon the importance not only of
ESQUIRE."
BARDNET'S SON'S COMPLAINT.
baronet, alleging incivility on the part A singular letter from the son of a of the Norwich police and discourtesy in cot addressing him as Esquire, was read at Norwich Police-court on
To the far east is Leysdown-unspoiled, August 25th, Nigel Courtenay Musgrave, If I could return in half a century 1 described is independent, of 25, Half- should probably find this glorious site Moon-street, London, was summoned for town-planned into seaside villas "on tree-causing an obstruction with his motor- bordered reads.
car. It was stated by the police that the car held up the tram traffic for several minutes, when defendant was seexe to come out of the Hippodrome. He was asked three times by the police if the car belonged to him, but refused to answer. When told that he would be reported. he made no reply, but drove off in his car. The police denied any incivility towards him.
Airplanes swooped and darted aver hend. One of them could have carried us across the Swale to Whitstable in a few minutes; but Elizabeth III. resents How about Harty Ferry " I asked a resident. He laughed. Harty Ferry So we returned to the bridge at Kings is an old-fashioned ferry." Ferry and ran through Milton Regin to Sittingbourne, on the Old Dover Road; then on to Faversham and nor west to Whitstable.
The Lord Mayor read a letter from the defendant which had been addressed to the Chief Constable, as follows:
Dear Sir-1 received the enclosed sum "I wish there was an B in the month," -mons to-day at my father's-Sir Richard said Belinda. As an alternative we were Musgrave, Bt.'s-house, and should be photographed by a swarthy, roadside artist very much obliged if you would be grou
like that on what is happening now I can quality in school food, but also in the with a push-cart exhibiting examples of enough to have my full name and pro-c
see, the same tense, concentrated, slow swirl, which is very terrifying...
efficiener and cleanliness of its service. Dr. Friend said that too little time was sometimes allowed for ments. Thirty minutes at least should be given to breakfast, and thirty or forty minutes
I should feel happier and confident nhout the future if there had been more people living in the country. There is a calm which comes from the country. It to diand. Lack of variety was also a is the countries that had their population fault that was too common. Nothing pull through. I believe that is going to in the rural areas that in the end will
was so likely to destroy a boy's appetite than the certainty that every Friday save Russia in the end. A vast mass, there would be porridge for breakfast, ninety per cent of the people, are out-
stew for dinner, and plum jam for tea side the town.
during every week of the term:
Mr. Douglas Berridge, house master at Malvern College, disagreed with Dr. Fiend's attitude towards the tuckahop, which in his opinion was an almost un- mitigated blessing, since it enabled the pupils to obtain the carb-hydrates they needed in the form in which they were most quickly used. He loved to see the boys rush off to the tuckshop after meal.
Roxz, October uth. The "Anti-Malaria Congress closed after I should feel happier about Britain if unanimously approving the acceptance of there was not such a large proportion of the invitation by France to hold the next her population concentrated in the dnst Congress at Algiers in 1930, the occasion feverish atmosphere of the great cities of the centenary of the French accuphand industrial areas. I have been saying tion of Algiers and the fiftieth anniver- this for some years and I am perfectly sary of the discovery of the parasite of certain, speaking as a detached man. malaria in Algiers..
detached even in politics, that there is no more important question for the statesmen of Britain than the problem of gotting arger proportion of the people to dwell, in the calm, secure atmosphere of the country.""
HERE'S LUCKSKI!"
SALE OF VODKA RESUMED IN ∙MOSCOW.
his: skill
ways.
We found no beds at windy Reculver. It was August; it was full; it was noisy, for the charabanca had not yet gone home.
Ah, these old coast towns do not reveal per designation inscribed therean their secrets in the month of August! think you will find, if it would not be The glamour of the holiday month-brown putting you to much trouble in looking hmbs and bright eyes-hides the arcient p "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage,
that, being the eldest and only zon of Herne Bay was even more summery By father, I am entitled to the designa
"Esquire." al- (the heat wave had come), and the night tion, after name, of was falling on light feet and Inughter: though no doubt the inspector who was I said to Belinda, "Let us push on to so very rude to me on the 18th of July Reculver and seek a Indging there."
last still considers that I am a criminal Twin-towered battered Reculvert Hare gutest and not even entitled to be ad stood the Roman fortress of Regulbiem dressed as "Sir," which I believe it is at the opening of the Wantsum River, the duty of an inspector and ordinary them a wide inlet, now gone a guard constable when speaking to a gentleman, castle, like Greater Richborough, of the to address him and speak to him se Saxon shore, & fortified base the Isle such. I recently saw my cousin, Lord. of Thanet. The church was built on the Hastings, about the matter and he Roman site about 570, and when it was advises man to take up the whole matter wickedly destroyed in 180 the towers which I intend to do; and if, which were preserved, by order, as a landmark I quite understand, you are un for mariners.
able to deal with the matter in the right way, I shall go and we As to the art of feeding in almost
the Lord Lieutenant of the county every school, there were houses with
about the whole thing, whom I know reputation for good, feeding and others
personally very well, and he will advise Mr. Lloyd George said they had only where the pupils complained that the We decided to push on to Margate. me as to the best course to he adopted. to look at what a man did to save him- grub was bad. Yet the physique of the we went through the dark by winding I very much regret having left my ear self in order to see what the State ought boys showed no difference, and there Innes to Chislet and Upstreet, where we and thereby causing an obstruction, and maximum of 40 per cent of alcohol, and high pressure in the town sought a week chers' bills. The fact that one house
The free sale of vodka containing & to do. A man who had been working at was little if any difference, in the but struck the Canterbury Margate road. I shall pay the fine, whatever it amonDem brandy and liquors with a maximum of end rest in the country. It soothed his liked its food better than another was Rossetti, More charabance getting reddy of but what I de very deeply and Birchington, with its memories of to, which I have no cause to complain 60 per cent, of alcobol has begun,
This measure has been taken in consperament.
nerves and tranquilised his whole ton- dar entirely to the house master, or, to return home. Westgate-pa-Bes, which strongly resent is the insolent manner quence of the intprovident use of wheat work with firmer nerves and judgment housemaster's wife taking more trouble, open country, spacious country, bumps and the public have a right to bring He then went back to his what was vastly more important one has retained its late Victorian propriety in which I was treated by the police and rye by the peasantry in making He would like to have the nation go a and having more imagination than the and fields of golden grain, stretches of these matters to notice as in the reon vodka, also the smuggling of liquors.
Oh the first day of sale, quauer-lined elector foto the country, and it would other. An adult in a restaurant re- sugar beets and cabbages twinkling ease of Major Sheppard-Yours truly
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quired-good cooking, variety, clean lights ahead; then streets, white trousers,
COURTENAY MUSGRAVE. It was wrong to sucer at the Englishlinen, and good service Had not the butterfly dresses; clean, bracing air. Bachelors Club, Ficcadilly, W week-end habit, and it ought to convey boys and girls the right to ask for them Where are we? I saked a way its message to statesmanship. The differ also. As to the cooking, the cook of one farer in a blazer. Where are you? The Lord Mayor It is a storm in a
August 5th. ence between the difficulties of statesman-House sent no cadfish without removing Nayland Rock! Did you think you wan ship to day and the difficulties of states their eyes, the boys saw it, and were at at Clifton-ville. Give me Nayland Rock who writes such a letter as this In an tracap. I am really sorry for the mam manship after, the Napoleonic Wars were on their bond Clean linen did every time1" And his girl laughed, few years he will bodust these that after the Napoleonic wars hercase laundry bills, but he sympathis-Here," I said to. Belinda, we will will; and this nonsense is very touching. there was still about half the nation, if ed with the old lady who once said she put our good little Lizzie to bed. Look A fine of 10% and 10% costs was 100% day four-fifths of the population dwelt in cheese on & well-appointed table than off Hark to the din! From drain to Mural treat it as an offenes of h not more, dwelling in the country. To would for rather dine off bread and
At the crowds on that walk by the stand the Lord Mayor saying that they the town. That was the measure of the seven-course meal served on tables gate. That shall be the titles my greater difficulties of the problems to-day. I covered with American cloth.
article-C T. HIND in Daily Chresileed to defendant's dignity.
nary human being and with an
Moscow; October 6th
up outside the shops here.
FOOTBALL AT HOME. ANOTHER DRAW IN GLASGOW
CUP:
In the Glasgow Cap semi-final replay,
LONDON, October 6th the Glasgow Rangers and Celtic played a drawn game of 1 goal apiece