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MONDAY APRIL 11912.

BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH.

COLTBIGYT

THE COAL DISPUTE.

LABOURITES SENSIBLAK

VATHTUDES

FIGHTING THE TRUSTS.

STEAMSHIP COMBINATION,

ATTACKEDAGEN

ter's Service to the China Mont.) || (Reuters Service in the China Hasl.)

LONDON, March 30,

Mr Walih Labour MP for Inde, addressing & meeting of miners at Wigan on March 37th, Bung back the Lie to those who had been accusing in of treachery to his comrades. He said the principle of a minimum wage had been conceded after a Aght of Afty years, and it was the duty of the mon

LODOS, April 1. Reuter's agent in New York telegrapha that the Caiter States Government has flou a suit of dissolution against certain steamship companies trading between New York and the Far East vin the Suez Canal. These companies are charged with pooling their freight rates and granting rebates.

HE BOAT RAC

BOTH BOA!

In the international gross-country championship, Bosid, a Franckman, who won the great just year, was fimt, Chemicals includin Soott, of England, second, and Hibbin,

(Reuters Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, March 81. The boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Univaraition took place to day. A strong wind was blowing, and bf England, third England was the recently discovered and is under the water was very rough. The Cam team championship by 41 poluta. The the Supervision of a bridge bost swemped off Harrods, and other places were Scotland, 88, Irs- abandoned the race. Several of the lane 110; France, 123; and Wales, PHARMACEUTICAL crow swam ashore. The Oxford boat became waterlogged off Chiswick Eyot,

boat and finished the course in 28 min.

to sccept the Act. He would marec FRANCK AND MOROCCO. | but the crew landed and emptied the agree with the doctrine of the syndi elists who wanted to break the law and to main everybody. It would be. complete anarchy to defy the Govern

TREATY OF PROTECTION SIGNED.

ment. Let the miners judge him (Reuter's Service to the China Maily

hey liked, he would stand by his

LONDON, April 1.

3 sets. The face, however, was officivily declared void.

The Cambridge crew were first away,

16.

THE FOOTBALL CUP.

who

SEMI-FYREST,HOTH DRAWAL. « to eve

palling at 38 strokes to the minuta, | (Reuter's Service to the China 'Mail)

Star-Lornan, March 31,

peech In the House of Commons. The Matin's correspondent at Fez but Oxford, pulling the slower stroke of

vots of confidence in Mr Walsh was

36, drew level at Duke's Head Oxford In the English Cup som-Realt, Black-

carried; there being only two or French protectorate over Morocco wwe led by a quarter of a length at Beverley burn drew with Bromwich at Liter

dissentients.

RESUMPTIONS.

Small batches of, men resamed on several of the coalfields yesterday, but the movement is not general.

The Secretary of the Miners' Federation Bays be only intervened because the men were being wrongly advised; non-resumption would mean disaster.

THE FIRST BALLOTS.

The results of ballots were an nounced last night, and all wore against

resumption.

It is estimated that 2,200 men are working in Scotland, 2000 in War- wickshire, 800 at Chirk, and 150 nt Dudley.

The ballots declared yesterday wer thora of small collieries near Man. chester, Burnley, Dagwon, in Stafford

#biro.

The Lothian Miners Federation has assolved to recommend the men to remain out until the wager boside have settled the minimum question.

The situation is complicated by the determination of the surface esiners not to resume until their grievances have been settled.

* TOMMIES" AND STRIKERS.

The troops in occupation at the coal-

says that the treaty establishing a

signed yesterday by the Sultan.

RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC

OHANGES.:

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

Loxtos, April 1

Brock, and by nearly a length at Craven Steps, pulling 28 against 31. Oxford led by four lengths at the Crabtree,

tree, and in the wind swept-river, rough with waves. Cambridge went to pieces. The Oxford crew were troubled, but increased their lead at Hammersmith Bridge, the boat shipping water all the time. A

In the meantime, the Cambridge bout, crew were rescued from the umpires' swamped off Harrod's and sank, but the

Reuters agent at St. Petersburg says that M. Brouenski, the Councillor of the Embassy in Tokyo, hhe bean trans-boat. ferred to Berlin, and M. Shekine, Secretary of the Legation in Peking, replaces him in Tokyo.

COLLAPSE OF HUGE

TOWER

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

Lóxu x, April 1 Router's correspondent in Berlin telegraphs that the great iron tower of the wireless station at Nanen, near Potsdam, has been blown down during violent gale. The tower was 650 foot in height and had only recently been erected. It was regarded as one

of the most remarkable feats of Gor- man engineering,

THE SYNDICALIST”. PROSECUTION.

SENTENCE 3 REDUCED.

folds are fraternising with the strikers.(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

CHEMYST

Price

Our Dispensing Charges are neither side scoring: while de also played a pointless draw with lower than any other European Barnsley at Chelses

BRITISH STEAMER WRECKED.

(Beuter's Service to the China Mail)

Lornos, March 31...

The Erah steamer Faxter, bound from Iquique to Rio Janeiro, has been wrecked northward of Cape Pillar, and

37 of the crow are missing.

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The Oxford craw stuck to their work, hugging the Middlesex shore closely, apparently in compista ignorance of the fate of their opponents. The boat was contionally in difficulties, but the worst weather was struck of Chiswick Eyot where cries were heard from the banks that the boat was ginking. The crew then got ashore, tilted and emptied the boat, and resumed. On reaching UNSETTLED MEXICO. Mortlake, the umpire declared the race

|| [Note The Foxlly Fiz bulltin 1906 by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Co. several times daily. Ltd, for the Reliance Shipbuilding Co. whose managers are Messrs Houlder, Middleton and Co. She was a stool craw steamier of 4,874: lons gross.---1 En OM]

void, owing to Oxford receiving assist FIGHTING STILL CONTINUES. ance from the spectators in emptying

the boat. It has been officially decided (Reuter's Service to the China Mathy that the race will be rowed again on

Lasoon, March 31 Monday..

Mexico continues to be much disturb [Note This is the first occasion is the history of the great Race in which theed, and so-called battles between the event has been declared void. In 1850 the Federals and the Revolutionists are fre Cambridge boat sank, but victory went to: Oxford whose time was 24 mib. 40 socs, quent, with varying reaalta. while in 1872 the Race was rowed in, a The Amrican Ambassador in Mexico snowstorm, and on by two lengths by Cambridge. In 1808 Oxford won by 1gia arranging to gem all-the, Americans lengths, the race being than rowed in in Mexico City, to comble them to pro- borrible galo. So far Oxford have 37;

tect themselves in case of emergsabyayı wins and Cambridge 30; there was a dend

beat in 1887.ED. C. M']

CHINA'S NEW UABINET..

Lospor April 1, A football match was played between

Benjamin and Charles Buck, printers. the soldiers and the strikers at Can-who were recently seat to prison for nock, The soldiers subscribed £20 six months with bard Ishour, on 2 to the widow of a miner who was charge of publishing in the Syndicalist accidentally killed at Chirk by a fall of newspaper an open letter endeavour PROGRESSIVE, BUT NOT TOO rock

SOUTH WALES FAVOURS RESUMPTION.

hare

ing to persuade soldiers to mutiny by

STRONG.

arging them not to fire on the strikers(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

if ordered to do so, have had their

antences reduced to one month; and Gay Bowman, the journalist, who wrote

The ballot returns from South Wales show that up till now 20,000 men voted, of which number 15,000 are in favour of immediate resumption.**

The cpal-owners and miners of Souththree months, without hard labour.

Sir Rufus Isaacs, in a recent speech Derby to-day decided to immediately form a joint district board under the in the House of Commons, intimated Halman Wage Act."

· LATEST BALLOT FIGURES.

The figures in the miners' ballot so far are

8,450.

For resuming work Against resuming york. 7,176

THE AUSTRALIAN GIFT. The New Wales donation will be devoted to the relief of the distress in the Potteries.

THE AMERICAN DISPUTE.

Loston, March 31 Reatores Feking correspondent wires

the letter and was sentenced to nine that the Cabinet have been formed. It months' hard, has been reduced to includes: Premier and Acting Mini- ater for Communications, Tang Shao. yĩ; Foreign Minister, Lu Cheng-hsiang, formerly the Minister at St. Peters burg Minister for the Interior Chao Peng-chun Minister for Finance, Haning Hai-ling and Minister for War General Tuan Chi-jui

that he was willing to consider a 10- duction of the sentences.

BRITISH FINANCE.

A YEAR'S REVENUE.

The Cabinet is considered to be a decidedly progressive one, but not particularly strong, and one which will be more popular in the Youth than

(Beuter's Service to the China Mail) in the North, but probably the best LONDON, March 31.available, owing to the refusal of the amounted to £185,000,580, decrease blee men in the Empire to parti- of £18,760,302 compared with 1910-11,

The revenge for the year 1911-12

It shows a surplus of £3,49,286.-

LATIE.

The revenge for the past year

A telegram from Cleveland, Ohio, amounted to £185,090,286, un increase

cipata

SEVERE VERNACULAR

CRITICISM

Loxion, April 1

states that the United Mineworkers over the estimate of £3,403,286, The Beater's agent in Feking wires that

DISMISSED FROM NAVY.

'Lieuter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, March 30. Proceedings in the case of the soa man (a naturalised Englishman, born in Germany) who wa

was arrested on board H.MS. Foxhound while at Christianis and charged with spionage, have been abandoned but he has been dismissed from the Naty

REVIEW

Mollie the Handfil, hy FLORENCE WALDEN, London, Bell's Colonial Library in s Thats is nothing mysterious or uncanny about this story. Molis Marsden, tas berdins, is, what her crester describes bar,

handful" and hag adventures befor settling down make most amusing reading. she is an aire to £3,000 a year, but she aunot obtain unfettered possession of the

money bill the is thirty, while if she marries ho'ore than without the joint con- out of her two guastians, she forfeite everything. One guardian is a fossilised Professor uf Biology, the other ma about-town. The Profesor has son in- tented for the oareer of a missionary and he thinks Mollie and her fortaine may as well be bestowed on his 'Samuel. The other

ardan, never having seen Mollie, and

believing that she is an impossibles creature have ordered a strike of anthracite expenditure was £178,545,100, com the Chinese papers criticise, the new as the Professor or any member of his

miners for April 1st.

pared with an estimate of £181,390,000 Cabinet very severely on the ground family, hatta agamable to fall lo with LATER. The surplus thus is six and halt that several of the Ministers are iner- the old man shame. But when Mollie perienced politically and are noable to makes an unexpreted descent upay her guardians they discover that she is a very orations anticipated, iespize the confidence of the people

sharming and up to dato creat Bod sil their plans have to be:

Med Ins the procean muc

both harde

A message from Cleveland states millions, which is larger than the most that the dispute in connection with the optimistic exp bituminous coal trade has been though the figures show # large decrease

micably settled, all the owners agro in revent ing to increases of about five per cont.

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