MILITARY SITUATION|NORTH CHINA'S NEW
REVIEWED.
REPORTS FROM ALL FRONTS.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.],
PEIPING, July 19. Reviewing the military situation _at the weekly Press conference, Chủ Áo Hang said that Shih In San's information bureau' had an- nounced the occupation of Kueitel city, and south of Lungbai the Northerners had occupied Chihsien, Taipang, Tourchow and Yungcheng and are now pushing on towards Tanshan, in Kiangsu,
GOVERNMENT.
FORMATION WHEN QUORUM ASSURED.
[THEOCON RECTER'S AGENCY.]
PEIFING, July 1s.
Asked when the new Government
HONG KONG
MAROONED ANGLO-SINO-AMERICAN AMERICANS. AVIATION CONTRACT
YPRESS,
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.
TYPHOON RAGES »
OVER JAPAN.
CONSULAR ATTEMPT AT
APPROVED BY STATE COUNCIL
RESCUE.
•{THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PRIPING, July 15. Word has reached Peiping that' was likely to be established in the United States Consul at Foor North China, Chu do Hsiang at chow, Air. Jeha J Muccio, acer the weekly Press conference, said panied by the British Consul, Mr. that they were waiting the arrival. J. Martin, are proceeding by of several more members of the Second Central Executive Com- mittee of the Kuomintang.
He said he expected that they would reach Peiping within a fort-
(THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.]
NANXING, July 18." The State Council has approved of a now Sino-American aviation contract with the Curtiss interesta.
Measures regarding the reorgan- isation of the China National Avia- launch to Yeapingfu, about 100tion Corps were also approved. miles ap the Min River, to rescue The Government has abolished a number of British and American { the 'eld regulations governing the missionaries who arc
marooned China National Aviation Corps, within the area controlled by" Lu
On the Tientsin-Pukow Railway night, and as soon as there were Hsing Pang, the rebel leader who
front the Northerners have taken Chufu, and are now attacking Yen chow from Chufu and Teining.
On the Peiping-Hankow Railway, the Northerners are south of Yen cheng.
enough to form aquorum steps would be taken to proceed with the formation of the new Government.
discussed, and as soon as concrete. Flans were now being drafted and
proposals were reached they would be submitted to Yen Hsi Shan.
Chu Ao Hsiang declared that Feng Yu Hsiang will shortly take the offensive, and may be expect-
Ten Hsi Shan's foreign policy, ed to occupy Wuhan with the view Chu do Hsiang declared, would be to the transfer of Chiang Kaito develop trade with foreign coun- Shek's main forces to the Tientsin Pukow Railway front.
Dealing with the situation along the Kinochow-Tsinan Railway, Chu Ao Haiang stated that the Shanai" forces are now at Chingchow, and that Generals Liu Chen Nien and Kao Kwei Tau are attacking Han Fu Chu's rear:
The proposal that Han Fu Chu's
forces should withdraw to Haichow has not been acceptable, and fight- ing is now proceeding simultane- ously with further negotiations.
LISBON PLOTTERS
ARRESTED.
TROOPS REMAIN LOYAL,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LISBON, July 18.
tries, protect foreign commerce to the fullest extent in China, and to secure better conditions for the millions of Chinese abroad through diplomatic and consular means. Clean government and honest ad- ministration would be the keynote of their internal policy.
KUOMINTANG PLENARY
SESSION.
(Wah Tez Fat Pao.).
PEIFING, July 18.
Until Mr. Wang Ching Wei, the leader of the Kuomintang extrem
ists, arrives here, the important proposals of the plenary session of the C.E.C. of the Kuomintang will not be decided upon.
A telegram has been received from Feng Yu Hsiang congratulat ing the C.E.C. on the success of It is semi-officially announced the session. A congratulatory tele- that certain military eficers and gram has been also received from civilians who had been conspiringYen Hai Shan. to overthrow the existing régime have been arrested.
Mr. Chen Kuig Po, a leader of the Kuomintang extremists, told
The movement was engineered by Pressmen that Mr. Wang Ching Wei is expected to arrive from the South zin Japan next month.
a degligible minority.
The military garrisons remain loyal.
SINO JAPANESE CABLE QUESTIONS.
FIVE AGREEMENTS UNDER
DISCUSSION.....
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NANKING, July 19. Mr. C. H. Wang, Director-Gener al of Telegraphs and Telephones, states that the Nationalist Govern ment has officially notified the Japanese Government of its inten- tion to begin negotiations regard ing the outstanding Sino-Japanese cable questions. „
Five agreements will be discussed, the Fukien-Formosa, Shanghai-Na- gasaki, Tringtao-Sasebo and Che- foo-Dairen cables agreements and the South Manchuria Railway tele- graphs.
ROWDY LABOUR
MEMBERS..
PARLIAMENTARY DIGNITY 'ASSAILED.
(THROUGE REUTER'B AGENCY.]
is menacing Feochow.
The Consuls, whose launch is fly. ing the flags of their respective countries, have been promised a safe conduct through the fighting lines by both sides.
Efforts will be made by the party to get into touch with Miss Nettle-" tör and Miss Harrison, of the Church Missionary Society, who were captured by Communist ban- dits while travelling from Changan to Kienning on the 4th inst.
A letter signed by Miss Harrison, mands that 8100,000 be sent to the bat dictated by her captors, de
District-Soviet Governmeat within a fortnight, failing which both ladies will be shot.
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BRITAIN'S REPLY TO BRIAND PLAN.
EMPIRE FREE TRADE.
ABSENT FROM ECONOMIC- CONFERENCE, AGENDA.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Lospox, July 17. In the House of Lords this evening. Lord Elibank ratsed the question of the agenda at the forth
ence. coming. Imperial Economic Confer-
Lew
He enquired whether the Govern ment were prepared to agree to a trade relationship between Great Britain and the rest of the Empire and whether they would
submit to the Conference for full discussion of the policy of Empire Free Trade, including the imposi- LEAGUE'S AUTHORITY MAY tion of duties on foreign foodstuffs.
BE IMPAIRED.
(THROUGH RELTER'S' AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 17.
The British reply to M. Briand's Memorandum for a closer Euro- Pean political union is very sym pathetic, but it fears that any new institutions might diminish the efficiency and authority of the League of Nations, and thus create tendencies to inter-Continental rivalries and hostilities.
It expresses the opinion that M. Briand's ideal can effectively, be secured by adapting the proposals to bring them fully within the framework of the League, and suggests that the Memorandum be placed on the agenda at the next League Assembly.
andum requires careful and pro- The reply states that the Memor. lenged consideration between the British and all the Governments of the Dominions.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE).
RUGET, July 17, The text is issued of the reply which the British Government have Bent to the French Government's
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PHONES. INTERRUPTED.
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SHANGHAI, July 18/ A very severe typhoon is raging over Japan, telegraphs and tele phones and also the Nagasaki Shanghai cable being interrupted..
REICHSTAG DISSOLVED.
HINDENBURG'S EMERGENCY
DECREE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
We are informed by the Superin- tendent of the Great Northera Tele-held in six weeks' time. gram Company that cable communi. cation between Japan and Shang: hai remains intact.
The General Election is to be
was
The overthrow of the Bruening Government
mainly dut to the fact that the majority
SHANSI REVERSE REPORTED.
TAIAN BESIEGED BY NANKING.
WARLORD'S NARROW ESCAPE „FROM AERIAL BOMB.
BERLIN, July 13. In consequence of the Reichstag
There has been an uproar among to 221 a
the Chinese merchants in Peiping, adopting by se votes Socialist motion to annul Presi- consequent on the issue by Yen Hsi dent Hindenburg's emergency de Shan of a military public loan cree enacting the Government's amounting to 815,000,000. A meet- financial programme, the Reichstaging was held by the Chinese was dissolved this morning.
General Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday when those present were unanimously of the opinion that that part of the loan assigned to the Chamber for consumption is too heavy. A delegate has been dis of the German Nationals under patched to request Ten Hai Shan Dr. Hugenberg voted for the to reduce the amount, TYPHOON SWEEPS OVER Socialist motion owing to Her
Following their recent raverse, the whole body of the Shansi, troops KYUSHU.
Bruening's rejection "of Dr. Hagen- berg's proposal that the Nation-in Shantung along the Tientsin- alists should be included in the
Pukow Railway have withdrawn to Coalition Government against the
Taian where strong förtifications have been erected. General Chien Socialists.
Ta Chun's forces have been rushed to reinforce the Nanking troops now beaieging Taian... A number of Cantonese aeroplanes participated in the fighting.
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[TEROUGH ASUTER'S AGEROT.],
TOKYO, July 19. A typhoon. swept over Kyushu this morning, the velocity of the wind being 41 metres per second.
Telephone communication west of Hiroshima was totally interrupted, and it is believed that considerable damage resulted.
2.
The typhoon is marching on to the north-west of the Korean Chan- me and the Japan Sea.
Electricity Out Of in Kyushu. TOKYO, July 15.
The typhoon cut off the supply of Lord Arnold, eplying for the electricity in northern Kyushu, sus- Government, said details of the pending the operation of newspaper subiecte for discussion at the Con-printing and other industries,
Many cities in northern Kyushu ference were under discussion with
the Dominion Governments. The will be without electric light to..
night. final form of the agenda had not yet been settled, but the Prime
Minister would make an announce- ment upon it before the end of the session.
The agenda, said Lord Arnt i,. would permit the consideration of any proposals which might be put forward for the purpose of im- proving inter-Imperial trade, but it would be made clear from the outset that the Government opposed to any new or increased taxation of foodstuffs, or to any The Government would not agree system of tariffs in Great Britain. to submit to the Conference the policy of Empire. Free,,Trade,
DUTCH RUBBER RESTRICTION.
were
ECONOMIC CRISIS FACING BOMBAY.
RESULT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
(THROCGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
BounAY, July 17.
Herr Bruening will continue in office pending the election.
COMMERCIAL CODE TELEGRAMS.
NEW REGULATIONS NOW ISSUED BY NANKING.
Nanking, July 14-New regula tions regarding the use of secret codes in the dispatch of telegraphic. messages by commercial firms have been issued by the Ministry of Com munications to all offices of the Telegraph Administration. The new regulations state:-
1.-Code messages must be con- fined only to reports of commercial and industrial affairs; no reference must be made to military or poli- tical news.
2. In the dispatch of private code, messages by Chinese firms, the seal of the commercial firm con- cerned or of "a reliable company should be stamped as guarantee and the signature of the manager affix.
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A major-general of the Shansi troops was shot by order of Yen Hi Shan for cowardice which re- sulted in the recent setback, on this sector. The exceation of tho general has aroused dissatisfaction among his subordinates and it is re- ported that they have been threaten- ing to mutiny.
Tsaochow Captured,
The Nanking forces in Western Shantung have lately defeated Shik Tu San's Kuominchun army which troops on the Tientsin-Pukow Rail- are co-operating with the Shanai way. They have captured Trac-
"chow.
Han Fu Chu's Nanking troops have pashed forward from the Tzeho on the Teinan-Kiaochow Rail- way. Han has enlisted the people's militia of Kiaochow and organized them into a mixed brigade with Li The Hon Kia as the commander, Shansi forces have further, retreat- ed..
In view of the heavy losses of the Shansi forces a Shantung, Yen Hei Shan has dispatched the. Pei- ping gendarmie to the Tientsin- Pukow Railway front. He has also reorganized the peace preserving. corps of Shansi into two divisions and dispatched them to the front for service.
3-Code messages dispatched by foreign firms should bear the
In a speech in the Assembly to letter of guarantee from the consul signature of the local consul or a day, Sir Frederick Sykes, Gover-before they can
be dispatched; he
por
Feng's Narrow Estape. A Hsuchow report says that Feng from an aerial bombardment. While Yu Hsiang hal a narrow escape.
was entraining to Laofeng
ing his troops there, a Nanking
to the Telegraph Office for examina-Several bombs, were dropped near
of Bombay," severely indieted whenever called upon to do so, the from Kaifeng with a view to direct the proceedings of the civil diskey to the code must be submitted aeroplane made its appearance. cbedience volunteers, the result of which that the Presidency tion.
the train and the railway tracks was heading towards an economic
were damaged. The train was stop- crisis.
4-All telegrams for transmyisped and Feng fled with his body, sion through the Telegraph Offices guard in great panic and returned
to Kaifeng the following day, or through the Cable Companies to foreign countries shall be subject to these regulations.
Memorandum on the organisation PLANTERS FAVOUR 25 PER o emphasised that there can be
of a system of a European Federal Usion.
Proposals Require Careful Consideration.
The reply says that the proposals, so important in purpose and scope, require. careful and prolonged con sideration, and this must be under- taken in consultation with the other. Governments in the British Com- monwealth.
Comments and Suggestions Must be
LONDON, July 17. There was a scene in the House of Commone to-day, arising from the Labour member, Mr. A. Fenner Brockway, insisting on making a speech after Mr. MacDonald had replied to a question about Indis.
**Regarded as Tentative. The interruption ended in Mr.
As the French Government have Brockway's suspension, and also in requested a reply by mid-July, how the suspension of the left wing ever, the present Note was sent, Labourite, Mr. John Beckett, who although ite comments and sugges exclaimed: "It is a damned distiens must be regarded as prelimin- grace." He lifted the mace from the table, walking out of the House with it. when an attendant seized the mace and restored it to the Sergeant-at-Arms.
No difficulty is expected with the Shanghai-Nagasaki and Fukien- -Formosa cables. but detailed
Mr. Beckett's action evoked pro- negotiations between the Chinese tests from all rides. and his au and Japanese Governments will bo
pension was carried by 324 to 4 necessary in connexion with the others.
· ALEXANDRIA STILL EXCITED.
TROOPS ENCAMPED IN
PUBLIC SQUARE.
TTIMOSGU REUTER'S AGENCY.]~
CHAIN ALEXANDRIA, July 17.
komaka azob ruined lowonhaztent owing a quiet day in ons this evening cheering Nahas Pasha and shouting Down with Sidky Pasha"
The police dispersed, the mob. "A few shots were fired and one person was slightly wounded.
All is now quiet, but troops are:
encamping in Mohamed Ali Square "all night long.
votes.
ary and tentative. The fundament-
ንዓ
CENT." REDUCTION.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMSTERDAY, July 17.
A meeting of Dutch rubber pro- ducers, by 103 votes to 18, adopted a proposal to negotiate with the Dutch Indies Government for the
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no question of negotiation with persons, whose declared object is to make orderly Government impos- sible.
Ten Bombay Mills May Glose. BOMBAY, July 17. Ten mills of the Sassoon group
Feng Ya Hsiang has recently pur- chased from abroad ten more fight- ing neroplanes, four of which are 5.-The procedure for the censor-expected to be delivered at Tientsin
immediately. ship will be made as simple as pos- A considerable consignment of sible in order to avoid delay.
arme and ammunition, purchased by the Nasking regime, arrived at Shanghai on Thursday and was con- veyed to Nanking under heavy mili-
purpose of achieving restriction by have intimated their intention of LUNATIC DEFIES SHANGHAI tary escort. all rubber producers, including closing temporarily on August 15 if bative, to 75 per cent of the 1929 trade conditions do not improve.
crop.
The decision, however, is not yet definite, as the members have six days in which to withdraw their
votes.
was reached after a discussion which It is understood that the decision lasted three and a half bours.
Twenty thousand workers will be involved.
اله
Fourteen Additional Mills to Close
Down.
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POLICE.
FIRE DIVISION TURNTABLE LADDER USED.
The Hongkow Division of the BOMBAY, July 18, Muaiepal Fire Brigade the other
August 1, involving 40,000 workers.
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Madame Chiang Leaves for Front.
Madame Chiang Kai Shek is leaving for, the front and is taking with her large quantities of pre- sents for the troops.
There have been no fresh develop mente along the Peiping-Hankow Railway. The Kuominchun forces. counter-attacked on the Nanking
battle lasting three days. Over tric standard.
The Nanking-forces are preparing The man, who was later found to attack Hauchang
An important telegram from Feng to be demented, was seen up one Ya Hsiang to Liu Yu Fen, the coin- of the poles near the entrance to mander of the Krominchun on this the S.V.C. Revolver Range at 7,52 sector, has fallen into the hands of the Nanking authorities at Luiho. o'clock in the morning by a Chinese In this telegram Feng instructed constable who told him to come his troops to abandon Hsuchang it
al purpose of the French Memor lengthily explained that the co- stock and the trade depression, 14 out of the ordinary, namely, to but they were repulsed, after
The rubber expert, Berr Burger, Owing to the accumulation of day responded to a call somewhat troops at Cencheng on Wednesday andum is understood to be to divert operation of the Dutch Indies Gov- more mills will close down on hring a lunatic down from an elec-1,000 of the invaders were killed. the attention of European people ernment was in the interests of the. from: hostilities and from the con- flicts of interest sometimes allowed whole of the Dutch East Indies, because the Budget deperided con to exist between them, and to fix siderably on the contribution of their attention upon more im- the
rubber-growing companies, promoting closer co-operation rubber industry unfavourably-in- portant common interests, thereby while the existing situation in the KING ALFONSO IN among the European nations and fluenced the revenue. Governments and strengthening the safeguard against each other Fullest Sympathy with Purpose of Plan
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The reply expresses fullest sym- pathy with this purpose and the tive will promotes better under- caracst hope that France's initia-
standing of the common interests of European peoples, thus leading to a greater mutual confidence and trust among the Governments and
MOTOR ACCIDENT.
Herr Burger said the native planters would find it in their in terests to co-operate in restriction, COLLISION IN HYDE PARK, down. Instead of doing so, the necessary. and he recommended the adoption of the negotiation proposal ne a remedy for the situation,
"SERIOUS FLOODS IN KOREA.
BRITISH WIRELESS "SERVICE.
Foochow quiet,
poor fellow resorted to various an tics, some of which were excep- The situation in Foochow is quiet, tionally dangerous. When the but fighting is still raging between. policeman attempted to bring him the loyal troops and the insurgents
under Lu-Hsing Pang. Taking ad-: down, the man threatened him and vantage of the fighting, the "Reds" said that he would kick any "cat in Fukien have become very active face" who came near him. He liy- and this has greatly handicapped the Fukien troops. It is reported. ed on the pole, he said..
that the Kiangai mutineers, former- Finding there were no otherly under General Kin Han Ting, means to put him down the police are moving to join the insurgents CHF Tramper of troops have been one was in-sent a call to the Hongker Firo di ailed to present the
on the mutineers Station and appealed for assist penetrating the Fukien border to
The fate of the five members of
The tumult when Mr. Brockway was suspended was such that the |figures of the division were in- audible, but it was noticed during the division that all parties except a score of left winx Labourites
Roosy, July 17 voted for his suspension::
A motor-car in which King Mr. Beckett's conduct evoked
Alfonso of Spain was being driven universal shouts of indignation,
collided to-day in Hyde Park with It was noted that both he and
two-scuter driven by a lady. Mr. WJ Brown, who were "tel
Part of the glass in the King's lers" in the Brockway division, did per forenerfing - dizising. They alan that the primerilnor tanpa adaptered, au penis Nis damaged, but
bew to the Chair-ce was turto greenet Epressed with the Tokyo Juryeventyrkur was broken and the small car stood nonchalantly by the table of economic relations that closer eight injured and over thirty miss-- jured. Then Mr Beckett, seized the great co-operation between the European ng as the result of a big innunda gold mace, bearing it on his nations is so strongly to be desir- tion in the provincial districts in shoulder, and tried to force his wayed, and that to this end Koren, according to information through a crowd of members stand. economic questions should be con- reaching here. ing at the bar of the House. sidered, not one by one, nor in res. It is also said that 15,000 houses Most of the left wing Labourites pect of isolated interests, but as a were flooded and other considerable abstained from voting on the whole and from the wider viewpoint damage was done to farm houter Beckett division.
of the general interests involved. in various parts of the provinces
to a dimination of the obstacles to FIFTEEN THOUSAND HOUSES international trade and economic co-operation which now exist.
FLOODED.
King Alfonso alighted, enquired ance. This was randily forthcoming join Lu Haing Pang. ne to the lady driver's safety, shook and a turntable ladder was sent to the Fukien, Provincial Government hands with her, and proceeded to the scene. A couple of men went who have been detained “by. Int; Buckingham Palace, where he up and they succeeded in bringing, dat, is still unknown. The report since the beginning of the coup lunched with King George prior to the unfortunate fellow down. No that they have been killed has not his return to Spain to-morrow, resistance was offered.
been verised.