CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. [THIOVON REUTER'S AGENCY, } {
DISPUTE IN COTTON INDUSTRY.
NANCHESTER OWNERS THREATEN LOCK-OUT.
Losus, February 28th.
}
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28rm. 1924.
THE POPLAR (GUAKDIANS
QUESTION.
GOVERNMENT WITHSTANDS OPPOSITION ONSLAUGHT,
LONDON February 20th.
INDIAN REFORM MOVEMENT. FAR EASTERN CABLE
GOVERNMENT WILL NOT SANCTION
FULL RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.
Lospox, February zrk.
In the House of Lords, the newly creat- In the House of Comraons, the Governed Lord Olivier, in a Statement on ment successfully withstood the first serious India said the Government were not pre- Opposition onslaughs to-night in a debatopared to accept, or indicate that they evcked by the action of Mr. Wheately it might be prepared to accept, on theers. withdrawing the previous Government's commendations of the round table con-
NEWS.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
'JAPAN AND GERMANY:
NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
RECEIVED.
BERLIN. February 26th. Président - Ebert received "the
W
SCOTTISH LETTER
A MORE SOBER SCOTEAND.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
EDINBURGH, January-Oth Only 41 cases of drunkennes were called
This
ing after the New Year holiday..
ELECTIONS OF PAST TIMES.
of the old Eustrine were tho,
The Cotton Spinners Federation of order restricting the amount of Poot ference, a new scheme for now establish. Presented letters of credence. Baran hows a striking diminution, and the read to be pentes able to pro- "
Manchester has given notice of 'n lock. out, affecting 130,000 cotton operatives, a week bener, unless the strike at the Thornham Spinning Company's mill be actijed in the meantime.
A telegram dated London, February 15th, stated: A dispute has arisen in the cotton room of the Thornham Spinning Comming's will near Oldham, where three
Law relief payable by the Foplar Guarding full and responsible Government in ana, which the Opposition interpreted as India only three years after the institu- a dangerous procedent;
tion of a scheme of reform had been adopted, because we were coprinced that the establishment of full responsible Government would be worss than perilous, and would be big with disaster to the people of India, and when the purposes
Mr. Briant moved a vite of mild con, demnation, which wins seconded by Mr Asquith, and which Unionists sought to strengthen by an amendment..
In the course of a long debate, Mr.
Ramsay MacDonald gave explanations and
President Ebert, replying, expressed. satisfaction at the intellectual rapproche ment which had already manifested itself by the calling of German Professors to
ded to increase 52ny abuud-Stalwarts of this kind used to be employed.
unt. Thereaften
hundred operatives are employed The point as issue is of the first importance, asmarances which, mollifed the Liber which that transitional scheme was de. Japan and the sending of Japanese ani progress long before 1014, and that the There were very few polling places; and
and may lead to a lock-out involving all the mills within the Federation, and one
hundred and fifty thousand operatives. The employers have convened a meeting of the whole trade for February 26th.}
EMPIRE TRADE.
NEW ZEALAND STANDS FIRM.
WELLINGTON, N.Z., Feb. 26th. Becent investigations regarding the possibilities of opening trade with East en rountries resulted in an offer by a Dutch shipping company to provide a regular service, prèvided New Zealand
als, and the mction was shelves after the House had defeated the Conservative motion by Es vote to 999.
NEW WARSHIPS FOR BRITISH NAVY.
LIBERALS OPPOSED TO BUILDING,
Losnos, February 28th. A score of well-known Liberal M.Ps. have issued a manifesto urging reconsider ation of the project to lay down new cru- isers and destroyers, as unnecessary and
Now that matters have quieted down we begin to wonder whathar the General Election that has just änlahet was really so bad in some of its aspects na wo sap- powed it to be at the time. A great deal 075
been written about election hooligan m-I have written s at Edinburgh Police Court ou thờ marit condannatory about a 50 deal that is it myself-but is is absolute fact
that hooliganism as political In a trifling matter to report to a meetings grows worse, that the liberty of overseas newspaper, but to those who know free speech was befor so imperilled Scotland and its phi holiday drinking out-
now? Is it not the truth that in this this it is n n very interesting and
egnant
resport
we are always improving Brutal laet prewar days the average Lensions" uved to be over one hundred, assulting and beastly
Little more therefore, Japanese Ambassador. Baron Honda, who The dgure for the present sear
pore, than bent
twenty years ago Mr. Llynd George from violent mchy by duction has been recorded not only in a bodyguard
pacifist meeting Honda, addresing the President, assured her best couperose the addressed in
ing war arrests for drunkenness de ceeu because a regiment of Stalwarta him he would de his utmost to strengthen creased to a surprising extent. They ten had
had been
been engaged as chuckers-out and did the Armistice and their work with eficiency and enthusiasm. and promote peaceful and friendly re-
while trade was lations between both nations,
liminished, and the by all the political parties; a glances over final result is that we apper to have the old Eles of any newspaper will make renched
a state of great and permanent
neossity. Today the disorderly meeting improvement. It is not only from police is apparent that they wore an urgent statistics that we can draw that confort is exceptional, and as often na not arises
ug conchision. Every obervant citizen from soras indiscretion of a candidate.
The first election in which I took a parti change in the babits
of the
people was in - very youthful part-was in a county. knows from his own experience that the
war only hastened the process. Shall we great bodies of electors had to ho takes ever return to the old drunken conditions, the poll by special steamers The Cou such as were focussed to our sight with servatives hung their flags out from the painful clearness during New Year festi- George Houd. In the community itself vities 7
think not. The figures are there were only about half a legen almost sure to rise with a improvement Tories; it was a sort of belated pocket in trade, but never to the height of form-burgh in which lorales to the Whig land- er day. What was tolerated thirty or or mere bread-and-butter forty years ago, in social and in business life is now quite beyond toleration. It made the majority frantic at the
sight of a blue rosette, The George Hotel is certain that a different standard of be
was stormed by the free and intelligent, haviour has been set up, not only in Scot and, but in England and in many other and practically every window on its front- entries In Scotland there have been broken. The six notorious Tories lived
New may contributary cans Dries the
holidays, for instance, time was when were broken open at night and row
thing public house bars offered almost the only ng boats were deposited in their lobbies. attraction, but now sport in the principal the day of the poll.
There were plans for their kidnapping on that matters, Football claims first programmes oti
One of the steamers coming in with attention, and completa the first two days of the yea een lang voters from a distant part of the county way to counteract the temptation of the was filled with lector known to be solid public-house. Other causes have undoubt for the Tory. The passengers had to move lly been early closing, the high prices of close formation to the polling place, liquor, and let it be admitted, the adver- otherwise they would never have reached tisement that temperance has obtained by it. When the steamer was leaving again. the Prohibition campaign in connection it was under a rapid fire of, uncooked her.
Veto elections.
on rings and potatoes, barrels and bags of But the movement has been continuous which happened to be on the quny. for years-long before the recent phase of Shameful, imbecile-but great sport!" Prohibition was heard of-and the reason able conclusion is that the Fundamental cause is to be found in the enlightenment of the people and in the general advance of education, in the best sense of that word.
· PHILIPPINES INDEPENDENON
DRASTIC
COMMISSION
ACTION BY
AUDITOR.
►
INSELAR
signed to give had not been availed of ents to Germany. He expressed the hope The Governmeus having the samu that the economic relations would soon ultimate aim for India as the Swarajists, lead to a comunèrcial agreement. namely the substitution of responsible Dominion Goverupent for the present | admittedly transitional political ens. "Su- tion, earnestly desired to avail themselves of the Swarajista' disposition towards effectual consultation, The Government
MANILA, February 26th. were open to consider any practical pro- regard to what might be the best means Auditary refuses to approve the expenses posals, but were not yet satisfied with Mr. Ben F. Wright, the new Insular
of establishing that closer contact and better understanding that was so mani-incurred by the Independence Coninis intly desirable; but hoped, after consian, claiming that the appropriation is | casuels the preferential duties imposed on ¦ econòmically disastrous, and moralls sulting the Government of India, to be
products from the Dutch Indies.
wrong, contending that Britain's actionable with the least avoidable delay to unconstitutional.
decide on some means. Meanwhile the will create mistrust abroad and endanger Government, which is unequivocally the work of the League of Nations. They and Reform parts, appealed Conscitur tional to that asert that four new cruisers are already party for patience, circumspection and being built for the Royal Navy, and point co-operation in using its councils for an
efficient administration. out that Japan has reduced her naval | . estimates by forty-five million. yen,
It is stated that the proposal is not likely to be entertained, since the. New Zealand Government prefers to make a writer effort to develop Empire trade.
DUTCH OIL RESEARCH.
GOVERNMENT BORINGS RESULT
IN FIND,
Goverment
THE HAGUE, February 26th.
Mineral Research De- partment borings have resulted in the discovery of oil at Winterswyk, but the extent of the deposits has not yet been
ascertained.
PARIS PRODUCE EXCHANGE RE-OPENS.
STUNGENT REGULATIONS,
IMPOSED,
PARIS, February 20th. The Preduce Exchange, which has been compulsorily," closed for the past week, was permitted to reopen upon representas tives of the sugar, cil and rubber inter- ests agreeing to stringent regulations like the exclusion of foreigners and a reduc tion in periods for the execution of con tracts.
SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON SPLENDID RECEPTION IN WESTERN
AUSTRALIA.
FREEMANTLE, February 26th. The special service squadron arrived at daybreak. The weather was glorious,
and the joineuse crowds which asserobled
were most enthusiastic. Aeroplanes few over the warships, and swarms of gaily decorated river craft greeted the visitors
"LATEST CABLES.
.
NAVAL DISARMAMENT.
CONFLICTING REPORTS.
ROME, February 26th. The Naval Conference, closed with an official declaration of unanimity, which is difficult to reconcile with the reports of dissention among the delegates.
Notwithstanding the semi-official denial, the Spanish delegate published a frank statement explaining that be retired he cause he failed to sexure general support for a tonnage of 105,000 instead of the permitted 83,000 tons.
:.'.
Russia uncompromisingly claimed 400,000 toks, aleo the closure of the Baltic and Dardanelles to all warships!
EARLIER CABLES
SPAIN'S WITHDRAWAL FROM
DISCUSSION DENIED.
Roma, February 20th It is emi-officially denied tht Spain has withdrawn from the naval disarmament committe. It is explained that the con- ference members are not empowered to
decisions but will merely frame their opinions in the form of reports,
STEVEDORES' STRIKE
MEN REFUSE TO RESUME WORK.
LONDON, February 26th.
.com.
TREATMENT OF SIKHN.
DEL February 26th. In the Assembly, a Swarajist motion in favour of the appointment of a mittee to inquire into the Sikh grievances was carried without a division, after a lengthy discussion in which Pundt Malaviya bitterly denounced the treat The executive of the Stevedores' Unionment of the Sikhs, and the killing of bas unanimously recommended all the members to resume tmorrow under the terms of the national agreement, pending
ام
nonviolent Akalig at Jaito."
Several members declared the deposi
tion of the Maharaja Walid was able against the Sikh organization.
Most far-reaching copequences are expected from this action, as the entire Independence propaganda in the United States and many activities of the coalition majority in the Legislature are, financed from this appropriation, for which no accounting has hitherto been made.
GERMANY AND CHINA,
LONDON, February 26th.
In the House of Commons, replying to Sir F. Wie, Mr. Snowden said he had to information indienting that Germany had advanced credits to China,
શ્રી
with the last- two
ANOTHER LAND FLOAT."
д
haunted lives for several weeks; their
There was a burgh election at the same time. The Liberal candidate got all the votes, but even his supporters could not conceal that he bad mest of the attributes of a dud. His opponent was conscienti- ously hooted down, but the Liberal paid painfully for his ultimate triumph at the The latest Scottish Peer to form his poll by having to submit to be carried states into a joint stock comphay is Lord shoulder high, in which helpless position
he was joyfully,
nipped Saltoun. The capital of the company £1,000.000. Lord Saltoun is Superior of salient parts of his person by his more the town
of Fraserburgh which WAS candidate of today like that! A few youthful rude supporters. How would the originally a Burgh of Barony
in
4
in the moraʻ
by and formed into a years later and the same constituencies
our
estates, which extend to about 12,000 acres, are all in the neighbourhood of the town and in adjoining parishes. The throwing gives landlords certain advantages in re gard to taxation, particularly in the esment of Income Tax and death
Sir Malcolm Hailey, on behalf of the the result of negotiations, the employers | Government, opposed the establishment of having promised that particular grievment of India had done anything to in
a committee. He denied that the Govery [Y. COUNTERY OF THE "DAILY BULLETIN:" of their estates into the form of Company
andes Will be favourably considered inime- diately.
LATER.
A hitch has occurred in connection with the resumption of work by the stevedores,
Jare Sikh religious aspirations, and denied that women had heen maltreated or that machine-gune had been used at Jaitd, where the firing by the Govern ment force on their attackers was of a minimum character.
of
NEXT ATTACK ON CANTONI
H
SCOTLAND CHANGING HANDS.
During 1923 another 200,000 acres of Scotland changed hands. Since November 11th 1018 (Armistice Day) no fewer that 6,000,000 Scottish acres have been seld. This means that in all about one-third of the whole country is owned by new lainly The biggest cetate to come into the mar ket was that of Lord Leverhulme in Lewis. The acreage was 282,000.. ST. ANDREWS.
'duties. PEXIS. February 26th. General Shen Hung Ying, a former in terlogized the fluential militarist under Lu Yurg Ting bravery and devotion of the Sikhs, and at Canton, who recently has been assembl ns the men have turned down the execu- declared the Government's hand tive's recommendation,
friendship was still held out to them. ing his former troops with the object of
NON-CO-OPERATION IN KENYA.
launching an attack on Canton in the NAIROBI, February 20th. interedis Wu Pei Fu. has despatched a The Kenya Indians have commenced an intensive hon-oo-operation campaign delegate to Loyang for funds to carry on, as a protest against their alleged poli- his enterprise. tical grievances, the initial step being the refusal of payment of the poll tax.
MUNICH TREASON TRIAL APPROACHES TO COURT STRONGLY GUARDED.
Musica, February 28th.
The trial of Ludendorff. Hitler and saren alleged accomplices on charges of high treagan in connection with the revs. lutionary atterart last November, has opened in the former infantry school.
The approaches to the court were block.
ed with barbed wire, and artned soldiers
and price held up everyone, demanding
examined those admitted for hidden to see their pass. "A detective inside
weapons.
HALL PACKED TO SUFFOCATION. The hall was packed to suffocation with pressmen and witnesses, but the general public were present in very limited num her:
Ludendorff, in a blue lounge suit, headed the accused when they entered the court. The reading of the indictment lasted ons
· and a balf hours, then the prosecutor pro-. posed to exclude the public and the court adjourned to consider this,
HITLER PLEADS PATRIOTIC MOTIVES.
LATER
TSAO JE APPOINTED TUPAN.
A Plus man stood, driver bi hand,
St. Andrews, O St. Andrews:
sued, and four Indians at Mombasa Lengthy lists of summonses have been MINING ENTERPRISE IN CHIHLI. Watching his caddie tee up the sand, have been committed to prison. The movement has extended to the voters' rolls in which, there are hardly any Indian names.
PERING, February 26th. The Cabinet, this morning, decided to SIR PERCY SCOTT'S ILLNESS.ppoint Tao Jui Tupan of Government
mining enterprises in Chihli province.
LONDON, February 26th...
Sir Percy Scott, who fell ill on Jan. th, was landed on a stretcher at Albert
and was taken to his home in an ambul Dock from the liner Mashobre, from Malta. He had been ill on the "voyage;
ance.
INTER-ALLIED CONTROL
IN GERMANY. 가
PARIS. February 26th. The British plan for the resumption of inter-Allied control, outlined in Mr. inventory of the German ammunition., Ramsay MacDonald's Note, demands an
AUSTRIA RECOGNISES
SOVIET.
VIENNA, February 9th.. Austria has recognised the Soviet Gov- erpment,
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL.
LONDON, February 26th. When the court trying Ludendorff, bent Clybesank by 3 to nil, whilst Celtic In the Scottish League, the Rangers defeated Heaŕta by 4 to. 1.
Hitler and others resumed, so arhounes ment was made as regards the admission of the public.
A noticeable feature is the friendly at mosphere in which the proceedings are be ing conducted. None of the accused ap-
The president of the court made a state ment sympathetically laying stress on Hit ler's war career.
EARLIER CABLES,
MINISTERIAL FRICTION.
PEXixo, February 26th. The vernacular bewspapers indicate that friction basarin between the Premier and the Minister of Finance, and rumours of the impending resignation of both are being cireulated.
were true-blue Tory.
PROLOGUE OF THE WAR GERMANY'S EXPLANATION OF THE SITUATION.
The sub-committee of the Reichstag Committee appointed to inquire into the situation which led up to the Great War has delivered its report upon the question of Gemany's attitude at the Hague Con- ferences of 1899 and 1907.
The sub-committen is of opinion that the opposing material factor in the days before the war was not that a warlike Germany was opposed to prace-loving Powers, but that there existed on the ore. side an iden that the nations were to bo considered as military factors with a feef-
on the other there was the movement to. wards prace to satisfy the longings of nations,
By the bonny bunkers of St. Andressing of greed of economic extension, and The ball was placed (a Silver King), St. Andrews, 0 St. Andrews: The golfer smiled and took his swing.
By the bonny bunkers of St. Andrews, Slow was the rise, speedy the fell, St. Andrews, Q St. Andrews; The club by a hair's breadth missed the
ball,
By the bonny bunkers of St. Andrews, The caddie laughed out loud with glee
St. Andrews, O St. Andrewą; The golfer slew him on the ten
By the bonny bunkers of St. Andrews, They met to find out how he died,
St. Andrews, O St. Andrews; And brought in the verdict. “Suicide,
By the bonay bunkers of St. Andrews
-N.ME.
(in the Glasgow High School Mogazine) EARING GOULD & SCOTOPHOBE.
+
At the time no practical.proposals were put forward by any Government to ob vinte international dangers. The pr posals made by Russia at the Hagne in. 1800 were so drafted that for the moment Germany's opponents would have been favoured. the question was again to be roiced the Ae, after the ejection in 1809,
German Government considerad it advis- able from the very beginning to refrain from taking part in the discussions, in view of the geographict position of Germany. and the increased man power of the Franco-Russian duni alliance and its re- inforcement by Great Britain. Germany, the report says, did not take advantage of her favourable situation at the time of the Boer War, or the Russo-JapInces War to make humiliating demands upon acher Powers.
when other States pretended to be more favourably disposed towards the proposal they made such reservations that fruitful results were doubtful..
The late Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould was probably the champion Scotophobe. His In its notice of the death of Mr. W. G. views about us, if anybody were to collet With regard to Germany's attitude to- Worcester, the J.-C. Daily us which them, would be highly entertaining. He wards the problem of international arbit describes him as one of Shanghai's most felt particularly bitter when he thought ration jurisdiction, the committee declares. popular
residents, says Mr. Worces of the Boottish Archbishops anki of Scot- that Germany was by no means alone in ter was one of the best of sportsmen tish matrimonial alliances with the royal vejreting the proposals for an inter- keet golfer and paper hunter and a clever family. This Int weakness of his makes rational arbitration treaty, as it was not lawn tennis player. He won several laws it likely that bis last year was the un-adopted by eleven Stato. Moreover, tennis championships, principally in happiest of his long life. Hongkong Like Mrs. Worcester, who is a sister of Mr. E. S. Benbow Rowe, he Also was a clever amateur stage artist and be was one of the best known me bers of the Hongkong A.D.O., though he hai. He was a member of many local did not do so much in this line in Shang- social and sporting clubs and was Mason of long standing. He was know to all as man of a most genial and like by very many friends."
THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN BAUTIERE.
The publication of the illustrated mem- The House with the Green Bhutters orial edition of that powerful Scots novel
Balliol. I helped to explain his market COUNCILLOR RESIGNS OWING TO recalls a story current at Oxford during George Douglas Brown's resilience to lack of enthusiasm for Jowett, they fameus Master of that College. At a breakfest given to some freshmen, amung
whom was
know At a meeting of Sheffield City Council how it is, Mr. Brown, but you
strongly of my late lamented friend. Councillor A E Butcher, a Labour mem
ກ John Covington." Ten minutes ber, resigning his meat, as he felt came to Shanghai in the Eldrada left later the
The Lord
#DIRE POVERTY.”
(REUTER'S. AMERICAN SERVICE.] able disposition and will be sadly missed | Brown, Jowett remarked dome on January 8th a letter was read from.
AMERICAN TAX ON GIFTS.
WASHINGTON, February 28th.
Paid
to the work that
his
mean of the Labour party in the City, Councillor Humberstone, the
aid that members of his
had known Party
Fifty of the Russian refugees who first. Denfessorster, quite forgetful of "dira poverty and In order to stop the avoidance of in- last week by the B... Saikio Mari, AT previous remark, said in connection with were not compatiblic repreantation** pears to take the affair very seriously.come tax payment by wealthy persons, rangements for their repatriation having some other topic" Without doubt my late bacillor Batshe had done durin
by the begrowal of benefactions upon re been made by the Hefagee Relief Com lamented friend. Professor John Coming Larives and others, the House of Repre mittee. At the recent meeting held to ton was the ugliest, man I ever knew sentatives has enacted a tax on gifts, discuss various aspects of repatriation, A ̈LEGEND OF HOGMANY, ranging from one to forty per cent of one great difficulty was said to be appre- A knot of collegiate waggiJ the value.
beusion on the part of the refugees as Played ball in the High with a haggis: to their reception in Russia, and in the present instance it is interesting to noter says the V... Daily News, that the difficulty has been met by the special permits given to the refugees by Mr. Elleder, the Soviet representative - in Shanghai. The travellers will proceed to Kanchuli, via Dairen, and thence to värious destinatiode.
Hitler, in the course of a long statement: attributed his action to patriotic motives He denounced the conduct of Von Kähr and General Von. Lossow, who joined the, movement under duress and immediately suppressed it when tree,
OBITUARY.
MR. GEORGE R. CHESTER.
New York, February 26th. The death has occurred of George R. Chester, the author of "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" and other stories.
.
A
A man in the serum
Fell prone on his tum
And flattened the ball on the flaggis.
Basserch rescued the haggis, Reproving the varsity raggis:
With various types
He
Of skirt on the pipes
blew out the ball with his baggi
AW. in The Daily Chronicle.
bo
for some time that Councilfor Butcher fel
could not go on much longer, as, right or wrongly having been out of work for two years, he believed that his membership of the council was a handicap when he made application for a situation. resignation was accepted,
Mr. Butcher w
The
was the first Labour mem
ber for Walkley, and was elected when ha was one of the leaders of the unemploye
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.