DR. C. C. WU'S DECLARATION
REGARDING TREATIES.
4.
"TO BE ABROGATED WITHIN THE SHORTEST
POSSIBLE TIME.”
KUOMINTANG LEADERS HOLD PRELIMINARY
MEETING IN SHANGHAL
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 1927.
MARSHAL CHIANG KAI SHEK ELECTED CHAIRMAN.
い
PEKING GOVERNMENT AND JAPANESE
MINISTER TO DISCUSS
MANCHURIAN AFFAIRS.
Dr. C. U Wu, Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Nation- alist Government, has issued a “declaration" with reference to treaties between China and "Foreign Governments, Corporations and Individuals.”
The local vernacular Press reports that the Japanese Minister at Peking is about to negotiate with the Peking Government with reference to Manchuria's "problems."
The Kuomintang leaders who have been gradually assembling in Shanghai Native City began their preliminary meeting or session yesterday. Mr. Wang Ching Wei was present and it was decided that Marshal Chiang Kai Shok should act as chairman.
·NATIONALIST GOVERN.
MENT, AND TREATIES.
(THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY,]'
SHANGHAI, November 23rd,
Dr. C. C. Wit, the Nationalist Foreign Minister, has issued the following declaration (—
NATIONALIST ARMY'S
CLAIM.
COMBINED ADVANCE
NORTHWARD.
(CALODGE RECTAʼS IGÉNOY.)
SHANGHAI, Nov, 24th. General Ho Ying Ching claims the Nanking troops have
"Firstly, as there is no reason for the existence of unequal that Treaties and Agreements between
former Chinese Governments and passed Suchowan. and captured Governments, corporations or in-Yungcheng. Chiakow; Fulitai, and dividuals of foreign states, they shall be abrogated within the also Sutsien on the Grand Canal. shortest possible period.
The forces of Marshal Feng Yu
"Secondly, those Treaties and Hsiang are advancing on Han- Agreements whose term has exchwang and Yenchowfu, in Shan pired have, as a matter, of course, i becomes null and void.
"Thirdly, any Treaty or Agree ment purporting to be made by any Chinese authorities with any foreign Government, corporation or individual without the parti cipation or sanction of the Nationalist Government has not validity whatsoever,,
"Fourthly, no Treaty or Agree ment relating to China and to which the Nationalist Government is not a party shall be deerbed binding of China,"
JAPAN AND MANCHURIA.
(Wah To Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Nor, ·94th. News has leaked out that Mr. Yoshizawa has received instructions from the Tokyo Government to negotiate the Manchurian railway problem with the Peking Govern. ment, the solution of which wil form a basis for the settlement of all outstanding problems in connec- tion with Mongolia and Manchuria Pis-a-vis Japan.
Through a big loan from Ameri- ean bankers to Japanese, financiers, the Japanese, Government will authorise the flotation of a public
ting, and have already captured | Taining and Tangshan while the occupation of Pochow, north-west of Anhwei, has enabled the armies under Ho Ying Ching to link up with those under Feng Yu Hsiang, for the purpose of a combined offensive against Huschowiu,
What Peking Reports.
On the contrary, "Peking reports that Feng Yu Hsiang is withdraw-
ing from Lunghai, across the Yel
PEKING GOVERN- MENT AND RADIO.
"NOTICE." TO THE RADIO
CONFERENCE.
CHINA'S SOVEREIGN
RIGHT'S.
(THROUGE ZJUTER'S ADENCY.)
WASHINGTON, November 24th. '
At, the Radio Conference the delegate of the Peking Government served a notice to the effect that the Chinese Government will not, with- out its expressed consent, recognise the right of any foreign power or its nationals to inatal or operate any Radio Station in any part of China's territory.
This applies to any station erect-
THE NEW YORK STOCK_MARKET.
RECORD SALES.
ENORMOUS MEMBERSHIP
PRICE.
{REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVÍCH.]
MEXICO'S QUICK METHODS.
SUMMARY COURT MARTIAL.
** IMMEDIATE" CARRYING OUT OF SENTENCE.
{REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 24th. New York, November 24th.
A summary Court Martial has The Industrial Stock Market has been ordered in connection with the reached a record high level while shooting of a Roman Catholic priest the total sales have exceeded 3,000,000 shares for the second time in connection with the attempt to and his brother and of two others this year and the fifth time in its
assassinate Obregon. The sentence history.
will be carried out immediate's.
INDIAN COMMISSIÓN APPROVED.
The sale of a membership of the
Stock Exchange has been arranged at the record price of G.$300,000 and a seat on the Curb " Market
G$40,000. has changed hands að
ed in the Legation Grounds, Settle AUSTRALIA'S WATERSIDE
ments Concessions or Leased Ter- ritory.
The notice declares that nothing said or done at the Conference or included in the final convention can modify the Chinese position ax China is sovereign in her own
*ter- ritory, whether it is temporarily alienated or not,
EX-BRITISH HANKOW
CONCESSION;
MR. LOOKER, M.P., ASKS QUESTIONS.
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENOT.)
DISPUTE.
POSITION GETTING WORSE.
01
SHIPPING AFFECTED.
(KKUTER'S AMERICAN VERFICE.)
MELBOURNE, Nov. 24th. The Joint Conference of Oversea and Inter-State shipowners, which has considered the waterside work- ers overtime strike, has decided henceforth to insist upon full öb servance of all awards, and agrée- ments with the Waterside Workers' Federation.
The latter declare that the deci sion is tantamount to a challenge,
prolonged which will make a struggle inevitable." "
LONDON, Nov. 23rd. In the House of Commons, Mr. should be taken to establish an H. W. Looker suggested that steps
The position on the waterfront here is gradually worsening and effective municipal administration in the late British Concession at the movements of vessels becoming Hankow, in trust for all interests increasingly interrupted. voncerned, until conditions per- mitted full effect being given to the. Chen-O'Malley Agreement.
CANBERRA, "NOV. 24th. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Bruce, the "Premier said that the Government. Chamberlain said
would d do their that the course suggested would best to protect the primary pro-
Sir Austen
ANGRY SCENES IN
THE COMMONS.
ROWDY LABOUR MEMBERS.
FOUR SUSPENDED.
UNPARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE.
FIRST LORD" AND
LIMITATION.
BRITISH NAVAL POLICY,
THE SINGAPORE BASE.
'(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)`
LONDON, Nov. Sård.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] In the House of Commons, in reply to questions, Mr. W..c. LONDON. Now, $ord
Bridgeman stated that the nava!: the House of Commons, during the hope that limitation might be There were very angry scenes in conference at Geneva had left the
nient Insurance Bil committee stage of the Unemploy-reached, therefore the Government was reluctant to lay down any more 10,000 ton cruisers at present. He assured his questioner that protection of trade routes and, food supplies for Britain had been. taken into consideration in com nection with this policy.
The Labour members, Messrs. J. Maxton, G. Buchanan, R. C Wallhead, and Neil McLean, were suspended,
CLAISE The signal for the Labourites'
THE BILL'S THIRD READING. outburst was the rising of Sir
Mr. Bridgeman added that the Arthur Steel-Maitland to move the United States were building eight
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Nov. 23rd. The Bill amending the Govern- ment of India Act, to enable the immediate appointment of a Com mission on reforma, has passed the third reading in the House of Commons, and received the Royal Kasent.
OBITUARY.
·ROUMANIAN, PREMIER.
BROTHER SUCCEEDS.
· [REUTER'S AMERICAN 'RERVICE] -
BUCHAREST, November 94th. The death is announced of M. Bratianu, the Roumanian Premier. Brief Illness.
·
closure, which was carried.
10,000 ton cruisers, and Britain Thereupon Me Maxton design- eleven. ated the conduct of the chairman,
The question of the substitution Mr. Hope, in allowing the closure, of a smaller ship for the 10,000 as "damned unfair," and refused to withdraw the remark. An uproar gramme was still being considered. ton cruiser in the British 1928 pro- followed, and Messrs. Buchanan and Wailhead protested violently against the chairman's ruling, the latter declaring that is was "a damned outrage on the House and man said that the expenditure on the Singapore naval base háð an abuse of the powers of the
hitherto been 2422,000. The work chair,"
was expected to be finished by 1937. The total cost was estimated at £7,756,000.
Mr. McLean persisted in address- ing the House while the chairman
was standing.
The Speaker was called in four times. The suspension of the offenders, was separately moved and carried.
The Singapore Base. Replying to another question, by Comdr. Kenworthy, Mr. Bridge
Comdr. Kepworthy suggested that Ithe altered eircumstances which had led to the dropping of two cruisers from this year's pro- gramme might also permit a rel tardation of the base, but Mr.
THE NATION'S SCOURGES. Bridgeman replied that he did not
think he could say anything with
Until recently M. Bratianu had STARTLING FIGURES OF AN regard to that. He pointed out
precautions to safeguard been actively engaged with, the the existing régime in consequence of the intrigues to bring back the ex-Crown Prince Carol
The Premier was stricken with influenza and tonsilitis for which
he underwent a minor operation.
until yesterday night, but he suck
denly succumbed to-day.
EXPERT.
GROWTH OF CANCER: THE GREATEST SCOURGE
OF ALL
Cancer, or malignant disease, was the cause "of 51,939 deatháin
England and Wales in 1995-nearly any other cause excepting heart
low River, and is concentrating be tantamount to resumption of ducers, who found is necessary to. He was progressing satisfactorily one-ninth of all deaths more than south-west of Shansi, apparently control of the Concession, and handle their own perishable goods preparatory to advancing north- again emphasised that the Govern during the waterside dispute. wards, possibly to assist the ment had no intention of taking Shansi troops, and possibly for the this step unless obliged to do so. occupation of Shansi. His inten- tion is at present not clear..
GENERAL HO'S ARMIES.
[NAVAL WIRELESS,]
The Case of Tientsin. Mr. Looker suggested that the conclusion of, an agreement for the handing over of the municipal ad- ministration of the British Conces- sion at Tientsin to a mixed Anglo- Chinese administration should be deferred peoding greater certainty Harrow, Nov. 23rd.
that it would not be attended by General Ho Chien is directing
results similar to those at Hankow, the movements of the 8th, 35th and
or alternatively, the right to re 38th Armies from Changsha. They establish British control of the have evacuated the Chenglin area, municipality, if the experiment and the railway nearby has been is the desire of the Nationalists to occupied by Nationalist troops. It failed, should be reserved.
Sir Austen Chamberlain asid
it possible.
Feng Yu Hsiang's representative, position to give a definite answer, General Chang Tse Klang, is nego as matters must, at least to some extent, depend on the uncertain tiating at Nanking.
course of events.
loan amounting to Yen 60,000,000 in reach an agreement with Ho Chie that he regretted he was not in a
order to finance the construction of certain railways in Manchuria. It is likely that in order to remove American jealousy, towards Japan. ese policy
Manchuria and Mongo lia, the Japanese Government pur- posely appeals for financial ald from the United States.
The Peking Government is now investigating the matter, and the result will be published later.
THE KUOMINTANG MEET- ING IN SHANGHAI,
(Wuh Tez Tat Pao),
The river at Hankow is unusually low. Nationalist troops are still moving up-river in the direction of Hankow.
IcHANG, Nov. 23rd.
Ying Sew (1 Yang Sen) received the British Senior Naval Officer and the British community on the 23rd. His attitude was most friendly.
· SOLOMON ISLANDS'
TRAGEDY.
CAPTURE OF A RINGLEADER
FORTY-FOUR SUSPECTS
ROUNDED-UP.
· [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, NOV, 24th. The Kuomintang meeting arrang
TULAGI, Nov. 23rd. ed to be held to-day at-Shanghai has ringleader Basiapa has been cap Tho Solomon Islanda native
been formally opened, and those tured by a stratagem, by unarmed native volunteers, six miles from Sinamango, and has been lodged in gaol.
attending included Wang Ching Wei, Tan Yea Kai, Ho Ying Ching, Chu Pei Teh, T. V. Seong, Sun
CANADIAN TARIFF.
A GENERAL BOARD TO BE ESTABLISHED,
(THROUGH REUTER'S "ACENOT.]
OTTAWA, Nov. 23rd. Following an application by the Consumers League of Canada for 'a downward revision of the tariff on imported cottons, the Chairman of the Tariff Advisory Board has anounced the Government's in- tention to establish a General Board to work out a scientific tariff, taking into consideration the intricate features involved in determining the tariff schedule.
FRENCH TRADE.
THE LATEST RETURNS.
THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.]
PARIS, Nov. 23rd.. Basiana, who had been deserted The French imports for the first by his fellow clansmen, was bound ten months totalled 43,005,000,000
Fo, C. C. Wu, Li Taai Hein, Wu with cane layers and handed over france, and the exports 15,233,000,000
to the authorities at the coast. The franes. Chie Fei, Chang Ching Kiang.
Marshal Chiang Kai Shek was elected to preside throughout the full session.
A report from unofficial sources says that Marshal Fong Yu Hsiang is planning to seize the opportu- nity to attack Shansi under the guise of relieving General Yen Shih Shaa.
| natives have celebrated the event
by bolding a dance.
A party under white command has captured 44 natives ́suspected of complicity in the massacre of the Commissioner and his party some weeks ago. ́..
A further search is being made for the chief Norge, who is believed to be one of the ringleaders.
SOVIET DELEGATION FOR
GENEVA.
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
TRADE AGREEMENT APPROVED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,
BERLIN, Nov. 23rd. The Reichstag has adopted the. Franco-German 4
trade agreement concluded last August
U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CUBA.
DISTINGUISHED WAR RECORD.
{REUTER'S AMERICAN SEEVICE.]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23rd.
"
disease," states Lieut.-Colonel FE Former Cabinet Retained.
Fremantle, M.P., M.B. (consulting M., Jonel Bratianu's brother, M. county medical officer for Hertford Vintila Bratianu, has been ap-shire), in his latest book on public pointed Premier and retains the health. The Health of the Na former Catinet, who have already tion."
taken the oath.-
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
DISCOVERIES.
BURIAL GROUND OF 1,000 B.C. "NEAR "FRANKFURT,
that the work had actually been re- tarded, mainly owing to certain: eircumstances which had made tha preliminary work take longer than was anticipated. He certainly never suggested that there was any reason for abandoning the Singa pore proposal.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE) First Lord Explains.
RUGBY, Nov. 23rd The First Lord of the Admiralty was asked in the House of Com mona what new facts disclosed at the recent naval conference at Geneva had caused the Government to decide it was no longer necessary He gives arresting facts and to proceed with the laying down of figures concerning "the four chief the two cruisers intended to be laid scourages that ravage the health of down this year. the nation"-cancer; tubercle, veu- eral disease, alcohol.
Mr. Bridgeman replied, "Eleven 10,000 ton cruisers are building. Not -Notifiable.
Our published programme does not "The disease is not notifiable,' extend beyond 1829, and provides be writes concerning cancer, "and for one 10,000 tom cruiser, in nd-
*
at Geneva, although our proposal
The reports of the discovery, dur- there is therefore no record of its dition to two smaller cruisers, to ing railway extension operations, prevalence apart from death, but be built in each of the years 1927, of an ancient civilisation in Ger- the figures suggest that it is in 1923, and 1929. A new situation a considerable rate. has arisen owing to the fact that many of equal interest and impor-creasing at tance with the finds near Dordogne, The recorded death-rate has doubled in Brittany, appear, after the first in 35 years to 1,338 per million in report of responsible archaeologists sent from. the Ethnographical "Its causes are still unknown. Institute in Berlin, to be well There is no proof that it is here founded.
1925.
for the limitation of the number of
10,000 ton cruisera, was not agreed to, the discussion led to a hope that limitation may yet be reached," and in these circumstances the British Government are reluctant
The world will be the richer, ditary, infectious, or contagious, Mr. Noble Brandon Judah, a when this report is published, for nor that it is influenced by any prominent Chicago lawyer, has been the later Bronze Age, three thou-food, drug, or babitation,
the account of a people who lived
to lay down any more of these large appointed Ambassador to Cuba in sand years ago, in a spot which Colone! Fremantle states that 10,000 ton cruisers at present. We succession to Mr. Enoch Crowder. commanded the river Oder and one twelfth of all deaths in Eng- have dropped two ships from the
cupied cave-like dwellings made of Mr. Judah has no diplomatic ex- | wood and plaited basket-work land and Wales in 1928 (40,387) was 1927 programme, one of them being perience, but has a distinguished They built a wall of stones set with caused by tubercle, a loss of income
a 10,000 ton cruiser and one being war record.
in a wooden frame-work, whose
to the nation of £9,000,000,
& smaller ship, the substitution of elevation betrays considerable' ar-
"which, in lieu of the 10,000 ton. Taxal authorities in England, he cruiser in the 1928 programme (sic) chitectural knowledge. The actual site to-day is Lossow, near Frank points out, epend £2,500,000 net is a question still under considera- furt, on the Oder, some seventy
a year in treating and trying to miles from Berlin.
prevent tuberculosis, the Exchequer also providing £1,350,000 in capital
On the spot in a burial ground consisting of deep ditches or pita containing skeletons of beasts and inen, each ansbomatically cut up into jointa, which are bedded in These are mot different grooves,
were cut
of
grants.
1996.
tion.'
AMERICA'S. GIANT SEAPLANE.
ENGINES OF 3,500 HORSE POWER.
DUTY ON "THRILLS." [REUTER'S AMERICAN SZEVICE)
His prevailing note concerning CANADIAN MOVE TO STOP PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23rd.
CRIME STORIES. As regards the giant scaplane heaps of bones, but betray careful this disease is a hopeful one. The which it was announced yesterday arrangement, as though the bodies death rate from pulmonary tubercle
up in speculiar
Forty-nine United States periodi was being built for the US. Navy, ceremonial way after death. It is has fallen from 3,189 per million cals of the triller
class deal- and was intended for a trans Pacife Bight, Grand 2 subsequent presumed that this is the remains of population in 1874 to 188 in ing with Underworld" crime and
aburial-place, where the victims fight round the world, next year,
This bas been largely due cinematograph stories, have been made the subject of a customs' duty of some religious rite were either it is known that parts of a sea sacrificed or buried after sacrifice. to general sanitary and factory re- plane which will be known as the
of 25 per cent, although they have Remains of the Stav populations forms and to the improved standard hitherto entered Canada free. UNII, are being assembled at an that alternated with the Germanit of living and general prosperity as alranaft factory here..
According to
most wholly of fiction, and not con- neighbourhood, no-from many other well as to the special measures of parts of the sandy stretch of coun- recent years, but
taining a reasonable amount of try that lies between Berlin, the The author says that excessive critical and descriptive articles, river Oder, and the Baltic, but the drinking accounts for 12 per cent. news items, or articles relating new discoveries are said to indicate of "the admission to hospitals for thereto, or to current topics are the civilisation of an earlier people the insane, but while there were declared not entitled to free who lived in Germany about 1,000 188,577 convictions for drunkenness entry."
Was B.C. This
probably in 1913 there were but 75,077 in The same ruling would apply to
1925, 30,000 of them in London. British periodicals of the same. Daily Expres.
category.
races have been excavated from the
bacher, who Commander Weyer factory the aeroplane will be finished before next spring, and will resemble the PNIO, the model in which the late Commander Rogers attempted a fight to Hone
The aeroplane will be equipped Thracian or Illyrian race, accord- with two 1,750 horse-power motorsing to present conjecture.
[ZHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, Nov. 3rd. The remainder of the Soviet dis-lulu.
armament delegation have left for
Geneva.
The departmental regulations. says:-" Periodicala consisting al-