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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES.

[TEKQUUM DEUTER'S 'AGENCY. ] WASHINGTON CONFERENCE, MR LLOYD GEORGE CANCELS HIS

-PASSAGE.

LONDON, November 3rd.

The Prime Minister bas cancelled, his passage by the Aquitania on Saturday. .but he has not yet abandoned hope of

going to Washington later.

BARLIER CABLES,

BRITISH LELEGATION DEPARTS.

LONDON. November 2nd.

Mr. Balfour, Lord Cavan. Air-Marshal Higgins. Sir Maurice Hankey, and Sir John Jordan have left Landon for Liver. pool es route to the Washington Confer. ence. A large gathering witnessed their departure. Including the American and

Japanese Ambassadors

Mr. Balfour, addressing the. Pressmen, *Afhently and confidently hoped for the success of do Conference. He said hot

would remain throughout the Conference, health permitting. PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE TO-DAY

LONDON, November 2nd.

In the House of Commons. Mr. Cham- berlain, announcing the business pro- gramme for the remainder of the week, said he hoped to take the discussion on the Washington Conference on Friday.

TERMS OF THE DEBATE."

LATER.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMHER Àr¤, 1981.

U.S. MINERS STRIKE.

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND OUT

AS A PROTEST.

་་

A BIG MERGER. AN IMPORTANT FORTHCOMING

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO CO. FAR EASTERN CABLE

REDUCTION OF DIVIDEND...

LONDON, November 2nd.

NEWS.

(THROUGH KHUTER'S AGENCY.]

"MUI TSAT" IN THE HOUSE OF

COMMONS AGAIN.

GOVERNMENT'S FEESLE REPLY,

LONDON,--November-2nd-

KUINOUS STRIKES.

MR. CHURCHILL ON UNEMPLOY“ MENT..

Mr. Churchill delivered an address in Dundee on

September 23rd on the sub

ject of unemployment to representatives of the Town Council, Parish Council,

and Education Authority.

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ORIGINS OF THE SCOT. HIS PALEOLITHIC ANCESTORS. The Sections of Anthropology and Geography of the British Association. joined in a discusion at Edinburgh, recently, on the origin of the Scottish people.

wore

INDIANOPOLIS, November 3rd. At the meeting of the British North Borneo Co. (referred to in yesterday's Twenty-five thousand coal miners have cables) the Chairman, Sir West Ridgeway struck as a protest against a recent in-dividend from fire to three per cent. in explained that the decision to reduce the jubetion restraining united mins workers face of the receed profit was due to the

Keith, who submitted that the inhabi

The opener was Professor Sir Arthur. from bringing miners from the William- rubber crisis, would mean a considerable fact that trade depression, especially the

tants of the Highlands and western parta soa coalfields in West Virginia into the drop in the Company's revenue during

Mr. Churchill said the Government. of Scotland and the inhabitants of the the current year, while the Company bad

since the Armistice, had spent on the branches of the same Nordic racial stock.

jaland Union.

parta of Scandinavia financially to assist the rubber companies

The subject of the Mui Tsai was again relief of unemployment through the Scandinavian geologists estimated the in its territory. Sir West Ridgeway wel. raised in the House of Commons at comed the Clovernment Rubber Committee question time by Mr. T. J. Bennett, who agency of the insurance scheme, over beginning of the emergence of Scad- as a sign that the Government realised asked whether there was any limitation £103,000,000, and of that much the greater period of about 11,000 B.C. The North dinavia and of Scotland from ice at a that a collapse, or partial collapse, of the except the Criminal Law to the right of portion had been direct contributions Sex was then an estuary, or bay, open rubber industry would gravely jeopardise Durchasers of girls to dewand any service the financial position of the Straits Settle they please, to punish them at will, or

from the Exchequer.

to the north, with & western shore load- ments and the Federated Malay States.

to treat them as concubines.

That might not have equalled the disto Scandinavia. On the Danish, as also up to Scotland, and an eastern leading Referring to attacks by the Anti-Slavery

The Hon. E. F. Wood (Under Secretress which had been created, but it cer on the Scottish coasts, were found the Society: Sir West Ridgeway said that the tary for the Colonies), replying, said tainly was a provision "gigantic in itself shell heaps of the Harpoon Folk, the controversy, especially as it understood where, the force of public opinion was a and utterly unparalleled at the present outskirts Company did not desire to continue the that undoubtedly in Hongkong, as else- unexampled in proveus British history earliest inhabitants in the north-western the Society did not intend to continue the powerful adjunct to the Criminal Law in moment in every other country in the

of Europe in Post-Glacial attacks The Company would be glad of restraining illtreatment

times, The culture of this people was their co-operation in the improvement of children. He understood that by Chinese of America, very much better circum west of Europe, and although their re- of adopted whole world. Even in the United States to be traced to countries in the south- of the interior, and in the recently cubine with the consent of the man's had its vaults overflowing with the gold the long and big-headed type of man the lot of the comparatively wild-tribes | custom a girl could only be made a con- suffer as we did in the war, and whains had not been found, it might

stanced than we were, which did not acquired territory on the Dutch border. wife, the girl herself, and her parents.

safely be inferred that they arose from INDIGNANT REPUDIATION OF

CENTURY MAGAZINE"

MEETING,

New Fons. November 3rd. Stockholders in the Unior, Oil Com- pany at Delaware went here on November 17th to consider the merger with the Royal Dutch Shell Transpart. Subject to possible modification, the foreign interests will control seventy-two per cent. of the stock of the new company and Union shareholders the remainder.

ARMISTICE DAY.

NATIONAL HOLIDAY IN UNITED

STATES.

day. COURT OF INTERNATIONAL

JUSTICE.

CHINA'S DEFAULT TO US. BANKERS.

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found in South England and on the Con

The

Col. Wedgwood asked if the custom of Europe, there was enormous and wide. was not illegal in China itself, and Spread unemployment, greater in degree tinent at the close of the Ice Age, whether it was only legal in British and intensity in many parts than existed ARTICLE..

Colonies and amounted to slavery.

It was thus maintained that Scot and here. and the provision for it was far Scandinavian were descendants of the reiterated that it was a tissue of lies. The of the torm slavery in connection years repeatedly stabbed at and struck at had dark hair, eyes, and complexions was

Dealing with the recent attack in the Mr. Wood said that he and his pre-less, and in many cases perfectly non-

late paleolithic existent.. Century Magazine, Sir West Ridgeway decessor continually repudiated the use

ден of South-west If we had not been for the last two late-paleolithic races of South Europe Europe. The accepted opinion that the writer was apparently the agent of a with the custom, but despaired of over cinema firma and only spent one day in getting Col. Wedgwood to discontinus strikes and stoppages, in every branch probably well founded. Fair hair, light WASHINGTON, November 3rd.

the serritory, at Sandakan. The Lives the term. He believed a Chinese law was create and revive after the war, there their fullest expression in the inhabi of our industry which we tried to re- | eyes, and clear complexions, which find org had telegraphed to the Century passed making the custom illegal outside was no doubt whatever first of all that tents of Baltic lands, were best regarded Congress has passed a resolution Magazine indignantly protesting. The British settlements. making Armistice Day a national holi-sidered. There need be no fear in regard adaption on a system of hire to the age means of coping with that distress would might not be due to a later Mediter question of further steps would be con- bovaver, anactioned the principle of than it was; and, secondly, that our darker hair and eyes of the modern Scot

The Chinese, the distress would have been much less as characters recently evolved. * to the honesty and efficiency of the Ad of twenty-five on. the preliminary pay have been much greater. Take only the the single-mindedness, sympathy, and de- ministration, He paid a warm tribute to ment of a lump sum,

Ianean admixture, but to his retaining case of the late coal strike. He was,AOW votion of the North Borneo Civil Service.

to a greater degree the complexion of informed that unemployment in this his paleolithic ancestor. country had just crept back again to Sir Arthur Keith proceeded to trace the where it was on the eve of the coal strike. appearance in Scotland in the second

When the coal strike began we were

millennium B.C. of a peculiar and where we are now, and there was an ex-

round-headed people, and added that pectation of a steady, continuous, pro- after this period there was no great in- gremive improvement, not on ca

vasion until the arrival of the Romans. the distress which existed, but at any scale, not by any means sweeping away had gone, both eatern and western door. In the fifth century, when the Romans

thrown upon the nation. Unemployment entered the country, but brought no new fication, and then this catastrophe was Scots from the North of Ireland then rate & sensible improvement and modi- ways became open again. The Dalraid all over the place was vastly increased, physical in ne they had every right to the unions, not affected directly by the presume that Ireland was originally. WASHINGTON, November 3rd strike bad their funds depleted by the peopled by the same race as settled in attention of the Chinese Government has was the loser directly of something like

It is authoritatively stated that the need of keeping their own people who Scotland. been called, through the American Mini 80 or 70 millions sterling, and indirectly were on short time, and the State itself ter at Peking, to its failure to pay the the community had been the loser of a respect of the loan of $5,500,000 made it able sum. principal and half-yearly interest in very much greater but not easily calcul by American bankers.

THE HAGDE, November 2nd

Justice will be inaugurated at the end A permanent Court of International

of January at the Peace Palace.

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

ACT.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR

CONFERENCE. MINIMUM AGE FOR STOKERS AT SEA.

LONDON, November 2nd.

Mr. Chamberlain said he had expressed BRITISH COLUMBIA. WANTS TOTAL eighteen as the minimum age for maritime

doubt the previous day as to whether dis- cussion was "desirable, but had since,con- sulted Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Curzon-. All were so completely agreed in their desire to see the Conference success- ful that the Government, confiding in the discretion of the Commons in the conduct of the discussion so as not to prejudice the success of the Conference, agreed to a debatę,

Lord. Winterton naked whether the re- solution which the discussion would be -based would be so worded as to enable

on

Alliance to be raised.

i

Mr. Chamberlain did not think the resolution submitted by the Labour Party covered that question. He himself. depre.

cated such discussion public interest.

AS contrary to

RESTRICTION.

VICTORIA, B.C., November 2ad. The Legislature har passed resolu- tiin requesting the Dominion Govern- ment to amend the immigration act so as totally to restrict Asiatic immigration into British Columbia.

RUSSIA'S DEBTS. STRONG BRITISH REPLY TO THE SOVIET NOTE.

LONDON, November 2nd." The text of the British reply to the the whole question of the Anglo-Japanese Soviet Note with reference to debts, men tioned earlier, declares that in announc ing its intentions regarding foreign debts the Soviet Government has started upon the only path which can lead to the goal it professes to desire, namely, economic co-operation with other nations, but the British Government asks for further in- formation before it can, in conjunction with the other Governments with which it is associated in the International Famine Commission, decide on its atti- tude. An explicit statement is asked of the Soviet's intentions regarding obliga tions other than those mentioned, such as losas to the Tsarist Government since Siz Robert Horne in a written reply 1914, municipal and railway loans and to Cdr. Kenworthy in the House of Com-claims by foreign owners of property in mons says that the next payment due to Russia confiscated or destroyed by the

LATEST CABLES.

GERMANY'S NEXT PAYMENT. THIRD QUARTERLY INSTALMENT

DUE IN JANUARY.

LONDON, November 2nd.

Soviet

EARLIER CABLES.

EXPLANATIONS WANTED.

LONDON, November 2nd. The British Government seat to Moscow yesterday, a strong reply to the Soviet

further explanations.

the payment alternatively takes under

It is pointed out in London that while,

the Soviet Note referred to Tsarist debts,

The Commission dealing with maritime questions at the International Labour Conference at Geneva has recommended stokers and trimmers, excepting in the caso of Japan and India, where a mini- mum of sixteen has been fixed, subject to a certificate of physical fitness, to the employment being confined to coastal after consultation between the most repre- traffic, and to regulations for employment sentative organisations of employers and workmen in those countries..

DEATH OF VISCOUNT SANDHURST,

LONDON, November 2nd. The death is announced of Viscount Sandhurst.

REPRESENTATIONS TO PEKING.

WASHINGTON, November 2nd. It_is_authoritatively stated that the American Ambassador at Peking bas to pay the principal of and the half-yearly called China's attention to the failure interest on the loan of five and a half million dollars by American bankers.

THE EDUCATION CONTROVERSY IN THE STRAITS.

PARLIAMENT SUPPORTS' REGISTRATION ORDINANCE.

LONDON, November 2nd,

great

Celts, and Saxons of Scotland were all pioneer race' which settled North-west In conclusion, he said that the Picts. of one breed, the descendants of the Europe when the last ice sheet lifted. There had been only one intrusive ele ment, the round-headcf late neolithic introduction.

DANGER OF HIGHER TAXATION. We stood to-day in a position where Professor Thomas H. Bryce said that difficulties were by no means confined to Scotland was inhabited as far back as any one part of the country or to any

Azilian times. He too contended that one set of Government institutions. If there was a strong presumption that the there were difficulties locally, there were primitive basis of the population was also tremendous difficulties with the Cen-Nordic in character. William Mansfield, first Viscount Sand-

tral Government. At the Erchequer the Dr. J. T Tocher said that during the hurst, born 1856, was twice Under Secre-

problems were of the gravest character, war he had measured about 6,000 Scots- in the House of Commons, the Hon.and if the taxation of the country had men, who were joining the Army, and he tary for War and subsequently was E. F. Wood (Under Secretary for the beer sensibly increased at the moment, found that the average height was sit. appointed Governor of Bombay. He was Colonies), confirmed an enquiry by Mr. Were they quite sure that they would not in, but that there was a very wide Africa to report on the subject of repre- ornment had received a petition from den on themselves, locally? 2 member of the Committee sent to South George Barker (Barnes) that the Gov revival by imposing a still heavier bur 7in. He had also discovered in making sentative Government. The late peer was Chinese in the Straits Settlements and quite certain that a heavy increase in the broad head among the population, in the be checking all business enterprise and variation ranging from 4ft 7in. to 6ft. successor, the title goes to his brother, the the Malay States with a view to obtain taxation of the country would not mul- twice married, but, in default of a direct

Were they other examinations that there was a Hon. J. W. Mansfield]

ing cancellation of the compulsory re-tiply and aggravate even the very unem-

North-East of Scotland and a long hend. EX-PRESIDENT POINCARE ÎN

gistration of Chinese teachers and school ployment which they were trying to cope tion that only Aberdonians had big heade in the South-West. The popular ecneen. committees, 25 required by the 1920 with Ordinance.

was wholly wrong, but it was a fact that many red-haired people belonged to that part of the country. There was no clear proof that the people of the early period were smaller than those of the present obtain a clear indication of the origin day, and he expressed the view that to

gpographist, and the psychologist than on quire to rely more on the historian, the of-the-Boottish-people they would re-

the anthropologist.

LONDON.

BRITISH DONATION FOR REBUILD- ING VERDUN.

LONDON, November 2nd. At-a-meeting at the Mansion House, M. Poincare was presented with a cheque League of Help towards for F.750,000, collected by the British Verdun.

rebuilding

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LUNCHEON WITH THE KING.

PARIS, November 2nd. Mme. Poincare, now in London, were The ex-President, M. Poincare, and the guests of King George, at luncheon Havas

THE NEED FOR CO-OPERATION. PARIS, November 2nd. At dinner of the Franco-British Inter. University Union, the orators (notably the Lord Chancellor, the Attorney- General, and the Rector of London Uni- versity) emphasised the necessity of inti- mate co-operation between France" and England. were present-Hazas.

The American and Italian Ambassadors

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HUNGARY,

Mr. Wood added that, after consulting tion should operate on an assurance being the Governor, he decided that this legisla given that it would be sympathetically administered. The Governor had since assured him that the teachers and com

mitteomen ware registering satisfactorily.

ROMANISM IN CHINA.

POPE GIVES AUDIENCE TO. PRELATES, FROM FAR EAST..

Monsignor Emmanuel Prat, Apostolic

ROME, November 2nd. The Pope gave private audiences to Vicar of Amoy; and Monsignor Aguirre, Apostolie Vicar of Fokien. His Holiness was deeply interested in reports of the spread of Catholicism in China.

PESSIMISTIC EUGENISTS. BEST HUMAN STOCKS DYING OUT.

Eugenics, which opered on September The second International Congress of 92nd in New York, was marked by a Aaccession of speeches reflecting sothe what pessimistic views on the future of the briman race owing to the rapid in- crease of the poorer strains and the breeding out of the best stocks.

LIVING UNDER WATER. A BREATHING SECRET.

growth of an individualism which three French swimmer, M. de Lalyman, that he

The president of the congress, Professor

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TO Henry Fairfield Osborn, bewailed the

"THE OBSERVER."}· An extraordinary claim is made by tened the existence of the family, ite motto being, Let us obey our own im can live ander water. It is claimed that pulses; let us create our own standards; he has actually demonstrated his ability let each individual enjoy his own rights cial means of respiration. I send these to remain submerged without any arti and privileges for to-morrow the race particulars under all reserve, for I have dies. He illustrated his views by the had no opportunity of witnessing the development of New England, which in feat. LONDON, November 2nd. the course of the century has witnessed Revue Hebdomadaire," which is an But an account is given in the Viscountess Chelmsford. opened

the passage of the many child family into extremely seriotis and perfectly reliable Ayah's Home at Hackney provided by the next stage would be the no-child

tee one-third-family He observed that organ. the London City Mission. The Chair-marriage and the extinction of the stock water without breathing remarkable in

Not

only is this claim to stay under man said that since the premises were

AN AYAHS' HOME.".

an

ballast

the Allies from Germany is half a milliard gold marks due in January, this being the third quarterly instalment of two 'milliards annually under Article 4 of "the Schedule of Paymento. Ho states that the effect of the payment on German Note in regard to Russian debts, point exchange will depend on the form which ing 'cut certain obscurities and asking for THE ROYALIST RISING IN blessing to ayahs and amahs who brought Republican institutions of the country, to sink and riso in the water, execute opened in 1909 they had proved a great which had laid the foundations of the itself, but there has to be added the claim the Treaty. Regarding the distribution of in which France is highly interested, it DETHRONEMENT OF THE HAPS. ayahs until they found a family return to save it from going the way of all without swimming, without the aid of children from India to the Far East. Other speakers urged that the human normally all movements that could be race must study the science of eugenics excented on dry land, and to move above species of which we have paleontological records and from becoming extinct. by a ladder into a large tank of water M. de Lalyman descended, it is said,” Major Leotard Darwin discouraged ex- and performed his toilette-shaved him. peotations of great achievements by self, and brushed himself - peeled a eugenics in the near fature, and declared potato, ate it, drank wine, laid down at that the results for which ougenists hoped full length at the bottom of the tank might not be noticeable for several hun-juggled with billiard balls, sat at a desk, dred years. He emphasized the impos and wrote his letters though we are not- mating by legislation, and deplored the when he emerged. sibility of attempting to regulate inman told in what conditions these letters were A telegram received in Paking from popular misconception which credited One of the most curious experiments Taoanfa, dated October 21st, states that eugenics. with the design to abolish was that in which be kept his body und romance and introduce cattle-breeding his limbs stiff, his elbows pressed against a body of Russians from Mongolia num principles into the domestic affairs of his sides, and without apparent motion bering between two and three hundred, human families. Eugenics did not fav-ank or rose in the water at the word of appeared to the north of Taonanfo about our the abolition of love. "If young ommand given by the spectators

payments he mentions that after the costs did not refer to the enormous claims and

is very largely involved. municipal loans in which English capital

of the army of occupation have been met from the payments Belgium has the FINANCIAL HORIZON priority to the cash receipt of the two VIEWS OF FORMER CHANCELLOR zeilliard gold marks..

OF THE EXCHEQUER.

DUTCH EAST INDIES.

TEMPORARY. INCREASE IN IMPORT AND EXPORT DUTIES,

BURGS REQUIRED,

CLEAR.sidering, that a Hungarian proclamation

PARIE, November 2nd,

the Little Entents with the guarantees of The Conference of Ambassadors, con dethroning the Hapsburgs would provide peace which it demanded and thus permit a cessation of military preparations, has ment to proclaim the dethronement of the decided to invite the Hungarian Gorera- Hapsburgs before November 7th

NEW YORL, November 2ad. Mr. McKenna (formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer, and now Chairman of the issued a statement declaring that the finan London Joint City Midland Bank), has Dial horizon scams clear. Though it is probable that considerable time will olapse before normal conditions are re- stored; he believes the corner had been turzed

The committee undertook to provide for ing to the East. Mr. Lo Chong, Consul- General for Chins, and Colonel Darcy Bannerman, of the India Officer, apoke appreciatively of the institution.

RUSSIANS IN MONGOLIA, CLASH WITH CHINESE CAVALRY

week ago and a clash between them and

FRENCH TRIBUTES TO ALLIED HEROES. AMSTERDAM, November 3rd.. The East India budget provides for a

PARIS, November End. a force of Chinese cavalry followed in people were always allowed to follow He declares that the essential-principles- Mr. MoKenas found considerable in- tions took place throughout France, the

one mary All-Soul Day celebra which one Chinese and two Bussians were usually would be wise from their mating tells heerut by anyone. He rises and temporary ingrease of twenty-five per terest taken in the question of inter-military cemeteries being visited by large

killed.

The Russians then sued for a wise from the standpoint because ho can at truce and are now being disbanded. -national-Government debts. Speaking crowds, who paid their respects and laid large number of Mongolians were found wealth or social position do not tend to the lungs can be driven into the stomach, cent in all import and export duties, from the British point of new, Mr. Mc flowers on the Allied soldiers' tomba among them.

of eugenics, but many marriages made for density of his body. The air dilated-in- including the oil export tax, but the act wisely, having regard only to her in-

Kenna was of opinion that Britain would oras,

better the human race."

where it is compressed. Such, at least, is Attention was called to the studies of his explanation. His daily practice is to latter will shortly be superseded by a dustrial and economic position, if she

200 investigators in a eugenics laboratory is the respiratory movements which tax based on the net profite of producing McKenna concluded that peace in indus were to remit the debts due to her. Mr.

Bir Bobertson Nicoll, in the British managed in connection with the Carnegieing in-resting a long time without breath- at Cold-springs Harbour, Long Island, head in a basin of water. After succeed. are classic in physical culture with his companies The Colonial Administray was the prize need of the world,

Weekly announces that the Westminster Institution, Washington. In constantlying, it is necessary without releasing the Aion's expenditure for 1922 is estimated the way.

which looked to the United States to lead

Gasette will be transformed into a morn increasing numbers it was reported that air in the body to send it from the Innga PALIB, November 2nd. Owing to the drought, the best harvest std. Mr. J.-A Bponder, at present consulting these investigators, submitting lunge, in utilising the glottip as a cinck« ing paper resembling the Times, priced persons contemplating marriage were to the mouth, and from the mouth to the is very poor. It is estimated that the editor of the Westminster Gazette, will extensive accounts of their family valve. Then these who would emulate M LATER. Mr. McKenna has departed for Engined sugar, compared with 305,000 tons tion is backed by the most influential sup-dispensed by the investigators regarding air into the atomach like a amoker who yield will not exceed 230,000 tons of re-be Political Director. The transforms characteristics, and studying the advice de Lolyman must learn how to inhale the last year.

the transmision of special pharacteristic. » swallows the smoke of his cigarette..

924,000,000 guilders" and the revenue at 734,000,000 guildera

land.

DROUGHT SPOILS FRENCH BEET, CROP.

port.