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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES.

{THROUGH REUTLE'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH ENGINEERING

DISPUTE.

SENSATIONAL TRADE UNION

SPLIT.

LONDON, April 4th. A Hensational Trade Union split has ecurred in the engineering dispute men-- oned on the 11th uit. The Amalgamated Eagineering Union, which

THE HONGKONG BAILY PRIBS, THURSDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1922.

THE RUBBER INDUSTRY. LONDON, April 4th. The Chairman of the Council of the Rubber Growers Association has stated that the British Colonial authorities are known to favour legislative action to safeguard the rubber industry and there is strong ground for believing that the British authorities concerned would wel come a conference with the Dutch on the subject in London.

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NEGOTIATIONS STILL,

PROCEEDING.

LONDON, April 8th.

In the House of Commons when reply beening to a question in regard to the report Renaciously opposing the employers claim of the Colonial Office Rubber Committee

has

to exercise managerial rights in establish- and the argotiations with the Dutch wants is now isolated in consequence of Indian Government, Mr. Churchill said forty-seven other unions equally concerned deciding to again negotiate on an agreed basis Sixty housand Amalgamated ec- giacers have been hitherto locked out, while over half-a-million other unionists asilarly liable to Eo locked out of the 8th inst, but it is anticipated NOTABLE WORKER FOR CHILDREN

that the notices will be suspended pond- ing the resumed discussions.

The breakaway from the Amalgamated Union followed a day-long discussion

with the Premier who unsuccessfully endeavoured to persuade Amalgamated Union to participate in a general agree

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The root of the dispute appears to be the abas of a recognised shop steward rule by men of syndicalist tendency lead ing the amalgamated unionists to declare their intention to fight to the bitter end.

BRITISH LOANS TO FRANCE, INTEREST TO BECOME PAYABLE SHORTLY.

PAR18, April 4th. Great Britain has informed France that the Franco-British convention shortly expiring, whereunder Franse paya." interest on loans for three years will not be renewed.

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It is pointed out that France will this year be liable for interest on her National Deht of Twenty-Five Milliard Francs

"British Convention.

he was not in a position to make a stalo- ment at present as negotiations were still proceeding. He was unable to hold out out prospects of an early agreement.

DEATH OF SIR JOHN KIRK

OF THE POOR.

LoxDow, April 5th. Sir John Kirk, of the Ragged School Union, has died

[Bir John Kirk was granted a knight. hood in 1907, in recognition of his life work in connection with the Ragged School Union. He was 75 years of age.]

OBITUARY,

BERLIN, April 4th

The death is nnnounced of M. Sver beleff, the last Tsarist Ambassador. to Berlin.

BABLIEB CABLES.

EAST INDIAN RAILWAY DISASTER.

י

DUE TO SABOTAGE.

the

WHAT RUSSIA WILL DEMAND FAR EASTERN CABLE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.

AT GENOA. EXPECTED CLAIM FOR RETURN OF SHIPPING.

NEWS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S Lonnor:]

** TOES ** TRIBUTE TO CHINA.

LONDON, April 5th.

The Times discusses British inter-

est in the Far East in a tone strik ugly sympathetic to China and some what critical of Japan's apparent atti- tude towards China,

BERLIN. April 4th. According to a seemingly inspired com. munique, the Russian demands at Gonoa will be for freedom of shipping every where, recognition of Soviet flag, free entry of Russian ships into all porta restoration of the Bussima steamera

It emphasises the necessity of Great abroad (being about 20 per cent. of

Britain cloody watching that the Wash Russia's prowar mercantile feet), comington Conference decisions are not ren- pensation in kind for Russian steamers

lost while in the service of foreign States, afid Russian participation in any control commission over the Dardanelles

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH

dered nugatory,

a

While fully recognising Japan's achieve

ments sad peculiar difficulties, the paper

draws attention to Japanese policy regard ing China, which nation, owing to internal APPROVED BY RUSSIA.

troubles, is at present rendered large BERLIN, April 4th.

ly defenceless in regard to the outside M. Chicherin, the Sovies Foreign Com world. A tribute is paid to China's missary, who is going to Genos, inter extraordinary tenacity and cohesion, e700 viewed by the Fossische, Zeitung, express-in this time of acute political distress. ed pleasure at Mr. Lloyd George's state- ment in the House of Commons on Monday. The most important task of the conference will be the reduction of land

He eulogised armies. Premier's idens regarding a peace and his reconstruction programme. FRENCH POLICY,

PARIS, April 4th. In the Chamber of Deputies, Poincare, outlined the French policy to be The Chamber manifested approval by an over-

followed at the 'Genoa 'conference,

whelming majority.

"ABSOLUTE UNMIXED BENEFIT TO

MANKIND."

DUE TO AMERICA'S INITIATIVE AND BRITAIN'S ACQUIESCENCE.

Mr. Balfour and other British delegates to the Washington Conference were the

honoured guests of the Pilgrims at dinner

at the Hotel Victoria, London, on Feb. 20th They were welcomed with great enthusiasm by a large company distia guished in diplomacy and in the arts of poeg and war. To Mr. Balfour, as bead of the British delegation, the admiring congratulatione and warm gratitude the Pilgrima for the success of the British

mission were chiefly addressed.

to the toast of the evening, said that but The American Ambassador, in speaking

for the initiative of America -the Confer for the acquiescence of Great Britain it ence would not have been called; but would not have been held. He proceeded: Much has been said from time to time. of the sacrifices made by the various relative importance. Be it known, at the Powers, with respect aspecially to their

outart, that for the generosity thus, im plied the United States reserves no credit whatever. She made sacrifice-none She scrapped many costly warships, abe abs aniffed at the false pride of becoming abandoned vast projects of fortification. the firat naval Power, the unbeding what was left of her great army; but all these doings involved no sacrifice; they constituted a boon, they reduced taxes, they released present millions and fatura billions of dollars for development of lands and industries, they transferred houses to shops and factories for the brawn and skill from floating slaughter building of homes and churches and produced only gain to ourselves and to schools; so far from entailing loss, they the world.

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TURKISH LOSSES IN THE GREAT WAR.

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HALF A MILLION KILLED.“

The Turkish Army

Medical Ser vice recently issued a revised state ment of the Ottoman military and naval' losses during the Great War. Tha easualty list, though extremely high, is undoubtedly under-stated, since irregulars (Kurd and Arab units employed on the Eastern fronts) and men who died of wounds and sickness, after being invalided, out of the Army are not included :---

The following are the official figures:-

Hilled or dead from wounds

and sickness

001,091 Admitted to hospital for wounds

or sickness..... Discharged as recovered,187,941 Invalided as unit for further

Mervice a

891,364

of deaths on the various fronts:-

The following are the official estimates

Caucasus Front Dardanelles

Palestino (apparently exclud

ing losses in North Arabia. and in Syria, north of Damascus, during Lord Allcaby's puranit) Mesopotamia (south of Bagh-

dad).

3,059,205

938,578 101,147

80,784

44,791

Symrna. Adalia, etc. (mainly deaths from fever among Labour troops, etc.) Ggliciagwwད་དིའི ས ཁཱ དྷརྨ ཐ ཝཧཝ ན

9.211

4,978

4,186

Hedjaz (Mecca and Medina),

Asair, and Yomon Macedonia .........

2,52T

878

Various Fronts

74,872

Rumania and Dobradja

The heavinces of the casualties on the

The Times expresses confidence in the Chinese people as a force superior to such feverish ambitions an are indicated in the Japanese attempts to obtain a position of the British overweening importance, thereby retard general ing the solution of the Chinese crisis and preventing the development of China's spiritual and material resources for the benent of all. It regrets the disquieting tendency of the latest Japanese naval

To my mind the greatest achieve. Caucams front was due to the fact that decisions and declares that news of the

mont of the Washington Confer the hardest fighting there, notably the complete execution of the Shantung once is not an achievement at all. sanguinary. Sarikamish campaign and the It is a revelation, 靄 revelation of battles round Erzerum, took place in mid- Agroment will have a reassuring effect.

Great Britain to America and of Americs winter at a height of from 4,000ft, to It concludes by saying: "With our to Great Britain. All of us here have 8,000ft. above sea level. Under auch cir great British interests in Chins and our acclaimed for years what we rejoiced to cumstances most wounded men left on the Speaking to a Press Association repre-

believe was the natural affinity and in-ground for one night died of cold o antative, the "Finance Minister, Mypathy for the best in Japan, wo could creasing fraternity of our two peoples were crippled from frostbite.

I rojoice mightily in the belief | The great majority of those who fell that the invisible but impelling forces of at the Dardanelles-where the Turkish Delasteyris, stated that France's military desire nothing better than that Great

Britain and Japan should closely co- the air which have so long sustained un losses far superior to those of the Allies, expenditures Lad £100,000,000 at par within the last two operate in a friendly and frank agree-Britons and Americans have at last been wing mainly to the greater killing power supplemented and strengthened immeasur- of the British, Australian and New years, which was the best refutation of/ment in the great problems which the ably by the discovery of a completo Zealand soldier, and. of the French lang mutuality of intercet, of self-interest if service troops were killed in action. mischievous allegations about France's in- rapid changes in China sto creating"

you like, upon the face of the earth. We Sickness was responsible for many deaths stand now upon solid ground. To each in Mesopotamia and Palestine.-imes. blessed country, the other" has been re- vealed in all its intelligence, its fairness, End its honour, and the sight in the even The Conference, so far as I am able to of God and man is good

judge, has been of absolute - unmixed Not liberty alone, not union alone, benefit to mankind." (Cheers.) In almost but Liberty and union, one and inse- all transactions in this unhappy world parable," was the most striking dictum you fad that the good you have gained rica's greatest need. And such, in fairly you have to endure. I am not aware of of America's greatest Senator, of Ame is largely balanced by the evils which accurate parallel, is the chief require anything which must be put on the cont mant of our two working, trading coun side of the account in connection with not stern reality only, but the two are not one or two things that I should

been reduced by

perialistic tendencies-Harda.

DUTCH INDIES TARIFF.

CALCUTTA, April 4th. A mail train from Calcutta to Punjab was derailed near Madhupur on the East Indian Railway. The engine and six carriages were overturned and ABOLITION OF SPECIAL EXPORT smashed to pieces at the bottom of the 50ft. embankment. The remaining thrpe carriages were derailed.

The enginemen, a postal employes, and

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LATER.

DUTIES ON OIL.

Tas HAGUE, April 4th

U.S. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.

SHIPPING BOARD CHAIRMAN

URGES SUPPORT.

WASHINGTON, April 5th. The Chairman of the United States debate on "the "East Indias Tarif Shipping Board, giving evidence before

To the Chamber, during the course of

year.

the Bill.

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at the present rate of exchange conse- two Indian passengers are known to have Amendment Bill, the Colonial Minister the congressional committee which is tries to-day. Not pleasing sentiment this Conference. I do not say that there quent on the non-renewal of the Franco been killed, while several European and announced that the special tax on mineral enquiring into the administration of the combined, are requisite to that full under-ike to have seen accomplished which have "

mathy Incar passengers were seriously oils would be abolished at the end of the Ship Subsidy Bill, declared that if the standing which we have so long been seek not been accomplished y but I say with ing, and which now seems to have been absolute confidence that the accomplish A motion demanding immediat/United States was to be powerful on the attanied, through demonstration of the ment has been immense, and, so far as I The Echo de Paris couples the matter injured. with the United States demanding inter-

abolition was carried by 18 votes to 10, Bea is behoved both parties to support simple fact that whatever benefits one am aware, none of the things which we English-speaking people must inevitably have done can give the least suggestion of The derailment at Madhapur was due Finally, the Bill, which provided for an est on the British loans, nad says the

The train contained 180 French Government will have to take to sabotage.

increase in export duties of 25 per cent., sick of the whole position, before reply. passengers, mostly Indians.

was rejected by 19 votes to 15. ing to the British note, Tho question of MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AT the inter-Allied debts must be tackled comprehensively.

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HOME.

LABOUR. DEFEATED BY ANTI

WASTE COMBINATION.

LONDON, April 4th.

BANKRUPTCY PETITION "AGAINST OIL TRANSPORT CORPORATION.

be helpful to the other. That is the carrying with them evil seeds of futare leeson, the revelation, of Washington.

misfortune for mankind. (Cheers.) It was not your tact, Sir, that won your

All nine Powers may surely look triumph; it was your truth. Your ordeal, back upon the work of those 16 weeks I ventured to predict upon the eve of your with unmized satisfaction. Everyone of NEW YORK, April 5th.

departure, would be, not of battle, but of them has gained by our labours. None of faith. Such it proved to be You kept their representatives go back to their A bankruptcy petition has been filed the Laith. So did we. You will continue native land without being able to claim against the Swift-eure Oil Transport to keep the faith. So shall we. Long life, that they have furthered the interests of

and great happiness to Mr. Balfour! Co., Inc. It alleges that the corporation Mr. Balfour, who was accorded musical the world and that, in farthering the inter- recently transferred to the Emergency bonours, said; inter alia:

esta of the world, they have farthered the It was historically accurate to say that, interests" of their own people. In all the dozen tank- of all the delegations, the one which play. great area of the Far East of the Pacific, of od the greatest part in the Conference affairs, and in all other lands which are

was the delegation of the United States

TRAITOR SENTENCED. THE BETRAYAL OF NURSE CAVELL

ROMAN CATHOLICS "IN

Mons, April 4th: ULSTER PARLIAMENT.

The Belgian, Armand Jeaanes, after BIR JAMES CRAIG'S HOPES. " Labour was heavily defeated at the ton days' trial on a charge of wholesale Flent Corporation half a A somewhat more hopeful feeling re-elections for Boards of Guardians and espionage under the Germans, including steamers

to

Becare 4 mortgage

in all nations interested in maritima

garding the prospect of Irish pence pre- Districts Councils in the previnces by complicity in the betrayal of Nurse $13,000,000. The total indebtedness alleg of America. Cheers.). From the moment connected with them, the findings of tha

vails. In the North Irish House Conservatives and Liberals combining as Cavell, was sentenced to death. of Commons, Bir James Craig mentioned anti-wasters. In many

REJECTED.

Cases not a THE SHIPPING DISPUTE, that certala Catholics in Belfast had single Labour candidate was returned,

EMPLOYERS' AMENDED OFFER expressed a wish to help the "authorities though the party contested all seats. This to restore order. He hoped that before was most noteworthy in the Notts coal- the end of the year Catholics would be field, at Southampton, and at Newbiggin, Sitting in the Ulster Parliament, but he would not be the man to lead Ulster into

LONDON, April 4th. The ballot of the shipyard workers the mining contre of Northumberland. A similar combination of Progressives, In-resulted in 23,000 voting in favour of dependents, and Municipal Reformers acceptance of the masters' amended offer Meetings of business men in Helfast and against Labour has been effected for the of Southern Unionista in Dublin approv-election of twenty-nine Boards of Guard-

Free State;

ved the agreement between Northern and ians for London tomorrow... Fouthern Governments,

GREAT EXPLOSION IN MOROCCO.

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ARTILLERY PARK DESTROYED.

PARIS, April 4th

and '87,000 against.

PHILIPPINES BORROWING, SANCTION TO FURTHER LOAN.

WASHINGTON, April 4th.

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE IN CONFERENCE..

The Insular Affairs Committee of the EFFECT OF INDUSTRIAL STRIFE. House of Representatives has reported a

LONDON, April 4th."

Bill allowing the Philippines to increase Presiding at the annual conference of the size of the debt from $30,000,000 to A message from Rabat, Morocco, re- the Association of British Chambers of $75,000,000.. "ports that a violent explosion destroyed Commerce in London, Bir Shirley Bonn, the artillery park at Kenitra. Flames M. P., described the German industrial continue to sprong to the neighbouring boom as a sham. He said that as the re- barracks. The inhabitants have Bod.

sult of industrial strife a genuine British | THE LATE MR. BANDMAN'S trade revival bad been postponed many

ESTATE,

months, perhaps years. Ho favoured trade with Russia if she gave a guarantee that she would honour her debts.

LONDON, April 4th. Mr. Maurice Bandman loft estate worth

£33,007.

NEW YORK BANKRUPTCY.

HUGH INDEBTEDNESS.

NEW YORK, April 5th,

U.S. MINISTER AT THE HAGUE.

Tae Hague, April 4th, Queen Wilhelmina gave audience to A bankruptcy petition has been filed Mr. Phillips, the American Minister, who against the Swiftsure Oil Transport Co. is leaving for Washington, where he will whose total indebtednem in alleged to be take up the appointment of Under-Secre-

tary of State.

$19,500,000

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GREAT LAKES CANAL. PROPOSED US TREATY WITH BRITAIN,

WASHINGTON, April 4th.

It is stated that a treaty with Britain being considered under which the United States and Canada will be empowered to begin the construction of the proposed St. Lawrence waterway.

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GERMAN FINANCE. NEW TAXATION AND COMPULSORY LOAN.

BERLIN, April, stb. The Reichstag has passed the Govern ment's new taxation mestares, including those for raising & compulsory loan.

The Nationalists and extreme Radicals opposed.

ed is 19 million dollars.

THE BELFAST DISTURBANCES

HEAVY CASUALTY LIST.

LONDON, April 4th. In the House of Commons, in reply to questions, Mr. Churchili said that in the course of the disturbances in Belfast between February 2nd, and March 20th, 32 Protestants were killed and 80 wound ed, while 51 Catholics were killed and 116 wounded. One military officer and six polies, three of whom were Catholica,

on

ANGLO-AMERICAN BONDS.

in which we came into personal contact Conference are bestowing unmixed advan with them, we were able to exchange our

tage the peoples of the world." (Cheers.) ideas in a manner which is only possible with personal and direct intercourse--not through the wretched machinery of the The nine Powers which took part in post and the telegraph-(laughter)-not by these great transactions are blessed in dispatches, not by paper arguments, but its results, but of all those Powers man and soul to soul. As soon as that two great branches of the English-speak by mutual human intercourse of man to the most blessed are, I think, the was done it became perfectly clear that we ing people. Their representatives, and wanted to get the same thing, that we the people whom they represent, may truly were determined to get the same thing, my that they have gained, not merely all that we trusted cach other, und wo the advantages common to their colleagues which did not bear examination in the associated, and which spread from them know that neither of us had a motive of the other nations with whom they were Fight of day.

That was absolutely clear to all the their labours they do so with a serie to the whole world, but that in finishing people concerned, and it gave a strength between the two peoples of a new bond to those two delegations which, without of affection and regard-I hope I am not suggesting that others did not play a sing too strong words-baving arisen. great part in the result, made them, as The best thinkers on both sides of the I think, the governing influence of the Atlantic, conscious of a common origin, whole of these great transactions. I am proud of a common literature, enjoying sure that all my colleagues will agree common laws, living under similar coadi with me that the relations between the tions of liberty and freedom, have not British and the American delegation were always felt those sentimenty, of mutual from the beginning of a kind involving trust, esteem, and regard which I think such mutual confidence that cynical ob now animates them. A moeting has been planned by the servers ware sometimes tempted to think

If the representative of the United that there was some prearranged proce- Ptates who ig with 11A Mexican Finance Minister and representa duro. between us.

to-night- That was not the case if he and I are right in this estimate of tives of the International Bankers Com-in the least.

the results of the Washington Conferenon wittee to discuss the solution of pending

Burely it may count, not merely as one questions in reference to Mexico's external any of my friends, of what Mr. Hughes the beginning of a new epoch, under which I had not the slightest idea, nor had of the most admirable specimens of inter

national discusion, and debate, but as indebtedness.

was going to say on that eventful day at the old clouds, often potty, often hav on which he opened the Conference. I

were killed and a number wounded.

MEXICO'S INDEBTEDNESS. MEETING WITH INTERNATIONAL

BANKERS.~*

NEW YORK, April 4th.

COMPLETE SURPRISE.”

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had seen him the night before, and weing no assignable origin, no rational mean, had the most friendly, fruitful, and val Although, it may be that differences of ing all those clouds will be swept away. THE SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY. able conversation. He told me what

general procedure he proposed to adopt they will arise, between different coun opinion on this or that subject may arise Opening the Highbury Hospital exten the "hort day, and said, after explaining trias, always in future, from this moment

the details, tion, at Birmingham, on February 20th,

I shall then make a state onwards, every man who belongs either to the Minister of Pensions, Mr. Ian Mac-mont," He added, I shall not tell you the British Empire or to the great Be phorsen, said apparently it was true that what I am going to say," and he did not public neznes the seas will feel that he they had to go to the Midlands or Boot tell me. Therefore to me,, as to every has in common, not merely these historie land to find that real generosity of spirit body sise, the great policy, which showed traditions, but the same outlook on the which loved to help a man when down, imagination, courage, and a real percep fature, the same hopes, the same aspira When he saw a company like that, anxious tion of the true root of all the difficulties tions, and the same belief in the honesty of to fulfil their pledges and remember their that revelation came to me as to every method and disinterestedness of purpose, deposit of faith in the men who kept them body also with all the freshaces of a com free, he wished it was the same in other plets surpriso". (Cheers.) parts of the country.

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on which, as, I think, the best hopes of

this much tormented world for the future I depond. (Lond· chevrs.)