HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT OF TSINAN
INCIDENT.
IMPORTANT JAPANESE OFFICIAL LEAVES
FOR SHANGHAI,
FUNCTIONS OF CENTRAL POLITICAL COUNCIL
DEFINED.
MANCHURIAN LEADERS STATEMENT
OF "POLICY.
Good progress · appears to have been made towards A settlement of outstanding difficulties between China and Japan. Mr. Arita, Chief of the Asiatic Bureau of the Tokyo Foreign" Office is paying a dying visit to Shanghai to settle, if possible, · "several points left ambiguous in the parleys between Mr. Yada and Dr. Wong. On November 10th Mr. Yada hopes to be in Nanking to sign as agreement with regard to the Hankow and Nanking incidents and a ceremonial reception, has been ordered.
According to Bah Taz Yat Pao telegram a conference of Fengtienese leaders his passed resolutions demanding a very fair degree of autonomy for Manchuria-or rather for themselves, as its rulers. They are strongly opposed to the catablishment Kuqe mintang branches in their domains, nor do they consider the time pipe for political tutelage" in Manchuria. General Pei Tsung Hai's representative, reports however that the Fengtien leaders are anxious for peace and are complying with the terms of the recent
agreement.
A Reuter cable sets out the functions of Central Political Council of the Kuomintang which are largely of a legislative nature. They include however the appointment of all-important officials.
THE TSINAN INCIDENT:
TOKYO'S ANXIETY FOR
SETTLEMENT. ·
[Tacco RRDİKR'A AGENCY.]"
TOKYO, Oct. 20th.
... ......
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30th, 1928.
VULTURES OF THE
SEA.
SUSPICIOUS" JUNKS AND
GROUNDED VESSEL..
WARSHIPS TO THE RESCUE.
(THROUGH ANDIER'S AGENCY.]
20
SHANGHAI, Oct. 29th. A message received here Saturday evening stated that a feet of suspicious looking junks was gathering round the China Navigation Company's.s. Kwangse which went nghore at Ping Rock to the north of Amoy on the 21st of this month and piratical attack was feared. H.M.S. Sirdar and Submarine Ly were despatched to the scene at ful speed. The junks cleared. off before their arrival and the cargo of the Awangte is being discharged into the s.s. Anhui,
5
Salvage operations have been
abandoned.
OUTRAGE IN MOROCCO.'
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION'S
SUCCESS,
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Oct. 29th. The punitive expedition sent against the tribesmen, of the Wallzem district of Morocco, fol. MANCHURIA AND NANKING.lowing an attack on two Spanish
(Wu Te Fat Pao).
SHANGHAI, Oct. 9th,
merchants and the murder of their lorry driver, has resulted in twenty important tribesmen being captur- ed.
SACCO AND VANZETTI.
WERE THEY INNOCENT?
ALLEGED CONFESSION BY CRIMINALS.
REUTERS AMERICAN BERVICE}
MORE TROUBLE IN MELBOURNE.
ATTACKS ON ITALIANS.
CONSUL THREATENS
FASCIST METHODS!.
(THROUGH LAUTER'S AGEFOY.]
Trade
Naw Yox, Oct. 99th.
MELBOURNE, Oct. 29th," The weekly journal the Outlook
unionists attacked the publishes in its current number volunteer dockers in different parts fidavits purporting to show that of the city. Five volunteers, in- Sacco and Vanzetti were not guilty cluding, four foreigners, were seri- of the hold up of a cashier's ously injured and had to be taken motor-car at Bridgewater, Massato hospital. The police made a chusetts on November 24th, 1918, trancheen charge on the attackers which was followed by the murder and drove them off. The Italian If Cashier Southbraintree for Consul has made an indignant pro- which they were seaterced to test following a bomb outrage. death.
The inferuat machine was thrown Vanzetti'a seged guilt with re- into A room where the Italian gard to the Bridgewater hold up, volunteers were playing cards. He
cording to the Outlook, estal- shed the presumption of his guilt declared that it immediate action of the Southbrujntree murder. was not takea to protect Italian tried by Judge subjects the latter would be forced
Both cases were Thayer.
The Outlook by laborious investito take measures to protect them gations in the underworld claims selves." to have established the identity of the Bridgewater robbers, thus ex. culparing Sacco and Vanzetti. It publishes atidavits of persons who admit that they planned and com- mitted the crime.
The
LABOUR AND MUNICIPAL"
REFORMERS.
BRITISH LOCAL GOVERN- MENT ELECTIONS.
[ORTISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
RoGuy, Oct. 29th: Municipal elections will take
An- American Cause Celebre, The case, it will be remembered, created world-wide interest.
ful play with prosecution made the admission of the prisoners that they had Communist sympathies," but it was widely held that very uttle evidence of at all a reliable
the two men. They were convicted largely on the fact that a revolver found in their quarters was of the The prosecution however, absolutely conclusive.
In London alone, where the elec- Unfortunately for them the tions are triennial, 1,374 Council- -Communiste, ae a world party,lors have to be chosen for the en took up their cause
and in
At the recent conference of Fene the release of Signor Zubillaga, nature, was ever brought against place on Thursday in 25 London
tienese, leaders a: Mukden, many important decisions were taken As a result of an urgent confer-with regard to the future relations ence held at the Foreign Office yesterday Mr. Arita, Chief of the Asiatic Bureau, has been despatch-i ed to Shanghai for the purpose of cleaning up certain points arising out of the parleys between Mr. Yada, and Dr. "C. T. Wang which were still left ambiguous."
Though
between Manchuria, the Nanking! Government and the Kuomintang. One resolution passed by the Conference was to the effect that the activities of the "Manchurian Public Safety Committee will be continued.
If found necessary the Manchurian Governutent will order the hoisting not given plenipoten of the Kuomintang flag over the tiary powers, it is understood that Manchurian "territory, but consider Mr. Arita is empowered to ordering the present circumstances it is, the Japanese Consuls at Tsingtao alic
the Conference agreed, not adris to establish Kuomintang and Tsinan to proceed to Shangbanches there. They insisted that hai and carry
on further pour the geographien! position of Man parkers for the solution of the churia is peculiar because of its juxtaposition, to Russia and Korea Tainun incident if he is satisfied and therefore the so-called "poli that the situation 'warrants such`atical tutelage of the Manchurian mare, but his own visit will people is fraught with difficulties.
Another resolution fixed the necessarily be of a very hurried strength of the Manchurian army nature as he must be at Kyoto for at 100,000 mer. the Imperial enthronement cere. monies by November 8th.
A Foreign Office spokesman comB- menting on this move intimated that Mr. Arita's sudden despatch may he regarded as a step for "ward, and guardedly indicated that the Government was very hopeful and considered the outcome of the recent talks satisfactory.
The official view, he added, was that the prospects of a final settle ment of the Tsinan affair had very much brightened during the last few days.
ANXIOUS FOR PEACE.
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
PERING, Oct. 29th. Marshal Pei Tsung Hsi'e repre sentative at Mukdes returned to- day to Marshal Pei's headquarters.
He states that his mission has heen successful and the first instal ment of rolling stock, numbering over two hundred cars, have al ready been brought to Luanchow out as there are no locomotives with them it is impossible to bring them further. Presently he expects to
to his headquarters.
They will be held as hostages for
whe is still held captive by the tribesmen.
GRAF ZEPPELIN'S HOME.
WARD VOYAGE.
SETS OUT AT 2 A.M.
[RETTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NEW YORK, Oct. 29th. Captain Hans Von Schiller, the Graf Zeppelin, announces that the chief navigating officer of the giant airship will start on the re- turn journey to Europe on Tues- day.
calibre used to commit the crime.
case WAS not,
Boroughs and in 328 county and non-county Boroughs of England and Wales.
their name demanded their acquit-suing three years, and some keen tal The NAMES of these two contests are expected. obscure Italian hawkers became associated with countless deeds of violence by Communists the world deck.
The case dragged from court tu court over seven years at the end of which the wretched men were electrocuted, the criminal agitation having hardened the authorities in their attitude. The affair finally aligned Communism with crime but the guilt of the two men is doubt ed in many impartial quarters and Mr. H. G. Walls wrote with char- acteristic warmth and ability on
The large quantity of freight to be carried at £1 per 1. will include a bale of cotton, two typewriters and a box of copper plate which will be auctioned for the benefit of the crew. passengers.
A chow pap will be among the
An Early Morning Start. their behalf on the grounds of their supposed innocence, though LATER. LAKEHURST, New Jersey, entirely dis-associating himself with
their Oct. 29th.
opinions and the erimes nominally on their The Graf Zeppelin left for Ger committed
behalf.J many at 2 a.m. local time.
SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN.
[REUTER'S IMERICAN SERVICE !
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28th. Bir Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, left for Quebec to-day completely restored in health.
From Quebec, he will return to London.
Members of the Central Exceu
LARGEST DAM IN THE WORLD.
150 London M.R. Candidates Unopposed.
A CONTRAST.
FASCIST ITALY AND COM-
MUNIST RUSSIA,
MUSSOLINI OR LENIN THE
GREATER!
Two Reuter, cabler received bore yesterday give a striking contrast between Fascism and Bolsheviem. From Russia comes a grave report of lamine in Europe's granary," with details of official corruption and muddle.
At the same time the sixth an. niversary of the Fascist Revolution was celebrated by the opening of 2,809 public utility works, etc., in the Kingdom of Italy.
The cables are as follow :-
MUDDLE, FAMINE AND CORRUPTION.
RIGA, Oct. 28th. According to latest Russian ad- vices, the Council of Commissars has issued strong instructiona to the Railway Department to take the most energetic measures to facilitate the transport "of grain from Siberia to Russia:
The need is becoming increas. ingly great, especially in Central Russia, where 3 grain famine already exists.
Evin passenger services must be subordinated to this need, "the order | states, and severe pezalties will be meted out if the instructions are disobeyed.
The Railway Department has been the butt of many attacks as the result of the failure in 'recent weeks to expedite grain movements.
Grain In Filthy Trucks. "The newspaper Pravda. declares
PARIS PRESS PERTURBED.
PREPARE FOR ADVENT
OF FASCISM."
SEQUEL TO MUTILATION OF A STATUE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Oct. 99th. There have been violent Press polemics in Paris on the subject of. the riot at Pons when a statue of M. Combes, a former Premier of France of strong anti-clerical Jean- ings, was wiruly damaged immedi Įately alter being unveiled. One paper waras France to prepare for the advent of Fascista. Another blames the Bishop of La Rochelle who described the unveiling of the statue as a national calamity.
Arrests in connection with the affair total thirty-seven, inchading. the gendarme who fred
a shot killing a demonstrator,
He is to
be court-martialled,
Anti-Clericalism
In the course of a speech, M. Daladier attacked the new Budget, under which French religious or- ders abroad.are permitted to have uovitiates in France and have had some of their confiscated property. restored.
M. Poincare Defends Missions. While the distribances were oc- curring M. Poincaré, in the course of a speech at Caen, declar ed that the legitimate pacifc in- fluence of France must not be en- ' dangered, and that was why the Government wish to save from 3- tinction the depleted missions in
that large quantities have secumul-America, Asia and Africa. ated by the Department at various railway centres, while it also com- plains that the grain is loaded in dirty cattle trucks with disastrous results.
FRENCH ROYALIST BREAKS STATUE'S NOSE.
Of the Lendon vacancies, 150 have already been filled, owing to
Someone Doing Well! The Latvian Press is publishing no opposition being offered to their candidatures. Of these, all are figures of the amount of Soviet Municipal Reform candidates ex-grain which is being exported cept three Labour representatives. across Latvia in spite of the farmine The Municipal Reformers have conditions in large areas of Euro nominated 1,300 candidates in pean Russia. It is stated that London, Labour is also represent nearly 15,000 tons "were exported
The facts of the ease according to a Reuter cable from Pans, of October 28th were as follow:-
The unveiling of a statue to M.. Combes, Premier of France in 1002-5 and
ZA inveterate anti- clerical exponent,
whose regime laws of the separation of the was marked by the passage of the Church and State, resulted in
rictons scenes in which demonstra- Lörs were fired on.
One person, was killed and one wounded.
M. Herriot, Minister of Public Instruction, himself a prominent 2,502 PUBLIC UTILITY WORKS Radical Socialist (which is one of
ed with a candidate in most con- to Germany alone in the month of stituencies, and although there are † October. some hundreds of Liberal candi- dates, the main contests are be- tween the Municipal Reformers and Labour.
Communists and other indepen- dents of the Left Wing are contest ing seats in about sixty wards.
AL present, the Municipal Re- don boroughs and Labour in eight.
OPENED..
ROME, Oct. 28th. The sixth anniversary of the Fascist revolution, the memorable march to Rome of October 29th,
IRRIGATION SCHEME IN THE formers hold majorities in 20 Lon-1929, was celebrated, in accordance
DEUCAN.
A MYSTERIOUS THEFT.
with an address by Signor Musso lini, hy deeds not words.
[BRITISH WIRELESS EERVICE.)
RUGBY, Oct. 28th. The largest dam in the world was opened yesterday at Bhatgar near Poona, India, by Sir Leshe $200 STOLEN FROM SUPREME" various kinds, from roads and Wilson, Governor of Hombay.
"The dans, which ensures uperen-
MR. YADA PROCEEDING TO/ have the stock moved down the line ive Committee and of the Centralzini water supply to the large ir {
NANKING.
(Wab Te Fat Pao):
SHANGHAI, Oct. 29th.
A Nanking message says that Mr. Yoda will gain visit Nanking on the 10th November, to sign the Agreement with regard to the Nanking and Hankow incidenta. Dr. C. T. Wang who is in Shanghai at present, has instructed his staff to make suitable preparations in honour of the event.
- CUSTOMS AUTONOMY.
(Wah Tas Fat Pan),
SHANOIAI, Oct. 20th.
The Nanking Government has decided to procinim Customs Auto- nony at the beginning of next The immediate practical year. efféet will not be very great. "However the seven-grade tariff rates will be enforced after the prodamation has bees made officially,
POTENTIAL WEALTH OF THE NORTH,
(Wah Taz Yai Pao).
He also states that the Fengtien leaders are willing to evacuate the three hsien hetween Luanchow and Shanhaikuan and are anxious to settle outstanding questions peace fully
MARSHAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.
(Wah Tr Tut Pao).
SHANGHAI, Oct, 20th.. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek and his wife returned to Nanking yes. terday evening. from Shuengehow.
POLITICAL TUTELAGE.
C.P.C. DUTIES DEFINED.
TARDSON REUTER'S AGENCY.),
COURT
the most anti-clerical of the Par liamentary groups), jointly unveil. ed the statue with M. Daladier, leader of the Radical Socialists.
Among the crowd subsequently allowed to inspect the monument were youths belonging to a Royalist, organisation, one of whom had ob- tained permission to lay a wreath at the foot. Suddenly he whipped out a hammer, concealed in wreath, and smashed the nose and chin of the statue.
The opportunity, was taken for the inauguration of no fewer than 2,602 new public utility works efder and a free fight ensued. The A gendarme rushed at the offen...
gendarme, hard bešet, åred in the air and then into the crowd, eaus
the casualties named. ing
There were three arrests.
schools to water reservoirs, power stations, land improvements. har- The mysterious disappearance of Supervisory Committee and the rigation tract the Nirs Canal
8200 from the deak of the office-boy bour developments, sanitation mea State Councillors recently appoint system, has been "construeled at a
to the Attorney-General was report.sures, and new public buildings in ed to the State Council of the cost of £1,250,000. The lakeed to the police from the Supreme, various centres throughout Italy. National Government will be ipro seventeen miles long and has
The Great Road From Eome To Ostia, Political Council Jagto members of the Central capacity of 150,000 million gallons. Twenty-one million cubic feet of masonry were en:ployed in ita con- struction.
The Central Political CouncE's functions will be to 'deliberate and decide upon the following matters only:-
(1) The general programme of national reconstruction to be under- taken by the Government in every apbero
(4) The principles of legisla. tion;
(3) The policies to be adopted by the various Ministers in pol
tical administration;
(4) Al affairs;
心
Court yesterday morning. theft was probably committed dur ing the week-end, for it was stated that admission could be gained The dam commands an arid area through the public doors at any of 834,000 acres, t which 02,000 time up
seven o'clock in the will be irrigated anntially, yield-evening on week-ends and holidays. Considerable mystery surrounds ing a crop of an estimated increas-
the affair, and from certain ed value of over £2,100,000,
Signor Mussolini, the Dictator, himself opened several works, in-. dluding a great new highway from the capital to the coast, ending near Ostia.
He also officially opened new buildings for the Ministry
of Marine, Ministry of Education and the Planetarium.
The project bas taken fifteen features of the case it appears pro- years to complete nud marks the bable that the theft was committed finish of the gigantic irrigation by someone familiar with the in- scheme in Decan recommended by side of the building, and that the a Commission couvered by the late thief or thieves must have known Lord Curzon when Viceroy of that the offer boy, Ng Cheung, hnd JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA.
hia savings locked inside his desk.
India.
military important
Public Appointments. (3) The selection of the State NANKING, Oct. 29th,
Councillors, of the Presidents and The revised provisional regula Yusa established by decree of the Vice-Presidents of the five new tions governing the organisation C.E.C. recently, of the members of and outlining the functions of the the various Commissions establish- Central Political Council under the Central Executive Committee of ed under the organisation of the Administrative. Yuan, of the off-
ENGLISH RECTOR FOR.
SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY.
" NATIONALISTS" RUN MR. BALDWIN CLOSE.
A A A A
<
A
AN APPEAL TO WASHINGTON..
SAN FRANCISCo, Oct. 5th.
M. POINCARE WARNS COUNTRYMEN.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
CAEN. Oct. 29th. M. Phinuare, in the customary declaration of the Premier's policy before the assembly of Parliament, dwelt on the necessity of efforts being taken to attain a sound financial position, as the next' six months would probably see some of the greatest post-war probleme coming to the forefront.
CHINESE IN AMERICA/
HION AMENDMENT.
The United States Supreme Court FFICIAL FAVOURS EXCLU will be asked to decide if a group of alien Japanese can form a cor. poration under the terms of the treaty between the Linited States and Japan.
curious fact is that the Attorcey-General's room was not foreed, so that the culprit must have had a key to the room. He appears to have made straight for the Attorney-General's room on the second floor, and having opened the door with a key, made his way to the window, which he opened. BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Once outside on the verandah, he the Kuomintang, have been adopt ciats to take up the principal offices
Rugay, Oct. 28th. broke a pane of glass in one of the ed at a meeting of the Standing of the various Ministries, including deleted Rector of Glasgow the clerk's room, where Ng Cheung The Prime Minister was yester windows which gave him access to Committee of the C.E.C.
It is a
somewhat remarkable the Ministers of the Chairmen of University.
had his desk. The mysterious visi doctiment, particularly as one of
the various Committees functioning Apart from the usual" ragging," or must have collected the frag the principal functions allotted to under other Yuans, of the Chair- the chief interest in the election, ments of glass, for they were yester- SHANGHAI, Oct. 29th.
the Central Political Council. has men and Members of the various for which four candidates were day morning found in a dustbin In an interview Mr. Chang Chialrearly been largely performed by Commissioners of the various Pre-wellknown author, Mr. Cunning room the thief pried open the
Provincial Governments, of the
on the verandah. Inside the clerk's hospital. nominated, was the fact that the Chairman of the Peiping Political the Central Exceutive Committee. Commission, said that the region
vinces, of the Mayor of the Special hame Grahame, who stood as a outside the. Great Wall was full of
Four Most Important Articles.
drawer of the boy's desk, and from Municipalities of all Ambassadors, Scottish Nationalist, polled within a tin box removed the life savings natural resources but owing to The regulations contain thirteen Ministers and Envoys to the vari
Gu votes of Mr. Baldwin's total, the of Ng Cheung- communication difficultive it was Articles, dealing with the constituous foreign countrice, and of a Liberal and Labour candidates The thief appears to have made thinly populated and still unextion and duties of the Central specially appointed and specially being several hundred voter he biz exit by re-entering the Attorney; plored.
Political Council. The four most commissioned officials of the hind.
General's office, then be feetened He considered that the hest important Articles are as follow: National Government,
It is stated that the Scottish the window, and let himself out by means of solving the problem. of The Central Political Council The Central Political Council Nationalists intend to contrat the door, which he locked behind unemployment following demobi- shall be the highest directing shall have no power, to issue or
future Parliamentary elections in him. lisation was to settle disbanded organ in the exccution of the pro- give instructions direct, nor to dis soldiers in this region. He in gramme, of political tutelage for pose of any administrative affairs. timated that he would shortly go the entire country and will be res to the North for the purpose of possible to the Central Executive investigating the actual conditions Committee. there.
(Jontinued on next Columin),
着
Scotland independently of the On previous occasions the three grent political parties, The Supreme Court has been visited by All the resolutions passed by the Party bases its appeal on the thieves, and electric bulbs, an Central Political Council are to be alleged neglect of national in electric-fan from the Puisae forwarded immediately the terests in Parliament at West Judge's desk, and a wall-clock State Council for execution.
Minster.
removed.
to
T
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3rd. Spanking before a meeting of the Chinese-American Citizens' Alliance Attorney-General Webb, of the in New York yesterday, Mr. Wm Washington to present the question Labour, declared the pretent im States of California, is going to Smelser, an Assistant Secretary of in person. The case is based on migration laws are unfairly dis an application made by Dr. K. criminatory against the Chinese and Toshiro, Isami Sekiyama and Paul predicted that Congress would Ita to incorporate and operate a modify the regulations
To show bow discriminatory the Attorney-General Webb ruled that law is," Mr. Smelser Enid, al he could not allow a permit to form other classes of immigrant except such a corporation, contending that Asiaties are permitted and encour such was contrary to the Japan aged to bring their wives, and child- United States treatly. The Japanese rea into the United States. doctors thereupon carried their cuac Representative Hamilton Fish, a to the Supreoic Court of the State member of the House of Foreign of California, which ruled that the Affairs Committee, promised to sizu- treaty pinced no restrictions against port American-born Chinese in their the incorporation of the proposed efforts to obtain more favourable hospital..
immigration Inws. Representative Attorney-General Webb is now Loring M. Black urged that treaties appealing to the Federal Supreme be negotiated by the United States Court against the decision of the with China which would treat Ching Supreme Court of the State ofas a sovereign nation, which it California.
actually ia in spirit.”.