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BRITISH AFFAIRS IN 'CHINA.

INFLUENTIAL · DEPUTATION AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE.

THE SITUATION DISCUSSED.

THROUGH REUTEK'S AGENCY,1

LONDON, November 10th. Sir A. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, received at the Foreign Office a deputation from the China Committee, headed by Lord South- horough, chairman, including representa tives of the London and Manchester Chambers of Commerce, the China Asso ciation, the Federation of British Indus- tries, the. Peking Syndicate, the British

American Tobacco Company, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor Toration,

After several speeches, to which Sir A. Chamberlain replied, the situation in China was fully and frankly discussed.

The committee warmly thanked Sir A Chamberlait for the manner in which he had received them.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] Another Report.

Lexpos, November 10th.

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THE

COAL DISPUTE.

THE STRUGGLE DRAWING TO A CLOSE

(BRITISK WIRELESS. SERVICE}

HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, ~~~1926.

RCOSY, November 9th. There was no development in the, coal situation today.

The Miners' Executive met to prepare a report for to-morrow's Conference of delegates. It will be put to the delegates whether they will accept district settle ments that may, had indeed will, provide for a working day exceeding seven hours in order to secure national safeguards and principles. It was stated to-day by Mr. Cook, the Secretary of the Miners' Federation, that he and other members

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SINO-JAPANESE TREATY.

WHAT CHINA'S NOTE DEMANDS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, November 10th.

It is understood that the Chinese Note to Japan on October 20th with regard to the Sino-Japanese Treaty based its demand for revision on Article 28, in which it was laid down that either party at the end of each decade might de mand a revision of commercial articles. The Treaty also laid down that if no such demand were made and no such revision effected within six months, the Treaty would remain in force for n decade or more. The Note demands a revision of the whole Treaty and not only of its

of the Executive remained adamant commercial clauses, and urges

against longer hours. Bus he added that was a matter which the delegates must decide for themselves. appears,

It

therefore, that the onus of accepting longer hours is to be thrown upon the delegates and if the delegates do accept, this question will no longer remain an obstacle to a settlement. Mr. Cook ad- mitted, that the other obstacles are not very great.

More Men at Work. Meanwhile, to-day's report of the num Sir Austen Chamberlain accompaniedber of men employed in the pits shows by Comdr. Locker Lampson. Parliamen the very substantial increase of 9.351 tary Inder Secretary for Foreign

bringing the total up to 313,684. It is Affairs, and Sir Victor Wellesley received

an important factor in the situation that a deputation at the Foreign Office

practically cne-third of the miners are from the China Committee, which was

now working under district settlements

hours. This, it is thought, must consi- derably influence to-morrow's delegates conference in the direction of accepting longer working hours.

introduced by its Chairmen Lord South-based upon a working day of over seven Lorough. After several speeches to which the Foreign Secretary replied there was a-full and frank discussion on the whole Subist of the present position of affairs in China and the committee expressed their warm thanks to Sir Austen.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] "LONG LIVE MUSSOLINI!” SCENES AT OPENING OF

PARLIAMENT...

ROME, November 9th.

There were no speeches at the opening session of Parliament, but on the sugges tion of the President, the Depaties stood

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Questions in Commons. When the House of Commons re-assem- bled this afternoon, one of the first questions had reference to the loss incur- red by the nation through the coal stop page and general strike of last May.

early

THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET.LIVELY DOINGS IN THE MEXICO

PRIME MINISTER'S OPTIMISM.

EUROPE'S WISH FOR STABILITY.

~THROUGH EEUTER'S ·AGENCY,]

LONDON, November 8th. With traditional ceremony and splend- our the Lord Mayor's Banquet took place at the Guildhall and was attended' by the delegates to the Imperial Con- ference and many of the most distinguish- ed figures in English public life.

Responding to a toast, the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin said of the Im perial Conference that there had never been a conference wherein a better or more harmonious spirit had been mani fested and wherein there was a more

negotiations so that they should be congequine desire to pave the way for fur- cluded within six months. If not, the Chinese Government reserves the right to

declare its attitude towards the old Treaty. This presumably is a hint at its abrogation

ther and more rapid progress in the future than they were able to achieve

SENATE.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.}

MEXICO CITY, November 10th. In a revolver fight in the Lobby of the Senate last night, Senator Charles Henshaw shot dead Senator Espinoza Henshaw was seriously wounded. · ·

US. POLITICS.

ELABORATE RECEPTIONS AT KANSAS CITY. KANSAS CITY, November 9th. President Coolidge is expected to de liver an important address da interna. tional affairs on the occasion of the dedication of the Liberty Memorial here on November 11. An elaborate reception has been prepared for President Coolidge and for the Queen of Rumania. The Int ter will arrive after the President has

hitherto. He described the situation re-lett- garding foreign affairs as essentially mare satisfactory than at any time since THE SPANISH-ITALIAN TREATY. the end of the war. There was evidence on all sides in Europe of a clearer un- derstanding that peace and stability were only realisable by co-operation and goodwill.

LONDON, November 10th. Replying to House of Commons question Comdr. Locker Lampson stated that the Italian Government had assured the Foreign Secretary that there was nothing in the Italian-Spanish Treaty contrary to the obligations of the parties as signatories of the Covenant which had all the force of a prior engagement. The Treaty in no way affected the interests of Great Britain in the Mediterranean.

ROYAL WEDDING.

MAGNIFICENT SCENES IN

BRUSSELS.

BRUSSELS, November 10th.

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Imperial Affairs.

been the

A DISCREPANCY!

$80,000,000 WRONG.

NEW YORK, November 9th. A clerical error was responsible for a discrepancy of 850,000,000 in the report of brokers loans from the New York Banks for October which is issued by the The Premier emphasised that the recon-Stock Exchange and Clearing. House of struction of Europe bad keystone of our foreign policy and, he the Banks. After ingenious theories had believed that British statesmanship, in- been advanced to explain the discrepancy

an expert examined the figures, with the cluding the Labour Government. had played a not inconsiderable part therein aid of the computation chart. A correc- tion has, therefore been issuedy reducing the loans by 850,000,000.

in the past three years. He was able to speak more hopefully of India than for many years past and wished he was equally happy about our relations fur- iber afield.

U.S. MURDER TRIAL.

THRILLS IN COURT.

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New York, November 9th. The Court Room at Somerville in the

Referring to the elections now proceed÷ ing in India be said there was a real The city is en jete for the wedding of chance that, whichever, party claimed Hall Mills murder trial, was to-day

predominance, the policy of

non-co-transformed into a scientific exhibition, operation would be recognised as re-firstly by enlarged reproductions of actionary and sterile. If that anticipa-finger prints, and afterwards when Dr. tion were fulfilled the future could be Schultz, aided by wax models including regarded with confidence and all desired

a replica of Mr. Mill's head, explained

Princess Astrid and Prince Leopold, and Belgian and Swedish dogs are every Sir Philip Cunliffe-Linter, President where.

The shops are closed and the of the Board of Trade," said the losses workers and school children are on holi

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A thrill

PROHIBITION IN PRACTICE.

AMERICA'S BOY AND GIRL DRUNKARDS.

THE WHISKEY FLASK CORNER STONE."

Sir Porcival, Phillips, writing, in the Daily Mail recently from Philadelphia states that new and startling facts con- cerning the failure of Frohibition are now feing digested by the American public. They have been broadcast by an organisation known' as the Moderation League, which supports temperance as against Prohibition, and they are based on a survey of conditions in more than 1,500 towna and cities in all parts of the United States. The League's experts state that:

Drunkenness has already increased to the pre-Prohibition level.

There are more drunken children and drunken motor-car drivers than ever before. Y

The next generation will drink more than the present.

The report is based on the records of police departments with regard to drunkenness, which in 554 instances ex-

tend back 13 years.

Since 121 drunkenness has increased

steadily. By 1925 there were more arrests for drunkeness than in 1914.

The alarming increase in drunkenness ameng minors is corroborated by police. officials and public welfare organisations. During the short time I have been in the United States I have been told by re- sponsible citizens living in three widely separated arens-Pennsylvania; Wiscon- sin, and Missouri-that university stud ents of both sexen regard a pocket fash of doubtful whisky as the corner stone of most social gatherings.

More Drunkards Each Year.

to "tote a flask at dances and dinner Ia is still considered a sporting thing parties for young people, Girls of good would have been senched at the sugges tion that they drank intoxicants willing- ly participate in these unwholesome festivities.

family who in pre-Probibition days

The prevalence of drinking among boys”. and girls is thus commented on by the expers investigators of the Moderation League: "It can poly mean that each year we are raising a new crop of drunkards which is much larger than the annual crops we used to raise even under the saloon (ie., public-house),

Drunken motor-car drivers are mand factured wholesale by "bootleg" whisky. Unspeakably Bad Liquor...

The abolition of public-houses made it necessary for drivers to carry their they travel. Many begin a journey sober whisky in flask. They now drink as

and end it helplessly drunk. The bulk unspeakably bad; much of it is actually of the liquor sold by "bootleg " rings is

| dangerous. It it not unusual for the police to hold up an erratic motor-car

ram all intents and purposes' a manine.

Further proof of the failure of Prohi which have always been dry." There is more drunkenness to-day in these areas, compared with 1914, than in States which sold liquor freely until the Volstead law went into effect.

up and shouted" Long Live Mussolini!" turbance of trade and contracts and Prince Henry, their Danish Majestice recommending a further step on the road through the room when he asserted that bition is found in the condition of States

The Chamber adopted a motion ex- pelling the Deputies of the so-called Aventine Opposition, also the Com muniste, and proceeded to vote for the

Government measures with exceptional celerity, but omitted a clause regarding offences committed in foreign territory.

[The drastic measures devised by the government following the attempt to assassinate Signor Mussolini at Bologna"} provided that any national outside

Italian territory sprending false news regarding the internal conditions of the State would be liable to solitary confine ment for from five to 15 years, sentences

orders not secured were not included in and Prince Olaf of Norway in the pro- that figure. It was impossible to estimate cession from the Palace to the Cathe the amount.

of production had been estimated as day.

Dense crowds loudly cheered the briz that the Royal Commision, whenever it in lecture room, manner how the various and find that the man at the wheel is to amounting to between £250,000,000 and

300,000,000. The losses due to the dis-liant assembly of royalties, including met might find itself justified in wounds were caused.

towards Indian self-government. Within the larynx, tongue and upper part of the British Empire abroad there was to the wind pipe were missing from the be seen on every side a healthy expansion corpse when he performed an autopsy. of industry, and commerce which had He was of opinion that those organa had aiready reflected itself in increased been cut out and not torn out.. opportunities for the Mother Country to assist the development which was proceeding.

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Colonel Lane Fox, Secretary for Mines,

said that about ten and a half million tons of coal had been produced from

British mires since the beginning of May.

Approximately 15,500,000 tons of coal had arrived in British ports.

Colonel Lane Fox addc₫ that the out-

put from outcrop workings had varied between 50,000 and 100,000 tons per week, He declined to give the average price

dral.

The interior of the Cathedral was magnificently decorated with Gobelin Tapestries of scarlet and velvet border-

ed with ermine.

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The China Situation.

The Archbishop of Malines performed the ceremony, after which there was a

The Prime Minister, then declared State reception at which 3,000 guests, in that we were confronted with a diff cluding Ministers, Diplomatie officers, cult situation in China, damaging members of the Judiciary and all the to our interests there, but it was

MARKET. U.S. COTTON M

HOW THE PRICE 4S REGULATED.

ATLANTA, Georgia, November 9th. 300,000 bales of cotton have been with

drawn from the market for 18 or 21 months or until the market is satisfactory

As it stands," the Prohibition law is a tragic farce. No country has ever-wit- nessed such universal disrespect for any legislation as is shown by the majority of American citizens for the Volstead Act. It is derided on the stage and in | the newspapers.

1,030,000 Gallons Stored. "Bootlegging" is a business with wide ramifications. It affects all classes.

tore

The newspapers anticunce that

1,000,000 gallons of denatured alcohol are stored in New York, ware-

then

in default to render the offenders liable of the coal the Government had imported. Principal civil, religious and military far too difficult and complicated for The Georgian banks have arranged, with-houses by speculators who are waiting

to loss of the right of citizenship and the confiscation of property.].

The Police Active..

Rowe, November 10th. The police last night closed the offices of all anti-Fascist parties and organisa. tions, which, have been automatically dissolved by the new infety law. Docu- ments were seized and valuable evidence against anti-Fascists is said to have leen secured..

Garibaldi's Pight.

PARIS, November 10th Ricciotti Garibaldi's examination by the police hus been continued. He is not under arrest, ut is, kept under strict surveillance. He has already changed bis hotel thrice, in order to conceal bis where shouts from the general public and poa sibly to avoid attempts on bis life by Fascists and anti-Fascists both of whom might accuse him of having said too much.

WIRELESS CONCESSION FOR

THE BLIND..

LONDON, November 10th.

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A Bill is being introduced into the House of Commons this afternoon by Captain Fraser, a member who lost his eyesight during the war, to enable blind persons to have the benefit of wireless telephony without paying the license fee. GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTS. LONDON, November 10th. Messrs. Vickers Limited state, that they have received an order from the Messrs. Bibby Brothers Company to equip the exatorships Derectsfire and

Transports:

for service as Government

(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY, 1

A CRITICAL DECISION.

Miners' Executive Gives No Lead.

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personages of the realm were present,

GERMANY.

EXCHANGE OF CORDIAL SENTIMENTS.

immediate discussion. He would like to

express his anxious sympathy with the out appealing to the Government, to for a rise in the market. Some

NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO British communities in the Far East in view of the trouble, losses and anxieties facing them to-day and to assure them of our earnest desire to negotiate in a friendly spirit for a settlement of such difficulties as have arisen. between China the other Powers, including and

LONDON. November 10th. The Miners' Delegates Conference today will decide whether or not the Executive is to be authorised to reach

BERLIN, November 9th. so understanding on national principles with the definite condition that hours In presenting his credentials to Presi will be extended and that the actual dent Hindenburg, Sir Ronald Lindsay, variation on the seven-hour day must the new British Ambassador, spoke of be deterrained by district negotiations. the cordial Anglo-German. relations as The alternative would appear to be the promising fruitful Anglo-German co- ultimate return to work of the men in operation. He said that Locarno and the districts, upon term's available, with Germany's entry into the League of new epoch in out any national guidance. The Execu Nations had opened a tive is divided on the issue and the international history and they might decision of the delegates is doubtful. If anticipate a period of uninterrupted con- they agree to an extension of the seven-ciliation and ever-increasing security. hour-day other questions outstanding are considered capable of a ❤eedy solution. Drawing to a Close.

LONDON, November 10th.

President Hindenburg, in reply, ex- pressed his gratitude to King George for the friendly wishes His Majesty Ead ex- pressed in a personal-letter. He shared

The Miners' Delegate Conference Sir Ronald Lindsay's hope of a new assembled in London to decide its policy towards the Government's proposals of epoch in the history of the nations, and

ourselves.

GREEK POLITICS.

ATHENS, November 9th. The Republican victory is confirmed. The fint figures in the elections were' Bepublicans 183, and the others 111.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

LABOUR LEADER HONOURED BY OXFORD,

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finance growers who planned the cotton holding pool. Five of the largest banks have underwritten the $13,000,000 Cotton

Fund.

U.S. GALE DISASTER,

LA PLATA, Maryland, November 9th. At least fourteen, including twelve children, have been killed as the result of a gale which demolished several houses and a school which collapsed on the top of the screaming children.

grades of this basic material for boot- leg whisky have risen in price from 1s." 10d. a gallon to 58. 4d a gallon in the past eight months. When renatured the alcohol will make a potable drink, and all of it will be on the market, before Christmas.

The nost ardent supporter of Prohibi-. tion is the bootlegger." Modification of the Volstead law, which all thoughtful observers of this paradoxical situation the regard as inevitable, will mean virtual extinction of this new menace to society,

FILM PRODUCED BY COLLEGE STUDENTS.

SKIT ON THE HE-MAN HERO. BOOTS OF MANY COLOURS.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE PROPHECY OF A SCARLET VOGUE lished last year, the first of its kind in

Armstrong College Cine Club, estab

FOR MEN.

"Have a pair of scarlet boots!" plead ed an exhibitor" at the Shoe and Leather Fair, which opened at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, recently. There was an appealing look in his eye.

the social life of English university col leges, han had a public presentation of its first film production," Slips That Fass In The Night."

The film was shown for a week at the Queen's Hall, Newcastle, on a cash con- tract. The Durham University colleges The Daily Express representative look-are greatly interested in the enterprise. ed at the boots. They were a fine pair, which may benefit their funds. The in a deep colour, and they had silver performances attracted large audiences.. trimmings.

Rabbit Round-up. ⠀ A fine pair of boots," he conceded:

Slips That Pass In The Night" is "Some might call them even startling." a burlesque of a type of film play, popu- The exhibitor continued, "They are lär in America, which pedestals the He-

Bucay, November 9th. Oxford University to-day conferred a settlement. The crux of the position at the same time trusted that all Powers upon Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Labour is the seven-hour day.

The Executive is not prepared to take appreciated political and economic coLeader, and ex-Minister, the honorary the responsibility of committing the operation in a spirit of mutual conces degree of Doctor of Civil Law. federation to district settlements involv-sions and taking account of the national; The Public Orator in his introductory fine boot, but we can't get the right man of the open spaces called to col- ing not merely wage revision is thrown and economic exigencies of the in-oration, delivered in Latin, described Mr. a lot, and young men in the East End and the professor's fair daughter to the people to buy them. Newspaper boys buy lege life, to lead the bail team to victory, sion hours. This responsibility is thrown

Bond-street,altar on the Delegate Conference. If the lat dividual nations.

Thomas as one who had spent an active who want to look amart. ter agrees to accept district settlements,

The comedy opens at El in the then the Executive will speedily nego

life in improving the lot of the workers though, in practically closed to theat

Now here is another splendid pat- English West, where the bero is seen in tinto an agreement with the owners, who

and who was commended by his modern tern. Mauve with a champagne instep, dashing work at the annual rabbit are adamant on insisting on a longer

Then, can't you see yourself in these gold round-up. working day, and will not consent to the

tion and sense of justice. There was and black check boots! I don't think you All the players in “Blips That Fass establishment of a national appeal The

In The Night" are Armstrong College Pazis, November 9th. nothing in Mr. Thomas' picture of a will see many about. tribunal is empowered to co-ordinate and

Our real difficulty is that people are students. They defrayed the cost of the revise district settlements including

M. Rivet, Governor of the French country raled by Labour which toed getting frightened about colour. But it comedy, which runs to 2,500 feet of Blm, hours.

On the contrary, if the miners abandon settlements of Cceania, has been placed offend such laborious persons as members is over men's boots that our own battle and required some months to produce

will be fought. Some one has to make a fduring leisure hours. the seven-hour day as a hard and fast in charge of the administration of the of the University and Mr. Thomas re-beginning, and I believe we shall see scar-The action has been staged in and about for do their Coverstes are prep the territory of Kwangchairwan in place of cognised the importance of a University

Klux national minimum wage to do their utmost to safeguard the M. Delabrosse, who has been appointed education for all classes of the com we will see if we cannot introduce it into featured in the plot, engaged in bectio national principles.

Lieutenant-Governor of Cochin-Chine.

their choes."

exploita

FRENCH APPOINTMENTS IN THE FAR EAST.

ten hos to introduced into men's folger them college, and here Northumberland

cannot be clothes, open spaces,