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MIXED COURTS OF SHANGHAI:

CHINESE TO TAKE OVER ONE TO-DAY.

ANOTHER ON JANUARY 5TH.

[THROUGH-RECTIE'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, December 31st. Officially the arrangements are completed between the Sino-Foreign anthorities for the rendition of the Mixed Court, and will be made

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1st, 1927.

AMERICA'S ALCOHOL↑ EXIT THE B.C.C.

DEATHS CAUSED "WHOLE-

SALE."

SUBJECT LIKELY TO CAUSE POLITICAL STORM.

[THROUGH AMERICAN SERVICE.]

effective from to-morrow. A similar one Senator has intituated his inten.

action, baving due regard to the

difference of status between the two Courts, will be taken with respect to the French Mixed Court as from January 6th,

It is understood that the seal of the Mixed Court will be banded morning when the Shanghai Provisional Chinese

to-morrow

tiun to introduce a Bill to prohibit

CORPORATION TO TAKE OVER

FOR TEN YEARS.

£800.000 ANNUALLY IN

LICENSE FEES..

nów

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

ENGLAND'S LABOUR MOVEMENT.

HAS "NO USE" FOR A COLLEGE.

LADY WARWICK'S OFFER WITHDRAWN.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

CHINESE TELE- GRAMS.

ATTITUDE OF CABLE COMPANIES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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MOSCOW'S MISERABLE CHILDREN.

THIEVES AND DRUG VICTIMS AT TEN YEARS.

- GANGS OF YOUNG CRIMINALS.

Swarms of homeless children who live by theft and do not stop at murder; drug and alcohol victims down to ten years of age, who pay as much as £9 10. a day for cocaine; terrorised inmates of reformatories where maladministration and embezzlement reign- these are some of the revelations of child life in Russia made by Mr. C. J. Ketchum, the Daily Ecpress special correspondent in Moscow.

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• Efforts are being made by the Soviet authorities to deal with the serious situation which has arisen.

SOVIET CORRUPTION AND VICE.

Sarauai, December 31st Ruany, December 31st,

Referring to their statement The British Broadcasting Co. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31st.

issued recently, the three foreign which, for the past four years, haa

SHANGHAI, December 31st. The wholesale deaths, due to

Cable Companies inform Reuter of denatured alcohol, threaten to pro-receiving which considerably more Union Congress to undertake to by telegrams handed over by the provided wireless programmen, for Owing to the failure of the Trade arrangements made to-day, where duce a storm on the re-assembly of than two million stations, serving raise the necessary funds for its Chinese Telegraph Administration Congress on January 3rd. Already probably ten million people, are equipment, Lady Warwick, a proto the Companies from the present

Britain, will make its last trans her offer of Easton Lodge as a free grams withheld from 5 p.m. on homeless children--ragamutins, beg

licensed throughout Great minent Socialist, has withdrawn will be paid for in cash and tele

Soviet Russia's thousands of missions to-night. To-morrow the gift to the Labour movement for December 29th, will now be handed gars, thieves, alcoholics, and darco whale organisation passes into these as a

college, Easton Lodge is over by the Companies to their destic additaare becoming a grave hands of a Corperation operating a large country residence in Essex, tination.

menace to the life of the country. for ten years under Royal Charter and, with its 000 acres of parkland,

They are the product of the war, the revolution, and the famine. The Corporation's governors are has belonged to Lady Warwick's

They roam the principal cities, in appointed by the Crown, and the family for generations.

dulging in every conceivable rice. They live in swarms, almost like Postmaster-General to whom license

rats, in alleyways, in old unused buildings, baros, backyards, and, in the cold winter months, if they have rot migrated with the birds to the south, stealing their way in railway trucki.or riding on the buffers, they seek refuge by night in haylofts, cellars, unoccupied attics-anywhere they can find the slightest warmth,

the denaturing of industrial alcohol. Hitherto, industrial alcohol W33 statutorily adulterated" with two per cent of wood alcohol, This proportion has been doubled in the! new Treasury formula coming into operation on January 1st. The Government chemists claim that the

Court formally replaces the Inte: new formula is non-poisonous; but fees, totalling £500,000 annually,

national Mixed Court.

HANKOW HOUSE BOYS.

WHAT THEIR NEW UNION "DEMANDS."

Dr. Murray Butler describes it as poisoning industrial liquor and "us- adulterated murder by a paternal Government."

On

the contrary, Mr.", Mayne; Wheeler, General Counsel of the anti-Saloon League, absolves the PRESENTED TO THE BRITISH Government from responsiblity, and

CONSUL-GENERAL...

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says that such deaths are deliber- ate suicide,"

are payable, assumes parliamentary responsibility for the service.

Although no immediate change in the policy will be effected, impor Lant developments in the technical arrangements and in the improve ment of programmes are in pro

speet under new conditions which will give greater independence and security to those responsible for the service.

The chief of these during the next year will be the establishment of

to

EaRow, December 30th.

Mr. Mellon, to-night, announcça The Hinkow Servants' Union has that the Government has decided to presented to the British Consul eliminate the use of certain poison-high power regional stations offer General the 14 demands mentioned our substances from the Govern

ing alternative programmes on the 18th instant, and these are ment's denaturing formula but to now under the consideration of the adhere to the stipulation for its use

listeners.

authorities.

BRITISH TRADE UNIONISM. with regard to wood älcohol.

"BADLY

The following" arc the do hands," which have already ap peared in the Hung Kang Daily | Prezz

First:-Members cannot be dis missed or in any way oppressed. Should employers have cause for complaint they must inform the Union, who shall deal with the

matter.

...

Second:-Wages must be increas ed yearly and a month's wages. given at Chinese New Year.

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[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

ELECTRICAL POWER.

BRITAIN'S GIGANTIC * PROJECT. ·

BIG ORDERS REPORTED.

Rucay, December 30th.

RAILWAY UNION

BATTERED."

NICARAGUA'S CIVIL WARFARE.

AN APPEAL TO SENATOR BORAH.

THE U.S. CENSORSHIP.

[RKUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

THROUGH AMERICAN SERVICE.]

ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFIC.

A HUGE "RING"

DISCOVERED.

"RUM-RUNNERS INVOLVED.

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In Moscow at midnight you may see hundreds of them scurrying to shelter in the alth under the old

Chinese Wall,

ren, states ;-

In this connection almost unbe.

Goverment lievable disclosures were made re papers. cently by the Russian Soviet news The Pravda, one of the. forty-one children's homes in

organs, describing the Tula district, containing 2,758 child-

"Maladministration, and embezzlement reign in the pillering, majority of these homes. Food rations are not issued in full; oro- visions are of a bad quality. Tho.. education and instruction of the children is abominable. The major- ity of the personnel of the homes. have had no special pedagogic in truction. They indulge in debau chery before the eyes of the child- ren.

Beaten.

are

fear.

"The children are educated by beaten. They are cowed by threats

In some cases they in order that they may not tell of the disorders that take place in the homes. In one of the homes for driven to extremes by the malad- defective children, the children, ministration and disorders, revoltad and destroyed the lodging of the director."

less children, but in the same con- This report solely concerns home. nection it is interesting to read the declaration by M. Semashko, the People's Commissar of Health, con- cerning the Young Pioneers, or Welf Cubs cf Russia, which also appears

"MorrazAL, December 20th. The biggest drug ring in North America, responsible for half the illicit drug traffic of the American Continent for many years, is what

"During the day they wander the the Canadian Government's Nar of street-vendors, parse snatching, streets in droves, pilfering the stalls cotics Department claims to have and pocket-picking. They suddenly WASHINGTON, Dee. 30th. discovered through official investi-Appear in groups of twenty or thirty, descend on a crowd waiting While the troops of the Liberal gators impersocating

United for a tram-car. create a momentary leader, Sacasa, continue to forge

States narcotics importer,

thus confusion, and disappear, having meanwhile robbed two or three abead in the interior of Nicaragua, securing the ring's confidence

women of their handbags, lars, or threatening important strategical

A mass of startling evidence has even hats, which they have match been Conservative positions, officials of

secured showing that theed from their heads. drugs are the State Department, in face of through the Atlantic seaboard by

brought to

Revelations. Canada an avalanche of wide-flung protests rum-runners and others and disso alarmingly in the last year that writes, "a most peculiar and para

The number of almost infant co-in the Pravda. cainists in Moscow alone increased and widely divergent opinions, tributed throughout the country the Government were compelled to doxical phenomenon in the state of "We have noticed lately," he maintain their declared policy of concealed in other materials. Mon- bold au inquiry. I quote the follow health of the Pioneers which causes protecting American lives and pro-treal is described as the biggest ing revelations, made by a specialus great alarm. Nervous ailments

commission, from the Rabocha ya narcotics base it North America. Afdekra:-

are acquiring large dimensions The newspapers are fall of Nica- A number of arrests has been "The investigation of children's revealed is a dangerous one, for the Moreover, the dynamical process ragua news and do not attempt to mide and drugs valued at $10,000 institutions in Moscow shows a very more politically and socially active large percentage of cocainists and the children are, the weaker is their alcoholics among the homeless child-development and the more subject rea. Their fundamental trade is are they to disease." stealing. There among them.

RUINOUS STRIKE AND UNEM-perty.

PLOYED BENEFIT.

RUGBY, December 30th. The disastrous consequences of Trade Union policy in the year now closing are the keynote of a New Year message which Mr. J. R.

conceal the fact that the vital issue is whether the United States. or. Mexico is to be supreme in Central

America.

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sized.

IN IRELAND..

MR. DEVLIN'S APPEAL FOR

PEACE.

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murderers

"On their own confession the children sniff from three to Give grammes of cocaine a day. A gramme of cocaine costs 10s. in the "dens." Thus a child sniffer has to procure from £1 10s. to £2 10s. daily lor cocaine. No small sum, bat, nevertheless, the children succeed in How Exclusively by

getting it. theNicaraguan Liberals in Mexico has

Third: The Union shall superin- tend members behaviour, and that

A cable from governmental L'hion inspectors 'shall `visit dig

The Government's big new elect. Thomas, leader of the National sources at Managua, accuses Mexico extionally premises in which mem- bera are employed.

city scheme, which was one of the Union of Railwaymen, issues to of actively assisting the Liberals

that organisation in the Railway by supplying arms and funds. Fourth-Employers must pro- most important measures passed by

Renieu. vide medical attention, with the Parliament during the last session, exception of thas for venereal

Meanwhile a 'representative of the Mr. Thomas declares aven disease.

comes into force on January 1st.

National Union of Railwaymen, made the statement that Sacasa is Colonel Wilfrid Ashley, Ministeri must be given yearl; or a month's of Transport, is now completing his which he had often prided himself virtually a prisoner in the hands of almost unbreakable," had the American Admiral Latimer at only emerged from the ordeal of the Puerto Cabezas. Other messages, general strike "badly battered."

appealing for support for Sacasa,

weeks holiday

Fifth-Three

pay instead.

Sixth-Vacancies as they occur anust J Slled by the Union.

Lask of selecting the Central Board which will be responsible for work-

4{ was"

A limit of seven days is given foring the scheme. This Board will He adds:-"Although the events have been circulated throughout

accedence to the demands.

The increases deminded range from about 10 per cent. in the case of highly paid men to 100 per cent. for the lowly paid men.

THROUGH XKUTER'S AGENCY.]

EMPIRE AIR LINERS.

consist of a Chairman and seven

of 1928 may have hit you very hard, other members, and the selection of suitable men, who have no financial you are faced with a heavy joint

responsibility to perform, an im interest in electricity undertakings, has proved difficult. It is under-portant public service. This can

Latin America.

San Salvadory Appeal.

"SAN SALVADOx, Dec. 31st.

QUALITY OF COMPROMISE

· NEEDED.

Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P., was

Rotary Club, and in an address he recently the guest of the Derry emphasised the necessity for spirit of goodwill and understand ing amongst the people of Ireland. The Quality of Compromise. What they lacked in Ireland was ene of the things that, made Eng- land great. That was the quality

stealing."

Child cocainista are being treated at a narcotic dispensary which is the world. At the invitation of the the first experiment of the kind in went yesterday to see her attend director, Dr. (Madam) Dubrovitch, anta at work with the twenty.Sve youthful inmates.

Pitiful Faces.

Ühild's "Questions,

The interest of the youth of Russia in politics is surprising I found this borne out in striking fashion among the inmates of the experimental home in

Moscow- The following were some of the questions hurled at me in rapid suc- cession by a youngster of fourteen years from Samara, detained as a dangerous and

Very

strong cocainist:-.

"Are you an English collier ?" seat English king?

"What is the name of your pre-

land or do they cut off their heads? Do they shoot criminala in Eng- "Has England a large army, and has she a navy?

"Have you a Communist Govern- ment ?***

of compromise. Was there a single, The "appearance of some of the thing that had occurred within the youngsters of eight, nine, and ten It is to the credit of the Soviet last ten years that had not brought years, with their wide, hollow eyes authorities that they are making a The newspapers have addressed home to their minds how important More than half a dozen, ranging in situation.. The institution in Mos- and sunken cheeks, was. pitiful, serious attempt to deal with the stood that the post of Chairman only be executed satisfactorily by an appeal to Senator Borah re

it was for them to try and solve age from ten to sixteen, were de cow, though lamentably small, is will carry & salary of £10,000 per pulls its full weight in a real spirit Department to reconsider the re-wars--the great European war, the They had robbed with violence, of expert doctors. When the youth-

innum.

A Linking Cable. The first work to be undertaken AIR MINISTER MAKING GOOD will be the laying of a cable linking the electrical plante of London with nine other big centres. Ten new

PROGRESS.

LONDON, December 30th.. A message from Benghazi (Libya) says that. Sir Samue and Lady

Hoare," who are flying to India in one of the new Empin air liners, have arrived there maidy.

[RAH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

A "Royal" Ecort,

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super power stations are planned various large towns, London leading the way with two costing

£3,000,000 each,

Existing power-atations will be enlarged. Big water power schemes for Wales and Scotland are pro jected.

More General Use...

Rrrr, December ist. For the first 100 miles of the 230| miles flight across the Mediter-Experts prédict a great increase

ranean, the seroplane was escorted by Royal Air Force machines.

[BRITISH WIRELESS IERVICE.}

BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED.

MORE SATISFACTORY RETURNS,

team work in which every grade questing him

great problems without bitterness.

to urge the State

י

In the last few years they had three scribed to me as vicious characters. well conducted by an eficient staff civil war in Ireland, and the indus picked pockets, or committed atherful patients show sufficient mgn of of cooperation. Let us bend our cognition and administration of trial war, now happily drawing to offences. All were victims either of recovery, they are given vocational sible, what has been lost and to get energies to retrieve, an far as pos Diaz, which, they declare, is causa close and he challenged anyone

alcoholism drugs.

occupationa. Some of their work. back on to the road of progress." ing great injury to all Central to declare that without the destruc- Although this, institution is the in"this direction is remarkable.

To what extent the National America.

tion and, ruin brought upon the only one of its kind, there are scores Union of Railwaymen has suffered

When they have completed the human ráce by the art, without of homeless children's colonies, hos- strenuous course of treatment, last- is shown by a statement made at its

Censorship Removed.

the evils, moral and financial and pitals, and houses of correction, ing from two to three months, they beadquarters that £1,760,000 has

industrial caused by the second, where attempts are made, not al are sent to a large colony at Push- WASHINGTON, Dec. 31st been paid as strike and unemployed

and without any of the consequences ways with any marked degree of kino, and when, in time, they are Admiral Latiner has informed of the industrial conflict in Eng. success, to check the spread of par- deemed completely cured, they are benefit during the last seven months. Union's resources and consequent sorship which was established at things before the war than after tarian work are limited, with the custody of others, where they re This has considerably depleted the the State Department that the een more satisfactory solution of these The funds available for this humani- they can be found, or placed in the. land, they could not have found a cotics among these young parasites. restored either to their parenta, if ly the Executive has decided to im- pose a levy of threopence per week Puerto Cabezas and Rio Grande

inevitable consequence that ineff main under observation and are pro- on all members during the coming has been lifted The object of the and destruction of human lives, better establishments.

After the immense waste of money clency and maladministration have tected, for a few years at least, twelve months.

been rampant, even in some of the from the temptation of returning censorship was to maintain a neu. when they came to the settlement

to their life of the gutter. trality zone to prevent, the sending of the war they found there was not a antisfied nation in Europe. out of military instructions and The vanquished was

almost information by either side.

AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE. WILLING TO BE GUIDED BY

THE MOTHER LAND.

of the use of electricity, both for

RUGBY; December 30th. industrial and domestic purposes. Mr. 8. M. Bruce, the Australian Even during the last year, the do- Premier, in an interview in" New York on his way homeward from mestic use is stated to have increas the Imperial Conference declared ed by thirty per bent. Scores of that Australia had no intention of Washington or anywhere else st appointing a Minister either in present. She would make such ap- pointment only when the number of made it desirable. Meanwhile, she questions pending with any country enjoyed, for nothing, the advan- tages of Great Britain's world-wide diplomatic and consular services.

great factories are now being electrified and much of this deve lopment is attributed to the recent coal atoppage, industrialists seeking to make themselves as independent of coal as they can.

RUGBY, December 30th. The latest return of unemployed,

Big Orders. completed up to Decenter 20th, in-

Big orders for electrical equip dicates that the country is rapidly ment are also reported to be coming recovering from the effects of the from many parts of the world. ExCAUTIOUS," LIKE FRANCE.

[THROUGH HAVAS MORICY:] JAPAN'S POLICY IN CHINA.

THE ROYAL TOUR.

DAILY COMMUNICATION WITH LONDON.

[THROUGH REUTER'S

it?

happy as the victor.

2,000 SAILORS MAROONED. Take the Irish civil war. How 1 SHIPS IN GREAT ICE JAM. far had they solved the problem in

Whereas if

been

Ice-Crusher Frozen In.

several times, and it was only with The Ste. Marie was frozen. Fin

herself free. difficulty that she was able to pull

this. country 1. And look at all 65 IMPRISONED TILL SPRING. the mischief that had dane.

number Two thousand sailors, many

Most of the work of the Sta of men of different political of them Canadian aboard 125 Marie bas centred around the upper views, moved by an honest desire Canadian lako cargo boats, are

reaches of the river channel where

In the lower section of the can.

for the solution of them, had come marooned with their vessels in the the ice jam is less dovere. With a together, he thought they would pitiless ice flees of the upper slight spell of warmer weather it have, without bloodshed and with reaches of St. Mary's River, con is thought that the 40 easels ime. LONDON December 30th.

out the destruction of so much they necting Lake Superior with Lake prisoned there may be freed. practice for the past two years of tical controversy. They should drop sudden early freezing up with mid before the spring. Most of the

In conformity with Admiralty

held dear, solved the problem Huron, at Sault Ste. Marie.

They should drop violent poli- ing short-wave wireless to com-

The picture produced by the Del 66 vessels are held feat. It is municate with distant warships, reds, and bury deep down the history of Canadian navigation. off shore and the crews have

doubtful if these can be released. political issues and religious bat winter blizzards is unique in the whereby daily communication has

ships are at a considerable distance been maintained with warships memory of past feuds and concen- proceeding to and from, the Far trate upon the things that counted, crusher Ste. Marie to release the get close enough to carry, supplies The efforts of the giant icefmained aboard. Tugs are able to with a standard Admiralty set. East H.M.8. Rénoun has been fitted because politics, political changes, imprisoned vessels

forms of government did not count almost negligible. A few ships have

have been and there is no food shortage yet. communication with London during to appalling conditions.

It is hoped to maintain daily for much if the people were reduced been worked out, among them the and no prospect of reaching the There is acute shortage of coal the Duke and Duchess of York's Before a people lived well they unbia. It was necessary for supplica have run out.

Canadian Pacific passenger linerships with any after their meagre trip to Australia and back, and the must live, and it was only in the the ice breaker to ma amateurs not to attempt to call the one long pull and a pall all to carved a path wide enough for tugs Admiralty appeals to short-wave re-creation of their industries, with for each ship and by the time she

Ballers Can Get Ashore. *-* There is no immediate fear for

coal stoppage. The total number of parts estimate that next "year" "the unemployed - was 1,300,700, which orders in the electrical industry

PARIS, December 31st. was 100,078 less than the week will amount to £80,000,000, of which Japanese Ambassador has stated to

• According to Le Matin the previous. It was 207,300 more than £5,000,000 will be for Home and the or tho France's cautions with regard to answered and will only cause inter all that mattered in the industrial ships free the starting-stretch of they can leave their ships and make

a year ago...

£20,000,000, for export.

policy towards China.

ference.

life of the community.

the lane froze fast.

their way ashore over the