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VENDETTA BEHIND CHAUTEMPS TO BE WAR BREAKS OUT FORCING BED FOR SEVEN MONTHS IN
NEW PARTY.
FORMER MINISTER'S
ACCUSATION,
"IDLE TO PRETEND IDEAL IS REALISABLE."
PREMIER.
TARDIEU AND BRIAND READY TO COLLABORATE.
NAVAL POLICY ISSUE.
Paris, Fab. 20,
M. Camille Chautemps, the President of the Radicals, and one of the younger politicians, ling accepted, at the request of Preal- dent Doumergue, the tnak of form-
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GOVERNMENT FORCES OUTNUMBERED.
ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS THE
NEWS OF FIGHTING. 4.
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BACILLI
DOCTOR'S STRICTURES ON GAOL PRINTERY.
|GROSS OVERCROWDING.
A complaint that the prison printing shop was "grossly over crowded" was put forward by Dr. A. Cannon, Médical Officer at the Victoria Gaol, this morning, when he gave evidence at an inquiry into
Tong Pak, prisoner No. 940, who died on Thursday ́might, whilst serving a sentence of four years
DEBATE IN HONGKONG, ing, a Cabinet. One of his frat CRITICAL SITUATION. the creamstages of the death of
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steps was to invite.M. Tardiey to join his Ministry, but the ex- Premier, hua-refused,
Later:
London, Feb. 20. Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Foreign Secretary in the late Conservative Government, addressing the Women's Con- believes that he will have servative Conference at Bir-pleted his Cabinet to-morrow, mingham, referred to the an nouncement made by Lord Beaverbrook, the well-known newspaper proprietor. of the formation of a new "United Empire Party" in favour of free trade within the Empire...
M. Briand has promised to gol- taborate with M. Chautemps, who
Sir Austen Chamberlain moved a resolution assuring Mr, Baldwin of the loyal support of his leader ship, and expressing hearty ap proval of the polley he had laid before the country recently, -A
Sir Austen aahl that while he viewed Lord Beaverbrook's move- ment with much sympathy, he did not think it, a practical policy, at the present time.
Premature Moye,
"If I were possible, by any act of ours, to secure that economilé unity of the Empire, to treat the Empirena, one within which no tarif barriors or protective dues should Interfere with the free course of Imperial Trade, there is no sacrifice I would not think well given in return for no great a boon to our country and in our Imperial Interests,
"It, however, idle to pretend that such an iden1 is realisable or near the possibility of a realisa-
tion."
Shanghai, Feb. 20. Hostilities have broken out along the Lung-Hai Railway between Government forces and the Kuominchun under General Shi Yu-shon. The Nationalist forces engaged are reported to be those of the First Division
hard labour.
The doctor såld that Tong Pak, who was 36 years of age, wan com. 1928, when he was sentenced to. mitted to prison on September 22,
four years hard labour for an Ampiunition Ordinance. offence under the Arms and When he examined him on his admittance tobegaol, he found that he was hont weakness
CAPTIVITY.
FATE OF THREE BASEL MISSIONARIES:
BANDIT CHIEF MAKES GOOD HIS BOAST.
RELEASE
DUNLOP CARRIES THE TRAFFIC.
They're Bri
LOCAL BRANCH, Paddar Weilding.
RUSSIA'S BROKEN
PLEDGES.
EARL BIRKENHEAD & SOVIET PROPAGANDA.
GOVERNMENT'S REPLY.
London, Feb, 20.
In the House of Lords, the Earl of Birkenhead called attention to the resumption of diplomatic rela- tlons with the Soviet Government
top.
SAD LOSS TO THE COLONY,
DEATH OF THE REV. F. C. YOUNG.
MINISTER OF UNION CHURCH PASSES AWAY,
IMPENDING. and asked whether the Govern- FRIEND OF SOLDIERS.
ment had found it necessary to represent to the Soviet Govern- "Even though they had wings, ment or to their representative In they could not escape from the London that there had bean a trap we have set upon them," breach of the conditions or the wrote Chan Tal-hwan, the understanding upon which rela- notorious leader of a gang oftions were resumed. bandits operating in the Kaying- chow District of Kwangtung, some six months ago, in the course of a remarkable letter to the Basel Mission, demanding the payment of a ransom of 32,000,000 for the release of three members of the
It is with the deepest regret that we have to chronicio the death of the Rev. F. C. Young, Minister of Union Church, Hong- kong, which occurred at the Matilda Hospital at 6.30 this morning at the early age of 81
years.
Hé referred to the recent pro- test, made in the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury, against religious persecution in Russia and to the Primate's desire to keep gentleman was admitted to hospital As is well known, the deceased the protest apart from politics.
Lord Birkenhead declared he pneumonia, and for some weeks carly in January, suffering«from,
This is the first ocension M. (commanded by Chiang"Cai- | ntfire"ng from tuberculosis and Mission, Messrs. Erncat Fischle, knew of no defluition of politicsgrave fears were entertained re-
shek's most trusted commt der, General Liu Chỉ).
M. Tardieu has assured the new Prime Minister that he will port any Government which will follow the line he has adopted at the London Naval Conference, Chutempa has aspired to the Premiership. He is 45 years of nge. He did not enter into politics until after the war. At first a It appears that the rival armies supporter of M. Poincare, he claphed unexpectedly, the Kuomin- changed his views and in June, chun being in superior numbers, 1924, joined M. Herriot's Cabinet as Minister of the Interior. He Fighting hus been going on for was not a member of the Painleve nearly twenty-four hours, accord- Government (Apri), 1925), but on |ing to private advices from Honan, its reconstruction at the end of and" only skilful handling of the October, 1925, he was appointed Government forces prevented a Minister of Justice. When M. rout. The troops are now report- Briand became Premier in Novem-ed to be stubbornly resisting the her, 1928, he returned to the Home Kuominchun" onslaughts, and Office.
He was not included in | meanwhile, large reinforcements Briand's later Cabinets, following are being rushed to the fighting: is failure to support the Govern- zone from different parts of the mont on M., Dolinier's financial previnée. proposals..
His Cabinet it is stated will be a "unton of Republicans round the Democratic programme."-Reuter.
TRIBUTE TO SIR ESME- HOWARD.
Nanking Censorship.
endeavoured to suppress the news The Nanking Government has
of the first fighting, placing a rigid censorship on all Chinese nowa papers.
The outbreak is the first out- ward and visible sign of the high tension existing, and it is felt that open war between the Nanking Yen Hsi-shan and Feng Yu-hsiang on the other, cannot much longer be delayed.
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Life was admitted to the hospital on January 7, 1930 and on the 27th, witheis 'notified the Superinten
MR. PHILIP SNOWDEN'S
BUDGET.
To Be Introduced in House in Mid-April.
London, Feb. 20. Mr. Philip Snowdeny the, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in the House of Commons to-day that he pro- ponce to introduce the first Labour Budget in the present Parliament, on April 14, Router.
E. Waltor and G. Kilpper, who which would exclude the topics garding his recovery. About a
were captured in August last with which the Primate had been
year, t
concerned..
The bandit chief appears to have The pledge of the Soviet Govern- made good his boast. On atment to curtail propaganda and least one occasion, the captives the activities of the Comintern had have made an attempt to escape, been broken. getting free of the bandits, only to be recaptured within a few hours.
Government's Failure. The Canton Government has made several attempts to trace the notorious gang to their head quarters in the hills without success, and finally have been reduced to the state prophected by Chan Tal-hwan in that they have latterly been helping to raise the
necessary random.
the
It was notorious that there had been no cessation of the energetic action against us in India or Afghanistan.
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month ago, however, he succeeded
there seemed every hope that he in passing through the crisis, and would be spared. However, last week-end it became obvious that B
that could possibly be done, he grew, relapse had set in, and, despite all gradually worse and passed away in the early hours of this morning.
Sympathy for Window.
"I propose to make the most ex much information which greatly in-had been felt regarding Mr. haustive inquiry: I have received
Although for days past, anxiety creases both the gravity and the Young's condition, his death came difficulty of the subject," declared somewhat unexpectedly this morn- the Archbishop of Canterbury, in ing, his wife, who had been in close the course of the discussion.
attendance on him throughout, not The Primate stated that he being prosent when he passed away. would again raise the matter in To her, the utmost sympathy of the Parliament when his investigation whole Colony will be extended in
was complete.
to
Sir Austen auld he sympathised | KETIRING FROM DIPLOMATIC | Government on the one hand and a report from Dr. Minétt, who authorities by which the Chinese same way as if they had, been ceeded the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachio.
with the Dominions in thali dia- inclination to sacrifice their own Industries in order to further ours, Only a complete change of mind at Home and in the Dominions would break down Empire Tariffs,
Vendetta Accusation, This was especially the case in respect of the Crown Colonies and the great African Protectorates, whose revenues for many years could only be raised by Customs dutics.
Referring to the Unitel Empire Party, he described the promoters as "two great newspaper proprie.. tors, one of whom is pursuing personal vendetta against Mr. Stanley Baldwin, and the other of whom is pursuing a cause in which he ia genuinely interested, creating a new party hostile to the Conservatives."
Mr., Amery, speaking at Derby, regretted Lord Beaverbrook's docleion to launch a new party, because there was a real danger of the struggles for candidatures "weakoning us in the fight against "the common foe, the free trade
supersution."
SERVICE.
Chiang.to Move First?
Londra, Feb. 20... Mr. Arthur Hederaon, the Foreign Secretary has addressed a message to Sir Esme Howard on his departure from Washington where to believe that the present inten- On the contrary, there is reason he has been British Ambassador Lion of Chiang Kai-shek is to in- since February 1924, in which he itiate the campaign. says:-
"I cannot allow
It is reported; on you to leave
reliable your retirement authority, that following the Washington on from the diplomatic service without receipt of another cable from Yon expressing my deep and sincere ap- Hal-shan in which he reaffirms his preciation of the work Your Ex-policy of opposition to Chiang Kai- cellency has accomplished at the shek's governmental methods, the with, I know, so many regrets. post you are now. relinquishing Prealdent expressed his intention of declaring war on Yen Hai-shun. "You must, indeed, be happy to feel that the relations between the peoples of the United States and Great Britain have never been more friendly and mutually helpful than they are today. This happy result fa largely due, as the tributes paid to you recognise, to your personal influence and example.
"I am convinced that posterity will have reason to be grateful to you for the part you have played,"
British Wireless.
rory reaffirmed his loyalty EMPIRE CONFERENCE
ARRANGEMENTS.
to Mr. Baldwin.-Reuter British Wireless.
Y.M.C.A. Debate.
and
IMPORTANT GATHERINGS LATER IN YEAR..
London, Feb. 20,
dent of Prisons that the man was dangerously i
On February 4, witness received stated that tubercle bacilli were present, and on February 15, he notified the Government that the man could not survive `his son-
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itself,
The missionaries have been Lord Parmoor, replying for the Mr. Young in England in 1920, and her hour of grief. She married prisoners for seven months, but Government, said that if any there is one young sun, who was nt last, writes our Swatow statements were made by the born in Hongkong about a year ago. correspondent, there is newa of Comintern which rendered It The funeral takes place this oven- their impending release. ·
necessary, in the opinion of the ing, passing the Monument at 5 p.m. It appears that an arrangement Government, was come to between the Govern-diplomatic relations with Russia, break off
Great Popularity, Basel ment and
Mission they would deal with them in the The Rev. Mr. Young, who suc- authorities agreed to pay half the made by the Soviet Government as minister of Union Church; ary ransom.
rived in the Colony on October," Ramson's Slump.
The Government did not attempt 1928, and although his residence to define distinction between here had thus been relatively brief, tence, and that he was per- The Government then proceeded those two bodies. But, in the he gained great popularity, especial-s cipline. He had been employed go-betweens of the bandita for a had been no such breach as made fare he was very keenly interested. manently unfit for prison dis- to conduct negotiations with the opinion of the Government, therely with Service men, in whose wol- previously in the printing shop, reduction of the amount demanded, it necessary to break off relations, Broad-minded in his views, he and witness added to his report and after many months of negotia--British Wireless.
possessed that invaluable quality in tions, the figure was brought down these words:"
minister, the gift of making "It is a further plece of by $2,000,000 to $6,000,
The Chinese authorities paid over
friends amongst all classes of the evidence as to the fecundity of $3,000 to the Mission and the total
community. As officiating clergy- man to the 2nd. Battalion of the tuberculosis in the "forcing of $5,000 was forwarded through
King's Own Scottish Borderers, he' bed" for tubercle bacilli-the the devious underground routes by
was a real counsellor and; friend to which it would reach the bandits. printing shop."
the Presbyterian members of that Battalion. He held a weekly Bible Class for the children. in the K.O.S.B. married quarters, and was a constant visitor to those who were sick or in trouble."
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At a conference held at Military
On February 17, the Government Headquarters in Nanking this asked him if the man was fit to morning, President Chiang Kai- travel, and witness replied: "As shek read over a long proclama atretcher case only. His con- tion which is in the final stages ofdition is rapidly declining, and he preparation and which he intends is a danger to others,” to dirculate shortly.
The Proclamation is tanta-
The case was again submitted to the Government, who decided to transfer him to the Tang Wah hos mount, it is stated, to a declara-pital, but the man died before this tion of war against Yen Hai-shan could be done. Witness conducted Rebel Troop Movements, post mortem examination, and found that the primary cause of Nanlding's intelligence depart death was tuberculosis, internal ment has reported that Yen's tubercle larygnitis, and the denfala of troop movements are secondary cause, toxinin, which untrue. There has been a general created a weakening of the heart massing of Kuominchun troops in muscles, Honan and Shensi and their move- "ments since organisation suggést that their first objective will be the capture of Hankow.
Movements of Shansi troops and olher Kuominchun troops leavo"
The Now Prison!
A message has been received, however, that by the time the money reached the gang, it had dwindled to $4,600. They, there- fore, were willing to release only two of the prisoners.
Messrs. Kilpper and Walter were set free and Mr. Fischle still held.
DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
MONEY CHANGER LØSES ́OVER $3,000. IN; NOTES.
The loss of a large sum of money by n money changer of 20, Canton Road was reported to the Police this morning..
Contact with the Services. Mr. Walter, however, refused to The master of the shop, Ng
He was also - chaplain to the leave, his colleague and it was 8am, says that at five minutes to United Board, which embraces all agreed that Mr. Kilpper should re eight this morning whilst he was Protestant naval and military men turn to Kayingchow, leaving bis sitting at the counter counting other than Wesleyans and Church of money, three men entered, one of England adherents. He was in- companions in distress behind.
It is stated that Mr. Kupper will them intimating that he desired defatigable in organising all possible. arrive in Swatow in a day or two. to change some money. Whilst means of establishing contact be Our Swatow correspondent adds his attention was drawn away, tween civilians and Service men, that steps are now being taken to for a miment, from the money on and social meetings to this end have obtain the release of the other two, the counter, one of the men must been held at Union Church Fall probably a little more "blood-have put his hand over the coun in Hongkong During inst sum
In both winters that he has worked money" being necessary,
ter rail and stolen £266-10-04, inmer, a Young People's Society was Australian notes and 362 Manila established, leading on during the winter to a Study Circles Ha÷also: performed, regular duties as chap- lain to the Government Hospitale In Hongkong.
Not Badly Threated It is understood that the captives during long months of apprehension have been comparatively well treat
maintained.
pesos,
Calculated on the present rate of exchange the total loss is given as being $3,780.27,
It is understood that the Colonial little doubt that an attack is con.gest that he caught his complain? | ed, and that their health has been The man left the, shop and
Conference, at which the Governore
Reuter.
king.
Hankow Fears.
The Coroner:Well,, that will be altered when we get the new prison.
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Dr. Cannon: Yes, when? The Coroner returned a verdict of death from Natural Causes, primarily tuberculosis,
It is unfortunate that a state of affairs should exist making it ea- sential for the payment of a ran- there is now every prospect of som, but it is satisfactory that
their restoration to liberty after so any months of doubts and fears.
Mr. Walter's determination not
YUGO-SLAV “REDS” IN TROUBLE.
ACCUSED OF INSULTING:
The Coroner Major Willson) There was a large attendance at
With regard to your statement the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon,
of the printing shop, do you sag on the occasion of a debate, last night on the motion "That this
in the printing shop? moeting is in favour of Free Trade
templated in the direction of Nan- Dr. Cannan feplied no, the ma
escard in the direction of Yau- within the Empire” Mr. P.. S. of the various Crown Colonies will
was suffering from it when he was The sum which was finally de matf having disappeared from Cassidy, Chairman of the Literary be, the chief delebates, will pro-
The Government has ordered the admitted. Tho Superintendent manded for their release is a strik-sight before the master realised and Debating Committee, presided. bably be held in London in June cr Second Nanking Air Squadron to had done all he could to modify the ing reduction on the $2,000,000 that he had been robbed.
Mr. A. C. Jeffreys, moving for July.
proceed to Hauchow, the Nation matter, but there was no question earlier Inslated upon. the affirmative, claimed that if It is expected that the Imperial allat headquarters, to aid the that the place was grossly over. Great Britain was to maintain her Economic Conference will bocommander-in-chief pro. tem.crowded. Plea position as a leading trading no- merged in the Imperial Conference, Geporal Liu Cht, in reconnaissance tion the Empire must be déveloped the chief concern of which will be work as a single economic unit. The the economic rather than the politi- Empire included some quarter of cal problems of the Empire- the land surface of the world, and Ita population roughly a quarter of the world's. Within its confines could be found every conceivable article required in our every day life, from essentials to luxurion, A scheme whereby, in return' for the imposition in Great Britain of tariffs on goods competing with Empire Products, British · manu- factured goods would have free access to Empire markets" would stimulate the flow of trade be- tween Great Britain and the Dominions, Colonies and Depen- dencies and lead to increased em- ployment and a greater buying capaclly, de
The present system of tarif
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GERMANY'S TARIFF INCREASES.
COMING INTO-OPERATION EARLY NEXT MONTH.
Hankow, Feb. 20. Government circles in Hankow have received report of fighting in Honaa with apprehension. Martial law was declared in the city last night. C
JAPANESE STEAMERS IN TROUBLE.
LARGE TEA CONSIGNMENTS * BADLY DAMAGED,
Colombo, Feb, 20..
to leave his colleague was perhaps to be expected, but it is none the less a highly commendable act of
courage..
DRUG DISCOVERY.
NO CASE MADE OUT AGAINST AFGHAN LEADER
Paris, Feb. 20,
- All steamers arriving in the city |-have been subjected to an inten- siva, police search for anti-revolu. tionary agents, plantas VGA London, Feb. 20. Apparently a revolt of anti- Naniding troops in Honków, la fear- The Government has authorised ed levy of a new tariff on March 6,
--Mr. · Liu” Wan-tao, – a specĵoj - The tea-cheste Caboard three under which: the duty on raw Necking envoy, arrived in Hankow Japanese Gleamers the Nagato comes will be increased from Mks. this morning to discuss the situs- Maru, Shunko Maru and Bengal The Bramining Maxistrate has 130 to* Mika. * 100 per double tion with the leaders He Is Mars, have all been heavily, found no case for trim in Tokard hundred-weight, and the ten duty leaving for Changsha to-morrow Jamaged by seawater Nearly to the drugs all overed in the will be increased from Mks, 220 to to obtain the support of Ho Chien the whole of the consignmentą:
pt Gulam Nabi Khan, Mks, 850, per, double cwt Reuter for Nankin
THE KING.. At Belgrade, Feb. 20.
The trial has begun of twenty nine Communista, comprising a doctor, two journalists, a barris ter, two civil servants and several workman, who are charged with belonging to illegal Communist organisations
Appreciated Ministry.
Mr. "Young's ministry at Union Church was much appreciated by large and increasing congregations, His Children's Bervices will be long remembered by the young people; he had a rare fund of stories with which he was able to point a moral and adorn a sermon. Many thought that Mr. Young worked far too hai, in view of the wear, and tear of the Hongkong climate, but there was no restraining his energy and enthusiasm. He has passed
away whilst in the prime of life, but his example and his works will long be remembered both in the Colony and in the Homelandares
Borg in
* They are also accused of print- ago, the ing- and distributing - söditious educated tracta urging the population to and Long overthrow the existing social schoo order, and insulting King Alexan the war dere
Twenty barristers, including sery Mila: Trifkovitch, daughter of the formar Minister of Justi defending the accused. R
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