TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF CHIHLI SHANTUNG
WOUNDED.
LEFT ON RAILWAY STATION PLATFORMS.
THE TARIFF COMMISSION'S REPORT.
CELEBRATION OF THE REPUBLIC'S
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY.
While the generals in the north have been busy for the last- few days in settling the problems consequent upon the defeat of the Chibli-Shantung forces, trainlonds of wounded soldiers have deen returning from the battle line. The fate of these wounded men is terrible, for no adequate preparation, have been made for their reception. The platform of Chienmen station is covered with ̈ Chibli-Shantung wounded, a thousand of whom were brought to the station by train on Friday night. A small band of volunteeru are doing all that is possible for the sufferers, but there is no accom- modation" and only a few of the most serious can be admitted to the hospital.
According to the Reuter message, all the wounded, whose ages vary from fourteen to sixty, join in condensing Chu Ya Pù and Chang Trung Chang for compelling them to fight the Fengtienere.
S
Nanking has every intention of making the 17th anniversary. of the establishment of the Chinese Republic a day to be remem- bered. On this day will be celebrated, in addition to the birth- day of the Republic, the successful conclusion of the Northern ex- pedition, which marks the beginning of a new era for China. Not only will all foreign representatives be entertained at Non- king, but Chinese representatives abroad will be instructed to take especial notice of the date.
HORRORS OF WAR.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).
LEAGUE SURPRISED.
(Fah Ti Tat Pao).
PEKING, Sept. 30th
A message from Geneva statęs Chienmen station is at present a that League of Nations circles are terrible sight with Chibli-Shantung surprised to see that the United wounded lying everywhere. Dur States is prepared to give full re- ing Friday night a train bearing a cognition to the Nanking Govern- thousand of these arrived and the ment, following the League Assem- unfortunates were dumped on the bly's decision to reject China's plation A few of the serious application for the renewal of her cases were taken to hospital and sest on the League Council. friends and relatives claimed others, but many were til left dying. owing to the inadequate arrange- ment to receive them.
Since yesterday a group of workers from the Peking Union Medical College have been con- stantly at the station, relieving the sufferers, but there is still no accommodation for those who sur
vive.
FRENCH SETTLEMENT,
(Fah Tez Tat Pao),,·
SHANGHAI, Sept. 30th:
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY OCTOBER 1st,
The French Minister at Peking has received-instructions from the Home Government authorising him. to sign the Nanking Incident Agreement. Consequently a formai exchange of notes by both Govern
SPANISH EXPRESS
WRECKED.
DASHES INTO SLOW TRAIN.
ITALIA SEARCHERS
1928
INSPECTION OF RAF BASES
KILLED
PLANE STRIKES ELECTRIC- CABLE.
SIR PHILIP SASSOON'S TOUR.
AGENCY.]
AVIATORS DROWNED IN RHONE. ཛཱ'', ༈ 'མཱུཧཾ''ཙྪČ
17,000 MILES IN A FLYING BOAT.
MANY - CASUALTIES,
MADRID, Sept. 30th.. Twelve have been killed and twenty-three seriously injured in «
collision between an express and a slow train near Madrigueras in the province of Jean Two first-class coaches were reduced to match- wood. The express was travelling at 40 miles an hour so the time of impact, and both engines were telescoped.
[BRITISH WERKZEM: KERVICE.)
CIVIL SERVANT SENT PRESS COMMENT ON
TO PRISON.
AMERICA'S NOTE.
INFORMATION ABOUT BONNE
ECONTRACT-E
** DISAPPROVETI OF LARGE
COMBINES
DOOR STILL OPEN
FRENCH OFFICIAL VIEWE
ĮTHROUGH REUTER'S AGEANT.
Lostnoy, Sept. 29th The morning newspapers tend
the gloomily the pro edište progress of disarmament.
delivery of Gothe
"A briefly reported by Reuter, (THROUGH REUTER')>AGENCY.] -
Ruzzy, Sept. 20th. Archibald Taylor, aged twenty- Sir Philip Sassoon,
seven, of Farnonte Road, Lee, SE, Undersecre VALENCE OF RHONE, Sept. 30th.
a civil servant employed at the Air An Italian naval scaplane retary of State for Air, left Ply Ministry, was sentenced at Bow-following turning from Spitsbergen, where mouth at dawn to day in a flying street Police Court to two months | American Note, the tone and oon- it had been partfesipating
boas for a cruise through the imprisonment in the second divisiontent of w ich, they opine, was only "in" the
| Mediterranean to Egypt and acromon each of two charges brought to be expected, "The reply is char- Italia search for members of the
the Syrian Desert to Irak. He will under the Official Secrets Act and acterised as dignified, weighty and expedition, was caught-in" a storm in the Rhone valley, and struck a India and on the tour will visit 1906.
then fly down the Persian Gulf to the Prevention of Corruption Act, lucid and written in a friendly
temper. high tension electric cable. There was a violent fast-follow which the plane fell into the Rhone. The fore cockpit became detached and MORE RIOTING IN INDIA.
sank and its occupants, two oficers POLICE COMPELLED TO FIRE. and one N.CO., were killed. Two, ear mechanics who were in the cockpit were only slightly injured.
MOHAMMEDAN KILLED,
· [THROUGH ZEGTER'S 'AGENCY.}
BOMBAY, Sept. 30th.
A serious communal riot is re- ported from Surat on the occasion- of the observance of the Hindu Ganpati festival despite elaborate' police precautions. A number of Hindu and Mohammedan scuffles occurred sad the police were final- ly compelled to fire. One of the Mohammedans was killed and eight injured.
THE REICHSBANK'S, PRESIDENT.
DR. SCHACHT RE-ELECTED.
(THROUGH REVIZE'S AGENCY.)
BERLIN, Sept. 29th
The Daily Telegraph sayı: nearly all the Royal Air Force Mr. L. V. Evans, who prosecuted, stations outside Great Britain. He said that the Attorney General's Anglo-French propos will fly acarly 17,000 miles in five fiat had been obtained for a pro- by the reply
secution in this case under the be killed with the weeks, visiting in that time at least Official Secrets Act. A further fat and in improvement- twenty Royal Air Force bases and had been obtained from the At-phere of the controversy. A baxis of stations and inspecting the units torney-General for another charge discussion accommodating the re The fight is being made in a Black made against Taylor under the quirements of both Britain and burn Iris craft, the largest metal-Frevention of Corruption Act. Americs may be found hulled Bring boat produced by This charge was that Taylor cor sent there is clearly no prospect of EXPROPRIATION LAWS IN Britain, and the type which was ruptly attempted to obtain a gift used by Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air or reward from a firm with whom Minister, in his Baltic cruise last. bis department did business. year. It is fitted with three Rolls Ministry on July 23rd this year for Tenders were invited by the Air Royce Condor engines of 700 b-pa supply of 33,000 practice bombs. each and when fully laden weighs These tenders, when received, were over twelve tons. It has two pilots placed in a file. to' which Taylor
had access. and a crew,
ITALY
THE NEW BILL
At a Council of Ministers held in Rome some time ago su announce- meat was made which deserves more attention than it has received. A scheme for integral reclamation of waste and mountainous land, linked with one for the immediate amend ment of existing expropriation lars, has been drawn up and will be placed before the Chamber of Deputies in the autuma.
Though the full text of this Government Bill is not yet avail- able, enough has transpired, through the Press and interviews given by responsible "people who helped to draft it, to form a fairly The General Council of the comprehensive idea of its xime and Reichsbank has re-elected Doctor meaning. It is described as "the Schacht as President for a period keratone of social and national of four years. The election re- development, the pivot of all that quires the approval of Presidents revolutionary in the Fascist
Hindenborg.
A CHINESE PREMIER.
SEEKS PEACE IN MONAS- TERY.
(THROUGH LEUTER'S' AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 30th.
Lou Tebing Tchieng, the Chinese ex-Premier and Minister of For eign Affairs, has been admitted as
The men are of all ages from fourteen to sixty, and they comments will take place. Subsequent novice to the Benedictine monas pizin bitterly against Chu Yu Puy a joint commission will be intery of St. Andrew's near Bruges. and Chang Taung Chang for forcing tituted for the purpose of investi-He will take the full row on
gating damages and losses to January 1st, 1929. them to fight the Femgtienėse.
French residents "sustained during the incident at Nanking.
THE TARIFF SCHEDULE.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 30th Asked what prospects there are
NEW YORK'S REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
régime," as an example of State initiative, because the State wants an agricultural Italy which suffices for its own population and keeps in its own treasury those milliards which it now spends abroad for
food.
UNDER-SEA AIR VOYAGE.
\SALVING A SCUTTLED
GERMAN SHIP,
EERIE WORK « IN SCAPA FLOW.
SCAPA FLOW, Orkney. "You are now under pressure,” said a mystic voice amid the hiss of rushing air.
I was imprisoned in an iron tower about to explore the secrets of the ex-German battle-cruiser Seydlitz beneath the waters of Scapa Flow, where she was scuttled nine years age, writes a Daily Mail corres pondent,
Compressed air continued to pour into the chamber. First one trap door and then a scoond flew open, revealing the twisted arteries, rust ́ed engines, clogged dynamos, and
useless boilers of the cruiser,
According to Signor Paolo Orana, writing in the Lavoro D'Italia, the
To reach the interior of the State wants well-dressed, well- Seydlits you have to make the housed, and well-washed Italians, journey below the waves by air. and will triumph against the sterile An iron skip like the pan of a huge selfishness of the few, and by bring- ing about integral reclamation of shovel attached to a crane lifts you the land, will also bring about above the noise and bustle of smoky every kind of reclamation. Signor docks and swings you through space De Stefani, former Minister of Finance, now President of the to the edge of a innnel, known as National Association for Land Bean air lock, just out of the water. clamation and Irrigation, says that
Compressed Air Voyage. Italy will see her agricultural' pro
We descended a ladder and wait- duction multiplied, her soil made healthy, her rural population in ed. My guide repped four times creased. - Its demands upon national
"Another Tender, "
A representative of a firm whose name was on the file received, at the firm's address, on August 13th,
a letter marked "Personal and confidentiel." Inside was a type written postcard dated August 11th, stating:-
it
Scrap The Proposals,
The Daily Chronicle says, the four par of British diplomats over not to be attributed to chicanery or the Anglo-French agreement ought wickedness It is nothing worse than stupidity
The Daily Express says that not until the fall text of the Anglo- French agreement is published can judgment be formed regarding the.. reasonableness or otherwise of the very decided objections of the Unit
ed States.
The Daily News says it remains for France and Britain to scrap their precious compromise forth with, and to thank the fates they have not quite managed to ruin beyond hope the cause of disarma
Regarding your tender to the Air Ministry for practice bombs, I wish to inform you in strict confidence that on the prices quot- ed by you little or no part of meat and peace. this order will go to your firm. The Counter-Scheme.
If you wish to send in another tender I am prepared to give you
The Daily Herald fears there is a complete list of the prices quot-little prospect that America's coun- ed by your competitors for the ter-proposal will be accepted; con ..consideration of £100.
trariwise, there is avery prospect of
The letter also suggested that the complete breakdown and the excuse for rovising the tender opening of a period of shipbuild- should be that a mistake had been ing competition accentuated by made by the firm's costing depart diplomatic recriminations. ment. If the firm wished to avail The Morning Poit says it is to themselves of this information anbe hoped that the tone of the note, advertisement was to be placed in which was entirely reasonable and the Evening News and the Daily friendly, will assuage the resent Express 25 follows: "Yea-ment which is being worked up by
F.R.O.T."
The letter ended
a section of the Press.
The Timer says the best that can I have two objects in making he said is that there are clear in- this offer. One is that I am indications in the American note of great financial difficulties, and I
don't agree with orders going to a desire for consideration. The large combines.Yours faithfully, door is not closed and the absence. Wellwisher.
of material results up to now is no condemnation of the sincere efforts that have been made- to achieve
The recipient of the letter 'took it to the Air Ministry, and anthem. advertisement was inserted in the Daily Express according to the terms of the letter."
Japan's Variety,
finance will be returned a thousand on the rusted steel bulkhead with ceived a telephone call at 1 brutal straightforwardness" with.
fold.
To the music of a thousand
Station.
A representative of the firm re- WORK WELL DONE.
spanner. There was a mighty on August 14 from a man who gave Fah Tis Fat Pao).
A. B. HOUGHTON NOMINATED" Naturally enough, large land-rush of escaping air, a manhole the name of Williams. The repre-
AS SENATOR.
owners in Southern Italy and the opened automatically at our feet,sentative
made, arrangements to Islands, where the scheme is to be SHANOBAI, Sept. 30th.
worked out first of all, are less we stepped below, and the manhold {LEUTER'S, AMERICAN EZRVICE.]. enthusiastic. Those of them who closed and was hermetically sealed et Williams at London Bridge General Pei Chung Hei has tele-
will not or cannot contribute their above our heads, pa
The representative was at London graphed to the Nanking Govern-
SYRACUSE, Sept. 29th. alleted share of the costs, which bubbles of escaping compressed air Bridge Station at four o'clock, and ment that the Chihli-Shantpog' rem
The New York Republican State amounts to 3,700 million. lire out of I was made aware of the methods that the Tariff Commission's sche-
a total of 7,500 million, to be ex- nants have been eliminated and
ber was quickly filled with compress that his name: was Williams. that the recent campaign in the dule will be adopted, T. V. Boong Convention has began the nomina-tended over a period of fourteen of modern salvage work. The cham-Taylor went to him and told him
some portion of their land expro. share of reclamation, drainage, ship.
"of a submerged upside-down battle-
Ministry and bad access to in irrigation, provision of drinkin's
Those who work 45ft under the formation, and he was prepared to water, construction "of Tarm roads
sea are accustomed to 40 and 50-ton
TOKYO, "Various opinions are expressed by the, vecuncular Press on the American disarmament reply. The Fichi Nichi compares America's Europesa craftiness," while the Kutumia considers that America's apparent insistence on the ratio she proposed at Geneva shews that he moved by self-interes Consequently the paper takes the occasion to emphasise that "sin is essential if naval disarmament is cerity, disinterest, and fair play? to be achieved.
American Excitement,"
NEW YORK, Sept. 20th. The unusually spirited nature of the newspapers.
North has been crowned with suc.replied to a Reuter representative tion of candidates for political years as from 1929.30,- will have dair once more, and we were ad- They had tea together, and then tess id the Kuomintang unifying that the Commission's report was offices. Alanson B. Houghton was priated. If they cannot do their/mitted into the clammy atmosphere Taylor said that he was in the Ait the American, reply is the topic of
the whole country. He, therefore, being carefully examined, but it nominated Senator, while Albert requests that he should be relieved had been the Nationalist Govern Ottinger, the Attorney-General of ad erection of villages, the State massed of dulled metal hanging over give that information on the terms of a military duties in the Northment's intention ail along to use New York State, was nominated will do, is instead; but the State their heads in buge mud-covered quoted on the postcard. and be permitted to lead his the report as a reference rather for the Governorship.
forces back to Hankow.
17TH ANNIVERSARY.
(Fah Taz Yat Pan.)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 30th. With a view to making the 17th Anniversary of the Chinese Re- publia an exceptional one, both in memory of the birthday of the Republic and of the success of the Northern expedition which brings the so-called-were-of-
than as the basis of a practical
schedule. The Finance Minister deprecated all alarmist reports of tariff increases that would cripple trade.
LIKIN COLLECTION. OFFICES.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY.]
DANGEROUS DRIVING AT SEVENTY-THREE.
SEQUEL TO A FATAL CRASH.
benefits others to the disadvantage
The New Fork American rejoices at the rejection of the suggestion that America had become a party, cannot reclaim which does not.
to the Anglo-French" secret lumps, the sound of lapping waters,
"Something On Account," - alliance. belong to it. And if the State re-
the eerie glimmer of electric lamps,
The Herald Tribune says -
the quires labour in order to carry out and the dull thuds of unseen ham-
He asked the representative whe United States is ready to resume this integral reclamation scheme, mers. and willing hands are not forthBe careful you are going sum named in the card, and was tion but not of the kind which ther he was prepared to pay the ita quest of all-round naval limite- coming, that labour will be re through Piccadilly-circus, said a quisitioned, as well as building, if workman with a Cockney accent, as told that it had been impossible to need be for public atility)
It is but a step further along that we slambered along a jungle of obtain all the sum in cash. Taylor greasy and maddy trunk-like pipes said that if the representative road which, ultimately, leads to the and along the side of the ship. total" Fascistization of the coun-
would give him something on ac try. The individual, according to
Wrecked Galley, the vast Corporation scheme, which I reached the underside of the cunt and undertake to let him have upper deck and stood at the base the balance the next day, he would of the aft gun tower. In one of give him the information. the cook's galleys plates stuck out
of the mud at all angles; steamers
of America.
Official French View,
PARIS, Sept., 29th • That the door remains open to Mr. Thomas Pace, aged 73, an ex-Mayor of Shrewsbury, was fined
further negotiations is the French No-immediate reply is contemplat- 210 in the Shrewsbury police court is now being worked out, is not
official view of the American note. the master, but the servant of the
ed as the question must be, examin- for dangerously driving & motor State. The individual, with his
The representative gave Taylored leisurely from a general stand- He was disqualified from brains, energy and worldly goods,
point, It is considered probable holding a licence for seven years.is subservient to the State, which and saucepans hung disguised and £10, which he put in an envelope, that after an exchange of views, has his well-being at heart, but will distorted, while cabin furniture and and Taylor produced a typewritten France and Britain will reply The caso was a sequel to an not be ruled by these countless units fittings were boddled in corners un-sheet giving the name of contrac separately wh accident on July 21st, in which who make up society. If the dual recognisably coated in mud
The morning papers are very Below one is better able to judge tors and the prices they had quoted. woman was killed and six other scheme is carried out extensively;
The Gaulois declares pessimistic and there appears to be no Tento the side list of the Seydlitz, which The two men left the tes room, that the Anglo-French compromise. persons injured...
why it should not, it will change its salvors are trying to rectify.
The Echo de Paris snyi the re will entertain the foreign Ministers, facilitate the enforcement of tariff down a street for 150 yards, crash gether; for it is an agricultural filled with concrete will be laid like Detective Inspector Canning.
ply leaves the important question Mr. Fry, sentencing Taylor to of small cruisers in the air without Consul and representatives at sutonomy, the Kiangsu Provincia!ed into a wall, and rebounded into country. Little by little large giant shoes under the forward part
a cottage. The dead woman was estates, held by patricians who have of the ship. Theu with divers two months' imprisonment on each opening the way to bargain." Nanking on this occasion. Every Government has decided to abolish taken from under the car.
inherited them from faz-off for directing Operations from "below"
The Ere Nouvelle regrets. Chinese representative abroad will
Bir Lewis, for the prosecution, bears, will be broken up and pass they will-be-slipped into position charge, to run concurrently and America is unappreciative the nineteen litin collection offices
said that it was dangerous for a to other occupants, who have their and made ready for a large pro that would be served in the pacific significance of the be ordered to give an at home
in the Kiangning and Woosung man of 3 to drive high-powered tenure, but not possession, from the portion of the 24,700 tons bulk of second division, owing to the high French agreement
State
character Taylor had borne. to foreign officials on this occasion, districts.
"car down a busy street.
the Boydlitz to, rest upon them,
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NAKKING, Sept. 30th. In accordance with, the resolu- tion of the recent National Finance Conference to abolish likin before
China," the Nanking Foreign Office the end of the year in order to It was stated that the car raced the country's social structure alto Soon two huge 60-tons steel wedger and outside Taylor, was stopped by is dead.