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LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHIPPING STRIKE.
EAST LONDON TROUBLE OVER.
East Lospor, October 1st) The crows of the last two vessels bald ap by the strike have returned to work, thus ending the strike bere..."
PICKETS AND SEAMEN CLASH. Cars Tows, October 1st. The strikers have so far behaved blame lessly. but the il-feeling of the remain. ing last ditch" strikers resulted in a running fight between the pickets and azmen attempting to return to their
shipa
The police dispersed the rioters.
BRITISH FINANCES.
LONDON, October 1st.
The Treasury return for the first half of the financial year shows an excess of} expenditure of £30,000,000 compared with €12001,000 in the corresponding period
JASON VIKT.
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The revanur totalled £344,000,000 and sxpenditure £350,000.000. The deficit is mainly due to decreases in revenus from incom and corporation taxes, and estate duties aggregating £13,000,000 and in- creases in expenditure on. the sinking fund, the Fighting Services," and the Civil Service, aggregating £17,000,000. The floating debt was increased by
$33.001,000.
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PRINCE'S TOUR SEQUEL.
ARGENTINE BUSINESS MEN'S PROJECT.
LONDON, October 1st,
That the Prince of Wales' visit to the Argentine is beginning to bear fruit is evidenced by the fact that a number of prominent business men have formed a so-called Anglo-South American Associa tion for the purpose of enlightening the public as to the urgency of recapturing the Latin-American markets.
TURKISH SABRE RATTLING. FOUR MILITARY CLASSES ARE
CALLED SÜP
CONSTANTINOPLE, October 1st. The newspapers publish notices sum- nming for military service four classes from twenty-two to twenty-four years of
All officers of the first and second reserves have been invited to present themselves for medical examination.
FACTORIES IN RUSSIA.
SOVIET ARRANGEMENT WITH GERMAN BANKS.
BERLIN, October 1st. Important negotiations are proceeding Between Gerinan industrial concerns au·l banks and the Sovies authorities with the object of the formation of a Russo- Gerinah company with a capital of 50,000,000 marks for the erection of metal and other, factories in Russia, of which the Germans would undertake the direc tion and organisation, the Soviet supply- Sng the labour and the raw materiais
The Soviet will also grant the company important privilegen..
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CAMPAIGN IN MOROCCO.
KARKUR HEIGHTS OCCUPIED.
FEZ, September 30th.
The offensive is limited as to its objec tives and consists in preliminary opera- tions with the object of extending the French hases, notably in the Kiffing sector.
The French at eight o'clock this morn
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LABOUR CONFERENCE.
MR. MACDONALD'S RESOLUTION.
LONDON, September 30th. The Labour Party Conference bas
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FRENCH DEBTS TO U.S.
"AMERICA'S" · LENIENT" TERMS.
WASHINGTON, September 30th. The Franco American negotiations are
It is stated, that - the yooring rapidly.
carried the Executive's resolution, moved by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who said that only open avowedly Socialist prin Americans have reduced the proposed ciples could the workers' claim for annual payments by $20,000,000, and have
fair and decent livelihood be met. An
amendment by Mr. Ferguson (Glasgow) also agreed to insert a clause in a sub ing occupied the Karkus heights, north declaring that it WILD necessary to sequent agreement, providing for revision of Kiflame, continuing to advance with organise the workers for a vigorous in the event of evidence being forthcom the enemy, who were strongly entrench-struggle to overthrow the capitalist ing that the French empacity to pay had ed resisting vigorously.
been over-estimated
SPANISH OFFENSIVE OPENS.:
proceeding, satisfactorily.
FRENCH STILL ADVANCING,
A HITCH 1.
WASHINGTON, September 30th. Close on the heels of an unconarmed
of an
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FATAL TOKYO RAINSTORK.
THOUSANDS OF HOUSES UNDER WATER
Tokyo, October 1st.
A rainstorm last night in the Tokyo chatrict resulted in
ISRAEL IN TROUBLE. SCENE IN A LONDON POLICE COURT.
A case was recently heard in a Lon Folice Court which could be ade quately described only by Mr. Israel Bangwill, writes an Evening Standard representative, it is a story concerning thase Children of the Ghetto about which he wrote so long ago. But this is n known and un-story which does not show them on their
best behaviour..
The names of the protagonists are wonderfully evocative-Lazarus, Besser Pinkus, and so on. In the audience.is. a double row of types; mostly men. any. two of whom would do for Potash and Perlmutter. They follow with avidity every move in what proves to be a long- standing family fead, and the varying fortunes of the day are reflected in the expressions of the two factions,
condärmed deaths. Thousands of houses were partially submerged, and a train dcrailed.
TWENTY-SIX PEOPLE KILLED.
LATER.
This evening's report states that 42,000 houses are partially submerged in Tokyo, and that landslides occurred, resulting in 20 deaths at Yokohama and 5 at Yoku
The rain was the heaviest far fifty years and interfered with the census which was taken last night.
class was overwhelmingly defeated.
The Conference, also passed a résolu MADRID. September 30th. tion declaring that unemployment was It is officially announced that a Spanish only preventable by 'n scientific co-ardi, offensive opened this morning in the nation of the nation's economic resources Albucemas sector with the object of cap and industrial undertakings for the report that the Commissioners have turing the neighbouring mountains. / public good instead of for private gain: reached an agreement on the principles) suka.
demanding the national adoption of the principle of a living wage as the first af adjustment of the Franco-American charge on industry; the adequate main Debt, and that the conclusion of au tainanes of all the unemployed and actual agreement only awaits the work their dependants; pensions for the ageding out of details, comes the announce- and widows with children, the raising ment, that the American Commissioners of the school leaving age to sixteen with bare decided, after a conference, to lay maintenance grants the provision of training for the unemployed; and de- the whole situation before President: manding that the Government take steps Coolidge, in view of disagreement to assist the revival of overseas trade among themselves and closer relations with Russia:
FEZ, September 30th. The French claim that their advance is continuing. and that they expect to secure important starting places for later operations.
SPANIARDS TAKE OBJECTIVES.
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MADRID, September 30th. A communiqué says all objectives in to-day's 'offensive, which are needed as jumping of ground for a fresh advaner to Ajdir, were speedily captured. The operations started at daybreak, battle ships, seroplanes and land batteries on Alhuemmas Island providing a covering are. The objectives were reached by 2.15 in the afternoon, when the Spanish commander sent a wireless message on hir succes from the battleship Alfonso Xir.
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FOREIGN LEGION IN ACTION.
Fiz, October 1st. The balance of the fighting on the first day of the renewed offensive was clearly favourable to the French, whose losses were only killed and wounded, They gained all their objectives North of Kiffane, the troops engaged consisting of Foreign Legionaries, Tirailleurs and Alpine Chasseurs.
They advanced in three columns and the North of captured the ridges to Kiffane, and met the strongest resistance at Hammouch Ridge, where machine guns were captured. Otherwise, the opposi tion was feeble, and confined to isolated parties.
Aircraft largely contributed to the day's success, in which tanks were also most useful, their crews volunteering for the most dangerous tasks.
Marshal Petain and General Saulin watched the advance from Boumneheris
CHICHERIN IN BERLIN.
BERLI, October 1st.
M. Chicharin arrived at Warsaw and was received "at the station' by a repro- sentative of the German Foreign Office and members of the Russian Embassy."
IMPORTS TO GERMANY.
LONDON, Uctober 1st. The Board of Trade announce that as from today the requirement of import licences is withdrawn for all commercial goods imported to Germany, except a staali_number.
BANK OF ENGLAND RATE.
Lasbos, October 1st. The Bank of England discount rate, was quoted to-day at 4 per cent.
EARLIER CABLES.
HOME LABOUR CRISIS.
LIGHT ON THE OMS.
WHAT MR. CLYNES WANTS.
Later
Meanwhile it is stated that the French mission has presented a final proposal which the Treasury Department is con- sidering to-morrow morning. The pro- posal takes the form of a written signed document, which was prepared after frequent consultations between M. Caillaux and Mr. Mellon.
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FRENCH OFFER DETAILED.
WASHINGTON, October 1st.
The Labour Conference has adopted a resolution moved by Mr. Clynes urging that steps be taken to ensure a closer political and economic relationship be tween Britain, India, the self-govern ing Dominions and other States in the British Commonwealth of Nations, re questing a survey of the land and re- emigrants, condemning the capitalistic sources of the Empire, the training of exploitation of natives in the tropics, demanding the Government-controlled bulk purchase of food and supplies of raw materials the Dominions, in order The new French debt offer which the to secure stable prices, expounding af
American Commissioner will submit to scheme to encourage the home produé tion of food and assistance for British Mr. Coolidge to-day for an ultimate farmers, and recommending that perio, decision calls "for the payment of dical conferences be held representing the Socialist movement in the Common 240,000,000 annually for five years, 860,000,000 nṛunally for the next seven years, and 8100.000,00 annually for the LONDON, September 30th. succeeding fifty years.
This will aggregate Yesterday's proceedings at the Labour Conference are regarded as constituting 5,090,000.000. being principal and in- nó "all-Red., rout," A comparison. 18 drawn between the firm front presented | terest: од
recorded debt
wealth.
REBUFF TO COMMUNISTS.
the
total of
of
by political Labour leaders, as a result $1.210.000.000. The calculations show that of which & rebuff has been inflicted on the Communists, and the diametrically the rate of interest for this, although opposite tone which pervaded the recent not specifically mentioned anywhere, Trade Union Congress at Scarborough. Mr. Cramps address is generally ap averages about 2 per cent. Over the life proved. Two conclusions which striking of the proposed agreement, ly emerge from the day's events are that the party leaders are as strongly deter. mined as ever not to firt with the methods advocated by the extremists, and, secondly, thas Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald has definitely re-established his hold upon the party. It is understood that the leaders who are ex-Ministers hre relieved and quite satisfied with the turn of events.
EMPIRE PRESSMEN.
DEMAND FURTHER CABLE SYSTEM..
MELBOURNE, September 20th The Empire Press Conference passed a resolution advocating the fullest pro- vision of telegraphie communication throughout the. Empire, laying stress on the urgent importance of an adequate system of cheap and rapid transmission of news all over the Empire, and recom- mending that the Imperial Cable System should lay an additional Atlantic cable.
MOBBING MR. MULCAHY. RIOTERS HARRY MEMBER OF
DAIL EIREANN,
PHILADELPHIA October 1st. Mr. Mulcahy, a member of Dail Eireann, accompaning the Parliamentary delegates to Independance Hall, was mohbed by a crowd of rioters He was Fescued by the police, who arrested fifteen persons,
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLI,
MEETING HELD IN PARIS,
PARIS. October 1st.
At a meeting of the Banque Indus trielle de Chine on September 30th under the presidency of . Georges Masper, Ta Ming Fu, the Secretary of the Chinese Legation, and Mr. Armstrong, a Peking syndicate," "us representing
Scrutators, adopted the report of 1921, showing a loss of 51,013,000 francs.
EEING CUSTOMS CONFERENCE.
DUTCH · DELEGATION CHOSEN.
AMSTERDAM, September 30th. The Dutch delegation to the Customs Conference at Peking on October 26th
will be composed of Mynheer Oudendjik, the Minister in Peking, as Plenipoten tiary, delegate, and Mynheer Schalicek, ä tealing official of the Dutch East Indies Government, a technical advisers.
A young man with a bandaged head gives evidence at length against the "prisoner to the effect that he was stabbed in the head with some sharp instrument
presumably the handle of a pair of
that the wound was caused owing to thes nutcrackers. The other side maintains
bandaged one slipping on the stairs a he ran away.
There are made witnesses, and härd swearing on both sides-all with hita on by the way, A brother of the pri saber, most wonderfully dressed (they) are mostly tailors), has a heavily-band-25 nged finger, of which more Inter. ⠀⠀ A brother of the victim is very wordy and very dramatic in his evidence. He speaks of the sort of cry that thrills anybody the cry of one in pain, if you know what I mean,” w
"Oh, get on " says the clerk.
A casual observer might think it was nens of 80-80. But-magistrates, sorne- times know better. After a detective, who knows the Ghetto like a book, has said farourable things about the pri soner--"a very unusual thing, he joined. up in 1918"the magistrate fines bim £3, and produces ripples of facial emo tion among the factions at the back of the court
That is not all. On this charge hangs another. A powerful man appears in the lock. He is charged with biting the
he nearly bit it off. Out of thất came finger of a previous witness so hard tha what one may call The Nutcracker Suit, the same detective explains at length. The feud is-really all about young man who came from Russia. One family took him in. He didn't like work, änt they put him out. The other family took him in. Hence the vendetta. The man' now in the dock, the detective: fur- ther explains, was years before the War a corporal in the Russian army,bably * The magistrate: utters some appro priate wotus“ on the ethics of biting off people's fingers, and inflicts another. The stranger in Burgundy serves a fine of £5. And everybody goes away term of probation before he discovers with nobody quite satisfied, we the full warnith of Burgundian hospitality, What is absolutely certain is that there in the Beatminster will be talk about all this somewhere sette. It is a land of epicures. The in Whitechapel for years to come huniblest housewife is an artist in the
Burgundy have infinite, understanding, kitchen. Of food and wine the people of and they expect recognition. But let
IN BURGUNDY.
DELIGHTS OF A FAMOUS WINE COUNTRY...
writes D.H.W.
QUEER FISH.
HABIT,
QUEER FISH"-By E. G. Bodenger.
(Patridge. Ja, Gd.)
The
the English, visitor show appreciation. | ODDITIES OF STRUCTURE AND Let him ask`, counsel of u bearded stranger in a confidentially whispered "Pour bien manger, M'sicur, où va t'un "A delighted smile will be his re ward, and with finger laid at the side of the nose, and with the same con-
Zoo in Regent's Park now fidential undertone, nrich Burgundian possesses the best aquarium in the world." voice will name restaurant where na Fish, both queer and normal, have their gourmet need regret having dined. As being in water scapes that the ingenious likely as not he will take you to his house, epitomes of their native homes. We cha and over his wine: he will talk. Claret, sec exactly how the sole swims or hides he will any wine for the invalid; hit himself in a seductive nook of sand and Burgundy-vigorously he thumps a mas rock, or the trout in a chalk stream, or, sive chest pour les hommes !
the crab in a pool The arrangement in Boulenger, whose learning is on a par dus chiefly to the ingenious brain of Mr. with bis ingenuity.
And always the talp comes back to Beaune, For this lovely town, steeped in the middle ages, is much more to the LURE OF "ISLAM.
Burgundian than the centre of the wine mouthed before the glass cases will e The thousands who bave stood, open- country. It reflects bis character, serene,joice that the popular and scientific bave ITS SOUTHWARD MARCH IN
grave, with the gravity of the epicure, been also associated in the pages of a AFRICA.
leisured. Young men come to Beaune to book of the same architect. After one the School of Viniculture. They retur academic excursion an admirable pre Addressing a Church Missionary meet-
as to a university. In the little garden face on the fish as the father of verte- ing at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, re-
before the hotel you may see littlebrate evolution-Mr. Boulenger plunge DOMINIONS NEWS...
MELBOURNE, September 30th.cently, Bishop Fogarty, of Damaraland, groups drinking Burgundy from enormous
expressed grave apprehension regarding glasses. After each slp they pause to from his knowledge the more startling hilariously into more marvels, collecting The complaint that insuficient Austra- the southward march of Islam in Africa shake their beads and smile approvingly. lian news was published in Great Britain "The whole of Northern Africa follows In the wine list of that hotel you may oddities of structure and habit, grouped was the burden of resolution by Si Islam," he said, and that religion is read how a French general, passing his under their chief attribute; gargantuam Hugh Denison, of New South Wales, coming further and further south favourite vineyard ordered his troops toch, electric fish, climbing and walking vocating co-éperation among Australia What will it offer the untive! It has newspapers with the object of supplying the British Press with a service similar much to offer. First, it will make him present arme to the present service from Britain to sober, for it is contrary to the Moham- That the so-called Organisation for the Australia. Mr. Holtz, of Victoria, medan faith to touch strong drink,
In the centre of the town is the Hospice, to make a marine biologist, of every Maintenance of Supplies has been off seconding, advocated that the other Secondly, it will give him a real se almost untouched since the fourteenth other schoolboy and perhaps mich tales of brotherhood, Islam knows no dia BERLIN, October 1st.
cially sanctioned is revealed in a letter Dominions should be similarly linked up.
tinction of colour. Thirdly, it will offer century. White-robed pass work in are not the less scientific for being The Freiburg court has fined M. Conte, from Sir William Joynson Hicks to a Mr. Turner (Great Britain) moving an the French aviator who was injured in correspondent, stating that if emergency amendment pledging members of the Con- the native tremendous rewards in a dispensary gay with coloured medicines frankly boyish and popular. Nothing Paradise it he fails while fighting for in bottles which would have delighted a more forcibly stirs the mind to test ta arose, the Government would discharge ference to do their utmost to secure-the crash in which his
companion Mits responsibility, but it would be of great publication of more Empire news, stated the Crescent, If we fail in our duty medieval necromancer. Louis Quatorze formule than this grouping of the as Christians here, Islam will sweep us signed the visitors' book of the Hospice marvellous. What a shock to one's Dar- Thierry, Was killed,000 gold assistance to receive from the 0.3.S or that the Agencies correspondents - al-
from the country
GRANTA in a clear and vigorous banil. Much winism is a visit to the aquarium sh any other body of well-disposed citizens ready gave the British papers more
Dr. Zwemer, 'n distinguished scholar furniture of his period is there, too, and Honolulu, whern pattern end colour run marks for flying over Germany in a classified list of citizens willing to serve Dominiona news than they could use. a type of machine which the Treaty respondent would perform a patriotic strain. Mr. Woods (Canada), supporting on this subject. He states that, while the cellars, equally famous, you will not us of fish which explode if they leave the
the Government, adding that the cor
Several delegates argued in the watte and hathority on Mohammedanian, has fourteenth-century pictures among which riot without appareat, rhyme or trasu i been lecturing throughout South Africa one would be content to spend days. But And Mr. Houlenger, being able to talk forbids Germany to build. Half the duty by allying himself to this or any the waendment, agreed that this was the
there are only 60,000 Mohammedans i sec.Is it permitted 1 you ask in your dark depths beneath 2,000 feet of waterf most that could be done, fine was expiated by the period the simular body.
South Africa at the present time, they
FRENCH AIRMAN FINED. PENALTY FOR FLYING OVER GERMANY.
ariator was detained pending his trial
d. Coater is unable to pay the balance, which works out at a further twelve days imprisonment.
Loxnos. September 30th,
FOOTBALL AT HOME.
RESULTS IN LEAGUE GAMES.
LONDON, September 30th. The shattered machine has been con football matches played in the English The following are the results of the
League today
FRENCH INDIGNATION, VO
PARIS, October 1st.. The condemnution of M.- Costa has caused serious indignation, but the Glov erument is continuing to support the Airman diplomatically.
SECOND DIVISION, Darlington, 3, Southampton, 1 Portsmouth, & Preston, NE. 2
THIRD-DIVISION (SOUTH). Gillingham, 1: Northampton,
Reading, 3; Luton, Q.
_____MOTION CARRIED.
"RFAMOUS CELLARS.
fish, patetaal fish that nurse and lover their offspring, architectural fish, flying fish. He has written a book enleninted
has a bigger range of the marvellous than
even the chief collector for Honolula.
are composed of many races, have many innocence, to receive the reply. Not mosques, and demand a Press of their to the President of the Republic himself. Lord Burnham explained at great own. There are 50 millions of Molend ... The vineyards descend to Beauris from If there is a lapse of knowledge in length the difficulties of British news adherents in Africa: above the Equator, the thirty-mile ridge, on the eastern the book it is in the references to geo- papers as regards cabled news, and show while there are ret but nine millions slopes of which lie little villages with graphical range. How seldom does any ed the difficulty of giving effect to the below the Equator. But, over in the world-famous names, and each with writer refer to those marvellous seas that Mr. Denison accepted the amendment of Worcester in the Cape Western Pro- few wants, and few troubles you may haunt of whales, of sharks innumerable scheme embodied in the resolution
Union of South Africa, the small town feree local tradition. The villagers have wash the just coast of Australia the and the substantive motion was finally vines has, says Dr. Zwemer, three read the local newspapers without dis- and the biggest oysters in the world carried That, in view of the growing Mosiem mosques, and Capetown itself covering anything more serious than a difenlt to imagine that anyone importance of the Overseas Dominions, no fewer than 93, and Kimberley, Dur-
and in order to promote a better Interban, Maritzburg, and other towns, two fracas between Italians, sower show realizes the wealth of these seas shou Empire knowledge and understanding, each, At Durban an Islamic prayer or a public dinner. Clear-eyed and clear- omit the reference, especially in the members of this Conference pledge book is being printed in Zulu, while all skinned, inclined to a seemly corpulence, ing the sharks. Perhaps, this author will themselves to put forth their utmost over the country propagandist papers the Burgundians have their philosophy, make good the reference when ho efforts to secure the publication of more printed in English, Afrikaans, and in It is that generous living brings no Empire news than hitherta??
the native tongues, are in circulation. I regrets.
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