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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1930.
LABOUR-LIBERAL ENTENTE.
NO GENERAL ELECTION
IN. MAY,
TERMS OF THE TRUCE.
BRITISH WIDELESS SERVICE)
Redar, March 93, The first steps towards an ententé between the Labour and Liberal Parties are now believed by the
NAVAL CONFERENCE SIR ROGER KEYES
ANGLO-AMERICAN DISCUSSIONS.
HOPE OF AGREEMENT NOT ABANDONED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDOy, March 24. The British delegation to the Naval Conference, and
an hour later the American delegation, met
PROMOTED.
THE HERO OF. ZEEBRUGGE.
(THROUN REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 23. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes has been promoted to be Admiral of the Fleet in succession to Sir Somerset Gough Calthorpe, who has retired.
(Sir Roger Keyes was born in
GANDHI'S TAUNT."", FROM THE ASHES.
"GOVERNMENT'S MORALE
BREAKING."
MILITANT ATTITUDE
· GROWING.
[THROWON REUTER'S AGENOY]
Bacace, March 23.
The fact that: Sen Gupta, the.
TOKYO CELEBRATES. RECONSTRUCTION,
EMPEROR'S FIVE-HOUR
INSPECTION,
(THROCORREUTEE'S AGENCY.]
HUGE BLAZE ON HUDSON.
$4,000,000 DAMAGE.
LINER'S NARROW ESCAPE.
(THROUGH" ZIUTER'S AGENDY.]
to
the
IN THE NORTH.
SITANSI VICTORY
REPORTED.
KUOMINCHUN ADVANCE.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)
PEPING, March 94.77 HOBOKEN, NJ, March 23.1
The Shanai troops claim that Torro, March, 24. Damage estimated at $1,000,000 Sun Tien Ying, after desperate Brilliant weather favoured the was done by a fire which destroy- £ghting, has defeated Han Fu Chu Mayor of Calcutta, was sentenced Emperor's inspection of Tokyo. Ited two piers belonging to only ten days' simple imprison.is estimated that nearly a million Lamport Holt Line, eight freight Chu from the East, while other rear Mamutsi pressing Han Fu
many tens of thousands arriving chandise on the night of March to Kaifeng to attack him from the from cuntry districts for that on the bank of the Hudson River West. They assert that many of purpose.
opposite New York City.
Han Fu Chu's troops have fled, leaving arms and ammunition in the field.
newspapers to have, been taken. at Downing Street this morning to 1872. Entering the Navy in 1893, ment, coupled with the statement by people turned out to line the route, cars and a great quantity of mer-Kuominchun troops are moving up
The cessation of Liberal opposition to the Government Coal Bill is pointed to as indicating a measure of co-operation between the two parties.
sug-
The Observer says that this gests, an arrangement for a period an certain terms. If this is so, it must change the whole face of politics. There would be no Gen- eral Election in May, as has been predicted. Instead, the life of the present Government would he ex- tended by Liberal consent for at
least two years.
Electoral Reform.
The Liberal terms are an openi secret. Before another dissolution clectoral reform must be carried sa as to give Liberalism some fairer chance of representation. Electoral reform bould not be carried in all probability until late next year. The Observer points out that the prolongation of the Government's tenure of office would mean that
survey the general position.
British circles state that the Con- ference officially is not yet wrecked and is not likely to end this week.
The experts are still working on figures. It is not true that the French delegation has left London for good. M. Dumesnil returned to-day, M... Pietri comes to-morrow, and M. Briand probably later, but nothing is known of M, Tardieu's plans. Conversations will continue. with a view to seeing what can be done, and these will last a week; hence there will be Do session this week.
plenary
MADAME HANAU'S
ESCAPE.
the Prime Minister would preside FROM HOSPITAL TO PRISON. over the forthcoming Imperial Con- ference and over the Indian Con- frence next Autumn...
- "Liberal Grievances. There would be a vital gain to public interests in that nationa politics would not be,,thrown inte the melting pot immediately after the publication of the Simon Com- mission's report.
The Sunday Times also says that an understanding has been reached whereby, if the Government is able to carry the Coal Bill, it will lend a sympathetic ear to Liberal griev ances in regard to the electoral system. It points out that with the passage of the Coal Bill, the con tentious part of the Governments programme for the session should be practically out of the way..
PREMIER'S MESSAGE.
TRADE SLUMP AND GENERAL ELECTION.
LONDON, March 25. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in a message to his constituents, re- iterates the view that this Parlia- ment ought to last for at least two years, but adds that the strength of the Government's majority in the House of Commoa's deprives them of the final word.
He adds:"We have a big pro- gramme. We will pursue it till our opponents prevent us from doing what we think best for the nation, but the country in the present seri ous slump of world trade does not want to be distracted by a General Election.
THE GRAND NATIONAL.
FAVOURITE SCRATCHED.
[TEROTGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
LONDON, March 24... The Grand National betting which has twice been upset, first
AMAZING VITALITY OF HUNGER-STRIKER,
'[THAOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
PARIS, March 24. The amazing vitality of Madame Harau culminated in her escape from the Cochin Hospital to which she had recently been removed from St. Lazare Prison. Despite her ex hausted condition, due to hunger- striking, she managed last night to tie her bed clothes together, fix them to a window bar and then slide down from an upper room to the homital grounds.
he took part in the Vitu Expedir George Schuster, Finance Mem- tion of 1500 and for his services in
bor to the Legislative Assembly, China 1900 was promoted Com- mander: During the war he wa that the Government had decided to officer in charge of a flotilla of
refer the whole question of the salt submarines which was sent close in to Heligoland on August 28, 1914,
tax to th Tariff Board, in "order with the light cruisers Arethuss to provide the masses with the best and Fearless which sank the Kolt estable salt at the lowest possible and the Mainz. In. 1913 he became price if the salt tax were abolish chief of staff to Admiral de Robeck who commanded the Eastern Medi
ed," has created the feeling in terranesa Squadron at the Dar-
Gandhi's camp that the Govern mont's morale is breaking down," danelles.
-Gandhi suggested this at Buva when he regretted the fact that the villagu elders boycotted, him and asked if they were afraid of the Government, which feared to arrest him, although he was openly out to fiery speeches.
He directed the heroic. naval.
raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend the object of which was to block the channels by which U-boats and destroyers emerged from these porta. A landing party got on to
In addition to inspecting the general work of reconstruction, the Emperor visited a number of it stitutions including the imposing new Earthquake Memorial Hall which has been erected on the site of the former Army clothing depot, where över 30.000 refugees, who fled there for safety were burnt to death in a ghastly bolocaust.***
The tour of the city lasted nearly five hours, the crowds in places
The 13,000-ton Lamport Holt liner Voltaire and the freighter Epiel were threatened by the fames, but finally they were towed to safety." The fire broke out at the bulk head under the pior. The cause has not yet been discovered.
2,
Haa Fu Chu is ready to announce They also claim that
his retirement and to hand over his troops to a subordinate.
It is reported from Taiyunafur that Yen Hsi Stan is believed to 400 Motor-cars Burnt.
have postponed his visit to Peping HonoKEN, March 24.
and it is expected that Feng Yu The fire was controlled by six Hsiang will shortly go to Cheng- o'clock last night. Over 400 motor-chow when Yea will also go there cars were burnt, and the damage for a conference, after which both
will go to Peping together.
the male at Zeebrugge and, destroy, break the laws and was making bursting inte loud "banzais" as is now estimated at $4,000,000.
ed its works while a submarine i loaded with explosives was
Tun
under the vinduet which connected the mole with the shore and blown up. Meanwhile the blocking ships were sunk at the mouth of the canal
At Ostend the effort was repeat ed with more success by the Vin- dictive on the night, of May 9-10. For his services Sir Roger Keyes received the .C.B. and after the
war
was made A baronet and received a grant of £10,000:] ·
DEATH OF PROFESSOR
AUGUSTINE HENRY. AUTHORITY ON CHINA'S
PLANT-LIFE.A,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 24.
The death is announced of Prof. Augustine Henry.
[Professor Augustine Heary was lege of Science, Dublin, since 1813. Professor of Forestry, Royal Col He was formerly in the service of
the
At the time. the grounds were deserted, it being after dark, and Madam Hannu succeeded in get ting out by the rear gate without being observed.
Once outside she hailed a taxi and told the chauffeur to drive to
Chinese Imperial Maritime St Lazare Prison, some distance the flora of China and Formosa, Customs, and was an authority on away, where she eventually arrived,
The prison wardera were astound-le was the author of several works ed when Madame Hanau turned up
on forestry.} and declared: Here I am" By this time, she was so thoroughly exhausted that she fainted.
Faced with a new problem, the Governor of the Prison at once telephoned to the Public Prosecu tor and Madame Hanau's counsel. whilst injections of camphorated, oil were meantime applied.
Madame Hansu's escape was at first revended" to the authorities when a Police Commissioner rang up the Cochin, Hospital and made enquiries regarding her condition. He was informed that she was no longer in her room, and that a search for her was proceeding,
The policemen who were detail ed to watch over Madame Hanau did not witness her flight, as, they were stationed in the corridor out- side, not being permitted to remain in her bedroom..
Yesterday was the twenty-third
SURVEY OF AMERICAN BUSINESS.
RESTORING INDUSTRIAL
BALANCE.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.
WASHINGTON, March 24
Mr. Jalius Barnes, the Chairman of President Hoover's business sur-
vey conference, has published an estimate of the state of American business. The report, which is based on data from almost every important business and industry, expressly omits his conclusions.
The gist of the report is that some carly retarding factors, part- ly psychological, appear to have been gradually overcome.
The
of Madame Hanau's hunger data indicate that the importance strike She struggled so violently laid on construction as an influence
in the morning against forcible for restoring the industrial balance feeding that she broke two howls has
not
been
over-emphasised.
by à mishap to the favourite Easter Hero and then the poor display by of cafe-au-lait. bit the rubber The report states that the first
the new favourite Gregalach, will he revolutionized by the sensational- scratching of Easter Hero to-day just after regaining faveuritism at 10 to 1 at the expense of Gregalith, The effects of Easter Hero'e origia- amishap have returned.
FUNERAL OF LORD
· BALFOUR.
SIMPLE CEREMONY IN SCOTLAND.
| THHOUGH =RLOTER'S AGENCY.].
LONDON, March 93.
The Earl of Balfour was buried yesterday at Whittingham, Scot- land, with simple ceremony. Six
mouthpiece in two and fainted.
requirement, however, for the res toration of the industrial balance
The doctors claimed that yester- day, for the first time, the attempt is an adequate reasonably-priced to forcibly feed Madame Hannu was partially successful.
ATTEMPT ON HİNKLER'S RECORD.
NEW ZEALANDER'S. BAD: LUCK.
(THROUGH REUTER'8 "AGENOT.)
credit.
US SOCIALISTS.
DEMANDS. FOR SIX-HOUR DAY
Government Weakening, Gandhi asked if they could not see from the sentence on Ben Gupta whether the Government stronger or weaker than in 1837 or 1910. If the Government could not touch him while he was heading 80 volunteers, how could they ar rast him if he had 80,0001
He concluded by appealing to Hindu and Moselem men and wo- men to join without fear, because success also meant lessening the land revenue burden,
Gandhi told the leaders from the various provinces who were con- sulting him about his civil dis- obedience plans, that if the Gov- erament did not resort to imprison- ment but relied on physical ob- struction. civil disobedience would be extended indefinitely.
Woman Volunteers.
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the Emperor passed, though mostly the traditional silent reverence was observed. "
As a precautionary measure the police temporarily have arrested about 300 radicals since yesterday.
ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION.
A YEAR'S INQUIRY.
[UNITED PRE33.]
Washington, March George Wickersham of President
17.-M.
Hoover's Law Enforcement Com-
mission created a surprise to-day when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in secret session that the commission of which he was chair. man had found prohibition to be improving.
Senators who favoured such ar
Boys March 23. Gandhi has arrived here from Jambusar. Replying to an enquiry by & prominent social worker, Mis Chatto Padhyaya, Gandhi said that he neither desired nor expect ed women to neglect their children,
There was no reason which would but women who could satisfactori-prevent the conduct of an investiga
children should join his campaign. inquiry construed the Wickersham ly arrange for the care of their tion if Congress desired.
Miss Chatto Padayayn proposes.
statement as a victory for their to tour Bambay Presidency and enrol two sets of women volunteers, contention. Other interpreted it as firstly for active civil disobedience, meaning that an investigation was and secondly for propaganda work,
not necessary in present circum stances. It is understood that Mrs. Gandhi will lead the first batch of 3 women volunteers from Ashram and entrain for Bulsa whence they will proceed to Titel to defy the
salt laws.
In 'Bongel.
Mr. Wickersham also indicated that his commission might require another full year to complete its work. The commission was study ing not prohibition enforcement alone, but the entire question of In onforgement in the United States.
Mr. Wickersham said that the Law Enforcement Commission was studying the extent of actual law
CALCOTTA, March 23, Meetings are being held all over Bengal to enlist volunteers for the civil disobedience campaign. A number of young men from Tip Perah have already gone to Mitana port to offer to manufacture salt on the sea coast near Contai sub-that division.
The latest enlisted volunteers in elude the chairman and vice-chair-
of man
the Municipality of Howrah, a suburb of Calcutta.
BRINGING BOXERS INTO.
LINE.
TWO MONTHS SUSPENSION TO FOLLOW A FOUL.
[UNITED PRESS.].
New York, March 18-Anime portant, ruling was made to-day by: the New York State Athletic Com mission when it decided that in future any boxer committing a foul would be suspended from further boxing for a period of two months, and would receive pay only for the completed rounds in the fight in which the foul was committed.
The commission will suspend any boxer who fights a suspended man. outside the state.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
New You, March 24. Representatives of several large Trade Unions have associated themselves with the Socialist Party A Afty-year-old New Zealander, in issuing a call for a demonstra Mr Parkerson, left Lympne last tion on May Day to demand a six-This actions has been demanded by night. In an aeroplane in an at-hour day, the adoption of a Federal sports writers and fight enthusiasts tempt to beat Hinkler's record to system of unemployinent insurance Australia. He crashed fifty miles an old-age pensions.
LONDON, March 24,
cessation of work on May Day of 309,000 men and women.
of his oldcat servants carried the from Paris but was uninjured. His The demonstration will mean the remains from the country church plane, however, was wrecked. to a farm cart, on which the coilin was borne to the burial ground-
nearly a mile away.
On the oak coffin was the simple inscription:Arthur James, Earl of Balfour, 1848 to 1930. Three other farms carts, carrying floral tributes, followed.:!
“Abbay' Ceremony.
BERLIN COMMUNISTS
SURPRISED.
PRISON RAID FRUSTRATED.
{{THROVON REUTER'S AGENŰT.}
BRALIN, March 24.
in view of the large number of ap parenthippodromes" of late, in which so-called fighters disappoint- ed large crowde, by either careless or intentional fouls which stopped fights far short, of their normal limits, gave an unsatisfactory end- and there was no penalty for the offending boxers
THE TARIFF TRUCE CONFERENCE.
enforcement.
Replying to questions, he said prohibition could not be en. forced 100 per cent. nor can any other law.
He denied reports that the com- mission had found wide-spread cor-. ruption in the law enforcement machinery.
"Thore is corruption, of course, he admitted, but I don't think it is wide-anread. Our reports do not show it."
"SCARFACE" CAPONE
FREE.
NOTORIOUS CHARACTER· LIBERATED AFTER IMPRISONMENT.
[UNITED PRESS.')
The garrison. commander at Tai- yuanfe "closed up the Municipal and Provincial headquarters of the
Kuomintang on March 29 on the ground of an alleged plot to dist turb the peace of the city.
SHANSI REGIME IN.
PEPING.
NANKING OFFICIALS
.. OUSTED,
(THROUGH AKUTEK'E AGETOT.]
Chicago, March 17-In view of Chicago's recently initiated con- certed effort to abolish gang war fare and to correct the city's in
"PEPING, March 24. ancial troubles-two reform moves
The Shansi regime took over the which have received worldwide pub-directorate and sub-directorates of licity-to-day's release from Philadelphia prison of Al "Sear- face" Capone, Chicago gangster is assuming national importance.
Even places as remote as Florida and California are interested in Capone's first hours in the open.
not take firm measures to eliminate for he cut quite a dash in social events at such winter resorts as did
him from their activities."
Some of the Ines? police at points between here and Philadelphia fear that the Capone home-coming may Se attended by a running large- scale gang war along the railroad. They are accordingly taking such measures as they deem it to pre- pare for the worst.
Wide-Epread Pracantions.
A number of towns and cities are conducting small round-ups of suspicious characters with special attention to newly arrived gentle- men with no visible means of oc upation but plenty of money and "gets" concealed under armpits and at other strategic points.
A cordon of police surrounded the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadel- phin several hours before the time! set for Capone's release,
"We want nothing to happen to Chicago's 'pineapple potentate,' " remarked one of the policemen in. summing up the views of all "Pine- apple" is Chiengo slang for bomb and the word grew out of terroris- tic bombings by the Chicago criminals.
He said he did not know whether the commission would decide as to the advisability of retaining or To-day ends a year. behind not amending the present prohibition unwelcome bars for Capone. He law. Mr. Wickersham pointed out was arrested and sentenced for car. that he could not speak for 11 mem-rying a pistol.. hers of the commission.
The circumstances of the aft
affair suggested that it was engineered by Capone himself to get away from his "focs.*
Released in Secrecy.
Mr. Wickersham's View. After giving evidence to-day be- fore the Senate Judiciary Com- mittes, Mr. George W. Wickersham, head of President Hoover's Law Philadelphia, March 17-Follow- Enforcement Commission, told "ing a day of uncertainty as to what newspapermen that it was his was due to happen to Al "Scor opinion that "2.75 per cent, bear will not solve America's prohibition problem.
"I don't think such beer would satisfy a normal and robust ap petite, Mr. Wickersham explained.
RIVER, DISASTER IN. COLOMBIA.
* THIRTY." LIVES LOST.
[UNITED PRESS.
La Dorada, Colombia, March 17-Thirty, are believed to have been lost as a result of the sinking of the wooden river steamship Bucaramanca on the Emagdalena
river, kur p
U.S. FILM COS FINANCES. $300,000,000 INVOLVED.
REDTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
The memorial service which wAS
NEW YORK, March 241. held in Westminster Abbey yas
Mr. W. R. Sheehan: Vice-Presi- impressive in a different way. In A hundred Communiste attempt dent of the Fox. Film Corporation,
A TWO YEARS” TREATY, Captain Antonia Verlez locked himself in his cabin after aiding the Abbey was gathered a congre ed last night to storm the Borstal | Las obtained an order of the court gation representing all spheres of Institution in Postdam to release requiring Mr. Fox to show eause Geneva, March 18.—The Tariff ne many passengers as possible to national life — politica, science, the prisoners. The police wers why he should not be prevented Truce Conference finally overcame escape. literature and art, H.R.H. the forewarned by an inmate and met from putting into effect the reall, obstacles to-night, and concluded. It is not known whether any for Duke of York represented H.M. the the astonished raiders who resist financice plan for the Corporation, an international agreement pro- eigners were choard, although they King The Premior, Mr. Pampayed but were soon rounded up and Mr. Sheehan has hitherto been longing by two years all existing ordinarily use the river steamers MacDonald, and Mr. Stanley Bald conveyed to polies beadquarters regarded as one of Mr. Fox's in- trenties of commerce. Austria, in travelling between Barranquilla win were present, and DiplomatieIt was discovered this morning timates; hence his action is re- Czechoslovakia, and Hungary and Bogota. Corps were fully represented that all the churches in Crefeld in warded as the frat break in Mr. signed the agreement with the reThe fire which prepeded the sink
A memorial service was also held the Rhineland were smeared with Fox's own camp in a savage finan-servation that they will be allowing is believed to have been caused nt St Giles Cathedral in Edin red paint and plastered with post cial battle for the control of the led to negotiate new pacts among by carelessness in stowing oil casks burgh.
era bearing Communist slogans. $300,000,000 Fox film enterprises. themselves
near the firebox of the steamer,
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face" Capono, the Chicago gang chief, on his release from prison to-day, Warden Herbert Smith of the Eastern Penitentiary announc ed bere at eight o'clock this even- ing that Capone had been amuggled to the new state prison al' Grater ford, 25 miles to the northward, where he had been released at 4
Capone thus, evaded several score newspapermen and others who were waiting all day outside the gates of the Eastern Penitentiary for his release from imprisonment started
the Peping octroi yesterday. It is believed that all the Nanking off cials are now custed" from their
posts in Peping..
CHIANG'S VISIT TO NINGPO.
CONFERENCE WITH MUKDEN REPRESENTATIVES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}"
SHANGHAT, March 24.
It is stated here that the real purpose of Chiang Kai Shek visit- ing Ningro. was a secret confer eace with representatives of the Northern Navy and Mukden authorities.
The North China Daily News reports that northern ships under Hung Li with three prominent the command of Admiral Shen Manchurian officials are now in the vicinity of Ningpo,
*NEW WIRELESS STATION FOR NANKING:
BIG CONTRACT WITH
› GERMANY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANEING, March 24.
A contract has been signed' be. tween the Central Government and. the Telefunken Company of Berlin for the erection in Nacking of one. of the most powerful radio.broad- casting stations in the world, em-
bodying all the latest inventious.
In this connection a number of Chinese radio engineers will shortly go to Germany in order to study the organisation of German broad- casting services, and to inspect the. leading German electrical concerns,
SHANGHAI NEWSPAPER BAN LIFTED
[THEOTON NEUTER'S AGENCY.]"
EHANGHAI, March 24. The postal han imposed on the |Shanghai Evening Post, in Novem
her 1929, no reason being given at the time, was lifted to day,
All were nonplussed at the news that Capone had vanished and. many rumours at once sprung up, a year ago after conviction for including a tale that he was flying carrying a concealed deadly wento Cubs, another that he had board- pon
ed a train for Chicago still an Meanwhile a tri-motored Ford other that he was driving in an air liner waited at Camden, pre automobile to the west coast with sumably to carry Capone and his the intention of mailing for Hawaii, henchman tó Chicago.
and a fourth that he had caught. The welcoming committee at Chicago, which included friendeous winter home at Miami, Florida.
the limited express for his luxuri-" planning á feast and enemies Meanwhile Capone's aged mother, planning murder, was confounded after attending masi, went to a at Capone's latest disappearing act. butcher shop and ordered two 18-lb. Among those desiring to have a turkeys, talk with the famed racketeer, were federal officials who planned to
A Chicago Murder.. rearrest him for failure to pay an The body of an unidentified man, income tax on his huge carninge as apparently a gangster, was hurled
a dispenser of bootleg beer in the from a speeding sedan in Chicago | Chicago "ring" which he controls. | to-day, shot, five times through the
(Continued at foot of next column), head and heart.