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LABOUR PARTY AND

? COAL CRISIS.

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HEATED CONFERENCE, SCENES.

DEMAND FOR UNION LEVY.

PLAIN SPEAKING BY MR. J H. W

THOMAS,

ZITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14mm 1926

BRITISH MISSIONARIES AT

SIANFU.

EVACUATED SAFELY.»

(THROUGH REUTER'T AGENCY.]

PERING, October 13th. Mr. Wheeler, who, along with, Mr. Wyatt, left. Peking last month të arrange for the evacuation of British missionaries at Sianfu, has wired the British Legation stating that through the good offices of General Law: Chen Hus, the Tupan, all Rrast, October 19th. foreign missionaries at Sianfu have been There were more animated scenes when brought out of the place in safely except the annual conference of the Labour the Rev. and Mrs. Jensen, and apparently Farty was continued at Margate to-day-some Catholics who decided to remain.

Mr. Rhys Davies, M.P., moved, a re-

Six Britishers Eamats. solution protesting against the manner in which the Government had handled the coal crisis and expressing the opinion that the deep-rooted and urgent problems Sianfu of the mining industry could be settled) by the adoption of a scheme of nation- alisation.

LATER

It transpires that in addition to the Jensens aix British men remained in

THE NEW CANTON TAXES.

This resolution was strongly attacked COMMENT ON JAPAN'S PROTEST.

by a number of speakers on the ground that it gave no' practical support to the miners.

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Moze "Kick,"

Mr. Kirkwood, a prominent member

of the Labour Party's left wing, wanted a resolution with some kick" in it, which would encourage the brave men and women in the coalfields. What the minera now required, he said was money He asked for a levy on all affiliated Unions.

Mr. Horner, Delegate of the South Wales miners, declared: "We don't want your empty resolution. If you would help us, let us have money and an embargo."

Mr. Thomas Speaks Out, Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Railwaymen's Lender, who was. Colonial Secretary in the late Labour Government, said he would tell the Conference why a levy

on

other Trades Unions to help the miners was impossible. At this moment there were 13,000 railwaymen who had never

BRITAIN URGED TO ADOPT SIMILAR ATTITUDE.

LONDON, October 12th. The Japanese protest to China with

regard to the attempt by Canton to levy surtaxes on foreign goods, not only on the ground of her trade interests but also because she does not intend recognising the divided sovereignty of China, is the

subject of a Daily Telegraph leader, which says that no Western people can encourage that sub-division, if Japan opposes it.

The paper considera it would be a wise policy for Britain to imitate the action of"Japan, and refuse to acknowledge the sovereignty of Southern China.

SCENE IN PRUSSIAN DIET. MEMBERS INJURED IN INK-WELL BATTLE

STIFF SENTENCE ON BANK ACCOUNTANT.

+] YEARS, RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT.

OVER ́S LAKHS INVOLVED.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]:

Box, October 19th. In the High Court, Llewellyn Evans, former Chief accountant of the Bombay

branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, was found guilty on two charges of criminal breach of trust, and the falsification of accounts in respect of Government securities valued at 310,000 rupees.

Erans pleaded not guilty, but was sentenced to a term of four and

a halt years rigorous imprisonment. ..

Other charges in respect of sums of R. 10,000 and R.20,000 will be taken up..

Nominal Sentences.,

LATER.

Evans pleaded guilty to the charges of criminal breach of trust in respect of the amounts of R. 10,000 and R. 20,000, but not guilty to the charge of falsifying the accounts.

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The latter charges were withdrawn by the representative of the Crown, who stated that he would not press the charges on which the accused pleaded guilty if the sentences thereon would not be con- current with the sentence already passed. Judge thereupon sentenced the accused

HUNAN SITUATION.

ANTI-BRITISH AGITATION.

-PROPERTY AND EMPLOYEES

INTERFERED WITH.

A naval wireless message from Hankow, dated Tuesday, states that the local situs. tion is unchanged.

Anti-British agitation is, however, re ported at Chang Teh, in Hunan, where the property and employees of some British firms have been interfered with

The naval message further states that Chungking without interference, and that two British merchant vessels arrived at movements of troops down the river from from Kiukiang, have been observed Wanhsien and Ichang, and up the river

CONFIDENCE MEN TRICKED. AMERICAN'S SECOND THOUGHTS.

£5,000 BETTING SCHEME GOES

WRONG.

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For attempting to obtain £5,100 from Mr. William Henry Lewers, an American, from Honolulu, by means of the confid- ence trick, John James Rowan, 50, a com mission agent, of Green Street, Leicester James Smythe, 54, independent, of Square, London, W.C., and Charles Southampton-row,

W.C... were esch sentenced at Bow Street last month to six months' imprisonment.

Mr. Percival Clarke, for the Commis Mir. Levers met in Honolulu Rowan, who sioner of Police, said that some years ago was passing there as a retired Australian sheep farmer. Early this year Mr. Lawers Rowan to tell him of his arrival in came to Europe and in July wrote to London.

ON OPENING A NEWSPAPER.

it..

A BROCHURE WHICH SHERLOCK.

HOLMES FAILED TO WRITË

CHARACTER BETRAYAL.

I do not think that Sherlock Holmes included among his brochures one on the opening of newspapers; it was a palpable: amission not now, one fears, to be re paired. And yet it is not dificult to reconstruct a piece of detection which would have justified the brochure. The work is done, the criminal has been led away by the official police, and, safely proceeds to reconstruct the story of the back in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes detection of the criminal who burgled the safe at the Grand Nineveh. Hotel of a million pounds worth of pearls, killed the manager, two bell, boys, and the hotel detective, and eluded the clumsy efforts of Scotland Yard Holmes explains his reasons for concluding that the criminal had not left the hotel the rest was

casy.

A QUEEN'S LOVE-LETTER.

WRERE BRITAIN'S HISTORY-IS STORED.

According to Sir Henry C. Maxwell- Lyte, the seventy-eight-year-old chief of the Public Record Office, who is soon retiring from this post after forty years, few visitors to London know that this office exista.

But it does, and there you can see a letter, dated July 4th, 1797, written by Lord Nelson. The writing is normal, sloping to the right, for this was perhaps the last letter written by the famous Admiral before the loss of his right arm preserved, signed by Nelson, written im a few days later. A second letter is mediately after the accident. In this the writing slopes irregularly, and it is ob viously signed with the left hand.

weat throne,

"Watson pleads for further details. "I had merely to sit in the lounge and watch men opening their papers,” days Holmes Watson commits himself." Haw absurdly simple; of course he straight to the story of the crime." "No, Watson. All the others turned straight to the story-they were staying in the hotel what could be more natural? I

Parliamentary debate; but I noticed that detected the criminal because he glanced at the story and then began to read the

glanced again at the story and then away he looked round the lounge and the again I have published a small brochure

open newspapers on the different ways in which people

Who was the first British king to sign his name as distinguished from the mere marks formerly used The earliest re- II granting to a prioress near Bristol cord is a letter signed by King Richard

fun of red wine every Christinas ♪

The Domesday Books. When Queen Victoria came to the the national archives scattered in about sixty places, but by were an Act passed in 1839 they were concen trated in the Public Record Office, which now contains records of the Chancery,"

Home Office, Foreign Office, War Office, Exchequer, various Courts, and depart ments of State such as the Trenanry,

toms. Admiralty, Board of Trade, and Cus

.

amongst the principal exhibits are the Domesday Books, that are the outcome of a general survey of England ordered

by William the Conqueror at the end of 1083,

He was right, of course; he was always right; nothing reveals more of a man's newspaper. There are general indica character than his method of opening a tions, no doubt. There is the journalist's with him at the Carlton Hotel on August the columns, his expression one of guard At Rowan's invitation Mr. Lewers dined professional way of running his eye down 23rd, and then, Rowan introduced Smythe ed depreciation if the paper be not his ts, an old chum from Australia, After own. There is the actor's leap for what to one day'a simple imprisonment on each dinner all three drove away in Smythe's concerns his profession, the city man's 19 the recipient of a note from 'George: motor car, which impressed Mr. Lewers ruthless disregard of anything (except

charge of criminal breach of trust.

BERLIN, October 12th. The debate on the Hohenzollern Settle-up

gone back to work since the generalment Bill provoked unparalleled "Com- strike of last May. In addition 200,000 munist fury in the Prussian Diet. railwaymen were only working three days a week. The Engineers' Union was now taking a levy for its own men. In the Boilermakers' Union 43 per cent. of the were unemployed. As to an em

men

The sitting was suspended five times owing to uproar and opprobrious epitheta and was finally closed in disorder, neces- sitating police supervision, after a dis play of fisticuffs, in which ink-wells,

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICZ]`

NEW AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY.

SIR RONALD LINDSAY.

RUGBY, October 12th.

It is expected that. Sir Ronald Lindsay, who is succeeding Lord D'Abernon as British Ambassador in Berlin, will take

that post early next month

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. FLOURSHING BUSINESS

very much.

article.

Rowan arranged to meet Mr. Lewers cricket) till he has read the financial next day in St. James's Square, but the appointment was kept by Smythe, who explained that Rowan was engaged in selling blood stock for a wealthy man,

Sumptuous Furniture. They went to Rowan's office in Green Street, and the sumptuousness of the After some talk all three went to Gatwick furniture further impressed Mr. Lewers. races.

Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, John Then you can inspect letters from Anne Knox, Sir Philip-Sydney Sir Francis Leicester. Napoleon Bonaparte signs Drake, and Robert Dudley, Earl of other letters, whilst King George III.

States. William Shakespeare's signature Washington f first President of the United

in an abbreviated form is found at the foot on some legal documents, and in another file is a letter from Lord Byron..

The Gunpowder Plot was discovered through an anonymous letter sent to Lord Montagle, believed to be written by one of the conspirators. It advised him" to devise some excuses to shift of attendance at this parliament

SEED.

Its Own Method. To cach calling its own method, but it the individual who is really interest ing. My aunt Mary was the ideal news paper reader. At breakfast she would be busy with the teacups and would do no more than purr gently while my uncle denunciation from behind his paper. Her snapped out scattered information and

Signed After Torture. hour came later when she had attended

According to the historic declaration." to the affairs of the "household. Then of Guy Fawkes, that can be she would sit down on a straight-backed Catesby proposed to have the conspiracy chair in a good light and begin. There against the King ** performed by gun- were preliminary rites. My uncle was an powder and by making a pyne under untidy reader, and the paper had to be the Upper House of Parliament. Percy restored to something of its pristine neat- **hired a house at Westminster for that Rowan went away again, and came back nees. Then my aunt would begin with purpose," "and the conspirators describe saying that he had made bets for the the births, deaths, and marriages-top-how they went to work. One stood as other two. This bet was also said to ping here and there for comment, some sentry whilst twenty barrels of powder NO CHANGE OF FOLICY. have been won; but by the end of the times even for brief and well-balanced day Mr. Lewers was told that he had biographies of persons mentioned Then, RuGay, October 12th.lost £5,100. Smythe said that his own very slowly, she would open the paper

losses came to much more.

in the middle. Leaders were leaders in The statement that M. Krassin, the new

Mr. Lewers cabled to Honolulu for the those days, and my aunt read them

CONNECTIONS.

Rowan made some excuse for leaving the others. When he returned he told Mr. Lewers that he had made a bet for him of 900 to 800. Mr. Lewers had not authorized the bet, but it happened that the horse backed won.

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wire-moved into the cellar and covered

with faggots. The shaky signature of Guy Fawkes to this confession is said to have been, alfixed only after severe torture..

A delightful little love-letter is trea-

bargo on foreign coal, Mr. Thomas de books, tables, and chairs were hurled. Soviet Charge d'Affaires, had some new money, but next morning he went to steadily, her lips moving here and there clared that the resolution recently passed Three members were injured, including plan to present when yesterday he was Scotland Yard, where he learned who as she encountered some specially vigor sured. The Earl of Essex writes to by the International Miners' Federation the Vice President, Herr Garnich, who at Brussels favouring the pervention of was hit with an ink-well and spattered Austen Chamberlain, is not correct

the export of coal to Great Britain was .only a piece of paper. It was no use to deceive the miners by talk about an em bargo which could not be realised.

Mr. Thomas's plain truths were receiv ed with angry shouts and much interrup- tion by the extremist section of the conference.

from bead to foot. Ten Communists were forcibly ejected.

RUSSIA AND CHINA.

M. KARAKHAN VISITS MOSCOW.

Moscow, October 19th.

M. Karakhan has arrived, in order to consult the Government on the Chinese situation.

received at the Foreign Office by Bir

Rowan and Smythe were. An appoint-ous attack on "that man Gladstone. ment had been made for the money to be paid over in Rowan's office that after noon. Mr. Lewers went there. Waiting in the background were two defectives with a warrant.

کاله

When Mr. Lewers entered Rowan said Have you cabled for the money?" Mr. Lewers said that he had. Smythe was in the next room at the time. The police afterwards entered and arrested both International Gang.

The occasion of his visit was to present bis credentials and the conversation which followed and which lasted for an hour was of a purely general character. There is no indication of any change of attitude on the part of the British Gov-men. ernment towards Rassia Ministerial statements in the House of Commons Smythe was a man of considerable sub stance. Correspondence in the office made before the Parliamentary recess, showed that Rowan owed about £4,000

for beta emphasised that the British Government regard the recognition of Russia's debt

Mr. Ben Tillett, leader of the Tran sport Workers, reinforced Mr. Thomas's arguments. He said the transport workers could do nothing. They had spent already £3,000,000 in the minere interest. They were £500,000 in debt, Eighty thousand men in the Transport OVER 2,000 MILLION FRANCS FOR and the strict fulfilment of her under Workers' Union were unemployed and 100,000 were under-employed.

Levy Impossible.

FRENCH BUDGET.

FOREIGN DEBTS.

PARIS, October 12th.

M. Poincare has taken time by the forelock and presented his Budget to the the re-assembly of Parliament. Finance Committee several weeks before

CHEQUE ON DEATH.

DRAWN. BY: SUICIDE IN GAOL.

Dr. Douglas Cowburn held an inquest at Brixton Gaol on September 11th on the body of George Jones (78), a dairyman, who was found hanging in a cell in which he had been confined in the prison hospital.

FRAUD ON BANK.

2860 AND 2800 OBTAINED BY FORGERY,

Queen Elizabeth: "East, paper, to thatt happy presence whence only unhappy I am banished. Kiss thatt fayre correcting and which layes new plasters on my lighter hurtes, butt to my greatest woond cummest applyeth nothing. Say thou from shaming languishing, depavring

S.X."

The fashionable intelligence would be her next quarry, and here her comments be came positively racy. Thence she would pass rather cursorily down the long columns of the Parliamentary debate u10- lets, indeed, there were some oration of Lord Salisbury's to be read at length Over foreign intelligence she did not

One of the most amusing items is the linger; Aunt Mary never doubted that inscrutable Frovidence had made England dispensation by the Archbishop of an island with a purpose; a little rel-Canterbury to King Henry VIII and gious controversy was not disapproved, Jane Seymour for their marriage, and the remaining pages would have although within the unlawful degrees of their brief due. Aunt Mary never threw affinity, down 0 newspaper carefully and methodically she refolded it; not until a full week had passed were the servants that newspaper; for her there was none. allowed to put it to base uses. It was

other.

Aunt Eliza's Method.

Chief Inspectar Collins said that Rowan when he received three months' imprison was last convicted at Liverpool in 1903,

by some sleight of hand he seem project it into another sphere, had a feminine cousin who never opened ment for loitering with intent to practise taking given on the Trade Agreement not the confidence trick. Smythe had been

&newspaper without tearing it some- where her hands seemed to have some- to propaganda against British interests convicted in Australia of forgery and

Very different was the harun-scarum destructive quality when applied to the Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labour Party emphasised the impos

as essential measures towards an improve stealing by means of a trick. Both men

method of my Aunt Eliza; her household printed sheet. She had another peculiar were associated with international con- sibility of a Trade Union levy. He said the situation was not adequately realised

ment of understanding. No obstacles,fidence tricksters, and during the last 10 moved in jerks rather than in the inevitity. However neatly the paper was fold- There had been a consultation of Union

however, are placed by the Government years there had been many complaints of able orderliness of my Aunt Mary's. Myed when she opened it, she would con Aunt Eliza dashed at the paper within trive always to get the pages mixed their having swindled people by similar five minutes the sheets were lying for Tage nine would flow on page three, Leaders as to the best means of helping He estimates the expenditures at in the way of trade with Russia and ac-means. the miners and be had been perfectly ap- 30,382,000,000 francs and the revenue tually Britain would appear to be doing. Cross-examined, he said that during loraly scattered about the floor; probably and if there was something of special palled at the unemployment in each at 30,960,000,000 francs The sum of

the last 15 years Smythe had andoubted she was clamouring for a pair of scissors interest on page 12, that page would dis Union. The industrial aituation had to 2,375,000,000 frames is earmarked for the more business with her than with any be faced. The resolution before the Con- payment of foreign debts, of which other country, despite the continued unly made a good living by Stock Exchange in order to cut this or that it did not appear, ane herself being loudest in re

transactions. Rowan was a professional matter what, for she seldom reached the gretting the disappearance. ference definitely committed the Parlia 1,542,000,000 will be derived from Gerwillingness of British financial houses to backer of horses, and for years had point of actual cutting; scissors in hand Foz myself I confess that I like a cor

she was diverted by some new paragraph, tain apparatus about the opening of mentary Labour Party to the nation- many under the Davea plan. Also, give extended credits.

executed very large book-making com Aunt Eliza was always making dis Dewspaper. I do not go the length of my alistation of mines and he hoped the 3,133,000,000 franca is earmarked for the

missiofis. Conference would pass it and thus give internal debt în addition to the

Mr. Fry, the magistrate, described the coveries" Fancy this she wouldgrandfather, for whom it was carefully. agree with some encouragement to the miners, It 3,000,000,000 francs from the recently

case as a barefaced attempt to extract cry, reading some utterly uninteresting warmed every morning, but

paragraph. I wonder if this is our My him that a paper which someone else has was the best thing that the conference created independent redemption fund.

£5,1007 The miners' fight would M. Poincare promises to submit a plan could do now.

Roc," she would speculate overs para read already is not quite the thing." graph about a man of that same living will have it virgin. I abhor the person only begin on a new plane when the pre- for the stabilisation of the currency later, but in the meantime he withholds the Bent crisis was over. That new plane was

in some town 500 miles away and doing who says, Seen this pushing a cer- something which our Mr. Roe could nevertain paragraph under my eyes. I may the House of Commons, and the new details for reasons of expediency.

have attempted. Quite suddenly Aunt be old-fashioned, but I do not like to take policy was nationalisation of the in- dustry.

MOST MENACING INSTITUTION

Eliza would grow weary of the newspaper, my news in gulps. Decently and in order, would sweep it up in a forlorn bundle opening the paper with the respect due IN THE WORLD."

By means of forgery the Liverpool and command its removal to honest endeavour to present the world branch of the National Bank has been

Yet my Aunt Eliza never so moved me and its doings, I proceed from page to AMERICAN LABOUR DENOUNCES

Warder W. L. Bamuels said that he robbed of 2850, and on the same day had to fury as her son Charles though, on page. I do not like to see things taken SOVIET

found Jones suspended frop the window by similar methods the Manchester frame in his cell by a noos composed of branch of the same bank was defrauded the principle of reactions, she may have out of their proper position. I like to a towel, a handkerchief and boot lace. of 2600,AUTYANMA

had some responsibility for his newspaper find a Test match score on the cricket Derapir, October 12th. The Convention. of the American Jones had been in hospital from August The method employed was to send a

crimes. Charles opened a newspaper as pager I like to find on page eight the Federation of Labour has denounced the 9th suffering from bronchial asthma, forged advice note, presumably by the if it were. 's personal and confidential things which always have appeared on Soviet régime in the strongest possible hernia and senile debility. There was manager of the Dublin branch, bearing a document, glancing round out of the Page eight preler not to open the corners of his eyes in case someone else fast table: the nicest cars will not always

newspaper when actually at the break terms and described it as an assassin no evidence of mental depression in his specimen signature of a Mr. John Hall standing over the prostrate body of condition

An hour or tab after the advice note might be overlooking him. Reading & Freedom. It has renewed its pledge to Major Lyndon H Morris, governor of was received a man giving nanie of John newspaper in a railway carriage Charles avoid untimely minglings with the mar sive no quarter to Soviet Russia and the gaol, said that Jones was incarcerated Hall went into the Liverpool branch of would fold it carefully so that nothing made a sticky paper is an abomina endorsed President Coolidge's stand in respect of non-payment of rates, and the bank and presented a cheque for was to be read except the half-column on tion. The ideal moment for opening a point that American principles are not also as a remand prisoner on a charge Paso. The signature on the cheque was which he was intent at the moment. He paper is in the few minutes before to be bartered. The resolution deemed of false pretences, and should have ap satisfactorily compared with that on the would edge himself into a position which breakfast is put on the table. Tubbed, and shaved, at peace with the world, the Soviet pinze gathe most upeared in court on the morning of his advice note, and the cheque was honoured made it is difficult as posible for his urbanely conscious that the bacon. In scrupulous, most anti-Social, and most half-sheet of foolscap, written upon tained in the notes shoulder, Ask him if there was any to take a birdseye view of a newspaper an the strength of the information con- neighbour to catch a glimpse ver his imminent, it is permissible thon, if ever, menacing institution in the world to-day.

was found in the cell in Jones's hand- A day or two later it was discovered thing new about so-and-so, and he would not to gulp but to sip. When break- Italian Fasciam Also Condemned.

writing. The Coroner read some of the that Mr. John Hall was not known at reply briefly that he had not seen any fast, comes it should be closed; anticipa extracts. One sentence was, I will now

the Dublin branch, and that the signa thing; ask him what was Lancashire a The convention also adopted a resola-write the cheque called Death When Lure on the advice note was a clever soore, or whether Maclaren was out, and ion is a pleasant help to appetite. tion declaring that Italian Fascism is cashed my creditors will be paid in full forgery. The description of the man who he would wave you away as one who had his when the meal is cleared away and merely another form of the dictatorship The jury returned a verdict. of cashed the cheque at Liverpool does not mores important things to read des pine burning well, the paper may be Suicide through mental distress," be agree with that of the man who obtained would close the paper so furtively as be opened with the feeling that one is per ing tantamount to a verdict of unsound £600 at Manchester, and it is presumed would open it and it would disappear; forming a rite at once pleasant and essential-HT.K.O. in the Manchester' that the two were operating together, (Continued on neat Column.) Guardian..HAN

Mr. MacDonald's statements evoked some booing.

Eventually, the resolution was adopted by an overwhelming majority of 3,115,000 votes against 210,000.

{THROUGE LEUTER'S AGENÒY. Į

COAL DISPUTE.

SAFETYMEN DECIDE TO CARRY ON-

20,000 - MORE MINERS RETURN TO WORK.

LONDON, October 12th. The acceleration of the drift back of miners to work was indicated in to-day's returns, showing that 217,000 miners were working, an increase of 19,474 as compar ed with yesterday.

Saintymen's Decision.

LONDON, October 12th, The Delegate Conference of Safetymen

́ed the decision to remain at work.

held in London has unanimously reaffirm

of the autocracy, which can never find anything but opposition at the hands of

free people:

desth

mind.