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JAPAN'S WARNING TO BRITISH PICTURES IN ENORMOUS DAMAGE
NANKING.
TREATY PROCEDURE. POSSIBLE REVISION IF THERE IS NO ABROGATION.
BUT, INSISTENCE IF-
Peking, To-day.
HONG KONG.
AN OPINION.
LONDON OFFICIAL'S STRANGE ALLEGATION,
U.S. COMPETITION,
The following article is from The Japanese Note to Dr. C. T. the London correspondent of the Wang (Nationalist Foreign Minis-"Shanghai Times," dated London, ter) declares that the Japanese, June 30:-
BY AMUR FLOODS.
5,000,000 ROUBLES. BLAGOVESTCHENSK AFFECTED ON CHINA SIDE.
POPULATION'S PLIGHT.
Moscow, Yesterday.
OLYMPIC RECORDS SMASHED.
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THE HARVESTING.
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PERMANENCY FOR MOST.
London, Yesterday.
HONG KONG.
PARTNERS ALWAYS.
IS AN AGREEMENT TO TRADE FOR EVER, VOID ?
A LC's COURT SUBMISSIONS. Whether a partnership, which is
BASE.
MORE QUESTIONS.
ALL MATERIALS FROM HOME OR THE EMPIRE.
LABOUR RECRUITING.
London, Yesterday. In the House of Commons ques- A scheme has been arranged be- formed "to hold good for ever,"
tions were asked regarding the tween the British and the Canadian offends the law of perpetuities or contracts for the Singapore Base. Government to enable 10,000 men, not, was, discussed in the Supreme Mr. W. C. Bridgeman (the
a matter
WOMAN BEATS WORLD.
Two more Britis victories are Acroplanes in the Amur dis-recorded in the latest batch of trict are scattering leaflets with Olymple results to hand from Government is opposed to the! I learn that the Colonial Office instructions to the victims of the Amsterdam, via Reuter. one-sided abrogation by China of is embarking on a new departure foods.
S. J. M. Atkinson, of South preferably miners, to go to Cana-Court this morning when the "First Lord") said that all mater- the Treaty between China and of considerable moment to news-
The rivers Amur and Zeva are Africa, won the 110 metres hurda during the harvest season. Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan, ials must come from Britain or papers abroad, especially in the
restrictions Japan.
26 feet above normal, and ten dies by inches from Anderson, of It was announced by Mr. L. S. C.B.E... K.C.) sat in Original the Empire but no
had been imposed regarding the However, the Note states, if Far East. There is in prepara-
source of supply as to the can- the Chinese Nationalist Govern- tion a scheme to provide a supply stunners with lighters are distri-America, in 14.1/5 seconds, and Amery (Overseas Secretary) in Jurisdiction to decide
tractors' plant. ment withdraws its claim for can- of pictures in matrix for use in buting supplies and taking off Percy Williams, of Canada, was the House of Commons that the
Mr. Bridgeman also pointed out cellation of the Treaty, the Japan-British newspapers in different those who have been marooned. first home in the 200 metres fat men would receive £3 to £5 week. dating back to 1904. ese Government will take no ex-parts of the Empire where, for A population of 36,000 is involved, race, beating Rangeley, another ly with their keep. There would One of the documents produc-
Briton, by two feet.
also be specially reduced fares ed was a share certificate which with regard to labour that it would be impracticable in còn- America took the discus and arrangements would be made contained a history of a firm and nection with such contracts in the ception to the immediate opening various reasons, the supply local-Reuter.
or incomplete.
City Badly Affected. of negotiations for the revision of ly is insufficient
throwing event and the pole jump. to find permanent work in Canada which Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., Far East to limit the contractor the Treaty: but if the National-The main idea is to combat the
Shanghai Aug, 2.. The best three throws in the for- for most of the men.-Reuter. ist Government persists in the preponderating influence exercis- ed by the copious supply of pie-
A telegram from Harbin statesmer were all Olympic records,
K.C. (instructed by Mr. D. L. to the employment of British Transport Facilities. claim abrogate and attempts to torial news from the United that the Amur floods are very seri- Houser, the winner, reaching The British Wireless report Strellett) described as a "memor-workmen, but that all Asiatic la-. bour, a large proportion of which force the so-called 'interim rega- States.
ous. Blagovestehensk is badly af-47.32 metres. In the pole jump states that by agreement with the andum of articles of association would probably be Indian, would lations, the Japanese Government
For some time past the Federa- fected, part of the city on the Carr (4.2 metres) also created shipping and railway companies and a share certificate in one." be subject to the labour ordin- --in conformity with article'
tion of British Industries has China side of the river being com- an Olympic record. A Japanese, special reduced rates at half the Two firms in Hong Kong, Kwan ances obtaining in the Straita XXVI of the Treaty cannot but been actively interested in this pletely flooded and is gradually dis-Nakayawa, was sixth, jumping ordinary fares will be offered. insist upon the validity of the,
3.9 metres. subject. Treaty for another ten years, and organisation endeavoured to get
This powerful trade appearing in the rising water.
The Canadian Government had ex-Wo Chan and Fat Lee Kwan,
In reply to a supplementary The final of the 800 metres fat pressed a special wish
that the amalgamated after a fire in their question Mr. Bridgeman, thought Old residents say the foods ré- take decisive steps, if necessary,į for the enforcement of such in- certain people in London to take semble the famous floods of 1898 race for women brought forth a men should be recruited from the premises in 1904. The name of the possibility of recruiting la- the British the new firm is Kwan Woo Lee bour from Britain would be very jup the matter as a business pro-when a steamer plied the flooded
mining districts and position, and ensure a supply of streets of Blagovestchensk and
Government were offering special but the old names were used as doubtful.Reuter. British pictures for the Press forty villages around the city were
help to suitable men in cases where, well.. abroad. Peking. Yesterday.
But the difficulties in washed out while the basin of the
they could not find the cost of the "RENDERED VOID," The official Japanese Note to the way proved to be stupendous, Riyor Zeya, a tributary of the Amur,
outward journey. The Canadian Mr. Alabaster appeared on be China regarding the abrogation and the project had to be aban-
Government would try to find work half of four partners, Chan Pu- for the men at the close of the har hin and Chan Yee-hau of No. 15, The fact is that the was completely under water. of the Sino-Japanese Trenty has doned.
The population everywhere is been forwarded to Nanking by organisation of pictorial news in
vest and those who wished to re-Peak-road, Chan Chok-chau and mail and a copy has been handed America is on such a scale that it evacuating and it is estimated that
turn would have special rates given Mak Sik-tung of No. 44, Ko to them. to Mr. Y. L. Tong here. It will be enables those interested to export 10,000 have lost all their possea- issued for publication in about a
matrices at very cheap rates. No sions and are homeless and foodless. such organisation exists here.
Wash outs have damaged fortnight. Reuter.
railway and traffic is affected.
sistence.-Reuter.
Handed In.
· Government Backing,
the
FINE WEATHER.
South west winds, moderate, fine, is the official weather fore- cnat until noon to-morrow.
Pressure is high to the north of Japan and low over China.
The typhoon is now shown as an elongated depression between the Bonins and south east Japan..
Bluejackets Leave.
In relation to the subject an Harbarovsk, Nikolaevak and the Tokyo, Yesterday. official of the F. B. I. told me it whole of the lower Amur region are The Japanese Navy Office hus is felt by that body that the ab-menaced. Local committees at Har- world's
records, Fraulein ordered the withdrawal of the sence of British pictorial news bin are being organised for relief Dollinger, or Germany, finishing bluejackets, about 250, who were reacts upon British prestige and, work and appeals have been made in 2 minutes 22.2/0 seconds. despatched to Tsingtao in April therefore, on British trade inter- to Moscow.
as a landing force (prior to the ests in various parts of the Em- The damage at present is estimated outbreak of trouble). Reuter. pire. Referring to the Far Easted at 5,000,000 roubles. Reuter,
AT NANKING.
he said, "Practically every pic-
Chinese City. ture appearing in papers in that
Moscow, Yesterday. region is printed from an Ameri-
The floods have spread to can matrix; in fact, the prepon-rivers Bureya and Bira and the vil Marshal Li of Canton Attends derance of American pictorial ages the shores of which are sub-
Conference.
Nanking, Yesterday.
news in certain British posses- sions, notably in Hong Kong, is especially heavy."
for the
the
merged. The Chinese city of Sakhallen suffered greatly.--Reuter.
INDIAN RIOT.
SERIOUS AFFAIR AT BANGALORE:
STUDENTS AND IDOL.
Results to hand an append-
200 Metres,
Percy Williams (Canada) 1. Rangeley (Britain) *. Scholz (U.S.A.) *. Koernig (Germany) *. *Tied.
Won by two feet.
Time: 21.4/5 secs.
800 Metres (Women).
MODERN LONDON.
''A GIGANTIC IMPROVEMENT
SCHEME.
Settlements..
JAPAN'S POLITICS.
NEW PARTY TO BE FORMED BY ADVISER.
CHINA POLICY.
Tokyo, Yesterday,
Shing-street. Defendant, Chan Chuk-kwan, alleged to be the managing partner, was neither present nor legally represented
Mr. Takejiro Tokonami has issued and the case was heard ex partea manifesto emphasising the four Plaintiffs asked for the dissolu- big problems, confronting Japan, tion of the partnership between namely, China 'policy, control of them and the defendant as from radical propaganda, the financial Feb. 12, 1926 (the date on which situation and the removal of the Chinese year ended) in the gold embargo, He states that London, Yesterday. Kwan Wo Lee firm of No. 41, Das these are too serious to be solved The greatest London improvement Voeux-road West. They also ask under the existing unstable poli scheme in the history of the London ed for accounts to be taken up to tical situation, which is due to the Country Council has finally been that date and they claim for what adopted by this body. It comprises is found due to them on the ac presence of two evenly balanced-
parties: the construction of a new Charing counts.
Mr. Tokonami has resigned the
TO COST MILLIONS.
A
Cross Bridge, the removal of In the "history of the firm" ap advisership of the Minselto, and has Charing Cross Railway terminus to peared a clause relative to the declared his intention of forming a the south side of the Thames, the formation of the partnership. Mr.new party for the purpose of break- construction of an imposing Em-Alabaster submitted that according up the balance of power. Miss Hitomi (Japan) qualified (bankment on the south side and ing to this clause (a) the part- Though the possibility of seceR- for final, in which Fraulein the reconstruction and widening of nership was for an indefinite per aton was rumoured previously, Mr. lod, (b) that it has been render- Tokonami's action at the present Dollinger (Germany) put up a Waterloo Bridge.....
ed void because other partners world record.
General Feng Yu-hsiang. Mar- This is the position as it ap shal Li Chai-sum and General Li[pears to certain interests in Tsung-jen have arrived here from this country. The Government is Peking, by way of the Tientsin-evidently impressed, Pukow Railway, to attend the Colonial Office has now circulated opening of the fifth plenary con. various authorities throughout ferénce.
the Empire giving particulars of the proposed matrix. service General Yen Hai-shan, al- though expected, has remained at Government auspices to apply in which is being organised under Peking and is reported to be such parts of the Empire as may seriously ill.
be deemed necessary and desir-the Government had assigned for
the idol which the students wor-3.9 shipped has resulted in 125 of the general public and 30 of the
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is at able in British interests. Nanking. British Naval Wire- lexs.
I
Hankow Disappointed.
Hunkow, Yesterday. Despite the very extensive pre- parations made to welcome them,
SUFFERING FROM A SLIGHT
CHILL..
Bangalore, Yesterday.
A students' riot over the place
Time: 2 mins. 22.2/5 secs.
་
Pole Jump.
Carr (U.S.A.) 4.2 m.
Droegemuller (U.S.A.) 4.1 m. These are Olympic records. Nakazawa (Japan) was sixth,
m.
110 Metres Hurdles.
İSTR A. CHAMBERLAIN military being injured.
S. J. M. Atkinson (S. Africa). Troops dispersed the unruly Anderson (U.S.A.) : mob from the Government offices, Collier (U.S.A.) but later the malcontents, at the
Won by inches. Time: 14.4/5 secs. head of a mob of ten thousand, made a demonstration before the house of a leading Mahommedan.
a telegram has been received from RESTING FOR A FEW DAYS.
General Feng Yu-hsiang, Marshal ***
Li Chai-sum and General L
Tsung-yen stating that they are
London, Yesterday. An official communique denies Sir Austen Chamberlain, the that shots were fired and says not proceeding via Hankow to Nanking while General Yen Hal-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, is that the casualties occurred in shan is unable to accompany the suffering from a chill and has been dispersing the rowdies.-Reuter.
ordered by his medical adviser to
party owing to his illness. Local tie-up in his room for a day or Chinese officials are
very dis- appointed at missing the unique two. His indisposition is not re- garded as serious.-British Wire- opportunity of entertaining this quartette of Nationalist leaders. less Service. --Reuter,
First Preliminary.
Nanking, Yesterday. The first preliminary meeting of the fifth plenary conference was held this afternoon, 24 mem bers of the Central Executive Committee being present.
BARDOLI.
WHAT GANDHI IS GOING TO DO.
WORLD FLIGHT,
Discus Throwing.
imately £13,000,000.
COTTON INDUSTRY.
PROCEDURE.
The total cost will be approx-have been allowed to retire, in moment has come as a complete The scheme, 1920, 1925 and 1927, and e) that Burprise and is expected to have which in various forms has been it is void because it offends the far-reaching results as a large num- under discussion for twenty years, law of perpetuities which applies ber of his followers are expected now only needs the acquiescence of in this Colony.
to secede to the new party and sup
This port the Seiyukal. the Southern Railway-Reuter.
will ruin the chance of the Minseite of His Lordship said that he overthrowing and succeeding the
not could
agree with Mr. Tanaka Cabinet.. Alabaster until the circumstances
Not only will the continuance of were disclosed and the points were the present Government be there- reserved for argument on the law. by virtually assured, but also the The case had come up on June Government is expected to receive 28 when an interesting point the support of the new party In arose. A letter from Messrs. carrying out Its Chinese policy. Lee & Russ accepting service of One of Mr. Tokonami's main réa-
After
sons in seceding from the Minselto
1 THE THREATENED LOCK-OUT
2 3
AVERTED.
STRIKERS TO RESUME,
London, Yesterday.
Houser (U.S.A.) 47.32 metres. A cotton lock-out in Lancashire the writ was produced, Kivi (Finland) 47.23 metres. has been averted and the spinners writing that letter, Messrs. Lee is stated to be his disapproval of will resume work to & Russ intimated that they had their stand against Baron Tanaka's Corson (U.S.A.) 47.10 metres. on strike
Hie The above distances all consti-morrow, the non-union workman no further instructions.
policy towards China. having now joined the tute Olympic records.
· Lordship ruled, however, that the Unton
case could not proceed (according Amongst the points emphasised Reuter.
to the procedure laid down) until in the manifesto are the necessity of maintaining the closest possible personal service of the statement
WRESTLING.
[Catch-as-catch-can.]
Bantams!
SPANISH AVIATORS OFF TO Macinnen (Finland)
THE AZORES.
Stephen (Belgium) Grisonou (Canada)
Feathers:
Cadiz, Yesterday.
The Spanish seaplane "Numan- Morrison (U.S.A.) cia," piloted by Major. Franco, Pihlajemaki (Finland) who is accompanied by Major Minder (Switzerland) Surat. Yesterday.
Gallarza and Captain Ruiz Gandhi. is going to Bardoli to Dealba took off for the Azores
Lightweight ! No "decide upon a further course of at 7.15 this morning on the first Kapp (Esthonia) 2. ceremony Was observed, the action."-Router. afternoon being devoted to an
stage of a round-the-world-flight. Paconne (France)
-Reuter.
Leine (Finland) exchange of views. The second
Welter: Broken Down?...
Lisbon, Yesterday. Haavisto (Finland)
preliminary meeting will be held
to-morrow, when several more from Nanking requesting Mr.
Cost of a New Capital.
Nanking, Yesterday.
According to the National Re-
3
important proposals will be Kellogg to follow up the Customs The seaplane "Numancia" is re- Appleton (U.S.A.), brought up and explained by the Treaty between the U.S.A. and ported to have broken down of Ledgefort (U.S.A.) proposers. Reuter.
China by negotiation for the Praia Montegordo in Algarve, the
Middleweight! "proper settlement of the ques-machine being unable to leave the Kyburg (Switzerland) tions needing immediate solu-water.
Stockton (Canada) tion"
A motor-boat has put off with Rabin (Britain) Many newspapers are urging assistance-Reuter. construction Committee $50,000, Mr. Kellogg to consent to the im-
Light-heavy 000 will be required for the mediate renunciation of extra-
Capt. Courtney Leaven.
Sjoestedt: (Sweden). reconstruction of Nanking as a territoriality so as to forestall
Horta (Azores), Yesterday: Boegli (Switzerland) national capital. It suggests Britain, but Mf. Kellog is diapos- Captain Courtney has left for Lefevre (France) that the treasury should provide ed to follow Sir Austen Chamber-Newfoundland Reuter. $15,000,000 and the provinces the lain's cautious, watchful policy.
fred Heavyweight:: balance-Reuter.
Richthoff (Norway) Lahvola (Finland) Dame (France):
CHINA & USA.
Questions "After the Customs that the adoption of an adequate
SINGAPORE DOCK.
SECOND SECTION AT PORT BAID..
It is authoritatively emphasis ed that the question; of extra- territoriality is on a different footing to the Tariff Treaty and
modern system of legal adminis- tration must precede the aban-ite
Port Said, Yesterday. Washington, Yesterday. donment of extraterritorial pri- The second section of the Dr. C. T. Wang (Nationalist vileges. Reuter's American Ser- Singapore floating dock has Foreign Minister) has cabled vice.
Irived Reuter.
Treaty ALA
NEW BISHOP
THE BISHOP OF CHELMSFORD,
APPOINTED.
of claim and notice of trial had relations with China, the absence been proved. The case was ac of territorial ambitions and the necessity of protecting Japan's vital cordingly adjourned sine die.
This morning, Mr. Alabaster interests in Manchuria. said that Jeave for substituted Secondly, the prevention of the service had been granted and an spread of radical ideas and move- The Bishop of Chelmsford has affidavit of such service had ments, though the manifesto dis-
been filed: 2been appointed to the Bishoprie of ¡
| Manchester-Reuter,
London, Yesterday.
The writ calling for dissolution
approves of ultra-conservatism.
Thirdly, equal opportunity in of partriership was served on Jan. education for the purpose of check-
DECREASED PROFITS.
ing class warfare.
Fourthly, the drastic cut of State expenditure and the early lifting of the gold embargo.-Renter.
THE RATING BILL
The new Bishop of Manchester 26, 1928. is the Rt. Rev. Frederic Sumpter| Guy Warman. He was born: In | 1872, and educated in London' and After going into the circum at Oxford University. He was stances and stating that the part, Bishop of Trure from 1919 till nership bad been formed to trade 1923. He has published "Missions in Hong Kong and elsewhere, Mr. and the Minor Prophets," The Alabaster produced a receipt for New Theology" and "The English $5,200 signed by the defendant
London, Yesterday, Reformation.]
and chopped with the chops of The House of Lords has passed the two old firms.
the third reading of the Rating When these two old firms ama B-Router. gamated in 1904, the capital of one was $19,200 and the other $20,000,
INDIA'S PROBLEMS.
BUGGESTED SOLUTION, FROM-
BENGAL
Alabaster said that the explana There was a reference in the tion probably lay in the fact that' documents to "accumulated pro defendant appeared at first to fita" of $200,000 at one time and agree to the withdrawal of the Calcutta, Yesterday. that the profits had subsequently plaintiffs and then suddenly to The Legislative Council without dwindled to $20,000 a year and have changed his mind... a division, adopted a resolution even to 310,000 year
His Lordship made an order for expressing the opinion as to a satis His Lordship asked if defendant dissolution of partnership, BC- factory and lasting solution of was still in the Colony Mr. counts to be taken by the Regis political constitutional problems, Alabaster replied that he thought trar on the basis of the balance and demands, inter alla, he was in hiding. His Lordship sheet in Court; payment, of the self-governing dominion status and remarked that it seemed rather accounts due and costs; appoint... constitution based upon a federa- curious to him that defendant ment of a receiver (to be ap tion of autonomous states and the should have transmitted a bal proved) to receive shares in de- The closing rate of the dollar on abolition of the present system-ance sheet which the plaintiffs did fendant'e name in the Bank of Idemand, to-lay, was 2/0 5/106.Reuter.
not query in the least. Mr. East Asia, and liberty to apply.
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