TROOPS IN RAILWAY THE REPARATIONS
COLLISION.
SIX KILLED; 30 HURT."
FLYER DROWNED IN WHANGPOO.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAL, April 95.
CONFERENCE.
STRENUOUS CLAIMANTS.
GOLD QUESTION IN
GERMANY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ·
PARIS, April 24. It is expected that the drawing- A north bound troop train yes- terday morning on the Tientsin. up of the report of the points Fukow Railway collided with agreed upon, will take the Repara- freight train near Way Six sol- tions Experts' sub-committed at diers of the 6th Division were killed least three weeks. and 30 injured.
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The correspondent of the Finan Owing to the congestion due to cial Times, London, has cabled from troop movements, the freight train Paris, saying that in the course of service on the railway is suspended. the discussions in the past week, On Tuesday 3.000 of Sun Liang Sir Josiah Stamp and Sir Charles Cheng's troops were transferred Addis have been obliged to "fight from Talan to Tsinan, being re-tooth and nail" to defeat a strenu placed by two regiments of the same unit from Kusan."
The Chinese Navy seaplane A13. in a text flight yesterday morning. collided with the mainmast of a native junk and "fell into the Whangpoo River. The pilot, was rescued, but the mechanic drowned,
New Rolling Stock.
SHANGHAI, April 25. It le karned from Nanking that 4 locomotives and 27 passenger cars, including first-class sleepers and dining-cars are being despatched from Mukden for service on the Tientsin-Pakow Railway by order of Chang Haneh Liang
The ears will be sent to the rail: way workshops to be re-conditioned before being put into service early in May.
CHIANG KAI SHEK AND
FOREIGN NATIONS. MUTUAL GOOD WISHES AT BANQUET.
(Wah Te Tut Poo.)
SHANGHAI April 23. A banquet was given in Hankow by Chiang Kai Shek, catertaining foreign officials and merchants.
oas attempt on the part of the French. Belgian and Italian Gov. ernments to get allotted their own respective shares of the amount of the reparations compensation claim- ed by the British Dominions.
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German Gold Exported.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, ̈1929.
The Transfer Committee which deals with the apportionment of the proceeds of German reparations among the creditor Powers, met to-day under the chairmanship of Mr. Parker Gilbert and is believed to have considered the situation of the Reichsbank.
There have been exports of gold and bills of exchange from Ger- many in the past few weeks on such a large scale that the gold reserve of the Reichsbank is likely to fall to the legal minimum. This, no doubt, is directly connected with the present deadlock at the Paris Conference. Financial circles are of opinion that anxiety aroused induced foreign banks to withdraw their deposits from Germany.
Discourt Rate Raised.
LONDON, April 9. The raising of the Reichshank rate of discount from 6 to 71 per cent. is a direct outcome of the German gold situation.
According to Paris newspapers In the course of the evening, Mr. Parker Gilbert, Agent-General Chinng said that he was sorry that for Reparations, and members of He had not been able until now to the Comraittee have urged Dr. gather with his "foreign friends. Schacht to take urgent, measures He emphasised that in carrying out
to remedy the matter." the reconstruction works of the French newspapers
previously country, assistance from foreiga alleged that Dr. Schacht had deli. nations would be necessary. Heberately maintained the discount earnestly hoped that foreigners in rate at 63 per cent. with the object China would assist in bringing of compromising German exchange about the welfare of China.
and hampering the machinery of The American Consul, on behalf the Dawes plan, following the pub- of the guests, expressed thanks, lication of Mr. Parker Gilbert's and said that they hoped that optimistic report on Germany's --China would be unified very soon.
NEW BRANCH BANK IN
HANKOW.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HANKOW, April 94.
The Hankow branch of the Cen tral Bank of China is being officiel .ly opened to-morrow.
It is emphasised that the Bark has no connection whatsoever with the former Central Bank in Han-
kow, which is at present being Biquidated by the Ministry of
Finance.
CHIANG" KAI SHEK'S PLANS.
· [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
economic position.
AMERICA AND WORLD
COURT.
STRIKE CALLED IN BOMBAY.
TEXTILE WORKERS"
GRIEVANCE.
CONFERENCE FAILS.
(THROUGH AŽUTER'S AGENCY.]"
BOMBAY, April 25. The Textile Workers' Union has called upon workers in all mills in Bombay to strike at noon to-mor TOW. The crisis arose from the failure of the Conference between representatives of the Union and millowners, with regard to the alleged victimisation at the Wadia group of mills.
GIRL'S NON-STOP FLIGHT
RECORD.
96 HOURS IN THE AIR.
[HEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, April 23. Wearing golf stockings, knickers, and a red leather cost, and sup phed with coffee and sandwiches, Miss Elinor Smith, aged 17, estab
shed a women's world record for 4 non-stop sola flight, remaining aloft about 26) hours. She landed perfectly but had to be, assisted from her seat
BRITAIN'S MYSTERY
'PLANE.
FURTHER DETAILS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
ป
Rrony, April 4. The new R.A.F. plane, specially designed by the Fairer Company, bas set off from Cranwell Aero- drome. Lincolnshire, on
long- distance non-stop fight with India 24 her destination.
The machine is designed to re- main in the air without re-fuelling
for $4 hours, and it is thought to be capable of at least 6,000 miles without descending.
"LABOUR APPEAL ΤΟ WOMEN.
DANISH ELECTION RESULTS.
PENSIONS AND ADDED BENEFITS.
ELECTION PROMISES.
THROUGH RITTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 25. Labour's policy as it affects the vast army of wonten voters was expounded by Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald at a meeting at Buxton under the auspices of the National Labour Women's Conference.
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He pledged the Labour Govern ment to empower a Food Council base to control prices; and to widows' pensions solely on need." The Party would also undertake a bold education policy, specially with reference to nursery schools. There would also be extra help for maternity and child welfare and the Party would carry out a build- ing programme till at least 1,000,000 houses had been built,
EARL OF HALSBURY'S
WAR STORY.
A VALUED SKIPPER.
REPRISALS THREAT THAT 'SUCCEEDED.
A fine war story has been revealed a's the sequel to a speech by the Ear! of Halsbury, who said that when he was a squadron commander of the Royal Air Force, in 1918, he was ordered by the Admiralty to bomb the nearest German town, sparing neither men, women, nor children if the Germans shot a cer- discovered that the captain was tain merchant skripper. It has been James Blaikie, master of the Anchor shared the fate of Captain Fryatt iner, Caledonia, who would have but for the threat of drastic re-
Frisi
The Caledonia was a transport,
SOCIALIST PARTY GAINS GROUND.
NO COMMUNISTS!
(THROCOR REUTER'S AGENCY.}
COPENHAGEN, April 25... "Elections to the Folketing have resulted in a strengthening of the position of the Socialists, who now hold 61 seats out of 149, while the Conservatives and "Left" Parties has both lost ground, having now 24 and 43 seats respectively. The Radicals have 16, and Communists none.
The Cabinet resigned, and the election came about, because of a deadlock last month, when the Con- servatives withdrew their support from the Left Party Government. with the result that the Budget was defeated by a large majority.
The Prime Minister, Herr Mad sen Mygdal, was then compelled to ask the King for dissolution.
US. SHIPPING BOARD.
LAST FIVE TANKERS SOLD.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
WASHINGTON, April 25. The U.S. Shipping Board has authorised the sale of its last five tankers to the Antietam Steam ship Corporation, which is offering 82.650,000 for them...
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COMMONS DISCUSS Telegrams in Brief.
DISARMAMENT.
LABOUR CRITICISM.,
--ANGLO-FRENCH PACT
DENIED.
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LONDON. April 24.
Eight people are known to be killed and many injured in s tornado "near Palestine, TexLD.
Violent earthquakes are imminent in various parts of the world, especially in America and South Europe, according to Signor Ben- dandi, the well-known earthquake- He s observer and prophet.
that the comic crisis will begin at once."
The Directors of the American In the House of Commons, ques- tioned as to his attitude on Mr. Petroleum Institute have agreed Gibson's speech at Geneva on April unanimously to co-operate with the 22, Sir Austen Chamberlain em- Federal Oil Conservation Board in phasised that the British Govern- promulgating an inter-State com- ment, like the United States, desir-pact to curtail oil production dur ed not merely the limitation but the g the next three years to the 1929 reduction of naval armaments and į level. had themselves made, proposals for China has signed the Convention general reduction in every class for the supression of counterfeit of war vessels.
currency, being the twenty-seventh As between Britain and the nation to do so.
differences.
Senor Leao Velloso has been ap
Minister toi hitherto existing had not been con- cerned with these great principles painted Brazilian nor with the relative strengths of China. Ha was formerly Secretary te the Paris Embassy, but has re- the respective navies, but with the determination of the categorice into cently been holding an important which warships abould be divided. position in the Brazilian Foreign The Government on this point noted Office. with much interest the new criteria suggested by Mr. Gibson.
United
the States
in: "
The
Lanounced Premier They attach the greatest import- the House of Commons that the ance to the possibilities opened by Dissolution of Parliament would the greater elasticity given by Mr. take place on May 10, nominations Gibson's suggestion to the adjust would be on May 20, and the ment of the different cireum- General Election would be held on." stances of the two Powers, and May 30
inally desire to express their warm. It is announced that the whole appreciation to the American dele of the required funds, amounting to gates, and give an assurance that 950,000 Swiss francs, are now avail- the American suggestions will be able for the League of Nations' considered in the same spirit, and Enquiry into Opium-smoking in the with the most earnest wish to reach Far East. a complete understanding.
Questions,
The new CPR liner Duchess of Athall about which there have been Comdr. Kenworthy (Labour) sug startling reports of mysterious gested that there was nothing de- deaths among her tourist passen- finite as regards acceptance in Sir géra, has arrived at Cherboug A. Chamberlain's reply, and asked There was no sickness on board the whether this ofer would be treated vessel The captain supplied the diferently from the similar Ameri- Harbour Doctor with particulars of the cruise, aiter which the passen- can offer of last September!
Sir A. Chamberlain replied: "Igers were allowed to land without don't understand. Comdr. Ken-formalities.
WHAT JUDGES MAY NOT worthy's motive in endeavouring to diminish the effect or substantial ASK.
importance of my statement."
Comdr. Kenworthy: "It was "UNFORTUNATE PHASE OF exactly on the proposal of categories
DIVORCE LAW.
that general agreement was not reached in 1927. My motive is to see that we do not make further blunders."
An unfortunate" feature of the and was making a voyage to Mar-aw restricting the powers of judges seilles. When it was 120 miles outin divorce cases was commented on from Malta it was torpedoed at by Mr. Justice Hill in the Divorce Novel Features.
short range. Blaikie, from the Court when considering a case in Many remarkable features are entridge glimpsed the periscope, and which the King's Proctor interven ed to show cause why a decree nisi bodied in its design, though certain tried to ram the submarine..
granted to Mr. Harry Moyse, of points have been kept a secret. It General and Firemen,
Church Road, Battersea, should not was made at Hayes, Middlesex, and
The crippled liner did not answer
be made absoluta, an outstanding feature is the fact that the wing has been so designed to the helm swiftly, but it managed. that it out, carry three tons of le store in 13ft. of the submarine's petrol. The wing has a span of 52 plating and knock out the periscope feet, and is very thick and broad. It and wireless gear. The Caledonia is all in one piece, and is probably sunk slowly, stern first. There was the largest cantilever monoplane plenty of time to save everybody and soon there were 10 fully loaded boats bobbing on the choppy ea. One contained a general, among the crew and firemen
wing ever made.
The engine is a 530 h.p. Napier Lion, and is in effect, a service ADHERENCE URGED BY MR. edition of the racing Napier engine
HUGHES.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]"
WAаHINOто, April.25.
The general asked for a change used to win the Schneider Trophy.
The monoplane carried one thou. of boat, and the staff captain made sind gallons of petrol, and weighed the same request. Both were trans- 6 tons, when it ascended at Cranferred to Blaikie's boat. Blaikie does not remember Captain Amery well
by name, but he does recollect a "wee fellow among them."-(Mr. Amery, now Secretary of State for the Dominions, was then on active p.m.service).
'Plane Passos Bagdad. The ex-Secretary of State, Mr. Hughes, in an address at the a-
BAGDAD, April 25. naal meeting of the Society of In-
The R.A.F. long, distance mono- ternational Law, of which he is Pre-plane passed here at 2 sident, said it was the duty of the Greenwich time, flying very high. United States to enter the World Court. The United States would gain by adherence to it, and lose by abstention American interests being protected by the Protocol, affording an opportunity of object remaining to the giving of an advisory
opinion.
HANKOW, April 21. It is stated that Marshal Chiang Kai Shek has decided not to pro ceed to Changsha, but ing in Hankow for a few weeks and later returning to Nanking.
Hu Tung Tu and Tao Chun kase issued a circular telegram announc. ing the surrender of all their forces to Chiang Kai Shek.
Kostilities to Cease." (Wah The Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, April 23. Chiang Kai Shek bas ordered the conclusion of the military affairs along the Yangteze as the rebels wider Hu Taung Tu and Tao Chun have surrendered. He has decided to return to Narking with his wife on the 26th or 7th inet,
ARMS EMBARGO IN CHINA,
IMPORTANT STATEMENT
FORECASTED.
[THIOUGH REUTER'S "AGENCY.]
PEPING, April The Diplomatic Body are to mor. row issuing a statement regarding the Arma Embargo Agreement of 1919. The contents of the state-
ment are not divulged, but it is understood the Body recommends the raising of the embargo,
RE-INTERMENT OF SUN YAT SEN.
COMMITTEE'S PLANS.
(Wah T Tat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, April 26. The Committee in charge of the State Burial of Dr. Sun Yat Sen has decided to allot $20,000 as ex- penses of conveying the remains from Peping to Nanking. During the State Buris, flags will be flown half-maat for seven days through out the country.
He pointed out that fifty member nations of the Court held it respon- sible to themselves, and not to the League of Nations.
AMERICAN FRUIT CROP THREATENED. FIGHTING THE CITRUS FLY.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.}
"WHAT DOES 'LIL
MEAN?"
He has stated that he escaped capture by hiding under the stern sheets of a lifeboat, the sailors covering bim with their legs: Suddenly the submarine appeared, and Commander Swetz, agitatedly waving a revolver, called: Where is the captain 1"
Capt. Garro Jones asked whether the statement implied the abandon- ment of the policy of the Anglo- French Pact, leaving submarines under 600 tons unrestricted.
Sir A. Chamberlain, in reply, em. phasised that there never was an Anglo-French Pact, and said that The King's Proctor alleged that in the Anglo-French discussion, it Mr. Moyse had himself been guilty was suggested as a basis that His of misconduct which he had not Majesty's Government had always disclosed, and Mr. Moyse now ad- favoured. restriction in every class. mitted it, and said that he acted" We only varied the position in the in ignorance. He asked for the hope that by conceding something
we might secure progress." discretion of the court.
Submarines.
Mr. Justice Hill, while exercising his discretion, said that he thought the King's Proctor's intervention was entirely justified.
Judge's Limitations.
Capt. Garro Jones asked for an Assurance that Britain would not concede a vital subject like the limitation of submarines in further
The International Aviation League organised a reception in honour of Dailly and Reginensi, the French airmen who have just con cluded a flight from Paria to Indo- China and back. The French Air Minister said that the function celebrated the splendid realisation ot
a commercial liaison between France and Indo-Chin aerially.
GRAMOPHONE AND WIRE-
·LESS FUSION.
MARCONIPHONE BOUGHT BY
H.M.V.
A great fusion of wireless and
"nounced. gramophone interests has been ad-
pany, stated:-
Mr. Walter Howard Cooper, secretary of the Gramophone Com-.
highly important development the gramophone and wireless broadcasting field is announced
It was most unfortunate that the negotiation.
Sir A. Chamberlain replied: "If jointly by Marconi's Wireless Tele- husband did not think of asking for
we can agree with the Americans graph Company Ltd., and His discretion when the petition was
that limitation and reduction in Master's Voice Gramophone Com- heard, and it was a great pity that
every class of warship should be pany
That the leaders in these great he was not advised at the time. It was highly desirable that solicitors secured His Majesty's Government industries have joined forces is should inquire of their clients will not be found wanting." whether they had been guilty of misconduct.
The Speaker ruled out a supple-made known by the official state mentary question by Col. Wedgment that the Gramophone Com- What is still more unfortunate," wood suggesting that a settlement Fany, Ltd. (His Master's Voice). was impossible until the seizure of and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph he added, is that the law does not permit the judge who tries the private property at sea was settled Company, Ltd., have concluded an case to ask the petitioner whether with America. he has committed misconduct.
"However, we shall have to make
woran
Was Com-
As Regards Cruisers.
agreement whereby His Master's Voice acquire the Marconiphone Company, as well as the right to
A solution of the Anglo-American use present and future Marconi JUDGE PUZZLED BY
A Prisoner in Germany, the best of it. The best to make cruiser problem is suggested in a patents and inventions in all felde AMERICAN SLANG.
of this case is that the decree nisi letter to the forning Post, by of public entertainment and educa-" Blaikie, relating the story, says should be made absolute."
"His Master's Voice has also Judge Sir Alfred Tobin, at West- "I was still in uniform, and I call-
Mr. Justice Hill said that the which Great Britain could accept tion.
parity with the United States as to ed out: Here I am. You had better husband's misconduct minster County Court, commented on the florid style of correspondence let me have that gun in case you mitted some time ago, and was sub every class of warships, while Aus acquired the exclusive right, for tralia, Canada, India, New Zealand there fields, to the Marconi trade before him in a case of Savile-row shoot somebody?' He ordered me
sequent to his wife leaving him.
* Marconi and “Marconiphone," tailors against an American. He aboard, also the general and staf
The man was left with a number and South Africa could be separate marks, including the trade marks read:-
captain, who probably would have of children, and had to employ ly allotted cruiser forces, reasonably
them adequate to protect their coasts and and certain factory facilities,
"The Marconi 'Company will re- escaped if they had stayed in the 2 We are tailoring artists.
to look after
ceive cash and shares in His This is where the high gods other boats This evidently was
The busband's misconduct having commerce.
An Ingenuous Admission! Master's Voice Company, thereby differ. Our sartorial ideale my lucky day, Lowever. The Ger- ceased, he was anxious to marry
becoming interested in the prosper- another woman, and she was will-
GENEVA, Later. are high. Why does the mans behaved decently. American buy here?... Wants We dined with the mess, and ing to marry him. The wife had
In the course of the discussion of ity of the combined gramophone A good stuff. "Certainly the shared their food and wine. The lived with the co-respondent for
try. Briton only, buys in lit of New commander told us that he did not some time, and had children by the Disarmament Committee on air and wireless broadcasting indus armaments, the Chinese delegate The Marconi Company is a sub- expect to come to the surface again, Lim, so it would be better if they declared that China favoured a York.
limitation of aerial forces because sidiary of Marconi Wireless Tele- Messrs. Stovel and Mason, Ltd., but he bore no grudge We talked too were in a position to marry.
she was surrounded by colonies of graph Company, which has au authorised capital of £4,000,000. foreign Powers. the eradication of boil wevil in sued Mr. John M. Grant, an Ameri for hours about the war. The only
The Gramophone Company has an... Texas bo employed to fight the can, of Whitehall-court, Whitehall-man who disliked me was the second
authorised, capital of £1,700,000. citrus fly, which is threatening a place, S.W., for 217 175,- the price who wanted to put me on deck, and fruit crop area of 100 square miles of a blue-grey worsted suit. round Orlando, on the west coast of Florida.
www.
WASHINGTON, April 25. President Hoover has recommend-
ed to Congress that $4,250,000 out
u the $5,000,000 appropriated for
EGYPTIAN MINISTER'S
MISSION. QUESTION IN THE HOUSE. [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
RUGBY, April 24.
In the House of Commone, Sir Austin Chamberlain stated in reply to question, that Elafer Afifi Bey, acting Foreign Minister of Egypt, was engaged in a tour of inspection of the various Egyptian diplomatic mimiona in Europe, which had naturally included a virit to this country.
He would undoubtedly take ad vantage of the opportunity to dis- cues current business, but His Excellency, was believed, had no intention of proposing negotiations with the British Government.
"Balderdash."
Mr. Bertram Reece, for Messre. Stovel and Mason, said that the let ters were written by a member of the firm who was at present in Dublin.
Judge Sir Alfred Tobin: It seems to me balderdash. What does "" mean?
Mr. Reece: Diminutive for little, I think.
Mr. Gregson, a director of the firm, explained that there was a certain amount of hilarity" in the correspondence; because there was some familiarity between the two writers, and perhaps a mis. taken idea about the whole matter, Judge Bir Alfred Tobin gave judgment for Messrs. Stovel and Mason, with costs.
I do not think they should have written such letters," he said, "but I quite accept the explanation that
in command, a typical Prussian,
then dive and leave me in the sea.
"Eventually we reached port. At the first trial, on a depot ship, the point was raised whether I was employed by a private firm or by the Government. I told them out- right that the Caledonia was an armed merchantman, in the service of the Government. I then was teken to Freiburg, wher I spent a month in solitary confinement, with one meal a day-stew and bread. Every time I saw a quad of armed men approaching my window, I thought This is it, but it never
wax.
J
FOREIGN YOLK GOES. "ALL EATING ENGLISH EGGS."
Was
"3
RUSSIAN TRADE FIGURES. A FAVOURABLE BALANCE, A stallholder in a street "market. who
Clerkenwell sued at
Moscow (U.P.). The foreign trade County Court for debt, stated that of the Soviet Union for the Erst he used to sell eggs and English four months of its business, Octo- rabbits, but lately had not been her to January inclusive, was in a antisfactory, condition, according to able to obtain them.
figure just made public.
Mr. Registrar Friend: Do you mean to say you cannot obtain eggs and rabbits
TO TRANSPORT" WOOL," BY 'PLANE. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCERS
DO AWAY WITH CAMELS.
the
Not only was the total turnover Sydney, April 17.--Wood.pro-
and merchants in somewhat larger than in the cor ducers The man I cannot get eggs to responding period of the previous Northern districts of Victoria are sell them at a profit at a price year, but the balance was in favour seriously considering the question which people who buy at the stalls of Russia, whereas a year ago it whether it would not be profitable. to tracsport wool by seroplanes can afford to pay: I would have was distinctly unfavourable.
Exports from the Soviet Union instead of by camels. The latter for the four to buy at 2ld an egg myself, änd
months totalled form of transport over a distance and imports of about 600 kilometres taker mycustomers cannot pay that..
The register: Cannot you buy 231,600,000 aubles, Chinese eggs 1-No, sir, worse luck: amounted to 218,600,000, roubles, several weeks, at a cost of 20 And Russian-It is the same giving a favourable balance of pounds per ton, whereas aeroplanes Most of the 13,000.000 roubles. For the same could cover the distance in a single with Russian eggs.
"Then came the second trial. The court decided that the Cale donia was an armed merchant cruiser, and, therefore, I was only doing my duty in attempting to ram the submarine. I was amused over the word attempting,' because I rammed her all right. I am sorry Cgxt we used to sell were Russian period in 1928 the balance was un- day, carrying about eight bales.
roubles,
Ltd. have therefore, been requested she did not sink, Irat if I ever meet and Chineze, and nearly all the favourable by about 15,000,000 each. The Australian Air Services The total turnover exceeds that to submit estimates of the cost the
entail: roubles of the preceding year hy 6,500,000 transport of wool by 'plane would
the man was on familiar terms with Swetz I should like to shake hands egs I sold were foreign. the customer. It has nothing to do with him. He is a sportsman, and with the case really, but it is ahe had no sympathy with submarine Imatter for tailors to consider."
warfare
And are we all eating English eggs now 1-Yes, for the first time in history.