TOKYO PROTESTS AGAINST SALT SETTLEMENT.
NO PROVISION FOR PAYMENTS ON JAPANESE
LOAN.
FIXED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE PROVINCES.
"PREPARING FOR TARIFF AUTONOMY.
It was recently reported that a settlement had been reached in the question of payments due on Salt Loans, Under this arrangement the provinces were each to make a monthly con- tribution, in accordance "with a speciat, quota laid down, the total sum, amounting annually to $10,000,000 which is sufficient to meet ́all loans, secured on the salt- revenue with the exception of the reorganisation dean." This sum was to be, remitted to the S< Gabelbe.
The Japanese Government, it is said, will refuse to recognis this settlement, arranged by Mr. Hussey Ficko with the Nanking Government, as it ignores. Japan's rights: Japan has a claim upon the surples of all collections, but under the present settle ment there would be no surplus, and consequently no payment of interest on the loan of 800,000,000 from Japan to China,
The Nanking Finance Department has issued a notice to all provincial treasuries and Customs houses ordering them immedi. ately to take notice, of all resolutions approved by the National Economic Conference and put them in practice, in preparation for the declaration of tariff autonomy at the beginning of next year. When these recommendations have been carried out the Central Financial Department will be able to draw up a genera! plan of procedure.
THE RUMOURED SALT
·SETTLEMENT.
STRONG OPPOSITION FROM JAPAN.
[TRROUGH EXUTER'S AGENCY.]
L:
"PRIPING, Oct. 31st. The North China Standard, com- menting on the reported salt settle ment, believes that the arrangement is along the lines recently proposed, whereby $10,000,000 will be paid into the Ministry by the provinces and remitted to the Salt Gabelle for payment of the bonds directly secured on it.
Inasmuch as the Japanese Government has a claim on the surplus of all collections from salt revenues and as Mr. F. Hussey Freke does not make provision for any surplus in his agreement with Nanking, it is believed that Japan will withdraw all support from him and dedine to countenance any arrangement entered into by Great
Britain and France:
SHOP TAX OPPOSED.
́ÏTHROUGH BEUTER'S ADENOT.)
PERING, Oct. 31st.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PŘESS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER (1st, 1928.
THE "SPECTATOR"
CENTENARY.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE KING.
NATIONAL INSTITUTION.
· [THROUGH' KEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Oct. 31st. Representatives of politics, the law, literature, medicine, "journal. ism commerce and guests also from the Dominions were present at a dinner at Claridge's given by Major John Astor in celebration
AL'S WHIRLWIND
FINISH.
SLASHING ATTACK ON KU KLUX KLAN;
REPUBLICAN JOB WELL
DONE.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
“
BALTIMORE, Oct. 30th "I would rather be beaten in the race for the Presidency than win by the favour of the Ku Klux Klan," declared Governor
A Smith, the Democratic candidate, in his speech to-day.
of the centenary of the Spectator. The front page of the menu was
Smith was vigorous in attacking the forces of intolerance, which he a reprint of the front page of the asserted were co-operating with the Spectator's first number, while the Republicans to defeat him, and his scathinganouncement of the Ku back was a reprint of a 1829 page.
Klux Klanas greeted by voci Major Astor read a telegraci ferous applaus If the Repub- from B.M. the King congratulat-licans valued the support of this ing all concerned on the occasion:
organisation, he said, they could have it. Mr. Baldwin in his speech describ ed the Spectator as national institution which had had the re- markable good fortune of being conducted for a century by only
Its survival
T
WAA &
four men. noble tributa "to its innate British: stability. It had been a bond of union among all English speaking peoples,
A TUNNEL THROUGH THE ALPS.
The merchants union is agitating against the efforts of the authori ties to collect a five months' shop BOND tax all at once. They have or-i ganized themselves into fifty groups to demonstrate in the streets. One. party clashed with the police with the result that some agitators were taken to the police station and detained.
A MYSTERY.
[THEOLOR RECTER'S AGENCY.}
PERING, Oct. 31st. Mystery still surrounds, the case of the Fengtien officer on his way to Peking, it is said, to conduct negotiations, who was dragged off the train at Lofa yesterday by Nationalist soldiers and stripped naked in the sight of everyone. He was finally dragged to an outhouse where he was detained. It is fear ed that the incident will impair "The Japanese are understood to relations between the Nationalist he opposed to the new agreement | Government and Fengtien. which is entirely without fegal! status. A surplus by the allegod new plan will not exist, and hence there will be no payment of in- terest, or sinking fund for, the $95,000,000 loan in which Japan is ennerned. Mr. Husses Freke's position is therefore regarded as extremely precarious."
JUDICIAL COUNCIL."
(Wah T Fat Pao).
BETWEEN ITALY AND
FRANCE.
BRILLIANT FEAT OF ENGINEERING.
[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
PARIS, Oct. 30th.
The achievement of a magnificent fent of engineering, the construc- tien of a tunnel through the Alps. marked the inauguration to-day of a railway between Nice, in "France, and Cuneo, in Italy.
The railway pierces the Alps and links up the Riviera directly with Turin and consequently with Swit zerland and Central Europe.
The opening ceremony was cele- brated with great pomp at the international station of Breil, many prominent persons Leing in attendance.
understand and to love each other
SHANGHAI, Oct. 30th. Dr. Wang Chung Hui, the Presi-
M. Tardieu, the French Minister dent of the Judiciary Council, of Public Works, in the course of & speech declared: "It is the duty assumed his duties to-day. The
Arious departments including those of France and Italy to know, to of judiciary, nasize and executive,better, and today's ceremony is a CUSTOMS PREPARATIONS. are in full working order. Osing symbol of that rapprochement."
to some difficult points which re- Wah Ta Yai Pao).
.main unsettled. however, the Minister of Public Works, in re- Signor Giurati, the Italian supreme court will remain in being ply, spoke eloquently of the enter SHANGHAI, Oct. 30th. for the present. The Nanking Financial Depart- || The inauguration ceremony of Prise which enabled the construe ment has issued a notification to the National Defence Council wil tion of the railway and said that a provincial treasuries and Cus- take place on the 1st December, bound to favour a rapprochement the inauguration of the line was toms houses. It reads as follows: while before this ceremony General
"In view of the fact that the You Hai Shan is expected at Nan-between France and Italy.
Central Government is prepared to declare Customs autonomy at the beginning of next year, arrange mente must be made at present in accordance with all resolutione ap- proved by the National Economic Conference held at Nanking some time ago, such as the abolition of likin and unnecesary internal customs stations, and the establish- ment of new stations in some dis tricts. It is hoped that all provin cial financial authorities will take up this matter as soon as possible in order to enable the Central Financial Department to complete a general plan."
'GRAF ZEPPELIN:
250 MILES FROM IRELAND.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Oct. 31st.
The latest report received from the Graf Zeppelin was at 5 A.. Greenwich time, when the airship was approximately 250 miles south- west of Ireland.
WARSAW'S STRUGGLE WITH COMMUNISM.
ARREST OF SOVIET PLOTTERS.
(THROUGH KLOTZE'S AGENCY.]
WARSAW, Oct. 30th. The police have dissolved the Central Committee of the Ukrai- nian Communist Party operating in South-West Poland.
They have arrested forty-five of the leaders, and seized a number of documents which show that the Party has been in direct contact with the Soviet Republic of Ukraine, from which considerable funds were secured.
king to assume his duties in the HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS Nationalist Government.
COMMUNISTS SENTENCED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S LOENCI.).
OSAKA, Oct. 3ist. The local court of Okayamna has taken the lead in sentencing Com muniste, when to day five men were given penal servitude ranging from two to five years. Ten others were also found guilty but were put on probation on the ground that they show signs of repeat
S
IN INDIA.
SIMON, GO BACK."
NATIONALIST AGITATORS..
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LAHORE, Oct. 30th. The arrival of the Simon Cem- mission here, was awaited by thou Fands of demonstrator, still agitating for a boycott, carrying black flage. They were headed by the well-known
agitator, Lal Patrai, and other leaders of the Nationalist movement:
When Bir John Simon and bis
| DRUNKEN ́SAILORS' BRAWL. colleagues alighted, the mob press-
CUSTOMS GUARD KILLS ONE ASSAILANT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CIVITAVECCHIA, Oct. 3, Four German seamen, who are alleged to have been drunk, severe- ly manhandled at Italian Customs guard here. The latter fired and killed one of his assailants.
FIRST. WEST INDIES CONFERENCE.
CHAIRMAN ELECTED.
[BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE]
Rrosy, Oct. 30th. The Colonial Beeretary an- nounce that Sir Edward Dayson has accepted the unanimous in vitation of the Governments of the Colonies" participating in the West Indies Conference to act. as Chair man of the first West Indies Con- ference, which will meet in Bar- badoer next January.
ed against the barricades, yelling "Simon, go back.”
Aa the Commission's cars emerg ed from the station, the Police armed with lathis were obliged to" charge the crowds in order to drive them back.
CITY OF SAARBRUECKEN-
LOAN.
DISTRICT CONTROLLED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
(BxITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Oct. 30th.
issue has been over-subscribed.
Volstead Act.
He also dealt summarily with. the Republican ideas of the Pros hibition Amendment, saying that Eighteenth Amendment or in the there was nothing sacred in the Volstead Act, which was legisla tion" passed in the stress of war, lobbied through Congress by the browbesting methods of the Anti- Saloon League."
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
CHAOS ON SOVIET RAILWAYS.
PEASANTS BRIBED WITH VODKA,
GLOOMY ANNIVERSARY OF REPUBLIC.
(THROUGH REETAR'S AGENCY.]
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RIGA, Oct. 30th. Travellers arriving at Riga from Moscow say that the problem of supplying Central Russia with grain is becoming more and more acute with each day. In spite of the emphatic orders given to the Railway Department, the opinion is expressed that the number of locomotives available is hopelessly inadequate to cope with the con- gestion on the railways.
The situation is getting out of control, many districts being stric ken with famine, while at railway junctions trainloads of grain are held up.
FRENCH BUDGET
DISPUTES.
CHURCH AND STATE.
MISSIONARY COMMUNITIES IN FRANCE.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S ADENGT.)
eonnée
PARI, Oct. 31st. There are indications that the relations of church and state wil be subject to lively dispute inside the Coalition Cabines in tion with two clauses in the budget, Article 70 provides for the restore tion to the church of confiscated property which has not yet been distributed, and Article 11 provides for the re-establishment. of mission- ary communities in France.
Radical Socialists has been ag- The anti-clerical prejudice of the
gravated by the Pons, affair, and
President Doumergue
with M. Herriot, but no agreement appears to have been reached.
AERODROMES IN BRITAIN.
APPEAL TO PROVINCIAL CITIES.
AS NECESSARY AS ROADS.
ĮBRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE),
I BY, Oct. 30th. A remarkable new step towards the promotion of civil aviation has been taken by the Air Ministry.
The Ministry has addressed, a letter to the Town Clerks of the
chief provincial cities and towns asking them to consider the ad- visability of establishing Munici pal Aerodromes with as little de lay as possible.
The letter says:-"The develop ment of internal flying is almost
sion of aerodromes at large centres entirely dependent on the provi
The provision of aerodromes and
↑
net-
M. Herriot at the Cabinet meeting | ancillary services by the State must The Pravdu reports that nearly three thousand trucks loaded with yesterday is reported to have.de- necessarily, if only on the grounds grain are standing idle, and that manded the rejection of Article 71. of capital cost, be confined to ter- ing transport., over 50,000 tons of grain is await-M. Poincaré and M. Briand opposed minal points on the, trunk routes.
the
"The establishment of demand. Later
conferred
work of aerodromes throughout the country to serve the general pur poses of internal dying must de volve on the local authorities, who. may, indeed expect to benefit ulti- mately by the trafic and commerce which will follow the provision of these facilities.
the loading of other trucks with The congestion is enhanced by
various manufactured articles, in- cluding vodka destined for the peasants as an inducement to aur- render their grain.
The latest instructions of the authorities ordering a decrease of food rations in Moscow is causing much disappointment and dissatis faction in the labour districts, par-
WIN FOR PALAIS ROYAL II. ticularly as these orders follow an the promise to relax the present heavy restrictions temporarily dur ing the forthcoming celebrations of the anniversary of the Revolution.
A FINE FINISH..
The Cambridgeshire, run at New. market over a course of one mile and one furlong, resulted in an exciting finish, Palais Royal II. winning from Baytown by three quarters of a length. Baytown gained second place by a head from Insight II. There were 27 runners. The Betting.
5-1. Palais Royal II. 19-1 Baytown. 100-3 Insight II.
Alluding to the foreign policy of the present Republican Adminis- tration, Governor Smith declared that the way to outlaw war was to remove its causes and to substitute'
arbitration, conciliation and judi- cial determination. You cannot preach one doctrine in Europe and practice another in South America.
Ridiculous Oddal -
NEW Yonx, Oct. 31st. Governor Smith has now con- He cluded his country campaign. was welcomed by a crowd of 20,000. people at the station on his return to New York, whilst thousands more lined the streete.
The Governor is confident of success, and his supporters at headquarters laugh at the odds of speeches to deliver, but who re 4 to 1 on Hoover, who has five more
gards the rest of the campaign as only the mopping-up process of a job well done."
Business Conditions.
A message from Washington says that in the opinion of President
Coolidge, business conditions in the
United States at the present time" are remarkably stable and pros perous.' The prosperity is not likely to be shaken by the presi dential campaign.
Both imports and exports have been represented to the President as maintaining the same high level while business conditions generally better than they were a year ago.
Bre
THE UNEMPLOYMENT RETURNS.
A LARGE INCREASE.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
REGRY, Oct. 30th. The latest unemployment return shows a further considerable in- crease.
The total number of worklem is
1,344,200, which is 23,040 more than a week ago and 270,185 more than
a year ago.
OBITUARY.
MR. ROBERT LANSING.
GREAT INTERNATIONAL LAWYER.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN 'BERVICs).
New York, Oct. 30th. The death is announced at the age of 64 of Mr. Robert Lansing, the well-known diplomatist and adviser in International Law, whe was U.S. Secretary of State fromí 1015 to 1920 and Commissioner to the Peace Conference in Paria in
1918-19.
PEIPING OFFICIAL
MURDERED.
"
Camelots On. Trial. Five of the seven members of the Royalist organisation, Camelot du Boi, arrested in connection with the Pons affair have been commit ted for trial.
The other two, one of whom was charged with mutilating a public statue and the other for resisting the police, have been remanded.
MACAO FAIR.
Council that every town
"It is the opinion of the Air of any importance will sooner or later find it. just as essential to possess well-sited aerodromes as it does to-day to possess railway stations, roads and garagës,'
Britain's Progress. This appeal to the municipal authoritics is reinforced by a state ment of the progress made by r gular British aff services. These consist, at present, of the opera... BIG PREPARATIONS IN HAND,tion of Cross-Channel sir routes and of the route between Caire and Basra,
Under agreement recently negotiated with the Imperial Air- ways Company, it is expected that on April 1st next a through weekly service in each direction between England and India will be com the menced, and it is hoped that in
OPENING ON SATURDAY: RACE MEETING SUNDAY.
completion for the opening of the Preparations are now nearing
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near future other Imperial services will be established, to South Africa and elsewhere.
The growth of traffic on the Cross-Channel air services is show
In 1927. ing a marked increase. British machines carried 18,533 passengers, compared with 5,236 in
1923.
Macao Charity and Commercial Fair on Saturday night at 9 pm. It will be remembered. that there was a large Fair at Maene in 1026, organised by the Macao Port Works Department, but the present veri-
Notwithstanding keen competi- ture has been organised on a much
tion by four foreign air lines larger scale. The pavilions have operating to Croydon from various the appearance of permanent stric- parts of the Continent, it is point- tures, and the whole lay-out and ed out that British machines are arrangement of exhibits will be a
carrying by far the largest number of passengers. In 1927, Belgian vast improvement on the 1926 Fair.
machines carried -1,480 passengers, The Commercial Section will of French 6,105, German 1,972, and course be of, special interest to busi-Netherlands 3,588. and.. Macao. Some of the largest ne men of Hong Kong, Canton
business establishments of the thres ports have erected pavilions, and NEW LEAGUE OF NATIONS this section promises to be a great
NEEDED.
Baccess
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Amusements.
On the amusement side, the Fair promises to be a revelation. The
SEQUEL TO REFUSING LOAN lake has been beautifully laid out,
TO TWO" FRIENDS."
PEIPING, Oct. 19th. Hatamen Wal was the acene of
a sensational murder Wednesday Yung Wan, morning when Pu Director of the local Bureau of Government Mines, fell victim to two revolver shots fired by Chang Shu Shan: Chang was arrested after an unsuccessful running bat
LONDON EDITOR'S VIEWS.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col.,
October 25th.
and boating can be enjoyed, while Mr. Ralph Blumenfeld, editor of the coloured water fountain is a the London Daily Bzpress and special feature of the Macahead of A group of British Electric Company.
journalists now visiting here, pro- posed in an interview to-day that a new League of Nations be, form- ed consisting only of the Great Powers, and including the United States.
First class amusement troupes have arrived from Manila and
Shanghai and performances will be given at fixed hours every day and night.
Refreshment and Tea Paviliona are well distributed all over the
rounds for the convenience of
visitors.
Big Prizes In Charity Senyszir Draw.
Such an organization would suc- ceed the present League which, ac
cording to Blumenfield, "has be come hopelessly ineffective and a danger to international relations,"
Mr. Bluemenfield said that the League is hamstrung by its own cumbersome constitution. He de- elared that England has no thought of war, and continues in the League through lack of something
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In view of this fact, President the with the police, while Wang Yu Coolidge is confident that the tax Shu, who is alleged to have plan. returns for the current year will ned the murder with the prisenet. be enough to wipe out the made good his escape. $100,000,000 deficit, which the
Chang and Wang came to Peiping Perhaps the greatest attraction June 30th, next year. Director of the Budget forecast for from Yi Hsien several months ago of the Fair will be the Graad and approached Pu for jobs on the Charity Souvenir Draw under the strength of the fact that they were auspices of the Santa Casa da his boyhood chums. Pu promised Misericordia (Holy Institute of better. to do his best for the two friends, Charity).
The prizes include a This germ-carrying talking but weeks passed without any house Kowloop, valued at machine in Switzerland," said Mr. prospects for Chang and Wang, who 808,000. This forms the first prize, Blumenfield, an overgrown began to suspect that Pa was not and there are fifteen motor care and bureaucratié debating society, with sincere in his professions of cusist-motor-cycles as additional prizes.
its fulcrum on every crank idea.
It naturally produces a system of intrigue, backstairs gossip and communication in underground which lasting ideas and good will are submerged in a petty flood of local animosity and self interest."
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LABOUR CONDITIONS IN FAR EAST. GENEVA OFFICIAL'S TOUR.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
LosDos, Oct. 30th. M. Albert Thomas, the Director of the International Labour Office of the League of Nations, bas accepted the invitation of the Netherlands Government to visit the Dutch East Indies for the pur pose of gaining first-hand know- ledge and information in regard to labour conditions there.
from Japan.
ance.
After discussion they decided to Approach Pu for a loan, but when they breached the subject Pu plead ed that although be held quite an' important Government job, he did not get enough to make both ends
meet.
in
The hospitals and other charitable" institutions which will benefit from the proceeds of this Draw are mest deserving of support, and money invested" in, the purchase of tickets will be given for a very worthy cause. Some 30,000 of the total of 50,000 tickets have already been sold.
Steamboat Services,
The London editor said that "kis be a group formed by spontaneour own idea of the new League would
agreement between the United States, Great
Britain, France, out elaborate treaties. Italy, Germany and Japan, with
This increased the indignation of the two Chinese, although at the time they tried to make light of An interesting issue of capital. He will make a short stay in the after they left Pu's house they de-ranging special excusions. to Macao
Pu's refuzal. It is alleged that The Steamboat Company is ar has been successfully Eoated, in London.
Dutch East Indies when returning cided to murder him. They made both on Saturday and on Sunday in This is an issue, of £1,000,000 in
M. Thomas will leave Geneva for a subsequent visit and while Pu addition to the usual services,
On Saturday the Lungshan leaves six per cent. bonds of the City of the Far East very shortly. He was explaining why he was again Saarbruecken, at 85 per cent. The proposes also to visit China and unable to meet their request, Chang at 11a.m. returning from Macao Siam, and will return to Europe pulled a revolver from his pocket at 3.30 p.m. Representations bare in time for the next meeting of the and fired two shots at him, killing been made to the company to delay him instantaneously. In the con- the hour of sailing till after busi governing body in March, 1929.
fusion which ensued Wang escaped, nese hours so as to allow those who but when Chang made his dash for finish work at 1 p.m. to make the U.S. BANKER'S FORTUNE. liberty be found the gate already trip but so far the Company has
blocked by police. Firing his re-not been able to alter its arrange-resolution protesting against re [BEUTEL'S AMERICAN FERVICE] volver left and right Chang ran out ments.
striction of immigration of Orien On Sunday, when the Macno Race tale, on the part of the United of the house with police in hot. New York, Oct. 20th. pursuit. The law guardians re-meeting is being held, the Sui States. the Governor of the Federal Re-alter & fierce though brief en-
The late Mr. Benjamin Strong, turned his fire and captured him da leaves for the usual 8 am, trip while the Taishan sails at 9.30 a.m. serve Bank, left £100,000.
counter-Aug Wen.
returning at 5.45 p.m.
The government of Saarbruecken, which is the capital of the Saar Basin Territory, is entrusted under the Versailles Treaty to a Commis- sion appointed by the Council of the League of Nations.
or
There are no liabilities for war debts, reparations payments, payments under the Treaty of Ver- sailles or the Dawes Plan; and the. territory is subject to its own ter- ritories taxes only.
ORIENTAL BAN FOUGHT BY BISHOPS. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24th. The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal convention in progress here to-day endorsed a
The resolution had been intro. duced by Bishop Logan H. Roots of Hankow.
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