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THE ANGLO-SOVIET - TREATIES.

MOSCOW DECIDES TO ADJOURN -

· RATIFICATION,

Moscow, October 20th.

La view of a general clection in Britain the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union has decided to adjourn the question of the ratification of the Anglo- Soviet treaties.

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LATEST NOMINATIONS.

LONDON, October 19th. The final figures show that 1,414 candi-

Lites were nominated on Saturday, in-

nding thirty-two unopposed, making. with previous nominations for Cam- ridge and London Universities, 1,420 Conserva Andidates, comprising 339

tives, Constitutionalists, 341 Liberals, 301 - Labour, nine Co-operatives, eight Comunists, twelve independents, seven Republicans, and one each Sinn Fein, Nationalist, and Prohibitionist.

The cominations for the combined Universities and the University of Wales - have yet to be made. Twenty-three of ..228 three.cornered fights are in London!

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTUBER 18T. 1924

POLITICAL FRANCE.

PREMIER'S STATEMENT.

STILL AN EYE ON GERMANY,

BOULOGNE, October 19th,

In a speech before the Radical Socia list party congress, M. Herriot elained that as a result' of the Government's en- deavours to end the isolation of France, ber position was now unassailable. Ha could discera no hostile prejudice against

France among the nation's gathered at Geneva Relations with Germany her. self were easier, as the first stage of the Franco-Gerning economic' negotin- tions showed.

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THE CIVIL WAR IN

CHINA.

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OKIUMENKOW RICAPTURED BY GOVERNMENT TROOPS.

LATEST WU MOVES

PEEING, October 20th; Marshal Wa Pei Fu this morning tele. graphed to the Government announcing that Chiumenkow had been completely recaptured.

RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

Heuter'a special correspondent at Chia-

BY COURTESY OF THE.'* DAILY BULLETIN.”)

LULLIN FIGHTING.

PERINO, October 19th. The absence of foreign and, official re ports from Shanhaikwan indicatas fall in the recent heavy fighting.

These foreign reports, which are tra smitted without hindrance, are generally available to Press scrutiny, though they are not for publication, except as a brief of the trend of events. They hay that the Mukden sommuniques con- lain wild exaggerations and occasionally statements for which there is not the slightest foundation.

CORRESPONDENCE.

DERBY SWEEP TICKET CASE.

1

HONGKONⱭ

decided the rival claims, the only bon ourable and possible attitude for the Club to take up after the Award was to make the payment to the claimant so found to be the true owner, and accordingly the full amount of the prize was paid g Mr Chit on or about the oth October, 1923.

a-Strictures was passed by Mr. Brutton on the form of the guarantee,

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE. '' DAILY PRESS."]

Sta-With reference to Mr. Brutton's letter relating to the above, which you given, it being characterised as a worth published, I am directed by my Com. it is framed it imposes "no liability on less document, for in the way in which mittee to lay oefore you shortly the cir- the guarantors" who agreed only to re cumstances of the matter so far as the imburse the Club if the Club be by Chinese Club is concerned, not because law compelled to pay the 350,400 to song believe that the Chinese Club has paid to that: the Committee agree that it is generally other person," but it will have been seen Mrs. Violet Chan, the owner of ticket No. 03068 in the Chinese Club Sweep of the Hongkong Derby, 1923, the value of the first prize (for the Committee are satisfied that there is no such general belief), but because of the implication contained in the last paragraph of Mr. unfairly and improperly, and in breach of honour, withheld payment from Mrs. Chan. Such implication is unfair and unjust...

had won certain successes in Germany,/ Wangtan reports that Government was consequently cannot be contradicted in Brutton's letter, that the Chinese Club!

M. Herriot said the Republican spirit

but France cannot yet frel reassured. vessels are concentrated at Chinwaugtao under instructions to proceed to Antung Germany still seemed to hesitate between the two paths The Nationalists there.It is reported that Marshal Wir Pei Fu were busy, and were preparing youths for has made satisfactory arrlingements with military servicr, while associations of ex- soldiers remained. In relation to the

the South Manchurian Railway. The asture of them is not disclosed.

KWAN FRONT,

Reichswehr, certain fetes almost smack- FIERCE FIGHTING ON SHANHAI ed of mabilisation maneuvres. He hoped the democratic spirit would Aually pre- vail. France had at any rate sounded the call to pruce and she was ready to resume relations with Russia.

M. Herriot said he placed financial reform in the forefront of his home! policy.

A message from Chinwangtao dated

yesterday states that a Berce battle raged throughput yesterday on the Shanhaikwan tront, the Fergtian troops making con tinuous attacks which were repulsed.

The Mukden rommuniques only reach Peking through the outside Press, and

time to prevent the outside world from being misled.

A COLD SNAP.

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9-It will be recalled that after the race had been run and won on the 1st A cold snap has set in, which will March, 1923, two rival claimants appear- render the lot of the soldiers at the fronted for the winning ticket, viz., Mrs. Chan

and Chik Sung Ling. additionally hard, but reinforcements continue going to the North, and import ant movements on both siles continue, which bold out a prospect of a final de cision being reached before the winter

COIDES.

BOMBS DROPPED "AT CHIN. WANGTAO.

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(a) In view of the Arbitratora And-

lug the contingency of the izbae- quent production of the ticket ne affecting the ownership of such ticket as found by the Arbitratorė. could not arise.

(8) The Club having paid away tha"

prize to one of the two claimants, who was declared to be the owner by the tribunal chosen by them selves and by whose decision both. claimants agreed to be bound, bas discharged. the whole of its obligt- tions, whether legal, moral, or as a matter of honour.

(e) The rules do not provide for the circumstances af this case their 3-Now, according to the conditions reference to under which the tickets were sold, where

guarantee has na guarantee applicability: the

in an owner of a ticket losses his ticket be

fact obtained was,merely by way must, prior to the date of the drawing, nf, ce ukandante rautela in order report such loss to the Club, and if such to protret the Clubs from any con-- ceivable, but then unforeseeable, previously declared lost ticket draws a prize, and if no other person" comes for-

contingency of legal liability. ward to claim such a prize within six

-In view of the circumstaners abov months, then such owner who reported. the loss before the drawing could receive narrated. it is difficult for the Com the prize after a thorough investigation mittee to appreciate how Mr. Brutton or by the Club, and on an adequate guar, anyone else can possibly conceive that Towards nightfall the "Fengtien troops

PzKING, "October 19th. antee. But even in this case payment by Mrs. Chan has any right or claim what- retreated leaving a large number of killed

the Club is ez gratia. Since the loss of soever, for the payment of the prizo as Reater's special correspondent

the ticket 03066 was reported, not prior the owner of the ticket, No. 3oss. It ‘and wounded not'yet counted.

Chinwangtuo reports that on the 13th to the drawing, but subsequent to the must have been within the contemplation race, and since in fact no one produced both claimants that, as between thema- The situation on the Shanhaikwan front inst. enemy aeroplanes dropped 11 bombs the ticket within six months from the elves, the Arbitrators, and the Arbitra to-day is quiet and unchanged.

at Chinwangtao that morning, but no drawing, the Club; under the conditions, tors only, could decide the question as was under no liability to pay anyone at to the trae ownership of the ticket. And. in this connection, the following_quota- The Navy continued the bombardment serious damage resulteit. In a speech at Frankfurt-on-Main, the of the "Fongties lines beyond Shanhai-station water tank, the second wounded strict legal rights by with-holding Gen. G. Hall Britton Co., to the clubes -Now to act in accordance with its tion from a letter addressed by Messrs.

Foreign Minister, Herr Stresemann, kwan.

a boy, and the "rest of the bombs failed payment altogether was obviously and Solicitors, dated the 8th May, 1923, makes referring to the Zeppelin Transatlantic Marshal Wu Pei Fu's forces have heën

naturally distasteful to the Club, and interesting and illuminating reading: to explode.

the Club therefore felt that the only fair fight, said he hoped Germany: would be further strengthened by the arrival of

Wu. Pei Fu went gut early with his way of solving the problem was to pay permitted to continue construction of air-troops from Tongku by rail

the money to the one of the two claimants full staff directing operations.

who should inter se be proved to have

· S. AFRICA TO BE APPROACHED. | ships unrestricted.

better claim. And 18 the then Solicitors for both claimants desired the THE HAGUE, October 20th.

risht claims to be referred aa Ar- bitration by Arbitrators to be appointed i by the Club, the Club's Solicitors, on March 23rd, 1923, wrote to the Solicitors for both claimants, inter alia, as follows:

A. Christian Pacifist and Liberal have been nominated for the University of Wales, making the total of enlidates 1,422.

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DUTCH BANKING EFFORTS.

GERMANY AND THE

LEAGUE.

FOREIGN MINISTER'S VIEWS.

BERLIN, October 19th.

He declared that "all the States repre- Dr. Vissering, president of the Nether-seated in the Council of the League of lands Bank, will depart for South Africa at the beginning of November to enquire, in consultation with Professor Kemmerer of Princetown University, into the ques tion of the advisability of introducing a gold standard independently of Britain.

Dr. Vissering will go from South Africa to Dutch East Indies and discuss with

flye the management of the Java Bank and the Dutch East Indies Government the xestoration of the rate of exchange and a gold standard there.

IBAQ FRONTIER DISPUTE. LEAGUE TO STEP IN.

GENEVA, October 20th.

The Council of the League will specially meet a Brussels on the 27th instant in connection with the Iraq frontier dispute.

THE WORLD'S SPORT. M.C.C. TOUR IN AUSTRALIA.

DRAWN MATCH AT PERTH,

PERTH (W. Australia), Oct. 20th. In dull weather Hefore 2,000 spectators, on an easy wicket the M.C.C. scored 330 for seven and declared. Western Aus- tralia replied with 57. Gilligan four for 12 and followed on, making 157 for seven <Taaffe, 71).

Nations had pronounced in favour of Germany having a permanent sent in the Council, but the point still to be, dis- cussed was that Germany could not participate in wars or a blockade under the orders of League so long as he was the only disarmed Stato mid neighbours armed to the teeth.

SPAIN IN MOROCCO. NEW COMMANDER'S DETERMIN- ATION.

TETGAN. October 10th.

On the occasion of his appointment as commander-in-chief of the Spanish army

in Africa, General De Rivera has issued

the

Fengtier aeroplanes dropped eight bomba on Chinwangtao this morning, four fell near H.B.M.'s submarine 133 but no damage was done anywhere.

JAPANESE NATIONALS IN CHINA. PEKING'S REPLY TO TOKYO.

PERING, October 20th

the Japanese memorandum of the 13th The Chinese Govemment, replying to

instant to-day, presented Notes simul- taneously to the Minister at Peking and the Foreign Office, Tokyo. The Noje points out that the present military opera tions were occasioned by a rebellion

against

Chi-

4.

The first bomb destroyed the railway

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GENERAL ADVANCE EXPECTED.

It is expected that a general advance on all fronts will be made in three or four days.

ATTEMPT TO WRECK WU PEI-FU'S TRAIN. BUMBS PLACED ON RAILWAY LINE

AT TIENTSIN.

RUSSIANS WHO REMOVED THEM DETAINED.

It is considered that the attempted outrage was the work of Fengtien spies, and that it was intended to blow up the train on which Marshal Wu Pei Fu was travelling from Peking to Lanchow. The explosives were contained in two metal boxes, each having as quantity of

were on the rails, and there was a de-

all.

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"We have to-day received a letter from Messrs. Lee and Russ enclosing copy of a letter of to-day's date a dressed, to you in the above matter by Wo wish to Messrs. Lee and Russ. place on record at one that we do not agree with Messrs. Lee and Hum suggestion that there is no necessity for the Arbitration by the Chines Club, and we have to-day so informed Mr. Russ on" the telephone, and are writing him a letter to the same effect. The libel action canant decide the ownership of the ticket. The parties being Sydney Ny Quinu as plaintif and, Chik Sung Ling as defendant. It cannot therefore na between Chik, Sung Ling and Mrs. Violet Chan decide who is the owner of the ticket, wherese the Arbitration will decide this.".

"With reference to your interview with ouh Mr. M. K. Lo in the course of which we were given to understand that you as well as (the Solicitors for the other side are not only willing, but aoxious, that our clients, - the Chinese Club, should appoint Arbitra. tors to inquire into the question as to the ownership of the ticket No. 3066"

10. Your readers therefore cannot ha as between your client and [the client of the Solicitors on the other side]. surprised that when Mr. Ng on behalf" we instructed to inform your that the of Mrs. Chan, by a letter to the Chair- Club at the request of the parties is man and Committee of the Club, dated prepared to appoint such members of 20th Septeraber. 1921, formally applied the Club as are willing and as the for the payment to Mrs. Chan of the parties shall agree to, to act as Arbit-prize, the Club's Solicitors should reply. rators inquire into the ownership that their clients do not admit thit of the ticket No. 3000 as between the Mrs. Chan has any right to claim pay- two present claimants, on the following meat of the sum of 830.400, the first prize terms, and conditions, viz.

in the Sweep." nur that when Mrs. Chan

the Arbitratora.

(1) That the Club will not be bound Mr. Ng and Mr. Brutton-in the face to act according to the Award of of such intimation-attended at the Chab

the Club's Solicitor should state that the (2) That the Club reserves all its Club could make no payment to Mrs.

TSING MAN SUI, rights and that the position of the Chan-Yours faithfully, Clab in law shall be deemed to bo

Hon. Secretary, absolutely exactly the Bilme 11.5 i no such Arbitration had taken. place.

By Order of the Committee. Hongkong, October 20th, 1924.

HUNAN CIGARETTE TAX. ATTEMPT TO MEET FINANCIAL STRINGENCY..

Two boxes of explosives were placed on the railway line close to the Tientsin Golf · „Club-

Thu one night recently. bombs were discovered by two Bussian the authority of the

worknien early the next morning, the men abhorred by the Chinese people, they for their trouble, and experienced what nese Government As the rebels are removing the bonibs, and informing the Chinese authorities. They were detained a proclamation to the troops declaring should not, of course, be looked upon in may mildly be termed as curious treat that after the necessary efforts to save

the same light as Government forces.ment at the hands of the Chinese police,

says the Peking and Tientsin. Pimes. the honour of Spanish arms and lives, The Chinese Government attaches great the soldiers in the territories will be importance to the declaration of the arranged so that Spain shall accomplish Japanese Government to the effect that her mission without detriment to nation- it will always maintain an attitude of al prestige. Spain will soon restore

strict non-interference. The Chinese

We need scarcely "ndd, that, entirely situation, and then the time will have Government is aware of the large "humn-jellowish powder inside. The "boxes without prejudice to the above restr

vations, the Club win no doubt give arrived, for the necessary legislation.ber of Japanese nationals and the con-tonator with fuse attached to each box. the award of the Aruitrators its most Meanwhile, no effort must be spared to siderable amount of Japanese commercial Had the train gone over the detonator,

weighty consideration when the Club the fuse would have been fired, and a comes to consider the question of pay- end the Moroccan problem.

interests in China. Pursuant to its estub-second or so after the engine and tender

ment after the award has been made." lished purposes of promoting neighbourly had passed, the boxes would have ex-

The Asiatic News Agency (Peking) 5. On the 18th May, 1993, an agree ploded, wrecking the train. Iriendliness with Japan, it the more

ment was made, between the claimants (a.

Owing to financial stringency in Hunaz AMr. Makareff, employed at the copy of which was sent to the Club'e desirous, during the present period of Russian Model Dairy farm discovered Solicitors), in which, after reciting that chiefly on account of military expenses

the Hunan provincial government SIMLA, October 19th. military operations, of extending to them the bombs on his way to work in the disputes and differences had arisen and August I began the levying of a 20 per

early hours of Saturday morning. He were still subsisting between the parties cent. ad valorem tax on all eigars and Reports from outlying districts show

every possible protection from injury and was walking along the railway track, thereto as to the ownership of the ticket, cigarettes consumed in Changsha. The that many hundreds of villages have been loss, irrespective of their location, either and on seeing the boxes at once realised and after reciting that the parties there tax will soon be extended to the whole

their significance. Pluckily he removed to had agreed to refer the question of FAMOUS FRENCH HORSE INJURED, swept away by the recent Ganges and in the districts through which the Govern them off the rails, and then sent to the ownership of, such ticket of arbitra.rovince. It is to be collected by the Special Cigar and Cigarette Consump MPINARD'S BAD LUCK IN AMERICA. Jumma floodi, and there has been heavy ment forces pass or in other parts of the farm for another Russian named tion, it was formally agreed between the tion Tax Bureau in Changsia and its Krayonosov, who stayed to watch the parties "inter alia, that the question as branches in the districts, or where therm loss of life and enormous crop and cattle China. At the same time, it would be explosives while Makareff went to the to the ownership of the ticket, and any are no such branches, by the district East Station to inform the authorities. other question or questions incidental magistrates. All local dealers report to helpful to no small extent if the Japanese Unfortunately, he could not speak Eng. thereto which might require to be decid the Bureau collecting agency whenever Government could see its way to exhort lish or Chinese, and was at a loss to ex-ed, were thereby referred to the award any consignment of cigars or cigarettes plain chis discovery, when French and foal decision of the five named is received, and a representative of thes Japanese residents in the aforesaid areas officer arrived, and gathered the meaning arbitrators. (members of the Chinese agene examines the goods and issues

to Club). The agreement provided that certificates

dealers,

application to conduct themselves with circumspection of his gestures.

forms for neither of the parties should" bring or

revenue stamps. When the A military guard was sent to take and restraint.

charge of the boxes, and the two Bussians Prosecute any action against the other cases or packages are opened, the deal- or against the arbitrators in respect of era ase the application forms to apply were detained. Exactly what the Chinese the matters in difference, or in respect for stamps from the collecting agency, Authorities hoped to do with the two of the said award to be made in pursu- and affix them to the containers, boxes Russians is a mystery. The men simplysne cof such submission..

or tins. If they are distributed to retail.

The match was drawa

WASHINGTON, October 20th. Epinard, who will return to France in fortnight's time, was injured in the quarters in Saturday's rate, and will not be able to race again this year.

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FLOODS IN N. INDIA.

FEVER RIFE.

losses. Thousands of people who took refuge in trees were attacked by snakes.

The foods have had a wholesome effect in destroying plague rats, but malaria and dengue fevers are rife as the waters subside.

MOSLEM MOSQUE IN LONDON Relief measures are in full swing.

FOUNDATION. 'STONE LAID:

LONDON, October 19th.

The foundation stone of the first Lon don mosque was laid this afternoon at Southfields, Wandsworth, by the Khalifat Ul-Masih, bead of

the Ahmadiyya Isinmic community in the presence of the Japancee Ambassador and others. The building will cost about ten thousand. sterling, but at present only the mirab" or praying-place, will be built. The Khalifat -Ul-Masiḥ, în performing the ceremony, Haid he hoped the spirit of toleration and largebeartedness, which

the mosque would create would help to establish peace, amity and goodwill

among men.

FAMOUS

RACING MOTORIST

KILLED.

ITALIAN GRAND PRIX:

FATALITY,

MILAN: October 19th. A Marcellon car, driven by Count Zborowsky, the famous racing motorist, competing for the Grand Prix in Italy, turned turtle. Count Zborowsky killed and his mechanie injured.

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COMMISSION,

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AGENT-GENERAL IN PARIS,

PARIS, October 19th. Mr. Seymour Gilbert, the permanent Agent General for Reparations, haa arrived in Paris from America. After conferring with. Mr. Owen Young

the Reparations Commission, he will leave for Berlin in a few day

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Bay

OF

THE POSITION" IN · CHEKIANG-

KLANGSU.

made the discovery, and reported the 8.-After a lengthy and exhaustiveers without opening, then the stamp ap SHANGHAI, October 20th. matter. They were kept practically Marshal Chi Heich Yuan, interviewed food, until early in the evening, when Counsel, instructed by Solicitors, appear prices. Thus the tax is levied as nearly prisoners from 6 in the morning, without enquiry by the Arbitrators, held at the plication forms go with the packages tor Club's premises, in which proceedings the retailers, who secure the required stamps. Valuation is based on retais at Chenju where he is at present, said Makareff was released, and told that heed for both parties, the Arbitratora, by s poskible on the ultimate consumers was to report again on Sunday. An unanimous award dated the 6th July The proceeds of the tax will be used for the serious problem now was to throw Englishman who was at the station gave 1923, found and awarded the Chik was educational purposes Travellers enter-

Hunan

50 cigars may bring every assistance to Marshal Wp Fei Fe the men 82 to buy food, and they were the owner of the ticket, and that Mrs ing

allowed to go with their guards to a Chan never was the owner of the ticket. cigarettes with them, but any Therefore his most important task was shop near the station and eat.

and in view of the Arbitrators' findinga above, is subject to taxation. Dealers to return to Nanking as soon as possible detained. The authorities state that the thereafter be produced by Mrs. Chan receive stamp application blanks before Kravenosov, we understand, is still the contingency that the ticket might who do not apply for examination and and prepare the forces for service in the men are not prisoners, but are detained became irrelevant to the question as to the goods are distributed to retailers North

as witnesses. They were closely ques the true ownership of such ticket as found are fined from $20 to $200 for the first

offence, $50 to $500 for the second. tioned as to their discovery, and as to by the Award. N if they knew who had placed the borEN

to $1,000 thereafter. These who do 7. It is true that the Club should not, ou the line.

and would not, be bound by the Award, not affix-stamps to the boxes or time

they are

Bold units, or when the but it would no doubt give the Award when of the Arbitrators its most weighty con- calue of the stamps is lower than the tax.

are fined for the same reasons from # Even a Bishop would be more distressideration when the Club comes to eon rate, are fined from $1 to be

sider the question of payment after the to $100. Consumers who buy untaxed- if he were told that he had not behaved Award has been made, and as the Club cigars and cigarettes and trayllers d he had not behaved like a Christian-clusion arrived at by the Arbitrators and do not pay tax on them are fixed like a gentleman that if he were told that saw do reason for differing from the con bring in more than 50 cigars or cigaretten.

General Sun Chnan Fang, interviewed by the NC Daily News special cor respondent, said be expected all his troops to be out of Shanghai in two or three days, when he himself would go to Hangcbow. His business was in Hang-

chow for "Shanghai is Kiangsu,”.

Dean. Inge

which, by sgreement, was in fact to from $1 to 10.