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THE HONG KONG

DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22nd, 1928.

SUDDEN MONGOLIAN ATTACK ON

HEILUNGKIANG.

FINANCED BY SOVIET GOVERNMENT.

BRITISH CONSULATE AT NANKING.

· GRAVE POSITION OF THE SALT

GABELLE.

Matters concerning the Salt Gabelle have again' come into prominence and grave anxiety is felt for the future of foreign loane secured on salt. Payments on these loans are already in arrears. It was hoped that the difficulties in the way of the Gabelle would have been cleared away by the recent · Fifth Plenary Session, but at least it was understood that nothing would be done meanwhile which might further-interfere with the efficiency of the service. However, it is now reported from the only remaining revenue producing station, the Changlu salt field, that the Salt Commissioner is issuing licences and orders, for withdrawal of salt, and thus the District Inspectorate is com pletely deprived of its functions. The Commissioner is receiving the revenue from this illegally released salt.

·

À body, of Mongolian marauders has crossed the Heilungkiang border and General Wen Fu Lun has despatched a force to meet them. Fighting is now in progress at Manchuli. Chang Frueh Liang has hastily despatched reinforcements to Heilungklang, while Japanese infantry are mobilising in readiness.. According to Japanese reports, this sudden attack was prompted and Snanced by the Soviet Government, and the Fengtienese, authorities are "said to have found conclusive proof of this in Harbin,

Mr. Meyrick Hewitt is taking up his post as British Con- sul General in Nanking. The Nationalist Government is provid- ing quarters for him until it has rendered habitable the British Consulate.

THE SALT GABELLE.

A CRITICAL POSITION.

ĮTEROCOH REUTERʼN AGENCY.])

PRIPING, Aug. 21st.

BRITAIN. FRANCE AND ITALY.

(Tsun Wan Tet Pão.)

SHANGHAI, Aug. 21st. The Nanking, Foreign Ministry has received notes simultaneously It is reliably learned that the from Great Britain, France and Salt Gabelle situation, which has Italy expressing their willingness long been extremely grave, had to open negotiations with the become more critical since the Nationalis: Government for treaty beginning of August. It was hoped revision upon the basis of absolute that one of the results of the Fifth

would Plenary Session

be the restoration of the functions of the Gabelle, and it was understood that in the meantime nothing would be done which might be likely further to undermine the efficiency of the service.

equality and reciprocity,

MONGOLIAN INROADS.

(Wah The Fat Pao).

BRITISH TROOPS IN "LAWLESSNESS AND

IRAK.

COST OF MAINTENANCE.

PREMIER SUSPICIOUS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT,}

-BAGDAD-August-20th- Speaking in the Chamber, the Premier stated that the Irak-

DEBAUCHERY."

PROHIBITION'S "RESULT.

FAMOUS REPUBLICAN'S ATTACK.

(REUTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICE)

NEW YORK, August 20th. The latest bombshell-thrown into

VENIZELOS BIG TRIUMPH.

LARGE MAJORITY.

ESTABLISHED.

UNPOPULAR COMMUNISTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ATHENS, August 20th. The Venizelist Party is scoring the political arena is a letter from all along the line in the Elections, Professor Nicholas Murray Butler,

which are proving a the famous Republican, appearing triumph for the Republican cham- personal in the New York Timers

In this letter, Professor Nicholas pion

SEARCH FOR ATLAN TIC FLIERS.

'PLANE TWO DAYS OVERDUE.

AMATEUR "MESSAGES."

TEKUTERUS AMERICAN REEVICH, {

BRITISH NAVAL

POLICY.

SIDE TRACKING KELLOGG PACT?

FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF „AGREEMENT.

THROUGH RENTER A ARZUST.]

LONDON, August 20th. The ceremony of igning the

Kellogg Treaty for the renuncia-

WASHINGTON, Aug 91st The cutter Marion which is lying-

been ordered to seek the missing off Cape Chidley, Labrador, "has Atlantic aeroplane in which Mr. Cramer were attempting to By from of being clonded by the reports Bert Hassell and Mr. Parker D. tion of war in Paris ja în danger.

Illinois to Sweden,

that considerable perturbation is felt in America over the Anglo- French naval agreement, of which Sir Austen Chamberlain expressed such high hopes in a recent speech

Government would never agree to the proposal made by Britain, in the Military Agreement which had not yet been ratified, that Irak should undertake to pay the differ- ence between the cost of maintain ing the British Forces in Irak and the cost of maintaining them in views on Prohibition and National was elected in a Corinth constit Danish Governmentă” to assist to in Parliament.

England.

The Irak Government, he said, was convinced that Britain had many political and economic ind terests in that part of the world, And ought therefore to pay the total cost of maintenance of the British Forces.

Although the sum asked was at present only £20,000, the British Government might later deem it necessary to send many additional troops to Irak, thus 'nvolving Irak in large extra payment, out of proportion to the resources of the new State.

MINNESOTA STRUCK BY

TORNADO.

DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE.

"[BEUTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICE)

ST. PAUL, Minnesota,

August 21st. Wholesale destruction of property marked the path of a tornado which swept Minnesota yesterday evening. Four were killed and forty injured, while the damage is estimated at a million dollars.

YOUTH CONGRESS FOR PEACE.

RIGHTEOUSNESS, NOT FORCE.

CHINA REPRESENTED.

[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

OMMEN, August 20th.·

Murray Butler completely disso- All the Royalist leaders, with ciates himself from Mr. Hoover's the exception of M. Tualdaris, who

Defence.

He says the only alternative to the repeal of the Prohibition amendment is a continuance of "lawlessness and debauchery."

Referring to National Defence, he hints that there is "awagger" behind Mr. Hoover's ideas on ade- quate preparedness for war.

CURING THE TASTE FOR

VODKA. ?

PROBLEM FOR SOVIET.

BIG INCREASE OF DRUNKEN. NESS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

RIGA, August 20th. The Soviet Council "of Labour and Defence has decided in order to check drunkenness which has been. constantly increasing, that 12,000,000 litres less vodka shall be | supplied to the towns by the Coun-

cil during 1999.

The reduction will not apply to the rural districts.

The consumption of vodka in the towns during the first half of 1929 was more than doubled compared with the same period of 1927. A new home for incurable drunkarda is being opened at "Leningrad.

It has also been decided to or ganise exhibitions demonstrating the evils of alcohol in the indus

trial centres.

IMPORTANCE OF THE

PACIFIC.

The World Youth Peace Con-

opened here to-day, and Mr. Sangat (India) in the name of the AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE. coloured races, said that they all welcomed the opportunity to co- operate on a basis of equality.

SHANGHAI, Aug. Mat. A number of armed Mongolians, However, reporte

from the who style themselves the Mon- Changlu salt field, which was the golian Youth Army,”

are javading sole remaining revenue producing Heilungkiang from the Heiling- station, state that F. S. Chien, kiang-Siberian border.. General the Salt Commissioner at Changhu Wen Fu Lun, Dictator of Heilung and also a representative of the kiang Province, has despatched a Ministry of Finance, is issuing salt licences and orders for the with drawal of salt from the depots, so as completely to deprive the Die trict Inspectorate of its functions. Mr. Chien is receiving the revenues On hearing the alarming news for the salt thus illegally released. General Chang Hsueh Liang order- In consequence the disintegra ed a number of Teinforcements to tion of the service is reaching a hurry to Heilungkiang. Meanwhile point from which the restoration of the Japanese military authorities the service is almost impossible. in Manchuria are mobilising a and serious apprehension is felt division of Japanese infantry in bere for foreign loans secured on readiness for action. salt, which are already in default.

Mr. Sangal declared, in the course of the opening speech, that war could only be abolished by righteousness, and not by force.

Mr. Chang, a representative of the Chinese Nationalist Govern-

force to meet them: Fighting is going on at Manchuli, a city near the north-west Heilungkiang border and on the Chinese Eastern Railment, spoke for Chinese youth.

BRITISH CONSULATE AT NANKING.

way.

According to information from Japanese cources the Mongolian army's surprise attack on the Man- ehurian border and Inner Mongolia is instigated and financially sup ported by the Soviet Government, The Fengtienese authorities have discovered the Soviet Government's SHANGHAI, Aug. let.

plot from a variety of evidente My. Meyrick Hewlitt is leaving obtained in Harbin. A strong pro- this evening to take up the post of test has been lodged with the

(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]

Director of the Chinese Eastern British Consul-General in Nanking. Railway Company, who is being Quarters are being provided for closely watched by the Chinese him by the Nationalist Government police,

because the Consulate, which bas beer closed for seventeen months, will not be ready for another two months, pending repairs neces sitated by its occupation by Nationalist troops.

BELGIAN DISCUSSION.

Taun Wan Tat Pao.)

SOVIET DISORDERS. IN

· MANCHURIA.

COMPLETE DENTALS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.] -

Moscow, August 20th.

CHINA MISSIONARY'S. DEATH.

FALL FROM TRAIN.:

[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.)

WINNIPEO, August 20th... United Church missionary, who The Rev. A. T. Wilkinson, L had just returned to Canads from breakdown, fell from a train to China suffering from & nervous day and was killed instantly.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT ཀ མ ཆ ད ཅ ཏི

PROBLEM.

·PREMIER'S LATEST STEP.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

RUGEX, August 20th. Mr. Baldwin has taken an im portant step in the hope of re- The Ministry of Labour an lieving unemployment. nounces that the Employment Ex- changes are despatching to some 150,000 employers an appeal from the Premier that each should help to solve the problem created by severe unemployment in the de pressed mining areas by offering work to men and boys from those

areas.

TRAM-CAR COLLIDES WITH

BUS:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

A later message states that the US Government has asked the Canadian, Newfoundland and

uency, have been defeated.

locate the missing airmen.” The full figures showing the

STAMFORD, Connecticut, state of the parties are not yet

Ang. Slat available, but it has already been

Wireless messages believed to clearly

established that the Ten-emanate from Hassell have been irelists have gained a sweeping picked up by an amateur operator.posal with extreme disfavour, and victory at the polla.

As yet the public has not be fully enlightened as to the details of the compromise, but it has leaked out that there is some pro- posal for the collaboration ‘ofuthe The United States view this pro- British and French Fleets.

He has stated that on Sunday it has been reported that President It is fairly certain that M.night he received six repeated of the Navy Department on the Coolidge, after hearing the views Venizelos supporters will hold at 8.0.8. calls terminating with a least two hundred out of the sso repetition of the signal letter "R," seats in the Chamber, - "

Another notable feature of the polling is that no Communist has so far been returned.

M. Venizelos has ordered his supporters to refrain from jubil ant demonstrations, and there have been no disorders anywhere since the position became clear.

The Resita

LATER The election returns at midnight show:---

Venizelists Royalists Kalandarista Pangalista.... Independents Communists i.......

indicating that the position of the seroplane was seveny-five miles from Cape Chidley, Labrador.

HEAVIEST MAN IN THE

WORLD.

RECORD CLAIMED BY $8- STONE GERMAN.

GIRL WHO WEIGHED 40 STONE.

was, the world's

subject, privately manifested his displeasure at the proposed ar- clare is in violation of the Naral rangement, which commentators de Limitation Treaty of 1922,

It is now announced, however, that President Coolidge has for- bidden for the present any further action by the United States Govi ernment officials in regard to in- quiries into the situation created by the agreement.

Exchange Of Greetings... This action by President Coolidge is regarded in London es a step towards creating a cordial. atmosphere at the Treaty signing ceremony in Paris, particularly sa there has been an exchange of cordial

greetings between Sir Austen Chamberlain and Frank B. Kellogg on the occasion of the latter's departure from New

The honour, for what it is worth,York aboard the liner Ile de

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It is estimated that M. Venizelos will have a majority of 220 in the Chamber, which numbers 250.

Unavailing Attacks.

"France. -

The British Foreign Secretary declared his confidence that the world would ows much to M1. anti-war Fact and expressed regret a Kellogg's initiative in framing the that he himself was provented, by the state of his health, from taking part in the signature...

Mr. Kellogg's Reply.

Mr. Kellogg wirelessed from the Ile de France expressing his deep appreciation of Sir Austen Cham berlain's message. He added:

is usually given to Daniel Lam bert, the ex-gaoler, of Leicester, who died at the age of 30 in 1808 Lambert, a great athlete in youth, retired from the gaol weighing 39st, and evidently deciding that he had been too finely trained M. Venizelos, in a statement to. came to London and put on weight foreign pressmen, declared that the till he reached fat, tele elections were held in complete So fat was he that when he seat freedom. The opposition press wased himself his thighs could not be allowed to say what it liked, and seen, and his calves, bulging out share your belief that the Treaty for renunciation of war for forty days beforehand conduct-like pillows, almost buried his will mark & signal advance to.

feet."

King's Lynn wards the goal of universal peace ed the most furious campaign |

Museum he left a waistcoat with and it would have been a great. against authority, but without girth of 102in., and when it came could have participated personally

personal satisfaction to me if yon.. affecting the popular confidence in to burying poor Daniel the ander in signing. I hope you will soon himself.

takers had to use 112 superficial be completely restored in bealth."

British correspondents in New feet of eh to make the coin, York state that Sir Austen's mer- FLIGHT ACROSS AMERICA.place it upon two axle trees and sage to Mr. Kellogg is the subject four wheels, and upon these roll of very appreciative comment in RECORD LOWERED BY 8

the American press and the view is the body down a gradual decline generally expressed that the inter- HOURS.

to the burial ground.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVIOR.)

To the

change of greetings between the Lambert had, and still has, some Britain and the United States Foreigo Secretarice of Great formidable rivals. Emory Titman, creates a highly favourable atmos the fattest man in the United phere for the signing of the peace States, died in Atlantic City, New pact Jersey, the other day with`a récord

NEW YORK, August 20th. Mr. Arthur Goebel, the winner of the first prize for the flight of 50st. from America to Hawaii last year, landed at Curtiss Field, New York, to-day after flying non-stop across

the American continent.

WELLINGTON, August 20th, In the course of a speech" at Wanganui, the Right Hon. Mr. J. G. Coates, Prime Minister, referred to the growing importance of the Pacific in world affairs and to the' increasingly large part that the British Dominion. would probably be called upon to play in relations affecting the Pacific.

He said that while New Zealand, in common with other portions of the British Empire, heartily en dorsed the League of Nations, he

The fight was accomplished in regretted that one of the great record time, beating by 7 hours 58 Pacific Powers, the United States, minutes the previous record, set was not a member of that organiss up by Lieutenant Mecready flying tion. New Zealand, he said, would in the opposite direction five years welcome any method which would create good feeling and close col- laboration between the various Pacific countries.

Mr. Coates also referred to the value of such bodies as the Institute of Pacific Relationsquithe Pant Pacific Union, the Women's Con- ference, and the Cook celebrations at Honolulu.

SWALLOWING RED LITERATURE.

SEVERAL TONS CON-

FISCATED.

{THROUGH_REUTER'S AGENCY.)

WARSAW, August 50th A big Communist plot has boen frustrated by the Police, who last night carried out a raid on a secret meeting of the Executive Cam- mittee of the Young Communists.

The gathering was taken com- pletely by surprise and when the Police arrived they desperated at tempted to destroy, and even to swallow, a number of the in- criminating documents.

ago.

ALBANIA'S WISH FOR® MONARCHY,

CROWN OFFERED TO PRESIDENT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S

AGENCY.]

TIRANA, Aug, 20th,"

Side Tracking The Pact, Meanwhile, Reuter's Berlin cor respondent has telegraphed that, had only a year to live, Titman de- and Washington speaking of s

Warned by the doctors that he referring to messages from London cided to spend his savings of xiety and distrust by the American £25,000 before it was too late. At Government and political circles the end of a year he had spent his over the Anglo-French naval com- money and had worked so hard at promise, the Government news- getting rid of it that his weight paper Germania declares: Wash was down-to-30st..

ington is not far wrong in regard- Thus reduced he drove (of all ing the compromise as a flagrant things) a taxicab. But when he violation of the Naval Agreement died at 9the same age as Lam- of 1922 Sir Austen Chamberlain eight men were required to lift by concluding, contrary to ite bert's he was still so bulky that has sids-tracked the Kellogg Pact him into his coffin.

spirit, an alliance giving Britain an important naval superíority over America," which appears to guarantee to Britain supremacy of the seas in a new form,"

English Heavy-Weight, Compared with these giants, the heaviest man in England is a mere stripling. The title belongs to Mr. George Lovatt, of Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, whose age is 58 and weight:36st: Some years ago be won a competition for the heaviest man in the country, beating his nearest rival by at...

Irish Free State.

PARIS, August 20th. The representative of the Irish Free State announces that it has dent Cosgrave will come to Paris been definitely decided that Presi

Twenty years ago he would not Treaty instead of Mr. MacGil for the signing of the Kellogg have had a chance. William ligan, the Foreign Minister. Thomas Ecclestone, the landlord

of the Coach, and Horses Ind, ba

At a mass meeting held here to-Harrow, weighed over 40st. and the main road from London to

Prayers In The Churches.

LONDON, August 211. Lord Cushendun in a letter to day, a resolution was paesed in could boast of the following dimen the Archbishop Canterbury ex- favour of the establishment of 35tin.; calf, 213in.; arm; 28in.; that the Archbishops of Canterbury chest, 6ft 2in, thigh, presses his profound satisfaction

Monarchy, the Crown to be offered to Ahmed Bey Zogu, the President, Similar meetings have been held all over the country.

OBITUARY:

COL. "GEORGE HARVEY,

SIOON:

and waist, 8ft. Sin

and York, have ordered the signs world's heavy-weight champion-in Faris on August 27th to be the The present claimant of the ture of the Kellogg anti-war. Fact. ship is Herr Emil Hoehne, who subject of prayer and thanksgiving was recently married in Berlin in the churches throughout the He weighs 38st. lb.

Probably the heaviest woman of

country

The treaty he

says, may modern times was Miss Nellie nor immediately and finally banish Lambert, a great-granddaughter all war from the earth, but it will of the famous Daniel. Indeed, be the most impressive declaration weight fox age, she brake, all re-ever made by mankind of the de cords for either sex in 1913, at termination to preserve peace. It 19, she weighed 40st. 3lb., measure will inspire nations with a con- ed 7ft 4in. around the waist, andfident hope, such as they never had had arme 20in. in circumference, until now, of deliverance at length or about as big as the average from the sickening abomination of young girl's waist or great war,"

THere ean surely therefore be no hope was that one day she would beat the 52at 111 of her normation living in dat

An official message issued by the Tass Agency, referring to reports of the appearance of insurgents in

MANY CASUALTIES. the State of Barge, Manchuria, describes them as being without

"[THEOUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.} foundation, mischievous fabrica- tions, spread for provocative pur

COLOGNE, August 20th. Six people were killed and 60 Reports in certain foreign news-injured as the result of a collision Papers that the Soviet Mongolian between a tramear and a motor Republican has declared war on the coach here last evening,

Several tons of seditious litera- State of Barga, that Soviet troops The collision occurred on a $25- ture have been confiscated including areoncentrated near the Man- pension bridge. The coach was instructions from the Third Inter- churian frontier, and that the Mon- overturned and the passengers nationale, and the Society's mem T. Wang in connection (golian movement in Barga:14 UP. I pinned underneath it, while pas bership at magveien TREKLAAMIYAKE YA TANZergara bayon sia wieled to Colonel at embition she never realised without divina · sanction-and-

Ported by the Union of Soviet Hengers-on-the-framcar were dung

wum foreign currency

arrests were made.

SHANGHAI, Aug, 2let: The Belgian Chargé d'Affaires proceeded to Nanking yesterday afternoon for an unofficial meeting

the quest

[REDTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]

New Your, Aug, 20th. The death has occurred sudden.

Tom heart Tevi publica, are ridiculed by the Tass out, several being thrown through | was found on the premises. Many George Harvey, former

Agency.

the windows,

States: Ambassador to Britain.

United She chose as husband a little fel- guidance, such

low of 14 or 14st.

consummation/

could never have been achieved.