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SEVERE EARTHQUAKE AT TOKYO.

POPULATION ALARMED: BUT LITTLE DAMAGE DONE.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

Toxve, August 3rd..

THE

BRITISH COAL MINES.

THOUSANDS AT WORK.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Roosy, August 2nd. - Questioned in the House of Commons as to the number of wage-earners at work in the coal mines, exclusive of safety men, Colonel Lane Fox, Secretary of An unusually severe earthquake at colines, said that on July 24ta there were to-night frightened Tekye, people run 3,370 wage-earners employed, of whom 66,300 were employed in mines not pro- ning out of buildings.

Reports from various points show that ducing coal for colliery consumption a largo area was affected: The railway bridge, being constructed at & Tokyo suburn, was damaged; landslides are re- ported at Yokosuka and telephonie com- munication is upset temporarily.

[TOROUGH REUTER'S AGEŠITY.3.

BRITAIN AND CHINA.

STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

only.

U.S. INDUSTRIAL RELATION- SHIPS.

BRITISH COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE.

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4rm, 1928

AUSTRALIANS AT SWANSEA FAR EASTERN CABLE

'SUZANNE” NOW "A

PROFESSIONAL.

SIGNS A CONTRACT FOR $100,000 GOLD,

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

PARIS, August 2nd."

THE MATCH WITH GLAMORGAN.

[TEKOUGH REUTER'S AGENUY.]

(Overnight score Australia: 983; W. H. Ponsford 113 not out. Glamorgan : 65 for three wickets).

SWANSEA, August 2nd. The wicket was thowing signs of wear It is officially announced that Malle. Suzanne Lenglen has signed a contract to when Glamorgan continued their innings become a professional, and will play ex-to-day before a crowd of some twenty-two bibition matches both indoors and out. thousand in glorious weather. Glamer doors in the United States, Canada, gan were all out for 130. Cuba and Mexico for four months be ginning, October 10th.

THE CONTRACT.

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LATER.

It is now added that Middle. Leglen has received $100,000 under her contract.

FAMOUS SOUTH AFRICAN

STATEŠMAN. ·

DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. J. X. MERRIMAN.

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RUGBY, August 2nd. Accompanied by Government experts, a small Commission of employers and

CAPETOWN, August 2nd. workers' representatives is to be sent to

The death is announced of the Right the United States to study industrial Hon. John Xavier Merriman, P.C., mem- LONDON, August. 2nd. relationships there. The idea is believedber of the Legislative Assembley of the In the House of Commons, replying to to have originated with Sir Arthur Steel Cuion of South Africa, since 1910 a question suggesting Britain's acting in Maitland, Minister of Labour, and it the Far East independently or in co-has since received Cabinet approval operation with the Great Powera concern. The appointments to the Commission ed only, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that while he recognised the difficulty which might sometimes arise of securing a animity among the Powers having Treaty relations with China, there were obvious objections to his Majesty's Government taking any step which might impair the solidarity of the Diplomatic, Body in Peking of which would be regarded as contrary to the Washington Treaties,

CONCESSIONS IN ABYSSINTA.

BRITISH AND ITALIAN NOTES.

DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

will probably be made before the House of Commons rises for the recess in the middle of this week, and its members will leave for America in September.

MUNITIONS FOR TURKEY.

STATEMENT BY THE BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER.

REGBY, August 2nd.

The remaining seven wickets fall for the addition of only 54 runs, Malley and Grimmett taking full toll of a bad wicket. M. J. Turnbill was top scorer with Mailey took five wickets for 40 runs, while Grimmett took four for 56.

The Australians hit up 200 for ATO wickets (W. M. Woodfull, 40 not out) and declared.

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Glamorgan had scored 30 runs for four wickets wheen stumps were drawn.

LONDON, August 3rd. At Swansea, in fine weather, the Aus tralians won by $54. Glamorgan made 120. Walters 4 unfinished; Grimmett -4 wickets for 45;-Mailey 4 for 18

COUNTY CRICKET.”

SUSSEX VERSUS MIDDLESEX.

[Deceased was born at Street, Somer- setshire, in 1941, the son of Bishop N. J. Merriman, of Grahamstown. Hs was educated at Rondebosch Diocesan College and at Radley, near Oxford. In 1849 he was taken to South Africs "and entered political life there in 1869. He

LONDON, August 3rd, served in various Ministries and was

Sussex. Middlesex at Brighton. Prime Minister and Treasurer in 1908-10. He was also a member of the Cape Middlesex compiled 483 for 7 and de-. Jameson Raid Committee, and drew upclared. Dales and Bruce had $1 and 8, the report of this body.)

[BEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] MEXICO'S RELIGIOUS

CONTROVERSY.

A question was used in the House of MORE TROUBLE IN MEXICO CITY. Commons as to whether the Government, directly or through any Agents, has been in negotiation during the present year for the sale of munitions of war or ar mament to the Turkish Government or ite Agents.

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Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Foreign LONDON, August 2nd The Opposition in the House of Com-Secretary, replied that_no_negotiations mons raised a debate in regard to the whatever had taken place by the Govern Notes recently exchanged between the British and Italian Governments affecting Abyssinia, which evoked a protest from Rastafari, the Regent of Abyssima to the League of Nations that Abyssinia had not

ment or through any Agents during the present year for the sale of munitions of war or armaments to the Turkish Govern ment or its Agents. The only indirect overtures he could trace consisted of an

MEXICO CITY, August 2nd... A policeman was killed last night by a. stone, thrown by a woman among the crowd around a church, and another policeman was wounded by a woman, who subsequently died. The crowd later col- lided with troops, who fired a volley wounding nine

respectively. Hendren scored and Enthoven 100 unfinished.

Sussex scored 259. Duleep Sinhji made 132. Haig had 7 ickets for 4, followed with 210. Bowley and Tate had 30, and 56, respectively. Durston 5 wickets for

68.

SIBERIAN PEASANTS.

A PRIMITIVE LIFE.

MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE NOT EXTINCT.

NEWS.

· [TUROUGH "REUTER'S AGENCY:].

THE PAN-ASIATTO CONGRESS:

CHINESE DELEGATES CENSURED.

SHANGHAI CHINESE OPPOSITION.

DEATH OF MRS. FRANCES DARBISHIRE.

TRACIC CIRCUMSTANCES,

WIDOW OF WELL-KNOWN SINGAPORE MERCHANT.

The death has taken place in tragic circumstances of Mrs. Frances Darbi- shire, of Bradford-on-Avon (Wilts), widow of the late Mr. C. W. Darbishire, former M.P. for the Division.

Mrs. Dartishire was found on July 4th un- SHANGHAI, August 3rd.

conscious in an open rowing-boat off The Merchants" and, Labourers' Associa Bournemouth pier, and died after she tions and other local Chinese organis-had been taken to hospital. She had tions are holding meetings strongly oppos been staying at the Regina Court Hotel, ing the Pan-Asiatic Conterence, in which East Cliff, Bournemouth. She hired à they accuse Japan of attempting to on-boat, took fishing tackle with her, and -went-out alone, declining the offer of the gineer to further her own ends......

owner of the best to go with her. She Speakers at these meetings

was seen by a man looking through field- that Japan should show her sincerity by glasses to fall backwards in the boat, and abandoning her alleged aggressive policy was unconscious when a party of men and toward Ching, and not by calling meet women cruising in a motor boat reached inga

her. She had in her hand the metal.cup of a flask, and round her mouth were traces of some white substance.

declare

CHINESE ** INSISTENCE.'

Toxo, August 3rd.

Mrs. Darbishire was married in 1908, Though the vernacular papers give says the China Express & Telegraph, and prominence to the proceedings of the Pan-soon afterwards went out to Singapore with her husband who was Eastern Asiatic-Congress, editorial comment so

manager of the form of East-India mer- far is confined to this morning's Miyake, chants with which he was connected. In which censures the Chinese delegates for 1919 he returned to England and was elected Liberal M.P. for. Westbury' their continued insistence of the abroga-(Wilts), but lost his scut at the last

tion of the 21 demands, and advocates that Japan would be well advised to co- operate with Great Britain and America than foster anti-Western Pan- Asianism..

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Following this de General Election. feat, he went last year with his wife on A visit to Singapore. A steamer in which they were sailing to Siam struck a reef, and the passengers were compelled to stay On the wreck for ten days. As a con sequence of his exposure Mr. Darbishire was taken ill and died in hospital at Hitherto the proceedings have besa Singapore in June, 1025 Eis widow was confined mainly to a Sino-Japan debate, overwhelmed with grief, and when she returned lay in a prostrate condition in the other delegates virtually not partia London nursing home for some time. cipating.

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• CONGRESS CLOSES.

LATER.

Latterly she lived in retirement with her sister at Bradford-on-Avon, refusing an invitation from the Liberals of the Divi- sion, who held her in the highest regard, to fight the Division in the place of her The three-day session of the Poobusband Mrs Darbishire was daughter Asiatic Congress closed this morning, after electing two Japanese, two Chinese, two Indian and one Filipico directors of the new Asiatic League.

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of a former Sheriff of Fort William, Inverness-shire. A woman of attractive personality, and an able speaker political subjects, she had & great share in her husband's election victories in 1022 and 1923 On the day of the tragedy a garden party of Bradford Liberals was

It was decided that the next Congress held at Elms Cross. Mrs. Darbishize had

should be held at Peking,

engaged apartments for a return visit to Bournemouth in August. She leaves one Chinese delegates again insisted upon child, a boy. News of her death has the abrogation of the Sino-Japanese un-teen received with great grief through- out Weat Wilts, where Liberal women qual treaties, this being regarded as idolized her.

.cssential for better relations,

Crowds thronging the churches at The Siberian woman, says a correspon Pachuca for the closing services yester-dent of the Daily Telegraph, is of She is a colonist, more prosaic, perhaps, Bix children were suffocated. day were so dense that six women and different fibre from her Russian sister.

and more practical, -less romantic and The Chinese delegate, Kwang Kang LORD Fifty thousand people joined a pro-less inclined to make a hobby of her emo- Su, startled the conference by proposing

of the Government's policy. The usual

may be noticed even in the towns, such and the Philippines to regain indepen-

thing fairly quiet, but there is a general peasant women in the remoter forests undercurrent of excitement..

aro genuine colonists wires, fit mothers of a strapping race.

been consulted and was unable to accept inquiry by private firms, but, so far cession in Mexico City to-day in supporttions and brood over her aufferings. That that the Pan-Asiatic Lengue assist India The British--and Italian arrangemented and no "negotiations were now in Sunday bull fight was crowded and every-¦ as Omsk, Tobolsk, or. Irkutsk, but the dence, especially India" as it is the

the agreement embodied in these Notes.

as he was aware, nothing had materialis-

concerned the British, utilisation of the progress.

waters of Lake Teana in Abyssinia for Replying to further questions, fir Soudan irrigation and the building of aAusten said there was nothing in inter- motor road to the Sudan, as against national obligations or in our relations which Great Britain would not oppose the construction of Italian railways linking the Italian Colonies of Eritres and Somaliland through West Abyssinia.

Captain W. Wedgwood Bean (Liberal, Leith) and Mr. A. Ponsonby" (Labourite, Brightside) in the House of Commons stated that they objected to this form of diplomacy.

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Sir Austen Chamberlain, in replying, said that the British and Italian Notes did not pretend to bind either Abyssicía or any other Government. The Notes im- plied no attack on Abyssinian indepen- dence or the exercise of coercion or pres-

U.S. PROPERTY.

LATER.

A protest on behalf of a church owned with the Turkish Government that should by the United States has been made by cause us to prevent British firms. from the American Consul General to the ar-State Department at Washington against supplying that Government with maments if they desired. There must be the Mexican Government's taking over permession from the British Government of the Episcopal Church at San Jose de for the export of arms, but that permis- Gracia, the deeds of which are held by sion ought not to be capriciously with the Episcopal headquarters in New York held. Sir Austen Chamberlain added: City:

We have just completed negotiations The Mexican authorities say the pro- and placed our relationships with Tur-perty was taken over because the Rector key on a satisfactory basis, and thess, failed to register or give the required

information. under the new regulations trust, we shall maintain."

NEGOTIATIONS PENDING.

AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY.

sure on Abyssinia. The latter had a per- RECORD RAILWAY BOOKINGS "AT

feet right to grant any concessions she desired, or not. He recalled that the con- struction of a barrage at Tsana was con- templated by the Emperor Menelik int 2002: These views were elaborated in the British Note sent to the League in reply to Rastafari's protest.

FRENCH POLITICS.

M. POINCARE'S SCHEME APPROVED.

PARIS, August 2nd The Cabinet has approved of M. Poin care's sinking fund scheme, and also the project for the commercialisation of the tobacco monopoly.

LATER

The Senate Finance Committee has -adopted all articles of the Government's

financial proposals:

THE FRANC."

The frane on London improved to 186. FRANC'S LATEST QUOTATION.

LONDON, August 3rd. The franc opened to-day at 181.50

AT HOME.

RUGBY, August 2nd. Favoured by brilliant weather, there has been an exodus of holiday makers from London this week-end. To-day is "August. Bank Holiday" and at the same time the beginning of August" is a most popular date for the annual summer holidays,

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In theory, woman is there still man's inferior. Marriage by capture is not yet extinct in Siberia, and in some secluded regions it is still customary for a young man to buy his bride from her father, the price varying with the wealth of the parties. As a rule a good healthy lass may be bought for about three or four guineas in cash, with the addition of sme practical commodity such as a pair of boots, a rug, or a blanket,

A STALWART RACÉ.

white races base in Orient; consequently. were regained Western if independence influence in Asia would automatically be wiped out."

The Japanese delegate decried discus- sion of the proposal publicly, as he feared the police would break up the meeting if anything injurious to Anglo-Japanese and Japan-American friendly relations were debated.

WILLINGDON'S ARRIVAL

IN LONDON, --

CÓNFLICTING OPINIONS.

THE GREAT FOREIGN INSTITU-

TIONS IN CHINA.

Referring to Lord, Willingdon's retärä to London on July 4th, the China Expless. Telegraph says there is still much mystery as to what is to be done regard-- ing the Boxe: Indemnity.

It will be recalled that at a gathering.

in Peking last month, just before he left, Lord Willingdon said that the one thing left England was, "For goodness sake, continually rubbed into him before he stick to education and don't do anything else." But when he went to China there Consequently, it was decided to discuss was barely one person who had not said: the matter secretly later.

JAPANESE COAL MINERS ON STRIKE.

DEMAND A MINIMUM WAGE

Toxyo, August 2nd. Thirteen, hundred miners' workers at

"Don't do anything to increase the num ber of wild young men students who are creating all the trouble, at the present time."We shall see when the report comes out by which point of view he has been-chiefly influenced

There are a stalwart race of women; the girls are buxom and well grown, tall with the fair complexion of the north, and always a pleasant smile. They can stir the heavy dough with a great MEXICO CITY, August, 3rd. wooden spade by the hour, and, if need be, when the men are away, harness the President Calles has rejected the pro-horses and drive a sleigh all night in an posal of the Episcopate for a truce, but Arctic frost. Unlike their sisters in the it is learned that steps are being taken, towns, they care little or nothing for the Takatori coal mine, Kyushyu; went on politica, as all their energies are concen- strike yesterday. Their many demands which, it is expected, will result in intrated upon the immediate problems of formal personal negotiations between the life, their homes, farms, and families.include a minimum wage of two yen per chaos, wonderfully good work is being

They lend a strong and willing hand to day. Attorney-General and a high dignitary of help their fathers, Eusbands, and bro- the church, whereby a settlement may be thers in the fields, for hired labour. scarcely exists in this broad land of reached."

pioneers.

WOOD ALCOHOL.

THE RECENT DEATH ROLL."

NEW YORK, August 2nd. Despite the continuance of the coal

The chief chemist of the New York stoppage, the railways have been able to meet every requirement of the holiday-Bureau of Internal Revenue, commenting makers By to-night it is stated that on recent fatalities in Western New York 30,000 locomotives will have been used in and Ontario from the drinking of Great Britain during the week-end. This, says a railway official, is a record, and it, has been done on foreign coal

New, records are also being established

Trouble is feared, and a hundred police, together with a detachment of gendarmes, have been despatched to, the scene.

"POST MORTEM FINGER PRINTS:

EXPERIENCE IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. -

There has been some discussion in the

While in China. Lord Willingdon was greatly impressed by the great foreign in- stitutions schools and colleges, hospitals and industrial developments. These he described as living evidences of the very real "interest taken in China as a coun- preciated by the Chinese. Another extra try, and he believed that they were ap- ordinary circumstance was that, not- withstanding economic and financial done by the Chinese themselves. In this connection he instanged the South- Eastern Agricultural College at Naa-, king. No doubt much has already been achieved under foreign impetus for the uplift of China, but a great deal more remains to be done, and with the return of goodwill and co-operation it can be done. As Lord Willingdon truly de- clares, China presents the most tre mendous opportunity that should pro- duce the most tremendons results*

ENGLISH GANDER AND CHINESE GOOSE,

Though goitre occurs on the great waterways of" Siberia and cretins and hydrocephalous children are far from rare, the race is stalwart and bealthy, as it needs must be, for the weaklings quickly die off in that rigorous climate; distances are vast and doctors very few and far between. But those that live are" splendid specimens and attain a great age; in every house there seems to be bit of housework, lighting the stove, or crone of 80 or 90, who does her little alcohol, states that there have been about cleaning up, enjoying her pungent home correspondence columns of The Timer as

to the value of post-mortem finger Mr N. W. Hill, The White Hall, 700 deaths in New York City, alone dur. grown tobacco in a home-made pipe. ing the past year from poison liquor. They seldom leave their village, and prints. Captain A Chancellor, late Montague Street, WC in a letter to few know what a town looks like, for Inspector-General of Police of the Straits The Times, quotes an instance of a croBS When Prohibition stated, almost all travel is slow and costly. The farmers Settlements, writing from New Lodge between an English gander and a Chinese. in the air. Both the number of aero the samples submitted for analysis were are almost self-supporting, they build Clinic, Windsor Forest, Berks seems to goose. He says: Some 40-years ago on their own houses of the logs they fell in clinch the matter with the following my father's ship, arriving from Hong- planes flying to France and the number straight whisky, whilst lately, as the sup- the forest alongside, and mostly make For the past ten years at least it has kong he gave my aunt in Yorkshire two of air travellers have been greater than ply of whisky diminished, more samples their own furniture. In every house been customary in the Straits Settlements Chiness geese which had survived the the long winter nights the women will finger impressions of all unidentified her poultry yard. Some years later she ever before.

Over 400 passengers left were of redistilled and denatured alcohol, there is a spinning wheel, at which in and Federated Malay States to take the use of the cabin table. These she added to but only during recent months had the sit and spin the wool from their flocks; dead bodies discovered (quite a large pointed out to me a well-grown goose Croydon for Paris on Saturday in 25 samples contained much wood alcohol or they will sew together the skins of number in a country where the floating like its English companions, except that Stills made in Buffalo and sold for their fluffy dogs to make warm coats alien population is so considerable). This it was fawn-coloured and did not possess legitimate purposes had been used by of piebald pattern, or brew herb ale, or leads to the annual identification of con- the ball above the beak of its more diminu. rum-runners to remove the poisonous maka chesses or bake the bread, for there siderable numbers of these bodies ar tive mother; so that in this case the compounds from their alcohol, but re are no shops when you are 1,000 miles those of criminals, seldom less than four British characteristice predominated to

the exclusion of the Chinese. distilling did not remove wood alcohol." from the railway..

or five, and often many more.

machines..

The sea traffic to the continent has also been heavy About 10,000 passengers from Folkestone to Boulogne.