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WEEK DAYS

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12,09

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12.91

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12,54

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19.48

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7.23

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9.26

10.59

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3.25

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8.48 11.17 1221

3,98

6.38 6.89 5,51

Arr. 820

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2.87

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SUNDAYS AD PEBLIC HOLIDAYS,

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COAL STRIKE NEARING "ITS END.)

[TROM OF OWN CORRESPONDENT.}.

LONDON, August 7th. The coal strike drags on its weary way. As I write we are in the 17th week of the stoppage, with all the inevitable loss to

trade and industry in various ways, and

# whole. its injury to the country as This week there has been a meeting of the miners' leaders with a few Ministers at the request of the former who asked for an opportunity to discuss the situa. tion. It is the first advance made by

the representatives of the strikers in that

direction; but nothing has resulted, and nothing seems likely to result from the meeting, which was really in the nature of a fishing inquiry, for the miners' leaders had no suggestions to make. But the mere fact that they wanted to talk to Ministers is held to be an indication that they are coming to the stage when they must admit that the game is up. There is a certain negative, satisfaction in that. It is in strong contrast to their previous trumpetings that they would make the owners and the Government come to their terms.

Mr. Cook, the Secretary of the Miners' Federation, who is held to be mainly responsible for all the trouble, still keeps on repeating his parrot-cry, "Not penny of the pay, not a minute on the day," but he is not shouting it so loudly nor so often. It exactly explains why the strike has lasted so long, because obviously, if the representatives of the men take the stand that there can be no

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SIR H. SPICER'S DEATH."

"VÌ MIGHT DO HARM TO OTHERS.”

SUICIDE AT THIRD ATTEMPT.

THE INQUEST.

The inquest was held at Westminster," on August Both, on Sir Howard Spicer, 35. vice-chairman" and joint managing director of Messrs. Spicers, Ltd., the paper manufacturers, who was found shot on Monday at Garland's Hotel, Suffolk street, Pall Mall, S.W., of which it was

stated he was a director.

Mr. Norman Spicer, of Hanover Eouse, Regent's Park, said his brother lived at Elm Tree-road, St. John's Wood, N.W. He had had two or three attacks of in fuenza, which left him is a depressed state and caused him to worry about his health.

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A special correspondent of the Daily ers had a two hours' chat on August 18th with Mr. R. F. Johnston, C.B.E., tutor to the ex-Emperor Hsuan-Tung of China Mr. Johnston is now in Eng land on an official mission in connection with the proposal to remit to China the A Splendid Combination

Boxer Irdemnity.

Although Mr. Johnston, owing to his oficial position, was unable to give any, thing in the nature of an interview, he discussed in a general way one or two points about the present situation in

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family, but his sister committed suicide three years ago,

It was stated that Sir Howard waE

found dead in the directors' room at the hotel. A double-burrelled gun was lying

across the chair-

Cord Round Trigger.

A constable said the butt of the gun had broken away, apparently because the gun was not held properly when fired.

The Coroner: How do you think he bad pulled the trigger 1-There was a telephone lying on the floor, and he might have used the cord of the instrument.

Dr. Dunn, police surgeon, said the cord of the telephone was close to Sir Howard's leet and was twisted, and it looked as if it bad slipped of his foot and off the trigger of the gun. The top of his head was blown away. His organs were all healthy except the heart, which was slightly dilated.

Twice Unsuccessful.

..

The coroner (Mr. Oddie) said it was a case of a man who had been worrying re-adjustment of hours or wages any about his health and suffering appar where in the coalfields it is absolutely ently from post induenzal depression and impossible to begin to negotiate any insomnia. He was unable to sleep and settlement Some re-adjustments are became so depressed that I think he necessary, since the cost of producing became mentally irresponsible. - coal is too great to enable it to be told am afraid, the coroner said, at a profit. There are pits that are an- economic, and the only possible way to put them on a business basis is to get | the tainers to work longer hours and thereby hew more coal, or get them to accept less wages for a seven hours day.

Nearing the End...

V

But although the leaders are still stand- ing out for their terms as expressed in the parrat-cry of Mr. Cook, the beginning of the end is in sight. Thousands of mer are going back to the pits of their own accord in flat defiance of their leaders. The process has only to continue long enough for the strike to peter out. The

Cookiter" are in the extremely awk ward position of, officers whose soldiers are deserting wholesale. The leaders realise this well enough, and at the moment their chief concern is to devias some means by which they can save their faces. It is common knowledge that "af Fast number of miners" probably zmajority-would have returned to work weeks ago, but they have been prevented hy sheer terrorism in the districts on the part of the extremists. It is tragic to think that thousands have been forced' to remain idle, and that their wives and families and themselves have been re- duced to poverty, because Mr. Cook and his gang desired to use the Miners' Federation as a means of furthering their own enda,

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there was a terrible scene in this room at the hotel when he was endeavouring to kill himself with the sporting gun, and Ead had at least two failures and then succeeded."

The Coroner said a letter addressed to him ran:

and friend, the boy-Emperor.

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The Emperor is now 20 years of ages and is, of course, living practically as a 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, TIL CENTRAL 75. refugee under Japanese protection in Tientsin. Perhaps he owes his life to Mr. Johnston, who, two years ago, when the so-called Christian General Feng seized Peking, arranged the Emperor's escape by motor-car the Legation Quarter of Peking, which is outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese. But for this, attempts on the Emperor's life might have been made, as demands for his execution were being made in certain

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The Emperor was married more than three years ago to a charming Manchu princess. In his early days he was kept in seclusion in the Forbidden City and met no other young persons, except two or three members of the Imperial clan. He never learned to play. This cramped upbringing, of course, has inevitably pro- duced in him a rather introspective nature

At one time he was very keen on studying English, but now he reads and speaks very little but Chinese, the lan- guage in which all Mr. Johnston's-con- versations with him are conducted.

He does not engage in many games. He rides on horseback, and is a good cyclist.

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A curious discovery was made several years ago with regard to his eyesight. In sociation with the GRAND HOTEL 2 "Dear Sir,-Three months of insom. Mr. Johnston had been instructing him nia and worry have affected my brain, how to tell the time: One day a clock and I have felt that it might go at any was placed on a desk before him and he moment and that I might do harm. Instead of looking at the clock in front was asked, "Now, what time is 7" others or become a Hopeless, mental wreck.

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"My dear mother had the same feel ing and my sister ended her life. bope it will not be necessary to call my family after this letter. My dear friend, Eugene Doutre, knows that I have confided to him that I felt my brain going. He cheered me by com- plimenting me on my work. He will give good evidence. Yours faithfully, H. SPICER." Averdict of Suicide while of Unsound Mind was recorded.

NAVAL · RANK "TO DIE OUT.

"ABOLITION OF ROYAL MARINE GUNNER,

It is notified in Admiralty Fleet Orders that no more promotions to Royal Marine gunner will be made in fature, and the ranks of B.M. gunner and the oficere promoted therefrom will be allow ed to die out as officers are retired or removed from the active list.

I think most people are willing to con- cede a tribute of admiration to the miners for the way they have stuck to their so- called leaders during the past 17 weeks. But it is lamentable that so much sound loyalty should have been misplaced; The Royal Marine gunners will continue, break up of the coal strike has begun, however, to be eligible for promotion to It is only a question of time now and commissioned R. gunner under exist terms of settlement; and all, that the mening, regulations The present comple- will get as a result of their devotion to ment of two lieutenants, Royal Marines, Mr. Cook-the avowed Communist, she and above, promoted from commissioned describes himself as "the humble fol: R.M gunner, will be retained until the lower of Lenin,"

"and other Tevolution: total establishment has fallen below. 18. aries are conditions of work less advan- Thereafter one lieutenant will be allowed. tageous than were to be bad last April for such period as may in the opinion before the strike started. It is not the of the Admiralty be deemed desirable. men who are beaten in this fight. It is their leaders who are defeated in the mad attempt to force the Government and almost double tilt his head is nearly, on the country to obey the leaders' behesta a level with his knees. Then he springs Since the miners were induced to embark up erect, and stamps up and down the upon the coal strike they have lost many platform shouting and gesticulating and millions in wages, and indicted similar beating his hands like someone possessed. loss an other industries in all parts of One watches him with a certain fascina Great Britzia; and all because they tion, wondering whether he will strip off blindly believed in the promises that were his coat and remove his collar and tie, made to them that by persisting in the as he has been known to do in moments strike they would achieve a great victory, of excitement.

of him he turned round to look at a

schoolroom.wall.

large dock which was built into the KING EDWARD

His tutor was rather puzzled, and ask- ed him why he did not look at the clock on the desk. I cannot see it," the boy- Emperor replied:

Emperor in Spectacles.

It was then discovered that he was suffering from some eye trouble. Mr. Johnston at once consulted the members. of the Imperial family and Court officials and suggested a physician. There was tremendous opposition.

"The Emperor might have to wear spectacles," said oue, and all agreed that the Emperor could not do that. The idea of an Emperor in spectacles appeared to them to be worse than ridiculous.

However, Mr. Johnston won his point, and Dr. Howard, of the Peking Union Medical College, soon put right the mat- ter of the Emperor's eyes.

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With no stable government at presented Cuisine under the personal supervision of existing in China, the Emperor's posi- the Proprietress. tion is a very peculiar one.

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Proprietress,

Although the "Christian General," Feng Ya Hsiang, after ejecting the Em- peror from his Palace in the Forbidden City in November, 1924, and cancelling the original Abdication Agreement of 1919, undertook that the Republican Gov erament should in future pay the ex- Emperor half-a-million dollars a year (instead of the four million dollars stipulated in the original agreement), the morey has not been paid, and the Emperor and his household are now living in straitened circumstances.

It is true that some of his property in or near Peking, such as the world-famed Bummer Palace, has been restored to him by the present provisional Govern

Mr. Oook on the Platform. --

The extraordinary thing to my mind is that a man of this excitable tempera The other night I attended a meeting ment, which borders on hysteria, should near London which was addressed by be the executive officer of a great Trade Mr. Cook. He is an undersized man with Union, and bare the tremendous respon projecting teeth and the air of a fanatic sibility of negotiating terms of settlement ment which has succeeded that dominated As a speaker he is disappointing. His in a disastrous industrial dispute. For by the "Christian General, but it would voice is boarse and cracked, and bauch a task a cool head and steady brain be highly dangerous for him to proceed way down the hall much of what he said seem to be essential qualifications. It is to the capital while political conditions was inaudible. But there is no misall very well to make an emotional appeal remain unstable, Mr. Johnston regarda taking the passionate energy of the mea. for the minera, interlarded with copious a Mancha restoration as neither possible He'secas at times to lose control of him- shuse of the coal owners, the Govern nor desirable. self. He swings his, arms round in a balfment and the Fress (Mr. Cook hates the circle, Faises them above his head, and Fress), but how can it be supposed that the next moment he bends his body this peculiar rhetoric can solve economic

(Continued on nézt Column.) problems in the coalfields HB

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