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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1925.

"BOME" PLOTRASYON

JARDINE STEAMER'S

ESCAPE,

(Reuter's Service.)

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W CHINA FLOODS.

WORST FOR MANY YEARS.

(Reuter's Service.)

Peking, Sept. 28.

LORRY DEATH

THE CHINA MAIL.

DRIVER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER, SW9!

The Chinese driver of a motor lorry belonging to Mossrs. A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd. was before! the Central Magistrate (Mr.

a charge of manslaughter. and was defended by Mr. M. K. Lo. The accident occurred

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Wellington Street where the lorry

ist,

INTRIGUE

PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES RESULTS IN CHINA.

LABOUR QUESTIONS.

The statement in the House of

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Shanghai, Sept. 27. When the Indo-China Steam

The Secretary of the Chinus. B. B. McElderry) yesterday on Commons by the Labour Social- Navigation Company's steamer International Famine Relief Com- "Tuckwo," which arrived at Hun-mittee reports a further break on kow this afternoon from Shang-the main south dyke of the hai, was about two miles above Yellow River. 10 miles west of Shihlipu. It resulted in the Wuhu on the evening of the 25th inst. a violent explosion, accom- Worst flood of the river since moved backward down a slope and Mr. R. McNeil, the comment that panied by smoke, occurred in the 1887 Chinese third-class accommoda- tion. Anti-fire measures were taken and no fire resulted, the ship continuing on her voyage.

An enquiry into the cause of the explosion resulted in the find- ing of a cunningly-contrived bomb, the cover of which was the Thermos outside container of a Bask, which had been placed in an innocent-looking "box. Accord-

The effect of the first break on August 13, which was announced Home time ago, was only to Rood an area of approximately 400 square miles between the inner and outer dykes. The later dis- aster resulted in the unrestricted flow of the river southward, where part thereof may reach the Yangtze through the Grand

Canal.

There is a bare possibility of ing to the story of the passenger the river entirely changing its

coolle concerned, the box WIS brought aboard at Chinkiang hy a Chinese who left the ship at Nanking and did not return.

Only slight damage was done by the explosion, two Chinese passengers being slightly injured and two bunks wrecked. There had obviously been a determined and well-planned attempt to wreck the ship, which might have had most serious results had the bomb exploded elsewhere than under the wide airshaft, which gave the flame access to the open sir and dissipated the force of the explosion. This combined with the excellent behaviour of the officers and crew, tended to allay any tendency to panic on the part of the passengers.

PEACE EFFORTS.

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The Executive Secretary, Mr. Mallory, who with the chief engineer, Mr. Todd, has just re- turned from an inspection trip. announces that probably 1,500

are miles are already under water and 2,000,000 people more or less are affected. The Autum crops are destroyed and probably hundreds drowned. Every hour the flooded area is increasing and the flow of the river is the only limiting factor to the extent of the catastrophe. Shantung Committee has opened The C.L.F.R.C. relief work with Yuncheng as the centre. Steps are being taken to activities as need increases. enlarge the Acope of these

BETTER BUSINESS.

HONGKONG AT WEMBLEY,

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ran over a pavement, fatally in- juring a fortune teller who was ented there. The driver had left

Sergeant Saunders gave evi. the vehicle at the time. dence as to the condition in which he found the lorry after the accident. He said that both hand and foot brukes were in working order, but he considered that on an incline such as the scene of the accident the application of the hand bruke alone, as was evident from his examination, would not be sufficient.

The one was adjourned.

BLOOD GIVEN. MAN WHO FELT PAIN WHEN

PATIENT DIED.

Ux-

Frederick George Lee, an

Nearly three years ago regimental sergeant-major, now 34, was asked at a labour bureau blood to be transfused to a girl of if he would allow some of his 10 at the Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, W.

"I've kiddies of my own," he replied, promptly agreeing to the request,

Mr. Ponsonby, that thought it was. farcical to uttrl- bute the trouble of China to Com- munistic agencies drew from the Under-Secretary, Foreign Office, he did not think any proof of pro- paganda could be so positive as to convince that right honourable gentleman.

In the course of discussion Major-General Knox insisted that

China was the anti-British propaganda in engineered from Moscow. Their agent, whose name was Tomski, known us. Livinski. (Laughter), Mr. J. Jones (Labour-Socialist.

WAS

now

Silvertown): Is it in order for a

member of this House to refer to the member of another Govern- ment as if he had changed his name for some disreputable rea- son? (Ministerial laughter). The King of this country had changed his name, and they thought none the worse of him for that.

A Labour-Socialist; And 80 has the President of the Board of Trade. (Labour-Socialist cheers).

The Speaker did not think Sir A. Knox had referred in any dis- respectful terms to the gentleman cheers). he had mentioned. (Ministerial

Sir A. Knox regretted that he had ruffled hon. membera op- posite. (Laughter and cheers).

In the course of his speech, Mr. Ponsonby asked the Government The subsequent operation was

to give the House some informa

The the first of 25 of a similar naturetion in regard to China. to which Mr. Lee has submitted since November 1942, there being a chance in every ease of saving the patient's life.

problem was one that might smoulder until it blazed up into something extremely dangerous, His Majesty's Government were showing & sort of spineless Inertia, and

taking no

were

action. They seemed to have an situations, whether at home or incorrigible habit

of allowing.

He has given 36 pints of his Peking, Sept. 28.

life-blood to others, and at least Scores of letters and verbal re- The Government is working quests are being revived duly by 17 persons owe their lives to him hard to preserve peace and to dis- the Wembley officinis asking whe and to the Middlesex Hospital pel war rumours. Wu Kuangther the Wembley exhibition will go surgeons in whose care he has hsin has returned from a visit to on next year in spite of the de- placed himself.

abroad, to come to a head before Feng Yu-hsiang and is now finite official statement that the In cases where transfusion has they could be persuaded to move variously reported to be visiting Bites will close for good at the end not been successful in saving the at all. He thought that the sug- Yuen Wei-chun and Sun Chuan- of October, antes de "China Ex-life of a patient Mr. Lee has had China were due to Bolshevik pro- gestion that the disturbances in fang. Yao Chen, the special press and Telegraph.**

a curious knowledge of the fact.paganda had been disproved. To delegate to Honan, hus wired

Malaya and Hongkong have "Should my patient die," he said, say that the movement was due to never looked more animated than "I know at once, for I feel Communist agitation was farcical during the lust few weeks. A severe pain in my arm." Hongkong official declared that much better business had been done lately and that every hope is entertained for a continuance of the same until the pavilion closes. "We want at least 20 volunteers was the case last year, of equal fitness," a house surgeon the Hongkong section

closes stated. 1. month enrlier

than the "They must not have had ing been decided on principally in otherwise, any fit man or woman general Exhibition, this step hav-malaria or serious blood diseases; order that the Chinese employees may leave for home before the cold up to 60 is capable of acting as weather sets in. The Commissioner

donor. Volunteers should write and Mrs. Fallifax were "at home" to the secretary of the Middlesex at the Pavilion on September 22.

saying that Yueh Wei-chun has assured him of his peaceful inten- tions. Teng Han-hsiang, after interviewing Li Ching-lin and obtaining his peaceful assertions has gone on to see Hsiao Yao-nan. The Government is reported to have 'instructed Sun Pao-chi, who is at present recuperating at Hangchow, in see Sun Chuan-

petice,

fang and urge him to keep the Sun Pao-chi is reported to have wired advocating Sun Chuan-fang and Yang Yu-ting to meet to discuss their differences informally at Shanghai.

FRANCE'S DEBTS.

As

CHINA SUGAR."

EFFECT OF TEMPORARY..

STOPPAGE.

Hospital."

a

that

in the extreme. It was the cul- Mr. Lee has been ordered amination of events that had been rest, and for two months is not to growing in China ever since the be allowed to give his blood to Western exploitation of patients.

point had been reached in the way country in 1840. The breaking- the Chinese had been treated as the Western peoples. inferior people and exploited by

honestly by China; it would not be Western Powers wanted

If the to deal long before a strong Government arose in that country. We were throwing Russia into the arms of Asia; we were entranging the whole of the vast population of China; and were raising up a Geneva, September 28: The

sort of suspicious feeling against Connel of the Teague of Nations of to-day might culminate in Japan. The unfortunate action has appointed an Esthenian, Gen- eral Leider as commissioner to great catastrophes years hence. investigate the Mosul deportations.

In reply to Mr. Ponsonby, Mr. valinn Lieutenant Colonel. Tater: intrigue was creating great dif- He will be assisted by a Czechoslo B. McNeil said that Russian General Leidoner will have two ficulties and making much mis- assistants, chosen by the Fangue chief in China. He did not, how- Council's Mosul committee.ever, believe that in the long run Renter.

it would do any material damage to the British Empire. (Minis-

Mar del Plate, September 28.-terial cheers),

(Reuters Service.)

London, Sept. 28. While Washington despatches Times" from a Robe reader it From a letter appsuring in the are optimistic in regard to the would appear that the stoppage of prospect of the Franco-American the British sugar rehuaries in debt settlement. Paris is doubtful China has created a demand for and some papers even anticipate the Japanese product in Man- the failure of the negotiations.churia in the boycott, and in other The despatches from French cor-] Eastern countries. respondents at Washington, how- The increased export trade in Prince of Wales te hanquetted British Government there was not On the eve of the departure of the As regarded the attitude of the ever, speak of the new French Japanese goods such as cottons and proposals as possibly providing manufactured fordstus is also re-Repulse, which was brilliantly, Ponsonby's charge that the Gov- President Alvear on board H.M.S. the slightest foundation for Mr. for initial annual payments of ported to have reacted favourably. thirty instead of twenty-five mil-on the value of the you. Japanese illuminated. The function was ernment were showing supine. lion dollars, increasing in grey sheetings, again, ang reported very splendid and attended by the inertia. From the first moment decade to a maximum of. ap- to have made considerable inroads Argentine Cabinet Ministers, off the troubles developed, the Gov- proximately a hundred million, into the trade with East African cials and society lenders, who ernment had been very active in payable in fifty-two years instead porta..

affectionately bade furewell to the trying to bring about a wise Prince. The newspapers cordially settlement of the existing trou- pribute to the royal visibles, and to devise and encourage Reuter.

of ninety. The Americans are Commenting on the statement how said to be ready to agree to with regard to sugar, the "China maximum annuities of 120 Express and Telegraph thinks million dollars. M. Caillaux is said that tho Taikoo and Jardine con- to have assured' Mr. Mellon that cerns in Hongkong are those parti- no payment would be made to cularly referred to. The news from Britain and no Franco-British Japan certainly indicates activity, arrangement will be concluded of which British interests, seriously affected by the deadlock in. Chius,

without identical payment and should take note, it states.. Honghead master of the Korean School, ha paganda, but he did think that

arrangement with America. The incident of the loan to the Bank of France is reported to be settled.

kong is not afraid of Japan

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and initiate as far as they could a wise policy dealing with the subject of our relations with China and the internal conditions A WISE CHILD.

of that country. He agreed that the condition of affairs in China Mr. W. H. Lynh, chairman of the was hot due to Bolshevlat pro- Korean Community in Shanghai and

sugar is concerned market already displays considerable wisdom. frshing in troubled waters. It an infant daughter aged 18 months who Bolshevist propaganda had been lost is not oney to regain.

The She

shows in most unmistakable remark applies equally to shirtings terms her preference

had been exasperating tempers for

Baby's Own and shipping.

Tableta - am · against --that nauseating and making more mischief where terror of childhood. Castor Oil,

there was mischief to work on at Teheran, September 28.-The

Says Mr. Lyuh, "My little daughter the beginning, and he had very Minister of Public works has de-

was troubled in her stomach, was con- little doubt that it was very clared that though the Government.

Vera Cruz. September 28-One stipated and had wind," which caused largely due to Bolshevist pro argently supplied provisions in person was killed and fifty wounded wife gave the child castor oil, but this pagands that, anti-foreign hos

her to cry a great deal at night My order to remove the general alarm, in ricting the municipal elections. did not prove permanently helpful and tility had largely concentrated its it has been found that the recent It is alleged that Lopez, the Red the little ons disliked it very much. So animosity upon this country troubles, though based on a pretext candidate, abstracted ballotting after these conditioned to try Baby's rather than upon others. Chinese

had been of the lack of provisions, had other papers from one booth and that the Own Tablets. These the child took interests and British interests motives The Government have followers of Galvez, the opposing readily and in a very short time her there were identical. Trade decided to investigate the mutter candidate, began the shooting constipation disappeared, pains no could only flourish in an atmos and to punish the instigators of the which bocame indiscriminate longer troubled her and she began to phere of peace and confidence, and riots and to prevent fresh out Troopa restored order. Numbere of sleep soundly tight that was obviously to our interest breaks.Beuter.

Reds hava boon arrested on a charge plump and well, Har mother and I of inciting revet.--Beuter's Amer73ry pleased with the good Baby's Own that China should enjoy those Table have done here blessings. In spite of all the ican Bervice.

Parents of all nations And Baby existing difficulties, he did not Own Tabloty a very real, and ready help New York, Sept. 28--Crowds when the little ones are alling with think we should be pessimistic of anti-Fasciato and pre-Faciale indigestion, colic, conciipation, croup or with regard to the future of not the steamer bringing this Italian colds Gently laxative thake Tablets China, and as to what we could

weeten stomach, theck diarrhoea, do painful spola. It is pating res delegates to the Conference of the

expelling its cause, quickly

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CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM EASES PAIN,

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the pain. That is how helps noidenhed anti-Fascist shot and rheumatic pains, Immbago, bokache, mouralgia, svsollen, aching joint and muscles. Bold and recommended ovary,

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