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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1928.
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.
AT GENEVA,
ARRANGING FOR "UNIVERSAL RELIGIOUS PEACE?"
PRELIMINARY MEETING,
Geneva, Yesterday,
A preliminary conference has! been opened here for the purpose
POLICEMAN DEAD.
THE LEAGUE AND DISARMAMENT.
MORE DISCUSSION.
LORD CUSHENDUN ON ANGLO- FRENCH COMPROMISE.
JAPAN'S VIEWS.
Geneva, Yesterday.
Lord Cushendun told the commit-
PRINCE SUED BY WOMAN.
IMMORAL DESIGN.
CLAIM OF 84,000 RUPEES FOR DAMAGES FILED.
CONFINED IN INDORE.
Bombay, Sept. 5.
The former Maharajah of Indore, of arranging for a universal Re-tee of Disarmament that though no who lost his throne because of an affair with an Indian dancing girl, 124 actual replies had come from the figured in a case over another In- ligious Peace Conference. delegates are present, represent Governments, intimation had been dian woman to-day. ing nearly all living religions. The received that the Anglo-French The woman,.Sowkabai Rajpjrkar, Maharaja of Burdwan is promin-
¡Naval Compromise may be extreme-is suing him for 84,000 rupees ent among the delegates from the
Įdamages, alleging that she and her ly distasteful to other parties con-daughter were decoyed from Bom- East Reuter.
cerned.. He opposed M. Paul bay by his agents with Immoral de- Boncour's (France) request for the sign. She alleges further that she fixing of an carly date for the and the daughter were confined in next meeting of the Prepara-Indore for ten years, during which tory Disarmament Commission. her house in Bombay was possessed The Anglo-French Compromise by the mabarajah's agents and her was a great step forward, but he jewellery and furniture were mis would be too bold if he said that appropriated. The case has been all dificulties were ended and the appealed to the higher court, London, Aug. 1.
[committee, if it met early, would į The former maharajah broke into illness, by be able to go straight forward to print a few months ago by marrying which large numbers of the Lo-find an agreed convention. He Nancy Ann Miller, an American girl don police have been affected dur
OFFICIAL SECRECY CON- CERNING AFFLICTION.
NEARLY 100 ILL.
The mysterious
a
ing the past few weeks, resulted strongly deprecated the fixing of of Seattle. The couple is now in yesterday in the death of a con- definite date at present when Europe. Associated Press. stable, and, with the spread of the they were without the necessary
Information to enable them to POPULAR C.M.C. MAN. trouble to the Rochester-row, Westminster, station, in the ill-judge when was the most oppor ness of nearly 100 men, states tune moment. the "Morning Post."
Germany's Views.
No further, cases of illness, it Count Bernstorff (Germany) urg- was stated last night, had oed that it was imperative that in- curred among members of the 'structions should be given to the! Force. Six of the sick constables Preparatory Commission to con- left yesterday for the Police Continue their labours with a view to valescent Home, at Hove, Sussex, the early convening of a Disarma- and others, it is expected, will be ment: Conference. able to resume duty within the| Partial Reduction Urged.
next few days.
MR. C. G. F. HOLLAND SUCCUMBS AT PEKING.
USEFUL CAREER ENDED.
Peking lost a popular resident and the Chinese Maritime Cus- toms service a valued servant when Mr. Guy Cuthbert Fanning Holland died suddenly on August 19, at the German Hospital. fol- M. Boncour considered that even lowing an emergency operation First signs of the epidemic on the basis of the partial secur- for an internal complaint from occurred among the police at Bow-street on July 19, and theity at present existing a partial which he had been suffering off numerous accounts of its spread reduction of armaments could be and on for a number of years. and seriousness have been con-made.
Was Tariff Expert. Born at Cork, Ireland, in 1878,
sistently denied by the police Gradual and Progressive. authorities. "There is nothing to Mr. Sato (Japan) said that Mr. Holland was in his 50th year. worry about" was the official re- Japan sincerely desired an equit-He joined the Chinese Customs ply to inquirers on two occasions, able reduction of armaments but service in 1899 and throughout his career had almost always been both at Scotland Yard and at the this was only obtainable by police-stations concerned.
gradual and progressive steps. If employed on special tariff work, He was one of the outstanding The reports of an outbreak at countries could arrive in a short men of the Customs administra Rochester-row are grossly exag-time at an agreement on the limitation. Spending the years between gerated," the Press Bureau at tion of armaments to a minimum 1900 and 1907 in Shanghai, Mr. Scotland Yard declared on Mon- compatible with national security Holland later was given the res- day yet on Tuesday it became de- there would be no need for pessimism ponsible task of building up the finitely established that one man once the step were taken. They Customs organization at Harbin had died and that no fewer than could proceed and perhaps in a and in 1909, as Commissioner, he 14 police were ill at Rochester-few years they could have a second opened up the port of Hunchun.
conference in order to complete In 1910 he was detached as as Police Surgeons' Evidence. and enlarge the first results, Mr. aociate delegate to assist the The Home Office, it was official Sato agreed with the suggestion representative of the Chinese ly stated yesterday, is inquiring of the Norwegian delegate that it Government at. the commercial into the circumstances of the would be useful to appoint a statistical conference held in epidemic and correlating the evid- Standing Committee to study the Brussels. Shanghai saw him ence obtained by the various armaments of all countries thus again from 1910 to 1913 and he police surgeons on the cause of paving the way to progressive dis-returned to Harbin for four years the disease.
armament.. He declared that in 1916. For the past five or six There seems to be little doubt Japan would do all in her power years he had held the important that imported ham, possibly to assist in the progress of dis-post of staff secretary of the ad- affected by the recent heat wave, armament.--Reuter. was the cause of the first out- break.
row.
The Compromise.
A British Wireless message, dat
London yesterday, says: Speaking before the Disarma
The man who died yesterday ed was P. C. Thomas Halloran, of the "A" Division. He has been for many years on duty at the Housement Committee of the League of
Mr.
ministration in Peking.
Awarded Decorations.. Decorations given to Holland for distinguished service include the third class order of Chia Ho, which the Chinese gov ernment conferred upon him by
of Commons where, as guardian Nations this afternoon, Lord Cusher presidential mandate in 1913, and of the staircase to the Ladies' dun, the British representative, the third class order of the Rising Gallery he was a well-known referred to the Anglo-French Naval, Sun, which the Japanese Govern- figure.
Compromise. He declared that he ment conferred upon him last
It appears that P. C. Halloran could not really understand why it year, chiefly in recognition of his ate some ham sandwiches which had created such a stir in the valuable work at the Customs he obtained from the Rochester-world as it was a decided step for conference held at Peking in row canteen, and was taken ill ward. "We have been accused," 1926. Mr. Holland returned from almost immediately afterwards. continued Lord Cushendun, "of hav-leave in April of this year. Extremely Popular.
The lift attendant on duty for the ing signed a secret treaty and of Extraordinarily popular with
Ladies Gallery shared the sand-having sinister motives. How can wiches with him and he too was that be? All that was done was all ranks of the Customs adminis- taken. ill.
to help the Preparatory Committee, tration. Chinese as well as for- The disease has spread to We are now ready to submit to our eign, Mr. Holland, as one of his Rochester row, where. 14 men colleagues a draft which may help oldest friends in Peking observed, are off duty suffering from sick-them in their work: ness and severe pains. All the
men are known to have eaten ham
in one form
or another during
the past day or two.
Centres of Illness,
row.
unquestionably was "a prince of & fellow." Formerly a keen tennis player, he had in latej years devoted most of his leisure
ing favourably and, in view of to billiards-a game at which he the withdrawal of certain food-rarely met his match. He was stuffs from all police canteens, it selected to play against the At Bow-street 46 men reported is not anticipated that further famous John Roberts at the Cus- toms Club in Shanghat many sick. The other stations affected cases will occur..
years ago and quite recently de- were Harrow-road with 25 cases: Symptoms have varied in indi feated George Gray, the Austra Hyde Park, with three; Notting vidual cases, but in nearly every lian former world champion, in a Hill, with six, and now Rochester case gastric trouble has been match at the Peking Club. One
present, and severe pain.
of Mr. Holland's most likeable An inquest will be held on P: CFamilles Poisoned.
characteristics was that, despite Halloran at the St. George's Hall, It was stated yesterday at an his prowess with the cue, he was Camberwell, on Friday. This is inquest which was opened and always ready to take on a begin- In spite of the fact that he had adjourned at Leeds, that several ner, and leave him the richer for been under medical care since familles had been affected by eat some useful advice on how to im- last Wednesday. The decision to ing potted meat and that prove his game.E hold an Inquest has been taken some re seriously ill. Mr. Holland leaves a wife and in the hope of finding the cause The Inquest was held on Peter two children, a girl of 18 and a of the illness. A post-mortem ex- Cunliffe, aged 60, a colliery elect- boy aged 17. The latter la still amination was conducted at the rical engineer, of Vinery-terrace, at school in England. His father, | Camberwell mortuary, in the pre- York-road, Leeds, who was taken who was chiefy, responsible for sence of Home Office and Scotland fil on July 26 and died on July 20, establishing St. Moritz, in Swit Yard officials.
A bacteriological examination zerland, as a health resort is still The other sufferers from the la being made, and the inquest alive at the age of 81.- malady are stated to be progress-will be resumed to-morrow, Exchange.
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