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JAPANESE DISASTER.

LIBERAL LEADERS'

DIFFERENCES.

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EYE-WITNESSES; STORY OF THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN EARL

ERUPTION.

FURTHER VOLCANIC OUTBURST

FEARED.

THRO AICTEX'S AGENCY.]

TOKYO, May Beth

From eye-witnesses, it appears that the third proption of Mount Tokachi was the worst, as the lays freed a mountain lake which swept a thirty-fool wall of water down the hillside, wrecking and obliterating farms and hoises, whilst the Java poured down from two craters.. engulfing farts, villages and the rail

way.

ASQUITH AND

L.G.”

[THEOTO INTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, May 26th.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MAY 27TH,

'ANOTHER JAPANESE-

CATASTROPHE.

IRRIGATION RESERVOIR BURSTS ITS BANKS.

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HALF A TOWN WASHED AWAY.

(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]

Toxo, May 26th.

A definite break between the Liberal lenders is marked by the publication of correspondence between the Earl of Ox- ford and Mr. Lloyd Geïrar. The former

A report from Akita states that this regrets the course pursued by Mr. Lloyd afternoon. with a tremendous roar, the Georgs when the Liberal Paris-united Mayuna Irrigation Reservoir in Akita against the anti-Social campaign and Prefecture, Northern Japan, burst" its general strike." He rehukes Mr. Lloyil hanks, sweeping awny half the town of George for the latter's declaration of dis-Kitara, including the Post Office, agreement with the statements of the bank, theatre and other buildings. Enal of Oxford, Earl Trey of Fallodon, and Sir John Simon published in the

Bich Bhartier

He dentures Mr. Lloyd forge's con The main crater is on the summit of Mount Tokachi, hat it extends to a spar.tributions to the American Press "eun- called Mount Two, from, both of which lava belched forth and rocks rained down throughout Monday night, though the valgantes, are now quiescent, with only voluminosa clouds of smoke issning from the sulphurous eraten,

WARNED BY, APSIBLINGS,

LATRIC

Warned' by p/bliminary rumblings, niany ésékjack before the eruption and the forud several hours late". Many farmers working in the helds were saved, but inst whole families in the villages, and are demented by their loss.

The train from Asahi inwa, warned by rumblings turned back, and thereby saved itself from being ngulphed by the Howing lava.

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Though the flood rished down at a furious speed on the village of ici. an embankment near its entrance check- ed'the waters, and most inhabitants were able to escape.

It is reported that at. Kamiforano soin 200 villagers were washed away,

Details of the tasualties are not yet available, but it is feared, they are heavy, The papalation numbered. 7,000,

ABOPT 400 DEAD.

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LATER.

A semi-nfcial repert revived in Tokyo, taining a desponding. though highly coloured picture of our national strait" states that about 400 are believed to have Mr. Lloyd George, în his reply, stuchesi | been killed, but ageurate details are not in tuoderate terns, defends his attitüde | obtainable, owing to the interryption of during the General Strike, and declares communication. his American newspaper article on the strike had been misrepresented in Eng land, although he adnats "he miscalenlated the course of events, and boncludes hi offering te geet Mr. Asquith and other Liberal lenders to "discuss the position.

THE POLISH UPHEAVAL.

GENERAL PIŁSUDSKI, AND MOTIVES"

BEHIND REVOLT.

WARSAW, May 20th. How Poland escaped a dictatorship is explained, by General, Pilsudski, who in an interview with Renter said: "For six months was vainly striving for the execution of mural and political reformas in Poland, and particularly the Army. What particularly annoyed me was the impunity enjoyed by the new rich. This

and it is feared that the Matuyana Spaderided me to art, but only against the is a total loss, though no definite news is, yet available

RELJEF WORK...

It is reported that many bodies are floating down the Furano River, which has overflowed its banks, adding misery to the situation, whilst consideraliļ nn. xiety is fél regarding the mining villages connected with the Hirayama Sulphur Mining Company.

A relief corps, including doctors and nurses, an infantry detachment, and ex-servicemen,' were rushed to the scene from Asahi Gawa as soon as 'news of

the catastrophe was feprned, but the work is severely hampered by the con- dition of the countryside as a result of the flood, whilst several feet of lava covering the railway tracks prevented the Arain from reaching Biei, though every- thing possible is being done to help the injured and the thousands of homeless.

REVISED CASUALTY LISTI

LATER. The Governor of Hokkaido has report-

dead and ver

2200 rd that 100 10 injured. A thousand people are missing. FLETHEE SRUPTION FEARSO

LATER.

Latest reports from Hokkaido state that It is 144 bodies have been predvermi. estimated that two million yen damage bas bern done.

Rescue work is hampered by a thick mist. The volcano is still emitting ashes intermittently, and a further ruption is

feared.

GERMAN TRAIN SMASH.

MANY KILLED AND INJURED IN COLLISION.

MUNICH, May 25th. The total casualties as the result of the train acident (reported earlier) were 33 "killed and 100 injured.

A previous message stated:-Twenty four were killed and many injured as the result of a collision between two passen. ger trains in the station at Munich.

ASSASSINATION IN PARIS. FORMER HETMAN OF UKRAINE SHOT DEAD.

Government, not against the President.". General Pilsudski regretted the Presi dent's refusal to treat with him and the failure of his attempts at mediation. He Spoke of his final victory, and said he did not desire a dictatorship," which would throw the whole burden of affairs on one man which would mean arduous daily oil to accomplish the ninny necessary reforms

to the State...

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He said he was proud to have aecon, plished something" unique-carrying ont the coup de toe, which he immediately legalised 215

Sort revolution without revolutionary results. Pilsudski

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evaded the question whether he would accept Presidency, and said he was await ing the nomination of a number candidates, whom he would afterwards summon to his house and demand a joint undertaking that they would have no connection with political parties, banks, business groups or siular interests.

THE FRANC.

GOVERNMENT'S STERN PROTEÇ- TION MEASURES.

PARIS, May 8th.

The Government has taken a further

in the direction of tightening up measures to protect the frane. From June 5th exporters will be obliged to a monthly declaration showing make they have repatriated within months sums received from abroad for their products. "The penalty will be fines and imprisonment.

[TRROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.] PARIS-TOKYO, FLIGHT. FRENCH AVIATOR. ARRIVES

WARSAW.

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WARSAW, May 5th. Pelletier D'oisy on his fight to Tokyo has arrived here.

D'OIST'S OBJECTIVE. #

PARIS, May 26th. D'Oisy's ultimate destination is Tokyo. He intends on this occasion to rival the Trans-Siberian Railway, necessitating daily average fight of too to e00 miles, hitherto not achieved by aeroplanes över Vast distances."

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] THE AMERICAN FLIGHT. ARGENTINE AVIATOR REACHES CHARLESTON.

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·PARIS, May 5th. General Petlurs, who was Hetman of Ukraine in last year's war, was shot dead by a Russian Jew named Schwartbar, in the busy Boulevard Saint Mitchel this afternoon. Schwartbar, when arrested, A message from Charleston says that said that General Petlara oppressed the the Argentine aviator, Bernardo Dug Ukrainian Jews during his Hetmanship. Igan, has arrived.

New Yoлx, May 26th.

Seventeen, bodies have been fecovered, and it is feared many were injured.

Eighty buildings were completely wash. ed away, including the Town Hall, »

WHERE THE CHURCH GOES WRONG.

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S OPINION.

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USSOUND CREEDS.

GOOD WILL.

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OUR LUXURY TAXES. « [BY COL.

By Load Buckmaster. Former Lard Chancellor of England..

The proposed luxury taxes, which we Those who were privileged to attend the are told the Chancellor of the Exchequer luncheon give by the Daily Mail at the is to spring on us, may seem very alarm. Savoy Hotel (reference to which was madeing at first sight, but, as a matter of in the Hongkong Daily Pre on These fact, it will be quite easy to evade then, day) left with the feeling that they had Take, for instance, the tax ori diamonds, taken part in a notable event. Eight The scene is. say, tirosvenor-square t→→ practient workmen representing every branch of the engineering industry had returned from their visit to the United States, and were present, willing to give to all the bencht of their experience.

What, they said was of the utmost in- terest, and I should like to give the effect of its impression upon my mind.

In the first place it is essential to re- member hat these eight delegates wer rach and all of them members of some of the most important trade unions in the country. They had been selected for their mission by a man absolutely inde pendent of the newspaper. They were under no influence, they wers suljevi, to no central, and they awed no duty to anyone except the plain duty of selling the truth, They had been brought for the first time into sudden and close con tact with the vast industries of the United States, and it might have been expected that the result wild er her a shock similar to that of fouching a live electric wire, but none the less, the first thing on which all of them laid the greatest emphasis was their absolute con- fidence in British industry. at conscions pride in the great work that it has done, and a firm faith in its possibilities for the future,

it was also plain that great as they thought these possibilities might be, they realised that they were conditional, and that the first and the most essential con- dition of all was to promote gand feeling throughout all branches of trade and to establish universally a sense of unity and good will.

It is a question which I put without presuming to ansteer, but are there but

ecclesiastical conventions which we have been ready to creum CO-OPERATION AND FELLOWSHIP. municate, to torture, and to burg A line thing." as one of the delegates which are not among divine rasentinis | said, “in America was the spirit of at all, but are mere human interpretivo-operation and frilowship, Everybody tions, exaggerations and, couventinus in the dustry, from the highest official Sir Oliver Lodge, speaking at Brighton to the man sweeping the floor, was in connection with the centenary of Holy animated by a real spirit of fellowship." to the Church to concentrate on the Kion of chemistry or in the business of Trinity Church, made a strong appeal Like all combinations, whether in the re- on the life, real union can only be accomplished truths that unite us, and not

by the action of all elements concerned.. details which make for separation."

Misunderstanding, distrust, and dispute The Bishop of London, the Bishop of

have in many cases driven the parties Durham, and Bishop Russell Wakefield.

here apart, a.d both sides must make formerly of Birmingham, the Mayor and

an effort if they are to be united. Corporation of Brighton, and forty elergymer, representing. Anglo-Catholi cismi and Evangelicism marched in pro- cession through the streets in connection

with the celebrations.

At the Inncheon which followed the Countess of Chichester received gifts for the Roberston Memorial Hall Fund which has been inaugurated in memory of the Rev. F. W. Robertson, who made the church famous...

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CONVENTION AND REALITY. - Sir Oliver, speaking at the luncheon, took the introduction of Summer Time 2 an illustration of his statement that it is reality, and not convention, that is

permanent.

There are those who object," he said. those who say, we are playing hanky- panky with the sun, and who speak of 'tiod's time.'

When the priests wanted to give copy fart to their good but rather super stitious patron King Hezekiah, and made their early attempts at faith healing aa A supplement to a fig poultice, they found they could joggle the pointer on the dial of Ahaz ten degrees either way, giving

the option.

No one who has ever been in the United States can have failed to realise that this point, upon which soch emphasis was rightly placed, lies at the centre of their commercial success.

My ders. I was going to buy a nice necklace di diangoods today, but I dreid.

e not to do so.

What anaisatie. Why?" They've gone and put a tax on them. so I've brought you these uie: flowers instead."

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EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

[THOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

THE BOXER INDEMNITY.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO BE ESTABLISHED.

TIENTSIN, May 26th. The Boser, Commission has issued a coniuique stating that Sir Austen Chamberlain has authorised Lord Wil How sweet of you. They'll do justlingdon to usnounce his consent to the as well. I do so love putting it across the Revenne like that. Ring for some

winter.

Oh, and by the way, I don't think 1 shali able to get you those sables after all. They've pột a tax on furs,

ton.

"Oh, dear. What do you suggest then

Weed a lot of new linoleamTI, There's no tax on that."

Happy thought. But it must be the best."

Yes, my fare. I'll see to that." That would larn the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

In any case, why should he stop at furs, diamonds, and the more expensive matur-cars! We could, for instance, have a tax on bigamist. It might not bring it much, but that little would have a highly moral flavour. What is more, it would give the officials a chance to butt a little more into our domestic affairs, which, as everybody knows, is the object of all good government.

The Chanelor would announce the tax in the customary way!

And I shall leave no stone unturned”. to see that every bigamist, of whatever shade of political opinion.

An Hon. Memler Bigamists do not live under stones. They live in service Hats,

The Chancellors I say I shall lenvo no stone unturned, and no avenue un- explored.

principle that a Board of Trustees to be established in China, to whom the con trul and, administration Fund will bo entrusted. The Advisory Committee will thereupnu he dissolved.

The Board will have complete power to apply the Fund to educational or other purposes, and make investments for the perpetuation of the Fund, and will annually rert receipts and expenditure.

to the British and Chinese Göveraments,

Sir Austen Chamberlain, while desir- Coas further demonstrating British

goodwill. emphasises that the change, makes an amendment to the Indemnity. Act and the approval of Parliament necessary, which he will do his utmost to

RECUTE.

AFRODROME BLAZE,

FIFTEEN MACHINES DESTROYED AT MUKDEN.

MURDEN, May 25th.

A five occurred at the aerodrome here on Saturday. Fifteen aeroplanes were

The Hon. Member: Not eved Shafts- bury-avenue?

The Chancellor: No, sir. That least destroyed. of all.

As so to the taxgatherer: The Taxgatherer: Are you nlist?

a biga

Mr. J. Smith: Yes, The Taxgatherer: How many wiver bave you

Mr. J. Smith: One.

The Taxgatherer: Then how can you be a bigamist

M. J. Smith:. Because I thought I'd Lonly married one, but she's turned out to be a handful. How much will that be under Schedule 2.1

The Taxgatherer: You won't have to The Government allows pay anything.

up to one,wifs,

The "next proceeds from the rat. It is MP. J. Smith And don't you call oar the willingness and eagerness of every-wile a luxury? body to increase output. Without the The Taxgatherera Certainly not. common fellowship and common purpose Mr. J. Smith; Well, then, you don't of all, this result is impossible. The work- jolly well know what you're talking man here thinks that his increased out about, and I shall vote Labour next put goes merely to swell the profits of time. the employer and it may be, also to preve That might rattle the Government a ent some other workman from doing the little too. The curious thing is that in work, and that, in any event, increased their anxiety to tax us into living the er diminished output is determined upon simple life they have overlooked the most solely in the interests of the capital em obvious and most expensive luxury of ployed in the industry.

all. They have forgotten the politicians.

A politician may or may not be po nular: It depends so much on his wite But what is quite certain is that a tax on him would be wildly popular. Ang Government, ng matter what else it had done would march to victory on a pro gramme limited to 1 heavy tax on poli- ticians.

HIGHER STATUS OF LABOUR. Two further points of immense conse quence seen to have met these delegates 4t very turn. The one, that the bigher Noon and midnight are realities, but

the wages any industry paid the better it that noon should be signalled by twelve

was for industry everywhere; thas a high strokes is a convention. It may just as standard of life and a high standard of well be signalled by one. Clocks are at

work went hand in hand, and that every- The tax could be so beautifully grad- our disposal Sundials can be easily ad-where all through the factories every uated. For an ordinary M.P., £400 per justed.

For an Under-Secretary, £1,500 workman was working with the hope of annum. advancement and the belief that this per acnum For an ordinary Cabinet advancement depended solely on his own Minister, £5,000 per annum. And for a efforts. The readiness of employers to Chancellor of the Exchequer, half a serap old machinery and to embark on million. In fact, for some Chancellors of every form of adventurous expense that the Exchequer one could not possibly put could give the greatest effect to human their taxable value too high.

1: would give the country a novel and labour seems to have been present every abounding confidence in its legislators if where, together with the absence of the

it knew that our most lavish luxurica stereotyped conditions which train a man MISTAKES OF SCIENCE.

were thus taxed at the very source, and for one branch of work and then place

that before a man could spend our money "We are learning in science, especial restrictions to prevent him adopting any

he would have to deposit a lat of his ly of late years, to discriminate closely thing else.

It is to be hoped that the voices of these own. between what we have put into the uni

no doubt br The objection would verse by our mental interpretations and men and their experience will be heard what is really there to draw a disting and felt throughout this country. No raised-principally by politicians' wives tion between the relative and the ab one who has the most trifling knowledge that just as furs and diamonds will tend of American industry can fail to realise to disappear from circulation so would slutr, the real and the conventional.

the truth of what they say. The con- politicians. But that, to all right-think- "Sir Oliver then used the sentence quodition of labour over there is easier than ing people, is exactly where the incidence here--easier not merely by reason of of such a tax would most beneficially be shorter hours or of lessened labour but felt-Evening Standard. by reason of the environment in" which it is placed and the high standard of wages that it commanda. I am not sure

It needs no vision to realise that the that the environment is not as important, conditions here and the conditions there' as the wage.

are wide apart. In the last resort there 1 spoke to t workman myael! ́ in

is opportunity on the land, both in the America during last summer. He had United States and in Canada, for any come from England, was married, and

man of vigour and energy: and that fact, was bringing his children up out there together with the multiplicity of their He still retained a deep afection fer his Industries and the adaptability of native country, and he said it was not inbour, prevents workmen from being the question of higher wages that made fard with the abyss of unemployment hin remain away. When I asked what which over here has too often stared them it was, he said he was a tree man over in the face. It is their dread of this catus- trophe to which are due all the influences there and not here.

that limit output. If a man lays 1,000 bricks a day, he is, according to this view, doing the work of two men, each

ed above, and well on:-

At present the Church, even the Anglican Church is far too fond of get- ting people into a hole and making them awear things all this steadfastly be liere and phrases like that, especially when they are infants or when they are sick.

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Venture to think also that it puts obstacles in the way of those who other wise desire to be ordained to the minis try, and that until a radical search is, made into what in perinanently and divinely true as contrasted with what is humanly convenient and at present ac cepted, the supply of candidates will be mere und more meagre.. It should not he the function of the Church to maqu facture heresy,"

DARING DOCTOR'S CANCER EXPERIMENT.

WHAT IT PROVED.

It did not take long to explain to him that if freedom had any relation to liberty be was immeasurably more free over here; but that was not the freedom of whom could lay 500, and this fact that he meant. He meant what one of obscures the greater fact that the larger the delegates said, "that there were no the output the more work there is to do lines of demarkation between one class The real lesson lies in this: that it is and another and that labour was, re- increased output and not lessened wager cognised as being dignified and import on which the prosperity of any industry ant whether it was performed with the depends, and that, subject to all condi- head or with the hands..

tions being preserved that secure a man. physical effort and excessive fatigue, the more a man can possibly put out during his hours of labour the better

from

Dr. Kurtzahn, of Koenigsberg, an

SECRET OF HIGH WAGES. nounced at the German Sargies! Society's Congress at Berlin that, as the result of He also meant something more. It was vaccinating himself with a particle of the freedom to use his labour as he wish-it is for him and for all others similarly cancer tumor, he had proved that cancered, to employ it under any conditiona. circumstanced,,:

not contagious. The surrounding and to use it so as to produce the was. tissues had not been affected, and the maximum result, which was, what be marks of the vaccination soon disap meant by liberty. peared

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(Continued an noci Ģelumi),

These delegates have brought back with them. & new atmosphere which is like, a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room, and it cannot be too widely diffused.

KARAKHAN, NOT WANTED.

MARSHAL CHANG TSO LIN'S PROTEST TO RUSSIA.

PEEING, May 5th. Marshal Chang Tao Lin sent the Com- nissioner of Foreign Affairs yesterday to protest to M. Krakovetsky against the presence of M. Karakhan in China.

M. Krakovetsky has promised to tele- the graph to Peking and Moscow on subject.

THE DANISH FLIGHT.

PERING, May 25th. The Danish sirmen have arrived bere.

PROPERTY SALE.

At the China Auction Rooms, yesterday afternoon Mr. E. V. M. E. de Souan said, by order of the mortgagee, a leasehold property registered as the remaining pör- tion of Section D of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 546, together with No. 16, Granville Road.

The annual Crown rent of this property is $12.75, and the area about 2,690 square feet.

The upset price was 815,000, with his of $100 acceptable. There were two bids

only of this amount, and the property was knocked down to Mr. Leung Kai Seung,

of Macao. for $15.200.

TEMPLE 4,000 YEARS OLD.

NEW FINDS NEAR BABYLON.

The British Museum authorities recently issued another report" of the work of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, which is exploring Ur of the Chaldees (the birthplace of Abraham), 140 miles south-east, of Babylon.

The following are extracts from the report:

We found a very fine female head. carved in black diorite (granite-like rock), an admirable example of Third Dynasty sculpture dating from about 2300 B.C.

We found not only a double boundary wall dating from the Kassite age of about 1400 B.C., but below this the remains of the chamber wall built originally by Ur- Engur round the terrace on which stood his ziggurat (the huge two-storey stage- tower of the Moon God set up by King. Ur-Engur about 2,300 years before Christ); and under this again walls ot pudding-shaped mud bricks which must go back to the fourth millennium before Christ; there could be no doubt that these, too, were the enclosing walls of a ziggurat platform, and we can conclude from this that underneath the millions. of bricks piled up by Ur Engura workmen there lie buried the remains of another ziggurat older by many centuries.

We were able to recover nearly all of a very

interesting plan, a temple with two official residences attached to it, and un-

der one ruined corner had the good luck to find undisturbed the foundation-box of burnt brick containing the copper statuette of the king bearing on his head the basket of mud mortar for the laying of the first brick of the building."