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BERLIN, January 19th. Efforts by the Centrists and Democrata to organise a big coalition suffered early shipwreck by the Socialist Reich PARIS, January 13th. stug party emphatically declining to The Finance Committee of the Cham-participate, ber, discussing M. Doumer's financial It is regarded as practically certain
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AUTOMOBILE SHOW IN US.
NEW YORK CITY IS FULL FOR. THE OCCASION,
New YORK, January 13th, The city is full on the occasion of the National Automobile Show and the World Motor Transport Congress. The latter comprises 50 countries, including all the
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KYUSHU MINE DIBASTER,
EXPLOSION AT TAKAMATSU
COLLIERY.
· MANY LIVES LÖST.
NAGASAKI, January 13th. A message from Fukuoka states that
the Takamatsu Callery, in Northern Kyushu, last evening, the cause of which is not known.
SCOTTISH LETTER.
ROYAL SCOTTISH CORPORATION,
MR. BALDWIN AND THE SCOTS.
(FROM OUR OWN CORDESPONDENT.]
OBITUARY.
At a nursing home, London, on 17th: inst following on operation, Charles Alexander Fraser," husband of Blancho Fraser, and director at Hankow of Find- ing, Richardson and Co., Glasgow,
At Isle of Arran War Memorial Hos- pital, Lamlash, on the 20th November, Neil Bannatyne, aged 65 years, late of
projects, decided by 92-6 to separate the that President Hindenborg will now ask. British. Dominions and the Continentalan explosion occurred in pit No. 3 at the Royal Scottish Corporation it dates and there are so many old wheezes ready
questions of budget equilibrium, and amortization of debt?
It was decided by 99-5 that revenue from M. Loucheur's tax scheme should be applied to reabsorbing inflation instead of being credited to the Budget as M. Daumer proposed.
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Le Matin says that M. Briand is deter.. nined to support M. Doumer's"projects, as far as possible.
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HOME COAL COMMISSION.
DEMAND FOR RESTORATION OF EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
Dr. Luther to form a Government,
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Latin-American and Far Eastern coun- tries. "The agenda includes the study of Dr. Luther has been called upon by American methods of manufacture and
form
the inspection of the trafic regulating President Hindenburg to Cabinet,
systems.
NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.
EXCEEDS REVENUE AS YEAR OPENS IN BRITAIN.
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LONDON, January 12th Even more gloomy statistics have followed, the publication of the adverss balance by the Board of Trade. The returns for the first nine days of 1926 show that the national expenditure Exceeded the revenue by approximately LONDON, Jatuary 19th. £1,225,000, thus increasing the deficit to A demand for the restoration of an over £125,000,000. The outstanding float- eight-hour day in the miles was the chiefing debt- on January 0th was over point in the evidence submitted to the £818,000,000 which was. £18,000,000 less Coal Commission on behalf of the owners, than a year ago, but an increase of Witnesses declaring that the standards of nearly £78,000,000 as compared with the living must rest on stable economic con- beginning of the current financial year. ditions, while savings could also be effect- ed and earnings increased if the miners attended to their work with greater regularity. It was pointed out that ab *senteeism in Scotland averages 34 per cent. and in England and Wales 81 per cent. The owners express their willing ness to meet the miners with the utmost goodwill but are opposed to the establish- ment of compulsory machinery for "the settlement of disputes. They are unable to point may royal road to the recovery of the industry but are confident that lower costs of production would stimulate the already growing demand for British
coal.
OIL NOT FEARED.
Mr. Evan Williams, President of the Mining Association, questioned by the Chairman, Sir Herbert Samuel, declared that they were not afraid of the competi tion of oil in the future. He believed that in the case of big liners the cost of burning oil was greatly in excess of coal burning and there was no reason why in the course of time coal should not be put in liners in a form enabling the use of it with greater economy than oil. He thought that the very existence of Britain depended, on a larger export trade in coal. Large con tracts were often lost simply through a difference of three-half-perce or three pence per ton in price.
The Chairman declared that if the Association's proposals were accepted the British miners would be working longer than French, Belgian or German miners, and Mr. Williams. replied that their wages. would be considerably higher. He assert- ed that the unrest in the industry was not spontaneous but was the result of a deli- berate attempt by the miners' leaders to prevent the reconstruction of the industry as a private enterprise after decontrol.
"A memorandum by the Mining Associa. tion was submitted prior to the taking of evidence and this said that if the Railway Wages Bill reduced all rates, the mineral goods trade could be reduced by 25 per cent
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LONDON, January 13th.
The number of unemployed in Britain increased to 150,900, following consistent improvement for many weeks.
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AMERICAN COTTON.. MANCHESTER SPINNERS MAY AGAIN, BHORTEN HOURS,
LONDON, January 12th. The short time committee of the Federation of Master Cotton-spinners at Manchester has decided to request spin- ners in the American section further to curtail production from January 25th, by 173 hours weekly, thus reducing the
THE BANKNOTE AFFAIR.
FURTHER NAMES MENTIONED TO THE AUTHORITIES.
BUDAPEST, January 19th. The names of several persons whose identity has not so far been disclosed, have been mentioned to the authorities
enquiring into the banknote affair by Prince Windischgraetze's chauffeur as having accompanied the Prince on numer ous visits to the Cartographical Institute. The chauffeur's evidence has opened up further enquiries and it is expected that the main proceedings of the affair will be completed in six weeks time unless the State legal authorities desire further investigations.
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. BULLETIN POINTS TO RAPID RECOVERY.
RAPALLO, January 19th. A bulletin states that Sir Austen Chamberlain spent a most satisfactory night. The cough continues but the temperature has fallen. The catarrhal affection on the right side of the res piratory organs has considerably decreas ed and everything points to a rapid recovery, owing to a strong constitution and the perfect functioning of the heart.
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BOXING.
WELTER-WEIGHT BOUT
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP.
- ABERDEEN MAN'S OFFER.
LONDON, January 13th. Mr. David Smith, of Aberdeen, has offered & pürse of £14,000 for a fight 'at Edinburgh, between Micky Walker
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COAL DISPUTE IN U.S. CONFERENCE IS ADJOURNED WITHOUT SETTLEMENT,
Na York, January 19th. The Conference between employers' re- presentatives and the strikers in the anthracite coal-minos, has been adjourned without reaching a settlement. The date for the renewal of negotiations has not been determined.
The mineowners insisted on complete arbitration while the miners maintained that arbitration was only acceptable ou the basis of increased wages without any
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At first, the miners were all thought to be safe; but in endeavouring to escape several were slightly injured, one eventually succumbing to his injuries.
The fire having been extinguished, sixteen miners re-entered the pit, series of explosions occurring just after. An eye-witness says that the 16 men were blown to pieces. The fate of over twenty of the rescue party is still in doubt.
GLASGOW, December Sad. The Royal Scottish Corporation, or Shanghai whose 1st anniversary festival in Lon-PARLIAMENTARY PORRIDGE
The appearance of porridge on the don the Prime Minister presided this menu of the tea-room" of the House of week, is older, under another title, than Commons is, of course, matter for this, statement, of its years implies. As bumorous comment by English news. pagers. It is an easy a subject for jokes from 1663, but as early as 1613 the Seot to hand. One of them says that every
night now when the House is sitting, por tish Bor was instituted for the benefit ridge is ready in the tea-room after of the hosts" as one historian describes p., and Scottish members disappear them, of traders and craftsmen, who came quietly from the Chamber to refresh their minds with a "sax-penny plateful," They to London, in the train of Janies. I. and any it is "verra guid,” but a few would failed to find employment. Queen Eliza-ike a wee bit mair saut with it. It beth had previously, according to the Scottish was. It seems a pity, as ore is made from Scottish oatmeal in the
same writer, ent down the number of | Scottish member observed, that when Sentamen in London to the astonishingly Englishmen can make Scottish porridge small number of us." but in James's tire well enough they should not give further and later their numbers had increased so evidence of grace by eating it. For the greatly that, as was grimly remarked, fact is that the tea-room at porridge. 300 poor Scotsmen, swept all by the time is entirely a Scottish retreat. Three Great Plague of 1665-6, were buried at Scottish members of distinction meet
When the almost nightly over the expense of the Box.
dish of porridge, was elavated to the dignity of and are becoming known as the "Three corporation by royal charter, its affairs Faithfula. They are Mr. Wullie were managed by a company of gentle-Adamson, as ex-Secretary for Scotland: men who met at the "Cross Keys at Mr. Jamie " Brown, ex-miner, and last Covent Garden, and, at their first meet year's Lord High Commissioner, to the ing, found that their receipts amounted Scottish Church Assembly; and the Rev. to £116 8. 5d. The character of the times I. Barr, who had not been long in the can be seen in their regulations, ond of House before he set up what was be which imposed a fine of 2s. 6d. for every lieved to be a record for the number of cath used in the course of their qua columns of Hansard he talked in Com- Tokyo, January 13th..
terly business.". The granting of the Sir Charles Eliot, G.C.M.G. (H.B.M. royal charter had a stimulating effect. mittes during a certain period. Mr. Besides money, gifts began to flaw in, and Brown, last year his Grace" and the Ambassador.to Japan), has been appoint-one member gave a silver cup, while representative of the King of Holyrood. another presented an ivory mallet or ham may be seen most nights having a frugal mer for the chairman's use. Among the supper of porridge. "Mr. Barr says that donors of money was Gilbert Burnet, he hopes to see some English members afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, who tak sccn. If they only knew the guid agreed to contribute £1 half yearly. At it wad dae 'em!" And Mr. Adamson first the governors distributed every quer declares that my weight hasna varied
SIR CHARLES FLICT.
"UNIQUE" HONOUR CONFERRED
BY JAPAN.
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cd a member of the Japanese Imperial Academy, for his scholarly contributions on Philology and Buddhism,
The honour is most noteworthy, as. Sir mittee of the Pennsylvania Coal Com Charles is the first foreigner to be elected day all the money that had been collect- for vee-ars and yee-ars. That may not
It is announced from Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, that the Grievance Com-
a member of the Academy.
B.A.T. ANNUAL MEETING,
ed in the preceding three months, but in 1775 a permanent fund was established for relief purposes. ..
pany to-day decided to launch a move- ment to call out all the anthracite mine maintainance men for the purpose of forcing an issue, and it is generally be CHAIRMAN SHOWS CONFIDENCE IN even in this respect the change is slow. lieved there that the strikers will make a determined effort to tie up the mines completely.
· FORMER GREEK KING."
SEEKS HAVEN OF REST IN
FLORIDA.
PALM BEACH, FLA., January 19th. Ex-King Georgo the Second of Greece is expected to arrive shortly at the Floranada Cub, the winter headquarters of British and other foreign visitors
CHINA'S FUTURE.
LONDON, January 19th. At the annual meeting of the British American Tobacco Company, Limited, Sir Hugo Cuteliffe-Owen, presiding stated that investments in the associated companies had risen from sixteen million to £16,155,000. The directors were satis fied that this was less than the shares would realise as going concerns.
The net profit for the year was 25,146,000, an increase of £276,900. final dividend was recommended of pence a share. The Ex-King's brother, Prince Paul,
Alluding to the company's investments: who is at present in Chicago, declared, that his brother was tired of Balkanin China, the chairman (Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen) said the parent company intrigues, and hoped to build home
were by far the largest shareholders in amid more pleasant surroundings,
the Chine company.
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CONGRESSMAN SENT TO GAOL FOR INFRINGEMENT.
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be due entirely to the porridge, but it isn't a bad advert for it. The porridge has yet to pass the critical taste of Mr. The annual festival of the Corporation Kirkwood-w, it will be remembered, into the House of Commons menu. He differs only in regard to personnel, and headed the agitation for its introduction. Year after year the Caledonian Schools at present on holiday in Morocco. boys make the air ring with the bag-where he is looking after Mr. Maxton, a
bal health. But pipes, the haggis is marched round before llengue in being served, clan banners adorn the fall, Southern M.P. unkindly suggests that be the Highland dress makes its appearance. is really afraid to face the chaff at West- the old Box," in which at the founda minster. tion of the Corporation the canny trustees as ocaĽKS SEE US. kept the cash, is always placed befor
Is Titipu, as Yum-Yum cbserves, the the chairman; and everyone who is laws against flirting werd excessively one in the London Scottish community attends to regel in an exchange of severe; for it was enacted by the humane national extolations. Mr. Baldwin re-Mikado of Gilbert's conception "that all (8o writes a caived a welcome almost embarrassingly who flirted, leered, or winked should tribute was the playing of the
contributor to the Glasgow Herald.) Less march when he made his way to the sweeping is the regulation which has just chair,Mr. Baldwin, you may be remind een introduced in Hongkong, where a enacts that "Chinese Aed, has a strong strain of that great clas harsh rule now
in his blood. His speech, in proposing telephone subscribers who firt over the the toast of the Corporation, was pitched wires with the telephone girls more than in a happy tone, and he said some Satter three times will have their nurabere can ing things about the Scots which we would celled." The charms of Chinese hullo- scarcely dare to say about ourselves, girls" must have a strong fascination and we are pot generally credited with to make such a notice advisable, since Endue modesty when we have to refer to most people would regard a telephone car race and our nation. The first pote firtation as a somewhat colourless busi he struck was one of praise for the way neas: "One wonders what Bhadamanthus in which the Scots people had held up is employed to score up a remorseless the standard of plain Eving and bigh tally of this misplaced gallantry, for it thinking- lesson which to-day is needed could hardly be left to the operators
themselves. It is at least a generous con...” by a world, that would, if it could, be world of high living and plain thinking. cession to human frailty that the sub- The picture of the Scottish student seriber is permitted to succurab three with his sack of oatmeal leaving his work times before being put to silence... for part of the year, living hard and draw. ing on the frugality and self-sacrifice of father and mother and brother and sister in the pursuit and attainment of know- ledge for the sake of knowledge was an win then paid a high tribute to Sir Walter example to the whole world." Mr. Ball-
An optimistic view of British trade Scott, the interpreter of the Scot to the in the New Year was expressed on New it would have seemed to Boswell and who is Vice-President of the Bankers Englishmen. "How impossible," he said, Year's Eve by Sir Drummond Fraser, Dr. Johnson when they travelled in the Instituto and has held many other im liebrides if anyone had told them that portaat poste connected with trades and within 60 years there would have arrived, Snance. He believed that bed-rock had a genius who would bring pa English King been struck in the depression of iren and to Edinburgh and put him in a kit, a steel industries, and that these would be genius under whose spell the Lowlander would have adopted the robe of the tch on the up-grade again in the course of bers of the North. When I was in Edin-the New Year.
The year 1925, Sir Drummond Fraser LONDON, January 12th. burgh, I was asked half-humorously why
I did not wear the kilt in Scotland. Ipointed out, was actable for pronounced At the conference of the University said that the last time my ancestors wore lumps in cotton and woollens, but as Labour Federation at Leeds, some of the the kilt was at Culloden, and that I leave trial history, something had come to the had frequently happened in our indus-
go to Scotland. And of this I am cer tain, if it had not been for Walter Scott industry during the past year, would you would never have seen a kilt south tend to rehabilitate both the cotton and part of Mr. Baldwin's speech, and the for expansion in this new industry, in of the Grampians." The most intimate woollen traden. There was great room one which pleased his audience beat, was which Great Britain was leading the when he told this little story, even world, with Italy as a rival. By its aid. although it must have been familiar to Great Britain would be able to recapture most of them. If I were asked what the lost markets of the Eastern bazaars. represents the soul of Scotland I could Bir Drummond Fracer suggested that not answer better than in the reply given while in Great Britain colour was con- many years ago to a relative of mine in sidered only an incidental of national: New Zealand by an old Scottish farmer-life, it would be treated as an important und, as you know, the cream of New factor in British artificial silk manu Zealand is the Seat. My relative asked factures intended for countries which in how long did the traditions that your wanted colour. It was impossible to people bring from home last in the new forecast the extent of the potentialities. porridge and the heather and the Psalary and concluded with the remark that country, and the old settler replied The of the industry, Sir D. Fraser added, last to the third generation.
Great Britain, as the greatest producer of artificial silk, should be the world's
Sir Hugo said there was a background of stability and practical experience in China which had enabled her to weather storms similar to the present one for PIKEVILLE, January 19th. many centuries, though patience would John W. Langley, Kentucky member be necessary and possibly a good deal of of Congress for nearly twenty years, has re-adjustment. He had every confidence gone to the Atlantic Penitentiary to that China was moving forward steadily sorve two years' imprisonment for viola-as a "great commercial and industrial tion of the liquor law. His resignation country, where there should be a con- was presented to the House of Represtantly expanding market. sentatives yesterday after Chief Justice Taft had refused a stay of judgment.
RUBBER FOR U.S.Å.
AN AMERICAN PROPOSAL TO CREATE A FOOL
NEW YORK, January, 12th.
*** SWEATED GOODS."" POLICY OF LABOUR IS CRITICISED
AT LEEDS.
THE YEAR'S PROSPECT.;
THE BANKERS' VIEW.
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The National Automobile Chamber of speakers-criticised the policy of the it for the Englishmen to wear when they rescue. The growth of the artificial ill
Labour Party in prohibiting the import (America) and Tommy Milligan (Scat-Commerce has authorised the appropriat Eastern sweated goods, and also op land) for the world's welter-weight chamtion of ten million dollars to assure posed the idea of an eight-hour day being pionship.
the public and motor manufacturere an insisted on in Eastern countries. adequate supply of rubber at reasonable prices." A committee has been appoint ed to organise the work and apply for charter. Several of the largest companies have announced their readiness to take an allotment of stock
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FOOTBALL AT HOME.
MILLWALL ENTER FOURTH FOUND OF FA CUP
OLDHAM January 12th.
In the replay in the third round of the English Cup Oldham Athletic were defeated by Millwall by one goal to mil.
Millwall visit Bary in the fourth round
CRICKET IN BARBADOS.
WEST INDIES DRAW WITH M.Q.C. TEAM.
BARBADOS, January 12th.-- The Test Match between the M.O.C. and the West Indies was drawn. Owing
Mr. Reeves, general manager of the Chamber, stated that it was likely small producers of rubber in the far corners of the world, who were not held by the British monopoly," would sell their rubber if assured of a centralised ship ping point where the material could be pooled,
'(TEKOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ESTIMATES FOR 1925.
BATAVIA, January 12th Provisional estimates for 1925 show s tremendous increase in native rubber production by fifty per cent. since 1994,
to the rain there was no play before giving a total of 129,700 tons gross or lunch The West Indies had scored 21
84,000 tons nett, compared with 105,000
A farmer declared that it was useless to discuss conditions in Japan when some agricultural workers in England were working 75 to 80 hours a week for fifteen shillings weekly
The presideat, Mr. Arthur Greenwood, M.P., defending the action of the Labour Party in opposing the import of sweated goods, said he desired to protect the East from cosmopolitan financiers, who were seeking opportunities to exploit the BIR ROBERT HORNE'S HOTHES-arbiter of fashion in respect of its pro
limitable labour of the East.
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AMERICAN RUBBER SCHEME.
PROPOSAL TO PLANT IN FAR EAST.
NEW YORK, January 13th. The Rubber Association of America is considering a proposal to earmark $10,000,000 annually, for 5 years, to plant
for six wickets when rain fell again and tons of estate rubber, which has only in-rubber trees in the Philippines or
working week in this section to 30 hours, stumps were drawn at five o'clock.
creased by fifteen per cent.
Sumatra
FROHIBITION A FAROE."
All his friends sympathise with fir ducts. Robert Horne over the death of his mother, for he was a very devoted son. He often tells the story of how when he went home after his first session in Parlia ment she said to him, "Weel, laddie, I'm Sir William Arbuthnot Lane,the glad to see se hare. Why you waste eminent surgeon, who has been to your time down there in Parlament America to deliver the Murphy Oration dinna ken." Mrs. Horne and her clergy-nt Philadelphia, returned to England last man husband were in humble circum month with Lady Lane. Be gave ad- stances at the time of the birth of their dresses in New York, Chicago, Toronto, now distinguished son. One recalls. how and other cities. !'' Prohibition," he said, Mr. Frank Hodges, once romarked to Sir is really a farce in America. You can Robert: Your class is done for. The get liquor anywhere. The poorer people workers are going to rule now,'!*! My get the poisonous stuff, and the richer get class was the retort was born in the good. I saw more drunken people cottage and have earned my living since in a month in America than I have seen I was twelve My class is the working in England for the last two or three class."!
years,