CANTON-NANKING RAILWAY?
EXPERTS SURVEYING THE
GROUND.
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LINK BETWEEN BUSY CITIES.
(Fah Tiz Fat Pao).
SHANGHAI, Feb. 17th.
The Nanking Railway Depart ment is planning a railway between Nanking and Canton. Such a line would run through are provinces, Kiangsu, Anhui, Cheklang, Fukien and Kwangtung, touching many large cities. From Nanking it would go to Tangtu, Wuhu and Chekal in Anhui, and then to Shuian and Shengshan in Cheldang. in Fukien it would touch Pucheng, Lungyen and Yungting.
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The Railway Department has despatched a corps of experts to make a preliminary survey.
RADIO EMBARGO LIFTED.
(THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.)
NANKING, Feb. 17th The embargo on radio and wireless accessories has been lifted.
CHIANG KAI SHEK AT HANGCHOW.
[TABOUGH EXITED'S AGENCY.]
HANGCHOW, Feb. 17th President and Madame Chiang Kai Shek arrived here yesterday evening,
CHINESE IN ANNAM.
כי
(Wah Tas Fat Fao):
SHANGHAI, Feb. 17th. The Sino-French negotiations are progressing amoothly, and discus sions were resumed this morning. "M. Martel, the French Minister, Is inclined to accept Dr. Wang's pro posal for the revision of rates on Fassports accorded to Chinese im- migrants to Antam and other special taxes on Chinese business in
Annam.
DOOMED TO‘-FAILURE.
(Wah Tu Fat Pac).
SHANGHAI, Feb, 17th It is reported that Mr. Yoshizawa has received instructions from Tokyo not to continue negotiations with Dr. Wang if Japan's demands are not accepted by the Nationalist Government. It therefore appears that Sino-Japanese pegotiations are Joomed to failure.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 1929.
AMERICA AND ARMS-NAVAL ARMAMENT
EMBARGOES.
DOURTFUL VALUE.
CHINA'S CASE QUOTED.
[RETTER'S AMEKICẦN BERVICE.}
LIMITATION.
FOREIGN SECRETARY'S
STATEMENT.
DOMINIONS TO BE
CONSULTED.
(THROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCE:]
LONDON, Feb. 17th.
han
The Foreign Offer has stated that no change in the situation regarding paval limitation taken place since Sir Austen Cham beriais informed the House of
BRIGHT OUTLOOK LITTLE RELIEF FOR
FOR STEEL.
BRITAIN.
NO PROSPECT OF EARLY THAW.
·GREATLY · INCREASED PRODUCTION.
LARGER DEMAND FOR COAL.
SPAIN'S PLACE IN THE SUN.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Feb. 16th. A great improvement is being shown in the British iron and steel industries. Last month the output of steel was 761,800 tons, nearly January last year. Reports from 140,000 tons larger than that for the shipbuilding districts show that the laying down of new ships to progress is now being made with His Majesty's Government is carecently contracted for, while in the fully examining "all questions con- lands the volume of work
engineering districts of the Mid- cerning our relations with America steadily maintained
The coal trade is experiencing and the naval conditions of the two, rapid increase in demand and countries"
many more pits are at work in South Wales while there and, in the Northern, coalfields others are re-opening.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16th. Giving evidence before the For eign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives on the resolution to permit the Fresident to place an arms embargo against an aggressor nation in war-time, M. Kellogg declared that it would not be a neutral act for the PresiCommons on February 8th that dent to determine the aggressor, bat suggested that it would not be improper for the President to plice
embargo on bath belligerents He doubted whether it would be of any value, however, as arms and munitions could be obtained from other sources. Mr. Kellogg refer red specifically to China, where he asid all the countries which had placed. embargoes on the shipment of arms were now considering views. ing them.
This examination will be dili gently prosecuted and as soon a it is concluded, the first step, will be to communicate the results to the Governments of the Dominions and receive and consider their
Therefore it is unlikely that His Majesty's Government will be in a position to make any
THE KING.
SLOW INCREASE. OF
STRENGTH.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]" \
LONDON, Feb. 14th The Prince of Wales spent six
Craigweil House, Bognor.
His Royal Highness afterwards re- turned to London,
HUGE U.S. AIRCRAFT farther communication for some hours with the King on Friday at
CARRIERS.
SENSATIONAL REPORTS
•DENIED.
DESTINED FOR " JUNK PILE."
{REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE)
NEW YORK, Feb. 17th. There have been sensational news-
time.
A Personal View.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17th. The British Ambassador, Sir Ezmá
Doctors Howitt and Woods were at Craigweil in the afternoon and Howard, in a letter to the press emphasises the fact that the state-applied luminous ray treatment to ment printed below was merely an expression of his personal views, and was in nowise an official pro-
nouncement.
Sir Esmé Howard said that the British Government is shortly to commence conversations with the principal naval Powers with a view to further limitation of naval armametits.
The British Ambassador stated
sions. Any new discussions would certainly proceed on the assump tion that the recently authorised cruisers would be built."
paper reports to the effect that the that delay in the passage of the new 33,000 tons aircraft carriers Cruiser Bill retarded. British Saratoga and Lexington, which cost efforts towards further disarma- C.888,000,000, are destined for the ment, but now that the measure "junk pile" owing to the cost of had been enacted, he held that the operating them. Undoubtedly in-ground was clear for new discus duced by these reports the Secretary for the Navy, Mr. Wilbur, has stated that the aircraft carriers will continue in nctive service as long as money is available to
Sir Esmé added: "It would operate them. He added that the
seem there is every reason to be recent suggestion that Congressieve that now the Bill has been should decommission them would be enacted, further efforts will be "almost a calamity.”
made before long to reach an agres- ment between the principal naval armamenti."
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SELLING WAVE IN NEW YORK.
The British Ambassador added that the General Election in
any such discussion ·for some months.
Dr. Wang will return to Nanking from Shanghai to-day, so that the FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD'S Britain might, however, postpone idea of holding a further confer- ence to-morrow has been ebaa. doned.
JAPAN'S DEMANDS.
(THROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]'
CAMPAIGN.
[CZUTE'S AMERICAN SERVICE
NEW YORK, Feb. 17th..
A wave of selling has taken place
on the New York stock market owing to the Federal Reserve Toxyo, Feb. 16th. Though official circles are reticent sion of funds for the purpose of Board's campaign to prevent diver it is intimated in well-informed carrying loans based on speculative quarters that instructions have values, and has caused another been despatched to Mr. Yoshizawa sharp decline in prices. Scores of pointing out that Japan has al-pular railway and industrial ready made considerable sacrifices securities fell from two to eight in consenting to a mutual expres dollars por share and a few high sion of apologies in regard to the priced specialities crumbled from Tainan affair, and is not prepared
ten to twenty-one dollars per share. to make further concessions. She insists that the question of com- pensation and damages be settled how, instead of putting it off for* a separate settlement in the future. It is expected that Mr. Yoshi- zawa will convey these views to Dr. Wang, for which reason the out- come of the next meeting will be awaited with special interest.
C. T. WANG STATES HIS CASE.
BOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Feb. 18th. With reference to yesterday's leader in the Daily Telegraph, Dr. .C. T. Wang, interviewed by Reuter, says there is no truth in the report that he is pro posing to open negotiations for the retrocession to China of the Lega
tion Quarter in Peking
AIR FREIGHT LINER CHARTERED.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT
IN LONDON. ·
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] -
LONDON, Feb. 15th. Business circles took considerable interest in a little ceremony which took place in the City this morn ing, the occasion being the signing of an agreement between the lastone Company and the Imperial Airways Limited for the charter af an air freight-liner.
The Instone Company require the use of the air-liner to convey a quantity of television apparatus to Berlin.
portant as it will form the basis The agreement is exceedingly im-
of similar charter agreements re- the garding aerial services in future.
Dr. Wang added that the reasons given by the Daily Telegraph for the breakdown of the Sino Japanese negotiations were based It consists of sixteen carefully. entirely on erroneous information. d.afted clauses on lines which in- The assurance that the National" troduce to the aircraft world the Government would give full pro-sume principles as in the shipping tection to Japanese lives and pro-industry as regards chartering. It. perty after the withdrawal of is thought that the charter-party Japanese troops from Shantung will facilitate the employment of had been more than once officially aircraft for business purposes, given by the Chinese Government
MINERS.
and accepted by Japan. It was LORD MAYOR'S FUND FOR quite another matter that? had caused the present deadlock, but the cause had been withheld "from" the public at the request of the Japanese representative."
FENG'S CHIEF OF STAFF:
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAL, Feb. 18th,
It is reported from Nanking that, General Lu Chung Lin; Marshal Feng Yu Hạiang's. Chief of Staff, left for Honan this afternoon,
SIR ROBERT HO TUNG'S GIFT
【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.j
LONDON, Feb. 18th.”
American Co-operation,-- ** a The Ambassador expressed the opinion that everything pointed towards an early resumption of Acgotiations and, with a far better understanding of the needs of the respective parties than at Geneva in 1927, there should be a very· good prospect of a satisfactory conclusion.
It is learned at the State De partment that Mr. F. B. Kellogg has received no intimation official ly in regard to disarmament from London; also that the American Government is willing to advance the date of the 1931 conference from "August to January or Febru- ary if the majority of the Powers concerned desired auch change.
Folyo In Agreement. Sir Eané Howard's declaration in Washington for further arma- ment limitation has struck a rea- ponsive chord in Japan.
Reiterating the Navy Minister's statements in the Diet on Febra- ary 14th, the Naval spokesman em- phasised the desirability of calling the Disarmament Conference before 1931 owing to the necessity of preparing replacement programmes beforehand.
Though the official report has not yet been received, the spokes inan asserted that Japan is willing to agree to a further reduction of
Japan's desire to change the pre- tonnage, and guns if the agreement is reciprocal, but he recalled
sent 5-5-3 ratio of capital ships into 10-10-7 for all classes of war craft.
BRITISH MOTOR-CARS,
DESTROYED.
MYSTERIOUS FIRE ÎN
BUENOS AIRES.,
(THROUGH BRUYER'S AGENOT)
{TEROUGE" BEUTER'S AGENUT. }
LONDON, Feb. 17th.' · Europe continues to suffer from Arctic conditions, and the only relief that experts can promise to Britain is a slow rise of tempera- tare to near freezing point. There is no prospect of an early thaw.
brought to a standstill all traffic At Budapest: the snowfall has
on twenty-three railway lines and severed communication with Vienas is
2,000 passengers are stranded at Stahlweissenburg in deer, partridges and phessante central Hungary. Numbers of
have been frozen to death in the woods. Many trains" are mom bound in south Sweden.
Disastrous Fires.
One of the most serious aspects of the cold in Paris is the number of fire A provision dealer's de pot has been gutted at. Ivry, two factories destroyed at Lyons, and swing of the hospital of San Juber in Haute Savoie gutted. Here one patient died of exposure while sixty others were rescued.
At Brussels between four and five million francs worth of damage was done by a fire in a pottery near Charleroi where the water maini had frozen.
From Copenhagen it is reported that all Danish waters are blocked with ice, while a critical situation the east coast has arisen en where many vessels are fast in the ice, some with damaged pro-
the King. They, and Lord Daw.pellers and rudders, son, travelled back to London with the Prince in his special saloon.
A Bright Spot.
While the rest of Europe is freez-
There was bright sunshine at Boging, Spain in still sunny and the nor early but later snow fell,
The windows of the King's bed- room which were opened for some time on Thursday, had to be kept closed on Friday,
Oficial Bulletin. An official bulletin issued from Craigweil House on Friday evening states that despite the inclement weather the King continues to make slow progress and since his departure from London has in creased in weight. It is underslood the King was able to walk a fow steps to the scales on which he was weighed. He is nevertheless still very weak, and the process of c covery is slow, so that it is still emphasised that the state of can- valescence is not yet reached. The cold weather has naturally not helped, to accelerate progress.
Duchess of York. -
A inedical bulletin regarding the Duchess of York says Her Royal Highness, quite satisfactorily from influenza,
though
convalescing will be unable to fulfil any engage ments for the next week or two.
temperature is normal
A message from Warsaw states that after a cold wave lasting a fortnight the temperature has risen considerably, but severe snowstorms have disorganised railway, and road traffic. Lemberg is isolated lack of fuel, and many factories are closed for
Records Broken.
Intense cold continued through- out the British Isles on Saturday, and the front in the early hours of the morning was the most severe since the terrible winter of 1895.
Thirty-four degrees of frost were recorded at Ross-on-Wye is Here- ford.
Heavy falls of anow have occur red, not only round London, but over the entire country, one of the worst storms occurring in North- East Yorkshire where the snowfall was the fiercest ever remembered in that part of the country.
The roada in have been rendered impassable.
many places throughout England and Scotland
People were skating until long past midnight in many parts of London. Skating is also in full TOKYO ASYLUM ON FIRE. swing for the first time for thirty years on the River Nene in North- RESCUES OF MAD INMATES.amptonshire.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Toxo, Feb. 15th. Fire. has destroyed the Brain Diseases Hospital. Eleven of the patients were burnt to death while seven are missing.
Diatressing scenes marked the rescue of the inmates, all of whom were insane. They shrieked, laugh.. ed and acted hilariously as the rescuers attempted to save them, while the lurid flames lit up, the darkness of the night..
Big Library Destroyed.
The Military School of "Artillery and Engineering was also damag ed.
Troops, co-operating with Fire Brigades, finally controlled; the conflagration in the carly morning, but not before the flames, which were fanned by a strong wind, bad gutted the main buildings of the hospital and also the military school, including. the latter's library, in which about 100,000 valuable volumes are reported to have been destroyed.
The discomforts of residents of Central London were increased tremendously later in the morning by a choking, blinding pen-soup fog.
Ice-breakers are still busy on the upper reaches of the Thaines, breaking up the ice to prevent danger when the thaw sets in,
On the Continent, Further distressing stories of the effect of the Arctic wave are com
ing in hourly from all over, Europe.
The cold wave in Austria, 1871 a mesage from Vienna, is rapidly assuming the proportions of a catastrophe. Gigantic mowdrifts have blocked communications, and a lack of fuel is threatened at an early date, while there are in aumerable cases of illness Fur- ther reduction of the train services has been forced upon the authori- ties by the conditions. Many of the schools have been closed.
From Prague it is learned that the intense cold, is slowly paralys ing industrial life
in Czecho- Slovakia. Many roads and the majority of the railway lines have been completely blocked by now- RECLAMATION SCHEME IN drifts, and Bratislava and other
towns have been isolated.
Many of the smaller factories in the country aré entirely without coal and have had to close down."
GREECE.
SHEFFIELD BECURES CONTRACT.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.],
RUGBY, Feb. 18th."
! Lights Out in Berlin je Renter's Berlin correspondent cables that the centre of the Ger- man capital was this evening A contract of about £10,000,000 plunged into darkness as the result from the Greek Government for the of the freezing of the main gas"). reclamation and irrigation of great pipes, which cannot be thewed areas of land for agricultural par, owing to the danger of explosion. poses has been secured in the face · Navigation of the Scheldt at of keen international. competition Antwerp has now been auspended by Henry Boot & Sons, Limited, completely the big Sheffield firm of publicThe River Seine at Paris in be be spread over ten years. and water-borne traffic has already works contractors. The work will ginning to freeze over in earnest Balaken, ceased owing to the danger of grant floating ice: The River Somme 28 to-day at Bonneval, near Moutiere, completely frozen up in the and there have been more than
Peronns and Abbeville districts pe twenty deaths from cold in France Ses/rozen" Overa
Even the sea has frozen over at Berik Flage, the ice being capable memory, three inhabitants of lonesof bearing, & man to r poin, & hun- "The fire raged all the morning,ly Urk Island in the Zuyder Lee "dred yards from the shore.. - "and the" damage is placed at over succeeded in crossing the loc from "it" million pesos.” The causa i pë Enkhuisen, travelling northwards 'known.
by Voferdarn and Marken to Urk
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 18th. Aspectcoular fire occurred the water-front this morning, the blaze involving a large warehouse which was completely destroyed.
The warehouse was in the heart of dockland, and it contained seven hundred British motor cars that
Sir Robert Ho Túng has made | had just been imported from Eng-" | on Saturday,
a gift of £1,000 to the Lordland. All of them were engulfed For the first time within living. Mayor's fund for the relief of in the flames, miners in the distressed areas in Britain,
The fund has now reached the total of £684,000.; ·
A record now.. temperature of 08 degren of frost was, registered (C'ontinued on previous Călumn)
AMANULLAH'S GOOD Telegrams in Brief.
OPPORTUNITY.
HABIBULLAH MASSING
The timber strikers in Melboürns TURKISH-TRAINED OFFICERS, are beginning to lose enthusiam, much dissatisfaction having been expressed with the smallness of the strike pay. It is thought that an carly collapse is likely From Adelaide it is learned that the Disputes Committee ATS... recom=" mending the limber strikers to re- sume work under Judge Lnkin' I recent award in favour of a 48-
hour week.
TROOPS.
{JELOWOR: REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CONSTANTINOPLE Feb. 17th The former Turkish Ambassador in Moscow, Vassif Bay, has arrived. from Odessa.
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He declared that according to Soviet Government's information, Amanullah is litely again to be come master of the situation in Afghanistan.
Sixty Afghan officers, who have completed the course in the mili tary academy at Constantinople, left for Kandahar on February 15th to help Amanullah in' his struggle for the throne.
* High Haqded Methods.
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Colonel Fiumaurice, the Chief of the Irish Free State Air Force, who accompanied the late Baron von Huenefeld and Capt. Scholtz in the Bremen's famous Atlantic fight, the first to be accomplished from east to west, has resigned his post
The Inter-State Commerce Com- mission has approved the scheme. promoted by the leading Americam railways for the consolidation of the entire railway goods-carrying business, of the country. Under the scheme, railway goods traffic is to A message from Termes statesbe in the bands of a single com that Habibullah, one of the pre-pany, to be known, as the Railway tenders to the Afghan Throne, is Express Agency. Incorporated, the mobilising troops and requisition-profits derived therefrom to be ing supplies without making pay divided among the railways in pro- "meat for them.
portion to the business they con- tribute.
As a result, the population at Kugistan has revolted.
The chiefs of the Shinwari and Kugiani tribes have disarmed part of the Army of the pretender, Ali Ahmed Khan, some of whose troops have deserted and gone over to Habibullah!
Senator Elihu Root sailed on his Sith birthday for Geners to par ticipate in the deliberations of the Committee of jurists to consider amendments to the statute creating » the World Court.
A special Jirga has been sum The death is announced of Me. mond at Koda, near Jelalabad, for Melville Elijah. Stone, ex-General the parpose of adjusting interManager of the Associated Press of tribal disputes and arranging a campaign against Habiballah.
Independent Tribesmen..
+
America
The death has occurred of Mr. W. B. 8. von Steen Callenfals, Chief Engineer, Siam Navigation Department, whilst on furlough.
A message from Kabul states that the tribesmen between Kanda, bar and Jelalabad have declared
In consequence of the recent un- themselves independent of the authorities at Kabul and Kanda-usual cold influenza is prevalent in Osaka, the daily death toll being over 80.
har..
Fighting has begun among the Kuglani, Sbinwari and Mohmaadi tribes in the region of Jelalabad. There is a food shortage in Kabul and looting has begun..
BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR.
BOTH PARTS TO BE OPENED
ON MONDAY,
[BRITISH WIELLESS SERVICL),
RUGAY, Feb. Tetti. The two sections of the tenth
British Industries Fair will open aimultaneously on Monday at
(Continued on next Column),
The Kobe District Court has. sentenced 34 Communists to impri sonment, the terms ranging from two to eight years.
Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, and the White City in London. At the former there will be on view the best show of heavy engineering ever seen in this country with the possible exception of that at the British Empire Exhibition Wembley. It covers an area of eleven acres: At the White City
nt
the lighter industries are represent- ed, there being 1,400 exhibitors.
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