SAD PLIGHT OF REFUGEES.
MISSIONARIES GIVE EVIDENCE.
DAMAGE BY BOMBS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
PEPING, December 2.... Foreign missionaries returning from Harbin describe the Soviet air raid at Puketo on November 28, The missionaries state that twelve
PRISON CAMPS IN THE NORTH.
JAPANESE CORRESPONDENTS'
DENUNCIATION.
DANGER OF PLAGUE. „
Detailed accounts of the condi- tions prevalent in the prison campa where Russians and Chinese have been concentrated have been sent to the Japanese press by its cor- respondents in Manchuria, all of whom stato that medical men
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929.
BRITISH INDUSTRY PROSPECTS.
· PREMIER CONFERS WITH LEADERS.
ย
FRANK DISCUSSION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Dec. 9.
The Prime Minister to-day enter- tained some half-doren leading economisty and industrialists to a rivate luncheon at 10 Downing
neroplanes bombed the town "from Bravely fear lest plague should be Street, after which & frank discu
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. One bomb hit the station, smashing all the glass and bringing down the ceiling of the main building. Other bombs
the next result of the Sino-Soviet imbroglio and lest the outbreak start from the prison concentration
camps.
Thousands of non-combatants
THE ABOLITION OF EXTRALITY.
DR. WANG TAKES IT TO HEART.
JAPAN'S NAVAL
NEEDS.
WHAT OTHER POWERS THINK
"SOME PROGRESS MADE.”
SOLUTION NEEDED.
THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.]
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NAKKING, December 2. That he will shortly tender his resignation was an intimation made by Dr. C. T. Wang, the Foreign' Minister, this morning.
Toxyo, December 2
SOCIETY THIEVES'
HARVEST.
MILLIONAIRES IN A PANIC.
HAUL OF JEWELS.
During the past few months hauls of jewellery, stocks, and bonds amounting to milions of dollars have disappeared as though by magic.
Millionaires are in a panic, and private detectives are at a pre...) mium, cwing to the activities of
Burglars who have re "society" it is learned in official circlescently been busy on the exclusive
North Shore Estates at Boston, that Britain and America, appar- ently fearing the possibility of an impasse, if Japan insists on a 70 per cent, ratio of big cruisers with America, are attempting to find an
of meeting Japan's requirements as alternative solution of the question
regards national defence,
With this object in view they have
she will require, instead of seeking total number of auxiliary vessels
Speaking at the weekly memorial sion of the look out British indus service at the Foreiga Office, Dr. try took place. said that he had long had the idea extrality would be achieved by the Mr. MacDonald Wang hoped that the abolition of
that there should, be an expert body end of the year. If this was accom- which would examine all economic plished he would consider that his
analagous to the Committee of Im-task, towards which some pro- advise the Cabinet in a mannered, and he would resign, but if the perial Defence.
gress had been made." tiled hea ratio. would be constrained to let a better and abler person succeed him,
The American"" Raffles respon. sible for the burglaries leaves no.
R.A.O.B. DINNER.
HAPPY GATHERING IN
HOTEL SAVOY.
Over 100 guests were present last evening at the Annual Grond Lodge Installation Dinner of the Wellesley II. Lodge (No. 0309 of the R.A.O.B.).
Following the Loyal Toast, pro- poted by the Chairman (Prime L." Wynn), Primo V. Williams proposed "The Order.!!
were fired at residences at various have been elapped into these prison problems confidentially, and would principal task had been accomplish. requested Japan to indicate the doing everything in their power to officers, they had a number of gen-
parts of the town, while a motor-
car, in which rolief workers were travelling, narrowly racaped the bombe dropping round.
camps where it is said, they are
being treated in a most inhumau manner. These correspondents warn the Japanese public against The missionaries also said that being too gullible in regard to the the plight of the victims in the charges of atrocities that the Chin: Three Rivers district is bad.. Hun-ere and the Russians have laid at dreds of Whites "are fleeing for their lives with a few household goods, and are camping, for the night upon the snow-covered plains. Many are suffering from illness and wounds, and the exposure.
THE MUKDEN-MOSCOW NEGOTIATIONS."
REPORT AS TO HOW THEY
STARTED,
Shanghai, Nov. 30.-An interest- ing report from Mukden gives "an account of the relations between
Nanking and Mukden in connection with the latest development of the Chinese Eastern Railway Affair." What is alleged is as follows:-
Exasperated by Marshal Chiang Kai Shek's indifference to the .C.E.R. affair, Marshal Chang Hsueh Linng the young ruler of Manchuria, has made up his mind to join Marsha Yea si Shan's and Marshal Feng Yu Hainng's anti-Nanking movement.
Having learnt of this, Marshal Chiang made every effort to hold Chang Hench Lianz. First of all Chiang allowed him to surrender to Russia's demande unconditionally concerning the C.E.R. affair. Then he promised him Tientsin and Peping if he would help Nanking to attack Ten Hei Shar when the
occasion arose.
each other's doors. They assert tha; both sides have already been guilty of gross forms of ill-treat- ment and brutal humiliation of de fenceless non-combatants, including women, and that, in the final analysis, the charges resolve them- selves into six of one and half-a- dozen of the other.
Herded Like Gattle.
He said that he gave a similar lunch before proceeding to America when it was decided to continue the conversations on this point.
DANISH MONARCH IN
ENGLAND...
A ROUND OF VISITS..
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.].
RUGBY, Dec. 9. The King and Queen of Denmark arrived in London last night and were met by the Prince of Wales,
After staying in London four days they will go to Sandringham, ne the guests of the King and Queen,
The Russian prisoners held by the Chinese are said to be, for the most part, civilians connected
To-day, King Christian and Queen with the C. E. R. whom the Rus Alexandrine are holding a
recep- sian authorities could not, or did tion to the Danish colony, and on not care to, repatriate before, rela-Thursday King Christian will visit Aldershot to inspect the end Batta- lion of the East Kent Regiment, of which he is Colonel-in-Chief.
tions with China were severed, and these are concentrated mainly in the Sunbei detention. camp, on the outskirts of Harbin. Dr. Stebbe, German consul-general, who is look. interests in ing after Russian Manchuria, recently paid a visit to this camp and is said to have remarked that it is far worse than prison camps during the were Great War at their worst. Men, women and children are herded to- gether worse than eattle and with less elbow room; food was platable and under-nourishing; there was no hot water available and not enough water to wash pro- rerly; while for sanitary condi- tion "there simply aren't any."
Russian Retaliation.
ил
clapped by the Soviet into gaol, The position of the Chinese
while it was better n the begin-
COPLEY MEDAL AWARD.
A REVOLUTION IN
PHYSICS.?
[HITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Dr. Wang said that the untimely demise of Mr. Saburi would prob- ably delay the opening of negotia tions for the revision of the Sino- Japanese Treaty, which was origin. ally scheduled to begin some time this month.
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[The question of extrality IK impartially reviewed in our leader to-day.]
CHINESE "MAN AND
SUPERMAN.”
PITIFUL TALE OF AN ILL-
TREATED HUSBAND,
time in the history of Chinese law Shanghai. Probably for the first courts, a Chinese woman has been sued by her husband for divorce on the ground of cruelty, a case to this effect coming up for hearing before Judge Chao in the Shangbai Dis trict Court Inst week.
Petitioner was Su Chu Yen, of the business department of the Min Li High School. Mr. Su in formed the Judge that he was mar ried early this year but, after, his Ruany, Dec. 1. The well known German scien-
marriage, his wife had refused to allow him to go to Boochow to visit tist, Professor Mex Planck, has been presented by the Royal Society his parents: indeed, she had gone so far as to order him to sever his with the Copley Medal, which is the
relations with them. In April this highest honour the Society can
year, petitioner visited Anting to confer. Professor Plank 30 years play mahjongg, near Shanghai, ugo discovered the quantum theory, but, as he missed his train, he had which Sir Ernest Rutherford, Pre- bes as Having effected not only following day, alone, so he request- sident of the Royal Society, descri- to stay with a friend overnight. He was afraid to return home on the a veritable revolation, in physics,
ed a couple of friends to go with him to see his wife and explain matters our methods of thought and our
to her. However, the woman was concepts of philosophy."
Professor Planck is also respons- ufterly unreasonable and she as ible for a new invention which, insulted petitioner and bit his arms. Sir Oliver Lodge's view, will have an important effect upon the fur ture development of X-Rays and light generally.
However, seeing that the concessing, is getting worse, the Rus-bat which has profoundly changed sion of Tientsin and Peping would is retaliating on these defence. rase recentment from Yen Hai less captives every time rumours Shaa, he hesitated to accept Mary loose of Chinese pressure exert ahal Chiang's öffer, and, for safety sake, he sent Mr. Lo Wan Kan. ed on the Russian enptives. The refusal of the Moscow Government his personal.representative. to Tai sunnfu, to consult secretly with Chinese and Russian.
to arrange for an exchange of Yen on "certain important mat
hostages, specially as China has consented,
ter."
It is believed that the so-called Important matter was the direct negotiations now opened with Mos
cow,
SUIFENHO "COUNCIL.
DELEGATES' DEPARTURE ·
CONFIRMED.
THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]
PEPING, December 9. Foreign sources in Harbin.confirm the reported departure of Tsai Yan Sheng to Suifenho, to meet the Soviet delegates.
Chinese reports. to-day state that Tsai passed through Suifenhe' on Sunday night en route to Har- barovsk.
RELEASE OF FATHER KREUTZEN.
A PRIEST'S UNSPARING
EFFORTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Hakow, Dec. 2nd. Newe was received by the Mis sion this morning that Father Kreutzen has been released, and is safe at Taych.
is commented on by the press
which rally this "abrupt brushing aside of a very humane endeavour
on the part of the Germans to
succour the innocent," a "crime." With the hard Manchurian and Siberian winter at hand, the suffer: ings of these civilians is bound to grow bitterer, while the Press fears lest the unspeakable condi-
The Society, has also awarded Royal medals to Professors Little wood and Muir, the Davy medal to Professor G. N. Lewis, and the Hughes medal to Professor Haus Geiger.
The Nobel prize in science for 1928 has been awarded to Professor C. W. Richardson, Director of Re- search in physics as King's College
tions in the concentration camps Loadon. of either side should lend, tonn outbreak of plague..
It is pointed out that large ar- mies are entrenched on the Sino- Soviet horder and that; ainer war has a nungent apnetite for plague. prava fears are rightly nursed lest the aggravated conditions of living under the stress of war, which are concomitants of disastrous plaguė enidemics, do not precipitate the. outbreak.
INDIAN TROUBLES.
MOSCOW'S INFLUENCE
J
WANING.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NAGPORE, Dec. 1. Serious differences have arisen within the Indian Trade Union Congress.
Pi
Throw a Cup of Tea at Him. Continuing, petitioner said that, on November 3, he told his wife
Bro. Saunders, K.O.M., Ï.P.G.P., proposing the Present Grand Lodge Officers" thanked the mem- be:s of the Order for their loyal sup port. The speaker concluded by clues, and the Boston police, after saying that, among the present
unsuccessful in every case reported. ambition lay in furthering the cause and the thieves, have so far beentlemen whose every interest and
It is for this reason that Boston's ] of the Order. No reply has yet been sent, but wealthy visitors are engaging pri it is understood that the authoriticavate detectives by the score. In are now considering the matter.
many establishments, the normal staff of private detectives has been augmented to cope with the pos- sible depredations of society."wished to remind his hearers that, thieves.
while the promotion might be the gift of the moment, it was the job At least twenty "dollar-million-of the year" and he appealed to aires have hired private detec
all present to lend him their earnest support. tives during the past week,
SECOND, RHINELAND
ZONE.
SOVEREIGNTY NOW RESTORED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S JORNOY.]
COLOGNE, December 1.
Thousands who gathered to cele brate the evacuation of the second zone were thrown into consternation
by the report that the President of the inter-Allied Rhineland High
Commissar of the occupied area Commission had, informed the Reich
that withough the Allied flags had been struck and troops departed. from zone, all must, in the absence of a declaration from the Ambas- adors Conference, still be regarded as subject to the Ordinances of the inter-allied Rhineland High Com- mission."
The authorities, however, decided later in the day a tense situation to carry on the celebrations, and was relieved by a telegram from M. Briand stating that. German sovereignty in the second zone was completely restored.
FARMERS IN RIOT IN ́N.W.
JAPAN.
ANGER OVER THE QUESTION
OF LOWERING RENTS.
Tokyo, Nov. 28—About a dozen police and several tenant farmers were more or less seriously injured' yesterday morning when a large body of police attempted to dis perse a mob of angry farmers who were engaged in a dispute with land owners on the question of lowering rents near Akita, in northwest Japan..
that he proposed to go to Soocho to celebrate his father's birthday, but his wife told him he was not to go. When he insisted on going, she threw a cup at him, hitting him on the head and injuring him. (A medical certificate was here produc d). Later, petitioner appealed to his mother-in-law and strongly pros tested against his wife's repeated bamboo spears and stones, attacked assaults and her unreasonableness. the police. One farmer was mort- As he was explaining matters, bis ally wounded by a spear-thrust dur wife came in and again assaulteding the skirmish, which lasted an him, smashing his spectacles. A hour and a half. he could no longer live with his wife on peaceful terms, he prayed
for a divorce."
Respondent denied the alleged cruelty and said that her husband was continually coming home after midnight. She simply remonstrat- cd. with him.
The Judge Daleated
both parties, suggested a reconcile Judge Chao, after listening to ment, and petitioner asked what he should do if he were again sult- "You may que her" responded the Judge.
The Dread of Plague.
A number of the most promin The papers recall that Man- churia, in recent times, has under-cat members of the organisation, gone two severe visitations of the including Fatullah Khan, Dewan Lal and Mr. Joshi have receded plague. The first was in 1910-1911 during which nearly 33,000 died; from the Congress and are considered.
ing a scheme for the formation of a new Labour organisation, the motto of which will be "legitimate Trade Unions free from Moscow's influence."
and the next in 1920-1921 when some 12.000 persons were killed. Both, outbreaks, it is further recalled, erept down from Siberia, and in vestigations since made proved that the plague originated in Northern Trans-Baikalin and followed the railway and caravan routes into the plains, claiming toll as it pro corded on its dreadful journey south.
TRIBUTE TO - FRANCE'S HERO.
DEMONSTRATION BY SERVICEMEN.:
"It may begin with a death in a railway train or in a filthy Chinese.. inn, or in one of the concentration camps," say a writer. "and then (THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.] it takes a sudden destructive turn and becomes a fiery dragon of death
PARI, Dec. 1 It is stated that no ransom what and desolation, largely because of Ten thousand ex-Service men from ever has been paid, and that the the hordes of nervous people rush all over the country marched in release was effected unconditioning south and spreading the dis procession through the streets of tressful malady with the rapidity Paris to the Arc de Triomphe to aily by Father Connaughton, from of a forest fire. To-day, with the day in memory of the late M. Hankow, who has been negotiating nerves of the Chinese much more Clemenceau. with the Communiste for a fort that, when the cure qui peut its quiet dignity.
on edge, it is to be greatly feared. The deramnetration was marked by night past.
panicky rush. commences, the to. President Doumergue drove up in Father Kreutzen is expected is sulte may be even more terrible an official carriage and laid a Hankow to-morrow or Wednesday, than in 1910-1911, all the more to wreath at the tomb of the Un-
Clemenceau's chauffeur has grown by leans and bounds since."-N.-C. Daily News.
How" asked petitioner "can I sue her if she beats me to death?"
The Judge failed to reply to this question and ordered the attorneys in the case to settle the matter amicably. He then ordered an ad- journment.
The farmers, armed with swords,
According to some papers, gen- darmes have been called out to help the police and it is reported that troops may be used if the situation becomes more threatening.
In the meantime the police are said to be planning arrests qua large scale.-Reuter.
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NEWSPRINT PAPER TO COST MORE.
CANADA RAISING THE PRICE 85 A TON.
Montreal, Nav, 20.-Mr. L. A. Tatcherean, Premier of Quebec and Mr. G. Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, held a conference to-day and announced that a price of newsprint paper of 300 a ton, as compared with the present price U.S. NAVY FLYING BOAT of 955 a ton, would be "reasonable
CONTRACT.
18 CRAFT FROM KEYSTONE AIRCRAFT CO.
and fair."
Their provinces are responsible for production of a large propor- tion of the wood pulp used for, newsprint both in Canada and the United States..
Users of newsprint in the United Washington, Nov. 26-A contract States, including the Chicago has been signed by the Navy De-Tribune and several other inrge partment with the Keystone Air-newspapers, have carried their fight craft Co, for 18 large flying boats, for lower newsprint prices to the to cost G.81,037,000,
length of purchasing their own The aircraft will be similar `in timber and crecting their own mills type to the present PN-12's owned in some instances. 7 by the Navy. They will be used as patrol planes.
The result, in the view of many. Canadian prodocera, has been to For the most part, the new ships crente a sithation where prices will be assigned to Pearl Harbour Lance admittedly, tes high scordata
United Press.
when fuller detail wil sine the penulating in the plein, i known Warringt hand- Hawaii, and to the Canal Zone:-1 years ago--are now declared to be
able,
Aval
•ed one of the sections.
unjustifiably low.
."
are
Woman Victim.
Insurance companies also most perturbed. Not a day goes by without members of households on the North Shore Estates being questioned at great length.
Among the many harassed victims of America's "Raffles" there is, at least, one philosopher. She is Mrs. Hutchinson, of Sydithia-terrace, on
the North Shore Estates.
Now that I am caimer I do not regret the loes of my jewels. I ean afford the lose, of course," she said. "Apart from sentimental
attachments, the gems were really something to be philosophical because now. frankly about.
a thing to me. cough, I find they did not mean
I see only folly in having such valuable jewels. If they had been paste, nobody, except would have known the difference,
A burglar,
But there is one gem I much which my husband gave regret losing my engagement ring
twenty-five years ago,"
ALIEN LABOUR IN AMERICA.
ONE FOR CANADIAN AND MEXICAN BORDERERS.
me
Washington, Nov. 27-The U.S. Department of Labour cantem- plutes taking steps to prevent ali ens lawfully admitted into the United States from living outside
the country.
This is especially aimed at con- ditions on the Canadian and Mexi can borders.
It is, therefore, proposed to com pel ali aliens to obtain passports, costing. 810 each, and also to pay n head tax of 88 a day when pas sing the borders,
This action followed an investiga tion which disclosed that more than 6.000 aliens who, work in Detroit live in Canada because of cheaper living conditions there.
It is the view of the department that aliens should not be allowed to make their money in this country and spend it elsewhere on a daily living basis.
Proposing the "Retiring Grand Lodge Officers," Bro. C. W. E. Wilson, C.P., G.P. said that ho Grand Primo of the Lodge for the was highly honoured to be elected
year 1930. At the same time, ho
Primo "Telfer proposed" "Absent Brethren and Visitors," after which some very talented artists entertained the company.
Among the prominent officials who were present were Messrs. J. G. Anglia, G. W. Williams. F. Chandler, L. Wynn, H. W. Wilkin son, C. W. Wilson, F. Cullen, F. C. Elliott, A. G. H, Dale, F. Brimble-· combe, Ben Murphy, T. D. Read, and C. W. Page.
The Hotel Savoy management provided a firet-rate menu, which was highly appreciated by the dinners,
ANGRY AMERICAN FARMERS.
TARIFF SITUATION
ANOLAMISS.
Washington, November 27.-When Congress assembles for its regular session, early next week after brief Greathing-space it will con- front a tariff situation complicated, rather than ensed, by the preceed- ings of the special session called settle it, is the view of observera here.
The "farm state Republicans" who expected to have good news to give their constituencies as a result of the special session ran into dis- illusion and disappointment, which in many cases virtually forced them, as as a politically expedient move, to shift into an opposition bloc.
Senator William E. Borah, of invaluable as a gleaner of votes Idaho, whose liberalism made him fluctuating between Republicanism and Democracy during the Hoover ampaign, definitely moved from the status of a close Administration acacate to a critic of Administra tion policies so far as the agricul tural tariff situation was concern- ed. With him went many Senators less known but controlling valuable Senate votes.
President Hoover's recent "pro- sperity programme" is considered a valuable move from the Adminis tration standpoint, and the activi ties of his Farm Board should be bencficial, but observers feel that the Senators of the western agricul tural states now represent a specica of unknown quantity which may prove uncomfortable before the re- gular session has moved far.
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