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“WAIT AND SEE" POLICY OF JAPAN.

CHINA'S DELEGATION TO THE LEAGUE.

YEN HSI SHAN'S RETURN TO DUTY,

POWERS' ATTITUDE TO CHINA'S PROBLEMS.

It is announced that Japan will not reply to the second Chi- nese note on treaty revision," as it is considered most ambiguous. Japan will adopt a wait and see policy, until the Nanking Govern- ment has given some proof of its stability.

One by one the Powers are settling their outstanding differ- ences with China, and are stating their willingness to enter into negotiations for the revision of treaties. Germany has signed a

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, AUGUST 20th, 1928.

GREEK ELECTION OUTBREAKS.

PANGALOS IMPLICATED..

"DRY" DAYS FOR ATHENS.

(THROUGH ZEUTER'S AGENGE.]

ATHENS, Aug, 19th. On the eve of the elections, which are being held to-day, a number of Venizelists gathered outside the Pangalist election rooms, jeering and throwing stones. They were suddenly fired on from a balcony, and four were wounded; two rather seriously.

The polics state that the firing was caused by four officers, includ ing General Pargalos himself,

M. Venizelos has ordered an en-

AN AUTOMATIC SAFE:

"BANKING. THE EVENING'S

TAKINGS."

MIDLAND BANK SCHEME ·

· {BRITISH ` WIRELESS SERVICH,}

Rugay, Aug. 18th. "An automatic receiving safe; en- abling traders and managers of theatres, cinemas and restaurants who conduct business after the usual local banking hours to de pout money at any hour, has been installed at one suburban branch of the Midland Bank, and similar safes are being constructed at other

branches

BRITAIN IN A DILEMMA.

KELLOGG'S TREATY WITH EGYPT.

DEVASTATION BY CYCLONE.

ALGERIAN SEAPORTS

WRECKED

VERY SEVERE STRUGGLE. EARTHQUAKES AND TIDAL

{THROUGH REUTE

AGENCY.]

WAVE.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGEVOY.]

ป

SERIOUS RIOTS IN DALMATIA.

CROAT FEELING AGAINST ITALY.

ACCUSATIONS AGAINST

BELGRADE,

-[THROUGH RIUTER'S

BELGRADEN, Aug. 19th. · 'Several arrests were made when

LONDON, Aug. 19th. The French view of Kellogg'.

ALOJERS, Aug. 19th. proposed treaty with Egypt is con-

A cyclone has wrought terrible tained in a message from Paris.havos in the two Algerian seaporte, police dispersed demonstrators at quoting an article in Le Journal Jojelli and Bougie, and the sur Sebenico, Dalmatia, who were pro- in which the writer says that if the rounding districts covering an area testing against the signature of the British let things go, they are prae of at least thirty miles."

Nettuno Conventioni. tically abandoning the reservation

„Communications_hash_bees_des. —A-Vienna-message-says-that-the- of 1923 concerning Egypt's foreign troyed, but it is known that ten Croata, already embittered by the were killed and 150 injured at death of Radites, allege that the If, on the other hand, the British Jijeli, where & tidal wave and Belgrade Government is betraying demonstrators and the retaliators door being controlled by a special |sion will arise with America.

"Be The infantry barracks, hospital; The "demonstrators were mostly key provided by the bank. The hind a pacific facade, a very severe cinema, restaurant and warehouses youths, who also raided the Cafan: customer is also furnished with aütruggle is going on." darist offices and caused some dam.leather wallet in which he places age. The capital has been declared "dry" by Government decree, for yesterday evening and to-day.

Access to the sate policy. gained by a small revolving door

provisional economic treaty, while both sides have pledged them- quiry, and the punishment of the in the outside wall of the bank, the resist," then a very delicate diecus-") earthquakes added to the terror. Crost economic interests to Italy

selves to early discussion of a definite commercial treaty. Great Britain, France and America are all in sympathy with China's wish of Customs autonomy, while reserving the "most favoured nation ??- clause in their commercial treaties. Franco and Italy have just concluded the settlement of the Nanking incident.

General Yen Hai Shan, who has been lying ill at Taiyuan with appendicitis, is now reported to be well again. He announces that he will return in a day or two and assume his duties as Commander- in-Chief in Peking.

"FAVOURED NATIONS."

(Fah Tia Fai Pao).

SHANGHAI, Aug. 19th. The American, British and French Ministers have expressed their agreement in principle with China's demand for. Customs Autonomy They insist, however, that the

| CHINA AND THE LEAGUE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GENEVA, Aug. 18th.

In view of the new regime in China, the Chinese delegation to the League Assembly in September will be composed of Doctor Wang

FULL DOMINION

STATUS.

INDIAN ASSEMBLY'S DESIRE.

MOTION TABLED.

the cash and cheques.

The customer places the wallet on a small platform which rotates as the door closes, thus permitting the wallet to travel by way of a chute into the safe.

**LADIES PRESENT.”

THE END OF A QUARREL.

KING OF SPAIN'S COUSIN STABBED.

DESIRE CO

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

"SL, Aug. 19th 'The on-official members of the

Assembly, who are already, here For the opening of the September

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

DEADVILLE, August 17th. A sensational incident, resulting in a cousin of King Alfonso of

LIGHT »AEROPLANE: RECORD.

24 HOURS IN THE AIR:

'PLANE FLIES ITSELF.”

{THROUGH REUTERʼR AGENCY.]

LONDON," August 17th.

in order to purchase security for were reduced to ruins, while nine- the purely Sarbian part of the king- -tenths of the houses were unroofed.dom in regard to Albania.

At Bougie several big sheds ware A mob of several thousands demolished and plantations mown ignored the orders of the police down. Nine were drowned in the at Sebenice and began throwing. foundering of a dredger while a stones. Gendarmes then charged. number of native boats were sank.

with axed bayonets," and were sup- A thousand soldiers are being ported by police wielding trum- sent from Algiers to carry out rescue work

THAT.

cheons.

The crowds left the main square and proceeded to bombard 3.JA

A world's light acroplane endur- SCHUBERT WAS NOT LIKE Italian steamship with stones, and ance record has been established by Captain Broad, flying a Gypsy "Math" for 24 hours at Edgware. MISREPRESENTATIONS IN A and there were seventy arrests.

The British Wireless report states that Captain Broad went up last evening with fuel for twenty hours and "to-day had been in the air longer than that time. The pre-

FILM.

also the windows of Italian shop keepers. Many injuries were caused

Most of the demonstrators were

MUSIC GETS THE APPLAUSE, Croat workmen employed in Italian owned factories, who fear dismissal There has been a tendency in the as a result of the rights "acquired

"most-favoured nation clauses" i Kin Ki, Minister at Brussels (who session, generally favour the Nehru Spain being stabbed in the riba, vious best was that of Hinkler who cinema lately to exploit the figures by Italy under the Conventions to

their respective commercial treaties with China should be" reserved. in'

order to maintain their commercial interests in China.

FURTHER SETTLEMENTS.

(Trun Wan Yqt Poo.)

is replacing Alfred Sze who is ill)

Council; Doctor as first delegate and member of the Chi Chi, the Chargé d'Affaires at Paris, and Yu Shun Chi, the Consul-General at New York, who will be secretary to the Delegation.

report, putting forward o new draft constitution, which is descrit ed as a

has occurred at a restaurant bes

of a quarrel.-

on his journey to Australia in a tween Le Touquet and Etaples. light plane, was on the first stage The affair was the culmination on the journey in the air for 13 hours. Broad's machine is "the The King's cousin and three same type of craft on which he Spaniards, with a Canadian lady, secured for Britain the world's were partaking of cocktails before speed and altitude records for light

onflicted a slight wound on him.

lunch, when one of the party sud-aircraft. denly pulled out a knife and in-

**monumental document." Laj Patrai, leader of the Nation- alist Party, has tabled a motion urging the dr.veyance to His Majesty's Government. of Mr. Chao, secretary of the per-time has arrived for conferring

opinion of the Assembly that the manent delegation to the League India full dominion statue. Secretariat, has resigned.

SHANGHAI, Aug. '19th. Negotiations with the French and Italian delegations for the settle- ment of the Nanking Incident bave been simultaneously concluded. A STANDING COMMITTEE. Foon as they have received in- structions from their respective Home. Governments, they will duly sign the settlement pacts with the Nationalist Government.

COMMERCIAL PACTS.

(Tsun Wan Yat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, Aug. 15th. The German Minister had a con- ference with Dr. C. T. Wang in the latter's residence yesterday morning. Dr. Wang suggested that the commercial pact concluded in 1921 should be abolished before a ...new commercial treaty on the basis. of absolete, equality be concluded. The German Minister agreed to his suggestion and said that he would

(Wah Te: Tai Pac).

SHANGHAI, Aug. 19th. Owing to the fact that there are only two" Executive members in Nanking, General Tan Yen Ksi and Mr. Yu Yiu Jen, the session of the Standing Central Executive Com mittee has been suspended.

...

LI TSAI HSIN'S. MOVE- MENTS.

(Wah To: Tat Pau.)

SHANGHAI, Aug. 18th. Marshal LiTsai Hein and Mr.

report to his Home Government Tai Chi Tao proceeded to Hang-

the result of the negotiation and chow yesterday at noon.

as soon as he obtained instructions

4 from it he would immediately sign

the treaty.

Y

GERMAN TREATY.

' ́(THROUGH NEUTRE'S AGENCY.}

BERLIN, Aug 18th. The German provisional Economia Treaty with China is similar to the American Treaty, in which América recognised China's tariff autonomy, The German Treaty was signed at Nanking, and provides equal treat ment in Customs. Both agree to open as soon as possible negotia tions for a definite commercial treaty.

WAIT AND SEE. ·

[TAROGAH KEUTEE'S AGEEGE.]

Toxyo, Aug. 19th.

WELL AGAIN.

(Wah Tez Lat Pao).

CYCLONE IN HAITI ·

the

$1,000,000 DAMAGE DONE.

(THROUGH ESUTKE'S AGENCY.Į

FORT-AU-PRINCE, "Haiti,

Aug. 19th. Scores of persons are reported killed, while villages and crops have been destroyed as the result of a cyclone in southern Haiti,

Experts say the storm is the worst experienced there for forty. two years, and damage done is estimated at a million dollars.

LORD HALDANE.

CRITICALLY ILL.

{THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.J

LONDON, Aug. 19th. Lord Haldane is critically ill.

"HANDS OFF CHINA."

A friend of the King's "cousin retaliated and knifed the aggres sor in the stomach.

Someone present then mentioned "ladies present," and peace was thereupon restored.

The machine was laden with petrol equal to the weight of about four men. Broad had not set him- self any particular course but wan `dered at will over England. He

of the great composers in conjune-import Italian labour into Xugo-

The out-Slavia. tion with their music standing example of this was a film "The Melody Master," one of a. series 'called "The Music. Mas-

ters" of which "Gounod" has al ready been shewn at the Queen's theatre here in Hong Kong. "The Melody Master" purports to throw. upon the screen incidents in the life of Schubert, the centenary of whose death is being celebrated this year.

has been averaging a speed of ." It

was recently shown to the trade with an effective accompani

LORD DAWSON'S SCORN.

ANTI-VIVISECTION "CRANES?

ATTACKED

`LOCKJAW' GASES AT A HOSPITAL,

HOUSE OF LORDS.

A slashing attack on anti- vivisectionists was made by Lord

11

on the

about 80 miles an hour. When Ay- ing on

a straight course thement skilfully put together from Dawson of Penn, the King's phy "Moth" is so easy to guide that Schubert's works by Mr. Horace sician, during a debate ADDED HORRORS OF WAR. Broad is able to set the controls Shepherd, one of the foremost ex-third reading of the Dogs (Amend-

and read a book. He was met in perts in the process known as fitment) Bill.

ting the film.".

This measure, which has already the air to-day by Captain White,

Superficially it would scem a been passed by the House of Com- also flying a Moth," at a height of 4,000 feet. He was then reading good idea thus to popularise some mons, provides that the finder of and eating sandwiches while the machine flew itself.

DEVASTATION FROM THE

AIR.

USELESS PEACE PACTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Losnón, “August 17th."- Visions of London and the Home Counties laid waste in future wars are evoked as a result of the week's - mimic warfare by the Royal Air Force..

He

REVOLUTIONARY PLOT.

OPPOSITION IN ECUADOR.

[THROUGH LEVYER'S AGENCY.].

QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 19th. The Government of the United States recently recognised the

condition

of the world's best music with the

astray dog must take it to the aid of "the pictureg” And so it would be, but for one grave objecither leave it there or take it nearest police station and may

tion; the apparently incorrigible habit of producers of wallowing in home after a "full description has If the original owner the worst kind of sentimentality been filed. regardless of veracity-the moment of the dog claims it "within one month the finder must surrender they touch upon music.

In this film Schubert is repre- sented as a sentimental » nincom-

it: if not it becomes bis property." Lord Banbury, who occupies an

Mr. Lloyd George, in an inter- Government of Ecuador de facte poop who moous about thinking important position in the Royal view, envisaged "devastation and on

that constitutional himself in love with Theresa Grob, Society for the Prevention of government was established. How Caroline Esterhazy, and a lady Cruelty to Animals, moved to omit annihilation; nothing less." declared that Pacts are useless ever, a "revolutionary plot " has called

Sylvis, and everywhere this clause because, he claimed, it been unearthed, and many promin while nations are perfecting the ent members of the Parliamentary passed over in favour of more would make more easy the vivisec machinery for devastation.. Air opposition, have been arrested. lively suitors. armaments should be most dras- tically cut down, "for spending millions on a little Air Force which a week's manoeuvrÉS has proved particularly ineffec- tive"?

we are

MR. KELLOGG UNPOPULAR.

ĮREUTER'S AMERICAN, ARRȘICH!

New Yoar, Aug. 18th.

Brigadier Gen. Groves, former SHANGHAI, Aug. 19th.

Just before the Ile de France Director of Flying Operations at General Yen Hai Shan has re-sailed, bearing Mr. Kellogg to the Air Ministry, interviewed by covered and is preparing to return Europe, two hundred members of Reuter, pictured the result of to Peking in a few days.

the Anti-Imperialist League parad future warfare as indiscriminate ed the pier, bearing banners: in killing and maiming. scribed "Hands Off Nicaragua,”

RETURN TO HANKOW,

(Wah Tar Yat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, Aug. 10th. General Fei Chung Hri telegraph. ed to Hankow from Peking last week that General Chang Heuch Liang had agreed with the Nation- alist Government to reorganise the Shantung-Chihii remnants within

The Japanere will not reply to the Great Wall. .'

the second Chinese Note on treaty As no hostile action was neces revision, which they consider most ambiguous. It is understood that eary against them, he therefore decided to withdraw a part of his Japan. will adopt a wait and see policy towards the Nationalists, troops to Hankow from Chibi pro- and will not make aj nemorexics Thile his headquarters in until the stability of Nanking has. Peking will be transferred to Han- been proved.

kow next month.

COMMUNIST PLOT IN

BULGARIA.

TRUNKS FULL OF LITERA- TURE:

·{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT.]

VIENNA, Aug. 19th.

tion of stray doga

1

A Man's Man." Schubert was essentially a

Subsequent speakers disagreed man's man," Вл ever-welcome | entirely with this assumption, and companion in the form of carousal Lord Dawson made it the subject which was, before the advent of of a scornful speech. He distin- games, the favourite mazly sport, guished between owned and stray He burned the candle at both ends, dogs, and pointed out that 30,000 working hard all day and spend-stray dogs were annually destroy». ing half the night among convivial ed in London alone. friends. He had no airs and However vivisection WOK - 2P- munistic literature in three langu whom nobody has done more for always arrived at two aspects of Six trunks stuffed with Com-graces, as Sir George Grove-than proached, Lord Dawson said, one ages, including plans for a Com-Schubert's memory-cheerfully ad- the question: munist revolution in Bulgaria, were mits He had sterling qualities, He estimated that bombers dur-discovered when a Balgar named but they were not those of a senti

mental drawing-room pet. Hands Off China," etc, and ing the week dropped 300 tons of Iskrelf was arrested here.

"Victorian Ideas, violently denounced the Kellogg bombs on London, the same amount treaty. The police eventually re. that the Germans dropped on Eng- moved the demonstrators.

land throughout the war.

FLIGHT TO GREENLAND, «

AMERICANS LEAVE ONTARIO

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

COCHRANE, Ontario, Aug. 18th, Mr. Bert Hassell and Mr. Parker Cramer left here about 2 o'clock this afternoon for Greenland.

THIRD DESTROYER

· FLOTILLA..

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.1

MALTA, Ang 18th The Third Destroyer Flotilla has arrived.

He declared that the defence of London was only of secondary im- portance, and urged the develop- ment of bombers able to attack enemy cities.

WIFE WHO BOUGHT

BABY.

PRESENT TO NEWLY MARRIED HUSBAND.

The fact is that the cinema is the last stronghold of the Vic- torian idea how a musician ought

1-Have benefits to mankind.

accrued through experiments on animals 1 and

2. Is it justifiable that mankhä should benefit by them i

On this question of experiments on dogs there was such a consentus to look and behave, and there" war of opinion among medical men all probably no period in which a over the civilised world that it musician was less esteemed by his amounted to practical unanimity, fellow men whatever might be Why," he exclaimed, if I said of their womenfolk-than the were asked to find a staff of com Victorian period.

petent physicians who were anti-

ap-

"No Mato

After the Aldershot magistrates

How can it help the apprecia" vivisectionists for a hospital with An official communique says that bad decided what amount to allottion of great music if its creator. 200 beds I could not find that fifty-seven-bombing raids were for a baby in a wife maintenance is shown upon the screen-as-a-man-staff. made on London during the course case, the young husband surprised whose company certainly most of The only honest opponents of of the four nights of the Air the court by smilingly docin range, the men in the audience would vivisection were those who Force manoeuvres, of which only The baby not My wife hate, to have to endure, and, whom

it from the ethical stand- nine were completely accessful in said she bought, it for £2 and the women would most certainly point and would_answer_ evading the defence.

brought it home one night as a despise if they met him in real the second question. It is estimated that 171 bombers present soon after, our mariage life, whatever they may say of his "For Heaven's sake," said Lord were destroyed," as against 139 de | She did not any she was going to "sweetness" on the screen Be Dawson, leave us alone fending aircraft, denna buy the baby for me," he added.

The official communiqué : adda]

The girl wife burst into tears and sides, he was not a bit like that. with our work and do to go on The music, of course, is on anus from day to day and year to that about 250,000 miles were flown nodded, when asked if this were other plane altogether. No film year. We tell you with a full during the manoeuvrea and the true. The magistrates altered their producer can affect its quality. At sense of responsibility that... only accident was one which befel decision, and the husband, a young the trade show it was the music, cannot do without dogs and, sub- a pilot whose machine overturned, farm worker, was ordered to pay not the film, which received the stitute other animals for them ID his nose being slightly injured. for his wife's maintenance only. applause.

our experimenta.??;