STRONG COALITION NEW AMBASSADOR
AGAINST FENG.
TO AMERICA.
FIVE ROUTE ARMIES.
PLANS FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PROF. GILBERT MURRAY MENTIONED.
"A FAMOUS SCHOLAR.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
SHANGHAI, June 13.
NEW YORK, June 13. Reports from Nanking are that¦ The Washington correspondent of leading military lenders conferred | the New, Fork Times states. that last night and decided in the event of an expedition against Feng to launch five route annies against
him.
Professor Gilbert Murray is men tioned in diplomatic circles as the British Ambassador in succession to Sir Esme Howard, whose term They with he commanded respec. normally will terminate next spring tively by Tang Seng Chi, Fang but who may be relieved prior to Chen Wu, Liu Chen Haa, Yen Hai, Mr. MacDonald's contemplated Shan, and Han Fu Chu, while Ho visit to America this summer. Ying Ching will probably be ap
pointed Commander-in-Chief. Tung kwan ill he the objective.
It is understood that the new
British Government does not want
a regular Diplomuntic Service memn- her as Ambassador to Washington, Feng's Delegate Detained. Confrmation of this is contained, but someone representing other in Wah Ts: Fat Pao cables which i walks of life in the same manner state that Feng Yu Hsiang disas General Dawes, the new Ameri patched 11. trusted sphordinate van Ambassador in London, repre- Wang Shan to Chengchow to urge senta American financial and poli Han Fu Chu not Lo attack the ical spheres Kuominchun ut Han detained the delegate..
On the other hand Chiang Kai Shek received Ma Hung Kwei, Han's delegate. with every mark of cordiality on Wednesday morning had had a lengthy talk with him about the affairs of the north western provinces. He has also given directions for the campaign against Fenst.
Yen Hat Shan Against Feng.
Professor Murray frequently and unsuccessfully contested Oxford University as a Liberal at General Elections. including the one last month.
He is a man of great academic attainments, and has been Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford since 1908. He has to his credit numerous translations and original works on Greek drama.
Professer Murray, who was born It is also significant that Yen Hsin Australia 63 years ago, has been Shan, who generally known which Trustee of the British Museum was appointed way the political wind is blowing, since 1914, and has wired Ham Fu Chu, Shin Yu Charles Eliot, Norton Professor of San and Isang Chen saying that Poetry at Harvard University in he intends to support the Central 1928. Government and asking them to refute all counter propaganda.
ALLEGED COMMUNIST
INTRIGUES.
SOVIET CONSULATE LETTERS PUBLISHED.
NAN CHUNG KTO NEWS SERVICE. Į
MEXDEN, June 13. The local authorities have pub- lished a number of letters and documents alleged to have been seized at the Russian Consulate. in Harbin. There are two letters, ona dated January 10, 1999, and the other January 19, 1920, which were said to have been despatched to the Third International. from its agency in the Far East.
The first letter suggested that in view of the fact that Chang Trung Chang and Wu Pei Fu were secur- ing foreign support the Third In- ternational should give all'assist "ance possible to Feng Yu Hsiang to expand his influence in Northern and "Central China as this was the only hope for the Third Interna tional to re-establish its position io China. It was suggested that ammunition and money be sent to China for starting difficulties in the Yellow River Valley,
i
MALARIA WORK.
SIR M. WATSON'S REPORT.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929
ONE-ARMED
SUTTON.""
THROUGH WITH WARS."
"
CHINESE OFFERS
REFUSED.
(THROUGH RITTER'S AGENCY.]
PRESIDENT AND PREMIER.
AMERICAN ENTHUSIASM FOR CONFERENCE.
AN UNPRECEDENTED
EVENT.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, June 13, Official and diplomatie Wash-
LONDON, June 12. Captain Sutton, better known as "one-armed Sutton," military ad- viser to the lace Chang Two. Linington has not been so stirred since- has arrived from Canada for the
the Arms Conference over the marriage of his daughter, Frances, prospect of an international event aged 15, to an officer in a Yorkshires over the passibility of the visit regiment.
of Mr. MacDonald to the United He says that he had ari invitation States. from Chices generals to give The inct that the proposed trip
ELECTIONS IN S. AFRICA.
THE NATIVE "PROBLEM,
SPLIT IN LABOUR
PARTY,"
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CAPRTOWN, June 19. The General Election to f 143 Beats in the South African Legisla. tive Assembly is proceeding to day. The result is doubtful, partly owing to the creation of 15 new constitu- encies and also the effects of a split in the Labour Party, one setion of
which under Colonel Creswell, re mains allied to General Hertzog's
while the other is under Mr. Made- ley who seceded therefrom.
AIR PROGRAMME
AT
HOME.
ASSISTANCE FOR CIVIL FLYING.
LABOUR'S INTEREST.
{THROUGH RICTER'S AGENT.]
LONDON, June 12. Camdr. Kenworthy, speaking at the Air League Dinner said he had Lard Thonison's authority to say that the Labour Government was prepared to give every assistance to civil aviation as regards peroplanes and seaplanes and a grant in aid of the consolidation of the Domi- nions and Colonies.
It was hoped within measurable
Telegrams in Brief.
Over forty thousand people were present at the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium for the climax to five days festivities in honour of the Queen Mother's Marriage Jubilee. Fourteen thousand performers par- ticipated in a colourful pageant. The Queen Mother, Queen Wilhel mina and Princess Julians were present.
France has formally protested against the proposal to increase certain American tariffs.
Mr. Frank Oldrieve has resigned. the secretaryship of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association on the ground that, overseas tours are better undertaken by a trained medical expert. He is settling in Cochrane, medical secretary, to the South Rhodesia. Dr. Robert G. Mission of Lepers, succeeds Mr. Oldrivve.
them a hand." Chang Tso Lin's is regarded as unprecedented as Nationalist (Government) Partytime to have a regular air mail line founder of the Boy Scouts' move-
son wanted him to take charge of the army railway transport and equip Manchuria with elevators for soya beats; but he (Sutton says he is
through with wars."
"TONG WAR" IN KOWLOON."
HAKKAS
HOKLOS.
The Daily Press learns that a Tong War is in operation on the
Peninsula at the moment..
Kowloon ricksha coolies who be lang to the Hakka districts have refused for about three days past to carry passengers to Yauhati, wing to a dispute with Yaumati Tongs, who hail, äriginally, from the Hakle country.
far as Anglo-American relations are concerned appeals strongly to the public imagination. Officials "think that the conference of Mr. Mac- Donald and, President Hoover will be a logical continuation of the Anglo-American policy, which Mr. Baldwin and his Government were formulating before they vacated office. It is pointed out that Sir Austen Chamberlain often publicly announced that he was consulting the Dominions on Anglo-American relations. It is
Last Assembly.. The South African Party led by General Smuts, is the Official Op- position.
The state of the Parties in the last Assembly was:-
Nationalists
South Africans Labour
Independent
63
50
17
1
in the West Indies and to Australia and the Cape. It was considered that the immediate need was to have
North Sea connecting Ireland with a line of aeroplanes àeress the
the European and Asiatic air
routes.
The Labour Government was in- terested in aviation because it stood for peace between the peoples.
A the nine unopposed, so far returned are followers of General KIDNAPPED BY BANDITS. Smuts.
AUXIETY AS TO FATE-OF MISSIONARIES,
The main political issue is the handling of the native problem, regarding wtrich General Hertzog,' (Premier) has made radical pro- posals.
Latest Returns,
CAPETOWN, June 13 The state of the parties at 11
was
known here that the Dominions were so consulted with regard to the freedom of the seas, which, with Naval Limitation are probably the two most important questions to be discussed at the Conference here. Moreover, it is emphasised that nothing in the way of a "settlement" of any problem.. Strong posses of armed police are is expected to eventuate. It is con patrolling the streets in charge of sidered more likely that Mr. Mac- armed 'European sergeants. Every- Donald will submit the results of thing is quiet, at the moment, the conference to the British although, we understand, a strained Cabinet before an agreement can situation obtains, and an outbreak be reached upon the major questions is Hkely to occur at any moment if involved. the authorities relax their present vigilance,
The
Excitement In London.
LONDON, June 13. arrival to-morrow
conversations
of
in
Apparently there is a line of de- [TUROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] marcation between the two districts General Dawes, the new, American served by ricksha and baggage Ambassador is awaited very keenly LONDON, June 13. The experiences of Sir Malcolm coolies belonging to the respective in view of the prospective Mac- Watson, in the course of a prolong Tongs, and it is impossible, despite donald-Hoover ed tour in India and Ceylon to promises of extravagant "cumshaw" Washington. investigate and advise on practicnt to get a coolie to cross this unknown anti-malarial works, are described | boundary, in the annual report of the Rays Institute for Tropical Diseases.
The tour has resulted in the con struction of a magnificent new laboratory at Putney Heath where Sir M Watson, between periodie visits to the tropies, will co-ordi- nate in research practical work and the training of workers in malarial countries as to how to fight the disease.
PROLIFIC. "FRUITS OF OFFICE."
(Wah Ti: Tat Pag.)
SHANGHAI, June 13.
The Shantung Provincial. Trea- sury finds as a result of careful investigations that Chang Tsung Chang squeezed during his adminis The other letter to the Third tration of Shantung 800,000,000." International reported their latest while Sun Liang Cheng "squeezed Communistic movement in Man-1 89,000,000 while he was chairman of the Shantung Provincial Govern
churia.
the
As the monthly expenditure of Provinciini Government
A third letter, said to be from ment. the Executive Committee of the Third International in Moscow to its agency in China, revealed that the Executive Committee of the Third International had voted a sum of 350,000 ruples for the pur- pose of supplying ammunition and supplies to Feng.
CHINA AND RUSSIA.
NO BREAK OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. "
(ah Tu Fat Pao).
SHANGHAI, June 13.
ין
to
8900,000 and the revenue $700,000, the Provincial Treasury has wired Nanking asking the Central Government to make
the deficiency.
up
.DEVELOPMENT OF
RAILWAYS.
[NAN CHUNG NYO NEWS SERVICE]
SHANGHAI, June 13.
It is stated that Mr. Sun Fo, one
Don't Waste Water.
FRENCH COLONIAL
CASUALTIES.
A STRONG FORCE OF REBELS.
THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, June 13,
A telegram from Rahat states that the casualties in the fight with tribesmen, in which two companies were ambushed, were:-7 Frend: officers and 3 non-coms, killed and missing, and 24 French and 41 antive soldiers; whilst French officers 2 non-coms, and 8 native
suldiers were wounded.
Quick Firing Guns.
It is announced that General Dawes will go to Forres to meet Mr. MacDonald shortly after his arrival. Forres is 17 miles from Lossiemouth, and as both are keen golfers, their meeting at Speyside links may be a prelude to more serious conversations.
Mr. MacDonald, interviewed by Reuter to-day, said "We shall meet at the luncheon table, and in the short space of three or four hours the great questions of Anglo-American co-operation in
the cause of Disarmament and 'per- wanen: peace will be opened.""
He added that he hoped nothing that humans can remove will stand in the way of attainment of the objects.
Our talk will be the most in formal thing that ever happened." The meeting was not arranged for Lossiemouth owing to the absence of Sunday trains beyond "Forres.
SIR HENRY SLESSER'S
NEW POST.
It is further reported that the
METEORIC CAREER. “ rebels who attacked the French numbered 2,000 and were armed (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] with quick-firing guns. Strong right battalions of the Fureign ir as a Lord Justice of Appeal,
LONDON, Junë 12. French reinforcemente including
Sir Henry Sleaser has been sworn, Legion have been sent to the spot.
Le Journal says the ambush re-
thus involving a by-election at demonstrates the necessity of clean-
South East Leeds. ing up without delay this centre, which threatens French Morocco and the French routes to the Sabare;
the
Sir Henry Slesser was called to Bar in 1908, and has been standing counsel to the Labour Party since 1910. In the Labour Administration of 1024 he was Solicitor-General and OIL PRODUCERS DO NOT righted. He will now go to the
House of Lords. AGREE.
CONFERENCE" FAILS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
COLORADO, SPRINGS, June 12. " The oil producers' conference at Colorado Springs has been unable to reach an agreement, and has
17.
THE CURACAO RAID.
WEA
VENEZUELAN REGRETS."
[THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HARUE, June 13. The Venezuelan Legatioh has
www
It is understood that the Central of the Central Executive Commit-adjourned time die.. Government will not break oft
Before the hdjournment four conveyed to the Dutch Government diplomatic relations with Russin, tee members, will propose to the Governors of oil-producing States the regret of all the people of but will press their complaints Kuomintang conference at its next passed a resolution recommending Venezuela" at the action of the peacefully.
Alibusters at Curacao. According to & Peping telegram; be put aside from the returned of the eleven oil-producing States meeting that a sum of $150,000,000 the appointment of a commision by President Hoover and executives "many strangers are visiting the Russian Legation and a search of Boxer Indemnity Funds, British to consider the subject of the con that building has been suggested.; and Russina portions, for the purservation of oil and gas resources. A telegram from Harbia states "pose of completing the construction. The Governors considered the de that the Russian troops in Man of the Canton-Hankow and Lung velopment of a sound "general chuli have been reinforced by 15,000 hai Railways. According to the policy of co-operation and co- Dr Hazas rooga harp Bloom of the Baltray Department (ordination at. Stelo and detonat also dispatched to the Sino-Russiak this undertaking can be completed authority was not only desirable but border and 5,000 Chinese have been" within four years if the funds are essential, and they advocated deported from Russia.
available.
l'uniform legislation on the matter... foated."
BAIKAL MARU NOW RE-FLOATED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, 1.
OBARA, June 13, The Baikal Maru has been re
South African 39. Nationaliste 7. Creswell Party 4.. National Council 3.
probably be in favour of the Rural results to-day will very Nationalists.
Minister Back Again,
Mr. Creswell Minister of De fence and leader of the Creswellite en returned for Denver in the section of the Labour Party has Transvaal.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
HANKOW, June 13. The China Inland Mission have rceived no further word of the five missionaries and child taken by bandits as Shekichen.
•
Anxiety as to their fate is grow ing, as it is learned that the dis- trict is completely controlled, by the withdrawal of the Kuominchun brigands and soldiery, and since
there is not апу responsible authority with whom negotiations. for the release of the captives might be conducted..
Mr. and Mrs. E. Weller, Mr. and A tnessage on June 8 said that
Mr. Boydell, the Minister of Labour, has been defeated.
Elected members include Mr. Madeley, the National Council- leader.
INDIAN SEDITION TRIAL.
APPEAL TO PREMIER.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Mrs. Jo Waller, and child, and Miss Brook, had been (carried off y tendits in Honas.]"
The death is announced of Mr. W. D. Boyce, the noted newspaper proprietor, big game hunter and Bent in America.
The Board of Trade returns for May show imports £103.402,000 and
respectively exports. £67,437,000, a decrease of 676,000 and increase of £7,193,000 as .compared with April.
DRUG PROBLEM IN CHINA.
- ATTRACTING GENEVA'S
ATTENTION.
OPIUM, SMUGGLING PREVALENT.
[United Press.)
Geneva. The narcotic problem in China to-day is not che of opium growing and smoking but of the smuggling in from without other dope products, according to of cocaine, morphine, heroin and the report just brought back to the League of Nations from China by presented to him by the Chinese Under. Secretary J. A. Avenol, as National Anti-Opium Association of Shanghai.
Government has adopted, and is organisation, the Chinese National
As a result of the work of this.
carrying out to the fullest extent of the of its possibility, the strict policy opium-both of the pipe and the absolute prohibition of
poppy.
made along this line it is more Cocaine and Heroin. However, us fast as progress is than offset by the pouring into China from the leading nations of the world of manufactured deriva- tives such as cocaine, morphine, and heroin. The use of these it is admitted is ever on the increase NEW YORK'S HORSE SHOW. greater peril for the population and is rapidly constituting a
TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER.
[D.P." Special Service.]
New York.The National Horse MEERUT, June 12 Show will be held at Madison Thirty-one of the conspirators Square Garden November 7-13, ac- arrived at the Court in two strong-cording to a decision made during ly-guarded lorries. When they the recent meeting of the associa slighted they shouted "Down with tion. Imperialism; up with Revolution,"
and they wore ted badges with the competition, which includes a pro- It is expected that the military
Moscow insignia.
gram of jumping, will be one They all cabled to Mr. Ramany of the most spectacular and close MacDonald asking him to stand byly contested events in the history Indian Labour and rapeal anti- of the show. worker legislation, also to transfer
Great Britain, France, Germany,
the Meerut ease to the Metropolitan Italy, Canada, Poland and the High Court for jury trial.
Irish Free State have been invited They concluded: "Or will the to participate, and it is believed that the best horsemen of their Government
respective armies will compete for the prizes in this brauch of the competition.
Labour
repeat
the
history of 1924 in the Cawnpore Conspiracy Case 1".
GOVERNMENT BUYS SMUGGLED GEMS.
OFFICIAL ADMISSION IN SOUTH AFRICA..
[D.P." Special Service.]
It is now. admitted that, in an effort
ARREST OF MAUD GONNE MCBRIDE.
IRISH STORMY PETREL ON SEDITION CHARGE.
Dublin. Mrs. Maud Gonne Me Bride was arrested while on her
to cope with the illicit way to Dublin from her home at diamond trafic in Namaqualand, Clouakes, Co. Dublin, and taken the South African Government re-
to Central Bridewell by detectives She was cently appointed buyers-protect seditious libel, and will be brought afterwards accused of ing them from prosecution to up in the district court. purchase illicit diamonds and sell them back to the Government.
General Kemp, Minister for Agriculture, stated at Lichtenburg that buyers had been appointed, but said that the Government had decided that the system was wrong, and had now stopped it.
Local buyers at a meeting de clared that they were not allowed to buy stones, all of which were go- ing, to the diamond syndicate, which, it was declared, had bought £2,500,000 worth
into Namaqualand in order to stop raids on the diamond dig-
ginga
than opium alone,
In the petition that was present ed to Mr. Avenc! at Shanghai it was pointed out that virtually all of these drugs are manufactured ip, and smuggled from, countries that are signatories either to the Hague Opium Convention of 1812 or the League's Narcotic Conven- tions of 1995. Under the terms of " nations are pledged to take steps these conventions the signatory to prevent" the production and smugling of such quantities of China. drugs into other countries like
"
The petition supports, in the fullest degree, the American plan recently submitted to the League's of "atipalated supply" which was Advisory Opium Commission.
This project provides that each nation shall announce in advance, such drugs which it needs for its. not only the precise quantities of
legitimate consumption, but also the countries from which it intends the moment, the Advisory Opium to purchase these supplies.
commission has succeeded, in shely- ing this project, but steps are pow being taken to have it revived at the next session.
For
PRANK OR POVERTY?
EX-ARCHDUKE IN A CASUAL WARD.
Vicona-The last fall of the once magnificent Hapsburgs is, appar- ently, the admission of the Arch- a German casual ward. The Freie duke Francis Joseph of Austria to
Presse learns that a penniless claiming this title, young man which was borne out by his identity
papers, was this week given a night's shelter in the enamel word of Stromberg, in Huendsbruck.
According to the newspaper, the youth is a son of the Archduke Mrs. McBride is one of the Leopold Salvator, who was banish- stormy petrels of Ireland and aned in 1919 from Austria in conse avowed enemy of the British Em- quence of his refusal to renounce pire, which she once described as his claims as the other archdukes has been called by her supporters the Hapsburghs have always been a symbol of evil" She herself did. Members of this branch of
Iriah Joan of Arc" She espoused
Ireland and America "the eccentric.
the cause of the Boers in the South African war, and in later years has been a leader of the Re publican movement.
Major James McBride, from whom she was granted a separa tion in 1905, was executed after the rebellion in Easter week 1910.
Erde Winterfel ar
in
a disturbance in the Dail in Sep. tember 1922, and was removed from the House.
One, Leopold Wolfling, renounc ed hie titles in peace time, and, after war kept a greengrocery store. Another, Ardiduke Johann, induced. by Emperor Francis Joseph to gur- render his title, was drowned at aca as a sailor, under the name of Johann Orth.
It is believed in Vienna that the.. tregon ventti
Ar duke Francia Joseph is more likely to be a fantastic prank than due to actual poverty:
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