FURTHER LOAN FOR SHANGHAI'S CRIME
CHINA.
SUN FO'S WORK IN AMERICA,
RIVER CONSERVANCY AND CANALS.
(THROUGH ZHUTER'S LOKNOT.]
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19th. The Xue Min states that it is understood that the State Council has approved the tentative agree ment, signed by Sun Fo in America
with the China Famine Relief Society, for a loan of G.$5,000,000 for the bole purpose of opening a canal from Tulingchen, on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway about 20 miles south of Tientsin, to the
coast terminating at Haikow. The message adds that the construction
will give employment to about 150,000 famine refugees from the Gerth.
WAVE.
STARTLING RECORD FOR SEPTEMBER.
WARNING ISSUED TO FOREIGNERS.
(THROUGH REUTERʼE AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19th.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 1928.
HOOVER A BRITISH PASSENGER CAUSES DEVELOPMENTS IN
CITIZEN?
AL SMITH'S WHIRLWIND
FINISH.
REPUBLICAN DENIALS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
and had voted at British elec-
'PLANE CRASH.
SEIZES CONTROLS,
PILOT'S DESPAIRING CRY.
the
OIL INDUSTRY.
IS IT PEACE OR WAR?
CITY EDITORS IN DOUBT.
(BRUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICH,}
RESIGNATION OF BIRKENHEAD.
CORDIAL EXCHANGE OF LETTERS.
“TOWER OF STRENGTH."
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Rear, Oct. 19th.
[TWŠOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct '19th.
New York, October 19th. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19th.. A party of bankers attending A The organisation of the American The allegation that Mr. Hoover | convention of
Investment | oil export association and the fur- It is officially announced that ther step in the consolidation of Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary for The serious crime ware in the bad once been "a British citizen Bankers' Corporation was taken on
a sight-seeing trip over the city in British interests, the formation of India, bas resigned, while publica- International Settlement and eletion" was made the subject of a Junker's monoplane when the the Consolidated Petróleum Com-tion has been authorised of most where in Shanghai, of which the statement by Doctor Work, chair machine nosedived from Geo feet, pany, indicate important develop murder of Miss Thompson in one man of the Republican Committee. Two of the passengers were killed ments behind the scenes in the oil of the worst features, continues to This however does pot deal with and Eve seriously injured before industry. preoccupy the foreigo Municipal the enquiry reported to have been the eyes of their wives, who were' City editors in London and New` authorities.
addressed to the mayor of Johan watching the flight.
York are trying to discover whe The cause of the disaster is un-ther oil peace or war is imminent, nesburg,, asking Hoover voted in the Transvaal known but the manager considers Some see the beginnings of Anglo- election, and suggesting that this that a passenger crawled from the American agreement for scientific will disqualify him from standing cabin into the relief pilot's cockpit distribution in the world markets for the presidency,
and got panicky when the pilot and limitation of production, with executed wing over. He then prospects of opposition to Russia, seized the controls. This theory is
Following the recent warning to feroigners not to walk in the more remote reads of the Settlement
whether Mr.
Dr. Work says that photostatic copies of British electoral lists exist on which Mr. Hoover's name appears, because he once tenanted London and paid taxes in England, but he never attempted to vote.
shouting
to Get to hell away from intention while being taken to hospital kept past and has already expressed the those controls."
capture
Eastern
cordial correspondence dealing with his withdrawal from the Cabinet.
In a letter to Mr. Stanley Bald win, the Prime Minister, Lord Birkenhead says; I am exceed ingly grateful to" you for having released me from my obligation, at an carlier date than we discussed some months ago.
I should not have asked you to do so had not some balance of private convenience,
tervened.
FEARS FOR DARING AVIATOR.
NO NEWS OF MACDONALD.
ANXIOUS VIGIL AT CROYDON.
{THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Oct. 19th. While air experts are still hoping for the beat, the gravent fears are Row expressed that the daring attempt of LL-Comdr. MacDonald to cross the Atlantic in a light aeroplane has come to grief.
At eleven "o'clock this evening, there has been no news whatsoever of the British naval officer, since he took off at five o'clock yesterday afternoon from "Harbour, Grace, Newfoundland, in his small Moth |50_h.p. aeroplane.
He was expected, if all went well, tu reach the west coast of Ireland this afternoon, bus at four o'clock he had not put in an appearance, though no particular anxiety was felt at this time since it was point- ed out that he was steering along a
Strong Following 'Wind.
after dark, a notification has been posted at all hostels warning ladies to protect their handbags The State Council is also under and to keep to the main streets, a house in the,, neighbourhood of suggested by the fact that the pilot which has refused to enter the com- which I have explained to you, in route not followed by ships.
not wandering into alley-ways in the shopping districts. They are also advised to take a special note of the numbers of any rickshas they may engage (the pullers of which are often in league with robbers).
stood to have instructed Mr. Frank Lee, the new Chinese Minister to Mexico, to negotiate with the same society another loan of the same amount for the purpose of river conservancy work and road build. ing in the famine stricken districts of Houan, Shens; and Kaasu.
The foregoing announcement lets the cat out of the bag in the mat-
The Municipal Council also..noti- ter of Sun Fo's statement on Octo-fe that the manufacture, sale, ber 9th that the time was not ripe possession or wearing of bullet to reveal the of his con- versations with American 6nan. proof vests is prohibited except by
ciers
ANOTHER LOAN.
(Fak Tu Fat Pan).
- SHANGHAI, Oct 19th.: In view of the fact that the
famine situation in North China is extremely serious, the Nationalist Government is contemplating the borrowing of a further loan of $5,000,000 from the United States besides that of the same amount
licence.
These vests are generally used by the Police in raiding houses in search of Chinese kidnappers, and
vent their sale to the kidnappers and armed robbere.
Dr. Work's statement in prompt ed by the intention of Al Smith to tell the story in the course of for which whirlwind finish the he always reserves himself, and a Democratic endeavour to ascribe pro-British tendencies to. Hoover.
Victim Of A Flot. Mr. Hoover in an interview bas denied that he ever voted in the Transvaal or anywhere else outside his own country. A statement sub- stantiating his denial has been issued by the State Department in Washington.
recently that his name was on the
BIG NEW BUILDING COLLAPSES.
CONTRACTOR'S ATTEMPTED
SUICIDE.
FOREMAN'S GRAPHIC
STORY.
(THROUGH`HEUTER'S AGENCY.]
markets.
U.S. LADY'S GENEROSITY
REWARDED.
DECORATED BY KING HAAKON.
SEARCH FOR AMUNDSEN,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
"Still less should I have done so. had there been the slightest prospect that I could have remained long enough at the India Office take part in the discussions and decisions which the report of the Simon Commission will require.
The Indian Odica.
|
The British Air Ministry reports that although the weather round London has been extremely stormy, the conditions for the flight have been excellent.
Lieut.Comdr. MacDonald would-
have had a wind of at least thirty miles per hour behind him almost all the way serpas the Atlantic, and "I regret leaving an office where with a cruising speed of 80 miles per I have spent four of the happiest hour, it was thought that the 1,900 and most interesting years of my miles from Newfoundland to Ire life,
land might have been accomplished The merit or demerit of my in a little over nineteen bours work there can only at present be. He had a moonlight night for known to the two distinguished the journey and the visibility should Viceroys with whom I have co- have been excellent throughout.
Queenstown, Ireland, reported operated, to my colleagues in the Cabinet whom I have kept closely that clouds and rain prevailed informed of every important de along the West coast during the cision, to my Council and to the morning, but this later changed to admirable staff of the India Office,brilliant sunshine, and the opinion I have owed so much."
Ireland must have cleared up be "For the rest, one can only wait fore MacDonald could have reached
the coast. when the India papera of the last
Newfoundland Beacons, four years will be published.
Osto, Oct. 18th. Dr. Work says Hoover is the vic
King Haakon of Norway gave a tim of a plot to lead the Americans
PARIS, Oct. 18th." luncheon to-day in honour of nu to believe that Hoover once applied for British citizenship. Dr. Work
A terrible disaster occurred at American lady. Miss Boyd, whe it has been found necessary to pre-has obtained a certificate from the Vincennes when a six-storey build- placed the whaler Hobby at the to whoso real ability and prudence is expressed that the weather over ing in course of construction disposal of the expedition organis collapsed, resulting in twenty ed to search for Amundsen's plane British authorities that no such ap- plication was ever presented.
Mr. Hoover was not aware until workmen being buried in the ruins.after the ill-fated explorer failed for the time, one day to come.
The bodies of three Italians Eave to reach his Arctic destination. been recovered, whilst five other Miss Boyd personally participat- workmen have been rescued.
ed in the search, and King Haakon The foreman in charge of the | paid a warm tribute to her courage construction had A miraculous and generosity, afterwards confer escape. He says that he ascended ring upon her the Cross Chevalier to the fourth floor and was sudden and the Cross of the Order of St. ly called down by a workman. As Olaf. Ee reached the road, he saw the building shake, make an almost quarter turn and then collapse.
In view of the prevalence of kid napping and robbery in the French Concession, the Chinese Merchants'
which bas been negotiated by ir. Sun Fo during his sojourn there Federation is urging the French for the purpose of financing vari authorities to permit the organisa ous economic enterprises in North
This additional loan will tion of a Chinese Voluntary Corps China. be devoted to construction of high-
Po with the bandita.
cope
A simi- ways, canals and others means of communication in Honan, Shensilar organisation is in existence in and Kan,
the International Settlement.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH JAPAN.
(Wah T's: Yat Pao).
It is noteworthy that seven mur- ders, six attempted murders, seven armed abductions, and fifty-one armed robberies occurred in the *International Settlement during September, while 23 Chinese des
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19th. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek har formally appointed Dr. C. T. Wang as Chinese Plenipotentiary Repre peradoes were arrested at various sentative for the negotiations with Mr. Yada in the hope that the pre- times by the Settlement Police and liminary discussion may form the executed by the Chinese authori- basis of the coming Sino-Japanese te conference for the settlement of outstanding problems.
At present the negotiations he tween Mr. Yada and D. U. T. Waag will concern five problems- the Tainan Affair, tariff problems, the Nanking Incident, the Hankow Incident and treaty revision.
The Nanking and Hankow Inei- dents are expected to be easily settled but the other three are much more complicated and it is believed that it will take a long time before they are satisfactorily settled.
JAPANESE WITHDRAWAL. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
TOKYO, Oct. 19th. The Cabinet has decided to order the withdrawal of three 'companies of infantry, numbering 500, from Tientsin. These farmed part of the normal garrison and were due to return to Japan on the arrival of reliefs last May, but their depar ture was postponed till the situa- tion became more settled,
JEHOL GOVERNMENT,
(THROUGH REOTEX'S AGENOT.]
PEKING, Oct. 19th.
vernacular According to the papers Chang Hsueh Liang bas placed himself further behind Tang Yu Lin by recommending the Nan king Government to appoint Tang Yu Lin as chairman of the Jehet Government and Tang Yu Lin's
lending benchmen to other posts
a
Tang Yu Lin has formed government including these officers without waiting for Nanking' reply.
POSTAL TROUBLE
SETTLED.
[LOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PRIPING, Oct. 10th.
BATTLE WITH KIDNAP-` PERS.
THROUGH REUTER'B. AGENCY.)
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19th.
London lista. "..
THE AUSTRALIAN
STRIKE.
COMPLETE BREAKDOWN."
[TEROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]"
MELBOURNE, Oct. 19th. The waterside warkers' strike has come to an end throughout Aus
tralia.
OWNERSHIP OF THE
FALKLANDS.... BRITISH CORRESPONDENCE WITH ARGENTINA.
BEARING OF KELLOGG PACT.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
The contractor was subsequently taken to the Police Station, where he attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself with a fevolver.
The cement is being tested. This disaster recalls one which occurred last Tuesday at Prague, where a five-storey building in course of construction collapsed without warning, no fewer than alty workmen being killed.
REPARATIONS PROBLEM
DISCUSSED.
CHURCHILL'S LIGHTNING VISIT TO PARIS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Oct. 19th. Mr. Churchill unexpectedly or rived early this morning on lightning visit to diecuss with Poincaré and Mr. Parker Gilbert, the Agent-General for reparations payments, the latest phase of the
NEW YORK, Oct. 18th. The disputed ownership of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Orkneys, which form. There has been a recrudescence fed the subject of correspondence of brigandage and kidnapping in exchanged last year between the the vicinity of Soochow and Taihu British and Argentine Govern- Lake, fifty miles west of Shanghai.ments, is dealt with in a message
encounter with the from the Buenos Aires correspon-reparations problem. Conversations In a recent water police lasting three days dent of the New York Times. there were several casualties among the policemen. Eventually the out laws decamped, abandoning four persons whom they had kidnapped, while the police subacqueatly dis- covered Ave kidnapped men and boys.
INSTIGATORS OF STRIKE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19th, It is reported that two promin tnt members of the Kuomintang Shanghai beadquarters, who are suspected of having instigated the post office strike, will be trans- ferred to Nanking.
INHERITANCE CODE.
(Fah Taz Fat Pas).
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19th. The Nanking Codification Com mittee, a special judiciary institute directly under the control of the Nationalist Government, has finish
According to the correspondent, Britain protested against the crec, tion of a Argentinian wireless meteorological station in South Georgia, to which the Argentine
replied Government
asserting ownership of the islands and ex- plaining ita inability to take active control of the Falklands on account of the British occupation.
The correspondent declares that the publication of the correspon dence has an immediate, bearing on the Argentine's attitude towards the Kellogg Pact, which tacitly re- cognises the British right to protect her possessions.
NAVIGATION OF THE SCHELDT.
HOLLAND AND BELGIUM IN
"DISCUSSION.
{THRODON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HAGUE, Oct. 18th.
It is officially announced that the
ed its elaborate work of drafting Belgian and Dutch Governments two codes governing Chinese blood have agreed to open fresh negotia relationship and inheritance. These two codes it put into force will tions for the settlement of outstand bring
sweeping change in the oldg questions between the two coun- tries, including the controversial Chinese family system. They will be introduced at the coming session problem of the navigation of the
Scheldt of the Legislative Yuan for discuss sion and adoption.
Belgian and Dutch experts will meet in February next to work out the basis of the resumption of the negotiations.
SUGAR REFINERY BURNT
DOWN.
BUBONIC PLAGUE.
(THROUGH REUTKE'S· AGENCT,].
PRIPINO, Oct. 19th. The postal authorities here hope that the Shun Tien Shih Pao case Missionary sources from Fenchow
· [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] is now settled. After arrangement and Chinese sources from Taiyuan with the union which has been fu report an outbreak of bubonie
Moscow, Oct. 18th. responsible for seizing all copies of plague at Fenchow, seventy-five the paper posted, the proprietors miles south-west of Taiyuan. De Three people were burnt to death have been asked to post the usual tails are lacking but it is believed and nine seriously injured in a fire quantity, numbering several thou that the outbreak is serious. The at a sugar refinery near Belgorod This morning the papers Taiyuan authorities have sent medi- in the Veronesh district. Twenty were posted and went through cal officers la cope with the situr horses also perished in the con-
tion.
flagration. without any incident,
Bands.
lasted eighty minutes.
The Norwegian Prime Minister, the United States Minister to Oslo, and the Norwegien airmen who also assisted in the search were among the guests at the luncheon.
Amundsen's Petrol Taşk. Subsequent examination of the Pencil writing on the derelict petrol tank, thought to have belonged to Amundsen's place, shows that that it was probably not connected with
the accident to "Amundsen's aero- plane but that it relates to original instructions for mounting the tank on the machine.
THE PROHIBITION ISSUE. ALLEGATIONS OF GRAFT.
New YORK CITY, Oct. 12th. Senator Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey, in an article which will appear in the November issue of Plain Talk magazine, aeguses the Anti-Saloon League of America of graft, fraud and Governmental dretation.
Edwards charges that the League lias built up a super-Government which has intimidated "high officials A communiqué states that the the President, the officers of the constitution of the committee of Cabinet, the judiciary and all the experts contemplated in the recent executive arms of Government.". Geneva communiqué was discussed,
The Edwards article will appear and the exchange of views will con- close on the heels of several other time during the coming days besimilar charge of super-Govert tween, all the governments con- mental activity on the part of not cerned.
only the prohibitionists but like Mr. Parker Gilbert spent the wise by Protestant, religious sects week end in London on a brief but maintaining alleged lobbies" in important visit in the course of Washington. which he held conversations with Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Churchill and leading Government officials.
DE HOOGH BOUGHT BACK
BY AMSTERDAM. PURCHASE FROM REMBRANDT SOCIETY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ACENOT.)
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18th.
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Not Untrustful Toil,
St John's, Newfoundland, re- ports that in that district there was
"I do not wish to leave the pub-considerable rain and fog during lic stage with anything in the na- the night, and that beacons were ture of self-praise. I will only, kept ready at Harbour Grace in the therefore, say that after spending event of his turning back. It is, four years as a Law Officer, and however, thought that Lieutenant- very nearly as long as Lord Chan- Comdr. MacDonald was well clear celler, I do not believe the last four of these local conditions before they arose and that he had no reason years will be ultimately pronounced the most unfruitful of my life.
for considering the desirability of returning.
"I am leaving official politics cace and for all. But I leave, as you know, in the fullest sympathy with you and your colleagues am not without. hope that both in the House of Lords and occasional-
I
"Before he set off on his daring venture, the airman was advised by the Meteorological Department of the Air Ministry to follow a mora northerly route than usual.
If he followed the route indient-
ly in the country, I may be pered, he should have reached the coast mitted to offer some unofficial help.
"The moment
parting is al- of Galway at one o'clock this after- ways sad. Your own personality noon, and would have been due at has converted a Cabinet which as-Stag Lane Aerodrome, to which he sembled upon a crater of some bit hoped to fly, by about six o'clock
this evening. ter and recent memories, into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion, and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection,
Premier's Reply.. Mr. Stanley Baldwin replied on Wednesday as follows:-
Grave Anxiety.
The wind and weather are still in favour of a successful comples tion of the hazardous adventure, but his failure to maintain an ordinary schedule is now causing anxiety,
"I have received your letter with His machine has not been sight- profound regret, a regret whiched by any ship at sea., Air experts, will be shared by all of our col- however, still hope for the best leagues. For four years, your They point out that he has sufficient council in the Cabinet has been petrol to keep on flying until four invaluable.
o'clock on Friday morning, and point to the possibility. that strong "south-west wind may have blown him out of his course.
In the dark days, you were a tower of strength and you have been a generous colleague and a loyal friend.
It is too early yet to estimate the value of your work at the India Office, but I am confident historians of our time will do it justice.
"With every good wish for many years of happiness and prosperity in the new sphere of life upon which you are entering." Yours very sincerely, Stanley Baldwin. No charges of such thorough- His Majesty the King has ap. going nature have as yet been praved that Lord Birkenbead he' printed, however, and a consider-appointed. Knight Grand Comman- able repercussion is anticipated: der of the Star of India.
RELIGION IN AMERICA.
COOLIDGE CHURCHMEN.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30th. President Coolidge to-day dd- dressed the general convention of the Episcopal Church in session here.
It is learned that Pieter de Hoogh's "Dutch Interior," one of the most famous of the Jan Six collection, which sold by auction on Tuesday, has been purchased for the Municipality of conduct, domestic affairs, Amsterdam at a price of £13,000.
WAB
At the auction it was bought by the Rembrandt Society for £12,000, the purpose of the Society being to place it in the Rijks Museum.
ADULT EDUCATION.
TEACHING TURKEY'S
ILLITERATES.
He said that the support of prin- ciples of justice, the confidence of Americans in each other and in the
of America's duty to humanity abroad, and the fabric of the American Government itself," all rest upon religion.
"Its importance cannot be stress- ed too often," he declared, "nor can it be emphasized too much."
President Coolidge cautioned against self-satisfying smughess," based upon the fact that progress has already been made toward spiritual advancement. (THROUGH REVter's agency.1 The President said that a large portion of the world is still with- CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 18th.
out the advantages of modera The Government has published, Į civilization, through the Ministry of Education, While it is well," he continued, "for be to look abroad and to a scheme of adult education, by which 19,000 specially recruited carry to the people the knowledge teachers will teach all men and of our faith, we should not forget women throughout the country who that our success in that direction are over 48 years of age and are will be largely measured by what unable to read or write.
we do for ourselves at home,
Birkenhead's Successor,
Д
some
He may have landed on remote island on the west coast of Scotland, or there is a possibility that he may have alighted in some isolated region in Ireland. He has no wireless and in the evert of his having. to come down where there is lack of communication, be, would not be heard of for some little time.
All Night Watch.
.
The aerodromes at Croydon and Stag Lane have been brilliantly lighted all night, while the staffs have kept a vain watch for signs of MacDonald. Lord Birkenhead's place at the wards 4 o'clock in the morning Anxiety grew to- India Office will be taken by Vis- when it was realised that the air- count Peel, the appointment having man's petrol supply was likely to been approved by His Majesty.be exhausted, but the only newe Viscount Peel has been First Com of MacDonald's whereabouts since missioner of Works since 1924, but he set out is a report that he was the elevation is not unexpected as
he was Secretary for India from
1922 to 1924.
The Marquess of Londonderry becomes First Commissioner of Works."
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CURE FOR LEPROSY.
DISCOVERY BY RIGA DOCTOR.
14 YEARS OF RESEARCH.
{THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]
BIGA, Oct. 18th. Four lepers have been released from the Esthonian Leper. Asylum on the island of Gesel as completely
cured.
They were treated. with a gold preparation, which has been called *Solganal" and which was pre- pared by Dr. Feldt of Riga, who has been experimenting with this preparation since 1914...
Dr. Feldt is now working at the Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin..
scen by a Dutch steamer at 12.30 yesterday morning at a spot 400 miles from his point of departure,
“MOTH " AIRCRAFT,
PLANES TO BE BUILT IN AMERICA.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE].
NEW YORK, Oct. 18th. At the moment it was announced that Lieut.-Comdr. MacDonald had started on
attempt to fly the Atlantic in a Moth seroplane, two lahed details of an issue of Math Wall Street banking, houses pub- Aircraft Corporation Stock, which has already been sold.
This company has been formed for the manufacture and sale of Joth aeroplanes. in the United States. The planes will cost about £900 each.
The President of the Company
estimates that some 300 machines of the famous De Havilland Moth type will be built in America in the -first-year
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