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NORTHERN

SITUATION.

HANKOW THREATENED BY YANG SEX.

BIG FORCES ADVANCING ON

SOUTHERNERS.

(THROUGH BELTER'S AGENCY.].

THE COAL DISPUTE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ÖTÄ. 1926.

FAILURE OF FORLORN HOPES.

MOVING TOWARDS PEACE.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

BroBY, November 3rd. The conference of delegates, represent. ing 3,000,000 members of Trades' Unions, Spanous, November 4th.

considered to-day the request of the According to Sun Chuan Fang's local Miners' Federation for financial assist headquarters, General Yang Sen isance by means of a compulsory · levy. making rapid progress towards Hankow

with a force of 20,000. It is reported that he has reached an understanding with the military commanders of Hupeh.

The combined strength of the various troops advancing against the Kuomintang main forces is estimated at 70,000.

Mr. J. H. Thomas, ex-Minister and leader of the National Union of Railway men, declared that a compulsory levy was out of the question. He pointed out the heavy financial burden which the coal stoppage had placed on the Railwaymen's and other unions.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE CONSIDERED,

FULL SESSION TO-DAY,

DRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE).

RUSSIAN COMMUNIST

CONFERENCE.

TREND TOWARDS SOCIAL, DEMO- CRACY DENOUNCED.

(THROUGH 'REUTER'S AGENCY.],

Moscow, November 4th. Setgo Ordjoni, Eidze has been appoint- ed Chairman of the Controlling Commis-

Kuibysheff. sion of the Communist Party replacing

TERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN

AMERICA,

SURFACE DROPS 600 FEET.

FORTY LIVES LOST.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

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CHINESE ASPIRATIONS.

AN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM

BRITISH POLICY.

In a letter to The Tiles, writer, who signs hiniself Fifty Years of Cathay," My--

What, it seems time to ask,' are the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese Isusso, Michigan, Nov. 4th.

'people" of which we hear so much and Forty mizers are believed to have, lost so often, and which, nccording to a re- solution passed at a recent meeting of their lives in a large roamine eight miles the Trades Union Congress, our Im away as a result of a enve in, A section perial policy is supposed to obstruct? of the ming surface, consisting of swamp briefy and concisely ler the great niass It is possible to answer this question The Pan-Russian Communist Conferground 300 feet by 200 tell 600 feet to of the Chinese people. Their sole aspira- the first level with an eerie sucking thudtion-certainly legitimate is the cesu- which was heard miles around. Slimetion of the terrible sufferings they have. and mud and water dooded the entire endured at the hands of their fellow- cerntrymen for the past five years or level, and it is feared that all chance of more. A catalogue of these, could it be escape has been cut off.

published, and made generally known, would certainly stagger humanity and it is by no means to the credit of those who rust have been all along well acquainted with the facts that little or nothing has been heard of them.

Rroar, November 3rd. To..enable further progress to be made

the Imperial Conference will not meet in with the work of the various committers

full session until Friday morning, when such reports of committees as are readyence concluded with a unanimoua resolu- for representation will be considered

tion denouncing the oppositions and the Considerable progress was runde to-day drift towards a Social Democracy. nad in the examination of the intricate pro emphasising its determination to preserve blems concerning questions of nation. party unity and to crush attempts to ality by the committee interested with create sectional strife. The Situation on the Yangtsze. ·

that subject, and at the moting of the The appeal by Mr. A. 5. Cook and According to a message from Kiukiang, other miners' leaders for a compulsorysideration included taxation of

Economic Committee matters under con- though the Allied troops drove the

levy fell on unsympathetic cars and, Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi, they eventually, an acceptable compromise was

residents trading in the Dominions also have suffered heavily. Upon receipt found in a resolution which was moved through agents or brauches and the

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liability of the Stata enterprises to taxations.

of the report, regarding the Chekiang re-

by the Secretary of the. Distributive yolt, the Allied Commander purposely Workers' Unions. This proposed that the mande his men concentrate along the Nan-members of the Trades' Unions, who are

The Committee of Prime Ministers hang-Kiukinng railway line, for featworking, should contribute voluntarily farther considered the problem of inter- that they might be threatened with ont- not less than one penny per day for the Imperial relations, and the discussion! side agitation. Instead of letting his support of the miners., The Distributive/w be resumed at a meeting of this?

troops chase the enemy, Marshal Sun is only, devoting himself to restoring com munications, cymmercial, banking and other organisations to their original stales, so as to win popular favour. On the other hand, the main body of the Anhwei army under General then Tiag Yuen, numbering some 12.000 strong, who were stationed on the left lank" of the the river Yangtze, in co-operation with. Some 6,000 troops Belonging to General Yeh Kai Hin's Huban Army, are Pursuit of the Cantonese troops who are retreating. Siner Mr. Chiang Tsen Kuei, a peace delegate from Chekiang, is discussing peace terms with General Chiang Kai Shek, upon his return to Kiukiang, it is expected that farshal Sun will decide whether to continue Eghting or arrange for peace z

A LONDON COMMENT. Mr. J. B. Priestley writing to The Saturday World states:-

I am ready to confess that of late I have given up reading about China, and at the present, time I have met the least

idea what is happening there,

I am quite willing to believe that its hordes of fellow creatures are going through some crisis. and that the of the whole world may be bound up with the present history of China.

But there are too many complicated crises, with which the fate of the world is bound up, so that unless we protect ourselves somehow we shall never have even a monent's peace of mind..

Our civilization has produced so maily disorders, from cancer to communism, which threaten it very existence that, bewildered, lafle, cable to see the civilization for the disorders, we begia to' shrug our elders out of sheer self

deferice.

If we persist in shrugging everything out of our attention, we shall soon be without shoulders to shrug, but some things, such as (for me) China, must be dismissed in this riot of startling news

that we call the world.

GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.

DEATH MAIN REPORTED.

Workers' Union offered to start a volun- tary fund with a contribution of £10,000 from its own tesourses. This compromise proposal was adopted...

The General Cound of the Trades ion Congress afterwards issued a state- ment asking unionists to make a špecial effort to Contribute. An experienced ution leader estimated that even if all the working unionists contributed one penny

Committer to-morrow.

EGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.

SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION

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FLIGHTS.

: Rropy, November 4th. A series of demonstration fights by a

De Havilland Hercules three-engined air craft which will operate on the new air route from Egypt to India were carried

available for the miners. per day unly 50,000 per week would be out yesterday. By the end of next This wouldweck the first of five machines ordered provide something over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service week, for each miner still on strike.

should be in experimental operation be tween London Paris.

The Hercules is the first British pas- senger machine specially designed for work in the tropics, and a noticeable feature is the special arrangements made for the comfort of passengers. Not only is the cabin ventilated at a greater ex- tent than usual," but a special air scoop

It appears that at to-day's meeting feeling was distinctly revealed in the debate that if miners receive financial assistance from ether unions they must be prepared to accept the solution of the coal dispute na suggested by the Tradies' Union Congress as representing those uplona. Disinclination was expressed to help the minera to prolong an unproficis frovided which filters air for cir able struggle. In Londer it is generally believed that the Conference will be con- siderably influenced by the failure of the forlorn hopes of the miners' leaders, namely, regarding the embargo on foreign coal and the compulsory-levy-and-by the plain speaking at to-day's conference. It is considered highly probable that Miners' Executive will seek authority to conclude

culation throughout the inferior.

EARL BEATTY'S RESIGNATION

POSTPONED.

Rranz, November 4th. Earl-Beatty, who has been First Sen Lord of the Admiralty and Chief of Naval Staft since November, 1919, has expressed his desire to po allowed to re-

TRAGIC DISCOVERY.

MR. R. BRUNNER · AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.

LONDON, November 4th.

3 Roscae Brunner, ex-Chairman of Brunner. Mond and Company, and his wife have been found shot dead in their house at Roehampton

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U.S. ELECTIONS.

NEW YORK, November ard. The "Wets**

are greatly heartened

The aspirations of the merchants and with the result of the New York State small traders-a very large class-may referendum where a 110.000 majority confidently be defined as

peace with good governmen: however obtained favoured a request that Congress author in the circumstances surely a legitimate, ize each state to determine what per- if Utopian, aspiration. centage of alcohol is intoxicating of the tragedy that is being presented to The aspirations of the principal actors almost identical proposal appears to have the world by China and of the loud-voiced been passed by Inois by a large major. chotus that holds the front of the stage, ity, while Wisconsin favoured 78 per editors, and students, are more complex, composed of politicians, diplomatists. cent. Beer by two to one. The issue bot

and no attempt can be made to sort theni always so clear in other States hat the

out and define them here. The most majority voting on the modification of the law showed a wet trend. Proposals in this class would, however, not demur sincere and arilent patriots.to be found to repeal the present State laws enforcing to having their aspirations summed up prohibition ore apparently carried in the term "national independence California and Montana while Nevada the Paris bar have signed an appeal to overwhelmingir voted for a resolution not only a legitimate.bat a very laudable

object of aspiration. denouncing the present, Federal law and United States Constitution us regards demanded the re-amendment of the prohibition. Missouri and Colorado ap pear to have voted down measures aimed

FRENCH PLEA FOR US. MURDERERS.

Pants November 4th.

A number of distinguished members of

the United States against the execution of Sacro and Vanzetti. They point out that even the American judges are not sure of their guilt, and even if guilty, they have earned the right to Eve by living in daily fear of execution for Sve years.

THE PLOT AGAINST SPAIN.

PRAISE FOR FRENCH POLICE.

NO" BRITISHERS INVOLVED. •

LONDON, November 3rd. A further message from Perpignan, says that altogether 52 Spanish and Italians mostly, the former have been ar rested at Roussilon in connection with the Spanish plot

None of those arrested .cr suspected are British,,, as was at first stated.

Credit for Police.

Panis, November 3rd, The French police are being showered with credit for frustrating one of the most determined? Spanish revolutionary plots ever hatched on French territory and for holding their hand until 150 of the implicated men were safely within the net. The conspiracy is attributed who, however, escaped. The arrested men to 1 Catalan ex-Deputy named Macia, concertedly attempted to escape when im prisoned in Paris but a detachment p infantry was drafted in to mount guard. Similarly Senegale Tirailleurs were re those imprisoned there, who were revolt- quisitioned at Perpignan to control ing on the ground of the unsuitability of the food.

a settlement..on the best terms that can sign office on completing a period of be obtained in districts with the safe-seven years, named in the regulation as guarding provision for national principles. the maximum for which an officer will This, broadly, is the settlement suggested be retained on the Board of the Ad-{'... by the Trades Caion Congress. The miralty except in special circumstances. granting of such authorisation by thee hus however consented, at the request Delegate Conference would be an import of the First Lord, to defer his resigna- ant move towards peace.

Latest Developments.

RUGBY, November 4th.

Considerable importance attaches to the Miners' Delegate Conferencs in Lon- 作 SHANGHAI, November 4th. den to-day and strong hopes, restrained

Marshal Sun Chuan Fang's local head-only by the memory of past disappoint

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NATIONAL FINANCE,

SPECIAL COMMITTEE'S FINDINGS.

BUGBY, November 4th.

An exhaustive examination of the quarters have received a despatch from ments, are entertained that.at lust the British system of National Enance has Marshal Sun stating that the Superin way will be cleared for a peace effort now been completed by a committee under tendent of the American Mission HosThe main point for decision is the dele-the chairmanship of Lord Colwyn. The pital at Changsha sent a message to the gates will free their executive from re Committee was set up by Mr. Philip American Consul at Nanking on October strictions and empower it to proceed in Snowden, who was then "Chancellor of 5th to the affect that General Chiang search of a settlement along the lines the Exchequer in February 1991, and its Kai Shek had died from wounds. suggested by the Trade Union Congress. terms of incedence were to consider and There is no question of the Conference report on the National Debt and the BRITISH PROPERTY DESTROYED discussing specite peace terms. The incidence of existing taxation with special issue to be decided is whether the execu- reference to their effect on trade, indus- IN 'HUNAN.

tive shall be authorised to try. for a A.P.C. EUILDING BURNED DOWN.rettlement, and whether such authorisa employment, and National credit. It is understood that the committee's tion, if granted, shall be conditional or entirely wtihout restriction. SHANGHAI, November 4th A message received here from Changsha A division of opinion is likely but the states that the Asiatic Petroleum Com- delegates are faced with the knowledge pany's property at Proking has been that any attempt to renew the demand Lurnt down. Also that Messrs. Butter- for calling out the safety men or for field and Swire's property at Changtehu embargo will futile, and has been destroyed, and that some that voluntary contributions of trade Wesleyan missionaries at Licyang have unionists will not alone enable the dis

pute to be continued with any hopes of Luccess. Yesterday nearly 9,000 more miners went back to work, the biggest single day total for some time, and there are now in the pits over 200,000 compar- ed with 253,000 a week ago, and 104,000 a month ago. The miners employed before the dispute numbered 1,100,000"

been forced to evacuate.

All the towns mentioned above are in the occupation of Southern troops.

THE ILL-FATED "KIANGYUNG.”,

COMPENSATION DEMANDED.

Marshal Sun Chuan Fang is the re- cipient of a telegram from the China. Merchants Steam Navigation Company asking compensation for the loss of their Tessel, the 8.4. Kiangyung, which went down with 1,800 troops at Kiukiang after 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition, she was carrying, exploded.

The s.8. tanggung was commandered by Sun's troops and the steamship com- pany officials request him to inquire into the actual cause of the fatality. There was a crew of 113 men on board of which only 25 were rescued and the company to a search started for the corpses of the remaining 88 who are believed lost and proper compensation made to the vic- tima families. They also request, in the telegram, that seven other of their ships, troops, be commandeered by Sun's released.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] Why Campulsion was Avoided.

LONDON, November 3rd. 2 It appears that the Unions decided only to recommend and not

a levy, begause the non-payment of a compulsory levy would entail penalties in the shape of the dis-affiliation of the

Unions not fulfilling the instructión.

LATEIL

Mr. A. J. Cook has made the state- ment that the Micers' Executive has never discussed the question of district feettlements, which they knew meant

longer hours.

Nearly 300,000 Miners at Work,

LONDON, November 3rd. A total of 290,573 miners are working to-day.

SOUTH AFRICA-INDIAN

at the modification of the State laws.

Possibly the TU.C. and a great many: to learn that the national independence other persons as well will be surprised

of the Chinese people has from the very first been one of the principal objects of British policy, and that the so-called LATERA

"unequal treaties of 1861-models of Belated election returns indicate a re-moderation and good will were framed duction of six and 13 respectively in the carefully to interfere as little as possible Republican majority in the Senate and with China's sovereign rights and to en House of Representatives. Many seats courage her oficials and people to tread are still in the ballot and if the Democrats the only path that could possible lead to capture a few more the western Rapuh-independence. Such, however, is the in- lican insurgents, led by the Wisconsin controvertible fact, to be verised by any- group of which the late Senator Laone who takes the trouble to study the Follette was leader, will undoubtedly be history of our relations with China. in a strong strategie position, by holding. "Unfortunately, it seems to have been the balance between the Democrats and forgotten-not by Chinese statesmen and the orthodox Republicans.

diplomatists alone-that "sovereignty, cannot be conferred by a magician's wind, or even by a Washington Confer- ence is not a state to be enjoyed, but a Election returns BOW available show function to be exercised. Mencius, in- that the next Senate he composed of deed, conceded it only to the Wise and 47 Democrats, one of the Farmer Labour | Benevolent Ruler: Party, Republicans, whereof eight arc insurgents, and hence thorns in the flesh of the Administration.

Six seats in the House äre, doubtful but hitherto the Republicans have 4 more seats than the Democrats.

Latest Figuzas.

NEW YORK. November 4th.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE NEW BETTING TAX-

BOYCOTT BY BOOKMAKERS.

PICKET SYSTEM THREAT. -

· CHINA AND THE TREATIES.

MAKING THE MOST OF GENEȚA.

The Geneva correspondent of the Morning Pust states that Belgium's ap- peal to the Hague Court against China's unilateral denunciation of the unequal Customs Treaty dating from 1963 will in no way influence Peking's decision to make her action effective from October 7th or prevent the denunciation of the Spanish and Portuguese treaties later in the year and other unequal treaties as soon as the six months denunciation period arriyes. This fact was made clear to me by Wang King Ky, the Chinese Minister in Brussels.

LONDON, November 3rd. There was practically no business in Tattersall's Ring at the Windsor Race Meeting to-day, and consequently it was impossible to return any starting prices.

According to Wang, China will invoke It is understood that this was due to the fact that bookmkaers are unable to refuse to negotiate Customs equality and boycott of Belgium's goods if Brussels PROBLEM.

agree among themselves how the betting reciprocal tarif treaties along the lines tax should be applied. The attitude of of treaties already concluded with Ger- PROSPECTS OF SETTLEMENT.

bookmakers refraining from offering prices was generally condemned, and the Losuos, November 3rd. We need have no fear of those diffi-action is making the strongest possible opinion was freely expressed that their culties not eventually being settled to

case. for the introduction of the satisfaction of the one as the other," totalisator.

the said General Hertzog, speaking at a jun- cheon in London to-day given by the Bri- tish Indian Union to the Indian de- legates of the Imperial Conference.. The Marquis of Reading presided

The function was notable as being Gen- eral llertang's first appearance at a non- South African function, while his speech was noteworthy as the first publicly spoken indication from anyone inside the Conference of the family feeling among the conferees. Furthermore, General Hertzog was the sole representative of the Dominion conferees at the luncheon... The Marquis of Reading, in a speech, warmly welcomed General Hertzog.

many and Austria. The British treaties cannot be denounced legally for eight stances will permit of abrogation before years, but Wang believes that circum.

that time,

Meanwhile, it is evident that Chinese We Want the Tote.”...

statesmen are making the most of their LATER. election to the League Council. They will There is a strong disposition at the use Geneva as a publicity centre, zaining moment among the bookmakers in Tatter- the issue under Article 19 of the Coven- all's Ring to stay away altogether from ant. Windsor to-morrow, Using the stone According to this article of the Coren- steps of the stand as a rostrum several at the Assembly may from time to aggrieved bookmakers harangued the time advise the reconsideration by mem crowd and from bets they drifted to bers of the League of treaties which have politics with violent attacks on Mr. Win become applicable, and the considera- ston Churchill. One man who shouted tion of international conditions whose "We want the Tote" had a rough time discontinuance might endanger the peace but the police piloted him to safety with of the aurid"], no harm done."

Bookmakers' Organize Boycoot.

LATER.

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COAL STOPPAGE AND 'LIFE ASSURANCE.

ACTION BY THE PRUDENTIAL.

indings are embodied in two reports

General Hertzog's Speech. which will shortly be handed to the

General Hertzog, replying, emphasised

It is now realised that the action of Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The newspapers state that the majority the value of close contact in removing the bookmakers at Windsor, which threw report deals with the gederal Snancial misunderstandings, quarrels and bicker the whofe operation of betting to

The Prudential Assurance Company system in a way that is in accord withings That was why he appreciated the standstill throughout the country, was

Imperial Conference, where the delegates an organised boycott, and some of them announces that, subject to certain easy generally accepted principles, and re- had contact giving the necessary confi threatened that this would be continued conditions," policy-holdiers can have the commends only minor alterations and dence and understanding. He added to the end of the flat season unless the arrears of premiums that have accumu adjustments in the existing methods of that South Africa and India were, try tax is favourably altered. No bookmaker fated during unemployment resulting taxation. It is stated that the finding ing to come into closer contact. They is expected as Tattersall's at Windsor to from the coal dispute deducted from the by the majority will not, in the existing had had considerable differences in the morrow, while it is understood that "a bonus on their industrial branch policies, circumstances, recommend the imposi- past, but he was convinced that with a picket system will be organised to induce instead of having to forfeit the benefit ton of a capital levy, but will declare Letter mutual understanding they would the public not to enter the rings. Meet of the payments already made, or suffer that it is a practical method of reducing be prepared to meet one another's ferings are being held or will be held ing a reduction in the capital amount of taxation. Its success, however, must de

quirements.

throughout the tountry, appealing for their insurance. pond largely on its general acceptance

support for the action of the Windsor by the Nation, not as a political creed

bookmakers today. but as a financial expedient.

ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.

RUGBY, November 4th, Arrangements are now completed for the chief ceremony in Whitehall, London, in connection with the anniversary of Armistice Day next Thursday, which, as in former years will be celebrated throughout the Empire by religious, sez- vices and the observance of two minutes" silence. Accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and other mem bers of the Royal Family, the King will

General Hertzog was loudly cheered when he made the remark quoted at the beginning He concluded by hoping that" during the remainder of their labours they would continue in the happy spirit

in which Mr. Baldwin and the Dominion delegates had been getting on at the Con- ference, where they looked one another face le-face and had not been afraid

say what they wanted to say. (Applause.)

to

OBITUARY.

BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S

The death is announced of the Bishop of St. David's, the Right Rev. John Owen.

On re entering employment the policy. holders will, under the scheme, have his arrears reduced to four weeks, and will only have to meet the regular weekly payments the outstanding balance will be covered by a suitable, deduction to be made when a claim arises. In the case of a with-profit policy this deduction will be made, not from the sum assured, but from the bonus thereon, and as the bulk (The Right Rev. John Owen, M.A.. had of the insurances issued by the Prudential bees Bishop of St. David's since 1897. are of this description, the value of the He was born in 1854, and was thus 72 concession cannot, it is officially stated, " years of age. He was an Oxford scholar. be over-estimated. The deduction can Bo was ordained Deacon in 1870 Priest, be cancelled by a suitable payment at 1880; Welsh Professor and Classical Lec- any time before a claim arises, maj turer at St. David's College, Lampeter, It is pointed out that most of those 1879-85; Warder and Headmaster of affected by the coal dispute will resume Llandovery College, 1885-88; Dean of St. work under a heavy burden of liability, and that clients of the Prudential will College. Lampeter; Canon of St. Asaph realize that "the way has been made 1882-97; when he was raised to the easy for them to maintain their policies Bishopric.]

in force."

THE ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI.

WAS WRONG. MAN LYNCHED}

lay a wreath at the Cenotaph and will be

PARIS, November 3rd. A remarkable statement is made in present during the brief service that will a Genon telegram to the Paris Midi that be conducted there. Surrounding the the boy Zamboni was not the real assail-Asaph, 1883-02 Principal of St. David's Cenotaph will be representative detachant of Mussolini but that he was lynched meats of the fighting services, Mercantile when he was frightened by the sound of Marine, and ex-Servicemen.

the shot and tried to flee.