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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED` 1881).

69264 四拜濃 號登卝月十英港香 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1920.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE COAL STRIKE.

DEBATE IN THE COMMONS.

London, October 19. The House of Commons has resumed. There was a crowded house in view of the prospect of an immediate debate on the coal crisis.

SIR ROBERT FORNE'S STATEMENT,

London, October 19.

LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From Our Ohen Correspondents)

JAPANESE SELLING PIECE GOODS.

BANKS BRINO PRESSURE TO BEAR.

Shanghai October 21. Japanese importers are selling piece goods from the godowns at the market price, due to pressure from the Banks owing to the scarcity of money in Japan.

A WAPNING TO MEN.

ANTHRAX IN SHAVING BRUSHES.

In the Hour of Commons, Sir Robert Horne made a statement in regard to the coal strike. He emphasised the gravity thereof and deprecated recrimination. He urged goodwill and commonsense and declared that since the Sankey enquiry the miners wages bad! increased more than the cost of living. Fla emphasised the dis-j astrous afects of a strike of one million miners. Idled shipping was being held up, and blast furnaces were being damped down.. Factories throughout the country were closing, teas of thousands were being thrown out of amployment daily, and trade would be gradually strangled, entailing hardship and starvation on great games of the community. He declared that this issue was never The Shanghal Health Officer bas issued a warning against the Submitted to the miners and reports from the coalñelds showed that purchase and use of shaving brushes of Far Eastern origin, citing

many miners did not know that the alterative to an acceptance of the case of a foreign fatality due to anthrax. the Government's proposals was a strike. The Government was open to receivo any suggestion whereby a peaceful solution could be oblained and he urged all to strive therefor.

US. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

PRESIDENT WIESON ON A GRAVE STATEMENT.

Washington, October 19. President Wilson has sent a letter to Senator Harding in con- nection with the latter's speech, mentioned on the 17th, querying the statement that France approached bim as a private citizen of a nation which was not a member of the League of Nations. He points out the grave and extraordinary inferences that will be drawn from such a statement and President Wilson bas directed an inquiry to be made as to whether France authorised anybody to approach Senator Harding on the matter

FRENCH DENTAL

Washington, October 20. The French Charge d'Affaires, presumably as the result of com- Jsunications with the French Government, has informally replied to President Wilson's inquiry, mentioned yesterday, declaring that the| Government has not authorised anyone to approach Senator Hard- ing, officially or acofficially.

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UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME.

TRADE UNIONS APPEALED TO.

London, October 19.

Shanghai, October 21.

MISSIONARIES FOR KWANGTUNG.

Shangbai. October 21.

Six American priests are sailing for Hongkong by the] S.S. Nanking, en route to stations in Kwangtung.

EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

From Our Dan Correspondente,

SHANGHAI PIÈCE GOODS CRISIS.

Shanghai, October 19.

ADA BENGLE COPY; 10 OTS:

$36 PER ANNUM.

PELITES AND KOWLOONATICS

{BY ~JE N'Y PENSE.”).

Inhabitants of lofty Peak.

Lovers of fog and main, Who scarce dare condrecend

speak

To dwellers of the Plain. But ever raise a haughty beat

In farcons disdain.

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A. D. C. PRODUCTIONS

BOOK TO-MORROW.

General booking opens to-mor

row morning at Moutrie's for the

POLICE RESERVE,

ISSUE OF WAR SERVICE CERTIFICATES,

The issuing of warservice cer A. D. C's forthcoming Dunsany tiñcates to members of the Polica to productions in aid of the Famine Reserve is now taking place,

Belief Fund.

several having been distributed"

It may not all be due to “aidə ;"

Mere physics may explain That those who on the heights

abide

Get water on the brain From condensation of the tide

Of cloud and mist and rain.

Than, when the pressure from

within

Most people know full well, Exceeds some 15 the per in..

tás with a diving-bell) Unless a bolo be made therein The head begins to swell.

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Ye dwellers of the Flats below

Who rail at those above. And sometimes let your anger

glow

Fierce as a red-hot stove; The Peakites may, for all you

know.

Be brimming o'er with love.

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What you miscall an icy stare,

Or e'en a cat direct. May merely be the chilly air

Which they cannot correct. The cause is the cool weather

there.

And they are the effect.

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The sun that shed's on pou

beams.

And makes you swest and

blink,

The President of the Chinese Importers' Association asserts) that Japanese piece goods merchants are offering spot cargo at below the market price in an attempt to displace British and American Is not eo kindly as seems, goods during the crisis.

It may drive you to drisk;

The Association declares that eighty Chinese, dealers will | While, if your head with notions surpend business and many will leave Shanghai.

Japanese merchants are also extending credit concessions to stable firms.

Wharves and godowns are stacked up with goods destined for merchants who are unable to meet the demands upon them. holding that written contracts are sacred.

British and American importers refuse to change their policy,

Replying to a question in the House of Commons with regard to unemployment, Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that many thousands of ex-service men, of which 180,000 were naemployed, could be em-1 ployed in the building trade. Half a million new houses were re- quired. Proposals in this connection had been made to the Trade, Unions. The Government had approved other propo-als, including road-making, and had appealed to Trade Unions to suspend certain rules in order to admit additional men to the foundry iron and rail- way wagon building trades. He hoped that thus the problem of| unemployment, especially as regarde ex-servicemen, would adequate-|

Shanghai, October 20, ty be mat during the winter, but the coal strike was enormously are uniting to raise four hundred thousand dollars in aid of the The Street Unions and the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company ncrease the number of unemployed.

Famine Relief Fond.

IRISH OUTRAGES.

HUNDRED POLICE KILLED THIS YEAR.

London, October 19.

FAMINE RELIEF FUND..

Naoyang Brothers Tobacco Company has ordered the members of its staff throughout the country to help in the work of relief and investigation.

M. CLEMENCEAU IMPRESSED WITH SINGAPORE.

Singapore, October 21.

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Peonyfather, Sir Hamar Grenwood stated that since January 1 a hundred Police and eighteen Military had been killed in Ireland and 160: Police and 66 sfilitary had been wounded, while 667 Police Barracks had been attacked and most destroyed. There had also been a Chinese. Interviewed, he said he came East to complete a rest and 31. Clemenceau was to-day entertained by compatriots and organised attempt to boycott the Police, their wives and relations. regretted be had not time to visit Indo-China and Chins. The Government's means for protecting servants of the Crown and impressed with the prosperity of Singapore.

He was dealing with the authors of outrages and those conniving thereat were steadily improving.

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CALIFORNIAN LAND QUESTION.

JAVA SUGAR SPECULATORS.

-Singapore. October 21:

New York, October 18.

CONVERSATIONS PROGRESSIVO SATISFACTORILY.

The sugar speculators are still trying to fix up a trust in Java. The State Department announces that the Japanese conversa. They are holding at present two million pikuls. tions on the Californian land question are continuing fully satisfac- torily. though they are being somewhat delayed owing to Mr. Shidebara and Mr. Davis being engaged in the Communications Conference.

THE "STARVING" HAYOR.

•KO FEEDING BY PRISON AUTHORITIES.

London, October 19.

TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Bottomley, Mr.

Shanghai. October 21. Shorit said he could not advise the King to order the release of Mr. Important representations have been made to the Government Mc8winey, He declared there had been no form of feeding Mr-in order to comply with the public opinion of the country, should Jibat the present opportunity to have the tachun system abolished, McBwiney on the part of the prison authorities.

not be lost.

DANISH FINANCES.

REPORTED LOAN FRUH AMERIĆA.

ا کرده

Copenhagen, October 19..

It is reported that the Minister of Finance intends to raise in America a 9 per cent. State Loan of $25,000,000.

"A CABLE DEAL.

London, October 19. Blaker Cables Company has been sold to the The sale his meant the transfer of the

treads,

The advance booking has been to-day to men who served in that so phenomenal that early applica-force during the war, tion for seats is advisable. An- The certificates-erkiak - sze extra night has been added, on headed, "The Great War, 1914 Wednesday, November 3rd, and 1919,” certify that those receiving this will perforce have to be the then "served His Moet Gracious Inst one,

as previous theatre Majesty George V, King of booking preclandes further the United Kingdom of [repetitions

Great Britain and Ireland Prices are as usual-Stalls and land of the British. Domin- Circle $3, Pit Gallery Lions beyond the Seas, and Duj- Soldiers and sailors in unifarm peror of India, as a member of will be admitted at half price. the Hongkong Police Reserve,” Too curtain rises each evening They bear the signatures of HE. st 9.30 sharp, and it is hoped Mr. Claud Severn, as Officer that by this means everyone will Administering the Government, be seated at the commencement the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, as The following four plays will be Captain Superintendent of Patio produced each night: The and of Mr. F.C. Jenkin, Commande Golden Doom." "The Glittering ing the Police Reserve, and give Gate," "The Compromise of the the date of the recipient's joining King of the Golden Isles,*** The the date on which his service Lost Silk Hat."

terminated, the unit and rank, and the recipient's record in the Force.

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EXCITEMENT AT THE CORONET.

At the foot of the tertificate is given the official reason for the creation of the Force, added to which is a statement that by the end of 1918 over 800 men

"Pinto," which has been select-presentative of the British, ed as the photo play to open the Portuguese. Indian, and Chines super-production autumn season sections of the community-dad at the Coronet, is one of Mabel been on the strength of the Force, Normand's

the establishment including Staff, foot of eight Platoons of Foot Police, triumphs. and

greatest every

screen

film is just packed with laughs Detachment of Mounted Police, Watar Police, Search Supervisors, jand unexpected twists.

DAY BY DAY.

And talk about speed: Wild Ambulance Platoon, Motor Cycle its chases over Western plains: Patrols, Maxim Gunnars, Hand, Pinto's sensational and highly in-Orchestra, Bugler and Drummers. formal introduction to society; a spectacular social fete in which | the two-nun Whirlwind stages a wild West bow that winds up in a riot. These are but few of the comic high lights that help to make Piato" the funniest and H. M. S. Ambrose is being re- most elaborate comedy in which fitted in the naval dry-dock. Someday. perhaps, your foes will Mabel Normand has over appear-

Leaving their lofty perch To seek the genial climes below: May God reward their search Then will they be most grieved

go.

It causes the m to shrink.

to know

They left you in the lurch.

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As the title character, Mabel Capt. and Mrs. W. E. Clarke would wring tears of mirth out o Normand presents a figure that left by the Empress of Hussi of a thousand year old mummy. She's & buman dynamo of energy

H. M. S. Robin has returned to and fun. Whether she is gallop-the Colony. She will leave for ing across the plains, or galloping the West River to-morrow. through a Long Island mansion And you will sometimes pay a bell-bent, she just bristles with

call

dash and jollity.

From the fannel shafting of the

While they in turn will risk a fall commence

As friends up on the Peak. And the whole of the adventures Haichzing, 1,189 taels of prepared Pinto's "opinm were seized by Revenue To meet you in some common five "fathers" who adopted: ber men yesterday morning.

From out their narrow clique eighteenth birthday, when her Officer Ward and Chinese revende

Fall

with

when her parents died, decide For entertainment, rout, or ball; that ranch life will never make a There'll be no wormwood, then, lady" out of her. Their pal, now the Battle of Trafalgar, and-in' To-day is the anniversary of nor gall

a member of New York's 400," honour of the occasion & dinner Twist Kowloon and the enthusiastically agrees to give is being held on H. M. & Tamar,

Peak.

her the necessary “eddication." in connection with which there Accordingly Piato, accompanied will be a late Peak tram at 12:20 by her nurse maid," "Looey," am. We understand that the local bald, fat ard forty, hits the trail branch of the Navy LeagueTM is for New York and high society. offering prizes to scholars in the And the result is ons of the best British Schools for the best gloon-chasing photo-plays that essays on Trafalgar.

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The Peakites and Kowlconatics Will settle up their feud. And put aside such silly tricks As thinking each too good; And one will with the other mix

In loving brotherhood.

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Tdo not think that time will come)

The present age within, To grafe the swollen cerebrum

With that which is too thin. For sure the blest Millenniam

Would straightway then

begin.

has ever been screened.

BILLIARDS.

POLICE WINE.

members

of

A practice shoot for those the Hongkong Voluatrer Defence Corps desirous of places in the League Team will be held at King's Park Range on Saturday and Sunday, 23rd The Palice bare-been-very-sue-and-24th October, commencing cessful in their Inter-Meas both days at 2.30 p.m. Conditions League matches, recording wins:-10 Rounds and 2 Sighters at Ere such an era dawus, I trow, in their last two games, the re-200, 500 and 600 yards, Slings not

With cats will play the mice;sults of which were as follows :-to be used.

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POLICE (4).

And every sparkling rill will flow }***

With honey, milk, and spice. §. Inspr. Cooper So. till it comes, I pray you go 8. Inspr. Wilson

And act on this advice:

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"Oh! On the Middle Levels rove,

And you'll not care a blow For all the snoota of those above, Nor envy those below; " Bat happy and contented move Not fast vor yet too slow,"

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Sgt. Greig Iospr. Gerrard Sgt. Maskeli 8gt. Carpenter

RO.A.LYEMUK (2). Sgt. Allen Sgt. Phillips... Bgt. Marshall Sgt. Beatwell

Note. Snoot" is described by

Mr. Gar. Button Horace Vachell as an indefinable Sgt. Skeet It is reported that the "Peace Conference is now in progress mixture of a smile of decision, & between the Peking Government and Lok Wing-ting and Shun sneer of contempt, and a suggest 8. Inept. Cooper

Inspr. Gerrard Chan-hsun. The abolition of the Military Government in Canton ion of a toss of the head, is said to be one of the principal questions being discussed.

Peking, October 21.

As the second protert made by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs

TO SIT ON BÈRCH-WITH-

(won)}

(wop)

(WOR)

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.

(won)]

(lost) The closing rate of the dollar, un (lost) demand, to-day was 3z/103jd.

(lost)

(lost)

THE WEATHER.

(Lost) 2 p.m. Barometer:-29.93. Tem→ (Inst)||*rature:-89.” Humidity ––43.

(woo)

(WOD)

POLICE (4).

(won)

{won}

(won)

(lost)

(won)

(lost) Pam.

& Inspr: Wilson

to the Japanese Legation in regard to Japanese soldiers marching

Sgt Carpenter Sgt Portalbion 8gt Greig.. HER FATHER

ROA KOWLOON":{ Mrs E Cartwright, the first Mr. Gor. Bines. to Hisst Oban (a town near to the Korean border) has had no result fady magistrale for Barzel Petty Batz Walker the Vice Minister of the Ministry has called on the President: for Sessional Division, is a daughter B.QWS. Clarke instructions. A Cabinet meeting was immediately hak

of Add/rišan Penk, chairment of BetShipley

DON'T FORGET.

Coronet Theatre 5.15 and 9.15

Hongkong Theatre-5.15, 7356

(Fost) and 9.15.pm/

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