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THE RUHR.

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PROPAGANDA.

Paris, March 8th."

The Deputy for Martinique asked leave

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THE HONGKONG DAILY FRR88, NATURDAY, MARCH 101% 1925.

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FRENCH BUDGET BILL. 7.

RETURNED TO THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES

PARIS, March 9th. The Budget Bill mentioned in cable messages dated February 3rd and 9th has been returned to the Chamber of Deputies, which adopted it by 323 votes to 232;

En interrogate the Premier, in the including an amendment to balance the

NAVAL AGREEMENT. FRENCH AND BRITISH ESTIMATES.

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[ASSOCIATED PRESS MESSAGAGES TO MANILA PAPERS).

FEWER *: BUSINESS FAILURES.

PARIS, March 8th, M. Raiberti Minister of Marine," an-

Naw YORK, March 1st. Bounced in

Bradstreets Commercial Agency – anys. the Chamber that the Government would ratify the Washington to-day that business failures in February naval agreement immediately the reporter enty-four por cant less than in on the matter had recovered from his the same month last year. indisposition,

TARM CREDITS BILL PASSED. PARIS, March 8th.

FAR EASTERN

NEWS."

CABLE

(TEROUGH KOSTER'S AGENOT.)

THAO KI AND WU PH TỔ WORKING TOGETHER.

· LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There were fire cases of notifiable dis ease in the Colony on Thursday, all Chines. They were: Small-pox, twą (from Kowloon); diphtheria, one; anterio fever, one; and cerebro-spinal fever one. There was also one case of rabies report. fed as Kowloon,

A Chinese mendicant

attempted to

-Pax180, March 9th. An important note on, the present Cabinet crisis reveals that Generals. The House today passed the Farm Taxo Kun and Wu Pei Fu are working commit suicide in a police cell as the Central Police Station, on Thursday, by Credits Bill proposing the establishment together It has been widely reported hanging himself with a piece of cloth.

WASHINGTON, March 1st,

The Minister of Marino has introduced 講 Bill dealing with the high sean fleet, Chamber of Deputies, regarding the Badges by the issue of Treasury Bonds.fixing it in conformity with the of two now banking systems, ope a Gor- withdrawal from the Ruhr area of a The Chamber has postponed considera- Washington agreement on tonnage, with crament and the other private, to meet recently that there has been much friction Fortunately discovery was made in time

battleships at 175,000 tons, and aircraft the farmers financial needs.

The Bill between them. division containing 900 Martiniquation of the Socialist amendment provid-carriers at 81,000, while light surface now goes to conference between the two

ing for the endorsement of bearer vessels

300,000 and Housca.

securities,

Crooten.

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4.

MEXICAN OIL BILL

are fixed submarines at 15,000.

BEE PHALED MILK BILL - PASSED BY

- SENATE,

LONDO, March 8t The British Navy, estimates for 1993- 1994 total £81,401,000, ipared with STATE TO RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF 209,476,000 last year and $95,519,000 the

PETROLEUM. SUBSOIL

previous year It is stated that they have been prepared on tip assumption that all the signatory Powers will effectively ratify the Washington treaty. It is expected that over four millions sterling will be spent in the year on the now battleships Nelaun Ad Rodney, revertheless the total affecting voton are reduced by £4,617,000, by most rigid economy. A continuano of tas policy is only justified by the seriouses of the financial situation and the spectation of A general atmosphere of tranquillity.

Maxico City, March 8th. Congress has approved of the Petro leum Bill, retaining the State ownership of subsoil, thereby contradicting, the ports of Mexico's intention to meet President Harding's requirements.

and he was later removed; to Governmens Civil Hospital.

PEKING CARINET RISIONS.

PIKING, March 18th.

Yesterday's Garrison Command Orders" mention that Lioat, E. L. Leader, and The Cabinet resignech en bloe this even-Battalion King's Regiment, has resigned

WASHINGTON, March 1st, The Senato to-day passed the Filled Milk Bill which would prohibit the intering state shipment of condensed and arspo rated milk made from skimmed milk and oil substitutes for butter fat, such as cotton seed and coconut oil

NEW YORK SENATOR'S DEATH.

WASHINGTON, March 1st." Representative W. Bourke Cockran, of New York, died suddenly this morning following a stroke of appoplexy: He cele brated his sixty-ninth birthday yesterday with a spirited speech in the House at the night session, in which he attacked the Farm Credits Bill. Representative Cock rac was a wheelhore of Tammany Hall and an advocate of light, wines and beer. IMMIGRATION INTO HAWAII.

from February 27th. Captain S. A Crawford and Captain R. E. Fleming. M.C., of the 2/4th Bombay Grenadiers

BIG STRIKE IN OFYLON.

RAILWAY, ENGINEERING AND CARGO|have been granted leave of absence from

April 7th to December 3rd.

COOLIES 'INVOLVED."

Mr. F. J. Saunders, one of the Raymond

COLOMBO, March 8th. Fifteen thousand railway and engineer ng coolics are involved in a strike which and Whitecomb tour managers in chargs is unprecedented in Ceylon, and has now lasted a fortnight. There is considerable of shore excursions fell from one of the intimidation, and the bunkering of vessels upper decks of the Resolute after sha Several ships have had sailed from Hongkong. Mr. Saunders is being impeded.

fell to the deck below and is believed to been diverted to other ports.

have broken a hip. He will remain in

Premier Poincare, "in a written, reply, stated that France, had always 'consider nd the Colonies an integral and indivis ible part of the Motherland, and had not distinguished between the various races living under the protection the Franch Bag France had never mengnia” nd two categories or classes" of citizens, German propaganda sought to limit France to the use of metropolitan troops, but France would not crass to uphold her right to retain European and oversens contingents side by side. The Government's reason for not employing

The reducation of the pèsounol by, coloured troops in the Ruhr area was thai) «

twenty thousand is expected þ bo com- LONDON, March 7th.

pleted by April 1st, except for 1,140 it was considered more expedient, for

WASHINGTON, March ist. The Senate Immigration Committee the present, not to furnish any pretext

Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord officers and men retained, peding the

Government's decision on the Almiralty's today made a report urging the enact for German propaganda.

Balfour defended the sentence in the proposal that the Navy in fatu provide ment of the Dillingham Resolution to

its Own air personnel. Mr Amery permit restricted immigration, other THE TIME FOR MILDNESS 19 Balfour Note of September 1st, 1922, re

appeals for the active goodwi of the wise inadmisible aliens to Hawaii to re PAST.

lative to the United States Having insist, follow citizens of the Empire for the lieve the present labour shortage.

The port declared that Americas COLOGNE, March sthed on British security for the money to thousands of distinguished or romising control of Hawai and control of the The newly-established Belgian Military | be spent for the Allies, to which the officers and men severed from Servloe Pacific Cocan" word endangered by the tion has formulated plans to establish a different ships of the Admiral's flect some

to which they are whole-Eartedly Japanese. The leaders agreed there was devoted.

The personnel to booted is tittle chance of putting the resolution has decided to apply to the Government time last month The ages of these pris 99,500, and recruiting is d very through before adjournment.

THE BALFOUR NOTE. LORD BALFOUR DISSENTS FROM

-AMERICAN VIEW.

American 'Ambassador recently objected

continuing, Lord Balfour dissented from the American view relative, to the purely commercial nature of the relations of the

allied and associated poweră, on behalf of an enterprise in which all alike were in- terested. This remored the financial arrangements into a sphere where the ordinary categories of debtor and creditor, though still Falid, could hardly be deemed sufficient; nevertheless there

restricted, “

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COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES,

PLOTTERS ARRESTED IN

BELGIUM.

Public

COMMISSIONERS' CONFIRMED.

WASHINGTON, March 2nd. President Harding to-day nominated two additional members of the foreign debt funding commission in accordance The with the recent change in the law. additional members are Representativa Charles B: Crisp of Georgia and former Representative, Olney of Massachusetts. Both are Democrats."

COLOMBO, March 8th. The barbour is completely paralysed | owing to the strike of cargo coolies. No Manila and will be taken care of in the loading or unloading of coal is possible. Naval Hospital at Cavite

BOXER FUNDS.

TEXTILE MACHINERY MAKERS”

PLANS.

LONDON, March 5th. The Textile Machiners Makers' Associa

textile technical school in China, and

Siricon of the Russian refugees under Admiral Stark's command in Mariveles are now serving short prison terms in Bilibid having been found guilty by court-martial of mutiny, on board threa

for a share in the remitted Boxer in-oners range between 17 and 38: They' demnity.

said the cause of the mutiny was over- work. "The terms of imprisonment range from one to five months..

AHEAD OF THE MAIL.

SUPPLEMENTARY WIRES FROM

INDIAN PAPERS.

The monthly water return gives the storage in the reservoirs supplying the City na 756 million gallons ́en" the 1st

The following telegrams are taken from March against 1,048 million gallons on the anma date inet year. The consumption Indian exchanges:- CITY EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE was 181 million gallons against 200 million

COMPANY.

gallons during February last year. The supply this year was intermittent during February except for four days at Chinese New Year; in 192 it was con.

Summary Court at Neuss disposed of twenty of the cases against Germans on the first day. Announcing that "the time for miliness in past the Preal dvat of the Court inflicted,” punishments' ranging from a fine of 100,000 marks to

BELA, Mar 8th. x months imprisonment: the latter in

Acting on information thot sl recent the case of a newspaper editor who re

strikes in the coal and iron min were Fused to divulge the names of contributors

organised by the Communists, ho are plotting against the safety of th State,

The Senate latar confirmed the two af objectionable articles. The appeal

the

Prosecutor has rdered Raw commisionera and also the nomina- kgod by the Burgomaster of Duisburg.

numerous arrests in Brussels, Atwerp, tion of D.. B. Crissinger to be Governor rranted in the doubling of the original legal right on the part of the United forty

was an acknowledged and incontestable Liogy, Charleroi and Ghent, iuding of the Federal Reserve Board.

Communist --Joaðaro, Niherous GERMAN - AMBASSADOR LUNCHES

LONDON, February 19th. WITH SOVEREIGNS. wetenco. The Court decided that

States and Lord Balfour paid a tributo documents have been seized, chowk that

Mr. George Mansell, manager of the City appelant's contention that he acted

the plotters received mony fromabroad,

LONDON, March 2nd.

Equitable Fire Insurance Company, was to the manner in which it had been chiefy from Germany and Russ. [. The German Ambassador, Dr. Strausa charged at the Guildhali to-day for constant except in the Western District. At under orders from his Government was exercised.

Many women are among t Com-reich, lunched with the King and Queen spires with Mr. G. L. Bevan to obtain Kowloon the storage is 189 million gallons, frivolous.

at Buckingham Palace yesterday. This £110,000 from the Company by false pre- is the first time a German Ambassador tenna He was remanded till Thursday against 168 million galoons last year, and million the month's consumption 48 buts lunched at the Royal Palaco since the and was refused bail. outbreak of the war.

gallons against 43 million gallons last NOMINATION FOR COMPTROLLER

Lyear. It will be seen that the City has OF CURRENCY REJECTED.

LONDON, February: 16th. slightly over four months' supply in the WASHINGTON, March 3rd.

Lecturing to the Royal Institute of reservoirs, while Kowloon, has slightly The Senate Committee on banking to day reported favourably on the contested British Architecte, Mr. H. V. Lanchester nomination of James G. McNary, of New said a very small proportion of the larger os than four months' supply. The Kow- Meixco, as Comptroller of the Currency. buildings in India in recent years had loon reservoir has, however, to supply Senator Couzens (Rep.), of Michigan, reached a high standard and many were the waterboats at Laichikok. The figures prepared a minority report, which is said far below, mediocrity. The time seemed for this supply, are tot given in the re to severely criticise McNary's adminis to be approaching when the architect tration as President of the First National would have a chance of establishing him- turns, but in the dry season it probably Baak of El Paso, Texas. The final vote if, in India, se there was a strong feel amounts to an additional draw off of of the committee in favour of confirma-ing against the continuance of Departe nearly half a million gallons a day and mantal control of works.. He urged that

EARLIER CABLES.

GERMAN INDUSTRIALISTS CLOSE THEIR WORKS.

COLOGNE, March 8th.

EARLIER CABLES,

BRITAIN'S AIR FORCE, AIR MINISTRY'S PROGRESSIVE

POLICY." K

LONDON, March 8th. The Air Force estimates för 1923-1924 show a gross total of £18,605,000 and a net total of £12,011,000, the latter being

an increase of £1,118,000 over the net total for the present year.

'munista who have been arrested...

M.C.C. 7. COMBINE

UNIVERSITIES.

MELBOVENE, Madh 8th, The M.C.C. compiled 258, Hillwood 84), and the Combined Univesities re- plied with 332. The M.C.C the knocked up 135 for the loss of 5 wicket and the match was drawn.

ANOTHER ATHLETIC

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ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA:

The biggest German industrialists here mad "in the Ruhr „have decided to clean thair works for at least a month, paying the workers full wages Exports have

RECORD. stopped owing to the German refusal to A memorandum explains that £5,937,000

New York, March 8th of the difference between the gross and pay the French tax Manufacture is

net figures represents, the" grom expendi. Jpio Ray of Illihole has doated the tion was said to have been sight to six.

architects for India should have a dis would thus leave Kowloon with only Insufficient" to "keep the works fully sure in the Middle East. The increase Finh, Whillle Ritola, in a G thousand

WASHINGTON, March 3rd. The Senate in executive session late to- tinctive training. Hitherto no architer three month water in store. in the net total is due to the scheme of mptres race at an indo athletic. employed. It is impossible to OVLT-

expansion of Home defence, involving meeting, establishing a world record of night considered the nomination of James tural school in India had been able to G. McNary, of El Paso, Texas, to be bring up its syllabus to the requirements stimate the gravity of the closing down, the formation of fifteen na quadrons 14mins. 54seci.

comptroller of the currency, but action of the B.I.B.A. for partial exemption. That of Bombay came nearest to this went over until to-morrow. as the idle workers have been provided and additions to three squadrons assigned for co-operation with the Nary. In con with money and are certain to fall into sequence of the impending completion of new aircraft carriers, the personnel will! mihiot The Chamber of Commerce has be 33,000 compared with 31,176 but the sent a letter to Mr. Wedgwood Bean, cost of the personnel will not be greater. The increase in cost is chiefly due to

the

aircraft

MACAO NOTE...

[FROM A CORRESPONET.]

THE POST OFFIC

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AGAIN.

STORY OF A BONHAM ROAD ATTACK,

Senator Courons, of Michigan, it is standard, and but for the lukewarm SANITARY BOARD COOLIES understood, blocked action. The work of attitude of the Bombay Government to the sixty-seventh congress which adjourns wards it, this school might soon be able to claim such a position, but at present, ane die to-morrow was virtually completed Government refused the demand for its and innumerable bills scheduled for en help on the ground of economy. If Bom actmoet were blocked by a spectacular M.P., drawing attention to the serious technical equipment and the number" of

to the R.L.B.A. "standard: this would position of British traders, and demand. now types shortly to be produced, hence The Acting Postmaster, Mr. Gomes, filibuster to obtain a house vote on the bay and other schools could develop up.

Senate resolution by the Government of

"ing

the drastic action by British the. Air Ministry will place orders with contemplates approaching Government $10,000,000 worth of nitrates, calcium and enable Indians to qualify more satis factorily than by visiting England, which substantially for an all round improvient and earsenate for sale to southern cotton industry

confuso their Government. It is now impossible to greater than in recent your

and Jargements of the Post Of He suggests

architectural ideala.

Janve

the British zone

without an sufficient to maintain an adequate number augmenting the staff sa was the erco plantors. The filibuster, tied up the clos tended to distract and

of firine on a sound bagin

WASHINGTON, March 4th. tion of a new building, he schone is ing of congress for hours. countering French posts.

not altogether an originsjons, but is James G. McNary, of New Mexico, was well worthy of attention, one would be not confirmed by the Senate as Comp- inclined to believe that tajolume of controller of the currency. Senator Couzens, respondence is increasing as a result of Michigan, in a statement said McNary perhaps, of increased confrcial activity was not fitted for the place. The Garemment's presenpolicy of T

DEMOCRATS TURN DOWN PRESI

FRENCH CUSTOMS BARRIER

COMPLETE. DUESSELDORF, March 8th. There is now an unbroken French customs barrier from the Dutch to the Swiss frontiers, completing the encircle- ment of the Rhineland in addition to the Rubr.

ESSEN, March 8th.

BRITISH POLITICS. LIBERAL REUNION

POSSIBLE.

Mir

A

OBITUARY

DENT'S AFFOINTMENTS,

A LUCKY ACCIDENT. Many of the most important discoveries

As a sequel to a brawl the other day, in Bonham Road, between Sanitary Board coolies and earth coolies, six Sanitary Board "cooling were charged before Mr. Lindsell, as the Magistracy, yesterday morning, with assaulti

It appears that the trouble developed in science and engineering have been over-a-woman-earth coolie inadvertently trenchment, however, will robably veto

made almost by accident. There is now dropping some rubbish on to the road. in-general use a process known to the This annoyed the Sanitary Board coolies, LONDON, March 8th..

any suggestiona stailing (penditure.

textile industry as wool carbonisation." WASHINGTON, March 3rd. Mr. Lloyd

which is really a method of removing who were cleaning up at the time. The Correspondenes between

THE BANCO NACIONAL ULAMARINO.

President Harding today nominated from wool all the vegetable matter, auch woman was pursued by the awerpers. George and the Laboral M.P.,

The Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Senator Carter Clasa (Dem.), of Virginia, as straw, and barrs, which the sheep may Her men folk came to the rescue and a Entwistlo, in which the Centre Party

A British firm of French troops this morning disarmod idea is frankly abandoned, is regarded announces that Mr. Arat. Apoar of to be a member of the war debt funding collect in its fleece and expelled the security police from in the Lobby as a distinct advance in Hongkong, having relinqued the agency commission, but he declined the appoint dyers had provided their workers with stone-throwing competition ensued. The of the bank in Hongkongears. Boa, ment. The President then nominated overals of cotton for the summer and of Sanitary Board coolies turned out in Dortmund, thus completing the disarming the direction of a Liberal reunion. It is and dissolution of the security police stated authoritatively that no political to conduct their agencjantil further line, as a member of the commission in freely splashed during working hours large numbers from their quarters near

Brothers, of Hongkong, to undertaken Senator Simmons (Dom.), of North Caro-wool for the winter. Those overalls got

exist between Mr. throughout the Ruhr, which is conso ties whatever now

notice.

place of Senator Glas, but he telegraphed and it was noticed that the dye liquor, by and joined in the fight. The carth his colleague, Senator Overman, of North which contained seid, moon corroded the colles were joined by numbers from the quently without police, except the civis Lloyd Goozgo and the Conservative ex- Ministers, who are not included in the polica still possessed by certain towns.

undor- We regret to have to sort the death Carolina, that he would be unable to cotton overalls, while the wool ones were hillside. When the police arrived on the A tacit present Government,

not affected. To make quite sure of the "LONDON,. March 8th.

standing between the two wings of the of Mr. Francisco Hengildo Fer-opt the appointment

HENEY FRICK'S ESTATE.

difference an overall was made with scene the numbers had reached acarly 200. Further French advances are reported Cabinet, which led to the presence of nandes, brother of MrJorge Carlps

New York, March 3rd.. alternate squares of cotton and of wool; Birkenhead and Mr. Austen Fernandes, manager of Tipografia in a Berlin message which states that the Lord

The State Tax Commission to-day French have occupied Rhainan harbour, Chamberlian on Mr. Lloyd George's Morenatil, on the 5th i, at Macao. in the vicinity of Mannheim, also Darvab platform during the Elections has been The deceased gentleman formerly an valued the late Henry Frick's estate at abandoned by both sides. It is recognized interpreter in the Supno Court at $92,853,358. The tax on the estate will be station, near Elberfeld

that in the event of a reunion some half Hongkong and later theditor of the $20,032.005

Macao Fcho. dozan National. Libérals will join the Government in view of the election pledges. A further development is ex pected on March 12th, when seventy Liberals, who recently passed a resolution in favour of a reunion, are to meet, HOME UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES.

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THE MARK IMPROVES. FOLLOWING GERMAN GOVERNMENT GOLD LOAN

LONDON, March 8th. The German Government Gold Iwan has considerably improved the mark, which touched 90,000 to 21 in London yesterday, and closed at $7,000, contrast. wat with 240,000,000 at the beginning of the Baby Docupation

LONDON, March 8th. The unetaployment figures improved by 12,260 last week

boo pole. They also arrested another man who attacked a Chinese constable.

and after this garment had been splashed Police reinforcementz-were sent for and with acid it was found that the woollen they experienced some difficulty in scatter- squares remained while the cotton onering the coolics. They secured the arrest disappeared. As cotton is similiar in Henry O. Frick was an associate of character to the straw, burra and other of six of the more violent Sanitary Board Andrew Carnegie in the manufacture of vegetable fragments which get into coolice, including one who savagely steel. He came into public notice in 1892 sheep's wool, this firm quickly jumped to attacked an Indian constable with a bam- by bis vigorous management during the the idea that the same process could be WHAT'S IN A, ÁRCE 1

Camous strike at Homestead, P., when used for destroying these foreign mate ho was stabbed and shot several times by riala-in wood The husband of woman com-one of the strikers. He was chairman of mitted for trial by Hh Rhondda the board of the IO. Frick Coke Co., magistrates last mout on chargo the largest producer of coke in the world; of bigamy, was state to work at operating nearly 40,000 acres of comi Llanfairpwllgwyngellgoghwryndrobwll-lands and 12,000 coke ovens with a daily Ilandigailtogogogooh. The name means capacity of 25,000 tons. He was a direc

The Village of Mary the White Pit tor in many railroad companies, banks close to the rashin waterfall of and other corporationa]

(Continted at foot of nest wumn.)" Liandimajlio of the Bodve,"

ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION

MONTANA.

Harana, Mont., March 3rd. Governor Dixon to day signed the so called anti-Japausso Bill prohibiting aliena from owning or lessing land in Montana.

His worship, after listening to the ovidence, ordered the man who attacked the Indian constable to be sent to geol for four month. The man who attacked the Chinese constable was given three months, whilst the other four defendants were given/14 ́days esch.

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