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FROM ELECTRICAL-DEALERS.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED 1881).

69237 #1 #+X9^*## MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1920.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE STARVING MAYOR

GIVEN THE REST OF TREATMENT

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE COAL CRISIS.

SITUATION AGAIN GRAVE.

BABA BOLE COPY: 10 CTS.

$36 PER ANNUM.

REUTER'S TELĖGRAMS.

FRENCH PRESIDENT RESIGNS:

FOR PACIFIC RUN

PASSENGER BOATS FOR.

ADMIRAL LINE

WILL M. MILLBRAND STANDY

On this page appotum a picture Paris, September 16

of the steamer Wanaiches, the London, Sep(amber 18

M: Millerand to-day visited President Desabanel, when the frat of the big Shinda Board London, September 18

Owing to the fact that the Coal Conference to-day adjourned

liners to be completed. Alwe will be The Home Office has replied to a correspondent as follows =--

The Cabinet, after hearing the Presidents of the Senate and delivered to the Admiral Line in "There is no foundation for the statements in the American, press with Mr. Smillie's uncompromising insistence upon an immediate lattér intimated his decision to resign owing to ill-health. with regard to prison treatment of the Lord Mayor of Cork. He - increase per shift, without examination or negotiation, the nitus-

first 5 the new service to variť to bas from the first been allowed the privileges granted to political tion is again generally regarded as one of extreme gravity: Some the Chamber of Deputies to-morrow, will decide the date of election Seattle this mouth and will be the M. Millerand has intimated that he would in so sa Honto Four mure of the stajar prisoners and has veser been required to wear prison clothes. Since circles believe that the miners will push their distaste for an enquiry and the roccesser. be has by refusal of food, reduced himself to a state of weakness, to the extreme action of a akzike.

After the Conference, members of the Mizers Executive declar-stand as a candidla. Efforts are to be made, however, to prevail Shippin Board but are to be he remains in bed in a large room in a hospital and enjoys the best

will most likely take place next week.

succeeding months and as rapidly ; medical attendance. Trained nurses are with hiu: day and nighted that if the Gorrnment had said its last word upon the wages upon him to reconsider his decision. In any case, the election received by the Admiral Line in

Excellent food, queation, a strike was inevitable.

në tigan are received they will go and everything possible is done for his comfort.

Sir Robert Horne says the questions of wigos and increased out-

into the service to the Driant. It suitable to bis enfeebled condition is kept constantly at his bedside 1

is estimated that this will provide. and the nurses have done their best to induce him to partake thereof." put are inseparable. So far every fresh advance in wages bad

been linked up with diminished output, because

sailings from Seattle, parte in declared thatevery increase merely stimulated greater absenteeisma... In other words, the more money per shift the minst gets, the more

Japan, Shanghai. Hongkong and Manila every 15 days and the holidays per week he takes Sir Robert Harne desires to raise the output to the pre-war level of 287,000,000 toes, which he

intval may be lossbed believes is easily attainshle seeing that 200,000 more men are employed, compared with 1914. Sir Robert Horne points out that he has applied the scale upon which the Government settled with the railwaymen to the miners' claims and had found the latter unjustified. Therefore it is obvious that one set of terms cannot be applied to the railwaymen and another to the miners, because the railway men's fresh claim would then be irresistible and involve a new and heavy charge on transport, with a fresh all-round increase in the cost of living.

TRADE SLUMP AT HOME

SOME OF THE CHIEF CAUSES.

London. September 19

The trade stamp is causing economists, pubheists and leading viaplayere anxiously to search for an industrial solution of post-war problems. Da the one hand are thousands of unemployed people throughout the country with winter prospects of their numbers trebling, whilst simultaneously are a number of industries like most notable examples "perhaps being coal and house-building) whose "persistent cry and imperative need is for increased output.

It is pointed out that the manufactuer, handicapped by the ever-present menace of strikes, the Excess Proñts Tax, labour unrest. Trade Union Rules and enormons cost of prodition, has reached a; position of despair, each of the five causes acting and reacting on Fach other.

One war-time legacy has been slow timing, owing to the kindly "treatment of monition workers who now demand high wages and asy, slack work, while a typical case of Trade Unionism is to be found in the fact, that Lord Weir bas announced that he could employ another 2,000 mer. immediately but is prevented by work. men's rules. These no: esly hamper the employer but are embittering ex-Service men who returned from the battlefield to see the works crowded by exempted men. Ex-Service men in mans rases are actually prevented by Trade Unions from learning a trade. This is the root of the trouble regarding housing shortage.

One solution adsocated is to make wages depend upon powers of production, not upas pawers of striking, it being urged that the (iovernment must urganise a general reconstruction and stabilisation

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It is significant that a sub-committee of the Triple Alliance met after the Conference and discussed arrangements for co-ordinate aetion in the event of a strike.

MR. THOMAS PLEADS FOR PEALE.

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London, September 19.

A powerful plea for industrial peace was made at Connah's Quay, Flintebire, this afternoon by the railwaymen's leader. Mfr. J. H. Thomas, M. Ft. With regard to the Government's offer to sub- mit the question of the miners wages to an independen: tribunal, Mr. Thomas suggested that as the Government now possessed all the available data it could settle the matter itself.

Mr. TLowas justined the miners' demand for an increase of per day on the ground of the increase in the cost of living since March. He declared that the Government's decision that any in- erease in wages must immediately be put on the cost of coal for

unjustified. Ther

entitled were home consumption

cha: Bsk

the col industry should be treated to

It would be a crime if a strike ensued. The miners were a whole.

LEAGUE COUNCIL MEETS.

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Paris, September, 17. The Council of the League of Nations me to-day in Park M.Leon Bourgeois being chairman and Mr. Faber representing Great Britain. The chief prablems to be soberštied are the Sarre question and the Polish-Lithuarian conflict.-- Havss

AUTHOR'S DEATH.

Landoa. September 18. The death is announced of Mr. Egerton Castle, the well-known author

EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. "

From Our Own Correspondents)

SINGAPORE TRAMWAY SERVICE.

Singapore. September 18. The Government has appointed a Commission to enquire into the state of the tramway service, the Municipal Council having made representations as to its inadequacy.

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BANK CLERK'S FORGERY.

Singapore, September 18.

The Chief Justice, in sentencing a bank clerk to sttéeà months'

At the time the armistice was signed and ganeral ship cenabrue- tion was halted by the United States Shipping Board, 19 venals : under construction in Atlantic, shipyards ware of such design that they could be eanverted into passenger carriers. Twelve of there were to have been used as troopships and in the succeeding " months it was determined to allocate all of these to steamship.- companies operating in the Pacific Ocean. Five were allocated to the Admiral Line and ward from: Seattle to the Shanghai office of the line indicates that a sixth vessel may be added to the number.

2.

All of the converted troopships, like the Wenatches are 14,000.

ing

ge ton steamers capable of derulop-

speed of "174 knots and have accommodations For 250-first class paŞERU KUTA besides large steerage accom- modations.

The Wenatchee, which will

of Waze on as output basis, which will ultimately mean more i entitled to a fair deal. Their leaders were striving for peace and imprisonment for forgers, said there seemed to have been an epidemic pea the service, to the Far East, ~ money fur all, giving the manufacturer a firm basis whereon to they must be assisted. He emphasised the growth of unempley-of clerks forging cheques. develop. The danger of the country becoming over-paid and ment and the seriousness of the country's financial position and said the goodwill of the workers must be obtained in order to ronsequently under-producing must be avoided at all costs.

increase output and stabilise industry. Industrial peace was essential to save the country. Let all help to pferent what might prove the most disastrous and most far-reaching struggle in the bistory of Britain- a struggle that could easily develop into some- thing more than an industrial fight and shake the Erapite to its foundation.

THE "DAILY HERALD.”

DIRECTORS CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PREMIER.

London, Spletober 18.

Mr. Ernest Bevin, of the Dockers' Union, and Director of the Daily Herald, has written to Mr. Lloyd George protesting against rae omcial statement, cabled on the 15th, that the ferald would not Lave taken the public into its confidence regarding the proposed Bolshevik subsidy had not known that the secre: could no longer he kept. He says that is a reflection on four responsible Trade Vinion officials who are directors of the Herald.

Mr. Lloyd George, replying, recapitulates the damaging disclos ures already made concerning the negotiations between the Herald and the Bolsheviks, conclading "I am insefficiently acquainted with the details of the management of the Daily Herald to be in a position to attribute individual responsibility; nevertheless, it appears inconceivable that the Directors, who are really exercising business control over a concern of which they are trustees for the Trade Unions, should not have been acquainted with what was going on. If they were ignorant, such ignorance on vital matters sinister comment on the control exercised by Trade Union represcalatives on this orgaD.

Mr. Revin, repiting, charges Mr. Lloyd George with side tracking the issue with bis usual ability, with not making his chargee definite and explicit, and reiterates that the Directors declined to accept the offer as soon as it came to their knowledge.

INDIA'S REPRESENTATIVE IN ENGLAND.

NIE WILLIAM MEYER APPOINTED

London, September 19.

It is officially announced that Sir William Meyer, former mem- her of the Council of the Governor-General of India, has been appointed first High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom. as provided by the new Indian Reform Act.

THE PRINTING TRADE DISPUTE

London, September 17. A provisional settlement has been reached in the printing trade dispute at Manchester and Liverpool and, if ratified, papers which have not pablished for many days will resume on the 20th instant.

Later. The settlement in the printing dispute has been ratified, and newspapers resume publication on the 20:b.

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U.S. MEAT-PACKERS.

Washington, September 18. The plans of the plans so-called "Big Eve" meat-parkers to sell their stockyard interests, an a decree required, to the F. H. Triots Co. has been disapproved by the Federal Trade Commission. on the ground that the sale would not divorce the packers from the interests concerned.

SERRENDERING ARKIS IN GERMANY,

Bertin, Heptember 18,

the civilians who have surrendered weapons to the es & weinen, who bright, two arachine gune

ITALY'S LABOUR SITUATION.

PREMIER SUPPORTS WORKERS.

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London, September 18,

It is reported from Rome that the labour situation has reached a very acute stage.

Signor Giolitti has surrendered to the rebellions workers and is attempting to coerce the employers to accept a system of factory Soviets upon the early Bolshevik model.

A newspaper at Torio states that Signor Giolitti has intimated that the Government will not take action against the men who come mited excesses, nor allow the guilty ones to be dismissed. Forty Sens tore have signed a protest, challenging the Government. The Senate Meanwhile fresh seizures of factories are re-opens this afternoon. continuing at Rome, Turin and elsewhere.

AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE.

GOVERNOR COT'S ASSURANCE.

RUBBER DOWN.

Singapore. September 18. The rubber market is in a state of gezeral collapse.

HONGKONG BOWLERS DEFEAT HANKOW,

Shanghai, September 19.

Tho Hongkong defested Hankow at Lawn Bowls by 29 to 13. fosis between Hongkong and Shanghai will be played on Monday. Lapsley and Farrell played brilliantly,

1Other Telegrams on Pages 2 and 3)

SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.

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is to be delivered to the Admira) Line after making shi zsourzion trip from the Atlantic seaboard shis mouth. The second ship that will enføg ghis service will be the Keystone State. This is to be- delivered to the Admiral Line in November and will follow the Wenatchee on the Far Eastern

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CIRCUS AGENT.

FALSE PARTICULARS?

Duncan Blair, McPherson, de- scribed as the "advance agent of a circus company, was charge f part areRer. F. E. Meyer, D.D. Sub-Inspector Wille before Mr. Dyer Ball this morning of London, a past president of the association; Rt. Hon. T. R. with furnishing false particulars in his registration. The socused Ferens, M. P.. London, presid-rrived in the Colony on Sator-

day.

tion: Rev. Carey Bonner, It was stated by the Bub- DELEGATES IN HONGKONG.ent of the World's Asocia

A party of 56 delegates to the Becretary of the London Bunday Inspector that the Fohse bad World's Sunday School Conven- School Union and joint Geneived a cable from Singapore tion arrived in the Colony eral Secretary of World's Ass0-in consequence of which be had yesterday by the Empress of ciation: T. Vivian Rees, represento ask his Worship for a remand

Children's Era of "Asia. They are under the per-ting the

for a week. On the reappearance Justice J. J: sonal guidance of Mr. Robert A. England; Hon.

of the prisoner before the Court Griosel, of Messrs. Thos. Cook and Melaren, Toronto, of the Supreme there would be another charie.

Canada; Marion Rome, September 17. Son, under whose arrangements Court of

travelling. Lawrence, general secretary of preferred against him, the In- Governor Cox bas telegraphed to Professor Fisher, of Yale Univer-the party

Colony for the International Sunday School Spector intimated

The scensed was accordingly sity, asserting that be would make any reasonable concessions in Staying in the

few days, to epsbla Assiciation of North America

romanded. order to secure American membership of the League of Nations. The Democratic platform opposed only reservations of nullification. Fisit to Canton and Macso to and at one time ganeral secretary He would endeavour to meet all reasonable desires for proper be made, the delegates will of the World's Association; Frank then proceed to Tokyo, where L Brown, New York, joint reservations offered io sincerity."

the Convention is to be held general secretary of the World's Misa Margaret The Convention will be attended Association; by 600 deigates from various Slattery, of Boston, and Miss parts of the world. Arrangements Nannie Lee Frayser, Lousville demand, to-day was 4x/31⁄41 are being made in that city to The following field secretaries of provide accommodation for the the association visitors as well as a special build-Rev.

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

LORD MILSER'S AGREEMENT SUPPORTED.

Cairo, September 18.

The Legistative Assembly has passed by 44 votes to 3 & resolu- lion accepting the principles of the Milner agreement, as a suitable basis for a Treaty which should be submitted to the National Assembly, which should have the right of acceptance or rejection.

are

expected: Stephen Trowbridge.

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.

The closing rate of the dollar, do

THE WEATHER.

2 p.m. Barometer-29.90. Tem-

ing for the conference, the theme Egypt. Rev. E. G. Tewksbury-perature: -84. Humidity:-65, of which will be "Sunday Schools China; Rev. J. G. Holderoft. Korea; Rev. J. L. McLaughlio, and World Progress."

Among the speakers who are Philippine Islands, MI HE expected to be present and take i Coleman, Japan.

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Abors in asun ilgs KEW

been allocated to

DON'T FORGET.

Theatre

TO-DAY

Royal-Bandman Company present "The Naughty Wife.15 p.m.

Coronet Theatre--5.15 and 9.15 D.I.

Hongkong Theatre-5.15, 71! and 9.15 p.m.

TÓ-MORROW,

Dary, Farm, Ice and Cold

Storage Co. Shareh

ing 19.30 p.m.

lern, meet-

Corgnet Theatre--5.15 and 9.15

Hongkong

and 9.17 p.m.

SATURDAY

Douglas bolders meet