RELIGIOUS "FEUD IN IRELAND..
CATHOLICS BLOW UP RAILWAY BRIDGE.
THROUGH NEUTED'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 12. Thd, simmering foud between Orangemen and Roman Catholics is threatening to break out in opon violence.
In County Cavan Catholics last night blew up a railway bridge and interrupted the traffic, with the ob icct of preventing the assembly of tho Royal Black Preceptory of Orangemen at Coots Hill to-day. Military and Civil Guards have boon drafted to the district, while the Authorities are porninding the Orangemen to abanden their meet ing in order to forestall serious developments, alternatively the meeting, it is expected, will he prohibited,
GERMAŃ. CONSTITUTION
DAY.
MANY SHOOTING AFFRAYS IN COLOGNE,
TAROCO REUTER'S AGENCY.]
COLOGNE, Ang. II. Many shooting affrays in the streets occurred for over two hours
or the occasion of a torchlight pra ression arranged by a Republican Organisation for Constitution Day.
Many shots were fired at the Police who replied by firing with out warning wherever a crowd collected.
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Numerous casualties are report- ed. besides arrests.
Cafés and theatres are closed.
KING AND QUEEN AT SANDRINGHAM. /
TO VISIT SCOTLAND IN TEN DAYS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICH)
Ruder, Aug. 11. Their Majesties the King and Queen left London to-day for Sandringham, where they
will spend len days before proceedling to Scotland.
PROSPECTOR SLAIN BY
COOKA-COOKAS..
THE NIGHT RAIDERS OF
NEW GUINEA,
Details have reached Sydney, Australia, of how Eric Baum, German ex-officer, met his death about two months ago near Sur prise Creek, some twelve miles from Edie Crook, in New Guinea,
Baum was an experienced proe pector with an adventurous past, He went bush" in 1014 when the Australian troops arrived in New Guinen, and wandered for years in the mountains of New Guinen, clad in only a ragged piece of cloth, barefooted, living as best he could, picking up pative, dialects, and al- waya searching for gold.
He was working on traces of gold he had discovered on a tributary of the Watut River when he fell foul of the notorious Cooka-Copkas This tribe is the only truly nomadic tribe in New Guinea, Fierce, in- tractalic, and treacherous, they have a habit of raiding in the dend of night after travelling over the roughest country in the dark to, surprise their victims. They may be compared with the men" of West Africa.
"Panther
The Skull Cracker,"
BRITISH ECONOMIC·
SITUATION.
ALL-PARTY CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS PROPOSALS?
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(THROUGH XBUTER'S AGENCY.]
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931.
REBELLION IN CUBA.
GOVERNMENT AND REBEL FORCES CLAIM VICTORIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HAVANA, Aug. 12. Both the Government forces and the rebels claim victories in clashes which occurred in the interior.
LONDON, Aug, 12 The Government's determination to balance the Budget and to re- create national confidence, is re- flected in an official announcement Particulars state that there WAI made last night to the effect that an engagement in the province of a special meeting of the Cabinet Pinar Del Rio between General Economy Committee, will be held Francisco Pornza and the local
when the to-day,
Whole
of rebel leader, and that fourteen the financial aituation will be dis-adherents, were killed and nineteen Cursed.
wounded.
Though the gravity of the pre- On the other, hand of the three act situation is realised it is emhundred rebela who raided the city phasised in well-informed quarters Santa Clara thirty were killed that there is no question of emer before retiring. gency measures.
The Government is likely to pro- pose, however, that an all-party
conference be convened to discuss the proposals of the Cabinet's Economy Committec.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain is mon tioned as the most likely representa tive of the Torios, while Sir Her- bort Samuel is almost certain to represent the Liberals if such conference is held,
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Payments of the annuities will be absolute obligations, involving no option of postponement.
Germany's" Capacity to Pay. The German Government pointed out in accepting the proposal that they did not intend expressing any opinion as to Germany's future capacity of payment.
The Conservatives while anxious to support Government legislation tional annuity should continue to It was agreed that the uncondi- towards effecting recnointes, they be paid, provided that it is im- are of the opinion that the respon-mediately lent again to the Gerinan aibility for initiating such legisla Railway Company tion is solely, the Government's Hence it is uncertain that they will agree to any kind of three-party deliberations.
the conference decided that any With regard to deliveries in kind, arrangements designed to permit the continuation of deliveries in Last night, also, there were re-kind contracts, must involve 10 ports of a definits Cabinet split on charge on the German Budget dur the issues, but these are stoutlying, the year and no injury to denied by Government spokesmen."
It is an undoubted fact, however,
Derican economy.
It is Rated that: an agreement that the Labour Government ishte also been renched between the facing a very severe internal German and Belgian Governments
o the Marka qucation.
crisis.
Many of its supporters are ad- venting heavier taxation rather than cuts in the social services.
"It should be noted that about half of the £120,000,000 mentioned in the Economy Committee's Re port as necessary to be found in crder to balance the Budget is on Recount of the usual provision for repayment of the existing debt. Hence the position is not so bad ne it looks.
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Special Cabinet Committee to Decide Astion.
(BRITISO WIRELESS SERVICE]
HUBY, Aug. 11 The Prime Minister who Arrived in London yesterday morning, travelling on the night train from Lossiemouth, spent the whole day in conforence with different mem bets of the Cabinet.
In an interview, he said he had completed his study of the Report of the Economy Committee. He emphasised that the Government's attitude would not be finally de- cided until the meeting of the Special Cabinet Committee at the end of the month. The hurried meeting of the members to-day will den! with general governmental business, with special reference to the financial problem, and the pos- sibilities of immediata meaanres for relieving the situation."
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had a very long conversation yesterday morning with Mr. Philip Snowden). the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He also saw Sir Clive Wigram, the King's private ecretary.
CONFERENCE OF EXPERTS.
DEBT SUSPENSION SCHEME.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]"
RUGBY, Aug. 11. The Conference of Experts ap- pointed by Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Japan to consider the detailed measures required to give offect to It is possible that Baum, with his President Hoover's proposal for knowledge of the natives and their the suspension of inter-government- languages, over-estimated his power al debt payments for one year, and to control the ferocious instincts of attended by a representative of the these wild people. At any rate, he United States, issued a communi settled down to his work with twelve carriera, and induced the que to-day stating that complete Cooka-Cookas to bring them food agreement had been reached.
The Conference has been approv every day for regular rates of pay.
The bags of sweet potatoes and d by the Governments represented yams brought by the natives, how and also by the Governments of Australia, Canada, Czecho-Slova ever, became lighter and lighter. kia, Greece. India, New Zealand, Baum protested in vain. At length, Portugal, Poland, Roumania and a bag was brought him that was almost empty.. Baum told the South Africa. "natives
The Conference recommends that take it away, and in
the paymenta, both of the repara rtantly the Cooka Cookas rushed upon him. Some seized him by the tions and the inter-Allied debts, arms, and one of them struck him suspended during the, Hoover year, on the head with it stone-headed should be repaid by ten equal an club, the, terrible skull-cracker nuities from July 1, 1933, to include which the Cooka Cookas usd. They both principal and interest at hacked his head off and out his body rato not exceeding three per cent.
It makes this recommendation on open, afterwards strewing fowers on it and performing a wild cere. the assumption that the system will be acceptable to the United States monial dance round the corpse.
Later the natives attacked the Government as regard the debts due twelve Kanako boys and killed to them and having satisfaction nine. The other three escaped, but that the method is possible without it was only by means of skilful any anerifics of the rights of any Bushcraft that they managed to creditor Government in relation to elnde their pursuers and bring back those of other creditor Govern- the grim story of Baum's end to the menta zientest camp-::
Vontinued on hert Column:)
The Conference also agreed on recommendations na to the detail-
inter-Allied. war debts due to the ed measures for the suspension of United Kingdom, France and Italy and of the payments under the Hague agreement with Czecho Slovakia.
principle that the payments due by An agreement was reached in
Hungary under the Paris Agree- ment of April 1930 and the pay ments by Bulgaris under the Hague Agreement should be suspended during the year subject to certain adjustments.
ROUND TABLE
CONFERENCE."
INDIAN BUSINESS MEN PIQUED.
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ITHROUGH BEUTER'B' AGENCY.]-
·BOMBAY, Aug. 11. Piqued by the fact that only one of their three representatives hae been chosen to participate in the Round Table Conference, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce bas decided to boycott the Conference.
FILM STAR DIVORCED.
TIM MCCOY GIVES UP CHILD. REN, RANCH, AND £10 A MONTH.
Termopolis (Wyoming). Mrs. Tim McCoy his been granted a divorce from her husband, Colonel McCoy, the film actor, on the tech- nical grounds of cruelty.
She has also been granted the stody of her three children, alimony of £40 a month, and the McCoy ranch, near here."
Born of Irish-American parents, Colonel Tim McCoy is an expert en Red Indian sign languages, and to had charge of Indians in "The Covered Wagon."
He appeared in "War Paint," "Winners of the Wilderness,"
"The "California,"
Frontiers "The Rock of Friendship and "The Bushranger.”
WIDOW ACQUITTED.
HOTEL DRAMA VERDICT.
Coire (Switzerland).-Mr. Boul- ter, an Englishman's widow, wae acquitted here on the charge of murdering Dr. Cuno Hoger, & Hun- arian novelist, in a St. Moritz hotel.
She was ordered to pay the cost of the trial.
The verdict was not read in Court, but was officially communi cated in writing to the interested parties.
TO THE POLE BY SUBMARINE.
NAUTILUS STEADILY
PROGRESSING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
TROMSOR, Aug. 12. The submarine Nautilus repeated this morning that she is steadily progressing northwards to-day, and that there has been no mishap since the resumption of her journey yes. torday afternoon.
SCHNEIDER TROPHY
RACE.
ANTI-NANKING CAMPAIGN.
CANTON TO LAUNCH OFFENSIVE TO-DAY.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CANTON, Aug. 12. "After months of preparation the Canton National Government is at last ready for another war with the North.
STUDENT SENT FOR TRIAL.
SEQUEL TO ATTEMPT ON SIR J. HOTSON'S LIFE,
Tanoton REUTER'8 ADENCY:]
FOONA Aug. 19.
THE SILVER QUESTION.
PITTMAN IN FAVOUR OF CONFERENCE
[IHROUGH: REUTER'S AGENCY.)
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug," 12.
On his retura from the Far Easty where he has studied the silver question for three months, Senator Pittman andpunces that he intends to renew the campaign, for an Interntaional Silver Conteronce, and will submit" n, resolution to the Senate requesting President Hoover to tako, the initiative.
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ROUMANIAN BANK CRASH, CONSIDERED SOUNDEST IN
V. B. Cogató a student at Fer gusson College was committed for trial on changes of attempted murder and breaches of the Arms Law in connection with an attempt on Sir, J., E. B. Hotson's life. "A formal declaration of war
[A message dated July 29 stated: against the Nanking Government A student fired two shots at Sir will be "isted to-morrow, immedi.J. E. B. Hotson, Acting Governor ately after which the anti-Northern of Bombay, while he was inspecting.
Ferguson College. campaign will start.
Sir J. E. B. Hotson was not Practically all. the Cantonese hurt and himself over-powered the troops are now concentrated in assailant.
PARA Shiulewan and other strategic points Sir J. E. B. Hotsoa had a mira
COUNTRY. on the Kwangtung-Hunan border, culous. escape. The bullet" pońc waiting for the order to march into trated his coat just above his heart (THROUGH RĶUTED'S AGENUY.] Hunan while the Kwangs troops but was stopped by the metal stud composing the 4th Amy Corps of his pocket-book. The second
BUCHAREST, Aug, 11. under General Li Tsung Jen, have bullet went wide.
The Barkowitz Bank, which has already started their march into The attempt was made as Sir Jbeen considered to be the Bundest Huna and are now concentrating E. R. Hotson was entering the colin Roumanie, hus suspended pay- A small company of experts and in Yungehow and Wongsha, in lege reading-room. journalista to-day inspected the south-western Huaan. These forces two now racing Vickers Super- of the Southern Government expect marine Rolls-Royce S-GB senpinnes to converge at Hengchow ia: cen- which have been specially contral Huzan on or about the middle structed for use by the British team of this month, from which point a in the contest on September 12 for drive will be made on Changsha, the Schneider Trophy and which the Capital of the Province. The are expected to prove the fastest aext object of the campaign will be aircraft over built.
Wahan, & most important commer- cial centre on the Yangtze River.
BRITISH SEAPLANES " FASTEST EVER BUILT.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVIOK)
RUGBY, Aug. 11.
The machines closely resemble the Vickers Supermarine Rolls- Royce S-00 seaplanes which were flown in the 1929 Schneider Race,
Rumours me current here that Madame Sun Yat Sen, sister-in-law of Chiang Kai Shek, and sister of on one of which Squadron: LonderT. V. Soong, who has returned to Orlebar created the world's speed China to fall her lial duty in record of 387 miles per hour.
connection with the burial and The chief points of difference are mourning of her deceased mother, increased horsepower, provision for may come to Canton and identify carrying greater ignds of fuel and herself in its movement for the oil, increased cooling efficiency and overthrow of the Nanking Govern. a new type of airscrew.
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Observers commented to-day on the perfection of the stream fining And the water cooling system by which the entire upper and lower surfaces of the wings constitute water radiators, made of duralu- mix.
The new aircraft have been speci- ally designed and constructed by the Fairey Aviation Company.
WEATHER REPORT,
Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.25 p.m., stated
A feeble anti-cyclone is co- tral between 5.W, Japan and the Bonins. A depression 're. mains over S.W, Chino and an area of low pressure extends nerosa the N. China Sea and into the Pacific to the E, of Luzon..
or
Local Forecast: ---- S.E. variable winds, moderate; fair to showery,
TYPHOON WARNING.'
The following typhoon warn- ing has been received by the American Consulate General from, the Manila Observatory: Manila, August 19, 3.30 p.m.- Low pressure area extending from the China Sea to the Pacific across northern Luzon and the Baliatang Channel. A real typhoon may develop later.
THE PANGBORN-HERNDON CASE.
RESTRICTION OF MOVE-„
'MENTS ONLY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Toxyo, Aug. 12.
It is understood that the order made by the Procurator's Office for the confinement of the American aviators, Pangborn and Herndon, pending a settlement of their case, merely entails restriction of their movements, and is not confinement in the English sense of the word..
THE MAN WHO COULD
NOT-WAKE-UP÷
INQUEST ON NEW BLAZING
CAR TRAGEDY,
ment.
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CHEN LEAVING TOKYO TO-DAY.
WISHES SAILING TO BE
KEPT SECRET:
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Toxy, Aug. 19. Eugene Chen states that he is leaving Tokyo to-morrow and is shortly returning to Canton, but does not desire his sailing date to | be divulged,
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DIGGING TO SEEK MISSING BOY.
OLD WOMAN'S THEORY.
The parents of a young. Crewe farm labourer, George Leese (18), who has been missing for over two weeks, are applying for permission to conduct gging operations in a. field at Minshull Vernon, near Crewe!
His parents believe that he has met with foul play
An old Nantwell bargewoman has put forward the theory that the boy was buried in a field, She asserts that spiries have troubled her aud ale cannot rest until the boy is found
Digging was started but was abandoned, after a short tinie.
NEGRI'S RULER,
TO BE INVESTED WITH THE G.C.M.G.
Seremban, Aug.
the 4-H.E. High
Cecil Commissioner, Bir Clementi, will arrive in Negri Sembilan on August 17 to present the insignia of G.C.M.G. to H.H. the Yang di Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. The ceremony will take place at the Balci Bahru, Sri Menanti. His Excellency is ex- pected to arrive at the Istane at 4.10 p.m. when he will inspect the guard of honour of the N.Š.M.V.L. A procession will then be formed to escort the Insignia of G.C.M.G. to the Istana
At 4.57 p.m. the Chief Secretary, the Hoa, Mr. Andrew Caldecott, C.B.E., and Miss Clementi will pro- ceed to the Balci, followed by the A coroner's jury at Penmaenaide-deep to His Excellency, mawr returned a verdict of acci- who will bring the Insignia to the dental death on Thomas Storey, Balei. His Excellency will arrive aged 27; a motor mechanic, of New-
at the Balo and take his sent on castle-on-Tyne, waces charied body
the dais with the British Resident was found in a blazing, motor-car
la attendance. At 4,30p.m. His mountain roadway, overlocking the Troops. Major-General L CL that had fallen from the narrow Highneas, escorted by the G.0.0.
Bychnunt Pass, outside Conway, Oldfield and Dr. R. O. Winstedt, Carnarvonshire. The car had fal. C.M.G., acting General Adviser, len over 200 feet.
Johore; will arrive at the Balei Thomas Baston, cf Newcastle, His Excellency's private. sacre. The report of medical experts on who the state of her mind appears, to which the dead man' carried, said the Royal Warrant in English and identified a roigarette-case | tary, Mr. W. C. 8. Corry, will rend·
in coming to their decision, Their but since an accident three years After His Excellency has addressed have largely influenced the judges that Storey was a dirt-track rider, Tuntu Abdul Rahman in Malay, deliberations occupied, the banca ago had been subject to bits of His Highnes-and-invested him with Mrs. Boulter, whose age, was drowsiness, On one occasion, he the Tonignin" an address in Malay giran na 30, ia a Frenchwoman by said, Storey fell asleep on his and one in English, from all come birth and English by marriage, and motor-cycle and failed to wake up,munities will be read. Tea will La resident of London,
even when he crashed.
follow His Highness's reply.
In view of the delicate state of Mrs. Boulter's healthf, the Court desired to spare her feelings.
ment.
The student was immediately The bank is closely connected National taken into custody and a second with the Roumanian revolver, fully loaded, was found in Bank, which has promised assist- his possession."
ance to prevent further failures.
Sir J. E. R. Hotson continued the inspection of the college apparently unperturbed.]
MOTHER'S CRY SAVES SON
AND DAUGHTER.
COLLAPSE OF PART OF
A HOUSE.
An invalid monther's ery saved the lives of her son and daughter when part of their house collapsed at Brighton.
EUROPEAN CHARGED.
MAGISTRATE CALLED OUT
TO FIGHT.
Described ad an unemployed ship's officer, E. Fagan, a well- dressed European, was fined $50 by. Mr. G. C. Dodd, tho, Singapore Criminal District Judge, on charges of disorderly conduct and contempt of court.
Fagun pleaded guilty and express- |ed his regret and explained that he
was the worse for drink,
Mrs. Sarah Fuller, a bedridden invalid of 72, was lying in her The incidents which resulted in hed in a front, room on the first Fagan's appearahce in Court start- floor of her house in Marlborough-ed outside the Raffles Café, when street, when she heard a long ereak Her room began to away, and she cried out in alarr,
Her ami, Mr. William Fuller, an antique dealer, whh was working in his office on the same floor, rush ed out to see what had happened, and the next moment his office dis uppeared with a loud erask.
At the same time Mra Mabel Edwards, the daughter, came from tho kitchen, where she had been cooking, and a moment later a gas had been standing stove crashed on the spot where she
With Mr. Fuller's office, all the bedrooms at the sack, and part of the lower rooms, fell 40 feet into a cavity, where workmon are erect ing a now building. The front part of the house was unaffected.
Mrs. Fuller was carried, to a neighbour's house suffering from shock.
he had a dispute tha Eurasian woman. Hearing the woman's cry for assistance Detective Inspectors Judge and Sani, who were in the Café at the time, came out arid attempted to induce Fagan,to leave; the woman alone.
Fagan persisted and he was even- tually taken to the Central Police Station and charged with disorderly conduct. On being produced in the Third Police Court before Mr. J. F. F. Gregg, Fagan used abusive language to Detective Inspector: Judge who was giving evidence and also became abusive to Mr. Gregg, whom he called out to fight.
An additional charge of con tempt of Court was proferred against Fagan and the cases were transferred to the District Court.
The fitte was paid and Fagan was ordered to write a letter of apology. to Mr. Gregg.
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