CABLES
[BRITISH WIRELESA ALAVICK
"COAL"""" DISPUTE.
SUGGESTED RE-OPENING OF
NEGOTIATIONS.
MR. COOK'S VIEWS.
Reaar, August 19th. The Prime Minister, who came to London from the country this morning, was in consultation with the Minister for Labour and the Minister for Mines this afternoon, and heard the latest re- ports on the coal stoppage situation,
The general impression is that no im- portant development is likely before the Miners Delegates Conference next Mon- day.
Meanwhile, Mr. Cook, the Miners' Secretary, in speeches and articles, is urging the minera, to give the Executive Committee.plenar powers, presumably with the object of enabling overtures to be made for a reopening of the aegoria="
tione,"
Mr. Cook states that while the miners are, as yet, fur from being beaten, it is vital they should secure an agreement enabling all to resume work together. He appeals to the men to authorisa a new move and to the Delegates' Confer- ence to shoulder the full responsibility."
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"MORE HOPEFUL
LONDON, August 12th.
A decidedly, more hopeful coal outlook prevails.
An agreement concluded between owners and the South Wales Engiacmen, Stokers
and
Craftsmen's Association specifically provides for an eight-hour day for underground men and forty-eight hour week exclusive of meal times for surfacemen..
Mr. Varley Mansfield, M.P., address ing the Notts miners said that if there is no hope of anything happening nationally let's see what the Notis and Derby owners have to offer, and if its anything good let'a tell the Miners' Fede. "ration to make it the basis of a national demand and let the men return where the owners are prepared to pay the original demand.” The statement was applauded,
THE HONGKONG" DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 1925
TURKS APPLY NEW LAW:
·BAN AGAINST FOREIGN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.
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CONSTANTINOPLE, August 19th. Police Headquarters have ordered all Foreign Chambers of Commerce to cease operations immediately. ́ ́.
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EUROPEAN METALLURGISTS'
CONFERENCE.
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PARIS, August 13th," According to the papers, the last phasé of the parley between metallurgists of France, Germany, Belgium and the Luxemburg, for the formation of an Iron trust, began yesterday. The Paris Le Valin foresees the signing of an agree
ment to-moTTOW..
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FURTHER DETAILS.
Negotiations of the great Continental Trusts, in which representatives of heavy metal industries in France, Germany,
The ban bas been threatened for some- time past but it was not thought that it would ever be enforced as the Govern ment had been considering whether, to apply the Turkish laws to the foreign Chambers or to permit their operations
in conformity with international obliga. | Belgium, and Luxumburg are concerned, ciona.
are reaching their final stages in Paris. The British position is stated at present to be somewhat obscure, although the LATER. Festminster Guzette learns on high Foreign circles are at a loss to under-authority that the British steel interesta stand the motives for the order, which do not intend to enter into the eqibiae. ia attributed partly to a desire of the
Quoting the newspaper Le Journal says Turkish Chamber to secure the fees that it is most improbable that British
FEELING IN FOREIGN CIRCLES.
hitherto paid to the foreign Chamber for services rendered and partly to Angora aims to destroy what" are regarded as
the last vestiges of the capitulations and partly to the ambition to inaugurate 4 national mercantile marine.
Industrialista-will attempt to attack the trust, as it is already a member of the rails combine. It further expresses the
opinion that it is awaiting the reply of the American manufacturers, who are certain to take up the challenge of the While the American Chamber is not new trust,, which will likely organize particularly affected owing to its re-effectually against American dumping: duced "trade, the British, French and
Le Matin says that ar agreement, Italian Chambers regard the matter which it is expected will be signed to- more seriously. The British Chamber morrow, will only operate after it bas has been operating for the past forty been approved by the Governments of years, and its disappearance is pro-the-countries-concerned. foundly disturbing to traders.
AMERICAN YARN.
MINIMUM SELLING BASIS FIXED.
LONDON, August 12th. The Federation of Master Cotton. spinners Associations has issued details of a minimum basis of selling prices for standard counts of American yard, to operate on August 18th. The scheme is supported by 93 per cent, of the members concerned and the owners of 2,500,000 spindles unaffiliated with the Federation.
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FRENCH TROOPS IN THE
RHINELAND.
PARIS. August 13th.
MEXICO'S WARFARE.
EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT'S DECREE
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Mèxico Ciry, August 19th. A Government Decree confiscates the wooden chapel and part of the grounds of San Andrees Tuxtela Church at Vera Cruz for the provisional use of the local Agricultural Industrial Union. It states that the chapel is not needed because the church is more than sufficient for the congregation's requirements, whereas the Union needs a headquarters for its work which is for the benefit of the people.
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NEW MINING LAW.
MEXICO CITY. August 13th. The new Mining Law regulations
WHAT AMERICANS - ARE THINKING...
"THE WAR AND THE STRIKE
SENATOR BORAH.
2,500-YEARS-OLD CRIME.
RECORD SOUGHT OF AN HISTORIC MURDER.
"Then aross Ishmael, the son of Netha- njab, and the ten men that were with him, We are again giving our sense of and smote Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam,” humour a chance, and, happily, not so the son of Shaphan, with the sword and much is said nowadays about American low him, whom the King or Babylon, bad moral superiority, or American leader-made governor over the land." ship of the world. When someone highly placed takes occasion to thank God be cause
we Aro not like other men,
"Amens" in the usual volume are lack ing. Instead, a few groans are heard. We are beginning to sense that two little things are needed for leadership, leaders and followers. Not a few people in this country "are awakening to the fact that America's chance to lead the world has gone the way of the potential power-in
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Such is the recòrd, in Jeremiah xli., 2, of the "twenty-five centuries-old crime at Mizpah which has fired the imagination of a party of American archaeologists. They have journeyed, with Professor William F. Blade, of Berkeley, Cali-.. fornia, at their head, to the ancient city to discover all they can tragedy.
They_have_already found the great pit
about the
published empower the Government to last year's snow on the mountains, and, into which, they think, the bodies of supervise numerous details of the in-which is worse, that we can not even for Gedaliah and his followers were thrown, of Hollars are invested. dustry, in which hundreds of millions the demand of the home market for
The regulations declare that all com- mercially valuable minerals and precious
stones are the property of the nation.
"The Mining Law details terms on which Government may grant mining concessions Government inspection and supervision. and also provides an elaborate system of
Concessions forfeitable unless is stipulated the amount of work done.
are
AN AMERICAN ADMIRAL'S VIEWS.
"SLY DIPLOMACY."
leadership. If the worst comes to the
and a number of rock tombe, containing a mass of early pottery, which will prove invaluable in telling the full story of the rise and fall of Mispah.
The city had been inhabited for so long that the members of the expedition may They have discovered, a wall built by: possibly find romains from the Stone Age- bronze workers, and when its foundations are examined they will almost certainly find human bones there, for an ancient superstition required that the body of a victim, usually a girfor child, should be placed at the base of the city wall it it was to endure.
There, may also be found one of the earlier records of the Kings of Judah, monuments of the early Canaanites, and records bearing on Egyptian campaigna in Palestine, for Mizpah was a mighty fortress, and undoubtedly its inhabitants. were wise enough to preserve such re- cords-
The story of its early day's is a fascinat ing one.
worst, Europe must get along the best she can, but it is a serious affair when this country runs short of the very thing we have been giving away for nothing..
Strong glasser are needed to disceve La leader in America" to-day, at least fa political leader with followers who will in the mass in great numbers, but it jakce stick. Potential leaders may be hidden a crisis to bring them forward, and the crisis is not yet hore. Of all the men in public life in America at the present time: Sonator Borah is the most spectacular, but he is no leader with a numerous or permanent following. You may agree with Borah on this, but violently oppose him on that, follow him-never in the way of the leadership of Borah stands- Borak, his background and his prejudices. His background is the small electorate ——————— NEW_YORK-August-19th of the State of Idaho his prejudices are Speaking at the Institute of Politics too well known to require elaboration at Williamstown, Massachusets, Admiral With all his ability, all his sincerity,
When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judaea Senator Borah is a lonesome man be- Rogers said that the Washington Discause, where his prejudices are not in- and took the greater part of the popula armament Conference was a piece of volved, he is always seeking and never tion to Babylonian, capitivity he allowed British strategy designed to check Ame-finding perfection. To Borah, half a loaf seme of the Judaeans, including the pro- is no bread. One can vision him as lead phes. Jeremiah to remain in Mizpah. rica's naval supremacy. Admiral Rogers ing & forlorn hope, but not a popular Jeremiah, acting on Nebuchadnezzar's was one who served on the Citizen's Com- cause. In his home State, shadowed by instructions, helped the commanding gen- Le Journal says that French troops inmittee attached to the American delega- the Mormon Church, Borah is not popu-eral in selecting a governor for the new
enuse of the position he occupies in the
a peaceloving mad, who was ready to the Rhineland will be reduced by 8,000 tion at the Conference. He added that cary but his people are proud of him be- Judaean settlement, and chose Gedalia
Britain objected to the United States Senate,, and they hope that a chance devote his life and talents to the task having a merchant fleet or navy bigger turning of the political wheel may give of reconstruction. than her own and the held out as a bait Idaho the position of being the first Far the idea of relinguishing settlements in
Western State to furaish a United States the Far East and the abrogation of the President. When Borah is fighting for Japanese Alliance, with the result that what he considers justice he is splendid Britain destroyed the threatened Ame when he is voicing his prejudices. His rican naval supremacy, and freed herself prejudices are mostly directed against from the Japanese Alliance which Canada Europe, and England is singled out above |would no longer tolerate:
fill as the object of his scom; therefore it is unfortunate that he occupies the position he does-Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.. It is be neath the usual logic of Senator Borak to make use of the common barbershop argument on the foreign debt question America has gotten an immense debt burden to carry because of the war." That argument is always ciuntered with this: Whom does America owe it too it is doubtful if those who think and speak on the debt question the way large number of the population of Senator Borah does constitute a very Americ, for the simple reason that most of us remember that the war was pic tured to us as a Sacred Cause," and making money out of sacred causes is not, here as elsewhere, considered to be just the fung. The money is somewhat tainted.
men in September.
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S.S. SILVER CEDAR."
RE-FLOATED AFTER CARGO "DISCHARGED.
An explanatory letter says that there. no intention at the outset to secure full production costs and emphasises that the best method is to improve gradually the
OSAKA, August 12th. prevailing prices. The object of the
The s.s. Silver Cedar, which went shore scheme is not only to raise but to stabilize prices and, if the firms concerned hold on Monday off the Shikoku const, was fast to the prices, an end should shortly re-doated to-day after some eight hun- be reached to the long existing deplor-dred tous of iron had been trans-shipped. able conditions. The scheme is organized A far as can be ascertained, the vessel in conjunction with a curtailment-of-pro-
is not damaged.
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duction which this section of the trade The Silver Cedar is a steamer of 4,535 EMIGRANTS TO CANADA. ~
requires, and the position will be care. tona, and she was bound from Kobe to
Dairen. MAKING EXCELLENT PROGRESS.fully reviewed at least once a week. The
Ruany, August 12th. Lord Clarendon, Chairman of the
Overseas Settlement Committee, who is Caanda of inspecting conditions in emigrant families sent out under the Government scheme, states that he is greatly impressed with the progress made by these settlers and the efficient arrange- ments by the Canadian Department of Immigration and the Soldiers' Settle- ment Board for assisting these families.
MORE WHEAT. :
GREATER ACREAGE AT HOME.
Ruoay, August 12th. For the first time since 1921, the acreage. of wheat in England and Wales shows an increased total of 1,582,000 acres, this being 82,000 acres larger than last year
BRITISH RAILWAYS.
ONLY ONE FATAL ACCIDENT LAST YEAR.
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RUGBY, August 19th. The returns of railway accidents just issued by the Ministry of Transport show that only one passenger was killed in a train accident last year throughout Great Britain
Federation Committee is promoting the formation of an "American Yarn Asso. ciation" with the object of supporting
prices.
ITALO-SPANISH TREATY.
PROVISIONS FOR NEUTRALITY..
MADRID, August 12th.
POWDER DISASTER.
TERRIBLE-EXPLOSION-AT-
BUDAPEST...
WHAT BORAH "THINKS.
PREDICTS SEVERE ECONOMIC
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NEW YORK, August 12th. A message from Nampa, Idaho, says that Senator Borah in supplementing his statement on M. Clemenceau's letter, have struck harshly on all American cars, has declared in an address that it must and the logic discloses the French desire which amounts to full cancellation de spite the United States' unparalleled gen erosity daring the war.
Senator Borah, in initiating an attack on the World Court, described it as the Agent, Counsellor and Attorney of the League of Nations, controlled by the four Great Powers which are now writing -us" down as Shylocks and usurers" He
predicted that the next fifty years would mark the most severe economic war in bis ontory and in view thereof, there was no just reason why the United States should surrender her war debt collection.
BUDAPEST, August 12th.. Three powder magazines exploded the island of Csepel. The works of the Police prefecture were demolished, whilst The Foreign Minister, interviewed by a hospital and the state wireless station Reuter, has stated that the Italo-Spanish were damaged. Fire is spreading and Treaty of August 10th-creates a Perman-the-flames are visible-for-a-radius-of-35- ent Commission of five, each Government miles. There are numerous casualties. choosing one and the remainder to be chosen by mutual agreement from for eigners not residing in the contracting countries and not employed, by them. The Treaty provides that in the event of one contractant being attacked notwith- standing a peaceful attitude, the other contractant shall remain neutral
MR. MELLON ON HOLIDAY.
"Geneva, August 19th.
THE FRANC
REMAINING FAIRLY STEADY.
LONDON, August 12th. The French franc closed at 177) and the Belgian at 178).
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CHANNEL SWIMMING. IN U.S..
MR. OSCAR ASCHE'S CONFESSION.
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AMERICA'S PART IN THE WAR. It may be well to give America's side of the question a fleeting glance, because if we had been given a little more credit for what we did to win the war, and for what we did lose, perhaps not so much
I USUALLY CARRY £2,000 IN MY for the peoples on both sides of the At-
POCKETS.
Mr. Oscar Asche,, the actor-manager, appeared before the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy at Bristol recently.
There had been difficulty in arriving at the exact state of his indebtedness,, but an approximate figure of £8,600 was given.
would have been said about the money. We did not win the war any more than the man who puts his shoulder to the load and gives the stalled team a boost moves the waggon, but we did help and our help came bafire it was too late. It will do no harm, but may do acme good, lantic to sit down and try to figure out Suat where the world would be to-day America had kept aloof until the end. America's chief loss in the war was not money, but things that no money can buy once they are gone-natural resources, We speat our timber and our coal, our metals and our oil, and all we had that was needed to win the war. Besides, .wg stinted ourselves in regard to food in order that Europe-should-eat-We-work- ed harder and ate less than before or
Four years of peace and prosperity for the little handful of Judaeans followed." It seemed as if they would re-establish themselves in readiness for the return of their brethren from seventy years of captivity as prophesied by Jeremiah, when, Ishmael came to join them, fresh frem hatching a plot with the King of the Aramonites, who was opposed to the establishment of the Judaean. Colony.
Gedaliah did not suspect Ishmael, him- self a Judaean, of any ulterior motives, and gave a great feast of welcome to him and his followers. When the feast was at its height Isbmasl killed Gedalia and his friends, throwing their bodis into a cisters.
A PICKPOCKET'S MISTAKE. Lieutenant Tine Kempi, of the Finnish army, on a visit to Paris, bad a curious and profitable adventure with a pick- pocket. He was making a trip to Ter- aile and back by motor charabane, and during the return journey he discovered that his pocket-book had disappeared, also that the passenger who had ridden next to him on the outward trip had been
left. behind. His loss amounted to only 2001., however, for, on looking under the seat of the vehicle, he found the pocket- book where the thief had thrown it after extracting the notes.
But on examining the case he was sur prised to discover that it contained a fine gold ring which had not been there be fore, and which was worth two or three times the value of the missing notes. Evidently, in feeling rapidly through the pockets of the note case, the thief bad inadvertently allowed his own ring to slip from his finger, thus making a most generous exchange, instead of the one- sided operation he had planned. The Geutenant has notified the police of his find, but in the circumstances it will be difficult for the picpocket to reclaim his property.
SPANISH MATADOR KILLED A bullfighter named Mariano Montes applied to more than, sugar; we stirred, was killed on June 13th during a bullfight
pear Madrid. E and we belped to win the war. That we
Mr. Asche estimated the assets at £20,000, mostly due to him in fees from the Australian theatrical firm of A. N. since. Stir like hell and win the war" C. Williamson and the American firm of Walter Gordon. He took exception, he Mr. Andrew Mellon, secretary of U.S.
said, to the manner in which an inventory in common with the rest of the world,The third bull to be killed tossed of his farm at Nailsworth, Gloucester did part of our work for the profiteers Mariano high into the air, caught him Treasury, is expected this evening, ac-128,000 OFFERED TO MISS EDERLE. shire, had been conducted, and wished to does not detract from the credit due na. on the left horn as he fell, tossed him and know what had happened to a pocket: We did not lose so many men in the war, caught him on the right horn, and ther companied by his son-in-law and daugh
book which contained - £100 left in a as Europe did, but our industrial casualty tossed him for the third time. With ter. He proposes to stay several "days
CHICAGO, August 12th.
drawer of his desk when the Receiver's list was appalling, due to the rush and the femoral artery severed, abdomen torn, excursioning.
In order to promote channel swimming inspector called
hurry of war-time when even less regard and lungs pierced, the unfortunate on this side of the Atlantic, Mr. William. Mr. Ormiston, the Deputy Official Re than usual was paid to safety. It would matador survived 40 minutes. The bull Wrigley, Junior, has offered Miss Gerceiver, who conducted the hearing, said be a good idea for England to take a day was killed by another bullfighter, and the that Mr. Asche had evidently forgotten off and figure out what America did for audience, on hearing of the injuries to trude Ederle 85,000 if she will attempt the £100 at a previous personal examine the safety of the world, and for America Mariano, entered the arena and asked to swim the channel between Catalination for the purposes of the hearing, and to do tas same thing in regard to Eng- the prendent to cancel the next fight. Island and the Californian mainland, he sought an explanation.
land then call it square and, wipe the slate clean. At its most approachable point the eban ael ie 23 miles across..
AUSTRALIAN COTTON.-.,
MELBOURNE, August 12th.
A passenger's risk of death in a train The House of Representatives has accident in Great Britain is estimated agreed to the third reading of the Cotton
Bounty Bill
to be one in 1,700,000,000.
CHARING CROSS STATION.
RUGBY, August 12th.
The new station at Charing Cross, in connection with the link under the Thames to Southern London, will be opened for traffe next month.
At present, passengers enter and leave Charing Crows Underground Station at
the rate of 33,000,000 per year. It is estimated that traffic in the enlarged station will be increased to over 50,000,000
passengers per year.
SIR WILLIAM RIDGEWAY.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, August 12th.
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U.S. BANK RATE
The sudden death is announced of Bir ✨ RE-DISCOUNT -- RATE, RAFSEE William Ridgeway, the famous archeo logist
(Bir William Ridgeway was 73 years
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New York August 12th. The Federal Reserve Bank has raised of age, and had a distinguished career the re-discount rate to four per cent.. in anthropology and archeology. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. and GENERAL MOTORS DIVIDEND. Cambridge, at which universities he won` many classical honours. He was Pro- Lessor of Greek at Queen's College, Cork. and since 1892 "had been Professor of Archeology at Cambridge University.]
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NEW Tozz, August 12th. General Motors have declared a stock dividend of fifty per cent.
Mr. Ache replied that he assumed that the mention of the money was unnecessary as all his papers had been taken during the inventory,
Dr. Ormiston, after comments on the posatisfactory nature of the disclosure, asked Mr. Asche if he was always careless with money d
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That a time of better feeling and under- standing is approaching is evident; many The role of conciliation, the King play signs are pointing in that direction. The ed to such good purpose and the way the comments on the late general strike Crown Prince of Sweden, and his wife showed sympathy, in the Press and among are winning golden opinions in this the people, rather rare in America. The country have helped to dispel some of sympathy and understanding was caused the old ingrained ideas about European in part by the knowledge that such arsonarchies current in this country. strike in America would mean not a tech- Some people are getting the iden into mical revolution but a revolution in fact, their heads that the reason some of the most advanced nations in Europe retain
I usually carry £2,000 in cash in my pockets, replied Mr. Asche. "I sup pose it is rather careless.”
He agreed to adjudication, and Mr.with the violence and bloodshed usual F. S. Salaman, of Messro. Salaman and Hepburn, Bucklersbury, E.C., was ap-
pointed trustee, and
Mr. Asche said that among the papers now held by the Receiver were about a dozen plays, some of which were from his own pen.
in our strikes raised to the last degree.their kings is that the people like the Therefore, if strikes have to be, we admit kings, and the kings like the people. A You can handle them better than we can. badly needed lesson has been given and England came out of the strike with the the historical fiction exploded that we in. law and the Constitution unimpaired; vented liberty and that we have, a mono- with us they are the first to go...
poly on democracy,American Man
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