COAL STRIKE.
PROSPECT OF A MINERS'
BALLOT?
THE PREMIER'S VIEWS.
{THROUGH REUTRE'? AGENCY.]
LONDON, June 13th. While Mr. Cook, the Miners' Secretary.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JUNE 13TH.
PREMIER'S TRIBUTE. BAVED BY COMMONSENSE OF THE PEOPLE
Rugar, Jane 13th.
In view of the debate on the coal situation which is taking place in the House of Commons, on Tuesday the Pre mier made only à brief reference to it in a speech delivered at a large Con- servative demonstration in Wiltshire yes terday.
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EMPIRE COMMUNICATION. FAR EASTERN CABLE HUNAN AS A BUFFER STATE. Scottish Letter.
DEVELOPMENT OF AERIAL TRUNK
LINES.
{BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Rucay, June 13th. Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for Air, in an address to the Empire League, spoke on the future development of Em- pire air communication.
He envisaged a remarkable improvement
NEWS.
It is stated that
AN OLD SCOTS BETTING TAX.
THE LONDON SCOT ON A SUNDAY MORNING.
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Lastetic News, SERVICE]
HANKOR, June End. THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENCY.]
At the joint request of the Hunan com- manders, General Chao Hen Ti, former THE NORTHERN WAR.
Tupan of Hunan, his arrived here from Shanghai en route for Changsha. During
[FROM OCE OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MANY MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.
a press interview, General Chao declares
EDINBURGH, May 4th. that he is not returning to his former post
Mr. Churchill's Betting Tax is not the PERINO, June 14th at Changsha; but, in his capacity as a
first of its kind by any means, and here General Yeh Kai citizen of Hunan, he is endeavouring to
in Scotland we have had experience of a
chow region, and now occupies the to both the North and the South with of the present Budget. The 23rd Par line between Liling and Hsinaghsiang-riew to preventing them from utilizing liament of James VI. holden at Edin
Chinese military Hunan as a battle ground. He is tryinburgh the fourth day of August, 1821," Reports current in
to make Eunan a sort of buffer state imposed taxes not only on betting but circles indicate that reinforcements are being sent hurriedly to Yeh Kai Haine between Marshal "Wu Pei. Fu's influence also on winnings at cards and dice. aid, General Ma Chi's troops having in the Central Yangtzo region and the
ready reached Fochow, while General Kuomintang Government at Canton.
General Tang Sheng Chi has announced Liu Ching Shan's forces are now en roule from Ichang to Puhai, an important his retirement from the Tupanship of point on the Changsha-Hapeh Railway.
ax adamant as ever in support of the rejected the arbitration he offered, since in the near future. He said that during sin was forced to evacuate the Heng-discover a plan which will be acceptable far which goes far beyond the provisions
slogan "Not a Fenny off the pay: not
He expressed regret that both sides häd
he believed that a settlement procurabla a minute on the day." twice during they such a method would have been the best possible until fresh machinery had week-end it was directly hinted that he
been set up whereby their troubles might would be prepared to abide by a miners' be adjusted in the future. But whatever ballet, which has long been stated to be the settlement to be reached might be, one must be reached before long and the first business will be afterwards to get together and repair the losses which the
one of the Government's proposals for ending the deadlock.
Mt. Cook declared at Penzance. I shall he called upon soon, perhaps sooner than some of us expect, to sign an agree-
ment,
but it must be a signature on he half of a million men. If the man want an eight-hour day, or are prepared to work for lower wages, they must say so." There is no suggestion, however, that he arendy to miliate a ballot, and the opinion prevails, rightly or wrongly, that unless such a ballot is taken secretly ander (icvernment supervision, it is bound, to be rigged "or, at any rate, would be abortive owing to the tactics of extremists.
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country has sustained.
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS. BRAZIL'S OFFICIAL RESIGNATION RECEIVED AT GENEVA.
GENEVA, June 14th.
Munad.
ENGLISH LADY'S ESTATE. DAME ISOBEL AGLEN'S PROPERTY.
Dame Isobel Marion Agnes Bayley Aglen, the wife of Sir Francis Arthur Aglen, K.B.E., Inspector of General Customs, Peking who died at sea on The Secretary-General of the League February 17th, 1983. Icit property in of Nations has received a telegram from Hongkong, worth $4,100, Her English the Brazilian Foreign Ministry conveying estate was valued at £20,4TS. Deceased the decision of the Brazilian Government resided in England" at Holly Ridge, to clase membership, of the League of Haslemfere,, Surrey.. Nations, in accordance with article one
the next ten years, the three main lines of progress should be:-acroplane routes to India in four days, to Australia in ten days, to New Zealand in twelve days and to Cape Town in six days. At some time also a fourth line might well be formed across the Atlantic to Canada in two and a half days, but for the pre- sent the competition of trans Atlantic liners might make that line commercially The Premier referred to recent indus more difficult to inaugurate,. When once trial events and said that the last few those Empire trunk lines were running. months would occupy a conspicuous smaller lifes would no doubt radiate place in history. The general strike was from them, linking up with them the called, ostensibly, to assist the miners, territories of this or that Crown Colony but if it had succeeded the strikers and for dependency. The steps that were be everyone else would have been brought ag taken to carry this policy into effect down to starvation and ruin. Events were to organise, landing grounds and took place which, if they had occurred seaporta and he asked the Deininions and among a less disciplined people, would Crown Colonies to assist in this work, have led to ridt, and a revolution would An effort was also being made to start have quickly followed. True to tradi-commercial lines over the Empire by mezna of nirghips. He believed the air tion the people had kept their henda. He recognised the courage that it took on ship could be made a useful weapon of the part of lenders who had taken the Empire defence and an invaluable instru-of the Covenant, adding that Brazil will nos participate in the meeting at the false step to recede from that positionment of Imperial unity. A protracted as unconditionally as they did. But if period of research and experiment had Assembly of the League is September. the strike showed solidarity and sympathy shown that there was no tecɔ̃nical reason with the miners it showed somewhy airships, capable of carrying 100 pas- thing else far greater. It proved the sengers and 90 tons of freight and a stability of the whole fabric of Great crew of fiity, should not run on regular Britain. To the amazement of the world and punctunt services to all parts of the not a shot was fired. We were saved by Empire. Considerable progress had been the common sense and good temper of our made with the construction of two great own people. Immediately the" public airships being built for the Government grasped that what was at stake was not but they would not be able to fly to the the solidarity of Labour ner the fate of Dominions unless masts were built and the miners, but the life of the State there in this work he invited the assistance was a response to the country's needs of the diferent Governments. The back-
"There was that bone of the Empire was its line of com deep and irresistible. feeling in the country because the lenders munications and it was this that he wish- and men who were on strike felt it ined to strengthen. their innermost hearts, too. They felt the conflict of loyalties, and they knew. the same cenfiet was raging in the breasts of thousands of men who had INVITATION TO GOVERNMENT. The Conservative organ, the Daily fought for their country ten years ago. Telegraph, in commenting on, the mani. Many of the strikers were uneasy in their festo declares that it contains what ecnsciences, because the British work amounts to an invitation to the Govern-man, as I knew him, does not like break ment to renew its attempt to bring their contracts. We have a party system two sides, together and effect a settle acceptable to public opinion in the counplace by officers of the British and for ment, though this cannot be done unless try and we legislate in accordance with the Federation is prepared to alate some.
A NEW MANIPESTO.
RUGBY, June 19th. The Miners' Federation has issued a new manifesto in which it reaffirms the points on which the miners are standing out. It then proceeds to request that in view of the determined opposition to reorganisation expressed by the mine owners" the first step shall be the sub mission by the Government of precise and detailed schemes of reorganisation for discussion and criticism. The manifesto concludes: We want & wages agree- ment that will give us cconomie security and provide proper safeguards and can get machinery whereby the mea. their wages adjusted and their condi- tions guaranteed without continued heavals."
up-
that opinion.
is
of its demands. The Daily Telegraph. We have these things and we know adds that the last sentence cited above our hearts that no revolutionary is quite proper and a reasonable de change can give us more, democratic The British people are not go claration of the men's requirements. No freedom. exception can be taken to it as regards ing to throw over Parliament to set up either its.toffe or sense. Upon that basis the Divine right either of the capitalist it should be possible to renew negotin- or trade unionist and we are not going tions with some hope of a favourable and to bow down to the dictatorship of either. Insting result and if, as we must suppose, In no country of the world is there less the sentence in question was directed need to do so and in no country in the with that purpose in view, the Govern-world is there less reason, politically, "for ment will hardig hesitate to avail itself general strike.
of the opportunity so held out."
TURNING POINT. REACHJEN
TRADE DISPUTES.
OLYMPIA HORSE SHOW. INTERNATIONAL JUMPING
THE FRENCH FLIGHT. PELLETIER D'OISY PROGRESSES
A FURTHER STAGE
Moscow, June 13th. Capt Pelletier Doisy has left Kaman on a further stage of his fight to Tokyo,
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
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She shared her estate amongst her family, and appointed her husband trustee. In connection with the Hong: köng property, the application for the resenting of the will was made by Mr. M. M. Watson, the lawfully appointed
attorney.
PROBLEM."
A BACHELOR THE MI.F'S CELEBRATION OF THEIR
CELIBACY.
AMUSING COMMENT.
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It was provided that if any man hap pened to win a sum exceeding a hundred merks at cards or dice within twenty- four hours, or to gain more than that amcent at Wagers upon Horse-races," It was ordained that the superplus/ should be consigned within twenty-four hours into the hands of the collector for the poor (the Treasurer of the Kirk if in Edinburgh or the Kirk Sessions in country parishes), to be employed al- ways upon the poor of the Paroche, where such winning shall happen to fall
Out.2
Magistrates were given full power th pursue all such persons for their excess winnings; and to encourage them in do ing so it was enacted that if any Magis- trate were informed of such winning and refused to pursue for them the informer should bring an action against the Magistrate for double the amount-half to be given to the poor and half to be kept by the informer.
amuse-
It was further declared that in view of "the manifold evils and inconveniences"
forms of arising from these ments which it was. stated are now, over-much frequented in this country to the great prejudice of the lieges," it, was enacted that no man shall,play Cards. nor Dyce in any common-house, Town, Mr. Hore-Balisha, MP, in an amusing Hostalric, or Cookes houses under the contribution on the Bachelor M.P.'s re- cent celebration, observed that there was pain of fourty pounds money of this that on a spring uight with a certain
were liable to this penalty for a first. something a little sad in the thought flealm." The keepers of any such bouses prompting in the air, the Bachelors of the House of Commons should hold offence, and "losse of their liberties for
the next." And it was declared unlaw the celebration of their celibacy. There
aat he asked-angul to play at cards and dies in any, is-is there gestion of shamelessness about their festival and still more about the choice private house except "where the Master
of the Family playeth himself." of the season of the year. "It is as if Cardinal man should deliberately walk under ladders without his fingers crossed, or spill the salt and spurn to cast some grains of it over his, shoulder.
GIFT FROM CHINA. CARDINAL BONZANO PRESENTED
·WITH SILK VESTMENTS.
CHICAGO, June 14th, Mr. Po Pa Hung and Mr. Nicholas Ts, two at the industrial leaders of China, here to attend the Eucharistic Congress, have presented Bonzano, the Papal Legate, who was at one time a missionary in China, with
1 RUGBY, June 13th.
set of pontifical mass vestments The International Horse Show at white and gold silk, woven by the women Olympia, London, opens on Thursday and children of the Hospice of St. next, and continues until June 28th. On Joseph, Shanghai. the 21st the jumping competition will take
COMPETITION.
eign armies for the King George V. gold cup. Six nations will be represented these being the United States, France, Sweden, Belgian, Holland and Britain- Among the English competitors will be Colonel Malise Graham, 10th Royal Hussars, last year's winner. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.
of
TACNA-ARICA PROBLEM. SOUTH AMERICAN STATES STILL
DISAGREE.
A LONDON SCOTTISH KIRK
If one wished to give a picture of the That, at any rate, seems to be the at- London Scot on a Sunday morning, one titude of the general public towards would have to go either to Crown Court' Other churches, of single men. They are treated as if theyor St. Columba's. were a problem- minority problem, like
the negroes in America a problem that course, there are in abundance for Sests" somehow or other must be "solved before in London, but it is unto these two that" the business of the nation can be perthe. tribes go up in greatest variety. In mitted smoothly to proceed.
Persistent ia"the propaganda of per- many ways St. Columba's is unique. It draws to it men of high and low degree. suasion, methodical the missionary en- terprise, which is to convert them. They from every quarter of London. A look at open their newspapers at breakfast time, the list of elders gives one extreme. It and "What is the right age to marry?
LIXA, June 13th.
perturbs their meraing meal. But that includes the Duke of Athell, the Earl of Peru has rejected Chili's counter-pro-question was answered long ago by a re-Stair, the present Minister of Labour, posals and Mr. Kellogg's suggestion to putable philosopher A young man not Mr. John Buchan, Sir John Nairne and"
to afford yet, an elder man not at all." Then the Mr. Graeme Whitelaw. divide Tacna Arica 19 Bolivia an outlet to the ses. ported that Chili has suggested a division
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Chancellor of the Exchequer is invited to tax them on the precedent of Mohammed
"The Koran of the sword!"
They accept, in all innocence, hospital-
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The congregation, on the other hand, is largely made up of work-a-day Scot
PREMIER REGRETS IMPOSITION whereby a smaller portion of the disputity, and is there a potential bostess Every Sunday morning sees a pilgrimage
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UNRULY CHINESE SOLDIERS.
ed territory is handed over to Peru. OF RESTRICTIONS.
AMERICAN FLIGHT. RUGBY, June 13th
DUGGAN IN DUTCH CUIANA. In the course of his speech in Wiltshire on Saturday, the Premier made reference
PARAMALINO (Dutch-Guiana),
-June 13th. to the protection of British livestock The Premier said he hoped to sea the
Duggan, the argentinian airman, bes against foot and mouth disease and the The Daily Telegraph remarks that this British, Labour movement free from alien
restrictions recently imposed against car-departed en ranite to Buenos Aires. is only one indication that the turning and foreign heresy but pursued and deve cases imported from Belgium and Hol point has at last been reached in the dis-loped on English lines laid down by England, mainly of pigs used for bacon cur- pute. Another indication is the actual Bishmen. When they had got the coating in England. He said the annual' or impending return to work of miners trouble out of the way they would try volume of supplies stopped amounted to in certain districts, notably at five pits once more to see whether they could not in Warwickshire and at Gilerton, in choose a better way and and methods for avoiding strikes at Home. As the bur- Nottinghamshire. There is also 1' re-
den of armament has been crushing the cularly when the countries affected were markable letter to the leaders of the life out of Europe in years part, so has near neighbours and good friends of Miners' Federation, signed by thirteen the money lost it trade disputes these Britain. No other course was, however, miners in the Mansfield area of Notting- last years been far more harmful to the possible" hamshire, in which it is stated that standard of living of the worker than "Where anything like old terms can be any alleged conspiracy on the part of paid, the pits should be thrown open at the Government or anyone else." Hebe- once and let others face the facts square-lieved the time was soon coming when
only about three per cent. of the British meat supply. Nevertheless, he regretted having to impose such restriction, parti-
(THROUGH RETTEN'A AGENCY.] DUTCH OIL.
among the guests who does not seek to from the outlying districts. In this re- decoy them into the company of some spect worship in the modern Babylon is lady on ber visiting list? And what is little removed from that in the most de- the conversation to which they have
perennially to submit? And are serted and far-flung of Highland parishes. you not married, Captain Dashwood For few ministers draw their congregation That is only because you have never met from more scattered and cutlying districts the right lady. Now I will introduce then Dr. Fleming. Often in travelling by
you to.
Nor was there ever an unmarried inaa 'bus or tube you will be able to guess that who was not called ten times in the week the traveller opposite is going to St. —and reprovingly-a" cynic, which is, a Columba's too. It is a feeling that s
derivative from dog. Surly, marling-
that is the suggestion. Would it indeed capable of subtler interpretation. than the he wondrous if one so persecuted deve-sympathetic smile that comes from the loped these characteristics, if one com- Metropolitan policeman when you ask him nelled to spend his life like a hunted
[ASIATIC NEW SERVICEĄ]
PEEING, June 4th According to reports, the Feking Elec tric Tramway Corporation lost nearly flying? It pretends to pay the lip service synonym for St. Columba's St. Colum per cent. of its revenue during last month of respect to self-denial which is strange, ba's makes its appeal to different people chiefly owing to the unreasonable inter-seeing that that condition is almost al Eut its strongest appeal is national..
Tave involuntary-whereas celibacy, ference of the soldiers. In order to pre-which is but an aspect of it, never seems The new recruit in the ever-increasing vent the company from ausscoding tnf- to inspire
or recognition-Scottish Army of Occupation ir England. which is more strange, because it is so is drawn there because he wants 'to be Be, Marshal Wong Huai Ching and police often preserved in obedience to the finest among his ain folk. For the Scot in Eng- chief, General Li Shou Ching, have again sensibilities.
beast, tredding warily and avoiding cap where Font Street is. For his father was. ture, came to take a certain pride in a beadle, and he knows quite well that on proclaiming his savage independence? the Sabbath Pont Street is a bashful And is not society a little undiscriminat
reverenca
ly and make terma according to their what has been impossible under the SEQUEL TO JUDGMENT OF HAGUE issued prodamations strictly prohibitia women, are apt to be self-righteous, but it does him good to go to St. Columba's,
clouds of suspicions may become possible for a more enlightened and statiman- like mind among employers and trade union leaders. The Government would give every help.
Under
An
TRIBUNAL.
It is true that bachelors, like virtuous and is a stranger in a strange land, and free riding by soldiers and it remains to only to cover up from vulgar eyes the see the clan names on the seats, and lift be seen whether this jolat order will pro-hidden places of their hearts. They may his voice to the old palm tunes. It is ability to pay." It was reported yester
THE HAGUE, June 13th. day that large numbers "of men in the
duce any effect. A similar proclamation make merit of a state which they have
not always chosen from theoretical con- the same with Scotamen who are return- agreement reached be district were adding their signatures to
tween the Perlak Petrol Company and
was issued in April but the soldiers and viction, but if the secret of their livesing from abroad. The ten planter, from their
"friends" entirely ignored it could be unfolded, their persecutors this letter, which not only throws over
the successors of the late Emile Dem Apart from free riding, the soldiers bent might be compelled to how their heads Ceylon, the bank manager from China,
the Canadian farmer, or the Kenya settler- the Federation but attacks the Federa
[THHOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] with regard to carrying out the judg-conductors and motormen if they dis- in shame.
-Might it not be discovered that their all make Et: Columba's their first port if tion leaders. It says that "our Trade
HOW LANCASHIRE 18 HIT.
ment of the Hague Tribunal, which went obeyed their orders either to stop or to
start, contrary to the company's regula loyalties were even more loyal than the Union machinery is in the hands of men
LONDON, June 14th."
against the latter,, the Perlak Company tions. The difficulty lies in the fact that loyalties of the married, their devotion they pass through London on the way to more devout than the devotion of the Scotland, and it is not infrequent to eeD. whe place political ambition and revolu
As a result of the coal stoppage, 100,000 receive one million florins and part of the soldiers belong to various armies and
hetrothed. their fidelity more faithful Americans there. Trpe, there is no trace. tionary projects before our industrial cotton operatives in Lancashire are on the Koltei royalty which at present ex- they absolutely refuse to obey orders.un-
less they are issued by their own superior than the fidelity of those who have heard of Scote descent in their accent, but they welfare. We are the victims of a policy short time in mills spinning Americanceeds 150,000 florins annually. The officers. On secount of this the righ their golden wedding bells? It may be we have neither made nor believe in, and cotton, which are working alternate Perlak Board will recommend to share men are doing better business nowadays, or it may be not. But if doubt is to hear the names of clans, if not of kings, as well-to-do natives, who want to get have its prescriptive benefit, then would and are not far removed from the High- are earnestly desirous of bringing to an weeks. Even mills spinning Egyptian, holders to approve the proposed revision away from the soldiers as far as possible, it not be fairer for those who mock at land stock, whose villages they are on end once and for all these distressing dis- cotton are hard hit, and are expected to of the trust deed, whereby 25 per cent. hire ricshas instead of using the tram-hachelors to tread lightly lest they tread
on dreams 7.
their way to visit, close on Fridays and Saturdays.
of their share capital is reimbursed. putes."
WAYS.