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WORKMEN.

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-IN JAVA.

DETAILS OF THE GREAT CATASTROPHE

The following additional particulars of the eruption at Kloet, nirendly report.

BOYCOTT OF JAPANESE

AT SHANGHAI.

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**MUTCAL ESPIONAGE"

The Chinese reporter of the 3,

Colonel John Ward. M.P, recently addressed some candid observations to gathering of Russian Railway workmen ed in our columns, are taken from our Daily News, writing on May 28th,

at Ennokentevscknya.

These men had

achieved an unenviable reputation by means of their attitude and have done more than any other workmen to ruin Russia by the way they have delayed transport. The speech is translated from a Russian organ as follow:

i wish to say a few words My trienas. to you of the past misfortunes of my country and more particularly to dwell on your present misfortunes.

England, just like Russia, in its time experienced a period of revolution., I will not describe to you these experiences in detail, I will only say one thing: order was not attained until all citizens had gathered round their government and until every citizen had begun honourably to fulul his duty. The same thing is hap pening in Russia. The most ideal Oor- ernment is not in a position to do any thing for the country, so long as in its tars there ring shouts of Long live the

Revolation

Straits contemporaries —

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BATAVIA, May 20th.

4 volcano at Kloet in the residency of Kediri, in the island of Java, started The working last night at one o'clock. railway station of Blitar and the sur roundings are now buried under a layer of hot and and laya, uue metre thick, are raining down in several places ashes

Railway com is pitch dark it and manications, telegraph communications and telephone communications with Blitar and its environs are entirely cut off. The population is disquieted, but so far there have beru no personal accidents.

BATAVIA, May gard Latest reports show that the catastro- phe caused by the eruption of the Klout volcano is enormous and exceeds worst expectations in one district only there are 4,000 daud and 12.000 missing.

the"

The Chinese merchants and

artisans

HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

HANDICAPS FOR SATURDAY'S MEETING,

The following are the handicape for Saturday's Gymkhana meeting

FIVE

FURLONGA, Handicap-Alexa L¬~ der. 162 16. Gentle Cat, 287 be; Burn-

have. been quietly perfecting their ag Daylight. 130 lbs.; Maymoon, organizations for the boycott of Japanese.lbs; Wedding Bells, 140.; Bender, 148 Their tak can be more easily accomplish-lbs. "Dua Duke, 146 lbs. Eaton Boy, ed by reason, of the existence of "trade 45 lbs.; Jeyhoon, 145 lbs.; Lovejoy, 15 guilds, as for thousands of years each lbs.; Hector, 143 lbs. trade and craft has had its own organiza; sos. through which decisions for united

tort have been made and enforced.

Several salient features in connexion with the present movement may be phasized.

that IL

Osos Rouse, B Class Handicap, - Burning Daylight, 138 lbs.; Gentle, Cat, 155 lbs. Tytam Chief, 155 Tha; Morning Star, 183 lbs.; Cornhill, 153 lbs; Flyford, 100 lbs; Dalesman, 148 lbs.; Judex, 147 bs.; Bender, 147 lbs.: Rheostat. 143 lbs.; Sunbeam. 145 lbs.; Joyhoon, 144 tbs.; Ex- celsior, 14 lbs."

First, all Chinese admit the justice of our foreign trends langbing at our short

ONCÉ ROUND, "A Class Handicap.-- lived enthusiasm, especially do they feel

made by certain class márk

of Greymouse, 189 lbs.; Rochester, 181 lbs. ; the smart of the sarcastic and venomous Malcolm, 163 ibs.: Red Ensign, 163 lbs.; Japanese that "a Chinese patriotic ont- Lord Lorne, 160 lbs.; Paper Money 160 barst nus seldom lasted more than nye fiks.; Alexander, 156 lbs.; Smokebox. 139 cool down usbs.; Viola, 15 lbs.; Dusky, 151 lbs.; The lava stream, was in, some placed as

nutes and their private interests are, v Vol 15 broad as seven kilometres. Many hun

appear to, in canger. Therefore, 1 M Handicap.-Pink Eye." 165 dreds of "bahoes" in cultivated areas were razed, to the ground and numerous vilnost 1: not all Chinese, whether taking ths, Malcolm, 16, ios, Red Ensign, 163

Innumerable any actual part or not in this action, are lagen were swept away, To me personally the meaning of this damage was caused to plantations, build resolved to make their best endeavour to lbs. Paper Money, 160 lbs; Lord Lorne, ensure that the present boycots shall be 160 las.; Rochester. 160 ba.; Greymone, exclamation is altogether unintelligible

ings and cattle.

About twelve Europeans are among the aurabie and effective. With this object 158 lhs. Alexander, 155 lbs: Smokebox, It seems to me that it is just the samMN

in view, in addition to the usual absten 152; Viola, 151 lbs.; Dusky, 151 lbs.; dead. Many military parties have star as if I seeing my own house on fire, and

sion from transacting business with the Vivat, 150 lbs.; Burning Daylight, 148 ed for the ravaged regions with assist. everything necessary for my existence

Japanese, the hongs and factories, follow-b Tytum Chief, 140 h Morning being destroyed, should begin to dance "The Straits Timex says:-Important in the initiative of certain well-known Star: 145 lbs; Eaton Bey, 145 lbs; Around my burning home and to exclaim information has been brought by a Java hinese has, have adopted a system of Lovejoy 144 ; Rheostat, 142 lbs.;

mutual espionage on a more or lessExcelsior, 140 lbs. Long live the fire: Ling live the insofficial which supplements the informa fortune that has overtaken me!"

tion conveyed over the wire regarding the practical basis, and any breach of the If I should act thus, would you not, losses, resulting from the eruption. Loycott resolution passed by the trade ny friends, call me mad? 1 an obliged Apart from the awful and regrettable loss guild concerned entails a heary penalty, to tell you that every revolution is Bo- of life,

went on to state that the repulsive the varage Chinese, who re- country, since it proves that there was must be regarded as almost a catastrophe.

destruction of 40,000 acres of rice land gards friendship as one of the five sacred human relationships may something wrong in the state, and as soon

Uspion- n the chief object at the revolution basin view of the shortage of rice in these instinctively feel regarding the

At the Magistracy, yesterday, before" been obtained, it is the duty of every parts of the world, and which it will age iden, ne is persunced to sacrifice his

naturally tend to

to accentuate. Considerable scrupies, because our greatest and cou- well-conducted citizen-immediately, with damage has also resulted double. if possible. with ten-fold energy to sugar plan and which, if no rain

ed, by the eruption, mou, in tow, state, our national wear. R. E. Lindsoll, a Chinese electrical engineer, who has just arrived from -to full his duty. in order that the part of the island

HUNT FOR SUBSTITUTES. country, in, freeing itself from a bad falls soon, will be rendered uscle at their boycott movement for a short time, dangerous goods..

Then, instead of blindly continuing Boston, was charged with exporting" situation, Mpuld not fall into, a worse. tunately the area

under sugar is scat You should all work in an amicable tered all over Java thereby rendering the until their hopes were dashed to pieces Mr. A. E. Half appeared for the de spirit. not allowing the state in deny damage to sugar of small account, though when they perceived the utter defeat offendant.

the

affected will fall hard

be movalent through people being unable percentage or to split anNot only the prolonga

to carry on without

Japanese, things many people. The large sugar, tion of destruction, of harmful and un meaning work, but also delay may léne and fibre plantations of the Handelvere they are now working hard to produce or Bongkong on the Empress of Hurris and enging have been seriously damaged, and hind Chinese substitutes. In this regard, was on his way to Canton, Concealed the whole country into disaster and the loss to the company is estimated at a working hand in hand. They have even sulphuric and nitric acid, some chloride the manufacturers and the merchants are amongst his luggage were two bottles of inflict upon it countless miseries, »

large figure.

Coffee and rubber planta forgotten to advise their countrymen poison, and a wireless apparatus. " I fully understand bow vagabond, tions in the Kidiri district have also been criminals and sluggards can cry out with destroyed in

is said to be

be small as

thing else than a catastrophe for the the o aumber of which he confirms, usually the infliction of a fine. however,

-east rare, is at

For

tobacco

joyLong live daarder! Long live acreage destro places though the !

not

5

to make certain sacrifices; such as that the producer, and the distributer shall to those of other products. cut down their prices as low as possible,

EXPORTING DANGEROUS

GOODS.

! CHINESE FINED $30.

OF

it was stated that defendant arrived in

Defendant stated that he intended starting in business in Canton and was taking the contraband articles with him

destruction? because that is prontable Nantly there was no particular the purchasers to pay a little more for for that purpose.

for them: a disorganized government can neither arrest ner punish criminals at a | time of general disorder, and they, the

amid a deafening uproar of a State tum-

sarning of the aruption, but it is an in- teresting fact, which later on may be found to have some relation to this out. burst,

Chinese goods.

-ACTIVE PROPAGANDA,

Mr. Hall asked for leniency on the ground that defendant was a new-comer with the regulations.

outcasts of society, the scum of the State, that on April 30th the Colombo and afford any pretext to the Japanese to the Colony and was not conversant bling to ruin, steal, murder and outrage severe earthqua registered a very

ا.

seismological

In

lows

In

Bergt. Earner stated that if defendant

GERMAN WAR OF REVENGE ?

LUDENDORFF'S HOPE OF THE.

FUTURE

Thirdis, in order to prevent, trouble to make complaint against them, Jectur shock, the focus of ers have been appointed and easy-langu. with impunity. "...

But when people, used from childhood which was estimated to be about 2,000 age, putaphlets and circulars issued to had applied for a permit be would have

miles. SWAY. distance

pose of this movement, how absolutely Mr. Lindsell fined defendant $30. to onest work and living till their old within this area of Dich would bring explain to the common people the pur- got one.

it age without reproach imitate the game

Fifty thousand

usand lives are reported to have important it is for them to avoid all acts behaviour,, I cannot explain this pheno been 1

een lost through the eruption of the Kloet of violence and rowdyism, and how to menon in any other way than by a lack

a mountain peak some 4.000 feet proceed if they wish to help to bring this of understanding as to how dangerous the last century alone its record is as fol-

Tight, notable for its activities. campaign to a successful issue.

As most of the schools have suspended is to the State in general and themselves the late lay a serious outbreak took work on account of a strike declared by in particular.

place, and 1835 Aalight outburst.

the Students' Union, the older

boys and Now, when the ad condition of your Thirteen years later, in 1848, a very seri girls who have received a comparatively country become daily more strongly marked, when a whole chain of provinces Gus eruption occurred. This was follow more advanced education and who possess and districts is ravaged by epidemics, ed, sixteen years later (1884) by one still a certain degree of linguistic and sa- more serious. On January 20th. 1877.

torial ability, are now entrusted with I interviewed General Ludendorf to you can easily discern your mistakes, and

the the

Behind work of lecturing."

this day (March 7th) in his room in the your duty to use every endeavour that overflow of the Kloet lake. On the night energetic campaign, may be found some Hotel Adian. He was sitting at a whit

many people lost their lives through these mistakes should be rectified as soon of May 29th, a heavy eruption took place of the best and most enlightened Chinese ing desk, clad in a blue civilian süll as possible. In your hands lies the most accompanied by an

of the Kloct in the capacity of advisers Most Chi with a soft collor, and tortoise-shell important help that can be rendered to

In 1907 the engineer Hugo Coo nese seem to believe that the boycott will spectacles. A jar of cigarettes and a jar

this time prove effective and durable. Coo!! the State-transport.

The Shanghai Students'

of sweets were on.. a table close by him. Unica has Without transport State cannot

He rose from his work on his history of A few years xist at all even in times of peace. And

issued a third maniteste explaining the reason for the students strike and calling the war, exclaiming, "Was wollen Sie?" now when it is struggling with all its

for the support of their fellow-country-What do you want?)

could be

WILLOIS

later, years

"Dr.

power to get on its fect again. to restore van verted Three ke, and found men.

and repair all the destruction caused by two years of distress, it would be sense less and criminal on the part of any honourable citizen not to help his father land with all the means in his power.

brother of the well-knownde examined the bed of the lake.

its depths. soundings 250, asinice was built so that the

sailed on the that its greatest depth was 125 metres. It was here that the eruption of 1501 occur red. Mr. Homow van der Heide also explored the lake which has been quiet since 1901. Every week an engineer of the B.O.W. takes the temperature of the Just as the Russian national army waters. No warning of the eruption was

given by any rising of

of this temperaturo. ing to conduct the country on the path the outbreak came suddenly, as it gen.

case of Kloet. of law and order, so you, railway workers mountain is practically in the centre and servants, ought to regard your duties of what may be regarded as the most with the greatest seriousness and do your volcanic island, if not region, in the utmost that the immense business con- world. It is said that Java has one hun- centrated in your bands. should strengdred and twenty-Eve volcanoes from east then and develop td the good of Russia. to west, about a score of which are still, If you knew how little was necessary for or have within recent years been, active you should say to himself the follow ing:--

training all its powers in order to defeat. the enemy, so your government is work

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40,000,000 YARDS OF LINEN. pointed task, and also this additional work, this will be my voluntary task as a in the possession of the Ministry of Forty million surplus yards of linen citizen for the bettering of the general Munitions have been the subject of a conditions in my, fatherland,...

question in the House of Commons. And so every day, every month, until

Lient-Col Malone saked the names of the State has recovered from the misfor the contractors from whom the Depart tunes that have overtaken it and has ment bought linen, and the price per found it possible, generously, to pay for

yard. every trifle. Try to work in such, a

Mr. Kellaway said there were 137 con- manner, and you will be surprised bowtractors The price at the time of the quickly your prosperity will improve."

armistice ranged from 1x 8d. to 38. Dld. being

yard A considerable quantity was

disposed of by auction. Mr. McVeagh: How many million yards over-ordered 1

were Mr. Kellaway: 40,000,000.

We,- English workmen, understood

many years

ago that our severance from the general interests of the State

was our ruin" and the ruin of our coun try; and, on the other hand, the personal: interest of each of us in the prosperity tained

What price is being ob-

of the nation is the security of ds all and Mr. Kellaway: I could not give the the strength and success of our country. prices afhand, but the price which has You are many. Each screw, every nail been offered by the contractor is about driven by the several workers “with-mal"

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is

THE ROMANCE OF TARZAN.”

THE CORONET'S" GREAT ATTRACTION.

[BY ALFRED G. ANDERSIN...]

At first he protested that he was not.. willing to speak, but be changed his mind after being led to the subject of the war..

America did not win the war," he aid decisively, "It is impossible to train an army in a few months. Hence the American troops were much poorer than were the French and British.

-BOAT WEAPON,

The management of the Coronet

"Regardless of how many American Theatre" screened the famous National Film Corporation's picture Romance of Tartan" the sequel to not have lost the war if the zevolution. "The troops there were in France, we would

crowds were present at both perform. "Tarzan of the Apes "last night, and had not come. The American troops did not break the German lines at Chateau This picture, in the filming of Thierry. The American advance was due which four months were taken, presents to my ordering a retreat of the German the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. the concluding chapters of Tarzan of left wing because of the Allied offensive.

Unusual expense and cars was entailed

unces.

further north.

He endorsed the U-boat warfare,

in reproducing the jungle atmosphere of which, he said, had brought England to the African Gold Coast, wherein many the verge of economic ruin. He denied of the most thrilling incidents of the big emphatically that Germany was any more militaristic than France, which had for the time being transformed into a revenge. outdoor drama transpire.

A section of Southern California was taught her school children the idea of jungle that might have been calculated

"Don't you think that the reason in that Germany is grateful, expecting fair play from America?"

Do you think Germany is so demora. th mislead the late Henry M. Stanley, lized that she will dot neck revenge after himself, could that great explorer of the this war he said.

have been present to dark continent

Asked to explain why Americans are render judgment on the success of the generally well received in Germany now, facsimile. "Beveral neres of real tropical Ludendorff said, with some feeling: jungle were located on the outskiria of Because Germans do not think. They Ban Diego, near the Mexican border, and do not know any better." here quarters were erected for the seyen hundred negroes used in the cannibal scenes, as well ha great open cages for the

ous, tigers, leopards and crocodiles that Don't talk to me of gratitude. If share acting bocors with Tarzan. Tan America brings Germany favourable tor, the huge African elephant, who terms, her only, object will be to gain takes such a prominent part in several economically and commercially from of the most thrilling opisodes, was allow Germany as ed to roam at large most of the time, as his intelligence and amenability to disci- pline entitled him to practically the same treatment accorded a human being.

Elmo Lincoln, who plays the part of plied: Tarzan in the picture, seeded no black "No. I am not anxious to testify as walnut stain or other colouring matter to it would be taking much of my time, but dye his body the proper hue of a man I consider it my duty, for the good of raised in the unroofed open. During the the Fatherland." many weeks that Lincoln posed before the camera, he became so deeply tanned from contact with the sunlight that when

CAUSES, OF THE WAR.

I naked whether he was anxious a testify regarding the war and its causes before the State, tribunal, and be re-

tion to the situation of the workers and Criticism is good, a splendid thing indo everything posible to improve the the life of every man. But, do not fall conditions of your life. I shall ruke to the into a grave error. Criticise deverely the Dictator a faithful report of all that

sccording to your conscience yourself. I hear and see on my journey. But your failings and actions, and not your warn you that my words will be of little neighbour's Every day. account to your avail, if they are not supported by your self for your bad actious and make your deeds. When I tell the Government that studio work was occasionally required of in "The Romance of Tarzan" includo Other prominent players who appear self a judge of them. This is very the railway workers are worthy of those him, he was obliged to paint bis face and Enid Markey, formerly of the Triangle- to do. All that is necessary in a little rights, for which I shall plead. I wish arma white in order to keep from regis Ince forces, Cleo Madison, a well-known. training. I promised the Dictator to to have the right to add, that they also tering as pronounced a brunette as the star of Bluebird and Universal succesiba.. travel along the line and call you all to perform their duties splendidly. You real descendants of Afies who support and Thomas Jefferson, who was for realous work. I have the promise of-the Dictator that he will give especial atten, yourselves understand that he who doesed him in the cast.

not: perform his duties can have no

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