CABLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE MINERS.
BIGHT HOUR DAY BILL IN COMMONS.
LONDON, July 7th. The Yorkshire coal-owners, whose ac- tion led the Government to abandon its intention of forcing the passage of the Coal-miners' Bill, have informed the Gov- ernment to-day they will not press the proposals with which the Clovernment is dissatisfied; namely, the allocation of 85
REFUGEES IN GREECE.
RECOMMENDATIONS BY LON.
COMMISSION.
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RUGBY, July 7th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY
The League of Nations' financial com- mittee, which recently considered the latest report of the Refuges Settlement Commission in Greece, has decided that the whole matter should be raised and next session in investigated at the September.
"The Report shows that of 1,400,000 refugees at present in Greece, G52,000 have been settled in the towns and on the land by the Commission. The Commis sion has been prevented by lack of funds from extending the work of settlement, I anticipation of the possibility of the Greek Government applying to the League of Nation's for an additional Colonel Lane Fox stated in the ouse loan, the Commission estimates of Commons that over one million tons £5,000,000 would be required to extend of coat had bren imported from the Con--the existing installations and to settle tinent and from the United States by minimum of 28,000 new families. private companies in the two months
per cent. profits to the minera and fifteen per cent to the conl-owners, but will revert to the pre-strike allocation of 87 per cent. and 13 per cent. respectively."
ending July 1st.
BILL TO BE PROCEEDED WITH.
LATER.
In the House of Lords, alter-express ing gratification at the Yorkshire owners' changed attitude, Lord Cecil announced
COBHAM'S FLIGHT.
that
AIR MINISTER'S CONDOLENCES
* TO MOTHER.
Recay, July 7th... The Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoars,
CRICKET,
OXFORD. CAMBRIDGE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, July th The eighty-eighth Oxford and Cam bridge match was played at Lord's on a bowler's wicket, and Cambridge won in In a match in two days by 34 runs. which the aggregate total of runs only 704, the issue was in doubt until
the last ball was bowled.
Was
Cambridge won the toss, scored 178 at their first attempt, and secured a first in nings advantage of sixteen runs by dis missing Oxford for 182 R. G. H. Lowe found the wicket much to his liking, and he was largely responsible for the col lapse of the Dark Blues for he brought off the rare "hat-trick" when Oxford looked likely to make a stand.
H. J. Enthoven, who was making his third appearance for Cambridge, and who achieved the distinction of scoring a century in both the matches in which he bas previously played, was the highest scorer for the Cambridge team, and be was defeated when his score stood at 51.
He followed this up by taking three wickets in Oxford's first innings for
runs.
JULY 9TH. 1926.
CHINESE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL'S LIBEL ACTION
SINGULAR SINGAPORE SUIT.
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE GIVES INTERESTING EVIDENCE.
Mr. Tan Kab Kee, the Singapore multi-millionaire, gave evidence before
Chief Justice (Sir William Murison) in the action in, which Lu Shih Zee,
GIFT OF £10,000 REFUSED.
KINDLY OLD LADY'S STRANGE CONDITIONS.
ROYAL OPERA.
ESCRIPTION OF THE DRESSES.
DAME MELBA'S FAREWELL. The Royal Opera House, on the occa- R.S.P.CA. IN A QUÂNDARY.
sion of Dame Nellie Melba's farewell, was as packed and brilliant as if for a gala. The King and Queen occupied the Royal [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONT INT]
box, and as their guests bad the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. The Queen. LONDON, June 11th. wore a dress of deep violet drawn up over The Royal Society for the Prevention a bodice of white, embroidered in dia- monda and pearls. She wore a coliar of of Cruelty to Animals has found itself in
pearls and a broad shaped bandeau of a somewhat dificult position. An old diamonds in her hair. The Queen sat in. lady, who died recently, left the Society the corner of the box facing the stage. The King had a white carnation in his a legacy of £10,000, and as the Executive buttonhole. Beside his Majesty was the refused to accept it there has naturalle Duchess of Beaufort, in white, with a of Minto was in attendance on the Queen, porters considered that the Executive and was dressed in black and violet, been a good deal of comment. Some sur-high tiarn of diamonds Mary, Counters made a mistake, and a meeting was held The Hon. Sir Henry Stonor was in the a few days ago to thrash the matter out. Royal loge, and Viscount Hampden and. Major the Hon. Richard Molyneux were But on the whole the decision was proved in attendance. King Manoel and Queen to have been right on general principles. Augusta Victoria were also present. The The old Indy seems to have had such a Duchess of Atholl was in old gold brocade, and wore a gold tissue coat trimmed with Evidence was given by Chow Kus Nam, tender, heart for the whole animal fur and some fine emeralds and diamonds. editor of the newspaper. In cross-ex-Creation-that-the-would-not-have-any amination he said that he was formerly beast or bird hunted or killed in any a teacher at the school, but he denied circumstances. that when the plaintiff was appointed principal the appointment was criticised in his newspaper.
principal of the Chinese High School is Buing the Lat Pau Press and its editor, Chow Kue Nam, for 810,000 damages for
some of the students at the school and alleged libel in a manifesto drawn up by published in the newspaper.
Mr. R. Page appeared for the plain- tiff, Mr. J.-G. Campbell for the first de- fendant, and Mr. V. D. Knowles for the
second defendant.
THE PRESIDENT'S EVIDENCE. Mr. Tan Kah Kee was called," and
that they would now" proceed with the has sent a telegram to Mr. Alan Cobham University) put up a stubborn resistance counts, and found that they were ac Eight Hour Bill the third reading of expressing his deep grief at the tragic
which whereas will be taken to-morrow.
[ENITISH WIRELESS "SERVICE.]
"THE POSITION EXPLAINED..
they
Ruoax, July 7th. There was a further development" of the coal situation this evening when the Prime Minister received a letter from the Yorkshire colliery owners stating were prepared to come into line with offers made in other districts on the ques- tion of ratios, although they felt strongly that the variation in ratio suggested-by- them was amply justified by the reun stances of the coal industry in their dis
trict..
It will be recalled that while not con- templating any immediate reduction in wages for miners working eight hours daily, the terms offered by the Yorkshire owners provided for an alternation of the ratio of division of the proceeds of the industry as hetween wages and profits which was to the disadvantage of the minere. The Government, having coma to the conclusion that the Yorkshire offer was unsatisfactory, it was announced last night by the Marquis of Balisbury that they reserved to themselves complete freedom of action with respect to the final passage of the Coal Mines Bill, which for a temporary period permits miners to work eight hours-instead of Beven. The decision reached by York- shire owners and now announced “in a letter to Mr. Baldwin, overcomes the Government's objections and the Bill wil be placed on the Statue-Book-within the next few days.
REVOLVING CREDIT WANTED.
LATER.
interruption of his enterprise and has telegraphed to Mrs. Elliott, mother of the dead mechanic,"Please accept my profound sympathy on the tragic death! of your gallant sob, to whose high cour- and technical skill Mr. Cobham's brilliant series of successful long-distance flights owed so much."
"
TANGIER SCANDAL. NO BRITISHERS INVOLVED.
Rrosy, July 7th.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, eplying in the House of Commons to several ques. tions regarding the police-scandal at Tangier, said the British Government were in no way reponsible for any up- pointinente in the Tangier police and ́ neither the British representative in the Legislative Assembly, nor the Director of Finance, who was British, was under the control of the British Government. So far as he was aware no British subject
were involved in the abuses which were alleged to have taken place.
"
The British Consul-General at Tangier was pressing for a full enquiry.
(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.)
ILL-FATED SUBMARINE..: PATHETIC VIGIL OF RELATIVES
OF DEAD-MEN..........
BROOKLYN, July 8th. The submarine 8.51 was drydocked here at midnight, after grounding for eleven hours through losing two supporting pontoons five miles out
Meantime a pathetic vigil at the dock. side was kept by the bereaved families of the thirty-six men whose bodies are presumably aboard.
The House of Commons this evening debated the estimate of £3,000,000 which is proposed to be set aside by the Gov
A QUEEN'S GENEROSITY. ernment to be used as a revolving credit
AMSTERDAM, July 7th. for the purchase of coal from abroad.
Her Majesty the Queen has contributed Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister said it was plainly the duty of whatever Government 2,000 forins to the relief fund for the
victims in the earthquake in Sumatra.
-AMERICAN
ERVICE.
U.S. STRIKE.
was in office for the time being to ensure the carrying on during the crisis of essential services and for that reason, as in previous coal stoppages, it was ne
A MOST ORDERLY AFFAIE. cessary that the Government should have
NEW YORT, July 7th, power to make whatever purchases may
Crowded trame, buses, taxicabs and be required. Coal would be sold to con- sumers and this purchase price would improvised motor vans and horse drawn pass back to the revolving credit: Gov-trucks, are evidence of the continuation ernment purchases were only required to of the subway strike. So far there have supplement but not to supplant than by been no disorders, alert policemen at every subway station and other points individual undertakings and firms,
carrying riot sticks and travelling in the first car of every train. There have been fewer than half a dozen arrests made The number of strikers is a small per centage of the total transit employees of New York
THROUGH HAVAs Ageșor.1 SULTAN OF MOROCCO,
BIG JOURNEY TO PARIS.
PARIE, July 8th. The Sultan of Morocco has left-Casa- blanca for Paris in order to preside at the Moslem ceremony consecrating the. Mosque recently completed. He will at tend the military parade on the 14th fist, and visit some of the French provinces.
WORLD-CIRCUIT RECORD. ACROSS AMERICA BY PLANE. New Yożz, July 7th: Captain Berry, ap air mail pilot, has
He was preceded by prominent caids left for Seattle, in a giant Sikorsky plane
and pashas who are now in Paris,
According to the papers Abdeel Krim's departure to Madagascar would be im minent
to meet Messrs.- Adame and Wells, who are attempting to break the world-circuit record of 38 days, and to rush them to New York
J. S Stephenson (Shrewsbury and in the fourth innings when Oxford re- quired 207 to win, but he lost his wicket after scoring 52, a valuable contribution.
The scores were:-
Cambridge: 178-and. 191. Oxford: 16 and 173.
The Marquia and Marchioness of Lin lithgow were together, Lady Linlithgow in white, worked with irridescent beads, She even objected to
and wearing a cluster of diamonds in her fishing. And so she made it a condition hair and another in her dress. Her cloak that if her legacy were accepted every was-of silver tissue. The Marchioness of one in the R.S.P.C.A. should be anti. Headfort, with whom was the Marquis, was wearing an effective cloak of silver vivisectionist and, worse still, declared and green over a grey green dress. She.... enemies of killing by sport. As Lord had a headdress in Egyptian style, in Viscountess purple and green sequins. stated that he was the president of the Banbury, a strong supporter of the Carzon was in palest blush rose pink, and R.S.P.C.A., pathetically complained, this wore a hair bandeau and collar of din- school committee, which was represents-would rule out the King, the Prince of monds. She was escorted by her brother... tive of most of the Chinese schools in Wales, and about half the Council, who Mr. Curzon-Herrick. Lord Erleigh was with Lady Erleigh in a bory with Mr. and Singapore. He had been "into the ac-
hunt or shoot or both. There is not Mrs. Clarence Graff. Lady Erleigh, in much doubt that if the Society had ac white, wore some lovely pearls. Mrs. Graff was in steel-blus and oxydised em cording to the rules of this school, and
cepted the legacy with the condition. atbroidery, and was accompanied by her there was no need to make further in-tached it would have weakened it, and niece, Miss Gwendolen Williams, who quiries.
more harm than good would have been goes to Court for presentation. Lady done to its cause.
Juliet Trevor, in bright red chiffon, wore an embroidered Chinese coat in "similar colouring. Lady Maud Warrender, in pblack, wore a few small diamond-orna
meats, a tight..necklace of large pearls, and a rope of smaller ones. The long coat was of gold, shot with brown, and trimmed with dark fur. Lady (Austen) Chamberlain was wearing a very smart long glacé silk coat of snot purple and crimson, and some diamond ornaments, and was accompanied by Mrs. Sahle Lady Alington was in black, with dia- monds, and Evelyn Lady Alington was also present.
Asked whether dicarce was regarded among the Chinese as rather a disgrace witness said it depended upon who was in the wrong. According to the modern
H. J. Enthoven (Harrow and Pemidea it would rot matter very much. broke) scored ar admirable 51 in the And does the same apply to drunken- Cambridge first innings, and he was wellness I do not know. supported by R. W. V. Robias, & Fresh- man, who scored 37. M. A. McCanlis bowled splendidly throughout and he took -five-wickets at a cost of 59 runa
It was in the Oxford first inninga when R. G. H. Lowe (Westminster and Trinity) brought off his sensational "hat- trick. Only E. R. T. Holmes (Malvern and Trinity) who scored 23, and Nuin, who contributed 30, put up any sort of
resistance to the Cambridge-attack Lowe took five wickets for 22 runs, and Enthoven took 3 for 39 ruas,
Batting a second time, the Cambridge batting was more even and no player showed up prominently. K. S. Duleep sinjhi (nephew of "Ranji ") was highest scorer with 36. J. W. Greenstock (Malvern and Bracenose) took five wickets for 77 rune.
Requiring 207 to win, Oxford lost good wickets cheaply, but J. S. Stephenson, the old Shrewsbury, boy, provided ́a de- lightful 3. 8. T. Jagger (Malvern and` St. Clare) took four Oxford wickets for
34 runs.
A
How would you look upch drunken- ness in the principal of a school-If be is always drunk, that will not. do, but once in a way that does not matter.
Asked if he wished to keep the plaintiff on or otherwise, witness said it was not only his decision but that of the com- mittee.
THE AMERICAN HUSBAND..
CLAIMS OF BUSINESS
"DRIFTING AWAY FROM HIS WIFE."
American women are being charged with neglecting their husbands because of a great interest in children. The charge is made by the women themselves, and has reached such a stage of discus sion as to form the subject for public argument. A spirited debate by the A MATTER OF OPINION
members of the Women's Legislative League of New York was followed by a Questioned by Mr. Campbell, witness tie vote concerning the merits of the feminine manner, the women voted again, said he had been in the Straits Settle- alguments put forth. Then, in true personal convictions, and by a majority ments for thirty ears. He was married this time to give expression to their own according to the old" Chinese custom,
decision agreed that most", women co Do you consider it proper fer a school-ot neglect their husbands for their master to have his fiancee esil to see children. him frequently at his quarters at the. Nevertheless, this charge is in the air, school-Some people say that it is good and others that it is bad. I am in a very awkward position. If I side with the old customs people say I am too con-- servative, but if I take the other view people will say I am too modern.. I am unable to give an opinion either way.
Pressed to give a reply, witness said that he would not take any objection if the lady came there as an ordinary visitor, and on legitimate business
Sybil-Countess-Brassey wore a black diamanté embroidered dress and a long coat of fine pattern and embroidered Lord Richard black and white silk. Nevil, who was one of the late Lord Brassey's aides-de-camp when he was Governor-General of Australia, was also present. Mrs. Wilfred Ashley was wear a coat of gold tissue, and was carrying ing a very smart, dress of gold fusé and
contrasted with it. The Countess of an orchid-mauve ostrich feather fan which Oxford and Asquith was in a box. The Countess of Landesborough was in palest blue and gold, and wore diamond and pear! ornaments Lady Beatrice Pole so to speak, and there is abundant exi- Carew was in white, wearing an embroi dence to support the accusation. The dered cloak Sir John Latts brought. reason, however, is not so easy to find Lady Latts wearing cloth of gold. Mrs. Many say the American man is at fault Wigan was in gold tissue, and wore a because he does not show sufficient in- gold brocade fur-trimmed coat. Mrs. Lionel Harria wore. pink. Violet Duchess terest in his wife, and thus drives her to her children for comfort and companion of Rutland was in black, and wearing a a beautiful ship. The intense material of the black and oxydised silver-shot head- American man, his almost exclusive con- dress. Lady Lavery wore
a white dress. Mrs. Richard Northcote was centration on his business affairs makes green embroidered cloak over. home life for him scarcely more than an incident in his life. He must find some wearing a pink velvet ostrich feather place to rest between one day's office trimmed coat over black and tamond hdurs and the next, and so he maintains arguments. a home.
has been
% If she came at between 7 and 8 at There is a great deal of truth in this Cambridge have now woo 42 of the night, and stayed until 10 or 11 in the charge. The American man matches played, Oxford have won 26,principal's quarters, would that he drilting away from his wife for many
while ten have been drawn.'
THE TEST MATÚRÁ
Geary, of Leicester, has been invited to take part in the Third Test at Leeds.
WEST HAM WANTS A LOAN OF £425,000.
"CERTAIN TO BE "DISHONOURED.”
CHEQUES
"POSITION VERY CRITICAL,
legitimate business? If it is after teaching hours it is not the business of the school to interfere
Where are you going to draw the line 1 Could he have singing girls in his "quarters after teaching hours? It does not matter if he engages singing, girls so long as it is not on the school pre mises. I would object to singing girls in his quarters.
THE STUDENTS, Mr. Tan Kab Kee aid that the students allegations were investigated by members of the committee, and he had The West Ham Board of Guardians questioned his own son, who was at the decided that application should be made forthwith to the Goschen Committee for a school, but nothing definite was found. further advance of a sum of £425,000 in The school was not built largely as a licu of the £350,000 included in the esti mate of call approved by the board for result of his personal generosity; others the present half-year, and that a deputa. assisted, but he supported it largely. A tion should be appointed to wait on the teacher for the literature class had not committee, if necessary, in support of been engaged owing to shortage of funds. Mr. Campbell: The school has been the application. board showed that on May 12th there was standing empty since the middle of no available halance at the bank, but January With the exception of four or deficit of 2338,03% and £1,975,000 due to Eve students. the Ministry of Health.
The financial statement laid before the
All the teachers have been dismissed
years.
CROSS-EXAMINATION.
In reply to Mr. Page, witness said that. in his opinion the attack by this news paper had done the school damage.
Mr. Page: Are the old-fashioned rules of China similar to those of the Chinese în Singapore in 19251 There is nothing definite.
TRACKING A MAN-EATING LEOPARD.
125 HUMAN VICTIMS.
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Indian shikar (big game hunting) is, told by a Naini Tal corre apostlent in the Pioneer.
The writer describes the killing of a leopard, which in the past seven years has killed 125 human beings, by Captain- J. Corbett, of Gurney House, Naini Tal, with the operation of Mr. A. W. Ibbot Bon, Deputy Commissioner of Garhwar It roamed in an area of some 360 square. ' Would it be a disgraceful thing for a Chinese girl in Singapore to meet her miles of Western Garhwal, which includ husband before they were married Ied the junction of the pilgrim routes to the holy shrines of Kidarnath and would not say that.
Badrinathing
Witness said that the committee could
The leopard did not often seize pil find no definite evidence, and they were grims, who travel in bands of considerable in favour of the plaintiff.
size and are protected in their shelters at generally snatched from inside houses or NEXT MORNING'S PROCEEDINGS wight by strong lights: Its victims were Next morning, Mr. Wong Yew Yin, their entrances. The fear this aroused their small homes even in the stifling hot weather. Year after year all efforts to vice-president of the school committee, led the people to close up and barricade Asked what he would think of all the leopard failed Sixteen Indian gave evidence. Chinese schoolmaster appearing in a chikaris paid by the Government did not drunken condition before his pupils, succeed; twice the leopard was caught, witness said that if such an incident once in a trap and once in a cave, only schoolmaster not to let it happen again.
careful, tracking, sitting up over human came to his notice he would warn the to escape. Gun traps, gin traps, the most Fu Wa Kiam, a former student at kills, poisoning the Hills with strychnine, the school, said that when the students arsenic, and cyanide were of no avail. complained to Mr. Tan Kah Kee about The country folk long ago decided that the principal he referred them to the the man-eater had supernatural powers. committes, but they pointed out that Towards the end of April, Captain the committee consisted of over twenty Corbett sat up for ten pights on
Cleopard had killed three victims, without matter forward. members and it was his duty to bring the machan, near a grass shelter where the the beast. Below was Witness said, on an occasion on Sep seeing anything
a goat secured with a bell round its neck. tember 8th he saw the plaintiff drunk at the school between 11 and 12 pm. There On the eleventh night at 10 o'clock Capt. various parishes have been slower in com
was able to see a leopard springing He ing in than was anticipated. The actual with the character of the plaintiff No, collected outside the principal room, and road and by means of his electric torch the principal was lying drunk in a fired without apparent result, and had to cost of out-relief for the week ended-May not bis character."
lounge chair, shouting and weeping
spend an andous night aloft until day 1st was £37,332, and by May 8th--which Are not the Chinese in Singapore a included four days of the strike-it-in sgoduslead more Westernised than they witnessing referred to a bad whose light came. He then found blood tracks creased to £30,356, while for the week up were even ten years ago The people to come and see the principal frequently leading to the leopard, which lay dead in to May 15th the amount was one of who do not receive recent education and witness had seen her in the prin- bole into which it had fallen 50 yards
prefer to stick to the old rules, but those cipal's room, which was his bedroom £57,768.
who have received, some education wish Witness left the school because the prin- to have a change and follow the cipal was not changed.
The case is proce European
Free Preiz
Mr. Ridgewell remarked, “ Some of our cheques are almost certain to be dis. Three or four teachers are being retained Where are you going to get the pupils honoured"
Mr. Spackman, chairman of the from -We do not mind of the pupils Finance Committee, said:"The posi- come or not. We shall advertise after the tion, has become very critical owing to vacation. additional expenditure due to the strike,
Do you suggest that the present posi- and-to-the- fact that the rates from the son of the school 14, in no way connected were a number of studente and teacher Corbett heard something rush down the
Nearly a thousand people in America now keep aeroplanes for their own use.
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vere
down & ravine. The identification of the animal as the famons man-eater is un- questionable. It was very old and its length was 7ft 10in. Captain Corbett had spent ten weeks in the hunt.