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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928.

SEXES EQUAL.

PRECEDENT SET IN CHINESE

ESTATE LAW, A

DAUGHTERS AND SONS,

SHIPPING STRIKE:

THE CHINA MAIL,

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SOVIET PLAN TO GO - NAVY COMPROMISE will be no further scrapping of LETTERS & RADIO.

BELIEVED COLLAPSING BUT NANKING GENERAL'S IDEA

STILL UNSETTLED, BILL PASSED,

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seven parts, giving Miss Sheng and her sister Tls. 500,000 each, TIME LIMIT POINTED OUT. Mr. Pan Chen-au, appearing for Miss Sheng's elder brother, argued that the plaintiff was mis- taken. In the first place, the petl- Shanghai, Saturday."' tion asked for a 'rediaribution of

Canberra, Saturday. The action in the Provisional the estate, but the estate had al- In the House of Representativës Court, in which Miss Sheng Ai-ready been legally distributed the Transport Workers Ell was yee, daughter of the late Mr. under Court supervision.

How introduced by Mr. S. M. Bruce (the Sheng Kung-pao, the wealthy could a previous Court decision Prime Minister) and was read a Minister of Communications at be overthrown so as to change a first time by 82 votes to 15. The the time of the Revolution in five share to a seven share ratio, second reading was postponed owing 1911, sued five male heirs for her he argued.

to strong Labour obstruction. The proportional share in an estate of Again, he pointed out, there Bill provides that all wharf om

500,000 taols, resulted in the

was the question of law. Lordployees shall be registered: Court giving verdict Sheng Hsuan-hwai died on March

# that the estate must be 25, 1916, when the law of the re-divided in seven equal land provided that the five defen-

Later.

Mr. Bruce declared that the posi

growing worse hourly

OF GOVERNMENT,

JAPAN'S LEGAL INTERESTS.

Nanking, Saturday, The Chief of the Nationalist

PRESS CRITICISE SOVIET METHODS.

N. Y. PAPER'S REPORT.:

London, Saturday,

U.S. naval tonnage until the con- ference at Washington in 1981)- Rauter. A

PUBLICATION POSTPONED. London, Friday.

ADDRESSES WHICH CANNOT BE TRACED.

POST OFFICE LISTS.

An American newspaper has General Staff, General Ho Ying characteristic query of British Foreign Office to French Diplomatic respondence, ste, waiting at the A General Post Office notiЛen. "Why all this secrecy?" is the text of a letter from the French lars with regard to uncialines cor published what purports to be the tion, gives the following partien- ching, interviewed by Reuter, ditorials in relation to the "New Missions, containing terms of the Post Office, and also unclaimed announced that the Nationalists York American's" "disclosures Anglo-French naval compromise radio telegrams at the Radio Tele- are dissatisfied with the Soviet regarding the committee form of government which London papers point out mise, It is necessary to emphasiso,

Navy Pact Omcial publication of the compro graph Office, Government bulli and are therefore planning the merely re-scho what has already has been postponed pending the adoption of the five Boards sys-been published, for example, in receipt from the other chief, naval tem, desiring completely to the "Daily Telegraph" on Sept. Pawers, to whom it had been 'com- eliminate Communist methods. However, the London papera

Realising the presence of Com-content that official reticence municated, of their comments upon it, as a possible basis for discus- ist Party, said General Ho, na abroad.

Poste Restante.

Bhares of which Miss Sheng Al-Idants alone had the right to the tion in the, wateraiders' strike womunist members in the National encourages hostile campaigners ston at the preparatory conference C. A. Combe, Madam Crozel, R. II.:

yee and her sister, Miss Sheng interitance. Their rights of Fang-yee, are to receive one each. ownership commenced as on that The decision confirms the Na-date, and whatever arrangements tionalist Government's principle had been made since then "wers that Chinese men and women confined merely to methods of are on an equal footing. Reuter. division, and had no bearing on

[Note: Chinese custom. is re the principle of law. cognised in the Hong Kong courts. Hitherto, the practice has been for unmarried surviving daughters to get maintenance but seldom ad

ministration or a share.]

The House of Representatives has passed the Transport Workers' Bill.

The Senate has passed the Trans- port Workers' Bill.

Strike Collapsing.

Melbourne, Saturday. The lack of unanimity among

menace

P. B. Allen, R. H. Beaven, Borodin, Mrs. C. R. Benstead, a Capt. C, R. Benetead, V. C. Caving

Coote, J. C. Finch, Kum Kwai- tong, Mrs. Amy Lund,, II. Nit-M. Rejzos, F. L. Rust, G. E. Rofch, Iisr Olga Ribeiro, A. Simmons, (Ameel can Varity Show), H. Stout, Chin

The London "Morning Foat" on disarmament. says that publication at least Contrary to rumours continually lays the bogey that the proposals repeated in some quarters the full involved an air agreement and terms and not only a part of them division of the sens into spheres, were communicated to the United or arrangements regarding land States, Japanese and Italian Gov- American Ind. Day. Co., II. Sia le

ernments some weeks ago:

Mrs. H. Schoenhant, S. J. Solorin

armaments,

The "Daily Herald" asks what It is understood the Japanese Mrs. Ida M. Smith, c/o. N. Mayger, useful purpose can be served by and Italian Governments have Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Tallenaae. advancing the proposal to which, actified Paris and London that obviously, America would not they are disposed to be favourably impressed by the proposals as a

agree

Unpaid Correspondence. Mrs. Newman Grey.

Registered Articles.

Sheng had already received Tls. The attorney declared 'Miss 60,000. The rest of the property belonged to the plaintiffs and the waterside workers a one Miss Sheng. had never before of the principal features of the. NO COMPROMISE.

questioned this. In fact, he said, strike. Men are working under the Shanghai, Sept. 7. she not only did not oppose it two plek-up award at all the Tos-

SIR AUSTEN THE INNOCENT basis for discussion, but in the ab Fighting for her claim that the when her mother decided to divide manian ports and several in Queens-

G. Borodin, L. Crozal, Miss Mary The Daily Chronicle" says sence of a reply from Washington that suspicion against Britain has the publication of the proposals Green, Clarence, Martin, (c/o. For Kuomintang principle of political the 60 per cent, share into five land, South Australia and West Aus

General Ho Ying-ching. equality between men and women shares last spring, but had writ-tralia, but are striking in Mel-

been allowed to

accumulate has been delayed in accordance aign Club), A. Rassmussen, James of China should have recognition ten a letter to the defendants ask-bourne. Brisbane, Adelaide, New

through the folly of wrapping the with the usual procedure in such Schless, R. Collantes Tacloban. before, the law, Miss Sheng Ai-ing for Tls. 100,000 as a reward castle and Fremantle.

to the welfare of the matter in the darkest, mirk mys- cases.--

Unclaimed Radio Telegrams. The Adelaide strikers, however, country, and the Party coming to tery. yee, daughter of the late Lord for her efforts in inducing her

MISINTERPRETED.

Majesty Sheng Hsuan-hwai, Minister of mother to agree to this division.are wavering and free labour is a re-organisation, the Government The "Daily News" says that if

Unfortunately, the normal proce- Tack Choon Hong the Mail and Shipping Board in

being enrolled in many places, will see the last of the ways and Sir Austen Chamberlain real dure in this instance has provoked 55

methods borrowed the Manchu dynasty, brought her

Including 1,000 in Melbourne.

from the found the compromise hopeful, an unprecedented crop of rumours Tiagin Talsang .... action against her brothers at the

The strikers feered at the volun-Bolshevists thrown overboard.

he was more innocent than any which have entirely misinterpreted Yewoguen Provisional Court on Wednesday

tears as they marched off to the

Disbandment Figures.

one thought for a re-division of her father's

wharves and

The Times" declares that the the purport, extant and aim of the Ng Loe Yee Sangfoul there were

General Ho Ying-ching declar- estate on the principle of equal

melees.

ed that by the end of September, world being what it is, and a Pre-compromise.

The true facts are that pro-Wah Kiu. Co. Cheng Hong shares with her brothers.

There are signs that the strike isthe 1st Army will have disbanded sidential election progressing in collapsing and it is expected that 100,000 men, the 2nd Army the United States, France and gress at the Preparatory Commis Kwang Yee Sang, Robinson Road an Important Inter-State Confer 120,000, the 3rd Army 70,000 and Britain should have published on for Disarmament had been for ence of Transport and Maritime the 4th Army 50,000. The Armies forthwith the text of an innocu- long period delayed by differ- Gen Shuck

ences of view on the systems of Sin Hua Hin Unions will take place on Monday, will then be re-organised into ous agreement.

reckoning naval tonnage, the lead Weng Joel Jlong, Bonham-street which will resolve that the Water-divisions, each of 15,000 men,

ing protagonists of the opposing Ministry of War

The letter was produced in Court, and it was alleged that Miss Sheng signed her name to it, and as the secretary of the organisation to which the money had been left in trust was in Court he was called. He admit-

This is one of the most importted the letter was written to him ant legal cases heard at the Pro-but as he did not see Miss Sheng visional Court for it strikes at sign it he was unable to testify one of the most ancient principles whether the signature to it was in China that men and women are Miss Sheng's. not equal before the law. Miss Sheng is therefore lighting the battle for millions of her sisters affected by custom existing up to the time of the Nationalist re- volution.

many

From .Saigon

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New York

Hoihow Seattle Washi

.Saigon.

After considerable argument, side Workers at all Australian ports under the direct control of the The American newspaper version views being the British and French Njio Sing Cheong, Weng heng stre-t

be instructed to resume work.

Federation Fined.

representatives.

Broadly stated, Britain favoured calculation by naval categories and the French by the fixation of prob- able amounts, divisible according to the individual desires of the

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· FRENCH PRESS COMPLAINS.

Judge Li suggested that the

of the Anglo-French Naval Com- parties retire and arrange a com-

The Generalissimate will soon promise is much commented upon promise as it was a family affair.

be abolished, he added.

In the Press, which emphasises the Opposition to this suggestion was

The Waterside Workers' Federa- General Ho also stated that importance of the reported agree raised and therefore Judge Lition has been fined the maximum Japan's legal interests in Man- ment of the two powers that there closed the hearing and announces $1,000 for inciting the crew of the churia would receive due protec- should be a limitation of 10,000-ton

vessel "Karoola" totion from the Nationallat Govern- cruisers carrying 8 inch guns. he would give his judgment in due inter-state course,

strike, and two unionists were sen- ment and he hoped there would be. While the Quai d'Orsay is silent Powers concerned. tenced to a week and a fortnight's a change in Baron Tanaka's on the subject, the Franch news:

As the result of private convor imprisonment, respectively, for in-policy so that two neighbourly papers complain that the documentations, the British and French terfering with the volunteer work countries could co-operate to le presented to the public in such a reached a compromise which would Tung Shun Shing, Lung King Lee.. era. There were two further ar- mutual advantage. Reuter. form as to appear to be a secret cnable progress to be resumed in Ningporod ..*.......... Makaas ** rests to-day in collisions between

manoeuvre against the United the Preparatory, Commission pro-Licorne, Hong Kong (Pour Sarraut States while its real purpose was to vided always the other chief naval

Saigon strikers and police who drew their

explain the Franco-British com-Powers: accepted it.

Tau Tong Nam Wah Co. ...Canton promise to the United States, Japan-

Allopathic and Italy and to provide a basis for

Man Cheong Lai negotiations.

SUBSTANTIAL ACCURACY.

it having been explicitly stated by Aldebar Kouuloom Official circles in London admit Lord Cushendun, the Acting For Ho Wong

An array of legal counsel and a number of fashionably-dressed Chinese women were in Court when the case was heard and. argued on Wednesday. Judge Li Ching-fu took the case and sug gested that u compromise could be made outside Court, but as'this suggestion met with opposition he PROBLEM OF BURIAL OF THE

adjourned the case to consider his decision.

At least a dozen Chinese law- yera were present at the hearing for the different parties concern ed. Some fine legal points were brought out in the suit which bears on the re-division of a huge fortune left by the father of the plaintiff.

HER MARRIAGE INTENTIONS.

THE HURRICANE.

VICTIMS.

batons.

The volunteers are very efflelent- ly working four of the overseas vessels in port here,

It is understood that the funds of

the Waterside Workers' Federation are at the lowest.

Unpopular Ballot.

Washington, Saturday. The grim problem of disposing of the bodies of the hurricane vie- tims in Florida to prevent the spread of disease is being solved by the authorities chartering acroplanes to spray whole areas A section of the delegates, op with lime. Workmen are bury-posed to the secret ballot on the ing bodies in quicklime.

The American Red Cross has question of the resumption of work, 55:000,000 for relief work. the ballot papers. The ballot was

DAMAGE CLAIMS. AMERICANS AND BRITISH AT

NANKING.

Nanking, Saturday.

AUTOMATICALLY CEASE.

It was promptly communicated in Nam Ta full to the other Powers affected, Plug Kee

.Talamba

.Saigon

Cholon

.Saigon

.Saigon

Cholon

In connection with American the substantial accuracy of the de-eign Secretary; and other Ministers, claims for compensation in Nan-tails with regard to the Anglo- that in the event of the proposals king, which total $1,200,000, it is French Naval limitation proposale, not proving acceptable to them, the Government will probably agree the "New York American" and pur- cease to have importance, in which understood that the Nationalist given in a document published in compromise would automatically MASTER OF ENGLISH.

One of the points referred to appealed to the public for at least past the ballot-box and tore upto pay approximately $1,000,000:| pórting to be a letter addreased by event the search for an`agreement

Miss Sheng's marriage intentions,

It was stated by her attorneys that she was not married, nor had she been betrothed. The at- torneys would not venture as to

her future intentions.

This point has profound bearing on the case because the Supreme

Reuter's American Service.

U.S. DESTROYERS.

Court's Interpretation of China's PAYING INFORMAL VISIT TO

new law provides that men and women are equal before law, that unmarried women have the right

YOKOHAMA.

Tokyo, Saturday.

formal visit and wil stay until Sept. 28.-Reuter.

to inheritance but nothing has A flotilla of five destroyers of been said regarding a woman who the American Asiatic Fleet has is betrothed to be married,

arrived at Yokohama on an in- Mr. Lu Hung-yee, attorney for Miss Sheng, opened the case and pointed out that dispute was pure- ly a matter of law. The five defendants were brothers and nephews of the plaintiff whose father. Lord. Shong Hsuan-hwai:-} dled in 1916 leaving a fortune of more than Tla. 6,800.000 to his widow, to be invested in accord- ance with the terms of his will. EZFORE NATIONALIST REGIME

In 1920, the estate was divided, 40 per cent, being further divided into five shares and turned over to the three brothers and two nephews and the other 60 per cent. turned over to the trustees for charitable purposes. This was before the Nationalists came' into control and established the principle of equality between men and women, said the attorney,

In the spring of this year. the five defendants divided the 60 per cent. left for charitable purposes,' elders and relatives giving con sent to this as the money had been untouched. As the consent had been given, Miss Sheng na- turally claimed her share of the Inheritance In accordance with the Kuomintang principle of equality, and the Supreme Court Interpretation that unmarried women have the right to inherit- Canea" Mag

The five defendants went ahead and divided the estate into five shares, ignoring Miga Sheng's claim, attorney said. Under the. old system in China, unmarried daughters had to be content with whatever portion of the Inherit

ance was given them by their brothers, but the present law pro- vides equality and Mian Sheng therefore instituted her legal so tion to obtain it She instructed that negotiations be opened, those had proved futile a gait had been filed claim- ing that the estate be divided into

„PROHIBITED

ANCHORALI

declared off.

Volunteers Stoned.

Melbourne, Yesterday,

comes law to-day.

The Transport Workers Bill be

During attacks by unionists sev eral volunteers were struck with etones. They were treated at hos- pital. Four arrests followed.

Sufficient free labour will be

ter.

have been presented for losses ed from the limitation.c suffered when Nanking was overrun boy Communists in March, 1927 and foreigners suffered grievously.]

available in Melbourne on Monday to work all the oversea vessels.

The wool sales have been post-two German tourists who were that the United States will continue poned for a week, holding up wool

worth £750,000 --Reuter.

TRIBUTE TO "LORD:

* HEWART.

The British claims in Nanking the French Foreign Ministry to the would have to be resumed in the approximate $10,000,000. Reu- French Ambassadors in the chief Preparatory Commission along capitals of the world showing that

That was a proud title which one [Note: According to Treaties of Britain and France have agreed other lines. settlement between China and the that small cruisers and coastal de- cannot comment on the authentic-ferred

British official circles naturally of our many summer lecturera con-

on the Lord...... Chief: United States and Britain, claims fence submarines should be excludity or otherwise of a document be- Justice. He said of him that he is longing to another Power which one of the greatest masters of the Meanwhile, the Washington cor the American newspaper has pub English language," and further tes- respondent of the "New York Usbed although the terms reproductified that he never uses a word American declares that he learns ed of the naval compromise are ac listened to Lord Hewart delivering in its wrong place. All who have authoritatively that Pras. Coolidge curate except for the reference judgment in court, or in the happy proposes to send the British and to the tonnage of ocean-going sub role of after-dinner speaker, will unveiled at Lech, in the Austrian ly disapproving of the Anglo-Such vessels are reckoned as bestowed. And what delight there A marble monument has been French Governments & Note strong marines, agree that the tributs was justly Tyrol, in memory, of six British, and French proposals and Indicating deep water craft when they exceed is in listening to the English tongue killed by an avalanche at Zürs in its building programme of 28 six hundred and not six thousand when it is used with easy mastery 10,000-ton cruisers and that there tons as atated in the American re-over its Sexible power of precise port-British Wireless Service and vivid expression! The hotly

SECRETI

debated question of where and by It appears that the document whom the best English is apoken, which the "New York American" will never come to final settlement. has unearthed was so little regard Not all the well-meant efforts of the ed. as secret that instead of being British Broadcasting Corporation sent in code from the Qual D'Orsay will win unanimous approval on it was merely typed and multiplied doubtful points of pronunciation. on a duplicating machine, Besides Good English does not stand for unf coples being sent to the French form English, though the number. Embassies at Washington, Rome, of those who are able to express Tokyo and other Ministries it was themselves in approximately "cor also sent to Geneva Reuter. rect English will always excoed

January 1927:

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the number of those who have the immense resources of our tongue et their ready command

The master of English is like the householder who brings out of his treasury things new and old. "There New York-Investigation by the is probably no language, with the "New York Evening Post"; reveals exception of Greek, which is capable that New York's night clubs and of expressing finer shades of "opark-easios," 1,500 of which ars meaning, and is at the same time said to exlat, pay a tribute of possessed of a vast wealth of vigor-- £2,000,000 annually to local and ours words and happy idiomatic Government offle als for permission phrases. Lord Hewart belongs to to sell wine, beer, and spirits un- a profession in which slovenly molested. The annual protection speech is not tolerated. A nice bill for the entire nation has been sense of words and their values is a estimated at $350,000,000 According to the new vestigators, the

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