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CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF NATIONALIST

GOVERNMENT.

TRANSFERENCE OF SUPREME 'POWER.

NORTH-EAST CHIHLI AS BUFFER STATE.

NEW RADIO STATION AT NANKING.

The organisation of the Chinese National Government "has been determined t a fully attended meeting of the Political Commission and is announced by cable to the vernacular Press. Supreme power is to be vested in a newly constituted Central Committee of the Nationalist Government. Five administrative departments wit be under the control of this body, which will act as the final court of appeal-in any question which may arise of jurisdiction or administration.

The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Nationalist Government will also assume command of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force in any time of emergency,

Certain appointments to the Central Committee are

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nis said that Pei Chung Hai and Yang Yu Ting, General

Chang Hsueh Liang's representative, have reached an agreement. over the territory between Luanchox and the Great Wall, which will be formed into a buffer state between the Nationalists and the Fengtience. No further details are announced.

CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

CONSTITUTION AND AUTHORITY.

(Taun Wan Tat Pa.)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 27th, The resolution for the formation and organisation of the Chinese National Government was adopted at yesterday's meeting of the Cen- tral Political Commission which was attended by a very large rum: ber of Kuomintang leaders."

It is laid down that the supreme į power of the Central Government shall be invested in a committee to be called the Central, Com- mittee of the Nationalist Govern-

QUITE RECOVERED.

(THROUGH REVTER'S AGENCY.),

PEKING, Sept. 7th.

Marshal Yen Hai Shan, in a interview with Chinese Pressmen on his arrive here, declared that he had quite recovered from. his

illness.

"EMPLOYEES OF SALT

GABELLE.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 1928.

MYSTERY VESSEL

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REAPPEARS.

MACHINERY FOR PORT ARTHUR.

SEARCH REVEALS

NOTHING.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BATAVIA, Sept. 27th.

CONSERVATIVES YARMOUTH.

AT

ROWDY ELEMENT

APPEARS.

SAFEGUARDING QUESTIONS. WATERSIDE WORKERS ADOPT

PRIME MINISTER'S

PLEDGE.

NEW TACTICS.

VOLUNTEERS ASSAULTED.

(BRITISH WIRELESS ÄERVICE]

(THROUGE BAVTEX'S AGENCT.),

Ruany, Sept. 20th.

No fewer than 2,600 delegates to

session

which will begin

to-

BIG EXPLOSION IN MELILLA.

FORT BLOWN TO PIECES.

A HUGE CRATER.

noras REUTER'S AGENCY.}

MADRID, Sept., with, Barely recovered from the fear-

PROS AND CONS OF THE LEAGUE.

NOT AN UNMIXED BLESSING.

INDIA'S CRITICISM OF

BUDGET.

¡THROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GENEVA, Sept. 26th.

A strongly critical note Wix

Lord Lytton represents India in

MELBOURNE, Sept. 7th. The inter-state Maritime and ful loss of life in the Novedades the Conservative Conference have Transport Union Conference, which Theatre catastrophe on Sunday. struck by Lord Lytton at the clos.

taken by another terrible disaster,

of the League of Nations to-day, arrived at Yarmouth, and, at the has taken charge of the dockers the Spanish nation has been avering meeting of the Ninth Assembly

dispute, has decided to ask the the explosion of an ammunition based upon the budget request.". Victorian Premier to withdraw the

dump at Melilla, a fortified Spanish

The dump exploded after dark this evening with a deafening roar, creating frightful havoc in the vicinity and causing a heavy loss of life, and hundreds of minor casualties.

The mystery Norwegian steamer Baune which anchored at Wairis Bay io August and then disappear- ed anchored here this morning. morrow, several leading members Members of Parliament and fifty Conservative candidates will take part.

The Harbour Master was at first of the Cabipet, eighty Conservative police from the wharves. The con settlement on the coast of Morocco. the Assembly, and he entered a

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refused permission to board, but was subsequently allowed to do so. The captain of the Boune de

One of the most important sub- clared that he was en route from Rotterdam to Port Arthur with ajects to be discussed is that of the cargo of machinery, but had no suggested extension of the safe

ference declare that the ship- owners are locking out the dockers and the police are protecting the men who are illegally replacing

them.

The shipowners declare that they will not enter into negotiations for

strong protest against the steady increase in the League expenditure. He argued that there was nothing in present circumstances to justify exceptional expendituro, ääd de- clared his opinion that the increase Fort Gabririzas, the scene of the was caused by the inadequacy and

manifest. Investigation revealed guarding of industries by specific the settlement of the dispute until disaster, was originally on the out-defective nature of the methods of nothing suspicious and the Bayne duties, on imported goods.

is proceeding on her vorage.

The last heard of this ship was on August 9th, when a cable from London gave the following account of her sudden disappearance from Walvis Bay

An astonishing story of a "my; stony ship" comes to hand from Reuters representative at Walvis Bay, South-West Africa, who statra that speculation is rife concerning

There are thirteen resolutions on

but the debate will probably be confined to a resolution, to be hoved by Sir Henry Page Craft, calling for the widest possible.ex- tension of safeguarding consistent with the Prime Minister's election pledge.

the arbitration award has been

controlling and limiting spending. Doubtf Advantage, India, he said, found it extreme- ly difficult to justify the largely increased contribution to the funds of the League required of her by the heavy budget.

skirta of the town, away from dwelling-houses, but it has been the agenda bearing on this subject. accepted in all Australian ports.surrounded recently by numerous !

Even then workers will only be native houses, the majority of resumed through ..the labour which were blown to smithereens bureaux and volunteers will be when the dump exploded. givea preference.

Heavy Death Roll. Bureau Raided.

Official messages reveal that the & building PORT ADELAIDE...explosion occurred " in Two thousand waterside strikers: Containing approximately 41,000. lbs. armed with sticks, lumps of con? of black powder.

The latest official information and metal, this morning forced the regarding the explosion shows that

chhaing out and thrashing the volub 31 persons, men, women and child-

He reminded the Assembly that teers. The police were powerless ren, have been killed and that the

The number of injured exceeds two the question had often been discuss to deal with the outbreak.

ed in India whether membership of volunteers fled in all directions, two hundred.

The military casualties, both the League of Nations was worth way aboard the steamer Nardanely heavy. Dozens of soldiers living Lengue expenses continued on any.

There was a widespread view in India that the League of Nations was of very little value to Eastern countries and that its tendency was, the direction of definitely in strengthening European interests

and races.

A vessel which arrived off the night at Yarmouth, will deal in gates of the free labour bureau among the civilian population alone, at the expense of other countries

British Settlement in the evening of August 6th. and vanished at dawn on August 8th.

It is anticipated that Mr. Bald- win, in his public speech to-morrow same detail with this question and with that of migration within the Empire as a contribution towards

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She is believed to have departed the solution of the unemployment. The agitators then forced the European and native, are extreme-the price, and he feared that if the

for Batavia.

The steamer concerned is named

problem.

HARDSHIPS OF PENAL COLONY.

[EKUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

in the fort must have been literally

blown to pieces, and it is probable thing like the present place, the that the total of dead and wound-time might come when the govern fed will not be ascertainable for ment of India would find it impos-

some time.

From eye-witnesses' accounts of sible to answer in the affirmative. the tragedy, it is gathered that the

Lord Lytton said he felt bound explosion occurred late in the to enter his protest on behalf of evening when audiences were the Indian delegation who were emerging from theatres and

(THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.}

PEXING, Sept. 27th.

the Bayar and flies the Norwegian MEXICAN FLOOD DAMAGE. and stoned "and battered the volun- tters. They did not board, the It is believed that the scheme Aug... She anchored outside the

steamer Hanau, as the officers were for the payment of the service of three mile limit and signalled for

armed with revolvers and trun- loans secured on the salt revenueso, tous of fresh water which was

cheons, but they bombarded the volunteers on the Hanau's deck, ment "under which there will be will mean the continuance of the taken on board.

ten of whom were seriously injured by the dying missiles.

cinemas and when the streets were profoundly dissatisfied with this The Union leaders helped the crowded with people on their way year's budget. ·

restore order and al

An Earthquake. police to

A sudden flash rent the sky, the volunteers were taken to the

followed by a terrific detonation which shook the earth for miles around

five institutions, viz., the Exécü- tive. Legislative, and Judiciary Councils and the Courts of Inspec tion and Examination..

The five institutions will be ah- solutely independent of each other and whenever their powers are in conflict the Central Committee of! the Nationalist Government act as adjudicator.

will

The Chairman of the Central "Committee of the Nationalist Gov. ernment will also hold the cam "mand of the National Army, Navy, and Air Forces in time of emer genes or war with foreign nations.

Salt Gabelle Administration-which The steamer had no manifest but the captain'declared he was carry- it was recently feared would coming machinery in cases from Poland pletely collapse--as well as

to China and expected the neces retention ofioicign. employees sary documents to reach him at

Port Arthur.

therein.

RADIO INNOVATION,

- (TEPOUGH" REUTER'S AGENCY.)

NANKING, Sept. 27th.

the

For the Frst time in the history of China radio has been used to broadcast the speech of a Govern- In- ment, member of distinction. aggrating this innovation, Hu Han 3lin who was speaking yesterday The following appointments for at the radio station just installed the composition of the Central at the Centrál Party Headquarters, Committee of the Nationalist Gov-discussed, the reforms of civil ad- ment have been decided upon; ministration in the various pro

Mesars. Hu Han Min, Tai Chi vinces.

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Tho. Wang Chung Hui, Chiang Kai He emphasised the importance of Shek, Tan Yen Kai, Li Lich Chun, the reduction of military forces Li Shek Cheng, Chang Ching and the centralisation of finance,

industrial development and Kiang, Tsai Yuen Pui. Wang Ching struction works. Ting. He Ying Ching, Li Tsai Hein and Wu Chie Fei.

THE BUFFER ZONE.

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(Wah Taz Yq. Pao).

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BANDITS IN ACTION.

[NAVAL WIRELESS.]

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Two piracies have occurred on the Yangtze during the past week. In both cases, the attack was car ried out by bandits who embarked on the steamers disguised as pas sengers. Both vessels involved run under the Chinese fag, one plying on the Middle River and the other on the Upper Yangtsze.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 27th General Pei Chung Hsi reached an agreement with "General Yang

The Asiatic Petroleum Company Yu Ting, General Chang Hsuch vessel, the .B. Shukrang, has re- Liang's delegate, at a meeting ported that she was heavily fired on at Wushan. At the time, the whigh took place at Luanchow re-bandits were heavily engaged with cently, regarding the problem of diers, presumably those sent by General Yang Sen to stamp gut the the military dispositions in the gang in the district. districts east of Luanchow and within the Great Walk It was agreed that the district should SEARCH FOR MISS TOBIN.

form abuffer zone" between the Nationalists and the Fengtienese, the former being stationed in the area west of Luanchow while the latter stationed east of Shimun.

After completing the negotiations General Pei Chung Hai proceeded

to Tangshan,

FLAG QUESTION.

oh Tiz Yat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Sept. 27th.

The armed guard on the A.P.C. vessel returned the fire.

NOT YET RELEASED..

{NAVAL WIRELESS.]

The only definite information available at the moment regarding Miss-Tobin, who was captured over & week ago by bandits operating between Wuchow, and Kweilin, is that she had not been released up. to Tuesday night.

Bishop Holden, the head of the in Church Missionary Society Kwangsi is now at Chinping, the magistrate of which place has been, ordered to make every effort to ... A foreign message says that the secure the release of Miss Tobin:

Fengtienese stationed at Changli, The troops sent by the Kwangsi about 60 miles east of Luanchow, Government to the district where have pulled down the five-harred the bandits are supposed to have Ang but have not hoisted the taken Miss Tobin are still con

tinuing-their-search. Nationalist flag an yet.

The British authorities, instructed the Captain to report for clearance papers, but when the foggy dawn had cleared,, the Baune had dis- appeared.

A cablegram from the captain of

the steamer to the reputed owners of the Baune in Norway has been returned to the Post Office marked

Undeliverabie,"

ATLANTIC FLIER FOR CANTON.

GREAT AVIATOR'S ROUTE..

FLIGHT TO TOKYO.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28th. Serious foods have been respon- sible for extensive damage and many casualties on the west coast.

At least fifteen persons were kill-city. ed in the collapse of a number of houses in Jalisco, while dozens have heen injured."

Jalisco and Sinaloa, the penal colony on the Marial Islands, have' been the biggest sufferers from the floods.

AIR AGREEMENT WITH ́ FRANCE.

COMPLETE DENIAL BY FOREIGN OFFICE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Sept. 26th. Following a report in a London newspaper that France and Britain ALLAHABAD, Sept. 27th. has reached an air agreement, the Baron von Huenefeld left here Foreign Office" states that there has this morning.

He proposes to go been no agreement or understand to Tokyo by the hitherto unflowning of any kind with France re- route of Mandalay, Canton, Nan-garding aerial matters that has not published, and that all king, and is hoping to make a non-been

to the contrary are enj stop flight to Mandalay to-day, rumours The weather in the Bay of Bengal tirely untrue. is however uncertain.

SUGAR FOR TATE AND LYLE.

BIG SHIPMENT FROM CUBA. [TEKOUGH REUTER'S MÖENUT.)

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A message from Canberra states that the new Transport Workers Act will apply to seamen if they refuse duty.

HASSELL TO TRY AGAIN.

ATLANTIC FLIERS WEL- COMED.

RETURN TO SAFETY.

[THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.?

home.

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Budget Adopted. Further discussion ensued, after which the

Tote was taken, the" budget being adopted.

An analysis of the voting shows that eighteen countries, including Grent Britain and Canada, voted in favour of the Budget, and six, including India and New Zealand against.

Splinters of glass, chimney pots, huge sicces, and showers of mud and sand rained on the streets. The first impression of the popula tion was that an earthquake had visited the city, and the erowds in the streets were panic-stricken, hundreds of others dashing from their homes adding to the cenfu- Australia. sion.

Nothing is left of the fortress. All that remains to be seen is ' huge funnel-shaped crater, border ed by blocks of stones,

The authorities immediately un dertook rescue work, but though hundreds of willing workers ren-

The eleven abstentions included

After the President had an- nounced the result of the vote, In-

din and others withdrew their op- position for the sake of unanimity! The Assembly subsequently dis cussed the plan for the peaceful COPENHAGEN, Sept. 20th.

dis- The survivors of two perilous addered all assistance, the task was settlement of international ventures, Messrs. Hassell

seriously impeded owing to the putes, and the model treaties of complete darkness.

and Cramer, the American airmen, ar

a Danish rived here to-day in

steamer,

They were warmly greeted by Mr. #: Percival Dodge, the who was accompanied by several re- American Minister to Denmark, presentatives of the Danish Aero- nautical Society and other not- abilities.

Hassell, the principal pilot of the Greater Rockford which made a forced descent on the south-east BIG MALAYAN TIN TRUST.oast of Greenland through petrol

12 PER CENT OF WORLD OUTPUT."

shortage, declared that he will make another attempt to fly from América to Stockholm vid Green- land in 1823.

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BLIND BOY MUSICIAN.

A later message gives the casual-non-aggression and mutual assis ties as 57 dead and 915 injured.

AMERICAN LABOUR-SAVING

DEVICES.

ROLLER SKATES FOR MESSEN.

tance.

Peaceful Settlement.

The Assembly adopted the pro- poeals submitted and instructed the Secretary-General to communi- cate a model draft of the peaceful Bettlement treaties to all nations who are members of the League of Mr. A. E. Cowper, of Selfridge | Nations,' and to the following non- Co., Limited, speaking at the members: Afghanista, Brazil, Summer School of the Draper's

GER BOYS,

Chamber of Trade at Cambridge, Costa Rica, the United States of said that competition among stores America, Egypt, Ecuador, Mexico, in America was much keeper than Soviet Russia and Turkey.

in England Americans were more

The Secretary-General was fur-

ready to adopt new things than we were, and that fact made possible ther instructed to inform them that- the very effective innovation of the League Council was prepared

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)

Rugar, Sept. 28th. HAVANA, Sept. 27th. The Tin Election Trust and A shipment of 300,000 tons of Anglo-Oriental Mining Corpora COMPOSER OF MORE THAN complete colour schemes in kitchen sugar, which was held up under tion, Limited, are sponsoring the the reclamation act of the Cuban formation of a exporting commission as a result Malayan tin-producing undertak of differences with the purchasers, ings, to be known as the London has been released on account of Malayan Tin Trust, Limited, Tate and Lyle.

THE CHELTENHAM BYE- ELECTION.

CONSERVATIVE SUCCESS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Sept. 28th,

new combine of

The new trust, in which sixteen important Companies with a com. bined output approximating to 12 per cent. of the total world produc tion will be associated, will have an authorised capital of £2,000.000.

LONDON'S LORD MAYOR.

BARONETCY FOR SIR CHARLES BATHO.

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to offer their services in the utensils,

Referring to labour-saving de-negotiation of such treaties if this vices, Mr. Cowper said that "in was desired. A blind boy of 17 who, in addition some big offices in America messen- This concluded the business of to being the composer of more than ger boys were supplied with roller the Ninth Assembly of the League, 150 musical works, can play any skates to enable them to get from which has now closed. tune once he has heard it, made a one part of the building to another successful appearance at two Brigh-at terrific speed. English shop- keepers might adept some of these ton cinemias last month..

The boy, Alee Templeman, has methods with advantage, particu been blind from birth, and is the larly one which eliminated goods grandson of Mr. Robert Templeman, an agricultural expert in Cardiff, He is now making his first public tour, and is acecrapanied by his

mother.

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Arms Manufacturers, (DRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

Rvaar, Sept. 26th. At a meeting of the League of rarely asked for. Such articles Nations Council this afternoon, a should be left to the speciality resolution urging the Council, to shops to handle,

request all governments through Mr. W. J. Jones (Electric Lamp private negotiations to Manufacturers' Association of understanding on the various out- Mrs. Templeman said her son first Great Britain, Limited) illustrated standing questions so as to permit showed an interest in the piano a lecture on shop-window-lighting of a successful meeting of the when he was eighteen months old. by a full-size display window. He Ereparatory Committee on Dis [BRITISH WIRELEAS SERVICE] At the age of four he had com- said that good lighting was one of armament was adopted.

posed his first little tude, and by the most potent means of attract The Secretary-General was also RUGBY, Sept. 26th. the time he was seven he could playing people's attention and of show instructed to call another meeting H.3. The King has approved, classical music. A year ago be obing the goods in the window to of the Committee of supervision that a Baronetey of the United tained bis LRAM.

the best advantage. Many people of private manufacturers of arms, Kingdom be conferred upon Sir His compositions vary from were afraid of the cost of "stunt" munitions and implements of war Charles Bathe on the occasion of ragtimes to plano concertos, on one lighting, but it cost far less than before the next Session of the his retirement from the office of of which he is now engaged, and was usually imagined, and repaid Council; in order that the work of At the last General Election-in-Lord Mayor of London and that he has won B.B.G prize-for-s-the expenditure-on-it-by-increasing the Committen be completed and A good "slogan " Was: submitted as soon as possible to a October, 1924, the Rt. Hon. Sir Knighthoods Ee conferred upon Mr. Folk Dance and a prize at Bourne- trade.

"Poor lighting costs money; good special conference which could meet J. T. Agg-Gardner, in a straight Henry Davenport and Mr. Frederick mouth Festival for an Etude. fight with the Liberal candidate. Green on their retirement from

He learns his new tunes from lighting makes money. Poor light at the same time as the general received 11.009 votes against his the office of Sheriffs of the City of "listening-in to the wireless.aring is an expense, and good light. conference for the réduction and

limitation of armaments. Ling is an advertisement." London.

from gramophone records. opponent's 8,146.]

The result of the by-election at Cheltenham, caused by the death of Sir Agg Gardner is as follows: Sir Walter Preston (Cón.) 10,438. Sir John Brunner (Lib.) 6,079 Miss Florence "Widdow

son' (Lab.)

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2,043

Conservative majority 3,760