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The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 13th March, 1924.

THE NEXT WAR.

civilisation realising that a fresh farmed confilio would be loo awful to contemplate. **he thought of what could happen if modern warfara became possible should be sufficient to make humanity decide that intar- national peace 197 account bo disturbed,

Fire-Traps.

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FRANCS FIRMER.

SERS AND SUBMARINES.

How The Naval Powers Compare.

London, March 12.

Credit Arranged in London. London, March 19. The improvement in the franc which is now 108, is attributed Dr. Sun Yat-sen is stated to partly to the arrangement inIn the House of Commons, re have decided to increase his per-London of acceptance of a credit plying to Lord Caron,“ kr. sonal bodyguard from 200 men to of five millions sterling in favour Ammon stated that the numbers 1,000, these to be commanded by of the French Government: This of cruisers and submarines on the credit, in which a number of effective list of the countries a Lieutenant General. ·

leading London Banks and finans named were as follows:-

Poultry dealers in Canton cisl houses are participating, will Bntain 45 and 61 respectively:" threaten to strike if the syndicate ran for twelve months and be the United States 29 and 115 whica has obtained privileges covered by the deposit of Nations! Japan 23 and 41; France 16 and The numbers on April 1st trom the Yunnanese commander Defence Bonds, and be backed 48 begin to lory taxes on the sale of by a guarantee of the Bank of 1939 would respectively ba

France-Reuter,

and 31; 10 and 122; 10 and 69.— Reuter,

birds.

"

London, March 1 Rules made by the Chief The French franc has steadily The case of a Shanghai filature Justice under Section 5 of the appreciated to 10290 and closed being burned down, with terrible Judgments (Facilities for Eat 105.37. Belgian francs rallied laes of life, caused by the barred forcement) Ordinance of 1921 to 190,75 and closed at 12525,-- windows and inadequate means were laid before the Legislative Reuter

of exit, draws attention to the Council this afternoon.

For having two rounds of

New York, March 12. American bankers, headed by established a

AMERICAN VESSEL ABANDONED.

One Lifeboat Picked Up..

London, March 12. Lloyd's report that the Ameri-

awful conditions in which hun- dreds of thousands of poor people live in Chinese cities; evou where foreign influence exists: oven in ammunition, a Chinese named Morgan's, have the British Colony of Hongkong. Lee Woo who stated that he was credit of a hundred million dollars can steamer Santiago, from Cubs The French loan is fully secur sugar, has been abandoned sixty We have cartain factors laws visiting the Calons, was given in favour of the Banque de France. for New York with a cargo of here. but there is still much over the order to pay a fine of $100 or crowding, and real "sweat-shop" undergo two month's hardjed by gold in the vaults of the miles south of Hatteras. One Banque de France, which is act-lifeboat containing ten men has conditions. We know of several labour..

ing for the French Government bean picked up by a Norwegian

used to stabilise steamer but there is no trace of small spinning establishments in

A fire which broke out last It will be Hongkong where as many as a dozen girls crowd into a small night destroyed a matshed be French exchange and otherwise. the remainder of the crew, room and put in a long day-not longing to a building contractor in It is understood the duration of Reuter, a mere eight-hour one-for small Tung Chau Street at Shamshui-the loan will be one year. The wages. That, however, is more ape. There were cement and lime statement does not mention the problem for social reform. What stored in the structure, and the exact amount of the loan or the THE CHURCH AND STATE the Shanghai case emphasises is damage inflicted is assessed at rate of interest, but quotes the the danger of old-fashioned $260.

After

violent

domestic

Chinese tenements, such as exist all over this Colony. Worked liked animals, paid a bare living quarrel, a young Chinese woman wage, there are large numbers of yesterday jumped into the barb- our population who also live our from the Shamshuipo ferry Was rescued like animals. Imagine their Wharf. She

removed to position in the top floor of but a tenement. perhaps herded in a hospital later suffering from the small cubicle, with iron-barred effects of the immersion. windows, and the only means of

the

Was

governor of the Banque es pledg ing that complete measures will be taken for a better financial situation. Reuter's American

Service.

U.S. RAIL FREIGHTS DROPPING.

ANOTHER ENQUIRY.

IN ROME.

Rome, March 12. The report of an agreement between the Pope and the Italian Government is denied in author- tative quarters.though it is pointed out that the relations between the Church and the State are most harmonious-Reuter,

FRENCH POLITICAL

DISPUTE.

LORDS WANT TO TAX BETTING.

Washington, March 12. The The Hongkong cricketers who

Inter-State Commerce escape in case of a fire a

announces that single, narrow, rickety wooden are visiting Singapore next month Commission stairway. One of these days will leave Hongkong on the Fook under the new regulations a lower there will be a big blaze here, Sang on April 1, and are due to joint freight rate will be

Paris, March 11. This is indeed a world of when the loss of life at Shanghai arrive at their destination on thorised on American railroads

The Left parties have decided, paradoxes.

then April 7. Their visit will last from May 20th. on commodities Whilst statesmen might be paralleled, and are debating the best means of perhaps the whole system of until the 19th, when they leave baing transported by American if the Government should prorogus grain-Reuter's the Chamber, instead of having a fire-escapes and so forth will for Hongkong on the Ho Sang-

ships, except

general slection hat all the Left effecting international disarma-

be tackled in the light of

American Service.

senators and deputies shall resigu meat to such an extent as to modern. progress. For

The Bishop of Victoria and

en bloc and submit their case to. make future armed conflicts present, we can count as lucky members of the Victoria Diocesan|

the country.—Reuter. the thousands of pooror-class Association are to be at home doubtful. inventurs are busily

Chinese who are living in verita-at the City Hall to-morrow after. engaged in their laboratories ble fire-traps, for it is steer luck noon to meet Bishop Graves of

Washington, March 12, making deadlier devices of war. that has prevented a huge con-Shanghai and Bishop Norris of

The Senate has ordered an Many of the weapons of the flagration sweeping, long ere this, Peking. Tea will be served and

right through our slum areas. the Surrey's band will be present.enquiry by a select committee; World War appear already to

into the administration of the have become almost, as old-Dark Days.

K. Keith was sent to prison Bureau of Internal Revenue.- We fancy we can understand for one month by Mr. J.R. Reuter's American Service, fashioned and obsolete as the blanderbuss. We read a few the hesitancy of the authorities Wood, at the Police Court this charge of days ago that in the United in dealing with this tenement morning, when a

menace-it would require whole-desertion from the House of DEMPSEY CONDESCENDS. States there has been perfected a sale reconstretion of the city to Detention was proved. Keith told bomb weighing no less than four make it safe. That would be a the Magistrate that he had found

Chicago, March 12. thousand pounds, to be carried matter of many years and of someone who would support him,

many millions of dollars. It would and had then thought it would Jack Dempsey announces that by aeroplane. This is some ten also affect teas of thousands of not be necessary to return to the he will meet Luis Firpo, the times as big as the largest bomb poorer class Chinese, who live house. His Worship said accused Argentino boxer, in &

ότι September 1st.- used in the Great War. It con-under the appalling conditions should have returned to notify match

ton of high explosives, they do merels because they can- the warder before staying away. Heuter's American Service.

not possibly afford other. better, and is capable of making a crater accommodation. As it is, thero Amongst the passengers who in the ground nearly sixty feet is always the sword of Damocles left by the Empress of Asia their heads in this morning were Lady Stubbs, deep and a hundred and fifty feet hanging over

the guise of rapacious landlords. Miss R. Addis, Capt. and Mrs. across. Another receut inven- so that what with the ever Leslie Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A tion is an armoured caterpillar increasing economic struggle and Cameron. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. London Transport Services

of Benson, Mr. and Mrs. H. E.) tractor with a speed of thirty the ever-present

destruction by fire, the lot of these Goldsmith, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. miles an hour, which will go up poor people is a truly terrible on Perry, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Chubb,

tains

menace

return

MORE DISGRUNTLED WORKERS.

Involved.

London, March 12.

London, March 12. The House of Lords has passed A resolution by 57 to 15 that taxation on betting is desirable and practicable. Lord Arnold on behalf of the Government opposed the motion-Reuter.

ADMIRALTY CHANGES.

London March 12, Admiral Sir H. Oliver replaces Admiral De Robeck as comman- der of the Atlantic feel. Sit Michael Culme Seymour replaces Sir H, Oliver as Second Ses Lord.

-Reuter.

IRISH ARMY ENQUIRY.

London, March 12.

In the Dail, Mr. Cosgrave in

A joint committee of the mining a forty-five degree slope easily When we attempt to look ahead Mr. and Mrs. R. Roxburgh. Mrs. and can travel through water a mere decade, we visualise G. M. Dalgety, Mrs. Heary Ham- employers and Miners' Federation up to the driver's chin. The population of well over two mil-phreys. Mrs. D. J. Lewis, Capt. again discussed the miners' wages timated that the executive were lion Chinese clamouring for P. H. Rolfe, Mr. E R. Dovey, demands. The owners definitely appointing a Cabinet committee famous French 15 is said to bouses, and for higher wages to Mr. George Hogg and Mr. D. Loffered an increase of the mini- to enquire into the administration

mum wage to thirty per cent. of the army.-Reuter. have been eclipsed by & new feet soaring prices and rents. King.

above 1314, to revise the ratio of gun of the same calibre, but We also naturally visualise an

Feline, alluring, tigerish, lov-proceeds to paid wages and pro- with twice the range. Shoulder increase in crime, and conse-

quently bigger, burdens on the able, reckless-these are among fits, making the proportions 85 and SINGAPORE CONTROVERSY

15 respectively. machine-guns are taking the law-abiding taxpayer to meet

A delegate conference of miners place of regular rifles. They the cost of combatting disorder. sharply contrasted adjectives

to-morrow will consider the offer. That might be looking on the that come into the mind when fire bullets four times as heavy dark side of things, but it is not a seeking to describe Pola Negri as and send them three times as far matter of impossible imaginings she portrays Carmen in Gypsy as the Browning gun. Poison The trouble is that there is so Blood," the remarkable film ver-Workers' Union for an increase House of Lords on March 13th. gases have been perfected since much to do, so little done, and so sion of Prosper Merimee's novel of the wages of seventeen thouReuter,

little that can now be done to which will be screened at the sand London tramwaymen by the Armistice which are many make up the leeway that has been Coronet Thestre for the last time eight shillings weekly is the sub-

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Washington, March 12. of death

President

London, March 12. Lord Balfour will raise - the The demand by the Transport question of Singapore in the

this evening. With Pola Negri's ject of critical discussions in passionate acting alone, "Gypsy London to-day. Strike action pos- Blood" stands forth an unusual sibly involving busmen and under- picture, but it has the further ground railwaymen is threatened claims of lavish setting and failing a settlement-Reuter. singularly appropriate music from the opera.

A GRACIOUS ACCEPTANCE.

Jerusalem, March 12.

King Hussein has accepted thữ Caliphate from the Palestine Mošiem delegatos.—Reuter.

MAJOR ASTOR BACK IN HIS SEAT.

London, March 12.- Major Astor has been returned unopposed for Dover-Reuter

These are only a few of the things which have been brought

A POLITICAL MOVE? to a higher pitch of perfection

We presune that even lacrose since the great struggle in Gutierrez was announced yester

Bomb at British Legation. Europe. They are sufficient to day, and the consequent increas-enthusiasts will have observed ed activities of revolutionary that Mr. Wingrave in his letter give serious thought to the fact factions left Honduras for the on that sport, which appeared in

Athens, March 12. that whilst some people are time being without a Government. car issue of yesterday, was not

Following the explosion of a to prevent another Diplomatic representatives suc appropriating to himself any un bomb at the entrance to the striving

ceeded in arranging a seventy-due popularity," but was the British Legation early this Armageddon, others are toiling

оле bour armistice. Reuler's victim of one of those imps of morning, without any casualties, It will be recalled that Major to bring out new devices for the American Service.

perversity that sometimes break five dynamite cartridges were Astor had to vacate his seat on s through the best defences of prin found outside the Rumanian technical point, having voted in destruction of their fellow-men.

ters and cause the most unexpec- Legation, but there had evidently is division before taking the oath, If there be a "pert war," we

U.S. ARMY BILL. ted transposition of words. The been no time to fire them

Lon his recent return from abroad. may safely count on its being

reference intended was of course! The Republican Government to the "popular sport," and not believes the bomb was thrown in frightful beyond imagination-

Washington, March 12, far more so even than that great The U. Army Appropriation popular me but if this "Bull" (order to discredit it. Reuter struggle in which so many of our Bill contemplates an expenditure has given a torn of humour to the young men were mained or laid of 16,224,000 dollars less than last discussion, we trust it will also year. It recommends 'the main-serve to draw further attention down their lives. We should tenance of the regular army at its to Mr. Wingrave's appeal to all like to think that these inventors present strength. Reuter Hameri who are interested in the fine

Canadian national game. of new war devices are really can Service..

regret for the bomb outrage,

Athens, March 12. which only damaged the marble M. Papanastasion, the New steps and the door. A number of York Premier, who had just com-workmen have been arrested in pleted his Cabinet, burried to the connection with the affair British Legation and expressed Reuter