j
TIENTSIN CUSTOMS
CONTROL.
MR. SIMPSON'S LETTER TO CHANG HSUEH LIANG.
{TENOVOR NEUTER'S AGENCY.])
SHANORAL, Oct. 9.
MR. SIMPSON'S. CONDITION.
CONTINUES CRITICAL AND NO SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT
THROUGH ACUTER'S AGENCY.]
TIENTAIN, Oct. 27.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930.
CANADIAN TRADE MISSION.
THREE WEEKS' VISIT TO
JAPAN.
(THROUGH RZUTEN'S ADENOY.)
TOKYO, Oct. 27.
NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.
SIR O. NIEMEYER REPLIES TO LABOUR LEADER.
`[THKOCOH RELTER'S AGENCY.]
SYDNEY, Oct. 27. Replying to the attacks upon him ait connection with the New South
FINANCIAL CRISIS IN AUSTRALIA.
COMMONWEALTH'S UNDER- TAKING TO BE FULFILLED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
LONDON, Oct. 20. The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. James Scullin, in a statement
NEW PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL.
JUNTA HAS NO PRETEN. SIONS TO GOVERNMENT.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
New York, Oct, 20: The Government Junta, by wire leas, has invited Benhor Getulio
OF
DEFENCE PALESTINE POLICY,
Under the auspices of the Cana- Interviewed by Reuter this morn- The North-China Daily. Xers yesterday published a photo of Mr.ing, Mr. Lenox Simpson's doctor dian Chamber of Commerce; Lenox Simpson's letter to Chano later that "his condition continues party of prominent business men Wales elections, Sir Olto Niemeyer in regard to the meeting of tho Vargas to assume the Presidency, Liovernment's recent statement of
to be critical, and there signs of improvement."
are no
Hsuch Linng which the Kao Min News Agency published on October
It is independently learned that 16, secured from an authoritative while his demise may occur at any 'quarter," which it was alleged Mr.roment, he may possibly linger Lenox Simpson wrote to Chang for a considerable period longer. Hauch Liang requesting the Mar The patient continues to retain shal to retain him as Commissioner consciousness and is able to com of Customs at Tientsin.
verse freely with friends, who, how. ever, are of the opinion this bis mental attitude ses somewhat more depressed than formerly.
The letter is typed in English, and indubitably bears the signature of Mr. Lenox Simpson.
MAYBACH MINE EXPLOSION
OFFICIAL DEATH-ROLL ONE HUNDRED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
BERLIN, Oct. 20.
It is officially stated that one hundred miners are dead as a result of the disaster at the Maybach pit.
Twenty-two are injured.
U.S. CONSULATE IN
SHANGHAI.
PRIME MINISTER REPLIES TO GENERAL, SMUTS.
(DRITIEN WIRELESS BERVICE.]
Hooby, Oct. 20. The Prime Minister, Mr. Rampay MacDonald, in reply to General Smuts, who criticised the British
and industrialists have arrived here emphasises that he came to Aus-Australian Commonwealth' Parlin-
as they have no pretensions, to the policy in Palestine, says he fools on a three weeks' visit for the purtralin at the invitation of the ment on Thursday to pass the legia. future government."
sure that General Smuts' views are posa of studying trade conditions Federal Government and gave ad- iation necessary to balance the Senhor Vargas was defeated as a based on an incompleta telegraphía and requirements..
vico at tho request of the members-Budget, emphasises that the Com- Liberal candidate in the Presidency summary of the contents of the The party will subsequently pro of the Loan Council and the Pre-monwealth Government's ́under- | elections in the Spring. The de-statement, and that when he has. ceed to Ching,
miers' Conference in Melbourne, taking to meet Australia's obliga feat was resented in several States read the full text he will admit whose part it was to decide whether tions will be honoured, and he is and the revolution has ever since that it cannot fairly be described er, not to accept his advice.. The confident that all the States Gov-ben preparing,
· A FREE TRIP TO
YOKOHAMA.
SEATTLE GIRL'S ADVENTURE ON THE MALOLO,
(UNITED PRESS,]
Was not an
ernments will do the same.
RS B
retreat from the Balfour Declaration.
Senhor Varge practically de- manded the Presidency, declaring
Double Obligation of Mandate. that the Junta joined the revolu- That declaration, he adds:" Ex- tion at the last minute and is unplicitly provided that nothing suitable to enrry on the Govern should be done which night preju- dive the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities. in Palestine. Since the acceptance the Palestine Mandate the trend
agreement, reached
SYDNEY; Oct. 20. agreement with him, but between the seven Premidis on what they Mr. T. R. Bavin, the Nationalist considered would be the best policy Premier, stated that the action of to follow in the interest of Aus- Now South Wales electors, in re tralia. He represents only the fusing to support the policy of the meat. Bank of England, which has no Premiers' conference, would accenBastille" Incident at Sao Paulo. interest in Australian finance other taate the country's financial diffi-
RIO DE JANEIño, Oct. 27. -. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 20-Miss than a desire to serve the public culties and prolong the period
There was a "Bastille incident SPECIFICATIONS EXPECTED Edith Ransom, home in Seattle interest by averting serious finan- fncoessary for recovery, but there'
at Sao Paulo, where armed inobs of events and, in particular, some BY NOVEMBER 1.
again after an unpaid-for voyage ein difficulties. His advice was was no need for panic, as he felt
on Saturday burst open the doors of the methods adopted in the to Yokohama and return, denied based solely on a consideration of that. Mr. J. T. Lang, the new Pre- of the Bucy Frison, where political stablishment of Jewish communi- to-day that she had purposely stow what was in the heat interests of mier, in spite of reckless threats prisoners were confined, and releas- ties to a degree which, in the light- fed away on the Malolo which car- all parties and classes in Australia. for electiontering purposes, whened the occupante.
of the Hope Simpson report, hara ried her on her west-bound trip,
be faced, the realities of the situa
given us grave concern and son- Lion, would not take any action
vinced us of the necessity for special incasares to ensure, that the likely to endanger the financial stability of the State or the Com
double obligation contained in the
monwealth.
Mandate is fulfilled,
ber 1.
[UNITED PRESB.].
CAPT. MATTHEWS CRASHES IN AUSTRALIA.
The contract will be awarded one MACHINE BADLY DAMAGED. wonth later, it was stated,
(THROUGH REUTER'S JOKNCY.]
SYDNEY, Oct. 21.
The airman, Captain Matthews,
was forced to land at Lismore en route here, and crushed.
His machine was badly damaged, but Matthews was unbart,
Matthews Arrives in Sydney.
SYDNEY, Oct. 27. Carah Matthews arrived in another aeroplane and received an enthusiastic reception from a large crowd.
FLIGHT ACROSS AMERICA.
NEW WOMEN'S RECORD.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NEW YORK, Oct. 97.
Mrs. Keith Miller has flown from
"I may possibly be temperament- al," she remarked, "but I'm not crazy."
Washington, Oct. 18-Officials of the State Department announced to-day that complete specifications for the American Consulate build- ings at Shanghai are expected to be In explanation of her unschedul
con- ready to offer to bidders on Novem-ed departure, which caused
sidorable consternation and alarm among her family and friends hore until radio information was receiv ed concerning her whereabouts, Because of President Hoover's Mies Ransom said that she had emergency public building pro-visited friends who wore sailing on
tho Malolo. Remmes designed to further pros perity and relieve unemployment, the architect has been delayed in preparing the specifications, the off- ciál, explained.
On her way off the vessel, the declared, she stopped and had a drink with the Malolo's purser who was an old friend. After taking the drink she collapsed, and when she revived she was far out at 500, according to the girl's story.
BYRON'S VIEW FROM HARROW.
DANGER OF SPOILING BY NEW GAS-HOLDER.
"
[DEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] Hot Likely to Repudiate Her Debts. At a recent meeting of the Harrow
RUGBY, Oct. 26. Urban District Council it was re- The Prime Minister of Australia, ported that the Gas Light and Coke Mr. J. Scullio, in
a speech at Company propose erecting a new Oxford last night, again repudi- gas-holder in Northolt Road, Harated the suggestion that Australia was considering the refusal to row.
acknowledge her debts, and said that Australia was just as unlike- ly to repudiate her debts as Creat Britain,
Mr. J. P. Bennetts, the Surveyor, stated that the company's engineer bad written to him concerning the
These emergey plans have add- ed 210 buildings, mostly post offi- local authorities following her rein connection with the erection of Miss Ransom was held by the diversion of surface water drains
cos, to the list of federn) structures. turn from Yokohama which brought
It is expected that in spite of the about disclosure of the tale. The new waterless gas-holder and dry revent press of work, the Shang-action in holding her was merely gas plant. This was the first in
intended for her protection, offtimation he had had that a huge hai specifications will actually be cials said, pending communication completed on the 20th of this with friends and relatives, and no gas-holder 220ft. ligh was to be month, and the architect has
charges are being mado against erected. He had endeavoured to her.
visualize what it would look like promised State Department chiefa
from Harrow Church Terrace, and he felt is would be a blot on the landscape. He therefore anggested that the company be naked when the holder was completed to colour it in such a way as to harmonize as nearly as possible with the trees in the vicinity of the works. The council agreed,
ARCTIC WAVE IN AMERICA.
20 DEATHS IN CHICAGO.
UNITED PRESB.)
Chiengo, Oct. 20.-With the Los Angeles to New York in 1 American Middle West gripped in
RETALIATION BY THE
SOVIET.
| MEASURES FOR COUNTRIES
OPPOSED TO DUMPING,
Moscow, Oct. 21.-The Council of People's Commisenries has advised the People's Commissary of Cor meree to adopt repressive measures in regard of every country which fas passed speciaj regulations in
measures suggested will be:
The view from the Terrace at tracts visitors from all over the
hours and 47 minutes, which is aa record October cold wave which respect of trade with Russia. The world. It was this view which in-
cord.
FLOODS IN SMYRNA,
HOUSES COLLAPSE AND BRIDGES DESTROYED.
canght
the
now women's trans-continental re deaths have been reported while country uprepared,
suffering is intense.
Because of the prevailing unem- ployment, 60,000 mon have becu walking the streets of Chicago alone, looking for a place where they might sleep without freezing, Most of the unemployed have pawned or sold portions of their attiro, hoping that A windfall night replenish their wardrobes be fore the cold weather sets in, and few are prepared to cope with the prosent extraordinary weather.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.}
SMYENA, Oct. 26. Hitherto 40 people are doad and many injured through serious floods dug to heavy raine.
A hundred bouses in Smyrne col lapard and railway bridges have been destroyed.
OLYMPIA MOTOR SHOW.
DECREASED ATTENDANCE.
[BRITISK WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Ruan, Oct. 2. The total number paying for admission at the motor show at Olympia, which concluded, yeater- day, was 224,000, compared with 227,000 lest year.
SAFETY DEVICE FOR SUBMARINES.
TRAPPED CREW ABLE TO SEND MESSAGES;
of
While Chicago is the scone some of the worst suffering, smaller cities are by no means exempt, and at all points hastily organized agencies are co-operating with the Red Cross and other anthorities in an effort to care for the poor, Many episodes have been reported
Rumours of torture within the prison have been current-
"Bagrets" for Baden Inoldent, NEW Yonx, Oct. 27.
"Tho Government have affirmed- the view endorsed by the Perman-
A message from Rio de Janeiro states that the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government has notified the German, Spanish and nt Mandates Commission and the Polish Legations regretting the Council of the League that, the” for the terment of the victims. Baden incident, and offering to pay obligations laid down by the Man
date in regard to the two sections The casualties on the Baden are of the population are of equal now given as killed and 40 in-weight. You will also recn!! that
jured.
the Commission expressed the view that had the Mandatory Govern- ment concerned itself more closely with the social and economic adaptation of the Arab population to tho now conditions, due to Jewish immigration, it would trave served the interests of both sections- of the population.
SCIENCE IN THE AIR.
CABINS SUSPENDED BENEATH THE WINGS.
In his speech Mr. Seullin em out in mid-air, ingenious methods By means of experiments carried phasised, the overwhelming British are to be adopted to redues the Other Rights not to be Prejudiced.
"Our present policy is in con-': character of the Australian popula-noise heard by passengers a the
cabins of large, high-speed aeroformity with that suggestion, and tion, of whom 99 per cent. were
planes.
envisages ↓ scheme of mare British."
Lessons learned from a series of methodical agricultural develop tests with special instruments willment which, he is shown in the be incorporated in great new ma- Hope Simpson report, is the only chine, aeroplanos and flying boats, method whereby additional Jewish which are under construction for agricultural settlement will be use on our British air-lines,
possible consistently with the con- ditions laid down in Article Bix of the Mandate, which enjoins that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not to be prejudiced.
Ho added: "We are a part of
British the
Commonwealth of
Nations, and we intend to remain so. Our relations with the Home country are as cordial as they have ver been, and it is not a question of strengthening those relations, hat of re-opening, then.
SERIOUS AIR CRASH AVERTED. PILOT GLIDES DOWN AFTER
MACHINE STOPPED.
A Borious accident to án - nero-
Machines have been installed which record the various sounds heard by the occupants of the saloon sa big machine rushes through the air.
The bodies of new air liners are
*The Government have made it to be suspended beneath the wings, clear in the statement of policy and none of the powerful engines that measures for development are will be in or immediately above envisaged in benefits of which Jews the body, whilst that part of the and Arabs can both share, Neither
as regards land policy nor as re hul nearest the motors will be used as a goods' or mail-carrying com- garda immigration do the Govern ment aim at crystallising a Jewish partment,
As a further improvement, pas-national home at its present stage 1. Complete cessation or curtailspired Byron so often as he rested plane was averted by the skill of senger saloons are to be provided of development.
"The statement of policy con ment to the minimum of purchases on the Peachey Stone looking to the pilot, Mr. Leslie A. Lewis, with double walls, with the stains no stoppage or eyes saspœn- in that country.
Portstewart, County Derry, where between the two sections packed several thousand holiday makers with special sound deadening sion of colonisation on a large from England and Scotland are material.
amount of land yet undeveloped enjoying themselves.
It is estimated that, before long, and already in Jewish ownership: The 'plane, which is the property there will be such an all-round re-
As regards non-rural immigration, pany, of Hootoi, Cheshire, had been
tonnage of that country.
2 Cessation of the use of freight wards Windsor and the Chilterns. His association with the view is 3. Establishment of restrictive commemorated on the Terrace with regulations regarding goods transit of that country's origin.
the poem beginning "Spot of my
in
4. The adoption of measures youth." In a letter written from of the North British Aviation Com-duction of noise, in high-speed air. it has heen the consistent policy tending to cancel or reduce the uto
giving passenger flights for several way transport that the of ports, and rail facilities and also of the transit basis of such countries for all goods destined to the U.S.S.R.
Belgium Bans Imports, Brussels, Oct. 21-The Cabinet Council has decided to submit to
Italy in 1822, speaking of Harrow, Bryon said: "There is a spot in the churchyard on the brow of the Hill looking towards Windsor, and a tomb under a large tree where I ured to sit for hours and hours
the King a decree imposing rastris when a boy. This was my favourite tions on the importation of goods apot." The gas works are situated
sounds
bo no louder than those hoard in a days past, and went up on ous of reaching the ears of passengers will these trips with two passengers, tube or train. woman and a man, both visitors. The machine had reached a height of a hundred feet when the engine stopped, and the 'plane began to Mr. Lewis kept his nerve, and just before the machine reached the ground he turned into a glide, with
drop.
of Russian origin, and making tabout a quarter of a mile away, the result that the force of the im- necessary to obtain a special permit almost hidden among trees immedi-pact was broken, and after jumping
of both men and women deliberate for, the importation of such com.
PROGRESS OF THE BRITISH ARCTIC AIR ROUTE EXPEDITION.
From the latest despatches it is gathered that this expedition, which
of succeeding Governments that
exceed the economic capacity of the Jewish immigration should not country to absorb now entrants. The new statement reaffirms this principle in language which recog: nises that, owing to various causes, it has been imperfectly applied in
the past.
Policy Bound to be a Disappoint- ment,
"The Government recognised that the policy outlined is bound to
disappointment to the hoper, of
ly breaking windows or indulging modities de oate, wheat, oatmeal. Iutely below tho Terrace, and the a fence the 'plane came to a stand- eft. London in Shackleton's old the more zealous elements of both in similar fagrant misdemeanors Įbarley, semolins, hides and glue Roxiety of the Surveyor will be still in front of an embankment.ship Quest on July 17, with the ammunities, but they are confident
ag a means of landing in a warm gnol cell where they would be fed.
GAS EXPLOSION AT LOS
ANGELES.
BELIEVED TO BE
ACCIDENTAL,
UNITED PREAL]
atc.
LOVER'S FRAUDS.
POLICE SEARCH FOR A LOTHARIO.
A man who is described ny being about forty-five years of age, ol good address, and who is obvious ly well-educated, is being sought by the Clacton police in connection frauds perpotrated of a series during a three weeks stay in the
Inmous.
+
OBITUARY.
WALDEMAR HAFFKINE. (THROUGH BRUTKA'S ADENOT,]
LAUSANNE, Oct. 26. The death occurred suddenly to- day of the well-known-bacteriolo gist, Waldemar Halkine.
skill.
ZIONIST POLITICAL ACTIVITY.
shared by all lovers of this view The pilot and the two passengers object of surveying the all-British that on a fuller appreciation of the which has helped to make Harrow fortunately escaped with slight in Air Route across the Arctic to facts and a consideration of the juries. The plane was damaged. Canada has, after an easy passage
When the visitors who had been through the ice to the Greenland policy based upon them, an increas watching the progress of the 'plane coast, called at Angmaganlik and he convinced that in its main lines ing body of unbiased opinion will Aaw it beginning to fall there was kas cetablished a base on the rain- this policy is not only in accord consternation, and a dash was inade and at a point where two large ance with the mandatory obliga for the landing place in the fear glaciers come down to the 400. that the pilot and his assengers
tions, but in designed in the best. A hut was built here and the goa-interests of the two sections of the had been killed or seriously injured. plano carried by the party has Palesting population, whose welfare There was general relief when the been assembled. Extensive, survey facts were learned, and the pilot lights have already been made. By His Majesty's Government.
is a matter of sincere concern to was warmly complimented on his now the first of the sub-expeditions by dog sledge to the ice cap, is well Los Angeles, Oct. 10.-Experts
under way, Here a meteorlogical who have been engaged in дп town.
In a letter she wrote before put station will be established and the investigation of the gas explosion During this period he has made
ting her head in a gas oven on her expedition will then proceed up the which wrecked the interior of the love, and become engaged, "to_the
birthday. Mary Hensman (00), of coast to map the mountain belt. Garment Capitol building here the daughter of a prominent boarding
Gainsborough Road, Stoke Newing An important part of the expedi- day before yesterday announced to house proprietor.
ton, London, said she left her body tion's equipment consists of wire- day that in epite of circumstances A Cow days later be loft the town
and £3 to the coroner, and there less transmitting and receiving which at first pointed to intention in company with the girl for Lon [RENTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] was to bo, no funeral. Funeral sets which will enable the fedge formalities cannot be disponsod parties to keep in touch with the It was learned to-day that the U.S.behind the blast, they are now condon, ostensibly to purchase furni
turo and the wedding ring. The
New Youx, Oct. 26. Navy has developed a system by vinced that it was accidental.
with like that, so whether the £3 train base and the main base, to The damage was estimated at girl agreed to wait for him an
The death occurred to-day, of Lir. will materialise for the poor box is communiente with the headquarters. [RKUTER'N "AMERICAN" BERVICE, IN hich the crow of submarines trap- ped under water inay communicate 5.8500,000. Forty persons suffered Liverpool-street station, but the Harry Payne Whitney, the banker, another matter," said Dr. Edwin of the expedition m London.
man did not return. learly with a surface vessel half a jujury in various degrees
President of the Whitney Realty Smith, the, coroner, at the inquest Already this equipment has been
NEW YORE, Ost..sa Firemen discovered, just after the Ho ordered a luxurious motor Co., and a director of the Guaranty at Hackney. It was stated that set up at the base and is in com mile distant
Two hundred and fifty of the While details of the scheme are explosion, that two gas mains bad car from a London firm, and gave rust Co., in his fifty-eighth year.
in the city met Mrs. Hensman was very eccentric. munication with headquarters. The wealthiest Jews" LATER. Since there had instructions to local agents for the Being kept a closely guarded specret, been left open.
Two letters from relatives contain Mullard Wireless Service Company to-day and formed a Zionist emer- it was understood that the funda-been recent labour trouble, neces: purchase of an imposing country The late Mr. Whitney, who in-ing gifts of money for her birthday Ltd., provided valves for both the genoy fund to protect Jewish rights
Meg behind the invention sitting thatadigan bobet 200 road found Recording aman transmitting and receiving saving under the British Mandate To utilizes the properties of water as the building, it was, thought that He was suconatul fff washing che lather Was on of dient dozen diet of ruicide Will of burningpion
ques which netted him £10 from American polo players who hold the mind. Dr. Edwin Smith said that by the parties on the ice being moving the political activity of thei Recent testa were stated to day pose by those connected with the focal tradesmen by pleading that maximum handicap of ten goals. this appeared to be border-lino provided by Mesars. Stratton and Zionist organisation from Londen
case and not certifiable.
Compány, of Birmingham,
to New York. to have been completely successful. I difficulties.
ho was short of ready cash...
Mr. Whitney died of pneumonia.
[UNITED PRESS.]
New Yondon, Conn., Oct. 17,
a conductor of electricity.this may have been dono on pur
MR. H. P. WHITNEY,
REMOVED FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK.