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THE HONGKONG DAILY - PRESS, WEDNESDAY. MAHOH 23RD,

GERMANS GLOOMY: OVER PARTITION PROSPECTS IN UPPER SILESIA

DECREASE

ATTITUDE

RUSSIAN

IN

OF MINERS.

JEWELS

FOUND:

IN BOXES OF TRADE COMMISSION,

LATEST CABLES,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.}'

MINERS' WAGES.

RESULT OF NEGOTIATIONS.

LONDON, March 2nd.

LATEST CABLES.

LONDON, March 22nd.:

STOCK EXCHANGE DEALINGS. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK NOTIFICATION.

tion.

LONDON, March 22nd.

WRANGEL'S FORCES.

FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S.COM

BRITISH DIPLOMACY.

EYES, EARS AND HANDS

EVERYWHERE."

PARIB, March 1st." cars and hands everywhere'

methods, resulting so brilliantly to France's friends across the Channel. ANGLO-PERSIAN AGREEMENT

· STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, March 1st.

1991.

SCOTTISH LETTER.

WATER POWER AND ELECTRICITY.

[YROM OCH OWN CORRESPONDENT]

宮

THE IRRIGATION OF AMERICA,

of

With the conclusion of the Silesian plebiscite the work of the partition pro-

MUNICATION, AN

vides the knottiest problem. The import-

LONDON, March gist. The prolonged negotiations between the ant industrial triangle Gliewitz-Beuthen

Constantinople telegram states that miners and the cond-owners have resulted Catlowitz is Solomon's baby, which the French Government has informed in the miners' delegate conference refer Geraany considers must not be cut in Wrangel that it is unable longer to bear As a result of "victory in Bybnik the expense of maintaining the Russian ring to the districts the offer of the coal. two. owners for a readjustment of wages, and Pless, the Poles won an immensely

Arty at Constantinople, and offered it which, though more generous than they rich property, but they naturally expect the following alternatives--firstly, a re- expected, does not concede the demand a full share of the triangle. It is return to Russia il an amnesty is obtain cognised by some that partition is inevitable from the Soviet; secondly, emigra. able, not only as a result of the voting tion to South America 'thirdly, service news from Teheran, the new Persian Gov. scenery. The works necessary for the whora over 150 years ago quite a number. but in view of the general European in the French Foreign Legion. Wrangel economic situation. It will be for the has appealed specially to America to Inter-Allied Commission to find satis

save the last anti-Balishevist army from factory boundaries and determine the

dissolution. term of operation.

of the miners for a national wage basis as opposed to district agreements."

The result of the meetings of the miners district councils so far shows a split in the miners' ranka. It is likely that Wales and Scotland will be opposed

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to the acceptance of the coal-owners offer, while other districts, notably York atire, will be prepared, temporarily, to relinquish sotie of their demands in view of the precarious financial position in the coal industry.

NEW MANDATES. TEXTS PUBLISHED.

LONDON, March 2

Little wonder there is a shortage of whisky in this country. I am told that every ship of a certain Glasgow line sailing to the other side of the Atlantic has carried over 20,000 cases of whisky. EDINBURGH, February 2nd.. In order to overcome difficulties in con-

One singular and so yet insufficiently on each voyage for the last year. At the appreciated result of the development of end of last week the Cassandra left for WAGES:nection with Stock Exchange dealings in was the reference to British diplomacy water power is that it promissa, or Portland, Maine, and the chief cargo was ributa paid threatens, to shifs the centres and alter whisky. Over 40,000 cases are being car bonds drawn for redemption on a date in the course of a striking.

the distribution of human activities, ried, the shipment being heavier than succeeding the purchase of the bonds but by M. Lucien Hubert, Chairman of the wealth and population. This prospect usual. It is stated that the consignees preceding delivery, the Hongkong and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate was glanced at in a lecture delivered by are in Canada, despite the fact that the Mr. John B. Todd to, the Edinburgh whisky in actually landed in Amerion. Shanghai Bank has notified that arrange. He declared that Great Britain showed Association of Science and Art. Under But where it eventually finds a welcome ments have been made to hold drawings skill in winning friends everywhere, hav. the conditions operative for a century well, I leave that to the conjecture of

past, the busy manufacturing towns, the readers. of certain securites on fixed dates, geing Allies of every political party and hives of industry, have been planted and PERSONALIA,

grown up with little or no regard to the

There is, I hear, every likelihood that erally the first Tursday in the month, group abroad, making use of very abundance of water-except, of course, that the Prince of Wales may soon be A number of Chinese Government and thing, with no exception of party or for purposes of navigation and mainly come owner of a well-known, and attrac

the result of contiguity to those tive estate on Donside. Aa yet nothing railway stocks, also Siamese Govern doctrina While British propaganda was modern sources of movement and energy, is definitely settled, but negotiations for Last UPPER SILESIA PLEBISCITE.ment stocks, are specified in this counce based on supporting friends till their coal and iron. All this may be pro- the purchase are in progress.

foundly affected by the revelation the autumn the Queen and Princess Mary final triumph, rescuing them from danger wonderful facility and effect with which paid a visit to Donside and spent an MAIMED, SALT AND BLIND VOTE.

and protecting them in times of stress, the energy that resides in falling water afternoon at Kildrummy Castle, the seat

can be turned to the service of men. As of Colonel Ogston. " he concluded, it would be a fallacy to the result of the generating and the

When the Earl and Countess of Minto Assume that French 'diplomacy did not harnessing of electrical power drawn from reach Minto House and begin to go to her rivers and lakes, Scotland is pro-different churches-Lord Minto being a own a degres of inspiration to these mised a larger share even than she Protestant and Lady Minte & Romeo already possesses in the industrial and Catholic they will not be the first. commercial movements of the country; members of the Scottish Peerage to ge No fewer than nine schemes," approved their separate religious ways. Lord and by the Water Powers Resources Com Lady Baltoun, the latter one of the mittee, will be brought forward in the Roman Catholic Grattan-Bellows next session of Parliament for sanction, County Galway, have gone to different and these are from the Western High churches throughout & married life, ex- lands alone. It is a movement, Mr. Todd tending over 35 years. thinks, which may have the effect of

The Duke of Atholl will be the now In the House of Commons, replying arresting the depopulation of the High Chairman of the Union Bank of Scotland. | lands. And we are promised that the in succession to the late Lord Glenconner. to Colonel Wedgwood Bann, Mr. Harms prosperity may be introduced without The Bank has a long association with the Duke's territorial county of Porth. worth stated that, coording to the latest seriously marring the beauty of the

utilisation of water-power require no tall of banking houses originated. These ernment did not intend to submit the chimneys, and produce no smoke. If the combined later, as the Perth Banking schemes in contemplation are carried out Company, and afterwards amalgamated the Ango-Persian agreement to the Per" they will produce electrical energy with the Union Bank. man Parliament, in which case the agree which will more than double the output Louisa Lady Forbes, whose death is ment might be held to have lapsed.

of the present stations in Scotland,' Nor would the creation of new sents of annonased, is the widow of the 19th Lord industry destroy the old ones, they would Forbes, the Premier Baron of Scotland, who fought at Waterloo, A hundred

··· MEXICAN EAGLE OIL CO. rather feed them. Vicinity to the source years after Waterloo, her grandson of power is indeed an advantage; but ASSURANCE TO SHAREHOLDERS. distance transmission itself dis served in France with his grandfather's

covery of the present century has made regiment, the Coldstream Guards.

The home-coming of the Earl and LONDON, March 21st..

it fossible, when a town cannot be moved A number of international stock brokers to the mountains, to bring the strength of Countess of Elgin to Broomhall, in Fife The text of lour new Mandates has been have sent a letter to the Mexican Eagle the mountains to the town. Edinburgh and shire, after their honeymoon at Dun- Oil Company drawing attention to state Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee can draw phail, Invernesshire, was marked by some issued. The mandate for German Southments in the Preas as regards the pros their power from the hills and the glens. arrival, one of the household servants broke's cake of shortbread over the head West Africa is conferred on South Africa: poets of the Company. The Company has

replied "admitting the appearance of THE LATE MRS. R. D. BAVILLE.. the German possessions in the Pacific water in some of the oilfields, pointing Mrs. R. D. Saville, who has died in her of the Countess. She enjoyed the incid- south of the equator, except Bamos out that this is a normal phenomenon in 91st year at her residence in Hampstead, eat, but it is doubtful if she was pre- Mexico. Although small Companies are was the last surviving granddaughter of pared for the next ceremony, when the BERLIN, March 22nd, and Nauru, are conferred on Australia; affected thereby, the Mexican Eagle Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feel Earl lifted her in his arms and carried The late Sir Arthur George Macpher The first feeling of jubilation is suc German Samon is conferred on New shareholders have no ground for alarming. Along with the inte Lady Hope her across the threshold of her new home.

since the Company is holding large oil-Grant, she was in Delhi at the time of ceeded by disappointment on the publica-Zealand, and Naura is conferred on bearing territories against such eventuall. the Mutiny, and her brother, Sir A. R. D. son, R.C.I.E. was the youngest son of tion of further results showing that the Great Britain. All are in identical ties and is at present producing more Mackenzie, K.C.B., with young Hope Dr. Hugh Macpherson, Professor of Grant (then a lieutenant), left the two Greek, and Sub-Principal of King's ladies in a room with a rifle each, in case College, Aberdeen. Sir Arthur followed German majority is not so large as was terms, ou the lines of previous mandates,

ITALIAN CUSTOMS HAUL, the rebels might break in. Her father in the footsteps of three brothers who expected.

conferring full powers of administration

was a Colonel in the Indian Army, and won distinction in the Indian_service; her uncle was Secretary to the East India and another of his brothers was Professor and prescribing the prohibition of RUSSIAN OROWN JEWELS - SAID

TO BE INCLUDED.

Company. Another uncle, Lord Macken Norman Macpherson. Professor of Scots slavery, the supplying of natives with

zie, a Senator of the Scottish College of Law in Edinburgh University.

Mr. J. M. MacLeod, M.P.; Unionist Justice, ROME, March 21st.

Was married to the aldest has intimated that he will not contest alcohol, and forced labour except for

A great haul of treasure, of which some, daughter of the last Earl of Seaforth, the Kelvingrove Division of Glasgow at essential public works with adequate re-

apparently, are from the Russian Jewels, who was "cousin of the new Baron muneration. The establishment of milf was made by the Custom authorities while Seaforth. Her brother, still living in the next General Election

Colonel Sir James Craig, Bart, M.P., The Vorer's wards against exug-tary and naval bases and fortifications searching the trade commission visiting India, commanded the Mutiny veterans who has been chosen to lead the Unionist

here. The boxes contained a quantity of at the recent Durbar. The only remain. gerated talk of brilliant German vic is cogaging attention. The mandatorics precious stones and medals, 17 kilograma ing relative of "The Man of Feeling "Party in the new Ulster Parliament. Was educated at Marchiston Castle School, of silver coin, four and a half kilograms in Scotland at present is his great Edinburgh. He played in the fifteen; was of gold coin, a beautiful peklace, costly granddaughter, Mrs. Georgeson, the wife prefect; and had as contemporaries. tory on which other papers dwell.

gold-embroidered fabrice, and Persian of the Rev. F. H. Georgeson, who was Colonel Ernest Craig-Brown, D.S.O., and EARLIEK CABLES.

rugs. Less than half the trunks have minister of St. James's U.F. Church, Mr. Storer. Clouston, the novellist.

Glasgow, and is acting minister of SERIOUS OUTLOOK FOR POLAND..

Beechgrove Church, Aberdeen. LUTION. AGAINST 'SCOTS GOLPER. LONDON, March 21st. The official figures for the Upper Site- sian plebiscite show that the greater part

LONDON, March 21st.. of the territory will remain Dorman. Se in the House of Lords, an immense far the majority is two to one, but two revival of German trade and prosperity APPALLING LIST OF CASUALTIES. important districts, Pless and Rybnik, within a not remote period, indicated by which are likely to give a Polish major- the position of German exchange which ity, are outstandingly pro-German. The result should be of advantage to Great was an advantage in German attempts Britain, enabling Germany, with the ro tention of the coalfields, to be better able to recapture trade and had increased the to pay for reparations, but the failure oven remarkable prosperity of many Ger to secure the rich mineral territory will

man industrial institutions, was predict be soricus to Poland,,

ed by Lord Birkenhead in referente to the Reparation Bill, which passed its The Government buildings are already second reading. Ho described the Bill bellagged in celebration of the German majority secured in Silesia. It is samian the best method of securing & purpose officially stated that 713,700 pro-German common to all the Allies and repeated and 480,700 pro-Polish votes were record-

The Lubour Gazetic reports that last month changes in rates of wages affected -1,020,000 persons, of whom 1,500,000 amounting to dnderwent decreases. £450,000 wockly. Most of the latter were miners, whose wages were reduced owing to diminished output and value of coal.

EARLIER CABLES.

NEW UNIONIST LEADER, ELECTION OF MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN"

T

Loxoos, March 21st. Mr. Austen Chamberlain has been un- animously elected Leader of the Unionist Party in the House of Commons.

Mr. Chamberlain was enthusiastically welcomed by the Coalition members. Re plying to congratulations by Sir Donald Maclean on his election, he said he would do his best to maintain the great tradi- tions of the House of Commons. (Choorn.)

House of

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IRISH OUTRAGES

LONDON, March 21at.

The outstanding feature of the plebis cite is the remarkably heavy polling, in many/communes it being 100 per cent.. with an average of: 05 per cent. The maimed, the halt and the blind were brought to the booths in carriages and ambulances, even on stretchers,

MAJORITY NOT SO LARGE.

The Lokalanzeiger says that the fact that regions which are most im portant to German industry have been partly endangered and partly lost is most depressing.

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REJOICING IN BERLIN.

BELLIN, March 21st.

guarantee religious freedom and will re- port yearly to the League,

GERMAN TRADE PREDICTION REGARDING

REVIVAL.

In the House of Commons, Sir Hamar Cirpenwood stated that the week-end casualties in Ireland were 10 soldiers and Evo police killed, 11 soldiers and five polica wounded, seven rebels killed, seven wounded in an ambush. A sergeant who was missing after the ambush was found. blindfolded and shot with a card bearing "Executed" on his body,

Colonel Allen asked, in view of the appalling list, whether Sir Hamar Green- wood could assure the House that his votes; in Rybnik district 29,000 pro- believed Frames and Belgium would act

I measures were sufficient Ho German and 50,000 pra-Polish votes.

President Ebert telegraphed the German likewise.. representative in Silesia expressing joy A telegram from von at the result. Simona received in London states that all the towns, especially in the industrial centres, gave an overwhelming majority The only Polish of German yotes. majorities are in the country, especially in districte where troops were not seat in time to protect the German popula tion from the Polish terror."

powers and declared that the House was ready to give him any powers necessary to deal with the situation—(Choers.).·

Bir Hamar Greenwood replied that theto severe casualties occurred in the max tial law aren, and he would always whole heartedly support the Commander,in. Chief there

HEAVY DEATH ROLL.

Loos, March 21st.

over the whole plebiscite area. The Mr. Lloyd George's statement with ro voting in the Pless district showed

than the refineries can headle,

been searched so far,

U.S. TARIFF BILL. PRESIDENT HARDING'S VIEWS.

old time Scottish ceremonies. On their

YOUNG ULSTER SINN FEIFER,

It is a Scoto-Ulsterman, and a school-2 master, who tells me this story. At a Mr. T. D. Donaldson, the noted golfer, country national school in Antrim a described as a rubber manufacturer, and | school inspector asked a boy who the "Sir Edward. WASHINGTON, March 91st.. rosiding at 23, Comiston Road, Edin. Supreme Being was. the request of President Harding, burgh, is being sued for breach of pro- Carson," was the reply; and the same.. whose idea appears to be to avoid any miss in the Court of Session by Miss answer came from other three scholars. answering God" and was sent to the embargo limit in the Bill, on a few items Marie Catherine Young, violinist, 6, Then a small hoy, broke the sequence by including wheats and wool, the House Iona Street, Edinburgh.

top of the class. An hour later, in the Ways and Mesna Committee is sounding TH MEANING OF IT-

playground, the four young Carsonites [the Republican Senatorá as regards the An English friend who during his were discovered assaulting the new dux,

the feasibility of an early passage of the Emergency Tarif Bill.

Bojourn in Scotland has a point of attend on the ground that he was nothing better The Committee decided in favour of 10g as many Barns suppers as he could than a Sinn Feiner. taking up the Tariff Bill and passing it secure admission to, says he now under- limitation. through Congress with a six months' stands the significance of the annual function. It is," he says, "the real St. Andrew's Day. Scotland required a U.S. TRANSPORT FACILITIES celebration of this kind, and it would have come into existence had there been no paeb Burns. Fortunately," he adds, COMMITTEE TO STUDY TRADE

"it is associated with the memory of a ROUTES.

good poet, but if there had not been a WASHINGTON, March 91st. good one, any other hero would have Mr. Hoover intends to appoint a Com-done as well." Despite the protects of ing that the celebration has only an exports, to enquire into the question of accidental connection with literature. rail facilities, harbours and steamship lines and the application of preferential TRANSPORT BY SEA. railway rates to a section of the Merchant Marina Act..

NOVEL REDUCTION OF WAGES PLAN.

ALL TO SHARE-EVEN THE DIRECTORS.

Managers of Cornish tit mines that are still working have agreed to meet

14,000 pro-German, and 41,000 pro-Polish gard to the disposal of the procoods. Hmittee to study trade routes for Americapovery Scot he meets, he persists in think the men's representatives and discuss

GERMAN FEARS.

ZIONIST APPEAL. EINSTEIN, IN THE DELEGATION TO`AMERICA.

LONDON, March 21st.

A Zionist delegation headed by Dr. Weizmann proceeds to America on Thurs day to open a £20,000,000 Fund in order BERLIN, March 21st. Following the receipt of the Bilesian to initiate the establishment of a plebiscite results, prices on the Bourse tional home in Palestine. The famous apparently affected by the appearance of

BELGIAN MISSION TO

AMERICA.________

BRUSSEL, March 21st. The Government has decided to invite Burgomaster Max to undertake a mission to America to congratulate President Harding on his scumption of office,

THE INDIAN BUDGET.

DELHI, Hect List. The Legislative Assembly has adopted

the Customs import duty to 111 por cont. were.rejected.

There is an interesting sequel to the high railway rates in connection with the Scottish paper trade. The Dogside Paper Company, the largest producer of paper for nows journals in the North, has chartered the ss. Athena which will in fnture load regularly with paper at Aber- doen for the Company's customers in Edinburgh and Glasgow: Transport is a big item in the price of paper, and the imperative need at the moment is

eponamy,

A BIG FISH STORY.

the best means of tiding the industry over the present crisis.

After considering the employers pro posals for an all-round wage reduction of 10-per-cent, the men's trades anion put forward the following alternative: Men earning.... Proposed reduction.

£3

23 per cent.

Be.

26

27

£8

£10

10-

15

90

22

They also proposed that:-

All salaries over £10 be reduced to £7

Chairman's and directors fees be sus

Landlords be asked to forgo royalties until the mines can pay dividends

There were heavy casualties in bighting paradoxically slumped. The market was prof. Einstein accompanies the deleg the Budget Amendments proposing anported in a cable, recalls the great whale Pended until the mines pay their way. Following the ambush of a train at the newspapers, which apprehensively tion specially to appeal on behalf of the import tax on silver, and so increase of

pipe a chorus welcoming the aggregate Headiert Junction, County Kerry, on

German majority, but nevertheless fear, Palestins University Fund... which soldiers and passengers were traveling that the Entente will readjust fron- Ling. Ons officer and Ive mon were killed hers in a manter giving Poland dis tricts in which the Poles secured majori and twelve soldiers wounded, one passon Lies, notably in the south and south-east, ger was killed and two wounded. On some which are exceedingly vouable in-

dustrially:

rebel was found dead but it is believed OFFICIAL FIGURES. there were others. The troops detrained and with heavy fire engaged the attackers, whom they hold off for fifty-mint until they were reinforced, when the at

kere were driven

KRONSTADT REVOLT. NEW PHASE.

Piers, March 21st.. The newspapers givo prominence to Reval telegram declaring that the insur occupied gents on Saturday night

BEN, March 21st. Oficial results published at nine o'clock this morning regarding the plebiscite in Upper Tilesia state that 878.000 voted for Kronstadt, whither the Revolutionary Jarmany and 239,000 for Poland. Two Committoo has returned from Finland.

important districts where a Polish majority is likely are missing.

No confirmation is at present sysilahla

MINISTRIES ABOLISHED.

LONDON, March 21st. In the House of Commons, the Bill abolishing the Ministers of Shipping and Munitions on March 3lub was adopted.

OBITUARY,

such as tunnelling, to be exempt from the Kanon work of an abnormal nature,

above reductions.

The problem of what to do with the Bombay whale, whose stranding is re that made the mistake of visiting the whalets were at home. The whaler estuary of the Tay when the. Dundee

promptly harpooned the leviathan, and the carcase was sold to a Mr. Woods,

The employers have expressed agree. who exhibited in Dundee, and after ment with the principle of graduated re words took it on tour along the East ductions, and pleasure that the higher Coast of Scotland. Mr. Woods was paid men are ready to show considera- intensely proud of his association with the ton for their poorer paid colleagues Whale. When Mr. J. L. Toolé was fulfilling They also agres, that the landlords be

Dundee engagement, Mr. Woods ap proached him in Reform Street, and asked to forgo dues until the mines pay said:"I am the man who bought the again. But they do not agree to men on Dundee whale "Ah," said Toole, and special work being exempted from the justing his eye-glass and studying Mr. reductions, nor to directors' fees being entirely suspended, pointing, out that Woods, Do you happen to have it about roctora are as minch entitled to remune

ration as any other workers.

LONDON, March 21st The death is announced of the Right Hon. 8. Algernon West, G.C.B. Direc tor of Northern Assurance, and Member you of the Council of Foreign Bondholders