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INTER - IMPERIAL RELATIONS.

Important Issues Before the Conference.

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.

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HONG KONG. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 1930.

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EMPIRE “FAMILY TRAGIC FATE OF TWO GIRL'S FLIGHT TO FIRST TRAIN MURDER MR. LENOX SIMPSON

PARTY."-

MISSIONARIES.

NAIROBI.

IN BRITAIN.

Ladies Shot by Chinese Young British Woman Story of International

Six Prime Ministers As Guests of the King.

Bandits.

Flies to Her Home:

A BRILLIANT EVENT.

REPORT OF H.M. CONSUL.

STOP AT LE BOURGET

Politics.

DYING.

Doctors Abandon Hope of Saving Life.

A STRANGE CASE.

SPEECH INCOHERENT.

KAIFENG CAPTURED.

Nanking, Yesterday.

Rugby, Yesterday.

It is reported that Kaifeng was

At the plenary meeting of the

afternoon.

December-Reuter.

eral statements

last two days. Both in the United Kingdom and in the Dominions Hankow, Thursday.

as raising the most important The subordinate Kuominchun economic problems are regarded Generals held a secret conference issues before the Conference." at Chengchow on Tuesday last, de- Full reports of the proceedings, ciding upon a joint appeal to Feng which will be conducted in private. Yu-hsiang and Lu Chung-lin to will be published. retire and surrender to the Cen-

Meanwhile,

TRAINS COLLIDE. SHOCKING FATALITY NEAR PARIS STATION.

SIX PERSONS KILLED.

A

ALLEGED FRAUD.

WRITS AGAINST FORMER PREMIERS.

MINES SCANDAL.

Tientsin, Yesterday.

his

The murder of Thomas Briggs by Rugby, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday. London, Yesterday.

At midnight to-day Mr. Lenox Mr. Martins Majesty's Con- The young British woman, Mrs. Franz Muller on July 9, 1864, had There was an Empire "family

rising and becoming incoherent. night. In a brilliant setting of from the interior stating that he ed a flying certificate, departed It was the first train murder" com- temperature

Aerodrome this initted in Britain, though there had speech captured by Government troops Imperial Conference, to be held party" at Buckingham Palace to sul, at Foochow has telegraphed Helen Silver, who recently obtain some features of unusual interest. Simpson was failing rapidly his life. Two specialists from Peking this morning, Chiang Kai-shek is on Wednesday in the recoption white and gold their Majesties en- has received a report from Kien-from Heston

Another curious and interesting are in conference with local doc- expected to arrive at Kaifeng this room of the Foreign Office, gen-tertained the delegates to the Im-yang to the effect that Miss Edith morning in an attempt to fly to been several in France of earlier There is very little hope for his

will be heard perial Conference to dinner in the Nettleton and Miss Jane Harrison, her home in Nairobi. She is ac-dates.

pilot, Captain feature of the trial was that It got tors, and they have agreed that They reached Le mixed up with international politica. it is useless to attempt an opera- The Official News Agency an- from the delegations on problems Grent Ballroom of the Palace, the two British missionaries who companied by an instructor, the nounces that the abolition of likin, of inter-Imperial economic rela-There were no speeches and the had been in the hands of Chin-well-known

As long statements are guests wore semi-State dreas. The ese bandits since June, have been Cameron. scheduled to be enforced on Octo tions.

bandits in Fukion Province, who brief stay, they resumed their murder of a London city clerk by a weak condition. Fears are enter

jobbing tallor in a British rallway (tained for the worst-Reuter. ber 10, will be postponed till/expected to be made on behalf of 120 guests included six Prime shot. The ladies were seized by Bourget to-day, whence, after a At first sight it would seem that the tion in consequence of His very

Earlier News demanded

Mr. journey.-Reuter. each delegation, the session may Ministers.-Reuter,

a large ransom.

carriage could not possibly affect the: Martin obtained troops from the

relation of great nations to each

Tientsin, Yesterday.

a number of local authority to proceed into the

other. But the American and Ger- A consultation of interior, but failed to effect con-

man press succeeded in linking it doctors is being held this evening operaTM Incident" and to determine whether an with "the Alabama Schelswig-Holstein. The story is tion, necessary for the removal of told in George A. Birmingham's the bullet, can be performed on Mr. Simpson. Meantime the pa- book of true crime stories.

When it is considered what Bri-tient retains consciousness, and tish railway compartments were his general condition is practically, The Attorney General has issu-like before corridor carriages were unchanged.

Deputy Threatened, ed writs claiming damages made, it is perhaps astonishing that

During the taking over of the. Me-more crimes are not committed in against Messrs. Theodore, Cormack, Reid, Goddard and a them. The passengers, until lately, Customs this morning, Mr. T. Y. means of communicating Koo, Mr. Simpson's deputy com- partner of Reid, in connection had no with the Mungana leases.-Reuter. with anyone outside their compart-missioner, failed to appear, and it [When the Mungana Mines ment until the train stopped at a was learned that, he had received were purchased, Mr. Theodore station. There was a constant loud threatening letters, necessitating and Mr. McCormack were both solse to drown the sounds of his avoiding appearing in public.- Ministers of the Crown in Queens- struggle, and the murderer had a Reuter.

and Mr. Theodore

Mr. good chance of escaping at the next land. McCormack have each held office station.

The The Strange Companions. as Premier of Queensland.`

for another. Mr. Briggs was a man of 70 years former resigned office last July when a "scandal" concerning the of age. He was the head clerk in lease's was alleged, though a sub-banking establishment, where he was left with Mr. Death was the one sequent enquiry indicated that highly respected. He lived quietly which had belonged to Mr. Brigge. criminal proceedings would not be at Victoria Park, and after his work Mr. Death valued it at £3/15/, and justified.]

was over used to travel home by

ters.

inter-

Paris, Yesterday. Six, persons were killed and 30 injured in a collision between two trains at a bridge near the Gare St. Lazare-Reater.

CHINESE AND THE LEAGUE,

To Make Payment Of Arrears.

Geneva, Yesterday, The Secretary General of the League of Nations was to-day authorised by the Assembly to accept the pay- ment of arrears of China's contributions to th

the League

tral Movement through the inter-good progress is being made with vention of General Chang Hsueh the consideration of other mat- Hang. Should their action result

At a meeting of the heads of in the approval of the Central Government, they would assemble the delegations at 10, Downing

Ran Into Wagons.

Later. their forces at Chengchow, pend- Street this morning, a prelimin-j ary discussion of the various con- ing reorganisation.

aspects of

it is stated that a train travelling Learning of the decision of the stitutional Kuominchun Generals, the Central Imperial relations was continued. toward Mantes ran into a number The second class wrecked. Was Government has, as previously It is understood that most of the of empty wagons. passenger coach

are now given as intimated, appointed Generals time at to-day's meeting was oc- Chang Chi-chiang and Ma Fu-cupied with the consideration of The casualties hsiang to rally the "grey" troops. the working, since the last confer- five dead, and 17 injured. Reuter. now under Feng Yu-hsiang, and ence, of the machinery for effect- to instruct them to mass at cor-ing communication between His tain points, where they are to Majesty's various Governments evait reorganisation and disband-respecting external relations.

Commercial Treaties. ment, Those Kuominchun dis- obeying the order of the Govern- The form of treaties was also ment will be forcibly subjugated.discussed and the committee set

TWO LEADERS INCLUDED. up by the conference under the chairmanship of Lord Sankey took

London, Yesterday. Practically, all the "grey" Gen-over the more detailed examing-

Indian Labour representation erals have expressed their unwill-tion of the form of the commer-

When this proved un- ingness to continue the fight. cial treaties. The status of High has been secured by the inclusion tact either with

nine additional up- Among them, Yin Ying-chi and Commissioners was also before of two Indian Labour leaders successful he again at great. per-

among the

sonal risk made a journey into Lou Chun-yung have commission- the meeting.

pointments to the Indian delega

No Wish to Fight

INDIAN LABOUR. SENDS DELEGATES TO ROUND TABLE PARLEY.

in equal instalments over a period of 20 years. He was also requested to submit a detailed report in this con- nection to the Council beforo the next Assembly.-Reuter.

captora.

the captives or

ed their personal delegates to pro- On the question of the pre- tion to the round table confer- the interior and is now reported ceed to Kweiteh and ask General cedence of High Commissioners, nce. Hitherto, Mr. Chamanial to be on his way back to Foochow

Chi Yun-yok for reorganisation. it was recognised that that was a has been the sole representative Such as are now encountering the matter for the British Govern-of Indian Labour, and he with- Nationalists along Kai-feng and ment to settle, and on their be- drew last month--Reuter.. Chengchow are the so-called Kuo-half a promise was given that an mincliun picked troops.

attempt to reach accommodation MRS. VICTOR BRUCE. The Kuominchun General Chi with the Dominions would be Other aspects of inter- Hung-chang since his surrender made.

has assumed the post of Comman- Imperial relations will be survey- der of the Nationalists' 22nd ed." Army, and, acting under instruc- On Monday the heads of the de- tions, has led his forces toward legations will again meet, when -Kaifeng and Chengchow,

it is hoped a preliminary review

AVIATRIX ARRIVES AT BAGDAD.

-British Wireless Service.

An Earlier Report.

Foochow, Yesterday.

Brisbane, Yesterday.

DUTCH COLONIES. INQURING INTO THE RUBBER CRISIS.

GOVERNMENT AID.

train.

On Saturday, July 9, 1864, he was much later than usual. He caught

thain which he wished to exchange After some haggling, bargain was struck. The chain

vein exchange another chain, valued at £3/10/, and a ring sup- posed to be worth five-shillings.

Mr. Death described the man who

a train that left Fenchurch Street brought the first chain as "of at 9.50 p.m. The ticket collector, sallow complexion, thin face, about who knew him well, greeted him as thirty years of age, apparently a le passed into the station, and he German, though speaking English

Been by was afterwards

a Mr. Well."

Death packed the chain and the Thomas Lee at the next station. Amsterdam, Yesterday. Lee swore afterwards that there ring he gave in exchange for it, into It is understood that the Govern-were two men in the compartment box, which, as such boxes gener- ally do, had his name and address ment is considering the creation of with Briggs.

on the lid. The customer

the

a Chamber of Agriculture for the Hackney Wick, the second station printed A report has been received from Kienyanghelen, at the head of the Dutch-East Indies to investigate on the run, was where Mr. Briggs gave the box as a present to a little Minkiang River, In North Fukien, the critical situation In the rubber usually got out. But that night he girl, the daughter of a cabman called that Miss Eleanor Harrison and industry, also any other distressed did not get out. He was lying un- Matthews. The child left it lying conscious, his skull fractured and abnat the house. Matthews saw it Mies Edith Nettleton, the C. M. S. industries.

The Dutch-Indies will advise his head bleeding, on the line be and was struck by the curious name. lady missionaries, have been shot.

Government on the action tween Bow Station and Hackney of Death. He had heard of Mr. A.-J. Martin, British, Con- the

was discovered murder through gossip of other cab Bagdad, Yesterday.

there by a train driver he was car-drivers, and among other things he Mra. Victor Bruce, the Britishul at Foochow, is on his return, necessary to Improve the situation. Wick. When he

after unsuccessful negotiations-Reuter.

ried, unconscious but still alive, to knew the name of the jeweller con- Kienning- In view of the Kuominchun not of those questions will then be aviatrix, who is attempting to fly for their release at

neighbourlag pablic hotel, where cerned. He knew who had given the Reuter.

he died without regaining conscious-box to his little girl. It was.Franz [Misses Harrison and Nettleton

Muller, a young German, who had at having decided to lay down all completed and matters raised will to Australia, has arrived here. their arms, the Nationalist are not be handed over to Lord Sankey's Reuter, slacking the pressure on the Committee. Before the meeting!

Angora, Yesterday. The IIon. Mrs. Victor Bruce enemy, Tungshu and Chu-sen-concluded it was agreed to estab chen, not far from Kaifeng, were lish a committee on arbitration captured by the 8th division and and disarmament under the chair who is flying from London to 7th Route Army respectively on manship of one of the Canadian Japan in a single seater Black- Wednesday:

A Kuominchun col-delegates, Mr. Maurice Dupre-burn-Bluebird aeroplane, bas left onel was made captive, besides a British Wireless Service.

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large quantity of war materials being seized. A motor car, be

While cycling on the Luton Road longing to General Yoh Shang-yu, was also taken, which would at Harpenden, Hertfordshire, Beryl seem to indicate a hasty flight on Archer, aged 15, of The Folly, the part of the Kuominchun Gen- Wheathampstead, was run over by a eral during evacuation.

lorry and killed,

The Standing Committee appoint ed under the Merchandise Marks Act Imported steel Shafts for golf clubs should bear an recommends that indication of the place of origin.

Chengchow Attacked. The Nationalists are now at- facking Chengchow from six dire ections, while destroying many strong fortifications and occupy- ing miles of ground in the suburbs of Chengchow The Natignalist Goneral Liu Chih is reported to chwang, which the Shansi-ites have arrived at Chengchow and win most probably be compelled to to have wired to the Changkuo move to Liangtzekian Pass. commissariat to rush supplied to the Chengchow front, preparatory to launch another severe attack on that city.

Doorway of Shansi.

Being apprehensive of Shihchia- chwang, the doorway into Shansi, being held by the Manchurian troops, Yen has established three tinies of defence in Hopei, name

Kaifeng Besleged. That Kaifeng is now in a state of slege is the rows released by lythe first at Tsao-ho and communication circles, predicting Machwang under the command of

Earlier News,

Konin for Aleppo.--Router.

[Mrs. Victor Bruce, the well known British motorist, who re- cently learned to fly, left Hostor aerodrome at 7.10-a.m. on Sep- tember 25. It is understood that Johnson's record in her England she will try to break Miss Amy

te Tidia alght.] SIR MILES LAMPSON. RECOVERING FROM BOUT OF MALARIA.

were

ROYAL MATCH.

carried off by a Com KING BORIS TOʻMARRY ITALIAN

PRINCESS.

FINE WEATHER.

The Royal Observatory re ports to-day:

The anti-cyclone over China has weakened slightly. The depression has deepened and moved to the North of Japan. Forecast: N. E winds, moderate; Anc.

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OFFICIAL STATEMENT. -

ness.

At the stopping place beyond one time been engaged to be married Hackney Wick, two bark clerks to Matthew's elder daughter.

The Flight to America. opened the door. of the first class

Matthews went to the police with " compartment usually occupied by Mr. Brigg and got into it. The his story, for the reward. Not only compartment was then empty, but did he connect. Muller with the It is officially announced that one of the clerks after sitting down jeweller who had exchanged the. Princess Giovanna, the third noticed that his hand was covered chain, daughter of the King and Queen with blood. Both then got out of found of Italy, Is engaged to King Boris the compartment and called the ringe.. of Bulgaria-Reuter.

Rome, Yesterday.

A TRADE SCHOOL? COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO MAKE INVESTIGATION.

he identified the hat car- in the railway He said he had him- guard. The guard, who brought his self bought that hat for Muller lantern with him, discovered that in the shop of Mr. Walker. tre was blood on the cushion, blood of Maryleboyne. He produced a on the window, and blood on the photograph of Muller, which Mr. door handle. He found three things Death recognised, and he supplied In the carriage a hat, a stick and a the police with Muller's address. Ins bag, which belonged to Mr. Briggs.order to get home after work to hi It was a stout, heavy stick, and the address Muller was likely to have munist band on July 4 when they His Excellency the Governor handle was covered with blood. travelled by train on the same line

The murderer had left the bag used by Mr. Briggs. were travelling between Changan bas appointed the following com

When the police visited Muller's and Kenning, It was said theymittee to report on the possibility behind, and he had also loft £5 in the Weihaiwel, Yesterday. Sir Miles Lampson, British Min- had been seized to look after the of increasing facilities in the victim's pocket. What he did take address, they found that six months ister to China, Is recovering from sick. A ransom of $100,000 was Colony for practical technical was a gold watch and chain, a pair after the murder, he had left Eng- his recent attack of malaria. He demanded for their release, education and the feasibility of of gold-Fimmed ginases, and the land for America on a sailing ship sailed last night with Vice-Admiral On July 19, Mr. Martin and Mr. establishing a trade achool: Sir Arthur Waistell, on H.M.S. John J. Muccio, U. S. Consul at with every assistance from Lu Keht, for Chingwangtao, on his Hong Kong, left to rescue them, and way to Peking-Reuter.

Hsing-pang, rebel leader, succeeded

HOPEI GOVERNMENT.

Tientsin Yesterday Mr. Wang Hau-chang took the that the fall of that city is but a Wang Ching-kuo; the 2nd at Ting oath of office as Chairman of the chow under the command of Li Hopel Provincial Government to matter of time

Fu-ying; and the third at Ching day Reuter. Determined Standing, Nanpao, and Tao-ho, under

the command of Chang Yin-wu. The town courell of Bournemouth, A Shanghal report says that the which was visited by Miss Amy Peking, Thursday. Negotiations between Yen Hsi- Shanel-ites are still holding Pao- Johnson, has appolated a commit North-easternting and Taimingfu indicating no tee to deal with the question of a

ling intention of evacuation, while the municipal aerodrome.

North-eastern troops are being

sent southward with

the two st thenego by Jaff

Kobber 2012

Mr. William Woodward. Hornell,

CLE. (Chaitraan),! The Honourable Mr. Ta'e Seen

wan, O.B.E. LL.D..

in releasing 44 English and Ameri-The Director of Education. can. missionaries, but not the two women thay, sought.

One-of Miss Nettleton's fingers was sent to a Chinese clergyman

Mr. Chau Taun-nin. A

victim's hat. He left his own be called the Victoria. There was hind, and in it was the name and nothing secret or sudden about his address of its maker: J. H departure. He had often, talked Walker, 49 Cranford Street, about going to.. America to better Marylebone."

himself. He had spoken of his plan. Death's Testimony.ke a fortnight before the murder. The The hat remained for some time Blyth's, with whom he had boarded, Mr. Robert Motion Dyer, C.B.E the one piece of tangible evidence in described him as simple, quiet, Mr. Alexander Somerled Macki-the hands of the police. The Govt well behaved young man of kind

chan

ernment offered a reward of $100 and humane disposition.

The letter which he sent to the.. Professor Cades Alfred Middle for, the discovery of the murderer.

ton-Smith, which had then been decreased to

Messrs. Roberta, the bankers, Blyth's after he started does not August 6, demanding ransom, $50,000. The Church Missionary Mr. Thomas Henry Robert Shaw. Brigg's employers, offered another suggest the psychology of a murder. The Hong Kong General Cham 2100, and the railway company in it he said, "Dear Friends-I am Society ordered the money to ke paid and negotiations for their re- ber of Commerce has been good offered a similar som glad to confess that I cannot have a Peking enough to place the services of Neither the offer of the reward better time as I have; if the gun ang, on the Secretary and the use of the nor the publicity brought Mr. shines nice and the wind blows fair, lease were proceed September 8 falled effect Board room at the disposal of the Thomas Lee to the police. His story as it is at the present moment, all

roops sent by

Committee.

had to be dragged out of him after will go well. I cannot write any wards.

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John Denth. The peculiarity Muller had gone off in a sailing his name turned out too be ex-ship, su the detectivas followed in a steamer, taking with them. Death, Monday, July 11, two days, the jeweller, Matthews the cabman, the murder, a man came into

with a gold

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