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LIST OF SHIPS EXPECTED TO BE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH HONGKÔNG TO-DAY, Kotan Maru, Honghwa, Shirala, West Prospect, Kwangtung, Samarang Mafo, Empress of Russia, Hosang, Henalder, Tjiliwong, Clansanda, Clara Jebsen, Van Overstraten, Halyang, Nagano Maru, Mishima Maru, Pres. Taft; Sunning Haining, Talshan, Lungshan, Kinshan, Alipore,
Dutiable articles forwarded by letter post to Great Britain are table to confiscation by the Customs. Such articles should be for- Varded by parcel post only.
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AMERICAN DELEGATION.
"Rugby, July 14."
An American delegation has at- rived in London to discuss sugges: tions laid down by the British Government in its memorandum to the State Department of March 27, 1926, regarding the adminis- trative measures that might be taken by the British authorities in order to assist the United States Government in the preven- tion of iquor snuggling from
sen.
meet
BOUND FOR CHINA.
Djibouti, July 14. The Messageries Maritimes mail boat Fontainebleau, bound for Ceylon. the Straits Settlements, China,
"and Japan, has been destroyed by fire.
The passengers and crew, and a small part of the cargo, have been saved."
The mail sacks have been lost. Reuter
the
"Com-
HOME
ACCEPTED BY GOVERNMENT.
London, July 14.
In the House of Commons. Sir W. Mitchell-Thomsen. Postmuster- General, announced his acceptance of the recommendation of the Broadcasting Committee -and will transfer the present organisation on December 91 to a Corporation to be established by Royal Charter
holding the Pand
Postmaster- General's licence.
It will be invested, abcording to the Committee's recommendation. with the maximanis freedom that Parliament is prepared to concedê. -Reuter.
A rable of March & fannounced: most complete scheme for re organising the management of broadrusting services in Great Bri-
seven nominees
The delegation.consists of Con- eral Lincoln Andrews, Assistant
Hongkong Passengers? Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.
The Fantainbleau" is one of a Vallance, Assistant to the Solici- tor of the Department of State, class of three Messageries Mari- Rear-Admiral Billard. Contman-times vessel, the other being the
and "Chantilly" dant of the Const Guard Treasury peigne," built in 1023. Department. and Me Arthur Henderson, Special Assistant to It was specially designed for then is outlined in the official report. of the Breadcasting Committee the Attorney-General. It will indo-China (Marseilles: to Hui-
at the Foreign Office to phong) un but it has been twice printed to decide the nature of the administration after the expiry morrow representatives of the in Hongkong already, the last ce-
of the present Company's licence on December 31 It recommends that Board of Trade the Admiralty,casion being in February of this the Colonial Office, the Customs year.
'broadcasting be made a public ser- A comparatively large ship, vice; that a Corporation consisting Administration, and the Foreign
the "Fontainbleau" has the fol- for from five do Office.
In regard to these, discussionslowing dimensions: displacement chosen by the Crown be appointed It should be understood that there 16.000 tong, 11,000 tons grows, to take over the staff, contracts and is no question of amending the 6,900 horse-power, 497 feet long, apparatus of the existing Company: existing international agreement breadth 59 feet. Passenger acthat the Commissioners be persona regarding iquor smuggling. The commodation: 1st class 120, 2nd of judgment and independence and sole object of the conference is 150; 3rd 80,
empowered to consult appropriate No Local Details.
societies, organisations, and advi to see what can be done by the British authorities in an ad-
Upon inquiry at the looulsory committees to ensure due con- ministrative way to make smug offices of the M.M. this morning, sideration of all phases of broad- gling more difficult. It has, for
"China Mail" representative casting: that generous provision be instance, been suggested to the was informed that the news of the male for experiment and research; United States that permission fre had been received although that the Corporation operate the might be granted to special "destroyed by fire' is believed to licence from the Postmaster-General American revenue cutters to en-have been an exaggeration. They for at least ten years; and that the ter British territorial waters in have no particulars as to the Commissioners be invested with the the Bahamas under certain con-
names of passengers on boaf but maximum freedom, consistent with it is expected that there will be Parliamentary control, through the both travellers and cargo
for spokesmanship, of the Postmasters
Generall Hongkong
a
ditions. The possibility has also 'been suggested of taking steps to make more difficult the transfer to the, British day of vessels in-
A cable has also been received tended for the smuggling trade.
Another of the British sugges-had been landed at Djibouti.."
intimating that the passengers tions concerns the possibility of rendering it more difficult to make false declarations as to the ultim- ate destination of liquor cargoes.
These suggestions were con-
tained in the British, memoran- dum of March 27, in which it was proposed that the United States- might send representatives to London to learn from the British authorities exactly what they can do and see how far the American authorities can co-operate with them by giving them information- and other forms of assistance.-- British Wireless Service.
ORIENTAL LABOUR.
IN JAPAN, CHINA, AND INDIA.
n
CONFERENCE MOOTED.
London, July 11. In the House of Common suggestion for a conference be- tween Japan, China, and India to discuss labour conditions on the lines of the recent European Con- ference was made in the form of
Further news is 'awaited by way of Saigon-Shanghai-Hongkong."
TO MEET BISHOPS.
DEPARTURE IN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.
MINERS' LEADERS ACCEPT.
1
JULY 14.
GREAT MILITARY REVIEW IN PARIS.
Paris July 14. The military review on the occasion of the fourteenth of July celebrations was more significant i than usual, being in the nature of 'a thanksgiving for the completion of the Syrian and Moroccan cam! paige,
Troops, after the march past of the brilliant gathering of Marshals, Ministers, and Ambassadors to the Arr de Triomphe, went down the Champs Elysees which was packed with spectators.
Aeroplanes wheeled above. An unusual number of Colonial troops fresh from participated, some Morocco and also the Sultan of
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Rugby, July 14. Some interest has been created by the news that this evening re- of presentatives the Miners' Federation will meet several Bishops and herds of the "Free Churches, at the offices of the Industrial Artisan Fellowship.
An
of this body official states:-
Morocco's Black Bodyguard, and Bookbinders. "Our fellowship is desirous of among the spectators were the Sul-
"THE CHINA MAIL" doing anything that it can toward tar and the Spanish General Frimo
binders. helping in the mining dispute. de Rivera. As the groops passed Some days ago we had a meeting there were hostile cries, mingled with the representatives of the with cheers, and followed by scuffles the Communists and coal owners, at which they ex-between plained their point of view. This Patriots, on which the Police inter Dentist. meeting with the miners' leaders vened. Twenty arrests were made is a companion meeting to that. including the Municipal Councillor We feel that the least we can do Joly-Reuter.
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Earl Winterton; Under-Secre- tary of State for India, promised to submit the suggestion to the Government of India.-Reuter.
SMYRNA PLOT.
FIFTEEN MEN SENTENCED
--TO DEATH.
Constantinople, July 13. The Tribunal have condemned to death Afteen of the accused in the Smyrna plot.
Later, Three other accused are, to be tried at Angora. The remainder wore aequitted and liberated. The condemned men will
be
hagged at dawn to-morrow Reu-
tor.
(An attempt was to have been made on the life of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish Premier, at Smyrna, but just before his arrival the Police discovered the Conspiracy.]
GLOBE CIRCLERS.
WELLS AND EVANS BREAK THE RECORD.
GREETED BY MEARS.
New York, July 14. The globe, girdlers, Wells and Evans, have arrived at Mitchell- field, New York, completing the world tour in 281% days and boat. ing the previous record of 35 days without aeroplanes.
Evans said that if the aero- plane schedule across the Ameri can Continent had worked better the trip would have been shorter, They had more trouble in that respect than in any place in Europe.
The first man to greet the globe trotters was John Mears, whose record they had broken-Reuter's American. Service.
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