THE HONGKONG DAILY
PRESS.
MONDAY, JUNE 28TH,
1920
TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
GERMAN FIRMS ANTICIPATING
BIG BUSINESS.
CONCLUSION OF AGREEMENT,
(THROUGH REUTEN'S AGENCY.j
BERLIN, June 26th,
German Arms aro anticipating a big influx of orders from Russia following the
THE SPANISH CONSPIRACY.
PLOT ORGANISED BY THE COMMUNISTS.
KANG ALFONSO LEAVES FOR ENGLAND.
Manno, June 20th. Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain have left for Faris en route to Great Britain, where King Alfonso will
receive an honorary degree at Oxford University. Their Majesties were
en-
BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.
MOTION FOR TERMINATING TRADE AGREEMENT.
LIVELY DEBATE IN
сомнома:
(011TIAN WIRELESS SERVICE)
CANADIAN CUSTOMS.
POSSIBLE. DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
[REUTER'S' AMERICAN SERVICE]
Ortawa, June 10th, The House of Commons, after four RuGay, June 25th.
days' debate on an Opposition motion of The debate in the House of Commons ecastre of the Government in connection to-day was initiated by Commander
Oliver Locker-Lampson (Conservative) with the report of the Customs Committee
who moved that "this House comdemni
(which exposed great losses through zmuggling) & Government motion for the
FAR
EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.J
TARIFF CONFERENCE,
NOT
AMERICAN DELEGATE
LEAVING CHINA YET.
PEKING, June 20th, Interviewed yesterday regarding ro parts of his impending departure,
BANKRUPTCY COURT.
THE WORLD THEATRE'S DIVIDEND.
Sir Henry Gollan (the Chief Justice) sat in Bankruptcy jurisdiction on Satur day.
In regard to the affairs of the World Theatro, which came up for consideration, Mr. D. W. Tratman (the Official Receiver). said that it was an application-made urder instructions from H.E. the Gover- nor for postponement of declaration of the dividend, Strictly according to law,
conclusion of the agreement between the thusiastically farewelled by a large the subversive political activities in this adjournment was carried by a majority | Mr. Silas Strawn, the American delegato a dividend should have been declared
Russia Government, and the Germin banks are financing German business and trade with Russia.
The agreement provides that. Buda will pay approximately si per cent, on all credits.
DR. AMBROSE STANTON.
APPOINTED MEDICAL ADVISER TO COLONIAL OFFICE.
Loy003, June 25th. Dr. Ambrous Thomas Stanton has bean appointed Chief Medical Adviser to the Colonial Ofice.
crowd.
The Premier, in a statement to the Press, declared that the plot was organis- ed by a few persons on the pretext that they were deprived of liberty and a genuinely constitutional regime. He elaims that the immense majority of Spaniards wish the present régime and Government to continue, and demand severe measures against the unscrupulous persons seeking to disturb the country. The Governnient has decided on vigorous action against the culprits.
ANOTHER VERSION.
PARIA, June 20th.
Le Matin says that the insurrection in Spain in directed against General Prime
country of Soviet organisations' admitted. for purposes of trade, and is of opinion that the trade agreement with the Soviet Government ought to Le imminated by His Majesty's Government,"
VIGOROUS INDICTMENT. Commander Locker-Lampson, in the
[of one," although previous divisions on amendments showed a majority against the Government of two
The opinion is expressed that a General Election will soon be necessary to find a way out of the political impasse, and
to the Tariff Conference, stated that the long ago, but aa there were certoin pre- reports to that effect were unauthorised ferential daims concerned with loent and were without foundation. He did rates, which would dissolve all assets, not intend to leave until either he had there had been no declaration. accomplished the task for which his Gov- ernment had sent him to China or had
course of a vigorous indictment of Sobiet Probably with a Geneml Election in the exhausted every possibility of so doing.
ofing Canada may not send representa- tives to the Imperial Conference in
policy, said that Russia alone of our Allies had repudiated her debt of| October. 1
£200,000,000. She had als confiscuteil the property of every British merchant who was working in that country. She oved £250,000,000 to these unhappy peo ple. This money was coming back to us to subvert constitutional order through out the Empire. No opportunity seemed to have been lost by the Soviet to abuse its
RUSH TO EUROPE. 19,000 LEAVE UNITED STATES
OVER WEEK-END.
New York, Juno 20th. The summer rush to Europe reached its climax at the week-end with the
than 12,000 passengera
As regards the Washington Treaty surtaxes the Powers other than, China were in accord in regard to the major points, and agreements had been reached tentatively among the delegates. These agreements had not yet received the ap- proval of certain foreign Governments
At the anme time the political situation in China is such that there is no Chinese delegation with which the foreign dele
[Dr. Stanton, who is 51 years of age, ie Director of Government Laboratories In the Federated Malay States. Born in Canada. Dr. Stanton was for some time de Rivera, with whom the Junta's officers diplomatic rights and, under the clock departure of twelve liners, carrying more gates can bring the negotiations to a House Surgeon of the Hospital for Sick are most dissatisfied, owing to his rein- Children and General Hospital, Toronto.
of Iriendship, to stal us in the back.
THE TRADE AGREEMENT,
.!
conclusion.
Un various of the major points in tains with other countries are either valved the delegates several weeks ago friendly or correct.”
had reached so near approximation to agreement that he believed, had a Chinese If the mere question wore had the trade Government been in a position to pro agreement been kept he would answer Mr. Lloyd George; the Liberal leader, that it had not. The words of the traduceed with the negotiations of the Treaty, various problema might now have been A remi-official statement minimises the said that he intervened in the debate asgreement were clear, and he under-
kfood them to the effect that. each party dispared. plot, which it is declared is of a Com-having been responsible for the trade should refrain from any hostile action agreement which was conduded in 1931, munist mther than a Liberal character.
RUSSIAN TYNANNY, '
He later hecamió Senior House Surgeon.troduction of the method of promotion in There would be no Communist Party in Registrar and Demonstrator at the Lon the army by choice instead of seniority. Britain worth the name were it hat don School of Tropical Modicine. Hora The discontented officers have joined the suckled by Soviet shekels.. How long, he Craggs Research Prizeman in 1012. He then became Assistant at the Institute for political elements hostile to the Govern- asked, is this going to last? Medical Rosearch in the Federated Malayment. States and became Bacteriologist in 108. In 1015 he was engaged on special daty in Siam and Indo-China, and later to the Netherlands East Indies. He served with the Malay States Volunteer Rifles in the Rifles the Singapore Mutiny of 1015 author of many publications on medicine, dealing especially with tropical diseases)
BOMBAY TOO DRY. ONE OF THE MOST UNPLEASANT MONTHS IN 30 YEARS.
BOWAY, June 27th. After the rain of the 14th and 18th inst., the monsoon is only of the feeblest. In Bombay the month has been one of the most unpleasant in the last ten years. Under four inches of rain has fallen, compared with 2 last year. There has been no sign of the usual monsoon con- ditions.
BOMBAY SENSATION.
BANK ACCOUNTANT CHANGED WITH BREACH OF TRUST.
BOMBAY, June 25th.
Mr. L. Evans, accountant of the Bom-
bay brauch of the Hongkong and Shang. hai Banking Corporation, was stopped at Aden, when homeward bound on fur-
COMMUNIST PLOT.
MADRID, Later.
BRITISH TRADE,
CHANG MOVES.
The application was granted.
THE YAT WING BANK.
In the case of the Yat Wing Bank, Mr. D. McCallum asked for a further adjourn- ment, emphasising that 07 por cent, of the creditors were in favour of the scheine of composition in course of preparation. A creditor, who at the last hearing had objected to the proposed scheme, had now indicated his willingness to accept. There were only four creditors who had not signed."
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Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, representing the debtors, said that it was probable. that those particular creditors would later como inte line.
The Oficial Receiver favoured the ad- journment, and His Lordship made an order accordingly.
NOTICE IN THE "GAZETTE.” Mr. D. W. Tratmar, Oficial Receiver notifies in the Government Gazette that re Yuen Wo Hing frin, at Nos. 27 and 29, Tung Man Street (1st floors), and,
direct, against the interests of the British MANCHURIAN WAR LORD ARRIVES | Yuen Wo Hing timber yard, of Canton Empire, and the Republic, respectively. The agreement further stated that it un- dorstood that the term conducting officia! propagands included the giving by either party of assistance of encouragement to any propaganda, conducted outside the by Cheng Chien and Yu Kuo Kan, ar» whole borders.
IN PEKING.
PERINO, June 26th.. Marshal Chang Tso Lin, accompanied
It is perfectly clear to His Majesty's rived in Peking at five o'clock, this Government, and should be perfectly afternoon. clear to everybody, as it must be clear to the Soviet authorities, that they are not conforming to the definite engagement of a trade agreement. Suggestions hav been, mde that the Government should
or undertaking against the other and from conducting outside its own borders The officers involved neted individual. The question was not whether they ap any oficial propaganda, direct or in- 15, and none were on the active list.proved of the Russian Government, its Nevertheless, the arrests were made and principles, or its methods, but whether the accused will be tried by
competent they were going to cancel a trade agro- ment that brought trade to the extent tribunal.
of millions of pounds to this country When was there a Government in Russia] of which they could approve The pre- sent Government was terrible tyranny, GOVERNMENT TO ASSIST HOME t it was only one terrible tyranny
EXPORTERS.
which was an efficient substitute for terrible tyranny which was inefficient, corrupt, and treacherous. MENACE OF "LABDUR Referring to correspondence, between the British Communists and the Beyith organisations, which was published by the Government yesterday, Mr. Lloyd George said that it was argued that there was in the correspondence sufficient evidence for the breaking off of diple- matic relations with Russin ground that it was sending unlimited gold to overthrow our Constitution. But he pointed out that the complaint was made throughout this correspondence that the gold was very limited. And in
LONDON, Jume. 95th.
The Department of Overseas Trade is about to take an important step with a view to assisting British exporters to extend trade to Australia, Malaya, Ceylon and elsewhere, especially the heavy engineering trades, where Jong credit la demanded,
Mr. A. M. Samuel, announcing this at a luncheon at the Constitutional Club, said the Department would grant in
surance to British exporters to cover them against risk of loss by bad debts
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GOVERNMENT.
on the
enter into some new negotiations and that they should try to construct some newngreement."!
Road, contractors,
A first and funi dividend of $8.50 per cent. has been declared in the above. matter.
:
Notice is also given that the above mentioned dividend may be received at the Official Receiver's office, on July, 1226, between 10 am, and 4 p.m., and on apy subacquent day during office hours.
MARSHAL WU POSTPONES JOURNEY.
PERINO, June 27the Towards six this evening Police Hond.
Creditors applying for payment must quarters announced that a telephone produce any bills of exchange or ether message had been received from Chan-securities held by them, and must sign o haintien to the effect that Marshal Wu receipt in the prescribed form.
IN.B.:-The remainder of the message. was not received oving to bad atmos-Fei Fu's departure from there for Peking
had been postponed.
pheric conditions.}
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH BEATEN AND MURDERED.
LONDON, June 23th. British-Russian relations provided a lively debate in the House of Commons, which was attended by the Communist
lough, and was brought back and charged in the export market. Printed condi- Ramsay MacDonald Government. It was ing the debate, denounced the Bolshevists | with breach of trust and falsification of tions will be issued in a few days.
secounts in respect of 5-10,000 rupees. He was resanded..
THE FRENCH SITUATION,
DISSATISFACTION AT FRANCO- U.S. DEBT AGREEMENT.
"NEW BROOMS."
PARIS, June 20th The rise of M. Caillaux, who, it is understood, favours & revision of the Franco-American debt agreement, hna been followed by a newspaper campaign in the same sense.
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For example, L'Avenir declares that the French Chambers cannot possibly ratify the agreement and that fresh It is sug negotiations are necessary. gested that M. Clemenceau should be tent to Washington and London.
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The Erie de Parisuys that in its pro- sent form,the Mellan-Berenger Agree ment would crush Franco unless accom- panied by & safeguard clause.
H. CAILLAUX GEIR BUSY. ?
PARIS, June 25th.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]
THE "MODESTY STRIKE..
BANDSMEN OBJECT TO SECOND EXAMMATION.
AN URGENT DUTY.
All preparations had been made to reteive him in Peking to-day.
CHINESE TUGBOAT WRECKED,
this correspondence what was regarded | M.P., Mr. Saklatvala, who was released
sa menace to communists Not the from prison in the morning. He was ON HER WAY FROM HONGKONG Prime Minister or the members of the loudly cheered by the Labourites
TO MANILA. Government. The one danger, waa'a Commander Locker-Lampson, in initiat
MANILA, June 20th." stated that merciless mesures must bo for repudiating their debt and confiscat-
The Chinese tugboat Kamkai, was com- adopted to fight the Labour Party. Iting the property of British nationals, was for this that we were asked to throw many whom were imprisoned, beaten, pletely recked off Ilocos on the 23rd intt. away trade with Russia running into and murdered. He mentioned that one The crow of seven have been saved. £31,000,000 a year.
of them, whom the Bolshevisto had blind- ed, was sitting in the Gallory.
(The tug Kamkai, which left Hongkong Commander Locker-Lampson said: "won June 19th, with Captain Finn Malm Commander Hilton Young (Conservamust conse to make of free-born Britons in command, became a total wreck off the tive) said that the Government bad anhelats of a slave State. (Prolonged Con- Manila. Captain Finn Mulm was taking Philippine coast to the north-west of NEW YORK, June 25th. urgent duty to the people of this coun-
servative cheers.) try to protect it against the corrupt in- The so-called "Modesty Striko" against fluence of foreign gold and secret agents, "physical "'examination on the pier They could keep out corrupt gold and in addition to the usual medical exami-secret agents, but they could not keep aut opinion. That being so, it would be a nation at the quarantine station has great mistake to break off direct re- spread to the Cunard liner lauretania,lations with the Government of Russia. whose bandsmen have decided to remain on board in preference to undergoing a second examination.
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"STRIKERS' Y/CLD,
COMMON SENSE NEEDED.
* LABOUR APPEAL..
....
Mr. A. W. Ponsonby (Labour) de nounced the langage used by the Earl of Birkenhead and Mr. Winston Churchill in recent anti-Russian speeches. He ap- pealed to Sir Austen Chamberlain to try to renew friendly, British-Russian re lations
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LIBERAL VIEW.
Mr. Lloyd Georgs contended that the disapproval of Bolshevism was no reason for breaking off diplomatic relations or cancelling the British-Russian trade agreement.
BUSY PICKETS.
CHINESE WOUNDED IN SAMPAN. BROUGHT TO HONGKONG.
A Chinese, who was wounded in the leg by pickets, whilst in a sampan in the Canton river on Friday night, was brought to Hongkong on Saturday by the a.. Fatshen, and removed to the.
Government Civil Hospital.
The Chinese was making his way to tho Fatshan, which was lying in the stream. He was challenged by the pickets who fired over 100 rounds at the boat. The man then dived into the river, and the the tug over to her purchasers, tho pickets retreated. He was later picked Negros Philippine Lumber Company, of Manila, and he has sent word to Hong-up and taken aboard the Fatshan. kong that all hands have been saved. No further details regarding the catas trophs are available.]
PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS,
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour leader, said: "If there is going to be propaganda by the Russian or any other Government conducted in this country
PROPOSED AMERICAN LEAGUE with its money and by ita agents, then,
OF NATIONS. › this country has no business, to allow it. NEW YORK, June 26th.
[KEUTER'S AMERICAS GERVICE.] The Mauretania Orchestra yielded But in protecting ourselves we must use
common sense. The trade agreement is Commander Hilton Young (Conserva- when the Cunard officials threatened to in operation and we cannot now remove Live) expressed the opinion that it would
PANAMA, June 25th. it If we break the agreement the be a very great mistake to break off rela- discharge them at Southampton.
The Pan-American Congress comme- Russian Government will undoubtedly dotions with Russia
Sir F. Nelson, who was a member of [French seamen were the first to protest its best to increase its hostility toward against the innovation of a second ex-un. If there are breaches in the trade the party. of Conservatives who recently morating the centenary of the first Can- amination on entering New York, and agreement they should be handled in the visited Russia, strongly opposed break-gress of American Nations called in 1820 subsequently British senen' threatened ordinary diplomatic way."
ing off relations and closing up the trade by Simon Bolivar, has passed a resolu- delegation. to take action through their Unions.
TWO DISTINCT QUESTIONS.
Mr. Ramany MacDonald appealed for tion in favour of the creation of an Replying to a nuiser of questions in the
Sir Austen Chamberlain, in replying, House of Commons, on June 18th, Sir
American League of Nations and paying Auston Chamberlain said that the examni-mid that two questions vere raised: Had an extension of the trade agreement.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, in replying nation of seamen nt. New York was held His Majesty's Government and this under the United Statca Tinmigration country good reasons to complain of the to the debate, unhesitatingly declared tribute to the part played by Britain in that the Government was entitled to com-the wors of independence of the South- Early indications of M. Cailloux's regulations of 10% and he did not connetion of the Soviet authorities in plain of Soviet actions, but he consider-1
American nations. intentions to seek new brooms are given Bider that any useful purpose would be Itussia; and, secondly, if they had such ed that it would not be wise to break off
reasons to complain, would it be wito served by making representations, al
ment. He believed that the breaking off in a draft decree replacing M. Robinenu though the cases mentioned were rather for them to show their indignation or relations or to terminate the trade agree- un exception to the usual practice. He resentiment by breaking off all diplomatic of the existing relations would be useless. as Governor of the Banque de Franco brdn of that the Labourite suggestion relations and terminating the trade M. Moreau, who is at present Director of of retaliatory measures was hardly con- agreement? The two questions were
lucive to friendly, relations between distinct.
I should answer the first question, un- the Banque d'Algerle
Great Britain and America.)
hesitatingly in the affirmative. I should answer the second question in the nega tive not because I think the Soviet Gov. qrnment has a right to ask anything of ward us, Eut because I do not think that British interests or the interests of world pence would be served by breaking off ro At least 100 fatalitics have been caused lations with them. The Soviet Govern by floods in the town of Villadeleon ment is something standing in a class by It is feared that there may be 1,000 itself. It resembles the Government of persone-a quarter of the population--no other country. It is not easy to main- tain relations with it. It is impossible destitute and homeless.
The damage is estimated at four mil to say that the relations which it main
(Continued on next Column), lion pesos
FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.
FLOODS IN MEXICO.
ALAN COBHAM TO LEAVE LONDON THOUSAND HOMELESS: A HUN-as, having regard to their attitude to
ON TUESDAY.
After eight weeks preparation, Alan Cobham loaves Londen on the gath inst., to fly to Australia and back in the same seaplane in which he flew to South Africa.
and back."
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The route he will take is via Athens, Alexandretta, Baghdad, Rangoon, Timor, Port Darwin 'und MelbourDA.
DRED FATALITIES.
MEXICO CITY, June 26th.
It would weaken our ability to fight
GERMAN BONDS.
New Yox, June 20th. disorder or revolution within our own gold bonds on behalf of the United Steel The issue of 830,000,000 (01-per cent.) borders and increase the fear of Euro-Works, Germany, redeemable in 25 years,
can instability. Referring to the money has been offered and oversubscribed. sent from Russia, he eaid that the Saviet Government could not have found a tha among the worker of Great. worse field to invest money in revolution, Britain. fusela
BITTING BUSPENDED.
At the Kowloon Magistracy on Satur- ny, the three French sailors, charged with possession of 18 kutomatic pistola At the conclusion of Sir Austen Cham- and several thousand rounds of ammuni- berlain's speech the Labourites crentedtion, which were found on board the disorder by objesting to the Deputy French liner Andre Lebon, from Mar Speaker calling on another Government seilles and Saigon last week, again ap member instead of.a Labourite,
peared on remand befors Mr. J. H.-B. After a scene that lasted five minutes Nihill. They wore again remanded, his the sitting was suspended, whereupon Worship xing Wednesday afternoon as the day's business terminated.
the date lor bearing the case.
On Thursday night, three boats laden with vegetables and fish for Hongkong, were caught by pickets in the Canton river. The crows managed to escape by clambering over into a craft noar at hand.
FORTHCOMING. BAZAAR. - ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE FETE, ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME
ARRANGED.
A bazaar and garden fate,' under the auspices of St. Stephen's College, will be held at the University on Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday next, from 2.30 pm, until 11 p.m. each day..
Students of the different forms will pre side at the various stalls, and outdoor
children. amusements will be provided for the
On Friday at 630 p.m. there will "ba (as already announced in these columns) an exhibition tennis match between B. A and H. D. Rumjahn (Doubles Champions). and Ng Szo Kwong and Ng Sze Cheung
H.E the Governor will officially open the bazaar on Thursday at 310 p.m.
There is no rice famine in Shaughni, says the N- Daily News to hand. The present high price of Kiangau rice is due to a trade trick, which is about to be exposed aid the corner on rice wiped out. Chinese estimates are that there are 600,000 piculs of Saigon rice in Shanghai at this moment and that 200,000 picula are on their way bore. There are only about 50,000 piculs of Kiangsu rice here,. which fa short-rations, and there is little prospect of large ifcrenses. The normal consumption of rice is about 300,000. picule a month,