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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1930.
DEVASTATION IN
DANISH ROYALTY | BRITAIN AVERTS A
IN SHANGHAI.
REVOLUTION.
A CAVE MAN WOOS AND WINS AN AMAZON
SOUTH FRANCE.
CONDITIONS AS BAD AS WAR-WARM WELCOME GIVEN BY
ZONE DAMAGE.
NOTABLE GATHERING.
AFGHAN PLOTTERS TO BE DEPORTED.
The
PREMIER'S SCHEME."
Paris, Mar. 9.
Flags on all public buildings In Paris were flown at half-mast to day, when the country observed a day of mourning for the victims of the terrible flood disaster Southern France.
in
! THE NANKING VISIT. PESHAWAR INTRIGUE.
Shanghai, Mar. 9.
Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and Prince Knud, together with Prince and Princess Axel, arrived here this afternoon aboard the East Asiatic Company's motor ship
Flonia.
Peshawar, Mar. 9. The British authorities have ordered that "Sarder Amin Jhan, the Amanullah, and Abdul Hakim Khan, who was Amanullah's Trade Agent at Peshawer, be deported to
·Burma.
half-brother of ex-King
They were placed under arrest a month ago owing to the discovery by the British secret service or- ganisation of the North West, Frontier of a conspiracy to dis- turb the peace of Afghanistan by bringing about a fresh uprising on the part of the Shinwari tribe.
There was strong reason to be- lieve that the plot was assisted by intrigues emanating from the Afghan Trade Agency at Pesha
Collections for the survivors and The Royal party was received at: dependents were made in all the Customs Jetty by a distinguish. Churches, while benefit performed gathering of Chinese and ances are being organised at places Scandinavian notables, including of entertainment, the managementa the Danish and Swedish Consuls of which are devoting a portion of General and Chevaller S. K. Chen, to-day's receipts to the National the latter representing the Chi- Subscription Fund.
nese Foreign Minister.
This evening, the visitors were Similar local funds are bring established all over the country entertained at a banquet at the of South-West Cercle Sportif by the Danish A comparison France to-day, with the devastated Soalety of Shanghai, and to-mor- regions during the war, was made low evening the party will be the
reception at the war. by the Premier, M. Tardicu, in an *uests at a interview after his tour of the flood Majestic Hotel, to which area, in company with President guests have been invited.
The Flonia will leave for Nan- Doumergue.
king on Wednesday, and will be He said that, the technical pro-escorted by the Chinese cruiser blems must be approached exactly Haiyung. On reaching the Na- as they were after the Armistice. tional capital, the Royal party will The peasants must be housed in be entertained by Marshal Chiang hutments pending the re-building Kai-shek and Dr. C. T. Wang, the of their cottages, after which the Foreign Minister. vine industry must be restored and realforestation carried out in order to minimise the possibility of a recurrence of the catastrophe.-- Reuter,
INSPIRING SPEECH BY PREMIER,
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la minimum, if they had any con- fidence in each other's signatures.
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Later, the party will leave for Tsingtao and will then proceed to Japan.-Reuter.
CHINA PEACE MOVE GAINS GROUND.
FENG AND YEN DETERMINED TO RESIGN.
Shanghai, Mar. 9: The peace movement in North China, following the announce ment of the resignation of Mar- shal Yen Hsi-shan, is gaining ground. A cessation of war acti- vities in Honan and Shantung and
It will be recalled that Abdul Hakim Khan refused to hand over the Agency to the successor ap had pointed by the new Government în Afghanistan. Amin Jhan been living with his colleague in trouble for several months and it was discovered that he intended secretly to re-enter Afghanistan and to make his headquarters in Shinwari territory. The plot was ' nipped in the bud by the action taken by the Government of North West Frontier Province.-Reuter.
REMOVED STONES FROM WALL.
CHINESE ADMITS HIS GUILT.
When prosecuting a Chinese be- fore Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning, on a charge of larceny of a quantity of stones, a timber merchant of
An End to Distrust. The Premier added that the British and American delegations were on the highway to eliminat- a restoration of part of the service Hai Tan Street, Shamshuipo, in- ing their own differences, and co-of the Peking-Hankow and Tien-timated that the defendant had been been seen forcibly removing the operating most. cordially in the tsin-Pukow Railways have
stones from the wall surrounding negotiationa with the other reported during the week-end.
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the his premises. Powers to overcome the difficulties
The defendant admitted the and to build up a naval agree supreme Commander of the Kuo- ment which would reduce the minchun forces, has addressed a charge of larceny. building programmes, abolish com-lengthy proclamation to his sub-
Noticing that the complainant was Worship petition, put an end to distrust ordinates in Kansu and Shenal and
create menace, and
an urging peace, and indicating his a timber merchant his
to re-enter expressed surprise that he should be concerned with stones and usk- equilibrium in strength which determination, not
ed what he wanted them for. In would bring tranquillity to the politics........
The Christian General an- minds of nations and lend further results in the process of nounces also that he has entrusted reply, the defendant said the the disbandment of the Kuomin-stones which the defendant had surrounding his yard. A foki of chun forces to his chief lieutenant, taken had been part of the wall General La Chung-lin.
the premises had seen the defen- dant using a bamboo pole to ex- tract them.
disarmament,
to
The agreement would carry them on till 1936.
Week-end Talk. During the week-end. Conference conversations
Naval
An
A fine of $10 or fourteen days' hard labour was imposed.
STEAMER,
A draft declaration signed by Marshal Yen. Hai-shan setting forth his reasons for severing his connexion with politics will be been issued from Taiyuanfu in the proceeding between the French, course of the next few days. the British and American dele-invitation has been extended by gates. The Foreign Secretary, Marshal Yen to General Ho Ying- JUNK SUNK BY RIVER Mr. Henderson, who was a lunching, trusted subordinate of Mar- cheon guest of the French delegu-shal Chiang Kai-shek,, to adminis tion yesterday, afterwards had a ter military affairs in Peking.
Peking, Mar. 9. long talk with M. Briand and then drove with him to Stanmore to see The Shansi-ites, who withdrew Mr. H. L. Stinson, with whom from Chengchow towards Sin- they continued the conversation.hslanx, have evacuated Sinhsiang to and fallen back to Changteh and To-day. MI. Briand went
the Shih Yu-san has taken up head Chequers to lunch with
at Chengchow.
armoured Premier, the other guests includ-quarters ing the Foreign Secretary, Mr vanguards and Craigie, of the Foreign Office, have occupied Sinhsiang.
Yen Hsi-shan is reported to Admiral Massigli, a member of the French delegation, and Captain have sent two emissaries to book Bellairs, of the Admiralty. It is a passage to Japan and arrange Fook Cheong collided with
understood that the conversations related to the political questions
to which reference has been made in the French memorandum British Wireless and Reuter.
French Views.
his residence there.
His cara
KWONG FOOK CHEONG IN MISHAP AT KONGMOON.
The 9.8. Kwong Fook Cheong was, involved in a collision at Kongmoon on Friday evening, as a result of which a junk was sunk and another damaged. Fortunate- ly no lives, were lost.
It is understood that the Kwong the
It is rumoured that the sou-two junks, which were waiting to thern army of occupation will be take off her cargo, while approach- quartered at Peking, and an of-ing the wharf, ficial announcement to this effect
is anxiously awaited.-Reuter.
KWANGSI.
The nature of the Anglo-French THE “RED” TERROR IN conversations at Chequers during the week-end are indicated in a statement made by French sources in London, to the effect that in the event of the five great naval Powers, who control 80 per cent.
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of the world's total tunnage, agree-yen, who had only just resumed ing to take concerted action against control of the Kwangsi forces, war threats, there will be little sent Gen. Li Ki to intercept them. A chance of peace every being dis-decisive battle was fought at turbed.
Long An, within two days' march
If France is unable in the next of Nanning. The fight lasted two few weeks to persuade the British days, each side fighting with great and the Americans to agree to a desperation and heavy loss of life. Pact of Security, Francé does not
Poseh Falls, consider that the Conference is doomed to failure, as an agreement Finally, the superior strategy of will certainly be reached regard-Marshal Li Chung-yen's troops pre- Ing the method of naval limitation, vailed and the Reds were routed. and this will facilitate the task of The victorious soldiers, nearly all the Geneva Disarmament Con- of whom are old campaigners, having taken part in the Northern Expedition of 1926, state that at Long An they fought the hardest battle of their experience....
ference.
All the Powers, it is pointed out, are favourable to a battleship holiday.
Finally, France would not object
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
NETHERLANDS INTERESTED IN RUSSIAN CONDITIONS.
The Hague, Mar. 8.
In a memorandum regarding the catmates to the Foreign Ministry, M. Vin Blockland states that the Government is giving serious at being taken for the suppression of the Christian religion in Russia, and will not neglect any opportunity to take joint action with any other Powers with a view to safeguarding religious freedom.-Beuter.
tention to the measures that are
Copenhagen, Mar. 8 Mr. Lunn, the Danish Consul General at Sydney, has been trans- ferred to Shanghai-Reuter
time
New York, Mar. 8. The Nanning troops entered "The salary of "Babe Ruth has been if Britain, Japan and America Poseh some time later, and, says fixed at G$80,000 a year for two years, reached a Three-Power agreement our correspondent, it would have This is G$10,000 more than he is get
at the present of a more extended scope, although done anyone good who regards ting this is considered unlikely particu- the Chinese, as an unemotional Router's American Service. larly in view of the Premier's people to have been present. speech broadcast to America. Enthusiastic crowds greeted the
Reuter.
troops, and long strings of fire- crackers were sent off to welcome them.
The following amounts have been received for the St. Paul's College Extension Fund and are
Mra. Southern will distribute gratefully acknowledged: In hand the prizes at the French Convent $10,000, Sir Robert Ho Tung School (Causeway Bay) on Friday. $1,000.
March 21, at 11 am.
Messrs. Lowe, Bingham - Matthews, the local Secretaries of Gula Kalumpung Rubber Estates, Limited, have been advised by cable that the directors have re- commended a dividend of 7% for the past year and that the Transfer Register will be closed from 17th
to 28th March inclusive.
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