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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1924.
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DOCK DISPUTE ENQUIRY.
London, Feb. 20.
A Court of Enquiry into the Dock' dispute, presided over by Mr. Holman Gregory, accompanied by Mr. H. Roothman, the sacretary of the Association of Operative Cotton-spinners, and Sir Andrew. Duncan, secretary of the Shipbuilding Employers" Federation opened publicly at the Law Courts this morning.
Neither of the disputants briefed counsel. Mr. Ernest Berin, opening for the Dockers, did not propose to call witnesses, but desired the court to call witnesses from the other side. Sir Norman HI, vice-President of the Chamber of Shipping, is present repre- senting the employers-Reuter.
GERMAN POLITICS.
Berlin, Feb. 20.
The dissolution of the Reichstag is expected next week in con- sequence of the Social Democrats' opposition to the Emergency Powers Act in its present form-Reuter.
OBITUARY.
New York, Fab. 20. The death is announced of Doctor Alexander Garrett, the presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States-Reuter.
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AMERICA'S COAL SUPPLY.
Jacksonville. Feb. 20.
An agreement has been reached for providing renewal of the present bituminous miners terms. The Union declared it had laid, the groundwork of peace in the coal industry and a continuous supply of fuel for at least three years.-Reuter's American Service,
THE FIUME QUESTION.
Belgrade, Feb. 20.
The Chamber has-ratided the agreement between Italy and Yugo-Slavia-Beuter.
THE MEXICAN REVOLT.
Mexico City, Feb. 20. The Federals have octapled Morelia without fighting-Reuter.
EARTHQUAKE ·
INSURANCE CLAIMS.
Tokyo, Feb. 20,--Whereas thei former insurance proposals provid-
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
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Shanghai, Feb. 20.
A special dispatch to the China
jed that companies should pay ten Press from Tsingtau reports that per cent, of claims, receiving the 'an earthquake shock was felt there equivalent in the form of a sab- at 1120 p.m. on the 19th. No sidy, it is now understood that the damage was done. but there is Government is prepared to advancë, some uneasiness. Y.180,000 000 to companies in pro- portion to the percentage of claims! that each arrange and are able!
to pay. By this proposal, the
| weaker companies are rivėn mach
more assistance.
It is proposed to classify the
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ants will derive most beneit.
The loan will be repayable in:
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NORTH, CHINA'S RAILWAYS.
Peking Feb. 20.--The Bureau of Economic Information learns from official sources that the Ministries
afty years, at 44/5%. and down of Foreign Affairs and Commuri-
the scale according to the amount cations have no knowledge of any the company must pay out. The agreement relative to the construc- companies are in conference as to tion of three railways in North the possible basis of payments. - China No agreement of this nature has been submitted to any Ministry for consideration.- Reuter.
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MORAL UPLIFT IN JAPAN.
Tokyo, Feb. 20-To-day the Premier and Minister of Education
series of conferences' opened a with representative
FATHER VAN PRAET RESCUED.
religious Peking, Feb. 20-The Wai- leaders, aiming at the improvement chlaopu have received a telegram Mafuhsiang Tutung
of national thought, and the uplift from the
of the people's morale, which, it is Chabar. saying that Father vas declared, has seriously declined Praet has been rescued from the
bandits, and since the disaster last year.
safely reached The Premier, in his address. Taliang on the 15th-Beuter. stressed the necessity of checking the tendencies to mock faith, a well as the extreme Radicalism,
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ADZES OF THE AGES. [faces, the cutting edge of about nearly 5,000 years ago, while the
the same angle, the convexly other was used to cut wood up curved under side of the opposite to within recent years. It is end, and the smaller diameter suggested that this is futher From Egypt To Hawaii. and rough finish of the tang or evidence tending to confirm Prof. handle portion, and the similarity Eliot Smith's view that the arts The curious and very strong cannot fail to impress the obser- of early Folynesia and pre- resemblance of quite modern ver. The Egyptian adze was of Columbian America were largela adzes found in Hawaii to those siliceous limestone, the Hawaiian derived through some inter-cours of ancient Egypt has been was of basalt. It appears from with ancient Egypt after about brought to notice by Dr. Henry this that there were evolved,two 800-B.C. Prof. Washington, how- Feb." 20-Glasgow S. Washington in the journal of tools that were essentially ever, is inclined to believe that representatives of all denomina- Rangers defeated Kilmarnock by the Washington Academy of identical, each shaped from the the origins were independent, and tions have beet samoned-2 goals to 0. in the game played Sciences.. It is shown that the most suitable local material, and that the resemblances are due to Reuter,
yesterday, the 19th-Reuter. tools of both sources have the one employed for hewing out the working out of primitive pro-
same slightly curved upper sur-tombs in rather soft limestone! blems in the most natural way,
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