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CABLES.

BARDIER CADEEN. {THROUGH RAUTER'« JOKYcY}}

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

ON BROOKLYN ELEVATED

RAILWAY.

EARLIER CABLES.

GERMAN REPARATIONS PREMIER POINCARE AND EARL CREWE CONFER.

:

LONDON, June 95th...

Whilst the Anglo-French German rẻ parations conversations are hampered by

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

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INTERNATIONAL AIR CONGRESS.

OPENED BY PRINCE OF WALES,

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27TH, 1998.

-DISABLED STEAMER.

DUTCH VESSEL HAS HER.

PROPELLER FOULED.

HADZAS, June 13th. The Dutch steamer Staterüijk, which is believed to have her propellor fouled by wire > miles from bere, is communicating with the Dutch stemmer dedijk to take

MADRAS, June 25th.

her in tow,

LONDON, June 25th/ The seventh International Air Congress was opened in London this morning by the delay in the Belgian Cabinet recon-II.B.H. the Prince of Wales, and was at New York, June 25th."

struction, accoreling to the Paris news- A terrible necident occurred on the Papers, a slight modification of the points tehided by Sir Samuel Hoare and the Duke located railway in awe of the busiest of view on both sides resulted in a of Sutherland and a large and disting- German skamer, Gutenfela to, Calcutta. actions in Brooklyn through the toppling/lengthy conversation between Earl Crewe uished gathering of representatives of 16 Satisfactory progress is reported.

-ører of a two-car train.

and Premier Poincare at the Quai d'Orsay countries, including France, Italy, Bel- gium, Holland, China, Japan, India anil REINELAND AND RUHR BUFFER Afghanistan, and the High Commissioner

At present it is estimated that six were yesterday. killed and 40 jujured.

The first car fell on a couple of motor- r in the street below, dragging the second car along with it.

REPUBLIC.. Meanwhile, however, indignation has been urdused in Paris by the publication in the

of Australia.

H.R.H. the Prine of Wales, in wel coming the delegates, emphasised the grent possibilities of civil aviation, expe Witnesses say that one of the axles of Observer of a translation of a long con- cially in developing international good "the forward car appeared to break, caus-Adential report, dated April 18th, 1023; | will.

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ing the car to slip over, partly demolish which was sent to Paris by the French The Duke of "Sutherland said that the ing the elevated structure in its tab. Hith Conimissioner in the Rhineland, world was on the eve of great advances The only previous time that a train has showing French relations with the notor-in aviation and development of inter fallen into a New York street was 15 years inüs Dr. Dorten, lender of the Separatist national civil and commercial aeronautics mavenient in the Rhineland, and urging on a scale hitherto unrealised, and by the ago in Manhattan.

the Government to conciliats hun in view evolution of a popular and cheap light of the fact that "the idea of a Rhineland aeroplane. Republic was no longer a chimera. but had fentered the domain of probab'e events."

The two cars were partially telescoped. Broken electric wires caused in Bre, but the fames were quickly extinguished.

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FULL DETAILS OF A FIGHTFUL

ACCIDENT.

New York, June 24th. The casualties in the Elevated Railway crash were 8 killed and 83 injured,

The dend include seven women and girls.

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Le Temps describes the publication as a sharp attack on Franes ou the very day n critical conversation was proceding at Paris,

U.S. PROHIBITION,

The Sloterdijk is being towed by the

STEAMER DISASTER HALIFAX BERMUDA, LINER ON

REEF.

HAMILTON, Bermus), June 23th. The Royal Mail liner Caraquet, from Halifax, went on the reef to the north of Bermuda.

up,

RADIO.

LECTURE AT THE VOLUNTEER

HEADQUARTERS.

An interesting lecturg-the first of a sries of four, on the subject of "Radio” was given at Valunteer Headquarters by Mr. Chesterton, of the Marconi Company, yesterday evening. The chair was taken by Mr. D. Tollan, who, on introducing the lecturer, remarked that Me, Chister ton hoped in the course of his lectures to give them an insight into the more intricate details of the subject.

The speaker illustrated his subject with chalk and blackboard, and with the aid of wireless equipment, Early in his address he explained something of the qualities of nether, and informed his listeners that the only force that had been found to pierce it, and effers it in say way, was the force of the electron, or electricity, and it was upon the electron, therefore, that radio depended. Ho add od that the universe, as we know it, was

SAVING LIFE AT SEA.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

CRITICISED.

CALL FOR MORE EFFECT

MEASURES,

Mr. Joseph E. Foley, general secretary of the Association of Coustries Masters. Mates, and Engineers, commenting in a letter on the recent report on life saving appliances at sea, circulated by the Mer chant Shipping Advisory Committe, wys.

"We have long been advocating a system of rapid working boat-launching devices, that could be operated by men of ordinary intelligence, and such are obtainable. If that ships could be equipped with appli proper inquiry, was, made I

am tisfici

asces that would enable one or two men to lower by single suspension, the largest sized ships lifeboat from the chocks to- the water in seconds, ct hours. And the speed with which the operation can be risks of the present system. In my opinion performed would do away with all the the present report is so much twaddle. appears to be simply a method

hood. winking prospective passengers into the

of

ΣΕ

It is believed that the vessel is breaking one huge mass of solar aystems-of which belief that in the event of disaster thei

ours was one of the least important. Our safety is adequately provided for by the dissolar system. It could, therefore, bere the ship's aide. In very many eas thes own globe was ope of the smallest in our sms of nice white painted boats that errupy such a conspicuous position along

Tugs have gone to the scene of the aster to take off the passengers,

SILVER MARKET. Reporting from London on May 16th, on the silver market, Messrs. Samuel Montagu, & Co. stated:-

garded as a speck, of dirt Honting in a boats should have worn a different shape. huge sea of acther. Mr. Chesterton then and instead or being painted white show. should have been gak grained and fitted or the subject of radia in the course of side. proceeded to enlarge on the technicalities with at least six brass handles on each which he demonstrated the inefficiency of

"The present system· i a failure hecause in times of stress it ennnot be present transmitting methods, and point-operated successfully with any degree of Prices were inclined to droop until od out that of the energy expended on it, certainty owing to the raffle of ropes The French Foreign Minister has LAWLESS DRINKING BECOMING A immediate shipment to Borabay, consign- which meant that receiving sets had to be time required to launch, the boats

Saturday, when fresh buying get in for only five per cent, was ewentual'y gained, rosary to work long threefold tackles.

the two-end suspension, and the length of IB Formly denied the existence of such n MENACE TO THE NATION. ments by the steamer leaving, this week of extremely high power in order to enteh siso requires a number of trained men deomment.

being considered good for delivery this what power there was to be had from the to handle it, far exceeding the whole June settlement in that city. The energy transmission.

crews of small vessels. Thousands of live have been lost from passenger veese's bo- cause of the impossibility of launching boats in time to be of any use Thou- sands of lives have been lost from shal vesela on the coast because of the im pessibility of launching at all No man can regard with any confidere a system of life saving media that remiter an hour's intense labour before it can be utilised, and ne reasonably-minded load, weighing anything up to eight toas man could export a double-suspended to be lowered a distance from 0 to 50 feet from a wildly pitching platform into a tumbling sea vill any degree of safety. guaranteed, patocularly when the method of lowering is the simple lacking of a rope around a pin by two individuals who may, or may not, be trained seamen, and getting the boats into the water in the whose own safety depends upon their shortest possible time, human

of the purchases, "however, was not sus- A vote of thanks to the speaker was receded, nasisted by some China sales, tained at rising quotations, and prices accorded at the conclusion of the lecture. India also sold silver for forward de

DENVER, June 25th. President Harding, in the course of speech, expressed his opinion that any change in prohibition would be in the Le, Matin declares that the object of the direction of a more effective, enforcement.livery. The train plunged forty feet into the Observer's manœuvre in to facilitate an There was much evidence rruching Wash-

DUTCH INDIAN LOAN. junction of Atlantic and Flatbush aventre, Anglo-German combination financed by Ington that soine of the States were, dis-

LONDON, June 25th. Brooklyn, a congested retail shopping English banks with a view to the estabposed to abdicate their polien authority

Dealings commenced in the Dutch centre. People in motor-cars and pedes tishment in Rhineland and the Ruhr of & to enforce prohibition, and also a general Indian Loan at one-half per cent. dis trians had miraealous escapes. for the buffer republic subsidised from London in misconception that the Federal Govern count and later at one and a hall per Falling cars carried down countless elec. order to prevent French influence estabsment was responsible for enforcement, cent, and finished at one per cent, dis- trical wires, from which bue flames lishing itself definitely on the Rhine, spluttered menacingly amid the tangled

debris.

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LATER It is authëritatively declared in London The screams of passengers pinioned that the Malin story is merely a repeti under the cars some transfixed under tion of a tale published last April, when jagged pieces of wreckage, or cut with it was officially and ostegorically denied. broken glass-were heard above the din

י

NO ACTION BY BRITISH

GOVERNMENT.

LATER.

and shouts of the spectators and the clanging gongs of fire engines and ambal- ancen, which were quickly on the scene, In the House of Commons, replying to The thousands of onlookers who were Mr. Ramsay Macdonald with regard to packed into the confined spach hindered the Observer's Rhineland document, Mr. the work of reseuc, so that it was night-| Baldwin said that, the Government had fall before all the injured were removed } no knowledge of the authenticity of other- to hospital.

wise of the document, and that the Gov- Jernment did not propose to make any re presentations to France or the other Allies on the subject,

The cause of the accident is uncertain, but is thought possibly to be due to defective rail or a misplaced switch.

The waterman has been arrested and charged-with-homicide.

COMMUNISTS REJECTED.

BY BRITISH LABOUR

CONFERENCE.

PARTY

LONDON, June 95th.

GERMAN RESISTANCE

UNDIMINISHED.

whereas it was not equipped to make enforcement locally offrative. If however, the burden of enforcement is continued to be thrown upon the Federal Government it would be necessary to create a costly Federal police authority, which would be inevitably regarded as an intrusion on the local authority, with possibilities of dis

ster.

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President Harding concluded by saying that lawless drinking was becoming a menace to the nation

PRACTICE OF BREAKING SEALS.

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LONDON, Juno 25th.

In the House of Commons, replying to Viscount Curzen, Mr. Baldwin said, that the Government saw no ground for pro test against the breaking of seals on liquor on board British liners at New York. British Customs als on dutiable| hip' stores taken from Britain in bond

count.

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

LONDON, June 25th.

At Wimbledon, the lawn tennis cham- pionships were opened in dismal wen

ther.

Play was timed to start at two o'clock, and thousands, many of whom were present before ten o'clock in the morning, waited

Godfree, the British Davis. Cup repre- sentative, defeated Mishu (Roumania) 4-6, 62, 06, 02, and 0-7

No further play was possible on the centro court, although a few outer court matches were finished.

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LONDON TO BAGBDAD IN -EIGHT DAYS.

MOTOR ROUTE ACROSS THE DESERT.

COTTON MANUFACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES Discussing the what, if a largest indastry" of the United the National Bank of Commerce in New York says:

third States

Recent purchases of Southern mills by New England interest and

more especially the actual transfer of complete mill equipment" from the North to the South, have emphasized the acceleratio of a movement which has been under way since at least the beginning of the condury. The tendency for cotton mann facturing to make larger gains in the cotton-growing states than elsewhere in the United States is partially due to greater acessibility to the raw material,

Southern mills have for a long time consumed more cotton than the Northern

Within the last few days we have had

an instine, of the abaurdity of putting

reliancs whatever upon the contri- report recommends. In the sinking of the vance for saving life at sea, which this Portuguese liner Monzumedor, we are in formed that four boats were prepared, bat in the pouring rain tüll five o'clock, when but more important than this has beon as three got away from the ship, the fourth falling with its occupants into the the first of the four international centre lower taxation and cheaper labour costs sa, where, despite the most gellant court matches was begun.,

Not only are the wage scales, lower in efforts, seven were drowned. Just imagin the South, due partially to lower casts of for a moment the frantic energy of the living and particularly to less industrial scament loading this co-called lif, boat, competition for labour, but the working with the recary navigating in tru- with the food and water and blanksta, hours are ager. The change may in ments, and implements for propulsion fact be identified na part of a world-wide and sailing. Think of the demented half- movement of the cotton textile industry their only hope of safety, clambering clothed people who regard that boat as to soek locations where lower labour costs and falling into her ever-swinging and. prevail.

swaying shape, until her full complement is on board, and the moment has arrived. This is the time that has so often prove to commence the operation of lawering. mil's. In the past the excess was the absolute worthlessness of the system, accounted for by the fact that mille in when the best and its equipment, with the cotton belt, spun carver yarn than all the living freight, is to be lowered the other mills. More recently, especially to the water, by two individuals, working tackles separately and independent of (FROM "THE TIMES" SZILUT CORDESPONDENT.] Bince the beginning of 1921, the difference rach other, me at each end of the boat. The long-cherished idea of a quick land between the consumption of Southern Under the very best of conditions the route from the Mediterraneau to Pighdad and other mills has increased, and the difficulty of uniformly lowering a heavy and India has been brought within the South has definitely assumed the lead is boat, some twenty-eight fest long, and a quarter of that in width, by murs of two region of practical experience by the du velopment of a motor-car service catablish relative activity as well as in consumption end suspensions, will be appreciated by ed in Beirut soon after the Armistico by a of raw material. On March 31st, 1823 men who have never seen the operation former New Zealand offcer.

the ection growing states had only 75 performed on board a ship, and they may For sose time past an efficient service has per cont, as many spindles as there were also form some opinion as to the greater been maintained between

ween Beirut and Haifa,

difficulty involved when this is being done thanks to which the express everland mail elsewhere in the United States, but as as part of a hurried fight from a cruel from Egypt is delivered

now

and in and out. She drives forward and activity farger proportion Governments. The extra post And Palestine

astorn

The sinking ship: roll, over, an The Beirut Hails service because they had worked each active top of her, or swings away, heaving the trifing. Tikhon has signed a declaration repudiat. age is

spindly two-fifths longer than in the boat against her side with blows that however, was merely the first step towards his past conduct, and declar

mbitious schemo. The new routel ing

d within

North, the total active spindle hours in threaten to shiver her to pieces. Then sixty tours land journey of

that happens which is too often recorded, ing that he he had been the tool of the the Mediterranean. The trial trips were up the South were one-sixth greater.

Southern mille wage scale is lower than one end goes by the run, and the boatload monarchists. He exprises his loyalty through Damescos, then scross |

desert to Ramadie, and on to Bagh-in the North where, however, less is done of people, oare, breakers, sails blankets the Soviet, and he apprale for this to be dud, a distance of 500 miles, with only one toward supplying cheap housing facilities, and all are dumped higgledr-piggledy half-way between Damascus and Referring to the efforte to shorten the into the sea, where they will be kept busy considered at his forthcoming trial.. Hamadie at Ruthe Wells, the only available working day, the cuticle points to by the swinging end of the boat, until she

water source throughout that stretch

BEELIN, June Sth. Herr Cuno, the German Chancellor, in the course of a speech delivered' at worn in no way inviolable except in British Koenigsberg, emphasised that the spirit waters. Foreign Customs seals were of resistance of the Ruhr population is habitually broken when necessary in

TORTURE?

At the Labour Party conference, beld undiminished. No Government order as British waters. in London, a resolution, in favour of the French demanded, could terminate a affiliation with the Communist Party, was situation created by the will of the people. i defeated on a card vote by, 2,880,000 votes Bo hoped that the whole German prople PATRIARCH TIKDON RECANTS" 16:00,000.

would prove equally, unbondable in the

Riga, June 25th.

The Labour Party executive rejected matter of payment of reparations on con- affiliation with the Communists and the decision was referred on to the party condition that German's economic freedom is ference.]

thereby secured.

PUGILIST'S INJURED HAND.

"MAY BE THE CAUSE OF LEGAD

PROCEEDINGS.

LONDON, June 25th.

F

2.

in

twenty-four

The Soviet announces that the Patriarch hours, under contract with the Egyptan/uring that month, they hall kept, a death. As the boat degps down she swinga -

torture.

with the Haut

liamascus,

officer

in

this line since 1900 and says:

thousands gone before.

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ANOTHER OFFICIAL DENIAL:

PARIS, June 25th. Another official denial has been issued The eminent surgeon specialist who with regard to the Observer'i

It is generally believed here that any desert. The first journey was done by substantial changes in the industry along goes to pieces, or they meet the fate of story re-

So far the movement toward shorter It is openly admitted that safety appli and Major McCallum, M.C. Jia examined Beckett's hand, has certified ferring to Dr. Daten. It states that ho such recantation is due to the effects of Fahner, the British Consulat

ficer hours,recognizable in both sections of the ances are only required for passengers, that he is not fit to undergo the necessary was never subsidised by the French Gov-

with i the

industry, has made much the more rapid and presumably there is no need to pro- are proceeding

advance in the North, Hore the usual tret seafarers, Members of a ship's crew, Trad Government for the transport of mails hours in 1909 were from 4 to 80 hours a|whether they are officerator geomet to Haita, with eventual, connexion at Fort work. In 1914 they were 64 hours and in purses, clerks or stewardesse must be Said with London-bound steamers. This will reduce the time of transit for mails 1910 the prevailing hours had dropped to satisfied with potluck. That is the popular between London aud Baghdad to eight 18 week or Iness. Southern mill hands Whitehall view. But it is not the view of days. An extension of the service is con rule worked 60 hours a week in the seafarers, whose claim for adequate templated to Tekerap, which will make it 1909, although many worked even longer protection is just a vital as the claims of possible for the mails between Fersis and hours. By 1014 most of them worked 60 workers on shore who are protected by

longer hours and but few worked,

In Factory

Acts and other similar enact London

delivered within be

thirtens 1919 the usual hours in the South were menta, Thousands of men

andnally in the small vesels of the coast.

training for his fight with Carpentier, onernment. July 27th. A rest of at least three months

is essential.

Major Wilson, the promoter, threatens

legal proceedings:

THE LOSS OF THE "TREVESSA?

ONLY ONE BOAT FOUND."

DURBAN, July 25th.

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IMPERIAL ECONOMIC

CONFERENCE.

SENTATION OF CROWN

COLONIES.

LONDON, June 25th

In the House of Commons, replying to

ITALO-FRANCO-SOVIET RELATIONS.

Moscow, June 25th! Signor Plachtini, the new Italian Com mercial Agent, hag arrived.

M. Herriot and the other members of

the French Commercial Mission here are

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on to

being made whereby between 4 and 60 hourá.

are

lost

of Bedouin tribes along the For the present, at Irak, mille can because of the wretched conditions of man-" will have a certain interest in the find cheaper Inboar which will work ning sad the provision of a workable

than eisowhere, though the weekly wage

equipmen

actively preparing for the participation success of the enterprise. This should longer hours in the cotton-growing states equipment for their safety, Sir J. N. Griffith, Had. W. G. A. of French firms it the Nijninovgorod Fair eliminate the risk of molestation and ensure quick assistance should it ever be useded. It is expected that the recent discoveries at Ur of the Chaldees will give a distinct fillip to the tourist trade.

Thé steamer Barrabool, which has been Ormsby Gore said that he would represent in August, searching for survivors of the Trevisa, at the Imperial Economic Conference has arrived back in Durban. The captain Crown Colonies and Protectorates, includ suporte that only one boat was found. ing the smaller islands. It was not pro- posed that the mandated territories should

He is of the opinion that the Trete's be represented, but it questions affecting carga of irda started the vessel's them arone, he would do his best to safe

guard their interests. plates and caused" hoy te founder,

TURCO-JAPANESE

DISCUSSIONS:

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 25th. Mutaaphin Keural bas received Baron Vohida.

Hy a majority of 200 to 159 the House of Commons on May 10th gavo leave to introduce a bill making illegal the appli cation of funds and levics of Co-operative »❘ societies to political purposes,

is tending to advance more rapidly, in the South than in the North

The southern

Inbour, also, is acquiring more skill from Interesting statisties are given in the your to year, so that the advantage in annual report of the Chamber of Shipping AM quality of product now possessed by Yew of the United Kingdom for 1922-0, England may gradually disappear the opening of this yar British shipping Probably the most marked advantage of was, is stated, still in the through of southern location is the fact that longer the worst period of depression of moders hours of work prevail there and that timea. That it has surmounted the even though there is a movement toward manifold dificulties is das in large. shorter hours changes so far have been measure to the sued sonservative policy le radical there than elsewhere."

pursued by OWIER

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