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AMERICAN TARIFF
BILL.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1930.
CATHOLIC CHURCH TYPHOON DISASTER LATEST VICTIMS OF
AND POLITICS.
IN JAPAN.
BANDITS.
TWO AMENDMENTS REJECTED.
VATICAN OBJECTS TO LORD STRICKLAND.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE FEARED.
CAPTURE OF SPANISH PRIESTS CONFIRMED.
Y.5,000,000 DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
FR. HEPERA RESCUED BY
SOLDIERS.
REPRESENTATIVES
SUPPORT PRESIDENT.
{REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, May 3.
The Canadian tariff changes have evoked much comment in Congress
BRITAIN SUSPENDS
NEGOTIATIONS,
[TERO=CK BRUTER'S AGENCY.).
"MALTA, May 2.
(FHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, May 3. About a hundred fishermen are The Chronicle has published im-missing and it is feared they are
official documents with portans
situation.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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SHANGHAL, May 4. Three Spanish fathers are the
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POLICE FIRE ON POLICE.
UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE IN SHANGHAI
TWO KILLED: FOUR
WOUNDED.
(THROUGH RESTER'S AGÈNCT.]
IN THE NORTH.
CHIANG'S OATH.
TO LEAD FORCES AGAINST NORTHERNERS.
(THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, May 31 An oath in writing by Chiang Kai Shek in which he says he will An unusual mistake which had lend an expedition against the
SHANGHAI, May 4.
STORMS IN WAKE OF RED TERROR
HAILSTONES AS-BIG AS
PIGEON EGGS.” --
DUAL DEVASTATION INS NORTHERN KWANGTUGN,
Following the devastation wrought by the C-Mo Reds, the districts
of Nambung, Yanta and Chihing, in Northern Kwanglung, are now suf-
circles. The Republicans construeregard to the political and religious drowned as the result of a typhoon | latest victims of bandits, according tragie resulta occurred shortly after, Northerners was released for pub- fering severely from exceedingly.
The documents show that the British Government has expressed its willingness to enter into negotiations with the Vatican for concertar but has suspended negotiations, owing to the Vatican's refusal to entertain any proposal as long as Lord Strickland remained at the head of the Maltese Ministry.
has
Canada's action to be a threat to influence Congress in handling the Tarif Bill now being discussed, while Democrats contend that the high American tariffs inevitably led
The Maltese Government to retaliatory measures by foreign
made representations to the Im nations and has affected the coun-perial Government declaring that the safety of this great Imperial outpost will be jeopardised if it is left free to the Vatican to dictate the Maltese policy and impose upon Maltese men who are to govern them**
Election Proceedings Stopped. MALTA, May 4. After a protracted meeting of the Maltese Privy Council it was det eided to issue an ordinance staying all further proceedings of the General Election in the interests of public safety."
try's foreign trade. Senator" Crisp, a member of the Ways and Means Committee of the Representatives, declares that when the new Ameri- can tariff is enacted other rations will retaliate,
Tarif Bill Amandment Eojected.
WASHINGTON, May 4.
The House of Representatives has rejected the Debenture Amendment which the Senate had incorporated in the Tariff Bill, despite. Mr. Hoover's opposition, providing the
which struck Southern Saghalion to information which has just reach midnight when two parties of Chiliention last night. It is believed nese police who were patrolling, the this pertends that major military and Northern Hokkaido last night.ed Shanghai, Several bodies have already been washed ashore. Property damage
Western District of the Interns- is estimated at 3,000,000 yen. The
tional Settlement, where a number typhoon struck when the appear- ance of great schools of herring at
of robberies had taken place intely, Odomari Bay had drawn 2,000 fish ing houts carrying 10,000 fishermen
to sea.
. LONDON NAVAL -PACTAM DENOUNCED.
STRONGLY CRITICISED BY MR. BRIDGEMAN.
[TRROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Father Herera was captured when brigands attacked Taihu in South- West Anhui on April 2, but it is believed that he was rescued by soldiers.
On April 99 bandits similarly attacked Hwoshan near Taihu, when they took captive Fr. Hidalgo
and Fr. Avito and made off to na, unknown destination.
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REDS EXPOSED IN NEW
YORK:
DOCUMENTS SEIZED.
(BIDIER'S AMERICAN SERVICE. Į
mistook each other for armed rob-
bers.
operations will shortly commence.
Yen and Feng Confer,
PEPING, May 4.
It is understood that Yen Hei
One party consisting of three Shan and Feng Yu Hsiang after Chinese detectives in plain clothes bolding copierence" at Sinsiang were searching some suspicious proceeded to Chengchow together persons when the other party con- sisting of two Chinese detectives, from where it is likely they will also in plain clothes, came on the order an offensive shortly. scene and opened are which was returned resulting" in one Chinese detective and one pedestrian being killed, while four Chinese detectives were badly wounded.
bad weather. Heavy rainstorms, foods and hailstorins have added to
the privations of survivors of the «
Red Terror.
Namhung is reported by the Chi- nese Press to be the worst of the affected districts. During the past two weeks, the weather has been. very exratic: On the "afternoon of Thursday last, a heavy rainstorm broke out and the city was plunged in darkness. Lamps were lit in every house and shop as if it were
The downpour «con night-time.
Wan's Resignation Denied. (THROUGH BEDTER'S AGENCY.]
PEPING, May 3. Chinese authorities declare that the report regarding War Hsuan. Tsai's resignation is without found MR. MONTGOMERY'S BODY tion and that Feng Yu Hsiang has tinued for hours, in consequence of
RECOVERED.
not appointed Sun Liang Chen as which the streets wero converted Governor of Honan. They also de-into miniature rivers, the water being several feet deep. Many DEATH DUE TO DROWNING.clare that the report is character-
ised by an attempt to sow discord buildings were inundated and the between, Yen and Feng but the singular sight was witnessed of.. ĮTAKOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ties of friendship between them are
small sampany sailing" along the streets! so strong that they cannot be alien- ated."
W&S
Troop Movements. (Fak Te Fat Pao.)
PEPING, May 4.
LONDON, May 2. Mr W. C. Bridgeman, who was First Lord of the Admiralty in the last Conservative Government, in a speech at Weymouth to-day said he very much regretted the London Naval Agreement because ORDINANCE PROMULGATED
it did very little in the direction TO PREVENT DISORDER.
of economy, gave away the most important part of our Fleet and
New York, May 2 MALTA, May 4. gave us practically nothing in re- The Police Commissioner, Mr.
HANKOW, May 3. issue of export debentures on farm. The Governor-General last night turn,
photo- Whalen, has published a
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Montgomery's" Hody "If we are going to make this graphic copy of correspondence found in the Yangtze River below products by which the American promulgated the Ordinance post-
poning the General Election until enormous surrender against the seized by detectives showing that Changsha and there is no doubt farmer would be paid on all he the danger of disorder is past. advice of all the best Naval ex- the Communist International, of that death was caused by drowa- sends abroad a sum equal to half The Ordinance is styled Preven-perts in the country, and if it is Moscow is directly responsible for ing.
of Disturbances Emergency necessary in the interests of fomenting strikes and riots in the the import duty which would be tion
reonomy, then surely they might|United States. The correspondence chargeable against similar produce Ordinance 1930."
A new date for the General Elec have got something out of some
contains a repeated reference to seeking entry from föreign coun
tion will be fixed by the Governor other countries equivalent to the the expenditure for the outbreak by a proclamation.
surrender we tries..
are making," he and the support of strikes. Onc declared amid loud cheers.
letter bears the heading "Amtorg Trading Corporation." The Soviet's official purchasing agents in America are also in the lists.. The names include 30
and women who were sent to New York
Laguna Beach, Cal., April 23.—A from Moscow, including. Delglass,
coroner's jury to-day decided that organize the Provisional Govern- who is described-as-a-member-of-Mfrs Guy Bates-Post-killed-Mrs.ment in the shortest possible time. the Moscow Secret Police and ex Doris Palmer and then committed lished here, Peping will be renamed As the Government will be estab- personal secretary to Dejerzinski, suicide.
Peking. Mr. Chu Ao Heiang, the the organiser of the Cheka.
director of the Foreign Affairs Department, has notified the Con- sular Body to this effect.
WASHINGTON, May 4. Rallying strongly to support the President, the Representatives also rejected the Senate's amendment which would have deprived the President of his power to change the rates as conditions warrant,
MR. MORROW TO SEEK ELECTION TO SENATE.
ÍTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WASHINGTON, May 3.
Mr. Dwight Morrow has announc ed that he will open a campaign for Republican nomination to the Senate from New Jersey.
"Valetta was astir until an early hour but the crowds were orderly in view of a police notite prohibit ing gatherings.
The Governor was vociferously cheered as he drove away after the Privy Council meeting.
The news-has-been-received calm ly throughout the country.
RUBBER RESTRICTIONS:
MANY COMPANIES JOIN IN TAPPING HOLIDAY,
(THROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BATAVIA, May 3. The Association of Dutch Rubber Producers reports that 111 Dutch, 313 British, 30 Continental and 58 Dutch East Indian rubber eam- panies will participate in the re- striction scheme in the Dutch East WILD CONFUSION ON SHARE Indies and elsewhere.
MARKET."
ANOTHER WALL STREET SCARE.
new
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[RECTEL'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, May 3. Despite Mr. Hoover's assurance. that the worst is over "an enor mous wave of selling swept-over the New York stock market' this morning. Falls in stocks varied from one to fourteen points and a record of nearly 3,000,000 shares for Saturday trading was established. There were scenes of wild confusion at the close of the day as stockholders fearing another crash rushed to well. The general anxiety was inercased by the mys- tery surroun-ling the present de- cline which started a week ago...
INDIAN SITUATION,
NEWSPAPERS SUSPEND
PUBLICATION.
{THROUGH-AKUTER'8-AGENCY.]—+
Gutta.
For scientific purposes the con- tinuation of tapping will he allow. ed over an area of 290 hectares in- cluding, the East Coast of Sumatra.
HOME GOVERNMENT AND
INDIA.
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SPECIAL MISSION TO
PALESTINE.
STR-JOHN-SIMPSON-LEAVING
NEXT WEEK.
tren
DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN BEACH HOME.
WOMAN SHOOTS COMPANION,
THEN COMMITS SUICIDE
(UNITED PRESE.]
"
The bodies of both women were found yesterday at the Palmers' beach home. Mrs. Post had been hot through the mouth, Mrs.
Mrs. Post was recently divorced.
[DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
Soviet officials describe the docu Roosy, May 2.
ments as forgeries. The Chairman The Colonial Secretary has ap- of the Amtorg Corporation avers pointed Sir John Hope Simpson, that the investigations were launchPalmer through the head. of the Indian Civil Service, to pro-ed with a view to prosecuting the xed to Palestine on a temporary fabricators. russion to confer with the High Commissioner and report to His Majesty's Governmeßt on questions relating to land settlement, im- migration and development.
Sir John Simpson will arrive at Palestine early next week.
TORNADO DISASTER IN AMERICA.
THE ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION.
FUNDS FOR AMERICAN COMMUNISTS.
$100,000 SENT FROM MOSCOW,
[UNITED PRESS.}
The flood subsided the next morn- ing, but a hailstorm followed in its wake.
Some of the hailstones were said to be as big as pigeen eggs. Fortunately, the hailstorm was shortlived. According 'to the
It has been decided by Yen Hsi Shan and Feng Yu Hsiang to in-natives, this was the fifth hailstorm struct their troops to move from in the district within the past two Tohchow to attack Pengpu.
months record unsurpassed for a century. "Rainstorms of a minor nature still occur now and then.
A number of deaths among men and cattle was reported, in addi tion to heavy damage to crops, and buildinge.
PEPING AGAIN TO BE PEKING.
(Wah Tas Tat Pao.)
PEPINO, May 4. Yen Hai Shan has decided to
TRAGEDY AT RAILROAD CROSSING.
[UNITED PRESS.]
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| LOCAL "RACING ROMANCE.
MR. GUSSY "ROZA WEDS MISS ALVES.
- A wedding of great gocial interest to the Portuguese community was solemnised at the Roman Catholic Cathedral
yesterday afternoon, when Misa Cecilía Maria do Sela- visa Alves - was married to Mr. Gustavo Uziel da Roza.
The bridegroom is well-known in Princeton, NJ, April 95.-Prof local racing circles, being one of. Uirie Dahlgren of the biology de the most successful jockeys in Hong SENATE APPROVES TRANSFER
partament of Princeton University Kong at the moment. The bride is OF CONTROL
and his son were killed, while his keeper of the H.K. Jockey Club. As the daughter of the official time- wife suffered critical injuries, when [UNITED BRESS.]
New York, April 25.-Investiga their automobile crashed through tors for Grover Whalen, Comms the gates at a railroad crossing to- Washington, April 25-The Senate stoner of Folice in New York, today and struck a locomotive. Judiciary Committee to-day un-day reported that Communists here bave obtained G. $100,000 to finance animously approved the proposal to
a demonstration on May 1 over the transfer the work of prohibition en-
whole country. forcement from the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to that of the Department of Justice.
The proposal was put forward by the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission and endorsed by the
TWENTY-THREE KILLED.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]
CHICAGO, May 2. Up to the present twenty-three FIRM STAND TO BE TAKEN. people are known to be dead, in- cluding eight women, scoreg injur ed and half a million sterlig dam-President and other high officals, age done in * tornado which left a trail of destruction across the nine, States of the Middle West. Acroplanes have been sent to the stricken areas to render help.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, May 2.
In a speech at Southampton. Lord Russell referred to Gandhi's statement that violence clsewhere was a necessary result of his non- violence movement and said "If that is a necessary result steps will have to be taken to put an end tr it."
Lord Russell emphasised that the
DELAY IN CRUISER BUILDING.
WOMAN AVIATRIX IN ACCIDENT.
NOSE-DIVE BY GLIDER.
[UNITED PRESS.]
Government was not going to be AMERICA TO MAKE CHANGES Brown, well-known woman aviatrix,
deflected from their intentions of dealing quite frankly and fully with the India question owing -to-certain-outbreaks-on-the-part- of those who wished to have it dealt with in that "way.
IN DESIGN.
of the recent Naval negotiations, recovery... will be further delayed.
FIRE DESTROYS FREIGHTER
was to be expected, a large number of owners and jockeys were present at the wedding ceremony and at the reception subsequently given at the Club Lusitano.
It was declared that the fund came from a large industrial cor- SEARCH FOR MISSING MENing forming a very attractive backs, poration in Moscow. The money was disguised as
a payment for merchandise.
MURDERED MISSIONARY.
"HIS LAST LETTER TO
ENGLAND,
re-
The interior, of the church was very prettily decorated for the oc casion, flowers, pennants and barite:
ground for the riot of gay colour [UNITED PRESS.]
provided by the dresses of the ladies who attended the ceremony, Greenwich, Conn., April 25.- The bride made a very charmning, Boats and aeroplanes to-day con-picture in a dress of ivory satin. ducted a thorough-going search of She was attended by her two. Long Island Sound in a hunt, thus cousins, Miss Marie Alves and for fruitless, for traces of 18 sea Mercedes Alves, who wore dresses men who are now believed to have of peach-coloured georgette. The perished in the fire which destroy bride carried a bouquet of arum ed the freighter Thanics.
lilies and asparagus fern, while the bridesmaids carried white and pink carnations. There were also two pretty little flower-girls in Min Socorro Alves and Miss Ismeria Ozorio, "who wore dainty little dresses of light blue and shell-pink georgette.
CALCUTTA, May 4. Five youths were arrested and a
Paper Suspends Publication. number injured when the police dis- Dereed gatheringa held in defiance
CALCUTTA, May 2 to police orders on the occasion of The Chairman and Secretary of ex-Speaker Patel's arrival in Cal- the Civil Disobedience Committee. the Secretaries of the North, South All newspapers in Calcutta "except and Central Calcutta and Burra the Staten and the Bengnize bazar Congress Committees and have suspended publication as n also the ex-President of the Alt protest against the new Press Ord: Bengal Student's Associaton have London Conference but is due to U.S. TRADE IN FAR EAST.ary withdrawal from the stage time later by police with several tume was an attractive, creation in
each been sentenced to one years contemplated changes in the design rigorous imprisonment for disobey.cf the vessels as a result of the trials of the first ships of this type ing Police orders.
The local newspaper, Fiskwam which have just been commissioned.
nance.
Hartel Declared in Amritsar,
AMRITSAR, May 3.
A hartal has been declared in contraindi, ia suspending publication sequence of the arrest of Kitchlew, and the committee of Indian jour- chairman of the Reception Com-nalists has requested the remaning mittee of the Lahore Congress, on
papers to do likewise, " a charge of sedition.
Commissioner Retires, Seditious Meetings Act Extended.
SIMLA, May 2. SIMLA, May 3. It is understood that Sir Horatio An extraordinary Gazette notifice Bolton, K.C.I., Chief Commissioner the application of the Seditious Meetings Act to the Peshawar die of the North West Frontier Pro trict and the North-West Frontier vince is leaving on account of ill-
Province.
health.
The London Missionary Society has received a letter from Mr. Erie Yorke Scarlett, of Heaton Mersey,
THE CLUTCHING HAND.". Los Angeles, April 26-Bonnie and Manchester, who was murdered by bandits, near Pei-tai-ho, recent- ly. Reporting to his society on his NEW YORK GANGSTERS suffered. disaster to-day while ex-
year's work Mr. Scarlett wrote:- "CELEBRATE " BURIAL. perimenting with a motorless glider.
At an altitude of 30 ft. the glider, and unification, 1929 has, in
"Superficially a year of stability
The bridegroom was attended by [REUTER'S AKTEICAN SERVICE]
His body encased in a casket Mr. A. W. Da Roza as best man. which had been consting smoothly.ality, been one of constant and valued at £1,500, Guiseppe, Perano, The service was performed by His auddenly turned into a pose dive bitter turmoil. Each revolt in its the famous New York gangster, who Lordship WASHINGTON, May 2. and crashed heavily. Mies Brown.
Bishop Valtorta, the The White House has announced could not right the plane because first sight might seem to be a sign Hand" because of his withered giving away the bride.
turn has been quelled, which at was known as The Clutching bride's father, Mr. A. E. S. Alves, that the laying down of three of her proximity to the ground, of the essential soundness 10,000 ton eight inch gun cruisers, which left no
and right hand, was buried with great Therer was a large gathering of: whose construction President Homanœuvring
"air space for stability of the Government's posi-pomp and ceremony recently.
friends and well-wishers of the over postponed at the beginning
tion, but which is really nothing Perano was ambushed and shot bride and bridegroom at the Club Physicians entertain little hope of of the kind. The wholesale pur- by three gangsters as he was ap- Lusitano later, here a reception. chase of rebel-war-lords by means proaching his Headquarters Inwas given. The honeymoon will be of misappropriated public funds Brooklyn.. Dressed in the height of spent at Repulse Bay and later at and their consequent-if tempor fashion, he was discovered some Macao. The bride's going-nway co-
bearing with them the admirable | bullets in his heart.
powder-blue georgette. moral slogang which formed their Ten motor cars loaded with flow: The church decoration," which- principal armoury, is but the more era and dozens of other cars conformed so pretty a picture, was clearly to show forth that the taining his gangster friends follow-mainly due to the efforts of Mrs. venality and selfishness which is ed the hearse to the cemetery.A. W. da Roza, assisted by some and has been all along the chief Dense crowds lined the route to of the bride's friends. The bridal curse of China is by no means watch the passing of the mortal gown was supplied by Madame S. remains of Ferano, who was one Leite, and the wedding-caké by dead.
Banditry is worse to-day than of Brooklyn's wealthiest beer Mac's. Cafeteria. for many years, and large bands barons." of ruffians roam at will in many Conservative estimates place the parts. The Kantu conditions are total cost of the funeral at between known and freely talked about, £3,000 and £4,000, and there was but other appalling casualties are unanimous consent that Ferano's Foreign Office, whose death at the age of 63 was recently announced hidden and apparently recked little friends had done well by him.
The postponement is said to have
no connexion with the result of the
Improvement in the design of the bull is said to be one of the principal alterations contemplated. These three cruisers are included in the first five to be built under the latest Naval programme. The remaining two vessels will be con- structed presently.
New Naval Ohlez. [REUTER'S AMERICAN. BERVIOR.]
NEW YORK, May 2. He will be replaced by Mr. 8. E. President Hoover has announced Fears, resin
illi Nagula Sir. Horatio Bolton, recently suc- Pratt, President of the Naval War SIMLA, May 2. It is understood that Sir Horatio creded in restoring public confid College, who accompanied Presi- Bolton, Chief Commissioner of the ence in Peshawar when he had a dent Wilson on his trip to France North-West Frontier Province, is conference with the leading citizens, in December 1918, will be appoint leaving for England to-morrow on following the outbreak of distured. Chief of Naval Operations in account of ill-health. He will be bances, with a view to the restora succession to Rear-Admiral C, F. replaced by S. E. Pears, Resident tion of peace and feeling of secur- Hughes when the latter's term of
office expires.. ity, at Mysore.
"AMAZING POSSIBILITIES."
J
UNITED PRESS.}..
Washington, April 27-In radio broadcast sent out at o'clock this evening, Mr. Julius Klein, assistant secretary of the Department of Commerce, said that the Far East offers "amazing pos sibilties for disposal of United States merchandise.
•
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Herr Emil Krebs, of the German
This is especially true of small units amounting in time to a vast aggregate, he declared,
of. Anyone who possess more than While the body was being carried from Berlin, is said to have been Mr. Klein cited the enormous the barest necessaries of life lives to the graveside, gangsters in an able to speak 45 languages flrently biasa ni matkantonale man mastaat terror of robbery off ather section of the city took advan-and to have understood 20 more. case in point. He also pointed out cial, or unofficial kidnapping.tage of the occasion to moor nuwe ther in the kill Theodore Pandola, a suspected German Legation in Feking a letter the increase in trade with the The well-to-do, even
was received by the Chinese Gov- Orient last year, and showed that concession, surround their houses member of a beer-running band.
six Police are searching for his mur-ernment from a rebellious Mon- there has been a greater gain in with barbed wire, five or
elec- derers. but there is little doubt that golian tribe. Nobody in Peking American trade with the Orient strands high, and often, since the war than has been the trically charged, on top of the al- they will go free and that yet an- could be found able to decipher it ease with better advertised Latin ready almost unscalable outer other gangland crime will go un- until it was handed to Herr Krchs,
who at onée translated it. punished.
America.
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