AMERICA REFUSES TO GO FURTHER.
·COST OF FITTING NÄNKING AS CAPITAL.
OFFICIAL JAPANESE NOTE SENT TO CHINA.
FIFTH PLENARY SESSION OPENS.
The official Japanese Note has now been communicated to Nanking, while a copy has been handed to the Nationalist repre- sentative in Tokyo. The Note will not be immediately issued for publication.
The Fifth Plenary Session has so far held only an informal meeting for the interchange of views, as a large number of the members of the Central Executive Council have not yet arrived. More important subjects for discussion will be dealt with in the second meeting, but the conference will not go into full session "until August 4th.
Hankow is a disappointed city. Every preparation had been made for a splendid reception of Feng Yu Hsiang, Li Tani Esin, Li Taung Jea and Yes Hai Shan,, who were supposed to pass through Hankow on their way to Nanking. However, at the last minute they decided to proceed by another route, and Hankow was deprived of the honour of entertaining these Nationalist lander. Later the three first mentioned arrived at Nanking, but Yen H Shan is detained with appendicitis.
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Mr. C. T. Wang, the Nationalist Foreign Minister, has cabled. to Mr. Kellogg urging him to settle all questions needing im mediate solution. Though urged by many newspapers to renounce extraterritoriality and so forestal Britain, Mr. Kellogg considers thas this question is on a different footing from the tariff treaty, and that Chipa must first instal an adequate system of legal administration.
A DIFFERENT QUESTION."
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE?
WASHINGTON, Aug, 1st. Mr. C. T. Wang has cabled front Nanking requesting Mr. Kellogg to follow up the Customs treaty by the negotiation of "proper settlement of all questions needing immediate solution."
J.
PRIVATE DISCUSSION.
(Wah Tai Tat Pub).
SHANGHAI, Aug. let. Mr. Chu Chi Ching, one of the Kuomintang C.E.C. members, said in an interview that to-day's meet- ing of the members who had ar-" rived at Nanking was simply in the nature of private diecussions and exchange of personal views. The preliminary meeting would not
Many newspapers are urging Mr. Kellogg to consent to the immedi. ate Tenunciation ot extraterri-be held until a quorum was obtain toriality, and thereby to forestaled. Great Britain, but Mr. Kellogg is disposed to follow Sir Austen
." Chamberlain's cautious and watch-
ful policy.
SPECIAL MEETING.
(Teun Fan Fat Pao.)
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2nd, 1928.
JAPAN'S BALANCE
OF POWER...
A NEW PARTY.
POLICY TOWARDS CHINA.
(THROUGH, REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, Aug. 1st. Mr. Takejiro Tokonami has issued a manifesto emphasising the four big problems confronting Japan, namely, China policy, control of radical propaganda, the financial situation and the removal of the gold embargo. He states that these are too serious to be solved under the existing unstable poli. |tical' situation, which is due to the presence of two evenly balanced parties.
PLANNING A NEW 155 INJURED IN RIOT.
LONDON.
CHARING CROSS BRIDGE.
ANOTHER EMBANKMENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
"LONDON, August lat, The greatest London improvement scheme in the history of the London County Council has finally been adopted by this body. It comprises the construction of a new Charing Cross Bridge, the removal of Charing Cross Railway terminos to the south side of the Thames,
the construction of an imposing Embankment on the south side and the reconstruction and widening of Waterloo Bridge.
The total cost will be approx- imately £12,000,000. The scheme, Mr. Takejiro Tokonami has re-which in various forms has been signed the advisership of the Min- under discussion for twenty years, seito, and has declared his inten- the Southern Railway.
now only needs the acquiescence of tion of forming a new party for the purpose of breaking up the balance of power.
Though the possibility of acces- sion was rumoured previously, Mr. Tokonami's action at the present moment has come as a complets surprise and is expected to have far-reaching resulte as a large num- ber of his followers are expected to eccede to the new party and support the Seiyukai. This will ruin the chance of the Minseito of overthrowing and suceding the Tanaka, Cabinet.
THE AMUR FLOODS, 38,000 PEOPLE INVOLVED.
RIVERS RISE 26 FEET. (THROUGH ZIOTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, August ist Aeroplanes in the Amur district are scattering leaflets with instruc tions to the victims of the floods.
-
The rivers Amur and Zeva are
OUTBREAK BY STUDENTS.
NO SHOTS FIRED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S,AGENCY,'
MISS MACKAY'S DEATH.
LORD. INCHCAPE'S GIFT.
OTHER SUFFERERS.
[THROUGH SEUTER'S AGENCY.¦
A students' riot over the place
LONDON, July 31st the Government had assigned for Lord Inchcape has given the the idol which the students worship-Chancellor of the Exchequer a ped has resulted in 195 of the general public and 30 of the mi tary being injured.
BANGALORE, August 1st.
from the Government offices, but Troops dispersed the unruly mob later the malcontents, at the head of a mob of ten thousand, made "demonstration before the house of
a leading Mahommedan,
cheque for $10,000 to be used for the benefit of any other sufferers from the disaster in which his daughter, the Hon. Elsic, Mackay,
died.
اوم
Miss Mackay" was lost in the that shots were fired and says that Walter Hinchlife in an attempt to Atlantic when Aying with Captain An official communiqué denies the casunities occurred in dispers-fly the Atlantic from East to West fing the rowdies.
PILGRIMAGE TO THE BATTLEFIELDS.
THE BRITISH LEGION.
IMPRESSIVE SERVICE AT MENIN GATE:
[BRITISH WIRELESS AKEVICE)
PROTECTION OR FREE TRADE?
-LEADERS' INDISCRETIONS,
DIVERGENT VIEWS.
(THROUGH REUTEN'S AGETUT.)
LONDON, July 31st.
An alleged Government split over the fiscal issue is agitating political circles following discor dant speeches by Mr. Winston
Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exechequer, And Sir William Janson-Hicks, the Home Secre
tary.
The divergent views held by "these two statesmen were demon-
strated when Mr. Churchill spoke in the House of Commons uphold- ing the virtues of Free Trade and to when, subsequently, in a speech at
The blow was a tragic one to the Inchcape family, and it was re- cently announced that the residua of her estate, amounting £500,000 had been given in trust for the redemption of the National Romsey, Sir William Joynson Debt.
Kicks intimated that in view of Mr. Winston Churchill announc ed in the Commons that Lord fuch the benefits conferred on the smal cape desiring that the gift of ler trades by the “safeguard " £500,000 to the Nation should not policy, the Government would be- be the occasion of any complaint fore the next Election have serious- by other sufferers from the disas
ter, had banded him the cheque toy to consider its extension to La applied to meeting any coun major industries, like iron and plaint a Mr. Winston Churchill thinks ft.
steel.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he had handed the sum to the Public Trustee for administration.
RUGBY, July 31st. A great pilgrimage to the Battle-
An article appeared in Tues- Not only will the continuance of steamers with lighters are dis: from London about midnight next
26 feet above normal, and tened by the British Legion, will start Hinchliffe's wife and children were fields of Northern France, organis- day's Daily Press, telling of the serious position in which Captain the present Government be there-tributing supplies and taking off Saturday, the fourteenth anniver-placed as a result of the disaster.} by virtually assured, but also the those who have been marooned. A Government is expected to receive population of 36,000, is involved,
sary of Britain's entry into the the support of the new "party in
Great War. One of Mr. Tokonami's main rea- carrying out its Chinese policy. sons in seceding from the Minscito is stated to be his disapproval of policy towards China. their atand against Baron Tanaka's
Amongst the points emphasised in the manifesto are the necessity relations with China, the abeerce of maintaining the closest possible of territorial ambitions and the pecessity of protecting Japan's vital intereste in Manchuria.
Secondly, the prevention of the apread of radical ideas and move- ments, though the manifesto dis- approves of ultra-conservatism.
Thirdly, equal opportunity in SHANGHAI, Aug, let. -
education for the purpose of check- Chang Ching. Kiang, Wu Chieing class warfare. from the tariff treaty, and the Fei, Li Shib Cheng and Trai Yuen Fourthly, the drastic cut of State adoption of An adequate and Pui proceeded to Tangshan yester-expenditure and the early lifting of
the gold embargo.
It is authoritatively emphasised that the question of extraterri- toriality is on a different footing
modern system of legal administra day for the purpose of calling a tion must precede the abandon-special meeting to discuss various ment of extraterritorial privileges. problems in connection with the
Fifth Plenary Session.
:
AMERICAN MONEY FOR CHINA.
MR. SUN FO'S AIM.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
YEN'S APPENDICITIS.
(Wah Ti Fat Pau)."
SHANGHAI, Aug. let.
AIRMEN'S MISHAPS
AT BAGDAD.
POLISH ATTEMPT ENDS IN DISASTER.
STORM.
General Yen Hai Shan has tele- FRENCH VISITORS IN SAND NEW YORK, July 31st, graphed to the Nanking Govern- Mr. Sun Fo, the Nationalist ment saying that during his journey Minister for Reconstruction, inter- to Shuntehfu from Peking he has vjewed on his arrival in New York developed appendicitis and is eons-
ITBROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BAODAD, July 31st. yesterday, one resulting in the Two aviation disaaters occurred as he recovers death of a Polish lieutenant en-
gaged in a long non-stop flight.
from Europe, said he had come to pelled to suspend his journey to the United States to pave the way Nanking to receive medical treat for co-operation with Americas ment. As soon finance and industrial organisa somewhat he will go to Nanking tion in the reconstruction of China in time to attend the coming Kuo-
mintang.conference.
HANKOW DISAPPOINTED.
THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.]
HANKOW, Aug. 1st.
FENG'S OBEDIENCE.
(Fah Tez Yai l'an.)
SHANGHAI, Aug. Ist
Despite the most extensive pre- Marshal Feng Ya Heiang has
parations to welcome them, a tele-expressed his willingness to obey
The flight which ended tragically
was an ambitious attempt at a non-
stop flight from Warsaw to Bagdad and Cairo and thence back to War Baw. It was being undertaken by the Polish Lieutenant Kalina as pilot, with Lieutenant Czalas a observer, on a Fokker monoplane fitted with three Wright Whirl- | wind engines.
ROUND THE WORLD. SPANISH AVIATORS'.
ATTEMPT,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AUENCY.]
CADIA, August 1st. The Spanish seaplane Vurancia, piloted by Major Franco, who is accompanied by Major Gallara and Captain Ruiz Dealba took off for the Azores at 7.15 this morning on the first stage of a round the world fight.
SINGAPORE DOCK. ALL READY AT PORT SAID. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
PORT SAID, August 1st. The second section of the Singa- pore floating dock has arrived.
NAVAL EXPERTS IN CONFERENCE.
ANGLO-FRENCH AGREE-
MENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, July 31st.
A communique issued from the Quai d'Orsay explains that owing to differences among the disarma ment Preparatory Committee, in order to enable the Committee to continue its work, France and
French naval interests, and which England have agreed on a com promise formula which safeguards.
both Governmerts hope will be ac
cepted by the other naval Powers
Loxtos, July 31s French Agreement, to which Sir Reuter learns that the Anglo- Austen Chamberlain referred in the House of Commons yesterday, is the outcome of discussions which took place between British sod French Daval experts Inst Spring These discursions related to the draft Conventions which Britain and. France respectively presented. 1026 and which they have since at- tempted at various times to coalesce into a single text.
gram has been received from Feng any resolutions the Fifth was to the Geneva Naval Conference in
Haiang, LTsai Hain and Li Session may decide upon. He is Trung Jen stating that they are prepared to quit the chairmanship not proceeding vid Hankow to of the Political Nanking, while Yen Hei Shan is Kaifengfu. unable to accompany the party
owing to illness.
The local Chinese officials are most disappointed at missing, the unique opportunity of entertaining this.
Nationalist quartette of leaders.
LEADERS ARRIVE.
(Woh Tai Xaj Pao),
SHANGRAI, Aug. let
Li Taxi Hsin, Li Toung Jen, Tai Chi Tao and later Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang arrived at Hsuchow "yesterday afternoon. On the same evening they started for Nanking where they received an effusive welcome.
SESSION OPENS.
(THROUGH NEWTER'S AGENOT.]
NANKING, Aug. lat. The first preliminary meeting of the Fifth Plenary Bersion was held this afternoon. Twenty-four mem bers of the Central Executive Coun cil were present
Commission at
THE NEW CAPITAL..
(TE2000H LEUTER'S ADENCY.)
NANKING, Ang._lst. According to the National Recon- struction Committee $50,000,000 ̈ara required for the reconstruction of Nanking as the Nationalist Capital. It suggests that the Treasury should provide $15,000,000 and the provinces the balance.
JAPAN'S OFFICIAL "NOTE.
(THROUGH
RAUTZR'S AGENCY.]
PEKING, Aug, 1st. `. The official Japanese Note to China regarding the, abrogation of the Japanese Treaty with China has been forwarded to Nanking by mail, while a copy has been handed to Y. L. Tang here.
It will be issued for publication in about a fortnight.
LANDING FORCE. WITH- DRAWN.
No ceremony was observed and
(TALOUGH EEUTZE'A AGENCY.] the afternoon was devoted to: an exchange of views. The second
TOKYO, Aug. 1st. The Navy Office has ordered the "preliminary, meeting is being held
to-morrow when several more im-withdrawal of bluejackets to the portant proposals will be brought number of about 250, who were up and explained by the pre despatched to Tsingtao in April as
posers.
a landing force. code:
ference,
BRITAIN'S EMIGRATION
The roar of the engines, at the from Warsaw was heard in Bag dad at two o'clock in the morning. Flares were lit at the RAF Aerodrome at Hinaidi, but the
It is hoped that the formula now pilot circled the city, postponing agreed to may be acceptable to the the landing until dawn...
At five o'clock, the machine mittee, and thus hasten the conve Preparatory Disarmament Com- crashed into the Aerodrome's flood-cation of the Disarmament Con protection, bank, with the result that Lieut. Cislos was killed,
and whilst Lieut. Kalina mechanic were slightly injured.
The second mishap occurred When a party of French officers in frem Byris on a courtesy visit to three aeroplanes, who were flying BIG NUMBER TO STATES. the 55th Squadron of the B.A.F.
[BDITISH WIRELESS" SERVICE.] at Bagdad, encountered a denst sand storm
RUGBY, July 31st. of the machine crashed In the House of Commons, the when landing, but the aviators President of the Board of Trade were not injured. But third stated that the total number of machine arrived safely.
to the British Empire overseas for emigrants of British nationality the year ending June 30th was 508,895, and to the United States
Two
Later, the RA.F. located the stranded party and salved the en- gines, the Frenchmen having burn: ed their damaged machines.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
$2.773. 2018
FIGURES.
...
The number of persons migrat- ing within the British Empire who were granted free or assisted passages was 47,802. -
5 PER CENT REDISCOUNT RATE
DR. ---WILLIAM TEMPLE,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.};
LONDON, July 31st. His Majesty the King has ap [REUTER'S AMERICAN" SERVICE.] proved the nomination of the Right | Rev. William Temple, Bishop of
NEW YORK, July 31st Manchester, to the Archbishop of The Cleveland, Ohio, Federal York, in succession to the Right Reserve Bank has raised its redis Rev. Dr. Coco Lang, who has count, rate to five per cent, the been elevated to the Archbishopric new rate coming into effect to
of Canterbury,
щотви.
The pilgrims, who will number 11,000, will be joined on the other side of the Channel by the Prince of Wales, who served in France with the Guards; Lady Haig, widow of the Commander who led the British Army to victory; and many distinguished officers, includ- ing Marshal Foch and Admiral Lord Jellicoe.
Twenty special trains will convey the huge party from London to Channel ports, where twelve steam- era will be waiting to take them to France. They will then travel in special trains to various points on the old battle front..
SHIPS' LOADING POLICY. DESIRE FOR UNIFORMITY.
GOVERNMENT ACTION.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, July 31st.
Premier's Annoyance.
Mr. Baldwin, the Prime, Minis- ter, has so far been silent on the
eretions" of his colleagues, which' question, but he is reported to be most annoyed at the "indis-
are diverting public attention from the Government's monu- mental rating scheme.
Meanwhile, a memorial signed by 270 representatives of basic in- dustries has been forwarded to the Prime Minister urging the Govern- ment to seize the opportunity pro- The President of the Board ofvided by the report of the Interna Trade was asked in the House of tional Economic Conference to sup- Commons what action the Gavern- Port a movement in the direction ment was taking in pursuance of
of international Free Trade. national uniformity in the matter its policy of promoting inter-
of ships' loadings.
Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister replied that the rules relating to ship's loadings were being revised by a They will stay four days, and the Committee, and the revised rules culminating event of the visit will
would be sent to the Dominion and be a soleam ceremony at Ypres foreign Governments for considera- From their various headquarters, tion. Every effort was being made all the 11,000 pilgrims will travel to the historic town, where was the It was too early yet to say what to secure international agreement. famous salient, and will gather at the precise alterations would be. Britons who fell there. the Menin Gate Memorial to The Minister added that this sub- ordinary course, would go before ject was not one which, in the the Committee of the League of Nations.
Here there will be an impressive scene. Bannerets of eighty-seven British Divisions will be displayed over the archway and along the ramparts, and there will be a March Past in which the Prince of Wales and Lady Haig will take part, followed by a religious ser- vice at which an address will be given by the Archbishop of York, now Archbishop-Designate of Can- terbury.
This memorial declares that no country is so dependent on the free exchange of goods sa Britain, whose great industries can only hope to recover prosperity by a revival of the their pre-wIE:
Overseas markets.
RUBBER QUOTA.
60 PER CENT. FOR NEXT QUARTER.
【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 31st.
It is officially sanounced that the standard production of rubber. The President of the Board of which may be exported at the Trade was also asked about the minimum rate of duty from Cey- overloading of ships at certain lon and Malays for the quarter. parts, especially ships engaged in beginning August 1st, will be 60 the American coastal trade."
Trade had been collecting informa
He replied that the Board of
tion on the manner in which ships were loaded in different trades. He had received a statement to the RUBBER INDUSTRIES BILL. effect that overloading of ships took place in certain trades. What action could be taken was being carefully considered in the interests of the Merchant Service..
KELLOGG PEACE "PACT."
DATE OF SIGNATURE.
(ORITISH WIELERS SERVICE:]
DROPPED OWING TO LACK OF TIME.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 31st. In the House of Commons, the dropped, owing to insufficient time Rubber Industries Bill has been in which to pass its remaining stages prior to the prorogation of Parliament on August 3rd
tributions to the Rubber Research The Bill provided for yearly con- Association....
ANOTHER GERMAN RAIL SMASH.
EXPRESS DASHES INTO GOODS TRAIN.
(THROUGH HAVTEK'N AGENCY.]
BERLIN, July 31st. Fourteen were killed and over twenty seriously injured in a col- lision between the Saarbrucken express and a stationary goods train between Ulm and Augsburg.
The disaster resulted from the failure of the points to function, the express crashing into the other engine at a high rate of speed. Terrible, scenes were witnessed by rescue-parties, many of the fatally injured being terribly mutilated.
REOPENING. BOMBAY'S
MILLS
AN EXPERIMENT
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BOMBAY, July 31st, The Mill-owners' Association have decided on the policy of re- opening the mills in small groups, a start to be made next week, in order to see how the former em- ployees respond, shung
It will be remembered that the mill-workers went on strike early this year presenting a demand for considerable wage increases. The employers declined, choosing to close down the mills rather than
give way.
Ruery, July 31st. The British Government is to
vitations are being transmitted to sign the Kellogg Peace Treaty in Paris on August 27th. Similar in
the Dominions Governmenta.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, speak ing yesterday in the House of Com- mons, expressed the hope that, it might be his good fortune to go to Paris to sign, the Treaty on behalf of this country. Whom the Domi- aions Governments will desigante to sign the Treaty will be known when they reply to the invitations. CHRYSLER DODGE MERGER. NEXT TO G.M.C.AND FORD.
[REUTER'S AMERICAS SERVICE
NEW YORK, July 31st. The merger between the Chrysler Corporation and Dodge Brothers has been completed with the consent of 90 per cent. of the shareholders in both Companies.
The joint capital of the new or ganisation, whose car production will rank next to the General Motors Corporation and Ford's Factories, will be: $500,000,000,
ARRIVAL AT ROME. EXPLORERS' TRIUMPHAL
PROGRESS..
[THROUGH BUYER'S
Rox, July 31st. The Italia survivors have arrived here after a triumphal journey from the frontier.
They were greeted at stations along the line, and were given en thusiastic demonstrations on ar rival here, being welcomed by the Governor and, representatives of the Army, Navy and Air Force Crowda warmly cheered them.
per cent.
HONG KONG RACING RECORD.
RESULTS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1928..
We have received from the Secre. tary of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. a neatly printed little volume entitled Hong Kong's Racing Re- cord for the first half of 1928. It gives the results of all the races, together with the amounts paid by the pari-mutuel and also in alphabetical order a list of the
30th, 1928.. ponies that started and griffins (non-starters) registered to June
It is a record which should be of considerable value to those who follow racing keenly and wish to spot winners on the basis of pre- vious form shown."
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WIDOW'S FRAUDS.
£120,000 OF HER CLIENTS'
· MONEY.
PARIS. A grey-haired widow, Mme, Bour geot, 6 years of age, has disap peared from Verailies because, it is stated, of alleged embezzlemente amounting to more than £120,000.
Mme. Bourgeat had been estab lished at Versailles for 20 years and had earned a considerable re putation for her skill and ability She undertook the management of estates and recovery of rente, and carried out on behalf of many of her clients the investment of the funds she received.
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Her business grew until she was obliged to employ a number of clorks. She was always dressed in black and lived with i, great sim-~ plicity
Three days ago one of her cliente, M. Verandat, asked her for funds, and she gave a cheque representing £800. Payment of this was refused. when it wae presented at the bank, and when the police were informed, it was found that Mme. Bourgest was missing,
Many of her clients are retired. bank directors and bunces men. and others are small shopkeepers, priests and persons owning small fortones in land and houses.
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