1928-08-29 — Page 7

→

CHANG TSUNG CHANG'S BID FOR

POWER IN SHANTUNG.

$10,000,000 FROM AN UNNAMED SOURCE.

NATIONALIST REPLY TO JAPANESE NOTE.

DEATH SENSATION OF SOVIET OFFICIAL.

The Soviet Vice-President of the Chinese Eastern Railway has died at: Harbin, and there are many rumours of the manner" of - his death. One says that he comitted suicide by shooting himself, while another" story states that ho was shot dead by a Chinese officer, whom he slapped 'under, provocation. The official report sintes that he died from “qúinay.. It is believed that he has been under detention for some time in connection with the cutting of " the railway by the Mongols.

The Nationalist reply to the last Japanese note welcomes the conciliatory attitude of Japan" towards treaty fevision. In view of this, the Nationalists ank that a delegate should be appointed immediately, in order that negotiations may be opened. The Nationalists find themselves unable to agree with Japan in the interpretation of Article XXVI. of the present treaty, which treats. of extensions following the date of expiry of the treaty

General Chang Tsung Chang, who has recently been receiving largo quantities of arms at Chefoo, has received $10,000,000 from an unknown source. He now intends to make a bid for the com- mand of Shantung. At the same time the Chibli-Shantung forces within the Great Wall have all received a month's pay. Nanking has issued orders to Feng Yu Heiang to exterminate General Chang's forces at Chefoo, while Pei Trung Hsi is being sent against the remaining troops within the Great Wall. CHANG TSUNG CHANG'S

BID FOR POWER.

[THROUGH REUYER'S AGENCY. Į

PEIFING, Aug. 28th.

The vernacular papers report that Chang Tsung Chang intends shortly to make a bid for power in Shantung, stating he has recently received from unnamed sources $10,000,000 for this project.

REPLY TO JAPAN,

EAGER FOR TREATY REVISION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,Į

Од

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29th, 1928.

FEVER OUTBREAK

IN ATHENS.

WHOLE POPULATION

AFFECTED,

LEAGUE OF NATIONS AID.

(THROUGH, REUYER'S AGENCY.}

GENtv, Ang 28th. After the axchance of telegrams with the Public Health Authorities in Greece in regard to the out break of dengue fever in the Athens district, Doctor M. D. Mackenzie of the League of Nations' health

section has been placed at the dis posal of the Greek Government and is going to Athena, to-night."

The Greek health service has reported that almost the entire population of Athens and the Piracua is affected by the disease.

RUMANIA AND HUNGARY.

DISPUTE STILL UNSETTLED.

of

FRESH APPEAL TO THE

· LEAGUE.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

JOCK GARDEN'S "JOKE.'

ABSURDITY, OF CHARGE.

NOT GUILTY.

(THROUGH „ÉLUTER'S AGENCY.]

SYDNEY, August 27th. The trial of Jock" Garden, the BUDAPEST, "August 27th

Australian The Hungarian Government has well-known.

Trade addressed a Note to the President Unionist, on charges under the

the Council of the League of State Crimes Act of wilfully incit Nations in regard to the Hungaro ing to murder, closed to-day, the Rumanian dispute over the Hun-accused being mequitted. garian optanta.

Garden is alleged to have At the League meeting in June, If scab cooks man the vessels, the representatives of Hungary and

own tactics may change. We may Rumania reported that the position was at a deadlock, after which theupply union men, even though Council approved resolition, urged there are scabs aboard. Scabs will

#sid

our

by Sir Austen Chamberlain in not be good sailors, and they will September last year and again in have to go to the railings occation March this year, suggesting that the ally. They may lose their balance, parties settle the matter by direct in which case the sea is deep, and negotiation.

dead men tell no talea”

The President of the Council then regarded the affair of the Transyl- vanian optants as finally closed. The Hungarian Government has,

HEIFETZ CAUSES A however, now written asking that

SENSATION.

MARRIAGE TO FLORENCE

VIDOR.

HONEYMOON IN CALIFORNIA.

[REUTZE'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

The

New Your, Aug. 98th famous violinist Jascha

announcing that he married the film star Florence Vidor last week, They are spending the honeymoon in California,

CUBAN SUGAR DECREE.

RESTRICTIONS LIFTED.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Aug. 29th. The Chinese reply to the Japan eso note of July 31st welcomes the statement that Japan is willing and prepared to negotiate a new It is known that he has shipped Commercial Treaty with China. It Heifete bas caused a sensation by large quantities of ammunition to is recalled that the o'd treaty was Chefco, and the vernacular papers negotiated more than thirty years report that the Chibli-Shantung 4g9, and during these years con- troops inside the Great Wall have ditions in this country have so been paid a

month's wages and radically changed that the terms also that Nanking has ordered of the treaty are no longer quitable. Feng Yu Heiang immediately to Japan's contention, based send forces to exterminate the Article XXVI., that the treaty was Northerners at Cheloo, while Pei automatically extended for another Taung Hsi has been ordered to decade if no revision were effected attack those inside the Great Wall. within six months following the The foremost line of the Chibli- date of expiration is not acceptable to the Nationalist Government, Shantung forces in at present ɖat

whose interpretation of the said Lutaj.

article is that, should a demand in consequence of the recommenda for revision be submitted by either tion of the Cuban Defence Commit- party within the six month period tee, Senor Machado has agreed and should degotiations be started shortly to sign a decre to allow regarding its revision, then the

holders to sell sugars in any quan- treaty can no longer be enforced.

The reply concicdes that since tity to countries other than the the Japanese Government bas In view of the fact that the already expressed is readiness to United States, but this must be Northern remnants are still holding negotiate a new treaty, the Nation- done through an export company. their own against the Nationalistsalist Government is most anxiously and sincerely expecting the Japan- Government immediately to appoint a delegate so that nego tiations can begin for a new equal and reciprocal treaty to replace

NORTHERN REMNANTS.

(Fah Tez Fat Pag.)""

SHANGHAI, Aug. 28th.

at Chelpo, Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang bas decided to send an expedi tionary force under General Sun

ese

HAVANA, August 28th. It is authoritatively stated that

POPULARISE BELGIAN

GOODS.

Liang Cheng to round them up the obsolete one, thus enhancing SCHEME OF EXPORT CREDITS. Simultaneous attacks. will be the friendly relations that have launched by Marshal Feng's troops been happily subsisting between and the Nationalist forces belong. China and Japan.

-ing to the First Army Group in

accordance with the latest plans.

FALSE RUMOURS.

(Fah Ta Tat Pao).

JAPANESE TROOPS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-]

TOKYO, Aug. 28th

(THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRUSSELS, Aug. 28th. The Cabinet has decided to rub.

mit to the King a proposal to The War Office has decided that authorise the Government to the infantry regiment and the artil-

to lery detachment, which was sent guarantee export credits ap According to General Hp Ying from Shantung to Tientsin in May £17,000,000 sterling to popularise Chien's report at a meeting at the owing to the uneasiness then exist- Nanking Military Headquarters, ing in that area, shall return to Belgian goods abroad.

SHANGHAI, Aug, 28th.

the recent alarming report that Shantung early in September to another armed conflict is impend-rejoin the Third Division, of which ing in the Yangtare Valley in con- it will form pert

sequence of the troop movements d

of some part of the Nationalist Army, is entirely the invention of

to

political tricksters in order achieve their own ends. In reality the Kuomintang leaders are still acting in perfect harmony for the party and the country," except for minor differences regarding some political problems eince the close of the Fifth Plenary Session. The fact that the troops stationed in the North are above the necessary trength accounts for General Pei Chung Hai's troops moving towards Hankow.

TOUR OF INSPECTION.

(Wah Tas Tat Pan).

surreal

SHANGHAI, Aug. 28th

SOVIET C.E.R. OFFICIAL DEAD.

SENSATIONAL RUMOURS.

{THROUGH REUZER'S AGENCY.]

THE SOVIET WISH FOR DISARMAMENT.

REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE IN CONFERENCE.

PROPOSALS SLIGHTED.

{THROUGH*2 UTER'S AGENCY!!

the Council put the matter on the agenda for the next Session of the Council and to deal with it at an- carly sitting of the Session.

The Note suggests that the Coun- cil should designate two supple- mentary judges to the Mixed Ar bitral Tribunal which is dealing with the dispute, or, alternatively, to refer the matter to the Perman ent Court of International Justice at the Hague.

HAYLEY MORRISS.

WRITS AGAINST PRISON GOVERNORS.

Mr. Hayley Morriss, of Pipping- ford Park, Grinstead, Sussex, has" |issued a writ against the governors of two- prisons in which he was detained. He alleges persecution and claims damages.k-ta

Garden from the dock declared that the charge was absurd. He said that his remarks arose out of

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE EAST.

GREAT CONGRESS AT OXFORD.

SCHOLARS OF ALL NATIONS:

[Takovo RKUTKE'S AGENCY.]

SIGNATURE OF THE PACT

SIMPLE AND IMPRESSIVE

CEREMONY

M. BRIAND'S SPEECH.

(BRITISH WIRELESS", SERVICE}

RUGBY, August 97th. The Paat for the renunciation of LONDON, August 97th." war as an instrument of national For the next week, the lecture policy, initiated by Mr. Frank B. halls of Oxford University will Kellogg, the U.S. Secretary of resound with the voices of scholars State, was signed with simple sere- of Europe, America, the Near Eastmony shortly after three o'clock: and the Far East, discoursing on this afternoon in the Clock Room things of the East.

of the French Foreign Office, by the delegates of fifteen Powers

The plenipotentiaries sat at tables arranged in horse-ace fashion considered as a good omen, and M. Briand, the French Foreign Minis ter presided.

Six hundred representatives of nearly every country

in the would have gathered in England for

"the seventh International Orientialist Congress, the first for sixteen years.

The last Congress of the kind wan held at Athens in 1919.

Modern topica are eschewed from the programme, which covers the entire field of the ancient litera- ture, arts, history and archaeology. to be read on the excavations at Important papers are expected

Ur, Kish and the Indus Valley.

The meetings of the Congress will

joking interview. In saying what he did, he wanted to put the Press off the scent because, he said, statements in the Fress often stop-last for a week. ped: the settlement of disputes.

that the cooks disputa, for the Garden drew attention to the fact

settlement of which he had worked

night and day, was actually settled on the day of his arrest

He was found not guilty by the jury, and discharged.

NATIONALIST LEADERS

RETURN.

WU HAN MIN GOING TO SHANGHAL

"EUROPE'S, GOOD FEELING

TOWARDS CHINA.

Mr. Morrisa was sentenced at Lewes Assizes on December 17th,

When the MM. liner Athos 71, 1923, to three years' imprisonment dropped anchor in the harbour for offences against girls. He was released on July 19th fast from yesterday morning, some five hun- Pentonville after, previously serv deed Chinese went aboard to wel. ing part of his sentencee in Ports-come Mr. Wu Han Min, former. mouth Prison.

son, and Major Augustus Charles.

tonville Prison. They are:

Causing him to be detained in prison for a longer period than. was lawful.

Damages for wrongful impri- sonment and assault

Two causes are set out in the Chairman of the Kuomintang Gov- writ, which was issued on August 2nd against Captain Eugene Win-ement and a member of the ter, governor of Portsmouth Pri- Military Council of the Nanking Herbert Benkeq, governor of Pen-Government. With him were Mr. Fu Ping Sheung, former Foreign Commissioner in Canton, and General Hsu

Sung Phi. Mr. Wu Han Min, it will be re- membered, left with a party of other leaders on a tour to Europe some months ago, and while they were at Singapore an attempt to assassinate Dr. C. C. Wu was made by a young Communist.

To a Daily Mail reporter Mr. Morriss said:

My solicitors arranged for the issuing of the writ. Among the causes I complain of is persecution.

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER PRESENTED

The British Government is enter. taining the delegates to a luncheon on Wednesday.

Other Nations.

FAI, August 27th. The United States Government has already instructed its diplo matic representatives throughout the world to communicate to the Governments to which they are ac credited the text of the Treaty for the Renunciation of War and the conditions of adhesion thereto.

Non-signatory Governments may adhere to the Pact even before it enters into force.

As the United States Govern- ment is not represented in Russia or in Afghanistan, Mr. Kellogg has requested France to give the neces sary notification.

the

On his right sat Mr. Kellogg, in exact place which President Wilson occupied nearly ten years 4go during the Plenary Session of the Peace Conference.

M. Briand prefaced the epic.cere mony with a brief speech.

He was deeply conscious, be said, that silence would best befit such s solemn occasion, but he felt it to be his duty to acknowledge how much his country appreciated that Pacis had been chosen as the scene of the signature of the Peace Pact

He made reference to Sir Austen Chamberlain, prevented from at- tendance by illness.

"All of us," he said," are think ing of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who is absent to-day, and we can. easily imagine the feelings he. would have at the sight of this great re-union for peace.": {

Old Enemies Mast,

offered to the civilised world, con

What greater lesson could be tinned M Briand, than that as sembly, in which for the signing of a pact against war, Germany of her own free will took part on á level with her former adversaries.

Dr. Stresemann, the German For eign Minister, had laboured for, three years, for the general prin- eiples of peace which were here involved

܀

The League of Nations had al- [REUPTE'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

ready sought to make progress in the same direction of peace, but it U.S. Press Comment.

was the presence of the United NEW YORK, August 28th..

States of America which rendered. The conspicuous absence of the For the first time in the history

this gathering so portentous violent differences of opinion which of the world, war was being, 14- marked the signing of the Vernounced unreservedly as an instru sailles Treaty is commented on by to say, in its most that was

ment of national policy, the American Fress throughout the dreaded form-selfish and wilful country; which praises the step ar

A Sacred Duty, taken at Paris yesterday,

Stressing the "moral obligation" Pact, the New York World says of the United States under the that in signing the treaty the Governments concerned, and parti- cularly the United States, have put themselves in a position where they cannot fail without exposing them- selves to a charge of insincerity, They must use their whole influence in persistently building up the In an interview with local news"

authority of all the existing papermen, Mr. Wa said that. kemachinery for the peaceful settle-

ment of disputes.

In the future, that country which dared to break the undertaking to would incur the unconditional con- which its signature had been given demnation of all the signatories of the Pact.

The Pact was a direct blow to the menace of war

we have a sacred duty to do all "Henceforth," added M. Briand, Briand that can and must be done so that our hope shall not be disappointed. Peace is proclaimed but it still re- mains necessary to organise it, still in face of difficulties: That is to be

THE KING'S SON AT A ROYAL was not going back to Canton yet. The New York Times says that the the work of to-morrow,"

WOMEN.

OPPORTUNITY OF KELLOGG PACT.

[THROUGH, HEUTER'S AGENCY.):

The Signature.

Briand's speech had been translated into English, the Fact. He then invited the dele- French Foreign Minister read the gates to sign and each in turn pro- ceeded to a little oblong table upon which lay two copies of the Fact- one in French and the other in English

Each delegate affixed his aigua- ture to both copies with the golden pen which the City of Havre, had presented to Mr. Kellogg

Dr. Stresemann signed first by virtue of bis country" Allemagne coming first in alphabetical order.

Lord Cushendun signed in a dual. capacity, on behalf of Great Britain. and the countries of the British Empire not members of the League. of Nations and also on behalf of Indis. Canads and Senator McLachlan for Mr. Mackenzie King signed for Australian Commonwealth. half of the Irish Free, State,

esident Cosgrave signed on be Thus with ample ceremony, this Treaty of Peace was consummated.

INSPECTION.

He was to leave yesterday or to Treaty embodies a moral pledge. day for Shanghai. Asked as to his against indifference, while the When he King visited Hounslow impression of Europe and of Eng Philadelphia Inquirer considera After: Barracks to inspect the 10th Royal Bish statesmen, Mr. Wu said that that the Treaty will help to dispel Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), he had met with great sympathy suspicion. The Washington Post the Duke of Gloucester, his third from the political leaders with says there appears to be no reason, so was presented with the whom he had discussed the Nation-why the Senate should not approve other officers of the regiment. alist movement, in China, and the the Pact...

The Duke joined with his bro- abolition or revision of the Sino- ther officers and men in giving Foreign treaties. On the whole, three cheers for the King, who is be considered, his trip a success. Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment, Amongst those who went aboard EQUAL RIGHTS FOR which sails for service in Egypt in the Athos II. to welcome the the autumn.

Nationalist loaders were Admiral. The King inspected a parade of Chan Chak; Mr. Lam Wan Kai, 350 men drawn up on foot in the Mayor of Canton; Mr. Samsul barrack square, and after taking Wong, Chief of the Canton_Ar the salute he walked along the sens Mr. Ma Chia Chun, Com lines with the Commanding Officer, missioner of Reconstruction; Mr. Colonel Y J. Greenwood

Chen Chang Lok, former Commis The Duke of Gloucester, who is sioner of Foreign Affairs of Can- a captain in the regiment, was on ton, General Chen Chai Tong, parade, and when the officers were leader of the 4th Nationalist Army presented to the King ho stepped Mr. Feng Cho Man, Commissioner

PARIS, Aug. 28th. forward, and, in his turn, shook of Finance in Canton and dele-present in Paris for the purpose Two determined women are at hands with his father.

gatee of the Canton City Kuomin- of getting the international dele The King walked through the tang, the Provincial Kuomintang gatee, who are here for the signing sergeants' mers and inspected the Department and the Students of the Kellogg Fact, to accept kept the horses, and was told that stables. He asked how long they General Union.

"treaty for establishing the equal sixteen years was the average," but

rights of women throughout the they had two horses there twen-

world."*

They are Viscountess

Wireless And Films. Rhondda and Miza Daria Stevens," five years old, sing

Presidents of the Committee of

But by wireless telephony the International Action and- of the proceedings were heard by thon- National Women's Party of the sands of people in all countries and M. Litvinoff gives as the ground

United States.

the films which were taken will en- for the defection, the fact that thegiment who foll in the greatAll house rentals are cut by 20lierald Faris edition, Mrs. Kellogg

According to the New Yorkable the scene to be witnessed by was. The regiment cheered the per cent or more.

thousands of others, Soviet's proposals for general dis. King in unison, and the wires and hitherto

Mr. Kellogg has written to Mr. Those who stigmatises the presence of this children of the men, standing on trims. As a result of this the time, of signing the pact as invitation to visit London on his used ricahas now use feminist committee in Paris at the Stanley Baldwin warmly thanking armament will not be considered by balconies on hoth sides of the ricsha business has dropped and the opportune and out of place.

him for the British Government a the Preparatory Disarmament Comparade ground, joined heartily in ricaba coalies are in the greatest I know my husband agrees hit me hopes before very long to pay a mission at its next Session.

back to America He says he the cheers."

straits for a livelihood that these women have taken a visit to London where he made. Later the King-who wore the, He also alleges that the League khaki uniform of a bed-man not to be removed to Peking, and On the other hand as Stevensadorship. He is unable, however, The capital of Chibli Province in unfaiz advantage of the situation use of hrouds during his Ambag officers, and afterwards had lan will soon fall into insignificance, Kellogg has promised to receive chean in their mess,

Kus" Wen

the committee.

(Continued In Previous Columny

Moscow, August 97th. M. Litvinoff, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, has cabled the league

PEIPING, Aug. 28th. M. Lassevitch, the Soviet Vice- President of the Chinese Eastern Railway, died at Harbin on August 25th, from quinay according to the official report. There are, however, many sensations! rumours at Har- bin one that he committed suicide of Nations announcing Russia's re by shooting, and another that Lassevitch slapped a Chinese officer fusal to participate in the second under provocation, whereupon the Session of the Special Commission latter ehot him.

for the control of the manufacture

M. Lassevitch it believed to have Marshal Yen Hai Shan in making | been under detention for some time a tour of inspection" in Northern by Chinese authorities in connec Shansi. He will then go to Suition with the cutting of the C.E.R. yuen and Charbar, and afterwards by the Mongols ^-*- will return to Peking

ADDITIONAL TAXES.-

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Aug, 28th.

The additional taxes at Tientain

forced from October, ist.

SOVIET CITIZENS

DEPORTED.

[TEROUGH REUTRE'S AGENCY.

PEIPINO, Aug. 28th.

The Chinese authorities deport

af

His Majesty stood in silence for & few moments before the war memorial commemorating the names

PEKING IN DECLINE.

PEKINO, August 22nd, of 204 officers and men of the downward tendency.

The market here ahows a steady

mentioned yesterday, will be ened thirty Soviet citizens to Soviet has given no result towards real But for photograph with the thus it is feared that the old capitalin an interview declares that Mr to make the visit at present, de, dede

territory on Sunday.

disarmament.