Buick
Buick for 1928 has won tremendous' popularity among men and women alike-because it combines, style that women desire with durability thai men demand.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Tel. C. 1240-88 Weng Nei Chung Road, Tal. C. 8800-33 Des Voeux Road Central,
-
NANKING ECHO.
China Mail
No. 25,908
BRITAIN AND THE NATIONALISTS.
"PROPER THING.'
Sir Austen Chamberlain on Proposed Changes.
"CONSULATE-GENERAL UNINHABITABLE THROUGH LOOTING."
Replying to questions on China in the House of Commons Sir Austen Chamberlain said he was not prepared to instruct the Con sul-General of Nanking to take up quarters on board a warship
there.
The proper thing was for the Chinese authorities to restore the Consulate-General which the Nationalist troeps had ren- dered uninhabitable through looting and by occupation. The British Consul, added Sir Austen, now resided at Shanghai but visited Nanking periodically.
Other questions and answers had to do with the proposal to shift the centre of government from Peking to Nanking. It was stated there was sharp divergence of opinion upon this point in Nationalist circles. The proposed changes in Postal Administration were also discussed.
THE POSTAL PROTESTS.
LIBHEI
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
CANTON STEAMSHIP FOUNDERS.
THE S.S. "LEE ON.”
WATER POURS IN THROUGH PROPELLER SHAFT.
www.
NO LIVES LOST.
Information reached Hong Kong
GERMAN & DANISH "INCIDENT"
PRESS SENSATION.
DANISH CAPTAIN ARRESTED FOR ESPIONAGE
TYPIST ALB0'!
London, Yesterday:
GENUINE SIR WILLIAM CROOKES
LENSES
Are the ONLY PROTECTION against the tropic run-they absorb the ultra-violet- and infrared rays so dangerous to the eyes.
Many imitations-the genuine from
LAZARUS
Hong Kong's Only European Optlelan
RAILWAY DISASTER MR. R. J. BIRBECK
IN ENGLAND:
AT DARLINGTON.
́EXCURSION TRAIN COLLIDES WITH GOODS TRAIN,
SIX KILLED; 80 INJURED.
London, Yesterday.
PASSES.
DIES ON HOLIDAY.
POPULAR SPORTSMAN AND
PEDAGOGUE.
25 YEARS IN COLONY.
We regret to announce the death
CENSURE ON NAVAL OFFICERS.
H.M.S. “BACCHUS.”
"EVERY RULE OF NAVIGATION BROKEN" BY SHIP.
JUDGE'S COMMENT.
London, June 18.* "Every rule of navigation seems
A German and Dan incident Six persons have been killed of Mr. R. J. Birbeck, M.A., J.P., at 5 p.m., yesterday of the founder is being featured Press of and 30 injured in a collision be-Headmaster of Wantsal Govern- to have been broken by this ship," ing of the s.s. "Lei On" owned by both countries, namely the ar-
mant School. The sad news was declared Mr. Justice Bateson, in
the Hop On Steamship Company, rest of a Danish-Captain, Lem-tween an excursion train travell- received this morning by cable. of No. 40, Des Voeux-road West. bourg who served with the Frenching from Scarborough to New- The disaster occurred whilst the Army in wartime at the German castle with a goods train outside vessel was on a voyage from Wu-bathing resort Sylt
German official circles are very Darlington station. shek to Canton on Tuesday, and
18 Killed.
the location of the sunken vessel reticent regarding the matter, is given as longitude 113.09 East but, according to Berlin tele- The death roll of the Darlington grams, it is admitted that Lem-collision is now reported to be ten. and latitude 22.19 South.
bourg is suspected of espionage Reuter.
AN APPRECIATION,
By One Who Knew Him Well.
the Admiralty Division, to-day, in passing judgment against H.M. fleet auxillary "Bacchus," in regard to the collision with the steamer "Joannis Fafallos," the owners and. When, a few months ago, Mr. crew of which were awarded dam- Birbeck left Hong Kong on a trip ages. Later.to Australia many of his closest The death roll has risen to friends shook their heads, and eighteen-Reuter,
THE DEMOCRATS.
According to particulars avail- and that it is' alleged that while able in Hong Kong, no lives were in Berlin recently he posed as an lost, but a fairly large cargo of salt Englishman and tried to obtain went down with the ship.
information with regard to the On board the ship at the time German Army from a woman were a crew of 47 and 88 coolies typist with whom he was friend- who were in charge of the cargo of 1. The latter has also been ar-
of the crested and will be tried for high DARKY "JUBILEE SINGERS salt and travelled These all pat off from the doomed ship as soon as it was found that it was impossible to prevent her? from sinking. They were picked up towards evening by two fishing Junke and brought to Hong Kong, arriving here at 4.30 p.m. yester
London, Yesterday. Court, Sir Austen said that the day. China figured largely at ques- Consular Body at Shanghai was tion time in the House of Com-opposing the dismissal of the ex- mona to-day.
CAPTAIN'S STORY.
regarding the proposed transfer cussed by the Nationalist Com- disaster occurred at about 4.30 p.m., of the Chinese capital from Pek- missoner of Foreign Affairs on on June 26, when the propeller ing to Nanking, said that a repre- the one hand, and the United suddenly gave several violent jerks sentative of Dr. C. T. Wang (the States, Japanese, Dutch and which shook the ship from stem to
Consul-Generals new Nationalist Foreign Minister British
on stern. Then water began to pout at Nanking) had recently inform the other. Sir. Austen also into the ship through the propeller ed Sir Miles Lampson (the Bri expressed the opinion that shaft.
| treason.--Reuter.
NEWLANDRU.” IDENTITY BELIEVE TO BE ESTABLISHED.
HIS METHODS.
Pari Yesterday.
RED PLOT?
To Disrupty etish
AND FISTICUFFS.
PLENTY OF NOISE !
Houston, Yesterday.
Oratory
GREEK STRIKE.
BELIEVED TO BE NEARLY ENDED.
some of those most intimately ac quainted with him even whispered) that they never expected to see him back here again. But he himself took a more hopeful view, and talk-
Athens, Yesterday. ed cheerfly of a month's fishing in The General Federation at the Blue Mountains. His liver he Labour has accepted the Govern- said, had weathered many storms, ment's offer to mediate in the to-
AT KOWLOON TONG
CONTAMINATION OF WATER SUPPLY.
A violent downpour has render-In one of the last conversations bacco dispute and has nominated ed the streets impassable, with with him the present writer plc. delegates to the committee which the result that traffic is hopeless- tured visiting him about 1940, a will examine the workers' claims. ly congested. This considerably crusty retired old bachelor brist!-It is believed the end of the strike
irritation at the youth is imminent. Reuter: delayed yesterday evening's ses-ing with It is believed that the man want- sion of the Democratic Conven- and vivacity of his senior. The master of the ship, a 1,000 president (Judge Loo Hsing.
connection with the new tion.
But this was not to be. yuan) as a violation of the assur ton vessel, which was registered in ed in
Eventually Claude Bowers of
Son of the Manse. Sir Austen Chamberlain, ance annexed to the Rendition of Canton and files the Chinese fing, is "Landru" is a sexagenarian named Secretary of State for Foreign the Mixed Court Agreement. Captain Kwok Kau. According to Jerome Prat who disappeared in a New York read "the keynote
Mr. Birbeck was bora on June Affairs, replying to a question! This matter is now being dis-the master the first signs of the motor car on June 13 carrying a speech," outlining the party 25, 1875, so that had he lived a large sack supposed to contain an-policy and aims, and unsparingly couple of weeks longer he would denouncing the alleged corruption have completed fifty-three years.
·RESIDENT SUMMONED. in the Republican Party.
of a clergyman It was greeted with outbursts He was the son
Mr. Chan Sal-man, residing at whose vicarage had been in Mon- of frenzied clapping and cheering,
Mr. Birbeck himself 181 Kowloon Tong, was summoned mouthshire. the delegates sometimes rising and parading the hall with ban-Was also intended for the Church, this morning for "altering the ners, screaming and shouting and for this reason he had taken P.W.D. Water Works inside service: white bands blared appropriate out & Divinity Testimonium at by connecting the service, pipe sup
Trinity College, Cambridge,of, plying filtered water to the Kow- London, Yesterday.
which University he was a Master loon Tong residents-to a pipe -An-alleged-Moscow-plot-to-
of Arta After teaching some time supplying unfiltered water to flush- strangle the transport communi- The speech declared that in England he was appointed 5m ing plants, and using the Altered cations of the British Empire la American democracy was battling be an Assistant Master in Queen's Waters of the F.W.D. Waters Works flushing zevealed in a letter published in for the Nation's honour against College, Hong Kong, In July, 1008.) "inside" service for the "Daily Mail" from Mr. Tom the most brazen and shameless He arrived in the Colony In Sep- purposes." Walsh, Australian labour, leader, carnival of corruption. It plead-tember of the same year;
Defendant was not present, his to Mr. Havelock Wilson, on May.ed the claims of the farmers, who Few appointments could really secretary making an appearance. -19. Walsh is the husband of wore sacrificed for high finance, have been wiser or better than his, and explaining that the nocused
Adela Pankhurst, formerly an ex-
while millions of farms were A wonderfully accurate scholar, he was in Canton, but would in `all ́
hammer knocking down farm a way as to keep a firm hold on A P.W.D. representative. asked lands sounded like the continuous bis class. What was more import His Worship if the wording of the bombardment in a major battle in ant still he very soon took the summons could be altered, to make the West."
measure of everybody in his class. the summons clearer than at pro- He denounced dollar diplomacy, He was a particularly shrewd judge sent. which he considered was endan-of men: this, though a valuable gering. America's marketa. We quality in most occupations, is ab- would be possible to put out a new cannot match a marine with a solutely essential in educational charge against the defendant, but musket against a British or Ger work.
In so doing the latter had to be At Cambridge. man salesman with a smile."
notified of the change, The case He declared that the Republi- At School Birbeck had come from was adjourned for hearing on Fri- cans' foreign policy made us the
"Too Optimistic."
tish Minister at Peking) that all necessary representations The ship's pumps were imme-de there was sharp divergence of had been made by Sir Miles diately set to work, but almost im- opinion in Nationalist circles on Lampson and the British Consul this question. The question will General at Shanghai (Sir Sydneymediately it was found that the pumps could not possibly cope with be discussed at the plenary ses- Barton).
the tremendous inrush of water. sion of the Nationalist Political
Accordingly it was decided to aban- Council in the middle of July.
Sir Austen also reviewed the don the ship which was fast set- situation in Manchuria. He stattling down in the water. ed that developments were being All the ship's life boats were watched very closely.
speedily lowered and in these the Sir Laming Worthington-whole of the crew and the salt
"The Proper Thing.” With regard to the desirability of haring a British Consul-General at Nanking, the seat of the Na-
her connection with labour ex- tremists owing to the gravity of the situation created by the com- munists in Australian Ports.
The letter declares that the In-
Mr. W. Schofield såld · that it!
tiunalist Government, Sir Austen Evans (Secretary of State for coolias put of the ship. In the tremist but who has now severed abandoned. The auctioneer's could impart his knowledge in such probability be back to-morrow, Chamberlain said that he was not War) stated that besides the nor- fast gathering darkness, those on prepared to instruct the Consul-mal establishment, there were board the life boats dared not at General to take up quarters on seven infantry battalions, and an- board a warship there. The pro- cillary troops now in China. He tempt to reach Canton, so they row- per thing was for the Chinese thought, he said, that his ques-ed the boats some distance away authorities to restore the Consul tioner was a little optimistic in from the doomed ship, far enough ate-General which the Nationalist urging that conditions in China to avoid any danger of being pulled troops had rendered uninhabit- had recently improved as being down by the suction of the sinking able through looting and by ocen- the reason why withdrawal of Bri-ship.
The British Consul- tính troops should be accelerated. Here the life boats remained, pation. General now resided in Shanghai —Reuter.
those on board watching with dis- but visited Nanking periodically. No Threat to British, may as the ship sank lower and London, Yesterday. lower into the water. She finally Chinese changes in the Postal tin in Manchuria, Sir Austen rear as the water covered her up, With regard to the proposed Questioned regarding the posi- went down completely with a big Administration, involving curtail Chamberlain said that on June 20, at 7 pm. ment of the powers of the foreign] Marshal Chang Teo-lin's son, Co-Director-General and reduc- General Chang Hsueh-liang,, took
Postal Changes.
Foreign Staff.
RESCUE BY JUNKS.
tornational Seamen's Club was re- cently founded in Sydney and financed by Moscow emissaries. The club is working among the crews of British ships. The Jet- ter quotes what it describes as a Soviet Russla order issued to
Australia declaring that the the "political interests of the Soviet will now be best served if the transport communications of dia- Great Britain could be rupted."-Reuter.
L
“FELIX” THE CAT.
able Rev, J. M. Wilson, M.A., D,D,,! most distrusted and unpopular the regime of the great and vener-day next, July 6.. nation on the globe."
who like the late Dr. Salmon, mix- Warning Against "Wet" Plank.
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, ed theology and mathematics in a
IN EVERY SATURDAY'S Permanent Chairman of the De-Wonderful fashion and produced
"CHINA MAIL.” tion of staff, Sir Austen Chamber-over the post of Chief Military After the sinking of the "Lee
mocratic Convention, who is backbooks on geometry, double-stars lain said that the Diplomatic Commander at Mukden and Mar-On," her life boats still remained
ed by Tammany Hall for the Vice- and the Greek Testament in regular
FULL PAGE COMIC Body at Peking had lodged pro-shal Chang Teo-lin died at mid-In the vicinity, until about 7.15
Presidency, uttered a warning succession. One would thus have tests when the agreement of Feb. night on June 21. Apart from when they saw two passing fishing
against the inclusion of a "wet" expected the pupils' tastes to have 6 between
Ask any group of cinema-goers, the then Peking this, there had been no change in junks and shouted to them for help.
plank in the Democratic platform. mathematical bent. And indeed
this was 50. His mind was nato name the most popular "comle" authorities and the Nanking the political situation in The junks have to, and the life other victim after the neighboure He thrilled his audience with his
on the authorities as regards the Postal Manchuria He was not aware of boats went alongside and all the had been aroused by the death cries reference to the Teapot Dome turally of an orderly mathematical feature Alm appearing administration, was made. The any threat to British commercial refugees were taken on board the of a woman who was found strang! scandal, declaring that Democrats turn, with an insight into the value screen these days and many of protests were lodged because the Interests in that province but de-two junks. For fear of attacks by ed in a villa
Prat's methods are like those of were entitled to make the issue and use of symbols which could be them, without hesitation, will re-
one of honest Government. algebra or trigonometry.
soon when he tacked a problem in ply: "Felix!! agreement constituted a breach velopments were being closely pirates, the junks did not attempt of the Chinese assurance. given at watched.
The antica of this comical to make for Canton, but immediate Landru, as he enticed women to his Robinson is nominally opposed But, when he went up to Cam- black cat with his Charlie Washington in 1922 in regard to
villa by means of matrimonial adto "A" Smith on the question of bridge the great Arthur Woolger Chaplin walk and expressive char Tientsin and Chefoo. ly sailed in the direction of Hong vertisements. He drugged them or the status of the foreign Co-
Orders have been issued by the Kong instead, arriving here, as al-made them drunk and then murder prohibition, but, as he la the Brat Verrall, certainly the most daring acteristics, have made millions Director-General.
Nanking Salt Administration to ready stated, yesterday afternoon. District Inspectors at. Tientsin
Prior to leaving the doomed. Led them for the sake of their valu Southerner to be nominated for and perhaps the greatest classical laugh. Starting from Saturday- a high office on a national ticket scholar of his day was Birbeck's next the exploita of "Felix" are Sir. Austen also said that he and Chefoo directing that, as Ou" her fres were drawn by her
ables-Reuter, M
since the Civil War, his inclusion Tutor. Some of Verrall's letters to going to make readers of the was not aware if any proposals from June 3, all payments issu- crew, thus avoiding any possibility POLAND'S POLITICS. ed, is expected to prevent a scri- tend Verrail's lectures, and the Every Saturday, in the regular
with Smith, it accomplisit-kuoro amusing. He had to aton Mall laugh too, had been made to reduce the for- able by those officers be tem of an explosion accompanying the eign staff in the Postal Adminis porarily deposited with various cinking of the vessel. The cargo
ous defection led by the southern great Euripideen instilled into his Pictorial Section, will appear a tration. The Diplomatic Body ia Chinese banks to be taken over by which was lost with the ship was
"drys."
pupil a wholesome respect for the full page of "Felix" cartoons, to closely watching the situation res an officer appointed by Nanking.
A Lively "Scrap" worth of the Classics both as a gether with an Interesting story sulting from recent developments In regard to this development, stated to be 1,100 tins of salt. and the proposal to abolish the Sir Austen Chamberlain said that
53 ON BOARDY
Speakers who dealt with the re great Literature and as a mental about the other pat Sullivan creation, Laura," featuring the Director Generalship in Peking these orders entirely ignored the
Later. M. Pilsudski (the Premier) for Vival of the Democratic spirit discipline,"
Kit Sporting Activities.
clever parrot, which is always, and to transfer the Administra authority of the foreign Asso
Besides Captain Kwok Kau, the reasons of health has resigned and throughout the land were alded tion to Nanking
ciate Chief Inspector and were ines On" carried two other Chi- M. Bartel, the ex-vice-Premier has by a chorus, 100 darky "jubilee" In his College days and In his causing trouble. Salt Irregularllies complete disregard of the proce
early years in the Colony he was The Pictorial Section, as usual, Sir Austen stated that Sir dure laid down in the Reorganisa- nese officers, these were Chief Off formed a Cabinet with M. Pilsudski singers
keenly Interested in sport He will contain pictures of local ins Miles Lampson had warned the tion Loan Agreement for the fulcer Wong Kow and Chief Engineer as Minister of War. The latter is The heat was intense. Nationalist Foreign Minister at Bilment of obligations secured on Che Chew. According to an eath-taking a two months' cure abroad. Fisticuffs occurred among the was a keen and very gead croquet terest, including many exclusive Nanking of the irregularity of Salt revenues
North Carolina delegation. As player and tennis-player. He had ones, illustrated fashions, and Governor Smith's supporters few equals in his skill in placing our Home-side Picture Service were making religious a ball on the tennis court, and in containing prints specially and exclusively supplied to the "China Liberty demonstration, they en- the days when he used to play a Mall by the famous Loridon dis deavoured to snatch a banner and good deal with Beasley and The tributors, the Sport and General make others join in
White was one of the pick of the
News Agency Police intervened and broke up Colony the tussle freely using their Later he gave up tennis and took sen truncheons, while the whole hall to golf, and for the last couple of
the Nanking Salt Administrano Interference.
mate by the Chief Officer, the num- ber of people on board the ship at
Reuter
NEW, CABINET BU FORMED,
Warsaw, Yesterday. ›
tion' order regard the Salt Interested foreign representa. the time of the disaster, was placed INDIAN TRAGEDY. Gabelle reventDiscussions be- tives in Peking are closely watch at 68 all told.
tween the Asse Mate Chief Inspec- ing the situation regarding the
tor and the king authorities Chinese Postal Administration In
were procealing view of curtailment of powers of
He had seen, said Sir Austen, the Foreign Co-Director-General Court had been instructed by the the declaration of June 17 of the (H. Picard-Destelan).
Kiangsu Provincial Govern
Nationalis rnment of Nan-The Washington assurance of to hand over the duties king in rega to international 1922 was that the Chinese Gov- office to a new app obligations. He, Sir Austen, waarniment contemplated on change dismissal of the In no wise satisfied with the in the Postal Administration in being opposed by: Nanking Government's attitude: so far as the status of the foreign as violati
in this matter Motel Co-Director-General was concern judges of
The Old Mixed Court, d
With regard to the "appoint. The Senior: Consul ment of a youthful new president was on June 16′′ noti
the Shanghai Provisional Preside
sch will enjoy hanghai Ittes For
that the Chi
DEATH SENTENCE: :QUASHED.:
day.
years took very little
any kind