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(ESTABLISHED 1881).
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1919.
68936 四年望 號六月登十英港香
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
L.S. COAL MINERS "OUT”.
BRITAIN'S LATEST BATTLESHIP.
A HUGE STRIKE.
New York, November 1. A strike of coal miners broke out at midnight. Union leaders
have estimated that 377,000 are participating. Thousands of others are ready to "down tools" to-day.
Reports available indicate that the majority of miners in the great producing regions of Pennsylvania West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Toya, Kentucky, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming and Washington have left work.
SOME INTERESTING DETAILS.
日四十月九
SINGLE COPF: 10 CTS
$36 PER ANNUM.
Certain-teed
Roofing
BRITISH CHAMBERS national duty and responsibility TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
OF COMMERCE.
THE SHANGHAI CONFERENCE.
The closing rate of the dutier, ON iemand, to-day was 4a/6 3-164
& modern
fio all branches of commercial life and a higher degree of oc-opera- tion and organisation. The pro-
THE WEATHER. [blem was now to adapt our i
Forecast Fair. Barometer :- 1erent tradi îopal individualisma
ciroumstaceas favouring large. 29.88. Temperature 3 p.m.-80. (From Our Own Correspondent) scale organisations and therefor. Humidity 2 p.m. —73," London, November 1.
Shanghai, November 5 merging individu d'initiativa «nd Messra. John Brown and Company, of Clydebank, will have
The British Minister, Sir John fart in a common scheme with China is evolving finished the construction of a battleship soon which is believed to Jordan, wasgreeted at the station at losing individual idenis. I effective Government. He pre- be the first capital ship to be completed in any country, since the Battle of Jutland. She combires a battleship's weight and resist with a guard of honour of Chinese a incumbent to increve Bish dicted an industrial boom. Our He forecasted native industries by supplying police and Cossular and manufacturers. ance with a battle-craiser's speed and sun-power. Her length is 850 troops from the Arsenal. Sikbrade with the croptation of ise policy was to encourage hst the union of the Chambers technical and financial assistance. Municipal officials. feet. her breadth 104 feet and her draft 28. Her displacement is 41.200 tons. Her main arcament is. eight 15 in. guns moonted on
He is making a speech at the would advance. British' interest
The conference then went in cam- four guthouses, two pairs being forward and two pairs being at first meeting of the Conference of and public opinion in China,
JeraCommercialCouncillor Foxpre- Her secondary battery consists of 125 guns, besides an entirely
British Chambers of Commerce MR. DODWELL'S SPEECH.
siding.Fourresolutions were passed new weapon of Afty calibres, throwing a projectile of eighty-two
Mr. S. H. Dodwell, Hongkong, fol- at the af ernoon session. "That H. London. November 1. On the eve of the coal strike, commencing at midnight, in Pounds and penetrating over four inches of the bandest steel in China this morning.
The Conference passed resolu lowed the chairman's speech, say-M. Government be requested to The bulge is affixed under the water-line and tons of welcome to the repreng "Hongkong's status is separate, give as early and precise an in- at 500 yards range. America, involving 400.000 L'nion miners and possibly 200,000 non-protects again a submerged explosion. The plea does not indicate sentatives of the Chambers of nevertheless its interests are dication as possible of the prin Unionists, attention is being focussed on the grave and far-reaching protection of the decks and the tops of barbettes but it is certain to
Commerce and to Sir Joho
bound up with China Sir John's ciples it intends. adopting relative consequences involved towards Europe. This struggle is noteworthy be formidable after the lessons of Jutland. The engine-power far
Jordan.
attendance presages the closer re-to trade with Germany. Second, in that the miners demand a 60 per cent. increase in wages, a six-exceeds any previous British warship. Brwn-Curtis turbines will hours' day, a five-days week and the abolition of certain labour develop five times the power allotted to the earlier dreadnoughts,reme Court the invited guests trial interests and the Consular the time has come when the policy At the Conference as the Suplations of commercial and indus- that this Conference is of opinion
contract penalties...
giving a speed of thirty-one knots.
were Sir Havilland De Sausmarez, Already there are 600 ships, including 400 steamers, held up at
necessary in of the open door should be re- The Times Naval Correspondent remarks that it is possible that r. Hugh Horne, Sir Paul Chater, service which are if the Lord Fisher and Sir Percy Scott school of thinkers are right, Mr. Archibald Rose, Mr. Herbertings enoughtoconvince every busi-principle, to accompany reaffirma New York. There are no signs of any settlement.
Surely there are warn-afirmed as an essential commercial there will soon be the last of great warships
GOVERNMENT'S FIRM STAND,
The Government is rushing up troops with machine-guns to the coal Belds and has completed plans to combat the strike and protect the non-strikers and essential industries. Maximum prices for coal are being re-established.
Meanwhile, at the eleventh hour, the Federal Court at Indian- apolis has issued as injunction forbidding the strike, owing to its involving a national disaster. The injunction will be operative until November 8 and commands the Union officials to withdraw the strike order and forbids strike pay. The petition charges the Miners Committee with attempting to intimidate the coal owners and refusing the arbitration proposed by the Secretary of Labour. Mr.
Wilson.
Interviewed on the subject, the miners leader declared that the injunction writ would not avert a strike. He said it was a most sweeping abrogation of the rights of citizenship and would only complicate the ultimate solution.
The House of Representatives, by an overwhelming majority. adopted the Senate's resolution pledging support to the Government.
DEVASTATED FRANCE.
WORK OF RECONSTR (TION SATISFACTORILY PROGRESSING,
Paris, November 1.
FIGHTING THE BOLSHEVIKS.
PROGRESS OF YUDENITCH.
her kind.
London, November 1. The War Office announces that at noon on October 31. udenitch regained ground west of Petrograd and re-captured Ropacha, ten miles to the south of Peterhof. The gap between the right of the Esthonians and the left of Yucenitch's army south-west of Ropscha is now closed. The Bolsheviks continue to concentrate especially south-west and south of Petrograd. Numerous communist reinforce inents are coming up from the south.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
THE REVISED TARIFF.
China,
Beer and Commodore Ellison. The
nese man that the future of Brit-tion with an international agree- Hon. Mr. Johnstone moved that Mr.ish trade at this critical period ment for the abolition of spheres Macray be chairman. Mr. Buchan demands serious collective atten- of influence and for the develop- seconded Mr. Mayers moved Mr. tion if we are to keep our place in ment of the Chinese railway Gull as Secretary. Mr. Fraser the world markets. Combined stem under efficient management. seconded.
Sir John was welcomed,
era.
We cannot see our
effort is necessary, not the indivi-Third, that the Chinese Govern- (dual effort which before the war ment be strongly urged to take the use of Mr H.A.J. Macray, the chairas permitting Germany to oust steps to discontinue man, in a speech raid. This from the foremost position sycee, to establish uniform Ctzr morning sees unfurled in China The war has taught co-operation. rency throughout the country, to the essential banner of British nationalism. It witnesses tbe in Apply the lesson of the Allies to open a mint at Shanghai for the the economic struggle. The war free coinage of dollars in the place sugural convention setting upon British enterprise in the Far Eastaught the lesson of sacrifice of other mints, efficient control economic and maintaining of a uniformity the seal and character which all
Fourth, the Confer- England's expcsions bare born ictory, the harvest of the battle-standard. since the diwa of the Colonis field victory and more our release fence urges H. M. Government to The Britone of Chius unlike from responsibilities placed upon expedite by the Chinese Govern- us by those making the greatest ment promulgation of a lar Hongkong entertain 'no elania ambitions. The Conference is no
sacrifice unless the nation tackles securing protection to bona fide interested ia polítics as such the mighty economic propositions trademarks against infringement To day witnesses the story of in the same spirit of cooperation imitation or colourable imitation. the Britons in China emerging and sacrifice that won the war." That the Municipality rescinds the the main channel of Imperial his Mr.Dodwell pledged Hongkong to enemy registration regulations. tory. This conference is for support movements "to improve the All the newspapers comment nationalising endividas! effor?" fold order of things,"
in the Conferenca The North Mr Macray proposed the follow
China Daily Neus says: "It is the being resolution ihat the British
stural consequence of birth of manufacturers and exporters of
the Chambers and the corollary f a certain new discovery con-
M. Claveille, the Minister of Public Works. has returned from the devasted regions with "must consoling impressions". He says at
Shanghai, November 5. the time of the Armistice there were inter alia 33.000 kilometres of The revised tariff has been approved by all Powers, and will
main lines, 1.200 bridges and also great depots and workshops signed in Washington. Young Kai, the Chinese Charge d'Affaires destroyed. To-day the main lines are restored and 40 per cent. of there. will be the Plenipotentiary Commissioner for China. the work of restoration in the depots and workshops completed. Of 47,000 kilometres of road destroped. 12.000 have been re-made, while the majority of the 3.137 wrecked bridges have been reconstructed.
GERMANY AND PEACE
AN ENQUIRY INTO FAST DAYS
THE PREMIERSHIP.
Shanghai, November 5. In compliance with the decision of Parliament, a Mandate issued appointing Kun Wan-pung as Premier.
NEW LOAN.
Sir John, Jordan traced the in- crease in trade since his arrival forty-three years ago and advised Do-Chinese officials to show a liberal
terests
the United Kingdom and mininas be urged where practic-spirit to a movement mutually carning British commercial ia- able to use British agents for the
in China. British in sale and distribution of their benefitting the Chinese consumer
and the foreign importer. The terests must be regarded
Fundivided and therefore demand gx da."
present treaties and agreements The Chairman contrasted pre-
ingle representation in London war and present trade methods.must be supplemented, allowing rough other chancels than is Continuing he said the passage trade to seek further outlets in all
The Chino Press says: The this resolution meant a pledge for directions. Extension of the rail- & principle that would result in ways was the solution. Despite Conference marks a new era in unprecedented co-ordination of Bri. the constant unrest in 1918 trade Bri ish basiness. It probably 18h enterprise in China. The ar was unprecedented. "In most bat means the union of the China sociated principles and ideas were ties fought paper and silver bul-Chambers and a united organina- thoroughly national, and wou'd lets form a substantial part of the ion to aid by direct dealing with result in a vivified conception of jammunition. The great task of he British Government..
Bertin, November 1. Herr Von Bethmann Hollweg in giving evidence before the Commission of the National Assembly enquiring into the possiblities of peace during the war said: "After our indescribable collapse
Shanghai, November 6. which was only possible because we've all sinned. I will not throw
The tobacco and wine duty loan of $25,000,000 has been con- the blame on others, but must state the fact that the majority of the German people and its lawful representatives desired the predomincluded. of the amount $3,000,000 will be handed over next month ance of their military leaders." He emphasised that it was the and the balance within this year. deep-rooted belief of the Reichstag and of the overwhelming majority i
of the nation, as well as the Supreme Army Command and Ven Tirpitz in 1917, that submarinism would end the war soo
THE PRINCE'S TOUR.
Montreal. October 30 Popular demonstrations towards the Prince of Wales continue, the most striking including firework displays and illuminations. The students of Laval University presented His Royal Highness with a cap and stick and solemnly admitted him to their guild. The gathering was enormous. The ceremony of pussing him beneath an arch of sticks held aloft by -tudents provoked tremendous enthusiasm. The Prince was almost buried in gaudy-coloured paper
steamers.
TIBET AND BRITAIN.
THE QUESTION OF BOUNDARIES.
London, October 29. In the House of Commons Sir John D. Rees asked whether any arrangement had been made with the Chinese Government regarding the Boundaries of an autonomous Tibet, and whether the Agreement of 1913 has been ratified.
Mr. Harmsworth replied that negotiations with the Chinese Government regarding the boundaries of Tibet were now progressing Poking. The answer to the second part of the question was in he negative.
AN APPOINTMENT,
London, November 1. Reuter's correspondent at Helsingfors says that Yodenitch has appointed General Vladimirov as “Governor-General of Petrograd."
THE IRON DIVISION.
Berlin, November 1. The Socialist nawapaper Frieheit declares that hundreds are still enlisting in the Baltie Iron Division, for which recruits still continue to leave Berlin.
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THE INDO" BOOM.
MARINE COURT.
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SERIES OF PROSECUTIONS.
JARDINE'S DENY THE P. AND O. RUMOUR. -
The masters of the steam laun- Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co, when interviewed this morn ches Kwong Sai and Kwong Tang ing by a Telegraph representative, were prosecuted this morning be- made a categorical denial of the fore Captain Basil Taylour. R.N., rumour that the P, and O, have Marine Magistrate. for disobey- made an offer to purchase the ing the lawful orders of the Har- They have bour Master by making fast Indo-China fleet. had no intimation of any such whilst being outside of more offer, and say if it were true the than two launches lying along local office would have been the side the gangway of the s.s. Nan- first to know, as the head office king on the 39th ultimo. is in Hongkong.
The
attempt pręs nt boost the shares of the Indo-China
Both defendants pleaded guilty to and were fined $20 each.
The master of steam launch Steamship Company may therefore Chan Yun Sun was prosecuted for suffer the same fate as attended carrying twenty-two passengers it two years ago, when the market on the 1st instant in excess of the was believed by some to have been number allowed under his licence. Mr. Gardiner appeared for the figged on the same report, which proved to be without foudation, defendant and urged unusual con- the market slumping afterward to ditions. Sergeant Brown said he a low point.
saw the defendant's launch off The present inflated value, if Belchers Point, making for Hong- the rumour turns out incorrect, kong. He stopped her and ordered will be another South Sea bubble, her alongside West Point pier, In our issue yesterday we stated and counted 70 passengers on that in some quarters the opinion the wharf landed there and 78 on, was held that if the Company board, 148 all She was licensed were liquidated or purchased to carry 126 passangers. The by another firm, at present|coxswain stated that he was valuation, the deferred shares satisfied with the count. would easily be worth £1,000. Captain Taylour "fined de. This should, of course, have read fendant $25. £100.
Four boatmen and boatwomen Apparently the brokers here were charged with mooring their are now awaiting developments|boats at a distance of less than at Home, for in the absence, of a 100 yards from low water mark cable the local mart is quiet. during prohibited hours at Con-` Business was done this morning naught Road Central-yesterday at $260, December delivery, while at 11.30 p.m. The first and second for November the rate is $250 defendants were fined $5 each buyers.
and the third and fourth 61 önch,
OLD PALS,
EH WOT?
1, ALONE, DESTROY 2,000,000,000 DOLLARS WORTH OF FOOD AND PROPERTY EVERY
YEAR!
siplomatie".
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