FENG'S MALADY.
"MAY NOT LIVE" LONG."
HEART AND KIDNEY TROUBLE.
[British United Press.)
Peping-Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang is so seriously ill that he probably can never again actively participate in any major campaign in China,
most medical school of China.
ONE WOMAN TO
ANOTHER.
MESSAGE FROM MRS.
BALDWIN.
A DOMESTIC APPEAL.
{THROUGH RETTER'S AGRICY-)
LONDON, May 15: Mrs. Baldivia has issued a moes.
according to diagnosis of the war-age to women voters, reciting the lord's condition recently made by Conservatives domestic policy. I
Chinese doctor in the Peping concludes, "during the war, in the Union Medical College, the fore-night watches, and whilst puraning This diagnosis showed that Mar-our daily avocations, we women shal Fepg is suffering from a prayed to Clod to send is peace. combination of heart and kidney Then came strikes, and again we trouble, which may permit him to live for several years, but only in prayed for peace. Let us keep the case he does not exert himself. The Government which worked for peace doctor states that it would be fatal and maintained peace.” for Marshal Feng to do any strenu- Uus work.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929.
PROSPERITY IN AMERICA.
"ONLY- TOUCHED THE FRINGE."
GLOWING OPTIMISM.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, May 15. American prosperity which for the
tainable.
RENEWED RIOTING INTERNATIONAL SEA NORTH-EAST COAST Telegrams in Brief.
IN BOMBAY.
POLICE AND TROOPS
CALLED OUT,
AN UGLY SITUATION: -
fred in the air.
CODE.
NEW NAVIGATION RULES PROPOSED.
LONDON CONFERENCE.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 15.
INDUSTRIES.
PRINCE OF WALES OPENS EXHIBITION.
A CALL TO ARMS.
[EDITION WIRELESS SERVICE.]
· LONDON, May 14. Prince of Wales
(THROUGH RITER'S AGENCE.]
H.R.H. the BounAY, May 15. A recrudescence of mob violence A conttmunique issued by the opened to-day the North-east Coast at Newcastle, which past seven years has been "spled has occurred in the mi area. International Conference for Safety Exhibition. did beyond all human experience" Police made a bayonet charge on of Life at Sea states that the Com-illustrates the great industries of will advance to an even higher level an unruly crowd of strikers in Demittee of Navigation are consider the North-East of England, the if the economic balance between Lisle Road, and two strikers were ing the inclusion in the Convention chief of which are mizing, engineer
Troops also of 1914 of new provisions for the ing, and shipbuilding. production and consumption is main-severely wounded.
collection and. distribution of This is the opinion of President Strikers at Moon mills stoned an meteorological data, designed to Hoover'a Committee on recent Indian police officer, and reinforce give warning of gales and hur economic changes, and the reportments were hurried up. The crowd Meanes is also signed by sixteen of the fore- refused to disperse, and three shots The same Committee has agreed most basiness men in America in were fired in the air Nobody was to recommend the universal adop
an International Code: cluding n Oven Young, and Mr. wounded, but "par policeman and tion of
two strikers were injured in the Firstly, a compulsory second, white masthead light on steamers over scuffle.
150 ft. long; secondly, perman- eat fixed itera light on all except the smallest of vessels; thirdly, special day signal for sailing vessels fitted with suxiliary motors; and fourthly, a special fog-signal for a
at
Raskob.
GRAF ZEPPELIN FLIGHT
That "White Paper."
Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Uncertain Attitude. Marshal Feng has been one of Hamilton, adverted to the "white
He said the matter was The report suggests that the coun- the foremost warlords in China torpaper." a dozen years. His attitude toward
more serious than originally aptry has "only touched the fringe of the various central governmente
its potentialities." which he has been come and go has peared. Not only had public money always been uncertain, and Chinese been used for Tory electioneering, politicans have always had to cou-but the Civil Service had been sider him as a major factor in any development. Since the country enlisted to supplement the Tory was nominally unified in the spring Headquarters Staff. of 1923, Marshal Feng has steadily supported the Central Government, but his probable attitude was always a matter of close attention.
If Marshal Feng is eliminated frein any possibility of an aggres- sively military campaign, it is apparent that he is no longer an important factor in a country where military force still is the dominat- ing influence. His elimination means that the Nanking Govern- mient can proceed with its plans!
Thus, the Government had done the greatest injury to public con- fidence in the Civil Service,"
ANOTHER WAR THREAT?
MORE TROUBLE IN THE 'NORTH.
T・・ DELAYED.
FRENCH OBJECTIONS.
Strikers also broke inte four mills, and refused to leave. Several mills which had resumed work have been compelled to close down owing to passive resistance. Not a single has paid its April wages on account of the disturbed situation.
The Cirnikamgar Union, despite an "order forbidding assemblies of more than five persons, which is still in force, has advised strikers) to gather at the mill gates to de a dramatic develop.mand their wages, or to practice ment following the official announce. passive resistance until paid. ment that the Graf Zeppelin, with This is likely to lead to further passengers including Sir Hubert dispersals, and police and military
{THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.].
There
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, May 15.
with greater assurance than if he (Industrial and Commercial Taily Wilkins, the North Pole Bier, and have been posted at strategie
were a constant military threat-
Marshal Feng is credited with having the best disciplined army in China. His generals are said
Press).
Under the pretext of suppressing
Sasi,
to be more loyal to their com banditry, Chiang Kai Shek hasEckener announced that the depar i
mander-in-chief than those of any ather. He has attempted to teach his soldiers good trades, in which they could earn their living if dis banded. Few other" generals bave done the same.
Buying Generals, Warfare in China, even down to the prescut, has consisted more of buying off rival generals or their subordinates thair in actual fighting. Itis said that bo important general has ever betrayed Marshal Feng, and his ability to depend upon his subordinates has been perhaps his greatest strength.
While Marshal Feng retains con- trol of his large army, in spite of his illness, he is not expected to take aggressive measures again, even if he should become hostile to the group controlling the Central Government. None of his sub ordinate generals is regarded as a great leader, although they are com- petent soldiers. Without Marshal Feng's direct guidance, they are not expected to indulge in a campaign against the authorities at Nanking.
Marshal Feng has been known re- cently as the voice of the people." He has issued statements insisting upon the evils of civil war and
lately reinforced the troops at Honan, Ashwei, Shantung and along the Lung-Hai Railway line, really in order to take military Feng Yu preparations against Hsiang who has also prepared for war.
a young gorilla, would start on a Transatlantic flight."
This morning the Commander, Dr:
ture had been postponed, as the French Government had not given peratsion to fly over French terri torg.
The Reason,
LATER.
The French Government has now
given permission for the Graf Zep pelin to cross the frontier between The airship, which
According to General Ho Ching Chun and Hsang Chen, war is in, and 9 a.m. evitable.
It is reported that the troops of Feng number over 200,00.. By Chiang Kai Shek's order, troops at Chihli under the command of Tang Seng Chi have moved along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
General Tang, who is loyal to Chiang, will probably be appointed chairman of the Provincial Govern- ment of Shantung.
JAPANESE LEAVE
QUIETLY.
A SMOOTH TRANSFER.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, May 15. most unanimous views of the Chi Dr. C. T. Wang, Foreign Minia- has become a ter, has received a telegram from
of fighting for personal aggrandize-
ment which are regarded as the al-
Desc marses. He
bad weather has prevented taking the Holland and Britain route, may however take the latter course if the weather improves.
The French attitude is attributed to the fact that on the last occa- sion the pilet, Dr. Eckener, de- viated from the specified route and few over the fortress of Besancon and the engineering works at Creusot, because of which a diplo- matic protest "was lodged. Eckener explained that the metero- logical conditions had compelled the deviation.
1
Dr.
The Zeppelin's freight includes: one grand piano.
points.
THEIR. MAJESTIES LEAVE FOR WINDSOR.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 15. farewell An enthusiastic extended to Their Majesties upon
Wis
towed vessel.
SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS.
CRUSHING THE BOYCOTT.
PEPING TAKES ACTION.
His Royal Highness had an enthu- siastic reception from the thousands of people who lined the streets.
The Prince, in his speech, refer red to the depression under which the district has been suffering. He said the Northeast Coast could hardly hope to maintain the supre macy which it had enjoyed during the 19th century. "Courage and imagination were needed to restore. its economic prestige.
A Challenge.
|
The directors of the National Bank of the Republic and the Chicago Trust Company have `ap- proved of an amalgamation of the two concerns, with total resources of $200,000,000.
An official Gazette announces that Vajor-General Sir Van Strau- benzee, commanding the troops in Malaya, has relinquished his ap- paintment.
A new commodity market har been inaugurated in London to deal ʼn with wheat futures. The approxi- mate turnover during the first day was 73,000 quarters, "
The total number of unemployed in Britain registered on May 6 was 1,139,700, being 31,108 less than in e previous week but 28,000 more than a year ago.
The Calcutta sweepstake amounts to nearly a million sterling. There tickets, and the organisers expect has been a, tremendous rush for at least £250,000 more. The draw. will be held on June 1.
Hsu Shib Toh, the twelve-year- old son of General Hsu Chung Chi the Cantonese Army in 1925, has who was Commander-in-Chief of
been kidnapped..
The American Senate has passed the Farm Relief Bill, embodying the export debenture plan, to which the House of Representatives and This exhibition was a challenge to President Hbover are opposed. the North-east Coast and it was a A Manchester meeting of mem announcement to the world that the bers has adopted a resolution in great shop of this industrial disfavour of winding-up the "Cotton trict was still open, was determined Yarn Association.
to carry on, and was prepared to It has been decided to send a meet all orders with the highest party of American businessmen to traditions of a not unworthy past. Russia this summer to study
He urged the leaders of industry economic, commercial, and indus to show courage, and ruthlessly to trial conditions there: The Ameri scrap all methods and machinery can-Russian Chamber of Commerce that did not come up to modern is sponsoring the visit. The party atandards.
will muster in Berlin on July 15, and return there on August 8.
Stern Competition.
Prior to opening the exhibition the Prince opened the new mining department of Armstrong College. CHILD FATALLY SCALDED. the scientise developm of indus Here he referred to the need for
try. "The mining industry is con fronted by very atein competition from overseas," he said. "It must tion." be equipped to meet that competi
[British United Press,]
"Pering--The unexpected speed with which all cutstanding questions between Japan and China have been settled has been viewed with satis faction, not only by the govern- ments concerned, but by all diplo- The Prince added that much as mats in the Legation Quarternities which were offered to the he valued the educational opporta.
their departure from Bognor for reacts upon all other foreigners in Windsor.
the country, the diplomats believe, and settlement with Japan has im- proved foreign relations in general.
Unfortunately, various semi-official organizations which have sprung up!
UNINTELLIGIBLE BILLS.
DEATH IN HOSPITAL.
["D.P." SPECIAL SERVICE]
Donald Ralph Hardiman, aged 2 Friction between the Chinese and mining industry, as a whole, they years and 4 months, has died in any group of foreigners always appealed to him particularly in the the Balmain Hospital, Sydney, as way that they affected the indivi. the result of scalds he received when would bring the miner into touch water at his home in Gippe-street, dual. He welcomed anything which he fell into a cooper full of boiling with things outside-anything which Balmain, earlier in the day. drab life he had to lead. would give him a change from the The little boy was standing on the brickwork of the copper when NEED OF STRONG DRAFTING during the past year, designed to the zon to follow his father's call-into the boiling water. He was at There was a natural instinct for he apparently stepped backwards. assist the Chinese Government in ing, but it might be that a boy's once removed to the Balmain Hee- impressing upen Japan the ill-feel- genius somethimes lay in an en-pital, but died several hours after ing against that country among Chinese, have not yet been curbedirely differert direction. By those admission.
opportunities," But the Nanking Government has might kindle a spark of genius in given evidence that it intends to a boy which the country could il! halt the activities of the anti- afford which Japanese Association, and of the local Kuomintang, branches who are still seeking to inflame the people against Japan.
DEPARTMENT.
A correspondent writes to The
Times:-
SIR-You were good, enough to insert in your issue of February 23 a letter from me urging that the subject of Parliamentary drafting is one of first-class importance and urging the need for the creation of numerically strong Drafting De- partment.
The creation of a numerically strong Drafting Department is long overdue. Many of your readers
will have observed that the Prime respected.
censor of corrupt politicians and the Chinese Commissioner for NEW ATTEMPT ON FLIGHT Minister in his speech, as reported unscrupulous militarists, many of Foreign Affairs in Shantung re- whom still flourish in China.
With Marshal Feng eliminated, General Chiang Kai Shek becomes easily the dominaat warlord of China, supported by Marshal Yeu Hai Shar and General Chang Hauch Liang, both interested only in their own provinces.
DR. SUN YAT SEN'S BURIAL.
BRITISH MINISTER TO ATTEND.
A
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
porting that the withdrawal of Japanese cavalry betweed Tinan
Chowtsung and
was completed yesterday morning. Chinese troops taken -over the garrison hare. duties.
Peace and order were well main- tained throughout the process of evacuation, and the transfer was effected smoothly and without in- cident.
PEPING, May 15. Sir Miles Lampson, British Minis ter to China, has left for Shanghai, | « in order to be present, at Dr. Suzi
Yat Sen's re-interment.
Special Stamp Issue.
NANKING, May 15. Stamps to commemorate the State Burial of Dr. Sun Yat Sen have been printed and wil: shortly be distributed to post offices through out the country, the sale to begit on May 29.
The centre of the stamp is A picture of the Sun Yat Sen Mauzo- leum.
COUNCIL MATTERS.
(Nam Chiung" Pao).
At a meeting of the Administra tive Council on May 14 resolu tion was phased refusing the re signation tendered by Tang Jai Liang as Vice-Minister of Foreign Afairs.
...
BRITISH PLANTER
KILLED,
MURDER IN DUTCH EAST
INDIES..
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SINGAPORE. May 15.
Mr. James William Futcher, the British manager of a Chinese- owned rubber and pineapple estate on the island of Rhio, in the Dutch East Indies, has been brutally mur- dered by a crowd of Chinese armed with Malay sheath-kniver
Eight arrests have been made.
LANCASHIRE MILLS MERGER.
3,000,000 SPINDLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 15. It is understood that the proposed merger of Egyptian cotton spinning mills in several districts in Lanca shire is nearing completion, the Board of Directors concerned having. provisionally agreed to the terms.
RECORD.
DUCHESS OF BEDFORD'S AMBITION.
educational
they
"Northern. Wembley.". (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] "The Prince of Wales to day open- ed 'the Newcastle North-east Coast Exhibition, which has been styled the "Northern Wembley,"
RED SEA SLAVE TRADE.
UNDER BRITISH EYES.
["D.P. BPECIAL SERVICE}
The coal, iron, shipbuilding and.
The slave trade from British con- engineering industries in the north have been very depressed for years, trolled shores in the Red Sea is still and the exhibition, in the words of flourishing. This startling statement the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, is is made by Dr. Mezan, President of designed not merely as a demonstra- the Jewish Association, who is con- tion of past and present sriumphs nected with the League of Nations. Dr. Mezan anys that the Jeddah of engineering and shipbuilding but as evidence of an ambition to create slave-market is held actually 300 and encourage new industries, in yards from Britain's Consulate. which the national scheme of co- The traffic is so open that a negro ordination of electricity supplies is is worth £20 to £40,
Two thousand such slaves are expected to be very helpful.
"A Laconic Comment.
transported across the Red Sea
Military Moving. During recent days, the military authorities in North China have moved definitely against these or ganizations, and have announced in the Chinese press that the Cen- tral Government's orders to stop activities against Japanese must be The motive behind these societies in your columns, at the Civil at present seems to be largely Service dinner held on the 18th economic. Hundreds of ambitions instant, confessed that, when Finan-young men are out of work in the of them have cial Secretary the Treasury, he North, and many had to move in the House of Com earned their living working for the Lons a clause in a Finance Bill Japanese boycott association and "that no one could understand." the propaganda, groups. They are [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
He said to the House, "The clause naturally unwilling to lose their The Prince of Wales, on his ar-yearly. is incomprepersible. I can't under jobs, and are doing everything pos-rival at Durham en route to New- Dr. Mezan points out that British stand it, and you won't, but it sible to keep the organisations castle asked Mr. Robson, President war vessels are not fitted for the LONDON, May 14. is all right." He added in his going.
of the Miners' Association, whether purpose of suppressing the traffic. The Duchess of Bedford, it is speech that the clause went through tion has amassed a large sum of his visit in January.
In addition, the boycott associa the coal trade had improved since The dhows are safe amidst the without discussion and without a
changing sand-banks and are af understood, intends to attempt to division and was part of the law money, obtained from the sale at Mr. Robson replied that the posi-ways able to elude the deeper ay to India, in two days, her am of the land now. I might have auction f Japanese goods seized
draughted men-o-war.. bition being to surpass, if possible, thought that the Prime Minister from Chinese merchants. the great accomplishment of the was joking if I had not heard other of the association are insisting that
Royal Air Force
officers, Ministers state that they have been a large share of this fund be turned Squadron-Leader Jones-Williams placed in a similar predicement over to the employees, to compen- and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins, with regard to glauses they have sate for loss of their jobs, while the who reached Karachi in 50 hours, been called upon to move. There merchants' association believes that 38 minutes and just-failed to break is no good reason for any claust the Chinese merchants who suffered the world's non-stop long distance in a Bill being incomprehensible. record.
two
losses should be repaid.
Officers
ji
Settled Disputes. Japan had far and many more unsettled questions with China than any other country. There was the Tsinan affair, the Nanking and
tion was at least "bo worge.“
NED KELLY'S BONES.
NEGRO MURDERER SENTENCED.
DREADFUL PARIS CRIME. MUST BE RETURNED.
Every draftsman knows that the
Paris-A negro from Guadeloupe The Duchess's attempt will be English language is adequate to ex-
["D.. SPECIAL SERVICE.] was sentenced to death by the Assite made in the big Fokker Monoplane press in clear terms everything that
Court for the murder of me. "Princess Xenia" in which, near the Legislature can want to ex
Lemoine, an aged lady of indepen Melbourne-Directions were given ly a year ago, Captain Barnard press. But a numerically strong
dent means, and the attempted by the Chief Secretary (Dr. Argyle) and Mr. Allicott (with the Duchess staff must be employed. Such Hankow incidents, and the question murder of Mme. Martenu, the pro that the Penal Department should as passenger) attempted to fly to course would be worth while. Aof a commercial treaty. Nanking prietress of a small shop... A second tako possession of the remains India in four days. They were reference to the authorized King's took the view last year that the negro was sentenced to penal ser- of Ned Kelly, the bushranger, forced down at Bushire, Persia, by Bench Reports for the year 1928 commercial treaty had been abro-vitude for life.
and Frederick Bayley Deeming, engine trouble and were stranded shows that out of a total number gated and that Japan did not have The crimes were of a particularly the murderer, found during "ex- for several weeks. Capt. Barnard of 112 reported eases no fewer than any special rights until a new brutal character. Mme, Lemoine will be the pilot for the new fight 108 cases were-cases depending on treaty was concluded. Japan, how was strangled in her flat and Meavation work on the old Melbourne the construction of modern, or com ever, insisted that the treaty had Marieau was found horribly injur paratively modern, Acts of Parlia
Dr. Argyle said that the bones not been abrogated, although Tokyo ed, her head having been badly ment-Yours faithfully,
EDWARD H. BENN.
was willing to cater negotiations for battered with an iron bar. She is which were taken from the coffing & new understanding,
now a helpless idiot. The negroes must be returned at once... The The Athenæum.
All these matters have now been are of the lowest type and frequent Crimes Act provided that any per settled. The various incidents" ed doubtful haunts in Montmartre, son removing without authority any
they
certain portion of a body legally buried gained are out of the way. Nanking his where
their might be prosecuted for felony and inade some concessions about the amount of notoriety by commercial treaty, and a new treaty truculent behaviour and vulgar convicted person was liable to. appears well on the way, Just a ostentation. The motive of the to three years' imprisonment, year after the Tsinan incident, when crimes was robbery. relations between Japan and China were very seriously threatened, the two countries have reached "agree.
which, it is understood, will start in three or four weeks' time.
DISARMAMENT.
PRESIDENT HOOVER'S
OPINION.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE]
WASHINGTON, May 14.
It is understood that President
"DEATH OF» SOCIETY
HOSTESS
{"D.P." Special Service.]
With regard to the request of the Finance Minister, Mr. T, Y. The merger involves fifteen mills, Boong, to increase the Nanking and and a total spindleage of over Hoover in of opinion that no fur- Hankow Special Municipal Public 3,000,000. Also it will introduce ther disarmament action can be, The death occurred in London on ments which place Japan in much Loans by 81,000,000 and $1,500,000 from £2,500,000 to £3,000,000 in new taken until the Naval Powers have Tuesday of Mre. Willie-James, & the same position as the western respectively, it was decided to refer money, a substantial amount of made a more detailed study of the famous society hostess who fre- Powers who have recognised the the matter to the Central Govern which will be earmarked for work- American' proposals submitted at uently entertained King Edward Nanking Government.
ing capital. ment,
Geneva,
and Queen Alexandra.
(Continued at foot of next column),
gool.
Explaining why the State did not give instructions for the re- moval of the bodies of prisonera Thero is evidence of a sincere de before, the gaol site was handed sire upon the part of Japan and over for educational purposes, "Dr. China to enter upon a new era of Argyle said the general belief was mutual good-will, which will be that quicklimo pat into the coffins beneficial to the important trade in reduced the bodies to dust within
abort time. terests of both countries.