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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930.

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/2 16/16.

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No. 27,657

GOVERNMENT'S LACK

OF VISION.

CONSPIRACY TRIAL

REVELATIONS.

TRAIL OF DEATH.

DORNIER DO-X.

DISARMAMENT.

JAPAN.

EARTHQUAKE DESTRUCTION IN GERMAN FLYING BOAT ARRIVES

IN. LISBON,

“WATCHING" COMMISSION OF IMPORTANCE.

AREA MAINLY RURAL.

-FLIGHT BY EASY STAGES.

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Tokyo, Yesterday.

Corunna, Yesterday.

A PERMANENT BODY.

London; Yesterday.

។

Vote of Censure by Mr. Confessions of Economic

Baldwin Defeated.

EMPIRE UNITY.

London, Yesterday.

Sabotage.

1

FRANCE IMPLICATED,

Moscow. Yesterday.

DUBLIN LIFE HAS

t

CHANGED.

Ireland Settles Down to Peaceful Progress.

NEW AMENITIES.

Dainty Eyeglasses

N. LAZARUS

Ophthalmic Optician 13. Queen's Road Central.

When the Imperial Conference

The Irish Free State alone re-

GERMAN PEASANTS

PERSECUTED.

Farmer Forced to Vote for the Government.

ORGANIST MALTREATED.

The earthquake has felt a sad The giant German flying boat, As regards the "watching" trait of death and destruction in Dornier DO-X, which arrived here commission, agreed to at Geneva, its wake, but the effect on the in- on Tuesday, left for Lisbon at 11 Lord Cecil stated that he attach-

Berlin, Yesterday, In the House of Commons, to- At to-day proceedings at the dustrial and commercial life of a.m. to-day, and is reported to ed the very highest importance opened Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald

The Government has decided to day, moving a vote of censure on conspiracy trial, according to the the nation is small, as the area have arrived at Lisbon at 3.2 to the creation of this body. Its and Mr. McGilligan, were present bring up the question of alleged the Government, Mr. Stanley Tass Agency, A detailed con- that was hit, is mainly rural. p.m.-Reuter.

institution would be an immense as the representatives of the senior minority in Poland at the meeting terrorism against the German Baldwin accused the Government fassion was made by an. engineer, Apart from the destruction of [The Dornier DO-X, which is step towards the organisation of Government of all those gathered of the League Council in January. of lack of vision and courage in Kuprinnoff, of complicity in the lives, property, roads and com-bound for America by easy a reduction and limitation of round the Council table. Failing to seize the opportunity economic sabotage, dating from munications, the main material stages, is the largest flying boat armaments. It would mean there:

Diplomatic action is also being of securing Imperial economie the foundation of the "Wreckers damage seems to be confined to in the world, and is driven by would be at Geneva a permanent New Zealand, England herself, all draw attention to Germany's ac Canada, Australia, South Africa, taken in the various capitals to unity. He believed that if steps Organisation" in 1919.

Shimizu Harbour and the Tanna twelve Curtiss Condor engines, body always studying the ques-have changed hands which seemed cusations. were not taken to get a sense of Professor Charnovsky expressed Tunnel. The damage to the new developing 7,200 horse "power. tion and always watching over gure at the helm. economic unity inside the Empire, repentance at participation in the construction works at Shimizu The wing apan is 167 feet. The the execution of whatever con- the danger to that unity was illegal struggle in which he was Harbour is estimated at more Atlantic flight will be made via ventions might be agreed upon. mains unaltered, and if the other

Forced to Vote. great, and if Great Britain made induced to take a minor part by than a million yen.

the Azores and Bermuda. A Briefly stated, the scheme is as members of the conference wish to clares that the German enquiries A statement now published de- no arrangements with the Domin-the hope of a return of the old The damage to the tunnel is be-vessel is to be in waiting between follows:-- ions, the latter would make ar- regime, supported by foreign in-lieved to be heavy. It has been the two groups of islands with The Governments shall appoint consult experience they will have into the troubler in the Polish rangements with each other with, Buenees, particularly France-in the course of construction for fuel for the DO-X. Resides her members to this permanent com- to turn to the youngest men among Silesian village of Golasowice dur- out considering the Mother Coun- Reuter.

several years, and is to link Atama crew, she carries 18 passengers, mission, not as their representa. them. Indeed, the Free State ing the recent elections have try.

with Numazu. Its estimated cost including Lady Drummond May, tives but in respect of their quali- Government, now approaching its established the fact that 25 arm- Mr. J. H. Thomas, replying, de- Russia's "best seller" to-day is fis Yen 20,000,000.

and her average speed is about 105, fications for the duties of follow. ninth year of power, is the oldest ed Polcs, some in uniform, clared that the principal demand the "confession" of M. Ramzin. Immense 'difficulties have miles per hour. The plane's de- ing the execution of the proposed Government in Western Europe arrived in the village, of the Dominions was that Bri-the chief of the accused in the tended the construction, the work eigner is Dr. Dornier, a Bavar-disarmament convention. tain should agree to tax food-conspiracy trial, which has beer men continuaily tapping streams iun.]

The save one.

And which is that? maltreated the organist of the stuffs while they modified the published in pamphlet form and of boiling water, and other things

commission would meet annually, The Government of Ireland's six German Church, searched the or if any special necessity arises, northern counties.

German-manee and the German existing arrangements. They which is now in its second half indicating seismic activity in the

more frequently. Every year it wanted Britain to change her million edition.

There is the Ireland of to-day school, and committed acts of locality. The seismic centre of

would make at least one report to for you, the new Ireland which, violence, including the forcing of principles while they only chang- ed certain details,

Strange Reply.

Earlier News.

at-

Ramzin spent seven hours in the present 'quake is estimated in STOP

others,

M.

Bay's

PRESS be submitted to the League Coun- far from responding to her aupa farmer to swear to vote for the cil and to all states who are signa-posed restlessness and instability, Government. The Police and the Itories of the convention.

has shown herself more steady and local authorities are alleged not A New Provision.

conservative than any. Nothing to have intervened. The Commission yesterday de-more striking has occurred in the The statement declares that cided by 23 votes against the world, but because it has occurred the allegation that Germans kill- single vote of Russia to include quietly, rather stolidly, without ed a Polish police officer has not an Article enabling a signatory skirling of pipes, its importance been proved. Reuter. State temporarily to derogate has not been noted. from the provisions of the dis- armament convention if "a

Tokyo, To-day. The latest official returns of the 'quake casualties give 259 dead and 351 injured; 2,353 houses completely des- troyed and 5,654 partially destroyed.

The damage to roads and rivers is estimated at twenty million yen.

change of circumstances consti-

Politics Now in Proper Place.

I look back on my own`stay in

tutes a menace to its national Ireland, writes J. M. N. Jeffries in

TRAFFIC IN OPIUM.

Arrested at the Yuen. On

security." It was pointed out the Daily Mail, and on my own Wharf last night prior to the de- that the purpose of this article work in '21 and 22. The country, parture of the steamer Chuen was not to enable the signatories to put it no more strongly, was Chow, last night, a Chinese made

a whirlpool of to avoid obligations, but to pro-There was nothing but politics. Lindsell this morning, charged politics. his appearance before Mr. H. E. vide for exceptional circumstances toon-which it was hoped would never heard, seen, breathed, talked from 42 taels of prepared non-Govern- Politica am, polities. p.m., politics with the unlawful possession of arise.

then

reading out his "confession." Is this vicinity, and it is thought part in the alleged conspiracy to that the tunnelling work may The Imperial Conference had mash the Soviet's five-year plan possibly have been partly respon constitution, and the position was to prepare the way for arm-sible for the 'quake. constitutional, and the positioned foreign intervention, and he opened the way to a consideration implicates, among

Tokyo, Later. of economic problems. He re- Poincare. M. Briand, Mr. Winston Though it is believed that the fused to subscribe to the view Churchill, Sir Henri Deterding, worst is past, after-tremors con-

tinue in the stricken area. that only materialist considera and Lawrence, af Arabla. tions could bind the Empire to

The Central Observatory an- A message from Paris gether. They were not excluded that M. Poincare and M. Briand nounces that over 850 weak but from any path which would tend have both denied Ramzin's allega-appreciable tremors and num- to the happiness or comfort of tions.

berless lesser vibrations have: our people, and strengthening According to Reuter's corres-been recorded since the initial those ties of kinship and friend pondent at Rign, the Soviet au- 'quake yesterday morning.

Fearing further 'quakes, most ship was the greatest and most thorities are staging elaborate lasting of all.

mass demonstrations against the of the inhabitants in the affect- accused men in the conspiracy [ed area have spent the night in Mr. Snowden Explains,

trial. Organised processions in the open, huddled together for The Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery con the principal towns throughout warmth. Relief parties

This morning, a proposal was morn to eve. The cocks of Ireland ment opium, to which he pleaded plained that there had not beer. Russia have been arranged, and working strenuously to alleviate

made by the United States dele did not crow days in but sessions: guilty. adequate discussion of Mr. delegations from various organian- the sufferings of the populace.

Defendant was caught by a gation that all disputes in con- The artillery which in the end de- Bennett's proposal. The Govern- tions will acquaint the judges of The Government has decided to ment failed to use its opportunity. the fact that

nection with the application and vastated O'Connell Street was but Chinese policeman, who was on The the masses expect grant the refugees temporary

interpretation of any future gen- the outcome of innumerable dis- anti-piracy search duty. Mr. Philip Snowden, winding up them to satisfy the proletarian exemption from taxes. Fortun- the debate, said that the "oppor-demand for death sentences.

eral convention should be sub-courses, political shells which opium was strappped to the man's ately there is no shortage of food, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.jected to the jurisdiction of the burst on impact and ravaged the legs, and waist. tunity" missed was the opportun- } The trial of the accused, Pro-and though the cold weather is ity for taxing the people's food, fessor Laritchev, according to the adding to the misery it is really adding to Britain's economic bur- Tass news agency, has confirmed a blessing in disguise, as it lessens don, and injuring a large part the details given in Ramzin's con- the likelihood of an outbreak of of Britain's foreign trade.-Reu- fession. ter

Vote Rejected.

The House of Commons reject- ed the vote of censure, the divi- aion resulting:—

Against For

299

234

Majority

65

-Reuter.

MISSIONARIES' LOSS.

Marian McNair Ray, fiveyears-

He referred to plans to seize the ol districts at Boku and Grozny, and declared that the

disease.-Reuter.

AIR RAIDS.

are

Nobel group worked in this under TAIYUANFU LIKE CITY OF THE

the full direction of Sir Henri Deterding's concern-Reuter.

OLD BAILEY BLAZE.

DEAD.

LOOTING IN THE SOUTH,

Peking, Yesterday. A small fire broke out this morning in a house at Old Bailey, that the city has been raided four A report from Taiyuanfu states near the side entrance to the days in succession, from Novem Central Police Station compound.

The Fire Brigade were called ber 21 to 24, but the damage has

so there

old daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. out at 11.32 and an engine pro learned to take cover,

been slight. The people have! Rex Ray, of Wachow, passed away ceeded to the scene of the fire via have been no deaths and only a yesterday morning at 10.45 in the Garden Road. On arrival it was few have been slightly injured.

found that the fire was in the

conduct the service.

of

The Emperor and Mitsui Mitsu Bishi have contributed orge, sums for the relief of the refugees. Other dona- tions are pouring in.

With characteristic city and stoicism the suf- ferers are already working hard to repair the damages. -Reuter.

AWARDED TO US. SENATOR AND ARCHBISHOP.

Oslo, Yesterday. The former United States Secretary of State, Senator. Frank Kellogg, has been awarded the

Mr. F. Kellogg

•

permanent Court of International human intellect.

A fine of $5,000 with the alter- Justice. The proposal was sup-

Where are politics to-day in native of nine months' hard la- ported by the British and French Ireland? Relegated to their at bour was imposed. delegates. British Wireless Ser-sphere. What is the talk of Ireland vice.

to-day?

CHIŅA PREMATURE.

RETROCESSION OF FOREIGN CONCESSIONS.

JAPANESE OPPOSED.

Nanking; Yesterday,

Agriculture, business, theology, art, literature, mechanics, day in Dublin than at any time sport, the stage and the screen, the since the garment was evolved. usual topica of the world. Even This new society leads no costly Mr. de Valera epende his days life: has developed the charac- reading books upon economics, all teristic mid-luxury of our times: and occasionally that he can lay his hands upon. midday coffee

The irreducible Misa MeSweens cocktails, midget cars, mid-irons alone in the country continues the and midnight closures.

Rise of The Cinema, practice of pure politics. She has

a little Republic of her own, con- But a greater change eyen thap fined to the house somewhere down ita rise is the rise of the cinema.

Dr. C. T. Wang has addressed official notes to the French and

in Cork. At due Intervals she and Two nights ago I stood by Par Japanese Ministers for the re trocession of the French and few friends meet over tea and nell's celebrated statge. The last olected 羈 now president. The time I had come that way the Japanese Concessions at Hankow, gathering has a pleasant social air broad street had been empty: the respectively.

Pamphlets Disappear.

The Foreign Minister has also and, for all I know, goes into the houses bordering it were shuttered opened pourparlera. with the Society columns of the Cork news-or wrecked or slowly burning in Matilda Hospital.

places. Somewhere amid them a Taiyuanfu is like a city of the

French Minister relative to the papers. The funeral service will be con-rear portion of the house, where

little band of fighters was nearing rendition of the Mixed Court in ducted at Happy Valley Cemetery a couple of old packing cases with dead. The shops are not opening

its end, and the tumult and the the French Settlement at Shang-

of this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The some straw in them wer des- before dark. It la belleved at Tai-i

In Dublin the move away from flames and the worse spasma hai, the retrocession of Kwang politics is very marked indeed. boding allence seemed like a sacri- Rev. W. D. King, of Canton, willtroyed. The outbreak was tackled yuanfu that Yan Hal-shan will be

The China without difficulty and the engine leaving very shortly for Russia,

chouwan, and the abolition of The city used to be filled with an fice to that statue with its inscrip French extrality privileges in Infinity of pamphlets and small tion that no man shall set bounda Mail la announcing little Marian's was called off at 11.65, returning Soldiers in South Shanel are Nobel Peace Prize for 1929. The China, ̧ ́ ̧ arrival five years ago, sald: "There to the station via Wellington stated to be somewhat out

books, of "journals, medleys, mer-to the march of a nation. Street.

prize for 1980 has been awarded is now another Ray of sunshine on:

Tokyo, Yesterday. The Police from. Headquarters the magistrates have abandoned Archbishop of Upsala.-Reuter.

hand, committing looting, while to His Grace Nathan Soderblom, In editorials, this morninga suries, magazines"; on political Now I stood again by Parnell's Cheung Chau." The cloud that

vernacular newspapers are unani- topics, which were the most pro-status, and it seemed as if its work. has come merely obscuras her from did good work until the arrival of some districta.

minent ware in the newsyendors'. were done. The fatal street no the fire fighters whose work was According to Chinese reports,

[mota in declaring that China's

over- our sight.

considerably lightened in conse-Feng Yu-hsiang, accompanied by

request for the return of the Han- A modicum of them subsists still, longer subserved it, but

Its quarter-mile, quence:

kow concession is premature, as grown to thin sheets. Not one of shadowed it. a small party of attendants, left

peaceful conditions in China are them is as large as the Irish from river to monument, glittered the Shani village where he had

Trade Journal," now in its fifth with the lights of cinemas. Neither The Foreign not yet assured.

volume.

in Plecadilly Circus nor anywhere been residing, going northwards,

Office has not yet issued a state-i on November, 25, travelling by

ment on the matter, but it seems When I asked, for old times else that I know is there such a without a licence at Shaukiwan, an the 8.8. Kwong Fook, Cheong, was already left Shansi territory, for Captain W. Perritt, master of motor. It is reported that he has Indian constable in the Central to-day charged before the Marine Mongolia en route to Russia.

likely the newspapers reflect the sake, for some of them in a prin- massed gathering of them. There official `view.-Reuter.

elpal newsagents, the girl who are nine in the quarter-mile, the Court, in reply to the Magistrate Magistrate by Boarding Officer Reuter.

served me recalled them as mer latest built for some hundred chandise by a great effort of the thousand pounds. More people mind and though politeness never frequent them, pro rats, than in fails in Ireland gave me a look any city of these lales save Lon- suggesting that I collected beetles don. Long queues stand at their

entrances. and had asked her for some.

Enjoying New Amenities, Of course, 'I do not put them for A new society has sprung up in ward as an achievement in them- Dublin, some would say on the selves. Wiser Dublin, opinion

· COULDN'T CATCH A WOMAN !

Giving evidence against a Chin-

́ese woman charged with hawking

WILFUL OVERLOADING.

(Mr. R. E. Lindsell), vald, that he D. G. Cairns, of the Harbour

knew the defendant had sold some Office, for "wilfully allowing the

of her vegetables, but that he could ship to be loaded to submerge the BANK NOTES CRISIS.

not catch her the first time for she centre of the disc," at about 6

ran away.

p.m., on November 28, at the Po

His Worship:You falled to Tak wharf

catch a womanT

The constable: Yes

Mr. Lindsell-How's that?

Discharged. **

IS YOUR NAME HERE 1

The Captain admitted the charge and was fined $250,

WARE WIRE STEALERS I

SHANSI DISTRICTS REFUSE ACCEPTANCE:

PLEA FOR REDEMPTION.

Canton, Yesterday.

The Inspector General of Police Owing to the overwhelming (the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, amount of Shansi Bank notes cir- Maff has been received at the C.M.Q.) has Induad the following culated in the market, whereby American Consulate General for circular from Police Headquarters. [each Shanet inhabitant had to be the following paraone

*It is hereby notifel that a re- responsible for the average of ***MĪBA LUH, RAllen - Krn, Wm. B. ward of $25 will be paid by the $4, the people of over 10 Shangi Arnold Ch. Boender Miss F undersigned to any person giving districts have refused deceptánce Bostwicks Chong Lok S, Demingo, information leading to the arrest of the totes and appealed to the 3. Dardh ddo, J. R. Engay B, C.

p and conviction of any person respective district magistrates Farrell Flab⠀⠀ /H/A Marcilly/SkyMC charged with stealing wires or any for their redemption, The Shan- C. Moller others articles the property of lal Provincial Government has Neither the Hong Kong Electric summoned an urgent conference Company or thế Hơn, Keng Teler for the maintenance of its notes, phone Compa

* ----Canton News Agency

Hemiton

Marting

FINE TO CLOUDY.

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states: The anti-cyclone is central

to the North of Korea,

Fresh to moderate monsoon prevails along the S.E. Coast of China and over the N. Chinin

Forecast: N.E; winder mo- derate; fine to, cloudy.

* Rainfall. Rainfall to 10 a.m. to-day. ull: Bajnfall since January 1, 95.19 Inches against an ever- age of 8186.4

Temperature,

The temperature at certain specified centres this morning at do'clock WAS * Hong Kong"

Macao (A 68

Island

Frat

02.

68

POLICE MOBBED.

SET DOGS ON TO DEMONSTRATORS,

BEDLAM IN HAARLEM.

Amsterdam, Yesterday..

New Society.

A number of unemployed, armed Engilah_type," but truly on the would wish fewer of them. They with stones, gathered outside the general European type of the day. are not the Government's work, but town hall at Haarlem, where the Dublin, having become a capital, the popular cholce, Council was considering a Com- now houten a Civil Service, while

Yet all the same nothing shows munist proposal to grant unemploy- irish business, though not all it better than they how there is here ment relief. The police dispersed right be, is not all it mightn't be people enjoying new amenities in the crowd with rubber truncheons. se in so many other countries. It their lives, and nothing showe bet- More dangerous disorders oc- subsists decently in a world where ter how those lives have changed. curred in the market-place in the in that is a real achievement.......

They are, after a fashioh, the avening, when it became known Civil servants, and business pendant to the blue books which that the unemployment relief pro- people and other such wish to show that this State, sprung eight posal had been rejected. A crowd amuse themselves after their work, years ago from chaos and loaded mobbed the police, two of whom and they dance and engage in with debt, has in the last four were seriously hurt, The police amateur theatricals and acquire years, with a population of deren eventually loosed dogs and charged cars as never before in this city million, Ine-gated, ita exporta"> and routed the demonstrators with Those who should know say

bare sabres-Router