THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 1928.
RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF MARSHAL NEW RECORD FOR
LI TSAI HSIN.
THE NATIONALIST. FLAG IN MANCHURIA.
JAPAN AND CHINA IN CONFERENCE.
SERIOUS OUTBREAKS OF PLAGUE IN SHANSI.
According to the vernacular papers Marshal Li Tein Esin will only make a rapid visit to Canton to hold a conference on the disarmament and rehabilitation of Kwangtung, after which he wil return to Nanking. It is even reported that he has tendered his resignation as Chairman of the Canton Political Commission.
The conversations between Mr. Wang and. Mr. Yads at Yanking are proceeding slowly but on, the whole satisfactorily. One of the chief stumbling blocks to agreement is likely to be the Tainan incident, in connection with which there remain to be settled many thorny questions, such as the evacuation of Japanese troops and the payment of an indemnity.
There have been a number of outbreaks of plague in the north of a more or less serious character. In Manchuria the recent epidemic is reported to be subsiding, only fifteen fresh cases being reported in the last ten days. The conditions however are At Fenchow, about 15 miles west of more seriops in Shansi, -Taiyuan, where an outbreak of bubonic plague was reported about a week ago, there have now been thirty deaths, while over & hundred fatalities have heen reported from Paotowchen by the Chinese medical parties have been dis Tutung of Scaiyuan.
There has also been
a wide- patched to both these centres.
spread outbreak of "a surt of vellow plague" at Taiyuan itself. but this has not been followed by fatal results
NANKING "CONFERENCE.
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(THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, Oct. 23rd.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
fah Tz Fut Pas), "
SHANGHAI, Oct. 94th. The conversations between Mr. The Nationalist State Council C. T. Wang and Mr. Yada were has ordered that the Chiversity carried on for over eight and a Council be changed into an educa was tion department which will control half hours to-day, and it generally expected that after such a educational affairs throughout along. sitting some agreement the whole country. would have been reached.
It is officially announced that some understanding On major points has already remalted, but in view of the great importance of the problems involved, and the, many difficulties to be faced, Mr. Wang and Mr. Yada believe an
+ other sitting is necessary.
They are, therefore, meeting
Again to-morrow morning,
The Stumbling Block,
it
MANCHURIA'S FLAG.
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PROHIBITION. ·
$7,000,000 FINES FOR LAW BREAKERS.
SMUGGLING' SEIZURES.
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ANOTHER FIRE AT PORTUMNA.
PRINCESS MARY'S IRISH HOME.
SUDDEN CESSATION OF COMMUNICATIONS, -
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24th. The Department of Justice states
DUBLIN, Oct. 24th" that nearly 60,000 persons were Communications with Portumns, prosecuted under the prohibition the Irish home of Princess Mary law in the year which ended on and Viscount Lascelles, suddenly June 30th. Convictions were ob- cassed last night, after urgent tained in eighty per cent of the calls for help had been received at cases and fines amounting to over Athione and Limerick. It is now 87,000,000 imposed, the highest total | learnt that a great fre is" consum since the law was passed.
As regards smuggling of liquor
into the United States, the coast
guards sited twenty-twe foreign and nearly four hundred domestic
ing the technical schools in which
Princess Mary displayede great in terest in the course of their recent vieh The fire is threatening other buildings including the convent.
The civic guards were rushed to the scene from the neighbouring PRINCE OF WALES VIGIL. towns and the military and fire
brigade were sent from Athlone.
craft.
ALL-NIGHT WATCH BY SICK- BED.
GEN. TROTTER TAKEN ILL.
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(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Rugar, Oct. 23rd. Brigadier-General G. F. Trotter, Groom-in-waiting to the Prince of Wales, who was accompanying him on his tour in East Africa, has had to leave the Prince owing to neute heart trouble.
General Trotter had a sudden
attack" and "collapsed in the river boat Lungard while the party were erossing Lake Albert.
The Prince wired a message, to be sent the quickest possible way, to Government House at Entebbe and to Kampala for medical sup- plies.
Two Earlier Outbreaks. This is the third serious outbreak of fire within a short period on the properties of Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles.
The stables at Goldsborough Hall, their Yorkshire home, were destroyed on Septernber 8th, and six valuable race-horses were burnt to death.
Following this there was a seri ou outbreak in the stables of.. Portumna Castle just before Prin. I cess Mary and her husband were
to arrive there on a visit, and in this instance very "grave suspicions wore entertained that the conflagra. tion had been deliberately caused, as four empty petrol tine were dis. covered in the harness room of the Castle,
AMERICA BUILDING SHIPS.
PEKING, Oct. 24th.
the Fun Min,
Fortunately, AL Indian tele- According to Chiang Kai Shek's representative graphist was working on the tele- LOAN FROM SHIP CONSTRUC-
TION FUNDS. at Mukden, Fang Peng Jen, has graph line close by; and the Prince releg aphed that as a result of ordered him to tap the wire and subsequent negotiations between get the message through without Yeh Chi and Chang Hsueh Liang, delay. at the Fengtienese within
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
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LINKING UP THE AMERICAS.
SERVICE BY RAIL AND 'PLANE.
DAILY ELIGHT TO WEST INDIES.
{EKUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]
NEW YORK, Oct. 23rd. A through air and railway 138- senger service between the United States and the West Indies is being inaugurated on January 10th next, as the first step in a gigantic scheme fer-linking up North, Central and South America.,
other aeroplaner will take "passen- gers to Santiago de Cuba, Haiti," Santo Domingo and San Juan.
It is proposed later to extend the system
Central and South
America.
to
SANDINO'S BRUTAL MASSACRES.
BANDITS GORILLA TACTICS.
REIGN OF TERROR.
¦ REUTER ́S AMERICAN SERVICE)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23rd. Allegations of terrible atrocities by the followers of the Nicaraguan insurgent leader, General Sanding, are made in a report to the U.S. General Frank R. McCoy, the State Department, by Brigadier-
wa's ap-
American officer, who pointed by President Coolidge as
the chairman of the Commission to supervise the Nicaraguan Novem
WORLD COTTON
SUPPLIES.
BRITISH EMPIRE'S. 30 PER CENT.
INCREASING OUTPUT.
[DITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Roaur, Oct. 23rd. The British Empire now produces thirty per cent of the world's cotton,
Empire Marketing Board in an This statement is made by the
announcement which it makes to-
day regarding the remarkable pro- gress of British cotton-growing..
It is recalled how for centuries
·Britain was the home of cotton General Sandino has persistently manufacture while the raw coltan
ber elections.
States of
Trains will run daily from New York. to Miami where aeroplanes will be waiting to whisk the pas- sengers to Havana. From Havana, refused to accede to the surrender all came from overseas, largely
in spite of the failure of the from the Southern Liberni revolution, and since America The American crop fail- American marines were landed, heed during the American Civil War, has been carrying out guerilla war spreading misery and famine fare against them, raiding Ameri among hundreds of thousands of. can property, and looting.
British cotton-workers. The latest outrage attributed to Thirty years ago, one of the his followers occurred during the | Master Spinners of Lancashire night of October 1st, according to sent ten tons of cotton seed to General McCoy's report
The experi- ment succeeded. More and more of the great open spaces of the Empire are being planted and sown to ensure a supply of raw cotton for the spindles and looms of Lancashire.
OBITUARY.
WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 23rd.
An armed, band swept down on the sleeping village of Sari Marco, forcing their way into the houses, and indulging in an orgy of mur
Mr. George Barr, McCutcheon,der and pillage unprecedented even The raiders exhibited revolting the well-known novelist, died sudin Saadino's criminal exploits. denly here whilst lunching with members of the Dutch Treaty Club. cruelty, and dozens of "helpless
The
FORMER AMERICAN
SENATOR..
death has occurred, at Tucson, Arizona, of Mr. Charles. Arnette Towne, formerly a member of the US. Senate and at one time prominently connected with the oil industry. He was seventy years of
age.
people were massacred.
It is supposed that the attack was made with a view to terroris ing inhabitants to prevent them roting in the elections.
BRITISH RADIO'S BIG STRIDE.
OUT TO BEAT. THE WORLD.
Interpreters speaking eleven lan- required at the guagte were National Radio Exhibition recently held in London at Olympia. That is the measure of the development of the British radio industry.
British West Africa.
The supply now comes from East
and West Africa, Sudan, Rhodesia, Bouth Africa, India, Australia and the British West Indies.
The Empire's production of the world's raw colton to-day amounts
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between £3,000,000,000 and £4,000,000,000 yearly, so that be" fore long it is predicted that the cotton industry will be self-contain- ed within the Empire...
THE LIBERALIZING" OF LABOUR.
A LEFT WING ATTACE.
Mr. Will Crick, chairman at the third annual conference of the
National Left Wing Movement, held in London last month, referred
MR. ANDREW FISHER.
A British wireless message speaks as follows of Mr. Andrew Fisher, whose death was announced yester day:-
By the death in London of Mr. Prime former Andrew Fisher,
Six years ago it was an industry Minister of Australia, the British
with a turnover of about 2500,000; Empire has lost a notable figure. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23rd. the The message was delivered suc-
Mr. Fisher was at once a great this year the £10,000,000 mark has to what he termed the liberaliz It is stated that the Hankow and
The first loan from the Govern-Labour leader and a great Im-been passed, and in the coming ing" of the Labour Party by the Nanking Incidents are practically Great Walt will be withdrawn,cessfully, and a relief party was
His phrase during the ment's $250,000,000 Ship Construc-perialist.
twelve months it is expected that Right Wing leaders. ". settled, but the Tainan Affair is while the Nationalist Flag will be immediately organised at Kampala. tion Funds has been made by the war" Australia is in the war to
the trade will do business to the Everything which might be te Steamship Corporation of
to the Export the last man and the last shilling " Shipping Board
New was indicative of that Imperialism.
extent of at least £95,000,000. presenting greater obstacles though hoisted in Manchuria, in November.
quired, including a surgeon, phy-York.
1. Mr. Fisher had a meteoric rise three to fame. He was born at Kilmar- MARSHAL LI AND CANTON, sician and nurses, was packed into The loan
ears and rushed off on the 200-mile journey to Butiaba, the nearest point to the Royal party which could be reached by road. The dis- tance was covered in just over six hours, which was a record for the journey.
it is probable that a settlement on this issue will also be achieved.
It is thought that as a prelimi nary an Investigation Committee may be appointed to find out who started the trouble in Tsinan "in May.
Regarding the Sino-Japanese Treaties, it is almost certain that the delegates will reach an under standing to-morrow.
Good Prospects.
(B'ah Ts: Fat Pro).
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SHANGHAI, Oct, 24th. "According to a message from Nanking, Marahal Li Tsai Hein is When the relief party reached expected to leave Nanking for the Royal camp, they found the Cantor, though his departure from Prince "sitting with General Trot- the capital is only temporary. His ter, and the immediate danger sole purpose in returning to Caaton point had been passed.. The Prince is to hold a conference with the bad watched over the patient dur- Canton leaders regarding the reing the night.
General Trotter was, however, habilitation and disarmament prob lenïs of Kwangtung.
considered too ill, to continue the Another report says that he has journey and was sent back slowly
to the to Entebbe. tendered his resignation Nationalist Government from the chairmanship of the Canton Poli tical Commission.
PLACUE OUTBREAKS. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Dr. C. T. Wang granted an inter- view to Reuter's representative in Nanking this evening. He stated that the prospects of an early understanding and settlement of outstanding issura between China and Japan were highly hopeful.
Much, however, would depend
PEIPING, Oct. 94th. on the attitude of the Japanese
While Mukden reports indicate Government. if an agreement were that the plague in Manchuria is reached between him and Mr. subsiding, only fifteen fresh cases being reported between October 5th If the Japanese and 15th, there are reports of seri Yada to-morrow. Government acted in accordance ous outbreaks in Shamsi
Official circles state that the with expectations, plenipotentiary deaths in Fenchow row number delegates would be appointed thirty, while the Tutung of Suai shortly to enter into, official nego. yuan telegraphs to Peiping report- tiations for the settlement of the ing a severe outbreak in the vil outstanding issues. · ·
lages near Paotowchen, Over a bundred deaths have already been recorded.
Chinese medical staffs have been OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS. sent to both areas, which as tar
(Wah Tez Tat Pao).
as possible have been isolated.
Chinese sources at Taiyuanfu also report an outbreak there of a sort of yellow plague," which is rapidly spreading but without fatal effects.
SHANGHAI, Oet. 24th. Progress was made in yesterday's negotiations between Dr. C. T. Wang and Mir. Yada in regard to CITY SACKED AND BURNT. the settlement of the Tsinan Affair,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) but it cannot be considered that it bas yet been satisfactorily settled.
SHANGHAI; Oct. 84th-- The problems of the payment, of indemnity, the evacuation of Japan- Liyang, a city co miles west of ese troops from Shantung and the Wusib, is reported to have been punishment of the perpetrators, sacked by a thousand bandits on which are all connected with the the evening of October 21st,
The bandits pillaged shops and Tsinan Affair, still remain un- zettled. Regarding the problem of houses. They released jailbirds treaty revision, Mr. Yada has and set the city afire with dis agreed to open formal negotiations astrous results, with the Nationalat Government The police and, soldiers in the but he insists upon the reservation city put up strong resistance but, of the clause dealing with tariff being outnumbered, they ́zater'
wiped out.
were
PERSIAN STUDENTS IN PARIS.
"STUDIES AT FRENCH
UNIVERSITIES.
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amounts to
quarters of the cost of building four combination passenger-cargo vessels to operate between New York and Mediterranean parts.
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RELIGIOUS TROUBLE IN INDIA.
BOMB THROWN AT HINDUS.
SIXTY CASUALTIES,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LAHORE, Oct. 23rd. Six persons
were killed and fifty-four injured by the plosion of a bomb in the midst of a large erowd of Hindus, who were returning from a celebration of the Hindu feast of Duanera.
No arrests have yet been made, but investigations show that the bomb was hurled into the crowd from the Oxwall fort, the assailant ramparts. caraping behind the Conditions in the business city are normal.
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First, he said, the Communists were expelled, and then divisional. labour party after divisional labour
Mr. A. E. Moody, exhibition or nock, in Scotland, and began life ganiser of the Radio Manufacturers party, berough labour party after as a call boy in the local mines.
Association, said that with the borough labour party, trades coun- At 23, he emigrated to Queensland Within eight years, he entered the formation of the British Broadcast-ci after trades council was dis affiliated; even the Teachers' Queensland Parliament and soon ing Co., with its capital of £60,000. became Minister of Railways. Then notwithstanding the heavy incubus Labour League were officially cut. he sat in the Commonwealth "Par-. liament, and in 1904 was appoint of royalties under which the trade off at the Blackpool conference, be- ed Minister for Trade and Cushas had to struggle, the industry
toms.
the
From 1907 to 1915 he was leader has not looked back. Now of the Federal Parliamentary La- royalty difficulty is overcome, and bour Party. Three times he was we are out to beat the world. Prime Minister of Australia, his
last period of office being from 1914 to 1915.
Quality Wins.
cause, according to Morgan Jones, one or two of their South Wales
members had spoken disrespectful- ly of Ramsay Macdonald, when ad- dressing a meeting. This policy of disaffiliation had been carried out until at least 30 militant parties
to 15 per cent. of the entire move. ment, and the best percentage at that, had already been sacrificed on
the altar of Liberalism.
"British radio products in the had now been cut off. As there were only 250 to 300 active labour He founded the Commonwealth home market have withstood the parties in the country, 10 per cent. ex-Bank, was a pioneer in the build-
ing of the Trans-Continental Rail-keen competition of the United way that linked Eastern and West States and Germany, even though there was the royalty millstone ern Australia, and also began the buildng of the Federal capital. It
Now that the general election. was through. Mr. Fisher's efforts round our inanufacturers' necks.
was possible to see why the policy that the system of national defence It was quality which beat the programme had been published it of disafiliation and exclusion had which bore valuable fruits in the foreigner in this country and we war was adopted by Australia.
are confident that quality will beat been going on for four years The National Labour Party Executive him in the markets of the world.
The fact that at this exhibition had made certain that there would buyers are coming from a parts be little opposition to their final of the world speaks for itself, and act in the great drama of Liberaliz our interpreters, some of whom ing the Labour movement." While speak eleven languages, find their this bad taken place on the politi- services. fully occupied all daycal field, its expression was to be found on the industrial field by Jong
Yr. D. Grant Strachaa, secretary Mondism and the acceptance of of the Radio Manufacturers' Asso- capitalist rationalization by the ciation, is equally confident of the trade union leaders. future. He said:
PARIS. Oct. 23rd, Persia anxiety for Westernisa- tion is illustrated by the arrival in AERIAL RESEARCH AT THE Paris to-day of 193 Persian students who will attend lessons at French universities.
ROYAL VISIT TO EAST INDIES.
BELGIAN CROWN PRINCE'S TOUR.
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SOUTH POLE
SIR HUBERT WILKINS'S PLANS.
Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Australian explorer, has sailed from New York in the liner Southern Crots for Monte Video, whence he will take passage in a whaler for Deception Island, which lies 60 miles from the Antarctic coast. ROTTERDAM, Oct. 23rd
With him are two pilots and According to present Arrange Lieutenant Carl Eielson, his cam ments, Prince Leopold and Princess panion in the famous flight across Astrid," the Crown Prince and the North Pole from Alaska to Princess of Belgium, will embark Spitsbergen, for which, Captain at Marseilles on November 23rd, Wilkins was knighted. The last 8.8. Insulinde, on a person to leave the liner before she aboard the visit to the Dutch East Indies.
sailed was Miss Suzanne Bennett, The Prince is visiting the Dutch the Australian actress, whose en colonies for the purpose of study.gagement to Sir Hubert Wilkins
was recently announced. --
The explorer has stated that the object of bin expedition is establish by exploration from the air whether mountain ranges con- tings along the Pacific coast of the Antarctic continent. He also coa siders that intensive study of meteorological conditions around the Poles will make it possible to predict weather much curately...
UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES. (BRITISH WIRELESS "SERVICE?
RECEY, Oct. 23rd. The weekly unemployment return. again shows a slight increase.
The total of unemployed is 1,321,200, being 1,494 more than week ago and 249,904 more than a year ago:
to
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NEW ARTIFICIAL SILK FACTORY FOR DERBY.
TO EMPLOY A THOUSAND MEN.
"It is an industry which might be described as being built up from the backyard workshop and the local garage, for although there were always big firms interested in who was keenly interested in the the trade. it was the little man production of wireless apparatus.
Derby may soon be known as the chief centre of the. artificial silk industry.
Mr. Crick declared that to say The British Celanese works, erected during the war for
that the Left Wing Movement was & Communist conspiracy was a lie.. the manufacture of varnish for
He had been the national presidest aeroplane wings, were changed over, and enlarged till now they house
during the past 12 months and he was not a member of the Com 14,000 people engaged in the manu facture of artificial silk. Recently
munist Party in his life other than tended a meeting of the Com- the Breda Company, of Holland,
munist Party. He had never at- acquired land to the north of the
a public meeting advertised in the town, and roused protests in the
Reduced Royalties,
ordinary way. Until he was wiped residential village of Duffield by
"People can hardly realise what of the register 12 months ago he making the announcement that they intended erecting an artificial silk the recent reduction in the Mar- had been a member of the LL.P. factory employing 2,000. Now an oni royalties means to the indus since 1911. We are simply," he industrial group in the North of try. Then there is now no trouble concluded, "a national group of England have acquired 65 acres of with regard to export. Hitherto Socialists, and it does not matter we have only been able to export if a comrade is linked up with the what is known as the "River Lands," on which they propose to under special licence, and to some Labour Party, the ILP, or the ercot-an-artificial silk factory countries we were not allowed to Communist Party, we are waging a relentless war on capitalism, and & export at all. Building is to begin within
Our three great competitors in are determined, no matter what the month, and the factory will pro-
the world's markets are the United cost, to bring the facts and im- Eably employ 1,000 men.
As the "Hiver Lands" are liable States, Germany, and Holland. plications of the class-struggle to to flooding, the Corporation are They have even been making head our comrades in workshop, factory, At the resumed conference the putting in hand a scheme for deep-way in the Dominions because of and mine."....... ening and widening the River the royalty trouble, but we have Derwent and thus freeing over already captured the Australian Credentials Committee reported ment between the two chief branches wo are confident that we shall beat 61,540 workers, were represented at
the conference by 125 ́delegates." 1,000 acres for industrial develop market from the Americans, and that 97 organizations, comprising of the L.M.S. Railway system. them everywhere else,'