PEKING SITUATION.
EVACUATION
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, APRIL 19TH, 1926.
OF KUOMINCHUN COMPLETE.
COMMITTEE OF CONTROL APPOINTED.
AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF CHANG TSO LIN.
THE COMMITTEE OF CONTROL
JIX RI-PREMIERS ON IT.
{TEROCOR ARUTAR'S AGENCY.]
Paxixa, April 18th. The Kuominchun (Nationalist Armies), after evacuating Peking, havs reached Nankow Pass, leaving only a few strag- glers but no guns or supplies.
The retreat was followed by heavy fighting. Rain increased the difficulties of the withdrawal, which marked the second stage of the Allied Chinese Generals campaign.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY CHIEF
EXECUTIVE.
LATER! Six ex-Premiers, including Dr. Yon, are on a committee formed at the request of citizens to maintain order in Peking.
Five sub-committees have been appoint. ed and four foreign advisers, including Sir Francis Aglen.
NATIONALIST COMMANDER OF. PEKING DISMISSED.
LATER
Tuan Chi Jui will issue a Mandate to- The Cabinet has dismissed the Nation- morrow saying that he is impelled toalist commander, General La Chung Lin, resume the responsibilities of Chief from all his posts.
Executive pending the reconstruction of
The Premier, Chia Teh Yao, has resign- the Administration, with which he willed, accusing himself of negligence in not interfere, and stating his readiness to retire immediately a responsible head of the Government is elected.
The Allied Generals are expected in Peking to-morrow to confer regarding the general situation.
Marshal Chang Tso. Lin has not yet entered Peking.
The city remains quiet. WELL-ORGANISED EVACUATION,
LATER
Contrary to the general fear, the Feng- tier troops have up to the present made no attempt to enter the city, where com-
plete order is belig maintained.
The main body of Fengtian troops is said to be remaining at Tungchow, but one regiment was located outside Yung- tingmen early this morning, and Fengtien. cavalry detachments are patrolling the heighbourheed rounding up Euominciun stragglers, & party of whom was captured this morning near Paomachang.
connection with the coup d'etat.
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All gates of the city are at present closed, except the Yungtingmen. where officials, Banked by bands of honour await the arrival of Marshal Chang Ts
Lin.
{THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCT.]
·REPORTED GRAECO-ITALIAN
PACT...
TURKISH ARMY RESERVES AND RECRUITS CALLED UP.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 18th. The Turks have taken a keen interest in Signor Mussolini's activities in Tripoli. Their anxiety concerning are ported Graeco-Italian pace, which the Italian Ambassador denies, has bee followed by a proclamation calling to the colours all the Turkish Army reserves due for service this year, and also re- cruits hitherto exempted from service be. longing to the previous classes,
THE SPANISH FLIGHT."
CALCUTTA, April 18th. The Spanish aviators have arrived at Agra
SUMMER TIME AT HOME.
LONDON. April 18th. Summer time Came into force at 2 o'clock this morning.
ESTEVEZ FOUND. SUCCESSFUL END TO SEARCH FOR MISSING AVIATOR
CAIRO, April 17th
The Air Force has received a wireless message from Amman Aeilor found."
This is taken to mean that Estevez is alive but there is no mention of the mechanic.
LATER.
Estevez was found alive and in fairly good health. Hitherto, there is no trace of the mechanic.
LATER. Capt. Estevez's mechanic has also been found alive..
MYSTERY HOW THEY SUBSISTED.
LATER.
CABINET APPROVES CHIEF EXECUTIVE'S MANDATE.
PEKINO. April 18th..
British Flying Oficer Coghill found ap
Estevez 40 miles from his machine, with an-feet blistered and slightly septic, but otherwise his condition was fair. He was conveyed by aeroplane to the nearest medical station.
The Cabinet has met again and proved Tuan Chi Jui's mandate Bouncing his resumption of responsibili- ties pending a reconstruction of the Administration.
EXTRALITY COMMISSIONERS POST PONE PROVINCIAL TOUR.
Pexino, April 18th. Owing to the breakdown of commuuniea, tions the Extraterritoriality Commis sioners bave postponed indefinitely their projected provincial tour."
RUSSIA'S WARNING TO CHANG.
The mechanic was found 25 miles from Estevez and will be similarly transport- ed for attention, if his condition permit. It is still a mystery how both men subsisted.
SHIPPING PROBLEMS;" CONFERENCE OBJECT TO INTER-
'NATIONAL INTERFERENCE. •
grave concern
LONDON, April 16th The Shipping Conference here has adopted the British delegates amended resolution on the League of Nations and International organization, recording its at the rapid growth and multiplication of international or ganisations representing Governments and other interests, as involving unnecessary interference with shipping activities; and Peking inspires a leader in the farestia opining that the League's activities should complaiding that the responsibility can- not be avoided by such one-sided de- be limited to securing and maintaining
the freedom of communications and tran clarations," and adds henceforth the sit and the equitable treatment of com- Soviet Government place the fullest re- sponsibility for the personal safety of merce. It is noteworthy that the Ameri-
can delegation did not vote on this resolu tion. their Ambassador upon the Mukden armies and Chang himself.
As a result of excellent staff work; virtually the whole of the Kuominghan
Moscow, April 18th. had evacuated for Kalgan by four o'clock
The report from Mukden that the Man this morning.
General Tang Chi Tao, the Commander, churian authorities have declared they of the Ninth Division, is acting as Gar-will not accept responsibility for the per rison Commander with one Brigade inside sonal safety of M. Karakban in the event and one Brigade outside, which General of Chang Tao Lin's troops occupying Wang Shih Chen's Committee of Safety contrels mest effectively,
PARLIAMENT TO BE CONVENED. PEKING, April 17th." The Kusmischun's evacuation of Peking has been completed, and the Allies are "entering the city to-day
It is expected that Parliament will be convened immediately with Dr. W. W. Yen as Premier and Dr. Wellington Roo as Foreign Minister, but plana in this connection are subject to the approval of Marshal Chang Tso Lin
CABLES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] DEBT CONVERSATIONS. PARIS REQUEST A FURTHER POSTPONEMENT.
Rucny, April 16th.
It was anticipated that M. Rasul Pereti the French Finance Minister, would visit London this week-end to discuss with the Chanceller of the Exchequer the points outstanding in the French debt settle ment to Great Britain. The Chancellor, who is to make his annual Budget speech in Parliament on April 25th,"desired to be in a position to incorporate in this statement specific references to this settle- ment. Unfortunately, a further defer- ment of the conversations has now been requested from Paris.
CANCER PROBLEMS. » DR. W. E. GYE REWARDED FOR HIS RESEARCH WORK.
RUGBY, April 16th.
The paper concludes that the Soviet does not desire a quarrel with Mukdep, but waras Chang not to forget that his dominions, march with Russia's, and he has nothing to gain by a conflict with his neighbours.
ALL-STEEL TRAINS.
L.M.S. RAILWAY NEW ALL
→ BRITISH CARS.
RUGBY, April 16th. A train constructed entirely of steel, travelled from London to Birmingham and back on the London, Midland and Seottish Railway. It carried representa tives of the Dominions and others-in- terested in this new departure.
The Railway is putting on its lines 935 steel-bodied cars. The floors of the are covered with cement cars suitably insulated. They have the ad vantages of being more durable than wooden cags and of being safer in case of mishap. They are made with British material and by British labour.
and
WEATHER FORECASTING, INTERESTING EXPERIMENT BEING MADE BY DAILY' MATE."
LONDON, April 18th. An interesting experiment in weather forecasting is being made by the Daily
Mail.
This journal publishes to-day the first of a series of diagrams showing ex- pectations of rain or dry weather for & neriod of fifty days in five areas of the British Island. The diagrams have been At the quarterly meeting of the prepared by Lord Dunboyne, who or Council of the Royal College of Burgeons ganised the Meteorological Department a prize of £100 was awarded Dr. William lor, the Naval Air Service, and who has Ewart Gye in recognition of his work been assisted by Mr. P. L. Thompson, in advancing the knowledge of the another meteorological expert. They con- pathology and therapeutics of cancer sist of a series of mathematical curves during the past five years.
based on the behaviour of the weather The award was made in pursuance of during, the past fifty years Arguing a report from the Committee appointed from causes to effects, and with the help to advise the Council in the matter, in of the latest information from the Air. which it was stated that these experi Ministry, Lord Dunboyne produces pre- meats, pursued with great patience and dictions which he claims have so far met acumen over a long period and still in with notable success. The Daily Mail progress, suggest new and hopeful lines submit his prohecies to its readers to be of attack upon the problem of the cause judged on their merits and results. of a malignnot disease. Though it can- hot as yet be said that they have found. a practical application they have already. given to cancer research such a great stimulus and such new direction as to justify the Committee in recommending Dr. Gye for the prize:
PRINCE OF WALES,
Ruany, April 18th. The Prince of Wales left Paris this morning for Biarritz, where he will arrive this evening.
The conference unanimously adopted the report of the Committee on life-saving appliances and wireless, which, inter clia, recommended some penalty for the niisuse of distress signals.
"JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
BILL.
SECOND READING IN THE COMMONS.
LONDON, April 18th. The House of Commons, by 999 votes to 3 has agreed to the second reading of the Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Report)." Bill
Government supported to forbid the pub This is a private measure which the Heation of details calculated to injure public morals and only the salient parti will be permitted The penalty is im- culars of divorce and similar proceedings
or a fine not exceeding £500, or both. prisonment not exceeding three "months,
THE COAL THREAT. INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION SUPPORT BRITISH MINERS.
{THROUGH `BHUTIR'S AGENCY.} THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. SIR WILLIAM FURSE AND CEYLON HUBBER RESEARCH COMMITTEE,
LONDON, April 17th, La an address to the Society of Arts, describing the work of the Imperial In- stitute, Sir William Furse stressed the desirability of extending the scope of the Ceylon Rabher Research Committee, at least to Malaya. He thought milk produc- tion could also be advantageously ex- tended to several suitable parts of the Empire.
OFF TO RUSSIA. BRITISH CONSERVATIVE M.P.'S TO INVESTIGATE CONDITIONS.
LONDON, April 17th The first party of Conservative members' of the House of Commons to visit Russia since the Revolution, loft for Russia this morning, namely Sir Frank Nelson, Mr. Rober: Boothby. Captain Bourne and Lient. Colonel Moors, their object being completely to investigate conditions of life in Russia.
It is hoped that the enquiry will result in improvement in Anglo-Russian rela tions
The Soviet has promised the party, whose mission is described as semi-official" an entirely free hand. WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION, “
HUGE ANTI-STRIKE MEETING AT THE ALBERT HALL
LONDON, April, 17th.. The largest demonstration of women. since the days of the Suffragettes, w13 carried out under the auspices of the Women's Guild of Empire to-day, when the 20,000 matched from the city to Albert Hall, to participate in an anti- strike meeting,
The gathering was composed of all classes of the community. A large, pro- portion of the demonstrators reached the Metropolis by special trains and chari bapes from Scotland, Wales and the pro- vinces. There was some display of un- sympathetic feeling.
LORD READING.
EX-VICEROY OF INDIA WELCOMED HOME.
LONDON, April 17th. Lord Reading arrived in London from India, and was welcomed by representa tives of the King, the Prime Minister and by Lord Birkenhead...
"TO SAVE THE FRANC."
SANITARY BOARD.
EUROPEAN'S MOTOR-CYCLE
SMASH.
CHINESE DIES AS A RESULT OF ACCIDENT.
A QUESTION AND TWO MOTIONS BY DR. KOCH.
Dr. Koch has given notice of his inten- tion to ask at to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board, the following quesing the death of Chinese, who was apparently waiting "for a tram, and
tion:
A serious motorcycle accident, invol
Will the Head of the Sanitary necessitating the removal to hospital of Department state what supervision is the European rider of the machine,” Mr. exercised over a small village in a deep
bay under Villa Miramere in Pokfulam S. J. Squire, of No. 71, Wang Nei Chong composed of squatters matsheds which Road, Happy Valley (who is employed show's signs of rapid growth, and is ut
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present in a most insanitary condition in the constructional department of the constituting a danger to the Dairy Hongkong Electric Company, Ltd.), Farm, and a Guisance to the residences occurred at
the Causeway Bay tram in the neighbourhood?"
terminus on Saturday night:
It appears that Mr. D. E. Western, of No 63, Wong Nei Chong Road, Happy Valley, (also employed by the Hongkong | Electric Company, Ltd., in the meter
SANITARY CONVENIENCES AT BATHING BEACHES. Dr. Koch has given notice of his inten tion to move the following resolution:
"This Board would respectfully urge upon the Government the necessity that department) was riding his motor-cycle, exists for the provision of Lavatories | with Mr. A. F. Paul (of the generating. and sanitary conveniences at the Bath-stations, Hongkong Electric Co.) on the ing Beach.
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also stands in the name of Dr. Koch:
This Board respectfully requests that the Government will be pleased to revise and reduce the prices of Vaccines, Sera, Calf Lymph and Antitoxins; and also the Fees for Blood examinations."
pillion, along Prayn East towards Cause-. THE PRICE OF VACCINES: &..
way Bay. The time was about ten The following motion on the agenda | minutes past nine, and when near Caro-
Jine Ready Causeway Bay from ter". minus, be swerved to avoid a pusb bicycle which was being ridden towarda him. In doing so, his machine knocked into the E.S.A. motor-cycle ridden by Mr. Squire, who was riding close to him at the time. Mr. Squire apparently lost control of his machine and ran into a Chinese, aged about 3 years, who was standing near the Causeway Bay shelter.
The Chinese was removed to hospital seriously injured and died at 11.45 the same night.
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[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
PROHIBITION BENEFITS.
Mr. Squire was also removed to hos pital auffering from slight injuries, the exact nature of which could not be ob tained, but are not thought to be serious..
takon His motor-eycie, was
to the tramway shelter. The machine was not much damaged. The number-plate on the front mud-guard was broken and the mud-guard and wheel slightly buckled.
LEADING CHURCHMEN HEARD BY THE ENQUIRY.
WASHINGTON, April 17th. Drya," in the persons of leading churchmen alone held the stage at to day's prohibition inquiry. They unitedly testified to the benefits of, prohibition and asserted that any modification of the law would tend to bring back saloons with the whisky interest dominating politics.
Physicians, for the "Drys," produced SIR WILLIAN REES-DAVIES TOASTS. charts showing diminution of diseases. associated with alcoholism and denied that the use of drugs had increased under prohibition, stating, on the contrary, that there had been a slight decrease.
BRITISH WATERS.
The United States Prohibition authori. DONATIONS TO VOLUNTARY FUNDtica ane understood to be seeking an
FLOWING IN.
PARIS, April 17th. To save the franc, a campaign is in full swing. Donations to a voluntary fund to redeem the floating debt are flowing in from all sides, including 70,000 franes from the principality of Monaco and 10,000 from the French Football Federa
tion.
AUSTRO-POLISH TREATY.
VIENNA, April 17th. An Austro-Polish Arbitration Treaty has been signed, and will be valid for three years.
SERGEANT MURPHY" DEAD. BREAKS HIND. LEG IN WEST SCOTLAND CHASE
LONDON, April 18th. The long and romantic career of the veteran steeple-chaser, Sergeant Murphy, tragically ended at Bogade to-day, when he skidded in the West Scotland chase and broke a hind leg. He had to be destroyed. "
{REUTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICE.] AMERICAN NAVAL BASES. 20,000,000 ASKED FOR CONSTRUC.
TION AND IMPROVEMENT.
WASEIKOTON, April 17th.
Mr. Wilbur asked Congress to appro "priate nearly twenty million dollars to construct and improve naval bases, half of which is destined for Pearl Harbour, Hawai
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NEW YORK EXCHANGE.
NEW YORK, April 17th. The yen soared to 40/93 cents to-day, while silver touched the lowest point in two years, due to heavy buying on the Exchange. Speculators believe the gold standard will be restored in Japan this year..
BacзILLS, April 10th The International Miners' Federation in session here has unanimously passed a resolution declaring that the only way of emerging from the international coal Crisis was to examine the international system of production and distribution. It affirmed complete solidarity with the British miners in their present dispute and expressed readiness in the event of SUGAR. RESTRICTION. trouble, to take measures to prevent the exportation of coal to Britain and in the "N.Y. WORLD'S" NEATLY WORDED event of an international strike it would ATTACKED ON MR HOOVER. recommend that it not be discontinued before the National associations are satis. fed that sufficient grounds for resuming work has been found in all countries in volved in the conflict. The federation would act as a Strike Committee, fog-ell countries.
[BRITISH WIRELESE SERVICE.]
"FREMİEN ́SEES (KIKO."
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Ruay, April 16th Negotiations are proceeding to-day be tween the Minister of Labour, who is acting for the Premier, and the Coal
Owners.
In the House of Commons. this after noon, the Home Secretary announced that the Premier had been summoned to Wind- sor by HM the King. It is understood that the object of the visit is to discuss the latest developments of the coal situn tion.
NEW YORK, April 16th. A neatly worded attack on Mr. Hoover appears in the New York World which, in a leader headed "Bad in Malaga Fino in Cuba" draws attention to the Cuban Government's section in curtailing the production of sugar, for the next two yours. The newspaper pointe out that the action is in accordance with advice which Hoover gave that Government three years ago, and is a contrast action with Hoover's righteous indignation" when he condemned, Governmental con trol of British rubber. It asks if Cuba is right in doing in sugar what Britain was wrong in doing with rubber, and, if so, why! It further asks: Can it be that the methods which Hoover calls indefensible in Malays are all right in Cuba when they work out to our own advantage.
Agreement which will permit. American officials to search ships in British West Indian waters.
PROPOSAL FÜR NEW LIQUOR TREATY.
NEW YORK, April 16th The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press says that a proposal for a new Liquor Treaty with Great Britain is being considered by the US State. Department.
COMMISSION FOR CRITAIN.
LATER
It is understood that formal discussions are proceeding with Great Britain as regards a treaty to prevent the exports tion of liquor thence to the United States. The State Department may send a Prohibition Commission to Great Britain including the Assistant Secretary, Air. Andrews.
NOTED ECONOMIST'S VIEWA
ST. DAVID'S DAY BANQUET IN LONDON.
**WALES."
Sir William Rees-Davies, the late toast of Wales at the Welsh National Chief Justice of Hongkong, proposed the banquet held at the Connaught Rooms, London, on St. David's Day. There was an attendance of 750 at the dinner and the principal guest was the Earl of Oxford and Asquith
The Right Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P
the toast list evening described on Proposed the tenet of the guest of the 8 Y. Gwir Anrhydeddur Arglwydd Rhydychen se Asquith, K.C., P.C.
Lord Oxford and Asquith, replying, said that in his early youth he was ac quainted with Wales only as a delightful
Playground, with its mountains and sea coast Otherwise it was to him as it still remained to some Englishmen—a geographical or historical expression: It was in the early eighties, when be first entered the House of Commons, that he first came to know his dear and late lamented friend Tom Ellis-(cheers)--a pioneer of Welsh Nationalism, whose labours had borne. such great fruits Cheers.) Lord Oxford recalled that Oliver Cromwell, whose real name some people declared was "Williams," certain- ly had large infusion of Welsh blood... And there were suspicious that the cradle of the illustrious family of Cecil was to be found somewhere among the miste and mountains of the Principality." (Laughter.)*** From what I have seen, read, and know of Welshmen and of the
Welsh nation," continued Lord Oxford, there are two things which mark Wales out in a pre-eminent degree from other parts of the kingdom and Empire. The
rat is a strong and sometimes, if вау во without offence, ab aggressive
WASHINGTON, April 17th. The noted Yale economist, Mr. Irving Fisher, testifying to the Prohibition Com mittee, supported Mr. Hoover, Judge Gary and other industrialists, emphasis ing the great improvement in industrial eficiency since Prohibition. He estimated the nation was thereby saving six milliardsense of unity and independence against of dollars annually.
STRIKE SETTLED.
U.S. TUG-BOAT MEN'S DEMANDS. AGREED TO.
New Yoxx." April 16th. Three thousand tow-boatmer, repre senting about half the eight hundred tow-boats operating in New York were ordered to strike last night for higher wages and a ten-hour day. Fears are expressed that some of the big liners will be delayed starting, as 'nearly all the tow boats commonly used to assist them in and out of their herths are tied up. e --
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New Yonk, April, 17th. The tug-boat strike is settled, the companies granting a wage increase and
shorter hours, -
TACNA-ARICA DISPUTE. MR KELLOGG'S RECOMMENDATION
TO CHILE AND PERU.
WASHINGTON, April 17th..
As mediator in the Tacna-Arica dispute, Mr. Kellogg will recommend to Chile and Peru, alternatively the two provinces be neutralized or transferred to a third South American country, upën equitable compensation:
It is understood, that Mr. Kellogg in taking this line because neither Chile nor Peru are willing to surrender the disputed territory to the other and the idea of dividing it has been rejected.
BORDER TEÇCALE FOLLOWS PROPORAL
BUENOS AIRES, April 18th, Mr. Kellogg's proposal has produced excitement in South America.
A disturbance on the Peru-Bolivia from ther resulted in two deaths: The Peruvian Legation at Lapaz has been stoned.
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the rest of the world. The other is-and. here Lepenk in the spirit of the candid friend--that within your own boundaries' there
a large infusion of local parti cularism. The object of the Welah Na- tional movement is to strengthen the sense of unity and to soften, and in time obliterate, the particularist tendency."
Lord Oxford mentioned, amid laughter, that to-day it was almost as expensive to travel from North Wales to South Wales as it was in the days of the Druida That, he hoped, would soon be altered. The encouragement and wise direction of local patriotism within the ambit of larger unity was a secret which it was reserved to us to discover and turn-to- best uses. His earnest hope was that Wales would cultivate her owo patriotic growth, and at the same time show that devotion to the Principality tended to promote the common life of the Empire at large. (Cheers.)
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NEWS.
CABLE
[THROCGK REUTER'S AGENCY:]
FOREST FIRES IN JAPAN;
||FAMOUS SUMMER RESORT
SUFFERS.
"Tokyo, April TRE -Forest fires broke out on the 14th inst ́and spread to all the hills round Kobe, including the famous resort at Rokkosan.
More than a thousand fire-fighters were, mobilised, of whom -two hundred were removed injured. A
Two and a half thousand acres of the forest have already been burnt.
Akter message says the fires were- extinguished this morning