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JAPAN'S

WITH CHINA. TREATY

WAITING FOR OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION FROM NANKING.

RUMOURS OF NEW POST FOR T. V. SOONG.

BIG MUNITIONS SEIZURE BY

SHANGHAI COMMISSIONER.

There is a feeling of uncertainty concerning the attual steps to be taken with regard to the treaty between Japan and China. This is due to the fact that the Nationalist Foreign Ministry, though apparently prodigal of statements to the press concerning their attitude, have neglected to send any communication to Japan upon the subject. According to the spokesman of the Japanese) Legation, C. T. Wang. the Foreign Minister, has not shown himself very helpful to a clear understanding of the position, for having told the Consul General at Shanghai that China did not intend to repudiate the treaty, he then went to Nanking and, told the Consul there that he regarded the treaty as already repüdinted. The vernacular papers report that the Nanking Foreign Ministry will soon send an official note to the Japanese Minister, at Peking.

The Garrison Commissioner of Shanghai, Chien Fa Chun, has 'detained a big consignment of arms and ammunition which ar rived in Shanghai last week and was intended for General Lia Hsiang General Liu is now operating in Szechuan and is cp- posed to the Nationalist interests, It is said that he is acting

under the orders of Wu Pei Fu.

Mr. T. V. Soong, the Nationalist Foreign Minister, who is now in Peking, is reported to be considering the flotation of a Joan to aid the settlement of disbanded soldiers. It is rumoured. that Mr. Soong is to become Minister of Communications, and that Mr. Chien Yung Ming will take his place as Minister of Finance.

CHINA'S CHANGING VIEWS.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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BIG MUNITIONS HAUL.

(THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCY.]

PEKING, July 18th.

SHANGHAI, July 18th. The spokesman of the Japanese The Evening News states that Legation has declared that he has Chien Ta Chun, Garrison, Commis no knowledge of any agreement sioner of 'Shanghai, has detained with Chang Hauch Liang that 671 cases of munitions at the Cus- Japan must maintain treaty rights toms Godown at Pootung. Of in Manchuria.If-Chang Houeb these, 371 are chees of automatic Liang would agree to this, Japan pistole, and the remainder rifles might be prepared to support him and 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition, on certain conditions.

which arrived last week aboard the As regards the Sino-Japanetes.s." Bertram: Rickmers consigned

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 19th, 1928.

COMMUNICATIONS IN CHINA.

GRANDIOSE SCHEMES PUT FORWARD.

LAVISH EXPENDITURE,

[TAROCCE REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PERINO, July 18th. Wang Po Chen has issued twenty-three page statement on communications. He says that all communications, with the excep tion of posts, are still primitive although organised scores of years ago and at present 'nre on the verge of bankruptcy. The amount of loans issued in connection with communications is over $700,000,000, The Government possesses only half the rolling stock which it had in 1915, and everywhere there are

| QUEEN ALEXANDRA MEMORIAL.

WORLD WIDE, CONTRIBU. "TIONS.

NEARLY £250,000 GİVEŇ.

[THAGCOR RECTER'S..AGENCY.)

30th, reached £233,000,

GREAT BRITAIN'S ACCEPTANCE.

AMERICAN PEACE PACT.

ANNOUNCEMENT CHEERED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].

LONDON, July 18th

In the House of Commons, Sir announced Austen Chamberlain

ABSENT BIRTHDAY

'GUEST..

PROMISE TO' AMUNDSEN FULFILLED.

ADMIRATION FOR SOVIET RESCUERS.

THROUGE BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

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PRESIDENT-ELECT MURDERED,

SHOT BY YOUNG OFFICER:

CHANCE GAINED BY TRICK.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

MEXICO CITY, July 17th. General Obregon, who was elected President of Mexico on July 3rd, has been assassinated.

At the election, General, Obregon was anopposed and was returned

for a period of six years, as from

December 1st next. He announced

that he intended to continue sub- stantially the policy of President Calles...

LONDON, July 18th.

Los ANGELES, July 17th. Thanks te contributione from

A birthday cornmemoration Britons throughout the world, at that he had handed to the United which HM the King in a letter States Chargé d'Affaires this morn-poignantly reflecting on the Italia says he is most gratified, the funding the reply of the Governments disaster at the North Pole for a national memorial to Queen of Great Britain, Australia, New faithfully carried out here to-day Alexandra, which closed on June Zealand, and South Africa and the as the result of a promise made to reply of the Government of India Captain Ainundsen, when the lost accepting the proposals of the explorer last visited Los Angeles.

A At a táble set for three sat a United States. Government för multilateral treaty for the renuncia local lawyer, Mr. John Murphy, tion of war. (Cheers.).

and the well-known explorer, Mr. that President-Elect Obregon "was present at a banquet given in a Haakon Hammer, the latter an erstwhile companion of Amundsen restaurant outside the city at two on several of his Arctic journey-o'clock in the afternoon, when he ings honour was vuceat and was draped The third chair in the place of

with the Norwegian dag..

The Committee announce that the visible memorial, to the appeal for which, there was a generous response, especially from Indian Princes, will take the form of a

piles of untransported goods bronze group designed by Alfred Gilbert and erected at Marlborough House opposite St. James' Palace.

There is very serious corruption on the railways as, unlike other coun- tries, each railway is split into see- tions without mutual co-operation. The statement urges the repair of railway tracks, the reconstrue tion of bridges, the purchase of new cars and locomotives. Further aims should be to build new lines, extend mail services and increase the number of post offices. The

is Government also urged construct seventy-six stations and establish broadcasting stations in all important cities, and to establish an aerial service and take over the administration of navigation. The total cost of the above schemes, will apparently he 8300,000,000.

to

The bulk of the fund will go to extend district nursing and increase the Queen's Nurees' Pension Fund,

SOVIET GRAIN PURCHASES.

wireless HEAVY BUYING IN CANADA.

The statement further advocates the building of national, provin- cial and city highways costing $135,000,000, the establishment of iron and steel works, the adjust

THREATENED FOOD

SHORTAGE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

OTTAWA, July 18th. The Soviet has recently purchased 8,000,000 bushels of wheat, mostly

Shipments will be made from Montreal at the end of the month

ment of the Yangtze waterways from Canada, to meet the threaten- and establishment of ocean naviga-ed food shortage in Russia. tion routes, and the building of large ship building yards.

The financial needs for these en- terprises will be met by the issue of short term loans and the fetation of public loans. Appro Priation of railway and telegraph earning to other purposes must be

Treaty, the spokesman declared to General Liu Heiang in Sze-prohibited, while payments of that they were still doubtful, what chuan.

the Nationalist Government's atti- tude would be.

He asserted that even the atti- tude of. C. T. Wang was ambigu- ous. Not long ago Wang told the Japanese Consul-General at Shang- hai that China did not intend to repudiate the present treaty, but would agree to its remaining in

FENGTIEN COUNCILS.

(Wah Te Fat Pac).

SHANGHAI, July 18th. According to information from

force till the new treaty could be foreign sources, General Chang negotiated, but a little later C. THauch Liang will call a conference Wang told the Japanese Conel at of the Fengtienese military Nanking that he regarded the treaty as already repudiated in leaders to consider to what extent accordance with the declaration as the Fengtienese should make con- the "treaty had already expired in cessions in the matter of submitting

1926.

THE OFFICIAL NOTE:

(Taun Wan Fat Pao.)

the Nationalist" Government's direction and control..

DISBANDED SOLDIERS.

(With Two 2ạt Pad).

SHANGHAI, July 18th. The Nanking Foreign Ministry

SHANGHAI, July 15th. will soon send an official Note to Mr. T. V. Soong, who arrived in the Japanese Minister at Peking Peking yesterday, is projecting to declaring that the Sino-Japanese float a loan to the amount of commercial treaty has expired, and $30,000,000 or 850,000,000 for the that negotiations for a new com- purpose of realising the scheme of mercial treaty should be opened be-settling the disbanded soldiers. tween the two parties at an early date.

T. V. SOONG'S NEW POST.

(Wah Taz Yat Pao.)

NO NOTIFICATION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TOKYO, July 18th.-

It is learned officially that China has not yet notified Japan of any intention of terminating the 1800 Commercial Treaty, and the Gov- einment is therefore awaiting noti fication before deciding what at. titude it will take.

JAPANESE NEGOTIATOR. (TEROCOH REUTER'S, AGENCY.)

SHANGHAI, July 18th, The Japanese Consul General, Mr. Yada, has gone to Nanking, for the purpoee, it is understood, of opening negotiations for a settle ment of the Tainanfu Incident, and also to discuss the question of the "termination of the Sino-Japancao Commercial Treaty, which Japanese circles expect the Nationalist Gov- ernment to denounce on July 20th. ANTI-JAPANESE FEELING 'AT TSINAN.

(Teun Wan Fat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, July 18th.

SHANGHAI; July 18th.

It is reported that Mr. T. V. Soong will be transferred to the post of Minister of Communications and his vacancy will be filled by Mr. Chica Yung Ming.

FIFTH PLENARY SESSION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, July 18th, The Kuomintang Headquartere that more than thirty members of the Central Executive Committee will be present at the Fifth Plenary Session. Feng Yu Hsiang and Yen Shih Shan will be

announce

present.

Notable absentees include Wu Chao Chu, Wang Ching. Wei, Sun Fo, Hu Hanin, Chu Min Yu, and Mrs. Wang Ching Wei.

..

LEAVING PEKING,

(Wah Tax Fat Pao).

SHANGHAI, July 18th.

Marshal Chiang Shek is expected to return to Nanking over this week-end,

Marshal Feng Fu Hsiang proceed- Kuomintang organs of many dis-ed Hsinhsiang this morning.

tricts near Tainan, Shantung, have sent representatives to participate in n large anti-Japanese demonstra

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YEN'S NEW PLANS.

tion to be held on the peak of (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] Taishan, a well-known historical hill in the south of Tsinan. There were

SHANGHAI, July 18th over a thousand people in attend- It is now stated that Yen Shih auce, and a

series of resolutions Shan will not go to Taiyaanfu be. were passed to start a systematic fore going to Nanking. He will Japanese boycott movement through attend the Plenary Session and out the whole province.

afterwarde proceed to Shansi.

principal and interest of matur- ed indebtedness" should be post-3 poned for two years. This last ap- parently applies to certain loans on which nothing has been paid for several years.

Loana in connection with com munications, which the Finance Ministry has been supervising, will be left to that Ministry for liquida

tion.

AGROUND NEAR KIUKIANG.

ו'

LINK BETWEEN FRANCE

AND SPAIN.

MILE TUNNEL THROUGH

PYRENEES.

(THROUGH RECIER'S AGENCY.}"

His Majesty's Government would be happy to sign the treaty at such time and place as is agreeable to the Government of the United

States.

DARLINGTON DISASTER

INQUEST.

A DRIVER'S ERROR.

SIGNALS MISUNDERSTOOD.

[THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY,]

Captain Amundsen, who has been missing for over a month, was born in Norway on July 18th, 1879, and had asked his two Los Angeles friends to celebrate his fifty-sixth birthday at dinner" regardless of where I am.".

A Last Hope.

Details of the assassination show

was shot five times in the body.

The assassin was not immediater ly identified, but he was subsequent- ly arrested.

1

* Lucky Obregon.". "Lucky Obregon," as he was known account of previous escapes from assassination; was' seated at a luncheon given by his political supporters.

to

Moscow, July 17th. The Soviet Committee directing

A youthful officer, Juan Escap- the Italia rescue work has instruct-diario, was amusing the guests ed the ice-breaker Malyguin to with thumbnail sketches, and when leave fuel and food supplies on the last course was served he re- King Charles Island in case the quested permission

sketch cast-aways of the Alessandri and General Obregon himself. The Amundsen partics should reach the latter's Aide de Camp agreed, and island.

the President-Elect turned smiling- ly to greet the artist. The tatter drew close and then produced a pistol and fired Ave shots at Juregon at point blank range. The victim Fell, clutching the table, and his Aides de Camp seized the assassin, whom with the greatest difficult they saved from being lynched at the hands of the in- furinted guests.

gramin which has been so wonder The Committee proposes that the

fully successful so far, shall pay a short visit to Advent Bay, and shall then be employed as a base-ship for Captain Tchaknovsky, the airman,

for traces of Alessandri and to continue his search of the sen Amundsen.

LONDON, July 17th. At the resumed inquest to-day on the victims of the Darlington railway smash, a verdict was re corded of "accidental death, due to the error of the driver of the goods train in reading the signal" Twenty-five persons were killed, including twenty women, in the Not Inclined To Accept.

STOCKHOLM, July. 17th disaster, which occurred at mid-

The head of the Swedish Expedi night, the express involved being tion at Spitzbergen reports that excursion train from Sear-General Nobile has received an offer from the Russian ice-breaker borough.

口

The tragedy has been described as the worst on British railways for over 20 years.

DIFFICULTIES IN RUBBER PROBLEM. DUTCH CO-OPERATION WITH BRITAIN.

[THRODON REUTER'S 10XNOT.]

PARIS, July 17th. With the opening on July 18th of the five mile Somport Tunnel from Forges

Canfranc, D'Arbel to

AMSTERDAM, July 17th. France and Spain will at last be

"M. Sandere, President of the 'CITY OF TOKYO." linked up by a railway line through patch Huber Committee which is

the Pyrenees.

negotiating with other producers, President Doumergue will meet declared, in the course of a speech, King Alphonse at Canfranc, which that the British, French and. will be the internationa! station, Belgian growers had laid down, for the inaugural ceremony, both

43 a primary condition of co- "returning through the tunnel to operation, that native rubber must

French territory.

be included and that the Govern ment must co-operate to that end.

M. Sanders is interviewing the Colonial Minister to-morrow. the meantime, the opinion is ex pressed that if a solution of the problem is not reached, co-opera- tion with Britain will be impossible.

AID FROM SHANGHAI,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, July' 15th, The City of Tokyo is aground scar the North Crossing, thirty miles below Kiukiang. She is at present discharging cargo into lightera.

It is expected that the vessel, which is not in a serious position, will be refloated to-morrow at high tide.

scene

The tag Saint Dominic is going 10 the

to-morrow morning from Shanghai...

As far as can be ascertained, the ship has suffered no damage.

The City of Tokyo is one of the She was due Bank Line steamers here, on the 24th inst, on her way to London. The vessel is well known at this part, being here last on June 9th when she had arrived from New castle and Singapore, She is a cargo vessel of 7,000 tons, and Capt. E. Mason is in command.)

ATTEMPT ON PRINCE'S

LIFE.

. DEATH SENTENCE FOR

ASSASSIN.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

Toxтo, July 18th. A message "from Korea states that the Korean who attempted to asaseirate Prince Kuni in Formosa last month has been, sentenced to

death,

GRAND MEMORIAL SERVICE.

(Wah Te Yat Pao)..

SHANGHAI, July 18th Marshal Chiang Kai Shek bas telegraphed to Nanking to the effect

PARI, July 18th..

At Saragosee President Doumer- gue and the King of Spain in augurated the new trans-Pyrenean Railway binding Pau to Saragosse by a tunnel eight kilometers long. Both delivered toasts exalting the friendship of the two nations and cherishing the same ideals of peace and justice.

LOST IN THE WESTERN HILLS.

INQUIRY INTO BRITISH OFFICER'S FATE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

LONDON, July 17th." The mysterious disappearance of Lieut. T. 8. Knowles, of the East Yorkshire Regiment, in the hilly wastes round Peking last year, formed the subject of questions in

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What Motive 9.

ters diselaimed connection with any

The assassin at police headquar

political party, though the police doubt the assertion and attribute Krassin that she is ready to the crime to hostility aroused by organise search for the wreck of | Obregon's radical attitude to the. the Italia and for the Alessandri religious and land questions.. party, but he states that the Italian Government is not inclined to accept the offer.

The Aratsin has now proceeded to Advent Bay,

General Nobile's Bympathy. Professor Malmgren'e mother has been inundated with messages of sympathy and admiration for her son's heroic end.

news-

General Nobile has telegraphed to, Mrs. Malmgren via the paper Aftonblad keenly regretting the loss of an admirable man and scientist.

General Obregon's body WILS borne by friends to a motor-car, which conveyed the remains to his. home in Mexics City.

President Calles was summoned by telephone, and his first act was to suspend the Chief of Police and appoint a successor. Crowds thronged the streets, especially that in which Obregon's residence stands, and the military head- quarters where the assassin was in-. carcerated

Evidence that the crime was premeditated was found from a paper in his pocket in which the Moscow, July 17th.

my Professor Samoilovitch, the lead-murderer bid farewell to

family." of the rescuers on board the

Great Popularity. rasein has announced that scien- tife data in connection with the voyages of the Krussin and Maly quin will be published a month after their return.

U.S. Invitation For Rescuers, Mr. Charles Smith, the vice-pre- rident of the Russo-American Cham ber of Commerce, who is at present in Moscow, has communicated with the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, expressing the Chamber's COMMUNIST TROUBLE. IN admiration for the courage and

BERLIN.

MOB ATTACK ON POLICE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]

recent

BERLIN, July 17th. Wild scenes occurred at a Berlin railway-station to-day when a clash decurred between the police and a a large crowd of Communists.

The extremists had assembled at the station to greet a number of Communist prisoners who bad

1 been released under the House of Commons to-day.: amnesty decree, but for some rea- Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, the son they did not arrive as ex- Under-Secretary for Foreign pected. Affairs, said that His Majesty's. The disappointed mob then at Legation at Peking made no objee tacked the Police with sticks and tion to Lieut. Knowles' visit into

stones, the Police replying with a the interior as the district was baton charge, which quickly dis- then quite peaceful,

persed the crowd. Eight persons were slightly injured in the melee.

The outbreak of hostilities in October occurred suddenly without warning of any description,

It was hoped to investigate the circumstances of his death on the spot as soon as conditions sufficient-

ly improved to permit of a thorough enquiry..

KELLOGG COMING TO

EUROPE. Br

BELGIUM'S ACCEPTANCE.

{THROUGH EKUYÈR'S'AGENCY.}

"

BASE INSINUATIONS BY NEWSPAPER.

INJURED INDIANS SEARCHED

AND KILLED.

self-sacrifice displayed by the Italia Rescue Expedition on the Krassin, and extending an invitation to Samoilovitch and Tehuknovsky on behalf of Mr. Schley, the President of the Chamber, to visit the United States as the guests of the Cham ber.

Search Party Hampered,

STOCKHOLM.

The whole country is in a tur- moil áver the assassination of General · Obregon, who WAS wealthy landowner.

After his recent election to the dous public reception on arriving Presidency he received a tremen- in Mexico City from his home in Sonora on July 15th

The assassination occurred in the town of San Angel, which is twelve miles south of the capital.

On hearing of the outrage, Pre- dent Calles rushed to the scene. American Hopes Dashed.

WASHINGTON, July 17th.. General. Obregon's régime Wia contemplated as the opming of a new era in the relations between the United States and Mexico. Hence the news of his death has created dismay here.

The head of the Swedish Italia Mr. Kellogg, the Secretary of Relief. Expedition reports that the State, has telegraphed na expres- Swedish planes are at present sion of his grief and sympathy to powerless to *search

President Callen. for the Alessandrini party, since they have no ice-breaker sufficiently large to act as a base ship.

BRITISH CRUISER

LAUNCHED.

CLASS. FIRST OF "B"

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

LONDON, July 17th. .H.R.H. the Duchess of York, accompanied by the Duke. Izunch- ed the first of the new "B" Class cruisers at Jarrow-on-Tyne..

Following the tragedy, saloons and theatres were closed and a censorship established. All troops were ordered to barracks in readi ness for work in the preservation of order.

[General Obregon first brought himself to the neties of the public by his defeat of General Villa, who had driven out President Carranza in 1915. Since that time General Obregon has always been to the fore in Mexican politics to the

Following the murder of Carranza in 1920, General Obregon stood for the Presidency and was elected

The cruiser is named H.M.Sa very large majority. During his term of office he was faced withi York. Her tonnage is 8,400, sad many difficult qucations, both of in- she is armed with six 8-inch gunsternal and foreign politics. The

INTERNATIONAL STATUS

OF TANGIER.

FOUR-POWER TREATY.

(THROUGE BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

PARIS, July 17th." Berthelot, the General Secre-

United States refused him recogni tion owing to the outstanding gil dispute, and one of his chief zims was to obtain recognition, from, the Powers. This was finally achieved in 1923.

(THROUGH REVIZR'S AGENCY.)'

CALCUTTA, July 17th As a sequel to the railway disaster last. woek, when eighteen passengers were killed in a derailment at Howrah, M. Brebakshi, the editor the Swarajist. newspaper Forward, has been charged before. the Chief Presidency Magistrate with promoting class hatred among His Majesty's subjects.

Brebakshi published an article tary of the Foreign Office, and the alleging that Indians injured in British, Spanish and Italian Am-in the disaster were searched and ill-bassadors have initialled the new Calles was then elected President

1924.1 | position of Tangier. ed by men acting under the instruc Treaty defining the international and took office on December let tion of a European?

of PARIS, July 17th. M. Briand has indicated that Mr. that he will arrange & grand me- F. B. Kellogg, the U.S. Secretary morial service in Nanking from of State, will most probably visit August 1st to 5th in memory of the Europe on the occasion of the sign. soldiers killed in the recent Northing of the Anti-War Pact. ern expedition. During this period

The Belgian Government has Marshal Feng Ya Hsiang and General Yen Shih Shan will be pre formally accepted Mr. Kellogg's

anti-war proposals.

sent.

Bersers, July 17th

At the end of this year General Huerta, on of the new Presidential candidates, started a revolt, but General Obregon took the part of his, rival Calles and was successful suppressing the autbreak.