BOMB-DROPPING OVER PEIPING.
DANGER TO HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PRIPING, August 28. It transpires that in yesterday's aerial raid two coolies were very
slightly wounded.
There is considerable indignation amongst the Chinese and surprise in foreiga circles at the bombing around the Forbidden City and the Winter Palace.
Fortunately, the bombs dropped there did not explode, but there was considerable danger of destroying buildings of great historic and artistic value without any apparent military object
Attempt to Destroy Ancient 'Bulidings.
LATER The Commandant, of the Emer- gency Force and the Director of the Public Safety Bureau have issued a proclamation denouncing the Nan king military authorities. for at tempting to destroy the ancient buildings in Peking, and declaring that the public need not be alarm ed, as they are mounting anti-air. etaft guna on Coal Hill and at the
city gates.
Meetings of the Enlarged Plenary Session of the Central Executive Counci? will be held in future at various times and places.
Chinese and foreign Pressmen are,
⚫ warned not to publish the where abouts. and movements of Wang Ching Wei, as one of the bombs was dropped not far from his new residence.
וי
(Fah Taz Fat Pao.) Attitude of Foreign Legations. PEIPINO, August 28:
of
Chu Ao Hsiang, Director Foreign Affairs Department, bas addressed Notes to the foreign Legations requesting them to lodge a strong protest with the Nanking Government in connection with the air raid by Nanking aeroplanes.
AMERICA -CUP-
DEFENDER.
YACHT ENTERPRISE SELECTED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
NEWPOCT (R.L), August 28. The yacht Enterprise has been selected to defend the America
Cup.
The defender will be captained by Mr. Harold Vanderbik.
The Enterprise is the smallest of the four prospective defenders, but she has the greatest sail area. | namely, 7,505 square feet.
The Enterprise was designed by Mr. Starling Bürgess, and was built at Bristol, Rhode Island, by the Herschoff Company, and is named alter the navy schooner which was affectionately known as the "Plucky Little Enterprise," which fought the Barbary pirates.
"
It was expected that the Yankee, which broke all records over a 30- mile triangular course last week; would be matched with the Enter- prise in a real race before the final
decision was reached.
Lack of sufficient breeze during the past two days, however, made it impossible to carry out the trials to select the defender on the lines planned.,
#
The Selection Committee of the New York Yacht Club, therefore, decided last night that the Entor prise should defend the Cup, and there will be no further trials.
An attempt yesterday to held a third trial race between the four specially-built yachts was abandon- ed when it became evident that none of the boats could finish in. the specified time.
The Whirlwind and Weetamoe were paired in this trial against the Enterprise and Yankee. Both the latter passed their competitors in spite of the formers' 13 minutes start, and when the race was called off, the Enterprise was leading a mile on the Yankee.
The Yankee was designed by Mr. Frank Paine, and is owned by syndicate headed by Mr. John S. Laurence,
It understood that the Legaj tions have decided to malce strong representations to Nanking in view of the fact that no warning was given, to the Legations before the MILITARY HONOURS FOR A
raid.
KWANGSI INSURGENCY
WANING.
CHEN TSAI TONG RETURNS TO CANTON.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
I
CANTON, August 2. General Chen Tsai Tong returned to Canton from Wuchow yesterday with a portion of his staff, follow-
DUCAL GUARDSMAN.
[BEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}"
RUGBY, August. 27. The remains of the Duke of Northumberland were buried to- day in Westminster Abbey in the family vault. of the Percys, who have this prescriptive right shared i only by Royalty,
Grenadier
Tall, barehended Guardsmen bore the coffin through the great west door to the altar.
Grenadier Guardsmen also heat a
long, muffed tattoo on their drums to mark the mmasing of the Duke, who had been an officer of their regiment.
The remains were interred in the Perey vault in the Chapel of St. Nicholas."
ing the fall of Punyang, a strategie point some miles north of Nanding The party left Wuchow early yes terday morning, arriving in Sam shui in the afternoon. From bere they travelled the rest of the way by special rain оп the Canton- Samshyi Railway. A heavy guard. The King and other members of was dispatched to Shek Wai Tong the Royal Family were represented. included by the Militray. Headquarters here and the congregation to insure the safety of the party members of the oldest families in when they arrived. At the Cautor the land. terminus General Chen. Tsai Tong was greeted by his wife and a num ber of high officials of the Canton Government, including Mr... Lam Yick Chung, Custoons Superinten- dent Yung Kei Tsing. General Au Yang Kui, and Mr. To Yick Him, Chief of Staff of the 8th Military Route.
ENGLAND SWELTERING
UNDER HEAT WAVE. TROPICAL TEMPERATURE IN LONDON.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, August 27, After weeks of unsettled weather, the greater part of England to-day and yesterday has been sweltering in a heat wave.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1930.-
ROUND ABLE
CONFERENCE.
POSTPONÉMENT UNTIL
APRIL SUGGESTED.
(THROUGH' NEUTER'S AGRICT,)
LONDON, August 27. official quarters in Simla are con According to the Morning Post, sidering suggestion to postpone
the Round-Table, Conference on India until April in order, among other things, to allow the present political distemper to spend itself.
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'SOCONY" BROKER SAVIOUR OF PERU!" CHANGSHA AGAIN
KIDNAPPED.
SMART WORK BY SHANGHAI, COL. CERRO TAKES OVER
MUNICIPAL POLICE.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, August 29. Within two hours from the report of the kidnapping of Tso Yang San, i wealthy "Socony" broker, the police rescued the captive in a cornfield in an outlying district, shooting one of the kidnappere dead and arresting another.
Report Entirely Discredited.
Later in the morning, three more! LONDON, August 29. members of the gang were appre- Official quarters in London entire hended with two fully-loaded auto- ly discredit the report that thematic revolvers in their possession. Round Table Conference will be postponed.
Preparations for the Conference to meet, about the beginning of November are proceeding according to programme,
INDIAN CONGRESS
ار
WORKING COMMITTEE. SENTENCED TO SIX MONTES IMPRISONMENT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DELHI, August 23. All of the arrested members of the Indian Congress Working
months' simple imprisonment. Committee were sentenced to six New Congress Working Committee.
Formed.
LATER.
A new Congress Working Com. six Moslems and six Hindus, and mittee is being formed consisting of three members of the old Commit tee who have not been arrested.
The city has been observing & hartal since last evening.
INDIAN TRIBAL
DISCUSSIONS.
SLACKENING OF ACTUAL HOSTILITIES.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SIMLA, August 28. The numerous tribal discussions that are being carried on at the Frontier have caused a slackening
of actual hostilities.
There has been an interesting development in the Peshawar dis- trict, where the friendly sections off the Mohmands are participating in a Jirga with the Haji of Turangzai and the hostile elements in the Upper Mohmand country.
Several other Jirgas are also being held.
DROUGHT RELIEF IN
AMERICA.
.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR LOANS. TO FARMERS.
[KEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
The release of the kidnapped compradore is the smartest piece of work in the annals of the Shanghai Municipal Police
The captive dompradore before his rescue chatted, joked and hum oured the outlaws, and in the mean. time the captive's chauffeur had informed the police, thereby demon-" strating the value of a quick alarm.
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EMPIRE WIRELESS
TELEPHONES.
EVERYTHING READY FOR INDIA SERVICE,
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.1" :
پر ہو
LONDON, August 27. The Daily Mail learns that every thing is ready for the opening of the wireless telephone service be tween Great Britain and India.
tries are prepared to link up as Suitable stations in both coun-
soon as the necessary agreements have been reached with regard to the working of the system.
Plans for a service between Bri- tain and South Africa are, also. well advanced.
The speedy opening of these two services mainly depends on the out- come of the forthcoming Imperial Conference, the agenda for which includes important questions affect- ing the development of the propos ed Imperial system of wireless telephony.
Direct Service with Far East.
GOVERNMENT.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SXEVICK.]
New York, August 28.
A message from Lima states that Colonel Sancher Cerro has taken over the Government,
The Military Junta under General Porce, which deposed the Dictator Leguia, has resigned in face of the overwhelming public ery for Col. Cerro.
Colonel Cerro, who bears the wounds of two previous revolutiong, flew to Lima, where he received a. frenzied ovation and was hailed as the
Saviour of Peru."
HAPSBURG MARRIAGE.
ARCHDUCAL FAMILY WILL NOT RECOGNISE WIFE.
THROPOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BUDAPEST, August 27.
Archduke Friedrich announces that he will be unable to take cog- rizance of the civil marriage in England of his son, Archduke 'Al- brecht of Austria, to Madame Irene Runday, which was conducted with out his knowledge or approval.
The Archduke declares that un-
der no circumstances will Albrecht's wife be recognised as a member of the Archducal family.
ROYAL DUTCH SHARES
DROP.
ANXIOUS SHAREHOLDERS
REASSURED, ---- (THROUGH BELTER'S AGENUF.]
PANIC STRICKEN.
COMMUNISTS WITHIN TWO |
MILES OF CITY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEIPING, August 29.
HUGE FIRE AT CHUNGKING.
FIVE THOUSAND HOUSES ¿DESTROYED.
(THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENOT.]
PEIFING, August 99,
According to foreign reports here - A huge conflagration at Chung- the Communists are again withinking destroyed 5,000 houses,
two miles of Changsha,
The inhabitants. are panic- stricken.
CONTRACTS TO SOLVE
UNEMPLOYMENT.
OVER 100,000 JOBLESS IN
GERMANY: "
GENERAL NOBILE DEFENDS
HIS HONOUR.
WHY HE LEFT PARTY STRAND- ED ON POLAR ICE.
General Nobile, the Italian who flew the airship Italia from Rome, by way of Spitzbergen, to the North Berlin, August 22.As part of Pole, and had nearly brought har the Government's constructivo un- back again to Spitzbergen when employment policy, the German she crashed on the ice, protests state railways, notwithstanding | vigorously that he has been wrongly the recent decline in trafe and condemned by the Italian commis- consequent drop in revenue, award- sion of inquiry. ed to-day extra-budget orders totalling 300 million marks. Like the contracts awarded by the postal authorities, these orders will give
work to more than 100,000 jobless people, as the factories concerned must pledge themsolve, not to work overtime but to take on new men.
Moreover, as in the case of the postal orders, substantial price re ductions have been insisted upon by the railways administration, and it is confidently expected that the special public orders now aggre gating 500 million marks will con- tribute greatly towards economic relief throughout the Reich.
U.S. MISSIONARIES " IN
INDIA.
The Hague, August 27, Various
the shareholders in Royal Dutch Company, have, re quested the management to supply information in connexion with the rapid drop in
A DIFFICULT POSITION. the Company's The Post Office also contem-shares during the past few days. plafes the ultimate development of direct services not only with all the Dominions, but also with Egypt and the Far East.
When the services are "opened,- subscribers will be able to ring up those in India or South Africa via London,
BAGDAD-MEDITERRANEAN RAILWAY,
SCHEME TO DIVERT SUEZ CANAL TRADE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BAGDAD, August 27. Definite progress is being made WASHINGTON, August 27. with the project of a railway, 600 The establishment of local credit miles long, directly connecting corporations to act as intermedi-Bagdad with the Mediterranean, aries between the drought-stricken which, it is anticipated, will be the farmers and the intermediate credit alternative route from Europe, not banks has been formally approved only to Iraq, but also to the Far hy the banking representatives on East. the relief commissions of over. a dozen States.
The farmers will receive loans from the intermediate credit bank on the endorsement of the local credit
A number of British engineers employed on the Iraq Railways, who have a practical knowledge of the working conditions on the de- sert railways, are being lent to the corporation which wild
British firm which will undertake charge two per cent, above the immediately the planning of a sur rate charged by the intermediate vey of the railway from Bagdad to bank, which is now four per cent.
POLAND'S ROTTEN
CONSTITUTION. DEFENCE OF TREASURY AGAINST DEPUTIES.
[TÉROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Haifa.
It is expected that the railway will take five years to complete.
It will be built in conjunction with the proposed pipe line from the cilñelds in Iraq to the Medi- terranean.
The new line will divert a con- siderable volume of Middle East- ern trade from the Suez Canal:
The Company has informed them that nothing whatever has occurred
mis regarding the near future... to shake the management's opti
Currency" has been given in In.
also in England to the statement dian papers and in some papers
that the missionary in charge of the hospital "at Bulsar, in Bombay AMERICAN NAVAL AIRMAN Presidency, had refused to give
KILLED.
AEROPLANE CRASHES INTO STANDS.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
CHICAGO, August 27. As a result of a naval pursuit plane, while stunting, crashing into the stands at, the National Air Races, a naval airman, named J. P. Deshazo, was killed and an unknown spectator seriously in. jured.
Several other spectators had very narrow escapes.
The confusion was short-lived, as the officials immediately started another event. The voice of the announcer was heard from loud speakers, and everything continu ed as if nothing had happened.
GOVERNOR OF FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED BY PRESIDENT HOOVER.
[REUTER'A AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, August 7.
Mr. Roy Young, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board has sub- mitted his resignation to President Hoover, who has accepted it.
Mr. Young has been elected, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank at Boston.
ATEN
HOARDING SILVER IN RUSSIA:
MORE MEN SHOT BY THE
SOVIET
In an interview with the local Pressmen this morning, General
It is interesting''to recall that Chen Tsai Tong said that his re-
WARSAW, August 27. King Feisal of Iraq recently paid túra, to Canton was merely to look
Marshal Pilsudski, who Was a visit to England, and that after over his troops stationed here, now
summoned to form a Cabinet after his visit in 1926 it was suggested that the situation in Kwangsi is
the crisis at the week-end when the that the proposed railway was the well under control.
The shade temperature at three that he was unable to carry on,
Premier, M. Blawek, intimated object. The project was outlined Continuing; he said that is
four years ago when Mr. L. C. M. troops are pressing hard on Liu- o'dock yesterday afternoon in has frequently in the past express S. Amery, then Secretary for the chow and Nanning from two direc London was 50, and to-day at the ed contempt for Parliamentary in Colonics, declared it to be under tions. "We captured Punyang yes same hour it was 91.
contemplation. terday morning, thus severing the This has been the hottest, August stitutions, and he has now told an
The railway will be of stragetic communication of the enemy be-day since 1911, when a record tem-interviewer of the Government tween Liuchow and Nanning. With perature of 100 was reached at organ, Gazeta Polska, that his chief importance to the British Empire. At present there is no oterland anxiety was to alter the constitu- their line cut it is certain that the Greenwich, on the 8th.
(THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.] route to Persia, which has to be Kwangsi rebels will soon be van There have been only five other tion.
Marahaj Pilsudski said the Con- reached, by the Suez Canal and the Augusta, this century in which quished."
Moscow, August, 27, How about the situation in London's temperature went into stitution at present was like a Indian Ocean. The new railwayIt is officially announced that 10 Nanning! Have the Yunnanese the nineties, and in only two of piece of rotting meat mixed with across the Syrian, desert will give more men have been sentenced to direct approach from the Medi-death, by the State Political Depart troops arrived there yet?"the these was such an extreme of heat foul bacon and putrid cabbage.
registered as late in the month as The entire work of Parliament terranean to MesopotamiaTM and interviewer asked.
ment for buying and hoarding larger "Yes," General Chen replied, the with.
Persia, and open up an overland sums of silver and for spreading stinks so that the air is poisoned.”
The "the Yunnanese troops have arriv
new Premier announced route to India within the near counter-revolutionary rumours, ed. on the outskirts of Nanning,
that his greatest care would be to futuro. The line will also open AB 10 sentenced to death were
shot. The whole city is being enveloped
defend the State Treasury against Iraq to direct European trade. ESTATE OF LATE LORD Deputies who wanted to spend by our forces."
SEFTON.
money on their party toilets
The remnants of the Kwangsi surgenta, according to General her Tong atte5 through Kasilin, Liuchow, and inning. They are more
ping bandits than organized Gers, and their extermination
be extremely easy.
General believes that cam Ting in Kwangsi will be all when Liuchow and Nanning, 1st two strongholds of the
gets, are captured
LORD BEAVERBROOK RECOVERS,
(THROUGH REUTZE'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH VIRCLEAR BEREJAS J Baxision of the Constitution is only poárible if at least half of "Kuddy, August 2 The numider of Deputie, and Ber The fortune of the late Lord tors fixed by law are present: a Sefton, the well-known "sporting two-thirds majority is necessary for Perr, who died on June 16 at the this purpose, But once in every 25 age of 69, has been proved nå years the Constitution may be revis - Lord Beaverbrook, who was £1.753,000 reped in accordance with the decisions taken ill with food poisoning His large estate at Liverpool in of a simple majority of the Diet whilst on a yachting holiday, has cluded the Grand National Race and Renste sitting jointly as a now recovered from his indisposi
National Assembly,
(course.
tion.
Loseoy, August 27.
AMERICAN: OIL, MAGNATE'S
FORTUNE
[REUTZH ́Ð AMERICAN BREVICE,
CLARION (Peng), August 27 The late Mr. Thomas Slick, who was known as the wealthiest ip dependent man in the oil industry, has bequeathed between £15,000,000 and 200,000,000 to his widow, thres children and mother..
treatment to Indians who were wounded by the police in the civil disobedience campaign.
He does this in a story of his ex- pedition-With the Italia to the North Pole which was published last month in London.
The most damaging complaint against Nobile was not that he lost his airship, but that when an air- plane came to the rescue his little party of survivors from their camp on the ice he was the first and not the last to leave,
Nobile's right arm and leg were broken when the Italia crashed. Cecioni had a broken leg, and Malmgren a broken arm. After a time the, two naval officers, Mariano and Zappi, with the injured Malm- gren, get off to march "across the frozen sea. Malmgren died on the way. Nobile and the others remain- ed in their red tent camp nearly a month.
Risk to Airman.
.Then the Swedish airplane arriv ed.
General Nobile say that he at first decided to leave last of all.
"But, then," he goes on, "I re- 'considered it staying to the end would mean
very serious risk to the man who came to fetch me.. If any accident, even, the slightest, were to happen during bis landing, the aviator, alone with an injured man who could not help him in any way whatever, would be irretriev ably lost."
Lundberg, the airman, said he had When the airplane came down,
orders to take Nobile first, because his instructions would be needed to start looking for the others. Nobile records how he protested, but was eventually persuaded to go
first-
missionaries
have been considered by the authori ties that the mission supported the civil disobedience movement.
"As non-British they were anxious to give no colour to the charge that they were inter- fering: with internal politics in India Aid had, however, not been refused to volunteers who had ac tually been wounded.
I have just received from India what appear to be the true facts of the case," states the Rev. Wil- liam Paton, secretary of the Inter- national Missionary Council in Loo- don. "The mission in question is a post of the General Mission Board of the Church of the Bretbern, an American organisation. Mr. Ko- dana Rao, editor of The Servant of India, Poona, who is a respon- sible journalist, now apologises for the story he published in his issue of June 3 and in his paper for July 10 given the explanation that the mission authorities did not refuge medical aid to the wounded Satsionaries in India just now," added The position of "American mis yagrahis, but declined to enter into Mr. Pator is a particularly diff arrangements with them by which cult one, as one of their number the hospital would have been made has already been asked to leave the the base for the Satyagrahis cam-country and their action, which has paign with the result that it would been thus misinterpreted, can be
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