CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. (TBROCOM REUTER'S AGENOT.]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER - 15TH, ⠀|| 1924
LATEST CABENS.
WARLIKE WAHABIS.
ACTIONS AGAINST, DUNLOP THREATENED MARCH ON MECCA.
COMPANYA"
A £1.50 SETTLEMENT.
Casso, October 13th
It is reported that the Wahabis refusë to negotiate, and intend to advance on Mecca.
Emir Ali and all his Government have withdrawn to Babri
JDAB, October 14th,
THE CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.
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CHEKIANOITES TROOP TO
SHANGHAL
CHINESE CRISIS. "POWERS AND INTERVENTION.
[T THE DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT OF THE
"DALLY TEEKODAPH."} LONDON,
HARBOURING CHARGE. CHINESE WOMAN IN THE DOCK AT KOWLOON. Wong Kan, 45, a married woman, of
The movement in favour of a pacific in 33. Temple Street, Yaumati, was charged tervention by the Powers in China ison reinand before Mr. E. W. Hamilton rapidly gaining ground both in America at the Kowloon Magistraey yesterday, and in this country. It is, of course, not afternoon, with reviving and harbouring easy to formulate the exact line which a married woman named Tang Tsoi Sun Che-should be adopted, but the following ideas by force, intimidation, or fraud on or
have been propounded in one competent about August 19th at 33. Temple Street. quarter.
A further charge against the woman
HOME ELECTION.
LONDON, October 14th. A settlement has been announced in the
SHANGHAI, October 14th." CONSERVATIVE-LIBERAL PACT.
King's Bench actions by Sir Arthur du
The Kiangsuites have ocenpied Lung LONDON, October 14th.
hua and the Kiangnan Arsenal. Cross and others against the Dunlop Labour's chances of success at the polla Type and Rubber Goods Company. Ltd.,
Several thousands of leaderies is likely to be seriously affected by the and the Dunlop Rubber Company (Far The Wahabis' advance has cut off direct kiangites, including officers having dis pact between the Conservative and East), Ltd.. to enforce payment of re-communication between Mecca and Jed-appeared" to Shanghai from the fronts Liberal associations in a steadily grow-muneration due to plaintifs as members dah Bahri, to which place Ali has with have entered and are entering the Chinese ing mumber of constituencies not to put of the advisory committee to the Board drawn, lies close by,
city.
Foreigners living in Chinese territory comment on the good behaviour of the men and any their discipline gives no enüse to fear looting on a large scale.
SHANGHAI CHINESR CITY.
Shasanai, October 13th,
candidates against each other where a Government candidate is standing. The conclusion of this arrangeruent at Paisley was followed by a wholesale agreement at Glasgow where 13 Conservatives and
of the Canadian Company for the decade from 1917 or. Alternatipely, to recover damages for repudiation of agreement. The Company unreservedly withdraw the
THE LAST ZEPPELIN.
TRANS-ATLANTIC TRIP..
HORTA. Azores, Oct. 13th. The ZR3, passing the island of Fayal
flying sixty-six miles an hour. All aboard”
two Liberals will engage in a straight charge of, frand and counterclaim, and this aftemoon, reported that she was
Eght against Labour.
Opposition is to be offered to Mr. Lloyd George at Carnarvon by a Labourite, Professor A. Zimmern.
agreed to pay very substantial damages Plaintiffs, however, were content to ac cept 231.950 by way of settlement against 'both Companies.
EARLIER CABLES"
FASCISM IN ENGLAND.
POLICE COURT STORIES...
LONDON, October 13th. Four men bare been charged at Bow Street in connection with the disturbance & Communist meeting in Trafalgar Square on Sunday.
Detor Addison,the ex-Coalition Minis- ter, will fight the sitting Conservative at Hauersmith in the Labour interests. The Conservatives up to now have the largest number of candidates in the field, but the Labourites and Liberals are waking leeway quickly. MR. ASQUITH TO FIGHT LABOUR.at
LONDON, October 14th." Colonel Shaw (1′′ninnist) has withdrawn his candidature for Paisley, thas leaving Mr. Asquith a straight fight against the Labourite, Mr. Mitchell.
STRAIGHT FIGHT FOR MR.
MACDONALD.
The Conservatives at Aberavon have decided not to run a candidate, but un- officially support the Liberal nominee akainst MacDonald.
EARLIER CABLES.
MR. MACDONALD'S SPEECH-
Loxous, October 13th. In a speech before three thousand
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A policeman said he heard one, who wore a Fawistti badge. ealling the crowd dirty dogs, and as he refused to go away he was arrested in order to pre- vent a breach of the peace, as the crowd were threatening. The accused told the magistrate that the crowd surrounded him when they saw his badge, and he sang the National Anthem when he heard the Red Flag" sung. The inagistrate said he had been provocative, anil hound
Ihm over.
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The evidence showed that the three others were members of the crowd who rushed the policemen taking the Fascist policeman. away. One, who struck shoutingCome on, here are the Fas cisti wa sentenced to twenty-one days imprisonment. Another was bound
were well
THE WORLD'S "SPORT.
HOME FOOTBALL,
FIRST DIVISION.
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the S.C.A., and Mr. Q. H. Lyson appear ed for the defendant.
Let it be recognised at once that China alleged that she harboured the complain. is too vast and too heterogeneous inant with intent that she should be sold, language and population to lend herself pledged, purchasid, or otherwise dispos to a system of highly centralised admined of. for the purpose of prostitution.
Sub-Inspector Evans prosecuted for tration. As a matter of fact, under the Manchu dynasty there was always a sys.. tem of extensive decentralisation, rested
The first witness was the complainant, in the persons of the provincial Gover hors, On the other hand, from the stand. Tang Tsoi Sun, who, in answer to the Magistrate, stated that she was 24 and The Klangsaites, who are partisans of point of foreign relations, defence married. Her husband, she said, was in the Central Government of Peking, are customs, and fluance, the restoration of Court.. now negotiating to take over the Chinese unity is essential. A Monarchy ministration of the Chinese city of Shang. might facilitate this restoration more His Worship ordered that he should b
"LONDON, October 13th,
hai,
Bary 1: Arsenal. 0.
LATEST CABLES. (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE} U.S. AND THE LEAGUE. SENATOR" HUGHES DECLARATION.
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JAPANESE OFFICIAL COMMENT..
TOKYO. October 14th, After reiternting Japan's attitude of strict neutrality in the present civil war INDIANAPOLIS, October 14th. Senator Hughes made the first public in China, the Government draws atten- reference to the developments at Geneva tion to the fact that hundreds of thou- in the course of a speech in connectionsards of Japanese are resident in China with the Presidential campaign. He said
As the man was a witness in the casty-
easily than a Republican Constitution. | removed to the corridor outside the Court
KIDNAPPING STORY.
The witness said that she came to flong- kung on August 19th. She was kidnap- ped from Ping Hoi in a steamer" by a man named Ld Yat Chuen, who persuad-
her to accompany him by saying that they would find her husband, from whom she had been separated. Witness was
She discovered the...
“No troubles is apprehended as regards But this is a matter for China, and not room.
foreigners to decide; and, besides, a Re the foreign settlements.
public is well adapted to a compromise in the sense of a Federal Government.
Again, it is not for foreign Powers to As the rival merits of Wu Pei Fu, Chang Tso Lin, or Sun. Ynt Sen, or of "Chih and Eu. What they could do in a friendly way would be to induce the pre-
leaders of all these factions to a, round-nature of the place by the demeanour sent Central Government to convene the taken, to defendant's house, and later
sold to a brothel.
the question had been discussed of the and that Japanese investments and enter-table conference, at which an agreement, and speech for male visitors towards appropriateness of investing a group of prises are being undertaken on a vast in the shape of a federal or federated her. She protested. and suffered no powers with authority to deal with domes tie questions. He declared that Ameri- seale in Manchuria and Mongolia. can sentiment would not tolerate such an Japan's own security therefore depends system of Government, might be reached.actual injury. One evening, on a date agreement America would not enter any au the maintenance of law and order in That is the political aspect. The faan-which witness could not remember, her organisation in which a group of Powers those regions, aud Japan deems it of cial is no less important than, and closely husband came into the brothel and recog- would be in a position to determine her capital importance that these essential allied to, the political. Wu and the Cennized her. He took her away, and sub-
rights and interests be fully respected policies for her.
and safely guarded," according to atral Ciovernment, and to an even greater sequently she went with him to the Yau- " EARLIER CABLES. Nete handed to the Peking and Mukden extent its opponents, like Chang and Sun, mati Police Court. Witness was in the
authorities by the Japanese Minister and are powerless to impose their will and brothel for two nights. RESULTS OF U.S.
Consul General respectly- PROHIBITION.
DRUNKEN SHIP'S CREW.
나
NEW YORK, October 13th. A coastguard cutter has brought in to port the Norwegian steamer Sagatind, with forty-three thousand cases of liquor,
people at Glasgow, which was broadenst over. The magistrate told the third, aan alleged to be carrying liquor. Both
all over the country. Mr. MacDonald drularmi that the charge against the Gov ernment in connection with the Campbell The Ginevrn Case was sheer unbug ment's opponents were afraid of them be- cause the Labour Government had not failed.
"He emphasised that at nuy rate two- thirds of the Russian loan would be spent in British industrial centres, When they came into office the League of Nations practically dying. We went to Genevä änd gave a lead, mid the League to-day is more vigorous than ever."
Mr. MacDonald dwelt on the Govern
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lad of seventeen who was described as a shop boy, to go back and clean the shop. He said it was useless to waste their
me on a ridiculous shop boy.
THE GERMAN LOAN,
LIKELY TO BE "GO" WELL
IN BRITAIN.
Loxox, October 13th. The British portion of the German loan of twelve millions sterling ik being under written in seven per cent twenty five year sinking fund Bonds, issued atminety two, allotted as follows:-Five per cent on application twenty live per cent. early in November, thirty per cent. early in
LU AND STAFF REACH NAGASAKI.
NAGASARI, October 14th.
to carry out the administration, because It was explained at a point by In- the State coffers are empty, and are likelysetor Blackman that the defendant was to remain se, unless they either overcoma discovered as a result of a dispute which Marshal Lu and his staff have arrived | the rival pretenders or reach a settlement took place between her and the alleged here.
brother-keeper with regard to the pur-
[ COURTEST OF THE ** DAILY BULLETIN."} ORANG REORUTTING COOLIE LABOUR.
with the latter.
The Four-Power Banking Consortium, chase money. The Inspector added that which enjoys a kind of unofficial monothe brothel had been untenanted for poly in supplying China with funds, will several weeks, and that noue of its late not provide her with another dollar until occupants, could be traced.
internal security, and security for foreign Cross-examining the complainant, *Mr. life and property, are also re-established.
the British schooner Dumapii vessels were seizesi off Sandy Hook.
It is stated that the Sagatint was found forty miles from the coast. The cutter fred
across her bows, but there was no sign of life aboard. The cutter's men then boarded the vessel, and found the area of thirty-two sleeping off the the front, is proceeding here, and is never accomplish this. We are therefore husband was not in reality her husband
Toro, October 12th. A message from Mukden states that energetic recruiting of coolic labour embarrassing local traffic.
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effects of drink, or else injured in brawls. Three of the crew had broken jaws, and another a broken leg, not attended for three days. The captain was found be- FAR hind a locked door, with a store of arms and ammunition. He declared that the crew had drunk and fought daily since they left Hamburg a month ago for St. Pierre, where they shipped a hundred thousands cases of liquor, of which farty three thousand remained. thousand dollars in American money was found in the mfe.
Twenty-six
It is alleged that both the arrested
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Bata Central Government devoid of the Lyson suggested that a man whom she sinews of administration and defence will had previously identified in Court as ber in a vicious circle, which alone a pacific
and successful intervention, in the sense at all, but her lover, with whom she had indicated above, could possibly break.
run away from the country. This the So far as the protection of foreign life complainant vehemently denied. and property is concerned, as also that of the ways of communication indispen-, Mr. Tyson further submitted to the sable to foreign trade, the Powers are witness that she ran away from her hus- entitled to adopt, if need be, very drastic
She also denied this.
measures of a temporary nature. At the band. same time, both in regard to such hiea- The hearing. being adjourned until sures and to the wider intervention sug Monday afternoon, Air. Lyson apphed gested above, pure must be taken to con-
the Powers conceals no Imperialist de from $1,000 to $00. vince the Chinese, really at heart a for a reduction of the bail, which His peace-loving people,
that the action of Yorship granted, reducing the ammat
meut's xial programme, and complained [ December, and thirty-two per cent, carte vessels had been communicating with the chiding War, 31,500,000; Navy, 18,800,000, sire to encroach upou Chinese sovereignty
that the Government had not had fair play in Parliament, where they met pettifogging partisan trickery to prevent an honest Governmcat doing their work. He finally appealed to the nation to put an end to contemptible party tactics by giving the Government & clear majority. -(Loud cheers).
LATEST CABLES. MOSQUITOES IN ENGLAND.
in January.
Althoritative opinion on the Stock Ex- change is that the loan will go like hot
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THE IRAQ BORDERS. TURKS APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE.
GENEVA, October 13th.
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shore.
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HUMOUR FROM THE A NOVEL WIRELESS ENTERTAIN
MENT..
TOKYO, October 14th. State expenditure by 210 million yea, in The Cabinet has decided to curtail the
and Home Department, 35,000,000,
DUTCH COMPANY · DEAL.
AMSTERDAM, October 14th.
and integrity, or economic independence. For this reason it might be well it China
se
the
not
CAR ACCIDENT.
DRIVER FINED $50.
the Washington Treaties, can. be raised summoned on two counts.
The first was one of driving a motor-
in a business-like" fashion for the benefit
were to be allowed to raise funds freely COOLIE INJURED IN MOTOR where she elected to raise them, and. if, to assist her in this financial and econ. The Royal Dutch Company has príomic reconstruction, there were set up & vately placed 630 shares of a thousand disinterested international Board of Ex guilders.
perts, after the precedent of Austria and The British Broadcasting Company
the
After having been several times re gave listeners in recently a novel form of The Telegraaf understands that repre- Hungary, though perhaps without wireless entertainment-a description of sentatives of an important German con- stringent controls necessitated in these
China's do The Turkish Government has telegraph an aeroplane trip made by the Yorkshire vern conferred with Baron Vanheemstra, cases by bankrupt conditions, which in manded, a case was concluded before Mr. obtain. A splendid Hamilton at the Kowloon Magisrtcy ed to the Council of the League of Nations humorist, John a couple were mak. Hague, as regards the possibility of an security is afforded by international cou- yesterday, in which P. K. Wong was
Henry, and his wife,Governor of Surinam, at present at the recapitulating the correspondence with
Chinese customs, which, under Britain relative to Iraq, and claiming that ing a tour over London in a De Havilland agreement to exploit the sugar manufac-trol Turkey is respecting the position na it
machine. Broadcasting from an aeroplane turies and plantations in the Nickerie existed on September 30th in accordance valve sets have frequently been able to
is now no novelty, and the owners of district... with the agreement reached at Geneva, pick up messages sent out by cross-Chan- whereas Britain is insisting on the de- nel machines; but it was the first inands she advanced in an earlier pote
which broadcasting from Occasion on and is violating her Geneva undertaking an aeroplane has been audible on crystal The telegram adds that if Britain, diskets, and the experiment was looked for "regarding ner undertaking, disturbs the ward to by wireless enthusiasts with The College of Pentology is offering a
peace and commits acts of aggression, the some interest. responsibility will be entirely hers. It John Henry and Blossom" arrived at gold medal for the best essay not ex-requests: the Council of the League to the Hendon aerodrome shortly before 7.30
former could be heard. de ceeling
bating destruction, in view of the fact that the
CHANCE FOR LITERARY
** EXPERTS.**.
LONDON, October 14th.
decision of the Council
words dealing with mosquito adopt measures to compel respect for the p.m., after all, be would ven- ft. Bags: increase of mosquitoes in England is GERMANY AND THE DAWES carried up, but the point was finally objective was the United States or cer
The
becoming a serious menace."' essays should reach the college by Janu ary, 1st next.
PLAN.
MACHINERY IN ACTION,
PARIS, October 13th.
ture to
gone
were
of the States. But the Customs revenue car to the danger of the public Tom will decline, according an China's foreign trade dealines if internal peace be not September 15th, and the second was for soon re-established by a discerning tastful intervention of the Powers.
and
The
driving without a licence on the same latter, however, should beware of relying date. It may be remembered, that
or coolie was injured near the Po Hing
overmuch on the Europeanised Americanised type of Chinaman, who has
AUCTION BRIDGE.
"NO-TECMP MADNESS."
Min Florence„Irwin's estimate of the Bridge players whom she met and played
was that they played their cards well, but
With regard to the second count of the summons, Sergt. Hallam, who wan in charge of the case for the police, stated that the defendant had no driver's ́ licence, but only a learner's licence..
„BLAME ADMITTED..
Mr. Lyson, addressing the Magistrate,
that most of them seemed to be No-Trump the only point made clear by the evidence
WORLD DISARMAMENT.
JAPAN EXPLAINS ACTIONS AT GENEVA.
PARIS, October 13th. The Japanese Embassy has issued a
no real bold upon his fellow countrymen, Theatre on the occasion in question by statement defending the attitude of the and collaborate rather with the best types defendant's car, beccesitating a lengthy Japanese delegation at the League Asses of administrators produced by the old treatment in hospital.. bly towards the disarmament Protocol native culture, in the past.
The wild tales "that. Japan's by Blossom, who expressed tain British Dominions
purely her determination of accompanying him wherever he went. Then was heard delegation's motives." It declares that Imaginary, and entirely foreign to the whirring as the machine wared up the delegation loyally intended to keep ford, and after a brief, interval John Henry and his fair partner could be the League's Covenant free from a patent heard
about five miles from the aero to-day set in full operation by the Repara- drome, however, when 'valve of the aero-{EY COUELEAY OF THE " DAILY BULLETIN] with during her recent visit to Londen kid that with regard to the first charge,`
The machinery of the Dawes plan was only comparing notes. The machine had inconsistency. tions Commission issuing a formal de plage transmitter unexpectedly softened
THE WETHERBE INCIDENT. loud noise, which seriously claration that Germany had fulfilled the and caused preliminary conditions, including the in-interfered with the transmission, and the the stallation of various international con- result was not nearly so successful, an
ard of play was higher in England than be bad not sounded his born. Him - trolling bodies and establishment of a recent trial trips had been. In spite of
in America, but that the standard of client admitted, however, that blame at- fear and asking company to administer the German rail- the noise, John Henry could be heard ways, and the deposition of railway bonds feigning a, at the thought they were his conviction for assaulting a Peking cipally owing to the aforesaid No Tramp Lyson naked His Worship to bear in mind
extremity of
Mr. D'Arcy Wetherbe's appeal against calling was not nearly so good, prin-tached to him in the matter; but Mr. Blossom 19 and industrial debentures with trustees.
likely to reach Kors, as they were Octroi official, for which he was fined $25 madness. This madness is quite an old terribly high up, I don't care a hit and costs and ordered to pay the Proseco-complaint among English players, but it that the defendant had defrayed the in whether Mara is inbabited or not," he tor ses compensation by the Judge in the bag Intely assumed rather a different jured man's hospital expenses, and had inhabited by me." Then there was any Judge Sir Skinner-Turner, who in his said brokenly,
also made Anancial compensation to him "so long as the earth is Provincial Court at Peking, was dismissed phase.
Miss Irwin's complaint was not that for loss of wages. With regard to the other hiatus, followed by clues to the judgment says that the real cause of the players bid an original "One No-Tramp" second charge, the solicitor said that his Anatole France died at exactly 11.26 Hammersmith, the Tower Bridge, and trouble was not the action of the com- very tightly-they always have done that client would plead guilty and throw him p.m., on October 19th. He had been un- then found themselves over Golders plainant in seeking to detain the appel in America as well as here, and they self of the mercy of the Court.
His Worship observed that the case, Madame Melba as ** Mimi " (La conscious since October 10th, and only green. Hampstead, and Finchley. I laat; it was the defiance of the appellant always will do but rather that they were Boheme) took her farewell of the opera-his mother and mutter "I am dying."
reccovered at rare intervals to call for am glad to be back," said John Henry, of the regulations ns contained in the much too ready to change a partner's when all its aspects were considered, was
who was upbraided by "Blossom" for notice and of the request made by the major suit call into No Trumps, even not so serious as it might have appeared tic stage in Australia on an occasion
"All the papers, irrespective of polities, being afraid of a little sir trip, and then complainant that he should comply with when they had quite good support in the at an earlier stage. On the first count a caution would be recorded against the which coincided with the 37th anniver. are unanimous in extolling bis genius, further indescribable sounds drowned any the regulation. He has only himself to suit called.
and declaring that the whole world will further recriminations that may have
blame. He put himself entirely in the I entirely agree with that, writes Mr. defendant, and on the second he would
pay a fine of $50, sary of her debut at Brussels.
Wi Deiton in the Evening Standani. join France in mourning
taken place.
wrong to begin with.
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WORLD FLIGHT RECORD BROKEN, ALTITUDE OF 12,000 ODD METRES.
PARIS, October 14th. The French aizmian, Callize, by reach. ing 12,068 metres, broke the altitude record. Havas.
MDE. MELBA'S FAREWELL.
FINAL MIMI" AT MELBOURNE.'
MELBOURNE, October 14th.
A GREAT WRITER. ANATOLE FRANCE'S LAST HOURS.
PARIS, October 13th.
route of the voyagers, who picked un
APPEAL FAILS; ··
SHANGHAI, October 13th.
mad.
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to the detriment of bis client was that
She considered that the general stand-