COLONIAL SERVICE AN ORDERLY MAY
APPOINTMENTS.
COMMITTEE'S RECOM- MENDATIONS.
49,000,000 INCREASE IN TEN YEARS.
BATTIEN WIRELESS SERVICE]
DAY.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY,
COMMUNISTS QUIET ON :
THE CONTINENT. ·
LARGE MEETING IN BERLIN.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]
Communists
were
LONDON, May 1. Ruosy, May 1.
Generally speaking the various The creation of a single Colonial Service is recommended in the re- May Day celebrations passed off port of the Committee which has very peacefully, although many been considering appointroents in.
arrested in the Colonial Office and, the Colonial services. The Committee was op various countries. This was parti- pointed last year by Mr. E. M. Scularly the case in Paris, where $39
Conservative Government, with Mr. Warner Fisher as Chairman.
For some time past, it had been considered that certain changes were necessary owing to the growth of the British Dependencies and the new statue of the Dominions as
U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
MR. HOOVER'S WARNING AT ANNUAL MEETING.
NOT YET OUT OF THE WOOD.
S'HAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
RECORD ATTENDANCE AT RATEPAYERS" MEETING.
CHINESE REPRESENTATION
INCREASED
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WASHINGTON, May 2
SHINOHA) May 2 Addressing the annual meeting of
The largest gathering of rate the United States Chamber of Com-payers in the history of the Settle- merce Mr. Hoover thanked.business-ment took place this afternoon, men for co-operating with the
when it passed by an overwhelming Government in stabilising economic majority & resolution to increase forces after the Wall Street crash, the Chinese representation on the was certain. Mr. Hoover predicted five, thus reversing the decision at the abandonment of the belief that the annual ratepayers' meeting held speculative rise and fall was a on April 16. disense which must run its course.
MAY 3, 1930.
"BIGGEST WAR" IN YEN'S PROPOSALS.
CHINA'S ANNALS.
A CHINESE CONCEPT OF COMING CLASH.
FIGHTING ANTICIPATED ON FIVE ZONËS IN ALL.
The military situation in the North is reported to have become grave once again, and serious fight ing seems imminent.
**
The coming war will be one of the greatest in Chinese history," says the Chinese Press. For sev eral months, feverish war prepara-
·LEGAL GOVERNMENT **
· TO BE FORMED,
CHIANG DENOUNCED.
ĮTAKOVUN, REUTER'S AGENCY.}
PEPING, May.2.
Chu Ao Hsiang was interviewed by a dozen foreign correspondents this morning when he read out a lengthy memorandum, "after" which he devoted an hour to answering questions. He claimed that the Northerners represented fourteen
THE SINEWS OF WARFARE.
KWANGSI INSURGENTS GET $1,000,000.
WINDFALL FROM TAIYUAN "INCLUDES MUNITIONS.
The anti-Nacking insurgents Kwangsi are reported, from. Chinese source, to have received $1,000,000 as a subsidy, in addition to large quantities of ammunition, from Yen Hsi Shan.
Li Trang Jen, the leader of the
Amery, Colonial Secretary in the Communists, including 6 foreign and stated that future prosperity Municipal Council from three to tions have been made by both the provinces, all of which had deleKwangsi rebels, it will be remem
established at the last Imperial
ers, were arrested-and-placed in custody.
At Rigg two hundred arrests were made when Communists attempted to defy the Police ban on demon- strations. The few places at which
Conference. It was found that un- der the growing system of indepen- disturbances did
anomalies. The Colonial Office i
occur included
He promised an accurate examina tion of ways for achieving greater stabilisation, but uttered a warning that they were 'not yet out of the wood,
Investment markets had absorb
dencies there were now many Vienna, where twenty-five Comed, since the Wall Street crash, self, for example, has become a dual munists were arrested after a con Department-that is, the Colonial Office proper and the Dominionsflict with the Police, who used
Office.
The report deals with the terri- tories handled by the Colonial Office. These comprise fifty differ ent territories, covering more than two million square miles, with total population of more than fifty million people of varied antion. alities and religions.
rubber truncheons effectively.
A number of police were injured
in a scuffle with "Reds" at Bratis lava and twenty Communists were arrested at Moravia after conflicts with the Police.
4
Peaceful America.
demon-
The expenditure of the Colonial
(REUTER'S' AMERICAN SERVICE] Governments alone has risen from
NEw You, May 1. £10,000,000 in 1919 to £68,000,000 in
May Day in America also passed 1929, and Governmental staffs have
"Reds" of peacefully. increased from 93,250 to 290,770.
strated in New York and at other Recommending_the_creation_of__a_ single Colonial Service, the com-large cities, but there was no "dis- mittee urges that unified, special services, such as agriculture," medi- cine and eduention, should be or ganised with this single service.
With regard to the appointments now made through the machinery of the Private Secretary to the Secret- ary of State, the Committee recom- mends that the final selection of candidates should be made by Colonial Service Appointments Board, which should be act up, con sisting of a Chairman and two members nominated by the Civil Service Commission.
ruer. Forty arrests were made in
New York.
Com
Ten thousand supposed munists late in the day, staged a rally at Union Square after the square had been vacated by fifteen- thousand ex-Servicemen. "The Police ignored the Red" speeches which; were made,
The Police Commissioner, Mr. Whalen, attributed the orderliness of the proceedings to the precau tions he had taken.
He drove to Union Square where he was greeted with shouts of "To With reference to the selection of hell with Whalen" and with the
the Governors, the Committee recom- singing of Internationale.
mends that prior consideration Whalen merely grinned and drove should be given to the suitability | away. of officers holding high offices in the Colonial Services.
The Committre produces figurea which serve to show that there is no real ground for the suggestion that the older Universities have any thing like a monopoly of Colonial appointment.
Little Trouble in Europe.
(THHOUGH KEDTLE'S AGENCY.]
'PARIS, May 1
Two hundred arrests were made; here to-day for picketing in con-
$2,000,000,000 of new securities and there had been no significant bank or industrial failures, no substan- tial reduction in wages and no strikes or lock-outs were connected with the situation.
NAVAL TREATY SENT TO THE SENATE.
MR. HOOVER'S SHORT DOCUMENT.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, May 1. Less than twenty-four hours after the American delegates had handed him the Naval Treaty, President Hoover submitted the document to the Senate.
Mr. Hoover's covering letter was one of the shortest of such docu- ments in history.
|
Government forces and the rebel troops, presaging the nation-wide character of the coming warfare,
bered, was appointed vice-com- mander of the insurrectos. He not considered that the Nanking gates at Taiyuanfu but they did
recently dispatched Yen Chiy Government was legal since the meeting of the Third Plenary major-general, to Taiyuan to nego An hour before, to-day's meeting which, when it breaks out, will in- Session of the Kuomintang. They tiate in respect of the military
a fair number of ratepayers were present, but when the meeting open- ed the floor and gallery of the Town Hall were packed. It was not necessary to take a division of the voters for when the motion was put to the meeting a sea of hands was raised in favour and only 20 or 30 against the motion.
JAPANESE CONSULATE
ATTACKED.
THIRTY-TWO ARRESTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOT.).
HARDIN, May 2
A mob of Chinese and Korean radicals attacked the Japanese Con- Bulate General yesterday evening, throwing stones at the windows and damaging the furniture inside.
There were no casualties in the disturbance, during the course of which the Chinese Police arrested thirty-two of the participants.
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Chinese Nct Involved, (THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
HARBIN, May 2. "I transmit herewith the Treaty," It transpires that no Chinese writes the President, adding its full were involved in the attack on the title and the list of signatories, "to Japanese Consulate, all those ar ratification of which I as the adrested were Koreans including five vice and consent of the Senate." schoolgirls.
ORDER TO END LONG TRIAL.
ANOTHER APPEAL BY GANDHI.
[TERONGH RECTER'S AGENCY-}
H
SIMLA, May 1. "Another Ordinance has been pro-
auction with the usual May Day inulgated by the Viceroy terminat strikes and also for the distributioning the preliminary trial of the of revolutionary leaflets.
The Japanese Consul has made representations to the Chinese authorities to hand over the ar- rested..
CANADIAN BUDGET.
INCREASED BRITISH
PREFERENCE.
THROUGH REGTER'S AGENCY.}
OTTAWA, May 1 Important changes in Canada's
volve the whole country.
Fighting is expected to take place had summoned all members of the in sve zones namely (1) Siangyang Second Congress, except Chiang and Fencheng in Northern Hupch, Kai Shek's personal clique and (2) Sinyangchow in Southern Honan on the Peping Hankow Railway, (3) Commurists, to Peping in order to Tongshan on the Kianggu-Honan
organise a "legal government" border of the Lunghai Railway, (4) Taining in Westera Shantung and It has been decided that Yen Hsi (3) Tainan, the capital of Shantung.
Shan will be bead of the Govern- in Central Shantung. The most important fronts are on the Feping-ment. Feng Yu Hsiang head of the Hankow and the Lunghai Railway Army and Wang Ching Wei head Lines. Dense masses of rebel
of the Party. troops are concentrating on these two fronts, with the object of oc cupying Hansow and Hsuchow (the junction of the Langhai and Tien- tain-Pakow Railways) which form the most strategic points of the Government forces. The insurgent troops on the other fronts are sim ply intended to harass Nanking's
cohorts.
Relative Strength.--
It is difficult to predict as yet which side will emerge victorious from the fray. In point of numeri- cal strength, the combined forces of the Shansi troops, the Kuominchun, the Honanese and other rebel bodies are superior to the Government forces. The latter, however, are in a more favourable position in point of finance, ammunition and military experts, including many foreiga advisers.
According to latest Chinese cable
The Congress is expected to meet here within a month to elect the
situation with Yen and to ask him for money and munitions.” Yeu pro- mised to turn over $1,000,000, in addition to a large quantity of
ammunition,
It is understood that the money has been remitted through a certain bank to Hong Kong and received by the delegates of the Kwangri troops, the Ironsides" and the Bunan mutineers under Tang Seng Ming....
"BANQUET. AT CANTON TO CONSULS.
fi
head of the Government, who will
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] then be responsible for forming a
CANTON, May 2, a General Chen Ming Shu and government, after which Yen Esi
will isaue 1 manifesto Mayor Lia Wan Koi are inviting Shan throughout the world announcing the members of the Consular Body- the formation of a National Govern at Shameen and their wives, com- mandera of foreign gunboats in ment of the Republic and declaring port, and other prominent foreign that the Nanking Government has nationals in Canton to an elaborate lost legality, also that Peping will Chinese dinner to-night in Govern be the Capital.
ment House. This is to take the place of the Annual Spring Banquet which was to have been given at the beginning of the your. The au thorities, however, were then too re-occupied with the war against the Kwangsi- Ironside " coalition which had come so dangerously near Cantor, and the Spring Banquet bad to be postponed till now.
As usual, speeches aiming at the Promotion of Sino-foreign, friend
Working Like "Brothers."
PEPING, May 2..
Chu Ao siang in his memoran dum stated inter alia that Yen Hai Shon has authorised him to state that Yen Hst Shan is in perfect" accord with Feng Yu Hsiang and
Wang Ching Wei.
advices from Shanghai, Feng Yu Yen and Feng are working like Hsiang has finally decided upon the brothers to overthrow Chiang and plan for the general attack on the the various Kuomintang leaders Nanking föress. after the Military They have sacrificed all personal ship will be made by the hosts,
The
Conference at Chengebow. plan has been submitted to Yen Hsi Shan for approval, after which the attack will be launched.
There have been very heavy troop movements during the past few days. It is reported from a mili- tary source that the main body of the Shansi troops and section of the Kuominchun on the Lunphai Railway Line will attack Hauchow, the Honar troops under Sun Tien
The day, however, was the quiet-accused in the Lahore conspiracy fiscal tariff policy were announced
ease in connection with the murder by the Finance Minister, Mr. Dun-Ying will deal with Northern An
est ever known, the city having of Mr. Saunders, Superintendent ning, when he presented the Budget bu, Shih Yu San's troops will holiday aspect.
The arrests included the Com- of Police at Lahore, in December in the House of Commons. munist Deputy, Dariost, and the Mayor and seven municipal coun- cillors of St. Denis.
There were no serious incidents in the province where strikers were fewer than usual.
SOFTA, May 1.-
CONSUMER TO BE PROTECTED.
FAIR PRICE SCHEME.
[DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, May 1. The text is issued of a Govern. ment bill for the creation of a Con- sumers' Council. The Council is to Warsaw and Berlia report that consist of seven members, of whom everything was quiet on May Day: two at least must be women, hut Communist demonstrators in the additional members may be ap. Lustgarten at Berlin pointed by the Board of Trade for 50,000. any particular inquiry.
The Council will concern itself
A number of Communists were with articles of food of general con- injured in a scuffle with the police sumption, wearing apparel, clothing who prevented the Communists inaterial, fuels and any other article from marching to the prison with of common use which the Board of the intention of releasing a com- Trade may require it to enquirerade.
into..
numbered
LIZOK, May 1.
Aliens Expelled, The Council is empowered to
PARIS, May 1. examine anyone or call for written All those arrested in connection statements and to examine books, with the Mag Day demonstrations,
and other documents. except 31,
accounts
have been released.
Where the Council reports that an Seventy foreigners are being expell- excessive price is being charged, ited from France.
may set out what it considers the
proper price and recommend the
Board of Trade to make an order
1929.
The trial, has been dragging no for nine months and has been, eh atructed by minor delays and re volutionary demonstrations.
assail Western Shantung and the He announced a surplus of bulk of the Kucminciun will strike 44,500,000 dollars and enumerated a down along the Peping-Hankow long list of tariff changes, mainly Railway, with Hankow as the ob designed to increase British pre-jective. Sporadic clashes are re- ference, encourage Empire trade ported to have occurred at Tong- and considerably restrict imports shan, on the Langhai Railway line. There has been, however, no seri- from the United States.
ous fighting on any of the fronts up to the present.
The Viceroy has now empower ed the Chief Justice of the High Court to 'constitute a special tribun- The enlargement of British pre- al of three Judges to adjudicate inference affects two hundred million the cases without delay to meet dollars' worth of goods and includes the ends of justice and re-establish various iron and steel manufac- respect for the law."
tures, machinery, electrical appara- tus and chinaware as an indication "of the spirit in which Canada will Economic Conference." approach the forthcoming Imperial
OTTAWA, Later..
Indian Journalists to Confer,
CALCUTTA, May 1, A meeting of Indian journalists, summoned by the Indian-owned papers, throughout Bengal to sus pend publication pending the with- drawal of the Press Ordinance, de vided to hold a conference of Indian journalists at Allahabad in the middle of May for the purpose of deciding the future policy.
Gandhi Makes a Speech.
SUBAT, May 1, Addressing a meeting at Randor, Gandhi appealed to the Moham medians to participate in the cam-
for the propose of securing com- PAISLEY CINEMA TRAGEDY,paign against the salt law and
pliance. Upon the issue of such order by the Board of Trade, con- travention will be liable to penal. ties of £5 for the first offence, or not exceeding £10, or three months' imprisonment or bath together, for subsequent offences.
MAY
DORWARD "ACQUITTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.].
LONDON, May 1. The Board of Trade order
Charles Dorward manager of the not only govern actual selling-Glen Cinema, at Paisley who is on wholesale or retail prices but trial on a charge of homicide in connection with the New Year Eve, brokerage or commission rates.
fire disaster, gave evidence at Edin-. burgh to say when be said that he*: unlocked the gate of the exit before the matinee. Palet
VISIT. OF AUSTRIAN' CHANCELLOR.
Witnesses had previously testified that they saw children pressing against the locked gate which was eventually wrenched out by men outside.
drinking and for the promotion of spinning. He said that after that their hearts would be purified and there would be no occasion for them to Bght. Still, they could fight if they wished.
NEW INCOME TAX CONFIRMED.
TOGETHER.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
The Budget provides free, entry under British preference, for tea imported direct from a British country and purchased in the United Kingdom.
A
LANCASHIRE COTTON
TRADE.
FASHIONS BLAMED FOR DEPRESSION,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, May 1. Modern Fashions were largely blamed for the loss of the English) cotton trade during recent years in speeches made at a luncheon held in London to day which heralded the National Cotton Week which begins on May 6.
The campaign is designed to LABOUR VOTE stimulate the use of cotton in Great Britain. Members of the Cabinet, norty leaders and prominent com- mercial men were present at the Iuncheon, when Mr. Holroyd, the WELCOMED IN LONDON..
LONDON, May 1.
chairman, mentioned that the sales of cotton in Britain were four The House of Commons, by, 255 hundred million yards fewer than (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 2 votes to 130, rejected a Conservative before the war. He believed, how- The Paisley cinema manager amendment to retain, the four shill-ever, that Lancashire had now acen LONDON, May' 1.
ings income tax and thus confirmed the worst of the depression. The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Dorward has been acquitted.
The deferee urged that a whole the four shillings and six-pence tax. Schober, arrived in London this RITET HODIE gweithgression of incidents for which The Liberals and Labour voted presentatives of the Premier and Dorward was not responsible led up together after the Toreign Secretary
This evening, a dinner was given in his honour at the Foreign Office, the gucets including members, of the Cabinet, the Lord Mayor of Lon- don Mr. Montagu Norman (Gover inor of the Bank of England) and
high officials of the Foreign Office
RE-DISCOUNT RATE. to the catastrophe. which Mr. Philip. "Snowden, the Lord Justice Clark in summing Chancellor of the Exchequer, claim-
[EBUIER'8" AMERICAN SERVICE.] up said the vital question the jury ed that to-day's reduction of the had to answer was whether the bank rate was one of the effects of
NEW YORK, May 1 Crown had proved that the gate the Budget, declared that Govern
The Federal Reserve Bank has was closed and padlocked. The ment Stocks were higher now than Lord, Justice said the evidence they were when the Budget was in-reduced the re-discount rate from
three and a half to thred per cent. regarding this was irreconcilable.
troduced.
Bobs Dropped on Rebel: TroOPS. (THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAI, May 2.
differences and have agreed to organise an "integral party which all factions will be repre sented.
Strong, denunciations of Nanking follow and the memorandum asserts that the Nanking Government has contracted more debts in two years than those incurred in the previous seventeen years, and that the war with the Soviet regarding the C.E.R. is due to nanking's desire to weaken Mukden. Chiang has. spent millions to equip armies for personal aggraadisement but lives and property in the South are un- protected and bandita have never been suppressed.
:
CHINA'S CUSTOMS
REVENUES,
STATEMENT BY MR. T. V. SOONG.
representatives of the Canton Con- which will be responded to by the sular Bedy.
CATHOLIC CHURCH AND POLITICS.
ACTION EXPLAINED..
'(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MALTA, May 2.. In explanation of the constitu- tional crisis, it is pointed out that the relations between the Govern ment and the Church were strained' last year, when Lord Strickland.. who is himself a Roman Catholic, refused to allow a Franciscap priest, who is British, to be trans ferred against his will to Sicily. by order of the Superior of the Community in Malta, bel.
The Goverment claimed that the transfer was ordered on political grounds.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, May 2.
An Irishman, Mgr. Robinson, wag A communique from suchowfu Mr. T. V. Soong, in a statement, appointed Apostolic Delegate to en- states that Government aeroplanes says that the attempt by the quire into the difficulties last April, dropped bombs on the rebels, under Northerners to seize "additional " but no solution was reached. Shih Tu San, who were attempting Customs revenues at Tientsin con- to cross the Fellow River near stitutes a grave threat to the inte- follows a visit to Rome whither the The significant order just cabled: Tungminghsien, in West Shantung grity of the Maritime Customs and Archbishop of Malta few in a Bri- yesterday. As a result of the, bom seriously jeopardizes the interest of tish seaplane in mid-April, bardment two pontoon bridges the creditors of the Government. spanning the river were destroyed.
He points out that the entire Wan Resigns.
Customs revenues are pledged to It is reported that Wan Hsuan foreign indemnities and loans, the
In consequence of the Arch- Toni who was appointed Governor old five per cent. duty was insuf- of Honan by Yen Hsi Shan has ficient to take care of these obliga bishop's announcement yesterday tendered his resignation in view of tions between February and April the Constitutionals have cancelled the fact that Sun Liang Chen, of this year. Tls. 1,800,000 had to all their conferences and public whom Feng Yu Hsiang appointed be withdrawn from reserve for the meetings.
The" feld is thus left in posies- to the same post, has taken the purpose of meeting foreign loansion of the Nationalists under reins of Government entirely in his obligations, and a further shortage Rarico Mizzi who is aiming at the
own hand
BANDIT SUPPRESSION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, May 2. Chiang Kai She told pressmen that besides inspecting the Govern- ment troops at the front, he had discussed measures for baudit-up pression, with the military authori ties in Hankow:
COAL MINES BILL.
LORDS AGREE TO SECOND READING.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENDT.}.
The
of Tis. 3,800,000 on the five per
The Parliamentary elections are being held at the end of this month
MM MALTA, May 2.
cent. revenue for foreign loans in secession of Malta from the British anticipated, by the end of June. Empire in favour of Italy which has Italia He adds that if the secure of long claimed Malta as
irredenta. "additional" duties at Tientsin is permitted a dangerous precedent would be established which would shatter China's credit at home and abroad, and "it" was the manifest duty of the Goretament to do its utmost to prevent the Northerners' contemplated action, s
SINGULAR TRAGEDY IN CALIFORNIA:
WOMEN'S MYSTERIOUS
DEATH.
[UNITED) PRESS.]
Laguna Beach, Cal., April 24.--A
new West Coast mystery developed. here to-day when the bodies of Mrs.. Guy Bates Post and Mrs Boris Palmer were found at the latter e seaside home.
the compulsory amalgamation pro visions which were inserted in the Bill in the House of Commons, at the instance of the Liberals
The Conservatives foreshadowed important amendments to the Bill in the Committee Stage, thus pro
Mrs. Post's death had been caused mising lively discussions between the House of Lords and the House by a bullet through the mouth, Lat. Comment before the Bill is Mrs. Palmer had been shot through
enketed.
The three day debate on Government's Coal Mines Bill con- A feature of the debate was the cluded in the House of Lords to maiden speech of Lord Sankey who day he the House agreeing to the confessed that he still favoured second rending without a division, nationalisation, which was the re- notwithstanding strong Conservancy advocated by the Coal Coro five criticism notably directed at mission over which he presided (Continued at foot of next column), cleven years ago.
Police are working on the theory that Mrs. Post killed-her-com- panion, then committed suicide.
A few months ago Mrs. Post divorced her husband. He is re- ported to be in Honolulu at pre-
zent,