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Record No 3592
AT
THE TARIFF CONFERENCE.
TENTATIVELY CONVENED FOR OCTOBER.
Invitations Issued.
MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1925.
STRIKE IN PEKING.
BRITISH LEGATION
AFFECTED.
No Sign of Spread.
Peking, August 6-The prepara-
Peking, August 8. tory commission for the Tariff "Con- Slightly over a hundred ser- farence at a meeting yesterday de-vants are now striking from the cided that the Conference should be British Legation, including some convened for October 15 in Peking: secretaries as well as domestics. It is believed the cabinet will Students are picketing the North shortly agree, thereto, but. nn and West gutes to prevent the official statement has been fasued Ingress of sorvante. They are and it is understood that no Invita-l also intimidating families of ser- tions will be sent to the Powers vanta Jiving In the Legation with until a formal receipt from Wash- the object of compelling the latter ington arrives confirming the un- to quit. animous ratification of the Nine- The strike has evidently long Power Treatles-Reuter.
been planned and a considerable Peking. August 8-It is semi-sum collected for it and mil ofhefully stated that China will strikers have been paid a`month's send out invitations to the Powers wages by the students..
0 August 11 to participate in |Tariff Conference at Peking
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The Foreign Ministry has hitherto outwardly appeared to have dono little to end the strike, but the Legation is hopeful of an early settlement. There is no sign of the strike spreading to employees of other Britons in Peking-Reuter.
A Strike Pay Burean," Peking, August 9 The number of Legation strikers increased yes- terday and the employees of the Legation électric power-house walked out early this morning, bringing the number of strikers, to over two-hundred.
Paris, August 8. The newspapers are perturbed at the situation in Syria: The | Echo de Paris demands the recall
The strikers' committee passod n of General Sarrail and says the rezolution stating that the object Druses number sixty thousand. is to make the Charge 'D'Affaires | supported by Arabs, ' while the and the British Government realise French are short of troops, hav- their mistake in their policy towards ing had to send reinforcements China and arouse the patriotic that Captain Carbillet, the gover- to Morocco, The paper adds eonuments of the Chinese people.
A bureau has been opened at the nor of Jebel Druses, has exas-National University, where em- perated the population by his ployees of any foreigners in Peking vexatious and arbitrary methods, desirous of striking may register Le Journal asserts that foreign and receive a month's wages; but influences are responsible for the hitherto there has been practically agitation, in which the Trans- no response thereto. jordanian Minister, Rikali Pasha
still has played an important part. optimistic that a settlement will be oom- It says "We shall probably be reached very shortly.-Reuter,
forced to give Emir Abdulla a It is understood that a meeting Ieason as severe as that adminis-of students this afternoon decided tered to his predecessor Feisul." to attempt to induce all Chinese in The Petit Journal says the officer foreign employ in Peking to go out whose guns and tanks were cap-on strike.-Reuter. tured has committed suicide.
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OVERSEAS LODGES
CONGRATULATED.
London, August 8.-Seven thou- It is reported from Beirut that a number of Druses have sought cheon at Olympia to-day in connec- sand Freemasons attended a lun-
British authorities have despatch-Memorial fund festival. The Duke refuge in Transjordania. The
tion with the Masonic Million
of Connaught presided and the
ed armoured cars to drive them
back into French mandated ter Duke of York and Prince Arthur of
kong or Formoss are re-transitory and also sent aeroplanes to mitted by the Great Northern Telegraph Co, and a wire te
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The
Connaught were present. Duke of Connaught announced that subscriptions now totalled £820,000, Including £417,000 from the London lodges alone.
The overseas lodges came in for special congratulation in the course; of the proceedings, the Duke, of 8. The death is announced ofjest terms to their assistance. The Wilmington, Delaware, August Connaught referring in the warm- Judge (former Senator) George Grand Secretary, Coivile Smith, In Gray.-Reuter's American Service, announcing the Hists of donations The late Judge George Gray specially commended Burma, Japan, was born int New Castle, Northern China and Bengal- It yield Negatives of rich gra- Delaware, on May. 4, 1840, and Reuter. dation, with full detail in shadows studied law at Harvard. Ho and highlights. It stands forcing was admitted to the Bar in 1863 in development, possesses great and practised at New Castle for latitudo, and is unsurpassed for six years, and then at Wilmington. instantaneous work,
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BANKS
LIQUIDATION OF STINNES CONCERN:
DIFFÉRENCES WITH THE
BANKS.
זי •
Ho was Attorney General of Dela- ware 1879-85, and was elected U. S. Senator as a Democrat for the un-i Thomas F. Bayard, on the latter's expired term (1885-7) of Mr.
Berlin, August 8-While the bank appointment as Secretary of State, ing group conducting the liquidation He was re-elected in 1887 and 1893. of the Stinnes concern emphatically He was a member of the Peace Com-denies that differences have arisen mission, Paris, 1898; a member of with the Stinnes family, the
the International Permanent Court Rheinisch Westfactische Zeitung, the of Arbitration under the Hague mouthpiece of the family, says the Convention, 1900; Chairman of the backs are not willing to assume ad- anthracite coal strike commission in ditional obligations on the ground 1902, and a member of the Tribunal of the, fresh liabilities the concert of the N. Atlantic Coast Fisheries is continually discovering and adds Arbitration at the Hague, 1910.] that unless the banks alter their Mr. John Temple. Graves. methods the concora will declaro bankruptcy or request the Court to superviso the liquidation....
Washington, August 8. The death is announced of Mr. John Temple Graves, the late The paper asserts that. Herr THE BANK OF EAST ASIA editor and co-proprietor of the Schneht, the President of the Reicha
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HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG.
Authorised Capital
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund-
DIRECTORS
$10,000,000 5,000,000 1,000,000
Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Bou-Chairman Fung Flag Shau Mok Ching Kong
Wong Yun Tong Huyuh Tall
Li Koon Chua
P. K. Kwek Ng Obing Luk
Pong Wai,Ting
Kon Yan Po
Chen Ching Shok
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted-Loans granted on approved soourities,
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to lot.
KAN GTONG PO
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 16th. February 1095,
New York American-Reuters bank, approves the action of the American Service.
banks, "thereby surrendering Ger- (John Temple Graves, had longman economio life to ruin," and been a prominent Journalist in adds that if the coacera declares the U. S. A. Born In November bankruptcy the banks will also re-. 1856, he was nearly 69 years of quire assistance-Router.
of
age. After being editor various daily. papers, he was ap pointed, in 1907, as editor-in-chief of the New York American. He was a great, orator and-in 1008 | was candidate of the National In- dependance Party for the vico- Presidency. He was the author
AVIATION.
DURATION AND SPEED
RECORDS BROKEN.
Chartres, August 9.-The airmen
of several histories of Ameri- M. Drouhin and M. Landry suc can citics and a contributor to ceeded in breaking the flight dura various American journals on the tion and speed recorda, covering subject of the separation of the 4,800 kilometres in forty and a half Black and White race.)
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