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SCOTTISH_MIXING DISASTER

SIXTY-FIVE MINERS KILLED.

Loxins, Eeptember 24th.

acout 'Sixty-five colliers perished in pit at Redding near Falkirk. The cause E the disaster was an inrush of water “... from a disused working alone, owing to

the collapse of a barrier.

Ten miners engaged in an adjoining -section miraculously escaped.

[Redding is a mining village 21 miles Ten Falkirk. The latter is 21 miles from Edinburgh.

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THE KU KLUX KLAN DISPUTE.

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GOVERNOR WALTON SAYS SOLIERS WILL SHOT TO KILL"

OKLAHOMA CITY. September with. Governor Walton has directed Adjutant General Markhät tone all forer and arins if necesary to prevent the Lower Hons of Legislature from holding session on Wälarsday.

1923.

FAR EASTERN CABLE TRAM FARES IN SHANGHAI,

PROPOSAL TO INCREASE THEM

AND THE REASON WHY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WRD ESDAY, SEPTEMBER·· 2GT,

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GERMAN UNREST,

SEPARATE REPUBLIC DEMANDED FOR RHINELAND.

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THE EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN.

DIET BE CONVENED AT MVD OF NOVEMBER,

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BERLIN. September 24th. The Socialist group has passed a reses

OSAKA. September 24th. lution of disappointment in the Governz | It is reported that the Cabinet bas ment and man-confidence in the Minister | devided, to convene at extraordinary of "Defence Gesker. The latter, defending sesion of the Diet the end of! his policy at a meeting of the Democratie Novetuber. party in Herlin, dealing with rumours of an impquiding revolt, declared that if it came.to a fight the Reichswehr would exe cute his onders prouiptly."

Te Pants, Septetabor 24th. A message from Wiesbaden states that a meeting of five thousand adherents, of the Rhineland Republicna party has passed a resolution claiming the independence of

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"NEWS.

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

STILL ANOTHER BANDIT OUTRAGE,

CHINA INLAND MISSION LADIES ABDUCTED,

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ECONOMIC OPTIMISM. WHAT THE MAN OF VISION, SEES AT WEMBLEY.

Mr. William Graham. LLAB., M.P.. In the Municipal Gazette of Shanghai|

says it is to be hoped that the masses of tuati and women engaged in industry and correspondens, is printed with referenco «to a proposal to increase the tramfares commerce will take a broad view of the posibilities of the British Empire Exhi from September 18th, a stop claimed to ithin at Wembley. As an immediate be necessary in view if the depreciation means of providing employment

scheme is by no means niglig:bh, Al- in copper coinage. The Shanghai Electric ready there are thousands of men engaged SHANGHAI, September 23th.

Construction Co. has this notified the in clearing the ground, greeting in rein.. forced concrete the huge machinery and

buth enlacering ball, is reported from Chowkiskow, Shanghai Municipal Council.

of them, five or wis The Council have requested the Co. to times the size of Trafalgar Square, bulk- Honay, that bandit, captured Sihwa on postpone the provisional date in order to EARLIER CARLES.

the five railway bays into which ouich ing "Sept. 2d, nad 'carried off 'China Inland allow the Council to make a full inves-of the most valuable machinery of the Em

pirs

"out" the "sitas of Rav

Australian, Missionaries Mias Barroci and Mitigation of the case, which, the Connoit

admits, is very strong.

other contributions, preparing the artificial Sharp

THE COMPANY'S VIEWS.

lake and the ample sports ground, with the magnificent drive which leads The grounds for the proposed increase from the entrance to the Exhibition to the are set forth in a letter to the Council Stadium itself, and in establishing the rail- by Mr. Donald McColl, General Manager way and other communications all strictly of the Company, which states that for necessary in vast enterprise of this kind. the five years 1913-1919 the depreciation Even a short visit encourages economie of the copper coinage averaged 25.74 per optimism, for this is a corner of the com cent. During these year the fares charg try which is in very definito industrial ed were well below the Concession Senle action. and except for the abolition of the one-

EARTHQUAKE IN PERSIA. OVER ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE

KILLED.

TRUERAN. Septender 24th. Earthquake shocks on Thursday at Bujuurd. in the province of Khorasan,

the Rhineland and requesting França |aused « considerable damage. Several

·Belginn help for this purposi

villages are reported to be completely COMMUNISTS AND NATIONALISTS | destroyed, and the casualties hitherto aro

COLLIDE.

129 dead and a hundred injured.

BERLIN, September 24th.

Two were killed and eleven seriously it jurvi in a collisinä near Leipzig betwegu Communists and members of the National ist organisation known as Stahlheim.

PASSIVE RESISTANCE

ABANDONED.

Barty. September 24th. Hor Hugo Stim was among the Ruhr representatives who today conferrect with the Imperial Government as regards

He alleges in the session will be! slominated by the Ku Klux Klan, which ' proposed - to, impeach, him and says that

the trips will to ordered to shoot; to the question of abandonment oť passive pos kill," if necessary, in onder to prevent thesistance. It is unofficially known that the assembly of the House.

RUSSO-PERSIAN INCIDENT.

RUSSIANS VIOLATE AGREEMENT.

shocks continue. Dumage has also ben done at Shirwan.

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THE PRESIDENTIAL

ELECTION.

SHANGHAI, September 9th.

It is masterstood that the two circular legram mentioned yesterday were not issued, having been withheld at the last

mezwent.

stated:

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THE INVISIBLE.

Indian an

cent fare, the sections and fares now in All that may at the moment be regazi- force are exactly as they were then, ed as the visible spectacle. What of the The The Hooter's telegram yesterday Since May, 1923. the depreciation of invisible Boyut this the man of vision The Tuchun of Cheking. Lu copper coinage has averaged 44 per cent, will see the rolling territory of Canada Yung Hsing. has issue circular The percentage of additional loss on very the graines and the crops, of Santh

uncultivated expanse of Austra telegram denouncing the Presidential ton copper coins collected is as follows: lia, election in Peking and stating that be willi

Balance Afrien, the posibilities of

Malaya. SMA. September 24th. not negaise Tua Kun as President.

Leas. (cents). altogether from the wonderful resources

the heart of the Empire itself, wi even if he is elected. Dr. Sun Yat Sen,

with its 1915-1019

.....23 per cent. There was a severe earthquake in Ker-the Tuchun of Yunnan (Tang Chi Tao), May-July, 102344 per cent.

hundred and fifty years of industrialism and its desire to reach out into new de- man, l'ersia, on the twenty-third. The Chang To Lin, the Kuomintang leaders Tan Yen. Kai and the Stechien "General

This in effect, amounts to a reduction parture in economic effort richer and first shock listed twas minutes, and there Hsiung Hen Wu have jointly circulated in fares of 25 per cent, which has, of brander and more humane and more gen course, brought about an appreciable ainely democratic than any of their pre- similar mesenge, } were four subsequent shocks daring a

increase of passengers beyond the normal decessors, We can pack a remarkable increase, Mr. McColl states. He adds: rconemic mewage into this Exhibition it And we can al do, much to period of ninety minutes: Considerable

It is now evident, however, that the copper w" Care damage has been done to buillings, bot

coinage has sunk to a level from which lay the foundations of a much more effici there was no loss of life.

it is not likely to rise until the seralent industrial order, administration of China becomes Donest and efficient, of which there is little carly prospect.

NEW YORK PRESSMEN'S

majority of the delegates favoured abaud- oument, on the ground that passive resis|UNION Lince rrently has been besetting the Franch more than the Germans, qul the) fieanding of resistance is using up paper)

DISPUTE.

PRESIDENT DETERMINED TO BREAK STRIKE.

New York, September 20 The paper-handlers and sheet straight.

S.S." CEANGSHA " REFLOATED.

ARHIVES AT SANDAKAN

Syossy, September 93th. The steamer Changsha has been ri float and has arrived at Sandakan.

PROPOSED INCREASE.

GREAT AIM.

Broadly, then will be two influences in this enterprise. Much of our commercial difficulty or hesitation is due to simple ignorance. We do not know the resour... « ces of the component parts n of the Empire The present fare section points are ur demand tends to be restricted to what Ed Router's cable masage from Sydney generally at the 10ost suitable positions! we can see and handle immediately; in the dated August 1st, statul that the steamer and it is not proposed to change any best of us there is an insularity which is hung was ashore on a reef, 150 miles of them. What the Company suggest substantial hindrance to true economic- from Sandakan. Shis was in no danger, is that where, for instance, four quarter progress.

now be It had eight, feet of water in the fore mile sections (3rd class) enn

If the Exhibition sucereds in introdu reak and eleven feet in number one hold, travelled for 2 cents, three sections will| was awaiting refloating with the help of tering the net charge per mile to the services of the Colonies, and those of India u salvage steamer.}

Aune figure as in the years 1015 to 1919. for it will have no mean part in the The The average distance proposed for this story of Wembley it will redirect a con.. fare is 0.71 mile, instead of 1.05 mile at siderable part of human demand..

bearing of that on unemployment i ob- present. The same principle is applied vicus; in a sense it is the real guarnstee to other fares. except that it is not pro- of useful employment. The first inßuence posed to increase the present maximum therefore, which, we are going to streng fares, viz., 12 cents 1st class and 8 cents then for all classes is the influence of 3rd class,

knowledge.

REPORTED LOAN TO CHINA..

SIMLA, September 24th. mark to such an extent that it is litaku | eners, who struck in sympathy with the The other holds were dry. The Chaugh he the distance for this fare, thus res-eing to millions of people the goods and Following the dispute regarding deimpossible to produce them. limitation of the Russo-Persian boundary, Herr Stresemann is now conferring with Russian attacked had killed the Persian the party leaders and State Premiers, and garrison of six men at Balyn Savar.will address the Reichstag on Friday. The The Russians, despite Persian protests, papers point out that this is the most occupied Enzeli in contravention of the critical work since the Republic Russo-Persian Agrywment of 1921 in order createl. All but the ultra-nationalists nd to obtain old Russian concesions.

init the sessity for the abandonment of passiva "risiskaių,

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DISASTROUS BALLOON RACE

FURTHER FATALITIES REPORTED.

local printers, have returned to work, after the printers' refusal to obey the order by the International, Pressmen's. Baion to return. Mr. Berry, the presi dent of the Union, says the Union-pro poses to bring in all the Union men from all the rest of the newspaper offices in the United States and Canada, if neces- sary, to put New York newspapers on a In the course of a meeting of party lend. normal basis. The Union will stop the ers, Herr Stresemain acerpted responsi- other newspapers if necessary, an that the hility on behalf of the Coverument for New York papers may be printed. ending passive resistance. The represen tatives of the dupied urritories under. took to lead the population back to orderly

work.

BRUSSELS, September 24th, An American balloon, '15. "Army, 88, participating in thờ Gordon Bennet, racey was struck by lightning over Westelrode, Dutch North Brabant, and the zeronauts | ADVISABILITY wor killed. Thy Americap ballon „F^.X.

PASSIVE Nury 607, Inuded without mishap at. Put. Ten, in Holland.

BRUSSELA, September, 24th,

How disaster def the Spanish balloon

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OF ABANDONING.

RESISTANCE

UNPROFITABLE U.S. SHIP. PING BOARD VESSELS.

CHINESE PRESS RUMOURS UNFOUNDED,

LONDON, September 4th. As regards the recent statesments which appeared in the Chinese Press. C. B. Crisp and Company state that no money can be advanced by them until Parlia- ment has upproved of the loan contract, and the new loan could not be marketed before the Marconi and Vickers defaulted Joans have been provided for.

WASHINGTON, September 24th.

The negotiations that were a foot have The Shipping Board has informel been in abeyance for some time and the President Coolidge of its inability to arm's representatives at Peking cannot suggest a plan for profitable oper- take further action until they have re ation of the Government unerchantceived new instructions. It would there

feet.

The minimum 1st class fare is suggested to be 4 cents in arder to assist toward discouraging short distance passengers of the poorer class from using that com partment.

Present average charge per mile: 1st class 2.91 eta-25 per cent, equal 2.1 cta, 3rd class 1.80 ets-35 per cent, equal 1.40 cts. Proposed average charge per mile: 1st. class 3.01 cts.44 per cent. equal 202 cts.. 3rd class 2.02 ets,- per cent. equal 1.24 ets.

Summarize, the comparison of the present and proposed scales is as follows:

PARTIALLY OFFSET LOSSES.

The proposed-average charges per mile 2x shown above only partly offset the increase in the depreciation of coinage which has taken place since the five years

period ending 1819, states Mr. McColl,

With the Council's approval it was pro- Sunday, September 10th, 1923.

It is pointed out that owing fore appear that many rumours circulat. Pused to introduce, these changes on

factors

to the

weighing against ed by the Chincas Press with regard to American shipping the best thing lies the new loan are unfounded.

reduction of loses to a minimum.

The Board meanwhile is working on a compromise plan to replace, the Lasker. Farley scheme, which the Attorney Gen-- eral has declared illegal. ›

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* QUIET CLEAR.

BERLIN, September 24th. Apolicial communiqué indicates that J'alar, mentioned yesterday, is told by the Herr Stresnana did not experience any Aurviving occupant, Comes, He relates difficulty in convincing the participants that it was deciles] to deccod in curise in the succession of conferences that, queue of a violent turm When this owing to haancial exhaustion, the inevit. wers 250 feet from the earth, a peasant able conclusion must be drawn that seized the guy rope, but lacked extra of passive resistance was likely to become a stame The rain-soaked ballast began weapon against the people themselves. To drop out in Jumps instead of gradually, The Chancellor declared that efforts resulting in the balkon suddenly hounding towards securing the return of persons) up to four thousand feet, A crash of expelled, the liberation of those imprison- thunder and flash of lightning set the

od and the reparation of civil rights in ili alight. His companion collapsed in the Ruhr as a condition of the abandon. Favourite Schneider machine, which was 4heap The balloon began to drop ment of resistance, had proved abortive, to have taken part in the international at Cowes on September aflame, and crashed violently: Comes www but he promised he would continue to in-seaplane race hurled out of the basket, and broke a leg, sist on these concessions. -

28th, crashed into the sear Ports- mouth, and was wrecked. The occupants. were unburt

He was rescued by watching peasants,

The Swiss balkon Gearer was also struck

by lighting, and crashed with tremendous

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AMERICAN IDEALS.

impact. Six balloons, including a British NEW PRESIDENT'S FIRST ADDRESS.

are still unaccounted for.

BRUSSELS, September 24th,

The British balloon Margaret descended

WASHINGTON, Soptember 24th. President Coolidge made his first public

MISHAP TO AMERICAN SEAPLANE.

LONDON, September 9th, The American 700 hp. Navy Wright-

RECOVERY OF ALLIED CURRENCIES.

Losos, Septeinher 24th.

A feature of the exchange markets dur

Jn the sun twenty-eigh: miles north-west or address since becoming President at the ing the past fortright has been the re-

Skagen, Denmark. The crew are, safe,

annual

convention of the American Red

covery in value of Allied currencies The

FROM THE "DAILY BULLETIN."1.

"ROUND TABLE "

CONFERENCE.

SHANGHAI, September 24th. The Chinese Chamber of Comarc unanimously resolved to support Sir | Robert Ho Tung's "Round-Table" Con- ference.

The Chamber invites all the provincial

The Season Ticket rates should remain unchanged, but it is proposed to discon tinne, at the end of September, 1923, the Limited Seasons (at & monthly) intro duced in January, 1921. Comparatively few are issued and they entail consider able trouble and are frequently abused

KHYBER PASS MURDERS. HOW ASSASSINS ESCAPED

FROM KABULA

A Calcutta message of August 31st

states:---

The latest Frontier despatches state that the Landikotal murderers of Majors Orr Chambers of Commerce also to support and Anderson have joined the Kohat mur

derers of Mrs. Ells, and that the two gangs are now sheltering in Nazan De the scheme

hra, beyond the Kahat border. in an in. ncomible watershed overlooked by Safed Koh, the "White Mountain."

CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY,

PEKING, September 24th. Mr. C. C. Wang has resigned his post of Director of the Chinigo Eastern Rail way owing to severe illness,

TARLOID BEER

Great indignation is expressed over the circumstances of the scape of the Landi- kotal asasins from Kabul gaol, the opin

on being that the incident

There is also the influence of security. Some time age a distinguished economist directed attention to the strange fears of innumerable business men in the develop ment of their overseas trade.

They ha not been able to visit the Colonies. They had been influenced by newspaper accounts of political and other change. They were not sure that in the Colonies there was that foundation in strict material effort which is part of the security in business jevelopment. Of course they knew of harvests and different kinds of industrial' research and progress--but they had not seen them at first hand. For that reason. they had often an incomplete confidence in overseas trade, and many of them prefer. red to jog along, as they put it, with a TGFO restricted domestic market which they know and understood, Wembley will dissipate such restrictive tendency

MUCH IN LITTLE.

It must be remembered that unemploy gent, a comparatively poor standard of life, indifferent remuneration if both capital and labour, often begin in sheer lack of economic vision. Thero is a won. the true

of the desful field for

security forty five millions of our people within the Empire itself that is security in their and income, Hitherto we have

thealised the fact. Travelers

have helped us to conquer our commercial doubt. The Exhibition will be a conreni. ent way in which, for little more than a shiling, millions of people will be able to travel round the possibilities of Imperial economic development in a few hours

In all this effort, there is no desire to forget the real character of British trade. The aim will be Fatherto the Imperial

put contribution in its international setting, for Great Britain, will always have a very

world, close connection with innumerable other countries in the

But the Exhibi tion will do much to remind us that Empire can be the pioneer in all depart meats of industrial progress. That is legitimate mission, the fruits of which will ensures not only the benefit of the British people wherever found but the genomic advancement of the world as a whole.

the

A

administration Afghan Government's enol acanton and discipline While the Amir is making

effert, with the sympathy of friendly REWARDED FOR RESCUING untions.

to reform and reconstruct his FATBER MELOTTO! country,

evory

be

stato incident indientes 1

of affair at Kabul which leaves much to The Central Government at Peking has desiral, and detracts from the Bigh received a brief message from General apinian recently formed of the increasingly Chang Fu Lai of Honan, reading: "I progressive and enlightened administra-have received your telegram and Brigade tion of Afghanistan,

The olicial view in India in that the Commander Ko has been rewarded accord.

and the balloon has been towed into Goil Cross. He declared that faith in things French frane is now it to the pound { ready, says the Central Neue Berlin Afghan Government must, in the interesting to your order for his rescue of Father

enburg.

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SPANISH NAVAL OFFICERS INJURED.

AMSTERDAM, September 24th. The Spanish balloon Espheria, a con- testant in the Gordon-Bennett race, Banded on Sunday night at "Woldendorp in the province of Groningen, Holland.

Two naval officers aboard were injured when the balloon came into contact with ma electric light wire,

90.12 and 1017.

its.

and the efficienty of its Melotto from the bandita"

GERMAN INVENTION FOR GIVINÓ AMERICA

13 “HOME-FREWED.

Two Americans. now, in Germany are

The Waichinopa is stated to have spiritual, tempered with commonsense, sterling compared with 81.85 on Septem-correspondent, to defy the Prohibition of its own

Act by flooding the United States with police arrangements, wepro the early arrest was the kind of practical idealism refect; her 8th The Belgian frane qúotatión is beer in tabloid form, following the dis of the two gangs which have found an received a despatch from the Kalian

S asylum

territories.

Minister requesting that a sim ol 875.000 Although the od in the history of the United States The American people were not likely to respectively 84.60 and 99.53, and the line covery of a German preparation developers are hiding in a place that is dus be paid to the family of the inte father

ed by brewers in Berlin to aid in avorting cribed on innocible, is should not be Melatto. adopt any other. This idealism was illus

the impending grain famine.

difficult for Pathans themselves to

to penetrate [This aged priest after being held in trated by the men who went to the rescue

According to these gentlemen, the pre-it and arrest the guilty,

captivity for many weeks, was finally of Europe when the liberty of the world

paration cannot be barred from American Menntime, the Indian Government an-killed by being stabbed in the abdomen.] was at stake, but who after victory retiral from the field" unencumbered by spoils,

xiously awaits further reports from Kabul, independent, unattached, and anbought." Another illustration was the America response to the appeal for five million dollars for Japanere relief, to which about double that sum had immediately been contriliited. Men were gradually learn ing that great wealth and a mighty army suits:-- and navy were not the real rulers of the world, and civiliantion was relying more Aberdo. and more on moral forec. It was the Red Celtic Cross application of this principle that Bangers....... made it such a tremendous success. Third Lark

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HOME FOOTBALL

SCOTTISH LEAGUE

SHANGHAL, September 24th Following are the Scottish League re

customs, but, once a small package is in the hands of a home-brewer, all he has to do is to throw it into thirty-five quarts of water and in twenty-hours he has the equal of the best brew that ever foained over stoins in Berlin, Munich, or Piles.

Trial packets have been sent to one of the Americans, and, as a result, orders have been received to warrant the man I Queen's Park. I facture of millions of packages. Tho 3 Morton

Germans themselves, owing to the incrons .... 9. Clyde

1 ing price of beer, are already using the 9 Partick

4 formula in who'cale quantities.

Among matters discussed at the Pau At Cologno last month a Fronchoan named Jena A. "Matinel was found guilty Pacific Science Congress, at Melbourne, by a British Summary Court of grossly in. was the question of charting afreth the sulting the British lag The president Great Barrier Reef, which was described warned him that he deserved a long tain as the wickedost region in the world of of imprisonment, followed by expulsion, navigation. Professor Richards stated. but that the British Commander-in-Chief, that between 1881 and 1913 no fewer than who had great regard for France and the 388 vesels, including 201 steamers, were French army, had, fof these reasons, taken lost in these treacherous shoals, involving a lenient view. Prisoner was bound over: 102 lives,