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ANGLO-EGYPTIAN CHINESE FOREMAN ĮNANKING RESUMES VILLAGE LOOTED BY NO INDEPENDENCE
PARLEYS.
WHY NEGOTIATIONS. BROKE DOWN.
WHITE PAPER ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
MURDERED.
STABBED IN CHEST OUTSIDE A TEAHOUSE.
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FOKIS SUSPECTED.
was cum-
A shocking outrage mitted in Sham huipo lunt night, when a contractor's reman was fatally stabbed in the chest outside a tea house.
Details at the moment
are
NEW TREATY DEMAND.scanty, but the police suspect that
London, May 22. The documents relating to the recent abortive Anglo-Egyptian treaty negotiations are publish- ed in the form of a White Paper.
The discussions began on the basis of the British proposals of last year which were described by King Fund at the opening of the Egyptian Parliament as being inspired by a spirit of friendship and conciliation.
fokis of the murdered man, who are Shanghai coolics, may be im- plicated in the affair, and the authorities are conducting 3 thorough, avestigation of incident.
the
of going to preas are supplied by The known facts up to the time Tsong Stei, aged 24 years, a car penter employed by the Sun Hing frm of contractors, of 329, Lai- chikok Road, who was also a feki of the stabbed man.
Taong, who lives in a house These proposals were set out in which is in the course
of con sixteen draft clauses and com-
truction in Prince Edward Road, paratively little difficulty was reports that about 10 o'clock last encountered in securing an agree night he was in the Tai Leung tea ment on the first seven. They house, which is at the junction covered questions of the ending of Laichikok and Prince Edward the British occupation of Egypt, Roads with five other fokis, when. establishment of friendly alliance, he heard someone call out "Hai Yah." He rushed outside to find Egypt's proposed membership of the League Nations, and an agree his master, Hui Kam-to, on the ment to concert together in the pavement directly outside the tea event of a dispute with a third house. He was holding his hands party. An undertaking was to be
to his chest, and Tsong noticed given by each contracting party that they were covered with blood. not to create difficulties for the The injured man staggered for other in foreign countries. There ward for a few paces and then were also questions of British re-dropped to the ground, and Tsong cognition of Egypt's responsibility discovered that he was terribly wounded and unconscious. He blew a police whistle to summon vistance, whilst the other fokis made a report of the occurrence at the Sui Hing office.
for the lives
and property
of
foreigners in Egypt, and of the agreement of each to come to the ald of the other as an ally should it ever become engaged in war.
Agreement on Points.
man Was
મ
The murdered Shanghai Chinese, and was fere
sixty Shanghai
When a Chinese constable ar rived on the scene of the tragedy, it was to find that Hui was dead. It also proved possible at anHe had been severely stabbed in early stage to reach an agreement the chest with a dagger or some on certain formal articles of the other pointed instrument, which proposed draft. Regarding the has not yet been found. draft clauses eight and ten it was agreed that their substance should be embodied in an exchange of Notes indicating Britain's ap-workmen. preciation of Egypt's desire to facilitate progressively Egyptian- isation of services, but termi- nation of the employment of British officials should not involve replacement by some other foreign influence.
There was a discussion on the next draft clause dealing with the Capitulations, but a complete agreement on this complex subject was reached,
man over about
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A TOTAL OF 900 MILLION STERLING.
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MUSSOLINI MAKES FRENCH CONSUL'S
COMPARISONS:
CLAIM.
FEMALE BANDITS OPERATING
NEAR CHUNG SHAN.
HOOVER GOVERNMENT
OUTBURST AFTER COMMENT ON SPEECHES.
DAMAGED CHINESE
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STATEMENT.
WOULD BE DISASTROUS TO ALL CONCERNED.
SCORNFUL ADDRESS.
CURIOS.
FACTS NOT DISCLOSED TO INSURANCE CO.
Milan, May 22. Signor Mussolini, addressing an immense crowd at a meeting at which he was presented with a "baton of authority" subscribed MISSION SURPRISED.
by wounded ex-Servicemen said. HONGKONG SHIPMENT. "All the geese in Europe have Washington, May 17.
been cackling defence in their
Singapore, May 16. For the first time since the of my speeches at Leghorn and various Capitols in consequence administration
A rather unusual point arose of Hoover assumed the reins of such a spectacle of human hypo- before Mr. Justice Stevens yes- President Florence. There never has been in an insurance claim that came
made á definite statement of its Italy has war planes and Government in the United crisy. -
terday, in which the plaintiff was States, the administration to-day "Anyone would think that only the French Consul, attitude" toward the indepen-countries only paper kites, only Courthial from the Assurance The claim was by M, Yves du
pine Islands. dence aspirations of the Philip-Italy guns and other countries Franco Asiatique for $13,000, the
walking sticks, only Italy barracks value of China curios irreparably.. und elsewhere
only palaces and recreation halls, only those not irreparably damaged, pleasure damaged, and the cost of repairing Italy has the effrontery to possess during a voyage from Singapore A Navy while other nations have to Le Havre, in France. fishing snacks and yachts.
"You know how different is the Courthial's collection during the The articles, Mme. Yves du
Chung Shan, May 21, The people of Shekki city were disturbed in the middle of last night by the sounds of firing, and later the skies were filled with the red glare of burning houses; After dawn it was discovered that bandits | numbering about three hundred, Shanghai, May 22,
after overpowering the village After a brief lull on the Lung-guards of the village of Woo Chung, Hai Railway, the Nationalist had sacked the village and had troops are launching a severe at- taken for ransom one hundred and hold at Kaifeng and Lanfeng the losses sustained is estimated at tack on the Kuominchun strong sequently released. The value of eleven persons, twelve being sub-
where the city is in a state of $100,000. a siege.
One curious fact regarding the troops, comprising the First Nan- the number of the robbers were The main body of Nationalist robber band is that more than half
king Division, arrived at Lanfeng women. early yesterday. but the attack! It is significant that not Govern- on the defenders was not commenc-meat troops, but a small number ed until this morning. The same of Shekki village guards, went to contingent of Nationalist troops endeavour to save Woo Chung, and now besieging Lanfeng was res. the robbers fled upon their ap chairman of the senate committee truth. "Why should only Italy re- sojourn of her husband and her-
ponsible for the capture of Kwei-proach. teh last week.
The populace of Shekki is very perturbed
over the situation, as Kuominchun Reinforced." not only are there no Government troops but even five hundred of the According to the Nationalist rifles of the merchants' volunteer Headquarters, the sudden resump-guards-organised and equipped tion of warfare on the Lung-liai
Railway yesterday was principally or due to the arrival of Shansi troops which came to reinforce the Kuominchun Army..
The Shansi troops are under the Command of General Sun Cho, who directed the Shansi Army to launch a
counter-attack on the
Nanking troops at Ninglinghsien, between Lanfeng and Kweitch. The attempt was to cut off the Na- tionalist retreat on the Lung-Hai Railway in the event of their being. defeated at Lontong.
Tungming Captured. Regarding the Nationalist suc- commanding the 15th Route Com- cess in Shantung, where the officer mand, General Ma Tung-kwai, cap- tured Tungming on Tuesday morn- ing. it is reported that the Na- tionalist troops captured 50 Kuo- minchun and Shansi officers, 6,000 Shansi troops and thirty field guns, in addition to humerous rifles and other weapons.
A contingent of Nationalist cavalry is undertaking the task of pursuing the rebels, who have re- treated in a south-western direc-" tion.
Mr. Fong Ho, a representative
After a discussion, draft clause twelve, relating to diplomatic re-uf the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snow-of the National Government, has presentation, was also accepted. - den, said the sum due by the Gov-arrived here to negotiate with ernment of Russia to this country managements of Chinese shipping on March 31st last £900,000,000.
Suez Canal Defence.
amounted to
companies with a view to charter-
MISS JOHNSON LANDS IN TIMOR.
Fears For Her Safety Set nt Rest.
NOW NEARING END.
Batavia, May 22. There is uneasiness here re- garding Miss Amy Johnson. No news has been received of her since she passed Bima at 11:30 a.m., on her way.to Timor-Reuter..
Miss Johnson would have flown about 450 miles frora Sourabaya to reach Bima. leaving her about 350 miles further to go to Timor, whence she proposed to hop-off for Port Darwin.
Later.
A message from Weltevred states tha: Miss Johnson has landed on Timor Island.
at
Miss Johnson landed Haliloelik village, near Atam- boes, last evening-Reuter.
ing ten steamers for the con- by the merchanta
ATTRAC
A very lengthy discussion on the
Up to the present, no suggestion question of the defence of the had been received from the Soviet verance of thousands of Northern defence-have been taken away by for their own Suez Canal, which formed the Government regarding the funding
troops under the Divisions of the authorities, and the so-called basis of draft clause nine, resulted of this debt, but it would be Generals Chu Shao-liang, Miao "model district" of China is in a in an agreement for the concentra amongst the questions to be dis- Bing-wan and Tan Tao-yuan, in deplorable condition. tion of British forces to the west cussed in the negotiations with e Canton and Kwangsi, back to Nan-
In the meantime Mr. Wong Kip of the Canal in the neighbourhood Soviet Government which were to king to reinforce the Nationalist, proposes the development of of Ismailia, subject to a reduction take place shortly-British Wire-Army fighting along the Tientsin. Tong Ka Wan, and announces that
from 25 to 20 years of the peried less. during which the treaty would not be open to revision
except by mutual consent.
3
It was early recognised that the Sudan, which was the subject of clause thirteen of last year's pro- | posals, was likely to present formidable problem and as events proved, it was the inability to reach accord upon the phrasing of this article that caused the final breakdown
TELEPHONING TO JAVA.
SERVICE TO OPEN FROM ENGLAND.
London, May 22.
The Post Office announces that During the discussions an ad
a limited telephone service will be journment was sought to enable Nahas Pasha to consult his col-opened between Great Britain and leagues in Cairo, and ultimately, Jaya, via Amsterdam, on May 29. on May 5, he communicated a com- The hours of service at the out- plete, but modified; draft treaty, set will be restricted to the period which was the alternative for the from 1.10 p.m. to 5.10 p.m., British Sudan article, together with a new summer ilme, each week day. draft.
The charge will be £5, 2s, for the first three minutes and 41.149: for each minute after.-Reuter.
Alternative Draft, Alternative Egyptian drafts proved later that the Sudan ques tion should be reserved for one year, or that it would be reserved for future negotiations and that meanwhile the position obtaining In the Sudan before 1924 should be restored.
A similar suggestion having already been rejected. Nahas
was informed that until he agreed to a restoration of the British
draft no treaty was possible..
ALL-DAY RUN ON A BANK:
HUGE SUMS PAID OUT IN
INDIA..
Bombay, May 22.
The Indian owned Bank of India
Pukow and Lung-Hai Railways..
The majority of the steamers commandeered are expected to leave for Canton some time this week-end.
Hsuchowfu Bombed,
In confirmation of a previous re- port concerning the arrival on the. Lung-Hai Railway of five Shansi bombing planes capable of travel- ling at a speed of 300 li an hour,
a wireless station will be erected there. Our Own Correspondent.
MOTION OF CENSURE FAILS.
HEAVY DEFEAT FOR SIR OSWALD MOSLEY.
London, May 22.. Sir Oswald Mosley's motion of censure on the Government was de-
The statement-a letter written
by the Secretary of War, Mr. Patrick J. Hurley, to Senator Hiram Bingham. Republican of Republicar of Connecticus and
sions-bluntly places the adminis en territories and insular posses tration on record as opposing in dependence for the Philippines
Would Be Disastrous.
The attitude of the aduinistra tions, is summed up in these words:
main unarmed?.
"Mutilated comrades!
other
To Send to France.
Shortly after their arrival in Singapore, Mme. du Courthial be came ill, and it became necessary. for her to go on to France, where-
baton, is an emblem of my sub- Consul some four years ago, had self in China prior to her husband This being transferred here as French mission to the spirit of victory arrived here from Hongkong. and the country's will."-Reuter.
Mussolini has. speeches in the past fortnight made two which have aroused a certain amount of criticism. At Leghorn, "Complete Independence for when inspecting a new cruiser, he the Philippine Islands would be addressed
people, the disastrous, alike, to the ultim-blackshirts roaring, in reply to a upon it was decided to send the ate interests of both the Filipino question, that they
curios, which were lying in their and the American people," Mussolini's orders until death, bour Board godown, on to Le packing cases at a Singapore Har-. Secretary Hurley said it would When he asked them "Whose is the Havre. They were insured for the be inexpedient to attempt to fix a sea?" the crowd yelled "Ours." date for the ultimate independence At that time Mussolini said Franco Asiatique for the sum of passage with the Assurance of the Philippine Islands. Italy wanted not only prosperity $20,000, Mme.
Refers to Bills.
30,000
were at:
du Courthial's
but prestige and a plate in the valuation of them, and the point sun. He warned all and sundry
Secretary Hurley's letter re-who might strike at Italy's future raised by the defendants was ex- ferred to the six bills pending that the whole people would rise pressed by their counsel, Mr. Ro- before the senate committee on and hurt themselves
land Braddell, as follows: "Had likes 0 territories and insular possessions thunderbolt against whoever they we known that the goods had been which deal with Philippine inde- were and from wherever they shipped from Hongkong to Singa- pendence or autonomy.
pore and were lying in their cases in a Singapore godown, before we agreed to take the risk we should have opened the cases and examini.
came.
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The letter is hailed as most A latter speech was described in significant since Secretary Hurley | Paris 23. "the most bellicose is head of the government depart-harangue in peace time since ment responsible for the adminis-before the war." tration of the Philippine Islands,
Past Investigations,
The two independent investiga- tions referred to by Secretary Hur- ley were those conducted by the Wood-Forbes commission in 1921 and by Carmi Thompson in 1926. The Wood-Forbes commission was sent by the late President Warren G. Harding. Thompson made his investigation for former President Calvin Coolidge.
MOTOR SPIRIT FROM COAL.
HUGE UNDERTAKING IN AUSTRALIA,
Plans thirty
Sydney, May 22. for the exploitation of thousand acres of coal-
ed them."
It was contended that plaintiff not having communicated this es- sential fact to the defendants vitiated the contract. The dam- age, defendants contended, might have occurred during the voyage between Hongkong and Singapore; there was nothing to show that it occurred on the voyage for which it was insured' with defendants.
Plaintiff's Reply.
The plaintiff's reply to this lat It is generally conceded n fields in the Maitland district, ter argument was contained in. on the Philippine problem before the Standard Oil, Germany Derived from Hongkong with the in- Washington that when he testified pursuant to an agreement between evidence that some cases containing porcelain and furniture which ar an executive or secret session of Trust and Imperial Industries has the senate committee on terri- been submitted to the Warden of sured goods and were not sent on were in good condition. Mr. De East Maitland, torles and insular possessions yesterday Secretary Hurley made.
It is proposed to spend three the evidence of the master of the muth, plaintiff's counsel, also read the same statements contained in million sterling on the erection vessel in which the insured goods of plant, to employ six thousand were carried from Singapore to his letter to Senator Bingham.
men and extract thirty million Le Havre that very rough weather gallons of motor spirit annually was encountered on the voyage, so from coal-Reuter.
Important Pronouncement*. The letter is held by observers of Philippine affairs to be one of the most important pronounce- ments of recent years. It is definitely the first official indlea- tion of the attitude of the Hoover! administration toward indepen- dence demands of the Filipino people.
ECHO OF THE INDO-
CHINA REVOLT.
ANNAMITE ACTIVITY IN PARIS.
rough that it was sufficient to cause damage to the cargo although such had been well stored."
In reply to Mr. Briddell's remark that if defendants had been told of a previous voyage they would have. opened the case and examined the contents before insuring, Mr. De- |muth replied: "If I can establish that I told them the goods were ly ing in a Singapore godown, the only inference the defendants could be expected to have drawn from that was that the goods had been pre-
dence mission, headed by Speaker It is made at a time when the Philippine legislative indepen-
Paris, May 22. Sixty Annamites tried to force Manuel Roxas, is in Washington. their way into the Elysee shout It is made at a time when upwards ing "Down with the President of shipped." of a dozen Philippine indepen- the Republic" and brandishing the senate, dence bills are before the house or strips of white calico having a
Not Bound to Disclose. black border. ...
When the case was resumed after The Police easily dispered the luncheon, his Lordship said that Annamites and arrested twelve of when a person wanted to insure to the punishment of Annamitea know that they were intact. In the them. The disturbance was due goods against breakage, he must
Caught Off Guard,”-
Hsuchow telegrama state that the feated by 210 votes to 29 at a Nationalist Headquarters along special meeting of the Parliament- the Tientsin-Pukow Railway were bombed by Shansi planes which ary Labour Party to-day-Reuter. came from Chengchow yesterday.
London, May 22. The idea of an early general about half an hour, causing con- tive circles. Prominent Conserva- The Shansi attack continued for election is discounted in Conserva
sternation among the people, who tives declare that the party in the experienced their first ordeal of main has no desire to throw out the an attack from the air since the Government and force a general The letter of Secretary Hurley outbreak of the war with the election at present, in view of the to. Senator Bingham caught Kuominchun Army.
situation in Indian and the immin-Speaker Roxas and his colleagues, who recently revolted in Indo-case before the court the plaintiff The Nationalist officers report ence of the Simon Commission Re: Senator Juan Sumulong and Re-
China.-Reuter. that the Shansi aeroplanes drop-port.
Fedro presentatives
Gil and ped eight bombs, four of which The general impression is that Manuel Briones entirely off their exploded with disastrous, results, the crisis will probably be postponed guard. The
Jetter was made- destroying two private residences. until the autumn-Reuter
public without аду warning having been given either th members of the legislative mis. sion from the Philippines, or to Philippine Resident Commission-> ers Pedro Guevara and Camlo Oslas. &
Three men were killed and six men and woman were seriously in- jured.
In connexion
with the aerial
raids by the opposing armies,, the All-China Chamber of Commerce
paid out between six and seven in Shanghai has received a com-
At a meeting which took place million rupees to depositors, dur-plaint from the Chengchow Cham-
:
SHANGHAI POWER
COMPANY.
GRAF ZEPPELIN AT PERNAMBUCO.
SECOND STAGE ON LONG TRIP COMPLETED.
Pernambuco, May 22.
did not know whether or not the contents of the cases that he insured. with defendants were intact, for they had not been opened after the voyage from Hongkong to Singa pore. That being so, he should have acquainted the manager with.. the position. Unless he did, the, defendants could hardly be held responsible. AMA
Mr. Demuth pointed out that there was such a thing as waiving All members of the mission and The Graf Zeppelin has arrived the, lesue, and added that the con- the resident commissioners were here from Seville. That she was duct of the defendanta manager blunt analysis of the Philippine journey was apparent when she was on his part and discoveries on his silent regarding the letter and its making excellent progress on her was such as to walve all inquiries problem. Before commenting on reported from Fernandororonhas own, he having neglected to make the letter, Speaker Roxas sald, he to be 125 miles off the Brazil coast. any of the usual inquiries because must peruse it carefully several From here she will fly to Lakehurst it was the French Consul he was
and then over the Atlantic-Reu insuring.AKA (Continued on Page 8.) terket
(Continued on Page 8.)
BIG ISSUE OF PREFERRED STOCK. on the following day the Egyptian ing the course of an all-day "run"ber of Commerce requesting that
Shanghai, May 23, delegation expressed willingness which followed a report that the the Nationalist planes should hat Power Company is issuing Tis. It is announced that the Shang- to accept the British draft, with manager, Mr. A. G. Gray, had par- spare the business firms and 8,000,000 in six per cent, cumula- amendments-British Wireless.
[The message is incomplete, tions against Congress leaders, by concentrating their attack on month.
ticipated in auxiliary force opera- private residences at Chengchow tive Preferred Stock early, next owing to bad atmospheric con- Mr. Gray emphatically denies this, the Kuominchun barracks. ditions.]
-Reuter.
The Issue price has not yet been times. (Continued on Page, 12.) fixed-Reuter