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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH RECTER'S' AGENCY.)

COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES.

DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CATHOLIC LEAGUE,

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TROVALE IN TUNIS..

ManSailles, February 1th. Twn persas were killed and» 10 in- Jured in Communist demonstration Again's members of the Catholic League, who are holding a conference here under the chairmanship of General de Castel

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The injured include Abbe Fouque, local celebrity, who was surrounded and beaten as he left the meeting.

Cavalry charged the mob. Two hundred persons were · arrested."

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH, 1925

EARLIER CABLES,

PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLES.

SCOTTISH CHURCH BILL MAIN BUSINESS.

"LONDON, February 10th. Parliament ra-assembled this afternoon without any ceremonial.

EARLIER CABLES.

CROYDON AIR CRASH.

FINDING OF COURT ON XMAS EYE DISASTER.

Lorpos, February 10, The report of the Air Ministry's court of investigation into the Croydon The main business in the House of neroplane disaster, fan December 4th,

says that no Air Ministry or Imperial, Commons to-day was the second read-

official Was in Any way ing of the Church of Scotland Bill, deal-Airwaya ing with the union of the two great negligent, and no blame is to be attribut- Presbyterian-bedies, after which theed to the pilot, the late Capt. Stewart.

The dive to the earth was due to lon House will chiefly be occupied until March 31st with finance, firstly supple of control, combined with a stall, while a forced landing mentary estimates of 79 millions sterl- the pilot was trying ing, then estimates of 25 and 9 millions, under very difficult circumstances. Some specially navy estimates, owing to the defect developed, but there is nothing to belief that Mr. Winston Churchill will show whether the defect was in the en- not agree to give the Admiralty the full gine or its installation, number of ships for which they are ask-

ing.

The Church of Scotland Bill was in- troduced by the Conservatives in January 1924, and reintroduced by the Labour' Government in the House of Lords last

Nummer.

Sir John Gilmour, moving the second reading, said the Bill aimed at increas ing control by the Church over its pep

the measure would open the way at an carly date to the uniou desired by the Established Church and the United Free Church, holding out a prospect of in finitely better Christian service to the Scottish people

A NOTEWORTHY INCIDENT.

PARIS, "February 11th.. It is noteworthy in connection with 'the publication of Zinovieffs letter.

arging the French Communist party toperties and endowments. He believed Hoster an armed revolt in North Africa, that there have been reports from Tunis of Communis: activities there, leading ta collision with the police. The Tunis Government deprived a certain sheikh official of his functions for conducting

The rejection of the Church of Sect- Communist propaganda and the correc

Iand Bill was moved by the Labours tional court sentenced him to a year's Mr. James Brows, former Eigh "Com imprisonment and a fire of 2,000 franes missioner of the Church of Scotland. The manager of the Communist news-The motion was defeated" by 292 to 100 paper L'Arrior Social-is charged with and the Bill passed its second readings. publishing a cartoon, offensive to the

SECURITY OF FRANCE. authority of the Protectorate, previously

published in the Arnh newspaper OFFICIAL DENIAL OF BASELESS El Mourinari, which in consequente has been suspended).

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TROUBLE AT PHAGUE.

Para, February 11th. A Cpmanunist meeting. to protest against the high east of living, ended in battle ainst the Police. Eight civilians were wounded by revolver bullets and 36 policemen were injurel by stones.

Quiet has been restored without re- - course, to military did.

POLITICS IN GERMANY.

HERR HOEFLE UNDER ARNEST OVER BARMAT CASE

BERLIN, February 11th Herr Hocfle, who was Minister of Posts in the Marx Cabinet. and who resigned from the Reichstag in consequence of Allegations that he was implicated in the Barmat bank scandals, has been arrested, following a cross-examination, by the Public Prosecutor, based on Statements of officials in the Barmat concern and through suspicion that he is trying to -get rid of incriminating documents

The Berlin Branch of the Social Demo- cratic Party has passed a resolution," demanding the expulsion from the party of Herr Bauer..

DREYFUS CASE ECHO.

DEATH OF FAMOUS - COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE

PARIS, February 11th. The death in reported of Maitre Demange, the famous advocate, who wan, .counsel for the defense in the Dreyfus

Case.

FRENCH BUDGET DEBATE,

TAXATION LEVEL HAS ALREADY

REACHED LIMIT. “

PARIS, February 11th.

REPORTS.

Losvos, February 10th.

Lis oficially denied that there has been any discussions, as reported in l'aris, between, Britain, France and Ger many with a view to revival of the mili- tary arrangement of 1912, under which Britain preserved anfettered freedom of

action..

It is also denied that the report of the inter-Allied committee of control was delayed in order to give Britain, France and Germany time to agree to

scheme ensuring French security. It is emphasised that Britain does not in- tend connecting French security with the question of a settlement of the French debt.

COTTON MILLS. FURTHER REDUCTION OF WORK- ING HOURS IN MANCHESTER.

Loxoos, February 10th. The Federation of Master Cottonspin- Dera at Manchester has announced that the necessary majority has been obtain- ed for the proposal reduce the work. ing hours of mills spinning American cottch," from 353 weekly to 35, from February 16th..

OPIUM CONFERENCE.

URAFT PROTOCOL IS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED.

GENEVA, February 10th. The second opium conference has voted the draft protocol with a slight modifica tion of the wording.

tion.

The Finnish delegate subsequently in- troduced a resolution in favour of re- commending the Council of the League to consider the advisability of referring the question of the unlicensed importa of arms into Far Eastern territories to the forthcoming conference on the traffic in arms and munitions, in view of the fact that the Chinese Generals were compelling, the local population to grow the opium poppy in order to secure revenue for the purpose of buying arms and munitions,

The debate was adjourned

AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

WATERSIDE LEADER HEAVILY FINED.

The aerodrome at. Croydon is unsatis- factory.

POLITICAL · · SITUATION STUDENTS AND COMMUNISM. CHINESE PROFESSOR CHARGED

AT SHANGHAI

IN CHINA

[Turocon "RIUTEL'S ALEXOY.] CONDITION UNCHANGED. LATEST BULLETIN OF HEALTH OF

DR. SUN-YAT SEN,

PIRING, February, 11th. The Peking Union Medical College bulletin states: Sun Yat Sen, today, is unchanged in essentials: his temperature is normal and pulse 100.

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Dzao Li Du, "Vice-President of the Shanghai University, who was formerly described as jonnalist, appeared on remand befors Mr. Martin and Magis- trate Kuan at the Mixed Court, Shang- haj, on February 6th, on the charge of being an undesirable,

PEKING NOTES...

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] OBSERVANCE OF CHINA NEW

YEAR. :

PENING, January such. As Peking has given itself up so thoroughly to the observances of China New Year there has been a complete absence of news to discuss. Most of the

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Mr. Maitland (prosenting) said that he wished to make an application for the The condition of Dr.destruction of books seized by the police vernacular newspapers took six days at the Shanghai University. He also holiday, and the foreign papers wera wished to make an application to expel not far behind with four. The new accused as an undesirable.

Was The books, added Mr. Maitland, were year not greeted with the old Bolshevist propaganda to a very hurge fashioned noisy demonstrations-Because extent. One of them contained pictures of the Bolshevist leaders Lenin and cracker firing is still forbidden-but as There were several venturesome individuals decided Trotzky and many others. other books containing articles on to prove thas this regulation is a dead volutionary government. A book entitled letter, as it is, others were encouraged "Plans of the Communist Party gested how the bangers should combine apparently to follow suit, with the result to overthrow everybody and kill all the that by the third and fourth nights

Evidently, Mr. Maitland there was continuous discharge of. capitalists.

PEKING AND GENEVA. CHINESE MINISTERS DISCUSS OPIUM CONFERENCE.

Piso, February 11th.

A conference is being held at the

TU-

This was not a primary cause Ministry of Interior, this afternoon,aid, the idea was for the ricksha cooliestreworks which created a cheery impres

of the accident, but may have been a contributory cause.

The court has rejected the suggestion that there was failure of the petrol sup- ply due to obstruction of the petrol pipe, as possible cause of the disaster. PATENT FOR MR. ASQUITH.

in view of the withdrawal of the Chinese delegation.

[FROM THE DAILY BULLETIN."] SHANGHAI AND WOOSUNG.

SEMI-OFFICIAL TEXT OF NEW

REGULATIONS."

thesion, revealing as it did that notwith-

which representatives of the various to run the Government. There were six

on Terrorism, Ministers are attending in order to dis-books by Lenin The court is of opinion that the Aircus the Opium Conference at Geners of Communist als ze standing national and individual mis

counts of speeches by Lenin, Another book was entitled the Bleeding of the fortunes thers were many who were pro- Peking Hankow Labourers" "In all pared to have a good time at their aR-. Ministry should consider whether limit should be fixed for the angle of

there were soine 900 such books.

anal festival. Fortunately, the weather Dot.-Inspector Gibbous gave evidenc

was good, and it brought out grpups. that he assisted in the execution of a climb and stalling speed.

warrant ordering the search "of the of happy people. Yesterday snow fell Shanghai University and the house of a beavily-it is probably the last of the professor in Moulmein Bond. Altogether year-and is a good augury for the com there were over 300 books advocating Bolshevism or dealing with the subjecting of spring next week with its resump-

tion of agricultural activties. TEKISO, February 10th.

in an academic way. According to a semi-official statement,

Mr. Cover (defending): Have you POLITICO-MILITARY SITUATION., the regulations to govern the jurisdictaken the trouble to find out Dzap's walk

"Events at Shanghai have done much tion of the Shanghai and Woaungi lifal Tupan are deâued under

Witness: Yes.

It is known to the to clarify the politico-military situation. as follow:-Municipal police, Munici police that he has been convicted befors. It will be remembered that when the pal revenues, maintenance of peace He was previously convicted for publish

the Municipality, lucation, within

policy of reunification by peaceful charitable institutions, engineering and ing an indecent article in the Erblin Chief Executive, in pursuance of his building, communications, public pro- Daily Fees and was fired $50. perties, registration of householders,

means, decided, with the consent of and, lastly, sanitary affairs and public

General Chang Tso Lin, that forer should

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LONDON February 10th. With H.M. the King's approval, the Patent Office in now engaged in making out Mr. Asquith's patens under the title Earl of Oxford and Asquith, in time to enable Mr. Asquith to take his seat in the House of Lords next week.

FOOTBALL AT HOME. SCOTTISH RANGERS DEFEAT DUNDEE BY 2-0.

LON,ox, February 10th.-

The Scottish Rangers beat Dundee by goals to nothing, in the first division of the Scottish Soccer League.

CRICKET..

VICTORY FOR M.0.0. TEAM AGAINST VICTORIA.

MELBOURNE, February 10th.

la the match against the MC.C. Vic toria scored 50 runs in the second in nings Atkinson and Ryder scored 15

rubs each.

Hearne took the last four wickets för 21 russ, making his average five wickets for 30. Kilner took five wickats for 18

TUDA.

The MC.C. won by an innings end 271 runs.

Scores

FIRST INNINGS.

AL. C.C.

Victoria

.500 176

SECOND INNINGS.

..30

Victoria

recreations.

hends ten

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MARSHAL FENG YU ESLANG.

TAKES UP RESIDENCE AT PIONEER INN

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employed to oust Chi Haich Yuan from Shanghai, apprehension was ex- pressed that, by attenuating his line by evading troops southward Chang Tso. Lin was exposing himself to the niger of being cut off at Tientsin. Apparent

Now it

Mr Maitland submitted that the Uni versity had been a home for Bolshevik propaganda. It was abondantly clear that it had been a hot-bexl of Bulthyvin The Tupan's gamen will consist of 50VED departments, namely, engineer and as such was undoubtedly hostile to ing, sanitation, police, taxation, educa-the present form of Government in tion and municipal.

China. With the present trouble in was This draft may be altered, but no thoroughly undesirable that further strife drastic changes are expected.

should be created by Communist pro pagnada. The Settlement was set aside for foreigners. If these people wanted to carry on this propaganda let then doy the dispositions which he made reader-

ed such a thrust impossible. It was not Goin Chinese territory. right to let them carry on their work is realised that the dispositions which

If in the security of the Settlement.

have been made by Chang and by Feng they wanted to make the ricksha coolies the Government of China let them do is Ya Hsiang reflect a stalemate for the outside the Settlement. That was what duration of the cold weather. As Chang Two Lin could not operate against Feng Bolshevism would mean.

beenuse of the cliuatic conditions and. the latter could not operate against the former for the same, reason, it is ap parent that Chang Tso Lin was quito, free to clear up the situation in the south well before there was any danger of the expected clash in the spring.

Politically, too, the situation appears to be less obscure. The collapse of Sun Yat

PERING, February 10th. Feng Yu Hsiang, who at first install ed himself in the Kalgas Railway police headquarters, moved out a week ago and took up his residence at the Pioneer Inn, which is conducted by a foreign wethan

Judgment was reserved.

INDIAN CIVIL SERVANTS.

the inn for the accommodation of him- Feng Yu Hsiang reserved one wing of

A NEW CONCESSION. self and his family, intimating that he would remain some three months.

A revision of some importance has been Foreign telegrams from Kalgan indi-made in the Statutory Rules and Orders eate that Feng Yu Hsiaog is arranging made by the Secretary of State in. Council inst December to give effect to eco- to take up his frontier post..

mendations of the Lee Commission for improving the Snancial position of mem Lers of the Superior Civil Services retain- ing their British domicile and of Indian ben is a great blow not only to his fol members incurring certain family liabili-lowers, but to the Bolshevik supporters ties, eg, the education of children, in who had hoped soon to be reaping the Great Britain.

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REHABILITATION CONFERENCE.

PEENIG, February 10th. Owing to Chao Erh Hsun's refusal to retain the Chairmanship of the Con- ference yesterday, when the preliminary meeting discussed the Conference re another meeting will be gulations, held on Friday, when a permanent chairman and vice-chairman will be elected..

TEST MATCH IS ABANDONED AT FAR EASTERN CABLE

JOHANNESBURG

JOHANNESBURG, February 10th. There was steady rain here to-day, and the Test match was abandoned.

EARLIER CABLES. [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] DAVIS CUP CHALLENGE.

NEw Yoak, February 10th. France has challenged for the Davis Cup,

GERMAN-AMERIČAN TREATY.

WASHINGTON, February 10th: The Senate has ratified the German- American Commercial Treaty.

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NEWS.

[FROM THE DAILY BULLETIN."] COTTON MILLS DAMAGED. FIVE THOUSAND CHINESE OPERATORS NOW IDLE.

SHANGHAI, February 10th. Following a demonstration by the workers at one of the cotton mills be. longing to the Nagui Wato Kaisha, al- leged to be owing to the dismissal of Bome of their number, a band reported to number between 200 and 300 Chinese attacked three of the yesterday morning damage to the pre- mills, doing

mises and machinery, and forcing other employees to leave work

It is estimated that 6,000 Chinese mill operators have been rendered idle.

In the rioting, half-a dozen Japanese supervisors were injured, and 12 of the strikers wore rrested.

A call to the police was delayed owing to the rioters preventing the use of the telephone.

The Kuomingtang have One item which gave substantial relief whirlwind. was the grant of "passage pay to cover endeavoured to meet the new position the cost of a given number of passages by appointing a committee of three to to and from Europe for the officer and his conduct the affairs of the party, and it wile and of single passages for each child. In the original form the concession was has decided to remove its headquarters subject to a provision that the cost of frora Canton to Peking. I am told that such passage should not exceed the cost Feng Yu Hsiang is being urged

passage by sea between Bombay and London in a P. and O. liner, first class B. take up the mantle of Dr. San, and if For the words "Bombay and London" he does he will have behind him the the words "port to port" are now sub-brains and the foren of Huang Fu. stituted. This change is important, as an offices embarking at Rangoon, Cal- cutta, Karachi, or Madras is now on an equal footing with officers embarking at Bombay,

of a

LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S WILL.

FURTHER LITIGATION? The News of the World forecasts fur- ther litigation concerning Lord North cliffe's will owing to a contention that ex-service mcn employees who were not demobilised at the time of Lord North-

For some reason or other views beard these days are less pessimistic. Intel- ligent Chiese predict that before the. year is well advanced the situation in China will have been considerably im proved and a greater degree of stability secured by Government. Probably the fact that Chang Tso Lin is steadily extending his power throughout the country is explanation for this optimism.

TROUBLE ON A TRAM CAN.

Nothing indicates the selfish outlook

cliffe's death were not able to parties. pate in the legacies, and also owing to

of the militarists more than the action the beneficiaries complaint that some

inadequate which led to the strike of the tranway assets of the estate realised

employees this week An officer in mufti. prices.

The

winding up

of the estate has been boarded an overcrowded car on Tuesday requested by the ticket col-

off further delayed by a claim for additional

for another death duties amounting to £500,000.

This offended his

who mightiness This point involves the purchase price called uppen to

and was re and

of Lord Northcliffe's shares in the to assist him, and, they started a scrap Daily Mad and the Weekly Dispatch to

the

BANISHED PATRIARCH. VIEWS OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH GOVERNMENTS.

WASHINGTON, February 10th In the course oftere Senator Fletcher, Mr. Hughes expresses the

which were bought by his brother Lord which resulted in six tramway employees opinion that it would be inappro-

SHOT AS SPIES,

Rothermere, and later sold to the Daily being conveyed to the P.U.M.C Hospital serious injprice. Next day the priate to intervene in the Turco-

Mail trust Greck dispute regarding the expul

FATE OF EIGHT RUSSIAN

Primarily, protection in IDE,

CICCU- MELBOURNE, February 10th.

zion of the Eatriarch, which is 2

1 am bot an admirer of the idea of entire staff came out on strike demand- duties, and payment of Mr. Walah, president of the waterside controversy between two Governments PEDLARS AT YANGYIN.

hired troops and condoticre, but, I am tion of--t

their wages in full without the deduc- three charges of inciting the waterside Treaty to which the United States organisation, has been found guilty on concerning

a Russian the interpretation of a

SHANGHAL, February 10th. Workers' Federation to strike and its not a parts The State Department The Shanghai Times reports that eight certain detachements of English, Fing out. Beveral cars were badly damag- and other troops, under General ed. Such incidents illustrate what China been sentenced to a fine of £150, with payment of fifty guiness costs.

Atbeas and Constantinople to repert Chi Haich Kuan's forces between Wasih Seymour, were cut off and caught hy suffers at the hands of ignorant and

selfish soldiery. to the Government on the development and Kiangrin were shot as spics at the Boxera.

the Consequent upon the expulsion of the Yangyin forts just before Marahal Chi Let the English and French, OBITUARY.

Patriarch.

Heich Tuan evacuated the place residents of Shanghai, remember, that The Russia, the local Russian paper, those whole detachments were saved from öalls on foreigners to take action against Chinese execution, by Russian Cossacks the shooting in order to ensure the and

nd sharpshooters of the Russian Gener future safety of Russians in China.nl Steche

I am a Russian and I cannot be The editor of the

Minister at Finance stated taxes bad officials to encourage the strike, and has thas instructed its representatirea at Hussian pedlars who were captured by a Bozers Rising in 1000-. tions made by several hands before pay

In the Chamber of Deputies, in the course of a discussion on the Budget, the

already reached such a level that any increase would "destroy caxability."--- Navar.

TURKEY AND FRANCE. MUSTAPHA KEMAL PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE.

ANGORA, February 11th. Speaking in the National Assembly, Alustapha Kemal emphasized the Turks attachment to France, who is Turkey's educator and only friend. He pointed out that Byria cannot divide the two countries but, on the contrary, draw themt

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(THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.] VIEWS IN LONDON,

·SIR ROBERT CORYNDON.

NAIROBI, February 10th.

LONDON, February 10th. The death is reported of Sir Robert Coryndor, K.C.M.G.,

of Governor In the House of Lords, replying to Kenya Colony.'

the Archbishop of Canterbury who The late Bir Bobert Thorne Coryndon raised the question of the Turkish e

was 55 years of age has been pulsion of the Patriarch of Cons Governor and Commander-in-Chief of stantinople, Lord Curzon said that the Kenya High Commissioner of Zanzibar Government held the opinion that the ince 1022 He entered the African matter was emphatically, one which the Colonial Service when nineteen years parties concernca ought to settle them of age, being for a spell private secre-selves. tary to Cecil Rhodes (1896-07). He saw The Government. which ་་་ service in the Matabele, War and Rebel absoluto nccord with the various Allies lion (medal and clasp), and later held, in this connection, would exert its in various administrative posts and served fluenes towards recuring a peaceful set- on a number of Commissions.)

tlement of the matter.

in

in Shanghai, recently sent the following. letter to the Shanghai papers

the newspaper Resid

"BURNS NICHT" Members of St. Andrew's Society, ecla brated Burns Nicht on the tard with. dinner at the Grand Hotel de Pekin, The President, Mr. J.B. Hogg, was in the chair, and Mr. A. Ramsay (former poly of the H.K. Daily Press) was im there no gentlemen amongst the the vice-chair. The toast of the evening who would voice their pro- was entrusted to the Rev. T. Barker, Beveral local newspapers report the test against the crime about to be, coma who paid an eloquent tribute to the

genius of Scotland's National Bard. arrest by the Chinese Authorities of mitted? ...

Authorities would shoot The Chinese

CURLING. Give Russians as "spies" and "bandita."

Our Russian liver are not worth any- few Russians to-day, bat who would thing, already for a long time.

guarantee the safety of the foreigners honour in

eyes does not beatle on the morrow!! exist,

We Russians, we beg for the hyes of Five Russians are caught naapi these unlucky Russians and imprisoned at the Arsenal.

We Russians, we are asking foreign profection. They could be shot.

(Continued on rezi. Column).

And wo are waiting

The Carling Club has bad to contend ronny difficulties in its initial

with

tempt at the rearing game, but member have had a taste suficient to justify their intention to profit by experience in the coming years and popularize the game in Peking: