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FLOODS IN EUROPE.

QUEEN OF NETHERLANDS OPENS

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SUBSCRIPTION LIST.

EARTHQUAKE IN GERMANY.

AMSTERDAM, January 5th.

The rivers Wanl and Meuse ure falling

Her Majesty the Queen of Holland has opened with a donation of 10,000 florins a public subscription for the relief of flood sufferers, which is already over £20,000.

Steamers have rescued hundreds of refugees from the dyke in, the Arnhem

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7TH, 1926

BARLIER CABLES.

SIR BASIL THOMSON. FOUND GUILTY BUT GIVES NOTICE OF APPEAL

LONDON, January 5th.

FARLIER-CABLES.

FALSE FRENCH NOTES. FURTHER ARRESTS MADE IN HOLLAND.

AMSTERDAM, January ath.

pore

In connection with big French bank

ELK HILL LEASES.

U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GAINS VERDICT.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 5th.. The United States circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the decision of a

Sir Basil Thomson has been found guilty and fined £3 and £3 costs. Noties forgeries, three prominent Hungarians awer court ordering the cancellation of of appeal was given.

$4

On the resumption of the case against Sir Basil Thomson, who yesterday had pleaded not guilty," Sir Henry Cartis Bennett, cross-examining police, witnesses, suggested that the accused gave his own name of Hume Thomson, which the Sergeant mistook for Hugh Thomson.

The Magistrate, Mr. Cancellor, remarke

have been arrested at The Hague and | 20 in Amsterdam, while a fourth Hungarian, also of good family, has been arrested at Hamburg on his arrival from Norway with false French bank notes,

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LATEST CABLES. POLICE CHIEF REMANDED.

BUDAPEST, January 6tb. The Chief of Police, M. Nadcany, has

with complicity in the forged bank notes affair.

(THROUGH HAVAS ADENOT.]

district. The situation between the rivers/od that that was a mistake which might been remanded in custody. He is charged Meuse and Waal has become worse and easily be made. the level of the water has risen. Several

and more vilages are, inundated many houses have collapsed. The dyke of the river. Kaer has collapsed and at Deventer a part of the town is flooded. The "Ministry of Navy has sent motor heats, dinghies and thousands of naval men to the distressed regions.

LATEST CABLES. BELGIANS YOTE FUNDS

BRUSSELS, January 6th. The Belgian Cabinet has decided to grant Fra. 2,000,000 to the Relief, Fund for

the fooded areas. The Ministers person- Ally bave donated Frs. 23,000.

DAMAGE IN GERMANY,

BERLIN, January 6th.

The subsidence of the floods in the llhiacland is revealing enormons "devasta- were Twenty thousand houses tion. damaged in Coblenz and thousands of families are in dire distress: 60,000 workers are idle. The damage is esti- mated at £1,000,000.

Sir Curtis Bennett, in a sporch, said that a man with the knowledge of the acensed must be either insane or drank to go to such à place for such an offence. The ovidence showed he was absolutely sober. Counsel was glad that the Magis trate last night personally inspected the spot, and he asked the Magistrate to say that it was impossible to see what people were doing from the place the police said they saw them. He submitted that the story of the two, constables in that con- nection was untrue.

SITUATION IN MOROCCO.

WEZZAN VILLAGERS REBEL

AGAINST RIFFS.

Tasatens, January 6th. Several villages in the district of Wezzan 'have rebelled against the Riffs. The tribesmen of Beniraeus hava ex pelled the agents of Abdel Krim. The determination to surrender is increasing everywhere

LATEST CABLES. (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

BANKERS CONFER.

MR MONTAGU NORMAN ENDS MISSION TO U.S.A.

REFUSES TO DE INTERVIEWED.

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the Elks Hills naval reserve oil leases, but has reversed the lower court's award. of $11,781,000 to the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, one of Mr. E. L Doheny's corporations, na reimbursement for their expenditure at Pearl Harbour..

This decision is an important victory for the Federal Government, upholding their contention that the lower court was not authorised, to order the reim bursement.

It is expected that Mr. Doheny will appeal to the Supreme Court, following

action ofter the decision at Los Angeles on May 29th:

* {A Los Angeles message of May th stated:-

In the District Court here Federal Judge McCormack found Mr. E. L Doheny, of the Pad-American Petroleum Transport Company and Mr. A. B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, guilty of fraud and conspiracy in, connection with the Elk Hill (California) oil lenses, and contracts for the construction of storage plants in Hawaii, in 1999, in the civil auit, as regards the actual legality

of the Elk Hill leases and contracts.

FAR EASTERN

NEWS.

CABLE

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MORE WAR RUMOURS.

LI CHING LIN TO AOT WITH CHANG TSUNG CHANG.

PLAN ATTACK ON KONAN..

PARING, January 8th. It is reported in Chinese circles that Li Ching Lin and Chang Tsung Chang are preparing for more fighting. It is suggested that they will act defensively on the Tientsin-Pukow Line and attack

Honan.

Pi Shou Cheng left Tringtao on Monday for Tainan; it is expected his 4,000 troops will be sent to the Tehehow front. Rolling stock is being cogcentrat ed at Tsingtao, Weihsien and Teinantu. "SUM IS INSUFFICIENT.”

CHEQUE RETURNED, TO SHANGHAT.,

SHANGHAI, January 6th.

It is officially confirmed to-day that the Chinese Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai,, has returned to the Municipal Council, their cheque for 875,000, mentioned on December 23rd. The action is taken under instructions

TENG YU HSIANG,

HIS DECISION TO MAKE WORLD TOUR

THE VIEWS OF JAPAN.

Toxro,"January 6th.

The Foreign Office spokesman, discuss- ing Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's decision o raake a world tour, attached no special significance to his preliminary visit to Russia; but considered the chief reason of this route being taken to be fear of sharing "Little Hau's fate if proceed ingrii Shanghai, Japan and America.

The Japanese official anticipates that Feng will become the most popular Chinese leader after his return; but ex- peets that Wu Pei Fu will take advant tage of Feng's absence and probably re- appear from his seclusion.

In consequence, it is understood thas Government is watching possible develop. Iments closely though it expects that China will be peaceful during the next few months.

With Feng absent and Chang's teeth, drawn temporarily, it is considered that Tuan Chi Jui will feet casier in his mind.

TUAN MAKES APPEAL.

FERING, January 6th. The Chiel Executive, Tuan Chi Jui, telegraphed last evening to Marshal Feng

Criminal indictments are still pending.

He stated that Mr. Denby, then from the Peking, Government, which Yu Hsiang, urging him not to insist upon;

Secretary of the Navy, signed the agree ments under a misappreEension, and the Court found for the United States Gor- ernment, declaring that the leases and contracts were null and void.

The defendante will appeal to the Supreme Court.

considers the sum is insufficent."

retiring as the situation is still difficult and Tuan badly needs the co-operation" of his colleagues to share the burden.

return

to.

A-Shanghai cable, dated December 23rd, reads:The Municipal Council, in

letter to the Senior Consul, dated the Mr. Hou Shih Ying, the Premier, also 21st inst, says that notwithstanding the wired requesting Feng to face that the majority of the judges on Kalgan. the Commission of Inquiry exonerate the police from blame, Mr. McEuen, Commissioner of Police and Mr. Everson, Inspector in charge of the Louza Station, have tenderd their resignations

DEFENDANT'S EVIDENCE. Mr. Reginald McKenna, M.P., and Sir Reginald Ball testified to the accused's high character, after. which the accused entered the witness box and seal that since his retirement he had been devoted to literary and journalistic work, parti cularly on criminal and police matters. He recently contemplated investigating

NEW YORK, January 6th, and writing about. Hyde Park and West End solicitation and discussed the The Rt. Hon. Mr. Montagu Norman, Ratter with Sir Douglas Straight, ex- Governor of the Bank of England, the Inspector General et rolice in ladia object of whose visit here was to promote and Mr Barry Higgins the well-known Neuwied suffered very severely, thou solicitor. He was also most keenly in-closer" co-operation between the Bank of sands of the inhabitants are homeless; terested in the Communist movement England and the Federal Reserve Banks. basis-aay wells drilled under the lenses decided to nccept the resignations with the flotilla leader H.M.S. Abdiel, bas

ile went to Hyde Park to investigate conditions there, and a woman spoke to him and told him she was hard up. He gare her two 01 three shillings and asked her about the people who were to give interviews, it is learned that the sitting round. Immediately afterwards principal subject of bis discussion with the police appeared. Sir Basil Thomson Mr. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the emphatically denied that the woman was acting improperly towards him. denied that he said after his arrest

the factories are closed down and it will take months to recover from the disaster. QUAKE IN COLOGNE

COLOCNE. January 6th.

There was ait earthquake shock at 12.40 this morning, lasting flye seconds. Build ings shook violently and many people rushed unclad into the streets and spent the night in the cpen. The damage done was alight, only districts adjacent to the Rhine being affected.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. AMSTERDAM, January 8th.

has concluded his mission.

While Mr. Norman persistently refused

He New York Federal Reserve Bank, and

How can I keep this from my friends, and said that what he did say was that such a charge would rain anybody..

The Doheny companies have been brder. fed to pay all the costs of the suits for Cancellation of the oil leases, but the Court rules that defendants are entitled to be paid or credited with the money they spent on the construction of storage facilities for crude oil products at Pearl Harbour, also the moneys actually spent in drilling or putting on a production of May 6th or December 5th, 1999)

WAR DEBTS. TO 'U.S: MR MELLON ON POSITION.

OF ITALY.

WASHINGTON, January 5th. Mr. Andrew Mellan, in a speech to the other financiers was the question of Ways and Means Committee of the House further extending a policy of co-operation of Representatives for the ratification of

The Council, preferring as always, to take action likely to promote the settle. ment of the questions at issue, bas

an expression of appreciation of meri torious services three officers have render ed in the past,

The Council further desires to renew its expressions of egret at the loss of life on May 30th, and as a mark of sympathy to the wounded and the ro latives of the killed, enclose a cheque of $75,000, which the Council asks you to transmit to the Chinese Foreign Commis sioner for distribution among those, can- cerned as a compassionate grant

THE CHINA STATION.

APPOINTMENT TO STAFF OF REAR-ADMIRAL CAMERON

LONDON, January 6th. Engineer Commander Sweetlove, from

beta appointed to the staff of Bear- Admiral Cameron for duty at Shanghai.

TRIPS IN THE AIR.

DUTCH ELIERS OPEN THEIR PROGRAMME.

Counsel for the defence drew attention between the central United States banks the impending debt settlements with mitted the above to the Foreign Commissir in the Caudron bi-plane, controlled

with those of Europe.

Italy, Belgium and other European nations, declared that if the same terms

Italy as were required from Britain, an impossible burden would be

from

to the fact that P.C. Laurie, who arrested Sir Basil Thomson, was standing close Their joint assistance is urged in the to the witness-box grimacing while ques- tions were being put, and the Magistrate rehabilitation of Germany, Belgium, ordered P.C Lauria to leave the courb

Sir Basil Thomson denied that he said Poland, etc. Plans were encouraged for The floods are subsiding everywhere to P.C. Laurie that if he over-looked this carrying on the same policy through the imposed on Italy and the result would

except in Northern Limburg and Deven- ter, where another dyke on, the River Yael has burst near the village Brummen, in- undating a large area. “

Foot and mouth disease has broken out among the cattle in Balgoy and in several other villages."

NEW BULGAR MINISTRY..- SOBRANJE PASSES VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.

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SOPIA, January, 8th. The Sobranje has passed a vote of confidence in the new Government, under the premiership of M. Liaptcheff, the

democrat leader.

· The vote was passed after a ministerin stateffent had been read, declaring that the new Government rests on a democratic basis calling attention to the serious character of the amnesty and refugee questions; and promising a policy of retrenchment and the maintenance of "currency stability.

THE RUMANIAN. THRONE. PRINCE CHARLES MAKES FURTHER RENUNCIATIONS.

BURHAREST, January 6th Prince Charles, in a letter of renuncia- tion, in addition to renouncing his titles, prerogatives and rights over bis son and over the latter's property, undertakes not to return to Rumania for a decade. Alter then, he will do so only with the authority

the Sovereign.

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WIDOWS AND ORPHANS. HEAVY LIST OF BRITISH APPLICANTS.

LONDON, January 6th." There were nearly 150,000 applications State pensions, made by widows and hans, and dealt with at British post- ces when the scheme operated yester

for the first tim

he could leave the police to marrow He for the charge. The second summons was swore there was no shadow of foundation dismisseci..

WORLD DISARMAMENT. SOVIET GOVERNMENT IS STILL

HOLDING BACK...

Moscow, January 5th.

...

Consideration was given to be possibility careful use of credits and other means

that London might be lending more abroad than she could afford as the heavy demands of the Dominions for new

be that the United States would receive

nothing

The taxation which would necessarily be imposed on Italians if better terms were insisted on would ruin Italy and make it another China."

Many people took the opportunity The Senior Consul on the 21st transesterday of seeing Hongkong from the sioner, adding that he felt sure the Com- missioner would appreciate the friendly by Mr. Hetling, Chief Aviator of the First spirit which inspired the Council's Dutch Air Company, who opened a series iction.]

of passenger flights, which will last for a fortnight.

JAPAN AND DISARMAMENT.

PRESS GENERALLY WELCOMES

COMING CONFERENCE."

Tokyo, January th

It is learned from an official source that Government has reason to believe

Mr. Hething, and Mr. Brockman, man- ager of the Company, who are staying here with a view to exploring the pos sibilities of establishing Aerial Services, throughout the Far East, have selected the Kowloon City reclamation ground as their headquarters.

financing had considerably burdened the Those insisting on impossible terms that Russia will not accept the invitation take up passengers are: 9.20 a.m. to

foreign trade.

sterling exchange, although it is expect In connection with the invitation to ad that this will be outweighed by the the Soviet to send representatives to the resultant stimulation of Great Britain's preliminary conference on disarmament at Geneva the Izvestin points out that as, a result of the Soviet boyestt of Switzer. Jand owing to the latter's refusal to satisfy the Soviet demands for antis faction for the assassination of Vorovaky the Soviet Government will not send delegates to conferences held in Switzer

land.

Even formal recognition of the extra territorial rights of Soviet delegates by the Swiss Government would not ensure that the conduct of the Swiss Government towards the Soviet delegates at Lausanne' in 1923 will not be repeated.

RAILWAY RADIO. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT MADE

IN GERMANY.

BERLIN, January 5th. The installation of wireless telephony on a train from Berlin to Hamburg opened to-day most successfully. The hearing at both ends was excellent, dea pite the noise of the train," which was travelling over sixty miles an hour. Communication with a Berlin newspaper office was established within a few minutes, marks.

A three-minute call costs: 51

CAPTAIN CANNING,

RETURNS TO MOROCCO TO

REPORT TO CHIEF.

Wall Street learns unofficially that Great Britain has never drawn upon the 800,000,000 Federal Reserve and private credits established last Spring to assist the restoration of the gold standard. ́ ́? Although the British Treasury was pre pared for a great drain of gold and an abnormally high bank rate its fears have

not materialised...

On the other hand, bankers learn that Great Britain actually Ruffered from in ports of gold after the return to the gold basis. Some concern was aroused recent ly by heavy demands from the Dutch East Indies for gold; but this is considered seasonal development which will soon car. rect itself.

"UNSELFISH SERVICE."

NO AWARD BY TRUSTEES OF

WILSON FOUNDATION/",

NEW YORK, January eth The Trustees of the Wilson Foundation have decided to make no award tor *** unselfish service" in 1925, owing to a difference between the Trusters regarding the most meritorious candidate.

PARIS, January 5th. Captain Canning, the unofficial British thediator, has left for. Tangier to report to Abel Krim the result of his peace | SATURN ONG BARNE mission to Paris

OBITUARY:

MR. HR. MCCLURE.

SYDNEY, January 5th. The death has occurred of Mr. B. B. CcClure, the Resident Confuzissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Laland: He sirve formerly in China and East Africa'

The New York Times learns that it was decided to share the prize between Sif Austin Chamberlain, M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann for services at Locarno, but. hints were conveyed to the Trustees that Dr. Stresemann would be unable to nocept because of the late Dr. Wilson's responsibility for betraying the German

were, in the final analysis, working for the entire repudiation of the war debt.

SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION.

U.S. EXPLORERS TAXING NOVEL EQUIPMENT.

BATAVIA, January 5th. Rifles and tear-gas bombs are included in the armament of an American scientific expedition, beaded by the well-known anthropologist, Professor M. W. Stirling. with the object of exploring the interior of New Guinea..

The expedition is equipped with an aeroplane specially adapted to air photo. graphy, and long flights, as it is hoped to effect a landing at Lake Habbema, at height of twelve thousand feet, hitherto not reached by any white man. It is also, hoped to reach the unexplored Nassau mountains in Dutch Now Guinea and sandy the pigmies and other unknown

tribes.

The expedition will leave Sourabaya at the beginning of February, and hopes to

stare in six months

MRS. EVELYN THAW. SWALLOWS POISON AND SENDS FOR DOCTOR..

CHICAGO, January 6th:: Mre Evelyn Thaw was hastily taken to hospital carly this morning after swallowing a quantity of poisonous disinfectant and telephoning for a doctor, who hurried to her apartment.

An ambulance was summoned, but Mra Thaw was unconaciods when she reached hospital.

She had just completed a contract us cabaret entertainer, and was about to -leave for Florida,

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NEW YORK FLOTATION.

NEW YORK, January 5th. The Dillon, Read Company announce that fifty-five million dollars worth of National Cash Register stock, which they offered to-day, was over-subscribed within five minuten, nestaj

[A cable yesterday reported negotia tions by the Dillon, Read Company for financing German sisel works)

to the preliminary Disarmament Con-

ference.

The hours during which the airmen 11.30; and 3 p.m. to 5.30. This will.con- tinue for a fortnight, and the charge is @20 a*head,

By January 11th the airmen are to distribute from the air 20,000 handbills, for a Hongkong Store. Of this number. 10.000 hills will entitle the "finders to, a free gift from the store.

Whilst realising that the failure of the Soviet to participate will adversely affect the Conference's prospects, it is under stood that Government is confident that the preliminary conference will help to: improve the international atmosphere; and, possibly during the interval between WHERE A WEIGHS A TON, the preliminary and main conferences, Russia will be persuaded to enter the latter.

THE PRESS ATTITUDE. Though Arstly inclined to adopt a non-commital attitude, the Press recently has been devoting much attention to the disarmament question and welcomes the coming conference, the results of which are generally regarded as even more im portant than those of the Washington Conference, provided America, Germany and Russia participate, which all bope they will do.

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AMERICA #AND LEAGUE.

SENATOR BRUCE ASTONISHES

REPUBLICANS..

WASHINGTON, January 5th The Republican majority in the Senate was natonished when the opposition Senator, Mr. Bruce, of Maryland, spoke eloquently in favour of adherence to the World Court and League of Nations.

transformed by reservations that He only desired that the Court be not

the nations already therein should bo unwilling to accept the United States as a member..

SIR OLIVER LODGE AND A MASSIVE STAR.

MILLIONS OF YEARS FOR THE WORLD YET.

The beginning and end of the world and life on a star where a match would weigh half a hundredweight were sub- eats discussed by Sir Oliver Lodge in his Huxley lecture at the Charing Cross Hospital recently. He said:

The beginning of the world was the formation of nebule 200 million million years ago and this date is no mere guess. The end will apparently be the disappearance of matter and the exist ence once. niore of an ether filled with nerpetual remnants of radiation travel- ling out towards infinity with the speed of light at a date incomparably more. remote, then any I have mentioned.

The star known as the Companion of Sirius was as massive as the sun, but no bigger than planet. On this start the force of gravity would be 200,000 times greater than on the earth. A lucifer match would weigh half, a hundredweight, and a sovereign would weigh a ton. The temperature of the interior of a ster would be about 10 million degrees. /

4,000,000 TONS O

"A SECOND. The xu, expending its substances in riotous radiation, was losing 4,000,000 tons

found, but its mass was so enormous He declared that there had been a time that it could keep on doing so without when the nations of the world were will appreciable change. The loss of 1 per cent, ing to pay almost any price to get of its bulk, even at this enormous rate of America into the League but recently loss, would take 180,000,000,000 years. there had been a noticeable change for Spiritual things advanced, continually they found they could get along without through higher and higher things, towards us, and that even without our aid war perfection And this, he considered, could be nipped in the bud Europe was was the real meaning of evolution This no longer in a mood to tolerate airs of was why the physical universe existed. condescending patronage by us or praises That was the real sim and purpose of the from our own lips of our perfections.”, ultimate and infinite term " God.”.