FEARS OF TROUBLE JAPAN'S ATTITUDE
AT JEHOL.
FENGTIENESE BACKING,
POSSIBLE CLASH WITH NATIONALISTS.
[TocoM REUTER'S AGENCY.]
42
PEKING, Oct. 1stà. Reliable foreign authorities. con- firm the fact that owing to the Nationalist Government refusing to
accept any of the three nominees that Chang Hauch Liang has pro- posed to replace Tang Yu Lin se Tutung of Jebol, Chang Hauch Liang has decided to support Tang Yu Lin it Fing Chen Wu attacks bim. Five Fengtien army corps are moving to reinforce Tang Yu Lin.
The Fengtien line runs roughly along the upper Luanho in the vicinity of Feog. Ning, Chengtch, Jebol, while Fang Chen Wu's azmy ie round Kupeikow and Haifeng- kow:
Apparently none of Yen Hai Shan's or Pei Chung Hsi's troops are moving at present to support Fang Chen Wu, but it is generally believed that neither Nanking nor Fengtion desires the clash and both still hope that it will be averted.
SUPPRESSION OF BANDITRY.
Wah Tz Yat Pao).
SHANGHAI, Oct. 15th.
In spite of General Chang Hauch Liang's efforts to persuade the Nationalist authorities not to make
any hostile move against General Tang Yu Lin, the dictator of Jebol, Marshal Chiang Kai Shek has appointed General Fang Chen Wa the commander for the sup pression of banditry in Jehol, in- timating that to General Fang is assigned the duty of leading an expedition against Generai. Tang,
ARSENAL - TRANSFERRED.
[THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.
PERINO, Oct. 18th.
A message from Taiyuanfu Baya thar Yen si Shan has recently dismantled the arsenal, erected by Chang Tso Lin at Tientsin and has transferred "the machinery to Ta yuunlu. Hence Taiyuanfu is turn. ing out more and better munitions than before the downfall of Chang Ts Lin
FRENCH TREATY.
(Wah Tu Fat Pan).
SHANGHAI, Oct. 16th. Dr. "C. T. Wang, the Nanking Foreign Minister, communicated a Note to the French Minister on the problem of treaty revision, The gist of the Note was as f lows:-
In order to improve the friend ly relations which happily subsist between China and France, the Nationalist Government sincerely wishes to open negotiations with the French Government for the revision of the
Sino- existing French Treaty and the settlement of other outstanding problems upon the basis of equality and mutual respect,"
TO CHINA.
MR. YADA'S VISIT TO
NANKING...
JAPANESE LEGATION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Toxxo, Oct 18th. In giving prominence to
the cables of Mr. Yada's departure for Nanking, the vernacular papers attach significance to his forth coming
the
conversationa, with
Nationalist leaders.
That this is justified seems clear from the comments of the Foreign Office spokesman who intimated that the Government was giving its former Conservative stand, and was hopeful that the conversations might lead to the inauguration of
formal negotiations. In the future.
педт
Though Mr. Yada has been given no powers to negotiate, it is under- will sound the stood that be Nationalists all outstanding questions, on which account the Government is eagerly awaiting his reports.
On
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1928.
BARON HUENEFELD REACHES TOKYO.
A FORCED LANDING,
مت
MACHINE SLIGHTLY
DAMAGED.
[THROWON REUTER'S AGENCY.}
AMUNDSEN RELIC
FOUND?"
DENTED PETROL TANK.
ILLEGIBLE PENCIL
MESSAGE.
(TEROUGH SKUTER'S AGENCY.)
Tokyo, Oct. 8th.
OSLO, October 19th. A petról tank, believed to have Losing his way in a heavy rain- storm, Baron von Huenefeld made belonged to the French aeroplane a forced landing near Tamagawa in which Amundsen was lost, has reservoir on the outskirts of Tokyo been brought to Valdersund by a Shanghai. The machine was dam which was somewhat dented, still at 2.30 after a non-stop flight from Norwegian fishing boat. The tank, aged but the occupants were unhurt, held thirty litres of petrol.
Owing to the stormy weather von Iwo almost illegible lines of
took Huenefeld course on purpose to avoid the posXL,
a" roundabout pencil, inscribed only accie 20 were decipherable and are sibility of crashing into the moun interpreted to mean ** accident" followed by the position when the tains, which were hidden by clouds.
machine was forced down.
He flew over Tokyo but was | unable to sight the aerodrome, and so, as gasoline was running short, he was forced to land on the out- skirts.
Closer inspection has revealed that the machine is only slightly daniaged,
LIBEL IN KERENSKY'S NEWSPAPER.
PRINCE WINS HIS CASE.
(THROUGH RITTER'S AGENCY.]
WAS
PAR18, Oct. 17dh. Provided they are satisfied of
The result of the libel action the Nationalists' sincerity, Baron brought by Prince Yussupoft Yoshizawa will probably, be eant to against the manager of the local Nanking to open regotiations after Russian newspaper Dui, M. Keres-
who sky,
formerly Prime the enthronement, though it is Minister of Russia, is announced. emphasised that the proposed visit The action was brought owing. must not be construed as an into an allegation that the Prince to had taken an important part in diention that Japan intends transfer the Legation At the the conspiracy to assassinate
and Rasputin. time, taking Turkey Ancora as a precedent, it is con sidered like that a diplomatic presentative may be stationed at Nanking if everything is satisfac factory.
same
The Government is also under- food to be considering the ques tion of raising the statur, of the Legation at Peking to an Embassy) if Nanking appoints an Ambass dor to Tokyo, as the necessary funde for this purpose have alrendy bern voted in 1924.
HUNGARIAN WORKERS
EXPELLED.
TO LESSEN UNEMPLOYMENT.
[TEKOUGH, REUTER'S LOINCY.}
Burkharest, October 18th.
A semi-official announcement de- nies that the decree of expulsion of Hungarian workers from Tran- sylvania is ascribable to political motives. It was drafted in con. sultation with representatives of workers' unions with the object of lessening unemployment.
RUBBER INVESTORS'
„ASSOCIATION.
COMMITTEE ELECTED.
{THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Oct. 17th.
A meeting of rubber investors has passed a resolution to form Rubber Investors' Association in order to safeguard the interests of shareholders in rubber companies.
This decision has been taken owing to the fact that the selling price of spot rubber in Mincing Lane is practically fixed in New
The meeting elected a commitice for the purpose of completing the formation of the Association.
The French Note in reply to Dr. C. T. Wang expresses France's agreement and sympathy with the Nationalist Government in the wish to revise the obsolete sections of | York. the existing Sino-French. Treaty.
TRADE MARKS IN CHINA.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Recy, Oct. 17th. The procedure adopted by the Nanking Government now that the Trade Mark Bureau has been re- moved from Peking to Nanking, is causing some apprehension.
The British Government accipted. the China trade mark law of 1923, and British subjects were according- ly advised to register their marka with the "Peking Bureau which was then established.· ́
CHINA MERCHANTS' SHIPS
SHIPS IN COLLISION.
YUNGHSING - SUNK WITH.
LOSS OF LIFE,
(THROUGH URUTZE'S AGENCY.].
SHANGHAI, Oct. 18th:
A serious shipping casualty is
M. Kerensky was fined sixteen francs and «ordered to insert the sentence ten times in his news- paper.
THE CESAREWITCH.
LLOYD GEORGE AND THE
BOOKIES..."
REFUSES TO MAKE A BET.
(BRITISH WIRELESS AREVICH. Į
DR. ECKENER'S PLANS FOR AIR MAILS.
LETTERS MORE PROFITABLE THAN PASSENGERS.
BIG AMERICAN LOAN.
(AKUTEN'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
New York, Oct. 17th.
STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK.
REORGANISATION OF CARGO
SERVICES,
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR VOLUNTEERS.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
!
-
MELBOURNE, Oct. 18th, Seven hundred licences have
DARING ATTEMPT ·
ON ATLANTIC.
**GIPSY MOTH" VENTURE.
BRITISH AVIATOR SETS OUT.
(REUTE'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
Sr. Joan'a, New Foundland,
October 18th. Dr. Hugo Eckener, the designer
Lieut-Commander. Macdonald has and navigator of the Graf Zeppe | already been issued to lumpers in returning to Europe in the giant cide to-morrow in favour of re-ed attempt to cross the Atlantic in lin, has announced that before Melbourne and if the seamen de started on his daring, unaccompani
sumption of work, as it is anti-a “Gipsy Moth" seroplane measur cipated they will, the shipowners ing 8 feet over all, and which un- will make a general move towards laden weighs 7 cwta a complete réorganisation of Inter- State passengers and cargo services. By midday thousands of strikers had taken out licenses and three hundred had picked up work on
aimhip, he will arrange for an serial tour of the Middle West of U.S.A.
He plans to take as many passen gers as possible charging adequate fares, after which he intends to
interview leading American capitalists with the object of in- teresting, them in a big scheme for fostering airship development in
America.
According to the details issued,
MacDonald's "Gypsy Moth" has an So-horse-power engine with an open cockpit, compared with Lind- bergh's 230 hp. engine and closed in machine.
Ita average speed is he will seek a can of approximate coal ships. The Victorian branch about 90 miles an hour. It carries ly $14,000,000, for the purpose of of the Seamen's Union has decided non-stop capacity of 3,000 miles. 100 gallons of petrol and has a building four super-airships and to man all ships, and the ship- Alcock and Brown in 1919, flying at 'cho necessary terminals ia the owners are preparing to recommis- roughly the same speed with a 75 United States and in Europe, to sion all interstate steamers: horsepower engine, made a record enable a regular commercial Trans- thousand volunteers are continuing crossing of 18 hours. MacDonald ocean Bervice.
to work vessels at the Victoria carries a quart flask of coffee and Dock and Port Melbourne, and the two dozen sandwiches. His wife, shipowners have declared that who lives in London, first learned volunteers will receive preference of the flight by a broadcast an with the exception of coal vessels.
Broay, Oct. 17th. For the first time in his life, Mr. He believes that a regular Trans- Lloyd George, the Liberal leader, atlantic service can be started and to-day attended a race meeting. He that when it is fairly established, was staying near Newmarket as the it will be more profitable to carry guest of Lord St. Davids, and paletters at 50 cents each, than pas the invitation of his host, took the sengers at 83,000 each. opportunity to go to the Newmar- ket meeting.
The big Autama bandicap, the Cesarewitch Stakes, was the prin cipal item in the programme, and Mr. Lloyd George showed great in- terest in the proceedings, both in the paddock, and on the race-
course.
Mr. Lloyd George refused every temptation to make a bet, though. many bookmakers were willing to give him generous adds.
To Press interviewers, he defend- ed his presence the racecourse by saying that he believed anything which played so great a part in the social life of the nation 43 horse racing demanded. his atten-
SPANISH AIR MAIL SERVICE. AIRSHIP ROUTE TO SOUTH ton.
AMERICA.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 17th. It is announced that the Post Office Administration has signed an agreement authorising the Transaera Espanola Company to. use airships for the purpose of transporting correspondence bc. tween Seville and Buenos Aires.
It is stipulated in the agreement that the time, taken in transportA-: tion must not exceed four days.
This announcement follows the semi-official statement issued in Madrid yesterday to the effect that the Transaera Espanola Company recently signed a contract with the Zeppelin Company, under which the Graf Zeppelin, after fring the Atlantic and returning, will be handed over to the Spanish Com pany to be used in a regular com mercial service under the Spanish flag between Spain and South
America...
DOCUMENTS OF NAVAL COMPROMISE.
"The Cesarewitch resulted as lowe:
Sir Matthew Wilson'a Aretic
Stär
Mr. Sanford's Blancona
NEW BRITISH OIL COMPANY FORMED.
ANGLO PERSIAN AND A.P.C.
· [TAROTON (REUTER'S AORVUY.)
LONDON, Oct. 17th. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Asiatic Petroleum Com- pany have formed a new company
to be called the Consolided Petro- acquire the installations and dis- leum Company. Limited, which will tributing facilities belonging to the East Africa, Egypt, the Sudan, founding companies in South and
fol-Ceylon."
Palestine, Syria, the Red Sea, and
M. Goudehaux's Accalmie .... 3 Fifteen ran. .. Won by three lengths, with 1 lengths between second and third.
BETTING: Arctic Star, 0/1; Blan- cona, 95/1; Accalmie, 25/1.
SEAMEN'S PRESIDENT TO REMAIN.
A
HAVELOCK WILSON'S
DECISION.
BRITISE. WIRELESS SERVICE]
REGRY, Oct. 17th.
Two
WIRELESS AND VAUDE-..
VILLE.
BIG AMERICAN MERGER,
nouncement.
No Great Experience. England and America is capti- vated by the unassuming courage of this British naval ex-officer, who arrived at St. John's quietly with a small machine and the "big idea" to embark on his venture with the minimum of publicity. He pre-
NEW YORK, October 7th. Merger of the Radio Corporationously had only 80 hours Aying of America with the Keith Albec experience. and the Orpheum vaudeville circuit and film booking offices has been formed through a holding company which will direct the three concerns, according to the Morning Tele graph.
Other reports said that the Radio Corporation has purchased an in- "terest in the vaudeville circuits.
David Sarnoff, vice-president of the Radio Corporation of America, ports. refused to comment upon the re
His machine is not equipped with wireless or floats though extra fuel tanks give a flying range of 35 hours.
Macdonald had an exciting ad- venture in a solo fight to Baghdad
a tyre fyer earlier in the year, when he descended in the Syrian Desert where a motor car collided with his machine. He had a fur- ther mishap on the return journey when he was forced to land "among. "It is believed in some quarters the Arabs and taken prisoner until that the new sound film develop-he smuggled out a message with the news of his plight to the Italian Armoured Car Depot.
"
The new company will operate the distribution on the joint a ecunt of the founding companies which will have equal shares and equal representation on the Boardent, which has thrown motion pic ture and vaudeville interests into a state of the utmost confusion through its sudden spread in popu larity, would be furthered by the reported merger.
of Directors,
OBITUARY.
SIR FRANK DICKSEE,
PRESIDENT OF ROYAL ACADEMY,
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Rosy, Oct. 17th. The death is announced of Sir
Lehman Brothers well known in- vestment bankers, later announced that discuesions were "under way" looking toward such a merger.
RACE MEETING RIOT AT AUCKLAND.
SYDNEY, October 7th. of the Auckland Spring Meeting
A riot occurred at the opening Following a bad start, half the field was left and several other jockeys pulled up. The judge consulted with the starter and then hoisted the winning numbers.
Frank Dicksee, the. President of PROGRAMME BE ABANDONED. the Royal Academy, who would It is understood that in his have retired from the presidency. opening address at the annual next month having reached the age Conference of the National Union limit of seventy-five. His career as of Seamen to-morrow, Mr. Havelock an artist was one of unbroken suc Wilson will announce that he has cess. For Victorian art, of which reconsidered his decision to retire bis work was representative, he from the Presidency. He has re- had an affection and loyalty which solved to accede to the general wish never faltered and on his election of members and remain on the as President of the Academy he bridge during what is regarded as publicly proclained his dislike of the critical period in the history of the modern tendencies of art.
WHITE PAPER PRINTED BY the Union..
BRITAIN:
J
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
www.
REGBY, Oct. 17th. A British White Paper compris. ing the relevant documente bear- compromise is now printed. ing on the Anglo-French naval
It will be released for publication 4 soon as the British Government learns that the French Government have completed their preparations for issuing à similar document.
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER'S
Mr. Wilson's decision has been largely influenced by the expulsion of the Seamen's Union from the Trades Union Congress and the possiblity of an effort being made organise the seamen in another
Union..
}
BOOT FAMINE IN RUSSIA,
GOVERNMENT" BLAMED FOR
CRISIS.
(Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, the famous English painter, was born in 1853. He was an associate of the Royal Academy as far back as 1881 Royal Academician ten years later, and President of that He first august body since 1924. exhibited at the Academy in 1876. Among the pictures he has paint ed are Harmony, Evangeline, The House Builders, The Symbol, The Love Story, Too Late, Romeo and duliet, Chivalry, Memories. The Passing of Arthur, The Redemption of Tannhauser, Mountain of the Winds, The Crisis, Startled, Funeral of a Viking, The Magic
course.
A steeplechase was next run while crowds were swarming over the A woman was knocked down by a rider-less horse, and several people fainted. The crowd became so bostile that the remaining races were abandoned.
SCENE IN LONDON THEATRE.
FRENCH THOUGHT-READER HUSTLED OFF THE STAGE,
(TEROCOM AKUTER'S ADENCY.)
LONDON, September 30th. Alhambra Theatre yesterday during A вселе was created at the Crystal, A_Reverie, Paolo and Rras, Oct. 17th.
Francesca. The Mirror, The Con French ex-soldier, Gaston, when a a thought-reading performance by a Soviet Russia is suffering at pre-
fession, Dawn, An Offering, The member of the committee selected seat from a serious boot famine.
LA Belle It is officially estimated that the Two Crowns, Yseuit,
ber regnired.
curable.
LUCK. SHOOTS A FINE LIONESS,
[BRITISH WINKLESS BEKVICZ 1
Rudar, Oct. 17th. H.R. H. the Prince of Wales Netice has now been given that reported in a message from Tien- spent part of yesterday at Menge, the native capital of Uganda, where new registration will be required tsin, which states that the China at the Nanking Bureau.
Steam Navigation's natives in full war array carried This Merchants
Fifty State cobbling workshops implies the further payment of fees Company's sa fleintai collided of the big sham fight in honour have been opened in Leningrad amounting, in the case of some with and sank the s.s. Funghsing, of the occasion.
The Prince witnessed the evolu-alone to attempt to deal with the firms which have a large number belonging to the same company.
situation, whilst there are plans to of marks to protect, to thousands The linintai was on its way from ions with great interest.
The Duke of Gloucester, who is open others all over Russia, of pounds Foreign Ministers are Taku to Shanghai, while the Fung-
The Soviet Leather Syndicate the demanding that Nanking ring was bound from Newchwang on a big game expedition in Ugan-blames the Government for, the da, has numbered a magnificent crisis. Under special measures Bureau should recognise the marks to Tientsin.
specimen of an African lioness taken by the Government, private already registered without exacting the payment of further fees on their
among his "bag."
traders and tanpers have been compelled to liquidate their stocks.
Account.
about
The collision occurred twenty miles off Taku. The Yang ising was badly holed and sank quickly, and it is reported that 10 members of the
and GO passengers of the three hundred on board were drowned.
crew
ITALIAN MINISTER
WELCOMED.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE ADMIRALTY.
SUCCESSFUL END TO GREAT FEAT.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
(Wah To Fat Pao),
Rugay, Oct. 17th, The firm of Swan and Hunter, of SHANGHAI, Oct. 18th. Wallserid, have received a message
AMERICAN RAILROAD
MERGER.
WASHINGTON, October 7th. Prospects for the greatest railway merger in history, linking the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific lines, appear bright,
Such a merger has been in pros Pect for some time and they im proved greatly yesterday when spokesmen for both roads submitted a modified plan for such a merger. receive approval of the Interstate It is thought that this plan may Commerce Commission.
The suggestion has been made. that the commission approve the scheme with reservations providing for cancellation in the event that any nation-wide merger plan may shape up in future, as it is desired that no railway "octopus" be al lcwed for form.
GUN-RUNNING TO CHINA.
WASHINGTON, October 8th. Review of the conviction of three alleged Chinese munitions exporters was denied to-day by the D.S. Supreme Court.
In this case, K. C. Lee, Chow Fook Gug, and Henry Kuhn, of San. Francisco, were found guilty of ex- porting munitions to China illegally aboard the s.s. Tulbot.
The munitions route ar Hong Kong,
tetra
were mized en"
THE NOISE NUISANCE. STATEMENT BY BRITISH HOME OFFICE.
number of pairs of boots which it Dame sans Merci, A Duet, The from the audience demanded to be will be possible to manufacture in Ideal. The Shadowed Face, The allowed to blindfold Gaston in his Soviet Russia this year will he End of the Quest, The Light In- or way instead of Gaston's way.
Gaston declined and the commit- 1,000,000 pairs short of the num- carnate, The Moon Maiden, This
for Remembrance, Daughtera of tee-man protested to the audience Owing to a shortage of leather, Eve and portraits of Lady Aird, against foreign performers crowding The Britons from engagements.
RUGBY, October 3rd. new boots are practically unpro- The Duchess of Buckingham, Some shouted "Give him a chance, The nuisance of street noise, which increased in recent chioness Camden, The Hon. Mrs. but Gaston was bustled from the has greatly Ernest Guinness, Mrs. Frank Shut-stage.
years in a large towns, was last wort
It was discovered that the com- week the subject of a conference mittee-man was William Tree, an between the Home Secretary, Sir Australian thought-reader, who William Joynson-Hicks, the Minis- early in 1925 gave a Royal perforter of Transport, Colonel Ashley, mance before the King. Tree and the Heads of both Departments, claims to have performed Gaston's and steps to abate it were consider feats 20 years ago when he toured ed. Africa, Australia and the Far East with his wife. Tree says that a London engagement is hopeless unless one possesses a foreign name.
THREE DAYS IN THE WATER.
WORLD'S ENDURANCE
RECORD.
[RECTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICE!
New York, Oct. 776.-
ADVICE TO WORKERS.
(Woh T Fat Pag).
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19th. The headquarters of the Central Kuomintang have issued a lengthy statement advising the workingmen "throughout the whole country not to resort to strikes as it is an error to think that in this way. they-can-secure any personal-ad- -The-Italian-Minister-arrived-at-from the Admiralty extending-con-record of 72 hours, 2 minutes, 40 vantage. The workers, as eiti Nanking yesterday morning. On gratulations on the safe arrival of zens of China, it emphasises, the same afternoon, Dr. C. T. the floating dock at Singapore, #should always have the welfare Wang "entertained im at the The message expresses high up- of the country in mind if they wish Central Government House, and in preciation of the efforts made by to increase their personal com- the evening Dr, Wang catertained all concerned in carrying through
in the Foreign. Office."
The towing operation, successfully.
forts.
A world's endurance, swimming seconds, has been established by Miss Lottie Schoeminel.
This beats the record of 65 hours, minutes, put up by Jim Cherry, an ex-gailor at Los Angeles on Monday...
EXPLOSION IN PENNSYL- VANIA.
READING, Penn., October 7th, A group of gas tanks exploded a great fire here yesterday and followed the blast.
Estimated damage to the Carpen- ter Steel Company as a result of the explosion and blaze has been set at a million dollars,
Four wire mills were destroyed.
GERMAN IMPERIALISTS.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S
CLOTHES.
The Home Office statement says:- noise is largely due to the increase 34 The increase in the volume of.
of motora and of the uses to which motors are put and to abuse of various types of horns. The Minis ters have decided that draft re zulations directed to abating. the nuisance of motor traffic noise SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28th. should, be prepared. Such regula- Mr. Charles Chaplin's baggy tions will be the subject of consulta- trousers, large-eized shoea, shrunken tion between the Minister of Trans- SAICON," October 3rd. coat and spindly walking stick have port and motoring organisations A message from Berlin reports been declared to be his own per- and representatives of public autho the creation of a party to be known sunal property. They must not be rities, whose views will be carefully as the German Kaiser's Party, copied by other notors The State considered. After the regulations which intends to prevent the monar Court of Appen! has decided in have been made the police will be chial idea from being extinguished. favour of Mr. Chaplin after a long advised by the Home Secretary as The party seems to have chosen hearing of a lawsuit brought by to the steps to be taken to ensure Prince Wilhelm, the eldest son of the comedian against Mr. Charles their observance with a view to the ex Crown Prince, as heir to the Admor, who had copied the Chaplin decreasing the nuisance from which throne.
outfit."
20 many people now, suffer."