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October 21, 1920, Temperature 70.

四拜禮 號 一廿月十年十二百九千一英

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October 21, 1919, Temperature 70.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1920. 日十船月九申庚年九國手中

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Renter's Service to the Chinë Mail)

GOAL SYRKK.

STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ORÁVE NATIONAL SITUATION.

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STARVATION AND HARDSHIP FACING LARGE MASSES,

THE DOLLAR.

To-day's closing rate 3/107 To-day's opening rate 3/10)

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

{Reuter's 'Service to the Chino Mail.)

MINERS" STRIKE.

Laxpax, October 19th. The question of General Election [nguin | bring discussed. Some of the Imiqara' leaders declare that the Gavern- ment intend soon to go to the country The decision, however, is not likely yet to be taken, but the development of sym pathetic strikes may make an early appeal inevitable.

Unemployment is steadily increasing. It. re-ia estimated that 1,750,000 will be them-

ployed

BT the rock-end.

LONDON, October 19. In the House of Commons. Sir Robert Horne, in a statensent with gard to the coal strike, emphasised the gravity of the strike. He deprecated recrimination and urged goodwill and common sense. He declared that since the Sankey Enquiry the miners' wages had increased more than the cost of living. He emphasised the disastro un effects of the strike, with 1,000,000 rinera idle, shipping held up, blast furnaces damped down, factories through out the country closing, tens of thousands thrown out of employment daily, trade would be gradually strangled, entailing hardship' and starvation for great masses of the community. He declared that this hose was never submitted to the miners. Reports from the coal fields showed that many miners did not know that the alternative to acceptance of the Government's proposals "was a strike. The Government was open to my suggestion by which a peaceful solution could be obtained. He urged all to strive for that end.

PARLIAMENT RESUMES.

GOVERNMENT'S. UNEMPLOYMENT, MEASURES OUTLINED.

IRISH OUTRAGES.

LONDON, October 19. The House of Commons has resumed. There was a crowded house in view of the prospect of an immediate debate on the coal crisis.

Replying to Mr. Fennyfather, Sir Hamar Greenwood stated that since January 1, 100 police and 18 military had been killed in Ireland, 160 police | and 77 military had been wounded,, while 667 police banacks had been ( attacked and the most of them destroyed. There had also been an or- ganised attempt to boycott the police, their wives and their relations. The | Government's means of protecting the servants of the Crown and dealing with the authors of outrages and those conniving in ther. were steadily improving.

STARVING LORD MAYOR.":

LONDON, October 19.,

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Bottomley, Mr. Short said that he could not advise the King to order the release of Mr. McSwmey, He declared that there had been no form of feeding Mr. Medwiney on the part of the prison authorities.

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COPING WITH UNEMPLOYMENT. Replying to a question with regard to unemployment, Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that many thousands of ex-Service men, of whom 180,000 were unemployed, could be employed in the building trade. Half a million new houses were required and proposals in this connection bad been made to the trade unions. The Government approved other proposals, including road making, and appealed to the trade unions to suspend certain rules in order to admit additional men to the iron foundry and railway wagon building trades. He hoped that thus the problem of unemployment, especially of ex-Service men, would be adequately met during the winter, but the coal strike would enormously increase the number of unemployed.

CABLE PURCHASE.

TRANSFER FROM-AMERICAN TO BRITISH CONTROL.

LONDON, October 19. The Direct United States Cables Co. has been sold to the Government for $570,000. The sale means the transfer of the cable from. "American to British control.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S QUZRY,

SENATOR HARDING ASKED TO EXPLAIN.

WASHINGTOX, October 18. President Wilson has sent a letter to Senator Harding in connection with his speech at Green Castle on October 17 querying his statement that France approached him as a private citizen of a nation which was not a member of the League of Nations. He points out the grave and extra- ordinary inferences that will be drawn from such a statement. President Wilson has directed an inquiry as to whether France authorised anybody to approach Senator Hardinis in connection with the matter,

[Replying to criticisms at Green Castle (Indiana), on Oct. 17, of his proposal for an Association of Nations, Senator Harding declared that he had already been approached informally by a representative of France who asked that the United States should lead the way to world fraternity.}...

WASHINGTON, October 19. The French Charge d'Affaires, presumably as the result of communica- tions from the French Government, has informally, replied to President Wilson's inquiry by declaring that the Government did not authorise "any- one to approach Senator Harding, officially or unofficially.

CALIFORNIAN LAND QUESTION,

NEW YORK, October 18.

The State Department announces that Japanese conversations on the Californien land question are continuing and are fully satisfactory, though somewhat delayed owing to Mr. Shidchara and Mr. Davis being engaged in communications to the conference.

DANISH LOAN IN AMERICA.

Tel. 638.

COPENHAGEN, October 19. It is reported that the Minister of Finance intends to raise in: America per cent. State loan of $25,000,000.

Meanwhile, a eyes are centred on the debato in the House of Commons to-day apon which the present hopes of settlement are centred.

Train services are being reduced by 10 steadily rising to 30 per cent. per cent. on Desober 1st the reduction.

PARIS, October 17th.

A Haras message. 43,53:~~ Commenting on the miners rike, Le. Zömps writes Pablic opinion the world over is behind the British people and the Government in their fight against thos threatening Great Britain's magnificent effort to restore the normal economic life of the country."

BRITAIN'S SHIPBUILDING,

A striking evidence of the ability of

in returns

LowDow, October 19th.” British ship-builders to restore Great Britain's pre-war position as the world's greatest ship-producer is Lloyd's Register of Shipbuild ded for the quarter ending September 30th. They show that during the last eighteen months the tonnage under construction in the United Kingdom increased from ($500.000 tons to the record Egure of nearly 3,750,000 ions, while in the same period the tonnage under construction in the United States has fallen from 4,000,000 tans to 1,750,000 tons

YILNA EPISODE.

LONDON, October 29th. Beuter learns that a Note was handed

the Polish Government on Sunday by the French and British representatives ai Warsaw which, while it is firm is friendly in "tone and express the opinion that the Polish Government should completely dis tarow the seizure of Vilna. It adds that if the situation is not quickly cleared up the French and the British Governments will ba zecessa have to consider what further notion might |

LOS DOS, October 19th

A Warsaw communique of October 17th chronicles continued advance towards the Lettish frontier. The Polish detachments in the direction of Minsk are withdrawing to a fixed lize, The detachments temporarily occupied the town and cap tured machine-guns The latter tends to confirm the Bod claim that they have occupied Minsk,

THE KING OF GREECE.

Arazs, October 19th. The King's condition at ten this morn ing was stationary, but a very grave con- gestion of the lungs has set in.

CHINESE CONSORTIUM.

LONDON, October 18. The Times New York correspon- dent says that the Chinese Consor tium agreement reads as follows :--

"The national groups are of the opinion that the interests of the Chi- nese people can, in the existing cir- cumstances, be best. served by co- operative action by the various bank- ing groups, representing the invest- ment interests in their respective countries, in procuring for the Chi- nese. Government the capital neces-" sary for a programme of economic re- construction and improved com- munications.

With these objects in view, the respective national groups are pre- pared to participate, on equal terms, in such undertakings as are calculated to assist China to establish her great public utilities and to these ends to welcome the co-operation of Chinese capital.*

The Belgian group have a one-ninth "interest and the others a two-ninths

interest each.

It is understood that the Japanese reservations in regard to the Shan- tung railway, like the American re- servations in regard to the Grand Canal improvement project, are due to small technicalities of a purely ephemeral character. :

In order to ensure the uninterrupt- ed progress of the Consortium's wide- reaching plans for China's develop- iment, the agreement. provides joint. diplomatic - action "at. Peking in the event of competing proposals for loans being attempted.

DOWNING STREET RIOT.

Between 30 to 40 demonstrators in the Downing Street disturbance were injured. Twenty" were treated 'in hospital. Ten members of the police force were hurt. The Iracas lasted -over two hous. „A niæmber of strests

were made."

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