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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1924

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·To-day's opóning mate"; 2/3 75/15

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PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT COMING?

MORE WOMAN VOTERS.

EQUAL RIGHTS WITH MEN

FURTHER LEGISLATION INTRODUCED

WOMAN MEMBER'S MAIDEN SPEECH.

(Reuter's General Service.)

AFTER EIGHT YEARS.

SANE MAN ESCAPES FROM ASYLUM

AWARDED £25,000 DAMAGES.

ROYAL COMMISSION PROPOSED..

(Router's General Service.)

LONDON, February 29. LONDON,*February 29.

A proposal is being made that the Government The House of Commons by 288 to 72 votes should appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into. passed the second reading of a bill moved by the the lunacy laws, as the result of a lawsuit in which Labour member Mr. Adamson to amend the Repre-a farmer named Harnett has been awarded a total sentation of the People Act of 1918, with the object of enfranchising women of twenty-one years of age and upwards, both for local government and Parila mentary elections, thus placing the whole franchise for both sexes, other than university electors, on a similar bag of residence.

Miss Jewson made her maiden speech in seconding the bill. She spoke confidently and made her points clearly. She was frequently cheered.

Miss Jewson claimed that the experiment of the enfranchisement of women in 1918 had beed amply justified. Women voted wisely and well She-ridiculed fears of petticoat government By women combining to out-vote inen.

The Duchess of Atholl moved an amendineat in favour of a conference of all parties to decide what further alteration to the franchise. was desir able. She expressed the opinion that prior to great extension of the franchise they ought to wait until women had gained experience of local gov ernment. The bill would mean an increase of from 3,500,000 to 5,00,000 voters. It would give wornen a majority over men.

Mrs, Wintringham and Lady Astor supported the bill but Lord Hugh Cecil opposed it.

Mr. J. R. Clynes, Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, said the Government would try to find time to pass the bill if it passed the committee,

LIVELY POLITICS.

FRENCH CHAMBER UPROAR.

FREE FIGHT ENSUES.

PARIS, February 29. There were tumultuous scenes in the Chamber of Deputies in the course of debate on the Inter- pellation regarding the Government's internal- policy.

Former Premler M. Painleve was dealing with the alleged Royalist activities of M. Daudet, when the royalist M. Magne shouted "Canaille."

Thereupon the Left members rushed upon, the Right inembers and a general melee ensued..

Blows were exchanged and the sitting was suspended.

SHIPYARD LOCKOUT.

KIEL, February 29. The shipyards have locked out 13,000 workers owing to the refusal of a nine intead of an 8-hour

day...

ANCIENT MINES.

VAST CAVES IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH.

of £25,000 damages against two doctors, the Bond Commissioner in lunacy, and a man named Adam who has a home for mental cases.

Harnett was detained in asylums for over eight years, but escaped in 1923, when specialists certified. him sane. The jury found that he was sang when he was detained in 1912 and that reasonable care had not been exercised.

A stay of execution has been granted pendingi an appeal.

FINANCES HEALTHY."

INDIA'S BALANCED BUDGET.

MILITARY COSTS DOWN.

DELHI, February 29. In the Assembly Sir Basil Blackett, Finance, Member of the Executive Council, produced a balanced budget for part of the year.

He said the financial position was more satisfactory than in the previous twelve months and he estimated the existing taxation for a surplus of nearly 35 crores next year.

Practically the only important tariff change: was a reduction in the excise duty on motor spirit.

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The salt tax had yielded three crores less than expected. The question of reduction would be left to the Assembly to decide.

Military expenditure next year would show a considerable reduction.

Trade conditions were steady, but difficult. There was the prospect that the visible balance of trade in favour of India might reach a record.

[A crore is ten millions or one hundred lakhs, usually of rupees.]

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The Senate passed a resolution for investiga tion of the income tax returns of Mr. Fall, Mr. Doheny, Mr. Sinclair and others concerned in the

oil'leases.

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The enquiry then considered a resolution for the examination of Mr. Daugherty's administration Attorney-General-Reuter's American Service.

[The oil lease scandal has arisen out of the Teapot Dome concessions which were granted to The. con- the oil magnates Doheny and Sinclair. cessions have been revoked by the Senate as illegal. Mr. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior and Mr. Denby, former head of the Navy Department, both resigned over the scandal, but Mr. Daugherty has hitherto refused all demands to resign.]

£1,000,000 POST OFFICE FOR SINGAPORE,

roof qve-blend. A dark square BIG CONTRACTS PLACED. cavity appears. The balloon sails through, and we realise that it ha entered another huge cave, possi- bly as big as the one we aro" in. Nor is that the last, se the balloon, Pictube to yourself caverns in now a mare speck of light, is seen whose yast binckness St. Paul's and to pass through still another open. Westminster Abbey could be so hiding.

The Daily Mail of January 14 bas the following:-

The London Firm, Mesara. Perry don away that powerful searchlights These mines contain no "fire would be needed to find them again, damp" or other inflammable gases and Co. (Bow) Ltd., have secured and those all the work of human which might cause an explosion. the contract for the now General heads, toiling through the long There are no signs of any mechani Post Office at Singapore, a building centuries under successive dynasties cal means of ventilation, but the

af Indian rulers burrowing their air is quite sweet, and even during of reinforced concrete, which will Inburious way into mountains of the summer months is never oppres cost about £1,000,000.

The work is expected to occupy solid salt.

sively bot The mines of Kreers, in the Salt Continuing our journey an under four years. As much of the minter- Range mountaing of the Punjab, ground nyer is passed, rushing like

might well be comted among the Kubla Khan's down to a sunlees al as possible will be purchased, in wonders of the world, but are ecs, and a large natural cave con- this country seldom visited by tourists, lying staining a lake of brine, the roof hung Means. Vickers, Ltd., bave se they do rather of the beaten track with glistening stalactites, some of

on a branch line of railway, quae size. Further on is the cured a order for a 25,000 h.p. night's journey from Lahore. present working face where gangs. water turbine, which they will in- One enters a small tunnel in the of coalies are busy with the pick, stal on Calumet Island, in the Ottawa River, in the province of mountain side, the trally is running or loodang up tansoke

down a gentle slope, and by the The early history of the workings

time the Inst glimmer of daylight is lost in antiquity. When the Quebec, for the generation of elec has vanished it is possible to sea by Panjab was conquered, after the tric power. The turbine will be the the faint glow of the lantern that Sikh Ware of 1815 and 1818, the largest of ile type ever built in Eng- the sides of the tunnel are no longer British took over the mined as a go- land.

of earth and rock, but hewn out of ing concern, but for many centuries" gigns of better times for trade in the salt:

before that successive native rulers Describing this interior of this had found in them, a valuable source our are mutiplying. It is pro place, a correspondent to the Week of revenue, and the means of sup bable that work will shortly beʻre. ly Telegraph writes

plying their fomnoma with one of sumed on dock extensions on Our guide lights a piece of mag- the most important necessaries of Clyde, between Shieldball and Ren nomum wire, and its dazzling glow life. reveals that we are standing on 'a bridge or cause-way, with an aby

an either sido Now the looloots

frew Ferry: The work was stopped during the war, and high costs led

to its furbber postponement. Pro spective tenderers for part of the

come Icito use. With a swishe they go up in all directions, and buzeting stars reves here and there a Correspondent discusses the few days ago. This dock will take be glistering of an zamanda political situation in the Palatinate: five years to construct, and will cost reotarraler in The idea of separation from Ger about £2,000,000

In a despatch from Speyer, work wore shown over the site b

many has been abandoned, and, ;v Another hopeful, ngn is the re- the autonomous Government now opening of the Timmery trometame demands that the Palatinate shall minta Yorkshire mad the blowing form part of a Rhineland State in or bet furacce do the nort within the limits of Germany, otet congt

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