CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]] |
THE RUHR.
AMERICA
PRESENTS HER BILL OF COSTS.
THE. HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,
LATEST CABLES,
THE STEEL INDUSTRY. PALMER'S JARROW WORKS RESUME
OPERATIONS..
Losay, February 28th. After having been closed down for two years Palmer's Tron, and Steel Works, Jarrow, have restred operations Scottish steel makers have advanced the prices of boiler plates and ship plates., etc., an average of fifteen shillings per
PARIS, February 28th... In connection with to-day's conference lative to the coats of the Anterienn Army on the Rhine, Le Journal states that the United States presented a bill ton. For $150,000,000.
KARLIER CABLES,
TWO ANGLO-FRENCH QUESTIONS STILL UNSETTLED.
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DARLINGTON BYE-ELECTION.
SEAT
RETAINED BY CONSERVATIVES.
LONDON, February 26th. The byeclection at Darlington, neces LONDON, February 28th." Two questions disturbing Anglo-French sitated by the elevation of the Rt. Hon. undations are still unsettled, namely the Mr. H. Pike Pense to the Peerage, re- uss of the Cologne railway lines and the eulted in Alderman Pease (Conservative) Frontly consention of 123 milliards of polling 14,684 votes.
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marks en route in Cologne from Berlin, According to Paris correspondents, negotiations on the fortier question are the approaching
a rupture owing to irrenscilability of the French demand br permission virtually to take over, the whole hair railway "system during the busiest part of the day, and the British stipulation that "the railways shall only be need in great 'emergencies. The local military authorities will probably refer the difficulty to Loudon and Paris for Fresh instructions. The question of the ennisestion of marks is even more serious, for sixty-seven millions of this sum was destined for the British army, and the balance was largely for use in the British ona Hitherte there is no indication of the French releasing the money.
FRANCO-BELGIAN COMMISSION
ATTACKED.
PARIS, February 99th.
A message from Duesseldorf says a German attached to the Franco-Belgian commission of control in Essen was, aliacked in the street. A French patrol arrested the was "rushed
and up BETESSITS, including Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Von Lippe, the well-known agitator in Upper Silesia. Papers in hir possession showed that he belonged to "secret" Nationalist association. The Prince's residence, was searched.
DUESSELDORF, February 28th. French troops forcibly entered the police barracks at Bochurd and disarmed' the security police...
AMERICAN POLITICS." SENATE KILLS SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
WASHINGTON, February 28th. The Senate has killed the Ship Subsidy
BBL
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Mr. Sherwood (Labour) polled 11.971. The position of parties will not be affected.
HOME FOOTBALL.
dun. REPLAYS.
LONDON, February th
1 Huddersfield 1.Bury
FIRST LEAGUE.
Bolton. Southampton.
Newcastle. Everton....
3 Cardiff
3 Middlesbrough SCOTTISH CUP.
6 Third Lanark. Dundee
SCOTTISH LEAGUE, ... 3 Motherwell Partick Thistle Hamilton Hibernian Aberdeen.... 1 Falkirk
OBITUARY.
LORD WEARDALE.
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LONDON, February 28th.
The death is announced of Lord Wear-
dale.
Labour
TO SERVE MOSCOW. BOARD OF TRADE EMPLOYEE'S NOTABLE STEP...
LONDON, February 28th, A noteworthy step has been taken by Mr. E. F. Wiso, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trade, who has resigned from the "Civil Service and joined the Central Union of the Russian Economia Co-operative Adviser and Director of the London offices of the Russian co-operative organimations. COTTON SPINNING,"
Sociotics
MASTERS RECOMMEND CURTAILED PRODUCTION.
LONDON, Febritary stb. Owing to the deplorable state of trade in the American section the Mister Cottonspinnera Federation has room- mended its members to curtail prisduction in March by ifty per cent,
KELANTAN'S STATUS
INDEPENDENT SOVERIGN
STATE.
LONDON, February 9th.
"In the House of Commons at question time Mr. MacNeill said the Government did not regard the Anglo-Siamese treaty of 1909 or the agreement with the Rajah of Kelantan of 1910 as derogating from the sovereignty of the Kelantan Govern ment, It recognised. Kalantan, as independant sovereign states
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POISONED CHOCOLATES, ACCUSED "UNFIT TO
PLEAD."
Ján
LONDON, February 29th. The Judge at the Old Bailey has found 0 Walter Tatam, accused of attempting to
Horwood 7 poison Sir William
November 8th, fit to plead, and has ordered that he be detained at His Majesty's pleasure,
THE INDIAN ARMY. SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS
CONTEMPLATED.
DEA, February 28th.
од
It is reliably learned that substantial
the reductions are contemplated in
AL.P. troops in India
[Lord Weardale, 1st Baron" (Cr. 1005) of Stanhope, Co. Durham, was Trustee of National Portrait Gallery: President of Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1506; present strength of the British and Indian formerly Lieut. R.N.; Wednesbury, 186-02: Burnley, 1593-19:30; of Leicestershire, Harboro Division
004-8. Deceased was in his 76th year.] M. ARALOFF.
PARIS, February 28th. It is reported from Angora that M. Araloff. the Soviet representative, has died suddenly.
EARLIER CABLES.
AUSTRIAN FINANCES. LEAGUE SCHEME PROVES SUCCESSFUL
ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY, SHANGHAI.
ANNUAL MEETING.
A very satisfactory state of affairs both as to membership and funds was reported to members of the Shanghai branch of the Royal Society of St. George at their annual meeting, held on February 23rd, in the General Chamber of Commerce rooms. Sir Edward Pearce, the retiring President, was in the chair.
and accounts the Chairman pointed out "In moving the adoption of the report
that the Committee, had disbursed 35.581.56 in charitable work, as against $5,371.87 during 1921. It was pleasing to see that charitable disbursements had heen refunded to the extent of $580.
LONDON, February 28th. The highly gratifying improvement in tho condition of the Austrian "finances, and the country's internal conditions, The customary St. George's ball and were described by Sir Henry Strakosch, of two charity Dances had been given by. the League of Nations, in the course of a members during the year under review. Router interview. He announced the The net summary, of these three dances success of the first public issue in Britain amounted to $5,218.82. by Austria under the League of Nations schema, amounting to eighteen hundred thousand sterling yearly Treasury Bills, forming part of a total issue of three and a half million sterling, of which the balance would be subscribed by continental nations.
The membership of the branch now numbered 134 Honorary Life members," Life members add 645 Ordinary mem- bora
MARCH 2ND, 1938
BRITISH OFFICIAL FAR EASTERN CABLE
WIRELESS PRESS.
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TERRIFIC GALE IN ATLANTIC.
THRILLING STORIES OF ADVENTURES,
LAFIELD, March 136,
NEWS.
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BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE. PETITION FROM UNITED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE,
PEKING, February 98th.
RESEARCH AMONG FISH. THEIR ANCIENT SECRETS" NOW
NO LONGER RESPECTED,.
The ancient secrets of the fah are no longer, respected. His movements nea being spied upon by the British Ministry of Fisheries, and many ish caught i English waters now wear a button-not, that they have, joined a trade anion-the button is merely an indication of the research work being carried on in "fish" lila
The headquarters of the United Cham-and distribution. From time to time these marked fish, particularly plaice. bere of Commerce has forwarded a poti-are being landed at Yarmouth, Lowestoft, wonder of the uninitated. The object of the marking, says the writer, is three-
A terriño hurricane in the Atlantic with tion asking the Government for more Grimsby, and other centres, much to the
a wind velocity of 120 miles an hour is reported by the American liner President details of the agreement concerning the Arthur, which has arrived at Flymouth. '
The Cunard linor Berengaria, which arrived off the Isle of Wight yesterday to reach South. morning, was unable ampton harbour until this morning.
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were
Passengers and thoir. "luggage which fought their way in the teeth of landed by powerful ocean-going tugs,
the gaie,
Mystery surrounds the fate of the crow of a steamer who reported by wireless yesterday that they were abandoning ship in their own boats 60 miles off tha Caraish coast.
Two lifeboats from Padow returned to-day after a fruitless day and night search for the crew in very rough weather.
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The Lowestoft steam trawlor Richmond landed this morning six of the grow of a British cargo steamer picked up near the Borkum lightship in the early morning.
The then told a thrilling story of their
adventures.
fold:-
re-opening of the Banque Industrielle de Chino; stating that the Government ought not to allow the bank to open until publia opinion has expressed apand, proval of the agreement.
SOUTH AFRICA AND ASIATIC IMMIGRATION.
PROHIBITION REDULATION
CONFIRMED.
CAPE TOWN, February 28th. The Appelate Division of the Supreme Court, by a majority of 3 to 2, has con: firmed the regulation issued by the Minister of the Interior, dated 1913, classing all Asiaties as probibited immig. rants under the Immigration Restriction Act.
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A collision occurred in a thick fog. While 19 of the crew got on the port lifeboat these six men launched the Sir William Solomon, in delivering the starboard lifeboat." They rowed about for et hours, when they had to give up majority judgment adhered to the view that Asiatice, as a claes, were not suited on economic grounds to the requirements of South Africa. Ho thought the Minister was not actuated by racjni motives.
owing to exhaustion.
When rescued they were lying semi. conscious in the boat, which was half- filled with water, and were suffering
ly from their experiences, The other 17 men were picked up by a French steamor.
STORMY WEATHER AT HOME.
The
LEAFIELD, March 1st. British isles have experienced during the last two days violent gales and heavy rains. The latter have cansect all parts of the numerous floods in country.
The minority held that the notice was ultra vires, as the basis of classification was too wide..
AFFAIRS OF LATE MR H. K. BARDMAN,
WIDOW SUED BY WHITELEY'S. LONDON, February 28th. The affairs of Mr. H. M. Bandman, she well-known theatrical impresario of the East, were mentioned in the Maryle FRENCH EAGERNESS. TO SECURE bone County Court, when his widow was sued by Whiteley's for about £30 for PROTECTION
The question was whether goods sold.
BRITISH INTERESTS IN THE RUHR.
LEAFIELD, March 1st.'
Mr. Ronald MacNeill, Under Secretary she left sufficient money after Mr. Band- of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to man's death, having regard to his posi- a question, said that all cases of alleged tion. A witness representing his exscu- detention of British-oward goods des-
patched from Rhineland for England were tors said that he left £38,000, and his in- investigated by the French authorities
action as might be necessary to safeguard He bequeathed a fourth of his estate to in Rhineland, with a view to taking such come during life was about £3,000 a year. British interests."
Mr. MacNall added that the French authorities had shown a desire to do everything possible to avoid trouble,
SITUATION IN THE RUHR NO PROPOSAL FROM GERMANY TO BRITAIN.
LAID, March 1st. The Premier stated in the House of Commons that the. German Government. had made to proposal to the British Government with the object of putting an end to the present situation in the
Fuhr.
BRITISH REVENUE
There were, therefore, 810 members a against 679 members in 1991. An enrol- ment of 145 new members during the Aftor rejecting a proposal by 18 votes
He added that an unexpectedly quick year constituted another record, being to 36 to kill the Ship Subsidy Bill by improvement had set in since November, one more than last rear.
Austrian Government hell Practically the whole of the Society'a Yommitting it to the Committee, the wher the
LAFIELD, March 1st. Renato accomplished the same result, agreed to the League of Nations' plan, asete had been brought into one account invalying drastic internal and financial, that was Charity Reserve account.
The British revenus collected in the voting 53 to 1 to table the Bill and take reforms. Austrian money had now been This fund was invested partly in debon-
completely stabilized. The League plan fures, ie., $15,600.19, (The market valua present financial year already exceeds up other legislation.
provides for a budget equilibrium with of which on December 12th, 1922, stood at expenditure by £86,000,000. in two years, and it is now estimated approximately $16,500) and the balance" INTERNATIONAL COURT OF
that the deficit has already been halved, was included in the Hongkong and Shang- The Government's requirements to Januaryhai Bank current account of $5,840.08. 31st, have been satisfied from Home The total assets, therefore, amounted to
Corfdence is returning, and 21,440.80. resources. bank deposits are increasing rapidly
JUSTICE.
WASHINGTON, February 28th. Ia pursuance of the Foreign Relations Jommittee's decision, the chairman, Mr. Lodge, conferred with President Harding to ask for farther information as to the
position as regards the International Court of Justice. Subsequently Mr. Lodge said it was hardly likely the President would respond to the "Com- mittee's request before the adjourzment of Congress.
DEBT FUNDING BILL SIGNED.
WASHINGTON, February 28th. President Harding has signed the British Debt Funding Bill.
POSTMASTER GENERAL
APPOINTED.
WASHINGTON, February 28th. Benator Harry New has been appointed
Postmaster-General.
LIQUIDATION OF A WAR TIME INVESTMENT.
VIENNA, February 28th. Owing to the situation in the Ruhr, Austrian iron and steel works are flooded with foreign orders and export prices are advancing daily.
CRIMES BY WIVES. OBSOLETE DOCTRINE TO BE ABOLISHED.
LONDON, February 28th.
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BRITAIN'S BUDGET,
·LENIED, March 1st.
his lady socretary, and the remainder to his three children and their nurse, but nothing to his wife from whom he was living apart..
Defendant said her husband allowed ber £1,000 yearly before they separated, and the spent £900 yearly in dress when her husband was alive.
Judgment was reserved.
CHINESE POLITICS.
PARLIAMENT AGAIN LACKS
QUORUM,
A
PAKINO, February 28th. Today's meeting of Parliament was awaited, with considerable interest, but
It is
(1). To find out what sort of itinerary and determine whether fish pursue, there are seasonal migrations.
(2) To ascertain their rate of growth,
(3) To discover from the percentage. of marked fish trawled up what is the, effect, generally, of fishing operations in reducing the sen population.
[~
up
A research vessel specially fitted with bank, through which sea water in kept flowing, goes out from Lowestoft, and makes short hauls at selected spots. Hor catch is shot into a tank, and the liveliest specimens are measured and marked, after which they are put into a second tank and kept for some hours to weed out any sickly ones.
Those which are bale and hearty are careful record being made of each. in due course liberated in certain areas,
Various methods of marking have been ebonite disks united by a short silver tried, the best has been found to be two Flat fish are generally marked wire." near the side fin, and round fish, lika ood, on the back in or in a dap of loose When these fish with labels are skin at the gills.
recaught, information is at once available
to how far they have travelled and how much they have grown. It has been found that a plaice 13 inches long Another liberated at Mablethorpe, Lia. colnshire. in eight months, made $10 travelled in three months 173 miles.
mila trip to St. Andrew's Bay.
Small plaice taken off the Dutch and Danish coasts, where there are groat breeding grounds, were conveyed from their nurseries and put down on the great Dogger Bank in the North Sea. It was found that they grew more than three times be fast as those left on inshore " grounds, where the feeding is poor and. the struggle for existence strenuous.
"This has led to the formulation of a scheme for moving young plaice in bulk to this feeding ground that they may more rapidly reach maturity and the
market.
Of each bundred marked plaice, from twenty to thirty-five are recaptured in a year. On grounds where there is a greas deal of trawling the percentage aren rises to forty. Ta interest fishermen the department gives a monetary reward for each specimen taken.
NELSON AND RODNEY.
NAMES GIVEN TO NEW BATTLESHIPS.
The Admiralty has announced that the names Nelson and Bedney are to be given respectively to the new battleships laid Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.'s yard, down last month at Hers, Sir W. G. Walker-on-Tyne, and Mesars, Cammell, Laird & Co.'s works, Birkenhead.
Both names have appeared in the Navy List- before, but not for a considerable time. The last Nelson was a first-alhas armoured cruiser, which about 20 years ago was utilized at Portsmouth a training-ship for stakers. A Lord Nelson, a battleship, was launched "at Jarrow in 1906, and was a Angahip during the war. She was one of the two last pre-Dread- noughts, and actually was launched after the Dreadnought, although laid down some months before. The Lord Nelson was withdrawn from the active list some time ago, but her sistership, the dramem. non, was paid off in charge of a tare and maintenance party at Chatham Inst November
:
"A previous Rodney was one of the "Ad. "mirals of the 'eighties, and was launched. at.Chatham in 1884. She was a first-cla battleship.
thers was no quorum
JAPAN ASKED TO DISCUSS THE 1915 TREATY,"
In selecting famous admirals dames reliably reported that the for the new battleships, the Admiralty are apparently following out an inten- Whatever surplus there may prove to Chinese Government today sent a mes Mr. Trenchard Davis, seconded the be at the end of the financial year, angt to the Japanese Legation asking tion that existed when the Hood was built. of having another class of ships boring Damely, March 31st, it will go to the adoption of the report and accounts.
bered that when the Government decided 1915 Treaty. Sir Skinner Turner was elected Presizedemption of debt, says the Daily the Japanese Government to discuss the the names of admirals. It will be remem
to build four capital ships in 1827 they dent, ned, in thanking members, said, Telegraph. he was born in Kent, the land of hops, The Budget, it is anticipated will show
wore to to battle-cruisers, but since the number was reduced to two the description and had lived in Hampshire, the land of a surplus of only £100,000. hogs, and he, trusted these qualifications factory state of things is dus partly to
of battleship has been applied. Neither of the names Nelson nor Rodney was in-. would sufficiently recommend him to men- the fact that taxation generally han
of the 19t. |ber.(Laughter.)
produced more than was estimated in the
*cluded in the "Admirals Mr. Tronchard Davis was re-elected Budget, but also to expenditure being
LONDON, February 29th. Vincent class of Dreadnoughts built in vice-president, and Major Hilton John considerably below the estimates,
reduction of The House of Commons passed the 1907-1910, or among the Duncan olaas of aon, and Mears. C. W. Beswick, P. Budget anticipated Nye, R F. C. Master, and. G. £160,000,000 in expenditure, but there is sound reading of the Dangerous Drugs pro-Dreadnoughts,
& reduction at present, of £223,000,000.
The House of Lords passed the second Billings were appointed to fill vacancica reading of a Bill introduced by the Lord in the committee caused by the retire Chancellor, designed to abolish the ment of five members according to the ancient legal presumption that a wife is rules.
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This satis-
THE BOTULISM DANGER.
The
acting under her husband's coercion when In closing the meeting, the Chairman she commits a crime in his presenco The fannounced that the Committee proposed.
A report by the Boottish Board of subject is topical owing to the "frequency, to celebrate St. George's Day (Monday, with which women have been acquitted in April Ard) with a ball at the New Carl-Health on the Loch Maree poisoning case recent trials in which the husband and ton.
in August, when eight people died of
wife were charged with a joint offence,
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DANGEROUS, DRUGS 'TRAFFIC. SECOND READING OF BILL PASSES
COMMONS.
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2
THE HEIR TO THE THRONE,
The Manchester Guardian's London
and Poisons Bill, giving the authorities Besides the Hood, there reapnene in the increased powers for dealing with illicit present Navy List several ships bearing traffic in drugs and increasing the penalthe names of distinguished admirals, in
Barham, the ties to a maximum of ten year penal olnding the battleship servitude and a fine of £1,000,
Collingwond (the only survivor of the St. CANADIAN TRAFFIC CONTROLLED BY Vincent olnas), and the light cruiser
Hawkins CHINESE. OTTAWA, February 28th. Government statistics show that there botuliam, describes experiments of injectare 9,500 drug addicte in Canada, of provoking criticism from Judges B It is misfactory to note says the NC. ing mice, rabbite, and wild-duck with whom 7,300 ara in the "wet" Provinces regards the obsolescence of the doctrins. Daily News, that in different parts of the pasts. All died, except two, to each of of Quebec and British Columbia. It is Viscount Cave to-day contended that it country oficials are working against the which anti-toxin was administered. The pointed out that Montreal and Van
"Special interest attache to the Duko was certainly untrue to day, if it ever practice of foot-binding through the iame report anticipates na increase of cases of couver eeaports are the headquarters of correspondent sys The decesse of the Ship Subsidy Bill, just a year after it was born leaves the had been, that every wife went in terror of proclamations. In one of those just botulism, because the symptoms were the traffic, which is in the bands of the of York's engagement as the succession Administration where it was a year ago, of her, husband and would commit any issued the Civil Governor of Kiangau previously mistaken for sleeping sickness, Chinese, of whom 35 have bem deported. the Throne in now obscure,
points out that while foot blading is meningitis, alcoholism, and cerebrospinal crime under his influence,
Lord Buckmaster dissented, holding practically non-existent in the larger syphilia The report exhorts food pre THEIR MAJESTIES AND JAPAN's not be generally known that the Prince that human nature had not changed cities, it is continuing as before in more servers to exercise the atmost care in the because women had been granted the remote placed. He issues an order that it final sterilising proces, and expresses the
Their Majestice to-day had lunch with vote, and there was no reason to alter must, to stopped immediately, pointing opinion that less containers should be
out that if this order is disobeyed atops shofished and preference given to food in Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Ambas is always possible that this may become. legal presumption which had existed for
Bador, eleven hundred. years;
will be taken to punish the offendern.
WASHINGTON, February 28th,
in dealing with the three billion dollar investment of war time built ships. The task of liquidating this investment, through the sale of ships, etc., on hand, has been the subject of lengthy study Plane will therefore be announced short Ar after Congress adjourne.
tins
It may
PAMBASSADOR,
LONDON, February 28th.
of Wades, half laughingly and half in. earnest, has constantly intimated to his personal friends that the las of marriage has not yet appealed to him, and that it
his fixed intention,”
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