BOMB EXPLOSION AT PEIPING.
OUTRAGE ÄT UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE.
[TEKOUGA REUTER'S AGENCY. Į
PEPING, Sept. "4. The Peiping Union Medical Col- lege has issued a statement con- cerning a bomb explosion which wrecked one of the College offices this morning and seriously injured n clerk,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1930.
BROMLEY ELECTION. SHANGHAI EDITOR
SUES FOR SALARY.
PLAINTIFF FORMERLY IN HONG KONG
SUPPORT FOR UNITED EMPIRE PARTY..
{THROUGE: REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, Sept. 3. "Shock for Party Politicians," "Surprising Vote for Redwood,” Fall of Conservative Majority," are the headings of the Evening Standard, the Beaverbrook organ, which indicate the important effect the Bromley result is likely to have
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 4. Mr. George T. Lloyd, formerly' of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, and during the last few years Editor of the Shanghai Mercury, is suing the liquidators for the recovery of Tis. 3,000 repre-
UNREST IN INDIA.
MOB ATTACK BENGAL
***POLICE.
SEVERAL POLICEMEN
INJURED,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
KHOLMA (Bengal), Sept. 4.
A mob attacked a police detach- mert
Soveral policemen were injured. The police finally opened fire,
any further casualties:
WHAMPOA PORT SCHEME.
ENGINEERS AT PRESENT. SURVEYING SITE,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, Sept. 4. With the shelving of the Tong KaWan development scheme, partly because of the strong op position from some influential quar ters and partly because of certain almost insurmountable difficulties,
ST. LEGER.
LIST OF FINAL ACCEPTORS.
ran
CTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 3. The following are the final, ac- ceptances for the St. Leger to be at Doncaster on the 10th inst.:- Algonquin Lovelace II. Fairy Prince
Grand Salute. Singapore Rustom Pasha Diolite
A suitcase found in the reception on the general political situation.senting six months' salary in lieu but it is not known if there are the Canton Government is reviving Utmajeur
room of the hospital on the 2nd inst, was sent to the lost and found office to await a claimant, but no claimant appeared.
педо
of notice..
Plaintiff's Counsel argued that under British law A newspaper editor is entitled to six months
The Evening Standard congratu- later Lord Rotbermere on the im-
support he received in consistently Tory division, where When a clerk opened the suitenes he had the courage and vision to notice even without a contract.
at the Empire Trade iqsue to the
י
to search for identification of the owner after the expiration of 48 hours, a bomb 'exploded.
A
test.
Mr. Redwood, the United Em The affair has caused consider pire Party candidate, interviewed able excitement in Peiping, whereafter, the poll, said: "We have the outrage is variously attributed lighted a fire that can never die to Communists, Nanking agents or out in this country,"
was due to the ill-feeling against | the Peiping Union Medical Col- lege recently aroused over SD autopsy case which led to strong attacks against the institution in
the Press elsewhere.
Empire Traders Delighted at Result.
di
The Evening News, the Rother mere organ, congratulates Mr.
Counsel for the defence requested the Judge to stay the proceedings, but the application was refused, the Judge holding that a case had been made out, and also remarking that the liquidators apparently made no attempt to settle Mr. Lloyd's claim.
ARMED ATTACK ON,
BENGAL MAIL.
SEVERAL ARRESTS ON SUSPICION.
(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]
RAJSHANT (Bengal), Sept. 4. Twenty-five armed men attacked Pleadings were ordered, and the the mail-cart which was en route to the railway station and seized case will be heard shortly.
the mail bags and escaped.
A small portion of the mail was
#
Redwood on his remarkable achieve BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND subsequently found in the jungle.
ment in "one of the sternest tasks cver undertaken by a Parliament-
TANKS USED BY CHIANG. ary candidate."
NO CHANGE IN NORTHERN
SITUATION.
SOCIALISM.
SLOWLY.
The police searched several houses and made some arrests on
The Star, the Liberal mouthpiece,THINGS TO LAST MUST GROW suspicion, declares that the Empire Free Trade party is so delighted. with Mr. Redwood's poll that they in- tend to fight all the official Con- servative candidates in future bye- elections.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
While the military situation along
LONDON, Sept. 3. the Tientsin-Fukow Railway re-
During his speech at the Trade mains quiet, serious £ghting is
(The Rt. Hon, Mr. Neville Cham-Union Congress at Nottingham, in expected to break out afresh on the Lunghai and Peiping-Haukow berlain, Chairman of the Conser- which he was interrupted by about
30
Com- intruders, apparently vative Party, telegraphed Mr. E. Railways. Since the commence.
munists, Mr. J. R. Clynes, the ment of the war, neither side bas T. Campbell congratulating him on
Home Secretary, said Socialists gained much ground, and the con- his courage, steadfastness, and
could only be made by argument triumph," adding: clusion of the fighting seems to be well-earned
and example. It was in that spirit "Bromley Conservatives demon- a long way of.
The Nanking troops on the Fei strated sound, good sense as well that the Government had pursued its course, and they looked to the ping-Hankow Railway, who number
as loyalty." oyer 150,000, bave hitherte failed
immediate future and the remote to occupy Hsuehang, their immedi
time ahead with the knowledge ate objective. General Wang Chin
Yu has been appointed Commander- BRITISH ASSOCIATION' AT that the things that were to last
in-Chief of the Government forces
in this sector.
Lanfeng on the Lunghai line is
BRISTOL.
must be things of slow growth.
Referring to the Government's
still held by the Northern troops in THIRTY WOMEN TO DELIVER intention of reversing the Trades
spite of the many attacks by the Nanking forces. Chiang Kai Shek has rushed two divisions to this front from the Paiping-Hankow Railway line. He has ordered a number of tanks from certain for eign
which manufacturers. of twenty arrived recently in Nanking and have been sent to the Lunghai front.
No serious fighting has occurred or the Tientsin-Pukow Railway since the recapture of Tainan by the Nanking troops..
HURRICANE DEVASTATES SANTA DOMINGO. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO
PROPERTY.
[NEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
HAVANA, Sept. 3. It is reported that hurricane with a velocity of 160 miles an hour has devasted Santo Domingo City Terrific Damage But No Loss Of
Life.
New York, Sept. 4. A message from Havana states that the hurricane which passed over Santa Domingo has done terri- fc damage in large sections of that city, but no loss of life is reported.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Sept. a It is reported that a hurricane of considerable intensity passed over Dominica on lat September, causing considerable damage to public and private property...
There have been two deaths, and it is feared that all the trops have been destroyed A
So far as is known, the ather islands in the Leeward Group have not been affected
LECTURES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Sept. 3. There thousand scientists, in cluding representatives of most of the Universities of the Dominions, United States and the Continent, gathered at Bristol for the opening of the hundredth annual meeting. of the British Association for the advancement of science under the Presidency of Professor F. O... Bower.
"Bosides questions which are pure- ly scientific, the agenda includes many topics of popular interest such as town planning and hous ing schemes.
Disputes Act, Mr. Clyneg said it was the purpose of the present Government to give back to tho Trade Unions the freedom of which they were deprived by the Parlia mentary action of their opponents
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
SIX PREMIERS TO BE
BROADCAST..
[BKITIEM WIRELESS SERVICE.]:
RUCET, Sept. 3.
INDIAN - AGRICULTURISTS DEFY GOVERNMENT.
DETACHMENT OF ARMED POLICE DESPATCHED,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
POONA, Sept. 4. *
In response to ar 5.05. mes sage, 125 armed police were des patched to Islampur, where agricul. turists are defying the Government.
SHOOTING OF POLICE OFFICIALS AT CALCUTTA.
SEVERAL ARRESTS AT DACCA UNIVERSITY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CALCUTTA, Sept. 4. The police raided the Dacca Hall, attached to the Dacca University, when several persons were arrested in connection with the shooting of Mr. E. Hodson and the late Mr. F. J. Lowman."
the Whampoa development project, It will be remembered that the Central Government had also given sanction some years ago to the opening of Whampoa as a world port in accordance with the ideas and suggestions of the late, Dr. Sun Yat Sen as contained in his book on The International Deye- lopment of China. But whether or not it was to be a duty-free' port like Hong Kong no mention was made. It will also be recalled that Nanking sent Engineer Pan Hui to Canton to look over the projected port, making such suggestions as he a fit in regard to the layout of the place. He selected Yu Chuo as the best spot in Whampoa at which to start the development scheme, but an engineer from the Kwangtung Board of Conservancy who re-examined the place sug- gested Fei Tai Sha
better spot.
A
Christopher Robin Redeswood Seer
Prince Paradise Rameses II. Ilind Rock Star
· Parenthesis
Probable Starters and' Jockeys." LONDON, Sept. 4. The following are the probable starters and jockeys in the St. Leger:
Algonquin
C. Elliott. Christopher Robin...P. Beasley. Diolite
H. Beasley. ..........Baines.
Fairy Prince
Grand Salute. C. Richards. Iliad...
R. Jones." Lovelace II............. Garner. Parenthesis
F. Fox. Besaat.
Prince Paradise Rameses II.
Redeswood
Rock Star
Ray.
Newet.
Wing.
Rustom Pasha... H. Wragg. Seer
Jelliss Gordon Richards. Berry.
Singapore Utmajeur
FINANCIAL AID FOR CHINA.
U.S. BANKERS DISAGREED.
[UNITED PRESE ]
Recently Mayor Lin Wan Koi became "deeply interested in the San Francisco, August 20 Whampoa project and desired to Opinions of financiers concerning see it developed. He sent a group financial aid for China differ wide- of surveyors headed by Engineerly, it was indicated to-day at bear- Wong Him Tick to Whampoa to ings of Senator Key Pittman's make a thorough survey The committee on problems of China group left. Canton last Tuesday trade. The Kwangtung Board of Water Conservancy is reported to be directing the present work, which is expected to be completed in three
months.
The Kwangtung Board of Water Conservancy has also placed an order with Feld & Company, a German engineering firm here, for two big dredging machines to be used at Whampoa
COMMUNISM IN TURKEY ORGANISATION STIRRING
„UF” AGITATION, :
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 3. Thirty persons, including ́atu- dents, professors and workmen, have been arrested in connexion
"
Some favour a gold loan and others believe that a large silver credit would be most serviceable."
Mr. C. Wilson, San Francisco banker, tald the committee that he advocated silver loans. He also supported the return to
a policy
of foreign concessions, rather than a drift in the other direction, un- less early measures were taken to restore order...
Fears were expressed by Mr. Wil son that Japan and Soviet Russia) might assist China to gain wide control.
He said that he
the believed China preferred to borrow from the Unit ed States Government instead of from private banks, and he urged that money obtained by such bor- rowing be employed to build roads and to disband arurie, in China."
Mr. Hodson is maintaining pro- different classes of the community, apparently grazed his head. He
Mr. F. J. Lowinan, Acting In- spector-General of Police, and Mr. E. Hodson, Superintendent of, Police, were shot and seriously wounded as they were leaving the Mitford Hospital at Dacca on August ..
Bath officers were shot with a
9
QUESTION MARK"
DAMAGED.
OVER-ZEALOUS SOUVENIR-
HUNTERS.
(REUTER'S AMERICAŃ SERVICE,]
NEW YORK, Sept 3 Souvenir hunter, have ripped off pices of the fuselage of Costes' plane and the damage may pre- vent the diers from winning Colonel Easterwood's prize of £6,000.
LATER.
|* An examination of the "Question
"Mark" shows that the souvenir-
hunters have not seriously damag ed the fabric, and there is now little doubt that Coster will pro- ceed to Dallas to win the £5,000 prize.
Costes and Bellonte will be guests of Prasident Hoover at a luncheon on Monday.
Last Stage of Flight.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Costes and Bellonte took off for their fight to Dallas, Texas, in an attempt to win the £3,000 prize recently offered by the millionaire Colonel W. E. Easterwood for the first fight from Europe to York and thence to Dallas.
(THROUGH XEUTER'S AGENCY.
Intense Enthusiasm in France."
PARIS, Sept. 3. Intense enthusiasm has been
aroused throughout the country by
the feat of Cortes and Bellonte Provincial towns, like the capital, are beflagged and a salute of seven-
teen
guns was fired at Vichy.. Costes has been promoted to the rank of Major and Bellonte has beon, given a commission.
SALVAGE OF P. & 0. EGYPT.
CAPTAIN'S CABIN AND THE DINING SALOON REACHED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
BEEST, Sept. 3, "Salvage work on the P and Q. liner Egypt is proceeding more rapidly than was anticipated, thanks to calm weather.
Divers have entered the captain's cabin, from where the safe will be secured, and also the dining enloon, where there are quantities of silver.
If the weather holds the divers will soon reach the third deck and then the strong room
QUEEN MARY VISITS SCOTTISH CAPITAL with the discovery of a Communist tary of the South African Legation Mr. Brian O'Shea, second secre
-INSPECTS WAR MEMORIAL. plot
in Rome, was handling a revolver Those arrested are alleged to in his bedroom when the weapon. [DRITISH WIRELESS SHEVICE. bave stirred up agitation among went off accidentally and the bullet
RUGAY, Sept. 3. was bandaged and came down to Her Majesty the Queen paid a breakfast, engaging in cheery-con- private visit to Edinburgh to-day, versation, when it was noticed that and, after making, purchases of his attention was wandering. A antique dealers shops, took lunch doctor was summoned, and it was at Holyrood Palace found that the bullet, had penetrat- | Later she visited the National ed the brain. Mr. O'Shop nover re Gallery and Edinburgh Castle, after his admission to hospital. A she inspected the splendid war gained consciousness, and died soon where, with the Duke of Atholl,
tragic figure at the funeral was the memorial which has been erected fiancée of Mr. O'Shea..
since her last visit to the city.
The agitators' organisation which is alleged to be connected with the Third Internationale, is believed to be the most important Communist organisation discover- ed in Turkey up to the present.
A number of suspects have also been arrested at Angora Zonguldak, the centre of the coal and mining industry.
· COMMUNIST -FIVE-YEAR
PLAN.
The proposal which had been considered of broadcasting the speeches of Prime Ministera at the opening session of the Imperial Conference on September 30 has A bullet lodged in Mr. Lowman's Not the least notable feature is boen abandoned, but arrangements spine, and Mr. Hodson was wound that 30 women will address the have been made for special broad-ed in the buttock gathering, appealing mainly to the casts to be given by each of the younger generation. The psycho-aix Prime Ministers during the logy section in this connexion is period that the Conference is meet likely to prove most interesting ing. with lectures on "Variations "in"
It is stated that similar arrange Emotional Development of Normalmente may be made for broadcast Adolescence" and Adolescence of the Young Wage Earner"
ing speeches by the leading dele- Professor Bower's presidential gates to the Indian Round Table address dealt with size and form Conference, which will be held in ARGENTINA NOW QUIETER unions, to unite in an endeavour to in plants.
LATE MAJOR CAMPBELL.
DEATH CONSIDERED DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S-AGHNOY.}.
[Dominica, is the largest and most
LONDON, Sept. 3:-* southerly British, island in the It has not yet been decided to Leeward group; whilet Santo hold an inquest on. Major Duncan Domingo is the capital of the Campbell, formerly of Shanghai, Dominican Republic, on the south who was found unconscious on the seafront at Folkestone and died coast of Hayti.)
later.
AMERICAN JUDGE MISSING. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED...
REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]
London after the Imperial Confer ence has completed it work.
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
MAGNATE'S WILL
FATE FULFILS WISH FOR BURIAL AT SEÁ,"
millions.
land
The youth was seized by a hos- pital contractor, but he broke away and escaped, leaving the revolver
behind.
revolver by a Bengali youth in the APPEAL TO ORGANISATIONS
AND TRADE UNIONS. hospital compound.
(THROUGH KRUTER'S AGENCY.]:
RIGA, Sept. 3. The Central Committee of the Communist Party has appealed to all party organizations and trade
save the five-year plan, sa duringTM the last nine months many of the most important industries have realised only 50 per cent of the output expected this year..
PARLIAMENT TO MEET SHORTLY.
(THROOGA AKUTED'S, AGENCY.]
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 3. The situation here seems easier, It now transpires that Senor Del- lepiane, on resigning the post of Minister of War yesterday, declar ed that President Irigoyen was surrounded by men who, while en- joying his confidence, have made the President appear in an unfav ourable light, in public opinion.
The appeal blame, the prosper. cas peasants and other counter- revolutionary wreckers" for the situation.
THE SOVIET AND THE CER. [RAUTER'S AMERIUAN SERVICE,]
NEGOTIATIONS TO SELL TO BALTIMORE, Sept.
U.S. CROUP Mr. Van Lear Black, who was
Berlin, August 28 - The Ger. It is unlikely that there will be drowned recently, when he fell over.
awaiting the result of the post- an inquest, as the Coroner, who board from his yacht, left several
mania maintains, in spite of the fiat contradication made the Soviet Embassy, that negotiations mortem examination, is almost satisfied that death was due to He bequeathed 8100,000 to Miss It is also reported that a nu are taking place between ropra
Alison Bone, his secretary in Engber of the leading followers of the sentatives of an American Finan natural cause
Major Campbell, before going to Miss Bone is the daughter of Mr. President commissioned the latal group and representatives of the Folkestone consulted aLandon'
Russian Government for the enle SpedIKING, WHO, Kitapeva the poeBuenos Aires, and niece 61- It has just been revealed that sibility of a sudden illness o
him to resign, but President Tri- James Bone, London editor of the
possess in the Chinese Eastern Rail- Judge J. E Crater, of the New
Manchester Guardian, who also goyen refused. York State Supreme Court has No Inquest Hecessary. heen missing since August 6, they w LONDON, Sept. A benefits.
So the octogenarian President to The paper affirms, in addition, detectives being completely baffled. As the result of the post-mortem The residue of his estate is divid. day signed a decree for the open that these negotiation, are progres Judge Crater way in the best of examination at Folkestone, the ad among his widow and children..ing of an ordinary session of Parsing favourably. It adds that the spirits when he left his broker's Coroner decided that no inquest There is curious coincidence Jjament on the 11th instant, and Savier Government have decided to office on the morning of August 8 would be necessary in the case of in view of the fact that he was cancelling the excessive precaution-buy the title deeds of the Russo- with 85,000 in his pocket, hence the death of Major Duncan Cany drowned, his will directing that he Ary medures by the polios and Asiatic Bank at 67 per cent of their
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