1927-06-16 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.

CHINA NEWS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

FORCES IN CHINA

Extra Lost to the British Taxpayer.

GENEVA DECISION.

FAMOUS QUESTIONNAIRE KILLED.

LABOU OFFICE REGRET.

Geneva, June 15.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BACK TO JAIL,

DR. COOK OF NORTH POLE

· FAME.

REVOKING OF PAROLE.

New Orleans, June 15. The United States Court of The Labour Conference by 66 to Appeals has reversed the decision London, June 15. 28 votes decided to exclude the of the United States District Court In the House of Commons, in an question of trade union freedom of Northern Texas granting Dr. answer to questions, Mr. Walter from the agenda of the next con- Frederick Cook, of North Pale Bridgeman, First Lord of the Ad-ference, thus killing the famous fame, five years' parole. miralty, estimated that the addi- questionnaire to the governments us tional cost falling on the Navy, regards the freedom of association .vole due to the additional naval and combination which refers to the rights both of employers and forces in China was up to the pre-workers. sént £240,000.

Thus a very bad impression has Captain Douglas King stated been produced at the international probably the British force in the Labour Office which regards the Legation guard at Peking would matter as one of the most important be reinforced by about one com-ion the agenda of the present con- ference. There is some condemna- pany.

He had no reason to niter the tion of the attitude of the employers previous estimate of the cost of and workers groups and the Shanghai Defence Force.

Captain King added that he understood the Municipality was not claiming any rent for the Defence Force.

some

Government delovates, for instance those of Canada, Japan and the Netherlands who voted for exclu-

on-Reuter.

Firing of Wages.

t.

Dr. Frederick Cook.

WIFE'S CLAIM.

A Question of Passage. Money..

JUDGE ON A TRIVIAL DISPUTE.

Shanghai, June 11,

COMPLETE RUPTURE.

YUGO-SLAVIA BREAKS WITH ALBANIA.

TIME FOR LEAGUE TO ACT.

Rugby, June 15. Replying to a question whether the Foreign Secretary would In H.M. Supreme Court yes- bring the matter of the strained terday, Judge Peter Grain de relations between Albania and livered two judgments in the Yugo Slavia before the Council of cases in which Mrs. R. E. the League of Nations, Mr. G. Filzroy Lloyd we the plaintiff Locker Lampson, Under Secretary and her husband Mr. C. Sfor Foreign Affairs, said that Sir Fitzroy Lloyd was the defend-Austen Chamberlain was now in Geneva attending a meeting of Referring to the first case the the Council and it might be re- judge said:-

garded as assured that he would The plaintiff is the wife of use his discretion as to the best defendant from whom she was means of assisting the two granted a decree of judicial parties to reach satisfactory set- separation by the Court on tlement.-British Wireless Ser- November 13, 1920, on the vice.

ant.

ground of the adultery of the defendant.

Break Comes.

Belgrade, June 15.

The defendant is employed in; A complete rupture in Yugo- the Chinese Maritime Customs, Slav and Albanian relations has and the permanent home of both been reached.-Reuter. during their married life has boen China.

Later.

The Albanian Minister has re-

Geneva, June 15. Mr. G. Locker Lampson. Under į

During the discussion at the In- Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Lernational Labour Conference op

The defendant was in England ceived his passports and leaves The Yugo-Slav said he was unable to express on the minimum wage questionnaire, !

on leave in 1925, with his wife immediately. Dr. Cook is at present serving a opinion whether all the lowers Mr. Lall. of the Government of In- interested in the Far East were dia Industries and Labour Depart sentence for using the American and daughter.. At the termina consuls have been instructed to observing a policy of non-inter- ment, approved the questionnaire, mails in a manner contrary to the tion of his leave in October, leave Albania.-Reuter.

[A Belgrade cable dated June 6 ference in purely Chinese matters, which be said the Raj favoured regulations. Reuter's American 1925, he returned to China, leav-

ing his wife and daughter in stated: There has been a serious but that policy was being follow- The Rai would gladly co-operate in Service.

England. In February, 1926, sequel to the arrest by the ed by Britain who hoped to secure the preliminary inquiry.

Dr. Frederick Cook, the erstwhile the defendant wrote to his wife Albanian police of an Albanian its general adoption as far as possi

Labour Department. declared that New York dentist, explorer, and saying he was lonely and that named Jurashkovitch, employed sible.

Sir Samuel Hoare. Minister of wage-Axing machinery was fairly lecturer, who, nineteen years ago, as soon as he could raise £100 as a dragoman in the Jugo-Slav Air, said the total additional in South Africa and restartled the world by claiming to he would eable it to her and she Legation at Tirana, on a charge of was a growing opinion in favour of have discovered the North Pole, must come out. But on April 2, spying. Despite Jugo-Slav pro- charge up to the present falling on the abolition of heme work. the air votes in respect of the des- patch of air units to China was approximately £40,000.-Reuter,

TIENTSIN'S FUTURE.

"Certain Points" Now Being Settled.

London, June 15,

Mr. Freestone, of the Union

Was

Insurance Questions, The draft questionnaire alonted by 80 to 22 rotes.

The conference also adopted by 27 to 9 votes draft the convention

obtained five years liberty on 1926, he wrote to his wife and tests, his release has been refused,

her matrimonial affairs.

The

perole from Leavenworth Peniten- tiary, where he had been since 1923 said he had committed adultery, and now the Jugo-Slav Charge The plaintiff on receipt of this d'Affaires and the entire Legation serving a fourteen years' sentence for fraud in connection with oil- letter, having no money in hard staff have sailed from Durazzo.} stock promotion. After his five from her husband borrowed £160

PRAYA INCIDENT SEQUEL. dealing with sickness insurance in industry, commerce and domestic years period of liberty had elapsed from her sister, for the purpose service, and the draft convention Cook was to return to prison unless of securing passages for herself

The Chinese who was yesterday relating to sickness insurance in he was pardoned in the meanwhile and daughter, and returned to

remanded on a charge of assault arriving July 15 and throwing [Tis application for liberty was Shanghai, The

another man's aericulture by 85 to 9 votes, In the House of Commons, British employers abstained from granted by Judge Wilson, who 1926, for the purpose of combicycle into the harbour at Westi stated that he had found that to some arrangement as regards point, was this morning discharg- voting on the last-named.

sentiment considered G. Locker Lanson, Under Secre. The conference adopted a "recom- national

ed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell. The statement of claim alleges tary for Foreign Affairs, told amendation" by 99 votes to 0 regard-Cook's sentence too severe. Four- teen years at Cook's age and in his questioner that British troops hadire sickness insurance. been despatched to Peking und The session closes to-morrow. A state of health was virtually a sen-that on the arrival of his wife complainant's evidence was un identifying the accused because Tientsin in view of an agreement League Couuell communique states tence for life, Judze Wilson said. and daughter in Shanghai the satisfactory when he spoke about tween the Powers and the Chin- that the delegates to the conference and he believed that the judge who defendant received a refund of he had some blood on his nose, esamthed questions left in suspense sentenced him laboured under the £160 from the Chinese Maritime after first saying that he himself Questioned regarding the pro-at last December's meeting and false impression that Cook had Customs for the fures of his had been hit on the nose. The the negotiations, have again unanimously noted a de- horded an immense sum of ill-wife and daughter, and it is police reported that they went to gress of relating to Tientsin, Mr. Lockersire to pursue the Locarno policy gotten money, Lampson said that stace the pre-which has already given important Prosecutor questioned Judge Wii-alleged that he received this the Praya both yesterday morning On February results in the interests of peace.-son's authority to parole a prisoner sum, namely, 160, for and on and again at 5 p.m., when the tide once he is in jail, and opposed behalf of his wife, and the plain-was low, but could find no trace of Cook's release.

tiff now claims this amount: In the complainant's bicycle.

DEATH OF MR. TRIPP. CHAIRMAN OF WESTINGHOUSE

ese Government in 1901.

rious statement negotiations had been suspended while certain points were being settled by the British Minister and the authorities in Peking.

Therefore at present it was not proper to

make a public state- ment.-Reuter.

GENERAL DUNCAN,

Tics Between Britain and America.

Iteuter.

"Kobai Maru" and then boarded The re- and looted the vessel. fugees and crew offered no re- sistance despite the insolent be- The haviour of the troops.

Hankow, June 15,

The Government

COMPANY.

SERVICES TO HIS COUNTRY.

com-

The

the alternative it is pleaded that Magistrate told the accused to there was an implied contract take or leave the bicycle produced. by the defendant to pay his wife in Court. Accused took it. this sum of money if she handed

not obtain the refund from the Customs.

him the vouchers for the pas-- sages, without which he could herself, nor could the defendant collect it without her vouchers, hence the agreement arrived at.

the

Money Due To Wife.

I also think that the defendant The defendant, in his defence, denied that he received the sum well knew that this was of £160 refund from the Cus-agreement between them and that toms, and if he did he is under it was not till a later period when no liability to repay it to his the question of alimony came be wife, and denies that the fore the Court that he altered his to mind, and determined to hand delivered

vouchers

money,

were

do.

costs.

A Trivial Dispute. :

Japanese Consul-General at

New York, June 15. Shanghai has protested to the

The death is announeed of Mr. Bureau of Foreign Affairs and requested that full protection be Guy E. Tripp, Chairman of the given the Japanese remaining in Reuter's American Service.

Westinghouse Electric Company Peking, June 10, Major-General Duncan. speak-Haichow.--Reuter.

Mr. Guy Eastman Tripp, besides Hankow Holiday. ing before a record attendance at

being the Chairman of the Westing a luncheon to-day of the Anglo- American Association, chose for New posters appearing in Han-house Electric Company, was him for the purpose of ob.jover nothing to his wife save his subject Anglo-American kow indicate that Hunan is director of numerous other

obtained the £160 Under these circumstances I friendship, which, he said, he had strongly anti-Communist and also unies and a banking concerns. taining the refund, and denies what the Court compelled him to always tried to encourage. that Kiangsi has definitely turned He was appointed chief of the pro- that he

duction division of the Ordnance by the use of the vouchers. After mentioning Mr. Walter against Hankow. The posters Bureau, Washington. in January It is also argued on behalf of find for the plaintiff, and give Page (one-time Ambassador to outside the General Labour Union 1918 and resigned as assistant to the defendant that there is no judgment for her for £160 and the Court of St. James) among headquarters denounce the gen-the Chief Ordnance, U.S.A., in consideration to support a con- those who had done much tolerals commanding at Changsha, November of the same year, being tract between the husband and

In the case of Rose Ethel cement Anglo-American friend- Kiukiang and Nanking for "mas-awarded the D.S.M. in 1919, "for wife, in this case, to pay the

It is further argued Fitzroy Lloyd v. Charles Sidney ship, he referred to Mr. Stirling sacring large numbers of Com- exceptionally meritorious service to

the United States Government.

v. Rose Ethel of the munists in those cities.

that the sister who lent the Fitzroy Lloyd, and Charies Sidney

Fitzroy Lloyd Fessenden. Chairman

and Shanghai Municipal Council, who, Teng Seng-chi, Sun Fo

money is the right person to sue USE A BED NET.

the husband for the return of Fitzroy Lloyd, the Judge said:-

Mrs. Lloyd claims certain he said, was a popular hero in Teng Yen-ta returned to Hankow Shanghai, not only

the £160. arnong from Chengchow last evening. -Americans, but also among the Hau Chien has left Chengchow BEST PRECAUTION AGAINST

household goods and chattels or

MALARIA. British.

for Kaifeng and has not returned

Tls. 1,000 their value, and Tls. 100 for their detention. In conclusion Major-General to Hankow. A mass meeting of Duncan, mentioned his own close welcome to the victorious Nation- FAMOUS SCIENTIST'S VIEWS.

ceived from the Customs for and

But if dated and in a summons dated relations with Brigadier-General alist soldiers has been arranged

London, June 15. Smedley Butler and declared that for to-morrow and a general holi-

husband he asks that the Court if trouble occurred here there was day is being observed.

"No city in the Empire has made this is claimed it is quite certain May 9, 1927, taken out by the no doubt that Anglo-American The Hankew Government re-more progress, so far as malaria that it cannot be upheld. operation would be as close in norts that at a conference. at control is concerned, as Singapore" only contract so far as the Cus shall determine the title to posses- Peking and Tientsin, as it sion been recently at Shanghai.

and Feng Yu-hsiang, the latter port on malerin control has been between the Customs and the of certain property set out in the published after a four months husband, that is to give the hus-summons. The list of goods in the Peking Syndicate mines at the Hankow Government and and Malaya to inspect the progress of wife and child on their return/Pose to deal with the two matters} The remaining foreigners of agreed to respect the authority of journey of 20,000 miles in India band certain refunds on behair both cases is the same, so I pro-} his of anti-malarial operations, whence from leave in China, subject to I much regret that the time of allegiance, wherefore. Hankow returned in February,

the rules and regulations of the the Court and my time should be troops are returning to Hankow Sir Ronald Ross advocates the

wasted in this trivial dispute. and leaving the Northern cam-bed net as the best precnation. There is no obligation on the And cannot help thinking that the

assurance gave an

of

Chiaotso in Honan have left and are expected in Peking this even ing. They left largely owing to the activities of the "Red Spears." Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang sent 100

paign in Feng's hands.-Reuter.ainst extreme propagandists to stir up

Red Spears Harass North. the "Red Spears." Hence the

Peking, June 15. foreigners feared that a move-

Chiang Kai-shek's troops are ment would develop along lines similar to the peasant risings in entering Shantung while the Hunan with murders among the Northerners are concentrating at gentry and the destruction of Chucheng, fifty miles from Tsing-

tao. foreign and other property.

EARLIER MESSAGES. Both Sides Loot The Port of Hankow.

Shanghai, June 15,

malaria. He thinks

NEW DIVIDENS.

The statement of claim is not very clear as to whether it is alleged that the money was re-

on behalf of the wife.

service.

The

The statement of claim is

together.

Malaya may quite possibly succeed Customs to refund money to parties are most unreasonable in in banishing malaria, but Calcutta the wife, and it is apparent from not having come to some settle- has much to learn from Singapore. the evidence in this case that the ment or agreement in the matter.

Router.

wife cannot obtain the refund But us they have not done so, it direct, it being only obtainable by becomes my duty to arrive at some one employed in the service some conclusion on the matter. This I have to do, on the most of the Customs. But the alter- Messra. Carroll Bros. have been native plea is that there was an unsatisfactory evidence and in- The Red Spears are consider-advised of the following rubber and implied contract between the fomation, namely, the statements ably harassing the Northerners' mining dividends:-- communications in the vicinity of Ayer Hitam, 15% final (55% for plaintiff and the defendant on the of each party only, which are Shuntehfu, Chihli.-Reuter. the year) Kampong Kamunting 2/-condition that the plaintiff hand mainly contradictory..

Manila Reds Active.

(43rd) 4/- for the year).

Quotations. Manila, June 15. Owing to the stevedore strike Allenbys

Ayer Panas

Japanese reports state that at Manila the Cavite Navy Yard Changkat Serdangs Chiang Kai-shek's troops have has sent a force of stevedores to Connemaras captured Halchow seaport in transfer supplies for the Marines Glenealies northern Kiangsu after fierce in China from the "President Jerams fighting. When it was known Taft" to the transport "Hender-Jimahs that the Southerners were ap-son." The au plies are for 5,000 Kedaha

Chuan-fang's men for two months. The work Lunas proaching Sun troops commenced looting the is being rushed as the "Hender-Mainka Pindas town and the process was com-son" is leaving, for Tientsin on New Serendahs

Fajoms pleted by the Southerners who Friday.

Sandycrofts As no commercial cargo is robbed and outraged in a whole-

being unloaded the "Taft" and sale fashion,

Japanese women and children two other vessels will be delayed had already been evacuated and by the strike.-Router. ́** the Japanese males escaped in the clothes they stood in after wit nessing terrible scenes.

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DISARMAMENT.

Geneva, June 15.

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The award of some 40 items of ed over to him the vouchers for

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obtain for her the refund. And ed.

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Judgment for Plaintiff,

to the refund and that it was is more likely to know the origin money due to her. In fact it was of the household goods than the not denied until the case came to husband, and that the goods from the time they come into ponses. Court.

sion of the household are more under the wife's observation than I am of opinion that I am justi-that of the husband, and she is fied in inferring that there was an more likely to remember their agreement on behalf of the de-origin recalled and fixed in her fendant that the money paid was memory than the husband. morey due to her and to which Such of the chattels that I have she was entitled, her money in given to the wife must be return- The Council of the League of fact, and that. If the plaintiff ed to her, or their equivalent The Dollar Line have obtained Nations has adopted a report in would hand over the vouchers he, value but I trust that these some strike breakers and it is favour of continuing the work of the defendant, would become the parties will not ask me to assess expected that the "Taft" will sail the preparatory disarmament.com agent for his wife in collecting the the value of a bedspread, eider-

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