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EARLIER "TELEGRAMS.

CO-OPERATIVE KIDNAPPING.

TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920.

Washington, March & The State Department learns that ab American mining engineer named Joseph Williams has been kidnapped by Mexican bandits who attacked a train on which Williama was a passenger.

Washington, March 9.

The Mexican Foreign Office announces the discovery of "a po-operative kidnapping association" for the purpose of "kidnapping and holding to ransom foreigners, preferably Americans."

DEAR OIL.

Washington, March 6.

In order te meet present urgent requirements the Shipping Board has accepted an offer of 1,500,000 barrels of fuel of at prices from seventy-five to ninety percent above those of 1919. It is hoped prices will be lower before the necessary purchase of the remaining twelve million barrels required for the text half year.

AMERICAN INCOME TAX,

Washington, March, 5. The Supreme Court has declared as unconstitutional the provisions of the Income Tax Act of 1916, whereby the authorities have taxed corporation stock, and dividends from earnings and profits arenting subsequent to 1st. March last year as income.

SALVADOR AND THE LEAGUE.

San Salvador, Maron 9.

An official decree states that in view of the answer of the United States to Salsader's request for an interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine. Salvador accepts the pr nesal to sure to the League of Nations.

THE ROME-TOKYO FLIGHT.

Karachi, Mareli

The Italian aimnen Lieutenants Ferrarip and Masiero. flying from Rome to Tokio, have arrived from Charbar and Bunderabbas respectively.

Rome, March 11.

Another party of S.V.A. aeroplanes has started for Tokio, accompanied by a cine na operator.

MINERS WANT DIRECT ACTION.

London, March 10. The Miners Conference declared in favour of direct action in support of nationalisation of mines by 324,000 to 346,000.

The National Federation of General Workers, with a million and a half membership, has unanimously decided upon constitutional as against strike action as regards nationalisa- tion of the mines.. The Railwaymen's Union's executive bas similarly derided.

EGYPT'S INDEPENDENCE.

Cairo, March 10. Fifty-two members of the Legislative Assembly met at the house of the Nationalist leader Zaghloul Pasha and passed a resolution protesting against the suspension of the Ar sembly, also the British protectorate, and proclaiming the independence of Egypt and the Sudar.

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LABOUR MINISTER RETIRING.

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London, March 10.

It is stated that the Labour Minister, Mr. Wardle, is retiring on the ground of ill health. Hence there will be two by-elections at Stockport. The resignation leaves one re-

maining Labour Minister.

The retirement of Mr. G. J. Wardle is confrmed.

THE BOXER INDEMNITY

London, March 8.

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Heare, Mr. Lloyd George said that no decision had yet been arrived at with reference to remission of the Boxer indemuity.

NEW TURKISH CABINET.

London, March 19. The Times" correspondent a: Constantinople reports that Salih Pasha has formed a Cabines, practically the same

as the former ministry.

FRENCH, VICTORY AT RUGGER.

Paris, March 11.

At rugger the French Army defeated the British Army"

by 15 to 6. The kalftime scure was 2 to 3.

JAPAN AND THE BOLSHEVIKS.

London, Marsh. 11.

A telegram from Tokio states that the Diplomatic Advisory Council has decided to ignore Soviet Russia's peace

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LT.-COL, JOHN. WARD HONOURED.

London, March, A.

The Emperor of Japan has coolerred the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class, or Licut Colonel John Ward.

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EIGHTEEN BOMBAY MILLS IDLE.

Bombay, March 9.

The new cotton mill strike is spreading. There are now eighteen mills- idle.

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WELSH STEELWORKERS' STRIKE SETTLED,

London, March 11. The Welsh Steelworkers strike has been settled.

THE PRINCE'S TOUR.

London, March 11. The Frince of Wales will depart for Australasia on 16th March.

SWEDEN'S SOCIAL DEMOCRAT CABINET,

Stockholm, March 10. M. Branting has formed a Social Democrat Cabinet.

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CHANCES OF A NEW PARTY.

COALITION AND ITS FUTURE.

The Times parliamentary cor respondent writes:-The Lord Chancellor's call for the form- ation of a new National Party was the only topic of conversation in political circles on January 12.] It was clear to everybody that a decisive stage had been reached; in the chequered career of the Coalition.

The interview which the Lord Chancellor gave to the Weekly Dispatch was canvassed from many points of view. But what the ordinary politician chiefly wanted to know was what was to be the programme of the new party and who were to be its leaders. It was clear that a mere conversion of the Coalition into a National Party would satisfy nebody. Why leap out of the frying pan into the fire," AS one member asked. It WAS equally certain that no satisfac- tion would be given by a party which had no raison d'k tre be- yond that of fighting the Labour) Party, Not that there was not al very strong desire that the ad- vance of Labour should be check- ed straightway, but all experience suggested that the only way to withstand a strong antagonist was by the liberal interpretation! of a constructive policy.

Still, it was difficult to see how the Coalition could stand such a shock to its prestige as that! which the Lord Chancellor had! given it. Here was one of the half-dozen men at the head of the Government, one of the inner ring of Ministers, branding the Coalition as invertebrate, and throwing it on one side like an old glove. The question, natural- ly arose-"Is this the collective view of the Cabinet or merely Tibe individual opinion of

single Minister?" It was shrewdly suspected that it was something between the TWO. There has certainly been no Cabinet decision to scrap the Coalition and start afresh with a new party. But, even before the recent run of big Lab úr polls at the by-elections, certain Ministers were known to be anxious to ex- change the temporary platform of the Coalition for a more per- manent structure.

Mr. Bonar Law made the run- ning on the Unionist side, and Mr. Churchill on the Liberal. Mr. Churchill has for months been in favour of the formation of a Centre Party, and both he and the Lord Chancellor are patrons of the New Members' group which did some spade- work in this direction last session. But so far the Prime Minister has not committed himself publicly to the new orientation, and it remains to be seen whether the Lord Chancellor has got in front of the band. The Prime Minister's inclination all along has been to seek the reun- ion of the Liberal Party and not) to perpetuate the split unless the pressure of events proved too much for him.

Spen Valley of course, upset a The good many calculations. Prime Minister had the morti- fication of finding his candidate at the bottom of the poll, and the advance of Labour was too mark- ed for its significance to be lost on the mind of a political strategist. The Prime Minister has steadily been backing away from the Left to the Left Centre, and a new party arising from the ashes of the Coalition might be his only means of escape from a very awkward

ituation.

After the Lord Chancellor's blant declaration of the useless- ness of the Coalition to meet pre- sent needs, there must be some change in the unwieldy structure on which the Government so un- easily rests. The old school of Unionists are restless and demand. to be placed again under their national leaders. The Coalition Liberals are engaged in morbid self-introspection; they cannot find any place for themselves in the future evolution of politics. I Many are anxious to disengage themselves from their present Ministers are entanglements.

a band at none too happy the moment. They are obsessed by their failures of last session and appalled by the tasks which confront them through their own default at the next sittings. The whole position is complex to a degree, and there may be dramatic coup at any moment. But there is no evidence that it will take the form of a General Elec- tion, notwithstanding continued Labour preparations to that end:"

FRENCH DEPUTIES' SALARIES.

It is proposed to increase the payment of members of Parlia ment from 15,000 francs (£600 at pre-war rate), to between 25,000 and 30,000 francs.

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OF

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&

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We have received a consignment of O-Cedar Mops and Polish on exceptional terms and in order to give the public of Hongkong the benefit we are offering Mops and Polish at Special Rates for the Month of March.

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12 oz. Bottle...:

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GaHon Tins ...... $4.50 cts.

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