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三拜山 *+A-+X# WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1930. A SINGLE PER ANNUA
LI CHAI-SUM'S FUTURE.
cort 10
OENTS
LOCAL BRANCH."
SEIZURE.
SIX WEEKS AFTER THE. OUTRAGE.
ADVENTUROUS CAREER COMES TO AN END.
NATIONALIST CRITIC.
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Tientsin, Nov. 12. Mr. Lenox Simpson, who was shot by a gang of well-dressed Chinese, at his residênce last month, and who has since been lying paralysed, died at ten o'clock last night. It was only his remarkable constitution that kept him alive so long-Reuter.
A later message says that Mr. Simpson passed away quietly, and adds that the funeral is taking place at 2 p.m. to-morrow.
HON. MRS. BRUCE LEAVES.
NOTED AIRWOMAN TAKES OFF
FOR AMOY.
TO AVOID PIRATES!
Affer being undcĉided for whe time whether she would take off to- day, the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce departed for Amy this morning in continuation of her fight from England to Japan.
When the noted airwoman ar- rived at Kai Tack, the weather
looked none too inviting, and for a time Mrs.
Bruce was doubtful
whether it would be advisable to leave. However, she suddenly de- cided to go, and accordingly took off at 11.30 am. She flew about over the Aerodrome for nearly quarter of an hour and then set off, being accompained at the start by the Flying Club's charge of Flying Officer Howes. with Mr. C. D. Lambert as pas- senger. The Club plane returned shortly afterwards.
plune in
Prior to starting, Mrs. Bruce stated that her elbow, which was injured in a riding mishap on Monday, was giving her some trouble, but she had had an anti-
The late Mr. Bertram Lenox Simpson, who was more widely known by his preudonym "Putnam" Weale," was the second son of the one time Senior Commissioner of Chinese Customs. Deccused's maternal grandfather was John Weale, publisher and author of London, who married the grand-tetanus injection as a safeguard daughter of the American Revolu- against lockjaw. She did not Lionary General Israel Putnam think the injury would greatly in- hence the pseudonym. The late
terfere with her flying. Mr. Lenox Simpson was born in 1977, was educated at Brighton College for the Army, and studied in Switzerland, Germany, France. Italy and China. He was a fluent
inguist, speaking five languages. †
Awarded Boxer Medal.
He entered the Chinese Customs Service in 1818, went through the seige of the Peking Legations in 1900, being mentioned in. despatches and given medal with clasp for his aid in the defence of the Legation. He was mo te
Brigade Interpreter to the British Expeditionary Forens
He resigned from the Customs Service in 1901, and since that time had travelled the Far Erst and had been the author of many books and inumerable articles under the name of Putnam Weale. is writings have included fiction. pelities.
history essays,
and For some
years he
biography. was the advises to the President of China.
Prolific Writer.
Hi publications include: Manchu and Muscovite, 1904; The Re-Shaping of the Far East, 1965: The Truce in the Far East and its
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Mrs. Bruce took off very well, in 250 yards, with 60 gallons of Shell petrol aboard her plane. She stated, before starting, that she would fly fairly low. between 1,000 and 1,200 feet, and keep class to the coast. In this way she hoped to gain some shelter from the strong north-east winds. She intended fiving high over the Blas took it in their heads to fire at Bar region. in ease any pirates
her!
Strong head winds are reported between Hongkong and Amoy, and
accordingly Mrs. Bruce does not expect to reach Amor until three
o'clock this afternoon.
Amongst those present
to see
HINDU ATTITUDE ON INDIA'S FUTURE.
CRUCIAL ISSUES MERELY
DOMESTIC.
THE PRE-OPENING CONFERENCE DISCUSSIONS.
CHIEF DIVERGENCES.
MAY BE RELEASED AT ONCE.
KUOMINTANG CONFERENCE TO
DISCUSS MATTER.
مجھ
IMPORTANT PARLEY.
Nanking, Nov. 11.
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SHANGHAI HEROIN HOMAGE TO THE
WAR DEAD.
ANOTHER LLOYD TRIESTINO
VESSEL INVOLVED,
'SHIPPED AS RAISINS.
Shanghai, Nov. 12. The Shanghai Tixes this morn- ing reports the seizure by the Chin- use Marines Car in Shang hai of 190 pounds of herola in cases which were unloaded from' the Lloyd Triestino steamer, the Col di Lana.
The Customs value the haul at $250,000
GERMAN NATIONALIST
DISAPPROVAL.
PROTEST AGAINST GENEVA OBSERVANCE.
SCENES IN LONDON.
London, Nov. 11.
In connexion with the opening here to-morrow of the Fourth
Though twelve years have Kuomintang Plenary Session, It is learned that the drug was passed and a new gencration foreign reports state that the shipped as "dried fruit," and that has grown up since the war release of Marshal Li Chal-sum. it was concealed in cases of raising, ended, it was again made
The Shanghai Times says it is crstwhile Commander-in-Chief of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, at Constantinople but neither the tion of Armistice Day had lost. believed that the drug was loaded manifest to-day that the celebra- will synchronize with the sitting names of the shippers nor of the none of its significance. The of the Kuomintang Session, consignees have been disclosed-crowds were as, great as on any
ONG of the most memorable events in theblue & coerente wat with my intent of Marthalten
Great Britain with India, the Round Table Conference, will of the appointment of Marshal It was aboard a steamer operated previous anniversary. The cele be inaugurated by the King to-day. The liveliest interest is Li as Chairman of the Kwangsi by the Lloyd Triestino, the motor-bration of the ceremony in being taken throughout the world and while the absence of Provincial Government.
ship Hilda, that that the enormous Whitehall, which was broadcast a representative of the Gandhi.faction is regretted, confidence
haul of 000 lbs. of heroin was
into most of the homes in the is felt that a definite understanding will be achieved.
made in Hongkong last month.
The Hongkong valuation was ap- country, was both beautiful and proximately $500,000, but if the
moving. the local haul must have been worth Shanghai computation was correct, at least $1,000,000.
There is a cleavage between the Hindu and Moslem delegates on the point of procedure, the minority group being of opinion that the special problems of India require attention before her future constitution is settled. The Hindus think that these can be dealt with as domestic issues when self-government has been accorded.
No agréement has been achieved in the preliminary discussions, carried out in excellent spirit, on the point of whether India should develop a government on Federal lines, or whether it should be centralised. The States are leaning towards an All-India Constitution provided the British con nexion is preserved. All are of opinion that self-government will emerge from the conference.
OPENING CEREMONY TO-DAY.
·
London, Nov. 11. I Hitherto, however, there has London these days, on the eye of t
Many Oriental faces are seen in been no sign of a tangible result. the opening of the Indian Round-
United On One Point. Table Conference, which Mis
It is suggested that Gen. Feng Cheng-wu, who was imprisoned at Nanking at the same time as Mur- sha! Li, will also be set free and assigned to a post to represent the Nationalist Government on a tour to Americu, England and Japan to study industrial conditions.
Many Proposals/
The King and Queen, their sons, British and Empire statesmen and Indian princes paid their homage to the Dead with a vast and re
It may be recalled that the cases seized in Hongkong contained glass, the drug being ingeniously con- cealed. The port of destination verent multitude. No fewer than seventy recom- was believed to be Trieste, and in- mendations have been submitted formation was given to the Hong-ders Poppy, forty million
Everyone to-day wore a Flan- by the Kuomintang C.E.C. Commis-kong authorities by agents of the which had been made by ex
of sloners to the Kuomintang Session, League of Nations. posals from Marshal Chiang Kai- including some important pro-
service men. Late to-night people shek on the suggested summoning
continued to file past the cenotaph, placing flowers of remembrance at of the National Assembly, rear- ganisation of
its base.-British Wireless. the National Government suppression of Com- munists and bandits, and the Na- tionalist foreign policy in 1931.
FRENCH AIRMEN'S FRANTIC RUSH.
GOULETTE AND LALOUETTE REACH CALCUTTA.
Discordant Germany.
Berlin, Nov. 11, Although the German, Turkish and Bulgarian delegates to the Preparatory Disarmament Con- ference at Geneva joined in the Two Minutes' Silence, which was observed for the first time at the
The Kuomintang Session will last for about a week, and it is anticipated that General Chang
Calcutta, Nov. 11. Hauch-liang, head of the Man-
Goulette and Laloulette, the churian Government, now visiting French fliers, who are engaged on Nanking, will attend, although he a flying "scurry" from Paris to is not a Commissioner of the Saigon. continuing their frantic headquarters of the League of Generally, the delegates appear C.E.C. The proceedings will be government both of the Provinces the Enlarged Kuomintang Session All sections of Indian opinion, merge from the Conference, but political opponents of the Nanking and of the Central Government will at Tientsin and Peking, the with one regretted exception, and there is a cleavage of opinion re-administration. all political parties in Great
garding procedure. Britain, will be represented.
Mrs. Bruce off was Mr. R. Foster Majesty the King will inaugurate nuited in expecting that self. keenly watched by the members of three and a half days after taking papers are most indignant at the
representing the Asiatic Petroleum Co. and several men of the R.A.F.
AUSTRALIA ISSUING CONVERSION LOAN.
HIGH RATES OF INTEREST PROPOSED.
Canberra, Nov. 11. The Federal Loan Council bas
to-morrow in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords,
Political Risk.
risk and all who take their seats)
conference,
Hindu Attitude.
Leftist Activity.
CREW OF A JUNK RESCUED.
Nations to-day, Nationalist news
"disgraceful tactlessness."
it by walking out as several Ger- They suggest that the German delegates ought to have answered man journalists did-Reuter.
Hoover on Peace.
President Hoover, apeaking at
Washington, Nov., 11. the Armistice Day Memorial Ser
rush, arrived at Calcutta to-day. off from Le Bourget.
that seven hours sieep since the
They left again to-night. Neither airman has had more journey began, and they declare that they would be unable to stand A big secret meeting of the more than another's day's flight
at this pace, One section, comprising the Enlarged Kuomintang Session Many of the delegates have leading Hindus, are of the opinion was held last evening, after which be required to do so as they ex- It is probable that they will not come from India at great political that the Conference should the Kuomintang Leftist leaders pect to reach Saigon to-morrow
receive at the outset from at the Round Table are clearly British Government an assurance to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek ex-
the suggested dispatching a telegramenter. inspired by the highest sense of
that the object is to draw up a pressing their sympathy with the patriotism. Aftermath, 1906; Indiscreet Let-agreed upon the issue of a
During the
the of Dominion Status Constitution for suggested summoning the ters from Peking, 1907: The Com-000800 Conversion Loan, to meet guests of the British Government regards such problems as defence,
£28,Indian representatives will be the India, and this school of thought National Assembly. ing Struggle in Eastern Asia, 1908; the £27,000,000 Luan
The Leftist leaders say that The Forbidden Boundary and other.
maturing and the recipients of very exten- the position of minorities, and the they are ready to terminate their shortly. Tales, 1908; The Human Cobweb,
sive public and privale hospitality. position of the Indian States, as political difference with Nanking 2010: The Contiiet of Colour, 1910;
The conversion will be effected:
Since their arrival it has become domestic questions which self-provided the National Assembly KANCHOW BRINGS SURVIVORS The Unknown God, 1911: The upon the following terais: Two apparent that all the delegates are governing India can be left to will adopt the Provisional Revolt, 1912; The Romance of a years at six per cent,, ten years at inspired by a determination that solve
stitutional form of Government, Few Days, 1913: The Eternal 5 per rent, and twenty years at the Conference shall be a success On the contrary, the leading recently drafted by Mr. Wang The 5.9. Kanchow, which arrived Priestess, 1914: The Altar Pirc, five and a half per cent.-Beuter
and that it will begin in a mosi Mostems and others, while agree- Ching-wei.
in port yesterday, brought in the 1916; The Fight for the Republi:
encouraging atmosphere -- ing upon the ultimate objectivė, The Nanking Foreign Minister. crew of a junk which was encoun». insist that the special problems of Mr. C. T. Wang: Mr. Wang Chung-tered in a water-logged condition in India demand prior attention, bui, Chairman of the Judicial Lat. 87.35 N. and Lang. 122 E., on
The President expressed the It is also notable that even in taking the view that the Con Council; Mr. Chang Ching-kiang: the voyage from Tientsin to Hong- opinion that within a few years quarters in india which have stitution must statutorily assure General Chan Ming-shu, the Civil kong via Amoy.
it would become 21 accepted Captain R. H. Fairley, master of Governor of Canton; and Admiral the Kanchow, in a report hitherto held aloof or have even the rights of the minorities. beer hostile
to the Principle of international law that Chan Chak, head of the Canton Harbour Office, states that the junk, not be settled by the ordinary. to the Conference,
'international disputes that could there has been marked weakening
Navy arrived at Nanking last named the "Shing Fat Soon," was diplomatic channels would be sub- evening together to attend the last seen drifting shorewards after mitted to arbitration or to inter- Kuomintang Session.
national conciliation commissions.
-Reuter's American Service.
in China, 1917: The Truth about China and Japan, 1919; Wang the Ninth 1320: An Indiscreet Chronicle from the Pacific, 1922: Why China Seas Red, 1925; The Vanishert Empire. 1926: Her Closed Hands 1027: China's Crucifixion, 1928.
His latest book was "The Port of Fragrance" a new novel just published by Messrs Noel Douglas, of London. It is a straightforward, novel of Hong- kong, with Bolshevik intrigues in the background.
Post Under Rebels,
On June 16 Jast Mr. Simpson look
of Tientsin over control Customs from Colonel Hayley-Bell, doing so in the name of the northern insurgents. On behalf of the Shansi Party, Mr. Simpson
administer continued to Customs until September 29, when. following the
Occupation of Tientsin by Manchurian troops, he was forced to hand over to new arrivals,
the
It was on October 1 that he was shot and seriously wounded by a gang of well-dressed Chinese who'
CAUSE OF WHYSALL'S DEATH.
BLOOD POISONING AFTER SLIGHT FALL.
London, Nov. 11.
Opposition Weakening.
Form of Constitution.
of the indifference and the hostility, It is on this problem that the
All sections represented will have an equal voice and the con-itself, but there are also cross- main divergence is manifesting The blood poisoning from which ference will entirely govern its own currents, such as the question of Whysall, the Nottingham and All-procedure.
PRINCE'S COMING
TOUR.
Parliament.
Chiang's Busy Day,
con-
TO HONGKONG,
the crew had been taken off.
vice, said that the outlook for peace was happier than it had been for half a century, yet it was im. possible to overlook the fact that nations were, in many ways, | always potentially in conflict,
He went on to say that the year' 1930 was notable in the annals of peace. It had disposed of one of the major frictions of the world.. namely, naval competition, and it has resulted in a sensible advance in the reduction of warships.
End of War.
THIEVES ENTER
SCHOOL
Two Chinese were charged bet
with
England cricketer died to-day, was There will be no majority deci whether India should have a Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in this morning and is expected at cause by a slight fall on his elbow sions and no voting, its aim being Federal or a unitary (centralised) the company of his wife, returned Pukow between midnight and ten days ago.British Wireless. to reach the greatest possit's forin of Constitution, and the to the capital this morning and
seven o'clock to-morrow morning.. measure of agreement. This will question of whether British India had a busy time, in meeting the
It is tentatively arranged that provide the basis of proposals which should work out its own Con- Kuomintang. Commissioners con- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek will go will ultimately be placed before stitution or proceed on All-India cerning arrangements for the to Pukow to meet General Chang,
lines.
Kuomintang Session. He had an both then proceeding across the STEAL A CLOCK, A FAN AND The rigours of the London winter.
The attitude of the States them-
interview with the French river to Nanking in the gunboat
BLANKETS will be mitigated for the Indian selves is likely to be most helpful Minister to China in the afternoon. "Welshen" after which they will visitors, at least in St. James's Pain solving this latter question,
The special brain conveying proceed to. the Sun Yat-sen lace where, apart from to-morrow's
General Chang Hsueh-liang and a Mausoleum where General Chang fore Mr. Lindsell, at the Central There appears to be a grow party of Manchurian Government Hauch-liang will pay his respects Magistracy this morning, opening ceremony the conference
ing disposition will be held. The rooms are heated.
among the officials passed through Tsinanfu to the remains, The Fourth breaking into the second floor of representatives of the States in this. by great fires and electric radiators,
morning and Hsuchow at Plenary Session of the Kuomin-No. 72, Stone Nullah Lane, pre ture of about seventy degrees. maintaining an equable tempera-
favour of co-operating with about seven o'clock this evening. tang is being opened at eight mises occupied by a school. and British India in evolving a The Manchurian party is expected o'clock to-morrow morning, and stealing a clock, an electric fan self-governing Constitution on to reach" Nanking some time to the attendance of a quorum is and two blankets, valued at $50, Federal lines- provided the morrow morning.
assured. Reuter. British connexion is preserved At Tsinanfu the Manchurian and the Princes' positions and ruler was warmly welcomed by a rights in their own States are huge crowd of civilians and left unimpaired..
TO VISIT BERMUDA AND JAMAICA.
London, Nov. 11.
Prince of Wales will visit Bermuda It is officially announced that the and Jamaica during his voyage to South America early next year- British Wireless.
called at his residence and re-recalling that his articles in the quested an. interview. While Peking Leader and several Lender escorting them to his study, he was shot in the back. the bullet papers denouncing the Nationalist penetrating the spine."
regume stand as the most acathing Apart from the driver of the ment ever penned by a
indictment of any Chinese Govern motor car, in which the murderere.
critic. arrived and left the house, there have been no arrests,
Bitter Nanking
Enemy,
The general opinion was that the crime was political. It is worth
Preliminary Talks,
Already there have been numer- ous preliminary informal discus- gates fifty-seven representatives sions among the eighty-six dele- of British India, sixteen of the Indian States and thirteen of the British Parliament.
The prosecuting police officer United Efforts.
stated that an effort had been made to break, the lock, without !. Tientsin, Nov. 11. success. The hinges were cut officials of the Shantung Provin- General Chang Hagah-lling, away, and by this means the men British Opinions.
cial Government, General Chang who left for. Nanking at seven were able to effect an entry, said he was in a great hurry to o'clock Inst evening, is accom One of the accused, who had a British Government circles are proceed. to Nanking to attend the panied by his wife and his previous conviction, was sent to Ernest efforts have been made optimistic regarding the prospects Kuomintang Session and expressed brother, Chang Hsueh-ming and prison for 12 months. The other for some days by the delegates of the Conference and
the hope of visiting Teinänfu for a large retinue,
man received a sentence of Tour from: British India to reach an gratified with the excellent spirit few days upon his return trip Mr. Ho Feng-lin, speaking on months. A recent commentator, how agreement on the position to be with which, it is, believed, the to the North.
behalf of General Chang, stated A young married woman, who ever, stated that when he wielded accorded to the Moslems and other preliminaries have been discussed.
that Chang Hauch-liang, and was charged with rocelying, was his pen on behalf of China, as he clear the way for consideration of clans not connected with the
Arriving This Morning.. minority communities, in order to On the contrary, British politi
Chiang Kai-shek intended uniting remanded for further enquiries. did on innumerable occasions, it won more victories for Her than the form of the future constitution Government are extremely scept Telnant at even o'clock Reuter A
all their endeavours, for the She is alleged to have visited a battalions or diplomacy...
development of Young China pawnshop and offered the fan to
the pawnbroker,
foreign
of India
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