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NEW YORK RUBBER SENSATION.
SPECTACULAR PRICE NOSE-DIVE.
BIG INTERESTS LIFT LOWEST PRICES IN HISTORY.
COLOMBO'S NEW PLAN.
%
New York, Mar. 7. Rubber prices took a spectacular nose-dive on the rubber market to day following, the receipt of Iteuler cables from Singapore and Colombo anmuncing the growth of senti- ment in producing circles in favour of the abolition of restriction.
The
Dollar on Demand:-2a. 0.3/168, Lighting-up Time: 0.30 p.m. "High Water: -10.59 p.m. Lyw Water;~4.28 p.m.
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1881-
NO. 2,439
MORE COMMUNIST TERRORISM.
四拜禮
WHOLE FAMILIES TORTURED- BEFORE DEATH.
HORRIBLE DETAILS.
Hankow, Mar. 8.
Details from Chinese sources of the massacre by peasant Commun- lats and disbanded soldiery at Lelz yang show that their first act on
BREXIT THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1928.
WAR ON SWABUE SOVIET
BIG SUCCESSES BY CANTON ARMY.
COMMUNISTS DRIVEN FROM CHIEF CENTRES.
entering the city was to set fire FLIGHT TO MOUNTAINS
to all the houses of well-to-do peo- ple. All the occupants; men, wo- men andechildren, were forced to remain inside, and they all perish- ed in the lames.
en-
95% PER ANNUM
ALTA BINGLE COPY 10 GENTR
LIBERAL GAIN AT TREATY REJECTED
ST. IVES:
› LADY TAKES-SEAT FROM CONSERVATIVES.
TRIANGULAR FIGHT.
London, Mr. 7.
The result of the bye-election In the St. Ives Division of Cornwall, caused by the elevation of the sit ting member, Mr. Le A Hawke (Conservative) to a Judgeship, re-
sulted as follows::
Mra. Runciminn (Lib.) 10,241. Sir Andrew Chird (Gopis.)"... 4,478
Mr. Hopkins (Lab.)
BY EGYPT.
LARGE CONCESSIONS EMBODIED.
SECURITY OF VITAL LINK, THE SUEZ CANAL.
...
BUICK 1928
Buick, for, 1828 has won tremendous popularity among men and women alike, because. It combines "style that women desire with durability that men demand,
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. relephone Cantral 1945 OF 1247. 33, Wong Wei Chung Road. Happy Valley,
OUTSPOKEN PLEA BY HWANG FU.
BRITAIN'S GOOD WILL, & U.”S, LUKEWARM
JAPAN AMBITIOUS.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Mar. 8.
Mr. Hwang Fu," the Nationalist Foreign Minister, in an interview,
CURIOUS ACTION EXPLAINED.
LEAGUE THANKS MR. CHENG LOH
MORAL RIGHTS IN DISPUTE OVER MACHINE GUNS.
declared that whilst the treaties. PRESIDENT'S POWER.
with Peking are technically valid, same time they were at the
-
POLITICAL FOLLY. Swatow, Mar. 6.
London, Mar, 8.
Genova, Mar, 7. From all accounts, the
The text of the proposed Anglo-
The demands of the Little. En- 4.343 Egyptian treaty, rejected by the humiliating to the national dign“ cireling movement which is being
tonte, Czocho-Slovakia, Rumania Liberal majority
708 Egyptian Cabinet, and the papers ity. During the few daya of Com-carried out against the Ini-luk
This is a Liberal gain. Reuter, relating to its negotiation by The Nationalists were striving and Yugo-Slavia, for an examina- munist occupation, everybody in Fung Communists in meeting with;
At the General Election, there Sarwat Pasha and Sir Austen for the abrogation or the revisiontion of the dispute over the smug- gling of machine-gun paris Into the city showing any appearance considerable success. of prosperity was massacred, most-
Hungary, were heard at a private The activity of the Navy on the was a straight fight between Mr. Chamberlain are fasued for publica of the treaties by negotiation,
They would not, however, re- The market was swamped with ly after being tortured,
coast has driven the Communists Hawke (Conservative) and Sirtion this morning."
A memorandum by Sir Austen cognise loans to the present Pek- Session of the Counell of the Cory (Liberal), the Chamberlain after the first coa ing Government.
League to-day,.. nelling ordera. All futures were The gouging out of eyes and the from the port towns of Swabue,Clifford sold at the lofrest levels in the his cutting off of ears were the most and Kit-chle; probably too by former polling 11,159 and the later versation with Sarwat, in London The Japanese, he declared, were The Hungarian delegate, Gen- tory of the rubber exchange, but favoured of such tortures as can now they have entered Kat-chi. 9,972,
last July, during which Anglo- entertaining wild ambitions in oral. Tanczos, presented 61 docu- the market recovered from thirty to be described. Whole families Pressure is heing exercised on the It will thus be seen that the Egyptian relations were revised Chlua, and were bolstering Changmenta relating to the affair, in district from the south, and, if Conservative vote has declined and a mutual desire expressed to Tao-lin, and the Nationalists were which Italy in interested, and the seventy points before noon on short
were thus treated. covering and buying by strong in-
Children were compelled to some reports are to be believed, by 1,681 and the Liberal poll has prepare the way for close co-opera: unable to extend their sympathy Council, after an hour, decided to terests.
tion, is given in the opening of the unless Japan abstained from des- consider the matter in public after The collapse of crate rubber has watch their parents, and parents an advice has been made in Hoi-increased by 269.
Joins Husband in Parliament.
White Paper,. «
patching troops to Shantung.; speeches by the various parties. be accompanied by a weakness into watch their children being sub-fung,ading to the retreat north
After this, Sarwat contributed a On the west, the Communistd
Britain, he agreed, was mani- prominent rubber shares which jected to horrible mutilations and west of the Communist forces.
The Council accepted the motion The new lady M. P. is the. wife draft of a treaty to which a coun-festing a desire to deal fairly, and of Sir Austen Chamberlain to ap prior to being fully slaughtered. dropped from two to six points.
The bulk of the female popula bave encountered the troops from of the Right Hon. Mr. Walter ter-draft approved by the British, Britain would find that the Na- point a committee to deal with the
engagement tion who were unable to fce were 1-pho, and. In on
Runciman, the well-known ship-Government was returned. subjected to unmentionable for near Ll-, have met with ping magnate and former Cabinet When Sarwat Pasha left London tionalists were prepared to reci-matter, this to consist of the dele- tures before being put to death..
severe reverse. They were lured
gates of Holland, Chill' and. Fin- As far as America was concern lanch, out do meet an apparently small Minister in Liberal administra-in November his discussions with Anti-Communist troops force of soldiers, and were caught tions. Before her marriage, shy Sir Austen were practically com- 1926 for the purpose of stabilising patched from Hangchow have now in an ambush, a large party taking was Miss Hilda Stevenson, Pleted but the final approval of 'ed. Mr. Hwang Fu said he felt
was luke- Mr. Cheng Loh's Message. prices and assuring a suficient sup- ply of crude rubber has lost about Leiyang, after the Com them in the rear and inflicting daughter of Mr. J. C. Stevenson, a the British Government was re-certain that America
former M.P. for South Shields. quired for the third draft on which warm, though this he also felt was
Some discussion arose during $1,500,000 on the fifty thousand unists had withdrawn towards heavy casualties.
merely pending the settlement of Mrs. Rúnelman will now join her the two statesmen had agreed,
the private session concerning the the Nanking incidents. tons of rubber which it is believed the Kwangtung horder, where there are reports of further mas-
husband in Parliament, as he sits to have had in hand.-Renter.
Large Concessions.
He told the interviewer, how-action of Mr. Cheng Loh, the Chin- in the Liberal interest for Swan- It really looks as if Marshal Elsen. This is. we believe, the first
When this had been given, Sir ever, that his conversations with ex-President of the Council, Chai-sum's Government
Hungarian Government advising. meoccasion on which a husband and Austen Chamberlain seat the text Mr. MacMurray had proved satie-in recently telegraphing to the the postponement of their deci slon to sell by auction the ma- chine-gun parts.
Rubber Pool's Huge Lusses, The dealers estimate that the American rubber pool formed in
Colombo's New Plan.
Colombo, Mar. ?
sacres,
procate.
des
A number of foreign mission.
Means Business.
·
arica is known to be in the Lei-usiness, and if a number of acro-wife have both sat in Parliament to Lord Lloyd, the British High factory. Unless the present defects of yang area, and their fate is un-planes can be added to the troope.) at the same time..
the rubber, restriction scheme can be overcome and can be applied as compulsory on an equal basis in all the rubber-producing countries in the East, the Stevenson, scheme should be replaced by a "really comprehensive scheme providing
known-Reuter,
IMPERIAL DAUGHTER
SUCCUMBS..
(the papers have indeed an nounced that they are to be used, but there is so far no confirmation
| of this) then the beadquarters of
the Soviet may be taken..
for the adequate control of sup- EMPEROR OF JAPAN'S HEAVY carrying of large quantities of rice plies."
This was the burden of opinion at the Ceylon Estate Proprietary Association meeting held to-day, the 'Association representing practically the whole of the rubber industry of European ownership in Ceylon.
#!
LOSS.
Tokyo, Mar. B. The Emperor of Japan's young est child, the Princess. Ilisa, who has been ill since the latter part of February, succumbed at 3.38 The meeting drew up a memo- 4.m. this morning, of septicaemia, randum to the Civil Research The Emperor and Empress were Committee i regard to the at the bedside and most of the scheme, suggesting the Imposi- Princes and Princesses were at the tion of a special duty of equiva-] Palace. lent value, to be levied on all rub- her exported by all countries pro- ducing plantation rubber.
The Colombo owners state' that the proceeds of this special duly should be made available for the purchase of rubber in countries of production as long as the market price is below the pivotal price, and the rubber purchased to
be utilised as stock to ensure a constant and sufficient, supply.-- Reuter.
Malayan Ballot,
Colombo, Mar. 7,
The chairman of the Ceylon Merchants Chamber addressing the
Some relief to the commissariat problem has been found by the
from Swatow. to the front.
General Chan Chai-tong's head- quarters at Ho-pho have issued strict regulations as to the con- duct of the campaign, calling on the people for whole-hearted assis tunce to the Army. They are re- quired to give all information possible us to the whereabouts of the Communists, their numbers, ammunition, and so on, and dire are proclaimed for penalties failure to give such information,
MIDDLESBROUGH POLLS.
Labour's Bold Did For Sent.
Commissioner in Egypt, with a covering despatch which pointed out that the final draft differed in important particulars from that originally offered to Sarwat Pasha and embodied large concessions to the latter's own views and to Egyptian sentiment.
London, Mr. 7. The bye-election at Middles-
Articlo One of the agreed draft brough (West), created by the death of Mr. Trevelyan Thomson formally records that an alliance is (Liberal), resulted as follows: established, and consecrates the Mr. Kinsley Grimth (Lib.) 10,717 friendship, cordial understanding Mr. Ellis (Labour) 10,628 and good relations of the parties. Mr. Stanley Sudler (Cons.) 8,218
Liberal majority
89
At the last General Election, the inte Mr. Trevelyan Thomson was returned unopposed.-Reuter,
Britain's Aid,
SAMOAN TROUBLES
ENDING:
MEETING TO END THE MAU MOVEMENT.
Mr. Cheng Loh explained the reasons for his action. *
A communique was, afterwards issued as regards the reasons: given by Mr. Cheng Loh at the private sitting. He stated that his action in telegraphing the Hungarian Government was not Intended as an injunction, but as friendly and courteous counsel with a view to preventing the Council from having to deal with an "accomplished fact," and there by aafeguarding the League's. moral authority.
President's Thanks.
Wellington, Mar. 7. According to official advices from Samoa, the Nativo Parlia- inent has agreed to convene a big meeting in the vicinity of Apia on In Article Two, Egypt under March 16th, for the purpose of takes not to adopt an attitude in- putting an end to the Mau move compatible with the allinace or ment.
difficulties for liable to create
A deputation of the chiefs will Britain.
subsequently visit New Zealand to Articlé Three states that if by
mant. volved in war, Britain will, sub- losses and gains make exceptional-ject to the provisions of the the Mau provide that they obeyattention to the difficultios facing.
League covenant, come to her aid the law, act constitutionally, and Mr. Cheng Loh and declared that as belligerent.
In Article. Four Egypt under in the future to submit matters it would be necessary to examine Gains. Losses, Change takes to consult Britain if circum to him through the Samoan dis- the powers and duties of tho act- stances arlae likely to imperitrict councils and not through aine President at intervals between
I
Byc-Election Analysis, Middlesbrough is the 41st bye-
The President of the Counci
There is no official mourning concealment of arms, and other election since the General Election. an act of aggression Egypt is learn the wishes of the Govern- thanked Mr. Cheng Loh for his.
for an Imperial child under the age of seven, 'except for the Crown Prince. Neither will there be any public mourning..
offences.
Embarrassment.
While the deliverance of the Household officials will formu- countryside is urgent, and strong late the funeral arrangements measures have to be taken, many later under the Shinto rites, after of the poor village folk are likely which the remains will be interred to find themselves in great dif
and the following Party figures of
ly interesting reading:
No.
Cons ..... Labour Liberal...
10
21
7
1-
6
9
with a
or threaten the
Egypt's good relations 3 The only Conservative gain was foreign power at Asakawa, near Tokyo, where the ficulty. The Soviet policy was at the Combined University bye-lives and properties of foreigners late Emperor Taisho la buried.directed to involving as many of election at the expense of the in Egypt.
Article Five provides that in view The Empress despite many the common people as possible, Liberals, while the only Labourite sleepless nights by the bedside of and numbers assisted them under loss was North Southwark to the of co-operation between the two her child, is reported to be bear duress. It will be hard to dis- Liberals:
tinguish between thorough-going ng up well-Reuter.
Communists and those who, ad acted, and it is to be feared that many, will suffer.
annual meeting, said the Chamber TRAGIC FRACAS NEAR
lind reported to the Government
that it was desirable to lift rubber
restriction almost immediately,
BOMBAY.
adding "We are left behind, and an DISPUTE BETWEEN PATHANS Individual effort with any necessary corporate action within Ceylon seems the wiser course."-Reuter,
Singapore, Mar, 7.
AND GHURKHAS.
K
MR. CURTIS WILBUR PUZZLED.
The kind of embarrassment likely to nrise is typified by the case of the Christian chapela which have been taken as headquarters by the been painted red, and, when the Peasants Unlons, These hare CANNOT UNDERSTAND BRITISH
NAVAL POLICY. punitive expedition arrivos, will
to
be burnt to the ground unless the; military are previously persuaded exercise the discrimination ecessary in the circumstances.- Our Own. Correspondent.
Good News.
U.S. POINT OF VIEW.
New York, Mar. 7.
farmies as contemplated in Articlo Three the instruction and training
The Administrator's terms to
European committee---Reuter.
SOVIET AND POISON GAS.
OF PROHIBITION,
explanation.
Sir Austen Chamberlain drew
the Sessions.
The Council went on to a dis- cussion of a proposal by Italy that an educational cinematograph in- stitute be created. The Italian re- aolution was adopted,-Reuter.
Difficulties Undivulged.
It has been announced that the Leaguo Financial Committee, owing to difficulties which have not been divulged, was unable to proceed with the proposal for a Portuguese Stabilisation Loan.
of the Egyptian army to be in ac- | AGREE TO RATIFY PROTOCOL cordance with British methods and any foreign officers or instruc- tors necessary must be selected
Moscow, Mar. 7. from among British subjects.
The Central Executive Commit- Articles Six states that if Britain, tee of the Soviet has decided to be menaced with or engaged in war, ratify the act of adherence of the even if Egyptian rights are not Soviet Government to the Protocol affected, Egypt undertakes to prohibiting the use of poison-gaston Loan of £4,750,000.-Reuter. furnish all facilities and assis- tance in its power in Egyptian ter ritory.
in wartime, but has declared that the Protocol would bind the Soviet only in respect of those States which also adhered to the Proto- col.-Reuter.
HOLLAND AND TRADE PROTECTION.
Contrarily, the Committee has agreed to the Bulgarian Stabiliaa-
BRITAIN'S AIR PLANS.
INCREASE IN. THE BUDGET ESTIMATES.
Bombay, March 7. Of seventy-two replies to a
fracas A terrible
between
The Controversial Clause. questionnaire by the Singapore Pathans and Ghurkhas on the Chamber of Commerce, forty-seven Bombay-Poona railway Jine
Articlo Seven permits Britain favoured the removal of restriction occurred yesterday, according to a
Mr. Curtis Wilbur, the Navy to maintain upon Egyptian terri- of rubber output, conditionally or telegraphic message from Khan-
Secretary, defended the Coolidge tory such aimed forces as are con- unconditionally.
dala, as the result of which aix The good news that that part Adminstration's proposal for sidered necessary for the defence The remainder voted for a con-workern were killed and over forty, of the Ifeifung district which is $40,000,000. naval programme in of Imperial communicationa. The tinuance of the present scheme, including many Churkha women between Bins Bay and Swatow, in the course of a strong speech at presence of these forces will not with or without modifications and children, are in hospital with cluding the city, has been captured Bay City, Michigan, to-day, constitute, in any marrer, an oc- Renter.
injuries of various kinds.
by the Army of General Chan- He stated that the Administra-cupation, and will not prejudice The outbreak arose out of an Chai-tong reached Canton yester- tion thoroughly endorsed Sir Aus- the sovereign rights of Egypt, PORCELAIN DUTY INCREASE pared with £15,650,000 last year. vid dispute between the Pathans day. For several months, Hoifung ten Chamberlain's statement that After ten years the parties are to and Ghurkhas Engaged on railroad and Lukfung have been occupied war between Britain and the reconsider the question, of the construction, and was the cul- mination to a series of previous quarrela-Reuter.
TRAGIC MOB RUSH AT GIBRALTAR.
SPANISH TROOPS FIRE ON UNRULY CROWD.
YANGTSZE PIRATE
THREAT.
London, Mar. 7.." The Air Estimates for the cpm- Ing year are £16,200,000 as cóm-
·BILL REJECTED.
The Estimates, include £2,000,- 000, the expenses of the Air Force The Hague, March 7.4 in Irak, and provision le made for by Communist bandits, who have United States was already out localities in which the sale forces
The Second Chamber has reject four more: squadrons, comprising massacred the rich, burned down lawed in the hearts of the people are to be stationed, Should no!
agreement he reached the questioned, by 52 votes to 20, the Bill two additional ones for India, one houses and confiscated much pro-jof both countries, porty. As a result of the "Red" He expressed the opinion, how-may be submitted, to the Council raising the import duty on porce to co-operate with the Navy, and reign, more than 50,000 Chinese over, that the British attitude was of the League of Nations. Jain and glass-wares from eight to a squadron of flying boats. refugees are known to have fled to inconsistent. It was difficult to Should the decision of the League fifteen per cent within three Reuter Hongkong and Canton within the reconcile the conviction that war be adverse to the claims of the months, in order to protect the past months.
was outlawed with the British un-Egyptian Government the ques-pottery industry-Reuter,
their request, The news that a good part of willingness to recognise America'stion can at Hoifung was taken by the 32nd rights to build a limited number be re-investigated at Intervals Regiment of Chan Chai-tong's of the type of ships she desired, of five years from the date FRENCH OIL RESERVÉ, A crowd of several thousands,
Army was published in the Canton or with the British willingness to of the League's décision, The press yesterday. Reports say risk the success of the Geneva also put in its present form pend- GUARDING AGAINST POSSIBLE mostly women and children, many
Articlo concerning occupation is carrying small; · quantities:
Ichang, Mar. 7. that when the Government troops | Conferesco..
ing a future treaty in which groceries, attempted to rugh the Some time ago, pirates were rea- assailed the doomed city, the The Americans at Genova had Egypt would be entrusted with the Customs barriers. The distur-ponsible for the removal of the "Roda" inside affered some re-never been able to reconcile the bance grew space, and troops were River Inspector and his staff, and sistance, and in subsequent fight-conception of the absolute naval protection of British interests, enlled out, firing on the crowd. they have now expressed their in- ing a few hundred of the Com- needs otrossed by the British A British Preference.
Two wore, killed and several tention of removing the mast munist troops perished on the presentative with negotiations wounded, while the terror-stricken buoys and bamboos in the river so field. When the city was finally for a treaty-fixing limitations of a Egyptian Government when en- Article Eight provides, that the crowd awormed back to Gibraltar. that ships will run aground. taken, the Canton Army claimed basis of mutual, concemtons. →
Reuter.
Naval Wireless.
(Continued on Page 14.) Reuter, (Continued on Page 11.) '
Gibraltar, March 7. -The stridincas of the Customs searches at La Linea, of Spaniards returning from Gibraltar, led to tragic consequences to-day.
of
TO REMOVE RIVER MARKINGS.
EMERGENCY.
|MEXICAN INSURGENTS.
り
FURTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN
JALISCO:-1/chr
Mexico City," March. 7, Amossage from Guadalajara Paris, March 7 states that four Insurgent, leaders The Chamber has passed a Bill have been killed and twelve of
national reserve of oil against of Jalisco Router's American. regulating the importation of oil their followers as the result of a with a view to the creation of a brief engagement in the State
possible emergencies. Reuter Service.