CABLES
[TREDCOM MIUTER'S AGENCY.]
BAGHDAD FLOODS.
SITUATION IMPROVED BUT CITY
STILL IN DANGER.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14TH, 1926
MUSSOLINI'S ENTHUSIASM. FASCISM AND SURE TRIUMPH OF TOMORROW","
TRIPOLI, April 12th.
After receiving a magnificent gold
BELGIAN FINANCES.
PROHIBITION ENQUIRY.
REMARKABLE SUGGESTION FROM WOMEN DRYS" EXPRESS THEIR
AMERICA REFUSED.
LONDON, April 19th.
VIEWS.
WASHINGTON, April 12th. Some of the difficulties that the The Drys" took the stage in the Pro-
FOREIGNERS IN CHINA,
JUSTICE IN CRIMINAL CASES.
SIR RICHARD DANE'S VIEWS.
$4,000 IN FINES.
OPIUM SEIZURES IN THE HARBOUR.
The Water Police raided several junks.
Sir Richard M. Dano, E.C.S.I., who in the harbour on Monday, and there was
writing service and an Arab sword from Belgian Government has encountered inhibition controversy before the Senate organised and directed the Chinese Salt a sequel Yesterday at the Kowloon the Mayor as the Town Hall, Signor
Department, shows in a letter BAGHDAD, April 13th.
Mussolini visited the headquarters of the
The Bood situation is slightly im proved.
lonal Fascista, where he had дл ел-
Tha river is falling slightly.thusiastic reception. but the flood level in the desert s stationary. Five thousand men are still working day and night.
In a speech he said that ever had the attack on him had more serious con- sequences he would still come to Tripoli,
to Magistracy, before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, the negotiations to raise a stabilisation Committee, introducing 65 woman dele loan abroad is mentioned by the Daily gates of various civic, temperance and The Times that extra-territoriality was when three Chinese were charged with Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent other, humanitarian Societies, opposing voluntarily, nat compulsorily, conceded unlawful possession of illicit opium.
He states that American bankers de any isodifestion of the Volstead Law. to British subjects in Chins, and that An ailer of the . Po Sang, who was clined to consider Belgian and other Mr. Peabody. of Massachusetts, urged while its abuses might be remedied, the arrested on board à sampan pleaded frane securities, and insisted on dollar
"the strongest thing in enforcement with time has not arrived for submitting guilty to posacasion of 30 taels of pre- or sterling securities, or, alternatively,
the weakest thing in liquor," while British subjects" to the kind of justice pared opium. Defendant had concealed Cenge stocks and shares (particularly Lieutenant Martha Hamon, of the New
Katanga mining, to the value of 300,000,000 francs.'
The ladies of the Royal Family have for it was the Fascist way not to be turn- relating to rubber producing) andYork Salvation Army, while claiming / meted out by the Chinese Courts she drug around his waist.
go to the King's cotton estate a bun dred miles north of Baghdad. King Frisal himself is temporarily neeemme dated in the house of a wealthy Jewish merchant in Baghdad. The durange caused by the foods is probably
$2,000,000,
It is estimated that 300,000,000 tons of water overdowed from the Tigris in the last three days, and consequently the drive round the city walls, instead of giring the usual arid desert vista, is more reminiscent of Brighton promenade. Local feminine fashions are changing ac cordingly, and friqui ladies are taking so sailor hate.
NO UNITED INTERNATIONAL.
WORLD SOCIALISTS REJECT -
BRITISH SUGGESTION.
ZURICH. April 13th. A meeting of the Executive of the Labour Socialist International rejected ly 247 votes to a the proposal of the British Independent Labour Party for a joint conference with the Moscow Com munist International with a "view to the formation of a united international
SHIPBUILDING RETURNS.
LLOYDS QUARTERLY FIGURES
AND COMPARISONS.
"Loanos. April 13th. Lloyd's abipbuilding returns for the quarter ended March 31st show 843,000 tons constructing in Great Britain, and Ire
land, a decrease of 40,000 compared with December 31st and 392.000 compared with
A year ago.
Work is suspended on 50,900 as com pared with 74,000 on March 31st, 1925. The present totals are the lowest record. ed since December, 1900, and are much
below the average tonnage building during the twelve months before the war. 193,000 tons were commenced during the quarter compared with 150,000 during the fourth quarter of 1925, but the tonnage
ed aside from his purpose. His visit to Tripoli had filled him with enthusiasm, for he found Italians there worthy of Fascist Italy which, fortified by her glorious past, ever advanced towards the sure triumph of to-morrow. -{Loud cheers.)
Subsequently, Signor Mussolini was banquetted and given a reception at the Governor's Palace. The
streets huminated at night."
were
ARAN BLACKSKIRTS" WELCOME..
Taorous, April 18th..
A fine of $3,600 was imposed; this sum
that the conditions of the poor had im-Richard M. Dane's letter is written in proved as a result of prohibition, ads reply to one in which Dr. Bauma and being ten times the value of the opium. The correspondent adds that the sumitted that if a man had money enough Mr. Maclennan said :— gestion alarmed even the most exalted
be could get a drink whenever he wanted circles in Belgium and was refused.
GREEK ELECTION.
GEN. PANGALOS CERTAIN OF
PRESIDENCY.
Arnass, April 19th. The returns from the 23 districts where the Presidential election was held sester-
of Gen. Pangalos, whose election is now final.
one.
NAVAL AIR SERVICE AMERICA'S FIVE-YEAR BUILDING PROGRAMME.
WASHINGTON, April, 19th. The House of Representatives has passed a Bill embodying an 855,000,000 five-year "building programme for the
Signor Mussolini and his suite visited day show an overwhelming vote in favour naval air service. country between Tripoli and Zuara oworted by Arab horsemen, who aaluted him in Roman fashion,
A number of the Arabs wore black shirts" under their cloaks, and one, Speaking Italian, expressed the dévotion" if the natives to Italy,
The visit, culminated at Zuara where after an official reception, a body of eco
most
Arab horsemen clach, in superb burnous, brilliant evolutions, performed
leader presented after which their
magnificent Arab Mussolini with a stood, with silver truppings and riding whip with golden handle.
He was also presented with a silver case inscrib ed.
THE SPANISH FLIGHT.
SEARCH FOR MISSING MADRID. MANILA AVIATOR.
CAIRO, April 12th. Four aeroplanes from Amman bare one out searching the desert for the missing Spanish airman, Capt. Estevez,
who is one of the three airmen Sying from Madrid to Manila. Capt. Estevez was last sighted in the 200 miles beyond
THE CONGO FLIGHT. BELGIAN AIRMEN'S RETURN TO BRUSSELS.
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to
BEUSEA, April 12th. The Belgian airmen who flew Leopoldville and back reached home from the Congo this afternoon. They were greeted by H.M. the King, the Premier and an enthusiastic crowd.
FOOTBALL AT HOME. RESULTS OF MONDAY'S LEAGUE 'MATCHES.
Loxox, April 12th. The following are to-day's English League football results:-
FIRST DIVISION, Huddersfield,.3: Bolton Wanderers, O..
SECOND DIVISION. Wolverhampton, 0; Fulham, 0. Swansen, 0: Clapton Orient, 0, Port Vale, 1; Notts Forest, 1.
THIRD DIVISION (NORTHERN); New Brighton. 1; Tranmere, 0.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
THE CUBAN CRISIS.
HAITI PRESIDENCY.
MR. LOUIS BORNO RE-ELECTED.
PORTAL-PRINCE, April lyth.
Mr. Louis Borno has been re-elected President of the Republic of Haiti. was first elected in 199
in 1306,
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A fisherman pleaded guilty to posses sion of 38 taels of raw opium and was Ened $100
For possession of one and a half tael. a sampan man was fined $20.
CONSTABLE SENTENCED.
So far as the interests of missions and missionaries are concerned, they (the Protestant Missionary Societies) in this country would welcome the abolition of the present articles re- lating to extra-territoriality, and the substitution for them of such pro- of visions for the administration
as may be mutually justice agreed upon in equal conference be❘ FOLLOWING TEN DAYS' HOLIDAY," tween China, Great Britain, and other Powers.
At the Central Magistracy yesterday, The obvious implication, says Sira Shantung constable was charged with Richard, is that extra-territoriality has been conceded by the Chinese under com- having deserted from the Police Force. pulsion; and, so far as homicide cases
He was also charged with the theft of a are concerned, this is undoubtedly the case. But, by an Imparial Edict, issued police whistle.
all extra-territoriality in
Captain Bloxham. A.S.P., who, pro- those of criminal enses, other than homicide, was voluntarily conceded to seruted, said that the defendant had been British subjects by the Manchu Governmissing for ten days, He was found" ment of China at a time when Great loitering in the streets late at night, und Britain was regarded as a vassal State. when brought to the Central Police In the words of the Edict, the offender Station, he was found to be the "missing in any case not capitally punishable, was constable. When he deserted, he had to be sent away to be punished by his left behind all his equipment with the countrymen in his own country."
exception of his police whistle: Extra-territoriality in homicide cases
On the charge of desertion Mr. Lind was established as a result of the war be sell imposed a sentence of six weeks tween Great Britain and China in 1830-imprisonment, and on the second charge" 4. but the Chinese law of homicide was sentenced defendant to 15 days. Sir Richard Pages entertained a large unjust that it is not surprising that gathering at St. Thomas's Hospital Inat foreigners were unwilling to submit to month with a discourse on "The Nature it. By the Chinese Penal Code (the To
Tsing Lu Li murder was punishable by SUCCESSFUL CARNIVAL DANCE. of Human Speech," which he illustrated decapitation and killing without pre- by examples of mechanically produced meditation was punishable by strangula- ROYAL ENGINEERS' WIND UP
tion, even if the fatal blow was struck
SEASON, in self-defence. Causing death by ac- vowels and consonants, winding up with
Hullo, London! "Are you there 7cident. was punishable with fine, but from cases that occurred at Canton be- Fand "Oh. Läin, I love you!" These
fore extra-territoriality was conceded it sentences were loudly uttered by an in-is clear that a plea of recident was not strument akin to a fute which was work-readily admitted. In 1784 a British by a pedal bellows, and named the sailor, who had caused fatal injuries to
Ile
SPEECH BY CHEIROPHONE.
SIR R. PAGET'S TALKING MACHINE.
a Chinese, when, firing a sainte under orders, was surrendered to the Chinese for trial, and was publicly strangid After this në British subject was sur rendered for trial, until the war occurred
A most successful dance season was brought to a conclusion by a Very enjoyable fancy dress carnival dance held by the R.E., W.O's and Sergts'. Mesm at the RE. Thestre, Wellington Bar- racks, on Saturday night.
There were over 250 guests present, the majority of whom were in fancy dress. All the Royal Engineer officers were pre- sent, as well as many other officers of the Garrison. Dance music was supplied
Cheirophone.
Articulation of speech. Sir Richard said, had nothing to do with the larynx. Human speech, at all events in Euro-in 1830, but on occasions the requirements by Norton's jazz band, and the function
of Chinese justice were met and a rup- was kept up until 230 am. ture of commercial relations was avoided The prizes for fancy dress costume by the adoption of discreditable aubter-winners were presented by Mrs. Mackin- fuges. I do not know what provisions toch, who extracted them from a huge have been included in the new Criminal Easter Egg, in which they had been Code which has been drafted in Peking, effectusily concealed in the custody of but the above is the law which has been little Miss P. Hewett, in the role of in force in China for centuries, and is Carnival. the law which will probably be fallowed Chinese Courts, in the interior for
The prize winners were as under:- Extra-territoriality has been abused by Miss Goddard, The Daughter of the Ladies' Fancy Dress,-1st Prize to the representatives of certain foreign
pean language, was based on whispered speech, and we could make ourselves per. fectly understood without using the vocal Amman. His two companiona, anfely BANK RUN STAYED BY ARRIVAL cords at all. The effect of the larynx completed that stage of the flight. SEPARATION DUE TO DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
BACRDAD, April 13th.
ů
The separation of Capt. Estevez, who ie the leader of the fight, from his colleagues, was due to a difference of opinion in the air between Cairo and Baghdad.
OF FUNDS.
HAVANA, April 12th. The Cuban cruiser, Cuba, has arrived with $43,000,000 with which to meet any renewal of the run on certain banks by small depositors. This amount together with other large sums despatched from New Orleans and Jacksonville, is expect Estevez altered his course south-ed to be more than sufficient to meet launched this present quarter, 190,000. | wards, while the others pursued their all demands for payment. Altogether own counsels and reached Baghdad from $80,000,000 have either arrived or are Cairo in record time. It is hoped that ra route.
LATER. Estevez has fallen in. with friendly
Consequent on the arrival of funds Araba beganse his machine was without rations.
is "25,000 below the previous quarter. 1,187,000 tons are building in other coun- tries, a decrease of 17,000 ag.compared with December 31st, 1925 The tonnage of motor ships now building in the world is D13.000, of which 8423 per cent. is
team tonnage.
The tonnage of motorships building in Great Britain and Ireland" amounts to 52.7 steam tonnage constructing, but motor tonnage constructing in Denmark, Holland, Italy, Japan and Sweden greatly exceeds the steam tonnage.
ANOTHER AIR VENTURE. CAPT. D'OISY TO FLY FROM PARIS
TO TOKYO...
PARIS, April 12th. According to the newspaper Liberte, Captain Pelletier D'Oisy proposes an- other fight to Tokyo early in May, endeavouring to complete it in four days. The route will probably be by way of Moscow, Irkutsk, and Peking.
No date has been finally fixed. According to the Petit Parisien Arrachart contemplater a Bight to Persia and India with the minimum stops, while Challe intends to reach Japan.
PANAMA GOLD REEF.
MIRSING MACHINE DISCOVERED.
Carro, April 13th. British airman have found the missing Spanish aeroplane intact a hundred miles from Amman. with a note saying the occupants are making their way afoot, and hoped they would be picked up later.
SEARCH BY BRITISH MACHINES.
The British airmen have not found evidence of external damage to Capt. Estevez's machine, and expressed the opinion that minor engine trouble' was responsible for the forced landing.
No anxiety is felt bere regarding the safety of Estevez and his mechanic. Several British machines are scouring the countryside.
COMMUNISTS DIFFER. AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVĖS? INDICTMENT OF MOSCOW.
PARIS, April 12th
many years to come.
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in
PRIZE-WINNERS.
Ladies' Original Dress,-1st. Mrs. Turner, Aeroplane; 2nd Mrs. Waller, Spinning Top
Gents. Fancy Dress,-1st. Sergt. Major Goddard, Glaxo Baby: 2nd Mr. Pryde, Knight of the Bath
Major Hewett, Easter Egg; 2nd Q. M. S. Gents. Original Dress,-1st. Sergt. Hayster, R.E., Nero
was really to increase the range from ten to twenty times-it was a "boosting" organ. Humming was a matter of the vocal cords; whistling was resonances of the mouth. He said we had fourteen towel sounds, for which we had only Powers, especially at Shanghai, and these Regiment; and 2nd Mrs. Saunders, Tea
abuses should be remedied. The demand, for two. Ave symbols, and for every vowel therealsh, which has been made by the Chinese were two resonances, The human mouth that foreign residents ir China should was less like a pipe than an ocarina. It make some contribution to the revenue was not the size of the cavity that settled of the country appears to be reasonable the note, but the time it took the air to
But the time has certainly not arrived get in sad cut of the cavity. A man's for handing over British subjects to the mercies of purely Chinese Courts ad voice, said Sir Richard, had an average of about 100 to 110 vibrations per second, ministering Chinese law criminal corresponding with a wave-length of 10ft. A woman's voice would have about half the vibrations with a corresponding wave-
dft. to sin, the latter representing the high resonances at the top of the scale. this morning. The bank branches in the Voice-production people sometimes talked of throwing one's voice, to the roof of the mouth and back to the teeth. To accom- interior report all being quiet.
plish that the teeth would have to be at least 40ft long before they could operate satisfactorily in the way sug- gested, and similarly the mouth would have to be of cavernous size to get any real refraction from its walla. He urged students to accept no theories that had not been put to the test of demonstration by models.
the hysteria of small depositars has sub length of 5ft. The resonances varied from The Times, Mr. J. L. Beaumont points
sided and moderate deposits were made
EPFRATT ON WALL STEZET.
New York. April 12th. The Cuban bank scare has markedly affected Wall Street as the result of the
withdrawal
to
sent of $100,000,000 Havana. Prices have re-acted sharply. Many stocks Bave touched new low re- The United cords, especially motors States. Steel Corp. closed at 118.
MEXICAN OIL LANDS. PROGRESS TOWARDS 'REMOVAL OF CAUSES OF FRICTION.
WASHINGTON, April 19th. Ten Notes which have been exchanged between Washington and Mexico City in the past five months are published and indicate a distinct progress towards the removal of probable causes of friction between the two Governments.
The State Department, in issuing the A Russian newspaper publishing here prints a letter signed by representatives Notes, makes no comment, and farther of the Communist parties in South-and communications are undoubtedly neces HEAVY. SUBSCRIPTIONS DESPITE Central America who are attending the sary in order to clear up several points Congress of the Third Internationale at still unsolved, but the friendly tone of Moscow, announcing their dissociation the Notes is significant." on behalf of their parties from the line.
NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
LONDON, April 12th...
EVE AND THE SERPENT.
DUTCH SYNOD'S FINDINGS.
The Commission of the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in its report on the alleged unorthodox utterances of Dr. J.G. Geelkerken states that the text of the chapters of Gencsis referring to Eve and the Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is to be The Commission interpreted literally. requires Dr. Geelkerken to sign an undertaking accepting this conclusion, considered highly improbable but it that Dr. Geolkerken will agree to this course. Judgment cannot be pronounced until Dr. Geelkerken announces his final decision.
UNTRAINED MAGISTRATES. Writing from Coggeshall, Essex, to out that Sir Richard Dane does not, in his letter, refer to the Provisional.
Winners of the Spot Waltz were Mrs. Newberry and 8gr. Johnson, R.A.B.C.
In view of the vast area of China with Criminal Code, which was promulgated Central Government, and with chaotic over 400,000,000 inhabitants, with no in 1012. This Code,, he adds, is based conditions throughout the land, the mare upon Western systems, and, as amended promulgation of laws on foreign lines in 1914, contains some 400 articles, of can hardly be expected to satisfy the which 21 deal with homicide and cans world at large that the point has been ing injury," the punishment being death, reached at which it can be said that satis imprisonment for life or for lesser factory laws have been enacted and are periods, and fines according to the nature satisfactorily administered. There are a or seriousness of the offence.. This Code, few trained lawyers in Peking, Shanghai, though only claiming to be provisional, and the large cities, but the multitude is frequently referred to and acted upon, of magistrates who are called upon to not only in native Courts but in the administer the law know nothing of its Mixed Courts at Shanghai, where a provisions. By way of illustration it. Chinese mägistrate sits with a foreign may be mentioned that a year or more Asscasor, who is present under Treatyng, some two years after the promulga- provisions to ace that justice is done. tion of the Trade Mark Law, a foreign In addition to the Provisional Code, a applicant who was taking proceedings in large number of laws and regulations has a native Court had occasion to refer to been promulgated since the establishment that law. The magistrate disclaimed of the Republic in 1912. These include any knowledge of it, and the plaintiff laws relating to naval and military thereupon supplied him with a copy. criminal cases, morphia, commercial as It was reported in the Press a short sociations, arbitration Courts, natur alisation, mining, trade-marks, copy- had decided not to call any evidence at time ago that the Chinese Government right, and patents, as well as to the Commission which was about to sit organisation of and procedure in theat Peking to study the question of extra- Courts. My object in referring to these territoriality, the idea apparently being laws is, in the first place, to do justice that consideration of the laws referred to the Chinese Government, which seems to above, with perhaps a visit to a few to have been sincere in ite attempt to selected Courts to see the machinery at bring its legal system as far as possible work, would be all that was required to in accord with the laws and practices of satisfy the Commission. Responsible other lands. But it would be very wrong bodies in China have during the last to conclude that because of these efforts few years been collecting evidence of the China is justified in demanding the actual administration of the law against abolition of extra-territoriality.
the time when this all-important question I do not propose to take up your would be considered," and if the present maladministration of justice in the na-hearing such evidence, it will be most valuable space by quoting instances of Commission does actually sit without
The main point cleared up hitherto, is the aid of either earth or aerisi, enabled tive Court or to draw a picture of the unfortunate not only in the interests of
Notwithstanding the newspapers' guard-taken by the Executive Committee: at an agreement whereby the title to oil ed and lukewarm comments, it in Moscow on the grounds of its dictatorial lands nequired by Americans prior to the announced that owing to heavy subsarip attitude, griminal policy, freebooting adoption of the Carranza Constitution in tions, the list of applications for half-methods, terrorisation of individuals 1817 will be confirmed by 50-year conces -million £1 shares in the Panama and employment of forged hank notes sons, which may be extended and will Corporation is closed.
for propaganda.
Mexican sub-soil resources.
NEW WIRELESS INVENTION. Mr. D. B. S. Shannon, the inventor. of the wireless apparatus, which, without him to conduct a wireless telephonic con versation from a ship at sea to a house on ahore, has now succeeded in communicat ing by Morse with New Zealand and Mexico, again with. neither aerial. nor earth. He hopes to be able to communi-
disastrous consequence to foreigners in foreigners trading and living in the China, including the large numbers of country, but also, 1 venture to suggest, missionaries with their wives and chil-of the Chinese themselves. Failing the dren living in the interior, of the prehearing of such evidence, the report of mature abolition of extra-territoriality, the Commission can hardly carry much but I would like to make the following | weight with the foreign Governments to which its report will presumably be presented.
additional remarks. not be affected by the nationalisation ofcate with these countries by wireless
telephony.
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