THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1930.
"HONG KONG'S RIVAL. MOSLEM FESTIVAL AMERICA & LONDON LENA GOLDFIELDS.
FREE PORT IN KWANGTUNG
SIXTY-YEAR CHARTER
GRANTED,
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, May 10. A free port to be known as Chung Shan is shortly to be open- ed in South China at Tang Chia Huan, a village on the roast south-
PASSES QUIETLY.
NO TAX" CAMPAIGN TAKES
DEFINITE SHAPE.
NAVAL TREATY.
MR. BRITTEN STILL SEEKS PARITY WITH BRITAIN,
WOMAN TO LEAD GANDHI'S NAVAL BILL FOR $1,000,000,000
VOLUNTEERS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.]
INTRODUCED TO SENATE.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, May 10.
conservative AL-
In advocating
DISPUTE.
ARBITRATION COURT HOLDS FIRST SITTING.
SOVIET DELEGATE FAILS "TO APPEAR.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, May 10. At the first sitting of the Court naval construction programme in of Arbitration on, the Lena Gold-
SALMAS 'QUAKE.“
TOWN PRACTICALLY DESTROYED.
SHOCK LASTS MINUTE AND A HALF.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CHANG TO JOIN REBEL FORCES.
GOVERNMENT DIVISION
ANNIHILATED.
REBELS SURPRISE NANKING TROOPS.
POLICEMEN'S BRUSH WITH BANDITS.
"DARING ATTACK ON
A STATION..
SEVERAL KILLED DURING BRISK FIGHTING,
A daring attack is reported to have been made by bandits on a police station in Namhoi district, the marauders suffering a setback after brisk fighting.
The head of the No. 2 Police Station in Siulam Village recent-
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) TEHERAN, May 10. Salmas is almost entirely destroy- ed as the result of the earthquake
PEPINOY May 10. In addition to the 2,000 killed and
Mr. Putnam Wenle in an article 5,000 injured a considerable amount of damage has been done at Tabriz in the Peking Leader states that
and 1. half, the panic-stricken population fied from the town and furnish the Northerners with a re- are now camping in the hills. The inforcement of 80,000 men if needy received a threatening letter ed. along with all heavy artillery Shah has donated £2,000 towards a relief fund.
and service of the Mukden Arsenal.
• Attack on Haskow Proposed. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
SHOLAPUR, May 10. The Mosiem festival of Bakrid passed off peacefully with the ex- ception of an incident in the even- ward of Chang Shan, known as the ing when a small, crowd entered opposition. to the Bill published fields Soviet dispute the President, where "the shock lasted a minute Chang Hauch Liang has agreed to
two police stations and took out yesterday night by Mr. Britten, Professor Stutzer, announced that Sun Yat Sen model district, in uniforms and furniture and burn Chairman of the Naval Affairs the arbitrator appointed by the Kwangtung Province.
ed them. The crowd dispersed Committee to the House of Repre- Soviet had failed to appear, and before the arrival of the police.
sentatives, Mr." Freach, Chairman, that the Soviet had telegraphed de- CALCUTTA, May 10. The Bakrid festival, which in of the Appropriations Sub-Commit-claring that "the Lena Goldfields volves Moslems sacrificing cows
tee which drafts the Annual Naval had in fact cancelled their Capres- (which are sacred to Hindus) pass- ed off peacefully is Calcutta and Supply Bill, said that the United Son Agreement thereby causing the
States would be in a stronger posi-Court of Arbitration to
exiso," A representative of the tion at the proposed Naval Confer-
statement ence in 1933 if they did not build Lena Goldfields in a up to the limits of the London Treaty, which, he declared, would asserting that the company did not regard the Concession, can- cost almost $1,000,000,000.
According to the decision reached at recent meeting of the State Council, the free port will be grant- ed a charter for a period of sixty
years.
suburbs.
cease to
"No Tax" Campaign. Mr. Sun Fo, Minister of Rail-
BOMBAY, May 10. ways, states that Tang Chin Huan
no tax" campaign of which The " is already connected by rond with Patel, the ex-President of the
Mr. French contended that by notcelled submitted that neither party Legislative Assembly, is a staunch Macao and Canton, and the har protagonist is now taking definite building to the authorised limits
was entitled to cancel it and that hour has sufficient depth of water shape at Gujerat. A message from the United States could more
states that Dadu Bhai cadily agree at the next confer the only authority empowered to do to enable accommodation to be Bardoli
Desni, an ex-member of the Bon-ence to a further reduction which so was the Court of Arbitration." provided for ocean-going steamers, bay Legisktive Council, has been would be effectable without the which fast will facilitate the deve-pointed dictator of the Kaura scrapping of new ships, and on the lopment of the port into a first district to consider the question of contrary, it the categories were not filled up to the limits, the nation would be able to take advantage of contemporaneous improvement in designs or methods of warfare. Mr. Britten, however, was not moved by Mr. French's pies and introduced his Bill providing for the expendi ture of $936,995,000 on the construc tion of warships which he says are necessary to establish American parity with Britain.
class harbour.
Japanese Comment.
SHANGHAI, May 10. Japanese comment upon the free port scheme in Kwangtung sug- gests that the execution of the plan will defect the trade now passing through Hong Kong to the Chinese 1Hort.
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Further Details of Scheme. Mr. Wong Kue Sho, Magistrate ef the Chung Shan modei district, who went to Shanghai a fortnight ago to attend the special confer efte called by Mr. Tong Shao, Yi, President of Executive Administra- tive Committee of the district, has completed his mission and returned. to Canton.
In an interview. appearing in the Coaton Gazette, Mr. Wong said "that the conference, which was on ducted at the residence of Mr. Tong in Shanghai, took place on the 96th and 7th ultimo,
Amongst the numerous important resolutions-passed at the confer enge. the magistrate mentioned the
following:-
1. To open up Tong Ka Wan into a ce commercial port, which will be named, the Chung Shan Part." 2. To re-demarcate the bound- aries of the various sections of the district and remine them,
non-payment of revenue.
About thirty-five villages in the Jambrusar, Taluka and Brotch dis tricts have decided not to pay land revenue, while in the remaining villages in Taluka land tax has either already been paid or coller tion has been suspended. It will be recalled that Gandhi in 1991-92 successfuile ied a no tax campaign in the Kaira district.
Bakrid Celebrations Pass quietly. SIMEA, May 10.- Reports from Delhi, Lahore, SIGNOR GRANDI ON NAVAL
Bombay Allahabad. Meerut end state that the Moslem Bakrid cele- brations on May 10 passed off quietly.
Thirty-nine Arrests at Poshawar.
PESHAWAN, May 10.
PARITY.
STATEMENT IN CHAMBER.
(THROUOR REUTER'S AGENCY.}
ROME, May 8. It is oftially announced that up
For two hours Signor Grandi, to date there have heen thirty-nine
"Naval Conference, surveyed the re- arrests here of which ten are badhief Italian delegate to the London, tourers at thirteen members of sults of the Conference in the chiracters-fourteen Congress office the League of Youth.
Chamber. The most striking part of his speech dealt with parity with France. He declared that naval parity was a principle of moral international right and was something new which arose from the mutual confidence among the nations.
ALALPUR, May 10. The picketting of toddy shops at Ongal rear here by volunteers led to a collision between the pickets and employees of toddy shone whereupon the villagers armed with staves and axes attacked the toddy shop employees who fled across the river in which two were drowned. Meeting Dispersed By Fire Hose. SIMLA, May 11.
Five civil disobedience volunteers 4. To survey the boundary of the
were arrested at all whilst an- Chung Shan port.
To remove the seat of ad-nouncing that a meeting was to he ministration from Shekki to Tong held on May 11 in order to manu- KA Wah.
facture contraband salt. The crowd were dispersed by the use of a fire- hose after a warning had been issued.
5. To reform the affairs of the police force in the district, and to adopt a standard scale for collecting police-taxes.
Baid On Salt Works Planned.
JALALPUR May 10. Abbastyabji, Gandhi's successor, To appoint a Board of Direc-who is marching from Karadi on
4. To draw up regulations govern. ing the custody of all Government properties in the districts.
tors for the new Chung Shau Bank. To adopt an official emblem for the district, and
9. To construct a large public garden in commemoration of the late Party Leader, Dr. Sun Yat
Sen.
the
morning of May 12 with Gandhi's volunteers to Dharsana
Signor Grandi added that if Italy measured her armaments in accordance with her needs, parity would not be sufficient, but he was tairly optimistic as regards the
future.
He said that Franco-Italian co- operation was essential if Europe was to recover its prosperity.
Ax
AIR MAIL CRASH.
FOUR PEOPLE DROWNED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MONTEVIDEO, May 10.
drowned when the South America France
Three
were persons
in order to raid the salt depot air mail plane flying to Rio Janeiro there has called on Mrs. Saro diri Naidu to take charge of Gandhi's with tails for Europe crashed in the sea owing to fog. One passen- volunteers after he is arrested This was arranged by Gandhi. Ber swam ashore. Naidu has left for Bombay to ar- range to bring a large number of volunteers from there to Dharsana. It is understood that the authori ties have wire-fenced the salt works
Dharsage.
IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.
PRINCE OF WALES TO ATTEND RECEPTION.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Nanking Officials Coming South.
Mr. Wong also stated that Mr. Lin Sen, Member of the Central Executive Committee, and Mr. Tong Shao Yi, President of the Executive Adininistrativa Comorit-
Origin of Sholapur Biots. tee of the model district, are pro-
POONA, May 9. posing to take a trip to Canton It is now learnt that the. Sho- before the end of the month.
lapur riots originated on May 7 Mr. Lin, who has been absent when millworkers demonstrated since he went to the capital to take outside two of the mills which up his present high official position, refused to observe the hartal which two years ago, is planning to pay had been called. The police dis A visit to Canton where he may persed the disturbers who, however, visit his many friends and relatives. re-formed their ranks and proceed
It is also said that Mr. Sun Fo, fed to burn down liquor shops. Minister of Railways, may also Peace was restored by nightfall, travel south with Messrs, Lin and but the arrival of Congrees volun-June 3 Tang.
teers yesterday morning, with the object of burning the toddy palm trees,
attracted the disgruntled YOUNG STUDENT WINS AGA illhands who then stoned the
KHAN'S PRIZE.. District Magistrate, Mr. Knight,, and Police Superintendent, Play-
SHANGHAI TRAM STRIKE.
SKELETON SERVICE STARTED.fair, who, with two European ser-
SHANGHAI TELEPHONES.
geants and a few armed, sepoye, were touring the city to persuade the volunteers to abandon the plan
LONDON, May 9. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales has signified his intention of attending the reception by the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere to the de- legates of the Imperial Press Con- ference at Bridgewater House on
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
RUGBY, May 10, Aga Khan for the first Indian to The prize of £500 offered by the make a solo fight between Eagland and India has been won by Man mohan Singh, a young student of Bristol University, who reached Karachi last night."
sion Agreement was still operative The Court found that the Conces and the jurisdiction of the Court also decided that future sittings was consequently unimpaired. It should be public. The next sitting will be held on June 28.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT
BROOKLANDS.
TWO PEOPLE KILLED TWENTY-FIVE INJURED,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 9. Two people were killed and several seriously injured as Brook lands to-day during the last hour of the Junior Car Club's double twelve hour race,
A Talbot car, doing eighty miles an hour, skidded and was charged following Talhot. The first driven through an machine was
turned iron fence and it then turtle among the spectutors, one of whom was killed.
UNEMPLOYED BRITISH
SEAMEN,
EMPLOYMENT OF ASIATICS RESENTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 10.
Union of Seanen. Commander Ken- At the request of the National worthy has left for Antwerp accom- panied by offcials of the National Union of Seamen to investigate & the preventing of and abuses in the successful aystem to inforce there engagement of Arab, Asiatic and largely the result other alien seamen. The visit is unrest among unemployed British seamen in con-
nection with the employment of Arabs and Lascars on British ships.
NEW POET LAUREATE'
APPOINTED.
A HAPPY CHOICE.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SZEVICE)
RUGBY, May 10.
The King has appointed Mr. John Masefield to be Poet Laureate in succession to the late Dr. Robert Bridges.
The
Perise, May 10." The vernacular papers state that 47 civilians were killed and 98 in-
from the notorious gang under Chan Kuen, demanding 88,000. The rabbers declared in the letter that should their request be refused, they would have him scized in order "make him their secretary, is be was a man of letters: The threat was disregarded, with the result that the police station was attack-
ed.
jured during the bombing of Cheng- chow by Nanking aeroplanes, and a The robbers, numbering over 100, hundred houses were destroyed. suddenly made their appearance in Loval merchants and gentry have the small hours of Friday last and attacked the police station. The decided to lodge a "protest with handful of police put up a stiff Chiang Kai Shek accusing the Nan- fight, and a severe encounter ensu
ing non-combatants. king troops of inhumanity for killed. Shortly afterwards, the village
It is understood that the battle front ruas from near, Tangshan to Kuoyang" which is about seventy mile
A report from Taiyuanfa states that delegates of three of the lead- ing Szechuan Generals, Tong Hsi Hou, Tien Sung Yao and Liu Taun Hou, arrived at Taiyuanfu and expressed their readiness to send troops to attack Hankow in co- operation with other uti-Chiang forces.
Four Foreigners Arrested, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
militia came to the rescue and the outlaws fled on their arrival. In consequence of the fighting, one policeman was killed and four rifles were captured by the marauders. of whom several were killed and one taken prisoner.
BRIGANDS THREATEN
RAILWAYS...
ARMOURED CARS PATROL · ·
LINES.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
to insure
SHANGHAI, May 10.
CANTON, May 11. According to reports which are Owing to the rampage of brigand- circulating in Shanghai the-rail- age and the threatening rumours of ways are busy rushing troops to robbery on a big scale, the authori- The appointment has given great the front. It is stated that four ties of the Canton-Hankow, Canton- pleasure in literary circles and Russians were arrested by Govern- Samshu and the Canton-Kowloon especially among Mr. Masefeld's ment troops at Lungtan station be Railway are adopting unusual pre- fellow poets.
measures new Laureatetween Chinkiang, and Nanking, it cautionary who is afty-five has written several is "not known whether they are safety ie travelling. Not only is notable novels as well as long nar. Communists, harmless civilians or the number of guards for these rative poems which display intense Shansi emissaries. A subsequent permanent ways increased, but love of sea and of English country account states that four foreigners armoured cars have also been added. side.
were seen being led through the to the patrol. Each traia is now. streets in Nanking not only roped unusually well protected. together but also roped to the guards. It is also reported that Nanking officials are doing their utmost to safeguard all foreign property in Nanking.
(Government. Planes Bomb Rebel Positions,
The driver of the first Talbot was He was born in the west of Eng- land and as a youth ran away to sea seriously injured and his mechanic killed. The occupants of the ewhere be served before the mast for cond car, were pinned underneath several years gaining experiences but were not hurt.
which are reflected in his works. He wrote for the Manchester Guardian-noteahly short poems Including the well-known" Sea Fever and then a series of long
of poems
unconventional style some of which attracted much at- tention. His most recent book was
Warning to Drivers and Mechanics. {TEROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.},
LONDON, May 10.
The double twelve hours race at Brooklands (so-called because the ocal residents insisted that the track was not to be used at night,
otherwise the race would be a twenty-four hours continuous one) was resumed this morning in an atmosphere of gloom after drivers had agreed that owing to the inter- national importance of the race it was impossible to abandon the
event.
MOHAMMEDANS IN
:- RUSSIA.
APPEAL TO ARCHBISHOP OF
נן
CANTERBURY,
TEKOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
77
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It
beer
On the Canton-Kowloon Railway
a gang of outlaws visited. during the early part of last week the workmen's quarters at Katshan station, not very far from Canton. and took everything of value. They all made good their escape. Hordes of brigands varying from a hundred to. a thousand in number are reported to be lurking in these alaces, and the authorities of the Canton-Kowloon Railway are leav- ing nothing to chance in their pro- tection of the trains.
These precautions have adopted in consequence of recent reports that large lands of bandits have appeared in the vicinity of Kwantin station on the Canton- Hankow Railway. Their move- ments are very baffling, and it up- pears that they are focussing their attention on train robbery. Mr. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Chen In, managing director of the SHANGHAI, May 10." Railway, has requested the Canton The Hawmicks published last An official communique from Military Headquarters to send a year which is the story of the hunt Hauchowfu states that sericus fght-detachment. of troops to Kwantin ing shires. Mr. Masefield lives at ing between Wan Hsuan Tsai's to round up the cutlaws and insure Boxhill Oxford and was a neigh troops and Government forces broke the safety of travelling there. bour and close friend of his pre-out last Thursday evening in the decessor, Dr. Bridges. He is of a neighbourhood of Yucheng, on the extremely shy temperament and is Honan-Shantung border. The battle glad that the Laureate bio docs not was still raging yesterday when these days involve writing to order.rebel troops were steadily retreat ing westwards under heavy artillery fre from Government forces. The marshal assembled the driv
also states that Government 'planes
and it is hoped this will prevent a ers and mechanics and warned them to look out when overtaking care,
are daily being despatched to bomb rebel positions. repetition of yesterday's tragedy.
Completo Disorder on Nanking There was an outery after Ber-
Front. nard Hicatt, who was competing in the motor-cycle world's speed re-
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] cord, was killed at Brooklands, on
PEPING, May 10. May 3 as the result of his machine
Military Acadquarters issued the skidding on the wet track, crities
WARSAW, May 10.
following communique this after- declaring that the race should have On the occasion of the Moslem noon: Nanking forces. taking ad been abandoned during the rain. festival Cour Bar Bairam, the vantage of the partial concentra
Yesterday's event was run on a
Mohammedans in Warsaw passed a tion of the Second and Third Army treacherous course amid squalls of resolution appealing to Moham groups, which are composed of Yen wind and rain and the track was
medan rulers to rope in the Arch- Hsi Shan'a and Feng Yu Hajang's wet this morning when the race was bishop of Canterbury to protect the picked troops each numbering resumed after a night of heavy rain, boslem religion in Russia from 100,000, came out of their positions
[ÜNİTED PRESS.} Eleven of the twenty-five people persecution by the Soviet Govern- three days ago and advanced west- who were injured yesterday are stillment which had closed, 30,000 mos ward under Chiang Kai Shek's
Washington, May 5.-The sale of orders. Here they were surprised in hospital including a woman who ques throughout Russia. is seriously injured. People behind
by enemy troops who were cover- bottles intended for liquor, or of ing the concentration composed of other equipment offered in a man- the railings on seeing the crash turned to flee but many had no
the commande under Sun Tien Ying ner designed to attract purchase by time to move before the car crash-
and Wan Hsuan Tsai. One Nan those intendjax to use such equip- ed into them amid a whirl of flying
king division was annihilated leav ment for unlawful purposes in such violates the national metal, concrete and twisted rail
ing the ground covered with dead, connection, inge.
complete disorder now reigns on prohibition law according to a deci the Nauting front and quantities eion handed down by the U.S. of prisoners are being brought in... Supreme Court to-day.
The decision, said that the "many The vanguards of the Second and Third Army groups came into facture of liquor includes sale of antion yesterday. The original utensils for use in such manufac plan was that as soon as concentrature, by legal definition, tion was completed two. covering forces would open up and go to the flanks but the situation has deve loned so rapidly that advantage is being exploited and a general ad- vance is occurring without redis- tribution."
NEGRO BAKED TO DEA
DEATH.
POLICE HELPLESS AGAINST. INFURIATED CROWD.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE),
SHEIMANS, Texas, May 10,
A frenzied mob seeking to lynch a negro hurned down the Court House in which a negro who was found guilty of assaulting a woman was imprisoned after, the police using fiets and tear gas bombs, liad thrice repulsed them, The Gover- nor of Texas had ordered them not to boot.) The negro was baked to death in a vault in the Court House, his body was dragged out of the cell and nung into the street," where the screaming orandr
i
LORD PASSFIELD TO REMAIN.
REPORT OF INTENTION TO RETIRE DENIED.
[ITISH WIRELESS. SERVICZ]
RUGBY, May 9. The Colonial Ofice states that there is no foundation for the re- port, to which currency has been given on several occasions recently, that Lord Passfield is relinquishing the office of Secretary for the Do ininions and Colonics.
MR. HENDERSON IN PARIS.
CONFERENCE WITH M..
BRIAND-
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
of burning down the trees. SHANGHAI, "May 30. Another Constable Burned Alive. The Tramway Company cond
Mr. Knight and Superintendent menced a limited service of seven Playfair were both wounded. They cars from Carter Road to the Bundordered a warning volley to be this morning. Thirteen 'huses are fired, whereupon a shrieking gesti also running.
culating mob of thirty thousand people surrounded the party and.
Five Policemen Missing. cut off their retreat until a party ci police recklessly broke through. Five more policemen-are-miss- Demoniacal fury then descended ing and it is believed that they upon the rioters, who seized a were first blinded and their bodies THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]head constable" and "bufft him the zhrown down a well CHRISTA NARAYANALYZE CYCLE
Thy-Mardenta cowother The atmosphere in Sholapur dauk policemen and then marched to the day is strangely quiet, A
to a motor car and dragged, the
Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreigo The N-C Daily News reports Government buildings, setting fire pany of the Fourth Grenadiers in body to the jail where a pyre was Secretary, was entertained to lun that an advisory committee recors to police stations and the Session Indian Regiment from Ahmedna erected to cremate, it. Reinforce- cheon to-day at the Quai d'Orsay mends that the offer of the Inter-Court on the way there.
gar) is now being held in readi.ments of militia were summoned to by M. Brinnd, the French Foreign national Telegraph and Telephone The mob was dispersed upon thones, for emergencies in view of the deal with the mob who had already Minister.
annversary of the Indian mutiny wrecked three blocks in the negro
After luncheon, the two bad Company to purchase the Shanghai arrival of Police reinforcements. tolephones should be accepted. (Continued at foot of next column). | to-morrow.
quarter.
long conversation.
SHANGHAI, May '10.
Com-
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RIARY MAY P
a
TIGHTENING UP THE U.S. LIQUOR LAW.
SUPREME COURT DECISION. ON SALE OF BOTTLES.
Heretofore it had been a common practice for flasks, stills and other paraphernalia to be freely offered for sale and advertised in Dews- papers and magazines.
LATER. Interpreting to-day's decision" Government officials said that the decision, would permit prohibition enforcement operatives to close HANOI RIOTS...
stores which had been selling barrels, cappers, filters, guages and various other home brewing devices. EXECUTION OF 4 NATIVES
It is presumed that the decision: CARRIED OUT.
will be chiefly invoked in connec tion with the large sellers of such" »-{TUROBGA RÉVJKB's 19 Jequipmentwelthough it is pointoðmmer
out that some of the most respect HANOL MAYO
able The four natives sentenced to men, including jewellery stores, and high-priced establish- death and executed in connection will feel some of the effects of the with the disturbances at Yen Bay decision in connection with their on February 25, were two peasants sale of personal equipment such as. and two corporals belonging to the silver flasks, cocktail shakers and Sharpshooters' Regiment.
sets and similar articles.