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that district settlements. would contain the germ of endless friction and disputed The great Idea behind the owners' move is to lessen the power of the Minera' Union, and as that is instantly re- cognised the move can inevitably
it
IF YOU WOULD OVERCOME ANY AND ALL OF YOUR HAMPERING CON DITIONS, THEN KNOW MORE WHAT YOU KNOW, THAT YOU ARE, AND THAT YOU CAN DO.-P. Braun...
LOCARNO RATIFIED.
A HISTORY-MAKING. CEREMONY,
H29 DISASTER.
COURT MARTIAL SENTENCE OFFICER.
Geneva, Sept. :14,
London, Sept 14. What Sir Auston Chamberlin
A Court Martial at Bevonport smilingly described to a Reuter re into the disaster to submarine presentativo as "the lust act of the Locarno Pact was staged in H29 has sentence Lieutenant Mal- room colm Edgar Wavell to be dismiss the Secretary General's. when all the signatories thereto ed his ship and be severdy re- deposited their ratifications. Theprimanded. representatives of all seven nations. The Court found that the concerned were present. Thera were no speeches, and the pro- to accured's omitting to give or hazarding of the vessel was due yes-ceedings, which only lasted ten dora for trimming the submarine on the minutes, merely consisted of affix in a definite manner, for not im-
ing signatures and hand-shaking.mediately investigating the flood
The delegates despatched a con-ng of the tanks and for omitting gratulatory telegram to the Mayer to ensure that the hatches wore of Locarno-Reuter
closed before the tanks were flood-" ed.—Reuter...
The P. and D. liner Malwa, which loft Shanghai at 5 p.m. terday, is due here at 7 a.m. 17th inst.
تو جدا
There was one Chinese case of have no other result than to in-typhoid fever reported yesterday. tensify the miners' opposition. The R. A. aquatic sports are tak We believe that it would be posing place in the R.AS.C. camber sible to negotiate a national agree this afternoon. ment within which there could be whatever district modifications might be found necessary to suit the differing needs of the districts, but which would contain decisions of principle valuable to both sides. There are national organisations on both sides the Coalminers' Association and, the Minere". Federation--and it would appear,
A coolle, charged, at the Marine to the ordinary man at least, as Court this morning, with being on board s.s. Santhia without per though the making of an agreemission, pleaded guilty and was ment would naturally fall to these sentenced to one month's hard Mustard & Co., Ltd. two parent bodies: The owners labour without the option of
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A fine of $5 was imposed by the Marine Magistrato to-day on the master of a trading junk, who failed to report his arrival in harbour.
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تنویر
"Geneva, Sept. 14. An interesting and animated discussion took place in the Com- mittee dealing with the draft of the resolution faferring to the SPANISH PLEBISCITE. rules of the election of Non-per- their term of office and the con-PEOPLE FAVOUR PRESENT manent members of the Council,
GOVERNMENT. ditions of re-eligibility.
Prince Arfied Dowles (Perain)
Madrid, Sept. 14.
claimed two seats for the Asiatic continent, and referred, amid The provisional results of the (Incorporated under Companies Ordinances are thinking otherwise, and, as we
HONOKONO
stated earlier, theirs is a tremen- The Hon. John Dewar, of the hilarity, to the scheme submitted plebiscite to onable the people to to the Committee as dividing the register approval of the Primo de 16-17, Chansught Road C. dous responsibility in refusing to firm of John Dewar and Sons, Ltd., League into four classes, namely, Rivera regime show that nearly. negotiate. The Government will the famous distillers, arrived here the aristocracy, the nobility, the 3,000,000 signatures have been doubtless seek to take some com- by the Blue Funnel liner Fatro-bourgeoisie and the proletariat,given in favour of the Govern- clus to-day. He is on a tour of the which applied to the various terms ment. Several provincial figures world on business,
of office of the non-permanent are outstanding-Reuter. members-Reuter,
The Telegraph
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15. 1926
THE COAL DISPUTE.
After four and a half months, during which time it has been the miners of Britain who have been univiliing to meet in conference and negotiate for a settlement of the coal strike, we now find the
pulsory action, but this is not the ideal spirit in which to settle a dis pute which has already been mark ed by far too much animosity.
Chairs and Rickshas. "Peak residents who desire à chair or richsha after, say eight o'clock at night, at the Barker Road level, are finding it increas ingly difficult to get their wishes met. In the, past, all that was.
Messrs. Carroll Bros advise us that the following dividends have been declared:-The Bukit Katil Rubber Estates, Ltd, final of 4% making 14 for the year 1925/6; Glenealy Plantations. Ltd; interim of 10%, making 35% to date..
A Chinese boy died at the Gov. ernment Civil Hospital" yesterday from injuries received in a motor car accident on the Praya"-East. It is reported that he was knocked
PERSIA'S AND CHINA'S CLAIMS,
Geneva, Sept. 14. In the course of the discussion
RULES COMMITTEE. AGREES,
After a lengthy discussion the on the rules governing the election Committee agreed to the rules of non-permanent members of the governing the election of non-per- Council of the League, Prince Armanent members of the Council,
· faed Dowleh (Persia) and Mr their term of office and conditions Chu (China) ro-affirmed their of re-eligibility?
claims for seats."
The rules, provide for the eléc- Mr. Adatoi (Japan) spoke symtion each year of three non-per pathetically of Persia's and
manent members whose term shall China's claims.
Mr. Chu urged that there should commence immediately on election. that if the claim was not satisfied shall be filled by election. A mem- to telephone through to the top,
this Session it would come up next ber may not be re-elected during and by the time the car reached
the periud between the expiration The return showing the number
session. of cases of infectious diseases
Viscount Cecll pointed out the of his term of office and his third Barker Road, the chair or ricksha would be there in readiness. Of which occurred in the Colony constitutional difficulties in the election unless the Assembly, by a late, however, although messages have been sent through, it has during the week-ended last Satur-way of meeting the claims and suy two-thirds-majority, has previously of enteric gested that the Persian and Chin- decided that he is re-eligible. The
ese delegates should be satisfied Assembly may at any time by a... often been found that no vehicle day, shows, six essey
if the report to the Assembly men- two-thirds majority, decide to pro- tioned that adequate representa ceed with a new election of all non- tion had been given to the ques-permanent members of the Council. tion-Reuter.
-Reuter.
owners refusing to go into confer-necessary was to ask. the Tram-down whilst crossing the road bebe two seats for Asia and added In the event of a vacancy, the scat ence on the terms of the minor way officials at the lower station tween a tramcar and a motor car.
day.
us that he has recently made re-panied with death. The Colony is available. A resident informs fever, all Chinese and all accom presentations to the Peak Tram had a clear bill of health on Mon- way Company on the subject, but that the latter say they cannot be responsible for the securing of
The ongagement is announced i chairs or rickshas for those who of Capt. D. C. Logan, M. C., officer want them at Barker Road. The commanding the Scottish Co., Volunteer Defence remedy suggested was that use, Hongkong
.
Two caddies, one a Malay and the other a Chinese, were charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell to-day
The Harry Jetra!
Invitation. It is, to say the very least, a heavy responsibility which the owners have now shouldered. The good offices of the Government have been exerted for weeks in convincing the miners that their slogan of "Not a penny off the pay, not an hour on the day' would never bring about a settle ment because of the rough-shed manner in which it sought to ride over the economics of the industry.should be made of the public tele- Corps, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. The miners were told time and phone at the lower station, by W. Logan of Hongkong, to Miss again that there must be different which residents could get into Iris McCoan Thornhill, youngest conditions to those which existedtouch with the chair and ricksha daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
depot on the Peak. We are told, Thornhill of Hongkong.. before the stoppage, and, at long however, that it is seldom possible last, they have come to recognise to get anyone at this depot who
While Lancashire hea been British Association, but Professor. that Father unpalatable truth and can speak English. The matter is one of considerable importance to
lately praised for the terseness of Spearman was unfortunately not have empowered their Executive those who use the Penk tramway with breaking into and stealing some of its idioms, such as "If you able to point out any way to avoid A writer in the Evening: to negatinte for a national set- as far as Barker Road, for it is twelve books from the Boy Scouts' don't want it now, eat it against them,
They you do," one may balance against Standard says that he knows a poet tlement in terms which clearly in- distinctly discomforting on return- Club at Happy Valley.
ing at night to have to face the admitted the offence. The Malay them such trailing ends as "and "who boasts in one of his poems an exquisitely appropriate epithet, dicate that they are prepared to probability of a long walk home was ordered eight strokes of the then" and "an all-," or the
due entirely to the printer having compound verb .!"to accept lower wages. The Governmerely because there happen to be cane, while the Chinese was sen- curious
Ittenced to fourteen days' imprison avtucumansee, which in good correctly." But does not some- been unable to read his' writing no public vehicles, available. ment instantly invited the owners
ought to be possible for some ment..
Wiganese was heard thus on to a three-party conference, but the scheme to be evolved whereby
Wigan station the other day, at the thing like that happen to Gray? owners have now thrown a apan-chaira or rickshas can be obtained There is a typhoon of severe open door of a compartment in the The story is that in the first line- of the Elegy he put a comma after ner into the machinery of negotia-at the Barker Rond level between intensity east of Formosa, and it train:
'the word tolls": "Well, I'll avtucumansee you
: eight o'clock and midnight, and we is proceeding, in a north-easterly
The curfew, tolls the knell of tions by saying that they will not should like to see the matter taken direction, heading for the island soon." (Future tense).
This much is in- "Yes, y'll 'avet avtucumansee parting day, that the printer, left meet the miners nationally but will up, either by the tramway com- of Ishigaki. only discuss the future with dis- pany or the police, or both,, with dicated In to-day's weather report us as soon as we've got settled." it out, and that the poet approved
Royal Observatory (Future-perfect-imperative [?]), and accepted the emendation. trict committees. They claim that this object in view. As things are, from the
conditions are distinctly unsatis- There is no local threat, the fore Though somewhat cumbrous, it is the district associations and dis- factory.
cast up till noon to-morrow being quite a useful verb, conveying and There is nothing the matter with. "North-westerly winds, moderate; leaving a pleasant though vague the modern girl. She's all right. trict miners' committees are quite
fine,"
impression of invited hospitality Thus was the question settled at capable of fixing district terms
of a nature somewhere between a a recent conference of the Asso and that they do not want any-
The following vessels are ex-call, spending the day, and a week clation of Headmistresses in Lon--
end without committing either don, thing further to do with 'national
pected to be in wireless
Miss Annie Morrison, principal munication with Hongkong to-day: side. How abrupt and formal the Of agreements.
course, the
President word "must" is in comparison, and of the Francis Holland school, in President Adams, Miners' Executive will fight this Paris
Akihow sparely "You must come and speaking of modern girls, said: Brussels
Madison, President Taft, attitude to the finish.
12.11 Maru, Tottori Maru, Amur Maru, see us" fills those last empty "According to Grannie's view Amsterdam
But: In 20.38% Harunasan Maru, Kojun Maru, moments in contrast with the point they are all wrong. There is a very big principle at Berlin
18.28 Copenhagen
Mayebashi Maru, Sado Maru, cheerful patter of the Lancashire spite of this I think the modern stake in the dispute as it now Vienna
girls are delightful. Heads of 34.39 Shirala, Morea, Amazone, Muen Idiom! Helsingfors
colleges admit they never have had stands, and we imagine that the Helsing whole of British Trade Unionism Buenos Aires
a better intellectual type, or one
Shanghai
more imbued with the spirit of will be solid behind the miners in
Yokoham
service. their claim to be dealt, with na-New York
Genova tionally. The power of collective Milan
Stockholm bargaining is being assailed, and, Dela although we freely admit that the Praguo Madri power of collective bargaining has Rio often been abused, we think it Bombay
Hongkong would be a retrogressive act if Silver (spot)
Silver (forward). that power were completely shat- tered. It is better that an indus- try should be organised nationally Both from the workers and the employers points of view, and that Cisputes, in that industry should be dealt with by the in- dustry as a whole instead of in small territorial unite. There would be so much room for play
EXCHANGE RATES.
Lisbon
Rugby, Sept. 14.
100% 177
2/07 15/10
com-
17/32 sterland, Glonapp, Santhia, Tjikini," 45.36/64 Patroclus, Tjipanas, Kutsang, Levant Arrow, Kwaisang, Malwa, 4.86% Ainrum, Anhui, Taikoowanyi, Van 25.12% Overstraten, D'Artagnan, Telema
chus and Talthyblus.
184 .18.15%
22.16
.131 The Penang Ex-Services As- 26.72% sociation's inaugural dinner was 7.17/32
1/6.68/04 held in the new banqueting room
:
The youngster put on roller
skates..
.Of.fear there was no trace Until the sidewalk came right
:-up
And slapped him in the
face.
After examining the window for
"As forns that's concerned, Grannie no longer is content to sit placidly in the corner with her Bible and knitting, but eries aloud. for betting tips and dance favours,”
PoliticianHave you written
2/21 of the E. and O. Hotel last week a long time, the little girl entered 28.6/10 when
over fifty were present the toy shop. "Have you a nice 25,7/16 Mayor Jensen, who presided, toy," she asked, "to cost about British Wireless.
proposed The King, and Mr. Scarightpence? I want it for a your speech yet? horough proposed The Guests to present for my little sister." Ditto No, but I've prepared a
"Well," said the benevolent statement saying I was Which Mr. Horford replied in
shopkeeper, "here's a doll. It quoted." Tho Latvian-German Commer, rumourous vein. The Silent, Toast really costs a shilling, but I'll let
mis-
cial Treaty, the next of which is was proposed by Mr. Lancaster, the you have it for, oightpeace." The Prime Minister stands high now available, is based on the Air Force by Mr. Parrott and the Oh, no," replied the child. "If in the estimation of England, but most-favoured-nation ⠀⠀
on principle, Sister Services by Mr Bring but contains a clause dobarring Gould. Mr. Justice Brown and Germany from the special advan Lt. Col. Whyte also apoke and tages which Latvia may grant to very successful evening was spent, Finland, Estonia, Lithuanls, and a group photograph being also the Union of Soviet Republics:
takon,
you're knocking fourponce off perhaps we should hardly go so everything I'll have one of these far as the Temps, which the fourpenny painting books. other day repeatedly referred to ing him as "St, Baldwin" It seems to The psycohology of printers be an ill-considered contraction errors is an unusual topic for the for "Stanley".
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