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CHANGE IN POLICY
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RUMOURS REGARDING IMPORTANT POSTS.
CADETS NOT TO GET THEM 'IN NEAR FUTURE.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Rumours of appending chang in the pudier of the Government regarding vert cân, giministrative appointment, Ant of sou die. sagujet zamenu perventu of 185 414 Servies likely to be affected by de - proposals said te be contemplated.
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NO 2,91
REGENCY CRISIS CHENGCHOW FALL
EPISODE.
QUEEN-DOWAGER'S RETORT
TO COUNCIL..
| RUMANIAN SENSATION.
Berlin, Oct. 15. Considerable Sensation has been caused throughout the whole of Rumania by the revelation "of a remarkable episode in the course
of
received
IMMINENT?
RAPID ADVANCES BY
KUOMINCHUN.
YEN HSI-SHAN'S ATTITUDE VERY UNCERTAIN.
OCTOBER
16, 1929.
RUSSIAN ATTACK ON SUNGARI.
NEW VERSION OF SINKING OF GUNBOATS.
L
HEAVY SOVIET LOSS.
Tokyo, Oct. 16.
An official despatch received by the "Japanese War Offer from Har bin, based on Chinese communi- a slightly different version of the efish between the Chinese and the Soviet forces on the Amur River. -
the recent Regency crisis, NANKING'S ACTIVITY.ques, gives [according to advices
to-day from Renter's representa- tive in Bucharest.
Regencs
According to the Runarjan newspapers, Queen Marie, the Bawarer-tugent, jutimate 1 to the Geven adient her desire to join the * The Coment of Government is reported to have agreed to sun- Nicholas, the younger brother of pout her provided that Prince
Prince Curol, resigned,
Hurkow, Oct. 16, Though the movement of troups and munitions continues unabated, perfect quiet prevails in Hankow, which is supposed to be one of the Best objects of the Rogminehun
milensive.
Latest arrivals of troops mclude who are being transported to the the Sixth Division from Anhwei,'
front as rapidly as possible.
"
Yesterday it was repera that three Chinese ganboats hill been aurk and that five hundred of their crews had been drawne.
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DISASTER.
THIRTY ODD DROWNED
OR INJURED.
BRIDGE... COLLAPSES UNDER A
PROCESSION.
PANIC IN DARKNESS.
Swatow, Oct. 1.
Swatow cclebrations of
UNITED STATES.
PRIME MINISTER'S FAREWELL MESSAGE,
UNITED FOR PEACE.
ON INCREASE:
MORE BRITISH CASES REPORTED.
11
EPIDEMIC NOT EXPECTED, HOWEVER.
ADVICE TO PUBLIC.
The Queen is said to bave re- All freight trains and locals were made at the Colonial Sertorted, vigorously, refusing torean-senger train, services have been aeroplanes. Severe fighting took all gaily decorated with flags and Stales from His Majesty the King tallas by the Telegraph this consider such paltry bargaining" suspended on the Kinkan Railway and pointing out that she was owing to the extensive troop move The Government spokesman in-sufely actuated by a desire to ments, but the through expresses timated that no changes in the Five Prince Nicholus advisory are still being maintained. It is, existing pudeure were "likely to support, and that she had no wish however, expected that even those be made. but suggestions to the to rain a predominating role for will be stopped very shortly contrary have ben fly freely the Royal Family in the Begrecy
Council. circulate and discussed,"
Ottawa, Oct. 15. Issuing a farewell message to the people of the United States on his arrival at Niagara Falls this morning. Mr. Ramsay Mac-. Donald, the British Prime Minis
Diphtheria is figuring fairly ter, who is now the guest of Mr. the Mackenzie King in Canada, sait prominently in the current returns Double Tenth anniversary wars was imposible to mistake the notifiable disease in the Colony. marred by a tragic incident in meaning of the diality of the British and the others Chinesu), Last week, three, enses (one which several lives were lost by American people, drowning, owing to the partial
were recorded, all terminating He-recognised that in collapse of a bridge over a branchwhelming him during his visit to Chinese
over fatally. On Monday, two further of the Han river.
Pretitient Houver they wore hail whilst yesterday's return shows notified, According to the Japanese patch, the Soviets attacked early declared Public holidays in honour cheering the messures of goodwillbeing British and the
Wednesday and Thursday were ing the object of his visit and three more. cases, two of these on the morning of October 11th,
other with seven gunbonts and twelve of the Tenth, and the streets were which he carried to the United
Chinese.
Last week's health return also plare and three Chinese gunboats bunting, the most notable and and all sections of the community were sunk, resulting in about two picturesque display being outside of Great Britain.
shows six "eases of typhoid, all hundred men lost their lives:
the offices of the Seamen's fie had tried to make it plain, Chinese (two imported), of which he said, how earnestly the citizens two were fatal. There was also "It seems," 3418 the report. In addition to strings of bunt-of the British Commonwealth of one case of small-pox and one of that, three Russian gigbeats wereng, this building and a large the people of the United States and both non-fatal.
Nations share in the prayers of cerebrospinal fever, bath.CMinese also sunk, '
model of a steam-ship displayed,
It
Special Knowledge.
that
has been suggested vertain decisions have been reach
regarding the
ment of officers of the Government to headships of departmen's where specialised, knowledge. is required.
heard of the incident.--leuter. and that as a result, na cadet will, A fater message received fra
Union.
after Sun Yat-sen, to form lantern procession.
Lantern Procession.
Later.
cases were
Ho Ying-ching, in Command.
Yesterday, a further Chinese The despatch adds that the Su-the whole beautifully illuminated that war shall cease. Government circles declare that i
General In Ying-ching, Marshal viet has sent out a wireless broad from within...
The response of the United case of small-pox and one of cere the attitude of the Queen-Dowager Chiang Kai-shek's chief lieutenant, east message to the effect that
The day passed oft quietly, ex-States had been a great inspira- bro-spinal fever were also notified, is unprecedented, and add that it arrived at Hankow quietly on Sun- they have landed marines and of cept for the inevitable crackers, tion. is considered that Parliament has day by aeroplane from Nanking.cupied a Chinese town at the labour unions, police and military with proofs
Dr. Fawcett Interviewed. been insalted by a member of the lie was accompanied by fluence the Amur and the Sun assembled at the New Park named Atlantie divides us, the enuse of morning with regard to the inci-.
and at 7.30 p.m. all the schools, step across the border rich appoint-Royal Family not holding an foreign adviser and he refused togari, the occupation Laking effect
that while the Interviewed by the Telegraph this official position.
grant an interview, only infinat- It is believed that more will being that he was taking over com- Jon October 13th.
pence unites us. Thut is the mes- defee. of diphtheria, Dr. H. A. sage from you that I take home."Fawcett said it was usual to get plete command of the Nationalist river feet withdrew up the Sun- The remainder of the Chinese treat the front.-Reuter.
-Renter's American Service, a certain number of cases at bhia- o future, be appointed as Presi-Bucharest states that the original
gari.---Reuter. Shanghai, Oct. 13.
time of the year, but he was dent & the Sanitary, Bong or as proposal emanated from the Pre- The First Division and the
This was the first such proc28-
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was little worried about it... Colonial Treasurer. It is also pos- | mie¥, 31. Maniu. Bet from Queen | Ninth Division of the Nationalist
A message received by the sion which has been allowed for greeted by cheering crowds able that the next Captain Marie herself.
forces left Hankow on Monday for Rengo News Agency says the some time. Last year the military his arrival at Toronto, He faces Superintendent of Police, or I-"
The newspaper Univeral states Wushingkwan on the Hupeh-Ho-Chinese Commander-in-Chief of authorities refused to allow a a strenuous programme similar to specior-General ax Tre is now that following the leath of Dr. nan frontier,
that the North-Eastern Fleet is report- similar venture owing to their fear
arranged in the United known, will not be a cadet.
Buzdugan, the Government 1- The Kuominchan forces are.reed to have arrived at Fuchin, to of its providing an""opportunity
States. Information, of course, is scanty. directly suggested that Qaren parted to be advancing rapidly in which point'a brigade numbering for Communist disturbances, and The Premier previously whe It is stated, however, that exports. Marie should replace Prinue onan, centring on Chengchaw,2,100 men has been despatched for it spenka well for the increased officially welcomed at the entrance may be appointed from Home to Nicholas, and that, as compensa- which is occupied by Nanking the purpose of coping with the feeling of peace and security Here to Canada in the centre of the these positions in the near future. | tion, she should animate two tropps, who are commanded by tense situation in the neighbour- that there was no hindrance or International Bridge over the
embers of the Counell-Re-Tang Seng-chi,
hood of Lingklang. "No Definite Change."
abjection, made to the Lantern | Niagara Falls.--Renter, Procession this year,
Our equlates this morning drew the statement that no definite ehunge in official appointments is rentemplated. It was pointed out that non-cadets were appointed, to the positions inentioned," po pre- cedent would be set, as officers other than Cadets live, in the past, necupied the positions of Colonial Treasurer. Captato Superintendent of Police and Pre- sident of the Sanitary Board. -
It is, however, interesting to note that while alt Colonial
1857 were not Cadets, it
has been the settled policy of the Government since Mr. F. H. A. Forth retired from the position after fourteen years survive, to nominate endets for the past.
SOVIET CONSULAR
RAID SEQUEL.
HEAVY SENTENCES PASSED
AT HARBIN,
FIVE GET 9 YEARS.
Shanghai, Oco. 16,
Chengehow, to Fall? General Suti Liang-sin is dieet. ing the movements of the Kaumin chon and he has twelve diyisions and seven independent, brigados under his control. The main force is being directed against Cheng chow, which is almost certain, to
fall.
The Chief of the Nanking Air Department, General Cheung. Wal- sheung, formerly of Canton, is leaving for. Chengchow with a Squadron of eight aeroplanes to ase
Treasurers frèm 1842 to It is reported by Reuter's cor.sist in the defence of Chengehow, respondeat at Harbin that the while General o Cheng-cian, Chinese courts delivered judgment whose unsatisfactory interview yestent.y aftermson in the case with Yen Hsi-shan has increased arising out of the raid go the anxiety in Nanking, will go co Soviet Consulate-General on May Chengehow in command of the 27th last, when thirty-eight per-Government troops. spne on the premises were arreal- ed, including 'h. Chinese.
Past Policy:
A
The trial started an Ortalu. 21 1 and concluded on October 10th, the judges reserving their decision.
Thirty-seven of the thirty-eight accused were adjudged to be guilty
Fong Story Scoffed At.
Usually well-informed circles are inclined to sea at the report that Yon Hai-shan has made a pri soner of Feng Yu-hsiang. It is pointed out that not only are Yen
Harbin, Oct. 10.
Lingkang is situated at the confluence of the Sungári, and Amur Rivers, and was occupied by Soviet forces on Sunday.
The report adds that the Chinese are advancing towards Lingkiang for the purpose of re- capturing the place, as the Soviet forces prevent Chinese ships navigating the rivers.Renter.
able therefrom are
DISPUTE OVER FIVE CENTS.
HAWKER GETS COMPEN SATION FOR SCALDING.
to
Following a dispute over a bowl of congée, a Chinese was alleged to
have smashed the, vesel in.) which the congee, was being cook- this morning, he faced a charge ed, and, at the Kowloon Magistracy of breaking and damaging property of a hawker.
breakugg
the
According to Inspector Stimsou, the defendant purchased a bowl of a
The approach to the New Park from which the procession was to start, lies over an old wooden bridge which spans one of the numerable branches of the Han river, which form the Swatow delta. This bridge is only used dezen times a year, and had to any great extent some
been allowed to fall into a very poor state of repair,
Bridge Collapses.
half
The result was that just as the
SEVERE BLOW TO MALAYA.
SIR HUGH CLIFFORD GIVING UP GOVERNORSHIP.
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Dr. Fawcett went on to deal
with methods adopted at Home for combatting the disease, pointing out that in schools, "where “out- breaks chiefly occurred, swabs. wère applied to the tonsils or the back of the nose and from those swabs it could be ascertained whether germs were present or not. That was being done at Stonecutters, continued Dr. Faw coft, where there had been an outbreak. By these means car- riers of the disease could be traced and isolated. With the awab pres cautions taken at Stonecutters, the discuse should be quickly stamped out.
Dr. Fawcett also explained a susceptibility test carried out among school children at Home. Some people, he added, never WIFE'S GRAVE ILLNESS seemed to get the disease, but
Singapore, Oct. 15.
procession which had formed in Owing to the grave illness of
others contracted it whenever it was going. By means of the test it was possible to ascertain those children who were susceptible and
the park was starting on its way Lady Clifford, H. E. Sir Hugh they were innoculated in the usual to the town, a
fairly large Clifford, M.C.S., G.C.M.G., G.B.E., section almost in the middle of the bridge gave way and left a gaping hole some 10 feet by 5 feet in size.
The people on that part of the bridge of course at once » fell through into the water. and the press of people behind pushed many more over the brink. It is stated that be- tween 30 and 40 people fell into the river, and several were badly hurt by striking the wooden supports as they fell,
Anti-Toxin Treatment,
the Governor and Commander-in-way as for typhoid. The objection Chief of the Straits Settlements, to innoculation, however, was that has invited the Secretary of State the immunity was for such a short for the Colonies to terminate his time and did not last a year. That appointment.
procedure was also now. carried His Excellency has received out among nurses in hospital. permission to The same facts obtain with re-
leave the Colony forthwith and to hand over the ward to the Sanitary Board, Premi
administration of the Government 1908 to the present day, with the
-Dr. Fawcett emphasised the [to the Colonial Secretary,
value of anti-toxin treatment, say- exception of buler period
Sir Hugh and Lady Clifford willing that if it was taken in time- when Mr. Adam Gihon neoupled
suil from Singapore on the H.S. kru Alve tempora ily,
it was one of the finest cures in the or a violation of the Three Peo and Feng the losest friends, The defendant denied the
Karmala on Friday, the 18th hend of the Sanitary Board has les Principles Inid down by the but Feng Yu-heinung has sufficient
the whole of medicine and could instant-British Navel Wireless. always been a Catlet. The present late Dr. Sun Yatesen, and (b) Kuomiuchun roops in the imme holder is Mr. W. J. Carrie.
Sir Hugh Clifford, who is 62 practically bring people back from Likewise, the Police Department subversive assemblage.
violation of the law forbiddingdiate viity of Taiyuan fa For
Solders promptly rushed to the years of age, has been Governor of death's door.
the Straits Settlements since 1927. Advice given to Hongkong has been under the control of a
cibly rates bir should the more congee for two cents and tendered rescue and helped in keeping He has proved himself an able ads residents was that if a person had a undet officer for over thirty years. Five of the accused. Russians,' sy arise.
a five-cent plece. He was given three back the crowd and in getting out ministrator, who has seen much sore throat or any signs of it, he The first cadet officer to get the were sentenced to nine years' imprl.
coppers change, but insisted that some of those who had fallen into service in the Malay States and should immediately go to a doctor, sonment, twenty-one of the ne- Up to this morning, there is no he had given the hawker a ten- the water, Coolies from. the clsewhere. He was Governor of get his throat swabbed, and cused were sentenced to seven shred of news from foreign or cent piece. During the quarral, various Charitable Guilds also did North Borneo in 1900-01, Colonial thereby ascertain whether germs Chief until 1801 when Major yours' imprisonment, seven of them | Chinese sources to confirm Chow, the defendant kicked the cooking good work,
Secretary in Ceylon for several were present, and, if germs were General A. II. A. Gordon filled the were sent to prison for five years, Tai-wen's statement that Feng Yu-pot and caused the bolling congee The work of rescue was render years and later. Governor there, found, innoculation could he ctfect- vacancy. The latter remained while the four women "conspirahsiang is held virtually a prisoner to seald the hawker's foot.
ed much more difficult by a From 1912 to 1924, he was Gov-rd. for two years only, however, since tors" were sentenced to imprisons by Yen Hsi-shan..
On ponviction, the defendant general panic, and by the fact that ernor of Nigeria. Te is the nu- It starts just like an ordinary when, starting with Sir Francis ment for two yours.
The latest information available was ordered to pay $1 compons the tide was at flood and the place thor of inany admirable studies of sore throat and if taken in time it Henry May, later a Governor of
here is that the relations between tion and also to sign a band of $50 very poorly lighted. An eye-native lifa among the Malays. the Colony, the appointment hus
Feng and Yan continue to be cor
witness, describing the to be of god behaviour for six stuted that owing to the com-Hugh in 1910, was, formerly Mrs. might have recovered, from the
Lady Clifford, who married Sir Sometimes, although acene, always been given to a cadet.
It is expected that the covetu:) † dial--Renter,
months. | persons will fodye un ppeal ngainst
paratively small size of the hole de la Pasture, the well-known au- disease itself, it left the patient. thu verdiet and the sentences.-m
in the bridge, those who fell thor of several novels and plays.
with, a weak heart or paralysis, Bentor,
through first were held under the
but it was certainly the wisest - water by the weight of those who
thing to go to a doctor if a sore. topnted in after them.
throat was contracted.
appointment was Mr. W. M. Deane
in 1868. He remained as Police
The man found not guilty was Chinese.
WEATHER REPORT."
Not Precedent, But—— “ The general practice over a period, on the average, of forty years, has been to appoint cadets' to control all important Govern- ment Departments with the excen tion of the Public Works Depart- mont and the Colonial 'Secretariat. The Royal Observatory, report It cannot therefore, be an that pressure is now highest over adequate dental of the rumours North fupan. The typhoon is now in circulation to point out situated in the eastern part of the that no precedent would he estabBalintang Channel, moving N.W
The forecast till noon to-mar: Rumours of impending changes row is:-N.E. winds, moderate,
concerned solely with the freshening: line to cloudy. three departments named. It is interesting to note that the follow-
[sheti.
nre
Peking, Oct. 16.
Shanghai, Oct. 15.
The interview at Taiyuan between General Ho Cheng-chin and Mar- sh: Yen Hsi-shan has produced no real results. Marshal Yon Hsi-shan refused to nasume duty as Com- munder-in-chief of the Government troops in North China. At the same time, he gave Ho Cheng-chun to understand that he had also re- fused to accept the Kuominchun's offer to become joint C.IC with Feng Yu-hsiang in the war with the National Government.
Kuominchun Strength.
General Ho Cheng-chun told Pressmen to-day that the attitude
FIVE-POWER NAVAL CONFERENCE.
ITALIAN GOVERNMENT'S
ACCEPTANCE.
Rome, Oct. 15,
Family Tragedy.
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benevolent
Swatow's Turgent Scoiatles-for identification,
The gap in the bridge was hastily harricaded off and the pro- cession went on
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Monotonous Affair,
Although well attended and Jau-
few
can be cured," said Dr. Faivcett. person
11
.
Dr. Fawcett continued that in Hongkong the total number of casca notified last year was 90, these being 64 Chinese and 26 non- Chinese. There was generally a considerable drop In summer.
More Cases Recently,
So far eight bodies have been recovered, but it is thought that several more people were drowned. The bodies recovered are those of a man and woman, three small The Italian Government has re- children, and two older children. terns being carried in great pro- plied to the British, invitation The woman and one child a boy fusion, the procession as a whole incidence of the disease occured He would say that the highest the five-power naval disarmament of 10-have been identified, as the conference to be held in London in wife and child of a well-knorieturesque lanterns were to be from November to February, nl-
disappoining. A January next.
The Nate accepts the invitations proprietor of a Medicine shop it and the Military action gave though it was a disease that was
Swatow. They were not 'taking of Marshal Feng Yu-hslang and of and notes the British Cern part in the procession but were demonstration of "Slogan Shont present all the year round, there the Kuominchun Divisional Comment's proposal to communicate its standing on the bridge to see in such as has not been heard had been rather mers cases than manders is distinctly anti-Nanking, viewpoint regarding the subjects to past.
he bulleves that albe discussed at the conference. though the Kuominchun claims) Pending the receipt of this com- Breen acting), S.C.A. (Mr. E. R. In all, the Colony to-day has to possess 400,000 troops it is muniertion, the Italian Government Hollifax, Mr. R. A. C. North thirty-six cadets in Its service, far more likely that the Kuomin- | preserves the right to ipform the acting). Education (Mr. A. E. five Class 1, twenty-three Class 11, chan forces do not exceed 100,000. British Government regarding Its Wood, Mr. Ralphs acting), Imports and eight unpassed, at an estimat- General Ho added that anti-viewpants on the same subjecta- and Exports (Mr. J. D. Lloyd), 'ed cost in 1980 of $362,594.
Continued on Page 12.) Reuter.
Ing departments are controlled by cadet omers: Attorney-General Police (Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Mr. (Sir Joseph Kemp), Puisne Judge T. H. King acting), P.M.G. (Mr. N. (Mr. Justice Wood), Treasury L. Smith), Sanitary Department but (Mr. C. Mol. Messor, Mr. M. J. (Mr. W. J. Carrie).
The husband and another's chlid were standing a foot or two away and escaped without Injury,
usual latterly and the incidence for a year or two here, but on the
was showing a slight increase. whole the procession was YADNO-
Everything that could be dono tonous and straggling, and con- sisted largely of school children was being done, but they could One could not help feelly that not do very much because it was so the whole affair was reward difficult to trace. It was a disease The bodies have been brought to much more as a duty than usa of cold and damp seasons, goneral-
Continued on Page 12.) the Thai Hong Temple-one of pleasure.-Our Own Correspondent.