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CABLES.

LATEST GABLES,

[TAROWAN KMSTER'S MUENIT.]

SITUATION IN THE NEAR

EAST,

GOVERNMENT'S POLICY OUTLINED TO LABOUR DELEGATION.

LONDON, October 9th.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11mx, 1928.

LATEST CABLES.

FAR

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

RUMOURED RUSSIAN

REFORMS.

CHANGE OF FAR EASTERN POLICY PREDICTED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI RICKSHAMEN'S STRIKE:

SETTLED

SHANGHAI, October 10thi

RIGA, October 9th.

The strike of rickshamen has been It is rumoured in Moscow that M. settled. the employers granting further Krassin will resign owing to the annul-concessions. The mth resumed to-day." The report of the Labor Delegation'sent et the Russo-Asiatic Consolidated JAFARESE NAVAL RETRENCHMENT. interview on September 21st, shows that

SIX THOUSAND ARSENAL EMPLOYES Mr. Lloyd George .contended that the

DISMISSED Government's policy Tag: essentially

TOKYO, October 10th. Labour's peace policy, as laid down by

It is announced that six thousand the Party in 1018.

roptract.

Sweeping reformus gre expected as the result of M. Lenin's return to authority. As an example it is said that the activity

reduced by seventy-five per cent. It is also believed that the staffs of all com missarints will be reduced.

A change of policy in the Far East is also predicted and it is said that M. Lepin is willing to cede the northern part of Saghalin to Japan.

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OF SALT ADMINISTRATION.

MRF, WITON ACCEPTS APPOINT.

THE CANTON LOAN.

DETAILS "AUTHORITATIVELY

ANNOUNCED.

The Government at Canton is negotiat- ing with an Amèrican syndiente for a 'loan of £2,000,000. The draft agreement provides that the price of issue shall bo

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dea of Customs.

THEATRE DOORKEEPER · ·

ASSAULTED...

THE RESTORATION OF SWATOW.

PRACTICAL MEASURES BY BRITISH

MERCHANTS AND MISSIONARIES. ;

TYPHOON'S MENTAL EFFECT.

THE PRE-WAR SPIRIT IN GERMANY.

AMERICAN LEGION'S REPORT.

The deputation of the Amarican Legion, : who arrived in London on September 2nd, after a tour of the war areas on the Con tinent, were highly delighted with their reception. Captain John Wicker, jun," was in charge of the deputation,

Thers were thirty-six members in the

except those who, the leaders explained, party coming from fourteen different States. All of them were in anitsem had grown too fat to get into them. A progining, "bad been arranged which

said Captain John Wicker. jun.. to a re was itself u delicate tribute to Americans **This is not mere pleasure trip," presentative of The Times. Our main purpost in coming over here is to see things at arst hand.

We come from ill,

A resident of Swatoy now 'on a visit 878 and interest 73 per cent. The loan is to Shanghai has furnished the Daily Veier with much interesting information to be for a period of ten years and the revenues of the liquor and tobacco taxes taken to assist Chinese in the city and concerning measures which have been are to be pledged as security. The Chief surrounding districts which suffered so of the Finance Department invited the disastrously in the great typhoon. utubers of the Provincial Assembly to fa dinner at which he explained the necesgical effect, apparently, upon both for The disaster had a curious psycholo sity for the loan and all details in regard cigners and Chinese. Everybody was a to it, and asked for the approval of the the jump for weeks after the disaster

and the wildest rumours found ready Assembly to be given as soon as possible.credence. One fine fiction convincingly re- of the Political Boaril, formerly, known employés from naval arsenals have been Mr. Chung Sau Nam mentioned that theported that a band of Sun Yat Sen's Parts of the United States, and we are The Government was taking the only as Choka, will be limited and its employés discharged owing to para! retrenchment everything in connection with the loan so-called

representative people in our oth com- citizen army," numbering munities. We want to see for ourselves: method of preventing the war from

ASSOCIATE CHIEF INSPECTORSHIP would be done under the supervision of city. People actually went up on the this side after the war, and we want to 'thousands, was making raid upon the the conditions in the various countries on spreading to Europe, for, if the Turks

the Civil Governor and the Superinten-bills to watch for their arrival. This try to bring about a clearer and more crossed in their present massacring mood

"arty, of course, was non-existent, sympathetic understanding in Americs of and the ramgar probably originated in the problems which are facing those coun- 'and massacres occurred, the whole infer-

the fact that a likin station not far away tries. We sent a delegation to Germany. nat trouble would recommeper.

had been held up by a party of 60 or 70 to sed the conditions there.

Our people rabbers. Foreigners were for a time re have heard so much about Germany's in- duced to an extraordinary condition of ability to pay and about her repentance, lassitude. No ang, wanted to do anything and we wanted to find out these facts for A Sanitary Blourd cpolie, who was nadcial amenities became an effort! refased permission to enter the Po Hing arily abandoned, and so were the usualan people under the Republic were dif bridge parties fell fat and were tempor- ourselves. We had been told that the Ger Theatre. Taumari, on Monday night, be bathing parties.

ferent from what they were under the old régime. What did our people see! They cause he had no ticket. went away and HONGKONG'S 'SUBSTANTIAL HELP. saw Hindenburg come into Munich in full returned sometime later and assaulted Lost energy, however, was soon recover. martial uniform. They saw troops wer the Chinese door-keeper with a brick. Ined and work of a very practical naturing the Monarchistic uniform. They saAW the struggle a bangle the door-keeper was in hand work of reconstruction.

was begun to relieve suffering and put battalion after battalion do the "goose As we step." They found the pre-war spirit wearing was broken and the brick fell on already know, Hongkong immediately everywhere. They heard one song, and to his toes.

came forward with substantial relief, the one song only, and that was Deutschland Yesterday the man was charged at Government sending 3,000 bags of rice; über Alles! They heard Gott strafe the Magistracy with assault and dis- Chinese who were starting relief work. but it was so. They saw people who, in a good deal of money was also sent to England!' You would not expect that, orderly conduct. He told Mr. Lindsell The Chinese themselves, through their stead of being poverty-stricken, were able that he wanted to go into the theatre Charity Guild organization, did a mar to build far more than in the case in to see a friend. He did not want to see up and burying the 1.000 or more dead whom our delegates talked gave the im vellous lot of useful work in gathering Franco or" Belgium. All the people with the performance; “* *

bodies recovered from food and wreck-pression that there was going to be an- Sab-Inspector Lannigan said that the age. They worked under the leadership other mix-up between the same old of the Mayor and the chairman of the group and. the same old gang, and the man was under the influence of drink Chamber of Commerce, and within a very Germans implied that there would be r when brought to the Station.

short time the condition of the city was different ending because they were busy tolerably well improved.

enlightening Amerien as to Germany's position, and that the next time the United States would be sympathetic to Germany and would not come in on the

The illness of M. Joffe is described as diplomatic, and is explained by M. Lenin's wish to keep the Russian delega- tion at Changchun,

The Government would urge, at the con- ference, that the key; of the Straits should be in the pocket of the League of Nations Replying to questions he said the free- dom of the straits meant that, it should just be like any other international water- Tree to the vessels of any nation to pass to and from the Black Sea and would. DANISH

way,

CABINET

MENT AT PEKING.

Loxbox. October 9th.. M. Eruest Wilton has accepted the

of the Salt Administration at Peking. appointment ax Associate Chief-Inspecter

[This is confirmation of an announce ment already made from Peking-ED.]

THE INVASION OF FUKIEN.

HOSTILITIES COMMENCE.

PEKING, October 9th. In response to an urgent request from Tu Hi Kuci, 300 marines attached to the Ministry of Navy have left for Fukien. The Government is still con- sidering the proposal to put Admiral Sah The prisert for an early settlement in M. Neily Neergaard's Cabinet has been Chen Ping and Tn Shi Kuri in charge of the Near East is bright, according to reconstructed. M. M. C. Cold, an ex-directhe Fukien situation.. advices from Constantinople.

remain neutral in war-time...

The League would have to decide whe ther fortifications were necessary.

MR. CHURCHILL OPTIMISTIC.. „

LaNUON,October 9th..

sir. Churchill in a telegram read in his constituency, Dundee, says he thinks we will get through" our troubles in the Near East alright. ARRANGEMENTS FOR EMIGRATION OF CHRISTIAN POPULATION,

ATHENS, October mh..

The emigration of the entire Christian Population of East Thrace is considered. Inevitable. Thracian deputies are going to their constituencies to arrange emigra tion, under the best possible conilitions,

RECONSTRUCTION.

PROTECTIVE IMPORT REGULA- TIONS CAUSE DIFFERENCES.

COPENHAGEN, October 9:1

tor of the United Steamship Company,) It is reported that Li Hou Chi called. replaces M. Harold Scavening as Minister a meeting of influential persoas on Oct.

5th and appealed to them to raise half of Foreign Affairs M, M. S. Brorson million dollars for war funds. replaces M. Kl. Berntsen as Minister of Defence. The Portfolio of Commerce has been vacated by M. Rothe and it has been temporarily entrusted to the Minister of

Commerce.

LATER,

The Cabinet reconstruction is due to differences regarding the protective" im- port regulations recently promulgated, which will presumably now be upheld.

to West Thrace and other parts of Greece. US,A. PROHIBITION RULING.

EARLIER CABLES.

TURKISH INTRUSIONS, DUE TO LOCAL ORDERS

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CONSTANTINOPLE, October, 9th. In response to General Harington's letter, Ismet Pasha intimated that he has ordered a cessation of Turkish troop movements. It is explained that 'the movements both at Ismid and at Chanak were due to purely local orders. DIFFERENCE IN ALLIED GENERALS'

INSTRUCTIONS.

CAUSES BEWILDERMENT IN BRITISH SHIPPING CIRCLES.

LONDON, October 9th. Bewilderment, rather than consterna. tion, has been caused in British shipping eireles by the intimation of the new ruling of the United States, regarding the on- forcement of prohibition on foreign ships in American Waters. The companies, con- cerned are planning to immediately chal. The French and Italian Generals renge" the decision." The North Atlantic Turned from Mudania last night, owing Conference meets to decide. its 'course. to differences between the British and Fretch texts of the instructions sent from Paris. After supplementary instructions had been asked from Paris, London, and Rome, the Generals left at night for Mudanta. It is hoped that the protocol will be signed as soon as further instruc- tions have been received.

"CONSTANTINOPța, October 9th.

Bustapha Kemal has been telegraph- ically urged to come to Madania in order to hasten a solution.

SUPPLEMENTARY INSTRUCTIONS

DESPATCHED.

PARIS, October oth. 1. Poincare this morning despatched upplementary instructions to Gea. Pelle Lo disperse misunderstandings at Mudania: in regard to the delimitation of the now neutral zone.

DEPUTATION OF INDIA- RUBBER MANUFACTURERS.

VISITS COLONIAL OFFICE..

LONDON, Oetober 9th." The deputation of Indiarubber Manu- facturers, who object to the proposed curtailment of the 'rubber output, went to the Colonial Office and stated their case. Tho proceedings were conducted in pri-

vate.

A number of Turkish Gendarmerie P. & 0. COMPANY REPORTS have been allowed to enter. Thrace."

BRITISH LABOUR DEMANDS A NEW

PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, October 9th. The National Joint Labour Council, at a meeting in London to disenss the Near Bast crisis, passed a resolution, demand-

ing the immediate resignation of the Government and the election of a new Parliament,

INCREASED PROFITS..

CAPTAIN OF “EGYPT RESIGNS.

LONDON, October 9th.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company reports net proâts of £696,660 as compared with 2623,631 last year. Every

outward vessel is fully booked up this season and FRENCH SEAMEN'S STRIKE there is a slight improvement in the out.

SENDS.

|ward cargo trade, but it is still very poor.

The Company is planning to commis sion several new mail-bonts,

NEW SYSTEM ACCEPTED BY MEN.

Bourdeaux, October 8th, The seamen's strike has ended. All the strikers have agreed to sail under the new conditions.

DOCKERS AND COAL-TRIMMERS DECIDE TO STRIKE.

Marsailles, October 9th, The dockers and coal-trimmers have decided on an immediate strike."

"ANOTHER STRIKE OF AMSTER- ~DAM DOCK WORKERS.

AMSTERDAM, October 9th.

A fresh strike of workers at the port on the question of wages has broken out. All work as the port bas ocased.

The Captain of the ill-fated Egypt has voluntarily resigned. He was granted the maximum pension.

BALTIC STATES AGBEE ON QUESTIONS OF COMMON

POLICY:"

ETAL, October Dik.

A conference of Foreign Ministers of the

Baltic States resulted in a full agreement fox questions of common policy.

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In reply to the Magistrate the man A skirmish is reported from Eation, Li said he had been employed in the Sani- The work undertaken by the British Hou Chi's troops driving back Wang tary Department...sinde last January,

community, as will be seen below, is highly commendable for its practical and Yang Chuan's force fifty li

The only

He was told to behave himself in fu-effective character. Upon receiving other side." casualty mentioned is one of Wang's ture. ordered to pay a fine of $10 and to telegram from Hongkong announcing the officers killed. Wang's forces khandoned sign a personal bond for $100 to keep thesistance in distribution of these funds; collection of 852,000, and requesting as a mountain gun.

planning & mabouvre against Foochow Hau Sung Chih's troops are said to be

pig" Santuao, Luvaahsien” and Lingkon- bsien.

The Foocho Army is understood to be awaiting co-operation from Wang Chih Hsien, who is going northwards to help Li Hou Chi.

EARLIER CABLES.

THE PLUNGING MARK.

A NEW LOW RECORD.

LONDON, October 9th. A new low record for the mark was registered in London, the closing quota. tion being 12,000 to the S

pence for the next six months.

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the British Chamber of Commerce con- solted the English Presbyterian Mission. already engaged in relief work, and the mission was, of course, delighted to have this strong ppor. A Committee was formed, con: sting of four British mem work was at once begun. bers, two American and four Chinese and

LABOUR DEMONSTRATION.

"NO REVOLUTION."

STREET ACCIDENTS.

Perhaps the about the great Labour demonstration beld most remarkable thing An old man, aged 74 years of age, was

in the Palladium Theatre, at Southport, accidentally knocked down by a tram-car

on September 3rd, was, the comparative at the entrance of Yee Woo Street on

At first, the Mission distributed rice ableness of the demands.

moderation of the speeches and the reason- Konday evening. The unfortunate man, that the Chinese, while grateful for help, that on this occasion, the agendo, which Even 'Mr. to the hungry, but it was soon discovered Robert Smillie was constrained to admit who was a rattan worker, was found to were inclined to lie down and take a

be dead when picked up. His head was aap until the next meat came round. will be considered during the week, is not

a very revolutionary one badly injured. His remains were removed rice for a man and his family, they were Trades Union Congress, who preaided, said With the gift of 30 cents per day and

Mr. R. B. Walker, president of this to the public mortuary.

induced to commence work in their own villages repairing roads, etc. Later, the since the last congrees had been a period the year through which they had passed A motor cycle accident occurred in Committee withdrew the rice ratios and of great trial and diffeulty for the or Caine Road on Monday. A Chinese, paid Lach man 60 cents per day which,ganised workers of the country, but in living.

as foodstuffs were becoming casier "to at No. 52, Tam Lanc, was knocked obtain, the villagers preferred in retura spite of that there had been no weakening down by motor-cycle No. 208 as he was for labour performed.

of their determination to safeguard and attempting to cross the, road. The man

protect the economic interests of the workers Bad as the past years experi. was taken to hospital, where it was found An excellent system of providing once had bean, it would have been tenfold- that his injuries were not serious, and employment was adopted. Represent worse had there been no industrial or- tives of the Mission interviewed the head-ganisation to protect the workers to after receiving treatment bo was disman of each of the 13 villages allotted minimise the effects and alleviate the dis- as the Committee's sphere to supply est tressing conditions which had been pro- mates of the number of needy or starving duced. (Hear, hear.) Trade unions, in people, of the work required to be done his opinion, had proved their real line of to restore the village something like 'defence for the workers in the greatest and its normal condition, and of the number most ruthless attack ever made against.

their standard of life.

The slump was due to heavy Continental selling, following on a wider recognition that Germany is largely meeting repara tions payments by the sale of huge quan- tities of paper marks abroad. SOVIETS REFUSAL TO RATIFY charged.

URQUHART AGREEMENT.

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A MATTER OF RUSSIAN EQUALITY.

BERLIN, Octobár Dih. The Soviet's refusal to

ratify the Urquhart.Krassin agreement is based uped the contention that the latest actions of the British Government in dis puting Soviet Bussia's equality in the Near East and the Black Sea prevent the friendly and enduring relations which are necessary to the validity of the agreement.

SHIPPING PROBLEMS

DISCUSSED.

CONFERENCE OF NATIONAL COM MITTEE IN LONDON,

LONDON, October th..

DESTRUCTIVE CANADIAN FOREST FIRES.

EIGHT MILLION DOLLABS DAMAGE.

"THE BROADWAY BUBBLE.”

PRACTICAL REPAIR WORK.

of the Trade Union Conference, said he

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In "The Broadway Bubble," which be of men available. The information was gins at the Coronet to-day, extraordinary promptly given, and unemployed villag. Mr. C. W. Bowerman, M.P., Secretary opportunities are given Corinne Griffithers were set to work clearing up the to display her great dramatic ability, her debris, burying the dead; people and hesitated to think what would have hap remarkable versatility and her voluminous beasts, and clearing out the creeks pened during the past year had it not wardrobe. To begin with, she enacto two Another important work they were set to been for the powerful trade unions with roles, appearing in both parts in each of was that of restoring the dykes, all of their funds to help the workers. many scenes seren two Corinne Griffiths appear as force of the typhoot. One dyke over a void that, retorted Mr. Bowerman, Again and again on the which had been fattened out by the voice: "Revolution!") "We want to two women looking alike but vastly dit mile lorg is now being reconstructed, re- "and I will make my point straight férent in temperament and character. The placing an old dyke known to have exist away. Practigally every adult above 's perfection of the double exposures in projed for 200 years.

certain ago now has the right to east a ducing these scenes is a signal triumph of Complete reconstruction in the deva vote, but does every workman do his duty photography.

stated ares would cost millions of dollars, to his own class when an opportunity to Miss Griffith plays the parts of twin and the Committee found it mani-use it comer along. ("No") Let him sisters who, though barely distinguishable festly impossible to attempt resto do that, and

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in personal appearance from one another, ration of all the rained homes. But aa revolution, you will avoid all talk of have had their minds cast in widely dif-ingenious way out of the difficulty has Mr Robert Smillie, in reviewing the ferent moulds. Adrienne Landreth, the been found. A great many of the suffer work before the Congress, said he had gone A hundred delegates, representing beautiful, talented pampered millionaire's era are destitute through having lost the through the agenda with his colleagues, thirteen countries, were present at a wife, in recklessly selfish. Craving sensa, boat upon which a family depends for and, whether or no the general depression conference of the International Maritime tion; she hungers for the hectic excite its livelihood, and they are, of course, had affected their people, it had to be. Committee in London. Sir Henry Duke, meats, of a musical comedy career. One unable to pay for the building of a new admitted that on this occasion the agenda who was elected President, suggested thing only stands in her way her hua boat. Accordingly, the Committes have was not a very revolutionary one. that the Conference first discuss the band's veto. None of these painful made to these people a grant amounting landlords and owners, the dukes and the question of the liability of sovereign" urges disturb the simple mind of to the difference in the cost of building lords, and people of that kind, might rent states in respect of ships they owned or Drina Lynn, her younger alster, who earns a boat before the typhoon and now, and secure in their beds, because there would operated. -

a humble living as an underpaid and over- builds them a new boat, to be paid for be no revolution. (Laughter.) He thought. worked "stenographer. Adrienas

in instalments of 4 per month. The perhaps that was a refler of their own sundes her sister to impersonate her, ex-money received in this way will go to minds. They were sad, dull, and de- plaining that, on account of the estrangewards the establishment of an orphanage, pressed. Nor could it be otherwise, when ment between herself and her husband, exclusively for children whose parents they reflected on the state of things round Drina will not be called upon to do more were lost in the disaster, and work on about them, and knew that tens of thou. than talk about the weather sometimes at this institution has already been started sands of men, women, and children were the dinner-tablet

Altogether, we are informed, the amount today, in this Christian country, practi- Though it completely deludes the hus. of money subscribed and promised from cally on the verge of starvation, not be. Thirty-nine perished in the forest fires and is followed by amazing consequences.

band, this well-laid scheme gangs agley all sources, foreign and Chinese, reaches cause of famine, but because of something

$1,000,000. in North Ontario, Mr. Druary, Premier Drina begins to get fond of the million

for which they were not responsible—" of Ontario, estimates that 8,000 persone aire, while he is delighted at what be

something which might have been provent- have been rendered, homeless. The dam imagines to be a change of heart on the Mission at Swatow, bethinking themselves all the Govrements of Europe had acted The ladies of the English Presbyterian ed" and ought to have been prevented if age is given as eight million dollars, dollars

part of his wife. Upop his discovery of of the hardships. likely to overtake the in the faterests of all their peoples. EUROPEAN BANTAM-WEIGHT totally unexpected climax which puts the ing the coming winter, have began to the deception hinges a surprising and inhabitants of the stricken villages dur seal of success upon a remarkably clever prepare supplies of clothing and various picture,

Operations carried on by the Admiralty LEDOUX RETAINS THE TITLE.

accessaries for the relief of distross, and salvage ship Bar in Lough Bwilly re- at present have been promised financial sulted up to July 19th in the recovery of support to the extent of some $4,000. Over a million ponude worth, of bullion LONDON, October 9th. Mr. D. O'Shea has created a motoring The above details foler only to the from the wreck of the auxillary cruiser At Hauley, in the European bantam-record for north China. by making the reactivities of the Relief Committee of the Taurenție, mined during the war. Up to weight 20-round championship content, turn journey from Tintain to Peking in Swatow British Chamber of Commerce to-day asrly £3,000,000 have been re- the Frenchman, Ledoux (holder), was 4 hours 38 min. running time. Along car. There are other organizations, including covered of the cargo of bullion, which is awarded the fight, Farrison retiring in tala atretches of the road it was possible the American Red Cross, which are doing variously estimated at from £4,000,000 to2) the eighteenth round,

to attain a speed of 50 miles per hour, excellent work

£,000,000,

OTTAWA, October oth

CHAMPIONSHIP.

BRITISH LADIES' `KYFORTS,