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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1927.

No. 25,607

NORTH CHINA

DANGER.

HEAVY BURDENS.

Japan Sends More Troops To Tsinan.

SOUTH AND TSINGTAO.

Lull Before A Big Thrust For the Port.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

SOCIETY

WEDDING.

Home Railways And British Airman Planning American Ambassador's

Taxation.

I

Attempt.

WHERE ROAD USERS SCORE.

A DISASTER AT HAWAIL,

Rugby, July 7.

Daughter.

BRILLIANT LONDON SCENES,

Rugby, July 7.

London, July 7, The National Union of Railway- Captain Mackintosh, an Imper. The public was so interested in men, at their annoul conference ial Airway pilot, states that he the marriage of Miss Matilda to-day protested against the has completed arrangements for Houghton, daughter of the Although the anti-Japanese boycott is spreading on account of heavy burdens British railways an attempt to fly non-stop from American Ambassador, to Mr. had to hear as compared with England to New York within the Chandler P. Anderson, only son of Japanese military movements in North China, the Japanese Govern-road traffic. It was pointed out next few weeks. British Wire the C. P. Andersons of Washing ment has decided to send two infantry battalions and other forces to that £1,200,000,000 were invested less Service.

ton, at St. Margaret's, Westmin- Tsinan, a commercial city, south of Tientsin. Meanwhile there is a full in the civil war pending a big thrust by the South to capture the important port of Tsingtao.

MR. CHU CHAO-HSIN.

No Reply to a Request For Leave.

Geneva, July 7.

REDS BUSY.

Hankow General Preparing An

Attack?

Shanghai, July 7. The Chinese Minister in Rome. General Tung Seng-chi, thej and the Chinese representative to Hankow lender, supposed at one the League Council, Mr. Chatime to be friendly towards Chao-hsin are in a quandary. | Chiang Kai-shek, has returned tą:

Mr. Chu Chau-hsin, the Chinese delegate to the League Council, Who hus resigned.

They have applied for leave absence to the Peking Govern ment but have received no reply, so Mr. Chu has resigned.

Mr. Chu recently issued a state- ment of the Cantonese Govern ment's attitude towards the Naval Conference, and it is ex- pected that in a few days he will issue a statement explaining his personal position towards the Peking Government.-Reuter.

Joins South,

་

Later. Mr. Chu has announced that he has joined the Southern Nation- alist Party. Consequently at the next League Council meeting and assembly he will represent the latter Government.--Reuter.

JAPAN'S FORCES.

Protecting Tsinan and the Railway.

Peking, July 7. According to a Japanese official message from Tsingtao two in- fantry battalions and two ma- chine-gun companies are schedul- ed to leave Tsingtao this morning for Tsinan, while other forces are proceeding to intermediate points on the railway.---Reuter

Armoured Cars."

Shanghai, July 7.

In connection with the arrival

of Japanese troops at Tsinan, it

is reported here that several arm- oured cars were among the re- inforcements. --- "Hong Kong Evening Post."

Hankow. He is said to be making preparations to attack General Chiang Kai-shek-"Hong Kong Evening Post."

EARLIER MESSAGES.

Mere Foreign Troops For Tsingtao.

Shanghai, July 8.

While there is no confirmation

Mr. J. H. Thomas.

here of the Japanese that 500 in railways which paid £42,000,- American marines have landed at 000 annually in local rates. Road Tsingtau, a telegram from Tokyo users bore no such charges. states that according to des- patches received at the Japanese Foreign Office. a conference of the British. Japanese, Gerzan,

"A LIVING WAGE."

Visiting London,

Rugby, July 7. Clarence Chamberlain. the American airman who recently flew across the Atlantic, la expect- ed to arrive in England by air from Paris to-morrow.British Wiroless Service.

Sailing for Home.

Paris, July 7. The chances of Commander Byrd and his companions visiting England are faint.

They propose to sail for Home on the "Leviathan" on Tuesday.

After spending the-week-ond al

TRAIN SMASH..

Heavy Casualties in Argentine

Collis

Buenos Aires, July 7. Twelve people have been killed collision near Mendoza.-Reuter's and forty injured in a railway American Service.

ALANSON "B, HOUGHTON" ster, that a special control of police was necessary,

Most of the American colony

in London attended the ceremony",

N. LAZARUS.

Hong Kong's Only European Optician- Established Over Forty Years Manager: Ralph A. Cooper, M.A.O.A.

Registered Optometrist (Canada).

OVER A CUP OF TEA.

Geneva Experts Discuss Smaller Navies,

SECRECY STILL THE RULE.

Japan Urging Lower Cruiser Tonnage.

to the Geneva Naval Conference discussed the question of cruiser Over a cup of tea in Admiral Saito's room, the chief delegates

and destroyer tonnage, but owing to the strict secrecy being main- tained it is impossible to size up the position to-day, beyond saying that the Japanese are out to reduce such tonnage as far as possible,

"PRIMARY OBJECT."

The Japanese and Cruiser Tonnage.

tion yesterday, may be regarded at least for the moment as America's limit. Reuter's American Service: Reason for Disagreement,

Paris, July 7. Geneva, July 7. M. Levines. Minister of Marine, There is good reason to believe in an interview expressed the opin- that the cruiser tonnage figures ion that our friends at Geneva org were discussed at yesterday's pri- unable to agree hecause each Dele- vate meetings of the heads of delegation is conscious of its paramount gations in Admiral Saito's roum responsibility for assuring over a cup of tea, and that the security of its own interesta. naval experts more closely

Pertinax the "Echo de Paris." sidered the matter to-day,

comments ironically that while In view of the secrecy still main-prodigies of ingenuity by British tained it is quite imponsible at

and Americana muy yet save the present to provide any definite or

Conference, its failure will at least complet picture of the actual situa- tion, but it may be stated that the

DISARMAMENT.

Con-

congregation included diplomats and an unusually distinguished Debate In-House of Commons On

from every country.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, On the contrary towards the upkeep of the nation's roads only Dunkirk and Le Touquet, they numerous other English politi- Sir and Ludy Chamberlain and 20,000,000 a year were paid by were given a reception by the cians and their wives were pre- the ratepayers.

Chamber' of Deputies. They un-sent.

Monday.

Rugby, July 7. Parliament that a debate on dis- The Prime Minister stated in

armament would take place in the House of Commons on the Foreign Office vote on Monday. -British Wireless Service,

the

teach its participants the lesson of modesty. Perhaps Washington in future, will think twice before rushing unprepared into such nego- tiations and London may not be ao ready to hold up her hands in hor- tor when France says that for us the safety of France must be the surpreme consideration."-Reuter. French Press Opinion.

Paris, July 7, Interviewed by "Le Journal" M.. Leygues, the Minister of Marine said that the Powers represented at- the Naval Conference at Geneva could not yet reach agreement be Cause they are conscious of their great responsibility. anent the primordial necessity of safeguard- respective national

their

Mr. J. H. Thomas, the railway-cheoned at the Min of Com- The church was decorated with men's leader, declared that the merce and were gireception Easter lilies, blue hydrangeas and railway companies by paying at the Hotel de Ville.euter: ropes of laurėl.. local rates thus actually sub-1 Plane Crashes Into Sen. There were ten bridesmaids and The Salaries of Clergymen To Besidised their competitors, which

Honolulu, July 7.tweive groomsmen, of whom nine Japanese are out to reduce the g unlike the railway that must! Increased.

Celebrations of rewell to travelled from America,

aecurity cruiser and destroyer tonnage, as carry traffic, could discriminate Lieutenant Maitland Lieuten- other three groomsmen were from

far as possible. in favour of the most profitable ant Hegenberger, the airmen who the Embassy.

Otherwise they feel that the loncts.

flew across the Pacific to Hawaii,

rimary objeet of the conference Canon

London, July 7. The Ecclesiastical Commission- ers propca increasing £200 livings to £200 a year and £300

livings to 1950 a year in order to give a living wage."-Reuter.

The

Carnegie officiated. A resolution was unanimously who are sailing for San Francisco assisted by Bishop: Brent, carried calling attention to the came to a gloomy Termination

A reception was held subse- unfair handicaps under which the when an aeroplane piloted by quently at the American Embassy railways suffered and urging that Flight Lieutenant Villiams, and thereafter the happy couple a co-ordinate policy between all circling overhead, nose-dived into left for a motor honeymoon trip forms of transport should be in-the sea and Williams was drown- in Scotland. troduced to provide a more offed-Reuters' American Service. Mr. Anderson first met Miss cient and more economical public service-British Wireless Ser-

and American Consuls at Tsing- tao yesterday night agreed that America land 1,000 blue jackets while Britain send a contingent vice. from Shanghai-Reuter..

STORM AT HOME.

HEAVY RAINS SWEEP THE

COUNTRY..

Altitude Record.

Matilda Houghton in Scotland last Washington, July 7. year. Later he become Mr. Lieutenant C. C. Champion, of Houghton's secretary in London the Navy, is credited by the Na- and he is now in banking business tional Aeronautic Association in New York.-Reuter. with a new world's altitude record

for seaplanes, namely 7,995 The bride's father has been feet. compared with the recent Ambassador to Great Britain 20,479 feet record by the French since March of 1925. A number naval Lieutenant de Mougeot Reuter's American Service.

A Terror of the Air.

New York, July 7.

of an old Massachusetts family,) he entered the family business of glass manufacture, but turned to politics in 1919 when he was

Tokyo Criticism.

Tokyo, July 7. The "Asahi," commenting on the sudden cancellation of the orders for the despatch of re- inforcements to Tsingtao, asserts! that this indicates the dangerous-

indecisive polley of the present LIGHTNING IN THE CHANNEL. Government. The vernacular papers generally fear the move-

Rugby, July 7.

It is stated that the War De-elected to Congress. He was ap- ment of troops to Tsinan may pre-ern England and Northern France tary two-engined aeroplane of 950 1921.

Severe rain storms swept South-partment is constructing a mill-pointed Ambassador to Berlin in cipitate a clash with the South-last night, and heavy falls were horse-power, Fokker design, to erners, thereby not only neces- general throughout the country. sitating a further increase in the forces but also aggravating the anti-Japanese boycott.-Reuter.

KILAUEA ERUPTS.

WORLD'S LARGEST ACTIVE VOLCANO.

FOUNTAINS OF FIRE.

Mr. Chandler Parsons Ander- lightning and thunder in many land and sex forces.-Reuter's sel in a number of international The storm was accompanied by lbs. of high explosives to bomb lawyer. Besides acting as coun- carry five machine-guns and 3,000 son, the bridegroom's father, is a

places.

During brilliant flashes at Folke-American Service. - stone the French coast was visible

ed

cross the Straits of Dover,

The heaviest rainfall was record-

at Clacton-on-sea in Essex,

where in 13 hours nearly three

inches were registered-nearly half

GOOD FAITH.

DEMANDS.

THEABY MILLER, VAGILA Š

Viscount Suito.

disputes concerning treaties and kindred matters, he has been legal adviser for American embassies and legations in Europe on ques- will not be obtained. tions involving American inter- esta arising out of the war..

It is understood that the Japanese view the American figures for the tonnage of those classes favourably

further reduced.-Reuter.

"Useful and Helpful."

as much rain as usually falls dur- GERMANY AND DISARMAMENT « KONG KU” PIRACY. and would rejoice if they could be

ing the whole of July,

Dover recorded 2.81 inches which

is the heaviest experienced for many years.

Berlin, July 7, The Reichstag by 309 to 44 votes) Hilo, Hawaii, July 7.

Roads In many places became im-adopted the war material bill for- Kilauen, the largest active vol-passable owing to foods and fields bidding the export of certain cute- eano in the world, began erupting were submerged.-British Wireless gories of goods which might be used varly to-dny.

Service.

[Tsinan, in the province of by subterranean explosions and The flow of leva was accompanied Shantung, is 175 miles south of fountains of fire in Tientsin. The city, which has a pyrotechnic display just before

a marvellous PIONEER'S DEATH. wall and three circuits of ram dawn.-Reuter's American Service. GERMAN WHO WAS EDISON'S parts, manufactures silk and Hawaii, the largest and southern- trades. in. Imitation precious most of the Sandwich Island (q.v.), stones.]

Pacific Ocean, between lat. 18 deg. 53' and 20 deg. 15' N., long. 154 deg. 50' and 156 deg. 4' W. It is a vast Herr

COMING CLASH..

South Preparing To Thrust At Tsingtao.

PARTNER.

Berlin, July 7. The death is announced here of

Signmund Bergmann,

ARMS' ON A SHIP.

一起

in

GUNBOAT ATTACKING RIVER JUNKS.

Geneva, July 7.

The determination of the power of a navy must be based upon defensive necessities derived not from political, conceità, but from geographical position and the ex- tent of coasts, the importance of colonies, and the development of industry and trade.

M. Leygues added that France asks nothing but what she obtain- ed at the Washington Conference and is decided to give up nothing thereof. Havas.

Д

Increase in Construction Feared.

Geneva, July 7 'failure to surmount the The difficulties encountered at the Naval Conference bas

engendered feeling that the negotiations will result in a considerable increase in naval construction in the United States and Japan instead of in a reduction.

The greatest secrecy is observed in regard to the prolonged con- verrations on the cruiser problem, but apparently the difficulties havé been removed,

The Japanese and American representatives had to refer the matter to their Governments.

The British naval experts are -to-day conferring privately with American experts while the heads of the delegations will probably continue their private conversations inasmuch as capital ships are the next item on the agenda.-Reuter.

ARMLESS ARTIST.

In an interview, Mr. Hugh MAN WHO PAINTED WITH HIS Gibson, head of the American dele-

MOUTH. gates, denied that he had applied

to Washington for fresh instruc

[From Our Own Correspondent,] us instruments of war..

Kongmoon, July 4. Speakers claimed that by the The "Kong Ki," a double fun-tions, adoption of the bill Germany ful-nelled river gunboat, was taken He described yesterday's private flied all her disarmament obliga- by pites by surprise while lying naval conversations as "useful and tions and therefore no excuse left off Kumchuk. It is said that the helpful." for the continued occupation of crew mutinied. She now attacks tions turned on a Japanese sugges Router learns that the conversa- German soll-Reuter,

passing junks and two regalar tion in favour of upholding the Kongmoon Junks have so far present status quo.-Reuter. been pirated. The "Shishing"

Japanese Proposals. from Kongmoon escaped after a BOAT IN FLAMES.

Geneva, July 7. fight The pirated unboat is It is reported authoritatively that said to be between Wangmoon the Japanese counter proposal calls and Chu Tau Shan. Pakkai is for a total auxiliary tonnage of 450.000 tons of which 250,000 tons will be cruisers and 200,000

WEALTHY' CHICAGO MAGNATE DROWNED.

Sudbury, Ontario, July 7.

Mr. W. L. Hodgkins the million

nire president of the Brownell Im- provement Company of. Chicago, has been drowned, with two mem bers of the crew of a motor boat Georgian Bay, Take Huron. which caught fire while sailing In Four others, including two girls, were saved by swimming half mile to the shore-Reuter.

now under martial law after dark.

EIGHT YEARS' JAIL.

FORMER BANK DIRECTOR SENTENCED.

destroyers.

tons

ro

It a learned that the ratio quested by Japan is fifteen for Bri- tain and the United States and eleven for Japan.-Reuter..

Karller Messages.

Washington, July 7.

DEATH OF MR. B. HILES.

London, July 7. The death is announced at Bris- tol of Mr. Bertram Hiles at the age

of fifty-ave. Mr. Hiles was well known as the armless artist who painted with his mouth and exhibit- ed at the Royal Academy and all the leading exhibitions.

He lost both arms when a boy in a street accident and trained him- self to use a pencil in his mouth

The Bristol Academy of Fine Arts accepted his work when he was only sixteen.

Later productions attracted wide attention and readily sold."

He was elected in 1908 a member of the Union Internationale dea Beaux Arts of Paris.--Reuter.

mass of volcanic reck and lava, and pioneer in American and German contains Reveral lofty peaks.electrical industry. Mauna Kea (18,958 ft.) is now Founder of the Bergmann Elec-| quiescent, but Mauna Loa (18,760 tricky Company, he was at one time Shanghai, July 7.

It.) has had several eruptions dura arther of Thomas Edison The Nationalists are apparently 1868 being particularly

ing the present century, that of New York--Reuter,

terrible. centralising their forces for the and Kilauea (4,250 ft.) on the flank thrust against Tsingtao and the of the latter, has crater 2 m. in proposed Northward advance length by 1.m. broad which is a along the Tientsin-Pukow rail- continual lake of fire in constant way. Neither plan has yet been agitation. The middle of the island REBEL PLOT NIPPED IN THE

Rome, July 7. put into operation, but the pre-consists of a wild rugged plateau,

A special tribunal has son- BUDT

tenced to eight years' imprison- State Department between Mr. A aurprise conforence at tho Bent lull in operations is regarded without inhabitants. The N.E. et as precedent to activities on a big and the soil is very fertile, in which is watered, by numerous streams,

New York, July 7.

ment Ettore Zanuttini, a former Kellogg and Sir Eame Howard has scale. Other ports and the Yang-sugar-cane and other tropical pro- they have nipped in the bud

Government agents here believe

director of the Banon Cividale, aroused speculations us to whether tae generally remain quiet.--Bri-ducts are cultivated.

who was charged with complicity the conversations are connected. tish Naval Wireless,

In the ex- South American revolution by dis- treme N. are excellent pastures, covering 350 rifles and 100,000

in Zaniboni's attempt to kill with the apparent impasse in the Signor Mussolini.

Conference at Geneva: but the W. face of the plateau is rounds of ammunition on a steamer completely arid

Officials are reticent as 'to the and waterless, tied up in the East River.

He was accused of giving hint of the meeting and decline is the forecast for the twenty-tour Chief town, Hilo, on the E. ct. - At

The rifles and ammunition were with thanka, receipt of the follow: 20,000 lires to Ebet in the attempt discties in dotall the situation in hours ending at noon to-morrow. Kealakeakua Bay, on the W. side hidden in sales labelled "hardware ing for the hospitals Parcels of at aiding its execution and being Genevs, but intimate that is maxi-

Meteorological observations at 6 the island, Captain Cook was mur- and cotton matting," addressed to magazines from Mrs. A H. Hamil present at Monte Crece where mum of 400,000 tona for cruisere a.m. to-day, barometer, 29.57: *- dered by the natives, Feb. 14, 1773. Tumaco, Colombia. - Reuter's ton, Mra, A. R. Sutherland, and the the details of the plot were or for Britain and the United States, perature, 84; humidity, 81; Wind, Area 4866 sq. m. P. (1884) 24,990. American Service.

"Hon, Mr. Owen 'Hughes,

ganised. Reuter,

mentioned by the American Dolega S.W. Force 6.

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TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.

The closing rate of the dollar,

on demand, to-day was 1/11 15/16

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HOSPITAL COMFORTS..

The Committee acknowledgos

WEATHER FORECAST.

S.W. winds, fresh, squally; generally overcast, occasional rain,