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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1925.

COAL CRISIS.

STRIKE COMMENCES

TO-DAY,

PREMIER'S GREAT, EFFORTS.

(Reuter's Service,)

PEKING LEGATION,

ADEQUATE. SAFETY ASSUMED

(Reuter's Service,)

London, July 90.

amongst the many things such a Director or & Bureau under his charge could do, would be. to make

of such natural avenues of publicity as the tried, tested, and most effective method of the cinemato- graph. It is not too late to in-

In the House of Commons, reply- troduce such a necessary system

ing to Mr. H, W. Looker (formerly as we have here indicated. The

of Hongkong) Mr. Ronald McNeill "China Mall" ere this has sug- The coul situation is regarded (Under Becrotary for Foreign gested that there should be a in Ministerial circles this after-Affairs), said that he had not re- Publicity Bureau as part of the noon as of the gravest, but not as ceived the official report of the

порогень. Mr. Baldwin is doing Soviet envoy at Peking. Government's organisation. The | his utmost to make the parties There was a loopholed wall at the presont need merely proves that confer, impressing upon them that Legation, and it could safely be assumed that the British Charge the suggestion was not an idle a strike must be averted.

one,

The Penalty of Personality.

London, July 30.

DUTCH POLITICS.

M. COLIJN TO FORM A CABINET.

Mr. Baldwin conferred first d'Affaires had taken all possible with the conl owners and secondly steps to ensure th, safety of the with the miners, after which re- British Legation. presentatives of both sides made statements to the Press indicating Mr. Lloyd George when he be- that neither side had made a came Chancellor did not abandon concession.

The Miners' representatives, the expression of his views about dukes, and on these views the after seeing Mr. Baldwin, con- names of party feeling/fed. On ferred with a special committee the other hand, from the moment of the Trade Union Congress. Mr. Churchill went to the Trea- Afterwards these conferees foirfed sury he seemed to put out of his n mind his authorship of the famous taunt: "Is Labour fit to govern?" and that he had ever de- lighted a bored House with his

At a meeting of the Executives has accepted the task of forming • brilliant interventions in debate

of all the Trade Unions at West-Cabinet. at the expense of Labour or minster it was unanimously and Russia, or whatever happened to whole-heartedly decided to assist

be in his path at the moment. It

conference of all the Trade Union executives..

Trade Unions Decision.

London, July 80.

the miners, including financial

(Reuter's Service.)

The Hague, July 30.

M. Colijn, Minister of Finance,

is well known that he was pre-help in the form of a levy from EXCLUSIVE SOCIETY.

each district,

Handling To Cease,

A special committee of the Trade Union Congress and Rail-

BARRIERS PROOF AGAINST

foundly grateful to Mr. Baldwin for the demonstration of con- fidence which his appointment to

THE NEW-RICH. the Treasury carried with it, and he has obviously aimed at being

There is a saying that all good the most urbane of Ministers. waymen Transport Workers' Americans go to Paris when they But just as one does not forget Union executives, ordered the dic. That may be; but it is cer- the Lloyd George of 1905 and handling of coal to cease at mid-tainly true that all rich Ameri- 1909, so it is evident that a night on Friday (to-day),

cans aspire to come to London section of Labour in particular All epal then railed is to be long before then. And there are cannot forget the Churchill of placed in the nearest siding which others too, who aspire to play the more recent years. Thus we had may exclusively be used for coal "social" game. These include the back bench Opposition, murmuring engines, but not passed to new rich, the socially outré, but ings during the Budget speech other depôts. No imports may be ambitious, the outsiders who Mr. Churchill ignored them, handled.

never cease trying to break down though irritated, and did no more

those queer, invisible barriers than turn on one of his own sup-

with their golden clubs. porters who interrupted him. Then when the Chancellor had listened to three days' criticisms of his proposals and sought to re- ply, he was shouted down by the same back bench element and had to abandon his speech. Unless he has indeed been transformed, a Churchill does not tolerate very tion of the relaxation of the Seven guest at the "right houses" much treatment of this nature,Hours' Act to enable an offer of storm exclusive London Society at But the social climbers who

and if a dead-set' is to be made against the Chancellor, the old fighting spirit will inevitably come out. Conservatives will back him to a man, and the new Parliament may easily be split from top to bottom by con troversy at a time when the leaders of all parties desire an earnest and co-operative handling of current problems. It is in this last fact that the best hope of

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Hongkong, Friday, July 31, 1925,

PROPAGANDA.

THEY SAY THAT—

Premier's Statement.

London, July 30, Mr. Baldwin, in the course of a

This year, se never before, statement to the Miners' Federa- London is inundated with social tion, summarising the negotia-

aspirants. Their efforts to obtain tions during the present position, entrance are amusing to watch, specifies the Owners' concessions but have their pathetic side.

easy to be a hostess in as the principle of a minimum London at the height of the wage and the inclusion of August season-but not so easy to be a profits in wages; and the sugges-

sions,

It is

better wage terms.

this time of the year are not all The Premier also sets out the from the other side of the Federation's refusal to accept Atlantic.

It is usually the wage reductions or relaxation of women-folk who develop this hours, and points out that the passion for exclusiveness when Federation offered not the slight father has established his bank est contribution to the conces- account. Father usually prefers his old cronies, his pipe and his He emphasises that the Govern- taik of shop. But he is usually ment is not prepared to subsidise prevailed upon to leave his com- the industry.

fortable if obscure home and The foregoing was issued launch out for the season, As in shortly prior to the intimation the other case all turns to bitter- that Mr. Baldwin would not make ness and disappointment. Lon- a speech in the House of Commons don merely emiles a superior to-night, which had been smile. It is ready to take the But as announced. The postponement is money of these people. due to his meeting both the for "accepting them that can- parties to-night.

Earlier in the evening the situa-

ployment. The list is admittedly brief as it is meant to be. That it has not banged the big drum of self-advertisement is as it should be and as British people would have it. But there comes a time, as in the present distress, when slowly, it may be, but certainly to tion was discussed at a special

the question of propaganda takes a foremost place: when the ques- tion of counteracting untruth-to| mention only one of the great evila should become very vital. Its vitality at the moment does

It is brought home to me with every day that I pass at my work that Europe is moving uneasily,

new catustrophe.-Mr. Austen Chamberlain,'

Now I can do what I like.-M. Herriot (after resigning),

Cabinet meeting.

German Crisis.

Berlin, July 00..

The only

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

London, later.

not be done.

"John Marrows," said the farmer's wife, coming out to the back porch, where her husband sat, tilted back in his chair, his The glut in coal is causing a feet on a railing, "didn't I hear I have no doubt, taking force of crisis in German industry. Ten you tell the parson when he was character and intellectual power million tons lying in the Rubr here that you had strong views on combined, that Gladstone was the must be sold at any price to save the temperance movement?" greatest man in whose presence I the industry from ruin. The

"Yes," Mr. Marrows replied, not

Beem very evident.

have ever been.-Lord Gray,

method of disposing of it is by rather stiffly. "I said so, and you Colony has suffered to a consider-

When the Gospel is faithfully export. This explains the refusal know, that I have.” abla extent by reason of the fact preached, the preacher may count of the German delegates to the "Well," said Mrs. Marrows, that the uncontradicted untruthari receiving more kicks that half-International Miners' Federation "suppose you go and express a in Paris to join the British miners few of them on the pump-handle. London Ofees:-The Far Easjura has had free play, even though pence.--Dean Inge. Advertising Agency (London),

in their strike or even to support I want a pall of water.' If the French, who have a high the transporters who are prevent- Ltd.. 24,

evidence of the 'eyes should have Devonshire Street, Bloomsbury, W.CL

convicted lying statements of death-rate would give up making ing export. The coal situation is The people of 76mm, gune and buy drain pipes such that Ruhr owners are resort- their falseness.

from Paisley they would be a much this Colony have not starved; the more formidable nation than they

ing to wholesale dismissals. toward meeting the difficult situa harbour has not been blockaded; were at presentCapt. Elliot, Negotiations, in which the chan- tion with which the industry is

cellor is participating, are pro- confronted." and there have been no signs of M.P.

ceeding in Berlin to solve the

The Prime Minister consequently terrorism. It may be that the There is something wrong with a problem.

announced that the Government was prepared to assist the industry, intelligence of the coolie, labour-man if he does not want to break the

until next Spring, when the ex- ing, and amah class, has been Ten Commandments. Mr. G. K.

Chesterton..

quiry will be completed. We can only ascribe the

under-rated; but, it is surely

The Prime Minister requested the absence of a serious system of

"Intelligence" is an extraordin- evident that if peace is to be our arily subtle and varied collection of istry of Labour after midnight says fortnight in order that the neces A statement issued by the Min-owners to suspend the noticer for a propaganda in the present con-

portion in the future, the aim qualities, and the present methods that following a meeting of the sary discussions might proceed con- dition of affairs, to an innate must be to free these people from are far too crude to measure it Cabinet yesterday evening at cerning the way in which temporary sense of modesty on the part of a bondage of fear, and a belief in Mr. J. W. N. Sallivan

which full consideration was given assistance could be afforded. the British executive, or those what may be described as "fairy I have seen a complete change to the whole circumstances of the A statement issued by Mr. Cook, who might well consider the tales," that, as we have seen, has affaireeducational, political? coal dispute, the Prime Minister on behalf of the miners, says that a

social, and religious during my had a further conversation with the settlement has not yet been reach matter of effective propaganda. hitherto reacted so disastrously long life, and I am glad to testify representatives of the winars and

ed: In ordinary circumstances it can on our fortunes. There has been that or the whole the changes have the owners,

A further meeting with the Prime, only be the small-minded who can no harsh criticism of the Govern- been for the better.Mrs. Haldane. The miners told the Prime Minis. Minister was arranged for noon find satisfaction in lauding its ment's handling of somewhat I hate plays that I can under in the proposed enquiry with a view.

ter that they desired to co-operate to-day after Mr. Baldwin met the own virtues and chronicling its complex matter. It has had good stand, because they are not like own achievements. The British will and hearty co-operation of an life, which nobody understands. --

Mr. Bernard Shaw, characteristic of coldness and] unstinted kind. But we may be aloofness excludes all idea of "the permitted a word to suggest that puff direct. Hongkong might whilst it lost no time in appoint well have dinned--and continualing officials to control food sup-bury. dinning of facts is the success of plies and labour, It should have all propaganda as it is the success lost no time in appointing a Direc of advertising into the obstuse tor of Publicity or Propaganda, to minds of those who are wilfully feed the foreign and Chinese | blind-and-refuse-to-think-of-its-Préanim with information;-;

virtues of administration; its placard the Colony with refuta- educational facilities; its laws tions of silly rumours; to pre which do not differentiato be the facts of any case there tween rich and poor--the lowly may be, in no uncertain light ricksha puller and the lordly, mez, language; to "feed" chant fts gifts famine places with information

No Empire has ever persisted when the people at its centre forget how to fill the land Mr Laas

You should never point Johnnie, la ra. Brow they left the shor

owners.

to a full investigation of the The mine workers will receive methods of improving the productive their instructions immediately after. efficiency of the industry for the to-day's meetings: purpose of increasing ita competi live power in winning markets. They intimated that it was not fair to require a 'reduction in wages with the present cost of living be fore an attempt; by means of an enquiry to secure a contribution

ROXOR

TROUBLE SPREADING.

(Reuter's Service.)

Paris, July 30. The bank strike 18 spreading. The employees of the Credit Lyon nais: have followed the leads of Saayne Nationale” de Cre-

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