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CABLES.

EARLIER CABLES. (TRROVAN LEUTER'S AGENCY)]

LEST WE FORGET.

in the Palace.

LONDON, June 9th.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 19TH, 1920.

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF

LABOUR.

IRISH QUESTION RAISED.

Montarai, Jun, 11th.

The Annual Convention of the American

"BRITAIN'S FINANCIAL

EFFORT.

PAYING OFF DEBTS.

FAR EASTERN, CABLE NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

PEKING MARKET DESTROYED.

"Paxing, June 10th,

Tungen Market situated in Morrison street was gutted by fire this morning The damage is estimated at a million dollari

BRITISH MINISTER'S DEPARTURE.

PEKING, June 10th, Bir Beilby Alston departs for Home on July 3rd from Shanghai

TO AVERT COUP D'ETATË

LONDON, June 8th. In his speech in the House of Commons KING'S SPEECH AT THE CRYSTAL Foderation of Labour, presided over by

on the war-wealth question, Mr. Chamber PALACE,

Mr. Gompers, has opened. The agenda lain said that no other country had includes resolutione dealing with the polid. attempted a financial effort comparable to After six years of utilisation for war cal situation in the United States, the bigh Britain's or in which the wall-to-do were purposes, the Crystal Faince was re-op-cost of living. Bolshevin, President's for heavily taxed. As illustrating the fan Bearsted for the public use this morning, eiga policy, "industrial courts, public cial recovery of Britain, Mr. Chamberlain when their Majcaties the King and Queen ownership of railroads, and the impessh-referred to the rise in the dollar exchange opened the Imperial War Museum housed ment of Mr. Palmer, the Attorney-General, and stated:--"We are in a position to It is reported that the Irish question will buy our half of the Anglo-French Loan in America, and to meet all other market also be raised.

obligations of the Treasury in the United States to the end of 1920 with a satis factory margin. (Cheers) The debts of $100,000,000 to the Argentine will be re-. deemed in a few days; the loan of 20,000,000 yen in Japan will be paid off in a month, while provision is made at home for a reduction of the Debt by for averting the apprehended roup £230,000,000 this year and $300,000,000 | d'etat.

The House of Representatives had no next year, without additional taxation."

quorum this afternoon. The approval of UNITED KINGDOM TRADE.

three new Ministers abroad was post poned. It is believed to be dug to Anfu INTERESTING STATISTICS.

members opposing one nominee who he longs to the Chinputang-

In the course of a speech, His Majesty urged that none should forget that Britain owed her success in the war, under God, not to her armed forces alone, but to the labours and sacrifices of her soldiers and

civilians, men and women alike. It was a democratic victory-the work of a nation in aring organised as never before for great national struggle.

THE DUTY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.

LONDON, June 10th.. Speaking at a mecting of the Union of Pwllheli, Mr. Welsh Independents at Lloyd George, discussing the duty of the connection with Christian Churches in reforms, wid that their especial task was to create an atmosphers in which reform was possible and in which the perpetuation of evil was impossible. He declared that the great confusión and conflict of purpose were paralysing goodwill in every land.

The terman elections showed that the

Mr. Gompers, in his opening address, emphasised the necessity of an enforcement of the Labour Policy.

Mr. Gompers urged Labour to use its force moderately, but any attempt to legis late forbidding strikes must be resisted at all costa

The Irish, delegates presented a resolu tion accusing Britain of seeking militarily to destroy the Irish Republic and demand. ing that the Irish people be permitted to guide their own destinies. “

The resolution was referred to a__com mittee.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

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LONDON, June 8th.

The latest trade returns show that ex- ports for the five months of 1920 were £21,114,000 as compared with £270,192,000 last year. The imports were £88:1,201,000 as compared with 2504,004,000, ' exports of foreign and Colonial merchan- diso totaled £115,767,000, an increase-of £72,290,000.

Re-

PEKING, June 10th. General Esu Hap-chen arrives from Urga this evening Chang Tolin, from Mukden, arrives on Saturday.

These movements suggest a compromise

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[BY COURTESY OF "THE CHINA MAIL:”] GERMAN SHIP ORDERED TO HAUL

DOWN ELAQ..

· SINGAPORE, June 10th. The "German steamer Jyuthia, from

SENATUR LODGE ATTACKS PRESIDENT WILSON.

"CHICAGO, June 8th. A: the opening of the Republican Na- tional Convention, at the Coliseum, Senator Lodge, the temporary chairman, defended THE OSTEND BLOCK SHIPS. down. This was done, then the vessel

Benate's opposition to the Peace

distracted people were split into hopeless pay, as a patriotic duty. He declared

PRESENTED TO BELGIUM,

LONDON, June 9th.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Walter

SCOTTISH LETTER, BREAK UP OF THE SCOTTISH LIBERAL PARTY,

"[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, ]

May 5th.

Lurd Guthrie's father, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Guthrie, was a leader of the vid Free Church and the founder of Ragged Schools in Scotland. On the spindle side

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he was descended from the founders of the Aberdeen Journal.

A plain warning is given by the pro- of the Robert Burns wrote: We ceeding at the annual meeting of the went over a number of "auld Scots song* Scottish Liberal Federation that a crisis in an alehouse-a facetions fellow." Lord in the party similar to that which arose Guthrie inherited, this vein of humour, over the first Home Rule Bill is at hand. which did much to command him to those if, indeed, it has not already arrived. Sit with whom he was brought in contact- a friendship be was of the dangers that beset them with him after a meeting at Vienna. With. William Robertson showed how conscious Mark Twain, formed

when he used the significant words, "there great relish, Lord Guthrie has narrated has been an exhibition of feeling and per- how he received from Mark Twain an senal animosity among the delegates acknowledgment of a copy of his book on “which minda je extremely difficulty, for John Knox, in which he was thanked "for him to feel that he had anything like un-so much enlarging my knowledge of Knox, animity behind him in his desire for which previously had been confined to that peace." This is an arresting utteraner to discreditable 'incident when he throw come from the cautious and experienced stool at Jenny Geddes and, missed her."

ghairman of the Federation.

A BORNEO KUUBËR, COMPANY, The most prominent feature of the dis-

The limited liability companies register-: cussion by the delegates was that, whated in Seitland include The Tenom ever argument, might be user, the final

(Borneo) Rubber Company, Uruited," 22,** test was always a personal one--whether Renfield Street, Glasgow, to take byer tha Mr. Asquith or Mr. Lloyd George should rubber plantations and other prop be recognised as the leader of Liberal in British North Borneo, hitherin belong- politics. The Coalition speakers based ing to The Tenom (Borneo) Rubber con | themselves upon the Prime Minister's

pany Limited, and to grow rabbar |fitelity to the Liberal principles. They con-

bacgo, cotton, coffee, cocoa, “ated tended thai kis present position afforded

Capital, £956,230, in £hares Subscrib to Liberalism a vital he was certainly not the man to ignore Gardens, Glasgow, D. M. Hannay, mer

opportunity which

em-T. A. Gallie, merchant 31, Huntly

They claimed for him a record of achieve.

chaut, 31, St. Vincent Place Grusgow ment in world politics which only the

||L. Atchison, CA, St. Vincent Street, Jaundiced partizan could venture

| Glasgow: "J. C. Tennant, C.A, 105, St.

stockbooker, Lennoxbank House, Balloch;

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Sumatra, arrived yesterday fying the belittle. But they wasted their eloquence Tincent Street, Glagow; R. G. Finlay

German flag, which it was ordered to haul

ordered to leave the wharf. She is now lying in the roadt.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

on resentful ears. The independent " Liberals would hear no justification of

Mr. Lloyd George. At the Jaxt General James Smith, shipping clerk, Cabone Election, they declared, he committed the

Place, Uddingston; and H. Buchan, C.A, 34, West George Street, Glasgow untergiveable sin, and gloried_in_io_ap

TRADED IN CHINĂ. | every subsequent bye-election, The king-

Long announced that the Thetit, the intre- THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE dom to which he might have been served

contending suctions without any clear pur pose, with do-ascendant voice or note. So that President Wilson and the autocracy fat we had avoided that entastrophe in, he represented must be excluded from any Britain, but it was spreading throughout future control, because they stood for an the world and the Churches alone could un-American theory of government. The pid, the Iphigenia and the Vindictive, the save the people from the disasters which people must now make a vital choice be block ships which fere sunk a: Ostend and Zeebrugge, during the war, had been pre- would ensue if anarchy of wil and aim con- tween President Wilson's plan and the

portad to Belgium as a free gift. independence and safety of the United Linued io spread.

States. He promised that the Republicans would cope with the profiteering evil, and

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PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. THE OPINIONS OF EITHER PARTY.

-Checido, Jure Sth. Mayer, attorney for the distillers on hearing of the prohibition decision, said that the fight had been lost The avenus of the Courts bad now been exhausted,

Mr. Hinshaw, Chairman of the prohibi. tion party; said that the prohibition deci sions would cliuch the greatest reform victory in the history of the country.

WASHINGTON, June 8th. All the cases brought to invalidate the prohibition amendment and the law for its enforcement, including those by Rhode Laland and New Jersey, fall under the

decision.

THE U.S.A. NAVY. INTERESTING STATEMENT BY

MR. DANIELS.,

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THE ARMENIAN MANDATE.

NOT FOR GREAT RITAIN.

LONDON, June 8th.

A REPRESENTATIVE JAPANESE VIEWS.

heir, therefore, would be turned from him of Mr. William Mearns, at the age of 7

He served his apprenticeship as a carpen

The death has taken place at Montrose

and given to another. Tory" was the

went to sea, and later traded in LONDON, June th

lightest word thrown

China toga kumber of year. He also Baron Shoda. of the Japanese House of One has to go back

good many years traded at Durban, South Africa, where the last Liberal split, a far, indeed, as Prers interviewed by the Evening when Mr. Chamberlain was the most for 40 years he was outdoor manager of Standard, urged the renewal and streng abused of public men-for a parallel to thening of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. have aroused, and which were abundantly EDINBURGH ANNEXES LEITH

the feelings which the Liberal discords large timber firm Be declared that Japan was a firm bemanifested by the delegates at this Scottish Edinburgh has won the first round of liever in the British geniux for Empire, gathering Mr. Lloyd George has been the contest over the extension of the city's pasionately sailed in his time, and has boundaries. The House of Lords Com Britain required the open door for com- often beard himself called by worse nabes mitteo have found the preamble, of the In the House of Commons, replying to in question, Mr. Bonar Law said that Greateres in the East which Japan can keep than those conferred on him by his former Bill proved so far as regards an extension the can be no question that the sent to be amalgamated with Edinburgh. Britain would not take the mandate for open, thus saving Britain the immense cost friend of the Liberal Federation. But of the municipal boundaries, and Leith is [of a straig, out Fleet. He discredited the ments aroused by the chapter of accidents Musselburgh, however, have gained their alarmist German-spread reports in regard that has written itself almost antoma point and will be excluded from the new to Japanese finance, Japan had no reason tically since he and Mr. Asquith divided extended municipality.

on a matter of policy render the outlook GIFT TO HAMILTON, for pessimism.

for reconciliation well-nigh hopeless, ENGAGEMENT OF MR, LAW'S DAUGHTER,

rn steps to end the disgraceful record" of the United States during the past seven years With regard to Mexion, it we, the primary duty of the United States to deal with Mexico under the Monroe Doctrine, but nothing bad-been Armenia. done, and yet the United States was asked to take the mandate for Armenia. charged the Democrats with responsibility for the present perilous conditions and declared that if the Republicans failed to grapple with them effectively "the Russian descent into barbarism will begin to draw near.""

GERMANY.

RESIGNATION OF THE

GOVERNMENT.",

He

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CONGRESS.

MEETING IN GENEVA.

GENEVA, June 8th.

He urged that Britain and Japán could help each other in the solution of indus

A marriage has been arranged between Miss Isabel Law, elder daughter of Mr. Bonar Law, M, P., and Major-General Sir

trial problems. Bolshevisin was slowly The International Women's Buffrage perplating into Japan, but the Japanese Frederick Hugh Bykes, K.C.B., C.M.,

as the British would see Congres opened to-day, "under the presid-workers as well ency of Mrs. Carrie Catt, Thirty-one that Bolshevism was a whited sepulchra nations are represented.

If-is-cane to a world-wide struggle against anarchy, Britain would have a useful and willing ally in Japan.

The late Mr, William Meek, öl Cadzow Bank, has left £25,000 for the erection of a new Town Hall for Hamilton. Mr. Meek's father had been a Provost of the burgh, ARTISTIC INN BIGNE....

G.B.E., Controller-General of Civil Avia-

Prince Albert's plea that sign-painting tion.

Miss Law, who is a very popular and should be fostered on artistic lines reminds charming young lady, was quite a young me that his grand-aunt Princess Louise, girl when her mother died, and since then Dowager Duchess of Argyll, took a great INDIAN AFFAIRS,

she has been her father's intimate and interest in this old but neglected depart constant companion. Educated in Paris, ent of art, I remember seeing the NEW NON-OFFICIAL PROPOSALS. It was to Britain's interest, that Japan she made her debut a year or two before rinsese standing on a ladder at work Ho the war, entering Society under the the sign of Roseneath Ian, where she BIMLA, June 8th.

should develop her shipbuilding.

chaperonage of the late Marchioness of had her quarters during the summer BERLIN, June 8th.

emphasised the great commercial possibi Londonderry, Lady Doreen Long, and wonths. The sign attracted a good deal The Government tendered its resignation

During the autumn session of the Vice-lities of an alliance with Japan, which are other grand dames of the Unionist party of attention some 20 years ago. roy's Council non-official members' pro- fot to the President, who requested it to carryposals will he introduced creating a small materials. He hoped that the Alliance companied her father on more than one Scottish, is the new President of the

at present hampered by lack of raw Miss Law is well-known in Scotland, LONDON BOOTTISH ATHLETE

especially in Glasgow, where she has ac Lieut-Col B. C Green, London New York, June 8th. on provisionally. He also asked the committee of elected members, to advise, the would enable Japan to get these raw of his political visits. She proved her London Athletle Club, perhaps the most Mr. Josephus, Daniels, in a statement Chancellor to спаге that results. be Government of India on all questions in

self a ready and attractive speaker, influential organisation of the kind.i deploring the reductions made in the definitely established as soon as possible, connection with the League of Nations.

though without attaining the fame of Britain. He was a triple Scottish champion Naval Appropriation Bill, complains of to enable the Reichstag to be convened at

The proposals will also favour legisla-

Lady Bonham Carter as an electioneer,

Two of Miss Law's brothers were killed intelligent interest in athletics. In pre- in his youth, and has always taken an the failure of Congress to make provision the earliest possible date

tion controlling the immigration of British

vate at the age of 17, but the Armistice through the influence of Colonel Chreen, the Pacifio

prevented him from reaching the fighting met with considerable success in Territo line.

Major-General Sykes, who is consider-notable figure in regimental games.

rial sports, and himself was always" zi-

fer adequate naval expansion in

HER MULLER TO FORM A

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materials from Britain

subjects from, the self-governing Colonies question of the renewal of the Anglo.in the war, and a third enlisted as a pri war days the London Scottish, largely

made imperative by the presence of a great

and Dominions on the basis of recipro Americau Floet in the Pacific and the pro-

PARIS, June 9th.city.. per protection of that coast and the out- A telegram from Berlin says that Pre-

AMERICA CUP. lying American islands. He declares that sident Ebert has requested Herr Mueler

RESULT OF SECOND TRIAL. the vote of £4,000,000 for naval aviation is to form a Cabinet. The Press are un- only half sufficient. The fails to animously of opinion that it is impos

NEWPORT, June 6th. Ia, the second trial, the Familie beat the authorise the building of a single haw ship sible to form a lasting coalition. The Ecaolute by 94 seconds. is an equally bad policy. With a low Tageblatt forecasts an early dissolution exceptions, nobody here considers of the new Reichstag. £4,000,000 aufficient for the wants of the Air Service.

RAILWAY ORGANISATION'S

SUGGESTION.

REJECTED BY SUPREME COURT

COUNTY CRICKET.

| their first innings, E. Henderson contri

THE MORNING POST VIEWS. The Morning Post, in a leader on the

Japanese Alliance, says that undeniably the policy of the forward party in Japan latterly looked as if it were inspired by the desire to get concession's "Irom China, which amount to wearing a position of economic preponderance to which Britain and the United States cannot possibly be expected to

to assent The difficulty in deal ing with Japan is that the country seems to be suffering from a, diarchy, under which one Party is not bound by its words or doings. Nevertheless, the Post doek

ably, the senior of the bride-elect, being 43, served and was wounded in the South WILL TAKE SOME BEATING," African War. In the late war he was one In these days of the much-talked-of pro- of the pilots of the First Expeditionary fitoor, the following account rendered by Force, and later was sent" by Lord Edinburgh later for work alleged to Kitchener to the Dardanelles, where he be done will take some beating-"To 10- subsequently commanded the Air Force, pairing and examining roof, 1 slate, 1- On his return he was made a member of man, 1 day, 188. 6d." the Supreme Council at Versailles, and

MARRIAGE later appointed Chief of the Air Staff. THE LATE LOAD GUTHRIE,

At St. David's U.F. Church, Glasgow. on April 28th, Charles Stanley, son of Joshua J. Turner, of Shansi, North China, to Margaret, younger daughter, of the late John Forsyth, Leith.

A CATHOLIC HOSPITAL.

An eminent Scotsman has passed away Under the patronage of the Archbishop

in the person of Charles John Guthrie, LONDON, June 8thi

of Bombay and the Archbishop-Bishop of not doubt that the connection, by which Benator of the follege of Justice in Scot Damaun, the Roman Catholics of Bombay both countries had done very well, should land. Lord Guthrie's career was one of Middlesex beat Hampshire by nine have launched an appeal for funds for the be continued. Britain is not fond of exceptional richness and fullness, and wickets, Middlesex scored 415 runs in establishment is Bombay of a Catbolic

although he had completed his 71st year General Hospital, says the Times of India quitting her tried friends, and the Japenho remained essentially young in spirit. OXFORD TRIBUTE TO ME It is pointed out that the Catholia"of es are understood to be not insensible of In this, perhaps les the key to his rF

"ASQUITHR Bombay, unlike most other communities, WASHINGTON, June 11th.buting 183 runs in an unfinished innings have no hospital of their own, and they having been the first foreign nation to callmarkable admiration, almost amounting

to devotion for Robert Louis Stevenson. A number of ex-Presidents of the Oxford The Supreme Court has dismissed the Surrey beat Sussex by nine wickets.have finally decided that a well-equipped Britain an ally--but we must have the whose temperament also, was of the kind Unit Society, with many of Mr. Asquithem

and up-to-date hospital with a number of actions-of-the-Philadephia-Reading-Rail Surrey obtained-470-run-in-their-first free-beds for the use of Catholics is an road and its subsidiary companies, asking innings, J. B. Hobbs moring 110 and urgent necessity, Dr. H. Desa, M.D.,

who has had charge of his own hospitais for a modification of the decree whereby Ducat 210.

for a number of years, has consented to this Company and other Companies, in- Somerset beat Warwickshire by te is also hoped to secure the services of the undertake the work of organisation. It

The late Bir Chenbung Liang Cheng of cluding coal companies, are ordered to wickets. Somerset scored 379 runs in their Catholic Sisters of Mercy to take charge Victoria, Hongkong, left £72,933 in Eng

of the aurning and the welfare of the become separate establishments.

first innings, M. P. Bajana, the Partes patients. The following gentlemen are to land.

fact as bateman, getting "106.

• Hon. Major C. Fernandes, Yorkshire defeated. Nottinghamshire by M.D.; James Taylor Esq., Cotton Mill

Manager, Dr. J. B. Cato Da Costa

THE SPA CONFERENCE,

MEETING ON JULYUTH."

REUSSELA, June 8th, Millerand has approved the post of the Spa Conference, which

hospitalaging trustace of the proposed

apen door in China

RICH HONGKONG CHINESE

*LONDON, June 8th.

CORNER IN PRINT PAPER K

ten wickets Yorkshire scored 324 runs în L.R.C.P. L.R.C.B., L.F.P.8.0.; Peter

Charges of a corner in print paper, their first innings, W. Rhodes contributing A Baptista Esq, J.P.; Dr. H. Deša, were made before the Senate investigation 107 runs in an unfinished innings

M.D. Mesara I Britto and JM, committee by Mr. Cotland Smith, Presid Pereira wizl act as Joint Becretaries and eat of the American Press Association, ou Lancashire defented · Leicestershire by Treasurers, Bubscriptions may be for- May 13th, who said that the conspiracy warded to any member of the Trust Com-of the print, paper manufacturers would wittee.

regulate the production of the Press

that never allows its possessor to grow friends, personal and political, havé gom- old. Lord Guthrie was a fellow member bined to present his bust in marble to the with Stevenson in the Eppculative Society, Society, in order thus it may be placed in end the personal association with Steven- the Debuting, Hall. The busts of Mr. son and his literary work both in and out Gladstone and the third Marquess of Balin- of the famous Society was a perpetual burg are already there my Guthrie acquired Stevenson Swanston, President of the Society, has given a n joy in remembrance. In later years Lord Mr. Asquith who is himself nex

and used it as a congenial and stimulat ber of gittings to Mr. Clare Sheridan ing retreat. He was Hon President, who has, it is thought, produced a remark practically the founder, of the Edinburgh |able likencas. Stevenson Club of late months he took a Among those associated with the more leading part in purchasing the housemont are the Lord Chancellor, the Mar where Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, | oueas of Orowe. Earl Curzon, the Earl of and almost his läst words related to Crawford, Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Stevenson's boyhood's home at Swanston. Midleton the Earl of Reading, Viscount Lord Guthrie wrote upon Joha Knox, the Milner, Viscount Harcourt, Lord Lever Reformation, and other Scottish subjects, buime, Mr. Winston Churchill, Mr. Bm-- but his best known book is his memoir of ciman, Sly Donald Maclean, and Sir John “Cummy,”! Stevenson's old nurse Cour Bimon