THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 1929..
DSTURBANCES IN CAUSE OF BOMBAY TERRIBLE COLD IN SNOW IN SOUTH OF ROMAN QUESTION
CHEFOO.
AIERICAN MISSIONARIES IN
DANGER.
WARSHIPS STANDING BY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CHECO, Feb. 19th.
RIOTS.
STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF
COMMONS.
HINDUS IN THE WRONG.
[THROUGH RICTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Feb. 11th.
EUROPE.
TRAINS HELD UP.
ENGLAND THREATENED.
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LONDON, Feb. 11th. The whole of Europe is in the
The situation here, which was
The full history of the organised grip of an almost unprecedented practically, normal a week ago, is communal riots in Bombay, which cold wave, which rather than show now worse owing to a combination have already resulted in over a hun- ing any signs of diminishing, ap of several independent bodies of dred and twenty deaths, and in pears to be spreading, England, Northern troops and brigand bands juries to thousands, was related to which, hitherto has escaped the from Middle and East Shantung who an interested Elcuse of Commons by treacherous weather of the Con are-planning an attack on Liu Chien | Earl Winterton, the Under-Secretinent, woke up this morning to Nien to oust him from Chefoo.tary for India, today.
And a very severe fall in tempera- The statement dealt at consider ture, and it is thought that the It is expected that Lin Chien Nien
and if he defeated he will fall
the experience of the Europe. back to Chefoo. Owing to the poor outlook, the United States Consul, Leroy Webber, has advised all Americans in Hwanghsien the centro of the American Baptist! missionaries who are operating a large bospital there and in Teng
ENGLAND.
ANXIETY FOR THE" KING.
DOCTORS SATISFIED.
{THROWGS SIUTER'S (OINCT.) |
LONDON, Feb. 19th. The snow in the south of England
has been slight hitherto, but the
frost. has been tense.
SETTLED.
VATICAN TREATY SIGNED.
HUGE INTERNATIONAL
GATHERING.
(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROME, Feb. 11th.
Despite extreme cold and can. however, broke out in the forenoon gathered in the square of the St. The sun, tinuous raia, an immense crowd and Craigweil House was bathed in John Lateran Church, facing the warm rays which poured into the ancient Lateran Palace of the King's bedroom. Nevertheless the Popes, where Cardinal Garpsm unexpectedly severe cold wai some.
on behalf of Pope Pius, and Signor what disquieting to the Royal noite Mussolini, the Italian Dictator, azi windows and exceptionally thick signed the historic treaty which walls of Buckingham Palace, while finally settles the so-called Roman the gale beating against the win- dows last night disturbed His Majesty.
ROMAN CATHOLICS Telegrams in Brief.
IN MEXICO.
PRESIDENT'S ATTACK,
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An expedition led by Dr. J. Jack- son, of Cambridge University, is leaving from Liverpool for Penang REGISTRATION OF PRIESTS. on February 18th, to observe the tatal eclipse of the sun in Malaya, THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"
The party is taking over a hundred cases of instruments, including a MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1. 45-foot telescope. One party will Following reports that armed go to Patani, Siam, and the other Agrarians are gathering at Vera to Alorstar.
issued a manifesto accusing the Secretary Cruz, Fresident Portes Gil has Mr. G. Locker Lampson, Under- for Foreign Affairs, Roman Catholic Church of foment stated in the House of Commons ing trouble and announcing that that negotiations have for some certain church estates will be con- time been proceeding between the fiscated and distributed to the pea United States, Great Britain and sants and workers. He orders Iraq for the conclusion of a con. Roman Catholic priests to notify vention, similar to
the Anglo- American Convention under penalty of prosecution as
regarding
accomplices of the insurgent move States citizens in that country. It between the United States and Iraq, and the status of United
is hoped these negotiations may lead to the signature of the pro- posed Convention at an early date. The United States Senate has rätified bath the tariff autonomy treaty with China and the commer cial treaty with Austria.
will make a stand at Hwanghsien able length, with the whole problem, British Isles will shortly share in as Craigweik House lacks the doubia behalf of King Victor Emmanuel. their addresses within fifteen days Palestine, to regularise relations
chowfu, the educational centre of the American Presbyterian mission- aries, to proceed to Chefoo. Several foreign warships are here and others are expected.
Avangslen Surrendered.
Liu Chien Nien's attempt to treat with the rebels has proved abor- tive, the latter demanding the sur render of Liu's arm and ammuzi. tion Hwanghaien, to which Liu Oben Nien transfered his Third Division ten days ago, has hoisted the white fag to-day when it was surrounded by the late fourth divi- sion.
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rest
of
and was made in answer to a long series of questions relative to the outbreaks, including that of whe-
In London to-day, the tempera- ther there would be an official inture fell to the lowest point reach quiry as to whether the Pathans ored in the day-time since December the Hindus went to blame.
31st, 1997. A strong easterly wind increased the general discomfort.
The epidemic of influenza, which,
The Cause.
Earl Winterton said that the trouble dated really from December
already numbers thousands among
Balloon In Feril.
Tth Inst year, when the workmen emits victims, threatens to become ployed by the oil companies at their still more acute. installations struck work. The strikers were mostly Hindus
Three Germans in a balloon Rather than give way to the men's | crashed into a tree early this morn demands, the comparies replaced ing near the village of Torphins, the Hindus by Pathans. This led thirty miles from Aberdeen, having to several, fracas between the strik- been blown across the North Sea ers and the Fathans, in which in at the mercy of a terrific gale. juries were suffered or both sides. They had been carried helples
and
The communal trouble between from Leipsig, but fortunately none the Hindus the Pathans of them appear to have suffered gradually developed seriously, the material "harm from their Ex- Hirdus taking the initiative perience. throughout. The trouble, culminat-
Lia Chen Nien in the past week has transferred large quantities of ed in the organised murder of three
The doctors, however, were not dissatisfied with his condition this morring.
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Encouraging Reports. The reports of the King's health on Monday, after the week-end by the sea, are encouraging.
It is officially stated that the King passed another good night,| and his condition is satisfactory.
His Majesty's appetite has im proved and he generally appears to be benefiting by the change.
The weather, however, is disap pointing, the coast having to-day been swept by a cold easterly wind. Consequently at present it is pro posed that the King remains in bed.
Duchess of York, The Duchess of York, who is suffering from influenza, cóntinues to make good progress.
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PRINCE OF WALES'
RECREATION. :
question.
The agreement settles i dispute between the Church and the State that has lasted for nearly sixty years and thas has kept the Pontif self-imposed prisoner at the Vatican since 1970.
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From China To Pera. Students from the Propaganda College from all parts of the world, from China to Peru, lined bot sides of the entrance to the Lateran Palace, while friars and monks and even muns are conspicuous among the great cord which assembled to witness the inal scenes in the suc.. cessful struggle of the Church for recognition of its rights..
Cardinal Gasparri, whose robes were concealed in a thick mantle, as he was suffering from a cold, was warmly welcomed by Signor Mus-
ment.
OBITUARY,
SIR EDMUND FREMANTLE.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Feb. 11th. The death is announced of Ad-
In the Scottish League, Airdrie defeated St. Mirren by three goals to mil.
Two members of the crew of the mira the Hon. Sir Edmund Robert President Johnson of the Dollar Fremantle at the age of 92 years.
The late Admiral Fremantle was when a fire broke out in the Steamship Line lost their lives Cottesloe, and cam the 4th son of the 1st Lord forecastle. A junior engineer died
of a famous naval family." His grandfather when, after making his way from commanded H.M.8. Neptune under the burning quarters of the crew, Nelson, three of his uncles were in he went back to retrieve his cloth the service, while his son, Admiraling. The other man was burned to death in his bünk. The loss is Sir S. R. Fremantle, retired in estimated at $100,000.
1928.
munitions and supplies to Muping Pathan watchmen at the New China respectively. After several slight HUNTING SEASON ENDING solini, who verse a frock coat, and that the German Telegraph adminis-I
20 miles east of Cheloo, and it is
now expected that he will retreat there shortly."
Mills by Hindu mill-hands, not the oil-strikers,
Baseles Rumours. on February 2nd, the
Chefco wharves are littered with munitions and supplies pending Liu's departure for Muping and
Thea many Chinese ships fave been com mandeered as well as some of Hindus spread absolutely baseless Butterfield's and the Harbour Commission launches.
to the effect that the appareatly for the use of the military.
Pathans were kidnapping children to sacrifice them on the foundations of a ridge that is in the course of construction at Baroda.
HEAVY BUCHAREST LOÅN.
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN BANKERS.
GOVERNMENT MONOPOLIES AS SECURITY.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BUCHAREST, Feb. 12th.
Fumours
The rumors were officially re pudiated at one, but the Hindu commanity was guilty of sporadie assaults and murders of isolated Pathans,
The men are Paul Rohr, Paul doctor, & dentist and a farmer Thielecke, and G. Rexhausen, a
injuries had been treated, they Ships Stranded.
were taken to Aberdeen.
Shipping in the Baltic and io all the North Sea ports has been brought to a standstill by the severe cold, which has made every- one of them ice-bound.
Aeroplanes are supplying dia. tressed ice-bound ships of which there are seventy in the Baltic, six of them being off the Estuary of the Elbe unable to make pro- gress forward or backward. or two seem in danger of being crushed.
One
The extent of the sensational cold spel in Germany is shown by the "On February th, continued Earl fact that no fewer than 970 persons Winterton, the leaders of a large in Berlin alone have been sent to body of Pathans, who ill then had hospital suffering from frcatbite,
while two have died. shown great forbearance, asked The frost was also responsible for for police protection, when come the bursting of Not only the stabilisation of the of the Pathans started rioting.
Kaamain at currency but extensive economic From that time on the situation Frankfurt, where four persons suc- reconstruction will be effected by grew gradually worse,
and thecumbed to the fumes.
The fight of the Graf Zeppelin an international loan contracts for Pathans retaliated for the attacks from Friedrichshafen to Egypt has which have been signed with an made on their community by as been postponed on account of the international group representing saulting solitary Hindus. Serious cold. leading American and European rioting had occurred in different bankers The loan, which, totale approximately
will was still serious though it appear- £20,000,000 be issued on Thursday on the ed to be improving. security of Government monopolies, including tobacco, matches and salt. It is understood that the Brisis portion will amount to £2,000,000, bearing interest at per cent.
while the issue price will be 85.
جنس
BRITISH CRUISER
PROGRAMME,
MR. BRIDGEMAN'S STATE- MENT.
Trai Held Up.':
parts of Bombay and the situation Reuter's correspondent at Prague
reports the severest cold in 150 Earl Winterton added that the years. An example of the bitter- Pathans for many years had been a nesa in this area is contained in community in Benbay. Some were the report that trains have been British subjects and some were not delayed owing to the "freezing of They were law-abiding normally, the wheels, which required to be thawed, before the train could giving no trouble to the authorities.
A number He concluded by stating that he make further
had, no doubt that an official en/of trains in Progrlovakia have
quiry would be held into the affair, bus the first thing was to stop the rioting.
-A Quieter Day.
been embedded in snow drifts.
that the island of Schiermonnikoog From Amsterdam, it is learned
(THROUGH ZIOTER'S AGENCY-)
LONDON, Feb. 11th. The report in the Daily Express that the Prince of Wales has decid- ed to give up hunting and point to point racing and to dispose of his 15 hunters, due to the rapidly in creasing duties devolving on him consequence of the King's illness, is not quite accurate.
It is stated at St. James's Palace that the Prince is selling most of his hunters, but it is explained that the hunting season is cading and that the Prince does not intend to take part in any point-to-point races his year.
top-hat, and who was accompanied by a large number of the Fascist leaders.
Wonderful Ovation.. Three instrumenta, the texts of which were in Italian, were signed, namely, a political treaty definitely eliminating the Roman question; a concordat, regulating the conditions of religious worship in Italy; and & Convention, adjusting the firan cial relation of the Holy See and the Italian Government.
The announcement that the his
toric documents had been signed was greeted in the square by the students, who sang the To Deum the Fascist Militai, adding a live- ly chorus "Eja Alula for the Pope and Mussolini.??
Many ol the women present wept.
Cardinal Gasparri and Signor # wonderful Mussolini received evation on leaving the hall of the Palace.
The hunting season ends in March, and point-to-point races are held during the latter part of March and during April.
His Royal Highness's decision does not necessarily mean that the Prince is giving up hunting altogether. makes too great a demand upon the The fact is that hunting now Prince's time, considering the in- creased duties of State throws upon him by he King's illness. The Prince may still hunt occasionally THE REPARATIONS PROBLEM,
as he is very fond of the sport...
VENGEANCE ON AFGHAN
LEADER.
RESCUES BY R.A.F.
(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.]
PEAHAWAL, Feb. 12th. Four Royal Air Force machines
EXPERTS GATHERING AT
PARIS.
PRELIMINARY MEETING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S " AGENCY.)
PARTE, Feb. 11th. The Grst oficial meeting of the Committee of Experts, appointed by the Gottraments concerned, to seck a final solution of the repara- tions problem, was held today at the Hotel Astoria, The proceed
has been cut off from Friesland for brought from Kabul fifty-eight rings were private,
one of two
principal British members of the committee of experts on repara tions, arrived in Paris yesterday from Londos. Last evening Mr. Owen Young and Mr. J. P. Morgan,
a week, and that attempts to sue fugees, including Germans and The serious trochle all over the cour the distressed islanders by Persiana.
It was afterwards officially an- A letter has been renounced that Mr. Owen D. 'Young, city yesterday gave rise to fears aeroplane have been frustrated by ceived from Lieut. Chapman Davis, the famous United States lawyer (THICCON REUTER'S AGENCY:]
that there would be further trouble, the thick foga but there was no rioting, the mis
the stranded pilot, asking that an and economist, has been appointed. "Railway Accident In England.
aeroplane should fetch them from chairman of the Committee. LONDON, Feb. 11th. chief being limited to sporadic An interesting announcement re-amulte, in which several members The biting east wind, which made 4 spot they have indicated west of
British Member, Jalalabad. garding Britain's cruiser policy of both communities suffered in Britain a place of misery yeater
Sir Josiah Stamp, Three machines: have been sent, was made to-day after questions juries,
day, brought now from the Con- had been asked in the House of "Ramazan, the Mostem fasting tinent to day accompanied by in Commons regarding the suggestion mouth, starts this evening and tense frost. Reads in some inland that the Government had decided every precaution is being taken indistricts became impassable owing not to land. to postpone indefinitely the con- the city, which scems to be grow to snowdrifte, while the express struction of the two cruisers in this ing short of supplies.
from London to Glagow was part year's programme which have not Refuse as asomulating in their derailed this morning in a coli- yet been started.
streets as the result of the inability | sion with a goods train hear Asked if the report was true, of the Sanitary Department to per- Alfreton. The driver and fireman Mr. W. C. Bridgeman replied re-form its normal functions,
are missing but no passengers are ferring to the statements he made
injured, It is reported from in December and during last week,
Amsterdam that the ancient Town namely, that the provision in the
Hall at Leyden has been burnt estimates for 1928 was on the basis
down with the loss of priceless ari of ordering the ships in February
treasures and archives. Five fre and March of 1029, and the ar-
brigades were on the spot but were rangements were proceeding.
powerless owing to the severe frost
The allocation in the programme waa Portsmouth one cruiser, De- vonport one' cruiser and two sloops, and Chatham one submarine and one suhagrine depot ship. The re- maining ships would be built under contract outside.
10,000-Ton Cruizers.
to expectations, of 10,000-lous each.
They will be the first ten-thousand-
The stations are thronged with inill-hands leaving the area of the disturbances.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR
RUBBER....
EDISON'S DISCOVERY.
J
SEPARATING MACHINE
WANTED.
(REUTER'S MEXICAN HERVICE.)
New York, Feb. 11th.
covered one which will "producs latex.
From this latex, it is claimed, it is possible to produce a workable substitute for rubber.
The only difficulty that
no
snow
After being isolated for seven days, two TYPEWRITER TELEGRAPHY. Colesburg, Iowa
plows reached Fuel and food: GERMANY GIVES A LEAD.
were virtually exhausted and the citizens had pooled their supplies." circles here are much interested tary of State, has been recommend Lendon, Jan. 20th:-Telegraph "Mr. Frank Kellogg, U.S. Secre in the announcement from Berlined for the 1999 Nobel peace prize. A report states that President- tration will shortly inaugurate the Elect Hoover bas chosen Mr. Louis first teletype" exchange on the B. Mayer, of the Metro-Goldwyn- lines of a telephone exchange.
Mayer Film Corporation, a Ám- Machine or typewriter telegraphy bassador to Turkey and Mr. Mayer. is rapidly superseding." Morse!
has accepted the post, resigning in all parts of the world and the from the motion picture company. "teletype is the most widely used,
Aimée Semple McPherson was This instrument bas a typewriter subpoenaed to appear in Sacra- keyboard and operates to all intents mento on February 21st before the and purposes in the same manner state legislative committee which is conducting investigation but in addition sends out electrical now impulses which are received by an- into the "sender of a gift of a other teletype instrument at the 82,300 check to Judge Carlos A. distant point in typed characters Hardy. for all to read. Anybody familiar
Mrs. Ada Bonner Le Boeuf, and
with the typewriter can operate it her lover, Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, and with very little practice at a were hanged in the county jail of much greater speed than that Louisiana on February 2nd for the obtainable on the "Morse" by even murder of James Le Boeuf, the expert operators.
woman's husband. Mrs. Boeuf was Donald Murray, a well-known the first white woman ever hanged British Inventor and telegraph ex-
in Louisisha. pert first suggested a
teletype" exchange on telephone lines, in a paper read before the British Tu- stitute of Electrical Engineers in 1924 is which he predicted that the day was not far distant when every type circuit as it now has its business firm would have its "telé-
telephone.
to lease teletypes to the public
The German Post Office propose
which will be connected up to a central exchange and a notable feature of the system will be that the "teletype" signals will be car ried over the ordinary telephons wires simultaneously with coprer sations without in any way inter fering one with the other...
Telegraph experts are watching the experiment with keen interest as many believe this novel channel will carry a new type of message hitherto carried through the mail.
RUSSIAN POLICEMAN'S TERRIBLE CRIME.
SENTENCE: TEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT.
Leningrad, Jan. 20th (U.P.): -- After Peter Radyonoff confessed having killed his wife and child last summier to avoid paying alimony, autopsies revealed that he had buried them alive.
Radyonoff has just been tried and went. The trial revealed that he condemned to ten years' imprison- had arranged an apparent recon- ciliation with his wife in order to provide an opportunity to murder
her.
About a year HUMAN SIDE OF CURZON.then a policeman in Moscow, aban- ago Radyo off,'
doned his wife and child and
So many unflattering things have settled in Leningrad. She demand- been said and written about Lorded that he continue to support them Curzon, that it is pleasant to read and threatened to have him arrest a different kind of story about bim, ed. Knowing that the Soviet law and one has landed, ita pilot
told by "Kim," of the Statesman would force him to pay heavy. Hancock, signalling, to the others
An officers' mese in Mesopotamia alimony, Radyonoff decided to die- was approaching the gloomy Christ pose of his family in some final. The other pilots saw that Hancock
mas of 1917. The staple dinner fashion. was surrounded by friendly tribes
dish for a long time past had been
He professed himself men and Chapwan Davis and the United States members, accom- tinned salmon, and there was no having abandoned hold sorry for Hancock will be released when a panied by Mr. T Lamont, one of reason to suppose that the Christ brought her to Leningrad. For a the deputy members and advisers, mas dinner would be at all original: few months they lived in pense. In ranson has been negotiated.
It is reported that Bachai and secretares numbering 37 in all The supply of drinks had given out, the summer, he rented a cottage in Saquan's chief commander, Syed reached Paris,
and the outlook was altogether dis the suburbs and made every effort Hussain, has died of dagger wounds
Dr. Schacht and other German inflicted by the enraged brother of experts with their staff also arrived couraging. So far as the food was to behave like a model husband and concerned expectations were realis father, especially when neighbours. during the day. All the delegated on Christmas Day-the usual were around. u girl whom he had abducted,
tions have the assembled. A pre-salmon cutlets appeared but im paratory meeting at the Banque de agine the sensation when the quar appeared. Radyonoff made a sad One day the wife and child dis- France was summoned to-day when termaster triumphantly blew Governor Moreau. one
face and spread the story that his of the whistle and three men entered the wife had suddenly abandoned him, French members of the committee, mees room, each carrying a bucket He even produced a forged letter received his colleagues.
containing a large bottle with in which she informed him that she
MANY SKIRMISHES IN KABUL.
PANIC IN THE CITY.
(THROUGH RECTZE'S AGENCY.]
Lawnox, Feb. 11th,
It is learned authoritatively in London that life in Afghanistan i becoming increasingly difficult.
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It is expected that questions of gold top! It was real bubbly, and no longer loved him and has de- procedure will be settled at this
&J one of the 'seven officers gathering in view of the first off- bad
cided to flee. taken D misguided osth cial meeting at the Hotel Asteria in his youth
not to drink The police, however, doubted this on Monday.
left alcohol that
one bottle story. Radyonoff was arrested and between two officers. The source of eventually confessed that he had this windfall was Lord Curzon, who murdered them in the forest while had sent out enough champagne they were out for a walk together. mess in Mesopotamia a drink. He. that Christmas to give every offers He led the police to their grave.
When the bodies were exhumed
Private Mesting.
The weed is stated to be a peren It is learned that the two An announcement of the greatest aial, and grows in such a way that
A statement issued at the close cruisers mentioned by Mr. Bridge-importance concerning the disis can be moved like, wheat. man in the House will be, contrary covery of a commercial substitute
Trade has practically ceased and of the preliminary meeting yeater for rubber, is being made to-day on arises is the manner of the extras to skirmishes between the troops on reparations stated that at this panic is frequent in Kabul, owing day of the Committee of Experts the occasion of his 82nd birthday tion of the rubber substitute, ac of Habibullah and those of All meeting, which was held in private also sent an enormous quantity of it appeared that the victing had tonners laid down by the British by Mr. Thomas Edison, according cording to the Herald-Tribune Ahmed Khan, who recently de decisions were taken in connection books, although none of them ever still been alive and struggling when... Admiralty since September, 1997, to the New York Herald-Tribune. Edison has heen experimenting with clared himself King at Jalalabad, with the organisation of subsequent reached this particular mea: Any he buried them. An autopsy con- The journal states that Edison, the object of making a machine It will, however, be impossible meetings. These docisions will be way, the story reveals a side of firmned this. Earth was found in after experimenting over a period capable of separating the rubber for either side to take the field finally adopted at the first official Curzon's nature that received little the stomachs both of the woman and gramme, the reasons which induced of some years with approximately substitute from the other composeriously until the mows melt. The meeting, which will take place to attention in the flood of reminis
15,000 varieties of weeds, has disents of latex, but he has failed roads throughout the country are morrow aften.con
(Continued on next Column).
at the Hotel cences which appeared after his Astoria, Paris.
death
and it appears that in view of the
adoption of the American pro
the Admiralty to suspend building ships of this class no longer apply.
hitherto.
unsafe for cRTEVIDS.
her child, showing that they had swallowed it during or immediately after their burial.