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TARIFF CRISIS IMMINENT IN BRITISH CABINET

Mr. Isaac Foot Breaks Liberal Silence on Ottawa Agreements

CHEQUERS' WEDDING

JOAN MACDONALD MARRIED

OMITS "OBEY" FROM SERVICE

London. Sept. 02.

Mies Joan MacDonald, the first Prime Minister's daughter to be married from Chequers, to-day bo-| came the bride of Dr. Alastair Mac kinnon, at the neighbouring town of Wendover,

The wedding was witnessed by hundreds of distinguished men of letters and politics who filled the little Congregational Chapel to overflowing.

The chapel was beautifled by choice flowers from the gardens of Chequera.

The bride, who was markedly self-composed, omitted the word "obey" from the marriage service.

ES A GLANCE.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter Joan, who is a doctor ke her husband, were both cheered to the echo on their arrival Wendover.

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People paid as much #S pounds for standing room in cottage gardena opposite the chapel.

The destination of the happy couple on their honeymoon hug been kept a close secret.

Both the bride and bridegroom studied as doctors at the sume University.

The Prine Minister

his gave daughter away in the presence of a very large congregation, includ- ing several Cabinet Ministers and other famous men and women. Large crowds cheered the bride. as a piper headed her car to the church. The reception ceremony was held at Chequers.-Reuter und British Wireless,

HANGMAN FOUND DEAD

THROAT CUT AT ROCHDALE

London, Sept. 20. John Ellis, who had been the official hangman for the last twenty-three years, was found dead at his home in Rochdale to-day with his throat cut.

RESIGNATIONS

PROBABLE

BREAK-UP OF NATIONAL

GOVERNMENT

IMPORTANT MEETING

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NEXT WEEK

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

LONDON, SEPT 20. POLITICAL CRISIS IN BRITAIN IS BELIEVED TO BE IMMINENT. THERE IS NO FURTHER DOUBT REGARDING THE HOSTILITY OF THE LIBERAL MEMBERS OF THE CABINET TO THE OTTAWA AGREEMENTS, THOUGH NO OFFICIAL STATEMENT IS LIKELY TO BE MADE UNTIL

AFTER THE CABINET MEETING NEXT WEEK.

It is more than likely that the meeting will be follow. ed by the resignations of some of the Liberal Ministers,

Top picture shows the five-span bridge at Wukingfu which has been destroyed in a flood disaster. The water rose to three feet above the bridge level. It was finished only six months ago, being built following the collapse of the bridge in the lower photograph, which gave way immediately the structural supports were re- moved.

SUNK BY SILVER DOLLARS

led by Sir Herbert Samuel, the Home Secretary, and River Tragedy Near

speculation is rife regarding the next step of Mr. Ram- say MacDonald should this possibility eventuate.

Swatow

LAUNCH MISHAP

The silence of the Liberal leaders of the National Government on their attitude to the Ottawa Agree- ments, particularly to the food tax proposals, was broken to-day by Mr. Isaac Foot, the Minister of Mines and Liberal M.P. for the Bodmin Division of Cornwall, He made it quite clear that a decision has already been reached regarding the steps to be taken, but refrained some loss of life has just oc- from anticipating Sh Herbert Samuel's statement.

Mr. Isaac Foot contends that in accepting the Ottawa Agreements in their present form, the delegates departed from their character as representatives of a National Government, and points to the election mani- festo issued by the Prime Minister in which he said "The Government is to be comprehensively national and not sectional in the obligations which it is to keep before it."

CONSUMERS' LEAGUE IN OPPOSITION

Speaking in North Cardigan to which has held numerous impor day, before a lurgo audience, Mr.tant meetings on this issue. Isane Foot said that the Ottawa) proposals represent a partisan, i not a national policy.

"Not only is that true," he said, but they are definitely contrary to the permanent interests of the nution.

FREE TRADERS.

"We desire the Government's policy to be truly National,"

(Our Own Correspondent).

Swatów, Sept. 19. A river mishap attended with

curred in this district.

A party of Chaochowfu business

men had gone up-rivor to collect debts due to them at the Mid- Autumn Festival, and after the trip they hired a small launch to take them from Taungkow to Chaochowfu. It appears that the launch, with about seventy. men and

A heavy cargo dollars, was loaded beyond its capacity, and before it had gone

PAWLEY-CORKRAN OUTRAGE

BRIDGE COLLAPSES

RIVER-BOAT STRIKE

OTHER STEAMERS LAID OFF

SEAMEN PRESENT THREE DEMANDS

Following the strike of the Chinese crews of the steamors Sal On and Charles Hardouin, which are laid up in the Canton River, the Tung On 8.8. Company, owners of the vessels, have decided to suspend the services of their two other Canton-Hougkong steamers, the Tung On and Paul Beau; which are now in Hongkong.

The management of the Tung' On Company told a representative- of the Telegraph this morning that an important official of the Com- pany left for Canton yesterday. afternoon by train to negotiate with the strikers'and no effort will- ha apared to terminate the dispute.-- The suspension of the Tung On and Paul Beau is a precaution to prevent the crews from joining the strikers in Canton.

BACKGROUND OF DISPUTE.

Trouble with the Canton Seu- men's Guild and certain grievances By the seamen over the company's recent dismissals form the back-

'Daily Mail' Offers £10,000 FLOOD DISASTER ground of the strike.

Towards Cost of Release

London, Sept. 21.

The Daily Mail, in "hopes of stimulating the authorities to prompt and decisive steps" to save Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Charles Corkran, announces that it is willing to offer £10,000 towards the cost of bringing them to safety.

The sum, the journal de- clares, may either be paid as ransom or used to meet the cost of a rescue party, or ap plied in any other way which may be thought fit to secure

their release.-Reuter.

AT WUKINGFU

The Tung On Company also owns the 8.8. Hang Cheong and Sing .Cheong. Canton-Macao steamers, which have so far not

RIVER ROARS DOWN affected.

LIKE TIDAL BORE

(Our Own Correspondent).

The Tung On Company staten that the situation will not bo clarified until the return from Canton of their representatives, but there is reason to believe that Canton Government officials and Swatow, Sept. 19. the British Consulate at Shameon Immediately. make An Calamity has struck the Wu will kingfu and Hopo Districts, which endeavour to settle the strike. have been devastated by serious

REPORT DENIED. floods.

Questioned by our representa- The most serious disaster tive regarding the report that the occurred at Wukingsu where the Company is demanding that all its magnificent new bridge con-Chinese crews shall pay a certain structed over the river there was deposit as a guarantee against destroyed. It was opened only six emuggling the Tung On oficials months ago after the collapse of enid that the question of -deposits another bridge which had been was raised some ago, but it

Hy.

It is understood that the strike Every effort had been made to does not affect the compradore make the new bridge structurally department. Bound and free from flood perils.

more then a few miles it suddenly METHODIST constructed some months previous- hnd never been time a

sank.

One account ways the laun@li overbalanced and could not right itself; another that through being Bo heavily laden it struck u submerged rock.

ALARMING SUDDENNESS. Hostility to the Ottawa Agrée- ments is also revealing itself in craft Bank with alarming sudden- Whatever the precise cause, the

other quarters. The provisions in ness, leaving its occupants a the drafts were condemned to-day struggling, frenzied mass in the

swift-running river. in resolutions passed by the Ellia was fifty-eight years of therefore bound to oppose the

"We Liberals," he declared, "are Executive Committee of the Con age and had been in ill-henith for proposed steps for giving effect to sumers' League, calling upon con- some little time.

the Ottawa agreements. We sumurs throughout the country to He officiated at two hundred entered the National Government and three axecutions, including, as Liberals and as Free Traders, oppose ratification of the agree those of Dr. Crippen and Sir We remain Liberals and Freements-Reuter. Roger Casement.-Reuter.

Tradors."

Mr. Fool went on to attack the method by which the agreements were And the {manner in which certain. guarantees were given.

EMPRESS CARRIES reached

AIR MAIL

EXCELLENT TIMES

FROM ENGLAND

"I the Ottawa become proposals Inw," he declared, "they will doprive Parliament of

The Canadian Pacific. Steam- ships, Ltd.,la now in receipt of Budgetary indepen-

advices that the Empress of Bri-

(dence."

"Sir

Herbert

Samuel.

tain which arrived in Quebec on Samuel will state, August 6th carried mail which was | delivered by means of the air at the right time, the decision of mail service for the following the Parliamentary Liberal Party; destinations in much faster times than. have been previously made:

London to Montreal,-3 days 22 hours; London to Ottawa-4 days!

5 hours; London to Toronto-

-4 days 8 houra; London to Winni-

THE DISARMAMENT .CONFERENCE

pog-6 days 18 hours; London to CHIEF BRITISH DELEGATES Calgary-6 days 17 hours; London

LEAVE LONDON-

London, Supt. 20.

THIEF SMARTLY CAUGHT

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WITH $200 HAUL OF JEWELS

An audacious theft occurred át about nine o'clock last night at the Kwong Sang Arm, dealers in curios

ACT OF UNION

DUKE OF YORK AT CEREMONY

THREE CHURCHES UNITE

EIGHTEEN FEET rise.

GUILD'S DEMANDS.

A clearance of fifteen feet above; the ordinary water level was pro- The Canton Seamen's Guild, R vided, bat even that was in-is understood from Canton mes- sufficient, the floods reaching an gages, hus presented the following unprecedented height.

demands to the Tung On Com- pany (1) Dismissal of the exist ing Chinese Inspectors on board: The waters of this extraordinary the two vessels, (2) increase of flood rose three feet higher than wages and (3) reinstatement of the bridge. It successfully with- the dismissed members of the crew stood the force and rush of thejor alternatively, that the Guild was following hard on the launch, By good fortune, another bont

water itself, but its doom came secure new workers to take their London, Sept. 20. and within a few minutes was

The legal Act of Union of the came hurtling down the stream]

when great beams and tree trunks(places. risking its own safety in efforts three Methodist churches in and could not pass the barrage of to rescue the unfortunates. Most Britain, took place this after-the bridge's superstructure. were saved, but ten or more were noon in the Albert Hall in the These huge missing, presumed drowned. The presence of a large congrega-gathering numbers hourly, erashed others lost betweon them tion, which included the Duke against the pillars until the bridge thousands of dollars, but they of York, who represented the collapsed. Three of the five spans were fortunate in cacaping with King and who was accompanied were ultimately broken in this their lives.

way and swept away. by the Duchess.

Both in the Hopo and Wulingfu Cuyler Bats in Three Runs The Bishop of London other Bishops, loaders of Non-districts the river, came down in a

in 7th-inning Drama Conformity at home and abroad, huge spate, almost resembling a the Lord Mayor of London, Mr. tidal bore, and nasumed a volume Walter Runciman (President of greater than every bafore in living

CHEMICAL WORKS

FIRE

HOSPITAL

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and

batteringrams, CUBS

HASTY FLIGHTS.

TAKE NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT

New York, Sept. 20. Chicago Cubs to-day won the the Board of Trade) several mem-memory.

National League pennant by de- bers of Parliament, Sir Josiah Stamp and other prominent Riverside villages were flooded feating their only challengers, Methodists were present,

out so quickly that only the few the Pittsburgh Pirates, by, five: | and jewellery, in Ice House Street.

Conferences of the Wesleyan things that could be snatched up runs to two in the first game. A young Chinese entered the

Methodist, the Primitive Method-hurriedly were saved from the of a double-header. They were shop and after some little time At 4.15 pm. yesterday,

freist and the

United Methodist deluge. Numerous houses collapsed, blanked out, allowed only three their in some cases through the ignorance scattered hits, in the second spent in examining the contents broke out in the Faramount Chem!: churches having given

case cal Works, at No. 581, Canton Boparate and joint assent to the of the occupants as to the proper game, but the Pirates had left of a showcase, extracted containing some jado ploces and Road,

deed, Dr. Scott Lidgott, Pre-proceduro. They closed their calmly walked out of the shop. - It is stated that a dispensing aident of the Uniting Conference, doors and so increased the area their effort too late.

Recovering from his surprise, ischemist, was experimenting with declared the Union accomplished. subject to flood water pressure. Cuyler's triple. In the soventh foki gave chase and caught the some disinfecting fluid, and, "There are over one million ad-Instead of opening them and toning clinched the all-important thlot before he had turned the resin and creosot compound we horents in Britain of the Method-letting the waters have free game for the Cubs, causing tre- dorner into Chater Road.

baing heated over a spirits stove lat Church, which comprises passage.

mendous excitement among the

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