NANKING AND THE SALT GABELLE.
PAO YU LIN LEAVES PEKING FOR DAIREN.
NATIONALISTS RELEASE POLITICAL PRISONERS.
CHANGES IN DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF POSTS.
General Pao Yu Lin has left Peking for Tientsin, whence he has taken a passage for Dairen: General Yen Shib Shan sent a large force to speed him on his way, and apparently the Nation- alists heaved a sigh of relief when he went, and now regard the incident as closed.
It will be remembered that General Pao Fu Lin was the Northern general who remained behind to guard the peace of Peking until the Nationalists assumed full control. He remained "under a safe, conduct obtained for him by the Diplomatic Body, yet when in his retirement he had proceeded about 20 miles, he was stopped and ultimately disarmed by one of Feng Yu Hsiang's minor generala The Diplomatie Body at the time addressed. several strong, cotes to the Nanking Government, but apart from the promise of an inquiry nothing was done.
The remaining Fengtien troops that are still within the Great Wall are being withdrawn by Chang Hsueh Liang and Yang Yu Ting. Li Chung Jon is moving his forces to Sanhakwan to make sure that the evacuation is complete.
The Nationalist Government has ordered Yan Shih Shan to re- lease those who were imprisoned on political charges under the rule of Chang Tao Lia. It is stated however that any who are known to be Communists will not be released.
the Salt
The Nationalist Government's attitude towards Gabelle, and the question of whether they intend to meet their obligations in that quarter, is raising a good deal of interest and causing some anxiety. The Government's financial policy is meet. ing with a certain amount of criticiem.
SALT GABELLE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEKING, July 1st.
The salt situation continues to be the subject of the most serious discussions between Mr. F: Hussey Freke and the foreign diplomata and financiers. It was pointed out that het breaking would not neces- sarily effect the 1913 Reorganisa on which interest and tion Loon amortization has been met for several years from the Customs and not from salt. This interest
was paid to the bond holders promptly as usual yesterday from the Customs.
The loans chiefly affected will be Crisp Kukuange, the British and the French Loans, on which China is already defaulting.
The authorities mentioned con- sider that T. V. Soong and other Chinese financiers are anxious to re-establish Chinese credit abroad, but if they meet the service of loane out of ordinary revenue, and at the zame time destroy the
Gubelle, this would create a feel- ing that the new Government did not intend to keep the past loan agreements. Also there would be much doubt abroad as to how long the interest would continue to be met, and hence credit would be weakened and not strengthened.
It is understood that the Gabelle still has $800,000 in a group of
POLITICAL OFFENDERS
RELEASED.
COMMUNISTS NOT LIBERATED.
{THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
PERING, June 30th. A delegation of minor Nationalist Generals has gone from Peking to Paotingfu for the purpose of meet- ing Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, who is expected to arrive here on Sun- day from Shanghai viá Hankow. "It is understood that Chiang Kai Shek will stay about ten days, going to Nanking in time to take part in the fifth plenary session of the Kuomintang.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, JULY 2nd, 1928.
EXPLORATION IN TIBET.
GERMAN PIONEER'S
SUFFERINGS,
READY FOR MOVE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCT.).
BERLIN, July 1st. Still unable to wear boots or shoes owing to frozen feet sustain- ed in his two years' journey across Tibet, the German explorer Herr Filchner has returned to Berlin.
· ANOTHER AIRMAN
LOST.
* ITALIA" RESCUERS'
EFFORTS.
RUSSIAN FLIER
DISAPPEARS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MINE
FRENCH
EXPLOSION:
53 MEN KILLED.
AIR PIPES BROKEN.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ÄOKNCY.]
SAINT ETIENNE, July 1st. A violent explosion occurred on Saturday at the Roche la Moliere Mine. The death roll was at first announced as 40 but has since ricea
ROME, July 1st. It is feared that there has been another victim in connection with the search for the Italia. The to 53. airman Babushkin, who is attached The disaster originated in a com-
la an interview he expresses satis to the Russian ice breaker Molyparatively trifling Ere, but a fali faction with the scientific results of guin, took off in the direction of earth broke the compressed air his exploration, which has filled in Foyn Island on June 29th, and has pipes Poisonous gases then pene- two blank spaces in the map of not returned: Bad weather has trated the working galeries and Central Asia. He plays a tribute frustrated numerous attempts at ruffocated the miners. to the help of the British author rescue. ities, and says he is ready to lead The rescuer maintain wireless another exploration across Tibet in contact with Lieutenant Vigleri. 1930 if financial support is forth-whom General Nobile left in com- coming.. 1
mand at the time of his rescue.
At present he has offered his Four aircraft, profiting by a 200- services to the Norwegian Govern { turnal fall of temperature which ment to help in the search fos will consolidate the snow and ice, Amundsen.
arranged to take of last night from the region of the Citta di Milano. They intended to revictual, PT if possible pick up the Viglieri party, and continue the search for the group which was carried off With the Italia's balloon."
TRAIN DISASTER
ENQUIRY.
THE SHUNTER'S "STORY.
ADJOURNED TILL DRIVER RECOVERS.
[TRRCCOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July let
Two signalmen with 98 years' service between them gave evidence at the Ministry of Transport en- quiry into the Darlington disaster.
The shunter dramatically describ- ed how just before the collision, seeing that the signals were against him, he applied, released and re- | applied the Westinghouse brake.
The enquiry was adjourned sine die to await the recovery of the driver of the train.
JAPAN'S COMMERCIAL TREATIES.
CHOLERA RAGING
NEAR SIMLA...
الى
HEAVY DEATH ROLL,
COURTS AND SCHOOLS CLOSED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]-
SIMLA, June 30th.
GORDON BENNETT
BALLOON RACE."
TWELVE COMPETITORS.
[THROUGH-REUTER'S AGENCY.}
DETROIT, July 1st... The Gordon Bennett Balloon race has started. There are twelve
balloons competiting, three from America, three from Germany, two from France, and one ench from Denmark," Holland, the Argentine and Belgiumi.
ANOTHER VENIZELIST.
CABINET.
RECOMMENDATION TO PRESIDENT.
[TÀROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.]
ATHENS, June 30th. The Zaimis Cabinet has resigned M. Sotoulis, President of the Cham
RIOTING NEAR CALCUTTA.
SIKHS ATTACK MOSLEMS,
HINDU BEATEN TO DEATH.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CALCUTTA, July lat. Fifteen have been killed and
maoy
riots at Khargpur near Calcutti.
injured in Hindu Moslem
R.A.F. DISPLAY AT HENDON.
THRILLING STUNTS AND EVOLUTIONS.
MIMIC WARFARE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S LOENCY.]
LONDON, July 1st. ⠀ The annual R.A.F. display at Hendon for R.A.F. charities afford-
ed six hours of thrills to the thou- Sikhs attacked a Moslem proces- sion which was passing a Sikh sands of spectators. Two hundred temple. Police and auxiliary troop machines took part. King George, restored order," but later the King Alfonso, the Queen and men
a Hindu coolie to bers of the Cabinet were present Moslems beat death. Fierce Hinda-Moslem riot. The giant 20-ton three-engined ing followed.
"Inflexible," with "under-carringe The Eastern Frontier Rifles tramand" wheels seven feet high and an enormous wing expeine, was EX- Howrah are now patrolling the hibited side by side with a tiny Tiger Moth, which could fit within the Inflexible's under-carriage : there were also freakish pterodac- tyls and fat-nosed Bulldog Jupiter single seators.
town.
INDEPENDENT LABOUR
PARTY.
COOK MAXTON MANIFESTO.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
A slow flying demonstration was given with Moths fitted with slotted wings, while Siskin single sestere took off like a shot from a gun, All kinds of evolutions were carried LONDON, June 30th.
out, including the formation of the National Administrative | Prince of Wales' Feathers by three Council of the I.L.P. has discussed squadrone. the joint Cook Maxton manifesto.
The
The biggest hair raiser was called "threading the needle." This was performed by huge revolving circle of machines, through the middle of which another squadron dived in formation from a “great
It decided that the manifesto was not intended to disrupt the Labour Party, and consequently. Maxton remains chairman of the LP. height..".
CARDINAL DIES.
(TAKOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROME, June 30th, The death is announced of Car-
dinal Giovanni Tacci.
An epidemic of cholera is ragingber, whom the President consulted, SUN CHUAN FANG'S OLD
in the fertile and populous Kulu Valley. There have been 1,360 cases, and Bleath
The Punjab Government has taken vigorous measures to check the disease and prevent ita spreadi ing to Simla. Courte, schools and other institutions in the Kulu Valley have been closed for *
"In accordance with instructions from the Nationalist Central Gov ernment at Nanking, General Yen Shih Shan has instructed the NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRIA," | fortnight. Peking police authorities to release many students and others arrested on political charges by the orders of the late Marshal Chang Two Lin when the now defunct Northern Government functioned in Peking.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
TOKYO, July 1st. It is learned that instructions have been despatched. to the Japanese Minister at Vienna and the Japanese "Consul-General at Sydney to open negotiations for the conclusion of commercial FENGTIEN TROOPS WITH treaties with Austria and New
Zealand respectively. DRAW.
Those to be released do not in clude any who are known to be Communists.
(Fah Tu Yat Pan).
SHANGHAI, July 1st. The Fengtienese troops under
banks. This, however, Mr. Hussey Generals Chang Hsueh Linng and Freke cannot touch unless the Yang Yu Ting stationed within the Chinese Chief Inspector jointly signs the cheques. Hence the Great Wall have begun to evacuate Gabelle is very
ehort of ready for Fengtien. funds.
POSTAL CHANGES.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, July 1st.
M. Picard Destelan, Co-Director-
General of Posts; left for France yesterday for 3 months' eick leave.
General Li Chung Jen's forces will concentrate at San- haikwan in expectation that the Kiria troops now stationed there will soon evacuate,
EN ROUTE TO PEKING.
(Wah Ts Fat Pao).
SHANGHAI, July 1st. Chiang
Kai Shek,
Marshal
Mr. C. H. Shields, Postal Commis General Li Chung Jen, Chen Shiu sioner at Shanghai, has been apan and other officials arrived at pointed acting Co-Director-General.
Chengchow, Honan, yesterday after- Peking Moves.
noon. Marshal Chiang will proceed to Hsincheng meet Marshal Feng Yu Haizng and to join him in the present journey for Peking.
PEKING, July 1st. Several more Postal Officials are expected to go to Shanghai this week. These include the travelling auditor, Mr. H, A. Reeks, the Secretary of the Financial Depart ment, Mr. A. Eyde, and the archi- tect, Mr. H. JFairburn, who has long been connected with the erec tion of postal buildings through out China. It is understood that his department will be known as the Domestic Development Depart ment, and is being transferred to Shanghai..
PAO LEAVES FOR DAIREN.
(Wah Te Tat Pao).',
It is understood that Chiang Kai Shek is accompanied by a number of propagandists who are bringing tons of leaflets and posters to Peking.
Chiang Kai Shek with his party anticipates arriving at Factingfu at 7 p.m. and reaching „Peking to morTTOW.
DISARMAMENT,
(Chun Wan Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, July lat
SOVIET 'FORCES.
REPORT DENIED.
[TEXOUCH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
17
Moscow, July 1st. The Tass Agency is officially authorised to declare that the re- port of a concentration of Soviet armed forces in the vicinity of the Finnish frontier is entirely un- founded.
QUEEN OF SPAIN'S PRIZE.
TINY YACHTS 300 MILES RACE.
Ju
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN, SERVICE]
New Your, June 30th
has recommended the formation of
Yenizelist Cabinet.
NON-UNION WORKERS.
A SERIOUS AFFRAY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEŅOT:]
MINDEN (Missouri); June 30th. Five men were shot and 'seriously injured and several others injured
GENERALS.
SHANGHAI KUOMINTÁNG AT THEIR EMPLOYMENT.
NORTHERN TROOPS IN SHANSI ARMY,
SHANGHAI, June 7th." In a petition to the Government Council, the Party Affairs Directors
in an affray between non-union for the Special Municipality of workers in the Western Tunnel and Shanghai, state that if reports of the mining company's men and General Yen Shib Shan appointing trade unionista who are protesting
against the employment of non-Cheng Chun Yen and Li Pao Chang unionista below the union rate of (former military commanders under wages.
NAVAL PROMOTIONS.
OFFICERS ON CHINA STATION.
Sup Chuan Fang) respectively a Field-Commander and Vice-Field Commander of the Shansi Forces are true, then General Yen in prob ably ignorant of his appointees' past record and their wholesale elaughter of Kuomintang members LONDON, June 29th at Nanchang and Shanghai when Lieut.-Comdra T. W. Pawsey, of Sun Chuan Fang was still holding H.M.S. Aphie, William S. Bard-sway over the South-eastern Pre well, of H.M.8. Cockchafer; and vinces.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
The Admiralty announces that
Wishart; have been promoted Com- manders."
Irvine G. Glennie, of H.M.S. "Cheng Chun Yen," says the petition in part, "held important Boddam
posts under the erstwhile 'Com- commanding mander-in-Chief
of the Allied
The high military officers of the 1st Army Group held a preparators
Commander E. K. disarmament conference yesterday
lately Whetham. morning. At the confereice General
Four little American-owned H.M.S. Witherington on the China It was resolved to begin to re-fabella, the largest of which is tai Hu Ying Chien reted as chairman. yachts, Mohawk, Ming, Pinta and Station, has been promoted Cap organise the whole system of the only sixty feet long, have started army group by forming division units in the rank and file instead of
army corps.
MONGOLIA UNDER THE NATIONALISTS. DECISION OF MONGOL PRINCES AT KALGAN CONFERENCE,
Spain, for a gold cup presented by on a 3,000 mile race to Santander, Queen Victoria of Spain.
The race is open only to American and Spanish draft, but the sole Spanish entrant failed to start,
The similar race for larger yachts. will start -in- weweek'a, time. The yachts are provided with motors, but these must not be used. The engines have been sealed up.
CRASH-AT AIR MEETING:
'PLANE FALLS AMONG ONLOOKERS.
[THBODOH REUSER'S AGENCY,]
VINCENNES, June 30th.
י -
EXCURSION TRAIN DISASTER
MANY WOMEN KILLED.
The actual warfare" part was specially fascinating, showing mABÁ against troops and
manœuvres tanke.
-One 'plane hovered above" an enemy gun emplacement, directing by wireless its own gunners. The orders could be heard by the spectators, who faw the shell bursta gradually creeping, nearer, till the emplacement was destroyed.
The final event was an attack on an oil refinery, which was blown up in most spectacular fashion.
ROYAL AIR FORCE
"CRUISE
WONDERFUL TEST OF:
EFFICIENCY.
144,000 MILES WITHOUT TROUBLE.
[BRITISH WIRELESS · SERVICE?
Rvany, June 30th. The cruise of the four Royal-Air
Force #ying boats reached Mel- bourne, yesterday, after covering 16,500 miles and calling at seventy ports since their departure from England The tour has proceeded absolutely according to schedule and entirely without mishap,
Each flying boat weighs nine tons. and carries a crew of four, with sleeping accommodation, stores and full equipment, including a collap- sible rubber boat. TENNE
The hulls of the flying haats are built of metal, and one of the main objects of the cruise was to deter mine the effect of tropical seas and beat on the metal construction. Complete success has marked the experiment, for the hulls have with stood every kind of test met on the arduous journey.
HEALTH BULLETIN OF
Two 500 h.p. Napier Lion water- Forces of the Five Provinces (Bun cooled engines propel each craft at Chuan Fang) and stubbornly resist a maximum speed of 100 miles per ed the advance of the Nationslist hour. Their reliability-in 144,000 engine miles they have not missed. Forces at Nanchang, Nanking, and once has astonished technicians. other important points where be ordered wholesale slaughter of our comrades. Li Pao Chang- wna' 46 CHILDREN MOTHERLESS. stationed in Shanghai in the leth year of the Republic (1927). Our (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.)
The Health Bulletin for Eastern memory of his execution-squad who LONDON, June 29th.
chopped off the heade of many of Parte for the week ending June The death-roll in the Darlington
Fiague. excursion train disaster is now 25, our faithful comrades at random 23rd stated:
Basein: 1 case. two of the victims having died in and cruelly hung them for exhibi- hospital to-day, Beveral others tion here in Shanghai is still too Bombay are in an extremely critical condi- painfully vivid in the minds of
tion.
PEKING, June 20th. At a conference at Kalgan, “be- tween Mr. Pei Yan Li, member of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Committee, and representatives of the ruling Mongolian princes, it
Thirteen women and one man, many of our friends. The blood, of was decided, pending approval by
whose names are among the dead, our murdered comrades is not yet the Central Government at Nan-
belonged to the Durham mining dried and the two murderers are king, that: (1) the Government
village of Hetton-le-Hole, most of At an aviation meeting.here, the them being members of the appointed to important posts under Headquarters of Inner Mongoliawings broke from a biplane in the Mothers Union."
the Government, as if brutal mes shall be established at Dolonor, middle of a stunt. The machine
It is also revealed that of those northeast of Kalgan; (2) the ad- fell on the horror stricken specta killed, twenty-one wers,
women, sacre of our comrades and the ministration of Mongolia shall be tors and injured two women. The while thres men and one boy also people is sufficient achievement for directly under the supervision of pilot was burned to death, and the died an the Central authorities; (3) sil
such high rewards by the Govern- principalities shall be abolished; mechanic seriously injured.
ment !"?
NATIONALIST POLICY.
(Chun War Tat Pao.)".
SHANGHAI, July 1st. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, has |issued a declaration to the effect. (4) members of the families of SHARCHAI, July 1st that the Nationalist Army has con- former Mongolian princes shafl en- General Pao Yu Lin, with a body- |'quered the whole of China Properjoy the same rights and organize guard of about eight hundred, was At present the Nationalist Govern an Inner Mongolian Government escorted to Tientsin by Generalment is therefore able to lessen the (6) the Inner Mongolian Govern- Yen Shih Bhan's troops yesterday. People's burden of taxation. Mean- ment shall be protected by the He later took a passage on board while the Nationalist Government Nationalist Army whenever auch a steamer for Dairen. Hence the will begin to bring the doctrine of protection is necessary; and (7) Nationalists problem of disposing "Three Peoples to realisation Inner Mongolia shall By the of General Pao has been settled.
throughout the whole nat
Nationalist ing-Kuo Min."
·HONOUR FOR KING OF SPAIN
[THROUGH REUTER AGENCY.]
LONDON, June 30th The King of Spain; who is a General in the British Arma, has been promoted to Field-Marihal
ן
The victims were exclusively working class, with the exception
The Party Affairs Directors con- of Mr. William Henry Gough, a solicitor of Hetton-le-Hole, and his chuide by petitioning that General wife, both of whom were killed.
Business at Hetton-le-Hole is at Yen be instructed to place Cheng a standstill, evergone caring for the Chun Yen and Li Pao Chang under 40 children who have been reader- arrest, pending trial and punish- ed motherless by the terrible se cident, and some of whom have ment by the Government.-Kuo not been told of their bereavement. I fin.
· EASTERN PORTS.
deaths.: Rangoon 19 deatha. Tamatave: 5 cases. Oboleza.
Calcutta: 97 deaths, Madras: 5 deaths. Rangoon 2. deaths.. Bangkok: 1 case, 3 deaths,
Small-pox Bombay: 20 cases, 12 desth. Calcutta 23 cases, 20 deaths. Madras: 7 cases, 2 deaths. Negapatam: 4 cases, 2 desthe. Rangoon 5 cases, 1 death; Vizagapatem: 3 deathe Pondicherry : 2 cases, Sylleatb.. Belawan Deli: 9:caces, 3 Shanghai: 73 deaths, Keelung: case,
Dairen -- 12 dilson, 2 deaths. Mukden 17 case. 66. Osaka: 2 cases,
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