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That Harbin was not panic- stricken and that there had been no heavy fighting on the Amur is the news conveyed to the "China Mail" by a British resident of Japan who left for Home with the ex- pressed purpose of travelling over- land via Siberia. He arrived in Harbin on July 22, and found con- ditions there quite peaceful beyond the fact that Railway was closed to through traffic and that quite à number of passengers were held up lin consequence. He writes as

follows:-

"I knew when I started that there was grave trouble afoot but I made ap my mind to take a chance and get through Every kind of wild rumour met me en route. I was told that there had been heavy fighting on the Amur, Chinese had been driven out of Manchuli and Pogranitchnaya, tunnels on the Chinese Eastern Railway filled up with boulders, and Harbin generally panic-stricken.'

Dirty Mukden

"As it happens, Harbin is quite normal and nothing has occurred be yond the closing of the railway to through traffic. I passed Mukden yesterday and to all appearances it is just as dirty, dusty, beastly and thy as it coked when I had the misfortune to spend a couple of days; there last spring.

"It is a serious matter to be held up here. I could get on to Man- chuk; but that would be no earthly use unless I can get across the front-

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1; 1929.

FRAU ZOUBKOFF RIDER MAINS IN

BELIEVED TO HAVE SEEN THE

EX-KAISER

* DOMESTIC INFELICITIES

Bonn. Yesterday. The ex-Kaiser's sister, Frau Zoubkoff, has left her villa and taken two small rooms in a small hotel in the neighbouring town of Mehlem for herself and one ser- vant. She has commissioned a Cologne art dealer to sell all her furniture at her villa, which is to let.

ABEYANCE

"SAFETY FIRST"

CHINESE WATER CONSUMERS URGED TO OBSERVE CAUTION

REPAIR OF LEAKY TAPS

The "China Mail" learns to-day officially that it has been decided to leave the rider main system in abey- ance for some time to come as the amount of water actually in storage does not warrant any change from the present supply of 12 hours pér who, it is reported, promised today on the lower levels. pay her debts on condition that she separated from Zoubkoff. Reuter.

It is rumoured that recently she interviewed her brother at Doorn,

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POLITICAL “

TRUCE"

HEAVY TASK BEFORE NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT

M. BRIAND'S APPEAL

Paris, Yesterday.

The amount in storage to-day is 1,030 million gallons as

compared with 1,800 million gallons a year | ago, so that Tytamtuk must receive considerably more water to justify a greater supply to the community.

It is understood that an official notice is being prepared for the Chinese urging them, in their own interests, to have leaky taps removed. or repaired and again, cautioning them against waste in connection with the water system in their housea.

It is intended to make an official inspection of all taps in the rider main district with the object of rainimising waste, but it is essen- tial, of course, that the Chinese consumers should co-operate in this to the best of their ability.

It is of interest to note that the M. Briand, in the Chamber, and Island is being supplied entirely at M. Barthou, in the Senate, read a présent from Pokfulam and Wong- Ministerial declaration which apnei-chong. Tytam intermediary be- peals for a three months' party gan to overflow to-day into Tytam- truce to enable the Government to tuk, which latter is still only a defend the rights and interests of quarter full. There is thus a long France at the forthcoming Hague way to go before the margin of Conference.

safety can be reached justifying the "Such a defence constitutes our abolition of all the existing restric- real raison d'etre, and is our sole tions. An official estimate places programme" (it stated). "We the immediate requirement at 20 need all your confidence to help inches more rain for Tytamtuk. u to face the heaviest respon- sibilities which have weighed upon Government since the end of the

tier to get a Soviet train which will take те through ultimately to Warsaw, Berlin and London. There are some through passengers here who have been held up for a week and many others who have turned back and given up the idea of get-war." ting Home via Siberia. I am the last to arrive and complete the little

ing against hope.

THE JAMBOREE

50,000 BOY SCOUTS GATHER AT BIRKENHEAD·

ROYAL DUKE PRESENT

J MAKLLANA

London, Yesterday. Fifty thousand Boy Scouts repre-

Vote of Confidence band of stalwarts waiting and hop-186, passed a vote of confidence The Chamber by 925 votes to

in the Briand Government. An Alternative

The "widentally, I am not going to Socialists and Communists were wait beyond to-morrow night as against the vote. The Radicals there is very good prospect of one abstained but the Right and -and one only-train being let Centre supported the vote.-Reu-cnting 42 nations and 32 parts of through the frontier to-night. Soviet Consul-General is clearing out to-morrow and diplomatic repre- sentations have been made to the Chinese authorities by the Consular Corps of Harbin to allow passengers held up here to cross into Russian territory with the Soviet Consul- General. Once there we shell

The

ter.

be all right.

"It is the one and only chance and, if it comes off, I shall be the luckiest of all-leaving Japan when it seemed impossible to get through, only being held up one day in Har. bin, and then to catch the cast-iron last train before the frontier is finally closed up indefinitely. It sounds too lucky to be true and I am 'touching wood' hard. If I have no luck another fellow and I have de cided to go right back to Tsuruga to-morrow night and catch Satur- day's boat from there to Vladivos- tock. From Vladivostock we should take the northern line via Kher- barovsk and North of the Amur Darya River to Chita, connecting with the trans-Siberian line there."

The King's Head inn, Leather- head, partly of sixteenth-century origin, is being demolished.

Henry Ballantine, of Westwood, Egham, an orchid expert, has died, aged 95.

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the British Empire, gave a big yell; of welcome when the Duke of Con- naught arrived at Arrowe Park. Birkenhead, to open the Interna- tional Jamboree to-day.

The weather was cold, chilly and rain felt heavily: Crowds arrived! by ferry boats, motor-coaches, and private care, and some even by air, from early morning, and settled rourid the great arena, where from the Royal Box the Duke of Con- naught in the afternoon gave the signal for the show to begin.

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Mr. Philip Snowden (Chancellor After the Duke had declared the of the Exchequer) Mr.

4. jamboree open,

General Baden Henderson (Secretary for For Powell sounded the scout rally call, eign Affairs) and Mr. Wm. on the historie "kudoo" horn which Graham (President of the General Baden Powell captured from Board of Trade) will reprezenta Zulu chief in one of the Zulu wars. Great Britain at The Hague Repara tions Conference-Reuter.

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DISBANDMENT

CHINESE CONFERENCE, TO MEET TO DAY?

ARMIES TO BE DECREASED

Shanghai, Yesterday. Reports from Nanking confirm the previous belief that Marsha! Chiang Kai-shek will recommend the Disbandment Conference to meet at Nanking on August 1, and to reduce the armies in the North- west, formerly lad by General Feng Yu-haiang, and also those in the South, including the units in Kwangtung and Kwangel.

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The grounds - for these recom mendations are that the units In the South will not be needed to guard against Russia, even if China- had to go to war. Nan Chung Kuc News Service

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