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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928.

AN EXPEDITION.

News Received in America.

PROF. ROERICK'S PARTY.

Expedition Experiences Some Thrilling Adventures & Hardships.

New York, Yesterday.

U.S. TAXATION.

The Question of Retrenchment.

A COMPROMISE.

What the Senate & Representatives Finally Propose.

Washington, Yesterday.

INDIAN WORKERS.

7

Practise Passive

Resistance.

WAGES DISPUTE.

Magistrate Threatens To Expel Strikers Forcibly.

Calcutta, Yesterday. A telegram has been received. The Conference Committee, After an interval of ten weeks work- announcing the safe arrival of appointed by the Senate and the the Lillooah locomotive the Northern-India Expedition, House of representatives, fixed a shops of the East India Railway headed by Professor Roerich ac- total of $223,000,000 for the Tax Company have been re-opened. companied by his wife and son. Reduction Bill.

Four thousand men entered the This is the first news of the ex- The Senate proposed $205,000,-shops but practised passive resist- 'pedition since April of last year 000 and the House of Representa-ance.

when a Moscow telegram said that, tives $290,000,000 and the pre- Thereupon the district magis- it was about to start for Mongolia. sent is a compromise. The Bill re-trate ordered them to disperse if The expedition has had various duces the corporation tax from unwilling to work. The men re- adventures. It was attacked by 13% per cent, to 12% and re- fused to work unless their griev robbers, but the superiority of peals the motor-car tax-Reu-lances were redressed but, finally, the Expedition's firearms pre- ter's American Service. vented bloodshed. The Expedi- tion was also stopped by the Tibetan authorities and suffered considerable hardship by living in winter time in summer tents at an altitude of 15,000 feet.

GREEK POLITICS.

WILL EX-DIRECTOR PANGALOS

BE RELEASED?

The Expedition has sent to

Athens, May 24. America over 250 paintings and

An Interesting development in reports and has made "many ob servations with regard to Bud-the political situation is likely to dhism." Reuter's American Ser follow a recommendation by the Parliamentary Judicial Commission vice.

that the ex-Dictator, General Pangalos, who has been detained awaiting trial on a charge of sub- verting the Constitution, shall be released on ball-Reuter,

"HALF-BAKED.”

U.S. PROFESSOR AND LONDON 'UNIVERSITY.

EXCHANGE OF VIEWS..

New York, Yesterday. Dr. Abraham Flexner, Director of studies of the General Education! Board founded by Mr. Rockefeller, which is empowered to distribute over £10,000,000 sterling contribut ed by Mr. Rockefeller, has resigned. Dr. Flexner, who at present is lecturing at Oxford under the

Rhodes Trust, recently criticized

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THE NATIONALISTS.

Conferences And Claims of Victory.

:

Canton, Yesterday.

left the shops on the advice of Mr. Mitra, President of the East India Railway Company Labour Union, after the Magistrate had threatened to expel them forcibly. Subsequently Mr. Mitra address- ed the workers. He declared that the magistrate's action was un- authorised and advised them to repeat the policy of passive re- sistance if the workshops were opened to-morrow.

The Company has decided that anyone desiring to return to work must sign an undertaking not to resume passive resistance. -Reuter.

THE "AUTONOMIST.”

COLMAR TRIAL ENDS IN NOISY SCENES.

DEPUTIES SENTENCED.

Colmar, May 24, Sentence has been passed in the sensational case concerning Dr. Ricklin, the Alsace-Lorraine Au- The Nanking Government has tonomist, and Resec, who were re- London University, and Dr. Graham wired to Marshal Li Chai-sum,cently elected to the Chamber, and Little, in reply, criticised Dr chairman of the Canton Govtrn- other prominent leaders of the Flexner's "half baked doctrines." ment, requesting the latter to pro- Autonomist Party.

They were charged with plotting Reuter.

ceed to Nanking in order to "dis- 'cuss further plans for the North-against the internal safety of ern expedition in connection with France by fomenting a movement the Tsinan affair.

in favour of a complete rupture of Marshal Li states that as he isi Alsace-Lorraine with France.

Over 350 witnesses, including unable to go to Nanking person- ally, ht will direct Mr. Fung Chuk many priests, gave evidence, and the trial man, the Minister of Finance, to the accused insisted on proceed as a delegate. "Wah being conducted in two languages, Keung Po."

the proceedings being translated i.

into German, it being suggested Shanghai, Yesterday. that the accused were insufficienly ment creates for Italy a new seat The Nationalist General Yen acquainted with French.

TANGIER PROBLEM.

WHAT THE NEW AGREEMENT

DOES.

ITALY'S POSITION.

Paris, Yesterday,

The Tangier Conference Agree

"

here of 1924 as modified by the Franco-

Yen Hei-shan.

on the Tangler Municipal Assem Hsi-shan of Shansi has issued a Dr. Ricklin was sentenced to.one bly, and also gives Italy a seat on communique in which he an-year's imprisonment and five years' the judicial bench of the Tangier nounces the capture of Tatung Interdiction, or banishment from International Court.

and Suiyan. He adds that the Alsace. Rosse, Schall, and Fas. In view of the Agreement it is forces are advancing eastwards to shauer were similarly-sentenced. now expected that Italy will ad Chahar-Reuter.

Séjour and eleven others were released.-Reuter,

A "Blunder."

Colmar, May 6. The disorderly scenes which marked the trial of the Alsatian Autonomists have culminated in the word "blunder" being applied to the action of M. Poincare in connection with Alsace.

to the International Satuto The "Christian General."

Shanghai, Yesterday.

Spanish agreement of last March. In a communique, the "Chris- Her requests for executive, legislatian General," Feng Yu-hsiang, tive and judicial representation states that the Kuominchun have, after all, been satisfied-forces are closing in on Tientsin. Reuter.

-Reuter.

THE PEACE PACT.

JAPANESE CABINET

APPROVES.

Shanghai, Yesterday,

Fresh Reinforcements.

Shanghai, Yesterday. According to the Kuo Min

The public prosecutor demand- news agency, Chiang Kai-shek conferred at Hauchow yesterday ed legal action against the speaker with his subordinates regarding for an offence against the Premier. measures of defence in Shantung The hearing was suspended amid and the distribution of fresh re tumult.

A Tokyo telegram states that the inforcement at the front-Reu Cabinet has approved of the reply,ter.

to America's anti-war proposals. It is understood that they accept the principle but suggest a few minor modifications-Router.

THE

Despatch of Fleet.

On resumption, the Court ex- pressed the opinion that M. Four- rier's word constituted & grave offence to the Premier and Shanghai, Yesterday. Admiral Yang Shu-chwang, ac breach of the oath taken by bar- cording to the Kuo Min news risters never to lack respect to: agency, has left, for Hauchow to wards rublle authorities,

The Court suspended M. Four- confer with Chiang Kai-shek re- “ITALIA.”

garding the despatch of the Na-rier for one month. He will thus ticnalist fleet to the north be unable to continue reading the Reuter.

Autonomist. case. The other Counsel for the defence addressed a letter to the Minister of Justice, protesting, against the decision."

STRONG HEAD WINDS IN VICINITY OF POLE.

King's Bay, Spitsbergen,

Yesterday,

Kwangsl-ites at Front?

Shanghai, Yesterday. The Kuo Min news agency re- ports that the Nationalist 4th The "Italia" met with strong Army. Group, consisting of the head winds while returning from 17th, 30th, 86th, 43rd and 44th the Pole, but is expected to arrive Nationalist armies, commanded jhere at noon to-day. Reuter.

by General Pei Chung-hai (the Kwangal-ite of Wu-Han) have re- ported their arrival in Shih-chia- chwang-Reuter.

V & CHOSEN,

JAPAN

NEW EDUCATION MINISTER.

The Other Side.

Peking, Yesterday..

FOR SCIENCE

THOMAS EDISON AWARDED COLD MEDAL

New York, Yesterday, Mr. Thomas A. Edison has been

There is practically no develop awarded the gold medal for

Shanghal, Yesterday ment in the war situation. It is science, of the Society of Arts and

A telegram from, Tokyo: states believed that the front on the Sciences. Reuter's American' Ser- that Kazue Shoda, ex Finance Feking-Hankow railway is still vice. Minister of Chosen, will succeed near Wangtu.Bod

There is an announcement in the to Sangyuan (on the Tientsin- "Gazette" probibiting hawkers Pukow Rallway) are believed to from crying their wares or making A warrant for her arrest was be accounted for by the fact that noises in certain residential areas Issued at Highgate against Mrs. they occasionally send armoured both on the Island and in Kowloon, Lucy Dixon, of Woodlea, Ballard's trains southward from Tsang- that in the latter, being all south |lane, Finchley, who was charged chow. It is believed that both of and including Austin-road.

with as

warrant officer sides are massing troops near

Mizuno as Education Minister Northern claims of an advance! Reuter

who

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