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MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.
No. 27,465
PLANS RIPE FOR
CHINA
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WAR.
SECTION OF NATIONAL TROOPS MUTINY AT HONAN.
HOTLY PURSUED.
TRAFFIC ON PEKING EASTERN RAILWAY HELD UP.
Nanking, Tuesday,
ESTABLISHED
1345
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930.
CREDIT BY FRAUD.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST SALESMAN:
OTHER CHARGES PENDING.
Chan Kai-gang (27), described as a salesman of the Chang Chun Chong 'import and export firm of 85; Wing Lok Street, has been ar rested by the Police on/a-charge
of fraudulently obtaining "credit
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HOME FOOTBALL, Replay in the Scottish Cup.
RANGES WIN.'
Glasgow. Yesterday,
At Hampden Park, in the replayi of the Scottish Cup ival, Rangers defeated Partick Thistic, the score being:
Rangers
Partick Thistle
2
Reuter.
Rangers have won the Cup In
to the extent of $1,965 from the the following years; Tung Tak Knitting Factory,
25, Shaukiwan Road,
When he was
pr
produced before
Mr. A. W..G. H. Grantham this morning, Mr. E. S. C. Brooks ap reared for the complainants and a remand, as other applied for
President Chiang Kai-shek has decided to despatch the forces of the 5th Route Armyonan and Shensi to take offensive, and those of the 2nd Route Army to guard the Tsin-Pu and Lung-charges were being considered. Hai lines and to remain on the defensive temporarily. As soon as the 5th Route Army reach their objectives, the 2nd Route Army will open hostilities simultaneously along the Tsin-Pu and the Lung-Hai lines.
Yang Fu-cheng wired on April 14 to Ho Ying-ching that a small portion of National troops, stationed at Wang-lung-chen, south-east
He said that accused was one of three partners of the Chung Chun Chong firm, and the other two had left the Colony.
Accused, who told the Magis.
trate that the firm had gone.bank- rupt, denied that he was a part- The firm was closed down
Rer.
had nothing to do with the firm's
of Honan, being influenced by Kuominchun, mutinied on April 13, because the master had abscond- but were subsequently attacked, with the result that they were deed and it had no funds. He had fented and forced to escape towards the White-River, where they are dealings. now being hotly pursued by Yang's forces.
FENG'S APPOINTMENTS.
April 15, urging express his real
The Magistrato gave a week's formal remand, fixing bail in the sum of $5,000 cash and thrée sureties in the sum of $10,000 each.
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WEDDING BELLS.
Ceremony at Peak Church To-day.
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FARROW-GREENHALGH.
Feng Yu-hsiang has recently personal letter to General Chang; made the following appointments: Isuek-liang on Ma Yang-pen, chupinah of Kanu; the latter to Liu Yuk-ten, chairman of 'Shensis | attitude regarding the present, Sun Liang-cheng, chairman of{situation."- Honan; Seong Chih-yuan, comman Cho Tung-feng, a general of the der of Bandit Suppression in former Peking Government," and Shensi; und Lu Chung-lin, C.1.C. of now a supporter of the allied Miss Doris Diane, second the 2nd Regional Army.
forces, has intimated that Yen Hsi- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George The order of the Kuominchun for shan will not proceed to Chengchow William Farrow of Fortsmouth, a general offensive on Hauchow has and that his trip to Peking is not was married to Mr. Will been retarded, due to the bad condi. yet decided upon. The Breaker Robert Greenhalgh this afternoon tions of the roads, hindering trans- further added that Yen has dotor- at the Peak Church, the ceremony portation. The roads along the mined to hand over all the military being performed by the Rev. Long-Hai line are now being re-affairs at the front to the control H. V. Koop before a large gather- paired.
of Feng Yu-hsiang, while he him ing of friends. Acting under Instructions, the self will direct the movements at National troops under Ma Haung- the rear. kuei have proceeded to Lincheng and Hanchwing, in order to A joint telegram, headed by Fu satin gown in. 'mediaeval style, strengthen the defence of the Tsg-yi and Sun To Including 18 with A talle veil trimmed with western section of Shantung.
Shansi generals of the pre-war pearls and orange blossoms. She National Troops.
Clique has been despatched to carried a bouquet of pink carna- General Ho Ching-chun will Yen Hsi-shan; requesting the lat- tions, and was attended by the shortly, direct the 5th Route Armyter immediately to issue the order Misses, Jean and Catherine Whyte- from Nanyang to the front to inter-of general attack against the Smith and Miss Mutel Fielder,
cept the Kuominchun.
Shansi Generals.
National forces.
The bride, who was given away by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, charmingly attired in a long white
Celtic
1893-4
1896-7
1897-8
1902-3
1927-8
1929-30
Other Clubs, to win the Cup have been:
iz times
Queen's Park y Hearts
9 times
4 times
3. dimes
2 times
2 times
2 times
2 times.
1 time. 1 time
1 time.
Partick Thistle Morton
•1 time
Airdrieonians .. St. Mirren....
·1 time 1 time: 1 time
Vale of Leven. Hibernians Renton
Third Lanark Kilmarnock Dumbarton
St. Bernard Dundee
BUDGET DEBATE.
Making Country Face Responsibilities.
"L.G.'S" PRAISE:
London, Yesterday.
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TO-DAY'S DOLLAR —
Tha
closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/6 3/16.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
BRITAIN & SOVIET
RUSSIAN AGENTS FOR HONG KONG”
AGREEMENT AND BRITISH COLONIES.
Dainty Eyeglasses N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Optlelan
13. Queen's Road Central.
PRINCE IN AFRICA.
Flight from Khartoum
to Cairo.
. RETURNING TO LONDON.
Rugby. Yesterday..
The Prince of Wales, who is, due to arrivo in London about
UGLY SCENES AT KARACHE
POLICE FIRE ON RIOTERS IN SYMPATHY STRIKE,
RINGLEADERS ARRESTED.
Karachi, Yesterday.
TREATY SIGNED. April 28 from his African tour, As nequel to the arrest of local left Khartoum by air to-day for Congress leaders, deckers and Cairo, about 1.000 miles away. sweepers have struck. Police firing Accompanying the plane in which seriously injured, while one person was!
to-day resulted in seven people being the Prince travelled were nine killed and 26 injured with others of the squadron of the (eudgels) and stones.
lathis Royal Air Force. The start was were removed to hospital and' two are The injured made about six o'clock in the In a precarious condition. The police, Rugby. Yesterday.
morning and after four hours ten aided by troops, arrested the Mr. Arthur Henderson,
ring- the machines reached Atbara. The leaders. The situation is quieter. British Foreign, Secretary, and M. Prince alighted near the rail-Reuter. Sokolnikoff, the Russian Ambus-way and breakfasted with the
Situation Quiet. sador, this afternoon signed in the
General Manager of the Railway
Calcutta, Yesterday. in a Pulman ear. Cabinet room of the Foreign Office again in about 40 minutes and flew pickets are patrolling the disturbed He was off The situation is quiet. Milkary
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Earlier Cables.
Bombay, Yesterday. The arrest of Mahadev Deaal, re-
unfounded:
a temporary, commercial agreement to Wadi Halfa on the Nile; this ass. Yesterday's injured include two between the British and Russian was reached about noon. Here Americans. Reuter.
His Royal Highness lunched with Governments. The agreement is to, Mr. Jackson, the Governor of the serve as a modas vivendi pending Province. After lunch the flight was resumed to. Assonan,, which the conclusion of the full treaty was reached at half past four this Ported earlier, has proved to be Under the agreement the high con- afternono, The Prince will stay tracting parties record the most the night there. Continuing the
Karachi, Yesterday. favoured nation treatment to the journey to-morrow he will arrive
Six Congress leaders have been subjects, citizens, juridical per King Fund will meet him there.
at Cairo, soon after daylight. arrested,
The Satyagraha camp. Swaraj sons, national produce and mahu Before leaving Khartoum the Ashram, and Hindu Jati printing factures of each other. The foi Prince said he bad enjoyed a real press have been searched. and ac lowing are the exceptions: firstly, and the special provisions relating to Sudan.-British Wireless Service. seized.
complete holiday in the count books, flags and signboards trade contained in the treaties con- cluded by the Soviet Union with the' states which, August 1914, form- ed an integral part of the former
GERMAN NAVY.
Russian Empire and with the con-New Cruiser of Preussen
tinental border States In Asia;!
secondly, the rights accorded to
any third country forming part of
the Customs Union with the Soviet Union to border States with respect
Type to Be Built.
CHANGE OF POLICY..
Berlin, Yesterday.
The Reichstat, dealing with the
A Navsari report says Mahadev Desal has arrived to confer with
Gandhi. The report of the former's
to his sudden disappearance from arrest presumably агоде owing
Ahmedabad.
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Karachi, Later.
The police fired nine shots at a riotous mob outside the City Magis- trate's court this afternoon.
The mob stormed the court and
Calcutta, Kastarday.
The Budger debate in the house of to local trade between the inhabi- Commons was noteworthy for the fact tants of frontier zones. that, while Conservatiyes; led by Mr.
Budget Reich of 1930, inserted, an ap-smashed the windows, Two Euro- Churchill, attacked the Budget as hand-view of the state monopoly of first instalment for a new cruiser of the males in the court compound.
The British Government agrea in propriation of 2,000,000 marks as the poun sergeants were injured in a foreign trade in Russia to accord same type na the much-discussed Ersatz to the-Soviat Government the right Prenasep, now being constructed at the to establish in Great Britain a Moldenhauer. The Finance Minister trade delegation consisting of a said that the Government had taken tome late last night were subjectz trade representative and his two Mueller Cabinet which decided against to be sent to hospital, including one ovor the Budget from the former ed to stone throwing and nine had deputies forming part of the Soviet the use of cruiser. The Government Embassy.
EASTER WEATHER.
now
To-day's weather report, from the Royal Observatory, states:
The anti-cyclone is wag
central to the S.W. of Tokyo.
A depression has formed over S.E. Mongolia.
Forecast:-E. or variable winds, moderate; fair.
who acted us bridesmaids. Mrs.
The National forces, under Li General Sun Tung-chin of the Whyte-Smith was the matron of Wan-hin, are reported to have ar- rived at, Paohong, on the northern border of Hupeh; those under Slu Chi-cho at Yanyang; and those under Fan Shih-san at Checheun, south-west border of Honan, form- ing a semi-circle from Nanyang to Fancheng, via Checheun with. Yang Fu-cheng's forces at Nanyang.
Kuominchan Forces.
yi and Li Sang-ta between Chwang-
chow and Chucheng..
20th Division under Han Fu-cha honour. Her dress was of návy left Taining for Tsinan on April 14 blue and white with
navy blue with two regiments and two and blege hat trimmed with velvet armoured.
cars, "Peking" and of the same colour. She carried "Shantung."
a bouquet of African daisies. The bridesmaids were dressed in pink satin--replicas. of the bride's Sown. They carried posies of early Victorian mixed carnations.
Red-Spear Fraternity. Following the uprising of the Red-spear fraternity, at Chlaotung, Wanteng District has fallen into the hands of the bandits. Many refugees have fled to Chefoo. Troops are being despatched by ceremony a reception was held at General Han Fu-chu for their sup- No. 107, The Peak, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Whyte Smith,
an
Rainfall Rainfall to 10 am. to-day nil. Rainfall since January 1. 11.80 Inches against average of 8.79 niches,
Temperature and Humidity
The temperature and humidi- ty at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock
were:
Hong Kong . Масао
Temp: Humaid.
-681..
66
86 98
Pratas Island Manila
91
72.
88
63
$1
62
72
·Shanghai
54
90
The bridegroom was attended
Amoy hy E. W. Coulson, who discharged the duties of best man. After the Chefoo
tiona.
match.
locomotives and 46 coaches at the WHERE IS MISS CHAN
Paking Eastern Railway Station. The traffic on the Ping-Tain and
:
Diplomatic Privileges.
A number of Europeans going
did not desire to influente the deci- woman. Two; Including the woman,
sion of the Belchstat, however, and were seriously injured. These three persons are to be ac-would define its attitude later. Reuter, The police made twenty arrests, corded all diplomatic privilages
Berlin. Later. nine of them on roofs of houses, and immunity and similar im- The Cabinet has approved the appro- where piles of brickbats were found, munity shall attach to the offices Priation fund for a new armoured Later last night a futile attack occupied by the trade delegation
was, made on one of the wards of and used exclusively for its com-
the Presidency Hospital. mercial functions, which shall be
cruiser-Reuter
to facilitate and encourage the de-city, reserving to itself the right velopment of trade between the to denounce this provision in two countries and to represent the
trana-
Over 60 people were injured in 15 police officers and 11 firemen yesterday's disturbances, including
Bombay, Yesterday.
Interests of the Soviet Union in all respect of any Dominion or India. that pertains to trade. Delegation force till the entry into force of Railwaymen's Union has called off The Great Indian Peninsular The agreement shall remain in shall be responsible for all transac- the commercial treaty subject to the railway strike, which started on tions concluded by the
the right of either party to de- February 4, when the men-demand- representative and the persons authorised by him, but not for the nounce it or any arrangements en-ed higher wages and better condi
tered into between the Soviet Gov. tions.-Reuter. acts of state or economic organisa- crhment and the British Dominions tions except when such respon
sibility has been clearly accepted or other overseas territories at six by the trade representative. The
governing
months' notice..
What They Promise.
י,
LIED ABOUT HIS AGE.
Before Mr, R. E. Lindsell this.... morning, a Chinese who WEE
KIDNAPPED NEPHEW.
Sun Liang-cheng has assembled
names of the trade representative the Kuaminchun forces at Chong
and the persons empowered to re- In the annexed protocol it is charged with hawking without s chow and is not likely to make a
present him shall be periodically stated that the contracting parties licence claimed that he was 16 further advance southward for the
published in the Board of Trade are animated by the Intention to years of age, but his aged father, time being. The Kuominchun pression.
journal. Yen Hs-shan is, according to where a large number of friends
Any question arising eliminate from their economie re who was in Court, told the Magic- under Liu Yu-ming, who invaded
from any commercia! transactions lations all form of discrimination trate that the accused was 25. Hupeh, have retreated to Shensi: another report, to proceed to
gathered to offer their folicita capping trade and industry, and the entered into in this country by the and will be guided only by com- those under Shih Ching-ting and Peking within five days. Mayor
left wing Labourites, led by Mr. trade delegation shall be settled by marcial and financial considera-
Inspector Bloor suggested that Ch! Haung-chang are marching Chang Yim-wu has prepared the
The honeymoon will be spent Jimmy Maxton, criticised it as "too the British courts. from Loyang to Hauchang and
ax-President's Office as his quar
capitalistic," Mr: Lloyd George praised
tions. They will adopt no legisla- it was a deserving case for the tera. The object of Yen's trip is in England, the bridal pair going it as honest and making the country Luiho, vía Lungmoon and Linto
National treatment is accorded in tive or administrative action, such granting of a licence as the old The dispositions of Shansi forces chiefly to arrange the defensive in Canada by the Siberia Maru face Its responsibilities,Retter.
The bride's going away dress will
agreement to the vessels, cargoes as would place the trade of the man was dependant on. his son. are reported as follows: General line along the Hope! border, in be of navy blue tatin, with tuck- Revolution Avoided.
His Worship, however, decided and passengers of each country other party in a position of in-| Sun. Cho holds the line between order to guard against the invasion in blouse with shoes and hat to
London, Later. and most favoured nation treat feriority to that of any other that the accused deserved no sym Taiming and Changteh; Shih Yu- of Mukden troops, .
Mr. Philip Snowden's Socialism ment as regards coasting, trade, foreign country. In accordance pathy after he had lied about his san between Sinhsiang and Tsao- Trains Detained at Peking.
came to the surface when replying to subject to the rescrvation of the with the above principle, trade age, and imposed a fine of $5 or chow; Feng Pong-tee between In compliance with the instruc-with Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, Commons. He expressed the pro- between two ports on the same be eligible for consideration on the
The bridegroom la connected the Budget debate in the House of right of sabotage as regards trade between Britain and Russia shall seven days in jail. ·· Taiming and Tanochow; Chang tions of Yen Hsi-shan, General Limited. Hul-chae at Chuyea;'and Fu Teo-Cho Chi-chun, has detained. ́15
found conviction that, their un-coast.. Excluded from these pro-ame basis as trade between Britain country from revolution. He re-migrants and pilgrims and ships' nection with any legislation by the employment scheme had saved the visions are fishing rights, im and other foreign countries in con- A Chinese living at Shaukiwan gretted that the capital levy had not cargoes and passengers registered ministrative measures taken by the appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell favourable, but he was remedying dominions. been applied when the moment was | In British telf"
British Government for the grant to-day, in connection with a charge, ing of credits to facilitate such which he admitted, of kidnapping that by taxation on wartime pro-
trade.
his nephew who lived with his fiteering fortunes, which were now
Agents in For Enst?
The signature of the agreement parents on the ground floor of (of notes, and the 'tin of, cigar- Aaza Singh, a licensed Indian money. coming into the estate duties. The provisions of the agree was accompanied by the declara- 26, Shing On Street, Saiwanho.
attes and asked for. his $100 bill lender, sued Rose Chan, this morning at It was arrant nonsense to talk ment may by mutual agree tion by Mr. Henderson that the According to Detective-Sergeant back. It was returned.
the Summary Court before Mr. Justice of overthrowing, the capitalist sys.ment be extended, to British self Union of South Africa and the Goodwin, the boy was kidnapped After the European and his, R. Wood, on a promissory note for tem. He almed at transforming the governing dominions by the simple Irish Free State were excluded weeks ago, the accused taking him- woman companion had left the shop $200. Defendant was absent, system by placing under public exchange of notes, and they may from the provisions relating to the away on the pretext that they were Kan counted his maner before put actually lont $100 to defendant but, in industries but going concerns. (La reciprocity to any of the British vico.
In evidence, plaintiff stated, that he ownership and control, not declining also be extended on conditions of Dominions. British Wireless Ser-going to a tea house... Ile took the ting it back in the till and discover- accordance with the usual practice, sha ed that the $50 note was missing. signed for $200. The debt was two
Colonics, Possessions, Protectorates He immediately rushed to the shop years old and during "all this time door, but could find co trace of the he had never received any payment
from her. The interorts amounted to: two Europeans.
$95, making the total sum claimed.$200 He stated that at about 5 p/m
Defendant, as far as witness knew, Giant Airship Reaches was unmarried, but she was living yesterday his shop was visited by
with a European. He did not think two Europeans, a man and a woman. Wong Lot, the cozawain of steam that she was in the Colony, and her The man purchased a tin of cigar Jaunch Tung On, was this morning whereabouts were uncertain. attes worth $1.72 and tendered a fined $10 or ten days by Hon. Judgment was given to plaintiff with $100 bill in payment.
Commdr. GF. Hole, R.N., for leav-costs Kan gave change which included ing the harbour at 9 p.m. on April}, "
Yen Changes Plans." Kung Fan-wai, the delegate of Shansi, delivered Yen Hsi-shan's SHOPKEEPER DUPED.
Allegation Against a European.
$50 NOTE MISSING.
A case of a European stealing $50 by a trick has been reported to the Kowloon Fallce by Kan Chak, the manager of a grocery shop at 293, Laichikok Road,
Pel-Ning lines has been suspended. Indian Claims Two-Year
Canton News Agency,
the European returned the small wad
OUTSIDE HARBOUR.
Old Debt,
one $50 note and other smaller bills. | 4, without a night clearance. Me, The Chlef Constable, of Cardif The European man said that he did. C. E. Rendall, who appeared for drew the attention of the - Local not want the 360 note and asked for the defence, after hearing a portion Legislation Committee of the House all "River "When Kan said that ho | of the evidence, changed--his, plea of Commons to shops built without did not have so much mall notes from "Not Guilty Guffey
adequate regard for fire risks.
hour cheers)-Router.
GRAF ZEPPELIN.
Spath,
hoy to Amoy, where he sold him for London, Yesterday, $50. The boy has not been recover. and Mandated territories. If the
and Mr. Arthur Henderson Soviet Government are zo notified Sokolnikoff signed the British by the British Ambassador at Soviet trede agreement. Moscow. In the event the Soviet
M. and
od.
His Worship passed sentence of 12 months hard labour and 20 The provisions of a temporary Bri-strokes of the birch. trading organisations may send tish and Soviet commercial agreement thither agents acceptable to the were signed by Mr. Henderson and M. Government concerned to carry out } Sokolnikoff to-day-Reuter, commercial transactions. Such Seville, Yesterday. agents shall have no diplomatic or The Graf Zeppelin has arrived here consular privileges or Immunities: from Friedrichshafen, which she left It is provided that if Russian per yesterday with 10 passengers abgard.
duce is accorded the most favoured Reuter
nation treatment In British Seville, Lazer Klingand, Queen of Spain were Dominions and other overseas the welpumers of the Graf territories which have nevertheless hour's not adhered to the agreement the mer Soviet Union will; nepard recipro
FRENCH TAXATION, Z
[Addressing the British Section of.
Paris Lator. the All-Union Western Chamber of The total reductions are approx- Commerce, Litvinoff said that com-imately equivalent to £40,000,000, mercial relations could not be develop and will be devoted, inter alia, to ed satisfactorily in the absence of an 75 per cent. reduction of the commercial treaty, and therefore, he turn-over tax on fresh food, and was gratified at the Impending diminution of income tax, In- Anglo-Soviet commercial agreement..
Bir Edmund Ovey, the British cluding from a 20 per cent tar Ambarredor, added; a few diplomatie on income derived front foreign
securities. – Léuterize
Fremarks)