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NOBEL PRIZE FOR

LITERATURE.

AWARDED TO A FAMOUS GERMAN AUTHOR.

THO. MANN HONOURED.

Stockholt, Nov, 12,'..

The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Thomas

COAL DEADLOCK CONTINUES.

PRIME MINISTER NOW INTERVENES.

OWNERS STILL REFUSE TO MEET MINERS..

Maar, the famous German nove: SERIOUS SITUATION.

Tist.

The honour is richly deserved,

London. Nov. 12.

THE DUKE OF YORK

ON PEACE.

PREMIER'S DAUGHTER TAKES CHAIR AT MEETING.

TRAINING OF YOUTH.

London, Nov. 12. HR.H. the Duke of York, the King's second san. to- day addressed

meeting

of the World Alliance -for promoting international friendship

Mann being not only a brilliant stylist but a remarkabla psychglo-| The coal Industry negotiations through the churches. The meet- xist. He was born, at Lubeck in assumed a new phase to-day when,ng was held at No. 10. Downing

Street. June, 1875, and comes of an old for the first time, the Premier took

Miss Ishbet MacDonald presid. Lubeck patrician family. After part in them.

his father's death he moved with! This morning, he and the menied, and the Archbishop of Cantor his mother to Munich. Then hebers of the Cubinet Coal Commit-bury, Lord Davidson (ex-Arch- was for a time articled to a fire tee met the representatives of the bishop) and Lord Parmoor were insurance company, but soon gave coalowners, and this afternoon p:esent.

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a business career to study they received the members of literature, history and art.

the Miners' Executive.

The Duke paid a tribute to the work of the Alliance. He said

He spent a year in Italy and was The chief difficulty confronting whether or not pence or war in then for several years on the staff the Government is the contention future

was to be the means of cf "Simplicissimus" the Munich of the owners that it would be rettling disputes must depend on comic paper.

He later became a impossible for the hours to be re-the way in which the youth of the free lance writer, living sometimes duced from eight to seven and a half world is educated.

In Rome and sometimes in Munien.without a commensurate reduction Contemplation of the horrors of

His first collection of tales."Der in wages, kleine Herr Friedemann, appeared' Another difficulty is created by

the last war to the generation now growing up, was rather the same

in 1898. His great romance "Die the insistence of the miners on a as older people might look upon Buddenbrooks" (1903) made him national wages agreement. The the Crimean War. It was not the famous all over Germany, set the owners state they will under no horrors of the past, but a right standard for the modern German circumstances depart from the

understanding of the problems. novel and is still one of the most present practice of District Agrec-which faced us that would achieve widely read books in the Father-monts.

wa 30 ardently

land. It is the story of the The Premier and the Cabinet the result which gradual collapse of the family of Coal Committee are making a desired.-British Wireless.

Lubeck Senator and into it the strenuous effort to overcome these writer wove much of the history difficulties. It is understood they of his own family,

{discussed with the coal-owners

Appeal Board.

BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

BIG INCREASES IN IMPORTS

AND EXPORTS.

Two years later came "Tondeo-day the question of setting up Kroger." a sort of diary in which National Board for the mining is analysed with great insight the industry as an alternative to a soul of an artist torn between the national agreement. desire for the unusual and the bizarre and a fondness for an ordinary bourgeois existence. The suggested National Board "Konigliche Hoheit" (Royal High-would be comparable with the

London, Nov. 12. ness) 1910 and "Der Tod In National Wages Board already Venedig (The Death in Venice) existing for the railways which is amounted in value to £64,500,000. British exports for October exhibit Thomas Mann at the working very satisfactorily. It height of his powers as a writer. would be in the nature of a year exports amounted to £608,- For the first ten months of the The experiences of the war and tribunal to which appeals could be 000,000, showing an increase ef the period of collapse that follow-made in the event of the ewners £8,725,000, compared with the ed led him to discuss the topics proposing a reduction of wages in

of the day in the "Views of an any dtrict consequent on the re- period of last year.

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LT-PENANG Unpolitical Man (117) bonduction of hours.British Wire Imports for October amounted to

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£110,000,000, showing an increase' London, Nov., 12. of £7,500,000, compared with Octa- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald interber last year.

For the first ten months of the

is a remarkable description of life vened to-day in the meetings of the

i a Sanatorium for Consumptives. Cabinet Sub-Committee with the year, imports were valued at Despite the fact that its theme, is coalewners and the miners on ques- £1.007,000,000, an increase of iliness and death it is not marred tions dividing them over working £18.500.000, compared with the by pessimism.

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ame period last year.-British Thanks to the lead he has given

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The Sub-Committee met the par- in his books Thomas Mann has ties separately, but Rauter's Lobby become one of the representatives correspondent understands that no of the new Germany in the politi-progress was made in either discus- cal arena. With the exception "of the Socialists the average German The owners declined to agree to has shown no great desire for polla joint conference with the miners, tical responsibility. Mann is an and they apparently adhere to their exception. His book the contention that reduced wages must German Repubite" published-in 1028 reveals more de nocratic aith accompany reduced hours. than that which he wrote during the Miners' Executive (which has qualifying competition at Fanling,

The Government meeting with

In the Adamson Cup November the war. In Jan. 1926 he venture submitted the Government pro-A. D. Fraser qualified with a net to give a series of addressen li Paris with the object of bringing posts to the districts for decision, score of 94-24-70 about a rapprochement between obtain improvements therein) has but is meanwhile endeavouring to the French and German, Intell been adjourned until to-morrow. tuale. His visit was well received: The Government takes a serious by the French students and the view of the situation, as it is an- authorities held a reception in his xious to introduce a Bill based on honour.-Reuter and 1.B.S.

Its proposals, which, in an amended fozin, have a reasonable prospect

Further Awards........

The Nobel Prize for Physics for of meeting with acceptance by the 1928 has been awarded to Professor industry-Reuter.

Q. W. Richardson, the Director of

S. G. Edgar E. M. Hanlon A. E. Clarke..

Other scores were:-

J. R. Gelling

9624-72

98-22-76

94-18-76

·94-18-76

CHESS CHAMPION.

TITLE.

Physics Research at King's College, since 1924 Previously he was Wheat ALEKHINE RETAINS WORLD "London, for his discovery of the stone Professor of Physics at the law governing the motion ofuime college and from 1906 to 1914 electrons emanating from hot held a similar position in America bodies.

The Physics Prize for 1923 has Lean awarded to the Duc de Broglie

Wiesbaden, Nov 12.

at Princeton University. He was Alokhine retained the world's awarded the Hughes Medal of

chess championship by beating Itayal Society in 1920, and has been Roguljuhoff by eleven games to president of Section A of of Paris for his discovery of undu. Arzacelation and also president. of the five. Nine games were drawn- Inting plectrona,, bet

The for Chemistry is divided between Professor Arthur Harden (Profosios,

Physical Secialy

His written works Reuter. tho

1929 Nobel Prize Y MILEShery of elec

What who shares PRINCE GEORGE INDISPOSED.

of the Bio-Chemical Department,

the prizs far Chemistry, was born in Mo London University, and Professor is reducation and became the H.R.H. Prince George La confin handlieztor, where he received much

London, Nov. 12. Vonculer of Stockholm-Reuter lecturer and demonstrator in chemis-ed to his room with a chill, and has DBC, P.R.5, has been Director of He has written extensively on organic cancelled his unmediate engage

Professor O. W. Richardson M.A try at Owens College, Manchester. Research in Physica at King's College chemistry.

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