1927-01-29 — Page 7

THE DEFENCE OF SHANGHAI,

CANADIAN GENERAL OFFERS HIS SERVICES TO THE BRITISH WAR OFFICE.

BRITISH TRANSPORTS ON THEIR

STARTLING MESSAGE FROM MOSCOW.

THE RIGHT HON. MR. AMERY'S VIEWS,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

A- CANADIAN GENERAL OFFERS HIS SERVICES.

OTTAWA, Jan. 28th. Major General MacBrien, Chief of the Canadian General Staff, has "resigned and has offered his

vices to the War Office for the Chinese Expeditionary Force. The resignation will probably take effect on May 1st.

AT SHANGHAI.

SHANGRAI, Jan. 97th, There is apparently no change in the situation, though the omnibus

strike is practically over.

{THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.]

STATEMENT BY ANOTHER CABINET MINISTER.

LONDON, Jan. 97th.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JANUARY 29th, 1927.

Mt. L. 8. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, speaking at Kilmarnock, asid that the modifica which Britain was offering to the tions of the present treaty position

Southern leaders

Northern and

would be seen, when published, to be sa far-reaching and generous and considerate to Chinese susceptibili. ties that it was impossible to con- ceive their rejection by any section of Chias that was influenced by a regard for the welfare or even

RAILWAY DISASTERS

IN JAPAN.

100 PASSENGERS BURIED "BY

AN- AVALANCHE

WHIRLWIND WRECKS FOUR EXPRESS

TRAIN COACHES.

FIFTEEN PERSONS SERIOUSLY

INJURED.

(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.)

Toxyo, Jan. 28th A train with 980 passengers was buried by an avalanche between Tone and Hikida, near Lake Biwa, this morning

:

The fate of the passengers is not yet known..

Rescuers are being hampered by snowdrifts.

Fifteen passengers and trainmen were seriously injured at Moíu, à town in the Niigata Prefecture this afternoon. when a viclent anew- storm and whirlwind blew off wreck-

DISASTROUS FIRE IN JAPANESE TOWN.

600 HOUSES DESTROYED.

POLICE STATION; BANKS AND

** BUSINESS PREMISES

INVOLVED.

THROUGH EXUZER'S AGENCT.)

TOTTA Jan. 28th." Bix hundred houses ware destroy- ed by a fire, which broke out in Kobayashi, a town adjoining Miya. zaki oity, Kyushu, this afternoon.

The buildings destroyed included the police station, railway office, banks, and business houses.

The refugees are suffering from the severely cold weather,

No casualties have been reported BRITISH COTTON INDUSTRY.

LORD

DEWHURST ON THE TRADE OUTLOOK.

BRITISH COTTON YARN ASSO CIATION.

STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE.

[TEXOUGH REUTER'S 'AGINOY.]

LONDON, Jan. 99th. The Organising Committee of tho Cotton Yarn Association, in a state- ment, say that the owners of over 17,200,000 spindles have now joined.

CHINA POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES,

AMPLIED REPORT OF MR. KELLOGG'S STATEMENT.

SIMILAR TO THOSE OF BRITAIN,

AMERICA'S VIE

(THROUGH BETTRR'S AGENCY,]

PEKING, Jan 28th. Mr. Kellogg's statement regard- the Association, which now only ing China, which is available in requires the further support of Peking, begins by saying that there owners of 1,800,000 spindles to in at present so much discussion enable it to start functioning. regarding the Chinese situation that It is his duty to state clearly the American position.

(THROUGH AMERICAN ́SERVICE.]

AMERICAN INDUSTRY.

America has always desired the unity, independence and prosperity

(THHOCOH AMERICAN BERVICE]

AN INDEPENDENT VIEW,

New Yoxx, Jan. 27th. The New York Times (Indepen-

dant), is of the opinion that Mr. Kellogg's statement is antisfactory! · United States is ready to discuss the and renews the assurance that the

treaty question with the Chinese Bat the Times points out that nothing can be done until the pre

of the Chinese nation. America is sent wave of excitement has sub-

A DECLINE FOR DECEMBER. prepared to relinquish extrality sided and the fate of foreigners in

China decided.

"This

when China can provide protection! WASHINGTON, January 27th.

by law through her Courts for

Special significance is attached The Federal Reserve Hank state American citizens and rights of the United States hold no.

to Mr. Kellogg's declaration that ment shows a continued decline in property. He recapitulates the cessions in China and have never Con- wholesale prices for December-American desires to see the Chinese manifested any imperialistic atti- The volume of industry was the national aspirations fulfilled and tide towards Chinh. This declara, The decline was felt in manufactur- the Tariff and "Extrality. Con Government wishes to desi with lowest recorded for over a year. American desires, before and during tion follows the wards: ing industries while the mineral ferences, to meet the legitimate the papers regard it as somewhat China in a moat liberal spirit," and

of a reflection on the Powers who have. Concessions, but this concla sion seems inconsistent with the fact that the whole tone of the state- ment is friendly and that Mr. Kellogg is speaking only for the United States.

LONDON, January 27th. national sentiment of China. Any ed four of the coaches of an express trade, Lord Dewhurst, presiding at In his references to the cotton the Williams Deacons Banking Meeting at Manchester, expressed the opinion that the Cotton Yam output, which reached a record demands of the Chinese people.

height in November, only declined slightly.

such rejection could only be due to train. The Punjabi disembarked with- extraneous influences, namely, the out incident.

A STARTLING "MESSAGE

FROM MOSCOW.

WARSAW, Jan. 27th."

A message from "Moscow is pub- shed to the effect that great activity is being manifested in the Soviet General Staff, and that several regiments of, cavalry are standing by and that some Siberian garrisons are already moving to- wards Kalgau, which is 110 miles from Peking.

It is catimated that 80,000 Soviet troops are concentrated on the Manchurian frontier.,

The Governments of Canton and Moscow are constantly in secret

communication.

BRITISH TRANSPORTS.

LONDON, Jan. 27th. Eight thousand, four hundred troops will mail from London, and

Southampton to-morrow and Satur- day for Shanghai,

This is the biggest transport problem since the Chanak crisis, but it is excelling" that operation for celerity and completeness.

The troops include the Green Howards, Devons, Cameronians, Borderers, Middlesex and Artillery, but Londoners are most interested in the march of the Coldstream Guards to Waterloo.

There will be eight transports with the "Shanghai Defence Force" strung out between the Straits of Dover and the Bay of Biscay by Saturday evening."

INDIAN PRINCES' OFFER.

New Deni, Jan. 7th The Viceroy is already receiving offers of troops for use in China if required, from Indian Princes.

[NAVAL WIRELESS.)

ATTACKS ON A.P.C. PROPERTY.

HANKOW, Jan 27th. False propagandist rumours are being spread in, connection with the industrial situation in Shang

hui,

|

dominance of Bolshevik agents or Bolshevik policy.

[BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE]

WHY THE MENACE IS BEING MET NOW.

Rrusy, Jan. 28th. Mr. Amery also said: The only reason for the despatch of the Navál apd Military forces to China was the definite and limited purpose-

of protecting the lives and property of large British Communities at cer. tain centres and particularly at Shanghai. If China were within a

afford to wait until the menace were few miles of Britain, we might well

actually up against Shanghai but as it was an immense distance, we were compelled to adopt precau- tionary measures now, which he sincerely hoped would never be actually required. Negotiations were meanwhile being conducted without any regard either to the military situation or to recent inci- dents but purely on the merits of the policy itself.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

TROOPS FROM INDIA

CALCUTTA, Jan. 27th. The 2nd Batt. of the Durham Light Infantry, to which is attach ed a platoon. of Indian machine gunners, have sailed for China aboard the s.a. Takliwa.

The 2nd Bath Gloucester Regi ment and the 55th Supply Issue Section have sailed from Bombay for Chins, aboard the aa. Vanu.

THE HANKOW DISCUS- SIONS.

....

TCHINISE PRESS SERVICE)

FOUR AEROPLANES FOR KUOMINTANG ARMY.

REPORTED GIFT FROM

"CHINESE, IN U.S.A.

SHANGHAI, January 28th,” According to & Kuomintang Press Agency report, Chinese in America are contributing four

the Kuomintang! aeroplanes to Army to aid in the northern ex- pedition against the militarists of Peking. The machines, it is said, are now on their way to China' from America.

[CHINESE PRZER SERVICE.]

KWANGSI "ANTI-REDS.”

THEIR GROWING INFLUENCE ENGAGING THE KUUMIN- TANG'S ATTENTION.

SHANGHAI, January 28th. In view of the growth in influence

for some

Association deserved a trial by the; trade. The outlook of trade with India was distinctly brighter than time. Considerably, more business had been placed in the past few months and, with the pre- sent range of values ruling in Britain, an improving demand might be anticipated. It was sur prising in the present; circum- stances to find China's consumption of cotton piece goods remaining so constant although a disquicting feature was that the proportion of British and Japanese importa, were largely reversed in compari son with the pre-war period.

"

[BRITISHTIRILASS SEXVICH]

BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC

RESOURCES.

STATEMENT BY NOTABLE

LONDON BANKERS.

Rugar, January 27th.

{

The greatest decline was in motor cars, passenger cars falling from 425,000 in August to 185,000 in December,

The consumption of cotton, des pile curtailment of production by fextile mills, was larger than any previous December.

FRENCH GOLD.

ANOTHER BIG SHIPMENT TO U.S.

The Tarif and' "' Extrality ". Negotiations,

surtaxes and tarif

Ho declares that at the Confer- ence, the American delegation was willing to agree to the Washington America was ready then and is autonomy ready now to continue the ̈Tarifl and Extrality negotiaticus The the

SENATOR BORAH'S VIEW.

"WASHINGTON, Jan. 27th. In his first formal statement on Chinese situation, Senator

only question is, with whom to Borah has declared that America's aegotiste.

policy in the Orient should visago a free and disenthralled

en-

It China can agree to the ap- China, He is of opinion that the pointment of delegates represent-orval and military force, might have British action in sending, a large

ing the Chinese authorities or the disastrous resulta people, America,, is prepared to negotiate a treaty. The existing "treaties, however, cannot be ab rogated by the American President

NO PROPOSALS FROM CHINA

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27th.

In amplification of Mr. Kellogg's formal declaration an China, asm

New Your, January 27th. A further consignment of French gold, valued at 142,000,000 francs, but raust be superseded by naw bas arrived and was transferred to treaties, negotiated by somebody armoured trucks which proceeded representing China and brequentances are given by the State De to an unknown destination in they ratified by the American Senate. Wall Street district."

Protection of Life and Property.

Presiding to-day at the annual PHILIPPINE HEALTH SER. general meeting of the Westmin-

VICE INVESTIGATION. ster Bank, Mr. Walter Leaf, the Chairman, said that one obvious

ALLEGED MISCONDUCT AND INEFFICIENCY.

of the "anti-Reds" in Kwangsireault of the great strike of last Province, part of the 5th Kuomin-year had been to show that the tang Army Corps now stationed, at Honam, the southern side of Can-

ton City across the River, will be dispatched westward to Kwangsi and, perhaps finally, to Yunnan, should, the "anti-Reds" rise there. They will be commanded by Colonel

KwaN.

[CHINESE PRESS SERVICE.}

"REDS" FROM CANTON.

DIFFICULTIES WHEN TRAVELLING.

LONDON, JAO. 27th. reached in the conversations be

A stage is believed to have been

tween Mr. O'Malley and Mr.

SHANGHAI, January 29th Eugene Chen, enabling the repre

To avoid inconvenience and risk sentatives to put forward a specific in Shanghai, where a abarp look offer, which elaborates in detail the proposals outlined in the British Memorandum, issued on December 25th.

to

Peking

out is being made for "Rods? travelling from Canton to Hankow, many Kuomintang leaders going to Central China have made ports in Formosa their points of transfer.

The American Government wel comes every Chinese adroace to wards re-organising the system of Government, and has maintained neutrality during the difficult years of the civil war aince 1911, but it expects the Chinese people and leaders to recognise the right of 'American citizens to protection of lite, and property.

America's Duty,

It the Chinese authorities are un

partment that the American Govern- ment is willing to enter into nego- tiations for the revision of Chinese, treaties with both the warring Cantonese and Northern factions. from China for the initiation of No proposals have yet been received

the information hitherto received such discussions. On the contrary has been in the nature of a protest from both sides against any stepá by, the United States to deal with the opposing factions,

BRITISH AMBASSADOR'S VIEWS.

country's economic reserves of

Governor-General Wood has order. strength were far greater than any- one supposed. There had been no ed an immediate investigation of recourse to foreign loans to help Jacob Fajardo, Director of the able to afford such protection, it is Esme Howard, in a statement after the situation, and the only con- Philippine Health Service, for the fundamental duty of America the latter's declaration an excel. clusion to be drawn was, that the alleged inefficiency and misconduct

The "Ares of Capital." Dealing with the future of in-

to do

10.

WARRINGTON, Jan. 97th The British Ambassador, Sir calling on Mr. Kellogg, considered.

ably please London. He did not With the possible neces lent document which would prob- see any serious divergence in it from the announced British and believed that all Western policy, nations recognised that there must be some modification of relations

amount both of our own savings in office. Vice-Governor Gilmore is sity of that, American naval forces at home and, of our invisible ex-in charge of the investigation. are now in Chinese waters, Amories ports must be greatly in excess of

The Manila Times, from whom we holds no Concessions or imperialis any of the estimates that had been

obtain this news,

was unable to tie aims, but desires its citizens to put forward.

obtain a copy of the order, or debe given an equal opportunity with with China. The only question was finite information regarding the those of other Powers to pursue how to bring this about The dustry, Mr. Walter Leaf said there grounds for it. It understands, their legitimate occupations with United States would have to pro out special privileges of spheres of doing in Nicaragua, but it would be tect its citizens in China as it was was in progress a rapid broadening however, that they are based on Dr.

special interest.

a different job in China. of the area of capital. The joint Fajardo's conduct of leper relief stock system was rapidly breaking work, at Culion and elsewhere. up the ownership of capital, and passing it on in small parcels to that in the five big banking umal- little shareholders. He mentioned gamations of this country there are about 975,000 shareholders owning

£80,000,000, and giving an average aggregate capital of over

division of capital could bardly go holding of under £220. The sub-

much further.

Goal Strike Effects.

i

MOSQUITO RESEARCH IN

PHILIPPINES.

· THE DEADLY MINDORO

VARIETY.

ENGLAND'S POLLUTED

RIVERS.

WATER COMPANIES AND- MEDICAL OFFICERS.

ALARMED:

ENGLISH VILLAGE FOR SALE

WHERE LADY GODIVA LIVED. The pretty little village of King's Bromley, midway between Rugeley and Lichfield, will be submitted to Public health authorities and public auction next month unless it water companies in England are Included in the sale are the Geor

is sold privately before. so concerned about the growing

dre

Definite attacks on the Asiatic Powers havó been acquainted with of Management of the Sun Yat Sen rent industries of the country are the most dangerous species in being poured into the rivers at such a

University,

Since the British Government are prepared to carry out a liberal policy towards China, irrespective of the parties engaged in the civil strife, similar proposals are being among those able to get to Hankewed aovincia, Bank, Sir the malaria control division of the joined forces with the fishing asso-houses, including the village inn. Presiding at the meeting of the Malaria experts now at work in pollation of rivers that they have gian manor house, 13. farms, 27- communicated

the authorities La accordance with the from Canton without taking the Harry Goschen said that the far Philippine Health Service have desiations to urge upon the Prime and smithy, and the lordship of the spirit of the Washington Treaty, overland route recently was Mr. reaching effects of the cessation of

Minister the necessity of taking manor, altogether some 2,300 acres. representatives of all interested Tai Chi To, Chairman of the Board work in the coal fields on other termined that Mindoro mesquitos action.

The little village has an interest Fetroleum Company are being made the terms of the British proposals.

* Sewage and industrial

ing history. It was the home of throughout China. Hankow itself is

particularly those primarily de-

Earl Leofrie, the husband of Lady The text is not yet published and, quiet,

pendent, like the iron and steel the islands.

rate that in a few years, accord Godiva. The Lase in the meantime, the garbled ver-

who family, are trades, upon the provision of large From the studies being conducted ing to many medien: oficers, they the ownere, are descendants of the Aiona being circulated should be.

coal and coke, supplies, were apnt present with the F.100.000 allot will be nothing more than open daughter disguised herself as

renowned Colonel Lane, whose (THROUGH BUIZE'S AGENCY.] MORE MOB INTERFERENCE. treated with reserve.

of work and the increased supplies of Malaria in the Philippines, it will be emphasised by a deputation Lles II. to the Bouth Coast for em-,- parent to all But the resumptioned by the legislature for the control sewers.

The seriousness of the position. country girl in order to pilot Char, of fuel, the iron, steel and ship was found that mosquitoes from THE SURTAXES.

building industries had shown re Mindoro are the worst kind so far representative of tartalmon to newed activity which afforded as the spread of the disease is con. Works Association, the Salmon and ground for the hope that we were, carned. The species found in Tront Association, the Fishmon JAPAN STILL OBJECTS. within sight of the restoration of Palawan are only slightly less gers Company, the Society of

normal trade conditions at all

Medical Officers of Health, and

DIVORCES WHILE YOU HANKOW, Jan 28th.

events in this direction dangerous.

other bodies, which is to be received

WAIT IN MOSCOW. w of the Chinese monks, nuts and priests

LONDON, January 27th, The experience, however, of

Although last year numerous in February by Lord Balfour on- WAP.O agents in Wuchang and bave formed a Union and are de- Representatives of the Powers in industries referred to, had been ex- Navaliches, mosquitoes in that!

prolonged cessation of work in the cases of malaria were found in behalf of the Prime Minister. Diverces are now granted in other places in Kiangau bave been manding Union rates for offering China, with the exception of pensive Various estimates had region are not so deadly, it is raid. Government to set up central in line. The new Russian marriage The deputation will arge the Russia while the applicants wait threatened during the last, two or prayers. three days. The agitators are de They paraded through the Con. Japan, are presenting an identical been made as to the figure to which Dr. Maralang, chief of the control authority to deal with pollution code permits divorces by the mere manding the payment of impossibly cessions to day, a body of 2,000 with Note to the Peking authorities, suffered may have reached, but he orwarded to his aids in Manila & Owing to pollution, many of the out evidence and the Soviet license

the loss which the country had work is now in Zamboanga and has problems.

expressed wish of either party with heary fines for being in British em hammer intense and music, notify agreeing to the levying of the feared that in any case it could not set of mosqueto taken from the rivers in England are producing bureaux are beneged daily by thou ploy, under penalty of the destrucling the public of the increase in tion of all tanku and stocka.

· prayer rates.

ashington Burtaxes

be less than some hundreds of provinces in the island of Min- only 20 per cent of the fish that sands of men and women seeking millions of pounde

dauso.

they were 20 years ago.

ieparation.

KIVIANG, Jan 97th.

Chinese troops endeavoured to

INCREASE IN PRAYER RATES."

commandeer the B. & 8. hulk by MONKS. NUNS AND PRIESTS

her in junks.

going" HME. Woodlark was obliged to proceed alongside to afford protes

tion, vid

FORM A UNION.

feat at Worcester, barkation to France after his de