TO END COAL MINE DEADLOCK.
SEEKING A SETTLEMENT "FORMULA..
-TO-DAY'S MEETING.
Rugby, Sept 6. As a result of correspondence between the coalowners and the Government Mines Department, representatives, of the Mining Association will attend a meeting of the Coal Committee of the Cabinet to-morrow to discuss the question of calling a joint con- ference of the parties to the coal dispute. The Association had in a previous letter informed the Mines Department that they were unable
to meet the miners in three-corner conferences to dis- cusa a national agreement, as they "had no authority to enter into any discussions of negotiations on behalf of District Colliery owners' Association on questions of terms of employment by workmen."
The general, Soller is that the insistence of the coalowners to settle terms in the districts and not on a national" basis will not he allowed to block the way to a
settlement.
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WONDERFUL PROVINCE.
NOTES ON A VISIT TO YUNNAN.
[BY FOREIGNER."].
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1926.
CANTON'S REPORTS OF
“VICTORIES!"
TRUTH BEGINNING TO DAWN.
WOUNDED FROM FRONT. The mountainous province of Yunnan is potentially,"one of the
A prominent Kuomintang Hewa- richest in China, but also one of paper published in Canton says it the most backward. Holiday will soon explain in a few words visitors are now returning to tho Colony with glowing accounts of
why it was misled into printing their experiences in the ideal the news that Wuchang had been climate in Yunnan at an altitude taken by the Southern armies. of, about seven thousand feet, and they also toll of signs of life and Other. Kuomintang organs have progress in the principal towns of virtually denied their previous the province, which are not with-reports as to the successes of the out interest to the students of
Southern Army in Hupeh and things Chinese.
from the "front" last weck. Altogether about 7,000 to 8,000 men were engaged in fighting last week along the Kwangtung Klangei borders.
The Governor of the Province, Hunan: Tang Chi-yao is a most interesting. The Kwangtung Section of the personality. He celebrated his Canton-Hankow Railway brought forty-fifth birthday on the 20th back more than 2,600, wounded August and entertained the whole community in Yunnan city on an extensive scale. On the evening of the 21st he invited all foreigners living in the city to a banquet in one of the great Halls
The Canton authorities have in his Chinese residence. There is no anti-foreign feeling in issued formal orders for the de- Yunnan. Governor Tang has held fonce of Kwangsi Province from dispatched "from office for nine years, except for a "anti-Reds" short "vacation" when an aggres. Yunnan. This appears to confirir. sive rival, a brigand chief, made to the previous reports that things too warm for him. Seven "anti-Reds' are to attack Kwang- large tung from Fukien, Kinngsi, and The Government view that this years ago, he minted" -4 matter is capable of an equitable quantity of gold coins ($10 and Yunnan, settlement by national agreement, $5 pieces) and issued them with district variations, in accor- local currency. These coins have dance with conditions existing in disappeared long ago, though a the different areas, was expressed few. are still obtainable, at a con- by Mr. Churchill, Chancellor ofsiderable premium. It is said that the exchequer, in Parliament last be obtained the gold for this cur week. This view was expressed renes during the Great War, when strongly by the Coal Commission's he was able to dictate his own report, and the negotiation of terms for the tin which is exported from the province in large quan- such an agreement is now the
tities, and that he would only sold imitation placed by the allow it to be exported in exchange. Miners' Executive on the scope of for payment in gold. the discussion at the joint. con- ference which they requested have Mr. Churchill to convene.,
Presumably the Cabinet Coal Committee, at their meeting with the Mining Association to-morrow, will invite that body to obtain from the District Coalowners' Associations R mandate to enter "upon discussions on a national
basis.British Wireless.
PAPER CURRENCY.
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Since the Kuomintang communi- ques announcing the successes, at Wuchang and Hankow, Government war bonds and treasury notes have regained strength, many holders refusing to part with them at 15 per cent. of their face value. For a time these notes were, thought useless and a little better than waste paper.
Re-inforcements from Canton are being dispatched to the Eastern Kwangtung districts for the sup- pression of the "anti-Reds". The Kuomintang is strongly denying the "anti-Red" report that General Li Teni-hsin, now acting Comman- der-in-Chief of the Army in Can- ton,, is ready to surrender Canton to the "anti-Reds" as soon as op portunity allows, but explaining that the delay in re-inforcing the Northern Expeditionary Army in Hunan from Canton has been due to financial and other reasons.
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There are no silver coins in the cents and upwards have entirely province, but paper notes from ten taken the place of silver. The notes are printed in America, and are issued by the Fu-tien Bank on behalf of the local Government. Six weeks ago a hundred dollars (Hongkong) would exchange in Yunnan for $350 Yunnan paper, but three weeks ago, for some un THE DOUBLE MURDER. known reason, the rate of ex- change fell to $200 which produc- ed a flatter in the money market, and the popularity of Government Tang increased with the rumour In the latest reports received that ailver coins would soon, be .in regard to the affray outside the reintroduced. It was stated in Western Market yesterday morn-official circles that the Government ing, some curious incidents are will destroy, a million dollars of which features. Buster Keaton in revealed following on police in notes a month for 24 months and one of his funniest efforts. This vestigations.
that thus in two years the ocial is a real side-splitter; For instance, it appears
that debt to the Bank of Fu-tien will 5.15 and 9.15 shows, Mr. Vladimir one of the two men who were kill-be wiped out. The comment of Darow, the Russian baritone, sup- some excellent Vocal that plies Was the Man-in-the-street ed in the affair, was making ust
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of a police whistle, whilst he was this might happen when Yuntian numbers, pursuing an adversary who had and Hongkong paper, money are inflicted a mortal injury in his nearer "par" than they are at back. Pursuer and pursued cir-present!
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but the Yunnan plant is possibly times before the former dropped
unique in China. The river which dend, with the whistle still clutchFor some time past the Chinese supplies the water runs into the ed in his hand. ir
Post Office in Yunnan has been Yangtze River far north; close to The other man was struck down compelled to sell" stamps at the Yunnan it is a rushing torrent, full in the grim fight occurring when same value as the notes; for in- of water in the summer, but re- the "minority" turned on their stance a dollar note would pur-duced to cascades in the winter. A pursuers and engaged them with chase a hundred one-cent stamps.mile from the power house the river This led to an Interesting situa- has been dammed, so that when knives and hatchets,,
Both men bore marks of multiontraders in stamps would the river is at its lowest the water dollars worth of can be held up in sufficient quan- tiple injuries when their dead purchase ten bodies were picked up and taken stamps, send them to Shanghai tities to work the turbines.
and sell them at a profit of more one corner of the dam a canal about to the Mortuary.
The Post eight feet wide and six feet deep than 200 per cent. Office at first attempted to stop and a mile-long, receives the water this illegal trading in stamps by froni the river through water gates only selling stamps for letters which can be closed when the water which were handed in over the is not needed. The water rushes counter and had the stamps affix- through the canal to the great ed in the presence
of postage metal pipes which descend at an clerks. This, of course, was an angle of about 45 degrees to the which drive the impossible way of doing postage turbines
The turbines business and a few weeks ago Dynamoes. a surcharged issue of stamps came about 40 yards away from the end out, with the inscription in Chinese of the canal, which is high above "Limited for use in letters in Yun- them. nan only."
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From an official account of the affair it would scem that the two parties in the fight belonged to opposing societies, and that the affair was the culmination of "Trind" feud which. hád been germinating over a long period.
It would further appear that the Praya outside the Western Market was agreed upon as the scene for the eettlement of the quarrel.
The fight had been well under way before the police came on the acene. The participants ran away, scattering in all directions.
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During the past few months a foreign engineer has completed the construction of an extension Some of the visitors to Yunnan of the canal, a second power One of them WHE pursued
were much astonished to find house and turbine, which have through a number of streets be- fore he was brought to bay, in Des springs of "bolling" water a day's greatly increased the supply of journey from the city. Residents Voeux Road. Brandishing a dag of 20 years' standing had heard of current. The resources of the these but had never visited them, province in respect of water power The writer was not the first for for the production of current are eigner to visit one
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