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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1929.

BRITISH GARRISON IN FATALITY ON THE U. S. NAVY

CHINA

NO ADDITIONS

“VINDICTIVE”

AN EXPLOSION

LABOUR MINISTRY'S POLICY ONE KILLED: TWO SERIOUSLY

MADE KNOWN

༣

FURTHER DECISION LATER

London, Yesterday.

INJURED

DETAILS LACKING

London, Yesterday.

ARMY

ITS COST

AND

IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT HOOVER

RETRENCHMENT DESIRED

Washington, Yesterday. On the ground that the "purely military expenses of the United States are greater than those of any other nation," and that there la less danger of war now than at Details of the accident are so any period in the last half century,

In the House of Commons, at An engine room artificer has question time, Mr. Tom Shaw been killed and two stokers serious- (Secretary of State for War) saidly injured in an explosion aboard "Vindictive" at that at present there are six Bri-H.M.S. cruiser tish and one Indian battalions of Chatham, infantry in China, as follow:-

Hong Kong Area:-2 British bat- far lacking.

K.O.S.B. talions (2nd

and 1st

Sniderset L.I.)

(3rd/15th Punjab).

and 1 Indian

Shanghai Area:-2 British batta-

lions.

Tientsin Area: British hatta- lions. The British Government is con- sidering the question of the num- ber of troops in China but had not yet reached a decision, added Mr.

Further Details

Later.

in the

in-

Pres. Hoover has decided to appoint a Military Commission, composed of officers of the General Staff, to While unloading ammunition aenquire as to a reduction in military detonator burst; terribly injuring (expenditure. an engine room artificer

Pres. Hoover has pointed out that chest and arms. He died in hos- the estimated military outlay for pital.

1933 will be $803,000,000 an crease of $120,000,000 over those of last year--and that the average pre-war expenditure of the Army and Navy is $256,000,000. Algo that the possibility of tax reduction largely depended on their ability to curtail military and naval ex-

The two stokers are progressing satisfactorily.

The "Vindictive" is the flagship Shaw, but there is no intention of of the Rear Admiral command- increasing the number of battalionsing the Second Cruiser Squadron in China in the near future.

of the Atlantic Fleet.-Reuter.

600AD1463ROLDETUR*penditure.

of

Mr. Shaw declined to say whether he considered the number battalions is too large.

The Singapore Base In reply to another questioner, Mr. Shaw said the £1,150,000 men- tioned in the Army Estimates for Singapore defence works related to work services only for the Singa- pore base, covering defence, can- tonments, roads, piers, workshops and other building services.

The question of the size of the

Pres. Hoover considers that the national situation has been modified by the Kellogg Treaty and also hopes for economy through the Naval Disarmament Agreement.

This is interested as referring to the possibility of an Anglo Ameri- Naval Agreement-Reuter's

Degrees Temperature, 10 am., to-

day

78 Temperature 4. p.m..

yesterday

77 Humidity, 10 a.st., to-

91 day

Humidity, 4 p.m., yes.

terday

can

91

garrison had not yet been deter-SEEDEØRE$*******SE

mined but all questions connected with the Singapore base are now being considered.-Reuter.

COTTON INDUSTRY

ANOTHER BIG COMBINE ORGANISED

25,000,000 CAPITAL

London, Yesterday.

KING'S HEALTH

THE ROYAL PATIENT STILL STEADILY PROGRESSING

LATEST NEWS

London, Yesterday.

American Service.

SOVIET & BRITAIN

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AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE GOING TO LONDON

TO NEGOTIATE

Moscow, Yesterday.

A Soviet note, signed by M. Karak- har, Vice-Commissar of Foreign

After the doctors visited Buck- Affairs, has been handed to the Nor- wegian Charge d'Affaires (acting on ingham Palace to-day it was

behalf of Great Britain) in which it is officially stated that the King had stated that the Soviet has instructed a good night. It is reliably learned that a number

M. Davgelevsky, Soviet Ambassador of prominent corcerns in the Lanca-} His progress is satisfactory, and to France, to go to London and enter shire cotton industry has decided to he was able to sit up part of yer-inte negotiations with the British Gov- combine in a co-operative endeavour to, terday for the first time since his ernment. provide a new bleaching, dyeing, print ing and finishing plant, and that at a meeting of those interested, to-day, it was decided to raise £5,000,000 capital for the purpose.

The Dispute

operation.

A Bulletin

The Soviet Note

The Soviet Note says that the Soviet believes it neccesary to establish a Later. A bulletin issued at Buckingham durable agreement on controversial Palace says that during the week, questions in the shortest possible time and is of opinion that such an agree Officials at the Ministry of Labour since the operation, the King has ment is possible only through equal are continuing their efforts in Man-made steady progress, and that the treatment on both sides and the main discharge from the tenance of mutual dignity and respect. chester to and a basis to re-open nego purulent

now ceased.- The Soviet accepts the rights and tiations in eonnection with the cotton abscess cavity has

obligations of States In diplo- dispute.

Reuter.

matic relations between them, 80 long as the Government of Great Bri- tain accepts these rights and obliga- tions.

The operatives decline to discuss any cut in wages and refuse to continue the negotiations until the notices are withdrawn.

The employers refuse the withdrawal and insist that any discussion must be on the question of a wage reduction. They at present propose a reduction of about 2s. 6d. in the £

Important Inquiry

In the House of Commons, in reply to questions, Mr. W. Graham (Pre- Bident of the Board of Trade) said that a cotton trade inquiry will be conducted by a Sub-Committee of the Committee of Civil Research and would consist of two ministers, two prominent industrialista, and two leading trade unionist accountants.

The terms of reference would be the broadest and cover the condition of the industry and its power to recover ́ex- port marketa.

'PLANE ACCIDENT

AN UNLUCKY DETROIT AVIATOR

MILLIONAIRE SCHLEE

Detroit, Yesterday.

The Soviet understands that the British Government's note merely pro- poses a preliminary exchange of views solely on the question of procedure and believes that such negotiation may be concluded in the shortest possible time.--Reuter.

Russia's Debt To Britain. The airman, Schlee, who flew

Answering a question regarding the from Detroit to Tokyo vis Europe amount which the Soviet Government, two years ago was struck by the as successors to the Russian Imperial propeller of an aeroplane and had Government owe to British investors, his skull fractured. Reuter's Mr. Wm. Graham (President of the American Service.

FENG AND YEN

Board of Trade) asid the capital amount of bonds in sterling and roubles of the Russian state loans, guaranteed railway loans and loans of municipali- tics and other institutions, in respect of which claims had been lodged with Shanghai, Yesterday.

the Russian Claims' Department, was Feng Yu-hsiang whose name is not approximately £41,000,000 and 240,- mentioned, so often as prior to the

000,000 roubles, respectively. In ad- Chinese Eastern Railway crisis, is re-dition there was an quascertained ported to be still staying at Talguan, amount of accumulated-interest due on the capital of Shanzi, where General securities. He had no doubt that in Yen Hai-shan, the Governor of Shansi, any negotiations for the resumption of After thirty-six years' missionary is also in residence. Little new has diplomatic relations with Bussin the work in West Africa Archdeacon been obtained recently about their question of getting some payment of | McKay returned to Plymouth.

The inquiry would open after the holiday season and last from, 3 to 4 months and would deal with marketing in India, China and elsewhere.-Reuter,

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CANTON ITEMS

CHAN CHAI-TONG COMING TO HONG KONG

Canton, Yesterday. It is understood that the Cominan der-in-Chief, General Chan Chai-tong, will leave this week for Hong Kong whore he will take passage for Shang- hal, in order to attend at Nanking the Conference for the Re-organisation and Disbandment of Troops at Nanking,

The officers of the erstwhile 5th Arniy {now crushed) under the Kwangi-te, General Esu King-tong, who were brought down from the bor der of Kiangai province, have been set Free, each receiving $20 for expenses.

Canton News Agency.

Offer of Service

Canton, Yesterday. General Chan Chai-tong has offered

his service to Marshal Chiang Kai- shek, for duty in Manchuris, If re- required.

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