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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921.

April 28, 1920, Temperature 21.

日六七月三國辛麦冬十國庚军中

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LAST NIGHTS PLAY.

THE H. B. WARING COMPÁNY.

A MARRIAGE OF CONTENTENCE.

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A good home at the Theatre Royal A joint conference of the Government, the mine owners and the miners last night witnessed the presentation adjourned after an hour and a half. It is understood that sufficient pro by the H. B. Waring Company of gress was made in finding a basis for negotiations to justify a further Dumas A. Marriage of Conveni meeting on Monday with the hope of success.

MERELY FENCING?

LONDON, April 22.

ence. It was generally voted is one of the brightest plays the Com- pany has produced here. Certainly

Feeling tonight is inclined to hedge as regards, prospects of a coalit left nothing to be desired either in settlement. Some members of the miners' executive expressed the opinion that the talks have amounted to nothing more than fencing. At though the owners are preparing a fresh set of figures, probably involving improved wage schemes, nevertheless there has been no dramatic reversal of the policy of the owners. Meanwhile, although there is an impression in some quarters that a compromise may be possible on the question of a national pool, the miners' executive at present does not possess authority

to depart from that principle.

STARVING MINERS' CHILDREN.

GLASGOW DOCKERS' DECISION, ---

LONDON, April 22

the matter of the setting or the acting. The comedy is in four acts, the scenes Comte de Candale Considerable all being laid in the boudoir of the time and thought must have been expended on the scene for although it was unchanged it never became tiring. Then again the costumes were chosen

to blend harmoniously with it:

The story is worth a brief recital. The Comte de Candale (Mr. Chas. The strike has now extended for three weeks. The widespread distress Quartermaine) and the Comtesse in the coalfields throughout the country grows more acute daily. In some (Miss Jeanette Sherwin) have fallen districts the grim spectre of destitution overshadows the miners' homes, in with the wishes of their uncle, the Consequently the parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress,General, (Mr. Wordley Hulse) and the executive committee of the Labour Party and the Parliamentary Labour have became inarried neither having previously seen the other. The Comtesse while at a conveat bad. Party have urgently appealed throngboat the country to all classes for

found a lover This she confesses-to funds to save the starving miners' children.

her husband who explains that as this is a marriage of convenience they were free to go their own way. So greatly is he convinced of this that he leaves her to keep an appointment with an- other ladyThe Chevalier de Valedos (Mr. Christian Morrow) calls and there- after proceeds to haunt the house, while the husband continues his amours elsewhere. Then the maker of the marriage arrives. He sees how matters stand and takes steps to procure that the marriage shall be annulled. This gives impetus to the dormant feelings of the pair, the

The dockers at Glasgow have decided not to refuse to discharge coal

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MALTA April 22.

It is expected that the "Katon" and "Kashima arrive on Sunday afternoon. The Crown Frince lands an hour aftertid and proceeds to the Palace through the Boriana route whicle is being decorated

Chevalier who takes the Cor lesse to The Prince will either attend a horse show or be driven round the island. Comte becoming Jealous of the In the evening there will be a state dinner and reception at the palace. Ona ball. Here she is insulted and the April 25 there will be a ceremony in the naval cemetery where several Chevalier undertakes to fight on her Japanese_bluejackets were buried during the war. The Frince will fusch at behalf. Before the dual takes place the Casino Maltese, the leading Maltese club. In the afternoon there will however the Comte learns of his wife's be a garden party at San Antonio Palace and in the evening either a dinner fat Admiralty House or a state dinner on board the "Katori" There w

be fireworks and illuminations by the fleet. On April 26, the Crown Prince visits His Majesty's ships and will lunch, either with the Governor or Naval Commander-in-Chief. In the afternoon he will make his departure. Dur-} ing his stay the Japanese sailors will be entertained by British sailors at the Comtesse de Candale were taken by

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love and takes the fight upon himself. This brings the marriage to a happy. conclusion while the Chevalier gal-

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Sherwin; both of whom seted in a superb manner. Mr. Morrow made a good study of the Chevalier and Mr. Hulse admirably portrayed the General The part of the maid was taken by Mits Edith Smith with great

success.

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To-night the Company play "The THE FINEST INSTRUMENTS IN THE WORLD. Speckled Band."

The report of the inter-departmental committee on imperial Forestry education, headed by Lord Clinton and including Viscount Nevar, Mr. P. H. Clutterback, of the India Office, and Major Furse, of the Colonial Office, recommends that the central institution for the training of forest officers,

In the course of an editorial on in favour of which the British Empire forestry conference passed" a resolution, should be located at Oxford and incorporated with the Un-the "Need for Wireless," Shipping iversity. The governments of the United Kingdom, India, the colonies and Engineering says & recent case many former oues, of course--which and protectorates should jobatly guarantee a sum sufficient for normal on the Chine Coastthere have been requirements. It is anticipated that the annual cost will be lessened by has drawn attention to the necessity the dominion governments sending probationers for apceial courses or of all vessels carrying passengers research. The capital cost cannot be estimated at paesent but the annual having a wireless installation is that went ashore on the Lammocks on cost of the permanent staff should not exceed £4,000 at the commence of the ill-fated Hong Moh," which March S. The vessel win not fitted ment.

with wireless and therefore unable to summon assistance by that means, baving to rely on passing vessels noticing her plight. Although many bundreds of lives were lost, it is s significant fact: that the assistance of two British war vessels, which be Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, speaking in the House of Represent tween them were instrumental in the lives, was eventually obtained by atives with regard to the invitation to the imperial conference reiterated saving of more than two-hundred that Australia was not, party to framing the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. He means of wireless telegraphy. It is considered that the Imperial Government hed treated Australia handsomely a safe assertion that had the Hong in asking for her views on the matter. He characterized the term empire" Moh" been fitted with wireless, she *** assistance before she broke in halves, as unfortunate. We were really a commonwealth of self-governing nations could and would have summoned comprising the greatest democracy in history. He concluded that war and though for two days ressue work between America and Britain was unthinkable.

Q-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER AIRS HIS VIEWS.

MELEQUERE; April 22.

DEVASTATED REGIONS. GERMANYS LATEST PROPOSAL.

LONDON, April 22 Germany bas forwarded- note to Britain offering immediately to undertake reparation work in the devastated-regions of North France and Belgium, supplying the labour and materials for rebuilding, clearing the dost reparacions ground, and afforestation, the cost being reckoned account

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