CABLES.
LATEST CABLES,
Irzadvan KLUTEK'S AGENCY.]
FRENCH - POLITICAL CRISIS. M. BREAND IS STUDYING
FINANCIAL SITUATION. ....
PARTE, April 13th. M. Briand informard journalists, last evening, that he is studying the financial
President Doumorgue a definite answer when they meet again at the Elyseo at
U.S. DEMAND FOR TEA.
INCREASES EFFICIENCY OF BANK STAFFS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 14TH, 1925
LONDON, April 12th. Sir Charles Highant, who has returned to England from the Fälted States, mid that, among other things, he had been endeavouring to popularise the four o'clock tea babit, in America. The sales of Indian tea bad increased in the States
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA,
MR. HAROLD DOLLAR DWELLS ON CHINA'S DANGER.
A
THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY
. J. Harold Dollar presided last ADILAVIN GAZZ.
week over the annual meeting of the PORTUGUESE COMBINED TEAMS American Chamber of Commerce in
IN SHANGHAI
Shanghai, held at the American Club.
Following the presentation of the an. cual report of the Shanghai Chamber The Hongkong and -- Shanghai Port-wish that of the Associated American guess football teams to-day put a com-Chamber in China by the Chairman, the
2 goals cach
SHANGHAI, April 18th
a Balance of $14,413,67,
H.M.S.
BRITAIN."
YANGTSZE SHIPPING.
& 5. ACQUIRE. DOLLAR
INTERESTS.
Official announcement has been mada
MR. KIPLING IN GOOD FORM.
At the annual banquet of the Chamber of Shipping, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, pro- posing the toast of the Shipping. In- dustry, showed that the old imagination At Shanghai that all the Yangtare i
interests of the Robert Dollar Company and fire have not died out. Use wild Castie not an offence, cerfeld and and Custom of the for shippers Swire, and as a direct result of the trans to offer a steamer more freight than she action the Dollar Interests have with and overloads accordingly, it is an offence can carry, bu
but, if the steamer accepts drawn from trade on the Yangtze,
The sale involves transfer to Butterfield for which the ste what a responsibility together with other property including and Swire of the steamer Airer Bullar was till accepted your invitation to landing places and office property ashore my at Ichang and Chungking. The Robers name to-night
never realized
sion
that stands in
But
: andreonomic situation very closely, by three-million pounds in 1924, and hined eleven in the field against the Rest financial statement of the Chamber was speak to the this may be a confes | Dollar. 'TE. aister abip of the Alice This morning hà hopes to be able give afternoon tea had become part of the at Shanghai The result was a draw of read by Mr.A E Schumacker, showing of weakness, but it is a lucky mun, Dollar, which formerly was operated by
routine of many large business houses The banks found that it increased the efficiency of their staffs. Early morning. tes "was also becoming popular. The press of America was' advocating tea drinking.
nook.
M. Briand considered it impossible to form a ministry without being assured of strong durable collaboration. He added that if he came into power, he would insist on the urgent ratification of a convention with the Banque de France and on the necessity of clearing. up the Anancial situation.
He would follow M. Herriot's foreign policy, based on arbitration, security and disarmament. He would maintain his artitule in favour of an Embassy at the Vatiena, without making it a question of
-conidense.
FRENCH PRESS, COMMENT. - PARIS, April 8th.
I.L.P. CONFERENCE.
TO PUT THE RICH TO, SHAME”
GOLF AT SHANGHAI.
BUDD BEATS FERRIER,
SHANGHAI, April 19th," Mr. W. Budd beat Mr. J. B. Ferrier by 3-up and 1 to play in the Shanghai. Golf Club Championship Semi-Final. Mr. Ferrier has been champion for our years running, and six times in all: Mr.
Budd meets Mr. Pilcher, in the Final.
...
FAR EASTERN OLYMPIAD.
RESULTS TO BE BROADCAST FROM MANILA
LONDON, April 11th. Presiding at the annual conference of the Independent Labour Party, which opened at Gloucester this morning and was attended by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and practically all the prominent mem- bers of the party, Mr. Clifford Allen:
MANILA, April 13th. urged Labour to unite in demanding a
The local Far Eastern Radio Company, national living wage dictated by the needs of civilised existence and not dabas arranged to hrcadeast the Olympiad
The passage by Congress of the China
G. $4,000,000' for the construction of a hew patrol feet for the Upper Yantze was discussed by members,"
R
not to say ship, that has only one-weak- neas; and among my many weaknesses has the Dollar Company in the upper Yang bien au early, Trade Act and the appropriation of verest in the acute, and hiding itsze, was wrecked and lost 16 Typanz
mercantile marine. I have last summer. seen its work. 1, have watched toma Through the transfer the services of” including gilt-edged liners, where very bott, which was specially constructed for of its performances from various
Butterfell and Swire up the Yangt are enlarged by 'addition of the Dallan is made to
persuade pat they are not
afer service, in the gorges. The acquired vessel at sea, but place.
am unworthy of those efforts,will go into the same service to Chung- For when I embark on such & veled! king now being given by the, B. & B
I have
to
the Tudor steamers, Fanksien and Wania, -room,' take an alectric lift upstairs. Meurs Butterfeld and Swire now ope and look out of the window of the more rate five steamers up the lawer river as woll, the ccean that harried our fore and Ngankin. or less foor, and I shall besary on the top | far as Hankow. These are the steamera
Ferpendicular
that same ald greenchow, Luengi, Whangpu, Tafung
NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The folowing were slected members of the Board of Directors of the Shanghai- Chamber:Mers. C. S. Beatty, W. J. Eisler, F. F. Fairman, B. C. Haile, V. G. Lyman, F. J. Raven, A. E. Schumacker,
-
fathers, waiting ontside, It is not for eve me, gentlemen, a ship is a ship, me to teach you your business, but be- and you can't get away from it.
H.M.S."'ORIAT BRITAIN,””
THE" "HAWKINS" CLASS.
REASON FOR LEISURELINESS OF
CONSTRUCTION,
In the same way, this island of ours is a ship, as much as H.M.8. Ascension, with the additional disadvantage of be ing moored between two continents, 30 Referring to the cruiser Frobisher, that we can enjoy the weather, political which recently left Plymouth for the
both and otherwise from Furthermore. Mediterranean, the Nacht mid Military ist, including H.M.S. Great Britain carries a passenger Record states.
of 46,003,000 The Hawkins class, to which the
pending on the varying fortunes of each results from May 18th to 23rd to Hoax Chins first decided to recognize the Soviet ad, owing to Detics of her con- Frobisher belongs, originally consisted
industry...
kong, Shanghai and · possibly · Japan.
consumable stores
V. Starr, and O. G. Steen. Several especially interesting matters were dealt with by the Chairman in his speech. Referring to the political situn- tion in Chins at present the speaker said: BOLSHEVIST PROPAGANDA. Another political element which has entered the picture since our last annual meeting has been the resumption of rela- tions between China and Russia When many persons felt that it might have the He declared that the amount of such Microphones on the ground will giva a effect of stopping communistic propaganda Fin this country, but the result here has been pretty much the same as in Europe -recognition has simply opened the field for Bolshevik propaganda which has had the effect of turning
to panic indescribable, and three the gha, which was commenced in the heads of radical elements against the West months would see us embarked on the gal-April, 1917, is still in course of comple
lant adventure of cannibalism These tion at Portsmouth. From the Erst the are now beginning to see the effect of this are
the facts which underlie the construction of these vessels has never. destructive propaganda. Where formerly samo it used to be
of our existence on H.M.8. been pressed. The slowness of building American
camouflage other foreign (Frens Britain. merchants who were
Naturally, they do not in the case of the Devonport and Ports- attacked
truable the passengers aboard her, any mouth ships has been due to the small more than the sight of the sea worries ness of the sums voted for the work upon the passengers on your doating plates. them from year to "year. What might at all, to remind which, to dipag have bean done in normal eirennstanca p can be lost is indicated by the fact that the Hawkine tato remind us that
a few hours. And, on land, we have has beer Bagship on the China Station. have alseen all the Russias, one-sixth of the since July, 1019.
While stressing the necessity of a prompt settlement, in view of the Buaocial situation, the papers comment servedly on the ministerial crisis- peading a meeting of the Nationalhame for ever, or so correct as to ring the Council of The Socialist Party, which
death knell of the wasteful, proft-making will decide to-morrow whether the
system,"
Industry and the banking Bocialist can enter or only support the
system must be transferred to publié Brian. Government.-lí«ras.
ownership and the nation must then con- trol the import of food and raw ma terials «
wage should "either be so inhuman as to running description of the games, put the rich with their lives of luxury to
EARLIER CABLES,
THE SOCIALIST GROUP.
PARIS, April 12th. " At a pricate meeting with M. Briand, the Socialist group decided to convene pational congress of the group on Tues- day to decide the question of collabora-
tion in the Briand Cabinet.
*M. Briand this morning had a cordia
conversation with M. Herriot and after
זי גי
DAMASCUS RIOTS.
SPARIS' SWIFT ACT TO DEFEND A
COMRADE.
The phine, with Lord Balfour and party aboard, left "for Alexandria this meraing very quietly. There were no demonstrations. General Sarrail visited
POLITICAL
SITUATION
IN CHINA.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.}"
LATE DE. SUN YAT SEN.
BIG CROWD HEAR MEMORIAL SERVICE AT SHANGHAI.
SHANGHAI, April 13th.
A memorial service, held yesterday in honour of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen was attended by 5,000 Chinese.
THE LOCKED, ROOM,
LONDON, April 12th... A hundred people attended a memorial
the interview he said he had told Pre-Lord Balfour on board yesterday Tervice to the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen "sident Doumcrgue that he thought it preferable, at present that the Govern- ment should be composed of members of all groups of the Left cartel. It is understood that M. Briand will offer the Socialists several portfolios. If they refuse. Briand will decline to form
a Cabinet, but will be willing to accept the foreign portfolic under nonther Pre. anier.
LATEST CABLES,
THE DAMAGED "CANTON.”
REACHES PORT SAID WITHOUT ASSISTANCE.
PORT SAI April 13th. The motor-ship Canton arrived here unassisted with stem but to port from forecastle head to forefoot. Temporary repairs will be effected by means of cement boxes.
a.
Soya beans in bags in aumber one hold have begun being discharged in order to examine the forward bulkhead. No damage to cargo is anticipated, "Deten- tion will probably not be serious.
The s. Rhesus is ashore in 20 feet of water. She was boled on the portside, just above the bile keels, horizontally about 12 x. I feet.
ing. Lord Balfour had the velosest, po- lice protection throughout.
at the Chinese Legation, The Acting People here state that serious trouble Chinese Minister, Sir Charles Addis, Sir would have been inevitable had Lord Bal-Junes Cantle and a representative of four visited, Baalbek. He stayed at the Soviet Embassy delivered speeches Beirut.
paying tribute to the decrased. noteworthy that the room in the
It is officially stated that twelve of the gendarmerie. were wounded
Damascun and sent to hospital. It is also stated that Spahis killed a rioter who brought down a Spabi, snatched his sword And tried to kill him. It is also report. ed that a carriage driver was killed by & stray bullet.
The French authorities apparently an ticipated the possibility of individual attempts on Lord Balfour's life, and had numerous secret police in and around the hotel at Damascus, but they did not anticipate such serious rieta
"PAN-PACIFIC." AUSTRALIAN LABOUR MEN WANT
CONFERENCE?
MELBOURNE, April 12th.
"J
A conference of the Labour Party of Victoria passed a resolution requesting the Executive Committee of the Federal Labour Party to initiate immediately a Pan-Pacific Congress attended by repre- sentatives of the workers and peace
The engine-room is full of water. It is societies. feared she is also making a little water
in number & hold. Temporary repairs will
MILAN EXHIBITION,
be effected in the hope of bringing the AUSTRALIAN LABOUR MEN WANT
Vessel to Fort Said:"
EARLIER CABLES. PRINCE'S STRENUOUS DAY.
HEH. WILL TOUR IN NIGERIA
AFTER ALL
ACCRA, April 12th.; Ja view of the intense disappointment
A CONFERENCE.
MILAN, April 12th,
The International Exhibition has been opened. Great Britain, Belgium, Hol land, Franco, Germany. Czecho-Slovakia
manent official pavilions.
EARLIER CABLES:
It was Legation
Sun's sacrifices on behalf of China .
the grounds
perialism," now all
all Western
on
are feeling the agitation in the Christian movements, the anti-Mission school. movements, the revision of the treaties movement, etc.
отлета
struction, there are never more than six of fire vessels, but the Cavendish was weeks supplies of
(completed as an aircraft carrier and re- must come by ship, and if the shipping lost off the Labrador coast in 1999: while aboard her at one time. The balance named Vindictive and the Raleigh was does not come a fortnight would deliver
us
at
:oftposed land area of the Globe, driven under in
that China,
property a few years. Now, ships are lost for
years,
Canton the "Red Kuomintang, Aly can be shifted from one place to another.
If you can tie up a nation's transport, you can take her off your books.
In this connection it is interesting ta
proof against the paganda of Communism, but now we even appear in the Amary Cart de.answer to Mr. Boothby, Mr. J. C. C
Pro- all sorts of reasons, some of which may note that in a written Parliamentary are beginning to see that Communistic positions, but when a nation is lost, the Davidson, Parliamentary and Financial propaganda has been responsible for a
underlying cause of the collapse is al. Secretary to the Admiralty, stated re- great deal of the labour unrest as well. ways that she cannot handle her transcently that the cost of construction of as the political unrest which has taken
in China in recent place
port. Everything in life, from marriage the cruisers Hawkins and Frobisher was to manslaughter, turns or the speed and £1,000,745 and £2,035,915' respectively. Hnanced from forrow, has practically dominated
cost at which men, things, and thoughts the situation for many months and has
according to reports
had the effect of driving most of the wealtheir residente in Canton out of the However, it is always easier to destroy than to build up, and the fact that China has been disturbed politically since the Revolution has provided a fertile field for the propagandists of Moscow. They have and have sown their seed here as in taken advantage of the troubled waters other. Tands
hope is that the
Our
THE SEW WORLD WAR.
SLAUGHTER BY WIRELESS.
Experiments with aeroplanes sent up tempt to prove this, which very nearly
We have suffered from one scientific at-without a pilot and controlled by wire-
less from the ground have just been con succeeded. For the moment, however, eluded successfully by the French Air there is a in in the wars fought, with Department. The system employed is the visible weapons. We are deep now in the
invention of a French engineer,
M. Guy world-war that aims to destroy the spirit du Bourg, who believes that the pro-
ડેરી and will of man in his home, and at his blem of wireless control of aircraft in
at long distances has been solved. and gan
angrened in time of peace
giant bombing aeroplane without a bombs op. distant
''''''
A sound
wat whose moral can t will now be possible." he said. "or
tilr
form of confusion that will ruin himself
where Dr. Sup was once imprisoned was Chines merchants and pro spongible. he condones and helps to create every nilot to be sent to drop permanently closed in memory of Dr.terests, as well as the gentry classes geners ally, are now beginning to see the dangers which are facing their country and soon will move to bring about improvement.
M115SIONARIES AND COMMERCE." There are two matters of more than
い
SHANGHAI U.S. COURT. JUDGE DECIDES IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL POINT.
and his neighbour is doing his country in enemy towns.
more harm than a thousand ties on
the battlefeld. It cheaper to induce your enemy to cut his Olofty
throat for what you have persuaded
to motives than to 'de it for him are
a result
suit of extremely sensitive photo-electric cells being placed in the se roplane the wireless station controlling its Light will be able at the same time sce as exact picture of the ground over which the aeroplane is flying, and
usual interest to American merchants him against his will And this is the the officer controlling it from the ground.
several
very
NEW TRANSPORT OF MIND.
established on the same basis as the U.S.. we are likely to overlook the fact that the shaken to the care of their 'souls; and half a year. To or call for
H
ill-will, which is the mother of despair, mentioned, One is the creation of a joint committee, mentioned in our last damnable streak in each of us which the machine."
and through that ill-will to exploit the same accuracy as would a pilotion board A highly important point of jurisdiction report, of representatives of the Shang: leads us to stop our own work and talk í Court, Shanghai, on April 8th, when he of the business community. was settled by Judge Purdy at the U.S." hai American Mission Organizations and about the duties of others.
This joint
The rest fol- lowa by itself. delivered his decision in the motion to
have been has had committee dismiss the case of the Gromoy heirs
interesting
The aftermath of the war, which still with what an astounding equipment
And think of the stakes! Think, too, in meetings which baerchange of
bangs
round us like mustard-gas, helps the International Barking Corporation, bringing out an
tbis attack. For if you have driven on important subjects directly
ars now able to play for them. By.com- involving the sum of G.2360.450, on the with American interests in China, both tion through the whole cycle of primitive & ship was once under the horizon she densely-crowded, bighly-civilized popuin pärison it was only yesterday that when ground that Russian plaintiffs could not плівкіопару, educational and business. As be allowed to sue in an American Court merchants absorbed, in our own affairs emotions, they are bound to come out of passed beyond
for perhaps a tramp cannot report. Court for China.
American Missionary interests in China
in that state they are as open to mora half the North Atlantic
cockroach-leg in a slide-valve without Mr. C. S. Franklin, for the Bank, con- Are far-reaching in their contacte both and mental infection as a tired man is to
coming to her tended that when the US Court of with the Chinese and with our own peo
So we have, now, H.M.S. belp desks to days in the transport. influenza. zantenza.
Months have been cut down to China was established it was expressly ple at home, and it is only through close
Great Britain crowded to the rails with
weeks and passengere some the missionary and com stipulated that Chinese could sue arter co-operation
them stormsick of
en and things;
unleas All *signa can citizens in that Court. Nothing was
many of them ship-stale who get i0 mercial said about other foreigners, however, and
Interests that the best results
we are on the edge of further on- each other's light at every turn, and may be
believable cute in time
time The transport take jurisdiction in a case, where people Government policies at home affecting them is uselres. It only sends their tem- stripped not only belief but the speed of in China and in the formation of pend-their-time-telling each other at most intimate associations, has out- he submitted that the Court could - not
of thought, which carries with it man' the ship ought to be ran. To argue with of non-American nationality, other than
We found at these meetings as bad definite understanding with
Dus peratures up. Chinese and the people of such countries America on the subject, wished to, sue American citizens. He pointed out that America had no political relationship with Russia whatsoever..
deprive any person at all, of whatsoever into the Court
both in our endeavours
have
Df
Even now it is 20 20-
our interests out there is no great twarda cach other must be 'that of good|cepted diversion for man and women half divergence of views on the part of the will; a good will just a little more per across the world to listen to Big Ben
8416 attitude thought
commercial and missionary interests, and
sistent am sure that both sides have gained than the ill-will which is being fabricated in any quarter of the Empire will be Just a little more indefatigable strike in Loadou. Before long any AZ which have been freely expressed at these be made normal, with it must return voice of his own birthplace at its work-or greatly from the interchange of idens
elsewhere. For if
able will can FOOD
to call for and be answered by the meetings.
that will to work which is the
the trade-
play
Everywhere time and space are
once
to fuse
If the will to work be, too long delayed, or the market. And that means that it mark of established health in a people coming to heel round us to fetch and for our behoof, in the wildernes then all that our race has made or stands for must pass into the hand of whatever will be possible for us now, as never be nation first recovers that will..
from the Brat, sought out, fou thought and
Re.. our
closely an in the interchange of men
And it was
the shipping industry
"found, built
. PROPAGANDA OF ILL-WILL. Our recovery has been held back by the
and
mother of the
pla
new, Navy, as it i
The shipping industry
in
daily fas
And
COS
Mr. H. D. Rodger, for plaintiffs, argued that America had got certain treaties with the old, Tsarist Government which
FAR EASTERN CHAMBER- Another matter of special interest to Congress had never abrogated. That members of the American Chamber in being the case, he submitted that those Shanghai is that a definite move has now treaties still held good, even though the been made for the organization of a denied them, and therefore the Court Commerce with headquarters in of the propaganda of ill-will and despair that present Russian Government might have American Far Eastern Chamber of
Manila should take jurisdiction in this ease. At the last annual meeting
The Judge, while not necessarily. Agree
Associated American Chamber of Com-is meant to wreck all effort at its source up, and bound together, the entire fabrie ing with Mr. Rodger that the political merce a suggestion was made that such But do you think the engines of H.M.S of what is now our Empire. This it did treaties which held good with the Tsarist received an invitation from Governor kind of fuel? I don't. Our lives for the 2 body be formed, and, a few months ago land. Russia contemplate building. Der Government held good with the Soviet General Wood of the Philippine Islands past few years tiny have done for somece, or led by some dream of 1
Great Britain can be adapted to burn this at hazard, by some dream of sex roads Government, decided that the United to send a delegate to Manila to meet tol us what Government control of tradeTORS new scar States Court for China could not passibly with the American Chamber of Commerce in the war did for some big ymgeis
the sister of the caused in Nigeria by the abandonment of f[REUTER'S AMERICAN: SERVICE Rationality, from bringing U.S. citizenstion of four Board of Dho that a good many men have ceased to mon carrier. What burden it
I the Philippine Islands for a considera. Jed us off taking risks in the open market they of our protéve, A
subject Mr H Lane, on small margins. There's no denying Yery
sod member of
law, recently departed for home, was appoint. quote fins. But the old individual in what heavier burden the future many lay
beary now ed as the Chamber's delegate and we stincts in us
usʼare not smothered boat was being unloaded at the Riverside to form an American Far Easter
At Shanghai last week while a coal have recently beard from him that so we are all gamblers born, add the heart upon it, you who inherit ite
tion was taken a
know better than the present direc New YORK, April 12th Power Station Wharf, a crane, apparer
lives are more and more worth ciation: announces that the changes in I. G. Cox, employed in the Municipal
The United States Lawn Tennis Auto-ently overloaded, fell into the boat ber of Commerce which will include the For men have grown a little tired of
Worth taking. Rev Associated Americaa Chambers
told off
ther Com being told to the rules of the Davis Cup domestition Electricity
hate their need
neighboura Pof recommended at the international con against the side of the boat. for almost and the American Merchants Association turn of the tide, but at least it gives a Great Britain rides to cross seas. Is it
Wan pinned of Commerce of the Philippine Islands This reaction may or may not mark &, met and
merce of China; the American Chamber Fby: anumber at the word of command the burn of the ference held in London on July 22nd have two hours and a half before he was of Tokyo. This will enchie American tims of slack water during which H.M.8.
and zidden majority of the competing nations and jured and he was taken to hospital. A world to take up subjects at general way again and work up to the highest been ratified by the necessary two-thirds released His right arm was seriously in commercial interests in this part of the Treat Britada, may begin to get under will thus he effective in the farthing Chinese was also badly injured and Tittle concern, and present our united voice at preket matches.
hope of his recovery was entertained. Washington:
the Prince of Wales's tour owing to Plague in Lagos, it has been decided to carry out the full programme, The Princs will sail on Tuesday (to-day), and Probably land at Port Harcourt instead of Lagos.
The Prince had a strenuous day in spite of the intense heat. He went to church, reviewed the ex-service men, and visited the hospital, also the college at Achimoto.
DAVIS CUP RULES," CHANGES BECOME EFFECTIVE.
Department,
of-
Cha
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any slice of
or
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the
carcicas e ha
Worl
of wind many
in a industry but And now HMS
against the new day those old indriscar to help us build up and bind together any wonder that we look to you once more
qualities which gave our race its ability: to sex far and ita audacity to quato fries
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