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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1930. -
FORMOSA RISING.
HARDSHIPS OF JAPANESE TROOPS.
STRONG RESISTANCE.
Tokyo, Yesterday. Torrential rain and the guerrilla tactics of their opponents are ad- ding to the hardships of the troops operating in the savage districts,
SNOW IN PEKING.
FOLLOWS 36 HOURS OF RAIN.
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Peking, Yesterday. Peking is experiencing most ex- ceptional weather.
Following thirty-six hours of snow Incessant rainfall, heavy last night and this morning cover: ed the ancient capital with a deep mantle, unknown in October.
Numerous telephone and tele
A general attack by infantry, graph wires were broken, while artillery and police of about 1,500 the streets and courtyards are strong, however, is expected to be strewn with hundreds of branches launched this morning, in co-opera-smashed of the trees.--Router. ilon with machine guns and air- craft.
A strong resistance is anticipat ed, as tribesmen, realising their desperate plight, are reported to be prepared to fight to the laat man, while many of their women- folk have committed suicide, so as to leave their warriors free of anxiety, sa to their safety.
According to an Asahi despatch, General Watanabe, Commander-in- Chief in Formosa; has ordered the suppression of the rebels, which is taken to indicate that the military intend to take control of the whole of the operations, which hitherto have been in the hands of the civil authorities and police..
According to despatches from Talhoku, the capital of Formosa, the tribesmen attacked only the Japanese, there being not a single! Formosan victim. The police are accordingly inclined to suspect that certain Formosans Instigated the aborigines, and have arrested number of suspects.
B
AIR SERVICES.
HARBOUR IN HOLLAND OR GERMANY.
LESS LONDON FOG.
CAUSES THAT TEND TO IMPROVEMENT.
DECREASE OF SOOT.
London's Novembor fogs are like- ly to become less trying.
This opinión was expressed by Sir Napier Shaw, the meteorological expert, who considered that there had been improvement in respect of each of the three factors chiefly responsible.
"Wet morning fog," he explained, "is governed mainly by meteorolo- gical conditions, and may extend on occasions over the greater part of Western Europe. But it is aggras vated by the presence of large areas of sodden ground. Such areas round London are being decreased, both by drainage and building,
"The moist state of the ground Amsterdam, Yesterday.. German and Dutch financial In-after October, the wettest month in terests are negotiating for the es- the year, indeed combines with the tablishment of an airship harbour succeeding winter cooling-of the in Holland or South Germany. atmosphere to make November the with a view to an airship service foggieat month in the twelve. · to the Dutch East Indies.-Reuter.
FAIR.
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states!
Depressions are formed over Tongking and to the North East of Borneo, also to the South-West. of Vladivostock.
Forecast-moderate; south- erly or variable winds; fair.
"Soot, the second great cause of fog and specially of London parti-, culara-la being continuously de creased by the gradual pasaing of the open hearth fire. In my own district there is generally only one chimney which shows any smoke. There is still however, a good deal of Industrial smoke.
Sulphur.
"Sulphur is the third offender, and the second factor which, from the point of view of fog, dia- tinguishes London air from that of the country. Sulphur is emitted whenever coal to burnt, but the use of coal gas is proportionately 17 attempta are also being made to limit the emission of sulphur by
that in
this power stations. So roapect also there is likely to be Improvement.
Governor-General DIPLOMATIC CORPS. times better than direct burning;
Meanwhile, the Government has instructed.. the
of Formosa to ascertain the true cause of the outbreak, and tore port to Tokyo as Boon as possi-
ble.
con-
A formal report in this nection says that nothing is known,
JAPANESE APPOINTMENT-IN-
CHINA.
Tokyo, Yesterday. Mr. Kuramatau Murai, Iate
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"Yet wet fog and sulphur are Ukely to remain. Dark fogs could but press reports indicate a grow-First Secretary to the Embassy In be prevented by the elimination of ing belief that the outbreak was Brazil, will be appointed to sue smoke, and that nebular" appear- largely due to the tribesmen's ob- ceed Mr. Shigemitsu as Consulance which transforms a blue sky. jection to the corvee system General at Shanghai, Mr. Shige into. white and is, in my opinion, henceforth confining his due to sulphur. A decrease in dark (forced labour), though a number mitzu
of. contributory, causes are also duties to those of the Charge fogs will be a most important im mentioned.
d'Affairs in China. Reuter.
A badger was discovered in the garden of a house in Woodbridge Road, Guildford, and was shot dead by a policeman with a revolver,
provement in the life of the City for on a thick, day there are no fewer than 4lbs. of dirt In a hun dred-yard cube of London air. The sunshine figures for Bunhill-row, in | the City, Illustrate the present tendency. In December, 1905, the
It is understood that the Minist er for Overseas Affairs has in- formed the Cabinet that the au- thorities have decided to refrain from a polley of retallation in Formosa and adopt one of bene- volence, as best suited to bring the An anonymous donor has given City at this point last 88 per cent.
control. situation 'under
No £50,000 to Armstrong College, New-of the country sunshine"; the cor
for the twelve leniency will be shown to the ring-castle, for the building of a hal! of responding figure leaders of the insurrection, how-residence for men at Benton, months of 1929 was less than 30
Northumberland.
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