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SHANGHAI SITUATION IMPROVING.

MISSIONARY GIVES EVIDENCE AT RESUMED TRIAL OF RIOTERS.

E.M.S. ** HAWKING " JOURNEY

POSTPONED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]'.

MISSIONARY'S EVIDENCE.

SHANGHAT, Judo sth.

The first trial was pramed in the Mixed Court to day of seventeen rioters forfeiting their Bail. twenty-nine Lengthy evidence was taken all day Jong.

Mr. Harry Westridge, a China Inland Missionary, gave evidence that he wit- nessed occurences pa the afternoon "of

May 30th, which he 'recounted in minute

detail.

то SINGAPORE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10TH,

CABLES.

EARLIER CABLES (THROUGH BELTER'S AGENCY). SECURITY PACT. AGREEMENT BETWEEN BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

Panis, June Haene correspondent at Ceneva claims that be in authorised to declare that M. Briand and Mr. Austen Chamberlain have reached a definite 'ngevement, in connection So far there are no signs that any of with the security pact, under which these measures are being put into opera Great Britain undertakes to guarantee tion, and the sggested boycott, also up-the Rhine frontier as fixed by the Treaty of Versailles with her entire naval, ears to be ineffective.

military and air forces in the event of German violation of the territorial and military clausek relating to that area.

The guarantee does not extend to the frontiers of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, which will remain under the protection The Japanese lines of the League of Nations, but in the event and Mears. Jardine Matheson, and of manifest aggression against France's Company are also meeting with difficul, eastern allies, the agreement authorises ties, but ocean-going vesels are not yet France to use the dermilitarised, Rhine affected by the strike. The lockers are zone is a field of operations for the par- interrupting deck work and very little pose of aiding an attacked ally. cargo is being moved owing to Chines It was also agreed that Germany can and shipping "hongs" which not be admitted to the League of Nations

and handle

closing until she has signed the security pact en- tirely conforming with the conditions

B. AND S. BOATS IDLE.

SHANGHAI, June 9th.

Three hundred Chinese seamen en ployed on coastal river steamers owned by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire have joined the strike.

Asked whether he considered the shoot ing necessary, he replied that as a mis sionary he hated shooting, but if he had been the officer of the law responsible ( banks for the station which was attacked he finance woull There was no option. He be down. „lieved there was no evidence to show that far students had any personal" feel-

ing against the police, and rice verin.

Asked whose "fault the shooting was.

enrgoes

JAPANESE VIEW,

TexYo, June 9th.

The reports that at to-day's

he replied that it was a misfortune. If Ministerial Conference, M. Shidehara the events related had happened in Eng. Prophesied a worse development in the land the result would have been the same.conomic phase of the Shanghai sitan It was the students not the police who tion, although the rioting is decreasing were looking for trouble.

numerated above.

GENEVA, June 8th Mr Austen Chamberlain, interviewed by Reuter's correspondent, confirmed that Anglo-French agreement had been reached regarding security, but he refused

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EARLIER CABLES. FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. FRENCH TROOPS DEFEAT RIFF TRIBESMEN

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FABLIER CABEES,

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S PLEA FOR

ECONOMY.

GENEVA, June 8th.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

(THROUGH RATEE'S AGENCY.]

CANTON

The Council of the League of Nations JAPANESE

ARRIVE.

Jane Ath.

Fighting between the Cantonese and the Yunnane is in full swing.

Four

PARIS, June Sth. Abulletin, frum Fez reports that con- ungents of rebel tribesmen proceeding in has opened. the direction of Taunat heights were out Mr. Austen Chamberlain urged economy flanked by French cavalry and friendly by the health section, whose expenditure tribesmen, and forced to retreat with of a million frales in 1929 compared with Cantonem gunboats bombarded the Bund heavy losses. ·****

seven hundred thousand in 1924. The which is occupied by the Yanganese, The French artillery stopped a fresh Council deckled to refer the subject to the who returned the fire from the shore. envy attack.

next Assembly of the Leagne in Septeri The dange and casalaties are so far LATEST CABLES.

ber. Ma ARAR GRATITUDE.

unknown. Rifle fire from both sides A protest by Abyssinia against inclusion of the river is now being continued al- During the past most incessantly among the special zones where the traffic the next session, as the Arms Conference arrived. in arms is prohibited was adjourned to forty hours two Japanese destroyers

FEZ, June 9th.

is dealing with the matter.

All the prominent Moslems of Fes visited the wounded soldiers to whom they brought many gifts. A collection made in the Arab quarters yielded within some hours 18,000 francs, which the natives handed over to the French authorities in order that the money The general committee of "the Arms should be distributed among the wounds Conference adopted a proposal to extend of every religion. General Luntry the scope of the clause prohibiting the use receiving from nil parts of Morocco of poisonous gases in warfare to include

ARMS CONFERENCE.

GENEVA, June 8th

U.S. COTTON LAW.

WASHINGTON, June 9th. The Department of Agriculture bas amended the regulations under the Cotton Futures Act to make the transfer unit of certiheated cotton for delivery en future contracts 23 instead, of, 100 GERMAN COLONIAL SOCIETY,"balès. The amendment was made effec QUAINT DEMAND FOR RETURN

messages congratulating and thanking the use of bacteria. the troops.-H.

M. PAINLEVE'S CONCERN,

→PARIS, June 9th. In the Cabinet M. Painleve announced that he would go to Morocco in the vening by aeroplane accompanied by M. Eynne the under-Secretary for Air

EARLIER CABLES.

SAMOS REVOLT.

LONDON, Jane sth.

saptured.

LATEST CABLES. TROUBLE PRACTICALLY OVER.

ATHENS, June 9th.

The Greek Legation reports that the to discuss the details. He said that the agreement would be embodied in a Note leaders of the revolt in Sames have been which France will send to Germany in re- The cabinet agreed that amor practi-ply to the latter's pact proposals. cal step a regards the riots was impos The Note, which will go as a French Doctory Muir, and Chen gave evidence,sible util the joint Investigation Com-reply, will be couched in the most that they examined the wounded and mittee's report was received.

lead rioters. Their opinion was that the

bullets entered the bodies from the front oz obliquely Que body was hit in the back of the head. It is believed that he was killed at the New World Theatre on June 2nd. The case was remanded until to-morrow. Bait was offered to all the accused.

CHANG TSO LIN'S" ATTITUDE:

PEKING, June 9th.

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The insurrection at Samos is practic- courteous and most friendly terms, and it ally ended. Three insurgents were ought to lead to successful negotiations.killed in a bombardment by a flotilla

Mr. Chamberinin said that there was

from Athens. Others fled, to be round- noning in the agreement likely to enuse

ed up by Greek troops Poland any disquiet.

LATEST CABLES. PARIS PRESS COMMENTS.

LOYAL WORKERS FIRED ON

SHANGHAI, June 9th. The Chinese Merchant Volunteers this afternoon tried; to incite the Chinese workers of a Belgian mill which is on Chinese territory to strike. The work-

PARIS. June 9th.. ers refused and a quarrel ensued in the The newspapers emphasise the import- course of which the Chinese Volunteers ance of the agreement between M. Brian Gred on the workers, killing one and and Mr. Chamberlain, or wounding one seriously and several others slightly.

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The Petit Parisita suggests that the pact is superior to preceding drafta in namuch as it no longer is a question, of Britain assisting France and Bergium," |bot a" firma determination by Britain to defend her own security on the Rhine | and Scheldt.

YARLIER CABLES.

BALLOON RACE" MISHAPS.

BRUSSELS, June 8th. The four balloons down in the Gordon Bennett mee include the British balloon Fisie, which hai to land at Etaples and was subsequently destroyed by a train.

Two Spanish balloons and one French halloon also descended in France.

LATEST CABLES --US, -BALLOON PICKED UP.

LONDON, June 9th.

The Geraan steamer Vaterland sends wireless message that she picked up the American Balloon Goul True III, off about yesterday. The crew were saved.

OF COLONIES.

MUNICH, Juna uth. The annual meeting of the German Colonial Society passed a resolution strongly prowsting against etheft ** of Germany's colonies, demanding that the Government should nak for their re turn, and requesting the Reichstag not to ratify the Anglo-German Commercial

Treaty unless "the" anti-German regula. tions which are still being enforced in British Colonies are cancelled.

THE OLD GAME.

GERMAN DEVICES TO EVADE

TREATY.

LONDON, June 8th. The report of the Inter-Allied Commis- sion of Contral which formed""the" basis of Friday's Note to Germany was pub. ished tonight. The bulk of the infrac tions of the Trenty are embodied in the Note The report enlarges on the resist. ance and obstruction on the part of the German military authorities, and charges. notably in the military training of Germany" with "deliberate dissimulation,

youths and secret surplus in armaments and war material.

“GERMÁN TRAWLERS SEIZED. FRENCH WARSHIPS CAPTURE IN

MOROCCAN WATERS..

PARIS, June 8th

The vernacular papers report that Feng Yu Hsiang has issued a circular

REFERRED TO AT GENEVA. supporting the student agitations, also

"GENEVA, „June“ 8th. that he has wired in Chang Tan Lin

The question of the Shanghai shooting "arging that the militarists co-operate was raised at a meeting of workers" de. with each other and the people to oblegates at the International Labour Con-

The Petit Journal foresees a similar Lain then rights for Chinese Chang ference, in a statement signed by Messrs. Franco-Italian-Austrian pact guarantee Two Lin is reported to have replied Johi (India), Lawson (Australia) and ing the frontiers of these countries. The

A message from Fez states that French agreeing with these sentiments, but it is Suzuki (Japan) which was submitted to paper says that Mr. Chamberlain and

HARD" -LUCK.

warstaps seized two German trawlers in M. Briand are working to obtain the believed that the General is merely

Eight more halloons landed in France Moroccan waters near Agadir and took desirous of showing sympathy with the

The latter declared that the question adhesion of Italy to the Anglo-French

In the Echu de Paria Per comprising 3 Italian, 2 British, I Amethem to Mogador, where they are being popular movement and does not intend could not be raised at the Conference un- entente.

The detained... rien, Belgian and 1 Swiss. der its standing orders, whereupon the tinax" criticises the proposed pact ind any unti-Foreign petion.

Spanish alloon Hesperia fall into the

TO RESTORE THE FRANC. meeting resolved to despatch through the declares that if such a system is con-

Arned it will be the end of any inde: The crew were picked up by the Amsterdam International, a message of pendent far-seeing French policy.

M. CAILLAUX " HAS A PLAN. Italian steamer Piumpinu F., which sympathy for the workers in China.

funded them in Brittany. They were leading, having covered 370 kilometres.

EARLIER CABLES.

the Chairman,

BRITISH BISHOP'S VIEW,

LONDON, June 8th.

SHANGHAI SETTLING DOWN. SHANGHAI, June 9th. Apart from the shipping strike, Shanghai continues, to settle down. The bakers resumed work this morning. Some shops have reopened, and domes the Diocesan Conference, said they must tics are returning to work.

not lay all the blame for the disturbances

The Bishop of St. Albans, speaking at

No riots have occurred in the river-in China on Bolshevism; these were large- ports but much unrest is reportedly due to the appalling conditions prevail- "Women and cli; dren refugees from ing in industry in China and to the fact Kiakiang will arrive in Shanghini to that many Europeans sought to make morrow. Consular reports from Chung-money from China without consulering king" state that students are agitating, the native,

MINOR INCIDENTS.

ALLIES ARE AGREED.

GENEVA, Later "Mr. Chamberlain interviewed by Reuter made .it. clear that the Note regarding the security pact: to be presented due course as the French statement was made in agreement with that the Allies. M. Briand said Belgium approved bf the Note.

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Paris, June 8th.

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tive, by 15 vote to . This applies to transfer between markets and does not affect dansfers within the marketį.

A REMARKABLE NATION. COOLIDGE'S PRAISE FOR HIS OWN COUNTRY,

MINNEAPOLIS, Juné oth One of the main features in the four-

the centenary of the lunding of the first. day celebrations by Norse-Americans on

Norwegian colonists in the United States was an address by President Coolidge who pointed out the success of the Unitesi States in fusing together diverse peoples As an example to the world in efforts to bring about fraternity and cooperation among peoples of apparently conflicting interests.

EARLIER CABLES.

U.S. AIRSHIP.

HAS TO ABANDON LONG DISTANCE FLIGHT

Twe WASHINGTON, June-ath The fact that the ex-Zeppelin airship

fight from Lakehurst to Minnesota haif- Angren had to abandon yesterday's

way owing to engine trouble furnished Secretary Wilbur with a text for a state- The utter folly of. staking mede ou

liability of the petrol engine." the national defencs exclusively on the

Meanwhile the Los Angeles "has been unable to "moor owing to fog and has been helplessly circling over Lakehurste

LATER

The Los Angeles was safely berthed at the twenty-sixth attempt after being

aloft for 12 hours.

Mr Wilbur stated that the Norweging † Aero Club's request that the Los Aüyeler or the Shenanih should be sent in search of Amundsen had been refused,

The Navy Department had not changed its opinion that such an expedition was

It is announced that M. Caillaux, Finance Minister, is determined to utilise if necessary in support of the not feasible; franc, which at present, is over, 100 to the £, all the American credits "avail fable as the result of the Morgan Joan, fin addition to a further large sum, but At Holland Park, in a twenty-rounds the exact moment for the Government's GENEVA, June" sth. contest for the European middleweight

RIFTS. WITHIN THE LATE

· HOME BOXING. « MILLIGAN DEFEATS "FRATTINI.

LONDON, Jure stb.

!!

The Labour Conference is passing championship, Tommy Milligan (Hamil intervention will be kept secret to pre- through a crisis in consequence of coton, N.B.) gained the decision on points dicting views among the representative over the Italian, Bruno Frattini (hold-vent speculation. sections of which the latest instance is¦er).:

BES (ĮREUTERS, AMERICAN SERVICES.

New York, June 8th.

the conference's rejection, as the result [5

used. The decision was unfavourably crouched."

He added "We are not going to wand balloon on any wild goose chase, to the Polar Regions," "a

HEAT WAVE IN CANADA.

'OTTAWA'S RECORD WEEK-END TEMPERATURE.

OTTAWA, June 9th,

Canada is sweltering under shade tem Laf British nmendments, of the draft con- The fight was a fast and skilful one but two commanding Generals assure the The Conference passed a resolution devention providing for a weekly suspen throughout. Milligan, who was savetal

The announcement that M. Caillaux pratures of between 90 degress and -100- Consuls that they will maintain ordi claring that greater sacrifier must be sion of work of twentyfour hours iz pounds lighter than his opponent, adopt will use the Morgan credit of $100,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. and guarantee the safety of foreignere made by the Charth at home in order to tries where tank furnaces are ed an upright bearing, while the Italian in support of the franc led to speculative Ottawa experienced the hottest week-

buying of francs, which briskly, rallied end on-record.

There were four deaths from heat- at the opening of the foreign exchange farther foreign missiomry effort. commented on by the workers group who Milligan scored well with good left market, to $4.81, compared with 4.551. stroke at Montreal, ant saven elsewhere. H.M.S.. HAWKINS." ..-

considered that the experimental system leads and right swings, also with hooks the lowest figure during last week.

There was severe hailstorm in eastern of having two readings of measures and uppercuta in the clinches. He fought

Ontario SHANGHAI, June 9th:

different sessions failed. A. modifica splendidly towards the end, and despite BELGIAN DEBT TO U.S. H.M.S. Hawkins has put in a 100-

tions of the standing orders in regard determined efforts by the Italian, he into the composition of committees is like gained a narrow victory. song. Her departure for Singapore has

ly to be undertaken in 1928. been postponed indefinitely.e

PEKING STUDENTS DEMANDS.

PEKING, June 9th.

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SHANGHAI, June 8th. There were number of minor cidents, such as mud throwing at Ameri- can naval men at a border bridge. The Chinese police with difficulty were per sunded to interfere.

OBITUARY.

MR. A. MOWAT.""

ITALIAN AIRMAN.-

MAJOR DI PINEDO REACHES ADELAIDE

WASHINGTON, June 8th:

It is officially announced that a Bel gian Commission under the ex-Premier M. Theunis, is coming to Washington in July to negotiate the debt settlement

LATEST CABLES, MACMILLAN EXPEDITION. RIVALRY BETWEEN CANADA AND UNITED STATES

WABBINGTON, Jund oth

VERA CRUZ CALAMITY

-* Mexico City, June 8th. It is reported from Vera Cruz that over 100 persons were drowned in the isthnite of Tehuantepec owing to the overflowing of the Tehuantepee and Perros rivers

Villages were destroyed and crops ruined.

at H.B.M. Consulate at Hankow, Called later of South Australia, and in the grams from: Ottawa stating that Canada by permission of Capt. JC. Hamilton,

LONDON, June 9th The Students' Union here continues The Chinese Merchants Volunteers ac The death is announced of Mr. Robert

ADELAIDE, June 8th Major di Pinedo, the Italian airman, his to pass extreme resolutions demanding tually fired shots over the head of In- Anderson Mowat. inter alia that all ricksha coolies in the spector Beale while the latter was riding 1843, became a student interpreter Major di Finedo landed in the outer

Mr. R. A Mowat, who was born in aurived hera

Later. Legation

quarter should strike, that on horseback along the Municipal-Road the Chins Consular establishment arbour amid the cheers of thousands of 1864. In 1966 he was acting interpretpectators. He was welcomed by-the Anglo-Japanese employed by the Gor ernment or Chinese Artos should be dis missed that the telegraph, and water should be cut off fram the Legution quarter, that the Government should despatch troops to Shanghai, and that Chinees should trave forsiga tmply

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{FROM, THE ** DAILY. BULLETIN.'/]

KIUKIANG COOLIES STRIKE.

HANKOW, June 8th. ? A telegram from Kiukiang says that all the coolies struck work today.

The agent of the Indo China Steam Navigation Company does not recom- mend passengers to proceed to Huling.

AL the Star Theater, Kowloon, Jast - evening and on Monday evening, the “Pantaloncaties' of IT M.§. Durban Official circles are interested in telepresented a very enjoyable programme to the Bar in 1871 be, became Acting As sistant Judge of the Supreme Court, course of an interview he said that Italy has decided to send mounted police to IN. The proceeds from the two efforts Shanghai, from 1876-8 In April, 1801, waa upprehensive in regard to the future the Arctic, to establish patrols on theserto be sent to Walter J. Barnegat, he became Judge at H.E, M. Court Lor development of aviation and desired to islands to the North of the mainland, stuker, who, us the result of an accident,

keep well in the forefront, Japan. He retired in 1807-]

(A Washington cable of June 3rd stated was recently invalided out of the Navy LATEST UABLES. that Canads expects to claim any lands-The artists and those frincipally cou

discovered North of Canada as far as nacted with the performances were Mne the Pole by

the forthcoming ManMillan Muller; Billy Beggy Davy Jones Billy MELBOURNE, June 9th.expedition and that the American Williame; Reg. H Hermann W. Pre Major Di Pinedo arrived at St. Kilda authorities intended to raise the Ameri- ton, J. B. Taylor; R. Baxley, and E. G. in the presence of a large crowd.

MAUGUSTË PAVIE,“

PARIS. June 9th. The death is announced of M. Auguste Pavie, the French explorer.

AST KILDA REACHED.

canding of any new land discovered, Sama.