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HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1921.

日一十月三酉辛亥 年十萬翠中

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TRIPLE ALLSANCE DECISION. "MINERS STAGGERED AND ANGERED:"

*EXTREMISTS ACTIVE.

KXPENSIVE EMERGENCY MEASURES CONTINUE.

LONDON, April 17. Reports from the coalfields where.distress is growing owing to the exhaustion of strike funds indicate that the miners are staggered and angered at the decision of their Alliance partners. More moderate men are inclined to negotiate a wage settlement on a district basis. Many are said to be anxious to resume work immediately but the extremists are urging a sational appeal to workers to join the strike and that steps be taken to prevent even the officials putaping the pits. Meanwhile military and other emergency arrangements continue costing £250,000 a day. The Board of Trade announces drastic restrictions in the use of fuel, light and power, and the cancellation of many main line trains on Monday has been notified. The coal shortage is resulting in long queues in London for permits to purchase coat

COAL CONSUMPTION RESTRICTED.

LONDON, April 17.

The Government is further restricting coal consumption. Up to the present important industries have been allowed 50 per cent of their normal supplies. Henceforth this can be permitted only in exceptional circumstances. Feat, light, and power undertakings have received peremptory instructions to reduce supplies. Train services will be further reduced to-morrow.

LONDON, April 16. [These are passages omitted from the messages in this morning's papers, addenda sent by the Cable Company

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their services during the strike from the unions to the State. There was no enthusiasm anywhere for anything like revolution.

The general conclusion, as on previous occasions, is to show that the communist element, though exceedingly local, represents an infinitesimal minority of the British workers, of whom the great majority are law-abiding citizens whose voices are not heard in the deliberations of their unions, but Whose weight is irresistibly felt in such a crisis-as that just past."

SHIPPING SLUMP.

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EFFECT OF FALL IN FREIGHTS.

LONDON, "April 17.

To-day's opening rate 2/6 18

HONGKONG'S OPIUM.

QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT,

PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING.

In the House of Commons Mr. Gershom Stewart asked the Secretary of State for Indis i be would state the amount of opiam shipped from India to Hongkong and the Straits Settle- ments respectively in 1920; whether such opium is for local consumption jonly; whether, if the amount shipped is in excess of local requirements, what steps, if any, are taken-to-prevent-the- surplus being smuggled into Chins: and whether any opium was shipped direct from India to Macre and the Dutch East Indies, and, if so, how much ?

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"Mr. E. S. Montagu: I regret that complete information regarding the question asked by my honourable friend is not available at present. I have asked the Government of India to supply it. As regards the preven tion of smuggling from Hongkong and the Straits Settlements into Chins, I will ask my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can furnish the informa- tion.

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A ALLEGED ASSAULT."

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CAPTAIN'S COMPLAINT.

SECOND ENGINEER CHARGED.

Before Magistrate Lindsell this morning. George Best, second en gineer of the s.s. "Pheumpenh" was charged with having assaulted Capt. Bentley of the as "Telemachua" on, Connaught Road Central, out-

V.R.C at 7 side the

D.M on Saturday.. The defendant was aleged to have attacked the Captain from behind and in the fight that followed puffed both his eyes for him, and knocked out a tooth. The cause of the alleged assault has not been ascertained.

Inspector Moore, who presecuted, asked for a remand as the "Tele machus" left port yesterday. The

The effects of the shipping slump owing to the fall in freights are strikingly illustrated by Lloyd's Register which shows that mercantile ship-"Pheumpenh" belonged to the same ping under 3,000,000 tons was being constructed in the United Kingdom on Company as the "Telemachus" and March 31, after deducting,847,000 tons on which work had been suspended the Inspector promised to see that owing to the slump or the completion of which had been postponed owing the owners of the vessels have the parties in Court when the case comes to the joiners' strike. Compared which the quarter ending December 31, up for hearing. The case was re- 1920, the tonnage launched had decreased by 146,000. The tonnage commanded until April 26. menced was 113,000, while the tonnage being prepared but not commenced had fallen 75 per cent, compared with a year ago. Some 3,288,000 tons

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FRANCE CENSURES WRANGEL.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK ARMY NOT TO BE FED.,

PARIS, April 18.

TO-NIGHT..

Tonight the H. B. Waring Com- pany will open their season herewith the well-known Anglo Indian play, The Witness for the Defence. This,

General Wrangel's failure to accept France's suggestions as regards the it will be remembered was the play in which Miss Ethel Irving made disposal of his troops has drawn from the government a stinging note. They such a tremendous hit in London. accuse Wrangel of ingratitude. In the face of France's heavy financial So much has been written regarding sacrifices, amounting to two hundred million francs, she refuses to continue the play and players that it merely to feed these troops, who are leading a life of idleness. The note declares remains now to call attention to the that Wrangel has established in Constantinople a kind of Russian govern fact that this is the opening night of ment with the object of preserving an organised army; this is a violation the Hongkong season and to wish of international law.

JAPANESE PRINCE'S TOUR.

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them all the success which, according to the Indian and RM S. papers, they deserve. To-MUTTOW /ODE of their greatest sucesses, Mr. Pim Passes By, will be given, and following this The Merchant of Venice. Particular attention is drawn to the fact that a special matinee is being given of this most popular of all Shake spearean plays on Saturday next at 5 pm. These matinees have been

PORT SAID, April 18. The local authorities, notable men and Japanese residents of Egypt welcomed the Crown Prince aboard the ship. His Imperial Highness pro-a great success in India, and should ceeds to Cairo on Monday in a special train.

AMERICA AND RUSSIA.

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS UNQUESTIONABLY DESIRABLE.

WASHINGTON, April 17,

prove a big draw bere.

One of the oldest of Hankow's early residents passed recently through that port homeward bound ii. the person of Mr Nelson E Bryant, Commissioner of Customis at Yochow,

In a letter replying to an enquiry from Mr. Gompers, the President along with Mrs and Miss Bryant. of the Federation of Labour, Mr. Hughes, the Secretary of State says He came to Hankow 45 years 3:20 85 that it is unquestionably desirable that commercial relations on an

interpreter to the American Consulate: extensive scale should be established between the United States and Russia. He has now retired and has earned a The Government hopes that there may be adjustments in Russia enabling time of rest and recreation after his Russia to resume her proper place in the economic life of the world.

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETZES.

TOULON, April 18.

The Australian cricketers arrived on board the Orient Hoer. "Osterley" after an excellent voyage. They are in the best of health and are convinced that they are going to win. They travel overland to England on April 17.

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