CABLES.
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.)
THE HOME":"ELECTION.
ROWDYISM IN MAIN CENTRES:
·STONES ·AND STICKS, AGAINST
-«CANDIDATES,
· Lagos, October 2nd Rowdyism and disorder at meetings are increasingly marking the election sampaign in London, Glasgow and other
centrès.
Mr. Hogbin, the Liberal candidate. for North Battersea, was struck in the face with stone, and a woman spat at his wife.
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to make a speech at Glasgow, and he had to confine himself to answering questions. The singing of the "Red Flag" and *Constant interruptions and disorder roached Mr. Asquith's meeting at Pais.
ley.
ELECTIONS IN GERMANY.
QUESTION OF ISSUES.
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ASSERTION.
NATIONALIST
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BERLIN, October 22nd."
The dissolution of the Reichstag has been greeted with a sigh of relief, for it is recognized that it is impossible to conduct the affairs of the country pro perly with a Government always at the mercy of the votes of one party.
"Political experts prophesy that the Left parties will score at the expense of the Right, despite the probable combina tion of Nationalists and the Peoples Party against the Socialists. The insize of the election will be the continuance of the Marx Government's policy versus the new orientation, particularly in home affairs, by a reactionary Government.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
THE CIVIL WAR
CHINA.
IN
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGESET. Į PEKING OUT OF COMMUNICATION.
CITY QUIET UNDER CHRISTIAN
GENERAL.
SHANGHAI, October 23rd. Peking was suddenly and completely cut off telegraphically from everywhere this morning.
two best fighting divisions in China There have been rumours of strained relations between him and Wa Pei Fu.
LITTLE ESU'S JOURNEYINGS.
REPORTED ARRIVAL AT NAGASAKI
SHANGHAI, October 23rd. Reuter on the 22nd instant received the following from their Nagasaki correspon dent: Hsu Shu Cheng has arrived at Nagasaki aboard the Shanghai Mure and is going to Beppu."
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Reuter. thereupon wired Nagasaki that In very reliable report informed them that Little Hsu was going to Hongkong en route for England aboard the 8.8. Dur. dunus,
CHINA'S FIGHTING,
CAPACITY.
About
THE PROPOSED LOAN
TO RUSSIA. MANCHESTER BANK'S VIEW.. IMPORTANCE OF FOSTERING OUR EXPORT TRADE.
of
were very
that
clever
1924
THE AFTERMATH OF THE
"CANTON TRAGEDY.
[TROM QUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT]
The property of Mr. Wong Chung Tao. president of the Chamber of Commerce at Fatshan, and a great number shops of the same city were seised by the Reds of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Kuomintang Govern ment on October 2nd, after the arm istice signed on October 18th.
THE PRIME MINISTER'S MOTOR CAR.
MR. MACDONALD INTERVIEWED
In an interview at Lossiemouth Mr. Bausa MacDonald gave a personal ex- planation of the allotnicut to him on March 19th of 30,000 21 shares in AleVitia and Price, of which Sir Alexautor Cirant, the managing director and the controlling who was "reated a baronet in June, s shareholder.
The shares, the Premier stated, repre- (sented the endowment of a Daimler utator-car with which Sir Alexander pre- sented him, and at his (the Premier's) death they would revert to the Grant family.
I am sick at heart to have to talk of
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in
OLD FRIENDSHIP. The allotment of the shares, the Premier
University graduate, who has been for both guards on the tighland Railway,
Mr. Foo Ping Sheung, a Hongkongler's father and the Premier's uncle were the last two years Superintendent of
Sir Alexander bas for years been
THE APE-MAN OF JAVA.
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UNDOUBTEDLY, HUMAN." Pithecanthropus, erectus, the mystery of Java, discovered some 30 years ago by Dr. Eugene Dubois, is re presented in the British Museums of Natural History by a cast of a portion of the cranium and of two teeth. There is probably no individual skull, or rather portion of skull, about which there has len so much controversy, anthropolo gists being divided as to whether the early ancestor of man or of a collateral specimen represents the remains of an or of a gibbon: All anthropologists agree; however, in recognizing the extreme in- terest attaching to Dr. Dubois cuid look on it as a vital document the anthropological record.
The addition
to it. of those other meagre fragments of fossilized bone which were found by Dr. Dubois near the
I would have been content with hiring "I explained," said the Premier," that
Still was unwilling," added the Premier. did not faney niyaelf as the owner of a motor-ear. It was against the simplicity of my habits. I took a long time to be persuaded, and letters are in existence which reveal the minds of both of us. In the end I agreed with this arrangement:
A PLEASING FABLE EXAMINED. We wonder whe the optimist was who
the Chinese are a nation of pacifists. Arst propounded the pleasing fable that
At the close of an address on Pro Whoever he was his characterization,blems of foreign exchange before the though contradicted by records of history Manchester Rotary Club, recently, Mr. AC Booth, manager of the foreign and facts of experience, is still believed branch of Barclays Bank in Manchester, in by the majority of mankind and is replied to questions relating to the pro HIS RELATIONS WITH WU PEI FUassiduously propagated by that mass of Jected loan to Russia and the finances The Volunteers in Fatshun agreed to
of Germany... authinking humanity, who, in the words
Mr. Booth was asked whether in bank lay down their arms on October 19th of a once famous orator, are "indebted ing circles it was considered that a loan without a struggle in order to save the to their memory for their wit and to their to Russia would be advantageous, and city"" from destruction and its citizens imagination for their facts." Chinese this country was dependent, on its ex from a massacre and also upon an assar-this," anid Mr. MacDonald, "but I must
"in what way. Mr. Booth replied that history is a record of wars as sanguinary port trade, and to secure admission forance on the part of the Reds that surprotect my dear old friend in the enjoy LATZE: as those of the tnost pugnacious nations exports we must naturally impor: render of the Merchants was all that was ment of the honour which the King o Að American unval Wireless" message of the West. Every schoolboy knows the portion of the world, including Russia
similar quantity of goods. But a large desired.
worthily bestowed upon him and with which this act of personal kindness to received from Peking this evening, con-stirring tales of the fighting states "and Central Europe, and to lesser ex- To again surround Fatahan after the myself had as much to do as the man Wild scenes and stormy interruptions firms that the city is completely isolated and even the country yokel is familiar tent India and China, bad not been in withdrawal of the Volanters who the moon. forced Sir Robert Home for the second as regards the telegraph and the railway, with the names of the great warriors of or five years. It stood to resor, he city from destruction and preserve the any position to trade during the last four already laid down their arms to save the -successive..evening to abandon an attempt The cause has not yet been ascertained. the stage or bears their famo told 'in of the world trading again', and on its described in Volunteer-circles as treach. explained, really represented al incidènt»,
that epoch, for he sees them portrayed on thought, that if we could get that part life and property of the citizens is The message adds that the city, which is story and song by the strolling story whole world, including this country.
fect, it would be for the benefit of the ery such as only Dr. Sun's Reds would in a very old friendship. Everyone in under the control of the Christian Geo-teller in the village teashops.
coinmitt
the north of Scotland is aware of the eral, Feng Yu Hsiang, is peaceful and more than a thousand years afterwards, Russia, the answer was dependent on the looted shops, for information of their of circumstances, one in Forres and the As for the question whether it would
close friendship which exists between the Business men still clinging to Canton two men. this time (200 A.D.) lived Kwag Yu who, he advantageous to grant a loan to are not permitted to post outside their men, or close together in the poorest Both of them are Morayshire there is no cause for alarm.
was canonized as the god of war. After settlement of pre-war debts and on how patrons the notice: Shops, looted; other in Lossiemouth, ani Sir Alexan It is regarded as significant that Feng winning fame as the Chinese besu idealong the present Soviet Government was business suspended temporarily.
of knightly chivalry he was beheaded by going to last. If the world could see Yu Hsiang should have returned to Sun Chuan, who became King of Wu that. Rusaid possessed a stable govern A ma struck Mr. Williams, the Con- Peking from the front. He possesses the made Nanking his capital. Kwan Yu's fany hesitation in this country to lend Customs in Canton under Dr. Sun Yat regular visitor to Lossiemouth, of which
(Kiangsu) had was the first ruled yhoment, he did not think there would be servative candidate at Reading, with a
picture may be seen in many of the shops Russia what she required, provided we Sen's Kuomintang Government. has he is very foud, and there, of course, bis stick.
Mr. Williams subsequently left
people. He appears a bronzed and beardedy on our streets and in the homes of the were satisfied with the security she offer resigned. This is said to be in connec friendship with the Premier has ripened. the platform and himself evicted his as-
When Mr. MacDonaid became Prime tion with the difficulty of carrying out ed hero, guarded by a savage-looking Mr. Booth was also asked whether he the order to seise the Customs Admin Minister, although the two seresat op sailant.
warrior who stands behind with thought the German Government had istration free the foreign staff who act-posite poles in politics, the proudest and gigantic sword in his band. It would not debased its currency deliberately, in ally conducts the Maritime Customs the happiest in Scotland was Sir be fair to saddle the Chinese with the order to get rid of its national debt. In under the 'oking Government. It is Alexander, and when they met shortly atrocities committed by the Mongol answer ta this, Mr. Booth said stated that the more important docus afterwards Sir Alexander declared that hordes at the beginning of the 13th cau- they all know.
ments of the Customs House werr some his contribution to the Preader's com tury, but those who are inclined to be people
the German time ago removed to Shameen for safety, forts would be a Daimler mutue-ear little the Sghting capacity of the Chinese dustry as well as in finance. So long low importance have been transferred and since the massacre, even papers of should remember that Genghis Khan and as the world had confidence in the Ger the other founders of the Yuan dynasty man mark as it stood in 1914, so long did
to the foreign concession for safekeeping-one, as when I left otce I Would" pro- carved out an Empire and conducted the Germans turn the printing-press
hably be a poorer man than I had been. campaigns in comparison with which the round and round, creating millions of achievements of Alexander, and Caesar paper marks which the world absorbed.
I WILL ENDOW IT" were trivial and their conquest almost People who bought thase marks had parochial.
But I will endow it, rejoined Sir Burned their fingers; in his judgment
Alexander is no new thing. Bob Roys and Robin it was done deliberately." Mr. Booth The prevalence of banditry in China they were irretrievably lost. Whether Hoods abound in Chinese legend, and observed anid laughter, to wipe out authentic history contains records of men national and municipal debt-I expect of this class who seized the throve and my views are the same as yours, ruled the country wisely and well Han
GERMAN TRADING. Kao Tsu, the first ruler of the Han dy- nasty, is a case in point. His fame is
The German' people knew, naturally,
home settle such that, to this day every Chinese is that, there had to
ason of Han though it is nearly ment
the reparation probleut, two thousand years since the bandit chief did not know in this country, even with overcame the Tartar dynasty and founded started by the action of the London Con- became an Emperor. Chu Hang Wu, who and that settlement had just been that of the Ming, in 1889, had a similar ference. But though the Germans might origin and he is gratefully remembered he very fortunate in having got rid of by his countrymen because he delivered a great proportion of their nationat and A pinnifesto of the Nationalists Bays under an assumed name, but he admitted
them from the joke of the hated out internal debt, it must be remembered landet.
that if they were to carry out the provi- ~.the
The northern Chinese is usually credit.sions of the Dawes Scheme, they had n remains monarchist ned party nationalist. Our glorious colours are
he was Little Hsu when confronted with ed with being a better soldier than men load round their necks for the rest of of the south but the clan ights of South his bearers Lives. As a result of the -blacky white and red. Our will is firmer a photograph.” -
ern China are notorious for their bitter-steps taken, in Germany to stabilise the cranium, and which are believed by him tion interviewed Sir Alexander Grant than ever to create a Germany free from Despite the above, there seenis Jewish and French domination." The
ness and implacability. They have been mark, the internal conditions of the coun- carried across the Pacific and contribute 13, speaking broadly,, were such as we Nationalist newspapers declare that the doubt that Little Hau was placed on the a lurid chapter to the early, history of did not know in this country, even with California. It is true that in more re, our million unemployed. A great many public.
precluded the possibility of him leaving distinguished himself in battle, but there had to take advantage of moratorium, ECHO OF MATTEOTI AFFAIR. the vessel.
are two facts, that explain, if they do otherwise they could not have carried Except for a brief exhibition, of them COLONIAL POST "FOR ITALIAN
not excum, apparent pusillanimity.on, owing to the restriction of credit. shortly after the discovery, the fossils In the last few months big demands had been kept in seclusion by Dr. Dubois First, he is recruited from the lowest
at Haarlem, Holland, until last summer,
"He stayed with me in Edinburgh underpaid as well undertraired. Second,
when representatives of the Laited shortly after be became Prime Minister, ROMs, October 22nd.
States National Museum and American and I noticed he was looking Ill. The OFTER TO PEKING.
in his encounters with foreign foes, he Senator Debeno, obief of the National
has invariably borne inferior weapone to
Museum of Natural History were allow Militia, against, which there was a serious
those with which his opponents were arm.
ed to view them. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of fact was he was working too hard, and there was newspaper comment at the outery following the murder of Senator
Tokyo, October 23rd."
ed. This inferiority is less marked now? which had no external value, and if they the National Museum of America, urged time upon his apparent ill-health.
on Dr. Dubois the advisability of having Halteoti, has resigned on the ground
than in times past and must be regarded must import they must naturally find the accurate custs of the skeletons on that "I felt that he was taking too much that his task of instilling a spirit of dis
Thir Japan Red Cross Society has pro- as a diminishing quantity. If China has currency to pay for their imports. They side of the Atlantic, and he has just out of himself, and this was confirmed cipline and devotion to the interests of
an million under
had therefore built up foreign balances the country and King into the Fascists visionally arranged with the Japanese many good judges believe, three quarters in various countries. The Germans who received word that casts, made by Dr. when I heard that he was travelling about Dubois himself, of Pithecanthropus al by the Underground Railway. For in- Signor Mussolini bas informed Senator Foreign Office to send at its own expense of the host may be regarded as neglig. had cold goods in Manchester de varam, endocranial entity, femur, three stance, on the night when he delivered
ible. But that leaves a quarter of at the sterling to remain to the credit of Debone that he will submit his name to a mission to Tientsin and Mukden in million well fed, well drilled and well their account in Manchester; they did it and mandibular fragment, are be- his fine speech at the Pilgrims Dinner ing shipped there. Another set bag bean it had been arranged that after he left the Cabinet for the governship of Italian view of the growing war casualties, equipped troops with which an enemy not want it in Germany.
made for the American Muscum of the hall he should take В train to would have reckon. This may be
Natural History at New York.
Baker-street and travel thence.. by the acting from a humanitarian standpoint.matter of gratulation to the Chinese but In the course of his address on the Dr. Hrdlicka states that on the basis Metropolitan Railway to a point near it has its sinister side. It means that foreign exchanges, Mr. Booth said it of his examination of the original Chequers, whence he was to go on by a Mr. K. Yoshizawa, Japanese Minister war to-day is infinitely more deadly and wire airlinerally accepted daat 15 remains, the creature they belonged to Ford car. When to China, has been instructed to offer the exacts a heavier tell both in men's lives would be inadvisable for Great Britain was undoubtedly human, but of a very and the costs of armaments than the to consent to any devaluation of the Pithecanthropus was a direct ancestor of type. He regards as unlikely that Mission to the Peking Government
struggles of the past. The possession of pound sterling, but it was not possible a powerful army is, as the Kaiser disfor sterling to return to par with the den man, and he thinks that more covered ten years ago, a strong tempta-dollar until the American and British likely he represented a collateral race
a sort of great-great-great-uncle Jong tion to makəs "war.. The present war price levels were approximately equal
The
new illustrates this. The question in dispute Some people recommended that we should is described by Dr. Feast of the skull is no more difficult of adjustment than, thy drastic deflation make an immediate meh..more accurate than the one which asked, and I offered to set aside «suff say, the Ulster boundary question. Yet effort to force prices down to the Ame was made some years ago and
which the opposing factions have rushed into Fica level, and thus pave the way for apart from two teeth, was the only exist. PEKING, October 22nd war and other military chieftains, north an early return to the gold standard. On ing replica of any of the remains. The MAYENCE, October 22nd. A. message from Shunhaikwao, received and south, have hastened to blow the the other hand, it was recommended that casts of the brain cavity of the thigh The French troops. have evacuated
trumpet for battle. How much blood we should be entirely indifferent to ex-bone of the jaw bone, and of the third the zones at Dortmund. Remschied, Festerday, states that General Tien Mei-must be shed, how much treasure wasted change movements and simply concen- bone, which comprise all of the remains Vohwinkel and the town of Limburg, then's brigade from Arlangmino reached and how much misery inflicted on the trate upon securing stability in internal tas far found, are the first casts of these an offer from, and you are one of the
people before counsels of peace prevail prices Huchintu, where it engaged a Fongtien no one can foretell but it is impossible, His own view was that there was a in view of these facts, still to credit the middle course There seemed to be nd battalion, 400 of whom were captured, and Chinese people with a pacific tempera- doubt that gold was the only acceptable
Fearing, however, that there was no mont-North China Daily· Neits. medium which the countries of the world also three guns and six machine guns.
were prepared to consider as a basis for Prospect of an early return to the gold international settlements, and on this ac- standard, Mr. Booth said he thought ADVANCE ON CHIUMEN,
a more practical question at the moment income tax and super tax. The 33,000 count alone the ultimate restoration of was the extent to which the European Preference shares would give Mr. Mac the gold standard seemed to be the only countries would take steps to deralue Donald no influence in the business of practicable and final solution of the pro- currencies which could not hope to return the firm, as Preference shareholders blem. But although he felt strongly that to par, and would endeavour, by meant were expressly deburred from taking any be our goal. he felt equally convinced tain a fairly constant ratio to sterling the restoration of the gold standard must of credit operations otherwise, to main part in the management.
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In reply thereto, Tokyo wires to-day: ** This morning's papers all concur that Little Hsu arrived at Nagasaki yesterday and afterwards left for Beppu. He came
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"A sum of money was to be invested in my name, and the income I am to enjoy during my lifetime, so long as I revert to Sir Alexander Grant or bis keep a ear, and at my death it is to heirs,
This is the full story of the incident, concluded the Premier, who gave the in- information with the utmost willingness.
to be derived from the same animal. would be welcome recession to any museum and would add very materially to the collection of remains now pres
main issue is a monarchy ceraus at Dardanus and precautions taken whichcent years.the Chinese soldier has rarely of the German industrial concerns had served at the Natural History Museum, '
has
Somaliland
SENATOR.
THE GERMAN LOAN.
SWISS PORTION OVER- SUBSCRIBED.
ZURICHY October"22ad.
JAPANESE RED CROSS MISSIONstratum of the people, and is always had been made on this country from Ger-
It is understood that the Swiss portion of the German loan has been considerably Y COURTESY OF THE DAILY BULLETIN.”] over subscribed.
EVACUATION OF THE BUHR,
FURTHER FRENCH RELEASES.
without incident.
THE WORLD'S SPORT,
HOME FOOTBALL.
ENGLAND BEATS IRELAND.
soccer
LONDON, October. 22nd. In the
international Eng Iand beat, Ireland by 3 goal to one at Liverpool
M.C.O. IN AUSTRALIA.
DRAW WITH WESTERN COLTS.
·PERTH, October 2ård.1 The Western Australian Colts (playing team of 15) scored 195 against the English visitors, Howell took four wickets for 19 and Tyldesley four for
30.:
FENGTIER REVERSE.
PERING, October 22nd.
General Tien Mei-cher is now dvanc
ing in the direction of Chiumen.
It is a consolation to reflect that some of the greatest people and some of the finest artists were not what you would call clever. Stacy Aumonier. NO
The miners are in in why responsible
SAYINGS OF A WEEK
Worry is a form of blasphemy.r.
·Eustace Milen, v
I believe in Art for Life's sake-fr Compton Mackenzie.
There will be no further revolution in
many for accommodation of que sort and another. He had had personal ex- Perience of Germans selling goods in Manchester. Tiwy had no use for marks,
THE GOLD STANDARD.
that it would be undesirable unduly to
low.
A LOW TYPE.
parts to be made.
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SIR A GRANT'S STATEMENT A representative" of the Press Associa with regard to the endowment he has pro vided for a motor-car for the Premier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. Sir Alexander said:
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is a very old friend of mine.. I have felt for him always the affection of a brother. He is and without any bubug. a fine type of man, God-fearing, straight,
"I remonstrated with him about the way he was using himself, urging that it was not fair, and I offered to give him a motor-ca
otor-MacDonald then replied,
might be out of office to-morrow, and then could not afford to keep a car's
Will you accept a car from me? I
tient shares to pay the expenses of a motor car on condition that the shares should revert to myself or my heirs. /-
Mr. MacDonald's reply was: 'There are few people that I would accept such.
three men from what it is possible for me to take it!
Sir Alexander added that the figure of 50,000 shares was arrived at after co- sidering what sum would be necessary to clear the car of all expenses, includings.
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force the pace. In view of the distinct outlook on the Continent showed signs of It will be many years before India
or the dollar. Fortunately, the general Europe for many a long year-17 probability of a rise in American improvement, and the rapidity with be able to do without Englishmen of good W. Newbold.
prices, it was quite conceivable that steril which reforms had been flected in several claas in the districts Sir Charles Innes... There is great virtue in a Latin pre-ing might return to par on the basis of countries showed that the position, coul scription; it looks very like an exorcist. the existing British price level; and as quickly be improved once fundamental bave yet to learn that a trust ran by
Dean Inge
Europe generally was a large debtor The man who pays the slightest atten for the view that it would be more desir-conditions getestablished, the main sound George
to America, there was much to be said Principles were recognized and applied. the Miners Federation is better than a Once budgets were balancell and sound trust run by anyone else.ls. Flogit
mental specialist-Lord Dewar tion to public opinion should at once seeable for gold prices to be raised to the of exchange fluctuations quickly disupt In the long run a high standard of pro-
British level rather than that British peared. A few of the European conn-fessionalism in the best casam Credit depends on good faith fortified prices should fall to the present gold tries would be able to re-establish the journalists would secure better pay the pent being charged for coal.-Fr. J. Aby the sanction that if faith is benken level. But although we must gaard pre-war parity of their currencies but all the trade unionism in the world. Cook (Miners Federation), the breaker cannot borrow again gold standard, we must not neglect any Booth urged that shero a currency had Public roles, Poplarism, strikes for ir.
against any premature return to the many would have to devalue; and air. Ir. Frederick Peaker regard almost anything as better than E. Hilton Young.
reasonable opportunity for improving been heavily depreciated the sentimental creased wages, limitation of output, no refusal to allow a loan to be issued here intellectually respectable, the main hind salves to lose any of the ground we had not be allowed any weight, compared with land the spirit and the policy of the
As Christianity becomes once again our position, nor should we allow our objections against devaluation should only are not Socialism, but may mi ut the same time as in other countries rance to ita revival will be removed -The already won concerted-r. A. Chamberlain, L. Bishop of Birmingham.:
the great desirability of obtaining stabi. Socialist movementfr. Kaminy Macr lity in the future-Manchester Guardian: Donahı!!
The MC.C, then knocked up 405 for for, or parties to, the robbery of the seven, Hobbs, securing 74,
Sandham 79, and Woolley
All 90, people by the extravagent prices at pre-
The match was drawn...
ALL-BLACKS STILL WINNING.
LONDON, October 22nd.
The All Blacks" heat Lancashire by
points, tounil, : at" Manchester.
the rejection of the Dawes Report or a
(Continued on next Column.)