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BOMBARDMENT BY RUSSIANS.
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JOURNALISTS WITNESS
PIRING.
"REDS" TAKE OFFENSIVE.
(TRROCOX REUTER'S AGENOT.]
MUIDEN, Sept: 9.
CHIANG KAI SHEK
ATTACKED.
ASSASSINATION PLAN FAILS,
CONFLICTING STORIES.
Buy's
【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2. A oficial communiqué from
Although all details are being Shanghai states that "Dr. Hansel, withheld by the Chinese authori- the German Consul at Harities, and no information has been accompanied by four American
given out by the French Police, journaliste, arrived at Manchuli on
the Shanghai Times, it is August 30, and witnessed the bon reliably reported that a plan to assassinate Marshal Chiang Kai Shek at his house in the French Concession on Friday evening, was nipped in the bud at the last minute.
bardment of the Chinese lines by Russian artillery and & Russian armoured train entering Chinese
territory.
MUDEEN, Later.
"An official communiqué states
The conspirators are alleged to
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929.
LABOUR'S PLACE IN RIGID QUARANTINE BRITAIN'S WORK IN
RADIUM "BOMBS " FOR CANCER.
PHYSICIAN'S WARNING ABOUT OPERATIONS.
"MATTER OF TIME.
The possibility of the treatment of cancer by radium eventually. equalling, or even exceeding, opera- tive methods in efficiency, was visualised by Sir Thomas Horder, the famous physician, in submit ting the sixth report of the British Empire Cancer Campaign at the annual meeting, at which the Duke of York, the president, presided in
the House of Lords.
radium "bombs"
The treatment of cancer by was mentioned in the report.
The number of cases, said Sir
that the foreign journalists at be members of Chiang Kai Shek's Thomas, in which radium treat
Chalanor examined the bill-top there, which was covered with holes from Russian shells. They report "White" Russians were
that no seen anywhere.
The Governor of the province of Kirin reports that Tungait has been re-taken by the Chinese, and Wangning invaded by the "Red" Army.
TROUBLE ON THE RAILWAY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) wwwwwdow
SHANGHAL, Sept. 2.
The Tao Hung news agency learns from Nanking that the Vice-
Minister of Ballways, Wang Teeng, who was placed under arrest on Saturday by order of the Military Councillors' office, was released last night.
Reasons for the Government's action have not been divulged, bub in this connection it is reported that the Railway Minister, Mr. San Fo, tendered his resignation to Chiang Kai Shek, but subsequently
"it was withdrawn.
SINO-RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
STILL SOME POINTS IN DISPUTE.
{THROUGH KIUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, Sept. 2.
It ig declared authoritatively this evening that the alleged modi- fictations made by the Soviet of the joint Sino-Russian declaration have not received the approval of the National Government.
A report that a manager and assistant manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, nominated by the Soviet, would be immediately ap pointed by the railway directorate, is without foundation."
China has insisted upon the open. ing ef formal negotiations before discussing such appointments.
"REPORTED ATTACK ON
JARAINOR..
(Nam Uhung Pao.) According to Harbin telegram, 100 Soviet cavalrymcu, sasiated by seven tanks, attacked Jarainor at eight o'clock on the evening of the
30th ult.
The Chinese troops eventually repulsed the attack.
INDIAN CHOLERA OUTBREAK.
SIGNS OF DECREASE.
- ĮTHROUGH REUTER'E ADENCY.),
BOMBAY, Sept. 1.
The situation in the Nawabshah flood area is still critical, but there has been no further rainfall, and it is expected that the waters will soon begin to fall.
ment was advised, and in which it
was successful, had increased dur
ing the year, He, however, sound ed a note of warning.
4 Unfounded Ballaf.**,
THE SUN.
MR. BEN TILLETT'S SUGGESTION.
T.U.C. MEETING.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY,}
LONDON, Sept. 2. "I throw out as a practical sug- gestion that
there should be periodical inter-Dominion confer. ences of organised Labour through out the Empire, concurrently with official Imperial conferences, or in- dependently," said Mr. Ben Tillett, M.P., in the course of a presidential address at the opening of the Trade Union Congress in Belfast. -
PRECAUTIONS.
CHINESE PASSENGERS
TO MANILA.
NOT ALLOWED TO LAND,
The stringency of the American law against Chinese 'immigration even into the Philippines is shown by the case of five Chinese passen- gers who took tickets for Manila but were not allowed to land unless the ship carrying them would wait a fortnight in quarantine.
PALESTINE.
AN ADMINISTRATIVE
BREAKDOWN."
LORD MELCHETT'S VIEW.
[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,)
LONDON, Sept. 1. An official communiqué issued by the Colonial Office this evening states that all is quiet in Palestine. The situation along the Trans Jordan frontier has definitely im- proved, as the High Commissioner
EXPLOSION IN BERLIN.
FASCISTI INTRIGUE
FEARED.
REICHSTAG DAMAGED,
• (THROVON XEUTER'S AGENOT.)
BERLIN, Sept. 1.
An explosion in the Reichstag building smashed a number of win- dows
The police found that a quantity. ed away in the ventilating shaft, of explosives, which had been stow-
detonated by means of an alarm clock.
·"TALKIE” FILM INNOVATIONS.
On her arrival at Manila the ship had, as a matter of routine, to go for Syria has been reinforcing and Swastika sign, with the words A scrop of paper bearing a to the quarantine anchorage. The reorganising the French militaryWake up, Germany," leads the passengers for Manila had come dispositions on the Southern Syria Police to believe that the outrage from Amoy to Hong Kong and from frontier to prevent armed bands of was the work of German Fascisti, there took tickets on to Manila. Arabs from entering Palestine, As they had not spent the required 14 daye' quarantine in Hong Kong they were not allowed to land.
Dr. R. W. Hart, chief quarantine officer for the Philippines, gave the Manila agents two alternatives, either to let the steamer stay under quarantine for 14 days outside the breakwater before being allowed to dock, or to let the steamer leave port without establishing contact
Lord Melchett, formerly Sir with the shore or being furnished practique of health. The agents Alfred Mond, presided over the vast finance.decided to adopt the latter alterna-gathering.
tive, and the vessel cleared port Three thousand persons at least shortly after staying under quaran. tine for about eight hours.
New Era For Unions. A new era for Trade Unions was suggested by Mr. Tillett, who de
of one of the bodyguards aroused
clared that they were concerned personal bodyguard. The behaviour
with world economice as much as uspicion, resulting in investiga
international polition. He was of tions by the French Police, as a
opinion that raising the bank rate result of which four of the body-
and not consulting those respon. The launching of fund likesible for the maintenance of indus. gaards were arrested and handed! over to the Chinese authorities.
the National Radium Fund, especi- ally in association with such a try was an outrage. According to the Shanghai Times, heartfelt sentiment as the recovery "Industry should control the investigations are stated to to health of our beloved King," he not finance industry," he said. said, "was bound to attract wides have revealed that the four men pread publicity, and in the minds They must organise as America bad planned to kill Chiang Kai Shek asof many people who, while, quite organised, and in the interests of The departure of the steamer he was leaving his house in a motor intelligent, are yet uninitiated in the worker everything possible without establishing contact with
medicine, there may have arisen.
Manila, or landing passengers or an unfounded belief in the complete should be done to increase inter-discharging cargo, makes it technic potency of radium as a cure for Imperial trade.
ally go from Hong Kong to Java direct without calling at Matila. cancer.
Interviewed by cur representa. tive the local agents explained that the passengers in question were travelling saloon and were people of affluence. Their case had been
par.
The plot was part of a plan to overthrow the preecat Nanking regime, and is nid to have origin- ated in Peping.
Another Version.
A Chinese account, cabled from Shanghai is rather different from Reuter'e version.
It says that Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, yesterday morning, went to
ace Mr. Sun Fo.
Marshal Chiang, on returning to his own house in the French Con cession, the cable nikde, reached the entrance when he was fred at. The shote missed, but one of his bodyguards, so the cable says, was struck by a ricochet. An alleged assailant was arrested immediately,
"Such a belief might have un- fortunate resulta for the patient, if carried into practice in any case in which the growth is completely re- movable by operation. It may well be that radium will come to equal, er even to exceed, operative mea. xures in efficiency in course of time, and as the result of much further experience of, and improvement in, technique, and possibly also in com- bination with other methods of treatment.
SEA-SERPENT STORY.
TOLD BY FISHERMEN.
-I" D.F." Special Servico.]
Londen Protest Meeting.
Ten thousand Jews from all over London attended a protest meeting held to-day at the Albert Hall "to voice their horror and indignation at the massacre of Jewn in Palestine."
were unable to gain admittance, and so great was the crush that the police had to intervene to prevent the crowds from storming the en-
trances.
Eventually & number of overflow teetings were held scar, the Albert Hall.
Addressing the vast crowd, Lord put before the medical officer of the Melchett said that in the past few United States Consulate in Hong days they had been witnessing a Kong and no objection had been breakdown, of British administra raised to their going to Manila. tion almost unequalled since the But, of course, the action of the young local Consulate was not binding on Indian Mutiny.
the Philippines authorities. There
"slipping through."
Willsboro, N.Y.-Three fishermen are still insistent that
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He did not wish to criticise the
every possible step to remedy the disastrous situation, but he declar OFd that the position which had been
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TO END AMERICAN SUPREMACY.
[United Press.)
London. Innovations which may revolutionise the talking film in- dustry are being urged upon Bri- tish producers to bring to an end American supremacy in film pro- duction.
Serious consideration is being given the development of third dimension pictures such as · were presented in America recently as novelties but never brought to per- fection. Mr. R. E. Jeffrey. sound production expert of a large Bri- tish 51m concern, is the foremost advocate of this idea.
The Plastic Figure. "Within the next few years," he said. "I am convinced we shall sco the arrival of the plastic figure- the film that will give depth as well as height and breadth, Many " experts have been working for some time to achieve perfection in this invention and I would not be aur- priced if it was attained in the
"It is the bounden duty of the recently they saw the famous Lake was no question of deck passengers | present Government, who had taken next two years. doctor at present, however, in very Champlain sea-serpent, whose exist. many cases, in his patient's interest.ence has been affirmed and denied
overrule his not unnatural an by a confusing combination of fact COMMANDMENTS tipathy to surgical measures. Al the same, the number of cases to and fancy during the last three hun- which radium is applicable, and the | dred years. number in which really brilliant re- sults are achieved, increases every
INCREASED PROHIBITION. year."
EXCESSIVE BUDGET
ESTIMATES.
{"D.P." Special Servies.] Washington. An increasingly vigorous and extensive prohibition enforcement. campaign by the Federal Government is indicated by Budget estimates for the fiacal year 1930.
All three divisions of the Treasury engaged in prohibition work, eus toms service and coast guard and prohibition bureau, received addi tional funds for this fiscal year in a supplemental appropriation passed at the last regular session of Con- gresa,
Potent Agent.
Thomas Bridge, of Willsboro, and two companions were fishing at the mouth of the Bouquet River some time near the middle of July when The British Empire Cancer Cam-what appeared to them to be a huge paign represents the carefully co- serpent or fish thrust its head high ordinated work of surgeons, phy- above the surface of the lake. The sicians, and scientific men through- monster began shaking its tail out the Empire in the world war violently, lashing the water into a against the dread disease, and pro- sea of foam. mise of far better results in the treatment of cancer in the hospitals of England was given in the an- nual report.
Radium, the report stated, is the most potent agent in the successful treatment of cancer, and radium bombs"-by-means of which the ray from a large mass of radium can be concentrated on a cancerous tumour-are the best instruments for applying radium treatment to a patient.
Fied Two Miles, Terrified by the spectacle, Bridge did not stop running until he had reached the village, two miles away. His companions retired also but said there could be no mistake about what they had seen. The water was disturbed for acres around, they said.
In the chronicles of Samuel De
A WIFE.
“BELITTLED" HUSBAND”
REVOLTS:
ANOTHER ** MARRIAGE."
The extraordinary case of a stam- mering husband who was alleged to have revolted against his wife's attitude towards him and to have left her for another woman wh heard at Leeds Agrites when Cyril Sweeting, a woolsorter, of Hors- forth. Leeds, pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy.
"Home At Ten."
allowed to arise în Palestine was a disgrace to any British administra- tion,
Investigation Wanted,'
Dr. Wiezmann, the President of the Zionist Organisation, said that the matter called for the fullest in- vestigation of the whole manner in which the Mandate had been ad- ministered. in recent years.
Commissioner's Opinion.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 2.
Sir
duties will be to restore order, and inflict stern punishment upon these found guilty of acts of violence,
The High Commissioner, John Chancellor, has issued a pre- clamation referring in the strongest Mr. Justice Finlay said that he would pass a light sentence of terms to the "savage murders of de- three months in the second division, fenceless Jews, regardless of age or Mr. R. L. Prince, defending, said sex," and declaring "My first Bridge previously had ridiculed tales of a Lake Champlain sea- that Sweeting stammered to much The serpent has been an extent that he mixed little is Hitherto," the report continu, serpent. While the prohibition bureau is asking for continuation of the "the radium bomb has been something of a legendary figure in the way of social intercourse with $1,700,000 additional amount allot very little used in this country, this section, and the last time it his fellowmen, and looked for com- was reported seen was twenty years fort and help from his wife when owing to the fact that the supply ted to it above the normal appro- of radium was too small to enable ago, when it appeared between Port he married her four years ago. priation of $13,500,000 both the guch a customs service and coast guard are Almost a gramme of radium is re
bomb to be constructed. Henry and Crown Point
Bhe, however, only had her mind sacking higher amounts for the next quired for this purpose." Champlain, who discovered the lake et on accumulating money, and year, it was learned recently,
With the increased supply of in 1909, it is related that a fish made him hand over all he earned, This may make the cost of Federal radiusa which will shortly be avail- twelve feet in length, with a great allowing him a penny in the shill prohibition in the fiscal year 1930 able as a result of the National month lined with rows of sharping for pocket-money. His wages which begins next June 30 and ends Radium Fund, it is proposed that teeth, was encountered. Attempts at the mill were £3 & week, and he June 30, 1931, in excess of 850,000,000 several such "bombs" shall be if the $810,000,000 annually spent available for the treatment of cases.
were made to spear the creature but made about £2 more by playing the by the Justice Department is in These investigations into the best had no effect or were broken against nights, added Mr. Prince, he
its hide was so tough that poniards violin at night at dances.
"Despite this, even
on dance cluded. Prohibition appropriations methods of using these "bombs" for the current fiscal year aggregate should be of great value in
it-United Press
insisted on his being home at ten somewhat under afty million dollars ahling the best results to be obtain
o'clock, and once, when he did not though the exact figure is unknown ed, combined, with the greatest
return until 10.30, she locked him because some of the bureaus conceonomy in the use of the radium.
out. He had to assist in the house- cerned do not segregate prohibition The report contained the impor-
work, and the used to delight in from other government expendi- tant declaration: "It has not been
belittling him before callera. tures.-United Press.
NEW YORK'S "SEVEN. WONDERS."
A HORSE IS ONE OF THEM!
["D.P." Special Service.]
seven
New York-One of the wonders of New York is a hores on exclusive Park Avenue, wrote Professor Cox of Columbia Univer- The cholera outbreak is decreassity, to the Merchant's Association, ing. The population in the affect which is conducting a survey to ed areas is evacuating, --
determine what the seven wonders of this city really are.
J.
ext-
possible to prove that tobacco smoke has any effect as a cancer. producing agent.
WORLD'S MOST PATIENT HUSBAND.
REMARKABLE YOUNG
RUSSIAN.
PERFORMS FEATS WITH FIGURES.
{"D.P." Special Service.]
"He was allowed one pint of beer a month, and if he wanted an extra packet of cigarettes he had to aak for the money."
Mr. Prince added that Sweeting, disappointed in the affection and sympathy he expected to and in married life, mat a young woman, Moscow. A remarkable young Blanche May Hitchcock, and on Russian mathematician, Paul Mel-June 6 this year he took her away HIS "BRIDGE-CRAZY" WIFE.entiev, is leaving soon for Germany, to her mother's home in Bath and
France and possibly the Fnited married her. ["D.P." Special Bervice.] States to demonstrate his suzi
powers in manipulating figures. Chicago. James Breen,bridge widower," is the "world's most patient husband," Judge William N. Gemmill believes.
My wife is bridge crazy," said James when Mra. Breen demanded alimony, In the seven years we Times were married, we separated eleven times-always over a bridge argu- ment."
In contrast to the usual selections AMERICA AND THE
-the Woolworth Tower, Wall Street, Riverside Drive, WORLD COURT. Square, American Museum of His tory and China Town-Professor POSTPONEMENT, LIKELY,, Cox enumerates as wonders of New I had to mind, our children York City such diverse subjects as every night while he played bridge, [REUTER'S AMERICÄH AKEVICE] the rush of commuters through the To make matters worse, Mrs. Jean
Hudson Tunnels, a green tree below nette Ford, finally brought over her NEW YORK, Sept. 1 Fifty-Seventh Street, Broadway's two youngsters and I had to look The Herald-Tribune's Washing carpet of straw hats seen from the after them, too. When I protested ton correspondent states that the Woolworth Tower at 200n and the my wife told me that I was only question of American edherence to multitude of automobiles seen on husband, but that bridge was the World Court is likely to be Riverside Drive at six pan. The bridge." postponed till late in 1830 as Pre-litter of paper in the stations and Enough," declared the court, sident Hoover in anxious to give trains of the subway and the forest "I wish I could give you a medal a right of way to naval questions of aerial wires on Harlem roofs as the world's most patient hus and to avoid a serious controversy are also included by the Professor band." IN MA which might at present be aroused in his list of the real wonders of Mrs. Breen must do without her over the World Court.
alimony-United Press, this metropolis. United Press.
"Great RemOTED.”....
In America inventors are doing their utmost to achieve successful results in this type of film, and I am afraid that it may burst upon us just when we in this country have brought the talking picture to a fairly high pitch of perfection.
"It is therefore up to British in- ventors to get there first."?
Mr. Jeffrey believes colour will be a natural part of film development. been successful radio artists will In his opinion, persons who have
make the best talkie actors, providing they "Bereen" well.
14.Smellies" May Comel Mr. Stanley Rowson, a member of the board of trade film com- mittee, told an exhibitors' 'con: ference that British audiences soon may expect the "smellies.
"We have had already the " tin- and the weepies, he said. "Now ties, the singies', the 'dancies",
we shall witness the evolution of the smellies.
When the irate husband in the
picture scornfully asks his submis
sive
wife whether she describes
that as a fresh kipper, the odor of a kipper of obvious senility will flow through the theatre."
Mr. Rowson, however, was not In view of recent events, the entirely
the optimistic about "Chancellor will suspend the dis- future of the British film.
Experience does not justify the cussions, which in accordance with conclusion, he said, that the a promise he gave to the Committee British film will have an unexpect of the Arab executive, he initiated ed vogue because the British actor with His Majesty's Government, is more polished than bis Ameri- regarding constitutional changes in c confrere. American com- Palestine.
panies will always be able to buy The latest official casualty list is the best actors.. 100 Jews, 83 Moslems, and 4 Chris-American companies will discover "The time will come when
discovered killed at tians killed. Six more Jews were
Safed Thursday.
THE WIRE-PLUCKER PULLED!
SENTENCED TO.3 MONTHS' "HARD."
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that England is the only impor tant foreign, market from which a revenue can be expected, and it is reasonable to expect that then a real co-operative film alliance, which has hitherto been rejected, will come about."
CALIGULA AND PLUMBERS.
RUNNING WATER ON A GALLEY!
A Chinese, who was arrested and sentenced to three weeks' hard Rome. Emperor Caligula, the labour in April last for causing profligate ruler of ancient Rome damage to fittings in Lyeemun who disported himself on his ples- Villas which were then being de- rure galleys on Lake Nemi, appar molished, was again before Mr. Tently anticipated the modern plumb- S. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Magis-ing and othez fixtures of present In the presence of the United Sweeting's savings had been bank. tray yesterday, when a charge of day pleasure, yachts by many cen
a similar nature was brought against turies. Press correspondent, Melentler per-ed by his wife and amounted to
A bronze faucet and a number of formed a series of feats with figures. £350. When he left home he with.
Detective Sergeant Humphreys bronze pipes have been found on He multiplied two sets of figures, 7 drew £150, leaving £200 for his charged the defendant with severing the larger of Caligula's two Lake or 8 digits in each, with lightning 'wile, and a note stating :--- speed. He calculated in his head "Fed up with this. Carry on wire,, the fixtures of a dwelling thirds out of the water, adter a year
a quantity of lead-covered electric Nemi galleys, which is now two the square and cube roots of large I'm going away to fight for my own
house, at the junction of Peking and of draining the lake. The indica numbers. He repeated accurately living." long lists of figures read to him Sweeting and Miss Hitchcock Nathan Roads, with intent to steal tions are that the Imperial Bargo, quickly.
lived together for three weeks after the same.
was equipped with running water The defendant pleaded guilty, *!" I am notʼn prodigy," Melentiev the bigamous marriage, but his con-
and other conveniences. According to the police officer, the The faucet and pipe were found declared. "I calculate and remem- science caused him great remorse. ber scientifically. Some years ago all that time, and when Miss Hitch defendant committed the damage in with a copper shingle, beautiful I witnessed a performance by a cock received a letter Sweeting con- a block of Bats which is under con- bronze ornament which apparently. straction at Victoria View. He was was part of a mooring pola nd mathematical prodigy. I decided tested everything that I could do the same by merely The couple were fond of each arrested by a district watchman numerous terra cotta orname reducing the process of figuring to other, and Miss Hitchcock accom-He said that the wire he was carry Archaeologists are busily ex-din- its simplest scientific form. Any panied him to the police stationing had been given to him by a man, ing the parts of the galley Dow one with a small knack for figures when he went to give himself up. but later admitted that there was detached from the vessel while and enough patienes can do what Miss Hitchcock had forgiven him no second person...
sketchers and photographers are.. The damage caused to the pre-making pictures with a I am doing. That, in fact, is the for the wrong he had done her.
view to. importance of my contribution to. Mr. Justice Finlay said that the mises was 850, although the value reconstructing the imperial pleasure- mathematics. I don't do tricks. I fact remained that in the frat in of the fitting was only. 86. ...
boats on the shore after one of merely apply new methods." stance Miss Hitchcock had been Defendant was sentenced to three, them is completely free from the
deceived. United Press,
mantha' hard labour,
water.-United Press,