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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1929.
MINISTER'S VIEW
SITUATION. IN CHINA ÍS "REBELLIOUS"
SIR AUSTEN'S STATEMENT
\
London, Yesterday.
Asked to state the present posi- tion in China, Sir Austen Chamberlain (Foreign Secretary)
In the House of Commons, reply-aaid that Sir Miles Lampson (Brl-
GEN. NOBILE TAKES ACTION
SEQUEL TO INQUIRY
RESIGNS MILITARY RANK & AIR MINISTRY POST
WILL VINDICATE HIMSELF
Rome, Yeaterday. It is officially announced that
ing to Mr. Ramsden, with resh Minister at Peking) reports General Nobile, the leader of last ference to the recommendations of that the situation is at present re- year's ill-fated Polar expedition, has the Lavat Committee on Agricul-bellious.
the non-selfgoverning Colonies,
Tsung-chang has been re-inforced
resigned his rank of general and
Leter.
tural organisation and services to In Shantung province, Chang his post in the Air Ministry. Mr. L. S. M. Amery, Dominions by the revolt to him of several Nobile states that he has resign- Secretary, said that Mr. Frank thousands of ex-Northern troops led in order to be a free citizen, and } who had been incorporated in the thus be able to vindicate himself forces of the National Government sa he has not accepted the conclu but no serious fighting has taken, sions of the Commission of Inquiry.
-Reuter.
Stockdale had been appointed Assistant Agricultural Adviser and had assumed duty on March 1. The
place.
past of Chief Agricultural Adviser was lemporarily left unfilled. Mr.
Fighting took place at Changsha | Amery said that he was taking in the last week of February when steps to constitute the proposed Advisory Council and that twenty-a General belonging to the Kwang- one out the twenty-six Depend-af group was forcibly displaced by encies had agreed to contribute one of his colleagues. As the oust- towards the cost of the Council.ed General was a nominee of Nan- The other five had not yet been king, the incident gave rise to
rumours of an impending recrude finally decided.-Reuter.
[Mr. Frank Stockdale, C.BE., had been Director of Agriculture and Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Ceyion, since 1916, and a member of the Ceylon Legislative Council since 1921.)
MADRID RIOTS
“SERENADE” OF A THOUSAND STUDENTS
WINDOW-SMASHING
acence of civil war.
Effect of Congress
A
THREE EVILS
+
OPIUM, GAMBLING, AND LIKIN
CANTON V. MACAO
correspondent writes from Canton on March 12:-
According to the latest report It is a pity that while there is from the British Consul-General at an agitation for the retrocession of Shanghai, the situation appears to Macao, the publication of the state- be easier and General Li Tsung- ment of Provincial accounts for the jen (one of the heads of the month of February by Mr. Fung Kwangsl group), who is at prosent Chok-man, National Revenue Con- in 'hospital in that town, has pub-trolling Officer, and concurrently lished. a statement declaring his al- Commissioner of Finance, brings legiance to the National Govern-out the fact that the Provincial ment and stating that the Chang- Government is in receipt of a large sha affair is of local significance sum of money out of gambling and oplum. For example, during the only.
The position may become clear- month of February the income from Paris, Yesterday.
er after the meeting of the Party oplum' is put at $564,822.00 and Newspapers here are receiving Congress of the Kuomintang, which from gambling $888,670.08. These details by telephone of the Madrid is due to open at Nanking on amounts are far and away above the disturbances. It appears that two March 15.-British Wireless Sermoney earned by the Macas Gov- thousand students serenaded the vice.
ernment from the same evils. It is Ministry of Instruction with
truly remarkable that the authorl- ties have done very little all this satirical lyrics against the Minis-
time to get rid of these two un- savoury forms of revenues. --
[Other cables on the subject will
ter, and then proceeded to news-be found on page 11 under "The paper offices and smashed the win-China Crisis".] dows.
The police charged the crowd
with drawn swords, and fired their
revolvers, the students replying with valleys of stones,
GENERAL SHOT
Mexico City, Yesterday.
Riots recurred in the evening, The rebel General Simon Aguirre and panic-stricken crowds took re- has been court-martialled and shot. fuge in cafes and shops, the win--Reuter's American Service. daws of which were afterwards amashed to smithereens.
who was
The student who was shot is a nephew of the ex-Minister, Count Bugallal, also of Colonel Marcossi, sentenced to death and then pardoned in connection with the conspiracy of 1926.
"Four hundred students have also gone on strike in Barcelons
Genesis of the Trouble
Another unpleasant feature in the statement of accounts for February is the revenue from Likin. All Likin taxation was to have been abolished in China from February 1 and yet we find that during this month the Provincial Government received $798,455.22 under this head.
Another thing which the public The Postmaster-General hopes has always compained about is the In addition to that the laying of the submarine 60-called stamp tax. telephone cable between the Isle statements of accounts, all account of Man and the mainland will be, books and rent books must be completed in July.
stamped. A large number of minor officers employed in the supervision of this tax go around from estab- lishment to establishment in the
ready over-crowded professions, hope of discovering some documents Later. who had passed examinations far or books on which revenue stamps The students' disturbances are stiffer than the examinations pass-had not been affixed. Woe befall closely connected with the quarreled by the cadets which, it is fear-the person who, through some over between the Government and the jed, will be held valid for civilian sight or another, has failed to Artillery as the cadets have been careers.
atamp any document or account disbanded without provision being
book. During the month of Febru- made for some five hundred youths, The Government announces that ary the revenue from the stamp whose military careers have thus the student agitation la subsiding suddenly ended... This has upset and that the situation is tending the prospective members in the al- towards normial-Reuter.
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tax amounted to $429,022.14.
Under expelditure we find that military expanses for the month totalled $3,894,776.99. Whereas the expenses in connection with the civil, administration reach only $1,064,255.24. After making pro- vision for various items, we find that during February only $95,639.-| 92 was remitted to the Central Government. No wonder the Patter Ands it so hard to carry on, for, presumably, the same condition pre- |valls in nearly every other province. |As we have already said, it is a pity that the agitatora in Kwangtung, instead of pressing for an early improvement in the state of affairs in the province, should be wasting their time in agitating for the abolition of the so-called "three evila” in Macao. It is that sort of thing that makes China the laugh- Ing-stock amongst nations."
(Aku) kaThe Provincial Government talka
OSHER
ITTY ELLY MAJESTIC
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLO
a lot from time to time concerning the necessity of putting an end to the gambling and oplum evils. One committee after another has been appointed to handle this question, but so far nothing ⠀ has ever been done to curb opium smoking and gambling. Oplum comes in very freely from Kwangs! and Yunnan and is now so cheap that the mean- cat coolie can afford a "smoko." As for gambling, dens galere are operated on the other side of the river, ie, at Fati, Fongtauen, and Honam. Not only in Canton / but all over the province the same situe- tion prevails. In view of all these facts, It is no wonder that when agitators commence to talk of the #three evlla** in Macao the Fortu- guera should retort"Physiolan, hoal thyself!
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