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THE

COLLISION OFF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

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ENGLISH COAST...

CRASH DURING FOG.

(THROUGH' REUTER'S AGENCY. }

SPAIN NO LONGER INTERESTED."

(THROUGH RIUTER'S 'AGENCY. ]

GENEVA, September 2nd. The public sitting of the Louncil lasted for barely half an hour, and disposed of

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COAL DISPUTE.

MINERS AUTHORISE SETTLEMENT.

NEARING THE END.

[TEROVON REUTER'S SERVICE]

LONDON, September 2nd.

WUCHANG NOT YET CAPTURED.

REPORTED AS STILL IN HANDS

OF NORTHERNERS,"

(THROUGH REDTER'S SERVICE.]

SHANGHAI, September 3rd. According to Japanese reports from

LONDON, September 3rd. reports having collided with the Dutch the opium traffic 20 other dangerous steamer Djanibi, proceeding from Batavinir Austen Chamberlain pointed out to London and Rotterdam, in a dense that the work was serionaly impeded by the non-ratification of the Convention of .log.

1923 by some members of the Council.

Signor Seialoja proposed that those states which had not yet ratified should be invited, do so.

-The North Foreland steamer Folumnia secondary matters, such as the report on meeting to-day heard reports from the Hankow Aghting is going on at Wuchang,

The Folumnig wis damaged and went nahore near Dover.

DUTCH STEAMER SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.

LATRE was heavily The steamer Djambi damaged on the port bow and stern. She is broken all above water..

(ARITISH WIRELESH SERVICE.]

MEDDLESOME RUSSIANS.

HOME SECRETARY DEALS WITH THEM EFFECTUALLY.

SOVIET AGITATORS BARRED.

Rey, September, 'End. A letter has been despatched to the oficials of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress, which will hold its annual conference at Bournemouth next week, informing them of the de cision of the Home Secretary not to per- mit" Mr. Tomsky and other Soviet De- legates to enter Britain for the purpose of attending the conference.

Newspapers state that M. Tomiky, who is President of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions, had prepared a speech on the failure of the general strike in England in May. The agenda, of next

week's conference indicates that no debate

on the general strike will be initiated by the Council but it will probably be dis- cursed on resolutions tabled by some on

the affiliated Unions.

BRITISH EMPIRE AERIAL SERVICE.

The Miners' Delegate Conference at its The report from Notta was districts. perturbing, as it stated that the country which is still in the hands of the was divided and that only one portion Northerners was solid to the Federation. It opined that it was impossible to arrest & big Jocal breakaway unless the Federation abandoned its no compromise attitude.

The Conference adjourned till the afternoon when it is expected that the Executive will ask for plenary powers to negotiate in open conference.

Sir Austen Chamberlain read a roport on Child Welfare and Juvenile Courts and suggested that an effort be made to One prominent leader said that the feel co-ordinate the action of various bodiesing of the Federation was growing, that the time for the struggle had terminated and that the Executive should make a definite peace move..

in this matter.

Burprise was expressed in the lobbies at the absence of Spain, since she had not communicated her withdrawal as Brazil did last June.

PARIB, September 2nd.

A message from Lieneva states that Spain has decided to inform the League that she is no longer. interested in the League's labours.

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FLEXIBLE JOINTS FOR PIPES.

INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT.

AN ALL BRITISH INVENTION.

[FROM A LONDON CRRESPONDENT.] There is apparently no end to the ingenuity of the modern engineer, and In the afternoon, the Miners' Execu

one of the most interesting recent deve- tive, by a majority, decided to recom-lopments now making rapid progress is mend the Delegate Conference to give the Rexible pipe joint. Everyone asso- them plenary powers and an open man cintas joints with something screwed up date to negotiate a settlement of the coal tight and absolutely unyielding, but stoppage and approach the Government rigidity is now known, to possess mary for a new conference with that object.

practical disadvantages. FINAL DECISION.

tions.

LATER. Conference

TANGIER QUESTION.

MADRID, September 2ad.

Limparcial, in Dewspaper

The Minara" Delegate editorial, says that although Spain will always recognise the League of Nations agreed to the Executive's recommenda- na highly estimable and important international organism, her final opinion is that the League must depend on the manner in which the Powers holding per- manent seats on the Council deal with ber demand for the incorporatiod of Tangier in the Moroccan Protectorate

[DRITION WIRELESS SERVICE] TRIBUTES TO SPAIN.

The Miners' Conference, by 857,000 votes to 325,000, authorised the Execu. tive to negotiate a national agreement and submit the result to a further Dele gato Conference.

SITUATION WHOLLY "CHANGED. LONDON, September fad Though a settlement of the coal stop page is not likely in the immediate fature in view of the amount of consultations necessary, the fact that the Delegate Conference has empowered the Miners Executive to negotiate, free from the old formula,," Not a minute on the day, not a penny off the pay" bas changed the whole situation, and the Executive has practically been told to get the best terms obtainable, despite opposition to any retreat on the part of the President, Mr. Herbert Smith, backed by the York. shire and Lancashire delegates.

Reory, September 2nd. The forty-first meeting of the League of Nations Council was opened to-day at Geneva in the absence of Spanish re- It is assumed here that presentatives. the Spanish Delegate is waiting instruc tions from Madrid in view of yesterday's recommendations of the Special Commis sion of the League appointed to consider the question of the composition of the League Council. It was to deal with the situation created by the demands of Spain and certain other members of the League to permanent seats on the Council The difficulty of a national agreement, that the Special Commission was appoint to which the owners are solidly opposed, lus decision that, apart from that may be overcome by the establishment of Leserved for Germany, ne addition variable district minima, subject to the should at present be made to permanent anfeguard of ratification by a National seats, but that the method of electing non- | Board Ruasy, September, 2nd. permanent members should be varied and

that

seats so-called semi-permanent Clood progress is being made in pre should be created, has been communicat paration for the inauguration of theed to the Spanish Government..! fortnightly air service which will ba

Warm tributes to the valuable work operated by the Imperial Airways be-

done for the League by Spain were paid tween Cairo and Karachi in January. Surveys of the 2,500-mile route have long at yesterday's meeting of the Commission ing places, Bercdromes and rest houses particularly from Latin America, for since been completed and a chain of land- and these, together with moving appeals Spain's continued co-operation in the is being established.

tasks before the League, have also been forwarded to Spain.

FROM CAIRO TO KARACHI. FORTNIGHTLY TRIPS.

It is the ultimate intention to conduct a weekly service, but, at first, aeroplanes will leave Cairo every other Wednesday after arrival of the mail boat from Eug- land and will reach Baghdad on Thurs day. Passengers will then change to an- other air liner, and, dying via the Per sian Gulf, will reach Karachi on Satur day, the connections being made with trains for Delhi and Calcutta.

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(THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.] WHAT CHINA RESERVES.

GENEVA, September 2nd. In the course of the discussions of the Council Reorganisation Committee, which adjourned till to-morrow, Mr. Cha de sired the insertion in the report of a statement that China reserved the right

THE SESSION OPENS.

Passengers will save from five to eight

to submit a claim for a permanent sent days, according to their "destination, on

when opportunity occurred. the England-India journey. Tests are shortly to be made with the first of five Empire-type aeroplanes which will be used. They are being built by the De Havilland Company, and each is driven by three Bristol-Jupiter engines develop ing a total of 1,200 horse-power.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE ST. LEGER.

PROBABLES FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY.

-LONDON, September 2nd. The following are left in the St. Leger: Booklet, Hercules, Lex, Steel Point, Hilika, Comedy King, Wangratta, Cais ot, Plazetta, Norman Duke, Glenalbyn, Lourale, Masked Ruler, Little Jack the Second, Darial, Scuthbourne, Foliation and Corenach.

GENEVA, September 2nd. The forty-five session of the League Council has opened. Spain was not re- presented. The report of the Council Reorganisation Committee will not be ready till the end of the week.

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. "A WONDERFUL SPECTACLE " IN ENGLAND.

DUE ON JUNE 29th.

THE VOTING.

RUGBY, September 2nd. The Miners' National Delegate Confer ence to-day decided, by 667,000 votes to 5,000, to empower the Executive to acctiate a national agreement for the The Conference was in cession for the greater part of the day. It sat for three settlement of the coal dispute.

hours in the morning, under the presi- deney of Mr. Herbert Smith and received reports from every district as to the position.

After a discussion on these reports the Conference adjourned to enable the Executive to meet and frame a recom- The Executive met forthwith and it was meadation to lay before the conference reported that it had, by a majority, de- powers and an open mandate to enter ded to ask the conference for plenary into negotiations for a settlement. This 'decision was communicated to the dele- gates late this afternoon.

The ideal is obviously a tight joint, but which at the same time is so ficxible that subsidence, general ground movement. and lack of exact alignment do not make any difference, which is the abject of the "Victautiefiexibla high pressure joint. This also has the great advantage that it can be made or disconnected with great rapidity, not more than a minute or tw

with unskilled or native labour, even when under water, and modern mass production methods have resulted in its production at a price little more than ordinary joints. It allows of each single section of a pipe line being beat off the straight in any plane to an angle of ideg.-5deg, according to the diameter, and at the same time gives an absolutely tight joint for water, many dilute solutions, including salt water, sewage, and vinegar, compressed air, household gas, natural gas, crude oil, benzole, petrol, and in fact almost any liquid or gas other than steam, under all conditions of pressure between VACUUMI and 3 tors per square inch,

British Speciality.

The invention is British throughout, being a speciality of the Victaulic Co., Ltd, of Dean Stanley Street, West- minster, and the design is essentially a ring of high grade rubber composition made in beat-over form constituting in section a flat inverted “Ü' contained within an outer metal housing ring. The pipes, cast iron, wrought iron, steel, galvanised iron, or other material are made with a rim or small shoulder at each end, as supplied by any pipe waker, and the encircling metal ring is belted that the lips of the inner rubber ring round with a spanner in such a manner always press down on the rims or shoulders of each pipe so that the greater the pressure the tighter becomes the joint, without interfering with the flexi- bility."

The field for a joint of this description is naturally very wide in character, but some of the main applications are in the oil fields for conveying water, salt water, crude oil and high pressure gas in pipe lines laid over the roughest country, com- pressed air in mines, gas pipes under the ground, sewage mains, pipes under the

maina. The use of rubber in this way has proved to be highly satisfactory, and- in fact the claim is made that the ring will last a century, longer than the pipe A further adjournment was taken to itself. Another important field in which enable South Wales and other district this joint can be used is in marine en- representatives to hold a group meeting gineering, and Dock and Harbour work. to consider their attitude. On re-assent-The joint is approved by the Board of bling and after some further discussion, Trade, Lloyds Registry, and the Burean

Veritas (Paris).

the motion was carried.

RADIO CONTROL SURPRISE. CABINET MINISTER SPOKEN OF AS CHAIRMAN.

£5,000 A YEAR.

"Our Coming Total Eclipse" was the The name of Lord Kustace Percy, the title of a paper read by Professor H. H. President of the Board of Education, is Turner before the British Association atteing associated in political circles with their meeting at Oxford.

He said that under the most favourable the chairmanship of the British Broad. conditions the shadow of the sun cast by casting Corporation, which will take over our tiny moon only just reached the earth the control of broadcasting from the British Broadcasting Company at the end with its pencil point, which described a

of the year. -AEROPLANE CRASHES.

narrow track on the earth's surface. To'

Colour is lent to the suggestion, says TWO PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. see the eclipse total an observer must be the Evening Standard, by the fact that within this track The various tracks the Government Broadcasting Committee LONDON, September 2nd. might neglect a given region for cen A civil seroplane crashed near Leather-turies, or might cross it several times declared itself impressed by the evidence and extended employment of broadcast- head this evening and was set afire. One within a limited period. Thus Spain had of authorities who advocated the vigorous man and one woman were burned to death total eclipses in 1900 and 1905; and Eng-

liberal sense. and another man was severely burned land had total eclisses in 1715 and 1794, ing for education in its widest and most and sent to hospítal.

AZORES DISASTER.

LATEST CASUALTY LIST.

but for 200 years England had not again been favoured, nor should it be favoured (after next year) for another 200 years at least. But on June 29th, 1927, a total eclipse track would cross England from Southport to Weat Ilartlepool; and those who stationed theruselves on that line would see the sun totally eclipsed soon in-after his rising. To get up at sunrise was

LONDON, September 2nd. The latest news from the Azores states that 12 persons were killed and 900 jured, and 600 houses destroyed as the result of the earthquakė at Fayal,

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] AMERICAN HELP.

It is understood that they are anxious to have at the head of the new organi sation one who is familiar with educa tional administration and requirements. The acceptance of the position by Lord Eustace Perey would involve his resigna tion from the Government and also" from the House of Commons,

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram, quoted below, was re- ceived at the American Consulate-General from the Manika Observatory at 12.10 p.m. yesterday :-

N.

10.30 am, 3rd-Typhoon in about 13zdeg. Long. E., 26deg. Lat. N., moving

A later telegram stated:-

, direc- 7.13. p.m., 3rd-Typhoon in about 133deg Long. E., 2deg. Lat. tion unknown,

week

The total output of the Kailan Mining. Administration's mines for the epding August 21st amounted to 51,478 tons, and the sales during the period to 60,793 tons.

As Indian constable extracted a bribe of 50 cents from a street hawker on Wednes day and intimated that he would return when he wanted another 20 cents. This was reported to the police, two twenty- cent pieces were marwed, and they were later found in the constable's possession: At the Central Magistracy yesterday he was sentenced to four months with hard labour.

BRITISH SCIENCE.

THE PRINCE.

The new post is an attractive one from no hardship at that time of year, and the point of view of status, and it is be those who took that opportunity would lieved that the salary which will be paid. never regret, it if the weather should be will be £5,000 a year the salary of a fine. They would. see the sun's wonder Frime Minister-together with a guar-SIA OLIVER LODGE'S TRIBUTE TO ful corons, the outlying parts of him never NEW YORK, September 2nd.seen in ordinary daylight or at a merely antes of the position for ten years.. Reports from Province, Rhode Island, says that the steamer Canada has left for Horta at full speed with tents and other relief supplies.

TERRIBLE TRAM SMASH. EIGHT KILLED IN CRASH.

NEW Yonx, September 2nd. A report from Monroe, Michigan, states that eight people were killed and gs injured as the result of a collision between two trams when going at full speed. The trams telescoped for three quarters of their length.

partial eclipse.

Treasury Conferences.

The British Association for the Ad- Astronomers would be busy photograph. The utmost secrecy is being maintain-vancement of Science has decided to hold ing it in various ways, and should not be ed as to the appointments but Dame the 1928. meetings in South Africa. disturbed, as there were only 20 to 25 Henrietta Barnett. may be found to be At the closing session, Sir Oliver, precious seconds in which to do their one of the members, and Lord Gainford, Lodge, thanking the Prince of Wales for work. But anyone could see it from chairman of the B.B.C., is almost certain his interets in the Association, said his wherever the sun might be visible, and to be another.

#presence made the gathering & memor

the sight was one never to be forgotten. Capt. Ian Fraser, the blind M.P., who able one.

The occasion was to be regarded prim-was a member of the Broadcasting Com-I have reason to think that the Prince arily as an opportunity for seeing a won-mittee and is a recognised authority on of Wales gave his Presidential address o

good deal of trouble and thought. derful spectacle, which was to be seen in wireless, is also being mentioned. England only once in several centuries, It is understood that conferences have It is not altogether a secret that his and the most urgent duty of the patriotic taken place at the Treasury to arrange distinguished family, chaffed him over his Englishman or woman was to help all the final details of the winding-up of the subject and suggested that he might make kinds of people, especially children, to B.B.C. and the transference of its or sea it if they possibly could,

ganisation to the new body,

a mess of it. But we all agree that he made no mess of it." (Cheers.)

Daily Press Cricket Competition.

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Selecting the Hongkong

Interport Team.

First Prize

Second Prize

Third Prize

$200

50

25

WE ARE PRINTING BELOW THE FIRST COUPON FOR THE COMPETITION WHICH HAS BEEN ADVERTISED DUR- ING THE PAST FEW DAYS.

THE COMPETITION. IS. DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS—SERIES A, B AND O. A COUPON FOR SERIES A WILL APPEAR IN EVERY COPY OF THE PAPER ISSUED UNTIL SEPTEMBER Iith. TWENTY LISTS OF PLAYERS "MAY BE SENT IN UNDER SERIES A. EACH LIST", MUST BE ACCOMPANIED, BY A COUPON, BUT A COMPETITOR NEED NOT WRITE SEPARATE "LISTS IF RE WISHES TO STAND OR FULL BY HIS ORIGINAL SELECTION.

ONE LIST ACCOMPANIED ET TWENTY COUPONS WILL BE JUDGED AS TWENTY LISTS, OR ONE ACCOMPANIED BY TEN COUPONS AS TEN LISTS, AND SO ON, AND POINTS FILL BE GIVEN ACCORDINGLY.

(The Rules of the Competition were fully set out in the 'Daily Press" of August 26th, 28th, 30th and 31st.)

ALL SERIES A LISTS MUST BE SENT TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS" ON OR BEFORE SEPTEMBER 18th. THE COMPILATION OF THESE LISTS WILL DOUBTLESS PRE- SENT CONSIDERABLE. DIFFICULTY, BUT IT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED THAT DOUBLE MARKS ARE EARNED BY CORRECT SELECTIONS. "SERIES-A, THEREFORE, PROVIDES EXPERT JUDGES WITH A GOOD CHANCE TO, ESTABLISH A

LEAD IN THE COMPETITION.

INTERPORT PLAYERS.

IT MAY BE INTERESTING TO RECALL THE NAMES OF SOME OF THE PLAYERS WHO ́HAVE REPRESENTED HONGKONG IN THE LAST 'FEW YEARS:-

.:

H. R. B. HANCOCK

T. E. PEARCE.

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G. R. SAYER

E. B. REED

R. E. D. BIRD) A. C. I. BOWKER

H. OWEN HUGHES REV. T. B. POWELL REV. E. C. QUICK

B. E. A WEBSTER.

B. D. EVANS C.Q.M.S. STRIPP

PAY-LT. HARGREAVES, B.N..

“L. J. DAVIES

CAPT. OLLIVER, E.G.A.

CAPT. HAVELOCK-DAVIES MAJOR EDWARDS

H. N. BALHATCHET

"F. J. DE ROME

E. O-FINCHER

B. H. WILD

J. D. HUMPHREYS

CAPT. E. W. MORRIS, I.A.B.C. J. N. RAMSAY.

THIS LIST, IS IN NO WAY COMPREHENSIVE, AND MANY OF.

'THESE: PLAYERS HAVE EITHER LEFT THE COLONÍ FOR GOOD OR ARE ABSENT ON LEAVE THERE SHOULD BE MANY NEW FACES IN THE TEAM WHICH DOES DUTY FOR US IN NOVEMBER.

"[Competitors are expected to pive correct initials of all players on their liste. There is no guarantee that the initials in the lit above are correct.}

Coupon

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Cricket Competition

September 4th, 1926.

Series A,

A MAXIMUM OF 410 POINTS MAY BE SCORED BY 20 LISTS IN SERIES A TWO POINTS BEING GIVEN FOR EACH CORRECT. SELECTION ON EACH LIST