THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1927.
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INDIAN TEXTILES.
DECISION HELD TO BE AN "INDIAN AFFAIR."
London, June 8.
The Manchester correspondent
BIRD MIGRATION.
WHERE DUCKS AND GEESE
GO IN SPRING.
Fairbanks, Ala... June 8. "Where do ducks, and geons go
of the Financial News says that in springtime when they fly to- much rollef was felt on the Man-ward the Pole from Point Barrow?" chester Royal Exchange over the is a question which remains to be. Indian Tariff Board report, toge-answered.. ther with the Government of
Baffled by an Arctic fox, Captaini India's decisions as there seems George Wilkins has returned, hav- to be no probability at presenting abandoned one of his nor that the Indo-British fiscal planes In the frozen wastes of the rangement will be materially al-north coast of Alaska.
tered.
Sir Edward Rhodes has pointed out that for many years Lance shire, goods have not competed with those of the India manufae turers and is of the opinon that two years hence labour conditions and working hours in Japan will be distinctly improved and their advantage in. that connexion will be, reduced.
Wilkins and his pilot, Graham, new to Etah, Greenland, on May 28, thence to the fuel stores dump at Point Barrow, to try to solve the mystery of the birds' annual migration to the far north and to determine whether the fabled Atlantic continent exits where no man is known to have bean, but like last year's expedition has now been abandoned because the dense Ho criticises the management fogs velled the ice formations be- and organisation of the Bombay low as the aviators few over a mills and indicates that Lanca-world impenetrably white.- shire's hope is in increasing the Reuter.
consumption of fine goods in In-
dias
Ho sums up Lancashire's atti- CHAMBERLİN'S FLIGHT. tude thus: "The decision of the Government of India can be re- garded as entirely an Indian affair."
British Competition Not Responsible.
The Financial News Calcutta correspondent says that while Bombay and Ahmadabad are na- turally nursing a grievance against the Government of India's rejec tion of the cotton report, opinion here supports the official view that cannot the cotton manufacturer
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The airman Chamberlin made The Anderson Music Co., Ld. the longest distance telephone call yet made, calling up his mother, from Berlin, whence was transmitted vin Holland to London and then relayed "across half of the United States.- Reuter'a American Service.
Designer's Views.
na-
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New York, June 8. taxpayer to provide a portion of
Bellance, the "designer of the his income from bounties or to the Columbia, declared that if Cham- purchaser to be mulcted by the In-berlin had hid a competent creased price of cotton goods in-vigator, he would have reached volved in the protective tariff. Berlin. Bellanca calculated that It is pointed out that the depres- the Columbia lost 1,100 miles as sion is not due to British competithe result of straying from its tion as Lancashire herself is suf-course, and from head winds.-— fering, and is only partly due to Renter's American Service. Japan's failure to ratify portions of the Goneva Convention, but is mainly due to inefficient labour, over capitalisation and unduly high dividends during the boom period-Reuter.
Fund for Lost Aviators,
New York; June 8. Mr. Gerard former Ambassador to Germany, has accepted the pre- sidency of a committee formed to raise à fund of G.$150,000 for the mothers of the aviators Nungesser
POLITICAL ALLIANCE. and Coll-Beuter.
CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT
Honours for Lindburgh.
Washington, June 8.
In addition to the Langley medal, Lindbergh will receive the rarely bestowed Hubbard medal, the highest award of the National Geographical Society-Reuter's American Service.
Valuable Souvenirs.
TO JOIN LABOUR PARTY.
HANART London, June 8. The Co-operative Congress at Cheltenham decided by a card vote of 1,960 against 1,843 in favour of political alliance with the Labour Party. Only six hundred, out of
New York, June 8. 1,300 societies afiliated to the It is understood. that the United Co-operative Union, were repre- States Government is investigating sented at the congress, and a pro- the action of the Hempstead (New posal will be made to-morrow for York) postmaster who "to be no- a referendum of the societies.-commodating," as he explains it, Reuter.
Referendum Fails.
Later. The attempt to take a referen- dum of all affiliated co-operative societies on the decision of the Co-operative Congress falled, the Congress to-day, defeating the re- solution to that effect--Reuter.
COLONIAL INSTITUTE.
DELEGATES BANQUETED AT ROYAL PALACE.
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Rajrie, June 8.
cancelled the postage stamps on 250 letters to Germany carried by Mr. Levine aboard the Columbia.
The investigation is being car- ried out because Mr. Levine was, not authorised to carry malls.
Stamp. Collectors believe these cancelled stamps as souvenirs are worth $50 each-Reuter,
MISSOURI FLOODS.
LOWLANDS AGAIN BEING INUNDATED.
New Orleans, June 8. The delegates of the Internn- A new cxodus has begun from tional Colonial Institute were certain districts In Missouri,. Il- entertained to luncheon by Jonk-inois, as frosh flood waters are heer Van Karnebeck, and a ban pouring in to the lowlands, where quet in the evening by the Prince the recent great inundation had Consort in the Royal Palace, in subsided, Nowly planted crops the splendid India Hall, which are being destroyed. Red Cross was a wedding gift by the Dutch relief workers are preparing to colonies to Queen Wilhelmina, assist the families of those driven after which they want to a Cinema from their homes a second timaa show at which were depicted this year.-Reuter's American Sor
vice. scenes of colonial life-Router.
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