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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES, FRIDAY, MARCH 1st, 1919.
An Englishman who was looking for a TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
barber's shop in Peking came across three with English inscriptions over them. One had. **Razor slop," another "Chin knives," and a third" Head-cutter to the English.”
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totally interrupted. It is incredible that the strike will be one of long duration, but, however short it may be, its effects upon the trade and commerce of the country and the well-being of the inhabitants - must be calamitous. In the winter season
At a wedding that took place recently at the item of coal is one of importance Colombo the bridegroom dressed up as the in the household economy of the working bride, and the latter as the former, and the class population, and with fuel at famine ceremony was gone, through without the two prices at this time of the year, the hardship people concerned being identified. Their inflicted upon the wage-earning commu-friends are now questioning the validity of nity throughout the country must be very such a marriage. severe indeal, for they will have to pay WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. famine prices not only for fuel, but for
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bread and every other necessity of life whose price is dependent on the price of coal. Naturally the thoughts of many have boca turning during the Inst month or Leo to substitutes for coal. There aro those who hold the sanguine opinion that oil can replace coal in the event of a national strike. Some attention to this view is given in the lateat number of the
British Trade Journal which regards the
opinion as a mistaken one. It has been stated by an expert that the British output of coal
At the Magistracy yesterday a fishing junk owner summored a former employed for leaving his service without having given a month's notice. It appears that it is cus tomary for fishermen to be engaged for the fishing season and to be paid monthly. In this case the defendant had obtained un
advance of over $20 and then disappeared, Mr. Irving, before whom the case was heard, sentenced the defendant to six weeks' im prisonment.
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BRITISH LABOUR TROUBLES.
EFFORTS OF THE PEACEMAKERS.
LONDON, February 29th. Yesterday was another day of incessant conferences, the Government doing its utmost to formulate a settlement.
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THOUSANDS ON STRIKE ALREADY.
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ITALY AND TURKEY.
MË (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
LONDON, February 29th.
CHINESE LOAN.
LONDON, February 29th. Reuter's correspondent at Poking telo-
Fighting took at Home yesterday, and continued throughout the day. The Ital-graphs that the British, American French ians rushed the heights at Mergheb, and and German bankers will adrance fire remained in possession at evening, when million taels to the Republican authorities the Turks and Arabs retired, leaving many to pay the troops. A large loan will be coutracted immediately the coalition cabinet Over 100,000 men will be ou strike dead and wounded regulars on the field.
The Italian casualties were 11 killed and is formed. to-night,
82 wounded.
A wire from Tokyo states that it is Reuter's correspondent at Rome tele-understood that Russia and Japan will graphs that Russia has submitted fresh participate in the loan to China. proposals for mediation between Italy and Turkey. Russia proposes to ask Italy on what terms she will conclude prace on the basis of Italian sovereignty in Italy, and thereafter the five Powers to approach Turkey.
--FEARS OF DISTURBANCE. As there have been fears of disturbances
in the Midhade, the police are being con- veyed in motors to the disaffected districts.
GOVERNMENT MEDIATING.
A settlement to-night is improbable, but the Government and miners are conferring late..
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT,
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ITALIANY EXPELLED FROM TURKEY. Reuter's correspondent at Constantinople telegraphs that 6,000 or 7,000 persons are affected by the anti-Italian expulsion decree in Palestine, including any employed or
LOCAL SPORT.
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
The team for next Saturday's game is as fell T. E. S. Robson; B. F. Chapman, A. E. Wood, C. Blaker, and F. Sutherland; A, P. Dashwood and T. G. Fisher; W. Graksin,
Andrews, F. C. Hall, A. F. Dean, and C. C. Stark, F. R. Ormaton, W. Rese, W. E
Jennison..
There will be a friendly game this evening at An official statement says the Govern Router's correspondent at Constantinople | 5 p.m. between the Army and a team composed. ment proposes distinct district conferences telegraphs that there is little faith in the of the H.K. Club and Navy men.
The On Saturday at 4.15 p.m. the Club are also between the owners and miners to decide efficacy of the Russian initiative.
playing a friendly match with the Navy, THE HEUNGSHAN" INCIDENT:
the minimum wage (for each district), adoption of the Annexation Bill by the previons to their Cup Sxture with them on the representative of the Government being Italian Parliament is regarded as an ill following Saturday, March 9th. exods by five times the amount of the
The rather unpleasant incident which oc world's production of petroleum from the curred in connection with the case of small present. Should any such conferences fail surmountable obstacle. wells at present exploited; and the cost of pox discovered on board the steamer Heung- the Government representatives would de- oil fuel for many ordinary works is pro-shan on Tuesday has been taken very sericide, jointly, the outstanding points.
The Government is satisfied that there are Per case Perhibitive. Warships and the steamers of ously by the Company owning the vessel, ofldos. Bot wealthy lines may have recourse to its use and the matter will be brought before the cases where miners cannot carn a reasonable Board of Directors at their meeting on Tues-wage from causes they cannot control, and Red
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hours. Moreover, said Mr. Clarke, the iden of preventing the second class passengers, who were the first to be vaccinated, from leaving the ship until the whole batch had been treated, seemed to him to be highly absurd. It afforded an excellent illustration of the length to which red tapę was carried by Government officials.
THE HEROES OF THE ** DELUI " WRECK.
down their tools to-morrow,
HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND.
Londos, February 29th. The House of Commons, by 220 votes to 128, adopted a private motion urging the grant of Homs Bule to Sctland, following on Irish Home Rule.
YACHTING.
H.H.I.C.
The ninth club race for each class was sailed.
on Saturday February, 24th, in pleasant aveather
The course was Lyemun Beseori (port), Casti Rook (port), 'miles. Four boats competed, viz., Iris, Dions, Kathleen and Colleen. The two former took the lead early, Dione rounding the Beacon a little ahead of Iris, Kathleen third and Colleen fourth,.
On the run to Cust Rock Buoy, Dione and
THE LATE DUKE OF FIFE.
LONDON, February 29th. The Welsh engineman announce that The funeral of the Duke of Fife took they will strike in any event to morrow, place at Windsor to-day. At the service in Iris kept practically level. On approaching rendering idle the whole coalfield. It is St. George's Chapel Their Majesties, the the baoy Iris took the load and rounded first, understood that the English coul-owners in Princess Hayal, the Prince of Wales, and and, sailing in good form, maintained it on the the federated area have agreed to accept the other members of the Royal Family were bent to Channel Rocks, and on the mau home Government's scheme, including a minimum present. No uniforms were worn. Thoge Guishing 43 seconds ahead of Dione. Kathleen wage. The Northumberland and South present were dressed in leep mourning, showed some of her old form and very nearly Wales owners oppose the scheme, while the Foreign Ambassadors, Lord Crewe, Sir secured second place, Colloon appeared to be off colour and Balshed some forty seconds astern Scottish owners are divided. The miners Edward Grey and the representatives of
of Kathleen. are debating the acceptance of this partial various public bodies were also present. settlement, while negotiations in South and Scotland Wales, Northumberland continue.
AMERICAN POLITICS.
LONDON, February 29th.
The Suishing times were:-
Actual time. Corrected time.
4 16 15 4 16 15
4 36 58 -
4 16 58
ears in the country. The railway companies are also giving more attention to oil as fuel: and though they have been stocking coal in their extensive depots for months, they are preparing, if necessary, to fit their locomotives with oil-fuel apparatus, in order to maintain their passenger and goods traffic in face of a prolonged strike. Wo do not, however, see how this would prove a way on of the difficulty. A very important factor in the question, which is entirely
The medals for saving life at sea presented the subject, is that oil fuel has to be imported by the King, and the gold plate presented by the British Government to the French into England, and if there is any determina officers and sailors of the French cruiser tion to prevent the import of coal Friant, who displayed such gallantry in from abroad, that resolve would inevitably effecting rescues from the Delhi off the coast of Morocco, were recently sent by special be extended to oil cargoes. Coal is obtain-courier to Paris to be presented to the re able in abundance from many parts of the cipients by the British Ambassador in Paris. world. The coal measures of New South Wales, for example, are described as practi- eally unlimited, while the steaming quali- ties of the coal are of the very best; so that given unrestricted import facilities coal could be landed in England in quantities and at rates with which the vil companies are unable to compete. For that reason we do not anticipate that the strike will lead tastinged to escape, all except "one man and a opinion that legislation is necessary to make the report of the accountant who examined more showed the way round the course and
to coal being replaced by oil to any considerable extont. The Government is face to face with one of the greatest labour difficulties that have ever arisen in the Kingdom, and the manner. of its solu- tion will be awaited with interest throughout the world.
viously.
NIAGARA TRAGEDY.
DRAMA OF THE BROKEN ICE BRIDGE.
A dramatis account is given of the terrible disaster at Niagara Falls, as a result of which two man and a woman lost their lives by the collapse of an "la -bridge."
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When the ice began to crack the people on it
Mr. and Mira Steaton, of Toronto). The other
THE MINIMUM WAGE.
A Washington wire states that in the The miners again affirm that there will be House of Representatives, the Committee, no settlement unless a minimum wage at on Waye and Means agreed to the intro- the rate adopted by the Miners' Federation duction of a Sugar Revision Bill reducing on the 2nd inst. is conceded. They will the tariff on sugar one cent. per pound. therefore not arbitrate on that point. They
The Naval Committee decided in favour decline to express an opinion on the ques of the laying down of two battleships in tion of safeguarde, but are still willing to 1912. confer with the owners.
The conferences will be continued to-
morrow.
LEGISLATION. NECESSARY.
In any case, the Government is of the
:
LATER.
woman (whose names are given by Renter as the decisions of its representatives, as victim, a young man named Hososok, went to gested at the district conferences, compul- their aid. Just then the ice-dam, groaning eory. under the tremendous pressure of the water heaped against it by a south-west gale, brake. loose from its anchorage at the foot of the Harseshoe Falls and went whirling down tha stream towards the rapids, carrying its human burdens with it.
A DIFFICULT SITUATION.
AMERICAN STEEL TRUST.
LONDON, February 29th.
A telegram from Washington states that
Iris ... Digne Kathleen... Colleen
4 22 0
4 22 40
The marki to date are :---.
Dione
Colleen
Iris...
Dorothes...
Kathleen... Rollo...
ONE-DESIGN CLASS.
4 17 21-2
4 17 42 1-2
40
35
The course for this class was Channel Books (port), Cust Rooks Buoy (port), Kowloon Rocks (star), Channel Rooks (star.), 7.7 miles.
Five boats competed, riz.-Ailsa, Bonito II., Alannah II., Daphne and Haleyon. Ailsa once
the books of the Steel Trust mentions that scored another win. Bonito II was second, the Pierpont Morgan Co. gained a profit of Alannah II. third, Halcyon fourth snä Daphns £13,800,000 by financing the Trust,
fifth.
Ailes
Bonito IL Alannah II. Halycon! Daphne
Finishing time. 4.19 42 4 21 15
Marks
to Date.
37
4 22 45
25
4 24
18
AMERICAN CONGRATULATIONS FOR CHINA. Sixty per cent of the coal owners have accepted the Government's proposals. They
LONDON, February 29th. include those in Lancashire, Yorkshire, The Reuter's correspondent at Washington
4. 25 DINGHY CLASE. Midlands, North Wales, Durbani and telegraphs that the Foreign Committee of Cumberland. The dissentients are North-the House of Representatives reported
Three boats started, viz, Joan, No. 5 and umberland, South Wales, Scotland, Forest favourably ou a resolution crugratulating Sprite. Jean won, with No. 5 second.
the Chinese people on the assumption of of Dean, Somerset and Bristol.
THE latest telegrams regarding the coal | Secretary's Office that Hongkong has been held by an Ontario policeman and about iwe Government's proposals on national grounds, to recognition of the Republic...
crisis in Great Britain show the miners to be determined to adhere to their demand for
We have been informed by the Colonial infected port for plague by declared an Burima.
PORTUGUESE GUNBOAT SUNK,
BOLDIERS CLUB BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
a minimum wage at a rate adopted by the The master of a junk reports that while Miners' Federation on February 2nd. They lying at anchor in Cheung Chau harbox are not prepared to consider the varying Tuesday night the steam launch Hai Ninx circumstances in different districts, but incollided with his junk and damaged it to the siat on a uniformt rate for the entire country.extent of $200. Nobody was injured. It appears that the Government is satisfied
On Wednesday a party of police raided a that there are cases where miners cannot matshed at Tai O and arrested a number earn a reasonable wage, from causes they of men who were gambling. A rescue was one of the cannot control, and the results of the con- attempted by friends, and
arrested and brought to ferences with the Government of which the assailants was telegrams bave informed us is a proposal by the Government that distinct district con- ferances should be held between the owners and miners to decide upon a minimum wage, Court at Perth, Australia, in connection with fumbled in a waist a second time Chesterfield' on the 28th inst.
Bubsequently it broke, leaving Heswosk on An engineer named Thomas employed at
one piece. He turned to his companions in dis Taikou died on Wednesday as the result of tress and waved a cheerful farewell Turning, injuries received from a faft two days peche save the dangling ropes, and, says the Tele graph correspondent, very coolly taking off
Marks to date:-Joan, 21, No. 5, 15: Sprite, his by rount poised himself on the tossing too. Directly in his course there hung aus rope, and- A section of the coal owners, at the in-the powers and duties of self-government.15; Mephistopheles, 5, Haiyah, 2. a second moved towards him. He caught that stance of the Earl of Durham, accepted the If the resoultion is passed, it is tantamount milroad won, and jumped free of the ics, The sag of the rope at that great drop of 200ft, lat and in view of the disaster which a strike him into the chilly water up to his waist and would cause, but the Welahmen were before he could clear it he was frightfully bat- tored by thres successive pieces of jattleg ise, adamant. Mr. Thomas, interviewed yester- land, but soon gave up the attempt, and dinng Government to the end, and will rather sub Hancock first tried to pull himself up band over day afternoon, said "We will resist the limply to the rope. The men abore palled steadily. Ten fost, twenty, twenty-five, thirty mit to compulsion than accept voluntarily."" feet-up he come, and the great crowd on the The miners are determined to remain bridges cheered-those that were not weeping, Grimly the boy hang on, trying always to get solid, and are confident of obtaining not his legs wound about the rope. Then his hands merely the principle, but a specific minimum
He sought to get hold of the wage. began to slip. rope with his teeth, but failed to do so. Finally, just as he was about 60ft, clear of the water, his head foll back. He was utterly spent, he lost his grip, and planged far down to the stream and was seen no mere,
Hongkong.
Information has reached Hongkong that the habeas corpus proceedings in the Police
a representative of the Government being the arrest of E. B. Ayris, who is " wanted "
steamer,
In the meantime the other couple were being carried to their death. The man grasped the thin rope hanging from the art, as he tried to
second
wind it around the
Yesterday evening, 115,000 men struck but it was generally in a holiday siprit, and there was an absence of the ill-feeling which characterised previous combats.
LONDON, February 29th.
the gunboat Faro collided with a tug and Reuter's Lisbon correspondent wires that
sank off Alvor. Six were drowned, including the commander and the second officer. The remainder were rescued with difficulty.
PALMYRA ISLAND ANNEXATION.
LONDON, February 29th. The Commander of the West Virginia
reports to the State Department that he
The fourth and fifth games between the R. E. "B" team and 83 Company R.G.A. were played their rivals' lead by 43 points. on Wednesday night in which the latter reduced
The first game was between Sergt. Powell, R.G.A., and Bergt, Radd, R. E. Both players played a cautious game, sometimes too cautious, missing easy shots. Sergt. Powell's best breaks were 19, 10 (twice), and 13. Those of Sergt Redd were 10 (3 times), 16 sud 12 Rudd won by 2.
The next pair were Sorgt. Humber and Gun. played The leaders in Derbyshire have issued a uninhabited, and that there were no
before a big house. Moch interest was taken found Palmyra Island on the 28th inster Montgomery, and their game was manifesto deprecating the outbreak at dications that any tation had attempted average ability. A good game was anticipated in this match, as both are players of above the
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PEACE, NEGOTIATIONS" BREAKDOWN.
to assert sovereignty.
TROUBLESOME CRETE.
AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM.
LONDON, Fabruary 2914-
in
(the first rope had broken), but his bands were in Hongkong, have concluded, and that apparently numb with the cold, and, failing in present to assist in deciding outstanding defendant will be brought here by the first bis atempt to save his companion, be released
his hold on the rope with the thought of saving In view of the breakdown of the peace points in the event of the failure of any
LONDON, February 29th. himself. He raised the woman to her feet, kies negotiations, the action of the Government such conference. This seems an eminently
ed her, and clasped her in his arms. The
Reuter's correspondent at Paris states reasonable proposal, but the Minerg Two instances of dumping dead bodies woman made as if to cross herself, and then is now eagerly anticipated. A surprisingly Federation is in. no frame of mind were reported yesterday. In one case the saak to her knees. The man knol beside her, large pernentage of the coxlowners have that the protecting Powers have decided to
they to acquiesce in such an arrangement, body of a decomposed female child was found his arms clasped close about her. So
if struck a great wave. There it was shivered wage, a fact which is expected to strengthen Thousands of men have now left their work, floating off the military pier at Lyeemun. went to their death. The ice beld intact until accepted the principle of the minimum strengthen their naval forces at Crete.
In the other the body of a female child was into fragments, there the gallaut man and the the hands of the Government, but it is not and the manufacturing industry of the picked up in the Eastern district and a woman at his side disappeared from view. nation is consequently threatened with almost woman was arrested on suspicion of having
expected that the legislation will be so drastic as has been suggested. It is more complete paralysis. A mouth age coal prices dumped it..
probable that it will be based on the pra were standing at figures representing an
While the police were executing an opium advance of three shillings per ton on the
posals of last night. warrant at Kwei We Lane on Wednesday prices quoted at the beginning of the year
a carpenter, who was on a visit to the house Since then, as the outlook has gradually grown darker, pricos no doubt have steadily at the time, became alarmed at the arrival of the police and in his haste to get away risen, and the inference to be drawn from fell downstairs and injured his head se to-day's telegrams in that the output of coal severely that he had to be sent to the in Great Britain is, by this time, almost hospital.
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Reuter's correspondent at Sydney tele graphs that D. Smith replaces Clem Hill to the triangular team.
ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET:
FIFTH TEST MATCH,
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and in this the spectators were not disappointed. Montgomery eventually prove the winner, beating his opponent by 41 points, his chief breaks being 11, 16and two 19's Sergt. Hum- ber's only double figure breaks being 21 and 11. SCOTES:
R. B. "B" 88 Coy. B.G.A...' Sergt. Powell... .... 249 Sergt. Endd 250 Gunner Montgomery 250 Sergt. Humber 209-
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