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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1928.

IS PRICE OF TEA TOO “SUFFRAGETTES” AND THE BIRTHRATE OF

HIGH?

YES AND NO.

LADY MAYOR OF DEPTFORD FAVOURS REDUCTION,- RETAILERS' OPPOSITION.

London, Yesterday.

The suggestion that in view of

the statement that there are

THE PACT.

""

WHAT WOMEN WANT

A PETITION FOR THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES.

are at

purpose

ENGLAND.

AN INCREASE.

FIRST FAVOURABLE FIGURES SINCE 1920.

MARRIAGE STATISTICS.

SCENE NEAR PARIS.

Paris, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday. For the first time since 1920, the To determined women

birthrate for the second quarter 30,000,000 more pounds of tea in present in Paris for the

of the year showed an increase Britain than there was year of getting the international dele-over the corresponding period of ago, tea prices are too high is gates, who are here for the signing the previous year. The birthrate denied by the director of one of of the Kellogg Pact, to accept a for 1927 was 16.6 per 1,000 of the biggest packing houses of

"treaty for establishing the equal the population, which is the low- London. He said that he did not

tion began. know of any profiteering in the rights of women throughout the est recorded since civil registra- tea trade and that the profit on world."

For the second quarter of this ten was smaller than on any Rhondda and Miss Doris Stevens, other domestic article. Before Presidents of the Committee of year the rate was 17.5. There the markets broke, early in Spring International Action and of the was also a slight increase in the they were selling ten to the public National Women's Party of the

The Registrar-General, how- at a price below that at which they could buy it.

ever, points out that the figures According to the "New York do not definitely indicate an alter- Mrs. Drapper, the lady mayor of Deptford, who is a member of Herald" Paris edition, Mrs. Kellogg ation in the downward tendency the Food Council, however, is of stigmatises the presence of this of the birthrate as the increase opinion that ten prices should be feminist committee, in Paris at the might be due to the unusually reduced, otherwise she proposes time of signing the pact as "in- large number of marriages in to raise the question at the Coun-opportune and out of place......1927,

They

United States.

are Viscountess

first quarter.

cil, which previously was of I know my husband agrees with me Marriages in the first quarter a decline opinion that the profit on retail that these women have taken an of this year showed tea by distributing companies unfair advantage of the situation." compared with the corresponding might well form the subject of On the other hand Miss Stevens quarter of last year. inquiry.

Tea officials of three of the leading retail tea firms in London have stated that there was no intention of making any reduc- tion-Reuter.

CONFIRMED.

ROPE CO'S ARTICLES ALTERED.

TO-DAY'S MEETING.

in an interview declares that Mr. Kellogg has promised to receive the committee.

SUFFRAGETTES' CAMPAIGN.

Later.

The death rate for the first half of this year shews a decline, being 12.9 per 1,000 of the population compared with 14.2 in the first half of last year.-British Wire less Service.

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The inhabitants of Rambouillet formed a guard of honour for the Peace Pact delegates on their ar- rival at the chateau as guests at a luncheon by Pres. Doumergue.

country, which praises the step The harmony of the proceedings taken at Paris yesterday. was threatened and marred by a

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of "suffragettes," Stressing the "moral obligation" In the Board Room of Messrs. demonstration

United States under the Shewan Tomes and Co., St. George's commissioned by the "committee of the Building, this morning, an extra-of International action" and the Pact, the "New York World" says mem-National Women's Party of the that: In signing the treaty the ordinary general meeting of mem-United States. (of which Viscount-Governments concerned, and parti- bers of the Hong Kong Rope Manu Rhondda and the Americas, cularly the United States, have put facturing Company, Limited, was

Doris Stevens, respectively, were themselves in a position where they held for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings of an ex-organisera) to present a petition cannot fail without exposing them- traordinary general meeting of the asking the plenipotentiaries to sup-selves to a charge of insincerity.

in persistently building up The Money Order Office has been removed to the Public Hall Company held on August 13, and of Port a pact of equal rights for They must use their whole influence the existing confirming a special resolutionen and women.

Finding the entrance barred, the authority of all on the ground floor of the G.P.O.

which was then plased.

The resolution was as follow: delegation asked the gendarmes to machinery for the peaceful settle- "That the regulations contained hand Pres. Doumargue the address.ment of disputes.

Four of the women who were The "New York Times" says 'that In the Printed Document submitted

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to the Meeting and for the purpose particularly insistent, endeavoured the Treaty embodies a moral pledge of identification subscribed by the to force their way to the chateau against indifference, while Chairman thereof be approved and and were politely escorted to the "Philadelphia Inquirer" considers adopted as the Articles of Associa-Mayoralty where they were detain that the Treaty will help to dispel till Pressuspicion. The "Washington Post" tion of the Company in substitutioned for 3 hours for and to the exclusion of all the Doumergue's guests had departed. says there appears to be no reason It was not a matter of "durance why the Senate should not approve existing Articles thereof.".

This morning's meeting was pre-vile" however for they were sup- the Fact.

A mixed reception is given the sided over by Mr. R. G. Shewan, plied with lunch in the shape of who was supported by the follow sandwiches, mineral waters and Kellogg Pact by the Continental Presat Good seed that ought to ing members of the Consulting Com-

MISS STEVENS VIEWS. produce good fruit" is the comment mittee: Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. J. H. Taggart, and Mr. A. H. White, Doris Stevens, to Reuter's cor- of the Parisian newspaper "Homme and Mr. J. Coulthart (Secretary). respondent stated that Viscountess Libra."

"Le Matin" points out that this Shareholders present were Messrs Rhondda did not accompany the A. L Shields, I. W. Shewan, H. deputation to Rambouillet. The is the first peace treaty concluded Dreyer, J. Dick, W. Lawson, Allan police tore up the note which the in the World's history without war Keith, J. Toppin, F. J. Tavares, deputation had asked them to con-immediately preceding it.

vey to Pres. Doumergue. A second

It is noteworthy that the Polish C. H. Osmund and A. A. Botelho.

After the Secretary had read the attempt was made, through a con- report of the proceedings of the clerge, to convey a note which beg-newspapers, according to a War- previous meeting which was duly red Pres. Doumergue to permit his saw message, are especially grati- Mr. guests to come out for ten minutes, fled because they claim that the signed by the Chairman,

Pact now signed is a similar pro to hear the women's request. Coulthart read the notice convening

Miss

Stevens expressed the posal to that submitted by the the meeting, after which the Chair- man proposed the confirmation of opinion that anyone is entitled to Polish delegation at Geneva last the resolution as a special resolu-petition the President of any Re-year; and, in signing,It, Germany public, and she emphasised that forswears for ever any idea forcibly

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Kakú Marn Haying:

Mr. J. H. Taggart seconded, and this was all the women wished to to rearrange her eastern frontier. On the contrary, the Itálian and do.

German press is cynical and· sar- castic.

the proposal was carried unanim- ously.

WILL US SENATE RATIFY? ·

Washington, Yesterday. Although Mr. Kellogg in Paris,

The Rome "Tribuna" says the

A copy of the New Articles is declined to forecast the Senate's Fact "won't for long illamine the open to the inspection of the Mem-attitude towards the Pact, it is pages of history" but that the res- bers of the Company at the office of generally expected here that the ponsibility for this, however, will Shewan, Tomes and Co., St. George's Sonate will ratify it by a safe not be Italy's but the major signa- Building.ar

"STREET SACRIFICES.”

majority, if no political storm tories who "prepared" by the care- breaks. The Presidential Election mony in Paris a waiter of trouble will be over when the Fact comes and bitter, suspicion under a cloak before the Senate, which will re- of fine words. The Peace Pact A comment in the "China Mail's" move it from partisan politics. will further consolidate America's the League leading anticle yesterday entitled The fact that the Pact imposes no aloofness towards "Street Sacrifoes" was realised yes, obligations upon the United States of Nations.

banished for half. terday when a boy, scrambling for other than the renunciation of war, "Stop war, money on the ground, evidently is like to induce the Senate an-hour." neglected the passing of motor to ratify. An interesting question

tronical headings in the German traffics, and was injured, is whether the opponents of the Nearly like Hollywood" are the According to Chan Pu, abus naval building programme will use "Nationalist Freas, and their driver of the Chins. Bus Company, the Pact to reinforce their argu- comments are couched in a tone of mistrust similar. who was driving along Shanghai mente, and there is evidence that

Particular and

Barcism. street, Yaumati, towards Sham- some of the members of the ad- shulpo, a crowd of boys were pick ministration are finding it difficult ing up copper conts thrown to them, to reconcile the Pact with their phaals is laid upon the fact that there is no sign of general disarma- mant after the ceremony at Parli when a boy suddenly dashed out of request for more ships.

nor of the Anglo-French troops eva cuating German ferritory. The bus akidded, infuring the boy's

of the "left" Journals, on the contrary, ankle.

violent differescos of opinion which stress the moral importance and The injured youth is now in the marked the

Ver significance of the signing in great Kowloon Hospital. He is 13 years

ly increasing the chance of a con- alles Tre

tinu

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