PERIOD OF "POLITICAL TUTELAGE” HAS BEGUN.
CHINA'S REVOLUTION OFFICIALLY OVER.
NANKING MINISTERS TO TAKE A HOLIDAY.
SERIOUS REPORT OF PLAGUE IN SHANSI.
China, according to the latest preclamation from Nanking, hna completed her revolutionary period. The second perioë, as described in the writings of Dr. Sun Yat Sen; that of" political, tutelage," has been started. Lader a paternal and benefcent Government, of an 'autocratic nature, but Republican in form, the people are to be taught all the Intest political theories and when the lesson has been learnt Ching's millions will be called on by means of voting and referendum to determine broad issues of policy on the best European models.
The situation appears to be sufficiently eased to allow several of the Tending Ministers at Nanking to take a holiday after their recent exertions, but Mr. C., T. Wang is protesting sharply to Washington about American support of the Japanese Oriental Development Company.
Meanwhile, Reuter cables that plague has broken out in A district of Shansi; that it has claimed 2,000 victims and that the measures taken so far to deal with it have not been effective, POLITICAL TUTELAGE
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PERIOD.
(Wab Tez Tat Pao).
SHANGHAI, Oct. 29th. The Nationalist Government has issued a declaration announcing the beginning of the "political. tute lage period laid down and defined in the teaching of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen. The revolutionary period, it is annquesed, is over. The de- claration deals chiefly with the high sounding and ambitious programme of national re-construction.
PLAGUE IN SHANSI.
OVER 2.000 DEATHS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29th, 1928.
MORE TRIUMPHS FOR
MR. KELLOGG.:
COLOMBIA AND SWEDEN.
SIGN PEACE PACT AND
ARBITRATION TREATY.
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[XXUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28th. Mr. Kellogg and the Swedish Minister, Mr. Boatrom, have "sign ed a Swedish-American arbitration treaty.
Bodoris, Oct. 28th.
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS.
ARGENTINE CLAIM OF OWNERSHIP,
IGNORED BY BRITAIN."
(REDTER'S AMERICAN SERVICL] ....
New York, Oct. 24th. According to the Buenos Aires correspondent of the New York Times, the Argentinians are most indigriant at the British attitude
The Colombian Senate has ap-with regard to the ownership of proved a Government measure the South Orkneys. ' authorising adherence to the Kellogg Pact
AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY.
RELIEF WORK EXPENDITURE LAST YEAR.
[RETTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25th. The American Red Cross Society reports that they have spent over G.$10,300,000 for year "ending Inst June 30th principally on relief, work in connection with the Mississippi and New England foods.
PARAGUAY-BOLIVIA DISPUTE.
PRIPING, Oct. 28th... A report received here from Chinese sources states that lettere arriving from Feuchow, in the pro- vince of Shansi; say that the plague infected area, includes over twenty towns and villages. The situation INVASION BY is serious for over two thousand deaths have occurred, and the measures for suppression are so The outlook
It also points out emphatically far quite ineffective. that the Kuomintang will now emis described as bad bark on the education of the masses in political theories in order to pave the way for the construction
FAMINE, BANDITS AND FLOODS.
A recent United Press report
of a real democratic government, by the whole people to whom the fundamental
powers election, states that as information comes initiation of legislation, repeal of into Peiping from distant pro- same and referendum-should be viness, it becomes certain that handed over from 'the Kuomintang. China will suffer from one of the most severe fantines in history at the end of this winter and early next spring.
A REST CURE.
(ah Te Fat Pac),
Reliable reports are made by con Aular officials, missionaries and in SHANGHAI, Oct. 29th.vestigators for the China ` Famine Mesers. C. T. Wang, Chang Relief Commission, showing beyond Ching Kiang Tani Yuca Pui. Sundoubt that thousand will die.
Fe, Lin Sen, T. V. Soong and The probable death toll is various- other high officials proceeded to jy estimated at from 50,000 to Shanghai yesterday morning. Their 230.000 persons. sudden departure from the capital
There have beça serious crop bas political significance and failures and floods in
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some dis- they are merely taking a rest cure tricts, but the chief CAUSE of following their recent very heavy famine will be the depredation of bandits and soldiers, who have taken the surplus grain of the
even for seed.
work.
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"SCIENTIFIC " EXPEDITIONS: -
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Oct. 28th. According to the Tribunnit ja reliably reported that forces Bolivians on the pretext of being scientific expeditions are advancing into the disputed territory between Concepcion and Rosario and have already occupied Palmares Falls on the Filcomayo river.
According to a recent message from this correspondent, Britain entered a protest against the erec tion of a wireless station by the Argentine Government in South Georgia, to which the Argentinians replied claiming ownership of the islands, and explaining its in- ability to take active control of the Falklands owing to British occupa tion.
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He states that the newspaper Prensa in a leading article declares that the British attitude is "based entirely on naval force which is certainly not a fountain of rights and adds that the entire people of this country resent this usurpa- tion, on the part of England."
Britain's Attitude.
Heuter learns there is no disposi tion to attach any importance to the agitation in the Argentine Proas in regard to the wireless station in the South Orkneys.
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HOOVER BACKED TO GRIM WARNING FOR BRITAIN'S FOREIGN
WIN.
ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
CLOSING,
UPROARIOUS WELCOME FOR SMITH.
[LIUTRE'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27th..
BANDITS.
CORPSES HUNG ON TELE- GRAPH POLES.
MEXICAN REBELS ROUTED,
[RECTSE'S AMERICAN HÄRVIR]
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 27th. Federal troops have rounded up All the indications. point to an the rebel who recently attacked a overwhelming " victory for Mr. train, and after killing them hang Hoover in the presidential electioned their bodies on telegraph poles along the railroad as a warning to others.
of November 6th,
The campaigns are winding up in a blaze of oratory and mass meet- ings for voters throughout the country.
Three other encounters with rebels are reported. Ope force of three hundred put up a resistance, Lasting four hours, and altogether forty-nine rebels are reported to have been killed. A captured priest
The Democrats have spent at least £120,000 and the Republicans perhaps more on wireless broad | was altc executed. casting. thereby reaching millions of prospective voters in isolated areas for the first time in history.
Pennsylvania's Welcome.
PHILADELPHIA.
received as
Governor Al "Smith"
uproarious a welcome in the Re- publican stronghold of Pennsylvania ad at Boston earlier in the week.
The streets were filled with a
shouting, horn tooting" crowd.
He arned that his stand was on the tarif question and reiter ated that business big and little had nothing to fear from a Democratic
success.
WELDED STEEL FOR
AIRCRAFT.
THE OLD RAMPARTS OF PARIS.
TOWN-PLANNING SCHEME
DELAYS.
FORTIFICATIONS TO BE BUILT OVER.
PARIS, Oct. 1st. A new Bill, designed to expedite the demolition of the fortifications of Paris and the conversion of the fortified zone into open spaces and suburbs, has been drafted. It deals with certain difficulties, mainly of a legal or financial order, which have been encountered and have caused delay.
The attitude of the British Government is that the Argentine BRITISH FIRM AND FORKER fortifications,
: DESIGN. Government must obtain a licence in the ordinary way for the main tenance, of a wireless station on a British the islands, which are possession.
The British Government does not recognise the claim of the Argentine SINGAPORE AND THE BASE. Government to the istand."
FAIR DISTRIBUTION OF
PAYMENT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.!
SINGAPORE, Oct, 28th.
A largely-attended public mass meeting held under the auspices of
the Straits Settlements Associa- tion, passed a resolution support- ing the views of the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Coun- cil with regard to Singapore's con- tribution to the Singapore Base.
This meeting follows closely
POLICY.
PREMIER'S SPEECH AT
ALBERT HALL,
SUSPICIONS REFUTED.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
on
Ruday, Oct. 97th
foreign policy was made by the
A notable, pronouncement
Prime Minister, who was the prin cipal speaker at great meeting in the Albers Hall last night to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the League of Nations Union. Lord Grey presid ed and other speakers included Lord Robert Cecil and Mr. J. R. Clynes.
A message from H.M. the King was received during the progress of the meeting and was read.' The message stated: I have followed with interest the work of the Union and appreciate the efforts ol its members to educate publie opinion in support of the League, in which lies our chief hope for the future peace of the warld."
nature.
Mr. Baldwin, whose speech was brondenst, briefly reviewed the work of the. League of Nations in After enumerating them and com- settling international disputes.
menting briefly on each he said, "This is a great record and I am proud of the part my country under successive governments has played in effecting it. We are not vindictive or rancorous people by I doubt if any people have The greatest difficulty has been subdued the war spirit more than that of expropriating the land in we have. While we have maintain- the zone immediately outside the ed and indeed improved our close
and of expelling and long continued relations with,. people who had built houses inde-France, we have re-established.com- pendeally on this land. By anpletely friendly relations with the It has been announced by A. V. agreement, which was confirmed in most powerful of our former Roe & Co., the aircraft constructors, 1919, the State ceded the whole of enemies, and we can justly claim the fortified zone, except a few of Manchester and Hamble, that isolated points, to the City of that we have played some small they have entered into arrange Paris, for a sum of 100,000,000, part in the better relations which payable over a period of 38 years. ments with the Fokker Aircraft Co. The city had the right to demolish now exist between France and Ger-
clear the mand." of Holland for the manufacture the fortifications, to
'outer zone," and to create build- and sale in Great Britain, the Irishing sites and open spaces. It was
I must contradict ar idea that Free State, India, Australia, New bound to convert "the whole of the
outer zone into public parks or has gained currency in some quar- Zealand, South Afries, and other
gardens, and compensation
ters, but for which there is co British possessions of triple- en- payable to legally catablished
householders who were displaced. shadow of foundation, that we BRIEF BUT VIOLENT STORM. gined Avro monoplanes similar in
But by the time this scheme began have to some extent abandoned our design and construction to the Fok- to work a large number of houses position of impartiality and con ker 1.7 monoplane now in use for had been built in the zone by in-ciliation which we assumed at the dividuals, without legal sanction and without
co-ordinated time of the Locarno Pact. That is scheme These untidy groups of not so. We have made no new en- cheaply built dwellings, some of them there huts, unprovided with gagements and there is no change roads or gardens, or proper sanita- in the orientation of our policy, round a great part of Paris. Their tion, now form a hideous belt
Our interests and our inclina" occupata have claimed compensations alike prompt up to preserve tion on eviction, and though this and even strengthen the cordiality, has been refused by the Courts it of our relations with Germany, as is admitted that the deficiency of
destroy the dwellings of a large
TORNADO IN CENTRAL LONDON.
AID FOR METEOROLOGICAL
OFFICE.
BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE.]
the Dutch East Indies service.
This is a monoplane with a thick wooden wing covered with three ply, a welded steel fuselage, and three British Armstrong Siddeley Lynx engines of 200 horsepower each, and it is a distinct triumph An appeal for information refor Mr. Fokker that in effect his
swept over Central London last
Rucay, Oct. 7th.
any
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Mr. Baldwin Denial.
NETHERLANDS AND CHINA. farmers and left them nothing upon the meeting of the Chinese garding the destructive wind that method of construction and designs houses makes it undesirable to well as with France. With Italy
(Wah Ts: Fat Pro).
Reports show that bandits are numerous in at least seven pio- SHANGHAI, Oct. 26th. vinces of China's eightsen; and The Netherland Minister has left that hundreds of villages and Peiping for Nanking. In a state small towns have been completely ment made before he left Peiping sacked in recent months. Outlying he said that his present journey to farmhouses have not been neglected Nanking was solely, concerned with by the robbers.
signing the Sino-Netherlands Tarif) The Nationalist Government is Agreement by himself and Dr. C. doing something toward relief, and T. Wang. He had, however, no| foreign organizations are active, power to negotiate with Dr. Wang but it is apparent that despite. about other problems concerning everything which will be done, Sino-Netherlands ' „ relations, "I thousands, are doomed to die. have the friendliest feelings to- wards China," he concluded, "and"
.
I sincerely hope that I shall be able to meet China's national aspirations when we conclude this BIG tariff agreement."
CHINA 'OPPOSES JAPANESE LOAN.
(THROUGH RZUTER'S AGENCY.}
community, where a similar resolu-
tion was approved.
AMANULLA'S LATEST
REFORMS.
FOREIGN ADVISER FOR FINANCE DEPART-
MENT.
(THROUGH RECIER'S AGENCY.]
PESHAWAR, Oct. 28th. King Amanulla in a Royal Ad- dress to officials of the Afghan Government has outlined further JAPAN'S FIGHTING important internal reforms which
SERVICES.
be requires to be undertaken at the earliest possible moment, according INCREASE. IN VOTES FOR to a message from Kabul.
ARMY AND NAVY,
[TREOUGH NEUTER'S, AGENCY.]
TOKYO, Oct, 28th. The budget estimates, include votes for the War Office of 231,200,000 yen and for the Navy Questioned regarding China's Office
SHANGHAI, Oct. 27th,
of 207,600,000 Fén." This
titude to the reported loan to the shows increases for those depart Japanese "Orienta" Development Company, Mr. C. T. Wang dements of 7,400,000 yen and 2,700,000 clared that in the event of theen respectively, compared with Loan's consummation the Nation- the current financial year.
alist Government would "consider. the act contradictory to the ex pressed policy of the United States Government to China"
MILLION YEN GOLD
CASE."
++
SEMENOFF ARRIVES FROM DAIREN.
He said he had already instruct- ed the Chinese Minister at Wash ington to inform the Btate Depart ment of this view, and added that,
{THROUGH KEUTER'S 'AGENCY.] Manchuria being part of China, the Nationalist Government could not
Kooz, Oct. 27th. Ataman Semenoff arrived Jast countenance a foreign loan to` an- other foreign group for investment night from Dairen for the purpose in Manchurin."
The loan referred to is one of connection with litigation popu- of appearing at the local court in $19,900,000 to be floated on the New larly known as "the million yen
gold caso." York market.
Monday evening resulted in ninety-
two communications being received by the Meteorological Office, in- cluding seventy-four accompanied by barograms. Experts have now been able to trace the track of this brief but violent storm which had many of the characteristics of an American tornado.
CZECHO-SLOVAKIA'S TENTH
ANNIVERSARY.
AN "AMNESTY DECREED.
[THROUGE NEUTEN'S AGENCY.)
FRAGUE, Oct. 27th.
The reforms include the appoint- A far-reaching amnesty has been ment of a foreign adviser to ardocreed by President Masaryk in ganise the Finance Department, connection with the festivities com and the opening of a school where memorating the tenth anniversary instruction will be given in Turkish (of Czecho-Sovakia's independence. to qualify, studenta for admission to the Turkish Military Academy at Constantinople.
THE REPARATIONS
PROBLEM...
GERMANY PREPARED TO CO-OPERATE.
BERLIN, Oct. 26th.
AMERICAN TIN TRADE“
ASSOCIATION.
FACILITIES FOR PIG TIN.
{EBUTEL'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
#
New Yonk, Oct. 27th..
An official communique has been issued stating that the German The interests principally concern Cabinet has decided to co-operate cd have approved the proposal to with other Governmenta concerned to facilitate the appointment of a form an American Tin Trade Asso Committee of Experts to complete ciation. The object inter alia will the settlement of the Reparations be to offer facilities for trading in question.
Germany attaches particular impig tin, which are not provided by members of the Committee should which will only deal in standard portance to the principle that the the new National Metal Exchange, be independent experts and not Government officials.
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in future.
should now be used under licence
by a British aircraft firm. So far
British official policy in construc- tion has been rather lukewarm in
the use of welded joints in aircraft construction owing to problems of inspection for strength; but the re- cord of Mr. Fokker's products has long since shown that no difficulties arise in practice, and in America also welded steel tube construction is very largely used, particularly in all' the monoplane types which have made spectacular world flights. It has been known for some time that A. V. Roe & Co. have been
Hamble experimenting at
with welded steel fuselages, and presum-. ably, having satisfied themselves of th advantages, they have now secur- ed the right to use. Mr. Fokker's research work to develop further Empire. this construction in the British
number of working people of small
means
we have been on most friendly terms for generations, and nothing has occurred or will occur to in- terrupt that friendship,"
FJ
Naval Disarmament, Proceeding he expressed pro- found regret regarding the tem-
Military Cause Delay, Another cause of delay has been the failure of the military authori ties to give up the sites of bar- racks, or military posta, a failure which is due to the lack of credits for rebuilding these elsewhere. Other land is occupied by the rail-porary failure to come to an agree way companies, and these have ment with America on naval mat- failed to make terms acceptable to ters, and he deplored the evidences the city for the cession of their in articles in American publica- property. Both the Ministry of War and the railway companies tions of a deep suspicion where have delayed the choice of their_re Britain was concerned. “There. is served sites, and the general effect
no echo in this country of that. of these obstacles has been to pro duce a deficit of several hundred Our policy in naval building is million francs in the financial and has been for the last few years scherne
to go slow. We have no intention Following Lille And Strasbourg.
of building in competition with It has now been decided to pre-
the United States of America. We serve the original principle, that the fortifications themselves should. came to that decision and we built be baill over and that the outer slowly lang hafore we were asked zone should be turned into open
to sign the Kellogg Fact, but I spaces. But the scheme has been relaxed to allow certain parts of
would like to express the pleasure- the outer zone, already built over, which I feel that that, pact, has to be left untouched in exchange been signed at this time. We have Bale in Canada, and presumably for the conversion into open spaces Mr. Fokker has reserved for the of corresponding parts of the for- deliberately turned our backs on American Fokker Company this tified belt. This method was used
War, a an instrument" that has adjacent and rapidly growing main similar operations at Lille and
been used from the beginning of ket. The British company has evi- Strasbourg, and. dently satisfied itself that for com liberty to the town planners, as it time. We are grateful to Mr. Kel mercial aircraft at any rate there broke the rigid concentric rings of logg for bringing that treaty with -- will be no difficulty in securing building land and open space. full British certificate of airworthi-
No mention is made of rights of
1
gave greater
ام
In order to lessen the financial him to Europe." ness and this definite espousal of burden of the city, the period of That pact meant that every man welded steel constriction by its payments to the State is to be and woman in
every civilized British firm may well have a con-extended from 38 to 60 years. A siderable influence on new British
maximum period of 49 months is country of the world must work commercial types, for it has the fixed for the cession of military without ceasing to bring the com merit of landing itself to economi- | sites, and a period of one year for
mon conscience of mankind up to cal construction. A. V. Roe & Co. the allocation of permanent pro- are now closely associated financial-perty to the raiways. Finally, the the level of the obligations demand- ly with the Armstrong Siddeley Co., City of Paris is authorized by the ed by that treaty. The world need- and the fact that their engines are text of the Bill to defer redemped the will to peace, and permanent used in the F.7 type has no doubt tion of the bands issued in con-
peace was not only the machinery influenced the arrangement with nection with the scheme until 1975, the Dutch concern. A. V. Roe & and is released from the obligation but heart and mind and soul. It to bear part of the cost of trans- Co. state that price, and dates for
was to further, that desire that the
dicating that they are all ready for delivery of the Avro monoplane can ferring military establishments. It now be given on application, in- is hoped in this way to expedite League of Nations was established the work and reduce its immediate and that the Locarno Treaties and cost to the city... production.
the Kellogg Pact were signed.