WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1930.
END OF KWANGSI
WAR IN SIGHT?
Whole Chinese Nation Opposed to "Reds."
A PEACE PARLEY.
Canton, Monday.
LOTTERY TICKETS.
EUROPEAN'S COOK AND PRINTING PRESS.
A STIFF SENTENCE.
A Chinese charged with posses- sion of a printing press, used for of making lottery: the purpose tickets, was this morning convicted jund ined $500, or four months, be-1
fore Mr. E. H. Williams.
It was stated by Det-Inspector
GERMAN SECRET
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ARMAMENTS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Minister Says. Charges Nonsensical.
;
FEARS OF FRANCE.
NEGRO SKULLS. TRUE TALE OF EUROPEÁN STATESMEN
BERLIN AMUSED.
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'Berlin (by mall). 'Even the most tragic chapters | In the history of nations may have!
For the Get its fash of humour. man people, the Treaty of Versailles is surely no pleasant, no amusing subject; yet a revelation concerning one of it clauses has just sent ripple of laughter from one end of conference, was voiced by Clauso two of articla 246 of the
Berlin, Nov. 20. The fact that Germany is much The possibilities of an early Carey, for the Police, that defen- conclusion of the Kwangsi war dant was a cook boy employed at disturbed by the developments at are mentioned by General Maa European residence at 7, Queen's the Geneva preparatory disarma- the country to the other." Heu-chun in the course of a Press Gardens. The arrest was effected ment Interview at Wuchow. By order by Sergeant Byron on
a search Herr Groener Minister of Defence, Treaty that attempted to settle the an Interview given to effairs of the world reads as Press in which
he de-follows: Applores that 12
after years
"The akull of Sultan Makaua, which was taken away from German East Africa and brought to Germany shall be handed over to the British Government withi in a period of six months."
VISIT TO BE MADE IN NEW YEAR.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S
OFFICE.
LIST may be maintained for IN ORDER that a COMPLETE
that those Ludles and Gentlemen. record purposes, it is requested resident in Hong Kong, other than those now serving in His Majesty's Forces, who have had any decora
tion conferred upon them by His Majesty the King, will inform the Chief Clerk. Colenial Secretariat, unless this has already been done, within 14 days from the 12th De cember. 1930.
PARIS MODELS AT COST. AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY.
M MAISON LUCILE, Paris &
A cordial Invitation is extended
of the Central Government, Ger-warrant. A quantity of printing in eral Ma came to the South last year, tickets, etc. (produced) were the month with the object of termin- found in defendant's room. uting the southern campaign,parently it had been there for the the armistice more money' was; being spent on armaments and since he is a native of Kwangsi. past three or four months.
had more men were under arms According to General Ma, hel Mr. Carey added that he
before Europe than
the a heavy in had commissioned two delegates, been asked to press for
insisting that Germany Messrs. Wai Chao-yung and Mal penalty, as the man had protected war,
The German representatives (for) Chin-hsung, to Nanning to inter- himself to some extent by virtue of will continue to press for the ful- of the disarmament
In the circumstances then obtain- ME. KEES reprosenting view the Kwangsi Generals being in European employment and filment
pledges given by former Allied
fhg, negotiators were the wrong Wang Cho-tso and Wang Hsueh-tving on the premises. ling, who immediately wired to Accused admitted possession, Powers in the peace treaty.
word), could not for the life of Shanghai, offers the remainder of Germany, the Minister declared, Generala Li Tsung-yen, Pei but denied complicity in the print-
Sultan Maksua had been, or how MODELS at Cost Price. Heung-hai, Chang Fat-kutei and ing of the tickets. He was sen-is completely disarmed and all talk them think what the skull was, who her stock of the latest PARIS about secret German armaments his niortal remains or any portion This exceptional offer is made Wang Shao-hung for instructions. tenced as stated.
and potential reserves is nonsensi-of them had ever taken the long in view of her pending departure Upon receipt of the wire, the four
cal. Without mincing his words,
But they had for Shanghai and trail to Berlin.
n desire to leading Kwangsi Generals assem-
Minister Groener proceeded to re-other cares at that time than the avoid incurring Customa Duties fute and ridicule France's vague skull of a negro chieftain in far off as much as possible at that Port. fears of the German army which, Africa. So clause 2 of article 246 he said, was vastly inferior in num duly appeared in the text of the bera, material and equipment to
Treaty of Versailles.. France's army, not to mention the armed forces of France's satellites A Trade Mission, similar in en Germany's Eastern frontier. Imoreover, has naver character to the, Trade Missions France,
proof's for her sent to other foreign countries, adduced
that Germany Was with tens of reference corrce-sertions
arming because Buch ponding to those of the mission secretly which recently visited Japan and
Limited By Treaty, is at present in China, has been
"Every single part of the German appointed to visit Egypt carly in
my's equipment, including even 1. That the same treatment the new year.
as other Nationalists be The personnel Is Sir Arthur the horseshoes, is limited by the meted out to the Kwangsi- Balfour as Chairman (Sir Arthur Versailles treaty. If our army es- Ironside forces after sur-Balfour was Chairman of the Gov-timates, though much lower than ernment Committee on. Industry in pre-war days, are comparatively 2. That all Nationalists now in and Trade in 1924); Sir Alan high, this is because we are come an expensive Kwangsi be instructed to Garrett Anderson, Honorary Pre-pelled to maintain
If we were at leave the Kwangai territory;sident of the International Cham-professional army.
with that 3. That the Kwangsi whole ber of Commerce; Mr. W. R. liberty to dispense
province be administered by Blair, Director of the Co-operative and to revert to the con- ing to him a deputation of swarthy Lloyd George many a time before Kwangsi-ites;
bled at Nanning and held a mili-MISSION TO EGYPT. tary conference, with also Gen- erals Yang Teng-fei, Liu Lui, Li Peh-hsin. Liang Han-ko. Ng Ki- wei and Hait Yoh in attendance. In the meeting, Li Tsung-yen first introduced General Ma's two re- presentatives to all those present and then discussed the question of surrender.
Four Conditions.
It was decided by the Kwangsi generals to demand the following four conditions from the Central Government:
render:
Immediately after the confer- ence, the above four conditions were handed over to the two re-
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Suclety, and
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Mr.scription
C.E.R. DISPUTE.
CHINA AND SOVIET TO MEET AGAIN.
system,
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our expen- small army would be con-
Even so France
In due time the British Govern- ment enquired how the handling over the skull was getting
to the Ladies of Hong Kong to In- spect these Paris Models Hong Kong Hotel Room 302.
at the
end in the Wilhelmstrasse a muAMERICAN
to
tude of offelals were wakened out Chemical Diamonds are equal to real of their bureaucratic repose by a diamonds in brilliancy, lustro and trantic search for a trace of the hardness. Cut glasses like real dia ekull.
monds. Proof against fire, steel filo and natric acid. Price per carat No It was a flash in the pan.
H.K. $5 nett Terms Cash ́er C.O.D. The British The akull was found.
American Chemical Diamond P.0. Box 360, PENANG, Government in the meantime had Co., had its attention distracted from STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
some urgent Sultan Makaua topic.
During the last term of office of that the Great White Father would Mr. Lloyd George, this smiling and ece to the return of the skull.
Then Mr. Lloyd George-forgot all mercurial statesman was one day startled by his secretary introduce about it. As had happened to Mr. gentlemen who were obviously on vastly more important matters.
The fourth act came when, in il at case in the swallowtall coats 4. That the Kwangsi-Ironside Kenneth Lee, a well-known Lanen-diture for such a
and stiff starched collars they had response to urgent reports from troops are not to be dis- ehire cotton manufacturer.-Bri-jef 10,000 men
donned for the occasion. Precise British political officers in East banded.
tish Wireless Service.
siderably lower. spende several times the Germany what they wanted the Foreign Africa, Downing Street renewed ite in Sultan Makaun's expenditure on armaments and it Office was at a loss to discover til interest
bones. Mr. Chamberlain was then F.O. authority in view of that fact we are asked a muster of every why Germany maintains an army on African dialects produced a Foreign Secretary, He despatched at all, I can give evidence that the young gentleman able to translate a special courier to Dr. Stresemann
It concern.
asking him about it. More alarums other party is unwilling to discuss the deputation's talk.
ed clause 2 of article 246
In the Wilhelm- of the and excursions the problem rationally."
Treaty of Versailles. It demand- strasse, where every dossier refer- Comparison of Forces. Moscow, Yesterday. The Minister then compared cd with intenso earnestness the re-ring to the skull had been pigeon Karakhan, the Under-French and German armaments turn of the skull of the dear depart-holed beyond the possibility of re- In the meantima Dr. Stresemana died, and Dr. Curtius Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and emphasized that the German ed Sultan Makaua to the ancestral covery. has informed General Moh Teh-army was not permitted such im- burying grounds of his tribe.
The matter interested Mr. Lloyd reigned in his stend. Fullest en- hul, head of the Chinese delega- portant arms as military nero- tion to the Russo-Chinese confer- planes, tanks and heavy artillery. George and he probed, probably for quiry failed to reveal the presence ence, who is about to depart for Aa' regards the German industry's the first time, the real reasons for of the Sultan's skull, for the some- reason that it had China for a period, that the potential capacity to turn out this strange akull clause. It ap.what natural
in Berlin at any Soviet Government, fully shares such weapons in time of war, he peared that Makana was in his day never existed... his repeatedly expressed wish that recalled the fact that it took the powerful dusky potentate in East rate. But the tribe nagged the a start be made in the discussion Highly developed American indus- Africa. His skill as a ruler was ex-deputation to Europe (who had of questions such as the Chinese try nearly a year to reorganise it only equalled by his prowess on the spent ten years of the tribe's in cen- Eastern Railway, and trade and self for armament deliveries. battlefield. He died. That was a come in going to see. Mr. Lloyd diplomatic relations, for which Finally, the Minister declared that trifle over a hundred years ago. George), and the deputation nagged special commissions were formed Germany submitted to the Var- In due course of time there was the British colonial authorities, turn nagged Downing redoubtable who in at the conference on December 4. sailles treaty restrictions in view nothing left of the
Wilhelm- The hope is expressed that Moh of the other signatories pledge to Makaua. besides his skull. On this Street, which in turn sent couriers presentatives for further submis-Toh-hul will speedily return and disarm too.
the local medicine men, who were on the subject to the
etraase. the look out for a new sion to the 8th Route Army and the work of the conference be' re: "During the past decade Ger- just on
In the end Dr. Curtius took a the Central Government for consumed.-Reuter.
many has given abundant proof of national charm, seized with glee. sideration. If these demands,
her sincerity but she cannot be ex- In the midst of waird coromontes, herois resolve. He sent for the concluded General Ma, meet with
was "revealed" to the chief curator of Berlin's Anthropological pected to submit for ever to the It the approval of the Central au
principle of one-aided defenceless- medicine mian, and through him to Museum and asked him to provide thorities, the Kwangsi Generals
ness. No nation will voluntarily an expectant people that the tribe an East African skull. The eavant wouldnt once issue a circular
abandon her right to self-defence, that possessed the skull of Sultan explained that this was easier sald telegram pledging their loyalty
The demand for national security Makaun would be prosperous and than done; what kind of East and declaring their surrender to
18 justified and recognised happy so long as it did possess it. African skull was required?. There the Central Government:
by the Covenant of the But no longer. The chief medicine were three kinds. He gave their Paris, Yesterday.League of Nations. The dis-man constituted himself, his heirs full acientific names and classica-
"Is this village healthy?" "Yes, you can become
tenarian in no time here?"--
Mouatique, Charleroi.
Nation Against Reds.
REAL ENTENTE.
FRENCH PLEA FOR GERMAN FRIENDSHIP.
WE A
STOLEN BY THE INDIANS.
Years Ago in Texas.
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With a view to settling the civil | A paper prepared by M. Poin- parity of armaments in Europe is and successors, as the heaven-sent tion together with an expose of strife throughout the country, so care was read to-day, in his ab intolerable and must be brought to guardian of the sald skull Which their leading characteristice. To that all military comrades and sence owing to illness, at the open- an end."-Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
is, of course, a very sound proceed- which of the three had the bead of thelataimented Sultan Makaua people may unite together against ing of the Institute of Germanic"
ing in negro politics, the menace of Reds; the Central Studies.**
The fateful year 1914 came, and belonged? Echo answered: to Government is reported to have M. Poincare therein refutes the
with it the shadow of war was enst which? Sure warn
“Give us all three!" said Dr. agreed to the following points: German contention that Franco-
over the whole earth. Also ove Wang Shao-hung would be ap- Gorman antagonism is due to a
the piece of African territory in Curtius with Solomonlike wisdom. pointed to take charge of the French endeavour to retain the
hibited by the tribe that held the So three negro skulls were sent to 'civil affairs in Kwangsi, on con-monopoly of civilisation, and
ancred skul. The tribe stoc. London: There exports from the dition that Li Chung-yen, Pelopes the Institute will promote Raid of Nearly Seventy staunchly loyal, to the German flag Colonial Office, atid, doubtless, from Haung-hai and Chang Fat-kueihermament intellectual co-opera
under which they had enjoyed the British Museum, are pouring should immediately go abroad;tion between France and Germany.
peace and prosperity. Nothing the over them anxiously, trying tɔ Wang Shao-hung is to com- and thus prepare for à real en-
most skilled agents could say would make up their minds which to send municate with the Canton autente.Router.
Austin, Tex. Nov. 8. thorities for the dispositions of
Millie Dargan, now in her 68th make them move from their stand to East Africa as the real original
One British agent, however, reodetriment of June runs County Texan, poking Manure skull. He sent skilled in this year, of grace means, year, has returned to her old home ambered the tale of gaitan And thoswite is history made her relatives. She was stolen by negotiators to the chief medicing hundred and thirty. Trane THEralding Comanche dhd Klewa Inman Ther held many fair pro
Glana when she was 18 months old mises in their mouths and much Dressed in an Tadlan blanket she fair gold in their hands. There Nanking, Yesterday.
rday. called at the Texas state capita was that, shortly thereafter. The Railway Ministry had ad recently and said that she wanted the tribesmen were struck with in, vanced the Shanghal-Nanking Rail to claim her Texas citizenship..
dignation to find that the sacred SHANGHAI TRAGEDY|vay £86,700, required to pay in-
skull had disappeared. The Head, She has been identified as the medicine man told them with a Berlin, Oct. 14, terest due on December 1, which the rallway was unable to pay on baby stolen in a raid made in 1861 voice throbbing with emotion how With Europe's airmen till de
near the present site of Newcastle, the wicked-Germans had-over-pressed by, the terrible disaster that The Ministry is now revising Tex. Efforts of relatives to learn powered him in his sleep by the use befell the giant British airship the railway rates in order to pro her fate had met the response that of foreign magical formulas, and R101 and which caused such an test the Talway Inatice against she had been killed. Then an got away with the skull enormous load of redhiefly on future allverfluctuations. Reu- Indian Enviferation was ordered at
the Ironside Kwangel troops in RAILWAY FINANCE.
Kwangsley M ON MA
Judging from the above, it apud te pears that the peace movements INTEREST ADVANCED BY in:Kwangsi may come to sight in
- MINISTRY, the not distant future-Canton News Agency...
P.W.D. ENGINEER SHOT BY ACCIDENT:
Shanghai, Yesterday,
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Council de From wound in
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side, Which was the end portant discovery which promises. first fact, The second set to give a fresh Impetus to airship.
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