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PUKOW MUTINY
SPREADS.
35,000 MEN IN REVOLT.
CHIANG KAI SHEK SENDS "SPECIAL ARMY.”
[THADUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Dec. 5. It is understood that the Pukow rebels are digging in at Wuyl. Shih Yu San, the chairman of the Anhui Assembly, is now reliably reported to be heading the rebels with headquarters at Pengpu. The muting is reliably reported to have extended to the Gith Division in North Kiangau and the 2nd Mixed Brigade in Shantung, bringing the total number of troops in revolt up to 33,000.
Chiang Kai Shek is rushing ail available troops from Nanking to the Pukow front: Parts of the 3rd, 5th and 6th Divisions have croseed the Yangtze and Chiang Kai special Shek's foreign trained army" caving for Pukow to-day.
The fact that they are being sent to the front in evidence that the serious. situation is regarded as It is considered significant in some quarters that Chao Tai Wen, Yen Hai Shan's representative, left Nanking yesterday for Shanghai: HANKOW, Dec. 5.
It is reported that the troops up river who recently revolted in
South-West Hupeh clashed with Nanking Gov. érnment forces near Ichang, in the vicinity of which fighting is taking place.
South Hunan and
H.M.S. Aphis and 11.M.S. Lady- bird were fired on but no casualties were reported,
H.M.S. Bee left here hurriedly for-chang inst night.
Rebels Advance on Ichang. A Naval Wireless message states that It, in Hupeh, has been taken by anti-Chvernment forces, who are said to be advancing on Lehang.
It is some thirty miles down the river from Ichang.
"RIOTING IN SHANGHAL FIFTEEN MEN KILLED,
(Wah Tas Fat Poo).
on
M.
LITVINOFF IN A DEFIANT MOOD.
ACTION BY THE POWERS: RESENTED.
STUBBORN ADHERENCE TO C.E.R. POLICY.
(TaxODJA REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Moscow, December 3. M. Litvinoff in a speech made tu the Soviet Central Executive Com. mittee said, that Russia, was now well on the way towards a definite settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway conflict The demarche by the Three Powers which bad led to no result would at the worst lead to delay in the negotiations with Mukden but he was inclined to think that "Mukden, and perhaps even Nanking, will understand that we will not allow any demarches to swerve us from the position which we have resolutely adopted from the very beginning of the conflict, and any delay will only be to the disadvantage of China itself."
Goos to Afghans and. Japanese. As regards Japan, considerable stabilisation might be observed in her relations with Russia and a mutual loyalty was being shown on both sides
The Soviet was interested in seeing the speediest posible paci. ficntion in Afghanistan. It recog- nised the new Government as 8000 as it was formed and confirmed its unchanging friendship. enne:uded that the general inter- national position of the Soviets had improved but its external safety could not be considered secure.
Litvinoff
China's Friendly Gesture to Britain.
LONDON, December, 4. Chirh's reply to the British Note on the Kellogg Pact which has been received from Nanking is brief, conciliatory and friendly
The reply declares that China has always literally carried out Article Two of the Treaty which states that no signatory shall employ war as
a settlement of an international dispute.
The reply also reiterates China's adhersion to the Pact.
THANKS EXPRESSED TO M. BRIAND,
PARIS, December 5. This morning the Chinese Minis- ter visited M."Briand, whom, pre- sumably be thanked for French intervention in the Sino-Russian conflict.
The
Russia Displeased.
Moscow, December 4. kevedia states that the
signature of the Protocol at Nikol skussurisk completes the first stage of the acttlement of the Russe- Chinese conflict as regards the Chinese Enstern Railway and ex- presses satisfaction at the refusal of Japan, Italy, and Germany to join in the "unfriendly" interven tion sponsored by the United States and France whose interests conflict with the restoration of the joint. Russo-Chinese management of the railway.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 5. A disturbance occurred at Nan .Shih in Shanghai at about
o'clock. Wednesday morning when a group of new about fifty to sixty in number proceeded to the Electricity Plant where they at shi main eable, and disarmed four Then they attempted policemen, to attack a nearby police station but were driven off.
Two detectives sent to the Eice tricity Plant to investigate were The rioters then also disarmed, proceeded to the railway station and get fire to one house. They also set fire to two buildings. else where and thirteen men were kill ed. At about 3 o'clock the police arrived and a fight followed listing for an hour, when fifteen of the rioters were arrested. 3fartial law THE EXTRALITY. PROBLEM. was declared throughout Shanghai the following day.
SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL
COUNCIL.
INVITATION TO ́MR. JUSTICE FEETHAM EXPLAINED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Dec. 4.
DISCUSSIONS IN LONDON.
[TOROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, December 4. It is learned from a Chince source here that there has been no fresh development as regards | China's intention to abolish extra- territoriality as from January 1,
1030.
The matter has been the subject of conversations with Mr. Alfred Sze, the Minister for Chinn, since lieved that the matter will come up at Nanking soon when the British Minister arrives there.
In the House of Commons, arishe arrived in London, and it is be-
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ing out of the forthcoming mission of Mr. Justice Feetham, the Chief Justice of South Africa; to invest gate municipal conditions in Shanghai, Mr. Somerville asked whether the British Government
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF were co-operating in the investiga- Lion, which was an Imperial issue. THE ANTARCTIC.
In reply. Mr. Gillett Parliamen
U.S. AND BRITISH CLAIM. tary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. stated that the Consul General at Shanghai had reported Washington, November 28. The that Mr. Justice Feetham had been State Department has disclosed the asked whether, in the event of the fact that the "Hoover-MacDonald Municipal Council inviting him to atmosphere of good feeling" act as their adviser, for the pur-generated by the recent visit of the pose of examining the problem of British Premier, probably averted municipal reform in the Interan- tional Settlement, in the light of Chinese nspirations. he would ae- cept. Mr. Gillett fathered from the Press that the invitation had been accepted.
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budding Anglo-American argu. ment over sovereignty in the An- taretic regiona.
As revealed by the United Press on April 5, Great Britain at that time sent n
note to the United The Shanghai Municipal Coun- States, inferentially stating Bri- eil, said Mr. Gillett, took this ne- tain's claim to certain polar areas. tion without first consulting His Argument against these claims. Majesty's Government. They ex- was prepared by Mr. J. Reuben plained to the Consul General-Clark, then an under-secretary. No General that they were anxious not action was taken, however. to embarrass the British Govern- ment, and that for this reason the Government were not being asked -to-accept any responsibility in the
matter....
Consequently. added. Mr. Gillett co-operating but. It would watch the developments,
On November 15, Mr. Joseph Cotton. Under-Secretary of State, replied to the note to apologize for the delay and to acknowledge the existence of a British claim
The Cotton note, however, made
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929.
BRITAIN'S POLICY TOWARDS RUSSIA.
STATEMENT DURING LORDS' DEBATE,
PEERS EXPRESS THEIR DISAPPROVAL,
(REUTER AND BRITISH WIRELESS.]
LONDON, Dec. 4. The House of Lords to-day car ried by 43 votes to 21 a motion proposed by Lord Birkenhead
that the diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Government is at present undesirable."
The Debate was
initiated by Lord Birkenhead who called atten- tion to the recept Soviet revolu- tionary propaganda and invited a statement of the policy of the Goy- ernment.
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Reply for Government.
Lord Thomson, replying for the Government, said a pledge would be reciprocally affirmed between the Anglo-Soviet Governments on the resumption of diplomatic re- lations and would provide that "the contracting parties solemnly affirm their desire and intention to live in peace and amity with each other, to scrupulously respect the undoubted right of a State "to or der its own life within its own jurisdiction and in its own way: to refrain from and restrain all persons and organisations under their direct and indirect control. including organisations in receipt of any financial assistance from them, from any act overt or other liable any way, whatever to endan
UNITED STATES
BUDGET.
TREMENDOUS PROSPERITY
נו
REFFECTED.
BIG PROVISIONS FOR ARMY- AND NAVY,
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. President Hoover, has asked Con- gress for 83,830,000,000 for Govern- ment use during the next fiseni year, which is 145 million dollars. The less than the present year. estimated Treasury outing for the twelve months beginning next July is 4,103 million dollars and it is predicted that there will be a sur plus at the end of that period.
The difference between the appro priations asked for and the estimat ed expenditure is explained by the fact that the President has not in- eleded any amount for the Federal Farm Boards Revolving Fund, be cause it has not been determined. how much will be necessary. AnĮ estimate of the outlay placed the amount at two hundred million dollars, while a further difference of seventy-two million dollars is due to the carry-over of appropria tions from, the present year, which will be available next year,
That Big Navy.
President Hoover has asked for 380 million dollars for the Navy, ar sixteen more than last year, pro viding inter alia tor alterations to battleships and the construction of two new dirigibles. He states that ger any part of the British Em-provision is made is continue Tire or the 'nion of Socialist and Soviet Republics."
Lord Thomson said the policy of the Government was to resume por-
mat
diplomatic relations with Russia with the least possible de lay and at the same time to safe- guard British interests, not only in this country, bus throughout the world.
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World Peace the Alm.
.The Government, wanted to con- tribute to the maintenance of world peace and to expand British trade. It was the Government's view that relations with the Soviet Govern- ment should never have been broken off. A policy of refusing relations
MR. AND MRS. FAIRBANKS
IN HONG KONG.
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford arrived in the Colony yesterday, and very kindly gavo an interview to our representa- tive, in which they made many Interesting statements about the progress of the "talkies" and other film matters. The inter- view appears on page 4.
because they would not accept the promises of the Soviet Government was a policy of despair. It would mean that the present state of af fairs would continue indefinitely.
Ambassaders had not yet been exchanged and the ledge regard- ing propaganda had not yet been given. The Government had not renounced. and would
not
nounce their right to take any measure they might think necessary to check foreign subversive pro- paganda from whatever source it might emanate.
Lard Brentford (!'Jix" of former dava) asked whether, in face of that declaration. if propaganda - con- tinued either in Britain or in the Empire instigated by the Russian Government, their envoy would be dismissed again.
No lusion.* Lord Thomson replied. "If it ie instigated by the Russian Gov ernment most certainly."
Lord Birkenhead:-Including
the Third Internationale?
Lord Thomson.-Yes.
He added that the British Gov- ernment was not blind to the fact that its interpretation that the. pledge included the Third Inter- nationale had been questioned in the Soviet Press, but the British Government had not renounced the right to take any measures it deem- ed necessary to check. foreign sub- versive propaganda from wherever it might emanate.
Lord Thomson said he did not want to leave the impression that propaganda would cease as if by magic. It could not, in the nature of things with a body like the Third Internationale.
Regarding the argument that re lations should not be resumed with a country where atrocities and ex- ecutions had taken place he said the Government did not condone the atrocities and rezretted the ex- ecutions but they believed that a resumption of relations with Rus- ein would tend to diminish the sys- tem of executions and atrocities which still prevailed there.'
We believe that it is in the best intercats of our country to resume relations, We believe it to be absolutely indispensable for the Keneral peace of the world and that is the reason why the Government
er the hearted Stries se grubriching their resp. ther agreed to the Britian claim nor attempted to refute it.
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work on the two cruisers already Inid down. Three cruisers and as Breraft carrier will be laid down in the late scal year 1330,
The remaining ten cruisers of the fifteen authorised by the net of February 13, 1920 will be commenced in the late fiscal year 1931..
The War Department's estimate of 400 million dollars is only three more than last year.
Presiden: Hoover states that taxi receipts increased by 409 million dollars and expenditure by 243 million dollars. He compared the estimates for 1030 and said that the increase in receipts reflected an extra 305 millions from income tax. due to the abnormal increase of the incomes of individuals in 1998, the most prosperous business year to date
Income Tax Reduction.
In view of the estimated surplus of 221 million dollars this year and 122 million dollars next year," Mr. Hoover' recommends that income tax receipts for 1929 shall be retired by 100 million dollars by reducing. the rate of the tax by one per cont. He concludes that the United States finances are in a sound condition. The public debt was 16,031 millions in June 1920 compared with" 98,506 in August 1913.
AMERICA'S NAVAL
DELEGATES.
FORTY SAILING ON S.S. BREMEN.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, December 5. The American delegation to the Naval Conference in Londen, will sail on December 10 or the 8.8. Bremen. The delegation of forly men is the largest sent to Europe since the Peace Conference at Ver-
sailles.
THE SINGAPORE BASE.
WILL DELAY MEAN EXTRA EXPENDITURE,
[THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Dec. 4. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Ormsby-Gore asked whether any new expenditure was involved in delaying the work on the Singa- pore Base and also whether the contractors claimed. the break clause in their contracta.
Mr. A. V. Alexander replied that he was unable to answer the ques- tion.
Liberal Support.
F
Lord Reading (Liberal), approv ed the Government's policy as sound, wise and in the interests of real security and universal peace. He said he would have preferred to see an agreement definitely setting down the terms of relations that. were to exist before the exchange" of Ambassadors, but he hoped that when the conditions were laid down so they would be as'definite and pre- cise as possible.
Archbishop Approves."
The Archbishop of Canterbury drew attention to the attitude of the Soviet Government towards Christianity and all forms of re- ligion, and said he had received information that there was now a cessation of the more flagrant vio- lations of the elementary princi- ples of justice. He believed there. would be a greater chance of so curing some alleviation of the dif ficult position of religious people in Russia it representations could The mode through ordinary diplomatic means to the Noviet Government
ARTIFICIAL RUBBER AT LAST!
THE
BURDEN ARMAMENTS.
OF
AN EDISON INVENTION,
MADE FROM COMMON
AMERICAN WEEDS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE. ↑
NEW YORK, December 5. Mr. Edison claims to have pro- duced artificial rubber, which it will be possible to manufacture at a cost of sixteen cents per pound. It is made from "Gold Rod" one of the commonest weeds in the United States.
STORMY GERMAN
POLITICIANS.
COMMUNIST UPROAR IN
REICHSTAG.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BELIN, Dec. 4
Shouts of Bloodhound! Mur-
"derer?" resounded through the Reichstag daring the first reading of a Bill for the protection of the "Republic.
The Communists did their utmost to prevent the Minister of the Interior from speaking. They blew whistles and yelled whenever the Minister rose.
Eventually, six Communists were expelled for a week, whilst one who refused to leave was removed by the polios.
STEADY INCREASE.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S GRAVE WARNING.
(DRITION WIRELESS BERVICE.]
Rugby, Dec. 5.
A vigorous speech on the need for accelerating international disarma ment was made in the House of Commons last night by Mr. Lloyd- George, when an omnibus motion. favouring disarmament and the co- ordination of the British fighting services in a single Ministry of Delence was under discussion,
out
thai
The Liberal ex-Premier took na his text President 'Hoover's recent Feech which pointed to-day there were also powerful amies, including Reservists who were the real men who mattered.
ENGLAND'S GREAT.
GALE.
80 MILES AN HOUR.
FLOODS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Rogor, Dec. 3.
A violent southwesterly gale, reaching in one places a velocity Britain and the adjacent seas last of 50 miles an hour, swept over
night and continued this morning.
In the Channel and North Sea extremely heavy seas are running and much of the shipping made for shelter where available.
Fishing trawlers reached Hull in battered condition the crews describing the gale as being bad as any they had ever experienced.
No casualties have so far been reported, but on land much minor damage such as the uprooting of trees and the blowing down of walls bas occurred, and, near Bristol, railway traffic was imped- ed by a steel crane having been blown down on to line. The gale was accompanied by torrents of Thirty Million Armed Man.
rain which helped to increase the Mr. Lloyd George contended that already large flooded areas, parti-
cularly in Thames Valley.
the World had ten million more men trained to arms than in 1914, and seventy-five times as many "arma inenta as they could use. He criti-" cised severely the slow progress made by the Disarmament Commis sion of the League of Nations and the delay among the allied powers in carrying out the disarmament. pledges made in the Versailles
Treaty.
Without disarmament war, in his judgment, was inevitable. He add
ec.
THE RHINE ARMY.
"PACKING ITS TRAPS."
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE. Į „
BUGBY, Dec. 5. The last units of British army
on Rhine will be home next week.
The evacuation will practically be completed by next Thursday when Lieutenant-General Sir Wil liam Thwaites leaves with his staff after paying necessary compli- A small final party of de-
You are not going to get peace with thirty million armed men in the World and gigantic armaments, The chariot of peace cannot adments. vance along a road cluttered with tails leaves December 13. cannon. You must break up the
The new Bill is almost similar to one which expired in July, but it contains a clause forbidding the ex-Kaiser from returning to Germachinery of hatred and convert it into the mechanism of peace and progress."
many.
The disintegration of the Nation- alist Party is overshadowing all else. Twelve prominent Deputies have already, seceded, and it is generally whispered that the Party has now lost its brains.
ITALY'S KING AND QUEEN AT VATICAN.
AN HISTORIC VISIT.
Vatican City, Dec. 5. Their Majesties the King and 'Queen of Italy drove in state this morning to visit His Holl-
oss the Pope and for the first time sovereigns of United Italy entered the Vatician thus ending a quarrel which has lasted sixty-nine years.
Nationalist Party. Another cable states that the disintegration of the German Na- tion Party is assuming unexpected proportions.
The Lokalaniger estimates that the Party, which now has 78 seats in the Reichstag, will lose at least twenty member, objecting to the party leader, Herr Bugenberg.
Count Westarp has resigned the leadership of the party in Reichstng.
the
THE EMPIRE'S SUPREME COURT.
NO ALTERNATIVE SUGGESTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, Dec. 4.
In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, replying to a ques- tion, said no communications on the subject of an alternative to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for settlement of legal dis putes between members of the Bri- tish commonwealth of nations had been received from any of His Ma jesty's Governments in the Domin- iona,
The whole subject could be most appropriately discussed at the next Imperial Conference. British Wircleta.
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CITY OF NORWICH WRECK..
ÉLEVEN OF CREW DROWNED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}··
WELLINGTON (New Zealand), December 5. Twenty-four survivors including the three mentioned in the wire from Pago Pago yesterday have been, rescued from the a. City of "Norwich Including "the" "Master. Eleven were drowned, namely, the third and fourth, engineers, the car penter, a steward, a serman and six Arab firemen.
Telegrams in Brief.
Britain's Effort for Peace. Intervening Inter, during a speech by Sir Samuel Hoare, Mr. Lloyd M. Jaspar, the President of the George admitted that Britain had Haguo Conference, has informed done more than any other country the Dutch Government that it is for disarmament and had abolished proposed to convene a second con- conscription, reduced the army beference the Hague on January low pre-war level, and had been the 3.-Reuter. first to reduce her Navy after the Washington Conference.
Sir Samuel Hoare, who was Air
Minister in the last Government, compared the relative positions of
The Secretary for the United Congress the establishment of a States Navy has recommended to
Naval dirigible base on the Pacific
the air armaments of the lending Coast, to be made at Camp Kear. powers. He stated that expenditure ney, near San Digo-Reuter, on xór services had risen since 1925, The report of the British Com-
in Italy, by twenty-eight per cent,mittee on the load-lines of mer-
in France by ninety-two per cent. chant ships has been received by and in United States by 120 per the Board of Trade, and. in' ac-,
exclusive of cent.
the cost of cordance with its recommenda- Leivil aviation. In Great Britain tions, it is proposed to summon as it had been lowered by. ten per Boon as possible an International ent. He thought it might be pas- Conference with the object of get- sible to gree on parity in air ting international agreement strength between Great Britain, | the subject."--British "Wireless France and Italy but the main thing in all disarmament negotia- tions was to split the problem up and secure reductions in more im- mediately practicable directions.
Government Reply. Replying for the Government, Mr. Alexander, First Lord of the Ad- miralty, agreed that grave risk con- tinued so long as nations refrained from making mutaal progrees to
wards disarmament.
on
The Conference on the operation of Dominion legislation and mer- chant shipping legislation conclud- ed on Wednesday. A unanimous report has been made, and, in ac cordance with the terms of refer- ence, has been submitted to the re- The pub- spective Governments. lication of this report must be de ferred until every Government has had an opportunity of considering it-British Wireless,
The
As long as such reserve of possible
death has occurred in and immediate inflammable material Washington of Mr. James Noonan, existed, so long would there he con- Tokyo that Mr. Torikichi. Obata start danger of an outbreak of a President of the Federation of conflagration.
Labour.
Mr. Alexander said that the pre- sent Government in the short period it had existed had devoted a large I portion of its time to the matter of disarmament, and would continue to do absolutely everything in its rower to that end.
It is authoritatively stated in Tokyo that Mr. Tarikichi Obata has been offered the annointment of Minister to China. His accept- ance of the position is considered ~ probable.-Reuter.
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