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OIL LAWS.
C.N.C. STRIKE.
SEVERE ECONOMIC POSITION
NO CHANGE IN LOCAL SITUATION.
RESULTS.
Mexico, July 8.
SCRATCH CREWS.
YELLOW FEVER.
SCIENTIST FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH.
Londen, July 8.
been Mr. Edward Hindle has elected to the Belt Senior Fellow- The Aguila Oil Company has ap plied to the First District Court
Locally there is no change in thej ship for research in tropical medi- for an injunction against the en- forcement of the new oil law, The China Navigation Company strike.cine, which has a value of £1,000 Company complains that it has Officers Interviewed this morning for five years in respect of the sub- been refused drilling permits for in regard to the telegram from ject "spirochaetosis with special some of its lands at Tampico. The Shanghai to the effect that a num-reference to the causation of yellow Government reply contends that the ber of CN.G. ships had left that fever."--Reuter. Company has not complied with the port state that the crews of these law. The "Excelsior" says there is vessels have no doubt been made continued suspension or reduction up of those officers and engineers of operations in the Tampico fields who refused to in the strike. by foreign and domestic oil com- panies and mining operations by many companies in the Northern The
Reported Sailings.
for
Shanghai, July 8. following. Butterfield States causing a severo economic
whips are sailing to-day:"Po situation, throwing thousands of
Yangtsze ports; workmen out of employment. The yang," paper attributes the reduction of "Shantung," for Hong Kong: oil production to dissatisfaction and "Tungchow," for Tientsin. over the new oil laws, bad weather,Reuter..
New Situation. u movement by the United States
Shanghai, July 2. for the curtailment of production
no and the attractiveness of South Although it appears that American fields in comparison to action has been taken by either Mexican-Reuter's American Ser-side in the dispute in Hong
vice,
VISIT TO PARIS.
WELCOME FOR, PRINCE OF WALES.
Rugby, July 8.
The Prince of Wales had an on- thusiastic reception on his arrival to-day at Paris, where this after- noon he laid the foundation stone of a hostel for British studenta in; the new university being erected on} the Southern edge of Paris.
The Prince afterwards lunched
Mr. Edward Hindle, M.A., Ph.D., F.RS. (Edin.), F.LS., Membre correspondant de la Societe A.R.C.Sc., de Pathologie Exotique, and Milner! Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene, and Tropical Medicine. was seennded for two years' service for service with the (1625-27)
Commission of the Royal Gala-azur Society in North China. Formerly he was Professor of Biology at the Tropical School of Medicine, Catro and sec- tional editor of the
Beit! Diseases Bulletin. He was Memorial Research Fellow from 1930 to 1912.
HOME AGAIN.
Kong, according to reports from Shanghai the Guilds there have issued an ultimatum to the Com-RECEPTION FOR THE DUKE OF pany to the effect that unless two officers who were dismissed from the C. N. C. service were re-
"SHOWERY."
"South winds, moderate, squal- ly and showery" is the weather forecast issued by the Royal Observatory to-day.
at the Elysee with President Doa-instated by noon to-day (July 2) mergue and numerous distinguish- all officers, deck and engine room ed guests,
YORK.
Rugby, July 9. -Many Ministers and ex-Ministers, together with members of both Houses of Parliament, and several members of the Dominion Parlia ments, were present at a reception given in Westminster Hall to-day by the Empire Parliamentary Asso- and ciation to meet the Duke Duchess of York on their return [rom their recent tour.-British Wireless Service.
would be withdrawn from the was decided that a deputation of A deputa- eight members of the two Guilds The Prince is fulfilling several Company's vessels. other engagements and is being ex- tion from the two Guilds waited should wait upon the Company tensively feted during his short on the Comony yesterday after- and intimate that unless the two stay. British Wireless Service.
BIG MATCH COMBINE.
BRYANT AND MAY'S JOIN SWEDISH COMPANY.
London, July 9.
noon az Smaueated this de- ciston to Mr. T. Ht R. Shaw and there the matter rests for the present.
har
officers were
re-
dismissed instated by noon to-day all offi cers of the Company's ships would be withdrawn.
The deputation was headed by The decision of the men created the most serious position Mr. W. E. Kirby, secretary of that has yet arisen since the offi- the China Coast Officers' Guild cers went on strike on midnight and made the position clear to the Company. Nothing was on Wednesday, and if carried into effect practically means that accomplished by the visit and the It is announced that Bryant and the vessels of the Company which Company merely stated that the May Limited and the Swedish have been rendered idle through position had been explained Match Comjany have arrived at a the refusal of the officers to take the two officers when they re- provisional agreement with the them to sea, will be without the fused to move the ships and be- Thus, the position has become object of securing identification protection of the foreign staffs. fore they were dismissed.
to
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of interests in the British Empire It is a matter which may have even more complicated and unless except in Asia and making reci- the very gravest consequences the two men are re-instated by procal arrangements for other but the men are determined in noon to-day the officers, will leave Bookbinders. parts of the ivorld.
their attitude regarding the re-
the ships. The agreement provides for the instaternent of the dismissed formation of a new company to men. acquire the ordinary shares of Bryant and May and the inter- ests of
the Swedish Match
This
Side Issue. ultimatum
Position Explained. The position of the officers was officially communicated to
last the Company
night After pointing out by letter.
virtually Company throughout the British means that a side issue has been Empire. The capital of the com- introduced into the dispate since Empress of Canada. pany is to be £6,000,000 in £1 it was originally decided by the the cause for the strike, namely
Pres. Cleveland.
shares.-Reuter,
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LEE YEE,
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and Booksellers No. 12, D'Aguilar Street,
(opposite Queen's Theatre).
Central. Tel. Central No. 1255. Optician.
Guilds that the officers were to re- the refusal of the Company to Dentist. main on board their vessels and submit the dispute to an adjust- carry out port duties unless spe- ment board or a return to the cifically ordered to leave the ships old scale of wages and the aboli tion of the ten per cent. reduc. by the Company.
that yesterdaytion, the letter states that the It appears morning the master and chief action of the men is merely a engineer of the s.s. "Siangtan" protest against the Company's Electrical Supplies, were requested to take that refusal to consider their de
Rugby, July 8, 2.30 p.m.
In less than an hour 20 pictures vessel from the wharf at Poo-mands. If the action of the men THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG
sea is considered to be tantamount were sold for £136,000 at Christica tung to the anchorage at the in refusing to take the ships to 4.30 pm.this afternoon.
Arsenal. The officers replied
to resignation. the letter points
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Turner picture fetched £30,450.
A Rembrandt portrait of Admiral that they could not comply with out that proper provision has Tromp fetched £31,000. One small the instructions from the Com- been made for such resignation pany owing to those issued by in the officers' agreement with A Reynolds portrait sold for the Guilds. The men were then the Company. The men are pre- £19,425, and a Romney portrait for
dismissed by letter from the Com- £17,850,
tish Wireless Service..
APOLOGY ISSUED.
HENRY FORD'S PAPER AND THE JEWS.
Company.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO, LTD. ' 12, Queen's Rd., Central, Tal C. 8270.
Shipbuilders.
W. 8. BAILEY & CO, LTD.,
Engineers and Shipbuilders
Kowloon Bay.
New Work & Repairs.
Call Flag."L" Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
guard the Company's property The pictures consisted of the pany, it being considered that pared to stand by the ships and Engineers & James Ross Collection brought from their refusal to move the ships and will not leave unless specia- Canada for sale in London. Bri- was tantamount to resignation.cially instructed to do so by the
Following the declaration of the strike and its enforcement on The above statements were all Wednesday night the masters of communicated to the Company by the Company's vessels in Shang-letter but the position has been hai were circularised by the Com-somewhat altered by the dis-.. pany to the effect that all those missal of the two officers yester- officers who refused to obey the day morning. Unless these men Company's orders would receive are re-instated by noon to-day no pay after that date and their the entire fleet's officers will be refusal would be taken as tanta- withdrawn from the vessels. mount to resignation. It was The issue has, therefore, shift- also intimated that the officers ed from the original dispute, for would receive no maintenance on the time being, and the oficers board the vessels if they refused are not prepared to negotiate He has disclaimed all knowledge to work, the vessels. These
upon the original causes for the of the details thereof and has or-notices were received by the off-strike until the two officers are dered discontinuance of the same.
The paper states that Mr. Ford Cers of the various vessels in offer by Mr. port and it was partly in order has rejected an Randolph William Hearst, the news to discuss these that a meeting paper magnate, of $1,000,000 for the of the members of the Guilds "Dearborn Independent."Reuter's was called yesterday afternoon.
Dismissal Discussed.
New York, July 8. The "New York American" says that Mr. Henry Ford has issued an apology for the aspersions on Jews In his paper the "Dearborn Inde pendent."
American Service.
ARGENTINE TRAIN SMASH.
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REPORT FROM
MR. H.S. CHIN.
BOARD OF CONSERVANCY WORKS OF KWANGTUNG
Waterlevels in English Feet,
Highest W.L.Lowest WL. W.L..
W.Lu
on
record +41,0
.on record
7/7 + 20.0 + 0.0 +122
8/7
rising
falling
72.
18.2: +5,9
Place of Observation Ships Tying Up. ⠀ Meantime messages are being West River at Shiching: received from other ports show- North River at faingyger +28-7 ing that the Company's vessels North River at Sanshui are being tied up as soon as they East River at Sheklung
In the meantime the master reach port. As each vessel and chief engineer of the s.a: reaches port and is "safely berth- "Slangtan" were dismissed and ed, docked and moored" she is Buenos Aires, July 8. the other officers were so incensed kept there by the officers who re- The Pacific Railway has advised at this action that its discussion fuse to take her to sea again un that 24 were killed and 18 scriously became one of the most import til instructions have been re- injured in the train smash at Men-j doza. The collision was owing to ant of the meeting yesterday, celved from the Guilds in Shang-
Following a lengthy discussion it hal.
Emp, of AsiaA. Hosang Yuen Sang
6. p.m.
5.p.3.
fog.
*Correspondence bearing vessel's; name" only.
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