THE MEXICAN CONGRESS.
NEW LABOUR LAW IN THE
· BALANCE,
NO SALOONS OR GAMBLING
HOUSES.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929.
ANOTHER CHINESE MURDER OF THREE
PROTEST.
SOVIET "REPRISALS " NOT
LIKED.
NOTE TO BERLIN.
(THROUGH BACTER'S' AGENCY.]
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NANKING, Sept. 18.
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PRIESTS.
BELGIUM INSTITUTES AN ENQUIRY,
'DR WANG'S PROMISE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PERING, Sept. 18. Dr. C. T. Wang has strongly pro- Baron Guillaume, counsellor of tested through the German Govern. the Belgian Legation, left for Han- ment against the alleged recent kow by train to-day, en route for action of the Soviet in arresting Ishang, where he will investigate 1,000 Chinese a reprisal" the murder of Bishop Jans and two against China,
colleagues. He demands their immediate re-
"as
CHINA TO REPAY LOANS.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
ISSUED..
SETTLING OLD DERTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
SSANGRAI, Sept. 18.
A Finance Ministry statement,
says that instructions of the National Government for allocation to each salt revenue district of a
THE SINO-POLISH TREATY.
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REPORTED SURRENDER OF EXTRALITY,
DETAILED AGREEMENT
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]
NANRING, Sept. 18.
MYSTIC CULTS IN RUSSIA.
STRANGE SOCIETY OF ASCETICS.
THE
INNOGENTS,"
By EUGENE LYONS,
The Sino-Polish treaty of indue- United Press Staff Correspondant." try, commerce and navigation was signed this afternoon,
The treaty, which consists of twenty-two articles, will not be
MR. J. H. THOMAS HOME.
BRITAIN'S TRADE WITH CANADA.
**COMPLETELY SATISFIED."
(THRQUOR REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Sept. 18.
w&a com.
Mr. J. H. Thomas, interviewed by Reuter upon his arrival at Liverpool Moscow. The deep-flavoured mys-from Canada, said he ticism of the Russian character has pletely satisfied with his tour. found expression through the cen-
He hoped, and felt, that it would
The French Legation has recely fixed quota for service of salt published unti approved by the turies in eccentric religious cults contribute to the solution of Bri- lease, pending which the German ed a wire from. Dr. C. T. Wang infoane, has been carried into effect, Chinese and Polish Governments. and sects running the gamut of the tain's unemployment problem, if
["D.P" Special Service.}
Mexico City.-Final approval of rejection of President Portes Gil's new labour law is apparently in the hands of the regular meeting of the Mexican Congress which convenes in late September..
While the Congress is at present Government is requested to render in extraordinary session it is not
all heressary aid. considering the actual law, but only
Moscow, Sept. 14. the amendments to the Constitution
The Soviet Government's reply to which would permit the promulgathe Nanking Government's Notes tion of the law Inter, when and if it of September. 9 and September 16, is passed by Congress. The Senate regarding the appointment of an and nineteen state legislatures have | aseistant manager of the Chinese already agreed to the constitutional Eastern Railway, has been banded amendiments and the house is ex-
to the German Embassy. pected to pass the amendments, It declares that, owing to Nan- thereafter the Congress will adjourn king's repudiation of its own terms, until the end of September when the question of the place of negotia- it will hear President Porter Gil'stion becomes meaninglers, and the recommendations as delivered in responsibility for further conflicts his manual address.
must fall to Nanking.
The president, in view of the objections to the law from both capital and labour, may urge cer- tain changes Congress will then begin debates on the law lasting several months, possibly a month before a vote is taken.
Chief Provisions.
The chief provisions of the labour code as it is at present constituted.
are:-.
1. A minimum wage would be set, based on the cost of living.
2. Seventy per cent. of the work ers in each factory must be Mexi cans and only Spanish speaking foremen and superintendents would
bé employed.
3. An intricate system of indus- trial cuurts would be established empowered ta direct both employers and Inbour in the general manage ment of business.
4. The labour code would pro- vide an 8-hour day, 8-day week, vacation with pay and several holi. days.
3. Labour. inspection under Federal supervision would be order
d.
6. Compulsory insurance would be projected payable 5 per cent. against employers salaries and per cent of salaries paid out
against the owners,
1. Vice. saloons and gambling houses would be prohibited in industrial communities.
6. The right to strike would he recognized provided there was no violence but both sides must sul mit arbitration. Mediation
to
would be primarily voluntary but compulsory arbitration is also provided.
3. The closing of a business would be prohibited without the consent of labour count and also! motification to employes at least a month in advance.
10. All able bodied persons would be compelled to choose a trade or profession and work there. at for at least one year. All work ers must be in readiness when the necessity, requiries to offer their services to the government for one month
whatever
tasks authorities assign.
at
Employers Objecting.
LEAVING THE RHINE.
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF VISITS LONDON,
(BRITISH WIRELESS FERVICE)
LONDON, Sept. 17. " Lieutenant-General Sir William Thwaites, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.on the Rhine, to- day visited the War Offics and had consultations regarding evacuation and the movements of troops.. It is understood on good authority that a full time table will be completed. The position of many who may temporarily be out of employment on their return to civil life has al so been under consideration.
General Thwaites is returning to Wiesbaden, alnost immediately.
TENNIS STARS FOR
FAR EAST.
A LONG TOUR. (THROUGH REUTER'S agenoz. Í
PARIS, Sept. 17. Henri Cochet. J. Brugnon, Lan- dry and R. Rodel, are leaving for Japan on September 21.
They expect to arrive in Japan play matches there all over the on October 14. Their plan is to
country.
Cochet and his colleagues will bid Japan good-bye early in November. They will probably go first to Tien- tsin, where an exhibition match is to be played.
Then they are to visit Saigon India and Egypt and return home after practically a complete eir- cuit of the globe.
HEALTH SERVICE. APPROVAL OF WORK AT
GENEVA.
(THROUGH KXUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, Sept. 17.
It is stated that this is the first
response to a protest against the and reports from chief inspectors
treaty concluded since the estab murdera at Ichang, stating that show that the required amounts are
all necessary measures have been
now being regularly remitted, while
lichment of the National Govern ment, on a basis of full equality shall be found, and submitted to taken in order that the culpritartars accumulated in certain dis-
tricts are also being made up.
and reciprocity.
Further, it is understood that the exemplary punishment."
"Necessary reforms in the Salt Polish Government agrees to relin Department, such as the improve-quish extrality. The Polish Chargé d'Affaires is establishing a perman. ment of the preventive service, and
ent office in Nanking.. arrangements for facilitating tran- sportation, and the reduction of local surtaxes, have been meeting with succeeN,
LEAGUE WIRELESS
STATION..
SWISS COMPANY'S
OFFER,
ITHROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.)
GENEVA, Sept. 17. The sub-committee of the League of Nations is unanimously in favour of the proposal for a Lea- gue wireless station, to be worked normally by a Swiss wireless com- pany, and handed over to the League in times of crisis.
The Swiss wireless company will undertake to establish alongside the existing station at Franging, near Geneva, short wave transmit- ters for extra European communi- cations. The League will pay 200,000 Swiss francs annually for the first few years, but the amount will diminish as exploitation in-
creases.
[The question of the Lengua of Nations own wireless station in times of crisis was re-opened on a posed that steps should be taken at motion of Viscount Cecil, who pro
the earliest moment to provide such a station capable of communicat- ing with League members through- out the world, although in peace time its use might be determined by financial consideration.]
KING'S EXCELLENT PROGRESS.
DAY'S SHOOTING AT SANDRINGHAM.
[DRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE)
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LONDON, Sept. 17. It is learned that the King has made such excellent progress to wards complete recovery that pre parations are being made for day's shooting for him at Sandr- ingham, provided the weather con- tinues to remain fine. Shooting and yachting are the King's fav
ourite pastimes,
This year he was unable to sail his cutter "Britannia" at Cowes Regatta. It was also considered most unlikely when he left Bognor that he would be able to go out with the guns this autunn
THE DUTCH BUDGET.
NO REDUCTION IN TAXATION.
(THROUGH 'REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HAGUE, Sept. 17. The Budget submitted to the
A meeting of the Second Commit tee of the league of Nations to- day unanimously approved the work of the health section. All the the an
speakers promised additional credits in order to enable the
sec tion to extend its activities. Tri- bute was paid to Chinese and In-States-General shows receipts dian co-operation in the League's estimated at Guilders, 621,000,000 health work.
and expenditure estimated Guilders, 612,000,000.
In general the employers object because of the possibilities of what they believe would be harmful in- terference with private business on the part of the government, The workers on the other hand are just ne strongly opposed to some of the provisions such as the limitation of the right to strike.
congress
Whatever disposition makes of the labour code, politicians are hopeful that it will be definitely eliminated before the presidential election November 17. Thus Porter Gil and his administration would be compelled to take the praise or blame for its promulgation, leaving the new president entirely free when he takes over the office in February.
COTTON WORKERS ON STRIKE.
A SHORT-LIVED AFFAIR.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
CHARLOTTE N. C., Sept. 17.
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"In addition to the salt duty, the proper various surtaxes, which have sprung up in the last few years, have now been consolidated with the salt duty, and collected by the Salt Inspectorate."
The statement continues: "The Government arranged to pay "this month coupone No. 41 and 4o, due March and September, 1929, respec tively, of the Anglo-French Loan of 1908, and also an instalment on the principal of £250,000 due in Septem- ber, 1928.
5% Loan of 1912,
"The Crisp Loan coupon No. 1, due September 1928, will be paid this month, making a total of 88,000,000 paid out by the Salt Revenue in 1929 for Salt Loans service.
"The improved position of the Salt Revenue
enables the
Дома
Ministry not only to make provision
ADVICE FOR INVESTORS.
READERS
reminded
that inquiries relating to
the share market are answer. ed on page 10 every Tuesday by "Kufan." Letters should be sent to this office, and must be accompanied by writer's and address, not for publication. Letters should be addressed to "Eufan," care of the Editor.
name
for the payment of one year's obligations annually, but also to adopt the following plan to take care of arrears" :-
will be our payment of principal For the Anglo-French Loan there in 1930, and two payments in 1931, and all arrears of handholders will be paid up by December 1931.
As regards the Crisp Loan the Dext four interest coupons will be
paid quarterly during 1930, dating up for interest by the end of that year.
Post-arrears of the principal of the Anglo-French Loan will be paid up from the beginning of 1932. The arrears on the principal of the Crisp Loan are to be paid accord. ing to the following schedule: 192, two instalments of principal, corresponding to
doe payments September 1928, and September 1999; 1933, two instalments cor- responding to September 1930 and 1991; and 1934, two instalments duc
and September 1932 September 1833, as well as the regular 1934 instalment.
In June-last-the Government paid the salt contribution of 950,000 taels due June 1928, for service of at the Hukuang Lean, and in July
The Minister of Finance says 180,000 dollars was made to com- 1929, a supplementary payment of that there can be no question of a reduction of taxation in the near plete the payment of the same
loan's coupon,
future.
BRITAIN'S WORKLESS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
LONDON, Sept. 17.
A one-day strike of cotton mill The total number of unemploy workers occurred in this region toed on September 9 was 1,148,700. day on the occasion of the funeral This was 2,550 less than the week of Mrs. Wiggins, who was shot and before, and 150,277 less than the killed near Gastonia on September year before.
14 when a lorry load of mill
Both the National Party can strikers were fired on by anti-
didate, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, and Communists.
the Anti-Re-electionist party can.
didate Jose Vasconcelos are now in the Northern part of Mexico con ducting their campaigns along general lines with little fanfare thus far.
LORRAINE DISASTER
CASUALTIES
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Sept. 17:
ECHO OF SINCLAIR CASE.
ANOTHER BIG FINE.
(REUTER'S AMERICÁN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.
The present plan provides that until the arrears of the salt con. tribution on the Hukuang Loan are paid, similar supplementary pay. ments shall be made so that the coupon can be paid in June yearly, Therefore, the present plan pro- vides for a regular annual payment ordered by the Government on” September 28, 1928, and addition ally provides for clearing up ar- rears _OG the Anglo-French and Crisp Loans, and also the Hukuang Loan so far as the latter je d charge in the Salt Revenue.
NEW TRUST. IN- AMERICA.
[EKUTER'S AMERICAN EZRVICE]
New York, Sept. 19. The Herald Tribune announces
With the election is still three months ahead it is still too early to predict what changes in public sentiment may occur. If both can- The death-roll in the St. Charles the Mid-West Refining Company, the formation of a new trust styled
Mr. Harry Blackmer, president of didates retain their present support colliery disaster is growing, the who went abroad to avoid appear the Marine Midland Corporation, within six weeks of the election, official figures issued this evening ing as a witness in the Sinclair which will require a controlling a real campaign will not probably stating that fifteen fatalities have Fall oil trials, was fined in default ownership of banks and trust com begin until then.—United Press,, so far resulted.
200,000 for contempt of court, panies.
.
THE TEXT OF THE COVENANT.
FURTHER DISCUSSIONS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, Sept. 17. The First Committee of the League, dealing with constitutional questions, after long discussion, decided to appoint a sub-committee to decide whether any action was possible during the present session of the Assembly, in regard to the British proposal to modify Arti- cles 12 and 15 of the Covenant of the League with view to making the text of the Covenant conform with the text of the Paris Pact re- nouncing war.
GENETA, LATER. The sub-committee were unable
to reach agreement on the text of
Article 1 of the Financial Aid Con- vention.
senses, from carna! self-indulgence to the strictest asceticism,
The Revolution which since 1917 has been stirring Russia to its most distant corners has no patience with mystics. The famous "Russinn Bout Young Communists laugh at it as an exploded supersition. They point to one of the world's largest power stations at Dnieper- stroi, to squadrons of Soviet air- planes, to coramunised bread fie torics. "That's our soult" they Bay.
A Strange Village. - But despite these brave AABET- tions, the mystic sects persist and new ones spring into life. Certainly they are not as widespread as they, scarcely a month passes but the were in the days of Tsardor. Yet limelight of the Press is turned on
group practising strange rites, sometimes in remote places, other industrialised new Russia. times in the very heart of the busy
A short distance out of Moscow lies the village Teherkinov. Here, unknown to 90 per cent. of the in- habitants of the Soviet capital, re sides the largest colony of Skoptii, of Alexander I. a cult known to the St. Petersburg
Canada took coal, steel, and other things, which rhe is at presens taking from other countries. men in order to view the neces- He proposed to meet business
sary steps to be taken to give prae- tical effect to his efforts.
DISMISSED DOCTOR SHOOTS HIMSELF.
DRUGS TAKEN AFTER WAR SERVICE.
Dr. John Scott Byrne, aged Alty- two, was found shot with a revolver in his hand in a locked room at an hotel, in Bloomsbury-square five days after he had been asked by the medical superintendent of his duties there. Aylesford Sanatorium to relinquish
the
Mr. William Cox, the confidential clerk of the medical superintendent, at the, inquest said that Dt. Byrnd bad been there seven months. It had been difficult to awaken Dr. Byrne in the mornings, and the had been injudicious because he had medical superintendent said that he
take drugs.
give day and night service to 180 Dr. Byrne had been called on to patients who were all tubercular.
There was again dificulty in
M. Politis (Greece), submitted a resolution instructing the Commit tee on arbitration and security to draft a text for submission before a special conference, or next year's have eliminated sex from their lives Black Rock, Co. Dublin, said that
It is a quiet village, not only out-arousing Dr. Byrne, and be re- wardly but in essence, for its people ceived a letter from the medical know nothing of the temptations superintendent requesting him to and tragedies of the flesh. They leave.
Mr. Samuel Byrne, a brother, of
Assembly.
GENEVA, Sept. 18.
The Third Committee has adopt ed the resolution that the complete text of the financial aid convention will be drafted for consideration not later than the Assembly of 1830
THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
INVITATIONS BY THE
PREMIER.
to
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]|
Loxnos, Sept. 17. It is intimated that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, is sending invitations the French, Italian
and Japanese Governments to participate in a Five Pawer Naval Disarmament Conference which, it is intended, shall meet in London in the third week in January, 1930.
The United States Government will issue similar invitations to the countries named.
-eliminated it literally, in the sur- gical meaning of the word. Skoptai means castrationists. Both men and women joining this cult not only renounce the pleasures of the flesh but actually undergo operations to make temptation physically impo- Women evca cut off their
sible. breasts.
Enter the but of Skoptzi in Tcherkisov and the generations serta to roll back instantly. The furni ture, the decorations, the clothes, everything is in the style of the Alexander I. period. Always there are 7 or 13 inhabitants in a house, 7 and 13 being mystic numerals. The men have beardless faces and to fat, as is the way of eunuchs. The flat-chested women are baggard, ascetic.
run
The calm, however, hides whirl winds of fanaticism. Prayer brings this cut to the fall. Persons who
have witnessed it have told the car. respondent that the Skoptzi aing and dance until they collapse ex- hausted,
Smaller groups of the same sect are to be found in many parts of the Soviet Ruzsis.
Other End of the Scale.
Both the British and American Governments will submit to the Conference details of the preli minary
proposals, which have already been made public."
At the other end of the sects, speak The Governments being inviteding in terms of sense gratiâcation, are those which the world, rightly will be notified that a favourable result cannot be oatained without or wrongly, associates with the their full and sympathetic "co-
name of Rasputin.. There are many of them, some famous and others operation especially in regard to the question of limiting the ton-obscure, and all of them rest on aage of destroyers and submari- the general principle that there can be no real repentance without sin. Only those who have tasted the abandon of the flesh can be
пед.
Report Contradicted.
LONDON, Sept.
It is officially stated in Londonly saved. It is, therefore, the that no invitations have yet been happiness of being saved. to win duty of those who would know. the sent to the French, Italian, and often and eply, and the duty of Japanese Governments to partic: the "holy mean
to initiate the in- in the Five-Power'a Navel nocents through fleshly rites. Conference.
pate
No decision has yet been taken meeting. as to the date and place of the
TWO OIL TANKS AFIRE.
IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 17. Half-a-million gallons of paraffin in a giant oil tank belonging to the Anglo-American Oil Company are ablaze in the great depot at Salt End, Hull.
Tons of chemical oil-fire extin guisher are being poured on the fire which, it is feared, will in- volve the adjoining tauks
in the old days among the rich and These cults had a special. vogue aristocratic. Highly-placed ladies,
Dr. Byrne served throughout the war as a doctor in Egpyt. There" he contracted mataria and also had neuritia badly,
The coroner's officer said that in found shot be discovered the medi- the room where Dr. Byrne was cal superintendent's letter and also a number of phials of cocaine.
A verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind" was recorded.
MAN IN 2930!
DR. SOMERVELL'S BELIEF.
[United Press.] London. Human beings of thousand years hence may have very short, frail legs and tiny feet with only four toes, according to the belief of Dr. Howard Somer vell, the exploner of Mount Everest. Dr. Somervell, who was talking to Kendal schoolboys, de- clared that in this age of automo- biles, air liners, trains and buses, buman beings are actually forget ting to use their legs.
F. C. Jones, vice president of the Surrey Walking Club, however, however, entirely disagree with Dorvall there are thousands more people Ha declares that walking in Britain right now than ever before, and although thous ands are going along on wheels there are just g
on foot.
Jones, "there are fewer people who The point is this:" "said Mr. sit at home to-day than there were few years ago. Besides walking in the ordinary sense, walking as a ly popular." sport and recreation is increasing-
The Trar's Government WBB the movement of Innocenti a frightened. Physicians described dangerous "mass psychotis." In
in particular, came easily under the hope of dispersing the sect, the sway of cult leaders who gave Innocent was arrested and exiled to a mystical religious coloration to the frozen North, to the monastry. practices which normally have a on the White Bea island of Solovski. Very prosaic favour. The lowly, Hundreds of peasante braved however, were not not immune then hunger and old to follow him into and are not now.
exile. Meanwhile Moldavian pea sants, certain of his triumphant re- turn, built for Innocent à "Para- dise" with gorgeous churches above passages underground. ground and a labyrinth of halls and
Only a few months ago a monas tary on the Samara steppes was closed by the Government and its leaders accused, among other things, of immoral practices. spiritual rites conducted by cult leaders were charged in open court as simple rape.
Allegedly
The Innocents, Perhaps the most extraordinary sects in recent Russian history was that of the Innocenti, followers of monk Innocent. From his the
With the Revolution, Innoent fled from Solovski to his Paradise in Balta. Here, with several thou Band followers, he began in the midst of the civil wars an almost still full of stories of the orgies, independent reign. The province is the bacchanals, the mysterious crimes which took place in those underground balls.
A San Francisco report says that the Ventura Avenue (California) Oilfield is threatened by an ad- monastary at Balta, on the Bessar- vance on a two-mile front of a abian frontier, Innocent went out ing that the Paradize had become Then the Bovict of Odessa, charg roaring wave of fire which swept to preach to the people a new down Sulphur Mountain.
a refuge for White Guards, and mystic version of Christianity.epics, declared war on it. Fitched
taining 11,000 barrels of oil en The flames attacked a tank con- route. The oil boiled over and flow ed down Bulphur Mountain."
The damage is estimated 'st five million dollars (Gold).
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extraordinarily successful. The sands flocked to his standard, bring ing him their worldy goods and pledging their lives to him (Continued at foot of next column),
This was in 1912. His efforts were
troops and the Innocenti, Iznecent battles were fought between Red was mysteriously murdered. Ifis brother and his mother were execut ed. But remnants of Innocenti still remain.