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DEATH OF WU PEI FU.

VERNACULAR PRESS REPORT.

SHOT IN SZECHUAN,

(Taun Wan Fat Pao.)

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24th, 1928.

DROUGHT IN NORTH AIR BASE IN PERSIAN

JAPAN.

GULF

SERIOUS OUTLOOK.

'BRITAIN'S NEW PLAN,

FARMERS FIGHT FOR WATER.

PROBABLY AT BASRA.

(THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY:]

[TEXQUGH · REUTIK'S AGENCY,]

SHANGHAI, Aug. «23rd. According to the China Times, a leading Chinese paper in Shanghai, Marshal Wu Fei Fu, a well-knowned in recent weeks from excess of

Tokyo, Aug. 23rd. Though central Japan has suffer

LONDON, August 22nd. Britain's air plans for the future, encouraged by the remark- able success of the R.A.F. flying-

GREEK ELECTION OUTBREAKS.

PANGALOS AND SHOOTING": INCIDENT;

STRIKING A BAR- GAIN?

ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT.

MUCH OPPOSITION,

PROSECUTOR'S, INQUIRY.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)

ATHENS,” Aug. S3rd.

ETHROUGH REUTER'S AGENŐT,]

August 23rd.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

DIVIDEND.

BRIGHT HOPES, FOR FUTURE.

EXTENSION TO INDIA.

[REITISH WIRELESS HERVICE]

Ruaay, August 22nd..

It is announced that the Direc

GOVERNOR SMITH'S ACCEPTANCE.

STATEMENT OF POLICY.

MODIFIED PROHIBITION.

FSLEITER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, August 22nd." Speaking at Albany to-day to a fore the Public Frosecutor to-day reticent as regards the allegations

pany, which conducts air services millions all over the United States Two of the and comment is being withheld, East, have recommended the pay address, Mr. Alfred E. Smith, the abooting incident.

General Pangalos will appear be-Authoritative circles are motors of the Imperial Airways Com vast audience of supporters, with

warrior in Chins until recently, has rain, the northern districts are ex boat cruise in the F&r East and in connection with the election made by the Manchester Guardian to the Continent and the Middle | listening-in to the broadenst of the been shot dead by local defence pariencing a serious shortage of Amstralia, embrace & scheme for wounded are reported to have though it has been stated that the meat of a dividend af five per Governor of New York, and De

forces under General Lin Chen Kuh at Suiting, Szechuan, Pro- vince.

LABOUR UNIONS · IN PEKING.

(Wah Tas Tat Pao).

SHANorải, Aug. 23rd, Marshal Yen Hei Shan's ruthless proscription of labour unions in

water owing to the long continued drought.

As a result of a dispute for the pos session of water, fighting broke ont this morning between the farmers of two villages in the Aomori Pre- fecture. Twenty are reported to have been injured before the arrival of a strong detachment of police to 'disperse the combatanta. -

the establishment early next year of a permanent flying-boat base in the Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf bose is to be equipped with a fight of six Super-Marine Southampton fying. boats of a type similar to those now in Australia. The flight will be assembled at the Cattewater Sea plane Station, Plymouth Sound, and after a period of training,

Peking is arousing considerable A CIVIL SERVANT'S will leave for the Persian Gulf

objection on all sides especially among the City Kuomintang of Peking, which has issued a de- claration denouncing Marshal Yen. It explains that the labour move- mcat in Peking is really a part of the popular movement of the Kuo- mintang backing the Nationalist Government, so that it can not reasonably be accused of being in affiliation with Communism,

CHANG'S SYMPATHY.

(Wah Tez Fat Pav).

SHANGHAI, Aug. 23rd."- General Chang Huch Liang tele graphed to the Peking military authorities the day before yester: day that he was in sympathy with the Nationalist authorities in the

latter's decision to raise a punitive expedition against Chang Tsung Chang and Chu Yu Pu if they did not obey the Nationalists' order to reorganise their remnants,

DEBTS.

OFFICIAL SECRETS SOLD..

LIST OF CONTRACTORS

AND PRICES.

{THROUGH RITIR'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, August 22nd.

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early in 1929.

The base will probably be estab- lished at Baxrs, though at first it. was intended for Karachi.

When the flight leaves Cattewater it will be replaced by a second. fight which will be permanently stationed in Home waters.

The extension of the Imperial air defences now made by the Air Ministry means that next year the

died. A colonel was examined yesterday in connection with the same affair and was imprisoned.

[On the eve of the elections,

report is "much exaggerated.”

Whether it is an exaggeration or not, it seems to be a fact that the This is an event of note in the British Government has made con- annals of British air transport,

cent for the year ended March |mocratio nomines for She Fre- 31st

sidency, formally announced his ncceptance of the nomination.

Governor Smith dealt exhaustive-

states a cable dated August 19 cension to France in regard to land for it indicates that within four with the problem of prohibition,

Armaments

a number of Venizelista gathered armaments in order to secure an outside the Fangalat election agreement in regard to naval rooms, jeering and throwing stones. They were suddenly fred on from a balcony, and four were wounded, two rather seriously.

The police state that the fring was caused by four officers, includ. ing General Fangalos himself.]

SUN BATHS IN BAGHDAD.

It is supposed that leakages of information to Germany indicat ing this result of the compromise, has led to such strong criticism of the whole scheme in Berlin.

The position of America has also

to be borne in mind. In spite of British and French asurances, there appears to be strong opposi- tion at Washington to the "pro-

MANY CONVERTS TO NEW pois, and the view is now held

HEALTH CULT..

TOPES DISPENSED WITH.`

What may be described as a new

that as the result of United States' opposition, the whols plan may come to nothing.

Again, however, it is pointed

years of the formation of the Com- and strongly advocated: modifica pany, its prospects are such that tion of the Eighteenth Amend- the Board can afford to make diament, declaring that the present bursements instead of retaining state of affairs was sufficient every penny for development.

evidence of the urgent need for re- The Company has an

issued form capital of £472,800, and the profit With regard to the claims of the made during the year, including, farmers, he promised to make it of course, the Government subsidy, one of his first duties to deal with was £72,000, compared with £11,400 the problem of controlling the for the previous year. A sum of

crop surpluses. " £24,000 is being devoted to wiping off the deficit of the earlier years of operation.

The great improvement of the past year in attributed to the gradual improvement of the Com pany's sit fleet and the increasing use of its air services as the public

A mild sensation was caused at aying-boat "defences of the Empire eult of sun worship is now in out, that there should be no cause vantages of air transport.

will be disposed as follows: Two fights in Home waters at Calshot and Plymouth and two flights on

President Coolidge's policy in Nicaragua and Mexico was keenly amailed by the Democratic candi-

date, who also pledged himself to a"real", endeavour to bring' about the outlawry of war as an instrument of national policy.

Reiterating that neither he, nor:

the Democratic Party, contemplat ed any sudden or drastic changes in the present tariff scales, he ad- vocated progressive legislation for the protection and care of

becomes more cognisant of the ad- With the prospective extension Bow Street to-day when a Civil

of the Company's services, notably the British com for alarm since the whole question vogue among Servant named Taylor, aged 27.

munity in Bagdad, and is attract of land armaments must be sub-to India, which should prove pro was produced in the dock and

ing an increasing number of con-mitted to the Preparatory Dis-fitable, it is anticipated that in the workmen." charged with contravention of the trade routes at Basra and Sing verts, writes the. Bagdad correspon. armament Commission before any near future the Company will Official Secrets Act by communica- tion on August 14th, to an unaU- thorised person information ob- tained owing to his position.

Taylor, who is employed by the

Air Ministry, was also charged

under the Prevention of Corrup tion Act.

..

Marshal Yen Hai Shan's troops numbering more than 40,000, ander the command of General Han Fuent contractors competing with him, and a list of their price-lists. Chu, are concentrating within the

The offer was allegedly made in area between Tientsin and Peking

consideration of the payment of a in readiness for action against the

sum of money. Shantung-Ohibli remnanta,

pore.

SOVIET SUSPICIONS OF · ·

BRITISH WARSHIPS. VICTIMS OF "55" DISASTER.

[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Moscow, August 22nd. According to official con

An

Evidence was given to the effect that Taylor, who entered the Civil Service as a boy clerk, offered, earlier in the month, to supply tomünique issued today by the Tase a contractor a list of the Govern Agency, the Soviet Government has replied to the request of the British Government for the bodies" recovered from the submarine L.55. The reply states that the Soviet Government has no objection to the It was also stated that. Taylor arrival of a warship belonging to had previously borne an excellent a friendly nation, as for instance, THE BELGIAN TREATY.

Norway, and in the question of the character. He was married and removal of the bodies, it has no (Wah Tai Yat Pao). had one child. His downfall was objection to the arrival of a

British merchantman, Baional, Aug. 3rd. attributed to betting and the factviet Government could not con- Satisfactory results have been that he had become involved with sent to a British warship entering

Soviet territorial waters. obtained through the recent nego-money-lenders.

and the Belgian Minister in.. Nan- king, regarding the revision of the Bino-Belgian Treaty...

in the

.but

the

EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS IN

PERSIA.

tiations between Dr. C. T. Wang The accused was found guilty, on both counts and sentenced to two imprisonment months' second division on each charge, the MANY BUILDINGS DAMAGED, sentences to run concurrently.

CHINESE BANKERS'

PROTEST.

A Naval Wireless message from

AERIAL TRIP TO INDIA.

(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENOT.].

TEHERAN, Aug. 2ad. A severe earthquake is reported affecting Sabazevar, Nishapur, Shirwan, Eborassan and the whole "At present only scanty details are available, but it is learned that many buildings in Nishapur have been badly damaged and that ten people have been killed.

Kiukiang states that, as a protest"PRINCESS XENIA" ARRIVES. of this particular district.

against the provincial interior commercial tax (which has been declared illegal by the Nanking Government), Chinese merchanta and bankers in the neighbourhood ale suspending business.

NEW FLAGSHIP. TRANSFER NEXT WEEK.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

KARACHI, Aug. 22nd. The monoplane Princess Xenia, piloted by Captain C. D. Barnard, with the sexagenarian Duchess of Bedford as passenger, has arrived here from Bushire, where they have. been held up for two months await ing the arrival of a new engine.

They are dying back to England on Friday.

· [NAVAL WIRELIES.)

E.M.S. Kent, the new cruiser which arrived on the China Station last week, sailed for Weihaiwe yesterday. The flag of the Com- REPARATIONS TO BRITAIN. mander-in-Chief of the China Station (Vice-Admiral Sir Re ginald R.Y. Tyrwhitt, Bt, K.Q.B., D.S.O.) will be transferred from H.M.S. Hawkins to H.M.S. Kent on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 20th.

COMMISSION 'SET UP IN MEXICO.

»[BRITISH WIZZLESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, Aug. 22nd. H.M.S. Hawkins is due to arrive. The first meeting was held in in Hong Kong from Weihaiwel on Mexico to-day of the Commission Monday, September 3rd, and she set up under the Anglo-Mexican will sail for England on Tuesday, Convention of 1996 for the settle- September 11th.

ment of British pecuniary claims for loss or damage by revolutionary acts in Mexico between November 20th, 1919, and May, 31st, 1920

RESTRICTIONS ON CUBA SUGAR

NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE.

FIFTY BALE UNITS.-

[BLUTER'8. AMERICAN SERVICE]

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

New, YORK, Aug. 22nd.

NEW YORK Aug, 2ård, di Iti privately reported that 88 The Cotton Exchange happer cent of the sugar planters in proved the principle of trading in Cuba bave petitioned President fifty bale mits also trading in raw Machado to discontinue restriction wool futures.

of next season's crop..

·WELCOMED AT CABINET MEETING.

thing definite can be settled. All reach a self-supporting basiK. Powers must adhere to, the agree ment before it can become opera- tiva.

UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

Antiquated Methoder

He struck a popular note in making it plain that he was strongly opposed to the harsh im migration, provision which so fre- quently was the cause of the separation of families and said

MAGISTRATE AND A HYDE CHINESE APPRENTICES AND that the Democrats would remove

PARK CASE..

HOUSEMAID COMPLIMENTED FOR GIVING EVIDENCE.

dent of the Calculta Stateman,

Previously the European in the East has treated the sun an enemy, and has protected himself with all manner of devices against the supposedly malignant powers of its raya. Adherents of the new cult, however, believe, that the sun's rays are beneficial rather than malignant ant, defying all the generally accepted ideas about sun- stroke, deliberately expose them sleves to the sun at its hottest.

The treatment is to recline naked on the roof, in the full glare of the aan, the beat beating up from the borough-street, in dealing with a surface of the roof below as well

Hyde Park case. as from above. Novices are permit

Ernest Edward Colman, aged 76, ted to wear topees, but the com-independent, of Downside-crescent, plete initiates, who are as yet few Hampstead, denied a charge of in number, dispense with any head using insulting words and be covering, Sun spectacles are, how- ever, a necessity.

All this may sound incredible to

the provision. A

Mr. Smith also opposed the principle of immigration restric

BRITISH TRADE.

Communications from Hong Kong respecting the Chinese Indemnity and the financial needs of the tion based on Agures of anim University of Hong Kong state migrant population contained in This is only a further illustra that the funds on deposit in the a census which was 38 years old. Reafirming his strong stand for tion that each things which are Hong Kong, and Shanghai Bank to the account of the Boxer In- said to occur, do really occur, not demnity are ample for all the needs the public ownership and control withstanding the incredulity of the of the University and for starting of water power, he emphasised the it on a career of increased useful necessity for inland waterways, of public," said Mr. Mead at Mariness. An appeal is therefore made, re-afforestation and the conserva

says the China Express & Teletion of natural resources. graph, to the British Government and people not to miss the oppor- tunity now open of enabling the only British University in the Fa East to increase its activities and to enlarge its student roll.

haviour:

Phyllis Ward, a young house- maid of Bolton-street, Piccadilly, stated that Colman nodded and laughed to her, and eventually sat

It is described as a dangerous de lusion to suppose that the British can ignore the younger generation in China and yet retain their in- finence in the Far East; and a even more dangerous delusion is

Great

Returning to the Prohibition question, Governor Smith insisted that the present definition of the alcobolic content of a beverage was candidly admitted to be inaccurate and unscientific,

State Option.

Some immediate relief would be forthcoming on the amendment of plan for the amendment of the the Volstead Law. He outlined his

law, stating that he proposed legi

State to fix its own standard, sub- ject to a proviso that that standard did not exceed a maximum which would be fixed by Congress.

Referring to bootlegging, which

he declared went on almost un- checked all over the United States,

those who believe that exposure of on the chair next to her and asked for the British people to think that lation which would permit each. her to go for a walk, saying he the University can be allowed to would make it worth her while. sink into inefficiency and in- She beckoned to Police Constable significance without the already

of diminished prestige Badger, who arrested the man.

Colman, in the witness-box, deri-Britain in China sufering still

further mortification.” ed that he asked the young woman tu go for a walk and that he said

Mr. Mead-I very much regret prentices in Great Britain as a that my hands are tied in this factor in the fature of British in itself for the reptal or amend- matter and that the biggest penalty trade in China. The United States, ment of the Valstead Law. The is for your disgraceful be by remitting the Indemnity, has people themselves should, after been enabled to institute an annual eight years' trial,,be permitted to haviour.

Adressing Miss Ward, he said, fund in China, part of which is Bay whether or not the existing Mr. Smith mentioned that The public are very much in-spent on sending young Chine to conditions should be rectified. debted to you for your courage in work in factories in America. It is coming here and giving evidence, pointed out that until quite recent Canada had gone far to solve the which is very,

repugnant to many ly practically all British manufac problem by the sale of liquor made young women.

turers required: a premium of by the Stateroon several hundred pounds, but now

An accompanying leaflet dwells he would make it worth her while. upon the placing of Chinese ap he said that that was an argument

the spine to the tropical sun in- duces heat stroke. The writer of these notes can, however, testify to the above statements, as he himself is a recent convert to the sun cult. One begins gradually of course- five or ten minutes sun bath is enough to begin with-it can then be increased gradually up to an hour or more. By this means the skin becomes acclimatised and tanned, whereas, otherwise, it would blister and peel. It is claimed that the ultraviolet rays of the sun penetrate the skin to an infinitesimal extent

STRESEMANN BACK AGAIN.ând communicate their health He added that he believed her giving properties to the body. story and said that she had be Those who practise the sun treat-haved in a very modest and proper ment declare that they are never way ill, that they feel rejuvenated and

Colman was ined £2, with 10s. that they do not feel the effects of

costs. the heat. One may compare the re cent discovery of the properties of. the ultra-violet rays in codliver oil. and also the invention of vits ginen.

(THROPOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, "Aug. 22nd. For the first time since his besith broke down in May. Herr Stresemann, the Foreign Minister, attended a Cabinet meeting to-day. He cutlined his foreign political programme which was unanimously. endorsed by his colleagues. DAAR Dr. Stresemann is leaving for Paris to sign the Kellogg Pact without any special instructions from the Cabinet.

CALCUTTA SENSATION.

ALLEGED INSANITY OF SENIOR MAGISTRATE.

RETURN TO DEATH PENALTY.

TRANSPORTATION NOT DETERRENT ENOUGH.”

"most firms will take a sufficiently: He said he proposed to stamp educated and presentable apprenont ruthlessly the corruption in tice an pay him a bare living wage enforcement activities.

Again referring to modification. (about 308. to 30. a week). The writer says that if the University proposals, he said that an amend- of Hong Kong were provided with ment should be passed which would:

system of scholarships sufficient give each State, after a referendum to cover the fare to Great Britain of its own people, the right, whol and back, and, to provide a small ly within its borders, to import, sum for clothes and eventualities, manufacture, and sell alcohol, He. the Engineering Faculty could would not, however, tolerate a re- easily send to British factories a turn to the saloons

number of Chiness who would be Governor Smith also promised well equipped, both educationally that legislation, would be framed and otherwise, to take their places to meet just causes of complaint as BOMBAY, Angust 9th. The Nizam of Hyderabad has as apprentices alongside British regards the unwarranted issue of issued the following hrman youths.The apprentice who has infunctions in labour disputes.

returned to China' is the best and,

Arbitration. Treaties, It has been the practice for indeed, in many cases the only pos Governor Smith declared that sensation was created in the some years to commute death sensible traveller-for the goods of the the usefulness of Arbitration AMERICAN RUBBER POOL.

Court of - Mr. Justice Cammiade tances to sentences of transports- firm which trained him.”. Of treaties as deterrents of war, was and Mr. Justice B. E. Ghosh in tion for life, but experience has course, Chinese apprentices, have materially impaired by the reser- LIQUIDATION PROCEEDING.

Calcutta on August 5th, when Mr. proved that the sentence of transe been trained in British factories vations of various, nations claim: P. S. Sen, of the Bengal Civil Serportation for life is not deterrent already, but only on a very small ing the right to wage defensive vice at present Senior Deputy enough for offences like murder, scale, and America “ has establish, wars as those reservations were [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

Magistrate of Howrah, applied in which are punishable by death.ed a considerable lead interpreted in the light of Presi- New Tonz, August 22nd.

person against an order of the "Moreover, since the adoption of Reverting to the 1998 scheme sub-dent Coolidge's "recordesig

**Mr. Smith expressed the belief It is authoritatively stated that Chief Presidency Magistrate direct this practice, cases of murder have mitted by the University, that the

to assume the liquidation of the American ing the issue of a warrant against been occurring with greater fre- Indemnity should in part be used that Americans desired

to establish a system of scholarships | their full share of responsibility rubber pool is proceeding satisfachim. It was alleged that at an inquency-

"Hence, in future, if a convicted i tenable by its ex-students in Great for the administration of the world torily, and will be completed long quisition presided over by the Chief. before November 1st-

Presidency Magistráte the peti person is awarded the sentence of Britain, the leafet refer to the without a political alliance with The financial statements of some tioner was declared to Be insane death and the same has been con benefits that would accrue both to any foreign nation, of the Important companies die and warranteeded, shall not be commuted Britain and to Chine if few. He pledged himself to remove close the fact that the losses incur Their Lordships directed the pati- except in cases where "really over scholarships of £300 each could be the causes of war and to substitute red by the operation of the pool tioner to get certified copies of the whelming circumstances are in placed at the command of the conciliation, conference, arbitra

order complained of.

favour of such commutation. Faculty of Engineering.

tion and judícia) determination.“ have been wiped off,