JAPAN'S DELEGATES IN CHINA.
PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS,
MR. YADA'S NEGOTIATIONS.
(Wah Tu Fat Pao).
SHANGHAI, NOV, 20th.
Mr. Tada accompanied by other Japanese diplomatic officials pro-
BRUTAL MURDERS BY PIRATES.
JUNK'S CREW FLUNG OVERBOARD.
HEAVY RANSOM PAID.
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 20th.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21st,
POST OFFICE - BEAM KESWICK
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MURDER
SOUTHERN TREND
CASE.
OF INDUSTRY.
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PENNY POST AT HOME?
INCREASED POPULARITY.
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ESTIMATED LOSS.
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Ruasy, Nov 19th. understood on
It is
SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.
THE QUESTION OF UPKEEP.
BURDEN ON STRAITS. SETTLEMENTS?
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LONDON, Nov." 19th- Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, the
ceeded to Nacking yesterday even- Tai, proceeding from Dairen to / Office, Wireless Beam Services were with documents. He had dispensed location of national industries is representations from all over the Under-Secretary for, the Colonies,
ing. The third session of Sine- Japanese negotiations will be held this morning at Dr. C. T. Wang's residence, Nanking. These nego tiations will be confined, to the settlement of the Hankow and Nanking Incidenta, "
The Chinese junk Chin Chan Shanghai, reports that it was at tacked by sixty pirates in the Yanglaze Estuary.The crew of eighteen were overpowered despite resistance and fifteen desperate were murdered and flung over- board. The junk was "only released after the payment of a ransom of #10,000.
ARTIFICIAL SILK, BOOM. COUNSEL DISPENSED WITH.
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Rrom, Nev.- 20th, --- RUGBY, Nov. 20th
LONDON, Nov. 20th.
The process of social evolution
good" Interesting figures showing the Dr. Chung Yi Miao appeared "in increasing extent to which the Post the Appeal Court to-day loaded with the change in the nature and authority that following strong being used were given in the Com-with counsel and conducted his own disclosed in the Ministry of Labour country, the Government are con- case because the Almighty told Gazette. For the purposes of sidering the authorisation of a mons yesterday. On the Australian
me to tell my own story.".
analysis one hundred industries reduction of the stamp duty on service during the first year's opera tion over 7,000,000 words were He spoke for over three and a have been treated separately," and letters, which is now 1d. to the handled, on the Canadian service half hours, alleging that he was of these sixty-six record increases old rate of one penny. over 4,500,000, on the Indian ser the victim of prejudice" and misduring the last five years and on the understanding, and called fresh thirty-four show decreasea. Work vice over 10,000,000, and South Africna over 8,000,000. witnesses to support his original ers in the silk and artificial silk During the first complète week in statement that mysterious Orient industry have increased by 936 per each service the wardage paid forals were seen near the spot where rent, and the expansion last year almost equalled that of the four was 53,000, 59,000, 115,000 and 88,000 his wife's body was discovered, repectively. The weekly figures
preceding years together: The appeal was dismissed. have now increased on the cor-
The. Victim,
Statistics
Mr. Yada in an interview at Nanking said that he placed "great hopes in his present mission to Nasking so far as the settlement of many outstanding Sino-Japanece problems were concerned. He pre dicted that the negotiations with BRITANNIA AND ST. GEORGE. responding services to - 181,000,
Dr. C. T. Wang would be com- pleted in a week or 10.
According to a statement made by an important spokesman of the Nanking Foreign Ministry, the suc cess of the third session of Sins Japanese negotiations will depend on Japan's willingness to withdraw Japanese troops from Shantung; for should she refuse to do so it' "will not only mean failure to reach an agreement regarding the settle. ment of the Trinan Incident and
treaty revision but also the entire collapse of the negotiations,
ARMS TRAFFICKING IN JAPAN.
BIG ROUND UP BY POLICE.
SMUGGLING TO CHINA.
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TOKYO, Nov. 19th.
In the course of a week, the Police have rounded up forty-five persons who are accused of arms trafficking. It is stated that large
ENGLAND'S NEW CURRENCY NOTES.
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RUGBY, Nov. 20th. Notes of the value of one pound
and ten shillings, printed in many colours and embellished with the figures of Britannia and, in the case of the larger denomination, of Saint George and the Dragon, Will from Thursday take the place of the treasury notes of these de nominations now in circulation. The new notes are being issued by the Bank of England and their design is based on that of the exist ing Bank of England notes.
GOVERNMENT GRANT, TO
DOMINICA.
REPAIRING HURRICANE
DAMAGE.
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Ruger, Nov. 20th. When the House. of Commons last
night agreed to the supplementary vote of £15,000, comprising £10,000 Leeward Islands, reference for Dominica and £3,000 for the
Wai
113,000, 253,000 and 200,000 words.
Total Capital Cost.
In the House of Commons to day, Lord Wolmer, Under-secre- tary for the Post Office, atated the total capital cost of the four beam transmission stations erected, re- for the Australian, spectively Canadian, Indian and South Afri- can wireless services was approxi- mately £242,000,
GERMAN VIEWS ON RHINELAND.
IMMEDIATE EVACUATION.
REPARATIONS QUESTION.
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4:
striking confrm in
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INVITATIONS. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
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The penny postage was intro duced in England as long ago as 1871, or 57 years ago, and the rate was only increased to three-half-"} pence as a temporary measure to meet the financial stringency caus ed by the war.
in the number of letters carried.
It is believed that the action of the Government indicates the probability that the restoration of the penny postage may be one of the features of the next Budget.
CURBING SUICIDES IN SHANGHAI
"POLICE PATROL AND CAM- PAIGN BY PICTURES.
was asked in the House of Cam- mons whether any extra charges for the naval and aerial armamenta and establishments at Singapore arising out of the naval base would be thrown on the Straits Settle- ments. Mr. Ormsby-Gore replied in the negative.
The Under-Secretary stated that the protests of public bodies in the Straits Settlements against the payment of ten per cent, as mill- tary contribution as the result of the increase of the garrison, were still being considered.
He said he was unable definitely
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the Colony's Exchequer for capital expenditure in connection with naval and serial armaments and establishments. at- Bingapore, but the question of the distribution of the cost for annual upkeep was a matter for the Government as a whole to arrange.
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Commander. Kenworthy (Lab.) expressed the hope that the Secre tary for the Colonies was defend- ing the interests of the Colonies as against the War Office and the Admiralty,
The Post Office has been asked Dr. Miao and his wife arrived. for manner the southern trend of in- by the Government to make a re- their honeymoon in the Lake Dis-dustry. The. London area has in- turn of the estimated loss to the trict in May from America. On the creased its number of insured work Exchequer which would be occa- following day the wife was founders in five years by 10.2 per cent.sioned by a reduction to one penny to estimate the cost of the full strangled in a lane near Keswick. London and the South Eastern The business community have garrison after the new base, ar- were fully The victim of the crime was the counties taken together now repre. frequently pressed for such & con-enal and dockyard daughter of Mr. Siu Ying Chow, sent 25.7 per cent. of the ineured cession, and argue that the redne-established.
There would be no extra charge a wealthy business man of Macao population, as compared with 24.9 tion would lead to a large increase who dealt in real estate, opium
per cent. in 1923. and curios. She was born in Hong Kong and after studying at St. Stephen's College she went to New York University and return. ed later to Hong Kong. Miss Siu Wei Sheung inherited a great deal of her father's ability and was for some time his assistant and con- fdante When he died his will showed that besides leaving her a
Reapy, Nov. 20th. large sum of money he had taken.
Invitations to the enthronement the unusual course of making ber
of Doctor Cosmo Gordon Lang as his sole executrix.. She was in charge of the valuable stock in the Archbishop of Canterbury have stall taken by the firm at Wembley been sent to the "prelates of all Christian churches throughout the Exhibition and later, while on a business trip to New York the world. There will be representa Greater Shanghai is taking action Conversations have been held met her future husband. She was tires of the Greek and Russian in the matter." said at the time to have taken churches as well as delegates from
$460,000 worth South Africa, India, Canada, the with the officials of the Bureau of evacuation of the entire occupied curios to dispose of in the United United States and Protestant com- Public Safety and arrangements region, and added that Germany States..
munities in the British Isles. The have been made whereby police ceremony will take place in Canter-officers will be stationed along the of Her engagement was a short one
waterfront to prevent young people political burdens, the effect which would last beyond the terms and the tragic honeymoon was
bury Cathedral on December 4th.
It is twenty-Bve years since an from making away with themselves of pledged reparation.
In addition, special coloured posters have been exhibited all along the Nantas Bund warning the public not to throw away their lives. These depict the body of a
floating on young person river: in anather a girl is seen in the act of drowning herself, while a policeman is seen rushing Up from behind, calling out.
You must not die: you must go, home The meaning of the pictures can and, the Bureau of Social Affairs be understood without the words hopes, they will go far towards saving lives in future.
BERLIN, Nov. 19th. Making his first appearance in the Reichstag since June, owing to serious illness, Dr. Stresemana, the German Foreign Minister, made a general statement on for eign policy, paying special atten- tion to the last Geneva Conference. Dr. Stresemann said that Ger-
her claim for the immediate $300,000 or
unswervingly maintained
consignments of arms and ainmunt made to the havoc wrought by the could not, ia return, assume any
tion have been coming to Japan from Belgium and Germany, and that Japanese have been exporting them surreptitiously to China and Manchuria.
It is reported that about ten thousand rifles and revolvers and a million rounds of ammunition have been thus traded in the past
four years.
T. V. SOONG ADAMANT.
(Wah Te Tat Pas),..
SHANORAL, Nov. 20th. Regarding the joint protest made by France, Great Britain and Japan against the new regulations for the administration of the Chinese Salt Gabelle, Mr.T. V. Soong, the Nanking Financial Minister, has declared that he is determined not to modify the new regulations.
DIRECTOR DISMISSED.
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EANIOW, Nov. 19th.
violent hurricane experienced there last September. Nearly £27,000 has already been raised for the relief of private distress, which is likely to cover, the cases. In addition des truction and damage of government property amounted to £30,000 in Dominica alone and £15,000 in the other Leeward Islands. The Gov ernment there could not afford to find the whole of that loss. Of the £10,000 proposed for the assistance of Dominica, hall was a free gift and half was a loan iree of interest, to be repaid when Dominica was in position to make repayment.
LADY M.P. RETIRES.
MISS MABEL RUSSELL'S DECISION,
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RUGBY, Nov. 20shi Mrs. Hilton Philipson, formerly Misa Mabel Russell the well-known actress, who has been Conservative member of Parliament for Berwick L. N. Chang, Director of the on Tweed for six years, has an Special Administrative District No.nounced that she will not stand se
the 3 under the Chen-O'Malley Agree candidate in
election. ment, has been dismissed by the Nationalist Governirent..
"CHINA'S FAMINE PROBLEM
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PERING, Nov. 20th. According to the latest statement issued by the International Famine" Relief Committee, twelve million people
already have
reached famine point in Northern and Central China.
It is expected that the number will greatly increase when the height of the famine is reached." The minimum sum needed in plac ed at. 840,000,000.
STRIFE IN SZECHUAN.
(Wah Tez Yat Pao).
SHANGHAI, NOV. 20th. Although reports on the latest condition of Szechuan are meagre, it is evident that civil war is being waged between General Chow Shih Cheng, the Nanking military leader, and General Li Hein. The Nation aliat Government has repeatedly sent telegrams to Szechuan order- ing them to cease. hostilities at once pending the decision of the Central Government.
JAPANESE PREMIER. [THROUGH: REUTER'S AGENCY.] Toxyo, Nov. 19th
Para make it suffering from heart trouble, and is been ordered to rest, is much better, to- doy.
next genera?
that Germany would not
He also dealared emphatically spent in England
of
throned:
enter Miss Sin, as she then was, had Archbishop of Canterbury was en- into any financial engagements as many friends in the Colony, being a price of military evacuation of the Rhineland, though mentioning generally known as that negotiations are proceeding dollar girl
the "million and the Opium
at
OBITUARY.
for the settlement of the repara- King's daughter." tions question.
The convicted man, an American. CAPTAIN THOMAS A. GRAY- to the Anglo-French born Chinese. has been in Hong Referring
SON OF SHANGHAI. naval compromise, Dr. Stresemann Kong on one or two visits. Local- aid that it naturally caused muchy doubts are expressed about his anxiety in Germany, not only in supposed doctorate of law connection with the problem of
Chicago University,,. general disarmament. but also in regard to the possibility lying therein of a new grouping of Powere to the detriment of Ger- s many.
Germany's standpoint had been exhaustively laid down by Berr Mueller and Count Bernstorff at Geneva, and Germany would hold by that.
A Memorandum setting forth the British point of view in regard to reparations has been communi- cated to the German Government through their Ambassador in Lon- don.
Stresemann's Relief,
BERLIN, Nov. 20th. Herr Stresemann in his speech in the Reichstag yesterday revert LOCUST PLAGUE IN KENYA.ed to the Anglo-French agreement. He said he felt bound to declare SCIENTIFIC CAMPAIGN OF at all his anxiety on this score
PREVENTION.
had been removed by recent state menta by the representatives of the two Powers
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RUGBY, Nov. 19th.
In the House of Commons to day, Mr. W. G. Ormsby Gore.made a statement regarding the recent locust plague in Kenya Colony,
He said steps were taken by the authorities to deal with the plague, and expenditure amounting E6,500 was sanctioned for an anti- locust campaign, which was vigor- ously prosecuted by the Depart- ment of Agriculture.
WIK
desiruble
to
Herr Stresemann was particular ly glad to hear Mr. Baldwin say that he also regarded the co-opera- tion of the great Powers as the basis of European policy.
THE RUSSIAN FOOD FAMINE.
SCHEMES TO DIMINISH QUEUES.
THE S.S." VESTRIS " INQUIRY.
NAUTICAL EXPERTS "CALL- 'ED IN.
TUTTLE'S METHODS -
CRITICISED.
{KEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
A.B.
Another of Shanghai's old hands passed away last Thursday, name ly Captain Thomas A. Grayson Captain Gray at the age of 80. son was a well known figure among the local shipping men' in the mer- chant service, but for the most part his history, so it seems, is lost in the ages, and there are very few in Shanghai now, who can epeak of his early days.
From
of the Affairs for
In view of the number
Social suicides recently reported, Bureau of
the
The Bureau estimates that 15 per cent of the suicides are due to financial reasons 60 per cent, to domestic troubles; ari the remain- other causes."-North der to
China Daily News,
U.S. HORSE SHOW. MANY NATIONS COMPETING.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12th. For the first time since the World War, Germany is competing in the national horse show of the Caited States this year.
Captain Grayson, was born in NEW YORK, Nov. 19th. Acting on a suggestion from the Liverpool in 1846, and he came out British Government, the Federal to Shanghai about 1880, Commissioner, Mr. O'Neill, who is that date to the time of his death presiding at the Inquiry into the it appears doubtful whether he foundering of the British ever went home again, but during Vestris, has been joined on the those many years he saw much beach by two nautical experts. service on the Yangtze River in
Germany has sent the superb One is Captain McConkey, the various companies and in many
Some there are who say team of cavalrymen and horses British Marine Superintendent of
ships. the Cunard Line, and the other is that he was one of the first cap which won first honors in the Olym
at Amsterdam and gamea tains on the middle reaches of the pio Captain Jessup, a former officer in the American Navy. They will act river.
threatens the supremacy of Poland, as advisers and will question the Shortly after he arrived in which for the last two years had Shanghai Capt. Grayson joined carried off premier honors at this witnesses
Despatches from London report the China Merchants Steamship show.
Four years Sweden is represented by an ex- ing the bitterness felt in England Co. as 2nd Officer. regarding the manner in which the later he becama Chief Officer and cellent team said to be on a par American Attorney, Mr. Tuttle, is after a lapse of six years was made with Germany and Poland, and is treating
the witnesses, are promin-captain of the str. Kuling. His likewise a newcomer to the big ently displayed in the newspapers. next record that can be found is show.
Some of them have entered an
Holland, Belgium, Canada and the books of the Indo-China in Against editorial protest
the Steamship Company for May 1916. the United States will also be methods of Mr. Tuttle, For At this time most of the regular vicing for the coveted international instance, the Journal of Commerce officers of this line were at the war, military trophy. remarks that this is no occasion for and a man of 68, Capt. Grayson, A troop of eight Mexican vaque "self-advertising officials to bellow
too old for service, volunteered to ros, with silver saddles studded and endeavour to scare witnesses, take up work again although he with semi-precious stones, is pro- or otherwise to cater to hysteric had previously retired, and ones viding a colorful feature for the and misunderstanding."
more set out on the trips, from show. They were trained for the
Los Angeles. SALVATION ARMY LEADER
program by Marco Hellman of
The Government of Kenya
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] agreed with Dr. Fuller, who had had many years experience of
RIGA, Nov, 19th. locust work, that some permanent The present food crisis in Russia, organisation
for the problem of supplies and the dealing with the movement of evil arising from quenes of people locust swarms, and this would be trying to obtain the bare necessi considered
in connection with ties of life, formed the subject of next years.cntimates..
conference called by Soviet offi cials in Moscow and attended by
LONDON, Nov. 10th. GERMAN CREDITS TO representatives of the Co-operative
The news of General Booth is organisation, the State Depart more hopeful, a bulletin issued RUSSIA.
ments and the Trade Unions.
It was proposed to diminish the this evening, stating that the Salve- queues by opening shops on Sun- tion, Army leaderspent a better
day." days and holidays.
NO REPRESENTATIONS, BY BRITAIN.
THROUGH REUTER'S 'AJENOT-]
LONDON, Nov. 19th. Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said in the House of Commons to-day that no represcutstions had been- made to the Germann Government
ROYAL VISIT TO EAST INDIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]:..
(THROUGH BEDTKE'S JGENOT.)
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL -VESSELS.
H.M.8. Sufolk arrived at Taka- matau from Beppu on November,
EMB. Berwick has arrived at
19th. Boazia No 19th. The Duke and Duchess of
at any time by or ou telialashmaning medistaly, Deake from Mivajima British Government on the subject on a long voyage to the Dutch East of a grant of credits to Russia:
Indies.
The transport Taming has reach ed. Hong Kong from Shanghai.
After the War was over Capt. Shanghai up the river and back Grayson remained with the com- pany until, in 1825, he felt that it was really time that he retired from active service and left the shipping world for good.
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
REALISTIC SIGHT AND SOUND FILM.
BUOBT, Nov. 1st. The famous charge of the light brigade at Balaclava wae" repro- duocd with every semblance of realism at Aldershot yesterday for a film production entitled "Bala ciava"
1
The light cavalry charge was made by 000 men in uniforms. of 74 years ago representing the various regiments who actually took part in the engagement.
The cameras were stationed at various points and the roar of the enemy guns was picked up by a sound recording apparatus of the British Acoustic Company.
TIGRESS SHOT NEAR SINGAPORE.
MALAY HUNTER'S SUCOESS..
A tigress measuring 7 feet from head to tail was shot last week near the sixth mile, Bukit Timah.
The hunter was a Malay named Yacob bin Bandar, who has thus succeeded in ridding this.locality of a beast which hae boen alarming squatters for some time past I was evidently the mate of the tiger which was shot at Pasir Panjang re- cently. Yacob bin Bandar made his bag at 10 p.m.
The skin is now being stuffed by Singapore Taxidermist.
STREET LAW REPORT.
DRASTIC CHANGES
LIKELY.
LONDON, Oct. 18th. The Street Offences Committee, which was appointed a year ago, in holding what it is hoped will be final meetinge to-day and to morrow.
The members are understood to have recommended a number of
drastic changes. These are direct ed towards a simplification of the law and to a more uniform treat- ment of both sexes.
Policewomen's Value.
Many organisations concerned with social and reclamation work This year the horse show com-
are in accord with Bir Leonaid mittee has decided to reintroduce and exploit the trotting horse and Dunning, Chief Inspector of Con- to that end is presenting in exhibi- tabulary, who, in evidence, epoke tion trots the famous Peter Man-of the value of policewomen.
It is held that the value- From this time on, for the past ning, world's champion at the mile
policewomen is inestimable in big in one minute 50 3.4 seconds, three years, as might be expected,
There are coach parades, display. centres, not for work commonly he has lived very quietly by him- self, until finally death overtooking the picturesque old vehicles performed by a constable, but for him at the age of 80-North drown by four horses with a fan-work among women and children.
The secretary of the London China Daily News.
fare of horas, on every day of the
Police Court Mission said:
A DEMOCRAT LEADER.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE].
WARBINGTON, Nov. 19th.
show.
Most of the military teams took part in the Olympic jumping con- seats and their participation in the horse show gives chance for resump- tion of sporting rivalries started The death frennounced of Meat Amsterdam, Germany's team
quáfficers from Baland 1 William Oldfield, of Arkansas, who is in particularly fine fettle and was a Democratie met the
plenty of trouble.-Manila Times. House of Representatives
of
Girls who are stranded in big centres will go and talk to a policewoman in uniform and seek her advice and assistance on matters which they would not mention "to a constable. I have no, doubt" many, girls have -OCED mayrıl fera, sesima perils 13 this Way..