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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].

REPARATIONS DISCUSSIONS.

THE FRENCH REPLY TO THE BRITISH NOTE.

PARIS, August 1st The French reply to the British Nate follows the lines already" forecasted.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13KD, 1923

FRANCE DETERMINED TO PURSUE

HER OWN POLICY.

The annexe to the French Note replies in detail to the British Note in parallel columna. It says that France has hitherto not preceived the British Government's efforts to approach the ideals of France in the execution of the Treaty

of

Versailles, but Franer is convinced that matuni goodwill will lead to na agres mont, und cites the French determination, a hundred times stated, not to abandon

EARLIER CABLES,

BIG FIRE IN BROOKLYN. TWO FIREMEN KILLED: FORTY- SEVEN INJURED.

4,

New Yoxx, August ist.

A large force of firemen were buried in the collapse of a wall turing a fire at a dance hall in Brooklyn. It's feared that ten of the men hava perished and that thirty are injured. The disaster occurred just when the fire had apparently been got under control and a number of fire- men were on the roof whilst athers were on a lower floor turning streams of water on the flames, Crowds of spectators were dispersing when a torrific, erash ind clouds of dust and sparks, shot up to the

It begins with a statement of France's position, which, it claims, contains the one gentime of repurations, or the pledge elements of a practical solution. It do" she holds, till the reparations have been cinres that the French Government never completely paid. dresmed of pursuing a selfish policy with COMPLAINTS REGARDING BRITISH sky, and piercing wails were heard eum regard to reparations, which, would be

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NOTES.

ing from the burning wreckage. Many of the spectators became hysterica).

Two motor fire engines were crushed.

WORLD OF SPORT.

HOME CRICKET RESULTS.

SENSATIONAL BOWLING · FEAT.

FAR EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

TIRE

(THROUGH REVTER'S AGENCY.)

ON PRESIDENT GRANT.”

་ HONGKONG CARGO, AND MAIĻS.

DAMAGED

LosDOS. August 21st. England heat the Rest by five wickets at Lord's A feature of the match was

TOKYO, August 91st the sensational bowling of Tate, who after A Are is reported to have broken out lunch yesterday took five of the Rest aboard the Admiral liner President Grant wickets for no runs. MeBryan scored at present at Kobe. The Ary started in for the Rest, and Sutcliffe 65 for England. No hold and has not yet been exting. At Sheffield. Yorkshire heat Glamorgan wished. Considerable dainage is feared. by an innings and thirty-four. For York shire, Oldroyd compiled 19. Glamorgan

Tokyo, Adgust 22nd.

Reports state that the fire on the sa in their second innings scored 89, Hobin-President Grant stated in Nos. 0 and 8 sou taking 4 for 2 and Rhodes 5 for 26.

Kent at Canterbury beat the West Indics by 171. The West Indies in their second innings acored only 130, Cora wallis taking a for 37.

(not 1) holds while the ship was on the voyage between. Yokohama and Kobe It raged freely till late yesterday, when it was controlled by flooding the holds.

The damage to cargo and rails for

At Cheltenham, Middlesex Leat Glou-Shanghai and Hongkong is considerable,

insoluble without due regard to the whole The Note says that Great Britain's of the Europeau interests involved. They drift reply to Germany ignored France, like cardboard. A fireman directing *cestershire by eight wickets. Cloucester must always take into account the because it did not mention the essential hose on top of an escape was struck by in their first innings scored 154, Lee difficulties of some of their Allies. Parti- condition, namely, the coating of pas dying masonry, and crashed to earth on taking 8 for 30, and in their second inn-

It declares that the top of a spectator. Both men were sent

ings 144, Lee taking 4 for 27. eularly lamentable is the persistent universistuner,

to hospital. Simultaneously with the employment in England.

British Note is courteous but unconcilia-crash, the Hamics fared up afresh, and tory... France would have preferred a

east a ghastly glare on thousands of continuance of diplomatic exchanges in scantily clad bystanders. The cries of women and children mingled with the stend of publicity,

gruans of the injured men, whose arms and legs were scen protruding from the wreckage. Firemen, police and civilian volunteers are attacking the ruins from all sides.

CONCESSIONS GRANTED TO

-GERMANY-

in-

Basing itself on the Treaty, any fringement of which would create a dan“ gerous precedent, the statement recites,

It declares that Germany's capacity to

in detail a leng" series of concessions pay is at zery, this bas, been brought about granted to Germany "before and after the by the wish of the German Government, assessment of her indebtedness by the thus a valuation by experts would be 1199- Reparations Commission, which coners-

les, but this is no reason for wiping out nions were rever' requited, but merely re-

the debt, sulted in further › defaults, GERMANY ACCUSED OF EVASION,

OF OBLIGATIONS.

NEW YORK, August 21st. Two firemen were killed and forty seven injured in the collage of the dance

wall.

WHAT FRANCE IS PREPARED TO bail

"ABANDON."

UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN

BIG INCREASE LAST WEEK.

LONDON, August 21at: " Unemployment has been gradually

PRESIDENT GRANT LEAVES FOR

SHANGHAI,

LATEX,

..

The President Grant sailed for Shang hai yesterday afternoon, after the Aro Essex hent Northants, at Southend by had been extinguished. The damage is 203. For Essex, "O'Connor, compiled 99.stated to be not so great is was at first Northants in their first innings seured 16, Donglas taking 5 for 55, and in the agentid only 45, with Douglas taking 6 for 1.1.

Hanta at Southampton beat Lancashire on the first innings: For Lanes, Watson knocked up 131. For Hauts Hake com. piled S1, not out.

Leicester beat Warwick at Birmingham on the first innings." Warwick scored 126 ir their second innings, Astill taking for $1.

Worcester beat Sussex at Worcester

reported.

JAPANESE SUBMARINE SUNK.

Tokyo, August 1st. Japan's latest submarine sank on her trial trip off Kobe. Eleven of the crew have been saved, but & are missing-

TOKYO, August 21st.

The la, in an extra edition, pub lishes report that the newly-constructed submarine at the Kawasaki Dock, Kobe, during a trial trip this morning saak in

35 feet of water.

The captain, chief officer and -Ave of the Dockyard engineers and four others

BRITISH SCHOLARS ‚IN

THE EAST.

THE PRINCE OF WALES ON ORIENTAL RESEARCH.

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY CENTENARY.

The Prince of Wales, who was accomp panied by the Prime Minister, possided að the centenary celebration of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Burlington Hoa, nik July 17th. In the course of an address the Prince emphasised the part played in Oriental research by British public arvut

in the East. He stated that he had mused | with satisfaction in bis Eastern journeys that this tradition was fur from dead.

A CENTURY OF RESULTS. The Prince of Wals, welcoming the representatives of foreign societies and branch and affiliated oriental organisn tions from the Dominions, expressed the hope that their coming might be fruitful both in personal intercourse at the Cen tenary gatherings and also in the co-opera tive advancement of Oriental studies.

Although he laid no claim to be a Oriental scholar himself, he might claim to have travelled widely in the "storted East-from Egypt to Japan through. India and Ceylon, the Straits Settlements. and the gateways of China. He could claim the privilege of having seen their cities and of having sought to know their

mind,

Referring to the Centenary Volume of the Society, the Prince of Wales sald ho had been fortified by its records in views. which had been borus in on him by his own experiences and by his own observa tions of the Eastern world in the course of his travels. The century of the Society's activities. had been extraordinarily fruitful of results in many departments of Oriental discovery

To scholars of the last century we of today owed an immense debt for industry and genius had enriched our un

illuminating reaches with which their derstanding of these far-distant centuries of Asia's historics in which the civilisa tion of mankind took its rise.

the

...

"Our debt is to scholars of all lands. alike, mid the Prince, to all those who have added to the common stock and heye pushed forward the intellectual boundaries of Oriental knowledge. But today in celebrating the centenary of the Royal Asiatic Society, I necessarily confine myself to the Society's retrospect and to its parti-

fulness.

worsening during the past few weeks. by six wickets For Worcester, Pearsonable, it is reported that the Captain cular evidences of achievement and help- Last week it increased by 20,000 to

knocked up 10, not out.

WORK OF PUBLIO, BERVANTĒ.

The match at Chesterfield between were saved, but 85 men are missing.

A BIG DEATH HOLL Derby and Notts was drawn.

LATER. While accurate details are still unavail.

and four other officers were saved, though it is feared righty of the crew

"[

you follow the series of names which were drowned.

occur in a survey of the Royal Asintie The engineer of the dockyard, who man-hundred years, you caurot but bo "struck, Society's activities during the past one aged to save himself by jumping from as I, too, have been struck, by the pro the vessel was afterwards picked up by in the East bave played in scholarly con dominant part which our public servants aifebust. He anys that while the sub-tributions to Oriental research. Such maring was resting on the surface she names as those of Sir William Jones, for suddenly, and from some unexplainable many years a Judge in Calcutta ; of Henry cause, inclined at a sharp angle, causing the water to flow in rapidly.

Rescue work was much hampered by the depth of the water, which is thirty-five fathoms.

AUSTRALIAN-JAPANESE LAWN TENNIS.

SYDNEY, August 21st. The Australian Lawn Teanis Associa ter, nickel, steel and tinplates. Larger tion has instructed Anderson to accept orders for the last-gamed have been ar riving from South America and the Far East.

The annexe goes on to say that the Gjermany, up to the end of 1922, steadily German deht has been fixed by the Re- worsened her economic position, and never attempted to pat her house in parations Commission, but France, while püler as far as the Budget was concern. maintaining her claims, is ready to ahan.! ed. Gerinas kept her transport charges don a sum equivalent to the remission the leweat of any country, and increased of her own war debts. France has never the number and salaries of officials. She said that she would be content to receive 1,212,000. On the other hand, trade con- did not tax industrialists and shipowners thirty-four milliards gold marks, na herditions in South Wales are perceptibly to whom she granted all manner of privi, claims are theoretically sixty-eight mil-brightening, owing to the increase of coal Jeges and immunities, and thus built up | fiards and her debts twenty-seven. These shipments and the improvement in spel.

are figures that should be balanced. a new ercantile marine, which is now Competing with British and French ship- ping in American "waters. Germany dug canals and multiplied telephones, under- takling, regardless of cost, all manner of work "which France was compelled to postpone. Such "were the conditions when France, iu pursuance of her pre- viously announced intention of seizing pledges, decided to occupy the Ruhr

дгел.

LEGALITY OF THE RUHR

OCCUPATION."

The British Merchant Marine has been reconstituted and the German Merchant Marine has been destroyed, or only re- constituted as the result of sales to Ger nany by England. FRANCE OBJECTS TO COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS.

To substitute experts for the Repara tions Commission would be contrary to the Treaty France denies that the Com- mission is the reverse of impartial, and declares that France did not go to the Ruhr to find money for reparations, but to seize pledges and to create the Germa

THE WAR IN MOROCCO.

The reply then upholile the legality of the Ruhr occupation, but says that the will to pay. neenpation will be modified when passive resistance ceases. It ask the Allies to credit France with twenty-six milliards gold marks, accruing to her out of A and bonds and to allot to ber our of C Bonds any stim's she may rightly claim.

ALLIED DEBTS-

SPANIARDS LAND NATIVE LEVIES

AT AFRAU.

MADRID, August 21st. Advices from Melilla stute that a force Under the head"Allied Debts" the of native levies which landed at Afrau reply says that Germany's capacity and has occupied positions.

near Tifarauin. resources should be estimated periodically, payments falling due being modifiabis MARKS AT 40,000,000 TO £1. according to circumstances; such modifica

LONDON EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS, tions being decided by a majority vote' "of the Reparations Commission.

LONDON, August 1st.

the

A Boston message states that the Municipality there is purchasing 15,000 tons of Welsh coal, which is offered cheaper than the #15) charged for Ameri- can anthracite.

NEW USE FOR SMALL COAL BRITISH PROFESSON'S WONDER- FUL DISCOVERY.

LONDON, August 21st Professor Illingworth, of the South Wales School of Mines, after sixteen years of research, claims to have pro- duced, by a low temperature carbonisa- tion of small conl, what is practically artificial anthracite, calculated to revolu tionise the coal and patent fuel trades. He says the process of manufacture on- ables the extrzetion of twenty-five gallons of crude oil per ton of small coal, four gallons of motor spirit and a quantity of sulphate of ammonia, and the utilization of vast quantities of small cual now wasted.

U.S. COAL MINERS THREATEN, ANOTHER STRIKE.

1ST.

ATLANTIC CITY, August 21st. America is threatened with another

the Japanese offer to the Australian Davis Cup players to visit Japan on their homeward journey. It has requested Anderson to ask the Japanese whether they are willing to play return representa tive matches here:

AMERICAN DAVIS CUP TEAM.

NEW YORK, August 21st.

The American Davis Cup team consista

of Tilden, Johnston, Richards, Williams

and Norris.

COMING BOXING CONTESTS.

New Yous, August 21st

BRITISH CONSUL AT CHINKIANG FOUND DEAD.

SHANOBAL, August, 21«. Advices from Chinking state that the British Consul, Mr. E. A. Sly, was found dead, with his throat cut, in his bath-room on August 20th,

An inquest is being held...

SHANGHAI SENSATION.

WELL-KNOWN PUGILISTS ARRESTED.

SHANGHAI, August 21st. "

Thomas Colebrooke, one of our two found-

ers; of his friend and collaborator, Sir George Staunton, of James Prinsep and George Turneur; of that fine Indian soldier and diplomatist, Sir Henry Ran linsou-anch names as these, and many others like them, all go to prove to that busy than will always time to do on which his heart is bot

"All of the were busy men, all of them hard workers, all of them distinguished themselves as servants of the State, and all of them added to their official dis tinction this further distinction, that they used for higher issues the phenomena, history, and idens amidst which they worked in the East. It is just this blend of scholar-hip with official duties on which I lay stress as the characteristic dual dis tinction of these makers of the Royn! Asiatic Society,

"While I deliberately refrain from Haming living instances, I could not fail. in my Eastern journeys to note, and to, note with lively satisfaction, that the old spirit of Oriental research is far from A scusation has been caused in. Shang-, doul. In spite of the increasingly exneting, Firpo has signed a contract to fight,

bai by the arrest of two well known local claims of administrative work, men in the wills at Buenos Aires in April, regant-bozers, Matty. Smith and Knute Hansen. East of to-day still find time to approach They are charged with being concerned, their work in that old scholarly spirit of less of the outconic of the Firpo-Dempsey along with others, in an armed robbery, which they are the heirs, and it W15

fight on September 14.

GLIDER CONTESTS.

[UY COURTESY OF THE DAILY DULLETIN." POLITICAL BOMBSHELL IN THE

PHILIPPINES.

this

borne in on me that, rightly viewfesta- scholarly spirit was in itself. A tion of the loftiest conceptions of public service. For rightly to serve is rightly to understand those among whom service is,

(Choers.)

passed

PARIS, August 21st

PRIME MINISTER'S WELCOME, MANILA, August 21st,

The Prime Minister thanked' the Prince Lack of wind, or unsuitable winds, A bombshell burst in political circles of Wales for the interest he had displayed

when benor Quezon in the work of the Bociety. The Govern announced that he had cabled to the ment, recognising the importance of this. resulted in low totals in the gliding at this afternoon the Vauville meeting, which have hitherto Secretary of State for War at Washington inaugural day, had pleasure in offering to consisted. chiefly of a duel between that Mayor Rodriguez, who was recently the delegates a luncheon over which the Secretary of State for India would preside.. appointed by Governor-General Wood, Maneyrol, on a Teyret glider, and thean ex-convict of Bilibid Prison.

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The reply declares there can be no On the London Exchange Market the WORK TO CEASE ON SEPTEMBER Belgian, Simonnet, on a Poncelet mono- plane. "The longest flights hitherto made doubt that damages to persons and pro- miark reached forty million to

are: Simonnet, two hours, fifty-eight perty should be granted priority over war pound sterling, and, closed at twenty-

ininutes and thirteen seconds; and costs. Consequently, it is unthinkable seven million. that such war costs should be claimed by the Allies from each other before Ger-

PRESIDENT OF REICHSBANK

RESIGNS. many has begun to pay. In this matter

Hentry, August 21st France is willing to undertake a friendly

The resignation of Herr Havenstein, discussion with Great Britain and ler' other Allies The reply says it would be President of the Reichslank, who WE ay to reach an understanding which accused of responsibility for the mark would provide for a settlement of that slump, is expected consequent on the

ist

Mayor Rodriguez, it is, alleged, was convicted in 1900 on the charge of forcibly abducting a woman by the aid of a bond SIR HENRY NEWBOLT ON CLASS of bandits, and with being an accomplice in the murder of an American Army ser- Renat and was sentenced to one YeRT'S imprisonment and fined Ps. 1,000

Governor-General Wood, interviewed by

DISTINCTION.

coal strike in consequence of the break. Maneyrol two hours, thirty-nine minutes, Bentor's correspondent, said he was much Rooms, in proposing the toast of Tho

cessation

down of à conference between owners and anthracite miners, endeavouring to reach an agreement. Mr. Lewis, president of the miners' union, announces a of work on Septeinhor 185....

BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON.

and forty-one seconds."

HOME FOOTBALL.

LONDON, August £lat In the Scottish League, Rangers and Falkirk drew, the score being two goals

ench

Sir Henry Newbolt, presided at the triennial dinner of the Old Cliftonian Society on July 10th at the Connaught surprised by Beper Quezon's disclosure of School be expressed his faith in the the alleged criminal record of Mayor coming Cliftonian who, he hoped, would Bodriguez "Neither I nor anyone in ignore clase distinction Eton was the this office had any knowledge of anything school of the aristocracy; then there wan unfavourable respecting Mayor How Harrow, the school of the plutocracy; and riguez' record."

Winchester, the school of the Civil Ser Governor-General Wood said that since vice. Their school belonged to none of the release of Mayor Rodriguez in 1901 be those classe. The tradition of the school had excellent records, public and official, was great, but they were about to begiu both in the US Government and the life again under 3 new beadmaster an Philippines Government Ho had been most promising circumstances Clifton" oferted Mayor of his town and Governor belonged to now of these rigid: classes part of the German debt corresponding

of his province twice. He was serving which were m life, incomfortable. BB Governor at the time of his appoint. The habit of

classes was the with the reconstruction of the devastated

U.S. GUNBOAT SINKS.

The report that Marquesa Crewe is The Dako of Connaught, as Grandment as Mayor. He was convicted and worst heresy which regions, and a postponement of the second

Master, consccreated, with the const sentenced by the Military Court during the Labour Party made mistake in talk- retiring owing to ûl-health is not con-ance of tre Duke of York and other Grand the Filipino insurrection when he was ing about class conscientiousness and class part of the Germ debt and war debts.

WASHINGTON, August 21st.

firmed. It is learned that.Bir. Auckland Officers of England, the Old Etonian only 10 years of age.

warfare, when everybody else was anxious France does not hipposo that England The gunboat Gopher, whilst being tow Geddes will continue as Ambassador at Lodge, No. 4,600 on July 3rd. Lord Governor-General-Wood said that he to get rid of auch ideas. He trusted that intends to daim the sum owing to her ed from Montreal to Boston, sank in Halo Washington, but his health will not per with Viscount Latsoelleg and Lieut. Colonel The reason for re-opening the case a hand, Mr. N. Whately,

Kensington was installed first Master, would look into the matter thoroughly. Clifton would produce under its new.

destitute. by the Allies before the reparations ques in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. There were mit his resuming his duties. He bas lost Lise Hon VA Mouckton-Arundell no this time is perfectly apparent, intimat- offil fdcast of olnes, sud who would look

the sight of one eye.

fing: political mud-slinging

at life quite fairly. (Applause.) tion has been 2 Battled.

ultimatum" from the Socialista.· ́

no casualties."

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LONDON, August 21a

Wardens.

mujaled among us, and