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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES, [TEROUGH RESTER'S 'AGENCY.]"

BOXER INDEMNITIES AND EDUCATION.

AR-JOJ PL. BLAND'S OBJECTIONS,

LONDON, July 28th Anrusspečini letter to The Times Me, IQ. ¡P.. Bland, dealing with the pro- posal to apply the Boxer indemnities to the "education of Chinese students in Regland points out that while British education is mational, expenditure on being inetailed on the ground of ceonomy, the Peking Government is spending 105 millions of dollars on Military · purposes: against til millions for Education. He ys surgy it will be time enough to ask to subsidises the education of expect ant"mandarina- when these figürgs are enversed," and the authorities in China Bare satisfactorily provell their ability to handle educational and other grants with

aquatimble integrity.

Mr. Bland declares that there is to wolf-evident justification for the assump

sion that, the grateful goodwill of the Chinese can be secured by giving them educational facilities. All the evidence available in China points the other way Japan' has educated far more Chinese stu. ronts than any other counter, without greatly endearing herself to the Chinese.

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TAUESDAY, JULY 97TH, 1992

AMERICAS INDUSTRIAL

UPHEAVAL.

ALL MEANS TOWARDS SETTLE- MENT FAIL.

LONDON, July 5th, Following the American Government's exhaustion of all meats towards the settler ment of the strike, the Interstate Com merce Commission proclaimed the exist ence of a National emergency.

INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF

THE “EGYPT.”

CAPTAIN COLLIER'S EVIDENCE.,

Losnos, July 25th.

At the Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the P. & O. liner Bøypi, Captain Collier gave evidence that prior to the patting off of the boats he saw officers on the port boat-deck getting firemen and trimmers out of the boats. Hr did not ne whether there were any Indians and he did not notice any revolver shooting or knifing. When witness was drigged into a lifeboat he took command. H Special measures for ratiocing and the

was given à revolver by Captain Karr, prevention of profiteering are being which he was told had been used to fire enforced within forty-eight hours, possover the heads of the crew to compel them

to make way for the ladies. bly followed by the Federal authorities assuming control of the railways.

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IRREGULARS ATTEMPT TO

RESCUE PRISONERS.. TRAIN ATTACKED IN IRELAND.

Loxpox, July 28th.

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A train conveying sixty prisoners from Wexford "to Dublin was Killarin by Irregulars. Passengers went ambushed at into a panic, lying on the foors. The escort repulsed the assailanta after three quarters of an hour's fighting.. Two of the escort were killed and seven wound- ed

STEEL SHIP CONSTRUCTION.

#LLOYD'S REVISED RULES.

LONDON, July 5th. Replying to a "representative of the

The revised rules for the construction Amalgamated Marine Workers, Captain of steel ships approved by the Com Collier said Lascara were best fitted for mitte of Lloyd's to operate from January work on the London-Bombay route, and 13th, include reduction in material in the there was not much to choose in case of sides of vegeta and increases in the accidents between Lascurs, properly led decks, producing a combination which and whites. The accident to the Fugtomises weight and material.

Even if the crew were

-STRIKERS' FIRM STAND. Attempts are being made to re-open a number of the anthracite mines of Pennsyl-was abnormal. yauia, to which State heavy detachments entirely white, the loss of life would have of infantry, cavalry, and machin-gun- able to a list. preventing access to the been the same, as it was mostly attribut nerd have been despatched to protect non-boats, agionists. If these measures are success- fal, other mines will be opened, but up to the present the strikers are unwaver ing

SIMPLY TERRIFIED,”

Captain Collier explained that theleon fusion whereby the crews of the boats were not at their "proper stationa was due to a desire to get out of the ship before she tarned turtle. Pressed to explain the. want of discipline, Captain' Collier re-

VODKA PROHIBITION

CANCELLED.

Moscow, July 25th.

A decree authorising the sale of vodka, which has been prohibited since the out- break of the war, is being issuer on August 1st, and is anticipated with some misgiving. The anafacture "and sale will be a State monopoly.

MAJOR BLAKE'S FLIGHT. "

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HURT.

·MAY, ON- EXMOOR

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UNITED STATES NAVY. VESSELS THAT WILL REMAIN "IN COMMISSION.

THE CALL OF THE WEST,

North Devon has a double holdt“ upon those who go West for health and holiday,

The naval force which the Waited When "up" sufficient inducement is found to stay there, breathing in the rare air and States will keep in commission according Siling the eyes with the expance and colour to The Army and Nagy Journal of New of Exmoor, or from the top of a cliff that York, will be fixed by an allocation of the falls precipitously from an immense height, 50,000 men and 6,000 apprentices voted gnzing over muiles and miles of boundless blue sew. Wooried valleys and gayals" for the active personnel of the feet. look tempting. bet their sides have a There will be paid off 233 vessels, includ- steepness that gives no safe tootholding 17 destroyers, the peacé comple- off the indistinct path, and one thinkments of which number 21,300 miên. twice of the climb back. Better stay high. Yet, once "down," there is such

The number and classes of vessels which allurement in half-hidden places below in the will remain in commission are as follow:

beart of the forest" world, where clane streams in orer boulder stones and through the ferna and thick foliage, that there is every incentive to linger and none to go up.

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So one is torn, between two desires. Lynton, which is up, and Lynmouth, which is down, solve the problem by having a cable tramway of a furions steep- ness joining them, that takes the passenger over a considerable part of the cliff's. asccut. The wise man, if no longer very young or perhaps very agile, devotes separate days to the heights of the moor and the depths of the glens; and most fortunate is he who possess which makes nothing of the length of circuitous roads and of bills that cannot easily be benten elsewhere. of Countisbury Hill, out of Lynmouth to wards Somerest, the motor sig teils that the steepest gradient is one in

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PRICES AND FREIGHTS ADVANCE,

As a result of the large American coul{plied They were simply terried, not orders being placed in Great Britain, the merely the natives but many Europeans MACHINE CRASHES," BUT NOBODY, and Beggararoost in said to be worse,

He added that the passengers jumped average prices advanced 28. öd a ton overboard from all angles before the ship on coal. Freights have risen is, deci crouching in terror. He himself was on

turned turtle. Everybody seemed to be;

Kansen, July 25th. ". the pit werk.

The aviator, Major Blake, lying to the bridge and wondered how he was going | Lahore, crashed in landing at Sibi, to get away. "

eighty miles south-east of Vuetta, No body was hurt. The under-carriage was used: Major Blake will probably be detained six days.

RAILWAY STRIKE IN CANADA' FORTY THOUSAND MEN INVOLVED

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The Chief Officer, Mr. Cartwright, Said that two days before the collision he gave

the Lasears boat-drill for ten minutes. He did not think the men would have gone to their stations better if there had

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LASCARS USELESS

The number of students who become.

traders after being educated in England or America is almost negligible. He has never know of a case" in which goodwill has been determined by the trader's lucational antecedents. The class of Chinese which is seeking free educational facilities in Fogland and Amerien is the COTTON TRADE DEPRESSIÓN. discipline failed because everything was

MORTREAL July 25th. The Railway Shopmen's Union an-bero more boat-drill at Tilbury. bounces that the ballot on the question of the reduction in wages resulted in favour of a strike. Forty thousand workmen are involved.

si-Europeanized class of sons of officiala and rich merchants, which, aspires to rule. the coalsy, and whose aspirations are regarded by many competent abservers as a very grave source of danger to Chios because the fulfilment of their ambitions means eration of a privileged ruling class entirely out

of sympathy with the Chinese.

Mr. Bland concludes by saying that the odernising of Young China should be doces at home, and the education of the Douatry's future rulers should, as far as passible, be a self-supporting national ndertaking, rather than a carpus rile of

mpetitive foreign propagands. CRITICAL SITUATION IN

ITALY. IMPOSSIBILITY OF FORMING A CABINET...

Roar July 25th

As a result of the obstruction by the Social Democrats, ex-Premier Bonomi

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PROPOSED PURTAILMENT OF OLILT.

Lospos. July 25th." The Manchester Quardian's Oldham correspondent was that owing to the unusual depression in the cutton trade, a few members of the Oklham Master Cotton-Spinners Association are suggest- ing an organised curtailment of produc tion, but the association is not likely to agree, as many firms are in the position to work full time, on account of recent

orders

GERMAN REPUBLIC'S DEFENCE LAW.

BAVARIAN PREMIER'S PROTESTA. TIONS...

BERLIN, July 25th. Premier Lerchenfeld, in a speech in the Bavarian Diet, on the subject of the con- fict with the Reich, said that while shar-

Mr. Cartwright,said that at the time of the collision, when the order to boat stations was giveo, he was unable, to find the rs. He was of opinion that

so sudden. The human element must be taken into, Account. The. Lascurs whom· he saw after they were picked up were: terror-stricken and useless. The whites; were not ferrar-stricken, but were jumpy and nervous. it was the work of the white officers, parter-masters, engineers and stewards that enabled the boats to be put out.

The cœiliry was adjourned. PEACE CONGRESS IN LONDON

DANGERS OF FANATICAL NATIONALISM?

LONDON, Julyath.

watcoming the laternational Peace Con- His Majesty the King went a message

gren, opened at the Mansion House, and attendel by 500 delegates presenting over twenty nations. His Majesty wished the Congress success in its efforts in the cause of universal prace.

IRISH POLITICS."

FOREIGN MINISTER RESIGNS.

LONDON, July 25th." Mr. Gayan Duffy, Free State Foreign Minister has resigner, on seccent of opposition to the Government's policy on grave and urgent issues, although he agrees with the Government's military

policy.

ALTERATIONS IN DUTCH CONSTITUTION. IMPORTANT CHANGES TO BE INTRODUCED.

THE HAGUE, July 5th. At the opening of the States-General, Queen Wilhelmina said that measures to wert the dissolved Chamber's demand for important changes in the Constitution would be introduced without delay.

THE STEWARD'S CUP. TETRAMETER WINS FASILY.

LONDON, July 25th: The Steward's Cup resulted: Tetra meter (10/-), 1: Night Patrol (30/1), 2; Morning Light (10/1), 3: Thirty ran Won by four lengths, a head separating

second and third,

MORE GERMAN RIOTS. STUDENT LYNCHED BY

COMMUNISTS.

The Right Hon. Mr. H. A. L. Figher, President of the Board of Education, said the maintenance of peace, and goodwill throughout the world was the primary aim of British policy. He intimated that the greatest of all present dangers was the spirit of fanatical nationalism which The student who shot the communist at was, a growing mesiace to peace in Asin and probably the most formidable peril with which the future of civilisation was

as abandoned the task of Cabinet making the abhorrence at the murder of Dr.assailed

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An intelligent appreciation of The Kituation is given by the veteran ex- Premier Giolitti. Writing from Vichy, he ways "thank God, I am outside the Parliamentary situation, which presents no possibility of a solution, or of respond.

„FASCISTI ASSUME AGGRESSIVE

KOLE

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GREEK STEAMER. COURT UPHOLDS INSURANCE COMPANY.

Ratheneu, he regretted that politicians at ANOTHER SCUTTLING OF A Berlin had enacted anti-democratic mea aures, tending to class domination and the establishment of a centralized state, ruthlessly ignoring the autonomy rights of Federal States. He declared that Bavaria regarded the creation of a

President,

asan: "cacrotchment

BELIE, July 25th,

Klausental, as mentioned yesterday, was lynched by the crowd, and was taken to hospital dying.

GERMAN TRADE

COMPETITION.

Beyond Countisbury, about Glenthorne, Exmoor extends to the edge of the sea at a height of 1,100ft.; then the cliff falls sheer, From Barnstaple, where in a deeply in dented estuary the River Taw begins to meet the sea, a little milway of 2ft. gange winds and rambles about for more than twenty miles, always upwards, to Lynton station, perched high above the town and high above Lynmouth-assuredly the most elevated railway terminus in England.

COLOURS OF SPRING.

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Vessels.

18 Battleships 1. Cruisers

103 Destroyers (90 per cent.

complements)

Men.

.21.18%

8.03.1

10,306

84 Submarines

9,87

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9 Mine-layers

1.213

15 Patrol vessela

1,0339

Tenders (ait, submarine. and destroyer)

7,300

1916

10

1,978

199

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70%

2,830

27 Mine-sweepers and tugs

2 Hospital ships

10 Cargo and storeships

3 Colhers

· Oilers

2 Ammunition ships.

3 Transports

8 Auxiliaries, miscellaneous. Flag and aviation comple ments

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Total aboat 50.27.4 activities, including training stations, trade schools, hospitals, prisons, radio stations, and miscel laneous...

90,729

Total ashore and afloat 8,000

WRECKING TAK NAVY.

Commenting on the situation. in the course of an article headed "Wrecking the United States Navy," the Scientific American says:-

Great Britain has announced that sho

is cutting down her personnel to 104,000 reduce her enlisted strength to 88,000: the officers and men; Japan proposes to United States Navy, in the endeavour to meet the demand of the country for ex- treme economy has asked, through the Secretary of the Navy, for only 96,000, as the very lowest minimum with which the Navy can be maintained with any approach to eficiency.

On all sides the appeal is made to take for enjoying Exmoor than the apring and holidays early, and there are no better times the earliest summer. The trout fisherman, of course, knows this. The best of his sport in the rapid streams is over with Jane, and he sees the moor when its dark winter cont lightens and the valleys put on the first notes of a bright new green. Then the little noorland trout rise freely, whether it be in Care Water,, or Chalk Water, or "In spite of the moderation on the Badgworthy Water, or Hoccombe Water part of the Navy, the House Naval Com that his fly tempts them. The tumbling mittee endeavoured to cut down the en streams or runlets are known as "waters" listed strength to 67,000 men, and a till they combine to form the more import vigorous and strong "fight was made in aat River Lyan, or Barle; or, may be, they the House of Representatives to turn this are * combés," where the name stands for suicidal proposition into law. We do not glen and stream together. Rain is, of hesitate to any-first, that the 104,000 Course, not uscommon in Exmoor, as ou men allotted for the British Navy is a Dartmoor, and it is well to carry a reasonable amount, justified by lang ex- mackintosh. With that possession in.com- perience; secondly, that the 90,000 cien mon, their charactor is otherwise entirely asked for by our Navy Department re- different The Exmoor valleys, are presents a smaller force than is necessary wonderfully deep and steep. They lie condition of efficiency; thirdly, that to to maintain our fleet at all times in a enfabled in great masses of rocky reduce the number to £7,000 would be, ground that seems to have been piled in effect, to destroy absolutely the up into bills, but there is soil enough in efficiency of the Beet, by causing our at least a large number of the valleys to ships to be greatly under-manned, and the rasset and brown and bare uncovered ment and neglect in the officers and men. manke tillage possible, so that, deep down, thereby producing a sense of discourage- stone of the moor is throaded by a narrow. If the question be asked-Why did line of vivid green. The low roads keep car Navy Department ask for only 90,000 by the stream, banks-they could go nomen, when the British Admiralty, in man- where else and one may continue mile ning a fleet of the same size, determined after mile through a long day without noed upon 104,000 men, we reply that the of rising above the slow but constant rise 96,000 was arrived at by a board of maval of the tumbling waters. At bends and officers, who were asked to determine the turda sitosted villages, like Brendon with itssary to maintain our ships in a condi one" comes apon delightfully absolute minimum of men that was neces detached church placed high on the bill-mark, you, not maximum efficiency.

tion of fair war-time efficiency—' fair,”

and Cheriton, and many another.

All

of the foet."

"The strength of 96,000 men, as re- Lynton and Lynmouth, which stand by the sea and by Exmoor, are developing their quested by Secretary Denby" our con- early season, which they justly complain in

temporary states in conclusion, was no mere guess, but was decided upon in an too short. From July's opening to Septem-honest endeavour to meet the demand ber's end the accommodation they can give for economy up to a point, beyond which The American ex-Ambassador, bir.Gerard severely taxed, and many visitors stay the effectiveness of the Navy would be formerly in Berlin, is reported as saying far into October. The railway companies most seriously imperilled. Hence, we de while on a recent visit to London - ID

on June 1st revive the tourist tickets at not hesitate to pronounce the reccat at LONDON, July 25th the near fatore Britain will have to face reduced rates, by which they expect to attempt to cut our personnel down to $7,000 tract still greater numbers of holiday makers men as being nothing more or less than Another cam of a scuttling of a Greek unprecedented competition from Germany ing to the trac interests of the country." special tribunal to defend the Republic. Court. (A previous case was reported in am afraid that the new United States tarif Western trains to Ilfracombe have refresh: } the case may be, to wreck the Navy. In steamer came before the King's Bench and in a minor degree from America. Ito the West of England. Fast Bouth-a morement, conscious or unconscious A with judges nominated by the Imperial cable of June 24th). Two Greek mer-introduced by the present administra the climb by miniature railway begins. asked for 90,000 men, and this the House ment cars, and stop at Barnstaple, where a spirit of compromise, the President chants and shipowners sued the British tion, coupled with the new shipping law

The A Misa message states that the Bavarian judicial rights. He admitted to recover insurance in respect of the ly the British market in Ameries, and is Bocks Hotel at Lynton, largely rebuilt and Senate should stand out for the 90,000

Onand Foreign Marine Insurance Company will be extremely likely to affect adverse. Auticipating early arrivals, the Valley of has granted. It is not enough. Fascisti occupied the town of Casal

that other Federal States had not sup. Goodwins in December, 1990. Fusterlengo, midway between Milan and

Jollanda, which was abandoned on the the British mapafacturer flies to the South entirely redecorated, has just been reopened men, which the seagoing officers of the

"American market then he is likely to meet

by Sir John Harmood-Banner, MP, and Navy have found to be the absoluts Picenza, which, with other recent activ-ported Bavaria's objections, but protested which was insured for £60,000, was not, I do not see how she can withstand. Here Fond, who have now taken it over

Mr. Justice Rowlatt said that the vessel, in fall force German competition, which his fellow directors of Messrs, Spiers and minumum compatible with the efficiency. sties, seems to confirm the Fascisti threats that the atmosphere of Berlin was poi worth more than a third of the sum, and is my theory: Gold is still the world's Lynton from its high perch overlooks the

cucircle and isolate Milan:

Boned against Bavaria by persons in re fendants, who contended that the ship the United States will purchase about tall cliff anil ragged coast-line unsurpassed

gave judgment, with costs, for the de standard of value. An ounce of gold in sea, and right and left there is a riew of JOURNALIST AND FASCISTI LEADER

had been stuttled by the engineer with fifty hours of average labour of all for its boldness. the privity of the plaintiffs.

descripticas; in Britain it will buy about ninely hours. I am speaking of all clams- es of labour. In France it will buy about rates it will buy about 205 hours. How is 120 hours, but in Germany at present BEATS NOTTS.

the British manufacturer or British work man going to stand this competition? LONDON, July 25th.. And the Germans are working hard At Blackheath, Keat beat Surrey by There is practically no unemployment. They are working for sheer life. They At Nottingham, Yorks beat Notts by have to do so if it is only to counteract five wickets. In their second innings and make up for the effect of the British Notts were dismissed for 74, Robinson blockade during the war. I sometimes taking five wickets for 20 and Roy Kilner wonder whether people, in this country five for 14.

realise the terrible offectiveness of that [The effect of the above two results is blockade." championship.] to give Yorks a. fractional lead in the

TO FIGHT A DUEL The state of feeling in the capital was abowa whom a journalist on the Socialist newspaper Giustizia, challenged the Fascisti leader, Signor Mussolini, to a dari Signor Mussolini accepted the tallengd

ANTI-ANTHRAX DISINFEC-

TION,

ZRITISH GOVERNMENT'S SUCCESS- FUL OPERATIONS.

Lomnon, July 23th.

After

eipt of French pay. He concluded by saying that Bavaria's. rexistance to the Reichstag's measures had not affected her loyalty to the Empire and the Diet,

Trains from Bavaria are crowded with tourists fecing from the possible danger of internal disturbances

EARLIER CABLES.

BAVARIA'S ANTAGONISM.

BERLIN, July 25th.

A serious crisis is threatened by the Bavarian Government's refusal integrally to excoute the Beichstag's now law for the defence of the Republic by omitting certain vital clausen from its decree con- cerning same.

Au official communication states that ars of experience, the Govern anti-anthrax wool disinfecting nt Liverpool is working success The action is regarded as a direct chal- fally. The authorities have decided to lenge to the Central Government News duce the charge three half-perce a papers say that the Bavarian Government Ls entering a most dangerous path, possibly leading to civil war.

gal on all material disinfected, guar auteeing the process as not harmful

COUNTY CRICKET,, KENT BEATS SURREY; YORKSHIRE

ten wickets.

IN THE DOOKE COUNTRY,

The Shanghai Municipal Council has given public notice that any persons profiteering in rice, whether by the with

eornor of North Devon should in spring penalties on conviction, and with con No reason exirts why this delectable holding of stocks or by any other means, are liable to prosecution with severe

and the walking or motoring tourists Close earnestly requested to report any case and early summer be left to the fisherman Recation of their stocks. The public at hand is the Dorns Doone country, ita ef rice, profiteering that may come to its romantic, glens enfolded in the most at-knowledge, tractive of all Exmoor's wonderful scenery. The little town of Oare itself is white and Of Mr. A. G. D.West, a native clean and mostly modern, still keeping its of British Boraco, one of the new manor house, but with few left of the Cambridge Wranglers, & home paper cottages that made it the considerable fishing mentions that Mr. West was captain village it was scarcely five and twenty years and wireless experimental officer i ago. It is, as already indicated, not peces the R.AT., and when 21 was selected may to climb the great hills, though Ex to accompany Mr. Sidney Pickles as moor's expanses are only reached that way, navigator in the attempt to win the and means of getting out by coach are £10,000 Atlantic flight. He has fown well The China Medical Board of the be spent down. In the deep valley theentat work

always wailable. Delightful days may over a hundred hours in wiesless experi

contribute half the expenses for buildings Ridd and Lorns were married, and where Rockefeller Foundation has decided to visitor seeks Oars Church, wherein girt Jan and equipment and alsa - additional | he is shown the very window through which sxlarios for the instruction of science at Carrer Doone shot Lorna; with the village Deone fastnesses. It seems a world away the South-Eastern University, Nanking, about it, the most conspictions building of from busy haents of men, and Naturom and the Nankai College, Tientsin. It is which is the Slaghuit Kennels. Near by invitation to see her at her best never comes cutimated that this will cost $125,000 for in Malusmesd, the Badgworthy Water with more strong sppeal than in May and New You, July 25th. building and equipment and $6,000 yearly mesta the Lynn, and following the former June, when all is fresh, and the yellow for three years for additional salaries for op stream you soon get, in sight of the gorse flames, and primroses are think about The Australian Daris Cup team has each institution. The institutions will arrived.

Qe the banks, and the last of the blueballs provide like amounia.

(Cantended at fook of nezt columa.)- linger into summer. – Daily Telegr

At Eastbourne, Somerset beat Sussex by the a Gloucester by two wickets.

At Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester beat

WORLD'S TENNIS

CHAMPIONSHIP.