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BLOW TO CHINA'S CREDIT.

Nanking Abolishing Salt Inspectorate.

POLITICAL EXTREMISTS' CAMPAIGN.

Military Council, Formally Inaugurated.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S OVERTURE TO THE NORTH.

Aa Armistice Proposed For Attacking Hankow Reds.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1927.

GENEVA HOPES. Proposal For A Naval Holiday.

PROSPECTS OF AGREEMENT.

morrow.

Rugby, July 15.

HAWAII FLIGHT. Civilian Aviator's Forced

Descent.

STEAMERS TO THE RESCUE.

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PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

EMPIRE LOYALTY

GRAVE RIOTING IN VIENNA.

The Duke Of York On Mob Storms Law Courts and Erects Barricades.

His Tour.

OPTIMIST AS TO FUTURE.

London, July 15.

WILDEST DISTURBANCES CONTINUE.

FIRES IN CITY.

Mob Sets a Police Station Ablaze.

from lynching by volunteer Red Cross workers.

A crowd prevented the fire bri- gade from extinguishing a fire in the building.

San Francisco, July 15. Private conversations on the.

Almost hourly reports were re- suggestions put forward regard-ceived yesterday recording the received a spontaneous and rous-

The Duke and Duchess of York Police Armed With Rifles To Clear The Streets. ing. cruisers at yesterday's progress to Hawaii of the aviator ing welcome in crowded streets, plenary session of the Geneva Smith, who is accompanied by driving from Buckingham Palace killing two Socialists, a mob of Socialists in Vienna got completely Infuriated by the acquittal of three Nationalists charged with naval conference took place to- Bronte, his navigator, till the on a ceremonial visit to the City out of hand. After storming the Law Courts, they started erecting day and will be continued to messages indicated they were 680 to lunch with the Lord Mayor at barricades in the streets, and the wildest disturbances followed, with

miles from here, but at 10.15 last the Guildhall on the completion of Press reports from Geneva night an S.0.S. was received from their Imperial tour. state that if these negotiations Smith who subsequently alighted

much bloodshed. A serious blow has been dealt to China's credit abroad by the being reached, a further formal Service.

result in a basis of agreement in the sea. Reuter's American optimists as to the future of the "We returned home convinced action of the Nanking Government in abolishing the salt inspector-meeting may take place early

Empire," declared the Duke in ate which, under solemn international agreement, is security for for- next week.

Rubber Lifeboat.

acknowledging an address pre- eign loans amounting to approximately £40,000,000..

San Francisco, July 15. sented at the Guildhall-Reuter. The Military Council of the Nanking Government has been menting on yesterday's meet-that the aeroplane could remain

The "Evening News," .com- The S.O.Sim Smith stated Distinguished Gathering. formally inaugurated. The functions of the Council embraces the ing, says that if the goal of afloat only one hour. administration of military affairs with the Commander-in-Chief sub-agreement cannot be reached by

Rugby, July 15. The Duke and Duchess of York)

Vienna, July 15. ject to its orders though supreme in the field.

They had a rubber lifeboat but were to-day officially welcomed With a view to gaining a respite for the purpose of attackingnage, it may well be reached by

the limitation of the total ton-asked for help.

There was a turbulent demon- home from their tour by the City stration of Socialists outside the the Hankow Reds, General Chiang Kai-shek is said to have made settlement of

Smith's position at the time of of London. They drove in state to Law Courts and the maximum the call was apparently about 850 the Guildhall through decorated House as a sequel to the acquittal Parliament overtures to Peking for an armistice, declaring that he is anxious to building programmes of the miles east and north of Honolullu. streets and were accorded a great of the brothers Pinter belonging have the co-operation of all those opposed to Communism,

three conferring Powers over a Reuter's American Service: popular ovation. Eight hundred to a Nationalist organisation who number of years.

guests, who included the Prince of were charged with killing two So Wales, Prince George, the Duke of Arthur of Connaught, participated Connaught and Prince and Princess

cialists.

£60,000,00 ISSUE.

Nanking Extremists In Full Career.

The Council embraces the ad-:

ministration of all military affairs ments by the heads of the Bri- After examining the state-

orders.

The Commander-in-Chief holds in the "Echo de Paris."

Plane to Fly To Rescue,

San Francisco, July 15.. Three steamers which picked

in the country with the Com-tish and American delegations, up Smith's S.O.S. before he des- mander-in-Chief subject to its the "Evening News" endorses cended into the sea are rushing to

the view expressed by Pertinax his help. Peking, July 16.

Honolulu messages state that the supreme military command of Britain's thesis is very solid, the Fokker monoplane in which With effect from July the Nan- the armies in the field and the It is justified by the fact that Maitland and Hegenberger re- king Government has ordered the troops under marching orders her two small. islands in the closing of all salt inspectorate during campaigns. offices within its sphere of in-

centre of a vast Empire can) Sceret of Success. fluence, thus

only maintain themselves for terminating throughout a large part of the

Foreign Minister, Dr. C. c. seven weeks without outside country the activities of the ser- Wu, on behalf of the Government, supplies.-British Wireless Ser- vice which for a number of years stressed the importance of dis- vice. has been one of the main supports

cipline. He pointed out that the

Geneva, July 15. of China's credit."

success of the Nationalist armies There is much comment on the This action has been brought was not only due to the clever fact that Mr. Hugh Gibson about by the political extremista strategy of the commanders and (United States) did not allude in the face of considerable opposi- the loyalty of the soldiers but to in his statement yesterday to tion from many financiers in their good discipline and the co-opera- the British proposal for a build- own party who realised that the tion of the people of all terri- ing programme for cruisers, unofficial discussions which had tories occupied by the troops. which if accepted, would lead to been proceeding would have serv«!

a naval holiday.

Final Goal.

OUR $50 PRIZE,

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The windows of the Law Courts

in the Guildhall reception, together were smashed by a shower of with the Prime Minister and other stones... Ministers and leaders of the Op- position parties in Parliament.

The mob eventually forced the iron gates, entered the building and seized documents which they burnt in the street,

"A Wonderful Time." Replying to an address of wel turned convinced optimiste about The the future of the Empire. "We Reuter. have had a wonderful time. The

come, the Duke said they had re- Thirty people were injured.

police

were helpless.-

Stoning the Police,

Later.

last six months have been for both of us the most interesting and most memorable in our lives. But it is, The wildest disturbances con- good to be in the old again, in our own home, and with collisions between the police and countrytinue. There have been bloody our own family.

the mob, the former using their "My Brat and foremost impres- revolvers and swords and the lat- sion of the tour is the wonderful ter erecting barricades, whence loyalty of all classes to the Throne they stone the police. and Empire, and their affection for the Mother Country

Parliament has suspended ita which they still home.

sitting-Reuter,

Strike Fallows Riots,

Marvellous Development. "My second great impression is the marvellous development which

Vienna, July 15. New Zealand within three genera- factories, tramways and news has taken place in Australia and towed by a cessation of work in The rioting has now been fol.

cently went to Hawaii is being Prepared to fly to Smith's rescue. tions." ---Reuter's American Service,

A

must be of British stock.

The question of overseas Empire:

Several People Killed.

Vierina, July 15, Several people were killed and

After heavy fighting in which many people were wounded on both sides, the Republican Guard drove back the crowd, enabling the fire brigade to cope with the fire,

guns marched to the Law Courta In the afternoon when the fighting was Regular troops with machine

still continuing.

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Fires and Looting.

There were minor riots elsewhere in the city. Large crowds at the with Mussolini" and "Down with Italian Embassy shouted. "Down

Fzaciam."

A mob threw out newspapers from the office of the "Wieneruenca- tenachrichten" and burned them in

the street.

ing of the "Reichspost" newspaper, They also set fire to-the build- stormed a couple of police stations and looted flats. Reuter.

MACAO'S LOSS.

MILLIONAIRE RESIDENT'S

DEATH.

MR. LOO LIM IOC PASSES-AWAY

Mr. Loo Lim Iac, Chinese resident of Macao, died at a millionaire Macao yesterday;"

Colony. He was identified with all leading figure in the Portuguese Ancient Order of Christ and was a Mr. Loo was a Companion of the

the principal enterprises of Macao and owned. a fine country house with a magnificent garden and pond laid out in the Chinese style where be dispensed hospitality very liber- ally, not only to Macao residenta but to visitors from Hong Kong.

The most recent occasion when.

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ed as the basis of an arrangement He urged continued discipline of

It is also remarked that several whereby the Southern finances the Nationalist troops, who after parts of his statement were con- would not be irretrievably dam- successfully establishing the Na-tradictory to each other. aged.

tionalist flag in the regions of the Some surprise is expressed at Not First Class,

Pearl, Yangtse and Yellow Rivers, what amounts practically to a Not content with thus indicat- were to gain the final objective denial that the United States ing its intention to abolish all over and water their horses on the put forward a requirement for

Discussing the desire for a larger paper offices. Chinu a service which forms the bunks of the Amur.

25 big cruisers as a preliminary states that Smith's aeroplane both Dominions were united, he

message from Honolulu population in which the people of A police station has been set

afire.-Reuter. security for foreign loans amount- He added that the Council must to any agreement.

crashed at the island of Molokai- said that both countries were de- ing to approximately £40,000,000 make the armies in truth and fact

Mr. Gibson now states:" the Nanking Government is now the army of the people.

is obvious that if agreement to be unhurt.-Reuter.

kaiwi. The aviators are reported termined that the future population endeavouring to raise

on the

Mr. Wu Tsz-hui, who represent could be reached on the tonnage security of the "salt surplus" of ea the Kuomintang and Hu Han- levels as we advocated it would

Yesterday's cables stated; settlement was one of the most im- many were injured in the riota. Hong Kong visitors were enter Kiangau and Cheklang alone amin, replied for the new Council. be impossible for us during the loan of £60,000,000.

Generals Chiang Kai-shek. Ho life of the proposed treaty to add aviator, has started on a flight for development of migration would and "Neuewienernachrichten" ns of the International and Recreation Ernest Smith, a young civilian portant of the present time, and he The crowd attacked the premisestained, it will be remembered; was suggested that wise and progressive of the newspapers "Reichspost" in connection with his inauguration In view of the existing situaYing-yam and other members of to our fleet such a number

Honolulu. tion and the heavy obligations for the Council

Smith at one o'clock best be achieved by sending home well as the Law Courts. were present, maximum sized cruisers. which the salt revenues of the Reuter.

"I clearly informed my col-"Latitude 37 North, Longitude wives who had been in the country Socialist organisations

this afternoon sent out a wireless a few successful settlers and their As uniformed detachments of host to a hundred guests..

Club of Macao when Afr. Loo was whole country, under solemn in-

leagues that I was willing to 123.60 West, going fine: beacon for five years to ternational agreement, already

discuss the numbers of such great." The "beacon" to which emigrants the true facts-British were served out to the police who tell intending unable to re-establish order, rifles vessels once we agreed to ton-he referred consisted of continu Wireless Service. nage limitation."-Reuter.

ous signals at San Francisco and

were obliged to fire to clear out American Press Comment.

the rioters from the Law Courts, Hawaii parallel to each other New York, July 16,

Firing continued all the after- across the ocean and so directed] The newspapers are encouraged as to form an unseen pathway a by the tone of the speeches yes-hundred yards wide. terday at Genova,

Missing Atlantic Fliers.

form security, it is obvious that the security is not of a first class order.

Officers Elected.

It is pointed out here that there

ANTI-RED UNION.

Chiang Proposes Armistice To Peking.

of

"KING'S RECORD."

HELPING THE EX-SERVICE MAN.

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seemed

The firemen are fighting fires started by the rioters,

The police authorities issued a proclamation prohibiting public meetings and demonstrations [against the authorities-Reuter, Drawn Swords.

Mr. Loo was the owner of one of and was interested in several publie the leading Chinese Bunks at MacaO companies in Hong Kong. His bro- and was one of the Chinese judges ther, Mr. Loo, is a B.A, of Oxford recently appointed to the Provi- sional Court at Shanghai,

C. N. CO. STRIKE..

NO CHANGE IN SITUATION.

Peking, July 16. is less excuse for action by the Chang Tsung-chang is reported Nanking Government, even from to have telegraphed to the Pre- the viewpoint of Nationalist mier, Pan-fu to the effect that The "World" declares that the

St. Johns, July 15. policy, in that the salt inspector Chiang Kai-shek has sent an conference has reached a point The airman sent to investigate! ate is not a foreign organisation emissary to Tsinan-fu to discuss where statesmanship should the report of two hunters cabled imposed on China but was consti- the possibility of an armistice in supersede expertness, and agree-earlier has wired from St. George,

Rugby, July 15. tuted by agreement freely enter the hostilities between the Northment to prevent a naval building discrediting the story-Reuter.

Twenty-seven thousand five hun- ed into by the Chinese Govern- and the Nationalists.

race can and must be made.

[Yesterday's cables stated: dred employers of labour in Britain

Berlin, July 15. ment and was highly profitable to In view of Chiang Kai-shek The "Times" suggests that Bri- Wreckage which, it is thought, are on the "King's record" of those

The riots in Vienna warrant A strike amongst officers

No change is reported in the China until its peaceful operation proposing to attack Hankow, he tain, Japan and the United States may be that of Captain Nungesser who employ a certain percentage of fear of the city experiencing the gineers of the China Navigation

and was interrupted by the militaris anxious to have the co-opera-should negotiate directly with a and

disabled ex Service men.

most menacing outbreak in her Company. Coll's aeroplano "White ists, and in the inspectorate ser- tion of all those who are also de-view to an agreement based on Bird" has been found. in the approximately 380,000 such men.

The enrolled firms now employ bistory. vice the principle of absolute sirous of suppressing Commun- broader principles then those interior of Newfoundland by two

The trouble is due to the acquit in Hong Kong on Wednesday from The "Shantung," which arrived equality between' Chinese andism.

governing the experts.-Reuter. hunters. The railway author-criminate where possible in favour with killing a disabled ex-Service aboard but two deck officers and dia-tal of three Nationalists charged Shanghai with a scratch crew, had Government departments ities are arranging for a party to of the enrolled Arms In placing man and a child in a collision be- two engineers. The "Tungchow," visit the spot.]

contracts, and 681 municipal tween Nationalists and Socialiste World Fight. after the recent experience at

bodies now follow a similar course. the village of Schattendorf in which left Shanghai the same day The Hong Kong office of the British Wireless Service.

January.

for Tientsin, was similarly under- Haichow? Japanese interests in Vacuum Oil Company has receiv

After the verdict last night, a

staffed. Shantung are too important to ed a cablegram from New York to

large crowd demonstrated against hab to-day with a full cargo.

The Shantung" sails for Shang allow of any further indulgence in the effect that Captain William P.

the judges. There were minor trustfulness. This is the kind of Erwin will start on a world flight FIRST OF THE SEVEN. workmen in the streets, which the collisions between Nationalists and comment one hears nowadays in from San Francisco about August - Japanese circles. It is, however, 12th, in a Swallow Aeroplane,

foreigners in respect of powers, Chang Tsung-chang requests, responsibilities and privileges the views of the Government on have been strictly maintained the proposal-Reuter. throughout.

The salt taxes of the South will in future be collected by nominees] of the Nanking Government who are already ejecting the officers of the inspectorate from their functions.

MILITARY COUNCIL.

Chiang Kai-shek No Longer Supreme.

THE TIDE OF WAR.

Chinng's Troops Concentrate

Near Nanking.

Shanghai, July 15.

LAST MONTH'S RAIN.

DOCK.

police cleared with drawn swords. PEAK WATER SUPPLY

The real trouble began in the morning when many workers down- ed tools and marched to the centre of the city shouting "Down with the murderers of the workers," and "Down with class justice."

DIFFICULTY IN SERVING HIGHER LEVELS.

Peak residents were informed

London, July 15. The first of seven sections, of the Admiralty Dock for Singapore The first conflict took place at has been launched at Swan and the university, where windows this morning that owing to the very Hunter's shipyard, Wallsend.

were broken. Police were disarm-large increase in water consump

There seems to be no alterna- Either in preparation for a big there is any plan in existence for Whirlwind engine, exclusively

always coupled with a denial that equipped with a single Wright PROGRESS WITH SINGAPORE tive in the very near future to advance Northward or for the neutralising the Shantung Rail- lubricated with Gargoyle mobiloil paying off the inspectorate with further defence of Nanking in the way. All that will be done, it is "B." He intends to land at Hono- the exception of a small nucleus event of an attack from down-said, is to try to keep the railway tulu, Yokohama, Manila, Hong throughout the South.

river by the Hankow troops at and rolling stock in service. An Kong, Constantinople and Paris. The staff in Kiangsu alone present in Kiukiang, Nationalist instance of this regard for con- amounts to several hundred-troops in large numbers are continued operation is the action of Reuter.

centrating near Nanking.

The China Merchant steamer the break recently in the line at the Japanese troopa in repairing

It is expected that the seventh with aircraft aboard and Chinese Kuomi.

The rainfall for the month of section will be launched in Jan- gunboat escort has arrived at

June at the Botanical Gardens was As for the valuable mining and 18ina, 29 on 22 days, at the Matilda ary and that the dock will be Nanking, which appears to be its other property that passed into Hospital, Mount Kellett, it was

completed in May.-Reuter. destination, and about 9,000 Sino-Japanese ownership

Jins. 32 on 19 days, and at the troops arrived at Wuhu to-day virtue of the retrocession agree-.04 on 18 days.

by Police Station, Taipo, it was 9ins. Nanking, July 15. from down river. Their further ments, there la every indication The Military Council of the movements are unknown but it is that they will receive as much meter (M.S.L.) was 20ing. 612 at

The lowest reading of the baro SEDITION ARRESTS.tion at the Law Courts, in the Nanking Government was formal- believed that they too will pro-protection as is practicable with 18h on the 27th. N ly inaugurated to-day when the ceed to Nanking-British Naval the troops at Japan's disposal in members took the oath of office. Wireless."

The maximum squall velocity, as The Finance Minister, Mr. Koo Japanese Interests in Shantung. really menacing reinforcements anemograph, was at the rate of 47 Shantung. If the situation gets recorded by the Dines-Baxendell Ying-fun, who presided, emphas→ The Japanese make no will be sent to Taingtao from miles per hour at 16h. 30m, on the ised that the functions of the apologies for the distribution of Dairen, where they are already in Council were similar to those of their troops along the Shantung readiness for embarkation. To the Ministries of War, Navy and Railway, up to Tainan. They ask make up for the depletion of the Air in European Governments, how can there be any guarantee Tsingtao force, 500 Japanesa including the functions of the of the protection of their nation-sailors have been landed from on demand, to day was 1/11 15/16 General Staff.D

als and their nationals' property men-of-war in the harbour, AMEN The closing rate of the dollar,

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quested to eliminate waste as far as possible, and to Impress upon particularly in garden watering. their servants the need for economy,

sd and their uniforms were torn off. tion during the present hot wea- They were rescued by a large force ther, great difficulty is being ex- of police with drawn swords,

perienced in sustaining pressure in Saved From Lynching."

the maina sufficient to provide sup Up to the present 40 people have plies to the higher houses. been killed and 200 wounded' 'In

Householders' are therefore Vienna.

There is a most menacing altua neighbourhood, of which thousanda of workmen erected barricades of motor cara and lorries to prevent the mounted police advancing."

NO TYPHOON DANGER. The mob broke into the Law Mexico City, July 15, Courts and made havoc with the

According to latest Observatory President Calles has ordered the interior in spite of the fact that advices, the typhoon is about 50 release of all Catholic laymen im many police were in the building. miles E.S.E. of Dasco, moving N.W prisoned for sedition on the und Windows were smashed and books the indications at present being that the revolt failed andthey and documents were thrown out and that it will pass to the East of Catholic clergy Reuter's AmeriOfficials and clerks were dragged were morely the tools of the set afire in the street.

Body Formosa. san Service.

Local forecast, Westerly winds, out and beaten and were only saved moderate; fine.

MEXICAN CATHOLIC LAYMEN

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