A
"NANKING WINNING THE DAY.
WITHIN 25 MILES OF HANKOW.
MANY PRISONERS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S' AGENCY.}'
SEANORAI, April 3 A communique from the front dated yesterday says that the Go erament troops have captured Machenghsien, north east of Han- kow. They are advancing rapidly towards Wuchang and Hankow, the capture of which may be expected
before the week-end,
The report adds that Hsia Wei, the commander of the Wulian troops, has resigned, and will offer no further resistance,
The imminent breaking up of the Wuhan Army is indicated.
Within 25 Miles.
.
Hasnow, "April 3 The Government troops on the north bank of the river are now within 25 miles of Hankow,
The Wuhan forces are concentrat
CHINA
FOR THE CHINESE."
EXPEDITION HALTED,
"CULTURAL OBJECTS"
BARRED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOT.]
PERING, "April 3.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929.
SAVING LIFE AT SEA
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
PROPOSALS,
TO REVISE" RULES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS "AERVICE.]
the..
Recay, April 2 Representatives of all the leading The difficulties created by the maritime powers will attend an Peking Society for the Preservation International Conference an of Cultural Objects which threaten Safety of Life at Sea, which will ed to prevent the Central Asiatic Expedition under Mr. Roy Chap. in London on April 18, man Andrews entering Mongolia this year are believed to have been surmounted,
It is expected that the expedition will depart at the end of April.
After much argument the So city's demands were considerably modified, and a verbal agreement was reached, and is expected to be signed in a few days.
This will be the fifth and final expedition and will clear up the
programme.
"THROUGH WITH THE LIQUOR."
"I'M ALONE SKIPPER'S DECLARATION,
ANOTHER BOAT HELD BY AGENTS.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SKEVICK)
ANGLO-ITALIAN PACT.
SIR AUSTEN MEETS
- MUSSOLINI.
CORDIAL.. GREETINGS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
FLORENCE, April 2 Sir Austen' Chamberlain, who is spending the Easter vacation in Italy, to-day met Signor Mussolini, the Italian Dictator, who called at the villa on the outskirts of Flor- ence where the British Foreign Secretary is now residing.
New Youx, efpril 2 Captain Randall, master of the schooner I'm Alone has got a new ship. According to the ren- Much importance is attached to ing Post he is through for ever the conference in authoritative with the liquor business" and will circles here and the president of shortly command a floating movis Afterwards a semi-oficial com- the Board of Trade (Sir Philip stadio with a company not of able-musique was issued regarding the Cunliffe-Lister) will extend an off-bodied seamen but of actors and purpose of the meating." cial welcome to the delegates on actresses to operate on the 'Carri- behalf of the Government.
America.
It is 15 years since the last con- ference of the same nature, attend- ed by delegates from 12 maritime pations, was held in London after the loss of the Titanic. On that occasion a convention embodying a general
on agreement
various points, was unanimously approved but was only ratified by some of
on account of the War, it was in no case brought into fores in its
bear coasts, Central and South
"Here We Are Again” Hard on the heels of the I'm Alone affair, another deed of "frightfulness" by Prohibition agents is reported to-day. It has caused a regular stir in the news- papers here
The incident occurred actually the Statue of Liberty, when a yacht owned by Mr. Stuyvesant Fish. a member of one of the oldest New York families, was boarded by "Dry
agents.
ing every available man in the covered last year, which it was the signatory Powers and, party inside New York Harbour, near to
vicinity of Ynaglo.
Although the Wuhan troops are seemingly being bottled up, officials are still curiously confident, and the local situation is remarkably quiet.
Hwangpel Occupied.
The Nationalists (presumably the Nanking faction) are still advanc; ing up the Yangtze River and north of Hanchwanhsien on the Han River.
It is stated that Hwangpei has been occupied without fighting. It seems that the Hupeh-ites on hoth sides have come to an agreement.
Locally there is no anxiety.
Shipping companies have been notified by the Authorities that the river is mined to 10 miles below. Hankow. Launches are being pro vided to conduct shipping safely through the danger zone..
The work will consist mainly of getting out the huge fossils dis then impossible to transport.
The terms agreed on include two Chinese accompanying the expedientirety. tiou.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS. British ships and drafted two
A BUSY MONTH.
*(THROUGH REUYER'S AGENCY:]
GENEVA, April 9 (U.P.). League of Nations' activities for April include two meetings of major importance.
The first of these is an interna- tional conference for the suppres sion of counterfeiting and the second is the meeting of the League's preparatory disarmament commission.
industry.
↑ Government's Claims.
SHANGHAI, April 3. Reports from Kiukiang state-
The entire programme for the that it is believed that during the month begins on April 4, with a battle in the vicinity of Hwangehow meeting of experts into the present the Government troops made 5.000 crisis in the international sugar prisonera and captured 4,000 rifles, aleo twenty-one held guns.
Admiral Chen Shao Kwan reports that he is directing plans for the bombardment of Wuhan and is momentarily expecting the capitula tion of Hankow,
The entire western portion of Kisagai is in the hands of the Nanking forces.
More Loyalists.
On April 8, the League's perman- ent economic commission meets with a long agenda, of which two of the anast important items are decisions as to the advisability of international action under the aus- pices of the League to overcome the coal and the crises in both sugar industries.
The international conference for the suppression of counterfeiting
It is learned from Nanking that begins on April 9, sad will endea endorsing the Government's cam your to launch an international paiga against Wuban, Lung Yun, convention on the subject. chairman of the Yunnan Provincial This will be followed on the 13th Government, and Liu Hsiang, chair. hy a meeting of the League's Child man of the Szechuan Provincial Welfare Committee, which amongst Government have individually other things will draft an interna wired to the State Council that tional convention on behalf of aban they have started the mobilisation doned foreign children who of troops, and are awaiting in structions to advance against Hupeh so as to cut off the retreat of the Wuhan forces.
Official Resignation Not Accepted.
According to a Wah Tiz Yat Pao message, Mr. Feng Chó Man, the Canton Finance Commissioner, has tendered his resignation, but was advised by the authorities to retain
his post.
Up-to-Date Warfare! According to a naval wireless
received by the authorities, aero- planes from Wuhan dropped bombs on the Government gunboata on Tuesday-but-co-damage was done.-- The gunboats fired upon them and hrought down one of the 'planes.
The same message states that gunboats bombarded, Liaochiamino in the vicinity of Wuhan and forced the enemy troops to retreat.
Canton's Instructions.
A message received by the Wah The Tut Pao from Canton states that Canton has been "instructed from Nanking to despatch troops to the southern border of Hunan to intercept the return of the Kwangi forcen.
It is also stated that two batta lions have been detailed to Kuchow and Yamchow against the Kwangai
"troopa,
zre
Proposals for the revision of the Convention, in the light of recent experience in connection with years ago by the Board of Trade and submitted to foreign countries, India and the Dominions, will pro- vide a basis for discussion at this month's conference.
It is believed that there is good prospect of securing agreement on the amended Convention.
.
ENGLAND TO DURBAN.
AN OFFICIAL FLIGHT.
[BEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Rrasy, April 2
If conditions are favourable a start will be made to-morrow by a Royal Air Force Fairey monoplane to ty non-stop from Cranwell Aero- Flight-Lieutenant. Jenkins has drome, Lincolnshire, to Durban, been selected to pilot the machine
11
ན་ཇ་‚,、,
LABOUR PARTY'S
TROUBLES.
ON ELECTION EVE
QUARREL OVER" WAR CREDITS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 3
Telegrams in Brief.
The United States is expected to take stringent, measures to prevent incidents similar to one that hap pened when a Mexican rebel aero- plane, apparently accidentally, dropped two bands, wounding one American citizen, shattering the windows and sending the populace scuttling to the cellars
Colonel House, ex-President WII- son's adviser, has undergone a serious operation for an internal growth. His condition is excellent.
The constitutional dispute im Monaco was virtually settled at meeting of Prince Louis and mem- bers of the defunct National Coun- A resolution was passed at the feil, both yielding in an agreement Independent Labour Party Confer on a number of vital points, not- thly the appointment of a con- Maxton, M.P., at Carlisle jester. constitution. eace under the chairmanship of Mr.ference of jurists to amend the
'day, in the teeth of considerable opposition, instructing the Labour members of the House of Commons long discussion, which was charac to vote. against War Credits. terised by the cordial personal. This has created new difficulties friendship uniting the two states in a party already troubled with men, Sir Austen Chamberlain and Signor Mussolini re-affirmed the dissensions in its ranks.. warmth of Anglo-Italian friend-
The resolution means that if ship, and placed on record the harmony of the views of both Gov-Labour forme a government after ernments in relation to important the election it cannot submit to political questions, which have in-the Commons any estimates for the terest to both countries.
Army, Navy or Air Force.
It says that in the course of a
Sir Austen and Lady Chamber- lain were afterwards Signor Mus solini's guests at a private lun- cheon at the Castle of Montalbano
*
The great majority of the Labour members will certainly refuse to obey the Carlisle instruction.
Mr. C. H. Carroll, Vice-Chair man of the Quebec Liquer Commis- sion and Solicitor-General for Canada, has been appointed Lieu- tenant-Governor of Québec, to suie- reed' Sir Lomer Gouin, who died on March 29 whilst proceeding.to pro- regue Parliament.
The Engineering College at Peping University was destroyed by fire on Sunday evening, the loss being estimated at a million dol- lars. Incendiarism is suspected.
There has been much dissatisfa tion for many months over the CRIMINALS BARRED FROM official policy of the ILP, and
AMERICA. The Chairman, Mr.
Maxton, and Mr. Truce patched up
the differences last December, which HOME OFFICE CIRCULAR TO averted wholesale rezignations of members from the Party.
Mr. Fish alleges that the agenta who boarded the yacht covered him, DAMAGE TO THE CEYLAN. its activities. his wife, two sons and the crew with pistols during the search, in the course of which "my wife was compelled to hear much profanity.'
Although no liquor was found, the agents declared that Mr. Fish and his family were lucky not to have had a machine-gun turned on them.
CHILLED MEAT MUST BE
KEPT!..
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BORDEAUX, April 3 Divers have found a hole in the Mr. Stuyvesant Fish is a cousins. Ceylan only three feet by four of Mr. Hamilton Fish, a member inches. of the House of Representatives. who; it is recalled, loudly criticised the I'm Alone's master, Captain Randall, recently.
Admiral Billard. Commander of the Coastguard Service, is investi- gating this latest incident.
Did Not See Signal,
LATER.
Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, whose, new yacht Restless was entering the harbour here for the first time, has complained to Washington that he EAST INDIES AIR SERVICE. rain that the coast guards were was unaware on account of driving
trying to signal him,
Until he heard the pistol shots he did not heave to.
FORTNIGHTLY RUN,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
THE HAGUE, April 2 It is officially announced that the British Government has sanctioned the use of the aerodromes in Iraq for the Holland-Dutch-East-Indies The service is not air service. being resumed before September, when a fortnightly run will be made from both directions.
AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR
brought up at the expense of the State in which they are found:
The League's, preparatory dis. REMARKABLE LETTERS TO A
armament commission meets on the 13th, when it is hoped that suff- he reached cient agreement can amongst the naval Powers to per- mit of further progress Inter” on the whole question of disarmament. The programme for the month closes with a meeting on the 18th of the League's White Slave Com- mission, which plans a further in- vestigation of the present status of the bite slave traffic.
SOUTHERN CROSS STILL MISSING.
NATIVE RUNNERS ON THE LOOK-OUT...
'PLANE FEARED LOST.
[TBROUGE DÉUTEK'S. AGENCY.]
near Wyndham.
MAYOR.
THREATS CASE.
Still Negotiating.
Another steamer has been sent for to help to keep the refrigerat ing machinery going to prevent damage to the cargo of chilled ment,
GUNS TO FIRE FURTHER.
ARMY ESTIMATES
DISCLOSURE.
BETTER TANKS:
raizes
Yesterday's resolution doubts as to whether the Decem ber truce can be maintained till after the General Election...
BEAUTIFUL SPY FOUND DEAD.
TRACKED ACROSS TWO CONTINENTS.
News has reached Switzerland that Mme. Davidovitch, whom every one knew as the "Turkish Beauty," has been found dead in a prison cell in New York, where she was arrest ed as a spy.
Despina Davidovitch was born in Constantinople and her parents, whe were well-to-do, gave their daughter a European education in which modern languages formed a leading
part.
Despina, on the outbreak of the
developed for the Army.
More deadly weapons are being Sir Worthington-Evans, the Laming War Minister, in a memorandum issued with the Army Estimates for 1929-30, states. A British Wireless message sayi "Research and experiment have that depositions of the crew and led to greater accuracy and range others in connection with the sink in gurs of various calibres and in ing of the Canadian schooner I'm the production of more efficient pro- Alone have now been received in pellants, explosives, and projectiles, London through the Consul General and to improved methods of wire at New Orleans and the British less telegraphic communication. Ambassador at Washington. They
Progress has also been made in are being considered by the British the develoument of heavy, medium, Government and also by the Cana- and light tanks, of cross-country trigues with the German representa- dian Government, whose Minister vehicles, of artillery tractors, and in Washington (Mr. Vincent Mass of machine-gun carriers, with a view sey) will in dealing with the case, to the evolution of types, at once
Ect in close consultation with the British Ambassador.
THE PRINCE FLYS TO BÖGNOR.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 3. The Prince of Wales flew to
more efficient and less expensive."
£40,645,000 Estimates.
George Sherwood Lewis, of Alex HIS MAJESTY'S PROGRESS. year of £505,000. andra-road, Kingston Hill", was summoned by the Mayor of Kings ton-on-Thames, Mr. W. E. Blake Carae, at Kingston Borough Police for sending threatening Court letters.
Mr. Carne stated that ever since he appeared as prosecuting solicitor in a case beard fourteen mouths Lago, when Lewis was accused of riotous behaviour in St. Paul's Church, Kingston Hill, he had been receiving threatening letters.
Lewis was similarly summoned by Mr. J. E. M. Crowther, a church- warden of St. Paul's.
Mr. Carne said that the letters which, he and Mr. Crowther had received from Lewis left, no doubt in his mind that Lewis was issing a challenge to fight or to a diel.
Lewis in some of the letters refer- red to an affair of honour."
Woman's Addrom.
SYDNEY, April 3.
Mr. Carne added that on January Nothing has been heard of the Southern Cross fyers, piloted by 21 he and his wile siw Lewis out- He turned and Captain Kingsford Smith and Mr.ide their house. Ulm, since their forced landing hesitated, and Mr. Carne went in- doors. He had a letter from Lewis The aeroplane searching for them the next morning asking him for left Carnarvon for Derby and flew the address of a kiss, and re questing him to find a convenient over the Prince Regent river area. Two other aeroplanes from Candate to settle an affair of hon-
Our berra, detailed to join the search, were held up through torrential
great war, when she was not seven teen years of age, married a French official, M. Paul Storoh, at Con- stantinople, who, however, divorced her within a year owing to her great extravagance and her in tives in Turkey."
A BENCH.
COURF DISCLOSURE.
The fact that there is an under- standing that the criminal cearts of England shall not assist people with criminal records to go to America was disclosed at the Middlesex Sessions when Morris Salkind, aged twenty-four, a travel- ler, was accused of breaking into a house on two ócensions.
It was stated that Salkind bad bera to America and worked for a time in New York. He afterwards became a sailor.
A barrister who appeared for Salkind suggested that the court should remand bim in custody while his parents made arrangements for him to return to America..
Direct Instructions,
It was pointed out that if the court made no mention of his ap- pearance thore he could go back is an American:.
Montagu K.C., asked bir houdagu Sharps, K. C. asked information when they had been told directly not to send people te america or facilitate their going America after they had been in
trouble fere.
The barrister inquired whether. the court had received such instruc- tions.
The barrister next asked the court, She looked so innocent, pretty to enable the family to send Salkind and fragile that nobody dreamed to Canada. He could cross from that she was an extremely clever there into America. spy in the pay of Germany.
Sir Montagu Sharpe: This
AN
Innocent and Pretty." After the divorce the "Turkish Sir Montagu replied that they Beauty" came to Switzerland and had received a circular from the spent money like water in the prin Horne Office, and it was shown that The estimates total £40,545,000, a cipal towns. All her gowna came America strongly objected to the reduction on the prescat financial from Paris and her magnificent English courts facilitating the jewels were bought in the leading passage of men who had proved
themselves undesirable berr. A supplementary estimate issued Swias chops. with the estimates states that an additional £115,000 is required for the cost of troops in China, bringing the total to date to £4,115,000.
The estimates provide or an es tablishment of 180,500,, or 3,000 Mme. Davidovitch, after staying has had a chance. Why should he fewer than in the 1998-20 estimates, about a year in Switzerland, begant now be punished for the grime when there were included for con. a tour of the European and Ameri- he has committed? stitutional reasons 1,500 Indian can capitals, always changing her Sir Montagu Bond Salkind to Bognor today to spend the day troops employed by the Air Ministry rare and frequently adopting di prison for six mos hs- with his parents.
in the Middle East, who are now to guises. be withdrawɑ,
The further decrease of 1,500 is with the highest Allied officers and
Volcanic eruptions, which havệ due to (a) the smaller number of officials in the diplomatic, naval and additional troops employed in China; (b) the disbandment of the military services and to obain from coat thousands of lives in the past, can be made free of danger by the them, secret information. West African Regiment, and the
simple use of radio-microphones, reduction of the Sierra Leone garri. Owing to the leakage of confiden declares M. Jean Bonnin, noted the Intelligence French scientist. He suggests that son; (c) the mechanisation of an- tial information other field brigade, Royal Artillery; Departments in London and New this idea be applied to Mb (U) the abolition of horse transport York became suspicious about her, Vesuvius, Mt. Etas, the Kilauea companies, Royal Army Service and in June, 1928, traced her to Volcano of Hawaii and the craters Corps; (e) economics resulting from Madrid. the systematic examination of all establishments.
The
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER AT PORT SAID.
conversion
Her chief aim was toʻmake friends
pects.
77
Fire Blunder.
of Java. It is useless to combat the molten lava, suffocating gas and
These
A PLEASANT INTERLUDE.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Porr Sun, Apřil 3. The Duke of Gloucester disem- barked to-day at Port Said for a
It was in the Spanish capital re-scalding steam of volcanoes once short visit, and accompanied by
of the 11th cently that Mme. Davidovitch made they have been belched from the Lord Lord, King Fund's Grand Hussars at home into an armoured her first blunder by receiving depths of the earth, according to Chamberlain, proceeded to Abdin car regiment has been completed, German baron
the French savant. He holds that and a German Palace to meet His Majesty.
and a similar reorganisation of the He played polo in the afternoon 12th Royal Lancers in Egypt will be widow, who were already "sus-retreat is the only safe method and From a neighbouring room suggeste placing radio-microphones before re-joining the steamer.
accomplished during the year,... of the Madrid hotel English and at strategic points on the crateri, so as to give ample warning to American detectives overheard a Experimental Work.. These changes will permit of the conversation which left no doubt neighbouring inhabitants.
profession of the people could then prepare for an disbandment of our armoured car about the
orderly evacuation under the direc company of the Royal Tank Corps, three, who, however were myster- tion of municipal authorities. A but the personnel thus made avail-icusly warned of the danger from RIVALS WATCH EACH OTHER able will be added to the Royal outside and fed to New York, where volcano should be treated as a
CLOSELY.
Tank Corps Centre to deal with the they were kept under close obser- maniac. It should be constantly watched. Instead of feeling the SHANGHAI, April 3. The telegraph between Derby and Lewis: Would you have sent a
increase in experimental work and vation.
pulse, the heart-beat and taking the Mesars, Li Ching Tze, Lu Hsin Wyndham is interrupted, and native small boy on a bicycle to deliver a
The Intelligence Departments temperature of the patient, says M. Wan and Kue Tung, the three runners are searching the sparsely letter to me if I had been a danger-
to improvement the training of re-. crnita.
wanted to obtain possession of all Bonnin, the earth rumblings, the deputies. despatched to resume the populated country in the neighbour-as man 1--I have never scut a small
The strength of the Army, inclu- the secret documents and to die boiling of the lava and the heat control of Tsinan arrived in Tsinan hood of Wyndham,
boy.
A telegram from Chaman states sive of troops in India, at the begin-cover who were supplying the large of the crater should all be recorded from Taian and have had confer-
The clerk asked Lewis if the that Amanullah's forces are ning of the financial year will be sums of money to the Turkish by instruments governed by an letters contained a threat of a duel estimated at 9,700 only and their 1,000 below establishment.
Beauty."
observatory located near the mouth Lewis: That sort of thing died a value is very uncertain as to numbers due to leave the colours during 1928 are 2,000 more than in
TSINAN AGREEMENT,
RAILWAY SERVICE TO BE RESUMED
(Wah Tuz Fat Pao).
ence with the Japanese authorities. It has been proposed to resume the service of the express of the Tientsin-Pakow Railway from "to-
morrow.
Lewis, cross-examining Mr. Carne, rains in New, South Wales, Queens.naked: Have I ever threatened. laud, and the Northern Territory, you with a knife, or revolver, fists, which flooded the aerodromes. or anything?".
Mr. Carne: No.
PRESIDENT HOOVER ON OIL PRICES.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
have looked it up.
THE AFGHAN TROUBLE.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NEW DELHI, April 2.
plies to Habibullah's followers.
The
•
The discovery came a short time of the latent folcano. The com | natural death in 1820 or 1812 Iquality; but the same remark 1928, and recruiting will need to later when Mme. Davidovitch visit.bination of these symptons would Lewis added that it was quite fair Actual fighting may be averted be good if drafting requirements od a New York bank, where she gave infallible warning of a coming had hired a safe, which was examin- eruption. Microphones of an ultra- Change In Name Only.
to box according to rules, and if if success crowns the efforts of during 1830 are to be met."
sensitive type would transmit the he could not obtain the satisfaction General Nedir. Khan and his
There will be no Army manoeuvres ed by the detectives, and she was sizzling noise of the Java to the One of the provisions of the
observatory. This data, kept from settlement of the Tainan Incident
be wanted, Mr. Carne could step brother to effect, a pacific settle this year. Divisional training will arrested as a spy. into the back garden and settlement.
be carried out in the Aldershot and The "Turkish Beauty" remained day to day, would be compared is to abolish the anti-Japanese boy.
WASHINOTON, April 3. cott, and a decision has been.
according to Queensberry rules. These two with a force of tribal, Southern Commands, culminating in courageous to the end, refusing to with the seismographs, marking. renched at a meeting of the Stand President Hoover is of the opinion Mr. Crowther also gave evidenos Lisears are endeavouring to reach exercises specially designed to test answer questions and denying the earth-tremors, and with thermo
infantry brigades proofs against her. Three weeks electrice apparati, registering the ing Committee of the Central Kun that any change in the Sherman of receiving letters from Lewis, who Kabul, in good time for Nadir experimental mintang to instruct the various Anti-Trust Law to permit inter-state was ordered by the Bench to keep Khan to convene a Constituent As which will be formed to determine later she was found dead in her coll heat of the crater. In this way, Anti-Japanese Boycott Committee agreements for the curtailment of the peace for two years. He wassembly to decide which candidate the future composition of these for Her death is reported to be still a the exact condition of the volcano to change their
names into the oil production would necessitate a bound over in £50 on each summons, to the throne is most deserving of mations in the light of the lessons mystery, as a medical examination would be charted and it eruption Native Goods Promotion Com Federal regulation of prices, to and was ordered to pay eight election and is generally most so learned from the work of the experi- proved that there were no signs of could be foretold probably days in
advance which he is opposed." mitteca."
shillings, the court costa
mental armoured force. ceptable to the country.
external injuries.