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THE NAVAL CONFERENCE.
DETAILED STATEMENT OF BRITISH VIEWPOINT,
JAPAN DISSATISFIED WITH AMERICAN
PROPOSALS:
Latest reporte regarding the Naval Conference, indicate that France, and especially Japan, are dissatisfied with the British and American proposals. We give below caustic comment by the French and Japanese Press, and also a detailed statement of Britain's policy in regard to naval disarmament:
ANGLO-SAXON MÄNŒUVRES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
FRANCE PEEVED.
CAUSTIC PRESS COMMENT.
PARIS, Feb. 8.
Outspoken Press Comment.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930.
NORTHERN DAILY BANNED.
ABSURD CHARGES BY KUOMINTANG.
MISSIONARIES AND OPIUM TRAFFIC.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TIENTHIN, Feb. 9.
The District Kuomintang yester. day passed a resolution to ban the Peping and Tientsin Times from the quils, and to request the National Government to take simi- lar action.
This is a sequel to the recent anti-extrality campaign
by the ocal Kuomintang Propaganda De. partment, which extensively, cir culated leaflets published both in English and Chinese, charging Keen disappointment in the American limitation proposal was
Foreign Missionaries, inter alia, voiced by the Kokumin, which takes with trafficking in opium and other strong exception on the groundsto bandits and anti-Government narcotics, and with supplying arms that it disregards entirely Japan's claim for seventy per cent.
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enlled on Mr. Lu Ting Ping, the The Peping and Tientsin Times
AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.
ATTEMPT TO BREAK HINKLER'S RECORD.
· (THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, February 0, Flying Officers H. L. Piper and C. Kay took off this morning from Croydon Aerodrome for Australia. in an attempt to beat Mr. Bert Flinkler's record established in 1998. Piper and Kay are both New Zealanders, they are serving in the Royal Air Force and have obtained three months leave to visit their homes. The plane has a 105 horse power De Soutter Vyrrus engine; and is known as "Saloon of Air," because both pilots are enclosed...
PROHIBITION ENFORCE- ""
MENT.
TRANSFERRED TO DEPART- MENT OF JUSTICE.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
C.E.R DISPUTE.
FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS
NECESSARY.
AMNESTY FOR PRISONERS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
NANKING, Feb. 8. The Foreign Ministry, in the course of a statement regarding the Chinese Eastern Railway, declares that the Sino-Soviet delegates who signed the Harbarovsk Protocol on December last, made certain minutes purporting to be a settle- however, contain, in ment of the dispute. The minutes, addition to the modus vivendi relating to ques- tions arising from the railway dis- pute, certain other proposals of a general character concerning the relations between the two coun- tries which the Chinese delegate, Mr. Tsai Yun Sheng, had not been authorized to discuss, and which was outside the scope of his in. structions, In doing so he acted ultro virres.
INDIAN STRIKE.
POSITION IMPROVING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AOENOT.]
BOMBAY, Feb, D. The strike on the Great India Peninsula Railway is improving. The strikers in various centres are gradually returning to work,
U.S. AND HAITI,"
THE QUESTION OF WITHDRAWAL.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
Mr.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. The White House announced that the commission to enquire into the question of the United States' with drawal from Haiti will consist of the following:-Chairman, Cameron Forbes, ex-Governor of the Phillipines, Mr. Henry Flet cher, ex-Ambassador to Berlin, and three other members, possibly re- presentatives of the House of Ro- presentatives and the Senate.
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WOMEN, OF INDIA.
STRUGGLE, FOR BETTER EDUCATION.
PROF. KARVE'S LECTURE.
At the Sindh Hindu Merchant's Club, China Building, Professor D. K. Karve, founder and organi wer of the Shreemati Nathibal Damedher Thackersay, Indian Wo- men's University" of Poona, gaya a very intereating lecture on the Education of Wamen in India.
Introcuing the lecturer Mr. K. P. Barwani, President of the Club, said it was his great pleasure and privilege to introduce that vener- able leader of education, Professor D. K. Karre.
"I do not think" the speaker con- tinued you will need any further words from me about him, other: than what you have already read in the local newspapers.
"In short, I should like to say what he has done towards the noble cause of feminine India, and especially that of the oppressed widowe of that country. It is due to the great efforts of "Professor Karve and a few others like him,
social evils, and also the lack of education, not only amongst wo- men-upon which subject he will speak to-night, but amongst the boys of the country as well.
A distrustful tone, coupled with eauatic references to the Anglo- American policy marks press com- men on the latest Naval Confer.able, the paper accuses Britain of Director of the Propaganda Depart passed a Bill transferring the carry-ed, the arrangement contained in THE ATTACK ON MEXICAN † that · India is being rescued from
The Cre Nou ence developments. relle declares that Anglo-American
solidarity is becoming to pronounc
ed that it might almost be called an Anglo-American Allance. It adds that the Labourites continue to make the most redoubtable efforts at averarmament that have been attempted for a long while.
Le Matin compares the conference rather to a naval battle than to an entente aiming at peace.
Le Journal says that Anglo-Saxon manoeuvres deinand the greatest vigilance on the part of France.
JAPAN UPSET.
AMERICAN PROPOSALS
UNTENABLE.
TOKYO, Feb. 8.
While declaring it to be unaccept conniving with America in an atment, to either substantiate the tap to force a sixty per cent. charges or to publicly retract them, ratio on "Japan.
The teahi and the Nichinichi, Wei, Secretary to the Propaganda in response to which Mr. Chi Feng commenting on the Stimson state Department, published a denuncia ment, apparently prior to learning tion of the paper in the local Kuo- the American proposals, adopt mintang daily, thus following up milder tone, though they too oppose the afore-mentioned resolution. the American suggestion that Japan
The outcome is awaited with should accept sixty per cent. ratio much interest. in cruisera. They insist that the should reconsider this point. Both the papers express regret that Stimson statement spells the expan- sion of armaments instead of re- duction.
not the Naval Powera.
Military and Air Reductions Next.
Mr. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech in London, declared that, when they approach ed in future Naval Disarmament Conferences, any further British reductions must be governed entire While the Foreign Office continues by contributions of the Military to be reticent regarding the con-
Britain could not make fresh re- tents of the American proposals; the Jiji reveals details which are ductions at sea until she knew how understood to bo virtually correct. far others would meet her in reduc These include: Japan to have fortying armaments on land and in the thousand tons submarines, Britain air. and America sixty thousand; Japan sixty per cent. culio of light cruisers and destroyera; Japan to have twelve eight-inch cruisers, though it is not clear whether this. includes four of the Furutako class, thus giving Japan one hundred and right thousand tous, or, if all ten thousand tonners, giving her one hundred and twenty thousand.
It is also proposed that America should build an additional capital ship for the purpose of attaining parity with Britain, while Japan is also permitted to build one more.
LONDON, Feb. 7. The policy of the British Govern ment at the Naval Conference is set forth in an important Memoran: dura which is being laid in the House of Commons a summary of which was issued this afternoon.
In it the belief is expressed that the Conference ought not only to reduce existing fleets, and building programmes but also to end naval competition, thus marking an in portant step towards the firm estab. fishment of peace. **
British policy, it is pointed out, is to keep the seas open for trade and communication, and, in rela tion to the political state of the World to take what steps are neces- sary to secure this.
Foreign Office Portürbed. Though it is reticent regarding de- tails, the Foreign Office is obviously perturbed. It admits that some of the proposals appear to make no In estimating its naval needs allowance for Japan's present num- the British Government has also ber of vessels, while her claim for to take into account its obligations seventy per cent. is entirely disreader the League Covenant and its other commitments which have to garded.
Regarding submarines, officials be fulfilled in relation to the pre- emphasise that Japan does not nak sent state of the world. for a ratio, but a definite tonnage, which is based on her requirements
Capital Ships. for const defence, and it is therefore
The Government proposes that plainly upset at the American pro- the number of capital ships for posals.
While, however, it is in each signatory fixed by the Wa timated to be difficult for Japan to shington Treaty ahould be reached even consider the proposals in the within eighteen months of the rz- "present form, officials stress that tification of the Treaty resulting nothing is further from Japan's from this conference instead of by mind than to break up the con- 1936... ference," which appears to imply that further conversations with the
American delegation should be held for the purpose of obtaining satisfactory agreement.
Agreement with British Statement.
The desire to see the ultimate abolition of capital ships, expressed in a British statement, appears to have struck a responsible chord in Japan, where officials state that Japan favours the suggestion in **principle.
It proposca that no replacement existing ships should take place
before the next conference in 1935, and that in the meantime the whole question of capital ships should be the subject of negotiation beween the Powers concerned.
The Government will press for a reduction without disturbing the Washington equilibrium. Its experts favour a reduction in size from 35,000 tons to 25,000 tons, and of gans from 18 inches to 12 inches.
Cruisers.
Begarding cruisers; the memoran dum that recalls it was assumed during the recent Anglo-American conversations that they should be grouped in one category which, in turn should be subdivided into cruisers carrying eight-inch guns and cruisers carrying six-inch guns and under.
It was also assumed during the
negotiations that the requirements
of the British Commonwealth would be 339,000 tons divided into fifty cruisers.
A final arrangement will be gov- erred by the decision of the con- ference regarding the limitation in the size of the units.
The British Government proposes that the existing tonnage limit of eight-inch cruisers ahould remain
The House of Representatives has ing out of Frohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Depart ment of Justice.
FISHING VESSELS WRECKED.
TWENTY FISHERMEN
DROWNED.
(THROUGH BECTER'S AGENCY.]
Toxro, February -9. Thiring a storm on February 8, off Bonin, four fishing vessela were wrecked and twenty fishermen are missing, it is feared they have been drowned. Two bodies so far have been recovered.
"AMERICAN COVERED
COURTS. HUNTER WINS CHAMPION. SHIPS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE
NEW Yonx, Feb. 9. In the American Covered Courts. Championship Hunter beat Juliuss Eligson, one of the most promising younger players, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.
AMERICAN ADMIRAL ILL..
at ten-thousand tons and that there should be a tonnage limit for the smaller vessels at about six-thous and or seven thousand tona. It: auggests that only a fixed propar- tion in the latter class should be built up to that limit and that the life of cruisers should be increased Operations of the Navy Office, has
to twenty years."
Destroyers.
[DEUT&R'A AMERICAN SERVICE.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 9, Admiral Hughes, Chief of Naval
a milk stroke of paralysis.
Rear-Admiral Standley is tempor
As far as the issues, arising from the railway questions are concern- the minutes has been carried out, and in pursuance thereof, prisonera
in both countries have been re- leased.
PRESIDENT.
ASSAILANT'S PARENTS
ARRESTED.
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Mexico City, Feb. 0. The father and mother of the two
A new manager and assistant manager have been appointed, and normal traffic on the railway has beca resumed. The National Gov- ernment being desirous of arriving at a Anel settlement of the rail-brothers Flores the assailants of way question, is prepared to send a delegate to the Formal Confer- ence, to be held at Moscow, for the exclusivo purpose of effecting, à | readjustment of the C.E.R.
Commercial Questions,
President. Rubic have been arrested and handed over to the military authorities.
J.
Should the Soviet Government. deem it necessary to negotiate with the National Government in respect NO of questions of a general, character relating to trade and commerce be- tween the two countries, za well ̃ás, other problems, and to that end to appoint a delegate to China, the National Government will be pre- pared to enter into negotiations with the said delegate.
MORE PUNISHMENTS."
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NAXEING, Feb. 9. It is understood the National Government issued a mandate this evening ordering the punishment of Messrs. Taal Yun. Sheng, Chu. Shao Yang and Chow Lung Kwang.
COMMUNIST UPRISINGS.
MAGISTRATE MURDERED,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HANKOW, Feb. 9.
In regard to destroyers, the Gov-arily acting as Chief. ernment proposed that the limit assigned should be for flotilla Mr. Hale, who represents the
Communist unrisings are report leaders, 1,850 tons and for "Big Navy" group in Congress de-ed to have broken out in various destroyers, 1,500 tons with five-clared that Mr. Stimson's program-districts of Hupeh. inch guas as the maximum for both me would require an additional ex- Kienli has been captured and classes.
penditure of G.958,000,000 above the looted by the Reds, the magistrate The present British building pro-cruiser construction programme re-
and others murdered. Hsiungyang gramme of destroyers is for two cently authorised by Congress. has also been burned and the hundred thousand tons ultimately,
The Experts Committee was magistrate killed, and
merchants
but this can be reduced if the sub-engaged to-day in drafting a ques carried off for ransom. Sienaing marine programmes of the other tionaire in connexion with the and Puchi on the Wachang-Chang- Towers are reduced, for it is ab-global and category tonnage ques-sha Railway is now being menaced. vious that the size and the total tonnage of destroyers must largely depend upon the size and the total tunauge of submarines.
Bubmarines.
The Government proposes the abolition of the submarine. Its experta feel that the argument that the submarine is an arm solely of defence was destroyed by the ex- perience of the Late War and that in war conditions it is an arm of attack
tion.
CHINESE MINISTER
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Japan's Attitude.
EXPLOSION AT NANKING. TOKYO, Feb. 7. Peading the receipt of an official ANOTHER POWDER FACTORY report on Mr. Stimson's statement,
GOES UP. officials are somewhat reticent in commenting on it, though" Naval
{THROUGH REUYER'S AGENCY.] circles appear to consider the sug gestion to effect a capital ship
NANKING, Feb. 8. balance in 1931 instead of 1942 dif-
It is reported that an explosion ficult owing to the fact that the post-Washington building program-in a powder factory at Nanking mes were based on the prospective occurred on Saturday afternoon,
The cause of the explosion has If abolition cannot be agreed Lalance on 1942, for which consi-.
not yet been ascertained. Some upon, the British Government will derable readjustments are required. put forward proposals limiting Regarding the proposal that Bri-houees in the vicinity of the factory quirements... submarines rigidly to defence retain, America and Japan should were wrecked and some slight dam- ago was done to the Consul General's House. the scrap respectively five, three and In any case, it will press for the one capital ships. Naval circles limitation of the submarine to the point out that although on paper lowest possible limit, and it pro this appears to be favourable to- poses to urge the revival of the wards Japan, the American ships The leading vernacular papers
agreement, signed at Washington proposed for scrapping are armed in 1922, but not ratified by the with 12 inch guns, whereas the have lately been showing themselves in sympathy, while naval, circles They also favour a lengthening signatory Powers, which would reBritish ships have 13.5 inch guns gulate, in the interests of humanity, and the Japanese ship 14 inch intimate that they are by no means of their age from 20 to 26 years.
--[(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,] opposed, though they emphasise The Government hopes there will the use of submarines against mer guns. Moreover, if the Kongo is scrapped it would upset the balance that the abolition would necessitate be an exchange of views on this chant ships.
NANKING, Feb. 9. In regard to auxiliary vessels of the Japanese Fleet which is bas- the virtual scrapping of the subject during the conference. In-
not strictly entered into flected on four yessels of the Kongo Minister to Finland, who partici- Mr. Chu Shao Yatg, the Chinese Washington Agreement, and the deed, it would wish to soe na agree-
class as an integral unit. drawing up of a new agreement, ment by which battleships will in strengths, the Government proposes recognising the fundamental change due time disappear, as it considers that they should be specified, and general reaction in Naval circles, pated in the investigation at Har in the strategic position of the Far them a very doubtful proposition that each Government should pub therefore, appears to be not very bin in the C.E.R., dispute, is to be
recalled for "inappropriate action in view of their size and cost and lish yearly lists of the vessels of favourable.
In the meantime the Foreign Japan, it is emphasised, accepted of the development of air and subthis class in commission as laid
down.
Office, while admitting the receipt a sixty per cent, ratio on capital marine attack.
last night of the proposals which ships on condition that no bases, available for such vessels, be con- structed witbin striking distance of Japan, but if capital ships are abolished, then the tea thonsand tonners become capital ships in fact, if not in name, as they would be the largest warships afloat.
East.
The whole strategic balance of the Far East on which the Washington Agreement is based, would thus bo upset, as both Manila and Hong Kong would be available to such
vessels.
Meantime it is understood that the American proposal that Japan and America should each build an additional 35,000 tonner is strongly opposed on the ground that this would be a violation of the spirit of the present. conference.
Authoritative quarters in Tokyo profess inability to understand why such a proposal is made.
Aircraft-Carriers.
The Government would further limit the tonnage and the gun calibre of aircraft-carriers, and suggests that ships of tenthousand tons, and under should be included in the total tonnage of this cate- gory, if used as aircraft carriers.
The British memorandum and the American proposals will be studied by the delegations during
the week-end. -
Italian Approval.
The
RECALLED.
KTNAPPROPRIATE":"ACTION".
ANOTHER VICTIM OF PSITTACOSIS?
TRACE OF THE DISEASE
IN CULTURES.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICK]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
An attendant of the Hygienic Laboratory of the United States Public Health Service, who was entrusted with the care of parrots sent to the laboratory for diagnosis, has died of Psittacosis.
It is announced that Laboratory althought it has over two hundred cultures which have been obtained from dead and living parrots no organism yet obtained has been proved to be the specific cause of the disease.
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I will now call upon Professor Karve to give his lecture. (Ap-" plause).
The First Women's College. Professor Karve said that the education of women was a very im. portant, question but he thought that this was not being realised either by the people or the Gov- ernment Education of women in India had been hadly neglected Some attempt was made 70 years
establishment ago when an founded but this never got beyond: the elementary stage and for an- other 20 years remained neglected.
WILA
The first women's college" was in Bengal and later the Govern ment gave Poona & high school for girls
Language Dificulty. "Later," said Professor Karve "the mother tongue of the students became the medium of instruction, and that is casential for the educa tion of women in India to the pro- sent day."
The English language was consi- of the India languages. For men dered very much harder than any
it was a great obstacle but men had to study the language for the university and for most careers,
Parents then came to realise that education was & means towards an were ready to spend large sums on end-the.earning of a living. They their sons education, but hesitated when it cams to the girls.
It has now become the standard practice, almost, that once or twice year we should have medical rcares, or alternatively a beneficent medical discovery. At the moment it is a scare, paittacosis, a highly fatal disease communicated by par rots and lovebirds to human beings.
The Gurukul "Academy. There is nothing new at all about Thirty years ago, the Gurukul this disease as far as the birds are Academy of Hardward was catab- concerned. It is widespread among lished and did its teaching in Ilin- parrots (psittacosis in Greek för ä
dustani. "To-day all their tench- parrot), especially newly imported ing is conducted in this way," said parrots, which are imported in crowded and insanitary enges ored most successful."
Professor Kavre, "and it has prov. baskets, and often at a season when the weather is not such as they are Japanese Womens fitted to withstand.
The disease is well known to
ornithologists, and is the cause of great mortality among the birds sfected. It is, one of a group of bird discases called enlmonelloses, due to a micro-organism related to the paratyphoid group. The ques tion is, and it has been discussed for many years, whether this disease is commünicable to man,
Mr. Henry Gray, a recognised English authority on this subject, and on bird diseases generally, says that the balance of evidence is against it. His own opinion is nothing in the idea of the infection of man by birds with this disease: He points out that there is an en- ormous number of parrots in Eng land, that the disease is widespread among them, and that if it were communicable to man one would expect to find a large number of cases, instead of which the number of supposed cases is very small, so small that they find their way into the newspapers whenever they are supposed to have happened
The Lecturer, also referred to the University,
which he said had been an inspira- tion to him and he was moved to
found, in spite of obstacles, the fine Womens University at Poona which stands so high in the educa- tion of women of India.
The Dream of a Day to Come. The speaker concluded by saying- that he hoped to see the realisation of a dream the dream of a univera. ity for each of the twelve different languages,
Mr. M. P. Talati, thanked Prof. Karve for his inspiring lec ture and wished him all success in India in his work.
It is understood that Professor Korve will deliver a public lecture in Hong Kong on this subject,
THE POPE AND RUSSIAN PERSECUTIONS.
SPECIAL MASS ON HIS BIRTHDAY,
· [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 5." In a letter, which the Pope has.
His own view is that the suppos. ed cases of psittacosi, are in fact cases of coincidence. He connects scares, such as cat diptheria, horse published, deploring the pereccu- the psittacosis scare with past
infections from animals, all of vites the whole Christian world to influenza, dog distemper, and other tion of religion in Russia, he in- which scares, have died down and join in his appeal to God on behalf beca heard of no more. He is al of Russia on the 19th of March, bis together sceptical, and his author 70th birthday, at a Mass for the ity is high about the danger of
expiation of Russian offences against religion and for spiritual They have more to fear from us,
health of the Russian people. The he said, than we have from them..
Pope also recalls he has doubled' his efforts since the beginning of his pontificate.
Mr. Reed delivered to Mr. Wakat RUSSIAN NOTES FORGERY infection from animals generally.
suki on Wednesday evening, is un-
able to reveal the contents, though they are understood to be drastic and far-reaching, envering every
It is learned authoritatively, however, that the proposal in its present form is believed to be
The Italian delegation, after studying the British Memor-category." andum announced that it had "their approval because the prin- ciples contained therein corres- pond to our own ideas regarding ratios and parity."
U.S. Senator Objects.
It proposes a reduction of the total aircraft tonnage for the Bri- tish and United States Navies from 135,000 tons and the adjust ment of the Treaty to, say, ans A message from Washington hundred thousand tons, and an ad- states that Sceator Hale, the chair- justment of that assigned to the man of the Senate Naval Com- other nations in the Washington mittee, has issued a statement Treaty ratios.
based upon his examination of Mr. It further proposes that the maxi. H. L. Stimson's proposals to Bri- mum size of aircraft carriera betain and Japan, in the course of reduced to 25,000 tons and that which he says that the proposals their age be twenty-six years in-
"manifestly do not satisfy our stead of twenty
naval needs." (Continued on next Column.) (Continued on next Column.)
unacceptable by Japan, though it represents some concessions оп America's part from the position taken in the conversations between Japan and America in Washington" in December.
TRIAL..
ACCUSED.ACQUITTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, February 8 "The three accused Germans in the forged Chervonete notes trial have been acquitted, and proceedings against two Georgian prisoners have been stopped in consequence of an amnesty for political offences. The forged notes were confiscated and the state ordered to pay the the costs of the trial.*
The proposal has been submitted to Tokyo, without comment, by the delegation in London which has not Counsel for the accused ingenious asked for instructions, though it is ly pleaded that the Soviet did not understood that the questions in recognise the validity of its own when exported volved are of such importance as to Chervonetz notes exceed the delegates' powers. Hence from Russia by anyone but itself; the deliberation of the whole Gov-therefore the forged notes were not, ernment is necessary.
regardable as money.
AUSTRIAN POISONERS.
ANOTHER WOMEN SENTENCED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
VIENNA, Feb, fe Frau Varga, a peaanht woman, aged 41, was sentenced to penal for life for poisoning her first husband who was blinded in the war. She was acquitted owing to lack of evi deuce on a charge of poisoning her. husband's grandfather in order to obtain his property.
·Women and men have still to be tried on charges arising out of wholesales poisonings in the village of Nagyrer.
During the, terrible persecution in Russia the Papacy, by means of its envoys, saved 150,000 Russian child- ren from horrible death until the Soviet forced it to cease its efforts. He also announces that he has appointed a special commission for Russin which will be presided over by Cardinal Sincero.
COAL MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA:
"[REDIZA'S AMERICAN SERVICE.1
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 7. At Icast twenty miners were kill ed in an explosion at a coal mine- at Standardville.