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LATEST CABLES. [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE "RUHR.

FRENCH REPLY ΤΟ GERMAN PROTEST.

THE HONGKONG

MARLIER CABLES.

EMPIRE WIRELESS.

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE NOT TO BE EXCLUDED.

less ommunication. therefore has decided

TRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7TH, 1923.

DAILY

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RAW RUBBER EXPORT. FIGURES UP TO JANUARY

LAST

Ceylon, in three

LONDON, March 5th. The Colonial Official announces that exports of raw rubber licensed under the rubber exports restriction legislation have totalled as follow: months ended last January, 12,535 tons; Malaya, in the first quarter 45,500 tons, including seven thousand on the main land, and in the second quarter 40,000 tons. The figures do not include the production and stocks in Penang and Singapre.

FAR EASTERN CABLE

"NEWS..

(THROUGH KSUTER'S LUINOT,]

CHAOTIC 0ONDITIONS AT TSINGTAO.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL "DRADLOCK FEARED,

LONDON, March 5th. In the House of Commons, replying to questions, Mr. Bonar Law stated that in Panis, March oth.

view of the development of wireless, and Replying to Herr Cano's protest roother circumstances since the late Govern. garding the occupation of Manrheim and ment decided on a Statesupported wire. Karlsruhe and the workshopa at Harmless chain, it is not considered necessary stadt, in which are enumerated the sacriany longer to exclude private enterprise fices made by Germany, a French semi-from participation in inter-imperial wire official statement say that, up to the

The Government to license the prosent, Germany has paid six milliard gold marks in reparations, of which

EMPIRE EXHIBITION, France has received two, which will not crection of private wireless stations in Great Britain for communication with the

GROSS EXPENDITURE NEARLY sover the cost of "the Ruhr occupation'

Dominiona,

Celodies and foreign

TWO AND A HALF MILLIONS. France at plus the advances made to

countries, subject to Government control; period

LONDON, March 5th. Spa; whereas in the same France has expended ninety-five milliard and has also decided that it is necessary

In the House of Commons, replying, to 'francs, of which fifty four have been spent in the interests of national security that!

there should be "n Government wireless questions, Sir W. Joyason Hicks isid the in the devastated regions alone.

Atation in Britain capable of communicat-expenditure on the British Empire Ex-parolesences and incompetency. All Public SUGGESTIONS FOR RECOUPING AMERICA.

ing with the Dominions. The latter will be erected as early as posible. and be available for commercial traffic when necessary.

APPROVAL..

LONDON, March 8th. The wireless decision has been hailed

PARIS, March 5th. The difficulty in discovering a suitable method of recouping America for the bust of her army of occupation is proving DECISION HAILED WITH GREAT ma obstacle in the negotiations of the Inter-Allied Financial Committee Ob jections have been forthcoming to most of the Allied suggestion, and the cum mitter has adjourned to March 10th in order to examine future methods of pay ment, in the meanwhile reserving the question of immediate payment which, failing a better solution, may have been effected by the Allies returning the cash payment of March last year, for a re division, in which America would parti- eipate.

SABOTEURS

GERMAN

SHOT.

with great approval, though a minor disagreement is voiced in the Daily Telegraph, objecting to the Government station competing with private interests and declaring that the Government should confine itself to official business, also pointing out that within two years the British Empire will possess the moet powerful and most efficient system in the

world.

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The Times, is of the opinion that the Government station will lend to useful competition in time of peace and give

PARIS, March 5th, security in the event of war. The news Advices from Dusseldorf state that, a paper anticipate Trapid progress provid French patrol fired on a number of Gered bureaucratio restrictions are limited mians who were breaking up the railway to a minimum, and care is taken to "at. 'Westerhold with picks. One German

was killed and two others wounded. AGREEMENT REGARDING 'BRITISH,

ZONE. ."

COLOGNE, March 6th.

It is understood that Lieut-General Sir A. Godley and General Degoutte have reached a satisfactory agreement

regarding the transport of French troops through the British zone. The agree ment is subject to ratification by London and Paris.

EARLIER CABLES.

HERR CUNO CANCELS HIS BAVARIAN VISIT.

HERN,, March 5th. Herr Cuno has cancelled his visit to Bavaria as "the new and outrageous breach of justice" by France compels him to voice the German protest at a special sitting of the Reichstay on Tuesday. QUESTION OF LATEST FRANCO BELGIAN OCCUPATION,

LONDON, March 5th. Questioned in the House of Commons with regard to the Franco-Bolgian occupation of territory between Mayence and Coblence, and the Coblenés and Cologne bridgeheads, Mr. Ronald MoNeill said the Government had been advised that under no provision of the Treaty of Versailles or Rhineland agreement could the Rhineland High Commission claim jurisdiction over this territory, and the attention of the French Government had beon called to the matter.

LONDON, March 5th. Houter learns that it has been ascor.

maintain as "traffic with the Govera ment: station here and private stations abroad."

MARCONI DIRECTOR'S EMPIRE

SCHEME."

hibition was hitherto £730,000, and the total gross expenditure at the close was estimated to be £2,435,000 and the total

guarantees £1,203,000.

RUBBER SHARES. M. R. P.'S NEW ISSUË SUBSCRIBED.

LONDON, March 6th.

The Malaces Rubber Plantations' issue of now shares has been subscribed. lists cloned early this morning.

The

THE BUMAN FLY." FALLS EIGHT STORIES AND IS KILLED.

NEW YORK, March 5th. Thousands of spectators, including big wife, were horrified to see Howard Tong, who obtained considerable note as "the human fly," fall eight storeys from the face of the Hotel Martinque which ho was trying to scale. He was killed Young was performing for a cinema film. Cinematographers took advantage of the

situation.

OUTRAGES IN EGYPT, POLITICO-RELIGIOUS AGITATORS

ABRESTED.

CAIRO, March 5th.

EZKING, March 5th. The Far Eastern Times says reliable correspondence from Tsingtao rareals chaotic conditions there. The Chief of Police, Chong. Li, is proving quite incap able of performing his duties and is very ready to incorporate ex-bandits into the police force. Loading Chinese merchants openly accuse him of corruption. The Present Governor admits Cheng Li's in- capacity, bat says he is unable to make him amenable to orders. The railway's rolling stock and permanent way "are going to rack and ruin through sheer

HOW

STORY OF THE £.

FAMOUS AMERICAN

AMBASSADOR

ENGLAND'S TRIBUTE TO MR. WALTER PAGE.

THE ENGLISH CURRENCY

WAS ORIGINATED The pound sterling, the magnificent

Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Balfour, Mr. recovery of which in New York has been one of the outstanding features of the Asquith. Mr. Lloyd George, and Lord. past week, has long been the world's Grey of Fallodon have addressed a re- predominent monetary unit writes Amarkable appeal to the country for b Banker in a recent issue of the Daily seriptions to perpetuate the name and services of Mr. Walter E. Page, Ameri Hail.

oan Ambassador in London before and The term "pound is now a purely conventional one and has no relation to during the war.

After noting that the recent publication any definito weight. In early times-and the terin was used in England as early of his "Life and Letters" has revealed as 1:35-the pound was an actual pounds the whole world." his vivid free-rang character and abounding humanity which the pure metal in 1,000, weight of silver, containing 925 parts of ing mind had that mellow integrity of This was originally made into 20 endeared him to us all they go on to

describe the late Ambassador as this number considerably. Edward II. had." The append continues shillings but various monarchs changed the best friends that Great Britain over made 30, while his various successors coined 48, 30, and even 388 shillings from the same amount of silver."

The sign is merely a contraction of the Latin word "libra," a pound in weight, and is, of ouurse, really the same abbreviation as "*lb."

one of

"In the difficult period of the war be fond the United States bad entered it,

and when many contentious issues inorit ahly arose between the British and American Governments, it was Mr. Page's handing of these issues as much as any other factor that kept them within the bounds of reason and good temper.

The expression sterling" probably originated in the 13th century, when the Scrupulous, as an Ambassador should Hanseatic League, a commercial anion of be in presenting his country's case with all the vigour and persuasiveness at his These trade guilds were welcomed by command, Mr. Pago's conduct of the German cities, was trading in England, privileges, including that of coining ed throughout by his native courtesy, utilities-the railway, posts, telegraphs, the English and were allowed many negotiatione sitrusted to him was informa. mokey. As they came to us from the humour, and straightforwardness, by a waterworks, electricity, wharves, sanit- ations and polio-are mismanaged Be-East they ware known as "Easterlings." quick understanding of the nature of the and their money became known as ster Europen struggle, and by an intensity. fore long, things will become absolutely ing

of sympathy for the Allied cause and af

intolerable and a serious commercial and

admiration for Great Britain's part in

financial deadlock must come.

(BY COURTASY OF "TOR CHINA MAIL?]

SUBTERRANEAN VOLCANIC

KRUPTION."

BETWEEN HONGKONG AND SINGAPORE,

forms. Whe

in

The silver pound then; in its varying

ur standard of currency it, which was irrepressible. He was the until 1816, when gold, which had hitherto bappiest, the most liberated man occupied a secondary place was adopted Europe when America entered the war. as the standard.

The new pound was a golden sovereign, weighing 123.274 grains, 11-12ths being pure metal, and this weight has not sine been altered.

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SINGAPORE, March 6th. The Captain of the Wakasa Maru bound from Hongkong to Singapore reare 1-19ths pure gold or carat.. ports that a subterranean volcanic erup tion occurred 350 miles from Singapore on March 2nd. Smoke was rising, accom- panied by explosions, over a thousand feet. The passengers were excited by the spectacle.

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"For all that Mr. Page contributed towards that supremo development by smoothing away friction and minimizing and removing difficulties and misunder standings, the country, no less than his own, owes him a incatimable debt. The English sovereign contains a high- There must, moreover, be many hundreds er proportion of pure gold than the coins of our people who used his services and of other countries, as the usual propor- those of his most efficient staff to inquire tion is 9-10ths only. Turkey, however, is after the fate of relatives at the fronts, an exception and her coins, like curs, and who draw freely and gratefully upon his exhaustless stock of sympathy, The English gold pound is practically patience, and promptitude.

"There is nothing in Great Britain to an international coin. and is accepted everywhere. In its time it has been put mark the fact that Mr. Page lived here to strange uses. Who the Germans ex- for five years as United States Ambas tracted their indemnity from France in andor, and that in a great crisis he served 1878 they placed £6,000,000 in gold as a his own country and ours and civilzation special war reserve in the Julius tower itself with a noble competence. in Spandan. It was known that a large desire to repair that omission. proportion of this consisted of British confidently invite subscriptions to per sovereigns, and in March, 1915, after the petuate a name and services that enn Germans had tapped their reserve, the never be thought at on either side of gold Began to flow to us from Scan the Atlantic without deep affection and dinavia. The sovereigns were new ones gratitude. dated 1872, and in many cases were still When the order was given for the in the same bags as those in which they American troops to leave the Rhing there left the Bank of England 43 years earlier. The normal value of the pound sterl was a rush of weddings, and in one daying in other currencies is determined by the senior chaplain, Lieut-Col Easter- brook, received nearly 60 applications the relativo amounts of pure gold in the from young soldiers who wanted to be repective coine married to German brides,

WEDDINGS EN MASSE.

AMERICAN TROOPS AND GERMAN BRIDES.

In consequence of the bomb outrages on February 27th and March 4th, six members of the Wald (Wakf 1) have been

More came in later, as it would have arrested and interned, because of their actions being of a nature calculated, la been, impossible to unite each couple destroy public order and Security" Allepartely the chaplain decided to "Line the arrested men were recently summon them up." read that part of the service ed by the Military Governor and warned that could be applied wholesale" to all Adly Pasha, the proposed. Premier, was indispensably individual part separately. for signing a manifesto declaring that of them, and then apply the curtailed, So great was the number that the within a tool of the English.

chaplain decided that twenty weddings Empire

at a time would be necessary.

Celopel Simpson, a director of Mar coni's is stated to be prepared to start, within twenty-four hours, a cheme in volving £2,000,000 with a British station operating within year, while eighteen months the whole scheme will be a living reality.

MITCHAM BYE-ELECTION. MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE DEFEATED.

LONDON, March 5th. At the Mitcham bye-election the Minister of Agriculture, Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, was defeated. result whs:

Mr. Ede (Labour) .......... 8,099. Sir. A... Griffith-Bogcawen

(Conservativo) 7,186. 3,214. Mr. Brown (Liberal) Mr. Catterall Independent-

Conservative)

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2,684"

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British soldiers, when they heard their comrades had been wounded, in some in- stances vented their feelings upon pass “In one case four German girls appear- ing Arabs, but the military police sooned at Army Headquarters with requeste controlled the situation...

that they should be permitted to marry, Each, howover, wanted to marry the same man.

[The Wakf or Evkat, in an organisation controlling the temporalities of the Church, having a separate Budget of its own. The revenue of the Evka in prin cipally derived from charges on and reversionary interesta in real property which has, at one time or another, been made the subject of consecration to re ligious or benevolent purpose.]

A FLYING RECORD..

PARIS, March 5th.

aerodrome on a Breguet biplane, with a load of five hundred kilogrammes.

WORLD OF SPORT. LAWN TENNIS CHANGES.

LONDON, March 5th. The Lawn Tennis Association has un- animously passed a resolution abolishing the title of world's championships after

For instance, an American golden eagle worth 10 dollars, weighs 258 grains and contains 1-10th alloy, while the English sovereign, weighs 123.274 grains, 1-12 of which is alloy.

It is a simple calculation to find that £1 equals 1,8665 dollars.

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NEW FORMS ÎN PHYSICS.

At the Conference of Science Masters at Oxford, Sir Ernest Rutherford lectured an "A Page of Scientific History." In introducing his subject, Sir Henry put plea that education in forward the science should be in comformity with the recent discoveries of the age. Every University teacher had strong views on this subject. In the elementary courses in the University it was difficult to decide what modern ideas should be introduced." Every student was stimulated by being shown new conceptions and new ideas. Most text books were twenty "KEEP WATCH"

years behind the times, and this thould ADMIRAL. SIR E B. FREMANTLE'S be remedied. For instance, it was time that instruction in the electron should MESSAGE BROADCASTED.

not be excluded from the elementary study of electricity, and that now theories Admiral the Hon. Sir Edmund R. Fre of a tomic physics should be included. Yet mantle, on behalf of the Navy League, there must be caution in elementary bas, by the permission of the British education in introducing theories still Broadcasting Company, broadcasted the sub fudice, following message:-

THE ALPHA PRACTICLS

"As the grandson of one of Nelson's

It had been suggested to him that the captains who shared in the triumphs of Copenhagen and Trafalgar, I am glad to Association would be interested to have in review rome modern scientific develop. have the privilege of sending a message ments with which he had been in direct to my follow countrymen through this touch. He then traced the history of the wonderful instrument of modern science.

"We have travelled a long way since the great researches in constitution and Lieat. Andre Benoit has reached a February 1st, 1921, hitherto granted at far distant, storm-beaten ships of Nelson relation of the elements which had been height of 5,600 metres at Villa Coublay the Wimbledon meeting Lord Dee and his brothers-in-arms stood between proceeding at Manchester and Cambridge Manchester Physical Laboratory thoro Iborough, presiding, said that so long as Napoleon and the dominion of the world, during the past decade In 1911 at the came the first investigation with the this be officially recognised, it beats one country had the world's champion-bat progress has made us more dependent

ahipe in perpetuity America found than ever on the freedom of the seas.

alpha particle. It was realised that this Casales world's record of 4,751 metres.

Such difficulty in joining the international "In 1805 we had invasion only to fear was the greatest force possible. federation, and would not send an official if our Navy failed us. Today, if the sea great energy did the ashes of light team to Wimbledon. The Association is not kept open for the passage of our produce that when the light fell on handed over the right to make and merchant ships, wo are doomed to certain substances it was able to penetrate amend the laws of the game to Antarvation. The late war has shown us and pass through atoms in its path. It International Rules Board...

FLIGHT.

The election was fought on the question of decontrolling houses from the Rent Restrictions Act, regarding which Sir A. Griffith Boscawen's statements and tho Government's intentions were regarded AMUNDSEN'S NORTH POLAR as conflicting.

[At the General Election, the figures were:-Dr. T. C. Worsfold (Conserva

A. E. Bontotta, tive), 10,934; Mr. (Liberal), 5,898.).

LONDON, March 5th. Col. G. F. Stanley (Under Secretary for Home Affairs) who was defeated at East Willesden, has resigned... THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK. REVISION OF DECONTROL PROPOSALS NECESSARY.

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CHRISTIANIA, March 5th. Amundsen has completed his plane for a flight across the North Polo, and ex pocts to start at the end of Jane. KING OF SWENDEN'S TOUR.

THE HAGUE, March 5th. The King of Sweden has concluded his visit to Holland. He was warmly we comed at the Hague, at Delft and other

NORWAY'S NEW MINISTRY

M.C.C. IN SOUTH AFRICA. ·

CAPE TOWN; March 8th. The M.CO. compiled 238, Mann and Kennedy contributing 47 and 3 respec távoly- The Western Province scored 183 for 6, P. Hands knocking up a splendid

including a sixer and ten foura.

LATRE.

Western Province were all out for 181. Kennedy captured 5: wickets for 35 runs. Marylebone made 64 without the loss of a wicket and thus won by ten wickets. M.C.C. DRAW WITH NEW SOUTH WALES.

the greatness of our peril, Wo escaped was, however, discovered that the alpha the danger and energed victorious, and particle could be defected when striking we may hope to have made an end of war. other substances, such as gold. But this hape has been falsified in former There had followed a big series of periods of history, and, if we would sleep experiments, with the alpha particle as easily in our beds, we must adhere to the the chief instrument In the Cavendish old motto of the Navy League, in whose Laboratory photographs had been taken of the alpha particle passing through gas name I speak, 'Keep watch'

The world is at once larger and and suffering deflections by the hydrogen atom Also there had followed an smaller than it was 120 years ago. It is attempt to split the atom by bombarding. towns.

larger because great communitica of our it with alpha particles. There experi He was bade farewell at the

own flesh and blood have sprung upments had succeeded fad the atom had station by Queen Wilhelmina, Prince Hoary, the Premier and Ministers, and

Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and been disrupted by this method. Another LONDON, MAT 6th.

South Africa; it is smaller because such phenomenon of the alpha particle had Parliamentary circles are freely specu- then proceeded to Brumela, where the the consequence of the King of the Belgians waloomód him at

inventions as aircraft and the wireless also been solved recently. It had been lating on.

telephone (over which I speak to you this observed that the particle sometimes Ministerial mihapa at East Willaden and his station and drove to the Palace, where Mitcham. While there is no question of he received the Ministers and high State

afternoon), to say nothing of steamships, vanished when travelling at enormous have made communication more quick and speed. Experiments.first in a vacuum and then in a gas had shown-that the of a crisis, it is agreed that the Govern- dignitarion.

cortain." mont has been nastily rebuffod, and a tained that it is untrue that any money revision of decontrol proposals and

"But the consequence is that we have alpha particlo was when moving swiftly BYDNEY, March 5th, rocently seized by the French in the framing of a building scheme on wider intended for the lines is necessitated. The opposition Buhr district was

The M.0.0. in their match against Now to think in oceans instead of narrow nose, capable of first capturing an electron and British Army, as previously reported. parties anticipate that the debates ining, has formed a Ministry which com- South Wales compiled 275, Chapman and if we are to koop the Dominions of then perhaps of losing it again.

connection with the passage of such prises six Ministers of Halvorsen's 1990 contributing 91, and in their 300ind the British Empire together, as the far- legislation will put the Government in Cabinet.

innings reached 399, Calthorpe being fung. ahires of our motherland, we must, responsible for 110. New South Wales at all costs, foster the merchant shipping A Peking managh states, that the an embarrassing position. Meanwhile the Postmaster General, Neville

Chamber CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES. knocked up 314 in their first innings, which plice between them and us, and the sidomos of the Rev. G. T. Gandiin,

has been completely destroyed by fire. lian's, past experience will mark him out

Bardsley scoring 90 and Taylor 73, and Navy which protects them in their going the oldest foreign residents of Peking, LONDON, March 5th,

out and their coming in. Bervice Estimates for in the second innings scored 102 for 5

"The Navy League exists to secure the The loss is considerable as Mr. Gandlin a succor to Bir Griffith Boscawen, whose parliamentary life at least for the

freedom of the seas for all nations dur-had a valuable collection of books and manuscripts. Mr. Gandlin is. not in. present is considered ended. It is a 1023-4 are £314,000,000, compared with wickets down. The match was drawn,,

ing peace, and for Great Britain and Peking at present. Another fire took certainty that housing legislation 412,000,000 for the provicon year.

thoso allied with her should war unfor place in the foreign style building north regards Sootland has not boon rendered

tunately come. The precise aims and of the Chartered Bank in Rue Linovitch work of the Navy League can bo sacer in the upper floor occupied as a Chinese easier by the fact that the Lord Advocate

tained by application to their office at bank Fortunately, Major Began and the for Scotland, William Watson, has not

13, Victoria-street, B.W. 1, so I ask American Legation Fire Brigade turned

before serious damago was done. to give it not only your good wishes but out promptly and extinguished the flames

LATEST CARLES

DENMARK AND RUSSIA DANISH TRADE DELEGATION TO VISIT MOSCOW.

COPENHAGEN, March 8th, According to an arrangement between the Sorict and Danish Governments, the latter is despatching a delegation to yet found a sent. His nhsance from the

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CHRISTIANIA, March 5th.

M. Halvorsen, President of the Stort

The Civil

A COBRECTION.

LONDON, March 5th,

A report of the death of Araloft is in- House is inconveniencing the Govere correct The dead man is Abiloff, repre Moscow in order to negotiate a commer-ment, especially as no qualified Conserva-senting the Azerbaijan Republic at nial and trade agreement.

tive substitute is available

Angora

ENGLAND AND WALES SOCCER MATCH.

Losnos, March 5th. Playing at Cardiff, at soccer, England and Wales drew with the score two goals nside,

"substantial support,