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COAL SITUATION.

"BRITISH HOUSEHOLDERS NOW

ON RATIONS.

PRINTERS REACH AGREEMENT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 27th.

The seriousness of the coal situation is emphasised by the announcement by the Secretary of Mints that householders will only be allowed half one hundredweight of coal por week from to-morrow. They must fateh it themselves and must base a written permit from the local authoris ties. This is one quarter of the amount allowed to the smallest houses, in war time and is one of the many restrictions impose owing to dwindling supplies. Business premises are cut down to hal! supplies, and no illuminated signs are

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 29TH, 1926

ABD EL KRIM'S SURRENDER. FRANCE BREATHES SIGH OF RELIEF.

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PARIA, May 27th. France's "sigh of relief at the

great surrender of "Abd el Krim rustles the pages of the newspapers, which joyfally welcome the end of the Riff venture, of which they emphasis there must be no repetition. The Riff must henceforth be property' guverned. in which connection

TORTURED BY BANDITS.

CAPTIVE AMERICANS IN MEXICO.

MICO CITY, May 27th."

That he is ill as the result of torture. inflicted by bandits who hung him up by the thumbs is announced in a letter to the American Consul at Torreon from Laredo, Texas, by a mineowner named Braden, who, with, two other, Ambricans, Gal lagber, an engineer, and Shanklin, a planter, are held prisoner by Mexican La continuance of Franes Spanish co-ope-bandits in Durango State. Braden adds

ration" is underlined in order to exploit he is held for ransom for 6,000 pesos. the wealth of Morocco. It is suggested that Abd el Krim will not be permitted to reside in Moshem territory and may be compelled to upelogis to the Sultan of Morocco.c

Le Matin describes Krim's surrentler as the dissipation of German and Bolshe vist dreams of France's ruin in Merocco

MINE MISHAP.

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TRAPPED MINERS RESCUED FROM PIT.

New York. May 27th. A message from Scrantons Peun vania, says that about eighty miners a

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EASTERN

NEWS.

CABLE

PAUL PRY OF THE POST OFFICE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ANTI-AMERICAN OUTRAGES. . .

COUNSELLOR MAYER TO CONSULT SOUTH CHINA CONSULS.

"PERING, May 25th.

The American Legation states that Counsellor Mayer has gone to Canton, on instructions from the Secretary of State, to consult with American consuls

SECRET CHAMBER" OF THE G.P.O. Among the very many financial Bills which have recently been before the French Chamber, one, designed to pre vent the export of capital, contained a remarkable clause. It proposed to give the authorities power to open any letters they thought fit.

We in present-day Britain are very jealous of the inviolability of out cor- respondence, no letters can be opened in transit without a special warrant from the Home Secretary for each case, and China with regard to the situa-that power is very fortunately, bat

rately exercised, torage that region, where a number of recent traged against Americans and their interests, have cansed increasing

allowed. Street lighting has been reduced and adds, "that for all her 1,700,000 believed to be trapped behind a Bre which concern to the American Government."

to a "safety minimüma.“

A Whitehall communiqué under the "Emergency Powers Act in this connection adds that heavy penalties are provided for non-compliance with the above orders,

PRINTERS REACH AGREEMENT,

LONDON, May 7th. The Federation of Master Printers and the Newspaper Society-to-day agreed to a national rettlement with the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation providing for a continuance of the agreements exist ing prior to May 1st. It contains' pravi gions for the prevention of lightning strikes and stipulates there will be no interference with the contents of news: papers or periodicals published by the members of the employers' organisations..

UNITY AMONG NATIONS. TIMES" AND INTERNATIONAL

COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE

LONDON. May 25th. Commenting on the International Par liamentary Commercial Conference, the Times says every year the "proceedings of the Cchference increase in practical utility, and this year should mark a distinct advance in the promotion of their unity among nations, which is ultimate aix.

Delegates may compete with each other in their respective spheres, but since trade is the cement of nations, they all share

dead, France has shewn once again that she can defend herself. Abd el Krim can rely on our clemency but the pardon does not signify forgetfulness, and we shall Temember his dealings with Bolshevists and Pan-Germans.""

.. FRANCO-SPANISE CONFERENCE.

WAR IN NORTH.

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MOST WONDERFUL STATUE IN THE WORLD.

{BY CAPT. CHARLES T. FOXCROFT, M.P.]. In the teeming centre of modern Rome stand the grey cloisters of an old-world monastery surrounding a peaceful gar- den, where fountains-plash and roses riot, among dark sentinel cypresses, the" whole year through."

This monastery is now Rome's national museum. Its, cloisters contain antiqua Grecian statuary from Athens, Asia Minor, and North, Africa and many ancient copies of vanished masterpieces by Fheidias and Scopas, wrought by Greck cuptives for rich Roman masters.

Wandering round these cloisters ana autuam afternoon, I encountered fou

"schoolmarmas," exuberant American INTERCEPTION OF LETTERS.

poking fun at the statues as they passed. Roughly speaking, State monopoly of Their raucous, laughter and vacuous jesta the posts was first insisted upon duringly discerning American educational au- made me wonder why Fate (or the usual- thorities) had sent them here.

has broken out in the Aldunt "Look out coal mine. Five miners haged to fight their way through the smoke and EUOMINCHUN IN THE STRONGEST constituted English Post Office was bedenly transformed! All four were stand- reach the surface suffering from the effects of smoke inhaled.

LATER.

All the imprisoned miners reached ar air chamber where they waited until rescued.

AMUNDSEN'S FLIGHT.

PARIS. May 8th. The French and Spanish Governments will negotiate on the fate of Abd el Krin Moreover, the papers understand that a Franco-Spanish conference will be held EXPLORERS TO WRITE BOOK ON probably at Algeciras, in order to deal with several questions concerning the Riffe in the future, especially the restora. tion of a steady peace, and the exact fixing of frontiers.

SIAM'S CROWN PRINCE.

SENT TO HOSPITAL AT GUERNSEY.

LONDON, May 25th. The Crown Prince of Siam, who is a Naval cadet on a training ship cruising around the Channel Islands has been sent to Hospital at Guernsey suffering from incasles.

FRENCH POLITICS.

M. BRIAND'S POSITION,

STRENGTHENED.

PARIS, May 27th.

On what was tantamount to a voto of confidence, the Chamber by 320 votes to 200, agreed to the Government's de- mand for an adjournment of interpella- tions on the financial situation. doubtedly, the recovery, of the franc followed the collapse of Abd el Krim, and has greatly strengthened M. Briand's

a common interest. There are misunder- standings and prejudices which may never be cleared away. For complete unanimity there is a great deal of useful work to be done, and the efforts of the conference to establish a commercial federation of nations are a most valuable contribution position.. to the happiness and peace of the worki. NOT ALLOWED TO LAND. MR. T. P. O'CONNOR AND AMERICAN JOURNALIST.

LONDON, May 28th. Referring to the announcement that Charles Edward Russell, American jour- nalist, was prohibited from landing at Plymouth from the liner President Roosevelt, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., says this must have been an error on the part of a subordinate official.

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Russell is a brilliant journalist, a powerful speaker add was strongly pro- ally during the War. He is an avowed Socialist, but was never regarded as a friend of violent methods. He was ac- companied by Mr. Eli Haroot on Government minion to Russia.

TRAVELLING RECORD. AMERICAN TO GET ROUND WORLD IN 31 DAYS.

Moscow, May 28th. The American, John Golditcom, nero- nautical expert, who is attempting to reduce the round-the-world travelling record to 31 daya, arrived in Plymouth from New York aboard the Mauretania on May 26th.

He How to Croydon, and thence aero- planed to Berlin sad Moscow, arriving at the latter on the 27th. He departed im-" mediately for Harbin by train

SUBMARINE'S TRIP, DUTCH UNDERSEA CRAFT TO TOUR EAST INDIEB.

AMSTERDAM, May 27th."

The Dutch submarine F13, has left on

a six months cruise to the Dutch East Indice. This is believed to be the longest trip ever undertaken by an unescorted submarine, and it is expected to arrive at Sourabaya on December 12th. It will zo vid Palmas, Curacao, the Panama Canal, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, Tap and Manila and take oneangraphical observations en route.

COLONIAL POLICY.

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EXPERIENCES.

NEW YORK, May 27th It is reported from Nome, Alaska, that Amundsen and Nobile have declined, in- vitations to lecture in the United States and that they will proceed across America from Seattle to Oslo where they will write

a book of their experiences.

BOBBING THE HAIR.

GIRLS BURIED TO THE NECK DURING OPERATION.

RED-HOT EMBERS USED. Bobbing and shingling of women's hair is a new fashion at Home, but it has long been a social and religious gustora in some primitive tribes.

This Ceremony of the Hair-Coating was described by Mr. F. A. Mitchell Hedges, the explorer, in a talk on his recent jour", neys with Lady Richmond Brown, through America, broadcast from 2LO.

the Commonwealth, which, relying large ly upou force for its existence, lived in daily fear of counterplots. So, when the Act bringing into being the first properly

fore, Parliament, it was frankly admitted PERING. May 9th. that the object was to make easier the General Yen Haj Shan, telegraphing to interception of any Royalist correspond Marshals Wa Pei Fu and Chang Tso Linence."

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POSITION.

on the 27th ing., says that after defeat- With the Restoration came the protec ing the Kuominchun attacks, the Shansi-tive measure requiring special warrants," ites followed up the enemy for ten ti which was confirmed in the Act of 1910, Kuominchun are holding the whereby the whole postal service was re strongest position and are considerably organized. But the authorities did not reinforded.

bother much about formalities in those days; anything suspect, they opened.

In the middle of the eighteenth century there was a secret chamber," really a

Then I entered one of the little monas tic cella in which the museum's supreme treasures are housed, and in a flash I understood why Fate bad sent these schoolmarms · there! They seemed sud-

ing. their backs to the wall, mute and motionless, their eyes, their very souls, riveted upon something in the centre of the cell.

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It was a statue of a girl. Head and arms were gone, yet by some magic of the artist's hand there she stood. ber alive! Yes, as alive as when she stood perfect hody poised upon her lovely limbs.

before the Attic sculptor in her virginal loveliness 2,000 years ago.

The artist is unknown. All we are sure of is that the statue is of the best Creek period and was unearthed by Itálian soldiers in a trench near Cyrene during their war with the Turks in North Africa Who wrought her matters little

he was certainly a master of his craft.: Other masterpieces magnificently coun- Water-terfeit life; this alone of all statues that

I have ever seen is actually alive.

A new battle lasted for two days and nights, during which fresh Kuominchun frcops continued to arrive from Kalgan.

He fears, therefore, that the Shansi-private office, in the old G.P.O., fully ites will be unable to subdue the enemy equipped with prying devices. without Allied assistance, and has order seals-there were no envelopi then-were Where wax had been steamed loose. ed them to prepare strong defences at Kushan. He requests "Chang Tso Lin to used, an impression of the seal was taken order Fengtien forces to attack the Kuc-in bread-paste; then the letter was held miuchun from the East as soon as posin front of a blazing fire until the wax

sible.

ATTEMPT ON FENG'S LIFE.

CHRISTIAN" GENERAL DENIES THE REPORT. ··

PERIKO, May 28th. Tass, the Soviet offciat agency, pub lishes a telegram from Moscow to the

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became soft enough to allow a thin steel blade to pass under it. The document was then re-sealed with the bread-stamp. WAFER-SEALS AS BAITS. There way 3 tremendous outery throughout this country when, in 1844, it bezime kapwa that the Post Office had been opening the correspondence of Mazzini the Italian patriot, and com-

Rodin, the great French sculptor, is reported to have stood speechless before her for half an hour, to have turned to go with the one word "Marvellous! " and then to have returned to gaze.

As I felt I said to the old guardian, I have never seen anything like this before. This is no statue. She lives! She breathes. He was touching the marble almost as a lover, and he smiled ou me like a man who has made a friend for life.

Then there happened perhaps the most wonderful thing of all. When in my abysmal ignorance I offered him a rather princely tip he gently but very firmly refused it, saying, in his soft Italian You too love her, signor; that tongue,

little known regions in the north of South affect that the report circulated in the unienting the contents to the Austrian is enough for me."-Daily Mail,

The ceremony takes place at the tran. Un.sitional stage from girlhood to woman hood, a closely cropped head signifying that the girl has reached marriageable age

PABIS, May 27th. The Chamber of Deputies by 325 votes to 194 has postponed an interpellation by M. Outrey, the Democratic Left Deputy for Cochin China, on the Gor. ernment's colonial policy" in Cochin

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REUTRE'S AMERICAN SZEVICE.]

"WHITE STAR" LINE. BRITISH INTERÈSTS OFFER OF £7,500,000.

NEW YORK, May 27th. The International Mercantile Marine

Company will hold a meeting on June 17th to confirm the proposed sale of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, otherwise known as the White Star Line, to British interests headed by Furness, Whithy & Company for about £7,500,000. It is understood that in connection with the sale the vendors agree to limit com- petition in the present White Star trade routea.

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SWEDEN'S CROWN PRINCE. WARMLY WELCOMED IN AMERICA.

New Your, May 27th.

On a day appointed by the witch- doctors, the chief, his headmen, and the entire population arrive.

BURIED OVER SIX HOURS.

Press that an attempt was made on the life of General Feng Yu Hsiang, while visiting a factory at Moscow, is absolute- ly untrue,

No incident of the kind occurred there. General Feng Yu Hsiang, it is stated, ex

Ambassador. Sir James Graham WAS Home Secretary at the time, and he earn. ed an immense amount of popular die like for his share of the business. Punch took a hand in baiting him by issuing A series of quaint wafer-seals for the benefit of Post Office Paul Erys. Each wafer bore a design and an inscription. weath a clenched fist" was the legend, Here are a couple of examples: Under- Should this meet your eye" & "eract dile, You're welcome to the inside," and so on.

NEW AMERICAN BRIDGE LAWS.

Reference was made in the Daily Press recently to the new American bridge law! drawn up by the Whist Club of New York.

Daily Mail, Mr. A. E.

Commenting upon the new rules in tho Manning Foster says: "

A priestess has the immediate superpressed indignation at the circulation of vision of the young girl, who is placed in a large hole dag in a corner of the such a baseless report and asked that dwelling

The hole is then filled in to it be emphatically denied. the girl's shoulders..

The report in question stated that: A Committee of both Houses examined Chinese messages received in Shanghai,the question, and it was reluctantly ad- After a chart by the whole assemblage,tute that two Chinese attempted to raitted that the privilege could not safely the priestess, sprinkles the girl with water,

assassinate Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang be abolished. But we may now reat then, placing a half calabash over her whilst he was inspecting an arsenal in assured that the power is exercised only

in matters of serious impart to the State.concise and clear, and, although some bead, burns off a small piece of hair with Moscow Marshal Feng was not injured,

-TL's Weekly. a red-hot ember, which is afterwards and his assailants were arrested. buried in the earth.

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THE NORTHERN LEADERS.

Again a chant breaks,out, and another piece of hair is burnt off. The burying of the ember each time, and the throwing MARSHAL WU LEAVES HANKOW

of cold water, are intended to symbolise the trials and troubles the girl will have to encounter; and the chanting and sing- ing the pleasures that lie before her.

"I witnessed one of these ceremonies," "The girl was buried said Mr. Hedges. for over six hours, and when she was released from her cramped position she was unable to stand, and had to be car- ried to a hammock.".

In some little-known tribes a number of marriageable girls stand in a row, then dart off into the jungle. The youths give chase a few minutes later, and by tribal law each girl is the wife of her captor.

WHERE WOMAN, PROPOSES. In one utterly degenerate tribe it was the girl who chose the youth. He was simply seized, carried to her home, and, arten certain rites "had been performed, they were man and wife. Thenceforth for the rest of his life he had no will of his own and did nothing until frst or- dered by the woman.

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The Crown Prince and Princess of

Many tribes believe that the spirit of Sweden arrived, amid the screaming those who die makes its way at night to whistles of vessels in the Harbour, and a river, where a dugout is waiting for it, were met by the Swedish Minister and a in which another spirit is seated. It is number of distinguished Americans. They were escorted up. Broadway by 600 picked American troops to the City Hall, where the Mayor formally welcomed them.

Later they departed for Washington in a special train, where they will stay at the Swedish Legation.

EARL CARROLL. THEATRICAL PRODUCER FOUND GUILTY OF PERJURY,

NEw Yoza, May 27th,

conveyed, to a place where the river branches out into a number of streams, and there a Great Spirit stands, and in dicates which waterway it. must take. Finally, the spirit arrives at a celestial village, its Valhalla, where for ever after wards it does nothing but eat and drink in a state of perfect happiness

SOVIET'S £5 TAX, ON. SHOES.

According to Pigottis Bulletin, a shipa

FOR PEKING.

HANKOW, May 27th.

Wa Pei Fu left for Peking by a special trainat nine o'clock or Wednesday morning.

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Commenting on. the departure, the vernacular papers state that the forth- coming meeting with Chang will dispel many rumours of differences between them and enable them to arrive at a last ing understanding for the country's

peace

Local students are most active in otherwise en- collecting funds and couraging the B. C. C. strike. The Com P20F is optimistic and hope for a settle- ment in two of three days.

At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. the case in which Mrs. W. B. Hind, sued her husband, the local solicitor, for maintenance was adjourned sine die. J.-H. B. Nihill, the Magistrate, said that a settlement had been arranged out of Court

At the Central Magistracy yesterday, Chinese was fined $100, with the alter-

EX-MINISTER AND LOVELY SPY. HER WILES TO TRAP HIM. CONFESSION AND WARNING TO M.P.'s

Love letters written to the beautiful dancer and spy Mata Hari, who was shot by a firing party during the war, have now been acknowledged by M. Massimay, the French ex-Minister of War, to have been written by him.

They had formerly been attributed to M. Molvy, the amnestied ex-Minister of the Interior, by his enemics

cians.

The number of laws is reduced to 54, es against 62 in the former American code. (Our laws number 100.) The irritating explanatory footnotes which disfigured the American code of 1926 have been abolished. The new laws are admirably

of the alterations may not appeal to English players, there can be nothing but admiration for the manner in which the code has been framed. !

In all the previous codes the lows of whist were taken as the structure, with variations Erat for bridge and then for auction bridge. Now for the first time Buction bridge has been treated as it should be as an entirely new game. The old "tinomaly that the ace counted lowest in cutting for seats or partners and highest in play has been abolished. Un- der the new code the ace counts highest in cutting (the suits ranking as in play)." and the drawer of the highest card be comes dealer. Thus cards and suits rank in the same order in drawing, bidding, and play.

The chief alterations concern the revoke Mine. Séverine, the well-known writer, penalty. The new revoke penalty for recently appealed to M. Messimy, in either side is twy tricks for the first re justice to M. Malvy, to say, whether it voke, one trick for each subsequent re- was correct that he had written to the yoke. These tricks are taken at the end fascinating dancer who cultivated the of the hand from the tricks of the re aquaintance of statesmen and politi-voking side and added to the tricks on the other side. They count exactly as if M. Messimy has replied to me.won in play, and may assist the declarer Séverine in a letter from which the to make his contract or go game, or may Journal gives the following extract:

atsist the adversaries to defeat the con tract, in which case they carry full bonus values. If they make the total 12 or 13 tricks for either side they carry the pro per alam bonuc

It would be contrary to my life-long principles to decline to answer the pres- sing appeal which you make to me in the name of equity,

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TEMPTING AND MYSTERIOUS.

"For many monthe-this, was 14 years ago Mata Hari used every means which she knew how to employ in incom

mate terms with me. I found. her. parable" fashion in order to be on inti filled with mystery, tempting, and dis- quieting..

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After surrendering these tricks the revoking side may store for its remaining tricks at it would if it had not révoked, If the revoking side has not enough

dering all it has pays the penalty; if it tricks to pay the penalty in full, surren kas no tricks there is no penalty.

The clauses in italica mark a further. Exactly in what terms my letters departure from English practice. Under were cauched I do not remember to this our laws if the declarer revokes he can- day, because, although she carefully prenot go game or score below the line at served them, I never took the trouble to all. Now, in America declarer may go keep copies of letters of that kind. Cer tainly they were written with gallantry, he has suficient tricks to give him game game, even if he has revoked, provided. because I recall that when I wrote them

tentive to the counsels of prudence.

"Earl Carroll, the well-known theatricalping publication issued in New York, native of two months' imprisonment for I reproached myself for being too inatafter deducting the two tricks be sur

producer, has been found guilty of perjury the Russian Soviet, Government has in-

for swearing before a grand jury that noereased the duties on certain articles stealing pinewood at Shaukiwan Four intoxicants were served at one of his five and ten-fold. A pair of women's parties, at which chorus girls, it is shoes is now taxed £5 instead of £1, alleged, in a bath tub of champagne cosmetica £3 128 instead of 76; and fele figured prominently.

hats £2 each instead of ta.

women, similarly charged, were fined 850 each, with the alternative of four weeks' imprisonment.

1 Lope the adventure will serve as a lesson to those members of Parliament who are hudding Cabinet Ministers and are pursued by pretty women whote wiles they only vaguely suspect."

renders for the revoke

Ahother new law is that if any player:

except dealer touch a card during the deal, thereby causing it to be faced, the adversaries miny score 50 points above

the line.