NO INTERFERENCE BY POWERS.
AMERICAN SUGGESTION
SHELVED.
"NOT NECESSARY."
(THROUGH REUTIK'S AGESST.1
Tokyo, Aug. 1.
Reuter learns, that Mr. Stimson's
"RED THURSDAY'
NOT
VIVID.
ALL QUIET IN SHANGHAI,
BOMBS IN A PARIS HOTEL.
[TEROCCE RECTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 1. At 5.30 a.m., contrary to many tentative suggestion for the estabalarinistruments concerning to lishment of a six-Power Commis- day's possibilities, everything was sion of Conciliation, to extend the normal, the mills and factories good offices of the Powers to China working as usual. and Russia, has been held in uberance. This is understood to be mainly due to Japan's expresa. ed conviction that any form of international intercession le super fluous at the present stage of the
criais,
Japan's contention is that the prospects of a direct settlement between the two disputants are
good, and Hence it is unnecessary
to offer outside assistance.
CHINA'S TERMS FOR SETTLEMENT.
Police On The "Qui Vive,"
Contrary
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BANKER'S TRAGIC
END.
A SORROW.FILLED LIFE.
DETERMINED SUICIDE.
THROUGE KECTER'S AGENCY.]..
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LONDON, Aug. 1. Sir Drummond Drummond-Fraser has been found dead in his house Blakeney, Norfolk, with his
at
throat cat. The jury at the in- quest returned a verdict of "Sai cide whilst of unsound mind."
NEW SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION.
"DISCOVERY" SAILS FROM
LONDON.
A PROSPECTING, TRIP.
[THROUGH REUTER`S AGENCY.).
1
LONDON, August 1. Captain Scott's old ship, the Dis-
very, left East India Dock to-day on another expedition to the Antare. tic sponsored by the British, Aus tralian, and New Zealand Govern.
SHIPPING-HEADS BLAMED.
"WRONGFUL ACT AND DEFAULT."
MORE "VESTRIS" DETAILS.
[IHROUGH RECTER'S AGENCT:]
LONDON, July 31.
It is stated in the newspapers
that actions for buge sums, in the American Courts, will depend upon the judgment of the Board of Trade in the Vestris." inquiry,
The Court held forty sittings since
Sir Drummond Fraser badaments, to continue the scientific in April 23 and the judgment is very
LATER articipations of nervous breakdown in 1915, follow-vestigations of the resources of the ing the loss of his two sons in the South, Polar regions, which were war and depression over the death begun in 1911. of his wife. Sulwequently, he lost the use of his legs, and was con- faed to bed.
serious trouble on "Red Thursday" everything so far has been normal with the exception of a couple of minior Communist demonstrations in the International Settlement, which were quickly suppressed.
The expedition will also develop fisheries, and investigate econoinic
long.
The President, in answering 58 Board of Trade questions (eerin tim) held, inter alia, that seme disorganisation resulted from plac- resources, and the commercial posing women and children in the port sibilities of whaling.
Sir Douglas Mawson, command-
ship will sail at the end of October. The average age of the crew is thirty.
Captain John Davis, Director of Navigation of the Commonwealth of Australia, was aboard to-day
hoats in a mistaken application of the traditional order: Women
There was no lack of order and discipline among the crew.
The S.0.C should have been sent out six hours earlier.
The nurses were in attendance
'curse The comparative quiet is attribut upon him. The on night- able to the Scotching by the police duty left the bedroom momentarilyng the expedition, joins the Dis- and children, Arst." of the International Settlement and this morning, and on returning covery at Capetown, from where the the French Concession of Com-found the invalid's throat cut with Pazor. "On Sunday the patient munist plans for strikes and demon-a strations. The police, especially asked the maid to give him a case the French, in the last few days from the chest of drawers, which RIGHT TO ADMINISTER THE have carried out a number of raids, she did. The maid was unaware
seizing ammunition in huge quan- that the case contained razors. tities, and leafeta inciting trouble. [Str Drummond Drummond. Also, they rounded up several hun-Fraser, K.E.D., was A dred suspects, and arrested a num-banker, having been "Managing ber of notoricus trouble-makers, Director of the Manchester, Liver besides breaking up the organisation pool and District Bank, and & which was planning Communist de Vice-Presidens of the Institute of
C.E.R.
[TEROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.]
www
prominent SCENES AT SCOUTS
JAMBOREE.
SHANGHAL August 1. The Reago Agency" learns from Peping that in an interview with Pressmen Mr. Sun Fo, the Minister monetrations for to-day, with the Bankers. He was an authority on
of Railways, made a statement "cc the effect that China intends to con duct negotiations with the Soviet
"object of creating an international
incident.
The police remain on the qui on the basis that while all the rights rire, and French armoured cars are and interests of the Chinese Eastern Patrolling the French Concession, Railway will be placed, under Sino-while the entire police force and Russian joint ownership, the ad- police reserves are standing by in ministrative power over the rail.the International Settlement. way shall be taken over by China.
SINO-BELGIAN PARLEYS BROKEN OFF.
[NAS CHUNG KUQ NEWS SERVICE ]
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No Nonsense In Pering
Preise, Aug. 1. The authorities here took elabor. ate precautions to prevent Com
munist trouble.
Squads armed with execution swords paraded in motor-lorries while patrols of troops were SHANGHAI, Aug. 3.stationed all over the city, in addi- The Sino-Belgian negotiations for tion to all exits in the Legation the retrocession of the Belging Quarter, in order to prevent pos- Concession at Tientsin are reported sible demonstrators marching in, to have been broken off.
So far the day has passed very quietly.
It appears that the Belgian deie. gates' insistence on China's du recognition of all public and pri vately-owned property in the Con- cession, and also of Municipal Londs, is the sole difficulty in the way of a settlement. The Chinese delegation has wired to the Was chiaopao (Foreign Office) for in.) structions.
REPORTED REPLY TO RUSSIA.
(Wah Tor Fat Peo.)
SHANGHAI, Aug. 1. A telegram, said to be the reply of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the last Note of the Soviet Government, was drafted and "sent out on Wednesday.
As relatio between China and Russia have been broken off, the telegram was sent out by Dr. C. T. Wang" unofficially,"
A London "Wash-Out."!
LONDON, July 31. Boarding a bus at Victoria Sta- tion, as ordinary passengers, eight Communist women and A man, chained themselves to the seats on the top bus and refused to leave.
The officials immediately drove the us to Scotland' Yard."
The Communists. en route, dis- played banners and sang the "Red Flag" and "The Internationale,"
The Police were temporarily un- able to loosen the chains, so the Thus was left standing in a torrenti. al downpour.
The Police later, sawed- through the seats and arrested the Com- munists.
The Sequel
LONDON, August!" Sarah Burt was fined 40/- at B.w Street today for assaulting a. policeman by squirting him with a soda-water syphon in connection with the omnibus incident. received her sentence by singing the Internationale" and was lifted from the dock and carried out kick- ing, struggling, and singing.
Burl
Orderly Communist processions in Limehouse and other quarters in the East End are the only evidences so far of "Red Thursday" in London.
RUSSIAN RESERVISTS CALLED UP.
Trouble At Sarajevo.
LONDON, Aug. 1. [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Europe's "Red Thursday" stag ed from Moscow as an anti-war protest on the fifteenth anniversary RIGA, July 31, The Commander of the Soviet of the beginning of the Great War, was signalised by a red glare at forces in Siberia has ordered all two o'clock in the morning at Russian reservists born since 1902 Sarajevo (The Cradle of the World War"), where the railway and living in the Far East to re-
workshops were set on fire, sp- join the Soviet army at Vladivos-parently by Communists. tock.
The order applice similarly to all officers on the reserve of the Soviet Army, irrespective of age.
Khabarovsk is mentioned as the plice where the reservists are to assemble to rejoin the Army.
LORD ROSEBERY'S ESTATE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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LONDON, Aug. 1, It was announced to-day that Lord Rosebery's estate babeen proved at £1,271,000.
frazce, and had written many books on the subject. During the War he was a member of the Food Prices Committee under the Board of Trade.]
BRITAIN AT THE HAGUE.
ITBROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, Aug. 1. Mr. Philip Snowden, Mr. A. Henderson and Mr. Wm. Graham (President of the Board of Trade)
The will represent Great Britain at Eague Reparations Con-
ference.
SIR WM. JOWITT RETAINS
HIS SEAT.
CONVINCING MAJORITY."
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Lopes, July 31. The first by-election since the General Election has taken place in Preston where Sir W. A. Jowitt, K.C., the Attorney-General, sought re-election following bis secession from the Liberal Party to the Labour Party.
The by-election resulted:- Sir W. Jowitt, Labour... 35,608 Dr. A. B. Howitt, Con... 20,188 S. M. Holden, Ind. Lab.
Labour majerity
410
6,550
"BREMEN." BREAKS ITS OWN RECORD. WONDERFUL TIME.
(THROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 31.
AN UNPARALLELED OVATION
PRINCE TO ATTEND.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BIRKENHEAD, July 31.
The rain ceased and the sun ahone when the Duke of Connaught, wearing Scout garb, and General Baden-Powell entered the Royal Box, at the Scouts'. Jamboree at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, the massed bands of Irish and Scottish pipers playing the National Athem.
After the Duke had declared the Jamboree open, General Baden- Powell sounded the scout rally call, 02 the historic "kudoo" horn which he captured from a Zulu chief in one of the Zulu wars.'
The immense roar of the scouts, following the rally, electrified the concourse of spectators, who rose and stood barchended, as a tribute to an unparalleled ovation. Then began the great march past.'
"Prince to Attend.
LONDON, Aug. 1 Despite a gale and torrential rain this morning it was stated at York House that the Prince of Wales. would carry out his intention to fly this afternoon to the Jam boree at Birkenhead, from Hendon,,
CONFIDENCE IN THE" GOVERNMENT.
FRENCH CHAMBER VOTE.
[TEKOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PARIS, July 31. The Chamber by 328 votes to 188, The Norddeutscher Lloyd liner passed a vote of confidence in the Bremen arrived at Plymouth Briand Government. The Soci- after a record voyage from New alists and Communists were against York in 4 days, 14 hours and 30 the vote. The Radicals abstained but the Right and Centre support ed the vote.
minutes.
The Bremen recently made the erossing from Cherbourg to New York in 4 days, 18 hours, 17 mins., compared with the "Maure- tanie's" previous record of 5 days, 2 hrs., 3 mins.
Vigilance In Paris, Reuter's Paris correspondent re- most elaborate ports that the precautions are being taken against disorders..
Ex-Premier Operated On.
PARIB, Aug. 1. 3. Poincare has been operated upon, and his condition is pro nounced satisfactory.
The operation lasted 25 minutes, and was preliminary to the main operation few days hence,, which is longer and more intricate.
ROYAL FAMILY DRAMA. FRAU ZOUBKOFF AND
EX-KAISER. "
The Court considered that the captain was unduly optimistic be fore the foundering, and held that Mr. David Cook (Vice President) Mr. Harry Wheeler (Marine Super- intendent) and Captain Hensley (Assistant Marine Superintendent) of the New York agents were guilty of a wrongful act and de- fault contributory to the loss of the Vestris."
The Court ordered Mr. Cook to pay £500 towards the expenses of the enquiry, and recommended that all foreign-going passenger ships ahould enjoy the same protection as regarda safety of life as is afforded to, emigrant ships, hy means of Board of Trade supervision.
TROUBLE OVER BATHING
SUITS.
COTTON DISPUTE
PROPOSALS.
CONFERENCE EXPECTED.
INQUIRY COMMITTEE
NAMED,
(THROUGH RACTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 1. The operative cotton spinners' representatives have decided to re fer to their districts on the ques- tion of whether their executive shall be empowered to negotiate with the employers representatives. It is expected that the joint con- ference will meet again on Mon- day.
The special committee to inquire into the cotton industry has been appointed as follows:
Mr. William Graham. President
of the Board of Trade. Mr. A. V. Alexander, First
Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. Joseph Jones, Secretary of the Yorkshire Mineworkers' Association. Sir Alan Anderson, a director of the Bank of England and of the Suez Canal Company. Sir William McLintock, a noted
Chartered Accountant, has served on many Govern. ment Committes.
J
who.
The terms of reference are very the industry and its power to re- broad, covering the condition of
cover the home and export markets.
THE FISCAL COMMITTEE. REPRESENTATION FOR AMERICA.
"D.P." Special Service.] Geneva, July 13.-The United States has just been given reprësen: tation or another one of the per- manent organs of the League's Nations.
is the new
This
y created Fiscal Committee that will undertake for long years to come the task of solving the profile of double taxation and fiscal evasion.
GRAF ZEPPELIN”
OFF AGAIN.
ANOTHER TRIP TO AMERICA,
UNREHEARSED EFFECTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'A ÀGENOT.]
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FRIEDRICHAFEN, Aug. 1. The great German airship "Grat
Zeppelin" left Friedrichshafen at . 3.30 am on a flight to America.
The dirigible set out for her sec- ond flight across the Atlantic about two months ago, but her engines broke down and 'abe limped back to France only with great difficulty.
There was a dramatic delay a5 the Graf Zeppelin was leaving her shed. A man was seen to jump from the root to the top of the air-
ship, a distance of twelve feet.
The Zeppelin was brought to a standstill, and the culprit was scon found inside the gangway and handed over to the police.
The airship took off easily and speedily disuppeared into the dark- ness.
DEATH OF “SYD”. GREGORY.
¿
FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN
CRICKETER.
[TREOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SYDNEY, August 3. The death is announced of the famous Australian cricketer, Mr. Sydney Edward Gregory.
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Mr. Gregory's long and distin- guished association with Australian Test cricket lasted more than 30 years. As long ago as 1584, in partnership with Mr. J. McC. Blackham, be established the re cord for the ninth wicket, 954, in a Test match. In the same season, The Cominission is composed of he established a Test record for twelve regular members and 5fteen Australia of 142 for, the fifth wie- corresponding members from naket, together with Mr. J. Darling. tions aot otherwise represented on In 1800 at Lords, Mr. Gregory the body. Professor Thomas S. and Mr. G. H. S. Trott put up an Adams of Yale has been named the England-Australia fourth wicket re- cord of 221, and thirteen years American member.
later. "Syd" Gregory and Warren. Bardeley put up an Australian re- cord of 160 for the first wicket.
DEAUVILLE IS PUZZLED.
{"D.F." Special Service.]
Deauville, July
13.-Deauville wants to know just where a bathing Since the close of the war, and the suit ends and indecency begins, heavy increase in taxation all over writes Princes. Ali Fazil to the the world, together with the heavy Daily Press. This million dollar commercial expansion of industrica strip of sand wants to settle for all seeking foreign markets, the pro- time the troublesome question of blera of double taxation has become just what is a bathing suit. The cne of the most serious ones for the trouble grew out of the fad of normal resumption of world-wide solar-ray treatment which has held trade relations. over from last summer and is ex-
Two problems are involved: first, tending from the shoulders to other that of the individual or commer areas of the back.
cial enterprise being obliged to pay Deauville has only one law and taxes on his income both" in the that is that bathers must wear bath country of which he is a citizen and ing suits. There the law stops and also in the foreign country in which leaves the rest to imagianion, and he is doing business and secondly, the smart Paris dressmakers who fiscal evasion that is rendered pos furnish the bathing suits forsible by the taxpaper having in- Deauville have plenty of imagina-come or interests abroad.
tion.
Mr. Gregory scored four centuries in Test games against England, his highest being 201 at Sydney in the 1891-5 season.
Besides his batting, Gregory was a wonderful fielder.
U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ITALY,
[BECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, July 31 The Baltimore banker, Mr. John After years of expert investiga-W. Garrett, it, is believed, will auc- Trouble started last Sunday when tion the League has come to the
ceed. Mr. Henry Fletcher as. Ambas- a Parisienne stepped out of her conclusion that the problem can
sador to Italy. Mr. Fletcher is re- tiring, bathhouse with her latest Paris never be solved by a multilateral creation. Inside of three minutes international convention owing to there was a riot on the beach, in the vast differences in the fiscal side of ten the photographers had systems of the different country. used up all their plates, and inside of hour there were a dozen exact
an duplicates of "the suit.
The Only Solution. The only solution that seems pol- sible is by the negotiating It really wasn't a bathing suit at bilateral treaties in which the two all, it was more like a collection of
ot
signatory nations either agree to
SWIFT RIVER TRAGEDY.
MOTHER AND HER FOUR CHILDREN DROWED.
Mrs. Hugh MacDonald and her
in the River Spey, the swiftest river in Scotland, near Spey Bay, Buckie.
a dozen bits of cloth held together abolish double taxation as regards four young children were drowned with golden strands. There were each others' nationals or at least pieces here and there where they establish some reciprocal basis of could do the most good and they were kept in place, by bands of golden web.
Needed Sun Rays. The Parisienne protested that she was a fervent devotee of the sun cult that her anatomy needed plenty of admits backless bathing costumes, solar contact. But Deauville, which side-split trunks and low cut arm- holes, seemed to think that bathing suits should be in one piece, or af most two, but certainly not twelve,
Last year, Deauville had a police court case growing out of alleged indecency in beach dress, but the court ruled that Deauville is Deauville and indecency here is im possible.
equal treatment.
This will be the task of the League's new Fiscal Committee' which will undertake the promotion of such agreements between all of the nations of the world.
Because of their expert knowledge of the committee have been selected in taxation matters, the members
almost exclusively from amongst the senior revenue officials of the various countries they represent.
The committee as it has been enn- stituted to date is as follows:--
Professor Thomas E. Adame,
The mother is alleged to have thrown the children into the river
and then to have jumped in her- self. The family was composed of ane boy and three girls, the eldest child being aged four years" and
dashed to the spot, but all five the youngest ten months.
Rescue parties in salmon boats
vicitims had been swept away by the current. Four bodies, includ- ing that of the mother, have been recovered and the river is being searched for the body of the
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
NEW LEGISLATION IN THE
F.M.S...
Yale University, United States; youngest child, which is still miss- H. Blau, director of the federaling. administration of taxes, Switzer land; Dr. Gino Bolas, chief of the The famous beach is little changed taxation section of the ministry of this year. There is nothing new,nance, Italy; M. Borduge, director unless it is the new sense of modesty general of taxation, France; Mon- on the part of the beach police. The sieur Clavier, director general of hotels and casino are already crowd-taxes, Belgium; Professor Dr. H. ed to the doors, and Deauville is Dorn, director at the ministry of
Berlin; still the most expensive and yet the finances,
Professor Dr. cheapest resort in Europe.
Flozes de Lémus, professor of It is also reported from Belgrade
Thirty thousand troops are
It is possible to spend $1,000 a political economy' at the University that amid the trouble at Sarajevo, standing by to reinforce the po
day there, and yet it is possible to of Madrid, Spain; Monsieur Mant- a Communist was killed. He was ice, whilst a hundred lorries are supposed to be conducting the porendy to transport fiying squads.
take the cheapest ride in the world xavinos, director of public ac at Deauville. Just a short distance cocats, Greece; Dr. J. H. R. Sin lice to a secret Communist printing
Aeroplanes have been detailed press, but he led them into an am-
away from the casino where stakesninghe Damsté, director general of and circle the city, bush The Police, however, killed equipped with wireless are patrol-
are spoken in millions, is a ferry taxes, Holland, and Sir Percy guide." and
boat which carries passengers from Thompson, vice-president of the ing the streets.
Deauville to its more prosaic sister board of Inland Revenue, England. escaped.
Forty-eight foreigners have been
beach, Trouvilla.
In addition two other members Fíve hundred precautionary deported. arrests were made in Poland, a
Before the war, the ferry charged will be appointed, one representing hundred in Jugo-Slavia, hundreds the corridor of a hotel.
Thirty-one bombs were found in hotel in the neighbouring town of one sou & ride, or the equivalent scme South American country and
representing Mehlem for herself and one ser- of one cant. The same ferry is still one
Asiatic in Greece, scores in Rumania, sixty-four in Bulgaria, and forty
PARIB, August i. vant. She has commissioned a there, manipulated by the same two country. So far there has been no signs Cologne art dealer to sell all her old salts, and the charge is still Other nations which will be re- in France.
Red " of any
outbreak. The furniture at her villa, which is to the same, one sou in French copper, presented by corresponding mem- which is to-day worth one-fifth of a bers on the commission are Austria, Police Prefect, M. Chiappe, has let.
It is rumoured that recently she cent That is undoubtedly the Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, Dantzig, toured the metropolis, and reports that all postal and general workers interviewed her brother at Doorn, cheapest ride in the world, but you Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg are working normally, Similar re- who, it is reported, promised to have to spend several hundred New Zealand, Norway, Poland. ports have been received from all pay her debts on condition that dollars a day living at Deauville South Africa, and Serbia,-United over the country.
she separated from Zoubkoff. in order to enjoy it,
"the
themselves
Demonstrations have been for- bidden in Finland, Switzerland and Turkey. A machine gun cor- don has been established round Prague, the capital of Czecho Slovakia.
(Continued on next Column.)
to
Vana
al'
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BONN, July 31 The ex-Kaiser's sister, Frau zoubkoff, has left her villa and
taken two small rooms in a small
Press.
some
"
A Bill is to be introduced into the Federal Council with the object of placing on the Statute Book of the F.M.S. provisions corresponding to sections 7 and 8 of the Straits Settlements Civil Law Ordinance. The first of these follows Indian Act XII of 1865, and the similar provision in English law, and makes provision with regard to suits for damage to or compense tion from the estate of a deceased person
Bection 8 is equivalent to what is popularly known as
"Lord Campbell's Act," the object of which was to give compensation to the families of persons killed by. negligence or other actionable wrong. It will, for example, ed- able the parent of a child killed by the negligent driving of a motor. car to recover damages. It is con- sidered that the time has come when such legislation is needed.