BRITISH AMITY TOWARDS CHINA.
NOT THE TIME TO DISCUSS CONCESSION RENDITION.
InnocozzeUTER'S AGENCY.]
COMMUNISM IN INDO-CHINA.
TRIBUNAL CONDEMNS TWELVE REDS.
(IHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, August 10.
LONDON, August 10 The Straday Time, in a leading article, says that obviously while China is reverting to chaos it is not the time to discuss giving up the remaining British Concesions or extra-territoriality in China, but when China regains a settled Gov-piracy to murder. ernment she will find Great Britain, as ever, disposed to reconsider the old treaties in a friendly spirit.
A message from Hanoi states that the special tribunal dealing with the charges arising from the recent Communist riots in Indo-China passed sentence of death on 12 per- sons accused of murder or
THEIR MAJESTIES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Rozy, August 3. Their Majesties the King and Queen, who have speat the last fortnight at Cowes for the Regatta, where the King, in spite of the mixed weather, has greatly enjoyed the racing in which his yacht Britannia has taken, a prominent part, will return to London on Monday.
After a few days in Buckingham Palace Their Majesties will proveed to Sandringham, in Norfolk
الا
H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.
[CRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Rroby, August 9. The. Prince of Wales is to take a holiday until the end of Septem ber. During the last few months
he has had a particularly heavy list of public engagements, and strenuous programme awaits him in the Autumn..
to
Since his return from Africa in
con-
One hundred and fourteen per sons were sentenced to deportation. 11 to penal servitude for life and 8 to various terms of imprisonment.
AMERICA BARS CROATIAN
EX-MINISTER,
{REUTER'S AMERICAN BREVICS.]
NEW YORK, August 10. After a fortnight's detention on Ellis Island, August Kosutich, ex- Minister for Public Works in Yugo Slavia, has been ordered to be deported.
Kosutich was invited to visit Amèrica to lecture against the pre- rent régime in Yugo-Slavia by a committee claiming to represent
500,000 Croata in the United States, hut the Yago-Slavia Legation made representations against Kosutich's admission to the country.
DROUGHT SITUATION IN
AMERICA.
ONE MILLION FAMILIES AFFECTED.
[REUTER'S. AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, August f President Hoover stated that the preliminary reports show that ap proximately 1,000,000 families, or 12 per cent. of the entire population of the United States, have been affected by the drought.
April his duties have included two -extensive. tours of Cornwall and the north-east coast, and in order fall engagements involving exacting official programmes he has i The Red Cross authorities have travelled many hundreds of miles been instructed to stand by and by aeroplane and cat. 'He will
relieve any possible suffering." spend much of his holiday at goll
Presiden: Hoover declared that and in flying in his new De Havil the situation gave cause for great land Puss Moth, and he will prob-concern, but "be pointed out that ably stay part of the time" with the the drought mainly affected animal King and Queen at Balmoral Castle fodder, and there was an abundant in Scotland.
supply of human food. Neverthe less, there would be much, priva tion of families in the drought area, owing to the loss of income and the financial burden, imposed through carrying their animals over
LORD BIRKENHEAD.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE !
RUGBY, August 8. A bulletin issued this afternoon states that Lord, Birkenhead has had another restless night, but there is no extension of the bron- chial pneumonia process and his strength is maintained..
the winter.
It is estimated that 250,000 horses and mules. 6,000,000 head of cattle, and 12,000,000 hogs and sheep have been affected:
President Hoover is calling a con- ference of Governors of the Statea RUGBY, August 8, Today's bulletin states that Lord in the drought area to discuss mea. Birkenhead passed a very good sures for alleviating the distress. night, and is more comfortable than yesterday,
HEROIC SEA STORY RECALLED:
[BRITISH WIRELESS, SERVICE.]
RUGET, August 0.
A tragic and heroic story of the sea is recalled by the death yester- day of Capt. Cecil Foster, who was naster of the s.a. Trevissa, which
U.S.A. AND THE LONDON
NAVAL. PACT.
RATIFICATION INSTRUMENT IN LONDON,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 8.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1930.
BRITAIN AND U.S.A. BISHOPS LAMBETH HOTTEST PLACE ON FENG'S BIG DRIVE.
IN CHINA.
NO UNDERSTANDING OF ANY KIND EXISTS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SEVICE]
CONFERENCE.
EARTH.
ENCYCLICAL LETTER TO BE UNENVIABLE CLAIM OF
"PUBLISHED.
(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.)
Loszos, August 10. WASHINGTON, August 9. Mr. William Castle, Assistant The Lambeth Conference, the pro- ceedings of which throughout haye Secretary of State, has issued a communiqué stating that no under-been private, held its final session standing of any kind exists between yesterday.
1
the United States and Great Bri-An Encyclical Letter containing tain as regards Chine, and that no the resolutions adopted is expected diplomatic conversations" in that to be published on the 15th inst. connexion "have been held with any countries except Japan and China.. The United States Government has adhered to its policy of protecting its nationals, and the question of military and naval movements is entirely in the hands of American commanders in the Far East. ✨
[An earlier cable stated:-The. British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, called at the State De- partment and conferred with Mr. William Castle, Assistant Secretary of State.
was re-
The conversation was apparently important, as Mr. Castle immedi- ately afterwards hastened to the White House, where he ceived by President Hoover,
It is credibly reported that the subject of the discussion was what steps the United States would take to protect American nationals and their property in Chipa.]
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What France Thinks,,
PARIS, August 9. Commenting on the situation in China, Le Temps says that if things grow worse, and it is proved that the local forces are inadequate to protect foreign lives and property, it is probable that no interested
Power will refuse in taking com- certed action, and adds,"" but at present it seems premature to talk of such action.”
EXTRALITY "FARCE.”
PRESENT NEGOTIATIONS
DENOUNCED.
'(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCX.]
LONDON," August 0.
A Daily Telegraph leader says there is something too much like indecency about. the negotiations for modifications of extra-territorial rights in China with a Government under which foreigners and their interests enjoy no protection but what
Governments furnish...
their own
The article adds that there stands an imminent, danger to the present Chinese Government of being swept out by a rival clique. The blunder, made in the premature recognition of an unestablished authority was bad enough. The diplomatic faree now progressing is far worse,
CHINA STATION"
COMMAND.
VICE-ADMIRAL W. KELLY APPOINTED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
LONDON, August 8. Vice-Admiral William Archibald Howard Kelly, C.B., C.M.G., 3.V.O.. has been appointed Con
of mander-in-Chief
the China.
Station in succession to Admiral
Sir Arthur K. Waistell, K.C.B., the appointment to date from Decem- ber 12 next.
MESOPOTAMIA....
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Basna, August 10, Mesopotamia claims to be the hottest place on earth at present, the maximum shade temperature last week being 130 degrees Fahren- heit.
NATIONALISTS ROUTED AT NINGLING.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PEIPINO, August 3. Feng Yu Hsiang, in a communi- que issued early this morning, states that the three Northern divisions routed five brigades be youd Ningling, and occupied the There were 57 cases of heat southern and western gates of
Kweiteh on August 8.
stroke.
The deaths include two members of the Royal Air Force.
At Bagdad Europeans and at "Abadan and Mahommerah many Arab coolies and Bedouins drapped dead.
There have been many cases of beat prostration, two members of the Royal Air Force seriously suffering.
Only 9,000 enemy troops have left the city. They are being disarmed.
In the Lunghai centre the Shansi troops are attacking Linho Station, the Kuominchun forces enveloping it on two sides.
Three cavalry divisions attacked Yucheng on the night of August and reached the vicinity of Mamu- tsi
Foreign reports state that Feng THE GERMAN STATE. Yu Hsiang is making a drive of
A DOUBTFUL DEMOCRACY.
THE TREND TOWARD FASCISM
BERLIN, August 10:
seven divisions between Takang and Chowchiakow, with the aim of avoiding the strong defensive works to the west of Hauchowin, and making an advance on the Tientsin- Pukow Railway between Hauchowiu and Pengpu,
Republican Germany will to- morrow celebrate the eleventh COMMUNISTS' DEMAND ON anniversary of the adoption of the
Vice-Admiral Kelly, the third son of Lieut. Col. H. H, Kelly, B.M.A., new Constitution at Weimar, under has been Vice-Admiral Command-which Germany officially ceased to ing the First Battle Squadron and be a monarchy. Outstanding fea Vice Admiral Second-in-Command tures of the celebrations are school of the Mediterranean Fleet since festivities and Republican flags, April of last year. He succeeded displayed all over the country. his brother, Vice-Admiral Sir John Street demonstrations of Republican D. Kelly, now Admiral commanding organisation are also being encour-
aged by the central authorities.
the Reserves, in these posts.
War Service.
Dew
The
The anniversary of the Weimar Commander-in-Chief entered the Navy in 1883, became Constitution makes it possible to Lieutenant in 1594, Commander it. 1904, Captain in 1911, Rear-Admiral gauge the growth of Republican in 1999, and Vice-Admiral in 1997. sentiment in Germany from year to Vice-Admiral Kelly was captain year. Monarchistic propaganda, is of the light cruiser Gloucester in restricted to small and insignificant
Eer chase of the German battle- cruiser Goeben, and in 1917-18 he
Was
coteries of the
old
HANKOW.
[TEROGGE REUTER'S AGENOT-)
TRIBESMEN RAID PESHAWAR.
ROYAL" "AIR FORCE BOMB RAIDERS.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
PESHAWAN, August 9.
A big attack was threatened by tribesmen tast night, but nothing occurred. The raiding party, which approached within à mile of the city on Thursday, returned to the Kbajuri Plain:
A small attack developed through. the South Bara Valley, which was driven off by British troops.
The Air Force bombed Afridi · and Lashlear tribesmen in the Bara Valley, killing seven,
A party of tribenen, who pene- trated the villages south-east of Peshawar, were attacked and shelled, and suffered casualties.
Tribal Forces Disparsing.
LONDON, August 9. There is no disposition in official quarters in London to take a seri- ous view of the situation on the Indian North-West Frontier."
It is not believed that the tribes men will attack, Peshawar itself, where, in any case, there are ample forces to deal with the situation.
More tanks and armoured cars have recently arrived there.
SIMLA, August 0.. To-day's reports from Peshawar indicate that the tribal forces which
HANKOW, August 9..have been threatening the city are
dispersing.
It is reported that the National City Bank has received a demand for 8100,000 from the Communists.
Failing compliance the Com- mnnists threaten to enter the city,
Plot to Disable Light and Cut
Telephones..
Two Communists were captured on the premises of the Light and Power Company..
They are alleged to have been in nobility.velved in a plot to disable the lighting of the city and to cut the
Commodore of the Allied Although the Hohenzollerns have Naval Forces in the Adriatic, ceased to be danergous to the From 1919 to 1921 he was Head of the British Naval Mission to Greece, Republic, it cannot be said that the with the rank of Vice-Admiral in Weimar Constitution has no potent the Greek Navy. In 1923-04 he was and dangerous enemies. Rear-Admiral in the First, Battle Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, and he commanded the Squadron from 1995 to 1027.
Second Cruiser
Appointment to Leagues
Dictatorship and Democracy..
It is true that no powerful group favours the return of the Emperor,
In 1997, he was appointed Ad. but influential and powerful sec miralty representative
of the tions of public opinion advocate League of Nations Permanent Ad- the establishment of a dictatorship. visory Commission, and took a prominent part in the negotiations Under a dictator, Germany would concerning the Anglo-Freach Agree- remain a Republic; at least, it mens of July, 1028.
would
become not again
But the essential
Vice Admiral Kelly was married in 1907 to a daughter of the late monarchy. Admiral Sir Edmund Poe, G.C.V.O., achievements of the Weimar Con KC.B. He holds many foreign, decorations, including Officer of the Legion of Honour (1911), Com mander of the Legion of Honour (1917), French Croix de Guerre
(1917), Officer of the Italian Mili
L
stitution-freedom of the Press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, Parliamentary control of administration would cease to exist. tary Order of Savoy (1918), Ameri- This is the major political issue of can Distinguished Service Medal present-day Germany. The ques (1919), and Greek Order of Military tion is no longer monarchy v. re- public, but dictatorship "demo- cracy.
THE ANGLO-POLISH- COAL Merit, 1st Class (1919).
WAR.
TRADE BEING CAPTURED. BY POLAND.
con-
SYDNEY'S GREAT HARBOUR BRIDGE.
Popular Disappointment. The supporters of dictatorship shrewdly reckon with the people's disappointment with democracy. The Parliamentary system, they de SIXTY THOUSAND TONS OF clare, is unable to solve the coun
STEEL USED.
(BRITISH WIRELESS, BERVICE;}
muniets and Nationalists,
Cabinet Attitude,'
telephores.
A portion of the gendarmerie, and some of the garrison commander's bodyguard have mutinied.
The mutineers were disarmed, but the situation is regarded as critical. Communists Capture Changteh,
It is stated that Changteh, in Hunan, has been captured by the
Communists.
Wah Taz Fat Pup.) Tsinan Expected to Fall Shortly,
NANKING, August-10. Following the capture of Taian, the right wing of the Nanking forces headed for Tsinan, which city is expected to fall very shortly.
NANKING TROOPS CAPTURE
TAIAN.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
NANKING, August &
The Government announce the capture of Taian on the 7th inst.
REDS DECAPITATED.
ALL QUIET AT CHANGSHA.
(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]
HAWKOW, August.. O. Decapitations of Reds continue. day and 12 more at Wuchang
Seven were publicly executed to Strict martial-law has been e¤- forced
It is reported that the Com-
chang
The regular train service has again been established.
Warsaw, August 3-Economic and political circles here show the
try's economic problems. They greatest interest in the develop
add that Marxism," that is to ment of the recently greatly inten.
say, the bulk of German organized sified contest between English and
labour, is responsible for the de- eline of the country's wealth. They Polish coal-exporters on the Scan-
RUGBY, August 9.
recommend dictatorship as the only dinavian markets. It will be re-The largest arch bridge in the effective remedy for high wages and world, which British engineers aro
small-or no-profits. This is the membered that in January last an building over the harbour at Syd- platform of the Fasciste, Hitler's agreement was reached between the ney, Australia, is nearing comple- party, which scored striking vic Mr. Theodore Marriner, chief of coal-mining interests of the two tion.
tories at all by-elections in Germany foundered seven years ago in the the Western Europe division of the countries recommending the
This impressive piece of engineer- during the past year, culminating in Indian Ocean.
ing spans a channel of 1,670 feet the elections in Saxony, where they Capt. Foster, with 17 mea, spent United States' State Department, olssion of a ̧ defnite agreement re- wide and rises above water level to 22 days in an open boat in which disembarked at Southampton from garding the division of coal-
75 feet higher than the summit of succeeded in becoming the second munists have withdrawn from Nan- they reached Rodriguez Island, Mauritius, 1,900 miles distant. Two New York to-day carrying a small, supplies to Scandinavia but this St. Paul's Cathedral. The two ends largest party, surpassing both Com- men died from exposure and four heavily sealed brown envelope. In has hitherto remained without are about to be joined and are now died on reaching land.
any practical results as Polish ex- only a few inches apart. Each side it was the American instru- porters have in the meantime been waighs 14,000 tons, yet in spite of
A Changsha report says that all The present Government of the The survivors owed their lives mainly to the courageous example ment of ratification of the Three-able to undercut British coal their huge weight they are within
an inch of alignment, and the width Reich was based on a coalition of is quiet. The round up of Com and discipline maintained by Capt. Power Naval Pact. He will hand prices to such an extent and so
guine supporters of Anti- summarily executed, Foster in face of terrible privations: it to General Dawes in London and far below the cost of production of the gap is exactly as calculated non-Socialist parties. Some sans munists is continuing, many being in England that practically the by the designer over two years ago.
After the two halves have been Marxism" therefore hailed-it as when Japan's ratification arrives whole trade has now fallen into joined next week the work will the forerunner of an anti-Marx NANKING'S SERIOUS LOSS." General Dawes will take it to the Polish hands. -
begin of placing the floor on the dictatorship. It is true that the Foreign Office, where the various This is shown by the fact just bridge to carry four lines of rail. Chancellor, Herr Heinrich Bruen
published that of 30,000 tons re- ratifications will be exchanged..quired by the Finnish state-rail- footways. The bridge is 160 feet in carrying out his financial pro- way, a 57-foot-roadway, and twoing, considered dictatorial methods ways only 5,000 went to England wide.
gramme, and tried to apply them
A communiqué claims the capi and the rest to Poland while of The work is being done by when the Reichstag refused to pass ture of the suburbs of Kweitch with 178,000 tons ordered by the Swedish Mesare. Dorman, Long & Company,
bis Bills."
Ma whole brigade, and also the cap- state, railways the mines in Scot-engineers, of Middlesborough, and
· This, of course, is not the crude ture of Mamutsi with enormous. land get a more 3,000 and the Polish the cost will be nearly £6,000,000,
dictatorship at which the Fasciste supplice fully 178,000 tons. A den Nearly 60,000 tons of steel, 80 per strive. Yet it can be said that the
Attempts are being made to by the vegeans that are aw found partly in the low. exchange borough, are being used.
democracy dictatorship is rather rate of the Polish currency and Messrs. Dorman, Long & Com ambiguous, While officially up partly in the fact that the company's contract has been accepted holding the Weimar Constitution, from the former German mines in also for a new bridge over the Nile leading members of the Cabinet on Upper Sileria is heavily subsidized at Cairo to replace the existing various occasions have betrayed a by the Polish Government in the Karsel Nile Bridge. This bridge complete lack of enthusiasm for form of a very low railway freight will be 1,250 feet long and 60 feet these principles of democracy tariff.
wide::
which Weimar enthroned.
AMERICĂ CUP.-
SIR T. LIPTON DEPARTS FOR NEW YORK.
[THROUGH RETTEN'S 'AGENCY.)
LONDON, August 10. Sir Thomas Lipton, on departing. for America on board the Levia than, said that he hoped to bring back the America Cap. MER The owner en'd that the prospects of Shamrock were better than they had ever been.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN GERMANY.
BERLIN, August 9. There were 2,757,000 unemployed persons in Germany on July 31, which is an increase of nearly 1,000,000, compared with the cor- responding period of last year.
(THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.]
troops...
PEIFING, August:10.
The Shansi forces claim to be holding a strong line on the Tien tsin Pukow Railway front from Fei chen, Kichsbow and Taishan
They state that two days ago the situation was critical, but now, the Northerners are holding their own.
Over 50 Air Force bombers were in action on the 7th and 8th inst.
Merely a Rabble Force:
PESHAWAN, August 10. "People acquainted with the fron- tier situation point out that the Lashkar advance on Peshawar can' hardly be classed as a tribal rising.
The Lashkar is comprised almost" wholly of youths who evidently were told by the disaffected people in Peshawar that the tribesmen gener
ally might rise if eupported, and that there was a prospect of loot- ing. Otherwise, the present advance of the Afridis would be unaccount- able in the hot weather.
The land and air forces are con- sidered to be ample to cope with a possible big attack. Besides, of the. four battalions have been employed, normal garrison In the district only
of which one battalion and one com- pany were British.
The Lashkar never numbered over 3,000 at any one time, while the Afridis in the scattered villages in south-east Peshawar do not exceed a few hundreds.
The Air Force, in spite of the deteriorating weather conditions, continues to do excellent work in repulsing the tribeemen.....
Six squadrons have been con, stantly employed bombing singe Wednesday, and they dropped 6,000 bombs in a single day.
PESHAWAR-NOWSHERA TRAINS STOPPED.
́(TERONOR KRUTER'S AGENCY.]"
PESHAWAR, August: 10.
By order of the Commissioner of Peshawar, all mail, passenger and goods trains have stopped ruaning between Peshawar and Nowshera till further notice.
EXCELLENT CROP PROSPECTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
PEIPING, August 9.
A Japanese official returned from a tour of the North states that the crops everywhere are excellent in some districts, such as Suiyuan.
Farmers say it is the best harvest for 40 years.
AVIATION TRAGEDY
IN U.S.A.
AEROPLANE CRASHES THROUGH GASOMETER.
-FRKULER'S : AMERICAN, SERVICE]
Chicano, August 10. A sightseeing aeroplane, appar ently struck by lightning, crashed through the thin metal roof of a huge gasometer on the west side of Chicago,
The pilot and two women passen-
gers were killed.