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TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. ---The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/3 5:16.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
NEURITIS PREVENTS DROUGHT CAUSES U.S. POWERS AND YEN HSI-SHAN AT
Vice-Admiral Kelly to Bradman and Grimmett Succeed Sir A. Waistell
Resting.
A SURPRISING CHANGE.
HOBBS v. GRACE.
London, Yesterday.
Rugby. Yesterday..
ANXIETY.
Over 18,000,000. Live Stock Affected.
PRESIDENT'S ACTION.
CHINA
BRITAIN & U.S. HAVE | NO UNDERSTANDING
"..
FRENCH VIEWS.
NATIONS ARE BOUND TO CO-OPERATE.
Washington, Yesterday.
TIENTSIN.
Statement on Party Affairs.
ON WAY TO TSINANFU.
RAISING THE WIND.
Dainty EyeglassCo
N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Optician 13, Queen's Road Central.
Increase of Taxes on Wine and Tobacco.
"NOTHING TO DO BUT PAY."
CALCUTTA'S INFERIOR TAXIS.
Bombay Service "Best in
: the World."
A COMPARISON.
Washington, Testerday.'
Tientsin, July 22, Vice-Admiral William Archi- It was expected that Jack President Hoover stated that
The Tientsin Central Station
Peking, July 23.
The closed taxi is making an ap bald Howard Kelly, C.R.. CM.G., Hobbs, the famous England bats- the Preliminary reports show that
was strongly guarded by troops opposition of the Chinese and for- and if only the drivers would take As the result of the unanimous pearance in the streets of Calcutta Vice-Admiral Commanding the man, who yesterday scored his approximately 1,000,000 families,
and police early yesterday morning when, the special train First
carrying eign merchants, the authorities have some little care to ensure the main- Battle Squadron, and jone hundred and seventy-fourth or 12 per cent. of the entire popu
General Yen Hsi-shan, and his staff finally abandoned the scheme to tenante of 'their vehicles in decent Second in Command of the Medi-century in first class cricket in the lation of the United States, have Secretary of State, has issued a Tainan. General Yen's train start-
Mr. William Castle, Assistant passed through en route for establish 2 terranean Fleet since 1929, has match against Sussex, would to-been affected by the drought. communique stating that no un-ed from Shihchiachuang at 11 monopoly in the Northern Pro- towards catching up to the quality. wine and tobacco condition this might be a beginning been appointed to be Commander-day in the second innings score The Red Cross authorities have derstanding of any kind exists o'clock on Sunday morning and vinces, but the wine and tobacco of the taxis in Bombay. in-Chief of the China Station, in the sixteen runs required to beat been instructed to stand by and between the United States and reached Tientsin at 4.30 am. year merchants were notified yesterday succession to Vice-Admiral Sir W. G. Grace'a record aggregate of relieve any possible suffering.
Great Britain as regards China, terday.
An American visitor who recent- Arthur Kipling Wnistell, K.C.B., 54.896 runs. Owing to an attack
and that no diplomatic.conversa-
to the effect that a 50 per cent. ly passed through both cities has ex- Practically all the local high Mr. Hoover declared that the tions in that connection have Chinese officials, including Mr. tncrease of the present tax would be pressed the opinion that Bombay's C.B., who has held that appoint-of neuritis in the shoulder, how-situation gave cause ment since 1929. Vice-Admiral ever, he had to retire from the concern, but pointed out that the (cept Japan and China. The United Yuan Ching-tseng, acting Garrison that all goods. in store should be world, and Calcutta's probably the for great been held with any countries ex- Tsui, the Mayor, and General enforced from the 21st instant, and taxis are about the beat in the Kelly's appointment will take field this afternoon
States Government has adhered to' Commander of Tientsin, had been to undergo drought mainly affected animal its policy of protecting its nation present at the station from mid required to pay alike. Before the worst. effect from December 12. 1930.-special treatment. It is anticipat- fodder, and there was an abunals, and the question of military night, and when the train pulled issuance of the above notice, the drivers, greatly to the advantage He has also compared the ed that he will be fit for play in dant supply of human food, and naval movements is entirely into the station amid the strains authorities had appointed inspectors of Bombay, and he adds that the the final test match on August 16. Nevertheless, there would
in the hands of American com- of the band General Yen received to take a complete record of the Calcutta, Sikh driver has nothing to Don Bradman. Australia's star much privation of families in the ter's American Service.
be manders in the Far East-Reu-them In, the train for В batsman, is resting in London, drought area, owing to the loss of
few amount of tobacco and wine in store. learn in dash minutes.
from the Parisian having strained a toe in a match income and the financial burden
[An earlier cable stated:- General Yen, in an
A delegation of representatives of taxi-man, who has hitherto been sc- interview The British Ambassador,, Sir granted to Chinese Press repre- the chief
the Chinese tobacconists called on cepted as the Atlantic Fleet from 1922-23/earlier in the week and Grimmett, imposed through carrying their
Ronald Lindsay, called at the sentatives, stated that the purpose Bureau yesterday afternoon to re-ters of recklessness and defiance of the most hair-raising of the Cigarette Tax motorist in the world; in the mat- the Australian googly bowler, is animals over the winter,
State Department and confer- of the journey to Tainan is to meet quest a postponement of the enforce orders and regulations however he From 1923-24 he was a Lord Com-)
the Generals on the front and he ment of the new increase. In reply gives the Sikh the first place of all. missioner of the Admiralty and also having a full week's rest be-
It is estimated that 250,000
will stay there for about a week to their demands, Mr. Kao Hwal, before he returns to Shihchia-the Chief, pointed out that the states Property, why Calcutta has It would be interesting to know, chuang.
"No step has been definitely from Marshal Yen Hai-shan with question suggests itself as to whe increase was enforced on orders so many drivers of this race, and taken for the organisation of a government
the ultimate object of curbing the ther the comparative conditions of at the moment," continued General Yen, extravagant habita of the people, as the vehicles themselves has any con-- "Regarding the Party, I am firmly well as to increase the receipts. nection with the nationality of the convinced that the Party belongs Both the people and the country drivers.
Reuter,
WIS
Sir Arthur Waistell [Vice Admiral Waistell born on March 30, 1873. and com- manded the Destroyer Flotillas in
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff. fore the final Test which will de- horses and mules, 6,000,000 head i
He served throughout the Euro-cide the rubber.--British Wire- nean War and was mentioned it less Service USTA KES despatches. From 1924-26 he commanded the First Cruiser Squadron.
Vice-Admiral Kelly. Vice-Admiral Kelly, the third son of Lieut.-Col. H. H. Kelly, R.M.A., entered the Royal Navy in 1886, and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1894, Commander
in 1904. Captain in 1911, and Rear-Admiral in 1922. He served in Somaliland from 1902-04, after-
BELOVED BISHOP.
FAREWELL TO BEAUTIFUL ORIENT.
GOOD WORK LAUDED.
Members of the Portuguese com-
munity gathered in full force in the Club Lusitano yesterday afternoon wards being decorated with ato bid farewell to the Rt. Rev. Mgr.
medal and clasp for his services. Jose
da Costa Nunes, Roman He served throughout the Euro-Catholic Bishop of Macao and pean War, and was Commodore
comanding the 8th. Light Cruiser Timor, who sailed to-day for Squadron in 1917. From 1918-9 Europe on the N.Y.K. s.s. Haruna he was Commodore, first class, Maru. The Bishop is returning to commanding the British Adriatic Lisbon, and it is rumoured that this Force, and was appointed head of the British Naval Mission to signifies an important change and Greece (with the rank of Rear-his possible elevation to a higher Admiral in the Greek Navy) from ecclesiastical post under the Lisbon 1919-21. He was promoted to be Government. Vice-Admiral in 1927, having commanded the second Cruiser Squadron from 1925-27.]
PEAK THEFT.
of cattle, and 12,000,000 hogs and sheep have been affected.
The President is calling A, con- ference of Governors of the States in the drought area to discuss measures of alleviating the dis- tress.-Reuter's American Ser-
vice.
NANKING DEFEAT. CLAIMS OF NORTHERN. LEADERS.
FINE WEATHER.
The Royal Observatory re- ported at 10.10 am. to-day-
A typhoon has formed to the S.E. of Loochoos. It la moving N.W.
Pressure gradients are shallow over the China Sea.
Forecast:-West or variable winds, light; fine.
the subject of the discussion was what steps the United States would take to protect American nationals and their property in China.]
present
to the entire body of its members would be benefitted thereby during The bad conditions of a large pro- and unless everything in the Party this time of economic depression. 'portion
L
of Calcutta's taxis
is
If a few
CarS
is carried on through the co-opera- With regard to the agreement notorious. In Bombay it is the tion of the majority of the mem- concluded between the Nanking exception to find a taxi which is not bers there can never be unity in Government and the foreign tobacco clean, smartly turned out, and care- the Party, The foremost import companies, since a breach had been fully driven and many of the ance in the administration is to declared between Nanking and the vehicles' are quite equal to the best red with Mr. William Castle, preserve peace for the people, and North, such an agreement was not private cars of the same make. Assistant Secretary of State.
pure administration is essential.binding to the Northern authorities. The conversation was appar-During recent years no statement At present 75 per cent. of the priae here in Calcutta.
There must be a field for enter ently important, as Mr. Castle of Government finance has ever cigarettes consumed in Hopel are really first class saloons were sent BIG CAPTURES.
immediately afterwards hasten- been made public. Nobody to-day foreign made, while Chinese pre-on to the streets with careful driv- ed to the White House, where can realise how much the present ducts only occupy 10 per cent, theers, they would attract custom and Peking, Yesterday. he was received by President Government has spent of the Chinese merchants, therefore, suffer rapidly repay the small extra costs munique states that in the centre
Feng Yu-hsiang in a
Hoover. Com-
national revenue since no state- very little from the new increase, of proper maintenance. It would, It is credibly reported that ment to such effect has ever been Mr. Kao averred. In conclusion, he of course, mean
made to the people."
that such of the Lunghai Railway front the
declared that the average receipts of would have to be garaged at night battalion commanders and a thou- Shansi forces have captured two
Referring to the military move his Bureau monthly sand men; while the left wing of
ment, General Yen said that the $400,000. By making a 50 per cent. but the people
were about and properly cleaned and polished, downfall of General Chiang Kai- Increase it would caally reach would know that they had not been who hired them Shih Yu-san's army has occupied
shek will be the end of the present $600,000 per month. He emphatic standing in Russia Road all night or Mr. A. FB. Silva-Netto, as Pre- the four outer. gates of TERO-
What France Thinks. military movement..
ally assured the merchants that used as the bed of an haien. sident of the Club, made the princi-
unwashed Paris, Yesterday.
General Yen added that with the nothing could be done but to obey driver and his friends, Commenting on the situation in expected arrival of Mr. Wang the order since
It is dim- pal speech at the reception, charac
Cavalry have rounded the China, Le Temps says that if Ching-wei in the North, he will authorised by Marshal Yen. Final attach importance to personal clean- the increase was cult to understand. why people who enerny's terising the large attendance as a Kuyueh and Kiasiang, and are ed that the local forces, are in- P. & T. Times.
flank and reached things grow worse, and it is prov meet him at Shihchiachuangly, the representatives asked for anliness should tolerate the present gesture of homage to a beloved pressing on towards Chiting and adequate to protect foreign lives
exemption of all goods now in store condition of affairs. Bishop, He also paid tribute to the the Tientsin-Pukow line.
from the new increase, which Mr. Bishop's zealous attention to all have captured three hundred carts no interested Power will refuse in They and property, it is probable that
Ramshackle Buses, Kao flatly rejected. of supplies. "VERY GOOD BOY"!
matters touching the educational,
It is not only in the matter of After the interview, the tobac-taxis however that Calcutta Inga‘be- moral, and social welfare of the hai front the Kuominchun troops of such action."-Reuter.
concerted action, and adds, "but at
conlats called a joint conference for hind Bombay. The Bombay buses On the right wing of the Lung-present it seems premature to talk Sub-Inspector. S.
the discussion of the situation. As are far better than the average in Logan. In Portuguese communities of Macao, have taken Ningling, thirty li charge of the Mount Gough Police Hong Kong, and other parts of the from Kweiteh, which they expect
a result it was decided that foreign Calcutta and in this respect there is Station, to-day charged before Far East. He wished the Blahop to occupy to day...
London, Yesterday.
and Chines merchants should join a great deal to be learnt from the Mr. R. E. Lindsell a Chinese nam long life and continued good health,
The Times in a leading article,
FOR JAPAN,
in a united front to make a firm western Capital. ed Tong-Tung (35), formerly em- and thanked him for his many acts way front we have occupied Hwai-erament has expressed regret to "On the Peking-Hankow Rail- comments that the Nanking Gov-
Apparently the London, Yesterday.
stand against the increase, and to whole system there is different, for ployed by Mr. J. W. Franks. of kindness and good. work for the yang and are advancing towards the Governments of the United of the Western Europe Division of temporarily until a reply to their results. In the appalling muddle of Mr. Theodora Marriner, Chief Buspend the sale of cigarettes the indiscriminate licensing which Superintendent of Victoria Jail. Portuguese of Hong Kong Chowchiakow. as "boy" at his house, 151, The
Other troops States and Japan in connection the United States State Depart- telegraphic appeals to Marshal Yen, Calcutta's public service vehicles The Portugueses Consult-General have captured Shangshui, and with the sack of Changsha. Hument, disembarked at Southamp-in which they threatened to suspend seems to Peak, with larceny as a servant said that, Mgr. Nunes had conferred Pehwutu. eastward and westward Han-min has stated that the ton, to-day from New York, carry-business entirely as protest Bombay.
be absent altogether in of $117, the property of his em- honour on the position of Bishop of the Peking-Hankow line, re-itself responsible for the acts of envelope. Inside was the Ameri- received from Taiyuan. At the and are run in conjunction with the ployer. Accused pleaded guilty." of Macao; and the Rt. Rev. Bishop spectively." Reuter.
Nationalist Government will holding a small, heavily sealed brown against the new increase has been The buses there are all of one type The Inspector said that the ac-H. Valtorta, Vicar-Apostolic of cused absconded from
Chinese citizens, but most foreign can instrument of ratification of same
time, the authorities have Tramways and the results are ob- Franks's house on January 29, Nunes for 20 years, said that it was
Mr. Hong Kong, who had known Bishop GANDHI'S FAILURE.. pleased to learzi that serious mea- will hand it in London to General on the new scale in Hopei province. body.
Governments would be better the Three Power Naval Past He ordered all collectors to collect taxes viously to the advantage of every- taking with him $57 which had not possible for one to know him OFFICIALS WITHDRAW THEIR medial, are being taken by Nan- tion arrivee Dawes will take it to been entrusted to him to pay cer- without being inspired by a feel-
It is safe to say that not eures, not only repressive but re- Dawes, and when Japan's ratiflea-AN.A.
one-fourth of the buses which ply tain billa, and $50 which he stole ing of deep affection for him.
RESIGNATIONS. before leaving the house. Then
up to the universal standard of the for hire in the centre of Calcutta are Well Treasure Memories. two sum of money ormed the sub-
Bombay vehicles, and there are no dirty, ramshackle or broken down vehicles to be seen there at all.
MR. J. W. FRANKS LOSES $117.
fect of separate charges against In his reply Bishop Nunes' said the accused. All trace of accus: that he felt more at home in a ed was lost until yesterday when humble position, and would prefer was arrested in the Central to stay with his friends in the Far district by Chinese detective C311 East. He had accepted the invita
he
secutively.
was served.
MALAVIYA FREED,
Bombay, eYsterday. Malaviya has been released.
Allahabad, Yesterday,
NAVAL PACT. RATIFICATION PAPERS ARRIVE IN BRITAIN.
WAITING
king against the alarming growth the Foreign Office, where, the TRIBESMEN'S FOLLY of Communist banditry, in the various ratifications, will be ex- central and southern provinces.
changed. Reuter.
The Nanking Government has
no force available to defeat the
rebels. The prosecution of the
The reinforcement of British
civil war, which nobody expects naval strength in the Middle
Sir Tej Sapru, who has return-will end in a decisive victory over Yangtze is a necessary precau
AFRIDIS ACT AGAINST ADVICE OF ELDERS.
VILLAGES BOMBED.
Rugby, Yesterday,
The condition.of the buses is of course closely connected with the question of fares and there is no doubt that many of the fares now Warnings having failed to con- to make it impossible to run paying charged in Calcutta' are so low as
Mr. Franka, who was present tion from Lisbon from a sense of ed from Lucknow, states that it the Northerners, is occupying its tion after what has happened in in Court, told the Magistrate that duty, not desiring to Inconvenience is not yet definitely decided whe-military energies, exhausting its Changsha, the accused had been a very good those who had extended the invita ther Motilal Nehru and Jawahria financial sources and driving Such a precaution clearly would vince Afridi tribesmen of the services at all. They have only boy" and he could not under tion by a refusal. He would a Nehru will go to Toons to see great numbers of the peasantry not be needed if the Nanking folly of their adventure, villages come into existence by reason of the stand why he did such a thing, ways treasure memories of the Gandhi. He is still communicatto despair, which is the best-re-Government were able to protect in the Bara Valley, 15 miles from fact that many small men have daah- The accused had been in his em years he had spent in the beautifuling with the Viceroy about the cruiting sergeant for a Commun- British lives and interests, but Peshawar were bombed on Weded Into the transit trade with no- ployment twice, the first time for Orlent. In conclusion, he exhorted
ist organiser or bandit chief. over a year, and later for two the gathering to exert their indivi- proposed visit.
they will manifestly be un-nesday and yesterday by units of thing more than the capital to pay a Surata, Yesterday, Extrality Question.
able to do so as long as they are the Royal Air Force. Press re-few instalments on a smagi hire- months.
dual efforts to raise the prestige of The Magistrate, passed sentence the Portuguese nationals in this officials, who resigned at the be- Minister in China has prepared The Manchester Guardian in a a small raiding party. The their only hope is to scratch a few
A hundred and ninety village
at war with the North Reuter. ports from Peshawar state that puchated vehicle. The news that the British London, Yesterday. British troops to-day engaged in of six weeks, hard labour on each part of the world. charge, the fall terms to run con- The gathering departed after ten movement, have withdrawn their fieation of extraterritorial rights transference of the Legation to stated to exceed 5,000. It is for the bus before it falls to ploces ginning of the civil disobedience proposals with regard to the mod leader states that though the strength of the hostile force is annus per journey so as to pay The result is that in a few months
resignations. Reuter.
would be more interesting if for Nanking. might be curious at a under the leadership of young and possibly to get a small balance LOCAL BANK SENSATION.
eign missionarica could live in time when the Nanking Govern- tribesmen acting against the au- to themselves in the meantime. LORD BIRKENHEAD. Chinese towns without fear of ment is in obvious danger of a vice of their Elders, and was Eventually the folly and, futility of HONOURED WITH DECORATION under the above heading it was RESTLESS NIGHT BUT STRENGTH com, and if foreign merchants contribution Britain can still at the western end of Khajura a Hving will become apparent to
| In our paragraph yesterday
being kidnapped and held to ran complete collapse, it is the one yesterday concentrated in caves these desperate attempts to make OF HOLLAND
stated that the Bank Involved | SON MAINTAINED: N
were not exposed to risk, having make to support a Government of Peak The movement is the re-everybody, but even then the gamble NETHERLANDS GRAND CROSS This, it has been pointed out to Rugby Yesterday their property in the hands of There cannot be any question revolutionary agents, and has thee to numbers of Indlan
has a head office in New York. ww
to escape in gunboats and leave any kind in China,ault of prolonged propaganda by in it will make the process attrac us, is misleading as the head A bulletin Isabed this afternoon voters on The Hague, Yesterday,office of the National City Bank states that Lord Birkenhead has
There is says the journal, a when, as now, the struggle is be- ignorance of the resistance which Unless the lessons, universally
of military intervention, but been undertaken in complete time. mina of of New York which is not the had another reatless night, but
unreality about the nego tween anarchy and the one pos-the Afridia are certain to meet in visible and most apparent in Bom- upon the Bank refe p16 in New there is no extension of, the bron-tations, which po
r the York. Wẻ
Cabling this chial/ pneumonia process, and his existence of a tolerable measure to give what civilian aid le pos Peshawar, where British troope organisation are learnt in Calcutta, the sibility of order, we are obliged any attack on the outskirts of bay, of the advantages of transport. of the explanation in fairness to the strength is being maintained. of public security in a country sible to the one civil government have occupied strategic points. the chaos of the streets must pré-
National City Bank of New York. British Wireless Service
which is dally growing less secure. in China, Reuter
British Wireless Service.
sumably continue Indefinitely.
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