THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 26th, 1928.
NANKING'S PROTEST SANDINO'S REVOLT OVER? GENERAL MOTORS
TO TOKYO.
CHANG'S WISH EOR ALLIANCE.
י.
OPIUM SUPPRESSION
COMMISSION.
(Wah Ti Fat, Pas).
SHANGHAI, July 25th. Mr. Wang Wing Pao, Chineas
GENERAL FLEES THE COUNTRY.
REBELS PROMISE TO BEHAVE.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN. SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, July 24th. A message from Superior, Wie- consis, states that the Rear-Admiral' United States commanding the
CHAIRMAN.
JOHN RASKÓB, TURNS TO POLITICS,
AL SMITH'S DIRECTOR,
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
ITALY'S REQUEST TO SOVIET.
CENTRAL DISTRICT
FIRE.
"KRASSIN " TO CONTINUE SEARCH.
REPAIRS AT STAVANGER.
(THROUGH AEUTER'S AGENCY.]
TWO FIREMEN INJURED.
BRIGADE'S SMART WORK.
Considerable excitement #as caused by an outbreak of fire is the Central district shortly after 9.30 p.m. last night." Police whistles were blown on all eides and within telegraphed requesting the Soviet a very short space of time hundrede
The Italian
Moscow, July 4th.
Government has
TRIBUTES TO LORD BALFOUR.
WISE AND CHARMING, FRIEND.
HIS 80th BIRTHDAY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}
LONDON, July Zeth. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, diplomats, members of the Cabinet
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UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS.
PREMIER ON GOVERNMENT POLICY.
MIGRATION SCHEMES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S JÕENCY.]
Lovoos, July 24th.' Strong denunciation of the Gov
Minister at Tokyo, has telegraph./ spesial service squadron, in Nicara-chairman of the General Motors Committee directing the Italia of Chinese made their way to the and other distinguished English: / froment whs voiced in the House,
New York, July 4th. Mr. John Raskob, the financial Corporation, has announced that he is resigning his post in order to devote his time and attention to the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.
rescue operations to continue the scene of the fire. The excitement search for the remainder of the was all the greater because the castaways; the party
under premises involved were opposite the Alessandri.'
Sincere Co.
ed to the Nationalist Government uan waters has reported to Preai- itating that he has made a verbal dent Coolidge that the activities of protest against the Japanese Gov- the followers of General Sandino
have apparently ceased entirely. ernment's diplomatic intrigues in
General Sandino is believed to
Two aeroplanes are being sent Manchuria, but without avail
Mr. Raskob in undertaking this from Italy to assist, using the ice the same telegram he asks for in-have fled from the country, whilst structions as to further stepe to be! many rebels" have surrendered office will be the director of Mr. | breaker Kramin as a base.
and given pledges for their future | Al Smith's presidential campaign. good behaviour.
taken in dealing with Japan.
CHANG HSUEH LIANG'S
WISH.
(ah Tez Fat l'av.)
In
SHANGHAI, July 25th. General Chang Hsueh Liang has elegraphed to his representative in Peking, Mr. Yin Shi Lin, saying that he is much disappointed to see that national affairs are going from bad to worst. His only desire was that an early rapprochement with the Nationalists might be achieved.
개
LEADERS LEAVE PEKING.
(Wah Tu Yui Pao).
SHANGHAI, July 25th A repart from Hankow says that Li Chung Jen, Li Teal Hain and Tai Chi Tho left Peking yesterday for
Hankow..
U.S. TREATY REVISION.
(Tsun Wan Eat Pzo.),
SHANGHAI, July 23th.
A Washington report saya that the American Government, will to.. day er to-morrow address a Note to the Nationalist Government,, expressing its willingness to open negotiations with the latter for trenty revision.
FOREIGN MINISTER IN DISGRACE.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
NANKING, July 25th. Chinese agencies state that many members of the Nanking Govern- inent are of the opinion that C. T. Wang, the Minister, for Foreign Affairs, has gone too far in his treatment of the Treaty question. It is said that he may be forced to resign shortly and that it is pro bable that he will be succeeded by Dr. C. C. Wu:
SIR MILES LAMPSON'S
GUESTS.
THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY:1
PEKING, July 25th. Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister to Peking, gave a dinner last night to Manchal Chiang Kai Shek, Marshal Yen. Hai Shan and other high Nationalist military officers. The party was held at the British Legation.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
(Wah Tr Yet Pao),
SHANGHAI, July 25th, The Central Political Council has resolved to appoint Allred Sze, Wang Ching, Chie and Tse Jeh na Chinesc plenipotentiary delegates to the League of Nations.
Opium Suppression.
SHANGHAI, July 25th. Another resolution passed is that Chiang Kai Shek, Yen Hai Shan, Li Tsai Hain, Feng Yu Heiang, Li Chung Jen, Seh To Pei, Ho Ying Chien, Chang Ching Kiang, Li Lich Chun, Chen Shiu Fao, and Li Ting Fei be appointed to the Central Commission of Opium Suppression,
ARMS HAUL. (Wah Tax Yat Pao).
SHANGHAI, July 25th. The authorities of the Britiehi Concession in Tientsia have d covered a big haul of ammunition consisting of more than twenty caces, However, no arrest bas been made,
·CLEANING UP THE NORTH.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] · Prxisa, July 28th. Many reports are being circulated
رہے
to the effect that the Nationalists
STRANGE DEVELOPMENT
OF QUARREL.
COUNCILLOR AT TOKYO.
(THROUGH BRUTER'8 AGENCY,]
THE HAGUE, July 24th. A process server has officially taken possession of the Foreign Ofice Buildings.
This is a strange, development of a quarrel between Heer Wenniger, former Counsellor of the Dutch Em bassy at Tokyo, and the overa
ment.
The former left his post and went to the Dutch Indies. He has so far failed to get satisfaction of his claim for salary and furniture which he alleges that the Dutch Minister in Tokyo sold without his permission.
The case is to come up before the High Court shortly,
FRENCH FLIGHT DELAYED.
ENGINE FAILURE,
(THROUGH AXITER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, July 24th.
The seaplane La Fregatte, which has arrived at the Azores in charge of Flying Commander Paris for the proposed trans-Atlantic flight, is returning to France aboard cruiser.
This is for the purpose of getting the engine repaired
RAIL STRIKE LEADERS.
[THEOTON HEUTER'S AGENCYr:]
a
MADRID, July 24th.
strike Two railway
lenders, Makundalal Sarker and Singara Veluchchettiar, have been arrested at Trichinopoli.
EVASION OF BETS TAX.
MR. CHURCHILL'S ADMISSION.
POSSIBLE. INFORMANTS' **PHYSICAL FEAR,"
In the House of Commons the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Churchill, has admitted that whole- sale evasion of the Betting Tax is taking place, and that those who could give evidence on the subject are in physical fear.
He predicted a complete change in the basis of the tax next year, after the passage of the Totalisator Bill, which is regarded sooner or later as inevitable.
k
'men attended A Juncheon
to-
day to celebrate the opening of a permanent home for the British Academy, on the 50th ithday of the president, the Earl of Balfour, to whom a specially-struck gold
medal was presented.
Proposing the health of the Earl of Balfour, the Prince of Wales spoke of him us" one who is han
of Commons to day when Mr. Ram- say MacDonald, the Labour lender, moved a vote of censure in regard to unemployment.
The House, however, rejected the motion by 331 votes to 151.
It was only through the promp: turn-out of the Fire Brigade and
The voto of censure viewed with the smart work done by the mem
grave concern" the growing volume The Italian Government has bers of the force that no serious
of unemployment, deplored the in- v offered to assume the cost of sup- | damage was done.
adequacy and ineffectiveness of the plying the icebreaker with coal, Appliances from Central, West
measures take to deal with the stores and the necessary repairs. Point and Wanchai fought the conoured and loved by all who speak problem and the Government's Meanwhile the Rescue Committee flagration from different angles. the English tongue the world over." failure to relieve the plight of many here has decided that the Krassin | The firemen did not hesitate to
The Prince declared:-" To-day poverty-stricken areas, and most must go to Stavanger to effect take serious risks, with the result we are thinking with great gráti severely condemned the Govern- repairs.
that two Chinese members of the tude of all that Lord Balfour has ment's attitude towarda those Brigade sustained injuries through dons in his long and busy life, not suffering from privation in conse- contact with damaged electrical only for ourselves as a nation, but [quence of industrial depression, £ttings on the burning premisce.
for the peace of the whole world. The fire was brought under cop We are thinking of his many dis- trol after fifteen minutes. The pre tinguished services to learning and mises involved were the Chung Fat arts, and, above all, we are think Biscuit Manufacturing Co., at 164, ing of him as a very wise and Dee Yeux Road Central. It is charming friend"/ understood that this company is
The Earl of Balfour, spenking covered by insurance.
without notes, replied in a light The outbreak was said to have philosophic mood, expatiating on
WOMEN'S ZEST FOR FLYING.
'MEN' OUTNUMBERED AS
PASSENGERS.
"SAFETY FIRST" IN AIR SERVICES.
"
nway at
Mr. Churchill said it was quite sengers arriving or Aring do not
true that the Betting Tax, which had been in operation for something like two years, had not yielded the full financial results to the revenue which had been expected of it.
It was true also that a great deal of evasion was undoubtedly in gress. He thought he must admit that the tax had caused a great deal of discontent and unpopularity towards the Government among the bookmaking confraternity.
Undesirable People."
"I cannot modify or withdraw the tax this year," continued Mr. Churchill. I do not know what the fate of the Totalisator Bill this session will be, I have no doubt if that measure becomes law-for there
is absolutely no doubt that such an innovation will be adopted in the Course of the next few years-a very considerable reform in British racing will have been effected, and A process will have been set on foot which will tend to reduce and to. eliminate the undesirable personnel which we have incubated in this country,"
"The Totalisator Bill is now about to complete its chequered career in committee and we shall soon have it on the floor of the House. I will certainly have to see what is the position of that measure ́U.S. MARINES WITHDRAWN. before I can discuss proposala to mitigate the Betting Tax or shift its basis from the turnover basis to the licensed duty basis."
(REUTER'S AMERICAN BEEVICE]
WASHINGTON, July 24th. The U.S. Government has ordered.
the immediate withdrawal of 1,350 Marines from Tientsin.
THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.
TO USE PART OF NEW PRAYER BOOK.
A CHALLENGE TO PARLIA- MENT
"
LONDON, June 20th. The Bishop of Winchester has announced that a revised form of confirmation service corresponding with the alternative form contain- ed in the revised Prayer Book is to be used at all future confirma- tion services in the Winchester diocese.
A high Church authority said to
a reporter:
It would almost seem that there
Mr. Churchill added that book makers who were paying their tax were continually telling him of evasions, but when I press for in- formation that would enable a pro- secution, there is a singolar and rather sinister reluctance to furnish details.
People who might give informa- tion to the Government go about in physical fear," he concluded.
JUDGE'S SUSPICION.
CAPTAIN WHO ABANDONED RUM-RUNNING SHIP.
Judgment was given by Mr. Justice Wright in an insurance claim arising out of the loes of a rum-running schooner which, after leaving Long Island ("Rum Row") for
Newfoundland in February 1924, struck ice in bad weather and was set on fire by the master, and abandoned.
The claim was made by MI. George James Lind, an Oporto
has been some misunderstanding broker, who as mortgages had an
interest in the schooner, against Mr. Alfred Sherrington Mitchell, who had underwritten the inaur- ance policy.
about the whole matter. It seems a most astounding thing that one of the bishops should select this time, when the whole Prayer Book question is in the melting-pot and
Mr. Justice Wright said that the just before the bishops meet, to insurance policy gave leave to en- lasue a declaration which raises gage in what was known as Tum in an acute form the question of running-the process of introducing the authority of Parliament.
alcoholic beverages into the United The Bishops Meet,
States. The contention of the A conference of bishops begun at underwriter was that the vessel was Lambeth Palace yesterday, and abandoned 15 miles from hér des- will continue to-day, and probably tination, that no storm came on, to-morrow. The Archbishop of and that the captain left the ves- His sel with the deliberate intent of Canterbury is presiding. Private secretary told a Daily Mail causing her loss." reporter that there would be a con-
The captain's story' was a
us
[BY COMMANDER H. M. DANIEL, D.S.O., R.N.]
Women outnumber men as pas
know whether this preponderance Croydon Aerodrome. should be attributed to feminine craving for excitement or to a more progressive temperament.
As I watched them stepping out of the machines arriving from the Continent I was impressed by the wide variety which they presented. There were wamen
with athletic were more elderly stride, there! one with matronly spread, and there were not a few with the white hair and Victorian dignity of a grandmother. They all seemed convinced that the air is the best way to travel.
About eight aeroplanes ga daily to the Continent and the same num- ber return. Of these roughly one-
This
third are French, who pay the Eng. fish the compliment of anglicising their title Air Union." sometimes perplexes people who read the claim of Imperial Airways to be the only British line.
"Of course, the number of air pas. eeagers is still incomparable with those carried by rail and boät but it is extending in a remarkable way to include a greater proportion of business men; no longer do pas seagers exclusively American tourists competing for the best feasts to relate subsequently when telling of their trip, to Europe.
consist
of
The constant vigilance exercised at the 'aerodrome in full view of the public has doubtless done much to make people realise that Safe ty First
originated from the ovens.
NAVY FETISH OF SECRECY.
ADMIRAL RICHMOND'S
WARNING.
INADEQUATE SYSTEM OF
EDUCATION.
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Vice Admiral Sir H. W. Rich- mond adds greatly to his reputa- new volume "Nation tion by a Policy and Naval Strength' There is in it some plain speaking modern Navy, but the author knows what he is talking about. Thus he writes:
about methods of education in our
of
the
of
The habit of superficial reading and
Substitution phrases for ordered and reasoned thought leads to indifferent pre- paration for war. The harm done to our commerce at the be- ginning of the war by the enemy's cruisers, and the greater harm done later by submarines, are both traceable to an easy going acceptance of the theory that a guerre-de-course must fail, without examining the reasons supporting the "theory.
If we defeated the German at- tack on our commerce, it was not
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old age. One of his phrases in re- ference to the Prince of Wales was ** the natural leader of our youth."
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and compared his prospects with his chances Överses, he should have the right to choss for himself and put his choice into practice.
The question of migration had to be further thrashed out between this country and the. Dominions. The Government wanted to have
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Dole Or Charity,'
In moving the resolution, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald declared that the nation had not only to face ordinary unemployment, but, De- aides, there were 200,000 miners permanently and hopelessly out of work, who, until death, would bare either to live on doles
charity.
The Government, said Mr. Mac- Douaid, had gone on two fundar mentally wrong assumptions- namely, that traule was going to izn prove and that reduction of wages and increase of hours were going to improve production.
"
Local Depression. Mr. Badwin, the Prime Minister, in reply, said the latest Agures of the Board of" Trade showed that anemployment was mainly in the munication, and they saw their way great staple industries, particularly in certain directions to the adopcoal and cotton, but the general tion of a more active policy of
trade of the country had been main- migration, both under the Empire
tained. They demonstrated that Settlement Act and otherwise.
the fullest and tankest com-
employment, serious, though it was, was local and confined De-
In the matter of preliminary training, the experience of the last few years and the reports on seat framing had decided sat Gor-velopment in this country was going on. He did not think there was vernment to embark upon a sub- stantial expansion of their policy any doubt about that, taking the in this direction. Lord Lovat,
Under-Secretary for the Dominions, country as a whole, and it ought to was going out to Canada, Australia be perfectly possible for the grow- and New Zealand to follow up theing prosperity of other areas in the discussions already initiated by the South, and in the Midlands, to Dominions Secretary during his
recent tour. He would discuss fair. afford some relief to the depressed ly with the representatives of the arcas. Dominions all the matters which had been mentioned.
more
If the changed equilibrium of the prosperous industries was proportionate, then it should be possible that wherever development
still proceeding from that source, help might be found for
is no empty and vain from the superior wisdom of our further orders. The. Estimates places whre development had been
bonet; it is a thoroughly maintain ed policy. For instance, if a pae- senger arrives in plenty of time, after the inspection of his paceport. and after unconsciously being vetted by detectives, ever on the alert for fugitive criminale, he may see the routine inspection of the machine which will shortly take him up.
measures:
Luck and the lack on the part of the enemy of well-placed and provided bases were the principal reasons for the disappearance of the first commerce raiders.
There were two moments in the war, ho thinks, when, if the Ger- man feet had been thrown in for an unsparing offensive, a German victory might perhaps have been won-at the outset of the war, and in March 1916, when the great Ger- man offensive on land in the West began.
On the previous trip the pilot hos signed a form which is a sort of catechiem on the machine's per- formance, and will bring to notice any peculiarity, however alight or Apart apparently unimportant,
Sir Herbert Richmond is pene from this, every conceivable portion trated with the importance of good of the machine is closely inspected leadership, and one of its qualities in accordance with a carefully de- is, as he says, to take subordinates vised routine.
into the leader's confidence:
Each inspector has 1 special examination to perform, and on completion he must pledge his word in writing that all is well.-Daily Mail.
PERJURER SURPRISED.
SPEEDY JUSTICE IN FRENCH COURT.
PARIS,
Recjury in French courts, it was stated during the hearing of a re-
cent murder trial, is increasing and difficult to repress, owing to defects in the French criminal code.
The Paris correctional court, however, dealt in summary fashion
with a false witness named Parrain
The
who appeared before them in a charge of assault brought against & friend of his, a café proprietor named Françon His evidence was flatly contradicted by three witnesses.
The judge called on Parrain to are mobilising for an attack against siderable amount of ordinary busi-picious cue, but he had nothing to Fengtion.
This mobilisation, however, is. Bess to be dealt with besides the gain by the loss of the ship. It retract, but he still maintained that
question of the rejection of the wae difficult to see what reason he he was speaking the truth. generally interpreted as meaning Prayer Book by the House of Com could have for deliberately effecting judge then stopped, the hearing of that the Nationalists intend to drive
the main case and had Parrain put its destruction. mons. out all Chili-Shantung troops, and
Much as I am affected by sus into the dock and charged with per It is probable that the Arch- the remaining Fengtien forces, bebishop will make the first official picion," said Mr. Justice Wright,jury.
A few minutes sufficed for the yond the Great Wall, rather than announcement of the outcome of I cannot find there was a fraudu that there is any intention to in- the bishops conference at the meet- fent throwing away of the vessel charge to be heard, and the as vade Manduria which would in- ing of the Church Assembly on Judgment was entered for Mr. tonished perjurer was sentenced to volve them in trouble with Japan, Monday afternoon.
six month imprisonment. Lind with coste.
In war, secrecy is a good ser vant but a bad master. When the passion for it runs rint, dis
crimination tends to become lost and a point is reached at which all those concerned in the active conduct of a war are acting in the dark.
This leads to disaster. It was, he shows, hot the method of Nel "Bon; and we may add it was not the method of Charles Beresford in his great days...
With the British Navy it is to be feared the state of affairs still prevails, in which-
Secrecy becomes a fetish and important information essential to the successful conduct of war is withheld from the very people to whom knowledge of it is most important.
For the good of the Service he regards free and frank discussion as vital:
To impede discussion is to in duce mental slavery, the worst form of tyranny that can exist.
And he added
Export Credits, With regard to the Export Credits Guarantee Scheme, Mr. Baldwin said that would come to an end next year in the absence of Committee of the House of Com- mons had conducted ecently a searching investigation into the working of the scheme and had ex- pressed themselves Batisfied that is was of practical advantage to the export trade. This certainly was not the time when they could allow any approved assistance of that kind to be dropped. The Govern- ment proposed," in due course, to introduce legislation extending the scheme for a further two years from September next year.
Coal And Raliways.
arrested. That really was the key to a large proportion of the reparis of the Industry Transference Board.
Bright Future.
The re-organisation of industry unfortunately had meant a certain amount of displacement of labour. Undoubtedly reorganisation was going on in this country to an ex- tent which it had never done before,
that
In conclusion, the Premier an- and he found comfort in the industry would nomced that the Government would thought accelerate the execution of a por-emerge, when we were through tion of their scheme for giving rail- these times, better manned, better- ways relief from local taxation, in return for a reduction of freight organised and pulling together bet." charges on certain specified traffic, ter than ever before. For the time with a view to helping the basic being, there was
industages.
labour.
a surplus of
The Government, he said, would
The aim of any nemployment ask Parlament in the autumn to make provision for bringing ruil policy should be, first so far as way freight reduction into opera possible to break up concentrated tion from, December 1st, 1928, in advance of the Government's de- unemployment by the absorption of rating scheme, which operates as as many unemployed as possible in That from October 1st, 1929, thus to some areas that wern prosperous. extent assisting cotl export and the was the view of the Transfer Board, iron and steel industries.
and the Government agreed with it: Mr. Winston Churchill, the Proceeding, Mat Baldwin stated Chancellor of the Exchequer, ex- that the Government had authorised plained that the relief in regard to the Unemployment Exchanges in coal freights would be concentrated Britain to advance travelling costs on export coal, bunker coal and for any man, and family who were steel coal. The first-named would willing but unable to afford trans benefit by 7id. per ton, instead of ler to another part of Britain in 2d, as provided in the Budget, and starch of work; and sise removal steel coal by 101å, instead of 20. expenses. Stich advances would be
in the nature of a loan. Emigration.
Big Migration Scheme. Moreover, said Mr. Churchill, a scheme had been framed to procure the migration of 2,500 boys, 9,000 single men and women and 2,500 families from the mining districts alome, at a cost of £600,000-an- nually
With regard to emigration, ME Baldwin said it was not a case of shifting our unemployment burden on to the Dominions or of wishing to transfer inen overseas simply. because they were unemployed. What really mattered was the like new home. When man conteni plated what was before him here (Continued in previous Column.)
Naval education to-day, with its system of examinations, and promotion for examination re. Finally, added Mr. Churchill, the lihood of a man making good in his sults, furnishes an inadequate Government contemplated a scheme and in many ways an improper for stimulating Empire settlement preparation for high commands which would ultimately cost pro-
bably £2,000,000 annually. and offices in the Navy,