INDIAN STATUTORY COMMISSION.
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS SURVEYED.
REPORT UNANIMOUS ON ALL MATTERS.
(THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENCT.]
LONDON, June 9. The first of the two volumes has been issued of the eagerly-awaited report of the Indian Statutory Com- mission, presided over by Sir John "Simon, P.C., which was appointed two years and a half ago to, investi- gate matters relative to the exten sion of self-government in India.
The
document comprehensively surveys the economic and political conditions in India.
Although the present volume of the report has the greatest interest, Higher importance attaches to the
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system of public finance, growth of education in British India and public opinion in India.
The second volume, dealing with future developments and giving the present Commission's conclu- sions and recommendations, will be published" on June 24.
HONG
NG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1930.
JAPAN'S NAVAL ROUMANIA'S DRAMA.
CHANGES.
ANNOUNCED OFFICIALLY
TO-DAY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
TOKYO, June 10. The naval changes telegraphed yesterday have been oficially an- nounced.
Replacement of Admiral Kato Expected.
PRINCE MICHAEL RETURNED
TO MOTHER.
TAKEN TO PALACE BY HIS FATHER.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BUCHAREST, June 9. King Carol personally took back. Crown Prince Michael to the Palace, where Princess Helene is now staying, and left him with his
Liberal Party Disavow Now
Although official confirmation is not obtainable, it is persistently re-mother. ported that the early replacement of Admiral Kato as Chief of the Navy General Staff by an officer more amenable to the views of the Cabinet may be expected.
This method of issuing the report was chosen by the Commissioners to permit a survey of problems to he digested before their recom- mendations were judged, A cop ference of the representatives of
It is understood that the Cabinet, British India and Indian States, especially Admiral Takarabe, are called on Sir John Simon's sugges-anxious to make the change in tion after the publication of the arder to curtail Admiral. Kate's
second volume, which will be pub-report, will take place in London ability to fight the ratification of lished on June 24. It will contain on October 20.
the Simon Commission's mendations.
recom
the London Treaty.
Goal of British Indian Polley. Discussing the prescribed goal of
BRITISH SOLDÍER ACCIDENT. ALL SHOOTS TWO CHILDREN.
British Indian policy the Commis SERIOUS RIOT EXPLAINED. No Dissenting Minute, The fact that the seven Commissioners state: On the one hand
progressive realisation of respon sioners appointed were representa- tive of all political parties, and that ble government in British India the whole of the report, in theirs an integral part of the British a fixed object, to the Empire is own worde, is unanimous in all attainment of which, in co-opera- fundamental matters and without ation with the Indian peoples them dissecting minute," makes it a historic paper of the weightiest order, The Commissioners travel. led 21,000 miles, in the course of their investigations.
Indian-European Equality... The Indian report recognises that amonz all educated Indians there is an expression of the demand for "equality with Europeana, and are
sentment against any suspicion of differential treatment.
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Indian Nationalist Movement.
It would be a profound error to belittle the Indian Nationalist move- anont, for, while it was true that it directly afested the hopes of a very small fraction of the Indian popula- tion, nevertheless it, concentrated all the forces roused by an appeal to national dignity and rational self-consciousness.
Unworkable Theory of Dyarchy. Among the outstanding subjects discussed by the Commissioners was the unworkable theory of Dyarchy -the system under which Ministers were partly responsible to the Pro- vincini Legislatures and partly to the Governor-General
selves, British policy standa pledg- ed, and obstacles in the way can not be treated as defeating that object or a affording discharge from its pursuit.
They are of so forradable a char acter that no opinions to what should now be done is worth any thing at all until they are duly appreciated. But whatever the costacies, the object stands as the declared goal of British Indian policy.
On the other hand it is equally part and parcel of the pronounce ment of 1917 and 1919 that pro- gress in the attainment of this avowed object can only be achieved by successive stages, that the time and manner of each advance can
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PESHAWAR, June 9. How an accident, led to serious rioting was described during the course of the trial of a British
Lance-Corporal here named Cum- mings, who was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for acci dentally shooting two children at Kabuli Gate on May 31.
his
Cummings was cleaning rifle, and as a carriage containing a Sikh woman and two children was passing the rife went off.
The bullet killed the two child-
be determined only by Parliament ren and wounded the mother. upon whom the responsibility lies-An angry ob gathered and for the welfare and advancement of the Indian peoples. A decision as seriously threatened the small to the immediate future must party of British troops. » largely depend upon a just estimate The latter eventually fired on the of the results and consequences of
crowd with the result that seven the steps already taken.
killed people
and nine were wounded.
Our own task is not to decide, but to report to the King Emperor sad to Parliament. In the steps that will follow before a decision is reached there will be a full opportunity for a contribution of news of every section of respon sible and representative opinion in India.
"INDIAN SALT. RAIDERS SENTENCED,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WADALA, June 9. Forty-two volunteerë arrested in
Future Army Arrangements, Other important subjecte discuss ed in the report include the very "difficult question of the future
Army arrangements in India in con- Dealing with the conditions of -pection with auch problems as the the problem, the Commissioners constant menace of the North-West survey India's vast size and varied Frontier; the use of British soldiers population, its conglomeration of in suppressing communal riots; the races and religions, its social divi- question of martial races; the Insions, its economic circumstances. dianisation of the Army: the relate growing political consciousness connexion, with the raid on the tionship of the Indian States to the and the position of the army in Wadala salt works have been sen- paramount Power: the stumbling India. block caused by Hindu and Moslem
"In spite of the eagerness with tenced to three months' rigorous rivalry; the question of communal which political India is embracing imprisonment. representation where either pre- the modern ideas of Government, dominate; and the complications of the ancient social system of Hin the caste problem.
duism, which has evolved a rigid complication of innumerable custes from the Brahmin at the top to the Pariah at the bottom, continues to control the lives and thoughts of more than two hundred out of three hundred and twenty milliona of the population with a persistener and authority undreamed of in the Western world.".
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Child Marriage.
A chapter on women refers to the gathering force of the move, ment against child marriage and the growing feeling against purdah (the eastom of wearing a veil over the face); and the increasing parti- cipation by women in public affairs, The Commission is apparently strongly impressed by argumenta for the separation of Burma from India.
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In 1921 British India had a population of £47,000,000, and the Indian States 72,000,000. As to the complication of language, no single vernacular tongue has so wide a range as English, but only 2,500,000 are literate in English. The langu- age with the greatest currency among all the population is Hindus- tani, but it is far from being gener ally understood all over India, in. which there
are altogether pop vernaculars. '..
The Commissioners emphasise the
Regime.
The Executive of the Liberal Party, headed by Vintila Bratianu, has decided not to support the new regime.
Minister to Paris Recalled.
BUCHAREST, June 10. M. Diamandy, Minister to Paris, has been recalled and placed on the
retired list.
ROYAL ACCOUCHEMENT.
DAUGHTER TO NORWEGIAN
CROWN PRINCESS.
THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
OSLO, June 8. The wife of Crown Prince Olay has given birth to a daughter.
TORY AGRICULTURAL POLICY.
OUTLINED BY EX- PRIME MINISTER.
In
[ROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, June 9... speech which he made to an audience of 10,000 people at an Wickham open-air meeting near Market, Suffolk, Mr. Stanley Bald. win outlined the Conservative agri- cultural policy, namely, fix a guar anteed price for wheat for a period of years after consulting with agriculturista, to prevent the im- portation of bounty-fed and dump- ed oats by prohibition or a coun- tervailing duty, and to imposs a duty on imported barley, denounc ing any treaty standing in the way of this.
DAM DISASTER IN AMERICA.
SEVEN MEN KILLED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
OAKLAND (CAL) June Seven men were killed and one which occurred in a tunnel at the severely injured in an explosion Calaveras Dam in Alameda County,
MOBBED JOURNALIST LEAVES MALTĄ.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MALTA, June 8. The Italian newspaper corres
night.
KOREAN TERROR- ISTS RAIDED.
POLICE SHOOT RING- LEADER.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DAIREN, June 10.
According to a despatch received
A COUP D'ETAT IN FOOCHOW.
LU HSING BANG DEFIES NANKING'S FIAT.
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT MEMBERS BUTCHERED?
The following report from Foo-
at the headquarters of the Southchow,, appearing in the local verna- Manchurian Railway, the Japanese cular Press, affords an insight into Consular police at Langchingtaun, the latest situation in Fukien, Chientao, shot and killed a Korean where a clash has begun between named Kip, who, it is asserted, was the loyal troops under Liu Ho Ting the ringleader of the Lungching- and Lu Hsing Bang, the latter tsua terrorisms on May 31.
being responsible for the recent Another Korean was killed and coup d'etat in that province. another was arrested.
The despatch asserts that the police learned that Kin and other terrorists were hiding in Lungching. taun planning other forays, and therefore at dawn to-day their hiding-place was, raided.
CANTON RACECOURSE.
"GROUND LEVELLED AND
HALF-COMPLETED.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, June 10 The construction of a racecourse in Shokpal on the eastern outskirts of Canton is nearly half completed. The grounds have been made practically level,
Several thousand mendicanta rounded up from the streets during the past few years have been work ing on the job for the last ivé ór six months levelling hills and fill ing up ravines and gullies.
The whole racecourse will resem ble that of Hong Kong in construc- tion and appearance.
The grounds will be rented to a firm for a period of 18 years at 83,000 a year. The contracting form will have to deposit $10,000 with the Government as guarantee
money.
Such deposit will carry to interest," and will be returned, to the contracting frin at the end of the period described, either wholly or partially, depending upon its mode of fulfilling its obligation.
The contracting firm shall erect the necessary grandstands, bleachers and other public conveniences, the cost of which shall be at least $200,000.
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of the Municipal Government.
The contract will be given to the highest bid in rentals.
It is expected to be ready for horse racing by next spring,
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ALL QUIET
ALONG THE FRONT.
YEN NOT MEDDLING IN POLITICS,
SOLDIERS SEIZE WHEAT IN
`THE DEAD of night,
There has been no fresh develop- ment in the military situation on all fronts during the past few days. On the Langhai Railway line, both sides are still remaining on defensive, and
the Peping- Hankow Railway line, the situation remains unchanged,
оп
the
It will be remembered that Lu Hsing Bang some months ago arbi trarily arrested five members of the Fukien Provincial Government and turned a deaf ear to the fat of the Nanking Central Government ordering him to release the arrest- ed officials. Admiral Yang Shu Chwang, chairman of the Fukien Provincial Government, having at. bia disposal limited land forces, was unable to discipline Lu and he left Foochow for Nanking The Nan- king Government was then too busy to deal with the situation »on re- count of the political crisis in the The Nanking Military Headquar North. Consequently, Lu becameters has received a message "from virtual master of Northem Fukien, the beadquarters of the 6th Nation- He defied the orders of the Centralalist Division as the front saying Government, which thereupon or that the rebels have dug a very dered the loyal troops under Liu long wrench at Chicheng, to Ho Ting to garrison Foochow, The south of Lanfeng, indicating that Government decided to take drastic they are making a strong stand action to humble Lu as soon as the thore. The rebels lack foodstuffs position in the North was settled. and are said to have reaped the wheat crops of the farmers by stealth at night.
Tsinanfu, the Shantung, capital," v is reported to have been occupied by the Shausi troops, but confirma- tion is lacking. Rumours are pre- valeat in Peping that most of the loyal troops under Han Fu Chụ have fallen back on Taian and there are in Tsinanfu few Govern. ment troops.. Reports are also current that Han has decided to to the Shansi give up the city invaders in consequence of the understanding
reached
between Han and Yen Hsi Shan. A Shang- hai report states that the fighting at Lokow, on the south bank of the` Yellow River, not far from Tsinan- fu, has abated.
Lu. In. High Dudgeon. The entry of Liu's troops into tion on the part of Lu, with the Foochow naturally roused indigna result that a clash has occurred between them.
men troops.
In point of military strength, Lu's the loyal are superior to
Reinforcements from Nan- king are now sorely needed... The rebels will not be able, however, to create disturbances along the coast of the province on account of the presence of loyal naval forces, with beadquarters at Amoy._..
The serious situation in Fukien. which undoubtedly will affect the general situation of the country, has enlisted serious attention On the part of the Nanking Govern- ment
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the
Chiang Kai Shek has appointed held headquarters at Hsuchow and General He Yao Tsu head of the left Kweiteh for Yifeng on Monday to inspect the troops there.
An Interview With Yen.
According to t message from Tientsin, Yen Hsi Shan, in an in....... torview with Press representatives in Pingyuen, said that he would.. not interfere with political affairs, as his duty was to settle the mili tory situation. He continued that he had taken no steps to organize
the proposed provisional govera- ment in Peping as yet in view of the fact that public opinion should' be solicited before the organisa tion. With regard to the military. According to latest cables from situation, Yea said that the Nation- Foochow, Lau has issued a notifica alists on the Laughai Railway line tion to the public saying that the would soon be routed, that his who should hold himself responsible way had resumed the offensive and whole trouble was stirred up by Ln, troops on the Peping-Hankow Rail- for the consequences. The noti those on the Tientsin-Pukow Rail- heation also aims to pacify the way were expected to capture Tai-- populace, saying that the rebels nantu momentarily. who threatened the city have been regulsed, that over 500 them were killed and 1.000 made captive. and that troops have been rushed to pursue them.
A brigade under Chen Wen Tai has been rushed to Foochow from Chuanchew, as reinforcements.
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FIGHTING AROUND
·FOOCHOW."
SITUATION REGARDED AS SERIOUS.
THROUGH REUTEL'S AGENCY.]
NAPKING, June 10,
Fighting Ground Foochow has continued for four days,..
Yesterday within 20 li of the city the situation was regarded as ser-
QUA.
Lu Haing Fang, whose troops are attacking, was responsible for the recent coup d'etat when several members of the Provincial Govern- ment were captured.
TSINAN REPORT DENIED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
A Peping message states that a decision was reached at a high military conference held by Chang Hsueh Liang that Manchuria will dispatch troops to Hapei to attack the Shansi troops from the rear. Yea Hai Shan is said to have rush- ed his troops from the Tientsin- Pukow Railway to resist them.
It is reported from Hankow that
Kwangai troops, arrived at Chang-/ sha on Monday and has appointed. Pei Chung Hei commander of the advance troops. The Kwangsi troops are advancing towarde Ping. kiang, while the "Ironsides" are heading for Paloklang to attack Yochow. Wong Shiu Hung is com- manding a section of the Kwangsi troops to resist the Cantonese troops, dispatched to attack them from the rear. Wong is staying at engehow, to the south of Chang. sha
The Hunarea under Ho Chien and the few Neaking troope are holding Tingszechine as their first
defensive line. Hsia Tou Jen, com- maader of the Nanking contingent, has ordered a counter-attack on the rebels. Ho Chien will leave for the front to direct operations in person.
Two Nanking aeroplanes, the Kinking and the Shanghai, have been dispatched from Hankow to bombard the rebels. An aerodrome is being built at Yochow.
The Government will supervise the work to insure that its stipula tions are carried out to the letter.
The Government is drawing up a set of regulations governing the undertaking of the work and the
It is, rumoured in Foochow that permanent maintenance of the mee-Lu has butchered the five detained course. Among other things, they members of the Provincial Govern-Li Taung Jea, the leader of the state that the contracting firm meat. must have everything completed for horse racing within nine months from the day the contract is signed. Only the horse mace meetings shall be permitted each year, one in the spring Lad the other in the autumn. racing, football games, and the like, But such other athletics as bicycle, may be staged at any time, pro vided the approval of the Muni- cipal Government has first beer. secured. The ground may also be used for exhibiting native-made goods.. In the event of horse racing, the Government shall re- ceive at least 10 per cent, of the A sense of unity is growing, but it is largely the outcome of the
gate receipts. The roads leading most recent stage of India's his-
to the racceouree shall be con structed and maintained by the tory, during which the influence and authority of British rule over [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICZ] the whole area have made it pos- predominantly rural character of ondert who was mobbed here poprietors. When the contract ex sible to speak of India as a single the population and say: "Any quick during the wild scenes which folpires at the end of the 15 years, all the buildings, grandstands, bleach- Ruoat, June 9. After an inquiry lasting two and entity,
ching of the general political judg.lowed the Whit Bunday service in a half years, the Indian Statutory This tends to obscure to the meat, any widening of the rural the Cathedral left Malts lasters, etc., shall become the property borizon beyond the traditional and variegated Commission, on which all three casual observer the
He was accompanied by two other political parties are represented assemblage of races and creeds engrossing interest of weather and Italian Fress correspondents.
water, and crops and cattle, with and over which Sir John Simon pre- which make up the whole. sided, has submitted a unanimous other influences making for unifica round of festivals, fairs and family roport.
tion are the prevalence of English ceremonies, and droed ef, famine It was appointed to inquire into as a general means of communica and food, is bound to come very and report upon the working of the tion among the educated. mer in slowly indeed." system of Government, growth of India and the growth of a passion. education, and the development of ate determination among the poli- representative institutions in Britically minded classes of all Indian tish India.
races and religions to assert and The Commissioners travelled uphold the claim of India as about. 7,000 miles on a preliminary whole to its due place in the world. It would be a profound error. to visit and about 14,000 miles on the second visit. They received allow geographical dimensions or numerous deputations and collected statistics of population or complex from the Provincial Governments ties of religion and caste and laugu-outbreak of resentment. The iminjured and a wore trapped by and other sources a vast amount of age to be of little significance in memoranda and material which are what is called the Indian nation being published in supplementaryalist movement.
True it is that it directly affects volumes.
Eight out of the nine Provincial the hopes of a very small fraction Legislaturca appointed committees of the teeming peoples of India. to collaborate with the Commission True it may be that some leaders and the Viceroy appointed an In- do not reflect the active sentimente. dian Central Committee, composed of the masses of men and women
Such a division persists in the of members of the Council of State in India who know next to nothing and the Legislative Assembly, for of politicians and are absorbed in lowest station, and there
pursuing the traditional course of graduations of castes even among. the same purpose.
outcasts. Some thirty per cent, of In the Governor's "provinces all their daily lives
qish the Hindu population are untouched conference of the Statutory Co-ed in numbers as compared with notes and
they laun mission, Indian Central Committee the whole, public mon of India cause pollution by touch and defile ad Provincial Committee sitting claim to be the wokesmen for the food and water. A considerable together. W
whole, and in India the nationalist effort has been made in recent The report is in two volumes. movement has the essential charac. years by social reformers and the Volume I now issued occupies over teristic of all much manifestations in Government to ameliorate the lot 400 pages and discusses the condi concentrating all the forces which of the depressed classes, but pro tions of the problem existing in are roused by an anneal to national gress had been and is likely to constitutional structure, working af dignity and national self-conscious remain slow, although a real im
provement is beginning in some the reformed constitution adminis-ness? trative and judicial system, the (Continued on next Column.)
The Hindu' regards the cow as au object of great veneration of the annual Mohammadan festival. Hin- du music played through streets on the occasion of a procession or in connection with a marriage celebra tion, may take place at a time when Mohammadans are at worship in an adjoining mosque, and it causes an mediate ecession of communal dis- order is nearly always religious.
In the chapter on caste and the depressed classes, the Report pointe out that every Hindu necessarily belongs to the caste of his parents, which nothing can alter.
Systematic classification had re- vealed 2,300 castes.
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LABOURER'S TRAPPED IN
गे
TUNNEL.
EXPLOSION CAUSES SIX DEATHS.
[RETTEZ'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
DETROIT, June 9. Four labourers were killed, 12
an explosion which occurred in a Iwaterworks tunnel, 180 feet below the surface of the Detroit River.
The explosion was caused by an electric drill striking a charge of dynamite.
LATER. The death-roll in the waterworks explosion disaster has now been increased to six.
OBITUARY
SIR HERBERT WARREN.
[THEQUGH REUTER'S ̈AGEERT.]
LONDON, June 3. The death occurred to-day of Bir Herbert Warren, ex-President of Magdalen College, Oxford, who was born at Bristol in October,
1853.
CANTON MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT.
CHANGE IN STATUS APPROVED.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CASTON, June 10, --The change" in status of the. Cun- ton Municipal Government has been approved by Nanking in a telegramL received here to-day.
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NANKING. June 1o. The Military Headquarters dơng the report that Hao Fu Chu agreed to hand over Tsinon, and they deny that Feng Yu Hsiang dropped letter from an aeroplane suggesting that Chiang Kai Shek and Feng Yu | Isiang should go abroad together.
HSUCHANG CAPTURED.
*(Wah Ter Yat Pao.)
NANKING, June 11, The Military Headquarters bava received a wire from General Sang Kan. Yun Hsiang ito the effect that following the capture of places in PLAGUE PREVENTION AT.. the vicinity of Hanahang, the Gov erament troops on the Peping. Hanko Railway attacked Hau chang, and after seven days fight ing captured the city,
CANTON
CAMPAIGN TO BE LAUNCHED.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
The telegram adds that the casualties sustained by the rebels It will no longer be known as the Special Municipality of Canton "
are heavy, and that the Nanking troops are now, heading towards under the direct control of Nen-
Hsinoheng, CANTON, June 10. king,
Under the direction of the Bureau Hereafter it will be controlled by
Provincial Government of of Public Health a campaign for Kwangtung.
the prevention of plague will be The Municipal authorities are
launched in Canton this Friday.
It will eat one week, during getting ready for the change in status which will involve a com which time a number of lectures CarKALAERZYNA akaelthean, piazu prevention
will be given it public place noted doctors in the city.
ent departments.
Mayor Lin Wan Koi has to day denied that he has tendered-bit resignation to Nanking because of this change in the status of the Municipality. But he did not say whether or not be will continue to be Canton's Mayor after the change has been affected. It is not known when the shift will be made.
"A great deal of publicite work will be done to arouse the interest of the people." The streets will be placarded with piquant cartoons bearing explanations,
Some of the lectures will be broadenst at the Government Radio Station.
SILVER BULLION. CON- SIGNED TO SHANGHAI
DENIED ENTRY.
(Wah Tiz Tai Pas.)
"Shanghai." June 10, A large consignment of silver bulbon arrived here to-day from America, but was not allowed to be imported.
The bullion, it is reported, will be shipped to Hong Kong.