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CABLES

LATEST CABLES,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

MR. ALAN COBHAM.

STARTS ON FLLUNT ACROSS

AFRICA.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1925

THE SUNKEN "M.1."

AN ATTEMPT TO SALTE BRITISH

SUBMARINE.

LONDON, November 15th According to the Observer's Berlin cor- respondent, the British destroyer Wolf- hound is rushing to Plymouth with a new diving equipment and some divers from Kiel Arsenal with a view to Mr. Alan Cobham has departed from Craydon, on a Trans-African flight, viam attempt to malve the 1.

FoxON, November 18th.

Capt Town. He is using the 50 II. P. De Havilland fr-which he recently few a Rangoon and back with Sir Sefton, Brancker.

com-

The machine has been reconditioned and ätted with a 355 Armstrong Siddeley

Mr. Cobham's Jaguar engine. parions are his mechanic, Mr. Elliott, and a film representative, Mr. Epiniott.

ABOLITION OF SUBMARINES, APPEAL BY LLOYDS MEETS WITH

GENERAL APPROVAL

WOULD CONVERENCE POSSIBLE.

LONDON, November 16th.

Lloyds' Appeal for the abolition of submarines, ända general approval from

Press and Public.

The suggestion that Britain should call a world conference to consider the matter is mooted, though it is feared that it is foredoomed to failare since the project has already been torpedoed at the Washington Conference, despite British, Japanese and American support,

It is recalled that Britait has already recorded her opinion in favour of the suppression of submarines, securing the insertion of a declaration to that effect in the minutes of the Washington Con- ference.

The Morning Fox says that for this country to raise the question would ex pose her to a charge of weeking to get rid of the chosen weapon of the smaller Powers, which wrought immense injury to British shipping during wartime The Daily News argues similarly. The Daily Chronicle hopes that with the changed atmosphere aince the Locarno Conference, the grim tragedy of the MI will bring home to all Governments the need of completing the work unfinish

ed at Washington.

SITUATION IN SYRIA. FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS BADLY NEEDED AT DAMASCUS,

DAMASCUS, November 17th,

A gravo situation is arising in Syria, owing to the non-arrival of French re inforcements. The strength of the in- surgents and brigands is continuously increasing.

The French forces are inadequate and

are concentrating on the protection of towns and railways Everywhere else the insurgents roam ushindered. The latter are already knocking at the gates of Damascus. Even Beirut is not free from the threat of attack.

ALUMINIUM SUIT.

volunteer

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EASTERN CABLE. BRITISH POLICY OF STATE

NEWS.

(THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.] WAR IN NORTH CHINA. ALLEGED REASONS FOR FENG- TIEN DEFEATS.

PRESTIGE LOST AND WON.

PERINO, November 18th. The defeats of the Makdon forces at Hsuehowfu are reliably stated to have

CREDITS... MANCHESTER MERCHANT'S CRITIC. ISM OF GOVERNMENT'S ACTION. It is useless to get into a panic, and! it would be pitiful to resign ourselves to despondency. We must think hard and work hard, and if this is done with deter- mination, Britain will not go down,

HARASSED HOUSEWIVES OF THE "EMPIRE.

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CHINESE TALE OF AN ARMS DEAL

All the world over the same tale is told. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST GERMAN. Trained domestic servants are more and

An indication that the ways of the more difficult to obtain,

Vinting in the last few yours all the militarists in procuring arms are not British Dominions, the United States, as smooth and untroubled as might seeni, South America, and the Orient, every is given says the NC. Daily News, by whom I heard the housewives' plaint.

Why women of all nations now prefer report in the Chinese papers that a industrial to domestic work is one of the German, attempted to negotiate a deal

Some people problems of the century. censure the modern girl's education, and aad, lailing in it, tried to abscond with say it does not foster her domestic in-8900,000 The scene of the drama was stincts; others blame the mothers who Tientsin, the kindly and susceptible old do not impress upon their daughters that

own married life than working in a well- Li Ching Lin, Tupan of Chili, while the run household, or in, the care of well ramifications extended from Tientsin to brought up children.

This comment on the situation which British industry has to face was made by Mr. Leanox, B. Lee, head of the Calico Printers Association, presiding at the The equipment, which will enable divers heen dun to the fact that they could not annual meeting of the Manchester, Branch they can have no better training for their gentleman was none other than General

rely upon the Shantungese, who formed of the Federation of British Industries, in a speech in which he raised the ques- the bulk of their armies.

tica of "Is England Done! IF

Answering the question he had neked, But we have serious difficulties to the speaker said he did not think so. face," he added. " and they can only be mastered by persistent effort."

to work at a depth of 300 feet, consists of a rigid, aluminium diving suit resem bling a suit of mediaeral armour.

At-

tached to the outside of the apparatus are several tanks which are filled with water in order to give the necessary weight to the diver. When the diver wants, to rise these tanks are blown out by means of compressed, oxygen stored inside and controlled by the diver who is independent of air from above as he has oxygen sufficient for three hours. The diver always has a normal pressure in one atmosphere and does not suffer any in- convenience. The can be lowered or raised in two minutes as compared with three quarters of an hour for the ordinary diver, who must be lowered and raised slowly, in order to enable the body to adapt itself to the different pressures. communicates with a vessel telephonically through a steel cable. It is thought that the new apparatus will be most useful in pearl fishing.

The diver

BRITAIN AND SOVIET. COMMANDER KENWORTHY IS INDIGNANT WITH FO.

Marshal Chang Tao Lin then apparently decided to fight Marshal Feng Yu Hsinng only to find a big percentage of the armies around Tientsin and Peking-who

are

unreliable.

ex-Chihlites-equally Therefore he was compelled to yield with- out fighting.

As a result of the surprising events of the past month, Chang To Lin has lost immensely in power and prestige.

W Pei Fu, alter emerging from his retirement. has remained ineffective at Hankow. Hence he also has lost press

tige.

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On the other hand. Feng Yu Hsiang and Sun Chuan Fang hare gained pro-

as the two leading militarists. It is portionately and "ät present are regarded

them are not good.

ready hinted that relations between

MUTINOUS TROOPS.

· SHANGHAI, November 16th, A Reuter dispatch from Tsingtao re- ports that the mutinous Fifth Shantung Division fired en a Fengtion White Russian Brigade from the rear, while the Russians were endeavorting to stem the advance of the allied forces..

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The majority of the 3.000 mercenaries were killed, including some armoured car party.

Those wounded received no aid until men from Tsinanfu

LONDON, November 15th. "Deliberate rudeness and petty pin- pricking, unworthy of a great people," is Commander. Kenworthy's indignant description of the fact that the Foreign Office was not represented on the occa foreign medical sion of M. Rakovsky's departure from daringly proceeded to the fighting area. the The medical men brought back the wound Victoria yesterday to -represent Soviet Government in Paris, and also oned, many of whom are suffering wit! The despatch says that the Fengtien the occasion of an official reception at the gangrene"

troops in Shantung are mostly Shan- Russian Embassy in London on November 7th. Mr. George Lansbury and other tungese; and it would not be surprising Labourites including 3r. Oswald and if the majority went over to Marshal Wu Lady Cynthia Mosley, and the Turkish Ambassador said farewell to M. Rakov sky, who, in an interview claimed that Anglo-Russian relations were very much better than when he came to London. He hoped that M. Krassin, his would improve them still further.

ELECTIONS IN AUSTRALIA. MR. BRUCE CONFIDENT OF GOVERNMENT, MAJORITY..

AUCCESSOT,

Mesocane, November 15th

The elections generally have passed of quietly. Mr. Bruce has been re-elected with a tremendous majority,

UP TO DATE.

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LATER.

The result of the elections up to the present appears to be that the Govern ment has 46 seats and Labour 28 seats in the House of Representatives respec Ventively. The Senate figures are most in- Government majority in the Senate. Mr. complete but Mr. Bruce is confident of a W. M. Hughes has been re-elected by a majority of 17,000 for North Sydney

At say time in the past three weeks, the Druses could have captured Damas cus. They refrained as they did not wish to see the city in ruins.

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In the circumstances, the possibility of

a general rising throughout Syria has

to be reckoned with.

The Emirs Taher and Ezzed Din, who were arrested after the bombardment of Damascus, have been released." Taber

NOT YET DESPERATE.

THE LENA GOLDFIELDS. · AGREEMENT FOR CONCESSION IS

NOW CONCLUDED.

Moscow, November 15th. The concession agreement for the Lena has been prominent in the recent dis goldfelds which was provisionally con- cluded in April last between the President of the Supreme Concessions Committee orders in protecting Christians.

and Mr. Walter Lyman Brown and Major Frederick Gwynne, representing the Lena Geldfelds Company, has finally been signed by M' Djerzainski, President of the behalf of the Soviet Government, and Supreme Council of Public Economy, on countersigned by M Litvinoff The con ceded, enterprises have already been de- livered to the concessionary.

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LATER. The situation is not desperate if suf ficient reinforcements, arrive promptly. It is understood that 2,000 men have just landed at Beirat

BARLIER CABLES; BRITISH AIRMEN.

GENERAL SARRAIL.

REACH EL FASHER ON RETURN NOT PESSIMISTIC WITH REGARD

FROM GENEINA:

CAIRO, November 15th. The three British airmen who flew to Nigeria have arrived at Geneina on their

return from Kano..

REACH EL FASHER.

EL FABLE, November 15th. The British aviators have arrived from Gépeina

TO SYRIA.

PARIE, November 15th. General Sarrail has arrived. He was met at the station by M De Jouvenel, and was subsequently received by M Painlevé. General, Sarrail in an interview, declared he was not pessimistic with re gard to the situation in Syria: There could only be one Mosler policy for France in Africa and Syria.

Pei Fu, as the whole population strongly favours the allied forces.

RED CONTROL IN SOUTH. NEWS FROM PEKING OF DOINGS IN KWANGTUNG.

To some extent, be said, unemploy ment was encouraged by the dele, but the bulk of the men registered as an employed were honestly unable to find work because the industries to which they

their products. were attached could not find markets for

Owners

Mukden and Hamburg. The denouement occurred in Shanghai,

No details of the proposed deal have reached Shanghai or how the alleged swindler got hold of the money, if ho ever did; but at least, according to the

Les aterrogated him while in custody, and he is said to have admitted his guilt. rnacular papers, the Chinese authoris

OF the amount, the

on

account goes

to tell, he had sent $10,000 to London, of which he drew 311,000. On the remainder the bank stopped payment, when they had been informed of the transaction,

In Cagads and America wages are sn high as to be prohibitive to all but wealthy people. Housewives with an in- come which could pay for several maid servants in England even at the present rata are glad to secure one decent. Irish immigrant girl, and pay her four pounds a week for any work she can do goat to live in hotels or service apart of a large houses have closed them and ments, despairing of running their beauti ful homes without sufficient help. A for can be had on the Pacific coast, but if One friend Chinese and Japanese domestic servants Recently four mines in South Wales, Pteained, expect high wages. owned by the Powell Dufryn Company, of mine, in California, pays her Chinese

It would seem from sparse details were shut down. They were modern man-of-all-work 195 dollars a month, mare

Even in India, once the paradise of the available, that the German, after he got mines, in possession of every facility for than the salary of a Japanese admiral economic production, but they were closed

difficult to obtain, and ask treble wages Shanghai rather hurriedly, probably by As Indian sertrain, as that was before the local war because the coal could not be sold at a Mom-sahih, well trained servants are more hold of the money, it Tientsin for

If England was unable to find markets for less efficient work.

woman he secured passage to Hengkong abroad for her exports, she would invants cannot break their caste by ding broke out. In company with German. on a P.&O. steamer, but could not land price to cover the cost of production.

a few years be unable to pay for the each other's work, a large number is

in the southern part because of irre found, and they like their employers, no Food imported to keep alive her large necessary. But it the good old kind are and rapidly growing population.

more faithful and devoted servants can.

quence that he was shipped back to We must import food, and in the long be had anywhere, given certain perqui- galarities in his passport, with the cons sites. They can always rise to an emer-

Shanghai on the R.M.S. Ehapers of run could only pay for that food by ex

Canada. gency. porting our products.

"THE BIGGEST PROBLEM. The condition of our export industries was the greatest of all our national pro

blems.

Obviously it could not be improved by further multiplying the number of shel- The tered or safeguarded industries. privileges conferred on these only added to the difficulties they had to face with out any shelter from the cold blast of world.

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A friend of mine, whose wife was in England, invited three, men friends to dinner, and forgot to tell his butler until he came in from the club about an hour before dinner-time.

"Oh, sahib," said the man respect Why did you not tell us at tifint folly, Who are the sabibs which come ???

My friend named the expected guests, among them a bachelor named Anderson. well cooked and plentiful dinner of many The host was de The visitors arrived at 830 p.m., and a Nor was anything to be gained by ad- courses was served. vancing Government credits tu parti-lighted and afterwards congratulated the culer arms, as was being done by the butler, and asked how they had managed to produce so many dishes at such short Trade Facilities Act.

A firm with a reasonable chance of notice. doing profitable business could obtain ample credits from its bankers. In prac tice Government credits were only asked for when the business was so doubtful that no prudent banker would touch it.

As an example of bow Governmert credits were operating, he said that although the existing machinery for employed to the extent of 40 per cent. a new firm was applying for a State rring and printing piece, goods is un- loan to put up more machinery for the same purpose.

WHO WILL PAY! Similar considerations applied to Gov- crament export credits.

A British firm with a reasonable chance of doing profitable business abroad had no dificulty in getting a banker's credit, An export credit was a form of subsidy less serious in amount, but essentially of the same character as the coal sub sidy.

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If the Government is to subsidize one industry why not every industry but where was the money to come from 7 PEKING, November 16th.

No animal had yet been discovered Messages from South China indicate

tail. that the Reds" have driven out the anti-that could live by feeding off his own These aubsidies amounted to dumping Reds from Kwangtung. They are prepar

and would provoke retaliation in the form ing to follow them into Fukien and com-

of hostile tariffs. plete the annihilation of all armed op- position to the Red control of Kwangtung General Teng Pen Tin, Tapan of Hainan, has telegraph to Peking, asking for the despatch of a cruiser to prevent the Reds landing at Hainan.

MANNA "FLOATED." BANSTEAD MANOR STUD FORMED BY MR. H. E. MORRISS.

In reference to the proposed Govern ment Inquiry into the state of trade, Mr. Lennox Lee said the mere fact that it to fald their arms and wait for the was being held might induce many people report, instead of busying themselves to improve their own trade.

Instead of more Government advice and Government interference the country wanted much less.

Sahia," said the butler, "We knew that Anderson sahib would have forgottewa sent the to tell his butier he not in for disner, which would be ready, so we mesalji to fetch Anderson sahib's dinner; with yours, it was enough!"

It is usual, when asked to dinner, in vant is also wanted And not only that, small Indian stations, to enquire if a ser- but one often finds oneself eating with The butlers borrow familiar cutlery:

Among a long list of servants is the from each other when necessaTY,

derzie," the dressmaking man, who sits on the verandah and sews and is paid by the month like the others.

In Australia, outside the metropolitan Home helps " areas of Melbourne and Sydney, there are few trained servants. and lady helps are in great demand if not just helpless ladies. A housewife who is. lucky enough to secure a competent girt treats her well, in fact often she rules the household. which is afraid of, losing her! And she settles her own bours of work and outings."

The Chinese authorities applied to H.M. Consulate-General for a counter- ed by the captain, so they might board signed warrant, which would be recogniz the ship and arrest him, Accompanied by a representative of the Consulate the Chinese police officials went to Woosung. boarded the ship and brought their man back to Nantao, where he has been held in custody since. The woman, as far as Tho has been learned, e still at large. prisoner is to be taken to Tientain when transportation" becomes available.

PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION.

AN ANTITRUST LAW.

Senate Bill No. 20% passed by both houses of the legislature in the Philip- pines prohibits monopolies and "com biacs" which restrict commerce in the islands. It provides a fine not exceeding £3,000 or imprisonment not over one year against any person who monopolizes or forms combinations with other personE for the purpose of controlling a certain portion of the commerce or traffic in the isiaads.

Another measure passed by both houses" is Senate Bill No. 39, levving a specific tax on motor spirits and on rubber tyres, and alloting, the proceeds for the main tainance, improvement and construction of highways."

Even in South Africa, where coloured Hotel servants, male and female, in labour is abundant. I heard the house wives' cry. At the Cape, the ranks of the Australia have their hours of work and wages axed by law. They work an eight. whitey-brown" have been depleted by And therein lies an obvious answer to the not trained servants and take service only bour day for five and a ball days a week! the new tobacco factory; the residue are question "why women prefer industrial till there is a vacancy in the industrial to domestic work?" They like their San-world. days and half Saturdays of each week, once dreaded. "She and fee evenings And no mistress, the no longer in awe.

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Up country, where domestic servanta are usually native boys of any age up to of whom they are so I heard conflicting accounts of their Some mistresses had no good qualities. word to say of their dusky helpers.

But women wear out more quickly in aside by a younger, more nimble worker; industrial work, and are apt to be pushed whereas, what a pearl of price is an elderly well-trained servant. Most house wives are delighted to secure one to share her responsibilities.

In New Zealand the housewife bas, in- deed, excuse to wail. For in New Zealand there is no servant class." The native Maori seldom makes a good household

MAIN CAUSE OF DEPRESSION, The burden of taxation, national and local, was one of the main causes of our worker, preferring to live in her "Pat" LONDON. November 18th.

industrial depression.

The Derby winner, Mauna, has been turned into a limited liability company, with a capital of £20,000 in ons pound shares. They are mostly held Mr. H. E. Morriss and his wife. The Company is

called the Banstead Manor. Stad Com раду.

but often dishonest, unclean, and not even civil. Education ruins them, they They are like children, full of cunning

grow more insolent every day."

But other housewives take a more charitable view; and said, that with pati- ent training and constant supervision the native boys make good domestic servants. in Rhodesia and Natal we found botel servants, Indians resplendent in white olathes, turbans and red sashes, trans planting us back to an atmosphere of Cal- The few. Chinese are laundry workers or

cutta or Bombay, except that in South Money that should be used to finance of a shopkeeping class. Farmers' daugh

in Africa Indian servants can wear shoes industry was taken from the taxpayer tera, who would be in service" to provide salaries for armies of officisle England, in New Zealand do not dream without disrespect to the shiba,

Zulu boys make good servants with of earning their livings outside their

One mistress said, in and to meet the cost of doles for un- employment, fred at a scale which was homes. The few women who go to work careful training. unjust to the men who are maintaining in factories or shops make for the largest twenty years' experience only one house- themselves by work.

towas like all the rest of the work

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Local rates were a direct charge on So I found the plucky New Zealand boy had cheated her. Once will trained they carry on without undue supervision. every undertaking, and under the absurd housewife struggling single-handed, and But Zulu boy likes a week's holiday twice a new wife! To buy the wife he borrowE Originally it was intended to float all franchise system now existing the owners bringing up families of straight healthy Mr. Morriss's racehorses, but it was of these undertakings, who provided a youngsters at the same time, most child a year to plant his mealie patch, or buy relief are able to vote both for the Poor they are encouraged to have. Many deducting it week by week from his found to be against the Rules of Racing, large proportion of the local revenue, had ren have their daily household tasks, for five to six pounds from his mistress to although there is no objection'in connec-ovate, while the recipients of outdoor which they are paid small sums, which purchase the necessary row, and she lends

Law Guardians and for the members of thrifty young Scottish-New Zealanders in wages on his return.

On isolated homesteads these baravéd the south island have banking accounts tion with horses at stud.

the local Councils.

housewives run grave "risks. How much earned "helping mother." If our industries were to recover their of money men of the family help, too, inhelter it would be if they could have

And the

of their own sex and the evenings... The head of the house does home helps of these burdens. pre-war vitality they must be relieved

LOAN FOR YOKOHAMA. MUNICIPALITY HOPES TO RAISE

THREE MILLION YEN.

TO BUY FOESİGN LESBEZOLD.

TOKYO, November 18th. It is learned from reliable sources that the Yokohama Municipality contemplates The money is needed to purchase part Boating an internal loan of yen 3,000,003. of the foreign perpetual leases."

M. KARAKHAN, SOVIET ENVOY IS RETURNING TO PEKING.

November 15th. Moscow, M Karakhan, the Soviet Envoy to Ctrina, left here to-day for Peking.

PRIVILEGED WORKERS.

not think it beneath his dignity to wash colour. When one thinks of Britain's two up distes after the evening meal, for his million surplus women and many mero The present Government, unfortunate wife has had a strenuous day. If they than that who cannot hope to marry and ly, though it won a majority on a pledge are growing wheat, or sheepfarming, she have homes of their own, it seems as if of economy, had increased the national has to cook for herds of casual labour as the women of the Empire should help expenditure, and there was no prospect well as her own family, Sheep-sbearers each other and mutually benefit

and thrashers expect three hot meat In Rhodesia, I was told it had been of any serious reduction in taxation.

Nor could the nation, hope for better meals a day, interspersed with tea and tried in isolated cases, but it was merely at intervals! These men ranning a matrimonial agency! Even so, "good cake?

In treatment from the Opposition.

It was indeed, largely to Socialist are dificult to feed and so hard to will not the countries benefit 7

vast empty lands more population is influences that they owed the unfair please," said one harassed housewife.

Many of these New Zealand women are needed, stalwart,sons of pure white blood privileges conferred upon workers in sheltered industries and extravagant gentlefolk bora, but brought up to work to carry on the race. The New Zealand scales of outdoor relief, as compared with and not expect attendance of any sort. Government gives free passages to women who will do "domestic work" and sign the wages of mon engaged in export They speak of England as home,"

Although many of them have never been an agreement not to marry for one year trades and in agriculture.

Mediawhile we have to face the indus-out of New Zealand Bouth, except per after Ipuing in the country. Why do not example 1-GRACE L Momow in United trial problems of today. We had to hope on a honeymoon trip to the north all the other countries follow their think hard and, work hard, each in his island. own business, men as well as masters.

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