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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1618,

WEATHER AT

HOME.

COAL DISPUTE.

DISTRICTS TO DECIDE.

**CHINA MERCHANTS

SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

FIVE, SHIPS ́ ́ IDLE »

{TEXQUGE EXUTEK'S AGENCY.]

TERRIFIC WIND AND FLOODS.

DISASTERS AT SEA.

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Ruary, November 15th.

Wild weather accompanied by a heavy rain fall swept the British Isles during

able, damage

Was

RESULT ON FRIDAY,

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Rroay, November 15th. The present week is generally expected to see the termination of coal dispute. Miners' district associations are deciding whether to accept as recommended by

SHANGHAI,, November 15th. There is no serious development in the seamen's strike. Five ships are idle.

A telegram from Shanghai, dated 12th inst., stated:-

What promises to become a general

MR. KIRKWOOD CHARGED.

BREACH OF EMERGENCY REGULATIONS.

[TEROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, November 15th. Extraordinary interest was evinced in a crowded police court at Renishaw, Derbyshire. in four summonses charging Mr. Kirkwood, M.P., with breaking the emergency regulations in the coarse of

week on Mr. Kirkwood's application for time to prepare his defence "in view of the great constitutional principles in

1926.

HONGKONG JUNK PIRATED.

TWO MEN HELD TO RANSOM.

CAPTIVES FORCED TO WORK.

A Hongkong junk was pirated off Waglan on October 20th, when cargo worth 83,564 was looted, a passenger and the compradore were kidnapped and are being held for ransom.

The junk, which is owned by Chan Wah Hing of 82, Woo Sung Street, left.

on October 25th. There were seven men

ABOLISH THE IDEA OF HELL!

PLEA OF TWO FAMOUS MEN.

"THIS PRIEST-CREATED HORROR."

Should Hell be abolished?

of a place of eternal torture is out of The suggestion that the Biblical iden date was made by two prominent men Church Congress and by Mr. Jerome -by the Bishop of Liverpool at the

K Jerome, the famous author, at a meet- in London commemorating St. Francis of Assisi.

The time is surely due," said Mr.

all denominations-to clear its Founder's claimed and preached a God of cruelty name from the stigma of having pro and revenge.

the week-end and in some parts consider their delegates conference the proposals strike among the vessels of the China his speeches in Derbyshire villages on the Yauanti for Kit Shek, near Swatow, Jerome, "for the Church of Christ-of

done by flooding. for a settlement presented by the Gor. Merchants Steamship Co. begin this and inst. The case was adjourned for a Throughout Saturday, the wind main-ernment. All districts must decide he tained a high average specs of from fore Thursday and the results will be forty miles an hour, and on Sunday, presented at the Delegates' Conference although the average was lower, gusts on Friday. of nearly sixty miles an hours were ex- perienced in exposel parts,

Continuous rains on Friday and Satur day 'caused a subsidence of a mountain overlooking the Welsh village of Cwm near Ebbwvale.

On Saturday evening the river which drains the valley was found to be gradually leaving its original channel and making for itself # new course in the main road from Ebbwvale to Newport. Drastic measures werk necessitated including the blowing up of a huge concrete river wall and retaining wall of a new school up to which the water had advanced. The effect was to save temporarily at all events the

Already in South Wales, Blaenavon, Abertillery and. Garndiffaith, the miners have voted in favour of acceptance, and other districts are expected to provide ht drust a majority for this course, The Government propomis are designed to secure a standard form of agreement in every coal-feld.

a national

Anything like exact equality is not the aim of the plan bat it perpetuates com-,, mon principles and common factors for the calculation of district wage rates and virtually establishes minimum. It secures the working in dis- tricts of the machinery for the regulation of wages above that minimum in accord main road and aboum abutting to it ance with the state of prosperity of the and the neighbouring: streets.

industry. It allows of some elasticity eupants of about forty houses were rein the fixing of profits and it assures at moved and other householders warned continuance of subsistence allowance. It of danger. The position of the school provides for agreements of a duration is precarious and a close watch is being of not less than three years. kept on the movement of the mountain.

*In Scotland,

The oc-

Damage by foods was caused in several "parts of Scotland and shipping all round the counts suffered heavy buffeting Crews of two vessels in distress were rescued off the Mail to Galloway.

Folkstone Harbour had to be closed to the crows channel service which was

diverted to Dover.

A Danish schooner went ashore on the Cornish coast and the crew were rescued by life lines in the height of the storm. A lifeboat and tug stood by the Norwe gain cargo steamer dyner which grounded near Lowestoft but she was refloated

later.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. MEETING OF ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.

Krapy, November 15th. The preparatory committee for the Economic Conference of the League of Nations is meeting in Geneva to-day. It will decide on date and composition of the Conference. A limited number of essen- tial subjects will be selected on which the efforts of the Conference will be can- centrated. It was at the League Assem- bly last year that about fifty nations expressed the unanimous view economic peace would largely contribute to national security.

that

EUROPEAN BROADCASTING..

A NEW WAVE LENGTH.

Kucay, November 15th.

The standard agreement makes no re ference to the length of working day. Hours are to be left to the determination in the districts. On the question of hours there can be no appeal to a tribunal and to this the miners take exception, but it the working of longer hours adds to the prosperity of the industry they will have their full share of additional proceeds.

AFTER THE STRIKE.

BIG TRADE OPPORTUNITIES,

morning when the two vessels Krangler and Hinchang failed to sail, some of the crew refusing to work alleging that the company did not pay sufficient com-. pensation to the dependents of the crew of the vessel Kianggung which blew up at Kiukiang two weeks nga while in the possession of Northern troops.

DISORDERS IN CORK.

ARMED RAIDS ON BARRACKS.

LONDON, November 14th. An outburst of disorder, analogous to the "old anti-British riots, occurred in Cork to-night.

Tolved."

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SIR A. COBHAM AND TRANS- "ATLANTIC MAIL.

EXPERIMENT PLANNED FROM S.S.HOMERIC."

Ruaar, November 14th.

must have been the invention of the devil

"There is no authority for it. Hell' going about queting Scripture for his own purposes.

Can it be supposed that Christ, when He commanded To should love our enemies, was preaching to man a doc- trine of perfection to which God was unable to attain,

on board, four of whom had booked as passengers. When off Waglan, three of these passengers produced revolvers and torrified the other men. The junk was then headed towards. Macao, and after

"Where the word occurs in the Old a few hours' sailing, was met by another Testament it has merely the meaning of junk soutaining six men. The caxswain clearly from their context, were never the Greek Hades. Some sayings of Christ, and two jokis of the pirated junk were intended to be taken literally. The words let out of the hold, where they had been of a poet speaking to an Eastern, people in terms of metaphor and imagery have imprisoned, and forced to assist in been dragged from the spirit of His navigating the junk. The cargo, includ-whole teaching to justify this priest-

created horror, ing iron ore, rattan and kerosene was transhipped. The junk was then taken to Ko Lan, in the Heung Shan district. Sir Alan Cobham, the famous airman,The kerosene and rattan was sold there intends to carry out an interesting ex by the pirates, and the iron is believed Raiders, armed with. revolvers, shot periment when he leaves for America on dead Sergeant Fitz-Simmons, the officer board the flomeric next Wednesday. He in charge of the Civic Guard barracks will take with him his little Moth sea in St. Lukes, a populous suburb of Cork plane, and as the liner approaches New City. It transpired later that three York he will lower the seaplane into the other barracks in the city and several sex with a number of mail bags, and, barracks in County Cork were visited by taking of from sea, fly with them into armed men, who overpowered the guards, the city. Sir Alan Cobham thinks there searched the premises and removed is a possibility of considerable accelera- tion by carrying mails in this manner. He proposes to work out all the details: of lifting the machine over the side into the water and also to see how far it is possible to take of from the ship itself.

documents.

The police and military are at present active throughout the city holding up motor cars and interrogating pedestrians.

Stoppage Virtually Terminated.

THE CHAMBERLAIN FAMILY.

LONDON, November 14th. The dejected utterance by Mr. A. J. Cook, at the conclusion of Saturday's Conference that the men can just drift FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE. back at any time now," is re-choed every- where as a true appraisement of the coal stoppage, which it is widely considered has virtually terminated.

Industries are preparing to make up leeway on belated contracts, notably, in the shipbuilding industry, in which con nection the newspapers enumerate that contracts for nineteen ships of various types have been lodged with British yards during the past few days.

Rrony, November 14th It is anticipated that when the coal stoppage is over, as it is confidently ex pected to be when the miners in the coal- fields give their decisions on the Govern- ment's proposals, there will be an im mediate and a strong revival in those

The Balsaver Colliery Company has trades which the strike has rendered more announced that in recognition of the or less idle during the past six months. loyalty of 2,000 resumed employees in The stoel and iron works of South Wales Notts and Derbyshire, they are granting have large orders on hand and many a bonus of from five to twelve shilinga thousands of men will find employment weekly, according to age the art instal when there is fuel for the fumaces. Ament of which will, designedly, be paid big firm at Newport has received a con- the week before Christmas. tract to supply 21,000 tons of pipe line

to San Paulo, South America. This con-

tract will, it is stated, mean employment for British workmen for many years in providing the necessary materials.

In the Midlands.

In Birmingham the iron and steel trade has work of all kinds to put in hand, notably for railway carriages and wagons. In Sheffield contracts for all classes of } steel products have accumulated "at a

steadily increasing rate during the past New wave-lengths for European Broad-three months. In shipbuilding, also, casting Stations came into operation arrears of work have accumulated and yesterday. Almost all wave lengths in the overtaking of these wil in itself Great Britain and Northern Ireland had create a busy period. No less than nine- been altered, bus the change in London; was so small as to make no appreciable teen new ships and equipment for three

difference to tuning. In regard to Con- tinental Stations it is stated that listen- ers found that the change had effected considerable improvement,

ARMISTICE SUNDAY AT THE CENOTAPH.

RUGBY, November 15th Yesterday being Armistice Sunday there was almost an unbroken pilgrimage to the Cenotaph and hundreds of wreaths <"were added to the already great mass of

Bowers heaped. high around it.

"[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

RUSSO-TURKISH PARLEY.

ERATERNAL RELATIONS.

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ODESSA, November 15th. Tewik Rushdi, interviewed" on departure for home, said that Turko- Russian relations were not merely cordial, they were fraternal at the recent meet ing as a result of a new consolidation of friendly relations. Nevertheless the principles of Turkish foreign policy as regards friendly relations to all countries were unchanged..

nore have been ordered in the last few days from various firms.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE]

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S

SPEECH.

AN ELECTORAL STUNT-1

U.S. PRESS COMMENT,

to have been taken to Macao.

"Heresy."

"It is not enough that a few scattered The crew were held in captivity at Ko superior intelligence, should shrug their Christiana, priding themselves upon their Lan for some time, and were forced to shoulders and dismiss the subject as a work in the fields under guard. Later, together without its uses in impressing harmless superstition, perhaps not al- they were given 60 cents, and sent to law and order upon the poor. It is an Macao. Before departing, the two cap Christ. Until it is openly and authori

evil heresy, stultifying the teachings of tives handed them letters to take to theirtatively recanted the Church remains the relatives in Hongkong. One of the re-adsocate and apologist of cruelty.

"I suggest to our ecclesiastical authe- leased fokia did not return, and is sus- | rities of all denominations that they pected of conspiracy."

should clear Hell out of the way; and so and fro about the earth, unhampered, enable the spirit of St. Francis to go to. teaching the right of all things living to

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The story, was related to the Water Police during the week end by one of the returned crew,

the common love of God."

The Bishop of Liverpool declared that the reality behind the symbol of Hell is the immortal law that he who sins must suffer, or, what is worse, bring suffering on others. To make that dis covery about our sins would be bell

PRIMITIVE MAN'S RELIGION.

THE SPIRIT" BEFORE JUDAISM. cuough for many of us."

"The Eternal Spirit in the Bible" was the general subject considered by a sun- ber of British educationists recently.

The Rev. D. C. Simpson, D.D., Orier

DEATH DANGER OF DIVORCE. BROKEN YOWS RESULT IN SHORTER LIFE.

The statement made by Professor G.

the incidence of insanity among married College of Physicians of Edinburgh, that M. Robertson, president of the Royal

people is low, but that it is increased in walked degree, tited interest in the sensational disclosures of Dr. Herman N. ur wife, gives an added to

Bundesen, the famous Health Commis ried men live virtually twice as long as moner of Chicago, who declares that mar- men who have been divorced.

Dr. Bundesen bases his revelation on department on the comparative longevity new completed statistics compiled by his

of bachelors, married men, and men who have been divorced.

Buday, November 14th. Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Foreign Secretary, who is Member of Parliament for West Birmingham, will, next Tues. Professor of the Interpretation of Holy

electors on the occasion of the comple with The Spirit in the Old Testament day receive the congratulations of its Scripture in the University of Oxford and Canon of Rochester Cathedral, dealing tion of fifty continuous years of political and Apocrypha," said that men had been association between his family and Bir conscious, dimly conscious it might be, of ingham. His famous father, Mr. Joseph the working of the divine "Spirit" long Chamberlain, first entered the House of before the Hebrew nation came into exist. Commons as Member for Birmingham inence. They had already realised the 1876. Sir Austen Chamberlain's brother, implicity, beauty, and the real fitness of Mr. Neville Chamberlain, also representa referring to the Divine action in the world the Ladywood Division of Birmingham. as the action of, or as mediated through, "wind" or "spirit" or "breath." This (Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, it may be recalled, also took a leading part in conception and this way of expressing it Birmingham's municipal affairs, serving seemed to lie at the back of so much thousand divorced men between the ages as Mayor and carrying through important Egyptian religious terminology that thereof twenty-five and thirty-four, fifteen died town planning and alum clearance re- forms. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, befereed that it was in Egypt that the idea, of single men five died, and out of a thou

were not wanting scholars who maintain last year; that out of the same number. entering politics during the war period, the language, and the terminology of the sand married men only four died... had also been Mayor of Birmingham HeSpirit" frst made their appearatice. is now Minister for Health.)

OUR SCIENTIFIC “ARMY.

DEMONSTRATION, BY TANKS AND TRACTORS.

DOMINION PREMIERS PRESENT.

NEW YORK, November 15th. "Why did President Coolidge go out of his way to raise the question of the World Court to irritate Europe? is the

Recry, November 14th: question agitating many newspapers

The Dominion Premiers yesterday wit since the President's Kansas City speech.. It is answered by the Herald and eased at Camberley, Surrey, a wonder Tribune, regarded as

ful display by the latest forms of tanks & semi-official organ, which asserts that the President and other modern war machines. There reached the definite conclusion that the were tanks of every kind from massive "dreadnoughts" down to little machines greatest service he could render to World peace is to effect a modification with a crew of one. There were artillery in international law for which he asks dragons, roadless tractors, artillery trans- A feature Congress to authorise a convocation for porters and armoured cars." a conference. "Political observers are of which impressed onc was their extra the opinion that in this way President ordinary handiness and manceuvring Coolige will secure a powerful advantage in the electoral campaign inasmuch as: Senator Borah ́and other irreconcilables cocimend the plan and the conference will appeal to a large body of idealists.

The statistics show that out of every

In the group between the ages of thirty-

We had still fuller evidence from Meso-five and forty-four, out of one thousand potamia as to the antiquity of this con ception.

in each class, eighteen divorced, fourteen single, and only seven married men died.

The age between forty-five and fifty- four comes next. Statistics here again reveal that whereas thirty-seven divorced and twenty-three single men died in each thousand of this class, fourteen married

Forty-nine bachelors, fifty-six divorced men and only, twenty-nine married wen, further, died in Chicago last year between the ages of fifty-five and sixty-four in' their respective groups of one thousand. "Consider finally the age of sixty-five, says the Health Commissioners. fewer than 118 divorced and 112 single out of one thousand over this age died last year, against only eighty married."

No

SCIENTIST'S SUICIDE.

PROFESSOR'S ALLEGATIONS OF CRUEL HOAX.

VIENNA Professor Paul Kammerer, the, famous biologist, committed suicide on Septem ber 24th, and left a letter of explanation. addressed to the Moscow Academy.

Outlining how, probably in compara tively primitive times, early man in general, living at the eastern. end of the alediterranean and in Mesopotamia, came to find in the terminology of the "Spirit" | the most satisfactory way by which he wen euccombed. could give expression to his conviction of the existence of and the interference by the Divine in the mundane and human spheres, Professor Simpson said: It must have happened quite naturally, though none the less providentially, in some such way as this: Primitive man by that I mean man at a time long prior to the rise of the Hebrews, prior probably to the rise of Semitic culture in Mesopo tamia, prior even to that of Egypt-began to question the whence, the why, the that the breath was the sine qua non whither of his existence... He observed of his own existence and of animal exist- ence in general It first intaking re aulted in life; its last exit from the body was the immediate prelude to death. was, in fact, the end of his conscious per- sodality, just as later thought, postulating life after death, first of all depicted i was the re-entering of the dead body by Spirit, the reanimation of the person ality which in the interval had been der It appears that Dr. G.. K. Noble, of the A notable specimen shown was the mant or non-existent. It was the uli. American Museum of Natural History. mate energising force a force which New York, in an article in Nature, sug wheel-cum-track car. A feature of this existed both before and after its associs gested that certain markings on toads vehicle is that it proceeds along roads tion with the material frame of each in

upon which Professor Kammerer bad based some remarkable claims in the dividual independent of it and outside it. on wheels at the speed of any ordinary. To us, who scientifically examine the matter of heredity, were faked by the mator-car, but when cross-country work results of the Spirit's action in regard insertion under the skin of the tosu to religious ideas the whole world over,

of Indianink. Professor Kammerer is necessary & track is substituted. It not chance, not fortuitous combination, thereupon made a thorough investigation, dakea only one minute to change from but Divine foresight and Divine prov and in the letter which he left confesses WASHINGTON, November 14th wheels to track and vice versa, the in this way that Palestine, in God's good must have played cruel trick upon him dence reveal themselves at work. It was cusations were true, and that somebody that he found that all Dr. Noble's as- The" commercial traffic through the change being made by means of engine pleasure, became a great meeting-house by unknowingly tampering with this Panama Canal for the fiscal year ending power in the vehicle itself. Though only Him and partial truth about Him which

for the reception of ideas of aspects of specimens, "All the facts are true. It June 30th, exceeded that of 1925 but was in the experimental stage the possibilities the Spirit had revealed and which had of my whole life is destroyed." were the has given me my death-blow. The work less than in 1924, which was a record, of this system of transport are considered those lands. The Hebrew religion in its last sentences of the final letter.

been preserved in the religious beliefs of

rumours persist in Juarez that a revolu- the Canal American vessels carried 53 strategy of warfare. The demonstration agency, the repository of these truths, denials says the annual report by the Governor of to be of the highest importance to the turn became through the Spirit's tignary movement is developing along per cent of the cargo handled through the Northern borders of Mexico. It in the canal, in 3,432 vessels, paying concluded with an attack on the marquee liminating them, welding them together, reinforcing them, purifying them, sub- reported that General Fernandez, an ex- 911,500,000 in toll; 1,423 British vessels in which the Premiers sheltered from and adding to them by means of the member of Villa's staff, heads a sina!! carried a record cargo representing 28 the heavy rain then falling, tanks, trac band of rebels and aims enlisting aid per cent.; and 131 Japanese carried 2 tors, machine guns, field guns and aerophets, psalmists, apocalyptists, wiadom Spirit's inspiration of its greatest pro from Villa's ex-followers in Chihuahua..

panes co-operating.

writers, and even priestly legislators.”

Another Monster Liner? Of interest in this connection.is a state. ment made by Mr. Franklin, President of the International Mercantile Marine Company, who arrived" at Southampton yesterday from New York. He said that the White Star Lines are making arrange- ments to proceed with a big ship, the exact size of which he would not give, beyond stating that it would be larger than the Olympic. The Olympic's ton- riage is 40,439, The new liner will be built by Harland ́aid Wolf at Belfast and it is probable that the order will be placed in the near future.

"[REUTEL'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

ANOTHER MEXICAN

REVOLUTION.

EL PASO, November 15th Despite emphatic official

PANAMA CANAL TRAFFIC.

RECORD BRITISH CARGO.

per cent.

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capabilities.

Road or Cross-Country.

Police Court that, owing to the coal stop- It was stated some time ago in Paisley page, 10 railway wagons had been left, an broken up by gangs of men who helped a siding, and that 24 had been partly themselves to the wood: