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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1929.
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AMERICAN RYDER CUP TEAM
HAGEN'S OPINION
INTERVIEWED ON ARRIVAL AT PLYMOUTH
PLAYERS ALL FIRST CLASS
London, Yesterday. The American Ryder Cup team arrived this morning at Plymouth. Interviewed by Reuter, Walter
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PITFALLS GALORE SAFETY OF LIFE AT
REGULATIONS FOR STOPPING
at
BUSES
"POOR PEDESTRIANS"
an
..
SEA
THE CONFERENCE
towards
A REFORMATORY NEEDED
Hankow, To-day.
At the Central Magistracy this OPENS AT THE BRITISH FOREIGN It it indeed a pity that here in
morning, Lau Leung, driver of
OFFICE this British Colony juvenile offenders The report that fighting has
Hong Kong Hotel 'bus No. 603, have to rub shoulders with case- broken out at Shani (287 miles
MESSAGE FROM THE KING was summoned, before Mr. E. W. above. Hankow, on the Upper Yang-
NOTE "INFAMOUS" hardened criminals. A reformatory
Hamilton for stopping his vehicle is unheard of in Hong Kong, and taze River) has been officially con-
London, Yesterday. unauthorised place in London, Yesterday. Magistrates sitting in local Police!
Delegates of seventeen countries, firmed, but hostilities have hitherto London, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons, in the Courts have often been in a quan-
Queen's-road Central on March 28.
Dominious, Traffic Sub-Inspector Nieol, who including the British As a member of the crew of the been only of a skirmishing nature.
that is believed from
Marshal course of the Budget debate, Mr. dary as to know what do with anchor liner "Tuscania,"
prosecuted, said in evidence that India, the United States and most head of the Philip Snowden (Labour Party ex-young offenders.
countries, including Bombay, recently died of small-pox Chiang Kai-shek, as
in Nanking, Chancellor of the Exchequer) bit- They are loath, and rightly, too, C. Hagen, discussing their pros- at about 12.25 am, on the 23rd European
his motor cycle Soviet Russia, also Japan and Hol- in Marseilles, the ship's doctor vac-National Government cinated the passengers and trew has ordered his troops to attack the terly criticised the settlements with to condemn a youngster, to a jail pects, said: "It is the best team he was driving between Marseilles and Liverpool. pro-Kwangsi faction troops retreat- Continental debtors, particularly where they, instead of being taught that America has ever sent to Bri- alerg Queen's-road between Ped-land, assembled at the Foreign tain. All the American open der-street and Ice House-street. Office for the opening of the In- The health authorities in Great ing up-River from Wu-Han under with France, who, he said, repudi- to mend their ways, will often as
are eligible to The defendant's 'bus was some 15 ternational Conference on "Safety not emerged a case-hardened champlons, who Britain have since been very active Generals Hu Tsung-tao and Tao ated four fifths of her debt. Many
play are included, but we have got yards in front of him and travel- of Life at Sea" convened by the in keeping in touch with all con- Chun, in order to speed up the sur- Britons had practically been ruined France was bilking her
Money has been and is being to play hard to retain the Cup. ling at between 20 and 25 miles British Government with an aim revising the Interna- render of the Kwangsi-ites and because
time and useless national obligations whilst she was freely spent by the Government on We have twelve players, all native per hour. The Ministry of Healti. an-avoid wasting
the most prosperous country schemes, some of which are good horn, nominated against Britain Suddenly the bus stopped out- tional Convention signed in London in 1914 after the "Titanic" disaster. nounced. on April 13, that 35 cases negotiations.
been
Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, Presi- Europe. If it bad not been for Brand sune bad, but nothing has been at Leeds, of which eight will be side the old of imported infection had
Hemmed In?
tish help France would not be an done in the direction of reforming selected. Altogether 17 of us are building to pick up passengers. notified in Londen of whom five had
Opinions expressed are that these independent country to-day.
youngsters who might have gone all first class players, and all will witness then asked for defendant's dent of the Board of Trade, read a message from the King' wishing died.
Question May Be Re-Opened It was stated to-day that there pro-Kwangsi troops (who are mostly
That the Labour Party may pos- astray through sheer force of cir- compete in the Open Champion-licence and summoned him.
ship at Muirfield.
In reply to the Magistrate, the success to the Conference.
The proceedings thereafter were were 175 cases in London includ- men of Hupeh province)
Miss Marion Hollins, the Ameri- Inspector said that where the 'bus In this "model Colony we have
private-Reuter. ing twelve passengers from the unable to make much of a stand sibly re-open the whole question of
not an authorised
Purpose of the Conference "Tuscania", the latter suffering since they are sandwiched between the European Allies debts if return-
Turpis, the present Southern stopping place. The next atop from a virulent type of the disease. General Liu Hajang of Szechuan led to power was emphasized in the no institution similar to the Borstal can Champion in 1921, and Miss stopped was
States Champion, arrived by the That the alarm has spread to the (who is on their west) and General House of Commons by Mr. Snowden, at Home, and while the fraternity of condemned the financial bad boys in our midst may be too
Mr. Hamilton, reading from the Continent is evidenced by the an- Chang Fa-kuei (of the Ironsides) who nouncement of the French Govern- and General Hsia To-yin (of the settlements with the Contineat and small to warrant an mistitution of a same boat to compete in the Bri-opposite the City Hall.
mons was taken out, said that ment that from to-morrow they will pro-Nanking forces) on the east. repudiated the "infamous" Balfour similar nature, a reformatory on a tish Ladies Championship at St: regulation under which the sum- vehicles could stop to take and put enforce drastic regulations to pre- Therefore, submission of the pro- Note, which provided that Great smaller scale might edhe as the
| down passengers only at places au- vent small-pox infection and that Kwangsi troops is momentaily ex- Britain should not demand more saviour of many of them.
from her debtors than she was re-
thorised by the CS.P. all mailboats from England must pected,
from Han-quired to pay the United States. hoist the quarantine flag before
Mr. Snowden said he did not sub- entering French ports; the names, kow to ports or the Upper Yangtaze with addresses and destination of River have been suspended. Reuter, scribe to the doctrine of that agree- An overnight cable said that ment made by a Government with a ships would proceed up-River under temporary majority of the House of naval protection.]
Commons and which committed every other Party.-Reuter.
all passengers must be supplied and i each passenger must present a cer tificate
of vaccination within the past two months before land- ing, otherwise they will not be allowed to disembark.
All the boat crews must be vac- einated forthwith.
A B. & 1. Liner
The British India liner "Masho-
Meanwhile, sailinge
Still There
will be
Hankow, Yesterday. General Hu Tsung-tae and Gen- eral Tao Chun are still at Shasi- British Naval Wireless,
ASKING TOO MUCH
CHINESE AND THE ANDREWS EXPEDITION
U.S. EXPLORER TO GIVE UP?
Peking, Last Night.
Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, the
Offer to Surrender
Hankow, Yesterday. bra arrived in Marseilles OL Representatives arrived last even- April 13 with two Lascars suffering ing from Tao Chun and Hu Taung- from small-pax. All the passen-tao (of the Kwangsi faction) gers, including Lord Burnham, (of offering to surrender. It is under- American explorer, stated to Rev- the Simon Commission) who was stood, the move was actuated returning to England from India, by the advance of Chang Fa-kuei's were vaccinated, and arrangements"Ironsides" (pro-Leftist Cantonese) have been made to supervise the from Wu-Han, under orders from movements of passengers and crew Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, to sub- after the "Meshobra's" arrival injugate the Kwangsi remnants. London on April 20.
Further. Chiang Kai-shek has French Regulations
instructed Ho Chien (who deserted The French small-pox regulations the Kwangsi cause in Hunan) to do not apply to air passengers, drive out all the Kwangsi troops The heads of tourist organisa- from Hina and it is generally tions in Londen, astonished at the expected that Hupeh and Hunan new order, say that it will deal a will be completely under the domin- heavy blow to France's trade in ance of the Central Government Continental traffic generally and very sOCn.
result in a practical stoppage of all It is reported that fighting has! passenger trafic to France and be broken out between Shasi and yond, as the public will not get Ichang between Chang Fa-kael's vaccinated in order to go to the Ironsides and those of Hu Toung- Continent except those compelled tau. by business.
Includes Air Passengers
Hitherto there are no details. Henceforth Upper Yangtze River Later. boats will proceed under a naval
The French small-pox regula-convoy.--Reuter. tions, to be enforced on Thursday. apply to air passengers as also to
Changteh Looting
Hankow, Yesterday.
all travellere merely traversing T'here seems France.
France. Reuter.
REPORT ON INDIA
WHAT BUTLER COMMITTEE RECOMMEND
this
cumstances.
This is a matter to which the Government should give its imme-
DETAINED?
COMMISSIONER
From Our Political Correspondent.3
If he is in Canton at all and not, as some have said, in Hong Kong, Mr. Fung Chuk- man, the Finance Commis- sioner for Kwangtung Pro- vince, is reliably stated to have been placed under a mild degree of supervision or detention.
Andrews-Reuter.
NAMES OF PLAYERS
Walter Hagen on Foreign Born Professionals
Los Angeles, Feb. 2. Walter C. Hagen, British open champion and captain of the Unit-
The 11 players selected, who
Astor House Hotel
Inspector Nicol agreed, and said! that those regulations were made on June 2, 1927.
London, Yesterday. Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister, în ad- dressing the conference, said:
"The purpose of this conference is to review the Convention of 1914 and we assemble almost on the anniversary of the "Titanic" disaster which was the immediate
cause
of the last conference. That conference was of the great- est value. It was a novel and Go By the Bell:
ambitious experiment and sought Defendant said, in reply to the to cover a wide field. Most of the
within its
CANTON'S FINANCEed States Ryder Cup team, to-day charge, that he had Instructions questions affecting the safety of
announced the personnel of the from his manager to stop the bus passenger ships came
which will whenever the bell was rung three purview. That conference dis- United States squad
Limes. This was the emergency persed and within six-months came sail from. New York on April 10
the cataclysm of the Great War. signal. for the British invasion.
Remarking to Mr. T. E. Parsons, And now we are met again, all
а common cause of with Hagen complete the squad of manager of the Hotel Garage, that allies in 12, will be cut down to a team of he would like to have the matter humanity and the very experience eight golfers and two alternates straightened out and find out of the war will be applied in aid The work when the team sails for England. where the Company stood, his of this pacific task.
Worship called him into the wit- which lies before you can be sum- Hagen's selections were:
ness box.
med up in a sentence. Mr. Parsons sajd that Sub-In- You meet to review the conclu-
Alexander (on spector
leave)stons reached 15 years ago in the selected the stopping places before light of the knowledge and ex- the service was started, and wit-perience gained in those critical nese was told on October 15, 1928. years. Much time and study have that there was no objection to been devoted to problems of con- 'buses stopping between these struction and provisional conclu- stopping places until such time assions have been tested by the ae- the service had been tested to find tual application to now ships. if the selected stopping places Great developments have taken were suitable. Then, it was un-place in wireless telegraphy. derstood, they would go further Most Important Element and find more suitable stopping! Wireless is becoming-if it has places as required.
not already become the most im- It was impossible, Mr. Parsons portant element in the safety of explained, at the start of the ser- life at sea. To-day it not only in- vice to tell if the stopping places, sures greater safety of the ship I would prove convenient to passen- which carries it but it makes her
gers or not.
Mr. Fung has served Marshal Li Chat-enm, now in custody in Nanking. When Marshal Li's erstwhile subordinates left him in the hour of trial and de- clared for Nanking, Marabal Li's staunchest supporters left Canton. Not so Mr. Fung. He continued in office. but with the control of what is called the "national" revenue -as distinct from the "local"
or provincial revenue-taken from him and placed under Mr. Fan Ki-me, reputedly a parti- san of the Cantonese pro-Nan- king-faction.
At any rate there is a myɛ- tery as to Mr. Fung's move- ments.
It is rendered more baffling by the fact that Mr. Fung has not expressed his views one way or the other Mr. Fan has made no open at- tempt to take over the loen) revenues,
present and the rulers of Canton are marking
time. And this leads up to the strong belief that Mr. Fung is not entirely a free agent in Canton at the moment.
Walter Hagen
John C. Farrell, United States open champion.
Eugene Sarazen, former United States open champion.
Horton Smith of Jopline, Mo. Leonard H. Diegel, P.G.A. cham- pion.
A. A. Watrus, Detroit,
to be trouble at Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews. Changteh, caused by the efforts
that ter
the Peking Cultural Imperial Airways, Liruited, are of Tan Tan-yuan to regain control arranging to vaccinate all passen of the city from his former sub- Society (of Chinese) is now mak- gers by Croydon steamer and pas-ordinate, Li Ying-chih. When Luing such impossible demands on sengers will be done aboard. About Ti-ping was ousted by the Kwang the Central Asiatic Expedition (of) - 2,000 cross daily from England to troops from the Governorship of which Mr. Andrews is leader) that Hunan, Tan Tao-yuan (as Lu Ti- it is likely the expedition will be
unable to go to Mongolia ping's supporter) was forced to flee
year. He said:- and Li Yung-chih declared for
"This Society demands that we Kwangsi, Now, encouraged by the
de all the Nanking successes, Tan Tao-yuan is spend all the money,
E. Dudley, Southern California better citizens to populate Kong' attacking Changteh, which is stated work and give everything we find diate attention, if we are to have to China, in addition to, paying
and Strays professional champion, Los An- Waifs' the expenses of three Chinese Kong. The As far as can be ascertained, up
no useful
John Golden, New Jersey open to the present all foreigners are scientists to proceed to Mongolia, Club, run by the Police in a hap-geles.
not champion, Paterson, NJ. alive and well, though it is reported and afterwards taking them to hazard manner, serves
A. R. Espinosa of Chicago, final recognised by the Government, and, some Mission property has been America for two years and again purpose, and even then it is
paying all their expenses." burned-Reuter:
being so, Magistrates are unable to ist in the national P.G.A. Mr... Andrews declares that
William Burke, Port Chester, unless conditions are modified, he send boys there.
At the Police Inspection Last.N.Y. will not stir a foot in Mongolja, preferring to retura to America week.H.E, the Governor expressed with the work of the expedition the hope that some philanthropic L.I.
gentlemen would come forward with No further news has been re upcompleted...
RELATIONS WITH PRINCES
London, Yesterday. Simultaneously with investiga- tions by the Simon Commission the Indian States' Committee, under Sir Harcourt Butler; which has been en- quiring into the relationship of the States and the paramount Power,:
to be in a state of siege.
[The message of Mr. Gabb of the A.P.C. to the Royal Navy convey- ed a more serious aspect.] Nothing Further?
in future be the agent of the Crown less.
}
Nanking. Yesterday,
WAR TIME CLAIM
1,000,000 GUILDERS FOR THE DUTCH
THEIR MAJESTIES
A VISIT TO COLNBROOK HOUSE
KING'S FIRST DRIVE
William Klein. Wheatley Hills, Joseph Turnesa, Elmsford, NY Hagen declared for representa tion of foreign-born golf profes- sionals who have become citizens
(Continued on Page 7.)
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a potential saviour of her sister ships.
Chased All Over The Road Mr. Hamilton remarked that that Thus the latest discoveries of was all very well, but they must science come in to reinforce and also consider the anfortunate make more effective the oldest pedestrians who were chased all tradition and practice of men who
sail the seas.
1
over the road by the "buses!
Mr. Parsons said that lee House- On these and other problema *treet was a popular stopping you bring to bear individual and place for people going to the ferry, collective experience which is un-
Replying to his Worship, Inspec- rivalled. tor Nicol said that he knew no- thing of the arrangements arriv- ed at between Inspector Alexander and Mr. Parsons.
The Chairman
On the proposal of Mr. Wallace Whitehead, of the United States delegation, Vice-Admiral Sir H. The Magistrate said that in the Richmond. Chairman of th Bri- circumstances he did not think tish delegation, took the chair- they ought to go further with the British Wireless Service.
summons,
Addressing Inspector Nicol. Mr. Hamilton said that the regulations were full of pitfalls. As an ex- ample his Worship asked what was
the driver to do if a man stood in the road in front of a 'bus and held his
hand up. Should the driver go on and run over the man! or stop? If he stopped and the man boarded the 'bus, what ac- tion would the Police take?
Could They?
POSTPONED
JAPANESE EVACUATION OF
SHANTUNG
EXPLANATION LATER.
Tokyo, To-day. The Commander of the Japanese Garrison in Shantung has been tele. graphically instructed by the Ja-
The Inspector said that they panese War Office to postpone the evacuation (under the terms of the 'could summons the passenger for attempting to board the bus whilst Sino-Japanese Settlement of the Tainan Incident) In accordance in motion.
with a decision arrived at yester- day.
His Worship reported that the re- gulations had many pitfalls. He
added that there was no doubt that
has issued a report stating that the ceived from Changtéh (whence it A deadlock exists now, and the a donation to support the club. Why relationship, on the whole, had been was reported that an AP.C. man Peking Cultural Society is refer the public should be made to pay to the National is beyond comprehension. Is it not harmonious and satisfactory, and re-had been robbed and wounded and ring the matter commends the Viceroy and not the that a Roman Catholic mission had Government in Nanking-Reuter, the work of the Government to pro- vide a penitentiary for boys who
the defendant had technically Governor-General in Council, should been looted-British Naval Wire-
have committed a crime? It ap
broken the regulation, but appar pears that in Hong Kong the public
ently he had cause to think that in its relations with Princes; and
is depended upon to do things which
he could stop when required. that important inatters in dispute
rightly should be the Government's utilise the St. Louis Industrial
Inspector Nicol remarked that: between the States themselves and
duty to do.
School as a dumping ground for bad the same regulations were being between States and the paramount
Since the St. Louis Industrial boys fallen into their hands, it is enforced in Kowloon almost every Power and between States and Bri-
School for orphans came into opera only right that a fixed grant be day. tish India should be referred to in-t
Hon in Hong Kong two years ago, reserved for the school.
His Worship replied that it was dependent committees for advice.
the Police have not been slow in Even in Shanghai, where laws not so in his time. Treaties, engagements and sanads
Defendant was discharged. have been made with the
The King and Queen had a motor- sending erring boys there to learn and order are administered by a Crown and the relationship between
drive this morning from Craigwella trade. The school, it must be body of men calling themselves the the paramount Power and Princes A White Paper has been issued House for a mile and half to Cols- remembered is run by the Salesian Municipal Council, there is an up-to- should not be transferred without showing that the British Gov brook House, where they were re- Fathers, and they are entirely de-date reformatory, where erring boys the latter's agreement to a new ernment has agreed to pay the reived by Mrs. Ricardo. Government of British India res Netherlands Government one mil They spent some time walking in ponsible to the Indian Legislature, Hon guilders in respect of claims the beautiful grounds, but the Butler Committee has left to the Dutch fishing industry owing This is the first time His Majesty the door open for constitutional de to the action of the British authori has driven out since he went to velopments in the future-Reuter. ties in war time-Beuter
Bognor -Reuter
FROM BRITISH GOVERNMENT
London, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday.
pendent on public support. They are taught a trade and encourage to
It is understood that the Japan-
se Government is drawing up a statement explaining the reasons necessitating postponement of eva- cuation.-Reuter.
[An earlier cable is on page 11.3
BIG Ris
TO TAKE THE AIR IN THE AUTUMN
London, Yesterday. The Secretary for Air
(Sir Samuel Hoare) stated in the
Mr. Harold James Day, a farmer House of Commons to-day, that he have occasionally received a dona- mend their ways in the hope of of Monkton Heathfield, Taunton, hoped the airship R100 would be tion from the Government, but no transforming them into good citi-was acquitted at Somerset Assizes able to fly to Canada and the R101 zed grant has been ear-marked zens. One cannot ask more of of stealing cight sheep which were to India some time during the Hong Kong than to fall into line alleged to have joined a large flock Autumn-British Wireless Ser for thomas med
If the Government Intends to with the northern port-C.LC. he had bought.