AUSTRALIA'S LAWS.
IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES SUGGESTED,
TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE REFERENDUM.
STATEMENT BY-THE-PRIME
MINISTER.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
MELBOURNE, August 19th. Important constitutional amendmenta,
be submitted to referendum.
COAL MINES DISPUTE.
THE
STILL AWAITING SETTLEMENT,
CHURCH EFFORT CONTINUES.
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RUGBY, August 11th
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18TH,
WORLD PEACE.
"A SINISTER FACT REGARDING
CHINA.
EX-MINISTER'S VIEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
1916 to 1999, has been lecturing in Lo don, and in referring to the prospects of, world peace said that there were many favourable to the view arguments
was too wise to that the human race
a sinister commit suicide. But it was
CHINA'S MILITARY
MOVEMENTS.
PREPARING TO COPE WITH CANTON'S EXPEDITION.
の
"WHAT SUN CHUAN FANG IS
DOING.
· [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, August 12th. Military movements on quite a large scale are being quietly carried out bal tween Kiangry, Chekiang and Fükien. During the past few days several train- loads of recruits for the Chekiang Army have come from Hauchowfu en route to
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M. CLEMENCEAU'S LETTER. FAR EASTERN CABLE
HOW IT IS REGARDED IN USA,
( ) AZUTEE'S 'AMERICAN SERVICE).
NEWS.
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
**RED **· INFLUENCES IN CHINA.
THE CABINET TO ISSUE
PUNITIVE MANDATE.
--NEW YORK, August 11th. President Coolidge first learnt of L. Clemenceau's letter as he sat at the fire- side of his ancestral home near 'Ply mouth. He was so interested he delayed
FERING, August 12th.. the departure of the special train from
The Huang Pao, says the Cabinet is, Plymouth until the full text was avail-ready to issue a punitive mandate against able.
WHAT SENATORS THINK. The New Fort Times' correspondent, who is following President Coolidge on his holiday, opines that the sole effect of the letter will be to increase opposi
"Red" influences in North and South China" (meaning the Kuominchan and Chiang Kai Shek's expedition). The. paper says that the spreading of Bol- shevism in China is calculated to injure the country internally and externally and
**PRESIDENT MCKINLEY",
The rejection of the proposals of Io-
LONDON, August 11th.
dustrial Christian Fellowship for a
The Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, Presi- settlement of the coal dispute has result-dent of the Board of Education from ed in increased interest being taken in the movement for settlements by districts as distinct from a national settlement.
It is stated that's joint meeting called by the owners of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire pits to consider new terms aiming at industrial efficiency, will shortly of employment has been suminoned at the fact that China, formerly the most peace Hangchow, while Sun Chuan Fang has tion to ratification of the agreement, it is felt imperative that the Cabinet
request of the miners in that area, and ful community in the world, was now Outlined by the Rt. Hon. S. Bruce, the fact that the result of the dia supplied with arms for civil war, owing seat another copsignment of munitions, while some of the advisers to the Ad define ita attitude towards the "Red" the Prime Minister, in a speech at Dan-trict voting has temporarily robbed the to the failure, through, the interest of ete, to Chow Yin Jen, the Fukien Tupan,ministration even think it will tend to movement. denong, they were stated, Arstly, as Miners' Executive of a positive policy certain armament firms, to ratify the St. including 300 rifles, 4 feldpieces and strengthen the arguments of the Borch empowering Parliament to establish to end the dispute, will, it is suggested, Germain's Treaty for regulating the ex- port of arms. Until the Chinese situs authorities regulating terms and condi-give impetus to local settlements.
The Secretary of the Miners' Federation cleared up it was impossible to be tions of employment; the rights and duties of employers and workers, ea- tion, Mr. A. J. Cook, however, does not confident of any great improvement in being prepared by the Fukien Tupan, language of the letter insolent and im abling the Federal Government to deal believe that the remarkable solidarity the prospects" of the world's future. with industrial questions otherwise than of the miners during the past fourteen by arbitration, empowering the present weeks has suffered. He anticipates that State Industrial Tribunals to act en at Monday's. Delegate Conference, when behalf of the Federal authorities and the result of the voting will be made thus abolish the absurdity of seven separ-known, the miners will frankly accept ate and often different tribunals.
their responsibilitica, and, with their Mr. Bruce stated that the Government leaders, will review the whole position. would also ask power to deal with trusts The issue, be says, is now one for the and combines in restraint of trade; alio rank and file. to deal with trade unions and associa tions-of-employers and employees.
The Government are determined, ir- respective of the result of the referen- dum, to introduce legislation which is not designed to interfere with the func tions of trade unions but to safeguard
FOUR MODERN. VIKINGS.
8,400 MILES IN SMALL SHIP.
600,000 rounds of ammunition.
clique who contend that the agreement Persistent rumours in well-informed is too lenient. Other officials, who are Chinese circles in Shanghai are to the affect that an offensive expedition is
backed by Sun Chuan Fang, to be sent against the Canton expedition.
San Chuao Fang is reported to be quietly collecting his troops round about Hangehow in case of an attack on his southern borders.
(REGTER'S AMERICAN · BERVIE...]
BOSTON, August 11th. After a 6,400 miles voyage from Bergen four modera Vikings have arrived in a tiny ship modelled on that in which Leif Ericsson crossed the Atlantic 900 years MEXICO'S RELIGIOUS WARFARE. ago.
There has been much criticism of the Imanner in which the vote of the miners
Captain Folgero, the leader of the was taken. With the exception of Derby-party, said that the trip was uneventful, shire, where, there was a ballot, the decision was made at District Lodges or mass meetings, some of which were but sparsely attended. A decision reached by
except that they ran short of rations and were caught for several days in the ice packs of Labrador.
SHIPPING CONGESTION..
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S
다
ATTITUDE.
in close contact with the President, in- cluding Senator Ernst who declares the
pertinent, consider that an attack on American policy from such a distinguished Frenchman demands an official reply.
The New York Times understands that the part of the letter which especially roused the President, was the comparison of the Treaty between the United States and Germany with the Russo-German Treaty of Brestlitovsk.
BORAH'S VIEWS.
GROUNDS."
STICKS ON MUD BANK OFF KOWLOON CLOCK TOWER.
FLOATS OFF LATER,
Within a few minutes of leaving her wharf at Kowloon at five o'clock yester day afternoon, the Admiral Oriental liner, President McKinley, bound for Manila," grounded' on the mad bank op- posite the Kowloon Clock-Tower. Fortu- nately, she was only moving slowly, and consequently she only grounded lightly, but at the same time with sufficient force to keep for stuck for a matter of three hours
At the time the liner grounded it was"
NEW YORK, August 11tb. · ~A-message-from-Boise, Idaho, says that nearly-low-water,-low-tide-being-at-6.15 Senator Borah has issued a statement,
Despite all efforts she was forced to remain where she struck, until about eight. characterizing the letter as cruelly mis-o'clock, when, with the rising tide, she NEW YORK, August 11th.
leading in its remarks about the sale and
was able to Boat off again. So far, as In conformity with his decision to
could be learned last evening, she was independence of France and deliberately not damaged, and was able to continue maintain hands off" attitude as re-unjust as regards America's separate her interrupted voyage to Manila, a majority in a Lodge carries with it the ROTTERDAM'S BUSY HARBOUR. gards the Mexican religious controversy, peace treaty. Nevertheless, he says it is Bank Holiday morning the East Asiatic It will be remembered that on August President Coolidge has declined to re- pathetic and in Clemenceau's manifest Company's motor-ship Danmark went whole voting strength of that district,
ceive delegation of Knights of love for his country and it is suggested that a vote taken
"we can afford to aground off the Kowloon Clock-Tower Columbus, which desires to present ignore Clemenceau's wrath."
when proceeding to.
Kowloon ROTTERDAM, August 11th. by such means does not adequately reflect
Wharves The President McKinley the opinion of the miners generally, The harbour here was completely sold petition calling on the Secretary of If they want to cancel the debts, let grannded on the same mud bank, And A statement issued this evening ox be-out" at the beginning of the week in State to terminate the ignominious con- them include all debts and all reparabank was dredged some time ago, but is in practically the same spot. This mad half of the Industrial Christian Fellow-consequence of 187 vessels occupying an- tempt shown by President Calles for tions, and show that the benefit of the continually silting up, especially owing ship states that the standing conference charage. The majority came to bunker Americans, by resolutely demanding that cancellation will go all to humanity and there was a depth of over 30 feet, and to the recent storms. When dredged last of Anglicans and Free Churchment has or to fetch coal. Cargoes of new arrivals they be treated with the same considera-the betterment of the masses of Europe, it is evident that another dredging is now resolved to continue its efforts to promote are held up outside the new waterway tion and respect as Mexicans in this! a just settlement of the coal dispute. It | and enter in turn.
country. " FRENCH ARMY OF OCCUPATION. is stated that the relations between the
individual trade unionists. Furthermore, the Commonwealth should be empowered to protect public interests in the event of threatened interruption of essential services. He dwelt on the absurdity of their Federal Parliament being the only one in the world powerless to intervene in the event of such a danger,
"[BRITISH WIRELESS - SERVICE.
BIG REDUCTION ANNOUNCED,
RUGBY, August 11th.
A reduction of the Rhineland Occupa tion Forces, involving the withdrawal of-several thousand-French-troops,-will- take effect next month.
Miners' Federation and the group of church leaders remain very cordial.
(THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.]
PITS OVERHEATING...
LONDON, August 11th. The colliery owners of South Yorkshire are experiencing serious trouble through
It will be recalled that a reduction the over-heating of the pits owing, to the of these forces was visualised as part of small number of safety-men permitted to thePolicy of Conciliation" initiation work.
at the time of the Locarno Treaty. When Gob Eres have broken out in many pits the British troops evacuated the Colagusand the situation is so serious in the area and transferred to Weibaden, their Bentley Colliery, near Doncaster, that strength was reduced from 15,000 to 9,000, 600 extra safety-men have been permitted and the Belgian force, when about the to work. same time it was transferred to the second The miners have declined to permit
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BALKAN FERMENT.
JOINT NOTE TO BULGARIA.
SOFIA, August 11th
W
The Committee has been advised to, pre- sant the petition and any other protesta to the State Department
EXECUTIONS OF PRIESTS AND LAYMEN.
The diplomatic representatives of Ingo
Mexico City, August 11th. Slavia, Rumania and Greece have handed.
Archbishop Leopoldo, of Ruizy Flores, collectiva. Note to the Foreign Ministeras arrived from Michioscan and has regarding the activities of bands of Comitadjis.
The content of the Note are not
stated that two priests and 30 laymen were executed by the military authorities on August 1st and 2nd as being the ring- divulged but officials declare that it is leaders in a rising against the Govern- not an ultimatum:
nment in protest against the new re-
and not to the bereft of the imperialistic schemes which are now crushing the life out of the people who were in no scase responsible for the war.".
DARING NEGRO.
KILLS A NEW YORK DETECTIVE.
-New-YORE-August-11th
The whole police force is scouring the city to find a negro who killed with his own revolver at the police headquarters & detective who just arrested him for stealing a motor-car.
„becessary
the
The President McKinley is a steamer of 8.400 tone, commanded by Capt. A. O. Lustie. She was fairly heavily loaded with freight, carrying 3,800 tons from other ports to Manila, apart from addi- tional cargo from Hongkong. She would, therefore, be drawing a good depth of water. She grounded in about 25 feet
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SHANGHAI'S HEAT WAVE.
AVERAGE OF OVER 88 DEGREES.
The abnormal weather continues well over 90 degrees, and up to the present although some relief was afforded at the time shows no sign of diminishing, drop in the thermometer on Saturday, the heat wave continues unbroken. For well over four weeks now the thermo meter maximum has kept in the nineties, with minimum in propertion.
The detective brought the prisoner into The Archbishop added that in a battle the Record Office and was bending over which lasted all day at Zahuago, where a ledger. recording the details, when the
The North-China Daily News publish the Catholics refused to hand over the negro snatched a revolver from the deed last week the figures for the last 21 churches to the municipal committees, 50 tective's holster and riddled him with days of July and, according to these, were killed. Federal reinforcements are three bulleta. There were other police-gures dropped below 30 degrees. The
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF TEXAS.ligious regulations.
"MA" FERGUSON AGAIN CHANGES HER MIND.
"AUSTIN' (Texas)," August 11th. "Ha" Ferguson has again exercised a 8,000. Some reductions were also made liery where there is excessive overheating Woman's right to change her mind. Ariving ended the struggle.
zone was reduced to between 7,000 and
extra safety-men for the Brodworth Col-
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by the French, who have a great pre- although their leaders have assented. ponderance of Occupation troops, but it was hoped that when the pressure of in- ternal politics had relaxed sufficiently to enable him to turn his attention to the subject, M. Briand would give further effect to this conciliatory procedure.
In an interview after the formation of the present French Government, M. Briand declared his intention to pursue
BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.
EFFECT OF THE COAL STOPPAGE.
RUGBY, August 11th.
The preliminary trade figures for the the Locarno policy, and the forthcoming month of July, which have a special in- reduction of French troops in the Rhine-terest in view of the coal stoppage, show land is regarded in London as indicating that the total imports were £100,281,000, a fulfilment of this promise..
(THROUGH REUTER'S LOENCY.]
THE WINGFIELD SCULLS. RESULT OF COLLET'S CHALLENGE TO BERESFORD."
LONDON, August 11th. J. Beresford, junr., won the Wingheld Sculla for the seventh successive time on July 30th, when he defeated T. Collet, who was disqualified for a foul
As a sequel to that race-Collet appar ently expressing dissatisfaction-a pri vate match was arranged between them over the same course, Putney to Mort lake The race was rowed to-day and Collet beat Beresford by half a length. That in itself was sensational, and in addition Collect chipped off 14 seconds from the old record for the distance. He completed the course in "21 minutes 32 Beconds
fortnight ngo ahe sportingly announced that she did not intend to stand again for the Governorship, although Attorney General Moody was nearly 2,000 votes short of the required majority over all the other candidates for the Governor ship. "Ma" now proclaima in a 2,000 word document, that she will re-enter the campaign with all her heart.
SUBMARINE DISASTER...
LONDON, August 11th Salvage workers have located the
as compared with £07,500,000 in the pre-bodies of the missing men in submarine vious month and £98,744,000 in July of last year.
The total exports for the month were £57,283,000, as against £50,107,000 in June and £64,820,000 in July of last year."'".
The total re-exports were £9,500,000, compared with £10,753,000 in June this year and £11,376,000 in July of last year.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
FRENCH POLITICS.
PARIS, August 11th. Parliament has adjourned until mid October.
THE FRANC
LONDON, August 11th. French francs closed at 174.09 and, Belgian francaat 1773.
LATEST QUOTATION.
LONDON, August 12th. French francs opened in London at
H.23.
[REUTER'S AMERICKY SERVICE"]
CONFLAGRATION.
500,000 GALLONS OF OIL AND SPIRIT ABLAZE.
A CONCESSION TO THE CATHOLICS.
men in the room but the murderer rushed out of the office before they were able to grab him, and raced down the corridor dodging other detectives. He reached the street and disappeared amid a salvo of shots from his pursuers.
A negro discovered wandering in the streets, in the Bowery district has been arrested.
Mexico, CITY, August 12th, The first concession yet made to the Catholics is contained in a decree by the Mayor of Mexico City, to the effect that ta whom churches were committees entrusted may be composed five catho. lies and five persons appointed by the
Three detectives were killed last week Municipality. Hitherto, all members of alone in fighting desperate criminals. - the committee have been appointed by the Municipality.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] COBHAM'S GREAT ACHIEVE-
MENT.
THE FINAL STAGE REACHED.
Ecoer, August 11th-
-AMERICAN AVIATOR KILLED. END OF HERO'S CAREER.
NEW YORK, August 11th. A message from Dayton, Ohio, says that Lieutenant Barksdale, who was officially, credited with bringing down four German aeroplanes, has crashed
Alan Cobham, after spending the night and was killed. Lieut. Barksdale had at Charleville, flew to Sydney to-day jumped clear of the machine but the
there were only two days on which the rainfall was almost negligible, having fallen in proportions of an inch on three occasions on July 11th (0.06 inches), 13th (0.13 inches) and 19th (0.10 inches). No rain has fallen since this report. Mean, while the state of humidity is the worst part of the heat. Below are the overage figures for this year and 1025 for the last 21 days of July. There was, it will be- noticed on comparison, an
excess of nearly six degrees this year over last in the maximum columns:-
Minimum temperature. Rainfall
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1995. 1926.
75:7 79.4
88.6 84.5 ..... 0.58 0.14 Below are the 1925 and 1928 minimum fgures for the first eight days of August, together with the average:
Date
nil. nil.
Temperature. Rainfall. August. 1925 1926 1926. 1926 1925 1926,
176.8 81.2 80.2 87. nit. nil. 2-1-77-81. 89.2 06: 376.8 82. 8899- nil, nil 4.7 82.8 80.2 100.
mil. att. $2. 100. nil, ni. .5 77. 83.
79.2 81.5 80. 101.4 mil. "nil. 7..... 75. 78.589.97. nil," nil. B. 14.8192 862 325 xã, t Aver. 76.85.81.75 86.77 98.83 nil nil The contamination of foreign materia-
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He will probably stay there for the re- parachute did not open as he was toolism must surely be to blame for the lack mainder of the week and will undertake near the ground.
the final stage of his London-to-Melbourne fight on Sunday,
Later Co
BALTIMORE, August 11th. Firemen are battling with a huge con- flagration caused by the explosion lest night of seven great tanks containing balf a million gallons of petrol, kerosene and benzol in the grounds of the Ameri can Oil Company. One hundred thou sand people watched the spectacle of flames shooting one hundred feet high and creating a pall of dense smoke. The intensity of the heat has injured seveRFACE people, and firemen are throwing up a curtain of water to prevent the further spread of the flames as they are unable to penetrate the fire area,
Later Cobham will By back to London.
NEW WIRELESS SERVICE. BETWEEN VIENNA AND AMSTERDAM
PEAK THEFTS.
of enthusicam shown by the local Chinese for the District Magistrate's three days of prayers and fasting for rain, says the NC. Daily News Even the monks, it seems, are affected. Col. Miso. a repre sentative of Mr. Wai Tao-fung, went to LOSS OF VALUABLE JEWELLERY
the Temple of the God of the Sea in a search for monks to back the Magis Mr. E. B. (. Hornell, of 304, the Peak, trate's prayers, and was met with an has reported to the police the loss, of attitude of Monks no have got, velly white gold diamond ring and a gold chain solly. The Colonel seems to have been with a sapphire pendant. They were considerably, peeved and showed it, bis taken from a jewel case in the bedroom.
fierceness eliciting the following written AMSTERDAM, August 11th.. A wireless service between-Vienna and Mr. Hornell stated that the theft must reply from the monks: My dear Sir, Amsterdam has been inaugurated by the have taken place some time between Mon- All our monks have been out to officiate Dutch Minister at Vienna, Jonkheer Van day and Wednesday. Suspicion reats on at funerals and we had not the least Nispen Tortevenear. The Brat telegram a former house coolie who had been stay knowledve of your honourable coming, transmitted was from President Hainisching in the servants' quarters, but disapelse we had monka at your service.
NA: Daily News. to Queen Wilhelmina
peared when the loss was discovered..