ATTACK AGAINST
FENG."
It
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NANKING PLANS.
SIGNIFICANT TROOP MOVEMENTS,
[THROWON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HANXOW, June 21. Iarned that should an at- tack against Feng be necessary, the National Armies will converge on Tungkwan, from four routes.
NEW YORK TRAIN
DISASTER.
THOUSANDS WATCH
RESCUES.
PERILOUS EXPLOITS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NEW YORK, June 20 Thousands of pedestrians in Sixth Avenue watched the perilous climb of the firemen and surgeons, on perpendicular ladders, follow- Yeu Hsi Shan will command the ing the collision of the two trains northern route, Ho Ying Ching the on the elevated railway.
One Chi' the
was killed southern, Tang Seng eastern and Liu Hsiang the west several injured. ern, while Chiang Kai Shek. will directs the movements of all four.
person.
and
Passengers were extricated amidst the choking and blinding smoke arising from the burning of insulating materials.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.
THE BOMBAY MILL STRIKES.
DRASTIC MEASURES.
INTIMIDATION" TO BE SUPPRESSED.
(THROUGH REVILA'S AGENCY.]
BOMBAY, June 21. Drastic measures to deal with the protracted mill strike have been announced by the Governor of Bombay, Sir Frederick Sykes,
Presiding at a joint conference of representatives of public bodies he said that the Government has decided to appoint a Court of Inquiry and to ask the Viceroy for an Ordinance, making intimidation a cognisable offence.
BRITAIN'S PREMIER IN THE AIR.
MOST ENJOYABLE
JOURNEY.
"SPLENDID TRAVEL."
(BRITISH WIRKLING SERVICE.)
LONDON, June 20.
The first dying Premier of Great Britain," Mr. MacDonald, Arrived at Hendon at 8.5 p.c from Lossiemouth.
The Premier thoroughly enjoyed his journey from Lossiemouth. This was
the Arst time that a British Premier had ever down. A halt was made about midway. st Catterick. Yorkshire, where Also, a Bill would bo submitted
Mr. MacDonald lunched with offe to the local Legislative Council dealing with the question
cers of the Royal Air Force picketting and the Govern- ment also proposed to extend squadron.
necessary the as long as was
Flight-Lieutenant Heslop,
hibiting unlawful assembly, which was recently promulgated in con-
with communal dietur
of
It is significant that Han Fu Chu's and Shib Yu San's troops are all being removed from the front, and are being sent to points re- mote from the probabie scene of THE JAPANESE ERUPTION. order of the Chief Magistrate pro-pilot of the machine did not make
hostilities.
News of Feng's positions is diff. cult to obtain, but it is learned that his front line is at Kwanyia- tang, while there is a large con. centration at Shanchow.
Liu Hsiang's representative has arrived here to report to Ho Ying Ching as regards conditions on the western front, and to request extra supplies of munitions for carrying out the expedition against the rebels,
Another Report Denied.
PEPING, June 21.
Ho Cheng Chun's office to-day admits that yesterday's official statement as to Feng's arrival at Yuncheng is incorrect.
Feng has not arrived, although the authorities hero express the hope that he will cross the river to Shansi very shortly.
However, well-informed circles do not believe that Feng has any intention of Crossing."
FENG TO GO.
NANKING'S TERMS TO HIM AND HIS TROOPS.
[NAN CHUNG KLU NEWS SERVICE.]
PEPING, June 20.".. Feng Yu Hsiang's forced with drawal has become a fact according to a report from the pro-Chiang Kai Shek sources. Accompanied by his family, be pas geac to Tun cheng, in south-western Shansi, a short rest where he will take before embarking on his trip abroad.
A Peping report says that the Nanking militarists have concluded an understanding with Kuominchun representatives covering Feng's re tirement, this as a result of the mediation of General Yen Hai Shan and his officials.
"The terms given out by certain interested party for. publication include:
MIRACULOUS ESCAFES
rl
FROM DEATH,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, June 21. Although the Komagatake erup- tion has miraculously resulted in only one death and a few casual, ties investigations reveal that over 33,000 acres of fields and forests, andi 3,350 acres of tillable land have been laid waste.
Villages, whose annual industrial output averages Y.3,000,000, have been destroyed, while the depth of lava covering the local electric tramways renders reconstruction economically impractical,
nection bances.
-EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE IN
NEW ZEALAND... RELIEF FUNDS OPENED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WELLINGTON, June 21. The Chief Engineer of the Works Department has visited the earth quake area between. Murchison and Lyell and reports the whole district loose and unsafe.
Landships have occurred from a quarter-mile to a half-mile, across
feet high. and in some cases as much as 2,000
The damage to Greymouth is estimated at £30,000. Relief funds have been opened in most centres.
Photographs of the stricken dis tricts reveal a scene of utter desola tion reminiscent of sections of France and Flanders, during the war. There are ruined farmsteads, w gaunt blasted tree trunks, and the whole face of the country-side buried ouder a thick mantle of stones and asher and lava without a vestige of vegetation visible.
SIR WILLIAM "JOWITT: ·
SEEKING RE-ELECTION FOR PRESTON,
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"
'LONDON, June 21. The Attorney-General Sir William Jowitt has resigned bis seat Preston, for which he is seeking re-election at a bye-election.
at
Sir William Jowitt, it will be recalled, was elected as a Liberal for Preston, and afterwards decided to go over to the Labour Party, by
waa made Attorney whom he General)
DOUBTS ABOUT LI TSAI
HSIN'S RELEASE?
INAN CHUNG ACO NEWS SERVICE] SHANGHAI. June 21. (1) The Nanking Government has
In view of the Nanking report agreed to take full responsibility that General Li Tsai Hein will be for the payment to Feng'e Kuominreleased soon and is being given chun troops arrears to the amount some liberty, the Nan Chung Kuo of $3,000,000. This sum has been correspondent has been informed guaranteed by General Yen Hai otherwise. General Li's release . Shao.
need not be expected for some (9) As regards to the reorganisa- time to come.
tion of the Kuomirehun, General". Several Nanking leaders may Lu Chung Lin, Feng's right-hand have considered the advisability of man, will be appointed Comunis such a move, but they will not dare sioner of Troop Disbandments for to suggest, it to General Chiang the Second District, while Generals Kai Shek, by whose order, General Soong Tre Yuen and Liu Yu Fan Li is being imprisoned. - will be appointed to take control; of military affairs in Shemsi and Kansu respectively.
"KIN-HAN" WORKING
AGAIN,
(3) The civil administrations of Honan, Shens and Kansu Provinces will be reorganised in accordance [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] with the system adopted by the
HANKOW, June 21.. Nanking Government.
(4) The Napking Government The Peking-Hankow Railway ad- will appropriate $200,000 for Feng's ministration reports that the repairs travelling expenses. and will detail to the Yellow River bridge have bim certain duties during his trip beea completed, and through traffic with +
view to upholding his from Peping to Hankow has been bonour and prestige.
recommenced.
THE THREE EASTERN PROVINCES.
A CAUTIOUS STAND, (Wah Taz Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, June 21.
THE KING RECEIVES VISITORS.
HEATH IMPROVING.
(DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
LONDON, June 20. H.M. the King to-day transacted some more state business-the first since he received General Dawes, the American Ambassador, last Saturday,
He received at Windsor Castle, Dr. Bell who did homage on his appointment to a Bishopric
DISARMAMENTĮ
JAPAN'S GESTURE TO AMERICA
(EZOTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
WASHINGTON, June 20.
The Japanese Government have to-day communicated to President Hoover their readiness to support any measures for the further re- duction of armaments.
"MENACE" OF MOTOR BANDITS.
MAGISTRATE SENDS FIRST OFFENDERS TO GAOL.
Mr. J. A. R. Cairns, the magie- trate at Thames Police Court, made strong remarks regarding thefts of motor-cars by young men. He said that there were before him three young men, not convict- this ed before, charged with offence and in the ease of one, also, petrol with stealing from a station, which was broken into. He had remanded these twice, because he had some dif- culty in coming to a decision.
"Obiter dicta are expressed from time to time," added Mr. Cairns, "that involve the general principle that first offenders ought nevar to be sent to prison. If I may say so, that is a plausible and most dangerous doctrine, and I am faced with this situation.
Epidemic Offence.
CRIES
"Motor bandits have become a grave menace to the metropolia A special fleet of fast cars is kept, and police patrols are subjected to grave risk of life and limb.
FLOODS SPREAD IN INDIA.
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE.
HARROWING STORIES
OF DISTRESS.
{THROJOM REUTER'S AGENCY.]
- CALCUTTA, June 21. Messages from the food area in Assam show the terrible plight of the inhabitants, who are on famine rations. The food situation is still critical.
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Official and non-official volunteers are working day and night to relieve the situation.
“An Inland Sea.” COMILLAS, Bengal, June 21. A vast area from Subarnapar westwards is like an inland sea.
The crops are invisible and people refuge in the highlands.
the here deserted their homes to take
'CHITTAGONG, June 91. The havoc of floods has not yet abated. Harrowing tales of distress are arriving hourly. It is reported that a village on the bank of the Dolu river, Satkania, and the river side bazaars in the Chittagong hill tracts have been washed away. Shopkeepers have taken refuge in trees.
a straight line from Lossiemouth to Catterick. After leaving Lossie mouth, he made for the east-const of Scotland, flying over Banff to Aberdeen. Skirting the const he crossed the Firth of Forth near the Forth Bridge, and Mr. MacDonald obtained a splendid view of Edin- burgh.
After crossing the Firth of Forth the machine crossed the Cheviot Hills and then turned slightly- westward to Catterick. A larga number of machines met the Pre- mier and escorted him to the air station.
Resuming the fight from Cat- terick, Flight-Lieutenant Heslop continued vid the Midlands.
The Premier, on slighting at Hendon, observed that air travel was better thar any other.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
HOURS OF SUPPLY AMENDED.
-
Commencing from Tuesday,"'. June 25, the hours of supply to the City of Victoria and the High Level Districts will be:
3 a.m. to 8 KID..
6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. The hours of supply to the Peak District" will not be alter- ed.
At Kowloon, starting on Mon- day, the supply will be turned on daily in all districts from 6 am to 6 p.m.
Should to useful rain fall within the past fortnight a reversion to the present hours will be necessary.
GENERAL HERTZOG'S
CABINET.
FOUR APPOINTMENTS..
(THROUGH AEUTER'S AGENCY.]
PRETORIA, June 19. General J. B. M. Hertzog, the leader of the Nationalist Party, is engaged in forming his Cabinet.
General Hertzog, who, was Minis- ter of Native. Affairs in the last Government as well as Premier, will be Prime Minister and Minis ter for External Affairs.
The portfolio of Minister for Native Affairs will be entrusted to the Hon. Mr. E. G. Jansen, who was formerly Speaker of the Assembly.
Col. the Hon. F. H. P. Creswell, leader of the Labour Party, will again assume the duties of Minister of Labour and Minister of Defence. Mr. N. C. Havenga resumes the port of Minister of Finance.
THE WRONG GRAVE.
DISTRESSING INCIDENT IN
CEMETERY.
Many corpses and much furniture are oating down the stroam.
BANNED ITALIAN
RESTAURATEURS.
HOME OFFICE ACTION.
Gennaro Sanseverino and Um berto Sanseverino, two of the three-known Italian brothers who own the Genazro Restaurant, New Compton Street, London, have been forbidden to re-enter England visit to the Italian
after
M
Riviera.
The Gennaro Restaurant, large establishment with seven dining rooms and two banqueting halls, is a popular resort of
many society and theatrical people in
the West End.
The third brother, Vincenzo, did not leave England, and is still managing the establishment
The Home Office recently refused
to make any statement. I think it very unlikely that any state- ment will be issued," aid an official. "In the past when the Home Secretary has declined to allow an alien to land we have made no explanation to the public, and I see no reason why an excep tion should be made in this case"
Protest to Italian Embassy. Vincenzo Sanseverino in an in- terview, said "My brothers have been given no reason for this extraordinary action. They have been eut of from their living, from the business they have built up from nothing, without a word All being said in explanation. they have been told is that the re- fuse to land has been made for special reasons.
We have never been on the
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.
CHINESE PROPOSAL
ACCEPTED.
ACCIDENT PREVENTION.
· [TÆROUGH »LIUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, June 21.
The International Labour Con ference has adopted the Chinese Government delegate's resolution requesting the Council of the Inter- bational Labour Office to take mea. aures so that subjects of countries at present enjoying extra-territorial rights in other countries "should come under the jurisdiction of the Labour laws of the country in which they are residing.
The conference, by 9 votes to 15, of work to be addressed to the adopted a questionnaire an houre
Governments concerned, also agreed to Conventions for the prevention of industrial accidents and the pro tection of workmen loading and unloading ships.
FJ
SELF TREATMENT PERIL.
MAN STARVES HIMSELF TO
DEATH
** ELIMINATING POISON."
There is a lesson attached to this unfortunate death, namely, that people should not treat them- selves by this dangerous method apart from medical supervision."
Mr. Ingleby Oddie,, the coroner, made this comment at an inquest
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Telegrams in Brief.
An agreement has been signed in Paris in connection with a loan $10,000,000 Reichs Marks to the German Government by the Inter national Banking Syndicate, head- ed by Dillon and Reads, Harris and Forbes and the Chase Securi ties Corporation.
Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Minister of Uremployment, met represanta- tives of the Railway Companies to discuss schemes of development. Where railways have practical schemes, merely waiting financial assistance, Mr. Thomas has asked that all facts should be laid be fore the Economie Council, of Ministers.
The Dutch First Chamber has approved a Measure accepting the international Convention abolish- ing the prohibition and limitation of imports and exports of hides' and bones.
Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Co. have announced the creation of a new 8500,000,000 Food Company in which the Fleischmann Company,
will be merged. Other companies Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett Company of Canada, will probably be embraced later. This is the third merger of the kind arranged this week by Mor- Sana"
The new corporation will have a capicalisation of $20,000,000. The State opening of Parliament has been fixed for July 2
"
DEATH OF MR. R. F. LAMMERT.
RESIDENT IN BORNEO FOR 30 YEARS.
FORMER HONG KONG SPORTSMAN.
at Lambeth on Mr. Basil Hugh News has been received by cable Edmund Godfray, aged thirty-of the death last Tuesday of Mr. seven, of Catherine-road, Surbiton, an ex-officer of the H.A.C. and R. F. Lammert, at Jesselton, an artist, who, when admitted to
Не жда St. Thomas' Hospital, told a doc brother of Messia. G. F., C. H,
British North Borneo.
tor that he had been without food for four weeks.
Mrs. Janette Godfray, the mother, stated that her son was in- valided out of the Army in 1918 suffering from rheumatism of the spine, and found that by living imply and taking but little food be eliminated the poisons in his system. He had been treated at the Nature Cure Health Home, Champneys, Tring, but had tried fasting before he went there.
Ptomaine Polsoning.
The coroner: That is a place where they starve patients, do they not?-Not always. Sometimes they have feed them up.
Mire. Godfrey said that her son was remarkably fit when he left Tring and was well until six weeks ago, when he dined with friends and had a meal, which included curried prawns, which, he thought, gave him ptomaine poisoning. He said that he would goon send it out of hit system, and started this
The coroner: Starvation
go to the home at Tring. He was not fit to do so, however, and was taken to hospital.
of death
Dr. Ronald Reid stated that a postmortem examination revealed that the cause toxemia from an abscess in the jaw and wasting due to starvation.
wor
The coroner: There was distinet evidence of starvation, apart from wasting due to natural disease- Yes.
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H. A, and L E. Lammert, of Hong Kong.
In his young days "R. F." was one of the Colony's best oarsmen, a keen all-round cricketer, foot baller and sprinter, and the win- ner of many trophies for sport. He was one of the few who receiv- ed gold medals for services render-
ed during the great plague,
Mr. Lammert left Hong Kong for. Borneo in 1889 to take up an appointment with Messrs. Darby and Company, predecessors of Mesara. Harrisons and Crosfield (Borneo), Ltd.,, and was after- wards interested in tobacco and rubber estates He retired from active commercial life about three years ago and had since then been living in a little plantation of his own near Jesselton. Mr. Lammert made occasional visits to Hong Kong and was last here in 1926. He always hankered for his beloved Borneo saying humorously that this place was too civilised"
for his tastes..
years old.
..of
Mr. Lammert WAE 69
THE "YARD'S" LOSS.
DISMISSED INSPECTOR'S WAR EXPLOITS.
BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES.
Mrs. Godfray: I suppose it was. Little had been heard of Mr. Mrs. Godfray said that he Lammert since then, but the sad Bon complained of pain in the
news of his death has been receiv- right jaw, and thought that it was ed with much regret by his re-
that wretched ptomsine poison- latives and wide circle
He had two teeth extracted friends. ing. wrong side of the law, never had and afterwards said that he would the slightest complaint, and the shock of this has made Umberto ill. My brothers are both ia Paris waiting for a reply to a letter of protest which they sent to the Home Secretary on April 18. So far, no reply has been received. I have been in touch with the Italian They have taken the Embassy. matter up, but they also are still waiting for a reply from the Home Office. If they would only say why they are doing this thing we should know where we stand and be able to defend ourselves.
"What am I to, de! If I leave the country I may be told I cannot return, and then we will all be out of the country and our business, which we have worked nineteen put into operation years to build, Umberto slaving as treatment he had learned at the chef and myself and my other home, but without medical super-
will brother as
no vison, managers,
He recorded a verdict of "Death longer be ours. We have all lived here for more than thirty years by misadventure.""" Recently, when the licence was re newed, we were. visited by the police, and in his report the inspector said that he was entire ly satisfied with our place.'
EPSTEIN'S NIGHT.” HUGE SCULPTURE ON THE UNDERGROUND.
Epstein critics have been pro vided with further material for
Suppose he had not starved him- self, do you think he would have died from toxemia-No, sir, he would not.
The coroner, summing up, said that Mr. Godfray had apparently a system of
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY ZE.W. ON a50 METRES.
-148 pim-Weather report.
6:30 to 6.30 p.m.-Programme of Chinese musíč, (Records supplied
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"In the case of two of the men, the detective had to leap from one The opening of a wrong grave racing car to another and the car caused the postponement of the dashed on
The funeral at Godalming recently of debate by the unveiling of a port., ... the pavement.
morning are Mr. Thomas Stillwell, a well-known colossal Epstein sculpture Tepre- this newspaper featuring this dangerous state of West Surrey Oddfellow. things, and I feel I should be shirking my duty, if I allowed a sentimental and plausible doctrine to deter me from doing my utmost to put an end to this type of offence that is becoming almost epidemic
by The Sincere Co., Ltd.).
7.49 p.m.-Evening weather re
programms p.m. Evening senting Night at the newly (Columbia records supplied
Railway MessIs. Anderson Music Co.). erected Underground
10.30 p.m.-Close down.. beadquarters at Westminster. Its
SUNDAY. companion statue, "Morning," has not yet been completed.
Rocks Ahead! The problem of disbanding the Kaominchun, or People's Army, of Feng, will remain a difficult one. With General Feng nominally gone, there will still remain Generals Han Fu Chu, Shih Yu San and Ma Hung Kwei, who may and may nob really surrender as expected. They are now all stationed in. Honar An important resolution at a Province, but according to the conference held by Chang Hsuch second term of the agreement, Liang, Chang Teo Hsiang, Wan Fu General Lu Chung Lin will be Lin and other leaders of the Three appointed as Commissioner of Dis. Eastern Provinces was that the bandment for the Second District. Manchurian troops should be neu- In other words, he is charged with tral as to the campaign against the the control of the military affairs Kominchun, but that the Three in that Province. The strength of Eastern Provinces will eincerely the Kuominchan has been estimated support the Central Government.
Chiang Kai She has dispatched at about 60,000 men. They recently received 2,000 from the Nauding delegate to Malden to regotiate and limb Treasury in return for their sup With Chang auch
The main part of the service had bean completed at the parish church, and when the coffin was conveyed to the cemetery for inter- ment, mourners, who included the deceased's widow, were distressed to find that the wrong grave bad been prepared.
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The two Special Branch officers of Scotland Yard, Inspector. Gin- hoven and Sergeant Jane, who were recently dismissed froin the service by & Disciplinary Board, were both officers of experience.
Detective Inspector Hubert Gin- hoven had over twenty years' service, and was regarded as one of the Yard's 'expert linguists. He was a Dutchman by birth, but be- came naturalised his father had done and had command of no fewer than eight languages. When he was attached to the Special Branch he was engaged in interpreting intercepted documents and letters from abroad and desit with confidential reports from agents abroad....
When the war broke out he was one of the officers" selected to join M15, the Intelligence Department at the War Office. There he work ed. under Brigadier General Cockerill.
enabled him
His Dutch-origin-enable
to be sent en intelligence service. by overacas, and he was frequently. dropped by airmen over the Gor man lines, during which he brought buck valuable information. Twice #St. John's Cathedral to be during the war he travelled as a Dutchman, through Germany, and Relayed.
even into Krupps works disguis-" The following programme will be ed as an infirm German labourer. While in Bulgaria he gained in- broadcast on Bunday set
formation as to the disposition of two Zeppelins, the whereabouts of whose hangars he discovered. Thin information enabled the Allied flying services to bomb and destroy them. After the war the inspector Was Kutached to the branch of the "special" service detailed to watch.
the activities of Soviet agents.-:
One well-known critic describes the new work as a great coarse ob- ject in debased Indo-Chinese style, "Night after night, various
representing a creature, half mum.
half Buddha, nursing When the error was discovered
1:48 p.m-Weather report..
·enormous- 6.55 p.m.-Evening Service relay parts of London are looted, win- dows are broken, there is a grab there was a consultation between corpse-like child of
the vicar, the Rev. G. E. Richards, dimensions. More friendly disposed from St. John's Cathedral
7.48p.m.-Evening weather re and run, and the police have to chase to try to stop flying cars, the undertaker, and the relatives, ed commentators point out that the recklessly driven to the danger of and it was decided that the comfigure, which is essentially archi- port.
programme, 8p.m. Evening mittal could not take place tectonic is fifteen feet above the
The coin was removed to the ground and viewed from the streetVictor and HMV recorde sup The young men were cach l
months' hard cemetery chapel, where it remained it gives an idea of dignity, mes plied by Meat Moutrig posed mating against Fang. Ta leader of the Three Eastern Protenced to four
to be put in the correct grave. labour.
siveness and solemnity... Hsiang.
vinces, regarding military affairs.
10.30 p.m.-Close down,