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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927.

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BREAK WITH SOVIET. FRESH CRISIS?

JAPAN AND CHINA. ·

North China Safety Measures Intensify Boycott.

MOVEMENT SPREADING.

Coast Ports Embargo Causes Heavy Losses.

Sir Austen Chamberlain Japan's Further Money

Explains.

Troubles.

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GENEVA CONVERSATIONS.

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PRICE,* $3.00 Per Month.

ATLANTIC FLIERS.

The Legion of Honour For Byrd,

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Registered Optometrist (Cannda).

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Labour Strongly Attacks Reform Proposals.

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GERRYMANDERING."

Government Defends Hereditary Principle.

DANGERS BEFORE CABINET.

AN AIRMEN'S CLUB AT PARIS.

London, July 7.

Pokyo, July 6,

Paris, July 7. In the House of Commons, In addition t the China crisis, The Prime Minister, M. Poin- replying to a number of questions, the Japanese Government is with care, received Commander Byrd Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign a recrudescence of internal finan-and his companions and appoint- Secretary, stated that at cial trouble.

ed Commander Byrd an officer of Japan is between the devil and the deep sea in dealing with her

meeting of British, Ger- While popular opinion quashed the Legion of Honour.-Reuter.

The Government's proposals to reform the House of Lords.by crisis in China. Ou the one hand she is faced with possible dangers man, French, Belgian, Italian the Finance Minister's scheme for

introducing un elective system for peers and nominating a certain Levine's Gift. to her nationals owing to developments in North China, and on the and Japanese representatives loaning the Kawasaki Dockyard

number of Labour members has been strongly attacked by the Paris, July 7. other she is faced with a growing boycott on account of her measures fat -Geneva be explained Co. 30,000,000 yen from the Post

Labour Party, which has described the proposals as gerrymandering to guard against those dangers. At the moment she seems un-the reasons for Britain's action in Office Savings Fank deposits, it is national Airmen's Lengue, at motion of censure in the House of Commons. Replying to criti- meeting of the Inter-manipulation to gain political advantage-and introduced a decided what to do, troops which were under orders to proceed to breaking off diplomatic relations felt that the Government's deci- which Chamberlin and Levine ciam, the Government defended the hereditary principle and explain- North China from Dairen having been instructed to wait pending with the Soviet. No proposalssion to let the Dockyard Co. fend were received, the President ed that its anxiety is to protect the House of Commons from a pos- further changes in the situation.. Meanwhile the anti-Japanese boy-were made for a joint conference for itself, though approved by the of the cott is being intensified and there is a risk that it may spread to the with Russia or joint action with

League announced sible rival. The motion of censure, which was introduced to raise that Levine had handed over a a debate, was heavily defeated. Yangtse Valley from the Coast where it is already causing serious regard to Russia.

cheque for 100,000. francs to losses.

establish an aviators' club at

JAPAN'S TROUBLES.

Boycott at Coast Ports More Intense.

The Speaker here intervened.- Reuter.

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Answering supplementary ques tions, Sir Austen Chamberlain Mr. Locker Lampson replied said that the conversations had that according to the latest ad-not been repented to the United vices obtained, he thought not. States Government-Reuter. Colonel Crookshank (Conserva- Other l'owers' Reply. tive) urged the introduction of

Rugby, July 6. Shanghai, July 6. legislation in view of the entire Questions were addressed to Special Japanese troop move-change in the situation

Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons as to the con- ments to Shantung have for the moment superseded in interest

versations in which he participat- the North and South imbroglio.

ed at Geneva respecting Russia. the only interesting recent fea- tures of which are the turning "over of

· ill- armed and undisciplined body of 3,000 Northern troops in the vicinity of Kinochow to the Nationalists and the reported turning over of Chen Tiao-yuan, Tuchun of Anhwei's erstwhile pro-Nationalist army at present stationed at Hsuchowfu on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway to the Northerners.

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The Japanese action, the official explanation of which is the pro- tection of nationals, synchronises with the somewhat sudden inter- ruption of the Shantung railway communication by Nationalist troops and the intensification of the anti-Japanese boycott.

A Serious Blow,

The latter is especially mani- fested at Canton, Amoy and Shanghai.

A WEEK'S EVENTS.

Review by British Foreign Secretary.

He said that at a meeting of vix Powers he gave an explana- tion of the reasons for breaking off diplomatic relations with the Government of the Union of London, July 6.

Soviet Socialist Republic and ex- "Recognition as the Govern-plained British policy as already ment of China has not been ac-publicly stated in the House of corded to it, but it has been dealt Commons.

INDIAN BRIGADE.

No Longer Needed Owing To Reinforcements.

London, July 7. In the House of Commons, answering questions, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, smid that the Indian Brigade was being withdrawn from Shanghai where it was no longer require in consequence of the arrival of reinforcements.-Reuter.

Similar explanations of their own policy were given by some of the other Ministers present.

No proposals, were made for a joint conference with Russia, nor for any joint action in regard to Russia.

OUR NEW FRONT PAGE.

A Word To Readers And Advertisers.

Readers of the "China Mail" will note that to-day, for the first time, our front page corries no advertising except. of course, in the "ears" of the paper on either side of the title. This change has been made as part of the progres- sive policy the "China Mail" is following, and will, we have no doubt, freet with the cordial approval of our readers. For the benefit of advertising agents, advertising bureaus, and the advertising represen- tatives of our contemporaries, We may mention that the ' advertising hitherto carried on our front page will be found elsewhere in the paper...

At a

Le Bourget aerodrome, for the

PEOPLE'S RIGHTS.

use of all airmen passing through Proposals. "Outrage" Against The

Paris.Reuter.

*Plane in Mid-Ocean. Captain Bone, of the liner "Transylvania" (16,028) sent al wireless message to the owners,

Constitution.

London, July 7. The House of Commons debated the Anchor Line, Glasgow, stat-a Labour motion of censure in res- ing that an

aeroplane waspect of the Government's proposals observed steering eastwards to reform the House of Lords, re- about. 20 miles south of the ship, submitted a scheme for gerryman- gretting that the Government had then at 45.47 North, 32.29 West, dering the constitution, depriving or approximately In mid-the House of Commons of control Atlantic,

ever finance, and entrenching the House of Lords on a hereditary basis more firmly against the peo- ples will than in centuries past.

No report has so far been re- ceived of any Trans-Atlantic flight being in progress, at the

time.

FINAL STEP.

REVISED PRAYER BOOK ACCEPTED.

No Anti-Soviet Bloc.

CHURCH ASSEMBLY DECISION, Circumstances vary in differ- ent countries, and each govern-

London, July 6. Considered as being the most ment must pursue the policy best Press, is likely to bring the critical decision adapted to its own interests..

taken by the Tanaka Cabins into strong dis-Church of England since the Re- Replying to a supplementary favour with important political after two days' discussion, by 517 to formation, the Church Assembly, question he said those engaged in interests, as the Fifteenth Bank, 133 votes accepted the Revised the conversation included repre- popularly known as the "Peer's Prayer Book, Keuter. sentatives of France, Germany, Bank" (because the depositors Italy, Japan and Britain. and he include most of the members of formed the impression that they the Upper House) is heavily in-

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How The Voting Went.

Rugby, July 6, The Church Assembly to-day

The motion declares it to be an outrage agalust the constitution to force the proposals through Parlia-

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EAST LONDON CHEERS.

Great Ovation For King and Queen.

Rugby, July 7. The King and Queen received great popular ovation this afternoon when they drove through..donsely crowded streeta of Enat London to inspect the way Works at Stratford.-British London and North-Eastern Rail- Wireless Service,

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The special boycott at Amoy, which is the port for the Formosa with as a local administration," fully realised that Britain had volved. trade, became complete on July 4 replied Sir Austen Chamberlain, never attempted to form a bloc and Japanese steamers are unable Foreign Secretary, in the House against Russia. British Wireless 000,000 yen, of which 27,000,000 Church of England.

gave its final approval to the rement without a mandate from the to discharge for this important of Commons, questioned with re- Service.

The Dockyard Co. owes 120,-vised form of Prayer Book for the Deople.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Leader market.

of the Opposition, contended that The motion in support of the The Chinese Chamber of Com gard to the British Government's

are due to the Fifteenth

prayer book messure was carried in the House of Commons's privilegea attitude towards Marshal Chang

Bank-Reuter. merce at Shanghai is fostering Tsa-lin's new government.

proposals seriously, curtailed the House of Bishops by 34 votes and would give the House of Lords the organised anti-Japanese boy-

to 4, in House of Clergy by 253 to an ascendancy over the House of cott here, although General

27, and in the House of Laity by Commons. He added that whoever Chiang Kai-shek apparently dis-

230 to 92.-British Wireless Ser- vice.

might be in office the Tories would favours the movement,

be in power..

There is much anti-Japanese boycott propaganda in the Yang- tse Valley.

Troops For China.

Tokyo, July 6. Two thousand more troops have been ordered to Tsingtao from Dairen to replace those already there who have been ordered to proceed to Tainan and Important points along the Shan- tung Railway-Reuter.

Orders to Walt,

Tokyo, July 6, Owing to more reassuring news from Shantung, the War Office has decided to postpone the des- patch of troops from Dairen.

The "Nichi Nichi" and the "Hochi." commenting on the deci- sion to reinforce the troops in Shantung, express strong dis- approval, fearing it will encour- age the spread of the anti- Japanese boycott in China.-Reu-

ter.

BRITISH LOSSES.

WILD WEST.

Replying to another question, i Sir Austen Chamberlain said he was not aware that Chinese sol- diers were permitted freely to A SPECTACLE FOR PRESIDENT enter the French Settlement at Shanghai,

COOLIDGE.

INDIANS' WEIRD DANCE.

OUR $50 PRIZE.

Cross-Word Puzzle Competition Result.

The result of the "China Mall's ninth $50 Cross-Word Puzzle (Second Series) will be found on page. 6 of this issue.

solutions. There are werk, each with fully correct three winners this

Replying to Colonel H. Day (La- bour) regarding the position in China, Sir Austen Chamberlain described the week's movements

Belle Fourche, South Dakota, of the warring factions and men-

July 7, tioned Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang's enjoyed a wild west show in its The President and Mrs. Coolidge telegram ordering the retirement natural setting and applauded of the extremists from Hankow.

continually. "General Galin, the Bolshevik) Cowboys and cowgirls pictures- adviser to the Wuhan administra- quely dressed in antre tion, is making a show of com- wild steer und tamed unridden pliance with this order, but he is ponies. reported to be preparing the de- fence of Hankow, for which he by Indians who rushed to the front The programme included a dance claims to have sufficient forces, of the Presidential box yelling "COW PASTURE BACKGROUND."

WOMAN'S PORTRAIT.

DISPUTE OVER RETOUCHING CHARGES.

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and undertakes that in the event savagely, waving their arms and of defeat there will be nothing quaking to the beat of the tom tom. left in Hankow to make its cap- with reckless cowboys riding put decided that

New York, July 6. ture worth while."-Reuter.

The show reached its climax A jury of the Supreme Court has George de Forest astride

a desperately backing Brush,, the well-known American broncho named "Cal. Coolidge," artist, is entitled to $4,500, for re- Reuter's American Service.

touching the portrait of a woman for which he had already been paid; the price of $10,000..

A Threat to Chang.

Rugby, July 7. Reviewing the military situa- tion in China, Sir Austen Cham- berlain, Foreign Secretary, said that reports during the past week showed that Yen Hsi-shan, Mil-not yet having left the Wuhan cow pasture background." tary Governor of Shansi, has area. moved six divisions castward

The Boxer Indemnity Urged For | from Taiyuanfu, apparently as a

Compensation,

EARLIER MESSAGES.

The Surrender of Tsingtao Refused.

Peking, July 6.. The negotiations for the peace- ful surrender of Tsingtao to the

ALLIED TROOPS.

RHINELAND OCCUPATION

QUESTION.

Senate Plan Opposed. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister denied that the House of Lords was liable to become an effective rival of the House of Commons because it would be un- able to make or unmake Ministries, initiate finance or increase any Rugby, July 6. charges. The Government was op. In reply to a question regarding posed to the principle of a wholly the conversations in which he par- elected Upper House which might ticipated at Genera with the immediately become a rival to the Foreign Ministers of other Powers, House of Commons. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the Likewise the Government opposed House of Commons, said that the a strong Second Chamber, such as question of fixing a date for the the United States Senate. termination of the occupation of the The Government's proposals were discussed at Geneva. The cireum of Parliament and the country and Rhineland by Allied troops was not merely submitted for the criticism stances in which the Rhineland is the Government would be guided to be evacunted, he added, wore thereby. laid down in the Treaty of Ver- sailles-British Wireless Service.

OPIUM PACT.

RATIFIED BY THREE MORE NATIONS.

The Popular Will.

Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancel lor of the Exchequer, replying to the debate, foreshadowed that the Gov- ernment's proposals would provide a means to procure a constitutional change by the manifestation of the will of the people.

Lords on the ground that they threatened the balance of the con- stitution, deprived the House of Commons of control over finance, and entrenched the House of Lords more firmly on a hereditary basis.

The Prime Minister. In replying. said there could in these days be no question of a Second Chamber becoming a real and effective rival of the House of Commons.

Second Chamber to make or unmake There could be no power in a Ministers and there could be no cqual right in finance.

Custom and Tradition, Those points had been long established by custom and tradition, and constitutionally the executivo depended first and last on the sup- port of the House of Commons alone.

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He thought, however, that all who had examined the question of power, under the Parliament Act, of the Speaker of the House of Commons to certify BIll finance Bill over which the House of Lords had no power of amend- ment were agreed with the Bryce Committee that the difficulties which this procedure entailed could be resolved by a dozen experienced men of goodwill,

Their duty might well be, as the Government had suggested, to con- Bider, not only the proposed pur- pose, but the underlying purpose, of legislation, and to report which of its clauses, if any, were strictly financial, and therefore only to be dealt with by the House of Com- mons, and which clauses, if any, should be put in the category to be dealt with by the House of Lords. question of finance being vitiated In any case there could be no

charge being increased. in the Upper Chamber, nor of any

After 1,000 Years. He said the danger of an elected Upper Chamber was that a rival te the House of Commons might thereby be established. This they could not contemplate.

After referring to one thousand years' history of the hereditary principle, he said that no scheme of reform had ever beer advanced that left out the hereditary element.

no fairer way than that they should If it was to remain, he could see select their own representatives to a smaller Upper House of legis- lature as did the Scottish and Irish representative peers.

The Government had offered its. proposals for criticism, both in

they would try to reach a common in the light of the present debate, Parliament and in the Country, and

measure of agreement for their House of Lords réform legislation. -British Wireless Service.

SOVIET ARRESTS.

A TRADE AGENT'S ALLEGED MURDERERS.

Moscow, July 6,

After the completion of the pic- lure, the lady complained of "the

Mr. Churchill said these means She said that one shoulder gave

London, July 7. could not be sufficiently provided In the House of Commons the impression that she'

at merely by the constitutional prac weighed question time, Sir George Hennessy tice of the House of Lords defer 250 lbs.

said that the most recent signs-ring to a direct expression of popu Brush made the desired altera- torics to the 1925 International lar will. tions and then presented a bill for Oplum Convention to deposit rati-

It is officially announced that an additional $7,000 which

The object of the Government two of the murderers of Turoff, the Scations were the Netherlands, was to enable the House of Lords, acting trade representative of Bitter refused to pav. Hence

the Bulgaria, Czecho-Slovakia proceedings in court Reutor's Poland.

and if it chose, to put itself in a better the Soviet in Berlin, who was American Service..

The British Government had done remaining to it-under the Parlia- have been arrested after a fight position to discharge the functious killed near Moscow on June 10, its best to urge ratification on the ment Act. others-Reuter.

threat against Chang Tso-lin,

Sun Chuan-fang, the bulk of London, July 7. whose troops are concentrated In the House of Commons, in along the Shantung Railway, has answer to questions, Sir Austen moved a force of twenty thousand Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, near to Yenchow, on the Tientsin- said that action was being con- Pukow Railway. sidered regarding payment in On June 30 a Russian armour Nationalists have evidently fallen depreciated currency of the in-ed train operating from this town through as despatches sent off terest in respect of Hankow recaptured Lincheng from the from there this morning report 8400 FROM H.C.C. CONCERT IN SHOOTING MISHAP. municipal debentures.

that an engagement is progress- The Fengtien troops are reporting at Chengyang, midway be

Southern armies.

Silll Quiet.

HOSPITAL COMFORTS

MAY.

POLICE OFFICER WOUNDS WOMEN.

While cut shooting doga

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Replying to Major General Sir A. W. F. Knox (Conservative), ed to have advanced along the tween Tsingtao and Kinochow,

The Committee acknowledges, Mr. G. Locker Lampson,. Under Peking-Hankow Railway and to between General Shang Chen com- with thanks, receipt of the sum Secretary for Foreign Affairs, have crossed the Yellow River. manding the Suiyuan area and of 8400 from the Kowloon Cricket Changshawan yesterday, Police said that owing to further pay- The railway between Chen- Garrison Commander Chu, who is Club, being the proceeds of an Lance Sergeant Fennell' aseiden- ments the China indemnity fund chow and Loyang is reported to evidently determined to keep the open-air concert given by the Club tally wounded two Chinese women must now total nearly £2,000,000, have been cut. Feng Yu-halang Northern flag flying.

on May 28 The advisory committee, hav-, has retired to Loyang-British It is expected that the Nation- ing submitted recommendations, Wireless Service.

sllat drive against Taingtao will TO-DAYS ROUTE MARCHES. could hardly be expected to re-

synchronise with a fresh thrust vise them in favour of Major British Naval Wireless reports northward up the Tientsin-Pukow

A detachment of Marines num- General Knox's suggestion that indicate that the situation at railway.

bering about a hundred went for the sum should be used to com- Shanghai and Yangtse ports is Chang Chung-chang, who is rea route march through the East- pensate British nationals who had quiet, the Northerners apparently maining in charge of the situation ern part of the city to Happy been robbed at Hankow, Nanking not having followed up their id. at Telnanfu has despatched a Valley this morning, headed by and elsewhere in China."

vance across the Yellow river into force to Kaomi. The Fengtian the "Hermes" hand. A detach Major General Knox suggested Honon territory and the Hankow command is making a careful sur-mont of the K.0.8.B.'s marched at the words used included com- troops allegedly concentrating for vey of the defence line on the through the Western district pensation of British nationals. an anti-Chiang Kai-shek "drive" Chihli-Shantung, border.-Reuter, headed by the bagpipes.

In the division the Government received a solid Conservative vote with the addition of one or two Liberals,

The Labour motion of censure was defeated by 362 to 107 votes. Router.

SPEAKER'S POWER.

'What A Dozen Men Might

Undertake.

who were working in their field at the time. One woman was wounded in the left side of the neck and the

Rugby, July 6. other in the left foot. Luckily the crowded when Mr. Ramsay Mac- The House of Commons was bullets caused only slight grasing Donald, Leader of the Opposition, wounds, and the women were not seriously, hurt. They had their In-on behalf of the Labour Party, jured dressed at the hospital.

moved a vote of consure on the Government in order to raise "a" debate on the proposals for the re form of the House of Lords...

Mr. MacDonald criticised the The closing rate of the dollar, proposals recently outlined by the on demand, to-day was 1/11′16/16 | Lord : Chancellor in the House of

TO-DAY'S, DOLLAR.

in which one of the arrested men was wounded.

The prisoners, who are alleged to be professional robbers, are said to have confessed to having murdered Turoff for the purpose of robbery.-Reuter.

'RENTS AT HOME,

RESTRICTION LAW TO BE EXTENDED.

London, July, 7.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, announced that it is pro- posed to include the existing rent restriction Acts in the expiring laws continuation Bill this year.

Reuter.