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THE OUTLAWING OF CANTON & NANKING

WAR.

GREAT DOCUMENT.

HISTORICAL PACT SIGNED TO-DAY IN PARIS.

THE SIGNATORIES..

London, Saturday.

The text of the Kellogg Pact com-

WAR MOVE.

MARCH ON KIANGSI. RIVAL ARMIES REPORTED TO BE

ADVANCING.

THE BALANCE OF POWER.

Kiukiang, Yesterday,

HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1928.

GIRL DANCER DIES OF WOUND.

LOVE AFFAIR ?· ALLEGED THAT DETECTIVE'S WEAPON WAS USED.

AN INVESTIGATION.

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LIABILITY OF LOCAL PASSENGER 'PLANE

FIRMS.

FATALITY? ·

AGENT FOR BUYERS. ALL-METAL MACHINE

UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES

THEY CAN BE SUED. PIECE GOODS CUSTOM. "I think this is a case in which credit was given to a local firm and the local firm is liable. The plaintiffs (Le. the sellers of the goods)

CANTON VISITORS. ADMIRAL CHAN CHAK AND GEN. CHAN CHAI-TONG HERE.

ANOTHER REPORT.

Admiral Chan Chak, comman der-in-chief of the Canton Navy, Rosario Rivas, 18-year-old caba-arrived here with his wife from It is rumoured that the Canton prises three brief Articles, the first Government is moving troops ret girl, who shot herself with a re-Canton on Saturday by the s.s and. second as already reported northward against Kiangsi pro- volver at her residence at 387 Calle "Lungshan."

have General Chan Chal-tong, com- The third settles the technical vince and that the Nanking Gov-Tejeron, Santa Ana, early Saturday

Treaty operation of the

and Jernment is sending sufficient morning, died at 11.10 o'clock last mander of the 4th Nationalist binds the original signatories as forces into Klangsi to resist Can- night at the Philippine Ceneral Hos-army at Canton, together with Mr. Chan, So, former chief of the pital. soon as all have ratified; it also ton's advance so as to maintain

Rosarlo was rushed to the hoa- declares the Treaty, to remain open the balance of Power in Kiangsi in

pital immediately after the shoot- as long as necessary for the adher-favour of Nanking.

It is also stated that Coming, suffering, from bullet wounds ence of all the other Powers of the

munists are active in the pro- in the breast and back. The body work.

was removed to the city morgue, for The 14 who will sign on August vince.-British Naval Wireless.

autopsy.

27 Are:-

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Lord Curheadun, first on be- Ire- half of Britain, Northern land and those parts of the Empire not represented in the Leagite of

A sweeping investigation of the

[Note: Kinng in between Kwang- tung and. Anhui provfaces, the latter being on the road to Nanking.

it is difficult to envisage the Canton manner in which members of the Government taking up the offensive in happening another province. What may be that Canton troops along the northern frontier of Kwangtung have been ordered to keep down local red and bandit risings in the south of Kiangai, that this has been treated ns hostile move by the Nanking Government which, in turn, is moving troops to prevent any part of Kinngsi coming under the influence of Canton.]

ECONOMIC MISSION.

TO ASSIST AUSTRALIA IN

HER PROBLEMS.

MIGRATION & SETTLEMENT.

London, Yesterday. The Economic Mission, which has been appointed by the British Government to visit Australia, will include Sir Aurthur Duck- ham

as Chairman, Sir Hugo Hirst, Sir Ernest Clarke and Mr. Dougal Malcolm. The mission is the outcome of a suggestion by the Prime Minister of Australia, Nations and secondly on behalf of Mr. S. M. Bruce, 'and the invita- India.

Mr. F. B. Kellogg, who signa the Pact on behalf of the Unit- ed States.

Mr. Smit (?) for South Africa;

tion was extended by the Federal Government, which is seeking all the co-operation and advice it Mr. Mackenzie King for Canada; can get on problems of migration and settlement.-British Wire- less.

Mr. MeLachlan for Australia; Sir E. Parr for New Zealand;- Mr. Cosgrave for the Irish Free State:

Mr. F. B. Kellogg for the United 'States;

M. Briand for France; Count Manzoni for Italy;

Dr. Stresemann for Germany; Dr. Hymans for Belgium;

Count Uchida for Japan; M. Zaleski for Poland; and Dr. Bencs

kin.

THE TREATY.

fore returning to America-British Wireless Service.

SOVIET VIEWS.

AGED PRIEST FREE.·

Hankow, Yesterday. The Milan Mission has received a telegram from Sinyangchow, in Honan province, reporting the release of the aged. Father Froewis, who was captured by bandits on Aug. 6-Reuter.

Mr. Hu Han-min.

TWO PILOTS AND FOUR PASSENGERS ABOARD.

WELL-KNOWN M.P.

Victoria, B.C., Yesterday,

100 CASUALTIES IN CHEFOO *CITY.

STREET FIGHTING.

SEQUEL TO ATTEMPT TO DIS- ARM SUSPECTED TROOPS.

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BANDITS CAUSE SCARE,

Chefoo, Yesterday.

The tri-engined all-metal pas- Severe rifle fire was heard in the senger plane belonging to the city this morning but the firing. British. Columbia Railways is did not last long.

feared to have been lost while Everything now seems

en route to Seattle with

two quiet.

pilots and four passengers includ-

ing Mr. Alexander MacCallum Scott, M.P.. and his

"

to be

no right of action against the Canton firm as

It appears that 200 soldiers, they have to prove agency and that the Canton firm

wife whose loyalty was suspected by actually ordered the goods."

Patches of oil and two hats have the authorities, were paraded Thus spoke Mr. Justice P. been found off the Washington outside the naval academy near the East Fort at ten this morn- Jacks (Puisne Judge) in the coast-Reuter. Summary Court this morning [Mr. Scott was Liberal mem- ing for the purpose of being dis-

of Parliament for armed. when he entered judgment, for ber claim and costs," for the Chosen Bridgeton (Glasgow) from 1910- Apparently, the men refused to Co., Ltd., No. 100, Des Voeux-22 and joined the Labour Party give up their arms. this leading

in 1924.]

OUR NANKING CONSULATE.

Nanking, Saturday.

Mr. William Meyrick Hewlett, C.M.G., has innded here to take up official duties, as His British Majesty's Consu-General at Nan- king.-British Naval Wireless.

[Note: Mr Hewlett was ap- pointed last year, after the Nan- king Incident, the settlement of which between China and Britain has led to the resumption of Con- sular intercourse at Nanking.]

floor.

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to the shooting, with the result that there was about a hundred

POWER OF. ARREST. casualties, mostly among the sus-

pected men.

'INDIAN POLICE SERGEANT

CONVICTED.

Band Terrors.

The remainder escaped, adding

to the large nuumber of armed ASSAULT AT CHEUNG CHAU. men who have been terrorising

Police Crown Sergeant Musdan the countryside.

The military authorities (who Singh (B135), stationed on Cheung

very Chau Island, was this morning are anti-Nationalist) are convicted by Mr. R. E. Lindsell on uneasy and appear to fear an or a charge of assaulting Mr. Yeung ganised attack by groups of It is believed that this Shiu-ping at Cheungchau at 6.30 bandits.

fear accounts for the attempt to p.m. on August 11.

Defendant was fined $25 and disarm the suspected men this ordered to pay a further sum of, morning-Reuter. $25 to Mr. Yeung as compensation,

Japanese Help? Central, who claimed whereupon Mr. M. K. Lo, for Mr. A Shanghai despatch on the Manila police force, including the Canton Arsenal, arrived in this road city secret service, live and conduct Colony last night by the s.s. "Fat- $886.95 from the Hong Kong Yeung, announced that the latter situation in Chefoo, since its re- Goods Co. of No. 74, would drop the civil action which capture by General Chang Tsung- themselves at all times, and the shan," and General Chan Hing-Piece

ground he had intended to take against the chang of the Northern Army. Queen's-road Central,

defendant for damages.

reads as follows: issuing by the chief of police of:

The defence was opened by Mr. How Business Was Done.

The expected resumption of strict regulations against membera of the police force associating or

Goods had been ordered by the C. A. S. Russ this morning, when normal business conditions in the living with women of loose stan-

N. E. winds, moderate fair; is Tai Ping Yeung Co. (the trans- the defendant deposed that when province of Shantung, received a dards, may result from the suicide of Rosario Rivas.

the official weather forecast undilation of which would be the he attempted to search Mr. Young sudden set-back when it was an-

Pacific Co.), through defendants, on the ferry wharf, the latter, whonounced that Shat With Pistol.

The anticyclone has strength-from plaintiffs. Defendants had was very annoyed, said: “I am a Tsung-chang, former Northern Following the shooting the police ordered an investigation of Deened. It is now central to the acknowledged receipt on behalf gentleman, why search

of the Canton principals. Credit Witness explained that it was en route to Chefoo and that Then com- Japanese steamers were convey- N. E. of Japan. A depression

was given solely, however, to the "police regulation." tective Chester Banning, of the

is approaching Korea from west-

defendants, who were buying as plainant submitted to the searching 20,000 men to Chefoo. Manila secret service. It is charg- ed that the revolver used by Rosario ward.

The typhoon is moving slowly belonged to the detective who was asleep in the house when the suicide eastward towards Tourane.

Another may be forming to the attempt took place.

N. W. of Guam.

ANOTHER TYPHOON ?......

noon to-morrow. W

Rosario shot herself with the pistol, the bullet catering her breast and passing through the back. She was rushed to the Philippine Gen-wan, commander of the

On." cral Hospital where she expired at Chau Farts, by the a..

It is believed that these 11.10 o'clock last night. The cause behind the dancer's suicide could

General Chang

me?" warlord, had reached Tsientsin,

These men were formerly part you by and by."

of Chang's Northern army "but agenta. Further, defendants had remarking "All right, I will see paid plaintiffs $300 on account.

Later, when Mr. Yeung had were disarmed by the Nationalist It was pointed out by Mr. Horace

Indian, con-Government after the capture of Lo (for the plaintiffs) that the boarded the launch, goods had been supplied to a printable B86 informed the witness Peking by the Nationalist forces.

Like Dagger in Ribs, cipal whose identity had been dis- that complainant was taking down

Although Chang was one of the closed to the sellers, at the re-his number, so the witness went on Cheung quest of defendants (as agents), board ad spoke to Mr. Yeung who first of the Northern generals to "Tung to whom credit had been given, was alleged to have said "Excuse be defeated by the Nationalists in and also that the custom of the me." The witness took complain-their recent advance on Peking, local piece goods trade is to hold ant to the station, but did not hit Chang has bobbed up even since His troops. him on the face or kick him on the fall of Peking. The action was ex parte, defen- the way. Witness arrested Mr. recently figured in an encounter the local agente liable.. dants being neither present nor Yeung because the latter had first with the Nationalist troop but

of all refused to, be searched, and were eventually routed. represented.

It is feared here in Nationalist Jater because he had taken down witness' number. Witness believ-circles that Chang has the back- ed that Mr. Young Intended to ac-ling of the Japanese in an attempt so holto create trouble for the Nation- cuse him of some thing, thought he had better take com-alist government in Shantung. plainant to the station to clear the matter up.

puliti-

have

Moscow, Yesterday. M. Litvinoff, Soviet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has sent a letter to the Chairman of the Preparatory for Czecho Slova-Disarmament Commission recalling not be learned, although it is said cal personages of Canton

It was due to an affair of the heart. come down to await the arrival the Soviet's proposals for full, and

Detective Banning told secret ser- subsequently partial, disarmament.

M. Litvinoff complains that the vice operatives who are investigat- The first two Articles of the Commission is delaying the resump-ing the case that he was sleeping| Kellogg Treaty are:-

tion of its labours, and contends. Inside the house of the dancer, who The girl, 1-An undertaking solemnly-con-that the signing of the Kellogg Pact was his sweetheart. demning recourse to war for the cannot solve. the problem of dis- according to his theory, must have while he was sleeping soundly, and solution of international contro-armament, which alone is the real snatched the revolver from his belt versies and renouncing it as an gurantee of peace and security.

He asks what prevents another shot herself afterwards. He denied instrument of national policy.

JL-Requires the signatories to speedy convocation of the Disarma having turned his pistol over to the agree that the solution of all dis-ment Conference now that the girl for safekeeping.

differences between the Powers, putes of whatsoever should never be sought except by pacific means.

character

RENOUNCING WAR. The Text is preceded by a Preamble, the first three clauses

which caused the closing of the Fifth Session of the Conference, are composed.'

DR. STRESEMANN IN PARIS

Paris, Yesterday..

Colonel John W. Green, chief of

urged the suspension of Detective police, in a letter to the mayor, Banning, from the service as a re- sult of the incident. He charges Banning with negligence for failing to take the necessary precaution to keep the pistol safely, and with in-

for Kiving

with a

A tremendous crowd, both Inside of which have been revised to give express recognition to the principle and outside of the station, cheered discretion

wildly

that if a State resorts to war in

the arrival of Dr. "bailarina." Stresemann, who obviously WAS

violation of the Treaty, the other profoundly moved by the warmth FRENCH FINANCÈS. signatories are released from

of the greeting accorded the first

their obligations under the Treaty German Minister officially to be

to that particular State.

The revised clauses read:

received in France since the war of 1870.

on hist

THE ESTIMATED EXPENDI

TURE FOR.1929.

MINISTERS' SALARIES.

Paris, Yesterday. France's expenditure for 1929 is

divided into:-

One, the signatories are deeply Dr. Stresemans, acting senalble of their solemn duty to doctors orders, was unable per- promote the welfare of mankind;sonally to receivs Press represen- Two, are persuaded that the tatives, but issued a statement de- time has come when the frank claring that whils with the conclu- renunciation of war as an instrusion of the Treaty, they had not estimated at Fes. 46,226,278,701, iment of national policy should be reached once and for all the goal made so that existing peaceful and of final control of world peace, he friendly relations may be perpe was convinced that they possessed tuated. Reuter.

in the Pact a new basis which, THANKSGIVING.

with the goodwill of all Nations, General thanksgiving for the would enable them to arrive at the creation of a world in which war peace pact, which will be signed at would exist no more; and the Ger- Paris on Monday, will be held to man people were firmly resolved to morrow in all churches through work energetically for the reallen- out Britain, and in many parish tion of this Ideal.

churches special services will also

be held on Monday. The significance

of the occasion is full recognised

by the press, and all newspapers

MR. KELLOGG'S, BANQUE

Mr. Kellogg, at the American

Public Debt Fes. 22,157,060,175 Public Au-

78,800,000

21,050,219,516

1,381,844,410

thorities 21 Government >

Depta. Collecting

Revenues Repayments.

& sundries, 607,754,600 It is proposed that Ministers salaries, be increased -180,000.

publish articles on the subject, Embassy, held a banquet in honour whilst Dr. T. W while the text of the multilateral of the plenipotentiaries of the Government Civil

treaty for the renunciation of war

Powers.

All were present except

as an instrument of national policy Stresemann, who is still tu.

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is in some reproduced fufuli.

Regret is expressed in official quarters that the United States Becretary of State, Mr FB, Kellogy, has been unable to accept the Invitation to visit London be

AMERICA'S ATTITUDE. Replying to tions, as regards

chance

the American Senate, ratifyin

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THE L55 VICTIMS.

TRANSFERENCE TO H.M.S.

* "CHAMPION" IN BALTIC.

London, Yesterday.

Good Character.

The province of Shantung is. from a strategic standpoint, like

a dagger in the ribs of the Na- and if The Admiralty has arranged

Mr. Calthrop, A.S.F., put in the tionalist Government for the bodies of the victims of submarine L56 to be transferred defendant's record card and in re-Chang is enabled through the ald in the Baltic Sea to the cruiser ply to the Magistrate said that he of the Japanese or through his

would define the defendant's char-own efforts to re-establish him "Champion" which will convey

acter as "good," as he had been self in that province with a con- them to England.

siderable force of soldiery behind The remains of the crew will be five years off the report.

In his submission for the de-him, he can prove of a source of handed over by the Soviet author-

ities to the English steamer fence, Mr. Russ suggested that Mr. great concern to the new Chinese "Truro" on its arrival at Krons Yeung was overbearing towards Nanking government. tadt, to which the L55 was towed the police, and there was no doubt

after it had been salvaged. The that temper was lost on both sides. SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN "Truro" will join the "Champion" The defendant had arrested Mr. at a Baltle rendezvous. British Young because he honestly thought Wireless Bervice.

THE STRAITS. NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY APPOINTED.

London, Yesterday.

LONG TOUR IN SEARCH OF HEALTH.

ACROSS CANADA..

he had the power to do so. Power! of arrest was very wide in Hong Kong and so seldom contested that many Indian and Chinese con- stables honestly thought they had the power to arrest for the least thing, such as walking on a white Hne, when they should do so on Affaire, Sir Austen Chamberlain, is due to leave Liverpool on Thursday a black one, etc.

The

London, Saturday,

Foreign Secretary for

Mr. John Scott, Chief Secretary In conclusion, Counsel. polated in the liner "Ocoma". on a health of. Tanganyika Territory, has been out the serious consequence to the voyage to the western coast of selected for appointment as Colonial defendant if he was convicted and North America via the Panama Secretary of the Straits Settle asked the Magistrate to dismiss the Canal. He will be absent from ments in succession to Sir Hayes summons or impose a nominal England about ten weeks. Lady Chamberlain and their two younger penalty. Marriott on his retirement.

Without calling upon Mr. Lo, children will accompany him. Calls his Worship said that he was satis will be made en route at La was true, except that there had Bermuda, Havana, and Cristobal at fed that the complainant's story Rochelle, Santander, Corunna, Vigo, doubtlessly been words between the Atlantic end of the Panama the parties. However, this did not Canal.

Major-General Chan Hing-wan.

A British Wireless message says of Mr. Hu Han-min, General Hou Chung-chi and Mr. Chow, Loo, all that Mr. Douglas James Jardine, members of the Branch Political Deputy Chief Secretary of the Council at Canton, who are ex- Tanganyika Territory, will succeed pected to arrive from Europe Mr. Scott as Chief Secretary. shortly.

On the other hand, according ALBANIA & A KING. Fes. to the "Kung Sheung Yat Po," a private telegram has been re-

THE PRESIDENT NOT YET ceived by a local merchant,

PROCLAIMED. indicating that Marshal Li Chai sum has decided to re- main in North China for -road the time being, to await

Was

Justify the sergeant to arrest Mr. The voyage from Balboa on the Yeung and handle him as roughly Pacific to Ban Francisco will be as he did..

continued in the steamer President Adams." After a brief holiday In Brigadier General Sir Henry California, the party will proceed Page Croft, M.P., speaking in the to Vancouver and will return over- Tirana, Yesterday, Belper Division of Derbyshire de hand across Canada to Montreal.~~~ The proclamation announcing fended those Conservative, members ritish Wireless Service nce the return of Mr Tu Han-min; President Ahmed Zogu as King, including himself, who were pres General Heu Chung-chi and other which was fully, expected to-day, sing for an extensida” of safeguard-

Moderate Nationalists, now has not occurred.ing "There is no revol abroad, in order to discuss with The National Assembly reassent-What we are doing of deter's car ran into the side chan- them, certain projects in connec bled and elected its president, after with our election ple

ons of Rs front wheels was tion with resolutions of the fifth which it adjourned until Monday a revolt it all its a revolt against Renter plenary session. 20

driving his car up last even

of a private car

of the road, caused him

dinared:

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