CHINA'S PREMIERSHIP.
ADMIRAL TU HSI KUE! ASSUMES: OFFICE,
LATEST
DR. W. W. YEN'S RETIREMENT.
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UNEMPLOYMENT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. – THURSDAY, JUNE 24th, 1920
AT
LAST
FIGURES RECORD BIG FRANCE: FINDS NEW FINANCE
INCREASE.
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MINISTER.
M. CAILLAUX ACCEPTS POST.
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PARIS, June 23rd.
CATHOLIC CONGRESS,
MAGICAL AND IMPRESSIVE SCENES IN CHICAGO,
150,000 WORSHIPPERS."
[REUTEN'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]· Ruasy, June 22nd. The number of persons unemployed,
Chicago, June 2örd.- according to the latest official return, is
The gravity of the French political The proceedings of the second public 1,099,900 This figure, which is exclualre of the persons who have ceased work in situation is evidenced by the succession session of the Eucharistic Congress Addressing the Cabinet staff, he said the coal mining industry, is 349,530 more of messages from Paris. The first timed closed with an impressive benediction.
PERINO, June 23rd. Admiral. Tu Hai Kuei assumed the Promiership this morning.
that Dr. Yen was tired and wished to retire, while he had undertaken to act as a bridge spanning the period between Dr. Yen's retirement and the appoint- ment of a successor,
Tho Cabinet yesterday afternoon tele- graphed to Marshals Chang Tso Lin and Wu Pei Fu urging them to come to Poking, so that a definite plan of re- adjustment might be drawn up.
than a year ago.
THE AUTO-CIRO.
PROSPECT OF FLYING FOR EVERYBODY."
Ray, June 22nd. The frat auto-giro, or windmill plane, to be built in this country, was tested at The Commandant of the Peking Gar Hamble, near Southampton, to-day by rison, the Superintendent of the Metro-Captain Frank Courtney, politan Police, the Commandant of the
Taking off with a run of less than Gendarmerie and the Governor of the 200 yards, he circled about the aerodrome. Metropolitan Area have jointly telegraph-A piece of paper was spread on the od to the two Marshala in similar train, ground and, stopping his engine 100 feet but it is not expected that they will com-
above the spot, Captain Courtney drop- ply at present.
ped slowly, but almost vertically, down upon it.
DE. YEN'S RESIGNATION.
PERINO, June 23rd.
Dr. W. W. Yen's resignation from the post of Premier followed a Cabinet meet-
ing lasting two and a half hours, after which a circular telegram was sent out In the name of Dr. Yen and momhors of the Cabinet to Marshals Chang Tso Lin, Wu Poi Fu and Sun Chuan Fang and General Yen Hai Shan and other provin- cial loaders stating that Dr. Yen thinks he had botter retire in favour of a more competent successor.
www.
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THE COAL DEADLOCK.
LORD
DIRKENHEAD STERNLY REBUKES MINERS' LEADERS.
LONDON, June 22nd.
"In the course of a stern lecture to the miners' leaders, notably Mr. J. A. Cook, who have not moved an inch in the past months and who defy economic laws, the advice of the Government, the in- terests of trade and the life of the nation" Lord Birkenhead, in a speech to the Newspaper Society, declared that "we who have broken down every despot in Europe will not be broken down by men in the domestic field who take their biddings from a discredited revolutionary Junta in the most miserable.and poverty. stricken country of Europe."
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STATE AND ROYALTIES.
The auto-giro, declared Capt. Court- ney, "ought to have a remarkable effect on flying. I do not see why a light noro
plane could not be produced with the auto-giro principle on it. On this ma- chine anybody could fy who at present rides a motor-bicycle. Provious flying experience is not necessary.".
PURIFYING THE AIR.
ABATEMENT BILL IN
COMMONS.
SMOKE
Ruony, June 22nd. The House of Commons to-day passed the second reading of the Smoke Abate
ment Bill.
The Bill provides mensures for re- stricting the emission of smoke from factory chimneys, and members, speaking
ROBBER OUTRAGES IN SZECHUAN.
FIRE BUILT ROUND LIVING FARMER'S HEAD,
STORY OF HIDDEN TREASURE.
JUNGESIEN, May 31st. A few days ago a peculiar abooting fatality happened at a market town some 80 li from the city. It was market day
and the local militia were on duty. A number of them were in a tea shop when
at 20.55 this morning aid that M.
The service was celebrated by Cardinalne of their rifles, which were leaning Doumor, on leaving a conference at the
against a table, suddenly toppled over. Qual D'Orsay declared that all the port-Mundelein in the vast stadium, Alled by One of this men made a wild grab to pr
|150,000 worshippers carrying banners and vent it falling to the ground and, in 19
folio wore settled..
FARFAN CABLE
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SALVAGE HOPELESS. HAMBURG-AMERICAN STEAME
TOTAL LOSS.-
HANKOW, June
The Hamburg-American Chhip Rheinland, which collided with tho
Mitniki Maru, forty miles below Han kow on the 16th instant, is now regarded as a total loss.
At first, it was thought that the
damage was slight and that it would be
possible to refloat the vessel, but it now
A. message & quarter of an hour later lighted candles, the flickering lights in doing, his fingers hccidentlly set-off the eventuates that the water has swollen the said that no agreement had been reached at the Quai D'Orsay conference.
the huge dark arena making a magical
scent.
trigger. The bullet passed through two plaster partitions and struck their cap-
· Bands blared ́from the stands, as thetain who was sitting in the shop two doors away. The bullet passed right M. Briand will offer the finance portcongregation marched in columos of through his abdomen. A local Chinese folio to M. Caillaux, but it is not likely fours, and then a loud speaker announced doctor, was called to attend the of
His treatment consisted of a mess that M. Doumer or M. Poincare will the blessed sacrament upon the altar, on herbs applied to the places where the join the Cabinet.
which hata were doffed and cigars and bullet entered and came out M. Briand, after the conference called | cigarettes thrown away. at the Elysee, and on leaving said "The Conversation was hushed and 2,000 situation will shortly speak for itself,priests in multi then entered the arena and eloquently."
and sat on the right and left of the altar.
CAILLAUX ACCEPTS.
PARIS, June 23rd. M. Caillaux has accepted the port
folio of Finance.
THE NEW CABINET.
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The Archbishop of Munich addressed German, and the congregation in Monsignor Seipel, of Austria, Cardinal Casanova, and Archbishop Toledo also spoke, after which the Princes of the Following M. Caillaux's acceptance of Church, headed by Cardinal Bonzano the portfolio of Finance M. Briand went in procession to the altar, and when explained to Pressmen that M. Poin-all were seated the crowd sang the caro's refusal of the Finance portfolio anthem. was caused by the collapse of the plan...... for a Briand-Poincare combination.
When M. Briand informed M. Dou- mergue of his failure to form a Cabinet, the President urged him to persevere, and M. Briand considered it his duty to do everything humanly possible.
The Cabinet he will form with M. Caillaux's collaboration will be one of the Republican Union with the intro
duction of certain new elements.
ANTI-FASCISM AT GENEVA.
SWITZERLAND.
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Some 30 hours later the family decided to bring the wounded man into the Mission hospital. By travelling all night they got him here at daylight. The round was in a very bad condition by that time due to the treatment used and The Chinese to the very hot weather. doctor in charge of the hospital did every- thing possible but the man died about
bours after admission.
A REVOLTING ACT. On the same day a farmer, who was reported to have received some money from a co-operativo society, was seized by robbers at his horse 40s from the city.
entst Being unsuccessful in this, they
threats.
decided to try other means of persuasion. They took a piece of bamboo matting, such as is commonly used for drying grain, and cut a hole in it large enough to allow the matting to go over his head and rest on the shoulders. Then they sprinkled coal off upon it and set fro to the matter.
cargo of beans, which has burst through the deck. This, together with the rising water, renders salvagé hopeless.
A wireless message received from Han- kow states that the salvage coolies have deserted, requesting, gunboat protection. EXPLOSION OF STEAMER. "ADOLF VON BAEYER."
BADLY
DAMAGED.
SHANGHAI, June 23rd. The explosion of two and a half thousand tons of saltpetre on the Hugo- Stinnes steamer, the Adolf Von Baeyer yesterday evening, completely wrecked the forward hold, set three holds on fire, and in the subsequent blaze, the bridge was burnt away."
[The Adolf Von Baeyer left Hongkong for Shanghai on June 14th. She is commanded by Capt. R. Hohlfeld, and the local agents are Mesare. Reuter, Brockelmann & Co.
MINISTERS' THREAT TO RESIGN.
PIQUANT STRIKE STORY. SURRENDER TO MR. CHURCHILL,
LOCAL AND GENERAL. As a sequel to the seizure, by the Police, of 16 automatic pistols and
In spite of this barbarous treatment he several thousand round of ammunition refused to divulge the location of the board the French liner Audre Lebon, money. Whether the robbers-became con vinced that, short of murder, they could
A remarkable explanation of the man- from Marseilles and Saigon, three not make him confess, and that there
ner in which the General Strike was Freach sailors were formally charged at was not enough in it to make the risk
Magistracy yesterday worth, while no one knows. At any rate, precipitated is given in the New States- they suddenly, released him and fled into man, which says that that at the very moment of the breaking-off of the the. Kowloon with possession of the arms and ammuni- the hills. The flames were quickly. ex-negotiations the Prime finister bad tinguished and neighbours carried the tion. The magistrate, Mr. J. H. B. unfortunate man into the Mission hos- come to an understanding with the trade Nibill, remanded them until Saturday. pital. He is quite severely burned about union leaders.
the bead and shoulders but, should ro The Tainan correspondent of the cover unless complications cat in. Tringtao Times writes that there has
in support of it, wers of opinion that it1TALY'S STRONG NOTE TOch no rain for the Inst few months, will do much to clear the atmosphere of the big industrial towns.
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WANTED-FINANCE MINISTER,
M. BRIANDS DIFFICULT TASK NOT
YET FULFILLED.
PARIS, June Rad.
ROB, June 22nd.
Tho anti-Fascist demonstrations to which Italian delegates and officials of
and a great percentage of crops already been ruined, "Prayers for rain are sent up daily by those whose business it is to pray, also guns are fred.". The
the Leagus at Geneva, have recently been meat market has been closed for several subjected, have drawn a strong Note from wecks, and prices for food stuffs have Italy remonstrating with the Swiss gone up. A great number of the Government for a violation of the Tsinanfu ladies have taken refuge from immunity to which its representatives to the heat in Teingiao,
ceremony,
A PLEASING CONTRAST. In pleasing contrast to these two in- haseidenta a rather unusual event took place on that same day here in the city. Under the old system of education the success ful candidate for the first degree-Hsiu tasi-(as part of the graduation exer- cises) walked around the pool in the fucian temple. If a scholar lived to calc- outermost of the three courts in the Cou- brate the Diamond Jubilee of his gradua. in which the magistrate, and tion, he was escorted with elaborate other officials and scholars took part, to the Confucian temple where he circled the pool a second time.
In the nature of things comparatively few men live to receive this honour. In about 300-year only three men in this
the have completed country
cycle. Strange to say two of them celebrate this year. They received their degrees in 1888 a famous Han-lin who died the fifth year of Tong Chih. The third 100 years ago. One of these men, Sunk Fung Shan, is 83 years of age and in poor circumstances. The educational
man
the league are entitled," and asking for Regarding the discovery of twenty The lobbies in the Chamber are due satisfaction. The Note expresses the obsolete cannon in the foundations of anxiously questioning M. Briand's hope that the regrettable demonstrations
the new Chartered Bank building in ability to form a Ministry, following an will not recur or Italy will be obliged all-day unsuccessful quest for a Finance to adopt stronger measures, not exclud. Penang, an old Chinese has volunteered Successive candidates lose ing the withdrawal of her represents the information that they were used in the wars between rival kongsces in Perak, Then they were captured and brought over to Penang by the British leaders, both of the old and now schools, united to honour the old scholar by: and dumped in the old lock-up in the observing the old custom and to take ad. Central station. A suggestion has been vantage of the occasion to give him
material-assistance.
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RAISING A SUBMARINE.
The old man. Was.
What actually happened, it seems.. was this
"The Prime Minister, Lord Eirken- bend, and Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland were fighting desperately for peace, whilst a section of the Cabinet, fed by Afr Winston Churchill, Mr. Neville Chberlain and Mr. Bridgeman, wors itching for a fight. The ponce party succeeded in arranging terms based on the Royal Commision's Report, upon which the strike would be called off and the miners loft, if they would not agree, to fight alone.
With these terms they returned in
End Messrs. Churchill and Chamberlain in charge, and a clear majority in favour of war at all costa
triumph to the Cabinet room, only to
The Baldwin-Birkenhead Carms were: accordingly turned down, and when the Prime Minister proposed nevertheless to go forward with the negotiations; and avert the strike, he was faced with the immediate resignation of seven of his lain, Bridgeman, Amery,Jix, Cunliffe- Lister, and one other of whose identity colleagues Churchill, Neville Chamber- we are not sure. So he gave way,
"He ought not to have given vay, of course, but excuses may, perhaps, be
found for an utterly exhausted man who, having fought the trade unions for days at the last moment to fight his own and nights, found himself called upon collengues.
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put forward that some of them should escorted from his bome a few miles away Mr. Churchill was the villain of the "S-61 COMES TO SURFACE To be sent to the Museum so that their his- into the city. He first went to the yamen niece." He is reported to have remark-
Minister. Bocey, June 22nd.
confidence after a heart to heart talktiven. The Premier stated in the House of with M. Teret or the Manager of the Commons to-day that the recommenda Banque de France on the real facts of tions of the Coal Commission with regard the position in the Treasury. M. to the purchase by the state of mineral Cailloux is the latest man to be ap royalties, unlike the other recommenda proached, but he has repeatedly refused tions which the Government has accepted, to accept unless he simultaneously heada raised questions which necessarily re-the Government. It is confidently pre. acted on the national finance. The losses dicted that M. Briand will be compelled which the country had suffered and was to approach an expert who is not in suffering at the present time, together parliament. In the meantime he is can- with the conversion of the public debt vassing the party leaders regarding the contemplated in the near future, created pogibility, of a stable majority, without a situation which the Government were which the Premier declares he will not bound to examine carefully before .com take office. mitting the country to a financial trans- action of the magnitude which was in- volved in the recommendations of the Commission with regard to mineral IMPORTANT DECISIONS BY MARI.
"TIME CONFERENCE, ⠀ royalties. He would point out, however, that the adoption of the recommendation was a matter which could be of
GENEVA, June Kal. no imma. diate relief to the coal problem. In quy event, the Government proposed to deal with it in another way in the Re-Organi- sation Bill which had been introduced.
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· MOROCCAN SITUATION.
FURTHER PROGRESS BY THE FRENCH.
CRIMES AT SEA.
suddenly
AGAIN DISAPPEAR.
tory can be ascertained.
The spectacle of a contingent of police on motorcycles and in side-cars riding through the Central district, yesterday morning aroused a considerable amount
to pay his respects to the magistrate...
From there he was escorted by the ed that he thought a little bloodletting magistrate and the only surviving Han would be all to the good." Whether he Lin in this district to the Confuciani actually used this phrase or not, there is NEW YORK, June 22nd...
temple. There is a large number of in-no doubt about his tireless efforts to seize Salvage workers, pumping air from
vited guests joined in the ceremony of the providential opportunity for a fight." circling the pool.
Through a misunderstanding as to the
At the Kowloon Magistracy yester. pontoons off Block Idand preparatory
day afternoon, before Mr. J. H. B. to attempting to raise the Submarine of interest among these who witnessed hour, the writer, Although invited, miss- ed seeing this most interesting and un-
on a Police 5.51, were surprised by the sunken craft the procession. On inquiry boing made, usual ceremony which caused consider- Nihill three che lunch, and the other poking its nose above the surit appears that the contingent in quesable interest in the city. Over 8300 w unemployed, were charged with demand-
subscribed by the gucats so this aged 'face and damaging the two pontoons, tion was the "Flying Squad," in scholar will probably have enough to suping money by menaces from a boatman. From the evidenco given for the prosecu afterwards sliding back and resuming its augurated during the strike last year. port him for the remainder of his days.
Lion, it appears that the defendants.went aboard the complainant's junk, making The police officers in the side-cars carried rifes, while the riders of the cycles were
the excuse that they were thero to search
While on board they de provious place on the ocean bed.
The boatman went or armed with revolvers. This tour of the
for opium. shore on the pretext of fatebing the Colony, which is carried out periodically,
manded $500. money, but instead, he informed the police,
Witnessed it.
who promptly arrested the defondants. After bearing evidence, His Worship ad- journed the case until this morning.
EXPLOSION” IN CHURCH.
The Maritime Conference has adopted IRISH KU KLUX KLAN MEMBER considerably impressed the Chinese who
a draft convention granting to seamen the fullest guarantees in connection with punishment for crimes aboard ship, while leaving national legislatures the right of fixing the penaltics applicable to dif-
forent offences.
The Conference rejected a British amendment to exclude desertion and absence without leave.
ARRESTED.
TORONTO, June. 22nd.
An Irishman named William Skelly, who recently arrived from Ireland, is charged with attempting to dynamite the Roman Catholic Church at Barrie, Ontario, on June 16th.
According to the police, Skelly admits The Conference entrusted to the Inter placing dynamite in the basement of the national Labour Office the task of church, with the result that a wall and FE, June 23rd. examining the penalties obtaining in some windowns were wrecked. The ex- After having progressed in recent days different countries for breaking seamen's plosion occurred shortly after a Ku Klux fifteen kilometres to the east from articles and agreements, requesting it to Klau demonstration, at which Skelly had Wezzan, the French yesterday made submit its results to a Joint Maritime been enrolled a Elan member. Skelly further advance of eight kilometres in Committee with a view to preparing an told the police he was chosen by the
international solution.
Klan to dynamite the church. the same direction.
HIDDEN TREASURE.
The difficulty that the people in the interior, where there are no reliable a very real one. The trouble of the poor banks, have in concealing their money is farmer reported above recalls the very serious loss sustained by a wealthy family in this country during the fight. The liner Empress of Australia, which ing last year. They had buried large was two days late leaving Shanghai eums of money, some of it, many years
At the Kowloon Magistracy, yester owing to engine trouble which developed ago, in different places about their coun in Hongkong, and which was fixed up try home. There hiding places were all day further evidence was taken in the case in which three men are charged with here, has again found her speed impeded carefully recorded in a book that was through a return of the trouble, anys the kopt in a supposedly safe place on top committing an armed robbery on a NO Dally News of June 10th The of a large cupboard. As the fighting sampan in Hunghom Bay on Juno 3rd. condition is reported a due to the melt drew near their home the family, left, It will be recalled that the sampon was ing of soft metal found at the exhaust fearing injury and insults from the engaged by two men (one of whom is end of the turbine engine which has military. The home was occupied for not in custody) to take them to the jammed up the pipes. She has been several weeks by the soldiers. When the Electric Company's premises at North travelling at about eight knots an hour, family left they took everything they Point. Later, two other men came on one half of her normal speed, and she will could possibly carry, but, because it was board and the boatmistress was told to go to Nagasaki where she will be repair not something thought of every day, they convey them to the Electric Light Com- ed. in order to make the journey across forgot about this precious memo-book. "Apany's premises at Hunghom. Near the Pacific after a Lloyd's survey has day or so after the soldiers arrived one Kowloon Docks the four men forced all been made. After two more trips from of them, in rummaging around the house, the boat people into the hold and nailed Empress of Australia willbs removed from buried treasure. The descriptions were hours Inter, when the prisoners regain- Vancouver to the Far Eastern port, the found the book containing the list of the the deck board down on them. Two this run and made an Empress boat on so accurate that these soldier bandits, ed their freedom they found the robbers she will be about nine days to Vancouver Beulty in discovering and appropriating to the value of 14. The case was again
the whole amount.Y Daily News: adjourned. the Atlantic ran. It is expected that as they are commonly called, had no dif. had decemped with money and jewellery en the present trip.