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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

No. 21,060

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SATURDAY,

CITY BURGLARY.

BRITAIN'S COAL-CRISIS.

ELEVENTH HOUR BREAKDOWN OF CRACKS MEN ENTER SILK

NEGOTIATIONS.

STRIKE ORDERED TO BEGIN.

London, April 30. It is officially announced that the coal nogotiations have failed and that a strike will begin at midnight-Reuter.

The above, together with a message stating that the miners have definitely rejected the owners' rovised offer, tells its own story of the grave industrial crisis which Britain is now facing.

The full details of a fateful day's abortive negotiations is told in the wires bolow:

STORE.

MAY

THE FIRE BRIGADE ENQUIRY:

PERSONNEL OF THE COMMITTEE.

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CANTON UNEASY. Bulls and mers

SIGNS OF COMING CHANGES,

SAFE RIFLED. GENERAL AS CHAIRMAN OFICIAL ANXIETY. Taking extreme precautions in

It will be recalled that the The new developments of the order to prevent unwelcome in-Government announced, at the last ten situation in the North, the trusion, a gang of expert cracks meeting of the Legislative Council, Attack on Hunan having been com- men entered the premises of the its intention to" appoint Commenced by Wu Pei-fu, and the Pioneer Silk Store, in the Chiau mittee to consider the improve-reappearance of Suga Hung-ying Building, last night and got clear ment of the Colony's Fire Brigade. on the political stage in Kwangst, away with money and property es- In the current issue of the are said to be causing some timated to be worth between Government Gazette, the constitu-anxiety in official circles in Can- $7,000 and $8,000,

tion of the Committety is given asta.

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From the Office

According to the Daily Press, dividend of 10 per cont, tax free "Pando annquado an interim to

Enwykay and Bandi have not yet We understand that Oesskay, issued their statements..

erica arvated $3,900,000 catch fr-tunners.

Loneso

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Seems as if there's a good dest of the Deadlockarno spirit about,

A New York musician has des

As a man sows, so he reaps god" Perhaps. It is, although scribed music as an audible unless hos a Hongkong kmatour some sounds like the very devil,

gardener.

"Man realises his utter ind Who remembers way back tumplates the stars,

significance when he con yonder when we could afford to preacher. The same effect may motor to Aberdeen and all the be obtained during day-time by a way back?

visit to some of our local banks, teeth," Our office boy is greatly dis Never tressed at the newspaper comment stating that" squatting" is illegal in Hongkong.

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These simple little dresses are.

A strong safe had been" drilled follows, with His Excellency the Many important questions have through and money and jade orna-General Officer Commanding as to be shelved until after the elec London, April 30. such Proclamation necessary in ments extracted, and an entry had Chairman: The coal situation has been the national interest.

tion of a new Central Executive. "Take care of your The Cir-been forced from the ouside, and

His Excellency the General Committee and the Government says an advertisement, moit critical all day.

cular adds if the stoppage is con- from the rear, the thieves having Officer Commanding (Major-Gen-trai Party Committee of the Kuo-

Exécutive Committee by the Cen-call a big man a llar. Mr. Baldwin asked the miners finded to the coal industry it is hop-made a passage through two iron eral C. C. Luard, C.B., C.M.G.).

口口 to be in his room at the House of ed it will not be necessary to ex-grilles,

mintang, a meeting of which is The Honourable the Colonial colled for May 15th. The all-im- not quite a when the shroff calls. is that it doesn't throw the entire Commons at 10.30 in the morning, and this emergency organisation and they were still awaiting him extensively or to call for recruits"

tang at present is whether the Next to buying an old car, we on one woman. The Honourable the Director of Communistic or the anti-Com-recommend a reliable pair of Public Worka.

munistic element shall dominate boots. The Honourable Sir H. E. Pol-Agure at the coming meeting.

the party. This issue will largely

SCENE OF CONFUSION,

Queen's

Treasurer.

there at noon, as Mr. Baldwin was to assist in malataining essential Road Central, and members of the

The silk store faces still engaged at Downing Street services, but is the event of the staff arriving as usual this morn with the coalowners' negotiating toppage of other industries effect-ing, found entry impossible. The lock, K.C. committee whose revised offer iting such services, it is hoped the door was forced and a is understood was based on an local authorities will co-operate

uf almost eight-hours day and a slightly.reas fully

as possible with

duced wage.

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the volunteer service committees,

Meanwhile, a hurriedly conven-Reuter. ed meeting of the General Council

of the Trade Union Congress in-

HOW THE DAY WENT. tensified the expectancy of drama- Negotiations in the coal dispute

Ragby, April 30, tic developments, The meeting

have been procceding actively| Masted for one hour and subse-from an early hour this morning,

quently 1,500 delegates of the Conference of Affiliated Unions, 48+ |.5 sembled awaiting the outcome of the conversations between Mr. .Baldwin and the miners at the

House of Commons.

The Premier was in conference with Sir Arthur Steel Maitland, Minister of Labour, and Colonel Lane Fox, Secretary for Mines, at eight o'clock this morning.

At

indescribable

scene

con-

DANISH FLIERS SAFE.

Forced Landing Owing to Engine Trouble.

Shanghai, May 1. The Danish aviators are safe. A very brief despatch to the local Consul General says that owing to engine' trouble they landed yesterday at a village ten miles north- east of Yucheng, which is twenty-five miles north-west of Tsinan-fu. Reuter.

fusion

met

noon the Premier and his two col- It was expected that a state- ment would be made in the Com-eagues received representatives mons at four o'clock in the after-of the coal owners who submitted noon, but the House adjourned details of new proposals.

It is understood that these pro- without any statement being made,

consisted of new wages- Mr. Baldwin having left the posals

their eyes. The miners considering the owners terms and a national minimum thieves, evidently not

content proposals. The belief that a gen-which the coal owners were pre-merely to get away with their foot, eral strike is inevitable. was pared to offer in return. for a re-had scattered the stock all over strengthened when it was

unofi-vision on hours, and that it was the shop premises. cially announced that the miners fexplained that this did not neees-

he whole Trade Union movement.

Reuter.

PRIVY COUNCIL SUMMONED.

portant question in the Kuomin

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One advantage of Mormonism burden of supporting a husband

Have you ever noticed that ac woman's dress always seems to

We suggest a ten-day week. be too short, too fight... or too

45 It would appear from the strug This would give the critics more something? The Honourable Sir Shousongle between the right and left sec-time between sermons. Chow.

The Honourable Mr. A. 0: Lang. The Honourable Mr. H. W. Bird. The Honourable Mr. R. H. Kate- wall, LL.D.

The Honourable Mr. D. G. M. Bernard.

Commander C. A. Brów, UNGE Major J. F. Drake, 1st Battalon. East Surrey Regiment

Mr. G. S. Archbptiy representing the Fire Insurance Association, Hongkong:

Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Secretary. The notification states that the Committee will consider sugges- tions made by the. Chief Officer, Fire Brigade, for the improvement of the fire fighting organisation of the Colony, and to make such recommendations as may seem proper.

M. P. RESIGNS.

CORRESPONDENT.

A FAMOUS WAR

London, April 30.

SHIPPING DISASTER.

Feared Loss of Many Lives.

Tokyo, April 30. The Jiji publishes an upont de patch from Hako- dele Tearing that the Chichibu Alaru has sunk with all hands, as no morn has been heard from her, though the rossel is equipped with wire-. less-Renter.

Almessage dated April 28th stated that "the Chichibu Maru, of 1,540 tons, went aground off Haromushiro, Kuriles, during a storm and 230 passengers wore missing.]

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An American reader told us the

McWhirter complains that the other day that he got forty miles gentleman cycling round the, out of the gallon in Hongkong. If world to collect autographs of ho happened to be in his Home notabilities, hasn't called on him town he'd probably got six months

to the quart,

yot

Some of the Kowloon gossips question of coupe. pr not coupe! These nice Spring days, it's a seem to have a good sense, of s

rumour,

DN.

Home Note Burglars won't find you asleep. If you have radio set.

The man getting 81,000 per month worries because it isn't o two, instead of being glad it isn't $500,

The wonder is that some ladies who are always looking in their mirror don't got discouraged.

suminer

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The trouble in Hongkong nowe- days isn't how to make money last, but how to make it first.

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Home Note, Egg stains may be removed by scraping the back of the band Beross the mouth. O

"Perplexed"-We should say that the difference between some these people fined who inoes

We should like to see some of dresses and bathing santly blow their own trumpets, costumes is that you wear a dressing gown with a bathing costume.

Our office boy has been carried away by Spiritualism. Neverthe- less, he returns every morning to

tions of the Kuomintang, that the political situation in Canton may undergo further changes at no distant date. The last meeting of The gentleman who shrank dust. the Military Council, owing to the from removing two bean sprouts lack of the required quorum, had from a back seat of the Poak to be adjourned. The absence of tram, but for which he would that when he's too lazy to work General Chang Kai-shek, the have been able to move along and he can pretend he's thinking...

One advantage a taipan has is

Economy Note. Save your old tennis nets.

They'll come in

handy for dog muzzles.

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The man who afirmed that this

is a city of "elegant leisure" must

It was found on examination! had rejected the revised offer sarily mean a week of 48 hours. that the door had been fastened and when it was learned that a The coal owners' new offer was from the inside by improvised special Cabinet meeting had been conveyed to the miners and to the bolts. summoned late in the afternoon, industrial Committee of the Trades while arrangements were being Union Congress. The

On the Erst floor was discovered been Conservative Member of Par The removal of the headquarters passengers, was certainly deter- Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, who has Chairman, was specially noticed. facilitate the ingress of other made to bring the whole miners representatives considered the guarded by grilles, faside and out, since the last election, has-resign-cil Chamber of the Military Coun- taken for a coolie.

Miners the means of entrance-a window lament for North Hammersmith of the General Staff and the Coun-mined that he wouldn't be mis- delegates and the Executives of proposals at 200 Unions affiliated to the Trades meeting and consulted the Trades used

lengthy and opening on to a yard, which is ed his seat.-Reuter.

cil to the Cement Factory on the Union Congress together early in Union Congress Committee. The for 21

á buck entrance, Mr. E. Asmead Bartlett, C.B.E., Hon side, the ordering of the the evening when a vital decision result of

their deliberations is China Building.

other offices

Frugality Note.--To create an in the is one of Britain's most famous troops of the 1st Army Corps to air of affluence when inviting a mined to be married this year, We know a girl who's deter was expected to be taken, the stated to have been unfavourable for the thieves to first eat through na 1898 he accompanied the Tur-Cloud Hills, the order to the Can-as many of the hotel guests as every day,

It was necessary war correspondents. As long agó itake up stations miners acting in conjunction with to the proposals. The miners' heavy iron grill in the yard, kish Army during the Graeco-ton-Hankow Railway to have fifty possible to join you. They'll pay

the White friend to dinner at the hotel, get oven if she has to go swimming leaders then took the steps of force the window, and then so bend Turkish War, and since that time ears in readiness for military ser- for their own chow, instructing the National Confer- the inside grill as to allow the has ence of Miners' Delegates to join passage of a man.

seen war service in South Vlees, and the fact that the troops

ED Africa, in the Russo-Japanese of the 2nd Division of the 1st A local ludy has just found last have been shown over our tele- H. M. the King has arrival from

War, with French and Spanish Army Corps and the Cadets Corps year's bathing dress in her phone exchange. Windsor to attend a meeting of the ftion by the Trades Union move-it would appear that the burglars Ralian army in Tripoli, in the Canton, in place of the troops

Having secured the front door, campaigns in Morocco, with the have been patrolling the streets hand bag.

OD Privy Council at Buckingham mert generally.

It is said that Mussolini rarely gate their first attention to the First Balkan War, and throughout the 1st Independent Division,

Some of thage flats that over- smiles.. But he knows how to The conlowners arrived at the ing the negotiations have run-floor at the rear of the shop, and danelles and later in France. He on the outskirts of the city-all right if only the landlord would laugh.

During the afternoon and even-large safe, situated on the ground the Great War, first at the Dar-who have been ordered to encamp look the harbour would be all give the rest of the world a hearty House of Commons at fire in the tinued, the Premier taking a lead-order that a better light for has published many books on his these signs are regarded in some overlook the rent. afternoon and the miners and ing part, and a joint meeting of the their work could Trade Union representatives also miners' delegates and Executives tained, the electric light case.)

be ob-experiences. He is 15 years of quarters as Indications of a com-]

The term "untold wealth" is attended. It is rumoured that the of other Trades Unions has been ing

ing change.

When somebody offers "to let the passing of the first Income believed to have originated after negotiations will be re-opened. postponed from hour to hour ceiling and adjusted at the level

In a telegraphic report from you in on a good thing," ask him Tax law. A demonstration of women. Little time now remains for a of the safe door.

Nan Ching, the capital of Kianga', who it's good for. Unionists was being held at the settlement as notices to the minera

received by the Canton Govori-

DO ment, it is stated that since Tang about a person's character is letting, someone else take your Having no doubt whatever thinking is about as sensible as Letting someone else do your Yu-derk's assumption of the Tupanship, various differences often a good reason for not lond-

and himself, whilst the adherents

Palace.

London, April 30. -

the conference of Executives of] other Trades Unions with a view.

a discussion of the whole posi

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SAFE RIFLED.

Was torn

from the

WU HON-MAN BACK.

Albert Hall, at which Sir Austen expire to-night. But the prolong-drilled clean through, disclosing The lock of the safe was then! Chamberlain in the course of aed discussions which have taken that the robbery was the work of speech on foreign polley, em- place are regarded in political experts. From the safe was taken RETURNS TO CANTON FROM have arisen between his generals ing him monov, phasised the gravity of the coal circles as indicating that there is situation.

The meeting closed still hope of an eleventh-hour about $2,500 and in addition a sum of money believed to be: with the audience atanding in development which may avert large quantity of valuable jade silent prayer for several minutes, stoppage in the coal industry-ornaments. and the silence was broken by the British Wireless. organ playing the -National Anthem.Renter,

NEW SHIPS.

FOR JAVA-AUSTRALIAN

RUSSIA.

Wu Hon-man, former

Civil

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Members of bachelor mes565.

of Fong Poon-yan are now at work Lumpur recently caught a six if they're left off while you wear A piscatorial artist at Kunia should note that socks last longer in an ondeavour to

widen the foot lizard on his line. We un the other fellow's. Governor of Canton, who was sent breach. This is aald to be the derstand that the brother to this NO to Moscow for the purpose of been able to send the forces to seen by a local gentleman on the druff, try an ordinary clothes reason why Tang Yu-derk has not specimen is believed to have been The thieves ransacked the shop, studying conditions under the So-operate against Hunan, as order-last Feak tram not long ago. selecting rolls of the finest quality viet regime whilst the political at-ed by Wu Pei-tu.

HAUL OF SILK,

silk, and a large number of expen-

sive Canton shawls, and finally mosphere in the southern capita! tore up another roll of silk ap- was being cleared up, has now re- parently for the purpose of provid-

ing a wrapping for their "away." turned to Canton

When a Telegraph, representa-

A telegram was received yostar-

LIQUOR SMUGGLING. DELEGATION TO BRITAIN. Washington, April 80.

EMERGENCY PREPARATIONS. The Ministry of Health has cir- tularined the local authorities stating that in the event of a na- tional coal stoppage, the Govern

SERVICE. hont will consider it necessary hat part of the organisation al-

Amsterdam, April 30, bady arranged to cope with emer

ive called at the Plonser Silk day by his brother, Wu Ching-sui, Plans by the Royal Packet Store this morning, the police in Hongkong announcing the ar encies should be set in readiness Steamship Company have been ad- aoperate. Accordingly, the vanced for the construction of two and they had taken possession of Governor, and his mother. Ac- officials are expected to adil for vere busy making investigatione rival at Canton of the ex-Civil Department and also prohibition A delegation from the State Kinistry transmits a list of Civil larga motor ships of the Indiapoera the burglars tools discarded on companying Wu wore his secretary, Engisid on May 22, to arrange Commissionera and Divisional type, for the Java-Australla ser- their decision that they had all Li Kwan-pul and daughter, Wu closer, co-operation with Belt

ata which will be established vice They will be equipped with they wanted. pon the issue of a Proclamation refrigerators for the import of As far as the Emergency Power Australian meat into... Java, tain,

Makan. They were stated in the to chick llator, smuggling frond artelogram to have made the relva, Bri

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According to lastSaturday'sɗele" It won't be long before we are graph, Britain's NATION TYCO printing pictures of beach police- asomed to have met with a men measuring the length of reverso..

one-piece bathing suits on girls. round the American coast. correspondent complaina Botanical Gardens. We wonder shirt is just a coup stains regarding the use of Latin in the A soup stain on an ordinary

itching palme of Battery is social ostracism. how a botanist would describe same ornament on a dinner att

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