STRIKES AND RIOTING IN THE NORTH.
EIGHT AGITATORS KILLED IN ATTACK - ON FOREIGNERS AT HANKOW,
INPUDENT "ADVICE" FROM
(THROVOD EXETER'S AGESTY.}
FATAL RIOTING AT HANKOW.
Hayzow, June 11th. Following false reports in this morning's
•vernacular newspapers, an anti-foreign riot took place this evening, and the
Volunteers were called out.
The rioters rushed along the Bund, tore up whats, destroyed Japanese, shops and waverly: mauled a Japanese shopkeeper."
Later, the riutem broke down the liar.
* riunde nail aftempted to rish the British Wolanteer Armoury, the rioters, in heavy numbers totally autaumhering the De- fence Force at the Armoury.
The Fire Brigade ineffectually used
their hoses on the mob The Volunteers
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PEKING.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 13TH, 1925
DISCORD AMONG STRIKERS.
SHANORA, June 19th...
The discord existing among the atrik- ing elemente is exemplifed by Chines circulars' which are being distributed in: the French concession, and which nectusS the Communists of taking advantage of the disturbancen to carry out their own
plots The circulars assert that the The Concession authorities, and not the Communiste restived large funds from unarmed sindents, were therefore respon-Russia and add we weep for the deaths of our brethren while they laugh in the sible for the deplorable events, says the
dark. We are fighting for our nation- Note.
al rights and freedom while they are The Chinese Government, in view of selling our freedom to Russia. Citizens, the indignation prevailing to-day through, but the Communists, who cry. 'over- it is not the Foreigners who are killing
out the country, begs to give general ad-throw Imperialium while acting vice to the Concession authorities, which hourds for the Russian huntsman,***
While attacking the Communists the the latter should follow, namely raise the circulars contain the usual demands for state of siege, re-embark the marines, redress from foreign aggression.
disarm the Volunteers and police, free the
arressed persona, and restore the occupied schools, for the restoration of order in 'Shangoni with the briefest possible delay
It asks the Minister to instruct the Consular officers accordingly.
STUDENTS: MASS MEETING.
SEASONAL, June 12,
-A mass meeting of 15,000 stúdents and
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MANY MEETINGS AT MOSCOW,
Moscow, June 19th. Many meetings of protest against the action of the foreign police at Shanghai were brid at Moscom yesterday." Resolu tions of sympathy with the national movement in China were adopted. Stud- ents demonstrated to show solidarity with
the Chinese revolutionary students.
According to the Rusta News Jueury,
CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. LimnocaH REUTER'S AGENCY.] SOVIET OFFICIAL STABBED." ASSATLANT UNDER ARREST.
Moscow, Jopa 18th.
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SHIPWRECKED MARINERS.
·RESCUED ÁFTER A YEAR ON A DESERT ISLAND.
Valparaiso, Jupe. 19th The sailing ship Excumprin Aghilla An unknown man yesterday attempted his arrived from Pascua Island where to assassinate M. Vasending a gember she picked up the survivors of the of the Central Executive of the comquittée rebooner Faled which has wrecked in of the Soviet Uniqs at. Velikyousting. May, 1024 Yasendin received a deep eat on the The crew had been trying to build a shoulder. His assailant has been arrest-fboat to reach Tahiti,
Two of the crew had died. The Ger- nu captain committed suicide in despe- ration, but his Chilenu, wife was saved.
ed.
BELGIAN POLITICS.
COALITION CABINET FORMED,
CAPE BRETON COALFIELDS. Bersas. Jane 19th SANGUINARY STRIKE REPORTED. The Catholic deputy, M. Poullet, has succeeded in forming * new Coalition Cabinet in which the Vandervelde will take the portfolio of Foreign Annirs and M. Carton that of
the Colonies.
7.
NEW DYESTUFFS, DIRECTOR.
DR. E. É. ARMSTRONG APPOINTED
TO THE POST. Dr. Edward Frankland Armstrong has been appointed to the Board of the British Dyestuffs Corponition, and to the position of managing dinctor.
N. Dr. Armstrong, who is 47, is a son of Professor E., E. Armstrong. Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the City and Guilds College, South Kensington.
was president of the Society of Chemical He was made an F.R.S. In 1920 ara
Industry from 1999 to 1924.
The managing directorship Brib Dyestuffs has been said to command a salary of £10,000 a year, but Dr. Arm" strong told a London journalist recently that he will not receive that mam-although he declined to state the actual gure.
For, ten years Dr. Armstrong has been technical adviser to Mesura. Joseph Cros field and Sons, Ltd., chetical raanufac turers, of Warrington
£10,000,000 COMPANY,
HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), June 12th. Five hundred local Militia and per- manent forces entrained last night for Socialist duty in the Cape Breton coal-folds, the £10,000,000 company formed in 1919, The British Dyestuff Coroporation is where there were clashes yesterday with the approval of the British Govern- tween striking coal miners and the policement, which took £1,700,000 in shares, "to and officials of the British Empire" Sterl Сотраду,
concentrate, extend and expedito the mang- These resulted in one miner killed and facture of synthetic dyestuffs and colours** thirty strikers and police injured.
in this country.
In other words, to make The strikers to the number of 12.000 Great Briatin independent of the hold that have been out for thren months. The Germany had previously exercised, in this miners control the power house from industry. which they ousted the Company's officiala and police after a pitched battir,
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M. PAINLEVE IN MOROCCO,
RABAT, Jane 11th. Before conversing privately with Gen Lyautey, M. Painleve was cordi- ally welcomed by the Sultan, who con ferred on him the Moroccan Order.',
The Premier thereafter proceeded to
then fr uver the rioters' heads, after | workers, was held at the Recreation the General Council of Trade Unions and Fez, and will visit the front to-mor
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whleb, it being a state of extreme emer- genes, under the orders of the Navy, ma chine-guns were employed against the rioters Eight were killed, but the num- "ber wounded is not yet known.
At present, all is quiet, and the Chinese Authorities guarantee continued peace.
DEAD JAPANESE FOUND.
HANKÓW, June isth.
in the gutter that there was difficulty in extricating, it
The Chinese authorities are patrolling the outer boundaries of the British Con- session, and the Volunteers and the Naval authorities are guarding the luner de fences,
Ground. in Shanghai native city last evening under the auspices of the Citiz ens Association. The participants wore black arm-bands, and stirring aperches were delivered.
Resolutions were passed, Erstly, to sever reonomic relations with Britain and Japan as from June 12th secondly, urging the Central Government to secure satisfaction for the shooting on May 30th from the
the Soviet Union have telegraphed 30,000 roubles to Peking to help the Chinese strikers and the famílies of those kilid in the rista,
TOW.
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The company is endeavouring to keep a certain number of men in the mines to prevent further flooding.
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U.S. RUBBER ASSOCIATION,
MAY OFFER INDUCEMENTS TO
DUTCH GOVERNMENT. -...
AKRON, June 11th. The directors of the Rabber Associa tion of America have held a menting to discuss the cruda rubber situation, and at the conclusion of the discussion it was reported that drustic measures Hid that the capital point was were discussed, including a proposal to the maintenace of the French Protes offer inducements to the Dutch Govern- By Sir Oliver that the Sultan could count on the en-Dutch possessions.
torate in Morocco... Painleve replied meat to ensure larger supplies from the Hodder and Stoughton,tire loyalty and all the might of France.
MYSTERY OF THE ETHER.
THEORY OF HOW THE WORLD IS HELD TOGETHER.
ETHEL AND REALITY
Lodge. 3k. Bui.
KABAT, June 12th The Sultan held audienes with M. Painleve, with whom bu talked cordi ally.
It was the successor to British Dyes, Limited, formed in 1915, and took over also the control of Levhusteíni, Limited
No dividends on the 48,202,911 of Pre- ference and Preferred capital have been paid since those for the year 1919-1920, and no diridend has ever been paid on the 2094,190 of Deferred capital.
The last accounts were made up to October $1st, 1925, and showed a profit of £251,422 for the year reducing the debit balance to £449.276.
There has from time to time been great direction of the company's affairs. disenssion as to the technical and other
It. December last Lord Ashfield beame chairman, Sir Alfred Moud one of the Government representatives on the board, and Lord Colwyn an ordinary director."
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDER The British Dyestuffs Corporation, Ltd., hare issued the following vireular to their shareholders:-
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Your directors are preparing for submis- taken definite
AXXON, OHIO, June 12th.
sion to the shareholders a scheme of re- The Rubber Association of America has construction of the company's capital. IE rabbér as a result of with the financial position of the company dissatisfaction at the restriction of ex-
British and Japanese; thirdly, failing as Oliver Lodge's study of the ether M. Painleve, entertaining jurnalista, is a book of rare merit, stimulating to laid emphasis on the excellent disposi marked by singular clearness of exposi: hope that efficient measures would short the mind, intensely interesting, and tion of the troops, and expressed the tion, though he is dealing with one of fly binder the sanggling of arms from monopoly in to break the British is proposed that this scheme should deal the dificult subjects which human the sea to the Rifin, --(Fares). intelligence can attack.
MORE TALK IN PARLIAMENT.
His view is
that the ether is real, eternal, absolute- ly permanent. It is the whole" of space:
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DOMINIONS AFFAIRS.
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THE PERFECT CHEESE.
SUSPICIONS CAST ON AN OLD
FAVOURITE..."
A dead Japaneer was afterwards dis-settlement within a fortnight, to declare covered, with his body so tightly wedged a general strike throughout the country, The meeting afterwanis went in pro- ression through the native city. "During Among other damage in the British the" march, twa Japanese, posing as
pors and consequent rise in the price up to May 1st, 1925. of rubber. Temporary relief will be Under these cirvėmstances it. will be Concession, the rioters broke down the Chinese students, were violently bandled
sought, through standardisation of praecessary to postpoot for a short time, boundary wall. The situation this mornad taken to the Police Station, where
ducis, particularly in the case of tyres, calling the shareholders together for the It is the dense thing known; there NEW OFFICE CREATED AT HOME. footwear, and mechanical goods, also by annual general meeting thailloth the se ing was still quiet.
they were locked up.' “
can be nothing more massive than Ether:
postponing for five months the planing | counts (which will be made up to May 1st, Special trains conveyed the crowds tosible. No part of it can be denser that for, being a continuum, it is incompres
Lossos, "June" lithi
of orders for next spring.
1925) and the scheme of reconstruction can In the House of Commons, Mr. Bald will take the form of investment of Ame
More permanent measures of relier he presented to the shareholders. and from, the hative city and the Chapel the rest.
win. announced that there was to be suburb.
As fish can move freely in the ocean, reorganisation of the Colonial Office, rica capital designed to foster increas which is also in a sense a plenum, which would include the creation of a production of rabber in Java and matter can move in the ether, which in Dew Secretary of State for Dominions has been appointed to confer with the other Dutch possessions. A committee
LONDON, June 11th.
yet denser than lead. It is one of the Affairs, with his own Parliamentary Dutch fiovernment. " paradoxes of modern science that mat|Under Secretary, who would also act A auber of questions were lodged int is, as contrasted with ether, empti as chairman of overscas settlement, and the House of Commons regarding Shang-ness.
his own Permanent Under Secretary.
For the sake of convenience the new hai, and elicited long replies from Mr. Can it be a special kind of whirl (secretaryship would continue to be vest- Honald McNeill, who expressed the opinor a bubbles a hollow or sa extra con-
the ether) or is it a knot or astra in Mr. Amery, ion that the origin of the trouble was densation, or what? mainly due to the unsettled conditions, owing to the lack of a strong central gov ernment, destructive wars, and the irrita- tion of the Chinese with petty local rulers, resulting in discontent which had been skilfully directed by interested per sons against the foreigners, whose treaty rights ther represent as inimical to the well-being of China.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
SHANGHAL, June 12th. A wireless message from Hankow states that prior to the shooting a large „growḍ stoned the Chiärst police of the British Concrasion, wrecked Japanese shops and attacked the shopkeepers.
Thereupon the Consul General asked the Chinese authorities to sead, troops "to the f'onerssion border, and requested the landing of naval detachments from the International war vessels.
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FRAMEWORK OF UNIVERSE.. Two functions the ether discharge
of which is familiar to all users of
wireless:
<!
The first function is to weld the atoms
together by cohesion and the planets and
cond function is stars together by gravitation. These
transmit vibrations which it does at a great but finite sperd from one piece of matter to another
which can be measured, thus telling us The requests were responded to. and
something about itself and showing that it belongs to the material or physical to-operating with Chinese troops, order. He added that for some time past the Universe, though it is not what we or was restored at 11 o'clock last night by British Government had been devotingdinarily speak of as matter.
So that the child is not making itself one hundred and thirty Volunteers of close attention to the question of whe-ridiculous when it asks, What holds the British
Concession, seventy-five ther the industrial conditions were play. up the earth? The ether is the frame- of the unirere, but it is not the work American and French, and 130 Japan ing an appreciable part in the general universe,
with
ese, also fifty Russians Troin the Russian widespread unrest in China. Mr. McNeill Yet it seems to have close affinities
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SECURITY PACT.
AMERICA TAKING NO CHANCES. The step would be taken as the exist ing organisation of the Colonin) Offien;
WASHINGTON, June 11th. was inadequate to deal with the extent and variety
State Department informally of work thrown on it, reiterates that the Government will not particularly in distinguishing between be a party to the proposed European the work of consultation with the security pact, nor in anywise be respon Dominions and the administrative work sible for it. of the Protectorates.
LACE TAX ADOPTED.
LONDON, June 11th. In the House of Commons in the debate on the Government motion im- posing a thirty-three and third per cent, ad enform tax on imported lace, the Opposition tabled a string of amend ments, all of which were defeated. The motion was substantially carried..
HOME CRICKET.
LANCASHIRE BEAT GLAMORGAN.
Concession which was restored to China.
the higher sphere of human
LONDON, June 11th. said he was of opinion that such condi- thought and activity. As Sir Oliver At Cardif, Lancashire beat Glamor H.M.S. Hollyhock is proceeding to tions were hardly operative at all,
says in words of noble truth:
gan by 138 runs. the Hankow from Nanking, carrying one
The region of Art and Beauty "ob Lanes scored 141, Mercer taking 6 for cause of the present troubles, though any higher and beyond anything apprehenil. 62, and 270 for 5 wickets declared (Hal: hundred Marines whom H.M.S. Hauwuch discontent so far as it exists should ed in physical science; it behoves us lows 108, Watson 60 not out).
walk warity and modestly, to
And Glamorgan compiled 110, Macdonald king who had been sent to Chinking be welcomed as a symptom of a desire it may help us to remember that the taking for 38 and R. Tyldesley A for where they were not required... for better thinga
greatest men of science have never set 35, and then 172, Macdonald taking up their extensive though still partial | for: 08.200 He pointed out that the strike began knowledge in opposition to the existence at a Japanesc cotton mill; where the con-of a spiritual universe and direct re LEAGUE COUNCIL RESTING. ditions were equal or superior to anything
ligious experience. in China.
The
the pack
The senators of France were recently faced with a grave problem. Such things as the balance of the Budget, the political complexion of the Ministry, and the dipkö- matic relations of their country with the Vatican demanded some of their attention. Bat they could not forget that they had before them Boquefort cheese. Who could? What brought Roquefort into the Senato as the pestilent ingenuity of counterfeiter
This pronouncement is believed to be or adulterators. Some of the Bogfort. intended to forestal any request that upon the market, no one seems to know the United States act as custodian of how much, is spurious. The genuine-stuff No such request has actually is made from the milk of ewes fed in the been made, but in newspaper reports it mountain pastures of Guiepue and matured is intimated that one might be expect
in natural caves near the little village of Roquefort. The process, they say, has been the same ever since Clear came to Gaul. It produces a white cheese with. blue-green-veins in it.
U.S. ANTI-TRUST SUIT.
WASHINGTON, June 11th Who makes the sparious Roquefort, or "The Tanners' Products Company and how it is made, we are not told, and per the America Hair-Felt Company as haps ignorance is bliss; but the Senate has well as a hundred and filters other con been credibly informed that the necessary cerns, are defending the anti-trust "Buit | in Chicago filed by the Government with the object of dissolving the alleged monopoly in cattle hair and calf hair,
MACMILLAN EXPEDITION.
green reins are made in it by the insertion properly jealous of the application of place of mouldy bread. France has always been
names to her products. Outside ber frontiers, "ulas! it is not certain' that a wine may have cužné from the WASHINGTON, June 11th. vineyard, or even the province, which is Mr. Wilbur announces that the Mac-
named on the bottle. But where the write Millan expedition will not carry speciof the Republie run she will do her al instructions concerning the course to best to ensure you that your burgundy war be pursued in claiming any lands die at any rate made in the duchy. Though PEKING TAKES A CHANCE.
covered, or in flying over disputed ter- we cannot treat her cheeses with the same ritory.
reverence as her wises, they also deserve PELING, June 11th
that their reparation should be le GENEVA, June 11th. Despite an official statement that the
EXCITING SHIPYARD ACCIDENT.
guarded. Perhaps it will suffice if the teas The Council of the League of Na
imposed is that of mode of muralacture Note would not be made public until to "He declared that the British Govern- With the relation of Life to ether he disposing of a number of secondary Shipyard, Hebburn-on-Tyne,
tions has concluded its spasion, after At Hawthorn Lealie and Company's and quality, and the birthplace of tha morrow, the fresh Note was handed in ment had long been exerting active pre-deals:
recently, cheese is neglected. questions, the chief among which con- the gates of the dry dock lifted, pro We know that a body of characteris corned the dispute between Danzig and bably under pressure of a very high Stilton which is eaten can have been made In our own country little of all the to Minister Cerruti,this evening, and was sure on the international authorities attic shape, ur indeed, of any definite Poland regarding the boundaries of the tide. and water rushed into the dock there. A minute fraction of the Cheddar, handed out to pressmen in French and Shanghai to secure improved factory con- shape, counot exist without the forces
port. o! cohesion-tamos exist therefory,
The motor ship Wellgall, 5,033 tons, was on the market comes from Somerset. Yet Chinese at nine o'clock.
ditions in the foreign Settlement, especi-without the Ether. Not only is of four experts to decide the matter.
The Council appointed a committes in the dock under repairs, and between an Englishma may dare to think either mi twenty and thirty men, chiefly painters, valuable to mankind as Roquefort. What The Note takes cognisance of the fact ally no regards child labour, with the there a matter body, there is also nu
were at work is, the dock, U.S. FLEET IN AUSTRALIA.
is the perfect cheese? The question that the Powers view the shooting in aim of making the Settlement a model ether body: the two are co-existent.
And then he puts the eternal question baunted cident in the same conciliatory spirit as for the rest of China. It was now intend which haunts and has ever
MELBOURNE, June 11th. Elaborate preparations bre the Chinese Government, and that in-ed to seek a solution of the difficulties in
MAD:
LIFE AND ETHER
strutions have been given to the police a conciliatory spirit, while insisting on the greater than the physical universes it flert, Special features will be a street the dock The impact from the stern the mildness of Gruyère or Edam? What
The visitors will be admitted to the damage workmen was immediately of different nature, One "cheese difereth
The majority scrambled out to safety. Unanswerable. We cannot compare Others were pulled out by workman on coulant slice of Brie with a firm, nutty the sides of the dock. The inrush of Cheddar or the piquancy of Cheshire By The Universe to which we belong isde for the reception of the American and crashed it against the inner ead of all too potent, cheeses of Germany againatı being water swept the vessel off the blocks what standard shall we messure those potent, maintenance of law and order in the tor-utilises and dominates it. Shall we procession formed by various societies of the vessel damaged the dock walls, wise man would place Gorgontela above or". in the International Settlement to cease cign Settlement.
my that we share the disabilities e and sporting clubs
but the vessel did not appear seriously below. Camembert? Their excellences are the use of arms. The Note gacs on to
|matter, that we wear out and decay, Finally, Mr. McNeill stated that a warn that our existence is limited to the in-theatres free, and will also be privately insist that the steps taken by the authori-ing had been given before the police fired, strament which we employ? Or im entertained by local residents.
we armise" that, like the Ether, we haya Lies in the Settlement to hinder the but he was without official information as more permanent and perfect existence,"
pacific student demonstration" were in the precise nature of the warning. He not liable to death and deeny 1
His final conclusion is: badly devised. It denies that there was also did not know the number of students a state of imminent danger, to which the arrested and subsequently released, but
had naked for a report on the matter.
Powers' communication referred,
Ether is our real primary and perma sent instrument. It is in connection with the Ether that our real being con- siste
N.B.
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A roll
called, and all known to be working in from another in glory, yet are they bot the dock were fortunately accounted for cheeses saving the iniquity of the bus Many suffered from shock, but all, were fellows who corrupt them with adalicem able to proceed home. Shipyard ofici- tione
But, indeed, after those senatorial
After those renat
BERLIN, June 11th
als took immediate steps to investigate The figures of the Stinnes concern's the cause of the necidant and remove revolutions we shall never again look at the commitments, cabled earlier, refer to the vemmel from dock. The accident blue veins în cheese with the old joyouss the whole combination sad not merely occurred immediately following a launch confidence. Something of the faith of the Hugo Stinnes firm at Muellicim in the yard. New febr
youth his gone out of us,
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