THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, 1924
PREMIER AND THE ZINOVIEFF LETTER.
"THE MOST INNOCENT MANT OF THE LOT.
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DETERMINED TO PROBE THE MATTER.
OPPOSITION PRESS NOT SATISFIED.
EARLIER CABLES. Mr. MacDonald said he wanted to know [TROCOK BEUTEM'S AGENCY.]
how a certain London newspaper, which
LONDON, October 27th.
was priding itself on having forced the
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THE
CIVIL WAR IN
CHINA
QUEENSTOWN- OUTRAGE,
MANY – ARRENTS.
LONDON, October 28th. Many arrests were made in Dublin this mering, following detective raids in a search for men wanted in connection with the shooting of British soldiers at Queens town, mentioned on March and
M.C.C. IN AUSTRALIA.
SWEDISH LOAN IN AMERICA.
QUICKLY OVERSUBSCRIBED.
NEW YORK, October 27th. -The issue of thirty million dollars: of Swedish Government Bonds was over subscribed shortly after the lists opened
AMERICAN INDUSTRY AND TRADE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
WU PH FU AT TIENTSIN.
FOREIGN POWERS TAKING PRECAUTIONS.
TIENTSIN October 27th. Two hundred American marines landed this afternoon. A British, a French and an Italian gunboat, and two Japanese destroyers, are in the river at present. The monthly report of the FederalThere has been an excellent response to against Western Australis who in their
The M.C.C. won by innings and 120 Reserve Board has announced an in- the appeal of the local authorities for
A. GOOD `START.
PERTH, W.A., October 28th
A GENERAL ADVANCE.
Washington, October 27th.
MACLAREN ON WORLD FLIGHT ATTEMPT.
BEATEN BY. · 'SOLID
"I WKET DITTERLY,
A formal welcome home was tendered to the British flying men whose efforts to girdle the world came to an end in the Bebring Sea Squadron Leader A. S. C- S. MacLaren, the leader of the British expedition in the Vickers-Napier Vul ture, and Flying Officer Flenderleith, were acclaimed at a luncheon given in their honour at the Hotel Cecil, London. Sergt. R. Andrews, the third member of the party, is still suffering from the effects of the exposure on the expedition
Many distinguished air officers ware
Vice-Marshal Siz W Geoffrey Salmand, and in addition to the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. J. H. Clynes), representing the Government, the Ambassadors of Japan and Greece, where the British diers re-
and was unable to attend.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Government's hands, came to have a copy second innings scored 8 Tate took a crease of nine per cent. in the produc- Volunteers. Many traids with troops present at the huncheon, including Air
Cardiff, said the election bad started with ''the-mare's nest of the Workers' Weekly -ense and was likely to finish with the sumaro's nest of a great Russian "Red" *gslet. (Laughter.) The assertion that when the Government was refusing an Enquiry into the Workers Weekly ease they had information of the ramifications of communist activity in Great Britain, far more "serious than either the House of Commons or the country was allowed
of the letter, or how the Conservative headquarters, which for days had been talking of springing a mine under the | Government's feet, because possessed of
the letter,
"So far as I know, the letter may have
originated anywhere. How can I, a sim- ple and honest-minded person, avoid the suspicion that the whole thing is a poli- tical plot, another "gunpowder plot." (Laughter.) The matter is nowise finish w to know, was a malicious untruth. Theed, and until it is finished the best thing 1 facts were that the Government had been is to leave it with the Government." . defeated on October 8th, whilst this
(Cheers.) "Red" plot letter had not found its way to the Foreign Office until October 18th It had not been put into the Department'
» until October 14th.
A CONSERVATIVE COMMUNIQUE.
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LATER. With reference to Mr. McDonald's -speech at Cardiff, the Conservative head
quarters have promptly issued a state- ment that they only learned of the exist ace of the Zincrieff letter when the Foreign Office published it, STATEMENT BY MR. HENDERSON.
With reference to statements that the
"It was sent to me at Manchester on October 15th. I received it on the 16th. "I minuted that the greatest care must be taken in discovering whether it was authentic, and if so it must be published. "immediately; that in the meantime, while other investigations were proceeding to -discover the authenticity of this document, Zinoviel letter was known to Mr. Mac a draft letter to Rakovsky should be pre- Donald and Mr. Henderson nearly thres pared so that when, and if, the authen-weeks prior to publication, Mr. Hender. ticity of the letter be established, no time son to-day declares that no such doen, should be lost in protesting to the Soviet nent was received at the Home Once Government. My minute was received in or Scotland Yard, or by Mr. Henderson the Department on the 17th, and a draft personally, from any quarter. His first was sent me on the 21st at Aberavon for information of the existence of the docu- observations. I was absent, in my son's
constituency, and did not receive it until the 23rd. I altered the draft on the 24th, and sent it hack in its altered form, ex- pecting it to be returned to me with proofs of the authenticity, but it was pub- lished that night. (Cries of "Shame !") I make no complaints. The Foreign Office and everyone of my colleagues know that I won't tolerate this propaganda." (Cheeri.)
ment was in the columns of a newspaper
on. "Uctober 25th.
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MR LLOYD GEORGE DECLINES
TO ACCEPT SOVIET DENIAL" LONDON, October 27th. Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech
Cam- berwell in support of Mr. Macnamara, said that the Moscow mystery had cast a very sinister light on the Government's refusal to hold an inquiry into the Camp- bell case. The Foreigs Office, of which
Mr. MacDonald was the head, bad said the Zinovieff document was genuine, but all Mr. MacDonald's Ministers said it was
a forgery. He did not know why they said that before they had made enquiries. It looked to him as though the document had been withheld from the Cabinet Ministers..
"On account of my known determina- ition to stand Ermly to the agreement and streaty as though they were holy writ, when my signature was attached, they assumed that they were carrying out my -wishes in taking immediate steps to pub- Wish the whole affair. They honestly be-
lieved the document to be authentic and Premier the Soviet denied a similar tran- acted on that belief. If they acted pre-saction when he had positive proof cipitately, what is the accusation against
us Why don't the newspapers say we were in too great haste. If the Forsiga Office had been in either Tory or Liberal hands that letter would have taken weeks to get through the various sieves. The rapidity of action wins a businesslike way of handling the Government's ́determina- { tion to stand no nonsense, and is a con- spicuoue example of the new way of con- ducting foreign affairs.
“SURROUNDED BY SCOUNDREL-
NESS."
He would have accepted the Soviet denial but for the fact that when he was
was propagating a revolution in England
wickets for 10 max and Freeman 3 for 23
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tion of basic commodities, which is the first advance since January.
Factory employment has increased by ten per cent and wages have slightly
GERMANY AND HER LOST improved.
COLONIES.
ASPIRATIONS FOR THEIR RETURN.
BERLIN, October 27th. Addressing the Centre Party, Herr Marx demanded that Germany should be treed from military supervision, that Ger- many's colonies be restored, and thus enable her to obtain
raw materials in exchange for manufactured goods. He
described Germany's responsibility for the war, as a fairy tale," and expressed Germany's willingness to co-operate in disarmament.
FRANCO-GERMAN NEGOTIA-
TIONS.
FRENCH PREMIER'S HOPES.
PARIS, October 27th. Speaking at a banquet at Lyons, M. Herriot referred to the satisfactory begin ping of Franco-Germani negotiations, and said he hoped France would soon be able to recover the losses she had suffered through being constantly obliged to buy goods in the West, by being able to buy
in the East.
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He then spoke of the development of
from Shanbakwan, are are proceeding. waiting a few miles from Tientsin to wards Peking.
Wa Pei Eu remains in the native city. He sent emissaries to the Consulates this
esived official assistance when in tem porary difficulties, were both among the guests.
Crops are generally better, and rail-morning expressing the hope that he road shipments have increased Whole would be allowed to remain for a few sale trade is up eleven per cent. There days. The view is expressed that this Mr. Cents said in the development of were increased commercial loans all over the country to finance crops.
HUNGARIAN COUNTESS A SUSPECTED BOLSHEVIK.
3 New York, October 27th. After being held, aboard the liner
George Washington since yesterday even- ing pending the result of hearing a pro-
is an impossible contravention of the Boxer Protocol..
WU EN FUS REQUEST TOE
TROOFS..
HANKOW, October 28th. Marshal Hsiao Yao Nan. granting a telegraphic request by Wu Pei Fu. has ordered two mixed brigades of Hupeh
aviation the e-operation of Govern ments was not only desirable but also essential, and ́pur Government, whatever party might form it, should not bé be.. hind any other Government.
AMERICAN SPORTSMEN..
Squadron Leader MacLAREs, who was received with great enthusiasm, said when their first machine crashed at from their second machine, which was Akyab, in Burma, they were 4,000 miles
-An
test by the National Security League troops to proceed north to fight in waiting at Tokyo. The. Anerican flyers, who had just reached Tokyo, resolved on that she is a Bolshevik and a menace to company with Wu's troops against one of the most magnificent acts of inter-
General Feng The troops will be com-national sportsmanship on record.
American destroyer was despatched to manded by Generals Keno and Chang take the spare British nuching all those The former left last night while the latter thousands of miles to Akynb is proceeding later from Shanghai, where Chang is at present.
American institutions, Countess Karolyi, wife of the Ex-President of Hungary, who is visiting America on a lecture tour, has been permitted to land. -
WEMBLEY IN 1925. "NO POSSIBLE DOUBT,” In a statement to a Press representa tive Mr. John Mellor, of the British Em- pire Exhibition executive, declared that there was now no possible doubt that Wembley would carry on next year. Mr.
Mellor continued:
A fortnight ago the odds were ten to one against carrying op, int since the
Marshal Wu Pei Fu has requested that troops be sent froni Szechuan. Honan, Kiangau, Chekiang. Anhui, and other provinces besides Hupeh
JAPAN DISPATCHING TROOPS TO
TIENTSIN.
TOKYO, October 28th. Additional troops may be despatched conflict show signs of endangering the to China by Japan should the impending
and Colonial Commissioners that they interests of foreign residents in the
restatement was made by the Dominion
the French colonies, especially with gard to silk and cotton, and said he boped
the purchase of these in foreign coun- tries would shortly be reduced to the minimum.
From many nations they received help, and on the soil of the British Empirn they lacked "nothing to make the flight successful. Though the fight was uẸ- official the Air Ministry helped them in every conceivable way, preparing maps and allowing them to make use of the Ministry's aerodromes and machines [**** It was fog alone that beat" us,” said Squadron Leader Maclaren in eulogising the machines that carried them 13,000 miles. Before they had been an hour an their journey they encountered fog in the Channel, and in his story of the fight difficulties with fog were & recurring feature. They had shocking weather across France and Italy; in India they had to spend 17 days in the scorching.. Sind desert, and at Akyab in torrential
wordd not be at Wembley in 1995 certain adjustments have been made, and Ally neighbourhood of Tientsin. The stand tralia has given the lead to the othering garrison at Liaotung has been Commissioners by recommending the already depleted by the despatch of first day's flight. FRENCH NEGOTIATIONS FOR Australian Government to countenance troops to Tisatsin and Shanbaikwan. If the Australian Pavilion next year. It is LOAN,
now believed to be highly probable that additional men are required it will be the lead will be followed by other Com- necessary to bring up the garrison to full missioners.
Inquiries prove that the Overseas ex-strength by troops from Korea or Japan Le Journal and Le Matin deny the rehibitors are almost unanimous about the
proper. ported loan agreement with Morgans, commercial success of Wembley, and al- mentioned yesterday, and add that nego- tiations are continuing.
PARIS, October th
HAMBURG ELECTIONS. -
DEFEAT OF DEMOCRATIC- SOCIALIST BLOC.
The
BERLIN, October 27th. The election to the Hamburg Diet shows thereof, namely Kameneff had denied he that the Democrats have lost two and at the moment when Mr. Lloyd George the Socialists have lost 18 seats. had his telegram to Moscow stating that he had disposed of the Russian jewels and People's Party have lost eight. was giving the Daily Herald £75,000 Nationalists have gained 10 and the Com- sterling. Therefore he could not accept Moscow's denial he would have accept munists have gained seven ed the denial of any other country.
OPPOSITION NOT SATISFIED.
LONDON, October 28th. The most serious" allegation of the Premier's critics regarding Russia was that the Premier had Ziuovieff's" letter several weeks ago and deliberately with held its publicstion for party purposes
The Premier's speech has disarmed criticism on this aspect of the subject but otherwise it has in nowine. satisfied the Opposition Press, which caustically refers to the anasaal spectacle of s Minister attacking officials of his own department, who are not privileged to reply.
The
Hitler's and Ludendorff's followers have gained four seats. The Centraliste retain od their sents.
This means the defeat of the tic-Socialist Government blog,"
LATER
rains the machine became, so waterlogged that it could not rise in the air. There goon and Bangkok, and beyond Tokyo was shocking weather again between Fan- they ran into fogs and storms and had to make three forced landings during the
On the last day of the flight, when they left Oest Kamachatka with 130 miles of sen to cross, the fog became so solid that. they had to come down to a few feet above the water. Telling how, with the machine, which had been forced to land in the open sea, being broken by the waves, the fog. suddenly lifted when they were half a mile from Behring Island Squadron Leader MacLaren,' said it was the end of the attempt, and he was not ashamed to say that he wept bitterly..
"That is our story," he added. "We would not have missed the adventure for worlds; we did our best; we failed thi to stage their displays in
news A Peking Chinese 1025, but this
agency time." I will say nothing of our lucky But I will is not regarded as
serious matter, as reports:-In addition to monkeys and that is all in the game. it has been computed that at least six
never say anything disrespectful of arms are prepared to take the place of bears, Marshal Wu Pei Fu has ordered London, fog again. It is now established cach one who drops out, and when Wem- about hundred rats and mice from that it is possible to fly round the world, bley thus opens in 1923 the improvements Hanchowiu, Northern Kiangsa. These and I believe it can be done in less time which will have been developed during little animals were packed in twenty than Jules Verne's 80 days and also by the winter will establish definitely, the
one British machine and one British popularity and success of the greatest cases for transportation to ho Shaahai- engine. exhibition the world has ever seen- kuan front It is reported that the Mukden troops are using poison gas and these rats will be employed for its de tection at the battle fronts." |
most without exception those exhibitora are prepared to exhibit in 1975. Many The Cabinet to-day decided to send two of them, moreover, are willing to spend additional companies with a machine-gun considerable additional sums to add to the attractiveness of their displays corps to Tientsin from Manchuria With regard to the exhibitors in the United Kingdom Palaces it is quite true that a few of the firms are not prepared
PACIFIST "PUGNÁCITY.“
At the fourth annual" International
Democratic, Congress for Peace assembled in the Central Hall. Westminster, on September 18th, the chairman, the Rev. FAR Democratemberath, the chairman, the Rev.
HOMEWARD BRAZIL
CONFERENCEL
IMPORTANT GERMAN-DUTCH- SHIPPING AGREEMENT.
If the Zinovieff letter is a forgery, it shows the amount of scoundrelness with which we are surrounded. My ex perience has made it impossible for me
AMSTERDAM, October 27th. not to be suspicious. If it is genuine, relegate the authenticity of the Zinorieff Everybody is at present content to
With referenes to the recent friction depend upon it that so long as there is a letter itself to the background, but the between the Dutch and German naviga Labour Government and I am responsible utmost party capital is being made out tion companies engaged in the South for it, then it will handle with firmness of Mr. MacDonald's Russian, policy.
The Conservatives particularly regard American trade with regard to the and determination every attempt by an the whole episode as an electoral asset outside Power to interfere in our internal with which to spur apathetic voters to mutual utilisation of harbours, the
the poll
Handelsblad learns that an arrangement affaire,"
The Liberals, however, though dissatis Mr. MacDonald continued to describe fed with the reply, warn supporters not has been reached whereby the German as lies the wonderful stories" of the to pay undue attention to the Russian lines undertake to limit themselves to newspapers as regards the progress of issue, but rather concentrate on the de 18 trips annually from Brazil to Rotter the document through the Post Office to feat of the Conservatives" Protectionist the Foreign Office. He said it was an airus.
dam, and the Dutch lines engage to eleventh-hour attempt to entangle the Government and get election night over
make a like number of journeys between with a cloud of suspicion hanging over the
Brazil and Hamburg, (country, ed.
THE POLL PROSPECTS. Insurance rates at Lloyds in the past few days have veered in izvour of a Con- serrative victory, the odds yesterday The agreement, which will operate being approximately 7 to 2 on a clear until December 31st, 1925, is important Conservative majority and 10 to 1 against
"I am the most innocent man of the lot of you I was out of London and and to get information, which is still coming in, because I am going to probe this thing a Labour majority, but Mr. MacDonald's because the German companies-alas be- to the roots. It will be my first job, when anal appeal to the nation says At the come members of the Homeward Brazil I return to London, to discover bow this end of the hardest fight I have ever known thing originated and who is behind it, and the signs of Labour victories are amis Conference, on which British, French you will get the whole story."
takabla.
and Dutch companies are represented..
POISON GAS.
EASTERN CABLE
NEWS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGE
OBITUARY.
national Fellowship of Reconciliation), said that many people associated pacifists with extreme pugnacity. When he men tioned the name of the fellowship with which he was connected to a friend, the latter replied, "Yes, what a pugnacious people (Laughter.) We make a THE AMERICAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRES, joke of it," said the chairman, "but it is to our shame that we do not give the impression ourselves of having peace in our hearts and minda.”
HUSBAND-MURDER BY PROXY.
PRETTY YOUNG WIFE SENTENCED.
The Supreme Court of the Czechar Slovak province of Moravia, sitting at Bruun, has confirmed sentence of death. upon beautiful young widow, Hilda. Hanika
Last year, when she was 21, she mar ned Captain Karl Haniks, of the Czecho Slovakian army She soon quarrellad with him, and, with the connivance of her mother, Fran Charrat, the persuaded Pexiva, October 28th.
her cousin, Johann Vesely, aged 19, to Mr. Edward Bell, Charge d'Affaires of murder the husband. She represented Professor Paul Gemalhing, Professor of the American Legation, died early this herself to Vesely as cruelly treated, and Economics at Strasburg University, said
bought the youth a revolverad problems of war, because the last war that moral questions were at the root of morning.
Vesely saw Captain Haniks and told
more than any other war was a war of the Charge d'Affaires
The first secretary, Mr. Mayer, becomes him that his wife was very ill, and that must come at once. On the way to the Vesely ther children, was concerned. The desire to
station, on a lonely peoples; everyone, men, women, and
him dead and bid the body in # Polate aroid war must be in the minds of every le as well as the leaders. The problems
of peace included the education of the
WHY WE QUARREL.
held. Vesely did his ut
to
When arrested
screen the two women, but finally be admitted everything, and explained that common man to understand the mind of A well-known pathologist has recently his motive had been a purely chivalrous the other side. It was also necessary to made an interesting discovery. He has one, as he regarded his as a lovely and to understand how much those difer-effect of increasing the amount of sagar understand the differences between people found that bad temper has the curious Women In distress
"At the trial it Sa Show
wife kindly, and entis night contribute to humanity in the blood by from 10 per cent to 30 Hanika had treated his
Dr. W. E. Orchard (King Weigh per cent in the course of a few mistes was a good husband, but that she mark House Chapel) said that that pheno That is why an angry man wants to bght her mother were ambitious and thought
#become rich menon the conscientious objector had the object of his raga. He becomes hot they
ch through the If the e husband were when there, would be so many conscien-occus material intoxicates his muscular ont of tious objectors that a nation going to war system. The strange things in that this the wife was sentenced to death b was going to destruction. (Cheers.)"
ted rapid change is due to a tiny gland about ning prison the gave birth to
wirl, whom her defending coun Herr Strauch, who said he represented the mise of pin. When it functiona Dr. Stepan has adopted,.. the German workers, appealed to the normally person remains calm and even Vesely, received only three years hu workers of all countries to refuse to as temperad the amazon exude to prisonment with hard labour and thes ast in the manufacture of muniti lavishly, hatred, passion, and quarrels mother was senteneed to 20 years ham war. (Cheerz.)
labour.
come to stay, and the time would arrive blooded because this accession of carbons-Jon WHO
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