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SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR INDIA BRITISH CABINETS ATTITUDE DEFINED.

Los Dos, February 4th.

A most important statement regarding India will be rande in the House of Lords on February 28th

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH, 1924.

PROPOSED REVISION OF

PEACE TREATY

MR.

HENDERSON AND MR.

WILSON'S POLICE.

FAR EASTERN CABLE.

NEWS.

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(THROUGH RIUYER'S AGENCY.]

PARLIAMENTARY GROUP FOR CHINESE AFTAIRS.

HABEAS CORPUS AND

OUR "LONDON LETTER.

THE ADVENT OF A LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

PLAIN FACTS ABOUT SENSATIONAL

·REPORTS AND WILD RUMOURS.

WHAT LABOUR LEADERS SAYA.

There is nothing more unprofitable than attempting to forecast what may happen in politics. It is a good maxim which

CHINESE LAW. EUROPEAN LADY, LANGUISHING

IN TIENTSIN CHINESE GAOL

Y you should never prophesy uslots you know! But if the declared inten- tions of the Labour leaders can be taken The Peking, and Tientsin Times of the

as a guide to the future there will be 13th refers to the imprisonment, under

no wild-cat legislation so far as they are [гROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ].

is concerned. conditions against which, states that

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald LONDON, January 10th... no fool, and he knows that while the journal, the strongest protest is war

intransigent section of his followers may ranted, of Mine. Prokesh, who bas PRINCE AND LEAGUE OF MEROY.

blow off steam-and, they doubtless will The Prince of Wales, as Grand Presi- do so in an alarming manner in the residence in the Italian Concession. appears that Mme. Prokesh has been deut of the League of Mercy, is display House of Commons, he must eut and incurcerated in a prison in the native great interest in that excellent or- carve his programme or he will not stay ganisation which exists to help the hos-long in office: So far as I am able to section containing Chinese pitals. The position of Grand President judge, n Labour Government will keep to female erimnicals, in connection with a the late Ring Edward, who was, in sudden swerves to one side or the other held by his father, and before then the middle of the road. There may be fact, the founder of the League a quarter from time to time, and the crowd behind of a century ago. The annual meeting is will attempt rush tactics, perhaps, and to take place this year at St. James's cause disturbance: but the lenders are Palace, when the Prince has undertaken fairly level-headed and know what is to present the Order of Mercy to these practical politics and what is not. who have earned it since the last nunual meeting.

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LONDON. February 24. Mr. Arthur Henderson at a by-election speech at Burnley declared than the pears

LONDON February 24th. treaties had failed and the Government's

Doctor, Chapple has been elected Vice- task was to arrest the demoralisation and Chairman of the China Parliamentary prevent further economic rain, and greep to watch Chinese affairs. establish real peace, restore trade and commerce and place them on such a trio PREFERENCE AGAINST UHINA TEA sity, in foundation that never again would civilis. In view of the Sawarnjists' demand feration be threatened with a similar experi- a round-table conference, with the objectence. Therefore it must insist on a revi- of achieving immediate self-government, sion of the Treaty of Versailles as soon as it is understood that the Government is possible, and a solution of the problem of prepared to sanction an inquiry into working reforms, but in a form different

from a round-table conference.

The Cabinet is not disposed to depart from the principles embodied in the Government of India Act

EGYPTIAN COTTON MILL STRIKE SETTLED.

WORKERS EVACUATE COTTON SEED CAKE FACTORY.

ALEXANDRIA, February 24th. The Slature strikers have resumed work Fire lenders were taken back, and the workers' lawyer recognised on the responsibility of the Government.

The owners' repudiation of these mea was the direct cause of the outbreak.

The workers evnenated the Egolin

• cotton seed cake factory, which has been occupied by the police pending negotia tions.

EARLIER CABLES.

DOCKERS TO RESUME WORK

STEVEDORES STRIKE CONTINUES.

LONDON, February 24th.

reparations. The Premier was trying to create the necessary atmosphere, and he was hopeful that stops would be taken through a world conference or the League of Nations, cr both, to see whether we could not return to the position taken up by the late Mr. Wilson and the policy of

the Allied statemen in 1915 to 1917.

FRENCH STOCK EXCHANGE

FOREIGNERS BARRED.

PARIS, February 24th. The first executive act following the passage of the Snancial proposals is a de

A POINT OF PRIDE WITH CHINA.

Lesbos, February "th

judgment of a Chinese Court, in Harbin

The story is a long and rather involved otie. Briefly, it seems that Mme. Prokesh The question of preference against (who was married to a citizen of Czecho- China tea will come up in the Budget Slovakia a short time ago) inherited con- siderable property under the will of her discussions in the House of Commons

husband, a very wealthy Blagoreaehensk Although the amount involved is not merchant. M. Tenkoff, who was killed by very large, equality of admission, says the Bolsheviks in 1918. She was the the Vanchester Guardian, is a point of second wife, and her husband had two acd a daughter now pride with China, and it the policy of children, a son discriminating against China be abandon-grown-up; by his first wife. The second ed it would probably improve Chinese opinion towards British imports, which declined last year.

TRADE MARK DISPUTE SETTLEMENT.

Losnos, February 24th. The Manchester Guardian hears that

WAB

by

POLITICAL ENTERTAINING.

There is a story of "Lord Palmerston

This week the politicians have been which is sometimes told as being typical coming into London from all points of of that famous Prime Minister, who had the compass for the opening of Parlia very little reverence for anything or any ment. The usual political dinners by the body, and was apt to be cynical Speak various lenders are being given to their ing of the Order of the Garter he is chief supporters in accordance with long- alleged to have said that he liked it be established custom. Great interest is cause there's no dd merit about it." being raised by the activities of the Half- Probably the story is a fairy tale, but at Circle Club, the organisation of the wives Mine. Tatukoff (now Aine. Prokesh) also all events a similar comment could never of Labour politicians which is to be re- had a sou, and the estate was divided he made about the Order of Mercy sponsible for the social side of the party's between her and the three children. Two or the League which has the Prince of work. There is a big reception at the Wales at its head. No one is eligible for University of London, South Kensington, sisters of the deceased daimed that in

the Order unless he has given five years' to nil the Labour Members of Parlia 1918 they lent M. Tetukoff 340,000 roubles, faithful service to the League in the relief ment, and all those who were Labour and brought an action in the Chinese of poverty, suffering, or distress of some candidates at the General Election I Court for the recovery of this debt. The kind. aud. as a consequence, the Order hear that 1,000 invitations were issued, widow was ordered to pay a sum of is greatly prized by those who receive it. and the bostesses, four in number, are 140,000 in gold, to the sisters, and in satis

the wives of well-known Labour leaders— faction of this decision the deceased's THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN LONDON.

namely, Mrs. Fred Bramley, Mrs. Clynes, steamship line, consisting of two large

The new Amerivan Ambassador and his Mrs Frank Hodges, and Mrs. Hender- river steamers and seven large steel ship. The value of this property was to take up their abode in Crewe House, placed at 140,000 gold yen.

the magnificent Mayfair residence of the A further claim. however, was made Marquis of Crewe, the present British Ambassador in Paris. Some of the daily for the difference in the exchange rate between roubles in gold and gold yen. papers have contained agreeable articles There was apparently a dispute as to about Mrs. Kellogg's efforts to and a what this difference amounted to, the suitable home in London, and it seems widow contending that it should not be that her chief difficulty while house-hunt- more than 4.000 roubles gold on the total ing was to obtain enough accommodation sum. The Imperial gold rouble has pray. There are to be entertainments on a very tically disappeared from circulation and big scale, and this is one reason why in the appreciated value characteristic Crewe House was chosen Chesham The Place, formerly occupied by Mr. "Harvey, of coins in such circumstances. widow further argued that she was only the late American Ambassador, and also responsible for the payment of a fourth the house in Grosvener Gardens, where of this sum. The decision, was against Mr. Walter Page lived, were too small her, and she left Harbin, ultimately for Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg coming to Tientsin.

erce forbidding access of foreigners to thethe dispute with regard to trade marks harges, was transferred to their owner-wife, Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, have decided son, stock exchanges except by special per-is in a fair way to settlement.

mission.

GERMAN ELECTIONS BARRED EPIDEMICS IN THE FAR EAST

BEELIS, February 24th.

A message from Menich states that the French occupation authorities have for- bidden the holding of elections in the Palatinate on March 8th for the Bavarian

Diet.

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FORTHCOMING FRENCH

ELECTIONS. POSSIBLE VICTORY FOR SOCIALISTS.

A mass meeting of Hull dockers over- whelmings passed a resolution in favour M. Briand, speaking at of the acceptance of the muployers' offer. The Newcastle and Bristol strikers have

also voted in favour of acceptance.

In addition, a meeting of five thousand Liverpool dockers enthusiastically agreed

PARIS, February 24th.

a Radical Socialist banquet at Carcassonne, pro- phesied a certain victory for the Left parties in the forthcoming elections, pro- vided the Republicans made common cause. M. Briand advoented the creation

many would feel her neighbours would

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RECOMMENDATION OF 1.6, N.

HYGIENE COMMITTEE,

GENEVA, February 24th. The hygiene committee of the League of Nations, after sitting ten days, has

concluded its work and recommends the creation of an epidemics bureau in dus of the Far Eastern ports, to be chosen by the Goveremcats interests, also the transmission of enquiry, containing a draft sanitary convention between these countries. The committee has decided to institute an enquiry into malaria in Albania, Greece and Persia, in accordance with the request of these countries, and

Those, it is gathered, are the details of the case.

With the actual merits of the dispute we cannot, of course, concern ourselves. But the details given above will show that the woman who was thrown into a Chinese prison a fortnight age has not any especially heinous crime.

guilty of

.

PROHIBITIVE BAIL ABKED FOR The Chinese demand for a shop guar alvo to enquire with regard to the epidentee is equivalent to asking the impos- mics of plague and exanthematie typhus sible in the case of a foreign woman with

to accept the employers' offer. There were of an atmosphere of peace whereia Ger- in Russia. only three dissentients; and ab overflow meeting of fifteen hundred was unanimous ly in favour of acceptance.

A Glasgow dockers' mass meeting haw also overwhelmingly favoured "acceptance of the employers' offer,

Meetings of members of the Stevedores Union at Poplar and Canning Town have decided on a continued strike pending settlement their demand for an increase

LATER.

enable her to achieve a peace that was "LIBERTY OF THE PRESS"

real.

EARLIER CABLES.

"(REUTBE'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] "GREATEST LAW FACTORY

tion

KING'S COLLEGE DEBATE.

Crewe House was built by the architect Shepherd, who may be said to have creat ed Mayfair in the early part of the Eighteenth Century. Lord Crewe bought it in 1993 for £00,000, and it is probably worth a great deal more now. I am giver to understand that the tenancy is being arranged for a year, by which time it is expected that the alterations to the Prince's Gate residence, the new perman- ent home of the American Embassy in London, will be completed.

WHEN LABOUR RULES.

stances.

There is speculation with regard to the way entertaining will be done when the Labour party comes into office. So far as I can ascertain, the idea at present is to leave this to the Half-Circle Club to carry on in the co-operative fashion that bas been the rule hitherto. But nothing definite has yet been arranged about the fnture. Much will depend upon circum- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is a widower, with a daughter under twenty, and she is scarcely to be expected to play the part of chatelaine at historic No. 10, Downing Street, although she is a very too trying an ordeal for her.. It is, there clever and charming girl. It would be fore, more than likely that the Half- Circle Clah will arrange the social and entertainment side from Downing Street. when the Labour Government comes in.

Another point of interest may be men- tioned in this connection. It is highly probable that if things go as Labour - pects Socialist debutantes will be pre- sented at Court in the coming session. This is spoken of in Labour circles as a matter of course, and this little item, I think, more than many other facts pub lished, cut the ground from under the alarmists, who are never tired of bracket-

no business connection. No Chinese shop Or national grounds it is to be regreting the Labour Party with Revolution. would think of acting as guarantor to nted that certain politicians seem very IMPRESSED BY LONDOX." stranger. Benevolence never goes quite eager to exaggerate the potential dangers

Mr. Lloyd The Chinese Industrial Commission scem so far among them. But if other means of a Labour Government. cannot be devised to enable Mme. Pro George, in his last week-end message to genuinely astonished by the side of London, kesh to be admitted to bail, surely she American papers, makes the statement One of them describes it as "majestic ix entitled to special treatment. She is that the old political parties here are They marvel at ita cleanliness. They were taken on the Underground Railway still lodged in a part of the prison oc in terror of Labour," and in a charne- cupied by common criminals, most of teristic passage adds: The Western and the Tubes, and the latter appeared who are in chains. The conditions in skies are already black with the fight of to them like something of an Arabian a Chinese gaol are had enough at the Capital seeking safety beyond the Atle Nights kind of experience. A member of tic. The fright is real. There has been the party insisted on taking joy-rides on the escalator at Liverpool Street, and best of times, but in mid-winter they are

nothing like it since horror filled" the

could scarcely be induced to lease it. The

a serious menace. to health. Mme. Pro-

the

streets of Rome at the approach of Now, while some amount of capital may

In the opinion of the House, the liberty of the Press is becoming a danger to the liberty of the people" This was a motion discussed by the Union Society of "IN THE WORLD"

King's College recently, Professor A P. Newton presiding,

London Docks were also a wonderful Mr. G. D. H. Cole, who proposed the kesh, ns a matter of fact, has become ill

since she has been imprisoned, and it is Attila." WASHINGTON, February 24th.

revelation to the visitors, who never motion, complained that the Press encour stated by those interested in her plight. Secretary Hughes, speaking in the

People were encour. anobbishness aged

could be such a display of national might by half a crown a day, and twenty-âve American Law Institute, decried the aged by the Prese to emase an immense that a Chinese doctor who visited her in be expected to go out of the country imagined that anywhere on earth ex

quantity of miscellaneous information Prison recommended to the authorities through the timidity of people who re per cent, on piece-work rates.

way learn that Londoners seldom visit the multitude of laws passed in the greatest under the delusion that the accumula that she be removed to hospital. Nothing gard a Labour Government with fear and and vast trade and incredible wealth. of knowledge was valuable for its own bas been done, however, in this direction, aversion, it is sheer nonsense to represent! They were considerably surprised to

plea advanced being that it is the the condition of things as in any law factory in the world," namely, the es delusion in which a great many business of the Executive Officer of the approaching that which the former head docks, but take them as a matter of

sendemic persons shared. (Hear, bear.) Yesterday's mass meetings of dockers forty-eight States, and the Federal Gov- thing he would like to see was the Court. This, official has been away at his of the Coalition asserts. But this state- course, as part of the established order. erument's Greatest duty of the hour complete suppression of advertisements. native home celebrating the Yent Year, ment is typical of a great deal that has of things, like the Houses of Parliament decided in favour of resumption, which is not to make but to enforce the law. This would bad to a reduction in the and is not expected to return until next been printed and spoken publicly of late, or the Lord Major's coachman.

size of

newspapers, and would make possi-week. It is preposteraus, in our opinion. and it must be extremely misleading to Ele much greater competition among mall that the recommendation of the native observers abroad to read such sensational doctor should be ignored. at no little stuff. It is vastly more important to independent newspapers, such as they got in a far greater degree in other countries, peril to the condition of the Imprisoned koow what the business community bave woman, simply because an official has to say on the subject, because that is the He would like to see the total abolition of private ownership in newspapers, so that seen fit to absent himself for so long a opinion that counts in matters of this kind, and not the alarmist predictions of newspapers could only be run by groups period.

politicians with axes to grind. or classes of people representing this or that particular opinion.

throughout the country without exception

thas inevitable to-morrow except in the case of the stevedores, whose: Urion claims 23,000 members, mostly in Londen.

RUMOURED REVOLUTION IN

BULGARIA

thereby maintaining respect"

LATEST CARLES,

DAVIS CUP,

New Yoan, February 24th. Spain and Rumania have challenged

COMMUNISTE ALLEGED TO HAVE for the Davis Cup.

CONTROL.

ATHENS, February 24th.

U.S. SQUASH RACKET CHAMPIONSHIP.

BOSTON, February 24th.

The new papers, publish rumours that a Communist revolution has broken out in Bulgaria and that a republic has been established. The rumours add that King on the American squash racket cham- Boris has been sent to the country and chat pionship, defeating, William Harrity 19-13, the Premier and certain ministers have 14-18, 15-10, 18-11..

been murdered. No confirmation is ob tainable from official sources.

OFFICIAL DENIAL

THE FIRST OPERA.

One

Mr.

APPEAL

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"FOOT-AND-MOUTH."

What is most de

Farmers in this country are in a rent state of alarm over the continuance of Foot-and-mouth disease. It continues to spread in a very inexplicable manner in different places. What baffles the expert officers of the Board of Agriculture, who are dealing with the epidemic is the mysterious way it manifests itself. One P. Guedella in opposing the JAPANESE DRUG TRADER'S THE BUSINESS VIEW,

This week at the Federation of British day it is found in some remote parish motion, said that Mr. Cole complained

Industries I learned what is really iD Essex; and the next day in an equally that the newspapers were scrappy

The Court of Criminal Appeal, on thought about the advent of Labour to remote part of Yorkshire, or in Scotland, that they did not get a solid page of un

dismissed the appeal the seat of power. The F.B.L is an in- or in the West of England. In a few broken matter dealing with one subject about which

sentence

traced to straw or some other material of dependent body representative of the instances, however, the disease has been people did not wish to read, January 21st,

against conviction and of bat

which

they could not get cut

It knows no political parties" as such imported from the Continent, where they when they once started on the page, beYasukichi Miyagawa, who was recently immense trade interests of Great Britain. An Englishman, Capt. Gerald Roberts, cause there was nothing else on it: This convicted at the Central Criminal Court With this in mind I believe it is a great always have it going more or less virulent-·

was an inspiring ideal, but he declined to of offences under. the Dangerous Drugs face the prospect of a newspaper which Acts, and was sentenced to three years gain to know quite definitely that pasily. Bat in the majority of instances the If they penal servitude, ordered to pay the costs ness experts in Great Britain do not dis- possibility of infection from outside was not reasonably "crappy,

of the prosecution, and recommended for cover any cause for alarm in the prospect sources has to bewuled out of considera

of a Labour Government. It is consider- tion. were to have a newspaper cataining-news

expulsion. Wa

The policy pursued at official dictation they hart to have the wherewithal to pay! for that news. He did not think they Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, K.O., for ed extremely unlikely that Labour will were going to got bearer freedom by pro-appellant, said that Miyagawa was con- try to force through Parliament legisla- is one of ruthless slaughter of cattle hibiting private people from owning news victed of procuring 500 lb. of morphine tion that will be inimical to the interests and pigs on every farm where there is

wanted to see more private hydrochloride for Miyagawa and Co., of of industry. It is clearly the right policy" foot-and-mouth. paper-be

The present Kobe, Japan, and doing an act prepare for a Labour Government to make as few plorable is the disappearance of masy owning newspapers, prophe Bystem of uncontrolled ownership of the tory to procuring morphine, contrary to enemies as possible as one of the three magnificent pedigree herds of cattle which SECOND PERFORMANCE IN 323. YRAZE.. Press was preferable to any alternative the Act. The case against Miyagawa was parties in the House of Commons, and to it has taken many years to breed up that he knew of. It was certainly pre that he bought morphine in Switserland create a good impression, so that at the to the highest standard of perfection. next General Election, which cannot be Compensation is paid to owners, but this

the near Lar distant, or at least in

is only a small part of the loss, and by The first opera ever performed publicly, ferahle to having their news provided by for dispatch to Japan. That did not ren-

future. Labour will be returned with a no means the most important. It Jacopo Peri's Eurydics," was revived a at the Pitti Palace at Florace recently nonster of Publicity or to having ng der him guilty of" procuring" the mor

Other "speakers followed, and on the Phine. Section 6 of the Act of 1929 clear majority over all other parties in carious that, in spite of all efforts.

(which referred to the export on the occasion of the second Italian

import of drugs), section of that Parliament Musical Congress now being held in this

Act, and the Regulations made there This, of course, is not at all pictures city,

under for the control of the manufacture, que; it does not read like Mr. Lloyd aale, possession, and distribution of drugs George's florid metaphors about the flight postulated the procuring of the drugs in of Capital darkening the Western sky, Great Britain. The drugs in respect of for instance, and Attila has to be left out of the picturo altogether. But it is which the charge was made must at sous

"The British Climate in Historie material time have existed in Great common-sense, and it happens to bear close relation to fact, and that is, after With Giulio Caccini and Emilio del

Dismissing the appeal, the Lord Chief all, the important point. What busiates Times" was the subject of Sir B

anal meeting of the Geographical Asci- Cavalieri, Jacopo Peri is regarded as the

Justice said the bills of lading described men deplore is the danger of a falling-off Gregory's presidential address at the an discoverer of modern recitative. He is The children killed were her two also the father of opera, which became 14.364,503 meals and provided 8,621,331 ne morphine as harmlesa chemicals. It in confidence as a result of uncertainty ation. Little meteorological evidenÖÐ ̧«Əl-:

was not true to say that there could be about Labour intentions Abroad it is sted, he said, for the association of beds. They found work for. 212,225 men; possible once recitative was knows. In nesisted 2,575 criminals. Its rescue hozzes

no charge of procuring morphine when the thought the effect may be very harmful, with Christmas. In a period of eighty- 1597 he himself appeard in the first work received 3.081 girls and its maternity drug was net in the possession of the and that our trade may suffer in foreign three years, snow fell on Christmas Eves The woman is, said to have left a note of the kind which he had composed. It homes have 1,551 beds which are always in purchaser. The Act threw the net wider markets. In other words, the potential on two cecasions only; there were only six years in which it had fallen on Christmas was called "Dafne."

It was performed us The army runa 181 hotels for work than that. The sentence was severe, but damage to trade will probably be due to

psychological causes rather than to Day: and ten when there had been str to her husband saying she was tired of privately, and to trace of it survives. ing men and eighteen hotels for working was necessarily so, having regard to the

causes inherent in the actual situation.

on Boxing Day. increase in the illegal drug traffic. Eurydice " was his second effort,

PARIS, February 25th.

The Bulgarian Legation denies the report

of a revolution in Bulgaris,

THE WESTMINSTER FATALITY.

VICTIMS IDENTIFIED.

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The original performance took place 323 years ago at the festivities which marked the marriage of Maria de' Medici with Henry IV of France. Since then LONDON, February 24th.

"Eurydice has never been seen except The woman killed through falling from once at Milanet Westminster Cathedral has been identified. za Mrs. Davey, of Hammersmith

daughters aged four and eight years;

life.

motion being put to the vote it was car. ried by 201 against 189.

The Salvation Army Year Book for 1994 ontains a clear, straightforward statement of the great enterprises entered upon by such a world-wide organisation. Among 2 mas of interesting information is the statement that during 1923 the social in- stitutions of the Salvation Armof supplied

Women.

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and

tanding over many years, the experts have never been able to discover the bacillus of foot-and-mouth disease, and it is therefore impossible to treat affected animals.-I.B.