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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, IUHSDAY, JANUARY-

AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON.

SENATE MAY REJECT THE TREATIES.

RIOT IN CALCUTTA.

POLICE FIRE ON MILL WORKERS.

LATEST CABLES.

(TH8000H BRUTER'S, AGENCY,}

LATEST CABLES.

RIOT IN CALCUTTA,

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WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. POLICE FIRE ON CROWD OF MILL

SENATE MAY NOT RATIFY THE TREATIES.

HANDS.

LATEST CABLES, SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES DISPUTE,

DISOUSSING A GENERAL SYMPA- THETIC STRIKK

DEATH OF SIR ERNEST

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"QUEST" CONTINUES VOYAGE MONTE VIDEO, January 29th. Sir Ernest Shackleton died on board the Quest on

January 5th from angina pectoris.

JOHANNESBORO, January 20th. The Chamber of Mines has offered to guarantee a ratio of at least one Euro- pean to every 10 natives which is no alteration of the present practice, but the offer as regards wages, etc., has increased Antarctio

the dissatisfaction of the strikers. The

LONDON, January 29th. The Quest left Rio de Janeiro sailing for South Georgia on whence she was to proceed direct to the December 18th,

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MONTS VIDEO, Later.

PRINCE OF WALES AT

HYDERABAD.

THE MAGNETIC CHARM OF HIS PERSONALITY.

LONDON, January 98th:

Sir George Russell, Reuter's 'Special Correspondent cables:---

THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE." REHABILITATION BILL PASSED. GOVERNMENT'S LIMITED RESPONSIBILITY.

PARIS, January 27th, The Chambar of Deputies has passed a bill for the rehabilitation of the

this evening on the very crest of the Banque Industrielle de Chine.

The Priner of Wales leaves Hyderabad

resistibly over the place. Ever since his wave of popularity which has swept i arrival the great city has made holiday,

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Industrial Federation has arranged a Sir Ernest Shackleton died.

The Quat was off Gritvicken (1) when the one palpable aim of the masses being His body to see the Prince as many times as pos- meeting to discuss the proclamation of a was brought here in a Norwegian steamersible. general sympathetic strike throughout and will be transhipped to England. REMARKABLE SCENES OF POPULAR

South Africa. The Union executives have dompanied by Dr. Hussey, the expedition. appealed to sympathisers to overthrow the doctor, present Government.

ENTHUSIASM, M.

LATER.

The bill for the rehabilitation of the Banque Industriel'e de Chine amounts to an authorisation to apply France's shar of the Boxer, indemnity for the purpose.

Both the Premier (M. Poincare) and

the Finance Minister (M. Deinsterrie) said

the Government would submit for the Chamber's decision all results of negotia tions

One of the Nizam's leading Ministers of MONTE VIDEO, January 29th. The second in command, Commanderbutes the enthusiasm of the populace Affairs Committes on the Bill, said that

State told a correspondent that he attri

M. Guernier, reporter for the Foreign Frack, will take charge of the Quest ex-wholly to the Prince's personal powers of new men would be placed at the head of pedition and he proposes to carry on. appeal. We purposely laft His High the bank, which he was convinced would

[Major Sir, Ernest (Henry) Shackleton,

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M. Bokanowski, the reporter-general.

CALCUTTA, January 30th. WASHINGTON, January 30th. Four thousand mill heads were involved Correspondent sound a note of warn in a rint at jute mills in the environs of ing against taking the Senate's, ratifien- Calcutta, originating in a demand for tion of the Treaties for granted and draw the release of two mill hands who were a parallel between the present conditions arrested for assaulting the maunger. and those of 1910 when Mr. Wilson, was The police were called in, and fired in the

EARLIER CABLES. unable to secure the passage of the air. The crowd replied with a shower of League of Nations. Fresh complications brickbats, injuring & petty-inspector and

CONFERENCE ABORTIVE. have undoubtedly been introduced by the dozen policemen, whereupon the police

JOHANNESBURG, January 27th.

Kt, C.V.O., M.V.O., 0.B.E., was born free as possible," said be, in be in good hands. There had been some Genoa Conference, strengthening the fred on the crowd, killing two and broken up at the luncheon adjournment. M.D. He was educated

The gold mines conference had virtually at Kilkee, on February 15th 1874, the order that he might get to know the criticism or the ground that the opera oldest son of the late Henry Shackleton.pple and let the people get to know tions of the bank had been speculative oppositioning to the Washington Treaties, wounding 40.

at Dulwich not because the Treaties are dependent on

The workers' delegates, after violently College. In 1001 he served at 3rd Lient him in his own way. Our

and the taxpayers ought not to bear the ACCUSED OF "SELF-MUTILA- | attacking the Chamber of Mines, intimation and in 1907 ax Commander of the

programme onant in the National Antarctic Expedi- has been exceptionally free of official consequences. what will be done at Geaba, but 'on

TION DURING THE WAR. account of the fear, repeatedly voiced in

British Antarctic Expedition

engagements. ed that no good purpose could be served Antarctic expedition was in 1914. From Won more hearts on the pole ground stated that the present value of France's

His next

Probably the Prince bas recent Senate debates. than Europe is

PARIS, January 26th. by continuing discussions. Representatives 1919 to 1919 he was Director of Equip than he could have done in a score of care in the Boxer indemnities was using Amèries for her own purpose.

A court martial at Nancy acquitted the of the Chamber of Mines emphatically Forces in the North Russia Winter Cam ment and Transport for the Mobile

ceremonial functions. Our people are 163,793,000 gold francs. former State Under-Secretary Vilgrain protested against termination of the compaign Last year he was appointed Com- great sportsmen and nothing appeals more

M. Poincare stated if the Boxer indem- in bitter (1) Britain is also the victim who was accused of self-mutilation durference before they had been given an and Sub-Antarctic Expedition miling in quickly to their sympathy than an active pity proved insuficient, the French Gor-

mander of the British Oceanographical the Quest. His publications include interest in their pastimes.

When the ernment would not be responsible. The The Heart of the Antarctio" and " The Prince rode around the crowds Diary of a Troopship."]

at bill consists of only one article, Secunderabad in review smiling back at COMING GENOA

their greetings, he stirred all the senti ments of loyalty to their depths. We-in CONFERENCE.

the Deccan now throughly realise how positors 50 per cent. in cash and the true is all we have heard about the balance in shares in the roofgunited bank. magnetie charm. of the Prince's person-

-Huvar ality."

BANQUE "DOSSIER,

The Morning Post finds another obstacle

of the attacks. The Administration is aware of the injustice of this campaign, but certain Republican Senators ask if the President has not blundered and whe ther they ought not to abandon him in self-preservation, while the Democrats are sitting on the force.

gramme includes the problem of how best to deal with the various resolutions and declarations regarding China and the drafting of the Shantung Treaty. Both of the foregoing are, on to-day's agenda while the Twenty-one Demands are ex pected to come up in a few days.

ing the war-Havas.

EARLIER CABLES. GREAT SNOWSTORM IN AMERICA. CINEMA DISASTER IN WASHINGTON.`

WASHINGTON, January 29th.

opportunity of replying to the charges which they described as marës' nests.

A conference will meet on January 28th to hear the result of the proposals which the Industrial Federation many submit to the Chamber of Mines.

PARTORIA, January 29th. General Smats has sent a letter to the

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RUSSIA APPOINTS FIFTEEN

DELEGATES.

LONDON, January 29th,

A message from Moscow states that the|

of the heaviest snowstorms in its history. employers and workers offering Govern-executive committee of the Republic has

The capital was to-day blanketed in one Railways were suspended and Pennsylmant mediation in the strike nad declar motor-cars.

LATER. The snowstorm has paralysed official business. The Senate and House of Re Presentatives adjourned owing to a fear that members would be unable to return home. A meeting of the two committees for today, was postponed. ".. of the Disarmament Conference scheduled

LATER.

GERMANY PAYS SECOND REPARATIONS INSTALMENT

turned pensioners, ex-soldiers, polies, and The sons at the inspection of war re

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PARIS, January 21th. Boxer indemnity is enough to pay de According to the newspaper Genure the

PARIS, January 29th.

M. Poincare, the Premier, has informed

tho

The present all in the Conference pro- per, is likely to be succeeded by interest ing proceedings zince the week's pro-vania Avenue was littered with wrocked ing that the issue does not concern. the appointed £fteen nominees proposed by the heirs of men killed in battlo, held at B. Leygues. President of the Formigu colour bar which is the established basis the commissars as plenipotentiary dele Chadderghat Residener on Friday after Affairs, that the Committee of the Cham- of the statutory regulations and has gates to the Genoa Conference. never been threatened.

Thoy in noon well demonstrated the truth of these bor of Deputies saw no reason why the.. olade Lenin as chairman, Tchiteberin, words. As a parade it was all very much complete dossier with regard to representing the Far Eastern Republic course of the tour. But as a manifestaba communicated to the Committee, but Krassin, Litvinoff, and Joffe, also Janson like a score of much scenes during the Banque Industrielle de Chine should not Tehitcherin, in a speech "said that the tion of popular enthusiasm the apoctacle pointed out that though he was prepared Genoa Conference opened a new epoch in was really remarkable. Along the routes to submit the whole of the administra history. Their object at the conference the police pressed back the pent uption documents he was abt entitled to would be to prevent the economic sub-mases.

Not only were the house tops Sommunicate the contents of judicial jugation of Bussia.

packed, but crowds assembled on the hills documents: The Government did up to a mile away to get a glimpse of oppose renewal of the custom of publish- the Prince. In fast, Hyderabad has furing proceedings in secret committee which nished the most striking commentary upon had been suspended since July, subject to Mr. Lloyd George's telegram of con- the consent of the allies to publication of gratulations on the success of the Prince's any diplomatic correspondence interesting

jured by the collapse, under two feet of At least 17 were killed and scores in snow last night, of the roof of the Knickerbocker Cinema Theatro,one of the

The Times declares that the course of discussion can bo predicted with cer tainty. Japan will withdraw five of the most obnoxous demands and will refuseable quarter. to discuss the extension of the Liaoturg lonse to nine-nine years.

EARLIER CABLES.

THIRTY-ONE MILLION MARKS

· DEPOSITED.

MIASURES FOR INCREASING REVENUE -

BERLIN, January 27th.

do

THE EGYPTIAN PROBLEM. "POSSIBLE TERMINATION OF

BRITISH PROTECTORATE.

LONDON, January 29th. The Foreign Office announces that Lord

finest in the city, situated in a fashion-financial reforms and guarantees

A forast of the German plan for the not expected to survive. It is believed Cannos is published in the Tageblat. The Many of the injured aremanded by the Reparations Committee at that several persons are still in the ruins plan shows that Germany contemplates The injured include Signer Assereto, measures to balance the budget, notably. Third Secretary of the Italian Embassy, increased postal and railway rate and ex- and it is feared that some prominent per-plains that expenditure for reparations, SHANTUNG AND SIBERIAN QUESTIONS NEARLY officials reade in the district. No officials will be met by a compulsory loan of one Allenby has boca summoned to England sonages are victima, as many Government which alone remain uncovered for 1022, of the British Embassy were present in million gold marks. the theatre.

The Government aboadons the right of supervision over the Reichstag.

Programme of payments does not men

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A NEW CONFERENCE IN THREE

weck.

MONTES.

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LATER.

in the Knickerbocker Cinema disaster.

THE GERMAN BUDGET.

to advise the Government with regard to the situation in Egypt. The Government is ready to invite Parliament to terminate

in

mission."

PICTURESQUE NATIVE TROOPS.

LONDON, January 29th." The Prince of Wales received an excellent reception at Hyderabad. All the bazars

them.

not

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BRIGHTER TRADE OUTLOOK. BRITISH NATIONAL FINANCES IMPROVING.

At least 60 were killed and 100 injured.

tion a definite sum, which it is stated, the Protectorate and recognise Egypt as a along the royal route were open and pack- LONDON, January 27th. The accident occurred during the screen- A special message states that the dowing of a film based on the play "Get problem has been settled.

is not possible until the entire réparation tedious Shantung controversy promises to without warning, thunderously crashed in Rich-Quick Wallingford." The roof,

sovereign state subject to guarantees anded with sightsocrs, including 15,000 school

LUNDOS, January 27th. reach an early conclusion. The delegates and carried a strongly constructed balcony

PARIB, January 27th. that the Imperial communications are

children. The streeta were richly decorat

Sir Harry Goschen, Chairman of London Germany has notified the Reparation assured, Britain to retain power to proed. They were spanned with triumphal Clearing Banke, presiding, at a "meeting anticipate an early open session, with an to the ground. The rush of compressed Commission that she has deposited the exodus homeward at the end of next air, created by the falling muss, buried second amount of M. 31,000,000 (gold) test foreigners in Egypt and Egypt to be arches and lined with a wonderful variety of the National Provincial and Union

people near the entrance into the street. temporarily payable under the Cannes safeguarded against foreign aggression. of native troops mostly clad in uniforms Bank of England said the cutlook was.

WASHINGTON, January 30th,

agreement Following yesterday's Sino-Japanese

Five hundred persons were present in

Cairo, January 99th.

of barbaric aplicadour.

certainly brighter." A boom in trado was discussion it was announced that an the theatre and few escaped uninjured.

The police have raided native houses RUSSIAN FAMINÉ BORRORS: year. He referred with satisfaction" to not expected and not wished for this agreement upon all collateral questions in Saws and gas torches were procured and

BERLIN January 28th. The Imperial budget for the year end-

and seized bombe and pistols. They Shantung had been reached, except in h.les were punched in the fallen roof ating March, 1923, balances at 238 milliards made, arrests including six students The regard to control of the railway, which intervals, through which the dead and of marks, including 137 for carrying out newspapers state that the police thus was in abeyance pending President Hard-injured were laboriously removed. Pri- the terms of the Peace Treaty. ing's mediation on Wednesday.

vate dwellings were turned into hospitals

thwarted a plot to kill Sarwat Pasha, The Sino-Japanese drafting commitico ary. The rescuera worked all night long.

and a church was improvised a

ex-Minister, with meets on Saturday to prepare the final extracting the groaning injured people,

whom the British agreement, omitting the to water which many of whom had lost limbs and some

authorities had been negotiating with latter is not then cleared up, nothing remains to bring the Conference

view to his acceptance of the Premiership to a formal close but the appointment of a Commission to inquire into electrical

TROUBLE IN CALCUTTA. nommunications in. China and ultimately

POLICE CHARGE MOB. to confer with the Chinese Government regarding the policy governing their fu ture development.

CALOUTTA, January 29th.. The police, accompanied with Gurkhas

mortu- GERMAN REPLY TO THE CANNES

DEMAND'S.

BERLIN January 28th.

tien. There were pathetic scenes in the mands is been presented to the Repara whom could only be rescued by amputa-" The German reply to the Cannes de streets, relatives waiting all night long tions Commission. It contain the pro-

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in the bitter cold and scanning the faces grammo of reform, the budget and note, of those rescued. Those disappointed circulation; it deals with guarantees and subsequently filed disconsolately to the the programme of payments in cash and church to examine the long rows of dead. kind in 1922. It points out that pro-

THE AUSTRIAN CRISIS.

posals are before the Reichstag to raise the coal-tax from 20 to 40 par coat, to armed with rifles, were sent to break up SCHOBER CABINET RESUMES

increase the consumption, property and a crowded public meeting of non-co-op other taxes, and also customs dues, which OFFICE..

VIENNA, January 27th. The political crisis has been solved by the Schober Cabinet resuming office with some shuffling of portfolios.

WHOLE HOUSEHOLDS PERISHING the fact that manufacturers and whole

aalers had to "The famine expert, Sir Benjamin realised their losses. Retail prices had a great extent faced and Robertson wro went to Russia on behalf of been reduced to a reasonable level. The British Famine Relief Organisations to national finances were improving and the enquire into methods of relief distriba adverse trado balance was £276,000,000 tion, reports by telegraph from Buzuluk against £375,000,000 in 1920. This reduc that he found conditions in the Saratoy tion had been achieved in spite of the and Stara provinces graver than he had dislocation caused by the coal strike and boen led to believe. Personal inspection seemed to dispose of the suggested policy of the villages showed that practically no of devaluation whereby the gold contenta food was left and relief was hopelessly value of the sovereign would be perman- inadequate.. Whole households, especially ently reduced. adults, were literally dying from starva

will be levied on a real gold basis. It rators who refused to budge. The police tion. promises energetis measures against the were attacked and were obliged to rumoval of capital abroad for the evasion

Sir Benjamin Robertson testifies to the

£10,000 MORE "OFFERED.

The

It is noteworthy in this respect, that the Far Eastern drafting sub-committee has decided that the Chinese resolution off December 7th providing for the with drawal of foreign wireless interests, and the use domestically of controlled plants

A SHIPPING. DEAL. will stand as the Conference's only

STEAMERS BUILT AT HONGKONG of taxation, and it declares that railway charge the mob with lathes through a devoted work of the Save the Children formal declaration on the subjoot.

parenger fares have been increased aino barrage of brickbats. Many were injured Fund at Saratov and Buzulak. This decision blocks the efforts of those

AND SHANGHAI INVOLVED. dmiring the resolution to be re-written,

toenfeld, goods rates thirty-fold and postal on both sides. The re-election of the Scbober Cabinet and telegraphic rates twenty-one-fold as

Some five, hundred ar-work was being carried out in a practical The Times Washington correspondant is due to a combination of the Christian compared with pre-war rates.

and systematic manner, the food exclu-

LONDON, January 27th. expresses the opinion that the Siberisa Socialists and

The food esta were made, the Pensan Üʻ Party subsidies, in 1022 will amount to only one

sively reaching those for whom it was question is now out of the way, notwith against the Social Democrats and Pan- miliard paper marks compared with INDIA'S REPRESSIVE LAWS. systematic feeding of as many as possible Greek named Ambaticlos was the subject A shipping deal, involving £2,500,000, intended. Sir Benjamin recommends between the Shipping Controller and a standing the American Government's Germans, following a heated debate if twenty-two aad-a-half heretofore, aneasiness at the continued occupation of the Assembly on the ratification of the

adults, numbering over a million in these of a motion in the Admiralty Court yes NEARLY ALL BEING REPEALED.# two areas, until the harvest. Relief at trategic centres, involving indefinite Trenty mentioned in the message of Dec. proposed cash payments and the increas The Note requests the reduction of the control of Vladivostock and other in-21st.

ing, if necessary, of payments in Eind. "portant" points. Nevertheless, the corres

DELHI, January 29th

present is largely confined to children torday. M. Ambatielos,, in July, 1910, It was the Pan-Germans fear that the It declares Germany's readiness to colla- pondent is of opinion that nothing fur treaty would lead to a foderation of the borate by all the means in her power in Montgomery, the Home Secretary, declar-

Speaking in the Council of Stato, Mr. CANCER CURE PRIZE.

agreed to purchase from the Shipping ther will be done by America except to Danube States under the leadership of the restoration of devastated regions Gered that the Government, had introduced

Controller, at a price named, seven ships reiterate the hope that Japan will carry Czechs, thus hampering eventual Austro- many is prepared to conclude agreements out her intention to retire within the German union, that caused the Cabinet regarding deliveries in kind with the bills repealing nearly all the repressive

which were being built at Hongkong and other allica besides Franco.

Shanghai. The Controller took a mort- The Note aid restrictive laws excepting the depor THE NEW CONFERENCE. ..

(The previous cable stated:-An im says that the restoration of the world's tation laws which Mr. Montagu, Secre- Sir William Vano, Governing Director of of the purchase money and in December portant change in European politica has confidence in Germany's credit is a pretary for India, was considering.

Supplementing Lord Atholatan's offer gaga aa security in respect of a portion WASHINGTON, January 28th. been effected by an agreement concluded requisite for a comprehensive discharge of The Conference has decided that the between Austria and Czecho-Slovakia at the reparations payments and hopes that

the Veno Drug Co., Ltd, Mammfacturing last be obtained, in a default action, th five Powers will appoint two delegates Pragun on the 10th inst, marking the way to restore Germany's internal and

Chemists has offered £10,000 for the die order for the possession of thre; of the sach within three months to sit thereafter entry of Austria into the Little Entente.external credit will be found, and a big

covery of an effective non-surgical cancer steamers. M. Ambaticios now asked that as a new conference to discuss methods to The terms of the treaty read: At a reparations loan made possible by an in-

care. The conditions are similar to those the order should be set aside. He alleged secure, world-wide adheretice to the new National Council at Vienna to-day both ternational corporation.

made by Lord Atholstaa. S warfar regulations and to determine States mntually pledged themselves to whether the existing international law execute the St. Germain and Trisson Mark to the impossibility of discharging The Noto attributes the fall of the over the agencies of war which have peace treaties, and to support each other tho réparations, to a lack of raw mate-

LONDON, January, 27th, developed since The Hague Convention of politically and diplomatically with a view rials, and a decreas of agricultural pro- declared between Mexico and Guatemala. A state of war is reported to have been 1907, also to consider the necessary to maintaining the pence of Europe and ductivity. It declares that as compared changes to bring the regulations up to preventing the restoration of the old with 1013 the exports have fallen from

MEXICO CITY, January 28th. date.

[regime."

The report that Mexico and Guatemala ten millard gold marks to four milliard. I have begun hostilities is unfounded.

maar future.

crisis.

MEXICO AND GUATEMALA NOT WAR BUMOUR BASELESS.

FIGHTING.

LONDON, January 27th.

Lord Athelstan, founder of the and pleaded that the Controller had fo that he had already paid over £1,500,000 Montreal Evening Star, has offered stained possession of two steamers. There prize of $100,000 to the graduate or fore, on a balance, the Crown was in his student of any poognised university. treatment for the cure of cancer. within five years discovers medicinal

who dobl The It was ordered, by content" that the of Physicinas, London, and it was no of the action docision was left with the Royal College motion should be adjourned till the trial nounced the offer might be ronewed.]||

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