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ESTABLISHED AHLW DAWA 中華民國庚午年潤陸月十三 1345
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST. 7, 1930.
NANKING EXPLAINS. FACTORY STRIKE.
OVER 100,000 TEXTILE WORKERS OUT.
WANG CHING-WEI BLAMED FOR
RED OUTRAGES.
TROOPS NEAR TAIAN..
Nanking, Yesterday. The Government is shortly communicating with the Powers proving from evidence of inter- cepted wireless messages that the recent Communist- activities are attributable to Wang Ching-wei. Government troops are now within 20 miles of Taian.-Reuter,
Postion In Changsha,
Shanghai, Yesterday, Foreign sources confirm the re- capture of Changsha city from the Communists by the Nationalist Firing still continues on the outskirts-Reuter..
troops.
Nanking, Yesterday. With the recapture of Changsha the question with regard to the proposed reorganisation of the Hunan Provincial Government is now being discussed.
Roubaix, Yesterday. It is estimated that 100,000 textile workers, representing 50; per cent. of the workers at Roubaix, Tourcoing and Lille are now striking. Over 100 factories are affected.-Reuter.
XIDLE LIST.
London, Yesterday. Unemployment in Britain has topped the 2,000,000 mark, in creasing from 39,000 in last week to 2,011,000.-Reuter.
We are asked to state that Mrs. Scott, was not the complainant in a case at the Central Magistracy on Tuesday against a motorist for unnecessarily tooting his horn.
SAVED BY THE SOUTH
HELPED TO RESTORE BALANCE OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
FLOURISHING TRADES.
Rugby, Yesterday. In the annual report issued to- day by the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, it is pointed out that the flourishing condition of trades in the South of England helped to restore the balance of employment during. 1929. Employment in industry generally was far from satisfac- tory and many of the leading. trades of the country experienced very difficult conditions, working far below their normal capacity.
Among the trades that flourish ed, however, particularly in the South of England, were those con- nected with motor car building, ly important, as Mr. Castle Im-wireless gramophones, electrical mediately afterweds hastened to the White House, where he was received by President Hoover.
engineering, certain branches of chemical work, furniture, artificial silk, paper manufacture, and sugar refining.
Great disaffection is felt at It is credibly reported that the General Ho Chien's mishandling of subject of the discussion was The demand for the products of the military affairs of the Province what steps the United States many of the miscellaneous trades and natives of Hunan residing in would take to protect American carried on in the South, particu- the capital, including Tan Yen- nationals and their property in larly on and around London, was kai, the acting Chairman of the China-Reuter's American Ser-so brisk as to cause in some works
have vice.
Nationalist Government, petitioned the Central Government
to remove and punish him..... Reuter.
Green Howards for Hankow, Shanghai, Yesterday,
A section, numbering, 110, of the Green Howards are leaving for Hankow to-morrow, and 50 more on Friday.
They will remain aboard H.M.5. Cumberland, in readiness for any emergency Reuter.
American Interest.
Washington, Yesterday.
a shortage of suitable workers and to require considerable extensions of factory buildings. Wireless Service,
British
New Government,
Peking. Yesterday! Wang Ching-wei returned to P king this morning. It is under- stood that he and, Yen Hai-shan decided that their Government shall consist of two Committees, a Two Chinese women appeared be- Supervisory Yuan and ten Minis-fore Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning
tries.
ALLEGED KIDNAPPING.
Chinese correspondents whò se on a charge of kidnapping a boy companied the party, interviewed from Kowloon City. Sub-Inspector Yen at Shihchiachwang. He urg-A. H. Elston intimated that Mr. J. ed financial reform,:, abolition of Barrow, of the S.C.A., will prose- "squeeze," and self-government; cute, and asked for a remand. The British Ambassador, Sirend declared the Government His Worship: I thought the Ronald Lindaay, called at the State Department and conferred with Mr. William Castle, Assist ant Secretary of State.
The conversation was apparent- | —Reuter.
Take
should be composed of civilians, not militarists. He said Wang Ching-wel was the most suitable leader for the Party and nation
5.C.A. only took up girls!
Sub-Inspector Elaton: Yes, but this is a complicated case.
Defendants were remanded for one week.
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