EGYPTIAN - CRISIS,
BRITISH WARSHIP DISPATCHED -FROM MALTA.
MOST DELICATE" SITUATION.
CYCLONE IN BURMA.
SEARLY THREE THOUSAND- PEOPLE PERISHED,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JUNE 4TH, 1920
Rasogas June 3rd Tt officially estimated that 2.764 people perished at Haungdaw, a town. ship of Akyab în the recent cyclone.
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[A previous cable from Rangoon stated:
LABOUR STANDARDS.
CONFERENCE AND BACKWARD STATE OF CHINA.
(THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENCY.]
Devastation followed in the wake of a Losnow, June End.
disastrous storm on the Arankan coast. A brief message from Malta announcing which burst on both sides of the Maya that the battleship Reaolution, with mountains, causing a tidal wave on the Nadd River, inundating the country and Rear Admiral Staveley, has been ordered wiping out whole villages. Twelve hun to Egypt forthwith, coincides with re-dred deaths have been reported up to
"the present.] cent indications that the Cabinet, how- ever pre-occupied with the coal problem, is now grappling with a most delicato situation in Egypt, where the Zagħlu lists return to power by a sweeping majority as the result of the elections has been followed by news that Zaghiul maintains his former uncompromising attitude, declining to accept the British. reservations with regard to the control of the Sudan safeguarding the canal, the protection of foreign interests in Egypt all the defence of that country.
SENSATION IN CAIRO.
CAIRO, June 2nd.
GENEVA, June 2nd.. At the Labour Conference Mr. Chu (China) in a specch assured the Confer ence that the Chinese Government con tinued to show keen interest in applying
FAR EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER's^AGINGT; }.
THE NORTHERN SITUATION.
THE CHANGE IN HONAN.
CHENGCHOW. UNDER TWO REGIMES.
FOREIGNER'S PERSONAL.
EXPERIENCES.
Mr. Nahmmacher of the Henningsen MARSHAL WU PEI FU AND THE Produce Co., Ltd., Chengchow, Honan,
KUOMINCHUN.
SHANGHAI, June 3rd The situation in China shows no sign of clearing up. Yen's Cabinet is proving an amusing farce, no Cabinet members except Ten himself having assumed port folios. China is thus more than ever without a Central Government.
Fighting between the Kuominchun and Shansi forces is proving indecisive, but indicates that the Knominchun are far from being eliminated.
Meanwhile, friction is developing as regards the spoils of cffice.
The Wu Pei Fu-ite, General Chin Yun at an early date the standards laido, it is reported desires to become down by the International Labour or Governor of Shantung. Chin Yun Ao, it ganisation but that medern labour stan.is also reported, has negotiated with dards could not wisely by applied until Marshal Sun Chuan Fang to assist him
to attack Shantung.
China had reached the stage of modern industrialism. He hoped that China would be liberated from the yoke of unequal treaties..
A sensation has been caused by the resignation of Judge President Kershaw, who, with two, Egyptian judges pro-
Miss Margaret Bondfield rejoiced in nounced the verdict in the conspiracy the improvements, which had already oc- trial, on the ground that the verdict incurred in India and Japan as the result the case of four of the accused me was the work of the Labour Conferences, contrary to the weight of evidence and but still viewed with horror reports of constituted a grave mis-carriage of jus the condition of women in China.
tice.
His Majesty's Government has to-day addressed a Note to the Egyptian Gov- ernment on the matter reserving judg rent. in respect of the verdict, which, mianwhile, it declines to accept as 2 proof of the accused's innocence and also reserving full liberty of action in the matter.
WARSHIPS UNDER ORDERS.
MAITA, June 3rd.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN RERVICE.]
MORE AEROPLANES. AMERICAN SENATE ADVISE AIR"
EXPANSION.
WASHINGTON, June 3rd.
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The Senate has passed a Bill to be sent to the House of Representatives, authoris ing the expansion of the air service, so
has given the Central China Post sn interesting account of the conditions prevailing in that province under the various parties which have been in power since March, 1925"
A YEAR OF TURMOIL.
NO. 4 POLICE LAUNCH.
TOWED INTO DOCK YESTERDAY.
BOTTOM BADLY DAMAGED,
The new Government vessel, No. 4
·Police Launch, only recently released from Mesars W. S. Bailey & Co.'s yard at Kowloon, for special patrol duty, and which, as reported, went ashore at North Port of Shelter Island, in the Sai Kung district during the bad weather of Wednesday evening, was towed into the Kowloon early yesterday morning by the Dock rescue tug, Henry Keswick.
As far as could be ascertained yester
PRIVATE LETTERS IN PRINT.
[BY EDITI BHACKLETON, Į
Should one publish letters: Should one tell even about the most respectable and betrothed kissent Miss Viola Tree's. book brings up the old question again, and she herself comes out to meet critic
་་ iam in a foreword by, her cheerful shall often be accused of bad taste: but how much better now than when I am dead." She misses the important point that if she had waited till she were dead Lord Oxford would probably be dead too. thoughts were austerely set on entran So would other girls of her period, whose
there may rias ghosts of bad tempers when chisement in 1900, and in whose minda they read what the unapproachable Prima Minister then wrote about them to "a rather undeveloped school-girl."
PUBLISHING ONLY ONE SIDE. It is, perhaps, always a little unfair to corroapon- publish only one side of a dence. Nobody can doubt this who has ever found a set of his own letters, writ ten years before, and tried to read then- "with" the eyes of a stranger, or gone through an old packet of notes addressed to himself (and unburned because there was nothing in them" to and that the genuinely innocent compositions could be pieced out by an outsider into positively incriminating and irrefutable evidence "of things that never happened.
For more than a year' past Chengchow day the launch suffered pretty severely has been in a constant state of turmoil by the tremendous buffeting she received due to the presence of the military and from the heavy seas, which undoubtedly natters reached the climax of unplea-forced her on to the rocks. She was santaess last Autumn during the opera tions against Shantung. It is asserted that there is not the slightest doubt that Agents of the Kuomiachen held full con- trol of the situation and every train that entered or left the City was searched by a small Russian armed patrol and no train or person could leave without their permission. The fact is emphasised that control was exercised. by such a Marshal Wa Pei-Fa, who recently a rived at Paotingfu, near Peking, sum-
small body of men is indicative of the dismissed Chia Yun Ao from strong power which lay behind them. marily command, and has assumed the post of
During the whole of the time when Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Ex-the City of Chengchow and the sur- severe that it was deemed inadvisable to pedition against the Kuominchan himself rounding district was under Kuomin-proceed to Shelter Island. Accordingly Marshal Chang To Lin is expected to chun rule something approaching to a the tag returned to Lyemun and anchor leave Mukden to-day far Paotingfu for reign of terror existed-illegal taxationed until daybreak, when she steamed to
'was rile and, quite apart from the fact | her destination. As she rounded Shelter- that Chinese lives and property were Island No. 4 Police Launch was seen treated with the utmost disregard, for leaving The Henry Keswick followed eigners were subjected to unveiled abuse her and overtook her at Lyemun, whereof address. My dog My little croco when going about their lawful daily she had anchored. From there the tug business. Troops were quartered every took the damaged launch in tow to where regardless of the strangling effect Kowloon Docks, where she will now be which their unwelcome presence had on put under repair. The full extent of business generally and money was extort her damage is not yet known, but it is
badly damaged in consequence, her bottom being dented from bows to atern, and the result was that she sprang leaks and the pumps had to be kept working all through the night and up till the
Aloreover, nere strings of endearments time she was dry-cocked yesterday morn ing. As one time she was making water
are nothing to go by unless you know just how often they occur in the writer's lat ters to other people. He may be incon- rapidly, but once the pumps got fairly into action, this was soon under control.
tinent in this matter, and only with diff culty restrain himself from addressing his - After the Henry Keswick left Kowloon laundress as Darling soul." or he may Dock shortly after midnight on Wednes-be sa reserved that to write "My dear day and got outside Eyemun, the weather was found to be so bad and the sens so
the 'conference with Wa Pei Fu..
GENERAL CHIN'S REMOVAL.
PEKING, June 3rd
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In view of the removal of General Chin Yun Ao, it is expected the anti-Kuonin- chan campaign will be prosecuted with renewed vigour. One of the important consequences of Chin's removal, seen by political observers, is that it has brought
"instead of simply Dear" is to him a blazing confession of adoration and joy. When the late Mrs. Ramsay MacDonald first wrote to her betrothed husband she expressed the devotion of an
austere and lovely character by beginning My dearest sir," A. friend said it was the most abandoned address she could
think of.
THE LOVEE'S URGÈ. When Tchekov's love-letters were pub- lished the other day many readers were curiously puzzled by his unpoetic terms dile," he writes when he is coughing down in the South to the wife he adores in Moscow, but is there any mystery in this, any more than in the high-town Adorable angel" or "Peerless queen of the letters of infatuated business men that are sometimes read out to and so
The lover's urgs is always to find some- thing new for his mistress, something that while an unlitefary butter merchant might imagine that he has made up "Adorable ange" all by himself the writing man gnes in terror of elichean, and would feel better about calling his love a sparrow than a dove any day.
"Beautified' is
much nearer the realisation of the pro-ed under the guise of loans, against re-not, anticipated to be too serious. Ap Although no further warships beyond as to provide 1,800 new aeroplanes to the spect of meeting between Marshals ceipts forced from the local Chamber of parently the worst damage is the denting cannot be used for anybody else, and the Resolution" have been sent to Egypt end of an experimental period of five Chang Tso Lin and Wa Pei Wu on which Commerce, from all and sundry, regard- at present, several others are under orders for Egypt at a moment's notice.
A message received a few days ago reported that all the men concerned in the conspiracy trial had been acquitted, except Fahmy who was sentenced to death.]
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THE COAL STRIKE.
NEW EMERGENCY REGULATIONS
CONFIRMED.
LONDON, June end." The House of Commons, by 240 votes to 100 carried an address of thanks to His Majesty for his proclamation con- tinuing, the Emergency Regulations, in- cluding a new regulation empowering the Home Secretary to prohibit a bank or private individuels dealing in moneys or securities imported from abroad intend. ed to be applied to any purpose" "pre- judicial to the public safety or the life of the community."
The Labour Members, headed by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald contended that the Regulations were now unnecessary in view of the good conduct of the people during the strike,
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LATER.
the remaining Emergency regulations.
years.
DEBT
FRANCE AND U.S. SETTLEMENT AGREED TO
WASHINGTON, June 2nd. The House of Representatives has ap- proved of the French debt settlement.
MUCH OPPOSITION.
LATER The House of Representatives" vote or the French debt settlement was 236 votes" to 11 The question has been debated sharply for the past few days, and the Democrats declared that the settlement was too lenient and unfair to American taxpayers. The debate, however, was not confined to party lines, Democrat Crisp
the political situation depends.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
REGINALD DENNY AGAIN. That popular mirth provoking film star, Reginald Denny, has once more made his
less of National status. We understand that even the Standard Oil Co., was not immune from these exactions, perhaps Har the first time in the history of the
Company out here.
EMPLOYEES BECOME BANDITS.
In the compound of the Henningsen
The Kau Sing, the new salvage and resene tug, left Hongkong about five o'clock yesterday morning for Shelter Island, which she reached shortly after the Henry Keswick. Her assistance was hot required, however, and she returned to Hongkong at the same time as the
and launch, tuk
an ill phrase "complains Polonius, but it is one whose invention would delight any cultured young lover, groping beyond the commonplaces
appearance on the screen of the Queen's Produce Co., Ltd., there were at one E. D. C. Wolfe (C.S.P.) and Inspectorim, how anybody can have been so.
Theatre. He was seen yesterday in another of bis delightful comedy
time 3,000 men quartered, all of whom, incidentally, reverted to banditry when Bond, of the Water Police, left on the Henry Keswick on Wednesday night, the City changed hands again: Some of these men were supplied with arm and they returned by her yesterday.
Had it not been for the fact that the police launch was fitted with wireless
dramas "-" Skinner's Dress Sait"
Reginald. Denny is just as good in this picture as in any of the other excellent by General Yang Shih Ming with the films he has appeared in recently. It is best of intentions end though he may impossible to avoid laughing at "Skin- have been misguided or forced into sup- ner's Dress Suit." It is full of amusing porting the Kuominchun we are asked and ludicrous incidents. Laura La Plante to say that as a Defence Commissioner of fieorgia, joining the Republicans in ably supports Reginald Denny in providno one could have been better in his at- defending the settlement. The resolutioning the fun. now goes to the Senate where it is ex-
This picture will be shown again to-day pected that further opposition" will be and to-morrow..
encountered.
PRIDE OF BEING ENGLISH" CHARACTERISTIC LETTER BY
MR. G. I, SHAW,
A characteristic letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw makes one of the liveliest pages of
The House of Commons has confirmed the book in which Miss Viola me
the story of her "Castles in the Air" (The Hogarth Press, 188.)-otherwise her defeated ambition to become a singer!
Don't try to become an Italian singer, that is, an imposter (wrote G.B.S.). To The Provisional Military Government be lovely and slim and ten feet high is a
whole bunch of qualities.
PORTUGUESE REVOLT.
LISBON, June 2nd.
bas assumed the functions of the Presi
dent of the Republic.
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
LIBBON, June 3rd." General Gomes Costa has arrived in the vicinity of Lisbon, and this morning conferred with Commandant Cabécadas, after which the Government eight port- foliar were formed. comprising two Generals, two Naval Commandants and civilians. Cabecadas being Premier and Minister for the Interior; General Gomes Costa, Minister for War and the Colonies; General Carmona, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
four
Commandant Cabecadas, Gomes Coste and Carmona constitute the Supreme Council.
GOVERNORSHIP OF CANADA. LORD WILLINGDON'S APPOINT-, MENT REGARDED AS CERTAIN.
LONDON, June 3rd.
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You say fright hardens your voice. Then, in the name of common sense, O irrational Viola, why don't you take steps to get over the fright by singing in public-were it only at a street corner (where I learnt to speak in public) every day 1
When intimate letters are published, whether by legal misadventure or in book- As stated, yesterday, the Hon. Mr. making weal, there always arises a chorus
from prudent souls who wonder, forija
the written word. I may have been a foolish as to entrust such intimacies to firt," a certain dashing Victorian beauty said in her maturer years, but, thank Heaven, there does not exist a line of my writing in Europe." It is the cautions person of her sort and the prudent chorus Of course, written declarations and irre- equipment, and was thus able to immedi- who really give the love-letter its value. Police Station following her mishap, the is not much blood in us if we will never ately get into touch with the Water claimable records are foolish, but there erow would probably have had to aban-be unwise for one another, and not much place ourselves entirely at one another's don her and take refuge on the Island, adoration if we never have the impulse to which, although fairly large has only a few fishermen's huts on it. There was never any danger of loss of life.
titude towards the foreign residents.
For months prior to the entry of the Allied troops on March 3rd conditions At the Star Theatre, Kowloon, Viola at night were particularly bad and for Dana, Monte Blue, Marjorie Daw and lie the last three weeks before that date Cody take the principal parts in "Re.scarcely a single shop dared open its
said: picture which will be screened doors. Everyone on the move prior to velation,"
10 p.m. was challenged, from 10 to 11 until to-morrev.
warned or shot, 11 to 12 arrested on sight and from midnight to daylight shot with
DAMAGE DONE BY SHIPWORMS.out warning. Such was the state of
An instance of what he described as the out-of-date methods of Government departments was given by Dr. William Calman (Deputy Keeper of Zoology, British Museum) in a lecture on "The Shipwarm," in London recently:
WEATHER REPORT,
Last night's weather report, forecast and remarks by the Royal Observatory
The anti-cyclone over North-east Japan has weakened lightly.
Local forecast: East winds, moderate, overcast, occasional rain.
mercy.
There is something to be said for pub Lishing other people's letters, if one is going to publish them at all, while the writers are alive and able to combat any consequent wrong assumptions, but how is one to decide, in this respect, just when death takes place Tehekov is dead, yet, to some of us, his widow showed a greater lack of reticence in publishing his letters to her than Mrs. Patrick Campbell did in letting us all read Mr. Bernard Shaw's exuberant appreciations of her beauty and vitality, though one may knock against Mr. Shaw in the Strand almost any morn ing,
A SELF-CONSCIOUS AGE.
A CONSTANT SOURCE OF ANXIETY panic existing that anything that moved
received a hail of bullets and many bez reasonable request for the removal of In the present intensely self-conscicus - "TO THE ENGLISH HARBOURS. great
age there are men and women who ap- gars and dogs paid the penalty. For troops met with a "ready response on the
pear to die many times before their part of the Authorities. In place of
deaths. They look over each decade, tie and label it, anit were, eigners, in the earlier hours, were allow-slovenly Officers and disorderly men ap-
as thought of troops and at night-time, in place and then treat it exactly ed comparative freedom of movement, peared a smart and well disciplined body it up
When apart from consistent verbal mud-eling of the hordes of semi-bandits roaming it belongs to scriebody else. ing, but after 10 p.m were subject to the town endangering life and person, young men of twenty and twenty-five- none was to be seen but Officers going have already published their chirruping Two hundred years ago, he said, Dr. search by any sentry along their route about their ordinary duties or pleasures autobiographies their love-letters may Sellins rejected the idea that the ship
ROUT SAVES CITY..
Where eteran! squabbles had existed well seem less like personal possessions, worm could einerge from its barrow and swim away to bore into a fresh piece of Petty thieving took place all the time with the highest to the lowest over pay and perhaps are ripe for the publisher ments for value received, caterers, mer- or the waste-paper basket, according to timber. This attitude was natural when but, fortunately, though everyone lived chants, shopkeepers have been receiving quality. Usually, however, it will be for I don't want to drag you back nothing was known of the microsopic in constant fear of a wholesale looting, payment in genuine money for value the waste-paper basket, for it is not from from Italy if you like being there, in freeswimming larve, but it was some the exodus of the Kuominchun forces, given. One could go on indefinitely the chameleon soul,, or the life compart- spite of the dillculty of hearing any what astonishing to find a 200 years old when it came, was so precipitate that making comparisons, odious to the Kuo-mented like that of an insect, that great nice music there except opern. But be theory revived in na official report issued they had no time to think of anything minchun troops, but one of the most im loves and friendships are made, patriotic. Your pride must be pride in two years ago by & Government depart-but saving their own skins. On the night portant improvements in a Nation of being English. You must succeed as ment. The shipworm, known in ancient of March 2nd, 25 trains moved West transporters such as the Chinese are is
beautiful Englishwoman. Your voice must be an English voice, and times as the calamitas navium," re- along tho.. Lunghai Railway and vast the fact that the Hupeh troops promptly mained a constant soure of anxiety to numbers of men escorting gun and ceased to commandeer carts, barrows and your genius an English genius. I am the harbour engineer. The collapse of a ammunition moved out on foot, the coolies and did their own work with their an Irishman-intensely proud of being timber-built wharf in San Francisco Bay number being at a rough estimate some- own labour Corps. Irish (quite unreasonably) and I know in 1920 owing to shipworms, caused where in the neighbourhood of 100,000. you must get your soul free, especially $15,000,000 worth of damage.
The arrival of Chin Yun An's advance trom the ideas of music masters, who
The wood from London olay proving force on the 3rd March, was heralded always live in one room (crowded with
by an armoured train, scarred with the marks of a running fight and with the guns crews still stripped to the waist, swabbing out their weapons.
the
STRIKING CHANGE.
a grand piano), and never escape from that the shipworms' burrows riddled logs it except into a concert-room or opera of driftwood in the Thames estuary, 30 house, where they don't even pay for Eocene times ages before man appeared their tickets".. I have ne more paper on the earth. There was no doubt that left to be wise on, unless I take another the shipworm used wood as food, Ex sheet, which would delay me another periments ad shown that the shipwofm month.
was not attracted by glass or stone, but LORD OXFORD."
only by wood, and malic acid had been No sooner had the Kuominchun evacu shown to be one of the chemical sub- ated and the Hupeh troops put in their stances in the wood responsible for the appearance than the normal life of the attraction of the larvae Outbreaks in town commenced again. Shops re-opea districts previously free were shown to ed and peaceful citizens went about their presence there of shipworms, in small numbers, and the arrival of conditions favourable to their growth. They were less active as the amount of salt in the water was reduced.
There are also some delightful letters from Lord Oxford(en Mr. Asquith) with whom Viola Tres evidently kept up a regular correspondence, and of whom
Parsons, whom she married:
HIGH STANDARD OF DISCIPLINE. Military discipline was, and is, being maintained at a high standard with lights out at about 9.30, reveille st 4 am and all military drill conducted outside the City without obstructing the civil life of the Town. With a large. body of troops on campaign it is not to bo wondered at that some instances of property and person occur but such cases breach of discipline and offence against are few and far between and are met with summary punishment when detected Confidence in Chengchow in Commer and Civilians of all Nationalities and classes cannot be too thankful to be rid of the incubus of the Forces owing à nominal allegiance to Feng Yu Hriang first, with China &. bad second.
The middle-aged abbcas Heloise who wrote to Abelard was one with the girl who had given him stealthy kisses in her uncle's house, and she did not look on that girl as a remote, figure to be "analys ed dispassionately. Do you remember" is na magical a lover's phrase na any,- and perhaps Better worth earning than any Phenix-like accomplishments with dead pasts.
UNTOLD LOVE STORIES... We are well off for love stories, and they are an undeniable enrichment of life. Countless lovers have been hap pier because Paris fled with Helen, be Romeo minded him of an apothecary te cause Cleopatra died with Antony, and
But it is rather, more than possible that. there have been far greater loves that have never been told. The best of the incidentally and not been proclaimed by the lovers themselves, for loving and
so many poets have been wretched.- telling do not go together. That is why Evening Standard.
It is now regarded as certain that and she wrote once, in a letter to Mr. Alan be due, not to importation, but, to the usual occupations in the ordinary way, dal circles has been restored completely love stories we know have come out
Willingdon will succeed Lord Byng as Governor-General of Canada. An official announcement is imminent.:
Don't, for God's sake, be pushing with Mr. Asquith. You know his character, and how he hates any form of wirepulling or unstraightness.”
Foreigners went about the place un molested and unabused and where for sign premises had been billeted, or were threatened with further billeting, any (Continued on next Column).