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Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED 1881)
G158 登拜禮 號四十月六英港香 MONDAY, JUNE 14. 1920.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE 11.5. POLITICAL CONVENTIONS.
MR. COMPERS APPEARS ON THE SCESE,
Chicago, June 9. Mr. Samuel Gompers, President of the Federation of Labour, has submitted to the Programms Committes of the Republican Dearsation a series of demands with rafarance to the high cast of living and profiteering, opposing unrestricted immigration and injection proceedings in connection with strikes and compulsory arbitration.
The appearance of Mr. Compars at the Convention is considered significant, because the American Federation of Labour is com mitted to full political activity under the slogan that no enemy of Labour shall be given public office if Labour can prevent it.
LABOUR DENUNULATIONS.
Montreal, June 10. Denunciation of Bolshevism, of the profiteering action of the United States Government la invoking the Food Control Law | against the late miners' strike, and of the failure of Congress to control the cost of living are the outstanding features of the Executive Council's Report presented to the American Federation of Labour's Convention today. The cost of living is largely attributed to the big profiteers.
The Report congratulates Canada for defeating the so-called one big Union ides. Their Stand is characterized as a magniscent triumph for Trade Unionism.
The Report favours co-operative means with a view to curbing profiteering and urges that Cooperative Societies be given legal protection against discrimination by manufacturers and wholesale dealers. The cost of living must go no higher and wages must be advanced in every case to s point at which the American standard of living is secure.
ANNAMITE MEMORIAL TEMPLE IN FRANCE.
Paris, June 10.
An Annamite temple, erected in memory of Indo-Chinese fallen in the war, was officially opened yesterday at Nogent-sur-Marne in the presence of several notables, including Marshal Jaffre and M. Hillerand
AMERICA CUP TRIALS.
Newport, June 9.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Landbą, Jána 9.`
Lo Chong, Chinese Consul General at London, and others have initiated a school at Poplar to trach Chinesa seamaz English and Chinese children of the Chinatown district Chinees About 100 |
New Yörk, Fina 9,
Valuable jewels, including diamond and pear nokia mach worth $75,000, have been stolen from the summer home of Signor Caruso at Easthampton.
Landrs, June, 9.
In the will of Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, published in our last issue, the value of property in the United Kingdom should have read £1,475 only.
Londaz, June 9.
The "Times" records a sharp falt in time charter vætss for British tonnage. Rates range from 20s, to 224. 6d. per tɔn.
San Francisco, Jane 0. Jack Dempsey has been sent to trial at the US Court on the charge of evading the selective service draft.
Birmingham, June 10.
BATAN MEGLE OUT
LOCAL WEDDING.
MR. B. KREBS MISS
WAGERA
$36 PER ANN
BUROPEAN KILLED
ELECTROGUTED BY.
LIVE WIRE-
A STOWAWAY.
Saturday's raÍS,
dih
This afternoon there was 1 herber drop, the closing quota-
CHINESE WOMAN'S STRANGE REST.
sequently discovered to be, slang. ming was related to the Magin trate this morning, when tha woman: in question brought à charge of common faanitagainst a Chinese male.
| Hatürday afternoon, the court
að Baturday morni pupils have already been anrolled. The teachers wis be Chinese ing parties being Mr. Head Mr. Collina went to a Chh graduates and undergraduates assisted by an English lady ax-resident Kroba, kbird son of the late 1974 timber at Cheung in China. The classes will be free, Chinese and English, friends of Adolphe Krebs and of Mr. Kress win to attend to the electron China supplying the funds.
of La Chaux-de-Fonds, "Switzer, lighting, and whilst there, bë land, and Mim Bertha Deglaska la" reported to have touchéd TMzi Wager, aldest daughter of Mridefestive wire and was slote SHAMMED DEATH, and Mrs. W. Wagar, of Seattle, ed. The deceased, whose a Washington. The bridegroom is was 26, came to Hongkong with of Messrs. Gerin, Drevard and the Manchester · Regiment · ta 8,000 employes at Fort Sunlight have struck in consequence of a Co, of Hongkong and Canton 1917 and joined the ** Palca dispute regarding recognition of rival unions.
The ceremony was performed from that Regiment. – Soms sight London, June 9.
by the Chaplain, the Rav. G. R. | months - ago he accepted The sicry of how the Wandhik- Lindsay. Lieut. Dale being at a post with the China Light sal Police wara deluded into bringing the organ.
Power Company. He was a coffin and tart for the burial of The bride, who was given away | married, and without sny rela--a-Chinese woman-who-was-sub- by Mr. A. Hicks, was attired in a ) togs in the Colony. The funeral dress of ivory charmeuse with an } took place yesterday. overdress of Chantilly lace and silk not, with veil and wreath of orange blossom. She carried a [bouquet of white roses and
maidenhair laras, with tolle
Inspiofor Kent said that o streamers. Hiss Wheeler, who WANTED TRIP TO SEATTLE, STAY Avaning the woman acted as bridesmaid, wore a very
rade a complaint to him that pretty dress of pale pink and
With scarcely cent in his he had been assaulted. On the mauve organdie with a cream silk pocket to help him in the long Hollowing day, early in the marn- straw picture hat trimmed with a journey he attempted to miske ing the husband of the woRING From June 21 hotels and restaurants all over the toputry will be wrath of flowers. She carried back to Seattle, Jabu Oswald, a cans to hire in an exclled condi
bouquet of pink rosas, laven-Eurasian, and lately an inmate ion and asked for a codin to der flowers and maiden-of an orphanage at Singapore, take away the dead body of his
with
to pink thought
tide hair fern, tied
oyer wile, who had died in the night bride
financial dificulties streamers.
was his
by as the casult of the injuries also attended by little Miss | staaling
passage On the bad, sislained. The com Laurelle Routh as flower girl, the Nile on its departure from and a cart were brought into wearing a pale pink georgettedress Singapors for Hongkong Unfor requisition, and an arrival at the and little pink satin cap covered funately for his well-laid plans, bonas, and on inspection of the with silver laçe. She carried a he was discovered on the voyage, wanan.
the Police had basket of pink
and and to-day when the steamer bad suspicion that she was shamming. maidenhair-fame decorated with arrived in Hongkong, he was Their belief was confirmed when, narrow pink ribbon. `-
charged before the Court, by the on taking up her hand to lay it af The duties of boat man werficials of the Company, with her xida, she drew it bachand 14id. discharged by Mr. W. R. Buck- being a stowaway.
1 on by chest. 8o, instand of thờ - berrough.
The young Eurasian said that coffin, they called for an ambul¬ was given at 2, Humphreys spore, and had until lately been taken to the Hospital.
After the ceresiony z reception he had no kith or kin in Sing-anze and in it the woman was
The conference of the National Unionist Association has passed a resolution supporting the whole policy of Tariff Reform, and asking the leaders to prepare a tarif. An amendment to omit the latter on the ground of impracticability at present was rejected.
Washington, June 10.
rationed for sugar as in wartime.
London, are 19. At Olympia in the twenty rounds welter weight championship of Britain, Kid Lewis beat Johnny Basham, the latter's seconds throwing in the towel at the conclusion of the ninth round.
ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
The Resolute defeated the Vanitie by a minute over a thirts-as regards the colonies. mile triangular course.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
Peking, June 13. Some of the Northern Peace Conference representatives have returned to Peking, and informed the President that most of the terms in regard to the reopening of the Conference have been informally agreed to by Wong Yip-tong and Tong Shao-gi and that there will be a great many obstacles if the newly-appointed Southera chief representative, Wan Chong-yao, is accepte-l.
THE HUNAN FIGHTING.
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defendant, who was sweetheart of hers.
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two parties, together with the His Worship bound over the
woman's husband, to keep the peace for the next six months.
Lord Milner, speaking for the Government at a dime of the Imperial Entomological Conference, dwelt on the enana Brogress of science and paid a tribute to the supreme importance of the work He said the tropical and anb-tropical possessions of the Empire had an enormans fature." Health and | accessibility were the greatest things in the future and the rombating Buildings, by Mr. and Mrs. Hick+, | an inmate at an orphanage in that morning abe was very much alive. of disease. He referred to the splendid work done by the Congress received the good wishes of their education he received at the that the woman was at one time where the newly-married couple town. On the completion of the Continuing. Inspector Kent said and hoped it would meet in future at regular intervala,
Mt. Watt said the campaign against locusts in the Transvaal had left by motor for Fanling, where to obtain his living. but, not pigeon" He was of the opinion
many friends.
They afterwards orphanage, he was turned out charged with flying the whita great efect in dealing with plague...
At the final meeting of the Imperial Entomological Conference /the-boneymoon is being spen being able to do so, as he had that it was only a squabble which
The bride's guing-away dress WAS
no friends there to help him, he the woman indulged in 'with the Mr. Harcourt, presiding, proposed a resolution in favour of holding a champagne silk jersey with blur bad formed the determination of a similar conference in London every five years and the establish-ribbon belt and ends. Her hat going to Seattle where he knew ment of an Imperial Bureau of Entomology on a permanent basis was of white net, trimmed with be bad some friends, who, being recommending that contributory governments should guarantee ostrich feathers and a touch well-off, could give him work on contributions and the provision of a total income of thirteen thousand blue,
their farm. sterling.
The bride and bridegroom wer?
Mr. Hutchison failed to see the recipients of many lovely how be could deal with the case. presents. The bridegroom's gif. If he were to wand the boy back to the bride was a pair of diamond ['o Singapore, the probability was ear-rings, and the bride's gift to that he would make another the groom was a set of silver attempt to stow away on some backed military brushes, etc. other steamer.
We have received a copy of The bridesmaid received from the Sergeant Stimson said that if a tract entitled "The Holy bridegroom a silver vanity case, the young man were to do that, Month of Ramzan and Muslims' whilst the gift to the little Bower It would be his own look-out if he Fasting, which has been com- girl was a gold bangle.
again got into trouble with the piled and freued by the Indian Police...
Muslim Society in aid of the His Worship eventually decid- [Asia Minor Relief Fund for dis- led to remand the case until to tressed Muslim women and
morrow, pending the decision of children: the CS.P. who would be in- terviewed by Sergeant Stimson on the malter.
BRITAIN'S TRADE BOOM.
London, June 10.
Peking, June 13. Tuao Chisui. Chief of the General Staff, has ordered Lung Chui- kwong to dispatch two regiments of the Chan Wo Army to reinforce the Hunan troops. The latter has appointed his son, Long Wan-advance is the manner in which Lancashire and Yorkshire manufac
kin, as chief commander.
REPORTED CAPTURE OF CHANGSHA.
Shanghai. June 13. It is rumoured here that Changsha has been captured by the Southern troops, and that Turhun Chang King-yao baa fied to Yocbox.
THE SOUTHERN DELEGATE.
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Shanghai, June 13. Luk Wing-ting and Shum Chung-haun are strongly insisting that the Northern Government should recognise Wan Chung-Jao as chief peace representative for the South, instead of Tdôg Shao-yi.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE SILVER MARKET.
Sir Robert Horne writing to the "Manchester Guardian" says our foreign trade has advanced by leaps and bounds and increasing the country's solvency most successfully. The traders of the future will be those who are most resourceful and reliable in meeting the needs of the world's markets. A most astonishing example of the trade turers are taking advantage of the American markets. Compared with the corresponding period of 1919 we exported in the first four weeks of 1920 sixty-six per cent. more cotton farm. three times the amount of cotton plecegoods and from three to five times the amount of woollen cloth.
COTTON GROWING,
Zorich, June 10.
The International Cotton. Congress has opened. Today's pro- gramme deals with cotton growing in the British Empire, the Belgian Congo and the French and Spanish colonies. It is pointed out that despite the war cotten growing has steadily increased inthe Empire, especially in East and South Africa.
welfare work.
Zurich, ios 10.
ARMS SEIZURE.
FROM JAPANESE BOAT.
A VAGRANT.
morning.
DAY BY DAY.
The Royal Fleet Anxiliary "Dredgol," which came in yestez A mumber of the Japanese crB*
day from Port Said ria Saigon Wie of the Shingo Maru, who was al-
onginally built as dredger but dur- mitted to bail in the sum of $1,00)
ing construction the authorities oa a charge of being in possession
converted her into an oil carrier. † of 12 revolvers, a pistol and 1250 Because his employers falled to he be likely to remain in Hong- rounds of ammunition, failed to keep to a certain condition of 500g to supply off to warabips. appear in Court to-day when his their agreement, C. T. Thomson, tons of fuel oil. She is command- She brought from Port Said 2,491 case was called before Mr. RO. an American, preferred to keep Hutchison. His bail was confit out of work, and to beg in the ed by Captain H. R. Elsby. caled by order of the Magistrate, streets,
Speaking on the seizure of this
Charged with being HIGHWAY ROBBERY. large band of arms, Inspector dicant and a vagrant, st the Kent, of the Wanchal Police, Police Court,this At the Cotton Congress delegates from fifteen countries, including said that the arms were brought Thomson pleaded that he
Was On Saturday, at about noon, India and Japan, passed a resolution appealing to all countries exemptashore from the Shinyo Maro on drunk. He had, it was 'irus, daring highway robbery took from taxation for funds to be set aside for the purpose of social and the Bib fostant, and a few days money with which to buy drinks, place on the road leading from after this, acting on information but he was piring for company Kowloon to Kowloon City. Two previously received, he and an- and sought it in the street. He Chinese otherofficer,Sergeant Kelly, went was being kept by the American Chinese girl were the victime. women and a little to a house occupied by a number of Consol, at the Seamen's Institute. They were stopped by a gang of Japanese at the Fraya East, and, He came from Shanghai to join three men who, from the descrip la the search which enaned, theys certain abip here as bo'sun, and tion given of them, were thoughtto came across the arms, which were was promised charge of twelve be Puntis. Two of them carried stored Inside a trunk: Ite io-men. On arrival bera he found daggers, while the third man h formation --received from the that there were only ten men, revolver. The women were tomates of the house was to the and also there was another breach ordered to hand over: their had gone to Canton and would be fact that when he agreed to take threats of being shot, they were effect that the owner of the arms in the agreement. This was the personal property, which, andar returning in a few days. On a third instead of second clas obliged to do. The value of the Brturday. the prisoner was fare to Hongkong from Shanghai, property and clothing stolen arrested on bis return from Canton, he was promised the return of amounted to about $4. The gang and subsequently released on bail the difference between the two made their escape undisturbed. at the Wanchai Station. In the fares on arrival at Hongkong. absence of the prisoner hs This money had not been given Inspector Kent) applied for the him, and, for this reason, he had. confiscation of the bail, and refused to go on the ship. added that he was given to under- "Inspector Sullivan said that be stand by the officers of the Shinyo had received a number of dam- Maru that the man would be plaints from European residents discharged from service when the on the fact that a European bad ship, arrived st-Yokohama. An been allowed to beg in the streets. order confiscating the arms was – The deand a
INDIA'S COAL INDUSTRY.
Simla, June 10-
London, June 9. A committee appointed to enquire into the coal question in India The fall of sixpence per ounce in the price of silver yesterday advocates the appointment of a controlling authority-to-prevent was largely due to lessened demand from China and offerings from are of coal which as present can be wasted by the coalawaers the Continent following the de monetising of silver: also the fall in without restriction, Nationalisation of the mines is considered price in the United States below a dollar per ounce rendered in beyond practical politics. The report opposes statutory interference operative the discretionary power given Washington Mint by the Pitt- seference to working hours and the introduction of shifts as man Act to buy silver at a dollar per ounce in order to replace silver likely to unsettle labour and cause discontent. exported to India in war time. It is pointed out the fall in price which is thought likely to continue, mast tend to cheapen foodstuffs and other commodities from the East.
MINERS' WAGES AGAIN.
*London, June 10,
HOME RACING.
Londen, Jane:10.
The Newbury Cup resalted:-1, Tangiers; 2, Grandcourt; 2, In consequence of the Government's coal decision the Conference Bridgewater. There were tex runners. A neck three lengths. S. P. the Miners Federation has to-day decided to examine data Betting5-2, 6-1, 100-9,
with"rasylew to formulating. S
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE, The clas demand.