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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES.. İTEKODUR REUTER'S AGENCY-}

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SHIPPING STRIKE.

SYDNEY PREDICTS TROUBLE WILL SOON, END.

STONEY, September gard

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH 1925

LATEST, CABLES.

CAMPAIGN IN MOROCCO.

SUBMISSION OF TRIBESMEN STILL

CONTINUES.

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Pants, September 3rd. A message from Fez states that the submission of tribesmen continues slowly, due to their desire that the French should An early end to the shipping strike in

first occupy their territories. Abdel predicted, the only outstanding point be-Krim is vigorously countering the move- ing the strikers' demand for full pay dur-meat by taking hostages everywhere. ing the strike, which is likely to be

The Caid of Fez, Ahmed ben Abd waived.

Eszelem of Kstem, who was a staunch

It is believed that the unanimous de. cision of the waterside" workers to work all ships, even if strikers have been replaced, will profoundly affect the

situation.

BETTER SIGNS.

DURBAN, September 23rd.

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French supporter and had been awarded the Legion of Honour for valour, was killed in the cleaning up operations in the Doukane zone. The loss is regarded as serious for this important section.

A message from Madrid states that an enemy force made its way down the cliffs The steamers Port Curne and Largolawat Morro Nuevo, where the Spanish forces have sailed from Durban: The steamer were encamped, with the object of aur. Earth Celle, which was held up at prising a company of the Foreign Legion Lourenco Marques owing to the refusal and a body of riflemen from the rear. of the crew to take the ship to sea unless But, they were repulsed, some as they the strike was sottłęd, mailed to-day with fed leaping from the rocks into the sex the original crew.

were drowned.

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EARLIER CABLES. ME BRUCE'S FIGHTING SPEECH.

MELBOURNE, September 22nd.

In a speech at a meeting of the

National Federatido, Mr. Bruce de

nounced as cowardice the Government's

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POLISH AIRMAN.

ML RAJSKI REACHES WARSAW

AFTER LONG FLIGHT.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

VARIETY OF PROBLEMS UNDER DISCUSSION

GENEVA, September 2nd, The assembly of the League of Nations voted a Chinese resolution expressing satisfaction that a conference of the interested States would open in China on December 29th and hoping for a satis factory solution soon.

The resolution reached did not refer

to a revision of the Treaties, but Mr Chu, moving it, declared that the main object of the Peking conference was to obtain for China diferent international conditions more within the spirit of the League.

"DANGEROUS DRUGS.

GENEVA, September and. At a committee meeting to deal with dangerous drugs, Lord Robert "Cecil announced that Canada had ratified the Opium Contention, being the first country

to do so. Ho added that the British Government had obtained the necessary powers from Parliament to ratify the Convention, and he urged all States to follow suit.

CHRISTIANS IN MOSUL

¡FAR EASTERN CABLE ANOTHER BORDER INCIDENT. STRIKERS BIG HAUL OF PIGS AT SHATAUKOK.

NEWS.

[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

SHANGHAI ENQUIRY.

CHINESE NOTE TO BRITISH LEGATION.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Before Mr. 8. B. McElderry at the Central Magistracy yesterday, a floor,

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Yet another border incident took place | sweeper employed at the Peak Hotel, was | yesterday, and again it was in Shataukok charged with the theft of two coffee cups, district. Following the recent shooting, Defendant said he picked up the "caps across the line that divides China from from a dustbin, and though; they had PERING, September 22nd.

Hongkong, things had been rather quiet been discarded. His Worship pointed out A Chinese Note to the British Legation in the neighbourhood, but yesterday four to the man that he should have returned objects to holding the proposed Judicial marauding strikers, each man equipped the cups to the Hotel. A fine of 10, enquiry into the Shanghai incidents, on with rifs and ammunition crossed the with two weeks" hard labour in defauit, the ground that the necessary evidence is border, bent on looting in the Shataukok was imposed,

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The four men raided a grocer's shop

unobtainable and that fresh inves-district. tigation will complicate the issue. The Note suggests the utilisation of the earlier reports as a basis for negotiations.

ITALIAN AIRMAN-

if Shataukok where.

Following the handing down of a ruling they made prisoners affirming a judgment in favour of the

of two fokis, and later they rounded up a number of pigs, valued at $2,000,

plaintiff given by Judge Purdy in the United States Court for China, at Shang- Thai, in the case of 3 C., H. Webb, former editor of the China Press,

DEPARTS FROM SHANGHAI EN According to police reports, the strikers

ROUTE TO JAPAN.

met with no resistance, and they drore the pigs over the border, taking the two against that Baper, further information jokia as prisoners.

Sarani, September 23rd. Major Di Pinedo has resumed his fight, leaving here for Mokpo, Koren, at 11.20 am to day.

Major de Pinedo arrived at Moppo at p.m. today.

BRITAIN AND ARGENTINA. PRESIDENT. ALVEAR'S TRIBUTE.

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received from San Francisgs on Septem- ber 17th indicates that no rebearing of the case is possible in the appelate court. The amount of money which was awarded to Mr. Webb originally: 'was At the banquet which was given in 944,565.01, but as the case has dragged Buenos Aires on August 17th in honour on through a year while it was being. of the Prince of Wales, the President of taken to the higher court the sum, with the Argentine Republic, Setor de Alvear, interest now is in the neighbourhood of proposed the health of his Royal High.:

$50,000. Bess. In the course of his speech, the President, after welcoming the Prince in the name of the people of Argentina,

said:

Command Orders announce that a

General Court Martial will assemble at the Command Reference Library at 30

m. next Tuesday for the trial of Capt.

GERMAN REPUBLIC,

GENEVA, September 22nd ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS. The British 'delsgation has requested

The sixth anniversary of the Weimar the Council of the League to meet at the Constitution was celebrated in the Reich earliest possible moment to consider cor- tag on August 11th. It was the first respondence in regard to the deportato be held in the presence of Field- tions of Christians from the districts Marshal von Hindenburg as President

We Argentines are fully aware of the adjacent to the Brussels line and Mosal of the Beich. Tas Chancellor and mem- value of the friendship of Great Britain, bera of the Government, representatives which holds a special place in our re- In view of the Turkish denial of the of the Federal States, and some mem-membrances and a very prominent posiThe President of the Court will be reports of such deportations, the Council bers of the Reichstag were present in tion in our history. England was one Colonel C. Russell Brown, D.S.U., RE.; the Chamber, which had been decorated of the first nations to recognize the rising members: Lieut-Colonel F. §. Montague- should immediately take steps to satisfy with the standards of the various States, of a pow people in the extreme South of Bates, C.B., CM.G., D.SO. ( B., themselves whether the reports of the the principal tribune being decked with the American Continent. Its faith in the East Surrey Regiment), Lieut. Colonel

WARSAW, September 23rd. The Polish airman, M. Rajski, has docilely obeying the commands of a arrived here, alter a fight of 70,800 bandful of extremists, and said that kilometres, which occupied 47 hrs. 20 min. State and Labour Governments and the He few vid Paris, Casablanen, Tunis, Labour members of the Federal Parlia Athens Constantinople and back to War-states- ment had encouraged and assisted thown saw. The last stage from Constantinople who were against the laws of Australia | was; covered without a stop in seven and openly favoured a system which had hours.

beep tried and found wanting in

foreign country.

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FRENCH IN SYRIA.

Eric Sutton Dickin, Army Dental Corpa

We glory," he said, "in belonging/LIST OF CASUALTIES IN RECENT High Commissioner in Iraq are founded dowers President von Hindenburg took the Argentine Republic might have apa. F. S. Tuke, D.8.0., RA, Lieut

on fact; and the League should forthwith his place with his civilian and military pented rast to other nations less ex Colonel E. E. B. Mackintosh, D.S.O.,

to as Empire" which is the greatest civilising, inturnce the world has ever kuown, and shall fight to the utinost, ita opponents' attitude namely to hell with the Empire: We adhere to the prin-

ciple of the fullest assistance to the common defence of the Empire com patible with our population and fan- cial resourees, and we support above all n White Australin. "».

Th speaker concluded by saying that. the only issue was law and order against Direct Action and Communiem.

STRIKERS PERTURBED.

CAPETOWN, September 22nd.

FIGHTING

PARIS. September 23rd. "A" message from Begrout states that the French losses at Mousseifire, on

September 16th, were 40 killed dad

wounded. The latter were mostly only slightly injured.

A ROYAL MARRIAGE.

Racconto, September 23rd. The Italian Princess, Mafalda and Prince' Philip of Hesse were married this

send a representative to the locality of the Brussels line to investigate and report immediately to the Council.

the future, the British and Iraq Govern- In the event of a similar occurrence in

ments would welcome the presence of a

aides in the Diplomatic Gallery at noon, the audience standing she entered. He wore civilian dress. The ceremony did not differ materially from that of former Ebort yours attended by the late Fresident

After the Philharmonic Orchestra had played the first movement of Brauns's

perienced than that of England, but that country consolidated its confidence a cording sa the young nation grew in importance, and that confidence proved an encouragement for

for the other nations to imitate its example...

The presence of your Royal Highness

RE.

Major W. P. A, Hatieraley-Smith," D.S.O., R.A., and Major F. G. Hyland,

C., R.E.; waiting members: Lieut. Colonel W. A. Edmeades, D.S.O., R.A., and Major P. Rashleigh, D.S.O., RA; Judge Advocate: Major R. 8. 8. Paton,

Turkisk representative on their side of First Symphony, the festal oration was affords us a grand opportunity to recall Ba., the East Surrey Regiment; and

the Brussels line and afford him every

assistance to fulfil his task.

The note says that the action of the Turkish Government in deporting Chris- tians from the villages between the

R.A.

delivered by Professor Flatz, of Bonn the history of our friendship with Great University. It was mainly an appeal Britain and to point out its most pre- Prosecutor: Capt. C. J. F. Bensley, to the youth of Germany to unite in pro- cious fruits. In the annals of our moting the wolfare of the Reich by in- struggles for emancipation there gure ternal unity and peace. The Chancellor the names of some sona of England... then made a long speech in which he Afterwards, when we were taking our

BURNING PLANE RESCUES. referred to the devotion shown by the first steps in the exercise of our own morning in, the presence of the Italian Brussels line and the frontier ungues series of financial and tariff measures, as of her consideration in treaties which Reichstag in passing the important Government, England formally rasured

FLYING OFFICER'S HEROISM. Royal Family

tionably might modify the present state and to the task in the domain of foreign consolidated the international person-

In connection with an accident to of the territorica, of which the final policy which lay ahead. The Constituality of the Republic. Then followed

tion, he declared, was a powerful takea economic relations, in which England flying beat returning to "Calshot on the most important event sines the ALLEGED OFFER OF MONEY FROM state would dopend on the decision to of the spirit of unity which must be pre contributed to the growth of our public August 15th, when the wireless operator,

be reached with regard to the frontier. served, and he called for cheers for the institutions with loans of British Frederick Charles Copsey, was killed,:

As time went on that same seamen's striku began. It has immensely

German people united in the Republic. capital. perturbed the strikers who had hitherto

Thereupon the assembly rose. to its feet and sang Deutschland über aller with believed it to be impossible to accure

great fervour South African crews, but hundreds of suitable men are now offering their ser vices.

The sailing of the Arundel Castle is

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The crews of several other ships are conferring as to the position" resulting from the sailing of the Arundel Castle. BRISK RECRUITING OF CREWS; CAPETOWN, September 22nd..

The recruiting of crews here continues freely. The crew of the Edinburgh Castle, which has just arrived, have announced that they do not intend to join the

strikera.

IDLE SHIFS IN »AUSTRALIA." MELBOURNE, September 22nd Thirty-nine ships are now idle in Australian ports.

ORVIETO" DECLARED "BLACK"

FREMANTLE, September 22nd. The lumpers have declared the steamer

BOMBAY COTTON STRIKE.

MOSCOW.

BOMBAY, September 23rd. The striking cotton operatives have received a cable, purporting to come from the Soviet Textile Union at Moscow. The message expresses fraternal solidarity and intimates that Rs. 10,000 are being des patched to assist the movement.

The operatives now idle, as a result" of the strike, number 135,000..

EARLIER CABLES:

FRENCH POSTAL STRIKE.

LEADERS TO BE DISMISSED.

PARIS, September 2nd. After a Cabinet discussion on the postal strike of September 21st, M. Chaumet, the Minister of Commerce, announced that he would summarily dis- mies those responsible for the strike, which was a revolutionary attack on the State which no Government could tele

Orvieto from London "black" until her rate. crew attends a meeting of the Australian Beation

a's Union. "The Orvieto has docid.

cd not to call at Fremantle and is pro- creding to Albany, whither representan tives of the strikers have also gone to interview the crew of the Orvieto,

ARUNDEL CASTLE'S" WIRELESS.

STOCK EXCHANGE.

SECURITIES QUOTED WEAKER IN

LONDON.

LowDow, September £ard. On the Stock Exchange Government A Carrows, September 22nd. The departure of the drumact Castle, securities weakened, on the announcement wirelessing This is the way to go that the Treasury had authorised the Home has had an immediate effect on Bank of England to receive tenders, on the ports of South Africa, especially

Durban. The number of vessels held up September 20th, for £40,000,000 31 per has dwindled from twenty-five to eigh. pon, and axfurther two are expected to cent. Conversion Loan honds at the sail this afternoon,

minimum price. of 76) per vent.

GERMAN DYEWORKS. PROPOSED GENERAL FUSION"

The crowd in the open square outside was considerably smaller than in pre- vious years, and it showed no particular Republican bins. Two masts had been erected before the front of the Beich-

BEDSIDE BURGLAR

LADIES.

English capital gave impulse to our in. while Corporal H. Essam jumped clear, dustries. It might be afirmed that dur- and Flight Lieutenant N. Russell and ing the past half century there have been Flight-Lieutenant R. Collins were rescued, few activities of our national progress) in which its beneficial infitcace has hot it came out two days after that had it BERLIN, September 22nd.

been felt.

not been for the courageous work of Negotiations with a view to the fusion

rescue by Flying Officer Stephen Son of all the important dyeworks in Ger.

nucks the two officers would undoubtedly many has led to a provisional result stag, and from them futtered the Re-

have been burned to death. The petrol which will shortly be submitted to the publican black, red, gold, and the Ger. Boards of the companies concerned, in man war flag of black, red, white with GENTLE CRIMINAL'S ADVICE TO tank burst on hitting the water and broke

the Iron Cross. Almost the only people eluding the Baden Aniline, Co,

the

out into flames. Mr. Sunnucks, who was who carried Republican flags or badges Berlin Agiline Co., and the Hoechst and were podlare trying to sell them. A story was told at Long Ashton boats which rushed to the scene of the in charge of one of the fire-fighting motor, Elberfeld Dyeworks.

seemed as if the majority of the crowd Police Court, Somerset, of the attempts of disaster, dived into the water fully The Snal decision will rest upon the had faced the Republican ceremony two ladies to reforma burglar, to whom clothed, and, boarding the burning general meetings of the companies next order to see its idol, Hindenburg. I they conversed varnestly when he entered aeroplane, released Flight-Lieutenants Spring There is little doubt that the was not particularly enamoured of the their bedroom, including him to promise Russell and Collins, with whom he swam fusion will materialise with a view to Constitution, as to the sanctity of which not to do it again.. He, in return, ad- with great dificulty to safety. He again eliminating competition and regulating it has lately been disillusioned.

vised them to keep a dog, as the next swam back and tried to rescue Copsey, cousumption.

After the ceremony in the Reichstag burglar might not be so gentle. Defendant who, it scenas, must have been killed Chamber had been concluded, President was Harry Alina Barrett, ta naemploy instantly. Twice he mounted the hall of von Hindenburg left the Diplomaticed man, and he was charged with steal the heroplane, but cach time he was Gallery over the colonnade above the ing at Clevedon money and articles driven back by the heat of the fames. great open-air ster stairway, at the worth is odd and also with breaking into Finally he had to give up the attempt foot of which a guard of honour of All Saints House, Clavedon

and return to his boat

THE TWO ABDS.

BEST KNOWN ONE IS NOT WOUNDED:

PARIS, September 22nd Apparently the report that Abd el Krim had been wounded was due to the confusion of him with the Riff chief Abd el Kacem who actually was wounded at Targaist

AUSTRALIAN - ELECTIONS.

MELBOURNE, September 2nd. The General Election is to be held ou November 14th:

one of the old military tunes.

It

The machine, which had been smashed

Beichwehr in steel helmets was drawn up. He was joined by the Ministers,

Lies Wayne, of All Saints House, said military and naval officers, and members that whilst reading in bed she heard into two portions, later sank, and the of the Reichstag As he appeared before noise, and went across to Miss Kally's body of Copsey was not, recovered until the main portal the crowd broke into a room. Barrett was there and after ex- the derelict was palled up on to a slipway cheer and the Reichwehr band struck up they should send for the police. One of that he had been thrown back into the plaining how he entered, he suggested overal bours later. It was then soen Here the ceremony was brief and, in them asked,What good will that do engineer's seat, and pinned in that post- deed, almoet, hurried. Hindenburg, hare you?"; and they talked to him for over tion by the petrol tank, which had become headed and erect, but looking consider one hour, and then let him go on his dislodged, and several struts and wires.

A His skull was found to be fractured quickly strode down the line of the guard Miss Kelly said she also was reading Calshot Air Station, an Aircraftaman ably paler than before he took office, promise not to do it again.

Giving evidence at the inquest, at 1s the band once more, broke into in bed when there was a knock at the Copaty, Fight-Litut, Backville Russell Deutschland, aber Alles, the refrain being door. Thinking it was Miss Wayne, she said he ask with the machine, but caught up into a full-throated chorus responded Come in, and the defend munnsged to disentangle himself and rose by the crowd. At the end of the line aat entered. Witness and Miss Wayne to the surface. He found the water his car was waiting. Without further had a long talle with the defendant who covered with lighted petrol, and his own ado he entered it and was driven back advised them to keep a dog as someone tead became wrapped in fames, so fio through too well-guarded streets to the might come in with a crowbar and not dropped back into the water, and, shortly President's Palace in the Wilhelm be so gentle as ho wan; but witness reafter, was rescued WASHINGTON, September 22nd.frame. The bulk of the crowd thereplied that they were not afraid. They The Coroner referred to the great the United States will only participate site band led off with a quick step the police, but the defendant was arrest his rescue work Heawam under the Presidens Coolidge has declared that upon fell into step with the Reichswehr believed his promise, and did not inform gallantry of Flying Officer Sunnucks in in the plans of the League of Nations march and followed it, shepherded by sed on another charge. bado water to avoid the flaming petrol, and to hold a disarmament conference, if strong body of mounted police, across

The bench committed the defendant to thus reached the machine, aring two of authorised by Congress

two months with hard labour.

the occupants.

(REUTERS. AMERICAN KELVICK.]- LEAGUE AND DISARMAMENT:

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S" IF."

the Spree and back to its barracks