BRITAIN'S MEMÖRAN- DUM TO CHINA.
PRESS COMMENT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
NICARAGUA'S CIVIL WAR.
A TRUCE TO BURY THE DEAD.
WHAT LONDON, NEW YORK AND NEUTRAL ZONES ESTABLISHED..
PARIS PAPERS STATE.
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LONDON, December 29th. Comment is published in the morning newspapers on the British Memorandum,
[REUTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICE]
Masagna, December 19th.
A truce has been agreed upon by the rival Nicaraguan factions in order to bury the dead killed in the four days'
BETWEEN LONDON AND NEW YORK.
WIRELESS TELEPHONY READY FOR PUBLIC SERVICE.
KING AND PRESIDENT TO CONVERSE.
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LONDON, December 25th..
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2918,
TRAPPED IN A RING
OF FIRE.
OIL EMPLOYEES DESPERATE FIGHT FOR LIFE.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SHAVICH)
VENTURA, CAL, December 29th Trapped in a ring of fire, 400 feet aeross, a number of employees of the General Petroleum Company perished in a desperate fight for life when they
ALLEGED POISONING OF 100 PERSONS.
STARTLING CHARGÉ BY NEW YORK CITY MEDICAL OFFICERS.
FREUTER'S. AMERICAN SERVICE:]
WASHINGTON, December sath New York City medical officers recently alleged the poisoning of nearly 100 per sans of whom to have so far died, mostly due to the Federal Government's use of
Our London Letter.
MINERS RUSHING BACK TO WORK.
FAREWELL OF DOMINION PREMIERS,
[FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDENT.]
LONDON, December 4th. This week as I write the miners are tumbling over each other to get back to
Wireless telephony between London'sad found their escape cut off by a wall of wood alcohol in the denaturing of grain the pits in time to save their jobs. They The Morning Post declares that the fighting, with heavy losses on both sides. New York will possibly be opened for Sames, and their clothing soaked with alcohol for industrial purposài. The are all returning on district settlements
It is stated that the Liberals, aided by Mexican volunteers, forced the Con
servative Government troops.. to with draw to Bluchelds.
document is both a plain statement of the British policy towards Ching and cordial invitation to other interested Powers to manifest an equal consistency in their dealings with the Chinese people "The British Government, in this Memoranda, frankly recognises that the Cantonese Nationalist alms are inspired hy a legitimate desire for the indepen-neutral zones. He declares that both dence of China wherewith the, Govern- Liberals and Conservatives must evacuate gment has always been in sympathy."
Admiral Lattimer, Commanding the United States warships in Nicaraguan waters, reports that the districts of Euerto Cabezas, Rio Grande, El Bluff and Bluefields have been established as
Washington Opinion.
public service early in the New Year, petroleum. Some dashed to safety and Government chemists state according to the Westminster Gazette emerged blazing from head to
that the foot. Government are not responsible for such The paper understands that His Majesty Three of them fell inside the ring and deaths, since only two per cent, of wood proached with a view to inaugurating the badly burned that their lives are despair-employed by them. and President Coolidga are being ap- perished while three others were so alcohol, which is not a fatal dose, were service by conversing with each othered of House. from Buckingham Palace and the White
LONDON TO INDIA.
THE NEW AIR SERVICE,
MARSEILLES, December 27th.
with Sir Samuel and Lady Hoare aboard, The third Cairo-Karachi aeroplane, arrived at 3.48 this afternoon.
THE YAUMATI BLAZE...
CHARRED REMAINS OF BODY FOUND.
THE SHEIK IN REAL LIFE.
YOUNG ENGLISHWOMAN'S AFRICAN EXPERIENCES.
Miss Minty Lamb, the niece and adopt ed daughter of the late George R. Sims, at is probably the youngest public lecturer in Great Britain.
She recently returned from a two years' expedition through South and East Africa, where she was the first woman to lecture at Rhodes University at Grahams- town.
the
that is to say, terms arranged between District settlement was one thing Mr. the colliery owners and the ment. A. J. Cook, the Secretary of the Miners'
Federation, declared the men would never accept. They would die first. Another was reduction of the seven hours day. But on both points he and his Bolshevist colleagues of the Federation have been hopelessly beaten, and the Federation as a national organisation with power entitling it to negotiate on behalf of all the men engaged in the coalfields at Britain, has crumbled. Some think i will never rise again.
this territory or disarm. He urges the The Daily Mail describes the proposals establishment of other neutral zones, 10 an, on the whole, moderate and judicious that the whole of the east coast may. and says they can be accepted as a fair be neutral. Thus President Diaz's Gov- statement of the principles which should crament will be relieved of the respon be followed in Britain's dealings with sibility of protecting the towns therein. China Referring to the seizures and surtaxes, the newspaper declares that it may be wise to recognise the realities of the case and abandon contractual privi leges, which we admit are indefensible. Such an arrangement will be justified if it can form the basis for regulárising the certain Members of Congress as making to Karachi-will open up a bow Empire on a third floor verandah which stili ia architecture. Each room of his bon the State. But the country was proof
position of Canton.
The Daily Telegraph declares that the experience of the Peking Customs Con- ference has been intentionally disregard- ed in the Memorandum, and adds that. so far as the primary intention of the
Tariff Confereute is concerned it is
already broken beyond repair, Any rehash of the eternal treadmill of self- -interest and misunderstanding will only result in widening the breach which that unfortunate conference dug between a friendly nation and the rest of the
world."
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The test development in the Civil War of Nicaragua, where the Conser
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vative Government forces are now ported as retreating, is" regarded by
Sir Samuel Hoare stated that the journey was progressing most antisfac torily under very good conditions. The acroplane will leave early in the morning.
"[3X1TIBI - WIRELESS. SERVICE) A New Empire Air Route,
RUGBY, December 28th. The later stage of the flight-from Cairo
the recent landing of the United States air route between Egypt and India marines on the east east of Nicaragua Two other machines designed for the new embarrassing to the United States Gor-week, and the first of these, in which service started on the journey last
the Director of Civil Aviation, Sir Sefton Brancker, is travelling, has left Egypt for Palestine. On reaching Bagh
ernment.
What Senator Borah Thinks,
The amount of the damage due to the big blaze at Yaumati on Monday night bas bot yet been estimated. Four of the Eve houses involved in this block of ten
Lane, have been gutted Nos. 30 and 39 four-storeyed dwelling houses at the corner of Temple Street and Wing Sang were entirely burnt out from the ground floor to the top floor. No. 3s is without its third or top storey, the roof having fallen in, the lower floors were dam aged by water. No. 28, had its two upper floors and the roof burat through Aboat eleven o'clock yesterday morn ing, the charred remains of a Chines were discovered in the rains-but it is impossible to say whether it was a man or a woman who was burst. This was remains attached to one of the gutted houses in the centre of the block. The remains were removed to the Mortuary.
There is still considerable doubt as to how the fire originated, or exactly where it started. Various stories are to the effect that it started in the joss paper
upset a kerosene lamp on an upper Loor.
At Mombasa she was entertained to tea by Ali Bin Salin, the Sheik who repre- sents the Sultan of Zanzibar.. Na
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Unfortunately, for my romantic re collections, the Sheik was quite bald and rather elderly, with ultra-modern tastes stands hundreds of yards from the other at the extremes of shady palm and mango groves,” said Misa Lamb în presa inter- view.
in recent years the Federation was to all intents and purposes a political body, and the Communists cleverly got control of it. They used it to further their plans to bring about the nationalisation of the mining industry by first ruining the industry so that the State would be. forced to assume control. That was the beginning of a strategic attack upon all capitaliste a means fowards the great end of Communism, which of course is, to get rid of private enterprise and place the whole business of production, dis tribution and exchange in the hands of against all the arts and shifts and con- Cook is the most miserable and dis trivances of the revolutionaries; and Mr. credited specimen of humanity to be found anywhere to-day in the British
At Kampala she was recorded a Jales. tom-tom welcome by the Kabaka, a royal personage whose great-grandfather,
Hapnington half a century agɔ, ·
Duped and Misiaad.
Senator Borah, Chairman of the "For dad he will await the arrival of Sir er fire-cracker skop, or, that a teaant Mwanga, ordered the murder of Bishop rushing back this week. They have of
eign Affairs Committee of the Senate, American business ten are anxious to in a statement says that a section of
embroil the United States with Mexico through Nicaragua.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOUBLE TAXATION. AMERICA TO TAKE PART AT GENEVA.
WASHINGTON, December 28th. The White House has decided that the United States will participate in the International Conference on double taxa tion in international business, opening at Geneva on January 5th. Adams, of Yale University, will represent the United States.
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U.S. AND MEXICO.
Professor
EXCHANGE COURTESIES.
The Daily Chronicle hopea the state- ment will help to dispel the false impres sion of British policy, which have prevail- ed in China, causing anti-British feeling.
The Manchester Guardian, în editorial, says that if the British Govern ment courageously persists in the spirit of its Note to the Powers with regard to China the chance of coming to some honourable and satisfactory arrangement "with China is better than for a long time past. The whole Note breather the spirit of moderation and wisdom, which
Mkxico City, December 29th. is as humane and as politic as the British. Government in effect asking the Canton American Army aeroplanes, making the Major Dargue, commander of the five Government to come to a sensible interim arrangement until some authority has 18,500 inile Pan-American Bight, present definitely established itself as the Goverted a letter from President Coolidge to ment of China. That is a fair offer, and if the Cantonese are confident of their power to seize Shanghai and Peking they may be willing to accept it, but Nation- alists in a hurry are not always content. with what is reasonable. Possibly the British proposals will meet with delays. owing to disagreements with the Powers. If it proves impossible to maintain a united front among the Powers, one gains the impression that Britain is no longer willing to abandon its view point simply for the sake of unanimity,
New York Opinion.'
NEW YORK, December 28th. The British Memorandum to China has been well received in the United States judging by the newspaper comment.
The New York World declares that the Memorandum shows a liberal policy combined with good sense, and states that the British are realistic enough to recognise that the day of illiberal policy in the Far East has gone for ever.
Samuel Hoare.
The Air Minister's machine made a good light to Marseilles yesterday and to-day will proceed to Naples.
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FRANCE'S POPULATION.
THE CENSUS RETURNS.
PARIS, December 27th. The returns of the recent census have been published. They show that France's total population in 1926 amounts to 40,743,851, including 2,488,230. foreigners. March, 1921, was 30,209,668,]
The population at the census taken in
WOMAN SPY'S EXPLOITS, A PRINCE DOUBLY HOODWINKED.
It is possibly in some reparation for that deed that there is to be found in these days a mission upon every hill in the capital; and the work of the Engliab missionaries is accorded royal patronage. Bat queer notions of death still prevail there. In the tomb of a dead Royalty, usually a large elephant-grass hut, it customary to find, living composedly and fully resigned to their fate around the
I have mentioned that the miners are course been going back for some time, hundreds daily at first, and then by thousands, so that now there are over million men getting coal. In some districts where Cookiam dies hard attempts are still made to stop them, but the men treat the pickets with scorn. The miners have shewn the most wonderful
half
loyalty to the Federation leaders through- cut the struggles and it is quite im- possible to withhold admiration for their constancy. But their eyes have been opened at last, and they are beginning to realise that they were duped and mislead. This is the most hopeful augury for the future.
Some of the ingenious methods employ ed by French women acting as British spies during the war are revealed in The Story of Louise de Bettignies," by Antoine Redier (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d).
Louise de Bettignies, & young French dimly lit grave all the wives still left alive, the old Primo Minister and caun. girl of good family, for long organised a British intelligence Service behind the cors and others who once served the German lines on the northern sector of dead Kabaka and who still serve his the British Western front. M. Redierpirit. states that it was owing to the regular information she ensured that the British were able totally to destroy all the Ger BULLION FROM 120 YEAR OLD Parliament dealing with Trade Unions
man batteries near Lille between May and August.
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By the end of the war the method of
WRECK.
carrying written reports had been re- REGISTRAR AND AN UNSCRUPU duced to a fine art
THE STALWART SEX.
DOCTOR PRAISES SHORT SKIRT|··
· SLEEVES AND HAIR.
Are present-day fashions responsible
National Union of Societies for Equal for the improved health of women i
Dr. Jane Walker, at a meeting of the Citizenship in London, declared that
they were.
President Calles, who wisted the flyers
Dr. Walker said that there were two success and hoped that friendly Americo-million more women than men in this Mexican relations would continue.
country, and there were more widows than widowers. This showed that women were more stalwart than men, and had greater vitality.
AMERICA'S NAVY.
A SENATOR'S REMARKABLE
VIEWS.
ASSERTS THAT $400,000,000 WANTED.
· New Yoax, Desember 27th. In a speech Senator Butler vehemently declared that he would persevere vigor. ously with his endeavours to force Congress to adopt the Naval Committee's programme.
He asserted that the United States must build virtually a new navy at a cost of over $400,000,000. A high-speed race for naval, supremacy, is proceeding between the nations and we are not in the race. When we scrapped over $300,000,000 worth of the finest warships ever designed we willingly and graceful- ly dethroned ourselves from the potential position of Mistress of the Seas, and now we are a poor third and likely to be fourth."
He declared that Americans had been fooled. Their trusting good nature had.
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LATE EMPEROR OF JAPAN. BODY BROUGHT TO THE CAPITAL
"In addition there is much more tuberculosis among men than women.
Hey, year women tend to get stronger she declared. Their skimpy skirts, their short sleeves and bobbed hair are far more suitable than the baggy trousers and flappy coats of the men."
Women must make up their minds to stand together upon their feet.
oficial
3,000 Words on an Eye-Glass, Three thousand words could be written on a pellicle ao larger than an eye-glass. The inscription was invisible, and the transparency of the pellicie perfect. It and was often stack on a pair of spectacles, even on to the passport photo graph, and the Secret Service agent had the joy of seeing the German stamp it.
Many hiding places were discovered for the secret missives-umbrella bardles, lighted candles in cart lanterns, handles of bags Sometimes, the secret message was inserted inside the shoe laces, and sometimes it was made into a tiny bail with a black thread tied to it. In case of alarm the ball could be thrown away, and the end of the thread could be kept between the fingers.
LOUS ADVENTURER.
If the Government is wise no time will Le lost in overhauling the Acts of
so sa to give the members of the Unions complete independence from political pressure. Originally. the Trade Unions were benefit, societies carried on in the interests of the workers who belonged, and they were concerned with safe- In the London Bankruptcy Court re- guarda regarding the conditions of em cently on the hearing before Mr. Regis ployment. But in recent years part of tra France of an application for the funds subscribed have been ear discharge by Edwin Elinzar Polack, marked as a political levy, which has described as late of 1. Charing Cross, meant in practice that, in the first place W.C. director of "public companies, the the extremiste or wild men Oficial Receiver reported that Mr. Polack Reds, or Communists, as they are had been interested in negotiation of variously called, got control of the contracts for the shipment of coal from executive positions in the Unions and the U.S.A, the raising of loans for the afterwards proceeded to use the funds for Government of Angola, and salvage the furtherance of their revolutionary operations for the recovery of bullion and aima specic from H.M.S. Anton, a wooden frigate wrecked in Mounts Bay in 1807.
The order of adjudication was made in November 1922 Proofs of debt amount ing to £35,713 had been lodged against the estate. The assets were valved by Mr. Polack at £165,110, but it appeared that the only eam realised was £1 or £3, being the rebate on an insurance policy.
Nothing of value had been recovered and the work was auspended owing to as the result of the salvage operations lack of capital. The Admiralty declined
Saved by Ball of Wool, One day, the chief lieutenant of Louise. Dr. Walker also asked why women. working in the factory should be madell her clothing carefully examined; yet a girl named Charlotte, was arrested, and to do fire drill while men were exempted the secret message she carried was not intelligent Could it be that the men were more found. It was hidden inside a ball of to renow Mr. Polack's contract, but the
wool with which she was knitting.
estimated proceeds of the operations, if Louise once persuaded Prince Rup-successful, namely £50,000, were all treat precht of Bavaria that phe bad beaten ed as available as assets in the bank him at Bridge at the house of a com ruptcy._ mon friend in Bohemia, and he helped her to get through the lines to the British yet she was carrying din her the number and position of Prince Rupprecht's batteries. Louise was finally arrested by the Ger- mans towards the end of 1915 and ren- tenced to death. The sentence was never carried out, but she died in prison at
"Do not let us," she said, “be hypnotised into thinking our place is always second place, and that men's place must always be the first place."
OCEAN'S MILE-DEEP BED.
AMERICAN EXPLORATION PLAN.
...
CARDINAL AND PARIS. MIDINETTES.
employed by the fashion houses are The Paris midinettes, us the workgirls called, now have their private chapel which was inaugurated on November sth by Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, in the Church of Notre Dame de Bonne Nouvelle,
The New York Times expresses the opinion that the document, indicates a completo disavowal of force for settling the Chinese dificulty and ends, the grotesque picture painted by some ill- informed friends of China of predatory nations eagerly awaiting the chance to 80% them into trouble and it would re- Dr. William Beebe, Director of Re-Cologne in the latter part of 1918. pounce down upon China and despoil her. quire fifty warships to bring the United search for the New York Zoological So This paper adds that it could not States up to her place. Whether the pre-ciety, proposes to explore the bed of the imagine a more patient or a more forbear sent Artament Pact would be renewed ocean af a depth of one mile or more, and ing policy than that marked out by the-when it expired in 1932 and the terms says that there is a suitable place for of the renewal depended on the potential | the experiment within forty miles of New British Government."!"
naval strength the United States could York. A steel tank or cylinder of suit show them. So the United States must able dimensions is being built for Dr. Beebe, the walls being thick enough to withstand any possible pressure a mile below the surface of the sea. Dr. Beebe says that he will make his own oxygen inside the cylinder. He hopes to be con nected with the surface by means of a telephone, and will dictate a running story of his descent to e stenographer TOKYO, December 27th- describing what he sees through a little estimated at fully one million, flanking glass window.
Passing through immense croyds
His theory is that there in much the the route, which was lined by about 15,000 same ocean life at a depth of a male troops, the Imperial cortege, conveying beneath the surface in all parts of the the late Emperier's remains, proceeded sea, irrespective of latitude or longitude. to the Palace after arrival at Tokyo this Dr. Beebe will take with him a hand evening from Hayama.
motion picture camera, and expects that An impressive silence marfed the the sale of the pictures will, defray the whole proceedings, crowds standing or expense of his expedition. The New kneeling barehended in the darkness and York Zoological Society has not yet. cold of the winter's night whilst the dim officially approved the proposal, but is flickering light from lanterns carried by said to be anxious to facilitate any plan the police added to the impressiveness which may be likely to add to the world's and solemnity of the scena
store of scientific knowledge.
French Presa Comment.
Pani, December 28th. According to the Petit Parisien the Ministerial Council will examine the British Memorandum to China this mern- ing
་་ ་ . The Matin says Britain has made very definite concessions to the Cantonese and adds Doubtless Mr. Miles" Lampson, in his recent conversations with Mr. Eugene Chon proposed that Britain would recognise the Canton Government. provided the Nationalists undertook to abolish fikin, that the Cantonese refused point blank, and thus the British Govern ment, finding itself unable to achieve anything alone, urges the other Powers to lend support.
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The Figaro says the British policy shows a peaceful and conciliatory spirit The latest proposals have not come too late, though the Figaro is of opinion that both the Nationalists of the North and the South will probably reject them,
The Registrar described Mr. Polack`as reckless and unscrupulous adventurer, There were in all three bankruptcies, be said. This was the case of a debtor who should not be allowed to incur liabilities again as a discharged bankrupt, and his discharge would be refused.
REPAIRING PARLIAMENT.
TO COST £1,062,350 AND TWELVE"
· YEARS' WORK..
Or
We have, therefore, in present circum atances the spectacle of hundreds of thousands of working men paying to promote political opinions which are re pugnant to them. Obviously this is rank injustice-the very negation of Demo- cratic principles and practice. A de- mand is made by a strong body of Conservative opinion to overhaul the status of the Unions, and although Mr. avoid trouble which is characteristic of Baldwin seems timorous, desiring to him-it is not improbable to say that he and members of the Cabinet who are also for letting sleeping dogs lie, will be obliged to shoot Niagara matter. We shall not have to wait long
to see.
this
Dominion Premiers Leaving. Most of the Dominion Prime Ministers who have been attending the Imperial Conference are preparing to return to their respective lands, although a few of them have engagements of a social character which will keep them here for a week or two yet. The last public. function which the Premiers attended- collectively took place a few evenings ago in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords, when they were the guesta of th Empire Parliamentary Association. This was in the nature of a farewell gather- ing The statesmen from overseas £7 perial Conference, and they are leaving much gratified by the work of this Im with the feeling that really useful con- clusions have been reached.
of the Houses of Parliament, West The proposed repairs to the stonework minster, would cost £1,062,350 and would occupy between 12 and 15 years, it is report of Bir Frank Baines, Director of Fremiers is taking back with him among stated in a memorandum based on the I hear that each of the Dominion wilk midinettes seeking to render homage Royal Palace of Westminster and its graph of a group containing his Majesty The picturesque old church was packed Works to ILM Office of Works. The old the souvenirs of the Conference & photo to their patron saint, St Catherine, who Parliament buildings were destroyed by King George, the British Prime Minis was being feted on November 25th at fire in 1834, and evidence of decay in the ter, and six Prime Ministers from over- dances and banquets. At these celebra new structure were discovered, says the seas. The photograph was taken by re- tions the workgirls who have reached the memorandum, even before the building quest of the King himself, on the occasion. age of 25 without finding a husband wear was completed. bonneta, symbolising that they run a damage is the expansion caused by oxida Palace, and his Majesty has autographed One of the causes of of the Royal dinner at Buckingham serious risk of becoming old maids.tion of the iron spindles and crossbars each one of the photographs with the The cardinal blessed a statue of St. which are embedded in the stonework of signature George R. L. and the date: Catherine, at the foot of which was a the pinnacles. representation of the wheel on which the No practicable method of preventing y keen upon this photograph, and one The Dominion Premiers are particular. was martyred, with the inscription:
When this wheel turns
decay has yet been discovered.
learns that several of them have had the original photograph enlarged to 3ft ains group has autographed each photograph, by 2ft. eins. Also every member of the so that, in point of fact, the picture will great Conference of 1928.H.B.
All whom I love will love me. The young midisettes covered the ground around the statue with bouquets and then dispersed along the boulevards in joyous groups.
It is now proposed to replace all the that Stancliffe stone should be used for defective stone, and it is recommended the main portion of the building and that the Cloister Court should be repair ed with Chilmark stone."
be a valuable historical record of the