*
·FENG YU HSIÀNG'S SUCCESS.
SHENSI AND KANSU
PACIFIED.
REBELS HUNTED DOWN.
(Wah Tiz Yat Pac).
OPIUM SMOKING ENQUIRY.
BRITAIN OFFERS FUNDS,
OPPOSITION BY JAPAN
AND CHINA.
ITEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGAI, Sept. 23rd.
GENEVA, Sept. 22nd. Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang is stay. The League budget committee ing in Shansi. According to his report to Harshal Chiang Kai has sanctioned a grant of 100,000 Shek, the rebellious elements led Swiss francs towards the expenses by Fan Chung Shin and Yueh Wei Chun have been hunted down, and Shenzi and Kapau are completely pacified.
CAPTURED BY NATION-
ALISTS..
(Fah Tas Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 23rd. The Nationalista, claim that the total number of Chihli Shantung troops taken by them in the re- cent war is in the neighbourhood of 20,000, while about 15,000 rißes have been captured.
Six train loads of prisoners yes. terday arrived at Tientsin. Ac- cording to a reliable report Gen- eral Pei Chung Hai will disband them.
MANCHURIAN REPRESENTA-
TIVES.
(Fah Tiz Yat Pas),
SANGHAI, Sept. 23rd. From official sources it is report ed that the Nanking Government will notify General Chang Esuch Long that the authorities of the Three Eastern Provinces should appoint a number of represents tires to Nanking for the purpose of assisting in the Central Adminis-
tration.
ITALIAN TREATY.
(Fah Tu Yat Poo).
SHANGHAI, Sept. 23rd.
of the enquiry into opium smoking in the Far East. As the expenses will probably exceed 200,000 francs, Britain has offered 30,000, saking that the Powers whose territories
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 1928,
AIR SPEED RECORD |
ATTEMPT.
DELAYED BY CHOPPY SEA.
SATISFACTORY TEST.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}
RUGBY, Sept. 2nd. The weather conditions were still unsuitable this morning for Flight Lieut. Darcy Greig's attempt on the speed record at Calshot. Visibility was good but a strong easterly breese made the surface of the water very choppy in places and prevented a clean take off.
The racing Napier Lion engine are included in the enquiry shall of the Super arine seaplane was contribute the balance.
tested yesterday for the first time
factory results. It is understood that Fight-Lieutenant Greig wishes to make at least four trisi fights before attempting the record.
ISLE OF WIGHT LANDSLIDE.
WOOD SWEPT AWAY:
HUGE FALLS OF CLIFF.
[BAÏTISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
AERIAL SURVEY OF ANTARCTIC.
SIR HUBERT WILKINS' PLANS.
IMPROVING WEATHER
FORECASTS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERTICE:]
NEW YORK, Sept. 21st.
› Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins has
NETWORK OF GAS THE ANGLO-FRENCH
AGREEMENT.
MAINS.
SCHEME" FOR CONFINED AREAS.
AMERICAN PRESS STUNT.
DEVELOPMENT OF GRID
SYSTEM.
HOSTILE ATMOSPHERE.
{THRODOR PEUTER'S AGENOY.)
OnoTM
FBRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE, Į
Rroby, Sept. 22nd. of the proposals in the re left for Montevideo in a steamer port just issued by the National with two acroplanes and pilots. Fuel and Power Committee, which He proposes to voyage in a whaler has attracted considerable atten from Montevideo to Deception tion, is that the Government should Island, which is sixty miles from the Antarctic cont
Sir Hubert in a speech at the luncheon before his departure said
conduct in a limited sin an ex- periment with gas on the lines of
the electrical grid system. It is suggested that a network of gas
Ruoat, Sept. Mad..... A huge landslide began on Thurs- day night and continued through- out yesterday at the famous beauty spot between Ventnor and Black Gang in the Isle of Wight A large stretch of land below the inland cliß where a big fall of cliff took place in July is moving sea ward. The upheaval is so exten- sive that rocks in the ses have been shifted. Hundreds of tons of
base of the cliff, sad, are blocking
means of fights whether the moun confined areas such as those the roadway. Reports sints that
tain ranges were continued along the land that is moving seawards the Pacific coast of the Antarctic between the Humber and Liverpool exceeds sixty acres in extent. Part continent. He believes that an and between Leeds and Birming of a wood has been swept away intensive study of the meteoro ham. A small committee of quali and hillocks that stood for centuries have been moved. Down logical conditions around the poles fed persons, working in conjune to the edge of the ses land has will produce valuable results, Hetion with the National Fuel and been slashed with deep fissures and said that conditions in the extreme
Power Committee, should it is the level of the sea bed for fifty north, and south directly influenced thought produce preliminary results
mains fed by gas produced mainly
Loxoox, Sept. 22nd. Why all this secrecy is the characteristic query of British editorials in relation to the New · Fork Americno", "* disclosures ", re-s
garding the Navy-Pact which London papers point out merely re-echo what has already been pub- lished, for example, in the Daily Telegraph on September 4th How- over, the London papers contend
that official reticence encourages hostile campaigners abroad,
The Japanese and Chinese are since the spring with most satis debrig have already, fallen from the that he proposed to establish by at coke ovens could be laid down that publication. at least lays the
opposed to the grant.
NEW PROFESSIONS
FOR MINERS.
'BUS CONDUCTORS AND WAITERS.
EMPLOYERS SURPRISED.
ĈBRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] „
Rcday, Sept. 2nd.
CHINESE STEAMER SAFE.
LOSS FEARED IN TYPHOON,
(THROUGH REUTER'S JOENCY.!
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2nd. Anxiety felt here over the fate of the Ningahao S.8. Co.'s steamer Fungahin has now been set at rest. She left Shanghai on September 10th, two days before the typhoon, struck Shanghai, bound for Foo chow.
•
She had not been heard of until to-day when it became known that she had reached Foochow safely.
The Prime Minister's appeal to employers to find work wherever possible for unemployed men in the depressed area, has been reinforced by personal calls which are being made on employers by the officials of Labour Exchanges. About three thousand of these calls are being The Tungshin bad a Chinese made per week and they have captain and crew." Although she yielded satisfactory results. The was fitted with wireless she did adaptability of men from the min-not carry a wireless operator.
ing villages has surprised employers
and some of them are successfully
The agreement for the settle- | undertaking work og waiters and ment of the Nanking Incident 'bus conductors, while many are between China and Italy has been concluded. The Italian Minister now engaged on road making and has duly signed the Pact at Peking, other heavier tasks. and it will now be communicated to Dr. C. T. Wang for his, signa ture.
Following the settlement of the Nanking Incident both the Chinese and Italian Governments will pro ceed with the negotiation of a new Sino-Italian Treaty.
CHINESE MARITIME
CUSTOMS.
(Fah Te Fat Pas.)
SHANGHAI Sept. 23rd.. The Nanking Financial Depart ment has officially announced the appointment. of Mr. Edwardes as Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Mr. Edwardes will go to Peiping to-day,
NO MORE SOVIET GOVERN. MENT.
(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.),
NANKING, Sept. 22nd.
CHILEAN REVOLUTION.
GENERAL SEEKS REFUGE.
(THROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.]
SANTIAGO DE CHILE,
September 3rd.. There has been an abortive re volution #t La Paz. General Blanco, the alleged instigator, has taken refuge at the Chilean Lega tion.
NEW PRESIDENT OF MEXICO.
TAKES OFFICE IN IN DE CEMBELL
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MEXICO CITY, Sept. sard. Only formalities remain to be
The Chief of Staff, Ho Ying
completed before Emilio Fortes Ching, has stated to Reuter that Gil, the Minister of the Interior, the Nationalists are dissatisfied assumes the Presidency on Decem- with the Soviet committee form of ber 1st. He will hold office till government and are therefore plan- February, 1830. ning the adoption of the
He will support board system, desiring completely President Calles religious policy.
five
to eliminate Communist methods. It is realised that the presence of Communist members in the Kuo- mintang is a serious mezace. to the welfare of the country, and the party in the coming reorganisa- tion of the Government will see that the ways and methods borrow- ed from the Bolshevista will be flung overboard.
Ho Ying Ching declared that by the end of September the First Army will have disbanded 100,000 men, the Second Army 120,000, the
BIG COLOMBIAN OIL
CONCESSION........
GRANT TO U.S. COMPANY.
CANCELLATION CON TROVERSY.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23rd.
BURIAL OF HURRICANE VICTIMS.
GRIM PRECAUTION-
AGAINST DISEASE:
ar
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2nd. The grim problem of disposing of the bodies of the hurricane vic tims in Florida" to prevent the spread of disease is being solved by the authorities chartering acro- planes to spray whole areas with lime.. Workmen are burying bodies in quicklime.
The American Red Cross has ap- pealed to the public for at least G.85,000,000 for relief work,
FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
|
yards from the beach has been. altered.
ALBANIA'S KING.
RECOGNITION BY BRITAIN,
(THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCY.]
TIRANA, Sept. Brd. Britain has recognised the new Albanian king.
¿
AMERICAN ASIATIC FLEET. DESTROYERS VISIT YOKO- HAMA.
[TH2OUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, Sept. 92nd.
A flotilla of five destroyers of the American Asiatic Fleet has ar rived at Yokohama on an informal visit and will stay until September 28th.
►
MUTINY ON CITY LINER.
FOURTH ENGINEER IN JURED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, 1
PARIS, Sept. 91at.
&
.
and
the weather in distant places auch
India as Florida, China, Egypt, and with ineteorological stations near the poles at leset fifty per cent," and later an even greater accuracy, could be expect, ed from the meteorological bureaux, instead of the present 35 per cent.
BUDDHA AND THE AGED
PEASANT,
MIRACULOUS CURE IN THE WESTERN HILLS NEAR PEKING.
NEW POPULARITY OF
DESERTED SHRINE,
The London Morning Post says bogey that the proposals involved an air agrement and division of ments regarding land armaments:
The Daily Herald asks what use
be served by, ful purpose can advancing the proposal to which, obviously, America would
the seas into sphores, or arrange-
agree.
not
Darkest Mystery.3. The Daily Chronicle says that picion against Britain has been allowed to accumulate through the folly of wrapping the matter in the
within a year which would decide whether the continuance of the investigation was justified.
The cost of the preliminary work | darkest mystery. abould not exceed £10,000.
Co-operate With Universities. The National Fuel and Power Committee appointed by the Board of Trade under the chairmanship of Lord Melchett (formerly Sir Alfred Mond), in a report publish ed to-day, recommends that indus. trial leader in the fuel-producing and fuel-consuming industries con sider the need for co-operation with the Universities by indicating responsible positions that are open in their business for any men trained in fuel technology.
The Board of Education should also consider what might be done Thousands of Chinese are flocking in the institutions supervised by to the pagoda at Palichuang, on them to contribute to the training the way to Patachu in the Western of men with desired qualifications. Hills, writes Mr. A. Cecil Taylor, The iron and steel industry in the North China Standard, should give greater support to its
The Daily News says that if Sir Austen Chamberlain really found more innocent than anyone thought. the compromise hopsful, he
was'
The Times declares that the world being what it is, and a in the United States, France and Presidential election progressing Britain should have published. forthwith the text of an innocuous agreement.
French Complaints.
of the Anglo-French Naval Com
The American newspaper version promise is much commented, upon in the French Press, which em ported phasises the importance of the re-
agreement of the Powers that there should be a limitation of 10,000-ton cruisers carrying 8-inch guna.
two
on the subject, the French news- While the Quai d'Orsay is silent papers complain that the document is presented to the public in such maneuvre against a form as to appear to be a secret the. United States while its real purpose was to explain the Franco-British com- Japan and Italy and to provide basis for negotiations.
Far From: Becret!
A startling story comes to Innd owing to the report that, several Fuel Economy Committee, bath by promise to the United States, weeks ago, one of the images of providing it with sufficient funds Buddha on the edifies stood up and and by actively co-operating in its stepped out of his niche. This is work through placing at its dis- alleged to have cured a peasant who posal all necessary information of witnessed the miracle and immed-new or improved practice, and by lately reported it to his neighbours. referring to it in all cases of diffi It stands, this pagoda, as it has culty,
froom Dunkirk, reporting mutinous outbreak on a British steamer bound for the Far East.
The vessel concerned is the City liner, the s.s. City of Chester. She was bound from the Tyne to Far Eastern ports, and had called at
Dunkirk.
When the vessel was leaving,
The fourth engineer was severe- ly injured in the fracas, but even- tually the mutineers were over- powered. The City of Cheater put
score of Lascars, for reasons which stood for several centuries, dominat- up to the present it has been iming the plain, at Palichuang, eight dustries should consider the de All the large coal-consuming in possible to ascertain, mutinied and attacked the officers, *...*
from Pingtremen. The temple sirability of adopting, on a much which was built around it in the larger scale than at present, the 16th century, during the reign of practice of exchange of experience the illustrious Mings, has long in fuel technology, if possible since crumbled into decay. And the through central associations finane Mings themselves belong to the ages. ed by small levies. But the stately tower still stands, a mocker of time and a source of inspiration to those who cling tenne- iously to the past
back into Dunkirk, and the SEED GRAIN USED FOR FOOD. mutineers were handed over to the
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
RIGA, Sept. 22nd. In consequence of the failure of crops in Ukraine, the Soviet Gov- ernment has decided to organise the feeding of 600,000 people and has allocated 31,000,000 roubles to provide food, cattle fodder and seed grain in the afflicted area,
Three-quarters of 200,000 tons
authorities, the master replacing them with men from Dunkirk and proceeding on the voyage.
fr
A SULTAN IN A SUBMARINE, NAVAL INSPECTION.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Sept. 21st. At Portsmouth today the Sultan of Muscat embarked in submarine. 125, which then performed & num of grain recently purchased inber of diving exercises in Spithead America have already been dis- with the destroyers Umpire and tributed for winter zowing but...in Truant as escorts and the mine some districts hungry people have sweeping loop Ro as 'target. saten the seed-grain and demand ship, at which the Sultan released fresh supplica.
a dummy torpedo.
After the exercises the destroy EQUALITY OF THE SEXES.ers returned to harbour and the
Boas preceded the Lab to Bouth CHINESE COURT'S DECISION. ampton, where the Sultan was
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
SHANGHAL, Sept. 22nd. The action in the Provisional
Third Army 70,000 and the Fourth A United States note to Colom. Army 50,000 men. The armies will bis expresses surprise that the be reorganised into divisions each latter has failed to answer, the of 15,000 men under the direct question regarding the controversy Court, in which Miss Sheng Ai Yee, control of the War Ministry, while arising over the Colombian authori-daughter of the late Mr. Sheng the generalissimate will soon be ties cancellation of the Barco con- Kung Pao, the wealthy Minister of abolished.
cession This is a five million Communications at the time of the Revolution in 1911, sued⋅ Ave male
an estate of 3,500,000 taels, resalt-
HoYing Ching stated. that acre oil exploitation grant to an heirs for her proportional share in Japan's legal interests in Man-American company. churia would receive due protection The Colombian Goverment obed in the Court giving a verdict from the Nationalet Government, jected to the State Department's that the estate must be re-divided and he hoped there would be a energetic intervention in defence change in Baron Tanaka's policy of the concession.
so that the two neighbour coun tries could co-operate to their mutual advantage..
NANKING PAYMENT OF
CLAIMS,
$1,000,000 FOR AMERICA.
{TREOUGH --REUTER'S-AGENCY,}
NANKING, Sapt. 22nd.
CHARGES FOR CODE TELEGRAMS,
BRUSSELS CONFERENCE
DECISION.
Beras Sept. 2nd The Telegraph Conference which has now ended has decided, by 40
In connection with American votes to 8 that the charges for
claims for compensation in Nan code telegrams should be two- king, which total $1,200.000, it is thirds of the ordinary rate outside.
in seven equal shares of which Miss Sheng Ai Yee and her sister, Miss Sheng Fang Yee, are to res ceive one each.
The decision confirms the Nation sist Government's principle that Chinese men and women are on an equal footing.
DUTCH-AIR-MAIL SERVICE,
MACHINES FOR EAST INDIES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 21st. The second of the four Dutch
landed at a berth in Ocean Dock.
A visit to a liner followed. At Portsmouth the Sultan in spected Nelson's flagship Fictory.
AMERICAN SUBMARINE
AGROUND.
CREW IN NO DANGER.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
Yet fine as it is and old as it is this 13-storied edifice was pass ed unnoticed by the majority of tourists, and of recent years the
peasants in the quaint, unchanging village of Palichuang has paid little heed to it. But now.
The Lord Buddha Moves.
Large consumers are advised to pay more attention to the system of buying and selling coal to specification, and colliery owners are urged to classify their coal so far as possible according to some agreed standard.
It appears that the document which the New York American has onearthed was so little regarded as secret that instead of being sent in code from the Quai D'Orsay it
copies being sent to the French was merely typed and multiplied on a duplicating machine. Besides Embassies at Washington, Rome, Tokyo and other Ministries it was. also sent to Geneva.
*U.S. Paper's Statement. the substantial accuracy of the de- Official circles in London admit
tails in regard to the Anglo-French naval limitation proposals given in a document published by the New Fork American, purporting to be a letter addressed by M. Briand, the French Foreign Minister, to French Ambassadors in the chief capitals of the world...
The document shows that Britain and France have agreed that small cruisers and coastal defence sub- marines should be excluded from limitation.
The peasant felt himself go hot and cold in turns, as he told his neighbours afterward, and immed iately fell to his knees in worship. Meanwhile, there is every indica- When he arose he felt that a great tion that America will strongly physical change had taken place oppose the proposals, and will use Beveral weeks ago, so the story and the pain that had gnawed at her building programme as a lever goes, an aged peasant named Chang to rest, panting in the shade of The Washington correspondent of
bim that morning, and caused him to oblige reconsideration, Chi Kuang, who had been suffering the tree, had entirely disappeared. the New York American declares from lung trouble for a number He hastened to inform his relatives that he learns from an authorita of years, chassed to pass by the They hurried to the pagoda, the tive source that President Coolidge and neighbours of the miracle. pagoda on his way from his native crowd they made being augmented proposes to send to the British and village near by, to Pingizemen. by other farmers and tradespeople pressing strong disapproval of the
French Governments The day was hot and feeling tired they met on the way. he availed himself of the shade of
#
Pilgrimages Held.
Note ex-
Anglo-French proposals and indica ting that the United States will a hospitable. tree. Here he rested slumbers, ite marketing and farm and that there will be no further
· Falichuang itself awoke from its continue its building programme while and gazed upon the ing pursuite, and assumed an air serapping of naval tonnage until pagoda. On each
each storey he noticed of importance."-Hsiang cheap the review of the Washington Con that there were small niches ce incense at teg coppers per bundle,vention to be undertaken in 1931, cupied by miniature images of base of the pagoda. Pilgrims with was purchased and burned at the
Reason For Delay," some kind of metal, at least, most all manner of ailments made jour-promise has been postponed pend- Official publication of the com- NEW YORK, Sept. 211t.
of the niches were. Some of the neys daily to Palichuang, to burning the receipt from the other chief It is officially announced by the
"heiang" and pay their respects naval Powers, to whom it had been U. B. Navy Department at Wath images had fallen off and most of
to the Buddha, Mate ington that the American sub the large stone figures were minus
communicated, of their comments marine, 8-17 has gone aground at limbs. Grass grew and birds nested men to the historie village are cussion at the preparatory confer All along the way from Pingtze upon it, as a possible basis for dis Juan 'Point, Almirante Bay in the Panama Canal Zone, Dept
on the corrugated roof. He had small stands whore incense may
ence on disarmament Ang be purchased. Devout worshippers Contrary to rumours continually It is stated that no member of seen all this before, of course, but engage coolies to climb up to the repeated in some quarters the fall the crew has been injured and that one never tired of gazing upon the first storey of the pagoda and paste terms and not only a part of them the vessel is in no danger."
It was later reported that the pagoda, now in semi-silhouette there large square pieces of cloth were communicated to the United
of red or orange-petitions to the States, Japanese and Italian Ko vessel had been rehosted and was against the clear blue canvas of Merciful One proceeding to port under her own the Heavens. And, then
ernments some weeks ago. to hie Palichuang is now commencing nmazement, it seemed indeed there to attract foreigners as well It i understood the Japanese and Italian Governments - haye Chinese, with the remilt that the notified Part and London that was no mistaking it the image of once sleepy little village is now they are disposed to be favourably the Lord Buddha in the third niche crowded with strangers and infest-impressed by the proposals as a EGYPTIAN PREMIER.
on the fourth storey, of the sectioned with beggars, Many Buddhist basis for discussion, posse
pricats have also appeared and {THROUGH REUTERʼ6 aqrect,]: of the edifice which faced him, as bowls are rapidly filled Men Absence of a reply from Washing-
stood up and stepped forward with and women, boys and girls, in blue to the publication of the pro "PARIA," Sept:"| 22nd.” death is announced of
arms raised as though about to cotton gowns and robes of silk; form posal has been delayed in accord Pasha, late Premier of bestow a blessing.
a democratic gathering around the ance with the usual procedure in base of the edifice from sunrise to
such cases. (Continued on next Column), (y
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power.
understood the the Nationalist Europe and three-quartore for the aeroplanes which are lying-from- Government will probably agree to European zone. It was niso de Bolland to the Dutch East Indier
cided that code telegrams should for the purpose of establishing a The be marked CDE instead of COD a local air mail service, has ar Sarwat
rived here.
Egypt. 7
pay approximately $1,000,000
The British claims in Nanking approximate to $10,000,000,
as originally proposed,
OBITUARY.
the