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JAPANESE ENVOY | BOROUGH COUNCIL.

AT NANKING.

WATCHING DEVELOPMENTS.

MR. ARITA'S MISSION.

(Wah Tu Tat Pea).

ELECTIONS.

LABOUR JUBILANT..

DETERMINATION TO

GOVERN,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT;]

SHANGHAI, Nov. 2nd"

LONDON, Nov. lat. Mr. Arita" on arriving at Nanking

London polled yesterday in the interviewed Dr. C... Wang Jeminiature General Election which terday afternoon and subsequently visited General Tan Yen "Kai. Their conversations, however, had no political significance." Accord- ing to his programme Mr. Arita

occurs every three years to decide the constitution of 23 Borough Councils.

The returns were received in many cases after midnight, but the

DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 1928.

THE HONG KONG

DIRTY FIGHTING IN ELECTION.

WORK OF IRRESPONSIBLE

AGENTS,

DRUNKARD OR TAX

: DODGER?

[NEITAR'A AMERICAN SERVICE}

NIW YORK, Nov. 1st. " "The dirtiest campaign in the history of the nation" was the de cription applied to the presiden- tial election campaign, by the well-known Democratic Senator,

AUSTRALIAN MOB ATTACKS.

POLICE COMPELLED TO FIRE.

CARGOES HELD UP.

(THROUGE BEUTEE'S AGENCY,]

to

THE CONQUEST OF MR. CHURCHILL AS

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THE OCEAN."

STILL A DISTANT DREAM.

DR. ECKENER'S VIEW.

(THROUGH AXUYER'S AGENCY.)

According

BERLIN, Nov. 1st,

MELBOURNE, Nov. 2nd. The police were forced to inter-

to the Forsische vene to-day when 2,000 trade" | Zeitung, Dr. Eckener, the designor unionists threatened volunteers The mob ignored & volley fired over their heads and advanced, armed with stones, whereupon the

will visit Marshal Feng Yu Hsians votes were not counted, and others Mr. Carter Glass, in the course of police fired, wounding, four trade her journeys across the Atlantic

had

and

The Provinces.

this morning and in the afternoon will not be received until to-day. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek

So far, it is known that the other high officials of the Nation Labour-Socialists have won 31 saata alist Government. He expects to and lost one, while the Municipal return to Shanghai to-morrow.

In an interview he said that he Reformers, the latter generally re- not received any particular presenting the Conservatives and Liberals in alliance, have gained instructions from the Japanese

one seat and tast 34. Government nor had he been em- powered to negotiate with the Nationalist Government as far as outstanding Sino-Japanese prob lem were concerned. In a word his mission was merely to observe of the members of the Municipal the working of the new Nationalist.. Government and to keep in touch with the latest progress of the negotiations between "Dr. C. T. Wang and Mr. Yada.

STUDENT SUPPORT.

(Wah The Tas Pau).

SHANGHAI, Nov. 2nd. The National Students' Unios, Nanking, has issued

Polling also took place in over 300 cities and boroughs in Eug- land and Wales, where one-third

Councils are elected annually...

an appeal to the voters of "Vie- ginia.

Personalities and bigotries have been indulged in by irresponsible agents of both sides in a manner and to an extent never thought of before. The number of lies put into circulation by these irrespon sibles Beema never-ending. and most of them are remarkable for their utter absurdity.

unionists.

One of these was seri- |

BRICKLAYER.

EXPULSION BY UNION.

CHANCELLOR REFUSES TO GO.

(BRITISH WIRELESS JERVICE)

Three weeks ago it became known that Mr. Churchill had accepted invitation made by Mr. Lane, the Mayor of Battersea, who is Divisional Secretary of the Brick- layers' Trade Union, to become a member of that Union, on the strength of his having laid bricks in the building of a house on his

RUGBY, Nov. lat. An amusing situation has de- attack of the Graf Zeppelin, has explain-veloped in connection with Mr. at Port Melbourne. ed that unfavourable weather, par- Winston Churchill's recent admis. ticularly in the storm neighbour-ion to membership of the Brick hood, prevented the giant airship layers' Union. from making the expected speed in

Dr. Eckener added a rather in ously injured. Mounted police and portant statement to this effect foot police used their batons freelyThis ship, in view of my experi- and quickly cleared the pier, but ences, is finished with as far as strong trade union pickets fined the any regular passenger service is roads to the docks and intimidated concerned: We must build stronger the drivers, preventing delivery of and quicker airships if we are to cargoes to ships. Over a hundred take up a regular passenger ter- police recently sent to the country vise."

Conquest Far Away. have been recalled.

The jubilation at the safe return of the Graf Zeppelin is, however, not likely to end yet. A huge torchlight procession was held this AERIAL TRANSPORT FOR evening, at which Dr. Eckener ad-

RAILWAYS.

A tug conveying volunteers to So frequently was it whispered work was fired at from the river that Governor Smith, the Demoside at Wiliamstown.

cratic candidate, was a drunkard, and 4 subservient tool of the Catholic Church, that he had been

to make public denials.. Hoover Pro-British.

Here, Labour won very heavily the latest figures showing 125 Labour gains and 18 losses, 15. Con-obliged servative gains and 78° losses, 13 Liberal gains and 23 losses, while the Independents have gained 10 and lost 4 seats.

.

Mr. Hoover had been accused of being pro-British, which heinous crime in the eyes of the Irish and Gerrann elements of the United States.

COMPANIES TO APPLY FOR NEW POWERS.

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dressed the crowd, saying that he had never regarded the fight as a small matter.

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estate at Westerham.

AN ARMISTICE MEDAL.

COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE BY.

ROYAL MINT,

A THING OF PEACE.

[BRITISH WIRALESS SERVICE)

Ruasy, Nov. 1sh.

A medal has been struck by the Royal Mint to commemorate the Armistice.

The Mint will issue. medals in two sizes. There will be a large silver medal, three inches in diameter, which will be sold at thirty shillings, and a large bronze nedal of the same size, to be sold at ten shillings, while there will also be a smal bronze medal, one and a quarter inches in diameter, to be sold at la 9d

The design of the medal has been chosen after competition between Beveral well-known medallists, the successful competitor being air.

Doman,

•

The invitation was made more by way of a joke than anything

An Appropriate Date... else and was accepted in the same An official of the Mint says:-- spirit. Some members of the We have simply followed the Bricklayers' Union, however, pre-example of other countries which ferred to regard the matter serious fought in the War. As they had ly and declared that public con- all struck commemorative medals tempt and ridicule had been and we had not, we thought the brought upon the organisation. tenth anniversary of the Armistice The Executive Council of the was a fitting opportunity to issue Union tried to maintain that Mr. one. It is new in British history. Churchill's admission to the Union Never before has such a medal been was still a good joke, but they have struck by the Mint after a war." eventually had to yield to the pro- The Government, said this off- tests.

Baxious that there cial, were should not be any jingo or vindic- tive air about the medal, and the designer has made it a thing of

Executive Decision.

The Executive officially announc ed to-day its decision that Mr. Churchill was not eligible for mem WASbership of the Union, as he did not intead to work as a bricklayer. Technically, he was not a member

Their experiences at some stages of the journey were so serious that he was convinced that the idea of [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

having conquered the ocean still far away. RUGBY, Nov. 1st..

Dr. Eckener described the dif- Still another development in

culties of the flight through both a fog and storm, especially near aviation is "foreshadowed by statement that the railway com- Newfoundland where they panies will shortly apply to Par-driven far out of their course...

"Terrible Anxiety. "I had a feeling at one time that the ship was breaking to pieces, but finally we mastered the storm."

Labour Jubilant. Labour supporters interviewed by Beuter are jubilant at their elec tion successes. Mr. MacDonald says it is a very certain indication of how the tide is flowing, while notice to branch students' union Mr. Snowden drew attention to the faulter as some of his opponents liament for powers to carry on air

circular 2.

in all provinces to the effect that special importance of the results in it is high time for the students of view of the nearness of the General China to take united action mection. Mr. Clvnes opines that support of the Nationalist Govern-

there is no mistaking the signife ment with regard to the presentence of the results-following the Sino-Japanese diplomatic situation: It also urges that students should

nearly all the industrial centres. take the lead in the popular move Mr. J. H. Thomas thinks it is the ment in support of the Govern inevitable forerunner of the Labour

meet

SHANTUNG RAILWAY ZONE,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. ].

PEIPING, Nov. 2nd. The forces opposing Liu Chen Nien are gathering at Weibsien, Laiyang, Tengebow and chewhere. It appears that there is some Exe- hood of the Japanese military authorities in Shantung allowing the Nationalist forces to cross the railway zone for the attack againet Liu Chen Nien, provided that ade quate guarantees are given for the safety of Japanese life and pro- perty...

DISARMAMENT CONFER-

ENCE.

(Wah Tu Yat Pao).

Mr. Hoover had also been forced to the necessity of getting the United States Treasury to confirm that he was not an Income Tax de

had asserted.

transport, Conferences are being Meanwhile, the Republican obeld to consider the matter.

were

pence.

The Design,

On one side of the medal is a figure of Great Britain supporting a young warrior with a sheathed sword and broken shackles of war, offering a wreath of laurels to the memory of the fallen.

because the admission form had not been properly completed, bis period at the trade having been omitted and the proposal of ad mission not having been seconded. Mr. Churchill, op the other hand, has refused to accept this decision, which is tantamount to the Union.. his expulsion from He is reported to have declared that he does not see how he could do so without endangering the position of other members of the accepted as members by the respon-been done." sible authorities, ought to have an assurance that they cannot be turn- ed out for political reasons,

Оп the other nide is the Cenotaph, surrounded by the inscription

"Their

name liveth for evermore"

The sheathed sword and the broken shackles of war were sug- gested by the great phrase which Lord Oxford uttered when Britain entered the War"We shall not.

Labour Parliamentary. victories in paign, and that the chief factor markets, and for the moment the of the engines which had broken Union, who, having been duly sheath the sword until justice has

détermination to govern.

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RELIGIOUS QUESTION IN FRANCE.

A FURTHER OBSTACLE.

CABINET ATTEMPTS AT SETTLEMENT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.]

PARIS, Nov. 2nd." Despite strenuous official efforts to re-draft Article 71 of the Budget, M. Herriot has been unable to ap prove any of the revised versions submitted. The Cabinet will con- tinue its efforts to-day, but an other obstacle ahead is the meet- ing of the Radical Congress at SHINOBAL Nov. 2nd. Marehal Chiang Kai Shek has Angers over the weekend, which telegraphed to Marshal Yen Hei must endorse any eventual change Shan that the National Disarmna in M. Herriot's, attitude. men: Conference will be held either next month or in January.

Marahal Yen's intended journey to Nanking will therefore be post. poned until the date of the con ference.

JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE.

[THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)

TOKYO, Nov. 2nd,

STABILISATION FOR FOR

BULGARIA.

ISSUE OF £5,000,000 STERLING.

[TUROCOM REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nov. 1st. The Bulgarian Finance Minis- ter and representatives of the The foreign trade reture for Schroeder banking group, have signed an agreement in London for the issue shortly of a Bul- garian Stabilisation Loan at seven and a half per cent.

October are:-

Exports 179,000,000 yen. Imports 167,000,000 yen. making a total for the first tea months of 1,844,000,000 yen in ex- porta and 1,624,000,000 yes in im. ports.

2ND SCOTS GUARDS.

LEAVING CHINA FOR LONDON

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]

LONDON, Nov. 2nd. The Second Scots Guards will eave China early in the new year and go to Chelsea. They will re- "place the Welsh Guards for public

duties in London.

Welsb

The

Guards are going to Egypt.

JAPANESE EMPEROR

The issue will give a net yield of about £5,000,000 according to present arrangements, which will include the issue of £1,500,000 at 98 in London, of. 88,000,000 in New York at 97, and of 130,000,000 francs in Paris at 98.

tors are insisting that neither Pro- It is understood that the com hibition, nor the religious ques-panies wish to speed up the de- tion, is really an issue in the cam-

livery of produce for the London

which will sway the rotes is the prosperity of America under the Republican regime.

Good Citizens Wanted. Governor Al. Smith gave an in terview to foreign Press repre sentatives to-day, when he empha- tically denied the Republican charge that he favoured an un. limited flow of immigrants.

He explained that he did not mind if the people allowed to enter | were unable to read and write, but if they came and reared children and sent them to State schools and were willing to take the oath of allegiance, such men were just s good American citizens as those who came from a long unbroken line of New England ancestry that came over in the Mayflower.

TRIBUTES TO JOHN WESLEY.

A GREAT ENGLISHMAN.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

question of passenger services is not important.

A railway official said:-"We have powers over, rojlways, roads, canals and the sea, and it is logical that, should circumstances make it desirable, we should also take to the air."

An official of the London North- Eastern Railway said his Company would like air extension from the porta

AMERICAN RAILROAD

IMPROVEMENTS.

GIANT ELECTRIFICATION . SCHEME.

[RKUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, Nov. 1st. The Pennsylvania Railroad in- tends to proceed with a vast scheme for the electrification of, thirteen hundred miles of track between New York and Wilmington.

The Zeppelin steadied herself, but only after we had mended one down. We must build stronger engines so that we are no longer a plaything in the grip of the elementi."

After reverting to the perils of fiying near Newfoundland, Dr. Eckener stressed the necessity of building airships capable of cross- ing the ocean without seeking to avoid storm centres.

Dr. Eckener and the crew of the Zeppelin were later entertained at a Lanquet,

HIGH-SPEED DISCIPLE OF

FOREIGN WIRE FOR POST OFFICE.

BRITISH ORDER PLACED IN

GERMANY.'.

The proceeds of the sales will be devoted to covering the cost of manufacture of the medals, If there is any surplus, it will go uzek to the Government.

THE RESTORATION OF PARTHENON.

Á LABORIOUS TASK. The General Post Office bave placed an order in Germany "for The patient work which has been POLICEMAN'S ODE TO HIS bronze wire needed in the telephone going on for the last six years on service, in addition to the order the Acropolis at Athens haa result- HELMET.

for the same material which was led in the restoration of so much A statement of the north side of the Parthenon placed in France. has been issued by the Department that the whole appearance of the in the following terms

building has changed. When the work has been completed, which will be within a year, and the scaffolding removed, virtually all the columns will have been re- erected.

BURNS.

Ayrshire, which gave the world Robert Burns, has given birth to another working-man poet- a police constable who has just published a volume of his own poetical works.

The placing of the Post Office order for a supply of bronze wire was withheld for some tine, while efforts were being made to secure a reasonable reduction in the quotations which British firms," by Until these repairs were begun,

between Agreement

themselves, immediately after the war, the This policeman-poet is Matthew uniformly tendered. These efforts, Parthenon was standing in very Anderson. He spent thirty-six failed, and accordingly the order much the same condition as that' years in the Ayrshire Constabu- for immediate needs, which were in which it had been left after the lary, and while he trod his lonely

acute, Was divided between disastrous explosion during the, beat during the silent watches of

French firm and a German firm at siege of Athens by Morosini in th nicht he wooed the Muses a

prices very substantially below the 1687. The central columns on each ardently as any poet ever did. uniform prices of the British ten-side on north and south were blown The policeman poet had thirteen derers. It is repeated that the outwards by the explosion of the children, but it was not until the Post Office did not place the order powder-magazine within the cells. arrival of the eighth that his abroad until it had made every On the north side, up to 1919, nine poetic soul was stirred sufficiently effort to induce the British firms columns only out of a total of 17

translate

his emotions into to quote a reasonable price, and still stood as they were originally Thereafter followed a had even suggested to them a built. Two-the seventh and ninth poetry. poem whenever a young Anderson price (allowing a substantial mar- from the wesi-had been roughly saw the licht of day. -

gin over the foreign prices) at rebuilt, but without architrave, which it was ready to place a large and stood isolated in the gap. order at once."

The missing parts of the column It was stated, on behalf of the drums had been added in red brick British manufacturers whose ten- and mortar, which looked very un- ders were rejected, that the con- sightly and inappropriate. Of the tract to which attention was called other broken columna two only re- last month was placed with the mained, and of them there was not Treffilière Company, of Havre, and more than half standing "Briefly, that, from 1,000 to 1,200 tons of then, there were six columns which this wire had been purchased in a could be re-erected and two more normal year from British firms at which wanted restoring anew.

It is understood authoritatively that the cost will not be less than 8100,000,000, and the process of to RUGBY, Nov. 1st. Tributes to the founder of effecting the change is expected to Wesleyanism were paid by the take seven years. Archbishop of Canterbury and the Prime Minister at a meeting beid under the presidency of the Lord Mayor of London in support of appeal for funds to renovate Wes- ley's chapel in City Road,

OBITUARY.

SIR ALEXANDER KENNEDY.

[TRODGE REUTER'S AGENOT.]

The Archbishap observed that

LONDON, Nov. 2nd. John Wesley did more than any- The death is entowiced of Sir one to uplift the popular religious | Alexander. Kennedy, the well-known life of England.

Mr.. Baldwin said Wesley was a great century. If any one single great Englishman typical of a man stood between England and The remainder of the issue will the monstrous upheavals on the he divided among Italy, Switzer; Continent,, it was John Wesley. land, Belgium, Holland and Wealey's supreme legacy to this Czecho-Slovakia.

country was a conception of prac tical religion for the ordinary man and woman.

FURTHER CORRUPTION IN

AMERICA.

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TURKEY ADOPTS LATIN CHARACTERS.

RAPID INTRODUCTION.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

ANGORA, Nov. 1st.

The Tarkish National Assembly has adopted unanimously the new law providing for the adoption of Latin characters throughout the

"HONOURED.

ORDER OF THE GARTER.

(TALOUGH REUTER'S „AGENCY.}

" cour*TY,

The Bill provides that from "Toxró, Nov. 2nd.

December next all newspapers and "It is learned on good authority publications must be printed in that Prince Henry will head the Latin characters, and that from mission to Japan early in 1929 to January next, all Government De- societies present the Order of the Garter to partments, institutions,

and banks must use the new charac the Emperor.

It will be recalled that Prince ters. Arthur of Connaught headed a The whole of Turkey is given similar mission after the Russo until June, 1830 to adopt the use Japanese war to bestow the Garter of Latin characters, but none other

must be used after that date. on the late Emperor Meiji.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY

BRIBED..

(BRUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

4.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1st. The Los Angeles District At- torney, Mr. Asa Keyes, has been. indicted for corrupt misconduct in office."

It is alleged that the District Attorney took $10,000 from Mr. Jacob Berman, the promoter of the Julian Petroleum Company, which failed last year for 81,000,000.

The money was paid, it is alleged, on the understanding that Berman and his associates in the bankrupt company should not be I convicted.

engineer.

HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.

The Health Bulletin of Eastern Porte for the week ending October 27th states: →→ ·

Plague. Bombay: 1 death. Colombo: 1 case, 1 death. Beirut 1 case. Baghdad: cases, "I death. Tungao: 11 cases.

Cholera,

Calcutta: 25 deaths. Madras: 31 deaths. Cantoa: 1 case.

Small-pox.. Baarah: 3 cases, 4 deaths. Bombay: 5 cases, 2 deaths. -Madras: 31 cases, 5 deaths.

Negapatam: 7 cases, 2 deaths.. Pondicherry 4 deaths. Belawan Deli: 3 case, 1 death. Sourahaia: 1 case. Pnom Penh: 12 cases, 2 deaths, Saigon: 2 cases, 2 deaths. Shanghai: 3 deaths. Dairen 1 ease. Baghdad: 10 cases, 8 deaths.

motion,

"Sad Farewell." Any domestic or parochial hap pening in Kilmarnock was enough to set the policeman poet's pen in When belmets went out of fashion in the Ayrshire force and caps came in, Matthew sat down and wrote this soulful ode:-

Farewell to thee, my good old

'friend,

No mare shalt thou my head

defend

From blazing sun, or hail, or

таіп, Thou'lt never shield this bead

again; From bricks or bottles 'mid the

strife,

Thon ne'er again shalt save my

life:

My dear old friend, no tongat

can tell How sad I feel to say farewell

Matthew's next poem is written round Burns. There is.. In illuminating verse in this poem which seems to solve the riddle of how and why this obscure police- maa-poet of Kilmarnock has strug gled for a place among the Im- mortals.

Where'er & Soot sojourns," singa Matthew Anderson, he feels the fame o'Robert Burns."

Anderson was no leisurely poet, He could turn out a sonnet or a poem to order. A young woman once called at the police station in Kilmarnock and asked this high speed muse to write something in her autograph album. He there and then sat down at his desk and wrote the story of "Woman" in

verst..

The work has been slow and an approximate average cost of £100 a ton. The value of the con- laborious. Endless âttings have to tract placed in Germany is under- be made of drum on drum and of stood to be about £80,000, but the fragment to fragment. Five whole Post Othen state that it is the columne havt, in fact, been added. settled policy of the Government In these five are included the two disclose contract prices, and which had been previously built the figure quoted is unofficial.

up, but they have now been rebuilt, The Post Office, when defending and over the whole five not only 'their action in the case of the the architrave has been placed, but French order, stated that the as far as the ninth column from Select Committee on Estimates of the west the tryglyphs and the in- the House of Commons recommend tervening masonry between them ed, after consideration of the have also been added. Above the effects of a ring on prices quot seventh and eighth columns from ed to the Post Office, that the Post the west, in addition, the cornice Office should have a free hand to and mutales have been added. accept tenders from abroad in The possibility of restoring any cases where it is unable to obtain of the Elgin Marblea or copies of the them to this aide of the Parthenon satisfactory evidence prices quoted by British manufac cannot be entertained, since there. turers are not excessive, and in the is none sufficiently well preserved present case there was no satisfacfrom the north side even to enable' tory evidence to that effect and us to tell from what part of the considerable evidence to the con metapes they come. The metopes trary." On behalf of the British have, therefore, been left blank. manufacturers it is denied that All missing parts of the architec The Post ture are supplied in cement, which any "ring" exists. Office had been pressing for yeare harmonises well with the marble for lower prices, and the price had and holds the restored parts. well been reduced, but further reduc- together. Missing column drums are tions could not be made because the replaced by ferro concrete drums, British manufacturers had been with the steel bars firmly fixed to supplying material at rates which the marble drums that survive were absolutely uneconomic

above and below.

that