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THREE RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
"BRITISH GAZETTE SUSPICIOUS OF FOUL PLAY BY STRIKERS.
MANY POLICE PROSECUTIONS BUT FEW DISORDERS.
JUSTICE ASTBURY'S IMPORTANT DECISIÓN: STRIKE
ILLEGAL AND AGAINST LAW.
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.)
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1926
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OMNIBUS SERVICES IN LONDON ARE BEING. STEADILY IMPROVED AND THE LONDON AND NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY ANNOUNCE THAT A THOUSAND TRAINS ARE NOW WORKING ON THEIR SYSTEM. IN A NUMBER OF TOWNS TRAMWAY MEN HAVE RETURNED TO DUTY, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY POLICE * COURT "CABES OF RIOTING AND IMPEDING THE POLICE.
IS STATED THAT THERE ARE SIGNS OF INCREASING ANXIETY. AMONGST THE STRIKERS REGARDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE. SECTIONS OF THE WORKERS DO NOT WISH IT TO APPEAR THAT THEY HAVE THROWN DOWN A CHALLENGE TO THE NATION. ON THE CONTRARY, THEY NOW WANT TO ESTABLISH THE DISPUTE ON A PURELY INDUSTRIAL BASIS.'
IN THE CHANCERY DIVISION, IN GRANTING AN INJUNC TION AGAINST CERTAIN UNION BRANCH OFFICIALS, JUSTICE
STATED THAT THE ASTBURY
SO-CALLED STRIKE WAS THOSE PARTICIPATING, ILLEGAL AND CONTRARY TO LAW. HE SAID, WERE NOT PROTECTED BY THE TRADE DISPUTES
ACT.
In
LONDON. MAY 14th.
Disturbances have been few but where the Chancery Division. Justice they have occurred they show signs of! Astbury, in granting an injunction against becoming sharper. Nevertheless, there is certain branch officials of the Sailors and no cause for anxiety and police have Firethen's Waion.sajd the so-called complete control. . general strike was started by the Trade Union Congress illegally and contrary to law. Those inciting or participating therein were not, protected by the Trade Disprates Act (1915).
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AN IMPROVEMENT.
LATER. An appreciation of the situation broad. cast this morning shows that the whole
THE RAILWAY ACCIDENTS."
LATER.
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION:
LONDON, May 10th
The week has opened with an appre- diable all-round improvement in transport, evidenced by the improved train schedules posted at the stations. Motor buses are ruaning over most routes and their capacity is in no-wise over-taxed. Yolun teers are arriving everywhere in gratify ing numbers.
Official gnaopneements show that the situation in London and the Home Coun- ties is unchanged and ample transport is available at all sub-centres.
Three
General strike bo cancelled, the Govern- ment offers of assistance for the cool in-
· dustry for à definite period be renewed "and the mine owners' notices withdrawn. Mr. Lloyd George complained that tha foregoing was not published in the British Gazzite.
Mr. Churchill pointed out that many important things were perforce omitted which the Government did not object to inserting.
The Chancellor gave an assurance that the Archbishop's" appeal would be inserted in the British Gazette at the earliest possible opportunity.
CONTINENTAL`ACTION.
LONDON, May 10th. The Trades Union Congress announces
hundred Cambridge Under- graduates went to Hull yesterday to that, the International federation of Trade Unions has requested all centres to assist in unloading at the docks.
open relief funds for the British strikers. The Dutch Federation sent the first can- tribution, which was £5,000.
The London Docks area is generally quiet, though a police sergeant was struck with a hammer, and a special constable was stabbed in the back at Nine Elm
As regards the situation in the North- Western Division, transport is moving satisfactorily. There have been no deve lopments, regarding the proposed strike at the lairages at. Birkenhead or the four mills, but on the whole the situation is Cilsier.
The Northern Division is fairly well supplied with food and it was unnecessary for the Haulage committee to provide "transport on Sunday.
PLENTY OF VOLUNTEERS. . The situation in the South-Western Division is normal. It is well furnished with newspapers,
A number of strikers are drifting 'back at Plymouth and some transport workers at Bristol, who were called out from pri- vate flour mills, have applied for work elsewhere where they are unknown.
As regards the North-Eastern Division There were three railway accidents, the all is quiet at Leeds, Hull, Sheffield, York and other large towns Volunteers are first since the strike, to-day.
freely responding.
DANISH FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
COPENHAGEN, May 10th.
The Danish Trade Union Congress has decided to send the British Trade Unions 50,000 kroner per week as long as the strike lasts.
FRENCH WORKERS" ALD.
PARIS, May 10th.
TEROCOE HAVAS AGENCY.).
THE MOROCCAN WAR.
FURTHER AIMS OF FRENCH
FORCES REALISED.
PARIS, May 11th. Papers from Damascus state that the French have cleared, the quarter of Meidan whers the Druses got a footing. 37 rebels were killed and 71 captured The French losses were three killed and eight injured. Four important Druse lenders have made xubmission.
RABAT, May 11th. The French have started new opera- tions in the area of Benim Estarna and reached without difficulties all their aims north of Taheda and in the region of Nbukara.
· [TEROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY. }
THE LEAGUE'S COMPOSITION.. BRITAIN OPPOSED TO ANY VIOLENT CHANGES.
GENEVA, May 10th. " To-day'a proceedings of the committee on the composition of the League of Nations Council, resulted in a general agreement that any modification in the Covenant was undesirable and that the rule that the Council's decisions must be unanimous should be maintained.
SYSTEM OF ROTATION.
FAR
EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]
JAPAN'S EMPEROR ILL.
Toxro, May 11th.
It is officially announced that the
Emperor suffered a slight stroke from cerebral anseria this morning, but is improving.
EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. AMERICAN WIDOW AWARDED 253,000 BY MIXED COURT..
CAIRO, May 10th The Mixed Courts have given judg ment in the .case of Mrs. Folk, widow of the American ex-Senator who recently proceeded against Zaglul Pasha and Mahorned Mahinord Pasha, claiming $600,000 for her husband's services in the cause of Egyptian Independence.
The Courts rejected the claim against Zaglul Pasha and Mahomed: Mahmoud Pasha personally, but condemned Zagiul, as President of the Egyptian Walld, to pay $55,000, with costs.
In conformity with the Ostend de- cisions the National Federations of
Lates Maritime Unions, port And Dock
Viscount Cecil opened the proceedings labourers have issued instructions for
of the committee by emphasising the im-1 bidding unemployed seamen to serve on British ships. French seamen should re-
portance of the discussions, and the fuse to work French coal-ships for Eng.necessity of avoiding anything in the shape of revolution. He declared that land and dockers must not coal or victual any British vessels.
the British Government was opposed to any violent changes in the composition wicket. of the Council.
BUNKERING IN HOLLAND.
ROTTERDAM, May 10th. Owing to the strike in Britain, hunker ing stations near Rotterdam which are worked by unorganised labour are most active. The men have hitherto complete ly disregarded the appeal of the Trade
A passenger train at Edinburgh crash- In the Midland Division there are imUnions to refuse to bunker British vessels, and 78 vessels were bunkered last ed into a goods train. Three were killed | proved train servicon.
week as compared with eighteen in the and seven injured.
previous week...
A goods train collided with a station
In the North Midland Division there is ample volunteer labour for road transport. Food ships are unloading at Grimsby, are being dispatched
of the country continues to be quiet, andary passenger train at Bishop Stortford. and the contents
transport facilities are steadily expand-One was killed and one injured. ing Government protection are suffice.
measures
Defections from the strikers ranks are principally among the railwaymen. There
is a considerable increase in unemploy ment due to the closing down of indus tries.
The East End of London is absolutely
quiet.
The Bellast deckers ignored the orders to strike when the Liverpool-Fleetwood steamers arrived, and they unloaded all
-the foodstuff.
ROTTERDAM, May 11th.
Food shipments to England are resami- ing as a result of the confirmation from the.. British Government that vessels van be discharged..
To
An express from Edinburgh was derail ed north of Newcastle. There were fatalities, but one passenger was seriously injured.
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. The British Guzette says the derail men of the express from Edinburgh is believed to be due to foul play by strikers; as a fish-plate had been removed from the line. There were 300 passengers aboard the train, but only one was injured, in
the leg..
The flotte says that bolts were re- moved from the line near a level-crossing! at Egham, Surrey, on Sunday.
MORE DISORDERS.
A seinan WES
sentenced to three months hard labour at Greenwich for
without difficulty.
In the South-Midland Division road
WIRELESS STRIKE NEWS.
Ruony, May 10th. While many men are returning to work in different occupations, there is no in- dication of any general movement in this
of the country, however, say that there are signs of increasing anxiety amongst
HOME CRICKET.
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WOODFULL'S SECOND CENTURY
FOR AUSTRALIANS.
LONDON, May 10th. Rain delayed a re-start at the Ovál until 3.60 this afternoon. About one thousand spectators saw the Australians continue their innings on a soft lifeless
Collins declared at tea-time with the
Viscount Ceil further suggested a score of 305 runs for nine wickets. aystem of rotation for non-permaneat members of the Council.
Signor Scialoja, (Italy) and Senhor Palancios (Spain) urged, the necessity for unanimity in Council decisions, and the former, while opposing too great a increase in the number of non-permanent members, declared that the making of the League of Nations into a super-
State must be avoided."
This would to-day be an anachronism, be concluded.
PARTICIPATION, IN. WORK.
In the course of the general discussion
Woodfull made his second successive cea- tury by hitting up 118 by slow laborious cricket. He was at the wicket for three hours, forty minutes, and hit only one four. Hendry made 88, and Lockton, the Surrey bowler, took four wickets at a cost of 105 runs.
In the time remaining for play, Surrey scored for one wicket, Hobbs succumbing after scoring twenty-two.
MATCHES ABANDONED,
LATLAR.
The following matches were all aban-
WORCESTERSHIER . SOMERSET. Worcestershire: 293 (M. Foster, 58;
Jewell, 67).
Somerset: 14 for 2 wickets.
transport workers bave remained at work on a considerable scale, except at South-alrection Reports from various parts a communication from the Government dined owing to rain: ampton. Volunteers are coming in such numbers that the supply available for electrical and mechanical work exceeds the present needa. Numerous Oxford sections of strikers on the constitutional Fissue and that many workmen came out are working at Undergraduates
before realising that their action, might Docks.
reasonably be interpreted as a challenge to the constitution. A summing up of the reports, would appear to indicate a general desire to re-establish the dispute on a purely industrial basis.
the
To the Eastern Division all is quiet. A demonstration by £0,000. strikers at Norwich was peacefully conducted and there were no inflammatory speeches BELFAST DOCKERS STRIKE.
"BELKAST, May 10th,
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of the Commonwealth of Australia was distributed embodying the views of Aus- tralia in regard to the composition of the Council. It suggested that the Council should still consist of permanent and non-permanent members, but that the permanent sents should be restricted to the Great Powers, including Germany. The Australian Government feels the Council cannot be increased much beyond its present size, and it throws out the suggestion that Members "of the League of Nations not permanently represented on the Council shall have an opportunity.
BUS AND TRAIN SERVICES. Omnibus services in London show proof participating in its work. The dockers have gone on strike.
gressive improvement. Transport diffi STRIKERS UNBROKEN FRONT."culties in many provincial towns are
LATER.
A communiqué issued by the Trades arging a big crowd to see about the Union Congress says: The front re police.
mains unbroken and the dificulty is to keep other men in, pending any de cision to call them out. It quotes a
A Superintendent said the accused's
THE RUSSIAN MONEY.
Moscow. May 11th. The General Council of the Soviet Trade Unions announces that in con- Aequence of the Trade Union Congress's conduct led to fifteen arrests and origin refusal to accept the proferred 2,230,000 ated the trouble at Deptford on Saturday roubles, the money would be returned night, necessitating the calling out of a to the subscribing Russian Trade Unions, hundred police. Bricks and bottles were but the collections would be continued thrown arid plate glass windows were and deposited to the credit of a special smashed. Three others were sentenced to relief fund for British miners, and one month and two months.
placed at the disposal of the T. U. C. or Miners Federation. The Soviet Council adds the special agreement for a united front by British and Soviet Trade Unions is strengthened by the creation of an Anglo-Soviet Unity Committee." SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT:
LONDON, May 10th.
An official communiqué says that the situation throughout the country is being well maintained. The arrangements for "distribution of milk, food and petrol have been more successful than on sny other day of the strike and they promise to improve continuously.
COMMUNIST LEADER'S WIFE REMANDED.
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Mrs. Marjorie Pollitt, wife of the Com munist leader Harry Pollitt, was charged at Bow Street with the unlawful posses sion of documents containing false state ments, the publication of which would be a contravention of the Emergency Regula tions and likely to cause disaffection among the civil population.
She was femanded: op bail.
MANY POLICE CASES. Cases have been heard in London, Nuneaton, Middlesborough, Chesterfeld and Newcastle police courts for victing, impeding the police and circulating false
news
Sentences have ranged from one month Arrangements to three months' hard labour.
The unloading and transportation of commodities is approaching normality.
It may generally be stated that the Government emergency have settled down working thoroughly.
The position of the supply of light and power is satisfactory.
Railway services have improged and one-fifth of the regular staffs of the rail way companies are working.
Alexander Auld, the local Secretary of the General Workers' Union at Chap, Westmoreland, has been sentenced to three months hard labour for issuing appeals to workers, not to join the special constabulary.
essage from the N.U.R. declaring that reports of railway men having returned to work at different centres have been
proved to be "tatirely without found 'tion. It also quotes a Transport Workers Union message that all is solid and the The T.U.C. adds that it has received message from the Master of Balliol and
also being considerably reduced. There is a normal train service in Liverpool and an efficient omnibus and train ser vice in Edinburgh. Tramway met have resumed work at Huddersfield, Dews bury, Teeds, Bath, and other places, where the truin services are, now running. At Bath, it is noteworthy that the men signed on as non-unionists. Omnibus
systems in all countries south of the Thames are running penctually and the public are able, by catching connections, to make journeys of some length.
The statements issued by two of the the Master of University College, Oxford, main railway systema illustrate to what (sic) carnestly hoping that for the future
**** extent the strike has been counteracted peace and unity of the country nothing in regard to railway transport. The may be allowed to stand in the way of London and North-Eastern Railway an- "an attempt to resume negotiations. The
nounce that 1,000 trains are now working Benders state that this resolution was
on their system as compared with 760 signed by 58 fellows and 130 graduates. on Saturday. During the week-end 94 COMMONS DEBATE ON PUBLICITY. goods trains were worked, carrying milk, LATER.regetables, fish, eattle, meat and general In the House of Commons, arising merchandise. The London Midland and from a question that the Government was provisionally commandeering newsprint, which Mr. Churchill ascribed as a heted sity for safeguarding the dissemination
The Commonwealth Government" bas grave doubts whether any advantage is to be gained by adapting geographical divisions in the election of non-perman- ent members, furthermore the Common- wealth opposes any modification of the rule of unanimity in respect of the de- cisions of the Council.
THE NEW CHAIRMAN.
M. Metta (Switzerland) has been elect ed chairman of the present proceedings nt Geneva.
Senhor Thomas Lebreton (Argentina) was appointed the Chairman of the Com mittee for the Re-organisation of the League Council. The same delegate is vice Chairman of the League Council and he decided upon the principle of holding sittings publicly.
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WARWICKSEJAS V. HAMPSHIRE. Warwickshire: 1266 (Parsons, 171).
Boyes, 5 wickets, for 53 runs. Hampshire: 16 for 2 runs.
LEICESTERSHIRE #. GLAMORGAN. Leicestershire 195, Ryan, 5 wickets
for. 85 runa, Glamorgan: 37 for 1 wicket.
DAVIS CUP TENNIS,
·BRITAIN DEFEAT POLAND IN SINGLES.
LONDON, May 10tb At Harrogate in the Davis Cup (first round, European Zone) Britain beat
Poland,
O. G. N. Turnbull (Britain) defeated Czetwertynski 3-0, 6-2, 7-5 and J. D. P. Wheatley beat Kleinadel 62, 64, 6.1..
[Note: An earlier cablé gave Britain two other singles victories. A Davis Cup tie comprises four singles and one doubles match.)
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(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
FLIGHT OVER POLE.
PRES. COOLIDGE'S CONGRATU- LATIONS TO AVIATOR.
OVERSEAS ARRIVALS. Twenty-six ships docked and undocked in Liverpool during the week-end and 30 to-day. Passengers arriving at this and destinations without any delay, unless
NEW YORK, May 10th. other ports are being conveyed to their
In a statement issued this morning, Pre- they are bound for remote places. For instance, the Liners Caronia and Baltic sident Coolidge expressed heartiest con- arrived at Liverpool today from New gratulations in connection with Lieut- York and motor coaches were waiting to Commander Byrd's flight to the North convey the passengers. The Ballarat arrived at Plymouth, from Australia and Pole. Mr. Coolidge adds that the fact South Africa, and her 400 passengers left that the flight seems to have been ac immediately for London by special train.
complished without the alightest mishap' OTHER ITEMS. While the Stock Exchange remained demonstrates the high development reach extremely quiet to-day a favourable ten- ed in the art in the United States. dency prevailed and whatever changes Lieut-Commander Byrd has wireleased took place were in a higher direction his mother, who is living in Richmond, Industrials, notably were harder. of "news throughout the country, gress with the reinstatement of passenger
The great milk depot which the Gov- Virginia, announcing his sale return, Lloyd George drew attention. to the retrains as to cover the essential sections ernment has established in Hyde Park and his mother told Press representatives
is now being supplied to freely by the that she is very proud of Dick." fusal of the broadcasting authorities to of the railway with a service suficienty that cupplies by road are being His brother, Henry, who is Governor issue an appeal aigued by the Archbishop to meet requirements. They have indeed dispensed with and the lorries hitherto of Virginis expressed himself in like of Canterbury formulated at Lambeth at a surplus of passenger train staff for pre- used for this purpose are being diverted terms, adding, that "Dick has been
for the transport of four, bacon, etc., Jucky all his life.” May 7th, on behalf of the Christian
from the docks and for other services.
Two hundred vessels bringing (2,000 churches in the country, embodying are
tons of fish arrived at different ports to solution that the time for conciliation
day. Very reasonable pricem are being had arrived, and suggesting that the
maintained for fish
Scottish Railway announce that they are ranging about 1,000 passenger trains and this number will be increased to-morrow. They have been able to make such pro-
sent requirements and are turning their attention to freight train services, as the situation permita.
"(Continged on neri Column.)
NORGE LEAVES SPITZARRGEN,
«Oslo, May 11th, The Norge has started for the North Pole from Spitzbergen