SHANGHAT'S "LABOUR
UNREST.
STRIKERS AT JAPANESE MILLS ATTEMPT TO CREATE TROUBLE.
DEMONSTRATORS FOILED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S" "AGENCY.]
SHANGHAL, August 90th. Attempts of strikers at Japanese mills. to create trouble this afternoon were averted by the police. It was intended to march on the Japanese Consulate, but this did not materialize. The agitators had planned L
demonstration both in Nanking, and Whangpoo Ronds-the Japanese Consulate being situated in the latter street. An attempt to execute the plan was begun in the western district, hit it was nipped in the bed by the police Trouble has been fomenting ever since the alleged murder of a Chinese hawker aboard a Japanese vessel, when docked at Pootung. It is stated that the sailors who chased the hawker, when the latter is alleged to have accidentally died by falling down a hatch are being held in custody at the Japanese Consulate.. awaiting triak 2,400 employees 21 struck this morning, Japanese mills bringing the total of those away from work to 3,000.
(THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.]
THE TANGIER QUESTION.
FRENCH PRESS COMMENT ON SPAIN'S ATTITUDE.
PARIS, August 20th. Many of the papers are dealing with the question of Tangier.
THE
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21sr,
BRITISH COAL DISPUTE.
THE FIGHTING IN NORTH CHINA.
REPORTS FROM THE ALLIED
LEADERS.
KUOMINCHUN STILL RETREATING.
[THROUGH-HEUTER'S AGENCY.]
PERINO, August 200h. Telegraphing jointly, the allied leaders, Chang Hsueh Liang and Ean Lin Chun, report that the allied troops occupied Kalgan this morning.
Yep Esi San states that the Shansi ites have retaken Tatung railway sta tion also Huayuan, Hualjin and several other places, which the Kominchun beld recently.
The general opinion in Peking is that the Kuominchun main forces have passed Tatung-fa en route to Pintichuan.
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BEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
THE BALKANS.
THE CANTONESE
OFFENSIVE.
NORTH STARTS COUNTER- OFFENSIVE
SUN CHUAN FANG'S POSITION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGRYCY.)
PERING, August 20th. It is stated that the Cantonese offen- sive began immediately after Chiang Kai Shek's arrival at Changsha.
Finding it disadvantageous to remain on the defensive, the Northern com-
anders started a counter-offensive. Tang Seng Chi from Changes went towards Kulo.
It is expected that Chiang Kai Shek will remain at Changsha to direct the entire operations.
THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
BITTER STRUGGLE ANTICI
PATED.
1926
WHEAT POOLS.
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD.
ROUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WINNIPEG, August 20th. The representatives of the Canadian wheat pools in the United States' wheat MINERS' FEDERATION AND THE Towing organisations, as a provisional
GOVERNMENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HEALTH AND MODERN DRESS.
THE DAYS OF CODDLING_ARE PASSING
DR. ALIENT BLOAN CHESSEE
BY DR.
Sunlight treatment has been widely discussed and sometimes wildly written about these last few years. Sunlight and air, as everybody knows, are essential to committee, have selected Kansas City, health, to life, on this planet. Without Missouri, for the international confer-sufficient sunlight we wilt and die like ence on wheat pools on March 16th, 1927, flants in the dark. We must catch every when a definite plan for a world-wide ray of sun, remembering that clothing, wheat pool will be submitted. Repre like window glass, and cloudy and LONDON, August-th..sentatives will be invited from Australia, smoke, prevent the ultra violet rays which are the rays that matter most from The Miners' Federation sat privately Argentina, India and Russia.
eaching the skin.
Modern dress which allows the neck
and for three hours and agreed ta, send the Government a verbatim regert of the proceedings of yesterday's meeting with
Eper part of the chest and the arms to be uncovered, exposed to light and air, the owners, after which the members
deserves word of approbation. Short returned to their respective districts.
skirts, when stockings are thin and light coloured, are hygienic also, and any comparison between the tight-waisted, long-trained, long-sleeved, neck-constrict
A GRAVE VIEW TAKEN.
The executive of the Miners' Fede-
The -conference will discuss inter alia the organisation of a news service giving dependable information regarding world- wide crop conditions.
NICARAGUA'S REVOLUTION.
NEW YORK, August 20th.
A Managua message says that the re-ed garment of twenty-five years ago and
Sun Chuan Fang's position in Klangsiration, met in Londoh. A grave view is continues the subject of keen specula. taken of the situation, and a member ex-fusal of the United States Government the modern straight, short, loose, light, tion. Local telegrams from Nanking Pressed the opinion that the attitude of state that he has requisioned two China the owners would prolong and embitter merchants' steamers for the transporta. the struggle. Far from disintegrating tion of reinforcements, but is said to be the Federation, it would stiffen the backs confident that strategical reasons will of the rank and file: He anticipated ¤¤- "VALUE" OF NEW CONVENTIONS, prevent the main Cantonese force from other ten wecks' struggle.
invading the province. It is predicted that be will maintain his policy of RUGBY, August 19th.
Paoching anmin" or "Armed neu- trality."
In a leading article on 'conciliation in the Balkans, the Morning Post welcomes theConventions concluded--between Grecce and Jugo-Slavia, and it expresses belief that all causes of difference be tween the two countries will have been Temoved.
Politically, Greece gains the friend- ship of her powerful neighbour, whilst Jugo-Slavia is rid of the difficulties hitherto attaching, to her use of the little stretch of railway running from Chevgeli, on the southern frontier of Serbia, to Salonika, and gairs an extension at that port of a free zone for her goods.
To Great Britain, which is friend of Franco-Spanish co-operation in Morocco both parties, and the foundation of yielded too satisfactory results not to whose national policy is the maintenance consider her revindication as to her of peace in Europe, the attainment, of greatest willingness, in the matter.
the settlement of questions which have
The Petit Parisien thinks it reasonable to wait for Spain to give her aspiration some concrete form before one should express an opinion. The paper adds that
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
TRAIN DISASTER. EXPRESS CRASHES OVER
BERLIN, August 19th. Seven persons were killed and 14 in- jured throught the de-railing of the Berlin-Cologne-Flushing express
Lehrte.
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The dead include an Englishman. The train was travelling at eighty kilometres per hour at two o'clock in the morning when the engine jumped the rails and crashed-down-an-embankment Two coaches were telescoped.
Rescue work was most difficult in the darkness. It is suspected that known.
DEATH ROLL
The Journal says that Madrid's argu-long been the subject-of-a-bitter-con-persons tampered with the pointa ments do not lack logic, and that the Spanish claims do not affect France's essential intereals.
troversy,
is necessarily gratifying. Referring to the joint Note sent to Bulgaria by Greece, Roumania and-Jugo-
.:
LATER.
It is now established that nineteen
The latin states that the French Slavia, with the object of achieving a Persons were killed in 'the Lehrte train
Government stands by the letter of the Treaties and that Tangier's statute can he revised only by the Fowers that drafted it
[TIROTOX REUTER'S AGENCY.)«
MR. KELLOGG'S SPEECH.
LONDON PRESS COMMENT
Losdos, August 10th. The papers give prominence to Mr. Kellogg's speech at Plattsburgh, and reciprocate the expressions of goodwill.. The Morning Post quotes Mr. Kellogg as saying that competition in armaments leads to mutual distrust and fear. The. Pant says it is the other way round and therefore the inducement to crente armaments must be removed by "mesis of an amicable agreement, which it points out is being pursued in the Balkaus, whereas, it declares, delibera- tions by a Sub-Committes of the League's Disarmament Committee produce deplor able differences of opinion.
peaceful settlement of the recent Mace- donian trouble, the Morning Post ex- presses the hope that a wise use of the Bulgarian Refugee Loan, which is guar anteed by the League of Nations for the relief of refugees, may serve to deprive the insurgent bodies of their pretext for stirring up strike.
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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMANY'S DUG-OUTS.
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
PARTS, August 19th.
disaster.
THE AIR CRASH.
PILOT SUCCUMBS.
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LONDON, August 19th- The pilot of the French air liner which crashed at Lymphe has since died.
-WIEZLESS SERVICE:}" BRITISH
RUGBY, August 19th. De Lisle, the pilot of the French cross channel aeroplane, which crashed near Romney Marshes yesterday, died to-day. The two passengers killed were Hugo, Rizzi, manager of the Ambassadors' Club, and Robert Blaney, son of the well-known American artist.
The Paris Matin reports that there is no truth in the rumour that" the Con, ference of Ambassadors has requested the German Government to appoint a Cem- mander-Chief, chosen from one of the two Group commanders at prescat under the orders of General Von Seccht, in order to oust the latter. The Allies only demand that the two offeers now beld by General Von Seccht shall not be unit- The Daily Chronicle says that is iffed-that is to my, he shall not be at the evident that Mr. Kellogg wishes to com same time Chief of the General Staff and hat obstructionism with regard to certain Commander-in-Chief. Continental Powers by the weapon of publicity. The Chronicle hopes that Britain will help him in the matter.
The paper declares that this matter has only been put into prominence in order to distract attention from another affair which embarrasses Dr. Gessler, the Minister for Defence, as it is dagrant violation of the Treaty of Versailles. It TURKEY AND FOREIGN CHAM-a reported that 53 concrete dug-outs in tended for infantry, have been discovered BERS OF COMMERCE.
in the Konigsberg district. It is believ ed that these form part of a plan to'tura CONSTANTINOPLE, August 20th.
this district into a fortified camp, and The foreign-Chambers of Commerce it is pointed out it is only after a long dispute is at present the subject of period of silence that the German autho rities have been obliged to confess to the diplomatic discussions. Meanwhile the existence of these dug-outs, which may be but a part of those which have been Chambers have been allowed to reopen.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] MOTOR CYCLE TRIALS." ENGLAND RETAINS TROPHY. Rugsy, August 10th.
11.
In the six days international motor- eycle reliability trials, being contested in Gubelas side-car put Germany out of the the North of England, a mishap to a international team competition, and Engiand retains the international trophy for the third consecutive year.
built.
Sir Robert Hoare, Air Minister, has sent a telegram to the French Air Union expressing profound ympathy with the relatives of those killed and with the irjured. -
[RECTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.] REVOLT IN NICARAGUA. TROOPS BEING DESPATCHED.
(Earlier telegrama on page 4.)
[PECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.) "
CHURCH AND STATE.
ARCHBISHOP OF MEXICO
APPEALS TO PRESIDENT.
MEXICO CITY, August 18th. The Archbishop of Mexico, on behalf of the entire Catholic denomination, has memorialised President Calles asking for freedom of conscience. instruction and the press, declaring that the Episcopate is actuated by the sincerest patriotism and a desire for peace, and requesting Pres. Calles to use his influence to per- suade Congress to change the religious clauses of the Constitution and the penal.
ties for disobedience of the new regula tiong,
Simultaneously, a group of twenty Mexico City business mea have sent a Tatter to Pres. Calles and the Episcopate, proposing that they confer to settle the controversy.
STREET FIGHTING. HOW THE MEXICANS DISCUSS "POLITICS."
TWO DEPUTIES MORTALLY WOUNDED.
to recognise President Chamorro is re- and if you will," slight" dress of to-day sponsible for the revolution, which broke, is all in favour of the latter. out on the night of the 17th instant, when; Moderation. the railway was cut and a train derailed between Managua and Corinto, which is the chief scaport and when another train
I was blown up north of Managus. The rebels captured several towns, but the Government recaptured Quezalguaque, after a sharp encounter. They are be sieging other towns.
SIR W. ORPEN'S WAR PORTRAITS.
36 SOLD FOR $14,000.
BIGGEST PRICE FOR ONE OF
PRESIDENT WILSON.
In no case
There must inevitably at this stage of evolution exist people eager to criticize adversely new customs, new ideas, new fashions. The belief that the body is in some way shameful or disgraceful, that all modest-minded women should be covered from chin to the ends of upper and lower extremities is rooted in pre- jadice and prudery. Anybody who has travelled over the world and studied the morals and customs of different people in historical literature will admit this statemen. Let us admit aise that cloth-
ing is necessary for protection from the weather; desirable from the mesthetic point of view, and that moderation in dress, as in all things, is best for every- body...
4
But the danger in the past has been excess of clothing amongst children and adults alike. The skin kept entirely covered except for a few inches of face Toses its functions of efficient excretion and regulation of body temperature. The more we clathe ourselves the more
of apparel.
No fewer than thirty-six portraits painted by Sir William Orpen were sold
we feel the cold the more susceptible we are to changes of temperature and to finished-except were they carefully by auction at Christie's. physiognomically. For the rest, & few: chills. I have found children in the not including stockings and shoes. In strokes, of the brush provided a back- elementary schools wearing ten garments,
indication of garments or torso. ground, and there was, but the merest the nursery of the modern mother trained It would be hardly gratifying to e Conin hygiene a child wears four-articles servative, for example, to suggest that either the popularity or the distinction Amongst grownups also the_tendency of the sitters was represented by the to wear fewer clothes is hygienic, and the
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abolition of the corset or ita metamor- prices bid for the "portraits. Balfour" only fetched 200gs, while phosts into its modern light equivalent is health measure to the approved. The Mr. Lloyd George" realised 150g natural body, properly fed and sufficient Two factors entered into the bidding: ope the merit of the work, and the 17-exercised, does not require "support." other, that epme public body had inter- Paying the Pozalty. ested itself in the matter, as with the The middle-aged women have to pay. portrait of Louis Botha, which was the penalty of their corseted youth, as bought at 480ga, for the National Gallery many of them know too well, and the "at--Melbourne. The lowest price was girls of to-day will keep their health and 95gs. for Mr. George Barnes (member of their figures till the end by developing the War Cabinet from 1917), and the the body muscles so that they achieve highest price, by a long way, was 2600g the support of vital organs as nature -given for the portrait of the late Pre- intends Excessive heavy clothing causes
sident Wilson.
weariness and fatigue: the fewer and lighter and losser garments of the modern fashionable wardrobe make for activity, and exercise generates body heat, whilst thick clothing only prevents loss of heat and perspiration-moisture 'containing excretions from the skin-can- not freely escape, as it should do, from the body. Thus we should not criticise but approve the modern tendency to wear fewer and lighter garments.
MEXICO CITY, August 20th. President Calles, replying to the Arch- bishop's petition, said the liberties" sought were specifically defined in the Constitution, which he would obey till amended. He was unable himself, owing' to his political convictions, to submit to congress a bill for the modification of religious laws, but he would not binder the efforts of the Episcopate, if the latter tried to secure such an amendment,
Two deputies have been mortally wounded. Colonel Garcia was killed and M. Garrido, the x-Governor of Tabasca, waa wounded in the course of a ferce street, battle in a fashionable quarter in town yesterday at noon, as the result of a political squabble over the apportion. ment of sents in Congress.
About a score of deputies, participated. New York, August 18th. They stood on opposite sides of the road The American Charge d'Affaires and fired across, despite of the traffic, Managua reports that the Nicaragus Government is despatching troops in A woman in a motor-car was wounded. various directions to suppress revolu-Patrons of-an-exclusive cafe stampeded, when the bullets whizzed through the tionaries. Telegraphic and railway com munications are interrupted.
door and pedestrians fled to safety.
SENSATIONAL AFFAIR.
FURTHER ARRESTS IN AMERICAN AMERICA AND DISARMAMENT.
CASE.
M Clemenceau ................
Among other prices were:
Earl Beatty
Gs. 310
Maharajah of Bikanir Sir Robert Borden Viscount Cecil.
150
480
080 400
Lord, Derby
390
Emir Feisal
150
Col. T. E. Lawrence
360
180
Lord Hardinge, of Penshurst... 110 Col. House
Mr. W. M. Hughes "AL Paul Hymens
430 4.400
Mr. W. F. Massey
Lt. Col. Hankey
General Pershing Lord Reading ............... "General Smuts
Lard Summer .Sir F. Sykes
M. Venizelos........ Sir Joseph Ward Admiral Wemyss
260.
310
800
380
540
400
200
200
180'
300
380
F. M. Sir H. H. Wilson..... And an unnamed Assistant at the Con- ference, catalogued as "The Polish Mes- senger (with an Irish accent) "-400gs.
The total for 38 portraits amounted to about £14,000.
OLD-WORLD COTTAGES IN
BRITAIN.
CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THEM FROM DESTRUCTION,
The days of coddling are passing. We know now that the old methods of "keep- ing out the cold by shut windows, cur- tained beds, multiple heavy garments- did not prevent that dread disease, tuber- culosis, as our forbears believed. We know that draughts do not cause colds, that much food does not "keep up our strength; it makes our brains, dull, our bodies lumpy." In truth the tendency is towards ampler, more natural living for those who wish to be healthy.-Evening Standard.
GRAND SCALE FRAUDS.
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SWINDLER'S STAFF OF 200.
THOUSANDS DUPED.
BERLIN, July 20th. A man named Arthur Keil-bas-been arrested for swindling the Berlin public on a grand scale.
From magnificent offices with 20 rooms in the chief business street of the city and-from-16-branch offices-ha-sent-cut The Royal Society of Arta is organis-eirculars stating that by a careful system ing a campaign to save from destruction of betting on French races he could NEW Youx, August 19th. IMPORTANCE OF MR. KELLOGG'S some of the ancient cottages scattered guarantee bis clients gigantic profits, throughout Britain which add so much amounting to even 340 per cent., in ten SPEECH. Reports from Somerville, New Jersey,
days. to the countryside's charm
"Either through neglect or to make Thousands of dupes paid in their disclose a new sensation in the society
New-Yo22-August 19th
way for alleged improvements, many of money for the Kell Saving System." murder case in which wentthy widow named Mrs. Hall is charged with the murder of her late husband-s Rector- The re-action in Europe to Mr. Kel-
our loveliest cottages are threatened," Stamps bearing the head of Arthur Kei! places for affixing the stamps were issued. who died in 1922. The announcement is logg's Platsburgh speech on the Geneva said Mr. G. K. Menzies, the society's were sold at 6d apiece and cards with
secretary. now made that Mrs. Hall's brother, Preliminary Arms Conference will be We propose to convene a conference Ten per cont. a week was promised on named Willie Stevens, and her brother-
of all interested societies and individuals the sum represented by the stamps on in-law, named Henry Carpenter, are now watched with considerable interest here. held for trial by a Grand Jury on & The speech was prepared after consulta to see what can be done. Possibly a the cards.
scheme to subsidise landlords, enabling Not a single investor received a penny. charge of murder.
[Earlier reports stated that Mrs. Half tion with the members of the American them to get an economic rent for their To run the business Keil employed 200 from cottages, and thus preserve them, may be clerks, telephonists, and messengers, all was charged with the murder of her late delegation who had returned
formulated.
of whom had to deposit, sums ranging husband and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a beau-
At a recent meeting of the society Bir from £1 to £5. They have lost their tiful choir singer. During the hearing Geneva, and the final form was probably SAN FRANCISCO, August 19th.of a divorce suit by the husband of a approved by President Coolidge. Its Frank Baines, Director of Works at the money, and so have the lessors of the Six hundred men have made encourag former maid to Mr Hall, the man al-
extinction of local tradition in the furniture. in. Sequois. National Forest. The fares concealing from him her relations with fact that the speech was fully cabled to villages and countryside," and declared It is stated that Keil had £5 in his ing progress in fighting the forest fire leged that his wife had deceived him by significance is further emphasized by the Ofice of Works, spoke of the "consistent offices and the firms who supplied the that an ignorant lack of appreciation pocket when he started his scheme for jumped the Kawend River and burned the end received 45,00 for sale it all American diplomats in the major has been the cause of the loss of much extracting money from the pockets of
beautiful old work."
gullible Berliners. to the edge of the Muir Redwood Grove his wife for silence in
capitala connection with the murder.} of which most, however, was saved.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE] CALIFORNIAN FOREST FIRE.
A GRIM FIGHT.