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Hongkong Telegraph.

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THE SUPREME COUNCIL MEETING.

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WEDNEESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1921. At

OUTLINE OF REPORTED OFFER. TO IRELAND,

AGAINST OVERCROWDING.

Dominion Status with Variations.

·Protests by Landlords.

A Rouler's Service.) ··

Premier Supports Fresh Instructions to Silesian Commission.

(Rouler's Service, 1

U.S. Ambassador's Enigmatic Personality; Mr. Lloyd George's Enhanced Prestige.

London, August 9.

THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE.

SINGLE COPY: 10 GTE.

· 190° PER ANNUINE,

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

Voting up-to Date.

MUI TSAI

Formation of Chinese Society a Fiasco

Paris, August 9.

London, August 9.

It will be remembered. that As will be seen in our advertis- In regard to the proposato Speaking before the Supreme Council on the subject of Upper:

It is reliably reported from Dublin that the terms which Mr.when a Bill was recently intro-men: colomas today, the Con-establish a Society for the Pres Silesis, Mr. Lloyd George said that the problem was most menacing Lloyd George offered Mr. De Valera inolod Dominion status for duced into the Legislative stitutional Reform Association vention of Cruelty to mai-Azi, in and a solution argent. The British and Italian views on this question Ireland, who would also completely control policing and Irish taxation. Council seeking to further amend are appealing for more signatures respect of which a resolution was are identical, but differ from those of France. The British Empire Defence was to be controlled by the United Kingdom, but the army the Public Health and Balldings for their petition, in connection formally adopted at the resont will never support a settlement which is tantamount to a manoeuvra establishment in Ireland to be subject to mutual understanding with Ordinance of 1903 the consider with which it has been to diminish the population of Germany.

an- mesting at the Taiping. Theatre, He suggested that the the Parliaments in North and South, with an offer of special facilities ation of the measure was post-nounced that something like present indications do not point. experts be given fresh instructions, and emphasised that Britain for the recruitment in Ireland of Irish regiments for the Imperial poned on representations being 900 signaturas hare alto any great support of the would always support France if the latter were unjustly attacked, parmy. It is believed that it is also proposed that Ireland bear a made by the local architects and ready been obtained. A Tele- movement amongst the Chinese. but the nations of the Empire would not be dragged into a war proportionate share of the pensions arising from the late war, while landlands. The Bill, which is graph representative has visited The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak, who arising from the oppressive use of superior force or to abuse justice foreign treaties are reserved to the Imperial Government, and it is designed primarily to remedy the various places in the Colony has made public his willingness in the hour of triumph by any ally.

stipulated that Ireland in fixing Customs must not erect a tariff wall įsome of the evils of over-where the petition may be signed to head the movement, inform against England.

crowding. provides that all cod bas obtained the following ed our representative yesterday buildings either new or re-figures, which may be of interest. that he had Dot received bullt most have a backyard in With regard to two of the clubsjaingle application for member- addition to the ordinary scavenx-the petition was not seen, but ship, notwithstanding that ing lane. The area that must be in these cases particulars wersja period of fourteen days set aside for such backyards is obtained from a responsible per-had been set as a limit. This one-third of the roof area of the son and the figures given below tack of enthusisam is surprising building to be erected in the case may be taken as fairly correct after the heated discussions and of land owned or leased before the It is possible that there may be great show of interest at the passing of the 1903 Ordinance and some private lists in the hands of meeting. There may be a ranson one-half of the roof area of the others and these we cannot give, for this reluctance in jaining the proposed building in the case of but the list given below can be movement in the fact that up to land leased after that date. In taken as a guide to the number the present no announcement has cases where the Public Works De-who have publicly declared as been made as to the procedure of partment orders the demolition of being in favour of Kaform. an old house and the building of a The list is as follows - new one, the provisions of the Bill Fongkong Club now under consideration world | Phoenix Club... mean that the landlord would have Engineers" Lastitate. 44 to sacrifice not only the required Kowloon Cricket Club 3% lane but a large proportion of his six feet for the Scavenging Kowloon Bowling

Green Club

17 site for air space. The Govern- [Club de Recreio ment will resume without com- Victoria Recreation pensation all land given up for

Club ... |scavenging lanes. and, apart | Club Lusitano...

The meeting of the Supreme Council at Paris is not merely the aost important since the Peace Conference, but the most interesting on account of the personalities concerned. The American Ambassa-

Japanese Ambassador at Washington Removes dor is described as an enigmatic figure of whom every one is

Misapprehension. somewhat afraid, while Mr. Lloyd Georgs has come with renewed authority in French eyes as representative not merely of Britain,

Washington, August 10, Bason Shidehara (the Japanese Ambassador) has issued a state but of the British Empire, justified by the virtual mandate given himment disclaiming all knowledge of the published statement atributed by the Imperial Conference.

to the Japanese Embassy in London on Friday to the affect that * certain current of opinion in Japan unfavourable to the American proposal for disarmament." etc. The Japanese Embassy 2: Washington declares that the settled decision of the Japanese Government to enter the conference whole heartedly and with confidence was already made clear beyond all misapprehension, and that their information from Tokyo indicated that this attitude bad the support of the Japanese people and press.

British Premier's Proposals.

Paris. August 9.

The proceedings to-day of the Supreme Council were harmonious. Mr. Lloyd George was in good form and scored many paints which did not accord with the French views, but with humour, which -voked frequent laughter.

The French High Commissioner to Upper Silesia declared that the available troops were insufficient.

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Mr. Lloyd George emphasised that the settlement must not bel at the expense of the majority of the people of Upper Silesia. rafused to accept the view that the population was oppressed as a whole. Silesia bad beon German for seven centuries. Mr. Lloyd George suggested that the experts be instructed afresh following) the lines of one vote one value; secondly, that the industrial unit, which voted German by two to one, should be consigned to Germans : thirdly, that contiguous areas should be analysed to show what. communes are vitally connected with the industrial area. agreed that the experts should begin work on these lines.

31. Briand's Reply.

It was

there was

The State Department is now advised that Japan gladly accepts November 11 as the date of the conference.

RACIAL OUTBREAK IN INDIA.

Priest's Denial.

Labores,,August 9.

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from the fact that much smaller Taikoo Recreation houses will only be possible ou Club

old sites it is feared that rather Kowloon Dock Reading than sacrifice so much property | Room

in the case of rebuilding, landlords į Masers. Wiseman'a

...

The priest in the Nankana Sahib case has categically denied will not replace old and dilapid. Ltd.... che allegations mentioned yesterday.

ated houses unti! ordered to do so Messrs. Lane Cremiéra Yesterday's cable stated: One of the arrested men at Nao.by the FW.D. The contemplated Ltd. kana Sahib, in connection with the fighting there has confessed how a

messure will, therefore, tend to Messrs. Kelly & Walsh M. Briand declared that French policy is not one of finishing offį priest secretly collected hundreds of good fighters, including Pathans,

increase the number of dangerous

Ltd.... wounded man. France desired a jast settlement for the vanquished. who masacred the Sikhs when the latter arrived. The priest rode a

houses.

Mr. F. P. de V. Soares but was against reserving privileges for them. The fate of the horse and carried a pistol and directed and participated in the slay.

office... rlebiscite sbould be considered ethnically, because the vote of an ing

All the dead Sikhs were bumed except four.

Mr. B. L. Frost out-roter was not equal the voto of a native. He said that out of two bondred thousand out-voters 180,000 voted for fiermany. The French scheme allotted to Germany and Poland a majority of their Yespective voters. The British proposed to allot 70 per cent. of the Polish voters to Germany and only it per cent.cf the German voters

i Poland.

Signar Bonomi (Italy) appealed to the solidarity of the Allies to find a solution. Baron Hayashi (Japan) hoped that an agreement would be found based on common formulae.

Has the British Standpoint been Abandoned?

Parie. August 16.

A more hopeful tone preval's tonight, this being sacribed Mr. Lloyd George's suggestion for a resumption of the experts committee, which is interpreted as British willogness to abandon the theory of the indivisibility of the industrial triangle. The experts, who have been reinforced by the inclusion of the High Commissioners, began work immediately, and it is stated that they had considerably progressed by midnight. They hope to report on: Wednesday afternoon.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSEMBLY.

Britain's Third Representative.

London. August 9,

In the House of Commons, replying to questions. Mr.Chamberlain

announced that Sir Rennell Rodd would be third representative of

HAMBURG DYEWORKS.

Proposed Sale to British Company.

COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN FINLAND AND LATVIA.

Riga, August 9... Preliminary steps bare been taken for the conclusion of a cocomercial treaty between Finland and Latvia,

10ther Telegrams on Page 23

POLICE PARS.

Britain at the League of Nations Assembly in addition to Mr. Balfour. This Morning's Reports.

and Mr. Fisher.

The decomposed remains of a

GENERAL WOOD AND THE PHILIPPINES.

the proposed Society, and the mass of Chinese residents are left in ignorance 4.3 to whether the movement sima at an active house to bause' registration campaign, or the distribution of propaganda as the best means of educating ignorant inhabitants. The wore informed sections of the Chinese com- 15-(about)) musity are apparently contant to exercise a policy of laissez faire in the matter as the Po Lenng 40 (about) Kak, in their antimation, has been performing a great deal of charitable work in this direction, and the facilities accorded it haro' moreover given to its work a far bigger scope than poald possibly be attained by the proposed Society. - If retab lished, the Society, in the opinioni“ of * well-known Chinese resident, could only be an adjonet. to the older institution. Haring regard to the circumstances, at present operating against, the success of the body, it looks as if

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LAST DITCH FARMERS.

News in Today's New Advertisements.

Such are the arguments of the landlords and architects who have expressed their disapproval of the measure to the Govermeat. In order to understand the conditions|

The number of persons eligible the Society for the Prevention of for themselves an investigation to vote bas to be taken into Cruelty to Mui-lai will turg out. has been carried out by the consideration when considering to be a fiasco. members of the Council vitally the above figure. Roughly the concerned in the matter. Underjury list contains about 1,600 Berlin August 9.

the guidance of the Hon. Mr.names. All these people are entit- The Boersen Couriers correspondent at Hamburg states that Lau Chu-pak and Sir Robert Ho led to a vote. And in addition to extraordinary general meeting of the Renne: Tanning and Dyework Tung, the Hon. Attorney General, this 1,600 there are a consider Company on September 12 will consider proposals to transfer the Works and the Hon. Mr. H. W. vote, but as they are exempt House of Commons it was 10-

tha Hon. Director of Publicable number of others entitled ta

In reply to a question in the of London, who are prepared to purchase at the rate of 325 per cent.tions have been of great assist names entire concern to the Forestal Land Timber, and Railways Compac Bird (whose professional qualifica from serving on the jury their nounced that the number of cases per M. 1.000 Renner share, plus a bonus of 50 per cent.

that of arrears of agricultural wages ance to his colleagues) have made list.

They are unofficial investigated by the Agricultural tour of the Chinese quarters members of the Legislative Wages Board from its institution and have bad pointed out to them | Council Government officials and is about 26,000, the number of instances where the proposed servants, salaried functionaries workers involved baing aboar measure would inflict such a of foreign Govenments not carry-10,000. The total amount of penalty on the landlord that ing on business, barristers and arrears of wages paid is £38,225. it would be unjust. It was also solicitors and their clerks, medical Prosecutions have been instituted pointed out that the taking of so practitioners, surgeons and dent against 334 employers, resulting much land for lanes and ists, journalists, chemists and in the infliction of £984 in fices. yards would decrease the druggists, the clergy, school! already short housing accom- masters, professors, lecturers and moʻlation,

other academic officers of the University of Rongkong, naval A prominent Chinese landlord, and military officers on full pay, interviewed by 'representative and masters of steamers and local of the Hongkong Telegraph, seem-pilots. It can thus be seen that the ed to be extremely upset about number entitled to a vote must be The Right Hon. Sir James Rennell Hodd, born in 1838, ha

Reported Appointment as

the matter. He pointed out that considerably in excess of the num-: what with demands for wider ber on the jury list and so, even if now on the bill at the Empire "A Temperamental Wife" įs spent a number of years in the consular and diplomatic services.

Governor-General. In Chinese female baby were yes.

streets, the provision of backyards the 900 estimate given by a coo-Theatre. Page 12. 1908 he was appointed Ambassador to Rome. Last year he accom-irerday found on a buoy outside

and scavenging lanes very little temporary, is correct, panied Lord Milner's mission to Egypt.)

The Hongkong Theatre is to- Major-General Leonard Wool, of an orginal site would remain, portion of these who bare signed night showing "Molly EntangledTM When Mr. Chamberlain announced Sir Bernell Rodd's appointment it bad bean damped.

the Yaumati breakwater on which who with Mr. W. Cameron and the size of the house to be as being in favour of Conand a good comedy entitled "It Lord Robert-Cecil protested that all the British representatives to the breakwater in the same vicinity investigation into conditions in smaller than was contemplated great.

On the Forbes, has been conducting a constructed would be considerably stitutional Reform is *League of Nations belonged to the official class.

not so Pays to Exercise."-Page 13. Lord Robert Cecil endeavoured to move the adjournment of the another b dy, that of a

At a later stage a police sergeant later found the Philippine islands, has been when the site was purchased. Hoase thereon on this point, but the Speaker refused permission. infant. which was also removed the islanda, according to messages Colony wore entirely remodelled male appointed Governor-General of Caleas the street scheme of the whereupon Lord Robert said that the selection of the delegation was to another illustration of the Government's contempt and fear of the

Che Kowloon Mortuary received in Manila.

the type of houses to be built in League (cries of "Order" and Mr. Chamberlain ironically exclaimed Villas. Kimberly Road, Kowloon, Mr. Wm. H. Anderson, Manila cause the distance batween a very Mr. Rasmussen of No. 2 Arai The frst such message from the future would be small, ba- "Hear, Hear"). Lord Robert leaned forward and repeated. "So you has reported to the police that a American business man, now in great many of the present streets hare The Speaker rebuked Lord Robert.

bicycle, which be left on the New York, was addressed to Car-did not allow of lanes and yards stand at the Kowloon side of the ten H. L. Heath, president of the and a decent-sized building space the Main Course Fanling, the Page 7.

In the list of water hazards for Stocks of Gentlemen's Wear Star Ferry, was stolen yesterday: American Chamber of Commerce, as well.

One of the patients admitted and read "Congratulations Ap

following are included:-12th

Powell's advertizo a new ship-

into the Government Civil

Hole ("Gem") Drain to right; 18thment of Saxone Footwear and Hospital yesterday was a young message, which was addressed to ation by the parties, we under- Tes and Drain to left of Bunker Page 7

pointment Wood. The second The Bill is now under consider-Hole, Drain crossing in front of Glyn Hats to arrive next week- Chinese woman who was scci-the Manila Daily Bulletin office, stand, and it is possible that in front of Green tramcar whilst it was in motion States newspapers, and was a it agala comes before the Legisla-been fixed-Ed.R. Mitchell Z: dentally injured in a fall from a

came from one of the leading modifications will be made when The following handicaps have] Des Voeux Road. West request for & statement from tive Council. A Corona typewriter valued at General Wood "regarding his $110 has been stolen from the intention governorship."...

In connection with the preven: office of Messrs. Peeves and

tion of overcrowding it is interest Company, 114 Woosung Road. At present the appointmentdons

Morallo Cario, aged 19, an confirmed,

not appear to have been officiallyng to note that a new campaign has been instituted by the Sanitary Italian, and Frank Aquino, B

Department, this being of keeping Portuguese. who

the number of tenants of each House of

house within reasonabis.bounds. failed to ratora

that behalf of his sunt, that their re- An Ordinance, to prevent over place yesterday after having been sidence at No. 1 Tramway Path crowding has been in existence for Mr. Aloo Tweedie's exhibition Prior to the opening of granted several hours' leave of was entered by a thief on Monday many years and its provisions are of Eastern sketches at the Alpine A Chinese student made a re-to the value of $760, as well as's cases which come under the sent to Buckingham Palace for absencs.

night and a quality of jewellery now being strictly enforced in all Gallery, a number of them were port to the police yesterday, op sum of $140, were stolen.

Department's notice

the Queen's inspection

AUSTRALIANS' INNINGS VICTORY OVER WARWICK.

London, August 9.

At Birmingham, Warwickshire were dismissed in their second innings for 118, McDonald took 6 for 52. The Australians on hour after lunch by an innings and 61 rud..

County Cricket.

Derbyshire won by 172 runs, Gloucester by 200 runs, Lancashire by ten wickete, Yorkshire by 113 rune, and Surrey by 75 runs. Northants won on the first innings.

INTERNATIONAL GOLFER KILLED BY MOTOR-CAR.

Atlanta (Georgia), August 9, Douglas Edgar, the international golfer and ex-champion of Canada, was knocked down and killed by a motor-car.

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A.K. Mackenzie 5; Capt. M. Shrubsole 18. Glover 8; RK. Valentine 8; R.C.

QUEEN AND MRS. TWEEDIE'S

AL KETCHES.

The C.R.&. give a precis of the Petition and invite signatures thereto.-Page 4

The C. S. P. inserts a notice on Page 4 relative to warnings to traffic in Canton Road, Kowloon, J. T. Sbaw advertise Now

To-Day's Exchange.

The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 28. 816d,

The Weather.

2 p.m. Barometer -29,76, Tem- perature-83. Hamidity

Lighting-Up Time,

Lighting-up time to cer