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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1924

BARLIER CABLES.

THE MOSUL DISPUTE.

THE CIVIL WAR

IN

FAR EASTERN

CHINA.

CABLES.

(THROUGH RELTER'S ¿GENOT.]

THE LEAGUE. CHINA AND HEPRESENTATION.

DISCUSSED AT GENEVA:

STRONG BRITISH PROTEST.

LONDON. September 25th.

This is one of

(THROUGH REUTER'S JOENCY.}

WU PEI-FU'S PROMISE OF ·KYER- LASTING PEACE."'

** PRINCIPAL' TRAITOR"...

ASSURANCES OF PROTECTION VOR FÖREIGN LIVE AND PROPERTY,

NEWS

CABLE

[THROсGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.)

NEW BELGIAN MINISTER AT

PEKING.

·MA, EVERTS GOES TO BERLIN:

BurSSELS, September with

A serious situation has arisen in conREWARD FOR TURNING OVER THE Gixty, September 28th.

nection with the Anglo-Turkish disputo The "Assembly adopted the Chinese as regards the sovereignty of the Mosu! |

M. Lemaire Dewarzer, counsellor of propisal regarding the distribution of vilayet in Mesopotamia.

the Legation, has been appointed Mials Beats to non-permanent members fo the the questions on which an amicable settle-

PEKING, September 20th. ter at Peking, replacing M. Evarts, who Council, The Persian and Japanese meat was not reached at the time of the

Marshal Wu Pei Fu has issued a pro-has been appointed Minister at Berlin. delegates supported the Chinese attitile, signature of the Treaty of Lausanne, and

it was reserved for subsequent negotias elaration denouncing Chang Two Lin, DEALING WITH GEORGIA..

tion, with a provision for ultimate re- whose nature and character of Hung- GENEVA, September 26th The Assembly adopted the joint British, ference to the League if necessary. The hutze is unalterable nud stating that French and Belgian resulution regarding Turkish Goveniment, despite the applic-with the righteousness of his heart he Giorgia. All the speakers hoped the atin of this provision last week, has pre- will proceed East to deliver the people Longne would exercise prudence in deal-sented a note to the British complaining ing with the Georgian question. of the alleged British troop movements on

SOVIET ATROCITIES. -

PARIS, September 8th.

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the Turro-Iraq frontier.

A message from Geneva shows that

of the three provinces-Feautien, Kirin

X.Y.E. STAFF TROUBLES.

SHANGHA SHANGHAI - EMPLOYEES RESIGN,"

SRANGE. September 28th. The Nippon Yusen Kalasa's Shanghai

LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT. SFCCESSEUL EVENT AT YOLUN

MERRY AT EIGHTY.

PUBLISHER'S RECIPE FOR

LONG LIVE.

TEER HEADQUARTERS,

Nearly everyone who has passed" the Last night's open air concert.na Volun-

allotted span of three scure years and ten teer Headquarters was without doubt an has his own particular recipe of longe unqualified success. "Favoured with de. Evity, states a review in FP's & Cassel + Weekly. The majority of such recipes delightfully cool weather very large are so extraordinarily dull that one is number of people were present to listen apt to feel that a short life and s

merry, and " has everything to recom to an excellent programme of music | mend it. arranged by members of the Volunteer Some folk attribute their long life to Defence Corps. Seating accommodation a special and restricted diet, and others. stress the advantages of a regular was provided on the spacious green out-outine, with plenty of sleep and a mini- side the headquarters for some 300 people but this was insufficient and hurried arrangements had to be made for the pro-

Henry Holt, head of the famous Ame vision of further seats for the additional, Frícan publishing firm, writing his im- two to three hundred people attracted pressions of life at the age of eighty-four inSixty Years a Publisher" (Allen to the ground.

and Unwin, 188), strikes a new and re- freshing note. He especialises in tobacco, There is scarcely a hner spot in Hong-and is not even in favour of moderation

mum of excitement. But practically always it is a policy of prohibition which advanced age has to preach,

and Heilunakiang-from Chang Tso Lin's staff, with the exception of the Manager kong for the bolding of an af frisen en-us most people understand the term. oppression Marshal Wu prunises that has resigned en bing.

The N.Y.K. directory held a confergner apart from Chang Tao Lin and his son.

cert Enclosed as it is with delightful shrubs and trees the surroundings, were

TOBACCO DESTROYN GERMS,

From the age of thirteen he smoked cigars, and it was while he was still at through as many as twenty a day.

A Lieorgian Legation communique Lord Parmour created a sensation to-day whose crime is unpardonable, generals this afternoon. No statements was made made additionally attractive by a de college that he found himself getting

says it is reported that Soviet troops are operating against the Georgian insur gris azil have launched repeated and Lerve attacks, but were forced to retire with heavy losses to the mountains. The Georgian population in the districts oc- cupied by the Soviet troops are being shot without distinction,

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GERMANY TO ENTER.

BERLIN, September zuth. The Cabinet has approved a memoran dum dealing with the admission of Ger- many to the League of Nations. A nute is being dispatched to the Governments concerned through the German diplomats immediately.

EMPIRE REPRESENTATIVES

CONFER

by reading the British reply, in which aand soldiers of these provinces, whoIt is understood that it was adjourned- "return from the wrong path will be in view of further deliberation, which strong protest is registered against an invasion by armed bodies inside the aren rewarded, while the first reward" will be may possibly, take place to-morrow. administered by the British also within given to those who turn over the prin-

the old administrative boundary of the Feipal traitor to the Government. |

Mosul vilayet. Bodies left behind showed

The proclamation proceeds: With the that the invaders included Turkish regu-instractions of the Central Government lars, and evidence is available of Turkish we have mobilised our forces to quell disregard for the attus quo at the time internal unrest, and as it is the good wisha of the signature of the Lausanne Treaty of the Foreign Powers to see the early He said the fraq palice and local levies unisextion of the country, I trust the had been forced to retire as recently us

steps. I have taken will meet with their September 22nd to Amadia.

support and approvāl"

Lord Parmoor said the retirement was accompanied by the flight en masse of the Assyriau Christians and large numbers of Iraq tribesmen. Lord Parmoor emphasis." ed the Government's solemn protest be Love the League at this intentional, Bagrant violation of the treaty. Mean- while, he stated, the British authorities GENEVA, September 28th.. The Dominions delegates and the Ein- at Iraq were authorized to take all neces pire delegation, conferred for an hoursary action to prevent the invasion and this morning. The latter described the infiltration by Turkish forces of a nature progress of the committees dealing with thepretives continue to keep their Governments posted as regards the Heater learus tant no objections have bern raised by them but requests have been made for explanations on certain points, which were freely given. Con- sequently, there was complete agreement smong the delegates to-day.

undiscussions,

CO-OPERATION AGAINST

SOCIALISM.

MR. CHURCHILL'S PLEA

RUSSIAN TREATY, DENOUNCED.

Losos, September, wah,"

to entail serious unrest and bloodshed.

Fethi Bey, who followed Lord Parmoor, disputed the British view as regards the frontier, declaring that it was assumed that the fate of Mosul had already been favour of Britain, which decided in Turkey disputed.

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TURKISH RAIDS IN IRAQ. With reference to the Mosul situation, it is officially fearned in London that there have been two Turish raids into Iraq, one last week and one on Sept. 22nd British aeroplanes participated in repelling, the invaders.

THE DUTCH ARMY.

GOOD-NATURED INDISCIPLINE."

AMSTERDAM, September 25th, Later news from the military camp at The newspapers give promikegee to a speech by Mr. Churchill at a Unionist Ede shows that although there is no ques meeting at Edinburgh last night at which tion of a mutiny proper, there is appar Mr. Churchillently some indiscipline. seemingly of a Earl Balfour presided.

For example, plealed foren liberal co-uitration with good-natured character. the Conservatives akainst Socialism, and when an officer ordered soldiers drinking arged the utilisation of the machinery in publichouse to return to camp they of the Safeguarding of Industries Act to invited him to drink, which he did in prevent British industries suffering from ordered to prevent disorder.

The movement wems to have been in-

£60,000,000 LONDON ESTATE.

AUSTRALIAN-CIÄIMANT.

Mr. Alfred Sydney Harper, a resident of Newcastle, New South Wales, is, says Sydney correspondent, making a claim to the Angell Estate in South London, which is reputed to be worth £60,000,000. and to have

1,000,000.

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The state was left by Mr. John Angell, who died in 1784. It lies principally in Brixton, Streatham. Stockwell, Lambeth, and BalhanL

corative scheme of coloured lights, hoped froth trre to tree. A platform was erect ed in the centre of the green, for the use of the vocalists, whilst the East Surrey Regimental Band were stationed at the side of the platform.

The Regimental Band, under the ent ductorship of Bandmaster Bradshaw was in fine form and during the course of the evening, rendered some delightful

piece had been repenteil.

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Mr. Holts theory is that tobacco de- stroys disease germs and consequently promotes longevity. He mulds that so long as the system is giver a rest from nicotine for a period of several hours ones a day it will stand all that can be put into it.

Fu the matter of food he is not a vegetarian, and he has entholic tasto

in wines, though he remarks that when

man renches the Sectch whisky stago there is much to be said for sticking ex- elusively to that leverage.

Marshal Wu Pei Fa promises: "With out distinction I will treat people of all nationalities just the same, that is afford Recently a claim to it was put forward by Mr. William Adrian Allery, of Lark- them the fullest protection of their lives hall Rise, Claphamn. d.W., who is 70 and property in accordance with they had spent 50 years tracing his descent from John Angell. The miss

the riage certificate, which he declares he

Singers and musicians are, stipulations of existing treaties, and there ing link in his claim, he says, is a mar should he no panie. Along the South discovered this year in a search through

The vocalists were Mrs. D. Reid. Mr.whole, a long-lived profession. Adelina Patti died prematurely at seventy-six, Manchurian railway are many Japanese church register, at Dartmouth.

The news of Mr. Allery's claim to the G A. Musitano and Mrs. N. Mathieson and Manuel Garcia, the great singing merebants. I will see that they continue £40,000,000 estate was cabled to Aus- Mr. Zellensky was smiled teneber, was still enjoying an active life their occupations unmolested and peace-tralin, and in consequener inquiries have fully, and...not suffer loss.***

been made in England on behalf of Mr. Harper, who claims to be a decendant of John Angell's eldest sister.

The exhilaration of good company is an annual rent-roll of selections of music, the excerpts from

Sullivan's "R.M.S. Pinafore being ex. suggested as an excellent quhetite for the after dinner nap, though Mr. Holt ceedingly well done, the audience not remarks that the tendency to frequent

fer any inclination for them, being sitished until a portion of the rests should not be resisted by those who In short, Mr. Holt's advice to those The Volunteers Scottish Company's who would attain mental as well as life in harmonious surroundings and a Pipe Band was also present and took a physical longevity is to lead an active prominent part in the evening's enjoyable moderate indulgences of the Hashpots of entertainment. They also received well Egypt. FATTI'S PREMATURE DEATH.

Marshal Wu conchides by declaring that he will direct his three armies against Mr. Harper has been asked to forward his birth certificate and other informa- the guilty-ut against the people totion, and now advice has been reeived punish one iman. When this is done that Mr. Allery is willing to cooperate he says, "tranquillity will be re-estab with him. lished and the peoples-both Chinese and foreign-will pursue their vocations pencer-- fully and without hindrance. The day my work is accomplished will be the day when the country will enjoy everlasting peare and order."

CHANG AND THE SOVIET.

SHANGHAI, September 26th. Chang states that he has come to a satisfactory agreement with the Soviet.

MOSCOW BOASTS. KAMENEFF ON THE LOAN.

The leading Bolshevist commissars con- is to make speeches explaining the enormous benefits which Russia will ob tain from their treaty with the British

Government.

deserved encores.

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pear, but owing to illness he was unable to do so. Mrs. Reid was beard to great advantage in a very enjoyable song, "Sunbeams," the singer being awarded unstinted applause. Mr. Musitund gave a delightful rendition of one of Caruso's favourite songs For You Alone" and he was not released until two encores had bech rendered. Mrs. Mathieson's song Starry Woods was also much appre riate.

Much of the success of the concert was

the stimulating atmosphere of success in when he was over a hundred. Probably which they lived did much to help them. retain to the end that freshness of mind which is so essentially a part of real longevity.

It is an interesting fact that neither doctors nor lawyers often reach extreme old age, the theory being that they wear themselves out in the services of others, and have little recuperative force to fight their own physical battles.

As far as physical appearances are concerned there has probably never been a period when age has been so success. fully warded off as the one in which wa Jive.

By dint of leading an athletic life and due to great deal of organising work put availing herself of the services of

branty doctor the average woman of fifty in by Lieut. D. C. Logan of the Scottish-day presents a more youthful appear-

Company. Mrs. S. Collett made a very nee than did her grandmother at

The views of M Kameneff, president of the Moscow Soviet, president of the Soviet of People's Comuniwars, and one able accompanist. of the big three ruling Russia, np. pear in the Moscow Ineratin in the follow.

the restoration of Germany. He hoped guigated by ringleaders who have terror:PEKING OBJECTS TO CHANG'S { ing report of a speech-

the Irishmen themselves would reach aised the soldiers. It is believed that Ave aettlement long before the Boundary Com-hundred cartridges which disappeared mission reported, and denounced the Rus from the shooting ground are in the hands sian Trenty as a tyranny.

THE LAST ZEPPELIN. TRIAL TRIPS IN GERMANY,

BERLIN. Heptember 28th. The Zeppelin 2.R.3 was enthusiastically welcomed in the course of its fight over towns during the trial trips. It reached Hamburg from Friedrichshafen at an average speed of 70 miles per hour and dropped a greeting at Hanover for Mur shal Hindenburg, who is a résident there. Enurnions crowd in the streets and on the roofs greeted it at Berlin The police band played Deutschland über Alles" .and the Government sent the crew patriotic message saying inter alia. "Fly over the sea as a witness of the undaunt ed spirit of German daring."? « DUNLOP COMPANY'S FINANCE REORGANISATION OF CAPITAL

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Loxpos, September 20th. An extraordinary meeting of share- holders of the Dunlop Rubber Company, Limited, has approved a acheme for the reorganisation of the Company's capital, whereby the capital will be first reduced from £20,000,000 to £0,472,000 and then increased to £20,000,000 by the creation bf 31,582,000 new ordinary shares of Gs. tủ sách

of the ringleaders. The discipline of the artillery good. The authorities have taken measures to prevent forther dis turbances.

ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE

TREATY.

POSITION UNCHANGED:

BERLIN. September 25th. The German Ministry of. Trede resum ed negotiations with Mr. Fonutain, this afternoon in connection with the propos ed Anglo-German commercial treaty, but the position is unchanged. Mr. Fountain leaves, homeward bound, to-morrow.

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THE WORLD'S SPORT.

ALL BLACK RUGBY TOUR.

LONDON, September th. At Gloucester, the visiting New Zea land "rugger" team beat Gloucester shire by 6 points to mil.

BRITISH RUGBY TOUR...

CAPE TOWN, September 25th. The British Rugby team beat the Western Province Efteen by 3 points to G, in the last match of the tour.

THE PRINCE OF WALES: ARRIVAL IN SASKATCHEWAN.

MELVILLE (Saskatchewan), Sept 95tb. The Prince of Wales has arrived here, and received an ovation:

THE LOAN TO GERMANY. DELEGATION COMING TO LONDON.

Losipos, September 26th. Reuter learns that a German delegation.

LATEST CABLES"," is expected in London shortly to begin negotiations for the loan under the DawcREUTERS AMERICAN SURFICBA scheme.

AGREEMENT WITH SOVIET..: The Waichiaopu on the 23th inst. pro- tested to the Russian Embassy as regards the agreement between the Soviet and Chang Tso Lin, and drew the attention of the Soviet to the fact that Chang was

The treaty does not contain any obliga tion on our side about paying debts contracted by former Governments. Nor are concrete figures.mentioned.

The treaty is only an outline of how negotiations must proceed in future, but it mentions that we need, not pay the claims of English creditora rouble for rouble. This means we can pay 50 kopeks

even a louse. (Laughter.)

LENIN PRESERVED FOR EVER.

WONDERFUL EMBALMING

PROCESS.

thirty.

With the other sex it is much the same One bears less frequently the expression theshady side of forty," and a man of sixty is spoken of as being in his prime.

-WRIT FOR £156,000. LARGEST EMPIRE LANDOWNER CALLS. IT "PIFFLE."

in open rebellion against the Government, per roubles kopeks per rouble-ormed body, was thrown open to the public | Sir Sidney Kidman, known as the Austra

declaring that the latter would never recognise such an agreement *

Rosta says the agreement in an exact and almost textual repetition of the Chinese Eastern Railway agreement signed in Peking on May 31st as a part of the Sino-Soviet agreement.

LATEST ARMY "MÓVES.", GENERALS WI", LI CRISĠ LIN AND YENG ADVANCING.

SHANGHAI. September 8th,

A Mukden message says the Fifth Army, under General Wir is advancing south-west from Kaila, its cbjective being. Chienghsin and Chaeaping, The Second Army, under General L Ching Lin, is advancing south west, its objecsive being Kienchanghaien. The final objective of the combined-armies in Jehol.

General Feng is reported to be moving towards Hongfengkow, but more prob ably to Kupechow, which is the old line of the proposed Railway.

Japanese local newspapers report that Mongolia is pending a force to Chang's

inding aid.

fact.

Moscow, August 4th.

The Melbourne Commonwealth Tax Lenin's tamh, containing the re-embal Commissioner has issued a wfit against and foreign newspaper correspondents lian cattle king, claiming £156,000 yesterday. The body rests in red alleged to be arrears of taxation cover- wooden coffin on a bier of brilliant red six years. The claim follows velvet. The coffin, bermetically scaled parliamentary disenssion alleging that and covered with glass in pyramidal squatters had been pärmitted to escape.

payment af enormous sams due on lease- form, permits a full view.

holds. Sir Sidney Kidman says the

What we undertake to pay is only com- pensation for a loan which will be used 10 subsidise our industries, to give em- ployment to our workers and to give our peasants our manufactured goods on credit. We shall pay for this loan just as much as proves profitable for us. The face of the revolutionary leader

The most important fact involved in looks as natural as on the day of his allegation in his case is merely piffle.

Sir Sidney Kidman is believed to be the treaty is that Englund recognises the death, without the slightest change. The Bolshevist revolution as an accomplished body is dressed in the same semi-military the largest landholder in the British This includes the recognition of suit of brown material usually worn by Empire. He controls more than 32,000,000 our confiscation of private property, our Lenin, with the decoration of the Red acres, which carry about 250,000 cattle

monopoly, foreign trade trade

our Banner and the membership badge of the and many thousand horses. He has the nationalisation of industries, and our Central Executive Committee pinned on reputation of neither, smoking, drinking,

ws. This is the era

of temporary the breast." The hands rest in an easy or swearing. He was knighted in 1922 When England signed the attitude on the chest,.

in recognition of his services to the Em- agreements.

pire during the war. Born in Adelaide. Red and black draperies surround the in 1857, he left home to seek his fortune truly we succeeded in putting var lever under the cornerstone of capitalism.

mausoleum chamber, with a great sickle and hammer (the Soviet emblems) of the when 13. He began as a cowboy at 10s same cloth in the "centre of the ceiling over the coffin. Armed Red soldiers stand guard at the head and foot of thi

OUT-OF-DATE LAWS.

BILL TO REMOVE DISABILITIES bier.

UPON CATHOLICS.

a week.

ORGIN OF SIN. PROFESSOR ON RECASTING OF THEOLOGY”

Professor Svarsky, explaining the pro- cess of re-embalming the body, said that The Roman Catholic Relief Bill, intro-the methods used were new, and had ng duced by Mr. F. N. Blundell, the Cou thing to do with the Egyptian or other servative member for Ormskirk, backed foreign methods of embalming The Speaking at the conference of modern ADVICE FROM "THE TIMES."

by members of the two other parties, embalmers were confronted with the dif churchmen at Oxford, recently, Professor LONDON, September 28th..

sets out to repeal parts of certain Acts ficulty of displacing the water in the E: W MacBride, of the Imperial College Dealing with this question of inter- -many of them obsolete, but still on the vention indistraced China, The Statute Book--which inflict disabilities body and replacing it by a chemical solu. of Science, South Kensington, said the human race had been slowly developed Times, says it is unfortunate that it upon Roman Catholics. The Bill leaves tion which would prevent the body drying doctrine of evolution assumed that the up and shrinkage of the features.- out of some mammalian stock resembl acemed necessary to maintain the diplo undisturbed the Bill of Rights and-Eyptian methods succeeded in muming the modern monkeys, as the mammals. matic fiction that the Provisional Gov Act of Bettlement..

One of the laws which it seeks to remifying the body at the sacrifice of every fund arisen from lower forms. This doe- ernment at Peking is the Government of China Inert submission to this conven.peal is a clause of an Act of Edward VI. trace of personality, but the process ap trine seemed to him, as an amateur, to tional view is the weakest form of dated 1648, which forbids books of Roman plied to Lenin's body, will preserve the necessitate an entire recasting of the, diplomacy Fresh initiative is necessary. Catholic ritual "ever to be kept in this body as in life for ever, provided no foundations of theology, Great Britain's best opportunity at pre-Another measure passed in 1701 ex-within the hermetically-scaled coffin..

Realm."

marked change of temperature, is allowed Denial of evolution, he declared, wa

intellectual suicide. The belief that men cludes from its benefits any priest who new, spirit in China which is expanding officiates in any place of worship with sent lies in a non-political appeal to the

Professor Svaraky and Professor Voro were born in sin was embedded in the independently of and despite the cruel bell and steeple or at any funeral, or bieff, who carried out the embalming baptismal service: If the doctrine of party war. Wise, co-operation with the exercises the rites of the Roman Catholic spent four months on the work, first ex-evolution be true, then what was called New York, September 20th. Chinese educational movement, such as

cies which man bad inherited from those to private property is not yet estimated. Martial law was proclaimed yesterday, The Presidential campaign was nomin-in the proper use of the Boxer indem religion or wears the habits of his Order perimenting on other bodies. The cost in consisted of nothing but the tender

ancestors. but is raised to-day as normal condially launched yesterday by the selection nity fund would be the most suitablet within & Roman Catholic church or of the work was £1,500 tions have been restored. The Soviet has of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of aim and the best British effort As long issued a statement thanking the people the ex-President, as the republicans British lives are not endangered the for their courage and the help given to candidate for the Governorship of Newwelter of the Tuchuna is not our con- the authorities

York.

FLOOD DAMAGE IN RUSSIA.

LESINGRAD, September 26th.

THE PRESIDENTAL

CAMPAIGN.

The first estimates of the damage to THEODORE ROOSEVELT FOR NEW industrial premises due to the Boods exceed ten million roubles. The damage

YORK GOVERNORSHIP.

private house.

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Due Act, less than 100 years old, in- ficta la penalty of banishment for life- upon a member of a relivions order ooming into this realm.

Everything, that is improvident is po- pular at the moment-Viscount Greyi

Canon W. E. Barner, Bishop-Designate of Birmingham, said the English Church was rapidly coming, as a whole, to accept the doctrine of evolution,