CABLES
NARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH ZIUTER'S AGENCY. I
THE HONGKONG: DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1925
ALLEGED RUSSIAN ATTACK ON FAR EASTERN CABLE
AFGHAN POST.
ALLAHABAD, December 7th. Newspapers at Kabul report that «MOSUL DECISION AND TURKEY'S | Russian troops suddenly and unprovok
PRESTIGE
POSSIBILITY OF WAR.
LONDON, December 27th.
A Westminster Gazette message "from Anyara learns that the territorial loss of Mosul is insignificant compared to the loss of prestige to Mustapha Kemal and his Government, which is still faced with strong opposition in Turkey. The Gov ernment may be forced to war to regain its prestige and to avert a revolution at Home
L
The message adde that the Turco-Soviet
clause Treaty contains a secret guarante ing Soviet support to Turkey in the event of war.
"RED" TRADE UNIONS INTERNATIONAL. INVITATIONS TO WORLD),
CONGRESS.
AMSTERDAM, December 27th. The Congress of the National Labour Secretariat, presided over by the Dutch Communist Her Sneevlist and attended by representatives of the British Minority Party and also of the Soviet, has pass- el a resolution by: tis votes to 4 instruct- ing the Executive to give effect to a reaslution adopted by referendum in 1993 tó join the Reil Trade Unions Inter- national.
NEWS.
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY,}"
JAPAN, SHELTIES KUO'S CIVIL OFFICIALS.
edly attacked and captured the Afghan post of Darkad in Badakshan and DEMAND FOR THEIR SURRENDER
REFUSED. occupied the surrounding territory.
EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY." NO DAMAGE DONE.
Rose Dreember 27th,
A message from Terni reports that a short but severe earth-quake heck was felt in the evening. There was damage
5,
OBITUARY.
REAR ADMIRAL MACLEAN.
LosDos, December 27th.
10.
THE POWERS AND CHINA.
PARIS, December 27th.
In well informed circles it is declared That the Powera interested will not despatch a "Joint Note to the Chinese Garment in regard to present events in China, '
A FRENCH COMMENT.
WESTERN POWERS AND THE MOSCOW PERIL
IN CHINA
RUSSIAN DANCERS IN COURT.
SEQUEL TO THEFT. FROM
WING ON' CO.
THE "TUNGCHOW"
PIRACY.
A SHANGHAI COMMENT.. CRITICISM OF HONGKONG
·GOVERNMENT.
Before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday, the two Russian
The Tuchom piracy, the V.C. Dailge, women, Daria Sramoilof and Tamaar News says, is more than an outrage by Chinese pirates:" it is, publie scandal Loskooloff, again appeared op remand
which ought never to have been posible, on a charge of the theft of four
and which is a deplorable reflexion on rolle of silk, valued at $475, from the those basically responsible for the safety of
Wing On Co. on December 22nd.
Mr. C. A. S. Russ was for the defence:
afternoon,
British ships in Chinese waters.
ABSENCE OF WIRELESS.
The weak feature about the whole
system, das called system of piracy provention on the China Coast is the absence of wireless telegraphy," on the
Toro, December 28th. A Foreign Office message from Mukden
PARIS, December 98th states that Marshal Chang's von has de-
Commenting on events in China thead the hearing of the case which began. manded that the Japanese Consul-General Greulois, after referring to endeavours on in the morning was concluded, in the should order the Consul at Hainminiu to the part of the Moscow Government to give up eight of General Auo's civil supplant the Westem Powers in the
The Manager of the pices goods de-ships; that. and nothing more. officials who are refuging in the Con-prestige they have acquired in Asin, con-
partment of the Wing On stores, said Even five years ago, before piracy was revived, the question of the general in- sulate there, but the request was refused clades It is precisely this which that at 3 p.m. the two defendants entered stallation of wireless asparatus on pas- on the China as it is understood that Marshal Ching gravates the problem imposed by the shop to buy some black satin. They senger-carrying vessels
Europe's attitude of abstention in the bought twelve inches, for which they paid Coast was an important one. As piracy intends executing them.
succeeded piracy and murder and out- effervescence in China. Logically, an the sum of 82.10. They both asked to be rage succeeded murder and outrago, it agreement ought to be reached between shown some satin, the BILAMA eatnar beame more than important-it develop-. -..
ed into an urgent necessity. But still, 43 3 coat which one of them was
apparently, nothing of a concrete Esturo wearing
Witness went away to look for has been done and now the matter is the satin, but could not find it, and when nothing less than vital to the preser- vation of the lives of those who travel in he returned he sent a foki, who had ships in these parts, to the shipowners given the defendants change for their therasives, and to the public generally.. Het brooks no further delay, and neither. purchase, to find the material.
the authorities responsible nor the ship- owners concerned can be permitted to bring about delay.
The Consul General i arranging “
The death is announced of Admiral i Japanese police escort to bring them the Western States to avert this peril"
J. C. B. Mclean, who was responsible for the naval transport service i warting
safely to Mukden.
THE GOVERNMENT AT PEKİNG.
THE FATE OF GENERAL KUO.
FUNCTIONS REVISED. Though, it is not confirmed officially, [Surgeon Rear-Admiral Maclean was the Government spokesman believes the
PERING, December 28th. 30 years of age. He joined Royal
the reports that the heads of Kuo and his
Mandates have been issued appointing' Navy in 1972, was present at bombardment of Alexandria, and served wife were exhibited publicly at Mukden, Hsu Shih Ting Premier and revising the in the Egyptian campaign, being specially promoted (1882). Admiral and he expressed disgust that such bar-regulations governing the functions of the Maclean retired in 1907, but under barities had been practiced. took nava! transport direction
The vernacular papers also consider the He was the, Great War broke out made a Commander of the Order of the incident to be most regretable though Bath in 1917-1
they say. Kub deserved death as traitor.
when
LATEST CABLES. [RNUTIK'S AMERICAN SERVICH] AMERICA AND BRITISH RUBBER. ENGLAND'S "WICKEDNESS."
WASHINGTON, December 28th. The Press and public men are growing
It also resolved by 118 votes to 3 in daily more indignant and unrestrained favour of the Red Trade Unions Inter-in their expressions when discussing -national issuing invitations to a World England's "wickedness" in advancing Congress of Bed Trade Unions Inter-the price of rubber."
national, of the International federation of Trade Unions and of organisations not belonging to both Internationale.
INDIAN CONGRESSES. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. DISAPPROVED.
to
Provisional Government, providing hence. forth that the Cabinet shall be respon sible," and devise and carry out reforms ain accordance with the people's wishes.
Tuan Chi Jui remains Chief Executive. BRITISH PROTESTANT MISSION.
UN JĀSARIES IN CHINA. --
IMPORTANT AGREEMENT
HOW TIENTSIN WAS CAPTURED, BITTER BAYONET FIGHTING.. SHANGHAI, December 9th
Peking, Reuter's correspondent at under date of the 94th inst.. says that
Mr. Lougworth,, speaker of the House con- of Representatives, speaking at Akron. Ohio. said there seemed to be a spiracy among nations producing rubber to restrict the output and increase the price. Ha described restrictions as "an international swindle and declared that iving in the tranches and 1,900 Kuomin- Congress was seeking every means to help chun wounded had already been brought American manufacturers to meet Britishin to Peking by the Sard inst. from the
previous day's fighting. restrictions and competition.
BIG FIRE AT AN OIL DEPOT. FIVE MILLION FESUS' DAMAGE AT
BUENOS AIRES.
DELHI. December - 27th. Raja Paniaga), Minister of the Madras Government, in his presidential address the All India and Non-Brahmin
·Congress, urged the British Government
BUENOS AIRES, December 28th. to take immediate steps to further ad-
Dainage to the extent of five million vanes constitutional reforms. The method of achieving this was neither civil dis pesos wie done by fire at a petroleum obedience nor obstruction, hut meek depot belonging to an Italian-Argettine submission or ca appeal to the British firm. The fire is believed to have been nation and the League of Nations caused by lightning which accompanied 2 severe storm yesterday afternoon. through Britain.
Several tanks were completely destroyed.
He feared the South African Indian
ANNOUNCED.
LONDON, December 99th.
glanced at a show case, and it looked as if there were some rolls missing. He
noticed that one of the defendants was
Let us be fair to the British shipowners. 'more' directly concerned and stats" the facts concerning wireless so far as they are known by anyone not in the confid ence of officialdom. The early piracies, round about the year 1921, showed with
holding her coat tightly, about her, and that the coat was buiging. The foki re- turned with the satin they had asked to sen, but they were not satisfied andout doubt or cavil that wireless on all ressola likely to be attacked was the walked away. Witness followed them to surest preventive. The late Commander another part of the premises, and one Beckwith, when Harbour Master, at Hongkong, said so publicly more than. defendant, becoming frightened, turned three years ago; the officers of the ships back, and taking a roll of silk from have been pressing the point on the under her coat placed it on a table. Sho Hongkong Government and the ship. owners year after year; and gradually then walked about two paces
the shipowners came to the same point of
coat.
to
three other rolls protruding from Br if they are not available for every British Great
ship on the Chiun Coast, we have good capsure of Tientsin by the troops of The standing committee of the confer, verandah, and witness saw the ends of view. Wireless sets were imported, and reason to believs, that there are mors Britain and. Ireland has issued a state Cross-examined by Mr. Russ, witness than enough to fit every passenger-carry- Marshal Feng Yu Hainng was precededence of Afissionary, Societies of
denied that defendants were looking ing ship. Many of the ships have On the 22nd, the Kuominchun forces ment to the effect that the Protestant silk in the shop for about a quarter of actually bad the wireless cabins built on by very heavy fighting.
an hour. They did not buy anything,beard and the apparatus, complete in attacked early in the morning, and, after Missionary Societies have reached an
bayonet fighting, gained agreement in regard to the principles except the twelve inches of satin. Thers every detail, stowed ready for use. Two was an exit from the verandah. The de-big British shipping companies appear to General Li Chung Lin's defence system which should govern, their work in China fendants did not take the material to have been fully reconciled to the inevit sanguinary
a window to examine it. Witness, inability of general wireless installations, reply to further questions, also denied for about eighteen months ago they start- near Peitsang.
Li Ching Lin counter-attacked that in the future. They desire to rest not afternoon and regained some of the lost upon treaties reluctantly accepted, but that he became impatient and swore at ed a wireless school at Hongkong which, them. Asked if he or the defendants run under the agis of the Hongkong ground.
Eye-witnesses.state that båndreds were upon such provisions as may be freely tost their temper, he said that one of Government, was to train Chinese AN
$28 the Sovereign them lost temper.
wireless operators and give them certi accorded by China
Mr. Russ submitted for the defence cates which would be recognized for any British ship in thr】 parts. And then, Power, and agreed upon in equal con ference between China and Great Britain. that the prosecution had not made out
case. There had been some trouble in according to the information at our dis- The Hong- Willingness is expressed to accept such the shop, and both the salesman and posal, the trouble started.
further submitted that it would be a regarding the nationality and personal physical impossibility for the defendant eligibility of candidates which, apparent- Division broke, but he rallied them and ghite in place of extra-territoriality as the defendante lost their tempers. He keng Government laid down certain rules The Societies- bave expressed to the to have hidden and carried under her, have nullified everything that has been cont four weighty rolls, such as these dode, and so far as can be seen, wireless established a line three miles from Tien-hall be accorded in a similar manner.
As the result of further heavy bahting next morning, Li Ching Lin's troops Chinese Minister in London their appre-produced, and have effectually concealed for all British ships is us far away as scattered in disorder.
viation of the friendship and goodwill them for a quarter of an hou or so
The Hongkong Government and tho.
There was further fighting on the 3rd, as a result of which Li Ching Lin's Fourth
tain Central Station.
NEW. CHIHLI GOVERNOR APPOINTED.
PERING, December '97th.
ever.
shown to them by the officials and people while carrying out a transaction with bipowners owe it, as a daty to the
of China, and their desire to work in barmony with the laws and customs of hina and to abstain from interference in the administration of justice and public
A Mandate has been issued appointing Maribal Feng Yu Hsiang's supporter, General San Yueh, as Military and Civil Governor of Chibli Province, in place of business the defeated Genera! Li Ching Lin, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Railway and telegraphic communication MINERS'
Peking.
"CA CANNY."
the salesman.
"Mr. Russ in conclusion submitted there was no case against Tamara Loskooloff, who had not even taken a pin and was His Worship agreed with Mr. Russ as not even charged with conspiracy. regarded this defendant and discharged
her-
í
problem was fast getting beyond content The Government rushed up assistance to has been restored between Tientsin and OPPOSITION TO NEW MACHINERY. said that she and her companion were
and advised Indians to change their at
·titude towards the depressed classes.
THE BURMAN BILL.
CANNPORE, December 27th The National Congress has passed a resolution urging the Viceroy not sanction the Burman Bill for the expul- sion of non-Burman offenders, also the
to
prevent the spread of the conflagration cadangering shipping.
THE SHANGHAI: AFFAIR. · CAREERS OF THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO RESIGNED..
BRITISH PRESS ON THE
SITUATION...
TRIBUTE TO JAPAN.
2.3.
(POLITICAL AGITATION.
Mr. W. A. Lee, Secretary of the Mining Association of Great Britain, giving evi- dence before the Coal Commission recent ly, said that the asociation were con- inced that no soution of the problem of the industry would be found until the industry had the same freedom sa before the war to negotiate its wages settlements district by district.
LONDON, December 28th. In a leading article on the Chinese war, the Daily Telegraph declares that the Japanese Government, which has trying The 3-0 Daily News says the resig-shown real statesmanship in nation of Mr. J. K. McEuen, Commis situation, has acted promptly on the news Sir Herbert Samuel (the chairman) Bill providing for a tax on passengersioner of Police, brings to a conclusion of Chang's recovery, recalling the troops
arriving in Burma by ses on the ground that it would imperil the interests of Indian residents in Burma.
stabulary his son, who now resigns, was
1/
general public and to the men who daily risk their lives at the ruthless Lands of pirates, to say exactly what has boon done and what it is the immediate in." tention to do. The present situation is no intolerable that any further unnecce sary delay cannot be brooked; and if the Tungchour pirasy serves the end of bringing matters to a head, the suffer." ings of the master of the. Tycho and the awful mental strain that must hav6. been endured during those four days by her passengers, will not have been in vain."
AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCED AT SHEFFIELD.
The othar defendant, Daria Sramoilo, gafe evidence in the witness box and Russian dancers. They were retning from Canton to Shanghai and had book ed a passage for the Northern port on a Japanese steamer, by which they had not been able to sail owing to this case. They went to Wing On stores, where she A NEW STAINLESS STEEL. wished to purchase some blue silk, but ́ could not find what she wanted. She then decided to buy some black material and asked the assistant to cut her off three
An important advance in rustless'etecl yards of it. However, as she could not get any embroidered silk to match this
was announced last month by Dr. W. H. material, she decided not to have it, and Hacheld, Principal of the Brown-Firth
Research Laboratories, Sheffield, -Speaking at a meeting of the Shefidd apparently becoming annoyed at this, in Chinese, language she understood, one of the Chinese began swearing at her Becoming annoyed, she wore back at him Trade Technical Societies, Dr. Hatheld in Chinese, and this started the trouble, said that the success of the stainicos sten! tion to other purposes... In general en- She was carrying four rolls of silk in used for cutlery, had led to its applica her hand to the verandah, for the purgineering the demand for a similar steel pose of matching it. The rolls were opened and they were still open when had been met, but the further demand taken to the police station. She made for a soft, malleable and pressable no attempt to conceal them and denied stainless steel could not be said to that she attempted to walk out of the have been satisfactorily met by the class of chromium steel to which the
asked if it were the opinion of the sa30 relating to the six-mile zone, in which any considerable extent. a connection of 5 years with the Shang from Mukden and withdrawing the order ciation that ca- canny" prevailed to Mr. Lee: Yes. I could quote very hai Municipal Police. His father, Capt. connection the journal is sure that neither McEuen, who was formerly in the Navy, Great Britain nor the United States in numerous instances at the present time, was at the head of the Shanghai Police similar circumstances could have remain particularly where machinery is being duced and owing to "ca' canny it ulti- The Ccagress also passed a resolution force at the end of last century, and after ed indifferent to the risks facing their introduced. Machinery has been intro- The journal expresses the opinion that mately had to be withdrawn. As the rate condemning the action of the Government being trained in the Royal Irish Concationals. in kroping detained persons under the appointed to the Shanghai Police Force, but for the presence of a small disciplined of wages went up the rate of outpat went Bengal Ordinance imprisoned without ultimately succeeding Col. C. D. Bruce Japanese force, Mukden might have seed down. trial for over a year and demanding as its head. The period during which sacked last week and incalculable daw The eight hours day in itself would not their release It also expressed its in
he has officiated as Commissioner' has age done. "Japan has shown once agala solve the economic problem of the indus shop with the rolls under her cont.
that though she is most anxious about try tention of supporting the Sikh prisonera been more arduous than that of any other
who has held the offire, for in recent the future of her trade with China, she memorandum subsnitted by the who are insisting on unconditional re- leasc as a result of the Guardwaras times the Settlement on several oc. can exercise patience and prefers Haning Association stated that in the casions been subject to invasion by bands employ diplomacy rather than force." Bahr, our principal competitor in the export coal trade, wages only formed .settlement.
of defeated troops se king sanctuary, "THE TIMES" COMMENT,
about 52 per cent of the total cost of SPEECH BY AN AMERICAN.
while warfare has been waged on its very
production, whereas in this country they Professor Holmes, of Pennsylvania boundaries. In addition during such time The Timer in a leading article says it mounted to about 71 per cent. University and the American Federation the work of the Police has been made in of Labour, in a speech assured the meet- finitely more difficult and dangerous than Ends little satisfaction.in the most recent Rohr the total cost per ton disposable was believed the evidence of the prosecution would not harden on quenching, and
ever before by the smuggling into the developments of the Chinese wars except 108. 8.85d. In Great Britain the total country of vast quantities of automatic the fact that the success of Chang Tso cost was 18s. 7.05d, under the seven-hours pistols which have made the armed robber Lin means that one of the Soviet intrigues day, and 16s. 7.45d under the eight-hours
in China has miscarried Trade continuesday,
CONTA menace so serious.
to suffer, and industry to decay while
ing, amid applause, of American sym pathy with and support of the move ment toward freedom in India and said the West were looking to Gandhi for his gospel.com
LATER
'TOO HIGH.
In the
WEA
Mr. Buss said that whatever His preceding stainless steel belonged. A Worship might think, in this case, he rustless steel had now, however, boun submitted it was altogether too doubtful placed on the market having entirely for him to convict. The witnesses for the different characteristica. This new steel,
not supported the if treated at a high temperature,
rendered extremely soft and ductile, and prosecution and allegations by their evidence.
His Worship anid he had made up his possessed unusual properties. It could mind that it was a case of larceny nude freely worked either hot or cold, and
increased chromium content, with the He added, that he believed this defendant was being produced in sheete, strips, goods. She would be fined $100, with the addition of nickel, find made the steel deliberately tried to take away the bars, section, wire, tube and casting. The alternative of six weeks' imprisonment, even more successful in its resistance ta aining The action of sen water, and pray was perhaps the most serious of the corrosive media, and the new steel completely resisted this action, even under the searching conditions of being alternately wet and dry. It was equally successful in resisting the notion of nitric acid of all strengths and at all temperatures. The essential acids in foods, such as citric, acetic and lactic, were also completely resisted.
of
A BROKEN
BOTTLE. CHINESE FINED. FOR SMUGGLING BRANDY
China's alleged friends at Moscow on The broad conclusion of the memoran Inspector E. W. Everson probably was very little known, to the general public inue to manipulate Chinese dimensions dum was that, the root cause of the of Shanghai prior to the "incidenta of REPARATIONS ENQUIRY.
May 30th, for he is of a quiet, modest for their own political ends, believing severity of the depression in the coal in that they can inflict enduring injury on lustry and the heavy coal consuming in- and retiring disposition and one of those the commercial interests of all capitalised dustries was that costs of production and U.S., DELEGATE IN FRANCE..
officers who appear to make police duties tic States, especially Great Britain in report in this country were too high both their work and hobby His rapid Ching
Mr Lee and that the special promin- CHERBOURG, December 27th.
promotion to inspector in charge-of-one
The article refers to the obstacles, toence in the public eye of the coal industry
A Chinese seaman pleaded guilty at the Professor Edwin Kemmerer, the Anieri- of the most important stations in 15 granting foreign aid in restoring order was due to the efforts of certain miners
Central Magistracy yesterday to a charge can delegate to the Reparation Com-years is proof sufficient of his energy and observes that in any case no Chineseadors, who had an ulterior motive in of unlawful possession of dutiablo liquor. Inspector Everson joined the S.M.P. in individual leader is worth British suphew, namely, to destroy the efficiency of and was fined $10. An order was made mission, has arrived.
1906 and was promoted sergeant two
this stoc, Dr. Hatfield expressed the war service, joining the Welsh Regiment rely on their own soldiers and colleagues, private enterprise.
He was seen to land on Sunday from hope that the lighter trade of Sheffield and serving in the ranks until the conThe Tintes adds that there is nothing Mr. Herbert Smith, for the Miners' Martell's brandy found in his possession
in Chinese history to forbid hope in Federation, mentioned the
a sampan at the Praya near the Western would thoroughly investigate its claims clusion of hostilities. He returned to Ching eventual recovery and concludes $72,000 which the Mining Association had Market, and on being questioned by a with a view to extending operations to Moscow, December 27th
Shanghai in 1919 and the same year was by applanding, Jaganese action on the spent en propaganda.
Revenue Officer, he dropped a package many articles not now made in Sheffield, . Chichierin has arrived, on comple-promoted to be Sub-Inspector. In 1921 ke lines of the article in the Doils Mr. Lee: We should like to have spent he was carrying and one of the battles but which might be produced from the
I became a fall-Inspector. tion of his tour of European capitals.
was broken ten times what we have spent. Telegraph already cabled.
M. CHICHERIN'S RETURN TO MOSCOW.
years later. In 1816 he went Home for Bort it only because none can absolutely the industry with a new to destroying for the confiscation of two bottles of Discussing the future possibilities
하갔다. of
new metal.