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六拜禮 ●三十月十英港香 SATURDAY
OCTOBER
THE RUHR SITUATION.
KREEMEN OF LONDON. -
AS ON IMPERIAL UNITY.
(Reuter's Service)
London, -October 19.
Essen district
FOOD RIOTS AT SOLINGEN.
(Reuter's Service)
Duesseldorf, October 19
BROXT: COPT DE CIÈ
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tɔ reslise that 'all: Used Chis, and alt Used Car dealers aren't alike. It isn't much of a problem with us any mark THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., TLD.
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HONGKONG LACK OF OPEN SPACES.
LOCAL ILL AND TFS RENDY.
[TELEGRAPH SPECIAL]
·LOCAL BOXING.
ANOTHER CHALLENOR FOR BUX
· Berroant Tribe,
Garrison Artili kry. follows
With
referencs socompled challenge, to Iron Ben of open by B. Daries of HM. &
Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Mackenzie King, and Mr. Bruce were given. The economic sitisation in the Ruhr is serious. A cessation of The freedom of the City at the Guildhall, which was thronged by work in numerous industries is expected. A French report saya
To the traveller conversant with houses the marima
• distinguished gathering, including the Duke and Duchess of York, that ten thousand unemployed man in Solingen looted the shops. the Duke of Devonshire, Cabinet Ministers, and Imperial Con- The police fired, and two moters were killed and seventeen wound the East, Hongkong mat appeal modation, the minimum farance delegates. Responding, Mr. Baldwin said ha, Mr. King and Five thousand unemployed men besieged the town hall at Duessels) to him first az a thriving port as space; the apeculativa builder's Promede, I am also prepared to ma
accept Bux's challemes to fight- under the same conditions task Mr. Bruce were inexperienced, but inexperience gave men faith to dorf. The French commander in response to repeated requests city of fine buildings, expressive El Dorado,
It is this excessive surface Davies has offered, namely, besi take the risks which must be taken these days. Referring to un-the burgomaster sent troops to occupy the town hall and protect the of the sound and substantial employment, he said the old markets would take years to recover. municipality. The sordicomed the French troops with business carried on. Er will be crowding which must sooner or porse effend p
struck by the eperque displayed later pravida't the Government ham in first-class condition The Old World must call in the New World to develop a fairerjenthusiasm, crying "Get us food."
on all sides, kind park
arly so with à problem af great difficulty, and ready to fight at any t Inheritance than either had yet enjoyed. He was convinced that a
Duesseldorf, October 12. whan-he-rabe shocks with the and to solve which an expenditure Sings: my stay la Hongkong solution would be found for the grave problems, and tl e Conference
tooming thousSANDS OF LIS ious of some millions of dollars may Haya won all my light up los tan- would accomplish something to the permanent good of their own Hitherto eleven person are reported killed and 35 injured in Asiaties. Be
findeed | have to be faced people and of mankind.
rounds under the Hongkong the unemployment disturbances at Salingan, which continue. To appeal to him talanta, pulsat.
The continued expansion of Boxing Association, and am Mr. Mackenzie King emphasised that the freedom of London thousand unemployed besieged the town hall st Hoechst. The ing with heale kativity.
This in a most, that is, is good the Colony emphasises the looking forward to a champion- was linked by unbrokan tradition with the freedom of the comGerman police used their arms and one person, was killed and tan munity of British nations. Mr. Brace had a remarkable ovation injured. Incidents are also reported at Cologne, Hambor and the for the travel to carry away paucity of open spaces and ship bout during the coming
the
congestion of playing season in the He emphasized that most of the benefits anjoyed by the Dominions
with him, búi should he be con- strained to retain here many factor of all in this respect is
falds. Perhaps came through the struggle for freedom fought in London during
the greatest class." past centurias. London was responsible for bringing the Dominions:
moons he will become aware that into existance, and could not shirk Ita responsibilities (laughter and
all is not well with the child cheers). The Empire was what it was by the commercial genius of
palat the Chinese quarter of aptitude of Young China fer all HONGKONG'S TAXIS. the British people, especially of London, and it was for. London to
theroty after the shops have parts; also the imperative need maintain it and prove itself worthy descendants of those who
FIFTY MORE COMING.. closed, he is amased, and again of providing athletic centres for the Chinese, and the presØTTE- through suffering sud endurance had brought the Empire into being. PASSENGERS LOSE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. smared at the enormous numbertion of the existing areas intact Seen by a Telegraph repres He appealed to London to help find a way out of Britain's com
of apparently-destitute persons. Moscow, October 12. marcial and industrial troubles.
whore only couch, singly, for the use of non-Asiatics sentative, Mr. A. H. Rowe, the Bandits stopped and robbed the Warsaw-Moscow express the public footpath. These un-is of paramount importance manager of the Hongkong and tained to lunch at the Mansion House. Responding to their heal. Polish diplomatic agents were robbed, but the diplomatic biga-areį vefandaks from the rain, spread/sideration to these points in any stated that he was more than Following the Guildhall ceremony, the Freemen were enter-hundred miles inside the Russian frontier. British, Italian and fortunates, sheltered by the The necessity for giving full con- (Kowloon Taxicab Company, Mr. Baldwin, referring again to unemployment, urged the necessity for pushing on with the development of the Empire with safe. The bandits had loosened the rails. Eight of them, armed for themselves a piece of maiting, scheme of Town Planning can-satisfied at the manner in which the utmost celerity and ardour, confident that
with rilles and revolvers, boarded the train. The passengers, wha six feet by these, provide a block not be over-emphasised. in that direction alone lay hope for the future for Britain and the were asleep, were wakened by warning shots and compelled to line of wood for a pillow, and if the crowded masses of its population. Mr. Bruce, also responding up. They were robbed of thousands of dollars.
BANDIT KÄID ON A TRAIN.
ANOTHER BIG PRESS COMBİNE --
PURCHASES. BY "DAILY MAIL" TRUST,
London, October 12,
suggested that the Economic Conference was more important than. the Imperial Conference, for unless a continuance of Britain's com- mercial predominance be assured, Britain will be unable to main- tain the world's peace as in the past; but he emphasised there was no need for depression: The Empire had solved similar difficulties in the past and would-solve them to-day. The solution did not lie in an application of remedies but in the will and courage of the people. The Empire could provide a market for British manufac turers such as the latter had never known, and place Britain in an unrivalled commercial position. The Empire to-day was in aë great It is announced that the Daily Mail Trust has nequired for six a danger as in wartime. He appealed to the men in the great posi-million sterling some forty newspapers and periodicals owned by tion of London to live up to the ideal of the boys who the Halton Company, including the Atening Standard, Daily Sketen fought in the war, to sacrifice every interest, and to render and Sunday Herald published in London, and several Manchester some return to the men who did so much to save the Empire and dailies and weeklies. All will be managed by the Trust except the
Evening Standard, which will be controlled by Lord Beaverbrook.
civilization.
WE MUST HAVE THE LEAGUE.
LORD ROBERT CECIL'S OPINIONS.
London, October 12.
The Dominion Fremiers' general support to the League of Nations is rhown in passages from the speeches at the Imperial Conference issued this evening. The speeches are mainly expressions of sympathy with the Lengue's objects and appreciation of Lord Robert Cecil's endeavours.
NFW ZEALAND'S AID TO JAPAN.
Wellington, October 12 The New Zealand Government has contributed ££25,000 relieve sufferers from the earthquake in Japan.
POPULAR U.S. LABOUR LEADER.
Portland, October 12.
"EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
temperature is low, cayer them- selves with a quilt composed maybe of sacking, raga or rattan. OUR DISGRACEFUL TENEMENTS.
the increasing love and natural
THE WATERFRONT.
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the public had so far-patronised “ the taxi service. The response altogether exceeded his expecta- It will always be a matter of tons. He has calculated that the regret that the whole of the taxis would do about thirty miles waterfront of Victoria, with the day each, but in point of ana exception of Statue Square, has they average fully shandrad been sacrificed to commercialism. miles a day. Moreover, he had Mammon is paramount. The estimated that there would bu
· The stranger's opinion of Hong-selling of the sea-bed at North about fifty per cent, empty run- kong is now somewhat shaken, Point for the purpose of reclaming, whereas the figure was only and he being of an enquiring turn mation, and the erection therson shout one-thint.
open:"
of mind maker of the seasoned eventually of hideous structures, M. Rows stated that before one what it means. Of a surety may perhaps be a good thing for the end of the year there would he is met with the statement: the exchequers of the Govern arrive, in the Colony fifty mor
Oh, yes! They like sleeping in ment, but is greatly to be deplor taxis, all of which would be put the
a perfectly true ed on aesthetic and, moral into service on the Hongkong answer. They do like sleeping grounds. The one area within side. The present Saxe, Walch in the open, because even easy reach of the city's workers have a speed of forty miles an Chinese coolie finds it often im-that could have been easily and hour, were really intended for possible to pass the night in some economically developed into a Kowloon, and, when the new ones of the old so-called "domestic ** pleassonce-presenting excellent arrive, will be transferred across tenement houses which abound in bathing facilities, opportunities the harbour. the city-dark, loathsome holes for band and vocal concerts, a The new taxis, would have a within which there is little day marine drive, the evening Mecca maximum speed of thirty miles light or ventilation, and some of the superheated city dweller an hour, which would give them 10 times not at all. So wander then the one bright spot of an other greater bill-climbing power, there that pulmonary disemas are rife, wise uninteresting waterfront, having been specially geared to and are responsible for a greater was sacrificed at public auction, take the Hongkong bills.-- wastage of life than all other and the residents of Hong- I consider that within four causes put together. Sunlight kong tetrayed for pieces of months I shall have the finest and air, the common inheritance silver."
drivers in the Colony,” said. Mr. of all, has in the past been filched |
[Rows, "because these taxi drivers It may be that the Government are doing about a hundred miles by grasping and unintelligent building speculators who con-finds in the purchase price the a day, against an average of about structed a type of house often salve for its conscience. The thirty miles for ordinary cars On entirely devoid of any airspace, and sacrifice has been made, the pur-hire. They are at it all day, and where such was provided it was chase price accepted, but the will therefore soon gain so of such small dimensions that it voice of posterity will declaim the experience which will make them could only be regarded as a some betrayers. (The area of which really first-class drivers,” Mr. what enlarged shuts down which write is that lying to the east of Rowe added that many more refuse could be projected by the the Hongkong Electric Light drivers, are, at present, being decupants of the floors above Station)
trafned in order to be ready for
Lord Robert Cecil reviewed the work of the League, and claimed The American Federation of Labour has unanimously re-elected that it had achieved an immense amount of very valuable inter-Mr. Gompere as its president. national co-operation with very great success, and at wonderfully little expense. Dealing with the Italo-Greek dispute, be claimed that the League had carried out its duty of promoting a settlement, and its suggestions for a settlement had been very valuable and quite sound, but as Italy and Greece agreed to settle the dispute | otherwise than by a report to the Council it was the duty of the Coun- cil to do everything it could to facilitate a settlement by these means. He did not think Italy's repudiation of the League's competence had done the League's authority as much harm as some believed. There had been a very remarkable rally by the smaller Powers in support of the League, and this was a very valuable counter-weight to this repudiation. The British Empire's foreign policy was to keep peace, and the League was an instrument for that purpose incom parably more effective than anything before. We ought to do our utmost to strengthen the Lague and make it more and more the commerstone of our policy,
under the cotton industry act. One hundred and ninety-seven finds ( It is no wonder then that the early to consider the possibilities ind the Ides of the that although Australia is enthusiastically did not reply and only eight preferred to pay the charge direct to sojourner here is staggered, and of Causeway Bay soon dis behind idea the League, it does not think the League at this the corporation. *tage of its infancy can ensure the pasce of the world, but believes
if the League be given an opportunity to grow there is the germ of one thing which might ensure the great universal object, namely world peace.
The Empire's Great Prestige.
THE COTTON INDUSTRY.,
London, Oct 12,
intact,
srises
TO-DAY
No wonder than that the public The open spaces and playing the arrival of the new taxis. footpath is preferable to a night fields which are now left to us spent in the stagnant, foetid must be preserved
and as opportunity atmosphere of-snch a dwelling. At a meeting of the administrative council of the Empire Cotasime that his birthright was Sunlight and air! Socaly it is Growing Corporation of London on the 10th, it was announced that handed back to the wretched five hundred and eight firms of äpinners elected to pay through
coolie! brokers a levy of sixpence per five hundred lbs. of cotton purchased;
PAPYRUS LAMED BY HARD TRACK.
New York, Oct. 12. Papyrus developed a slight lameness in the right fore ankle
fresh Areas must be added. A SUGGESTION.
In this respect it is not too
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Lighting Up-Time 601 pm
News in To-Day's New Advertisements.
angered, when he walks within at should this our gates and has revealed to him ever come to be filled in. Here this canker which is hidden would be an opportunity to to all except the reekers after provide playing fields, swimming pools, et cetera, and an enchant
The next Gymkhana wiff be truth
ing promenade could be provided held on the 10th and 12th. prox LUNGS FOR THE along the water front, with deepPage
COMMUNITY.
water at the entrancés convenient. To: let!: Gadowo at Kennedy for the establishment of ferry Town Page 4
Motorists will and special D
only a brief stay at this Island of Public Works Department. That went with this issue - Sweet Waters, but which presses this department is alive to the "Lane, Crawford's Men's We |with ever-increasing intensity necessitler of the occasion, and Dept. advertise ssssonable
upon the resident here, and that | the dif lties of providing for ing-Page 6,5- Is the paucity of open spacer sad them
General Smuts said he was informed the moral stock of the after a gallop yesterday morning, Trainer Jarvis, while plainly, wor- There is another aspect | services. British Empire was very high at Geneva, where the most remark-ried, declared be was hopeful the Injury would be overcome long of affairs which does not The whale subject is one which terest in the advertisemente ET- able things the confidence, faith and reliance of the represents before the race. The hard dirt track of Belmont Park is blamed for revesi itself to one who makes is essentially a problem for the pearing in the » Motor Supple- tives of all the small peoples of the world manifested in the British Empire's stand for justice and fairplay and International honesty, He strongly urged the Empire Governments to keep their hands ......clona, and support the League as well as support the smaller Powers where their interests clashed with larger Powers. The League ideal seamed the only hope of the world. The unsettlement and breakup Mateo and Nicolas have been sentenced to death for com of Europe continued, therefore if there was any practical force likely to keep the nations together and offer protection against the era of in the murder of Premier Deto in March, 1921. Seven othe complete reaction and brigandage which seemed now to be set- acquited ting in, let them exploit it fully,
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