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THIRD KUOMINTANG CONFERENCE,

OPENING FIXED FOR BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR.

CENTRAL OFFICE MAKES CERTAIN OF À MAJORITY.

FRESH REGISTRATION OF OLD

MEMBERS.

It has been decided by, the standing committee of the Central Executive Council of the Kuomintang that the Third Kuomin- tang conference will be held at the beginning of January next year. It is announced that the Central Party Office shall have the power to nominate one half of the delegates to be sent by the district Kuomintangs "to the conference, while the districts them- selves will be allowed to nominate the remaining half. This will insure that the Central Office will have a majority.

It is further announced that all members admitted to the party prior to 1894 must be registered again. This is a move on the part of the younger members to get rid of the Tung Ming Huei party, the predecessor of the Kuomintang. These two de cisions are taken as showing that the conservative element in the party is in a very strong position and stands in little fear of what the radicals may do.

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A disarmament conference, attended by all the high officials in Manchuria, has decided that the Manchurian army shall be reduced to 100,000 mai. The government 'Will make provision for "all soldiers who are disbanded under the new scheme, and will find them employmmat either in agriculture or industry. SIGNIFICANT DECISIONS.

ĮTEKOUGA KEUKEN'S AGENCY.}

BETTER SANITATION.

(Wah Te: Fat Pool.

SHANGRAL Oct. 26th.

NANKING, Oct. 96th.

In an order issued by the Nation- ...An importaat decision was reach-

alist Government for the institution. ed today by the standing com mmittee of the Central Executive of a sanitation department under Council of the Kuomintang, when the Executive Council, it is it was decided that the Third Kuomintang Conference should be held on January 1st, 1929.

A most signißcast cause however is attached to the decision, stating that the Central Party Office will have the power to name half the delegates to be scat by the "dis- trict Kuomintangs to the National Conference, while the other half will be elected by the district offices. This practically means that the Central Office will control at least half the votes of the con-

„ference.

Another very important decision is shown by the announcement that members of the oid Tung Ming Huei and all persons admitted to the Kuomintang prior to 1894 will be reinstated.

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forth that its main purposes will be those of taking up sanitary works, the improvement of the people's hygiene and the suppres sion of contagious plagues through out the country.

SHANGHAI CRIME WAVE.

(Fab Tez, Fat Pao). ̧

SHANGHAI, Oct. 28th. Owing to the growing seriousness of robbery and kidnappings in Shanghai the Central Kuomintang headquarters is considering the setting-up of a set of rules for the punishment and suppression of this crime wave.

TARIFF DIFFICULTIES.

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(Wah Te: Fat Pas).

SHANGHAI, Oct. 26th.

THE HONG KONG. DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY,

SIMPLON EXPRESS

DISASTER.

COLLISION WITH OTHER TRAIN:

THIRTY-ONE PASSENGERS

KILLED.

{THROUGH AMUTER'S AGENCY.]

OCTOBER 27th, 1928.

SIMON COMMISSION | ARAB OUTRAGE IN

IN INDIA.

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INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL

ADVISER.

'ECONOMIST"' EDITOR INVITED.

(THROUGH BRUTER'S AŬKNOT. 1

POONA, Oct. 26th. It is believed that thirty-one In order to have expert advice, passengers have been killed and from a British Snancial authority

BUCHAREST, Oct. 28th.

forty-seven injured in & collision between the Simplon express from Bukbarest and an express from Siniu near Slatina,

A aleeping car, two first class coaches, a luggage van and a mail van on the Simplon express were wrecked and twenty-five persons have been admitted to hospital at Slatina.

four Among those killed are foreigners, an Italian engineer, 'his wife and daughter and a Greck.

The accident was due to faulty working of the points.

HUENEFELD'S PACIFIC

FLIGHT.

VENTURE ÅBANDONED.

BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.Į

Toxxo, Oct. 26th. Baron von Huenefeld has aban doned his trans-Pacific flight.owing to unfavourable weather conditions

Following his forced landing rear. Tokyo, Baron von Huenefeld was fight making preparations fer at across the Pacific to Seattle rid

the Aleutian Islands. The aviator expected to set off about the 28th for 20th of this month.

LEAGUE'S MANDATES

COMMISSION.

GRATIFYING REPORTS.

(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY:]

GENEVA, Oct. 26th... The Marquis Theodoli presided at the opening of the fourteenth

He ex-

not connected with Indian central er provincial fnance, it is under stood that the Simon Commission has invited Mr. W. Layton, the editor of the Economist, to join

MOROCCO.

SUCCESS OF PUNITIVE EXPEDITION.

RANSOM DEMANDED FOR MERCHANT.

[THROUGH REUTER'S

AGENCY,}

The

CABABLANCA, Oct. 28th. troopa requisitioned

to

punish the tribesmen involved in the hold up which occurred at Wadzem in the hinterland report that the job has been successfully accomplished.

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Zubitags' however is still appar the Commission in India in Decemtently in the hands of the bandits, ber

TRANSIT OF GOODS THROUGH RUSSIA,

PARTIAL LIFTING OF SOVIET

BAN

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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as he has been able to communicate to the French. "authorities that a ransom is required.

The French Press is showing agitation at the increasing number of fatal affrays in their protector

ate.

It was reported on October 22nd that while crossing dangerous ground which necessitated a slow speed, a lorry containing a driver and two Spanish "merchants by name Pomarce and Zubitaga, found their way blocked by two donkeys. A couple of Arsh horsemen sudden

GOVERNOR SMITH SCORES.

TELLING RETORT TO HOOVER.

DOORS RUSHED BY MOB.

{RKUTER'S 'AMERICAN SERVICK]

BOSTON, Oct. 25th. The presidential, campaign is gathering momentum and the pub

BENEFITS OF AIR POWER.

DISPLACING MILITARY

GARRISONS,

FUTURE OF AIRSHIPS.

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Rucny, Oct. 25th. Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary, for

lic is at last showing signs of in- | Air, delivered an address this even- terest in the issues. As a smarting on aviation and the British

tort to Mr. Hoover's undoubted Empire, before the Royal Geogra

phical Society of Scotland. success at New York on Monday, Governor Al Smith, the Democratic candidate scored a decided triumph at Boston last night.

A

thousand people eager to secure admission broke down the doors and forced their way into the seething audience while Gov- ernor Smith was speaking.

It is estimated that over fourteen present,

thousand persons were and they roared frenzied approval when the Democratie nominee met Mr. Hoover's challenge that he proposed to meet the perplexing problems of the country by resort ing to State Socialism.

Mr. Hoover's attack was based upon the proposals outlined by Mr. Smith for dealing with Prohibi- tion, farm relief and electrical

Moscow, Oct. 25th. The Council of Labour and De- fence of the Soviet Government has decided to permit the transit of foreign. goods through they appeared and opened fire, and Soviet Republic provided that the Pomares was, wounded. The driver goods are being moved between immediately accelerated, but the power.

Old Stock Phrase, countries with which the Soviet borry was soon brought to a stand-

Governor Smith last night de has normal diplomatic relations still as the petrol tank was holed.

The Arabs prevented the threeclared that if his course of action and trade Treaties,"

travellers from escaping and shet made him a Socialist, then famous the driver dead despite his appeal Republicans" such President "I am the father of four children." Roosevelt, and Mr. C. E. Hughes They carried of the others after were also Socialists for opposing taking their money, but Pomares, the alienation of the water-power seeing the police in the distance, of New York State. managed to fall from his horse but was again wounded by the two bandits, who then escaped carrying Zubitags with them.

The goods must be accompanied

by the requisite certificate origin.

of

The Commissariat of Trade will”

draw up a list of goods which will not be, permitted to pass through the Soviet Republic.

THE FOREIGN SECRETARY'S

HEALTH.

B.5

Furthermore, be declared, every member of the Congress who voted for the McNary-Haugen Farm Re lief Bill and for the Muscle Shoals TAX ON SHIPPING PROFITS. Bill were Socialists by the same

precept. BACK TO WORK IN A MONTH COLLECTION IN COUNTRY OF

The Cry of State Socialism MANAGEMENT.

against the Democrats was demned by Governor Smith as & subterfuge and an old stock phrase of special interests. It was

of Republican reactionaries who for the past twenty-five years

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Sir

Ruday, Oct. 25th. Austen Chamberlain, the

The younger members contend that the present Kuomintang is.

Regarding the results of the session of the League of Nations British Foreign Secretary, who is very different from the old Tung negotiation between Dr. C. T. Mandates Commissioc. Ming Huei or Kuomintang of past Wars and Mr. Yada, the gerers pressed pleasure at the growth of now in California, is expected" to years, and they have no liking for opinion of foreign diplomatie cir interest in the League's work in return vid Vancouver and Canada

eles points to the fact that although

The and to be Home on Saturday, the so-called "Old Guards." It many outstanding Sino-Japanese connection with mandates. has been their platform to demand problems have been satisfactorily Director of the Secretariat of the November 24th. It is anticipated -re-registration of all Party mem-settled through the offices of Dr. Mandates section was gratified with that he will attend the League of bers, hoping thus to sliminate the fi. Wang and Mr. Yada, Sino- most of the reports of the manda- Nations Council meeting on De-

Japanese diplomatic relations are tory Powers received before Sept. cember 10th. still fraught with many difficulties. 1st..

Sir Austen's bealth has greatly The British, French and Japanese improved. especially in view of the tariff problem, which will be settled in representatives declared that any the form of a Siao-Japanese tariff members of the Commission visit- convention.

ing their respective mandated ter. ritories would be welcomed and given every facility.

"Old Guards."'

decisions The foregoing two mean a significant victory for the conservative members and also

mean that the present Govern- ment and the present "leaders.are firm in their paces and feel that the radicala have little chance of giving much trouble.

AFGHAN TREATY.

(Wah Te Fat Pão)."

SHANGHAI, Oct. 26th.

The Chinese Chargé d'Affaires at

CHAIRMAN'S FIVE WORDS. London. Mr. Chea, hae wired to

1TRODOH HEUTER'S AGENCY.!

RESTRICTION ON ARMS

TRAFFIC.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Oct. 28th.

the Nanking Government stating that the Afghan Minister in Lon don has consulted with him regard. The State Council has notified ing the condusion of NANKING, Oct. 26th.

treaty the Superintendent of Customs at The following members of the

Shanghai that from now on, all new National Government of China

shipments of arms and ammuni- took their caths of office yester

tion, and munitions of war of any kind passing through Shanghai, day:

even when accompanied by "per- mits, must be detained.

General Tan Yea Kai, Chairman of the Executive Yuan.

Dr. C. T. Wang, Foreign Minis

ter:

General Feng Yu Hsiang, Minis- ter for War.

Mr. T. V. Soong, Finance Minis-

ter.

Mr. Wang Pch Chun, Minister of Communications.

Mr. San Fo, Minister of Rail-

WILYS.

between Afghanistan and China, Mr. Chen says that this matter was taken up some time ago, but was not proceeded with. He urges the Nationalist Government to re- open negotiations with the Afghan Government in order to complete the settlement.

MEMORIAL SERVICE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PEIPING, Oct. 20th.

Yen Hai Shan this morning còn- ducted a memorial service at the

Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Tienwang Temple in the Winter Industry.

Mr. Hauck Tub Pi, Minister of

Palace for Li Yuan Hung.

The

On detention, the Superinten. dent is instructed to communicate with the Nanking authorities giving details of the shipments and asking for instruction.

This is a precautionary measure against the unlimited restriction of arms.

BACK TO NORMAL.

(THROFGU BETTER'E AGENCY.]

PEIPING, Oct. 26th.

Mr. Yi Pei Chi, Minister of services will last three days..

Shang Chen will officiate to-mor Agriculture.

Mr. Chiang Mon Lin, Minister of row and the local headquarters of

the Kuomintang on Sunday. This It is officially stated that by Education.

morning á salute of guns was fired November 1st all extra Japanese ned a Kuomintang Rags were troops sent to North China (except flown at half-mast in honour of the Shantung) on the approach of the .." ex-President,

Nationalists to Peking will have returned to Japan, leaving the normal garrison:

Health.

Mr. Chow Tai Weo, Vice-Minister

cf the Interior.

Professor Tsai Yuan Pei repre sented the Central Kuomintang Marshal Chiang Kai Shek asked the new Ministers to remember the five words: Pure, careful, indus trious, strict, alert.

FURTHER APPOINTMENTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

MANCHURIAN DISARMA-

MENT.

„ÍTUROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}'`

MUKDEN, Oct. 26th.

The conference on the' disarma ment of Manchuria, attended by Chang Hsueh Liang, Chang Teo

ROUND ABOUT METHODS OF MOSCOW.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Oct. 28th. The North China Daily New

Hsiang, Wan Fu Lin, Yang Yu states that Russo-Japanese sources

NANKING, Oct. 26th, Ting and twenty other General, report that $150,000 from the mandate appoints General opened on October 23rd. So far it Komintern in Moscow was trans- Chao Tai Wen, the Vice-Minister, has been decided that the Man ferred eid Berlin to M. Anikiev,

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to hold concurrently the post of churian army will be reduced to the Soviet Commercial Attaché in

INTERNATIONAL

LABOUR

OFFICE.

DIRECTOR TO VISIT JAPAN.

{THROUGH REUTER'S ACÉKOY.)

GENEVA, Oct. 25th.

M. Albert Thomas, the French Director of the International Labour Offer has arranged to leave next week on a visit to China and Japan.

He will remain in Japan for at least three weeks, according to

present arrangementa

THE FIGHT AGAINST MALARIA.

COVERNMENTAL BOARDS OF

EXPERTS.

{THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY,}

GENEVA, Oct. 25th.

(THROUGH ZEUTER'S AGENCY.]

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GENEVA, Oct. 25th. An international conference held under the auspices of the League

cry

con-

the

labour

PASSENGERS ON THE ZEPPELIN."

of Nations for the purpose of con- have been, battling against every sidering the imposition of double progressive "welfare and taxation for fiscal evasion, passed measure, a resolution to the effect that the of shipping companies should only be taxed in the coun profits try where the effective management of the concern was established.

The conference also adopted ̊ an amendment, submitted by the Japanese delegate, extending the principle to commercial air trans- port.undertakings.

GERMAN REPARATIONS

PROBLEM.

COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.7

RUGBY, Oct. 25th. It is understood that the pre parations for the formation of the proposed Committee of Experts on German Reparations have been considerably facilitated by the con- versation which took place in Paris last Friday between Mr. Winston Churchill and M. Poin- caré.

It is considered probable that the Committee of Experts will meet be- fore the end of the year.

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TRIALS OF NEW. H.M.S. **LONDON."'

COUNTY CLASS CRUISER.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

The League of Nations Hygiene Committee has adopted the Malaria Sub-Committee's report, which pro poses that each Government should" institute a permanent central or ganisation, composed of experts, to undertake malaria investigation..

It is also proposed that the

RUGBY; Oct. 25th. central organisations should for-

The latest ship in the Navy to mulate recommendations regarding bear the name of Londen is now the selection of methods for com undergoing her trials, the result of which will be kept secret, in ac bating malaria, and adopt a pro- gramme of research into the rela-cordance with modern Admiralty tions between housing conditions practice. and malaria.

"As soon as her trials are com- pleted, H.M.S. London is to go out

THIS YEAR'S NOBEL PRIZE to the Mediterranean as flagship

WINNER.

RESEARCH AGAINST

*** TYPHUS.

(THROUGH REDTER'S ADENOT.]

LONDON, Oct. 25th.

It is announced from Stockholm

of one of the Cruiser Squadrons there. She is one of the 10,000 ton County Class and not one of the 8,000-ton City Cless.

London has always been very keenly interested in ships named after it, which have been numerous, both arined merchantmen and ships of the regular Navy..

The last warship of the name was an 18-knot battleship of 15,000

Acting Minister of the Interior 100,000 men, and those disbanded Tokyo, who forwarded the amount that the Nobel Medicine Prize for

the Dardanelles in 1915 and after- Li Tsung Jen becomes President of will receive Government employ to the credit of a Japanese subject 1923 has been awarded to Profes- tons, which distinguished itself in

industry. in Shanghai, whence it either pass sor Charles Nicalle, the Director of the Military Advisory Council, Liment in agriculture or Taai Hsin Chief of Staff and Ho A definite military budget for Maned or is in the process of passing the Pasteur Institute at Tunis, forwards. co-operated with the Italian work in connection with fleet at Toranto. After the Armis

tice, she was broken up. Ying Ching Inspector-General of churia will be drawn up. The con into the hands of Chinese Com- his

ference is still in session.

munists for subversive propaganda. I typhus.” Military Training.

ONE WOMAN CHOSEN.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Dealing with the problems which the invention of aviation" had created for the British Empife, he anid we

went into the War' an

island Power completely immune from invasion. We came out of it victorious indeed, but with cur capital more open by reason of this new invention to foreign attack than any of the great capitals of Western Europe.

Year by year we must give our minds and money to building up an Air Force strong enough to deter any would-be enemy from

attacking" us. He was glad to think that while five years ago there were practically no Air Force Squadrons available in this coun- try for Home Defence, there were now 30 Squadrons out of the 52 that were being formed.

arma-

Aviation had, however, imposed upon the British taxpayers & new item in expenditure upon menta at the very time when we wished to reduce over the whole world" the burden of armaments. How could we find some advantage from Dying to set off against this liability 1

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Unique Mobility, Five years of experience in the Air Ministry had impressed upon him, with continuous force, that the only way in which that liability could be counter-balanced was by making the fullest possible use of the unique power of mobility of the acroplane for effecting econo-

mies in Imperial defence and "de- veloping the cominunications and resources of the scattered Empire. There were certain fields of Im-

perial defence where an Air Force Wing could be economically used as a substitute for the older mili- tary forces rather than as a supple- ment to them.

Beductions In Irak.

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A conspicuous instance of this policy was the case of Irak, where we had been able to reduce the garrison, which in 1921 comprised LAXERURST, Oct. 28th. 33. Imperial Battalions, costing One woman and five men have over £20,000,000 yearly, to five been accepted as passenger on Squadrons. of the Royal Air Force, Graf Zeppelin's homeward fight at without a single Imperial Bat- a cost of £600 each. The passen talion in support, costing less than gers include Mrs. Clara Adama £2,000,000. A single Squadron of (wife of the tannery magnate and the Air Force had forced the Imam personal friend of President of Yemia, who had for years en- Hindenburg), Richard Burke (bro crouched upon the Aden Protec ther-in-law of Cornelius Vander. torate, to leave it and to release bilt), Colonel Grant Miller (a Sheikhs friendly to the British London business man, late of the whom he had kidnapped. Royal Air Force) and the banker,, Mr. Paul Marko.

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LABOUR IN THE LORDS. LORD HALDANE'S SUC- CESSOR

(THROUGH REUTER'S ACENOT.)

LONDON, Oct. 25th. Lord Parmoor has been unani- mously elected the leader of the Labour Peers in the House of Lords in succession to the late Lord Haldane.

Lord Paraibor, who was raised to the Peerage in 1914, after many years

A & Unionist Member för Stroud, Stretford and Wycombe Labour successively, joined the Ministry in 1924, and was Lord President of the Council during the short-lived Labour Government of 1924.

A RECORD "FLIGHT. NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES

IN 5 HOURS.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

New York:

In Somaliland aeroplanes had in a few weeks removed the constant, danger of Mullah risings, and on the North-West Frontier of India, with practically no casualties on either side, pence had been impor ed upon unruly tribes by British. airmen.

He foresaw the time when air- power, like sea-power, would be concentrated upon two or three strategic points of the Empire and when units, instead of being un- economically tied down to local de- fence, would be freely moved from one threatened point to another. Buch a policy presupposed the closest possible liaison between the Air Forces of the Empire.

Imperial Communications. Dealing with aviation as a means of improving Imperial communica tion, Sir Samuel Hoare said that service would be running every early next year a regular aeroplane week between London and Karachi. Another great trunk aeroplane ser- vice was projected between London. and Capetown. He was daily ex- pecting detailed proposals which would enable him to judge whether the creation of this service was possible.

In regard to airships, he believed BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25th..they could be used for eliminating A message from Minesfield, Los two-thirds of the time now spent Angeles, states that the monoplane, in journeys between London and "Yankee Doodle," has arrived the capitals of the Empire. That there after a nonstop fight from was the justification of the pro- gramme under which for the last The time taken to cover the dis three years the Air Ministry had tance was 24 hours and 53 minutes, been engaged upon the design and construction of two great airships. The machine was piloted by Cap-He anticipated the success of the which is claimed as a recoril:

the Dominion were co-operating, tain C. B. D. Collyer, and its experiment, and owner, Mr. Harry Tucker, was Governments

also belicving in its success. corried as a passenger.