STATE OF AFFAIRS
IN CHINA...
NORTH VIGOROUSLY PREPARING FOR A BIG STRUGGLE,
PERING, December 26th. The alismissal of Cheng Chien from the pest of chief of the Political Bureau of the Ankuochun is confirmed but reliable circles deny that Yang Yu Ting has dis- missed his ex-chief from the advisorship, It is now stated that Yu Ting urged the adoption of our of two courses,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 30TH. 1928,
BRITISH IMPERIAL AIR ITALY AND GERMANY.
ENGLAND'S IRON AND
STEEL TRADES.
MORE ORDERS NOW IN HAND
THAN SINCE 1920.
MUCH BRIGHTER PROSPECTS.
FANITION WIRELESS SERVICn.]
RUGBY, December 9th. The heavy iron and steel trudes aro reported to have more orders in hand than at any time since 1920. and at the
BEAM WIRELESS.
SERVICE ALMOST AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC.
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A WONDER OF THE AGE.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] '
Rucar, December 29th.. Telegraphic messages by beam wireless aro being exchanged experimentally be Australia, and the service will be afli tween beam stations in England and cially tested next week by the Post Office.
SERVICE.
AIR MINISTER LEAVES NAPLES FOR TRIPOLI.
{BRITISH WIRKEMÄ SERVICE)
Ruasy, December 29th. Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Air Minister and his party, who arrived at Naples yesterday in an aeroplane de India, is due to reach Malta to-day and signed for the new Empire route to
will proceed early to-morrow to Hoens
Arstly, a compromise with the KuominTeen-side works, where only four blast As anticipated 'beam will then be avail. / on the Tripoli Coast
tang and the abandonment of the car.
paign or, failing that, the most rigorous prosecution of the campaign both against the Kueminchun and against the Kuo- mintang.
The latter course is being adoptal and, evidently, preparations are rapidly going en for a struggle on a very large scale.
French Government's Attitude on Britain's Memorandum.
PARIS, December 28th
M. Briand has made a statement to the Cabinet on foreign affairs particularly on the position in "China.
furnaces were worked during the coal stoppage, twenty-six are now operating The steel works in Middlesborough, which have been closed for three years. have resumed operations and in other areas a revival has also set in. Two Barrow blast furnices
were relighted yesterday for the first time since the
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.1
able to the public almost immediately. Simultaneously, with the beam service DISHONEST COURT OFFICIAL. between Australia and Vancouver, will be opened a further link in the Empire: chain between Canada and Britain being already in eommission.
In February, communication by beam wireless between Britain and South
CHAPMAN SENTENCED IN SHANGHAI,
LA
the
SRASORU, December 29th. William Alden Chapman made impassioned plea for leniency in United States Court this morning when he pleaded guilty to a charge of
IMPORTANT TREATY CONCLUDED.
(THROUGH REUTER'B' AGENCY.]
LONDON, December 99th.
An Italo-German "Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration has been conchided, 'and will be signed to-day.
policy.
MIGHTY CRICKET
SCORES.
WHAT CAN BE DONE IN AUSTRALIA WITH THE WILLOW,
THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY ]
MELBOURNE, December 29th.
In the Sheffield Shield antch Victoria
It is regarded as one of the most im-won' by an innings and 636 runs New portant developments in Italian, foreign South Wales scored 221 and 250 to which Victoria replied with 1.007, a world's record aggregate score in cricket...
The innings lasted for 635 minutes. Woodfull scored
133, Ponsford 33 Hendry 1d Ryder 995.
THE CONVALESCENCE OF BRITISH INDUSTRY.
SIR JOHN HUNTER'S WARNING,
Sir John Hunter, managing director and chairman of Sir William Arrel & Co., recently issued a statement to the Press giving bis views on the industrial outlook. "As an employer engaged on the manufacturing side of industry," he states. I view with anxiety the im
first-class
*
NEW ERA IN BOXING.
END OF THE CROUCHER RETURN OF THE TRUE ENGLISH STYLE.
stoppage, and in Cleveland five more Africa will be publicly operated and embezzling 815,000 (Gold) during his mediate future as it may affect the into boxing by disregarding what in his
blast furnaces and two more steel works have been restarted. It is anticipated that the steel producing capacity of the Cleveland district, exceeding one million
India are approaching completion. arrangements for a similar service with
The Post Office requirement in each ease is that the service should carry 105
term as Clark of the United States Court
in China. He was sentenced to three years and five months' imprisonment on MacNeils' Island, Washington.
tons annually, will be fully taken dur-letter words per minute during sever from Shanghai last July and there ant ing the coming year.
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THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF. YORK.
According to authoritative information, France is awaiting additional information from its diplomatic agents in China before deciding her actitude. Furthermore a decision has not yet been reached regard- ing the British Memorandum, but it is
Ruoat, December 29th.. The Duke and Duchess of York return- semi-oficially stated that French policyed to London yesterday from Sandring in the East will continue to
ham where, with other members of the be most Royal Family, they have spent Christ- liberal
A with the King and Queen. They tions for their visit to New Zealand and are now engaged in the final prepara Australia. The battleship Renown, by which they will travel, leaves Portsmouth fo-morrow week proceeding rif Panama Canal to New Zealand and thence to Australia.
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Cabinet Approve of M. Briand's View.
PARIS, December 29th."
The Cabinet has approved of H Briand's views as to the attitude which France should take towards China
It is understood that the Government does not intend to depart from their atitude of observation and the expecta- tion which it had adopted since the out- set of the Chinese conflict.
FAMOUS ENGLISH AVIATOR'S
AMBITIOUS PROJECT."
WHAT CAPTAIN COURTNEY INTENDS TO DO.
It is semi-ocially stated that France does not consider necessary the joint THE ANTIPODES IN SEVEN DAYS! declaration proposed by Great Britai
REGBY, December 28th. and is alsg of the opinion that it is in-
Captain Courtney, the well-known air advisable to discuss the rights of foreign-ambitious long-distance flight yet con- pilot, is elaborating plans for the most ers over the beads of opporing Chinese ceived-nn aerial voyage from this coun- Governments
try to New Zealand by a dying, boat in about seven days.
The Freach Government also considers it wiser to wait until negotiations can be entered by really representative Chi- nese authorities.
Ile intends to fy day and night over long stages of about 1,500 miles each, stopping only long enough at the end of each stage to re-fuel.
hours daily..
[THLOVOX BEUTER'S AGENCY, ]
U.S. AND NICARAGUA.
HAS AMERICA BLUNDERED? STRUGGLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES.
It will be remembered that Chapman was arrested on his arrival at Seattle being any extradition laws whereby he might be returned to Chine within this jurisdiction, he was about to be returned under the Federal laws of the United States. Appeals against this were enter ed and were pending when Chapman, following the advice of Major, Holcomb, who represented him, returned to Shang The case aroused the greatest interest LONDON, December 25th..
locally as Chapman was at one time" one The Times Washington correspondent of the most popular members of the says that the Central and South Ameri-American community in Shanghai. can representatives at Washington, con- sider the United States, guilty of a blunder of the first magnitude when it permitted Marines to be landed at Puerto Cabezas, ostensibly to establishi a neutral zone for the protection of American lives and property but really in order to destroy Sacasa's Literal
Government.:
INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS.
THE SWARAJIST PROGRAMME
ADOPTED.
GATHATI, Assam. December 29th. The Indian National Congress has endorsed the Swarajist programme by a non-acceptance of Government offices, the large majority. The policy involves the refusal of supplies and the rejection of the, Budget.
country."
as the pugilist who brought a new style: J. J. Jeffries will always be remembered Staple industries of Clydeside and of the time was known as the English method, and by developing and employing the These, industries, he continues, have crouch, writes Trevor C. Wignall in the just passed through a ruinous period of Daily Mail. When Jeffries was at his inactivity, or partial inactivity, in which most ferocious he was doubled up to such together their staffs and a nucleus of the floor. He cultivated this ugly style: workshops have just been able to keep an extent that his gloves almost swept their key-ren Shipyards, engineering simply and solely to circumvent the shops, and bridge shops, just at a mo famous solar-plexus blow used by Fitz- ment when there seemed to be a chance simmons. It has been the style of every of emergence from the extreme depres-heavy-weight champion since; but at rion obtaining during the last four years, Philadelphia last September it received suddenly had their main supplies of raw sich a set-back that it is hardly exaggera materials cut off and had to rely on tion to say that it is now in its grave. stocks, and where conditions of their! eontracts permitted, on rather limited and indefinite deliveries of Continental materials.
Cheap Coal Essential. The position now facing manufacturing concerns he considers serious. With con tracts in band taken at prices at cost or below cost levels, they find themselves confronted with increased losses accrued over the last six months, and the pros- pect of continuing high power charges, of increased local rating and, unless a long view of the position is taken, of The quick return of the price of coal increased costs of their raw materiala to, at least, pre-strike level is an ab- solute necessity, in order to bring into DRUG SMUGGLING FROM CHINA. go to make up the cost of stee!..
line the cost of the other elements which
Guatemala and Costa Rica to mediate gaining, rejected attempts by between him and Diaz, whose Presidency is recognised by the United States. It is now likely that Mexico, which re cognised Sacasa, will endeavour secure the election in Honduras of a Government hostile to Diaz.
There is not the least question in the mind of anyone understanding the posi- sinn, that the landing was intended to hit the Alexican Government by ricochet. Sacasa, feeling that his cause
WAS
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.} Bacasa's Government Protestz.
to
SENSATIONAL CASE IN
VANCOUVER.
The man who interred it was J. J. Tunney and he accomplished this by standing straight up on his feet, by using a straight left, and by scoring practical is every point against a croucher, much the same as that of Jefries. Dempsey, whose system of fighting war
And
I think at this moment that Dempsey is the last croucher we shall see. He re presents the last of his line, for a new era has set in, which means a return to the typical English style which was in- troduced more than 200 years ago, this, I fancy, is one of the most remark- able things that has ever happened to really new, so it has gone back to its boxing. It could not produce anything origin.
Bombardier Wells's Style.
How long Tunney will retain his title is purely a matter of opinion, but the fnet to remember is that he is as English for that matter, are the five men who are in method as was Bombardie: Wells. So, so diligently challenging him
Warning Against “Boom" Talk, It cannot be emphasized sufficiently, he declares, that the "boom" talk, apart Sensational revelations of the manner from its tendency to promote a vague
Top of the list is Jack Delaney, the in which narcotic drugs are dropped confidence is outside serious considera- from Pacific liners nearing the British tion. Britain can
present light heavy-weight champion of never have a real the world. In the, matter of sheer box- Columbia coast, when completing voyages "bootn," or, what is better, a return to
ing, and in the further, matter of stand- from China and Japan, were recently sound trade, until the outlets for ex unfolded in the Police Court, says the ports in our staple industries are re-
ing bolt upright, he is the late Jim Vancouver correspondent of the North established and strengthened. It will Driscoll all over again. I do not sup WASHINGTON, December 29th. An envoy of the Sacasa Liberal Gov-agent for the Customs department, des Present situation is not handled with the but if he does meet Tunney, especial y China Daily News. B. Partlow, a secret certainly never be within sight if the there has ever been a heavy-weight with a prettier or more correct style," The machine to be used for the flight, ernment has been sent to
the United cribed how for weeks he had worked as erasest consideration and prescience by if the contest is staged in New York, would be probably a large twin-engine States State Department formally to British flying-boat built to carry a heavy protest against the operations of the story came out in the trial of Frank be nursed back to convalescence, and a member of an active gang. Partlow's all parties concerned. Industry has to
there is every passibility that both men load with a cruising speed of between American forces on Nicaraguan soil, and Marine and five other accused men, in this is the immediate business of all con-
will be boped out of the ring for doing. 50 and 100 miles per hour. On some accusing Admiral Latimer of establish- cluding three Chinese, all charged with ccrued..
too much spectacular boxing and for days, Courtney hopes to do not merely ing
Exploitation of a section of failing to create the thrills that the censorship in violation of interua, smuggling drugs into Canada.
industry for its own immediate beneût average follower of pugilism in America 1,500 miles stage, but perbapa a stage tional law.
Partlow, by cunning work, got a job will be undertaken at the expense of the looks upon as his right. Both the State and the Navy Depart running a boat for the drug ring, and other sections, who, as things stand, cats- ments deny, knowledge of a censorship. he told how plans were made for the not pass on their burdens. It will there. It is thought unlikely that the protest Grst trip from Seattle to Victoria to fore, endanger the whole structure and will be answered, as the United States "bring in a load." Partlow and an involve the exploiter in its ruin, does not recognise Sacasa's Government, other man proceeded to Victoria. There,
It is declared at the White House that the United States' only object is the structions where to find a "load" which protection of American life and property,
It is added that France will always participate in measures to facilitate the. evolution of China but intends to abstain from all interference in the domestica policy. of China. Until the conflict and a half.
settled, the recognition of the Canton Government 25 the independent of Government of Peking would sanction the secession of a State of Chica and disturb both the South and the North, as each would strive for control of the whole of China in violation of Chinese unity, and have a deep and lasting effect on the whole Chinese nation, as the latter is fondamentally attached to re-. spect its political unity..
LATER
BRITISH WIRELESS.
WORLD-WIDE "TRIBUTES.
Reasy, December 9th. "High praise for Post Office wireless engineers for their work at the Rugby high-power radio station,, appears in the second report of the Wireless Telegraphy
Commission.
Further Details.
a third man in the ring gave them in-
GOLDEN STATUES IN TUTAN- KHAMEN TOMB...
JEWELLED BOATS.
·
Work which is now proceeding at chambers of the tomb of Tutankhamen, Luxor in the two hitherto unexplored load" which proved to who ruled as Pharaoh about 1400 B.C.
his revealed an entirely unsuspected royal sarcophagua lay. crypt under the chamber in which the
Roula Marked on Shark.
had been dropped by a confederate from one of the Empress liners. They drag- LATER,ged the location given, but failed to find their success in
The Liberal forces have followed up they hired a rowing boat and the bundle the drugs. Next morning, witness said, a recent battle by an- Among report of testings from all over
nihilating the Government's rearguard was found. Leaving the bundle tied to the world, the South Atlantic, Pretoria, It is stated that the Liberals cat-num- boom of legs, Partlow and his com- Jath, the Dutch East Indies and New 1,500. Moreover, the latter ran short of entered their launch, Cr. their way they Suez, Australia, Nantucket, Hong Kong, bered the Conservatives, who totalled panion returned the rowing boat and York pay tribute to the clearness of Ammunition and their machine guns picked up the Rugby's signals. Sydney reported that were no match for their opponents' light. sack of opium in tins, and beached The newspapers approve of the wait Rugby was the only high-power European who retreated to E: Bluff were disarm Partlow took the drugs to him home. artillery. Six hundred Conservatives, the boat at Kitsilano Beach, Vancouver. ing, unbiassed attitude adopted by the A good strength and note remained con station readable through atmospherics.
ed by the United States Naval men, as Arrests followed quickly, French Government in the Sino affaire,stant throughout.
Admiral Latimer declared that place-n.
The crypt leads away down to depth which have not yet been explored, and emphasize that the French policy there been worked only on an eight mast aerial
The telegraph installation has so far neutral zone
In Washington the situation in Nicara- occasion the Chinese leader of the ring is unknown. The care with which the It was also disclosed that on another consequently the purpose of the chamber anent remains consistent with liberal with two-thirds of the power. The Sua a receiving earnest attention, all
station has accommodation for sixteen parties being aroused in the warmest Empress from Victoris to Vancouver by the fact that three season's work fail
had marked on a chart the route of the entrance was secreted-which is shown. traditions, observe sympathically on
controversies in view of what is, ex-' China's progressive evolution and state.
and the place where the load was to ed to reveal it and the almost immovable On a small section of the aerial, with pressed in Radical quarters, which sug- that France will not throw obstacles in
an experimental telephony transmitter, Bests that it is a struggle between illiter-brought inch liners from China and an examination will in due course be be dropped. This indicate that drugs weight of the stone above it suggest that a good reliable two-way conversation
ate Indians and Negroes, filled with the way of the Chinese liberties as to across the Atlantic to New York has been hopes by the Calles regime of Mexico, Japan were dropped at points far apart accompanied by discoveries of the first
on the ship's course of 80 miles from importance. who are endeavouring to overthrow the Victoria to Vancouver, making discovery time and reform.
obtained repeatedly. for many hours of the day. Experiments will shortly be aristocracy, largely of Spanish descent, by police and Customs difficult.
Work proceeds meanwhile in the two made on a main telegraph transmitter in the west coast towns
other chambers, and thirty golden and a Trans-Atlantic telephony trans-
statuettes, each standing within its own. mitter to determine whether simultane
case with folding doors, which are over. stallations are contemplated, namely ous operation is feasible." Farther in-
laid with gold leaf, have been discovered. Other finds include a quantity of royal short wave plant and a medium wave
robes and sacred boats, similarly cover 'plant.
ed with gold leaf and ornamented with precious stones. A figure of the Pharaoh surmounts each prow."
P
NO CASH: NO SERVICE.
CABLE COMPANIES AND CHINESE TELEGRAPH ADMINISTRATION.
SEANGHAI, December 29th. The Foreign Cable Companies issued the following today" As on two pre- vious occasions the Foreign Cable Com panies the Great Northern, Eastern
Extension and Commercial Pacific have, owing to the Chinese Telegraph Adminis tration having failed to settle their daily accounts, as arranged, again been re- luctantly compelled as from 5 pm on December 28th, to refuse to accept from the Administration telegrams other than Government telegrama, aless accom- panied by cash.
Hitherto, the Administration has failed to comply with the Companies' request for cash payments and telegrams for all the inland places vid Shanghai have been withheld by the Administration since the above-mentioned hour. The Corppanies, whilst regretting any inconvenience which may be caused by this measure again feel sure that the public will agree that, in the circumstances they have no alternative but to insist on cash pay
meats,"
masta.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
TRANS-ATLANTIC TELEPHONY. £15 FOR A THREE MINUTE,
CONVERSATION.
£5 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL MINUTE.
LONDON, December 28th. In view of the satisfactory progress made with the experimental development
On the contrary, Senator Borah is of opinion that a large part of the revolu tion has been instigated and directed by, Washington business interests. Meantime the State Department is deter Hence trouble is brewing in the Senate. mined to hold Sacasa in check as spokesman..
THEATRE, IN HOTEL. DANCING, CABARET AND STAGE SHOW.
The first English "theatre hotel" has arrived.
Sharkey, the conqueror of the Negro Harry Wills. He is a Lithuanian and his name is Josef Paul Cacoskey. Al though he favours left hooks much more" than he does straight punches, he too is a graduate of the new-old school. He stands erect, completely eliminates the wearing and bobbing and ducking that every man from Jeffries to Dempsey ein- played, and scores his victoria by fight ing as Jem Mace did years before he was born.
The second nas on the list is Jack)
Picturesque Personality. zonality-Monte Mona,
The third is rather a picturesque per- Nebraska. Until very recently he was a giant from politician, and he is still called "Senator." I watched him in his fight immediately before the Tunney.Dempsey. affair and it struck me that if ever L man was fated to become a boxer that immensely shouldered, and phenomenal- man was. Muna. He is immensely tall,
when he drives in his terrific punches, ly, strong. But he is an erect as a rod while his fighting generally is that of a youth by the strictest and most tradition- person who has been tutored from his ridden of English trainers.
Then there are Henry Persson, the American partner of Jack Dempsey at Swede, and Tommy Loughran, the Irish- Atlantic City
NO TROTSKY IN LONDON.
from Bioecow, says the Daily Mail, that Vague rumours bare reached Eagland the most notorious of the Bolsheviks, Trotsky, may be sent to London a few weeks bence to represent the Soviet.. These reparte must rot be dismissed as entirely without foundation. Their ob
The White House asserted that when- Croydon Town Council have granted ever conditions like those in Nicaragua to the Greyhound Hotel, Croydon," a were going on it meant trouble for licence to stage theatrical plays. This United States citizens' property, with is the first such licence granted in Great MOTHER AT THE ALTAR WITH ject, no doubt, is to ascertain if Trotsky. the result that the United States gener-Britain.
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ally found it necessary to take action The theatre, which is equipped with a but the United States Lover takes proper stage and orchestra accommoda- sides."
tion, will est 1,000 people [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Marble steps lead down from the pre London Liberal Paper's Comment, stage, on each side of which are built in seat restaurant, to the dance floor and
LONDON, December 29th recesses. The Daily News, commenting on the United States action in Nicaragua, watch a cabaret, or see a full theatrical Diners will thus be able to dance and declares that the proceedings are general production, all under the same roof. of Trans-Atlantic telephony, the Poatly accepted throughout the United States Office announces the opening of a pre and Latin America as an attempt to hit dad many other beautiful colours are Wonderful lighting effects in red, bine, liminary Anglo-American public service the Mexican Government by destroying given by a in January, at a charge of £15' for a Mexican influence, in the Caribbean.
12cwt. indirect, lighting three-minute conversation and 23 for
lamp," the only one of its kind. The every additional minute:
The paper does not believe that Ameri- powerful rays are so arranged that they The announcement draws attention to or the intention to make war on Mexico,
can statesmanship has either the desire do not harm the eyes. the possibility that atmospheric con- but is of opinion that there is confusion ditions will sometimes prevent effective and a certain lack of candour about conversation and an silowance will be American policy towards Mexico which made therefor in the charging"
might easily drift into a war policy. of good ale.
expected to entertain his guests with a "Mine host" of the future will now be cabaret show or musical comedy, in addi- tion to the supply of roast beef and a pot
"HER SON,
in
Mother and as were principals Haywards Heath parish church. a recent double wedding ceremony at
Inn, Haywards Heath, was married to Mra Barnes, a widow, of the New
her son, Mr. P. W. Barnes, married Miss Mr. E. A Richardson, of Lewes, and Margaret Jackson, of Horsham.
Bell, vicar of Haywards Heath.. wedding," said the Rev. Prebendary "I cannot remember a similar double
A confiscation order was made at the pect of a revolver found behind the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday in res temple at Tak Mun, where the third prisoner in the recent Buiking piracy trial was arrested in a pigsty.
will be acceptable, and to. prepare the way for his coming.
No time should therefore be lost in letting Moscow know that in no circum stances would Trotsky be tolerated as Soviet emissary in London. He is stain- ed with the blood of hundreds of thou- sands of human beings, since more than. the hideous policy of terrorism in Russia, any living Bolshevik he is identified with and he has, indeed, written a book in which he brazenly defends it
In view of the behaviour of the Moscow. Government and its treacherous breaches of the trade agreement of 1921, the wisest course for the British Government would remain vacant and no other Bolshevist be to insist that Krassin's plice shall
from the Reds is to encourage them. représentative be sent here. To run away. Their exclusion from London would be blow that would have immediate effect throughout the world.