CABLES.
LATEST CABLES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
A LABOUR SET-BACK, MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN ENG LAND AND WALES.
Loxous, November 1st."
THE HONGKONG DALLY PRESS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER SED
LATEST CARLES, ITALIAN POLITICAL
SITUATION," SIGNOB MUSSOLINI QUTLINES HIS POLICY.
Boom, November 1st., Cabinet has secided that Parliament is Tareassetable on November 18th. Signor
In view of the furthering General | Mussolini, in a speech, said that the Election, the keepest interest was displayel internat situation is rapidly getting back in the annual elections in three hundred to normal and 42,000 Easgiti' haye, up Municipalities - of England and Wales, to the present, réturned home. The new yesterday, which coincided with the Cabinet will bow its internal policy on triennial elections in the London the re-establishment of national discip.
Boroughs.
Law and order."
The latter are remarkable for, the largo number of candidates, altogether 2.111. contesting 102 sentä. The Municipal
· Reforners are combining with their fonuer enemies, the Progressives, in an attempt to
oust the Labourites from fourteen enuncils on which „hey have l majorities.
The Cabinet would look with favour
No
THE CABINETS FIRST !MEETING.
FAR EASTERN
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MR. LLOYD GEORGE CONFINED TO HIS ROOM.
LONDON, November 1st. The new Cabinet held its first meeting today. Mr. Bonar Law presiding. The Proceedings were cinematographed.
Mr. Lloyd George has a severe cold and is confined to his room. Lord Birkenhead will replace him at the meeting at itistol
to-morrow,
The presentation of the Freedom of thei City of Bath to Mr. Lloyd George fixed for to-morrow has been indefinitely"post- poned.
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AGREEMENT.
BIG GERMAN CONCESSIONS IN
RUSSIA.
LONDON, November 1st.
on any efforts to promote national ap| FAR-REACHING COMMERCIAL prasement, and it meant to show, by deeds, that thew was only one Stato. other authority would be tolerated.
ITALIAN, EXCHANGE MPROVES,
Telegrarus have been sent to the Chiefs of vaficus states, which have disposed of all misgivings as regards the International effects of the Fascists' advent to power. This is shown by the improvement in Italian exchange.
Tg earliest results indicate a Labonar -et-back. Returns from the provinces show that Labour last 157setts, while the Conservatives gained se. London results are equally disastrous for Labour, who, up to the present, bave lost seventy senten LUCRATIVE RICE ROBBERIES HEAVY SENTENCES IMPOSED.
RANSON, November 1st.
- A widespread and terative conspiracy
A RETURN TO PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
The Cabinet has invested Signor Musso lini with the widest powers relative to the conferences at Laasaane and Brussels: and bay also rectignised the necessity for suppressing unproductive Buganx and
NEWS
CABLE
(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.] @
PEKING POLITICS. ABROGATION OF JAPAN'S TWENTY- ONE DEMANDS REQUESTED
PERING, November 1st.
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RUSSIANS IN POSSESSION OF VLADIVOSTOCK.
PROVISION FOR SAFETY OF FOREIGNERS."
AGE AND AVIATION.
FLAG OFFICER'S INTERESTING
IMPRESSIONS...
Admiral Mark Kerr, who was 50 years. of age before he took his pilot's certificate, Toxx, Notember 1st. and who at the age of 58 was anxious to pilot a machine in the two days' nee round General Tachibana, formerly Com-Britain, hus related to a representative of Dandant at Vladivostock, has arrived at The Evening Standard some interesting Tokyo. He was met at the station by impressions and experiences as an aviator, I have always contanded," he remark, d. The Representatives, at this afternoon", the Minister of War, the Chief of Staff ["that flying is not merely for the your g man. There is no physical exercise, and sitting, resolved that the Government he and distinguished military men. Fle
there is no reason, if a person leads a requested to secure the abrogation of later had an audience with the Regent normal life, why he should not keep his the Twenty One Dogands Treaty. Three and reseived a presentation from the nerve. hundred and two members were" present. Emperor.
"Just because the unknown is always mysterious, and the general public knows so little about ring, dying is always regarded as extremely dangerous.
Today's meeting of the Senate was post The Foreign Office has given out the poned, as there were not sufficient mem? [contents of a comanique issued by the bers present to form a quorac.
Provisional Government at Vladivostock" PREMIER'S RESIGNATION RETURNED.stating that the safety of foreigners, the most dangerous thing in the world if you
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PERIS, November 2nd.. Dr. Wang Chung Huai again submitted his resignation on Monday, but it was immediately returned by the President
THE FUKDEN TROUBLE.
An agreement of a far-reaching charne- ter, involving the formation of a Russo- | ADMIRAL/LJU KUANG-RSUNG LEAVES
TIENTSIN, German commercial company with a
Puisa, November 1st. capital of eight milliệu gold roubles, is announced from Warsaw as having been. ratified by the Sovist Council of Com- The Government has persuaded Ad- missaries. The contracting parties are miral Liu Kuang loung to go to Fukien
the German Ottawolff Consortium who
representinfe in Berlin. Each will pro-
well as Russians, will be conserved and urging the "whole Russian people to co- operate in the restoration of normal conditions and national powers,
AGREEMENT, "WITH JAPAN
FAVOURED..
But you can make flying—as you can make everything else as dangerous or as safe as you please. You can make hunting
jump at fances that lead to a precipice. But you don't do that sort of thing in hunting
Similarly, there are a lot of people in the air who "stant' low, which is stupid..
In firing the physical efficiency of the pilot is every bit as important as the mechanical efficiency of the machine. If you drink, your air cateer is going, to A Foreign Office statement asserts that be short. Russian newspapers favour the conciu-in the air is one glass of port, but gene- The most. I ever drink before going up
sion of an agreement with Japan, towards rally I drink nothing.
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man keeps himself physically whom ferling has become more mollified efficient, and if his heart is all right, I do since the evacuation, The Provisional not see any reason why be should not be a
pilot at seventy or eighty.
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are owners of large works, and the Soviet as 'Admiral's Sah Chen Ping's assistant. Government is assisting in every way the ride half of the capital and exercise equal Admiral Liu proceeded by sea from Japanese Censul, and the Warships. control on the directorate and in the Tientsin to Nanking, where he is to meet administration. The scheme gives the tight to stablish branches in Russin, Ta shih Kaei. From thence he will pro besides important commercial concessions Leeed to Foochow, abeard a warship. and the meno oly for the importation representative of the Cabinet with accom- into Russia of métal articles and exporta-] tion of raw materials under Sevirt car-pany in Kuang sung in order to trol. The Consortium will grant to the
to Blend rice fren: boats on the river, was Ministries and the urgency of returning Company a credit of goods to the value report on the situation.
rovali? in the tours of the protracted | unremunerative public services to private (of seven-and-a-half million gold reuoles.
trial of nine men, one of whom is an ex-police offrer and the other an ex-em- ployé of the Port Commissioners. These two prisoners were sentenced to four years, rigoron imprisonment, whil others received sentences ranging from. one year's to six years' rigorous imprison- BEL.
THE NEW INDIAN LOAN, UNDERWRITERS TAKE NINETY-ONI PER CENT
Loxton November 2nd.
In godnecting with the Indian Loan, the underwriters take 31 per cent of the issue, which is quoted at 1 per cent. discount.
[A cable message from London, dated October 25th, stated that the prospectus had been issued, of a new Indian Loan of £20,000,000 at a price of Sa, redeem- mble 1950-5.1
INTERNATIONAL HIGH-COURT OF JUSTICE.
RECOGNISED BY AMERICA.
enterprise.
ÉABLIER CABLES. AMBASSADORS RESIGN
HOME, November 1st,
Signor Mussolini has replied to Signor declares that Signor Sforza's action is scarcely friendly and very ill-timed; his Foreign liey will not be simply a sum of sentiments," as Signor Sforzaj mis takenly supfos. He therefore formally invites Signor Sforza to remain at his post and not embarrass the Government, which represents the loftiest expression of, mitional conscience. Heinske for à tele) graphic reply.
Sforza's letter of resignation. He de
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and also five million gold roubles in Soviet "Government currency,
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SECRET WIRELESS, INVENTION OF FRENCH ENGINEER.
PARIS, November 1st.
According to Le Matin, the French ginger, M. Edouard Belin, has invent
ed an apparatus ensuring absolute secrecy wireless and ordinary telegraphic
In
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MEXICAN REBEL LEADER.
CAPTURED AND SHOT.
EL Pass, November 1st. A message from Mexico City says the In addition to Signor Sforza, the Berrebel leader, General Fraccisco Murguls lin and Washington Ambassadors as well bring squad to-day.
was captured yesterday and shot by a a Senators Frassati and Ricci have resigned.
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ADVANCE IN TEA PRICES.
DUE TO SMALL STOCKS.
JAPANESE EMPERORS
"BIRTHDAY,
L.L.C. DELEGATES ATTEND BANQUET,
GENEVA, November 1st." The principal social event of the Inter- maayaational Labour Conference was the
Japanese delegation's banquet to cele brate the Emperor's birthday. Nearly all the Conference delegates were present and the speakers "included. Mr. Adatchi, Bord Burnham and M. Albert Thomas.
LONDON, November 1st. Shortage of crop and accusequent de- crease in stocks is the reason given for an increase in the retail price of brands of ten on Monday by 2d. per lb.
An expert said the crop was variously estimated at CU to 80 million pounds below the average, while barely 120 million WASHINGTON, November 1st.
pounds were in bond, compared with 200 million a year ago. America's tacit recognition of the Inter- to replace the stocks; consequently, whole- It sets impossible national High Court of Justice is con- sale prices. have risen from 10 to 1/8, tained in an announcement by President duty free, during the past two months. Harding, in which he states that, the THE NEWCASTLE CONSULAR
United States is willing to have a repre sentative on it. The President also inti.
mated that America will not send repre sentatives to the Brussels Economic Con. ferens, but is willing to cater the economic conference it Allied, debts to
America are not on the agenda. NO CANCELLATION OF EUROPEAN
DEBTS.
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AFFAIR.
CONSUL AND VICE-CONSUL EXONERATED.
WASHINGTON, Kovember ist. It is officially stated that three separate American investigations have completely exonerated the Consul and Vice-Consul at Newcastle of the charges mentioned on September 1st.
[It will be recalled that the British Government cancelled the exequaturs of the Consul and Vice-Consul because of
THE RUBBER RESTRICTION
SCHEME.
NOW IN OPERATION.
LONDON, November 1st. The Colonial Ofice announces that legislation giving effect to the scheme of export duties for rubber, recently ap- proved by the Colonial Secretary, has been passed in Ceylon, the Straits Settle. ments" and the Malay States. The new duties will operate from to-day.
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RUSSIAN RAILWAYS.
A RETRENCHMENT SCHEME.
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SHANGHAI STRIKES.
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GOLD AND SILVER SMITHS GRANTED AN INCREASE,
Shanghai, Novimber 2nd.
...The goldsmiths and silversmiths strike, mentioned in a cable message dated Oct. 7th, bas ended in a victory for the work; ers, who obtain 23 to 40 per cent. wage increases, with full pay during the strike. FOUR THOUSAND MILL-WORKERS
ON STRIKE,
Four thousand mill-workers, employed at the Japan-China Cotton Mills, have struck They demand the re-opening of the Pootung Weavers Union head-quar
which were ters,
closed by the police.
FRENCH SHARE OF BOXER INDEMNITY,
HOW IT IS TO BE EMPLOYED.
PARIS, November 1st.
THE ECLIPSE.
WONDERFUL SCENE DESCRIBED
BY PROFESSOR DAVID...
"Words fail to picture the wonder and the beauty of the scene witnessed at Wallangorra," said Pref. Sir Edgeworth David upon his return from the northern border town to Sydney. "It was the sight of a lifetime."
The day of the eclipse, Professor David went on to say, was the first really fine. clear day for a whole month. Towards noon anxiety was caused by the drifting up of à few fleecy clouds from the north weat and the south, but fortunately as the time of the eclipse approached the sky in the direction of the sun was of purest blue and perfectly cloudless. The heliostat from the geology department of the Sydney University had been, set up on a solid granite rock by Professor A. L. were trained on it. There was a good Cotton, and cameras with telephoto lenses muster of the country folk to watch the eclipse.
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Paychology, of course, has also to be taken into account. When dying began the public heard all about every accident, with the result that all they know about Blying wil of people being killed and coroner's, inquests.
They thought the whole thing very dangerous, and yet, as a matter of fact, in the first four years of dying in England fewer than fifty people were killed, and in most of the accidaus two people were concerned.
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There were probably sixty or seventy fights a week, and yet the fatalities worked cut ate about twelve a year. don't think motoring could show" so good
record.
"When I started flying everyone seemed to think it a wicked thing for a married man of my age to do so, but it was really because I did not think the air dangerous, and because I wanted to learn, that I took my ticket at fifty
"I don't think I have exceptional nerve. What we call courage is merely the strength > of will to control your nerve. You lose control of your nerve through excesses, and. so long as you don't indulge in excessed you can hold on to your nerve.
That control is essential. If you go into a fight thinking you are going to te beaton, the odds are you will be beaten. If you go up into the air thinking it is extremely dangerous, it is not in the least degree improbable you will upset the apple cart."
Near to the time predicted for the beginning of the eclipse, Professor David continued, a tiny strip of black made its appearance in the position of 5 o'clock of a watch on the sun's disc, and it was weird and wonderful sight to trace the
HOME HOUSING SCHEME: black disc creeping on until at last only a narrow, crescent of sunlight remained.
AS AMENDED BY EXPERIENCE. As totality approached the light from the crescent turned to a glowing yellow,
The Government decided that the local umberling rather than gilding the lands authorities' housing schemes must be limit M. Bokanowski "has tabled, in the cape and the onlookers. The thrilling
for which tenders had been Chamber, the report of the Finance moment of totality was now close. Suded to 176,000 houses, that the number built,
denly there was a stir of gusty wind; the building, or Committe on a Bill approving the Franco- air grew chill; & faini ruinbow-like hala approred. The policy has, therefore, been
the ancircled the sun, distant. about twice the sur's diameter from the mh's orb; then for a few seconds the famous shadow bands rippled the grey surfaces of roads and rocks travelling swiftly castwards, Then a mighty black shadow, over 130 miles wide rushed upon us with twice the speed of a rifle bullet. It was stupen dous, awe-inspiring, almost terrifying, hath power to say "Behold!" the jawa recalling Shakespeare's 'And era a mao
of darkness to devour it up.' In the twinkling of an eye the yellow landscape, as far as the eye could reach, was blotted out. But then to our sunward gaze there the solar corona, a sight never to be for- flashed in all its "glory the splendeur of
gotten.
Chinese Agreement, in regard to remainder of the Boxer Indemnity.
The report favours the adoption of a Bill. by which the French share of the Boxer Indemnity will be employed to redeem and pay the interest on bonds held by the creditors, of the Banque Industrielle de Chine, in the Far East.
FRANCO CHINESE INSTITUTIONS: It is also to found and provide for the upkeep of various Franco-Chinese institu- tions, and to strengthen Franco Chinese friendship. The opinion is held, in Parliamentary circles, that the Bill will WARSAW, Noveniber tabs passed with little opposition, a President Harding is represented as allegations that difficulties were put in A Message from Moscow says he Premier Poincare and M. de Lasteyrie "adamant on the question of debts, insist the way of visaing the passports of managements of the Rinzan and Ural. (Minister of Finance) will support it.
passengers, who were not promised a Railways have decided to suspend the ing an full recognition of European voyage on American vessels.]
working of bratches totalling 500 miles ORIENTAL BUSINESS MEF TOURING obligations, and opposing all pleas for
this winter, owing to the growing deftit.
BELGIUM. cancellation, but he is willing to show
OBITUARY. latency regarding the period of payment.
EARLIER CABLES.
NOMINATION AND SELECTION OF JUDGES
CIAL TREATY.
RELIEF FOR ÜERMAN FINANCES..
WITHDRAWAL OF ALLIED MILI- TARY COMMISSION.
M. ALFRED CAPUS.
Loxox, November 1st. The death is announced to M. Alfred Capas, dramatist and political editor of the Figaro. Decenard was a member of the French Academy,
MR. THOMAS ʼN. PAGE. RICHMOND (Virg.), November 1st The deal is announced of the author,
bassador to Italy,
AMERICA AND MEXICO.
New York, November 182
BERLIN, Nivember 1st, The Geriana Government has accepted the Entente's proposal to withdraw the Inter-Allied Military Commission of WASHINGTON... November 1st,
Control and to replace it by a small Mil- White House announces that the Govtary Commission of Guarantees; to be orament is negotiating with a view to paid by the Entente, as soon as certain the United States having a voice in the measures for completing the disarmament momiantion dad selection of Judges of the mentioned in the Entente Now of Sep. Dr. Thomas Nelson Page, former An. Court of International Justice as the tomber lith, are settled. It is expected Hague.
that the change will not merely expedite the closing stages of disanament, but ANGLO-SPANISH COMMERwill greatly relieve German finances.
CIRCUMVENTING" ANGORA, ALLIED BANKING PROHIBITION.
CONSTANTINOPLz, November 1ạt. The Anglo-Spanish Commercial Treaty The Allied High Commissioners have has been signed. It is the first favoured ordered the Ottoman Bank to sell half nation Treaty between the two countries, million Turkish pounds worth of gold, whose commercial relations have hitherto which will be advanced to the Treasury hean based on an exchange of Notes in to enable the payment of salaries and 1804. The Treaty is the result of protests thus circumvent Angora's prohibition of by British, business men regarding an banking transactions with the local
Government, increase in the Spanish Tariffs of 1920.
RESULT OF BRITISH BUSINESS
PROTESTS.
·MADRID, November 1st.
BRUSSELS, November 2nd. Mission consisting of Chinese, Siamese and Indo-Chinese business men, visited the Antwerp decks and have now proceeded to the Industrial region of
Charleroi,
"KOONSHING " ASHORE AT WEIHAIWEI,
PASSENGERS AND MAILS SAFE,
CHEF00, November, 1st.
The corona showed as an
aureole traced in the tenderest beams," and far beyond it beautiful streamers of fight radiated, chiefly from its upper and lines joining the sloped away slightly lower portions in such a direction that from the vertical diameter of the sun obliquely downwards from left to right and right to left, making a quadrangular
pattern.
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adopted of concentrating on the completion of houses already authorised. Where pos Kible, adjustments have been made, so that bouses which are not likely to be completed within a reasonable time have been redis fributed to districts which could make more rapid progress. The effect on prices has been remarkable, as the following table of average prices shows—
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538
Average Prices
Parlour Non-Parlour Houses. Houser. (2891*. March 31st, 1921.......4814 June 3rd, 1921. 695 798- September 30th, 1921. 695 December 81st, 1921 : 567 March 81st, 1922
487 June 30th, 1922
.488 "... 369. The price has fallen to less than hall, and, in fact, prices have been secured belay £300 a bouse. The obvious effect of bring mach nearer the resumption of build. this great reduction in prices has been to ing by private enterprise. A certain amount of building is going on, and already some large employers of labour have begun the carrying out of a large programme of hour. "So spellbound were we that we almost building without any financial help from forgot to expose our photographic plates, the State. Nevertheless a sort of photographic hurley
AND THE RESULT. burley followed. Meanwhile, during As regards the completion of houses, the totality, birds were greatly perturbed, number inished at the end of March, 1921, uttering sharp cries of distress; fowls was 17,597; the number finished on August, went to roost the postmaster's horse 1st, 1022, was 129,791 This "number is whinnied either for its evening meal or independent of the number built under the for human sympathy, and at Tenterfield private builders subsidy scheme. Under the cows came home. Suddenly, after his schome: 80,000 houses have been an interval of 3 minutes 13 seconds, which provided, whereas the number built to seemed less than a minute, the retreating March, 1921, was 11,667. So far an Greater edge of the black shadow rushed by London is concerned the effect of the followed by the rippling shadow bands, Government policy on prices has been and then a burst of glorious light from similar to that in the rest of the country, beneath the lower edge of the moon's disc though London prices are generally higher. chased the darkness. Totality was over, than in the country. In March, 1921, apart and but for the partial eclipse phenomena from builder's subsidy houses, the number which immediately followed, so was the great event, the like of which will not of houses completed in Greater London take place again in Australia for 64 under the Housing Scheme was 2,807. On the 1st August, 1922, this number had risen to 21,696. In addition, 7,175 houses have been provided under the Private Builder's Bubsidy Scheme,
The 8.8. Knoathing grounded on Tues day at Welhalwei, but is safe. The Man Consulate has been re-foreign mails and passengers have been years.”
The
transferred,
"opeted.
While two inspectors of the permanent way were making a tour on the Piris underground, last month, they found a 37-millimetre shell on the line between the Republique and Oberkampt stations. One of them picked it up. It exploded, Lilling him on the spot. It is believed that extremists placed the inferial machine on the line,
BANDIT OUTRAGE,
A MISSIONARY ́SEIZED,
Addressing the National Federation of Merchant Tailors, at Oxford, last month,, Lord Derits commented upon the alleged growing shabbiness of the nation's manhood; clothes, he said, had Mr. to take second place to the income tax, a drastic reduction in which, he claim. ed, was cssential to the nation's financial
KAIVENO, November 1st.
A China Inland missionary, Ledgard was seized by bandite on Oct. 28th at Shanghai.'
health
That is the simple story. To make it appear that the change of policy. Which necessity compelled is evidence of bad faith is simply ailly. We could bare escaped it by going on na we had begun. But in that case people either wouldn't have got houses, or if they did, couldn't have paid the rentals. for them, unless the State rateibution reached some unthinkable figura!
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