STRIKE
OUTLOOK IMPROVED.
HUGE FOOD CONVOYS PROTECTED BY TROOPS AND ARMED POLICE.
SERIOUS DISORDERS AND LOOTING AT GLASGOW.
EARL BALFOUR'S MESSAGE TO THE NATION.
- (THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY..}
THERE HAS BEEN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DISORDER AT NEWCASTLE AND HULL BUT THE POLICE WERE ABLE TO " QUELL IT BY USING THEIR BATONS. AT PLYMOUTH A FOOT- BALL MATCH WAS PLAYED BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE STRIKERS IN WHICH THE CHIEF CONSTABLE'S WIFE KICKED OFF. THE PREMIER HAS BROADCAST THE MESSAGE THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT FIGHTING TO LOWER THE WORKERS' STANDARD OF LIVING, BET HE REPEATS THAT THE GENERAL STRIKE MUST BE CANCELLED BEFORE NEGOTIATIONS CAN BE RESUMED, THE TRADE UNION CONGRESS REPLY THAT THE STRIKE CANNOT BE STOPPED UNLESS THE COAL LOCK.. "OUT NOTICES ARE WITHDRAWN.
LONDON," May 10th. Serious disorders occurred at Glasgow over the week-end. Many shops were looted on Saturday morning, and com Bicts with the police in the eastern district, particularly at Bridgeton, neces- sitated the rushing up of strong rein forcemeiita.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MAY 11TH,
accept this than to continue a struggle which could only increase misery and
disaster. The Premier added that he was a man of peace, longing, working and praying for peace, but he was not gcing to surrender the safety and security of the British Constitution to threats of violence.
The General Council of the Trade The struggle was of the wildest, pots, pans, iron bars, pickheads and hammersion Congress publish a reply to being used. Fortunately, no police were night, reiterating their previous con- tention that any resumption of negotia- injured. Sixty arrests were made.
tions should be based on the position of Looting was renewed in the evening.
April 30th when the negotiations were in the New South and West areas
broken off. If that door is open, the Bootshops Buffered most.. "Police and
Premier should make it clear that the peints were hotly engaged until the
eonl lock-out notices should be. with early hours of Sunday morning. Many drawn as well as the general strike can- baton charges were made and there were | celled." 72 arresta.
There
Serco
the rioting in Southern area, during which two con- tables and one special, who is a Greek, were hurt and sent to hospital.
4
Wax
were
The majority of the rioters charged rid sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
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EARL BALFOUR'S MESSAGE
{THROUGH HAVAS" AGENCY-]
THE MOROCCAN WAR. MORE FRENCH AND SPANISH
SUCCESSES.
RABAT, May 10th. On Saturday evening French and Spanish troops made an effective jus tion on the slopes of Jebel Tunai. The French have control everywhere in the Valley of Kert, of which pacific occupation was refused by the Riffans at the conference of Udida, while Spanish progress continues, favourably.
LATER. Earl Balfour in an article, in the British Gazette says that 238 years hare passed since there was a revolution in this country, the object of which was bo secure the supremacy of Parliamentary Government and the traditional liber. ties of our people; but we are now threatened with a very different kind of revolution, the methods of which consist in depriving the people of food, trans port, employment and a free press. He points out that no revolution in Britain, however triumphant, was going to
The French have advanced twelve diminish competition in neutral mar-kilometers Aeroplanes bombarded Tar kets, augment the demand for coal at guist, where the Riffans fed in panic. Home, hasten the changes recommended by the Coal Commission or compel the mine-owner indefinitely to carry on his industry at 21088
"Revolutionary methods would be completely power except for evil.”
Lord Balfour declares that it revolu tion does succeed, the community will
ITRHOCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROYALIST RIOT. FRENCH POLICE AND CIVILIANS INJURED IN CLASH.
PARIS, May 9th. Several policemen and many demon. strators were injured to-day, on the occa
sion of the celebration of the Fete Day
of Jeanne D'Arc
A Royalist demonstration came into collision with the police and twenty
were made before order was
Arrests restored.
LATER: There were Tis, gendarmes injured during the collision. Thirty-one persons have been taken into custody:
thenceforth be ruled by a relatively small body of extremists who regard the Trade Unions, not as a machinery for collective bargaining within our indus A political instru- trial sytem, but as ment whereby the industrial system may be utterly destroyed. He says that such a policy would eventually be fatal on any country and on Britain it would bring ruin, swift, complete and irre
THE FLIGHT NORTHWARDS. sistible. "We live on industry and in-
LIEUT. BYRD FLIES OVER dustry Hyes on credit and enterprise.
NORTH POLE. What credit, either financial or politi cal, and what enterprise would remain
OSLO, 3iny 9th. to us were we driven, by such methods to dispossess the people of their parlia
Fine weather prevailed this morning mentary liberties and hand over our pa-when the American airman, Lieut. Byrd, tional heritage to be squandered, amid started on his fight to the North Pole incalculable sufering, by violent and from King's Bay. Spitzbergen. LATER.
irresponsible doctrinaires? From such
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] Reuter learns that the week-end has
a fate may the courage and resolution
NEW YORK, Hay 9th not produced any approach to the Gov-of our countrymen save the civilisation A message to the Times from Spitz ernment by the Trade Union Congress of which they are the trustees."
bergen says that Lieut. Byrd few over in the direction of an acceptance of the
INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION. the North Pole and returned safely to Government's decision, that there must)
OSTEND, May 9th. Spitzbergen, after a flight lasting 15 be a calling off of the general strike
The Transport Workers' International hours. before negotiations are resumed.
conference did not enthuse over a pro- posal by the British delegate,, Mr. Mil- ford, that the loading and unloading of every ship fying the British flag, abould be prohibited at all Continental ports, whatever her cargo.
NO PEACE MOVE MADE.
TWO-MILE FOOD CONVOY.
Da
LATER.
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DAVIS CUP TENNIS. BELGIUM ELIMINATED BY HOLLAND.
NOORDWYK, May 9th. Holland eliminated Belgium from the The Belgian delegate pointed out the Davis Cup Competition, by winning three impossibility of complying with the of the five matches, ordez especially in connection with un- loading cargoes destined for local con- sumption."
STRIKE INSURANCE RATES.
LATER. At Lloyds cover against damage due to civil commotion is quoted at 2s. 6d.
The greatest astonishment and en- to 10%. 6d. per cent. Twenty-five guineas thusiasm was aroused everywhere along per cent. is quoted for insurance of pay the route on Saturday, by a convoy of of total loss, in the event of the strike 101 four-laden lorries, with an escort not being called off by the Trade Union of 16 armoured-cars, cavalry and mount Congress within four weeks from May
ed police, extending for about two miles, 7th thirty guineas for three weeks,
which marched from the Londen Docks fifty for two and seventy-five for one.
to Hyde Park, from which place, the IRISH TRADE" UNFONISTS'
contents of the lorries were distributed SUPPORT...
to the districts where supplies are "Irish Trade Unionats have complied shortest." - Two battalions of Guards and
500 yolunteers were sent down to the International Miners' Committee" an-
LATER.
Eventually it was agreed that coal consignments to Britain would be pre- vented at all Continental ports. The
with the Trade Union Congress request docks on Friday and helped to load the nounced ita. solidarity with the British
to hold up food stuff shipments to Britain, and the port of Dublin is at a standstill. There are no cross-channel shipments whatever.
Prices of farm produce have "consider ably fallen.
workers, declaring ita readiness to take still further steps to assist them and ex- Pressing the conviction that lasting peace in the mining industry was only possible through the establishment of co-
TWIN SONS OF A CENTENARIAN.
**BOYS " · DISTINGUISHABLE ONLY BY THEIR SPECTACLES.
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1926
SINGAPORE DIVORCE CASE. CO-RESPONDENT TO PAY $1,700
TO HUSBAND.":
EUROPE U.S. DISTRUST OF EUROPE. MR HOUGHTON'S REPORT. The substance of the report which Mr. A deeree niti and $1,700 damages was Houghtan, the Ambassador to Great awarded "by Mr. Justice Deano in Britain, made to President Coolidge and divorce action, in which the petitioner to the Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogs, was. L. P. la Parte, a senior assistant on the condition of affairs in Europe, employed by the Asiatic Petroleum Com-with particular reference to the events pan, and the co-respondent, F. Lowe. and, tendencies leading up to and culs The name of the respondent is Jeanne Maris la Porte.
The petitioner was represented by Mr. C. da Silva, and the correspondent by Mr. E L Talma. The respondent did not enter appearance or file an answer, but gave cyidence in the action.
minating in the impotent adjournment
of the meeting of the League of Nations. was made known to the American Press. and aroused the fixed belief of official Washington, that this should be inter preted as foreshadowing a revision of the foreign policy of the United States in the direction of isolation.
The parties were married in 1017, and lived together at Singapore and át Pula:
It is naturally not surprising that Mr. Bakom until July, 1823, when the respon Houghton should have spoken to Pres--- dent went away, She admitted that she dent Coolidge and Mr. Kellogg unreserv- went to Bangkok with the co-respondent, {edly, writes the Time?” Washington cor- and ained their return had been living in respondent, hut that the opportunity his mother's house in Upper Serangoon. Į should at once be taken to transmit to the Road.
country at large his conclusions in all The correspondent alleged that Mrs. their brutal frankness is a development
la Porte told him she was leading an unhappy married life and induced him to go to Bangkok with her. He asked the court to reject the petitioner's claim
for damages.
THE PETITIONER'S STORY.
Mr. da Silva said that the petitioner had been in the service of the A.P.C. for
dust first met each other on Pulau 10 years, and respondent and co-respon
Bukom, when the co-respondent was a clerk. in the company. The marringe seemed to have been a happy one, apart from the usual domestic differences, but towards the end of 1994 petitioner for the first time had occasion to tell his wife that she should not be too familiar with
whose significance hardly needs emphasis. The Administration and through it the mass at: the people are dismayed at the picture Mr. Houghton has painted, and confidence in his judgment and cor rectness of observation is so general as to make his report a factor of tremendous
ing influence. Baldly, stated, the Am importance and his counsels a determin-
bassador has this to say:-
The Continent of Europe, so far as ita statesmen are concerned, has learned nothing from the war; the League of Nations, far from becoming a truly in-
a subordinate in the service, although ternational instrument for the organize- there was then no suspicion of miscon- tion of peace, is moving toward a revivat duct. On July 10th, 1925, the respondent left Pulau Bukom to do some shopping in of the alliance of 1915, with the tre- Singapore, and never returned.
Peti-mendous difference that it cannot hope to
of this year, when she returned from
tioner never saw her again until January guarantee 40 years' tranquility in Bangkok with the co-respondent. Peti Europe; in this movement France is the tioner then laid information charging the leader, with certain satellite Powera sid co-respondent with enticing away a maring and setting,, and with the British ried woman.
CO-DESPONDENT'S EVIDENCE
Government reluctantly carried alone, The co-respondent, in the witness box, reluctantly because the tide of British said that when he went to Pulau Buko feeling sets strongly in the opposite in 1990 he found his life there very quiet and be arranged dances at the club. direction and yet, in the opinion of Sir. He was supposed to be the dancer there, Austen Chamberlain, inevitably because and he frequently danced with the re spondent. She complained to him of the co-operation with France is desirable in treatment she received from her husband, the Near East and elsewhere; the Powers and said that she never got any money unless she begged, for it. She said she of the European Continent-do not wanted leave her husband, and after genuinely wish to disarm and do not some hesitation witness agreed. They relish or want American participation in went to Bangkok with the idea of oond their council; the preliminary arms.com- ing a boarding-house there, but that it was impossible to do that and ference at Geneva will meet, if it does returned to Singapore. Witness said that if a decree was granted he intend ed to marry the respondent.
Mrs. la Porte then gave evidence. She stated that she first met her husband in 1013 at Palau Samboe, when she was married to a Dutchman named de Haast. She used to spend week-ends at the
meet, lo dicuss proposals upon which agreement is neither desired nor expected and which have been deliberately and disingenuously advanced in order 10 make failure certain.
DÍSARMAMENT NOT HANTED. This is a bare outline of Mr. Hough A birthday party that will symbolise Europe Hotel with the petitioner, and almost unknown subsequently she cbtained a divorce from anique and an romance of the City of London will take de Haast and married the petitioner in ton's report leading up to the conclusion 1917. Her husband was domineering and that there is no hope for disarmament place shortly at New-street-hill, & tiny unkind to her, and she noticed a change until the present madness has run its
On June 4th, Mrs. Oliver, a life-long in him from the day of their marriage. thoroughfare just behind Shoe-lane.
resident of the City, will celebrate her. When she asked for money he always course and sheer weariness or aa finan- 101st birthday in the company of her gave her less than she asked for, and cially before the adoption of the Dawes Plan-impending disaster shall bring two twin bachelor sous, aged 70 they only went to Singapore once. a month, the petitioner telling her every
change of heart. The desire of the William James Oliver and John time she suggested going to Singapore United States Government to approach
that they must save money. Once he
the arms problem by way, first of a lived with their mother all their lives.
did not speak to her. for six weeks, She
naval konference, which has the sym A printer's premises at the corner of was determined to leave him, and she pathetic support of Great Britain, is New-street-hill and Little New-street, asked Lowe to go with her to Bangkok. with the prosaic title Oliver Bras." Lowe never induced her, to leave her said to meet with the irreconcilable, over the shop window, contains this husband, and it was absurd to suggest position of France, Italy, and Japar
lorries yesterday morning. Large crowds cheered the convoy, a sight as popular ns the Lord Mayor's procession.
Yesterday's armed convoy of flour was repeated to-day. - 150 lorries with armed soldiers sitting on the four sacks and flanked by armoured cars with a squadron of cavalry in the rear, passed Volunteers have now taken them off through the infampiable dock area and peacefully dumped their cargo in Hyde
Samuel Oliver-both of whom have The Free State-English
mails which reached Kingston on Friday night have since bee held up owing to the dockers refusal to handle them.
under police protection.
.
AN "OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Lovos, May 9th. An official communiqué issued this evening says that the general situation has not changed.
Park.
MORE DIRECT ACTION. The chief task over the week-end has been to keep open the docks, a process which began on Saturday with the re- Obstruction by pickets has been moremoval, inter alia, of over 100 lorry loads effectually overcome and there is som plete confidence.
Order is being maintained in the Londer dock area, where the loading and unloading of vessels by volunteers in proceeding and increasing. It is in
tended to keep the Port of London re- gularly opened.
The situation in Beolland has also im. proved, and the food and fuel position is everywhere satisfactory.
A NEGOTIATION" FEELER."
LATER.
of four, and 700 tons of sugar. The task is being successfully pursued.
Latest reports show an intensification and a tendency for more direct action by the strikers, csecially against food, particularly four ille. But no appre- ciable effect has at present been, felt, ex- cept in isolated districts, like Smithfield and parts of the dock areas. ROWDYISM IN THE PROVINCES.
LATER.
At Newcastle the police were hurried ly reinforced last night to deal with a disorderly crowd of 10,000 "attacking The nearest approach hitherto made specials. The crowd was broken up into in the direction of resuming negotiscations and dispersed by batons. tions, occurred over the weekend, when Four baton charges were made-jat Mr. Baldwin, on Saturday night per Preston, on a crowd of 4,000, trying to Bonally broadcast a message to the na
rescue a man, arrested for throwing a tion emphasising that the Government
missile. was not fighting to lower the workers'
RIOTS AT HULLA
standard of living and repeating that Two constables and 17 civilians were the general atrike must be called off be sent to hospital and there were sixteen fore the Government can re-open ne arrints at Hull yesterday, when rioters gotiations. He expressed the opinion damaged trams and buses. Police that, it was a thousand times better to charges continued until midnight.
operation and international control.
OTHER STRIKE ITEMS.
LONDON, May 9th. Regarding the allegation that the Government was holding up the British Worker paper supplies, the position ap- pears to be that strikers attempted to stop paper mille and hold up supplies, and, since supplies are limited, the question has arisen how to distribute the available supplies.
Six thousand special constables are be ing enrolled daily.
PEACEFUL PLYMOUTH
The spirit prevailing throughout, the country was exemplified as Plymouth. yesterday, when a football match was played between a team of strikers and a team of police, the former winning by
two goals to one. The wife of the Chief Constable kicked off.
KING HOLDS COUNCIL.
LATER.
His Majesty the King held a Council at Buckingham Palace, Earl Balfour, the Attorney General and the Home Secretary being among those present.
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE" NO BRITISH SHIPS LOADED AT VLADIVOSTOCK.
A copy of a telegram from Vladivo, stock by the British Ambassador at Tokyo has been forwarded to Hongkong apd is exhibited at the Harbour. Ofice for the information of shippers.
The telegram announces that owing to a sympathatic striks cargo loading on British ships at Tladivostock censed on May 7th, at e p.in.
unique little family.
Here the twins, who are so alike that they have to wear different pairs of spectacles as distinguishing marks, have worked in partnership for nearly 50
years.
PAIR OF SPECTACLES. “
Like their mother, their home has always been in the City. They were born in Doctors' Commons; Mrs. Oliver in St. Mary Axe.
Except by their spectacles no stran ger can possibly distinguish between
twine.
that he did
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LAWYERS, COMMENTS.
- Mr. Talma, addressing the court, said that the court had to be satisfied that the basis of the claim for damages was the loss of the wife's affection, and he submitted that that had been lost before added that it was the husband who had the wife met the co-respondent. Counsel introduced his wife to this somewhat lax treatment of the marriage VOWE
Mr. da Silva remarked that the co-res pondent might have possessed a good pair of feet for dancing, but he had no whether they are talking to Mr. William cruples about robbing a man of his wife.
Even friends are sometimes uncertain
James Oliver or Mr. John Samuel Oliver Features, white moustaches, and
height are just the same.
Mr. William James gave Daily Chronicle representative some interesting details of his mother's 100 years resid- ence in the City.
"DANCED INTO HER HEART,"
the
They and their supporters desire simult aneous discussion of land and sea forces, and between the British view that this. can be best and most simply achieved by accepting the peace time striking fores as the standard for computing reduction to which the United States might guardedly subscribe and the French industrial resources, Mr. Houghton cao argument that calculation should include find no way of present compromise. There is no doubt that he has advised his. Government that the French argument is put forward as a subterfuge, 48 screen behind which the growth balance of power, heavily weighteď in, layour of France, can proceed with the, Giving judgment, his Lordship said the minimum interruption. Equally there i
no doubt that Mr. Houghton has pointed t co-respondent bad stated that he did not
poison the disarmament discussion, entice Mrs. la Porte away, but that she out that behind the determination to even before it begins lies the unwilling was unhappy and miserable, that she
nesa" of Continental Powers to face the formed the intention to go away, and that she induced him to take her away. There was no doubt that the respondent application of the provision in the found things very dull on Pulau Bukom; Treaty of Versailles under which the but the lived there from 1917 and the entry of a disarmed Germany into the parties seemed to have been logging League would be the signal for similar
DISILLUSIONMENT. dent arrived and introduced dancing into along pretty well. In 1990 the co-respon- restrictions by other, Powers.
What effect such a report as this, corn- Mrs. Oliver still regards the twins as the club, and taught all the ladies "te children. She always refers to us as dance. He took the respondent as bising from such a source; is likely to have the boys said Mr. Oliver, and in favourite partner, and apparently he in the daily development of United Bome ways, she treats us just like child danced himself into her heart, because States policy it is as yet impossible to ren. If we don't go to bed at the usual she confided to him that she was - say. This is a cruel disillusionment to time we may hear about it the next morn happy with her husband, and in 1995, she President Coolidge and to uncounted joined him in Singapore and they went others who had put their faith in the da Locarno agreements as making a turn of ing
Mother is still very active. She has to Bangkok
was probably true, his Lordship the European tide away from, the bitter- worked hard, all her life, and still does a lot of the housework, sews, and reade said, that the respondent was a lady who neis that engenders war, and who are Sho has lost the sight of one eye, liked a life of some gaiety, but that was now bluntly told that the spirit of is something which enters into but there isn't much she doesn't see with no excuse for the co-respondent. Mrs. Locarno the other. She is up every morning about kiz, two hours before my brother and 1. And she often goes out for a walk by herself get
During the war the would go out during air raids, and falling bombs seemed to have no terrors for her."
79 LORD MAYORS' SHOWS,
She had seen 79 Lord Mayors' shows" She he said, but missed the last two. remembers well the Duke of Wellington's funeral.' k
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la Porte could not have left her husband the precepts but not into the practice of unless the co-respondent had fallen in European statesmen. If Mr. Houghton's with her mood, and he had to take the revelations had come before the question responsibility of having induced this lady of the adhesion of the United States to to go away. His Lordiain granted the the World Court protocol reached vote decree nisi and ordered the co-respion in the Senate that proposal would have dent to pay $1,700 dámares.
been overwhelmingly defeated.
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