TROOPS LEAVE THE BORDER.
MORE. NEGOTIATION
RUMOURS.
THE MONGOL THREAT.
[THNOVOH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
FAMINE HORRORS
RELATED.
FOUR YEARS WITHOUT RAIN!
EVEN CORPSES EATEN!
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TEPING, July 29.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929.
The return of the Chinese Inter national Famine Relief Committee
U.S. "NON-START"
FLIGHT.
"CITY OF TACOMA " FAILS TO TAKE OFF.
PILOT UNHURT.
D.P." Special Barvice.]
TACOMA, July 29. Lieut. Bromley, who was attempt. investigators makes it possible to ing to make a non-stop fight from sum up the present famine condi-Tacoma to Tokyo in his aeroplane the City of Tacoma" had a mishap when he failed to take off Bromley escaped serious injury.
a quarter His plane taxied" mile, attaining a speed of as miles
TOKYO, July 20
While the Foreign Offer advices indicate that Chinese.diplomats in various countries are extremely action in the entire north of Chinh, tive, official confirmation of reports of Begotiations in Berlin and bike- where, aiming at a settlement of the Hino Russia dispute, are lacking.
Meantime, Press despatches from Manchuria indicate that both Russia and Chion are withdrawing their troops from the border, creating a neutral tone for the purpose of avoiding clashes.
Since last spring relief measures and rain have considerably reduced the are, affected, while the number of sufferers has been halved, there
now being about 35,000,000.
an hour, when it suddenly swerved to the right, and turned on its
COTTON INDUSTRY
DEADLOCK.
1.800 MILLS SILENT IN LANCASHIRE.
A GLOOMY PROSPECT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, July 28. The negotiations in the Lanca sbire cotton industry, over the em. ployers proposal to reduce wages, bave reached a deadlock, and in all sections of the industry the
stoppage will be general to-morrow. No further meetings have been arranged.
LATER
The cotton manufacturers an-
THE NEW FRENCH CABINET.
เ
PRACTICALLY SAME AS
BEFORE.
CRISIS NOW OVER.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
U.S. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS.
MANY PROTESTS FROM MANILA.
SHIPPING AFFECTED.
["D.P." Special Service.]
FREEMAN ON THE RAMPAGE!
SOUTH AFRICA'S GORRY SHOW.
RAIN HOLDS UP PLAY.
Heavy rain at Manchester over the week-end and during the morn." ing of Monday seriously afected the wicket for the Fourth Test
sible to commence play at the Match, and it was not found pos
stipulated time. are
PARIS, July 26.
MANILA, July 20. After conferring with President
American steamship companies Doumergue, M. Briand stated that here have protested to their Home
ministration would remain the fundamental basis of the ad offices regarding the new U.S. Im
un migration regulations, which
strangling Filipino immigration to the United States.
changed, though he would attempt
to
widen its scope somewhat."
Fow Changes Likely,
PARIB, July 29. Though the Radicals, who the largest group in the Chamber,
are
right wing and its nose. The wine Doucce that the mills will be open support M. Briand'e foreign policy, was demolished, and the plane's nose buried in the ground.
The famine areas are now Central Kansu, Shensi (from Sianfu northwards), North Suiyuan, North Charhar. Inner Mongolia, and the
Licut. Bromley jumped out, and Yellow River hasin from the Shensiasked to be ruched away from the border to the sea. These areas of
field, as a wisp of smoke appeared suffering are intensifying daily.
above the wrecked machine. "Central Kansu bus had no rain
ambulance was brought to "Manshuli reports are that Chinese ¦ for four years, and the wheat
enter the
they have declined to to-morrow at the reduced rates of wages, but all the Cotton Opera Cabinet. It is expected therefore tives Unions, except the engine that 31. Briand will "preserve the men and fremen's, have forbidden last Cabinet intact, himself taking the Premiership and the portfolio their members to work,
The story of the abortive negotiator Foreign Affairs. tions is told in a long statement by the
M. Briand's Cabinet will he
An
Limited accommodation is now being led by Filipino labourert bound for Hawaii-United Prest.
COMEDIE FRANCAISE. TO BE A TALKIE HOUSE.”
"D.P. Special Service.]
Paris-A proposal to transform the Comedie Francaise, most vener able of French theatres, whose stage bore the tread of the buskined
trocps last Monday started a with growing area is like a desert. The scene, whilst Bremen worked tran. Sir H, Wilkön, Permanent Secre essentially a Cabinet, dealing with | Moliere, into a talkie house, is now
Four inspections were made by the umpires, and anally, just before 1 o'clock, it was decided to make a start.
A. W. Carr at once declared Eng- land's innings closed at the over- night total of 427 for 7 wickets, and Siedle and Catterall opened South Afrien's innings at 1 o'clock..
Barratt, the Notts howler, met with an curly success, getting Cat- terall caught by Sutcliffe for 3. With the score at 4 for 1 wicket, lunch was taken.
A Collapse.
drawal from the Manchufi sector in Anting city population has beentically to prevent the ignition of tary to the Labour Ministry. Is Foreign Affairs; domestic politics before the members of the board of ing a collapse followed, and at one
reduced to 3,000 from 60,000, and the direction of Hailar, leaving a
there is unquestionably a lot of small number of cavalry at the cannibalem there. An investigator border. It is understood this move- reports that one magistrate sought ment is designed to avert the danger to punish those discovered eat ing corpses of famine victims, bat
"!
the $55 gallons of gasoline carried.
Lieut. Bromley subsequently ex- plained that the gas tank breather piper splashed his poggies, which he tore off, when the gasoline splashed into his eyes. "I felt her
ef clashes arising by the proximity the cannibais pointed out that they going over in a ground loop." he
Welcome Rain,
of hostile forces. It is also believed were of eating what the dogs that it will assist the opening ofate. peace negotiations, though it is also that the Chinese are with reported drawing because they fear a Mongol incursion from the West might cut off their retreat.
Apart from the areas mentioned, rain has now fallen"in all the pro- vinces, promising fair nutuma crops, which will enable the inhabitants to carry on till the spring crops in 1930,
This has also forced graiù put hoardere in many places to
CONFERENCE LIKELY AT stocks on the market, thus appre
MANCHULI?
(ah Taz Fat Poo.)
Reports are
SHANGHAI, July 29.
eurrent in Harbin
that when Chu Shao Yang, the Chinese Minister to Moscow, ar- rives at Harbin, a Sino-Soviet con ference will be held at Manchuli.
According to a telegram from Vladi
VoRock, the Russian authorities are ready to negotiate. The Hei- lungkjang troops have beer ordered to cease mobilisation, and the Rus sian staffs of the Chinese Eastern Railway have resumed work.
The Russian Consul in Harbin, after an interview with Chang Tso Hsiang, the Tupan of Kirin, has proceeded to Chiha.. to Soviet "envoy deputed by the Rus- sian Government to conduct nego tion with China... They will ge together to Harbin or Manchuli to open negotiations,
see the
the
enid, so cut the switch."
Lieut. Bromley plans to make another attempt, providing his bagkere agree.-United Press.
"REDS DEMONSTRATE
IN LONDON.
COLLISION WITH POLICE,
TH2OCCE RECTER'S AGENCY.] position. elably improving Shansi province is well supplied
LONDON, July 9, with food, as the Shansi Govern-
A Communist procession attempt meat" had bought immense quantiing to demonstrate to-day (Sunday) outside the Chinese Lexation at No. in North Honan the Chinese, Portland-place. W., collided with Society is improving the position the Police who dispersed the demou- by assisting immigration to Man strators, the latter going away and
Over 14,000 people have nursing bruises. churia, already left, and more are going As soon as the railway opens up westward of Loynag.
ties of grain,
Typhus has taken a heavy toll of foreign relief workers in Karat, twenty of them being infected and only seven recovering. The thir
As
a
Fun In Sofia.
SOFIA, July 29. precautionary measure against the threat of Communists to hold a gigantic, world-wide de- monstration on August 1, the Police have raided extremist organisations
here.
Thirty-three persons were arrest-
reveals that an important section of manafacturing operatives were Dot empowered to negotiate as to wage reduction whereupon the operatives:
solved
joint committee
will remain in abeyance throughout the Autumn session of Parliament It is expected that M. Briand will proceed to The Hague backed
·dis-by
Parliamentary majority.
The employers' spokeeman made A statement regretting that the operatives' representatives had not been authorised
massive
Crisis Over...
LATER.
The French Cabinet crisis is now
directors.
An alternate proposal is that, the company which now year in year out, presents a repertoire of French classice of the drama, constitute itself a motion picture troupe for the production of talkies. The pro- posal has brought down upon the directora a horrified wail of protest from all section of the Press. This ancient theatre where the contem- poraries of Shakespeare, wrote" and
to negotiate re-jover. M. Briaad went to the Ely-played, has long set the standard of
garding the reduction-which fact see at noon to conarm his Cabinet. was discovered only after three which is the same as the last, with
the omission of M. Poincare. days' negotiations.
On the contrary the operatives declare that the employers refused their offer to submit the dispute to arbitration and accept the decisioned of a Court of Arbitration.
Hopes For Settlement, The President of the Master Cotton Spinners' Federation, in an interview, said that the millowner were ready to meet the operatives leaders whenever the latter wished, and he thought a meeting would take place in the very near future, which would lead to a definite settlement,
King George's Message. King George yesterday telegraph
to M. Poincare expressing con- cern at his illness.
French diction and French acting.
It was established in 1890 by order of Louis XIV. and since has enjoy ed a state subsidy.
Rest of Two Factors,
The project is the result of two factors the first is the growing de ficit which no amount of ordinary enterprise seems capable of erasing; the second and most important, is the increase in the number of stars who are deserting the company for the movies.
announcement
Replying to the message of sym- pathy by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M. Poincare said: "I thank Tour
The immediate reason for the in- Excellency for your kind wishes. Itroduction of the project was the of Mademoiselle regret that circumstances compel me to interrupt my friendly cal- Marie Bell, one of the most talented members of the company, of her laboration with the British Govern-
intention to accept an offer to act ment and I affirm my most ardent in the talkies. Such announcements A Dark Outlook.
wishes for the success of the work have been frequent in the past few years and the growing popularity LONDON, July 29.
of peace to which our two coun- Over 1,500 mille
silent in
of the talkies has raised the films tries have already consecrated so to the rank of a real menace. Lancashire to-day. The stoppage hegan in an atmosphere of gloom many efforts."-British Wireless. and dretching ruis.
iLrt
The outlook is very dark, the only bright spot being the decision of a few ownere to stand aside from the dispute and carry on at the present rate of wages. They include Tootal, Broadhurst & Lee, Limited, who helieve that research,
teen dead inelude French priests and English and American missioned. The newspaper Rabotnitcheskary to enable the industry to meet aries. Details are at present lack delo has suspended publication. ing.
WOMEN'S ENDURANCE
FLIGHT.
A NEW RECORD.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE REPARATIONS -
CONFERENCE.
TO BE HELD AT THE HAGUE.
"[ARITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
LONDON, July 29.
not reduction of wages, is aeces-
Joreign competition. Tonial's 3,000 working to-day.
employees ате
SNAKE CURE FOR EPILEPSY!
AN AMERICAN DOCTOR'S
REMARKABLE CLAIM. "
["D.P." Special Service.]
The Ministry of Labour announg- ed to-dar that Miss Margaret Bond. field (Minister of Labour) is watch. Paris, July 11-Starting. next ing the situation with very gravemonth choice specimens of cobras, anxiety, but feels that no action is at present possible.
tarantulas; tsetse fies and other poison-Loting denizens of the Afri- ran jungle will begin a trek in crate and cage to the laboratory of a New York doctor who believes that epilepsy can be cured by poison."
Dr. Monselesser has just come out of the tall grasses of Africa where
The directors were asked to con sider whether or not it was advis able to forbid members of the com- pany from accepting such offers. Emile Fabre, director of the com- pany sad chairman of the board of directors then made the proposal- that the Comedie Francais, take the bull by the horns and go into the talkies itself. He pointed out that in this way the works of the theatre would then be available throughout the provinces whereas it is NOT naturally confined to Paris.
The newspaper, Comedia, shock- ed by the suggestion, prophe- cies that, if this suggestion is car ried into effect. it will mean the death of the Comedie Francaise.
#
AN OPTICAL ILLUSION. ATLANTIC COASTLINE. NOT RECEDING.
["D.P." Special Service.]
11
Against Freeman's deadly bowl-
time 5 wickets were down for 43. Despite determined resistance put up by Morkel, and in a lesser degree, Taylor, 6 wickets down at 108. Freeman had sever of the wickets.
England-lat Innings. Sutclife, b Morkel Bowley, b Bell
R. E. S. Wyatt,.c Cameron,
་
were
b Vincent.............................................. 113
Woolley, e and b Vincent ... 134 Hendren, b Quin Leyland,
liteheil
C
Cameron, b
* 1 395*a
A, W; Carr, e Beh, L Quinn 10 Geary, not out Barratt, not out
Extras
*Total (for 7 wits.)... 127
* Innings declared closed."
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
0.
ป
R.
W.
Morkel
18 5
B1
Quina Fell
31 3 05 2
32
3 113 1
30
+ 93 2
&
'
21
5 0 16
Vincent Mitchell
Owen-Smith...
South Africa-1st Innings.
I. J. Siedle, 1.b.w. b Free-
nan
R. H. Catterall, e Sutelife,
b Barratt
B. Mitchell, Geary,"
Freeman
H. W. Taylor, b Freeman... H. G." Deane, st. Duck- worth, b Freeman ... H. B. Cameron, Bowley,
b'Freeman
D. P. Morkel, not out H. G. Owen-Smith, e Bar-
rait, b Freeman
C. L.. Vincent, e Geary, b
Freemad...
N. A. Quinn, not out
Extran
13 42
Total (for 3 wkis.) 106
INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS.
THE KING'S HEALTH. It is now settled that the Confer- ence on Reparations and the (THECUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.] Evacuation of the Rhineland wil Le BOURGET. July 29.
Lospos, July 99. Mlle. Maryse Bastie, ahoard 40e held at he Hague. The" confer-
It was stated at Buckingham h.p. monoplane, has remained inence will begin probably on August the air 26 hours 16 minutes, beat-3 or 3. In addition to the delegates Palace last night that His Majesty's he has made arrangements with theory that the Atlantic Coast and Great Britain, France defeat-
women's of France, Belgium, Germany, progress continues to be satisfactory "PRECAUTIONS" ON THEndurance record "made by Miss Italy, and Japan the Governments and that he this afternoon, walked various snake buaters and spidersen fas refuted a short while ago in
(
BORDER.
[SAN CHUNG KUO NEWS SERVICE]
KIRI, July 29.
The Kirib military authority has resolved to assign. 50,000 Kirin troops for the defence of the Chinese Eastern Railway zone and the Man-
churian order.
POWERS AND CONSULAR JURISDICTION.
(Wah Tiz Yat Pas.)
ing by minutes the
Elinor Smith, America's flapper."
of Greece, Roumania, Yugoslavia, a short time indoors. flying
Poland and Portugal are also ex- pected to send representatives.
The United States Government has been invited to participate in whatever form they may desire.
Miss Smith, who is only 17 years of age, made a flight of over houre ending on April 25 last.]
AVIATION'S PROGRESS.
M: BLERIOT'S PROPHECY.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
FISHMONGER KNIGHT.
DAUGHTER A MAYORESS.
[D.P." Special Service.] Dundee," July 16-Sir William High, newly kzigated Dundee fish monger, and his daughter Winifred. Mayoress of Dundee, are not too proud to continue selling fish behind the counter of their tiny shop in Dundee's market section.
Rucay, July 28. Monsieur and Madame Bleriot were the guests of honour at a din ner celebrating the seventh Interna tional Aero Exhibition, at which many other pioneers of aviation Sir William, who is also Lord were present, including Sir Arthur Provost of Dundee, is one of the Whitten Brown who, with the late most popular figures of this city Sir John Alcock, made the first and he is hailed as "Oor Wullie
His eleva arroplane flight across the Atlantic. by his fellow townsmen.
In
CARAVAN DWELLERS...
NOVEL LONDON COMMUNITY.
Catchers to ensure the supply being steady and abundant.
We found it necessary," he said. to make sure of a supply of snakes. The poisons that I use are cutained from the black-necked or spitting cobra. The snake that I have been using in New York had become so wise that when he was put in a glass fronted box and teased he would no longer, spray the
["D.P." Special Service.] London, July 10-In a secluded corner of London lives a colony of people who would not live in the venom. finest mansions of the country f they were offered them free.
This colony, of 40 members, makes its bome in a number of old caravan wagons. At its head is a woman who has lived in a covered wagon fer more than 40 years, her father and mother having also lived in one, They own the ground on which the wagons are placed and seem to live in happiness and peace.
United Press..
Dr.
For Leprosy, Too? "He was about four years old, though, and that may have had something to do with it. Ditmars and I agreed that the only way to get enough of the poison for our experiments was to go to Africa and arrange for a supply.
(THROUGH ZHUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIE, July 28. In the seveath international New York, July 11.-The long-held athletic contest between France gradually is slipping away into the ad their visitors by 69 points to 38
points. a scientific report of the National Research Council. Prof. Douglas Johnson of Columbia University, who has studied the seaboard for several years to test the authority of the theory said he found the receding" coastline only an optical illusion.
Scientific data gathered by the U.S. Coast and Geoditic Survey and the National Research Council showed, he said, that the supposedly receding tendencies were caused by nothing more than local factors and that the "Atlantic Coast has been, and is likely to remain, just as it was hundreds of years ago.
Just a Local Variation. "As early as 1849 the eminent British
Sir geologist,
Charles "While I am not prepared to say Levell, published evidence he had that I can cure the disease, I can collected in America indicating that Hay that in cases that I have treated the Atlantic Coast was slowly sink- in this manner I bave cut the num-ing into the sea," Dr. Johnson's' ber of attacks to an unbelievably report said. xmall number. Persons who had as
DIED IN OFFICE.
CHINESE A.P.C. CLEEK
DROPS DEAD.
14
A tragic occurrence took place in the Asiatic Petroleum Company's offices at St. Helen's Court, Binga- Ohin Teck, who had been in the pere, a few days ago.. Mr. Lim
service of the firm for over 15 years, appeared normal when he arrived in office in the morning.
At about 12 o'clock he went up to his supperior's desk and collaps ed on the floor. He was picked up dead. The police were com- municated with and the body was removed in an ambulance.
This theory, he added, was strong Telegrams in Brief
He
NONIA CHARGED.
many as four or five attacks a dayly supported by American geclo & conversation, M. Blericttion to knighthood was an occasion- SHANGHAI, July 29.
have, after taking this treatment, gists, some of whom estimated that said that whereas 20 years ago ital for revelry.
ALLEGATION RESPECTING auffered one or two a month. I have the Massachusetts Coast is sinking The Central Government has re- took him 30 minutes to fly the Chan- Sir William, who for years has
The Soviet envoy, M. Dovgalesky, YOUNG GIRL.
one case on record that shows nine at the rate of one foot, and the New
Jersey Coast at the rate of two feet bus arrived in London. Interview ceived from The Hague a telegram, ne?, he had now come across in 20. sold fish, has five daughters, all of
teen months without an attack."
ed by Beuter he said that He was addressed by Dr. Wang Chung His original fight in 1900 was made whom are known for their beauty
Penang, July 22-In the Fólice Dr. Monselesser is also experia century.
A supposed subsidence of the fall of hope regarding resumption Hui, the Minister of Justice, saying in his 26 horse power monoplane and all of whom have served behind Their person only the counter of his shop.
Court on Saturday, Detective In- menting with the treatment of what which carried one
malignant dis Coast," the report said,
may real."
of friendly Anglo-Russian relations. that the Powers which still main while now he had come in a twin- father started his business in a spector Roche charged a well-known he describes ns a
was seeing Mr. Henderson (Becretary of State for Foreign tain consular jurisdiction in Chinh engined monoplane of 1,000 horse small way, and with the constant local nonin, Loh Ab See, with hav-case" by the same method. He re- indiente nothing more than a power carrying several persons. help of his wife, now dead, has ing on June 13 and eight years pre-fused to talk about the new develop local variation in sea level due to
ment but spoke of the treatment of some change in the form of the const Affairs) straightaway, and are showing a favourable attitude Great as had been the advance in established a business which makes vious to that date wrongfully con-
length of his stay would depend on sealed and kept a girl, named Hee leprosy by the injection of the caused by waves and currents.". towards the demand of China to aviation in the past 20 years, equal-him independently wealthy.
Legal controversies involving mil-
the progress of the conversations." ly great would it be, he predicted, In the morning, Miax Winifred Kam Ying, in order that she might tarantula serum. The physician is have such-privilege abolished....
One more man has died as the in the next twenty. By 1949, he be High sells fish and in the afternoon be forced and induced to lead an now going to New York to organize lions of dollars have hinged upon the experimental work in his the receding coastline theory: Title Dr. Wang adds that he expects lieved, there would be the same re-rushes off to perform her duties as immoral life knowing she had been
laboratories and to arrange for his to lands submerged by the sea is result of the explosion in a gun. The family's de kidnapped or abducted. bat the roomala jurisdiction will cular services of air liners flying lady mayores. be, abolished before the end of the between London and New York socratie kad till falezistents to continue the treat-lost by the owner if the submergence turret in the British cruiser,
if caused artificially. —United Press. the death-roll up to seventeen. Scotland. 28, bail of 810,000 being allowed.snents now under way He noted. Dayanobite: This
return to Paris in September. present year.
the
there are to-day between London famed and Pariz.
CENY
throughout
United Press.
Straits Times,