CABLES.
FARLIER CABLES. *{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE ZINOVIEFF LETTER.
LABOUR PARTY'S DENIAL.
LONDON, October 28th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2800, 1024
FAR EASTERN CABLE
NEWS
(THROUGH REUTIK'S AGENCY.) HONGKONG TO NEW YORK IN PACKING CASES. TRIALS OF CHINESE STOWAWAYS.
ATTEMPT TO DODGE IMMIGRATION
ACT.
New Youx, October 27th.. Three local Chinese have been arrested on a charge of attempting to smuggle their countrymen to the United States,
THE CIVIL WAR IN
CHINA.
(THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WU. AT TIENTSIE.
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"TO ELIMINATE "FENG.".
TIENTSIN, October 27th... Wu Poi Fu, who arrived at Tientsin yesterday, has established temporary headquarters close to the city, and has issued a message to the Diplomatic Corps denouncing Feng Yu Hsiang as a traitor
'LITTLE HSU,!". STILL IN HONGKONG UNDER
SUPERVISION..
"Little " Hsu (General Heu. Shu Cheng), until recently in command of Chekiang force operating round Shang hai, was expected to leave Hongkong for England by the s. Dardaune, on which he had arrived here.
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CHINA'S
MR. GAARD MARCH..
GEORGE ON HER DESCENT,
Our" readers will probably like to see
THE M.C.C. TEAM.
LORD HARRIS ON THE
SELECTION.
Commenting on the election of the the following from the Right Hon. David | M.C.C. players for the Australian tour Lloyd George, which is published in the Lord Harris said recently. Daily Chronicle. He bids the British Why should the Committee of M.c.c. Public keep their eyes on China. She choose the side? Well, I might reply isa vast and incalculable country. Her that as M.C.O pays the piper it is ens A remarkable communique has been
As reported exclusively in the Daily possibilities are endless. Inside her titled to call the tune. We take the risk issued by the Labour Party head.
Press yesterday morning, however, he did immense territories dwell a population of the amount of our takings from the -quarters, categorically describing as
not do so, and is still in the Colony. twire that of the whole American contin half of the gate not sufficing to cover the untene, Aras, that the latter attributed
He is the guest of Li Yew Hon, apent-North, Central and South. They cost of the tour, which will probably be to Zinovieff had been discussed by the
ex-Civil Governor of Canton, who re
Are as industrious, frugal, intelligent. some £16,000; so you will see that ■
·Cabinet; secondly, that it was intercepted following the discovery of soven Chinese and ingrate, asserting that Tsao Kunides in Caine Road.
courageous and honest a race as dwells substantial bank balance is necessary in in the post, photographed, and then de
"Little Hsa” enjoys full liberty lo
on this globe.
order to finance such a tour. But there is a much simpler answer-the M.C.C livered to the Communists in the ordi-
was the body which was invited by, the nary way; and, thirdly, that Labouring after a thirty days voyage from Hong-steps to cope with the situation. There-80 where he likes, and take occasional
kong. It is stated that two or three men fore he was assembling an army of outings in the town, always however, with They are a people at once docile, en Australian Board of Control to select, and send, and recommend the team, on, candidatos were instrusted not to talk wore placed in each gacking case and 100,000 to eliminate Feng and restore the one or more detectives for his protce during and fearless-n redoubtable com-all grounds, to a friendly reception from"
our brethren down under of all clanges.
I would not have the public. suppose that the Committee of M.C.C. is a
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in packing cases aboard a steamer arrive specially instructed him (Wu) to take
about the Russian treaty
The communique states that obviously the contradictory
statements of the Foreign Office and Rakovsky regarding the authenticity of the document cannot bually be settled until after the election, and Mr. MacDonald's return to the Foreign Office. The communique invites the Conservative leaders and the paper Arst in possession of a copy of the alleged document to be frank with the public and FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS state how they came into possession of it.
COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS.
promised food aboard and work when situation. they reached New York One has since died and the others have been sent to hospital in a precarious condition owing to lack of food, semi-suffocation and the terrible buffeting. The police would not disclose the name of the steamer.
'The communique adds that the whole
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LATEST CABLES.
PARIS, October 27:A.
M. Herriot, speaking at Lyons, remark ed upon the happy commencement of
Marshal Wu holds the railway to Peking as far as Lofa, and states that the Kiangsu Shantung-ites are coming up by rail vid Tsinanfu and the Hupehites, also by rail, from Hankow.
The Shanhaikwan front has been eatrusted to Peng Shou Hsin and Chang
tion.
It is possible that he may leave Hong- kong today, and it is rumoured in cer- in quarters that his objectis may be Singapore, but it is more likely that when the General leaves here he will re- turn to the North, if General Feng Yu Hsiang is able to carry out his plans.
AN EASY VICTIM.
bination of qualities in the hand, of a master. They bave suffered 'inuch in
their relations with foreign Powers, he haughty exclusive body, conceited in a conviction of its own superiority. In cause they had the misfortune to have this matter of selection it has taken elimbed that altitude of civilisation special care to consult many ericketers past and present, especially those who which despises trial by butchery before have experience of Australia, and pro the rest of the world had reached the fessionals as well as amateurs; and it is
perhaps due to this fact that such critic foothills of sanity in international quaris as there has been on the whole of rela China therefore became an easy
Fu Lai who have adopted a defensive | AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE, victim for skilled barbarism from other attitude which is at present kolding well.
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BATTLE PENDING NEAR PEKING.
PEEING, October 27th.
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The city was deruded of troops last night, except the guards surrounding
TO BE THOROUGHLY
REORGANIZED.
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approval.
"Now as regards the number, 17, we were very anxious not to exceed 16, and we were justified in sending that nu- ber, for you will remember that at the last Test match in Australia we had, owing to casualties.. only just enough to wake up an eleven, and then Hobbs, though fame, had to be included. Om this occasion if Hohhs had not been too unwell to accept when first invited thera would have been only sixteen; but when
felt much better and medical advice was that he could undertake the trip safely,
cominerts on the singularity of the fact Franco-German commercial negotiations the Presidential Palace and a small party hauled and reorganized to put into effect descend to the level of the superior late in the day he informed as that be
of the circumstances surrounding the Zinovief letter are regarded with the deepest suspicion in Labour.quarters. It
that, copies of the letter were in posses- aion of a London daily newspaper and of the Conservativë headquarters before it was issued by the Foreign Office to the
and expressed the hope that France would soon compensate for the unfavourable. situation by deriving steady purchases from western countries, and by buying
at the Telegraph Office.
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WASHINGTON, September 24th. The United States foreign service, including consular and diplomatic officials in a single, interchangeable corps, is bow functioning, State
Department machinery having been completely over-
the "reorganization law passed at the last session of Congress,
A vast amount of detail work has been SHANGHAI, October 27th...
required, but now only one step remains It is officially reported that Wu Pei-inauguration of the Foreign Service Training School within the department, future American diplomatic secretaries and consular officers are well equipped for the jobs to which they are assigned. The first step in the reorganization. effected by executive order, was the creation of the Foreign Service Person [BY COURTESY OF THE DAILY BULLETIN." nel Board to examine and report on the character, ability; efficiency and general CHANGESINTIEN. MAGAZINE, availability of all secretaries in the diplomate service. consuls-general, con- suls, vice-consutls of career, consular, as-
interpreters and student inter preters The report was completed by
Her people are now hurrying dowa from the dangerous heights with a speed which they have not yet accustomed the world to expect from so placid a race, It took them thousands of years to ascend to the philosophical serenity which marks them amongst the nations as a peculiar people. It is not taking them long to races whose highest court of appeal is presided over by Death, and whose cause is argued not with reason, but with the deadly clatter of the machine-gun.
China is now drilling and arming her pacifistic population by the myriad to en disputes by killing their adversaries according to the most scientific methods.
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felt the Australian public would be much disappointed and the British publie would not understand it if he was not included.
"I see there has been some dissatis.
Press, and says that while the question/astern grains, woods and oil and Fu has arrived at Tientsin and as connuthorized by the law-to ensure that able litigious provinces to settle their faction in the North because there are not
of the authenticity of the document re- mains open there can be no doubt what- soever that the vigorous note to Rakov- sky entirely disproves the allegation that the Government is under the heel of the Communists. It concludes by declaring that this note gives a guarantee that the Anglo-Russian agreements will be en- forced by the Government.
It is expected that Mr. MacDonald will refer to the letter at Cardiff to-morrow.
"AN IMPUDENT FORGERY."
Moscow, October 26th. The Soviet publishes a Note which opens by adhering to the repeated de clarations regarding the non-responsibility ef the Soviet Government for the acts of the Communist International. At present "Lit, ahatains frem_touching upon the form and tone of the British Foreign Offes Note, but hastens to declare that the alleged Zinovieff letter is an impudent forgery,
Colonial rawstuffs, especially cotton.— Hurus.
THE WORLD'S SPORT.
MC.C. IN AUSTRALIA.
WESTERKERS FOLLOW ON.
PERTA, October 27th.
In fine weather before a small crowd
centrating troops at Lofa, midway be tween Feking and Tientsin. The indi- cations are that a battle is pending.
HANKOW, October 9th.
The magazine at Chinghsiation, on the
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**MODERNISING CHINA.
few rulers and
The differences calling for this bloody settlement are not even those of the people who fight. They are merely the personal and provincial rivalries and clashing ambitions of generals. China is indeed becoming modernised" She is not only learning the lessons of the twentieth century, from the West, she is unlearning the lessons
Centuries taught by the East.
for war? The
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more Northern players among the selec tices. Believe me, we never gave z thought as to whether a man WAS''L Northerner or a Southerner-except as regards reserve wicket-keeper-wo simply selected the men whom we thought most likely to do the highest credit to English cricket from every point of view. In the case of the reserve wicketkeeper. we considered ourselves justified in ferring & Northerner. We did get out- side and independent opinion as to Why salf's capacity at the moment
and it was quite satisfactory, and another the consular and diplomatic service "has
in his
case weighed, down. the where the been in progress on that basis,
A primary object of the reorganization. depend on the fate of civilisation may balance. You will find that
answer to that question tram is somewhat weak is the short alipa. as explained during debates in Congress They are intelligent industrious, and Whysall has a good reputation in that on the bill was to take the foreign ser without fear-and there are 400,000,000 place, and if a casualty, occurred to one vice out of politics so far as possible.of this remarkable race. What a joke of the three regular short slips Mr. GiF The personnel board machinery was de they are and have been, for all men ligan might be very glad to have a signed to relieve the White House of the with a conventional sense of humour reserve man for that most important task of selecting for appointment any And the greatest jest of all is their utter position." foreign service official, except those Am- inability to understand that the only way bassadors and Ministers who are not for nations to settle disputed claims is to taken from the carcer groups in the kill or get killed. State Department.
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Western Australia on a good wicket Kinban Railway, has been taken over by July 1st and the actual inter-weaving of a kind of material will they make factor
scored 138 against the M.C.C. Freeman Feng Yu Hsiang's brigade, comprising Look six Wickets for 47 nud Gilligan three 3,000 men, after a skirmish with the for 20. The homester followed on and guards. scored 34 for three.
EARLIER CABLES. "DE VELERA AGAIN ARRESTED
LONDONDERRY THIS TIME.
This is a reply to the British Note, and it characterises the alleged Zinovieő let- ter as an impaident forgery aiming at the destruction of the Anglo-Soviet treaty and the ruin of friendly Anglo-Soviet rela-a tions, which happily were beginning to improve. In view of this use of a for gery in an official document, the Soviet an adequate Government insists
apology and punishment of both the pri vate, official and other persons." It-con- cludes by fully appreciating the serious consequences the forgery, might have on both countries. The Soviet urgently and -decidedly offers recourte to an impartial
LONDON, October 25th.
WU PEI-FU TO FIGHT ON.
Our Chinese correspondent writes :--- A Tientsin telegram from General Wu Pei Fu's headquarters to his representa De Valera bas been arrested in Lon-tive at Hongkong indicates that General donderry, when entering St. Colomb's Hall to address à meeting, in violation of a notice, served on him at Newry last
week, not to enter the Northern area.
Over two hundred and fifty police were present in and around the hall to elleet the arrest.
LATER.
De Valera was taken to Belfast under strong police escort.
U.S. LOAN FOR FRANCE, REPORTED BIG DEAL
LONDON, October 24th. According to L'Oeuvre, the Minister of Finance has signed a contract with a group of American bankers and the firm of Morgan and Co. ler a loan of three milliard francs to France.
It is stated a proportion of the pro-
Wu intends to fight on and return to Peking to overthrow General. Feng Fu Hsiang and ather Peking commanders responsible for the recent coup. General Wa in a telegram to Commander Tang Pun Yen at Kiungehow, who has just declared that be proposes to lead a pun tive, expedition against Dr. Sun Yat Sco, assured the commander that he could continue to fight against Chang Tso Lin, despite the fate change in Peking, and advised the commander to keep on with his work.
SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER
CORPS. SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY'
The following
Special Order of the
WHITE HOUSE RELIEVED.
There are indications already that advantageouse has taken immediate pointment to know, selections for ap consulates are being left entirely to the State Department
of relief thus afforded
embassies, legations and
The Personnel Board also reguintes ro tirement under the 65-year age limit, "pensions being drawn from a fund built up by retaining per cent. from the salaries of all State Department person nel, One member of the diplomatic corps and 31 from the consular service already have been retired.
FOREIGN SERVICE SCHOOL.
FOUR ARMIES IN THE FIELD.
To what extent have they been already mobilised for wart One day the grin of a grimace of terror, for the Chinese are contempt which they provoke will become rapidly becoming converted. There ies in the field. Between them they master fully half a million men..
now in China at least four rival arm-
Their equipment may fall short of European standards at the end of the Great War, but it is infinitely superior to anything China has ever yet seen in her armies, and Napoleon would have been quite pleased with the weapons with which Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian war lord, bas equipped his army. He has artillery, machine guns, aeroplanes. and it is rumoured that he has poison gas. In fact, his brief is primed with every modern argument for enforing the justice of his cause
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FOREIGN INSTRUCTÒRS,
Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian, is re- puted to have the best equipped army. He is supposed reported to be a competent general. trator, Philsed to be a capable adminis There is here an interesting muid instruc all employed foreigners to
tive conflict of qualifications. They have instruct and organise their armies. The recent death of a distinguished Russian general at Canton directed attention to this fact.
Wa Pei-fu, the general of the Central Government, is trained in German tactics, and has in all probability Ger man instructors. There are known to be American airmen in the Chinese sero planes which are now whirring over Shanghai, and striking terror in the palaces of Peking. There must be dis posed throughout the various armies a number of those restless spirits who lov fighting for its own sake, and who cannot. settle down to the pursuits of peace after the excitement of a great war.
▲ CHRISTIAN GENERAL
The work of the Personnel Board has by no means ended. Records of all off cials have to be continually overhauled and kept up to date; individual perform ances studied to determine in what par **ticular field each individual is most pro-
BIBLES AND COMES. friest; special qualifications and 'Imita tions recorded for future reference... The Where have these armis come from t board has also the power to recommend As usual, the countries that send mission. dismissal of officials whose eficiency rat- aries have also supplied guns. The The best army is supposed to be com ing is low. So for no dismissals have Bibles and the bombs have come from the manded by a Christian general of the occurred, but some offenders have been same resourceful and adaptable nations acme of Feng Yu-hsiang. He has train demoted and warned that unless improve China has accumulated much wealth in Led his army on the most modern Chris- ment is shown they will be dropped. recent years. Much of the scatteredtian principles as they are practised in riches of the Great War was blown by the West. They alone in China know the storm to China, and the pollen has
how to drive an argument home with the The Foreign Service School will come fertilised there. Factories have sprung bayonet. 1 assume they are all true Pro- the great rivers; looms have examinations. Successful candidates will tiplied attend courses of lectures on all aspects founded, and active merchants have be 1923 the eminent Christian warrior who being called Ironsides. In the war of On dispersal of the Corps after is of consular and diplomatic work, includ come more enterprising
leads this phalanx is reported to have the
There is more concentrated wealth ridden into Honan on a bicycle, and gone sign Community and Settlement during evading American regalations and ob ever in the history of China. Chinese bia reply to the addresses of welcomes
trickeries most prevalent abroad the recent period of Emergency, I desire to record my keen appreciation of and actual Park in the divisions of the state their own. Provincial governors aspir- lievers, he declared himself a Christi false pretences. bankers are now financing railways of naturally tendered him by his fellow be admiration for the fine soldierly spirit Department will be internized withing to presidency or kingship have thus displayed by all Units and, all ranks. The the lectures. After one year of school-ready to hand the money for purchasing duty as a Christian should,"
an, and that it was his aim to do bie discipline was such as to command the lively respect of the whole Foreign and 5 department officials believe, the the weapons essential to maintaining the Chinese Community and the soldier-like students talents will have shown them justice of their claims.
selves clearly enough to determine their manner in which the irksome duties of qualifications for the diplomatic or con-
branches. was worthy of seasoned regular troops. }
arbitration court to establish the fact that ceeds will be devoted to the Liquidation of Day" was issued to the Shanghai Volun. into full effect after the fall diplomatic | up tenfold; native banks have been beans, for they pride themselves
the letter is a forgery.
ŽINOVIEFF'S REPUDIATION.
advances by the Banque de France. The loan will be issued in two instalments, the
teers on October 23rd:
first of which will be marketed in days of services safeguarding the Forking, also its subtler sides, such as available for enterprises of all kinds than straight to the Y.M.O.A. there, and im
America early in November..
Up to the present, no official confirma- tion is available.
COMMUNISM IN GERMANY. ZINOVIEFF AGAIN.
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Rias, October 28th.
work
FINDING THE MONEY,
I met recently a highly intelligent
Ta connection with the celebration of guarding the Boundaries were carried out under the bill, transfer from one Chinese merchant, who knows the con-
LONDON, October 28th. Zinovie has issued a message to the Trades Union Congress declaring that the fetter alleged to be signed by him is a gross falsification. There was noty and could not be, such a letter. He asserts that the fabrication is so crude that not even not too literate official in the the anniversary of the Communist out. British Foreign Office could fail to see its break in Hamburg last year, Zinóvieff has declared that a proletarian revolu- Falsity. It seems that Me. Hughes' laurels tion is approaching in Germany, despite are enview by someone in England. Zino all the Dawet, Eberts and Noskes, The Hamburg rising was a Communist vieff denounces the document se clearly dress rehearsal au election manœuvre, and invites th
EARLIER CABLES Trades Union Congress to appoint a com- (REUTERS AMERICAN, SEEFIUE
the
be
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He is as good as his word, for he has marched at the head of 100,000 of his Ironsides to take part in the fratricida}. struggle around Shanghai., a
DA JE OSE DISQUALIFICATION.
Up to the present there was one inher-- ent vice in the Chinese character which
disqualified them 3 military race They were apt, when the battle was developing between the arrayed forces. and before real fighting had begun, to call a parley and arrange a peaceable accommodation of their disputes. This inherent weakness in
the TECE
bss spoilt many a pretty fight,
mission to visit Russia and 'investigate its AIRSHIP'S 9,000 MILE TRIP. Corps on that portion of the Boundary/American interests in that particular Aimsiest, as the Chinese are the least that our Christian General with w
authenticity,
Zinovieff's reference to Mr. Hughes is presumed to allude to the United States Secretary of State.
LONDON, October 27th.
Mr. Rakovsky to-day transmitted: ta the Foreign Office the Soviet reply re ferred to in an earlier cable.
PROOF OF COMMERCIAL UTILITY.
LAKEHURST, October 23rd. The dirigible airship Shenandoah arrived here at, 4 a.m., after completing a 3,000 mile voyage to the Pacific Coast and back.
The officers of the dirigible ars jubilant at the craft's performance. They declare it proves that airships are practicable for commercial purposes.
On the personal side of the services branch of the service to the other is dition of his country thoroughly. He rendered by the Corps, I thank all ranks allowed, but that practice will not be told me that the rebellious governors for the loyalty and cheerfulness with usual or frequent department officials and generals would encounter no diff which duties have been carried out Bay. The interchange was made possible culty in finding the necessary cash for and, knowing as I do that those duties mainly because occasions arise where the purchasing arms. The Chinese peassat relations of the United States with cer was the most frugal in the word, and have been a hard vest of soldierly quali tain countries might make the presence although his earnings were small, ties, I have nothing but admiration for of a diplomat, rather than a consul ad managed to save. China was very lightly the manner in which they were perform visable, though no ambassador or minis taxed There are or were no huge ed. It is not going too fax to say that ter in formally accredited to protect Ermies and navies to maintain. The the demeanour of the Shanghai Volunteer
machinery of Government was of the place. which abuts on Chapei did more to keep Expense allowances for ambassadors governed of all races. Hence the light the peace on both sides of the frontier and ministers are contemplated in the ness of rates and taxes than any other factor. To you was allot bill, and to estimate these expenses the So light are the taxes that, according ted the most threatening sector of the State Department is compiling data as to my informant, foreigners have been line, as was your right, and you proved to the minimum with which each mis known to reside and become naturalised yourselves worthy of the trust reposed ston abroad can keep up in pro in China in order to escape the tax. in you. You make me very proud to per style. The results will be submitted gatherers of their native land. There is
to Congress next session,
thus a reserve available to the hands of command you I thank you,
Department officials describe the
the new provincial governors who want to raise alan as already having had a stimulating armies. This reserve has been drawn infidence on the personnel-Reuter upon freely in recent years. 27 American Service.
W: F. L. Gordon, Colonel,
Commandant, S.V.C. Shanghai, Detober 23rd, 1924.
wood on next Golumn)
I understand from the news columns Ironsides is depended upon to counteract this traditional tendency of his fellow countrymen to talk it over and settle without shedding of blood.....
Taking it all in all, the news from the East is promising China is getting.com
She is marching back at double quicke time to civilisation, I wonder whether our children will be equally pleased when they find Chins hee arrived at the destin ation to which between us we bare laxed and gonded her gentis people,