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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10th, 1928.

JAPAN'S INTEREST IN FAR EAST FLIGHT M. POINCARE BACK MEXICAN MURDERER THE REPARATIONS

MANCHURIA.

CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAILWAYS.

PREPARED TO STRIKE A BARGAIN.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ACENCY.)

SHANGHAI, Nov. 9th. The Sin Fan Pao` states that

Mr. Ailta'e visit to Nanking ja for the purpor

of sounding the Nationalist officials on the subject of recognition of the privileges granted to Japan by Chang. To Lis for the construction of Ave railways and the right to lease land in Manchuria. In order to attain

· AT

MANILA.

AGAIN?

CONDEMNED.

BIG ESCORT OF U.S. 'PLANES,

A REPUBLICAN MINISTRY.

LONG TERM FOR MOTHER SUPERIOR.

WEEK OF FESTIVITIES.

LEFT WING DISPUTES.

(TEBOUGA KAUTER'S LOENCY.),

MANILA, Nov, 0th.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCÈ...]

PARIS, NOT pth. There is hitherto little indication The four dying, boats 'known ki the Far East Flight, commanded of how the Cabinet crisis will be by

ed, or 36 too few to counterbalance the remaining groups,

"The Left Wing groups partici

Group Captain Cave Brown solved. The possibility of a coal Cave, accompanied by seventeen tion of the Left Wing has receded United States Army and Navy following a meeting of represents 'planes, few into Manila Bay tires of the left parties, at which shortly after 11 a.m. They circled only 270 Deputies were represent over the city in perfect formation, the shining silver-coloured visitors leading, and splashed into the water off the Army and Navy Club. The ariators were greeted by the British Consul General, Mr. Thomas Harrington, and representatives of Governor-General Stimson and the Army and Navy. A full week of The five railways mentioned in social activities has been planned the Sin Wan Pao report are ap-by Manila's cosmopolitan parently those from Harbin on the munity. Chinese Eastern Railway south to on" the

this the Japanese are willing to make concessions in the matter of treaty revision, and the Tainan incident,

The Five Hallways.

Liutaokow im Cheatao Korean border, from Kirin to Liv taakow; from `Changchun north.... went to Tailaibrien; from Taonasłu north-west to Sotur in Inner Mongolit, and from Kirin north- east to Wichanghsien..

The railways will presumably he built under joint Chinese and Japanese supervision with Japanese capital,

MANCHURIA'S FOREIGN

RELATIONS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, Nov... 9th.

com

TRAGIC DISASTER

IN U.S.A.

NAPHTHA EXPLOSION IN FACTORY.

FAMILY STRICKEN.

[RETTK'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK, Nov. 8th. A message from Lyan, Mas sachusetts, states that twelve, per- RORY were killed and twenty in jured in a naphtha explosion in a shoc factory, including four oceu- panta of a neighbouring house

STORM OF HISSES.

(BRUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICH.)

SAY ANGEL, Mexico,

November 8th.

The trial of Jose de Leon Toral

DISCUSSION.

HOOVER'S SOLEMN RESPONSIBILITY.

PAYING THE PRICE OF 1926.

CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT ON NO HOUR FOR EXALTATION. UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM OF

PARIS CONFERENCE.

UNCERTAIN GERMAN

ATTITUDE.

+

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE;] -

Roosy, Nov. 8th.

for the assassination of the Pre Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancel sident. Elset of Mexico, General lor of the Exchequer, was asked Obregon, was brought to a

close in the House of Commone to-day here to-day in the presence of an for a statement regarding the re- immense crowd which has through. cent conversations in Paris on the out the trial been swarming inte reparations question. the Courthouse in feverish excite ment..

Toral was sentenced to death,

and Mother Superior Maria Con opcion, who was jointly tried with him on a charge of being his ac complice, was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.

He replied that the conversations arose out of the decision taken at

Genevs to set up & Committee of financial experts to make recom mendations for a complete and final settlement of the reparations problem.

PLEA FOR SUPPORT.

(KBUTEX'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

NEW YORK, Nov. 8th. Mr. Hoover has issued a state- ment declaring that he is unable

adequately to express his gratitude for the overwhelming confidence of dent, and says that it is an indica the people who made his Presi-

tion of the great issues which were

at take and the determination of the true road of progress

Mr. Hoover declares: In this hour there can be far me no feel

of ing

victorious exaltation.

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sense of

pating in the conference hoped to secure the support of the Radical Left Wing, whose 34 members, hold

Rather, it imposes the balance of power, but the

solemn responsibility of the future Radicals withheld their support us.

"Death To Toral."

and complete dependence on Divine less they were granted a share in Feelings at the closing stages of

guidance for the tank which the During the conversations be the responsibility of government. the Toral trial were so high that made it clear that the British rentest office in the world imposes.

the prisoners had to be surrounded

That task is to give the best Hence the only alternative com- by three rows of armed troops, a Government would welcome a final bination appears to be a Republarge number of whom were sip settlement provided Great Britain that is within me, and to interpret lican ministry under the Premier- tained in other parts of the build-continued to receive enough from the common sense and ideals of the American people. I can only suc- ship of M. Poincaré. If the lattering. A crowd of a thousand, who

wore unable to gain admission, Allied debts and reparations to- declines Hr. Briand will probably loitered in the streets crying iva gether to cover Britain's external red in my part by the opera- be offered the post, but it is Obregon," "death to Toral."

debt payments. He first conversed tion and unity of all leaders of Defending counsel't ples that authoritatively atated that

Toral only committed & political with M. Poincaré and subsequent. opinion and action for the common Briand will only accept on the crime, and that Maris Conception ly with representatives of the service of our country,"

German, condition of M. Poincaré taking was a holy woman was drowned in Belgian,

Italian and zatorm hisses from the specta- Japanese Governments. the portfolio of Finance.

Rocked to its foundation by the Mr. Churchill continued:"Istrain of the gigantic "Hoover The defence has been allowed am glad to say that the conversa

the machinery of the five days to prepare an appeal tions revealed no disagreement in Boom," unless the Supreme Court acts, in principle between the six Govern Stock Exchange collapsed to-day. which case Toral will face the inents concerned. No final deci

The tape machine Was 100 firing squad and Maria Concepcioasian has yet been reached as to the will commence- her term of im

personnel and date and place of minutes behind the frenzied trad- prisonment,

meeting of the Committee, but I ing and prices shot up from ona to' hope all these preliminary ques-twenty-three dollars share, tions will be settled and the Com-

BIRKENHEAD'S NEW POSITION.

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL IN- .DUSTRIES...

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.}

LONDON, Nov. 9th."

M

It is announced that Lord Bir

tors.

RECEPTION ON NEW O.S.K.. LINER.

3

"Hoovar Boom."

per

Y. L Tong has wired to Chang where a woman with her husband/kenhead, who recently resigned COMFORTABLE COAST VESSEL. Cept the view which we take at the view of the general meeting at

and cight children were having

breakfast.

A sheet of flame leaped from the factory twenty feet away, burst the

Hauck Liang stating that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs · will assume full responsibility for the diplomatic affairs of the Three Eustera Provinces. He requests window and enveloped the family, the despatch to Nanking of all incinerating the mother and three documenta appertaining to the children. The others were slightly foreign relations of Manchuria,

VICTORY FOR MERCHANTS.

[THOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

injured.

TERRORS OF ETNA ERUPTION.

UNDERGROUND STREAMS OF

LAVA.

from the post of Storetary for India, has joined the board of Directors of Imperial. Chemical Industries, Limited....

AMALGAMATION OF OIL

COMPANIES."

GOVERNMENT HOLDINGS' NOT AFFECTED.

[TABOUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, NOV. Bth.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill replied in the affirmative to a question whether the Government had been consult

-S.S. CANTON MARU."

FITTED FOR TROPICAL TOURING.

4.

The reception held on the Canton Maru yesterday afternoon was very well attended by many representatives of the local shipping firing and a number of the local Japanese community. The vessel is an addition to the large fleet owned by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, and is replacing the ss. Kitu Maru, on the Hong Kong, Keelung and Swatow run.

mittee constituted without any though later profit-taking dimi long delay. Perhaps I ought to mished the early gaina, say that it ought not to be inferred.

General Motors reached £214 in that the German Government ac-

present time."

which the Directors proposed that Asked whether the reparations the common stock be split into two- settlement was bound up with the question of the evacuation of the and-a-half shares for every share Rhineland territory, Mr. Churchillheid, plus an extra cash dividend replied that that matter was...en- of 82in addition to the regular tirely separate.

SHANGHAI MURDER

MYSTERY.

CHINESE SUSPECTS

REMANDED.

quarterly payment.

The Coalmines,

BRITAIN.

FAULT OF LABOUR PARTY.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Ruasr, Nav. 8th. The House of Commons to-day

debated the first amendment to the Address in reply to the King's Speech, dealing with unemploy-

mont

Mr. J. R. Clynes (Laboar) moved an amendment that although the Government had had four years of office the country was burdened. with unemployment in a more acute

form.

Appalling conditions pre- vailed in many of the mining arens, and the proposals outlined in the King's Speech were utterly inade quate to meet the existing indus- trial situation."

In the course of his speech, Mr. Clynes complained that the Sessions programme contained nothing to lessen the despair of hundreds of thousands of workers, but that, on the contrary, the Government's policy would result in diminishing the volume employment. He es- timated that at least £1,500,000 waa

weekly being received by those who were compulsorily idle in order to He suggested kepe them alive. that the dole should be increased and turned into a wage for actual work and he urged the Government, as one soluticu, to reconsider open- ing trade relations with Russis

Labour Party Blamed. Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, replied with an exhaustive analysis of the industrial situation. Dealing with the sugges tion made by Mr. Clynes that this country should resume relations with Russia as a means of reducing unemployment, he declared that anyone who supposed that the re- admission of the Soviet Embassy to Britain would make the slightest contribution to the problem of un-

Mr. Churchill pointed out that be-employment was misleading himself sides the great masses of persons and would mislead others. It was under the great unemployment insur y easy to say that the present ance there were at present 224,000 industrial situation was the fault SHANGEAL, Nov. 6th.

women upon the unemployed lists of the Government but it was far Further mystery surrounds the police investigation into the Kes who were scarcely ever included in easier to say and easier to prove The vessel was open to inspection wick Road tragedy when a British any pre-war total. There was a that a large part of it was the fault and many of those who were aboard nurse was murdered and her escort fourth class for whose industries of the Labour Party." spoke very highly of the accom- at the time dangerously wounded. modation. Although not of large At a hearing set for yesterday at

improvement in trade carried no Had Mr. Clynes forgotten the dimensions, the first class saloon is the Provisional Court into the direct and permanent hope of general strike and prolonged coal ed with reference to its holdings comfortable being provided with alleged participation of a gang of alleviation. These were the conl stoppage of 19267 Through these in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in the formation of the Consoli. Cosy Chesterfields. It is panel Chinese suspected of being im

miners. Until three, years ago we had been thrown back two or." dated Petroleum Company by thed with Japanese oak and has an plicated in the shooting, in another The Mount Etna eruption has amalgamation of the Anglo-Persian adequate sky-light and large win case, the matter was remanded for 1,200,000 persons were engaged in three years behind the onward march presented to the Government declaimed its frat hainan victims Company and the Asiatic Petro dows. The excellent ventilation is a special hearing on November 15th coal-mining. Now there were only of other nations. The reserves of noticeable throughout the vessel ir-presumably to give the police addi- $20,000 so that 280,000 had been industry were exhausted during that Mr. Churchill added that the in- cluding the cabins. Adjoining the tional time in which to ccrting discarded by the coal industry. period and the resources of the

their investigation.

This was

PEKING, Nov. 5th. The struggle between the Mer chants' Union and the Chamber of Commerce is likely to end in the victory of the former, for the Chamber has decided to call a mass meeting, at which it is ex- pected to propose that petitions be

FLYING BOULDERS:

(TARUUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}"

CATANIA, Nov. 8th.

manding that all extraordinary, Three peasants insisted on sleeping taxes in force be abolished forth in their homes at Mascala after the evacuation, and it is feared that they have perished."

with.

'SHANGHAI CUSTOMS

REVENUE.

[TRROCCH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]

There are indications that the Etna eruption is subsiding, though the lava stream is creeping on and is within 300 yards of the Catania. Messina railway line.

Incandescent Boulders.

leum Company. dependence of the Anglo-Persian Company was not affected.

ENGLAND'S CURRENCY

NOTES. CALLING IN THE TREASURY

· 133UE. --------

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} SHANGHAI, Nov. 9th. The import dutire for. Shanghai

To the

LONDON, Nov. 8th. of enormous serpent last month were nearly 2,500,000 molten lava which is cleaving a

Further details of the proposed Bank of England note isstic were taels, which is almost double the path of destruction in the foreal given by Mr. Winston Churchill receipts for October-1997. Export down the slopes there is now add-to-day in answering questions in duties totalled 600,000 taels, an in-a

harror, for incan the House of Commons. further

Mr. Churchill said that the pre- crease of about 200,000 taels, descent boulders, measuring ten sent currency would remain legal making a total increase of Customs cubic feet are being scattered tender after November 22nd, when revenue for Shanghai in the past broadcast, falling with terrife Three months notice would be the new notes would be available. months of almost 5,000,000 taels force, sufficient to break the under given to the public when the old compared with the same period ground water mains.

notes were to be called in, but last year.

this was not expected to happen Profesor Ponte, the Director for some considerable time." of the Etna Observatory, who re maing at his post despite the bom-RUMANIA'S NEW PREMIER. bardment, has reported to the Gov- ernment that the eruption twelve hours has reached a stage of development only previously at NANKING, Nov. 8th. tained in four days A curious The State Council has issued a phenomenon is the fact that the mandate ordering the Ministry of lava is apparently moving in underground channels from one Agriculture to proceed with the newly-formed fissure to another. formulation of regulations concern. ing afforestation throughout the country,

AFFORESTATION.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]

SUN YAT SEN'S STATE BURIAL.

[THLOCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

CAPTURED "SHAST"

... PIRATES.

FIFTEEN FOUND GUILTY.

FURTHER ARRESTS.

[TH100OR" REUTER'I AGENCY.)

HANKOW, Nov. 8th.

in

(THROUGH REUTER'S 405NOT.]

saloon is the dining room where the tables are arranged with ample room between each and plenty of electric fans overhead.

The Cabins,

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The cabins for the first saloo passengers are on the first deck, with two large windows to each cabin. They are of the two berth type and provided with water sup ply and electric fan

There is also a big wun-shine deck. The steerage accommodation also provides very good quarters for the Asiatic passengers.

Details Of The Ship. The Canton Mary is of 2,800 300 feet., Beam 45 lett and depth tons.

Her dimension, are Length

25 feet.

She was engined by the builders the Crags Dockyards for a speed

of 18 knots.

COAL COOLIE'S AMBITIONS.

SERVICE.

a grave misfortune for State to aid misfortune had been the miners but not for the coal Labour Party not admitted their grievously impaired. Had thei

industry, which with its reduced responsibility! Had there not bec staff was now capable of supplyingna effort on the part of the respon the whole demand for home and sible leaders of Labour to establish a different and saner policy? Were foreign coal and could, if need be, not Communists being excluded quite easily without taking on an- from Labour Party politics! Was

The problem of unemployment, continued Mr. Churchill, was wide and mysterious. There was heavy

less expression of socialisni there aad in kuasin under the most ruth- unemployment in the United States,

was also very heavy unemployment. Neither of these countries was making anything like the provision

There are eight men and four women in the gang and they were arrested by detectives of the Louza The vessel has been fitted through police station is a raid on October out with the express idea of cater-discovered arms and ammunition 28th in the course of which was ing for tropical pleasurè travel

suspected with having been used in the Kcowick Road tragedy.

The gang were brought before the Court on a charge of having mur-ether man produce thirty million not Russian interference being re- dered a Chinese on North Chekiang tons more than it was able to sell pulsed in domestic affairs? Whe Road on September 9th, and are

at present. The numbers of miners not Mr. Cook, who led the miners being held pendlag the police in- unemployed might even be increas in 1928, being discredited? These vestigation into their activities.

ed by every improvement in the signs of amendment were welcome, efficiency of the coal industry, by but they were too late. The price every well conceived amalgamation,

of 1925 had to be paid! THEOSOPHICAL ORDER OF and by every step towards that

Unemployment Relief. nationalization which the Labour and Liberal Parties advacated. The coal industry itself, as a living Society, Mr. H. E. Lanepart gave had cast them on to society rúd the Hong Kong Lodge Theosophical had cast off the heavy burdens but At yesterday's meeting of the factor, had greatly improved. It

an address on The Theosophical Stato. brist. The work of the Order of Order of Service.?? He said in Government Proposals.

The practical steps, concluded Service represents something very Mr. Churchill, which the Govern- to succour the unemployed that was previous in the activities of the Theosophical Society.

ment recommended to Parliament being made here.. He believed it Those who to remedy or mitigate the indus true to say that man for man and kao ought to tell those who do trial situation were, firstly and

woman for woman in this island not know, but is also trus that to mainly, the comprehensive relief much and it might be four or five we provided, two or three times as know a truth you must live it. of industry from local taxation; The Theosophical Order of Service and, secondly, a policy of Empire times as much as any other country secka to model the conceptions settlement. To quicken the flow of including the most wealthy add arrived at by Theosophical study migration to Canada there would most socialistic countries, for the A coal coolie walked out of M. for adaption into useful forms of be an additional grant of £1,000,000, care of the weak and the poor. Lindsell's Court yesterday morn daily life. The plan of organian-

Before the year 1911, relief of ing with the air, of one who had tion of the Order was worked out rising to £1,500,000 in future years unemployment was left entirely ta: won a battle, for he was allowed ja Amerien and the Order. has other form of help was coming into rendered it only to the higher ranks. Trade Unionism which, however, to take away with him two coats its. Head its founder Dr. Annie operation through new schemes for for the possession of which a dis- Besant, the World President of improving the electricity supply of labour and mainly only to males. trict watchman ushered him into the T.S. The work of organising The Government were opposed gen-fore the war, there were rarely less He believed that in the years be- the charge room.

and directing is in the hands of erally to enlarged schemes of public The man had ready excuses to be the International Sceretary From relief works, owing to their meagre than three or four hundred thou count for possession of clean gar him will radiate out lines of com- results in relieving unemployment, sand uneraployed. There were now ments when those he was wearing munication to the Chief Brothers but it proposed certain extensions 1374,000 unemployed. By the were solled with coal cust. He of the 44 countries of the world of land drainage and a scheme to Great War, a large part of the anid that he earned 60 cents the in which the Order is established prevent const erosion.

wealth of Britain and the world A Memorandum by the Foreign previous day, which made it pos today. The Chief Brother is the Mr. Churchill also referred to the had been consumed. The world all Minister, accompanying the desible for him to purchase the gar Head of the work in each country,

connection he said that the Govern all sorts of countries, which were the Government is determined to ten cents left to buy himself ten various centres, each under a Head ment would claim at the election quite ready before the war to buy the utmost that the development Further he would like to appear in Brother. Each Head Brother will fall freedom for anfeguarding

our basic manufactures, wished to of commercial relations with China clean garments now and then, and appoint his cabinet of seven bro any industry which proved to an make things themselves. New and shall, as far as possible, satisfy was looking forward to this ples there, all of whom are members of authoritative tribunal that a safe more vigorous competitors met. us Chinese political requirements. sure after & wash when the district the Society, and each at the head guarding duty on its products in every foreign market and old

The Dutch Minister at Peking watchman pounced on him.

of one of the following depart would benefit the country. There customers increasingly closed their has been instructed to proceed to The evidence of the prosecutor mente:-1 Social Service; 2, would also be an extension of the doors upon our wares. We were Nanking to negotiate in connection was so unsatisfactory that Mr. Animal Welfare; 3, World Peace; Exports Credit Scheme, and foally, loaded beyond all other producing with the proposed Chinese Customs Lindsell cut short the proceedings 4, Watcher; 5; Back to Nature; 6, special measures for the absorption countries with debt and taxation. Butonomy.

... | by - discharging the colle.

Healing: 7, Arie and Crafts.

of surplus miners.

(Continued on previous Jolumn.)

BUCHAREST, Nov. 8th. been consulting the various party The Regency Council, which has leadera for the purpose of forming a Coalition Government,, has in vited the ex-Foreign Minister, M. Titulesco, to form a Ministry of National Union.

M. Titon has asked for time to consider the request.

HOLLAND AND CHINA.

(THAÇUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE HAGUE, Nov. 8th.

INTERFERENCE BY DISTRICT

WATCHMAN.

"

to reduce the cost of passages. An-

NANKING, Nov. 9th. Out of the twenty-three men ar The standing committee of the rested in connection with the Shasi partmental, estimates, states that mente at Lascar Row and still have and under him will function the question of safeguarding, in which round had grown much bigger and

piracy case it is stated that fifteen have been found guilty and eight innocent.

Central Executive Council yester- day passed a resolution, dealing with the state burial of Sun Yat 1.Son, that all party organs at home and abroad will be notified three months in advance of the date of interment. Wu To Chen will be head of the delegation which win proceed to Peking to convey the casket to Nanking,

A further eight suspects have been apprehended and they are at present” under examination headquarters.

Mr. Henvis, the American pas senger who was wounded in the affair, is progressing, favourably.