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Hongkong Telegraph.

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JANUARY 21, 1922 BLURA

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NZUBERI” TUESDAY,

THE LYING - IN - STATE.

THE

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.

IMPRESSIVE PROCESSION TO ST. PETER'S.

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE be accepted;

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ENORMOUS CROWDS FLOCK TO THE BIER.

(Reuter's Service. }

Roma, Jannazy 23. The death certificate of the Pope sent to the Municipality by the Holy See says that his Holiness died of influenzal broncho

pusumunia.

A RETURN OF OPTIMISM.

THE SHANTUNG AND SIBERIAN PROBLEMS.

(Reuter's Service.)

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London, Jannkry 13.

FILIPINOS POR:"53%

z alfboting the strike this mor sting bad refuranon nož.to the

and spoke to the stawuzdin, Ka

A bed attack of the binës regarding the Confersmon has been seamen but to the carga: wurk recently afflicting. Washington, there is a more cheerlik tanding Would they, or would they not, now, partly in consequenos of President Harding's pointing at this doctime to work, is sympat The body of the Pope was transferred this morning from the pessimism is unjustified and that it is not fair to criticise work when with the strikers vše

It will be remembered that Throne Room to St. Peter's for the Lying-in-State. The gorgeous only balf done. mediasral procession was headed by Sodiaril and followed by The New York Post's Washingtop éörrespondant suggests that officials of the Union stated some

In the Marine Court, before did not-abey my ordare to go Bussolati in red brocade carrying lighted candles, Hacebearen, the in the next few days China will be required either ta nocept the days ago that if foreign crem Noble Guards, the Swiss Guards, the Vatican clergy in surplices, Japanese Skantong proposals or definitely to reject them and give would desime to load ex unlosa RN this morning, an IrishmanaThe case against Bobinasu was

were sogared the cargo worters Commander U. W „Begkwith down to his launch. Cardinals in violat. Knights of the Cape and Sword in their substantial reasons for rejection. The Conference will then proceed mediaeval costumes.

to consider the Siberian question. The correspondent adds that the vessels. But the Wenatches who has taken an interest in found proved and he was sent lo On arrival at St. Peter's the silence was broken by the Sistine Japanese are prepared to announce the immediate evacuation of brought 316 Filipinos to Hong- the strike found that he had ran geol for two months with hard choir singing Libera me Domine,

Siberis, and a resolution recognising the territorial integrity of kong this morning and these are counter to the law. The Canon of St. Peter's solemnly sprinkled the remains with Russia will be adopted. Japan is also prepared to abandon certain Biate and, when she arrivee, the unemployed seaman, 18 Praya dismissed as there was no proof to be transferred to the Hoosier Danill Edward Robinson," an The case against Ma Ban was Holy Water and pronounced Absolution.

of the Twenty-one Demande-namely, those giving her mopopolistic The body iring in a catafalgue, richly robed, with jewels spark-rights and political control, as contrary to the agreements already Bay State. The feeder ships of East, of County Dublin, Ireland, that he was actually on board.

the Pacific Mail Company are and a Son, unemployed sasman, ling in the Mitre and the golden cissp of the Cope, was placed in the reached by the Conference. Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, where it is guarded by two Noble It is interesting to note that the resolution adopted telative to also, we understand, to be staffed. 137 Des Voeux Road Central of The B. J. Bleamer Hurralón Fuards, motionless, with drawn words, Enormous crowds are flock- agreements concerning China binds the Powers to Bis all web The Wenatchee has an American Shun Tak

charged left port this warning: panked ing to Bt. Peter's,

which they deem to be still in force and upon which they strikers. If the cargo-workers board the Kwang Chow without ports. These bars come from the forew and is independent of the with unlawfully going on with Chinees bound for, const [desire to rely." while every such treaty or agreement cabeluded hereafter shall be notified within sixty days to the Power China must also notify all agreements with outside Governments or

THE GENOA CONFERENCE.

Opinion is divided in official circles regarding the desirability of sccepting the invitation to Genoa.

nationals.

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to strike in sympathy with the permission of the master or plicer Xan Cloon andother greamers and men, they showed no signs of in charge on January 21. Accused were on their way home to spend. doing so this forenoon when they pleaded not guilty,

Chinese“ New Year when they It is understood to be the view of the United States Govern-Were unloading the Wenatchee,

A call on one

The second officer at the vessel, were held up here. They have meat that any questionable commitments that may have been enter-

of the leading Edmund Dennis Panhole, stated been vastly concerned, leat they ed into will probably not be made public, but allowed to go by the stovedores found him non-com- that at 4.30 pm, on Saturday he kuld not arrive in time, but the board, and that in the event of a conflict of interests being disclosed mittal His men, he satt, had was in bis cabin when he heard Baryalus, which is making by filing a way will be open for their adjustment.

neither struck nor threatened to a steam lamel come alongside. special calls at coast ports, will strike. Pressed as to whether He went to deck and found a land them in time. they might do so, he confessed European on the head of the that he did not know.

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Protecting the Interests of Holland and Portugal.

London January 23.

Japanese Evacuation of Siberin.

Chinese Owners' Position.

gangway. He asked Mr. Miller

AUSTRALIA'S NEW LIKEBSTM

if he was the chief officer and the reply was yes. The European A Home Journal states: Ready said: "I have come to take the to start on her maiden voyage

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stawaria, esbors."| nextWednesday, the Moreton Bay.

Attitude of U. S. Experta.

New York, January 23. Significance is attached to a statement by the United States section of the Inter-American High Commission, of which Mr. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, is Chairman, as reflecting the con- siderations likely to weigh largely with the Government in connec tion with its reply to the idvilation to the Genoa econòmic con- It is reported from Washington that Halland and Portugal ference. The statement says that the two major problems which having drawn the attention of the Conference to the fact that their It was hinted this morning must be solved before the substantial rehabilitation of the world cat Far Easteru possessions are not protected in the Four-Power treaty. that the Chinese owners were be hoped for are the readjustment of the German reparation pay-It was at first proposed that this be corrected by a separate treaty or giving way and were likely to cooks ments on a baxis "calculated to be within the practical power of the ao sonex to the tresty, but it has now been decided that they will be accede to the men's demands. The chief officer said: "You can't the Brst of Australia's four nEW Germans to pay.” and secondly, the redaction "of the armed forces safeguarded by an exchange of identical notes.

That intelligence can hast be do that." Defendant replied "I liners, is lying at Tilbury. She maintained by certain Continental nations, the expenditure on which

described 敏感 possibly an. have isakructions from my Guild is an oil-driven turbine steamer involves currency inflation sud defeats all other efforts to balance:

sícipatory. "A call on Mr. R. so take these men and I am going of 13,856 tous capable of carrying national Budgets.

Washington, January 23, Sutherland, this morning found to do so." The chief officer said: 700 third-class passengers, besides

to stato "I shall alve” to: wand Kaithe ditchu

12,000 Baron Shidahara made an important statement at the meeting him able definitely

that túa Chinese of the Far Eastern Committee to the effect that Japan bax no

owners police." Defendant r-plied-red tone of had made territorial designs upon Russia and that the Japanese troops will be that he could say no more than ceeded to go on board and talked zer of the line, said the line was Do offer. Beyond police can't stop me" and he pro-board Mr. H. B. G. Larkin, Louna- withdrawn directly a stable government has been established.

Witness then well on the way to becoming one It is understood that Saghalien Island is included in this state that matters remained exactly to the stewards.

fired rockets and hoisted the of the first lines trading between ment with other parts of Siberis. The statement greatly gratified as before. the other delegates.

The Seamen's Union officials police signal. He saw defend. this country and Australis, sud could say little more. They had ant and the other delegates it would bold its own agains all had no offer from the Chines› Ro Into

launch which competition. The idea of the OWNJIT, they

said, Several was later taken in charge by the Commonwealth Government was owners had called and expressert police. The crew had since left not to knock out other lines, but their willingness to grant the (the ship.

to nosurefcrAustralian consuMETE men's demands, but from Canton Mr. Hind (who defended): How and producers carriage of their {bave come instructions that the far on board did he go? About products, and to prevent a stran

offer of this or that owner cannot six feet.

glebold being placed on Australia by large combine. The princi- pal point, he went go; was not what other ships were doing onder such a fine man as Lord Inchcape, but what they were caparle of doing under some less principled owner who some day might take control,

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NEW FRENCH PREMIER'S POLICY.

Reconstruction of Devastated Provinces.

The Siberian question will be discussed at to-morrow's session.

THREAT OF NON-CO-OPERATION IN EGYPT.

Drastic Steps.

Paris, January 20. (delayed). The unusually large majority by which the Chamber mani- fested appreciation of the principles clearly set forth by M. Poincare wiz yesterday's statement and speech is everywhere izken as B M. definite mandate to pursue the enargtic policy thus ontlined. Poincare especially emphasized the urgency of the treaties being carried out in fall, to which Germany, along with France and her allies, bad affixed ber signature. France wants nothing but what she is entitled to on that basis. The first condition of Europe's econom. Drastic steps followed the publication of à manifesto, couched ic regeneration is the reconstruction of the Belgian and French in the strongest Arabic phraseology, by members of the Egypt an devastated provinces.

|delogation, urging the adoption of non-co-operation and the boycott

M. Poincare wound up by expressing the wish that the Franco- of English goods. British Paat may soon become an accomplished fact-Haras.

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NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS OF THE U. S.

President Harding on Advantages of Projected Waterway.

Washingtan, Jacuary 23. The National Agricultural Congress attended by three hundred delegates representing all branches of agriculture and all industries related to farming has opened.

Presiden: Harding, in his address, declared that the feasibility of a waterway between the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence was Dot questioned. The heart of the American Continent, with ite vast agricultural Bod industrial resources, would thereby be brought into direct communication with all the ocean routes. with the most stimulating effect upon the industrial life of the continent. Ee declared that the cost of the project would be small compared with other great ongiatering works.

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CURE OF CANCER MEDICINALLY.

Offer of $100,000 Prize.

Montreal, January 23. "A beneficent action is announced by Lord Atholstan in a letter to the Principal of Me Gill University.

With the object of stimplating work in cancer research through- out the world, bis lordship offers a prize of $100,000 to the graduate or student of any recognised University who, within five years, CA discover medicinal treatment for the cure of cancer.

The decision is left to the Royal College of Physiciane, London, The offer may be renewed.

[Hugh Graham, first,Baron Atholstan, is a Scottish Canadian. He is proprietor of the Montreal Daily Star, and has been associated with all the chief patriotic movements of the Dominion.]

THE ECONOMY POLICY.

Reducing the Personnel at Rosyth.,

London, January 20.

in pursuance of the Government's policy of eognomy by die”

Cairo, January 24.

The eight signatories were ordered to be arrested, and all papers| which published the manifesto to be suspended.

THE S. AFRICAN MINING DISPUTE.

Nationalist Speakers' Attack on General Smuts.

Johannesburg. January 23. Everything was quiet at the week-end. Two Nationalist leaders ade speeches urging the miners to persist in the strike, and to do everything in their power to support the Nationalists in sweeping out General Smuts' Government,

THE FIRE AT A GERMAN CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

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Workers Rendered Idle-Not " Injured."

Bozic, Jennery 21.

Eight hundred workers have been rendered idle by the fire at the big chocolate factory.

The original message represented the sight hundred workers as baving been "injured"]

BOLSHEVIKS RELEASE BRITISH TRADER.

London, January 23. A message from Constantinople states that Mr. John Dodge has baen released.

cable of the 28th. ult. stated: It is reported from Con- stantinople that Mr. John B. Dodge, who has been visiting Australia, China and North Persis, investigating trade possibilities has been arrested by Bolaheviks at Batum, and is alleged to be a British secret service agent.]

DEATH OF AMERICAN NOVELIST.

Atlantic City, January 23..

The death Has occurred of the well-known novelist, John Kendrick Bangor

The decessed, who was born in 1862 first studied law, but soon changed to journalism. Subsequently he produced works of fiction upons wholesale scala.);

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ni orders have been received at Rosyth, Dockyard to reduce | PRINCESS MARY'S WEDDING NEXT HONTH.

will consequently be disch

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THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.

Fresh Negotiations with the Chinese Government.

Paris, January 23. Replying to numerous inquiries in regard to Chinese finances in connection with the Baoque Industrielle de Chine, M. De Larteyrie, the Finance Minister, stated that the Chinese Govern- {ment has hitherto opposed repayment of the & per cent, bonds of | 1913, despite the frequent intervention of the French Government. Fresh starà are being taken in regard to this. There is no question of a Chinese loan in France being in preparation.

NEW ISSUES OVER-SUBSCRIBED.

Lists Closed Within an Bour.

Loudon, January 23.

The new issues of £30,000,000 3 per cent. British Local Loans) stoet at 57 and of Anglo-Persian Oil shares were orer-subscribed. The lists were closed within an hour of opening.

THE MOPLAH OUTBREAK.

Execution of Rebel Chief.

Calicut, January 23. The Moplah rebel chief Kunhamad Hadji and six others have been shot, in accordance with the sentences passed upon them.

*EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

DEATH OF VISCOUNT BRYCE.

London, January 23

Viscount Bryce le dead. [With the death of Viscount Bryce (1st Viscount and formarty Mr. James Brycs) Brifzin loses (one of: her most disting scholars and statesnion. After a brilhant University ext count Birés practised in his earlier days da a barrister in Inn and for some time was Begius Professor of Civil: Oxford. He first entered Parliament as MP for In 1880. Six years Inter he became Under-Seeru Toreign Affairs, sfferwärde filling in scents. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaste

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News in To-day's New Advertisements..

The big plotare at the Coronet is entitled "Out of the Storm."- Page 12.

There will be another Cabaret Dance at the Kowloon Theatre to-night-Page 12.,

TheSiberia Marn having arrived the T. K. K. give consignees of cargo the uanal notice on page 5. Whiteaway's have 3,000 yds. of Victor Sun Csement Cloth Balling at $1 a yard-Page 3.

Lane Crawford's have every- thing suitable for Marathon Racers. Page 3.

The Dragon Motor Car Coy, advertise their service on Page 5. The World Theatre are show jing "Man. Trackers” to-night.

Page 12.

-Attention is called to the fact that in the advertisement of the

Hongkong Hotel Extraordinary Meetings the time for the second meeting to be held on Saturday, 18th February, has been altered. from Noon to 11am

Anderson's are advertising Broadwood's Pianos-Page

The ?Wkowicka Mamady · Com- pany are coming booked to appearrat the Thi Boys on February 4 Pag