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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] DOCK STRIKE SETTLED. "AGREEMENT REACHED,

"Loxpox, February 20th. The Secretary to the Ministry of Labour states that further conferences held by the Ministry under Mr. Shaw's Chair manship, resulted in the representatives of the various parties reaching an agree. ment, the terms of which have been Recepted by the employers' representa tives and will be recommended by the men's representatives to the delegate ponference which is being summoned to meet the Ministry of Labour this evening.

Subject to confirmation, work will be! resumed at all ports as soon as arrange- pents can be made. :

TERMS OF SETTLEMENT.

LATER. The terms of settlement is the dock Atrike are an increase of a shilling a day

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND

LATEST CABLES,

OPIUM CONSUMPTION." PROTEST BY LON. "HEALTH COMMITTEE.

GENSYA February, 20th. The Health Committee of the League of Nations passed a resolution stating that in its opinion the estimate of 600 milligrammes of raw opium per head. adopted by the mixed sub-committee on opium, considerably exceeds medical and scientific requirements, and should be reduced to 450 milligrammes, as the maximum is only applicable to countries with a highly developed system of medical aid.

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COTTON CONTROL DISPUTĖ. LOOKOUT FEARED.

LONDON, February 28th.

In the absence of the card room oper- atives, the representatives from the joint conferencs held at Manchester to establish an agreed system of control for the American yarn sections of the industry,

·LABEST CABLES. (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] US OIL LEASE SCANDAL NEWSPAPER INSTITUTES LIBEL ACTION.

New Yonk, February 20th. The joint owners of the Marion Star are, suing Frank Vanderlip for $800,000 for alleged slander and libel, in implicat- ing the Marion Star in the oil senndal.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY-]

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS IN

SOUTH CHINA.

1984.

SCOTTISH LETTER THE HIGHLANDS AND DEPOPULA- TION

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

CANTON CUSTOMS ACCEPTANCE OF SUN'S DEMANDS RECOMMENDED.

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The Peking correspondent of Peking und Timalsia Times writing on February 12th said:

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EDINBURGH, December 31st Great distress, as you are already The question of the settlement of the aware, prevails in the Western Highlands Custom dispute in Canton has been loft and Islands of Scotland due to the almost in abeyance because of the New Year:

bolidays. It is reported that the Diplo total failure of the crops and the Ssking PEKING February 21st.

but it must be added that the present matio Corps in Peking bug received a The Cabinet this morning decided to state and immediate future of the High- telegram from the Consular officials in abolish the post of High Military Com lands as a whole is very far from hope Canten suggesting a just and impartial ful. The people are declining in numettlement, so ny to prevent any infeeling. bers year by year. The younger and more They recommend an acceptance of a park A telegram from Washington, dated missioner for Amor and Changchow at

robust leave for other and more hospit of the demands of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. February 14th, stated that developments present held by Tsang Chih Ping, and to able scenes. This year alone has witness while at the same time recognizing that in the oil lease case were ensuing with sensational rapidity. A startling state- create instead a Military Commissioner-ed the departure for the Colonies, prin- Peking in the capital of all China: The cipally Canada, of thousands of the best British Legation is said to be inclined ment was made by the banker, Mr. ship at Amoy, to which General Cheng men of the straths and glens, with the towards yielding to Dr. Sun's demands, an excessive price was paid to the late Yi is appointed. Vanderlip, the previous day, alleging that

result that to-day more than ever before and a formal meeting of the Diplomatic the Highland population consists of a Corps will take place next week in order President Harding in connection with the The Cabinet also appointed General large proportion of the older folks. These to discuss the pros and cous of the sale of his newspaper the larion Star shortly before the Eresident's death. Teng Peng Ying to be Military Commis. struggle as best they can to eke out their existence from the harvest of both land This aroused much resentment. andioter at Kiungebow (Hainan).

and sex, and it is wonderful, how comfort Mr. "Vanderlip tras subpocnued to

able and contented they make themselves DR. SUN AND THE PEKING testify before the investigating com-

in their lot. In normal seasons their life mittee. Another telegram, dated Febru

is tolerably happy. They have at least ary path, stated that Ir. Vanderlip testi

A sufficiency of life's necessities. Such fied before the committee enquiring into

luxuries as they enjoy come from their the oil scandals. He said he had as facts

kith and kin who have wandered to the whatever to substantiate the use of Mr. Harding's name in his recent speech, but

vities of the South or have crossed the seas, and it is to their credit that the he suggested an enquiry into the circum

sons and daughters of the North, where In Chinese circles it is believed that the they are at all able, dutifully, remember stance of the sale of the furion Star. thinking it was a 'public duty to call attention to rumours in order to kill conference to be shortly opened at Loyang the old folks at home. The prescut dis- tress in the north-west, indeed, has been Harding, and merely wanted to clear the Into President's memory of the whispering subjects for discussion at the conference campaign against him.)

will be mediation between leaders, plans for the election of a Vice-Precident, co- operation in the forthcoming,. Parlamen- tary election and plans for a proposed ex- pedition against Canton...

THE COMING LOYANG

* CONFERENCE, *

SUBJECTS FOR CONSIDERATION PERING, February 21st.

CABINET.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, pur Canton contem porary says, has received a telegram from the Cabinet in Peking urging him to send a delegation to participate in the coming peace conference to discuss peace terms,

Dr. Sun's attitade, it is reported, is that he will not send any delegation to participate in such a conference nor does he intend to make, any reply to the stances will he recognize the Northern Government.

itumeliately, a further shilling a day from arrived at a deadlock on the scheme pro. them. He was a life-long friend of Mr.ill lead to important developments: The in cxistence since early in the present Peking Cabinet, and under no circum-

Tupe 1st and no victimisation

ENQUIRY ADJOURNED..

The dockers' strike enquiry has been adjourned a die,

STEVEDORES' CLAIM CAUSES COMPLICATION.

LATER.

A resumption of work is expected to- morrow. The terms, which include the establishment of an enquiry into the question of the abolition of casual labour, must first be approved by the conference of dockers delegates convened for to- night, but this is regarded as certain.

The situation is complicated by the fact that the Stevedores' Union's independent

posed.

The conference has been indefinitely adjourned and it is feared the disputa may lead to a lockout in the cotton trade. TRADE FACILITIES BILL PASSES FIRST READING.

LONDON, February 20th. The House of Commons passed the first reading of the Trade Facilities Bill," based on resolutions of which ore deals with the Sudan loan guarantee.

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BARLIER CABLES. LUXOR TOMB COUNTESS CARNARVON'S LICENCE CANCELLED.

Tutankhamen.

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claim for a half-crown increase has not yet been considered by the employers; yet, the resumption will not be fully effective until the stevedores also return.

BARLIER CABLES,

THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

LONDON, February 20th.

The Director General of Antiquities It is hoially announced that the dock.ceeds with the opening of the tomb, the laboratories and other spots, and he will take measures to safeguard and preserve rs' strike has been settled."

the antiquities.

Mesages previously received gave the following items relating to devlopments leading to the settlement:-

· LONDON. February 20th, In giving evidence before the "Dock Strike Enquiry Mr. Ernest Beyin pointed put that the dockers had unwillingly ac cepted rałactions totalling 8/- a day since 1921, because they were fighting to e tablish national agreements and abolish casual labour which was a social disgrace. Their present claim was a reversion to the wages paid in 1992. Mr. Bevin asserted that many employers had not been given peri mission to reject the claim, indeed hun- 'dreds of companies wanted to pay the in-

Crease,

Sir Norman Hill, on behalf of the ship- owners, contended that wages reductions were necessary in consequence of bac trade. While freights had fallen working expenses bad not dimini-bred and many shipowners had abandoned hope of ever making profits,

The Chairman said the strike must be settled without delay. The Court hoped Ly report to the Minister of Labour on February 22). The Court way adjourned. STRIKE SPREADS TO IRELAND.

EARLIER CABLES.

REPUBLICAN SENATOR'S

ANNOUNCEMENT."

WASHINGTON, February 20th While Mr. H. P. Whitney, a prominent) New York stockbroker. WAN AiViDK evidence before the Senate Oil Committee, Senator, Elkins, (Republican) of West Vir- ginia, announced that he had purchased the Sinclair Oil stocks and was perfectly willing to go before the Committee and tell at he knew about it.

MR DAUGHERTY STANDS FIRM.

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PARLIAMENTARY GROUP FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS.

MR. T. P. O'CONNOR ELECTED CHAIRMAN,

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LONDON, February 20th." Mr. T. P. O'Connor has been elected Chairman of the Parliamentary group formed to look after Chinese affairs.

WRECK A TRAIN.

HE WRECKS A CABINET INSTEAD.

Tokyo, February 21st.

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With the arrest and confession of

year, but nothing has been heard of it by the outside world owing to the sturdy independence of the Highland people and their reticence in complaint.

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PREMIERS OF RICHLAND BLOOD.

It is perhaps forgotten, or unknown, in proportion of the unemployed. This satis- many quarters that the war has told factory record in thrift is repeated in sad tale in the Highlands more than in Edinburgh, and indeed in every place in other parts of the land or Empire. No Scotland where a Saving's Bank has been doubt the war has had its disastrous instituted. U effects elsewhere, but in the Highlands specially so. Before 1914 the younger

A North Country Tory says there is population of the north and west had been only one consolation in the prospect of diminished by losses through emigration. a Socialist Government-the Premier will But when the war came, practically every be a Mac. It may be added that if Mr. able-bodied man joined up for service Ramsay MacDonald is called upon to take with either the land or the sea forces, and office he will succeed another member of they did so mostly during the first three the clan, for maternally Mr. Baldwin is months of fighting. From Lewis alone of the MacDonalds, Sir Henry Campbell- came almost its entire population of the Bannermau was entitled to wear a great able-bodied for service in the Navy and West Country Tartan, and Mr. Gladstone Much Highland Territorial regiments as had a Robertson strain in him. The Earl the Seaforths had their full strength over in France by November of 1914. Natar ally, having been so early in the trenches and on the high seas and continuing their the casualties among them was corre spondingly large, and when the war was over it was found that but few of these fine fellows returned to the home scenes This deprived the older folks of their main supports, leaving father and mother to carry on, with an outlook as Bad as it was hopeless.

It is understood that the Republican LOVE SICK SWAIN'S ATTEMPT TO service right through the stress of war, CAIRO, February 20th.

Senators, during the last few hours, have The Egyptian Government has cancelled been increasingly pressing for Mr. Daugh- the licence granted to Alonia, Countess of erty's resignation. Mr. Daugherty, in à Carnarvon, with regard to the tomb of brief conference with the President, re

Jur last year and was due to expire on

Lady Carnarvon's licence was inuet on affirmed his determination, not to resign November 24th, 1024.

under fire. He then returned to the 'DeTsunajiro Naruse, a farmer residing in partment of Justice, where he dictated a the neighbourheed of Nagoya, the mystery statement afirming his decision to stay has been solved of the attempted wrecking in the Cabinet

of the train which was conveying Oppo Upon the heels of the publication of Mr.sition members to Tokyo on January 31st. The Wrecking of the train precipitated Daugherty's statement. Senators Lodge and. Pepper proceeded to the White House the Diet dissolution. to acquaint the President with the grow- ing sentiment of the Senate in favour of Mr. Daugherty's retirement.

GERMAN CURRENCY. SUGGESTED GERMAN GOLD

CREDIT BANE......

PARIS, February 20th. Dr. Schacht, the President of the Reich bank, has gone to Berlin and will return to Paris in a week,. When he will again confer with the Experts Committee as regard the details of his scheme for a gold credit bank which the experis, it derstood, have accepted in principle.

CHEAPER INSULIN. LATEST RETAIL PRICE. A

LONDON, February 20th.

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It is officially announced that the retail price of insulin is to be reduced from February 5th, from one hundred and fifty to eighty pence per hundred units, This is below the most recent American retail price..

USES OF RUBBER.

AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK.

LONDON. February 20th.

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LATEST CABLES. ·

MEXICAN BANDITS CAPTIVE MR. MACKENZIE REPORTED WELL

OTTAWA, February 20th. News has been received that Mr. Maç- Kenzie is well. His release is expected forthwith.

DENOMINATION.

In a paper read before the Rognl society CANDIDATE FOR DEMOCRATIC Burgess, chairman of the Rubber Growers of Arts on new uses of rubber, Mr. P. Association, suggested that Ceylon tea

MIAMI, February 20th. proofing the chests with planters might experiment in water

Mr. Cox, ex-Governor of Ohio and the auf of landfoil. He anticipated that Democratic nomince for the Presidency in 1020. announces that he will again crepe rubber soles would become the state stand for nomination this year. ard equipment for all

boots

and hoe but crepe rubber must be plantation finished and the retail price of such footwear must he reduced equal to or less than leather- soled boots: and the liability of the rubber Anto to slip in wet weather must be over- of the rubber road block.

"The dockers strike has spread to Ira Jand. Following instructions from Lon-come. The

factory adheculty of obtaining salia.

EARLIER CABLES,

BIG STORM IN AMERICA

MUCH DAMAGE DONE.

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of Rosebery is descended from the Argyle Campbells, though somewhat remotely, "WANGLE" COMES TO STAY,

The Oxford dictionary might neglect a word that has been in illicit but current use for some time, but when one of almost Prime Ministerial rank utters that word a seal is set upon it. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has just conferred recogni

in tion upon the verb to wangle, speech he delivered at his native town of Lossiemouth, and in a sentence which has Added to this there came the great caused quite a nice little seven days economic condition which has completely its use. It is an excellent word signify- change in the social as well as the squabble Why should any one object to revolutionised the life and work of the ing, if one may be permitted a definition, Borth. The old country families-regard to adjust matters hy the use of ingenious. ed as land fathers" in the Highlands and unconventional expedients for the one by one felt the pinch of reduced in purpose of achieving a desired end. Thus, comes or, what meant the same thing. when one's motor cycle goes wrong, one the increased cost of living and the grow-wangles it by methods which the motor ing burdens of taxation. The effect on engineers would scarcely approve. One the people generally, in the rural dit wangles a perfectly preposterous call at tricts, was a blow from which they are bridge by a piece of bluff. One gets la still suffering. Along with this, the old day off from duty by wangling. But the time wild sports of the north-dear-stalk-Geld of illustration is infinite, as all es ing and grouse-shooting, with angling service men will admits have been since 1918 but the ghost of their former selves. This has meant less em

A discussion has been going on in West ployment for the large number of pen

muscle and who used to be engaged for two or more of Scotland newspapers on He saw a train ramble past, aul decid-months in each year as ghillies, and so sport," and this, recalls a theory voiced ed to wreck a train to relieve his wound-forth; at good pay. The tourist seasons by a gentleman some years ago. He was ed feelings.

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BELABOURED MIGHTILY." It appears that Naruse was jilted by a girl on the night of January 20th, and he left for home in a state of despair and anger.

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He laboured mightily, placing an ob struction on the track, and then hid Fwatch results.... · ·

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.

PEKING, February 20th: The Nate: from the Diplomatic Corps to the Government reached the Waichiaopu this morning.

The Note draws attention to the fra queut disregard of the traffic regulations

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in the Highlands have also been fadares very keen upon goil; he read and studied since 1914, with the obvious cousequence everything connected with the game, and to the very large number with suitable at last he came to the conclusion that he country cottages who depended for co could never become a scratch or first-class. little part of their livelihood on the player. He possessed everything he was streams of visitors from the south. told was necessary to become such, but.. What of the future? At the moment he discovered for himself that he lacked. [A telegram from: Ottawa, dated Febru-

the representatives of several Colonies the one thing cssential, and that wor the what be called "équal or "true eye- ary 12th, stated that the Government had By COURTESY OF THE "DAILY BULLETIN."] are in the Highlands lecturing on asked the United States to assist it in

prospects offered under the British flag right. In his search for perfection also securing the release of Mr. MacKenzie,

abroad, and large numbers are leaving he discovered that among his friends" a Canadian citizen captured by Mexican

their northern homes for new fife under ability at galf was always equal to ability bandits a fortnight ago and held for ran

other skies. That may be good for those at billiards. The one thing common, to som of two hundred thousand dollars.]

other lands, hut it bodes ill for the Scot- these two games is eyesight, nod on is tish Highlands and Islands-and for our vestigation among his circle and club PRESIDENCY."

industrial centres at home which hitherto members he found that a person's pro- bave reaped the benefit of the infusion ficiency at each of these games depended of Highland blood among the city popola almost entirely on their possession of tions.

equal or true eyesight. He asserted that TRADE DEPRESSION AND THRIFT

very few people have true eyesight, and There was published recently a table that their ability at golf and billiards every 10,000 of population who were in tween the strength of one's eyes. His in the Legation Quarter by the Chinese: showing the number of persons out of depended entirely on the difference be It cites the Feng Yuhsiang incident as a receipt of Poor-Law relief in the chief theory was that only a player with equal glaring example, and asks the Chiue industrial centres of Great Britain. For eyesight could ever he a first-class player, Scotland the figure was 887; but while as the others, with unequal vision, were Government to draw the attention of the in Edinburgh it was only 446, in Glasgow seeing things at a false angle, more or public to the necessity. for Chinese who it was 1,213, a proportion exceeded only less, and therefore were incapable or

in Paisley and Greenock, whore the keeping a true line. enter the Legation Quarter to conform figures was 1.304, the highest in the GOLFEE'S PARADISE

Those figures give United Kingdom.

If the North Berwick people go on with with its traffic regulations»

some idea of the extent to which the that proposed new course at Fidra it may Clyde area has been affected by the trade be the proud claim of that part of East depression of the past two and a hall Lothian around Gullane and North Ber- possessed of Conditions, throughout England wick to assert that it is years, have been bad enough; but in Glasgow greater golfing facilities than any other The following story was told by the they have been three times as had. corresponding area in the world The pr. rident of the Society for Providing There would have been little occasion for whole district is simply a network of golf Cheerful and Improving Literature to the surprise, therefore, if the cumulative links, and even North Ayrshire from Bog- Natives of the Southern States of the effects of Glasgow's passage through the side to Prestwick, with its mumerous pre United States of America," after the worst period of trade depression experi geny, must take a back seat to it in point.

enced by any British industrial cren in of numbers of courses. annual dinner of the society - MABA PRODUCTION OF RAILWAY, STOCK: Gentlemen, during my last, and, as you modern times had been reflected in a

I cannot find among Scottish golfer. Wagons of the new 12-ton Railway have chosen to say, most fruitful tour of serious, decline in the deposits of the WHO WANTS THE "FLOATER" Clearing House standard type are being inspection, it happened that I got into Glasgow Savings Bank, an institution PARIS, February 20th. -

built at the rate of 87 a week by a system conversation, in the coarse of my duties, whose depositors are mainly of the work professionals very much support for the the object of bringing the Liverpool em-i

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The Chamber. by 356 votes.to 215, has of mass production at the Derby worka with two natives of the town of Zoomba, ing class: But. during the past year the Ides of J. H Taylor to adopt a "flouter "

Socialist amendment cancelling ployers into line with the rest of the ports Article 36 of the Government's inancial of the London, Midland, and Scottish These two men had benefitted greatly amount deposited bad as regards the new offer by the employers proposals, which provides for the disposal Railway. About 1,200 have already been through the work of our society, and both amount paid out by over £300,000, which Butchart and Tom Fernie, our present they and their wires had become great added to the accounts brought up the themselves'na vigorous opponents to ench. All the parts of wagon, states readers. Edgineering, are finished at the machines At the end of the converention Sam total deposits to the record figure of a step. The view of these players is that and then delivered to the erecting shop said "Joe, last night my wife she read £20,183,208. The Bank has proved the interests of the mass of players, not in such a state that they will go together dat book, Da Tree Musketeers. Dis morn sheet-anchor for many decent people who, the professionals, are to be consulted. but for the encouragement it had given It is they who have made the game what like the parts of a sewing machine. The ing the hab triplets. LONDON, Föhrsary 20th,

work of assembly is divided up into a Jos muddenly grew rigid: then, reaching to their instincts of thrift and indepen it is, and their enjoyment of it must be The Scottish Cup draw for the third series of operations, each arranged to for his coat and bat, made a bolt for the dence, might have found themselves in encroached upon by fade for champione round, to be played on Saturday, la: take approximately half an hour. Every door. I stood up, and Sam expressed desperate straits. The kind of people OBITUARY. Aberdeen 9 East Stipling, Hearts hall-hour the whole line of partly com- surprise at his friend's hurried and un- who have built up a bank balance are The Road Transport Commercial Group Clyde, Clydebank v. A, Partick. Ham- pleted wagons moves forward a stage, secroly departure, Den stop me," not the kind who go finally "under" and Brixham, South Devon, of James, eller Committee has requested the National ilton, Rangers Hiberniaan, Mother and one finished wagon leaves the assembly cried Joc, stumbling across the step. yield to the demoralising influences that Strike Committed to instruct the road well . Airdrieonians, Raith v. St. Bern-sher and another in started at the other." Lae night my wife she read dat book, are, unfortunately, affecting a certain son of the late John Robertson and Mr transport workers to strike.

don the dockers at Belfast have declined to its bace appeared to have been solved to discharge ships from Britain. The He expressed the opinion that the use of large blocks would overcome the remain- dockers at Londonderry have also struck ing difficulties of rubber road construc

tion. which was the only direction in which he saw hope of wolving the chief rubber problem namely finding use for rubber on a big scale which would fune tion a practicable, proposition with raw rubber at some pivotal pricë, say eightren pence a pound.

STEVEDORES CEASE WORK. Meetings of members of the Steredores Union at Poplar and Canning Town have unanimously decided to caso work

EMPLOYERS ORGANISING..

LATEU

The port employers met to-night with

which is confidently expected to form the basis of a settlement, if agreed upon.'] When the meeting concluded, after a long session, no statement was made, but such is possible when the Court of Enquiry resumes to-morrow. Da

TRANSPORT WORKERS.

FRENCH POLITICS.

of the State match monopoly.

HOME FOOTBALL.

SCOTTISH CUP DRAW.

arda, Falkirk v. Queen's Park,

New Yoax, February 20th. A stinging sleet storm sweeping cast- ward from the lake region has held up trains and broken down telegraphs on the Atlantic seaboard The streets in New York are impassable.

made.

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WAGON EVERY | HOUR

AN IMPROVING STORY.

'De Birth of a Nation!"

exceeded the or other light ball. In a talk with Arthur balance, along with accrued interest and past champions, both announced

(Continued at foot of next column.)

The death is announced at Oakles,

Robertson, Struan House, Pitlichry China papers requested, to copy.