CABLES
(THROOM HAVAS AGENCT!]
FRENCH FINANCES.
M. RAOUL PERËT & TREASURY'S. ROSITION.
PARIS, June 4th.
Heard by the Finance Committee of the Chamber, M. Rasul Peret declared the Government would continue to de- fend the frane. He pointed out the position of the Treasury was normal and maturing, thres billion franes in short term bonds falling due on May 20th, and having required only one million payment out of additional taxes
voted last December,
The total of banknotes in circulation is by Ave billions of franes below the level provided. The total of advances on the Banque of France to the Treasury leaves à margin of 1,300.000.000 below the limit authorized,
TROPGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
EGYPTIAN SITUATION:
ZACHLUL PASHA RESIGNS PREMIERSHIP.
GARD, June 3rd.
At the request of the Chamber of Deputies Zaxhiul Pasha has agreed to resign, the Premiership, in favour of the Liberal leader, Adly Yeghen.
BRITISH PRESS VIEW.
LONDON, June 4th.
THE COAL STRIKE.
STEP TOWARDS END OF
"DEADLOCK.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY
Lesbos, June 3rd. A step towards ending the coal dead- lock has been taken by Mr. Evan Wil- us, the Chairman of the Owners' Association, inviting Mr. Herbert Smith, the President of the Miners' Federation? to meet him.
SHIP BREAKS DOWN.
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ANTWERP, June 3rd. The Swedish motor vessel Canton,
from Brevik bound for Shanghai, has arrived here, towed by two" tags, on
account of motor trouble.
OBITUARY.
MR. FREDERICK SPQFFORTH, AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER,
LONDON, June 4th. The death is announced of Mr. Frederick Spofforth, the famous Australian "demon bowler."
(REUTER'S AMERICAN, SERVICE.]
WAR DEBTS,
AMERICA AND QUESTION OF CANCELLATION.
FAR EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
JUNE 5TH, 1920
ENGLAND ELECTRIFIED,"
A SYSTEM THAT MUST COME.
EMPLOYMENT FOR MILLIONS.
[BY PROVENSON a. M. Low.]
The adoption of an electrical distribute
GERMAN COAL INDUSTRY. EFFECT OF SUBSIDY IN GREAT BRITAIN.
BERLEY, April 9th. The annual German trade and industrial congress was opened here to-day, The
€1,000,000 WILL IN DISPUTE. THE CREATOR OF VICTORIA-ST.
ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST BACHELORS IN ENGLAND.
Legal proceedings are pending, the Evening Standard learns, following a
STUDENTS ing system has been urged by science for chief speaker was the "Chancellor, Herr dispute over the will of the late Mr.
(THROUGÙ REUTER'S ACENOT.]
TROUBLE AT COLLEGE, SHANGHAI
TRUCULENT BEHAVIOUR.
SHANORAI, June 4th. The students of Medhurst College, which is a London Missionary institu- tion, refused to attend service on May 30th and later placed a heavy roller out side Principal Bunce's front door, which they refused to move.
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They also refused to move offensive notices on the College notice beard. or
this term.
the past quarter-century, but it has re- mained for dire necessity to draw public nttention to this panacea for industrial failure.
The electrification of England must eventually take place: It would provide employment for many millions, and the universal supply of cheap electricity at standard voltages could do more for the poor mother than all the meetings ever held. The drudgery of the sinal house
Luther.
Browne Martin, a deputy-chairman of J, › you & Co., and chairman of the Hovis Broad Company, who has left about one million pounda
It is understood there are two, if not more, wills,
In the course of an exhaustive survey of the present state of German trade and industry, he referred to the serious effects which the British coal subsidy had had on the Gemma coal industry, and made what was 'practically an appeal for a
There certainly has been a disputo. mutual arrangement between the German
about the will," said a member of the and British industries in regard to confirm of solicitors who acted for Mr. petition in foreign parkets. Having em- phasized the importance of private efforts
regard to markets, such as had been achieved by the potash and electric lamp industries, he declared that the coal in dustry afforded a glaring example of the need for some such arnagenent. The Chancellor said :—
to apologise, but, instead, a deputation is almost unknown in, America, where on the part of interested parties to come made various demands. As these were the domestic problem is even more severe, to an international understanding in not granted, the students left the Col-Every home could be fitted with electric lege, which is not expected to re-open cooking, heating, and lighting. Every home should have the convenience of It is noteworthy that Medhurst Col electric washing machines, electric' sweep lege was not affected by last year's dising machines, and even electric ventila- turbances, but that it is the only college where there has been trouble this year.
MORO TROUBLES.
WAR OPERATIONS IN
PINES END.
It is phenomenon of war and post- tion. It is inconceivable that the house- war periods that the total productive wife of the future will be content to sit capacity of the world had risen far above the demand. In the coal industry the and sew by hand or to stand at a steam-year's production, calculated on the basis ing wash-tub half the day when these PHILIP.menia! duties can be performed quickly, cheaply, and conveniently by a motor and a length of flexible wire
Many of our coal mining districts are | conveniently situated within amall area, but generating stations are scatter ed all over the country, supplying cur rent "at different and inconvenient voltages to houses, at a cost both ex- cessive and uneconomical. There is no possible excuse for the neglect of electrical power in England where our coal cannot, he geographically far from the distant locality where light, energy and heat are required,
MANILA, June 4th. The final reports' of the Constabulary operations at Lanao show that 170 Moros, including 14 women were killed and several hundred wounded, whilst 37 Moro strongholds were demolished, in ten en- gagements. The Constabularly lost seven Nerkilled and twelve, wounded.
The prompt deference of the Egyptian
NEW YORK, June 3rd. Nationalists to the British representa-
The New York Times and the tions, in inducing Zaghlol to withdraw from the Premiership, is regarded in Fork World both note the growing trend London is considerably easing the sitúa-of American public opinion towards the tion, though the newspapers point out cancellation of the war debts. that Zaghiel will still wield "power through the Parliamentary majority. "Adly's (the Liberal) attitude to the four reservations mentioned earlier is awaited with interest, recording, to the Times.
PORTUGUESE REVOLT.
LISON, June 4th.
The change in the Portuguese Govern ment from triumvirate is due to General Gomes Costa, then at Oporto, issuing an order to the Army declaring
More than two thousand Mores are re-
to
ported to be facing famine and a disease epic mic as the result of the operations. Contrasting the unsympathetic recep- Colonel Luther C, Stevens, Commanding
returned tion given to the original cancellation the Constabulary, has proposal the New York Times says:- Zamboanga.
Latterly the matter has assumed the appearance that no sacrifice is asked of Americans but that a step be taken by them in their own enlightened sell- interest."
DOES THE ETHER REALLY EXIST?
AMERICAN CLAIMS TO HAVE PROVED IT.
...
LIGHT.WAVE TESTS. Professor Miller, an American scientist, states that he has definitely proved the
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WASTED POWER. Our great railways are still under the steam ern, and only differ in mechanical conception from the days of Stephenson and his Rocket. Is not cleanliness one of the most important things in the world? Does not the whole of civilis tion depend for its progress upon the increase of speed and comfort Even in towns, motor-cars are unable to use electricity conveniently on account of the cost of running, and because we have yet to discover some efficient, capacity or alectro chemical, means of storage.
If this problem were solved, we could use tidal power, wind power, and even the solar energy as a most direct means of turning here into mechanical work, A factor of increasing importance in
of the first few months of the year, at a conservative estimate, is roughly 240 mil lion tons in excess of the consumption and at the same time the world's capacity for the cutpat of lignite has also greatly in creased. Even if the consumption of coal should by some means be stimulated there is no hope that by the increased use of coal the diference between the world's needs and the world's output can be wiped out during the next few years. Under the pressure of political difficulties at home Great Britain accorded the British coal industry a subsidy, and this effect on prices. subsidy has bad its Germany was, of course, obliged to follow British prices. Accordingly during the last few months, as the result, of prices being so low, both countries have not only wasted their own national substance, but they have increased the capacity of third parties to compete. I therefore we come the news that the British State sub- sidy is to be discontinued. The effect of this British subsidy policy on the Ger: man mining industry has made itself evident in the export figures of, the Rubr balfelda. The export declined from 1,600,000 tons in July, 1025, to 1,350,000 tons in March, 1926. As the result of this British policy of a State subsidy the num ber of workmen employed in the Rub coalfields has fallen from 130,000 in July, 1925, to 377,000 in March, 1926. still necessary to institute holiday shifts there in a very large degree. This shows how directly the ability of the German. miner to earn a living is influenced by the British policy of subsidizing the coal
The Free Tork World shys it may be taken as a matter of course that ther will be a general liquidation of debts later on, for nothing is more certain that he did not agree with the new Ministry the world is not going on with the com- existence of the ether-a matter overalt power plants is the rapidity with industry.
|plications of these debts from now until its unborn grand-children are old men.
and would continue his movement which was purely military.
Admiral Cabecadas, thereupon tele- graphed to General Gomes Costa, for an. interview, and they met, on the outskirts of Lisbon
SALT TAX IN CHINA. QUESTION OF ITS SECURITY RAISED IN COMMONS.
Losnos, June 3rd. The danger of the total disappearance of machinery" for the collection of the Chinese Salt Tux owing to the action of militarist leaders" was drawn attention to in the House of Commons. by Mr. Foot Mitchell, who suggested withdrawal from the tariff negotiations until China re- cognised her contracts in respect of the Salt Tax.
LOAN TO FRANCE. NEGOTIATIONS BEING CARRIED
OUT IN AMERICA;,
PARIS, June 3rd. Information confirms the report that, negotiations are being conducted to raise a loan in the United States for France, on condition that the Mellon-Berenger agreement regarding France's" debt is ratified..
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PROHIBITION.
SENATE COMMITTEE PROPOSE NATIONAL REFERENDUM.
NEW YORK, June "3rd. The Senate "Prohibition Committee has recommended the indefinite postponement of all proposals for the modification of the dry laws aud that a national referendum be taken on prohibition.
This action is subject to the approval of the Judiciary Committee which, how ever, is expected to concur.
EARL CARROLL,
NEW YORK THEATRICAL PRO- DUCER SENTENCED.
CODCUT
COTTON SMUGGLING.
BIG LEAKAGE OF REVENUE IN CANADA
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Browne Martin, but until the case
reaches the court it is impossible for us to make any statement."
Mr. J. Browne Martin died at his bome at Brighton in January at the age of 91 years.
One of the wealthiest bachelors in Eng- land, be is best remembered as the creator of Victoria-street. He made a Fortune during its development from Westminster to Victoria Station in 1832.
HOW HE STARTED.
About 10 years ago Mr. Browne Martin started buying sites in Victoria-street, and constructed blocks of mansions and fats. Later he formed the West- minster Truez Company for the develop- ment of the street.
At one time he was the director of thirty companies, and only five years before his death he was hard at work until a Ereakdown of his health caused him to retire.
As a young man at Oxford, Mr. Browne Martin, who was 6ft. tall, was a ne ooreman, but on leaving college he aban doned sport of all kinds and gave his whole attention to business. He was very abstemious man.
HIS SENSE OF VALUES# Browne, Martin was an expert in dis- As a buyer" of City properties Mr. covering valuable sites. As one time, as a director of Messrs. F. Lyons & Co., it was his business to find teashop sites.
His method was simple. He selected places near stations or where groups of offices stood, and then he would detail someone to make a census of pedestrian traffic over a period of a week. Then, if he was satisfied with the figures, he would put through the deal. It is
SHARE IN WORLD TRADE which physicists and scientists interested which the change from chemical to heat in wireless problems have long argued.energy can be made. How best to obtain
Discussing the general state of German the stored energy of the sun that rests If the professor is right, he has solved a
the quickest trade, the Chancellor said that the pos most important problem, and his solution in coal, how to convert it will have interesting effects on wireless manner to power that we can store and tion had improved considerably, thoughs and other theories.
direct-that is the problem. We must Germany was far removed from a.com" not imagine that coal is some mystic sub-plete restoration. Germany had not yet
Power stance and electricity another, its distribution and use-should be our terms of reference if we are interested in securing prosperity!
I have found Professor Milier's claims received with great reserve and cot a little scepticism by some of the leading British physicists, writes the wireless correspondent of the Daily Express. They await more conclusive confirmation then they have yet had, and the claims put forward will probably be investigated by a committee of international physicists, The ether bus been a subject of much controversy. Its great champion is Sir Oliver Lodge, and its greatest detractor was the late Dr. Steinmetz, chief engineer of the General Electric Company of America. In his general theory of rela tivity, Einstein ignores the existence of the ether, which he considers unneces
Bary.
The ether has always been regarded as a hypothetical medium, affording a con- venient explanation of how electric magnetic waves are propagated. Again scientists have declared that light from the stars must reach this planet through a medium..
This hypothetical medium which could not be detected or made manifest, was named "ether."
WIRELESS WAVES.
been drawn back into the mercantile com- munity of the world to the extent that was necessary. To meet her international obligations Germany must have an active trude balance. Her exports had been rising since the end of 1925, but her share in the world's foreign trade, which in 1913 was one-eighth, was still no mere The unemployment than one-fourteenth. figures were frightful. They were about as high as at the end of the Ruhr struggle. and, though they had slightly declined. the total number of those in receipt of relief was 1,850,000,
No sane person objects to work: nature and conditions provide all cause for argument. Coal is mined under auch medieval conditions that the addition of more machinery to our national work- shop would beneft the entire community. Electric railways with automatic control to our local systems, or the general adoption of electric domestic appliances might abolish. the need for unskilled
1t. was, however, a matter for satisfac- labour, but would demand a higher close of creative workers. It would be diffct it tion that Germany was no longer rebuild- to imagine a greater outcry than that ing ber house on foundations of Band. produced by the introduction of me Public savinge were the real foundation. chanical cotton spinning, but can it be glad to say that at the end of 1923 of the German credit system, and he was denied that it has improved the con- ditions, under which
the deposits had touched the suia uf this industry 2,300,000,000m. [£123,000,000], which was operatea 1
double that of last year, while bank de- Nothing can be expected, from progress posits and investments had also in- while we pick little pieces of coal out of the ground, double its price, carry it crease in trucks, double" its price again, and then add more charges before we finally burn it in a most wasteful manner and to broadcast concerts by land-lines and spend hours cleaning up after the mess preserve the radio for more unexpected we have made.
events. This would, incidentally, solve the royalty and licence problem.
- WATER AND COAL
powers available to coming generations. conditions with those of other countries Wireless has shown the man-in-the-waited twenty years for a sponsor. The
He was very proud of capturing the aites where the Trocadero now stands. It was formerly occupied by the Argyll Roonis.
He was father" of the Westminster Electric Company and was largely con- cerned in the construction of the Charing. Cress and Hampstead Tabe..
Before the days of the motor-car Mr. Browne Martin kept a number of ponies and was a familiar &gure in the London
streets.
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It is recalled in connection with the Trocadero site that the shareholders of J. Lyons & Co. objected to raising extra capital for the new building, whereupon the directors, including Mr. Browne Martin. found the extra £100,000 requir ed among themselves. Afterwards he was from Lambeth Bridge to very interested in a plan for making a new street Victoria-street, but in consequence of the death of an architect, with whom he bad. discussed it, the scheme fell through,
Mr. Browne Martin lived a very retir- ed life at Martin-parade, Brighton.
Sir Arthur: Whinney, the accountant, was appointed to manage bis affairs.
ORIGIN OF MALARIA AND CHOLERA.
NEW THEORY OF A. FRENCH SCIENTIST.
Profesor d'Arsonval..a member of the Institute and of the Academy of Medi- tine, read a paper before the Academy of Sciences by. Professor Tissot, who, for some time past has been engaged on cancer research.
Professor Tissot, as a consequence of his researches, has reached the conclu zion that the germs of all diseases come from the mould, ("moisissure") of animals and vegetables. He has, in fact, succeeded in isolating the virus of
Mr. Locker Lampson, in reply was of opinion that the questioner was unduly alarmed. He said that hitherto nothing
NEW YORK, June 3rd. had occurred to cause any fear that the foreign leans secured on the salt revenue The theatrical manager Earl Carrol
The transmission of wireless waves has also been explained in terms of reference were in danger of the default or that the has been sentenced to one year and, one
Electricity in the service of man will to the ether; and there is a school which .00 cach of administration was about to disappear day's imprisonment
be more than n catch-word when its value Professor Miller, in the experiments is realised. Electric traction can pro- Therefore, there was no reason to with-counts in connection with the bath tub holds that ether is the basis of matter.
The distinguishing feature of modern draw from the Tariff Conference on these case, and also a Ene of $2,000. The in which, be says, have enabled him to ride a high-speed service from end to
prove the existence of the ether, started end of the land, and the day may come science is the wastage that occurs in ali prisonment sentences are to rút to
on the assumption that the ether aur-when quiet seroplanes can be propelled methods of power conversion or trans grounds.
rounds, as well ne permeates, this planet by electrical energy stored from the mission. It is not easy to visualise the rently.
and that as the earth dashes through power stations on land. "It is conceivable time when wasted water power and wast Carroll has been released on bail, perd space a wind is created in the ether.
that the safe passenger-carrying air linered coal will be economically used in un-many diseases. Assuming that light travels through the of the far future will receive its power derground generating stations to provide ing an appeal·
Malaria, according to Professor Tis- other, he argued that light waves must by some form of directional energy trans warmth, light and comfort to every home be affected by the wind created as the mission, and-landing in a small space in the land. It may be equally diffeultrice, while tuberculosis, like cancer, sot," originates from the "mould" of earth rushes through the ether, and that might be made easy by some system of rein fifty years time to appreciate that so
comes from the
of.. man mould if the waves were transmitted against the pulsion utilising the enormous electrical obvious a method of equalising our trade, bimself. Diphtheria comes from the direction of this draught their speed would be reduced, but would increased if they
*mould" of barley, and aphthous fever were sent in the same direction as the street what science enn do when backed engineer of the future will remember the from that of the potato.
Professor Miller carried out his ex when, by means of vast international had remained unnoticed!
by capital; we are approaching the day fact that 400 years ago the Pacific Ocean periments in the Mount Wilson Observa radio stations, we shall sit in our homes To utilise the heat stored in fuels is
It is also his view that as the virus of The report of the auditors for "the tory. Walifornia, several thousand feet and talk to our friends in all parts of itself most difficult. Less than 15 per
all these diseases is known, the necessary above sea level. He chose a site as high the globe. But modern radio is still al Committee of the House of Commons as possible, because, if the draught exist most incredibly wasteful. Hundreds of pels our cars. About two and a hall per taken.
cent of the petrol we buy actually pro-preventive measures can more easily be examining the Customs, states that coted; he expected to succeed in detecting it horse-power can be dissipated to produce cent of our lighting bill appears as He finally maintains that cholera does ton goods vahued at over one million above sea level, other cxperiments having nothing but a microscopic movement of light, and about twelve' per cent. is a
not originate from Asia, but from a failed at sea level
telephone diaphragm a few miles away. good return as mechanical traction for usbroom which grows abundantly in He transmitted light waves from one All space is energised when one particu the coal burnt in a locomotive firebox.
the woods in Europe between July and point to various others and measured
The conversion of heat to electricity is September, and which the rain carry their speed, with the result, he declares, message is sent to one solitary man, that when the rays travelled against the far we have only the slightest capacity
wasteful process, but to produce that into the rivers, the waters of which be
come contaminated. " ether draught their speed diminished, but for elective and directional sending. It heat in the first instance without st
British medical scientists belittls Pro-" when they travelled with the draught would be possible now to use the identical tempting to recover the value of its by- their spend increased. He claims that wires that bring electric. light to our products is almost criminal when re-fessor Tissot's theory, and describe it as these results definitely prove the existence simultaneously without fear of atmos agriculture. Coal, oil and by-products.
house to convey a broadcast concert covery plants are so vital to successful nonsense.. of the other.
If he has obtained discrepancies in his pherics or outside interference. It would should be synonymous with the nation's measurements and it can be proved to be nassible to use the wires of a linked-wealth. We can spend that wealth to. the satisfaction of an investigating comp England for business telephoning as remove the degrading influence of poverty mittee of scientists that these discrepan-well as heat and nower. If this country and discomfort in the ranks of workers, cies cannot otherwise be explained, Pro- did not suffer under a totally inadequate and by so doing we shall lay the founda. fessor Miller says no one can deny his system of telephones, it would be possible tion stone for the solvency of posterity- claims..
(Continued on next column.)
Evening Standard.
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC, CHINESE DELEGATE STILL INDIGNANT.
GENEVA, Juse 3rd. At a meeting of the League's Advisory Committee on the traffic of opium, Mr. Chu urged that documents containing iniults to the Chinese Government should not be circulated, and also raised the question of the cultivation of opium in certain Russian territories bordering China
OTTAWA, June 3rd
dollars were emuggled into Canada, from the United States during the past three years, through Quebec.
England would be a happy land still if Sunday were as it used to be, a day of worship and recreation The Bishop of Salford.
引
Among the causes which are making for sobriety in the nation I give an in- portant place to motoring-The Bishop of Durham.
wind.
FROM MUSHROOMS.
"It is midsummer madness,” mià à famous medical research worker to a The. Udily. Represt representative. theory is about three hundred years old, and was discarded a long time ago. Few People ever believed in it."
Other research workers expressed similar opinion,