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Chian Building.
JAPAN FIGHTING SALT PLAN.
1 & 3. Wyndham Street, Hongkong."
Library, Supreme Court
Dollar on Demand Light-up Time: 46 High Wator:-11
Low Water:6.56) p.m.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Tel. G. 260
FOUNDRU 2011
NJ, 22,633.
WITHDRAWS FROM THE CONFERENCE.
BRITAIN AND FRANCE AGREE ON NEW REGULATIONS.
四拜素 M-A-+UF THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928. tar
RUBBER CONTROL
LOCATING WATER
NEEDED.
AMUSING EPITAPH DISPLAYED IN LONDON.
"MEMORIAL SERVICE.”
London, Oct. 31. The Colonial Office has issued a sintement confirming the previous Announcement for the removal of
IN HONGKONG.
EXPERIMENTS WITH “DOWSING" FORK.
ON SITE OF CATHOLIC VARSITY HOSTEL,
CHARFIELD_TRAIN MR. ARITA NOW IN
DISASTER.
DRIVER OF EXPRESS HELD RESPONSIBLE
MANSLAUGHTER CASE.
London, Oct. 31..
SHANGHAI.
AS FOREIGN OFFICE
SPOKESMAN, -
JAPAN KEEN TO FOLLOW UP NEGOTIATIONS.
JAPAN TO ACT ALONE. ali restrictions on the export of SCEPTICS CONVINCED. mall express crashed into a goods NEW PARLEY LIKELY.
Peking, Oct. 31. Though it is clear that serious divergences of opinion exist in diplomatic circles, with Japan as the leading opponent, there seeins no further doubt that an agree-
rubber from British Maloya and Ceylon as from November 1st,
It
$50 PER ANNUM (
BINDED COPY 100ENTS
THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY BUICK.
ON SHOW TO-DAY
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Talapkaos Central 1240 or 1247.
· Wong 35 Nal Ching Road, A... Happy Valley.
INDUSTRIAL WAR IN ZEPPELIN'S RAPID
GERMANY.
STEEL EMPLOYERS REJECT ARBITRATION AWARD.
AN ILLEGAL LOCK-OUT.
Berlin, Oct. 31. The prospect of a gigantic labour war in Germany, the conse. quences of which cannot, at this stage, be foreseen, looms ominous.
PROGRESS.
SAFE ARRIVAL EARLY THIS MORNING.
STOWAWAY NOW ALMOST REGARDED AS HERO."
stool GREAT WELCOME HOME
London, Oct. 31,
The glant German dirigible, the
At the inquest to-day on the fourteen victims of the terrible railway disaster at Charfield, Glou- cester, a fortnight ago, when a
It la announced that 220,000 West German Iron and train during a fog, and caught fire,
workers will be locked out from Those who ridicule stories of n vordict was retted that the
Shanghai, Oct. 31. to-morrow, following the. refusal localing water by means of the collision was due to The ne Migence
Mr. Arita, the Chief of the of the employers to accept the The passing of restriction was the "dowsing-rod" will probably of the driver of the express, a man Japanese Asintle Bureau, who has Arbitrator's Award, granting a Graf Zeppelin, has successfully ne
révise their opinions after named Aldington, in passing
increase wake
to employees, gollated the Atlantic crossing G made, the occasion of a humorous
reading details of experi-signals showing "Danger."" been sent to Shanghai no the re- ranging from two to six pfennige second time, though she did not us Incident at the Rubber Exchange, ments along these lines
The disaster was described as ault of a Foreign Office confer an hour. NC-
was anticipated pass over the Bri With the refusal of the iron and tish Isles on her homeward course. an ironical epitaph To the cently carried out in Hongkong, the worst on British railways in
Owing to the ece at Tokyo on Monday, arrived steel "barons" to accept. this At first it was thought likely The Rock, a Catholic monthly charred and dismembered con- to-day. Though he has not been award, the threat of a huge in- that she would reach hor dostina- ment has been reached with Nan-Memory of Old Man Restriction" related in the current issue of recent years.
being conspicuously placed in the magazine:
dition of the remains of the vle given plenipotentiary powere, Mr.dustrial war becomes imminent. tion, the aerodrome at Frlesrich king's representatives regarding
Exchange.
The industrial magnates are The experiments took place in tims it was impossible to identify was draped in the future of the Salt Gabelle.
connexion with the scheme for the them, though doctors were satis. Arita is empowered to order the resolved to close down their shafen, this evening, but later in- formation revealing that she has crepe rubber,
of factories rather than pay increased changed her course.alightly, indi-. It is understood from very
An adjoining note invited all allding of Ricci Hall (the Catholle fled that fourteen persons lost their Japanese Consul-Generals reliable quarters that the terms of interested to attend a "Memorial University Hostel), those respon- their lives. About 30 were injur- Tsingtao and Telnan to go to wages, which they declare would cates that she will not reach hor Nanking to carry out further pour- make it impossible for them to starting and finishing point: until the agreement, embrace to a large Service" in the evening to celesible for which decided to invite toed.
Hongkong a missionary Brother The Bames enveloped the tole.
As a lock-out is illegal, the ení- extent the proposals of the Nan-brate the termination of restric-stationed in the interior who was scoped coaches and hampered res- parlers for a solution of the Teinan compole in the world's market early on the morning of November
known to have achieved some re cue work. Both main lines were Incident.
ployers can be sued by the Trade In the meantime, brokers were markable auccessca in Australia blocked with wreckage. Both en- The Japanese Government Unions for compensation for Remarkable Crossing. doing business all day long, pune- and in Portugal in finding water gines were smashed and burned places great hopea in the pursuit wages lost by their members, but
Even so, the flight is remarkable tunted by the singing of a parody by means of the dowsing-rod. In and were unrecognisable metal of the negotiations with Nanking it is expected that the lock-out beginning Who Killed Cock Ro Australia, he found a strong supply work. The drivers had remark at this stage, and this accounts for will be of short duration as the as the Zeppelin left Lakekorat
of water at a depth of twenty feel able escapes.
the hurried despatch of Mr. Arita. Government will certainly inter- New Jersey, at 2 a.m. local time on al П time when sheep were The jury at the inquest also re- The Tatman and Tsingtao Consuls vene in an attempt to persuade the the morning of the 29th, and thus dying at such a rate, owing to the corded a verdict of manslaughter are already in Shanghai and were parties to end the struggle she will have accomplished her drought, that in places a sheep against Aldington, and. the among the large crowd of Japanese Renter. could be purchased for a shilling. Coroner committed fim to trial on and Chinese who awaited on the This was in 1915.
this chargo-Router.
pier to greet Mr. Arita.
king Government, and, maveover, Include the retention of Mr. Hussoy-Freke'a services Foreign Associate Chief Inspector.
as
tion.
bin?" "We,' said the Dutch."
Coples of this amusing parody
during th morning-Reuter. were distributed in the Exchange
Inspectors to Remain. According to information avall able, the Chinese Government, by the new agreement, assumes full responsibility for the service of THE U.S. ELECTION loans secured on the Salt Gabelle
ravenue.
Although it is certain that radical alterations will be made in the organisation of the Gabolle, the District-Inspectors will remain. They will pay the revonue into a bank nominated by the Nationalist
RESULT.
NOT LIKELY TO BE KNOWN BEFORE WEDNESDAY.
Minister of Finance, who will in THE DOUBTFUL STATES the fork pointing perpendicularly
turn pay monthly a sum nufflelent to cover the servlees of the loana into a bank nominated by him.
Japanese Withdraw.
FRANCS CASE FIGURE BANKRUPT,
of
An Early Conference
A conference between Mr. Arits, Mr. Yada, and their colleagues was held almost immediately at the Japanese Consulate-General,
MAN TO BE FROZEN FOR POSTERITY.
TALE TO TELL,
and it is understood that a definite DEAD MEN AND WOMEN WITH policy has been laid down by Mr. Arita for future discussions of the Tainan Incident with Dr. G. T. Wang.
It is learned also that Mr. Arita and the Tainantu Consul will pro ceed to Nanking this evening whilst Mr. Yada will remain in Shanghai.
Interviewed, Mr. Arlla said he was glad of the opportunity of visiting the New Chinn, under the
tional Government. administration of the new Na-
lat.
voyago in three days, apart from the differences in time.
At seven o'clock this morning, the magnificent ship of the air was sighted approximately 280 miles south-west of Ireland, and at ton o'clock, a further message was re- colved showing that she was about 140 miles west of Brest.
Fast Travelling.
At 11.26 am, the British airabip station at Cardington, Bedford-
STRANGE SOVIET PLAN.shire, where a great British
Hrigible is now in the final stages of construction, picked up a wire. Moscow, Oct. 11.
less message from the Zeppelin The Far Eastorn Geophysical saying: "Over the Bay of Biscay," Observatory has conceived and The vessel, aided by favouring worked out a most remarkable plan wirds, was evidently travelling for the erection somewhere in splendidly fast. Siberia of an enormous refrigera- tor museum.
The Experiments. Giving details of the Hongkong experiments, the Rock says that on October 6th, in the afternoon, this missionary Brother paid a visit to the site of the hostel on Pokfulum Road and made many experiments. MRS. BRADLEY DYNEI Holding in his hands, a fork-
TO APPEAR. shaped plece of wire, the apex of
London, Oct. 01. upwards, he walked back and for- The meeting in the London *New York, Oct. 31.
ward over the site. Within five Bankruptcy Court to-day for the Mr. Hoover and Governor Smith minutes he had his first success purpose of publicly examining The funds thus made available
now making their final In spite of all his efforts to hold Mrs. Bradley Dyne, the well- ean then be drawn for loans upon are the signature of the Chinese and speeches in different parts of the the wire in the perpendicular posi-known defendant in the celebrat- [country.. The poll will be taken tlon, It began to curve inwards |ed Franca Case, which resulted in Foreign Chief Inspectors.
on Tuesday, November 6th, but the towards his body and then a Foreign Office enquiry, and the
A message from Bordeaux on- result will not be known definitely downwards, indicating that he dismissal of Mr. J. D. Gregory, the The Japanese Legation has issued until the afternoon of Wednesday was standing over flowing water. Assistant Under-Secretary
purpose of preserving for eternity Graf Zeppelin was sailing serenely a semi-silicial report stating that at the earliest in view of the huge Further experiments near this State, had to, be adjourned until
It will be constructed for the nounced that at 9.30 pan, G.T, the the bodies of the men and women off the mouth of the Gironde, owing to the hopeless divergence of voto and the corresponding slow-spot resulted in the fork dipping the next sittings owing to the ab-
at two other points, All three sence of Mra, Bradley Dyne.
Japanese Policy.
of all races of the world as it in
Over France, opinion between the Anglo-French ncaa of the returns.
Many guesses as to the final were in the same straight line,
to-day, with the idea that some Questloned regarding Sino- delegates and the Japanese repre-
Shortly afterwards, her navigat- future generation and civilisation sentative in connexion with the Na-result will no doubt be based upon which seemed to show that all O. St. C. O'Malley, formerly in tionallet Government's new Salt the early #gures of the more doubt belonged to the same flow of wa China, was also involved in the Japanese relations, the Chief of may accurately understand the ing officer took her over the French
the Asiatic Bureau said there is a
coast, flying over Tours at 8.20 present. Gabelle regulations, it is under-ful States which are thought to ter. stood that the Japanese Charge hold the balance of power in the
-experimenter then put Judgment was given for Messrs. possibility of an early resumptionIn addition to these frozen p.m. apparently proceeding in the D'Affaires has informed Sir Mice election, such as New Jersey, Newaalde the forked wire and look in Baring Bros. for over £33,000, of the negotiations, adding that bodies, utensils, samples of food direction of Blois and Paris.
The officials at Friedrichshafen Lampson, the British Minister, and York, Pennsylvania, South Caro his right hand another piece of though Mrs. Dyne stated she was his mission is to confer with the products, and also animals will be
consequent upon the news of her the French Charge D'Affaires, that inn and Connecticut. These will wire, atraight save for a bend at a woman of straw" and could, not Teinanfu Consul and Mr. Yada eternally preserved.
regarding the policies that the The preliminary estimate of the rapid progress expected the air he is reluctantly compelled to withhe available on the night of the the que extremity to give à grip, pay; draw from the present joint cos-election, and will probably settle
It was stated to-day that the Japanese Government wish to cost is 10,000,000 roubles, and it ship confidently by ten o'clock to further speculation,
Direction of Flow. ference.
hankrupt has gone to adopt. Mr. Arita pointed out that is intended, ultimately, to appeal night at latest, and the landing. join her husband. A statement the Japanese Government has not for subscriptions from scientiae place was lavishly decorated in Holding this wire pointed of straight in front, he began to walk of her affairs showed liabilities of yet decided to appoint a plenipo-organisations all over the world. preparation, while huge crowda tentiary to open official negotin- The Soviet Government Hydro-have gathered in order to give her which Mr. Smith is the Governor, in a direction that lay across the £41,000 and assets nil-Router,
tions with China.
graphical Department is now crew a great welcome home. but it has a reputation for being line formed by the three points
organising an expedition to Caps
It is not known whether tho strongly Republican.
at which the fork had dipped in the first experiment,
It is stated that the Japanese Desire, Novazemblya to erect the most northerly observatory in the
To Act Alone.
ziri
New York State is most difcult | Ho forecast. It is the State
The
Henceforth, the statement con- tinuca, Japan will act by herself In this connexion, the British and French delegates having rejected. President Coolidge has accepted the Japanese proposal for n con- the resignation of Mr. A. B. Hough-
As soon as he came over the line, adequate ton, the United States Ambassador the wire twisted in his hand and ference to device scheme in substitution for the to London, who was recently did not come to rest again unti! Chinese regulations.
nominated as Republican Senator lay exactly in the line of the for New York State-Reuters three spots, thereby indicating. American Service,
that the water over which he was standing was flowing in that diroc- tion.
The Japanese point of view is that the enforcement of the new regulations will severely affect the loan of June, 1920, secured on the Salt Gabelle. Apparently, the British and French representatives are not satisfied that this is the cor- rect attitude to take.
Mr. Hussey-Freke. The Peking Standard, writing ap. parently before the facts related above became known, commenting
on the reported salt settlement, be
lieved the arrangement is along
by ten millions paid into the Ministry by the Provinces will be remitted to the Salt Gabello for payment of bonds directly secured thereon.
FRENCH ROYALISTS
SENTENCED.
·CALLED ON CROWD TO..
KILL POLICE.
Saintes, Oct. 31.
2
It will be recalled that Mr.
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woman
NEW
CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA.
TO-DAY'S OPENING CEREMONY AT SHANGHAI.
·
..
Later.
representatives in Shanghai de- Arita and the cided that Mr. Tainanfu Consul should proceed to Nanking this evening, while the Tsingtao Consul and Mr. Yada; the Consul at Shanghal, will leave on Friday to continue the infor- mal negotiations with Dr. C. T
ter. Wang, the Nanking Foreign Minis-
world-Reiter.
MANCHESTER'S NEW AERODROME.
winds dropped, or whether the Zoppelin, reduced speed, but her progress after reaching the coast of France was much 'slower than oxpected and she will not reach Friedrichshafen before morning.
Stowaway May Be Happy. The stowaway, Clarence Ter- Shanghai, Oct. 31. will be opened here to-morrow The new Central Bank of China
PROPOSAL SANCTIONED BY hune, the American youth who was discovered on board four hours after the Zeppelin had left. morning, when Mr. T. V. Suong, the Minister for Finance Afairs
London, Oct. 31,
Lakehurst, will have little difficulty. and concurrently Chief of the new
The Manchester Corporation to with the authorities as the new University playing fields, the wire Bank, and other officials of the suls will represent the Japanese day sanctioned the erection of a German sporting spirit is impress- institution will formally take up Government in the parleys on the Municipal Aerodroma at Chated by his escapade. The American Consul has arrived, at Friedrich- office.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Pre-settlement of the Tsinanfu Inel- moss, near the city.
It was only yesterday that the shafen to arrange passport forma- dent, and Mr. Yada, will concen-
His second series of experi ments were still more Interesting Walking along the side of the hill, where it falls away towards the
dipped suddenly and much more
vigorously than on the former oc- casión, Indicating that he was now
have been conderaned to imprison-surface than in the first case,
Administrative. Yuen, will repre-
Dr. Chu to Assist.
The Tainanfu and Tsingtao Con-
vision.
CORPORATION,
Six of the Royalist demonstraf over a supply that was either sident of the State Council, and trate on the negotiations connect Air Ministry Issued a circular Iities, while two offers of employ the lines recently proposed where,tors concerned in the Pons outrage much stronger or much nearer the Mr. Tan Yen-kai, Chairman of the od with the Nanking Incident, the letter to big towns in the provinces munt are awaiting the ex-golf cad- sent the Central Kuomintang, and Hankow incident, and Treaty re-inviting them to consider the addy, one from the famous Hagen- visability of establishing Muni-beck Circus at Hamburg, and the the National Government respec- tively at the ceremony,
Dr. Chu Chao-hsin, the Vice-cipal Aerodromes with a view to other from big stores at Aix-la-
development of Chapello. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek will Minister for Foreign Affairs, who assisting the
Sold Hls` Story Nights. formally declare the opening, in is in Nanking, will assist Dr. C. civil aviation-British Wireless."
Terhune has been asked by the the afternoon, of the National Na- Wang in the conferences with
latter to name his own terms, Mean- Live Products Exhibition.
while, it is reported in Berlin that the young stowaway has sold the newspaper rights of his story for a- Iarge sum to one of the journalists on board the Zeppelin..
ment and alight fines. Their sen- The direction rod was then used tences vary between 6 days and and indicated that the water was flowing across the alte almost 30 days.
The other received the benefit parallel to the Pokfulam rond. of the First Offenders Act.
The Innemuch as the „Japanese
Sceptics Answered. police gave evidence to the effect) Government has a claim to the that the necused men called on the Here was the chance for the surplus of all collections from the crowd to kill the police-Reuter,
scepties among the audience. sajt rovenues, and as Mr. Hussey
"How could water flow that way? Froke does not make provision for
It would have to come under those any surplus in his agreement with
houses at the foot of the hill and Nanking," says the paper, "It is believed Japan will withdraw
then climb up, and we were al- him' all support from
and
ways taught that water never~~;" decline to countenance any
The mari of magic cut short all arrangement entered into by
abjections. "You never know how Britain and France. The Japan-
water will flow. It might flow eso are understood be
over the top of that, mountain" opposed the new agreement, which
(pointing to Mount Davis). He
haya
ROYAL DUTCH SHARE ISSUE.
DIVIDEND STIPULATION TO ATTRACT INVESTORS.
The Hague, Oct. 31.
18. entirely without legal statue. The Board of the Royal Dutch
A surplus by the alleged new plan Petroleum Company has decided to
MORE US. GOLD
BUYING..
Japan.
SIR ABE BAILEY'S Nanking Protests,
STABLE SOLD. Nanking, Oct. 31. Over four hundred delegates of AGGREGATE OF OVER £80,000
REALISED. fifty public organisations, includ-
Newmarket, Oct. 31. in the Women's Longue, the Nanking City Kuomintang, the
Sir Abo Balley, who has boen Citizens Political Department, the Peasants' Association, the Stud-racing in England for nearly It is announced that Mesars, ents' Union, etc., marched to the thirty-five years, is giving up the does not claim to be a scientist, Speyer and Company, the well-office of the State Council of the Turf, owing to ill-health.
nearly G.$2.500.000 pose of submitting demands anent er in Hongkong will be inclined purchased
MOVEMENT FROM ENGLAND CONTINUES.
New York, Oct. 31.
Hie nineteen yearlings and forty-
does not exist, hence there will be pay an interim dividend of ten per but those who have bored for wa-known New Yorki bankers, liave/ National Government for the pur two horses in training were auc-|
no payment of interest on the ein- cent, on January 10th. king fund for the ninety-alx m/-. A new Issue of shares, entitling to agree with him. At any rate worth of gold from England, bring the negotiations with Japan for tioned to-day, being sold for an A smart colt by Chaucer out of Mon loan, in which Japan la con- the holders to full dividend for 1920 he succeeded in silencing the au- ing the total of gold imports to the settlement of outstanding le-aggregate of 86,450 guincas.
the United States since the move sues. The demands are the same cerved. Mr. Hussey Freke's post- and the following years, will be open dience and the experiments went ment changed in this direction as those ventured by the Shang-Reef made the top price, being sold Hon therefore is regarded as ex- to subscription on November 12th. on.
to over G.$17,000,000.-Reuters hel Students' Union and publish for. 7.800 gulness. The purchaser was Captain Hector Macdonald--- tremely precarious.”—Reuter,
ed in our issue of Tuesday. American Service.
Reuter
Reuter
(Continued on Page 14.).
A Now York message says that the airship is carrying a ton of malls. in respect of which the German- will bo Postal Adminstration credited with £16,142 by the United
British Wireless,"" States Post Office-Reuter and
Trip Completed.
Berlin, Nov. T. The Zeppelin has arrived in Ger many, having been sighted--at Waldshut, Baden, at 8.30 am,
Many Later. The Graf Zeppelin has arrived.
at Friedrichshafen-Beuter,