COAL DISPUTE.
INTIMIDATION CHARGES.
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BOMB OUTRAGE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26TH 1926
TRAGEDY FOLLOWS UPON UNSUCCESSFUL THREAT.
UPROAR IN A BANK,
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BOY SCOUTS.
32 NATIONS REPRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.
GREAT ORGANISATION,
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PITTSBURG, August 24th. KANDERSTEG (Switzerland), Aug. 25th. His demand for $2000 being refused, The delegates of the thirty-two nations 4.man hurled a bomb in the Farmers' attending the Fourth International Con- Deposit Savings Bank, wrecking thegress of Boy Scouts, being held here this interior of the building, whose sixteen week, are very energetic. They have a
THE GREEK CRISIS.
CONDOURIOTIS RESUMES"
OFFICE.
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ATHENS, August 24th. Admiral Condouriotis resumed the Presidency of the Greek Republic to-day,
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GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
BERLIN August 24th. It is officially stated that the German
established that there will be no obstacles only go to Geneva when it is definitely
Lowpoy, August 24th. White, generally speaking, the number of miners at work continues to increase, there has been a decrease in the Mansfield district of the Notts conlheld, where picketing and intimidation are reported storeys rocked with the violence of the full programme of lestures, debates, con.delegation to the League of Nations will
explosion. The man's head was blown to have been most active and where
of two bank policemen were seriously
·large numbers of police are being drafted in to protect the mea willing to work.injured while another score of persons
were also injured.
Acts of open violence have been few, and hitherto the police have detained only. one man. Mr. Cook is 'said to have a good deal of solid support in this district where thousands of miners are attending meetings addressed by the leaders,
It is understood that the Privy Council will meet to-morrow'nt Balmoral Castle where the King has just arrived, to issue
Labouritics will try to induce Ministers to call a meeting with the miners or
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
QUESTION OF A PERMANENT SEAT ON THE COUNCIL.
WARSAW, August 25th.
shortly going to Geneva to attend the The Foreign Minister, M. Zaleski, is
meeting of the League of Nations. Poland's claim to a permanent seat on
carts, official dinners and mountain cursions.
to Germany's admittance.
ALTITUDE FIGURE BEATEN.
PARIS, Angust 24th. The aviator Calliro broke the height record, reaching 12,800 metres.
The airmen, Challe and. Van' Gauden-
General Baden Powell, in his opening speech, emphasise the importance of the movement in inculating the spirit of pence in the young," which was the only way to abolish war. The remarkable in- crease in the membership by ever three hundred thousand during the past two years, testibed to their successful pro-berg hopped off this morning in the direction of the Persian Gulf in an at- gregg.
Many messages of enthusiastic sym-tempt to break the record for flying in
a straight line.
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UNTON PROTEST.
a proclamation of emergency and a Pro- the Council is generally urged in the pathy with the movement have been re- clamation re-calling Parliament on Mon- newspapers. The Radical journal Glasceived here from twelve Governments, day for a brief sitting to confirm the pawdy, which is understood to be in including those from Sir Austen Cham Emergency Regulations. A lively debate touch with Marshal Pilsudski, says thatberlain, Baron Shideharn while General is expected, and it is understood that the it will be better for Poland to withdrag Bruce, of Mount Everest fame, who is LABOUR FOR BRITISH EMBASSY' from the League than to accept an empty here, is taking particular interest in the compromise on the subject of the re- Scouts Alpine Club, of which the Prince
Council. The of Wales is a member. organisation of the Dziranik poznunaki, the organ of the Posen farmers, declares that Poland can. not be content with anything less than a permanent seat as in the case of Ger- many. The Conservative Czar says that Roland's position will be improved if Spain insists upon having a permanent
owners.
POLICE PATROLLING ROADS. LONDON, August 24th. Hundreds of policemen are patrolling the road leading to Mansfield colliery mut there have been few incidents al
though the miners are most resentful at the presence of extra police." The pitsi at Mansfield this afternoon were deserted by almost all the men who worked, over the week-end, only 257 working in the Bolsover Colliery according to the coal. owners and only forty according to the men's leaders. The miners officials in Midlothian deny there has been any breakaway.
"MINER'S AGENT FINED.
LATER Willian Knight Smith, a miner's
"scat.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.} BRITISH AIR LINERS.
SPLENDID SEVEN YEARS'
RECORD.
Roger, August, 24th. The cross-Channel air, services celebrate their seventh birthday to-morrow. British air liners have in tha, time lown over 7.000.000 miles, whilst 100,000 passengers have been carried across the Channel, to
THE FRANC FORGERIES.
JUDGMENT CONFIRMED.
BUDAPEST, August 24th. The Appeal Court has confirmed the
AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, August 24th. There is the possibility of a boycott of British goods by American organised labour unless the new British Embassy building, on which work is about to be commenced, is built by union labour. This was indicated to-day when Mr.
FAR". EASTERN NEWS.
CABLE
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WOOSUNG FORTS.
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PRESSING FORWARD REPAIRS: NEW GUNS TO BE MOUNTED.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT'S MILITARY' FORCE, “-
SHANGHAI, August 23th.
It is reported that instructivas have at Woosung Forts, and new guns are to been given to press forward the repairs
be mounted. Only one regiment of the Allied troops, the thirteenth, is in Shanghai district and it is said that this force has been notified that they may be
elsewhere. required for service"
Yesterday Lu Hsiang Ting, the Tupon of Chikiang, passed through Shanghai on his way to Nanking in order to confer with Sun Chpan Fang,
CHINA'S LOANS.
PROTEST BY THE U.S. FOREIGN OFFICE
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PEKINO, August 25th. The American Legation has noted that the Foreign Office is protesting, on be half of American creditors, against the Froposed issue of Domestic Loan Bands for twenty-five million dollars, which it understands the Chinese Government intends to securę - on approximately. eleven million dollars presently paid from the Maritime Customs Revenue for service of the Ninth Year Domestic Loan,
"NO METER.
CHINESE CHARGED WITH STEALING GAST
$500 BAIL.
A charge of unlawfully using gas, with- (out having a meter installed on his pre- mises, was brought against a Chinese of No. 938, Canton Road, before Mr. J. H. B. Nihil, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
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Mr. E. C. Macnamara appeared for the Hongkong Gas Company and Mr. J. Gordon-Leask represented the defendant, Sergeant Smith said that he went,
accompanied by Mr. Blackburn, the manager, of the Gas Company, to defen- dant's house. Pipes were found leading from an office into a kitchen were seven large boilers, each of which had a gas jet
underneath, were discovered..
Mr. Blackburn said that each jet would consume 10 cubic feet of gas per hour, and if the burners were used for twelve hours a day they would consumed gas worth from $230 to 8300, per month. He considered that the jets and boilers had been used for a considerable time.
Mr. Leask said that the defendant denied being master of the house. He asked for nominal bail.
Bail was fixed at $500, and the case was adjourned until Saturday.
DAMAGE TO LORRY..
COOLIES WHO MEDDLED WITH GEARS.
A coolie in the employ of the Sang Lee contracter was charged heiere Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy
judgment of the court on all points Miller, Chairman of the Adjustment which is due to become extinguished next yesterday with damaging a P.W.D. lorry
the case of the franc forgeries, mention: ed on May 26th. The sentences on M. Guros, Adviser to the Geographical In- stitute, and M. Raba, 'former Secretary to
Committee of the, Central Labour Union, declared that the Union would circularise American organised labour.
year,
to the extent of 870 by tampering with the gears while the vehicle was loading earth at Stubbs Road.
Defendant pleaded that he knew very
little about a motor engine, but he had
bean in the habit of assisting the lorry
The Legation points out that debts dye to American citizens and organisations The trouble began because an English are entitled to priority over debts sub- Prince Windischgraetz, have, however, man who has accumulated a fortune insequently contracted, respecting the use been reduced from two years to eighteen Washington by successful real estate of any Customs Surplus Funds, which drivers by cranking the engines. On this building operations was engaged to build may be available as a result of the retire the new building and it is alleged that ment of loans hitherto secured thereon. he always employed non-Union labour. it is nuderstood that a protest-has-al- ready been lodged with the British Ambassador and that requests have been
months and from eighteen months to a year's imprisonment, respectively.
[The telegram of May 28th stated: Sentence of ten years penst servitude have been passed on the ex-Chief of Police: Nadosy and Prince Windischgraetz and two years on Geroe, the adviser to the Cartographical Institute in connection
agent, has been fined £30, with the alter- gether with £17,000,000 worth of goods, with the forged.franc nctè affair: Two cabled to the Council of the British
native of 18 days' imprisonment, at Swadlincote for distributing a statement calentated to impede the supply of coal, by publishing a resolution of the Joint South Derbyshire Board of Deputies, Miners and Enginemen, threatening, in certain circumstances, to withdraw the safety men from the mines.
Six Notts miners were remanded at Ilkeston on a charge of intimidation. After listening to a speech by Mr. Cook they met two colliers and threw one into
a canal.
(KRITISH WIRELESS SZAVICE.)" PARLIAMENT TO BE SUMMONED.
REGEY, August 24th.
OBITUARY.
SAVING AEROPLANES.
NEW PARACHUTE TESTED.
including £10,000,000 of gold bullion. other members of the Cartographical In-Trader Union Congress urging the use The Arogress made in air transport stitute, Windischgraetz's Secretary, Raba, of efforts to have the new Embassy built
and other accused have been sentenced since the first-passenger-machine-flow-to--to-between-16-months and one month's by Union workers. Paris from Hounslow, on August 25th, imprisonment. Baross, the Director of
the Savings Bank, and Szoertoye, Vice.... 1919, is shown not only by the growth in Director of the National Union, have the size of aeroplanes, but by the greater been acquitted.] regularity of the service. The first air- craft was a converted. war aeroplane, driven by a single Rolls-Royce engine of 200 h.p., and, as the traffic grew, it was followed-in-1923-by-14-seater-passenger. machines, which, although only fitted with two Rolls-Royce engines of 360 h.p., carried seven times the number of pas sengers.
This year has seen the biggest step forward, when the Imperial Airways Parliament will be summoned for next superseded their single-engined aircraft Monday to confirm the Emergency Reby putting inte service the first of the _galationa_for_a_further period, pending Leater Armstrong Whitworth Argosy the continuance of the coal strike. The airliners, which, fitted with three en- business is not expected to take more thun two days.,
LATER.
gines of 400 h.p. each, are designed to fly in case of emergency with cne engine out of action.
A GREAT IRISH PARLIAMEN
TANIAN.
LONDON, August 24th. The death has occurred, in Dublin, of Professor John Gordon Swift MacNeill, K.C.
Los ANGELES, August 24th. A parachute, fifty feet in diameter, which has been invited by a zaval engineer for the saving of aeroplanes, has been successfully tested. It brought safely to "earth an aeroplane from a height of 2,500 feet. The machine landed on the side of a hill and sustained a smashed propellor. But otherwise it was undamaged.
CINEMA "STAR'S" DEATH.
BODY LIES IN STATE.
occasion the engine refused to start and he moved a lever which made the lorry run backward and damage another lorry standing further down. The driver of the lorry admitted that defendant had fre- quently done the cranking for him.
HUPEH'STUPAK.
WHY HE WISHES TO RESIGN.
PEKING, August 25th.
His Worship thought that the action Chen Chia Mu is believed to be on the was one for the Summary Court to decide point of resigning his Tupanship. This if the contractors refused to pay cem- action is interpreted in Hankow as a pensation and discharged the defendant. "face-saving." measure in view of the Cantonese invasion of Hupeh.
OBITUARY.
SHANGHAI, August 25th. Mr. Chang Chien, a well-known Non- tungchow industrial leader.
* A.P.C. MAN RELEASED.
NO DETAILS.
SHANGHAI, August 25th.
ALIVE TWO YEARS AFTER DEATH.
MAN WHOSE HEART STOPPED.
SURGICAL MARVEL.
Ex-Company Sergeant-Major W. G. 8. Newman, of Richmond-terrace, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, is alive and well now, The Asiatic Petroleum Company re- although two years ago his heart stop ports that Mr. J. W. Moore, the Com-ped beating, and for some minutes he pany's installation manager at Changsha, was dead to all intents and purposes. recently captured by 'bandits, has been released. No details are to hand.
Mr. Newman read in the papers the
[It was reported on the 14th inst. that extraordinary "story, of Mrs. Adelaide Mr. Moore had been taken by bandits on Wardell, who was revived from the dead the previous day, and that later-a-de-for-thirty hours by heart massage,-and. mand was sent to the Company's Charg
sha office for $40,000, otherwise the cap- then died. tive would be killed forthwith.]
AGED ACTOR'S LAMENT. YOUNG MEN OF TO-DAY CANNOT DECLAIM.
(Professor Swift MacNeil was a strik. ing personality who for many years Agured prominently in British, and par ticularly Irish, politics. The deceased, who was born in Dublin on March 11th, 1649, was educated at Trinity College, Honours in Classics), and at Christ Dublin (where he secured three First Church, Oxford (Classical Exhibition), Final School Law and Modern History, 2nd Class Classical Mods., 1870, 2nd Class 1872, and M.A.; 1875. He received first SITUATION IMPROVING.
place and first Exhibition at the final
NEW YORK, August 24th." examination for call to the Irish Bar in Arrangements have also been completed 1875, and was Profressor of Constitu An enormous crowd in the pouring The situation in the coalfields appears for extending British air lines outside tioanl and Criminal Law at King's, Ina,rain awaited admittance to the mortuary chapel where the body of the late to be improving. Everything is report-Europe, and the Imperial Airways will Dublin, from 1882 to 1839.
Elected Nationalist M.P. for South ed as quiet at the Notts coalfield this open on January 1st the Cairo-India air Donegal in 1887, he held the seat until Rudolph Valentino lies in state. The crush was so great that hundreds of morning. The police at Mansfield report route via Baghdad, Basra and the Per-1018. He was severely criticised and caricatured for protesting in the House
women fainted and a heavy plats glass that no pickets were on the streets and sian Gulf.
of Commons against the cession of there were more miners returning to No passenger has been killed or injur Heligoland to Germany, 1890; proposed window at the Broadway entrance was
motion disallowing votes of directors of work. The figures for the Bolsovered since 1924 in British machines on con-
Mombasa Railway which resulted in deshed. Three women and three police-home is called; is Mr. Alfred Denville, group of pits were 2,441 at this morn-tinental services, although they have car-feat of Unionist Government, 1809; was en were gashed with the broken glass.
commended by Sir H. Campbell Banner- ing's shift, compared with 1,450 yester-ried 85 per cent. of the total traffic.
man, as Premier, in the House of Com- day morning. Three pits have been
mons for his success in procuring, "after opened in this ares.
HOME
SECRETARY'S
DETERMINATION.
LONDON, August 24th
www.
(THROUGH ALUTER'8" AGENCY.]
RUSSIA'S ARMY.
IMPORTANT RE-ORGANISATION
CHANGES...
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RUBBER ESTATE,
LIBERIA.
About 20 aged actors and actresses, have found a haven for the rest of their lives in 4 home opened at Northwood, Middle sex, by the Princess Royal.
The founder of Denville Hall, as the
Mrs. 'Wardell's heart had stopped for five minutes when it re- started.
Mr. Newman forwarded the following atatement for publication, which has been verified in every detail by oficials at Westminster Hospital and by the surgeon concerned :-~~
"On August 25th, 1924, I was taken to the operating theatre in Westminster Hospital, London, and while the paxes- thetic was being given my heart stopped beating. The surgeon, Dr. Tudor Ea- wards, who was going to perform the
the actor manager, and trustees with him operation, took the same steps precisely
include Lady Wyndham, Sir Gerald' du as were taken in the case of Mrs. War- Maurier, and Mr. Robert Courtneidge. dell-heart massage. Instead, however, The oldest man in the home, Mr. Terry of remaining unconscious until death
prietor and manager of the Theatre I recovered-consciousness, and was de Royal, Yarmouth, is in spite of his 8clared out of all danger on the 30th of He the same month. I am walking about years, upright and bright of eye. commented on some of the young actors this day, just two years since the miracle who play to-day in one-man casta-with- was performed.
"I might here state that after sl experience or good elocution-men Heart Massage. who cannot declaim five lines in the proper style.
As for your revues," he said to a known methods had been tried to revive Daily Mail reporter, I would not go respiration, as a last resort an incision fur the purposes of heart message, wis to see one if I were naked. You may made in my chest-I carry the scar to call me blasé. But how hard it is to find a good leading man to-day. Few this day. Dr. Tudor Edwards then in- of the present generation of leading serted his hand, and from that moment actors have gone through the routine we until my heart started beating again bad-the long, dreary days of hard work, was one and a half minutes. New, Yoan, August 24th.
which along give one the necessary ex- So, if you take the time required for Mr. Henderson, President of the "Newperience.
external methods together with the in- York Rubber Exchange who has just I WB a great admirer of Mrs. tornál method, I was lying dead, for! returned from England, urges Ameri- Kendal one cannot find anyone who can about the same time as Mrs. Wardell, cans to forget their ill-feeling against cqual her magnificent enunciation and the only difference being that I am alive Britain, as he believes the curtailment have her charming facial expression.'
U.S. AND RUBBER.
years of agitation, the abolition of FIRESTONE DIRECTOR GOING TO Hurst, who from 1870 to 1888 was pro- finally took place, as did. Mrs., Wardell, flogging in the Royal Navy, 1906; by repeated motions in the House of Com- mona established the principle that the
NEW YORK, August 24th position of Minister of the Crown is in- compatible with the holding of director directors of the Firestone Tyre and Mr. Harvey Firestone, one of the ships in Public Companies; proposed a motion with reference to the conduct of Rubber Company, has sailed on the the trial of the Great Yarmouth. Elec Olympic, accompanied by his wife. They tion Petition, 1008; was one of the seven expect to embark at Liverpool for members of the House of Commons who Liberie, where they will live on a two constitute the Committee of Privileges, thousand acre rabber plantation 1008; and by persistent questions to Miniters in the House of Commons from November, 1914, pressed the Government to introduce the legislation embodied in The central administration of the Bed The Titles Deprivation Act, 1917. The Army has been re-organised, the Chief deceased has been Professor of Con- Inspection Board, the Administration stitutional Law and of the Law of Pub of the Military Schools and Military lie and Private Wrongs since 1909, Clerk Topographical Department and
the of Convocation since 1910, and Dean of Army Staff being unified, M. Bergius the Faculty of Law, National University Kameneff, a member of the revolutionary of Ireland, since 1919. Military Council and Chief Inspector of the Red Army has been appointed Head of the Central Administration, and M. Levitchef ex-fied of her resis Ad ministration prior to the reorganisation has been appointed to succeed M. Kameneff in his previous post.
Moscow, August 24th. It is understood that the Home Office
M. Zoff, a member of the Revolutionary bus drawn up plans for the movement
Military Council and Chief of the of farge numbers of police from London Military and Naval Forces of the Red and other unaffected areas to the coal fleet has been superseded by M. Mukle fields. A high oficial at the Home Office vitch, former Acting Chief of the Mili- stated that the Home Secretary is deter-tary and Air Forces. mined that the utmost possible protec- tion shall be provided to anyone willing to work and every effort will be made to combat with intimidation. The Home Office reports showed that the stories of intimidation and violence are exaggerat ed, but undoubtedly the situation was very difficulty. There was no question of terference by any other bodies than
the police.
SOUND ADVICE.
now.
He was the author of numerous book of rubber export cannot be construed as Anather of the little band, Mr. Frank The last thing I recollect before on politics and constitutional law, deal being aimed against America. He de- Melrose, who is nearly 81, played with losing consciousness was that they had ing especially with Irish affairs, his clares that the British do not desire i lending stars" of his day-Mr. John not given me enough anesthetic. I was latest being "Studies in the Constitution repetition of last year's market but wish Bare, Miss Olga Nethersole, and Mr thinking this, when-being !--something of the Irish Free State" and "What I to foster stabilisation for the benefit of Leslie Fthered States in ne le atted exploded. The next thing I remember Have Been and Heard,” both of which the rubber industry throughout the in the United States-in nearly every was looking round in bed and seeing my were published last year.]
world.
State in the Union..
neighbours about to have their dinner.”