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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12th, 1927.

FENGTIENESE CLAIM TO HAVE FULLY INDIAN STATUTORY

60,000 TROOPS IN NORTH SHANSI.

HOLDING THE RAILWAY AND MARCHING ON TO SHANŞI'S CAPITAL.

NORTHERNERS ALSO CLAIM TO HAVE ENTERED KAIFENG.

CONSIDERABLE UNEASINESS STILL -BEING FELT IN HANKOW,

WHAT THE FENGTIENESE UNEASINESS AT HANKOW.

CLAIM.

(THROUGH REWER'S AGENCY.]

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PERING, November 11th. The Ankuochun claim to have captured weihui, at the extremity of the Peking Suiyuan Railway.

There are now more than 80,000 Fengtienese troops in North Shansi holding the whole railway with Hwaijen, the furthermest town. They are occupied on a march to Taiyuaafu.

A

received by Castge

the Cabinet to-day from Chan. Trung Chan sintes that the Chikli-Shan-

tung troops are north of the Yellow River, which they had crossed and had entered Kaifeng cutting. off the Kuominchun retreat. there is no confirmation obtainable of this report.

But i

HOLLAND AND HER COLONIES.

REGULAR TELEPHONE COM. MUNICATION PRACTIC. ALLY ASSURED.

(TEKOÇOX REUTER'S 'AGENCY,]

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THE HAGUE, Nov. 11th. The Postmaster-General; in communiquő, states that excellent results were obtained by the abort. wave radio telephone between Hol- land-and-the-Dutch-East-Indies-on- the 7th inst, ad that if the same standard of results is maintainable, regular telephone communication between Holand and her Colonies is assured.

BRITISH TRADE.

RETURNS FOR OCTOBER.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nov. 11th.

The Board of Trade returns for October shows that imports amount

ed to £105,030,630, an increase of £3,604,190 compared with those of September. The exports were valued at £81,187,114, an increase of £544,975.

CONDENSED MILK.

[NAVAL WIRELESS. ]

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COMMISSION.

STATEMENT BY SIR JOHN SIMON.

TO-LISTEN, LEARN AND REPORT.

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

Rroar, Nov, lith.

Sir John Simon, K.C., MP, ad- dressing his constituency, refers to the great and difficult task before the Indian Statutory Commission of which he is Chairman. He says:

"HANKOW, Nov. 10th: The situation is obscure, but there is undoubtedly, considerable un- easiness among the Chinese popula-The British Parliament has a tion Tang Seng Chi, Yang Sen and Wu Fei Fe appear to have tremendous responsibility to the come to some agreement between themselves and probably also with peoples of India. It is a respon- the Northern forces. An emissary sibility which cannot be denied or from Chang Tse Lin was known to

LADY COBHAM.

TO ACCOMPANY HER HUS BAND ON 20,000-MILE FLIGHT

WILL SUPERVISE THE COOKING.

[BUITISH WINKLESS SERVICE

Recar, November 11th. Lady Cobham will accompany Sir Allan Cobham on a flight of 20,000 miles round Africa, which he begins next Thursday from Rochester. She is going as a member of a crew of six, which the flying boat Singapore' will carry, and in addi- tion to assisting her husband in keeping detailed records of the fight, she will supervise the cook- ing for the crew,

have been in Hankow yesterday evaded, for it is rooted in the WAR DEBTS TO BRITAIN. An attack by San Chuan Fang down

the railway on Nanking is expect-history and in the facts of the world ed. Heavy fighting has been re- ported at Spl Hill.

KWANGSI TROOPS.

6,000 RETURNING TO CANTON,

(NAVAL WIRELESS..]

SWĄTOW, Nov. 10th. Three Chinese transporte sailed for Canton with the 7th Army of Kwangsi troops-6,000 'men in al

to-day. Therefore, if the future

of India is to be one of peaceful progress and of goodwill both in India and in Britain this can..come only by the action of the British Parliament combined with the co- operation of India itself. Both these are provided for by a scheme of which the work of the Com- mission is the first stage. The Commission does not go to India

BELGIAN AVIATORS' with any idea of imposing western

"MISFORTUNE.

LONG FLIGHT,

(THROUGH ARCIER'S AGENCY.)

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ideas or constitutional reforms from without. We go to listen, to learn CRASH ON SETTING OUT ON and faithfully to report our con- to actual conditions and the varying proposals from within. When the Commission has reported, IL scheme will BRUSSELS, Nov. 11th.

be provided for that full and The Belgian aviators. Medacts final consultation between repre- and Verhaegen, who started a non-tentatives of the legislatüres of stop fight to Leopoldville, in the India and Britain, which is essen- Congo, crashed at Chaumont near Binis. Toth were seriously injured.

~RADIO.

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LAND AND SHIP STATIONS.

ARTICLES RATIFIED.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}·

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11th.

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A plenary session of the Inter- national Radio Conference, under the chairmanship of Mr. · H. Hoover, has ratified the 18 articles of the new Radio Convention specifying the procedure to be adopted for communication between land and ship stations, including the rules for licensing stations and safeguards against interference in distress calls from ships.

The Belgian delegate intimated that Belgium was willing to Fold INVESTIGATION BY MINISTRY the Telegraphic Conference

in

Brussels in 19 8 instead of 1930.

OF HEALTH.

{BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE)

.

ITALIAN AUTHORESS WINS NOBEL PRIZE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

The Physica Awardo. The Nobel physics príze has been divided between Mir, Arthur Comp- ton, of Chicago, for the discovery of the "Compton process," and Mr. C. T. Wilson, of Cambridge, for his method of observing electri- fied particles.

fial in the connection to be fulfilled

before reaching a position upon which so much depends. The task of the Commission calls for the highest qualities of sympathy and imagination as well as for endless patience, strict impartiality, indus- try and courage. I intensely desire to give what service I can to India and to Britain and while...I am deeply conscious of my own short- comings, I am going to do my best.

DEATH OF SIR WALTER

CAINE HILLIER.

FORMER ADVISER TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT

BORN IN HONG KONG.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nov. 11th, The death is announced of Sir Walter Caine Hillier.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR PAYMENTS.

"ALL EXCEPT RUSSIA."

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nov. 10th.

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In the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill, replying to questions regarding the war debts to Britain said that funding arrangements had now been signed by all the Allies, except Russia

Arrangement had also been made for full repayment of all relief

debts, with interest, except in the case of Austria, which had been postponed for 20 years from 1923, and Armenia, which was now part of the Soviet.

KENYA 'COLONY LOAN.

PENDING ISSUE OF £3,000,000

STOCK. /

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE")

THE KING OF IRAK.

TAKES PART IN TWO HOURS' CONFERENCE.

OFFICIAL VISIT TO FOREIGN OFFICE.

(BRITISK WIRELESS SERVICE}

Ruor, November 11th. The King of Irak paid an official visit to the Foreign Office last night and was received by Sir Austen Chamberlain. His Majesty was ac companied by his Prime Minister

and the whole question of the re

was discussed for about two hours. King Feisal will visit Lancashire on Monday week.

THE MARCONI COMPANY.

STATE OF THEIR AFFAIRS DISCUSSED IN COURT,

THE JUDGE'S VIEW.

(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCT.)

LONDON, NOV. 10th. The judge has confirmed the application for. n reduction of the Marconi Company's capital.

LONDON, Nov. 11th. Justice Eve, a granting the

MR. CHURCHILL ON THE GOVERNMENT."

GOOD RECORD.

SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT.

[BRITISH WIRELESSÄ SERVICE, |

Brosy, Nov. 10th. Mr. Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at the Com- stitutional Club, reviewod the re-

cord of the Government.

He said: The Government was t. Baldwin at its head there was elected to secure stability, and with

lations between the two countries Marconi Co, their application, said belief that the nation would be

that an

extraordinarily careful

given that period of ropose, in valuation of the assets had been order to recuperate, so long urgent- presented to the Court and the ly needed. Three years have pass Company had made a strong primard, and we have to my first of all Jacie case in support of the alleged loss of £1,625,000.

GRAFT IN NEW YORK.

INSPECTORS IN PAY OF TRADESMEN.

that we have kept the peace. We have kept the peace abroad, and as far as it lay in our power, we have kept peace at home.”

The three years had been a period of revival and recuperation and convalescence, both for. Britain and,

The respondents submitted that PERMITS TO SELL TAINTED the reduction exceeded the sum

MILK.

which really was not represented by available assets and that the investigators had taken too pes-Europe. Many would say that the simistic a view of the position.

His Lordship, pointed out that this was only the last of a series of writings down which totalled nearly £6,000,000. It was impossible not to appreciate the shareholders' views. They had severely suffered,

A system of graft typical of the difficulties which municipal govern- merit in America has to fight against revealed in a report presented to

the city of New York..

A new Health Commission ap- missed 45 employees for corruption. pointed about a year ago has dis- Five employees on pension have ha1 their pensions stopped.

: progress had not been what Was ex- pected or hoped. That was un- doubtedly true, but progress bad been appreciable, and had been con- tinuous. By every test one could apply the world was more secure. The prosperity of the country was economic dangers which menaced" more advanced, and social and

us, and still menaced us, seriously, had been held at bay.

Nothing had been 'dono which had

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Worst Industrial Crisis. We had passed through the very

It discloses that for ten years and they might think the loss was almost the whole staff of the City not altogether due to circumstances Health Department was organised beyond the control of the manage into

He, therefore, allowed the a corrupt body of bribe-ment. seekers. Most of the favours sold inquiry to range far more widely were permits to sell tainted milk than he would otherwise have done.weakened British resources, and and other foods.

[A cable dated November 8th the Government found themselves stated: Company shareholders, which it is Affidavits by Marconi

still with two years of life in this

against the directors of the com- than it had three years ago, when alleged amount to charges of fraud Parlament, and a better chance Dany were read in the Chancery it assumed the responsibility of Division at the hearing of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com- power. pany's petition to write down the capital from £4,000,000 to £2,375,000, involving the reduction of the ordi nary shares from 20 to 10 shillings, worst, and in some respects most, The spokesman, of the opposition | malignant, industrial troubles said that scheme aimed to enable which the hitary of this country, the directora by subsequent appre ciation of the now artificially den of any modern state, had ever↑ preciated values, to show profts in witnessed a general strike and order to justify the enormons suma prolonged paralysis in the coal- they are receiving as remuneration fields. These two events, he claim- for their services. The company's ed, had destroyed a great part of counsel, who mentioned that Signor the improvement for which one, Marconi was too ill to attend at otherwise might have hoped. The present, said that this was a charge coal subsidy. had upset the Govern of fraud of the most gross descrip- ment's first year's finance. The tion. The hearing of the applica strike itself had destroyed the tion was adjourned.]

second year's finance, and the after- math of the strike, involving the loss of between £28,000,000 and -£30,000,000~~revenue over clouded

the country at the present time.

Judge Kelby, who has spent a year over his report, found that many sanitary inspectors had their names on the wages list of dairy. men and received regular payment, Milk dealers and others bapa told him that unless such payments were -made-business--was rendered in

possible for them by interminable complaints and instructions.

“Honest" Men.

Rugar, Nov. 10th..

The "honest" men in the depart Kenya. Government five per centment were known as "package" Inscribed Stock Loan for £5,000,000 men, because they would received will be issued on Monday next by gifts only in kind. Others received the Crown for the Colonies. The payments up to £10 a time. loan will be repayable in 1938, but

the Colonial Government retains the option of redeeming it in 1948 or any subsequent year. The price is fixed at 003 and the first full half-year's dividend will he payable on July 15th, 1999.

RESTORATION WORK IN

FRANCE.

A system of doubling was started, which a niall dealer paid £50 for.

WIRELESS TELEPHONE IN

TANK.

CAR."

a permit to sell milk, Later on TANK “TALKS" TO ARMOURED the inspector was paid £1,000 by a big dairy concern to withdraw the licence from him and some other small dealers.

A Tank, wonderful weapon though it is, is almost blind, deat and

That the Government had been able to come through this pemod and without increasing direct taxation, without restoring indirect taxation on necessaries, and at the same time had not merely retained the sinking fund at £50,000,000, which was statutory, but had rais ed it to £83,000,000, constituted an achievement of which no-one, need be ashamed.

Referring to the passing of the Trudes Union Act, Mr. Churchill. declared that this had been, wel- comed by the large majority of trades unioniste themselves, as only right and fair, and it had been followed by a better spirit in industry.

'One of the biggest sources of dumb its value would be quad The loan is one in which trustees graft was from milk and creau rupled if tanks on the move in brought into New York from die-hostile country could talk to each are authorised to invest.

tricts officially under a ban. The other and their base by wireless. regular corruption rate on this was The Army is taking a keen in a dollar per can. Dealers who tried terest in the achievements of a to evade it, were made to pay a Territorial officer, Captain K. dollar and a ball per can.

Hartridge of the 23rd (London) Harry Danziger, one of the chief Armoured Car Company. A inspectora, gave evidence against Dressed in dungarees and curled the secretary to the Health Commis-up on the floor of the seyco-ton sioner and confessed that in 1924 armoured car Dragon, I took part, and 1995 he had received in bribes | says a correspondent to a home. of this sort over £20,000 and turn- paper, in a three-way conversation on the roof of the car; with in- with the armoured car Ace, about genious simplicity ita base is fitted to an ordinary' deer-spring, so that six miles away, and the VAA at when the car passes under low Moulsford, 12 miles away during branches, or a bridge, the aerial trials at Moulsford, Berks, of the simply hes down, and slowly rises when the obstacle is passed. The aerial is working all the time.

NEARLY COMPLETED.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCE.]

[Sir Walter, Hillier, KC.M.G., was born in Hong Kong in 1849, and was the son of the late Mr. C. B.

PARIS, NOV. 10th. Hillier, late Consul at Bangkok. He was educated at Bedford Gram

The Chamber haq passed the bar School and at Blundell's budget of the war devastated School, Tiverton. He was a student

regions. interpreter in China in 1867, Chi- nese Secretary in 1885-88; Consul- The Minister of Public Works General in Korea, 1830-98; Profes stated that 99 per cent of the fields sor of Chinese, King's College, London, 1904-8; Adviser to the had been repaired, and 67 per cent. Chinese Government 1908-10, He of the estates, 88 per cent of the Lary Authorities in China in 1900 works, 76 per cent, of the public during the Boxer Trouble, was buildings, 84 per cent. of the roads mentioned in despatches" and "re-

been re-built

had also been Adviser to the Mil-

of a family well-known for genera. tions in China. He married, in 1908. a daughter of the late Sir C N." Aitchison, K.C.8.1.]

WORLD'S LARGEST ·

ed over 90 per cent. of it to the

Paying Scares,

secretary.

A highly-organised bluff upon the whole of the city authorities was carried out for five years in succes- sion.

The Department each year issued scare report to the Finance extra appropriation to guard against out Committee asking for an

breaks ol-disease. In one case it was Spanish influenza; in another it was typhus in Europe; in a third it was bubonic plague in other States of the Union.

new invention.

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The noise inside an armoured car travelling along a country road at 15 miles an hour is such that you putting your mouth within six can only talk" to the driver by

inches of his ear and bawling at the top of your voice.

Wave Length Ohanges. That is one of the difficulties which have to be faced. Another

on, Judge Kelby ands that in most

exist. The amount thus wasted was

a million dollars,

The Indignant Driver.

RUODY, Nov. 10th. The Minister of Health was asked in the House of Commons to-day,

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 10th: whether he had ascertained that the sale of condensed. skimmed The Swedish Academy has award milk, similar to that imported into ed the Nobel prize for literature, this country from Holland, was for 1926, to the Italian woman ceived a medal. He was a member and os per cent, of the canals had cases these plagues did not even and more puzzling problem is that Dragon's transmitter was out of ́ forbidden in Holland itself, and novelist, Grazia Deledda, whose works deal chiefly with peasant life what regulations regarding the in Sardinia." coanufacture of this article were in force in Holland and Denmark.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain replied that inquiries regarding the condi- tions of the production of condensed skimmed milk in Holland and Dén- mark had recently been made by one of his medical officers, inspector from his department and a Professor of the University of Reading. He was now considering in what form he could best submit,

LONDON, Nov. 10th. Mr. W. S. Harnett, the central for the information of members, figure of a sensational three year's the results of those investigations litigation with a view to establish including the scope of the regula ing his sanity, after he had escaped tions in force in those two coun- from an asylum, has been found. "trick.

drowned at Poplar.

Operation seemed to be almost as simple as making an ordinary had knished speaking you called conversation, except that when you over and switched off the generator supplying current for the transmitting valves, while the other car to reply switched its generator

For some 20 minutes the of eliminating the constant slight action, unknown to its crew, owing. changes of wavelength which the TOTALISATORS ON ENG- That the root cause of this kind presence of trees, walls and houses a minor defect in the micro- of graft here and elsewhere is the is liable to introduce in a set and phone lead. It was both exasperat ing and amusing to rattle down an LISH RACE COURSES.

"Fine tun: Oxfordshire lane listening to the popular election of men to paid aerial on the move. official positions and the awarding ing cannot be done in a moving Ace and headquarters discussing. QUESTION IN THE COMMONS. of employment as political pay, is car, let alone a tank.

what had happened to us: clear. Judge Kelby mildly Bug Morse would be much easier job [BRITISH WIRELISA, SERVICE ).

gests that district political leaders than" telephony, but the beauty of should be told to keep their hands telephony is its speed. Also a They've probably run into the Ruosy. Nov. 19th, off the Health Department activi-special operator in unnecessary; river at Shillingford, or ditched In the House of Commons, Mr. | ties in their area."

any member of the tank's crew can themselves," they suggested, at asked Winston Churchill,

what His pathetic conclusion is, "In operate Captain Hartridge's instru- which our driver-19 weeks in the were the intentions of the Govern-deed a full "remedy may never be ments, g

year a city clerk-was mightily in ment regarding the introduction of found until enough honest men can The transmitters "are

dignant. 30-watt legislation to enable totalisator be found in the city of New York affairs, and, the receivers powerful

Under favourable conditions, the machines to be afected on race to inspect the food supply, Areven-valve superheterodynes, with extreme range of the apparatus is courses, replied that the Govern-parently Diogenes would need a ment had considered the report of very powerful flashlight here to only one stage of low-frequency about 20 miles, and a 10-mile range the Jockey Club Committee and day.

Captain Hartridge has not trid kad decided that it, a private mem- He offers ns the only excuse for

for more, for the greater the range, bera bill authorising the establish the guilty inspectors the fact that Padded head-phones are used, for the more chance there is of the ment of totalisators on race courses their salaries ranged from £450 to the loudest loud-speaker would be signals being picked up by the was introduced during next session £850 a year, a sum which he thinks inaudible in the din.

enemy. Hence the use of compara- and obtained a second reading on a -and comparison with the cost of

The aerial is simply hollow tively weak transmitters and very The wave- powerful receivers.. they would endeavour to provide inadequate to put then above great

temptation.-Daily News,

(Continued on next Cołumin.)

& milk

ECHO OF ASYLUM CASE,

CENTRAL FIGURE FOUND. DROWNED.

(THROCGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

SUBMARINE.

BUILT IN AMERICA.

[BEDTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 10th.

At this New Hampshire seaport, the largest submarine in the world, the F, and the first undersea minelayer built for the United States, has been launched.

amplification.

Collapsible Aerial.

is always obtainable.

The vessel carries a crew of eight free vote of the House of Commons, living suggests he is right-15 aluminium, rod, about 10 feet high lengths used run from 70 to 140

officers and 60 men.

facilities for ita adoption..

metres.