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SWATOW SURTAX FOREIGNERS SHY OF MISSION SCHOOLS NEW POLICE GOLD MUKDEN RAILWAY THE AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL CLASH
DEADLOCK.
MERCHANTS REJECT PROPOSALS.
APPEAL MADE TO CANTON GOVERNMENT.
GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
RUSSIA..
SEQUEL TO DONETZ ARRESTS AND TRIAL.
BIG LOSS IN OUTPUT.
Niga, Oct. 7. Some interesting revelations of the conditions prevailing in the Donetz coal mines, and A1 admission
that, since foreign
PERTURBED.
SWATOW EDUCATION
PROPOSAL.
DISSEMINATING SUN YAT-SEN PRINCIPLES.
MEDAL.
TO BE AWARDED ANNUALLY FOR ESSAY.
OPEN TO THE EMPIRE.
London, Oct. 7. B.M. the King has honoured the policemen of the Empire with a new mark of his interest and engineers have been averse APPROVED TEACHERS. appreciation of their services, It takes the form of a gold medal Swatow, Oct, G.
to be presented annually by His Early this week, a notice was
to accapting positions owing
the
espionage recent charges, the position has gradually
to
Swatow, Oct. 5.
PROBLEM.
FENGTIEN DELAYING
RESUMPTION.
ROLLING STOCK QUESTION NOT SETTLED.
TROOPS ON THE MARCH
Naval wireless messagen received
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AIR FORCE.
SERIOUSLY CRITICISED BY SIR JOHN SALMOND.
OBSOLETE MACHINES.
Canberra, Oct. 7.
Air-Marshal Sir John Salmond,
the Officer Commanding the Alr Defence of Great Britain, whe
FIASCO.
|DRASTIC PRECAUTIONS
IN AUSTRIA.
STEEL-HELMETED TROOPS EQUIPPED FOR BATTLE,
for the past few months has been RAIN HAS FINAL SAY. investigating the combatant value
Vienna, Oct. 7.
Astonishing scenes reminiscent
"to end the struggle between the meeting of the Pan-Ukranian to all schools in Swatow ordering men of all the Regular Poliénalist troops of all armice, mostly just submitted his report to the Attempts have'again been made become worse, were made to-day at sent by the Municipal authorities Majesty for competition among this morning state that Nation of the Australian Air Force, has
Swatow merchants and the SurtaxMiners' Committee.
Bureau, but without any success.
M. Lemay, the chairman, aid since the Donetz At a meeting held a few days that thi
have been ago at which representatives from trial foreigners
embarrassing relue 48 Merchants' Guilds were present, showing an
to accept positions the officials of the Surtax Burenuance stated their willingness to institute in Russian mines, while the Com- reforms with regard to the mer-munist "specialists" who have taken chants complaint that owing to over the duties have failed to pro- excessive delay in the administra-duce more than fifty per cent. of tion of the tax, goods, of a perish the production of mines equipped able nature were often ruined with similar machinery abroad.
The Pan-Ukranian Miners' Com- owing to heing stranded on
mitte has been in conference on the wharves and jetties,
The whole discussion centred difficulties in the mines, and several around this aspect of the case and special reports were submitted, and no mention was made of the exhor-leading to the same conclusion, that bitant charges which were the the bow productivity of labour is original and chief cause of com-due to the absence of efficient sup plaint on the part of the mer chants.
Three. Proposnīs, The proposals made by the officials of the Surtas Barenu may be summarised as follows:
to
1.-Goods coining down Swatow from up-country, which have been examined at inland stations, shall be exempt from examination here, provided that the bill of tally from the inland examining clerk proves to be correct. In the event of the tally not being accurate, goods must be re-examined here
2--In the case of goods to be exported from Swatow, the Surlax Bureau will accept the report issued by the Maritime Customs and will not re-examine the con- signment.
3-In cases where perishable goods from inland have gone bad en route and are therefore value less before they reach Swatow, the Surtax Bureau will eaneel the tally supplied by the up-country examining clerk.
"Squeeze" Possibilities, .
ervision.
The Committee is now conferring on the best manner to overcome the present difficulties.
SOVIET PRODUCTION OF VODKA,
PROGRESSIVE INCREASE 18 PROVIDED FOR.
י.
Forces.
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of wartime greeted visitors to on foot, continue to move west Australian Government. them to "register," and stating that
ward from the Tongshan area,
Sir John Salmond comments Wienerneustadt to-day, as the re-. in future all students must receive
where conditions remain quiet The medal, together with 展 instruction by an "approved"
The troops are moving along, the unfavourably on the equipment suit of elaborato precnutions by of the Australian Air Force, the authorities to pravent 3 teacher in the Three Principles of substantial money prize, will be
Tientsin-Tongahan road. Appro- stating that while the Force has |awarded for the best essny on Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Of the twenty-thave schools here, a set subject connected with ximately 1,200 troops withdrew on been established on a firm basis political disturbance.. Hundreds Friday from Lanhsien by train, and developed along sound lines of journalists were present in the subject
going west through Kuyeh.
the Force is seriously limited many are already giving such in-police duties, and the
Pending the completion of nego owing to the obsolete type of expectation that serious riots were struction, with its accompanying chosen for the first year's com-
tintlons for handing over rolling Service machines used, and the imminent, but nothing happened. rites and ceremonies, but in no case petition is co-operation, between
stock and arrangemerits for the entire absence of reserve equip- la the teacher "approved" by the
The anxiety arose from the de- payment of coal traffic, the Feng- ment authorities,
Lien authorities will not allow traffic other than special trains to cross the Lanhsien Bridge.
The only man who seems to have this approval is a certain gentleman who in his own student days had to be "requested to leave" his school owing to his alleged unruly be haviour.
Missions Perturbed.
SEARCHLIGHT SOCCER.
To-night's Big Attraction at
Sookumpoo.
Something entirely novel in local football is to be provided. at Sookumpoo Valley io-night, when searchlight aoccer match will be play in aid of Tattoo Funda. A huge crowd
: is expected. :
The match will be between the Army and Hongkong Chin- ese and will start at 7.30 p.m. sharp. Admission will be one dollar. V
olf
com-
A meeting between General Yang Yu-ling and General Pei Chung-hst to settle terms for the resumption of traffle is expected to take place at Lanhsien in the near future.
Japanese Troop Withdrawal. Shanghai, Oct. 7. Reports are current in Chinese
circles here to the effect that the Japanese Government has decided to withdraw 7,000 troops from Shantung before the end of the month.
If this plan is carried out, the number of Japanese troops re- maining in Shantung Province will be reduced to 6,000.
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He expresses the opinion that cision of the Heimwehr (Fascists) the Air Force is unfit to undertake and the Schutzbund · (Socialists) with the Army or the Navy, and town to-day. It was known that war operations in co-operation to hold a big demonstration in the he recommends that drastic im-
provement should be one of the both parties would be present in rst duties of the Australian large force and that there would Goverment,
be armed and uniformed forces on both sides.
Sir John Salmond has drawn up a scheme, which he has sub- mitted, embracing a programme of development extending over a period of nine years, which will cost at least £1,139,000.-Reuter,
PRISON GATES BATTLE.
ESCAPE BY LAUNCH ON
MISSISSIPPI: .
Gas Masks and Hand Grenades.
The possibility of a clash was very obvious; but the anxiety was unjustified in the event.
The Government precautions against diaturbance was based upon the principle that serious danger needs a drastic ramedy.
Thousands of steel-helmeted Feng and Yen for Nanking.
soldiers, equipped with gaa.. Now, York, Sept. 10,
grenades. Shanghai, Oct. 7.
A number of prisoners in the so-masks It is expected that both Marshals called Incorrigible Camp of the were drafted in to the district Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hat-shan Louisiana State Penitentiary made yesterday and stationed at all wil shortly be in Nanking to a spectacular attempt to escape confer with the other Nationaliat yesterday evening. In a fight with vital pointa,
the guards six prisoners were kill- ed, one fatally injured, und eight received less serious injuries.
and hand
It is proposed that this man, and presumably others chosen by the Municipality, shall go round to the various schools giving the required· It will be recalled that several be under the control of the school Instruction. Such teachers will not German mining ergineers' were ar- rested in the Donetz coal basin for authorities, but will be responsible alleged complicity in a counter-only to the local Government.
The situation is viewed by those revolutionary plot. There were
Misalon Schools in charge of the afterwards acquitted-Reuter,
with some perturbation, as such a Acheme would involve the after- tion of all the carefully planned time-tables at present in the, and If the "approved" teachers did not IONELAN SAVENTURANMOBURUN choose to conte at the regular hours uppointed, further incon- the polica and the public in the venience and disorder would re-detection and prosecution sult.
crime.
The institution of this Prospect of Trable.
petition is announced in a recent One does not need to be a school-Metropolitan Police Order. master to realise the possibilities
Ficid and Machine Guns. The competition will be open to In this connexion, it is stated for trouble involved in the appoint-serving members of Regular Police from Nanking that Messrs.
The local gendarmerio, reinforc ment of a teacher who is not under Forces within the Empire or We Han-min, and Tsaf Yuan- the authority of the officials of the Mandated
The trouble started when one ed by men from other centres, Territories. British | pel have telegraphed 10 school at which he touches, and one
prisoner who had smuggled in an Wireless.
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan request-automatic pistol covered the two were can easily visualise the possibility,
ing him to proceed to Nank wardera and forced them to open bayonets, while a number of field Ing to take part in the control of the gate. Fourteen other prisoners batteries were placed in position, pay the probability, of a man such
the Central Government adminstra then joined him.. as has been described above stirring up endless rebellion against dis- The whole increase will be discipline by European teachers of tribaled among the peasants, while Chinese students. great efforts will be made to re-
At present, the officials of the Mission Schools are pursuing a policy of "masterly inetivity" with re-
to the whole xard
matter, in
pro- the hope that his poral, ke 80 many that have! gone before it, will never get any
and di further than mere talk russion. Our Own Correspondent.
The Soviet
Riga, Oct. 7. Press publishes estimates of the production" of vodka by the State Monopoly for the next three yeara,"
These show a progressive In- crease from 450 million tres in 1928 to 826 million litres in 1931,
It does not need any great induce drunkenness in the industrial English Presbyterian sight into the slate of affairs here arens--¡cuter,
U, S. COTTON STRIKE
ENDED.
to realise the futility, of the sug- gestions, which are rather con- fessions of previous "manifold sins und wickedness" than serious efforts towards reform. The very admission, for example, that in future the Surtax Bureau will accept the Maritime Customs WORKERS ACCEPT REDUCTION valuation of goods gives one hint of limitless examples of former squCZE,
The first proposal is perhaps the most ingenious, as at first sight it has the appearance of a genuine offort to help the speedy clearance of goods coming down from inland for export from Swalow,
ย
. When one remembers, however,
that every inland station has different system of weights and measures, so that the "cattic" is by no means as standard a unit as it might be, one realises how rarely the "tally supplied inland would be found correct by the Bureau hore. Again, what unending op- portunitica for squeezo!
OF WAGES.
New York, Oct. 7
A message from New Bedford Mass.) states that twenty-five local cotton mills which have been closed since April, as a result of a strike affecting 27,000 workers, are being reopened. ·
To strikers have agreed to accept a five per cent. reduction of wagen-Reuter's American Scrvice,
THREE NEW WORLD RECORDS.
MOVING PROVINCIAL
of
CAPITAL.
PEKING CHAMBER MAKES PROTEST.
PRINCESS MARY IN IRELAND.
GIVEN WARM WELCOME IN DUBLIN.
Free State,
loaders.
tion.
armed
with rifos
and
Taking the guards with them, with machine-guns squads attnch-
theed to the others forces. the prisoners then went to
In the meantime, however, the Guard House and broken open the lockers containing the shot guns
heavily authorities induced the rivál parties and ammunition. Thus urmet, they made for the bank of to estabilsk a neutral zone. It was the Mississippi River.
in the neutral zone that the major- Three of the runaways were killed by volleys of heavy shot, fired ity of the Government forces were from Ure walls of the prison, but concentrated. the others managed to reach the river, where they murdered the boatman and made off with his
launell.
Powerful Rivals,
Many Arrests.
The latest noiva concerning Marshal Feng is that he is on. his way to Nanking and is expected Tiere about the 10th, instant..
Properties Released.
Shanghai, Oct. 7. London, Oct. 7.
Sometime last year, during the Princess Mary and Viscount brief Communist control of Hau- Lascelles were welcomed, when kow, properties of a umber of they landed yesterday morning inrith Chinese politicians and mer
The Heimwehr parade dustering Dublin, by a considerable crowd.chants were confiscated by the
Government,
At a meeting of the Hunch Pro- who cheered them heartily. They
Meanwhile, the prison officials over 20,000 strong, the majority. motored to the Viceregal Lodge vincial Government on Friday the had reached the river bank and equipped for fighting if it develop-
Council ordered that properties and breakfasted with Mr. McNeil, belonging to 17 such politicians de poured a rain of lead into the re-ed, ended half an hour before the Governor-General of the Irish returned to their owners.. Three treating craft, killing several, and Socialist parade began.' The So-
in all probability wounding many of them are stated to be so grate others, before the boat got out of cita mob and their sympathisera ful that they have consented to
numbered approximately 85,000, They then proceeded to Por- donate $30,000 each to the Govern- range, tumnu Castle, their Irish acat. ment.
One prisoner who had remained and, after they had assembled, the Shanghai, Oct. 7.
on the bank was killed by fire from proceedings were begun with an an- It is reported from a reliable The little town of Portumna was
the retreating men and a prison theai, "The Song Of Liberty.". source that the Chinese Chamber beflagged and the inhabitants as-
official was wounded. Commerce at Tientsin has sembled in large numbers at the lodged a strong protest with the Castle gates and gave the Princess and Lord Lascelles'a great ovation, Nationalist Government regard-
Princess Mary and Viscount ing the propused removal of the Hopel (Chihli) Provincial Council Lascelles will leave Portunma from Tientsin to Peking. The Castle next Thursday for Uister, merchants desire that the Pro- where a great reception awaits shall con-them. They will be the guests of With regard to the last proposal, NURMI DOES WONDERFULLY vincial Government she on the Duke of Abercorn, Governor
AT BERLIN,
whereas the Government intends of Northern Ireland, and the Berlin, Oct. 7. instant.
to effect its removal on the 12th. Duchess of Abercorn.
1 They will make a tour of the The Finnish runner, Payro
Shanghal, Oct. 7. shipyarda, rope-works and linen representatives from the 48 Mer Nurl, participating in an athle Shang Chen of Shansi, who is factories, attend ceremonies con- down the whole scheme of reformic meeting here, established three chairman of the Hepsi Provincial nected with the British Legion, Council, has wired Yen Hel-shan Girl Guides and Boy Scouts, and because they argued that such
He ran 10 kilometres and 210 stating that a meeting at Tientsin pay a visit to Lord Craigavon, proposals, if carried out, would leave Innumerable pitfalls in their metres in an hour, covered 15 on the 4th inst. decided that the Premier of Northern Ireland, at way and their ultimate state would kilometres in 46 mln. 49% seca, and provinafal government should move Stormont Castle.-British Wire.
the 12th, Yen less. dd the 10 miles in 60 mín. 16 seca. to Peking on containly not be improved.
Halehan, therefore, is instructing The merchants have requested Reder.
the divisional political council fo the Canton Government to veto
move from the former cabinet theso proposals and have expressed
offices so that the provincial nu- the opinion that the need for a
thorities can use them--Reuter, Suridx Bureau has now passed.
The Canton Government has not
Honnn Situation. *.. The merchants, however, aro de- yet made any pronouncement on termined to hold out as long as
Shanghai, Oct. 7. the matter, but has sent down Mr.possible, but are taking rather a
Reports on the situation in Ku Sc-ling to investigate the whole gloomy view of the future, Fear Honan have been somewhat con- affair and to make a thorough en-is being expressed that even if the acting hut a message from an quiry into the method of adminis-surtax is settled to their satisfac-
independent source tration of the surtax:
tlon, that will only be the begin- ning of things,, as, owing to the Fang Chung-haiu's conditions has ed the goodyear Zeppelin Corpora-
one neat make no comment..
Scheme Turned Down.
It is to wonder that the
chants' Guilds unanimously turned
now world records,
before the orange crop is ready for export.
J
says that
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GIANT DIRIGIBLES FOR U. S.
The New.Government.
Nanking, Oct. 7. It is believed that the personnel.
The gendarmerie Immediately of the five Yuan or boards which foregoing, also Chiang Kai-shek as are to constitute the Government President of the Council; Tu Tuch-placed under arrest several Com of China will be announced before jen, Yen Hai-ahan, L Chat-sum, munists who attempted to address. the 10th inst.
Li Chung-yen, Yang Shu-chwang the vast crowd. Over sixty Com A member of the Central Execu- and Ho Ying-ching, Reuter.
munists were eventually taken in former custody, including tho Czecho-Slovakian Deputy and editor, Mr. Victor newspaper Sterm
tive Committee Informs Router that the Presidents of the Boards will be as follow:
Executive Yuan, Tan Yen-kai. Legislative, Hu Han-min, Judicial, Wang Chung-hul. Examination, Tai Chi-ino, Control, Taal Yuan-pel.
-Reuter.
Semi-Oficial Forecast.
Shanghai, Oct. 7. The Kuo Min News Agency makes the following forecast of the directors and vice directors of the Five "Yunn:"
Executive "Yuan," director Tan Yen-kal, vice-director, Feng Yu- halang.
Legislative "Yuan," director Hu Han-min, vice-director, Lin Sen.
Yuan," Judicial
director Wang Chung-hui, vice-director, Chang Chi.
Examination "Yuan," director
Mukden's Attitude.
Shanghai, Oct. 1.
དྷིསཾ
· Foreigners returning from Muk-
A heavy downpour of rain came den state that a considerable dif- at a critical moment and most ference of opinion now exists be- affectively damped the ardour of the tween Yang Yu-ting and Chong demonstrators, and the gathering Isuch-Jang the former desiring dispersed without incident.
It is stated that there were at to host the National fing and a general rapprochement with Nan-least 300 Pressmen in Wier- king, while Chang Houch-liang is erneustadt to-day in the expectation reported to be becoming more of trouble-Router. conservative and inclining to the view that Manchuria should re main aloof and become prosperous" by not participating in Chinese affairs, and only join up if the stable becomes really country and unified. Reuter..
The Jehol Problem.
Pofping, Oct. 7.
THE IRISH CASTLE OUTRAGE.
A M
TWO SUSPECTS PLACED UNDER ARREST.
GOODYEAR CORPORATION GETS CONTRACT.
Londen, Oct. 7. Washington, Oct. 7.
It is understand that Pei Chung- The Navy Department has award-
The Irish police have arrested Tai Chi-tao, vice-director, Sun Fo. hat is leaving Tongshan for Lan two men on suspicion of being con Control "Yuan," director Teal chow today to visit Yang Yu nected with the fire which damaged gradual supplanting of forelyn now become definitely worse and tion a contract for the construction
Yuan-pel, vice-director, Chon Koting to discuss with him the re- part of Fortumna Castle, the Irish turn of the rolling stock in. It is feared that if some satis-oficials by Chinese in the Maritime that he has announced his retire of two giant dirigibles.
ment to Shanghat leaving his They are to cost $7,825,000|fu.
other questions, seat of Princess Mary and Lord factory settlement is not reached Customs, difficulty in that depart forces at the disposal of the Na (gold)Reuter's American Ser-
Lascelles, last Thursday-British It forecasts the composition of Jehol and soon, the merchants may have to ments is anticipated before very tional Government, inter..
Wireless the State Council to include, the Reuter capitulate, as it will not be long long-Our Own Correspondent,
Gloomy Outlook,
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vice.