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NORTHERN LEADERS DECIDE TO HOLD

· ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE.

EAGER TO SETTLE CHINA'S CHAOS. NO INVITATION FOR NANKING OR HANKOW. NATIONALISTS RETURNING TO SHANGHAI, WANG CHING WEI IN THE PARTY.

NORTHERN FLEET AGAIN, TO

.BOMBARD WOOSUNG.

The Northern leaders appear to be inclined to follow the suggestion of Sir Robert Ho Tung and hold a round-table coaler- ence, the importance of which, however, is considerably lessened, by the fact that it is to be confined exclusively to Northern leaders, except that Shana's Model Governor" will be invited

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th, 1927.

U.S. MOTOR CAR RIVALS.

FORD CO. * GENERAL MOTORS.

INTERESTING STATEMENT..

(REUTEN'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

MEXICO'S RELIGIOUS BRITAIN'S SCHNEI-

WARFARE.

BULLETIN ON RECENT BATTLES.

[REUTER"S "AMERICAN SERVICH)

A

DER CUP TEAM.

AIR MINISTRY ARRANGING OFFICIAL WELCOME.

(BESTISH WIRELESS BERVICR)

The

FROM CROYDON TO CAPETOWN.

8,000 MILES IN A MOTH.”

[BITING WIRELESS SERVICE.}

Rugar, Sopt. 29th. Lieutenant Bentley this afternoon completed his 8,000 miles fight: from Croydon to Capetown in a light Moth aeroplane. He had an

NEW YORK BANK MERGER.

G.5134,000,000 INVOLVED.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, Sept. 29th. The Chase National "Bank (hás absorbed the Mutual National Bank.

enthusiastic reception. The Last The merger involves a total capital

of G.$134.000.000. stage, from Victoria West, was flown against seventy miles an

CHAIRMAN OF T.Ü.C.

Mexico City, Sept. 29th.

Recay, Sept. 29th. The Presidential Bureau has

Flight-Lieutenant Webster who issued a bulletin stating that 34

won the Schneider Cup will reach were Victoris Station, London, OD "rebellious Catholic fanatics New Yox, Sept. 20th

He will be Catholié Father, Saturday afternoon. Wall Street, which ever since the killed and

his comrades announcement of Ford's plans of a named Sedano was captured, sum accompanied by new type of ear, has been anticipat-marily court martialled and execut Flight-Lieutenaar Warsley and hour gale. ing a bitter automobile war betweened after two combats with Federal Flight-Lieutenant Kinkhead. the Ford Company and General troops in Jalisco State. In the first Motors Corporation, are much in fight at Los. Mezquites, where terested in the reports of a speech 38 rebels, Headed by Sedano, in an by Mr. Alfred Sloan, President of entrenched battle which lasted for the Corporation, at Milford, Michi-four hours, 1t rebels were killed gan, in which he intimated that and two, including Sedano, were In the there was plenty of room in the captured and....· ́ executed. market for both Companies with second engagement, at Portezuelo, 1,000,000 HOUSES BUILT SINCE

ARMISTICE. A PENDING BOMBARDMENTcars falling in at other respective 250 rebels attacked Federal troops. price and, fields. This is interpret-The former thereafter Aed to the AT WOOSUNG.

It would seen that the Northern Fleet again intend to "bom- bard "Woosung, "and in consequence the Southern holders of that famous fort have been warned to be on the qui 'rive. Martial Law has been declared at Woosung.

A. NATIONALIST SUPER- VISORY COMMISSION,

The

(Wah Te Tai Pao.)

SHANGHAL, Sept. 29th

Government Nationalist (Nanking) ban appointed C. C. Wa, Chow Lu, Tan Yen Kai, Bei Chung Hai, Ho Ying Ching, Sun Fo and Ching Cheng as members of the Supervisory Commission of Fin- ance. Wang Ching Wei, Hu Han Min. Chang Chi, Wang Chung Hui; Sun Fo, Tai Chi Tao and C. C. Wu have been also appointed members "of the Commission for Foreign

·Affairs.

MORE PEKING" STUDENTS" ARRESTED.

(Wah Tu Tat Pas.)'

SHANGHAI, Sept. 29th." Peking's Police arrested eight

(Fah Ti: Tat Pan.)

SHANGHAI. Sept. 29th The Chinese Nayal Authority at Shanghai has received a report that the Northern Fleet will again at tempt to Bombard the Woosung Conséquently, martial law Fort. has been declared over the Woosing barbour area

TROUBLE AT CHINKIANG.

(Wah Tes Yat Pas.)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 29th A critical state of affairs prevails at Chiakiang. The troops under Li Chung Jen and Ching Cheng badly resent the intrusion" of the Han- kow troops under General Liu Chi, Tang Seng Chi's subordinate, General Lin's troops are taking up a strong defence outside the limits of Chiakiang.

more students of the Peking Univer. AN UNEXPECTED RESIGNA

sity on the 25th inst. They were charged with distributing circular against the Peking regime.

WHAT THE NORTHERN LEADERS INTEND TODO.*

(ifah Ts: Faladão.)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 28th. Chin Yuz Ping, an influential Northern leader, has declared that all Northern military leaders have come to an unanimous decision that

a round-table conference. should, be

TION.

(Wah Ti: Yat Pas.)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 9th. General Chow Fang Chi, the dictator of Chekiang, has unexpect- edly tendered his resignation to the Nanking Government of all the posts he previously held.

Chang Ching Kiang, Wang Ching Wei, C. C. Wu, Sun Fo, Wang Chung Hui, and Wang Pak Chun return to Nanking to-night.

HANKOW'S ADMINISTRA-

TION.

called to settle the present chaotic TANG AND WANG BEEKING

conditions. Marshal Chang Tso

Lin, he asserts, holds the same opinion and is expected to proceed to Tsinan and Pengpu personally for the purpose of coneulting with Gercrals Chang Tsung Chang, Sun Chuan Fang and, Chu Yu Pu re-

ADHERENTS.

[NAVAL WIRELESS.]

Air Ministry is considering plans for an official welcome at the station."

ANOTHER BRITISH WORLD RECORD.

SUBSIDY.

ed as extending the Olive branch mountains, leaving 18 dead and LARGE PROPORTION WITHOUT The newspapers infer that as long many wounded. as Ford's new metal does not in- vade the domain of the higher!

priced cars built by the Corpora THE GERMAN FLIGHT tion, for example the Chevrolent, there will be no battle between these two giants of the motor ca? industry.

SACCO-VANZETTI ASHES.

BEING TAKEN TO ITALY.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE

NEW YORK, Sept. 29th. Miss Vanzetti, sister of the dead Anarchist, has sailed for Italy with "one-half of they commingled ashes

of Sacco and. Vanzetti.

U.S. LEGIONARIES,

RECEIVED BY THE POPE

(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]

Rove, Sept. 28th. Three hundred and fifty American Legionaries have been received br the Pope.

THE LEAGUE AND A WARSHIP DISPUTE.

JAPANESE REPRESENTATIVE'S

ADVICE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]'

GENEVA, Sept. 28th." The Council of the League of Nations has concluded its busi- ness session and most of the dele gates are proceeding home to night.

The Council has fixed December 5th as the date of the next meeting, and has adjourned until then its further consideration of a dispute between the Greek Government and the Vulkan shipyards as regards the cruiser Salamis, of which the Greek Government refused to take delivery after the war.

The original contract price of the cruiser was £1,600,000, and Greece

ENGINE TROUBLE CAUSES.

FORCED LANDING.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BEIRUT, Sept. 29th. The mystery of the whereabouts of Roennecke since his departure from Angora on September 24th

has been cleared up,

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE,]

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MR. BEN TURNER ELECTED.

ADVOCATE OF INDUSTRIAL HARMONY.

བྷསྨཱ ཏི

ANTI-OPIUM WEEK IN

SHANCHAI.

TO COMMENCE ON OCTOBER

END.

CONFISCATED OPIUM TO BE BURNT!

(THROUGH RECTER'2 AQENCT.]

The National Anti-Opium Associa LONDON, Sept. 28th." tion of China, which exists for the Mr. Ben Turner has been elected purpose of arousing the general chairman of the Trades Union public to the danger of opium and Congress for the ensuing year. other narcotics and asking all in- Mr. Turner at the recent Trades telligent citizens throughout the Union Congress meeting at Edin-country to join in a great move

ment to help in realizing the Gori burgh strongly advocated concilia-

ernment's plan of opium suppres tion and negotiation with a view sion, has decided to launch a padon- to peace in industry.

wide movement, generally known as the National Anti-Opium Week: [Mr. Turner, 0.B.E, was Labour and the programme for the week is

P. for Batley and Morley in, the as follows: last Parliament. He is the presi

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RUGBY, Sept. 28th. One million houses have been buils in this country since the Armistice and nearly 330,000 of these without any subsidy.

Sir Kingsley Wood, Parliament-dent of the National Union of Tex-

tile Workers.] ary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, gave these facts to-day in

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review of the housing position. He said that no other country had made such progress or had expend- ed such vast sums for the benefit of: the houseless and badly housed. It was a world record and the great- est social contribution that had

Engine trouble compelled him to land in the neighbourhood of Mouslimie, north of Aleppo. Here the French air force effected rabeen made in this country since the pairs to his machine, enabling the war. One of the best features of Germans to continue their flight to the situation was that we were Basra yesterday morning.

SOVIET'S AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE.

NOT TO BE RECALLED.

FRENCH PRESS CAMPAIGN IGNORED.

THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]

The

French

Moscow, Sept. 29th.

Press campaign against Rakovsky has received its final quictus in an official statement that the Soviet Government has no intention of recalling him.

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LANCASHIRE COTTON

.INDUSTRY.

CONFERENCE REACHES

AGREEMENT.-

traBOUGA EXUTIR'A AGENCY.]

LONDON, Sept. 28th. After a five days' conference of

representatives of the Federation of Master Cottonspinners' Associa tions and the Cotton Yarn Associa tion, the delegates have reached an agreement with regard to the cur tailment of production, and mini- mum pricca.

The decision will be communicat-

ed to the executives of the respec-

on Friday to discuss other urgent problems of the cotton industry.

more and more becoming a nation of house-owners instead of merely

house tenants.

BRITISH LABOUR AND

RUSSIAN TRADE. UNIONS.

THE DISCONTINUATION OF CO-OPERATION.

(BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

Rugby, Sept. 28th. Mr. Citrine, General "Secretary of the Trades' Union Congress, was asked to-day whether any com- munication had been received from the All-Russian Council of Trades' Unions with regard to the recent decision of the Trades Union Con- gress to discontinue co-operation Не with Russian trade unions. replied that no communication of any kiad had been received from Russia

RUSSIA'S METHOD OF BORROWING. WHAT A PARIS PAPER THINKS

..OF IT.

MYSTERY, OF RICHARD J. REYNOLDS.

ני

"DIDN'T WANT TO BE

BOTHERED."..

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

races.

Oct. 2nd-Publicity Day. Oct. 3rd-Family Day. Oct. 4th-Students' Day, Oct. 6th-Merchants' Day. Oct. 8th-Farmers' and Labour-

ers' Day.

Oct. 7th-Law Enforcement Day. Oct. 9th-International Day. That the National Anti-Opium. Week this year will be a great suc cess can be seen from the enthu siasm shown at the preparatory meeting held on Friday, in the Shanghai Y.M.C.A. Over 50 or- ganization and 100 sympathetic friends joined the meeting and had

heated discussion.

ST. Louis, Sept. 29th. Reynolds at frst denied his identity, and declared that he had

Students' Day" used an assumed name because he

On the Students' Day, the Com- did not want to be bothered. He had seen the Dempsey-Tunney fight,mittee decided that besides holding and had attended horse and dog anti-opium meetings in different achonia and "colleges Shanghai, there should be a debate on the The informer as to Reynold's opium question, Students of all whereabouts will receive G.83,000graces will be invited to join it, [An earlier message from New Alerchants, it was decided, should York stated: The policet are meet in the General Chamber of vestigating the mysterious disap Commerce on October scb, and in pearance of Mr. Richard J. Rey- the most concreteyay show their holds, the elder son of the founder enthusiasm in the national campaign of the Reynolds' Tobacco Company, against opium; and arrangements and one of the five heirs to Rey have been made to express their. rolds fortune, which is estimated sympathy in the form of posters, to be G. 850,000,000. He was last.

the To educate

farmers and seen on Sept. 18th at the railway labourers on the question of opium, station, saying farewell to a de- the Committes on that day decided parting friend. His touring car that men should be sent to the was found overturned in the water ceighbouring villages and factories at a suburban resort. He was later to show them interesting pictures discovered in a chop suey shop by and give simple talks. On the Law detectives.].

Enforcement, one of the items de- cided is to have a grand burning of all opium and narcotice that have been seized during the past three months by both the Chinese Mari- the Customs and the Chinese local Government.

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How The Hitch Arose.

[

BERLIN, Sept. 20th. The hitch is due to difficulties centring round Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles whereby it asserts that revenues of the German

A Day For The Foreigners. Empire and Constituent States constitute a first charge on the Re-

It was decided that two things parations obligations. It is under would be done on the International stood that the President of the Day; that is to publish special anti- Reichsbank does not favour Ger- opium supplements or columns in man public borrowing abroad from leading English papers and to hold considerations of currency stability, a big international anti-opium meet- These joint views have apparentlying in the evening of October 8th. influenced the State Department at Prominent foreign friends who re Washington.

interested in the Chinese anti-opinn movement were asked to write for special supplements:

and

the

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.). The Petit Parisien forecasts that the Fench reply to the Soviet proposals of September zard show the impossibility of agreement an that basis of settling the debt ques THE HONQUR OF A DEAD leaders of all nationalities together. tion, and point out that the French delegation in consenting to an 80 per cent reduction made real sacri- fees, and the Soviet should show

their goodwill by paying before

HANKOW, Sept. 28th. General Tang Seng Chi and Mr. Wang Ching Wei, who have an nounced their intention of main taining an administration at Wa-paid £450,000 in instalments, but garding the matter. The proposed a separate and distinct from the claims that the contract is void as tive organizations, who will meet they start thinking of borrowing,

Germany is prohibited from ex- Nanking party, are apparently porting war material. seeking adherents in Changsha

Mr. Adatchi (Japan) energetic- and Kiukiang?

ally intervered in the discussion, General Tang Seng Chi left for in favour of referring the dispute the former place yesterday, and to the Hague Court, and deprecat Mr. Wang Ching Wei has gone to ed any hasty decision now," which Kiukiang to organise support for the Council might regret later. the Wuhan Government there.

conference will be held in Peking. to which General Yen 6hib Shac will be invited to attend. So far, the Northern leaders do not wich to extend invitations to the Nan- king and Hankow administrations.

GENERAL TANG AT CHANGSHA

(Wah To: Tai Pao.}

SHANGHAI, Sept. 29th General Tang Seng Chi arrived the 20th inst. Changaha on After a“ week's sojourn in that city

THE AUSTRALIAN COMMON- WEALTH LINE.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

ANOTHER REPORT.

リ

Brasy, Sept. 28th.

After a five days' conference the representatives of the Federation

cinions and the Cotton, Yarn Ass ciations to-day reached an agreement not only on the problem of the cur- RECOM-tailment of production of cotton but also on the question of mini- mum prices.

MAJORITY REPORT'S MENDATION.

(THROUGH HYUTAZ'S ADENOT.]

SYDNEY, Sept. 23th.

THE PROPOSED U.S. LOAN TO PRUSSIA.

SOLDIER.

AMBUSH BETRAYED WHEN INSANE.

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with the municipal authorities will be invited to the meeting-North China Daily News.

RUSSIAN OIL CHALLENGE.

INQUIRY INVITED BY M. STALIN

"DUTCH" REPLY.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 31st.

BRUSSELS, August 15th. The earlier reference said: M

The honour of a soldier has been Rakovski's Note purports to be a vindicated and full reparation made tentative settlement of Russian's to his widow and soa-who were debt to France based on the verbal awarded £2.860-by the decision of agreement. Russia agrees to pay the Military Court that Honore Forty-one annuities of 60,000,000 Doyen, a Belgian soldier, who be gold franes in liquidation of trayed an ambush, was insane at

the time. pre-war loans, ten annuities of

De Telegraaf publishes a state- Belgian troops early in the war. 60,000,000 francs on account of ar rears of interest, and ten similar made an ambush near a bridge in ment by Sir Henri Deterding, of af Master Cotton Spinners' Asso annuities on account of supplemen which they hoped to trap a con- the. Royal Dutch Company, accept-

M. Rakovaki states tary bongs.

pected to pass along the road. The Joseph Stalin, of the Soviet Be that the Soviet has reduced the tingent of Germans who were ex-ing the challenge made by M previous credit requirements Germana came, but before they public, regarding the confiscated 20,000,000 dollars spread over six

were near enough for the ambus Russian oil resources. years, the proceeds of which would

cade to open fire, Doyen, who had M: Stalin published the follow- be expended in France.j

accu the ambush from the bridge, ing statement in one of the New shouted and waved his arms to the York newspapers

"Soviet Russia has not stolen, oncoming enemy, who hurriedly re- treated unhurt.

even a barrel of oil from any in- Doyon was arrested and following dividual belonging to any uation

ality. We nationalised Russia's quick court-martial, was shot. Á short official announcement was sent oil resources, and we are willing to his widow and son, advising them any day to participate in a disia- of the manner in which Doyen had terested commission or court to met his death. They also received give an equitable verdict on anch INCREASED PRODUCTION.

a message left. by Doyen on a leaf claims." WASHINGTON, Sept. 28th. from a school exercise book. H

Sir Henry has accepted this chal- [REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]

In the absence of a formal re had started each word on a new lenge, and has instructed his re- quest from the American bankers line. The message read: "Dear presentative in New York telegra NEW YORK, Sept. 28th.

Soviet representative whether the The Federal Reserve Board's interested in the projected Prus-Wife-To-morrow I shall be killed, phically to put the question to the

sian State Loan of G.830,000,000

A Brussels barrister, at the in Soviet Government will also abide monthly report states inter alia

it is more or less a complete inquiry into

Sir Henry. Deterding adds that definitely shelved,

case and was able to establish to miles south-west of Wubu. The 3,000 men of the Bengal-Nagpur The report says that the results that industrial, production inerea for the administration's views, but I have done nothing."

The bankers have been informal- the satisfaction of the Military he believes a new era is dawning," resuls was that the former got the Railway workshop in Khargpur of trading with the steamers have ed in August, reflecting the growth to believe that there are inclined stigation of the widow and son, by and help to execute auch ver

who turned up for work but dis shown the unreliability of fore in the output of coal,

The consumption of cotton wer a protest against the casts made for shipping in the better of the exchanges, and strict none as

workable.-B.U.P. the ambush. management declared a shop lock should not be retained as a direct production increased, though below does not favour this loan to Prus mind at the time he had betrayed has found that Communism is un-

the level of "August, 1928. martial law has since been declared

overnment

out, affecting 10,000 people.. governmental activity. in the city.

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he will return to Hankow.

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INDIAN RAILWAY

WORKERS' UNION.. THREATEN. GENERAL STRIKE.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]-- CALCUTTA, Sept. 29th

A majority report of the Jolat The Bengal Nagpur railway Committee on Public Accounts According to-Japafese sources on workers' union has decided to de

clare a general strike if the recommends the disposal of the the 27th inst. General Tang Seng authorities do not withdraw their steamers of the Australian Com- Chi's troops, under Commander Liu discharge notices, or appointmonwealth Line to a private com Hing, clashed" with "General Lcommittee of enquiry.

[A message of September 12th Pany and the termination of the stated: Following the action of directors' appointments.

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Chung Jen's vanguard some 15

AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL

RETURNS.

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NOT FAVOURED BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT.

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