1926-07-07 — Page 7

THE COAL BILL.

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SURPRISE IN HOUSE OF LORDS.

DRAMATIC INTERVENTION.

London, July 6, In the House of Lords there was a dramatic intervention in the Mines Eight Hours Bill debate, when Lord Cecil announced the postponement of the further stages of the measure-Reuter.

SOME WAGE OFFERS UNSATISFACTORY,

Later.

Lord Cecil explained that the Government had abandoned its in- tention of seeking special facilities in order finally to dispose of the Rill to-morrow,

He declared that the Govern- ment regarded themselves under special obligations to the miners as well as to the owners, and add- ed that the Government was not called upon to comment on the morits of the wage rates offered by the owners, buit that the pro- posals advanced in one part of the country would seem to them to be profoundly unsatisfactory.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

BATHER DROWNED CANTON DEMANDS

FATALITY AT KOWLOON

CITY.

On Monday a drowning fatality' was reported from Kowloon Tong, and to-day nows come of a' similar happening at Kowloon Tsai, Kow- loon City.

fokis were bathing in a pond at It appears that yesterday five Kowloon Tsai, when one of them, twenty years of age, slipped into about twenty feet of water, and disappeared from view. None of they waited for about an hour, the others were able to swim, and

to the surface. This did not hap- apparently to see if the body"came pon, however, so a report was made to the police and the body, baa not yet boen recovered.

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JUMPED INTO HARBOUR.

After attempting to commit auf- cide by jumping into the harbour near Whitty Street, a Chinese, aged thirty, who is now believed to be insane, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital. Ee stated he was an emigrant from Nim Chow to Singapore, but got separated from the party with The House agreed to the second which he was travelling, so ho rending of the Bill after a state-jumped into the water. His rescue ment by Lord Salisbury that the was effected by P.3.B. 38, an In third reading would normally dian, who got him out with the eccur on Thursday unless some-aid of a bamboo pole. thing intervenes to necessitate an alteration of procedure~~Reufer.

NEW RATES OF PAY. -

Rugby, July 6,

NARROW ESCAPE.

A Chinose had a narrow escape from drowning, when he fell from a ferry' yesterday. While the boat The newspapers state that the was travelling from Yaumati to Government contemplate making a Hongkong, when near No. 21 buoy, full statement at an early oppor-central fairway, a third-class pas- tunity of its views on the Coal senger accidentally fell overboard. Commission's Report. The Luckily, he was rescued by a pass- Cabinet Coal Committee was in ing launch, and handed back to the session to-day and a full meeting ferry boat. When the ferry berth of the Cabinet was held this ever-ed he was sent to the Government ing.

Meanwhile, in anticipation of the passing into law of the Cool Mines Bill, which is the temporary

Civil Hospital,

measure that will permit of miners COLONIAL MANDATES.

working eight hours per day. instead of seven

as heretafore, further collleries have posted up terms on which men may resume work.

In the conifields of Nottingham- shire, Derbyshire and North

Stafordshire the terms provide

In the dis-

NO PROMISE GIVEN TO GERMANY.

Rugby, July 6. The Prime Minister, answering

·SEQUEL TO CLOSING OF WUCHOW.

(Continued from Page 1).

teen hundred dollars ($1,600) a over, declared that the rate of six-

week is an insult to my intelligence. and is equivalent to refusing me the right to use the river. This is o have reported to my Government." violation of treaty rights, which I

"After this strange exorcise in the Interpretation of Treaty rights, the British Senlor Naval Officer requested the Com- missioner for Foreign Affairs to inform the Seamen's Uniop. that under these special circums→ tances I am prepared to pay f teen dollars ($15) Hongkong cur- rency per diem for a pilot. Also please inform them that unless of wages and supply two pilots they accept this reasdhable rate

shall consider the river virtually before midnight on June 23rd, I closed to me. And he added:- This I shall regard as a hostile Majesty's Government and shall act against His Britnunic take the following measures- fram daylight, 24th June, the Part of Wuchow will be éntire- ly closed to all shipping" under the Chinese Flag...

This mennee elicited an Imme- diate protest from the. Commis- stoner for Foreign Affairs who emphasized the obvious fact that the Seamen's Union was not a Government hody and its members were wholly private Individuals' who, by Chinese laws, were free

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MOSQUITO EVIL.

POOLS AT CRAIGENGOWER

CLUB,

AN UNLICENSED “LAAN."

The claim that they opened up Pleading that it was a matter the Haiphong trade for the first largely due to the vagaries of the to engage or refuse their services time, and helped the Colony at a weather of late, Mr. E. „Bosa, to whomsoever they pleased; and, critical moment during the period Secretary of the Craigengower with reference to the wages of the strike, when it was faced Club, appeared before Major C. claimed, the Commissioner point-

ed out that the same were not with a serious poultry shortage Willson this morning to give an excessive in view of the great in-owing to the stoppage of suppiles explanation of how pools of water erense in. the cost of living At from the ordinary sources, was were formed in the garden of the any rate the question of wages made by two poultry dealers Club at Happy Valley. could furnish np. possible pretext

for

the

The summons, '

which was brought under the Maintenance of Public Health Ordinance, and had particular reference to the facili ties for the breeding, of mosqui- Ices, was brought at the instance

Central a British blockade of the at

Magistracy port of Wuchow especially in view this morning, when responding of the unquestioned fact that the to a charge of carrying on Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and other Authorities at Wuchow their business without having paid that no reduction of wages will questions in the House of Commons--though under no Treaty obliga- for their licence, and in a prohibit of Sanitary Inspector Hughes.. be made for niners working eight pointed out that this matter was their utmost to assist the British

on the subject of Mandates, again tion to do so were then doing ed area.

The officer deposed to having taken hours daily. These collieries not dealt with in the Locarno Sentor Naval Qmber to secure Sanitary Department, admitted which was later certified by the Mr. N. L. Smith, Head of the sample of a species of larvae. employ 124,000 men. tricts, including Warwickshire, agreements at all. He added that pilotage. Yorkshire and South Wales, em German delegates at Locarno vér- Senior Naval Officer replied under cognizant of it. At the same time,

it was, however, indiented to the

that there was some foundation for Medical Officer of Health to be "To this protest, the British the claim, and the Department was Culex, from a pool in the garden. ploying 619,000 men, notices in bally that Germany, when a Men-

Mr. Basu stated that on re- dicating that no reduction is con- ber of the League, would be a posto add to my last letter."

dale of June 23:—I have nothing a principle had to be maintained,ceiving the first notice from the templated have already been

and that was in connection with the Department, he had instructed the issued.

Rates of wages equivasible candidate for Colonial man- lent to ten per cent. reduction and dates like all other members. It ties of Wuchow, including General on wholesale lines.

"As it appeared to the Authori- regulation of the poultry business Club's gardener to look into the He explained matter, and he believed that all bringing wages to the 1921

was incorrect to suggest that any Wong Shiu-hung, Chairman of that at the moment the wholesale pools then existing had been minimum are offered in Northum. promise of undertaking was given the Kwangsi Provincial Govern-business was in the hands of main emptied. There had been fre berland and Durham where over 200,000 miners are employed, but recent statement of the Colonial Naval Officer was bent on preci- of which there were five, all located an inevitable

Senior depots which were called launs, and quent showers of late and it was in both counties married miners Secretary that the Tanganyika pitating, a crisis which would in a certain area. From these de-other pools might have been have house rent or an allowance Mandate Avas permanent, re in linu thereof and free coul

gravely interfere with the move-pots all the poultry sold in the formed in the meantime. presented the. policy of the ment of Nationalist Government markels of the Colony was dis- Basa suggested that the Inspector Miners in various districts are

might have indicated to him the trces in connection with the de-tributed. convening meetings to discuss-the

particular pool from which he took fensive plan of campaign against new terms. In Monmonthahire they

The charge against the defen- his sample of mosquito larvae. Wu Pei-fu's operation for the dahts in this case was that they Major Willson said they all have expressed dissatisfaction.- British Wireless.

invasion of the Liang-Kuang, the

mosquitoes would Wuchow authorities informed the maintained, to all intents and pur- knew that British Senior Naval Officer that poses, a loan, which was not breed in these pools once they Ho registered a they themselves would pay the properly constituted, in that it were formed. wages claimed by the pilots and had not received a licence from conviction and imposed a fine of would secure two pilots on the the authorities and was carried $15.

out in Jubilee Street, which, being following day, ie. June 24.

within the limits of the Central

DEATH OF MRS."

MURPHY.

CHIEF. DETECTIVE INSPECTOR'S BEREAVEMENT.

We regret to have to record the death of Mrs. T. Murphy, wife of Chief Detective Inspector Murphy, a popular officer at the

morning after a long illness.

to the German Government. The

Cabinet-British Wireless,

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"EVE'S LOVER" NOW. SHOWING.

"Eve's Lover," a film now show- ing at the Queen's Theatre, has no connection with the original Eve, but is a picture of modern days and modern ways.

ment, that the British

occurrence that

Mr.

Market, constituted an encroach TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. ment on the privileges held by the stall-holders.

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REVENUE OFFICER RUNS OVER CYCLE.

"At 9 a.m. on June 24, the pilots' representatives were on board the British Senior Naval Omcer's ship, the Tarantula, to It was admitted that an appli Irene Rich is ideally suited for arrange for the signing of the cation for a proper site had been the part of the stern business wo-.

'pilotage agreement. Difficulties Police Station, which occurred this of the entertaining Bert Lytell p.m. when the agreement was claim, and the fact that the ar-Revenue Oflcer Fearse was con-

Central man who falls before the wiles of interpretation and translation handed in, and a site had been ap

praved. protracted the proceedings till 5

Among the accidents which hap- In view of the defendants pened yesterday, was one in which and the couple are well supported For some time previous to her by a strong cast. Generally Foreign Affairs was informed rangement for the proper dia- cerned. He was travelling on his

aigned. The Commissioner for going to hospital, about eight speaking, the theme is a severe weeks ago, Mrs. Murphy, who was one; but it is lightly treated where half an hour later, 20. 5.30 pm. entered upon in an orderly man-East, when a Chinese, who was charge of the business had been motor cycle along Queen's Road thirty years of age, had been ail- possible, and the film is excellent This was swiftly followed at 6 ing, but after a time she took a entertainment.

p.m. by a letter from the British ner, the Department, said Mr. riding a bicycle in front, and going turn for the better. This improve- Buster Brown and Tige feature the Commissioner for Foreign heavy penalty.

Senior Naval Officer who asked Smith, was not pressing for in the same direction, fell off his mont was maintained until about & in a comedy which precedes, and Affairs to send the pilots 'on

machine. Although Mr. Pearse week ago, when, however, she had the excellent programme is com-

a relapse. Although she recover-pleted by the feature service of ed slightly, her condition gradual-

ly became worse, and death occur

red at 6.45 this morning..

current, events.

Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were mar- ried when Mr. Murphy was lost Home on leave, and Mrs. Murphy arrived in the Colony nearly four years ago. She soon made many friends and her death will be great... ly felt. She was an enthusiastic worker for the Ministering Child- rens' League, and by her death the League has lost a sympahtetic and indefatigable worker.

The cortego will pass the Monu- ment at 5.30 this afternoon.

Rugby, July 6

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

NORWEGIAN CLAIM TO

PRIORITY.

New York, July 6, The Columbus expedition was in

board at once.'

"Waiving more, considerations of dignity, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at once replied, that the pilots would Be on board Immediately. But within ten minutes of the despatch of this reply, a further and final note! was handed to the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs from the Bri- tinh Senior Naval Officer, who ex- pressed 'regret to inform you that I am now proceeding to close the port of Wuchow to Chinese ship-

After evidence had been given was not going fast at the time, he by Inspector R. C. Witchell, the was unable to pull up, and he ran Magistrate (Major C. Willson) over the push cycle. Neither of the imposed the nominal fine of $5 riders was injured. but both cycles on each of the defendants. were badly damaged.

ROYAL ARCHAEOLOGIST.

NAVAL YARD MISHAPS Yesterday afternoon two labour- ers, employed at the Naval Yard wero injured and taken to hospital. It appears that one of the men was working on submarine L.7., which is in dry dock, when the tail CROWN PRINCE TO VISIT

jehaft swung out from the stern FAR EAST..

and struck the man, breaking one of his legs. The other man was Stockholm, July 6.

carrying a lathe which overbalanc- Professor Gunnar Anderson, the fed and fell, pinning him against The letter proceeds to state archaeologist, expects to start in the wall. Among other injuries

accordingly August another Chinese he had a collar bone broken.

ho wise the first Europeans to ping.""

land in North America, according

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to a statement by the Norwegian that the port was Scientist, M. Opsjon, claiming the closed to all Chinese shipping for expedition with a view to discovery, near Spokane, of a huge ten hours on June 24-26, and acquiring material for supplemen- boulder It is the intention of the British inscriptions telling the thrilling were eventually reassured and expedition. It is understood that 1,420,000.00 was made for the covered with rubic was only reopened when the pilots tary collections to his previous An appropriation" of Pesos Government to send a woman as a story of the arrival of a Norse sent on board the British gunboats, he will be accompanied to the Far construction of a suitable head fully accredited delegate to the expedition of 24 men, geven Assembly of the League of women and one baby about the demand for an apology and an in- Sweden, who will go to China cargo shed entrances covering an The protest concludes with a East by the Crown Prince of for Fler No. 7 and as, adjacent Nations in September. The name your 1010. All, except six, were demnity and for the dismissal from the United States in order area of approximately 88,000 of the delegato has not yet been captured or killed by Indians. and punishment of Commander to indulge in a well-know square feet with a frontage of near- disclosed. British Wireless. Reuters American Service.

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