OPENING OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
LABOUR PARTICIPATES. FOR FIRST TIME.
DUKE, JOINER AND TAXI DRIVER ATTEND.
(THEOUGH' REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Londos, Oct. 27,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930.
· FOREIGNERS IN ́ CAPTIVITY.
TWENTY-ONE OF SIX
NATIONALITES.
BANDIT MENACE TO FUKIEN POLITICAL YANGTSZE SHIPPING. LEADERS RELEASED.
THREAT TO PARALYSE FLOW OF COMMERCE.
[THROUGH NEUTET'S ADENCY:]
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
PEIFING, Oct. 27.
It is learned from foreign official.
CIVIL GOVERNOR DIES IN CAPTIVITY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.]
LONDON NAVAL TREATY RATIFIEF.
BRITISH, AMERICAN AND JAPANESE SPEECHES.
PEACE AND SECURITY MILESTONE.
(covan aurka 'S ́ADENEY,]
For the first time in history application of the Treaty granting sources that the Reds in Hipeh, menace to shipping and apprehen-members of the Fukien Provincial Japanese ratificatious of the Lon- ! Ambassador.
His Majesty points, out that tim
financial assistance to States the Hunan and Kiangsi altogether hold Labour Government participated in victims of aggression recently sign- 21 foreign enissionaries of six * State opening of Parliament, for|ed at Gonova is conditional upon nationalities. namely, British, in 1021 the Labourites took office the enforcement of such Convention, American, Fretich, Italian, Nor
and expresses grave concern regard-wegian and Spanish. ing the continuance of heavy un employment.
after the Conservatives were de?} iented on the Address, while test year His Majesty the King had not sufficiently reenvered from illness to go to Westminster,
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His Majesty refers to the world wide economic depression and the restriction of international trade, which in
felt with particular severity by industries especially de pendent upon.exports.
With full pomp and ceremony Their Majesties drove through the
streets which
lined with i were
"My Government will persist in. its efforts to develop and extend troops from the Palace to Parlin-home, Imperial and foreign trade ment, the Sovereigns' escort being | and help in measures leading to the Household Cavalry guarding greater efficiency in industry. Pro posals will be submitted to Par liament for the promotion of in- the employ.
the State coach,
As Their Majesties passed from creased settlement,
• the royal rohing room of the House | ment on inḥd and turge-scale farm- of Lords in glittering procession, ing operations. the nequisition and improvement of agricultural they were attended by the Duke of land needing reconditioning and Norfolk, aged 2, the Hereditary the organisation of producers for Earl Marshal of England, Mr. Tom marketing purposes." Henderson. Comptroller of
The Speech announces the imme- linte establishment of a Commis Household, formerly a ship's joiner, Įsion to enquire into unemployment and Mr. Ben Sinith, Treasurer of insurance, particularly the allega. the Household, who once drove ́ations of abuse. Meanwhile a ma- taxi-cab in the streets of London.
Fi
the
secure
sure making further financial pro- vision for the Unemployment Fund. King's Speech.
will be submitted to Parliament, LATER.
and also a measure for electoral The King's Speech at the opening form, and Imeasures to of Parliament' expresses deep in for the community a share in the terest in the labours of the Imsite value of land, raise the age perial Conference, and carnestly amend the Trade Disputes Act, for compulsory school attendance,
trusts that the Indian Round į establish a Consumers' Conneil, and ratify the Washington Hours Table Conference will result in and Safety of Life at Sea Con- agreed and wise solutions of the im- | ventions, portant questions it has to de- liberate,
His Majesty most gladly entrusts his son,
the Duke of Gloucester, with the duty of representing him at the coronation of the Emperor of Ethiopia, and he trusts that n General Disarmament Convention will shortly be concluded.
Death of Bishop of Worcester.
LATER. Shortly before the arrival of Their Majesties in the House of Lords, the Bishop of Worcester, who was standing outside among the spectators, was taken ill and died en route to hospital.
LATER.
It is believed that the Bishop of Worcester died af heart failure.
MASSACRE OF JAPANESE IN FORMOSA.
SAVAGE TRIBESMEN ATTACK POLICE POSTS.
DIFFICULT PUNITIVE OPERATIONS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOV.]
Tervo, Oct. 27.
Press reports from Formosa state that there is a widespread upris. ing of savage tribes in the Taichu district of the centre island.
The tribesmen are attacking isolated police posts, inflicting a number of casualties.
tion..
The troops are reported to be *mobilising to deal with the situa.
LATER. An official report has been re- ceived by the War Ofice that the Formosan tribesmen attacked the police port at Mosha and mas ascrud all the occupants.
A company of infantry at Tai- chu bas been hurriedly despatch- ed to deal with the insurgents and aircraft have been sent to reconnoître.
Difficulty of Punitive Operations.
Toxy, Oct. 28. Poor communications and lack of transport facilities in the districts where the Formosan tribesmen have risen are expected to hamper puni- tive operations.
LATEX.
La Ti Ping has sent two divisions to attack the Reds who are holding
Kianiu.
Perrino, Oct. 27.
The vernacular papers state that Nanking aeroplanes have been daily bombing south Shansi, for several
days.
WORLD'S IDLE TOTALS MILLIONS.
UNDER A THOUSAND IN FRANCE.
(THROUGH RELYRE'S AGENCY.)
GENETA, Oct. 27. The International Labour Office authoritatively estimates the world! unemployed at from 18,000,000 to 15,000,000, the fewest of whom are in France, which, had only 954 ai the end of August
SERIOUS UNEMPLOYED
SITUATION IN U.S.A.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASSIST THE WORKERS.
(REUTRA'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
NEW YOлE, Oct. 28. here is so serious that all the police The plight of the unemployed are subscribing from five dollars to 50 cents each from their monthly pay to assist in purchasing reliel
rations,
bailiffs to meet in the City Hall to Mayor Walker has ordered the discuss the possibility of preventing the eviction of unemployed persons for non-payment of rent.
Plans are
also afoot to raise $150,000 monthly in Wall Street to pay the wages of municipal park employees, who are threatened with loss of employment.
HOMAGE TO "UNKNOWN
WARRIORS."
OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Rugby, Oct. 27. To prevent any misapprehension as to the scope and intention of the suggestion made by the British Government to other nations that official envoys and missions should no longer feel it incumbent upon them to lay wreaths upon the tomb of the Unknown Warrior" in the country they are visiting, an offi cial statement points out that the proposal was not intended to inter-
SHANGHAI, Oct. 27.
Fooow, Oct. 27. Alarmed by the increasing bandit Lu Hlaing Pang has released five
sive lest the lawless elements cap. Government whom he carried off ture the major ports on the Yang from Foochow last January. taze, the foreign naval, Consulat
They are expected to arrive here and military authorities are
con- to-night. templating a conference shortly to formulate measures for joint setion to protect. foreign property.
The proposed deliberations have been delayed owing to the shaerice of the French Consul-General, who is expected to zeturiv from Japan in a few days.
Firm action is considered a vital necessity, due to the increasing con-
tempt shown by the Communists for both Chinees and foreign authority, which is threatening to paralyse the flow of commerce.
EMPEROR OF ETHIOPIA'S CORONATION.
ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.
(THROVOU NEUTER'S AGENCY.}
ADDIRAHA, Oct. 28. After a 500-mile train journey across Fronch Somaliland and Abyssinin, the Duke of Gloucester arrived with his suits to represent His Majesty King George at the coronation of Rastafari on Sunday. The Duke, who is the first member of the British Royal Family to visit Abyssinia, brings a fine ex- ample of British goldsmith's art as Great Britain's gift to the Em- peror, and also golden swords with Jewelled hilts for the Emperor's suite.
The Emperor, Crown Prince, high dignitaries of Church and State met the Duke at the station. and the members of the Legations
An Abyssinian band rendered God Save the King," and the guard of honour presented arms.
The band of H.M.S. Ellingham,
play. stationed on the platform, did not
There were gatherings of natives at every stopping placy through. out the train journgy, who pressed gifts of native produce upon the Royal party.
ITALIAN COMMUNISTS ARRESTED IN PARIS.
IN POSSESSION OF PISTOLS AND A BOMB.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}
Paris. Özt. 28. Two suspicious individuals were arrested early this morning near the Eiffel Tower.
It is said that they admitted that they were Italian Communists, who had come to blow up the Fascist headquarters in Paris.
They were in porscesion of auto- matic pistols and ammunition and a bomb contained in a large paper parcel.
Powerful Bomb.
The sixth member of the Govern ment, the Civil Governor of Fukien, died in captivity two months ago,
It is reported that. Lu Ho Ting is occupying Yunping and Kienning. The Min River is expected to open soon.
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LONDON, Oct. 27. translation of the speech was brond- The British, Anierican Cand Frist from London by the Japanese on Naval Treaty were deposited
The speech expressed the convic (at the Foreign Ollies to-day,
tion that the new Treaty was bound The ceremony was brief and in- formal, and was attended by five lumen on the growing conscious: tu exercise an immenso moral -
Dominion Fremiors, and Sir Atal
ress of mankind. It was a strike- Chatterjeo (India),
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, acoom-confidence and goodwill among na ing demonstration of the mutual panied by Mr. Arthur Henderson,tion The Treaty had opened a and Mr, A; V. Alexander, First,
new chapter in the history of hu2. Lord of the Admiralty, welcomed
aan eivilisation. the delegates of the signatory cation, and expressed pleasure at Powers, who handed in their ratifi-
the presence of the French and Italian Ambassadora, and said he hoped that their Governments
MANCHURIAN BRIGADE AT would ratify in due course.
SHUNTEHFU.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
PRIPING, Oct. 27.
A Manchurian brigade has arrived at Shuntehfu.
Shih Yu San has telegraphed from Tzchow warmly welcoming them.
NANKING WAR MINISTER
RESIGNS.
OHEN MING SHU LIKELY SUCCESSOR.
(100OUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
NANKING, Oct. 27.
Artistic Documents.
President Hoover's Speach, President Hoover, speaking from. the White House, Washington, aftei tracing the history of the negotiations which culminated in the Treaty, said that the naval Powers had bridged obstacles and Achieved an understanding to be: The British Empire ratifications heve their peoples of excessive. took the form of a beautifully naval burdens, Three of these bound book in blue leather with Powers, commanding the greater gold ornamentations, containing part of the world's naval forces, the text of the Treaty.
have turned away from rivalry in All the Dominion ratifications armamente, and a disproportionato were signed by His Majesty the growth of their navies was now King
prevented by EKTY arrangement founded on common sense. If the. imitation now established could be maintained, the world might look forward with assurance to the fact that, future conferences would And it easier to bring about a further By the use of the trans-Atlantic step in reduction. It was the for telephone from Washington to Lon- and women of this generation that vent prayer of right-thinking non don on an experimental short wave the international confidence which across the Pacific, connecting Japan had been so patiently and single- with Washington, the speeches of
arcret
The United States signed on the understanding that there were no documents which night modify the provisions of the Treaty, Speeches Broadcast.
Mr. Hamaguchi in Tokyo, Presid-mindedly achieved, may endure, so that the agreements which have been ent Hoover in Washington, and reached might live and he extend Mr. MacDonald in London were cd. Never again. must the raco in broadcast.
naval armaments be allowed to đẹ velop.
Heard Distinctly at Tokyo. It is reported that Ho Ying Ching, War Minister, Director
TOKYO, Oct. 27. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's and General of Military Training and Mr. Hoover's speeches on the rati- Commander-in-Chief on the Lungfication of the Naval Treaty were
beard distinctly. hai front, has resigned all posts.
It is reported that Chen Ming Shu, Chairman of the Kwangtung Government, may be appointed. Director-General of Military Train ing
FIGHTING IN WEST HONAN.
PROMISE TO OBEY GOVERN- MENT ORDERS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
The Kuaminchun leaders. Liu Yu Fen and Sung Chich Yuan, to-day requested the Government to im mediately censo fighting in West Hotan, promising that the Ruomin- chun will obey the Government orders regarding reorganisation.
ECONOMIC STABILISATION
OF ASIA. CANADIAN TRADE MINISTER'S SUGGESTION,
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British Prime Minister's Speech.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MadDanald, in his brandcast speech, said that now for the first time in the history three príncipal naval Powers would put into operation n system of limitation and redue tion which would apply to all parts of their respective fleets
up
Relay from Germany,
LONDON, Oct. 27. The speeches of Mr. Hamaguchi and President Hoover and Mr. 1936. Thus, for the perint Ransay MacDonald were relayed named, and they hoped for all time; by the German broadcasting authe evils of naval rivalry had been eliminated between them. They thorities,
bad passed another milestone in the long way to peace and scurity?
Shanghai Hears Magnificantly.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 27. The international disarmament radio broadcast was heard in Shanghai magnificently through
out.
BEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Ireland's Delay.
RUGBY, Oct. 27. The ceremony of depositing the ratifientions of the London Treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armaments took place in the Locarno Room at the Foreign Office to-day.
The treaty was also signed by- France and Italy, but there two Powers are not yet parties to that section which limits naval strength. It is my most earnest hope that the negotiations which have recently heen proceeding between Imnoo and Italy to enable them to come into this part of the Ticaty may before long reach a successful imué. Some way for removing the difficul
Ultimasto tios must be found. Enilure is to me unthinkable, for the world's hopes for the progress of disarmament are focussed on these efforts, and the good wishes of 'all- of us must go out to those who are
for three diflcutt
"What a Happy Day for the
World !"
Donald, with the Foreign Secre
The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay tary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, and negotiations.. the First Lord of tho“ Admiralty, Mr. A. V. Alexander, represented the United Kingdom, and the.
What happy day for the Dominions, who were signatories world will be the day of that of the treaty. Canada, Australia. agreement! What a vast addition New Zealand, and South Africa, to national security will then to were represented by their Premiers, made! Perhaps there is no batter During a speech at a luncheon in while the High Commissioner, Bir
thủ dangers and difficulties we have. of India. Canadian Minister of Trade, sug
escaped than by recognising the Owing to a purely technical diffi-Hormon benefit to the relations was gested that the greatest problem beculty, the King's ratification in res-between the three Powers which
to-day was to bring about the
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bomb
LATER. An examination of the
The to blow up large buildings.
{THROUGH REUTER'S ANENOP.]
LONDON, Oct. 27.
fere in any way with individual showed that it was powerful enough | London to-day, Mr. Stevens, the Atal Chatterjee, attended on behalf of estimating the gravity of
It consisted of a **76"
enclosed in a petrol can.
shell
R.101 AIRSHIP DISASTER INQUIRY.
discretion in this matter. A more detailed official report to object of the suggestion was to the War Office states that the police riviste any risk of the ceremony, charged with melinite and posts in several localities in the which should be simple and spon- Taichu province appeur to have of international courtsay.
tanenu, becoming a mere formality been completely annihilated. leas was it intended to suggest On the starting of the uprising that there should be any curtail. yesterday morning, the tribesmen nent of the general ceremonies on Armistice Day in Great Britain, eut the telephone wires between or of the laying of wrenthe hy Musha and Jineki, and destroyed a individuals at any time an number of police stations in the Cenotaph or the grave of the
Unknown Warrior." vicinity of Musha, where, according to aircraft reports, the tribesmen's flags are now displayed.
The fragmentary information so far gathered appears to indicate that the police post at Hikei was set on fire, and all the police offices
were wiped out.
About 100 rifles belonging to the Japanese police were seized.
The insurgents are believed to number about 1,500.
the
"MORAL WAR AGAINST ITALY."
MUSSOLINI URGES REVISION OF PEACE TREATIES..
{THROTAN REUTER'S AGENOT.]
SECRET MEMORANDA TO BE SUBMITTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, Oct. 29.
The public inquiry into the loss of the R101 was opened in the ball of the Institute of Civil Engineers. The Attorney-General, Mr.” F. W, Jowett (with whom is associated the Solicitor-General, Sir Stafford ROME, Oct. 27,
Cripps, who was knighted yester- Signor Mussolini, in a speech day), in opening the case, said that here, declared that the world to-be was specially permitted to sub- mit secret memornada presented to day was divided into two camps, the Imperial Conferences in 1928 Fascist and anti-Fascist, A moral war is being waged against and 1930 by successive Secretaries LONDON, Oct. 23. Italy and, side by side with that. of State for Air. According to the latest official preparations for war are still dispatch from Formosa, a number hastening along our frontiers.” of tribesmen suddenly launched an He added that Fascist Italy would attack on the Musha Primary arm because other nations wore School yesterday while an athletic arming, and would disarm when meeting was in progress,
elsa 'disarmed. avergone
Sudden Attack On Primary School.
The scene of the uprising is in. The number of casualties is not He urged a revision of the peace. an isolated savage country, to which yet known, but it is feared they treaties and declared that the vialators of the. Covenant of the access is difficult owing to the lack are heavy.
Six hundred armed police woré League were those who were try- despatched to the scene of the cut-ing to maintain perpetually two break
classes of States, one armed to the Casualtios. Heavy
teeth, and the other, disarmed,
of roads:
The troops who have been des patched to the scene are expected to escounter-great difficulty
difficulty in "Tording their way through the wild forcpt-clad hills beyond Horish, to which there is a light railway.
Special despatches-received by Careport about 190 Japanese wore massacred, in cluding 20 school girls, but con- franation of this report is lacking.
OBITUARY.
signature of the Treaty. I may be
economic stabilisation of Asia and pect of the Irish Free State was has become apparent since the the Orient, where, he said, millions deposited to-day, but the delay
hold te state that at no time in of people for the past half-century" |
only temporary. The Ambassadors attended on their history have the relations bo- bad been suffering from dactill on half of the United States and tween the Governments of the
purchasing power, and until now
Удрал..
United States and Japan and the Clovertuments of the British Com: chase anything at all.
He did pot
inents of ratification were contain roonwealth of Nations been closer. We suggest that
handsomely bound book in or more cordial than they have been should abandon the gold standard, ed in but that the British Empire should blue leather, decorated in gold, the since the signature of this Treaty give some lead to the world where-text of the treaty being inscribed on and what is true of the Government by the normal functions of com- vellum. The international broad- is true for the people and will be merce should operate, and the pro- cast of the speeches delivered income increasingly so as time goes. dacts of the various countries of connection with the ceremony took on and the essential fairness and the Empire and of other countries place this afternoon. night profitably and equitably be inter-changed,
had been virtually unable to pur- The British Empire's instru-
AMERICAN BANKER
KIDNAPPED.
RANSOM DEMANDED FOR RELEASE.
Speech by Japanese Premier. The Japanese Prime Minister spoke from Tokyo, and Intern
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ANTI-SOVIET PLOT DISCOVERED.
SCHEME TO OVERTHROW COMMUNIST REGIME.
(IKNOUGH NEUTER'S AGENGR.)
value of the Treaty is understood.
by an over-increasing circle. Thero treaties will fail unless they lend to ever-widening international con. fidence and friendship."
AUSTRALIAN LOANS IN
LONDON.
GILT-EDGED SECURITIES CONTINUE TO DECLINE.
‚(zakovan EEUTER'S'AGINUT,]
SYDNEY, Oct.
{THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOV,}"
GALVA (III.), Oct. 27, The wife of Mr. Karl Yocum has received a letter demanding ranscom for the release of her husband, who is a millionaire banke president, and has been missing inco Saturday,
It in believed that he was kid- napped by Chicago gangsters.
Mr. Yocum is a prominent mem- ber of the Chicago Athletic Associato include Prof. Itamzin, the Directortunate, in view of the neces tion..
Ransom Paid
RIGA, Oct. 27. The Ogu Secret Police announces the discovery of another plot by technical experta to wreck the Soviet economic structure and to overthrow the Communist régime Jorna declined in the Stock Ex change sharply, which is most
The chief conspirators are alleged
COL. J. A. LOGAN, JUN
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
PHILADELPHIA, Qot, 28.
tor of one of the most important The death is. announced of Col.
technical institutes in the country James Addison Logan, jun., a mem-
CHADO, Oct. 28. and several other professors and Italy's policy of friendship in bor of the banking firm, of Dillon, The Herald learns that the engineers, who are alleged to have the Danubia States for sameplay BoatCo
famaly of Amefasedrganised an Industrial Bitty Hungary Duerfas die Pad doccased was principal assist to take the police into their res and to have been communicating tated by her good of expansion, as ant to President Hoover in the fidence, and decided to pay the with auti-Boviet exiles in Paris -- she was only able to expanil peace-reliel operations in Europe after kidnappers the 850,000 ransom de- The Soviet is arranging a spectu fully towards eastern Europe. the Armistice.
cular trial.:
manded..
As a result of the New South Wales elections, the Government
eity of the early flotation of the £27,000,000 conversion loan,
Industrials showed, losses of five to 10 per cent. compared with, the
Although fading indust rallied slightly subsequently, gile edged securities continued
wenkon.