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THE RAILWAY STRIKE..

LONDON, October 6th. The conference at Downing Street poster day anticipated a settlement. Luncheon arrived while the delegates wore discoming. term". The Premier suggested that all After calling upon M. Clemenceau during the day, Colonel House of lunch toge her instead of separating and the the American delegation to the peace conference left Paris last night on meal was most jwil thereafter the con- dia waybartie.Chifted States Besteld cabe Amanickard paper/ CORTESference was renamed, at the conclusion of pondents that the first raerting, not of the League of Nations itself bat of who's Mr. Thomas, addressing be Premier the council of the League, will be held in Paris within two weeks after the treaty of Versailles becomes effective. A provision in the treaty makes such a meeting necessary in order to delimitate the Sarre Valley coalfield, If the United States is the third Power to ratify the treaty, it will be posMr. Lloyd George acknowledged the com- sible for the council to discuss other problems.—Havas,~

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MANY INVENTOES

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LONDON, October 6. The commission on awards to inventors is examining cases.

There were eleven claimants in respect of tanks.

BOMB OUTRAGE IN MOSCOW.

HELSINGFORS, Oct. 6.

two

reset the delegates" aminciation of the are unlike and impartis! way the Premier and Mr. Bar Tow bar mnducted the negotiations and their patient consideration.

pliment by a genial speech simitting that the delegates met all arguments in an open minde, conciliatory manner. Fla hoped all Isbour organisations would approach questions concerning their welfare in the same spirit. They would then enter a new em of industrial peace and prosperity.

Perhaps the outstanding feature of the settlement is the fact that it leaves no bitterness behind.

A negotiator re marked after the conference We are going to resume work together more amicably that in recent months for the general welfare of the State.""""

Tributes are being paid on all sides to the Premier and the conciliatory work of the Trade Union conference, whose intervention mediators in an indus trial dispute is unprecedented in history. Cariously enough, up to the present the most extreme advocates of direct action' have been the foremost peacemakers.

There is now little apprehension of a miners' strike in the event of the failure of the nationalisation of mines, & de

waite on the Premier.

A message dated October 1 says that during a meeting of the computation in regard to which shortly munist committee in Moscow two bombs were throws, and many persons killed or severely injured. At the subsequent obsequies of women, bombs were burled at the procession. Ten Bolsheviks were killed and 28 wounded. Reprisal measures were immediately taken. All the clergy in Petrograd and Moscow were decreed to be held as hostages.

AMERICAN STEEL STRIKE.

"NEW YORK, October 6.

The third week of the steel strike has opened: Some mills have resumed, but both sides are hoping for the arbitration suggested by a repre- sentative at a conference in Washington presided over by the Minister of Labour for the purpose of establishing a basis of agreement between capital and labour generally.

R. H. GOLF CLUB.

The Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Parr has kindly given a cup for the runner up in the championship..,

The time for the first round for

BRITISH LANGUAGE DESALCE SCHOOL.

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MR. J. W. JAMIESON ON THE STUDY OF CBINESE.

The British Chamber of Commerce the junior championship has been Language School, ar Shanghai,

extended to Oct. 13,

On that day there will be a mixed foursome competition at Fanling, 181 boles against Bogey. See advt.

The hope is expressed that the emer- Sency system of rand transport. which. waa most accessful, will be continued, if only to relieve the congestion at the ports. Business mea. interviewed in Liverpool, said that no serious damage had been done commercially or industrially, though an irretrivable blow might have been struck to the country if the strike had continued.

Nevertheless it is roughly estimated that the cation lost 50,000,000 owing to the closing down of works and the stop-

of production.

de bills to be paid by the Govern ment will probably reach £1,000,000 daily.. The Union of Railwaymen lost £300,000.

The Daily Mail says that we have every reason to be proud of our country. The people rose to the menacing emer. -geney with their customary coolness and

adaptabilty......

The railwaymen behaved well The Government was ready, rm, and active. Mr. Thomas has done the nation a sor- vice by proving that a national, strike was bound to break down.

for exultation, or talk of victory or The Times states that it is no occasion defeat. The only victors are the public. There are more storms ahead, but the railway strike has been a lesson all round. The men who ordered the strike reckon- cd without the determined resistance of the public and the development of other means of transport. An irresponsible strike is doomed..

Another lesson is for the Government and is officials, who failed to grasp the irresistible social change towards the higher economic and social status of all

wage corners..

opened its third term on Sept. 8.

Mr. J. W. Jamieson, C.M.G., H.M. Consul-General, In an interesting speech, referred to the men who held that there was no necessity for young men to learn Chinese. Those who knew Chinese, they would say, were already half mad, and if they worked LAUNCHING AT KOWLOON, hard at it they would qualify for the lunatic asylum, During the last 20 years a great change had come over

The Daily Telegraph congratulates the the ways of the older men and a Government on its courage and energy; new spirit among the younger and and the nation on its good sense and the result was that all over the determination in rallying to the service country in the large trade centres of the State. It hopes that the lesson of language schools had been estab- strikes has been learnt.

the futility and disaster of national shed. He presumed that most of his hearers were engaged in mer meat was due mainly to the personal con- The Daily Chronicle says that the settle- cantile pursuits and he dared say duct of the Premier and the commonsense they would find some of the old of these Labour leaders who apprciated, fogies who did exist in China who in good time, the country's disgust at the would tell them that they were

こ wasting their time."

There was launched this morning from the shipyard of W. S. Bailey and Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, the Steal Single Screw Tug Geoffrey Chaucer," being the second of the Salvage Tugs built by this firm to the order of the British Admiralty The christening ceremony was grace fully performed by Mrs. Samson.

"UNE VICTOIRE ANGLAISE."

He could give them the assurance, speaking after an experience of 33 years, that they were not wasting their time. They were making them selves raore efficient, not caly from their point of view but also from

*trike.

The Morning Post says that the differ ence between the Government's proposals of September 28th. and October 5th are immaterial. It shows the insanity of the due to the other Trade Unions for refusing strike and that a debt of gratitude is to order a sympathetic strike when the railwaymen had been already defeated. The Daily News says that it is a peace By divers small tokens one may that of their employers. They were with honour, for the defeat of the Govern perceive, when in Paris, that there embarking upon a new world of ment would have beer. a disastrous blow still exists a feeling of soreness over literature, opening up new fields of to the Constitution, and the defeat of the successful conciliation of the Trans- some of the peace terms; and funny vision, getting views of the people and men would have ruined Trade Unionist, their literature which must inevitably port Workers' Federation deserves a mark men in the theatres find it easy now broaden their own minds. This would in the national calendar equally with to raise a laugh against John Bull.

military victory At one of the new light operas the mean a great deal to them, for they many a

would be getting into touch with full services, but it is hoped to practically The railways are not yet running the sculptor Phidias is made to say to one some of the most lovable people in the complete the resumption to-morrus. of his models, speaking of a statue in

|_ Meanwhile it is announced that the his studio. "C'est la victoire." "And world. The Chinese had a facility for now," says the model, as she calmly throwing a glamour over all the Government motor transport services., knocks off an arm of the statue with people with whom they came in con which greatly helped to save the situation her parasol, it is a defeat."

"Ob.

tact but until they studied the lan. during the strike, will be continned as an non," says the sculptor, "c'est une guage and the people they would not adjunct to the railways until all the con- gestion in the docks, mines, and manu-

removed. victoire anglaise," And the house Properly get into touch with them facturing centres bas

and consequently they would render, Hyde Park will continue to be the bead- rocks with mirth.

their lives much less interesting than quarters of the London transport service, they otherwise would be.

and will remain closed for the time being. Some people, the speaker went on settlearnt is the best news since the The genera feeling is that the strike to say, objected that Mandarin w28 Armistice. The spirit with which the the only language that was being news was received was evidenced at the taught and suggested that there was Albert Hall, where an audience of 5,000 no reason for learning that. W29. railwaymen standing up, after cheering a mistaken idea. Out of the 18 pro the appearance of Mr. J. H. Thomas on vinces, Mandarin was spoken in 15, the platform, san Abide with me and all visitors who came to Shang very yere bai from up country, unless they

Mandarian or its varianta

ACCIDENT TO SUGAR WORKERS.

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ing department of the China Sugar Refinery yesterday afternoon, one of the pots tilted over, and six workers were covered with the boiling sugar, and were badly scalded. They were immediately conveyed to the Tung Wah Hospital in riches, and Dr.

AN AID TO DIGESTION.

WHEN you have fullness and weight in the stomach after eat- 10 E. Thomas attended to them ating you may know that pop bave eaten ence. "Two of the men were Geri- too much, and should take ane of Cham- berke's Tablets to aid your digestion For hale by all Chemists and Bre

busty sended on the upper part of the body, and the other not so seriously

There

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were scenes of tejoicing at all, the. great railway oantren. There were no dia orders.

It is announced that the organisation. of the Citizen Guards will continue, though the civic conference in that con nection, convoked by the Premier for October 7th, has been cancelled.

The earlier convocation of Parliament has been abandoned.

night that Sir Eric Geddes has resigned is

The report which was in circulation last.

authoritatively denied.

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