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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON CONFERÈNCE,

BRITISH AMBASSADOR, EXPLAINS,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 8TM,

LATEST CABLES, [REUTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICE

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT

NEW YORK, July 7th. The candision o which Mr.Aloo" accept-

the proposal to release the delegates was prconipanied by a provisó as regards Pazis, July 7th. the two-thirds nie and stipulates that The English Ambassador has inforined the lowest may be dropped on rách sucs M. Herriot that Mr. MacDonald proceeding ballot until the nomination is posed personally to notify the Govern ments called do the London Conference, He never tried to tie M. Herries to his ideas. The expressions put forward were -only on the responsibility of the Ruglish Government M. Heriot has accepted

this explanation.

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HOME PREMIER'S VISIT TO

FRANCE"

Mr. MacDonald.comes to Paris to-mor row to confer with A. Herriot.

BARLIGE CABLES

FRESH LEFT", CAMPAIGN- Panis, July 6th. The opposition bas launched a big anti- Herriot offensive. The extremists are Appanding the immediate overthrow of the flovernment; the more moderate -oppositionists are trying to prevent M. Herriot "going to London until he has reassured the public that the French in- terests will not be sacriticed.

FAR EASTERN CABLE DECISION, FOR DOCTORS IN-

LUNACY APPEAL. JUDGMENTS SET ASIDE.

NEWS

(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]

ANHUI FIGHTING.

3 GRAVE - SITUATION,

PEKING, July 7th. Foreign telegrans report that about a made; and each delegate is entitled, to thousand, hadits are terrorising the cast pré ruta for the vote of absent dele-central districts of Anhui and have killed" gates. Representatives of other sauli the Chief of Police at Laichow. The Tage dates rejected MrAdoo's coiiter-proposal, ["'yin of Tathan is missing. The Yamen has All candidates, except McAdoo, have been looted. The Tanyin of Wuhu has approved the drelaration that each will been sent to Lauhas to take charge. willingly released all delegates who had arranged to vote for him as completely as if his name had been withdrawn from the Convention.

EARLIER CABLES. NEW YORK, July 6th. "The representatives of fourteen minor- ity candidates before the Democratic Convention agreed to release their dele- gates in the hope that Smith and McAdoo would do likewiże.

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Mr. Smith's managers announced" that their supporters, had never been under any obligations as regards their votes. They could vote as they pleased. Mr. MeAdoo's" then have summoned their forces to rally and reaffirmed their deter. mination not to withdraw.

The Court of Appeal, consisting of Lords Justices Bankes. Warrington, and Scrutton, delivered their rousidėærd judgments last month in the appeals of Dr. Charles Hubert Routh, a Commission er in Lamaey, and "Dr. George Henry Adam, licensee of a private asylum at Malling Place, Malling. Kent, against verdict and judgment entered against them at trial before Mr. Justice Lush and

Kentish Smart "Harrett, 1. a special jury, in an action brought by

Mr...

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as a lunatic far i

his continuous detention farmer, to recover damages for enusing eight or nine years. After a trial tasting; eighteen days the jury awarded £3.000 The Tuli has sent troops to the sebne damages against Dr. Bond for detaining the plaintif in his office in Victoria Street or three hours, and £20,000 from Pengpu and Anking.

Reports state that the situation is again Dr. Bond and Dr. Adam, jointly assuming grave proportions."

BEITISH WORLD FLIGET.

WELCOME IN JAPAN,

COL BROOMS ON BOARD.

Toxro, July 7th. MacLaren arrived at Kasumigaura at

2.49 p.m.

He received an enthusiastic welcome from the crowds and the chief of the Ramurai- gaura aviation corps, bis host The aviator is expected to remain in Tokyo two or three days, during which he will be the guest at mary entertainments When he sets off northwards he will be The British Labour Party has sent accompanied by Col. Brompe, who was greetings and congratulations to the Pro-awaiting him here. gressive Conference, The messages are

AN AMERICAN LABOUR PARTY.

CLEVELAND, July oth

In a speech at Troyes M. Herriot de- clared the Experts' Report offered France "the best chance of securing peace and pay. ment. He deplored, opposition efforts to distort and little the character of the Chequers meeting. He stated tim Govern, signed by Messrs. Cramp, Middleton and

"what

ment's method was to purque unites, not want divides." IRISH BOUNDARY DISPUTE.

AN INTERVENER.

TANDON, July 6th.

Brockway. They express, the hope that the Conference will lead to the forma tion of an American Labour Party and the assertion of its politien! indepen-f

dence.

BATTLE IN BRAZIL. A SHORT-LIVED AFFAIR

In the course of a statement to the Press, regarding Mr. Ramsay Mac-

BUENOS AIRES, July 4th. Dorial's references to the possibility of

It is reported that the city of San the two Irish Governments reaching un "agreement before the Boundary Commis-Paulo, in Brazil, is in the hands of re- sion is constituted. Mr. Justice Feethamvolutionaries, who occupied the Federat says Mr. Cosgrave and Sir James Craig Buildings after a spell of fighting. The have agreed to his arting on those lines Federal Governicent bas declared a state of siege at Bio de Janeiro and San Paulo. the rushed warships, carrying tro på, to suppress the revolt.

and are giving him opportunities for an informal discussion for the purpose of seeing whether an agreed settlement is reachable. They are also giving him facilities to both sides of the border to study, the economic and geographie oon-

.ditions.

Jeals to the Anglo-Irish public and Press

LATER.

A message from Rio de Janeiro an- nounces that the military rising in San Paulo, has been suppressed. Order has heen restored everywhere.

JAPANESE LUXURIES.

HEAVY IMPORT DUTIES,

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Toxyo, July 7th, The import duties on luxuries is being raised all round to 100 per cent, valoren. According to a Bill introduced in the Diet," the purpose of which is to plner an embargo, on luxuries rather than to protect home industries! The list of Jutiahle articles includes tez and other beverages, liquors, precious woollens, silks, kuitted goods, stangs. wearing apparel, cameras, gramaphones, toys, "and toilet goods...

JAPAN AIR FORCE.

for two

did severally, for causing his continued detention in five different asylums över the period stated. The £3,000 had been paid to the plaintiff," and the £20,060 lodged in court (by the Ministry of Health) as a condition of leave to ap- peak

The grounds of appeal were that the verdict was against the weight of evid ener, that the judge had misdirected the jury both as to law and farts, and that the damages were excessive.

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Major A. C. Church, M.P., thought' that if there were more scientific men in the House of Commons the country would be able to pay considerably more attention to things that were really vitat such as housing," unemployment, and fance.

SPIRIT OF SCIENCE. APPLICATION TO POLITICS, PRIME MINISTER'S VIEW. Many representatives of Labour and

Lord Askwith resided at the after- scientific investigation attended a confer race which was opened on May 30th at the British Empire Exhibition at Wem-noon session, when discussion took place

Industry." hley, under the auspices of the British Scientific Brsearch in relation to Selenge Guild and National Joint Coun cil, when the subject of discussion was "The Place of Science in Government." The Prime Minister, who was to have opened the conference, was unable to at tnl.

Mrs Hugo Hirst, who introduced the subject, id that having been mainly responsible for the creation of the ro trie Company at Wembley, at a cost of search laboratories of the General Elec- 200.000, and yearly expenditure of about 250.000, he might be given credit for a deep stody of the question. The impulse which moved him was not the. outcome of deep study, but of practical experience. He had asked himself why the question of scientide research should be raised at a naveting of Labour, and he was reminded that those who advised Labour had not always been sympthetia to stence. They felt that new inven tions interfered with the established rou tine of organised labbar, and they saw aufortunately, that a few hundred, or it might be a few thousand, men were des prived of their netipations. They did not see, however, the beneficial and ronder effect on labour which, such an invention might have.

-WELLS-LIKE SPECULATION,

In a letter of apology he wrote: 1 have been looking forward to this meeting with great pleasure, as I wish ed to try and say something to impress upon the public the necessity of treat- ing political questions in a scientific spirit, and not merely in a short-vision, partisan frame of saind. Until we re gard administration and legislation, in precisely the same matter as a scienti- fo worker approaches his work in laboratory we shall never be able to set results of a permanent character nor shall we secure respect for public institutions: "I was hoping that one of the results of the war would have been to have eliminated from the House of Commons the methods of the dog. Infortunately, there are far too many signs that the hope is not to be fulfill

d. The matter ultimately rests with. the public, which ought to sean "with

Sic Oliver Ludge illustrated a few of sernpolous vigilance proceedings in Parliament, not merely in relation to the developments of subjects which had this topic or that, but to the spirit of taken place within his memory and with national concern which its debates which he was rather closely connected. show. If our social organisation The discovery of eletric waves, which spread intelligence and human still so very rudimentary that the public are open to the exploitation of any in spatech broadcast over the earth, took terest that is placed for the moment its rise in a mathematical investigation iu a position of economic advantage. it by Clerk-Maxweli more than half a cen- is mainly owing to the fact that selen try ago. It took twenty years to bring tific methods have hardly get been a these waves out of mathematical for muke into the realisation of fact, and plied to society itself."

they owed their production chiefly to the remarkable experimental researches of Hertz in pure science when he was ed for the industry and skill and initia- young professor at Curlsruhe. It remain

Marconi to unify the various discoverica and practical common-sense of Mfr.

to the transmission of news, It needed and really apply them on the large scale faith for those engaged great industrial enterprises to divert a portion of their staff and equipment to investigations in pure science, but everyone knew that in Germany this had been done, especially time, and with great success; though, un- ornately, it had been possible as it in the subject of chemistry, for a long

rule. always was to abuse these beneficent.

now

By its unanimous decision the Court, after a hearing lasting seven days, now allowed the appeal of Dr. Adams, setting nside the judgment entered against him,

Sir Richard Gregory, who resided, ing him the costs of both the trial and entering judgment in his favour, sind giv the appeal. In the case of Dr. Bond said wealth was created eventually he they alan set aside the judgment, and scientific discovery. In the political field. the ed a new sal on the footings that ustalls, chirt consideration was given not any damages awarded must be confined to the means of creating wealth, but to te, and not go beyond, the alleged in the distribution of wealth between those prissament at Victoria Street, after who used the knowledge obtained which time, they declared. Dr. Bond was science. One would hope that as a 2- not responsible for the plaintiff's detensult of a conference of that kind Labor

They saye Dr. Bond the costs of would understand the scientific point of view the appeal, and by a special order direct- and would realise that what scientiae tion. ed that the costs of the first trial in his men were doing was really of great ulti. mite advantage industrially and socially case should abide the result of the new trial but. In the event of the plaintiff to the world. He knew the Prime Mini the new trial were to be confined to such with scientific work and method. Mr. sucreesling in the new trial, the costs of ter, as a student of science, was familiar costs as the taxing muster considered MacDonald was almost the only Prime reasonable had the first action been Minister this country had had who was in against Dr. Bond alone. The £5.000 paid position to know what science might activities and prostitute them to unholy It was an undoubted fact that there to the plaintiff and the £20,000 paid into mean to modern civilisation: and the con

ference was being appropriately held at | court were ordered to be repaid.

a time when they had at the bend of the were immense, stores of emergy, locked Government & man who was both syrup in the atoms of matter and in the unlikely that filty, years "would clapse cience signified. pathetic and knowledgable as to what ether of space, and it seemed to him quite before some of this energy would be tap- Mr. Sidney Webb, M.P (President of ped and applied to practical purfiones. cussion, said he did not think it could without knowing it, every day of our HANSARD, BRADSHAW, AND the Board of Trade), in opening the die We were really using that energy already, be maintained that the State had, as a fives: but it was not yet under control, and we used it indirectly as sunshine general rule abstained from utilising and in combustion and chemical action. scientific ability where that ability There might be physical methods of combined with appreciation of the con ditions in which it had to be applied practically to the life of the community. It was suggested that the Legislature could not be fully effective without the

It is calculated that so far this se has rest in counsels' fees, payment to witnesses, and other charges, between

10,000 and £30,000,

OLD MOORE. ORIGIN OF.. FAMOUS RECORDS

AND GUIDES.

PRAISE FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE-

getting at this energy, and the amount. was so viet that if we could get at only The demand for broadcasting of Parlia drawn special at

per cent we should have a source of

Wells-like speculation, he could conceive mentary speeches has urbesties norn

power which would put all others into as Hansard. That Hasard's Parlia presence of men or women of high scien- theshade: If he fight allow himself a

is published, and can the training. If that meant that pre- mentary Debates

bos locomotive of the future na propelled he obtained by anyone, has come as a vision ought to be made for scientific the aeroplane and the steamship and the surprise to many people, who not only membership of e House of CommonFather fire a rocket lir the feaction of a

having regard to the did not know that they could obtain he feared th verhatin reports of speeches in the characteristics of modern constituencies. small quantity of material ejected from House, but also did not know that Han- there, was a certain futility about the the tail at an immensely high speed, a proposition. He had known a few dis. speed far beyond that at which gase

wery expelled even by the most powerful FURTHER EXPANSION. SUGGESTED.

.sard existed.

The original Hansard was Dr. John tinguished men of science mathematic

Sir Daniel Hall dealt with the position son's printer, and it was he who obtainedjans, chemists, physiologists--who had by explosive.

happy chance become members of Parlia TOKYO, July 7th.

the contract for printing the Parliamentary He did not think they were dis of agriculture, and said the man-power in the industry was being diverted by the tinguished for success in Parliament, Subject to the provision of necessary Journal in 1774. His son, T. C. Hansard,

carried on the business under the aus But be doubted whether the suggestion greater prizes which the more organised In his vew the industries offered, and so, in all conn- was sound in itself. funds without unduly swelling the esti-pices of Cobbett, who was in 1810 fined

secution, T. C. Hansard was imprisoned function of the elected representative. ries, agricultural production was suffer Meantime Mr. Justice Feethrun ap PRESIDENT'S SON'S ILLNESS. mates. M. Takarabe told the Diet the £1,000 for libel As a result of the pro

This terminated the was essentially that of an expert exponing as a consequence.

Hi task WAN Mr. A. P. M. Fleming suggested the for three years! arrangement between Cobbett and bitent and translator. printer, and in 1829 the publication came two-fold. On the one hand he had to setting up of an intelligence organisation. from which new scientific knowledge to the scientific expert in the art of ad under Government control, and Hansard he perpetually discovering, explaining having close contact with all the centres ministration what it was that the people emanated. This organisation bould place devated himself wholly to his work

lacked and wished. and of conveying to any new knowledge before a suitable the popular mind what the administrative board which could sift it and decide expert, after consultation with the physi- what, if any, industrial possibilities the cist, the chemist, the engineer, and then knowledge presented, and in what diree- the biologist, reported about the practic ability, the method, and the probletions experimental work would be justi- reactions of this or that project of social: bed by industrial results, reorganisation. He had been enormously impressed with the ability, loyalty, and administrative skill and science of our principal Civil servants, and he was mora Another book which may justly be than even convinced that we had the best terised an institution is the Bradshaw." Civil Service in the world. Gordill It is amazing to us to discover that when without knowledge was warmth without George Bradshaw, the Quaker, decided

to abstain from controversial comment

on questians involved in article 12 of the Trnavy

THE WORLD'S SPORT.

GOLF.

FRENCH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP.

PARI July 8th. In the French Amateur Golf Champion- ship Shal at Laboulie, Mr. Anderson, the, United States representative, beat Mr. Cyril Tolley, Great Britain, by one up.

AMERICAN BASEBALL.

NEW YORK, July 7th. NATIONAL LEAQUÉ,

Cincinnatti, : Piftsburgh, B. St. Louis, 2, Chicago, v. New York, 5; Philadelphia, 1. Brooklyn, 1 Boston, 4.-

AMERICAN LEAGUE.. Washington, 4: New York, T Detroit. ; St. Louis.. 5. Chicago, 5 Cleveland, a

LATEST CABLES. OLYMPIC GAMES.

FIELD EVENTS AND POLO.

JAVELIN THROW

PARIS, July 7tb."

J. Vyrra (Finland). Distance: 02.98

metres.

Myrra holds the world's record, with a

distance of 216ft, 102 ins

Wide (Sweden)

10,000 METRES RUNNING

Ritoln (Finland)

Berg (Finland)

Time: 30mine. 23.1-6secs.

This is a world's record.

winner.

POLO-Argentina C, U.S.A. 5.

2.

WASHINGTON, July th

President Coolidge's 590 was operated He was worse this pon last night morning. It is stated at the White House this evening, that his condition is critical but not hopeless.

PEOPLING THE EMPIRE.

CLYNES ON LABOUR'S

CONVERSION.

AL

Empire migration and settlement were discussed at a conference at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley recently.

world situation demanded that Japan should further expand ber naval air forces, and recommended the establish ment of 11. squadrons in addition to the 17 already embodied in the present pro

gramme.

AN INSTITUTION.

With only occasional misunderstandings between the Government and the printer continued, and, Hansard has been although still printed in the same style DAILY BULLETIN." and size ax Cobbett's original volume, has its own staff of shorthand reporters "Hansard," it has been said. began life as a printer and has now become an institution."

[BY COURTESY OF THE

A STEAMER ASHORE.

HANKÓW, July 61a. The Indo-China Steam Navigation Mr. J. R Clynes, M.F., the Lord Company's steamer Kizugice is reported Privy Seal, said he was confident that be

fore long they would meet with a large to be ashore up-river. menstre of success in Imperial settle- ment. Even labour was being converted, or perhaps diverted, from its former groove to the wider view.

The most helpful form of transference was group. settlement of people in young manhood or youth. It was a good thing to settle in the new land in early life. Transfer ence of surplus population to Canada, Australia, and other lands would be an advantage to the working classes remain.

NEW JAPANESE

PRESIDENT'S

SIER.

"POINT BLANK.

ORIGIN AND MEANING OF THE TERM.

light. Especially in all the complexities In an article in the current issue of to print railway time-tables the railways of politics, in the still undeveloped The Journal of the Nuristy of Army His did all they could to prevent him doing science of society, the Labour party torical Reach, Lord Cottesloe, better so on the ground that his tables might stood for increased study for the known as the Hon. Thomas Fremantle, make punctuality sort of obligation. scientific investigation of each succeeding author of "The Book of the Rife" (1903), Young Bradshaw, however, persisted, problem. for the deliberate organisation gives interesting particulars of the origin and in 189, published, with authority, of research, and for a much more rapid of the term point blank,"

"It was a common gunner's expression small twenty-four page Bradshaw's dissemination among the whole people of

in Italy when Tartaglia publish his com- Railway Time Tables and Assistant to all the science that existed.

Sir Richard Glazebrook said that Goy-mentaries in 1837. When the pellet Railway Travelling with Illustrated Maps and Plans" Its price was at first six ernments could not obtain the "results Bieth out of a piece which lieth equidist- pence, and ten of the twenty-four pages which formed the basis of practical ad- ant to the horizon, that is to say level, were devoted to maps. George Bradshaw vance without men of science; they could met his death in the service, of is not out out of hosted that the or, as the gunners term it, at point blank "We find the word used by Shakee famous time-table. In 1933, he went to scientific spirit which found out what ponto in bianco),' W. W. Yen's name to Parliament Inst Christianin to make arrangements with was true and attempted to act on its

few hours he had fallen a victim to the spirit be cultivated in bigh quartera? To to the blank transports his poisened scourge of cholera which was raging some extent perhaps by having seientile shot. The word blank, was an early men in Parliament and in the councils of term for the centre of the target, and Francis Moore came to London to make the nation, but mainly by education of the hence anything, aimed at or the range of "The expression point blank? seems The conference would age of forty-one, set up as a physician. had brought. a living by his wits, and in 1898, at the people to appreciate the advantages it

PERING, July, 6th. President Tano Kan submitted Dr.

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ing here, just as it would to those who vening as the permanent Premier, and Scandinavian companies" and within a discoveries. How could this scientifio apeare in Hamlet,. As level as the cannon

went.

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EXHIBITION'S VALUE,

the voting on the nomination may he Later the delegates (were entertained nt a Government luncheon. Mr. J. H. carried out on Tuesday, but it will be Thomas, the Colonial Secretary, presid ing, said: When folks asked, as in the necessary for Parliament first to hold in House of Commons the previous day, formal discussions, which may delay the

Is this British Empire Exhibition on.

a balance-sheet going to prove, success official vote.

full" he had no answer to that type of

As far as can be ascertained, it is now mind. He was not going to defend the balance-sheet of income and expenditure unlikely that there will be any changes of pounds, shillings, and pence on an issue such as the exhibition represented, as regards the Minister of Finance, If it brought home to the bumblest citi: Minister of

For

Affairs, Minister of zens bow great had been the past of the

there.

such aimi.

In his spare time he did a little teaching have done its work well if it could im to have involved the idea that in the and practised astrology, but as pupils press on the Government the need for re-early part of its fight the ball travels in and dupes were rare, be issued in 1869 search in pure science guided by men straight line, and, secondly (and Tartglia was under no bis "Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum," which free to follow the lines along which their later), that the piece was laid horizon- not only foretold the weather, but also investigations led them also the import- tally. advertised his pills. A year later cume no et securing such men for Govern auch illusions, he says Albeit no part restricted so far as was compatible with averred a right or direct line, save only prophesied events as well as weather! hiVox Stellarum," on almanac which ment service, leaving them free and. nn of the bullets violent motion can he truly And thus Vox Etellarum" became Ministerial responsibility to Parliament, the perpendicular, yet that first part of. "Old Moore's Almanac," and the name

positions in their councils which would piece is said to carry point blank, bring achieved iramortality though Old Moore, secure to them the power to translate their pear the direct, is and may well h

discoveries fato practice. (Heal, hear.) termed the direct line. himself, is practically forgotten.

Wide finished, 200 metres behind the Empire, and what immense possibilities War, Minister of the Navy, and Minister | of the Inay "quack from Shropshire has and the need that such men should hold i the "violent, motion, 1.mean so far as they'

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there were for its future, to balance of Communications. sheet need be presented."

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