NO PROGRESS AT NAVAL PARLEY.
BRIAND LEAVES FOR.
PARIS,
JAPAN AND AMERICAN PROPOSALS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 19.
A surprise was caused in Naval Conference circles last night when
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald immed
THE LATE LORD BALFOUR:
A GREAT LOSS TO THE NATION.
KING'S MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY MARCH 21, 1930.
Recur, March 20. the following telegram to Mr.. H.M. The King has addressed
Gerald Balfour, brother of Lord
“A FIGHT TO THE
LAST."
GANDHI'S ATTITUDE MORE
· MILITANT.
PROGRESS OF MARCH.
[THROUGH AKUTEN'S AGENCY.]
BORSAD, March 19. Mahatma Gandhi addressed public meetings at Rans where ሲ. pro- hibitory order has not been en forced against him.
Gandhi, in the course of his arrest of Vallabhai Patel, Rasa
the volunteera that they would have
GHASTLY CINEMA FIRE
DISASTER IN KIRIN.
67 WOMEN AND CHILDREN PERISH.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY
SHANGHAI, March 20. message from Changchan states that on Tuesday the fusing of an electric wire caused an out break of fire in a makeshift cinema
be treated mercifully it arrested building. to fight to the last and would not very rapidly, soon enveloping the and sentenced.
COMMUNIST. PLOTS |-,,KWANGSI DRIVE.
IN PHILIPPINES.
REPORTED VICTORY FOR GOVT. FORCES.
PLAN TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT.
[FROM OUR OWN
SPONDENT:]
MORE SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
MANILA, MATCH 20. The Philippine Constabulary have revealed to the Governor-General a plot by local labour leaders and
CHIANG'S SECRET MOVE.
SUDDEN DEPARTURE BY GUNBOAT.
TO HANKOW OR SHANGHAI ?
CANTON, March 30. According to a Government re- port, the pro-Nanking forces under General Chea Tani Tang and Gen-
[THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.] eral Chu Shao Liang in Kwangi launched their second offensive yes.
NANKING, March 201 terday on the Kwangsi-" Iraide Chiang Rai Shek left this mera coalition with Sunchow and Kweling at o'clock on board the gun-
Ping and the vicinity of Mongkong, and fighting took place in which the Government forces are reported to have been successful, Four acro planes are participating in the offensive.
it was learned that M. Briand bad Balfour: "The death of Lord speech, said that as a reply to the hall in Kizin City, while a per-Communists with Moscow afflis. hsien as their objective. They en boat Chu Ya. His departure, which decided to return to Paris to-day Balfour wil! "evoke throughout the should send 600 volunteers to parti formance was in progress. Fanned tions to overthrow the Insuls countered the enemy forces at Nam- i was kept strictly secret, was most iately arranged to see M. Briand Empire and many other parts of cipate in a campaign. He warned by a stiff breeze, the flames spread Government and to establish Soviet and a prolonged discussion ensued. the world feelings of deep sorrow, M. Briand may return with M. which the Queen and I fully share. Tardieu at the week-end..
It is a national loss of a great statesman-the last of Queen Vic- toria's Ministers. I shall treasure his memory as a lifelong friend, a great and charming personality, and a wise and trusted counsel-
Anglo-American Discussions,
Ruory, March 19.
The Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and the First Lord of
the Admiralty, Mr. A. V. Alexan- der, were the guests of Mr. H. L. | lor.” Stimson, the head of the American delegation, to-day at luncheon. Other members of the American delegation were present.
The affairs of the Conference were closely discussed, and later in the
afternoon the conversations were resumed at St. James' Paince, Mr.
Stimson and Mr. Dwight Morrow and Mr. MacDonald and Mr Alexander being joined by their exports for this discussion. "The meeting was one of many that have been held stace Sunday, but the general situation that con- fronts the conference remains an: changed. Determination is express ed to exert all endeavours to re- solving the French and Italian dif- ficulties, which constitute the chief obstacle to progress towards a five- Power agreement, which remains the sole object of the Conference. Japan to Reject U.S. Proposals 7-
Toxxo, March 20 While there appears to be a grow ing belief that Japan is unable to accept the American proposals without modification, a Foreign Office spokesman fatly denied that either the Government or any Gor- eriment department has arrived at any decision yet.
on
Premier's Tributa.
journed to-day as a mark of catcom Both Houses of Palisment ad for Lord Balfouris racmory, no of Commons the Premier said, "I business being done. In the House am are the whole House will grieve to know that Lord Balfour died this morning, and I feel perfectly certain that the House would wish to pay its respect to himself and to do nomage to his memory by adjourning at once." He moved the adjournment adding that to morrow he would take steps so that expression might be given to the tributes that all sides of the House would like pay.
The Conservative leader, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, said he was con vinced that the Fremier had moved A resolution which would be in ae cord with the sympathy and senti- ments of the whole House..
Press Comments.
told that if he manufactured salt Ganghi added that he had been
bands, but he would like to see how it would be snatched from his the Government could snatch salt from his hand, weak though he
Wand
villages in the Kaira distrist.
Gandhi has so far received over 100 resignations from oficiais in
Congress Leader Accompanies Gandhi,"
JANDUSAE, Bombay Province,
March 20
fooded river Mahi in a boat from Gandhi at midnight crossed the
which he was lifted and carried to the shore, while the other marchers waded three miles through water and mud. All halted all night long on the bank.
Jawahar Lal Nehru, President of the All-India Congress, met Gandhi in the morning and accompanied bim at the head of the column to Kareli, where the party will halt for the day.
"My Last Pligrimage,"
At the first sign of trouble the the exit, and many were crushed audience, consisting mostly of women and children, stampeded for
been recovered from the debris A to death. Up to now 87 bodies have dozen charred bodies remain un- claimed.
The proprietor of the cinema and the operator fled immediately after. the outbreak...
OVERLOADING OF CARGO SHIPS.
STRICTER PENALTIES
URGED.
**{THROUGH LED
'S AGENCY.]
rule. The Bureau of Posts has been asked to deny the use of mails to officiais of the Proletarian Labour
pines. Congress operating in the Philip
General by the Chief of Constabul
A report sent to the Governor-General Offensive Ordered. ary states that labour leaders are albert to take advantage of any Government commotion to bring
•Sasking
unexpected, especially in view of yesterday's announcement by the State Council which stated that the Generalissimo was leaving the capi- tal on March a to inspect the troops in the Shanghai and Hang- chow areas, and from there to the Tientsin-Pukaw and Peping-Han, chow appearing in the vernacu or According to a report from Wu-
kow Railways, returning to press, General Chen Tsai Tong has ordered the Cantonese troops to Admiral Chen Shao Kwang, accom
on May 10.
The acting Minister for the Navy, about an upheaval, and Hi Binca several leaders identified with the start a general offensive against the panied Chiang Kai Shek this morn movement. He ba sent the Kwangsi forces on the West Rivering, but his usual staff did Governor-General papers which Large bodies of Nanking troops, it have been confiscated, including
accompany him. pamphlets urging a united boycott reported, have been rushed to of American products, which are the West River, while the rest will branded in the constabulary report remain on the defensive in the as radical and more seditious."
Kwei River Districts.
or less
The confiscated material revealed a communist connection in the re-. cent school strike, in Manila.
LABOUR CONDITIONS
IN CHINA. INFORMATION BUREAU IN
NANKING.
IN(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 20. Stricter penalties for overloading ships are urged in a report by the BossAD, March 20.
Merchant Shipping Advisory Com After crossing the Mahi, Gandhi mittee, which points out that the Liberals associated himself with thkapur, and said: This will be extra freight gained through over- Sir Herbert Samuel for the addressed the villagers of Kan-Present Penalty of £100 is some motion, and the House signified its
considerably less than the assent by rising.
the last religious pilgrimage of loading. my life, and 1 have undertaken it afoot according to tradition." He master convicted of overloading It is further suggested that a added that now-a-days it was the should be liable to have his sert fashion to make pilgrimages by Beate cancelled and be suspended. aeroplane, but by making theirs afoot, be and his followers would Shipowners in London, after con- The International Conference of 8uia much more,
He exhorted the villagers to be ferring for three days, has unancial of the Lebour Office, has been Mr. C.. C. Chan, Chinese off favour of the establishment of sa appointed manager, and leaves for mously adopted a resolution in international load-line, The deles China on March 24 to arrange for gates are informing their respectivement Bureau, which will probably matters with the Chinese Govern. Governments.
Tributes to the deceased Conser. vative statesman frem leading men of all parties are published in the Press.
1 41
It is expected that the Cabinet will attempt to reach a decision' Sir Austen Chamberlain declares March 22, but possibly that in Lord Balfour the Nation reply will not be ready till next has lest the finest mind that has ready to manufacture salt as 800n week. Close observers believe been given to politics in our gened them do so.
as he reached Jalalpur, and direct- that the reply, while rejecting the cration. proposals in their present, form, will leave the way open for further negotiation.
Mr. Winston Churchill says that Lord Balfour was the greatest mem- hers of the Honse of Commons since Gladstone. The earlier part of his political work was intermingled with party controversy but bia principal actions were national, WILL RETURN WHEN WORK and gained the common gratitude
*M, BRIAND'S STATEMENT.
TO DO."
[THROUGH REUTER A AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 20.
of all.
Liberal and Labour members speak of Lord Balfour's charming personality, which endeared him even to his bitter opponents. M. Briand, on his departure for
Mr. J. R. Clynes, Home Secret Paris, cheerfully remarked: It is, says, "I do not think Lord useless sitting in is hotel watching Balfour has left a single enemy. the weather from the window. He had the restraints of a philoso- for me to do." He declined to com- sincere in a higher degree than will return when there is some work phic mind and, though subtle, was
ment on the prospects of the con-
other inen. He combined power ference.
with charm and had an agility of mind rarely surpassed in the House of Commons
Departare Explained.
LONDON, March 20 A French spokesman explained to Reuter that M. Briand's return to Paris to-day is due to the fact that he was requested to appear be fore the Chamber on a Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in nowise implies a breaking up of the con- ference.
He drew attention to two out standing questions: Firstly, the Franco-Itadian issue which can only be settled by putting aside the question of parity, and produc ing something definite; secondly; the figures between France and Britain which can only be modified if a pact for the better organisation of peace in Europe can be develop
ed.
to
Messages have been received from a number of foreign Governmenta conveying their condolences.
grief over Lord Ballour's death From Jerusalem ir is stated that is perhaps nowhere more wides- pread and genuine than in Pales tine among the Jews for whom the who signed his name to the British memory of the British statesman War Cabinet's declaration favour ing a Jewish national home will for ever remain green, no matter how practical the aspects Zionism work, ant. The Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Council met to and a suitable form in which to express the sense, of loss of the Jewish people.
Burial in Scotland,
of
ASSEMBLY AND SALT MONOPOLY.
SIGNIFICANT VOTING
FIGURES. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
cam-
NEW DELI, March 20, with Ganda's anti-salt tax
It is significant in connection
votes to 30, rejected the Indian paign that the Assembly, by members' amendment to the Fir ance Bill for the suppression of the Government salt monopoly.
that the amendment would involve Sir George Schuster pointed out a loss in revenue of seven crores,
AN INVISIBLE TORPEDO.
NEW GERMAN SUBMARINE INVENTION.
WINTRY WEATHER IN ENGLAND. SHIPPING HELD UP. [BRITISH WIRELESA BERVICE.)
Recay, March 20. greater part of the British Isles, Wintry weather prevail over the more or less heavy snowfalla being reported.
GENEVA, March 20, the International Labour Office, the
The Correspondenca Bureau of formation of which was decided last year following Mr: Albert Thomas's visit to the Far East, is opening shortly
be located in Nanking, to serve as a link between the Labour Office and the Chinese. Government for a supply of impartial information re- garding Labour conditions China.
in
SPAIN HONOURS DICTATOR.
The Cantonese troops will be escorted in their advance along the Hiver by gunboats which are now able to sail above Mongkiang On account of the rise of the River. The Kwangsi troops have laid, it is said, mines at Tai Wong Kong, some distance east of Sunchow, to check the advance of the. Canton gunboats,
Fighting is reported to have taken place at Pinguam, midway between Tenghsien and Sunchow, and Gen King, Heung Hon Ping and Yu Hon erais Chen. Taal Tong, Li Yang low have left to direct the cam paiga.
not
Chiang Kai Shek is going to Han- According to various reports kow or Shanghai," while persistent reports state. he has gone to Feng- hua to visit his home town. This, however, is discredited by well- informed circles:
Chiang Inspects Forts,
SHANGHAI, "March 20. It is learned that Chiang Kai Shek inspected the Silver Island forts near Chinking this morning.
Manchuria to Support Shansi, [FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
SHANGHAI, March 20. Manchurian warlord; has definitely General Chang Hauch Liang, the expressed his decision to support Shansi against Marshal Chiang Kai
Shek.
Hai Shan is actuated by the fact. His decision to side with Yen.
to side with Ye
that he has discovered a plot by: Chinng to allow General Han Fu Chu the control of Hopei Pro- vince (Chili) and General Shih Yu San the control of Jehol after the overthrow of the Kuominchun
PIRATE OUTRAGES IN CANTON. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO BLOW generals.
UP JUNK..
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] ·
CANTON, March 20. Daring bandits, and outlaws, who have been talking trouble for ship- ping merchants in the outlying dis tricts, have carried their activities right up to Canton. After blowing up the junk Koming at its wharf here last Monday, they attempted to blow up the junk Luen Sbang
BURIAL OF GENERAL PRIMO which is on the Canton-Kungyick
DE RIVERA.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
MADRID, March 20
this morning and two air liners Rivera received a fitting tribute on
Owing to a snowstorm in the located. No machines left Croydon Channel the air services were dis-
The body of General Primo de fying from Paris to London, find-its arrival as the station, where the ing it impossible to get across the waiting room was transformed into Channel, landed near the French chapelle ardente. coast. Early this afternoon, when the weather cleared a little, several machines crossed the Channel:
Shipping was delayed in the Channel and gun signals were fired from the Admiralty Pier at Folke- stone to guide passing vessels.
{reanuda RECTER'à AGENCY.]
Jin Technical High School, has
BERLIN, March 20. Professor Oswald Flamm, of Ber- designed a new type of submarine, claimed to have superior speed and power to anything existing. Its. pedo, not showing a wake. chief weapon is an invisible tor- POPE
CATHOLIC INTERCESSION FOR RUSSIA. CELEBRATES MASS AT
ST. PETER'S," (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
His Majesty the King, Ministers of the Dictatorship and of the Diplomatic Corps, the Army and Navy, and officers of the whole Government were Present while Mass was said..
The garrison lined the streets a the body was conveyed on a gun- carriage to the cemetery:
།
YEN'S PROVISIONAL CABINET.
TUAN CHI JUI AS PREMIER.
(ah Tu Thi Pao.)
PEPING, March 20. In addition to the proposed: ap pointment of Wa Pei Fu as War Minister, Tuan Chi Jut as Minister of the Interior, and Liang Shih Y as Minister of Finance, Yen-Hai run, A bandit wearing military Shan has decided to make Welling- uniform was caught as he was about to hurt from the wharf Affairs, Sung Hung Lieh Minister Koo Minister of Foreign
junk Koming Inst Monday, the hand grenade at the junk. A group of the Navy and Yeh Kung Cho of Police fell on him and took him Minister of Communications. Yen to the Police Station.
will act as the Chief Executive with Following on the outrage on the Tuan Chi Jui as the Premier. authorities despatched heavy
趄
force of Police and Gendarmes to watch the wharves, and every pas senger was thoroughly searched before being allowed to go on board..
ton
CHINA MERCHANTS STEAMERS. HELD UP.
(Wah Tae Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, March 20. Sailings of the China Merchants' Northern ports have been suspend- steamers between Shanghai and the cd since yesterday.
Another shipping company, the Tung On Co., has received a black- mailing letter from the bandits de: manding heavy protection fees » before their junks and steam
It is understood that the s.s. Hein launches are allowed to go up and Ming belonging to the above Com down the West River. Among other things. the letter states that pany has been detained at Tientsin.
MADAME HANAU'S HUNGER.the destruction of the Kaming was
STRIKE.
(THROUGH REUTER's AGzkor.}.
only a minor warning and worse
build submarines, and the Professor
is to come, unless the Tung On Co.
is unable to Gnance even the con- As Germany is not permitted to
are willing to pay up. The letter. has been turned over to the Police. struction of a model of the vessel;
PARIS, March 20,
The sinking of the Koming and the constant threats of the pirates it is likely to remain on paper un-
ROME, March 19,
Following the receipt of a medi- are seriously affecting the business cal report the courts rejected an of the shipping companies operat less foreign power becomes in the Vatican and Rome Diplomatic lease of Madame Hanau. She was
The Cardinals, the members of application for the provisional reing on inland waters. People are terested
Corps, and many other eminent again forcibly fed this evening, but ly necessary, and very little chip- Professor Flamm says that the personages, attended St. Peter's
not travelling unless it is absolute- new type will be able to carry four to-day when Low Mass was offered spite of nourishment she reping is going on. four Powers are agreed on the need remain only two ex-Premiera, Mr.: gun, as in the British "Oberon" cession for the return of penso and Madame Hanau, who eighteen days six-inch guns compared with one by His Holiness the Pope ia inter- A message yesterday stated that
mains very weak. Class, but it will only need six torreligious freedom in Russia.
tubes. Furthermore, the Similar services wer held in pedo ressel will bo armoured and have Roman Catholic churches through- tion in prison in connection with azo began a hunger strike as a pro- a. speed-surface of 29 knots compar out Italy and all other parts of the the Gazette du Franc financial test against her prolonged deten ed with 15-knote of the unarmoured world. "Oberon" Class.
scandal, was forcibly fed in hos- pital.
• He added that M. Tardieu and M. Briand intend
Lord Balfour will be buried on return soon, but whether their hig estate at Whittingharne,, in movements will be accelerated or Scotland, on Saturday, when a me- retarded depends on developments morial service will also be held in in London, and concluded: "The Westminster Abbey, There
of preparing a programme of con-
struction, but Italy stands out.
That is the main difficulty."
SIR V. CAILLARD. DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN INDUSTRIALIST.
[THROWN LEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 20,
now
Lloyd George and Mr. Baldwin.
BRITAIN'S WAR-DEBT
BURDEN., COMPARISON OF PAYMENTS AND RECEIPTS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE
Ryouy, March 20 Replying to a written Parliamen-
EGYPTIAN DELEGATION
TO BRITAIN.
A ROUSING SEND OFF.
[TAROOGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CAIRO, March 20. Huge crowda, including students
The death is announced of Sir tary question Mr. Philip. Snowden, Vincent Caillard, a son of Judge Chancellor of the Exchequer, says Caillard and Emma Louise Rey that the total sums paid to the nolds, whose mother was first United States on account of the wish banners, gave a rousing fare- cousin of Lord Beaconsfield.,
Sir Vincent, who was. 74 years of British War Debat by the end of the well to the Egyptian delegation, nge, was educated at Eton, and present financial year will be headed by the Prime Minister at the Royal Military Academy, £270,473,000 4
Woolish.
Against this we shall have re- He was appointed Assistant Comceived to the same date approxi missioner for England on the Mon-mately 898,000,000 on account of tenegrin Frontier Commission, reparations, and £48,825,000 on ac- 1879; on special duty in Epírus for count of Allied war debta... report to Berlin Congress, 1830 The aggregate receipts, therefore, President of the Ottoman Debt fell short of the aggregate pay Council 1883. President of the ments by over £132,000,000, and the Federation of British Industries, deficiency is close on £200,000,000, it 1919. He also published several the interest, on past payments and works on Fiscal Reform's
receipts is taken into account..
Nabas Pasha, which left for London to negotiate with the British Gov
ernment.
BANK RATE 31 PER CENT (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, March 20... The Bank of England discount has been reduced to 3 per cent
Prayers in New York.
A message from New York states that, at the request of the Pope, Masses were zaid, at all Catholic Churches in the Arch-Diocese of New York, in protest against the religious persecutions in Russia
"THE MERRY, WIDOW." MONTENEGRIN PRINCE AWARDED DAMAGES.
【THROUGH REUTEL'S AUZNOT:]
PARIS, March 20 Prince Danilo of Montenegro has been awarded £800 damages against the Gaumont Metro-Goldwyn Film Company in connection
film version of "the Merry Widow."
"ROYAL DUTCH ISSUE NEW LOAN OF 40,000,000 DOLLARS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMSTERDAM, March 20.
The Royal Dutch Oil Company will shortly issue a new loan of 40,000,000 dollars, partly in New York and partly here::
U.S. AND OIL TARIFFS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAY SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, March 20. on the ground that the film held The Senate for the second time him and the Montenegro Royal refused by 38, Totes to 20 to place Family in contempt. The Prines a tariff on crude oil and petroleun claimed £4,000,
products.
TWIN-SCREW RIVER STEAMER WUHU,
FOR SHANGHAI-ICHANG RUN.
The twin screw River steamer Wuba," the dimensions of which are. 295 feet over-all in length, 49 feet fender,
extreme beam
and
21
RECENT US. MARKET SLUMP
WOMAN BROKER SENT TO PRISON.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
New Yous, March 20.. Misa Margaret McCond, the first woman broker in Wall Street, con- victed of grand larceny in connee- tion with the failure of her firm.
American usage. last autumn, with liabilities of nearly 8500,000, has been sentene ed to imprisonment of not more than three years in accordance with.
and
sengers rooms are in the C.N. Co's The fittings and Snish of the pas- usual good taste and equal to any steamer on the Yangtate for com- fort.
Passenger Accommodation, over Accommodation is arranged for feet depth: 44 saloon passengers in two berth to upper deck, has been specially rooms, 40 first class passengers in designed to meet the Company's 4 berth rooms and 150 steerage pas requirements for service between sengera Shanghai and Ichang. She has a Engineers are accommodated in
Captain, Officers straight stem and rounded stern, houses forward of foremast. steel-mast, two continuous decks, twin balanced rudders, and ono viz:-main and upper, with a bost deck above the after part of the upper deck, and a roof deck over the boat deck. Forward of the Machinery consists of 2 sets each mast is a bridge deck, upper bridge 4 cylindera balanced triple expan deck and navigating bridge deck. Two cargo holds forward, also
sion ongince supplied by team from two compartment adaptable for carry-boilers arranged for coal burning, Babcock Wilcox ing either oil in bulk or general working pressure being 200 lbs. The Two steel derricks for 7 tons lifts the Talkoo Dockyard. A speed of cargo, one cargo hold is fitted aft engines have been constructed by and 1 for 30 tons-lift have been over 12 knots is anticipated on a arranged. (Continued at foot of next column). 11 knots, loaded.
light draft of about 7 foct and over