SHANTUNG TROOPS WITHDRAWN TO MANCHURIA.
PETITION BY PEKING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
COMMITTEE FOR WAR AREAS TO BE DISSOLVED.
NANKING NEGOTIATIONS FOR REVISION OF TREATIES.
The Peking Chamber of Commerce have determined to present A petition to Chiang Kai Shek on his arrival, praying that the capital be retained at Peking, and not removed to Nanking na has recently beca decided. The deputation will also raise the question of the disbandment of troops and the removal of the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the administration of Chang-
Too Lin.
Mr. C. T. Wang, the Nationalist Foreign Minister, is im- patient to proceed with Trenty revision, according to reports: from the vernacular papers. He is sending a personal repre- sentative to open unofficial conversations with the Diplomatic Body, and has wired to the Foreign Commissioner, Mr. Yu Liang, to inform the Diplomatie Body that the Nationalist Gor- ernment intends to open negotiations on July 20th.
Three train loads of General Chang Trung Chang's Shantung troops, have arrived at Chinwangtae, and they are proceeding fur ther north into Manchuria. This shows a change of policy on the. side of the Fengtien forces, who were originally determined not to admit other Northern armies.
SHANTUNG TROOPS SEEK KUOMINTANG CONFERENCE
..REFUGE.
(TAROLGA REUTER'S AGENCY.]
POSTPONED?
(Wah Te Fat Pan).
PEXING, July Pad. Three train loads of Chang
SHANGHAT, July 2nd. Trung Chang's troops have arrived Mr. Yu Yu Jen, one of the at Chinwangtae. They are appar Kuomintang executive members, ently going on further north. in-sajd in an interview that the dicating that the Fenglieneee in Kuomintang Executive Conference tend to allow at least some of the might not be opened on the date Shantung forces to enter Man-appointed, but might be delayed
churia.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PETITION.
(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]
PERINO, July 2nd.
The Chamber of Commerce has decided that after Chiang Kai Shek's arrival it will send de putation to ürge. the retention of the capital
at Peking. Other points to be raised will be the dis bandment of troops, and the aboli-
extortionate tion of the levied by Chang Tso, Lin.
taxes
PEKING TO-MORROW.
(Chun Wan Tat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, July 2nd. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, General Li Chung Jes and their parties have arrived at Hsinserg and are expected to reach Peking to-morrow.
General Yen Shih Shan will pro- bably proceed to Chengsintan.or Kupeitan to receive them.
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THE CHANGE OF NAME.
(THROUGH REUTKE'S AGENCY:}
PEKING, July 2nd. Chiang Teo Pin, of the Com mittee for the War Areas, has issued the last of the proclama
pending the arrival of those mem- bers who were still abroad. At any rate, however, the Third "Kuomir- Lang Delegate Conference would, be held on August 1st.
He asserted that the coming mili- tary conference to be held in Peking was merely concerned with dis cussions of military problems, the immediate settlement of which was necessitated by the completion of the Northern Expedition.
TREATY NEGOTIATIONS.
(Wah F Fat Fao).
SHANGHAI, July 2nd. ·· Dr. C. T. Wang, the Nationalist Foreign Minister, is sending Mr. Koo Ping Men as personal repre- sentative to open unofficial con- versations with the Diplomatic Corps as a preliminary step to the coming treaty negotiations.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JULY 3rd, 1928.
PREVENTION OF
MALARIA.
STUDY OF LOCAL PROBLEMS.
USE OF QUININE,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}
GENEVA, July 2nd.
TRAIN WRECKERS
IN MEXICO. -
BRITISH LABOUR IN CONFERENCE.
NINE CAUGHT AND EXECUTED.
EMPIRE MIGRATIONS,
ATTEMPT ON U.S. AMBAS- SADOR?
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
MEXICO CITY, July 2nd. A message from Queretaro states that nine men, who were near the railway with dynamite in their possession, were executed. It is presumed that they intended to blow up the main line traina to and from Mexico City.
The Malaria Commission has finished its work and paid a resolution that malaria prevention. should be dealt with by scientific or ganisations specialising in malaria:
That only one of two preventive, methods, according to local circum- stances, should be employed:
That the first duty of Govern-
Mr. Dwight Morrow, the United ments ia organising
States Ambasador will pass over against malaria should be to attend this line when he returns from the the malarious sick, the second duty United States on Tuesday, and the to study in detail the different local Mexican Authorities are taking ex. aspects of the problem with a viewtraordinary precautions to prevent to fading the most efficacious and
an attack on the Ambassadorial the cheapest solution.
measures
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The Commission has further ar- ranged a programme of inter- national study, firstly on dwellings and malaria, secondly On the malaria carrying mosquito and thirdly the practical importance of the intensive use of quinine.
HEAD OF AMERICAN Y.M.C.A.
DOCTOR MOTT'S NEW POSITION.
FINE WAR WORK.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
train.
་་་
STRAITS RUBBER
RATES.-
ONE CENT PER POUND.
【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SINGAPORE, July 2nd. The Legislature of the Straits has passed a resolution" that the rate payable under the Rubber, Lands Assessment Ordinance shall be one cent per pound, which will became effective from May 1st, 1928. The minimum export duty was also, fixed at one cent.a pound to be effective from July 1st, 1929.
FIGURES.
NEW YORK, July 2nd. After forty years' service as head MANCHESTER TRADE of the YMCA in the United States, Doctor John R. Mott has resigned to become President of the International Missionary Council.
Dr. Mott during the war, as Executive Secretary of the War Council of the Y.M.C.A., handled nearly £40,000,000 sterling for the benefit of men of the Allied forces, and war prisoners.
"He has been decorated by several Foreign Governments."
ENGLAND'S NEW PRIMA DONNA.
IMPROVEMENT ON LAST
YEAR.
BRIGHTER OUTLOOK.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MILITARISTS AND THE LEAGUE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 2nd. The British Commonwealth Labour
from
New.
Conference opened at the House of Commons with delegates Australia, British Guiana, Canada, Ceylon, India, Ireland, foundland, New Zealand, Palea tine, Rhodesia, South Africa and Trinidad.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who presided, dealt in his opening address with Empire migration He said that the Labour Party for- realized the necessity for great merly opposed migration, but now
fluidity of population.
Their aims should however be to develop family, rather than in- dividual migration.
Referring to the Kellogg Peace proposal, he said that the great; value of it was that it was a new gesture, and would be the means of extricating the League of Nations machine out of the fut into which the militarista were driving
it,
The Conference after this was private.
GORDON BENNETT
RACE.
THREE BALLOONS DOWN.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN HERVICE]
DETROIT, July 2nd. - Three balloons, one American, one Swiss and one Argentine, of the 19 starters in the Gordon Bennett race, have been forced down in Virginia.
OBITUARY.
FAMOUS AMERICAN
PLAYWRIGHT,
DROWNED WHILE BATHING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NICE, July 2nd. The death is announced of the
ROBBER TRIBE'S
ANGER.
DESIRE TO SEE THEIR CHILDREN.
MURDEROUS ATTACK ON OFFICER.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
CALCUTTA, July and was killed and four wounded when the police fired on a
One man
mob of Karwalnut tribesmen at the Salvation Army Settlement at Saidpur, Bengal.
7.
PILSUDSKI SPEAKS. HIS MIND.·
UNPREPOSSESSING DEPUTIES.
GOING TO TAKE A CURE.
[TEROTON REUTERS AGENCY.]
BERLIN, July 1st.
The reasons for. Marshal Pil- sudskits resignation of the Polish Premiership are given with un- compromising vigour in a news- paper interview in Warsaw,
Marshal Pilsudaki zaid that the Seijim (Diet) of prostitutes: created the utmost difficulty for
me-the Poland.
most popular man in I had to resign or I would have been unable to control myself, and would have struck De-
The Karwalnuts are a criminal tribe of the worst type, and bring up their children as thieves and dacoits, and sell their girls in mar. ringe for a few hundred rupees.
The Govenment last year sent anputies and trampled on them..
"Ministers have to behave them? armed police force and compelled the tribe to allow their children to puties yell insults and behave like selves in Parliament but the De- be brought up in the Salvation blackguards and pigs. I could not Army Settlement Tribal resent hold out for another hour in an ment reached a climax when the atmosphere where even flies cannot tribesmen were not allowed to visit
stand the Deputies? speeches" their children..
swung an
One of tho Mưa axe at a Bengali officer, who was saved by a constable, who suffered serious injury. The police rushed to the scene, but were driven back and finally were compelled to fire in order to restore order,
MR. HAYDEN TO MEET HIS BISHOP.
A FEW "CUSS" WORDS IN MANY YEARS.
IMPORTANT POINT OF CHURCH LAW.
LONDON, Jute 6th. It became known yesterday in ecclesiastical legs! circles in Lan- don that in connection with the case of the Rev..O. E. Hayden, the rector of Avening, Gloucestershire, a situation has arisen on which will likely hinge the future of an im- portant part of the domestic law of the Church of England.
Mr. Hayden was accused before a commission appointed by the Bishop of Gloucester of: (1) Habitually using bad language. (3) Improper attention's to women. (3) Frequenting alehouses and
taverns.
(4) Consuming alcohol beyond his proper requirements in public places
Marshal Pilsudski is going to the spa at Siegenburg to take the
cure.
WOMAN CLAIMS
MILLIONS.
NEW FIGHT FOR THE JENNENS ESTATE.
,་
EARL HOWE'S LAND.
The Jenings family of America- 400 of them-are bent on putting on another fight in England for the famous "Jennens millions."?
It would mean a battle royal for something between £90,000,000 and £60,000,000 of property.
Mr. Sydney Geiger, 'an American lawyer, of Alliance, Ohio, is pre- paring to return to America with the result of investigations he has made in England. He has an army of clients in Ohio, who believe they are entitled to the "Jennens Millions," They include Mra. Gene. vieve Jennings,
The story of the most famous battle for the Jennens estate was the basis of "Jarndyce v. Jarndyco” in Dickens' "Bleak House,"
In the year 1798 a man named William Jennens died-intestate in England, leaving £2,000,000 of per-. sonal property, and an immense. amount of real estate, in about six counties, some of it in the centre of
(3) Neglect of the sick.
Charges 2, 3, 4, and 6 were either Birmingham.
years of age, was best known as the withdrawn or disproved and on all for the properties at the time, and
LONDON, July 1st. The report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce shows that exports of cotton, artificial silk and mixed piece goods for Maywood. Mr. Hopwood, who was 44 American playwright, Avery Hop this year exceeded the total for May last year by 6,888,000 square yards while the exports for the first five months of the year totalled 43,500,000 square yards which was an increase of 16,500,000 square,
over the yards of the period last year.
LANCASHIRE GIRL'S TRIUMPH.
'MISS EVA TURNER.
The most arpusing combination of accents, spoken with one
Another report to hand states that the Nanking Foreign Ministry has wired to the Foreign Commis- sioner, Mr. Ya Liang, instructing bim to inform the Diplomatic Corps world's lovelieet voices, is not the regarding the negotiations of new treaties which the Nationalist Gov- ernment proposes to open on the
20th inst.
TSINAN AFFAIR:
(Chun Wan Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, July 2nd. Dr. C. T. Wang has appointed tions before the diesolution of the Committee: This announces that Mr. Kin Wen Taz as plenipoten
renew
Peking will henceforth be known as tiary representalive to Peiping, and Chihli as Hopei.
Previous orders to the same negotiations with the Japanese effect have already been issued authorities regarding the settlement more than a week ago, but this is considered to legalise the charge. of the Tsinan Affair.
NEW PRESIDENT FOR MEXICO.
GENERAL OBREGON ELECTED.
NO CHANGE IN POLICY.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
MEXICO CITY, July 2nd.." General Obregon, the only can- didate, has been elected President. of Mexico for a term of six years.
author of "The Bat" and the
"Gold Diggers." He was seized with cramp while swimming at Juan Lesping and was drowned.
OF
FORMER GOVERNOR corresponding
PHILIPPINES.
The report states that the Dutch least of the charms of Miss Eva Indies, Rambay and Canada are Turner, the jolly little Lancashire taking large quantities of cloth woman who aroused one of the containing a high percentage of greatest orations in the history of artificial silk Covent Garden by her performance in Turandot."
Miss Turner, young, happy, and without the elightest affectation, has blown like a refreshing breeze into the intensely grand Stm 06- phere of Covent Gardena Opera House.
She talks Lancashire with an
comes
поге
THE GIRL WHO SAID "I SHAN'T."
SAYS "I WILL."
MARRIED AT SECOND
TÉMPT
ELLESMERE PORT, Cheshire. -The Ellesmere Port bride who said "I shan't" when asked at the altar to take the vow at her wed- ding, appeared at the local parish church a few days later and said, "I will."
Italian accent, and at first she gives the impression of an Italias woman talking English. Then, as she be interested, Oldham begins to predominate over Milan.
"Proper Broad." "When I am in a temper," said the prima donna to a Daily Br press representative, "I talk pro- per broad. People think "I am wwcaring."
June 5th WELL Д great night in ETD Turner's life. She, left Eng- land for Milan in 1924, unknowa
She is Miss Mary Elizabeth except to a few discriminating critica. She had returned, from Faxon, aged 21; of Priestfield-road, overwhelming successes on the Con- Ellesmere Port, and she was mar- WARRINGTON, July 1st. The U.S. Treasury announces tinent, to face that bogey of Eng ried to Mr. Arthur Attwood, aged that the Federal Government lich singers an English audience. 29 of Heathfield-road, the bride closed its books for the fiscal year Her art rote above the handicap of groom with whom she went to the which ended at midnight on her name, and England enthusias altar the previous Saturday. June 30th with a surplus of tically endorsed the verdict of the
Continent.. G.8398,000,000.
END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. U.S. TREASURY SURPLUS. (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
DISASTER IN FRENCH MINE. TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
Miss Turner will stay a month in
a tour of Germany. England, and then she will go on
[RECTER'S AMERICAN BERTICE).
WASHINGTON, July 1st.
4.
The death is announced, of Mr. James Francis Smith, who was formerly Governor General of the Philippine Islands.
MR. JACK HYLTON.
HOTEL OWNER'S SLANDER APPEAL FAILS.
of them the rector was completely vindicated:
Regarding charge No. 1, the vom mission dropped the word habitual and found Mr. Hayden guilty of having used foul language on several occasione during the past seven, years.
The commissions findings were an- nounced on May 23rd, and the matter has since been under the consideration of the Bishop of Gloucester.
Bishop's Power, The bishop, who has the power to inhibit an incumbent for a period of five years, has in the interval, it is learned, written to the rector and offered to give him an audience at the episcopal palace so that he can make any observations before judgment and sentence, if any, are passed..
Mr. Hayden sent an acknowledg ment of the communication to the bishop and then passed it on to his solicitors, who in turn have taken counsel's opinion.
As a result it is understood that the rector will meet the bishop within the next day or two
The Court of Appeal-Lords and Justices Berutton, Greer, Sankey-dismissed with costs the
Apart from the personal conse appeal of Mr. Edward Harris, the quences to Mr. Hayden, the nature chairman of the Piccadilly Hotels, of this consultation will be of im- Limited, proprietors of the Picportance to the Church as a whole. Mr. Hayden has been advised to cadilly Hotel, W., from the verdict adopt the argument and judgment for £50 damages in "favour of Mr. Jack Hylton, musical. director and proprietor of hands, for slander said to have been utter- ed at a board meeting of the hotel Mr. Harris, it was company. alleged, told Mr. Renato Starita, the leader of Jack Hylton's Pic cadilly Revels Band, that Mr. Hylton had been deceiving him Mr. Starita), Mr. Harris denied that he spoke the words complained
The grounds of the appeal were that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence, and that the Lord Chief Justice hað mis- directed the jury,
that in declaring him to have been guilty of using bad language on several occasions over a long period the commission exceeded its jurisdiction. »
There were various contestants the High Court finally decided the dispute by allotting the personal property to one William Lygon, the founder of the Beauchamp family, and the real estate to an infant child named Curzon, son of Lord Howe Curzon
Then began
serica of claims, based on the allegation that the original Lady Howe Curzon, the first Baroness Howe, after the death of this little son, had substituted as her second son a child of a serving maid, Ann Oakes, and had palmed this infant off as her own son.
The second son was the ancestor of the present Earl Howe, whose eldest son and heir is Viscount Curzon, M.P.
400 Jennings.
the
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- Various claimants to the "Jen- nens Millions" have appeared dur ing the past two years. One came from Australia. In 1909 Mr. David Jennings eame from America and claimed estate. He was seventy-four at the time, and although he failed to secure the property, he married a wife in Eng- land. Five years later he died in.. Wolverhampton Workhouse in 'con- sequence of an accident.
Now 400 Jennings are on the war- path. It is said that they have 1,000 witnesses ready to sail for England and the High Courts, to give evi- dence. The 400 claim that they are. either direct descendants of the original William Jennens or bis brother.
Tremendous excitement has been. generated among the Jennings, and That the duty of the commis money has been raised to bring sion was to have returned over 1,000 witnesses and contest the straight verdict whether or not, cage. as charged, he had habitually used bad language.
Two American lawyers have the matter in hand, Messrs, Jordan (of That an incumbent, after a Virginia) and Geiger, charge has not been proved, can- In the meantime, Mr. D. Camp -not be found guilty of another or bell Lee, of Brick Court, Middle lesser charge which was not pre- Temple, has been requested by the ferred against him
American embassy and consulate to That no offence has been com- investigate the matter and furnish mitted. The bishop's decision on these a report. He has done so, and it now remains to be seen whether the contentions will be the first au- Jennings will sail overscns and make thoritative interpretation of the another" claim for the property or Benefices (Ecclesiastical Duties) Mensure of 1920, a much-discussed. No writ has as yet been The motto of Earl Howe's family enactment under which the rector. of Avening's case was the first to is: "Let Curzon holde what Curzon
After the service the couple sign ed the register in the vestry, and remained in consultation with the they left the church they were vicar, the Rev. A. B. Sleight. As pelted with confetti by people who had gathered despite attempts to keep the wedding secret
The bride aid, "I do not know the sitar last Baturday unless it
served." Success has not spoiled the Lan was nervousness. Since the week violent explosion occurred bury-caslare girl who began her career and I have thought things over and ing dozens of workmen, states that in the chorus of the Carl Roen decided the wedding should take
place today! Company. the death-roll is 48.
THROUGH REDIER'E' AGENCY.]
ST. ETIENNES, July 1st. An official statement in connec-
I am looking forward singing Aida to an English audience," he said. "It is my favourite part, and I hope to come back to London many
He has announced that be intendation with the terrible disaster at all times. I love London best of what made me say 'I shan't at
to continue substantially the policy
of the present holder, President
Calles.
the Roche-la-Moliere mine, when
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Lord Justice Scrutton, dismissing the appeal, said in his opinion the summing-up of the Lord Chiff Justices was absolutely correct, Lords Justices Greer and Sankey
concurred.
be tried
belde."