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ARE LOCAL SWEEPS ILLEGAL? CABINET BREACH DISASTROUS AMUR BARDOLI NO-TAX BRITISH MINERS TO JAPAN PERISTS ON
‘ALPHONSE" LOTTERY CASE
RESUMED.
INSPECTOR PLEADS IGNORANCE OF COMMON PRACTICE.
HEALED.
PREMIER'S TALK TO
MINISTERS.
"JIX" EXPLAINS HIS FISCAL SPEECH AT ROMSEY.
FLOODS.
10,000 PEOPLE WITHOUT FOOD & HOMELESS.
TREMENDOUS DAMAGE
-Shanghai, Aug, 2. A message from Harb atates that the Amur foods are most sert-
OUR.
Blagovestchensk la badly affect-
CAMPAIGN.
GHANDI LEAVES FOR THE SCENE.
RUMOURS OF PEASANT REVOLT PLANS..
Surnt, Aug. 1.
́ ́GO FARMING.
BEING SENT TO CANADA FOR-
THE HARVEST. -
MAY SETTLE DOWN.
*****London, Ang. 1. "A scheme has been arranged bo- tween the British Government and [the Canadian Government to-en- |ablo 10,000 men, proferably minera, to go to Canada from Britain for
TREATY.
OPPOSES ONE-SIDED
ABROGATION.
WILL ENFORCE HER RIGHTS
· IF NECESSARY,
“DECISIVE STEPS.""""
Shanghai, Aug. 2. -. 'According to"a mesange from
MANY TORY REBELS. ed, part of the city on the Chinese GHANDI IN CONTROL? the harvest season.
side of the river being completely
In making an announcement to London, Aug, 1. flooded and gradually dieanncar-
this effect in the House of Com- MR. LINDSELL SURPRISED.
Political circles awaited withing under the rising waters. In spite of the recent offer by almena to-day, Lt. Col. L. C. M. S. some unxiety the result of a Old residents say that the floods wealthy resident of Bardoll to Amery, the Dominions Secretary, Poking, the Japanese. Note to Dr. The fact that sweep tickets of various kinds are freely cireu Cabinet Meeling called by the resemble the famous floods of deposit the assessment differences said that the men will receive from C. T. Wang, the Nationalist For lated in the Colony was stressed at the Central Magistracy Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, to 1898, when a stamer plied in the with the Bombay Government, thus £3 to £5 per week, with their keep. eign Minister, declares that the
day to discuss the speech made by flooded streets.
removing the initial difficulties, tho Specially reduced fares are Japanese Government is opposti this morning on the resumption of the case against M. Jean Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the
serious side of the "no tax" cam- being arranged, and an attempt to the one-sided ́ubrogation of the Blagovestehuisk and forty vil- Hund, familiarly known as "Alphonse" who is charged with Home Secretary, at Romsey recont-lages around the city are washedpaign is apparently not fully will be made to find permanent Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty.
relieved. possession of Shanghai Race tickets, and with conducting aly.
work in Canada for the great: Glandi, the Swara agitator, majority, or as many as possible. lottery.
It is understood by various out, while the basin of the River
saya Renter, has announced his In- The scheme is part of the wider Inspector Elston, who made the arrest, was closely ques-political correspondents that Mir, Zeya, a tributary of the Amur, la
completely under water,
tention of leaving to-day for Bar-one planned by the Government in tioned by Mr. Leo D'Almada on his knowledge of the open Baldwin emphasised to the Cabinet
The population everywhere ia doli "to decide upon further course order to afford some relief to the sale of Hongkong Jockey Club tickets and Calcutta Sweep that the Government had pursued
acerlain policy with regard to evacuating, and it is estimated of action," a move which is signi- poverty-stricken mining areas by tickets.
Attention was also directed to the fact that sweepstakes safeguarding, and Ministers in that 10,000 have lost all their pos-cant in view of the belief that a the transfer of the miners to other of the Treaty. are frequently organised by the Police Club, and questioned speeches should not go beyond the sessions and are homeless and with-definite scheme for a peasantįɛpheros-Reuter
in this connexion, Inspector Elston suggested they were only Bold to members.
Early in the case, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the Magistrate, remarked that it was curious the Police had not taken carlier action in view of the fact that everybody knew of the variety of such tickets sold in the Colony.
Inspector Elston's reply to this point was that when the Police knew of agents being sent from other ports to sell tickets, they took action.·.
·BANKS DEAL IN CALCUTTA SWEEP.
The quor charge was taken first when the case was resumed be- fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morn- ing.
A Lottery?
Addressing Sub-Inspector. Els
ton, the officer who arrested the His Worship: Do you still ad- defendant, and who was now con here to your plea of not guilty? ducting the case for the police,,his Mr. Leo D'Almuda, who appears Worship asked: it held that for the defence: On the liquor beanuse defendant had certain charge I am going to plead guilty, Shanghai sweep-tickets for sale and barge in mitigation what the that he was thereby conducting a position is.
Jattery?
Was
Government's policy.
The Home Secretary explained the object and meaning of his speech, in which he said that in view of the benefits conferred on the smaller trades, by the "cafe guarding" policy, the Government would before the next election have seriously to consider ita ex- tension to major industries, like coal and iron.
Incident Closed,
out food.
Washouts have damaged the rail- way, and traffic is affected.
The towns of Harbarovsk and Nikolaevak, as well as the whole of the lower Ainur region, are menaced.
Local committees in Harbin are organising for relief work and appeals are being made to Mos-
cow.
Floods Spread.
The damage is at present esti- This speech was widely diver.mated at five million roubles.
Reuter. gent of an address by Mr. Winston Churchill in the House of Com- mons, upholding the virtues of Ereo Trade, and had created "con- siderable talk in the country of an alleged Government split on fiscal
issues.
After Sir William Jayson-Hicks' explanation to the Cabinet the in- cident may be regarded as closed. Reuter's Lobby Correspondent understands that any Cabinet dif- posed as the result of the meeting, ferences suggested have been com-
Ministers' Assurances,
dustries.
about
1
Moscow, Aug. 1. The food hate spread to the Rivers Bureya and Bira, and vil- ages on the shots of those rivera have been submerged."
The Chinese city of Sakhallen has suffered greatly-Reuter.
·
1.
JAPANESE RAIN OF TERROR.
revolt has been drawn up.
However, if the Nationalist Gov- ernment withdraws its claim for the cancellation of the Treaty, the Japanese Government will take no exception to the immediate open
ng of negotiations for the revision
But if the Nationalist Govern-
By agreement with the shipping ment persists in its claim and at- The Bombay correspondent af and railway companies, special re-tempts to enforce the so-called the London Morning Post, wrote duced rates at half the ordinary Interim Regulations, the Japanese recently stating that the atmos- fares wore offered. The Canadian Government, in conformity with phere in Bombay is suggestive of Government had expressed Article 26 of the Treaty, cannot war and revolution, enormous pro- special wish that the men should but insist upon the validity of the cessions having been held in sup-be recruited from the mining dis- Trenly for another ten years, and port of the "no-tax" campaign. tricts and the British Government will take decisive steps, if neces
Chand and the Peasants.
were offering special help to suit- sary, for the enforcement thereof. able men in cases where they could-Reuter. Vallabhabhai Patel, the leader not find the cost of the outward of the campaign, and brother journey.
the President of the The Canadian Government would Legislative Assembly (who try to find work for the men at while professing strict political the close of harvest, and those who Impartiality, contributes, it is wished to return would have alleged, 1,000 rupees monthly from special
of
rates
his official salary), received a tre- British Wirclens. mendous ovation when he visited Bombay.
He does not care, apparently, whether he is arrested, believing that if the Government takes action the whole country will rally under the flag of Gandhi, who is How assuming active control, and that Bardoll will lead India to re- volution.
Sent by Mall,
Peking, Aug. 1. The official Japanese Note to China regarding the abrogation of the Sino-Japanese Treaty has been given them forwarded to Nanking by mail and
DUTCH LEGATION QUARREL
ARBITRATOR RELEASES
BUILDINGS.
a copy has been handed to Mr. Y. L. Tong here. It will be issued for publication in about a fortnight- Reitter.
America's Policy.
Washington, Aug. 1. Mr. C. Ti Wang has cabled from, Nanking requesting Mr. Kellogg to follow up the Customs Treaty by negotiation for the "proper sotilo- ment of all questions needing im- mediate solution."
on a
Several years ago Gandhi re
The Hague, Aug. 1. Mr. D'Almada pointed out that Sub-Inspector Elston-We hold defendant is well-known in Hong that the house in Hankow Road
fused to lead Indian labour be The President of the Hague
Many newspapers are urging Mr. kong. He had been in the Colony where he was staying was his All the Ministers assured Mr.
cause he preferred to lead the Tribunal, na arbitrator, has order- for over five years, previous to 1927, headquarters for conducting this Stanley Baldwin That they accept- SERIOUS LANDSLIDES AND Indian peasantry which, once roused the raising of the seizure of Kellogg to consent to the immediate and had been in the service of the lottery. In the house, there were ed his election pledges, rejecting HOMES DESTROYED.
ed, would destroy British rule. the Foreign Office and Govern- renunciation of extraterritoriality Hongkong Hotel, as Manager of
Ever since, subtly but surely, the ment Archives buildings, which so as to thereby forestall Great Britain, but Mr. Kellogg is disposed their Restaurant Department. He o tickets, but there were a num-general protection, but advocating
great plans for the peasants' revolt have been attached as the con- Tokyo, Aug. 2, acted in that capacity entirely to er of stubs and documenta relat-the safeguarding of depressed in the satisfaction of his employers. ing to the lottery.
Continuous rainstorms In Central have been maturing and Bardoli sequence of a suit by Heer Wen- to follow Sir Austen Chamberlain's
cautious, watchful policy.
It is authoritatively emphasised His Worship:-What
The only notable absentee from Japan in the past few days has re-is only the first step in widespread niger, a former Counsellor of the When he felt the service of the Com-
Dutch Legation in Tokyo, who that the question of extra- people who. sell Race the meeting was Sir Austen Cham-ulted in the destruction of a num- | revolt. pany, he received an excellent certi the
Many hundreds of Indians Bup-brought claims against the Gov. berlain, the Secretary for Foreign |ber of bridges and the flooding of
Lerritoriality is
different ficate which bears out his good tickets in Hongkong?
ported the Bardoli relief fund ernment. Hairs, who is suffering from hundreds of houses.
fooling to the Tarif Treaty. character.
Sub-Inspector Elston!-Nobody is allowed to have agents in Hong-chill and has been erdered by his Sertous landslides in different after hearing terrible tales of The buildings were taken pos and that the adoption of an Strike Memories.
kong to sell sweep-tickets in con-medical adviser to lay in his room parts of the country have disrupted hardships, until Gandhi mocked at session of by a process server on adequate modern system of legal. During the big strike in nexion with foreign latteries. If for a day or two. Ille indisposi railway services, while there as the idea of the peasants starving. July 24th, this development follow-administration must precede the Hongkong his services
been extensive damage to crops and Bardoli Is almost the richest Ining a quarrel between Heer Wen-abandonment of extraterritorial to they are caught hawking flekets tion is not regarded as serious.
American Peak residents--he
then they are run in, your Worship.
dian taluka (subdivisional dis-niger and the Government. The privileges.-Reuter's In a recent speech at Hemel roads, employed at the Peak Hotel-were His Worship: That is, if they Hempstead, Lord Hallsham drew The total monetary loss, is extrict) and all the funds are being former left his post and went to Service. gratefully acknowledged by all are caught. But do you make any attention to the fact that the peo, timated to be many millions of ye devoted to a campaign of Bol- the Dutch Indies. He has so far
"Leftist" Activity. concerned. He worked like a Tro attempt to catch them?
ple gave the Government a man though the loss of life in the many shevism
failed to get satisfaction of his claim for salary and furniture:
Shanghai, Aug. 1... Jan, cooking, washing and doing
The Shanghai Champions.
date to protect industry against un-mleliups is believed to be limited Jair competition by means of safe, to about fifteen or twenty.
which he alleges that the Dutch
During the coming Fifth Plen- Owing to the overflowing of the Sub-Inspector Elston:-We do. guarding duties, and strongly
It is eredibly reported that Minister in Tokyo sold without hisary Session, it is understood there rivers, the houses of severni villages "Wth regard to this particular Every sweep-ticket run in long- urged that this was the only rea- in the vicinity of Tokyo are sub- only 130 rupees have been devoted permission-Reuter. charge, he has been in Shanghal kong comes under our notice. sonable polley which could be purinerged, only he refs showing to actual relief. The funds have where he is employed by a certain Ile Worship remarked that it sued.
above the wifling, waters. Com- bean swollen by five lakhs firm to sell their wines. When he was curious that earlier action came down to Hongkong, he had not been taken by the police Conservative Strongly Protective.munications are belag maintained rupees (approximately £40,000)
by boats-feuler, brought with him samples of these' with the 'evidence already before Reuter's Lobby Correspondent wines with the view to obtaining them of a variety of sweep-tickets understands that a movement is orders. He had no knowledge being sold in Hongkong-notably extending
Conservative
were liable to duty."
His Worship: In spite of his plons.
All kinds of work to help things along.
among
}
Terrorism.
of
that samples brought down here the $10 sweep tickets sold in con- „M,P.& outside the Cabinet, demand. TRANSATLANTIC MAIL volunteers, then, many of whom
--Router,
I admit,
SERVICE.
PLANES TO BE USED TO SPEED DELIVERIES.
ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
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will be a, severe struggle between the Kuomintang "Loftist" Party and the moderate politicians. The "Leftists" are expected to demand the immediate abolition of the Branch Political Councils in all the provinces.
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Political Councils; and, fourthly, that military leaders should not in-. terfere in politics, but should sub- Joct themselves to the orders of the Government.
monthly sent from Bardoll natives residing in South Africa.
Two hundred and fifty fanatical] CAPTAIN COURTNEY LEAVES
It is understood that the de- FOR NEWFOUNDLAND, ». have suffered imprisonment in
mands which the "Leftist" mem- nexion with the Shanghai Cham-ing the largest possible measure
South Africa, are terrorising 80,000
Horta (Azores), Aug. 1,
bers are to make at the Conference Captain Courtney, the well are: Firstly, to further peasants, who refuse to stir abroad
the of safeguarding.
ovoment and who bring all their cattle known British airman, has taken Nationalist position in the Hongkong Hotel? Sub-Inspector Elston said that It is stated that over three hun- Mr. D'Almada: In spite of his the police had been keeping an eye dred Conservatives have now pin-
beneath the roofs of filthy huts, off here on his fight to Newfound bigger
scale amongst the position in the Hongkong Hotel. on such tickets, and they would. ed the Empire Industries Associa-
where men and beast live together, land. Reuter.
farming, and labouring classes He had much to do with the sale prosecute any person who Was
rapidly spreading disease.
Almost all Patel's supporters [Accompanied by a Canadian and to eradicate all corrupt Gov- of wines, but nothing to do with found to have been sent to Hong- tion, which advocates this policy,
passenger named Hosnier, a me- ernment officials, secondly, to re New York, Aug, 1. samples, which is an entirely kong to sell tickets in connexion
have reeigned, though several re- On the other hand, Reu- different thing. He had not been with lotteries run in another part.
The U.S. Post Office announces main nominally serving the Govern chanic named Pierce and a wire-organise the Nanking Central Ex- leas operator named Gilmour, Capt. ecutive Committee and its Standing cabled that the inauguration of a steamer-ment. able to get ordern for those wines. His Worship, (addressing Mr.ter yesterday
The volunteers are now urging Courtney left Lisbon on June 28th Committee, giving both the full au memorial signed by 270 represen-aeroplano Transatlantic mail ser die had had no intention of evading D'Almada) :-You duty.
Imagine, that the defendant was tatives of basic industries has vice with the saliing of the French the peasants to seize the products on his South-West Atlantie flight thority of a Central Government, selling these aweep tickets? been forwarded to the Prime liner "Ile de France" on August on forfelted lands bought at ridicul-vin the Azores, where he arrived thirdly, the abolition of Branch Duty Amounted to $1,33.
Mr. D'Almada: I ask your Minister urging the Government
from New York,
dare not approach Bardoll. The duty amounted, I am told, to Worship to accept a plea of not to seize the opportunity provided at 1mm Havre and August 17th ously low prices, whose purchasers the same day.]
In the event of Government in An amphibian plane will leave $1.3. Las case,.and I submit no guilty and to permit me to address by the report of the International
the liner 'at Buch distance terference, the correspondent says, man in the position of the defon- you on some points on great im- Economic Conference to support a dant would be so foolish as to portance to the public in the movement in the direction of in-from the American and French the peasants will fight. Hence the run the risk of evading a small matter of the Race oween-tickete.ternational Free Trade.
Sub-Inspector Biston will be
This memorial declares that no conate as will save 24 hours in the Government is directly challenged forfeitures of the land effective. duty like that. There is no
The Government la anxious to guilty intent on defendant's part, giving evidence, and your Wor-country is as dependent on the delivery of mail-Reuter's Ameri- to arrest the leaders and make the
free exchange of goods as Britain, can Service! whose great industries can only
reassess the land, returning a por- and under the circumstances I ask ship will permit me to cross-
tion of the taxes, but cannot Ignore your Worship to impose a small examine Inspector Elston.
hope to recover their pre-war pro- penalty!
the witness-box, Subsperity by a revival of the over,
The mill strikers, encouraged by Roller Bill. On a Revenue Officer atating Inspector Elsten said that, armed seas markets,
agitators to the point of starvation, The Bill embodies the recom- Interviewed by Pressmen in that he had no remarks to make with a search warrant and accom-
are now being hastily deserted, bo-mondations made by Mr. Winston Nanking, Mr. Wu Tao-hui asserted In regard to the plea, his Worship panied by Revenue Officer Grim- Imnosed a fing of $10,
mitt and a police Sergeant, he
will certainly yield good results if weapon for encouraging insurre-Reuter. ›¦. The liquor charge having been went to 15 Hankow Road, at 8.30 NATIONAL GALLERY. WILL PERSONALLY SIGN HIS cause Bardoli is a more attractive Churchill in his Budget speech that the Fifth Planary Bessión the Kuomintang Commissioners. can put the welfare of the Party The mill-owners, Teuter reported yesterday, propose to re-open to see resolution expressing the opinion above, their own ondas otherwise, how their former employees will that a satisfactory and lasting solu- the future of the Party is hard Bon of the present political and respond.
the point that according to a re- to the grant of self-govorning sotto of the 4th. Kuomintang Costitutional problems demands into predict. Mr. Wu emphasised Dominion status, & Constitution Plenary Session, hold last year, based on a federation of autonomous "Leftist" politicians, including States, and the abolition of the Dyarchy Reuter.
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disposed of, the Court then gave its on the morning of July 25, attention to the charges arising Interposing at this point, Mr. from the finding of a number of D'Almada asked permission for Shanghai Race sweep-tickets in his client to be accommodated Hund's posscasion. Since the case with a seat.
CHANGE IN DIRECTORSHIP.
MR. KELLOGG TO GO the challenge.
TO PARIS.
TREATY,
Washington, Aug. 1. London, Aug. 1. It is announced that Mr. Frank Mr. Augustus Moore Daniel is Kellogg, the U.S. Secretary of came up for hearing last week, aHis Worship: If he had been a to succeed Sir Charles J. Holmen State, will leave for Paris on board new charge has been added by the Chinese he would not have been as Director of the National Gal-the a.. lie de France on August December 31st. Sir 18th, for the purpose of signing. police, supplementing the original allowed to sit; so I see no reason lery on
Charles Holmes has held the post-the Treaty for the renunciation of charge of possession of sweep why he should be allowed.
(Continued on Page 8.) tion since 1916-Router.
war. Reutera American Service. tickets.
tion.
ed Self-Government Urged.
Calcutts, Aug. 1 The Calcutts Legislative Council, without a division, to-day passed
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE OF LORDS.
London, Aug. 1. The House of Lords has passed the third reading of tho. Rating
It is stated that Mosers. Teal Yuen-pel, Wu Tee-hui, Li Shih- taeng and Chang Ching-klan, four well-known Kuomintang C. E. C. anti-"Left" members, hold-a secret meeting on. Tuesday to devise ways and means to deal with the "Left- ist politicians,
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