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THE COAL STRIKE.
MINERS DETERMINED ON NO WAGE REDUCTIONS.
RUSSIAN RELIEF MONEY ACCEPTED.
ITHROCOM REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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LONDON, May 20th- In the House of Commons several questions touched the Soviet gift of Mr. £900,000 to the British miners. Joynson Hicks replied and said the mining strike, being a genuine trade dispute, the Government was unable to prevent the admission of foreign money for the purpose of assistaner,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MAY 21ST,. 1826
INDIANS IN AFRICA. CONFERENCE ARRANGED BETWEEN INDIA AND THE UNION.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Reaar, May 19th. Lord Birkenhead announced in the House of Lords that a "conterence had been arranged between representatives of the Government of the Union of South Africa and of the Government of India, with a view to an amicable solution of the problems connected with the residence of persons of Indian descent in the ter ritories of the Union of South Africa. The time and place of the conference was at present the subject of discussion be- tween himself and the viceroy of India.
Lord Birkenhead "added that it would
Mr. Wat Thorne pointed out that the cheques sent to the T.U.C) by the Russian be premature is say that the holding of Trade Unions were prevented entering the conference, carried with it the cer. the country under the Emergency Powerstinty of an agreed or compromised con- Mr. Hicks replied "Yes, I stopped that clusion. When a controversy such as this £100,000, but the contributign to the between two constituent elements of the miners is quite a differeint position.” Empire hd reached an acute stage it was not fur His Majesty's Government to sug solation. gest and still less to dictate The Government of South Africa bad made sacrifices in consenting to the con- ference and the Government of India was
1ECENT STANDARD WAGE.
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Loxtos. May 20th.
The Miners Delegate Conférence has passed a resolution declining to accept the Government's proposals to reduce wages on the grand that this does not provide a decent standard living.
LATER.
indebted
for the consideration and patience which the Government of South Afrin had shown in a matter which The Central Cominittee of the Mining deeply concerns many elements of its Association discussed Mr. Baldwin's pro- | population. posals, and the results of the enquiry were submitted to the ccal owners. It
ESPIONAGE IN FRANCE.
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is diselosed that considerable criticism | BRITISH GOVERNMENT DISCLAIMS
KNOWLEDGE OF ACTIVITIES. is proposed to the legislation, parti cularly as regards amalgamation and restriction of the recruitment of labour. The establishment of a National Wages Board, with an independent chairman is recommended.
Loxnos, May 19th.
Recur, May 19th. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir Ausion Chamberlain said that Lord Crowe, the British Ambassador in Paris, had informed him of the sen
It is understood that the Executive offences passed upon British subjects for alleged espionage. He then read the de the Miners Federation will recommend
menti issued by Lord Crewe, last Decem the Delegate Conference on May 20th,
FRANCE'S COLONIAL
WARS.
RIFFS AT BAY IN MOUNTAIN RANGES.
FRANCO SPANISH OBJECTIVES REALISED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S "AQINOY.}
PARIS, May 19th. A message from Fez says that a large offensive has started in the eastern sector. The French are progressing favourably
everywhere.
810 OFFENSIVE AND ADVANCE.
F, May 10th.
A Franco-Spanish attack on the Riffs' eastern flank resulted in a ten-kilometre advance on a thirty-kilometre front.
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The French have occupied the heights forty miles east of the Riff stronghold at Targuist, and Franco-Spanish troops are now" in command of the valley of the Skor, up which the Spaniards are -ad- vancing from Ajdir. The junction of the two forces is expected shortly and this will lead to the submission of tribes east of Ajdir and enable the Franco- Spanish east front to be straightened out till it follows a direct line from Ajdir to Taza, blocking Abd el Krim in the mountains.
HEMMING IN
THE RIFY. LONDON, May 19th. Like a wild boar defending its moun tain home to the last rock is the descrip tion' applied in Paris to Abdel Krim's position in face of the joint Franco. now launched in Spanish offensive Morocco.
Whereas the pressure last year wh practically entirely from the South to the
the north to the south the Franco-Spanish North, and during the Riff offensive from
forces are now active on four sides of a
THE FRANC.
SECRET RESTORATION MEASURES DECIDED ON,
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,)
PARIS, May 10th.
Peret has informed pressmen that he has visited President Doumergue; and conferred with M. Briand and the
Governor and Directors of the Bank of
France and they have agreed on certain measures to restore the frane as soon as possible, but the measures to be effective
7311436. Lu kept secret,
His conversations with Mr. Churchill were only adjourned and they were seek: ing a compromise. He would return to London as shortly as possible.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
A CHURCH "PLUM.*
BUSH MINISTER FOR FASHION.
ABLE. U.S. PASTORATE.
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New You, May 2015.. Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, one of the most fashionable congregations, has unanímovaly approved of the offer of ube past of pastor to the Rev. Henry Howard, of London, who is 5631 .f" a
Methodist Bush" preacher of Victoria, Australia.
The Pastorate carries
stipend of $19,000.
AMERICAN "GRAFT."
HUGE EXPENDITURE IN SENATORIAL ELECTIONS.
战
WASHINGTON, May 19th. Senator J. A. Reed. Democrat,' of
FAR EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
[THROVOU RECTEL'S AGENCY.]
BANDITS SELZE AMERICAN.
ARTILLERY OFFICER CAPTURED
NEAR LAI TẠI RO.
PEKING, May 20th. The American Consul at Yunnanfu has telegraphed, according to a report re-
ceived from a foreigner residing at Lai
T Po, that bandits on the 17th inst. captured Captain T. J. Betts, American Language Officer, who is touring the pro vinces for language "purposest,
Capt. Retts belongs to the American Cast Artillery, and is well-known in Peking, where his wife and mother re- side,
The report is not otherwise confirmed. but there is no reason to doubt its necuracy. The capture is said to have been effected in the neighbourhood of Ixi Tou Po,
It appears that Capt. Betts left Peking in March on a mission he voluntarily undertook for the famine Relief Commis- sion, ia connection with the organisation of a new committee in Yunnaniu.
On May 15 he telegraphed to Peking. stating he had completed his task, and intended to go overland to Chungkin where he expected to arrive on June 7th, instead of returning to Hanoi by Rail.
No word of him had since been haard. Of splendid physique, Capt. Betta was a He was conspicuous figure in Peking. horn in Newchwang, and speaks Chinese unusually well.
THE DANISH FLIGHT. COMMANDER BOTVED'S MACHINE GIVES TROUBLE..
PEKING, May 20th. Commander Botved, from Yucheng this yesterday) to endorse the reorganisationer when the men were arrested, declar huge parallelogram, the two longer sides Missouri, has given currency to a sena-
that anything between morning, landed at Machang, owing to ranean coast and the French frontier $2,000,000 and 85,000,000 were spent in leaking gasolene. He was against forced proposals of the Report of the Royal ng that no department of the British of which are represented by the Mediters torial story
Government had any connection with v
Commission but to reject the immediate
JESUS CHRIST IN HISTORY: IMPORTANT NEW EVIDENCE."
"BY PROFESSOR G. H. BOX, MA, D.D., KING'S -COLLEGE, LONDON.]
· In a remarkable article just published in the Diocese of Liverpool Review," Dr. Vacher Burch-who, in conjunction with Dr. Rendel Harris na contributed so much important and stimulating work to the study of Christian origins-calls attention to the striking additional evidence afforded by the Slavonic version of Josephus to the historicity of Jesus.
of
The workstof Josephus-who was born a Jewish priestly family about 97-99 A.D., and died some time after 100 A.D. have come down to as in Greek. The most important of them are the Anti- quities and the Jewish-War." The latter work, which is the earlier in date, and more valuable, was, as the author himself tells as, originally composed in Aramaic in order that it might be read by the Jews of the East, who lived
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Parthia Babylonia, Adiabene, and Arabia. At a Inter time he issued a Creek version of this work, which is the forra in which it is familiar to us, and it is not at all improbable was modified in various ways away from the original Unfortunately this original Aramaic
text has not survived.
THE NEW DISCOVERY. Now the great interest attaching to the Slavonic version is that it exhibits a text substantially different in many res pects from the ordinary Greek text. The question arises, does the old Slavonic reflect an earlier or later type of text Dr. Burch has no doubt as to the anawer to be given to this question. He says:
A pile of manuscripts was found, written in the ancient. Church-language of the Slavs, which contained a trans- Iation of the writings of Josephus. Both the Antiquities and the
Jewish War are in thers. We can blame the post-war period and the Tower of Babel-the two over-burdened bearers of excuses for our indolence to- wards the labour of thought in these day-that so little notice has been taken of this discovery. For it is nat. only that there has been found another version of Josephus: this version is one in which are preserved long state- ments concerning Jesus Christ. Con- vention and conservatism have influez- red the few references which have as yet been made to the discovery-the witness. to Christ has been condemned, and the fuller text of the writing rejected.. Unfortunately, though the existence of this Slavonic version has been known to scholars for some time, it has not been a thoroughly right when he says: The subject imperatively demands thorough study" As the present writer knows from personal exprience, it is not at all unlikely to discover early and otherwise lost pieces of literature preserved in old Slavonic. One early Christian Apocalypse at least has been thus preserved "The | Apocalypse of Abraham,
wage reduction implications contained in knowledge of the activities of the British and the two shorter sides from north the recent Senatorial primary election in down similarly at Tientsin race-ecurse, properly edited or studied. Dr. Burch
the (iovernment's proposals and the Com mission's report.
The policy of the Executive is based
on reports from the coal-fields indicating a fairly general resistance to any de- parture from the existing wage standard, at least pending the re-organisation of the industry. It is believed that the De- legates will accept the recommendation practically unaninously, but there is still Rome hope that the situation will change shortly. It is regarded as significaut that the Executive will propose to the Delegate Conference that after endorsing the recommendation, they shall adjourn till Friday to "enable the Executive to vonduct any further negotiations pos.
sible.
COMMUNISTS FINED.
LATER.
wireless firm in whose service the men Sir Austen Chamberlain added were. that he had not seen the report of the trial laut he had no reason to suppose that the judgment of the tribunal indicated any doubt of the truth of the statement of the British Government,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE KHALIFAT. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AT CONGRESS IN CAIRO.
CAIRO, May 19th.
The Khalifat Congress has discussed the report of the Committee on the de finition and necessity of the Khalifat. The report defined, the Khalifat as the office of the spiritual and temporal chief of the Moslems and declared that the Khalifat must embody spiritual and tem- Mrs. Margery Pollitt, wife of a proporal powers, both of which went to minent Communist, and who was arrest-gether. The Khalifa must be paramount ed during the strike. has been fined at and free, capable of defending islam and Bow Street £50 and five guinens costs with the alternative of three months' in prisonment.
applying the projects of the Kornni, etc. The Khalilat must always exist hut Islam must have only one Khalifat. who could be appointed by his precedecessor
to south by lines drawn from Tetuan to Larache and from Melilla to the south along the Wedkert. The interior of the paralelogram is traversed by wild moun- tain gorges and ranges from which last year Abd el Krim sent down his barkas to harry the attacking forces.
The first Franco-Spanish movements are directed at closing eastern exits from the parallelogram and their troops are now advancing with a view to effecting a permanent junction, which will separate
two blocks of tribesmen.
The Spaniards in the Ajdir sector have occupied Tamasint, Abd el Krim's winter residence. Targuist has been his recent headquarters,
TER SYRIAN CAMPAIGN.
BEIRUT, May 19th. Twenty-six villages occupied by the Djebel Druse have made submission.
GERMAN POLITICS.
Pennsylvania, when he moved the Senate to authorise" an investigation into the senatorial campaign "expenses.
Senator D. A. Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania in opposing the motion, disbelieved such extraordinary stories about the corrupt use of money.
and will probably remain in Tientsin for a couple of days to effect thorough re- pairs, after which he proceeds to Peking, and Tokyo, thence homeward rii Siberia.
کریم
Attorney
(a) That he knows all about the trial of Jesus before Pilate,
IN SETTLEMENT OR NOT? SHANGHAI RESIDENTS CLAÏMS
THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE. AGAINST POLICE. Other Republicans supported him, but,
An entirely fresh account of Jesus in SHANGHAI, May 20th.apparently, given in the Slavonic text on a roll call, there was laughter when it Was found that the Republican
Husar," on behalf of Huang of the Jewish War." This is thus summarised by Dr. Burch: Here" Jose- Senators up for re-election generally Gee Tong, Chinese claiming American phus tells us," he says:- joined the Democrats and insurgent Re-citizenship, filed a complaint in the publicens in support of the motion, which Court of the Foreign Consuls at Shang- hai, claiming $100,000 from the Shanghai was carried by 59. votes to 31.
Municipal Council, arising out of gambling raid on April 30th, which the plaintiff alleges was illegally conducted on his premises at North Szechuen Road by the Municipal Police. He said the premises were outside the Settlement, limits and outside the jurisdiction of the Settlement authorities.
NICARAGUAN REVOLT...
INSURGENTS' VIOLATION OF
CONTRACTS.
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Lawyer Fischer is filing a similar clain
MANAGUA, May 19th. The American Collector General of Customs has protested to the State De- "partment against the removal by revolu- on behalf of Weng Wa Chung, a Portu-
tionaries of the American Collector of guese.. Customs and his deputy at Bluefields be-
Mr. Sewart, Arting General Secretary of the Communist Party, has been fined that is, he could succeed as heir of the the new Chancellor, declared that the cause he refused to hand over the col
£100 and five guineas costs, or three Khalifat. He could also be nominated months, and two sisters named Span bave by high representatives of Islam such been found over for twelve months. as the Princes of Ulemas and other All were charged with possessing do notables. Finally, the Khalif could, with cuments contravening the Emergency Rout fullling the other venditjons, reach gulations.
the supreme office by conquest or victory. always provided he was'n Moslem
BLACKSHIRTS! FORWARD!
RUSSIAN MONEY FOR MINERE:
LATER.
The Miners' Executive has formally
accepted a contribution of £260,000 from ANOTHER ROMBASTIC OUTBURST Russian miners in help the British- minera. It is reported that assistance in coming from all directions at home and abroad and, if necessary, the miners will be able to carry on the struggle for weeks.
LATER. Owing to the latest announcement of the Jockey Club, the Stewards at. Ayr have reconsidered their decision, and the meeting will take place.
[BRITISH WIELLESS SERVICE.] UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES.
Reasy, May 19th...
The effect of "the recent general strike is reflected in the latest unemployment returns issued by the Ministry of Labour.
NEW GOVERNMENT'S POLICY APPROVED BY REICHSTAG, "
BERLIN, May 19th.. Speaking in the Reichstag, Dr. Marx,
Government's foreign policy was unchan ged. He emphasised that the Russo-Ger man Treaty was merely a link in a chain of treaties in the interest of the pacifica 'tion and consolidation of Europe.
The
lections. The seizure of Customs Houses on the Atlantic Coast is a violation of
the financial plan of the Government which the State Department at Washing tog approved, and also a violation of the contracts between Nicaragua sad bond
Reichstag by a large majority, passed a resolution approving of the deholders of the 1909 London loan. claration of the Government, only the Communists and extremists, opposing, while the German National Party ab
stained.
The Reichstag adjourned until June
th.
MISHAPS IN RUSSIA. MORE THAN 30 KILLED IN THREE
ACCIDENTS, - :
BY MUSSOLINI.
ROMs, May 19th. On the occasion of the adoption of the labour law prohibiting strikes Signor Mussolini made a statement to Fascists, declaring that for the first time in the history of the world a constructive re- volution had been accomplished peaceful-] ly. For the first time a powerful system of fifteen great associations had been created all on an equal footing, all re- Fifteen men were electrocuted owing cognised and guaranteed in their legiti- to a piece of machinery in some works mate interents by the State. Fascists Dear Moscow fouling an overhead high- were certain that the new system in- tension cable.
On May 10th, the total number of per- augurated to-day would withstand the The nation fortified BOOS registered as unemployed. was 1,576,000. Just previous to the strike, test of experience. the total bad fallen to below one million. by the Fascist spirit of discipline would In addition to these, 1,576,000 notices of claims to benefit had been given in respect become a solid indivisible unit of poli of about 325,600 workers not at work in tical, economic and moral the mining industry on account of the "Blackshirts! forward! Show by good. dispute, and about 200,000 on strike in will and loyalty that ours is one of the
moet glorious revolutions." ather industries
energy.
Moscow, May 19th. Three mishaps, attended by fatalities, are reported.
Nineteen persons were drowned through the sinking of a ferry boat on the river Sulak, near Petrovsk, "
AMERICAN AIR SMASH.
(b) That in the time of the Emperor Claudius, and of the procurators Cus- pius Fadus and Tiberins Alexander, many were the slaves' of the wonder- worker, Jesus.
(c) That these preached that their Rabbi who had died, was risen from the dead, and as well they taught the New Law, which is in opposition to the old Jewish law.
(d) That these very early messengers of Jesus were teaching others, who and what He was and is, by the help of the primitive documentary mode which He had inspired and all His messengers had used."
A MUCH DISPUTED REFERENCE.
It may be that this represents some- LONDON'S RUBBISH. thing that stood originally in the text of the original edition of the War," which HOW TO ECONOMISE ON IT. was cut out of the Greek edition. The other well-known passage, which refers As a result of an investigation now to Christ, appears in the Antiquities being made into the problem of London (xviii. 3, 3), and has given rise to much of Cleansing at the Ministry of Health, it it was a Christian interpolation. But fuse by Mr. J. C. Dawes, the Inspector controversy. It used to be asserted that is expected that before long the dumping several very distinguished Jewish and of crude rubbish in some of the country
Christian critical scholars now accept. it districts on the fringes of Greater in some form as authentic. It runs as London will be stopped. This insanitary follows:- practice is bad for health, and has aroused justifiable protests.
Of recent years, it has been discovered that by treating refuse properly a con- aiderable income can be obtained for the
ÄVIATOR KILLED DURING FORCED relief of rates. For example, the ac
LANDING.
NEW YORK, May 19th.
A message from Summit. Illinois, says that the airman, Rose Kirkpatrick, who participated in the pioneer fight from New York to Alaska in 1020, was killed yesterday in a forced landing in a mail aeroplane owing to a storm.
PROHIBITION.
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICÄNS SENATORIAL ELECTIONS.
PHILADELPHIA, May 19th.. Two passengers (ond on the staff of
The Republican Party of Pennsylvania Pravda) were killed, and a mechanic seri-has nominated Mr. William Yare as a ously injured, by the crashing of an air candidate for the Senate on the platform
the Moscow-Tiflis line, near ship on
of a modification of the Volstead Act.
Kharkov,
counts for the City of Sheffield show that in 1924 the income derived from the sale of salvaged materials alone amounted to Various schemes are being ex- £12,000. perimented with at Glasgow, Falkirk and Halifax, with a view to eliminating dust, and then utilising to the best ad vantage the materials contained in house- hold refuse thrown away, suggestion, for example, that in time briquetted fuel may be sold to the Con- tinent made out of such refuse, and it is said that Shefeld is already selling to Portugal
There is a
Now there was about this time (ie., about the time of the rising against Pilate .) Jesus, a wise man, if. it be lawful to call him a man. For he was a doer of wonderful works, teacher of such men sa receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him beth many of the Jews and many of the Gentilen He was the Meriah, and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had con- demned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first ceased not [so to, do], for he appeared to them alive. again the third day, as the divine pro- phets had foretold these and ten thou sand other wonderful things concerning. him; and the race of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct even
.now.
The cost of the collection, and disposal of house and trade refuse in England and
Dr. Joseph Klausner, the brilliant Walse is over £8,000,000 a year, and it Jewish author of the recently published, is believed that many savings are poss! Jesus of Nazareth,” accepts this pas- ible. The Elementary schools have been
asked to assist in educating the public age, apart from the italicised words, as as to the necessity of reducing the authentic. But it is meagre enough. If amount of rabbish thrown away. If the authentic character of the Slavonic only each householder, would burn two version can be established, its importance pounds of rabbish each week instead of obvious. The work is being edited by putting it into the dustbin, it is esti- Jewish scholar. When fully available, mated that there would be a saving of it must be studied and examined critical ly in detail. For the ultimate verdict of scholarship, we must wait.—The over a quarter of a millic posing in the amount apeat on public cleansing
Obeerver. Fear: