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IMPORTANT BRITISH NAVAL
SECRETS INVOLVED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 1925.
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Lospos, January 26th." Reuter learns that the British Govern- ment is prepared to accept an impartial Loxoay, "January 28th. commission to investigate the opium con- The two men O'Leary and McGough,ditions in its Far Eastern possessions.
that financial Con stated 10 arrested and charged on January 19th,
not
influence the bave been remanded at Bow Street until siderations will
British Government in the least, and to-morrow.
י'.
Mr. Travers Humphreys, prosecuting. announced that during Admiral Hotham's
eridenes be would ask for the evidence to be heard privately on the ground that its publication would prejudies national Bafety
Be stated that two letters had been found on McGough. One bore the stamp of the Irish Republican Army, number seven area, Britain, dated January 14th, Beadal "Intelligence Department," and addre sed to the Intelligence Officer,
Britain "
It related to expecruments at the Haslar
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TO RELIEVE LEPROSY. VICEROY OF INDIA APPEALS FOR FUNDS.
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POLITICAL SITUATION
IN CHINA. (THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
DR. SUN YAT SEN. CONDITION STATED TO BE MOST CRITICAL.
PERING, January 27th. Dr. Sun Yat Sea, this afternoon, was from the Peking Hotel on a taken stretcher to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
DECHI, January 27th. The Viceroy of India (Lord Reading) has issued an appeal in India for, funds. for a Leprosy Relief Association. In his appeal, Lord Reading says new methods of treatment hold out great hopes of alleviation and even cure.
The Prince of Wales has telegraphed, measures will be enforced to reduce opium-expressing the greatest interest and sym- smoking in the Far Eastern territories.pathy in the movement and saying that thanks to recent researches, the ideal for freeing India of the awful scourge of leprosy will become possible of attain ment, i adequate funds are provided for proper niedical treatment of lepers under evening revealed that he was suffering
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HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL.
LONDON, January 27th. According to the Snchester Guardian's Geneva correspondent, various opium conference quarters are optimistic in regard to the possibility of favourable results from the Japanese effort to recon-" eile the American and British views as Mr. Porter pointed out in the preliminary discussion that the procedure now geper-
suitable conditions.
AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN. END OF STRIKE INSIGHT NOW.
SYDNEY, JALUary 27th.
The patient was looking very ill. He had been trying to evade an operation, but it is now regarded as inevitable,
It is feared that Dr. Sua Yat Sen will not life.
His crise is
RACING IN SHANGHAI. RESULTS OF FIRST DAY OF I.R.C. MEETING.
The New Year meeting of the Inter- national Race Club, Shanghai, is being held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday this week. Owing to the dislocation of the train service, the mest ing is being held on the Shanghai course. The first day's results will be found below:
RACE
Happy Choice Jetfeld Little Drummer
Time: 1.17.4-3.
(5 Furlongs).
(Mr. Haimovitch) ? (Mr. Heard) 2 (bir. F. Liou) 3
RACE 2 ( Furlongs).
RACE 3 (One Mile).
(Mr. McBain) 1
(Mr. Heard) 2. (Mr. L. Lih)
VETERAN MISSIONARY.
"MOTHER STUART" DIES IN PEKING,
CORRESPONDENT-]
[FROM A
PEKING, January 18th. Mrs. J. L. Stuart, formerly of Hang- chow and Nanking, who for long has been known to her very many friends as "Mother Stuart," died at 10 am- ou January 16th, at the age of eighty- three years. Last Christmas Day was the fiftieth anniversary of her first land ug in China.
To newcomers in Peking during the five years she has been living here, aho was indeed aluther Stuart. And that. is equally true of many a new arrival in Hangcow and Nanking during the forty-
Her helpruness was never oficions.
Later.
An operation on Dr. Sun Yat Sen last
Duke of Portland...(Mr. A. N. Dallas)" Zouave
...... (Mr. Springfield), Green Chrysanthemum
Time: 1.13.1-8.
1
Ave years she lived in Central China.
"
Whey thanks were seaped, upon her, she.
would laugh bappily, and call it nothing.
(Mr. Encarnacao)
3.
Diomedes Achilles Eastern Mountain
Time: 1.09.
Leadership
Henoy.
Acaman
(Mr. J. Lion) (Mr. H. Quincey) (Mr. A. N. Dallas)
Time: 2:042-3.
from cancer on the liver. described as hopeless.
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PEKING. January 27th. Dr. Sun Yat Sen's condition, if any By an overwhelming majority, the thing, is slightly better. At 3 p.m. to-
dock and aboard the warship Jiowarek Fally agreed upon is that opium smokin senmen have decided to return to their day, his temperature was normal,
and also contained statements relating to very important and most secret matters which would be prejudicat to bational safety. Another letter was a similar communication from number one orea, I.B.A., dated January 11th.
Documents found in O'Leary's room at Portsmouth showed that O'Leary was the writer of the Srst letter, which was Beul to McGough under cover ria woman living in Londen, who appeared to have acted as a sort of post office for the e "people.
duties.
after
should be abolished within 13 years a certain date. The difference of opinion concerns the question of fixing the date. Mr. Porter's speech gave the impression he was not trying to exaggerate the ex- tent of the dispatte, but inclined to re duce the difference to its real size
Switzerland has now ratified The Hague Opium Convention.
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EVACUATION OF RUHR.
NOTE. ALLIES HAND DR "LUTHER A
BERLIN, Jaccary 8th. The British, French and Japanese Ambassadors, the Belgian Minister and the Italian Chargé d'Affarrës have hand-
A Melbourne message says that picking up seamen at various appointed offices has been actively progressing and the end of the shipping disputes may well be re- warded as in sight.
"PALMAS ISLAND.
He
was comparatively comfortable and per- Tectly conscious.
FURTHER FIGHTING.
CHES FORCES DRIVEN BACK ON SOOCHOW.
SHANGHAI, January 27th. Fighting broke out again at Wush The HAGUE January 26th. As the result of an agreement signed on Saturday, with the result that by a by the Dutch Minister at Washington Hank movement La Yung Hsiang captur the question of the sovereignty of Palmas ed Wasih on Monday, causing Chi Hsich Soochow Estand will be submitted to the peh-Yoan's troops to retire to
Kiangyin Fort is also reported to have macent arbitration court at the Hague.
inilen."
WIRELESS TELEPHONY.-
MELBOURNE, January 27th,
CABIN BOY KILLED.
ADMIRAL'S EVIDENCE.
Six abots were Bred on Sunday even- leur-Admiral Hotham gave evidence That publication of the statement in the
Tests of wireless telephony have beening from Woosung Forts at the steamer of which letter" with regard to the naval experi-
went through the Captain" cabin," mental tack at Haslar would prejudiced to Dr. Luther a joint Note with re-made with the East Coast of Amerisa and Hwa Lee, from Tsingtao, one
killing a cabin boy: national salety.
Mr. Mark Payne, superintendent of the Admiralty experimental works at Haslar, said the statements in the letter with regard to secret experiments fa 1024 were substantially accurate.
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COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
Lopos, January 27th. O'Leary and McGlough were committed for trial at Bow Street" this morning. McGough was allowed bail in two sure- ties of 4,000 each. O'Leary was refused
bail.
BENGAL ORDINANCE.
·VICEROY - VETOES BILL TO "SUPERSEDE" IT.
to-morrow.
DELHI, January 7th.
gard to the evacuation of the Ruhr," in. reply to the German-Note of January 8th.
Lord D'Abernon stated that a third Note, with full details, will be peat to
the German Government
possible.
As
GG09
as
have proved fairly successful.
ALESSANDRI ACCEPTS. FORMER PRESIDENT WILLING TO RESUME OFFICE.
Rok, "January 27th. Senor Alessandri has cabled to Chile,
[FROM THE DAILY BULLETIN."] GENERAL ADVANCE BY LU.
SHANGHAI, January 27th. The attack by Lu Yung Hsiang appears to have been in the nature of a general
Dr. Luther expressed disappoistent agreeing to resume the Presidency sub-advance along the whole line. that the present Note did not containject to certain conditions. These include
Lu Yung Hsiang's Russian troops are
the details on which non-evacuation of convocation of a Constituent Assembly said to have been largely responsible for the Cologne zone is based. He urged with a view to carrying out constitutional that the present state of suspension be reforms at the earliest opportunity and
soon ended.
into
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the capture of the important strategical point of Kiangyio.
About 100 wounded soldiers reached
Shanghai this morning from Wasih, and
C
RACE 4 (One Mile):
RACE 5 Mile).
Zambo Dignity II. Maskeedieman...... Time: 1.31.1-5.
..... (Mr. Heard) (Mr. Brand) (Mr. A. N. Dallas)
RACE 6 (1) Miles).
Warrenfeld Tarsus... Advancement
Time: 18.3-5.
3
Q
3
3
(Mr. Heard) 1 (Mr. McBain) 2 (Mr. J.. Lion)
ŘACE 7 (1) Miles).
New Zealand Battleship Altai
Time: 2.3.3-3.
Texas.
(Me. A. N. Dallas) (Mr. J. Liou)
(Mr. Maitland)
Race 8 (Mile).
Whiskeysoda Athens...
Time: 3.33.1-5.
RACE 9
May Be-Can Graptchester
Great Lake
Time: 2.10.2-5.
3
3
...... (Mr. O'Brien) (Mr. Z. W. Yn) (Mr. Encarncao) 3
(One Mile).
RACE 101
..... (Mr. Heard)
(Mr. McBain), 2 (Mr. W. Hu) a
Miles).
Bargain Money ... (Mr. Haimovitch)
C.O.D.
Announcement
Time: 2.45.4-5.
(Mr. J. Lion) (Mr. 2. W. Ya) 3
RACE 11 (11 Miles).
Bonnie Scotland. (Mr. A. N. Dallas) 1
(Mr. McBain) Polydamuske
(Mr. Heard) Young Bill
Time: 3.18.2-5.
SIR FRANK SWETTENHAM
SWINDLED."
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A DEAL IN FURS.
Before Mr. Hay Halkett. at Maryle a special train bas been sent up to bring
bone, on December 12th, Terence Ivey, back Chi Hsieh Yuan, who went to 500-30, & traveller, of Kilburn, was charged with stealing a silver fox fur and £4 Chi Hsieh Yuan's front line now in-cash, to the total of £40, by means of a cludes Scochow, where it is believed he trick, from Sir Frank Swettenham, of 43, Seymour Street, W. (formerly Gover- will make a stand.
nor of the Straits Settlements).
The Note to Germany says that the ordering the return of the military Altes do not utend at present, to enter leaders to their proper duties. German discussion with the Government, cor deal with the latter's The Allied Governments will accept. as early as possible "communicate what remains to be done by Germany under article 420 of the Treaty of Versailles. The "German Government appears to have misunderstood the import of
allegations, which they could in rowise (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] show a day or two ago.
ASSEMBLY IS CONYOKED.
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, January 26th.
For the purpose of conciliating the
articles 425 and 120 of the treaty, and Navy's attitude towards the coup d'etat, FAR EASTERN CABLE
sions
to
The Viceroy has disallowed Pundit Motilal Nehru's Bill to supersede the it is for Germany, by fulfilling ber Bengal Ordinance being introduced obligations, to enable the Allies into the Assembly. The Assembly will restrict their occupation in the manner discuss the resolution in this connection contemplated by article 429, the provi-
which
intend of
the Allies scrupulously to observe.
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CRICKET. M.C.C. TEAM IN MATCH AGAINST TASMANIA.
FIRE AT COLOMBO. FIBRE WORTH SEVERAL LAKHS
DESTROYED.,
COLOMBO, January 27th Damage estimated as several lakhs of rupees was caused by a fire which gutted the warehouses of Messrs. Bayley and Kenny and destroyed 12,000 cwt. of fibre. It will cause a shortage on the fibre
.market.
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FRANCE AND VATICAN. FRENCH PREMIER FINDS HIMSELF IN DILEMMA..
PARIS, January 28th, In the Chamber, M. Herriot stated
that the Conseil D'Etat, which is the
supreme tribunal of administrative law,
LAUNCESTON, January 27th.
The weather was cloudy to-day when
it has been decided that the new Govern-
ment shall be a triumvirate consisting of a General, an Admiral and a civilian.
The Constituent Assembly has been cor voked.
WAR-TIME SEIZURES," INPORTANT RULING IN SUPREME
COURT OF AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, January 28th.
ני
Au important test case has been
the 3.C.C. team, ou a good wicket, com- brought by two German banks, on which
menced their fixture against Tasmania.
NEWS.
(7ccdn RECTER'S AGENCY.} MORO MURDERERS KILLED,
MANILA, January 27th. The Constabulary have killed eight Moro murderers at Lanao.
RIOT AT MANTLA. POLICE RESERVES CALLED OUT TO QUELL TROUBLE.
MANILA, January 27th. The police reserves here been called Two men pelice, soldiers and sailors.
The M.C.C. made 918 in their first innings, the disposal of many million dollars of out here to quell an incipient riot of towards which A. Sandham contributed stock depended. 116. He was batting 2 hours and a balf and hit fours.
A. C. Newton took 3 wickets for 60 and R. A. Davis 4 for 55.
Tasmania had made 71 for the loss of three wickets when stumps were drawn.
The spectators numbered 2,000.
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HOME FOOTBALL.
It has been decided by the Supreme were injured. Court declaring that the British Govern- ment is entitled to ratain American stock certificates owned by represented by enemy aliens, but seized in Britain i wartime.
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Sir Frank Swettenham said the accused him on
and another man called on
Her keenness of mind was fully equal to her physical energy. She was con- versant with new developments in China just as she was conversant with Chinese history. She was constantly acquiring information. At eight-three years' age, her mind was open and eager to learn. new things.
Ms. J. L. Stuart's maiden name was
Mary Horton. She was born at
Alobile, Alabama, on January 9th, 1842. She first landed in China. at Shanghai, on Christmas Day in 1574. For forty- worked in the Presbyterian ole years she
In 1913 she Mission at Hangehow. moved to Nanking, and four years later Peking to live with her sun, J. Leighton Stuart.
She was married in 1974 to J. L Stuart, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, who had come to China six years earlier. He died In 1913, after forty-five years of service, and is buried in the Mission cemetery at Hangchow.
Mrs. Stuart is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law: J. Leighton Stuart and wife, of Peking, and Warren L. Stuart, of the Nanking Theological Seminary, and wife, and one grandson, John L. Stuart, who visited in Peking Jast Summer, and is now a student at Washington and Lee University, Lexing ton, Virginia. "
YALE-IN-CHINA. THE STUDENT STRIKE TROUBLE
The Changsha correspondent of the Asiatic News Agency reports in con- nection with the strike of students of the Yale-in-China College, that the students. have presented the following four de mands on the President of the institu- tion: ---
:
1.-Inasmuch as the Yale-in-China Col
lege has been and is still receiving, thirty thousand taels per sanum subsfly from the Chinese Govern ment, which has been regularly paid. to the collegs out of the Salt re evipts of Hunan in monthly instal ments, and as all the students are citizens of the Chinese Republic, it is necessary for the Yale-in-China to register itself witth the Ministry of Education na required by Chin- ese law.
2. That ringleaders who were dismiss
ed from the said college by the President on account of the strike be reinstated,
That the teaching of Christianity be made selective or optional by the students and that there shall be no compulsion.
That the independence of the Students Union be fully recognis- ed.
General Chao Hen Ti- Civil Governor November 25th, offering skins and other of Hunsu, is trying to mediate, but the things for sale. He asked the price of students refuse to return to their studies a. silver fox akin and, on being told £80, until they have received the reply from he said they were of no use to him and the Americas Faculty to their demands. told the men to go away. After a great The students contend that, in accordanca deal of trouble they went. Half-an-hour with the stipulations of the Ministry of later the prisoner returned alone, bring Education, graduates from the foreign- ing the fox far, and, pleading that he controlled educational institutions of the was hard ap owing to a debt of honour various provinces should not be recog- and only had 6id., asked the witness to aised for official appointments unless such buy the skin. Touched by the appeal, he colleges and universities are registered agreed to buy it for £36, and gave the with the Peking Government as required Some by law, and consequently, they insist prisoner a cheque in payment. hours afterwards the prisoner returned that the Yale-in-China College be regis again and offered to let the witness have tered without delay.
an ever so much better" skin in ex- change for the ons he had already bought on payment of another £4.
The Magistrate: Is it better than the Was the other one?-It is valueless. other one valuable 1-I think it was all Sir Frank Swettenham added right. that, accepting the man's statement, be paid him £4, took the second skin, and allowed him to leave with the fox fur.
The Magistrate said he did not, sec where the fraud came in; it was a civil matter. A solicitor, defending, said that would be the defence.
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DEATH OF "PARVUS." THE "FATHER" OF SOVIETISM.
was of opinion that the Franco Vatican LATEST RESULTS IN LEAGUE AND AMERICA, PLANS TO AID BRITISH ter of Justice of the Southern Govern- is a civil swindle, not a criminal swin- Soviet there, a deed which won him the
Concordat of 1601," which had been denounced by France in 1905, still applied
to Alsace Lorraine, where it was en forced by Germany after the war of 1870. The Government accepted this ruling, and consequently the Concordat would continue to be applied there.
ENGLISH CUP.
LONDON, January 26th...
GOVERNMENT.
The German Press reported the death last month, at the age of 50, of the Socialist journalist and author, Dr. the notorions Alexandar Helphand, CHINA'S GOVERNMENT.
Parvus" of the war years. A Russian by, birth Helphand. wax NEW FORM DESIRABLE.
the staff of the Socialist Leipziger Folk- "Most Chinese people, including the
arly domiciled in Germany, and, joined stimme. On the outbreak of the Russian upper classes, seem to have misunder
"It is a swindle, certainly, the Magis revolution of 1905 he returned to Petro- stood the position and power of a Presi dent," said Mr. Hsu Chien, former Ministrate continued, "but it seems to me it grad, and organised the first Workers ment at Canton, in a recent address to dio. You (Sir Frank) got a bad bargain, title of "Father of the Soviet Move- the students of the Yen Ching University, It is a most disgraceful swindle, but Iment After the failure of the revolu
do not think any jury would convict." tionists he returned to Germany, but was Peking New YORK, January 27th
"The word 'Ta Tsung Tung means Sir Frank Swettenham said the second expelled from the Socialist party, and The Journal of Commerce learns that to the Chinese people something really was merely a dyed skin. The Magistrato withdrew to Constantinople, where her the Federal Reserve Board has given more than the word president means replied that the men swindled him pro-founded a newspaper and is alleged to strasse. When the world war broke out. sanction to the Reserve Bank to purchase to the people of foreign. republics. In perly. The first skin might have been have acted as an agent of the Wilhelm
be returned to Germany, and was ther The accused was discharged.
link between the Government. sterling and frane bills on the open order to clear up this wrong conception, as valueless as the second. market as a beginning of a general and to establish a government which in scheme to assist Britain to return to the fact represents the people, the committes gold standard. The cbject of the measure forn. of government is in my opinion un- is that buying frane bills in large quandoubtedly necessary.
A committee government is the only tities will relieve London from financing French needs at a moment of possible form that can meet the need of present atress The Times of New York states China. All the other forms of government. it is typical of New York banking, and that China has nominally or practically comments that the problem of restoring tried since the establishment of the ro the gold standard embodies the assertion public, have not only caused continuous thief is to use a collapsible bag, says served as intermediary between Germany that to maintain sterling at par Eng. trouble but have really been obstacles to London paper. This method of stealing and Lenin, and was the chief organiser Since China's Juggage is exceedingly difficult to detect of the abortive Socialist congress at The late Francis Wallace Grenfell, land must be willing definitely to forego the people's progress. Raycoo, January 24th. The Chief Justice has allowed the ap-P.C., G.O.B., G.C.M.G., F.B.A., we ber former pre-eminent position as a social condition. and political background A passenger puts down his arit-case to Stockholm, which so agitated, Allied peal by the three Buddhist priests and created 1st Baron of Kilvey in 1902. He market for long-term foreign loans and are different from those of other nations, bay, say, a magazine, and the watching opinion in 1917. During those activities one layman sentenced to imprisonment was born on April 27th, 1841, entered the willing so to conduct the Bank of Eng- it is obviously unwise to adopt other forms this puts a larger bag, without bottom he amassed a considerable fortune, and
fine record land's discount policy as to keep the of government and to copy other can and containing gripping springs, over his latest work was the editing of
stitutioni without any alteration or the top of it, and with the pazaonger's paper dealing with reparations on November 21st, in connection with 40th Rifles in 1810. After
adaption
bag held in the device, walks away vocating an entente with F- the assault on Mr and Mrs. Gleason of foreign service, he was promoted a London short-term monty market on a
higher basis than New York, Field-Marshal in 1808.] on October 11th last year.
In the FA Cup replay, West Ham beat the Arsenal by use goal to mil, at Chelsea.
In the northern division of the English The Opposition is expected to make the most of the dilemma in which this "Soccer League Halifax beat Doncaster ruling places M. Herriot, who is now by 2 goals to nil faced with the paradoxical policy of withdrawing the all-France's Vatican
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representative and appointing & special representative for Alsace Lorraine.
OBITUARY.
BURMA ASSAULT CASE. CHIEF JUSTICE GRANTS RIGHT
LORD GRENFELL
LONDON, January 27th.
TO APPEAL.
The death is announced of Lord -'Grenfell.
LUGGAGE THEFTS.
connecting Kaiser's Socialists." It felt
and the
to bim to organise: the subsidising E pro-Garman Socialist papers in ventrat landa, while he ran the Imperialis Socialist paper Die Glöcke, which ac quired so notorious a reputation among The favourite trick of the railway the annexationist papers of Germany, He
TER BOTTOMLESS BAG TEJCK.