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BLOODLESS REVOLU TION IN GREECE.

GENERAL KONDILIS MASTER OF THE SITUATION,

THE HONGKONG

GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE.

SPEECH BY DR. MARX.

WAR MINISTER ANNESTED.

"PAINFULLY DISAPPOINTED "

TO TROOPS IN ZONES.

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[THCOTOU REUTER'S AGENCY.}.

ATHENS, August 22nd.

A bloodless revolution has broken out. General Kondilis, who is master of the situation, has arrested the War Minister,

(THROUGH ILTER'S SERVICE]

BERLIN, August end. In a speech at Breslau, Dr. Marz de clared that Germany's expectations from the Treaty of Locarno had nos yet been

DAILY

PRESS MONDAY, AUGUST · 23RD

1926

THE COAL DISPUTE. U.S. AND WAR DEBTS. THE FIGHTING IN THE FAR EASTERN CABLE

WORKMEN DRIFTING BACK.

[BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE)

RUGBY, August 20th. The Miners' Federation Executive has communicated to the Government a ver- batim report of the proceedings of their meeting with the mine, owners, at which an attempt to re-open the negotiations for a antional settlement of the cool dis pute proved unsuccessful..

The Prime Minister, who had intended returning this afternoon to his Worcester for his holiday at Aix les Bains, decided

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NORTH.

SETTLEMENTS MAY BE

THE KUOMINCHUN RETREAT.

(THROVON REUTER'S SERVICE]

NEW ARMS PARLEY1

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, August th. The World's Washington correspondent declares that the chief reason for the re-

ported-return-of-Mr. Houghton to America, is to discuss the debt situation with a view to obtaining modification of

PERING, August 21st Latest reports indicate that the Kuc- minchun forces evacuated. Kalgan on the 16th instant while the forces at Nankon and Husilai had previously been reduced to two and one brigades, respectively, which had been instructed to hold on as long as possible.

Fengtion aeroplanes found Kalgaa un-

NEWS.

(THROUGH REUTER'8 AGENCY.]

A SHANGHAI AMALGAMATION,

BRITISH CO.C. AND CHINA ASSOCIATION.

SHANGHAI, August 31st. A general meeting of the British Cham- ber of Commerce was held to-day for the purpose of considering the amalgamation of the Committees of the Chamber and

seroulis, and ordered the arrest of ulfilled to the extent desired. Germanashire home prior to leaving on Sunday the debt agreements in order to pacity defended on the 17th instant, and the the Shanghai branch of the China Asso-

Pangalos. The insurgents have occupied the telegraph office and all the military establishments.

ARMY SUPPORT THE NEW, GOVERNMENT.

All the Army officers have pinced them. selves at the disposal of the new Govern ment, which Konditis, who holds anti- Bolshevist views, has ordered by pro- clamation. "It will be formed on National

FLEET AND ARMY SUPPORT NEW REGME

were painfully disappointed since the evacuation of the Cologne zene at the number of troops in the second and third

to remain in London in order to study the report.

It is stated that the miders' leaders, zones, which lately had increased by after further meetings of their Executive to-day in London, dispersed to their dis. tricts; and no immediate new negotia tions are in prospect.

thousands of mea.

Dr. Marx said that they must be certain when they went to Geneva that Germany's entrance into the League would proceed without friction to a successful conclu sion. He explained that Germany was

Meanwhile the chief interest in the coat situation is centred in the areas where the men are showing a desire to return to work in response to local offers

lines, under the Presidency of . Kon-ready to co-operate and work with the by the colliery owners. The members douriatis.

Examining Committee and in the in-affected by this movement are relatively M. Pangalos is at present on the terests of the League as a whole "We sinall, but the development is regarded

shall strive for, the maintenance of theas significant. island of Spezzin.

-Councils and for freedom of action. We It is reported that 2,000 men signed on are net posing as the opponent of any for work in the Nottinghamshire and candidate. We will only ask, in a final Derbyshire area to duy in pursuance of Kondilis carried out his coup with the settlement, that the interests of all mem- a local agreement which is contrary to bera of the League be taken into go the decision of the miners of the national aid.of the Athens Garrison.

organisation, and provides for seven hours and a half per day instead of seven hours.

LATER.

He explains that the revolution is aimed count.".

at, destroying Pangalos' tyranny.

The fleet and army support Kondilis, and a warship has gone to Spezzia to arrest Pangalas.

Athens is quite calm.

CHURCH AND STATE.

THE VATICAN AND MEXICO.

Roxe, August 21st. The Vatican has issued a semi-official statement regarding the Mexican situa- tion, to the effect that President Calleg refused to accept the demands of the Mexican Bishops regarding the suspen. sion of the Anti-Catholic laws and the attainment of a fair separation and ar- rangement between Church and State has created no surprise at the Vatican, where the refusal was foreszen,

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] EPISCOPATE'S NEXT STEP.

MEXICO CITY, August 21st.

THE "H.29" DISASTER.

A MISINTERPRETED: ORDER.

LONDON, August 20th.

At the inquest at Devonport on the victims of the H.29 disaster, two officers gave evidence of ordering water to be taken in to trim the vessel and said the chief staker misinterpreted the order and fooded the tanks The jury found that the man died from suffocation, due to

the foundering of the submarine which was the result of misconception of the order given.

The Coroner said it was impossible to blame anyone for the mistake.

FRENCH ECONOMY.

POPULARISING STALE BREAD.

PARIS, August 20th. Decrees have been issued which pre-

scribe returns from all areas under wheat giving an estimate of yields as well con- trol of cereal movements and existing stocks of grain.

In certain other coal fields the steady drift back to work, which has been gonig on for some time past, continues; but in all the larger areas, such as Yorkshire,

Lancashire, Northumberland, Durham, and South Wales the pits are still idle. THE NOTTS AND DERBYSHIRE

MEN'S RETURN.

The breakaway of Notts and Derby shire mtuers continues. By noon a fur ther 10,000 men signed on to start work on Monday.

Mr. Cook made an eleventh-hour change of his week-end plans, and rushed to the midland to attempt to check the breakaway.

Some of the collieries have their full

quota.

nations.

the growing opposition of European It is added that while Mr. Houghton does not favour an immediate yielding

Fenstien advanced cavalry and artillery ciation with a view to closer co-operation. reached Kalgan on the morning of the The mecting adopted the following resolu

The Kuominchun forces had suction: That this meeting of Members of

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to the elamour by debtors, he is cur-cessfully removed all important military the British Chamber of Commerce of

vinced that the time is not distant when the debts settlement must be revised, especially the British, who, he says, may be willing to adhere to the agreement but feel that they have been treated un- fairly since greater concessions have been made to others.

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HOLIDAY TIME.

WASHINGTON, August 20th. State Department officials are aware that Mr. Houghton, who is holi daying in Scotland, is returning to America, but they remark-that it is the vacation season.

"NAVAL LIMITATIONS."

New York. August 20th. "The United States to call its own parley on arms if Geneva fails" is the. headline in the New Fort World, to n dispatch from its special correspondent at President Coolidgo's čamp.

The corespondent claims that President Coolidge intends to proceed further with naval limitations whether the League of Nations is successful or unsuccessful. He states that Mr. Kellogg hinted this in his Plattsburg speech.

The writer claims that this statement of President Coolidge's-intention is the first concrete information since the in- ception of the League discussions, and says. President Coolidge is merely hold ing in abeyance his own disarmament programme, which he is ready to revive if the League wavers.

(THROGH RUTER'S AGENCY.]

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Shanghai hereby ratides the amalgama- tion of the committees of the Chamber and the Shanghai branch of the China Association." The amalgamation is effec- tive from September 1st under the title of the British Chamber of Commerce and China Association Committee of Shang-

bai. ".

According to semi-official reports Mar shal Feng Yu Hsiang ordered a

general retreat, which the majority of the Kuo- minchun's leaders deemed unwise but did zot dare to oppose.

WU PEI FU EXPECTED" TO LEAVE FOR HUPEH.

PEXING, August 21st: In accordance with the recent announce- ment that he would proceed South when the Kuominchun was driven out of the passes, Wu Pei Fu left Changhsintica at THE MISFORTUNES OF A LAUNCH noon to-day, his immediate destination being Paoting but in view of the develop- ments in Hunan it is expected that he will go on to Hupeh with the least delay.

PIRATES AND PICKETS.

DETAINED IN CANTON,

The launch Fee Dia, formerly register- Chi Hsieh Yuan arrived at Changhsin- ed in Hongkong as the No. 1 of steam tien yesterday and has taken over the tugs and launches, which some time ago command of the Chibli-ites in North

with many misfortunes. She was recently went on the Canton-Nantao run, has met

pirated.

China during Wa Pei Fu's absence. MARSHAL WU AND THE CABINET.

Leaving Nantao, some three weeks ago PEKING, August 22nd.

some eighteen pirates, unknown to the Liu Meng Kung. Chi Hsieh Tuan's officers and crew, had mingled with the delegate, proceeded to Paotingfu from passengers. One of them began a quarrel; Changhaintien yesterday evening in order with the compradore; and the latter be- to consult Wu Pei Fu with regard to coming truculent, the pirate held him up Cabinet reorganisation.-Wu Pei-Eu is with a revolver and called upon his co- reported to have insisted upon Tu Hai rades." The officers, crew and passengers were cowed and searched, but as the Kuei retaining the Premiership..

launch was making for the nearest village inside British territory a Cantonese gun- boat appeared The pirates jumped over- board; some of them' were killed by shots NEARLY 50 TRIPE ACROSS THE from the gunboat, and it was thought that

the others were drowned.

BOY'S JOURNEYS BY AIR.

CHANNEL.

The miners returned and with their JAPAN FAVOURS AMERICA'S IDEA. the head porter of a West End hotel

ponies were taken down the pits with readiness.

The resumption evoked scenes of great enthusiasm in many villages. There was a continuous stream of men signing on at the Mansfeld area, one pit having a queue duc handred yard long by nine in The Cabinet has prepared a general the morning. The men did not ask to plan of economy and decided to control see the terms in black white, being sales of commodities, improve the system anxious to sign on as quickly as poss- of supply and the working of publicible. provision markete,

Following President Calles' reply to "the Archbishop's petition, the Episcopate announces that an appeal will be made next Congress to amend the religious clauses of the Constitution. Catholic laymen will handle the campaign, as clergy are forbidden to take part in poli. tical activities. The National Chamber of Commerce, which has been considering

Stale bread must be popularised and the economic situation has adopted a resolution advising Mexican business meals in restaurants will be limited to people to reduce their purchases of two "courses, whilst profiteers will be foreign commodities and suggesting a Prosecuted.

substantial increase in import duties, particularly or luxuries. Also the for mation of a Government Commission to supervise the issue of foreign drafts to combat the sending of Mexican money abroad.

PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH CATHOLIC DIGNITARIES.

Mexico City, August 22nd. For the first time in Mexican history, since the period of the War of Reform the President has ixty years ago, officially conferred with high catholic dignitaries Yesterday President Calles conferred for ninety minutes with Arch- bishop Ruis and Biskop Diaz on the religious question. The proceedings were cordial, but there is still a deadlock, as the prelates pointed out that the Pope had forbidden the Church to recognise the principle regarding the Churches public property, upon which President Calles insists..

FLIGHT AROUND SOUTH AMERICA.

WABEINGTON, August 2nd. U.S. War Department is sending five Army airplanes & flight around South America this year. The officiala decline to discuss the details.

OBITUARY.

MRS. F. W. VANDERBILT.

Panie, August 22nd. The wife of Mr. Frederick William Vanderbilt died suddenly at the Hotel Ritz of complications, following an opera- tion for appendicitis.

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[RZUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NICARAGUA'S REVOLT."

LIVELY DOINGS.

MANAGUA, August 20th. The Revolutionaries have attacked San Antonio and killed the assistant superin- tendent and several employers of one of the largest sugar estates in the district. They also dynamited a troop train be tween Managua and Corinto. No one was killed but a few soldiers were in- jured.

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THE AIR DISASTER.

THE INQUEST.

RUGBY, August 20th. De Lisle, the pilot of the French aeroplane" which crashed at Romney Marsh, was an experienced civil aviator, having flown across the Channel no fewer than one hundred times.

The inquest on the three victims of the disaster, including De Lisle, has been adjourned pending the Air Minister's examination of the engines of the wreck- ed planë

TOKYO, August 1st.

It is understood that the Government highly approves of Mr. Kellogg'i Platts- burg speech in which he expressed the opinion that regional agreements were. best for regulating land armaments, but impractical for limiting aaral construc tip.

The speech is taken as meaning that

Naval Disarmament Conference in the President Coolidge expects to call a

event of a Geneva failure.

Offcial circles never anticipated that Geneva would be successful, though the Government has sincerely endeavoured to make it successful as it is anxious to enable Japan to reduce her huge naval expenditures.

An American boy of about 13 went to where he was staying and casually asked him to reserve for him a seat in on sir liner leaving for Paris the next day.

The next morning he flew over alone. father had been called to Paris a day or two before, and not being able to The explanation was that the boy's

return had told his son to follow him i the usual way. But the 13-years-old traveller, with the vision of youth, had decided that trains and boats were things of the past...

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"Nearly every American boy tries to take his parents up in the air, and generally persuades them to make at least one Channel crossing," said en official of the Savoy Hotel.

But once again, misfortune dogged the Fee Din. All went well on her return to Nantao, but coming back to Canton with about 20 piculs of salt fish and 10 piculs of, mangoes on board, she was en-

held that the cargo had come from Hong-:- kong and seized the vessel A fine of countered by strike pickets. The pickets

83,000 was levied, and it is said that the pickets demanded payment in Hongkong money. The launch is still detained in

Canton.

INSTALMENTS' DANGERS.

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PURCHASING.

"Continental visitors," he added, fre- quently travel by air, partly to delight MR. HENRY FORD ON RECKLESS their children. There is a French boy, the son of a barrister, who is at school in England. He makes the air journey. at the beginning, middle, and end of every term, but his father always travels with him, and goes back the next day. Although he is not yet 14, he has already made nearly 50 air journeys.”

Mr. Henry Ford, at the moment of announcing a further reduction in the price of his cars, takes occasion to preach a sermen to the American public apon their utterly reckless purchasing on the instalment plan. In England we have no conception of the extent to which the system prevails throughout the United. States," says the New Staterman." "

As, however, political observers believe that the coining Diet will be dissolved, after which there will be a general elec- tion under the new suffage law, whereby it is estimated nine million new voters. will participate, the attitude on disar- mazoent will possibly alter if a new Gov-NEW YORK PAPER'S ADVICE TO basis. Probably the sales of secondhand

ernment other than a Ken-sei-kai is in- stalled.

DOG AND HIS MÄSTER'S DEATH.

LORD IRWIN ON AGRICULTURE. Speaking as a farmer to formera the Viceroy at Nagpur recently made an

At Camberwell an inquest was held on interesting contribution to the discussion

His the body of Francis John Woodard, aged of India's agricultural problems. Excellency's practical knowledge of and 35, a waiter, of St. Cloud Street, West enthusiasm for the premier industry, both Narwood, who was found dead in a batch I of England and India, are well known and at his home. From the evidence it ap- added special importance to his expoti peared that Woodard's wife had gone. tion of India's needs in developing the into the country for a few days, and he industry which enables ber to export the was to have joined her there. For three produce necessary to pay for the goods days the neighbours, were disturbed by terrier dog, and one of them entered the which it is necessary for her to im- the incessant barking of Woodard's small port.

As it still continued to bark and ap- Nor did His Excellency fail to express bouse and took the dog home for a meal. his strong sympathy with schemes which rendered it possible for India to deal Peared very restless, the house was again entered. Thereupon the dog immediately" with the raw material from the seed to led the way to the bathroom door, upon the factory But, in the main, the chief which it began to scratch. Upon the need is for the leading spirits of Indian door being forced, Woodard was found The rebels have evacuated Quezalgueque agriculturs to set an example in adopt dead in the bath, which was full of water. and have burned part of the town ing progressive methods for the improve. Dr. C. H. Welch said he found the door, meat and the intensification of their window, and flue of the bath room shut, enterprise. The farmer, whether in Great Death was due to syncope from asphyxia Britain or India, is notoriously conser from the vitiated atmosphere. vative, but in few industries is enlighten- must have been a slight escape of the ed receptivity of new ideas more profit gns. The Coroner recorded a verdict-of

death from misadventure.

WORK OF DESTRUCTION.

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including the largest distillery in Nicaragua. The Mayor and others are reported killed. The rebels were severe ly punished in other skirmishes.

able.

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-DON'TS FOR AMERICANS.

THOSE IN EUROPE.

Of the motor-cars made in 1925 not less than 80 per cent. were sold on this: cars are not materially different, and what is true of motor-cars is true also in America of practically all articles of luxury-musical instruments, jewels, fur and the like and of a large part of the necessities of daily life.

NEW TORE, July 2nd. Noting that there are various ways for Americans to be annoying when they go abroad besides tripping up people in the streets three Connecticut youths Debt in the United States has be are reported to have done recently the World: this morning offers the following list of" Don'ts" for the use of Europe going travellers:-

1. Don't boast that the American currency is the only real-honest-to-God money in the world. It isn't Besides, such bursts of financial patriotiam are. annoying to people who did not spend the years 1914 to 1918 in accumulating world credit.

2. Don't fret too much in public that a dinner which costs 70frs, one Monday costs 125 the next.

come a national industry,' saya Mr. Ford; the American people no longer are sold, and it is bad business alike for buy; they are backed into a corner and creditor and debtor."

CASH BASIS.

The situation, Mr. Ford believes, will bring a jolt, which in due time will bring the American people back to a cash basis. Recent inquiries show that the percentage of loan on the instalment system is sur prisingly small.

The banks which deal in instalment 3. Don't grumble if the Customs paper have been prospering and expand- official on the Swiss-Italian frontiering, and their boast is that they need for wishes to know how many cigars you are their protection an insurance fund that bringing with you, and don't call his is relatively very small, their methods of interest meddlesome. When you return collection are proving extremely efficient. home it will be your privilege as an American to pay tax not only on cigars but also on every blessed vest button acquired while you were in Europe

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"All this is doubtless. true; but it is' obvious that the first serious check to American prosperity must shake the en tire fabric of instalment credit. Not un-

4. Don't confide to your fellow-pas til that has been experienced and the Bengers in railway trains that America. veat losses been out, Mr. Ford reminds is the most generous of all creditors bis countrymen, will it be possible for "because she has cancelled all that part them to know how they stand in relation of the debts which nobody can collect, to purchasing power.'