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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER TH, 1921.

FRANCO-GERMAN CO-OPERATION

CONDITIONS

IN

RUSSIATM":

KEY TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM,

THE ALLIES'

DEBTS TO AMERICA.

PANAMA TOLLS QUESTION.

WAGES IN THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY.

LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH BUTER': AGENCY.] "

THE BRITISH SHIPBUILDING

INDUSTRY.

REDECTION OF WAGES, -

LONDON, October 7th.

The court formed under the Industrial Courts Act to consider the war-time in creases granted to shipyard workers decided that the increases of from 15 to 33 per cent. be reduced to 10 per cent., owing to the slump in the industry. It! is expected that the reductions will re- vive the demand for new ships.

BRITISH TOOLS FOR RUSSIA,

RUSSIAN FAMINE RELIEF.

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VIEWS OF INTERNATIONAL

CONFERENCE.

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BRUSSELS, October 8th. The International Russian Famine Re lief Conference has met. Eighteen. States were represented, including Britain, France, the United States, Germany and China. M. de la Croix, the Belgian ex- Premier, presided."

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The Conference discussed Dr. Nansen's and Air.. Hoover's agreements with the Soviet the standpoints of the efficacy of the guarantees obtained and the best means to employ for the cis tribution of supplies. Afterwards they discussed the advisability of sending Committes of Inquiry to Bussia.

Various speakers strongly favoured private initiative without waiting for Oficial support, especially for the relief

LONDON, October 7th.

The Soviet Government has placed large contracts for steel tools with Shef. field firms.

"RECONSTRUCTION

DEVASTATED REGIONS.

FRANCE AND GERMANY TO CO-OPERATE.

BERLIN. October 6th.

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of the children. The opinion was held that a preliminary inquiry was indispe sible before any demand could be made to the respective Governments for inter- vention on a large nenle.

OF WORLD UNEMPLOYMENT.

M. Loucheur and Herr Rathenau have SAVING OF RUSSIA THE SOLUTION signed a protocol drelaring that Franca! and Germany desire to co-operate in the reconstruction of the devastated regions

The

Dr. Nansen, interviewed, said the solu. of Franer, Arrangements, are made for tion of the world problem of unemploy the largest possible supplies of machinnt lies in saving Russia from the grip ery implements. and raw materiala.of famine. Everyons, must help. Consignments will be effected on both Seriat is sincerely doing everything pos sides though private organisations. The sible but is incapable of saving its people total value of the mpplies up to May without foreign" aid. 1st, 1925, must not exceed seven milliards

of gold marks, with the reservation that THE SITUATION IN ALBANIA.

poses of reconstruction.

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BARLIER CABLES. IMPERIAL COMMUNICATIONS

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. PRESIDENT HARDING AND THE SENATE.

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WASHINGTON, October 6th. Roveraing the method adopted by President Wilson when he took personal leadership of the American delegation to Paris, President Harding clearly intends to try to carry the Senate along with him either as negotiations at the Wash ington Conference proceed or when they are about to reach their conclusion. It should be remembered concerning this that without the approval of the Senate nothing very deinite can be done by the United States. The President has made known that he intends to ask Congress B000 to consider and, if possible. promptly pass- measure empowering the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate the funding of the Allied debts. It cannot frankly be said, however, that there is much cause for confidence that. the Senate will rerede from its present attitude of recalcitrancy, which is ex- emplified by the fact that, despite Pre sident Harding's request to the Senate

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S PRO

POSAL.

DEPRECIATION OF THE"

MARK.

RISE IN COST OF LIVING AND IN DIVIDENDS.

BERLIN, October 8th.

TUNGSTEN IN CHINA.

· IMPERIAL INSTITUTE

INFORMATION.

FAR EASTERN CABER

NEWS.

[BY COURTESY OF TUM " CHINA MAIL"] TELEPHONE STRIKE AT SHANGHAI.

in China in 1814, but on quite a amall

Tungsten ore deposits were first worked ·TODEIONERS AB INSEGINOY OPIRATORN. scale (Tungsten Ores, by R. E. Rastall

SHANGHAI, October 8th. the considerable rise in the price of the by the Shanghai Telephone Company graph, 1990, p.38), and it was only after and W. H. Wilcockson, Imp. Inst. Mono.

All the telephone operators employed metal, due to the needs of the war, that went on strike on Wednesday night, fol- any large quantity of are or concentrate lowing peremptory dismissal of one of was exported. The first good output was their number. The foreign members of realised in 1917, when 1,200 tons of high-

MELBOURNE, October 8th. The latest Bulletin of the Imperial In the House of Representatives, Mr. Hughes, reviewing the work of the Immation relating to Tungsten in China:- Institute contains the following infor- Perial Conference, urged the adoption of an Australasian scheme of wireless communication with England as prefer able to the Norman scheme of relaya. mental air service for two years. at a He submitted a proposal for an experi- cos of a million sterling, by utilizing four airships from England, with moor ing-masts at Cairo, Karachi, Singapore and Australia. He said that if long-dis- tance sir communication proved practic-grade, concentrate were produced. In the staff acted as emergency operators and. able, it would be unnecessary for Aus- tralia to advertise for immigranta,

1919 the exports of wolframite concer managed to keep the system partly open. tral (60 per cent. WO,) amounted to no less than 9,235 long tons, but total pro- the system is now again normaal.

Festerday matters were adjusted and duction during the year exceeded that figure, large quantities of ore and con- centrate having to be left in the mining districts as they could not be sold owing to the cessation of hostilities. The

THE HONG MOR" DISASTER. pries fell considerably after the war,

the United States and other countries, regarding the medals awarded by Lloyds largely owing to the enormous accumula

Mr. E. P. Smith, who was Chief tion of stocks in the United Kingdom, Officer of the ill-fated steamer Hony Moh, and us a consequence tungsten maining to the Naval Officers for saving life from writing to Bingapore contemporary

tungsten-producing world. The Chinese deposita were work that of Capt. Evans for it is not generally in China ceased, as it did in most of the the wreck of the Hong Moh says:Such

countries

known how much he did personally, Bus of the conduct deserves recognition; especially

about 3,900 lug tons of concentrate, of vices of Captain Turnbull of the steamer during the whole of 1910 amounting to which a large quantity no doubt was Shants were ignored absolutely, and actually raised in 1918.

I was more than surprised that the ser

found in the southern part of China, and little and hard-working are kept in the think it a shame that the big brother The principal tungsten deposits are should be patted on the back and the US AND ALLIED DEBT.

have & very wide distribution. They backgrond. The steamer Shenj stood vinces of Hunan nad Kinngsi, and in over forty lives, launched a lifeboat at occur in the southern part of the pro by the wreck for thirty hours and saved LONDON, October 6th. An authoritative denial has been issued)

the northern and eastern parts of the great risk (she only had six majors)." the Government of the United States is of a sensational statement declaring that!

province of Kwangtung, and large areta made attempts to drop boats alongside. exist which have not yet been opened up. and only went away for assistance when debes. It is emphasised that the United pressing Britain for repayment of war

From the little that has been written her captain was sure it was the best States would not desire to prejudice the Chancellor).

LONDON, October 6th. about the tungsten deposits, of China, it thing to do. The Foxglove arrived the raising such an important and embarrass (Leader of the House of Commons. Bir ordinary quartz veins: (4) in intrusive

The Premier, Lord Birkenhead (Lord would appear that the ore, which is night after he left, and the Carlisle the issues at the Washington Conference by (Irish Secretary), Mr.

Sir Hamar Greenwood wolframite, has five modes of occurrence:next morning, after having, received ing subject at present, and it is pointed Worthington Evans (War Blinister), and quartz veins or dykes; and (3) in stock.

Chamberlain (1) in detritus; (2) in alluvial; (3) in wireless messages."

posed to the question of the war debts represent the Government at the Irish out that while President Harding is op 31r. Churchill (Colonia: Secretary), will work, being discussed at the Washington Con Confererca in London on the 11th inst. payments for the benefit of the debtor | PROFITEERING INVESTIGA- ference, he is heartily in favour of easy

of the maik-namely, an industrial boom The two-fold effect of the depreciation and a rise in the cost of living con to postpone action on the measure exempt ing American shipping from payment of councements of increases in the price of 12, and is emphasised in daily an Panama Canal tolls, a vote on this will commodities and the declaration of high be demanded on the 10th it. and it dividends. The report of the Humbolsed until February, 1919, the exports the measure, though it will probably being a dividend of 10 per cent. compared is even likely that the Senate will pass Machine Construction Institute, declar held up in the House of Representatives with the previous 8 per cent., states that The present temper of Congress, parti an unprecedented number of orders has cularly of the Senate, make the passage been received from abroad, including one Allied debts very doubtful. of the Hill regarding the funding of the of M. 17,000,000, of which 50 per cent. has already been paid. The Ofetbach Bubber Works have increased the share capital from Mf. 8,000,000 to M. 17,000,000. THE IRISH CONFERENCE. BRITAIN'S REPRESENTATIVES.

nations.

DEBATE IN US. SENATE ON PANAMA TOLLS.

P

Ti

TION.

LORD MAYOR OF CARDIFF'S DISCLOSURE.

WASHINGTON, October 6th. Borah's Bill aiming at free tolls for, When the Senate debated Senator

LONDON, October 8th. The Cardiff Corporation has ordered Caani, Senator Colt (Republican) advoby retailers. The Lord Mayor said he American ships through the Panama an investigation into alleged profiteering iction mould very seriously affect ne butchers were charging the public eighteen cated arbitration with Britain concern was buying frozen meat at 4ld. per lb. ing this.

He declared that legislative for the relief of the distressed," while outcome of the Washington Conference, to twenty pence. Senator Calder (Republican) supported the measure on the ground that it was engaged in canstvise, and not foreign, solely applicable to United States' vessels trade; therefore, there was no question of discrimination.

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AUSTRALIA'S DELEGATE.

MELBOURNE, October 6th:

LITERATURE SOLD AS FUEL. CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

HELSINGFORS, October 8th. Large quantities of books confiscated from the bourgeoisie are being sold in the streets of Petrograd as fuel,

THE ANTI-SOVIET RISING AT AZERBAIJAN.

In the House of Representativen Mr. Hughes announced that, consequent upon an interchange of cables between Aus tralia and the United States, the Federal

LONDON, October 6th," supplies must be used only for the pur- COMMISSION OF INVESTIGATION. tralia at the Washington Conference. In a thoround killed and three

Government has appointed Mr. Pearce.

The Azerbaijan Information Bureau in Minister of Defence, to represent Aus- London states that the anti-Sov et rising in Azerbaijan is growing. The Huisbeviks Mr. Pearce will sit at the same table thousand wounded in the fighting at GENEVA, October 7th.

as the British delegates. The announce Karabagh, The League of Nations Council bas members, and Mr. Charlton moved that meat was disapproved by the Labour approved the appointment of Commis representatives of all parties ba despatch-Northern Caucasus, with a view to open Enver Pasha has arrived at Petrovsk, sien of three, representing neutral Fowed to the Conference."

ing negotiations with the Azerbaijan insurgents on behalf of the Moscow Ian, to proceed to Albania to investigate

Soviet Government. the situation.

The -execution of the protocol will be Bupervised by a Commission of three, namely a Frenchman, 0 Gorman and another chosen by mutual agreement or by the President of Switzerland.

OPPAU EXPLOSIÓN,

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FRENCH THANKED FOR ASSISTING U.S. MINISTER TO NORWAY.

THE VICTIMS.

PARIS, October 8th.

At Coblentz, the German Commissioner is the Rhineland, has conveyed to the French High Commissioner the hearty thanks of the German and Bavarian Governments for the active assistance rendered by the French officials, to the victims of the explosion at Oppau.-. Πσεαι.

UNIFIED ROAD REGULATIONS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.

FABIS, October 7th. Twenty-one States, including Franco,

WASHINGTON, October 7th. Mr. L. A Swenson has been appointed American Minister to Norway.

"RUBBER INDUSTRY.

PRODUCERS CORPORATION 8CHEME DROPPED.

LONDON, October 8th.

LATER.

Mr. Charlton's amendment was defeat ed by 44 votes to 14.

INVITATION TO NETHERLANDS DELIVERED.

THE HAGUE, October 6th. to the Foreign Minister President Hard: The American Minister has presented ing's invitation to the Netherlands to attend the Washington Conference. U.S. IMMIGRATION RESTRIC

TION LAW,

"BRITAIN. NEGOTIATING WITH

WASHINGTON.....

LONDON, 'October 6th.. The Rubber Growers' Association an

The British Government is taking up nounces that the scheme to form a Rub-with Washington the question of the ber Producers Corporation is to be States. This is due to the fact that antry of British subjects into the United dropped. It is stated that a large num

many British and other cases havs occurred lately where individuals obtain-

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR

CONFERENCE.

CHINESE DELEGATE. “„

GENEVA, October fih. Wang Yung pao, has been appointed Chi

The Chinese Minister at Berne, Mr.

national Labour Conference at Geneva.. nese delegate to the forthcoming Inter-

PARIS RAILWAY COLLISION. THE NUMBER OF FATALITIES.

PARIS, October 8th. Nineteen were killed at Batignolles in the Suburban Railway collision. hundred injured include two English- The

men.

of deaths at 31, and added that more [A previous message placed the number

riagos stili in flames had been searched!] might he discovered when some of the car: Another collision occurred at Agan jured.

CHINA AND JAPAN.

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(1) The detrital deposits are found round the flanks and foot of a mountain, from 4,000 to 8,000 feet above sea-level, A Peking despatch, circulated by and from 2,000 to 3,000 feet above the Chinese News Agency say: The draft surrounding hills. These deposits are reply of the Chinese Government, to due principally to weathering.

Japan concerning the retrocession of

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(2) The alluvial deposits consist of Shantung to China has been submitted gravels, sands or pebbles in the beds and to the President and the Premier for banks of streama. The wolframite i perusal and it will be informally, de sometimes accompanied by cassiterite or Cabinet approval

fivered to the Japanese Legation after magnetite.

Although China's

They are usually thin, but vary in thick tion of Japan's nine points, there is no granite and patches of schist or phyllite, theless,

(3) The ordinary quartz veins travors of direct negotiation with Japan, never- reply practically amounts to a refusal

times of considerable thickness, are intru to the discussion of the Powers at the ness from a few inches to several feet.

by asking for a clearer elucida (4) The quartz veins or dykes, some

doubt the authorities intend play for time with a view to bringing the issue. sive ingranite or metamorphic rocks.

(3) The stockworks consist of a number creating an impression that China bas" coming Washington Conference without of small quartz veins în granite, schist | ignored Japan's terms. or phyllite.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.

The deposits examined by, W. R. Jones ("Tin and Tungsten Deposits: The Temperature of Formation," Rull. Inst. Economic Significance of their Belative EPOCH-MAKING EVENT IN CHINESE Min, and Mely No. 186, March, 1920, p.15) are remarkable as containing only A small quantity of tin (the concentrate may carry from 0.5 to 1 per cent. tin, or none at all), and apparently no tour conline.

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THE KOWLOON DEPOSITS..

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the High Normal College in Peking are Both the Government University and enlisting girl students epoch-making

This is event in the Chinese

in the least weathered parts of the lades. This co-education is only an experiment edneational history, and the movement, n Chinese news agency says, "is strongly kong, pyrite and arsenopyrite are found Chinese school typ as detrimental In the Kowloon deposita, rear Hong. condennel by scholars and others of the

In the Pingahan and San To Chuk stock and it has not been sanctioned by the to the morale of the young generation. work deposits of Kwangtugg, pyrite outcrops. only sparingly present in the weathered Ministry of Education. The leaders of the co-education movement are mostly. The quartz veins of the Kaku mines,who are regarded as advanced thinkers foreign-educated students and officiale east of Shiuchow, Kwangtung, are char- of the present day; but among Chinese acterised by the presence of bismuth and Government authorities, says some fakes of molybdenite. W. R. Jones Agency, they are generally condemned as the News found the percentage of bismuth highor in lodes outcropping on the flanks" of

men of dangerous thoughts." the ridges than in the lodes nearer the top of the mountains. Bismuth is also found in the Gong-Hong stockworks, tent. of manganese, and only a small Kwangtung, in which white mics is partiamount of impurities, such as copper ind arsenopyrite also occur. cularly abundant, and pyrite and a little tin (1.8. Comm, Repts, No. 209, 1019.

p.1657). In the Tin Nam deposits; in the south. ern part of Kiangsi, woliranite, with China," Eng, and Min. Journ., January O. Y. Wang ("Wolfram Mining in abundant white mica and pyrite, in pre 3rd, 1920, p.6), gives six representative sent in a series of quartz veins intrusive analyses of wolframite concentrate from in metamorphosed sedimentaries, chiefy Kwangtung, Hunan and Kiangsi. The phyllites, and in the Yukongsbien deposits analyses show from 62.0 to 70.8 per cent. of Husen wolframite also appears in very of tungstie oxide (W.03). No tin was wide quartz veins intrusivo in granite,found in two samples, and in two others schists and quartzites. Arsenopyrite islit amounted respectively to 0.18 and 0.34. very abundant in some of these veins.

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per cent. The amount of ferrous oxide (FeO) present varied from 10.1 to 15. (MnO), from 8.4 to 11.1 per cent. per cent, and that of mangānous oxide

ber of directors and shareholders were ad the necessary visa thither, but fonnal Station, two being killed and thres ja- 1917, three of which had been developed, of exchange in 1919, viz. a. 4d. per tael).

PARIS, October 6th.

ready to support the scheme, but they Britain, Italy, the United States and wore outnumbered by other European total monthly number of people per- suburban train dashed into, the rear of news.

"Japan, attended the International Road Conference opened on the initiative of Franco with the object of unifying road regulations throughout the world.

and pative owners.

LATER.

QUEENSLAND SEEKS LOAN

IN U.8

THE NEW TERRITORY DEPOSITS. British Colony of Hongkong known as In that portion on the mainland of the

treaty of 1880), six outcrops of tungsten concentrate on the market at 400 customs the "New Territory" (held under the ing a short ton (2,000 lb) of wolframite C. E. Klino estimates the cost of plac bearing ore were known by the end of taels, or £145 139. (at the average rate recent Immigration Restriction Law, the on arrival in New York that under the

and, bad yielded ore containing 18 per The war time prices ranged from about cent. of tungsten. The veins are describ£253 to £310, and that from November, Issuing from Paris at rush hour, a od as being from 10 to 18 inches in thick 1918, to January, 1919, averaged about mitted entry from the country to which another. they belong had been already reached.

The gas tanks exploded and General, George E. "Anderson, it is February, 1921, was 158. per unit, or According to the U.S. Consu- £158 per ton. The price in London in They, therefore, became liable to detention injured. An investigation ia preceeding. that the deposits are among the most 60 per cent, tungstic oxide (WO3). "It took fire. There were at killed and 150 altogether within the range of possibility 245 per ton of concentrate containing on Ellis Island and wore eubjected to-aral. It connection with the abandonment many hardships. They may, alternative

important in the world." of the Rubber Producers Corporation forthwith.

ly, be admitted later or bo repatriated The number of victims in the suburban Anglo-American syndicate under licence be mined in China at

At that time is obvious, therefore, that if the above LATER the deposits were being exploited by an estimate be correct, no wolframite.cap sebame it is stated that the support was

trains accident was not so high as was from the Hongkong Government Sla Chinese territory the industry is feared.

Actually 17 dead have been Commepts., No. 42, 1918, p. 683). smaller than expected.. Owners of 769,000 | ·

profit to-day, counted and about one hundred injured, The wolfram deposits in Chinesa teri havily taxed (in customa dues, licence acres of planted ares provisionally, ap-

many of them not seriously. One wagon tory are usually worked by farmers. Ales and local taxes), the taxes amount- has not yet been searched-Harat. proved of the principles out of a total;

few of the mines are owned by companies 18 to 22 per cent. of the actual cost. COMMONWEALTH HIGH planted

the ore being extracted on a tribute Even if no allowance is made for this, area of 3,120,000 acres.

Naw Youx, October 6th.

system. Rakes, toms" and pans are used the cost will still be more than double minimum seroage considered necessary to lown in the United States is now being

COMMISSIONER APPOINTED. for washing the alluvial ores, whilst, in the present market value of the concen The Court of Inquiry into the fre on give effect to the scheme had been fixed regotiated by the National City Bank The first British Overseas Government

the case of vein mines, hand hammers, trate. If China is now shipping concen MELBOURNE, October 6th. drills and sometimes black powder are rate it must be from, stocks, which are Sir Joseph Cook has been appointed used. The concentrate is prepared by the being put on the market at a consider Company, which is offering twelve mil- Commonwealth High Commissioner in hand-picking of large pieces, and the sale loss. lion dollars worth of Queensland bonds London.

hand-sluicing of smalt pieces. The con cf a twenty yours currency, the interest

In 1918 it was intended to establish being 7 per cent.

has to be reconcentrated in planta owned tungsten, nad there is said to be a small. centrate is somewhat impure, and often plant at Hankow for making ferro- by native or foreign companies. The Yui smelting plant at Dalny, which is still in Hwa. Mineral Supply Co. has, dressing, an experimental stage. PARIS, October 6th.

plant, consisting of shaking screens, There is no doubt that wolframite has of sugar in Italy in 1021 is nearly double tables, by which it can produce concon-rough estimates of the ore in sight

The Epoco states that the productioaga rocking table and round revolving that of 1999; therefore the import of trata of from 87 to 18 per cent range sa high as 100,000 tons so that a very wide distribution in South Chiun. sugar will be almost sal, thus saving tungatie exide (WO3), with about 6 per China again becomes a severe competitor Italy £3,000,000.

(Continued at foot of next column.) ia the production of ingaten ore...

FIRE ON A LINER.

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION OF

COAL.

CAPETOWN, October 7th.

the Commonwealth liner Port Augusta, cabled on September 25th, found that every endeavour had been made to extin- guish the fire. The Court completely exonerated the captain, officers and orew and declared that the fire arose in conse quence of the spontaneous combustion of

at 2,200.000 acres.

» KEMALISTS PURSUING

GREEKS.

The

CONSTANTINOPLE, October 6th.

The Kemalists, pursing the Greeks,

fine clearfield coal shipped at New York. aim at encircling Eskicboir-Haeas.

AFTER

NAILURE IN LONDON.

In connection with the foregoing, it may be recalled that Queenaland onder voured to arrange the fotation ef & loan in London last year, but negotiations broke down in consequence of financial circles requiring guarantees in view of certain legislation passed by Qusonaland, and these were not forthcoming.

ITALY'S SUGAR PRODUCTION DOUBLED.