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DRAFT TO LEAGUE.
Geneva, Feb. 20. · The sittings of the Committee of Arbitration and, Security, which are regarded as of extreme importance, have opened.
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NORWEGIAN CLAIM.
London, Feb. 20.. Viscount Sandon, in the Ilouse of Commons, asked the Foreign Secretary what information he had regarding the existence, dented by Norwegian whalers, of the where- abouts of Thompson Island, claim- Jed by this country, and what was the position as to the rival, claims of the British Government and
Bouvet Island.
RUBBER INDUSTRY ALARM.
RESTRICTION SCHEME
FEARS
REPORT WHEN PLANTATIONS HAVE GONE?
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PREMIER'S PROMISE.
London, Feb. 20 Mr. Stanley Baldwin, answering
question in the House
of
Rome, Feb, 20. The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of Signor Mussolini, hasi approved the Electoral Reform Bill, under which the kingdom will A representative of the Soviet THREE HUNDRED DEAD Government, who was present as an
form a single Electoral College of Deputies to the number of 400' observer, submitted to the league Secretariat, the draft Convention
candidates to be proposed by the
Eight Chinese villages in the thirteen large national corpora- for General Disarmuthent based on the proposals of M. Litvinoff Inst Criminal Sessions this morning of tions and other organisations fa- Shing Mun district, in which over the Chinese girl, aged 17, who portant to national life... 800 Hakkas reside, have to be year in December-cuter.
was charged with the murder of The names will be examined by evacuated by reason of the land the Norwegian Government to Commons to-day, acknowledged
the Grand Council of Fascism,
receipt of a communication from ah old woman at Sai Wan, Cheung which will be empowered to add being needed. In connexion with Sir Austen Chamberlain replied the Rubber Trade Association with Chau, on December 2181. Accused to those selected, the names of the big water worką scheme across that Thompson Island was first regard to allowing the present
distinguished in science, the harbour, and the manner in discovered by Captain Norris in
frestriction scheme to remain in literature, art and politics.
The Council also adopted the which new homes are being found December, 1825, and had only once proposal of Signor Mussolini for these people is fully set out in been sighted since, namely by Cap-force until October' 31st.
The Premier pointed out that in: exempting from the payment of a session! paper issued by the lain Fuller, an American Soaman,
accordance with the notice issued or heads of Government which is, to be laid in 1893- taxes, the fathers
The terrible disaster off Chin- kinng when the 3.8. Atsuta Maru was in cellision with the .. Hsintuming, involving the loss of over three hundred lives in har- rowing circumstances, is granhi- cally described by the master of the Japanese sleamer.:
found not guilty! and men
Four Year Limit.
Moscow, Feb. 20. The draft of the Disarmament Convention sent to the League of was Nations aims at general complete acquitted. disarmament within four years, fifty per cent. of the demobilisation to take place the first year.
No, evidence was called by the defence,
The Haintaming sank in an
It also provides that the total de-
In his cloning speech to the jury, hour, but rescue work was impos-
struction of all stores and arma, and MF. T. S. Whyte Smith, who sible owing to the panic which the abolition of all the most impor- appears for the Crown, said then overcame the Chinese passengers.tant naval armaments, and Air evidence presented many puzzling
SENSATIONAL AFFAIR IN Forces and of all war institutions features. With regard to the girl should be brought about in the fol- making a report after the woman
The master of the Ataula Maru, * 1,300 tons steamer, states that the vessel was sailing down the river and had reached a point about 30 miles east of Chinklang. when two small steamers were observed to be leaving the small river port, Taipingchow, and were making up river.
Attempt to Cross Bows,
lowing three years.
had been killed, Mr. Whyte Smith drew attention to the fact that International Commission.
the girl did not go to the first The Soviet also proposes the es- house and suggested that even if tablishment of a Permanent Inter she had called out from the door national Commission to control the of the house she lived in, she Commission in each country. These would most likely have been heard regional Commissions will be charg- and received assistance. ed with the execution of the Con-) vention.”
Reresentatives of the different
i
Absent Witnesses.
The second of the steamers, the
He also spoke of the gold orna- ill-fated Haintaming attempted to Legislatures, of public organisa- ment and reviewed the evidence of crose the bows of the Atauta Marutions, and of the "toiling class" will,
the witnesses who had been called
A collision seemed imminent and it is proposed, sit on the Itegional for the Crown. With regard to although the Japanese steamer Commissions.--Reuter.
royeraed her engines, the Hain- taming, a 700 tonner, crashed into her port side, the Atauta Maru being holed.
The damage to the Chinese steamer was even more" severe. Her bawa wire crushed below the water-line and she made, water! fairly rapidly.
fated stenmur.
run-
The Alsula Maru and a number of junta rescued about a hundred
of the victims of the disaster, bat
cold and exposure.
VICTIMS OF "RED"
TERRORISM.
PATHETIC APPEAL TO THE CANTON GOVERNMENT.
REFUGEES ÁS BEGGARS
the two men who had absconded -the description was perhaps
harsh--they had rather
not appeared at the Criminal Sessions and the evidence was missing,
He submitted that the accused left the house, with a man shortly after the crles were heard, and pointed ont that consideration ahould be given to the fact that there were bloodstains on a jacket worn by the girl.
Addressing the jury on behalf of the prisoner, Mr. Instone Brewer said the Crown had stress-
SHANGHAI.
ROBBER BROUGHT TO BAY AND SHOT DOWN.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Feb. 21. Armed highway robbery in broad daylight in the Avenue Edward VII this morning, de- veloped into another, Sidney Street affair on miniature scale.
A lone robber held up a coolie employed by a well-· kaown shipping Arin/and robe bed blm of a certain amount Police whistles of money. subsequently brought the rob- ber to buy in the region.
All avenues of escape wore closed up, but after over two hours, the robber was unde- tected.
Eventually he failed to stifle a cough, and his hiding-place in a doorway was discovered.. A brief passage of arms fol- lowed,
being the robber
shot down severely wounded, though he may recover.
before the Legislative Council at The Island was unsuccessfully by the Colonial Office on February its meeting on Thursday afternoon. searched for in 1898, and in 1926, 1st, the scheme could not be Free sites are to be provided, and but in view of Captain Norris's changed for at least three months the total cost to the Government definite statement, and the con- from that date, and he gave the will be $296,898.78.
Armation afforded by Captain Ful-assurance that when the Governi- The villages affected are Shingler, there appeared to be ne groundment took a decision on the Com- Mun Lo Kwai, Pak Shek Wo. Pel for questioning its existente, ai-mittee's report, it would have full Tau To. Shek Tau Kin, Fu Yung though there was some degree of regard to the character and time Shan, Nam Fong To, Tai Pei Lek uncertainty regarding its position to the British interests involved.
of any public announcement and and Ho Pul.
In all, there are about 855 The British Government had in- Hakkas living in these villages, formed the Norwegian Govern- most of whom have the surname mont that they considered the title Cheng, but amongst them also are acquired by virtue of the occupa some Cheung's Ko's, Lo's, Tang'stion of Bouvet Island by Captain and Teang's.
The New Homes.
Norris in 1825, to be valid, and that in the circumstances. they inust formally reserve all their righta in connexion, with that la land-British Wireless,
He was not yet in a position:to say when the Committee would make its report, and he emphasised that in such matters, there must be a certain amount of uncertain- ly, whatever date was fixed.
Reply Hardly Needed,
Mr. Austin Hopkinson (Ind.) asked if the Committon would re- port before the whole of the plantations passed into foreign
In a hollow in the hills about two milles bread by two and a half long, formed by Tai Mo Shan, Grassy Hill and Needle Hill, and sloping from Lead Mine Pass EARL OF OXFORD'S ownership. No reply was given."
southwards to Pineapple Pass and Tsun Wan, the inhabitants of these villages own 180 acres of agricultural land.. 1,180 aeres, of
FUNERAL.
Considered Policy;
. The Rubber Growers' Associa tion has issued a statement urging
forestry rights and 42 acres of pine- SIMPLE CEREMONY IN VILLAGE that any radical or hurried de-
apples.
The whole of this area will have to be evacuated, and after careful search in co-operation with the
CHURCHYARD.
parture from the existing condi- tions in the industry, would be fraught with grave danger of Berious loss to all concerned.
The statement adds it is less Important to go into details than to adopt a considered policy which when decided shall govern the situation for an agreed term of. years.-Router.
No American Representations. London, Feb. 20.
Majority Go Dawn With Vessel.
The Halalaning floated for about
villagers, suitable sites have been NUMEROUS TRIBUTES. an hour, but there were 550 Chinese
found to accommodate them at passengers on ixrd the vessel and
Kam Tin, Wo Hop Shek, Nam Shai
London, Feb. 20. A panic started which quickly
A pathetic appeal has been madeed the fact that the girl did not!
Po, Tant Sing Kong, Ping Kong,
The remains of the late Earl of apread throughout, the men
Fung Yuen (Yue Kok), Shek Kü
Oxford und Asquith were interred ning about and interfering uninten-by Chinese merchants of Hoffung go to the nearest house Lo make
to tionally with altempts at rescue, " and Lukfang, now in Hongkong, to a report. He suggested that the
Lung. and Pan Chung, and thean it is proposed to move all the to-day in the churchyard of Sutton A great many of the passengers the Canton Government, request-explanation was that the girl went
inhabitants of the Shing Mun Courtney, in Berkshire; with a cere- monyns simple as has ever attended jumped into the water, but theng help for the thousands of re-to the first house where there was fugees from these districts at pre- a married woman. She would not
valley above Pineapple Pass,
In the House of Commons, Sir majority went down with the inent in the Colony, at Shumchun, go to huts which were inhabited
Details of the transfer are the funeral of a great statesman.
Membera of the family, personal at Ping Woo, and at Canton.
by bachelors of the coolic, class.
given in the sessional paper, and friends, and humble servants of the Austen Chamberlain was asked The petition, whichkis signed by
numerous familiea or dependents, these show that the largest num-descased were the mourners, and whether any communications had Messrs. Ho Che-keung, Chan Man- Shielding Some-One.
who are employed By the State, ber (540) will move to Kam Tin.
the rest of the congregation con-passed between the British and mong and many other Hoifung-
Mr. Brewer put forward a hypothe same exemption to apply to The cost of preparing the sites isted of people of the village in United States Governments within even of these a great many died of Lukfung merchants, declares that
whose midst the Earl of Oxford had the past two months on the subject these refugees, who have had to thetical case-that the crime had other male adults unemployed by for, the now villages is
Personal friends included He replied In the negative. It is estimated that between 300 dee from Communist terrorism in been committed by the man in the State on whom ten or more follows:-Kam Tin, $5,000; Test spent his days of leisure for many of the rubber restriction scheme.
are dependent-Sing Kong, $1,300 Pan Chung, years. and 100 perished in the calamity.their native districts, are in a most pileated by the girl in one of her male children
$10,000: Shek Ku Lung, $600; Sir James Barrie, Mr. Augustin Uritish Wireless, Reuter.
distressful condition and not a few statements. He suggested that Reuter.
Ping Kong, $1,000; Wo Hop Shek, Birrell, Lord Reading and Lord $1,700; Nam Shui Po, $5,000; Buckmaster.
The many floral tributes which This work will be done ex-lay around the coffin, however, clusively by Government, and betokened a wide acknowledgement provision has been made in the of the Earl of Oxford's public ser- 1928 Estimates to cover the ex- vices. There were wreaths from the King of the Belgians, from the penditure.
Dominious Overseas, from liberal organisations, and from former
Berlin, Feb. 20. political adversaries, including Mr.
The delegates of the Central Lord Oxford was buried near a German Metalworkers' Union hay- Baldwin, the Prime Minister, soldier whose grave was marked ing declined, together with the As only by a wooden cross. The Bishop sociation of German Metal Mano, of Oxford conducted the service, facturers, to accept the arbitrator'e
CUTTING DOWN THE CRUDE.
SETTLING THE WORLD OIL DISPUTE.
London, Feb. 20.
of them have turned beggara. The the girl had been shielding some- petition asks the Canton Govern- one and that the ornament was ment:
given away to make robbery ap- PRESENTS EXCHANGED Fung Yuen, $7,000; total $31,500. 1. To provide the refugees in pear to be the motive for the Kangkong and theNew!erime. Territory with free passages to With regard to the two missing Canton, where they should be fed witnesses, the fact that they had and lodged at the expense of the not appeared tended to show that' Government;
they were shielding someone. They were not present because they were afraid someone would
2. To send delegates to Shum chum, Ping Woo and other dis- tricts on the Chinese section of the
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ARBITRATOR'S AWARD REJECTED.
GERMAN METAL WORKERS DISPUTE.
Free sites are given in exchange and hymna were sung by the choir award, granting the workers an in-
Nanking has decided to transfer pensation for building land. re- part of the Nationalist forced now sumed at Shing Mun should not
The cost of making eight wells at Kam Tin, Pan Chung, Wo Hop Shanghai, Feb. 21. In return for Marshal Chiang's Shek, Ping Kong, Yu Kok, Tant present to him and his oficials, Sing Kong and Nam Shui Po is The Journal of Commerce pub- Canton Kowloon Railway where get the truth out of them.
Mr. Brewer. then dealt with the General Feng Yu-hslang has made $2,400. Hishes a statement to the effect there are many refugees, to sec points rained by the Crawn, on a present to Marshal. Chiang Kai- that negotiations are being con- that they are properly clothed and which its case rested, and said shek, including a thousand fur
He coats and 200 horses** ducted for the purpose of restrict- fed;" ing the production of crude oil. 3-To send a punitive expedition they could all be answered.
submitted that there was no evid- On requests by Marshal Yen The restriction is regarded as a to Hoitung and Lukfung as soon preliminary to a settlement of as possible, with it view to exter-ence on which the jury could con- Shi-san and General Feng Yu-for land on which houses now of Now College, Oxford British crease of 6 pfennings an hour, the world oil dispute, and follows a minating the Communists, after vict the girl, and asked for her hsiang,, the Military Council at stand and the question of com-Wirelcas. report that the Standard Oil Com-which the Government should as-acquittal pany was willing to earmark cursist the people and guarantee them tain proceeds of the sale of Rus- adequate means of protection from sian oil for the benefit of ex-further "Red" terror. owners of the wells, who had been unable to obtain compensation..
The crude oil restriction men- aures will begin in. Venezuela where the oil-wells belong to a few large producers, who easily agree to put down the out- put-Reuter a American. Service.
HANKOW ANTI-RED
CAMPAIGN.
can
WHOLESALE ARRESTS AND MANY EXECUTIONS.
Hankow, Feb, 20.
U. S. WAR HEROES.
RELATIVES ENABLED TO VISIT GRAVES.
Unpleasant Duty.
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in Hunan to the Northern front, arise. The existing dwellings at ICE JAM FORMS DAM ON and it is necessary to provide as the Hunan War has nearly come Shing Mun have been measured
to an end..
KUBAN RIVER.
In the course of a lengthy sum ming up, his Lordship, Mr. Justice
All the Kuominchun forces have for the erection of buildings of Wood, said a most brutal murder been moved to the Chochow (South- the same cuble content in the
ING IN THE REGION. had, been committed and the jury Western Shantang) and Taiming new villages subject only to SERIOUS DANGER OF BLOOD- were trying a girl on a charge of (South Chihli) fronts, except the approval of plans. It is proposed.
Moscow, Feb. 20, committing it. The consideration troops under General Yao Wei-chun, to allow the villagers to construct.
A large ice jam in the Kuban of the case was an unpleasant duty who has been instructed by Mar-their own houses, Government and he would ask them not to be shal Feng to take charge in the paying for (1) dwellings, by influenced by the age of the uc-defence of Honan-Nam Chung contract (contractors engaged by River near Krashhoder has caused villagers) as the work proceeds, at a the flooding of about 80,000 acres. cused.
fiat rate of 12 cents per cubic The waters are rising steadily and Washington, Feb. 20.1 Reviewing the evidence and the
foot; (2) outhouses, roughly con- the situation is regarded as ex- The House of Representatives various statements made by the
structed by the villagers them-tremely dangerousReuter, has passed a Bill to enable the girl, his Lordship suid the only
selves, at their value as they now widows and methers of American sensible conclusion which could
stand In Shing. Mun. soldiers killed in the War and he come to was that both choppers buried in Europe to visit the were used in the attack on the old SERIOUS" "DEMONSTRATIONS graves at the Government expense, woman.
Visits not exceeding three weeks may be made at any timo in the course of the next three years.-
A further 29. alleged Commun-Reuter's American Service.
ists were executed to-day, while
large numbers of prisoners round- cd up in anti-Red raids are being held for trial,
Wholesale arrests still continue and the campaign, If anything, ią more intensive than befora, Router
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Ministry of Labour has invited both. parties to a joint conference to be held on February 21st., when it will be decided whether the award will be made obligatoryReuter.
NURSE CAVELL FILM BANNED.
BOARD OF CENSORS DECLINE SANCTION.
NEW WIRELESS TELEPHONE
London, Feb. 20. The British Board of Film Cen- sora has declined to sanction 'the exhibition of the Nurse Cavell war" film "Dawn" about which there
ly, Reuter, There being now 200 dwellings, PAN-AMERICAN UNIONS has been much controversy recent- this works out roughly at $850 a house including temples, and should Continuing, his Lordship
ensure a good type of building
SIGNED. Bald thero were reasons
throughout. the why
jury should not Huge processions, of volunteers Detalls are given of agricultural
Havann, Feb, 20. believe that the
All the heads of the respective finding the pair of choppers was carrying bago banners, "Go Back resumptions, and it is stated that in truc. He suggested that there Simon" and "Boycott Foreign default of exchanges, as there is were grave reasons why they Goods Particularly Cloth" parad very little unoccupied agricultural delegations to the Pan-American should not accept the whole of ed north and south Calcutta this land in the vicinity of the now vll-Conference have afgned the Con- lages, cash compensation will bpvention for the re-organisation of the prisoner's story, as finally morning,
The congress afterwards con-paid, to enable the villagers them-the Pan-American Union in res told, as the true story The Bret
gregated and swore an oath not selves to purchase privately-owned pect of Its governing story might be explained by au
to wear British cloth till Swaraj land in place of their old holdings. and general activities. Reuters
American Service.. (Continued on Page (Continued on Page 14.). is attained. Reuter.
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Washington, Feb, 20. Wireless telephonic communica tion between Washington and Stockholm was opened to-day with an exchange of congratulations bo tween Mr. Frank B. Kellogg at Washington, and the Crown Prince of Sweden at Stockholm-Reuter.
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