"H.B.M.'S LEGATION | COMMUNISTS NEAR
AT PEIPING.'-
REMOVAL TO NANKING
IMPENDING.
(THROTON AKUTER'R ÄGINOY.]
NANKING.
'AWAITING ORDERS TO POUNCE ON CAPITAL.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14,
SHANGHAI, TRAM STRIKE ENDED.
FIFTY AGITATORS-DENIED REINSTATEMENT,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGRNOY.')
(From Our Own. Correspondent,).
SHANGHAI, August. 13.
The Kud Min News Agency de-
SHANGHAI, August 13. Students seeking entymological
It is reported that the
clares:
Nanking, alarming stories of en campments of Communists, armed with rifles, on the hills 15 miles from the capital.
SHANGHAI, August 13" After two months the French
+
1930.
SHANGHAI EVENING WANG CHING WEI'S TOBACCO TAXATION TRIBAL RISINGS IN POST AND MERCURY.
FIRST ISSUE OF AMAL- GAMATED PRESS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, August 13 The first issue published of the
DISCLAIMER.
URGES SUPPRESSION OF COMMUNISTS.
(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEIPING, August 13.
AT TIENTSIN.
INDIA.
BUREAU FOLLOWING YEN'S PEACE TALKS IN YERODA
GAOL.
INSTRUCTIONS.
"(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TIENTSIN, Augas: 13. A Nasking communiqué with Soo Hsiang Shieu, Secretary of
urging co-operation with the Coming on the closing down of the munists in the South arrived by B.C.C. factory here and the result mail to-day.
[THROUGH-REUTER'S, AGENOT.]
Poona, August 13.
Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr.
British Legation will be removed specimens have brought back from tramway strike. ended when six Shanghai Evening Post "and Mer Wang Ching Wei's alleged wires the Chihli Tax Bureau, comment- Jayakar conferred for four hours in
bases belonging to the Company eary announces that the editorial policy of the paper will be honest operated this afternoon.
and liberal and without fear or favour. It will spare no expense or effort to produce a better after- noon newspaper than Shanghai has ever known.
-from Peiping to Nanking shortly.
"It is understood that Sir Miles Lampson telegraphed to Dr. C. T. Wang informing him of the im- pending transfer, and the British Consul General at Nasking has also received instructions from the „British Minister stating that pend- ing the construction of the new Legation building part of the Con- sulate will be used temporarily to accommodate the Legation"
KING CAROL'S CORONATION
(THROUGH RUUTER'S AGENÛT-]
BURUAREST, August 12. The coronation ceremonies of King Carol and Queen Helen have been provisionally fixed for October, when it is expected that the legal process of annulling the divorce will be cleared away.
The Minister of Justice is now studying the documents in this connection. '.
King Carol claims that the divorce is invalid because he was prevented from appearing person- ally at the divorce proceedings, heing compelled to be represented by a proxy who pretested on his behalf against the divorce.
The law which sanctioned repre sentation by proxy has been annul led.
KING OF IRAQ LEAVES
ENGLAND.
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THANKS FOR ENJOYABLE STAY IN LONDON.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE,] "
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Rraat, August 12 King Feisal of Iraq, on leaving England, has addressed a tele: gram to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, expressing to the British Govern ment his "incerest thanks for the hospitality which he enjoyed during his stay in London, of which he says he takes with him many, plea "saat memories.
Mr. MacDonald, in reply, says :--- "It was both a pleasure, and a privilege to entertain Your Majesty, and His Majesty's Government are gratified to learn that Your Majesty "enjoyed your visit.”
AVIATOR'S DRUNKEN
ESCAPADE.
UNUSUAL EXCUSE FOR BOMB DROPPING.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
MURPHYBORO (III.), Aug.12,"
These Communists are apparently quietly waiting for orders to ad- vance on Nanking, which is at pre- sent denuded of troops.
They are wearing red brassards, and are not interfering with the villagers, who are most, friendly disposed towards them...
MARTIAL-LAW "AT CHANGSHA
a
(Fah Taz Yat Pao.)
HANKOW, August 13. Martial-law was, declared
3. p.m. on Changsha shortly after Monday, when street traffic was held up.
More buses followed later. The trams are resuming on Thurs day.
Under the terms of settlement, 1,400 workers are to be reinstated, excepting 30 of the agitators who inspired the strike.
TYPHOON RAVAGES S.-E. JAPAN.
BUILDINGS DAMAGED AND HOUSES INUNDATED.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
1/
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE PLAN TO PREVENT FRAUD.
TI
.Y
SEQUEL TO THE HÁTRY SWINDLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 12.
As a sequel to the Hatry frauds OSAKA, August 13. the General Purposes Committee of Last night, a typhoon, with a
the Stock Exchange has adopted velocity of 28 metres per second, | certain recommendations made by a ravaged South-Eastern Japan, re-special sub-committee.
These arc sulting in interruption of communi-intended to prevent future frauds entions, damage to buildings and of a similar character as far as Several men, alleged to be Com-inundation, of many, houses. possible. munists, were shot.
Communists Shot.
Funds for Anti-Communist Campaign. Governor Ho Chien has ordered Com- the General Chamber of
sun of merce to contribute the $400,000, for the "anti-Communist campaign.
Y.M.O.A, as Military Ofices. Governor Ho Chien has occupied the Y.M.C.A. as his office, owing to the buildings of the Government organisations having been destroy-
ed.
Chinese Gunboats Arrive. "Three Chinese gunboats have ar-, rived at Changsha from Hankow.
Japanese Residents.
at
The Japanese residents at Chang- sha have cabled to Tokyo asking for adequate protection."
The Communist elements Siaokan are still very active. More dispatched to co-operate against troops and an aeroplane have been the Communists there.
1)
HAN'S TROOPS CAPTURE TSINGCHOW.
(Wah Par Fat Pao.)
The typhoon then turned into the Sea of Japan, and communications
have since become normal.
Casualty List.
TOKYO, August 13.
They include steps to limit the currency of temporary documents and provide, amongst other things, that, the period for renunciation of fully-paid shares must not exceed six weeks as a maximum and, part- lyspaid shares one month after the date of the final call.
Arrangements are being made ing of a maine at Ube, near Shimon-whereby the share and loan depart- ski following the heavy rains acment of the Stock Excharge will companying the typhoon yesterday.
"Four are reported dead in various parts of Kyushu.
Twenty are reported to have been drowned as the result of the flood
There has been widespread dam- age to crops and other property.
gradually undertake the certifica tion and transfers of stocks and shares, both quoted and unquoted
Arrangements are also being made
fers certified at such associated
Wang Ching Wei, in the course of a statement in the Chinese Press emphatically denying that he supported or instigated the Reds in Hanan or elsewhere, states that so far from having wired Li Tsung Jea or Feng Yu Hsiang to co-oper- ate with the Communists, he actu- ally wired urging them to suppress them, as all three are against Com
munism.
is
COVENT GARDEN'S STRANGE FRUITS.
THE MANGOSTEEN AND OTHERS.
2
NOVELTIES WITH A
HISTORY.
ant unemployment of 4,000 Chinese workers, says: "We can do nothing in the matter. We are merely fol- lowing Yen Hai Shan's instruc tions,"
Questioned on the repudiation of the existing tax agreements, Sog Hsiang Shien stated that the agree ments were concluded with Nanking and cannot be considered valid in Northern territory.
It is estimated that the stoppage of the tobacco trade will lose the Northern authorities more that $300,000 monthly in tax revenues.
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Waller, the poet, had heard of the papave of Hawaii, and described the magical growth of the tree to 2 feet in Half the circle of the hasty year." The papaw's first ex- cursion outside the tropics was to San Francisco, and now, by pick-
The mangosteen has made its aping the fruit as soon as it turns pearance in Covent Garden. Covent yellow, it is being got to the fruit- Garden is not impressed, but there stands of all the big North Ameri- romance, nevertheless, behind can cities and, at this time of the this experimental consignment. At year, to the hotels of London, the Empire Marketing Board (says where Americans who are no longer a London journalist) they put it loyal to the grape fruit have it as to me thus Some time in the breakfast dish. last century, a Swedish novelist, Frederika Bremer, went to South Carolina and there beheld a strange fruit called "the banana, of which
The avocado may be brought at few shops. Sir Hans Sloane christened it in a catalogue of Jamaica plants, but twenty years ago it was still a "dooryard" fruit, and even in 1926 avocado orchards in California, Floride, Cuba, and Porto Rica did not exceed 1,000
to accept as "good delivery trans- she wrote, 'In form it resembles our large geed cucumbers. I could Stock Exchanges as adops proper have fancied. I was eating soap. safeguards..
Proposals for additional safe The banana. and I, I fancy, will RUBBER PRODUCTION AND guards with regard to future
not become good friends." Anderes in extent. But since it has municipal issues have been submit- CONSUMPTION. ted to the authorities concerned and the first commercial consignment of been possible to get it to the big
are now being considered..
bananas to London, not much more
cities in good condition the cultiva. tion of it has extended to many than thirty years ago, had to be
places in the tropics, and a recent given away.
U.S.A. report says of it: "It is on the verge of taking high place among the food crops contributed by the trapies to the temperate
UNITED STATES AUTHORITY SUPPORTS RESTRICTION
'. [RECTER'S
AMERICAN SERVICE.] NEW YORK, Aug. 12. In view of strong American opposition in the past to rubber restriction schemes, interest attaches to an interview with Mr. F. R. Henderson, President of the Now York Rubber Exchange, and Reuter's correspondent regarding the present slump over which American traders are greatly con-
SHANGHAI, August, 13. Han Fu Chu's troops on the Kino-cerned. chow-Tsinan Railway crossed the Wei River on Monday evening and have cow captured Tsingchow.
They are advancing westward to link up with their allies on the Tientain-Pukow Railway to attack
Tsinan
"AMERICAN BISHOP IN IMMINENT DANGER.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.).
WASHINGTON, August 12 The American Consul-General at Canton has informed the State De-. partment that the American Bishop Paul Montgomery, a local avia-J. A. O'Shea, of the Catholic Mis- tor, has been arrested on a charge sion at Kanchow, is in imminent of piloting the aeroplane which danger. yesterday dropped bombs on the coal mines in the Providence dis trict.
"
Montgomery denied the charge, but admitted flying early yesterday morning. He said he few merely to sober-ap after being drunk on Sunday.
BRITISH AIRSHIP'S: TRIP FROM CANADA.
LEAVES FOR ENGLANTI TONIGHT
[DKITIAN WIRELESS BELVICE)
Ruaey, August 12.
· The airship R100 leaves Montreal for England at 10 o'clock to-morrow. evening, Canadian time.
BRITISH AIR MINISTRY APPOINTMENT.
11
SOCIALIST LECTURER TO
TOUR CHINA..
(THROUGH XKUTER'S AGENCY.3
BRUSSELS, August 12. The Socialist leader, M. Vander- velde, accompanied by his wife, bas left for China, where he will engage. on a lecturing tour.
He was seon off by the Chinese Minister.
TURKISH INDEPENDENT ACTION AGAINST KURDS. TROOPS WELL INSIDE PERSIAN TERRITORY.
· {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Mr. Henderson said the world could afford to pay a fair price for such a necessary commodity as rub- her, and any effort which aimed at preserving the world's requirements would be justiñed. He said the downward move was continuing not so much oving to the present stock position but on account of potential production as against probable con- | sumption of the balance in 1930.
He expressed the opinion that the United States would not use over 420,000 tons in 1930, and this would mean an unprecedented carry-over on January 1 next.
Mr. Henderson said the present trend of the market would "Booner or later correct the situation, but the attendant lowes in the produc ing areas were of vital concern to the whole industry. He hoped that means would be found to balance production and consumption.
FRENCH BUDGET FOR
NEXT YEAR.
NO NEW TAXES TO COVER EXPENDITURE.
[HAVAS ADENCY.]
PARIS, August 12. M. Rambouillet, Minister of the Council and Budget Minister, in a speech, to-day, examined the main- tenance of the Budget's equilibrium and stated that between 1926 and 1930 the expenses bad increased by thirteen thousand million francs.
AMERICA'S DROUGHT
CRISIS. HUNDRED MILLION BUSHELS OF CEREALS LOST.
莎
So the novel fruit of to-day may be the popular fruit of to-morrow, and the Empire Marketing Board takes in hand the "dooryard" fruits of the tropica and sees whe ther it is possible to give them a chance here. It keeps a little lab-
zobe,"
Fruits of B.C.
But there are other fancy fruits
oratóry near Covent Garden where coming to England at this time of the "storage and transport require-cultivated long before the avocado the year which were studied and ments of these fruits are studied.
The Mangosteen.
接
the Yeroda Gaol with Gandhi, Motilal Nehru, Jawarharlal Nehru, and Vallabhai Patel.
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, who is also imprisoned in Yeroda Gaol, was present part of the time.
Another meeting will be held, to-morrow.
Peshawar District Decidedly quieter.
SIMLA August 19. "The Peshawar district is decided- The Afridis are retiring in con. ly quieter. sequence of the activity of the Royal Air Force and the arrival of with reinforcements, but the trains. an armoured train from Lahore. mostly halt at Nowshera, 23 miles distant, the passengers completing the journey to Peshawar in taxi- cabs.
No casualties have occurred among the Air Force, and there has been only ball a dozen avrpy casualties, mainly among the native trcops, who were fired on by the Afridis hiding in the tall corn.
Telegraphic communication be- tween Peshawar and the rest of India has been restored.
Other Tribes Join the Afridia,
PESHAWAR, August 12. While the situation
the Peshawar district is well in hand, the theatre of the trouble is shifting towards Parachinar and Kohat, where the Oraksais have joined the Afridis, who are withdrawing from
Peshawar.
Stern measures are being taken against the tribesmen, and it is
understood that the few women and
children in Parachinar have been
withdrawn by aeroplanes.
Air Force Bomb Morrezais.
SIMLA, August 12... Fifteen hundred Mossozais, whose attack upon Badama, north of Hurmana, on Saturday was repuls ed by the militia and villagers, re-attacked yesterday, but were stopped after desultory fighting.
They were bombed by fighting planes of the Air Force.
News has been received in Parachinar that partics of Cham kennis attacked villages in the Manosam and Kurram districts.
A large number of Parayester- day attacked the village of Chicha, militia were killed. when two villagers and three of the
Rioting at Ahmedabad,
AHMEDABAD, August 12 So far, 74 arrests have been made as the result of rioting in connec tion with the selling of contraband salt which civil disobedience volun- teers started yesterday after an interval of two months.
teers paraded the streets selling salt The trouble started when volun-
from a handcart. A crowd sur rounded the cart and a scuffie en- sued.
EXCESSIVE SPEED AT
"CORNER.
LANCASHIRE SOLDIER'S.
was heard of by Europeans. There is the illustrious mango. It was in As for the mangosteen, which an a grove of mangong that Buddha
Some volunteers were hurt, and. He added that the Budget fur 1830 E.M.E, official produced for had increased by five thousand mil
me himself "sought shade. Akbar the police, despite lathi charges, lions as compared with the Budget from the depths of his desk,
"Amplanted an orchard of 100,000 trees the crowd which gathered in front were unable completely to disperse for the previous year. The figures afraid its hard, faded purple shell, at Darbhanga over three centuries of a police post. asked for in the Budget for 1931 about the size of an orange, did ago, and in 1000 some of these wore would over-reach by six thousand millions those of the Budget for not make my mouth water a bit. | still yielding. But it is only in 1900.
At first they tried to bring the the last twenty years that "cultiva- He mentioned the difficulty of reducing the Budget, but said there stranger over wrapped in rubber tion has spread to Florida and the West Indies, and the mango, hav- would be no new taxes or loans to latex, but it was ordinary colding first been tried out in the cover the expenditure. The Council storage that did the trick. It is U.S.A., has settled down to had decided to re-examine the the inside of a mangosteen that steadily expanding business in Eng
DEATH. Budget for 1031 in order to settle has given the fruit its aristocratic and als its equilibrium.
The litehi has done the same. In
Excessive speed in rounding # reputation in Burmah and the few 200 B.C. the Chinese Emperor Kao corner was the reason assigned by a other places where it is grown. Teu, pining for fresh litchies, or coroner's jury at Devizes for the death of Robert Brisco, a gunner in Opened with a knife the shell dia.dered the fruit to be brought to
him by relays of runners Some the Royal Artillery, stationed at... closes in a cup of royal purple of the runners died, but Kao Teu Bulford Briscoe was one of a party snowy segments the texture of a got the frash litchies, In 1914 the of artillerymen who went into plum and yet so delicate that they first litchi tres was planted in the Devizes in a motor vehicle driven by melt in the mouth, like ice cream.
United States, at Santa Barbara,
Gunner William Edward Holmes. What historic prestige there 15 California, and since then its claim At a turn in the road about a mile behind some of these strange fruits! to be superior to the orange (and out of Devizes the car collided with The mangosteen was described cen taste like a strawberry) bas comilled.
the turnpike-house, and Briscoe was turies ago by a botanist named mended it to a select circle on Owing to the, draught crisis, Fre. Jacobus Bontinus, who compared both sides of the Atlantics caused by a udid
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. sident Hoover has cancelled, his pro- the golden apples of Hesperides then's horn of fruits, which, one The tropics are a veritable Amal- posed holiday visit to the Rocky "Of all the fruits of the earth," by one, thanks to the art of cold the vehicle mus travelling before Mountains, and will confer with the reported, "it is by far the most storage, may be brought to our James Fell, a night watchman on [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
the accident was given by William A States' Governors at Washington on Thursday as to the effect of the BUGBY, August 12. drought. On Friday he is to meet The outstanding incident in the representatives of the farmers. career of General Šir Horace Smith-
It is officially reported that there Dorgien, who died to-day from in- is a food shortage in a number of juries received in a motor car ac States as a result of the lowest pro- cident, was the stand which he made duction of corn for a quarter of a in the retreat from Mons when com- century, and extensive darnage to manding the Second Army Corps, Crops
He had been given the order to It is estimated that one hundred retreat from Le Cateau by Sir John million bushels of cereals have boen French, Commander-in-Chief, butost since August i alone, and thero disagree with the policy and de-are still no signs of any consider cided to fight. The enemy was atable rainfall least twice as strong as General Smith-Durrien's force, but the Ger- man advance was completely check-
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LATE GENERAL SMITH- DORRIEN.
DISOBEDIENCE SAVED THE
ALLIES.
[REUTER'S AMERIGAN SERVICE.]
it with nectar and ambrosia and
delicious."
Holmes said the accident was
Evidence of the speed at which
tables. Besides the granadilla, chard in the world at present, the melo, and other fancy fruits that repair, who said he saw the vehicle Yet the largest mangosteen or shaddock, guava, cantaloupe, po the road part of which is under one at Saigon, Cochin China, con already come here, there are the coming down the road very fast in tains only 400 trees, and five years longan, the rambutan, the pulsa zigzag fashion. ago the Hawaiian Islanda-those can, the akce, mamoncillo, the cher
Terrific Breed. Isles of fruit-boasted but a single moya 'Deliciousness itself," said ful experimental consignments by Nature," said Sir Clements Mark the accident. It was then going at root. Two or three more success Mark Twain; "the masterpiece of that the vehicle passed him before Police Constable Simms stated
the E.M.B., and perhaps somebody ham), and about fifty other an such a terrific speed that he thought will make a move to market man- Ancona, August 12.
gosteens here, in which case any to speak of the numerous and dis- pressed with the speed at which it
nonas, as this genus is called; not it was going over. He was so im The Turkish Government is
thing might happen. After all, tinguished branches of the myrtle was going that he made a note of taking a strong independent line
nobody thought in 1921 that the family. regarding the Kurdish rebels on the
grape fruit, then a novelty in Eng
it in his pocket book It took the There is of course, no likelihood bend on the wrong side of the road. frontiet. [BRITISH WIRELESS SEEVICE)
Headlong Falls On Stock Market. land, would be in suck demand as
of these fruits coming to. refused ...Persia has refused to co-operate
us at He took the measurements of the NEW YORK, August 12.
it is now.
oneo, and some, being merely cal-road at this point and found the off RUGBY, August 13.in a movement against them, and
Headlong falls on the stock " The Air Ministry announces that General Salib has now been order-
culated to rasp the tongue, will side wheel marks were only two feet, Obituaries of General Smith market has born ang no the effect
ocene apolipoldtog van die ontstrom the grid TESTER TILBE The Papaw and the Avocado.. Vice Marshal Dowding, nom, ed to begin operations against the Dorrien declare that his dis of the drought on the Af Outer Commanding the Digat dole, who are entrenched the doreste stret the Aliles, and they tion trend on your crop situaAbout two years are it was rears at present eply native crops, he did thin ens herausa ne, the spond to ported thay o number of papaws whose cultural requirements have at which the vehicle was travelling, ing Area of Air Defence of Great slopes of Mount Ararat
cite the following admission of fifteen points on many stocks.
from India had reached London yet to be studied and understood; and he knew he was bound to meet.. Britain, has been appointed the Turkish troops have crossed the General Von Kluck, the German There was a violent wave of selling Docks in safety, and, being hut and every one presents a separate with it before he went far. Later member for supply and research on frontier and occupied a strategic Commander-in-Chief I tried in the closing hours of the market, curiosity, had been sent to a hos- scientific problem in transport, he was informed of the collision the Air Council in place of Air position on the castern slope of hard to outflank Smith-Dorrien, but Radio Corporation, General Elec pital. Now, there is a trade, in Still, gradually, we are entering The jury returned a verdict of Marshal Sir John Higgins, who has Agridagh, well inside Persian ter- could not do so. If I had succeed tric each losing two points and papewe-though a slender one of romance behind these experimental accidental death, caused by the been placed on the retired list at ritory, confronting the Persianed, the war would have been won by American Can and Allied Chemi course. It is a queer thing that consignments by the Empire Mar- driver negotiating the corner of an his own request.
Government with a fait accompli. Germany
eals five each.
(Continued on nest Oolumn.). keting Board,
excessivo spéod."
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