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SPLENDID GIFTS TO WANG'S DIPLOMACY VEHICULAR FERRY LABOUR'S LATEST 800 TOURISTS NOW BRITISH CRUISER
THE MINERS.
PROJECT.
TRAGEDY OF COLD IN DISTRESSED AREAS.
HON, MR. SOUTHORN SENDS CHEQUE FOR $100,
The Telegraph is happy to an- nounce that there has been a most
CRITICISED.
KEEN SHAFTS BY LONDON JOURNAL.
UNHAPPY INSISTENCE.
London, Feb. 14.
A hint in diplomatic circles that is-now-making' a move towards obtaining the retrocession of the
BEING STUDIED BY THE STAR FERRY CO.
GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE SAID TO BE FAVOURABLE,
SUCCESS:
INCREASED MAJORITY AT WANSBECK ELECTION.
CONSERVATIVE DROP.
London, Feb, 14.
Labour has scored another Buc- coks in a bye-election, this time in tho Wansbeck division of Northumberland. There is, how- over, no change in the politica! complexion of the constituency,"
The bye-election was caused by the recent death of the Labour polling resulted as follows:
HERE.
BELGENLAND ARRIVES IN PORT:
COLLEGE CLASSES HELD ON BOARD DAILY.
PROPOSALS.
ADMIRALTY POINT OF VIEW EXPLAINED,
wore
THAMES FREEZING RIGHT UP.
DANGER OF COMPLETE
BLOCKING.
| LONDON'S 25 DEGREES FRÖST EQUALS RECORD.
EXPRESS HUMOURS,
London, Feb, 14.
generous response this morning to voles its leader to the subject and Ferry Co., Ltd., held to-day, that member, Mr. G. H. Warne, and the Hongkong, due to the simultaneous the First Lord of the Admiralty a itself in any part of Europe, and
$250 FROM MR. JOSEPH. foreign Legation Quarter in Pe-
NEED IS APPARENT. king to China, is being adversely commented upon in London,
It was intimated at the annual The Daily Telegraph to-day de- shareholders' meeting of the Star says thint Dr, C. T. Wang's report the Company is investigating the for the retrocession of the Legna vehicular ferry service between ed proposal to open negotiations question of interesting itself In Lion Quarter, is unhappily charne- the Island and the mainland. teristic of the diplomacy which Dr. Mr. B. D. F. Beith, who presid- Wang at present directs, which ed, in referring to thin, matter. seems to go out of its way, and hinted that the Government would even defeat its own objects, to as-view with favour any satisfactory knows is be a fiction.
ed vehicular and passenger fer- vice.
The accounts were of a most satisfactory character, and it was
the appeal inftinted on behalf of the workless ininers and their wives and children in
Great Britain Their plight at this time when the Homeland is experiencing its worst winter of the present century, when
solutely necessary to life, can be well imagined, and subscribers will be pleased to learn that the first £50, which will be doubled on its arrival in England, is to be cabled Immediately.
frigid Arctic conditions has shown No sign of any abatement of the
the weather experts do not hold out any hope of any early relief from the terrible weather.
AMERICAN INFLUENCE
London, Feb. 14. A number of questions anked in the House of Commons to-day relative to the disclosure that the new cruisers to be laid NOTABLE PERSONAGES. down in British yards this year. will not be 8,000-tonners aa origi- There are at prosent well over 10,000-tons each.
ally contemplated but will be 800 round-the-world tourists in
The mattor was referred to by presence here of the Canadian few days ago, when he announced Pacifle Steamship Company's Em that contrary to a report that the *ot Australia aud the cruiaarswore to be abandoned, Red Star liner Belgeninnd. The arrangements were being made latter arrived in port this morning for their construction. on her fifth consecutive annual Lt. Col. Headlam, replying to -Reuter. Voyage round the world.
questions, pointed out that two bour at dawn and anchored for the 1927 programme and one from the The Belgenland came into harcruisers were dropped from the termed her accustomed berth. when it became clear that an After dispatching a tender well agreement upon a mhximum of watching ice breakers at work in Inden with passengers for, a trip to thirteen 10,000-ton cruisers, could the upper reaches, though when Canton, she sent ashore the re-not be obtained with other Powers, London talks of the upper reaches the Admiralty decided to proceed of the Thames it means the greater with n 10,000-ton ship deferred length of the river. from 1927 and a 10,000-ton ship. deferred from 1988.
press.
In Englund, the keen frost per slats in its intensity, though a derived from the abatement of the certain amount of comfort is being bitter casterly winds.
sufcient clothing and food are ab- seri a position which the world scheme put forward for a combin- there was a straight 6ght between Afth time in what may now be 3928 programme; but last year.ng the unique expurtance of
Today's list includes a do- uation from the Hon. My W. T. Southorn, the Colonfal Secretary, to whom we tender thanks for a contribution of $100, while Mr. J. E. Joseph, well-known for his many beneficent acts, has forwarded a handsome cheque for $250.
Mr. Joseph's Letter.
In a covering letter, Mr, Josephi writes:-
"In response to your appeal for more financial support, in eid of the poor and destitute British miners, especially now in the midst of the rigours of auch, a severe winter prevailing in Erig- land, I have much pleasure in
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For example, the journal goes on, nothing is more evidently of vital interest to China than the establishment of good relations witt Japan.
Yet the Tsinanfu negotiationa have broken down precisely upon the point of the National Govern- meni's refusal to admit that the Japanese residents in Shantung are not absolutely protected by its sole guarantee of their security.— Reuter.
AMERICA INVADING
ENGLAND.
CONTROLLING INTEREST IN BIG POWER COMPANIES.
enclosing you herewith my BIRKENHEAD OPINION.
cheque for $250 as a donation Lowards a deserving cause,
London, Feb. 14.
Mr. Shield (Lab.) 20,308 Mr. M. Pendor (Cons.)
... 0,012 Mr. H. A. Briggs (Lib.).. 5,188 Labour majority. ...10.780
[At the laat General Election. Mr. Warne and Mrs. H. Middleton (Conservative), the former polling 21,159 and the latter 18,875.
The poll on this occasion was not so large as at the General Zelection, there being 4,841 fewer voling. The Labour vote has de- creased by 761 and the Conserva- live by 9,263. The new member has a clear majority of 6,603 over the combined votes of his two op- ponents.]
AMERICAN WOMAN'S SUICIDE
Wife of "Whitey" Smith of Hotel Orchestra,
SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.
Shanghai, Fob. 15.
At an inquest this morning at the U.S. Consular Court on the body of Mrs. Florence Smith, the wife of "Whitey". Smith, the popular leader of the Majestic Hotel Orchestra, who was found dead, the Coroner recorded a verdict of "Suickie." Mrs, Smith took an overdose of veronal,
Whiley Smith and his wife obtained a judicial aeparation some time ago,Our Own Correspondent.
"I wish you all success in your The New York Utility and continuous efforts to enlist a lit- Light Corporation, one of the tle more sympathy from the principal public utility systems in Hongkong general public, and the United States, announces that also venture to express the hope it has, acquired the entire ordin- that you will shortly be able to ary shares of the Greater London collect a fairly, substantial sum, and Counties Trust, Limited, thus so as to be at least worthy of indirectly controlling its principal stated that during the year one collection from a British Colony such as Hongkong."
These aubaldiaries include not a pront of $10,500 above the fewer than seven important Bri-book value. tish electric power companies.
Dockyard Ladies,
of the miners in the most suitable
way, are making arrangements for the holding of a fancy dress ball The ball will be held on March 5th at the Seamen's Institute, the free use, of the hall having been secured through the good offices
aubsidiaries,'
of the older ferries had been sold
!
After
TRANSATLANTIC SHIP
TO BE SOLD.
LEVIATHAN TO PASS INTO
PRIVATE HANDS.".
Washington, Feb. 1 The Commerce Committee of the Senate has announced its approval of the sale of thirteen vessels at present operating under the con- trol of the Shipping Board.
12:0015BETEERDENSKR
A TRAGIC MALAYAN RETIREMENT.
Lady Hayes Marriott now Dangerously 'IDE
HUSBAND'S DEATH.
'Landon, Feb. 14. Lady Hayes Marriott is lying dangerously with pneumonia, and is unable to reply to the many sympathi- sers on her husband's death.
Sir Hayes Marriott, who re- tired from the Malayan Civil Service at the end of 1928, died in England on Monday. -Reuter,
The decision is of the greatest intéreat since one of the vessels involved, in the wa. Leviathan, the second largest liner in the world. for the first time since it was ac- the usual round of sightseeing at This will pass into private handsmainder of her 483 travellera for quired by the United States.
DISBANDING NAVAL ·
FORCES.
Hongkong.
From the ley North,
The Admiralty, were, therefore, ruiting out the two 8,000-ton ships In that programme and deferring the commencement of these ships till the end of the financial year Reuter.
SENATE BAULKING COOLIDGE?
i
PRESIDENT RECOMMENDS A SMALL NAVAL FUND.
VIEWS ANTICIPATED.
Thames-side residents are enjoy-
London Frost Equals Recordi
is frozon all the way from Windsor
As a matter of fact the Thames .. to Oxford and beyond, a distance of over sixty miles. The Cam and the Isis are also frozen, thus put- ting an end to Varsity boat race practice.
Many other rivers are similarly affected.
degrees above. zero. Fahrenholt or
A ground temperature of seven
twenty-five degrees of frost was re- gistered at Greenwich Observatory carly to-day.
This equals the lowest point ever recorded thero, the last occa alon being the great frost of February, 1895, when the River Thames was last blocked with fee..
It seems likely that the Thames will shortly be in the same con- dition as it was thirty-four year's Washington, Feb. 14. ago. President Coolidge has sent to Congress a recommendation for bank to bank in some places.. The ico alrendy stretches from the appropriation of G$12,370,000 Launches, barges and locks are. to begin the construction of the completely frozeń up. the Naval Bill, which he signed at 10,000-ton cruisers authorised by White House yesterday.
Padding at Richmond!
The sum mentioned is little more
One extraordinary result of the than half the amount that had been freezing of the Higher reaches of proposed by the Navy Department. the river is that very little water If the recommendation meets la flowing down to London. At with the approval of Congress, Richmond, the water is so low that these funds will be available dur one could paddlo across! -- ginning on July 7th, 1929, ing the next fiscal year be- If the stream stopped running, sald A Thames Conservancy Later. olicial to-day, the danger of
it
A bid of G.$16,000,000 has been made by Paul A. Chapman, Incor porated, for the Lovfathar and Coming from the North, the twelve other vessels belonging to tourists found the air of Igngkong A big effort on behalf of the
By reason of the purchase, the
Chairman's Speech. the United States and American gratefully mild. They find ex Telegraph fund is shortly to be New York company has also ac-
Merchant Lines, and it is under-perienced searching cold in Japan, made by the R. N. Dockyard quired a substantial interest in Mr. Beith said:-Gentlemen,-The concluded on these terms.-Rez where they landed through ice fields Addressing the shareholders, stood that the sale is likely to be bitter weather at Chinwantao, Ladies' Club, the members of which, several other British power eom-report and statement of accounts ter's American Service... anxious to contribute to the relief pantes.
to take special trains for Peking, Lord Birkenhead stated over days, I will, with your permission, having been in your hands for some
and also very cold weather in the In spite of the recommendation completely frozen river would be- the telephone to Router that he take them as read.
old Northern capital. It was a lit of President Coolidge, it is learned come much greater. Extraordin had accepted the chairmanship of
tle less biting at Shanghai. but that the Naval Appropriations ary precautions, are being taken' the Greater London and Countries count for the year under review The balance of Working Ac-
mild weather ashore was encoun- Committee of the Senate is far by the Thames Conservancy to. Limited. ·
tered at llongkong for the first from willing to wait evon until keep the river free from ice, time since the tourlets left Hawall July of this year. In a public statement, Earl Bir-535.87 the previous year.
is $186,685.22 compared with $373,-
Every available man is engaged in kenhead says that the organisation transferring $50,000.00 to Reserve,
on January 12th.
The Committee. has already breaking up the-ico and feebreakers From here, the Belgenland will passed a resolution, it is stated are busy. of the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave. with which he has decided to a8-$20,000.00 to General Contingency
OFFICE ESTABLISHED IN
proceed to Manila, where 40.of her providing for funds to enable the At many points big blocks of ice. There will refreshments, pro-sociate himself is British, though Account, allowing for depreciation
SHANGHAI,
passengers will board a smaller construction of the warships ap- huve formed across the river. vided by the ladies, and prizes will associated with the Clarke in-
steamer for a side trip to Bali.thorised to be started immediately. These float down the river, get be awarded for the best fancy teresis in the United States, and and ordinary repairs, the balance
Shanghal, Feb. 14. Her next ports in order will be available for appropriation, In-
Five of the new cruisers are to | jammed at various põivis, and then dress. The nel proceeds will be will remain British,
The National Government Naval Bangkok, Bulavin, Singapore, Diabe laid down before July this year, freeze together. devoted to
The finance has been found eluding $12,137.15 brought for Disarmament Office, which will mond Harbour (for Calcutta), Port and five more before July, 1930. the Miners' Reliof Fånd. Tickets of admission will hitherto almost entirely in Am-ward from last account, is $320,- act according to recent résolutions Sudan, Port Towfik, Alexandria, This is in accordance with the Rending and Oxford, bo obtainable shortly at $1 for erica, he adds, but the broad policy 38.34, which your Directora pro- of the Nanking Disbandment Con- Athens, Naples, Monaco and Gibral-me clause against which Presi-
with as follows:-- gentlemen and 60 cents for Indies. of the Trust is to obtain money in Pay a dividend of $2.00 per share ference and proceed with the work tar. She is due back at New York dent Coolidge' protested-Reuter's above Reading Bridge, the Thames
the cheapest market, it is within its province to obtain funds and a bonus of $1.50 per share, of demobilisation of the naval on May 1st,
forcea in China, has been estab absorbing $280,000; and in Britain if it is possible to da It has also been suggested,
forward $40,038,34.
lished Bere. It will be formally in view of the, coming Race no more cheaply than elsewhere.
opened on Saturday. --Renter. Week, that punters who will be making freq with $5 tickets on the cash sweeps and pari-mutuel,
Face Week.
Chater Memorial.
carry
You will observe in the accounts
should do so with a reservation NOT SWEET-SOUNDING we have lave subscribed $2,000 to
that a certain porcentage of their winnings ahould be set aside for their less fortunate fellows in the 'distressed mining areas.
IN NAME.
AMERICAN SCIENTISTS AND A NEW SUGAR.
New York, Feb. 14.
the Chater Memorial Scholarship Fund, which I am sure will meet with your approval,
The Accident Fund of $140,000 has been transferred to General Contingency Account and a fur ther $20,000 added. Under ita new heading the fund may be uti- tors consider necessary.
Emphasis on the great and con- tinuing need is scarcely necessary at this time. It.is fully provided by the vivid details of the Arctic wave that is sweeping over Europe As the result of experiments onlised for any purpost your Direc- and the British Isles. In Londonulin, a starchlike substance that yesterday a temperature of 25 de-is found in dahlias, chicory, arti- One of our older ferries was sold grees of frost was registered, and chokes, and other plants, scientists this state of affairs appeara
working under the Department of prevail throughout the country. Commerce have discovered a new The condition of those thousands kind of sugar, which has been call of men, women and children ined diffructose anhydride-Reuters South Wales, and in the dreary American Service. wastes of Northumberland and Durham and elsewhere, most
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of whom have been destitute for several months, is heart- rending, and we hope soon to have the pleasure of acknowledging a large influx of contributions.
Amounts so far received, not in- cluding the $200 promised by the
·Y.M.C.A., are
Already acknowledged.
&10/-
MJ. Joseph-
Hon. Mr. WT. Southorn Anonymous
THE:
REPARATIONS PROBLEM.
GERMAN EXPERT GIVES HIS VIEWS.
during the year at a profit of $10,-
500 in excess of book value.
In April lust another new boat, the Northern Star" was completed and put into service. This is the
fifth new boat placed, on the run during the past four years. We now have a very efficient fleet, on- abling the Company to cope com- fortably with přesent day traffic.
Vehicular Ferry.
Large Staff of Experts,
Travel experts on the Belgen- lánd," who manage the various The Civil Governor of Fukjen public activitice of the passon- Admiral Yang Shu-chwang, hangers, number, fifty, and as the big been appointed head of the Once ship has a crew of 640, she carries.
U.S. COTTON GRAIN.
BILL TO PREVENT SALE
REJECTED...
Washington, Feb. 14. The Bill introduced by Senator Caraway to provide for the proh bilen of the sale of cotton grain futures, was rejected by the Senate after a short debate te-day, Reuters American Servicc. i
DR. SUN'S BURIAL.
more than 1,100 souls on her voy- age.
American Service.
BEAM WIRELESS SERVICE.
OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOW BIG PROFIT.
London, Feb. 14.,
Above Ifley Lock, Oxford, and
has already..blocked with ico in this manner.
At Henley, the river has frozen, across at two points.
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Relief Train Also Suffers.
Two
The severity of the weather is. illustrated by what happened to the night Scotch express from London which arrived at Glasgow two hours behind scheduled time. Near Beatbock Suamit, the big The ship's company embraces
engine came to an abrupt stand- many specialists in entering to the
at and when the driver dis comfort of world travellers,
In the House of Commons to-day, mounted he was startled to find Including a French chef with a
it was stated by Viscount Wolmer the water gauge frozen. staff of sixty cooks, butchers, that during the period from April bakers, and confectioners; more 1st to December 31st lust, the groas than 200 stewards of long sea-receipts from the Post Office Im- going experience; manicurists. perial beam wireless nervice were despatched to the scone and were rollef engines Worc Eeauty specialists; a modiste from estimated at about £358,000. one of the fashionable New York shops; two lecturers; several pro- the same period, before charging menced to take the express up the The credit balance in respect of attached to the front and rear of the train 'respectively. They com- fessors in charge of a group of depreciation or interest on capital, summit but halfway up the loading fifty youths who are making the was estimated at about £162,000.- locomotive stopped as the result voynge
students; thirtyBritish Wireless, European laundresses; a physicial culture director; two doctors, a dontist, two trained "nursos, n' shoemaker, a tailor, three photo-. graphers, three printers, thres wine butlers, n crack shot, in charge of trap shooting, and a #hoemaker.
..
The Men In Charge.
THE AIR MAIL TO INDIA.
MAY BE SPECIAL ISSUE OF STAMPS;
London, Feb. 14. Viscount Wolmer, Assistant Post-
of the steam cnjector becoming frozen. Another engine had to bo requisitioned.
Gorman aeroplanes are now en- gaged in reconnoitring the Lange- Tands belt in the Baltic, and al- ready they have dropped largo quantities or food supplies on the decks of the numerous ice-bount! vessels, whose crews have signal led that they are in acute dis tresB.
All water traffic has ceased
Nanking, Feb. 14. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and That a vehicular Ferry Service Mr. Tan Yen-kai, Chairman of the connecting the island and the main-Executive Yuan, have decided that land, thus providing transportata- the State burial of the remains London, Feb, M.` tion not only for motor care and of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen be The Belgenland is commanded At this morning's meeting of the joy-riders but also, and more im- postponed until March 1st. The by Captain W. A. Morehouse, a master General, announced in the Experts Committee on Reparations portant, meeting the growing de suggestion was put before the veteran in trans-Atlactic steam-Louse of Commons to-day that a in Paris, Herr Melchior, the Germand to facilitate the movement of Standing Committee, of the Kuo-ship service, with a background of proposal was under consideration along the Danube owing to the man expert, spoke at length on Gor- various kinds of merchandise and mintang C.E.C., and it is learned many years in command in square to mark the inauguration of the frost, while the River Save ! $100 many's Financial position and on cargo across the Harbour by motor that the recommendation has met riggers engaged in the New York- air service to India by the issue of similarly affected.
The Adriatic Railway perman- $20. her laxation.-uritiah Wireless,
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China trade. Captain Morehouse, special stamps or a special air-zna!! with approval,
(Continued on Page 8.)- envelope.British Wireless,
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.$290
$250