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SIEGE OF SIANFU.

GRAVE FEARS REGARDING FOREIGNERS SAFETY.

VILLAGES-LOOTED AND WIPED OUT.

COUNTRYSIDE REDUCED TO

WILDERNESS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY. 1

SHANGHAI, July 16th.

Considerable and increasing apprehen.

sion is felt in missionary circles in Shanghai as regards the position of foreigners in Sinnfu,

A prominent missionary interviewed by Beuter, states that after the defeat of the Kuominchun Second Army in Honan list March it retreated to Shensi, where the Wu Pei Fuites followed. Incessant fighting has been, going on for four

months.

He received letters from British mis sionarica in Sianfu in April stating that several mission buildings had been hit by shelf fire, but no further news has

FALLING FRANC.

REACHES 904 IN LONDON,

THE HONGKONG. DAILI, PRESS” SATURDAY

"RUM RING.

COAST GUARD CUTTER AS BOOTLEGGER.

UNCERTAIN POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL SITUATION.

"SIXTEEN MEN CHARGED.

"[THEOUGH "KKUTER'¤¬ÁGENOW...}-

NG EXTRA POCKET

MONEY.

LONDON, July 18th. The French Irane on London" opened this morning, at 2013, and later moved to 9041.

[EXUTEE'S AMERICAN

Pasis, July 16th.

The fall in the franc has attained an impetus which it is increasingly hard to check and is explicable to nervousness due to the continued uncertainty of the political and financial situation...

Parliament and the country are still in the dark as regards details of "M. Caillaux's financial proposals and the Treasury is practically empty.

Meanwhile, the Government exists oz whose sufferance and twenty-two votes renewal depends on the adoption of its concrete programme..

New York, July 16th Evidence at the trial of sixteen men

with to....

the ac-

indicted: inconnection. tivities of a forty million dollar “Bum Ring," revealed that officers and crew of Coast Guard cutter No. 203 converted the ship to a rum runner in order to earn extra pocket money in Christmas week,

1995.

An ex-member of the crew, who turned States' evidence, declared they not only undertook to guard several schooners be- longing to the Rum Ring," while rum running was proceeding, but actually transported a quantity of liquor them-

Furthermore, satisfaction at the Anglo-selves.-- French Debt Agreement is mitigated by

They delivered seven hundred cases of

been allowed to leak out for three months doubts as to whether Washington will liquor on Christmas Eve and again on

while the city was closely. besieged.

He. feared it was "likely that some foreigners had been hit by stray bullets falling night and day on the city, while all were undoubtedly suffering severely owing to the lack of fresh vegetables and other foodstuffs.

He estimated that fifteen English and 20 to 30 Scandinavians were at present in Sianfu.

All the Chinese wounded are being teken to the Baptist Hospital, but it was his opinion that the medical supplies must have given out...

follow London's lead in the matter of the "safeguard clause.

*

LONDON, July 15th.

but 200, French franca to day touched" closed at 1981. Belgian frands closed at

209.

THE BETTING TAX.

GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS TAKE

FINAL-SHAPE

LONDON, July 15th.

In the House of Commons the Govern ment's betting proposals took final shape on the report stage of the Budget. Mr. Winston Churchill introduced amend ments reducing duty on credit betting to three-and-a-half per cent. and on race course betting to two per cent, instead of the proposed all-round five per cent Mr. Churchill explained that the tura- Muddyer in besting was larger than previous.

"The Kuoninchun recently destroyed the so-called Gospel Village of Fu Fin-Tsun, thirty miles from Sianfu:

The missionaries there, Messrs. and Young, narrowly escaped with their lives. The missionary dwellings, schools and chapels were wrecked and several native Christians killed.

Schoolboys and girls wore scattered and are wandering homeless and des.itute. Many other surrounding towns and a were looted-and-wiped out. The countryside has been reduced to a wilder-

ne63.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

ly anticipated and the new proposals would still yield £8,000,000 in revenue.

The amendments were agreed to with- out a division and the Report stage of the Budget was concluded.

MINERS AND T.U.C.

LACONIC "THERE HAVE BEEN DEVELOPMENTS"

New Year's Ere at New York, and were paid off by their own Captain.

Subsequently, witness entered the em- ploy of the Rum Ring" as a "long- shoreman."

CANADIAN OIL.

HUDSON BAY: COMPANY PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT.

JULY 17TH.

TRANSPORT WORKERS. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. FAR EASTERN

CABLE

ALL FUNDS SPENT IN MINERS' STRUGGLE

HALF A MILLION GONE.

ITHROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]-

LONDON, July 16th.

The annual report of the Transport and General Workers' Union states that assets and funds at the end of 1995, £500,000. were all spent in the miners' struggle.

INDIAN RIOTING:

REGISTERED IN BATTISE COLUMBIA

CENTRE OF DISTURBANCE BELIEVED TO BE ALASKA.

THROCOH RAUTER'S AGENCE.]

NEWS.

"[SH20VOR, REUTER'S AGENCY.

MANILA LEGISLATURE.

BUILDING" OPENED BY GOVERNOR WOOD.

MANILA, July 10th..

The Legislature will open this noon the new Legislative Building jus completed at a cost of four million pesoa.

Governor-General Wood, in a message

VICTORIA (B.Q.), July 18th. Savere earthquake shocks, beginning at ose this afternoon, lasted an hour. point out that the Philippines have The centre of the disturbance is reckoned's surplus of forty-five million pesos which

w

to be 11,000 miles away, probably in the cancels about half the deficits incurred by the previous administration; urges. neighbourhood of Alaska.

women's suffrage and a moderate tariff

on imported cattle, which hespeaks the

OVER 100 CASUALTIES IN LATEST TYPEWRITER FOR THE CHINESE. Legislature's co-operation with Carmi

OUTBREAK IN CALCUTTA,

CALCUTTA, July 15th Eight persons were killed and 107-in- jured in to-day's rioting. Sixty were arrested, mostly Mohammedana

MOSLEMS IN PARIS.

NEW INSTITUTE OPENED BY SULTAN OF MOROCCO.

PARIS, July 15th. The new Moslem Institute in Paris was inaugurated in the presence of numerous delegates from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and other Mahomedan countries.

President Doumergue and the Sultan of Morocco delivered speeches celebrating Franco-Islamic eternal friendship.

AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN.

SIR RONALD LINDSAY

TO POST:

INTED

LONDON, July 15th. Sir Ronald Lindsay has been appointed Ambassador to Berlin.

[Sir Ronald has lately been Ambus- sador at Constantinople.)

New York, July 16th The Hudson Bay Company have entered into an arrangement with Mr. E. BELGIAN FINANCES, Marland for the exploration and develop ment of their oil rights in Canada.

A Canadian company will be formed, entitled the Hudson Bay-Marland Oil

Company.

PUSSYFOOT."

"LIQUOR TRAFFIC ON LAST LEGS THROUGHOUT WORLD.

NEW Yoas, July 15th. "Pussyfoot" Johnson has sailed to attend the International Anti-Alcohol Congress at Tartoma, in Esthenia, after which he is touring the Balkans and the

Near East

LONDON, July 15th.

In an interview he declared that the Beyond the announcement by a delegate that "there have been developments" no- liquor traffic was on its last legs through thing officially is divulged of "to-day's out the whole world, and was practically

dead in the United States

A COMPREHENSIVE AGENDA FOR mecting between the TU.C. and the

OCTOBER.

Losnox, July 15th In the House of Commons, in answer to questions, Mr Stanley-Baldwin-an- nounced the date of the Imperial Confer ence as October 8th. The Agenda would. include a general review of foreign policy and defence questions arising. therefrom, the development of systems of communications, End consultations be tween the Governments in the Empire on matters of common concern.

Africs,

Dr. Haden Guest asked whether there would be opportunity for the represents tion of the Opposition opinion, in view of circumstances in South Canada and this country,

Mr. Baldwin replied that the only difficulty is that the Imperial Conference has always been a conferencË

sion ment with no m

aade for official

COBHAM'S

DELAYED BY BAD WEATHER AT BUNDER ABBAR

KARACHI, July 18th Cobham was unable to take off from Bunder Abbas owing to the neve weather, which is likely to last for Several days,

Miners Executive, though Reuter learna that straight speaking on both sides has cleared the air, while the T.U.C. has pro mised the miners full support.

RUM-RUNNING.

NUMBER OF COMMITTEES AP POINTED IN LONDON,

Losmos July 15th. Sir Ansten Chamberlain received General Andrews before the Rum-Run- ning Conference ozoned, together with

representatives of the Board of Trade, Admiralty, Colonial Office, Customs and Foreign Office.

The Conference surveyed the whole field of possible improvements in Anglo- American co-operation and appointed a number of Committees, whose meetings will last some time.

FLIGHT

FRENCH AIRMEN CREATE NEW RECORD

PARIS, July 15th. By flying from Paris to Omak, Siberis, which is 3,000 miles, in a non-stop fight, Capt. Girier and Lieut, Dordillet have beaten Arrachart's record, which was

2,734 miles from Paris to Basra,

MORE BANKS CLOSE DOORS,

SEQUEL TO-LAND BOOM IN

- FLORIDA.

THE CAUSES ANALYBED.

banke

LATER.

CHAMBER AND SENATE PASS

SPECIAL POWERS BILL.

BRUSSELS, July 13th. The Chamber and the Senate have pas ed the Special Powers Bill

[BEUTER'S 'AMÈRICAN SERVICE]

TRAIN SMASH IN AMERICA:

GOVERNOR "MA" FERGUSON"

ESCAPES UNHURT.

SIR WALTER HILLIER'S

INVENTION.

TOPSY. TUROY AFFAIR.

and Thompson.

Captain Loriga has arrived from Macao on his way to Sosia.

COCAINE SEIZURE.

CHINESE ARRESTED IN POSSES SION OF DRUG

A pocket wonder of the world has been invented. It is a portable Chinese type writer, invented by a blind Englishman, Sir Walter Hillier, and its cost is a few pounds more than that of an ordinary BROUGHT FROM THE typewriter.

It is not the orthodox Chinese language that is used in the typewriter, but a kind of shorthand known as “script."

Of the 14,000 ideographs or charac- tera" of which the language consists, no two are exactly alike, and an cated man needs to know anything from five to ten thousand. This is the literary langunge, which is quite distinct from the spoken one, and only ten per cent: of the population of China can use it. The remaining ninety per cent, can neither read her write, and it was for their benefit that a body of seventy of China's greatest scholars and mission. aries spent six years devising a phonetic or shorthand language into which literary Chinese could be translated for them to read and write.

TILAWA."

The second seizure, within the last few days, of eccaine brought from Japan was made on Wednesday evening by local Revenue oneers.

The drug, in this lastance, was con- cealed among cargo brought to by the B.I. steamer Tiluwa, which ar rived from Osaka and Amoy, but the seture, which was a small one was not made on board the steamer. It appears that the Revenue officers searched two cases marked "enamel ware" and "toya" respectively when they were landed on the Prays in the custody of a local Chinese. They discovered the cocaine in them, and the Chinese in question was arrested and will appear at the Magis- tracy this morning.

The cases had been discharged into a lighter, but are said to have been taken The result of their deliberations was thescription" alphabet which Sir from the lighter into a sampan and then Walter Hillier has adapted to the type landed on the Praya, where they fell writer. It can best be described as into the hands of the Revenue autho- Chinese spelt instead of being written in rities.

eteres It consists of farty symbols.

300 PANTECHNICONS TO

which, singly or in combination, will re- EX-KAISER HANGED IN EFFIGY produce every sound in the Chinese language. An intelligent, but uneducati ed, Chinese can be taught to read and write the script in three weeks.

CARICATURE HIM,

A final week of wild political demon- Two chief difficulties which Sir Walterstrations in connection with the confisca had to overcome in the process of invention of Hohenzollern property was in tion were the tone complication, by which augurated recently, when Communists a.Chinese

word has four totally different and Fascists filled the streets with their

rival flagate meanings by being pronounced with a Social Democrats bave arranged to difference of tone so slight that it is im-hold a tattoo in the public squares de perceptible to English ears, and the fact signed to vie with the punch and judy that the Chinese write downwards instead show of the Reds, with their pasteboard of horizontally and their colaming read higies of William LL. dangling from a

gallows tree. from right to left.

The first difficulty was met by having NEW-YORK, July 15th.eya marked with one, two, three, and A message from Temple, Texas, says four dots which, placed after a word, that the Governor,Ma Ferguson was indicate its tone aboard a train which was wrecked near there today. The driver was killed and the freman injured, Ma was unhurt.

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THE NEW DELHI.

VICEREGAL LODGE STILL. UNCOMPLETED.

They expect to assemble 200,000 sup- porters, and are marshalling no fewer than 300 pantechnicons, the sides of which

We will be decorated with caricatures of

"greedy Hohenzollerns." The second problein was easier to ve all the characters on the keys, Monarchist organisations all over the

to terrorise the rural population-into- instead of being, upright, are, as Bir county are said to be doing their hest Walter said to a Daily Express repre- sentative, lying on their backs with boycotting the plena Arrangements to their legs kicking up in the air. Thus, tions, and are making when the typewritten theet is taken out take the names of all who are seen to and turned sideways, the words enter rating tooths on Jane 20th. columns are in the correct Chinese positions

MEDICAL UTOPIAS:

G.B.S. AND FUBLIC DINNERS.

Similar tactics are being pursued in large industrial centres, and workers are being secretly warned that they are likely to lose their work if they vote for confiscation

NEW DIAMOND

"RUSH"

OVER 10,000 DIGGERS.

JOHANNESBURG, June 11th.

ALLAHABAD, June 13th. Although the Government do not move into Raisina next October, the Secre New York, July 18th.

faziat is already partly occupied. Much

Speaking on Medical Utopias" from A message from Atlanta says that the however, remains to be done before the Georgia State Banking Department anew Capital can be fully inhabited. the point of view of a surgeon, at the

The proclamation of the new diamond ake I visited Raisins this week (says a Lyceum Club University Board annual nounces that fifteen more Georgian

Daily Telegraph correspondent) and dinner, Sir John Bland Button said there found the Viceregal Lodge still far were two aspects of the subject, Utopia field or the farm Elandopatte, which have closed their doors to-day.

hehind, and it is unlikely that the for the patient and Utopia for the attracted over 10,000 diggers with their Viceroy will reside there until 1928. dector tapis for the patient meant hamilies and native servants from all The Commander-in-Chief will, moreover, X-rays without and incandescent up parts of the western and central Trang quarters in Delhi, the Commander-in parent for diagnosis. It also meant in the history of South African diamond A temporary receivership has already remain for this year with Army Head within, to render living bodies transvaal, was attended by scenes unparalleled been appointed for the Bankers Trust Chief's house at Raisins being tem saesthetics, which not only rendered digging Company of Atlants, while the Federal porarily used as a club. The accom- patients unconscious to pain, but minimiet was a record rush" The diggers modation for the non-official population ed shock Less than a century ago had to race in a long line for four miles Judge has heard a pétition in Bankruptcy is hardly provided yet, and shops are operating theatre was a dreadful place over bonider-strewn veld to the proclaim- proceedings to be brought against it by only just beginning to be built The Prominent on the wall facing the specta ed ground The great cloud of dust problem of getting bazaar supplies for tors was a notice to the effect that the raised by thousands of hurrying fect re bank at Unatilla, Florida, which has the official households will undoubtedly arena was reserved for the surgeon ad sembled the creeping barrage of the referred certain charges. The state arise owing to the distance from the pre- his assistants, the first two rows for massed guns of an army. Many hares sent bazaars Trinity Chamber will privileged visitors, and the remaining were killed, and picked up by the dig or former cha pien runners who took of Be ready in January for the Assembly rows for students Blood and sand

was the kernate of the whole affair, which Eers for the family pot. Bir champion by wealth diggere the best claims here-are said opinion that the situation is not so critical and the Council of State

Altogether for the next three years smacked of the bull-ring templagas.

and Lady Barrett with She allicial-world at. Parima siit prob. De Walker Cary dealt with the 44 Phy mostly small with a capital of $20,000 ably undergo

from what he ago was only virgin veld of transition, and the personnel, baths. Public

confronted wit and are solvent.

official and residzza), will be sentterid joined

grave problems. It is pointed out list. nowise due to local conditions but to the

over an area from 12 to 25 miles long || describe

avy: it has to ensure the main- embarrassment of the parent concern, the if the new cantonments are counted, ground.

Baising is the suborn of ancient Miss E. C. Higgins, who presided, said the responsibility upon the Government Delhi chosen for the erection of the new they had invited Mr. Bernard Shaw to is very Bankers Trust Company.

Government buildinga, necessitated by attend and criticise the suggested tenance of law and order, and provide as there the Union must grapple immediate According to experts the situation is the decision to make Delhi ante more the Utopias la refusing he had said he was means of communication with the rest of reflection of the recent failure in Florida capital of India. The architects respon obliged to bar public dianera

Fare Sir Edwin Lutyens, RA, and Mr Club particularly is frightfully glut provide caused directly and indirectly by dedationible for the erection of the new Delhi were too many of them, and the Lyceum ly with the

in the land bo

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tonous.

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bjem of sanitation, and attendance and hospital