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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1925.

MINERS DOOMED.

38 MEN FACI

RESCU

CERTAIN

HOPELESS.

Scotswood

DEATH.

Scenes

Tragic

All hopes of rescue b entombed alive in the Scol

BLACK DAMP.

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Pithead.

been abandoned, thirty-eight men pit are facing certain death.

with the workings of the pit, were vainly awaiting an oppor- tunity to do rescue work.

In the meantime they were join- ing in prayers conducted by London, Mare

clergymen of all denominations An official report, states of throughout the township. men are missing at Scots

[A number of miners were whom 26 are married mihastrapped in the Montague Pit at The situation undergrounmpScotswood; near Newcastle, owing worsened owing to black \98 (to an inflow of water due to and the water increasi,

oling. Nearly 300 men were volume.

when the accident occurred Sympathetic references 6 the helot 38 escaped. A rescue disaster were made in the House and all descended to erect a of Commons which will - mani- | purty which mously give precedener o a pri- canvas door for nas com- the purpose of vate motion pu mining ac idents diverting the foul air to-night.

yelled to retire. The entorhed A labour member sked the men, who include several fathers, Speaker to invite the House of sons and brothers, are clutching a Commons to express it sympathy projecting ridge near the roof. with the relatives of ne victims Little hope was entertained for in the same way as recently nine of them, but there is a expressul its sympath, with Lord (possibility that the remainder are Curzon's relatives.

in a sheltered spot. The rescuers

man.

The Speaker replied that he was | were withdrawn at midnight. convinced the whole se sym-The opinion was held that only pathised with the

prostion, miracle could save the entombed (Cheers.)

The volume of water was stated to be increasing rapidly parts of the pit. Anxious thou- sands are keeping a vigil at the pit mouth in the hope that rescue work will be resumed.

Rescue Hopeł

en

The consulting Scotswood has abando rescuing any of the en alive in the mines,

It is esimated that three weeks giumping i Eure to clear the jet.

Earlier Cables London

Forty men are mi Scotswood pit.

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COMMITTEE 81 7.ESTIONS.

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London, March 31.

A standing committee of the

by Sir Robert

TAKING NO RISKS.

PARCELS POST GOLD

REFUSED.

(Reuter's Service.).

New York, March 30. The shipment of 1,600,000 dollars in gold by parcel pour to India was frustrated owing to the i refusal of British line steamers to tranship the gold at Marseilles. The gold was therefore return- ed to New York.

It is understood that the parcel post scheme, if successful, would have saved considerable expense.

WEMBLEY'S £1,100,000

EXHIBITION OPENING IN

MAY.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, March 31.

CRIME IN INDIA.

How It Delays Reform.

HOPES OF A NEW ERA.

EXTREMIST TAKEN AT HIS WORD,

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THE CHINA MAIL.

CLOSED MARKETS. BRITISH STEEL TRADE LOSSES.

CHINA OUR HOPE,

Modern Merchant Adventurers' Needed.

Fifty years hence China will be the greatest steel importing. nation in the world, according to the prediction of a London expert.

WAKE UP BRITAIN!

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Japan was also progressing-in- steel production and might shortly become a serious competi- tur in the Eastern market.

London, March 31. A responsive note was sounded by Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, in the course of the Indian debate in the House of

London, March 31.

He was convinced that within Lords to-night with regard to re-

In an address before the London half a century. China will be the cent utterances by the Swarajist Iron and Steel Exchange, Sir greatest steel importing nation in loader Das in which he expressed Edgar Rees Jones dwelt on for- the world and will be able to take abhorrence of political assassina-eign competition in steel.

the whole steel plate and gal tions and violence of any form as He pointed out that 'the Euro-vanised sheet output of Britain. well as repression by the Govern-pean and American markets had ment.

But in order to get that market, been steadily closing to British British merchants must bestir Lord Birkenhead. expressed a producers, and India, Canada, themselves. desire to join Mr. Das in laying Australia and South Africa had aside undue suspicion. He would commenced to produce subatan-steel must be done through an The merchanting of British hopefully watch the results of Mr. tially for their own requirements. organisation fitting the peculiar Das's appeal to his supporters. Therefore the British steel indus-organisation of Chinese life-an societies begin to atrophy for developed parts of the world. If he saw the revolutionary try must find new markets in less organisation with ample capital based not only on the treaty ports, want of monetary and moral sup-

but spreading into the interior. art and the channels of com- munication between the political and anarchical world effectively closed, then a new era would have begun in Bengal and the need for what Mr. Das called repression. would have disappeared.

CHINA POLITICS.

PROVINCIAL FEDERATION

SYSTEM.

Lord Birkenhead emphasised, however, that all the British (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.) authorities concerned with legis- lation for the repression of crimes of violence in Bengal constantly and justly repudiated any inten- tion or practice of repressing political opinion.

If the merchants would not establish such an organisation themselves the manufacturers must do it.

Something like the old com- panies of merchant adventurers was required as pioneering work must be done.

DIRECT CABLES.

Peking, March 31. Tuan Chi-jui telegraphed the following reply to the recent com- munication from Tang Chi-yao, GERMAN AND AMERICAN and Chao Heng-ti, advocating the adoption of the provincial federa- tion system:--

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AGREEMENT.

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Berlin, March 31. between the German and American An agreement has been reached cable interests for the re-establish

ment

between the two comitries.

He invited Mr. Das to take a further step and co-operate with the Government in repressing "I quite appreciate your pro- violence. All we desired was co- posal for the adoption of the operation between the British and provincial federation system. Indian political parties with a However, the chief object of the view to progressive realisation of recent political reconstruction responsible government in India efforts has been to enable the as an integral part of the Empire. aims of the national and provin

of direct Communication Never, never would it be reach-cial constitutions to be realised ed by violence and desperate simultaneously. When I arrived the entire traitic of the Commercial The German company will handle in the capital on November 1, 1 Western Union Companies to and issued several circular telegrams from Germany between Emden and announcing this, and at the in- the Azores while the American auguration of the Rehabilitation Conference, I emphatically stated companies will administer the traffic to America. that the adoption of a Provincial Portugal has agreed to the landing Consititution. must be encouraged.

crimes,

SIX YEARS' WORK.

ST. PAUL'S REPAIRS TO BEGIN.

SOME DRASTIC CHANGES,

(Reuter's Service.)

from the Azores

BUDGET SURPRISE.

SURPLUS INSTEAD OF A DEFICIT.

LABOUR FINANCE.

(Reuter Service.)

I think this does not differ greatly of the cable at the Azores. from the view you have express- ed. Our fellow-countrymen, therefore, must hope that what- ever organisation is to draft the new Constitution for the nation LONDON, March 31.

will speedily come into being, so Impre ve incidents attended as the reconstruction efforts now the evens, ag in St. Paul's Cathe-being made may achieve success. dral to-day, being the occasion of I, however, have referred your the last service under the done telegram to the Conference." prior to the closing of the eastern

REORGANISATION CONFERENCE, part for the work of preservation, which it is estimated will take six

Peking, March 31. The Reorganisation Conference

London, March 31. years.

will meet again to-day after a results of the first Labour But for the financial year which fortnight's recess.

Fifteen different items are oned to-day show instead of the matters connected with military taking into account supplementary reorganisation, abolition of the expendinne a surplus of £3,658,- Tuchun system and similar ques-991 ng The decrease in revenue tions.

compare with 1925-4 was £37,733,- 689, chiefly die to falling off in the customs cxcise.

Services in the meantime will be held at Western end of the

chapel.

House of Commons, presided over The House of Commons passed sidered the China Indemnity Bill. Empire Exhibition Guarantee Dave and the Saint Dunstan's the agenda, mostly referring to ebuted deficit of £7,916,000 after

Hamilton, con- the second reading of the British

The committed rejceted by 26 | Bill whereby £1,100,000 is guar-

to 5 votes an amendment moved anteed. by Mr. Arthur Ponsonby Mr. A. M. Samuel, the mover (Labour) confining the applica of the Bill, hoped that the exhibi- tion of the money to educational tion would open in the first week and cultural purposes.

of May.

Mr. Ronald McNeil, Under Secretary for Foreig Affairs, said that both the Labour Govern- ment and the present Government had deliberately come to the con- clusion that the objet in view would be best served by simple words in the Bill,

The amendment would only

RUSSIAN WHITES.

(Reuter's Service.)

SHANGHAI, March 31.

The Shanghai Times says that

to.

of

The organ will no longer be in use but part may be temporarily moved and erected clewhere temporarily.

The high altar will be moved to the centre of the nave." The cathedral will now accommodate a thousand only, instead of seven thousand as normally.

WEEK'S TRIAL.

FRENCH COMMUNIST

CHARGED.

(Reuter'a Service.)

hamper and restrict the discretion the Russian steamer Mongugai is of the advisory committee who expected sail today for might be safely relied upon to Vladivostok, taking 150 White exercise it in the direction both soldiers who have gone over to nations would desire,

the Soviet. This movement, which

PARIS, March 31. He believed that the money disintegration

is interpreted as a comolete The trial of Sadoul opened in would be substantially applied to Monarchist group in the For

the Whitethe, Orleans court martial. educational purposes.

On an application by the pro East, is herdded by Semenoff. secution, all charges except that of He proposed later to move an Reports reaching the Times state desertion w ze withdrawn. amendment to increase the

that Semeheff has finally made Sadou who is an ex-barrister, membership of the advisory com- mittee from len to eleven in order to empower an increase of the Chinese element thereon.

GERMAN ELECTION.

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LONDON, Mirch 31.

peace with his White carmies conducted his own defence. He and will return to Russia together emphasised his services to France with many Whites who have whilst in Russia and described severed their connection with the himself as, one of the pioneers of Dichards, of whom General the Franco-Russian rapproche Gleboff is the leader The Times ment. adds that the Soviet is apparently

After an animated discussion it was decided to refer all the fifteen items to a committee of military experts for investiga- tion and to report within five days.

MANY LIVES LOST,

PONTOON BRIDGE.....

COLLAPSES.

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BERLIN, March 31. The collapse of a puntoon bridge erected by pioneers over the Weser between Veltheim and Hausberge resulted in the drown-

number

TRAIN MASH.

COLLISION NEAR MOSCOW.

(Reuter's Service.)

Moscow, March 31. An express from the Cancasts rollided with a local train at the outskirts of Moscow. Ten persone were killed and 26 were injtired.

soldiers, belleved ing of numerous Reichswehr SHANGHAI

to

between fifty and a hundred.

QUOTATIONS.

The following, kindly supplied' by Messrs. J. Gould & Co., were the opening quotations on the Shanghai Tokyo, March 31.-Mr. Korekiyo Market this morning.

TIS. The hearing was adjourned. Takahashi, at present Minister of taking no chances, for it is is expected the trial will last a Agriculture and Commerce, will Langkats 27 Buyers. reported that they will hold week. The police are adopting to-orrow be appointed Minister of Ewos..... *** 11 75 Buyers. Semenoff's wife and family as stringent measures

Buyers. Commerce and Industry and tem- Shanghai Docks......125 prevent hostages.-Reuter.

disturbances.

porarily Minister of Agriculture and N. Engineerings. 9 Buyers. Forestry.-Courtesy of the Daily Orientals. 375 Buyers. Bulletin."

Shanghai Cottoas... 59 Buyers.

Lat: The Mongugal sailed this With the German elections, morning resulting pr:ctically as forecasted,

Later information is that Seme-

ending indecisively, Press com-noff is still in Shanghat. He did ment is limited to an expression not embark on the Mongugai, and

to

MURDER FOR REVENGE.

WARSAW, March 31... The Polish version of the fron

of satisfaction at the discomfiture will not to go Russia, but to Montier outrage is that one officer was

mercial negotiations without inter ed ference from the Soviet.-Reuter.

of the extre nist candidates and golia, where he will carry on com killed, the other seriously wound. hopes, for the sake of Europe's future, that the moderates will accommodate their differences and support a joint pindidate, who will have the rostest prospect of success in a straight fight with the Nation- alists..

The Westminster Gazette finds satisfaction in the evidence that Monarchism has not received such

EARL OF YPRES.

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, March 31.

The judicial authorities have opened an enquiry into the outrage, which has caused a sensation or Poland and is unanimously con- demned.

The murderer was a Polish police-sergeant, named Muraszko, who was travelling in the same train. According to a Polish

a heavy endorsement as at the The Earl of Ypres passed a semi-official statement this man Reichstag election, and says that better night and his general con-

in Herr Jarres' present heavy polldition has improved.

the allies reap where they sowed.

The Times describes the election

with his family, had suffered "*atrocious persecutions" at the hands of the Soviet Authorities, when living fó Russia.

Parls, March 31 The papers

as a fight between the Monarchy Port Darwin, March 31-The -and-Republic-and-says-Europe's cruisers Concord and Sydney wсIC one concern is that the party which given an enthusiastic reception on talks of reversion to Bismarck's their return from the naval conannounce that two French savants doctrines should not be put in a ference at Singapore. Admiral have invented a filter made of position that will enable it to at Hall Thompson said that Singapore plastic substances, impervious to tempt the execution of the policy would be impregnable but they all rays except red and yellow they profess, which their followers could not neglect Port Darwin as which will enable the use of night force them to apply.

a storeships base. Reuter.X-rays without danger. Havan

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