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REISS, MASSEY'S FATEFUL CABINET ECONOMY CONFERENCES. THE DUKE OF
COMPRADORE
MISSING.
"Iron Chancellor" Firm Against Tariffs.
COLOSSAL LOSS PROPOSALS MEET WITH
ALLEGED.
BIGSENSATION IN
SHANGHAI.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Aug. 21.
A tremendous sensation has been caused in Shanghai commercial circles by the dis- closure of the apparent dia- appearance of Mr. Sun Chen-
the
of fu,
compradore
Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Company, who had been re- garded as one of the wealthi- est Chinese in the Settle- ment.,
It is now stated that Mr. Sun, having become involved in heavy! cotton yarn speculation, was over two million the! in debt, when he disappeared.
OPPOSITION.
TORIES AND TRADE UNIONS BOTH
DISSATISFIED.
FURTHER TALKS TO-DAY.
HE STRICTEST reticence is being observed in Mr. Philip Snowden, the Iron Chancellor, manages to look chessful."
quarters acquainted with the nature of the Govern-
THE
ment's economy proposals, but it is quite evident that SLEEP WALKING
a grave divergence of opinion has arisen between the General Council of the Trade Union Congress and the Government.
It is understood that this relates mainly to one of the principal proposals, namely, a modification of some sort in the unemployment relief system. It is signifi-! boarding the 9.6 nm. train for cant that the T.U.C. last night sent a special delegation to wait on the Cabinet Economy Committe, when the points at issue were discussed at some length,
He was last seen on Wednesday;
Nanking,
It is stated that he took about TTA 200,000 In notes with him and that his father, the manager of the Chih to Bank and all the members of his family, have also disappear ed leaving servants in the charge of their homes in the Bubbiing Well district.
A cheque which Mr. Sun Chen- fu gave to Reina, Massay, this week, for a sum of Tis. 580,000, was dishonoured on presentation: at the bank on Wednesday.
THE NEXT GENEVA ASSEMBLY.
FRENCH DELEGATION
APPOINTED.
The Opposition leaders have not given assurance of their support of the Government proposals, but Sir Samuel Hoare has declared in an interview that the Conservatives are most anxious to co-operate in the national emegency.
ARDUOUS DAY FOR MINISTERS.
TRAGEDY.
KILLED WOMAN
IN WANCHAI
KWONGSANG DISASTER.
BETTER NEWS FOR JARDINE'S.
WAISHING REFLOATED.
The Jardine sx. Waishing was re- Bosted at Nam Kwan Day on Wednesday and was refitting Fester- day preparatory to her return to Bunday.
The Hangsang is leaving Shang hai to-day for the South and is calling! at Nam Kwan Bay in order to land: 33 Chinese crow and staff.
Mr. McRay, Chief Officer of the Kwalsang, has gone up to Nam Kwan frem Hongkong as relief skipper of the Walshing. Captain Hughes in suffering from fatigue.
SEPOY CLEARING UP MYSTERY.
VERANDAH FALL. MAROONED MARINER'S
Mystery surrounds a mishap which occurred in Wanchai in the early hours of this morning, when
a Chinese inarried woman was found critically injured, lying in
GRIM STORY.
the street outside her home. She FEAR NOW FELT THAT NONE OF
was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, where she subsequently
ត
found
died.
brief report issued from Police Headquarters states that In the matter of certain important at 5 o'clock this morning District London, Aug. 20.
the The outcome of the Govern features of the economy proposals. Watchman No. 53
This rumour appeared to be woman lying on her. back in the ment's fateful conferences to-day
channel outside 91. Queen's xide with the leaders of the Opposition confirmed by an official announce-Road East, where she lived.
It is and the most influential rection ment that the Council is sending
not definitely known how of is supporters cannot be fore a delegation to Downing Street the woman received her injuries, | told with any accuracy.
to place its views before the
fell
from the into the street At the conclusion of the joint Cabinet, and it is believed that but it is thought likely that she of her house. When the merting
with the Cabinet the Trade Union Congress and the interview
visited the premises to make National Executive of the Labour Economy Committer. Paris, Aug. 20.
and daughter asleep in Inter-Party Conference,.... The French delegation to the Party, a statement was issued
the rear cubiele, unaware that a Autumn session of the League of saying that the Cabinet's Economy
The Conference with the re-tragedy had occurred, Nations Assembly was appointed Committee were present at the
The woman, Lo Shiu-kam, wha by the Cabinet to-day as follows:
"Mr. Hamsay MacDonald and presentatives of the Conservative! Ir. Philip Snowden briefly review and Liberal Parties, as arranged was 34 years of age, is believed M. Briand Foreign Secretary).
last week when the Government to have been walking in her sleep M. Flandin (Minister of Financeled the national Anancial emer-declared that the principal of when she 'fell, and M. Rollin
Reues and indicated in bread equal encrifices would guide the terms the principles underlying proposals, took place at No. 10.. the proposals which the Goveru-Downing Street. ment is considering with a view
The conversation Insted for two hours, Mr. MacDonald Labour Executive Content. Mr. Snowden representing
Government, Sir Samuel
of the General Council of the Council will request a
further they found the woman's!
(Minister of
tommerce). Ther will bo assisted
by
under-secretaries and experts.
The Prime Minister, M.
Laval, following the example of
DI
the
Bruening,
German
Chancellor
Is
| meeting.
to balancing the budget.
the
leare:
"At the conclusion of the joint and Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the meeting, the National Executive Conservatives, and Sir Herbert renumed its own session and con- Samuel and Sir Donald MacLean, sidered the situation as presented
After sintethe Liberals.
CHURCH PROPERTY
THREATENED.
CARDINAL'S LETTER INTERCEPTED.
OFFICERS SURVIVED.
to
GLOUCESTER
INDISPOSED.
IN A NURSING HOME.
APPENDICITIS.
London,
Aug. 21.
The Duke of Glouces- tori the third son of His Majesty the King, is indiaposed.
His Royal Highness
-has entered a. London nursing home after medical exam inn- tion, but the nature
of his ill- ness has not yet been disclosed.
in
The Duke thirty-
оле усата оf age and the tallest of the King's BORS. He visited Hong kong und was royally en-
tertained in 1920 -when travelling to to Japan
convey the lusignia of the Order of
He tried from the Army on half pay In August, 1920, after ten years service with the King's Royal Rifle
the Garter to the Emperor.
Corps,
THE DILIGENT search for survivors of the Kwong- sang disaster, being carried out by H.M.S. Sepoy, has produced further information which leads the commander of the destroyer to entertain doubts as
"Quite. Comfortable." whether any
of the European officers escaped death.
According to the Daily Mail, his It appears that three Chinese, whose names are un-illness has been diagnosed as ap known, but who are said to have been from Tientsin,pendicitis and an operation may be were washed up alive from the wreck at a village to the necessary. The latest report from the nursing home is that the Duke south-west of Feilon Island. They appear to have pro- is "quite comfortable."
He went to Sandringham with ceeded overland to Santu on the 17th, Monday. The fact that these men were Northern Chinese of tall the King and Queen ten days ago,
and felt unwell on Wednesday. Re statute and unintelligible to the local inhabitants, ap- turning to London, he underwent a pears to have led to the rumour that one might have medical examination, after which been a foreigner. Jardine's locally think that the sur- he was rushed to Alfred House, the Countess of Carnarvon's nursing vivors may have been mafoos accompanying the race home in Portland Place.-Reuter. ponies lost.
SHIP DISAPPEARS IN THE NIGHT.
to
MEUSE VALLEY DEATH MIST.
HEAVY FINES ON A CHEMICAL FIRM.
Brussels, Aug. 20.
As a sequel to the poison' gas
The following is an account of af Chupi Island:
Tracing the stories reinted the disaster from a man who was Madrid, Aug. 20. by the Ministers, M. Flandin.
the Following the interception of marooned on Angle Island by the them, he wires in a later manage ments by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare Interviewed.
of August naval men havo found graves on instructions from Cardinal Segura, typhoon on the night
shores of Fu Yan Island where attending the Assembly, but Mr. Arthur Henderson, and the
In an interview later, Sir Samuel the exiled Primate Spain, for 9-10 himself and M. Briand to Berlin it was agreed to leave t
preliminary exchange of opinion at the end of September in urder with the Government."
The Government's statement in a frank, free informal property in the country, a decree to the description of the Kwong The graves contained the remains deaths in the Meuse Valley last to resume the conversations with
on Sunday, Aug. 9, in a position long had elapsed after death to per persons lost their lives, the manag- ing director and a director of B sale of any Church property,
chemical works in the Liege día- Dr. Bruening which were com- was also considered separately They had had set before them the has been issued prohibiting the sang unchored at about 6.30 pm. of foreigners and Chinese, but too Regarding the story that a Congress. Agures drawn up by the Govern This is in order to prevent the approximately five caldes 280 demit of identification. menced in Paris shortly before the by the Trades Union London Seven-Power Conference. The views of the Council are being ment, and although they surveyed religious orders from selling their grees from the summit of Sugar
ing the stories and piecing the In-ing to the escape of poison ganca communicated to the Government a very wide field, the survey had vast estates and transferring the Leaf Island in Lat. 26.57 N. Long, foreigner had been saved, by sift triet have been heavily flued, ow-
comprehensive. The solution of the crisis, he proceeds abroad in order to avoid 120.19 E.
that night. The typhoon was at termined that the stories concern Rumours were quickly in circula said, demanded eronomy, which confiscation as threatened by the "She was well lit at eight o'clock formation together, it has been de- from their works, Reuter,
Which draft Constitution-Reuter, tion that the TLC. was unable to presupposed sacrifices by all
its height in the middle watch and two or more survivors, though the see eye to eye with the Government classes. He added that since the
when visibility cleared at 8 a.m. on actual number is in doubt. the 10th, the ship had gone." Conference he and Mr. Chamber-
will await the planned visit of Home Secretary, Mr. the unition Hoare said that they had had a the end rate of of Church "A red-funnelled ship, answering bodies of victims were buried. December, when seventy-five
Reuter.
to-night.
Two Chinese cases of typhoid were the health nathorities notified to yesterday.
not yet
been
Iain had been in communication THE BELGENLAND
with
hat ednaulted
Mr. Stanley Baldwin (who)
is still at Alx-les-Bains) and they
colleagues.
with
other
He added that the Conservatives
MYSTERY.
had stressed the need for reducing POLICE HOPE FOR expenditure rather than employing
FRESH CLUES. now .taxation in attempting
solution of the financial
And
Lo
erlain. The Converantivan were of
the opinion t the crisis had
ture,
Nove York. Aug. 21. Federal police oficials now be-
Natives' Stories.
The Commander of H.M.S. Sepoy Natives tell of seeing the steamer
that the
lates
account of this eye witness was quite unngoallable, caught in the grip of wind and son, though
the fact of her dis being carried helpless towards appearance does not mean that the Chup! Pass. Whether she foundered It is probable that she was ploces they did not know. Bite of Kwongsang sank in that position, or went ashore and was dashed to driven from her anchorage. In the wreckage and life-jackets on bodies [on the beach tell the rest of the terrific gale.'
Istory,
Sepoy's. Bellet. The Commander of the Sepoy
Bouth
COLLIDE. arisen owing to excessiva expendi- lleve that Mr. Hanashi Fujimura, wirelesses: I have now learned that LIGHTER AND LAUNCH the Japanese silk importer, who there are numerous hornes, shoep disappeared from the Belgenland, and human bodies on the
shore of Funding Bay and as the DAMAGE OF 1800 REPORTED. He said the discussions between was thrown overboard. the three paelles had not reached They are conndent that further wind was in the north-sant, It a Damage to the extent of $800
Kwongsang the stage where it was possible to clues will be obtained when the pears possible that the
inter-party conference has arranged for to-morrow.
PLANE ATTACKS STEAMER.
STRANGE INCIDENT OFF CUBA.
Washington, Aug. 20. A wireless message has been. picked up from the Darleh four- maated steamer Frederiksborg.
her:
had dropped a bomb -near stating that a Cuban seroplane 'and had machine-gunned her Becks.
The information was picked up.
There are no details of the in way whether the Conservatives' were
or not, but they ware Bolgenland returns from a cruise sank in the entrance to Funling was caused in a collision between a by the Navy Department
Bay. satisfied
It is known that the Kwong-lighter which was being towed by most, anxious to co-operate in the to-morrow.. national morgency, and another | The crew will be questioned and sang was carrying a deck cargo of the Kowloon Godown's launch eldent beyond the fact that the I proposa searching this Comera and the Dairy Farm Com attack on the ship occurred in Chore to-morow (Friday). pany's motor boat at the "T" pier. Cuban waters. It is thought pro- been the wireless operator will be horsen. I
bable that the aeroplane wa Kowloon required to produce copies of
yesterday A message from the Sepoy re-
In a report inst night,
to messages sont and received by Mr.
the pollce, Tang Government machine and launched Later
shortly before the foregoing radio, Shiu-ming, coxswain of the Madge the attack in the baller that the After hearing the reports of the Fujimura.--Reuter's American Serceived at 7.80 p.m.
vico.
tated that the destroyar was an staled that at 10.50 a.m. while Re Frederiksborg was un-runne Prime Minister and the Chancel
the "Pier unload-or carried rebels Router, was alongside choring at Sansha for the night. lor of the Exchequer on to-day's
added the coming, provisions, the steam launch, much events the Cabinet, adjourned, at
* Paris, Aug. 207 mander, ret
ing to get alongside the Praya wall 9.30 pm until ten o'clock to-mor-
newd of any further survivors...
The Telegraph Shanghal corres on the north end of the pier. The ed M, Francels Ponte After the adjournment, the The King and Queen left perbata, cabine the morale, says it starboard side of the lighter col Secretar for depetation of the Trade Union Sandringham tonight for Bal-reporter than the Super ha ile. Ided with the Madge and caused
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row.
Hello,
alothing:
mors)
THE 'KING & QUEEN. -
London, Aug. 20.
xí, have so yet, no/with a lighter in tow, was attempt Thế Cuncil of State has appoit
| covered the Kwongsang hulk on the lee damage estimated at $800.-