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THREE EASTERN PROVINCES.
TO SUPPORT NANKING,
MANIFESTO CONDEMNS FENG YU HSIANG.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEPING, May 29. Chang Hauch Liang, Chang T10 Hsiang and Wan Fu Lin, the heads of the Three Eastern Provinces, after a conference at Mukden, sent
LORD METHUEN AND GUARDS.
CELEBRATES HIS *** SILVER WEDDING,"
LONDON CEREMONY,
TBRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Loypos, May 29. Field-Marshal Lord Methuen, who is Colonel of the Scots Guards, to-day inspected 1.200 mer of the First and Second Battalions of the
out a circular telegram denouncing | Regiment, afterward" presenting a Feng Yu Hsiang,
number of them with long service medals.
The telegram draws attention to the unification which is just com- pleted, and points out that recon- struction has been proceeding
since the successful D apace bandment Conference.
In a short speech he referred to the fine work of the two battalions in China and at Aldershot,
Lord Methuen expressed his de- light at the presence of the Duke Therefore, those in Government of Connaught. adding "This year service must idüty bound be loyal the Duke and I have arrived at in order to preserve peace. They four silver weddings-5 years are astonished to see the Kuomio Colonels of the Grenadier Guards chun wrecking the railways, and and Scots Guards respectively." stopping foodstuffs from reaching He called, for three cheers for the famine areas, also issuing telegrams nuke. against the Government.
För single bodies to take such actions in illegal, and a slight to the sovereignty of the people.
Among the invited spectators. The Kuominchun's actions appear
were ex-officers and men who had ed to have been instigated by "Red", elements, and the Man-erved with the regiment on the Marne, at Ypres, on the Somme and in the attack on the Hinden- burg, line.
churian authorities are therefore ready to take action against them."
FENG'S IMPENDING
RETIREMENT.
HUMOURS STILL PERSIST..
[HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Mag 29.
The troops marched past their Colonel, first in slow step and then in quick march. ""
DIPLOMATS ARRIVE IN
NANKING.
A CHANGE IN PLANS,
[TAROTCH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
The Kuo Min in Peping states:--
NANKING, May 29. "It is reported that Feng Yu The special train from Peping Hsiang has decided to retire from carrying foreign diplomats to Dr. politics and go abroad with Yen Sun Yat Sen'e re-burial, arrived at Hai Shan. Feng is now drafting a Pukow this morning. The diplo circular telegram announcing his mats crossed the river in a Chinese retirement."
gunboat.
The report "adds that Feng Ta
Hsiang and Yen Shi Shan will meet shortly at Yuncheng, in South Shansi, from whence they will start together upon a trip round the world.
RAID ON THE SOVIET CONSULATE
"
THE DRAMATIC AFFAIR AT HARBIN.
THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, May 29. It appears, says Reuter, that a hundred Chinese Police and a num her of firemea carried out the raid on the Soviet Consulate at Harbin,
There
Sir Miles Lampson and Mr. Yoshizawa arrived by boat this morning from Shanghai. will be no entertainments for for- cign guests till after the State
burial.
Madame Sun Yat Sen is staying in a specially built house near the Sun Yat Sen mausoleum."
The Japanese and Italian Minis ters are not presenting their cre- dentials to Chiang Kai Shek to- morrow, as arranged, nor will the projected visit, echeduled for to- morrow, of the diplomats to Dr. C. T. Wang, take place.
there
It is understood that changes are due to opposition in certain quarters owing to to-morrow.
by orders of the local Government, being the anniversary of the May while a secret meeting of members
of the Third Internationale, was 50 Incident.
being held in the basement of the Consulate.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929.
M. LITVINOFF'S BROTHER.
ARRESTED IN PARIS.
SWINDLING AND FORGERY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S" AGENCY.)
PARIS," May 28. Maximovitch Litvinaff; brother of the Soviet Assistant Foreign Minis ter, will shortly be tried here on a charge of swindling and forgery,
It is alleged that he sold saven forged hills of exchanged to the Russian Trade Delegation in Ber lin, by whom he was formerly em ployed, for
quarter million sterling.
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ELECTION NIGHT GALA.
BIG TIMES PLANNED IN LONDON,
SOME NOVEL SCHEMES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BELGRADE MURDER
SEQUEL.
PROCEEDINGS AT TRIAL,
EX-DEPUTY ON CAPITAL CHARGE.
| {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
twe
CABLE-WIRELESS MERGER.
LORD INVERFORTH'S -
OPTIMISM.
A GREAT FUTURE.
[TBROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, May 29. Lord Inverforth presided, and Sig. Marconi was present, at a meeting of the shareholders of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph, Ltd., which ananimously adopted the | Report and Balance Sheet.
"7
Telegrams in Brief.
The Duke and Duchess of York were present at Edinburgh for the celebration of the sixteen hun- |dredth anniversary of the granting | of the city's charter by King Robert the Bruce."The occasion is of special intercrt to the Duchess and myself because Robert Bruce was a common ancestor of us both," amid the Duke,
At the annual meeting of the Netherlands Artificial Silk "Com- any "Enka," it was announced that negotiations are proceeding favourably for the fusion to the
utmost possible extent of the com-
pay's interests with those of the Vereinigte Glanaston Fabriken of
Elberfeld.
LONDON, May 2.
BELORIDE May 20. London will make a gale occasion
The trial is proceeding of Punica of Election Night. The best-known Ratditch, ex-Radical Deputy, on a West End hotels have arranged for charge of murdering Stephan festivities until a late hour, and Raditch, the Croat Feasant leader, results will be screened for the in-and of killing two other deputies
and of grievously injuring formation of dancers and others,
The Savoy is also erecting others in the Stupatios.
Lord Inverforth, referring to the model "Big Ben," thirty feet high, Ex-Deputies Dragutin," Jovano cables and wireless merger, said upon which the state of the parties vitch and Thomas Popovitch were the solution of the problems which will be shown by means of illumin. also charged with inciting to mur the Imperial Conference evolved
Lord. Balfour, who has not been He was arrested in Paris "inated heads of Mr. Baldwin, Mr.der and with complicity.
would form a landmark in the really well for some months, ham It is alleged that the latter history of world communications. been ordered complete rest by his December in an hotel where he was MacDonald and Mr. Lloyd George,
which will climb St. Stephen's threatened Raditch on the day of
The British Empire for the first doctors. A bulletin announces this staying with a young Polish woman. Subsequently two alleged accom.
tower in accordance with the pro- the murder that he would be time would have an organisation | but adds that Lord Balfour's" condi. plices, Mare Jeffe and Willie Sres of their causes. Huge ther assassinated in Parliament;
Lord permitting the intelligent and co- tion is quite satisfactory. mometers will be similarly employ. Liberius (ex-hotel manager) were
The statement of the Supreme ordinated direction and develop Balfour is 50 years of age. Commission of Public Health saidment of ita Imperial telegraphic. arrested, and will be tried along ed at the Hotel Victoria
that Raditch's death was only in communications. directly connected with his wounds. [The tragedy occurred in Bel grade last June.]
with Litvinoff.
AFGHANISTAN.
NADIR KHAN THE NEW "AMIR."
[THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY."]
PESHAWAR, May 29. Nadir Khan, who was at one time Amanullah's War Minister, is reported to have proclaimed him- self Amir of Afghanistan.
Bachai Saquo (the "Rebel ruler has sent a mission to him to nego tiate a settlement.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
OFFICE.
"FINANCE QUESTIONS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, May 09,
body of the International Labour At a meeting of the governing Office, held with a view to obviating discussion at the Budget Office by "the Assembly Committee of the
League, Sir A. (India) submitted a plan by which C. Chatterjee a financial settlement for five years will be concluded with the Aisem. bly.
The results of Friday's counts will be available to cocktail sippers in restaurant foyers, and some of the big West End stores are hold ing parties and fashion parades.on Thurday night, while awaiting the results.
A huge announcement screen has been erected in front of one Oxford Street shop, and is certain to at tract many thousands of watchers. Special arrangements" have been installed at the Stock Exchange to acquaint members of the results or Friday.
Last-Minute Slogans,
LONDON, May 28, "A strong Liberal Party is the surest safeguard against the ex-
tremists on both sides."
"Labour must have a majority."
clear
Not a Conservative vote must be wasted if Mr. Baldwin is to be returned."
Conservatives should be dropped in face of the Socialist menace."
Partisan labels of Liberal and
These are representative of Dews paper opinions and, indicate the
issue. open nature of to-morrow's great
"bombshell" consists of a manifesto The Liberals' eleverth hour
over the signatures of 100 business men expressing the opinion that Mr. Lloyd George's unemployment are economically and financially sound.
It was explained that the basis of the plan would be the fixing of a standard figure of expenditure. proposals allowed for succeeding years, while Progressive increase would be the savings in expenditure of the Labour Office in any year would not revert to the League, but be carried forward to the following year.
The matter was referred to the Financial Committee.
COST OF PROHIBITION.
197 LIVES LOST.
[British United. Presn.]
TRANSATLANTIC FLYING
SEASON.
A RACE IN PROSPECT.
(THROUGH LEUTER'1 AGENCY.]
Extensive oil prospecting is ex- pected to begin in British Guiana It was not a fact that the Marsoon under the supervision of ex- coni Company was in effect going perts from Trinidad and the United out of business as a result of the formation of Cables and Wireless, Limited.
Eastern Extension Co
LATER. The shareholders of the Eastern Telegraph Company have agreed to the proposals for joint working
States, owing to the Governor's announcement that oil has been discovered in the Corentyne dis- trict, and that already 68 blocks of land have been leased for the ex- ploitation of oil and minerals,
at Liege from the
The first Belgium woman Deputy ever to be elected is the Socialist, of wireless and cable communica Mlle. Lacie du Jardin, who has tions by the transference of "Com- wen
4 seat munications assets " to Imperial Communists and International Communications. They also resolved that the pre- dominating shareholding interest in the company should remain British. The meeting voted £11,500 as com
OLD ORCHARD, Maine. May 29. The French aeroplane Yellow Bird," piloted by Mm. Lotti and Lefevre, and the American machine Green Flash," piloted by Captain Roger Williams, are engaging in a Lewis Tancer, and navigated by Mr. Transatlantic race. The former pensation to directors for less of left for Paris at 9.57 this morning office. (American time), but returned and
landed at 10.16 The The "Yellow The Chairman, Mr. Denison Bird" weighs 4 tons and the Pender, said that if Eastern had "Green Flash" two.
reduced cable rates to those of wireless in order to recover lost traffic, the Government would have reduced Beam rates still further.
PARTNERSHIP FOR EMPLOYEES.
AN ADVANCED STAND.
[British United Press.]
spend all their
New York. Those employees who lives at minor tasks, with never an opportunity to attain will be made financially indepen
an executive position, dent before their retirement, under-
A ден
Motors Corporation. This giant policy of the General
industrial, which has developed a
more millionaires. among its higher executive person-
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald broad cast Labour's final appeal last night and arked: "Give Labour a fair chance to take up the work where it left it in 1994.
Mr. Baldwin, in a speech at hundred or Runcorn, exclaimed: "We have got to govern ourselves or buat. Vete in accordance with your con- science and conviction. Whatever your decision I shall bow to it.".
The "Final Words,”
LONDON, May 29. On the final eve of the poll the mestagee of leaders were:-
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald: All Washington, D.C.--At least 197 sigus point to a verdict of emphatic persens have lost their lives as a condemnation of the Government result of prohibition enforcement for its sins of omission and commis
nel, is seeking to establish a part nership relation between company and individuals" who have been legal and effective members of the organisation for many years but whose effectiveness is declining for any cause whatsoever."
EXTENSION TO COLUMBIA 'VARSITY.
PROPOSED SPANISH.
RESIDENCE.
[British United Prosz.]
"COUNTRY OF VAST
· RESOURCES.
CANADA'S DESTINY.
[British United Pres.}
Toronto, Ontario.—In a recent artide written for .. Toronto financial paper, Mr. James E.. Boyle, Professor of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University states:
"Canada is
a country of vast virgin resources. The United States is sometimes spoken of as the richest country in the world, due to the immense progress of both agriculture and industry in that country. The fact is, how- ever, that Canada is a country of larger area, and offar greater wealth in natural resources per New York-Funds are being sapito. With a balanced develop- raised here for a Spanish re
Canadian resources, sidence at Columbia, University, coupled with an equally balanced which will be a centre for Spanish growth of these two great arteries purpose of the residence is to and banking Canada is destined and South American culture. The of economie life-transportation afford opportunity to American to be the wealthiest country in the students to master the Spanish world
Already her exports per, a value four times language and give the Spanish capite have students and their friends a chance those of the United States." to become acquainted with Ameri- A students and American
customs amid congenial surround-
ings.
netivities of the federal govern- sion. Public confidence has been each member of the organisation is Spanish Residence will also bave
The doors were securely fastened HAN FU CHU'S DESERTION. made public at the Treasury dis
and the firemen had to break in ⠀⠀
as the result of which a number
of documents were being burned at
the time the Police entered.
There was confusion while the Police were arresting all present and the firemen were putting out the flames.
ments.
KUOMINCHUN FORCES ..
WEAKENED.
(Wah T Fat Pao.)
Eventually 45 persons were ar-
SHANGHAI, May 29. rested. These were taken away together with a truckload of docu- Chiang Kai Shek lately conferred with Fang Chen. Wo and Misó - Those arrested include the Rus-
sian Consul-General at Harbin, the Ping Wen at Pengpu, when it was Russian Consul at Mukden and decided to detail their troops to three women.
Honan. It is probable that war Subsequently the Police issued a will be averted, as Han Fu Chu
deserted
the
Kuominchun,
foreign of
of the
"It is believed," Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, J., the President, says in the company's report for 1923, "that the General Motors Corpora- tion is taking an advanced stand in establishing the principle that ment since 1920, official figures so rudely shaken by the Govero-
ment's mis-handling
entitled, in addition to the daily closed recently.
affairs that large numbers are going wage, an opportunity to partici-
some pate financially in
form Twenty-five persons were killed to vote Labour, because they feel during the last fifteen months the change is essential, and Britain other, depending upon his relative figures revealed. The killings re should give the lead in arbitration position, in the progress
corporation." ported include only those made by and conciliation, Frohibition bureau agents and do
Mr. Sloan reported that "there "Both other parties have proved were allotted during the last year not take in casualties in or at the incapable of dealing adequately 196,570 shares of the new 810 par hands of Coast Guard, or customs with social evils, and Labour alone
common stock as bonus awards to officials.
can bring the country through its 2,513 employees for conspicuous It was pointed out that two present difficulties, and establish customs inspectors were killed by good conditions for workers
service."! of mugglers and four civilians by every class." Coast Guards last year. In addi Mr. Lloyd George_says: tion there have been two deaths re-nation is weary of Tery, reckless. corded this year.
ness and afraid of Socialist extra-
The 1928 new was equal to 815.35 a share on the $25 par common A table showing deaths incurred
vagence. A better alterative is stock outstanding at the end of the in activity by federal agents only, to elect a Liberal Government.
year and to $0.14 a share on follows:-
which will grapple energetically and
дет $10
par common Agents Civilians.
practically with national problems," outstanding. and build a temple of peace, also asure foundation of Disarmament. and arbitration treaties,”
statement to the effect that the raid was carried out on suspicion has that a secret meeting of the Third which thus has been greatly weak- 1020
Internationale was being held. The ened. Feng, it is said, has decided 1021
statement also declares that arms
5
8
1999
12.
13
and opium were discovered in the to retire. Consulate.
1923
27
PE
The Nanking troops on the upper | 1924
2
22
Hanking's Instructions,
course of the Yangtze River are 1920
1925
20
"The
Net earnings of the corporation
the stock now
MEXICO CHURCH
Пл
the
resident
from
HYSTERIA AT YANKEE STADIUM.
A
'ment
of
BRITISH SCHOOLBOYS'
GERMAN TOUR.
"IMPRESSIONS OF VISIT..
Besides providing rooms for 10 of fifteen resident students, the
A apartment for Spanish professor and guest rooms for distinguished visitors Spanish-speaking countries. "The The party of 48 British public Residence will probably have its school boys who, under the auspices beginning in a rented house but as of Tos H and the Kaiser Friedrich
project
and grows
more Real-Gymnasium of Berlin, have Spanish-speaking nations become been paying a fortnight's visit to interested it is hoped that per- Germany leit Berlin for Southamp- manent headquarters will be built ton..... on the university campus.
After their reception by the Chief, Other countries are now well Burgomaster of Berlin at the represented at
the University Rathaus they spent three days in last year were $270,488,108, againstrance has its. Maison Francaise, Dresden and the Saxon, hills, where Italy the Casa Italiana, and Ger they saw something of the Jugend- 235,101,826 in 1927.
many the Deutsches House.
berbergen-those hostels, or some- times more shelter huts, scattered all over Germany for the use of the wanderers of the Youth Movement at which
night's lodging can be obtained for a mark or less. After the return from Saxony the party CAUSE OF RECENT TRAGEDY.spent two evenings at the Opera, visited the gas and water exhibition New York, May 20.-The office of and the aquarium, and made a excursion to Fotadam. the District Attorney to-day com- day's pleted its preliminary investigation Wednesday was spent at the Kaiser of yesterday's tragedy at the Yan- Friedrich Gymnasium in order that kee Stadiumia which two persons they should obtain an idea of the According to a high authority in were killed and many injured when lines on which the school of their the Catholic Church the proposal of 10,000 lace in the bleachers, fronte is run. President Gil of Mexico that repre stampeded and trampled one an- During the stay at the Municipal The-report-prepared by Assist New York Plans have been sentatives of the Mexican Govern other in attempting to escape a Country Home (Städtischen Land- ent Secretary Seymour W. Low completed for the erection of a ment meet representatives of the cloudburst.The ending absolved heim) at Birkenwerder, together man said in all cases reaching the thirty-five storey addition to the Church to attempt an adjustment the officiale of the New York Ameri- with a class of Boys from the Kaiser courts in the last fifteen months International Telegraph and Tele of the differences between the two can League Baseball Club of blame. Friedrich Gymnasium, and during the government officers had been phone Building at 687, Brood has been forwarded to Rome.
Evidence submitted to the office the entertainment of the British exonerated from criminal liability. Street. The structure will be of The Mexican President proposes a of the District Attorney, showed boys at the homes of their boste on The two deaths included in this modified Spanish architecture and formal conference between Mexican, that the tragedy was the result of several occasions, the British and year's report were the drowning will rise 458 feet above the street and the Vatican representatives to mas hysteria
German boys had a good oppor~ THE NANKING GUNBOATS. of Leon Maingui negro seaman of and having a door space of ap- settle the long-standing virtual a number of boy fans who were in other. The impressions of a party dispute "Babe Ruth, pent a mesenge to tunity of getting to know each the Canadian schooner. I'm Alone, proximately 454,000 square feet. which has resulted in the which was recently sunk by a Constraction of the building overthrow of the old Catholic jured in the stampede and confined of schoolboys on such a trip are not. Coast Guard patrol, and that of will begin on the property already hegemoney in Mexico.
in hospitals.
easily expressed, but it may be Joseph O. MeGire Laramie, purchased as soon as the present A majority of the former bishops "I miss you as do all the players gathered that one observation shar Wyoming, who was shot to death buildings are razed.
and archbishops of the Church in on the Yankee team," But said,ed by all was the intensity of ap while resisting arrest. His slayer The main operating departments Mexico have aproved the Gill pro Please hurry and get well so you plication to school work imposed by.
pany and the Postal Telegraphing they conform to plan suberit of the All America Cables Composals cathusiastically, understand can come back to the games" the German system and the pre-
Mrs. Ruth, the new bride of the occupation with philosophical reflec Company to commentier der et by HTC Diam Company will be centred in the advocated such # conference for many of the injured in hospitals throughout the upper forms of new building.
some time.
taking flowers to them?
German high schools
It is believed in Harbin that the three divisions in number, one of 192 raid was inspired, Reater adds, by which was recently dispatched to 1028 the National Government in Nan king, in an endeavour to discover Siaokan, and the other two divisions something to throw light on the to Shaai and Kingchowfu, where connections between General Feng-they were opposed by the Kwange Yu Heiang and the Scriet.
remnants, formerly under Hu Tsung
The Soviet Consulate at Pogrs Tu and Tao Chan." nichnalia, which is between Harbin and Vladivostock, is reported to have been similarly raided.
ORDER TO SUN LIANG CHENG.
N
Kwangsi forces, being greatly out- Severe fighting ensued, and the
numbered, were routed.
(Wah Tu Fat Pao).
JF
Total
55
35-STOREY "SCRAPER.”.
MAMMOTH NEW BUILDING.
134
(Wah Taz Fat Pao-) ·
SHANGHAI, May 2. Feng Yu Hsiang has ordered Bun Liang Cheng to drive back Han Tu Chu in three days. Should be 11 his troops Free NT THE WOFT thing ning ur Kun ward from Tungkwan; and destroy Government and the other two are mentioned in the report--since, a ing all railway bridges.
still in Hong Kong barbour.
state officer did the filling,
Of the five Chinese warships, the Haiyung, Haichow, Yingakui, Teo tai and Kiangyuan, which recently arrived in Hong Kong the first was acting of Mrs. Lillian de three have sailed back to Napking
The
[British United Press,]
DISPUTE.
PROPOSED CONFERENCE?“