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CABLES.
[THEOCON BRUTER'S AGENCY.] THE MOROCCAN WAR.
ARD EL KRIM ON THE RUN.
Fez. May 21st.
THE FRANC.
IMPROVEMENT FOLLOWING-
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 22ND, 1926
NEW YORK, May 20th. Ambassador Berenger, prior to his
While the Eastern Sector is consolidat-departure for France, opined that the, ing the position, recently occupied, the "French have started in the Middle Sector another advance. They progressed twelve kilometern.
French Parliament would ratify the Franco-American debt funding settlement, In the absence of which no revaluation or
Abd el Krim, atmadoned by the Beniari stabilisation of the frang was possible.
Aghels, has fled westward.
THE COAL STRIKE. GERMANY TO HELP BRITISH MINERS.
FAR EASTERN CABLE Scottish Letter.
NEWS.
THROUGH ARCTER'S AGENCY, ]
FIGHTING IN SZECHUAN.
JAPANESE MARINES LANDED
CHÚNGKING
CONFISCATED PROPERTY RETURNED TO OWNERS.
A VETERAN MISSIONARY. DEATH OF REV, JOHN WATSON"
OF AMOY.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. **HERBACEOUS BORDER"..
FOR FAR EAST.
OLD COFFINS. SLOOP USED FOR BUILDING A FENCE. How a Chinese made use of the wood Sevara sloops of the "Herbaceous of some old coffins was related at the border type are undergoing reft in Central Magistracy yesterday when he OLD GOLF RULES.
home ports preparatory to service in was charged with having stolen the coffins [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]
tropical waters, for which service, they from the depository at the Tung Wah. are being specially fitted out. These in. Hospital. EDINBURGH, April 1st.clude the Suretbriar and the Findflower The Rev. John Watson, MA who has at Pembroke Dock and the Rosemary at the matter to the police as soon as the The authorities of the hospital reported just died at his residence, 55, Carden Devonport, to where she was recently disappearance of the coins was discover- The French Government decision to
Place, Aberdeen, was for 33 years a mustowed to complete the work-which is to ed. Investigations were made, and the PERING, May 21st.sionary in China. Mr. Watson, who was cost £40,203-having been begun at Pém defendant was found to have, made "use support the franc has resulted in specula- Mr. Wang Hual Ching has restored to 7 years of age, was born at Fordyce, broke. The Secretbriar and Findpower of them for building a fence around a tors, on the decline, turning buyers and the owners the Manchu property in the Banffshire, and graduated in Arts at Aberare of the improved "flower" the frane was forced to 301 as compared suburbs of Peking which Marshal Fengdeen University in the early 'seventies their displacement being 1,900 tons, and
class, poultry yard. with "yesterday's 280 closing rate. Bel-Yu Hsiang turned over to his brigadiers After studying for the ministry at the their armament a couple of 4-inch guns, gians advanced sympatheticdily and also LONDON, May 20th.
so that the rents would serve as pensions.F. Church Theological College in Aber. two 18-pounders, and a depth charge French and Belgian Government securi for incapacitated Koominchun troops.deen, he acted, for a brief period as misthrowing equipment, while their speed The steps German miners are taking ties. To help the British miners are indivated
The confiscation of these properties, it sionary to Trinity U.F. Church, Aberdeen.is 18.5 knots at their h.p. of 2,500. The Wasa:Naroy, May 20th. in a telegram from the Secretary of the
Addressing the House of Representa-
is said, left many Manches without means In 1879 he went out to Anos, "the Treaty Rosemary has a displacement of two German Miners' Federation received by tives Ways and Means Committee. Mr.
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pore in the provines of Fukien, China. 4-inch guns, four 3-pounders and s Mr. Frank Hodges, stating that a con
Mellon predicted that when France had
A message from Chungking says fight as a missionary of the English Presby couple of machine-guns. It is under- ference of Miuers in Germany has passedepreluded her delit
Ling broke out on the 19th inst., hetweenterian Church. From his headquarters at stood, says the correspondent of the MISSIONARY POLICY IN CHINA, setilenient with -a resolution promising the miners of
Kweichow Army under General Yung Tsu Watson travelled to the inland towns and of these sloops is for the Far East. General Yang Sen's Szechuanese and the Amoy for ch out of the next 46 years Mr. China Express and Telegraph; that on Great Britain the greatest possible help by carrying out the international resolu-
Mia. The former emerging from the villages of the province conducting evan tions already passed. German miners
mountains opposite the city, crossed the gelistic campaigns and establishing native must refuse to work overtime, to prevent'
river and initiated an attack, but retreat. missions run by Chinese' pastors whom he the export of coal to Britain and con- tribute as much money as possible to help the British miners. The British struz gle must be a step forward for the inter national control of the coal tråde.
L.G. AND LIBERALISM. WILL HE SECEDE FROM THE PARTY I
Britain as well as with the United States, she would be able to stabilise her cur rency.
(THROUGH NEUTER' AORNCY 1 ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIERS WILLING TO
CO-OPERATE.
:
PARIS, May 1st.
The Government's action to support the frame, which resulted in a rise in the franc on New York, was the deci-i sion to create a ventral clearing office to take charge of forward foreign exchange dealings. The clearing office is to take the form of a joint "stock company, wherein shareholders will be banks re
Loxnos, May 20th... In view of rumours that Mr. Lloydcognised by bankers and official brokers Kirorge is seceding from the Liberniand certain industrial groups. Party it is noteworthy that it has been
intipated today that Mr. Lloyd George
haa written to Sir Godfrey Collins, the Chief Liberal Whip, indicating that no useful purpose would be served by his continued attendance at the so-called Shadow Cabinet composed of the principal Liberal leaders.
"
EXPLANATION AND DENIAL
LATER,
The Echo de Paris mys that promin-
et "American and British financiers pear to be willing to co-operate cordially with France if the latter can restore on fidence at home and among the possesses of French capital abroad in such a way that the latter bay, le indued to bring back wealth to France.
PARIS. May 21st, Drastic measures are contemplated by It is reliably declared that the resigna the Government for the improvement of tion by Mr. Lloyd George mananip of the Liberal Party and fender-goose for all transactions involving
ship in the House of Commons has never been considered.
It now appears that the latter men- ticoed earlier was written with reference to a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet " convened during the strike, and that Mr. Lloyd George decided not to attend on the ground that Liberal policy in connec tion with it had already been declared by Lord Oxford and Viscount Grey in theBritish Gazette.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. GERMAN POWDER FACTORY BLOWS UP.
BERLIN. May 20th.. Forty people were killed and scores
injured by an explosion at the Bavarian Powder Works, Hassloch-the most disastrous in Germany since the war.
com-
Work was in full swing when powder in one of the workshops exploded, ap- parently through, apuntaneous bustion. Other explosions immediately The followed with catastrophical effect.. entire-factory was swept away leaving an Masonry, parts of enormous crater. heavy machinery and human bodies were, hurled hundreds of yards. The shock of explosion was felt miles away.
foreign exchanges,
of livelihood,
ed when the Kweichow forces were rehimself had trained. inforted.
THE
CAPTURED. AMERICAN.
BANDITS RELEASE THEIR
PRISONER.
In later years, when he found that fail-
TOO MANY CLOTHES FOR SCHOOLBOYS?
M.P. DOCTOR URGES BARE HEADS, BARE NECKS AND BARE KNEES.
"USELESS" HATS. Attention is called by Dr. E. Graham Little. M.P. for London University, and
pleaded that he did not know that it was Defendant admitted the charge, and
an indictable offence, as he had only recently come to the Colony." of 10 days' imprisonment.
He was fined $10 with the alternative
MEETING OF C.M.S. COMMITTEE.
At a meeting of the General Committee held at Salisbury Square, London, on April 13th, the Church Missionary Society's policy with regard to its mis- sions was discussed.
Bishop Banister, late of Kwangsi and Hunan, reviewed the elements of fermerit in Chinese life, which present great dif- missionary enterprise. Aculties to the furtherance of all kinds of
At the same time he emphasised various
On the following day fighting was stilling health would not allow him to travel proceeding. Between 20 and 23 missiles into the interior, he established a train- fell on steamers at Chungking. Marines ing college in a town about 30 miles inland were landed to protect the Japanese from Amoy. His kindly disposition made Consulate.
him greatly liked and respected among the Chinese, and even in times of dis-schoolboy dress reformer, to the existence grounds for optimism, laying stress on the turbance he was never in the slightest in England-actually in Gloucestershire-abiding presence in China of the Spiritual danger, while his evangelical zeal did of a preparatory school at which scholars faculty, together with the fact that re much for the cause of Christianity are allowed to dispenae with uncomfort-peatedly, and in many different ways, non- throughout the Fukien province. In 15able clothes and wear instead shirts that Christian Chinese express the conviction Mr. Watson returned to this country, are open at the neck, running shorts, and that the only hope for the future of Church, Kelho, for ten years. and held the pastorate of St. John's U.F. light shoes Junier masters themselves China lies in the dynamic force behind he went back to the Amoy, district, and
In 1904 have set the example to the boys.
the Christian religion.
It was mentioned that during the recent continued his labours there for 20 years, adopted at the Scottish public school of sion buildings had been thronged by (This principle has, of course, benälitary activities, when guna were in action near to mission stations, the mis- returning to this country in 1924 on Loretto for many years.)
Chinese secking protection. ment in Aberdeen. neyount of failing health, to live in retiro-
PERING. May 21st."
telegraphed on the 10th inst., anying The American Consul at Yunnan that the local Governor had received a telegram reporting that Captain Betts
had been released.
THE GARB OF NEW GAUL. It was
A great delight to-Scottish
trav
At Twickenham, Scottish
Dr. Little, in support of his proposai to save schoolboys, during the summer at any rate, from the "underheaded in- pedimenta which a mere senseless fashion
I think that if parents protest sub
A... MASONIC RESIGNATION. Sir Frederiek Halsey has resigned the
was one of the ablest officers of the Grand
T. J. Betts, American Language Officer, According to a previous report Captain who is touring the provinces for lan guage parposes, was captured by bandits on the 17th inst., near Lai Tou Po. Captain Betts belongs to the American Coast Artillery and is well Peking in March on in all the tarily undertook for the famine Relief of Tweed Commission, in connection with the or ganisation of a new committee in Yun-
ciently there is a good prospect of small Lodge. He has been activity connected was initiated in the Apollo University nanfu. On May 1st he telegraphed to
boys being permitted to dress themselves with Freemasonry for 65 years, for be a a much more comfortable way than is Lodge, No. 357, at Oxford in January. Peking, stating he had completed his task, and intended to go overland to
so general. The boys, who are now pre-1981, and from 1873 to 1923 he was. Fro- vincial Grand Master for Hertfordshire. Chungking, where he expected to arrive on June 7th, instead of returning to
paring to return to school next week, are He has presided at festivals for each of POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE Hanoi by rail. No word of him had
to the skir of triumphant music. doing so according to a formula that the Masonic institutions, and has bold UNITED STATES.
since been heard. Of splendid physique.
fordshire-Royal Arch Freemasons and as Captain Betts was a conspicuous figure" Several hundred kilties," says an Eng-varies in its details but is nearly always office as Grand Superintendent of Hert- Provincial Grand Mark Master for Hert- in Peking. He was born in Newchwangish contemporary, attracted much it wrongly conceived:
fordshire. He is now in his 87th year. and speaks Chinese unusually weli.]
[RXUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
PROHIBITION.
-
NEW YORK, May 20th. The success of Mr. William Vare, the Philadelphian political "boss," in win- n the Republican nomination, as the Pennsylvaniao candidate for the Senate is considered in astute political quarters to indicate that Prohibition will be the outstanding issue in the Presidential em paign of 1998
Vare, who made the liquor questión practically the only issue of the campaign, legated by 100,000 vozes, such strong rivals as Governor Pinchot and Mr. Pep per, the latter being supported by Presi
dent Coolidge and the Cabinet.
$32,000,000 FOR WARSHIPS." "NINE NEW SMALL BOATS FOR
ARGENTINE.
BUENOS AIRES, May 20th. The Cabinet has authorised the expen diture of $32,000,000 for the purchase of mall small warships, including two
The ruins of "the factory finally caught fre and firemen and rescuers were unable for cruisers, three submarines, two destroy- some time to approach the injured, whoers and two gunboats, of a total tonage
of 15,000 tons. were screaming in agony,
THE DEATH HOLL.
LATER.
It is now officially stated that nine were killed and so injured by the ex- plosion at Hassloch.
THE KHALIFAT. IMPRESSIVE SCENES AT THE CONGRESS.
Admiral Gabindrez will proceed London soon in this connection.
to.
... ELIZABETH. NAME OF DUCHESS OF YORK'S
DAUGHTER.',
EXECUTION IN SHANGHAI.
SEQUEL TO SHOOTING OF AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
SHANGHAI, May 21st.
The Police Commissioner's report for April states that the Chinese, Lan Ho Sang, who fired from the New World building on June 2nd, 1995, shooting an American Volunteer and killing his pony has been executed by the Chinese autho rities, after trial by thesMixed Court.
trippers made themselves sufficiently con- spicuous, but the scenes on that occasion were eclipsed at Manchester.
Each contingent was headed by a piper or two, and marched out of the station
"1 am convinced that all kinds of tention, but the new Garb of Old Gaul appears to be plus fours, violent Fair health troubles follow in later life, and Tale jersies, chromatic garters." and there does not seem to be any adequate reason why a change should not be made.. It is difficult, I admit, to defeat" tradi- variegated Tam o' Shanter." Such de- monstrations must convince a section of rions with regard to dress at sebols.
"There is no reason on earth why boys the English population that the music should be stuffed up with clothes as they hall type of Scotsman is not a caricature. are. They hate the things they have to How could they avoid thinking otherwise,The greatest mistakes made are with
wear, and would welcome a change.
men wearing "fancy dress" of the most best as they were by hordes of young outrageous patterns and colours, singing sentimental Scottish songs, and dancing reels in the public thoroughfares? Man chester treated the invasion with good-excludes the nir. natured tolerance and looked on with
It is significant from the Chinese stand- point that the man was beheaded and not shot. Accused made a graphic confessi amusement; it had a feast of bagpipe music, individual, and concerted, unparal leled in its history.
before his execution.
"WHAT A GAME!"
FORECAST OF WAR IN THE
PACIFIC.--
"A LADY'S OPINIONS.
Mra. Alec Tweedie, F.R.G.S., has re- some 100,000-miles of travel in the Far of which, as a rule, are too tight. So far as hats are concerned the ideal would.be East, quite convinced that within a few reference to hats, collars, and boots, all turned to England, after concluding to permit the boys to do without them years there will be war in the Pacific War is alogether, for a hat is a futile thing. It between Japan and America. becomes much worse when it is so tight not a women's topic, and Mrs. Tweedie, that it leaves a mark on the forehead and who gives her reflections in a volume
entitled An Adventurous Journey, "Both the hat and enp are subject to handles it rather loosely. She says: this grave disadvantage. If a head cover When the Japan-American war comes Honolulu and the ing has to be worn, let it be light and Japan will wit. flexible-something like a panama, for Philippines may be the battleground. instance, and certainly not a hard straw The States are arming those islands and Panama (there were five American boater.
Then, with regard to boots.
generals when I was there), and the coast American once told me that the hoots itself, in spite of the Washington Con- Contrasts between these crowded days made in his country were better than ference. The Americans have Panama at whey big golf events march in close pro- ours because American boots wore out one end of the Pacific, San Francisco in ssion and times when the world and the quicker. So far as children are concern the middle, to say nothing of Honolulu
ed, he was right; for the wearers grow and the Philippines. Singapore' is,..
In three months boy's boots therefore, an absolutely necessary safe gaine were younger, are suggested by a so much. It is reported from fescow that the tittle book of the rules of the King James may have become too small, but he has harbourage, repairing yard, and half way to wear them out, and that is not good house for the British Empire at the western entrance. The Pacific is rapidly Presidium of the Central Exceutive ComYL Club at Perth, dated 1500. The first for him. mittee has instructed the Council of Com
"As for collars, they are unnecessary, becoming the great centre of commerce. missors to work out new regulations Open Championship was held in that and are nearly always too tight. Health because of its stupendous and ever-grow- governing the use of the various languages year, and there were no overseas chalis more important than neatness, and iting population. But war qu either side Spoken in Soviet Russia, giving at the
gallery" problems. There is not good that children should be can same time lines of action in accordance with which the language reform is to be were, as a matter of fact, only eight com- stricted at the neck.
petitors. There were some quaint touches.
NO JACKETS EITHER, - carried out.
in the Perth Club code."
LANGUAGE QUESTION IN
RUSSIA.
ORDER OUT OF BABEL.
AN OLD GOLF RULE-BOOK.
lengers, po
For example, Rule 2 stipulated that
The schoolboy's jacket ought as
front..
An
looms ahead. That is how I feel after
the seven years of wander, mostly in the Middle and Far East Again and again prophesy that within a few years there.
I
will be war in the Pacific, America has been getting ready ever since the Armis..
According to the suggestions made by the Central Executive Committee, the the ball must be teed not nearer the rule to be abolished and with it would go language of any automonous whole in the hole (either in front or side of the hole) the collar. Much more sensible is the ice in 1919, Japan, in spite of the Union of Soviet Republics may only be than six lengths, and not further from it pull-over, which has the merit of having earthquake and loss of ships and arms, used officially on the territory of that than eight"; and also that when two the same thickness all the way through, is preparing. When America and Japan
Thus, for example, parties meet on the putting green the and doing away with a cout and waist-
the Americans hope China will stand The Evening News understands that particular whole. the baby Princess will be christened Mary Ukrainian (Little Russian) may only be party first there may claim the privilege cout that is thinner at the back than the get at one another's throats, as they will CAIRO, May 20th.
good
"Running shorts above the knees are aloof, and perchance lead her ports and Victoria Elizabeth, the last of which will used by Government offices in the Ukraine of holing out.""
The industrious habits of the Rapt listeners at the closing session
most likely be used, thus reviving the itself. Institutions of the Union are to of the Khalifat Congress were so impress famous name in British history. Victoria correspond with the Government offices wives of the Fair City, who made use of excellent, particularly when the legs are aid to themselves. But Japan will win, side, What a game. And war in the was chosen in accordance with Queen in the varicus National Republics exalu- the North Inch, are no doubt reflected in bare; while there is no reason, as I have and one day may rule China And ed at the reading of the second Com-
Victoria's wish that her descendants sively in Russian. This means that the Rule 4, which laid it down that, when said, for the wearing of a hat. The bair Russia is try to nab China on the other State-language of Russia will be Great a ball lies within a club length of a wash should be the natural protection against Pacific is preparing, and may begin be
that the mittee's report that many shed tears.
should be named Albert or Victoria, sc
It is not likely that the rambling The Committee decided that the Khali-cording to sex. Queen Mary will be the Russian, t, the Russian literary laning tub the tub may be removed, and the weather. As to shoes, they should fore 1930.
when on clothes the ball may be lifted always be light and easy.
"The clothing that schoolboys have to opinions of Mrs. Tweedie will create any. This resolution was forced by the Rus- and dropped behind them." There is one fat, defined by the Koran, including the principal godmother at the christening guage based on the Moscow dialect...
at St. James's Palace this month.
sian elements in the Communist Party in curious proviso regarding the river.wear to day cannot be good for them, and futter in the dovecotes. Her forecast is defence of Islam and Moslem lands and
Should a ball be driven into the Tay it ought to be possible in these enlight about as valuable, remarks the China The Evening Standaru says: Althe teeth of the Jews, who would prefer the execution of the Koranic Law," was impossible to apply to the present state though she is so close to the Throne, there to make German the State-language. The and seen by both parties it is considered ened days to make a change that is more Express and Telegraph, as her fantastio suggestion that America's bids for of Islam and the position of the Khalifatis no disappointment that the King's introduction of one State language was not lost; if not seen by both parties, it in accordance with health needs. It recommended that an Islamic Con-
new grandchild is a girl. It gives their rendered necessary by the continual is lost," and when the ball was lost the (In addition to Loretto, bedborgh also Chinese friendship are clearly to get Majesties a grand-daughter when girl language conflicts which have been aris-procedure was the same, as it is to-day-applies dress reform methods, and there the porte of Vladivostock, Tientsin, Princess Mary, ing in Russia, especially between the play another ball as nearly as possible to is also the case of Christ's Hospital, Shanghai and Hongkong for their war Royalties are scarce.
Ukrainian Governments where the first ball was struck, with loss where the useless hat, as Dr. Little easels, their troops and food supplies.
calls it, is never worn)
so as to control both sides of the Pacific" Lady Ramsay, and Princess Arthur of Central and
of both distanes and stroke. Connaught have only sons
gress be held periodically until time per- mits to-institute the Khalifat in a form consistent with the interests of the Moslem world.
offices:
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