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GENERAL STRIKE NEWS.

HOOLIGANISM BREAKS OUT IN EAST LONDON DOCK DISTRICT,

POLICE BATON CHARGE FOLLOWED BY ARRESTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S 4GENCY.)

IN SPITE OF THE STRIKE, WORK IS PROCEEDING IN THE CLYDE AND SUNDERLAND. SHIPYARDS; THE NORTHAMPTON BOOT FACTORIES AND LEICESTER HOSIERY FACTORIES RACE MEETINGS AND CRICKET MATCHES HAVE BEEN ABANDONED BUT THE RAILWAYS ARE ENDEAVOURING TO OPERATE SER- VICES WITH VOLUNTARY LABOUR. IN THE ABSENCE OF NEWSPAPERS THE GOVERNMENT ARE PUBLISHING A GAZETTE IN ORDER THAT "RUMOURS SHALL NOT POISON THE AIR AND RAISE PANICS AND DISORDERS." THE MESSAGE OF THE GAZETTE TO THE NATION IS BE STRONG AND QUIT YOUR- · SELVES LIKE MEN,"

LONDOS. May 4th. An ofteial broadenst states that the Londen milk transport service is working according to scheme. Long distance milk and fish trains have arrived according to schedule.

TER HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, ̈MAY" 6TH,

RACE MEETINGS ABANDONED

A joint conference between the Stewards of the Jockey Club and the National Hunt Committee has decided, owing to the difficulty of carrying out rack meets ings ander existing conditions that all The London underground railway and meetings be abandoned until further omnibus combine notify that it is ended-i notice. This does not apply to the vouring to operate services with voluntary labour, and the extent of the working will depend on the number of volunteers.

The trunk railway companies huje to run passenger trains during the day.

Meantime, reports from the provinces, show that train services are practically nonexistent. The principal stations at Manchester are picketed, but one or two trains managed to leave the London Ter mini.

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Hundreds of railway clerks and super visory grades have resumed ordinary duties at Hull after telegraphing to their Executive disapproving of the strike action.

News from the provinces shows that, the strike is being observed in the industries embraced by the Trade Union Congress order, but that work is proceeding in others, including the Clyde and Sunder- land shipyards, Northampton boot face torics and Leicester, hosiery factories. A number of potteries have stopped owing to lack of coal. At Belfast business is a

usual.

HOOLIGANISM IN EAST LONDON. There were nasty scenes in dock land, *in the East of London, when the hooligan element, which had been interfering with suspicious road transport "early in the day, became more reckless in the evening, indiscriminately stopping and disabling lorries and other vehicles.

The police were reinforced and charged with truncheons several times. A score were sent to hospital and half a dozen arrested.

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Chester meeting cow in progress.

The cricket match Cambridge verans Middlesex has been abandoned and there was no piny to-day. The Oxford persus Middlesex match to-morrow has been can- celled. Two "soccer" internationals, England. Belgium and England- e. France, fixed far May 8th and 31ny 13th have been postponed.

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CLERKS UNLOAD SHIP. The combined clerical staffs of the Cunard and White Star offices unloaded the Mauretania at Southampton on her arrival from America. The passengera were sent to London in a fleet of chara bancs.

HOW NEWS IS DISSEMINATED. LONDON. May 5th Good tramway services are operating Glasgow, Liverpool and Bournemouth. The publication of "newspapers has

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INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT "FOR-

PARIS, May 4th.**

STRIKERS.

The General Confederation of Labour has convened a conference of miners, railwaymen -dockers and seamen to dis cuss support for the British strikers. "A definite decision has been reached but the French Unions have assured British workers of sympathy and "promised to contribute to the success of the strike.

AMSTERDAY. May 4th.

The International Federation of Trade Unions has not received an application from the British Trades Union Congress, but it has made preparations for Gaan. cial and moral support, immediately the application has been received.

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Essex, May 4th. The Union of transport workers, dock labourers and seamen's organisations have issued a manifesto ordering the members to cease work on ships trying to take egal to England.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] AMERICAN LABOUR VIEWS.

WASHINGTON, May 4th.

HOME COUNTY CRICKET,

OPENING OF SEASON SPOILT BY RAIN.

LONDON, May 4th.

The opening cricket matches of the season, which began on Saturday, were mostly spoiled by rhin. There was no play anywhere on the first day, except ing at Leyton in the Essex. Yorkshire

match.

SPREEY IN HAMPSNIDE.

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CHINESE Y.M.C.A.

MEMBERSHIP AND FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN A GREAT SUCCESS. The annual Membership and Financial Campaign of the Chinese Y.M.C.A., was brought to a successful conclusion last, evening.

Early in the season the Directors of the Y.M.C.A. felt that it would be almost impossible to secure much support this year owing to the conditions existing in This match was played at the Oval and the Colony, but as the result of hard work was drawn. The scores were -

on the part of the Directors and other members of the Association, a sum eon" siderably more than was at Brst expected was realised.

Surrey, 13 and 148 for three wickets

(declared). Hampshire. 188 and 115, for" four

wickets,

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In Surrey's first innings, Jardine made 79,,the highest scorer in the second innings being Sandham with 84.

For Hampshire, Bowell made 97.

YORKSITE DEFEAT ESSEX,

Playing at Leyton, Yorkshire defeated Emes by ten wickets. The scores were: Yorkshire 359, and six for no wickets. Essex, 110 and 954.

For Yorkshire, Rhodes made 139, and io bowling against Essex, Kilner took six wickets for 43 runs.

NOTTS BEAT NORTHANTS. Playing at Nottingham, Notts defeat- ed Northamptonshire by four wickets, The scores were

Northants 111 and 297,

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Mr. William Gopen. President of the American Federation of Labour, has stated that the Federation believed that the British miners were justified in their demands for a decent living wage." and that their grievances should speedily be redressed. He hoped that "those

Notts 190 and 100 for six wickets. qualities which characterise the British "In Northants' second innings, Jupp people in every crisis" will so assert made Richmond took five wickets for themselves as to effect an immediate, and Larwood five wickets for 55. settlement.

For Netts, Carr made 86, and Jupp was the best Northants' bowler, taking six wickets for 47, runa.

EFFECT ON STOCKS.

Naw You May 4th. The Stock Exchange opened weak. Considerable selling of British stocks tended to restrict trading. Cotton and wheat futures receded fractionally..

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITAIN'S BUDGET.

BY COMMONS.

DRAWN MATCH.

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"The match between Lancashire, and Warwickshire, at Manchester, was drawn The scores were:-

Lancashire, 179 and 190 for six wickets

(declared)..

Warwick 140 and 91 for three wickets.

There were no high batting scores, the

took four wickets for 13 runs and to MacDonald who secured five for ba

been resumed in a number of country IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS PASSED bowling bonours going to Quaife who towns, including Newcastle, Cardiff and Glasgow, photographic plates of type- script being utilised in many cases. London financial papers are published

with stock and share more:zents.

Broadcasting was extensively used last night for the distribution of Government information and other news relating to The service was public arrangements. operated every half hour from 9.30 to

midnight.

FRENCH COMMENT.

PARIS, May 5th.

All the newspapers comment on the remarkable coolness of the British public in the present crisis.

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LONDON, May 4th. There was a normal attendance of mem- bers when the House of Commons met.

At the opening of the Budget resolution discussions, Mr. Philip Snowden nounced, that, without prejudicing their attitude, the Labour Party would

not prolong the present stage of the debate, as they desired to leave as much time as possible for more urgent business.

Mr. Lloyd George, associated himself with Mr. Snowden, and Mr. Winston Churchill expressed his appreciation of the attitude.

A division was forthwith taken on the! betting duty resolution, which was adopt- ed by votes to 199. The trade motor cars duty resolution was next carried by 201 votes to 119 and the resolution exempt

The Gaufule says that all civilized peoples should stand together in such aing antiques over a century old except time.

wines and spirits from duty, was agreed tu without a division.

The Web de Paris does not doubt but that Constitutional Government will ultimately triumph.

The Ormer is of the opinion that the strike is due to the re-adoption of the gold standard. NORTH SEA FERRY SUSPENDED.

BRITISH GAZETTE" NO. 1.

Le Petit Parisien says the man in the The Britisk Gazette (No. 1), not extreet in England has set his face re ceeding 100,000 copies has been published

solutely against revolution. by His Majesty's Stationary Office." It consists of four sheets, the inside pages being blank. It explains that its objects are to reply to the strike makers' plan to paralyse public opinion. "Nearly all the newspapers have been silenced by violent concerted action, and this great nation is momentary reduced in this respect to the level of African natives, dependent only on rumours carried from place to place." It adds that in a few days, if this were allowed to continue, rumours would poison the air and raise panies and disorders, and enrry as to depths which no sang man in any party or class would care even to contemplate.

The flauties circulation will be raised by means of the unlimited resources of the State until it provides a sure and sufficient means of information, and a guide for action to all British citizens. The Gazette urges the Nation to: Be strong and quit yourselves like men.". STRIKE ITEMS.

About forty constables and speciala surrounded the Morning Post offices all night long.

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The warships Barham and Ramillies are landing food supplies at Liverpool, Eight London theatres have closed down.

The first strike-time edition of a re- gular newspaper to reach Reuter's office 38 & diminutive copy of the Times, con- sisting of a single sheet of foolseap with type script on both sides. Priced at twopence, it contains the briefest digest of yesterday's developments.

COMMUNIST M.P. CHARGED. Mr. Saklatvala, M.F, was remanded at Bow Street till Thursday on a 'charge of an infiammatory speech at a May Day demonstration in Hyde Park, in which according to a detective shorthand, writer, he incited the army to revolt and to refuse to fight: He also spoke con- temptuously of the Union Jack.

Sir Travers Humphreys, prosecuting, said, this being the first case in the pre- sent situation, the prosecution only re- quired defendant to enter into recognis «ances for good behaviour, A

Mureties of £100 each.

ROTTERDAM, May 4th.

The Batavier Line has suspended its London service and other lines are con- templating similar action.

Exporters of vegetables, meats and dairy produce have already suspended shipments to England.

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The Hook of Holland's services to wich will be suspended after to-night.

RELIEF FOR THE UNIONS

AMSTERDAM, May 4th. Mr. Brown, Secretary of the Inter- aational Federation of Trade Unions, has arrived here unexpectedly-ri An- twerp and is now busily engaged in cir cularising affiliated Unions with a view to establishing a Relief Fund for the British Unioni. TRAFFIC CONGESTION AT PARIS.

PARIS, May 4th.

There was an extraordinary influx of passengers from England yesterday. Trains from Calais to Paris, were doubled.a

The northern station at Paris to-day was crowded with English people hurry ing to London and after ten in the morning every train departed without a guarantee of travel beyond Boulogne ar It was announced at noon Calais that four of the afternoon traine wore cancelled, this consternating would- be travellers.

SHIPPING HELD UP.

BERLIN, May 4th. The strike has already affected German parts and vessels scheduled to sail to England have cancelled their departure in vich of the impossibility of coaling in Britain. Several British steamers are help up at Hamburg and Bremen.

A. resolution continuing the key indus- tries duties for another ten years WLS carried by 314 votes to 190,

The packing and wrapping paper resolu tion was adopted by a10 votes to 130 and the transfer of £7,000,000 from the Road Fund to Exchequer by 320 votes to 1: Other Budget resolutions were confirmed without a division, after which Mr. Churchill introduced the Finance Bill. which was read a first time.

The House adjourned, without any reference being made to the strike.

LAHORE STATUE. OFFENDING INSCRIPTION ALTERED BY GOVERNMENT,

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LONDON, May 4th. The controversy centring around the famous Lawrence statue, which has more than once led to a breach of the peace has apparently been ended by the action of the Government in altering the offend ing inscription. Will you be governed by the pen or the sword?" to "With the pen and the sword I served you."

EMPIRE BILLIARDS. ENGLİSH AMATEUR WINS THE TOURNAMENTA

LONDON, May 4th England's representative proved the winner of the Empire Billiards Tourna ment which has been in progress, at Thurston's in the past month.

Playing to-day in the final, C. Farlama, the 20-year-old youth, who won the amateur championship of the British Isles this year, defeated Shailer, the Austra lan representative by 606 points.

The final scores were: Earlam, 2,000; Shailer 1,394

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

LONDON, May 4th..

Paris, and

The Prince of Wales has

Southampton Trom their itinerary. quietly motored to London.

Mr. Saklatvala was given bail on two German-American liners are omitting aeroplane at Croydon from Baby

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The Directors had set the sum of $12, as their goal, but as the campaign went on they became confident, of realising a much larger sum.

Last night when the accounts were made up it was found that a total of $18.980 had been collected.

The winning team in the campaign was captained by Mr. Sun Chi. Hing and Mr. Kwok Lan Fong, who collected over

$6,000,

HARBOUR MYSTERY. RECOVERED BODY BELIEVED TO

BE EUROPEAN. Yesterday, 'dfternoon a Wate: Police launch patrolling the Harbone discover. ed a body floating in the water of Blackhead Point (near Holt's Wharf).

The body had the appearance of being that of a European man, but it was in a very advanced stage of decomposition, and there is consequently some doubt

in the point.

On the body were grey trousers, a black serge coat, blue and white striped shirt, white, singlet, dark socks, black boots, and a brown leather belt, to which three keys were attached.

NO CHALLENGE FROM ASIÁ.

HANDICAPPED BY LACK OF MINERALS,

AMERICAN PROFESSORS' VIEWS.

One of America's leading geologists, Prof. C. &. Leith. of the University of Wisconsin, gives in Foreign Affairs an urorthodox opinion regarding the future of the Far East. He believes the oriental countries aro so handicapped by the lack of mineral resources that they can. Bever challenge Western industrial civilization. He writes:

The common use of phrases like the sellow peril and the awakening of the Far East imply a widespread belief in the capacity of the Far East to advaner in culture and industry, as well as in political and military power, to a posi tion more or less comparable to that of Western Europe and the United States. It is apparent from the nature of the discussions that this belief is based prin- cipally on a consideration of the haman factors involved in education, in the growth of population, and in political development. One looks in vala for cor respondingly adequate consideration of the physical environment, to age how ar it will permit of the expected advances. It seems to be assumed that the necessary physical resources will be found when the castern peoples come to a point where they can use them.

"At the present time the countries of the Far East yield only an insignifyant proportion of the world's total of the essential: commercial minerals,-for ex ̈ ample, about five per cent, of the copper, one per cent of the iron ore,, five per cent. of the coal, and three per cent. of the oil. Only in a few of the less essen- tial mineral commodities are the propor- tions larger. In contrast, the countries bordering or tributary to the North Atlantic now furnish the vastly larger part of the world's requirements in essential minerals,-00 per cent, of the

No one has been reported as being coal, 38 per cent. of the iron ore, 65 pez cent of the copper, and 90 per cent. of the oil.. missing locally.

OLD SHANGHAI RESIDENT

RETIRES."

MATCH ABANDONED.

**A - DOUGHTY INTERPORTER." atch between Cambridge and Middlesex, at Cambridge, had to be

Mr. Tom Wallace of the Shanghai abandoned awing to the strike. The first Waterworks Co., has retired after 43 innings was completed, in which Cam-years of continuous service. He proposes bridge made 89 and Middlesex 223

AUSTRALIAN TOUR,

MATCH WITH LEICESTERSHIRE DRAWN.

LONDON, May 4th. The match between the Australians and Leicester, at Leicester, was conclud- ed to-day and ended in a draw.

The weather was fine and there was a attendance of 3,000 spectators. wicket was good,

The

The Australians made. 336, Gregory making 120, not out, in a vigorous and spectacular display. He hit two sizes and 15 fours, his innings lasting 145 minutes,

Skelding took five wickets for 97 runs and Bale three for $3. their first innings, Macartney taking five wickets for only nine runs. Leicester, followed on and had made 15 runs, for the loss of one wicket when stumps were drawn.

Leicester could only make 96 runs in

RACE TO POLE.

to spend a holiday in England and then return to settle down in Shanghai.

The Waterworks Staff presented him with a massive silver cigar box and at a tifin to which he was entertained by the senior members of the Company, the Chairman of the company, Mr. A. W. Burkill, handed him a silver cigarette box as a token of the directors' apprecia tien of his work from 1863.

Mr.. Wallace, by reason of his genial. nature, was very popular with every member of the waterworks' staff, and, indeed, with everyone with whom he came in contact, says the M.-C. Daily News, but there was a side of him more familiar to the older residents. For a long period the name of Tom Wallace was something with which to conjure op spärts fields. He was one of those men who seemingly

NORCE" NOW ON ITS WAY TO could take up any game and play it with

SPITZBERGEN.

LENINGRAD, May 8th. The Norge helt for Spitzbergen at 9.38 this morning.

REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

AMERICA AND EUROPE. U.S. PRESIDENT AGAINST PRO- POSED HAGUE CONFERENCE.

skill.

He has been the Settlement's lawn tennis champion and whenever there was a sports meeting be excelled as a sprinter and a long and high jumper. Always he has imen a keen rider and it is doubtful Lif he and his brother Sam have missed either the start or finish of a paper hunt even though of late they have not rid- den in them for many years, whilst re- gularly on non-hunting days they can be. seen hacking, always together and usual- conditions in Europe are unfavourable forty on ponies far too fat for very hard the calling of a third Hague conference, notwithstanding that participation there work, and, therefore, they probably are in might be beneficial to the United States as popular with their ponies as with in many ways.

WASHINGTON, May 4th. President Coolidge has declared that the

SOUTH AMERICAN WAR.

"U.S. CRUISER ORDERED TO

NICARAGUA.

WASHINGTON, May 4th.. A cruiser has been ordered to Blue fields, Nicaragua, in order to safeguard American interests, as the Nicaraguan Congress bas declared that a state of war exists.

MEXICAN PETROLEUM. ACCURACY OF A REPORT DOUBTED IN U.S.

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NEW Yonx, May 4th It is authoritatively learned that Ameri can oil circles are inclined to doubt the accuracy of a despatch from Mexico City to the affect that the Mexican Government and the British Legation have reached a

disfactory agreement regarding the new Mexican petroleum law.

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menfolk.

Tom Wallace, however, WAS known than anywhere on the cricket field. He was Captain of the Recreation Club and a doughty Interporter. The anciente say his fielding was amazing and of a kind that never has been aur- passed or even equalled in Shanghai.

THE DOVE'S NEST.. NEW ENTERPRISE IN SHANGHAI. A new tea room in Shanghai, one of the new shops on the Nanking Rond near its junction with the Honan Boad, was formally opened on April 30th.

Its name in the Chinese means peace and love and Mr. Ellis, of the Anglo- interest in the concern thought it best Chinese Trading Co. who in taking a keen transiated as “The Dove's Nest"

There is a tendency to attribute this. situation to the mere lack of exploration in the Far East, and to assume that when this has reached a stage coraparablo to that of the North Atlantic epantries. the production of essential minerals will be more or less equalized. But a farver of the facts proves this assumption to have but a slender basis. In fact, the conclusion seems inevitable that (with «. certain exceptions to be noted) the pre- sent small scale of mineral production in the Far East is not a temporary but a permanent condition, being due to the absence of mineral resources in quantity or grade or distribution suitable for effective use."

It is somewhat difficult to find, the basis for Prof. Leith's conclusions comments the Far Eastern Review. The resources

of China have hardly been tapped be cause of a religious prejudice against mining in the China of the past and bo

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the disturbances of Republican China have made it difficult to dance the large industrial properties in the done a remarkable work in connection with the development of the natural re- sources of Manchuria, particularly at the

be accomplished if the militarists would stop their constant civil wars. In South

interior of China. The Japanese havs

Fushun colleries and much more could

China, the provinces of Kwangai, Kwei- chew, Yennan and Szechuan abound in minerals. Much of the tin of the world comes from Yunnan, which also produces copper and silver. Human is the prin cipal source of antimony. The oil of Szebuan, Kansu and Shenri has hardly been prospected with scientific accuracy.

It is ostrich-like thinking to overlook the apparent facts of China's economic strength. The Japanese are not disre-" garding these facts. They cannot afford to. They have not invested a billion and a half sen in Manchuria alone without. an assurance that there is the future supply of their raw materials.

ENGLISH TOWNS OF THE FUTURE.

PLANS FOR OVER 2,000,000 ACRES.

A correspondent writes to a Londos paper Over 2,000,000 acres in this country are now included in schemes for town planning. The majority of these are still in their preliminary stages. Al together 139 local authorities, with a population of over 20,000, and 181 local authorities, with less than 20,000 have decided to prepare town planning schemes. It is significant that so large a number as 181 councils should have decided volun tarily to undertake town planning, and it is expected that this fact, will encourago. the Minister of Health to consider whether, in future, legislation, the number of inhabitants in districts that are com pelled to town-plan should be reduced below the present figure of 20,000 -- Eo far only twelve authorities in all bays bad their schemes approved, covering an acre- age of 27,002. No less than 180 local authorities responsible for an acreage of 1,417,032 have decided to prepare schemes. acd passed formal resolutions to this effect, but have not yet submitted pre- liminary statements. This is due not to slackness on the part of either central or schemes have to be constantly re-examined in order to try and avoid mistaken, local authorities, but to the fact that