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TARIFF CONFERENCE.

JAPANESE PRESS VIEWS ON

BREAKDOWN.

"GREAT. DEFEAT OF MINISTRY'S FOREIGN POLICY."

(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY."

Tókró, July 5th. This morning's newspapers devote

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much space in comprating on journment of the Peking Tariff Confer

failure. cnce, which is interpreted as a

Three causes are mainly blamed; firstly the Chinese chaos; secondly, the Rowers attempting to uphold their own claims too stubbornly; and," thirdly, Japan' attempt to exceed the scope originally contemplated, instead of co-operating with the other delegations for the adop tion of the Washington Treaty decision

as regards "sur-taxes.

Prominence is given to the alleged statements by the Seiyakni Opposition Party leaders that the resultant situation must be regarded as the "great defent of the present Ministry's foreign policy

FIRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

-MINERS HOURS.

LONGER DAY WITH INCREASED WAGER.

FRENCH SITUATION,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY JULY 81. 1926

FINANCE EXPERTS PREDICT A GRAVE CRISIS.

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FINANCIAL PROGRAMME.

[THROUGH RIVER'S AGENCY.]

PARIS, July 4th. There is no mention of a capital levy or the compulsory mobilisation of securi ties in the report of the official committen of experts appointed to formulate a fic

Lancial prograMMA...

The report recommends Parliament temporarily to waive certain prerogatives regarding expenditure and that M. Cail laux be given a greater degree of contral over financial matters. It arges the retrenchment of expenditure, the revision of the sugar and drink and businesses turnover taxes, the immediate conclusion of Debt Funding Agreements with Bri- tain and America, after which long term loans should be negotiated, and the frane ultimately stabilised at figure between the cost of living index and the prevail: ing" market rate of the franc

GRAVE CR1318-INEVITABLE”

LATER

NO RELIGION,

MEXICAN PRESIDENT'S DECREE,

ALL" EDUCATION TO BE SECULAR

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(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVIÇL]

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MEXICO CITY, July 5th. President Calles has published a decree effective from July 31st prohibiting organised religion in Mexico. The 33 articles' stipulate, - inter alia, that all ministers of religion must be of Mexican birth; all school education must be secular; establishments of monks and nuns are prohibited; all the churches be come the national, propertys religions bodies are forbidden to acquire or possess property or capita).

Criticism of this decree by any publica- tion is not allowed; and penalties for violating the decree range from azes of 500 to several thousands pesos, with or without imprisonment ranging 6fteen days to six years.

from.

INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE. ».

HONOURED BY ROYALTY.

LONDON, June 11th."

GLIMPSES THROUGH THE RAIN.

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SMELL LIKE "A HAUNTING REFRAIN."

THE MALODOROUS DURIAN.

NEWS ITEMS.

FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

At the annual meeting of the Institute of Bankers, Sir John Ferguson was re- elected president of the Institute for the coming year

The Daily Courier, of Liverpool, on resumption of publication after the strike, was converted into a picture papar.

The King, by Warrant, has reappoint Wherever you go, thore, says a writer

the Straits Echo, is the smell ofed Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish to durian. It is like a haunting refrain be Chairman of the Development Com

missioners. Whose melody is within oneself, only the durian tune harpa on one note of us pleasantness. The rain comes down and sprinkles into the ricksha, but in the matter of determination of purpose, the rain has little power over, this fruit. Its husks gather about the streets, and two little, dusky adventurers Jin on their stomachs waving their silver encircled feet in cestasy as they float two empty durian barges in a drain. Greek meets Greek here, for if there is no drain you

Messrs. Thomas De La Ruc & Co, have. wrickling nostrila is one of these fruit, been awarded the contract for the print- can depend upon it that the cause of your which capacious Asiatic mouths take ining of the new issue of currency notes is they would a peach. Its sight for for the Turkish Government.

The Bulgarian Government has asked the League of Nations to assist in the formulation of a scheme for the settle- ment of Bulgarian refugees."

Governor and Committee of the The Governor

Hudson's Bay Company announce that the Hon A J. P. Howard has been elect- ed a member of the Committee.

the tender-stomached to see rows of dark. The Anchor liner California, on arrival at Londonderry, reported that during the forms squatting on their haunches feast- ing Gargantuanwise. Someone has said run from New York to Boston the vessel that if you can get used to the smell, the struck an iceberg, but no damage was delicious things you love-ice-cream and so on. But life seems hard enough to bear without forcing yourself into new delights."

durian is like a mixture of all the done.

Mr. C: A..Phillimore, of Messrs Coutta

"GRIM WRESTLE.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE ON ONLY COAL SETTLEMENT IN VIEW:

Llandudno Mr. Lloyd George, at Junction, Carnarvonshire, said that in the industrial troubles through which the country is passing he was doing his best for the country and would continue

to do so till the end.

He declared that the only settlement of the coal dispute in view was a grim settling down to a strangling wrestle that would, unless stopped, inflict in- calculable damage on the combatants and on the trade of the nation. Continuing, he said:

"The discussions about wages in the ---uihua-longnlatomtaata==Fterhale! knew 12 months ago that unless a set- tleshent were effected there would be a stoppage, although no one wanted it. The taxpayers have had to spend over £20.000,000 because the Government were not ready in July with their plans. They were no readier at the. end of April when all the money had been spent.

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The reason for the breaking off of the negotiations for, coal".peace, be con- tended, could not have been the general strike. That fact had been known for

35 hours.

It was purely because there had been

in a London newspaper office, but this & Co., has been appointed chairman of one of the weekly cutbreaks of printers the University Life Assurance Society,time it took place in the office of The in succession to the late Lord Stuart of Daily Mail, and I suppose that is what Wortley.

A young woman, suing, a woman hair. dresser for stipping of a piece of her ear when "bobbing" her nair, was awarded £5-damages, with costs, in the Dudley County Court.

made the difference. It had not been sanctioned even by the printers' union.

The trade union leaders the moment they heard it, emphatically repudiated

to the Government. it, and said so Nevertheless, the Government refused to At the Mansion House the Lord Mayor negotiate, although there were 24 hours received and welconied the temp of South African bowlers who are visiting to spare before the general strike was England to play a series of matches-timed to comitence. against British tears.

It is raining harder, and the small boys. and girls are out in the road. like happy young dicks. In an eating house, two Chinese Beau Brummels are delicately pouring tea out of a huge teapot, inter- rupting each other with an air of pre- The report of the Committee of experts

found pre-occupation. The modern Chi. Tuns to -54-foolscap pages, besides tech-For-the-first time in history the Royal nese girl slips across the dripping road Family were present at the Indian Civil on arm, bare feet. The older generation nical appendices It emphasises that the Service dinner at the Hotel Cecil, in the staggers behind on feet that are so tiny recommendations must be taken as a person of the Prince of Wales

Sir Michael O'Dwyer, presiding, said that they refuse almost to bear ber whole: The most striking passage says the "IC.S." stood for the lofty but weight. A glow of warmth comes from humble ideal of the Prince of Wales's a little moveable kitchen, whose owner is

He welcomed the that financial reconstruction is bound motto "I serve." _to_causc_a_grave economic crisis momen-growing influx of Indians with the neces busily turning over roasting peanuts, sary qualifications to the Services and the while two unchins look on wistfully. A RCGBY, July 4th.

tarily, as the stabilisation of exchange higher administration, but urged that a The ownere new wage offer on

will involve a rise in home prices, in-strong British element was essential for policeman trudges by sunk in deep the maintenance of the standards of in melancholy. In a blacksmith's forge two eight-hour day basis, will

sombre, thin figures are lit up. by a and Tuesday, have been posted in all creased production costs, will reduce ex-tegrity, impartiality and efficiency

shower of glowing sparks as they hammer lustily at a picce, of red-hot iron. The background is dark, and Slled with spadowy, sgures and strange implements reminiscent of a torture chamber. Ait will be reconsidered. doorway is "taken up by a Chinese who might have sat for the original of the laughing God. The bare upper part of

districts.

to-morrow

The first announcements, published in the Warwickshire coal fields, indicate that in some districts wages will be in- creased instead of descreused, as compar ed with pre-stoppage rates.

Whereas the owners gave an under

life.

the

His Royal Highness, proposing ports, and the bankruptcy of firms arti-

toast of the Indian Civil Service officers, ficially enriched by the fall of the frane mentioned specially the district officers will ensue. Unemployment will be in.in up-country places, where, he said, the eritable, but the sooner and more effec. 1.C.S. officer lived his fullest and truest tively the situation is faced the shorter will be the crisis. France must depend; primarily, on her own efforts to restore the financial situation. The task is not

The Prince of Wales referred to the financial dificulties the Civil Service offers and hoped the acceptance of the recommendations of the Lee Commission had done something to lessen their hard

MANY ROYAL INDIAN TOURISTS.

Alter 40 years interrupted service, the steam tram, the property of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway WORLD COMES TO LONDON. Company, running between Stony Strat- Exports of wool from Australia and ford and Wolverton has ceased running, New Zealand from July 1st, 1995, to April 50th, 1990, totalled 2,958,000 bales in increase of 877,000 bales, as compared with the corresponding period of last

year.

of

By an agreement between the Gover nor of Uganda and the Kabage of Buganda, the Uganda Taxation Natives Agreement of 1999 has been ex- tended to the end of this year, after which Birmingham banks, clearing for the week ended May 15th was £1,600,658, as compared with £2,600,209 for the corre ponding week of last year.. The total against £50,745,400.

London-is-filling up day by day with visitors from overseas who have come to England to pay their annual tribute to the Lagliab country in the glory of summertide, says the Daily Express in mail week. Only a few days ago officials in large hotels, were exclaiming that the generar strike had kept many tourists away from London. Now, it is stated that most hotels are becoming packed with visitors, who the promise of an un- ending stream of guests throughout the

Benson.

The visitors have come from every

the globe.

taking to the Prime Minister that the insurmountable but it will be long and ships. It would certainly be unfair if his body holds communion with each part for the year to that date was *,445,00+ country in Europe and from all parts of

new terms should be guaranteed for three months, the Warwickshire owners make their offer for nine months. Under this

painful.

The Committee unanimously opine that the measures they advise are calculated

private worries were added to their very of itself through the medium of rippling. heavy burden of responsibilities.

The Prince of Wales, continuing, said rolls of mat. "He looks a polly, a good India still provided a field for British fellow, and when he breaths his body character and enterprise. If ever & COM- throughout the world there would be no

offer, the wages of a piece worker when to ensure righting the..position. The re-plete story was written of British work quivers all over. A cock waddles with working on a minimum day rate will commendations include raising the Cus-chapter we could be prouder of than be increased from 10/3d. to 10/10d. pertoms, duties. The opinion is expressed British services in India. shift. A number of other classes of men that the report will strengthen M. Cail- will get a alight increase, while the Jaux's band. lowest rate that an underground man can

carn will remain at S/6d. per shift and

that of surface men at 9/-

THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY)

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

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TO STUDY FINANCES:

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WATERLOO BRIDGE.

QUESTION OF PRESERVATION.

MISS SHERLOCK HOLMES.

SUCCESSFUL GIRL DETECTIVES.

Miss Sherlock Holmes has made good. Young women detectives are provins their worth every day of the week to the great London shops that are employing them in increasing numbers against the ubiquitous shoplifter.

dignity out on to the road and casts an impudent eye up at the heaven. A small girl sits under shop with a skinny little baby in her arme: She keeps up a high pitched song that is supposed to soothe the infant, and now and again gives it an extra dandle. Evidently the infant is not susceptible to the power of song for it writhes its shrivelled tittle legs and Sometimes the role of the girl detective is that of an ordinary shop assistant, outdoes the singer with a shrill shrieking,

Australia has already sent the Mother Country more than 6,000 guests- record number. Every boat from India brings a glittering bevy of Indian princes, their wives, families and retainers, attired in the sumptuous robes of the East. The Rajah" and Rani of Kashipar, with their two children and suite, the Maharajah and Maharani of Mymensigb, arrived at Plymouth by the Rajputana, and other distinguished Indians came from the Continent during the day. The Mahara erite, is also dut to arrive soon. Another jah of Alwar, accompanied by a large

Prince Aga Khan.

MISSION OF AMERICAN EXPERTS APPEAL TO THE PRIME MINISTER.stopping at intervals to see what bead and she is able to play the part so wellnotable arrival in London is H.H, the

REACH POLAND.

WARSAW, July 4th. An American mission of 14 Gnancial FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED AT experts, headed by Professor Kemmerer,

FRENCH STATION,

has, at the invitation of the Polish Gov- erniment arrived on a two months' visit to study the public and private finan- cial situation of Poland

PARIS, July 4th The ensuaftter: the Poissy railway disaster are now estimated at 17 killed and 87 injured..

OFFICIAL REPORT.

It is officially stated that the accident to the Havre-Paris express was due to it. taking too quickly a bend or to a branch Hine to which the train had been diverted, Owing to a subsidence in the ground as the result of a rainstorm, which may have prevented the driver tro

a signal to slow up.

seeing-

The ministers of Finance and Com- meree and representatives of the Harri man interests have signed an agreement

The preservation of the present Water- log Bridge wes uiged on the London County Council over a year ago by Mr. Arthur Keen, as chairman of a conference at which the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings, the Town Planning Institutes the Architecture Club, and a group of civil engineers were represented. It was suhinitted that the bridge could be pre- served at a moderate cost compared with the expense of constructing a new bridge and with the minimum danger to life and lamb. The London County Coun- An cil rejected the proposal, however.

way ite protest is making. And then, at that customers acek her out to attend to, the end, as you slip out of the rickaha their requirements. Often, indeed, it into the rain and over-pay the puller, he suits her purpose to carry out the role of sees in you a possible muggins and de- the obliging assistant, for while she is to keep close watch on shoppers whose in your face. 5 mands more, waving his inch long nails displaying silks and eating she is able movements arouse suspicion in ber alert mind.

TAILLESS AEROPLANES.

SIMPLER SYSTEM: OF CONTROL

FOR PILOTS

Captain G. T. R. Hill, in a paper read before the Royal Aeronautical Society:

M. Venizelos, the Greek statesman, has Colonel House, America's arrived,

Silent Man," is staying here, and Newport. Rhode Island and Mrs. Beeck- Governor R. Livingstone Beeckman, of man, have also come to London from Peris."

She is just as much at home, however, Diplomats are flocking to town in time in the role of the fashionable shopper. to be present at the different courts of No one, challenges her as she fits from the season, where their brilliant uniforms one department to another, occasionally increase the gorgeous colouring of the stopping to have a short conversation scene Vizconda de Mamblos, Secretary at- come to with one of the assistants while she scans the Spanish Embassy, has the erowd.

London, and taken up his residence in Nearly all the great stores in Oxford-Cadogan-street. Count and Countess de street, Regent-street, and Kensington Torre Diaz, relatives of the Spanish Am- have a Miss Sherlock Holmes" on their bazsador, and the Marchesa de Merry del

for the purchies of the Giescheuppeal was then made to the Prime Minis-1 described the work he has done on the staff and in the suburbs, too, in Peckham, Val are in town for the season. The

P.

man group is furnishing an additional ten millions for various purposes.

The American Minister, Mr. Stetson, was present, and hoped that further American capital of considerable amounts would reach Poland..

COBHAM'S FLIGHT.

BAGHUA, July 4th-

involved.

Captain Hill, claims that, with these air brakes, it becomes a simple matter for the pilot to judge his approach to a land- ing ground, and that the worst pilot can then judge his approach as successfully as the best.

Shoplifters are divided into two classes professionals and amateurs. It is the amateur woman shoplifter-the-woman- who steals on the impulse of the moment

who causes, most anxiety.. Most of the professional shoplifters are known to the women who police Lon- carried out a raid in Oxford-street out don's stores, Cnc notorious thief once of sheer pique.

"REAL"

DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

ARCHBISHOP ATTACKS MODERN GIRLS.

Foreign dances, indecent dress, com- pany keeping, and bad books are the chief of the evils that threaten modern society," said the Roman Catholic Arch- eermon at, Ballyhaunis on** Modern ́evilo."?. hishop of Tusm, Irish Free State, in a

A huge blaze at the Dijon goods station: tus destroyed a were of wagons. The

ter on the ground that national credit was design and construction of his remarkable

woman detective is employed to protect James has left Buenos Aires for London, damage is estimated at four million

mines in Polish Upper Silesid, reported-concerned, and that the interests of the tailless aeroplane, details of which were orixton, and Croydon, the Argentine Minister to the Court of St. This machine breaks entirely away from the firm's goeds and the handbags of and the Yugo-Slav Minister has returned

from Washington. francs. Trafic lines from Dijon to Lilley for ten million dollars. The Harri Government and taxpayer were directly first given in the London Morning Post.

Shoplifting entails enormous losses every and to Nancy were sarpended. Foul

This appeal has now been followed up conventional aeroplane design. It has their customers. by another letter to the Prime Minister, no body or tail, being simply a pair of play is suspected.

dated June lat, in which the conference tapered bird-like wings with a space for year to the great drapery houses of Lot- states that the whole question of London pilot and passenger between them. It has don. The manager of one Oxford-street bridges is being allowed to drift, and, a tricycle undercarriage, the single back store stated recently that his firm lost apart from the historical and aestheticwheel of which can be steered and braked nearly £10,000 a year through shop- aportance of Waterloo Bridge, certain for assisting taxeying over the ground.ters are divid aspects of the general traffic question are The machine also has air brakes which emphasised. It is pointed out that be the pilot can use to check speed quickly tween three and four years were required. when he io gliding in to land. for the removal of Vauxhall Bridge. "At. Waterloo," the letter proceeds, "tidal forces are more powerful, the curve of the river is more pronounced, and the complication of the adjacent steel bridge enhances the difficulties of demoli tion and replacement. The very existence of this new bridge will intensify the navi gation problem while the old bridge is being centred for removal. Had the London County Council accepted our scheme when approached by my confer ence in February, 1926, much of the peces would to-day be completed. London, it proportion of the accidents is due to a pion weight lifter, who on Easter Mon- is held, is therefore threatened by a traf-loss of control in the air, I set myself four of her confederates drove up to the hearts sa a poor, silly, coquettish thing. day lifted 423lb. right hand dead lift hic congestion which will react upon the to try to design an aeroplane which would shop in a cab. An hour later the deShe is the type who occasions also www her way back to the shop, saw the shop-pared to amuse themselves, they are not and 402lb. left hand dead lift, has since whole commercial life, of the capital. A never, through an error on the part of tective, walking along Oxford-street on the ruin of man Although men are pre- keen notified by the British Amateur superfluous bridge is projected at St. the pilot, get out of control.

Twenty-one flights have now beca lifter and her gang in a cafe.always fools This type of woman for Weight Lifting Association that these Paul's, a valuable bridge is to be sacri

She guessed at once what had happen- gets that what really appeals to man performances have been accepted as ficed at Waterloo, and no steps have been made, and I consider that, when the official British beavy-weight records, and taken to deal with the Charing-cross inertia of the control system has beened, and a visit to the silk. department is character, and not silly coquettishness. has been awarded a diploma for each Bridge, which is vital to the development reduced to reasonable proportions, the confirmed her suspicions, Eight rolls of There was a time when young people of a very large ares of South London. control of the Pterodactyl (the name I silk and vanished. The shoplifter and met openly at dances, with their elders The conference asks, therefore; to be have given the machine) will be an im- her confederates were soon rounded up looking end Now, they demand to meet

of int allowed to amplify before the new inquiry provement on anything we have at pre- before they had a chance to dispose of the views thus outlined.

BERLIN TRAGEDY.

FATAL ROOF COLLAPSE DURING

THUNDERSTORM

BERLIN, July 4th Thirteen people were killed and 60 injured owing to the collapse of a roof In the village of Woltersdorf, near Berlin

The roof, under which a crowd was sheltering from a thunderstorm, was struck by lightning and the crowd took _panic. The dead are mostly women,

Alan Cobham,

on his flight from London to Australia, has arrived here.

LIFTED 430 LB.

A-CHAMPION'S NEW RECORDS....

I thought about safety in flight, and in particular the freedom from accident caused through lack of control," said Captain Hill, explaining the object of his experiments. Being faced with the fact that about fifty lives ware being, and, L. believe are still being, Lost in the Royal

The woman detective met her outaide the London Sessions.

Hello,, you haven't been to see as lately, the detective remarked,

The woman scowled and, evidently tak ing it as a challenge, retorted, "No, but

She hurried off,

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He condemned bitterly the type of girl alarmingly prevalent, who is a real daughter of Eve, who ate the forbidden fruit, exposed her physical charms, went to foreign dances, and read bad books" not realising that while, men might use He added, She becomes the toy of men,

Mr. J. C. Price, the Gloucester chamsary strengthening of the did structura Air Force every year, and that a large I will and collecting three or her as a toy, they despise her in their

On Whit-Monday, Mr. Price beat these records and exceeded every previous claim by lilting 480lb right hand dead lift and 4074lb. left hand dead lift.

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their booty

in secret. Such amusement is the cloak