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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1928:
MOVE TO REDUCE SOLDIERY.
CHIANG'S BILL.
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NATIONALIST LEADER WANTS COMMISSION.
DOMESTIC RONDS,
Shanghai, June 26.
Prior to his departure for
MARINE INHERITS A MILLION.
QUITS SHANGHAI.
CORPORAL NELSON TO TAKE CHARGE OF INHERTANCE.
OTHERS TO STAY.
Shanghal, Juno 27. Corporal Lloyd E. Nelson, of the
Peking to-day in order to attend United States marines, who recent
AN INFLUENTIAL
DEPUTATION.
LEAGUE'S-UNIONS.
MEMBERS CALL AT DOWNING STREET.
MANY PROBLEMS.
London, Saturday.
Replying to 4 deputation of the
a high military conference with ly inherited $1,000,000 from the League of Nations' Union, Sir General Feng Yu-hsiang, General estate of his fater, N. B. Nelson, Austen Chamberlain declared that Yen Hsi-shan, and other North-will leave for Seattle aboard the while the problem connected with ern political and military leaders, "Presidert Jackson," Friday, to the Kellogg Treaty was not quite General Chiang Kai-shek intro-take charge of the Inheritance. duced a bill into the Central Goy-
so simple as it appeared, he was ernment Council, providing for
confident the Treaty would be suc
3,900 in China.
Washington, Jane 25.
the immediate appointment of a The 3,900 American marines in cessfully concluded. commissioner having in charge China with the Asiatic fleet are to the matter of the disbandment of remain indefinitely for the protac gent did not think any useful pur- He said the Government at pre- the troops.
tlon of American nationals and
TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
ceeding was to get the principal arma-producing countries to name a date to ratify simultaneously.— Reuter.
Chiang's measure recommends property. This was announced to pose would be served by signing the the appointment of a military day by Secretary Wilbur following optional clause with the reserva- rehabilitation commission which reports that some of the American tions they would have to attach shall be empowered to crente pro- troops in China were to be with- thereto. A practical way of pro- ductive enterprises for the em- drawn Associated Press. ployment of the surplus soldiery, including road building, river con- servancy, land reclamation, min- ing enterprises, his scheme pro- viding for the strict limitation of the number of troops stationed in the various provinces under the direct jurisdiction of the Cen- tran Government plus an addi- tional number of troops needed for policing the railways and bandit suppression.
Chiang recommends a domes- tic bond issue for financing the enterprise.
**
CONTEMPTIBLE.”
DISTORTED PICTURE OF ASSAM TEA GARDENS.
LTA'S STRONG PROTEST.
EMPLOYMENT OF NON- UNIONISTS.
AFFRAY IN U.S.A.”~
London, June 30. The Biritish Official Wireless Service states:-
The Prime Minister and Sir Austen Chamberlain received members of the League of Na
Minden (Missouri), Saturday, Five men were shot and seriously ions' Unions, headed by Pro- injured and several others injured Viscount Cecil, and discussed [fessor Gilbert Murray and in an affray between non-union workers in the Western Tunnel and attitude to arbitration and other with them the Government's the mining company's mine and trade unionists who are protesting
questions. against the imployment of non-
Referring to Mr. Kellogg's pro- unionists below the union rate of posals, the Foreign Secretary in wages.-Reuter's American Ser-
timated that though the problem was not quite as simple as it might seem the deputation need be in no doubt as to his desira to bring the American treaty to a successful conclusion. There were, he said, great many dis putes which could not be set- tled by arbitration, but which {might be settled by conciliation,
vice.
RELIEF TRAIN.
FOR PHILIPPINE DESTITUTES.
Manila, Sktarday.
London, June 13. The Indian Tea Association in London has addressed to the Trades Union Council a letter replying to the section of the Purcell-Halls- Red Cross train with 30 since such disputes could not be worth report dealing with the ten nurses and supplies is leaving for determined by any rule or con- industry.
Mayon. The volcano lava flow is aideration of law. The reply points out that the now reaching half-way down the Replying to questions on the delegates had no knowledge of the mountain. Army planes are re-optional clause Sir A. Chamber- vernaculars and did not visit any connoitering. It is believed that lain reminded the deputation European-owned or managed estate all inhabitants have left the dan- that as he had stated in the House in Assam, yet they declare that the ger area.-Reuter.
of Commons, he was
not pre- tea gardens "are virtually slave.
tending to speak for all time but plantations."
in the present conditions the Government did not think any
The Association affirms that the main allegations in the report are not only wholly untrue, quently are deliberately ing.
The reply continues:- "The labourer's
severely restricted.
but fre- mislead-
A BREAKAWAY.
AUSTRALIAN LABOUR
PROBLEMS.
Canberra, Saturday.
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signing the optional clause with the reservations they would have to attach to it.
In regard to the ratification
The Australian Workers Union, of the League Arms' Traffic Con- freedom is not the largest Australian labour or-vention of 1925 he thought a "The fact is that '550,000 acres itself from the Australian labour to get the principal arms. pro- ganisation, has decided to dissoclate practical way of proceeding was have been acquired by ex-Inbourers, council on the ground of the lat-ducing countries to name, date who are now living comfortably on ter's connection with the Pan-Paci- and ratify simultanedusty. their own land and forming a large fic labour moyement-Reuter. part of the population of the Province.
Whipping Story.
ANTI-WAR TREATY.
The delegates quote figures from Government reporta incorrectly, stating, for example, that the aver MAY BE DISCUSSED IN U.S. age wages include, Instead of ex- clude, allowances, overtime, rations and bonus.
""The
insinuation by the
SENATE IN DECEMBER,
Superior, Wisconsin, Saturday.
The Prime Minister emphasis- ed the necessity of maintaining domestic and the League of Nations above all,
party political
issues.
CHAPLIN COMEDY.
President Coolidge, in an in- FEAR OF OFFENDING GER-
MAN SUSCEPTIBILITIES.
Labour delegates that whipping terview, hoped that the Anti-War]
is prevalent in the tea gardens is Treaties would be ready for con- a contemptible: libel on a fine aideration by the Senate in body of men, many of whom were
December. Reuter's American)] recruited from trade unionist Service.
ranks in England.
'no
"A planter would more GERMAN JOURNAL. attempt to use a whip than would
a works manager here, and if "TAEGLICHE RUNDSCHAU" anyone were unwise enough to
CEASES PUBLICATION. try, his fate would be the same In Assam as here-boycett by hle fellows and dismissal by his employera."
"The
Berlin, Saturday. "Taegliche Rundschau,"
"SHOULDER ARMS."
Bombay, June 15, Fearing that it might offend German susceptibilities, it is re- ported that the Bengal Board of Film Censors has banned Charlie Chaplin's popular comedy, "Shoulder Arms," which has been shown throughout the world for the past eight years.
which is generally regarded as the been shown at the Calcutta Theatre, "Shoulder Arms" was to have The Association concludes by mouthpiece of: Dr. Stresemann, and the news that it has been deem- asking the Trade Union Congress (Secretary for Foreign Affaira)ed to be unfit for exhibition will what steps they propose to take to has ceased publication.-Reuter.
correct the errors in the report.
A special Mass, attended by more than 300 women and girls ofi
The
CARDINAL DIES.
doubtless afford much amusement.
The present copy is a re-issue edited according to the post-War conditions, and has already been Ire-certifed by the Bombay Board of of Film Censors.
all ages, many of them in deep
Rome, Saturday. mourning, was said in Paris in Cardinal Giovanni Tacct-Reuter.
death is announced memory of the late cinema star,
It is understood that Baron von Rudolph Valentino, who died in
Plessen, the German, Consul, saye Simla, June 30-An epidemic of that he has not yet received any New York in August 1926. The service was held in the beautiful cholera is raging in the fertile and representations from German real- Lady Chapel behind the high altar populous Kulu Valley. There have dents regarding this fira, of the Church of St. Gervais, near been 1,860 cases, and 847 deaths. Notre Dame.
Peg The Punjab Government has taken
vigorous measures to check the "Kang Heng-yi," representative Last year 85,425 horses were disease and prevent its spreading te of, the Pope of Rome, called on slaughtered for food in Vienna, as Simla. Courts, schools and other General Yen Hsi-shan at Peking against 23,724 In 1918, an increase institutions in the Kulu Valley have last week to convey to the latter of some 50 per cent. Before the bean closed for a fortnight His Holiness congratulations on war horseflesh was eaten only by Reuter.
the success of the Nationalist forces. Due to his kainos, General
the very poorest classes, now it wh
finds its way to the tables of many London, June 80 The King of Yen is understood to have requested middle-class families, who are un-Spain, who ise General In the his personal adviser, Mr. Won Shao- able to buy the dearer beef and British Army, has been promoted to chuan, to receive the Ecclesiastical pork.
Field-Marshal,Reuters
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