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PEI CHUNG HSI'S THREE DEMANDS.

FENGTIENESE TROOPS WITHIN THE GREAT WALL.

GERMAN COMMERCIAL TREATY WITHTM CHINA.

SHANGHAI'S NEW MINT.

Though Pei Chung Hsi and Chang Hsueh Liang between them have defeated the Ch'hli-Shantung remnants in the north under Chang Tsung Chang, it appears that there are still threats of future difficulties in that district. Chang Hauch Liang, follow- ing a consultation with his colleagues, will put forward a request to the Nationalist Government that the Fengtienese should be allowed to remain in occupation for the time being of the territory He alleges that im- east of Luanchow within the Great Wall, mediate evacuation of this district by the Fengtienese would be followed by diplomatic difficulties.

At the same time General Pei Chung Hsi has addressed a numi- ber of demands to Chang Hauch Liang, in which he calls for the immediate handing over of all districts in north eastern Chihli to the Nationalists and the removal of all Fengtienese troops from within the Great Wall. He also demands the return of all rolling "stock detained by the Fengticnese.

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The new Shanghai Mint is progressing rapidly, and will be completed within six months. It will be controlled by the Nation- alist Government aided by the advice of a committee of Chinese bankers,, and the intention is to abolish the tael and make the silver dollar the basis of currency. When the new mint is working at "full pressure, the mints at Nanking and Hangchow will be closed.

FENGTIENESE WITHIN THE

GREAT WALL.

(Wah Tez Tat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Sept. 24th

As a result of a meeting with his

SHANGHAI MINT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 24th.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1928.

ATTACKED BY LEPERS.

INSPECTOR'S TERRIBLE”

PLIGHT.

GUARD FORCED TO FIRE.

(THROUGH KRUTER'S AGENCY.]

SPIES ARRESTED IN POLAND.

WHITE RUSSIAN ORGANISA- TION,

ONE MEMBER SHOT.

(THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY:] ·

COLOMBIAN OIL DISPUTE.

U.S. INTERVENTION REJECTED.

A. PRIVATE MATTER.

(REUTER'A AMERICAN SERVICE)

BATAVIA, Sept. sith.

WARSAW, Sept. 94th.

BOGOTA, Sept. 3rd:. When Assistant Commissioner

It is reported from the eastern

The Senate has recorded its sup- Gajoeles of Northerna Sumatra border of Poland that the military port of the Government's rejection visited the leper colony in an have arrested certain members of of diplomatic intervention by the endeavour to persuade the lepers supposed espionage organisation United States in the Barco contro to undergo treatment to which composed mainly of White Russian verey,

The Foreign Minister declared university they objected, lepers including school teachers and

that by international law, dip a number of women attacked the students. One member of the olematic intervention could only be Inspector and his military escort.ganisation, an army non-combat admitted by a sovereign State in The latter were forced to fire in ant, was caught stealing mobilisa- the case of "denial of justice? self-defence and killed ten of the tion plans and was court martialled lepers and wounded tour, including

and shot. The other, alleged spies have been imprisoned. «. four women killed and two wound- ed. There were' DO casualties among the military.

RUBBER ESTATES

AMALGAMATE.

ST. IVES AND AMHERST..

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, Sept. 24th.

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The amalgamation of the St. Reuter, learns that the "new Ives and Amherst Estates (Selan. colleagues, General Chang Hauch Shanghai mint situated in Ferry gor) Rubber Companies is Liang will request permission from Road is making steady progress 'nounced. the Nationalist, Government that and is expected to reach comple the Fengtienese be allowed tem-tion in six months. The cost will porarily to remain in the zone east be

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NEW BUILDINGS FOR LEAGUE.

$6,000,000. It will have of Luanchow within the Great capacity for coining 2,000,000 Sun Wall. He will point out that Yat Sen dollars a day in addition NORWAY URGES ECONOMY. evacuation by the Fergtienese of to a large output of subsidiary that sens at present would involve certain diplomatic difficulties.

THREE DEMANDS.

(Wah Te: Fui Pao).

SHANGHAI, Sept. 24th. General Pei Chung Hai has made three demands from General Chang Hauch Liang:

(1) That the Fenglienese imme diately evacuate the zone within the Great Wal

(2) That the districts of north. eastern Chihl; formerly occupied. by the Fengtienese be filled by the Nationalists.

(3) That all rolling stock detain. ed by the Fengtieness in the past civil war be returned to the Nation, alist authorities.

CAPTURED TROOPS,

(Wah Tez Tat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Sept. 24th. General Yen Hri Shan has dė. cided to quarter the surrendered Chibli-Shantung remnants at Ma- chong, to the south of Peking, for the time being,

UNEMPLOYED OFFICIALS. "

ĮTARQUOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PLIPING, Sept. 24th. This morning's train to Tientsin carried several cars of unemployed officials who are being sent free to Shanghai. From this point" they must make their own way to their southern homes.

GERMAN COMMERCIAL

TREATY. Urab Ta lat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Sept. 24th. According to official opinion, in Nanking, the Nationalist Govern- ment still very reluctant to. ratify the Sino-German Commercial Treaty which has been recently concluded between Dr. C. T. Wang and the German Minister Peking. It is considered that: the treaty is not in accordance with the epirit of absolute equality and reciprocity which is the essential of the foreign policy of the Nation- alist Government. The problem

at

coins.

The mint will be under the con- trol of the Nationalist Government- assisted by a committee of Chi- nese bankers, and will work on a "free coinage" basis which is planned to make the silver dollar the basic currency and abolish the tact by July 1st, 1999. When the

int is in full swing it is proposed to close up the Nanking and Hangchow. mints.

A SHORT VISIT.

"(gh Tu Tai Pao).

SHANGHAI, Sept. 24th.

ARCHITECTS' PROTEST,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY."]'

GENEVA, Sept. 3rd. The Budget Committee of the League of Nations has approved the report of a special committee of five, of which Mr. Adatchi, the Japanese delegate, was the chair- man, in regard to the question of the new League buildings, which are now to be erected in Ariana Park on the outskirts of the city.

The Committee overruled the objections of the Norwegian dele- gate, Mr. Hambro, who urged that the expense was not justified in

SIMON COMMISSION

DEPARTS.

SEVEN MONTHS' · ABSENCE.

COLLECTING EVIDENCE..

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

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RUGBY, Sept. 23rd. Sir John Simon and his col leagues. on the Statutory Commis- sign on Indian Reform will leave

He declared that the present dis pate was entirely between the Government and a private cor- poration which had been organised solely for the use of the resources of country under Colombian laws. WORLD CONFERENCE ON FUEL..

HUGE MEETING IN LONDON.

- (BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, Sept. 3rd. Forty-seven countries, embracing every part of the world where fuel is a factor of importance indus trially and economically, will be represented at the World Fuel Conference which opens tomorrow in London. Each delegate repre sents an authoritative body in his

chairmen.

London on Thursday for their own country.

The President of the Conference second tour in India.

is the Marquis of Heading, and its The first, which took place in work, which will be highly techai

cal, will be conducted in sections February and March, was a pre-of which eminent English scien liminary exploration ol. the tists and industrialista will be the ground, and no formal sittings were held for 'record of evidence.

For the purposes of this final tour, the Commissioners will be absent from England for about seven months, and when they re- turn at the end of April all the material for the formulation of their conclusions will have been

collected.

HURRICANE VICTIMS IN

TROUBLE.

ITALY AND GREECE.

PACT OF FRIENDSHIP SIGNED.

{THROUGH REUTER's AgEngr.]

“,

ROME, Sept. 3rd Signor Mussolini and M. Veni- telos, on behalf of their respective Governments, have signed a pact of friendship and conciliation.

NINE YEARS OF COMMER- CIAL FLYING.

REMARKABLE BRITISH

PROGRESS.

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.VOLUNTEERS TO

STAY.

AUSTRALIAN SHIPOWNERS'

DECISION. “

FURTHER TROUBLE WITH. STRIKERS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

MELBOURNE, Sept. 94th, Declaring that the executive of the Waterside Workers' Feders tion is unable to control the mem- bers, the shipowners have with drawn their promise to consider a conference with the Federation if

SPANISH THEATRE

FIRE.

INVESTIGATION BY TORCH

LIGHT.

HARROWING SCENES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENÒY.]

MADRID, Sept. 99rd.

The Novadades Theatre, an an- cient structure in the heart of the most populous quarter of the city, was the scene this evening of a destructive fire, which broke out during a perforinance.

The blare broke out on the stage, the men resumed work. The ship and spread with alarming rapidity, owners are determined that Trade the flames

soon enveloping the Unionists shall not replace the packed auditorium and continuing. non-unionist volunteers.

with "euch, fury that surrounding buildings were quickly involved.

The adience was panic-stricken

No 'Disturbances.. Already 670 volunteers have been enrolled here and the loading of overseas vessels is proceeding as the first warning was given, and without a hitch. There have been dashed towards the exits, which до disturbances hitherto but a

police car is following each meter were choked by the seething mass. coach to the wharf from the Dozens of persons were killed, labour bareat, which is protected trampled under foot in the terrible by mounted police.

confusion.

Two trade unionists were iên-

The theatre, together with the tenced respectively to a fortnight's imprisonment and a fine of £10 or whole block of surrounding pro- & month's imprisonment for assaultperty, whe completely gutted. ing volunteers,

"It is feared that several hundred

Volunteers Employed,

perished in the fre as the result of

An interstate conference of the the panic, while it is added that maritime and transport unions

is being held to-day to discuss the over two hundred who escaped "back to work" motion. The chief from the burning building, are obstacle is the difficulty of inducing being treated at ambulance the watersiders to work with the stations. non-unionist volunteers, who trẻ assured of continuity of work under the new federal act just passed.

On the application of the ship owners Justice Detheridge in the Arbitration Court ordered the sus pension of the bar in Fremantle, Adelaide and some other parts concerned of the clauses in the waterside workers' award granting preference to trade unionists.

The décision means that the owners are legally entitled to em- ploy volunteers under the award to replace any regular dock workers who, in defiance of their union, are standing out against the award providing for two engagements of labour daily instead of one,

Six Tiers. Composed of six tiers capable of accommodating three thousand people, the Novadades Theatre,

which has been totally destroyed, was the largest in Madrid.

It was packed with a typical Sunday audience, including a large number of children, who had asscin- bled to witness one of the most popular plays of the season.

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The curtain was rieing on the last act, when large burst of fame appeared on the stage, which it involved with appalling rapidity. The blaze continued to sprend with the same rapidity over the whole building..

Transport Workers Bill.

The orchestra pluckily continued The Transport Workers Bill, to play for some minutes, but the which provides for the registration strains were inaudible above the of wharf labourers, and is the cut-shrieks of the audience as they come of the strike, becomes law to made, a stampede for the doors. day.

Escape Cut off. Those in the upper tiers were in terrible plight from the start. The mob scrambling to escape

Several volunteers have been struck with stones and treated in hospital following attacks by mem- bers of the Waterside Workers' Union, while several of the at- tackers have been burt'in collisions with the police.

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hopelessly blocked all the stair

cases on which numerous persons". were trampled to death.

Hundreds in these upper circles Four more strikers have been)

did not stand the remotest chance arrested for assaulting volunteer of escape from the blazing build-

labourers,

It is stated that sufficient freeing, while the efforts of the Fire labour will be available in Mel-Brigade to provide facilities were bourne on Monday to enable the hampered by an influx of horrified working of the cargo of all over- sightseers, who congested the nar- sens vessels.

20,000 CASES OF DISEASE.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

SAN JUAN, Sept. 24th. "Doctors take a serious view of an the island as

Nine years ago a converted war the situation there are 15,000 cases of influenza aeroplane, carrying a passenger and 5,000 cases of other diseases and a pilot, flew from Hounslow

Wool sales have been postponed reported. The heavy rain is add aerodroma to Paris. It inauguratorike, wad it is estimated that this for a week in consequence of the ed the London-Paris air line of the hurricane.

It is reported that Marshal Lipresent circumstances, and protesting to the suffering of the victims

Tsai Hsin will leave Nanking for ed against the procedure in "the a fortnight. selection of the plans for the new the South in about

He will settle the financial prob- buildings. He requested the Com- lems in Canton, after which he will mittee to publish the protests of return to the capital again.

the architects, whose plans the jury had discarded.

JAPAN WIRELESS CO.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

OSAKA, Sept. 24th.

At. a total cost of 6,000,000 yen

"

Opium Enquiry. The Fifth Committee has ap proved by 14 votes to 2 the report of Dame Edith Lyttleton in regard to the inquiry into opium-smoking in the Far East. Italy and China

voted as the minority, while there were six abstentions."

the Japan Wireless Company has TO FLY THE ATLANTIC constructed receiving and transmit- ting stations near Nagoja? The former was opened to-day for re ceiving messages from Germany, France and Poland, but not yet from Britain.

equipped

BRITISH PILOT'S DARING.

GIPSY MOTH CHOSEN.

ITHECUGA BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

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LONDON, Sept. 23rd. One of the most daring. Aying The new stations are

exploits ever contemplated, a flight with German apparatus received across the Atlantic in a light aero- plane, is to be undertaken within the next few weeks by a well- as reparations in kind.

"The Osaka Chamber of Com-known British airman, Lt. Comdr.

MacDonald. merce has passed a resolution asking that the Government should establish wireless receiving and transmitting stations at Osaka "for the traffic to and from China, India, Australis, etc...

ATTACK ON LADY. MISSIONARY.

NO FURTHER_NEWS:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

PIPING, Sept. 24th.. There is no further news of Misa

will be brought up for discussion Tobin, who belongs to the Church

The machine chosen for the spectacular attempt is the new De Havilland Gipsy Moth, and the plane with which it is to be made has already been shipped to St. John's, Newfoundland.

Newfoundland will naturally be the starting point, though the de- finife date of the flight has yet to. be fixed.

Lt. Comdr. MacDonald is now on his way to Newfoundland to study the weather conditions before at tempting to fly to Ireland.

The Gipsy Moth weighs only 820 lbs and measures but 20 feet across the wings

AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. PARLIAMENTARY SESSION.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

CANBERRA, Sept. 2rd The Parliamentary Session has opens immediately,

Central Standing Political Com of England Zenana Missionary and the election campaign

mittee..

Society.

SENATOR CURTIS AMONG

THE CROWS. DESCENDANT OF WHITE PLUME.

ATTACK ON THE KAWS.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, Sept. 23rd. Az unusual ceremony took place

at Billing, Montana, to-day, when Plenty Coos, the venerable chief of the Crow nation, with Indian rites ceremoniously adopted Sena tor Curtis, the Republican nominee for the Vice-Presidency into the Crow tribe.

Plenty Coos told bis braves "anything we can do for my boy from the Kaw country we must do"

Senator Curtis is a great grand son of White Plumer the Chief of the Kaws, and he recalled that when he was eight the Kaws were attacked by the Crowds,

"You scared the life out of me then," he said, but I am glad te shake hands with you now,"

PREMIER BACK TO WORK.

LORD CUSHENDUN'S RE- PORT.

[BRITISH WIRELESS RERVICE)

Rudex, Sept. 23rd. Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mrs. Baldwin returned to London to day from their holiday in France, accompanied by Lord Cusbandun, the acting Foreign Minister, who has returned from Geneva.

Lord Cushendus, the head of the British delegation at Geneva, has hastened back to London from the Assembly meetings to enable him to make a report to the Cabinet inceting at which Mr. Baldwin will preside to-morrow.

The fare was then 20 guineas, to-day, with the help of the Govern ment subsidy, it is £5 18. 6d. I 1819 there were 20 to 30 passengers a week; now the number frequently exceeds 9,000.

this summer, shows every prospect

means the detention of wool worth over £750,000

It is believed that the strike will collapse within the next two or three days,

Weird Scenes.

row streets.

Police reinforcements and a regi- rushed to the scene in order to ment of infantry were burriedly clear the neighbourhood and to help in the work of rescue.

In the meantime, the flames had spread and had ignited more old buildings on either side of the theatre, the whole burning like tinder.

The early type of three-seater

Building Collapses. aeroplane has been replaced by

The firemen were impotent to eighteen-seater three-engined ma

There were weird scenes around control the conflagration and con- chines, and soon these will be rein- the theatre where the fire had put centrated their efforts on the re. forced by machines seating 19 out of action the street lights,covery of bodies. passengers and a crew of three.

greatly hampering the work of the Eleven were found lying in a Between April 1924 and June last remen until a party of army engi heap burnt to death just inside the Imperial Airways' machines car

neers arrived with huge Bares, corridor, but shortly afterwards ried 79,000 passcogers, and traffic The legal authorities who arrived the building collapsed burying

to open an enquiry were escorted hundreds in the ruins. of exceeding last year's figures by by men bearing torches, by the more than 50 per cent.

flickering light of which they com- The economic developments pro-menced their work duce a hopeful view of the commer cial possibilities of air transport. In 1924-25 the cost per ton mile was T.; now it is less than 5s. 6d. Insurance rates for the old types of single-engined machine might be 12 to 25 per cent, a year, whereas modern three-engined machines may coat only 7 per cent.

The German Lufthansa, although it runs far more lines and possesses many more machines than the British company, cannot show more

economic results.

85 Bodies Recovered.

LATER

General Primo de Rivera, the Dictator, and other Ministers, were early at the spot, directing opera- tions.

A pathetic spectacle was that of hundreds of children awaiting. Eighty-five bodies have now been outside the ambulance stations for recovered from the ruins of the news of their parents." theatre while over 350 are seriously injured.

An Inferno."

Up to the present time over twenty bodies have been recovered, while pighty of the injured per The fusing of an electrio wire, sons are reported to be in a seri the failure of the safety curtain ous condition. and the fact that the theatre was The number of the victims wholly bailt of wool caused its buried in the rains cannot be destruction, The fire was first ascertained. noticed in the pit, when flames

extraordinary

SA

Stories Of Eye-witnesses.

It receipts during the last finan-shot out from the electric lampe

The fire was got under control cial year were £350,000 and its ex- and spread with

at 4 o'clock this morning when the penditure £1,200,000. Subventions rapidity. from the Reich and various states Spectators in the third and theatre was reduced to a heap of amounted to £1,130,000. The Luft- fourth galleries warmed down the smouldering ashes. The death roll hansa runa 90 air lines and has pillars, while some jumped into is at present unknown, but it is 140 machines, 41 of which are large the pit. The scene as the roof fel now believed not to be sa heavy The was originally feared. multi-engined aircraft.

in on the screaming, struggling number of injured is estimated at burning mass of humanity was a The Fédération Aéronautique Inrealistic replica of Dante's Inferna between two and three hundred. ternationale has confirmed 79 The actors, orchestra and stage A gruesome heap of twenty-five world's air records. Of these Ger- hands nearly all escaped at the charred bodies was found piled on

one of the landings. many holds 28, America 21, France back of the stage, 19, Italy six, Great Britain five, Switzerland three, Czechoslovakia two, and Belgium and Hungary one each.

Air Records.

Eye-witnesses tell appalling stories Tiny Child Rescued.

of scenes in the auditorium, which When the Minister of Justice and quickly became a blazing furnace. the President of the Supreme Court Thirty people with their clothing arrived at 2 a.m, the spectacle was ablaze were secu among the panic The British records include the appalling Corpses heaped near stricken audience, frantically “rush-- 300 kilometre speed record set up the door of the amphitheatre ing to the exits. A man who had by Flight Lieutenant Webster, the barred the way, and it was also been badly trampled on and was 100 kilometre light aeroplane speed feared that the roof of the lounge frantic with pain ran wildly about record of Captain Broad, and the might collapse at any moment outside the theatre beseeching 100 kilometre and 500 kilometre One of the first rescued was a two- news of his wife and five children,

It will be the first Cabinet meet-speed records, carrying 1,000 kilo-year-old child, practically unhurt, with whom he was celebrating his grame load, also by Captain Broad, who was wedged into a corner be birthday. There were many other Flight Lieutenant D'Arcy Greig is hind a broken door. Hundreds of heart-rending scenes at the am- now training for an attempt on the the panic-stricken fugitives must bulance stations where relatives 3 kilometro-world's speed record.. has passed over it.

were searching for their missing. He will fly a Supermarine Napier

Seven Policemen were amongst | kindred. those burned to death.

(Continued on prèvious Column.)

ing after the holiday season."

Later in the week, most of the Ministers will be at Yarmouth, where the Conservative Conference will be held and where the Frime. Minister will speak.

$.5 seaplane.