MUKDEN'S WAR PARTICIPATION.
AUTHORISED DENIAL BY
REUTER
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Murnes, July 17. Reuter is authorised to empha- tically deny the Kuomin News Agency despatch, dated Mukden, July 10, giving alleged details of a preposed participation of the Manchurian Army and Navy in the civil war.
SHANSI LOSE 5,000 MEN.
(Wah Taz Fat Poo.)
SHANGHAI, July "17. Ta consequence of the serious Eghting on the Kiaochow-Tsinan Railway line, where the Shansi forces have lately suffered a seri bus setback, over 3,000 of the Shaasi troops were either killed or wounded.
REBELS' FIGHTING AEROPLANES.
TWENTY ORDERED FROM ITALY.
ÉTHROUGH REUTER'N AÐ"YCY.]
PEIFING, July 17. The Hsin Chen Bao quotes Chen Chien Chung, Commander of the Kuominchun Air Force, as stating that about 20 fighting aeroplanes had been ordered froin Italy, of which 10 were arriving at Tientsin to-day for service on the 'Lunghai front.
EMPIRE ECONOMIC COUNCIL.
TO SAFEGUARD HOME MARKETS.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 16.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930.
SHANGHAI REDS "DEMONSTRATE.
·CENTRE OF SETTLEMENT SELECTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH EXTRALITY MUI TSAI PROBLEM. BRITAIN NEUTRAL
PROPOSALS.
TO BE SUBMITTED TO CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"
SHANGHAI, July 16.
LONDON, July 16. Communist students, in defiance Questioned in the House of Com of warnings and in spite of their mons today with regard to the knowledge of the police precautions, situation in China, Mr. Arthur attempted to demonstrate in the Henderson said that efforts to reach centre" of the Internationa! Settle-a compromise in regard to the meat yesterday morning.
Customs at Tientsin appeared to
Afte stoping a tram-car and breaking the windows, smashing the windscreen of a motor-car driven by a foreign lady, a section of the crowd proceeded to the Bund, where a further demonstration was held in the vicinity of the British Con- sulate.
The police arrested 24 demon- stators, two being released later.
The others are being charged to-day.
IN EGYPT.
WHITE PAPER TO GO TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
FOREIGN RESIDENTS
MENACED.
-[BRITISH
[THNOVOK › REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Ruany, July 16.
INDIAN CUSTOMS REVENUE LOSS,
DUE TO CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
-(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
„SIMLA, July 17..
LONDON, July: 16.
Replying to a question in the In reply to questions in the House of Commons. to-day, the
In the House of Commons to-day, Assembly, Sir George Schuster, Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur the Prime Minister was asked by Finance member, said that there Henderson, said he was quite pre-the leader of the Opposition if he had been a loss of £795,000 in the pared to submit to the League of could make a statement regarding Customs revenue for the quarter Nations the White Paper in which Egypt. He said: As early as ending June, compared with the the difficulty was emphasised of June 4, when the present constitu- estimated revenue. It was not im- tional crisis in Egypt first showed probable that the loss was due to dealing with the mui faol system signs of developing, His Majesty's the civil disobedience movement, He hoped the situation would in Hong Kong so long as the buy Government instructed the High permit detailed proposals with re-ing and selling of slaves was prae- gard to extrality being communicat-tised in the neighbouring provinces ed to the Chinese Government be of China. fore long..
Lave failed.
Asked whether all the countries concerned were prepared to parti- cipate, Mr. Henderson said he could not say that all were. Negotiations were going on with the United States and other countries.
RELIGIOUS TREND IN
AMERICA.
MORMONS DOUBLE" THEIR NUMBERS.
-Some striking changes in the
In the House of Commons to-day, WAR RENUNCIATION EMPIRE CONFERENCE bewilderingly diversified religions
men have been Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in moving a
The wounded rushed to Tientsin.
Yesterday, four Nanking nerc- planes dropped a number of highly explosive bombs with disastrous effect.
Han Fa Chu's troops have arrived at Changtien.
TIENTSIN CUSTOMS
RECEIPTS.
(Wah Też Fat Pro.)
TIENTSIN, July 17. Since the Customs crisis here, the cargoes, imported and export ed, have decreased by two-thirds. Consequently, the receipts of the
vote of censure, advocated the creation of a permanent economic. council of the Empire, representa tive of all parts of the Empire, sitting in London uninterruptedly, and financed by all the countries. participating. There should be a wide extension of safeguarding and preference in every case for the
Dominions.
SIGNED BY 61 NATIONS.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
The Secretary
RUGBY, July 16.
for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Artbur Henderson, in the House of Commons, said that all the countries invited by the Government of the United States to participate in the Treaty for the renunciation of war had now done so with the exception of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, San Salvador and Uruguay.
LORD PASSFIELD TO · REPRESENT COLONIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
...
life of America are revealed for the first time in an elaborate census of churches, financed by John D. Rockefeller, junior.
Certain new denominations are making such rapid stride, in com- parison with older creeds as to sug- gest fundamental changes in the religious thinking of large sections of the population.
Lobos, July 18. Replying to Mr. Ormsby-Gore in the House of Commons to-day, Dr. Drummond Shiels stated that the interests of the Colonies, Protections are among the four relative- Christian Scientists and Mor. torates and mandated territories at ly new bodies of importance that represented by Lord Passfeld, bership in the past 20 years. the Imperial Conference would be have more than doubled their mom.
Secretary of State, who hoped to make some arrangement whereby be There are 81 signatories of the would have all necessary assistance. general protection. Treaty. or They were ready to discuss bulk.
Chancellor's Opposition. Mr. Philip Snowden, replying, declared that the Government would enter the Imperial Confer- cace barring no question from dis- cussion, but they would approve of no final conclusion involving food taxation
Commissioner that his attitude but the full effect of this on trade must be one of strict neutrality, could not have been felt by the though consistently with that posi-end of June. tion it was left to his discretion to remind both parties to the dispute that we at this end were doing all in our power to maintain the good atmosphere in which the treaty negotiations had terminated."
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Sir George Schuster added: “The most serious reactions to this move- ment, are the destruction of con fadence and the paralysation of internal trade. According to my A Furely Internal Issue.
information, the effects on Indian Sir Percy Loraine made state-business are likely to be consider- ments in this connection both to ably more disastrous than those or King Fund and to Nahas Pasha, the Government revenues." Since the formation of the present who expressed their gratification. Government, Sir Percy Loraine has
made it clear that His Majesty's their attitude bi neutrality and "Government intended" to adhere to
non-intervention in what appeared to them to be a purely internal Issac for Egyptians themselves to decide.
No other attitude was possible consistent with the declared in tention of His Majesty's Govern tinue to maintain it to an extent ment in 1922, and we shall con-
compatible with our internationel responsibilities,
Deplorable Events. Before news of the deplorable events in Alexandria had reached London, the High Commissioner had been instructed to make it Mormons now have a nine-tenths quite plain that His Majesty's total church membership in Utah Government did not intend to be and one half in Idaho. There are attack on the Egyptian. Constitu- used as an instrument for an
altogether 212 separate denomination.
Customs House have been consider-purchase and import boards, and TABOUR'S ATTEMPT U.S. SHIPPING BOARD/tion with 40,300,000 members and
ably affected.
NANKING, July 17. The Government has decided that duties on "goods destined for Tien- tsin from the South will be col- lected at Shanghai, and these from, the North at Tsingtao. Cargoes exported from Tientsin are leviable elsewhere.
STEEL HELMETS IN RHINELAND.
DECREE OF DISSOLUTION.
"CANCELLED.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
were ready to adopt a practical
plan, but if the consumer suffered such a schemo was foredoomed to failure.
Vote of Censure Defeated. The House of Commons rejected the motion of censure, the division resulting:-
Against. For
*312 941
Majority
71"
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] Safeguarding Policy Reversed.
RUGBY, July 16.
Mr. Staney Baldwin moved vote of censure on the Government in the House of Commons this evening.
The motion declared that the BERLIN, July 16.
House, believing a return to. pro- President Hindenburg has won
sperity could best be promoted by the battle over the Steel Helmets.
safeguarding the home markets On the receipt of a promise from against anfair competition and by members of the Nationalist Steel expanding the export markets by Helmet Association not to carry out
reciprocal trade. agreements with military exercises in the Rhineland, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior has decided to cancel the decree dissolving, the organisation in the Rhineland.
President Hindenburg will now
TO SAVE COAL BILL.
HOUSE OF LORDS APPROACHED.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, July 16.
Following a meeting with the miners, the Government suggested
CONSOLIDATION OF SHIP LINES PLAN APPROVED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN, SEVICE. Į
WASHINGTON, July 18. The Shipping Board has approved the consolidation of seven Govern- ment-owned shipping, lines
now
to the House of Lords that there operating from the Gulf of Mexico. should be a conference regarding the spread-over amendment to the Coal Mines Bill which was insisted upon by the House of Lords yester-. day.
J
The Government expressed the opinion that the reorganisation features in the Coal Mines Bill ought not to be sacrified if the standpoint of the House of Lords can be reasonably met.
CONFERENCE UNIFICATION
the Empire. Overseas, regretted that COLONIAL SERVICE. the Government had reversed the policy of safeguarding instead of extending it, and had arbitrarily excluded from consideration the im position of duties on foreign food- stufis devised to obtain equivalent advantages for British manufac participate in the evacuation cele-tures and agriculture in British brations.
markets and elsewhere.
FINANCE BILL DECLARED LAW.
Last Chance of Debate, Mr. Baldwin, said that the motion
SCHEME ADOPTED..
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]'
WAS COLUMBUS A JEW?
CLAIM PUT FORWARD BY
HISTORIANS,
bug was of Jewish descent and born A claim that Christopher Colum- in Portugal is made in a new book just published by two eminent Por tuguese historians, Antonio de Serpa and Major Santos Ferreira.
Schoolchildren in Portugal have
232,000 churches.
Half Church Members.
Despite modern tendencies, the growth of church membership has kept pace with population increase, except in the large cities, and of every hundred adult persons, 55 are to-day church merabers."
Roman Catholics form the largest single body with 13,000,000 adult members; the Methodist Episcopal Church coming second with 3,700,000.
Jews and Christian Scientists are the most highly urban of all the large denominations. 94 per cont. of their membership coming from city churches.
One surprising discovery made by the inquiry is that a large pro- porportion of the ministers have had little or no academic train- ing. More than three-eights of the
the three leading Negro bodies. denominations, and three fourths of ministers of 18 of the largest White
were not graduates of college or
seminary.
"THE HUMAN ZOQ.".
Sidky Pasha Held Responsible.
· NEGOTIATIONS TO
RESTORE PEACE.
· (THROUGH, BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
SIMA, July 17. As the result of correspondence, the Viceroy of India has agreed to Sir Tej Sapru and Mr. Jayakar seeing Mahatma Gandhi, Motilal Nehru and Jawahar Lal Nehru in them to restore peace. gaol, with the view to persuading
The Viceroy reiterates that it is the Government's desire that In- dians should manage, their own affairs subject to temporary safe- guards in the sphere in which full responsibility is not yet possible:
Sir Tej Sapru and Mr. Jayakar will conduct their negotiations with Gandhi on their own responsibility.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Elots at Alexandria.
In consequence they could be no
ALEXANDRIA, July 16. Thousands of Egyptians stoned party to any alteration to the electoral law and were precluded by the Government Hospital to-day as a protest against the Procurator- their declaration in 1629 from ac- tual intervention in, an internal General forbidding the removal for issue of this nature. In view of public burial the corpses of the yesterday's events, Sir
victims in yeaterday's rioting until Loraine has been instructed to in- a port-mortem had been held.
The police, commanded by Fitz- form Sidky Pasha that we; must hold him responsible for the pro-patrick Bey, who was injured, in tection of foreign lives and pro-yesterday's rioting, restored order. perty in Egypt.
Percy
Two Warships Despatched, - He has also been told to inform Nahas Pasha that internal Egyptian difficulties must be solved without endangering foreign lives and interests" and that we' shall hold him equally responsible with the Government.if foreign lives and interests are endangered.
In the meantime, in view of the menace to foreign life and pro-
to proceed towards that port Government have ordered two ships perty in Alexandria, His Majesty's
The two vessels detailed for this duty are the battleships Queen- Elizabeth, flying the flag of Admir al Sir A. E. Chatfield, Commander- in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, and the Ramilies.
The
warships left Skiathos,
miles distant.
(Continued on next Column.)"
Subsequently, when the formali- ties had been completed, the bodies of the victims wore handed over to the crowd and "carried shoulder high through the main streets: There has been no further disorder.
Wald Committee Members Arrested.
CAIRO, July 17 Four members of the Alexandria Committee of the Wald, including Deputies Abdel Fattah el Tawil the notice in regard to the closing and Hassan Sourour, who signed of the shops in Alexandria on the 15th inst., have been arrested,
Foreign Consuls' Anxiety Regard- ing Military Forces.
for years been taught that Colum-FED THROUGH BARS BY THE Greece. today Alexaudrin is 000 that they view most anxiously any
bus was Portuguese. Now, how-
ever, definite proof is claimed by
well-known authorities.
STATE.
"They forced up the prices of all
Sir Flinders Petrie, who was entertained at a private dinner to The authors state that their proof celebrate his 50 years of archeolo is derived from an entry in Hetween the Roman Empire just be- gical research, drew a parallel be-
brow in the genealogical tables of fare its fall, and the British Em- the royal family of Braganca, pire. Columbus' real name, they ay, was said, that the great guilds of the "Archeology has proved,” he Salvador Goncalves Zarco. The Eoman Empire were reaching their. tables are written in Portuguese, strength in Constantine's reign. but the references to Zarco, first They were all-powerful. deira Islands. His father, it is commodities and brought in a flood donatary of Funchal, in the Mu stated, was the Infante Fernando, of paper money. When trade con- who was the father of King Donditions became too bad they were Manuel I and his mother was forced to return to gold, and the Jewish.
finncial ability of the Empire collaosed of valse flesta. The claim that Columbus was of "Taxation became exorbitant. Jewish descent is supported by the Then the Goths came, demanded Spanish historian, Celso Garcia do and received a third of the land, In Riega, who contends that he was and the great Empire collapsed. born in Santa Maria, Galicia, and.
Ruled By Offcialdom. that he hid the fact that he was Jewish on account of the unpopu *** Our position is somewhat" of Article 48 of the Constitution, industries to any marked effect under the Chairmanship of the larity of Jews at that time. similar to-day. The great trade
LONDON, July 16. Lord Passfield, Secretary of State REICHSTAG DEFIED. had been put down mainly because for the Colonies, in a speech at the it was almost the last chance of a Corona Club dinner attended by all debate before the Imperial Confer the delegates to the Colonial Con- Fence. He outlined the policy he
would advance at the Imperial ference, stated that he had taken Conference and invited Mr. Snow immediate stepa to establish a Com- den to state the policy the Governmittee to carry out the proposals (THROUGH BAUTER'S AGENCY.]
ment intend to follow.
of the Conference for the unifica BERLIN, July 16.
Liberal-Labour Opposition. The Chancellor, Herr Bruening, Mr. Snowden, replying, said tion of the Colonial Service. to-day abandoned in disgust the that the Government would be no There would be a Central Com debate on the Government's finanparty to food taxes or taxes on mittee to consider the principles rial policy after the Reichstag had raw material or protective duties. rejected the first two articles of it. Regarding safeguarding be dewith sub-committees to frame
Subsequently auth official com elared that the Opposition could not scheme for branches of the service. muniqué announced that, by virtue point in any of the safeguarded
Central Committee would be the President declared the financial "programme-law.
[BLITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]
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which duties had had in improving
2
The
Born in Galicia 2
The accepted theory that Colum-unions have almost reached", the the position of trade Beuretary of State for the Colonies bus was the son of a weaver hora power of the Roman Guilds. Taxas The Liberal Party opposition to and would consist of Sir Warren nter Genon is ridiculed by the two tion is exorbitant and is forcing all the motion was indicated by Mr. Fisher, G.C.E., G.C.V.O., Brigadier Portuguese historians, who declare money out of this country. CHIEF JUSTICE OF CEYLON. Lloyd George, who supported the General Sir Samuel
"Officialdom is ruling everything. Wilson, that no weaver's son could have attitude taken by the Government. C.M.G. K.C.B., K.B.E. and Mr. had the education evidently pos- Boon we will be a huge human Zoo
G.JF. Tomlinson, C.B.E.
seased by Columbus. Further, they living in cages and brought up declare that King John II. of Por and fed through our bars by the tugal would never have addressed. State,
authors point out that before archeology fet to be touched. lettere personally to a weaver's son.
"There aro vast fields of very of startica Cons Egypt has bees practically fristed gato son, Diego menyo, bar shore proce a page of Don Jonc, heir to the be done in Mesopotamia and Pales- thrones of Castille and Aragon. tine to connect the Orient and the
Occident. Wa
RUGBY, July 18. HM the King has approved the appointment of Sir Philin Mar
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, în succession to Sir Stanley Fisher, on the latter's retirement.
(The new Chief Justice of Ceylon was appointed Public Prosecutor in the Transvaal in 1000, became Legal Adviser and Public Prosecutor in North West Rhodesia in 1908 Ho acted as Times correspondent in the South African War.]
It was also proposed to co-opt PALESTINE'S CHIEF Sir Ransford Slater, Sir William Gowers and Mr. George Heramant SECRETARY Loda Malayan Civil Servant
AD-
[BRITISH WIRELEAS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, July 16. The Colonial Office has nouneed that Mr. Mark Young, Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone, has been appointed Chief Secretary to the Government of Palestine
[Mr Mark A Young has been Colonial Secretary for Sierra Leone since 1828.]
AVIATOR'S FATAL CRASH
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SEVICE]
BENNINGTON, July 18. Frank Goldsborough, who crash ed in an aeroplane in the Vermont mountains, has died without re- gaining consciousness,
It was to hide his true personal ity, they contend, that Salvador Zarco disguised himself with the name of Cristovain Colombo. They also also state that Columbus never wrote anything in Italian, and that he always used typically Por tuguese expressions,
We have progressed an immense distance in confirming the historical detail of the Bible.
He mentioned that "the rubbish talked about the curse of Tutan- khamen's tomb had had a bad- effect on excavation work.
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