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BAWBETPAD¢=+BAW PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

DOCKERS' STRIKE THREAT.

EMPLOYERS' OFFER REJECTED.

LABOUR MINISTRY INTERVENES.

(Reuter's Service to the China 'Mail.)

'UNIONIST PARTY'S FUTURE..

BALDWIN REMAINS LEADER.

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LONDON, February 11.

Negotiations in the dockers dispute have.

broken down, the dockers rejecting the employers'

offer to meet the wage demand half way.

GENERAL TARIFE DROPPED..

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, February II.

Over 500 members, including a considerable.

A national delegate conference of the Transber of defeated candidates ands 3004 port Workers' Union, held in London recently, attended a meeting of representing 120,000 dockers throughout the country the Unionist Party at decided to instruct, the members to strike of the Hotel Cecil this February 16, in all ports of Great Britain unless in afternoon to decide the meantime a satisfactory settlement of the ages. dispute was reached. The dockers demand an questions of leadership increase of zs, a day, and a guaranteed week's work and the future policy of or pay, in order to meet the problem of casual the Party. labour. The employers say they cannot afford to pay the increase demanded, which will cost over £2,000,000 a year, in view of the depression is the shipping industry....

LONDON, February

the

The Ministry of Labour has intervened dock dispute and has summoned a meeting if the parties to-morrow.

MEXICAN REVOLT.

REBELS BIG SETBACK.

MEXICO CITY, February 1. The Government troops took possesson of Vera Cruz this morning-Reuter's American Service. Vera Cruz is the principal seaport town of Mexico, with a population of 24,000. it was a Vera Cruz that Cortez landed in 1915.]

MEXICO CITY, February 11.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, who received a warm reception, briefly stated the Party's policy.

Earl Balfour moved, and the Rt. Hon. John Rawlinson seco ided, a resolution of confidence in. Mr. Baldwin as leader, which Mr. Austen Chamberlain supported.

The resolution was carried unanimously.

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LATER,

It is stated that Mr. Baldwin declared the policy of a general tariff on imported goods must be dropped in favour of Imperial preference and extensions of the Safeguarding of Industries Act, whereby special assistance can be given to dis- tressed industries which could prove to the satis. faction of the Board of Trade that they required

The Federal's victory at Ocotlan on Saturday was described as the worst reverse the rebels have ever suffered on the western front. Their caskalties; some form of protection. amounted to thousands.

[The Federal forces decisively defeated the Rebels on Saturday in an elven hour battle at Ocotlan. There were heavy casualties of both sides, those of the Federal forces numbering three hundred.]

F. A. CUP.

SECOND ROUND REPLAYS.

LONDON, February 11), In the second round replays: for the Football Association Cup, the following matches we played: pe

Derby 2, Newcastle 2, at Bolton. Manchester City 3. Halifax 0, at Manchester United's ground.

ham.

Notts County 0, Crystal Palace o, at Birming

STEAMERS COLLIDE.

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GRAVESEND, February 11. The "City of Paris," from Kobe, has docked at Tilbury." She damaged her stem and starboard bow as a result of the collision with the "Matheran."

[An earlier cable stated:-The British steamer "Matheran," from Teas, reports that near Grave- send she fell across the bows of the anchored British steamer "City of Paris," from Shanghai. The Matheran" was badly damaged. The extent of the injury to the "City of Paris" is unknown.]

TUTANKHAMEN.

LUXOR, February.11.

M. Lacau, Director of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, has arrived here in anticipation of the raising to-morrow of the lid of Tutankhamen's sarcophagus.

Egyptologists believe that several mummy cases will be found enclosing the mummy.

LABOUR VERY MUCH ALIVE.

LONDON, February II ·

Mr. Baldwin's speech at to-day's Unionist meeting outlining the future Conservative policy was warmly applauded, especially this emphatic declaration of the intention to stand fast unhesitat- ingly to everything decided by the Imperial.. Conference, fighting if necessary to the end.

Mr. Baldwin announced that he would confer with the agricultural interests and devise a practical policy to assist industry. He declared that the great enemies of the future would not be the Liberals, who were moribund, but Labour, which was very much alive. "You are not going to beat. Labour on a policy of tranquillity and negation or of sitting still." He urged the Party to examine in modern light a number of pressing domestic problems and prepare a social policy ready for the

pext election.

MUST RESIGN.

.DENBY AND THE OIL LEASES.

SENATE'S DECISION.

WASHINGTON, February 12. The first class. scandal arising out of the allegations of corruption in connection with the granting of Government concessions for oil leases at Wyoming has necessitated the appointment of a special Senatorial committee of investigation which has summoned a number of eminent wit nesses.

The affair had a dramatic development to-day when the Senate passed a resolution demanding- the resignation of Mr. Denby, the Secretary of the Navy. Reuter's American Service.

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A cable from our Singapore correspondent yesterday stated that the Empire Squadron has arrived. The Hawkins and four other China ships to also at Singapore. The official landing of Adtirole took place yesterday morning. A week's festivities have been arranged.

The photograph shows HMS Rapulse, one of the giant slups comprising the squadron.]

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