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FOREIGN TREATY

DISCUSSIONS.

MINISTERS RETURNING TO PEPING.

NEGOTIATIONS CONCLUDING.

Taxocox YER'S AGENCY,]

HUGE HAUL OF NARCOTICS.

MILLION POUND CONSION; MENT FROM LINER.

U.S. TREASURY AGENTS' CAPTURE

(REUTER'S AMERICAN FERVICE}

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 1928.

PRINCE OF WALES' APPEAL.

RELIEF FOR MINERS.

THE DUTY OF EVERYBODY.

[THRUGGE REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Loxtos,, Dec. 18th.. The Prince of Wales has taken up the cause of the distressed mining areas, and has issued a half, in the course of which he direct personal appeal on their be

Mys

KING'S RESTFUL NIGHT.

SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT CONTINUES.

LESS ANXIETY.

(THROCOR REOTER'S AGENCY.1

BRITAIN'S WAR PENSIONS.

VAST SUMS EXPENDED.

CONTINENTAL GRANTS

COMPARED.

RUBBER EXPORTS TO AMERICA.

TWO YEARS FIGURES. COMPARED.

"MALAYA BADLY, HIT.

(THROUGH BRUTÈR'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, Dec. 18th.

R.A.F. 'PLANE BROUGHT DOWN.

AFGHANISTAN OUTBREAK.

BRITISH RESIDENTS SAFE.

-THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NEW DELHI, Dec. 19th.

arms and ammunition.

(NRITING WIRELESS BERVICE)

SKANOHAI, Dec. 19th.

LONDON, Dec. 18th.

RUGBY, Dec. 19th.

The rebels are reported to have The Aus in News Agency re-

NEw Youx, Dee 19th.

The bulletin lasued at ti aim.

Enquiries were made in the seized two forts overlooking Kabul Treasury agents have seized on a

Major Fryon, the Minister of House of Commons to play regard. which are filled with large quanti-, ports from Nanking that the British,

states that the King had a restful Pensions, in a memorandum states ing the effect on the British rubber ties of Portuguese and Dutch Ministers, narcotics valued at £1,000,000, the pier on Hudson River a ton of

sight, and the slight improvement that £60,000,000 will have been industry of the Government an. They are awaiting reinforcements and the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires largest haul ever made. The car he has been painfully impressed by favourable in Palace circles, and abled ex-service men, excluding

noted yesterday continues.

expended on pensions by March nouncement in the early part of To-days bulletin is regarded as next. Unemployment among dis- the year that rubber restriction

to press their attack. have booked reservations from Narcotics, arrived in five large cases on the suffering, which exists in the there is a more hopeful feeling in these totally incapacitated, is less President of the Board of Trade, munication with the British Lega-

would cease within six months.

A Royal Air Force plane, engag- king to Peping, leaving Pukow on

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, theèd in an attempt to establish com- Thursday afternoon. The Auo in: Friday aboard the French Ener cont-fields.

the Royal Household, but it is than five per ent, of the total num-

was asked message adds that there is good

Ruchambeau and were consigned

to give comparative We must all join in one com-stressed that anxiety must continue ber of mea pensioners, The war crude rubber

figures of the amount and value of tion with a view to possible, evacua- Teason to believe that the treaties to a man in Philadelphia who is higed national effort to help the for some time. It is emphasised pensions expenditure of the last United States from Britain and aad children, was shot in the radia exported to the tion of British and Indian women under negotiation will be signed, believed to be head of a notorious women and children in theas that the progress in the past three year ended March 31st amounted to and September 20th, this year and tor and compelled to make a forced

British Colonies between April 1st days, though definite, has been very about £60,000,000 and for the cur- last slight.

landing. The Kurram Khyber rent year would total £37,000,000.

Sir Philip gare the following authorities are making efforts to The King's condition after a month's illness continues to justify expenditure on war pensions. of 61,767,000

A comparison of the aggregate

Bgures:

From the United Kingdom; send assistance, but the exact¬ the continuance of anxiety, and will France. Germany and the Caited £3,313,000 in 1926, as compared fate of the pilot and observer is pounds valued at locality of the landing and the do so until his reserve of strength Kingdom for the ten years since £3,180,000 in 1927.

with 42.191,000 pounds valued at unknown.. has considerably increased. But as November 1918 shows that France the days pass the likelihood decreases has paid £450,000,000, Germany pounds, valued at £1,815.000 in From British Malaya; 250,235,000

Communications Improved, Idtermittent telegraphic com- that general infection will return £350,000,000 and the United King- pounds, valued at £22,935,000 in Kabul Quetta and Kandahar,

1028, compared with 94,007,000 ualeation is maintained and, although other sources of dum £787,000,000. As to the cost of 1027. danger exist, that is the greatest administration of the total sum so

but communication between the The ebb and flow is likely to con-absorbed in the ten years, it was

telegraph office and the Logation,. tinue but the feeling of optimism, not more than £30,000,000, or 4.2

which is at some distance Irom the city, is not at present feasible, although guarded, is increasing.

prior to their departure.

DRAFT AGREEMENTS.

Wah Te Yat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Dec. 19th.

In addition to Sir Miles Lampeon the Ministers of Portugal. Holland and France have arrived.

at Nau king in connection with negotia- tions dealing with the tariff prob- lem with the Nanking Government. Dr. C. T. Wang has concluded hist negotiation with them and the draft agreements are expected to be signed in a day or two...

The French Minister yesterday held a final meeting with. Dr. C. T. Wang discussing in detail the draft tarif agreement. They have agreed on all those points which have been agreed between China and Italy.

The negotiations between China and Holland has been gone through amoothly with the exception of the question of the surrender of con. aular jurisdiction.

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international narcotic, syndicate.

BRITISH ARMY AND

POISON GAS.

BARRED AS WEAPON OF OFFENCE.

areas, adds the Prince, who at the Lord Mayor's invitation has accepted the position of Patron of the Lord Mayor's Fund.

The Prince of Wales now asks everyone to contribute as gerèrous ly to the Fund as their means will

allow,

Individual Duty.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICEĮ

"Let us recapture the spirit of Reday, Dec. 13th. the War when we recognised every In the House of Commons to-day, effort made by the Government na Sir Laming Worthington Evens, a new call to individual self- Minister for War, stated that no sacrifice. The Government' have part of the Army's training for offensive purposes involved the use of poison gas 23 a weapon of offence.

MUSSOLINI'S SEVENTH

PORTFOLIO.

MINISTER FOR THE COLONIES,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Rows, Dec. 19ch. Signor Mussolini has undertaken A later report to hand atatea yet another Ministerial portfolio" in that the Dutch Government has consequence of the resignation of instructed the Dutch Minister in Dr. Luigi Federzoni, the Minister China to gencede to this demand The Italian Dictator now holds

For the Colonies.

by the Nanking Government. It is seven portfolios, namely Prime expected that

Minister, Foreign Minister, Minis- the draft, tarif

ter for the Interior, Minister for agreement between these

War, Navy Secretary, Secretary nations will soon be signed.

fer Aviation And Minister. for Colonies.

The Cabinet now consist of seven members only.

OPIUM SUPPRESSION.

(Wah T. Yat Pao).

two

DAM ON COLORADO RIVER,

SHANGHAI, Dec. 19th * PROTECTION FROM FLOOD... General Chang Tse Kiang, the

[AKUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] Chairman of the Opium Suppres

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18th. sion Committee, is tendering his

The House of Representatives by resignation from the poat. Yester-166 votes to 122 has accepted the day the Executive Yuan beld a Senate amendments to the Swing meeting to discuss the matter and Johnson Boulder Dam Bill, which. provides for the construction of a it was resolved to retain him in huge dam on the Colorado River office at least for the time being.

at Black Canyon for the purposes of flood protection, irrigation and The cost of the dam is estimated to be $165,000,000.

The Bill will now go to the White House for the Presidential Assent.

WOMEN WAGE WAR.

UNITE TO DEFEND HOMES FROM CHINESE BANDITS.

Haronow, China.

Tired of having their homes pil laged and burned and their daugh

ters carried off by bandit gangs. several hundred women of North- Zein Kiangsu districts have declared

war on bandits,

Two foreign missionaries "who "arrived here recently report that the indignant women and one of the amalier bandit gangs elashed near Ko Lab Da Village and cha: the bandits were routed, 15 of thei; number being killed, seven cap tured and several wounded. Nine of the women attackers 'W'17'e either killed or wounded.

power.

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KELLOGG PACT,

RATIFICATION ADVISED BY

15. SENATE,———

(REUTER'A AMERICAN SERVICE)

their duties, but each of us has also, the individual duty of show ing in practical ways our deter mination to alleviate suffering and

Tuesday's Bulletin,

LONDON, Dec. 18th. Long consultations were beld by the King's medical advisers at Buckingham Palace to-day, follow. ing His Majesty's relapse last night.

to re-kindle hope among these dis-Sir Stanley Hewett was joined at tressed fellow-countrymen of ours."the Paince by Sir Hugh Rigby and Funds are coming in at the rate Lord Dawson at about seven o'clock of £5,000 daily for the Lord and at 8.10 p.m. the following

bülletin was posted:- Mayor's Fund for the relief of the miners in the distressed coalfields. The largest contribution so far is that of Mr. F. K. Kielberg, the chairman of the Anglo-Danish Society, who is the managing direc tor of United Molasses.

Supplementary Estimate.

The King has passed a quiet day and the progress noted this morning has continued."

(Signed) STANLEY HEWETT,

HUGH RIGBY," DAWSON OF PENN

It was stated by a most authori The supplimentary estimate which will be presented to the tative source that the King to-day to carry out the Cabinet plan for House of Commons to-day in order had made further slight progress, helping to relieve distress in the and that he is now in a somewhat £995,625, which is made up na fol-six hours ago. mining areas amounts in all to better position than he was thirty- lows.

In Palace circles to-night, the Grant in aid at Lord Mayor's

position was regarded with much fund £150,000.

Transference of unemployed gork-greater satisfaction and the recept people £100,000.

Relief in distressed Dining areas ir Scotland £20,625.

Unemployment relief works in. Royal parks and pleasure gardens

£20,000.

CO-OPERATION IN INDUSTRY.

CONTACT BETWEEN MEN AND LEADERS.

REPLIES TO LORD MELCHETT. [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICK]

Rugay, Dec. 18th of employers have made their re Practically all the organisations

plies regarding the agreements reached between Lord Melchett's group

and of employers. the Union Congress to promote peace General Council of the Trades

in industry.

Employers who are in touch with the feeling of their colleagues in other industries do not anticipate) unqualified acceptance or rejection of all that is contained in the in- terim report.

air of restrained optimism has been renewed.

Dr. Howitt and Dr. Woods at tended at the Palace to-night and gave His Majesty another applica tion of the Ray Therapy treatment.

· Privy Council. The Counsellors of State will hold Privy Council on behalf of the King on Friday. They consist of the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor Lang, the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin and the Lord Chancellor, Lord Hails ham...

MARK OF ORIGIN FOR TEA.

STRONG OPPOSITION FROM THE TRADE.

TH

EVIDENCE IN CAMERA.

(THROUGH REUTER'S 10ENCY.]

LONDON, Dec. 18th.. Further strong opposition to the application to the Board of Trade for an order requiring a mark of origin on imported tes was offered at the resumption of the inquiry

It is believed that, in the main, the replies will be found to convey to-day. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18th. approval of the efforts made to Among those who gave evidence The Foreign Relations Commit.

setare a measure of closer co-opera- for the opposition was the manag- Lee of the Senate, by fourteen tion in industry and a desire for ing director of Lipton's, who said votes to two has decided to re-joint consultation with the General he did not think that such an order port the Kellogg Pact favourably Council of the Trade Union Con- would be to the advantage of the to the Senate for ratification.

country's trade or to the bulk of It is stated that the vast majority the British consumers. interested to think of anything like of the employers have been far too unqualified rejection.

President Coolidge has asked for term of office expires and it is not ratification, of the Pact before his anticipated that any difficulty wil arise.

greas

Per cent.

The pensioners number at present about 870,000, making together with their dependent wives and families about 1,300,000 persons.

ANTI-IMPERIALIST ARRESTED.

JOHN W. JOHNSTON IN INDIA.

{THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.}

JERAS. Dec. 19th. The Bengal Government recently ordered Mr. John W. Johnston, the representative of the League of Anti-Imperialism at the All-India Trade Union Congress to leave India immediately.

pared with

From Ceylon; 32,100,000 pounds

valued at £3,043,000 in the corres valued at £1,325,000 in 1929, com- 10,360,000 pounds, ponding period last year.

PARAGUAY ENROLS

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VOLUNTEERS.

TROOPS LEAVE FOR

FRONTIER: -

URGENT CONFERENCES IN PARIS.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

Asuscros, Dec. 19th. Over fifty thousand Paraguayan volunteers have presented them. selves for military service, of whom 30,000 have been accepted and enrolled.

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from

LATER. Kabul-Quetta, telegraphic com munications bave improved and numerous messages have been de- livered from the Legation Belated messages to India are also coming ia.

A reassuring telegram has been' received from the two Royal Air Force aviators who were forced down near Kabul stating Safe and Well"

Afghan Account, --

LONDON, Dec. 18th. The Afghan Legation gives out reassuring news concerning the troubles in Kabul, stating that it has received a telegram from the Afghan capital dated to-day, bear- ing out its recent statement on the. real state of affairs.

An official communique has been Three boatloads of volunteers issued in which it is stated that have left for the northern frontier. the trouble began when approxi A Paris message states that for mately four hundred brigands led the 'Brst time in history the wire by Bad Chasa Quau attacked a Me Johnston nevertheless ad less telephone was used last even-

suburb of Kabul on December 10th, dressed a meeting of the Congressing to obtain information to help last night. He was arrested and in

A large number of Government' settling international differ forces were hurried to the centre taken to Dhanbad, in a motor-car.

wheti the French tinder of the disturbance and engagement Secretary for Foreign Affairs con- between the sides laited a few versed with the French Ambassador hours, after which the leaders of at Buenos Aires regarding the the brigand band were either-kill- situation in Bolivia and Paraguay.ed or captured.

He also communicated to the Ambassador the instruction of M. Briand on the subject of the dis- pute.

U.S.. SHIPPING BOARD SALES.

[KEDTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18th. The United States Shipping Board has decided to sell 45 of its vessels to the Union Shipbuilding Company, of Baltimore.

They are being sold at the scrap- ping price of $423,000.

JACKIE COOGAN'S £600 "TURN" IN LONDON,

23-MINUTE PERFORMANCE WITH HIS FATHER.

LONDON, Nov. 19th. Jackie Coogan's first appearance. at the Palladium was an extra- ordinary proof of the way in which film stars have captured the public imagination.

Jackie, presented with a large mechanical train by the manage- 'ment, played with his new toy in between the shows, and said that he wished the second turn would only last four minutes, so that he could go home and try it on the floor.

Natural And Unspoiled:

He is the embodiment of natural-

ences,

Sir Eric Drummond has been conferring with M. Briand on the situation arising out of the conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay.

Conciliation Treaty, The Sub-Committee of the Pan- American Conference on Arbitra- tion and Coneiliation has unani- mously agreed to an arrangement for a Treaty of conciliation embrac ing disputes of any kind whatever between the Republies of Western Hemisphere.

the

RADIUM "TRIUMPHS". FOR

CANCER.

SUCCESSES ALREADY...

ACHIEVED.

TOBACCO EXCESS,

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The raid was easily repulsed by the Government troops and the situation in Kabul is now very quiet. The Eastern Province and Jelalabad are also normal.

received from Peshawar, Reuters Gratifying news has also been. correspondent cabling that all is well at the British Legation in Kabul, communication having been re-established by aeroplane,

THE OUTLAWING OF BEARDS.

OMSK AND THE BARBERS.

Moscow, Nor. 15th. Peter the Great, who simultane ously satisfied his zeal for progress and his need for revenue by im- posing a tax on the wearing of the traditional-flowing Russian beard. has found inconspicuous and per haps unconscious imitators in the members of the Children's Welfare Commission of the city of Omsk, in Siberia. Being short of funds this Commission, which is supposed the idea of collecting a fine from to look after street waifs, hit on

every anshaven citizen.

The value of ridium in the treat- ment of cancer, and the possibility that excessive smoking may cause the disease, are among the points emphasised in the offcial report, of the International Conference on

The effect, as described by a re- Cancer, held in London last July.

Professor Archibald Leitch, of cent visitor to the city, was in the ness, utterly unspoiled, unconscious the Cancer Hospital, editor of the highest degree striking. The Gov ernment offices were for a time ex- of his wealth, and paid 15 dollar's report said last night a week salary by his family, who Within a few years the perfecclusively staffed with women, and declare that they plot all sorts of tion of radium technique has subterfuges to get the money away that one is hopeful of its triumphs achieved such triumphs in cancer from him to keep him poor. They in the future. have a system of fines, they say, so been a more insistent demand for

Recently, be declared, there had that the salary soon disappears.

The Coogan art, "introducing the lower grades of Indian and Dad," would seem an amateurish Ceylon teas, and less demand for thing were it done by two ordinary the

foreign.

people, but the pleasing personality A representative of William of the boy and the old-time train- Wright and Company said it ing of the father, once a vaudeville would not be possible to sell tea dancer, carried it right over. They in Glasgow at iyid. per ib. unless firat show a series of Jackie's early it was blended with foreign tes. films with comic captions, and then NEW WHITE STAR LINER. The firm of David Lloyd and father and son come on and “rag'

Piggott's submitted evidenge dwell- { cach other. [BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE.]

ing on the difficulties marking would make for the distributing RUGBY, Dec. 19th."

and retail trades. Marking would The motor vessel of 27,000 tons tend to enhance the price of tea for they have no faith in the soldiers, and "Company, foreshadowed the being built for the White Star Line the poorer classes and open the Messrs. Blockow, Vaughan and Co. yard in belfast will be named the amalgamation of the company with at Messrs. Harland and Wolff's door to fraud.

Britannis FRENCH MISSIONARY The vessel will be used on the

Liverpool-New York service.

ern

ANOTHER BRITISH STEEL. AMALGAMATION,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, Dec. 18th.

As a result of the reign of ban- ditry and lawlessness in the north- districts of the province, troops under

Bir Arthur Dorman, the well- two generals, bave been ordered to suppress the ban

known ironmaster and colliery dits The women bandit fighters owner, presiding at the annual are reported to have declared that meeting of Mesara, Darman, Long

declaring that half of them are at heart bandits themselves and that they, the women will operato against the bandits independently of the soldiers-United Prese

MR. HOOVER'S TOUR.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

MONTEVIDEO. Dec. 18th. Mr. Hoover, the President-Elect of the United States, sailed this morning aboard the U.S.8. Utalis for Rio de Janeiro.

QUESTION.

(ZXROUGH REUTER'S AGENÜZ.] «.

"PARIS, Dec. 18th. The French Government has de- cided to make the vote""on" the Budget Articles concerning congre gations of missionaries a question of confidence.

The matter will be dealt with in the Chamber in January

A preliminary conference, of an officially representative character, may be held early in the new year.

THE

BRITANNIC."

ITALIAN GENERAL ILL.

【TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

BORDIGHERA, Dec. 18th Cadorna, Commander-in-Chief of Field Marahal Count Luigi

the Italian armies in the early part of the Great War, in lying gravely ill at Bordighera.

After consultation, the committee decided-to-bear-certain-evidence-in- camera and the enquiry was ad- journed until January 14th.

UNEMPLOYMENT RETURNS.

(BRITISH WIRELESS.SERVICE.}

RUGBY, Dec. 18th on December 10th was 1,320,000.

The total number of unemployed

before but 195,507 more than the This was 29,506 less than the week year before.

inquiries for any male employee elicited the unvarying response: He has gone to be shaved. The barbers of Omsk" were overwhelm- ed with a new burden of work; Come To Stay.

the lines in front of their shops "Surgical operations will not be began to rival the egg and butter superseded for many years, but and drygoods lines with which Mos- radium has come to stay. Already cow is familiar, Old men parted certain cancers such as those of the with bearda which had been the tongue and mouth are being treat cherished possession of a lifetime; ed for preference by radium, while at Omsk was shaved. others are being treated by radium While Russia in general has not: combined with surgery."

preserved Peter the Great's excise Professor Ewing, of New York,tax on beards, the trend of fashion, discussing irritants that may cause so far as any such thing may be... cancer, is quoted in the report as said to exist in the Soviet Union, saying: Supporting Father.

is against them. The peasant ind...... similar slowly progressive who has seen something of city. "Don't lean on me," says Jackie action is probably at work in the life and has absorbed his sbare of to his father...

cases of leucoplakis (a kind of politaramota, or political training. "You've been supporting me for tongue inflammation) following in the Red Army, is less likely to ten years as it is" replies the excessive use of tobacco, since the sprout a luxuriant beard than his father-and so on.

whole buccal mucosa (lining of the father and grandfather before him. Both dance Jackie-recites-a-little-

cheek) may develop succesalve poem entitled, "Pershing at the cancers long after the victim aban- pression of age and repose; and Beards as a rule convey an im- Front," which made some rude per dons the tobacco babit." son at the back shout "Why Per-

new Russia is inclined to emphasiso Professor Ewing considers that its youth and its restless energy. shing" Then he reads a letter to his mother. It is as simple as

one will hardly err in accepting However, there are enough old the conclusion of the aldar priests, Old Believers, old revolu that.

clinicians that cancer of the mouth tionaries and old peasants to make It lasted for twenty-three minutes, would disappear if tobacco, bad Russia still an interesting country. and for this, done fourteen times a teeth, and venereal disease could for, observers and admirers of week, Jackie and father will be paid be eliminated. £800.

colour, style, and volume in beards, One paper, read at the conference Meanwhile, Jackie is learning is thought to have finally disposed hibits in this connection is furnish- One of the most magnificent ex-

four weeks in England, he can go Jewish Te are less prone to call annual Nishpi Navgorod Enir. Mr- the act in German so that, after of the idea that members of the ed by the genial president of the and do-it-in-Frankfort and Berliner than that

Borge Hansheye