THE HONGKONG DAILY PRE
CABLE AND
WIRELESS
NEWS.
ANTI-MALARIAL WORK.
LABORATORY COURSES FOR MEDICAL OFFICERS,
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] WRECKS ON BRITISH COASTS. THRILLING LIFEBOAT RESCUES"
AT BRIXHAM
Ruary, February 16th The severe weather around the British coasts has caused several wrecks during the past few days. A search was made without result yesterday, for the crews of two Swansea trawlers which have been lost on the Galway coast.
The number of men missing is about st, but hope of their safety has not been abandoned. There is a possibility that
they may have found haven in some re mote island. No trace of wreckage has been found.
The стети
of the Italian steamer Liberta, which went ashore at Bolt Head, Devonshire, were rescued by lifeboat and rocket apparatus after an exciting ex- perience. Great courage was displayed
Rucar, February 18th.
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FRENCH TAXATION MEASURES.
GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL
DEFEATED.
PARIS, February, 18th.'.
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 17TH, 1926
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TENNISAT, CANNES.
MLLE. LENGLEN DEFEATS' MISS H. WILLS.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS. FOREION SECRETARY QUESTION- ED IN COMMONS.
LONDON, February 15th.
CANNES, February 18th. The Chamber Finances Committee häs
In the House of Commons, answering In sunshine with the lightest breeze a rejected by 13 votes to 8, the Govern.uestions, Sir Austen Chamberlain said crowd queued for the unreserved eats at an ment's proposal to tax payments, which of the League of Nations had been con-ed themselves at all available windows in that a special meeting of the Assembly early hour, and cinema operators station-
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
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NAVAL VOLUNTEERS IN HONGKONG.
QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS.
LONDON, February 18th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Amery
The Health Organisation of the is the main feature of M. Donmer's vened for March 8th to consider Get the neighbouring buildings for the match replied in the affirmative to a question
proposals.
League of Nations has arranged to hold next summer in London, Paris and Hamburg special laboratory courses on malaris, which will be reserved exclusively for medical officers.
During its tours of Eastern and Southern Europe, the Lengue's Malaria Commission discovered that several coun- trim were prevented from conduc- ting systematic anti-malarial campaigns owing to a shortage of specially trained physicians.
The Health Organisation, therefore, decided to organise courses in malario" logy for young physicians desiring to specialize in this subject. Field work Insting several months in such "malaria-
Spain. Yugo-Slavia and possibly Pales tine will follow theoretical training.
LATER.
The Chamber has been engaged during the week-end in a sort of game of nine pins, rejecting or shelving successively clauses in the Finance Committee's Bill providing new revenue from the increase in certain indirect taxes, the Govern ment having fixed to-morrow as the time-limit for sending up the special partial Bill to the Senate giving the Government the fuads needed to meet
the estimated budgetary deficit of 4)
milliards. The time is running out and the gap to be filled is widening.
An appeal by M. Briand to the Chamber to vote the funds proved fruitless."
The Socialist, M. Renaude, attacked
majority.
by the Brixham lifeboatmen in effecting infected countries as Corsica, Italy M. Briand for dislocating the Cartelist the rescue. The Lifeboat arrived on scene after an arduous journey through 20 miles of stormy sea, and was unable to get along side. Eventually communica- tion was effected by rocket line and threa of the ship's company were through the sea to comparative safety by this means
NEW CRUISER.
LAUNCH OF H.M.S. " drawn
between Mile, Lenglen (France) and Miss
chiefly consisting of youths and American students raided the courts and tried to storm the gates, but were thrown back by gendarmes after making a large breach in the fences
many's application for admission.
considerable apprehension both here, and
Asked whether.be could remove the Helen Wills (America). The crowd, which as to whether the Government had sug abroad by stating if the British Govern ment were opposed to any considerable increase in the Council" Sir Austen Chamberlain referred to the reply, ho had given on Thursday and said that he save that considered, reply in the hope that he would not be asked any other questions until shortly before he went to
Geneva
The appearance of Mlle. Lenglen and Afias Wills on the court was the signal for an outburst of enthusiasm.
In the Carlton Tournament (Ladies' Asked whether Germany's application, Singles) Mlle. Lenglen beat Miss Wills, will be considered separately from the 6-3, 8-6. applications of other States, Bir Austen Chamberlain said that he was unable to answer for the League in the same specific way as be answered for the Foreign Office.
A FALSE REPORT.
LATER. Reuter learns on high authority that there is no truth whatsoever in the report M. Briand, in reply, virtually ac- circulated abroad to the effect that Great Britain has agreed to the proposal that cepted divorce from the Socialists. He permanent seats on the League Council declared that the Socialists had rendered should be awarded to Poland, Spain and the agreed solution of the financial pro-Brazil in addition to Germany. blems impossible, but, the Government LEAGUE SECRETARY VISITS were determined to go right through. || 4 The Finance Bill would be voted in the
- BERLIN.
BERLIN, February 18th Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary of the
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-$106,000 FOR BIBLE.
THREE HUNDRED YEAR OLD
RELIC SOLD. -
gated to Hongkong the formation of a corps of Naval Volunteers, and added that the question of forming a similar corps in Singapore and other places of Malaya was under consideration. As Jet he was not able to give details of the scheme.
Commander Eenworthy requested that an offer for enlistment should be made to the loyal and seimenlike Chinese colonists of Hongkong and Mr. Amery said that would have to be considered. ; THE LOCAL REFERENCE.
It will be recalled that the first mention of a Naval Volunteer contingent for Hongkong was made by H.E. the Gover New Yoax, February 16th.
nor (Sir Cecil Clémenti, K.C.M.G.) when The so-called Melk copy of the Guten. he addressed the local Volunteers at their berg Bible was bought at an auction by annual inspection on the 8th fast. He Dr. Abraham Rosenbach, Philadelphia, said:
for the extraordinary sum of $106,000. *** H.E the G.O.C. considers, and I am The Bible, which belonged to the Aussure you will all agree, that the present trian monastery of Melk 300 years ago, was purchased last summer. by a London dealer, and was expected to fetch $75,000.
SUFFOLK."
Rcasr, February 15th The new cruiser H.M:S. Suffolk will be Meantime, land rocket apparatus had launched at Portsmouth Dockyard to Chamber and sent to the Senate. When morow. She will be the first of five new the Senate had put the Bill into shape, light cruisers laid down in connection the Government would return it to the with the replacement programme of Chamber and say "Take it or leave it." 1924/25 to take the water. The fof the Chamber refused to give ressels, which are to be completed during Government the means of governing, the current year, are the first to be built Government would realise that the time on the rocks at Stradbally, County Water-by the Government under the limitations had come to pass the responsibilities of Germany's entry into the League, as, for a warrant for the Earl of Craven's arrest,
been sent for and was erected on a cliff overlooking the spot. The first shot of the land rocket was succesful, and the remaining 27 of the crew were brought
ashore.
The Spanish steamer Virilo Amoros ran
ford. The crow of as were taken off by of the Washington Treaty. They will be lifeboat.
BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR. PRINCE OF WALES ON OVERSEAS MARKETS.
RUGBY, February 10th... The firm conviction that the prolonged period of trade depression is ending and that strenuous efforts to improve com- merce are at last meeting with success was expressed in all the speeches deliver- ed at Mansion House, London, last night,
of 10,000 tons displacement, as allowed by the Pact, and will probably carry eight- inch guns.
THE
OIL OR COAL?
INCREASE OF MOTOR
TONNAGE.
RUGBY, February 15th.
office on to other shoulders.
the
League of Nations, bas arrived here from Geneva and had a lengthy conversation with Herr Stresemann. It is emphasised that Sir Eric has not come to Berlin to discuss the question of the number. of seats on the League Council, which is a matter for the Governments concern- theed, but to confer with Herr Stresemann on technical questions in connection with example, the ceremony of procedure to be adopted at. Geneva,
CHAMBER FINALLY VOTES NEW TAXES.
LATER
After an all-night sitting, the Chamber voted the new taxes by 258 to 145, M. Briand having made ita matter of cons fidence.
LATEX. The Rightists and the Communists
A
AUSTRALIAN DISASTER. MANY LIVES LOST IN BUSH FIRES.
THE CATHCART CASE.
WARRANT ISSUED FOR EANLAS
“ARREST.
WASHINGTON, February 15th. The Department of Labour, bas issued
"WANTED MAN IN MONTREAL.
"MONTREAL, February 15th. The Eart of Craven has arrived here and is staying at the Ritz Carlton Hotel He has refused an interview. DETAINED COUNTESS'S VIEWS.
New York, February 16th The Countess of Cathcart, pale and nervous, interviewed by pressmen on Ellis Island, declared that the would see her
MELBOURNE,, February 15th. In a temperature exceeding 100 degrees. and faused by a northerly gale, bush áres occurred extensively throughout Victoria yesterday.
Twenty-three people have been burned
damage has been done to homes, and farms and timber mills have been des- any circumstances to ask permission to troyed. The small townships of Eric and
return to England voluntarily. She had Noojee, in Gippsland have been practi-
ly wiped out.
been through a terrible ordeal, but there
The annual report of the British Cham voted against the taxes. The Socialists and many are missing. Considerable case through She did not intend under
ber of Shipping states that the past year, has seen a further development in the construction of motor tonnage, notwith-
abstained.
when a banquet was held to celebrate the standing the decrease in coal prices and/mittee's proposal to reject tax on payThe State Government has sent relief was a lot of fight left in her yet.
opening at the White City, London, and at Birmingham of the British Industries Fair.
The Prince of Wales, who claimed to be something of a traveller, emphasised that wherever he had been in the Domi-
nions and Colonies there was undoubtedly a great and growing demand for British goods and, better still a great desire to buy them. In foreign countries he had
observed that the reputation for honest dealing and for the high quality of British goods stood Britain in good stead, and there, too, be found a genuine desire to do business with Great Britain. For example, during his short tour in South "America he was deeply impressed by the cordial sentiments towards Britain mani- fested by the great republics tie visited.
The Foreign Secretary, Sir Austin Chamberlain, declared that the British were not the only people to encounter trade depressions. Indeed, because they faced their difficulties earlier than some others, they were emerging from them at a moment when others were first feeling
pressure. For the purposes of their internal discussions the British people. often exaggerated difficulties and dwelt du the dark side. British trade had weathered dangerous and critical years. It was on a sounder basis than it had been some little time ago,
the
The Chamber had previously by 380 votes to 119 carried the Finance Com
increase and uncertainty in the cost of oil not making it a matter of confidence.
ments as cabled last night, M. Donner to the homelcan
fuel. Of the tonnage launch in Great The Chamber then adopted the final Britain and Ireland in 1923, about 133 clause of the Finance Bill abrogating the per cent, was motor tonnage. The pro- earlier measures in so far as they are portion rose in 1924. to 16 per cent and contrary to the present Bill the tonnage under construction at the
end of that year was 24 per cent. the proportion had risen by the end of Decem ber, 1925, to more than one-third.
The report adds:-"If the cost of rais ing steam by coal be taken as 100, the corresponding cost where oil is used under boilers, on the basis of present prices, is 258, but this does not allow for the many natural advantages possessed
and the economies facilitated by the use of oil. Generally it may be considered that wherever oil is economically obtainable, the first-class passenger liner frade bas been lost to coal as regards motor power. But oil is not likely wholly to supplant coal as a steam raiser unless coal prices increase or oil prices diminish. The ques- tion of conversion turas largely upon the relative price of coal and oil
THE LATEST POSITION.
LATER
The position as the result of the Cham ber's vote" is that the new taxes which have been adopted as a whole will now go
to
the Senate.
These taxes yielding 14 millards, will furnish immédiate revenue
for the Treasury
The Chamber will now discuss the Locarno Treaties, the Budget and Elec toral Reform Bills, including the Govern ment's further new taxes to meet a deficit estimated at 3 milliards..
LATER...
EARL SUFFERING MORAL TURPITUDE.'
period of your annual training is too short and I. propose to see whether suitable arrangements cannot forthwith be made. for prolonging it. I am also at the sug gestion of HM's Government, inquiring whether it would not be possible to form in Hongkong a corps of Naval Volunteers, in addition to the unils which already exist. Both these projects will soon come up for public discussion and I trust that you and the whole community will give full support to any well-considered schemes which the military and naval suthorities deviso for enlisting additional help from civilians in the defence of this Colony."
SOCIAL HYGIENE IN. F.M.S.
APPLYING ADVISORY
·COMMITTEE. REPORT.
LONDON, February 15th. Replying to a question in the House of Commons regarding what action was be ing taken in connection with the report of the Advisory Committee on Social Hygiene in the Straits Settlements, 1925, Mr. Amery said that action was being 28 PEOPLE PERISH.
taken on the general lines suggested, NEW YORK, February 15th notably the questions of the immigration Victoria show that the damage is Latest reports of the bush fires in
A reference to Debrett indicates that of female with male: Chinese, in which enormous and that at least 23 lives have the family motto virtue consists in connection HE the Governor had re been lost including, nineteen at Powell action," it is said, no doubt inspir ported already that there had been con ed the Earl of Craven when he dashed tiaued improvement in the sex ration Town where out of seventeen persona
Canada, realising that in the for many years. The questions of hous trapped in a narrow tramline, six to escaped and 11 perished..
eyes of the Immigration Authorities, he ing. education and recreation. which the Authorities gravely aver also ment. It was not thought necessary to. was suffering from "moral turpitude," engaging the attention of the Govern amicts the divorcee, Countess Cathcart, appoint the suggested mixed Commission with whom the Earl of Craven was but the medical service was being or involved as co-respondent, when the Earl Eamised on the lines suggested. He of Cathcart brought a divorce suit in
The Acting Premier, Mr. Peacock, says in the history of the State. that the Eros rank as the most disastrous
The State pine plantations at Port Capbell have been destroyed. Eun- dreds of volunteer settlers and townsmen are making mest heroic efforts to save life and property, FIRES IN SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA
ADELAIDE, February 15th. Disastrous bush fires have also occurred in South Australia Ten square miles of country have been swept in the Mount Pleasant district where one owner has lost 2,500 sheep. The damage is estimat ed at £140,000.
LOOT RECOVERED. CONFISCATED FURNITURE RETURNED BY RUSSIA.
1999
The newspapers and public meanwhile are indulging in hilarious jibet at the expense of the Immigration Laws, ** THE LAND OF THE FREE"
were
added that while the Colonial Govern-
ment aims at the disappearance of brothels, progress must be gradual. Finally, the Government was closely at tending to the recommendation to in- crease the personnel and extend the powers of the Chinese protectorate."
JAPAN'S FUTURE.
RESPONSIBILITY.
in an articla to the Manchester Guardian
He says that although the absence
MOSTREAL February 15th. - The Earl of Craven, in an interview, expressed surprise that, & warrant had been issued against him by the United BARON MATSUI ON JAPAN'S NEW States He added that he was glad to be on Canadian soil, away from the NEW CANCER MICROBE.
Land of the Free." He was sailing from
LONDON, February 15th. Halifax for Bermuds at the earliest op
That by signing the Treaty of LOCATED BY GERMAN DOCTOR.
portunity, while his wife would sail from Versailles Japan has assumed a new New York for Bermuda on Saturday. BERLIN, February 16th.
responsibility which fundamentally dis The Earl of Craven's case has arisen tinguishes Japan's part in the post-war A microbe which is present in cancer-
because of the exclusion of the Countess world from her part in the pre-war ous swellings to the extent of one-tenth
LONDON, February 15th.
of Cathcart, under the US Immigration of the whole of a tumour has been located to the House of Commons a profitable laws which prohibit the entry into the world is pointed out by Baron Matini by means of a new colouring method, British deal with Russia was mentioned United States of divorced aliens. I Ia according to Doctor Josef Schumacher by Mr. Locker Lampson who in moving pretesting against her exclusion, the on the future of Japan. who has informed the Berlin Microbio the Supplementary Estimate of the Countess said that the Earl of Craven hitherto of any occasion for the spectacu ĮTEROGGE REUTER'S AGENCY.}
logical Society."
Office of Works, said that a Mission had had been admitted, and the notice of the CANADIAN POLITICS.
These microbes gather in mass forma- been sent to Leningrad and Moscow to authorities had been drawn to his pre- lar exercise of this responsibility in the tion on the border between cancerous try to recover furniture, etc., belonging sence in Amerion. His deportation is now general conduct of the world's affairs PRIME MINISTER RE-ELECTED BY diseased and healthy tissues.
to the British Government and seized by succeeded to the title in 1921 and who is from the recognition of it consistent with sought. The Earl of Craven, who only has no doubt prevented western peoples BIG MAJORITY.
the Soviets during the revolution. The WIRELESS OPERATORS' STRIKE, mission: cost £500 and recovered effacts 25 years of age, married, in 1916, Miss its importance, the voice of Japan has OTTAWA, February 16th.
worth £12,000. Ferred as chambers world.
Mary Wilhelmina George, daughter of the nevertheless been ever present in the NO COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY TO Mr. Lansbury moved a reduction of the son of the marriage, which has since been Ottawa's Prime Minister, Mr. Macken-
vote as a protest against the "foolhardy annulled by divorce proceedings against zie King, was re-elected at a bye election
policy" of removing the furniture from the Earl. It is this "crime" of having Petrograd, A
been divorced which makes the entry of The motion was rejected and the vote the Earl and Countess into the United carried.
States: andesirable.
BE HELD.
He appealed to foreign visitors, and through them to the nations they repro- traders had to offer, to judge goods on majority of over 7,000 on the combined their merit, and to judge British credit votes of Liberals and Progressives, de Sir Cunliffe Lister, President of the feating the Independent Conservative, Board of Trade, said that while the Mr. Burgess. prices of British goods had fallen their
sented, to come and see what British at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, by In the House of Commons, answering
and work.
quality had been maintained. Fresh. It is now uncertain, when the debate equipment of factories, application of on the address in reply to the speech from research, and the development of inven tion and design were having their the Throne will conclude.
effect on the steady improvement in The Conservative opposition appar- British commerce oversens. E
aim at shortening the adjournment
The British Industries Fair remains ently aim open until February 28th. The London period in which the Government expects section is devoted to the lighter trades to reorganise the Cabinet and complete Industries for which the Midlands are the legislative programme before re and the Birmingham-section to heavier
particularly, noted
assembling on March 15th.
BURMA RICE REDUCTION OF EXPORTS BY GOVERNMENT
LONDON, February 16th.
questions, Mr Blesh Maitland said he had refused to appoint a Commission of Enquiry into the maring wireless dispute 14, 2 on the ground that such a Court, was only empowered to enquire into the circumstances and not to lay down terms of settlement. He said the issues had been narrowed down as the result of last week's negotiations and he had asked both sides to meet again without delay STRIKE TO CONTINUE.
LORDON, February 15th...
A mass meeting of wireless operators in London has unanimously rejected the and decided to continue the strike, until employers proposed settlement terms awatisfactory agreement is reached. *
Baron Matsui declares that Japan does not sympathise with the suggestion of a Europe though she is not unmindful of combination of Asiatic, peoples against
the ties binding her to her fellow Asiatics. Her first and constant-en- deavours are to keep on good terms with Gather immediate neighbours.RNAL.
SEA HEROES:
GREAT WELCOME AT NEW YORK
NEW YORK, February 13th RANGOON, February 18th The wife of Captain Fried and the wives There is a mild sensation in the rice of members of the crew having previously market. Owing to the final forecast of boarded the vessel at the quarantine the Burma rice crop, the Government inland, there were happy-crowds aboard han reduced the exportable surplus of the s& President Roosevelt on arrival the new crop to 2,850,000 tons of cargo from Europe. Steamboats : sounded their rice, or 250,000 tons below the original syrens and tens of thousands of specta- estimate. It is stated that the crops in tors cheered and waved. There was a siderably damaged, and generally the aboard which was attended, amongst a number of districte have been con- enthusiastic ceremony at a reception held threahing out of the crop will be light, others, by eminent British anbjects.
Bazon Matani sympathetically refere to China's problem "gnd is of opinion that China needs a strong man. Any other solution, as for example the federa tion of the Provinces, seems equally
realisable.
MISSIONARY ACCIDENTALLY
"KILLED,
PEKING, February, 15th,
was accidentally killed at: Han Yang A telegram from Hankow reports that the Rev. Nelson, of the Lutheran Mission, Chow on the 8th inst.