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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 193
CHIANG URGED TO EARL OF ATHLONE THE RUSSIAN DEBT
RESIGN.
MARSHAL YEN DISAPPROVES MORE CIVIL WAR.
OUTSPOKEN ADVICE.
Nanking, Feb. 12, Much political importance is attached to cablegrama exchanged between Marshal Chiang Kai- shick and Marshal Yen Hel-shan, in which the inttor made. the significant suggestion that Mar- shal Chiang should resign his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army and promla. Ing that he would also be in readiness to follow Chiang by severing all connexion with politics.
Although the cable is not inter- preted as implying that the Shangl Governor la dissatisfied with the Nanking regime it is considered remarkable that Mar- shal Yen should emphasise the necessity for Marshal Chiang to give up his milltary command at a moment when he intends tak- ing part in the Kwangsl cam- paign,
never
"The unification of China can
be effected by force of Arms. This is not a job for militarists, and it is high time that you and I resigned our port folloes in order to convince the people that, after all, we
are always willing to relinquish our Interests for the welfare of the country." Thus closed the long telegram from Marshal Yen in which he was characteristically frank In expressing desire for peace.
RETIRING.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN SOUTH AFRICA.
TO BE SUCCEEDED BY EARL
SOF CLARENDON.
·BROTHER OF QUEEN.
PROBLEM.
ALL INTERESTED PARTIES TO BE HEARD.
SEPARATING CLAIMS.
London, Feb. 12. In the House of Commons to- Henderson, day, Mr. Arthur' Foreign Secretary, stated that no schedule of counter-claims of the Soviet Government had been ceived during the current negotia tions.
Capetown, Feb. 12, It is announced that the King has been pleased to approve the.
In any statement of British appointment of the Earl of Clarendon, the present head of claims, those arising in respect of the B.B.C., to be Governor-privately-held bands and other General and Commander-in-securities would be classified
tho separately from
British of
of Chief
the Union
Government claims, and opportu South Africa lo succession nity would be afforded for all in- to... Major-General-
the Earl berested parties to express their of Athlone, whose extended (views, torm of office will expire in January next. ·"
The
All pecuniary claims of what ever nature against the Soviet Governor-General, Government, that had been notified new
the British Government by George Herbert Hyde Villiers, to sixth Earl of Clarendon, was born British subjects since 1918, had in 1877 and was educated at Eton. been registered at the Russian Going to Canada with a relative, Claims Department of the Board he settled down to farming in of Trade. Ontario, building his own log house, tending his cattle and hisAmbassador had not yet advanced Negotiations with the Soviet orchard, and working the custom-sufficiently far for those claims to ary long hours of a Canadian
be presented to His Excellency.- farmer.
British Wireless.
On his father's death in 1914 he succeeded to the Earidom and re- turned to England, retaining how- ever, some of his land in Canada. As some of the family estates were in Hertfordshire, he accept- ed the command of the Heris Volunteer Regt, in 1916 and re- tained it till 1920. when he was sum-appointed a Lord-in-Waiting to the
King.
Nanking was greatly stirred when the cable was received and Marshal Chiang at once moned a conference with General Ho Ying-ching, and Messrs. Wu Tze-hui, Tan Yan-kai, Wu Han- min and Dr. Wang Chung-hui.
Government Posts.
Two years later he was made a ntain of the Corps of Gentle- men-at-Arms.
The conference decided to reply to Marahal Yen emphasising the need for at once organising the
He was also Chief Conservative Kwangsi campaign. It is stated that if the rebels, thousands in Whip in the House of Lords. number, are net dispersed, their In 1924 he was made Paria- presence would cause the per-mentary Under-Seretary for the petuation of inter-provincial war Dominions and in addition Chair- between Kwangtung and Kwangst, man of the Overson Settlement Committee. In pursuance of the Marshal Chiang also points
that to lend the Nanking duties of these posts he revisited Caned in 1926 and spent three troops to Kwangs is his duty months there, travelling from the although it is decidedly againal
Atlantic to the Pacific and atudy- bis desire that the unification of ing the progress of the family the country should be plished by the prolongation of civil war. He asks Marshal Yen ta continue his service to the National Government.
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submarinos for discussion. That in the first point. If it is a defen- | sive weapon, let its size be reduced to suit ita character. There is a accond point. Are not these swollen submarine forces, ranging
softlement scheme.
With his personal experience as a settler in the Dominion he con sidered the migration of families with Imperial and Canadian ald the best scheme:
Wireless Control,
At the time of his return to England' in Oct. 1926, the Government was about to take over control of wireless broad- casting in Great Britain and was forming the British Broadcasting Corporation.
And
"INVASION OF U. S.
LADY GOLFERS.
ENDEAVOUR TO CAPTURE BRITISH TITLE.
New York, Feb. 12... Ming Glenna Collett, the Amer can lady golf champion, is taking a team of twenty women golfers to England in quest of the British championship which commences on April 15th.
The championship will be pre BD Anglo-American ceded by women's match, which it is hoped will be the forerunner of an annual contest on lines similar to tho Walker Cup matches between and American men
British
amateurs-Reuter's American, Ser-
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ALLEGED FORGED. BANKNOTES.
CHINESE WOMAN ChargeD WITH POSSESSION.
Found to have in her possession 103 forged $50 Hongkong and Shanghai Bank notes, Shui Szè, a married woman, aged 49 years liv-
manship
Clarendon was offered the chair-ing at 374, Queen's Road West, ap- his peared before Mr. Hamilton at the resigning Dominions pouts, accepted it
Central Magistracy this morning to from 127 borne by the United The appointment, was the sub- answer a charge in connexion with
this digoavery. States to 57 by Italy, to be heavily ject of considerable criticism on reduced?"
Sgt. L. Clark applied for a re- the ground that he had had no
wireless mand of 48 hours to facilitate the special experience, of broadcasting and was put over the police making further enquiries. heads of men who had had much. The woman put in a plea of On the conclusion of the arrange-guilty" this morning but his Wor- Communications Company to take quire evidence to prove that the. ments for the formation of the ship intimated that he would re- over control of the chief wireless notes were forgeries. and cable concerns of the Empire, it was announced in Jan. 1920, that the Earl of Clarendon had been appointed a director.
The Daily Telegraph thinks that something has been gained by the declaration of the French, Italian and Japanese delegates, of their desire to enter into an interna tional undertaking,nch as has not hitherto been formally com pleted, to use submarinca against merchant shipping in strict con- formity with the rules observed in surface warfare. · But with the dismissal of the proposal for abolition goes the prospect of effecting an invaluable economy and of diminishing the danger that lies in all extensive developments of armament.--British Wireless,
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The Earl of Athlone, when he retires next year, will have served eight years as Governor-General of South Africa, hla term of office Charged with having in his having been extended at the possession, on February 11, 120 gal special request of the South ion jars of spirits other than that African Government.é:
Lord Athlons is the brother of the Quean and of the Marquess of Cambridge, being the third son of Princess Mary Adelaide, Ducked of Teek, sister of the late Dake of Cambridge, who was for so long The Union Waterboat Co., Ltd., ad.Commander-in-Chief of the Army, vise that the nóit balance at credit He is thus the King's brother of Profit and Loss Account for the in-law and also his second cousin. year ending 81st December, 1929, Born at Kensington Palace on da: $46,129.68, which amount the April 14, 1874, he was sent to Eton and nased thence into members of the Consulting Com Sandhurst. Having been, gazetted mittee will, at the approaching mecting of shareholders, recom to the 7th Hussars, he joined his mend to be allocated as follows regiment in India in 1895, but it Pay a dividend of $1.25 per share, Wad soon transferred to Natal and $34,658.75; Pay a bonus of 25 cent was employed in the Matabeleland
operations de Peg to New Account, $4,539.18.
produced on the premises of the Tung Ah distillery, and, secondly, with possession 320 gallons of duti able Chinese spirits, Ho Yau, of the Tung Ah Distillery, appeared before Mr. Hamilton at the Central Ma gistracy this morning when a re- mand of 24 hours on ball of $1,000 was ordered. „
It was stated by the polica that they had issued warrants for the arrest of Woo Sang, master of the distillery and Laf Yung, licenses of the Tang Ah wine shop at Poo Tol Island, of Stanley, for possession of dutlable. Chinese spirita,
per share, $6,930.75; carry forward On one occasiun the Prince throughout, being twice mentioned
UNITED STATES NOT TO PARTICIPATE.
Washington, Feb. 11.
rendered important service when, in dispatches and receiving, the Colonel Baden-Powell (as he then of the British Mission with the C.M.G. He was at one time head was) was attacking a strong post- Belgian Army, and G.S.O.LIn tion. In his "Matabela Om- paign" Sir R. Baden-Powell wrote 1917 he was created Earl of that the Prince never spared Athlone and Viscount Trematon in himself where there was work to the peerage of the United King
dom, abandoning the titles of Serene Highness and Prince 'and the name of Teck,
The State Department has in- be done,”” formed the Secretary-General of
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the League of Nations that, the Fought in South Africa.
› Lord Athlone married in 1904
Tate Duke of Albany and cousin both of King George and of the
United States ill not participate Prince Alexander was among Princess Alles, daughter of the in the forthcoming conference at Geneva to restrit protective tarife, the Arst to go out to the South The First Secretary of the American African War serving with the Embassy in Paris- will however,
Innisdling Dragogian up to the end as an unofficial observer.surrender of Blogscontainer Reuters American Bervice
In the Europear he served
n of the Netherlands. They the two children, Lady - May
bridge, born in 1906, and V starrematon, born In 1907
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